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HORSE RACING ONLY SPORT FLOURISHING; TECH TEAM TOO GOOD TO GET OPPONENT
Fighters in the Trenches
Have Gay Sport Carnivals
Th lull In sports Is only tempo
rary, as any sane person might con
clude from tha Intense concern taken
In all kind of athletic activities
among soldier#. This war has galvan
ised millions who would never have
had the energy to take an hour s exer
cise per day. The result will he a
general partaking In every kind of
sport from croquet to heavyweight
boxing.
A sharp observer now on the other
side, Thomas J. Kelly, prominent ath
lete of New York and former member
of the Irish-American A. C. and Paul
lst A. C. track teams, who Is Mow a
Y. M. C. A. athletic director with Gen
eral Pershing's Army, writes an In
teresting letter concerning his ex
periences. Kelly has been In France
for the past six months and has visit
ed all of the battlefront and rest
camps, as well as the various training
camps back of the ltnes.
"Athletics play a very important
part In France," he said. "Every
known sport In America Is being play
ed in the camps here, particularly
sports that tie up closely with mili
tary efficiency. For Instance, take
bayonet fighting: It Is practically 'box
ing with a gun In the hand.' In fact.
Army leaders have come to recog
nize it as such, and boxing Is now In
cluded as a regular part of the mili
tary routine.
Makes Better Soldier#
"Thus athletics Is making much
better soldiers; It is developing their
spirit of aggressiveness, and is mak
ing a real contribution toward the de
velopment of our American Army. It
Is. In fact, serving a two-fold purpose.
The primary one, of course. Is to edu
cate our soldier to be a better fight
ing organism; the second to provide
him with clean and invigorating rec
reation. In my opinion good clean
sport has perhaps more spontaneous
followers than any other activity that
I know of.
"One hears a great deal regarding
the moralitv of our troops over here."
writes Kelly. "The protection of our
Pitchers Were Long Time
Developing the Curve Ball
Three-fourths of all the male)
Americans under 40 years of age who j
have played baseball have been able
at one time or another to throw a
curve ball. Probably the estimate is
unnecessarily conservative. Nearly
everybody who can chuck the horse
hide at all can perpetrate a round
house outshoot. There are any num
ber of young intielders who cannot j
put any zip on the ball without twist- \
ing it. and must allow for that short- j
coming when tiring at the first base
target. The commonest asset of a
voung pitcher nowadays is a curcej
\hat swings out with a broad, lajty i
bend. It is so common that it is worth- j
less against even those persons who i
are only ordinarily versed in batsman- I
ship. Good pitchers use a delivery
that insures a sharp and small break.
A wide, slow curve —with a twisting
course as apparent as the gyrations
of a spiral kick in football or the i
Knglish on a billiard ball —is a * c '"VfV
achievement for grammar school kids.
Blamed On Wind
Yet it happens to be a fact that for
forty years after baseball was invent
ed there were many thousands of in- ;
telligent men who did not believe that
there was such a thing as a curve.
Thev admitted that the ball might
disport itself strangely at times, but
blamed these eccentricities on the
wind or weather or something like i
that. They scoffed at the suggestion i
that any human agency, other than a
rousing thump with a bat. could
change the course of a baseball after
it once had left the hand of the
pitcher.
Professional baseball was born in !
Cincinnati in the sixties. The first j
Reds were undefeated for more than
a full season, and they toured the
country from one end to the other,
making the acquaintance of the skill
ed players then rampant. Ten years
Edgar Wallace Dies of
Pneumonia at Philadelphia
Wllinmstown, Pa., Oct. 15. Edgar
Wallace, a former resident of Lykens,
died at 1510 Green street. Philadel
phia, on Saturday, front pneumonia,
following influenza. Mr. Wallace was
born at Lykens and was 31 years
old. He was a son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. William Wallace. His sister.
Mrs. H. A. Shaffer, of Willlamstown,
was at his bedside when he died. He
is survived by three sisters, Mrs.
James Bailey, of Tower City; Mrs.
Harrv fames, of Marysville, and Mrs.
H. A. Shaffer, of Wiiliamstown; and
five brithers, Arthur and Howard, of
Harrisburg; William, of Wiconisco:
Ray. of Philadelphia, and Lester, of
Mount Alto. The body will be brought
to Lykens for burial.
MISS MARIE DEVENY DIES
MlllerMhurg, Pa., Oct. 15. Miss
Marie DeVeny. aged 24 years, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. DeVeny. of
Walnut street, died on Sunday after
a brief illness of influenza. Miss De-
Veny was a graduate of the Millers
ville State Normal School and was a
teacher in the public schools at
Wiiliamstown where she contracted
the disease. Funeral services will
take place from the home on Wed
nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the
Rev. Bryan officiating. Burial in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
MR. MAN
Buy Your
Work Shoes Now
Good work shoes are scarce,
and they'll be scarcer still.
And naturally, they'll cost
more. FORTUNATELY
we have on hand a big
selection bought before the
recent sharp advances and
priced very much in your
favor.
Better get an extra pair
NOW. You'll save money.
Army and Navy
Shoe Store
38 North Court Street
TUESDAY EVENING.
soldiers begins the very moment they
land and continues constantly there
after. The order says that at ports
of debarkation by co-operation with
the French .authorities and, if neces
sary, the use of the military secret
fiollce .every effort shall be made to
ocate the habitations and the sec
tions of towns frequented by Immoral
women. Such places will be declared
'oft limits' and posted for every com
pany, etc.. and the frequenting or vis
iting of these places by members of
the American Expeditionary Forces Is
strictly prohibited. Local commanders
at all other towns and places where
troops are stationed are Instructed
carefully to observe the provisions of
the order when local conditions Indi
cate the advisability of such action.
Boxing Bouts
"For the Information of the rela
tives and friends of our U. S. A. boys
over here It may be said that ranking
Army officers declare that the sobri
ety and high moral standards of the
A. E. F. as a whole have deeply Im
pressed the French civil and military
authorities."
Kelly writes that he has been very
fortunate to have had such boxers
over there recently as Joe Lynch,
Anguse Ratner and Leo Cross, and de
scribes a recent outdoor boxing carni
val that he staged as a most wonder
ful affair. The main bout was be
tween Ratner and Cross, and Major
Barry, an old athlete, acted as referee
"After the bouts the crowd sang
songs, and It would do your heart
goods to hea,r those boys." write
Kelly. "There is something doing all
the time, and we are all happy as the
day Is long."
Kelly tells about having recently
met "Fat" Ryan, the giant weight
thrower of the Irish-American A. C..
in one of the camps in and
says he is "some soldier." Walter
Hummell. 1916 national 440-yard
hurdle champion, from Portland. Ore.,
also passed through Kelly's camp re- I
cently.
I later the famous Boston club, manag
! Ed by George Wright, went to Cincin
! natl" to play a game. The National
I League was in its third season. If
any such thing as a curve ball was at
all common then, the Cincinnati Reds
! would have been familiar with it. Yet
, on this afternoon in 1878—thirty-nine
' vears after baseball had succeeded
townball as a game—an argument
, arose regarding rumors that there
! lived a certain man who could curve
1 a thrown ball at will. The debate be
i came heated. It grew so torrid that
carpenters were called In. They built
; two ten-foot fences, about twenty
i feet apart, and in the same plane. Mid-
I way between them a post was plant
ed.
"Tommy- Bond's Triumph.
Wright called "Tommy" Bond, a
great Boston righthander of the cham
pionship seventies, tfnd ordered him
ito perform. Standing slightly to the
| left of the first fence. Bond succeed
' ed—on the third of three trials—in
j throwing a ball that passed the post
lon the right and passed the second
fence on the left. This feat he re
peated several times. The skeptics
j immediately blamed the 4vind for the
miracle. To prove his contention be
yond doubt, Wright- then invited in a
lefthander of the name of Mitchell,
i who stood slightly to the right of the
first barrier and curved the ball
i around the post to the right side of
| the second fence.
Then it was that curve-ball pitch
ing was accepted as a scientific fact,
j The demonstration was the big news
; of the day, and the feat of Bond and
Mitchell was telegraphed to all parts
!of the country. Knowing for a fact
I that the thing could be done, experi
menters in every hamlet afflicted with
baseball inclinations began to prac
tice bending the onion. Shortly there
after all clubs had gay deceivers on
the slab.
GEDDES ONCE WAS
U.S. RAIL MAN
*
#
Britisher Learned Much of the 1
Human Side of Life on
Pennsylvania
Sir Eric Geddes. civilian head of j
the British Admiralty, was once a
railroader in the United States.
"Sir Eric," he was asked, "it has!
been variously reported at one time j
or another that you were a brake-1
man, a flagman and a conductor I
when you worked in the United I
States. Would you mind saying just
which it was?"
"All three," replied the civilian j
head of the greatest navy in the 1
world, with a broad grin softening \
the lines of a face as strong and res-'
olute as many an artist might create j
in typiflcation of the hard-fisted,'
stand-up fighting man.
It was as a young man that he
had his most interesting experiences
in this country. He came to the
United States a very determined and
earnest young man, who had to
make his own way in the world and
who felt that America was a land of
broader opportunities than any
other.
In the lumber camps of West Vir
ginia. on the Baltimore' and Ohio,
land afterward for a time on the
i Pennsylvania, he learned much that
1 has made him what he is to-day.
He learned much of the human side
of life as well as the practical, and
|he gained a railway experience
! which, when he returned to England,
soon took him to the post of direct
! ing head of the Great Eastern Rail-
I way, one of the big trunk lines in the
[United Kingdom.
In a statement at Washington. Sir
! Eric declared another great effort
by Germany's submarines is impend
ing.
He disclosed that plans of the
enemy for what may be the final
intensified U-boat campaign of ruth
lessness are known and that the
Allies are prepared to meet it.
No details were given by Sir Eric,
nor was further information to be
obtained at the Navy Department
regarding what the American and
Allied naval chiefs ihave learned.
There were suggestions that Ger
many, in the midst of a peace of
fensive and with her soldiers being
driven back to their borders, hopes
to strengthen her diplomatic drive
for R peace by negotiation by send
ing her submarines on a desperate
campaign of destruction, regardless
of measures of caution heretofore
taken for the safety- of U-boats and
their crews.
DONATIO* TO BELGIANS
Williams town. Pa., Oct. 15. This
borough's quota of clothing to the
i Belgians was 1.800 pounds, but it
j went over the top with 2,715 pounds
I of serviceable garments.
S noodles
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Tech Team So Infernal Rough
and Ready; All Foes Scared Off
"Nothing doing; we ain't in your
Iclass." This is the message that
Tech received from one football club
which it had challenged for a battle
on Saturday next, and such is the
reputation of Tech for treat 'eni
[rough stuff, that it will be difficult
ito arrange any game, perhaps. Mll
llersville Xormal although it trim
med George Cockill's team last Sat
urday, wants none of the Tech. The
drubhing administered to Lebanon
appears to have scared off all com
ers. There is such a thing as being
too good in football.
Wherever played, or if any game
West Shore News
SHOT IN HEAD
BY COMPANION
Ball from a Pistol Causes
Death of Franklin County
Youth in Chambcrsburg
Waynesboro, Pa., Oct. 15.
George Patterson, aged 18, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Patterson, Good's
Siding, near Quincy, was the vic
tim of a pistol shot Sunday after
noon, discharged by Harry Rock,
aged 17. Shortly after the shoot
ing, which is claimed by Rock to
have been accidental, the victim
was taken in an unconscious condi
tion to the office of Dr. W. H. Bros
ius. at Mont Alto. Here an exami
: nation showed that the bullet had
entered the young man's head a
short distance abovev the left tem
ple, and penetrated the brain. He
I was at once removed to the Chain-
I bersburg Hospital where he died a
i few minutes later. Rock, who did
! the shooting, was questioned by the
; authorities as to the occurrence and
' stated, "the revolver was in my
hand when It went off." but refused
| to answer any further questions. He
I was arrested and will be arraigned
j later.
Personal and Social Items
of Towns on West Shore
; Lieutenant Alton W. Lick, of Camp
' Meade, Md.. spent the weekend at his
1 home at Marysville.
1 Miss Grace Pewterbaugh, a stu
dent at Albright College, is visiting
I' her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. C. L.
pewterbaugh, Valley street. Marys
ville.
Allen Davison, of New Tork, who has j
been visiting at the Bell home at |
Miyjvsville. has returned to his home.
Mrs. .Mary Dean, of Shiremans- i
town, was called to Baltimore by the ;
serious illness of her son's wife, Mrs. j
Noell D. Dean.
The Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Gabel, j
son Paul, of Churchtown, -visited
friends at Shiremanstown on Satur
day.
Mrs. A. W. Bistline and Mrs. Charles
Weigel, of Shiremanstown, spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Frank KaufT
man, near Lisburn.
Mrs. Harry Slothour, of Mechanics
burg, visited Mrs. John M. Rupp, at
Shiremanstown on Sunday.
Miss Jean Dodge and Miss Mary
Bowman, of Camp Hill, were week
end visitors at the home of the j
former's aunt, Mrs. H. M. Rupp at |
Shiremanstown.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Menges. of Har
risburg, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. S. S. Frazier at Shiremanstown.
Miss Romaine Rupp, Miss Blanche
Danner and Miss Hazel Danner, of
Shiremanstown, hiked to Lisburn on
Saturday where they visited the
l Misses Romaine, Myrtle and Ada
! Kauftman.
| Mrs. James White, son Paul, of
Marysgille, Miss Nettie Hippie, of
Washington, DD. C„ motored to
| Shiremanstown on Saturday, where
they visited Mrs. John F. Snyder, and
Mrs. W. A. Clouser at Shiremanstown.
I Mrs. Frances Lambert has returned
| to her home at Shiremanstown. after
spending sometime with her daugh
i ter, Mrs. Charles E. Laverty at Enola.
Mrs. Frank W. Wallace and Mrs.
I Clyde Smith, of Shiremanstown, vls
| ited their cousin, Mrs. Daniel Bankes,
] who is seriously ill with influenza at
| her home at New Cumberland.
I Joshua Souders, of Newville, and
j Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Keller, of Hlgh
j spire after visiting Mrs. Anna Mowry
at Shiremanstown.
| Mrs. Charles Simpson, son Albert
Simpson, of Harrißburg, ajid Mrs.
Daisy Moser, of Lemoyne, spent Sun
day with the latter brother, S. K.
Morgret and family at Shiremans
town.
Mrs. Shelly, of New Cumberland,
has returned from a visit to relatives
in York and Hanover.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ruhl, of Bal
timore, are guests of Charles Leaf's
family at New Cumberland.
Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Mitchel. of
Pittsburgh, are guests of Mrs. J. B.
Coover and family at New Cumber
land.
Mrs. John Hoyer, of New Cumber
land, is visiting friends at Gettys
burg.
Miss Mae Yinger, of Washington,
D. C., is visiting her parents. In
Fourth street. New Cumberland.
W. W. Hlgglns, of New York City,
spent the weekend with Mr. anjl Mrs.
G. H. Relff at New Cumberland.
fejLRRISBTJRO t£s6& TELEGRAPI
!be arranged, it must come off away
from here, for Athletic Director
Percy Grubb has not been able to get
|the flu embargo raised. Dr. Raunick
says the ban is not likely to be lift
ed until the middle of next week.
Coach Smith's tight clamped lips
these days suggest a. nick in a sword.
He does not scare a bit at the flu
| himself, and he cannot see why all
I this fuss. Just the same, he is keep
ing the squad working and when the
jsilver lining looms up why, there will
Ibe Tech. all six cylinders on the job
and ready to wallop anything in the
Istate of its class.
| Adam Thorley. of New Cumber
land. took an extended trip west.
Miss Elizabeth Smallng, of New
Cumberland, spent the weekend with
friends at York.
Mrs. Walter Sipe, son Arthur, of
Lorain. Ohio, and David Sipe, of New
berry. spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
DDavid Sipe on Market street. New
' j Cumberland.
MRS. DAVID KEAGY DIES
Waynesboro, Pa.. Oct. 15.—Mrs.
Effle Keagy, wife of David Keagv,
died Sunday morning. She was 52
I years of age and is survived by her
husband and these children: Ar
thur Keagy, in France; Frank
Keagy, of Washington; George, Gib
son, Lulu. Nettie. Anna and Elsie
Keagy, of Waynesboro.
RED CROSS NURSE DIES
Waynesboro. Pa., Oct. 15. Miss
Mary Mlnnick. a graduate nurse of
the ChambeFsburg Hospital, who
volunteered for Army service and ;
was accepted by the Red Cross re- i
cently being called for Army serv- !
ice at Camp Devens, Mass., died 1
Sunday morning at tl\e hase hospi- 1
• tal. where she had been stricken by I
influenza a few days ago. Her only ,
sister, Miss Eliza Minnick, is very!
ill at the Chambersburg Hospital.
iwOMAN WINS
i THREE RACES
,King Horse Holds Stage at
New York and Atlanta; Mrs.
Bresler Triple Winner
The Spanish dope has not elimi
nated racing, which is about the
only sport thriving at the moment.
the famous old Empire
City track at Yonkers opened for a
triple victory to a woman, Mrs. R.
L. Bresler, Jamaica, L. I. Three i
times her colors flashed home in !
front, and on each of her victors the !
fair owner, her husband, who trains !
them and a host of friends wagered
heavily. After her blue, red and
white striped silks had been borne
to victory by Sherman A.. Ultima
Thule and Hank O'Day in the first
three races, Jock Scot, owned by her
husband, finished second, only a
nose behind Joseph E. Widener's ill
tempered Naturalist, in the Kings
bridge high-weight handicap, the
fourth event on the card.
"Buddy" Ensor, the little Jockey
who is under contract to P. A.
Clark and Richard T. Wilson, Jr.,
guided all of the Bresler horses. He
also had the mount on Willie Sharpe
Kilmer's Tableau d'Honneur, which
won the last race. The four victor
ies scored by Ensor was the best
showing made by a Jockey this sea
son, and when he rode Mr. Kilmer's
colt past the Judges he was accord
ed a great ovation.
The Kingsbridge resulted in a
thrilling finish. Harry Payne Whit
ney's bay colt Out the Way, set a
terrific pace for five of the six fur
longs. but Jock Scot came with a.
terrific rush and twenty yards from
the finish stuck his head In front.
Jock Scot held command, however,
for only a few Jumps, for Mr. Wide
ner's Naturalist, which had trail
ed the field (Jurlng the early part of
the race, displayed a great burst of
speed in the run through the stretch
and got up in time to win on the
post by a head- Jock Scot took the
second end of the purse, two lengths
ahead of Out of the Way.
Simultaneous with the Empire
track opening, grand circuit racing
began on the Lakewood Track at
Atlanta, with a 2.09 trot and 2.04
pace. The former was won in a
split heat battle by Miss Woodbine,
owned by L. W. Buford, Franklin,
Xenn., and piloted by Fitzgerald, and
the latter by Directum J., Fred
Kline's black horse with Murphy in
the sulky.
In the trotting event Selah Bair
won the first heat in 2.04%. Jean
ette Speed the second in 2.09% and
Miss Woodbine the third in 2.11%.
This necessitated a fourth heat in
which only the three-heat winners
started, and which was taken by
Miss Woodbine in 2.09%. Selah
Baird won second money and Jean
ette Speed third.
Directum J. won each of the three
heats of the pacing event. This was
the Coca Cola Stake for a $2,500
purse. The third heat decided third
ind fourth moneys between Hal Boy
nd Jay Mack. .
The fastest half mile of the day
was paced by Directum J. In 1.01%.
The track was heavy following Sun
lav showers, but improved as the
ifternoon wore on.
Paying For Equipment
Big Railroad Problem,
Who will take over and pay for
$450,000,000 of new railroad equip
ment? This question, concerning
3,100 locomotives and 100,000 freight
cars, is now urgently before the rail
road corporations of the United
States through action of the railroad
administration. It involves a very
big present proposition' and a prob
lem reaching forward twenty years.
I-ast spring the railroait adminis
tration. after deciding on standard
types of equipment, placed rush con
tracts for 3,100 locomotives and
100,000 cars, giving priority orders
on the materials and supplies nec
essary to get the additional equip
ment at the earliest time possible.
The equipment concerns have done
remarkable work and already have
delivered a large number of both
cars and locomotives, with the others
coming along fast. Some time ago
the railroad administration made
an allotment of the government-or
dered' equipment to various compa
nies. They also have been receiving
cars and locomotives ordered for
1918 delivery, while the railroads
were under private management.
Within a few; days rather peremp
tory telegrams came to the railroad
corporations from John Skelton Wil
liams, director of finances and pur
chases, asking whether they are pre
pared to \ake the cars and locomo
tives as allotted to them and upon
what basis they can arrange to pay
for them. Some companies have an
swered, others have not, hut have
consulted together and with their
bankers in a good deal of mental
turmoil.
Railroad Managers Ilalk ~~
With the railroad properties now
in the hands of the BOH'i.uiaui,
both as to operation and control, the
companies and their managers are
balking at what the railroad admin
istration is now pressing upon them.
On the general proposition, the
company managers are stronglv
averse to buying or committing their
companies for more equipment than
is required now—traffic is moving
freely at this time —and more than
they think may be required after the
war Particularly, they object to the
tyles of locomotives and cars now
pressed upon them for purchase at
top prices—two times or more nor
mal cost as measured by pre-war
prices—which they do not think
well suit their traffic.
While the federal control lasts it
makes not so much difference to any
company as the control contracts
Standing of the Crews
HARRISBURG SIDE
rhlludrlphta DlDvlnlon The 112
crew first to go after 3 o'clock: 119.
Fireman for 112.
Brakeman for 112 (2)..
Brakemen up: Silks, Arndt.
Middle Division —The 21 crew first
to go after 12.45 o'clock:' 34, 255, 227,
231, 25, 252, 256, 17, 304, 283, 38.
Engineer for 38.
Firemen for 34, 25, 38, 231.
Conductor for 21.
Flagman for 237.
Engineers up: Nissley, Dunkle. Tlt
ler, Snyder, Derrtcle.
Firemen up: Myers, Swartz.
Conductors up: Hoffnagle, Ross.
Yard Board —Engineers for IC, 4-
7C. 5-7 C, 2-14 C, 5-15 C, 6-15 C.
Firemen for 3-7 C, 1-14 C, 5-15 C, 6- i
15C, 16C, 18C, 26C.
Engineers up: Eyde, Keever, Ford,
Hamilton, Miller. J. R. Miller.
Firemen up: Ettinger, Manning,
Shambaugh, Sheets, Graham, Lynn,
Garber, Boyer, Faeslck, Burns, Chubb,
Hoffman, Angelo.
EN OLA SIDDE
Philadelphia Division The 219
crew first to go after 2.46 o'clock: 231,
229, 244, 226.
Firemen for 229, 244, 226.
Brakemen -for 231, 229 (2), 244,
226 (2).
Brakemen up: Ruttershill.
Middle Division —The 124 crew first
to go after 1.15 o'clock: 102, 125, 109,
106, 223, 220.
Engineers for 124. 102, 109, 106.
Firemep for 102, 109.
Conductor for 109.
Flagmen for 109, 106.
Brakemen for 124, 125, 109, 106.
Yard Board —Engineers for 3d 126,
Ist 129, 2d 129, 3d 129, 4th 129, 135,
j 118.
I Firemen for 3d 126, Ist 129, 2d 129,
I 3d 129, 4th 129, Ist 102, 2d 102, Ist
104, 09.
, Engineers up: Hanlon, Bickhart,
' Smith. Brown, Lutz.
| Firemen up: Bruce, Wendt, Shaf
-1 fner, Shover, Jenkins, Ready, Lutz,
| Lightner.
PASSENGER SERVICE
Philadelphia Division —Engineers
up: Hall, Osmotyl.
Firemen up: Shaffner, Copeland,
Strlckler. 1
Middle Division Engineers up:
Miller, Graham, Keane, Martin, Riley.
Spotts, Alexander, Crane.
Firemen up: Gross, Stauffer, Fletch
er, Snyder, Bender, Ross, Kerber.
LOOKS FOR HUSBAND
J. Edward Wetzel, chief of police
has received a letter from Mrs. Earl
Fay, 336 Hulatt street, Schenectady,
I N. Y., requesting him to look for her
husband, who is said to be selling
an automobile mender In Pennsyl
vania. Mrs. Fay says she and her
child are sick and have not seen him
for some months. His discrlption fol
lows: Aged 29, weight 164 pounds,
medium height, dark brown soft hot.
salt and pepper suit, tan shoes and
dark overcoat.
stand to preserve the fiscal position
of each, and it makes little real dif
ference whether cars are owned by
one company or another, but when
the properties come back it will be
important how each is equipped antj
what obligations it has.
Few of the railroad corporations
are in position under existing condi
tions to finance equipment purchases
independently of the government.
Presumably the demands upon the
$500,000,000 revolving fund at the
use of the railroad administration
have been so much larger than
counted upon—half of it has been
taken—that the railroad adminis
tration is anxious to get the com
panies to assume the equipment
purchases.
Mr. Williams has intimated that
if any company cannot arrange to
pay for all the equipment allotted
to it, the railroad administration
will arrange to lend against such
equipment up to 75 per cent, of the
cost at ti per cent, for two years.
That would leave it to the corpora
tion to provide the other quarter out
of its funds. There has been some
discussion of a general equipment
trust, with the railroads assuming
responsibility for the securities is
sued under it. ,
Objection to Distribution Made
Railroad companies are finding
individual objections to the alloca
tion of equipment as made by Rob
ert S. Lovett, director of capital ex
penditures, and Carl R. Gray, direc
tor of operation. '
It is asserted, for example, that
boxcars are foisted upon roads
which need coal cars, as 500 to the
R. F. and P.; that heavy mikado lo
comotives are offered to the Chicago
und Great Western, whose light rails
and bridges will not safely take the
ioad; that the Delaware and Hud
son objects to taking more coal cars,
as of what it now owns, 35 per cent,
are off its lines; that the Santa Fe
accepts boxcars, but objects to tak
ing coal cars; that the Chicago and
Eastern Indiana has been allotted
equipment beyond its receivership
ability.
Conference by the railway execu
tives' advisory committees with the
railroad administration was held
yesterday in Washington and very
earnest representations with regard
•to his first big difference, if not con
troversy, which has developed in
the application of railroad* control
| as between the government and the
corporate managers.
Anthracite Miners
to Get Raise in Pay
Double 1916 Scale
Wilkos-Barre, Pa., Oct. 15.—An
thracite Mine Workers of America
are to receive an increase in wages
double the fixed in the 1916
agreement of operators and em
ployes, according to the statements
of union officials on their return
from the conferences in Washington.
It it expected that official an
nouncement of the award will be
made by Dr. Gaijheld during the
present week. The awards will
amount to from 15 to 40 per cent,
above the present scale of wages of
the various workmen. In some cases
this will mean $1 a day increase; in
other cases it will be $2. To the
breaker boy it will mean about $1.25
more a day. The average increase
will amount to $1.47 a day.
AI.DINGER SELLS
HOTEL INTEREST
Fred B. Aldinger has sold his one
half interest in the Senate Hotel to
Samuel Katzman. Louis Silbert still
holds the other half though managed
.by Mcnger Brothers.
CAPTAIN SMITH COMING HOME
Halifax, Pa.. Oct. 15. Word has
been received here stating that Cap
tain Frederick C. Smith, a well-known
local physician who is in the Medical
Corps of the United States Army,
who was severely wounded in action
on July 4. will arrive home shortly
on a furlough. Captain Smith has
been in France for more than a year.
RAILROAD EMPLOYE HURT
Marietta, Pa., Oct. 15. Ray Fry
berger, of Center Square, employed at
the Marietta storage yards, West
Marietta, was severely injured while
at work. A large truck was being
loaded by one of the cranes when it
slipped and caught P'ryberger's right
hand and left leg. He was brought
to his home.
MRS. IRA COLLINS DIES
Blaln, Pa., Oct. 15. Mrs. Ira Col
lins, aged 30 years, died at her home
at New Germantown on Saturday of
influenza after a week's Illness. The
entire family, including Mr. Collins,
and two children, a son and daughter,
are ill with the disease.
ROY TSCHOPP DIES
MlUersbtirg, Pa., Oct. 15. Roy
Tschopp, of Moon street, died Sunday
of Influenza after a week's illness,
aged 30 years. Funeral services took
place yesterday afternoon.
SAMUEL, SHOCKEY DIES
Waynesboro, Pa.. Oct. 15—Sam
uel W. Shockey, of Wayne Heights,
died at Chambersburg yeysterday,
as the result of a paralytic stroke.
He was 38 years of age and is sur
vived by his father, a brother and
several sisters.- *
FATHER AND SON ILL,
John P. Morgan, 116 Calder street,
is 111 at his home with influenza.
His son In the service of the United
States is also ill with the dreaded
disease- The'elder Mr. Morgan is
connected with the Arm of Miller
Brothers & Co.
• OCTOBER 15, 1918.
AROUND THE BASES
t.uud boy, YVilNou; treat 'em rough;
Kill off Hoheuzollern; that's the I
stuff!
Thought you'd weakened; lost your i
punch;
~ See now that you're with the buucli. I
Call that Berlin Beast's cheap blub; I
After him, Woodruui treat 'em
rough.
"Many Rent Hogs, Mayor Insists"
•ays the Patriot this morning;. How
does It get this way? Must be adver
tising Heagy Bros.; that's the only
place you can rent a hog in Harris
burg.
.„ Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 14. James
C. punn, president of the Cleveland
ball club, was in Cleveland yesterday.
bame here from Chicago to close
up tlie business of the Indians for the
year and'to attend a party giVen by
l. C. O Brien Saturday evening.
sunny Jim" is of the opinion that
there is an excellent chance for the
major leagues to resume the National
pastime next spring. He looks for
the big fuss in Europe to be over
within a few months at least and
thinks that there is a pretty fair pros
.the ban baseball to be
lifted before April 1.
Informal football will get under
way at Vale this week when the Array
and Naval students' units clash on the
Bowl gridiron Saturday afternoon.
Another game will be played the fol
lowing Saturday, and then it is likely
that the Blue will branch out into
intercollegiate athletics on a small
scale. Professor v Corwin, who is in
charge of athletics at Yale, stated
some time ago that, there would be
no sports at New Haven until the
military program was settled. The
students now are down to hard work
in war duties, and time lias been al
lotted for daily athletics.
Jerry Sullivan, who was famous as
an oarsman in Buffalo thirty-five'
years ago, died a few days ago, the 1
sole survivor of the champion four- |
oared crew of the Celtic Rowing Club I
oi Buffalo, in 1884. The crew which
rowed behind Sullivan, was made up'
of James Griffin, No. 3; John Burns
No. 2, and Anthony Ahart, bow.
Penn State lost a couple more ath
letes yesterday when Fullback "Bill"
Geltfing and Quarterback Chaflie
IViif were called to machine gun serv
ice. Center Bentz and Halfback Snell
liavff applied for appointment to the
infantry training school at Camp Gor
don. Sixty-one students will be sent
there to-morrow. Coach Bezdek was '
called to Chicago by the serious ill
ness of his 4-year-old daughter.
While there is no doubt that base
ball is taking a firm hold in England
and France and will become an estab
lished sport feature in those coun-
ENOLA M. E. CHURCH I
IS NOW FREE OF DEBT
The debt-paying campaign which I
was launched by the Methodist con
gregation of Enola, less than six
weeks ago. was brought to a suc
cessful termination Sunday when the
Sundav School made a selfdenial of
fering' of $192.50. Owing to the quar
antine no session of the school was
held but the classes reported their
contributions at the parsonage with
the above result. The Ladies' Aid So
ciety gave $lOO, and $1,245 was raised
in individual pledges. An interest
ing feature of this subscription is the
fact that every dollar pledged was
paid. The total amount raised was
$1,537.50. The church property is now
free of debt. The Rev. H. M. Aller is
the pastor.
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tries after the war, those who are
predicting a real world's series, with
international teams competing, with
in the next few years seem to be tak
ing too much for granted. The day
when English and French players will
have become sufficiently adept at the
game to cope with American stars is
far distant, judging from the diffi
culties they are experiencing in trying
to master the diamond sport as played
in this country. For one thing the
size of the ball troubles them, and
the kind of game they are playing
over there is far removed from the
American type. According to reports
from the other side, the French and
English have found it necessary to
"make over" the, sport to suit, their
shortcomings, until now the game,
though played in the open, bears a
stronger resemblance to indoor base
ball than to the kind played on
American diamonds. The foreigners
cannot handle an American baseball,
it is said. They complain that it is
too small and comes too fast for
them, and in consequence a larger
ball, of the indoor variety, has been
adopted. They may learn our game in
time and become real stare, but the
progress made thus far indicates no
real danger that, the world's cham
pionship pennant will be flying it*
Paris or London in the near future.
Bombardier Wells, the old English
heavyweight boxer, is again a favor
ite with the English public, and there
is some talk now of trying to have
.lack Dempsey cross the pond to meet
him in an international bout. Wells
hasn't had much luck with American
boxers, and is quite an oldtimer at
the games, having been popular long
before Dempsey was ever heard of.
There has been considerable dis
cussion over the relative merits of
various pinch-hitters used in the
major leagues during the past season,
but figures compiled by a Cleveland
statistician appear to settle the ar
guqient by making Jack Clraney stand
out as the real leader of the emer
gency clouters. The Canadjan was
remarkably successful as a pinch
batsman. Tn the first eighteen times
Lee Foh! called upon him to bat fox
a teammate he walked three tinv"&
and delivered a sacrifice fly on anoth
er occasion, leaving him fourteen
times at bat. In those fourteen times
he .made seven hits, an average of
.500. his most pretentious effort being
on July 2 when he tripled off Rogers
of St. Louis, driving In the tying and
winning runs. His sacrifice fly was
made off Cicotte and drove in the win
ning run on the afternoon of Mem
orial Day. A few days later he made
a pinch single ofT Joe Bush and drove
in the tying run, Cleveland eventually
winning in extra innings. The next
day he draw a pass from Molyneaux
of the Red Sox, that forced a run
across the plate.
Houston 7884
Okmulgee 2
Northwest 50
Glenrock 314
Island 3 84
Merrltt 24
Midwest '. 98
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Big Ledge 13-16
Cresson 434
Cal and Jerome 9-16
Mother Lode 34
Boston and Montana 44
Caledonia 49
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Hecla 5-16
Ray Hercules 414
Ton'opah Bel 2%
CHARLES M. SINGER
Charlfs Merrltt Singer, son of Ed
win M. Merrltt and Vinnie B. Singer,
died of pneumonia after a week's ill
ness at his home, 2007 North Second
street, Saturday afternoon, at 5.10
o'clock, at the age of 21 years.
He attended the Harrisburg
Academy, and was a member of 'the
class of 1918 at Mercersburg
Academy. He was a member of the
Mandolin Club of the school and also
of the Marshall Literary Society. He
and four other students formed the
Syncopated Five, an organization
which played nightly on the campus.
Since leaving school he has been as
sociated in business with his father.
He was a member of the Zion Luther
an Church and Sunday School.
The funeral services wereheld
this afternoon at 4 o'clock.