BASEBALL SPREADING TO ALL PARTS OF WORLD; STEELTON SLAUGHTERS BURNHAM BASEBALL FOR WHOLE WORLD Yanks Took It to Trenches, and Now It Promises to Be come Universal Sport Washington, D. C., July 12.—Base ball bids fair to become an Inter national sport according to Harry R. Stringer of the War Department Commission on Traiing Camp Activ ities who has Just returned from a trip of the American camps in France and England with Raymond B. Posdick, Chairman of the Com mission, who has been making a survey of the recreational and relief facilities among American overseas forces. "It really takes a trip to the front to make one realize that base ball is the national game of Amer ica," said Mr. Stringer. "I saw our boys playing from London and Paris right up to the front line trenches. Of course, playing within the front lines Is naturally restricted because the troops are forbidden to congre gate on account of the danger from Boche batteries. Nevertheless it is not an unusual sight to see groups of two or three limbering up with a baseball after a night in the dug outs and trenches. Most of the units have their own teams, and in some places leagues have been formed. Rivalry is keen and the men take as much interest fn the fortunes of their respective nines us they do in the big league races at home." But England and Prance, Mr. Stringer, have no monopoly on our national pastime. Italy is going mad | over it and when the first ball game ever played in the Eternal City came off recently between U. S. Army and Navy many thousands of Italians were weaned to the great interna tional sport. In fact as one writer remarks the Italians were so zealous in the innovation that they bothered the players. There were two Italian bands in attendance and they took the occa sion. whenever the plays became particularly exciting or a good double play was in progress, to strike up the national anthem, with the result that every player had sud denly to forget what he was doing and stand at attention until the an them was finished, it interfered a little bit with the game, but it helped to promote the spirit of patriotic fervor among the specta tors. The Army won in this game 11-3. The players were nearly all flying men and the pitchers had some dif ficulty controlling (their machines Chaplin, who used to be a second etring pitcher for Princeton, passed nine men and had six wild pitches. Alworth, who pitched for the Army and who is said to have received at one time an offer from a big league struck out eleven. The Italians did not understand I what it was all about, but they made it a great occasion for patriotic re joicing rooting first for one side and uien the other. 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Davis, of Dickinson, Is Army Athletic Trainer Washington, D. C., July 12.—Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft, head of the Athletics Department of the War Department's Commission on Train ing Camp Activities, has announced the 'appointment of Paul J. Davis, former Tri-State Leaguer, and foot ball coach, as Director of Athletics at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. Davis will succeed Ward L. Lambert, who has resigned to enter an officer's training camp. • While a student at Dickinson Col lege, Davis sprang into the limelight when ho captained both the base ball and football teams of the school. After graduating from Dickinson, he acted as football and baseball coach for several years at his alma mater. Davis became affiliated with the Tri-State League, and captained for one season each the Altoona, York, Trenton and I-ancaster teams. Aft<r leaving the Tri-State League, he played on the Elmira, N. Y., team and the Louisville, Ky., team. The managers of the two big leagues were continually dickering foj- Davis* services as a first baseman, but for some reason, Davis would consider none of the offers. He quit the game when he was playing his best because he wanted to devote his en tire time to the promotion of edu cational athletic work. In the autumn of 1909, Davis ac cepted the position as Director of the Athletic Department of Okla homa A. & M. College, where he served until 1915. During the past two years he was director of the Athletic Department at the North Dakota Agricultural College. IIIT BY AUTO Chester Scholtz, aged 12 years, 38 North Tenth street, who was struck by an automobile late yesterday aft- "Home Ran" Baker First to Make 100 Hits :IW i JVW**' I'jmr-1 II b® *f, Ptf v* A I#""** , M'.v'-sS. *1 t*.| ; -J I 1 i Frank Baker, "Homo Run" Baker, famous batter of the New York American League Club, who hiid a slump for two years after he left Connie Mack in Philadelphia, has || AROUND THE BASES || Princeton's plans for football are, indicated by the appointment of a new football committee, which con-! sists of Knox Taylor, Speedy Rush,' Big Bill Edwards, Bill Roper and Fred Dawson. The last named was put on the committee in spite of his having resigned as Princeton's as sistant coach and gone to Columbia. The plan behind the appointment of the committee includes games with Harvard and Yale and service elev ens. The Tiger is determined to re turn to the gridiron with a varsity eleven, and he is sure to do so no matter what the outlook when the men report in the fall. Don Brown, formerly with the Athletics and with Harrisburg and Reading in the New York State League, has joined Buffalo, where ■Oeorge Wiltse will use him both to pitch and field, 'as he is a sort of "Babe" Ruth Duke Kalianamoka, of Hawaii, and Perry McGillivary, of Chicago, will meet next Saturday and Sunday in three swimming contests for the world's short distance swimming championship, at Chicago. The Ha waiian is holder of the world rec ords for 50 and 100 yards and the | local man is holder of the national i indoor 50 and 100 yards champion ships. The swimmers will meet at 50, 100 and 220 yards. The Chicago Nationals came to terms with Tom Clarke, a veteran catcher, formerly with the Cincin nati club of the National League. Clarke, a free agent, was signed be cause Manager Mitchel fears Catcher Killifer will soon be called into the military service. j A posthumouf citation of Arthur [ Bluethenthal, a member of the La fayette Escadrille and formerly one lof the best-known football players lot Princeton University, who was I killed on June 7, appeared in the j Official Journal. It reads: ' "Arthur Bluethenthal, an Ameri tcan pilot of first rank, volunteered : for the Foreign Legion in order to serve in the aviation service of I France. He made himself remarked trom the beginning by his spirit, dis cipline and judicious courage. He continued by his own wish to serve with the French escadrille during the present battle before passing into the American aviation service. He was killed in an aerial combat while directing a distant artillery lire." Barney Oldfield, the "master driv er," has decided to' retire from active participation in automobile racing, and that he will make his last ap pearance on any speedway in the big event at the Uniontown Speedway, July 18. Oldfield is the oldest man in the country still actively engaged in automobile racing. He has been in the business practically ever since it became a sport and has made & record which is the envy of all his rivals. He has seen seventeen con secutive years of the automobile racing game, and has had all sorts oft peculiar and hair-raising experi ences. Oldfield plans to retire to his home in Los Angeles and his lucra tive tire business. The automobile HXHIUSBURO TELEGRAPH | come back. He made his one-hun i dredth hit for the season at New i York, July 8. Moreover, he is the first big league player to make one ! hundred hits. same has been good to the veteran and he is said to have amassed a fortune of at least a quarter of a million dollars from his activities. Pigeon racing is not a sport gen erally adopted, but the Liberty and Quaker City Association just closed a very successful season with a most unsuccessful race. Two-thirds of the birds were blown out of their course by the flighty weather, so that hundreds did not survive, caus ing much linancial loss. But one sportsman considered himself the luckiest pigeon fancier in America, T. J Phelan, a member of the West Philadelphia district. During the season of 1916 Mr. Phelan had two birds that made pigeon flying his tory by returning the same day from 500 miles on three successive weeks. They , were entered in the race last year, but neither returned and were given up as lost. Imagine the Joy of Mr. Phelan when, along with the recent racers, one of the supposedly lost birds returned to the home loft. The bird was a blue white flight hen bred from old John Sheppard's birds, with tyind No. 3 399. The ten flights in its wing had all been pulled out, and it came home with only Its primary flights. What They Did Yesterday; Where They Play Today YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Amertrnn Lcn^iie Cleveland, 1; New York, 0. * Philadelphia, 8; St. Louis, 5. Boston. 4; Chicago, 0. Detroit, 8; Washington, 6. National League Pittsburgh, S; New York, 4. Cincinnati, 7; Brooklyn, 3. Philadelphia, 5; St. Louis 2. Chicago, 4; Boston, 3 (first game, 10 innings.) Chicago, 3; Boston, 2 (second game.) STANDING OP THE CLUBS American Leajtue W. I* Pet. Boston 42 32 .668 Cleveland 45 36 556 New York 41 33 554 Washington 40 38 .513 St. Louis 37 39 .487 Chicago 37 39 4x7 Detroit 31 44 .413 Philadelphia 30 45 .400 Nntlonni Leaipje W. L Pet. Chicago 52 23 .693 New York 46 28 .622 Pittsburgh a 37 36 .507 Philadelphia 34 37 .479 Boston 33 42 .440 Cincinnati 31 40 .437 Brooklyn ' 30 42 ..417 St. Louis 30 45 .400 SCHEDULE FOR TO-DAY Amerlean League Chicago at Boston. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Detroit at Washington. Cleveland at New York. National League Boston at Chicago. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. New York at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia at St. Louis. r sit J Golf Drive of 175 Yards Cuts Off Swallow's Head Portlnnil, Ore., July 11. —R. U. Shand, draughtsman at the North western Steel Company here, usually uses a gun when he goes hunting, but on the links of the Portland Golf Club he had the sensation of bagging a swallow with a driven golf ball. As he teed off from the sixth tee three of tour swallows flew across the fairway, one of them getting di rectly in the path of the ball. The ball cut the bird' head completely off and speeded straight on its course. The drive covered 175 yards. MINISTER RESIGNS New Bloomficld, July 12. —The Rev. A. N. Brubaker. pastor of the Landisburg Reformed Church, has handed in his resignation to take ef fect August 1. 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Torry, i ol' New York, secretary of the Unit ; ed States Lawn Tennis Association. "I believe," say 3 Torry, "as do many others connected with lawn tennis, that the sport is due for the greatest progress it has made in its history after the war is over. The men in tlie various cantonments in this country and those stationed 'over there' are taking up tennis as a means of recreation and physical development in a manner that sur passes the hopes of even the most enthusiastic member. "Last winter I went down to Washington to confer with Secretary of War Baker as to the advisability of staging tennis tournaments over the country and promoting the sport JULY 12, 1918 in the Army and Navy camps. Mr. Baker was in favor of holding such tourneys, so we went ahead with our plans. "Letters in forms of appeals were sent to the members of the organiza tion to ask their vlubmen not to throw their old racquets and tennis balls into the garbage can and where not, but to ship them to a nearby training camp for the boys in the service. Hundreds of dollars' worth of equipment was saved and put to good use. "But the demand is greater than the supply. Men and boys who never handled a racqcet before became in terested in the sport, and it has taken a strong hold on them. We have sent hundreds and thousands of balls and racquets across the At lantic, and only a few weeks ago the Y. M. C. A. at Camp Dix erected twenty-five new courts. The officers I as well as the noncommissioned men use the courts, and sometimes It la i necessary to have a waiting line. It's the same all over the country. "It is an impossibility for the men 'over there' to strike a bit of ground i everywhere they stop to rest suitable for baseball diamonds and golf courses. The majority of the times the ground is even in only small sections. Unable to play ball, the men turn to tennis, and bring out } the racquets and nets. In this way the men and boys are kept in fine physical and moral condition. When they return home they still will have that desire to play tennis to keep in physical shape, and the sport will j progress with leaps and bounds." SWORE TOO IXJUDLY Bright London will be given a hearing to-day for disorderly con duct on the street. He was swearing in Cherry alley when the patrolman, who made the arrest, ordered him to be quiet. He became abusive and was locked up. 15
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