COACH SMITH TO HAVE SIX-CYLINDER FOOTBALL AT TECH; LEWIS PICKED TO BEAT LEONARD Pig Skin Warriors of Tech Exhibit Stone Wall Defense With over three teams practicing dally on the Island for the Tech football eleven. Coach Smith Is rap idly developing the squad for the first contest over on the Island a week from to-morrow when Mount Carmel visits this city. Prospects were never brighter in the history of the sports. It is doubtful if a high school ever had a better rounded team of stars than has Tech this season under the tutoring of Coach Smith. Each of the three teams is given a chance to master its signals and run off a number of now plays, and then scrimmage a-plenty follows. Two scrub teams are in turn pitted against the varsity, but neither of them can prove a match to stop the Wilsbach-Lingle-Beck-Ebner combi nation that whirls around in the backfield for gains almost at will. "Birdie" Hinkle and "Silent Bill" Hoerner are also called into play in the backlield at intervals. On the line are a bunch of veter ans beginning with "Bud" Bell at end. The scrubs are about as suc cessful running around this end of the flank as is the crown prince pit ted against the Yanks. Assisting him are Phillips and Garrett, who have plenty of avoirdupois to throw into the play. "Vic" Bihl at center is a steady passer, and often works his way out to the ends, stopping the State College Army Commander Pledges to Boost Athletics State College, Pa., Sept. 20.—Pre-i liminary football practice was start-1 ed this week at Pennsylvania State | with every expectation of playing, out the schedule arranged. While thel situation is chaotic because of the! uncertainty as to military drill re-1 quirements and classroom work, the) athletic authorities are determined to put a team on the field. Since the War Department has! placed the direction of all physical) education activities in the hands ofl the military commandants at the S. j A. T. C. institutions, Penn State has) reason to rejoice. Major James Bay- i lies, the local commander, already! has given assurance of his support) of Intercollegiate athletics, and he: has announced his determination toj see that football is encouraged here. | His attitude has been a boon toj Hugo Bezdek, State's new director of: physical education and athletics. The; former Pacific coast gridiron expert L was disheartened over the gloomy, outlook for his initial bow to thel elite football circles of the East. Ad- j vance reports from Washington In- j dicate a general prohibition of the: sport, an,l he was But; with Major Baylies' unqualified in- i dorsement of State's football pro-: gram, Bezdek is npw more cheerful, over the outlook. TheJPirate manager now has his: seasoirfe work definitely assured. Ail ! he needs to make his Penn State de- j but a success is a football team. He! requests only eleven men who meeti f , American Soldiers Wear the Munson Last a E They MUST have I shoes that give comfort and support. The fact that Uncle Sam chose this style for his great army is recommenda- We have a splendid showing for men and boys who want com fort and service. i, ARMY AND NAVY SHOE STORE 38 NORTH COURT STREET V tPOULTo'^i Top You j v . OK Right | 3 = is an air of superiority— of exclusiveness about a StetSOTl t 3 POULTON Fall Hat that k 0 really makes a man look well- _ • i dressed. Trimbles All the new season shades are | * $2.50'1S 1 PffiPN i WHERE THE STYLES ORIGINATE* FRIDAY EVENING, runner before ho gets a start. On the other wing are "Haps" Frank, Arnold and "Hennie" Kohl man, who form a stonewall on the defense that is hard to shatter. All of them are "T" men. "Fat" Luster is again back in school after suffer ing a severe injury to his right ankle. He will take his position on the line. "Peifer" is also a "T" player who is in at almost any point on the front line of defense. Connor is another reserve player. But the hardest working bunch on the fleld is,the crowd of twenty-flve or more "scrubs," who bear the brunt of the work imposed upon them by the varsity. Prominent among them are "Bill" Keane, Mc- Cord, "Bus" Snyder. Springer, Sher man, Bergstresser and Tobias, who play in the backtield. On the line are "Johnny" Beck, Marcus, D, EUinger, "Slims" Ellinger, Duniap, Mallck, Gulley, Aldinger, Ferd Beck, Hoar, Rees. Hoffman, Hoffsommer, Eman uel, Huber, Horstick, Shue and Rice dorf. Every night sees the squad in ac tion for at least two actions and the first contest will see the team in the pink of condition. Because of there being so few college contests, it is expected that it will be easier than; ever to secure first class officials for i the contests. I the requirements of the college ellgi i bility code and one hour of their | I spare time each day. So far, the daily practice periods • have given him just thirteen eligibles! j and a handful of freshmen recruits, i ' The latter are still under the one-; ) year ban at State College, and Zsez-; ) dek is inclined to keep them there.' With more than 1,100 freshmen reg istered for admittance to college i when it reopens, September 25, there; will be a goodli amount of prospec- | ! five varsity timber unavailable tor, i the first team. Bezdek, as jet, has not made any: 1 recommendations on the question of I freshman eligibility. He is turning | | the problem over in his mind, und j if he finds that more students will I be attracted to s>-stematie outdoor ( exercise through continuation of the : first-year class team, he will not sug ; gest that the rule be waived. L Commenting on his material, Bez- I dek said it doubtless compared fa- I vorably with that available to most j colleges at this time. He regards | it, however, as considerably below I the requirements for a first-class 'team under normal conditions. He j entertains hopes that some varsity j men from last season will turn up j before long. To date, not a single letterman is •in his squad. He has Henry. Korb, 1 Snell, Bentz, Fhrley and Williams I from the undefeated cub eleven of ! last season, and a few other promis i ing lads. S noodles He Was Not in Sympathy With Those Winter Duds By Hungerford I Hold Saul J : . everybody L ~ 7 T • V6R •wmnL'Ous m Kim i Aw- 1 . om,-a*o- KeeßOvTtOvr Things arg . / // SK thontwt ; ir™ri c f . GOT A fioc® TteTTEEN ME COM IN MY W*Y. J£ r H" i- J • scepctcwiw wifciP -Tnr • IW " p J r f I lIVTn, TICKLES - Z " J J LEG-- TOO j± K>o < """ (viGED OF 8&D ' 4 ir <c ■&s^ r ~* o' LEWIS FIT FOR LEONARD FIGHT Experts Predict That He Will Win From the World Wonder Lightweight A number of New York boxing men went over to Long Branch to see Ted (Kid) Lewis, the world's welter weight champion, put a few touches on his training for the scrap with Benny Leonard over in Newark next Monday night. They were very much impressed with his condition and are of the opinion that he will be in his very best form when lie enters the ring. Lewis has not gone at his work too ) strenuously. He weighed 148 pounds j a month ago. He has not reduced j speedily, for he weighs 142 pounds. ; But he has hardened his muscles well I and says that when he climbs Into I the ring he will tip the beam at j about 139 pounds, which is an easy ; mark for him to make. "I hear that some of my friends! are saj-ing I will underweigh Leon- i ard." remarked Lewis. "I may and I may not. It all depends on what ! Benny weighs. 1 shall iot reduce be- I low a figure that would leave me j weak and unable to recover should I | be hurt. I will weigh just enough 1 to be at m>- best physically- and still | be low enough to be faster than I ever was before." Fully 200 spectators, including John I Smith, chairman of the New Jersey i boxing commission, watched Lewis j box four rattling rounds with Jack j London. London is a strapping 175- j pounder who in one of his first ring I contests met Harry Greb. In the very first round Lewis hook ed a right to London's jaw and the heavyweight was floored. He arose immediately and Lewis let up the ter rific pace to save his sparring part ner. The second and third frames were purely exhibitions of boxing, but the fourth was a regular slug fest. "Lewis will surely beat Leonard," said London after the exhibition. "I have trained Leonard many times and let me tell you Lewis can outbox and outhit him. i Also, Lewis can take a punch better than Benny. I can hit pretty hard, but Ted doesn't mind how hard I mix with him." While at the training camp Chair man Smith announced that Fatsj- Kline, of Newark, had been appointed referee for the coming battle. Lewis has many supporters, and among them are some excellent: judges and students of boxing. Among these is Charley Harvey, who for sev eral decades has been a prominent figure In the sport as a manager, matchmakers and promoter. Harvey likes Lewis' chances. "I think Lewis will win," said he. "There is only one adyantage over him that Leonard claims. That is his punching power. He is the much harder hitter of the two. "It is my opinion that Lewis' box ing style makes him just the type of opponent to beat a man like Leonard, wonderful as the latter Is. Lewis' true worth has never been fully ap preciated by the average run of fans. He is a really great boxer. He is not as spectacular as Leonard, but he Is there. "Lewis' style will disconcert Leon ard and militate severely against him, j Lewis is a very difficult man to fight, j He is moving all the time and hitting from all angles. Leonard is wonder fully fast, but he has to 'set' himself to deliver an effective punch. Lewis doesn't. He punches going and com ing. He strikes when in and out of position and from unexpected angles. It is hard for this reason to outguess or beat him to the punch. "Then he is the more experienced man; and a more cunning one. He is the most crafty opponent Leonard has ever been pitted against. That takes in Freddie Welsh. He Is a graduate of the 20-round game. Taken by and large, the men he fought were of bet ter caliber than those Leonard faced. "Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the physical con dition of the two j-oung men. Lewis will outclass Leonard in this respect. He has been boxing steadily right along, is always in training and is right on edge. Leonard's work In camp is of a nature that tends to slow up a boxer. Battling Levinsky is an example. He is not half as ' fast as he was before he became a ! military boxing instructor. If he had I the time to train, Leonard, no doubt, I could get in just as fine fettle as he was when he conquered Welsh, but that is impossible for him now. Pipe Benders Win First Duckpin tournament Hess Alley last evening staged, a lively duck-pin contest first of the season among teams representing mid dletown, Standard Bakery, Erecting Shops from the Pipe Bending Works and the Pipe Shop. The Erectors glit tered in the first game with a score of 718. Wrlghtstone was the star of the event, winning double honors with scores of 184 and 503. Elmer, Middletown team, won the high single honors in the second game with a score of 189, while Harmon, of the Bakery team won the high triple honors with a score of 391. The Erectors kept up the average all the way, taking each decision and win ning straight gardes. LEAVES WIN 0 TO O In one of the first gridiron con tests of the season the Leaves eleven defeated the Lion aggregation , at Third and State streets, last evening, score fi to 0. Patterson. Baer and Furman, of the winning team, were the stars of the game. 4 " I • HAUKkSBURG sSSS* TELEGftXPH "Dutch" Leonard Seems to Be "In Dutch" Evidently some of the big lea gue baseball players who hasten ed J.o get out of the sport and take up "essential work" during the past season with the object of the draft are hot going to be excused from Army service after all. Government agents and draft boards are In vestigating the cases of many players who grabbed shipyard or munition plant "jobs," and where it is found that said "jobs" con sist chiefly of ball playing, the athletes are being ordered Into service. The latest star to rt ceive an order of this kind is Pitcher "Dutch" Leonard of the Boston Red Sox, who quit his team in midseason to hook up with a shipyard. It is reported that Leonard, in spite of the fact that he is married, has been placed in Class 1-A by his draft board and notified that he must report for military training. Jumping his club thus proves a costly step for Leonard, for net only did he cut himself off from his big salary for a couple of months, but if he had remained with the team he also would have pulled down $l,lOO additional as his share of the world's series spoils. Cageball Making Hit at the Camps Cageball, latest addition to the long list of training camp sports con-t ducted by the War Department com mission on training camp activities, j bids fair to become one of the most popular athletic diversions among the soldiers and sailors. Cageball combines tlje play value of several games. It has the rush and drive of football, the exciting moments of basketball, and che rough bustle and tussle of the class rush. The game can be played by a dozen, a hundred or a thousand men; there is no limit to the number of players. According to Lieutenant Emmctt Dunn Angell, U. S. N. R., who devel oped the game and introduced it at the Great Lakes naval training sta tion, Great Lakes, 111., the rules of the sport are simple and the equip ment is inexpensive. The ball is from 24 to 30 inches in diameter, inflated and canvas covered. The goals are two net cages 20 to 40 feet in length, four feet, in width and 18 inches deep, made of rope and stretched be tween crossarms and uprights 30 to" 50 feet apart. The teams endeavor to get the ball into the opponents' cage. The hall may be batted, punched or thrown, j but must not be kicked. According! to Lieutenant -Angell, it is an inspir-1 ing sight to sec several hundred men surging in a body across a field, each person doing his utmost to punch the ball toward the enemy goal cage. Dollars to Crackers on Summit Winning the Flag JUNIOR LEAGUE STANDING W. L. Pet. Summit 31 6 .839 Swatara 27 12 .691 Albions 9 24 .272 Crescents 9 29 .238 v Help! Police! Crescent stole a game from Albion last night, 9-0. Must be ! stopped, this public theft. Crescent pulled the stunt openly, too. When I Albion showed up with only two I players. Crescent waited until seven I o'clock and then stole the whole game, aided and abetted by the um pire. This forfeit game, about the seventh in the league, gives Cres cent a chance to poke its bean out of the cellar. To-morrow evening Summit meets Swatara and if the lat ter is defeated Summit must lose every remaining game in order to be headed off for pennant honors. On the contrary, Swatara must win every battle, so the flag practically I flies now over Summit's camp. OPEN HEARTH WINS Two games out of three were cop ped last evening by the Open Hearth rollers from the Chemists, the former Winning with a margin of 120 pins. , The (Jhemists braced up in the sec ond and nosed out with a lead of 22, but the final game saw Open Hearth again winning, though after a stilt dispute, with 18 pins. McQuafde, a Chemist, captured the honors in both the high single and high triple di visions with scores of 179 and 478 pins respectively, George Cockill Speeding Up Steelton Football George Cockill, who recently won a big-league baseball pen nant for Steelton, may be seen these days at Cottage Hill break ing in a bunch of football boys representing the Steelton High School, for G. Cockill Is Just as clever with pig-skin strategy as with the horse-hide. Cockill is not saying much but the general notion is that he will have a regu lar team by October 5, when the season opens with Lancaster high. The trio remaining in school from last year's term are W. Weuschin ski, DundofT and Sharosky, all of whom were good men on the 1917 outfit. This is not much of a nucleus but then Cockill had little to start with last spring when he organized his ball club. If the tal ent is at hand there is no question but Cockill will turn out a batt ling bunch. BALL PLAYERS DRAFTED TODAY National Commission Is Pro ceeding Just as Though the Game Would Continue The National Baseball Commis sion Is going right ahead Just as though the game had not been bumped by Uncle Sara- They are to-day guarding the rights and privi leges of the future, evidently sure that baseball will eventually be lust as popular a national institution as it was before the war. All managers were notified to-day that the privi lege of the draft can be exercised this fall, as usual. Major league clubs, it is stated, can make iheir selections and deposit | notes for payment to the minor clubs from which players are claimed, such payments to be made when the play ers have reported and been in ser vice of the drafting club for twenty days. The commission's notice rela tive to 1918 drafts is as follows: From September 20 to September 25, inclusive, the National Commis sion will receive and pass'on the se lection of players from minor league clubs by major league clubs in ac cordance with the methods and regu lations prescribed if the national agreement and the commission's rules supplementary thereto. Notices of selection may be filed with the secretary of the commission by mail or in person. Because of war conditions the se lecting club will not be required to pay the draft price for the player until he ha 3 reported to and been in its service for twenty days, but in lieu thereof shall deposit with the secretary of the commission its promissary note for the amount for collection and payment to the inter ested minor league club in. the event that the player joint such major league club and is retained by it for twenty -lays. All drafts not cancelled by proper notice to the secretary of the com mission by or before September 25 will be valid. Until the close of the world's war and the restoration of the game to a peace basis the limitation in The number of players a major league club can reserve is suspended, but clubs are warned that the commis sion will carefully scrutinize each list before formally approving it. In accordance with the commis sion's ruling of August 1, "In re play er and territorial rights of suspend ed minor league clubs," a major lea gue club is permitted to perfect its title to a player of a disbanded mi nor league club to whom it has given employment since the premature close of his original 1918 club's sea son on payment to it of the draft price accordtng to tts classification. Payment of the draft price for such player if he is reserved, how ever, will not be required until the player returns to the service of fhe interested major league club aft<jr the revival of professional baseball and renewal of the major league pennant races. Boy Scout Headquarters Not Worried by Fire j When there's a fire at Boy Scout headquraters, the folks there don't bother to call the fire department. They extinguish the conflagration themselves. -This is how: Some thoughtless miscreant dropped a lighted cigaret upon the awning over a window in the Boy- Scout offices on the second floor of the Calder building yesterday aft ernoon. The awning burst into a blaze and a call for the fire depart ment was in order. But Scout Ex ecutive Virgin ruled the call out of order. With the help of the efficient office secretary. Miss Helen Patter son, who ran for a he-sized pan of water, the fire was quickly extin guished. The damage was slight. Cookies Needed For City's Hostess House "Send us cookies" is the appeal sent out by ladies of the Civil Club and of the Harrisburg chapter, American Red Cross. The cookies are to be "used to help fill a big jar as a part of the treat for soldiers and sailors who attend the Hostess House entertainments held each Sat urday and Sunday at the CiVic Club house. The response to the appeals of the patriotic, war-work won|lpn have been very gratifying, they say. and their desire ts that Harrisburg cooks should keep up to the good j record already set. Fleeing From Rhine Towns to Escape Allied Airmen Amsterdam, Sept. 20. —Allied air men daily are bombarding Cologne, Coblenz and other German towns, killing or injuring many persons, says the Hetvolk. The newspaper says the number of casualties published in the Ger mannewspapers are much under, the actual total. It adds that many residents of the ! towns that are being raided are fleeing to Holland for safety. W. V. DAVIES PROMOTED The board of directors of th# Me chanics Trust Company, of this city, at its meeting yesterday, appointed William V. Davies, 2410 North Second street, secretary and treasurer of the company. Mr. Davies. who has been with the organization for twelve years, was formerly its general book keeper. BERLIN PLANNED RUMANIANS RUIN THROUGH RUSSIA Documents Reveal Plot to Murder Loyalists and Dethrone King Washington, Sept. 20.—The be trayal of Rumania and elaborate advance plans of Germany and her Russian Bolshevik tools for suppres sing and murdering loyal Ruman ians, Russians and Poles are ex posed in detail by later chapters of the astounding secret Russian docu ments which the American Govern ment is giving to the public. Other instalments have described how the Bolshevik leaders, Lenlne. Trotzky and their associates, were bought by the Germans for millions in gold and engineered their bloody overthrow of Russia for the benefit of their masters. Now the story is told of how, while the Brest-Litovslt peace conference farce still was in progress, the Bolsheviki were send ing hired agents into Rumania to disorganize the armies of Russia's ally, dethrone the Rumanian King and turn loose the German armies occupted there for service in a great i offensive on the western front. The second phase of the latest dis closure shows the Bolsheviki, at German direction, undertaking not only to kill refractory gen erals, but to shoot individually and wholesale Polish soldiers who were refusing to be sold to the Germans and patriotically keeping the field against their enemies. One of the documents transmits orders from the German intelligence service to "take most decisive measures up to shooting en masse, against Polish troops," and to institute surveillance of institutions and persons, includ ing the Roman Catholic Polish clergy. Explanatory notes of Edgar Sisson, who obtained the documents, and many details lacking In the papers themselves, includng a story of how the Rumanian -Minister barely es caped assassination after being ar rested by the Bolsheviki and re leased through the efforts of Am bassador Francis and other diplo mats. Insurance Men Meet; W. S. Essick Is Honored The Y. M. C. A. was the meeting I place last night of the local branch. I Insurance Federation of Pennsyl- i vania, the latter being a branch of I the National Councty of Insurance j Federations having branches in every I state in the Union. A general expose' of un-American \ propaganda and the laying bare of j the harmful qualities of contemplated | legislation were the objectives of the ; Harrisburg meeting. An illuminating ! talk on these matters was delivered ! by Albert N. Weld, of Pittsburgh, j secretary of the Pennsylvania Insur- I ance Federation. As a result of fhe i meeting $5OO was pledged by the in- j surance fraternity here for carrying I on the work of the Federation in this j city. W. S. Essick was named for president of the local chapter and ! John P. Henry nominated for secre- j tary. | THE WELL DRESSED MAN Stands Out From the Rest of the Crowd! 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