PIGEONS FLY FOR LIBERTY LOAN; SPORTING MEN PLAN TO RAISE $170,000,000 FOR SAMMIES Pigeons Will Fly Tomorrow in Gotham For Liberty Loan Vou must give credit to old Gotham for enterprise in patriotic sports. An unique event is planned for to-mor row there to boost the Fourth Liberty Loan in the shape of a pigeon race over an eight-and-one-half-mile course as the pigeon flies." The con i,ants will be Ave Signal Corps trained pigeons, one representing each of the five boroughs of New York, which will be released by the respec tive borough presidents at points equidistant from the Altar of Liberty, in Madison Squqare. The borough whose pigeon first reaches the altar is due to raise $lO,OOO in bonds: the second, $25,000: the third, $50,000; the fourth. $75,000: and the trailing bro ough will have to contribute $lOO,OOO. making a total purse of $260,000 for the Fourth Liberty Loan. These con tributions will be in addition to the regular quota of the borough. The sporting element of the affair will be enhanced by a drawing of lots by the borough presidents for the privilege of choosing their birds. All the fliers have been trained in the) "Fore!" Is the Cry Heard Today at Atlantic City War somewhat depleted the ranks | of American link champions who were ! ready to-day to start the annual! tournament, of the Atlantic City j Country Club, but it did not, dampen j enthusiasm. The meet opened this j morning with eighteen-hole qualifl eation round and it promised to bei bitterly contested as many clever men ' are entered. The winner of the first I sixteen flight is certainly going to; have no walk-over. Many of the low handicap men could not make arrangements far in advance, and their entries were not received until yesterday, and then by telephone. But they came along, and Talk About Lop-Sided Scores in Baseball In connection with the story of the big hitting and scoring days in the major leagues the past season, a bit of history about the biggest scoring day of modern time major league baseball may be of interest. In the early days of baseball no club was considered to have a safe lead over the opposing team with anything less than a margin of 20 runs to the good. With the be ginning of professional baseball in the early '7os. and the launching of the National League, these con ditions chhnged. and big scores be came the exception and not the rule. We go back thirty-six years to a major league game in which the record number of runs were made. Chicago and Cleveland were the opposing teams on that his toric July '24. 1882, and Chicago triumphed by a score of 35 to 4. Many other league swatting rec ords have stood almost as long. The greatest number of homeruns in a major league game were scor ed in a contest between Detroit and St. Louis in 1886. when seven hits, good for complete circuits of the bases were made. The world's rec ord for the greatest number of runs for one inning in a league game has stood since ISS3. when Chicago scored IS runs for each man—in tHe "lucky seventh" game against Detroit. Fortna and Hollinger in Close Pace in Sale Sales in the War Savings Stamps contest by letter carriers attached to the Harrisburg Post Office, who are battling for the William M. Donald son prize, stood as follows for the week ending October 12: R. K. Fortna. $20,044.87; George A. Hollinger. $19,696.60. J. A. Geiger. $lB,- 066.36; E. R. Gault, $14.150.54; C. W. Cless. $13,561.72; G. I- Ebersole, $ll.- 418.65; T. C. Carpenter, $10,844.68; C". A. Fortna. $10,504.10; C. E. Rea. $lO,- 324.61; George R. Pritcnard. $9,275.86; W. H. Dum. $5,775.63: W. R. Manley, 15.372.50; G. L. Ehler. $8,366.00; John A. Snyder. $7,854.54; R. H. Weaver. $7,312.27; H. C. Jordan. $6,673.51; R. G. Wiestling. $6,387.12: H. C. Young, $6,308.13; W. B. Bery, $6,072.65; John A. Hass. $5,696.48; E. W. Walton, $5.- 669.01: G. P. Satchel!. $5,115.79; W. H. Bond. $5,085.62: H. C. Brady. $6,694.77; A. H. Stover. $4,570.51: A. W. Wagner, 14.433.30: J. W. Nay lor, 14.352.56: D. P. Dougherty. $4,296.13: J. G. Lavertv, $4,122.84; F. M. Reen. $3,922.17: John H. Kurtz. $3,863.01; G. W. Warden. $3.- 661.25: C. B. Buffington. $3,469.26; W. E. Swiler. $3,453.13; T. B. Stouffer. $3,- 045.60- J. E. Reatty. $3,017.31; W. S. Hackman. $1,806.15: John A. Christ man. R. D.. No. 2, $1,269.19; A. C. Ri neer. $1,210.50; A. N. Flrlch. R. D.. No. 3. $505.41: G. L. T. Hohenshildt. $464.81; J. G. Popel. $298.50; F. D. Kerschner. $168.50; W. J. Stoner, $115.98: L. T. Herman. R. D.. No. 1, $90.78: J. W. Bates. $60.03: F. F. Bru ker. R. D.. No. 4. $55.86: H G. Dyblie. $56.93: W. G. Bowers. $9.17. Harrisburg Athlete Arrives Over There Safely Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Shader. who reside at 1819 Market street, have received the card from the govern ment informing them of the safe ar rival of their son. W. J. Shader over seas. Shader was very active in foe sporting events of the city, at one time playing on the Hill Tiger foot ball team. He was a member of this team at the time It was coached by Hall of Cornell fame. At the time of the Border trouble, Shader was working in New York. He enlisted and was sent to the border with Company H. Seventy-first Regiment. New Tork National Guards. On re turning from the border he received an honorable discharge and returned to Harrisburg as scoutmaster of Troop 8, Boy Scouts of A'merica. He took an active part in the icoutlng activities of this city until he en listed early in the spring. He was sent to Gettysburg where he was placed into the Headquarters Com pany, 326 th Battalion Tank Corps., where he received his preliminary training. Later he was sc-nt to Tobby hanna with his company to re ceive training on the rifle range. he was sent over. MRS. LEOXORE RHEEM Mrs. Leonore Rheem, aged 28 years, died at her home, 1629 North Fifth street, to-day from pneumo nia. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Father Daley, of St. Mary's Catholic Church, officiating. Mrs. Rheem is survived by his husband, Harry C. Rheem, her father, three brothers and three sisters. MRS. SARAH E. SWANGF.R Mrsc. Sarah E. Swanger. aged 73 years, died yesterday of old age at the home of a son. 2010 Wood street, this city. Funeral services for the deceased will be held at the above ad dresa Friday morning, at 10 o'clock, the Rev. Harvey B. Klaer. pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, of ficiating. Burial will take place in the East Harrisburg Cemetery. THURSDAY EVENING, I pigeon school of the United States ( Signal Corps for duty on the Western front, and each will wear the official army capsule tied to its foot, contain ing the name of the borough it repre sents. The starting points have been care fully designed in order that there shall be no suspicion of handicaps. They are as follows: Richmond Borough Hall, St. George. Manhattan Manhattan end of Washington Bridge. The Bronx—Claremont Parkway, In ; Claremont Park. Queens Queens Boulevard and Puritan Avenue. Forest Hills. Brooklyn—Fourth Avenue and Sev enty-seventh street. Bay Ridge. The various borough Liberty lajan committees stand sponsor for their j constituencies in the payment of the l amounts specified. It is expected that, with favorable winds, the winner will romp in with an interborough record of fifteen • minutes flat or less. among them was Clark CochVan. of Baltimore; Alex Cole, of Shawnee; George Heffner. of Philadelphia; S. MacLaughlin. of Scarsdale; Newman E. Sprague. of Far Rockaway; P. A. Proad and Warren S. Smock, of Deal. The tournament this morning will be followed by the match play Friday and Saturday. There will also be an eighteen-hole handicap on Saturday, which will be open to everyone en tered in the tournament except play ers in the semifinals and finals. The ! first pair were sent off the tee at 9 o'clock. There are 106 entrants and they will be seat off at five-minute intervals. The last pair will go off at 1.25 p. tn. 1 Quaker City Loses Its Greatest Swimmer in Dread Epidemic The greatest all-around amateur swimmer ever developed in Philadel phia. a city renowned for its aquatic i celebrities, died yesterday. Ernest W. ' Sopp. better known as "Ernie" Sopp. •He was only 24 years old and suc j cumbed to pneumonia, leaving a j young wife. He was in the govern ' ment service. This lad was the pride ! of the Quaker City. for. although his : swimming fame did not break until ! he was IS years of age. since then he ' had the following records to his I credit; Won the one-mile race for the Huss Cup in 1916. in It minutes 49 seconds, and again took the event in 1917. in 24 minutes 22 1-5 seconds, the latter time being the present record for the event. Won the one-mile Middle Atlantic ■ Association championship at Lafay ette. in the Schuylkill river, August i 19. 1916. defeating Gilbert E. Tohilin son. a clubmate. for the title. Beat the best quarter-mile local record in a swim against time, in Sherwood Playgrounds pool. July 4. 1918. covering the distance against the watch in 5 minutes 45 3-5 seconds. Won the quarter-mile race for the Asher CCp at Lafayette, in the Schuvlkill river. July 13. 1918. over a 110-vard course, in new record time of 6'minutes 2 3-5 seconds. Won the 500-vard indoor Middle At i lantic Association title. February 19. 1916. in Central Branch Y. M. C. A. | pool, making a new indoor record of 6 minutes 46 4-5 seconds. Won the 220-yard indoor Middle At : lantic Association championship in the 'Turners* nool, April 27, 1918, sup ' planting the former record. which ! stood sinae 1914, with the new ljpures of 2 minutes 37 3-5 seconds. Won the half-mile Middle Atlantic i Association outdoor title on August ■l7 over a 110-vard course across stream, at Lafayette, in the Schuyl ' kill river, beating the best previous record, held by his clubmate. Gilbert F Tomlinson, which had stood for five years, and setting up a new mark of i 12 minutes 44 1-5 seconds. Won the five-mile Marathon race for the Pawling trophy by 500 yeards. on August 31. in 2 hours 9 minutes and 44 seconds, the distance being from the bridge at Conshohocken to ! the difm at Flat Rock, in the Schuvl- Was second to Leo Giebel, of the , New York Athletic Club, in the ten imi'e national championship swim In ' the Delaware River, from Race Street Wharf. Philadelphia, to Riverton, N. J August 24, 191 S. Sopp covering the course in 2 hours 4 minutes, but was unfortunate, as he was disqualified for not finishing between the two 1 buovs marking thf finish of the race. In addition t* the above champton ! ship and record performances. the Philadelphia champion won the Phila delphia Swimming Club's outdoor ' championship contests, the Central Y. M C. A. swimming championships. I and many other events for prizes of ; a lesser nature. Lively Golf Marks Country Club Meet; Drake Defeat; Leonard The professional of the Harris burg Country Club announced to dav the following schedule for Satur day's contestants in the golf cham pionship tournament: _ First eight. Hain vs. Dohoney, Sweeney vs. Wright, Baldwin vs. Rvder and Brumbaugh vs. Herman. Second eight, R. Hickok vs. Dull, Orr vs. Gaither, W. Hickok vs. Hershev, Witman vs. Evans. Third eight. Roth vs. Allen, Haldeman vs. Snyder, Hof fer vs. Jessup and Eastman vs. Ehlers. Yesterday in a hotly contested match Drake defeated Leonard by a narrow margin and by virtue of this victory- entered the semifinals of thg second sixteen. Armstrong and Wert will play off their ma'ch on Satur day afternoon and Lie winner of this go will be entitled to meet Drake to determine the representa tive of the seconds who will enter the championship finals. Play in the flrst ( and third six teens is progressing less rapidly but it is expected that by next week they 'too will have eliminated their play ers down to the final rounds. The competition in the defeated eight series is expected to be as spir ited a3 the winning matches. Some of the club's best golfers are num bered among the losers as they were forced to forfeit their matches on account of illness. This will tend to make the losers' matches a stiff bat tle to the finish. STATE COLLEGE MEN EXTEB OFFICERS' CAMP State College. Pa., Oct. 17. Fifty student-soldiers of the Pennsylvania State College unit of the Students' Training Corps, left here to-day for the Central Officers Training Camp, at Camp Gordon. Georgia. They were appointed by Major James Baylies. U. S. A., retired, the local military com mandant. They were given an op portunity to win commissions as- a reward for their proficiency in drill at the State College. The following men from Harrisburg and vicinity were included In the party: Carl J. Degen. of Mifflintown; John B. Eby. of Lancaster; S. L. Greonwalt, of I Chambersburg. and A. B. Laudermilch. of Harrisburg. Snoodles By Hungerford i r— ■ i , — —w ' (please JJ \ BOY A°Re£l. ) fi ) j i V B °ujs S £LF c:jLc BOND U|A ONI ETSAOSD TOOTH • * <S*V3I^CoA.> . Sport World Wants $170,000,000; Look Out, They Are Coming This Way! i A gigantic proposition to cover the I' entire United States was put under way at New York yesterday at the Yale Club by old-time athletes, 'backed by the United War Work Campaign, to gather in $170,000,- 000 for our soldiers and sailors in ! the war. In anticipation of tlte fact that our armies may be obliged to remain In Europe for two years or more, it is planned to accumulate sufficient funds to insure the boys in khaki their fill of entertainment and recre ation. It is a campaign to preserve the morale of our army and navy, no matter what the coming months may bring forth in the way of dis couragement. Every sport with the execution of tennis is to be lined up in this drive and every tow nand hamlet is to have an opportunity to contribute its share toward making the campaign a success. The "big week" will be from November 11 to November 18, when every footbal team in the cuun i try will be called upon to play one game, the proceeds of which shall be devoted exclusively to the fund. The drive, however, is not to be restricted to this one week. Just as soon as the Liberty Loan campaign ends the sport campaign will get Thunderclap in Great Finish at Empire State Track New York, Oct. 17. The racing at the Empire City track yesterday fur . nished some close finishes, none more ; impressive than the first race. Myers, : who rode the winner, Thunderclap, , took the Oneck Stable entry out at > the start to a lead of two lengths, in creased his advantage to three lengths at the half, but finding his i mount weakening near the finish of ; the five and a half furlong route, had 1 to put everything in motion to win by a neck from L. F. Wagner's Osgood, who in turn was two lengths ahead j of Marmite, who finished strong. Most interest centered in the fourth I race, the Scarsdale Handicap, with $1,500 added, in which met A. K. Ma- I comber's Warcloud and Andrew Mil i ler"s famous racing machine. Roamer. Roamer was was the favorite at 9 to ■ 10. while Warcloud was elose with ! 3to 2 odds. Nevertheless, Jockey En ; sor. who has been riding his head off • recently, piloted R. Wilson. Jr.'s good horse. Corntassel, between the two and finished second to Warcloud, ! while Roamer had to be content with third place. Roamer was weighted to 12S pounds and this proved too much ;to overcome the lead obtained by | Warcloud at the barrier. Harrisburg Men Named in New Casualty Lists Severely wounded in action in France about August 22 was the sub stance of a telegram sent Sirs. Harry J. Shimp, 612 Church street by the War Department concerning her husband, Harry J. Shimp, at- I' bached to Headquarters Company, 112 th Infantry. Mrs. Shimp receiv ed a letter from her husband dated | September 4, about three weeks ago, I written In a base hospital where he had been about five weeks recover t ing from a gas attack. Accordingly she thinks there must be a mistake 1 in the first named date. Lieutenant George J. Shoemaker, Harrisburg policeman for nine years, is on the casualty list as wounded ■in the left arm and left leg while in action in France. Harry C. Stone, 18 years old. son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Stone, of Church street, Camp Hill, is also on the list reported miss ing since August 7. The former was a member of the Governor's Troop and saw service on the Mexican bor der. He sailed overseas in May, 1917, ; with Co. B, 108 th Machine Gun Bat -1 talion. He is now in Red Cross Hos- I pital No. 3 in France. Stone was attached to the Le j moyne Machine Gun Company when I he sailed for France where he was ! transferred to the 112 th Infantry. Rumania Asks Aid to Get Back in War Washington, Oct. 17. Captain j Vasile Stolca, former attache of the Rumanian legation here, and presi dent of the Rumanian National Lea gue of America, said to-day that RuiAania soon will be back in the war on the side of the Allies. South ern Rumania still is in the hands | of German troops, but Captain Sto i ica said they easily could be cleared ; out by the Allies and the Rumanian | army reorganized. Serbian Troops Win More Ground in Balkan Drive London, Oct. 17. —Serbian troops, continuing their energetic campaign for driving out the Austro-German I forces remaining on Serbian soil, have captured the town of Alexin atz, on the Morava river, 15 miles northwest of Nish. says a Serbian official statement received there to day. Thirty-two guns were taken in the fighting beyond Nish. CAILLAfX TRIAL OCTOBER 20 Paris, Oct. 17.- —Edouard Ignace. Under-Secretary of State for Justice : reported to the cabinet on his in i vestigation of the charges against i former Premier Caillaux. Deputy Louis Loustalot and Paul Comby. The cabinet immediately issued a decree convoking the high court to ■ meet October 29 to try the charges j against the three men. ICERRJ6BTTRG TEUEGRAPH I under way. ! Football, of course, is expected to be the main source and a schedule is being drawn up which will bring together the best teams of the coun try before the snow fiies. New York will have some' of these star contests and a gridiron season which seemed destined to be a "ilivver" bids fair to develop into a "hummer." The committee in charge will very soon announce some of its plans for these big football games following a con ference in the office of Big Bill Ed wards, Collector of the Port. Boxing, billiards, soccer and golf are all to join in the campaign. James W. Coffroth, the California iboxing promoter, will arrive East on Sunday to take full charge of the boxing program, the idea being to have every large city put on a mam moth show. Willie Hoppe has prom ised to wield his cue for the good icause. while Cornelius J. Sullivan will take the htflrn in the golfing ! world. j Those who attended the meeting last night were: William S. Lang jford. of Trinity; William H. Ed wards, William W. Roper and Parke Davis, of Princeton; William F. Gracelon, of Harvard; Brink Thorne, of Yale, and John C. Bell, of the (University of Pennsylvania. ' German People Know in Hearts That War Is Lost By Associated Press London, Oct. 17. Herbert H. As quith, former Premier, speaking at the National Liberal Club here, said there was no man in the Allied world better qualified to be a spokesman of ; the Entente nations than President | Wilson. Both of Mr. Wilson's recent replies to Germany's peace proposals | were heartily endorsed by Mr. As | quith. He spoke in part, as follows: i "The German peace overtures are i sincere in the sense that they evj- I dently hav proceeded from the Ger man people who in their heart of : hearts have given up the game. If. ;in addressing her overtures, not to ; the European Allies, but to our American associates, Germany calcu | lated to sow the seeds of "possible : dissension and jealousy, it was an ! other illustration of the chronic clum siness of Germany diplomacy." Two Columbia Soldiers in Enemy Prison Camps ■By Associated Press , Washington, Oct. 17. Among the ! forty American soldiers i/i German prison camps, announced to-dav by , the War Department, are: William T. i Busier. Columbia, at Kastatt, and Guy ! Beckline, Columbia: Jerome M. Sam • ick, St. Mary's, and Charles H. Het vricks. Dubois, in good health at un , known camps. Government to Treat Union and Nonunion Men Alike, Order Says Postmaster General Burleson to-day sent to all the offices of The Bell Tele- I phone Company an order, in which he ■ says that union and nonunion men will be treated ajike in the service of the corporation. ' "Information has reached the de partment that representations are be j ing made throughout the country," 1 says Mr. Burleson, "that it is the de ! sire of the government that employes of the telegraph and telephone com ; panies should join the Commercial i Telegraphers' Union, the International ■ Brotherhood of Electrical Workers or : some other union. These represen i tations have no foundation* in fact whatever." All employes are to be ) judged by fitness and fitness only, the ' Postmaster General says. French Town 'Cleaned Up' by American Soldiers I Paris, Oct. 17.—American soldiers i billeted in a French village behind 1 the firing lines recently surprised , and won the gratitude of the women j of that village by giving it a regu lar housecleaning last June. Telling j of the incident m a Red Cross hos pital. an American soldier said: "The women and girls were in the fields cultivating. At night they were too tired to do housework, yet the whole village needed it. One day when they were all In the fields us boys turned to and cleaned up that burg. We washed every win dow in the place and swept and scrubbed everything that would stand it. When the women came back that night they were so pleased they cried." Porto Rico Calls For Help From United States; Thousands Are Homeless By Associated Press N'ew York. Oct. 17.—With more : than one hundred persons dead and thousands without shelter, • food or clothing as a result of the earth quake shook the entire island last Friday, the Government of Porto Rico to-day appealed to Congress and to the American Red Cross for assistance, in a cablegram received here and forwarded to Washington. AROUND THE BASES "Bat" Nelson got help from the Boys' Brotherhood in Chicago, yester because he helped them collect a fund some years ago, so that he ap pears to have one friend, or rather a number. This pugilist's ttnancial bankruptcy astonished all followers of his career, because "Bat" was the nearest" guy with his pocketbook u ' ° ever trod the ring That his dad should refuse to help him is only an other inside exposure of the queer ness in tile family. When "Bat" was in his prime he brought on his father !"-^, ew York to take part in his popu larity AH he ever said was: "Hey, dad. how old do you feel now?" \\ hereupon dad would chuckle some thing in t-candanavian and every one felt called upon to laugh with him, H\ OU J nobody knew what he said. • U r ! 'nvest all my thousands," the Battler used to say. "And he is safe as a church." You can never tell an umbrella by the Cover. „bj r; If 1 should dream of President wuson to-night, and wish to tell a rriend about it to-morrow, should 1 ?a> lu dreamed," or "I dreamt." Which is the better English?. „ JIM. Do not believe, Jim, you ever dreamt. Because, Jim, things ure not always whnt they seamti tor Instance, now, you might think steam Is steamed | And If a gleam hits you, old bar you're gleiimt. According to present indications the game between the Heading High School eleven and George Cockill's Steeltonians scheduled to be played in Steelton Saturday afternoon wi'll be postponed. The ban is on football In both towns and the .Steelton outfit is in no shape to battle with an op ponent owing to sickness and lack of practice. Although the game has not been canceled at this time it is quite likely that it will be within the next several days. John Aitken. one of the best auto mobile race drivers in America, died yesterday at Indianapolis, Ind., of pneumonia, following an attack of In fluenza. He had raced in all sections of the country and, had participated in most of the big automobile speed contests since that sport became popular. He was 33 years old. Easton beat the state yesterday, when W. H. Markley, a bottler by trade, shot a 190-pound buck deer which had four prongs, along the Delaware river. STEELTON| MAHHIAGF. ANSOI'XCED Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Stevenson, 213 North Second street, announced to-day the marriage of their daugh ter, Maggie M. Stevenson, to Charles A. Robinson, gornierly of Harris burg, but who is now at Camp Grant, Rockfbrd. Illinois. They were married at Roc Word, the ceremony being performed October 3, by the Rev. Payton Lewis. They were ac companied by Dr. and Mrs. Grant, of Rockford. Mrs. Robinson is spending some time in Chicago. Mrs. George J. Poles, her sister, who, with her hus band, wag visiting relatives in Chi cago, has returned to her home in Steelton. DOGWOOD TROOP TO | MIKE TO 'MOUNTAINS Dogwood Troop Girl Scouts. In charge of Lieutenant Almeda Her man, will leave to-morrow at 10.30 on, the Marysville car for a nutting party and hike in the mountains back of Marysville. Members of this troop have been hard workers on the pres ent Liberty Loan campaign. Y. M. C. A. to Send More Secretaries Abroad to 'Work in Hostess Houses More secretaries will be sent abroad for the new hostess houses which are to be established by the Young Women's Christian Associa tion at two additional ports in France, and in all the Interior cities where there are nurses, signal corps women. Red Cross workers, or mem bers of the Y. W. C. A. The first attribute for this work is a knowledge of business methods, and the ability to speak French is a decided asset. There are now 111 secretaries in France for the Y. W. C. A. who have charge of the Foyer dos Allies, sis the clubhouse for French girls working in munition plants are known; of the nurses huts connected with the base hospitals; the centers for American women, hostess houses and the houses for girls of the American signal corps. One of the most interesting houses to be used as rest and vacation places by the Y. W. C. A. secretar ies, has been loaned by Madame Francois Millet, widow of the cele brated painter. She has given a charming peasant cottage at Barbi zon, France, to the Blue Triangle workers for the next eight months. The house Is situated on the edge of the Fontainbleu forest, and the without destroying the quaint loveli ness of the place. The Y. W. C. A. also takes over a Jolly little island in the Lalre River and established tennis courts, a basketball field, a baseball diamond, a tea garden and everything else that means recrea tion for a healthy-minded girl. This has been called the Recreation Park, and five have now been established. A nurses hut, which lands at the hospital in sections and looks more or less like an embryonie pup-tent, may not promise much to the casual observer; but after "a Blue Triangle secretary has bossed the location of windows—the only thing about these huts which Is optional hung chintz and generally messed around in a feminine way, tfce result is a When the statistics on pinch hit ters who delivered are compiled and issued, "Jack" Graney," of the Cleve land Indians, probably will be found leading the lfst, for the Canadian had wonderful luck In his efforts as an emergency batsman. In the first eighteen times Be Fohl called upon him to bat for a team mate, he walked three times and de livered a sacrifice fly on another oc casion, leaving him fourteen actual times at bat. In those fourteen times he made seven hits, an average of .500, his most pretentious effort being on July 3. when he tripled off Rogers, of St. Bouls, driving in the tying and winning runs. His sacrifle was made off Cicotte and drove in the winning run on the afternoon of Memorial Cay. A few days later he made a pinch single off Joe Bush and drove in the tying run. Cleveland eventually winning in extra innings. The next day he drew a pass from Molyneaux, of the Bed Sox, that forced a run across the plate. James (."Skip") McCarthy, one of the best gridiron and baseball per formers Fordham ever has had, died of influenza at Poughkeepsie, where for several years he has been the sporting editor of one of the daily newspapers. Frank Haggerty, former coach of De Paul University eleven and now assistant to Dr. J. B. Kaufman, ath letic director at Great Bakes, has re ceived a patent for a football signal device that he says will do much to make the game enjoyable. Haggerty's device consists of a rod upon which is displayed a placard informing the spectators and the players of the downs and the distance to be gained. The device follows the play and is al ways opposite the scrimmage line. University of Pittsburgh authori ties are confident that the schedule as mapped out will be carried through and plans are being laid accordingly. It was feared that the hole made in the Penn State's team by the calling of men for military service might wreck the team from that institution, but the athletic authorities say the Center county College will have a team, so that the Thanksgiving Day game at Forbes Field is practically assured. Warner put his men through a light drill yesterday afternoon. Most of the men are on edge and It will take careful nursing to keep them right until the first game Is played. jolly hangout whose popularity is undeniable. The Y. W. C. A. over the door is like "welcome" on the mat, and, aside from the entertain ments given at the hut, there are in formal and ever-ready gatherings where tiredout nurses get a cup of tea and ten minutes' relaxation be fore resuming duty. There are now sixteen such units in France. Grumbling Women Like Grumblers in Army, T. R. Says New York. "I put only one class of people on an equality of service! and sacrifice with out fighting men at the front, and those are the moth ers and wives who have sent those men over gladly and valiantly." With these words Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt paid his respects to the women of America in an address in Temple Emanu-El before the New York Section of the Council of Jew ish Women at their first meeting of the season. Colonel Roosevelt was brought to the meeting by Oscar Straus and presented to the women by Mrs. William D. Sporborg, presi dent of the New York section. "I respect the woman who sends her man to battle and keeps her head right," went on the Colonel, "Just as I respect the good soldier. But if she whines I put her in the class with the miserable creature who didn't xa'.se her boy to be a soldier, and in the class with the grumbling soldier, and I'd have no mercy on either of them." Colonel Roosevelt exempted moth ers with young children from war service at home, but asked that every other woman in the United States let not one day pass by without per forming some service to help the men at the front. "Young mothers have their hands full," explained the Colonel, "but Kvery other woman ought to practice self-sacrifice, to the very limit. I don't usually preach that doctrine, but in these days we ought to be ashamed to have two meals a day if we know that one wife, one mother of any one American soldier is hav ing only one. It would be a shame if we allowed a single soul loved by a soldier suffer while he's fighting for us. And women can, best of any, take care of the families back here." 'Out of the,crucible of war Ameri can soldiers will come back Just as Americans without any dividing line of creed. Colonel Roosevelt told the women. "Catholics, Protestants and Jews are fighting shoulder to shoulder in France," he said. "And over here we are learning the same lesson, that we are all Americans and nothing else." The women are urged by Mrs. Alex ander Kohut, honorary president of the organization, to accept as their own personal slogan "unconditional surrender." "I mean unconditional surrender of ourselves to sacrifice and devotion In order to win the war," she said. "Let there be not one slacker among the women of Israel. Let us now rededi cate our council to go from strength to strength and from duty to duty i until peace comes to us all." .OCTORER 17. 1918. YANKEES OCCUPY GRAND PRE; RAIN FALLSON FIELD Place Taken but Small Vil lage, but of Great Strate gic Importance • By Associated Press With American Army Northwest of Vcrflun, Oct. 17.—The American troops to-day occupied the town of Grand Pre on the north bank of the Aire river, north of the Argonne forest. Since early last night rain lias fallen over the entire field of combat, converting roads and trenches into muddy canals. Aviation was impossible yester day and the artillery fire was direct ed entirely by maps, except in rare instances when direct fire was used. ' Grand Pre is only a village and its normal population is less than 1,500, but the place is of great [strategic importance. It is the junc tion of the railways feeding a great ipart of the German army and lies at the foot of the valley extending northward, at the entrance of which the Germans have fought so stub bornly. ; After their long struggle for mas tery in the Argonne woods the I Americans sent several companies of infantry over the Aire river, which cuts across the northern end of the wood south of Grand Pre. and un der covter of heavy artillery fire moved, almost without stopping, along the eastern flank of the posi tion and into the town. On the western side the French had advanced along the roads, mak ing possible a junction of the Amer ican first army and the French fourth army. There has been comparatively lit tle fighting on the remainder of the American front, although some pro gress has been made to the east of thie Meuse. The German position along the American center was sub jected throughout yesterday to a steady harassing artillery fire, sup plemented by gas, but except for the capture of La Musarie farm and minor movements of infantry was not called into action. &—& MRS. ELIZABETH JEFFRIES Mrs. Elizabeth Jeffries died yes terday at 2.2 6 A. M. at her home, [519 Woodbine street from pneumo nia. She was aged 79 years. This death is the second in the home in a week, her son, Arthur E. Jeffries, dying from pneumonia last Thurs day. Mrs. Jeffries is survived by four sons, John, Christopher, Clarence and George Jeffries. Twenty grand children and two great-grandchil dren also survive. The Rev. J. H. Mortimer, pastor of the Camp Cur tin Memorial Methodist Church will officiate at funeral services which will be held at C. H. Mauk's funeral chapel at 10 o'clock Saturday morn ing. Burial will be in the East Harrisburg Cemetery. Active in church and religious work fof many Mrs. Jeffrierf was widely known. She had a large number cf friends and was widely acquainted here. GEORGE L. SMITH Funeral services for George Lester Smith, who died Saturday afternoon, were held at his home near Progress at 2 P. M. yesterday. He died last Saturday from acute pneumonia. Surviving him are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Smith, three sis ters and one brother, Mrs. Cloyd R. Knupp, of Progress; Mrs. Emma R. Feeser. Miss Anna G. Smith and D. Ober Smith, all at home. Play Safe — Stick to KING OSCAR CIGARS because the quality is as good as ever it was. They will please and satisfy you. 7 c—worth it JOHN C. HERMAN & CO. Makers 9 300 WANTED TO BUY $lOO BONDS Trust Company Will Loan Money to All Who Wish to Pay by Intalments Knoln. Pa., Oct. 17. - The commit tee in charge of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign is making a thorough . canvass of the district to secure the balance of their quota, as follows: Knola School District, $71,500; Sum merdale, 15,050; Lanti, $5,100;, a total of $82,650, of which $15,00 has been subscribed to date, leaving a short age of $37,650. The committee will endeavor to secure in the next few days 300 persons who are willing to mortgage their future earnings that they may each take a $lOO bond. Robert L. Myers, president of the Lemoyne Trust Company, will assist any of the citizens who wish to sub scribe and he will allow them one year in which to pay for the bonds at Ik Per cent. Interest. Punish Every Guilty Hun, British Prosecutor Says London, Oct. 17.—Sir Frederick Smith, Attorney General, in the pre face to a new edition of his book on international law, says the future of civilization requires that the au thority of public law must be re asserted with a punishment so memorable, because so dreadful, of fenses will not be repeated. "For the correction of specific in famies," he adds, "international law does not exclude the castigation of guilty . individuals, howgver .highly placed. Material injuries may be made good by the payment of a pecuniary indemnity. The doctrines of international law afford abundant warrant and precedent." Senator Smoot Wants Tax on Retail Sales Washington, Oct. 17.—Consideration by paragraphs of the House draft of the war revenue bill was completed yesterday by the Senate Finance Com ' mittee and discussion of sections temporarily passed over, including surtaxes, excess profits and war taxes was begun. Senator Smoot, of Utah, Republican, to-day gave notice that he would propose a retail sales tax amendment, levying an impost of one cent on each purchase of a dollar or fraction there of above twenty cents. The tax, which would be paid by the pur chaser., would yield $1,250,000,000, Senator Smoot estimated. tri AIARLEY 21* IN. DEVON 21* IN. ARROW COLLARS CIUBTT. PCABOPV fc CO.. INC. MAKtM
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