BRAND NEW BASEBALL LEAGUE STARTED HERE; .BOOM BASEBALL IN HARRISBURG Twilight Teams Organize and Play Fifrst Game Within Couple Hours IXDtrSTIUAIi LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Appleby, 6; Kiwanis, 1. Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pet. Appleby 1 0 1.000 Newsies 0 0 .000 Suburbans 0 0 .000 Evangelicals 0 0 .000 Belmont Jrs 0 0 .000 Kiwanis i. 0 1 .000 To-night's Schedule Newsies vs. Belmont Jrs. A real, honest-to-goodness base ball league was born late yesterday afternoon in Harrisburg and ten minutes after being organized two of the clubs were on their way to the Harrisburg athletic field on the island to make history with the open ing battle. The enterprise in form-I ing a league in inidseason is cer-! tainly commendable and promises: that "the Industrial Twilight League will have a prosperous and long ca-! reer. The promoters who attended! the meeting were: J. S. Belsinger, j representing the Suburban Knights; | T. H. Davis, representing the Bel-: mont Juniors; J. W. Holahan andj DeWitt W'ohlfarth, representing the Newsies; John Appleby, representing the Appleby outfit; W. L. Barley, representing the Evangelical Priiit erv; C. E. Reeser, representing the Kiwanis team. The schedule of games in this new league which will use the H. A. C. diamond for its sport, provides that each club will play once in a week. The season runs until September 17 and that gives time for each club to play two games with each of the other clubs. It is expected that as these teams represent progressive; firms and activities that trophies lor; championship will be provided later: on. The opening of the season saw Ap pleby Brothers defeat Kiwanis, due largely to the clever pitching ofj Sanders, a Newport boy who must; have become an employe of Apple- j bv's very recently, for mast of his ■ close friends think he is working inj the Marysville yards. However,! Sanders held Kiwanis to four hits and Appleby managed to nick Bill! Fortna. famous Allison Hill twirler. for severi bmgles. Wingeard, espe cially, took a fancy to Bill's slants, riding one for three bases and send-i jrfng two Applebys home. This evening the second battle willj be staged between the Newsies andi Belmont. The former is made up of fast '-"Is called from the play ers en t.ie Telegraph. Patriot and New-. Yesterday's score was:' KIWANIS R. H. O. A. E. Fritz, c 0 0 2 0 0, Black, cf 0 0 1 n ®j Sterriek, lb ...... 0 2 4 1 01 Holahan. ss 0 1 0 1 0, Claster, Sb ....... 0 0 0 0 1 Bailey, rf 0 0 0 0 0 Olouser, If ..._... 0 0 0 0 1 Cooper. 2b....... 1 0 0 1 0 Fortna." p 0 1 5 0 0 Totals 1 4 18 3 2 APPLEBY BROS. R. H. O. A. E. Levan. c 0 2 3 0 0 Lick. 2b -• • 3 0 3 0 1 Garber. If 1 ® 3 0 0 Holland, 1 2 4 1 I 3b 1 1 9 1 0 Kean. rf 0 A ® ® \ Wingeard, If ...... 0 2 1 Sanders, p ® 0 ® ® "j Foust, lb 0 0 4 0 0| Totals 8 7 "1 1 5! Kiwanis ® 0 0 1 0 ® ®—l! Appleby 001 00 5 x—6 j Three-base hit, Wingeard. Struck; out, by Sanders. 4; by Fortna. 8. j Base on balls, of Sanders. 1. Hit byl pitcher, Fritz. Hasting, 2; Cooper.) Umpire, Port. Cadets Drop Out of Junior League; Albion in Its Place LEAGUE STANDING W. L. Pet. Summit 13 0 1.000; Hwutara 1* 5 .643 Mon&rchs 1 3 11 .214; Albions 2 11 .1531 On account of the lack of play-i er.- the 'adet nine of the Allison Hill Junior League was forced to leave the league, so Monday's gamei was forfeited to the Monarch outfit; by the usual score of 9-0. The strong Albion team, taking; the Cadets' place, will play their first game this evening with the Mon archs. The game scheduled for! Thursday between the Albions and ; Svvatnra will be played Friday on M| qount of the Swatara ball team ho!d-j ing a festival. Hp IKing i S are a depend- g 11^1*211" a^e smoke. 1 V/ ° tai They will give rr VP you sm °k e sat- UgarS isfaction be cause g IjQUALITY j 1 John C. Herman j? always the and Company fi t COnsider ation in their making. p ifj Buy W. S. S. " r ' l| TUESDAY EVENING, SIIOOdICS •He Thought He Was Playing Safe i~ltLTLs£oT"fol*Cl f THAT S To 1 [7 iTS f toLo VTy "AND " f Y~| l SIHOW DAN6W ) CaJI4OA, / / KID v/~LC SNOODIES U Ce:SOJ(=D ./ • f -SO'S WAGON* I? ( . ( AN AUTOES \ \ HIM . / / A J yz JUh / ✓ —\ VVONY ? ES I2 / JCJ^L*/// r WHUTS , \V?° VOU PO.NCr ( - = ' " fw"- u C ° tuu^jky.\ua. vn*V ' ■■■ _ I Fifteen Speckled Trout Caught With Angle-Worm Stumped Tom Marshall The melting pot will be the great | leveler at the conclusion of the world's war. This we all admit and j insist upon without " contradiction; ! it is along the lines of a successful nation. The building up of social i barriers in a very brief interval, creates snobbery, especially is this true when social preferment is [ based upon "get rich quick" accom plishments. If the odor of "codfish" is permitted to permeate the atmos phere, to the exclusion and under estimating of the less fortunate fi nancially, it is a certain breeder of socialism, which in turn creates un rest and labor troubles. The mention of "codfish" brings me back to earth and the fact that I am a sports writer and must not diverge into the channels of sordid business. The melting pot may be crowded to white heat, the blower may be ad justed, and every artificial heat pro duced which would ordinarily assim ilate any and all factions, yet there will remain in the sporting world elements which will not be incor potated together. The man who shoots the twenty-guage gun. when he meets a man afield with a ten guage. may possibly pass the com pliments of the clay, but the line of conversation will be cut short, he will leave his ten-guage acquaint ance. at the same time carrying on with himself an inward conversa tion. about rough neck sportsmen, to Which he does not want to expect an answer. The dry fly angler, when he meets along the stream a cane pole fisher man, will scarcely show him the courtesy of glancing at his basket, containing fish, unless he has been unfortunate and desires to replete his creel before starting home, at which time he gives him a mone tary consideration, but leaves men tally branding him a game hog. Ele ments of this character will never be reduced bv the melting pot. While tournament shooting in St. Paul, the writer was invited by that old vet eran trapshot, Sam Hamilton, for a mornings fishing buot on those speckled beauties, which Sam knew we could catch. Four o'clock the following morn ing we started, driving eleven miles to Nichols Station; at this point Sam suggested that I "throw my pole together." The major portion of the reading public know that pole is not correct, rod is considered much more classy in the fishing four hundred. My hand-made rod built and presented by a friend, was equipped for service, fly book brought into action and a short dis sertation given on flies. Sam came over and offered me a hand full of ansrle worms, an offer I disdained at the same time, handing him a look of disgust and disapproval. Sam di rected me to a likely looking section and I went industriously to work, whipping the stream with every fly that I thought would prove seduc ti\e. My net earnings was one little trout about ten inches long. Sam stopped on his way back to the machine with ten beauties, then add- MILLERSTOWS TEACHERS Millerstown, Pa., July 16. Mil lerstown school board has elected E. C. Morrow principal of the high school for the ensuing year. Other teachers elected include. Miss Mar garet Bollinger. intermediate, and Miss Mina Kramer, primary. No teacher has yet been elected for the grammar school. With the election of a secretary and treasurer, the school board is completely reorgan ized as follows: President, J. E. Roun sley; vice-president, J. C. Ritzman: secretary, W. C. Moore, and treasurer, C.* F. Taylor. Ed insult to Injury by baiting his i hook with a miserable, wiggling, angle worm, wheih did not look to be in good health or condition and lifiting five more creel decorators from the Savage Spring brook. Fifteen speckled beauties on a half baked angle worm, while the i writer managed to land one trout on i an outfit, the line of which was worth more than Sam's entire equip ment. As we rode home and 1 lis tened to Sam's source of reasoning about the use of live bait, this melt ing pot idea was forced upon me, again I insist there will never be sufficient heat under the melting pot of the sporting world to dissolve the creeds built up on prejudice that wifl always exist. ANSWERS TO XIMRODS Question: What was the result of j the race betwene Billy Heer and i Frank M. Troeh, on 500 targets re cently shot. Was much money bet on results? I Indianapolis, Ind. JOHN HARRINGTON. Answer: The race was won by I Mr. Heer, by a margin of three birds, I the race was shot under adverse conditions and scores were not up to their average. It was estimated by those present that approximately $50,000 was bet on the outcome of the race. l,t is rumored that Troeh will again challenge. Almost the entire amount wagered was in Lib ! erty Bonds as was the stakes in the I main event. : Question: Why don't the shooting ! fraternity make their prizes Liberty j Bonds? This would be patriotic and ' prove very popular, j Troy, N. T. JAMES FEATHERSTONE. I Answer: This has been followed ' to a considerable extent. It has re mained for the Wilmington. Del aware, Trapshooters' Association at their tournament to be held July 25-27, in Wilmington, to add an event known as the Liberty Bond special. The entrance is a SSO Lib ! erty Bond. This will Insure one of : the very best three-day shoots held this year. Question: Are the men In aviation camps making headway learning wing shooting, what is the object of ! teaching them that? ! Fort Wayne, Ind. M. G. BRUNO. Answer: The aces of the air in 1 the ground schools at the aviation i camps are learning rapidly and be i coming very expert in wing shoot ! ing. They are being lntensivelly ■ trained on flying targets for the rea son that the shooting they will be ■ called upon to execute in mid air will be at rapidly moving objects from a field that is moving with equal or greater rapidity. The one great es sential for successful air-fighting is a knowledge of leads, distance and velocity, which can only be attained by practice in wing shooting. When our boys get actively to work on the Boches In midair, there will be an awakening, many of the prospective aviators are selected from the ranks of expert trapshoots and will make acceptable returns. ■ Reading Gets Nearer Pennant With Game Forfeited by Hickies l.nst Xlght'n It mi It Reading. 9: Hlck-A-Thrlft, 0 (forfeited) Standing of <ke Club* W. L Pet. Reading 14 6 .700 Rosewood 11 7 .611 Galahad 8 10 .444 Hick-A-Thrift 5 15 .250 To-nlgbfa Content ahalad vs. Rosewood. i | The Hlck-A-Thrlft baseball team forfeited to Reading last evening in an Allison Hill scheduled contest through their Inability to place a team o nthe field. The "Hickies" were short their quota of nine men. and as a result dropped the game by a 9 to f score. Several players were en listed to fill the Hlck-A-Thrlft ranks and a "scrub" game was played which was won easily by Reading. To-night Galahad and Rosewood j will play, with Shay likely to go In- ' to the box for Galahad. Fore Rose wood, Manager Killinger will choose from Landis, Leidig or Fortna. "Curly" Longenecker Is also avail able. Doubleheader at Steelton With Sparrows Point There will be two games at Steel- ] ton on Saturday, with Sparrows Point, a postponed contest having been arranged to be staged In addi tion to the scheduled battle. This double fray should be a genuine de bauch *of high-class pdfetlming, for Eddie Plank and Lefty Pierce will probably do the flinging for Steelton and any time these artists appear you may count on de luxe ball.- The first wrangle will start promptly at two o'clock. Manager Cockil] announced yester day that he had secured Johnny Beall one-time star with Milwaukee, and l recently with the St. Louis Nationals. | He Is an outfielder Who hits regular j wallops, but he will not be eligible to | play at Steelton for one month. HARRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH | AROUND THE BASES j From a <:olf club in Kansas, sec ; retary's office on the United States Golf Association recently received a 1 modest contribution as the result of ' its Red Cross tournament on Inde ; pendence Day. With the check was a word of explanation to the effect that the club only had sixteen mem bers who were charged tlO a year for dues. Further information stated that the grass "grew proliflcally' along the sides of the fairway, so tltat the club managed to meet its running expenses by selling the hay.". „• • • Benny Katiff is the most ambi tious rookie at Camp Sherman, al though he has flat feet and will j probably never go over. Satisfied of j this, Benny has a dream of start- j ing a ball club so that each man in the Twelfth Company will have a cigar every noon and evening and l acquire a complete athletic equip-' ment. "Lots of these boys." Kauff says j "haven't got a lot of stray dimes! and will get very little pleasure un- I less some oe gives it to them. I'm going to do it. I already have book- i ings offered for fifteen games and I we'll have a team that can draw i the crowds and make enough monev! to raise a big fund. From this fund we'll give the Twelfth Company bovs a touch of real life. Most of them need the little pleasures such a fundi can provide from them." Practically all the good ballplayers in camp have asked Bennv for a trial on his club. They all want to ! play with the great Giant outfielder! and when he gets through coaching : them he will have a real team. • • • "Who said professional ballplayers had no imagination or poetic gifts? A New York snorting writer asked the veteran George Sehlei if he thought he could make good with the Chicago Cubs this year, and George, to show how nimble his wits are, responded with this letter: "No, my knee joints do not creak, nor do my muscles loudly squeek. I still can throw and still can bat, and have no need for antifat. My arm is stronger than it was and I throw to second with*-a buzz. I don't pro pose they'll count me out so long as I am fit to clout. With these few words I'll say good-by and wish vou well. Tours, "GEORGE B. SCHLEI." • • • Same old story. Open a race track and the loafers collect. Betting at tracts the low-life like nothing else does. Witness this: Five hundred men were arrested yesterday at Latonia race track by Federal Secret Service men under the work or tight law. • * * Sam Crawford tells a story on Joe Sugden that, while not new, is worth repeating. "Joe was catching and Clark Grif fith was pitching in a game in Chi cago one day," said Sam. "A foul tip knocked one of Joe's fingers out of joint and he walked out to the box to have Griffith pull it back in place. "Joe extended his hand, which has the worst-looking lot of gnarled fingers on It you ever saw, and said to Griff:- " 'One of my fingers is out of Joint; give it a yank, win you?" "Clark looked at the hand a moment and then ejaculated: " 'Sure, if you tell me which one it is. They all look out of joint to me.' " • • • Caroline Holley, Long Island City, has been awarded the marksman medal and diploma offered by the Winchester Junior Rifle Ccyps. a re cently formed national organization to promote shooting among the boys and girls in America. She made a score of 204. Marksman and sharpshooter medals are offered by the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps to any 'boy or girl not over 18 years of age. A score of 19 out of a possible 25 on each of ten targets wins. The marks man medal and a score of 24 out of a possible 25 each of fifteen targets wins the sharpshooter medal. The targets must be shot on a fifty-foot range. • • • Bobble Walthour, champion bicyclist, who won a prize once by riding fifty-seven miles Into Dres den, Germany, in an hour, asked the Y. M. C. A. to let him duplicate that feat In Berlin as a "Y" physi cal director when the association huts are pitched behind Pershing's camp beside the Kaiser's palace. Piatt Adams Joyously agreed and Walthour will soon depart for France, where he once lived for thirteen years, and will take charge of a foyer de soldat or Red Triangle hut for the Poilus until the advance on Berlin. "I'm going to train the Poilus to ride bikes, so we can have a brigade on wheels to chase the Kaiser," he said. Walthour Is training for over seas work at the Y. M. C. A. inten sive training camp at Columbia Uni versity. Two hundred and eighty men. among them bankers, brokers, physicians, actors and businessmen, some of whom have given up good incomes to Join the Y. M. C. A. over seas service, are training at Col umbia. The camp there is In charge of Dr. William H. Crawford, presi dent of Allegheny College, who was in Paris as a "Y" worker when the first German bomb dropped down on that city and.was within 100 feet of where it hit. • • • • Discarding his feathers and war paint, Flowberth W. Richester, a HICKIES FORFEIT ANOTHER HILL GAME | full-blooded American Indian, has 1 joined the Lafayette Escadrille and ! will fly as an aviator in France, i Richestcr's wife, also an Indian and ; a beautiful woman, slender and! ; somewhat on the Gibson girl type, j ; was born in Germany, but never-1 | theless is an American. We bet an I | onion that the Big Chief will carry! a tomahawk and when he lands on' j the first Hun it will sound like the! Six Barbers' shop on Saturday 1 night. | What They Did Yesterday; Where They Play Today YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American Leaitue j Cleveland, 5: New York, 3. Boston. 2; Chicago, 1. | Philadelphia. 5; St. Louis. 3 (First ' game). Philadelphia, 6; St. Louis. 4 (Second game). ! Washington-Detroit; (Played Sun day). National League 1 New York. 2; Cincinnati, 1. Pittsburgh, 6; Brooklyn, 5. 1 eßm3 H i 11 HII h j ik pn & I BHn | J k W t Chicago-Philadelphia, rain. j St. Louis-Boston; (Played Sunday). STANDING OP THE OLVBS Anicrlcnn l.cntno W. L Pet. | Boston 48 33 .593 I Cleveland 47 38 .553 j New York 43 36 .544 ! Washington' 41 40 .506 I St. Louis 38 41 .481 I Chicago 38 41 .481 [Detroit 33 35 .423 I Philadelphia 32 46 .410 j National I.caipip W. L. Pet. I Chicago 55 23 .705 ! New York 48 30 .§ls i Pittsburgh 39 37 .513 | Philadelphia 35 41 .461 I Cincinnati 54 41 .453 Boston 35 44 .443 St. Louis 33 48 .407 Brooklyn 30 45 .400 SCHEDULES FOIt TO-DAY American readme Chicago at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Boston. Detroit at New York. Cleveland at Washington. National League Boston at St. Louis. Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. New York at Cincinnati. Philadelphia at Chicago (two ' games.) ' JULY 16, 1918. Don Brown and Eddie Hooper Star in Game Buffalo, July 15—Don Brown, who last season Played with Reading and Harrisburg, of the New York State League and who was secured last Friday to play third base for Buffalo, International League, pitched a game with Syracuse on Sunday, giving such good account that hereafter he will be used regularly as twirler. Al though handicapped by a split finger on his gloved hatid, Brown held Syra cuse to seven hits, winning 15-2 and would have scored a shutout, had he not eased down when he had lead of fourteen runs. Eddie Hooper, a player also famil iar to Harrisburg. as he took active part in the Blue Ridge League, win ning the pennant for Chambersburg, and prominent also in the Tri-State League, is the star player with Bing hampton, New York State League, winning for his club on Friday last with a fusillade of hits. Ql'U'K TRIP TO PRANCE New Hloomtleld. Pa., July 16.—Leav ing New Bloomtteld for Camp Lee, Va., with the Perry county draft quota on April 30, Charles Beason is now in France with the American Expedi tionary Forces. Announcements to this effect have just been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bea som. Chautauqua Assured For Mechanicsburg Next Year Mechnnlmburn:, Pa., July 16. At an enthusiastic meeting at Chau tauqua last evening, following the first act of "Pinafore," an effort was made to secure guarantee for next year, with the result that the towi went "over the top." Fifty signaturei were required, and sixty-qne were se cured, with assurance of a numbe! more before Chautauqua closes. An innovation was made by the talent of the evening, when several of the leading characters came be fore the curtain and put it up ti th people, and went through the audi ence soliciting the required numbei of guarantors. They were soon se cured and a silver star was placed on the Mechanicsburg pennant, sig nifying the loyalty of the people. Yesterday afternoon the Berkelej Sextette charmed a large audience with good music and many novel fea tures. Pinafore was fully up to th' standard and delighted the people. This evening, following a lecture b; Capt. Leslie N. Vickers, on "Life ii the Trenches," the Chautauqua will close, after having presented one of the best programs ever given here, At an early date, the guarantors will meet and organize for the coming year. 11
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