"MOOSE" McCORMICK ARRAIGNS BALL PLAYERS FOR WAR SLACKING; COLLINS IN MARINES
Belmont Team Quits Junior
Hill League; Crescent In
JUNIOR LEAGUE STANDING
W. L. Pet.
Swatara 17 10 .629
Albions 8 15 .347
Crescent S 21 .125
The Albions again downed Swatara
3 to 1 In a fast game last evening, in
the Allison Hill Junior League. Dark
ness brought the game to a close in
the sixth and Swatara threatened in
the sixth, filling the sacks a couple
of times, but failed to score. Tuesday
evening the Albions play the new
Crescent team.
Ever since the beginning of the
Junior League there has been much
shifting the teams. Now the Bel
mont team quits and Crescent will
relelve them and play their first
game this evening with Summit. The
score:
ALBION
R. H. O. A. E.
Stauffer, 3b 0 1 2 0 0
Heagy. c, 0 2 5 0 0
Snyder, ss. p, 0 1 2 1 0
Houcker, lb, 0 1 5 0 1
Shaffer, If 0 1' 1 u
Fox 2b 0 0 1 1 0
Day, 1 1 1 0 0
Odonel, rf 1 1 0 0 0
Books, p, ss 1 0 1 1 0
Totals 3 8 18 3 1
SWATARA
R. H. O. A. E.I
Michlevitz. ct 0 0 0 0 0
Layton, If 0 1 1 0 0
Kintzer, rf 0 0 0 0 0
Shover, ss 1 0 2 2 0
Prowell, 0 1 2 1 0
Nye, 2b 0 0 2 2 0
Lintz, lb, 0 2 6 0 0
Young, 3b, 0 0 1 1 0
Sperl, c, 0 0 4 0 0
Totals 27 1 4 18 6 0
Albion 0 0 1 0 2 o—3
Swatara • 0 0 0 1 0 0—1
Two-base hit, Layton. Sacrifice hits,
Odonel, Kintzer. Layton. Double
plays. Stauffer to Fox to Houcker.
Struck out, by Prowell. 6; Snyder, 3:
Books. 2. Base on balls, Prowell, 3;
Snyder, 2; Books, 1. Left on base,
Albion 4; Swatara. 3. Hit by pitcher,
Layton, Shover. Stolen bases, Houck
er, Day. Shover, Prowell, Lentz, 2;
Sperl. Passed balls. Sperl. 2; Heagy,
1. ' Innings pitched. Prowell, 6; Sny
der, 4; Books, 2. Time, 1.08. Umpire,
Geohringer.
Newsies and West End Jrs.
Lose in Industrial League
The only baseball around Harris
burg yesterday as the two games
of the New Industrial League, one
at the Island, thte other at the West
End grounds. The pendulum again
swung and hit the Newsies who lost
to Kiwanis, 6-2, and also slammed
West End. Jr., which was defeated by
the Evangelicals, 5-4. Kiwanis made
two dr' • -s on the Newsies salient,
one in the first and one in the sixth.
>i, the other battle Miller scored two
men with a fierce blow in deep left
in Evangelical's last time at bat and
West End could not tie things up.
Summaries:
Kiwanis 3 0 0 0 0 3 o—6
Newsies 1 0 0 0 0 1 o—2
Two-base hits, Wharton. Three
base hit. Fields. Struck out, by
Hinkle, 9; by Witmer, 10. Base on
balls, Hinkle, 0; Witmer. 1. Hit by
pitcher, Sterrick and Hinkle.
Evangelical 1 1 0 0 1 2 x—s
West End ..: 2 0 0 2 0 0 o—4
Double play, Herr and Williams.
Struck out, by Brown, 6; by McCan,
4. Base on balls, Brown, 4; McCan,
2. Left on base, Evan. Hit by
pitcher, Brown, 1. Stolen bases, Evan,
Kohlman, 2; Brown, West.
Spectacular Pitching in the
Central I. and S. League
The Central Iron and Steel League
has been staging some wonderful
pitching lately. On Saturday Pitcher
Shearer, of Mill No. 2 held Electric
Shop to one lone hit, and yesterday
"Kid" Shay, Allison Hill veteran,
working for Electric Shop, duplicated
this feat. He limited the General
Office sluggers to one bingle and won
easily by the score of 8-0. Marshall
and Kcontz led the hitting honors,
each having 3 wallops in four times
up. "Kid" Shay also wore some
spangles, for he rapped twice in
four times up. The C. I. &S. League
will cease hostilities some time next
month, but has not yet decided the
date.
Blain and Duncannon
in Championship Saturday
Duncannon, Pa., Aug. 20.—Exten
sive arrangements are being com
pleted by officials of the Duncannon
baseball club for the game between
Blain and Duncannon for the cham
pionship of Perry county. The game
will be played on Rosborough Field,
Duncannon. on Saturday afternoon!
Each team has thus far won one
game in the series.
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Eddie Collins Gives Up $15,000 Salary
For $35 a Month With U. S. Marines
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Eddie Collins, premier second
sacker of the major leagues, has
quit the Chicago White Sox for more
essential employment. He enlisted in
the United States Marines yesterday
and will leave in a few days for the
training camp at Paris Island, S. C.,
Yankee Soldiers Bitterly Denounce
Ball Players, Says Lieut. McCormick
Harry (Moose) McCormick, now a
lieutenant, once outfielder for Mc-
Graw, has raised a perfect tornado
of argument in baseballdom by his
statement that the American soldiers
now fighting in France do not hold
professional ball players in high es
teem; that they do not scramble for
news of how the big league races are
going, and that they do not care
whether Cobb and Speaker and Ba
ker are hitting .300 or 3,000.
The fact that the ball players
aren't hitting in the big. big games
across the water is the reason for
this feeling, according to McCor
mick, now a fighter, who has just
returned from the shell-swept front.
He is here under orders, the nature
of whi'ch is secret, but he hopes and
expects to go back to the front as
soon as his duty on thie side of the
ocean is finished. The lieutenant was
at the Polo grounds looking husky
and fit. Harry always looked well
in a baseball suit, but he looks ten
times better than that in his officer's
training uniform. He says he has
gained twelve pounds since leaving
the front line trenches.
"The feeling among the boys over
there seems generally to be that the
hall nlayers haven't acted on the
level," said the lieutenant. "The sol
diers feel that there has been too
much evasion, too much hanging
back, too much sidestepping by the
ball players when other men, Just
as good, have given up paying places
and gone into the big game. That
seems to them the only thing for
real men just now.
"The boys are generally incensed
over the statements they read to the
effect that ball players have sought
work in munition plants and ship
yards, where they can still keep on
playing bail. They regard that as
where all the priv tes in the marine
service are sent for preliminary
training. Eddie makes his home at
Lansdowne, where he has a wife and
two children.
Collins refused an offer of a posi
tion with the Y. M. C. A. as secretary
to enter a branch of the service
where he will have an opportunity
to take active participation in the
war against the Huns. In doing this
he gave up a job as a trail player at
I a salary stated to be $15,000 a year
I for one which will pay $36 a month,
but he will be doing something for
his country and upholding the good
name of baseball.
Collins was born at Millertown,,
N. Y., May 2. 1887, and entered pro
fessional baseball while a student at
Columbia College. He had bee.i cap
tain of the Columbia baseball team
when he attracted the attention of
Connie Mack. Collins joined the
Athletics in the fall of 1906 and play
ed under the name of Sullivan. He
was tried at shore first, but later
switched to second base, where he
became one of the greatest stars the
game has ever produced. Always a
spectacular player, he displayed his
best form in the most important
games, and probably gained more
honors in the world's series games
than any other player.
Collins was team captain and he
passed the major league recdrd made
by Sam Crawford, of Detroit, for a
number of consecutive games played.
Eddie started in 1914 with the Phil
adelphia Athletics, when he played
the last three games of the season,
and he has not missed a game since.
On April 22, in the game with Det
troit, Collins tied the mark of 472
straight games made by Crawford.
ducking, as a sort of dodging of the
issue.
"Why, the feeling is so intense
over there, that the Stars and Stripes,
the soldiers' paper, has stopped
printing the big league scores and
standings. That, it seems to me,
ought to make the baseball men,
both players and owners, wake up.
"The talk of the soldiers is that
the ball players should have volun
teered in a body and made up one
big organization and gone into the
country's service to fight right at the
start. That would have been a great
thing to do.
"The soldiers like to play ball.
They are interested in baseball, but
it's in their own organization. You
can't get enough baseballs to go
around over there. John K. Tener
sent me two every week, and they
were worth their weight in gold. The
soldiers get plenty of chance to play,
but they want to play it themselves.
They don't take any interest in men
playing it here any more."
Lieutenant McCormick met Col
onel T. L. Huston, part owner of the
New York Yankees, many times in
France. He also has seen Hank
Gowdy, the famous catcher of the
Braves, who was the first ball player
to volunteer.
"Colonel Huston gave the base
ball club owners some good advice in
his letter, but they wouldn't take it,"
said the lieutenant. "Now the feel
ing against the men in the game
among the fighters is very bitter."
Lieutenant McCormick was trained
at Plattsburg and has been in France
nearly eight months. He has been
in action several times.
World Series Coin
Is to Be Shared
One feature that assures better
baseball during the closing stages
of the present baseball season
than is generally produced at the
fag end of the big pennant races
is the fact that the world's series
spoils are to be divided on a new
basis this year. Not only the pen
nant winners but all of the other
I'.rst-division clubs in the two
circuits are to share in the prize
money this fall, and as the
amounts are to be graded accord
ing to the order of finish it is as
sured that the players on the
teams in the first division or hav
ing a chance to break into the
upper tier will keep hustling as
long as there is a chance to im
prove their standing. The first,
second, third and fourth clubs
in each of the leagues will share
in the receipts of the first four
games of the big series. After
10 per cent, for the National
Commission and IB per cent, for
the club owners of each of the
contending clubs has beep de
ducted, the remaining 60 per cent
will go into a pool for the play
ers, and at the finish It will be
divided in this manner: Each of
the eligible players on the club
winning the world's series will re
ceive $2,000; each eligible player
on the losing side will receive
$1,400, and of the remainder of
the pool 50 per cent will be di
vided between the two teams
finishing second in each league,
30 per cent will be divided be
tween the two clubs finishing
third, and 20 per cent will be di
vided between the two clubs fin
ishing fourth. To be eligible for a
share a player must Have been
with his club at least eight weeks.
HAKRISBURG TKT.KGRAPH
"CUT OUT BUNK,"
SAYS C.M. SCHWAB
Shipping Director Condemns
"Bombastic Speeches;" For
eign Born Need Assistance
Philadelphia, Aug. 20.—"Give the
man in the shipyard a little less 'hot
air," " said Charles M. Schwab, di
rector general of shipping "and more
of the real 'human touch' and genuine
sympathetic understanding and pro
duction will soar, or I don't know
i men."
Mr. Schwab advocates the applica
tion of the "soft pedal" on bombastic
patriotic speeches, "slogans" and pos
ters.
"There is no better agency to dis
tinguish between what's commonly
known as 'bunk' and the truly en
couraging word of the man whose
heart and soul are filled with patriot
ism than the man who actually does
the hard work," he said in his en
gaging, breezy manner. "Of course,
patriotic addresses are good, and so
are posters and slogans, but the thing
is being crassly overdone. The men
don't want somebody's camouflage
pushed down their throats every
twenty minutes. They're doing the
hard "work, in the sweat of their
brow, and, believe me they know
'what's what.'
Suggests "Heart Talks"
"The same is true of 'slogans' and
posters. All this 'witty' and 'funny'
stuff is all right for us Americans,
who understand it, but what good do
you suppose it's going to do the for
eign-born worker? He doesn't 'get
it at all, I assure you. If you want
to reach these men give them a heart
to-heart talk, or distribute pamphlets
in which the necessity for 'speeding
up' is explained to him in a clear,
comprehensive and whole-hearted
manner."
Mr. Schwab announced that as a
result of his i-ecent conference with
Secretary Baker there will be no
change in the shipping program as
far as required tonnage and the type
of ships to be built are concerned.
"The only change will be in the
proportion," he said, "a greater num
ber of ships of a certain class will
be built, while perhaps less of an
other type will be produced. I can,
however, give no details as to these
matters.
Foresee* I.nrger Cargo Ship
"No change in the program will
take place for at least a year, when
we expect the present emergency will
be over. P. S. A. Franklin, two
or three other gentlemen, Mr. Hurley
and myself will then come together
to plan what type of ships are best
to be built for our country for the
reconstruction period after the war.
I can say now that at that time we
surely will build a larger type of
cargo ship than we are constructing
now."
Tells How to Weed 'Slacker'
Hens From a Laying Flock
H. C. Knandel, of the Poultry Ex
tension Department at State College,
to-day and to-morrow will conduct
a demonstration to show the farmers
of Dauphin county how to plug one of
the leaks in their farm profits,
: through war on the "slacker cackler,"
! or the hen that does not lay enough
to pay for her upkeep.
At 9.30 this morning the first dem
onstration was held at the farm of
Harry Espenshade, near Oakdale
school. At 2.30 another demonstra
tion was held at the place of A. H.
Eby, near Campbelltown. At each
place Mr. Knandel separated the
slacker hens from the hens which
lay their share of eggs, arid as he
made the selection, he explained to
the farmers his methods for determ
ining the difference between the lay
ers and nonlayers by means of their
external characteristics. The two
flocks he selected this morning will
be carefully recorded to determine
their egg laying values, and in that
way the farmers will be shown the
value of eliminating their nonproduc
tive hens.
To-morrow morning at 9.30 the
demonstration will be repeated at
the farm of G. M. Phillips, south of
Killinger.
Bill. Empowers President
to Build Power Plants
Washington, Aug. 20. To meet
the urgent need for electric power
in shipyards, munition faetories and
other war Industries, a bill approved
by the War Industries Board was in
troduced yesterday by Representa
tive Sims, of Tennessee, authorizing
the President to construct power
plants to meet immediate demands at
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Jersey City
and other eastern Industrial centers.
The bill would authorize the Presi
dent to take over privately-owned
power plants, to Increase their ca
pacity or to require the owners to
place all or part of their power at
the disposal of the Government. An
appropriation of 1200,000,000 for con
struction. acquisition, maintenance
and operation is proposed.
WEST WITHOUT A
GAME FOR SATURDAY
The game between the West End
baseball team and Duncannon for
Saturday has been postponed, leav
ing the former without a gnme. Dun
cannon canceled to play a deciding
game with Blaine.
AROUND THE BASES
The only big league woman mag
nate, Mrs. Helen Hathaway Robin
son Britton, a daughter of the late
Frank De Haas Robinson, has quit
baseball for good and will join the
matrimonial league. Mrs. Britton was
very conspicuous in the big tent agi
tations, for she inherited the St.
Louis club, the Cardinals. Though
once married and divorced, Mrs.
Britton must have decided that mar
ried life is more harmonious than
trying to handle a ball club in St.
Louis, whore they throw steel plates
at the umpire, so she gave up the
club some time ago. Her first hus
band was Schuyler P. Britton and
her second is Charles Sulyard Big
sley, of Cleveland.
. Drawings for the national tennis
singles championship tournament,
which will begin at New York, Au
gust 26, will be held to-day it was
announced at headquarters of the
United States National Lawn Tennis
Association. Among the most prom
inent entries are Robert Lindley
Murray and Ichya Kumagae.
Chicago's public golf links staged
two Red Cross golf matches yester
day, the events procuring several
thousand dollars for the Red Cross.
Chick Evans, national amateur and
open champion, and Warren Wood,
formerly western champion, defeated
Jock Hutchison and Phil Gaudin, 2
and 1 at the Lincoln Park course,
where nearly $5,000 was contributed
to the Red Cross. Evans and Gaudin
scored seventy-eight each. The other
players picked up their balls on one
or more holes. In the other municipal
links contest at Jackson Park, Frank
Adams, of Beverly and George Simp
son, of Oak Park, defeated Jack
Daray and James Wilson, of Grand
Rapids, 3 up and 2 to play. Of the
fopr professionals, Simpson and Wil
son scored 72 each, Daray 73 and
Adams 74.
If the Red Cross has made a point
of booming sports, it made no mis
take, for sports are simply piling
over each other to help the Red
Cross, and the good, cause is going
to receive many thousands from the
athletes of America. On Thursday
afternoon a monster carnival to in
clude speed swimming, fancy diving
and other national feats, the entire
proceeds of which will go to the Red
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Cross fund, will take place in front |
of the Riverton Yacht Club wharf, at
Riverton, N. J., to be followed by a
musical concert at the Lawn House
in the evening by the Hawaiian
stvimmers who are also great musi
cians.
Duke Kahanamoka, the fastest
speed swimmer in the world up to
200 yards; Harold Kruger, the
world's greatest backstroke swimmer
and Clarence Lane, second only to
Kahanamoka, will make up the Ha
waiian trio, who will compete against
Raymond Uhl, the Sackett cup win
ner and local 100-yards champion,
and Ernest Sopp, of the United States
Naval Reserves.
Olga Dorfner, America's champion
speed swimmer and holder of numer
ous world's records, as well as her
clubmate, Gertrude Artelt, will match
their speed and skill against other
local mermaids, while Helen Penny
packer, the champion diver, and
other celebrities, will thrill the spec
tators with fancy and difficult dives.
In face of the war-time handicap,
Franklin and Marshall Academy has
prepared a strong football schedule
for the coming season. The prep
school season opens with Franklin
and Marshall College Reserves on
September 12, and Gillman Prepara
tory school, of Baltimore, will be
played later. On October 19, Schuyl
kill Seminary will appear at Lancas
ter, Harrisburg Academy and Allen
town Preparatory schools will play
there on October 26 and November
2. November 9 Swarthmore Prepara
tory school at Swarthmore. Gettys
burg prep will be played on the bat
tlefield gridiron for the last out-of
town date. The final game of the sea
son will be played with the Stevens
Trade school team, of Lancaster.
Henri St. Ives, one of the greatest
marathon runners in the history of
the track sport, a motor cyclist of
unusual skill and a fine cycle races
and pace follower, has lost his right
arm as the i-esult of having it shot
to pieces in a battle in the air. He
was a member of the French flying
corps.
He gained his first fame when,
after winning a high place in the
marathon race at the Olympic games
in London, in 1908, he came to this
country and won the marathon in
New York in 1910.
A year later he toured the coun
'AUGUST 20, 191.8.
try with Dorando, the Italian, who
won a technical marathon victory at
London in 1908, and A 1 Shrubb, peer
of all distance runners. The trio was
managed by Jack Roden, impresario
of the Point Breeze Motordrome.
St. Iver was short and heavyset,
with a smiling face, and a most
pleasing manner. His sunny disposi
tion gained him friends within and
without sport, who will regret his
misfortune.
Jack Johnson, negro heavyweight,
is now in Spain, in tranquil state. Of
boxing he is through for good; he's
only concerned now in food, and day
by day he walks the floor of his cafe,
whose golden door admits the Don,
with pockets fat, now what do dark
folks think of .that!
Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft, director of
federal training activities, says:
"There is no doubt that a knowl
edge of boxing is a big factor in a
man's promotion in the ranks; not so
much that he knows how to box as a
sport, butthat the fighting spirit and
leadership which result from boxing
as taught in the army make the pro
motion a possibility. Out of the 39
privates and corporals who took the
intensive instruction for assistants
in boxing in one camp, 27 were made
top sergeants. This special training
is a great help to the noncommis
sioned ottlcers in maintaining the re
spect of the men and it makes the
non-coms' themselves more valuable
officers. The company commanders
and officers of higher rank value es
pecially those sergeants who can de
velop in their men a fighting, aggre
slve spirit as a basis for bayonet in
struction."
PALMER SEIZES BIG PLANT
Chicago, Aug. 20.—The plant of
the La Salle Portland Cemeht Com
pany of La Salle, Ills., doing a busi
ness of approximately $3,000,000 a
year, was taken over yesterday by
A. Mitchell Palmer alien property
custodian. Before the war the con
cern was known as the German-
American Portland Cement Com
pany. Seventy-two per cent, of its
stock is said to be German-owned.
FALLS THROUGH HAY HOLE
Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 20.—Harry
Binkley, for many years a truck
driver of the Lancaster fire depart
ment, last night plunged to death
in the stable of the Swan Hotel.
He had gone to the hayloft in search
of a piece of harness and in the
darkness fell down the hayhoie,
breaking his neck.
What They Did Yesterday;
Where They Play Today
yesterday's Results
American League
Chicago, 4; New York, 1.
Boston, 6; Cleveland, 0.
Athletics, 9; Detroit, 8.
Washington, 3; St. Louis, 2. (It
innings).
National League
Pittsburgh. 8; New York, 1. (First
game).
New York, 2; Pittsburgh, 1. (Sec
ond game).
Cincinnati, 8; Brooklyn, 4.
Chicago, 2; Boston, 0.
Phillies, 7; St. Louis. 1.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
American League
W. L. Pet.
Boston 67 45 .598
Cleveland 64 50 .562
Washington 63 52 .548
Chicago 55 57 .491
New York 53 56 .486
St. Louis 53 58 .477
Detroit 49 63 .437
Athletics 45 68 .398
National League
W. L. Pet
Chicago 73 39 .652
New York 64 47 .576
Pittsburgh 59 53 .527
Cincinnati 56 55 .505
Brooklyn 51 60 .459
Phillies 48 61 .440
Boston ." 48 63 .432
St. Louis 48 69 .411
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY
American League
Chicago at New York.
St. Louis at Washington.
Detroit at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at Boston.
National League
Boston at Chicago.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
New York at Pittsburgh.
Phillies at St. Louis.
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Enemy Music and Books
Are Seized by Custodian
1 New York, Aug. 20. German ami-
Austrian music and literature is to be
utilized to help the United Sttaes win
the war. Alien Property Custodian A.
Mitchell Palmer said last night.
American rights to numerous enemy
owned operettas, many of which have
attained "whistling" popularity
throughout the country, and to grand
operas, plays, songs and books, have
been taken over by the custodian.
Royalties from these works, which
have fattened Teuton pocketbooks.
will now be invested, it was announc
ed. in Liberty Bonds.
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