"BABE" RUTH BRINGS THE BACON HOME FOR BOSTON; GOLF TOURNAMENT STARTS BOY WONDER INVADES HILL "Moe" Swartz, Aged 14, With His Lucky Strike, Tolls Knell For Galahad ALLISON HILL LEAGUE Ust Night's Result Reading, 9: Galahad. 8. Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pet. Reading 13 6 .684 i Rosewood 9 7 .563 i Galahad 8 9 .465 Hick-A-Thrift 5 13 .278 To-night's Game Hich-A-Thrift vs. Rosewood. i Out In the Allison Hill Junior | Baseball League they call a four- | teen-year-old "Mose" Sw&rti the | wonder boy, and It's no wonder. Any | lad who can come up from the jun- j lor organization and play with the j big fellows and break up a game after two strikes have been called is J pome wonder. That's just what ! "Mose" did last evening. Two run- i ners were on base, with the score 8 to 7 In favor of the Galahads. Then "Mose" strolled to the plate, j with his famous chew. Certain it is ! that he is either herbivorous or carnivorous, for no one ever saw "Mose" without •well-filled auto- j matic Jowls. The players say that the lad took a healthy gulp of "Lucky Strike," and then he proceeded to introduce same to his shillalah. Aft er two strikes had been called "Mose" lambasted an offering to left field and the game was over. When the wonder boy broke up the game, it was Just a quarter to nine, and the lad had to beat a hasty retreat to reach home before "Curfew tolled the knell of parting day." It was a long drawn out af fair, with Reading coming from be hind. They literally crept up on them In the dark. It was another of those contests that abounded In singles, doubles, triples and lastly a homo run clout by Clifford Wingard. To-right Rosewood and the Hick-A- Thrift will play. Reading has with drawn its protest of last Tuesday night against Hick-A-Thrift and the league standing will remain. Due to the inability of several of the rep resentatives to be at the meeting last evening, a president will not be selected until early next week. The score: READING AB. R. H. O. A. E. Lynch, lb 4 I 2 5 1 2 McCurdy. 2b ... 4 2 2 3 0 0 W. Euker, ss .. 4 2 1 2 2 3 Levan. p 3 1 2 0 3 0 T. Euker. cf .. 3 0 0 3 0 0 Shartle, 3b ... 3 112 0 1 G. Swartz. c . . 3 1 2 5 ft 0 Dunkle " 4 1110 0 Rhf'.i, rf 1 Q 0 0 1 1 H. swartz. rf ~ 3 0 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 9 12 21 7 7 GALAHAD AB. R. H. O. A. E. Cobaugh. If ... 4 0 0 3 0 1 Hnwley, 2b ... 4 2 3 2 J 1 Fellows, lb, p. 4 116 0 0 Boyd. 3b 4 1 1 2 3 0 Wingard, Cf.. 4 2 2 2 0 1 FoUnd, c 4 2 3 2 0 0 Holland, ss 4 0 0 1 1 1 Michael, rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 Bowers, p. lb.. 4 0 0 0 2 0 Totals 34 8 10 18 8 4 None out when winning run was •cored. Reading 400003 2—9 Galahad 013040 o—B Two base hit, G. Swartz. H. Swartz. Three base hit. Shartle. Foland. Wingard. Hawley, 2. Home run, Wingard. Struck out. Levan, 5; Bowers, 2. Base on balls, Levan, 1; Bowers. 4. Stolen bases, Foland, S: McCurdy, Shartle, Hawley, Le van. 2; W. Euker, Dunkle. Umpire, Shlckley. WEST EXD PLAYS YORK The famous West End A C. team will battle with the Brooks Machine Company club, champions of York, on Saturday next. West End travel ing down there. Manager House holder informed the Telegraph this morning that the Ruxton A. C. team had quit for this season, many of its good players having been drafted. s Call Us PARKWAY | Bell 1390—Dial 3573 J, 1 King r —| 1 g /\ ! are a depend- * g I Uscar ! f u le 9 ® oke - . 1 -'A ! They will give j p 1 fifrai-c " you smoke sat v< isfaction be cause 1 | QUALITY j % LjCj ' W I John C. Herman <*™ys the | and Company *"?* COMlder- g MAKERS atlon in their making. >v 1 Bay IK S. S. ' 1 § THURSDAY EVENING, Snoodles • •••* The Show Was Worth Waiting For /^/ VLTL^ST"fOVCI- SeEMS -To BE /v^TT\ f iS \IF dom't vour. y —s > | A Feu.ee- j JT / \ HUH • J { CHAR6E \) \A -SOON I'LL HAVE To y / X ( . PAiNTEP THAT \ lIW / V Vou A_slackeel J { -J\ST ) I 1 I Be/V|CH " TH(S ) y*""\ • —■■ - * .- -v <.* f ■*-.'- c , A a "BABE"RUTH STARS AGAIN Most Striking Figure in Base ball Today Wins Another Game For 'Red Sox . "Babe" Ruth hit another triple yes terday, Just in time to win a flve-inn ing game from Cleveland. With one out in the fourth, Amos Strunk singled and. of course. "Babe" fetched him home. Ruth also scored when White man clipped off a one-bagger. This lad is the biggest figure in baseball to-day, not onlv as a plaver, but also as a gate attraction. The baseball public always is ready to worship another hero, and after twelve years of Ty Cobb the change to Ruth was welcomed. "Babe" is a natural slugger. He is a rough-and ready hitter, knocks the ball a mile and doesn't care what kind of a ball the pitcher throws him. Inside or outside, it's just the same to him so long as it is near the plate. Ruth is a pitcher and performed in that capacity until this year, when Ed Barrows decided he was too big an asset to keep on the bench and slipped him into the regular lineup. He played at first base and in the outfield and his hitting won many ball games. | His tremendous hitting power is due to several important reasons. He is a young giant, likes to hit the ball | and can wallop it with wonderful 1 strength. He lias confidence in him self. stands up to the plate as if he meant business and doesn't believe any pitcher can fool him. His work as a pitcher enables him to work with the opposing moundsman. and he can pick out tha balls he likes to hit. He has keen eyesight and never goes after the had ones. But best of all, is the fact that the majority of Ameri can League twirlers are afraid of him. which is a valuable point In his favor. They know they can't fool him. so the ball sails over with noth ing on it but prayer. It's worth the price of admission to see this husky young person clout the pill. He la so sincere when he whang the ball that every one In the field is pulling for him. His home runs have been the sensation of the season, but his sacrifice flies also are worthy of special mention. "Babe" probably holds the record for hitting the longest sacrifice fly in I the history of baseball. The Yaiks j do not marvel at the length of Ruth's I drive any more since they saw him hit I this sacrifice fly that scored a runner I from second base. This is a play that j happens once in a lifetime. | In the afternoon game of April 19, in Boston this season. Scott was on l second base with one out. when Ruth i faced Ed. Monroe and hammered a long, high fly to right field. It was a most prodigious swat, not ony for ijstanre. but for altitude. Otherwise Gilhooley could never have got under it. Gil retreated swiftly to the right field fence, which is about three city blocks from the home plate, and had to make the catch before he could get "set." The-play threw the fielder off bal ance and that gave Scott his start. Gilhooley straightened up in a mo ment and pegged .to Pratt, who had gonp out to a position usually in habited by right fielders. Pratt had to run forward to catch the ball and his relay arrived too late to head off Scott. Ruth, therefore, received credit for the longest sacrifice fly i ever known in baseball. At the Polo j Grounds this drive would have cleared I the top of the right field stands. "Bud" Noyer, of Union Station, Defeats Belmont I The Union Station team agaiif pull ed open the throttle wide last even ing over at the Island grounds and I; bumped Belmont A C. good and hard. 8-4. "Bud" Noyer was the six ! cylinder king-row twirler, fanning 12 of the enemy. Capt. E. B. Snyder, who is handling this club like Johnny McGraw in sunny weather', was back | of the bat. and he was also there I with the timely punch, pickling one for three bases and blowing two men [ over the plate. Martin and Miller j were in the points for Belmont. || AROUND THE BASES Tommy Lennon, formerly fastest qunrter-miler on Lawson's Univer sity of Pennsylvania team, is one of 15 American aviators who are aiding the French tliers in the defense of Paris against air raids. Earl Baird, the national amateur featherweight champion who lives on the Pacific coast, has successfully passed the student aviator examina tion and will probably be sent to the California flying fields to complete his course. Jimmy Britt, former lightweight; 1 champion, says that the war will re- I store boxing in all its pristine vigor , all over America. Says he: "It Is alto-1 j gether too valuable and health-giving | sport to be eliminated. The Army of ! ficials consider it one of the principal j asstrts of the soldier preparatory to I hie sailing to light the Huns. One j soldier well trained in the art of self-defense will trim a dozen of Boches." Britt expects to be ap pointed an instructor In one of the cantonments shortly. In has day Britt has met the greatest light weights. including Joe Gans, Bat tling Nelson, Wolgast and Rirers. Walter Johnson has been recognlz i ed as one of the greatest pitchers the j game ever produced. For the last de cade he has ranked among less than j half a dozen great twirlers in the ma jor leagues. While an individual pitcher may have excelled him for a particular season. Johnson's record, alons with that of Alexander's stands out conspicuously as the best for the last eight years. He is now serving his eleventh season with Washington, the club with which he entered the major arena. Includ ing the games he has won this sea son. Johnson has a string of 263 victories to his credit. This means that his average per season reaches nearly twenty-four games. This is a remarkable record, especially when It is considered that the speed king won a total of only thirty-two games his first three years in the majors, he entering as a boy in his teens. Like his compeer of the decade, Alexander.Johnson never has achiev ed the feat so dear to the heart of every pitcher—a no hit game. Three times, however, he has held oppo nents to a single hit, while he has figured in seventy-two shut-out bat tles. Including the games he has lost this year, he has suffered.defeat in IS3 games. While Alexander's re cord is not available now, it might be stated that in his sixteen years of service Mathewson won 372 games and lost IS9, while for the same per iod Eddies Plank won 209 and lost 179. John F. Morrill, who was a mem i ber of the Boston National League ! club from 1876 to 1889, the last six i years of which he was both captain ' and manager, believes that baseball clubs could get along with fewer j players than they have during the 1 last sixteen or seventeen years; that three pitchers and two catchers, with cne man for each of the other posi tions. would be enough players for any club. Morrill calls attention to the num ber of championship that were won by Boston and other clubs, including Chicago, Detroit and the St. Louis Erowns, previous to 1900, when they carried eleven or twelve men. For the first time this season the American League batting average ■ looks natural. Course you can guess j why. Ty Cobb is out in front and the : detractors of the Peach, who have been claiming he was all through, are not tooting their horns so loud ly—in fact they're not tooting at all. Ty's climb has been a sensational one. Three weeks ago he was bur ied down among the .200 hitters. He had lots of company and the knock ers proclaimed that he had become an ordinary ball player. Gradually Ty climbed until he got into the .300 list. Last week he was hitting .351, and it was anticipated that Ty had a long, hard battle to get to the top, or to within striking distance. And then It was that Ty proved again that he is not an,ordinary ball play er. He boosted his mark 37 points in one week and Is now showing the way with a mark of .351. Heine Groh is leading National League batters with a mark of .350 the Cincinnati third sacker having gained 15 points, while Fred Merkle, who led in the last batch of averag es, dropped 13 points, to .347. Doyle of the Giants, is the nominal leader with .411, but h% has not played enough games towarrant being rank ed ahead of other star swatters. Car ey, of Pittsburgh, leads in thefts with 37 stolen bases opposite his name; Burns, of the Giants, is in front in run getting with 4 8 tallies, while Boush. of Cincinnati, and O'Mar.?, of Brooklyn, are tied for the honor in sacrifice hits with 16 martyr acts each. Mann, of Chicago, is leading in doubles with 18. Wickland, of Boston, In triples with 11, and Cruise, of St Ix>uis, in home runs with 5. Two years ago they said Cactus Cravath was through. But the ol" boy is still earning his cakes on big time and still slamming the ball out of bounds. In a game against the Cardinals at Philadelphia, June 14, Cravath hit a home run in the tenth inning and won the battle for the Phillies. 2 to 1. That homer wa.s No. 100 on Cravath's long list of circuit swats. It was the home run hit that gave Cravath a record which will probably not be equaled in many years to come, for the dope book shows that Hans Wagner kept HAHIUSBURA TELEGRAPH swinging at the offerings of the pit chers for twenty odd years before he slammed out his 100 th four-bas er. Cravath's record of 100 home runs was made over a period of nine playing seasons in the big show, all but two of which he spent In the National League, where the pitchers have learned to fear and respect his Steelton Plays Team Today With Record of No Defeat A fast game of ball was promised | this afternoon at Cottage Hill when j Manager Cockill's veteran squad of big leaguers met the Burnham In dependent Y. M. C. A. team which thus far had not lost a battle. The Steelton clt'.b is working hard, morn ing and afternoon practice, to be prime for Lebanon on Saturday, for rivalry is keen between these two. Tom Phillips was the logical twirler for to-day's fray, Cockill being anxious to see him start and pitch a full game so that he may take his place in the regular staff. One of the chief surprises in the Bethlehem Steel Company League is the success of Sparrows Point which has had five victories in a row. Bethlehem is steaming up to trim them next Saturday and it is under stood that "Buck" Doyle will be on first again. The change in the Bethlehem ! lineup in their game at Steelton on Saturday, showing "Beebe" Roth playing first base instead of Boyle, has 'been the source of many inquiries. It is widely known that in th£ beginning of the season "Buck" was invited to come out and try for a regular berth but that he was ob stinate and didn't appear to care whether he played with the corpora tion team or not. The rumor that he had again fallen in bad with the local management was strenuously denied. The reason for his non-ap pearance as given out in the athletic office is to the effect that "Buck" missed the train taken by the steel workers and was unable to follow because no other train leaving there got to Steelton in time for him to play in the game. As a result "Buck" decided not to waste the day and covered first base for the Saucon | team in the Inter-department league. Bates & Rogers Orphans Defeat Govt. Truck Drivers In a game featured by the hard hitting of Balderson, the Orphans, a Bates and Rodgers Construction Compuny organization, took their ancient prey, the Government Truck Drivers, into camp last evening by an 8-0 score. Feckes. the old normal twirler, j who pitched for the Truck Drivers, • with better support might, at least, ! have held his rivals even, but errors proved his undoing. The lineup: ORPHANS H. H. O. A. E. Balderson, 3b 3 2 1 0 0 Bowen, c 3 1 6 1 0 Long, lb 0 0 2 0 0 Johnson, 2b 2 2 2 2 0 Laßrlsh, If 0 0 0 0 0 C. Snooke, ss 0 0 0 2 1 Enright, p 0 0 2 I*o Beckley, cf 0 0 2 0 0 IH. Snooke, rf 0 0 0 0 0 Totals .. .* 8 5 15 6 1 TRUCK DRIVERS H. H. O. A. E. Reddy, c 0 0 7 0 2 Feckes, p 0 0 0 3 0 Stringer, lb 0 0 4 0 0 Langford, 2b 0 0 1 1 1 Fehl, 3b 0 1 0 1 2 Smailing, s.s 0 1 1 2 0 Stauffer, If 0 0 1 0 0 i Peterson, cf 0 0 1 0 0 j Erickson, rf 0' '0 0 0 0 Totals 0 2 15 7 5 Two-base hits, Balderson, Bowen, Johnson. Three-base hits, Balder son. Bases on balls, off Enright, 2; off Feckes, 4. Struck out, by En right, 6; by Feckes, 7. Stolen bases, Balderson, 2; Johnson, 2; Bowen, Snooke, Fehl. Umpire, Peckin paugh. Fish Won't Bite Until So'west Wind Blows If you haven't caught any fish j within the past fortnight be carelul I how you explain to the good wife | who has seen possibilities of food j saving in your trips to river and 1 creek. A woman, at least some wo men, won't understand you if you speak of the aqueous tension and try to tell of isobars and isotherms. Or I if you come home saying: j "Well, I caught no fish for the rea son that this morning alto-cumulus i was over us and this afternoon stra i to-cuinulus was prominent." Don't j say these things for goodness sake, j for you might as well tell them to . the Kijis. If you realty went fishing, | honestly, seriously, declare-to-good ness fashion, be frank with the ruler of the household. Tell her the wind was wrong; then you'll be telling the truth. A southwest wind, you will under stand, if you know what a rod and reel are, is known as "a fishing wind." A wind from that locality is warm and balmy, and a fish has no more chance against a hook prop erly bait-ad under such a breeze than a pail of mixed ale at a longshore men's outing. There hasn't been such a wind in days, and the weather forecaster doesn't promise there'll be any such thing right off. so that you'll lose your time if you go fishing. Golf Championship of Reservoir Park Links Will Start Next Week City championship drawings for i the Reservoir Park Golf Club tour nament which starts next week were 1 announced yesterday by Robert F. Fairbaim, the new professional in ; charge of the links. The first sixteen i drawn includes a 16-year-old boy, i AM, >EY LJ*£!?ATTe~ If ARE DELICIOUS 20 F ° R 13 CENTS m Richard Robinson, who bids fair to be city champion in the following matches. T. V. Devine vs. H. E. Miller. Edward Longnaker vs. Karl E. Richards. H. E. Zimmerman vs. R. D. Myers. C. H. Sauers vs. W. A. Ziegler. Ed. Wade vs. H. A. Shreiner. William Pavord vs. J. Richard Robinson. J. F. Rees vs. M. S. Kelley. W. D. Metkle vs. Fred Harry. ' The second sixteen is made up of: J. H. Thomas—Bye. JULY 11, 1918. J. R. Henry vs. T. J. Devine. John Laurie vs. R. E. Griswold. W. C. Corcoran—Bye. The Rev. E. N. Kremer vs. J. S. Claster. Dr. D. J, Hetrlck—Bye. C. L. Shepley vs. P. P. Wagner. H. F. Young vs. W. B. McClure. Tlie city champion and runner up of the first sixteen will receive med als, as well as the winner of the "beaten eight" The winner of the second sixteen as well as the beaten eight of this sixteen will also receive medals. CROWD BR AFTER MoKECHNIE Pittsburgh. July 11—Bill McKech nie, third baseman of the Pittsburgh National League Baseball Club, has been ordered to appear before his local draft board here to-night and to submit proofs that he is engaged in an essential occupation. The ac tion of the board was taken under the recent "work or fight" order of Provost Marshal General Crowder. McKechnie was given deferred classi fication because of dependencies be fore the "work or fight" order wai issued. 13
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