RULER OF GREAT BRITAIN BECOMES BASEBALL FAN; FRED HUMEROFMARIETTA IS HIGH GUN READING HITS ARE TIMELY Able to Beat Rosewood in a Game With No Errors and Fine Pitching ALLISON HILL LEAGUE LAST -NIGHT'S RESULT Reading, 3; Rosewood, 0. STANDING OF THE TEAMS W. L. Pet. Reading io 4 .714 Galahad 7 .538 Rosewood ........ 6 .500 Hiek-A-Thrift .... 4 11 .267 TONIGHT'S GAME Rosewood vs. Reading (tie gaqne.) Two singles, two doubles and a sacrifice hit, all bunched in the sixth inning, gave Reading a 3 to 0 victory over Rosewood last evening In an Al lison Hill League contest. As a re- sult of the game Reading forged ahead and now leads by two and one half games, while Rosewood dropped to third place, yielding second posi tion to the Galahads. It was a pitching- duel between George Levan and "Lefty" Landis. Tn the matter of hits and strikeouts honors were even. The advantage lor Levan tame in that the Reading hits were clustered in one inning. It was the first shutout of the season for Rosewood. One of the largest i.TOwds of the season was on hand, iind another large gathering will likely fill the field to-night, as the teams will play off a 5 to 5 tie of earlier in the season. With one out In the sixth, "Vic" Ibach singled over second. McCurdy singled through short. "Bill" Kuker drove out his second double of the evening. Ibach scored and Mack went to third. Don Werts sent a long double to left field and the two players on base reached home. "Tim" Kuker llied to left field and the scoring for the game was at an end. The Rosewoods threatened in the sixth, when Garverich, the first bat ter up, drove out a three-base hit to ) ight field. Geary grounded to short, Kuker holding the runner on third. Ijevan struck out Hell and Leidig grounded to "Bill" Euker. 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Both catchers played sterling games and stolen bases were at a premium. While both teams made seven hits, five of the bingles by the winners were for two bases. Rosewood had two drives that sent the runners farther than the first station. George Germer will bo the Reading pitcher to-night, wth either "Curly" Longenecker or Lcidig twirl ing for Rosewood. Captain Shafer was unable to lead the Rosewood team last evening because of an in jury received while at work yester day. How Euker* Eucliered Rosewood READING AB. R. H. O. A. E. 1 bach, 3b 3 1 1 2 1 0 McCurdy, 2b .. .. 311120 W. Euker, ss .. .: 3 1 2 2 4 0 Werts, If. ...j.. 3 0 1 1 0 0 Levan, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 T. Euker, ct .... 3 0 1 3 0 0 Shartle, rf ..' .. .. 1 0 0 0 0 0 |E. Swartz, rf .. ..✓ 1 0 0 0 0 0 | Lynch, lb 2 0 1 6 0 0 G. Swartz, c 2 0 0 fi 0 0 ! Totals 24 3 7 21 7 0 ROSEWOOD AB. R. H. O. A. E. E. ivillinger, c .... 4 0 2 6 3 ft ' Waltz, 2b 3 0 0 2 0 0 G. Killinger, 3b .. 3 0 1 1 I 0 Brown, cf 2 0 0 1 0 0 Garverich, if .. .. 3 0 1 1 0 0 Geary, rs 3 0 0 0 3 0 Mell, 1b 3 0 1 7 0 0 Leidig, rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 Landis, i> 2 0 1 0 2 0 Total.* .. 26 0 7 18 9 0 Heading 000003 X —3 Itosrivood 000000 o—o Two-br.se hits, W. 'Euker, 2; T. Kuker, E. Killinger, Lynch, Wertz. Three-base hit, Garverich. Sacrifice hits. (J. Killinger, Levan. Double Piay, Landis, to Killinger, to Waltz. Struck out, Levan, 6; Landis, 6. Base on balls, Levan, 1. Hit by pitcher. Waltz. Stolen bases, W. Eu ker, 2; G. Killinger. Umpire, Shick ley. What They Did Yesterday; Where They Play Today YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League New York, 7; Boston. 5. Washington, 8; Athletics, 0. Washington. 3; Athletics. 2. Detroit. 1; Chicago. 0. Other clubs not scheduled. National League New York, 10; Boston. 4. Brooklyn, 6: Philadelphia, I. Chicago, 7; Cincinnati, 1. Pittsburgh, 4; St. Louis, 3. STANDING OF THE CLUBS American League W. L. P.C. New York 35 25 .583 Boston 37 27 .578 Cleveland 37 2!) .561 Washington 35 31 .530 Chicago 28 30 .483 St. Louis 2lt 33 .468 Detroit 25 33 .431 Athletics 21 20 .350 National League W. L. P.C. Chicago 41 17 .707 Ntw York 3!) 19 ' .672 Boston 29 32 .475 Philadelphia 27 30 .474 Pittsburgh 26 31 .456 Brooklyn , 24 33 .421 Cincinnati 24 34 .414 St. Louis 21 35 .375 SCHEDULE FOR TODAY American Leagne St. Louis at Chicago. Detroit at Cleveland. New York at Philadelphia. Boston at Washington. National I.ensue Brooklyn at Boston. Philadelphia at New York. Pittsburgh at St. Xjouis. Chicago at Cincinnati. WAGNER IX HOME GUARD By Associated Press Pittsburgh, June 28. "Hans" Wagner former major league base ball star, has enlisted with the home defense police of Allegheny county, and was to-day sworn in as an offi t-er of the law, with jurisdiction in his home town, Carnegie. S TEELTON WINS WIT jPlpiy-iH %'i / \ TOM PHILLIPS STEELTON'S NEW LINEUP A WINNER Exhibition of Swift Ball Given by Cockill's Revamped Club at Cottage Hill Yesterday Manager George Cockill displayed an almost entirely new lineup yes terday as predicted in this column some time ago. Jack Knight played third base in the game with the Williamsport P. R. R. team, a po sition which he held at various periods in his varied career. It is evident that Neild. who had been attending to the difficult sack, will give way permanently to a harder hitting infielder, and Knight will be used at third in the apprroaching games here, so Cockill said last even ing. This necessitated another man for first base, and Kauffman, recently secured from the South, worked at the job yesterday to the entire satis faction of all hands. He looks to be the real thing and Cockill will not have to be anxious over this position. The catching of Edmundson yester day was big-league quality and he handled Phillips and Pierce with ease and precision, his pegging be ing excellent. "Roxy" Roach distinguished him self by slamming out a home run oft Salada, the coal miner phenom, and that, too, when Roach but recently recovered from a badly strained ten don. handed him just before he left Louisville, Tom Phillips looked mighty good, ' the husky Williamsport lads not be ing able to make a run off his de livery in the five innings he worked. "Rud" Weiser was the first to reach Salada. riding one for three bags aft ter Jack Knight had drawn a pass in the first inning. "Bud" again fig ured largely when Knight doubled and Neild. batting for Philips, walk ed. At this psycho moment "Bud" slammed out a timely single which was followed by Roach's circuit smash. Stpelton travels to Fore River to-night. The score: STEELTON R. IT. O. A. E. Hunter, rf 0 0 0 0 0 Knight, 3b 2 2 0 2 0 Weiser. 1f........ 2 2.0 0 0 Kauffman. lb .... 0 1 9 0 0 Yerkes, 2b 0 0 7 4 ft Roach, ss t 2 1 4 2 Miller, cf ft 1 0 0 0 Edmundson, c .. . . ft 0 10 2 0 Philips, p 0 0 ft 1 0 Pierce, p 0 0 0 i 0 Wild 1 0 0 0 0 , Totals fi 8 27 14 2 WILLIAMSPORT R. H. O. A. E. Mansel. If 0 0 1 0 0 M'ckert. cf t 2 3 0 0 Wyckoff, ss ft 2 3 1 ft Byers, c.., 0 1 8 4 1 Kline. 8h 0 0 3 1 0 Grubh. lb 1 2 2 1 0 N'ttress, 2b 0 2 4 0 0 Prank, rf 0 0 0 0 0 Salada, p 0 0 0 2 0 Totals 2 924 9 1 Steelton 20A1 2001 x—6 Williamsport .... 00000100 I—2 Two base hits. Knight. Three base hit, Weiser. Home run. Roach. Sac rifice hits, Verkes. Double plays, Byers to Nattress, 2; Knight to Verkes to Kauffman, Roach to Yerkes to Kuaffman Struck out. Philips, 6: Pierce. 4: Palnda, 8. Base on balls, Philips. 0; Pierce. 0; Salada, ft. Left on base, Steelton, f>: Wil liamsport, 6. Hit by pitcher, Mausel. Stolen bases, Roach. Miller. First base on errors, Williamsport, 2. Passed balls, Wild pitches, Salad, Pierce. Balk, Salada. Time, 1.50. Umpire. Tnggert. xßatted for Philip In fifth. RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ATABOY, GEORGE; SHOOT 'ER King of England Is Training To Toss Out First Ball At July Fourth Game : 4^h> My word, King George is going to toss out the bally horse-hide, doncherknow, on the blooming Fourth of July, when two Yankee teams hook up for an exhibition on the diamond in London. Arlie La tham, international baseball jester, has sent Friend Kink a Reach bulb and he is said to bo warming up all by himself in the back yard of Buck ingham Palace, so that he will be in shape for the historic stunt. Mr. Ijatham held his last job with Mc- Graw on the Giants, but his line of chatter was not so brisk as in early days, so Arlie, very sensibly, hiked for new fields. Not that he is played out, for that can never happen. And George's sense of humor must have got at least two or three jolts while Arlie was coaching him. The most famous Joke that La 'tham ever pulled to the writer's rec ollection was at a game in New Eng land many years ago when that part of the country was agitated over the escape of three bank robbers, guilty also of murder, who had es caped to terrify the surrounding neighborhood. The day that a $6,000 reward was offered. Latham coaching in Boston, leaped out to the pitcher's box when the umpire made a raw decision and yelled at the top of his voices "I claim it—the $5,000 rewar<y Here's the leader of th' gang; here's the Northampton robber!" As he grabbed the umpire by the shoulder the mob of fans had convulsions and Latham did not mind being ejected from the park, The Anglo-American League which will have the honor of entertaining the monarch of the British Empire on July Fourth is made up of Bud dies and Jacks from the American ranks and Canadian Tommies. There is. not a professional in the whole organization, which includes the fol lowing eight teams: American Army Headquarters, American Navy Head quarters, Hounslow American Avia tion, Northolt American Aviation, Sunningdale Canadian Hospital, Ep som Canadian Hospital, Taplow Ca nadian Hospital, Canadian Pay and Record Offices. The officials of the league are: R. Newton Crane, lawyer, president; H. H. Lukens, of the DuPont Powder Company, secretary, and Robert Grant, banker, treasurer. The general introduction of base ball into England is one of the fun niest and most grotesque results of the world war. Twice American star companies tried to wake up John Bull to what he was missing, but with feeble success. More than twenty years elapsed between the Spalding-tour and the one conducted by McGraw and Comiskey. Only for the Germans, chances are that a century might have passed before- John Bull became interested. The same situation prevailed in all things relating to America. Newspapers in London carried only a few para graphs on our nation's daily doings, and those dealt mostly with lynch ings in some remote Southern spot. Baseball, it is predicted, will spill the cement pot, and weld the two Anglo Saxon nations together. Arlie Latham and .King George are doing their part. Thus far the Englishmen thinks baseball a dull game if played well. He wants to see lots of action—long hits, much base-running and a lot of errors. In other words his idea of a good ball game'is our notion of a bad one. But he is learning. Eight thousand people, half of them Englishmen, clapped their hands and cheered with singular lack of restraint as Admiral Sims stepped into the box at Highbury football ground, London, May 18, and opened the Anglo-American League season by pitching the first ball to Maj. Gen. Biddle, command ing American soldiers in England. When Hi Royal Highness, George The Rooter, tosses out the sphere It i expected that fifty thousand will be watching him, and his extraor dinary interest in our national pas time has a humorist proposing to settle all International disputes after this one with ball games instead of wars. NEW MANAGER FOR BROWNS St. Louis, June 28. —Jimmy Burke, coach of the St. Louis Americans, to night was appointed manager of the team by Phil Ball, president of the club, to . succeed Fielder Jones, who resigned two weeks ago. 9 JUNE 28, 1918 Duncannon Gathers Star Team to Defeat Hershey Duiicnnnon, Pa., June 28.—Dun cannon, with a team made up prac tically of former Dauphin-Perry League players, will meet the fast moving Hershey squad on the Ros borough Field grounds to-morrow afternoon. Hershey conquered the locals three weeks ago, but added practice and several new players have given Duncannon considerable added strength. Manager Duncan has announced the good news to local fans that "Bobby" Clark, who covered the ini tial sack for Duncannon in the Dau phin-Perry League la. c t year, will fill the same position to-morrow. Clark has been playing with the Steelton team of the Bethlehem Steel League and with pther league teams of Harrisburg. Harry Wagner, star left fielder of last year's Newport champions, will be found in one of the outer garden positions on the Duncannon team. Wagner is a club smith of ability and last year Ifead the v league in home runs. He had I quite a creditable record in all de partments. McCurdy, of last year's Dauphin team, and Harry Biever, of the Hali fax team, will be two other Dau phin-Perry players with the Dun cannon team to-morrow. McCurdy will cover third base and Biever will be on the pitching tee. "Os" Walts, with Duncannon last year, who has also played with Dauphin, will eatch for Blever. Duncannon Dauphin- Perry players will fill the other positions. Duncannon will meet the Hershey team at Hershey on July 4 after noon. j Athlete Rejected Eight Times Is Now in Draft j Right times rejected for service , with the Army and Navy or Ma rines—alt because a fighting tackle on the football team of Syracuse University back In 1911 kicked his heart out of place—Arthur Zachritz, 27 years old, athlete and attorney, has been drafted. Some athlete! That's what they used to say about him. And the draft board decided that "some athlete" ought to make "some ■ soldier"—even if he had a heart j where It oughtn't to be and had been rejected eight times because of it. Star halfback on the St. Louis I University eleven in 1911, his heart was kicked out of place in the i Thanksgiving Day game with Syra- I cuse, when the St. Louis men held the visitors to a tie. CANNING DEMONSTRATIONS llnllfnx. Pa., June 28.—Miss Mary Fisher, a member of the faculty of Pennsylvania State College, will be in Halifax on Tuesday, July 9. The demonstrations will be conducted in , the.Grange Hall at 2 and 7.30 o'clock, i She will show the various steps In [ the canning of fruit and vegetables. 15
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