TAFT WILL PROBABLY BE CZAR OF BASEBALL; TECH SCORES 100 POINTS AGAINST FOE "Achilles" Team of Boyd Memorial Leads All Others in the Basketball League If the Achilles team of the Boyd Memorial basketball league has a vulnerable spot, the other tlve teams have not as yet been able to find it. Playing true to their name, these_ five lads hold Jhe league leadership' with two victories and no defeats. The Spartans and Gladiators also have a clean sheet with one victory and no defeat. At Saturday night's contests there was a large crowd of spectators to see the two struggles, "the boys are "> anxious for basketball patrons to at tend the games and help to "pepper them up." No admission is charged, and contests are played Wednesday and Saturday nights. Sanding of the Clubs W. L. Achilles 2 0 Spartans 1 0 Gladiators I 0 Trojans .. 0 1 A polios .. 0 1 Hercules 0* 2 Schedule I'or This Week Wednesday Nov. 2"—Trojans vs. Spartans; Gladiators vs. Apollos. Saturday, Nov. 30 —Achilles vs. Gladiators; Tropans vs. Apollos. The Achilles defeated the Hercules Saturday night by the score.of 2(5 to 5. The passing of the Achilles and the sensational shots by Weidman, the captain of Achilles, were the fea- j tures of the game. Black ijnd Web ster played best ftfr the losers. Score follows; ACHILLES F.G. Pis. T.P. I Blizzard, F 2 "0 4 We.vant, F 0 0 f 0! "Toughest Proposition We Ever K Went Against" Said Tech Victim History repeated itself over on the Island Saturday afternoon when Tech maltreated the Williamson Trade School, sending them back to Philadelphia with a score of 100 to 3 against the. Quaker City dads. Tech would probably have been a little more merciful and have shown more "brotherly love" had it not been for the fact that tho visitors scored a goal from field in the second quar ter, the first score against Tech this season, and then the Maroon players settled down to run a score. It was the largest score of the season, and the second largest in the history of Tech athletics. In the first ten minutes of play, Tech had rolled up 40 points and the quarter ended. Tech's eleven players saw that it was something soft, and the entire team became reckless. Williamson was forced to kick, after plunging through tho line for their llrst down of the game. Fays sent the oval out of hounds on Tech 40-yard line. There was some rough work on the part of Tech players and Referee penalized the local team 15 yards. Then the Tech center uncork ed a bad pass that rolled to Tech j six-yard line, where it was recover ed by a Williamson player. The vis itors tried threo times to penetrate the Maroon line, but lost ten yards. Then Quarterback pulled a real surprise when he sent a drop kick between the uprights for three points. It was a stinging blow to the Tech players. That is how the only three points of the season were scored on Tech. It was carelessness, pure and simple. 1 A REMARKABLE RECORD , Five times this reason Carl Beck i has taken the pigskin on the pass | from cchter, on the vej-y first play i after the kickoff and has run the ; length of the field for touchdowns. ! Beck started this feat down at Leb- j anon and lead Coach Charlie Kelch- | ner to remark, in his own inimitable j way, "One would think it 'chust' j couldn't be." But if Scout Kelch- j ner lived in the Capital City he ] would become accustomed to seeing > the trick pulled. These rims have been through the ; entire opposing teams for distances ranging from fifty to eighty yards. : Following the kickoff at Lebanon, j Tech went to Tome 1 Institute and! "fieckie" did the same thing. Then j the team traveled toward Middle-1 town and the Aviators "went up in i the air" when Beck pulled his fa- j mous stunt. Against Bellefonte Acad emy 'and Williamson Trade school,'! over on the island, it was the same I old story. If history repeats itself, ' Beck will pull'thq trick over on the j island Saturday afternoon and saw j that is what Maroon rooters are looking for. But George Cockill was on the | island Satprday afternoon and saw ! the trick done, so that Steelton will ' be on the lookout for the blonde ath lete the first time Tech has posses- j sioh of the pigskin. Such a re- I markable record has never been j' matched in the history of Harris burg football, and it is doubtful if I AROUND THE BASES Hallelujah! Let's all crow Bill Taft'* sure to make things go •Innj with bickering, baseball scrap) !Vntlonal game's hack on the map! He Is a little late. "Ban B. Johnson, president of the American League, arrived here In New York last night. His visit to New York Is said to be connected with a conference that is to be held looking to the reorgan ization of baseball." New York, Nov. 25.—Richard F. Remer, of the New York Athletic ' Club, established two American walk ing records here to-day iu the United War Work eight-mile handicap walk ing race. Remer covered eight miles in 1 hour, 1 minute and 34 seconds, lowering the previous record by 34 H seconds. He then lowered the one hour record by 119 yards, covering seven miles and 1,437 feet. The following would be a good notion to adopt in Harrisburg where | five or six persons drown every sum mer: "Phlladelphlans are to be MONDAY EVENING/ Weiflman, C. (Capt.) . 9 2 20 J. Snyder, G 1 0 2 Carl, G 0 0 0 Total 12 2 26 HERCULES F.G. Fls. T.P. j Hagar, F 1 1 3y j McLaughlin, *F. ... t. 1 0 2 Ed. Webster C. 0 0 0 j J. Black, G 0 0 0 Dunlap, G. ......... 0 0 0 Total 2 1 5 In the second game of the evening the Spartans defeated the Apollos by the score of 39 to 27. This game caused a lot of excitement when sev eral sensational shots were pulled off by members of both teams. German .and Daly played best for the winners, > while Towsen and. B. Snyder did their share for the "losers. SPARTANS F.G. Fls. T.P. Daly, F 6 0 12 German, F 4 0 8 Fenstemacher, C 2 0 4 Dreese, G 4 2 10 Orr, G. 2 1 5 Total 18 3 39 APOLLOS F.G. Fls. T.P. B. Snyder, F. 2 0 4 Bricker, F. (Capt.).. 2 0 4; Hagar, C 2 0 4 j Towsen, G 1 3 s 6 Blizzard, G 5 0 10 Total 12 3 27 Referee, Shorty Miller, Penn State. Scorer nnd timer. Bowman, Teph. Time of hulves." 15 and 20 minutes. Tech's total of 100 was just a suc- I cession of long runs by the quartet 1 of buckfleld players with a forward i pass to the ends or tackles sand | wtcned in between. Roth teams had ' something to be proud of. It was the I tirst defeat that Williamson had In I two years. On the other hand, they I were the only team to make a tally I against Tech. Coming across the I bridge one of the visitors' sighed, j "We hadn't lost a game' for two | years. It was the toughest proposi tion 1 ever ran against." Here is how Tech made it an even 100: • WILLIAMSON TECH | Lower, 1. e. Hoernor, .1. e. I Reed, I. t. Arnold, 1. t. I Howe, 1. 'g. PeifTer, 1. g. I Yocum, c. Blhl, c. I Barsby, r. g. Lauster, r. g, I Baker, r. t. Frank, r. t. j Connor, r. e. Kohlman, r. e. Fraye, q. b. Ebncr, q. b. Bennett, 1, h. b.* Lingle, 1. h. b. Kingsley, r. h. b. Beck, r.' h. b. Byerly, f. b. Wilsbach. f. b. Touchdowns, Beck, 2; Ebner, 5; | Lingle, 3; Hinkle, Frank, Kohlman, I Emanuel, Wilsbach. Goals from ! touchdowns, Hoerner, 6; Ebner, 4. j Goals from 'field, Faye. Substitu- I tions, Williamson, Brett for Bower; Quay for Howe; Wilson for Baker; I Praul for Connor; Richter for Ilen i nett; Connor for Byerly. Tech, I Emanuel for Hoerner; Conner for l Peiffer; Garrett for Bihl; F. Beck for Lauster; Bell for Kohlman; Ma lick for Bell; Hinkle for Wilsbach. Referee. Miller, Lancaster. Umpire, Miller, Ilurrisburg. Quarters, two ten minutes each, two twelve minutes ' each. CARL BECK i the football world has ever seen its I equal. i taught to swim under the auspices of the Red Cross. To assist in the teaching. Commodore W. E. Long fellow has been assigned by the na tional headquarters in Washington to co-operate with Dr. Harry Toulmin, director of the bureau of first aid services of the Pennsylvania-Dela ware Division. * "The object of the work is to make as persons as possible efficient life savers. The promoters of the project say: "The drowning total of the country.is about 7,000 a year, and the saving of 1,000 of these lives In the United States would at the war Insurance valuation mean 11,000,000 saved to the nation." t "Commodore Longfellow Is said to have instructed more than 120,000 persons to swim during the last year, among them'6o.ooo soldiers and sail ors." Gone In dot leedle t'hermon linnd That In the back ynrd nned to ntnnd, W here kainaradn "umpithed," gazing fnr Whence beckoned them the nenrent Mt , . SNOODLES v By Hungerford I I ' *• I ' '• ' \ I SAM HL_ ARC La 'MOFF Feftooß- I You CHOKIN* "THAT TAWILY SO I 7IST L, l(n~ I ) -r.. : , / BIRD up ON SHOT """ r '/ I "Pnfß Z '[L, i ov Le -THANKS .TIV'.M' , —7 v ~4/ " I / I A <sooi> > ' •' # irovv^H^ L_ • . p "" p 1 j Taft Practically Agrees To Be Czar of Baseball i • / WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT In the following statement issued late last night, ex-President \\ . H. Taft, to all intents and purposes, ac cepted the Job of ruling arbiter in organized baseball: 1 "Mr. Hempstead and Mr. Frazee | called on me Saturday to ask if 1 would consider acting as arbitrator between the National and American leagues, in matters involving the le gal construction of contracts between the leagues and their application to transactions between them as they might arise. I said to them that I I did not piactice law as an advocate in courts, but that I bad acted as arbitrator in several cases. "I said that if they would write me a description of the kind of arbitra tion in which they wished me to act and the particular function they I wished me to perform, 1 would con : sider it and advise them. 1 could not act except as a judge of law and fact, or any way take part in management 'of their associations. It must be work j of a strictly legal, professional char acter. I "I said further that I wished to con ! suit my brother, Charles Taft, to be i assured by him that he had parted ; with all interest in baseball proper* ; ties, so that should I become arbltra i tor no question could arise as to my ! impartiality between parties contcnd- I ing before me." i Harry Frazee, president of the Bos- I ton Red Box, who, with Harry N. I Hempstead, of the New . York Giants. | tirst made the proposition to Mr. Taft, said last night: "We have firm hopes he will accept. He is very fond of baseball, in fact, he loves it. and he intimated that if- the American pub- i lie showed any genuine desire for j him to act as a national commission he might be able to see his way clear to accept the offer." Frazee called Mr. Taft's attention j to the fact that the position would | not be arduous, and that it perhaps j would take no more of his time than ! I hours a week, and would in rx> j ' way interfere with his lectures at I 1 ale. While the mode of operating L the National Commission would be , left entirely to Mr. Taft. it would be . suggested to him that he maintain an office in New York, with an office force capable of running the routine business of the National Commission. ] This force could place the important j cases before the former President. It also .was suggested to Mr. Taft I that instead of the presidents of the j National and American leagues being ! members of the commission as hereto- ■ fore, ,they would act as counsel for j their respective leagues and place the viewpoints and claims of their leagues • and club owners before Mr. Taft, The only thing that is lacking, is I the authority by which Hempstead , n Frazee made the offer to Mr. Taft. In a loint statement Issued Inst night. , Hempstead and Frazee say they made . the proposition to Mr. Taft after con- j ference with several club owners of i both leagues. Hempsteady said he had ; conferred with Eastern club owners of j the National League, but did not get an opportunity of seeing those In the j West. -Wonderful Thing For Hnnehnll In discussing this angle Frazee said: : "If we could induce Mr. Taft to accept j this position it would be such a won derful thing for baseball that all club owners, of course, would be only too | pleased to sanction our action. It j would be the greatest thing that ever < hnppened to baseball and would give j the sport a prestige such as It never ' en.loved. It inconceivable that any I one would oppose it." There is no question that Frazee's j remarks on the benefits that Profes- i sor Taft would bring to baseball are j perfectly sound and true: but It would . appear that Fr zee, Hempstead and club owners backing them nre trying ! to swing a baseball coup d'etat that i would force the old National CoOnmls- ! sion out of existence. While Frazee would not be pinned down to a direct answer as to whether President Johnson, of the American HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH League, and any knowledge of the proposition made to Mr. Taft, It is as sumed that the action was taken over Johnson's heud and indicates his tail in ~ powers in baseball. Frazee, it may be remarked,, leads this anti- Johnson faction in the American, League. , The prestige that Mr. Taft would give baseball abroad also was men tioned to the former President by Hempstead and Frazee. They pointed out that baseball alwaVs has follow ed the (lag. and how "the boys" hud Implanted the game in France, Eng land, Italy and Belgium. In fact, at a dinner celebrating the fortieth an ni . rsary of the National League, ex- President Taft, the guest of' honor, spoke of how the American soldiers had carried the game into the Philip pines, and how baseball had replaced head hunting as the national sport of the Moros. 55.V.0,000 LOSS IN OIL FIRE Natchez, Miss,, Nov. 25.—The plant of the Natchez Oil Company, with more than 2,000 tons of cotton seed and a large quantity of cottonseed cake, was destroyed to-day by Are. The loss is estimated at more than $350,000. The origin of the Are has not been determined. BRLGIIM GETS ANOTHER CREDIT Washington. Nov. 23.—The treas ury to-day extended another credit of $5,600,000 to Belgium, making total loans to that country, $198,- 120,00(1 and a total for all the Allies of $8,^*4,576,666. Tech Scrubs Carry on at Carlisle; Keep Up No-Defeat Record Technical High School Reserves were on the rampage Saturday afternoon when they traveled to Carlisle and trimmed the High scliooj team of that place by a 7 to 6 score. It was the toe of Harry Ellinger that brought the one- point victory. In the Arst quarter with thirty- Ave yards to go, "Red" McCord plunged through the Carlisle line for a touchdown. Harry's one- j pointer brought the victory. In the third quarter Carlisle work ed the ball to the five-yard line, from where Wagner scored. The | goal was missed. Victory for the "Scrubs" Sat urday gives them a clean slate for the seasin. They cleaned up ev erything in sight, winning every game. Line-up. Carlisle High Tech 2d Guffer, I.e. Germer, I.e. Gulden,, l.t. Butz, l.t. Duert.v, l.g. H. Ellinger, l.g. Watts, c. Rees, c. Snyder, r.g. EaEton, r.g. Wetzel, r,t. Derrick, r.t. Bobb, r.e. Aldinger, r.e. Shearer, q.b. Springer, q.b. Wagner, l.h.b. McCord, 1-h-b. Weigle, r,hb. D. Ellinger, r.h.b. Fredericks, f.b. Heagy, f.b. Touchdowns—Wagner, McCord. Goals from touchdown —H. El linger. Substitution—For Carlisle- Teitrick for Fredericks. Referee —Watts,"Carlisle. Umpire—Zlnn, Carlisle. Head linesman —Bpeck, Carlisle. Time—lo-minute pe riods. , Turkey Day Tickets For Tech-Steelton Game on Sale at Messersmith's . Tickets for the great Turkey Day football game on the Island" twixt Teeh and Steelton High were put on sale to-day at Harry Messersmith's store in Market street, the only place they may be setured. Tickets bought in advance will have a spe cial advantage in that the buyer may enter by a private gate and thus not wait for the crowd to get through. FRENCH MAY EXTEII VIENNA Paris, Nov. 25.—it was rumored several days ago that French troops, after entering Budapest, would go Into Vienna. No official denial of the rumors has yet been issued. •\• * - % MARSHA 1,1, ANSWERS AIM RODS Question—Do you think a "snap shot" has an advantage over .a "pointers" in trap shooting? NEW BEGINNER. Duluth, Minn. Answer—lf you mean by a "snap shot" one who sjioots at a target be fore his eye lias properly located tiie •lying object or by a "pointer" one who follows his' target until his gun's pattern is bad, both styles of shoot ing are fatal to success. Shoot u target 'ts quickly as is compatible witn accuracy. Don't sacrilioe ac curacy to speed, yet the fractional part of a second devoted to unneces sary pointing means less target rota tion, impaired patterns and more lead, which .means additional guesswork all of which are against success, Shooting in a wind, targets are less liable to cut capers if shot quickly after leaving tile trap.. Deliberation means lead, which spells greater ac curacy. Learn to shoot targets H , rapidly and quickly as is compatible ; NOVEMBER 25, 1918. with accurate pointing, this a success ful combination. Ouestion —Is the game of the coun try disappearing as rapidly as claim ed? If so, what are the reasons? Do you think game can be propagated back to the old times when a man's carrying ability was considered the bag limit?. CLYDE HARTER. Macon, Ga. Answer —An undisputed authority claims that wild game and quadrupeds have decreased 98 per cent, in the past fifty years. While I think this an over estimate, I have no Way of prov ing my assertion. Encroachment of civilization and reclaiming* of wild i lands are the reasons for game disap j pearance. Fins, Feathers and Fur, ! game commission magazine of Minne ■ sota, gives 2,642,194 as the number of | hunting licenses issued in the United i States. There will never be an übund j ance of game in America. A man's seating ability will be the bag limit. Kill and carry days are over. Brazil's Peace Envoys Sail For France Next Month Rio Janeiro, Nov. 25.—The Brazilian delegation to the peace Congress will sail for Europe early in December. It will be under the presidency of Domi cio Da Gama, Minister of Foreign Affairs. PEACE RY END OF FEBRUARY I'nrlN, Nov. 25.—Preliminaries to the peace negotiations will begin early in January, the Echo de Paris declares, and the protocol will be signed about the end of February. The paper adds that Prpmler Clem enceau will go to London December 4. Marshal Foeh's refusal to accede to the protestations of the German dele gates, the Matin says, will apply to ail proposals in the future. 11
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