SECRETARY BAKER TO TELL BASEBALL FATE TODAY; SHOOT FOR CITY TITLE SATURDAY
FATAL DAY
FOR BASEBALL
Sccrelarj- Baker Postpones
His Work or Fight Decis
ion Until This Noon
To-day Is the day. So declared Sec
retary of War Baker last night. In
postponing his decision on the work
er-fight baseball regulations. "Too
busy," was his excuse for keeping
the universe waiting, although a
whole regiment of baseball magnates
kicked their heels In the lobby.
There were: President Tener, Na
tional League; President Johnson.
American League; August Herr
mann, of Cincinnati, chairman, and
John E. Bruce, of the National Com
mission; Secretary Heydler, National
League, and these club presidents.
William F. Baker, Philadelphia;!
Charles Weeghinan, Chicago; Bar
ney Dreyfuss, Pittsburgh; Percy D.
Haughton, Boston; Harry Hemp-]
stead. New York; Harry Frazee. |
Boston, and Benjamin Minor, Wash-j
ington.
There seemed to be confirmation,
that the federal government would
ease up. They based this hope upon
the Secretary's previous statement
that it was not certain that the base- |
ball industry would be disrupted By
operation of the order and their be- ]
lief that they had presented facts
that would convince him that pro- 1
fessional leagues would have to sus-1
pend unless the order Is modified.
General Crowder was tld by the
baseball representatives that If the
regulations were enforced now. less
than sixty players would remain In
the two major leagues and that
there would be no time In which to ;
recruit new players to enable the
clubs to complete the present play- J
ing schedules. It was expected that j
Secretary Baker would send down
his decision by noontinfe.
John McGraw Has No
Faith in a "Hunch"
John McGraw, who has been hand
ling the Giants with supreme success
since 1902, is always in the limelight,
because he believes publicity helps
the game. He is talking now of tak
ing two teams to Paris, and It is safe
to say John will stir things up in
some way very soon, McGraw has
made a record for turning out stars,
and all of them will tell you that one
secret of his success is that he takes
the blame when it is coming to him.
A typical story of his, seared deeply
in the Giants' logbook, concerns Mo-
Graw's system of signalling, for he
has always directed his team on tie
field with signals.
The Giants were playing Cincinnati
at the Polo Ground one day, and
every time that "Big Larry" McLean,
as good a man in a pinch as there is
playin" ball, came to the bat. there
were men on the bases who would
score on a hit and put the Cincinnati
club ahead. The first three times that
McLean faced Crandall. McGraw held
up four fingers with the thumb down,
which was his signal to pass a batter
purposely. McLean received his base
on balls, and the next batter failed to
bring the runs home each time, thus
vindicating McGraw'a Judgment.
McGraw'a Last "Hunch*'
The fourth time that McLean came
up the umpire passed directly in Cran
dall's line of vision as McGraw, on
the bench, held up his four nngers
with the thumb down, and the pitcher
missed the signal. He broke a strike
over the plate. Again McGraw held
up the four fingers and again Cran
dall's view was obstructed by the rest
less* moving about of the umpire.
Crandall pitched another strike.
That was too much for Meyers, the
Indian catcher, who thought that Mc-
Lean ought to be passed in the face
of the present grave crisis, and he
looked to the bench to get the signal
from McGraw. But the little manager
thought that this good start of Cran
dall's was a "hunch." and he played It.
Crandall wasted the next one. and
then pitched another strike. McLean
hit for a base; two runs came home,
and Cincinnati won the game. That
is the reason McGraw says he has
stuck to straight catch-as-catch-can
baseball ever since and has not played
any "hunches." . _
• If i had walked McLean I would
have had that game." he said after
ward. "but I take the blame for it.
What They Did Yesterday;
Where They Play Today
AMERICAN LEAGI'E
No games schceduled.
NATIONAL. LEAGUE
St. Louis 10, New York 2.
Pittsburgh 3. Brooklyn 1.
Chicago 5. Phillies 4.
Boston 4. Cincinnati 0.
STANDING OF CLUBS
American League
W. L PC.
Boston 34 .618
Cleveland oO 42 .a4j
New York 46 40 *>3o
Washington 47 41 .034
St. Louis 40 46 .465
Chicago 39 47 .453
Philadelphia 36 49 .**4
Detroit 36 50 .419
National League
\Y. L PC.
Chicago 57 28 .663
New York 53 33 .616
Pittsburgh 45 39 .536
Phillies 39 44 .4io
Cincinnati 37 45 .451
Boston 38 49 .437
St. Louis 36 52 .409
Brooklyn 33 48 .407
SCHEDULE FOR TO-DAY
American League
Washington at St. Louis.
Philadelphia at Detroit.
New York at Cleveland. *
Boston at Chicago.
National I.eagae
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn.
Chinclnnati at Boston.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
St. Louis at New York.
TO UNDERSTAND
By GRANTLAND RICE
v , Lieutenant, 115 th Field Artillery.
[Copyright. 1918. by The Tribune
Association (New York Tribune)]
He saw long lines of khaki form
In quiet order, clan by clan;
To drive against the blood-red storm
Of flame and steel beyond their
span-
As one might gather for a game
Of two-base hits or tackle runs—
Until the zero hour came
Amid the thunder of the guns.
And some looked out with eager eyes
Beyond the gathering barrage.
Unmindful of the sacrifice
Or service %f their final charge;
And some, with faces drawn and gray
Stood ready for their final night.
Still dreaming of a vanished day
And one who waited through the
night. .
He saw the forming row on row,
A line that raw hell couldn't stop;
Until, against the dawn's white glow
He saw their bodies clear the topi
And then, across the shattered loam
From smashing shell and shrapnel
sent.
At last —three thousand miles from
home
He knew what Flag and Country
meant.
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BIG SHOOT FOR
THE CITY TITLE
Conodoguinet Range Will Be
Scene Saturday of Local
Experts Competing
' The city rifle title will be at stake
! next Saturday when the P. R. R.
Keystone Rifle Club and the Har
risburg Rifle Club meet in cham
pionship contest at the Conodoguinet
range of the latter club. This may
be reached by taking the Enola
car from Market Square and get
[ting ofT at Adams street, Enola. then
! following the path to the rifle ranse
| along the creek. Cars leave the
, Square every fifteen minutes.
! The teams which will compete are
' so closely matched that the total
team scores for the two previous
I matches show a difference of but
four points out of a total of 1,000
I points.
I Each club is making strenuous
| preparations for winning this third
: match. A large turnout is expected
and each club will likely put some
! fifteen of their best shots on the
j firing line to compete for the single
man teams representing the clubs for
the final shoot.
In the practice shooting during
the last week, in preparation for this
match, several men of each club
have made scores of 90 to 95 per
cent, and both clubs are keyed up
fo turn out a score that will be
worth going miles to see.
We hear a great deal lately about
the benetjts that are to be derived
bv drafted men who attend the drills
held by the local home guards. These
are all well enough so far as they,
go and are undoubtedly a help, and
a big help, in fitting a draftee for
his future army life, but at the same :
time men of this vicinity should re
member that the fighting ability of;
any soldier depends upon two things, j
his health and his shooting ability, j
His health he can control, but to ob- j
tain expert shooting ability necessary'
to preserve his life and to make him
of some real benefit after he doesj
get into the Army, he will need ex
pert instruction and this instruction
he can secure without cost in either
of these two rifle clubs.
A visit to a match such a- that]
named above would be a real educa
tion to those people who believe that j
expert sharpshooters are born in
stead of being made by years of care
ful practice undr competent in
structors.
Just a few days ago the country
was thrilled by reading that two
I sharpshooters in Pershing's army
each brought down an aeroplane byi
two shots apiece from their rifles, a
thing unheard of before in European
armies. Investigation has showjn
that one of these men obtained his
skill by practice in squirrel shoot
ing with the rifle before he went'
in the Army. The other obtained his
skill by carefvl practice on a rifle
range on Long Island. Both of these
men won a secreancy and a deco
ration because they were wise
enough to train themselves to be of
some real value before they entered
the Army. • j
Ready to Provide New
York With Baseball
ABWE'-OTHK
2>E VOW -1 >IIVX-TCR. KtJCJXrS
Manager Miller Huggins, of the
New York Yankees, and Manager
John J. McGraw, of the Glagts, are
working on a plan to give the metro
politan district it* baseball. Their
scheme is to assemble teams compos
ed of players not affected by Secre
tary of War Baker's ruling and play
games at the Polo Grounds, should
the big league- abandon their pennant
races.
MAKING GUNS
TO FIT SHOOTER
Great American Handicap
Will Feature This at Chi
cago Carnival, Aug. 5
t AH indications are that the Grand
American Handicap Trapshooting
. Tournament which is to take place
. over the ten traps of the South
• Shore County Club, Chicago, August
,1 5-9, will be the biggest event over
held since trapshooting became
. I popular. In telling about the or
i rangements Peter P. Carney calls
' attention to the new scheme of hav
'j ing a gun fitted to the shooter. This
, j urgency was well illustrated recent
: ly In a dispatch from Pershing's
'i Army relating the hard luck of a
i Yankee sharpshooter who could have
notched a German high officer had
i tne gun he was provided with been
familiar to him.
Carney says that "try-guns,'' while
i new in chis country', have been used
' for years in England in the shooting
I schools. ,
The great influx of.men and even
i| the fair sex, into the trapshooting
| 1 army, has brought guns of all sizes
: and styles into play. John Brown
has a gun which seems to suit Mm:
| Bill Jones likes it and buys the
same kind. Such purchasing lias (
' caused the "misfits."
The Gun Shoald Pit
Star baseball players have their,
hats and gloves made for their in- i
: dividual use. This is especially true.
iof bats. Players have their grip. j
manner of swing and individualities'
noted or measured and the bat made
: accordingly. So it is with clothes—j
a 160-pound man couldn't wear the ;
\ suit a 230-pound man could, and yetj
at the trapshooting club they use the■
same size and style gun.
At the Grand American Handicap
; shooter salesmen will be present, in
cluding the try-gun expert. Jack
Fanning. "Jack" has made a thor
ough study of the try-gun, and
' shooters visiting the G. A. H. should
have a talk with him and lqarn just;
j where they "fall down" in the shoot-!
1 ing game. He, or the other sales-!
men. will be pleased to explain the
' trjr-gun in detail and measure all
•hooters. Having your measurement
) taken does not necessarily mean 1
j that you have to buy a new gun— it;
I just assures you of the cause of your'
I shooting difficulties and their rem-;
! edy.
Measuring With a Try-Gun
j A synopsis of how a shooter is
; measured with a try-gun is as fol
: lows:
j First, the adjustability of t)je try--
gun as to length of stock, cast off and:
drop of comb and heel is explained.
A|-.er 'advising* that the breadth,
height and usual shooting position
i of the shooter governs his measure-'
; menus the expert takes up separate
ly the different parts of a gun that j
should fit the shooter.
Second, he measures the length of i
stock required by resting the butt of
the gun in the bend of the arm, find
ing at what length the forefinger
comfortably reaches the trigger.
Then the expert has the shooter take
the gun in his natural shooting po3i-j
tion: studies carefully the position cf;
the butt and the comb: makes the;
necessary adjustments until the buttj
finally fits the slooter's shoulder and
the heel has the correct drop.
The comb is a harder proposition.
The shooter'*- eye has to be sighted,
and attention paid to the way hej
"cheeks the gun." The expert men,
adjusts the comb several times until i
it fits snugly to the shooter's cheek,]
making sure that it is impossible fori
the shooter to hide his sighting eye]
behind the breech of the gun. To
note these points, he stands in front
of the shooter, making proper ad
justments. He also observes wheth- j
er or not the stock must be cast-off: j
if so hi turns the stock to one;
side, an.l makes a slight alteration
in the setting of the comb.
After satisfying himself that the
gun Is a correct fit for the shooter,
the stoc't is locked. This completes
j the task, and the shooter has 'he
measurements for a gun that fits
| properly and enables him to shoot
j better at the traps or afield.
FRED FI'I.TON DKI.IXQI F.NT
llarrlann, N. J.. July 25. Fred
Fulton, the Minnesota claimant of the
heavyweight pugilistic title, has been
classed as a delinquent in the draft<
and may be taken into custody.. Ful
ton is scheduled to meet Jack Demp
sey In an eight-round bout here Sat
urday night.
According to a letter received yes
terday. Fulton failed to appear be
fore his local draft board for physical
examination, ans by virtue of this
failure he is classed a delinquent. The
Harrison board met yesterday to.
consider the case and decided to re
fer It to the Attorney General.
FANS TWENTY-NINE BATSMEN
Srraaton. Pa.. July 25.— 1n an ama
teur game here between Taylor and
the Brisbln teams. Pitcher Latzo, of
the former team, established a record
of fanning twenty-nine batsmen In a
seventeen-lnnlng contest. He also won
the game for Taylor with a three
base hit In the last Inning with a man
on base. The teams are members of
the Victory League.
BIG LEAGUERS GET OFFERS
Expecting an adverse decision from
Secretary Baker, the Duluth baseball
team.' of the Head of the Lakes-
Mesaga circuit, has wired Walter
1 Johnson terms of S3OO a game. Hen
drix, of the Cuba, and Severeid. of the
Browns. also received offers.
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BAKJRISBURG TELEGRAPH
England Discovers That
Baseball Has a "Soul"
They've got It good o*er In Eng
land. Got the baseball fever. Even
the London Himes Is wabbling. Not
content with a . two-column story
about the flrlt game in London, its
editor called In a special writer to dip
into the "Soul of Baseball." Read It.
Maybe you never knew that baseball
had a soul. It takes an English
critic to find these things. This one
must be an ace for he begins with
saying that it is easy to understand
baseball strategy. Poor J. Bull. The
squeeze play or the double hit-and
run would lay him up with brain
fever. Thus "The Soul of Baseball."
It Is easy enough to understand the
strategy of baseball. Strategically. It
Is a glorified form of rounders —a
pleasant game we have all played im
perfectly In the noisy days of child
hood before we were old enough to
play cricket and the other Ludl
Humanlores with the necessary grav
lty. But the tactics of the American
national pastime, without which no
Fourth-of-July celebration would be
complete, are beyond the average
Englishman.
"The English 'tan' or 'rooter.' to
use the picturesque trans Atlantic
terms for an habitual spectator. In
variably misses all the finer points of
the team-play. The science of sig
naling. for example, which has been
more highly developed in baseball
than in American football even, is
used for the bewilderment of the
man with the bat in ways unnoticed
by the English spectator and un
dreamed of. The catcher and the
pitcher are the principals in the plot
for his confusion which is improvis
ed every time the ball Is about to be
delivered. In first-class baseball
across the Atlantic every good hit
ter's weak points are known all over
the continent, from Boston to St.
Louis, and the pitcher who did not ]
remember them and turn them to ac- i
count would not be worth his very j
handsome salary (he generally gets j
more than the President in a year,
but seldom lasts for a Presidential '
term.) An England bowler Is not
nearly so well acquainted with the
peculiarities of the leading batsmen,
either In his own country or In the
Dominions. But what happens when
a new or little-known smiter waits
for them to come over the plate? The
catcher's duty is to form a working
hypothesis of his psychology and to
inform the pitcher of his theory hy
means of unostentatious signs (e. g .
touching his pad with one hand of*
the other), whereupon the required
curve, high up or low down, close to
the body or far out, very fast or com
paratively slow, is at once adminis
tered. And. to take one of many side
lsues, catcher and pitcher must also
collaborate in schemes for running j
out a man on first base who is try- •
ing to steal second.
All this is but a part of the com- '
plex organization, a cosmos of secrets
and stunts, which constitutes base
ball team-play. To-morrow when the
King himself -pitches the first ball in
a typical Fourth-o>-July match, the
doubts lingering in the minds of
many as to whether baseball is a
sporting pastime will be eliminated.
So good a sportsman (the doubters
will say to themselves) -would never
take so personal a part in an affair
British King Shakes Hands With American
Baseball Hero Before Game on July 4
flkr WK ; < >
• KDM OEOMC. ADMIRAL SIMS AJBJt LATHAM
'TKM a proud day for Arlle Latham, baseball player In the United
States for many, many years and connected with the sport for thirty years,
when he umpired the game between American Army teftms at Chelsea.
England, July 4. Arlie was the master of ceremonies, and as a conse
quence he became the most important man in connection with the game
the king had to recognise. > The whole royal family saw the game and
heard American doughboy* and Jackies yell at the umpire.
i which was not In accord with the
ideal of sportsmanship, which is
chivalry at play. In point of fact,
nobody who has grasped the Ameri
can Idea of what a co-operative pas
time should be ever for a moment
doubted whether baseball was a true
sport. Interference Is the soul of
American baseball—as of American
football which has no offside for the
self-same reason, and so differs by
the wtidth of the Atlantic from our
Rugby game—and. since it is per
missible under the code, anything
short of physical violence may be
done to delude and bewilder an op
ponent while batting without offend
ing against the spirit of sportsman
ship. And it Is only logical, and
therefore by no means repugnant to
the extended conception of fair-play,
that the right to interfere should be
also given to the spectators, who may
do their best by means of picturesque
outcries and all manner of inanimate
noises, to 'rattle' the team they wish
to see beaten. When the umpire Is
also assailed with highly-coloured
obloquy the Knglishman is apt to feel
a pain in hia temperament. He has
been brought up on cricket, in which
the white-robed umpire is the auto
crat of an artlstocracy, an Incarna
tion of conscience, a presiding deity,
whose decision may not even be chal
lenged in a whisper.
'But baseball is as different from
cricket as poker is from chess, and it
is sheer Insularity to think com
parisons can be drawn between such
vividly contrasted games. If custom
has made It lawful for both sides and
both sets of spectators (that's the
crucial point:) to rag the umpire,
then It is actually the duty of the
keen sportsman to rag him as vig
orously as may be. Furthermore we
must count it as a merit of baseball
—the more willingly as we remember
sitting out so many dull hours of
slow, joyless business cricket in the
peace-time past—that it allows the
spectator to take part in it by mak
ing a Joyous hullabaloo. "Barrack
ing" in cricket is a tendency to grasp
the same privilege of long-range in
terference. The value of baseball as
physical training is manifest. It
helps to create a swift, strong, adapt
able physique; the constant running
and throwing and catching make the
long, elastic muscles, which are the
best for any special branch of ath
letics. It sets a keen edge on the
player's 'horse-sense' or open-air in
telligence, which is Its very soul,
brings it closer to the struggle of
life than cricket, or even Rugby
football. He who 'plays ball' carries
on In a resisting medium, the same in
kind if not in degree as the atmos
phere of warfare, which invigorates
the will and trains it to become in
dependent of the influence of opposed
volition or of the crowd's antipathy.
As a nation we shall, of course,
stick to cricket. Cricket is our game
of games, a vital part of our nation
al life and character. But we can be
open-minded enough to admire the
varied and vivacious pastime in which
American personality playfully ex
presses Itself.
Some day we shall expect to see
President Wilson standing umpire for
an over at Lord's or. at any rate,
kicking off at Twickenham, special
leave having been granted to him by
Congress to pay us a visit and grace
fully return the King's gracious
recognition of America's national
game. When the age of victory
dawns, we shall expect this favour.
BRITAIN RULES
STRIKERS MUST
WORK OR FIGHT
War Cabinet Will Draft Mu
nitions Workers of Military
Age If They Hold Out
By Associated Press
Lomlon, July 25.—The British War
Cabinet has decided that if the mu
nitions strike continues the strik
ers of military age will be draft
ed promptly into the army, accord
ing to an unofficial statement print
ed in some of the morning newspa
pers. George H. Roberts, Minister
of Labor, gave a hint to this effect
in a spech in Ixmdon Wednesday
when he declared that no young men
had a right to exemption from mil
itary service except on the ground
they were doing work more valuable
than fighting.
Government Firm With Embargo
The government remains firm in
its refusal to withdraw the embargo
which ostensibly is the cause of the
strike, although it seems that in
some instances the embargo is used
as a pretext to cover other griev
i anees.
Events now are waiting upon the
national conference of the delegates
of the engineering trades which, it
is understood, meets at Leeds to-day.
It is believed in some quarters that
a majority of the delegates will in
sist on a ballot of the members be
fore calling a general strike. * This
course is strongly supported by
Alexander Thompson, Socialist and
editor of the Clarion, who writes in
the Daily Mall:
Strike Tends to Anarchy
"It is unthinkable that the con
ference will assume the tremendous
responsibility of stopping the mu
nition output of the whole country
without a democratic vote by all the
men and women concerned. The
tactics of the young rebels who
forced a strike at Birmingham and
Coventry against the advice of re
sponsible leaders make not for dem
ocracy or Socialism, but straight for
anarchy and Bolshevism."
Meanwhile dissenson is being cre
ated in the trades union ranks by the
action of the strikers and in many
parts of t'ne-country the conduct of
the Coventry and Birmingham men
is denounced hotly. Even in Birm
ingham itself many of the engineers
refuse to be stumped into an irre
sponsible strike. On the Clyde there
seems no sign of sympathy with the
strikers and work there Is continu
ing smoothly. The same may be
said of many other centers.
On the other hand 8,000 notices
to cease work Tuesday were handed
in at Manchester where the Amal
iramated Engineers have a member
shir) of 15,000. It Is declared a ma
jority will join the strike unless the
embargo Is removed.
Minnesota Woman Dies
at 101 Years and 5 Months
Daaeca, Minn.—Mrs. John Proechel.
the oldest resident of Waseca county.
Is dead at her home in Janesvllle.
She was 101 years and five months
old, and until a short time ago was
able to attend to her housework. She
was the mother of eleven children,
five of whom survive her, the oldest
seventy-seven and the youngest six
ty-one years. There are thirty-two
grandchildren and fifty-eight great
grandchildren.
BAND CONCERT
The Steelton Band, conducted
by Director Zala, will give a free
j concert this evening in Reservoir
Park. This was the first band to
offer Its services free tout the con
| cert, planned for June 21, was
postponed until to-day because of
rain. The program for to-night
is an entertaining one Including
patrloUcv popular and classic
numbers as follows:
America.
March "Liberty Loan" ...Sousa
Grand selection, "Macbeth,"
Melodies from the comic opera.
"Maid Marian" .. .R. de Koven
Grand scenes from "Samson and
Delilah" Saint Baens
Ballet "Egyptian" (in 4 parts).
Motives from "The Grand Mogul/"
; Star Spangled Banner. ° Luder "
!
DEATH OF "DUSTY" MILLER
Warnenbaro, Pa.. July 25. Martin
Luther Miller, a former resident, of
Waynesboro, died in Philadelphia on
Monday afternoon. Mr. Miller, who
was known here as "Dusty," was an
excellent baseball player and a one
time played professional ball; he also
played with the local club here. He
la survived by several children and
several brothers and sisters: His re
mains will be ahlpped to Hagerstown
where burial will like place.
JULY 25, 1918.
Brothers Arrive Overseas
WILLIAM E. FORTENBAUGH ELLWOOD F. FORTENBAUGH
William E. Fortenbaugh and EUwood F. Fortenbaugh, sons of Mr.
and Mrs. John P. Fortenbaugh, of Oberlin, have arrived overseas, an
nouncements to that effect having Just been received by their parents.
William is attached to the machine gun battalion of the One Hundred
Forty-eighth Infantry and EUwood is a member of Company D, Three
Hundred Fourth Engineers. Both of the youths were employed at the
Bethlehem Steel Company before their departure and were members of
the Bressler Social Club.
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