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 ,
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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
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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.
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• 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
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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. |
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