ESS WILLARD WILL FIGHT DEMPSEY ANYWHERE, HE SAYS; ROUGH HOUSE BASKETBALL rists Fly When Pitcairn Roughs Up Independents The Motive Power management j ght hook some likely talent for j King from the Pitcairn basketball j Lm which was ruffled by the husky I ves of Gordon Ford at Chestnut -oet on Saturday night, 37-44. , mebody must have rapped that j rrisburg is a treat 'em rough city, j ■ the visitors were armed with left oks, straight jabs, upper-cuts and j 'ot blows. According to a blood- j rsty and accurate war correspon- j it who saw the crime close up: j 'During the hottest part of the ; ,y Gentllle took a side swipe at ink Oerdes, who promptly pasted i ruffian a gentle tap in the region j the boeier—whatever part of the | atomy that may be. Fists flew j i right Dempsey Anywhere Declares Jess Willard Thlcngo, Feb. — Jess Wlllard, i implon heavyweight, who is .tched to fight Jack Dempsoy for s title on July 4 next, was here lay to meet Tex Rickard. promoter the contest, who was expected to •ive from New Tork during the iVillard said he had no idea where s first would take place, but that would even be willing to go to Uth America if necessary to And suitable battle ground. elf are Workers to Draft Bill For the Legislature Ktermined topush their legisla e program at once. Social Welfare irkers of the state in closing ses iis of their conference here Satur r afternoon appointed thr. Louis N. Robinson. Philadel a; N. R Black, Pittsburgh; lven h 1.. M. Pray. Philadelphia; Mrs. lie V. Middleton. liarrisburg; the v. M. .1. lAllon, Philadelphia; lrlea P. Kelly, Erie; Mrs. Charles ig, Wilkes-Barre; Arthur Pepper n. Willaimsport; Mrs. M. K. Sharp, tmbersburg. yK Trucks Continuous Service ; and Long Run Economy Let Fs Give You Full Details;:; The Over-land Harrisbnrg Co | 212-211 North Second Streets Int. !,Ka ,RU -i ie . ' 'w. .i'lJtik: n,O ANOTHER I library on Sale Watch One Ad. Every Monday! We are offering this week the 1 brary of a prominent man of lis city who tiled recently, cou nting of nearly 500 good books, a many subjects, in line eondl on, at 10c up. There also remain some very; lioice bottles from the library of. t'V. Curtis, deceased, late pas ir of Westminster Presbyterian liurch, at low prices. Add good books to your library t small cost. Mnny other hooka at low prices, iail orders fclled. Over ittl.OOO books In stoek on ai lost every subject nt 5c up. A lot of rholec SI to 51.50 latest etion at 25c, 5 for SI. Open evenings. Books bought. Bell phone 357-J,. Call ua up. MAGAZINES WANTED Wo ly cash for most of the current lagaziucs. Kong them here rtcr you read fnem. Lurand's Book Store 925 N. Third St. The Peace Time Quality of King Oscar Cigars will be remembered long after the price, which conditions compel us to- charge, has been forgotten. 7c— worth it- John C. Herman & Co. Makers § MONDAY EVENING.' freely between the two and for a time it looked as though the whole game might break up In an uproar, but Referee Clint White came to the rescue and sent both fistic contest ants hurrying to the showers." Referee Clint White was as pop ular with the visitors as R skunk at a picnic and the spokesman for Tlt calrn ijolshevikicd the whole game, protesting everything. "Horse" Hag gerty said little, but every, now and then reached up and directefl the ball to its rtest. "It was a very good game to watch," declared the bulk of spectators, so if the they were pleas ed why be peeved. Harry Rote, the big "Hoss" rfnd "Ike" McCord put up a savage game and Graff was the dynamo for battling Pitcairns. ! Wiliard's assurance woke up Chi cago sporstdom as it has not been shaken for some time. Not a few here expressed the opinion that Wil | lard would never keep his engage ment thrft he was afraid of the giant Dempsey. who is only twenty-three years old. But his frank statement this morning is taken in all sincer ity, and the reckoning is that Wtl ' lard feels he can get into condition; that his reach will help him hold off the titter and lastly the $lOO,OOO looks I good. Home Run in Ninth With the Bases Full A home run with the bases full and two out in the last half of the ninth and . the score 3-0 against the homo team is a very rare oc currence. This very play was pulled on the Pirates some years ago at Hnutlpgton, W, V., dur ing an exhibition game. A heavy ruin had soaked the playing field, making it necessary to spread a lot of sawdust on the diamond, es pecially around tlrst base. There were no base lines, and when tho last batter hit one down the first base line, ten feet foul, it stuck iu the sawdust about fifteen feet back of first base. Hans Wagner was playing the initial bag.' and made no attempt to retrieve the ball, but waited for a new one to bo thrown out. The bases were crowded when the ball was hit, and Mr. Home Umpire waited till everybody had scored, and then hollered "Fair ball," immediately beating a hasty retreat. The crowd was on its way home be fore the Pirates knew what had happened. On another occasion Walter Johnson, the Washington etar pitcher, stood dazed In the middle of the diamond while three runs trickled across the plate in the last half of the ninth. He was pitching an exhibition game at Kansas City, in the fall of 1917, against an all-star outfit, for whom Grover Cleveland Alexan der was hurling. Johnson's side was leading 3-0 when the ninth inning opened. The National All- Stars scored a' ruu, and had two men on base when Rogers Horns by came to bat. He got hold of one of Johnson's "hooks" and it went on a line over Beals Beck er's head in center field. The ball took two hops and then disap peared in a hole in the scare board. That ball not only traveled like a rabbit when it was hit, but also looked like one when it went .straight for that little hole in the score board. Lutheran Churches Open Drive For Peace Fund j Lutheran churches of Harrl9burgr ; and Pennsylvania yesterday opened a campaign in harmony national ; drive for $500,000 to be used for re • construeti work in Europe. The ■ drive will continue until February The Rev. J. Bradley Markward, pas tor of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Hurrlsburg, has been named as the director of the campaign for the llarrisburg conference. The Rev. S. Winfleld Herman, pastor of the Zlon Lutheran Churcn, llarrisburg, is the state director. The money will be used for the "democratization of the Lutheran churches In Europe along the lines suggested by President \Voodrow || Wilson." It. is planned to do recon ii struction work overseas. SNOODLES By Hungerford HURTS. BUT Poser ftoPPY-uM- \]TCSTrt? „ " (fteWSS W kMOwS HOW To SroP *TjE!i-UiM_M- *TOYH£R_ END J&j( J '/// . Fatal Week Confronts Tech and Other Teams in Race For Title CENTRAL PEXX STANDING . W. L. Pet Reading 5 0 1.000 Lebanon 4 1 .800 Tech 2 1 -.667 Allentown 2 4 .333 Steelton 1 4 .200 York 1 , 6 .16" Sehotiulo for the Week Friday night, York at Tech. Alientown at Steelton. Reading at Lebanon. The most* important week in the| schedule of the.Central Pennsylvania basketball league for this year faces the six teams of the circuit. Each of; the competitors will bo in action. Reading has a chance to clinch the I pennant by winning from Lebanon j at Lebanon. If the Berks county ladsi can do this trick they will finish half I a game ahead of Tech. Should Leb-, anon win it will mean that the! chances are that Reading and Techj will end the season In a tie with ten | games won and two lost. Three teams seem to have the edge | on the other three competitors and' while the weakest team in the league j AROUND THE BASES Carlisle will have a chance to night to ogle the proportions and | architecture of our premier boxer, i Sammy Schiff, who will be the at j traction do luxe at a show for the I benefit of wounded soldiers. We ! must hand it to Sammy for his be j nevolenee in responding to charity j when called. We wager those wound i ed soldiers will get an eyefull of (lively boxing which will make them ( forget their sufferings. Sammy trotted over twenty miles yesterday, | keeping in trim for his appearance i at the Motive Power show on Fri | day negt, the show that promises i to be the fastest yet staged by Man ager Runk, Baseball will be one outlet this year for. the repressed spirits for merly feeding on "booze." Nearly every college is going in for it head over heels. See Harvard's long sched ule: April 9, Bowdoin at Cam bridge; 12, Bate at Cambridge: 16. Springfield Y. M. C. A., College at Cambridge; 19, Penn at Cambridge (tentative); 21, Boston Brades at Braves Field (tentative); 23, Colby at Cambridge; 26, Vermont at Cam bridge; May 1, Maine at Cambridge; 3, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 7, Holy Cross at Cambridge; SO, Dartmouth at Cambridge; 14, "Wil liams at Cambridge: 17, Princeton place undecided); 21, Amherst at Cambridge; 24, Princeton (place un decided); 30, Brown at Providence; 31, Brown at Cambridge: June 4, open; 7, Holy Cross at Worcester; 10, Boston College at Newton (in case of no third game with Prince ton); 11, Princeton in New York in case of tie; 14, Boston College at Cambridge: 17, Yale at New Haven: 18, Yale at Cambrlge; 21, Yale at New York (in case of tie). TARSUS WINS TOUGH ONE Tho score at Hummelstown Sat | urday night was 45-0 with Meek iyid Cobuugh wearing the spangles. Hershey Big Five loaned some of her stars to Hummelstown and Bur ridge was conspicuous. Scoy: Tarsus. Hummelstown. Meek, f. Bordner, f. Cobaugh, f. Burridge, f. Lyter, c. Shope, c. Fetrow, g. Zimmerman, g. Holahan, g. Dressier, g. goals, Meek, 9; Cobaugh, 6; ' I,yter, 1; Fetrow, "• 2; Holahan, 1; j Bordner, 4; Burridge, 6; Shope, 1; Zimmerman, 1. Fouls, Meek, 5; Holahan, Bordner, 6; Burridge, 2. Referee, Shank. ARMY OF UMPIRES President John D. Martin, of the Southern League, says the first sur ! prise that has come to him in con nection with his office is that so . many men want be umpires. Half j his mail, he says, consists of appli- I cations for such jobs, and among ! those he mentions .as filing applica -1 tions are Jesse Tannehill, Ollle : Pickering. Paul Sentall. Augie Mor : gan, Joseph Becker, Perry Upe'and J. H. Sehaeffer. Detroit, Feb. 17^—Oscar Stanage, veteran catcher, with the Detroit Americans, is in line for tho 1919 I season," having affixed his signature ; to a contract. Stanage will embark . upon his eleventh season with the j Tigers. He became a member of the club in 1908 when purchased from the Newark club of the old ! Eastern League. I London, Feb. 17.—Joe Lynch, an American boxer, who recently fought Jimmy Wilde, the British champion, in the inter-allied boxing tourna j ment in London, and Crlqul, the • French bantamweight champion, are soon to meet in a 15-round bout | before the National Sporting Club of France. Articles were signed to day for a bout between the two men. The contest will take place February 28 for a purse of 88,500, Princeton, N. J., Feb. 17. The Princeton foothall team will play seven games this season according to the schedule announced Saturday night. William Roper succeeds "Speedy" Rush as head coach 'and .■he will be assisted* by Kecne Fitz {Patrick. The schedule follows: . . October 4, Trinity; 11, Lafayette; I 18, Fordham; 25, Colgate; Novem HXRRISBURG TELEGRXPH may spring an unexpected surprise, it looks as though none of the three lower berth aggregations can hope to land a final victory. Lebanon was undoubtedly eliminated by losing to Allentown at that place by a close score. Heading won both of its gaptes easily from the Lehigh coitntiuns. Should Lebanon win this week a.t home from Reading, the latter team would possibly lose but one game and that with Tech on the Chestnut street tloor. But local fans aro pull ing hard for a Lebanon victory if it is by a single point, the same as when Tech was at Lebanon several weeks ago. Ending the season In a tie is not a new thing for the league. In two of the three previous seasons there was a tie, anl an extra series of contests was necessary. One game on each of the floors and a neutral floor for the deciding game is the rule. Should Reading win this week the only chance to give Teph the pennant would be to beat Reading on their own floor. It is not any more likely that Tech can win at Reading than the Reading team wins at Tech. Here's hoping for a Lebanon victory Friday night. ber 1, West Virginia; 8, Harvard; 15, Tale. All the games will be played on the Princeton field except that with Yale, which will be ployed at New | Haven. Daytona, Fla., Feb. IT.— Ralph Da Palma, driving a specially con structed automobile equipped with a twin six engine, to-day broke every flying start world's record for dis tances up to twenty miles except the kilometer and the one mile dis tance, which he established last Wednesday, according to announce ment by Richard Kennerdell, chalr j man of the contest board of the American Automobfle Association, who made publih ahe official records of the events. The recognized distances and times established by De Palma to day as announced by Mr. Kenner dell follow: Two miles, 49.54 seconds; three miles. 1.1.04; four miles, 1.39.77; five miles. 2,4.58; ten miles, 4.9.30; twenty miles, 9.21.40. Sunday School League Has Lively Week, With St. Mary's Leading The Sunday School Basketball League expects a busy week, begin ning with tonight and on a new deal, as it were. Hlck-a-Thrift's man ager called up to say that President Lutz* had declared "there was no protest" In the altercation of last week jtwixt Hfck-a-Thrlft and Tar sus, so the game went to the former. Tarsus stands mid-way in the rec ords. with a chance to crawl up, but St Mary's Catholic bunch seems to have a tight grip on first place. The 1 Hlckies, who are crowding the lead i ers, meet Covenant tonight and may step another rung. Market meets Tarsus on St Paul's floor, and the Methodist tackle the leaders on their own scrapping patch. The clubs rank as follows; W. L. PC St Mary's 5 0 1.000 Hick-a Thrift -5 1 .833 Salem 5 3 .571 Tarsus 3 3 .500 Covenant 2 3 .400 Methodist 1 4 ,200 Market Square 0 5 .000 Juniata College Loses to Penn State The Juniata College basketball team under leadership of Captain Gtrifflth, although handicapped In having one of its members out of the game on account of sickness, met State College in the local gymnasium Saturday evening. The State team was considerably heavier than Juni ata's and found It very easy to run the score up to 33 In the first half, Juniata having only 7. Juniata braced in the second half and easily superior to State in every phase of the play. In this haf State was able to score only 13 while Juni ata secured 5 goals and shot 9 fouls. Wolfe for the visitors, did phenoni inal work, securing no less than ten goals. Juniata's next game will be with Lafayette College on February 19, in the college gymnasium In Huntingdon. The lineup: JUNIATA STATE Livengood, f. Mullin, t. Wright, f. Litts. f. Oiler, c. Wolfe, o. (Gump) Griffith, g. Killinger, g. Butts, g. Wilson, g. State, goals, Mullin, 5; Litts, 2; Wolfe. 10; Killinger. 3; fouls, Wolfe, 5; Killinger, 1. Juniata, goals, IJv engood. 4; Wright, 2: fouls. Liven good, 14." Referee, Neff; scorer, Flory. MAY SOON REDUCE ARMY FAY Washington.—Pay of enlisted men In the Army would be reduced te $l5 a month after July 1 as the re sult of the elimination In the House on a point of order of the provision in the annual Army appropriation bill continuing the present salary of $3O a month. TYPOS OF "TELE" BOWL AT THE ACADEMY FLOOR The sporting bowlers of the Tele graph composing room, hooked up Saturday night at the Academy al leys, with the result that the slaves of the sun put It over on the moon light toilers, whose eyes are trained under electric light. How they bumped: PAY TEAM Kelly .... 99 no 110 — 319 Henderson .. SI 90 78—■ 249 M. Fry 92 97 139 328 Handiboe .. 108 S3 -95 286 lx>sh 84 97 ... — 181 Richards .. 93 93 h01 — 287 P- Fry 97 120 114— 331 B. Clouser 13.0 95 ... — 225 Totals . . . 754 785 637—2206 NIGHT TEAM Gill 106 80 88 —• 274 Shuler 86 137 ... — 223 Johnson . 92 87 ... 179 Dougherty . 112 84 115—311 W. Clouser . 133 68 104— 305 Smith 92 123 91- 306 Wort 85 6S 70— 223 Sohmer .... 88 * 76 162—316 Totals .. . 794 723 620—2137 CRXTR 41. IROX H KTIIK VCHFS With 300 men laid off from all de partments of the plant, the Central Iron and Steel company began ttie retrenchment policy, late Saturdav, which Is necessary, officials say. to keep the working force commensur ate with the reduced volume of busi ness. Other reductions in the work ing force can be expected in the future, it was said Jmm gig K . fiijfl Bk; 1 HM Bi Off to the theatre On the way, light a Lucky Strike, the real Burley cigarette. It's toasted. Toasting develops and improves the flavor of Burley iVy/1 tobacco, just as toasting gives bread more flavor. Mm / LUCKY STRIKE one knows that toasted improvement in cigarette /Mr - manufacture in 20 years. . It's" toasted gA /# / How Kid Gleason Pried Big Salary From the Orioles AH eyes in basehall are upon old Kid Oleason, who at advanced age and with gray hair, Is managing the White Sox this year. It has has been told how he governs the hirelings with a razor strop to get them out of the hay oarly of a morning and how he is a martinet in training. But how the Kid compelled the man agers to give him a higher salary j than most any other player Is not so well known. Oscar C. Relchow, in a Chicago paper, gives a good idea of how Oleason operated in the days of Baltimore when he played with McClraw, Kglley, Kcoler, Jennings, et ul. Says he: "In those days $2,000 was big pay. Now that is only a fair minor league salary. Most of the players In the class AA leagues get more than that, and many aro paid moro in lower clussiflcations. Years ago, when Oleason was an aggressive, skillful player, the total salary list of a club would not exceed $30,000, a"nd that was considered exorbitant. In the present days of the game a club owner is fortunate if he can sign one-third of his men for that amount. "Gleason's salary with the Balti more club was $2,000, and according to veteran baseball men he was ' FEBRUARY 17, 1919. worth every cent of it and more.. In i 1894 the Baltimoro team won the , championship of the National League with a percentage of .695, and Olea son was one of the star pitchers, i along with Hake, Esper and Mc- Mahon. Not only did the new leader of the White Sox shine as a liurlcr, but he likewise shono as a hitter and base runner. Because of. hip natural ability to play ball ho was converted Into an inflelder the next year and t played second base for the Orioles. The club won the pennant a second time that year. "While Gleason was with that fa i moils Baltimoro machine, only two . players received moro .pay than lie did. They ifcere Robinson and Mc- Mfthon, whose contracts called for $2,100. The other $2,000 players were , Brouthers, McOraw and Jennings, , who were stars at their stations and later developed into two of the great - ' est managers in the game, were'paid only $1,500, while Kelly got $1,650 and Keelcr $1,600. Hamming's con tract called for $l,BOO, as did Espcr's. "After he deserted pitching to play second base, Oleason wus fearless at that post. In the days when he was in his prime, base runners thought nothing of going into the bag with spikes several feet off the ground. A player was not regarded a clever basc-steuler unless he slid that way and attempted to scare the second baseman away from the bag. sTo see two or three men cut in a game was a common occurrence. The players who were spiked did not quit the game, ns they do nowadays, but remained and fought their battles with tho men who were responsible for their Injuries. "Gleason was a victim when he first begun to pluy the keystone bag. but after he learned the art of get ting runners as they came In be was a terror. Few of the high base sliders dared to pursue their wstem. He Invited them to come In high and when they did tho dust flew around the sack and Gleason was always tho lirHt to come up. Often he was marked a little, hut the runner who attempted to drive him away from the hug usually got the worst of It. He developed Into one of tho most fearless lntielders In the game, and after that reputation was thoroughly established few base runners took any chance of striving to scare him away from tho bag. "In later years Gleason played with the Phillies and was instrumen tal in making a scrappy second base man out of Otto Knabe, coach of the Cub team. Knube absorbed all of the 'Kid's' lighting tactics and always fought and rode the jilayers who attempted to make the middle cush ion with thels spikes glittering In the sunlight. .Gleason taught him a lot of baseball and they are now Insep arable friends." OUR NEW GARAGE AND MACHINE SHOP Is New Open For ■matnesa M. J. AUNGST Front Street, Eiilut, fa 11