NOT MUCH CHANCE OF WORLD'S SERIES; HARRISBURG RAILROADERS BEAT ALTOONA HILL CONTEST ON THURSDAY Rain Prevented Champion ship Battle Between Two Crack Ball Clubs The heavy downpour of rain yes terday-was not sufficient to dampen the ardor of baseball fans who journeyed to the Allison Hill dia mond to see the first gjime of the nost-season series between the Read ing Railways A. A. ana the Rose wood A. C. While there was no rain during Ihe time Mien the game was to have been played, throughout the (lay the downpour had put the dia mond ih bad condition and early In t*>c evening word went out that tho game was off. This contest will be played August 8. According to the schedule ar- the next game will be play ed Thursday evening of this week, with tha other two contests to come Tuesday and Thursday of next week. Rain yesterday bringing the post ponement clinches the fact that the series will go over into next week, as Thursday night will -be the only contest to be playtxl this week. In spite of the faet> that Hill pa •~"ns have had a chance to com pare the relative merits of the two learns that were tied at the close of the season, each nine has its fol lowers who are that their team' is the better. Managers Press ler and Killinger have two teams that are well balanced, and player for player there is little to choose. This is evidenced by the fact that each aggregation won and lost the same number of contests m the schedule that started May 6. The city niehwav department will nut the infield into shape again for the final series, smoothing out some of the uneven places caused *by the rain. Red Cross girls will also be on hatiu giving the patrons an op portunity to contribute to this im portant brarich of the war-work. •- • Lines to a Howitzer BY hBAXTMNI), RICE . Lieut. 115tli Field Artillery, A. F,. F. [Copyright. 1918, by the Tribune As sociation (New York Tribune)] Tilt up your long, black, ugly snout ! And let it lift against the sky, For when you bark your message out We hear the roar of Freedom's cry; We've done with qulDble and debate Here, where the Hun line looms in ' view, And out beyond the call of fate We've turned the answer back to you. No one might call you. at your best, A thing of beauty, pal of mine, Your low, squat foYm is hardly blest With any grace that's near divine; "ou're not an ornament for home. You'd never make ah artist cheer, Rut wheresoever. I may roam T only hope that you are near. You're • id looking—if they will— At > dull and all of that; Rut wt"-" they want some distant hill Turned into level ground—or flat— Or when they want some Hun-bred crew Ground into sansasv, rear or far. My little bet goes down on you \ Against'whatever odds there are. j You may he sullen, as they say, A lop-eared grouch, or even worse, j But when they ner-d an open way j Before the dough-boys start to curse, I <">r where, beyond the massing men | They need some one to slam the lid, j We know well get the #nswer when | We turn and say—"Go to it, kid." I What They Did Yesterday; Where They Play Today. American 1/o agiie Cleveland, 4; Athletics, 2, (first ffanie). Cleveland, 5: Athletics, 1, (second game). Washington. 3; Chicago. 0. Detroit, 3: New York, 0. Boston, 11; St. Louis, 4. National League All games postponed, rain. STANDING OF TlfE CU BS American League W. L. Pet. Boston 58 3.3 .611) Cleveland 54 42 .563 "Washington 51 43 .543 1 New York 48 44 .511 I Chicago 43 49 .46* Detroit 42 51 .452 j St. Louis 41 51 .446 j Athletics 37 55- .402' National League W. L. Pet. Chicago 59 32 . .648 j New York 56 35 .615 | Pittsburgh 47 42 .528 Phillies 42 47 .472 j Cincinnati 41 48 .461 Boston 41 52 .441 Brooklyn 38 50 .4321 St. Louis •38 56 .364 j SOHEDI'LE FOR TODAY 1 American league Washington at Chicago. Athletics 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. Class 1 Players Barred From Shipyard Teams Ball players in Class 1 cannot I go to work for the Emergency Fleet Corporation and thus play with the Shipyard league teams. I according to the interpretation of the Pennsylvania Draft Bureau i authorities of an order Issued by i the provost marshal general's de- 1 partment here yesterday. The order applies only to Class 1 men and not to ball players who i are in Class 4A. who are married and with dependent wives and children, or Class 28, married men 1 whose wives are capable of earn- [ ing their own living, if their hus- ! bands are called for military *er- | vice. Fans have been looking for some time for a general Jump of hall players at the end of the big league season to the tleet teams | and the teams of the big steel cor- j porations, ftut the order of Gen- ( eral Crowder will prevent this. As a result of the exhaustion of j Class 1 men it is likely that there ' will be a reclassification of men in Classes 2, S and 4. Men who have wives that can live on revenues collected from rents or other I sources will be put into Class I, it is expected. WEDNESDAY EVENING Snoodles He Proved HU Argument >; f-JUtlgcrford, ■ ' I (WHV SNOO-DOLLS"! I | /ftw— I f WHEN THfcY \ • I iVm Goin' STRAIGHT Hcyysg / tioGlT / I VyPVCr THeiR- 1 # _ . . \ AN' reuu MOMMY \ IT T Y / TAILS C\NT >V I I BER ILL. KETCH ( C IK 1 V ?I2FAVNRA V I VA SEE TKE^REY \A BlCr STRfM<3 ov S |\ v uR T T lsHes 7x ( ja V v- Mill wi "^1 - There Is No Joy in Altoona Since Harrisburg P.R.R. Won Five thousand employes of the! P. R. R. from Altoona and the I neighborhood. not forgetting to! j mention many hundreds of fanettes, [ I by all accounts appear to be in a sort of trance ever since last Satur-1 day, when for the first time in five J long seasons of baseball a P. R. R. team other than Altoona won an Eastern Division championship. It) was Harrisburg, representing the Middle division, which pulled wide • the throttle and telescoped the Al- j toona Machine Shop, 7-4. In Altoona even the baseball i writers cannot account for the un-1 expected tragedy,—and tragedy it j was, for the whole city was backing j Machine Shop heavily. As for the | husky Harrisburg railroaders, they have been chuckling all this week! and telling about their sweet vie-! tory. "Four we traveled up • there," reminded Bill Runk, "and never could notch them. But this' time, well, you want to hand some thing to Catcher Hippensteel and to ' First Baseman Palmer for their stick work. And just to show how fair we are we would like to have a nice word for two Altoona stars, D. Irwin and Ronan. who were there with the wallops." Not savage, just a bit peevish, are the Altoona folks for this totally | unexpected blow. Says one writer, j "Altobna outhit Harrisburg and 1 outplayed the visitors in every in- i ning but two. Further, Machinist* pounded Beiver for a safe hit In every one of the nine innings, but the much needed single to drive home the running pal was somewhat i undelivered. "Regis Irwin winner of two elimi-1 nation battles In the first and second j rounds, started on the hill for Al toonp. and Regis chucked nice j enough baseball but helped spoil J his own game by falling down in j fielding bunt taps. Harrisburgers; rapped four straight bunts to the j pitcher's box and only one was field- i ed to make a putout. Irwin stuck j to the peak until two were out in I READING DEPOT MAY BE CLOSED [Continued from First Page.] Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, most • likely at the last named point within I ten days. Nothing has been decided finally with regard to joint operation of pas-"j senger stations, it was said to-day., he regional director is said to be aj man of open mind and he will basoj his conclusions largely upon the re- j ports of experienced railroad men in j charge of operations, upon whom he: has relied in other emergencies of the kind. It was pointed out that a com- j bination of station facilities here j might not work out very well. The] Pennsylvania station is already] crowded almost to capacity and the traffic is growing. To swing the Resid- I ing business over to it would onlyj complicate the situation. Besides the i Reading passenger trains would have to be brought into the Pennsylvania j depot sheds across the Pennsylvania! freighttracks, which is an undeslr-l able feature from the freight move- j ment standpoint. Nor would the com bination proposed result in the entire closing of the Reading station, as the ' upper floors are occupied b ythe di-; vision officials located at this point. Railroad men say there are many I places along the yoad where the joint; operation of passenger facilities is easily possible and there is little j doubt that the plan will be put into effect, at least to a limited degree.! They say that under the circumstan-1 ces steps of this kind are necessary, and they are willing to go the limit I to aid th egovernment in every way ( that will be conducive to the winning! o? the war. Real Battle When West End Meets E. and F. The West End A. C. will play the strong Engineers and Kiremen Club i on the West End field, at Fourth and Seneca street next Saturday. This game will be the last of a series, j i-ach team having won one game, the . Engineers 2-1 and the West End 6-1. There is sharp rivalry when these I clubs meet, as both play In the West End. Manager Chubb Beatty will have his strongest combination out ! while the West End team will be i 'without .the services of "Babe" 1 Brown, the fast outfielder, who left Friday with the draftees for Camp I l-ee. The management has secured} | "Tom" Gifrbin. a hard-hitting player to fill his place. The West End now has ten former players serving with Uncle Sam. Mc- j ("urly. the fast first sacker. has gone to the Central Iron Works, but hopes j !to be able to play in this game. The j rest of the team will remain intact. I Library to Reopen Tomorrow Morning ; . 6 i The HarrlHburg Public Library! will reopen to-morrow morning, all; of the painting and renovation work . under way for the last month hav-; • ing been completed and everything! having been put in readines." for .the resumption, of library work by Mif* A lice It. Eaton, the librarian and 1 member of her staff. The Library hours will be from <9 to 0 until further notice. Plans fori the Saturday Children's work will be 1 , announced. J the sixth when a drive from Fellow's I bat knocked the curver'B pitching ! thumb out of business. Johnny McNeils finished the game and say, ' the kid's hurling was the one Ma < hinist redeeming feature of the day." "Telling about Harrisburg's runs isn't a pleasant duty to any Altoona rooter but they have to be told Just ! the same. Harrisburg didn't do< any thing until the third. Then things happened aplenty. "Alcorn hit R. Irwin, who fum bled. Fellow bunted and R. Irwin j chucked late, wide and entirely I wrong to second for a forceout and both hands were safe. Anderson bunted and he got credit for a single as Irwin allowed the tap to hop slow ly past him to Ronan. With the bases full Moore bunted and Irwin made a classy pickup and Alcorn was out at home. Embick shot a single ! to right, the pill bouncing D. Irwin's head as both Fellow and Anderson .-cored. Wrightstone lined to Fagan.; Mike missing a double play. Palmer shot a two baser to left and Embick tallied the fourth run. "The sixth is described as follows: Palmer opened with a Texas leaguer to center. Biever went out. Fagan booted llippensteel's bouncer and ' two were on. Alcorn whiffed. Then Fellow rapped to D. Irwin, the latter , chucking wide of Jlrst a.s all runners were safe. The drive to Irwin knock ed the right thumb out of joint caus ing the pitcher to leave the tilt. Mc- Nelis hit Anderson, forcing a run home and two more came when Moore singled. That ended Harris burg for all time." j The defeat eliminated Altoona from participating in the system general managers baseball honors and it Is now up to Harrisburg to uphold Eastern Pennsylvania laurels by handing trimmings to other divi sion champs. The winning team which will long be remembered In the annals of Pennsylvania Railroad athletics Included: Anderson, If.; Moore, ss.; Embick. cf.; Wrlghtstone, 3b.; Palmer,'lb.; Biever. p.: Hippen i steel, c.; Alcorn, rf.; Fellow, 2b. Veteran Adams Back With the Pirates ADAMS. "Babe" Adams. veteran pitcher, ; who won a world's championship for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1909, has re i joined the club. Adams was released by the Pittsburgh Club several years j ago and drifted to the minors. This . season he was the star pitcher of the | American Association, winning four ( teen games and losing only t.hree. The veteran is thirty-five years of age f and is therefore above the draft age. j Magnates Against Closing August 20 For World Series Charles A Comiskey, president i of the Chicago Americans, has is sued a statement opposing the suggestion of President Ban John son, of the league, to close the | season about August 20 and then play the world's series. "I think we should continue to j play until September 1, the date } set by Secretary Baker for the sus j pension of baseball," President j Comiskey said. "We are drawing j largest crowds in,the East in sev eral years, and we should give j that section of the country its , share of the schedule as originally ' mapped out." | Clark Griffith, manager and part I owner of the Washington 'club, also .is opposed to curtailing the j season. The National League will not ! consent to a plan to stop playing August 20 so thuf. a world's series may be Played," Bays Barney Drey i fuss, president of the Pittsburgh club, and Who was recently se lected by the Nationals to con fer with American League repre sentatives on the question of se lecting dates for the annual series. "We plan to play until Eabor Pay, i egardless of what the Amer- I ican League does." - ( HAHRISBURG t&Sjffa. TELEGRAPH BASEBALL HEADS IN ••k. . : J - ? 1 ' r . a ..j; - ... . . - ■ ' • ' *r. STANDtNo.4ft< , .**g*f. JONM E. BRUCE. CLARK. GRIFFITH. BtXIWOH. JOBW UFIOIEH. SEATED eAMI'XIMSO4..AOOUSX < £HR(AHN>JOiOCJINtR./ Ban Johnson, president of the American League, and J. K. Tener, president of the National League, have for some time past, been engaged in a spirited controversy over the placing of baseball player, Scott Perry. They are shown here in a "getting together" act when they appeared in Washington to present a brief to General Crowder giving their reasons why baseball should be continued until the end of the season. Ac cording to the present- order, the leagues will be allowed to go on with regular games until September 1, next. Left to right, standings John E. Bruce, Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington Americans; B. S. Minor, president of the Washington Americans; John Heydler, of the New York "Giants." Left to right, seated: Ban Johnson. president of the American League; August Herrmann, owner of the Cincinnati '"Reds," and John K. Tener, president of the National League., 'NO SUCKING'AT HOME IS MOHO OF TRAINMEN Brotherhood Names Commit tees to See That Every Man Works Every Day Slacking on the part of railroad employes .who are members of the Brotherhood of Hallway Trainmen, is not to be permitted. . The number of men who have fail ed to receive calls to duty and have failed to respond after being called, has ben cut'down appreciably on the railroads In this section. Keystone Lodge, No. 42, Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen, desires, however, to obliterate altogether this failure to stand by the government. To interview all new men, men on the extra lists and men .who have failed for any reason to respond to the call to duty, the lodge has ap pointed a committee of ten men, five from the iddle division and five from t*he Philadelphia division. The Middle division committee In cludes S. H. Derlck, chairman; E. W.! Mickay, E. E. Kirk, E. B. Smith and B. T. Hollenbaugh. From the Phila-! delphia division, D. H. Zorger, is chairman, with the remainder of the committee Including W. L. Trout. M. T. Robinson, A. W. Penner and S. H. May. All persons interviewed will have emphasized for their benefit the fact that 'by failing to respond to calls for duty, they are failing to stand by the United States government. Those men, who are not members of the Brotherhood, will be notified that any failure to respond will automatically debar them from future membership. Those who are membets, will be told that their membwrship will be for feited by such action. Kiwanis to Meet Belmonts in Industrial League INDUSTRIAL* I.EAGCE Standing of Club* W. L Pet. Appleby ....... 2 0 1.000 Belmont ....... 1 0 1.000 Kiwanis 1 1 .f>oo West End 1 1 .500 Suburbans 1 1 .500 Newsies 1 1 .500 Baptist 1 2 .333 Evangelicals ... 0 2 .000 To-Mcbt'i Schedule Kiwanis vs Belmont , West End Grounds All Is ready for the fray scheduled for to-night when the Kiwanlans will meet the Belmonts in a battle for supremacy. The battle 1* to be staged on thp West End diamond and the spectators will see a close uume, It Is predicted by the sage team man agers. Manager Davis of the now famous Belmonts boldly asserts that he has a pitcher to knock the spot* off the Kiwanii tiger. Hlnkle, the l HUNDREDS AT BIG LAWN PARTY Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson Entertain in Elaborate Man ner at Underwood Farm New Cumberland, Pa., July 31. On Saturday evening a lawn party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson, on the Under wood farm. Refreshments were serv ed to: Misses Bertha Hale, Jennie Bishop, Pearl Strominger, Enlce Rudy, Elva Eichelberger, Lucilo Drayer, Hazel Taylor, Esther Taylor, Hazel Ander son, Esther Anderson. Catherine Shuler, Nellie Anderson, Minnie Strock, Minnie Seigler, Rosa Miller, Wilhelmina Mary Draw baugh, Pearl Spenkel, Jertnie Hul ton, Martha Albright, Edna Shaffer. Mabel Eckert, Mary Knighton, Sara ! Foltz, Anna Eckert, Irene Seaman, j Celia Ballets, Alda Bates, Evelyn ! Snyder, Helen Axe, Helen Deck, I Grace McClure, Gladys Deck, Bessie | Hobough, Edith Eppley, Esther Mc- Lciuro, Martha Sloat, Mary Cramer, ISusan Anderson, Ettie Sipe, Cora i Anderson, Helen Dwyer, of New I Cumberland; Paul Williams, James l Miller, Grayson Kckert, Niles Miller. | i Franklin Fisher, John Nacker, James' i Snyder, Arthur Drawbaugh. j. Herman Steigler, Ralph Hale, Paul! [Hale, Herbert Drawbaugh, James j Poticker, Jacob Miller, John Kiling ! er, Charles Gehr, Harry Gehr, Albert McClure, Walter Gardner, Clayton ! McClure, James Foltz, Harry Strock, j John Strock, Owen Best, James ! Cirando, ".'alter Eckert, William I Beinhour, Harry Beinhour, George Shettle, Morrison Johnson, Dewey Hess, Blain Lefever, Walter Bailetts, Russell Coover, Paul Dwyer, Elmer Eichelberger, Buford Sherman, Clar ence Snoke, Maurice Hutton, William Flshburn, Joseph Martin, Harold SnydQr, Ralph Snyder, Robert Sny der, Orville Snoke. Marlin Snoke, Chester Anderson, Charles Anderson, Glen Miller, Norman Rehm, Robert Mobler, Paul Rhoads, John Eichel- I berger, Miller Hobough, Raymond ; Hobough, Clarence Dbnyer. Paul Drayer, Glen Manning, Daniel Detk i man, Reuben Thompson, Mr. and i Mrs. Edward Snyder, Mr and Mrs ' Bruce Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Shaffer, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Kohlftr, Mr. 1 and Mrs. Samuel Eckert, Mr. and : Mrs. Daniel Rehm. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson. Mrs. Theodore I Gardner, Mrs. Aqu|lla Donyer, Mrs. Charles Sipe, Mr. and Mrs. John ; Snoke, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sloat. ' southpaw, will twirl for the Kiwanii) demons and he condescends to say that his arm to-night will push the bail victory-ward. A nteeting of the Board of Direc tors of the Industrial I,eague was held yesterday to determine an of ficial umpire.. The well-known ump. A 1 Baxter, was < lectcd as, the of ficial mister of the diamond for flic Industrial l.eague. Baxter is promi nent in baseball circles here and is favorably known for his fair de cisions. Outlines Qualifications of Y. M. C.A. Secretaries For . War Service Overseas Pennsyivanians apparently do not have a clear cut Idea as to the kind of men that are desired for Y. M. C. A. overseas service. To set them right, Edward K. Bok, of Philadel phia, chairman of, the Y. M. C. A. personnel board of that city, has Is sued a statement concerning the re quirements. Writing on what is wanted and who, he says: "First.—Executives: which mean men of executive power capable of supervising an entire divisional area of 'huts' and 'canteens;' a chain of stores, in other words. Every ounce of ability that an executive possesses comes into play here. No man is too big. "Second. Business secretaries who can look after the business and financial side of transportation, buy ing and stocking prolems. • "Third. Socia 1 secretaries who can mix wit hour boys; get up en tertainments for them; run a movie machine. " . , "Fourth. Athletic and physical directors who understand boxing, baseball, football, setting-up exor cises, walking, etc. "Fifth. Men who can drive au tomobile trucks and make repairs. "Thus from the executive to the experienced chauffeur is there room for men; hundreds of them. "As for the requirements; "First. No one should volunteer who is within the draft age, wheth er or not rejected by -the military authorities or wro Is of German or Austrian parentage. "Second. The only necessary qualification Is that men shall be honest, clean and decent In thought and habit. "Third. The period for which volunteers are sought is one year. "Fourth. An allowance where necessary is made to each volunteer sufficient to cover all general living expenses while abroad, together with transportation over and back. "Fifth. Where necessary, a rea sonable but limited allowance will be made for the support of a family. "Sixth. Regular uniform, similar to that worn by the Army, and a cap designating Y. M. C. A. service are furnished, "We are now well over the first fifty of the second one hundred men froiy Philadelphia; well on toward i fhe 250 that we must get by Sep -1 tember 1. I "I ask. that every man above the : military age woh wants to serve his country and serve It next to our boys 'ever there" will come to see me, or write to the Curtis Building, Inde pendence Square. The approval of the Philadelphia Personnel Board is now accepted as final by the Y. M. C. A. headquarters in New York, so that a man is cleared directly from i there. "He can be put in service In 'France, England. Italy. Switzerland Rurs'a. as hf prefers, or he can serve i in one of the homo camps here or on the transports." CAKH& FOR SOI DIERS Rpvifv 'lt'-v-'i for Iraln tnir camns nn in the past have been leaving their classes and teams for the war. Be lieving that In the present crisis a! students who are physically qualified should have military training, the trustees of the university have de cided to require military or naval training and discipline of all fresh men who enter Princeton. If par ents request otherwise it remains within the discretion of President Hibben to excuse him. Steve Yerkes, the Steelton veteran who reads a good deal now that he Is crippled with a sore tendon Is much interested In the case of Soils Solomon O'Hanna, who was- about t(- be rejected for the U. S. Marine Ser j vice for stuttering, although husky I enough otherwise. As they were | hesitating whether to turn him off he broke out: "L-look here, d-d-d'yon w-a-nt a t-t-talking m-m-man or a f-ff-flghtlng m-mman? I'm a f-f-f-flghtlng man, b-but I c-cant's g-g-get my words out q-q-q-quick eriought to s-s-s-say s s-surrender If the whole d-d-d 4 | H-h-un army's to t-t-top o" me." United States service. He leaves army insurance of SIO,OOO to his sls ter, Mrs. Sarah Lauvert 2701 Butler street, Penbrook. Gish Is survived by his father, John Gish, of Trenton, N. J.; five brothers. Roy Gish. Raymond Gish, Harvey Gish, Edwin dish and Christ Gish; three sisters, Mrs. Sadie Lau ver, of Penbrook; Miss Elizabeth Gish, Trenton, N. J„ and Miss Mary Gish.'of Connecticut. Funeral services were held lata yesterday afternoon at the home of ins luroiner, Edwin Gish. in North Union str.eet. The Rev*. O. M. Ivray b|il, pastor of the ('htirch of God, officiated. Interment was in the Mid dletown Cemetery. 11