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READING GAME
Rapid Fire of Hits Beats Gal
ahad and Gives Railroad
ers Firm Lead in League
ALLISON HILL LEAGUE
LAST NIGHT'S SCORE
Heading;, 6; Galahad, 5.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
W. L Pet.
Reading 9 4 .692
Rosewood 6 4 .600
Galahad 7 6 .538
Hick-A-Thrlft .... 3 11 .214
TONIGHT'S GAME
Hick-A-Thrift vs. Rosewood.
The Reading Railway team of the
Allison Hill League entrenched it
self further in first place by winning
last evening from the Galahad ag
gregation by a score of 6 to 5. As a
result of the victory the railroaders
have a lead of one and a half games,
which is the greatest distance that
has separated the leaders for several
weeks.
Reading won the contest in almost
the first inning. Ibach singled and
was advanced when McCurdy reached
first on an error. Ibach came home
on an error of the second baseman.
"Bill" Euker singled and Levan's
double scored McCurdy and Euker.
Levan came home on Shartle's sacri
fice fly. The winning team scored
two more in the fifth. Germer sin
gled. Ibach took first on a fielder's
choice. McCurdy went to first in the
same manner. Ibach and Mack
crossed the rubber when "Bill" Eu
ker hit for two bases.
Cobaugh tallied for Galahad in the
first, when he singled and stole sec
ond. From the keystone sack he
came home on Hawley's hit. The los
ing team became active in the fifth,
and threw a scare into the camp of
the winners when "Mickey" Boj;d
cleaned the sacks with a timely
triple. But his teammates were un
able to bring in the runner with
what would have been the tying run.
George Germer made his debut in
the league and tossed good game.
Blever also pitched well, but several
errors spoiled his good work.
To-night Rosewood and Hick-A-
Thrift are scheduled to play.
End of a Perfect Day
READING
AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Ibach, 3b 4 2 2 0 1 0
McCurdy, 2b ~ .. 3 2 0 2 1 0
AW. Euker, 55.... 4 1 2 1 2 4 0
I-evan. If 3 1 1 3 1 0
T. Euker. cf 3 0 0 0 0 0
Shartle, rf .. .. .. 2 0 1 0 0 0
G. Swartz, c ..... 3 0 1 9 0 1
Lynch. "• 3 0 0 5 0 0
Geu uv, p...... 3 0 1 0 0 1
Totals 29 6 8 21 7 2
GALAHAD
AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Vhaugh, If 3 2 2 1 00
Hawley, 2b 4 1 2 2 1 2
Bovd. 3b 4 0 1 0 9 1
Biever. p....... 3 0 0 0 3 0
Fellows, lb 3 0 0 4 0 0
Holland, ss 3 0 0 1 2 0
Toland, c 2 1 110 0 0
Boatman, rf .1... 3 1 1 2 0 0
Wengert, cf 3 0 0 1 0 0
Totals .. ... 28 5 7 21 6 3
Reading 4 0 0 0 2 0 o—6
Galahad 100040 o—s
Two-base hits, a Levan, Ibach, W.
Euker. Three-base hit, Boyd. Sacri
fice hit, McCurdy. Sacrifice fly. Shar
tle. Double play. Holland to Haw
ley. Struck out, by Germer. 6;
Beiver. 8. Base on balls, oft Ger
mer, 3. Hit by pitcher, Cobaugh.
Stolen bases, Levan, Cobaugh, 3; Fel
lows .2; Shartle. Stolen bases, G.
Swartz, 2. Time, 1.30. Umpire,
Shickley.
Boys' Baseball League to
Open in City Playgrounds
"Play ball!" Did you hear the
shout that rang to-day in every one
of the city's playgrounds, for J. K.
Staples hts decreed that the national
game is to be introduced systemat
ically in our municipal recreation
places. This is a timely and proper
notion. All of Europe is taking up
baseball and men over there who
maintained that cricket was the bet
ter game are now coming round to
champion the attractive sport which
had its birth in this country.
Superintendent Staples lias the
boys practicing this week at Syca
more, Harris, Emerald, Twelfth
street and Maclay grounds and will
arrange a schedule for the season,
the battles to bo waged in the even
ing. Baseball calls forth brains,
muscle, agility, nerve and fair play.
No game has been discovered to
equal it and it will be found that
this playground league will not only
become vastly popular, but that many
a lad will get a training which is
to be of vast service to him in older
years.
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FIGHTS BRITTON
Nation-Wide Interest in Box
ing Classic at Shibe Park
Tonight
There was nation-wide interest to
day in the boxing contest fixed for
10 o'clock to-night in Shibe Park.
Philadelphia, between Benny Leon
ard. holder of the world lightweight
title, and Jack Britton. welter
weight. The recent order that Army
and Navy men should all learn to be
come proficient in the manly art of
self-defense and thus be fitted to lick
the Hun. has put boxing on the map
like it never was before. As the two
men who meet to-night are recognized
past masters, and since Leonard is
going out of his class, thus taking a
desperate chance, this bout is not
able.
Britton is one of the most artful
Jtoxers that ever wore a glove. He
has met men of every class and type
from 133 to 150 pounds and enjoys the
distinction of never having taken the
full count. He. punches straight, with
precision, and throws his body with
his blows. In consequence there is
always plenty of force behind a lead
or counter.
Leonard and Britton have met once
before. On that occasion the bout was
at 139 pounds ringside. The light
weight titleholder received the popu
lar verdict. To-night the weight will
be 141 pounds ringside. Each has de
posited 11,000 as an assurance for
weight and appearance. Whether the
two pounds additional weight will
mean added strength and hitting pow
ers for Britton the bout alone will de
cide. His friends claimed that 139
pounds was just thirty-two ounces
too low in figures for the welter
weight to show his best. To-night he
will have an opportunity to prove
whether the claims of his friends are
warranted.
One of the preliminaries at this
boxing pageant is that scheduled for
a Harrisburg boy. Sammy Scliift,
whose opponent is a husky sailor,
Dick Royal, a yeoman at League
Island.
Great Auto Derby to
Be Run at Uniontown
More than 150 miles of automobile
racing in which the country's most
famous drivers will compete have
been tentatively scheduled and sanc
tion granted by the American Auto
mobile Association for the Independ
ence Auto Derby at the Uniontown
Speedway on July 18.
The main event of the afternoon
will be the Independence Derby, a
100-lap, 112% miles, race in which
the country's most famous drivers
will participate. Entry blanks will
go out In a few days and advance
reports Indicate that they will be
promptly returned. The speed demons
are partial to the Uniontown track,
which has developed into one of the
most popular automobile racing cen
ters in the country.
There will be four special feature
events which will provide thrills and
superthrills, in the fact that they are
short events and provide the thrill
ing start and finish races which have
become so popular at the Uniontown
track. Then there tvill be an Aus
tralian pursuit race.
California Boys Make
Blankets From Baseballs
Santa MoWa, Cal., June 25. —That
discarded baseballs contain a val
uable amount of pure wool, each
sphere containing enough to knit a
yard of refugee blanket, is the dls
covery made by Sana Monica High
school hoys.
The ballplayers of Camohi are
"goin to bat" with a vim in the
making of these blankets, and the
coach. Voyle E. Brennen, is worry
ing about the mysterious disappear
ance of so many of what he terms
1 "perfectly good" baseballs.
Bill Shafer Cuts Up With
Railroaders at Allentown
The Harrisburg Division baseball
team went over to Allentown yes
terday to play a team there called
the Pergola, the meaning of which
local boys could not precisely ex
plain. Some thought It was a rare
flower, and others some new kind of
glue. Anyhow, Harrisburg lost out,
3-2, in the stig-tossledest. dod-gastest
game ever registered. "Bill" Shafer
alone was worth the price of admis
sion.
Playing third base, he leaped high
to tlie left and stopped a liner,
whose force, however, quoting a
scribe on the spot, "was such that
the visting player was entirely car
ried oft his feet and lay seemingly
dead on the grass for a moment or
so. Recovering after a while, but
still lying on the grass, he was able
to reach over, touch third base and
this put out the runner who had
started for home. Then he threw to
first and in time to get his man
there."
Not satisfied with this notoriety,
"Bill" hurled himself into the lime
light with a terrible blow which
should have been a homer. But a
miserable creature on the Pergola
team who is known as "Wing" Ding
er managed to cut off the drive for a
circus catch and thus beat the rail
roaders from our home town. Har
risburg outhit the Petunias or Per
golas, or whatever it is, but could not
bunch the clouts properly.
Crimes of tlie Huns
PERGOLA
R. H. O. A. E.
Kohler, ss 1 2 1 4 1
Stoudt, cf.... 0 0 3 0 ®
Baer, If 0 2 0 0 0
Heath, c 0 1 6 1 0
Grim, 3b .. .. 0 0 0 S 0
Dinger, rf 0 0 4 0 0
Freed, lb 0 1 8 1 1
Geist, 2b 1 0 3 0 0
Sterling, p... 1 2 2 2 0
Totals 3 8 27 11 2
HARRISBURG
• R. H. O. A. E.
Garverich, If 1 2 3 1 0
Shafer. 3b 1 2 3 3 0
McCurdy, ss 0 2 2 2 0
Kline, c 0 1 4 2 0
Thompson, cf...... 0 0 2 1 0
Walter, lb 0 0 7 0 0
Bender, 2b........ 0 2 1 3 1
Johnson, p 0 0 0 0 0
Ehling, 0 0 0 0 0
Peters, rf 0 2 0 <1 0
Totals 21 12 4 13 2
Pergola ~ .. ..00200010 o—3
Harrisburg .. ..10000100 o—2
Two-base hits, Garverich, Shafer,
Sterling. Sacrifice hits, Stoudt, 2.
Double play, Shafer to Walter.
Struck out, Johnson. 3; Sterling, 6.
Base on balls, oft Johnson, 2; oft
Sterling, 1. Left on base, Harrisburg.
8; Pergola, 6. Hjt by pitcher,
Stoudt. Stolen bases, McCurdy. 2;
Garverich, 2; Shafer, Walters, Ster
ling, Baer. Kohler, 2. Passed ball.
Heath. Time, 1.25. Scorekeeper, E.
B. Lingard.
Steelton With New Lineup
in Game on Thursday
There will be a good chance to get
a peek at tlie new Steelton lineup
on Thursday when Cockill's reno
vated pastimers meet a lively, fast
Williamsport team. Cockill expects
to pitch Tom Phillips, lately of New
Orleans, and one time with'the Tri-
State, playing in Harrisburg. Ed
mundson also of the Southern League,
will probably do the backstopping;
Jack Knight will be at first: "Roxy"
Roach, captain at Louisville, and one
time a ripping good shortstop with
the Yanks, will be at that position,
and Kauffman will also be in the
fray at some job or other.
Local fans will, no doubt, turn
out strongly to this midweek game,
for some of the Williamsport boys
are well known here, particularly the
two flingers, Rube Manning and
Salada. The visiting team will in
clude Machert, a brother of the Leb
anon Valley College athelte. recently
with the South Atlantic League.
HOTEL MEN CONSIDER.
NEW BEEFLESS MENUS
The proprietors of Harrisburg res
taurants. eating houses and hotels
are holding a meeting this after
noon to decide whether o rnot to eli
minate beef altogether from the bill
of fare. The government food regu
lations allow only four beef meals a
week. Some of the eating house pro
prietors have signified their deside to
taboo the use of beef during the
restrictions.
YOUTHFUL BURGLARS
HELD FOR COURT
Paul O'Neal and Phillip Grant,
aged 11 and 9 years, were placed in
the House of Detention to await the
July 1 session of Juvenile court.
They are charged with breaking into
the Orpheum Theater and Dauphin
Deposit Trust Company.
CI.EETT, PEABODY MAKER3
HARRXSBURG TELEGRAPH
TRAPSHOOTERS
AT THE FRONT
Success of Yankee Marksmen
Urges All to Train With
the Rifle
"Every man who has been drafted
and has not reported for duty should
w-aste no time in learning to shoot,"
declares the veteran Captain A. H.
Hardy.
"The government hasn't time to
make even accurate shots out of its
national army. If you have been
drafted and know nothing about the
shooting game, go to the, nearest
rifle, revolver or gun club, and make
your wishes known, and you will al
ways lind willing and competent in
structors ready to do their best to
aid you."
He also recommends trapshoot
ing for the young American, be
cause at least it teae-hes to point the
gun, think and pull the trigger in
unison. If you have never lired ai
gun the Captain advises trying the ]
little 22-caliber rifle first. You may
not learn about windage and recoil I
from this but you get the essential
rudiments of accurate shooting; how
to be careful and how to squeeze the
trigger off instead of jerking it.
Trapshooters at the front now are
having the time of their life, as
dispatches tell. Accustomed to hit
moving objects at varied angles, the
lumbering Hun is an easy mark for
these experts. There was Private
Brooks, champion trapshooter and
particularly a squirrel shooter, of
Rich Hill, Mo., who was leading a
patrol for information. He got up
under an enemy machine gun twenty
feet away, at the edge of wood, and
silenced it. A grenade exploded in
his rifle, but he stuck it out all
night with a comrade's rifle and
captured an enemy machine gun.
thus preventing the Germans from
flanking him. Enemy rockets fell
so close that one blistered his hand.
Another famqd marksman of the
traps, Private Charles Lloyd, of
Newark, N. J., was assigned to
smother a German machine gun
crew, 600 yards away. With the
other volunteers killed off he
crawled 100 yards alone, started his
trusty shooting iron goin/ and so
expert was he in dropping the
elusive, fluttering birds in the days
gone by, that <he accounted for
twenty Germans in as many minutes
and silenced the battery.
What They Did Yesterday;
Where They Play Today
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
American League
New York, 3; Boston, 2.
Washington, 2; Philadelphia, 1.
Detroit, 6; Chicago, 2.
St. Louis-Cleveland, rain.
National League
New York, 3; Boston. 0.
Philadelphia. 7; Brooklyn, 1
Pittsburgh, 7; Cincinnati, z.
Chicago, 8; St. Louis, 2.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
American League
_ , W. L. Pet.
Boston 36 25 .590
New York 33 24 .579
Cleveland 35 27 .565
Washington 32 31 .508
Chicago 27 28 .491
St. Louis 27 31 .466
Detroit 23 32 .418
Philadelphia 21 36 .368
National League
W. L. Pet.
Chicago 38 17 .691
New York 86 19 .655
Boston 29 29 .500
Philadelphia 25 29 .463
Pittsburgh 25 31 .446
Brooklyn 28 21 .426
Cincinnati 23 33 .411
St. Louis 21 32
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY
American League
Chicago at Detroit.
Cleveland at St. Louis.
Philadelphia at Washington.
Boston at New York.
National League
Brooklyn at Philadelphia.
New York at Boston.
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati.
St. Louis at Chicago.
EIGHT GIRLS GIVEN
POLICE REPRIMAND
Eight young girls who were ar
rested by Detectives Murnane and
Shul.er last night on the charge of
enticing soldiers, were dismissed
wiifi a reprimand and threat of se
vere punishment if they were ever
again apprehended. It is charged
the gtrls, whose ages ranga be
tween 15 and 18 years, are with as
many as a half dozen soldiers in one
evening. Thei.f nam<: were not
made public by the police.
BIG SALES OF BABY BONDS
LandJsburg, Pa, June £5. —E. C.
Dlle, of Landisburg, an s Insurance
agent, has made an exceptional rec
ord In the sale of War Savings
Stamps. Recently he sold a total of
$9,045 worth of Baby Bonds in a
single week, which gives him first
place in the sale of the stamps among
•He insurance agents of the Erie dis
trict of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company. James M. QJckey, man
ager of the insurance company, re
cently commended Mr. Dile In a bul
letin for his exceptional work for
the Government.
ALL AMERICANS
ASKED TO BUY
Thrift Stamp Sale Necessary
to the Purchase of War
Supplies
Patriotic citizens who remain at
home are reminded by Secretary Mc-
Adoo in a statement issued to-day
through Postmaster Frank C. Sites
that the fighting men must have food,
clothing and arms and that the pur
chase of War Savings Stamps offers
direct aid. The appeal is to all Amer
icans, who are asked to buy all the
stamps they can during the campaign
now in progress. It says:
"Over 800.000 of America's sons are
already on the fields of France, where
the bloodiest attacks of all history
are raging. They are suffering and
dying for us at home. They are giv
ing their lives freely and heroically
to save America and the liberties of
mankind. They need food, clothing
and arms. Everyone who buys War
Savings Stamps or signs a pledge to
save and buy these stamps over a pe
riod of time helps himself and helps
directly every American hero in
France.
"Isn't it the least each patriot can do
to enable our gallant boys to fight
victoriously or to die gloriously in
the cause of humanity and liberty?
Let no one who genuinely loves
America and wants to serve fall to
enlist in the great army of war sav
ers during the period ending June
28. 1918."
Chairmen of war savings commit
tees in the counties of Eastern Penn
sylvania are urged by Director Rob
ert K. Cassatt, of the war savings
campaign, to follow the example of
Chairman George Lloyd, of Cumber
land county, who has arranged with
the two telephone companies in his
territory to call subscribers on the
morning of June 28, under authority
of the Treasury Department, and re
mind them of their duty 16 attend
the "Pledge Day" meeting at the
schoolhouse that night. This is only
one of the many plans being worked
out to insure full attendance and tino
results at these meetings, which are
planned for every school district in
! the state.
Governor Strong, of the Federal
Reserve Bank, one of the leading
I financiers of the country, makes this
I appeal to war savers:
"The Secretary of the Treasury has
designated June 28 as National War
| Savings Day, and the President has
publicly appealed to every man.
woman and child, in accordance with
the request of the Treasury Depart
ment. to pledge himself or herself on
I or before that date to save constant
ly, and with such savings to buy as
regularly as possible War Savings
JUNE 25, 1918.
Stamps and Liberty Loan Bonds.
The President further urges that our
people everywhere pledge themselves
to the practice of thrift; to serve the |
Government to the utmost in in- |
creasing production in all fields nec- j
essary to the winning of the war; to
conserve food and fuel and useful
materials of every kind, and to buy
only those things which are essential
to individual health and efficiency.
"The War Savings Stamps offer an
ideal medium for the investment
from day to day of funds thus saved,
and the war savings organization is
undertaking a campaign to secure
from all the people a written pledge
to reduce expenditures for purposes
not conducive to winning the war and
to invest these savings regularly in
specified amounts of War Savings
Stamps, doing this as far as possible
through membership in War Savings
Societies.
"War Savings Stamps are equally
obligations of the United States Gov
ernment, and Liberty Loan commit
tees everywhere are urged to co-op
erate with tlie War Savings Societies
in this work."
ELKS TO VISIT HERE
More than 100 members of the
Lebanon lodge, B. P. O. E., No. 631,
will pay a fraternal visit to the Har
risburg lodge to-morrow evening.
They will be brought here in twen
ty-five automobiles, and will be ac
companied by their orchestra. The
visit is in return for the one made
Dy the local Elks at the recent dedi
cation exercises of the Lebanon Elks.
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Living Costs Higher in
Other Warring Countries
To show the good work that Is
being done by various food adminis
trations in the United States, figures
were produced by the Dauphin Coun
ty Food Administration to show that
the high cost of living in Harris
burg as well as in other cities of
the county, is considerably lower
than in cities in Canada and in the
European nations.
Extortionate charges of grocers,
butchers, merchants, etc., are being
fought by the administration. All
instunces of such charges- should be
reported immediately to the admin
istration, officials say. By these
methods the administration hopes to
keep the cost of living comparative
ly low In Harrisburg.
The cost of living in Harrisburg
has advanced since the beginning of
the war only tifty-three per cent
officials affirm. In Ottawa, Canada,
it has gone up sixty-five per cent.;
in London, 105 per cent., and in Ber
lin it is estimated to have gone up
250 per cent.
PROPOSALS FOR BRIDGE
New Bloomlicld, Pa., June 25.
Perry county commissioners have is
sued advertisements for bids and
proposals for the erection of a single
span covered bridge across Shermans
Creek at Mount Pleasant, Jackson
township. The contract will be
awarded on July 1.