ACADEMY FOOTBALL PROMISES TO BE HIGH-CLASS; TECH TEAM FURTHER STRENGTHENED Gee Whiz! Tech Forces to Be Stronger on Saturday "Fat" Lauster, Tech stalwart lino j player, will be back in his regular position Saturday afternoon against! Wilkes-Barrc affer having missed | the Mount Carmel contest last week. It was the first game he has missed j since joining the squad In his fresh-1 man year, three seasons ago. "Hen nic" Kohlman will also be at an end, while "Vic" Bihl, who was on the! casualty list for the first game, will j likely be placed at a guard. Coach 1 Smith has been using G-arrett, at cen- j ter, and with Bihl's return, placed, the latter at guard. The advent of these throo nddi- 1 tional players will add considerable) strength to the Maroon, and make! thenj moro formidable this week! than last. Last night the Maroon tu- ! tor spent his energies in showing thoi squad how to open up a hole fori the backs. There was no scrim- 1 mage. Wilsbach and Ebner spent oon-j siderablq timo practicing coals after I Laurel Park Drawing Select Racing Crowds Laurel Park, Maryland, where the Maryland State Fair is holding its annual program, is the recreation spot these days of many statesmen and financiers from the Capital, says a Harrisburg visitor, who ran down to ogle the newly-beatutitled plant. "You can see most of the big fellows," he remarked, "and 1 noticed a pile of them indulging in the puri-mutuul. A pile of money has been spent on the racing sport in old Anne Arundel county, something like $300,000, and it will be a $600,000 proposition before they are through. The track has been raised in some sections us much as five feet, and the horsemen who have vis ited it lately are unanimous in their opinion that it will be as fast as Saratoga, where world's records went by the boards during the great event of racing which recently closed at the Spa. The Laurel Park track is in the hands of a master superintendent, Frank Keegan. This Keegan is the same individual who prepared the DUTY OF AMERICAN MEN TO KEEP FIT DURING WAR SAYS Y. M. C. A. DIRECTOR "It's your duty as an American, ♦o be physically tit!" This is the slogan adopted by C. W. Miller, ph.v-' sical director of the Central Y. "M.i C. A. who has opened a "Keep Fit" campaign to continue through the entire winter. Resolved that Har risburg men shall be lit to meet the! Prussian foes of civilization, this drive of preparedness has been launched. Twelve gymnastic classes with a prepared schedule as is given on this page, have been organized. Every one of these classes is going ( to roceive some military training | and setting up exercises- It is an inspiring sight to see kiddies of 12! to 14 years following in perfect lino the commands "Squads right!" and; "squads left!" and going through! the manual of arms without flaw. In line with the preparedness pro gram, boxing bouts will be staged; between tho men at the "Y" gym nasium, not as a piece of sports manship but as a link in the effort to make the muscles strong and the e>e keen. Even the policemen and l businessmen will participate in this program of training. Husky lads! from the city's law-keeping depart-, ment will clash in volleyball with' graylieaded businessmen and boys I who are preparing to enter the army. Each man is clad in the standard 1 uniform of white shirt, short white i pants, white shoes and white socks. Standing erect in a straight row it is' a sight which must send a thrill of Lebanon VaHey Cancels Game With Penn State State College, Pa., Oct. 3.—Penn sylvania State's sagging football schedule was deaft another shatter ing blow, when Lebanon Valley Col lege cancelled its game which was originally planned for October 26. The War Department's ruling against overnight trips during that month was given as tho reason by the Ann ville authorities. Five games have now been cancelled, leaving only Washington and Jefferson. Rutgers, Lehigh and Pittsburgh on the slate. The graduate management is dick ering with Carnegie Tech, for a con test here, November 2, and with Bucknell for a late October date. N'o game has yet been arranged for next Saturday. Coach Bezdek is idspleas with the offensive play of State's for wards. He plans to strengthen the line before going ahead with any other detail of his system. Both Levinsky and Dempsey Working Hard Jack Dempsey has shaken off the ill effects suffered from his Inocula tion for the Spanish influenza and has settled down to some hard work for his coming important meeting with Battling Levinsky, due to be staged at the Olympia in Philadel phia on Wednesday night, October 9. Battling Levinsky Is doing his work at the "West Side A. C„ New York. His sparring partners are Jim Coffey, Bartley.Madden and Jack London.* According to Dan Morgan, Levinsky's manager, this is the first time Levinsky has trained Indus triously for a fight since the United States became engaged In war. Country Club Golf Championship Contest . Starts Saturday The Harrlsburg Country Club is on toe preparatory for the annual club championship which begins Saturday next. Tho management asks particularly that every con testant remember that Friday Is the last moment for qualification and the ctrtifying word must be han ,ed into the club secretary no later than Friday evening. The annual golf fray this year will be conducted on a war-time basis and contestants will bo al lowed 1o select the date for the playing off of their match when It will best suit Although the prizes have not yet been an nounced it Is rumored lhat thay might be either Liberty Bonds or Thrift Stamps. THURSDAY EVENING, i touchdown. Tech lost too many of j the one-pointers last week, because i of a lack of practice along this ilne, | and when Wilkes-Barre i§ met, Wijs ! bach will be in better shape. While at least throe changes are! I likely on the line, the backfleld is I I efcpected to remain intact at the start j of the contest, with Captain Ebner ] calling signals at quarter. Beck' j and Lingle will take care of the halves with Wilsbach at the full- I back post. Tech expects to win again ) Saturday, 'out the victory will not be j so one-fe!dod, as Wilkes-Barre has one of the largest student bodies of , boys in Pennsylvania. Helping along the good cause will I be the Maroon band under,the lea-1 i dership of its new leader who was | j chosen this afternoon, and also the ; new cheer leaders who will be picked j to-morrow morning ot the chapel j exercises. Enlisted men will again i he admitted guiitis by the Tech man- I agement. I Juarez track for record-breaking per formances and, with the cream of l two-year-olds as well as the older di visions in attendance ' there next i month, not only . are track records destined to fall, but with such speed i marvels as Roamer and Sunbriar in , the pink of condition for racing at the Maryland State Fair, there will be some mighty fast times reeled off dur ing the twenty-esen days of the sport at Laurel Nark." Y'esterday was a reminder of the I opening day when Hourless conquered : the mighty Omar Khayyam; when the mighty crowd included most of the House and Senate. Omar made good j this time, winning the Ma'rines Liberty i Bond purse and demonstrated that he is again in shape. Laurel Park is an evidence of the I racing's return to popularity in this ! country. Its future is expected to eclipse all the past In glory and even | the counter attraction at New York : does not lessen the interest and at ' tendance. ,fear down the Kaiser's spine when he .sees the imposing array of willing \ Americans. i "It's a health-giving proposition." and a businessman of fifty turned around to greet his competitor, "I come here to the gym fibout three ! times a week. This summer the ex tra strain of wartime activities put tne on the biink. My back was bent and crowsfect were climbing into my |cheeks. Doe. Miller grabbed me the other week and now 1 can walk with :head up again. It's the kind of a i proposition that makes you feel like a twenty-year-old kid. Why I'm ithirikinsr of entering the Students Army Training Corps." j As to the hoys in the prep classes 'and in the older students groups, their eyes sparkle with enthusiasm as they eulogize the new plan. ! "Chee, I never knew I could get so much muscle before" and a happy little newsboy flexed his biceps. "Wait till I get after the Kaiser. I'll be winding up the watch on the 'run! It'll be a watch that runs, too!" ; "Sure, it's a good plan "said a icity policeman. "Why shouldn't it be a good rlan? When we're tired land sour in the evenings we come in for a little gallop and some vol . j leyball, and a good, invigorating ishower. It puts the pep into you and helps you to keep order the next day. Let us tell you right here that ' it's great stuff!" LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PATRIOTIC GROCERS To the Editor of the Telegraph: Most of the, grocers of Harrlsburg have complied with the patriotic plea from the Fuel Administrator to save coal. They have pledged themselves to conform with a ruling made In their association to close their stores promptly at six p. m. each day In cluding Saturday in order to save coal for other more important insti tutions. It is just as unpatriotic for you to do your shopping after these hours as it is for the stores to keep open. Too long the city of Harrlsburg has remained an overgrown coun try town! Long years ago when it was customary for pay day tt> fall upon Saturdays, the good citizens would dress In their Sunday-go-to meeting clothes and squeechy shoes I and together with their children and J their children's children they would all flock to the nearby grocery or town stores to pay their bills and to buy provisions or clothing for fu ture needs. The habit that our grandsires formed, in those good old days lingers yet In the lives of their great grandchildren. Let us rouse ourselves from this stupid habit! No longer does payday fall on Saturday for the most of us— why should the custom of buying groceries on Saturday night be kept j up? Would not Saturday morning or afternoon do Just as well In which to purchase our provisions? If the public could or would only realize the tremendous sacrifices our owfT boys—the 112 th Regiment are making for us 'on the battlefields of France—surely, even the most callous among us would be willing to help the grocers and buslnesshouses keep their pledges to our counti-y and to our boys by shopping early. Get the habit! It Is with regret that we learn that a few of the growers are not In favor of this fuel-saving scheme. Surely no personal plea about labor or food spoiling or what not Is of as great an Importance as responding to the cry "Save Coal for Humanity's Sake!" The former plea or pleas can be solved by some figuring done on the part of those "conscientious objec tors; the latter cry can only be mas tered when the grocers and public come to a mutual agreement that they will awaken from their Jong Rip Van Winkle like slumber and buy and sell early. Let the public stand by our pa triotic grocers and buslnesshouses! Buy your "taters" or shoe strings : before six O'clock -Saturday evening. ; Help them save the coal! Freeze out j Kaiser Bill! But keep the home fires | burning! (Signed) . FOB HUMAMITI'S SAKE. S noodles. If Anything, He Has Just an Edge on "Dead-Eye Dick" '•* By H: I o \ pATfiicmc VIHO OUR I 1 CA* father--. Army coulont • 1 [SHOOT STRCU6BT? i BOYS' DIVISION MON. TUES. WED. THURS. FBI, SAT. Preps. 9.00-10.00 a- m. Younger Boys "B" 4.15-6.15 p. m. 10.00-11.00 a. m, Younger Boys "A" * 4.16-5.15 p.m. 1.30-2.30 p. m. Older Students 7.15-8.15 p.m. 7.16-8.15 p.m. 2.30-3.30 p. m. Employed Boys 7.15.-8.16 p. nt. 7.15-8.15 p. m. Leaders' Club \ . 11.00-12.00 m. MEN'S DIVISION MON. TUES. ' WED. • THURS. FRI. SAT. Business Men 4.30-5-30 p. m. 4.30-5.30 p. m. 4-30-5.30 p. m. (Senators) Businessmen 5.30-6.30 p. m. 5.30-6.30 p. in. 5.30-6.30 p. m. Young Men 8.15-9.30 p. m. 8.15-9.30 p. m Policemen 8-15-9.30 p. m. 8.15-9.30 p. m. Leaders' Club 7.30-8.30 p. m. Basketball 8.30-9.30 p.m. 4.00-6.00 p. m. AROUND THE BASES 'How's it come you never hear about Servia any morel" howled the inquisitive man. Shucks;; Servia started the war, didn't she? That ought to be enough fame. And now Boris Kestich, her champion chess player has just licked the field at Chicago in the Western Chess Asso ciation tournament, trimming J. S. Morrison, of Toronto, Edward Lesker and H. Hahhemn. Derrill Pratt, late of the New York Americans, and captain and second baseman of the Lebanon team of the Bethlehem Steel League, has decided to give up professional baseball and devote his time and talent to his pro fession as a mechanical engineer, do ing essential war work at the local Bethlehem plant. Pratt, who is 28 years old, and a native of Walhalla, S. C., has bought a fine residence here and has sent for his wife and two children to share it with him. Pratt has been playing hall since 1907. , A new British record for throwing the shot was made at the Cashel sports by J. O'Grady. who re corded 38 feet, beating his previous record of 37 feet 6% inches. The world's record for the event is held by John Flanagan, who, in 1905, at New York, put the weight 39 feet % inch. Miss May Spencer, of the Carston Swimming .Club, at the Livingstone Street Baths. Birkenhead, has suc ceeded in lowering the 200 yards ladies' breast-stroke world's and A. B. A. record of 3 minutes 11 2-5 sec onds, made by Miss Lucy Morton, at Manchester, in 1916. Swimming in fine style, she covered the distance in 3 minutes 8 seconds, thus lower ing the world's record by 3 2-5 sec onds. Ten thousand men who work In shops In old St. 1.00 l brewing hops} Will lose their jobs December first— Oee whir! How will they quench their thirst! One of the big institutions that has got under way in football to day is Rutgers. Although the squad has had little training owing to the illness of Coach Sanford, who is ill with an attack of Spanish Influenza, an experienced squad will face Ur stnus In the opening clash. At the end of last season the Rutgers team was one of the most finished gridiron machines of the year, as many of the players who made up the com bination are still on hand, it is cer tain that the team will give a good account of Itself this season. English papers give vast credit to the boy scouts. Says one: At the Profiteers, Slackers, Also Loafers, Are Condemned Columbus.—"The men who have gone with Pershing do not ljmit their output. They are not seeking 'soft' Jobs. They are making no de mand for big wages, an eight-hour day or piece-work limitations. "At this hour there is just one big union In this country, that Is the one to which we all belong. It Is the union of the United States of America." Col. Theodore Roosevelt speaking at a Ihncheon of 1000 workers of the liberty loan at Masonic Temple, rebuked men and organizations which retard war activities. Ho spared neither "profiteers, slackers nor loafers." "The men who afe doing the most In this war are receiving the least, as far as money is concerned," he continued. "The men on the fight ing lines and their officers nre'today receiving a thlrjl or a fourth of what their brothers at home* are earning. We have a right to demand that tho men doing the less dangerous Jobs back up those at the front. We, upon whom the smaller burden lies, should bear that responsibility with heads erect, just as we expect our fighting men to bear tho great tasks which they have been called upon to face, FUEL FOR LAUNDRIES IS BEING CURTAILED Fuel, except in private homes, may be used for laundry work only dur ing the hours of 7 a, m. until 6 p. m, unless for lost time due to holidays or failure of machinery to work oh schedule, according