ROSEWOOD AND READING IN PENNANT FIGHT TONIGHT; WORLD'S SERIES SET FOR AUGUST BIG FELLOWS AFTER DEMPSEY Even Sam Langford Wants a Chance, and Dempsey Says He Will Meet All Comers Dempsey's victory at the expense of Pulton has revived interest among the heavyweights. Just before Dempsey's bout with Pulton his man ager, Jack Kearns, announced that after the Dempsey battle his protege would he ready for Levinsky, Miske, Morris and others, and that the col ored line would not be drawn. Levinsky and Langford both are out to make an impression and expect to win decisively in order to get a chance with Dempsey. Battling Levinsky, light heavy- j weight champion, who boxes Harry j Greb, army and navy king to-night, i was the first to hurl a defy at She , rugged westerner. Sam Langford, 1 veteran heavy, who was toppled by ! Fulton in the sixth round, also is | willing to take on Dempsey. I "I'm an old fellow, so they claim, but there's no man living who can stop me in twenty-three seconds," smiled Black Tham. Jack Thompson also is willing to take what, he terms a crack at the ; hard-hitting Jack. Harry Greb is! the only one of the big boys not after Dempsey. Greb has not been interviewed, but always is ready to meet any one his manager signs for him. Joe Vila calls Fulton a false alarm, and says he was scared white the moment he stepped into the ring. "Dempsey won the fight, so called, because he outguessed his antagonist Fulton evidently looked for a short period of tight sparring which usually begins these encounters. He thought: he could keep Dempsey off with his long left. But Dempsey, neatly | side-stepping this blow, drove a ter- j rific left into Fulton's bread basket ' and then whipped the same hand, ' in the form of an uppercut, to the , neck. Quick as a flash Dempsey then ; swung his right with tremendous power and perfect accuracy to the point of the jaw. Fulton reeled and fell on his side near the ropes. He wasn't exactly . unconscious, but the expression on his weak face indicated both pain : and fear. Dempsey, as cool as a cucumber, stood ready to put his man completely away if he managed ; to arise before the count of ten, ■ but Fulton, seeming' to writhe in agony, remained on the floor until i there was no danger of furtnor pun- 1 ishment. Fulton's quick defeat was ! merely a case of exploding another phenomenon. What They Did Yesterday; Where They Play Today YESTERDAY'S RESfI/TS American League Detro't 3; New York, 2. fie' i laud-Philadelphia, rain. < ..icago, 1; Washington, 0 (12 In-' nings). Boston, 3: St. Louis, 2. National Leajnie Pittsburgh, 4; New Tork, 2. St. Louis, 4: Brooklyn, 3 (12 in nings). Philadelphia. 5; Cincinnati, 4. (XI innings). Boston. 3; Chicago, 2. STANDING OF THE CLVBS American Lcucup W. L. Pet. i Boston 57 37 .606 Cleveland 52 42 553 Washington 50 43 .538 New Tork 46 43 .473 Chicago 43 48 .473 St. Louis 41 50 .451 Detroit 41 51 .446 Philadelphia 37 53 .411 l National Leapue W. L. Pct.i Chicago 59 32 648 N< w York 56 35 .61", Pittsburgh, 47 42 .528 Philadelphia 42 47* .472 Cincinnati 41 48 461 Boston 41 52 441 Brooklyn 38 50 .432' St. Louis 38 56 .3G4 SCHEDULE FOR TODAY American League Washington at Chicago. Philadelphia at Cleveland. New York at Detroit. Boston at St. Louis. National League • Pittsburgh at New York. Cincinnati at Philadelphia. Chicago at Boston. St. Louis at Brooklyn. 400 GET VACATIONS Four hundred employes of the | Moorhead Knitting Company's big I plant on the corner of Cameron and I Walnut streets, are happy this week ! for their company has given them a | week's vacation. The big plant has | been closed and the only sign of ac- j tivity is the clicking of several type writers in the main office. Baseball Season to End Aug. 20, and Then World Series Closing the major league schedules about August 20 and :staging the world's series imme diately thereafter is the plan now favored by President Ban John- 1 son. of the American League, to comply with Secretary Baker's work-or-fight order. President Johnson last night' a bulletin to the American League club owners asking their approval of the plan, which, it is understood, also is under con sideration by the National League. Closing the season August 20 would leave eleven days in which to prepare for the world's series and still obey Secretary Baker's order to disband September 1. There has been talk of continu ing to September 1, or even the day following, which is Labor Day, a legal holiday, but the American League executive is strongly opposed to this. He is in favor of the world's series, but btelleves it should be staged with in the time limit placed by the Secretary of War for the suspen siln of the sport. If the August closing is agreed upon, the western clubs of the American League will not start the eastern invasion scheduled fOi August 14. and the eastren clubs of the National League will not start west. The days remain ing before the official shutdown September 1 probably will be em ployed In playing exhibitions and games with clubs In the same sections. TUESDAY EVENING, Snoodles The Resemblance Was Startling *•* By Hungerford "*** """" ' " rat rTZ. ' liie WHtt Sire FENtr To Battle on Post-Season S i . jSjL *s - Ilk-,. ' < - * -< mi mm ■ w * *. ■■■ ssiL,is© flBT a* ¥.; TZT' tFsv- c v *-'■ , v* —. aw • •* ••* *- a .js- hi *c y K . V A k |;J) %| c . "'~' *" - -••.' ' *b[ * V ' ~ m ~ • | - TEAMMATES OF WALTZ PLAY FOR RED CROSS [Continued from First Pago.] their (bit on this side to make the ; contribution a large one by playing I the best brand of ball they are capa ble of. Youngsters to Jiclp . Even the "kids" are going to throw in their bit to-night when the j Red Cross girls pass the boxes. Just : ; out of love for the memory of | i "Peanuts." At the game played in i j the Allison Hill Junior League yes- I I terday afternoon, one of the bare ! footed Swatarn lads broke the news Ito his companions. "Peanuts" Waltz was killed in France," said he, swal j lowing a large lump that came up in his throat. "You remember the fel j low who 'usta' play short for the | Stanleys," he added. "Sure," I chorused the bunch of yoiTthful j players. And following the contest | the "kids" decided to sell all the 1 paper they could gather at home and 1 bring along the money for the Red , Cross to-night. "When they took up the collection last week, we was ' caught nappinY' said one member of the Summits, "but we'll sure re member to-night." "If 'Peanuts' could, do all that for us, we must do something for the other fellows over there," was what they all agreed. Waltz comes from a family of ball players.. Two years ago, four mem bers of the family played with the Stanley A. C. Earl, "Ossie," Sol and Harry, were the quartet "Peanuts" was noted for his dashing sort of play. He was the lift* of the infield, and went after everything. He had lots to say, and kept his teammates in good spirit throughout. Last season he was again a member of the Stanley aggregation, but an in i iury to his hand prevented him from | playing the forepart of the season. Then he decided to enlist, joining j I Company I. As a member of this ! company's baseball team, he had a j j prominent part In trimming Read- | j ing, winners of the Allison Hill ; : league last seaeon, in a contest j 1 played on the island during August. Roster Dwindling While most of the players of the . 1 Allison Hill League are of the draft ' age, there are still a few who re- , main to answer their country's call. ! The roster of players for this year is rapidly dwindling. Going back to 1916, the year during which young Waltz played, a perusal of the play ers shows that at least twenty-five from that year have joined the col ors %nd most are already in France. Stonley A. C. contributed R. C. i Black, M. A. Comp. Dewey Eisen -1 berger, H. R. Snell and Harry Waltz, who has Just answered the final summons. From Galahad went R. E. Chal lenger, M. D. Comp; W. H. Heffel flnger, Charles A. Hiller and "Bill" Reiff. Reading players to go are: | Harry Brtcker, J. R. Larkin. B. J. i Pashman, Paul B. Levan, J. S. Mc ! Allister and R. W. Sprenkle. The Rosewood list contains: W. Black, ! j. V. Gardner, Herman Hain. C. G. ! Harmon. F. P. Kint. Ben Kline. War -1 ren Lyme and "Snowball" |To this list must be aflded many" ; more from this year who have been ! called in the recent draft. "Babe" j Brown played Friday night Just be i fore leaving with the contingent" i later in the evening. "Putty" Lynch i also left Friday. A score of others ! might be mentioned. While there will be much, interest centering in the contest for the league honors, fans will also be thinking of the Red Cross benefit. "Peanuts" gave his all. With the other players over by the score, it will be interesting to note how will ingly the spectators will give of their r purse. IN MEDICAL CORPS George W. Stewart, 1843 Market street, fins enrolled in the United States service and is now training with the Medical Corps at Fort Myer, Va. His brother, J. Kent Stewart, In the Navy, has made sev oral trips across the Atlantic with the Cruiser Charleston. Rosewood A. C.—(Top) Rear row, reading left to right. Manageer Earl Killinger. Fortna, Jones. Gleen Killinger. Brown, "Ossle" Waltz. Front row—Longenecker, Garverlch, Captain Shafer, Johnson. Thompson and Geary. ■ Beading-Railway A. A.—(Bottom) Rear row, Lcvan, C. Swartz, T. Euker, Shartle, E. Swartz. Cullen. Front row —G. Swartz, W. Euker, I bach. Captain McCurdy, Appier. (Left) —Captain McCurdy, Reading; Captain Shafer, Rosewood. (Right)— Manager Earl Killinger, Rosewood; Manager Charles Pressler, Reading. Reading and Rosewood will battle to-night in the first of their post-season series of three contests. Both teams finished the regularly scheduled season with 15 games won and 9 lost. "Ossie" Waltz will play second for Rosewood, while "Early" Waltz Is likely to toss for Reading. They are borthers of "Peanuts" Waltz, a former member of .the Stanley team of the league, who was reported yesterday in the Army casu alty list. A Red Cross benefit will be taken during the contest. Baptist Drown Printers in Industrial League! INDUSTRIAL, LEAGUE Last Evening's Results Baptist, 6; Evangelical, 4. STANDING OF CLUBS W. L. Pet. Appleby 2 0 1.000 Baptist 2 1 .666 Kiwanis 1 l .800 Belmont 1 1 .500 West End I 1 .500 Suburbans 1 1 .500 Newsies 1 l .500 Evangelicals 1 2 .333 To-night's Schedule Newsies vs. Appleby. The Baptists thoroughly immersed the Printers last evening at the West End grounds, aided chiefly by the vacuum twirling of Motter, who swept up thirteen printer batters with his devastating maw. The Evangelical printers tabbed but one measly hit, and three woozy errors olne were responsible for their runs. Things tightened up in the sixth when each team scored twice, but the Baptists had a punch left and sent over one tally in the seventh , just to clinch things. Story of the Big Dip: Baptists 210002 I—6 Evangelical 100102 o—4 Two base hits, Hunter, Clouser. Sacrifice hits, Desentis, Swartz. Struck out, by Brown, 7; by Motter, 13. Base on balls, ofT Brown, 7; 3; off Motter, 1. Hit by pitcher, Stoll, Swartz, Trumbino. Stolen bases, Motter, Herri, Kohlman, 2; Bell, 2; Desentis, Trumbino. Um pire, Motter. ATTRNDS CONVENTION Howard O. Holeteln, representing Harrisburg Aerie, No. 122, Fraternal Order of Eagles, is in attendance this week at the national convention of the order which opened last evening In the Nixon Theater, Pittsburgh'. At last evening's session a service flag i was dedicated for the 23,106 members of the order in the United States ser vice. Eighty-six members have al ready died in the service from vari ous causes. HARRIBBURG t&St&Hfi. TELEGRAPH) Hill League Critic Claims . Rosewood Is the Best Team Commenting on the last game played by Rosewood and Reading,- on I Friday evening, "an enthusiastic fan" has sent in this message. "It is amusing, if not laughable" says he "to hear different fans talk about the better team. I have been a very in terested spectator at all these games for the past month and to see night after night some team win a game because of the crowding of the play ers' fleld by enthusiastic friends of some of the different teams especially the Reading bunch. Friday evening a large crowd perched themselves out In right field and when the policemen moved them from the grass plot they stood on the paved street right in the path of right fielder Johnson and a fly ball was hit to him somewhere around the fourth inning and he was not permitted to make an easy catch and then when G. Swartz hit another easy put out for him, I think in the sixth inning the same tactics were used by the crowd again, and the papers says Johnson quit the game, but do not give the reason. To one who reads the papers they would figure Johnson a quitter, nothing of the sort, he Is a real ball player and If that is the way Reading figures on winning the pennant why it is a poor way to win it. People come out night after night to see a ball game yet they occupy the players places in right fleld, along the first and third base lines and then expect them to play good ball. Many a little pop fly drops safely along the first and third base lines that would be easy oiits if the fleld were clear. A certain element of luck enters every baseball game without the spectators blocking up players field. In the very first lnnlftg on Friday even ing luck gave Reading her first two runs because in covering first base Glen Klllinger fell over the bag and when the Inning was over Reading had been presented with two runs when the side should have been re tired without a run. You take play er for player of last Friday evening, take them over at Island Park where they won't be blocked up by specta tors and Rosewood will beat the Reading team easily. The papers speak of Jones the Rosewood pitcher trying to stage a comebaok, well he sure did and was pitching some game until the crowd began blocking his support and if I had been in his place would have quit sooner. This Is not from a narrow-minded Rosewood sup porter but from one who has seen some ball played In his time and likes to Bee ball games won on their mer its, not on luck or a fluke. Not so many nights ago I saw this same Reading team take a game from the Galahad team In the darkness when Galahad was the winner by a score of 0 to 8. Rosewood's by far the best balanced team of the two and has by far the best corps of pitchers, take them out to Island Park where they won't be hampered by specta tors and see if I am not right. I'll wager