MAROON RUNNERS AT BALTIMORE; TECH READY FOR READING; BOXING AT ORPHEUM Maroon Runners Invited to -Contest Tonight at Baltimore At the Second Regiment Armory games to be held in Baltimore Satur day night. the Technical High School's relay team wltl run a spec ial invitation one mile race with the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. The Maroon quartet will be composed of "Zip" Mallck, "Red" Foland, Karl Hoffsomme and Captain Beck. Mallck and Beck are juniors; Hoff sommer Is a sophomore, while "Red" Poland is a freshman. The latter lad has been a star of the grammar school meets two years prior to en tering Tech helping to win the meet for the Forney Grammar school. In addition to being a 440 runner, his specialty is topping the hurdles. The invitation was rather unex HELLO, MOTIVE POWER! Hello, yourself, and do not forget, sir. that this hustling Motive Power Athletic Association is the pioneer in revamping boxing in llarrisburg, tnti that we are the lads who fur nish most of the amusement for the West End. Say. we gripped llarris burg by the eurs when we announc ed the program for our next boxing show, which will be held in the hall hall at the corner of Seventh and Boyd streets on the evening of Tuesday, March 25. When it is seen what the bout wo have asking for is. we sit, up. -antniy Schiff, of Harrisburg, and Otto O'Keefe. of Allentown; but. j when we say that Max Williamson, i !>f Philadelphia, will muss things; with that game little battler. Youngi Fulton, of Slatington. we are much i interested. Then, when we say that | they weor bringing Baby Williams; here again from Trenton, to battle .Toe Dorsey, of Philadelphia. and i where Nate lsaacman. of our own luirg. would try to win fame by Testing a good boy, Johnny Clark,, of Allentown, we solemnly said to ourselves, "no other enagement for; me that night; me for Seventh; street." That these railroaders pulled no I 1 AROUND THE BASES llfMnnn. March 20.—Luis Andrade. ! v mi> is taking Jack Johnson, the ■ egro heavyweight pugilist to Mex i o tor several boxing bouts, said ist night that he will guarantee Jess Willard, the heavyweight cham pion, 130,000 and all traveling ex penses if Willard will agree to a re turn fight with Johnson. BEXSV KAIFF "HAND-CI'FFED" Lancaster, Ohio, March 20.—Benny Katiff. outfielder for the New York Giants. wtio was recently discharged 1 from military service, was married here yesterday to Miss Hazel Casslcy, daughter of a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer. Kauff announced he wcuid join the Giants at New Orleans Fri- , day, and that he would accompany ' the club to Jacksonville, Fla., to , train. LISTEN', HARRISBU'RG Over in "Lebanon Up" organiza tion has been perfected of the Boost er Club, formed for the purpose of ' promoting athletic sports, more par- 1 ticularly baseball, by the employes | of the Lebanon plant of the Bethle hem Steel Company. A fund has al ready been raised for the 1919 sea son of the Bethlehem Steel League. The officers of the club are: Presi dent, Rolph Hutchinson; vice prcs- I ident, John Manning: secretary. Llewellyn lobst: treasurer. Miles J. Lesher. ( I lIS START TRAINING ( hicago, March 20.—Sixteen mem bers of the Chicago Nationals left he-,, last night in charge of President Fred L. Mitchell for I'assadena, Cal., v .ere they will begin training Sun ni ■ ."or the pennant race. Tiiree play ers will join the party at Omaha and tiiree others are already on the coast. The Cubs will play eighteen exhi bition games on the coast and en route home. They will start their it meward journey April 5. GEORGE YVHITTED ON JOB George Whitted, the best all around player in the National I.eague, will be one of the early birds to greet the Phils and Jack • 'oombs when they drop off the train a' Charlotte. N. C., Tuesday morning. Word flitted into Phil headquarters : • sterday that Whined had secured his release from the regular army at Camp Merritt. N. J., on Monday, and would be at Charlotte to greet the Phils when they arrive there next week to start preliminary prac t: e for the coming season. Whitted lives at Durham, N. C., and is now on his way there to spend a few days before plunging into base nail. LEBANON' LOSES PRATT New York, March 20.—Derril Pratt, second baseman of the New York Americans, who had announced that he would retain his position in a steel Mill at Lebanon, Pa., instead of play ing professional baseball, has signed a. 1919 contract with the Y'ankees, Manager Huggins was informed to day. Pitchers Ernest Shore and Hu bert Leonard are the. only Y'ankee players who have not signed con tracts. CinciiuiKtl, Ohio, March 20.—Play er Forest Cady was awarded to the Philadelphia National League club by the National Baseball Commission here yesterday. The Commission ruled that Cady's terms had been ac cepted by the Philadelphia club pre vious to the acceptance of his terms by the San Francisco club. Toledo, Ohio, March 20. —More than one hundred bowlers shot at the high marks in the double and singles events of the American Bowling Con gress tournament at the armory to day without touching the leaders In either division. A St. Louts pair, J. Terkes and G. Rautenberg, made the high doubles score of the day with a team count of 1224, which took them Into third place in the list of first ten. JOB FOR AGGIE MORAN" August (Augie) Moran, a baseball umpire of long experience, who has served In the National League as well as a number of srpaller organizations and who Is well known to the fans has signed to umpire in the American THURSDAY EVENING, pected, but the Maroon runners will be quickly whipped into shape and make the trip to the Monumental City Saturday noon. To get a special Invitation to enter this meet came as an honor to Tech. It indicates the fact that the Walnut street school is locating llarrisburg for sporting fans throughout the country. Tech has been winning consistently in all her sports, and whenever a first class attraction is desired the name of Tech is first thought of. The only thing that might prevent Tech from landing the race is that the notice is a little short. But the Maroon will enter the contest with the same old "pep" and it would not be surprising to see the local lads bring home another trophy. I bono when they staged this bill, is evidenced by the wide spread intcr- I est being taken not only in this city, but surrounding towns. and the j Sporting Editor wants to say for 'steonth time that, yes, the show, of • course, is for the general public: i that you may secure seats at Shenk i & Tittle's sporting goods store, and I that Chairman Runk will make every effort to accommodate all who desire to see the bouts. "While all know the abilities of Sammy Schiff and Otto O'Keefe. I which pair would make a show of j ! their own, yet attention should be | called to the engagement of Max | Williamson, of Philadelphia, to meet i Young Fulton in the semi-windup. ; In Williamson, Harrisburg will have i a chance to see the boy who flat tened Joe Leonard. Max is handled ! by Herman Hindin, of Philadelphia. 1 wlo consented to put his boy in the I semi-final in order to show- him to j the fans of the Capital City. Mueh| 'interest is also being shown in the j ' Xate Isaacman-Johnny Carle bout.; j lsaacman. as is known, scored two knockouts last week over local boys., ; but what he can do against a boyi j of Clark's caliber remains to be seen. ; ! All in all a great evening is anti-j j cipated." ! Association for the 1919 season. Augio had an offer from President Futz of the International League, j but he already accepted terms from President Hickey, of the American ' Association. Moran is a native of New Y'ork ; City. He was an outfielders of Bil ; ly Sharsig's Athletics when they were in the Atlantic League in '96, '97 and i '9S. In '99 he was with the Reading | Club and the next two years played with the Pueblo, Club, of the West ' ern League. His throwing arm fail ed hint, and in 1902 he became an | umpire in the Western League and had the distinction of being the only ■ man of sixteen to umpire all through | the season. That record gave him a berth in the National League in 'O3 and 'O4. j The next two years found him unt . piring in the Eastern League. Then in 1907 the Tri-State League paid large salaries and Moran became a | member of the umpiring staff with' : Bausewine, Finneran and Connors. 1 Then Moran's business interests took | | him to the South and he joined the Southern League staff. umpiring 1 down there in 190S anil 1909. When ] Tom Lynch became president of the j National League Moran was again a j big league umpire, but only for one ! year. The next two years he was : out in the Northwestern League. Moran was interested in the hotel business in the South, and from 1913 to 1917 he was an arbitrator in the i Southern League. Last season he came north and besides being a sub ! stitute ump of the National League. I was a regular umpire of the Steel League. Moran has been engaged to umpire i the series to be played between the I Detroit Tigers and Boston Braves in the South, and will leave for the I warm zone Monday. j WITH THE BOWLERS In the Elliott-Fisher League last evening at Casino alleys the results i were: Factory I I'pdegraff 94 110 80— 254 Waterman 91 98 85 374 Pmith 93 70 102— 265 Romig 100 100 100— 300 Dailey 110 171 90— ril Totals 488 549 457—1494 Office | Arnold 78 125 91— 294 I Wood 94 106 113— 313 | Hand 75 90 64 229 Randolph 100 100 100— 300 ! gweger 120 63 91— 274 Totals 467 484 459—1410 Motive Power bowlers defeated the Columbia five last night by a very large margin. Motive Power Green 203 168 148— 519 Fordney 198 188 130— 516 Beck 142 168 188— 49s Jones 172 190 214 576 Diller 128 200 162 491 Totals 844 914 842—2600 Columbia Blank 154 182 181— 517 Brown 148 157 114— 419 Gilbert 141 156 170— 467 Ketch 141 176 135 452 Philips .... 163 147 182— 492 Totals 747 818 782—2347 I The Steelton Big Five last night nosed out the Hess All Stars in an interesting match on the Richards and Brashears alleys, Steelton. The 1 margin was but twenty-two pins. Hna All Stars Krall 161 189 152 602 1 Zeigler 114 163 162 431 Reneker 179 147 145 471 Wagner ... 186 162 ~l3l 478 1 Schriver 164 177 137 478 I Totals 804 840 717—2361 Steelton Big Five S. Books 130 174 135 439 ! Brown 146 132 194 472 1 E. Brooks 180 126 168— 474 i Hornberger 173 149 161—483 1 Hunter 165 189 161— 515 Totals ......... 794 770 819—2383 SNOODLES By Hungerfora \HOMLfAT(M| J r . seeM \ U Ji/a L ' tC€ J- \ MORC* tfi L.ESS - J \ Fee- To Be A(j ,F 7 \ vMe~ ,r ) Poor Vl YT— I , -to ee/s/<& A A P )to ee , W ,) fQ I ferfkk tADv!)/' ) £ fH /■ Orpheum Theater to Stage Premier Boxing Show That Harrisburg is becoming the | "Hub of Central Pennsylvania" was I again demonstrated yesterday when I Frankie Erne, of Lancaster, closed j a contract with the Orpheum The- | ater for a boxing tourney there on ' March 28, with a card which is j bound to attract many ring critics, j The Orpheum management was not 1 overly-anxious to stage a show of ] this kind and had refused several offers. The price lor the house one i night is sky-high, but Erne evi dently believes his exhibition will be j so good that it will pay. Erne is a veteran fighter himself j and for years has conducted a gym- | nasium and training place for pugi- j lists at Lancaster. His invasion of Harrisburg is significant, as showing I the growth of tiie Capital City as a j center of sporting activities. Five bouts are to lie staged in a I ring at the big Orpheum stadium READY FOR READING Coach "Doc" Miller gave his Tech! basketball proteges their last scrim- j mage this afternoon prior to the big gest game of the season tomorrow ; night when Tech will have Reading High School for an opponent. Tech made its best strike of the season j two weeks ago when they defeated Reading on the latter floor. It was the first time that the "Dutch" had been worsted in seven years on their own floor. The Reading fans blamed the de feat on over-confidence, and Tech does not want to allow the same thing to happen at this end. If Tech wins It will mean that the pennant Middletown Wins Basketball Game; Loses in Bowling The Middletown Big Five basket ball team defeated the Lebanon Valley team in the Luna rink. Emaus street, on Tuesday evening , by the score of 43-31. Following was the lineup: Bis Five. Moore, f. Beck, f. Zellers, f. Suavely, f. Herr, c. Gotsehall, c. Fishburn, g. Kern, g. Bachman, g. Rudy, g. Field goals. Beck, 8. Snavelv, 7: Gotsehall, 4; Kern, 2; Moore, 7; Zel lers, 3; Herr, 1; Fishburn, 3. Foul goals, Kern, 1; Fishburn, 3. Ref erees, Rudy and Hippie. The Independents were defeated by the Alpha A. C. team, of Har risburg, the same evening by the score of 20-9. The Iobanon bowling team de feated the Big Five bowling team at tile -Wharton alleys on Tuesday evening by the scoye of 2.671-2.457. MIDDLETOWN Davis 143 203 1 44 490 Uildersee 157 152 150— 439 Deyelsky .. 180 16. 170— 516 Dubendorf .. 169 182 174 525 Good 170 159 168— 497 Totals/ ... 819 862 806—2487 LEBANON Bachman .. 199 194 191— 584 lie STlie RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD Effective Sunday, March 23d, important changes will be made in passenger train schedules. Trains Nos. 5 and 8 will be restored between Harrisburg and Hagerstown. Secure timetable for other changes. What! You mean to say that you can buy a Suit or Your New "Stetson Hat" is ready Overcoat at Doutrichs this week for at DOUTRICHS see the 'Big' Win- 4M M ' dow display—and the great crowds A # • # O who are going there this week. Yes, and some customers are buying two or three of them. 1 ______^_____ _. j _ • . j. • j . i r • LAJIRISBURG TELEGRAPH I and the fair sex are assured of a I clean, genteel atmosphere, accord- I ing to Manager Erne. The premier iset-to will bring together Leo Houck, 'of Lancaster, and Williams, ' Bridgeport, Conn. The ; ligures, Frankie McGuire, of Wil -1 liamsport, and Jack Andrews, Balti -1 more; the preliminary, Sam Looker land Lew r ie Schupp; second prelimin ary. Xate lsaacman and Frankie j Smith, and curtain riser, Billy Mor ton and Dal Furlow. | The appearance of Leo Houck will I bring here several hundred Lancas j ter fans for this veteran is having | his second time on earth, meeting I all comers. He is now booked for I four fights, namely, with Mike Gib- I bons, at St. Louis: with Larry Wil j liams here; with Frank Carbone, at Lancaster, and with Billy Cramer, lat Trenton. The program takes him to April 4. tis clinched. To lose will mean lots jof extra work for the team as an extra series would be necessary. Lo eal patrons are anxious to see the Red and Black in action. Nyquist |at forward is hard to excell. He is ; clever as a foul shooter as well as I from the field. The Tech rooters have every con fidence in Captain Lingle and his crew. Winning; the game will give the Tech team two legs on the Read ing Times trophy, while the Rens selaer cup will come to Tech perma nently. As a preliminary, the unde feated Tech reserves will tackle the Tarsus aggregation. Habitang .. 147 179 125 451 Hoh 181 224 202 607 Peters 173 207 174 554 Fox 170 136 169 475 Totals ... 870 940 861 —2671 WILLIAM 11. MADKR DIES William H. Mader, 2742 Bank street, Penbrook, died at his late home yesterday. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at i 1.45 o'clock in the Penbrook Church !of God, the Rev. O. E. Good, of ficiating. Burial will be made in the Shoop's Church cemetery. Mr. Ma der was aged 67 years. lie is sur vived by his wife, five daughters and a son. Trucksj j Continuous Service j and Long Run Economy ijlct Is Give You Full Details® The o?erland-Harrisburg CoJ ®212-214 North Second Strccti SALARY LIMIT IN STEEL LEAGUE Bethlehem Says Ball Players to Be Seen Here Will Draw Less Pay Some very fancy salaries were paid to ball players in the Steel League lust year, and at Steelton; although the crowds were fine, it took work to make ends meet finan cially on account of the big wages. A report to-day from Bethlehem says that the introduction of a sal ary limit will feature in the Bethle hem Steel League. No mention was made what the limit will bo or how it is to be ap plied and will most likely be thrash ed out when the magnates meet for their first session. This meeting it is understood will take place the latter part of the week when the different team managers will be summoned to Bethlehem for a conference and possibly draw up the schedule. No other developments were announced other than that the plans for the coming season are being formulated and will be passed on finaly ten the magnates get together for their con ference. The rules last season rela tive to players and the period of employment necessary before they are eligible to play, will hardly be VICTORIA MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY A great picture and a great succcess. It went over big with capacity audiences at The Strand.. / H \\T HY do we H I VV use the | = best Coffee? M Why de we put ||| H real cream in = H it? Why do we || H make it '"just g • H so" every time. || H Because we want ee I H to give you the || H best cup of cof- H H fee in town. And || H our price, per || 1 1 J 5c - I EE Large dinners EE: and public affairs == served anywhere == EE an y time. Con- E= EE suit us. I I dj I I I 111 I I St. == = Architects of Appetites = changed. The only change probable : will be in the maximum number of i players to be allowed by each club. Last season there was no restric tion on the number of players sign ed as long as the names were,turn ed in to the secretary. It might be said that a good many names of players were turned In who never had a look at the Steel League. This Finest Burley Tobacco Mellow-aged till Perfect + a dash of Chocolate fflwxedo The Perfect Tobacco for Pipe and Cigarette Your Nose Knows" yO Guaranteed by |NCOR PORATCP MARCH 20, 1919. 1 was apparently done while the team j magnates were angling for their services and in the event of their coming, made them eligible imme diately. With a maximum number of players specified the managers in the future will have to sign on sure bets only. t"se McXell's Pain Exterminator—Ad / I Any new book furnished at leas than publisher's price. Save money ' by aways buying at I 1 AUR AND'S, 025 N. 3rd SL Bell Tel. | 20,000 new, old, rare books, all sub jects ; open evenings; books bought 1 V 13
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