"BOBBY" CLARK ON READING TEAM; TEN-ROUND BOXERS AT STEELTON TOMORROW
READING TO HAVE
BIG LEAGUE SHOW
President Fultz Predicts Big
Season and Says Circuit
% Is Strongly Backed
Heading, April 22.—Charles Dooln, j
former manager of the Phillies, who I
has been named as playing manager |
of the Heading International League
club, arrived here yesterday to start
whipping the local club into shape
for the opening of the season on
April 30 with Binghamton.
Manager Dooin has landed Bert
Daniels, formerly with the New York
Yankees, for an outlield position.
Daniels came from Bucknell orig
inally and played his first big league,
ball with the Yanks. He is a fast
man on base, a graceful fielder but
never made any great record for
consecutive hitting. But he will be a
help to this team for he has had
plenty of experience. The Reading
team is now almost tilled, and it in
cludes a Harrisburg lad. Pitcher
Myrle Brown. Eddie McHale, third j
baseman for Syracuse last year, and;
also a veteran of other teams, is on;
the roster. I
Business Manager Kelchner has |
signed Pitcher Bill Donohoe, who;
was a member of the Heading team .
wb<n Reading City was represented J
in the New York State League. He I
is to report shortly, coming from !
Sparrows Point, Md., where he has j
been working for the Bethlehem j
Steel Company.
Donohoe left the New York State!
League to join the Richmond Club,
of the International circuit. He fin
ished the 1917 season with the lat- j
ter team. Last year he pitched for
the Sparrows Point team in the
Bethlehem Steel League which won ■
the pennant. ;
Kelchner has also signed Earl |
Clouser, who had been playing in the :
Blue Ridge League and last season;
was with the Lebanon team of the j
Bethlehem Steel League. Clouser is a
Reading boy.
Dave Fultz. president of the In-!
ternational. through the Associated!
Press service sends out a cheering j
message to-day. saying:
"The baseball season of 1919;
should he the most successful that;
the International League lias experi- ;
enced since the beginning of the |
Federal League war. The Invasion of j
several cities of the International!
League circuit by the Federal Leagqe j
with the attendant increasing in
salaries and discord, worked a great j
hardship among our clubs and caused |
several to suffer heavy financial loss, j
This competition followed by the |
world-war, which effectually put an
end to interest in the game, was the
climax of our difficulties: govern
ment restrictions and financial strain
proving a hardship which neither
■ major nor minor leagues could with
stand.
"Now, happily, all these difficulties
and restrictions are of the past and
baseball, I am sure, is about to en
ter upon a new era of popularity sur
passing anything of the kind that ex
isted previous to the advent of the
Federal I>ague and intercontinental
war. T base my belief upon certain
outstanding facts which must be ap
parent to all followers of baseball
Willard Says He Will
Weigh 255 When He
Fights For the Title
Talking in Chicago, yesterday.
Jess Willard, who is taking part
in a moving picture, says he will
finish the picture and will then go
in training for the tight. But
while he acts for pictures Willard
also trains to light. The effect of
this training was noticeable when
he arrived yesterday.
"You see it would not be wise
for me to jump into vigorous
training after being out of the
game two or three years." said
Willard. "It would be too hard
on me. lam going to take all the
time I can to get ready. I fought
Johnson weighing 24!) pounds, but
I do not expect to drop that low
for Dempsey. My weight was 259
in the Moran contest. That is what
I will probably scale when I meet
Dempsey, and it is possible I will
drop down to 255. I do not believe
in road work for a man of my
size. It is too weakening. I get
just as good results boxing and
working in the gymnasium."
Willard denied the story that he
had engaged "Jack" Curley and
Tom Jones to handle his business,
lie said he had paid them off and
was through with them.
Willard said he does not know
where the light will be staged, but
said he would like to have it in
Kansas City.
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TUESDAY EVENING,
Bobby Clark, Signed
With St. Louis Will
Play For Reading
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Duncannon. Pa., April 22.
"Bobby" Clark, first baseman of
the Duncannon team of the Dau
phin-Perry League during the
past two seasons of the league,
and from whom much was ex
pected by Duncannon this sea
son, has been signed up by the St.
Louis Nationals, and will report
within a few days to the Reading
International League team to
which he has been farmed by the
league organization.
"Bobby" Clark played with the
Steelton team of the Bethlehem
Steel League a number of games
last season. In addition he played
with Duncannon Independents and
with the Hick-a-Thrift team of
the Allison Hill League.
He is a native Newport lad,
and played there for several sea
sons with the Newport High
School. During the first season
of the Dauphin-Perry League, he
played in the outfield with the
Newport team. Afterwards he
went to Susquehanna University
at Selinsgrove, where he was
switched from the outfield to first
base and he has been holding that
position ever since.
and all other sports. In a general
way they are as follows:
"The public is naturally turning
to pastimes and recreations as a re
laxation from the strain and anxiety
of the serious days when our chief
duty was to check the threatened
worltl ravages of the Germans. The
nation appreciates the benefits of
athletics and realizes that the prow
ess and fighting ability of our yofing
men abroad were due, in part, to
their training for and participation
in sport. The fact that baseball was
played and encouraged in every camp
and cantonment both in the United
States and in Europe puts what
amounts to an official sanction upon
the national game.
"Baseball will gain in popularity
for other reasons. The daylight sav
ing law gives an additional hour each
afternoon in which to witness the
games. The probable advent of pro
hibition within the next few months
paves the way for a greater interest
in sports and similar diversions. In
addition the nation is entering upon
a period of great prosperity. In
dustry is booming and high wages
and salaries prevail. Conditions in
these directions appear to walk
liand-in-hand with the national ten
dencies and desires of the healthy
American in the selection of his re
creation.
"The New International League, as
reconstructed, is particularly fitted
to take advantage of these promising
conditions. Our circuit is compact
and well hacked financially. Strong
teams are to represent Toronto,
Rochester. Binghamton, Reading.
Newark, Jersey City, Buffalo and
Baltimore. I look forward confidently
for a close and interesting pennant
race and a prosperous and enthusias
tic season."
Challenge From New York
to Harrisburg Teams
Here's a lad who once lived in Har
risburg. but is now handling a ba'.l
team in New York, who wants to get
a game with some one in the Capital
City. The challenge reads:
"Colonel •Bill' Hayward's old Fif
teenth Hell Fighters, just back from
France, would like to book games
with semi-professional teams in Penn
sylvania. All of the boys have seen
service in France. Anvone wishing
this all-soldier attraction, write to
Sergeant Spottswood Poles, 107 West
One Hundred and Forty-third street,
New York City."
Poles says that he played on the
Harrisburg Giants when he made his
home here.
AROUND THE BASES
Chicago, April 22. —Duo to a mix
up of train schedules, the proposed
meeting between Jess Willard and
Jack Dempsey to-day to discuss t.h-3
selection of a referee for them
heavyweight championship fight
July 4 did not materialize. Dempsev
left for the west an hour after Wil
lard arrived from Kansas City.
W'iilard expressed disappointment
ever the failure of the boxing bid
to pass in New York State, for he
believed that the bill would puss
and that the fight might be staged
in New York.
YANKEES WIN OVER
DODGERS; SCORE, 5-1
Brooklyn, N. Y., April 22.—1n an
I exhibition game here yesterday the
New York Americans defeated the
Brooklyn Nationals 5 to 1. Brooklyn
made its single run in the eighth
inning off two hits. The score:
R. ft. 13.
New York Americans 5 6 0
Brooklyn Nationals 1 2 5
Batteries —Quinn, Shawkey, Thor
mahlen and Hannah; Mamaux,
Marquard and Grimes and Miller
and M. Wheat.
ACADEMY BOWLING
Corporals defeated Captains by a
margin of 133 pins and Generals
trounced Pershings by 103.
Philadelphia, April 22. —The Phil
adelphia Nationals tied the exhi
bition baseball series at two all by
defeating the Philadelphia Ameri
cans here yesterday, 2 to 0. The
outstanding feature of the game was
! Luderus' homer in the fourth in
ning, Score:
Americans .. 00000000 o—o 9 1
Nationals ... 1 0 1 1 0 00 0 x—2 4 1
Geary, Grevell and Perkins; Wat
son, Woodward and Cady. Umpires,
Keenan and Rudolph.
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Ten-Round Bouts Tomorrow
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SAMMY SCHIFF
Beginning early to-morrow morn
ing, the out-of-town boxers who are
to take part in the show under the
management of Joe Barrett will put
In their appearance for the ten- j
round bouts at the Standard Thea
ter, in Steelton. Transportation hasj
been forwarded by Joe to all the
outside men, and reports from their j
training camps say they arc all ini
perfect condition, as they realize!
they must go at a fast pace over this •
distance. This is the first time in
several years a promoter has
matched boxers for ten rounds.
Always on the lookout for sur
prises, Barrett saw Sammy Schiff
and Otto O'Kcefe, of Allentown, go
twice in six-round bouts without thej
fans being able to judge who was;
really the best boy in this section of!
Pennsylvania, so Barrett set about;
to arrange the longer bout before |
his club, which there can be no;
doubt will decide for all time who is j
the better man, and Barrett, whose j
knowledge of the game is wide, says i
he would not be surprised if there j
is someone stopped before the limit.
Anyway, Joe says he feels justified
in saying this bout and the other
ten-round bout on the card, between
Eddie Grant, of South Bethlehem,
and Young Mahoney, of Baltimore I
—not saying anything about two
other six-round bouts, will give the
sports the best night's show they
have had the pleasure of seeing for
several years.
There will be no hitch in the ar
rangements; they will go ten rounds, |
"Mose" Swartz Holds
Leaves to Brace of
Hits in the Opener ;
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LEAGUE STANDING
W. IA P.C. j
Swatara 1 0 1.000 !
Aigcnquins 0 o .000
East End 0 0 .600
Leaves 0 1 .000
Three hundred fans turned out for
the opening game of the City Junior
League and saw Swatara defeat '.he
Leaves team by a 8 to 1 score, last
evening at Seventeenth and Chestnut
streets. "Mose" Swartz, in the box
for Swatara. only allowed the Leaves
two hits, Zimmerman's was good for
a horner, which was the only tallie for
the leaves. I-ayton's batting was also
a feature. This evening East End
plays Algonquins. The score:
SWATARA
AB. R. 11. O. A. E.
Hoover, rf 4 1 1 0 0 0
Faust, cf 4 1 8 0 0 0
Shover, ss 4 0 0 0 1 0
fentz, lb 3 0 1 3 0 0
Zorby, 3b 3 2 0 0 0 0
Swartz, p 3 1 1 0 2 0
Lenigan, If 3 0 110 0
ley ton, c 3 2 3 11 2 0
Kinch, 2b 2 1 0 3 0 0
Totals 29 8 10 18 5 ~0
LEAVES
AB. R. H. O. A. E.
A. Michlovitz, cf... 1 0 0 0 0 C
Freedir.an, 2b 3 0 1 0 1 0
Karl, ss 3 0 0 0 1 1
Williams, lb 2 0 0 4 0 0
M. Michlevitz, p... 2 0 0 2 3 0
Strine, c 2 0 0 10 2 0
Itodgers. 3b 2 0 0 1 0 1
Peters, rf 2 0 0 0 0 0
Zimmerman, If. ... 1 1 1 1 0 1
Totals'. 18 1 2 18 7 3
Swatara 0133 1 O—S
Leaves 00100 o—l
Three-base hit Layton. Home
runs Layton, SwaVtz. Zimmerman.
HARRISBURG SSKIL TELEGRAPH
says Joe, unless some of the princi
pals cannot last the limit. Joe him
self will he the third man in the
ring in both the long bouts, which
! is a surety that everything will run
I smoothly.
j Joe is negotiating for a larger
I hall, with ample seating capacity to
j warrant him bringing all the best in
: the game to this section. While
j promoting in York, before the war,
the veteran pulled off four shows in
which there were world's champions
as principals, namely, Kid Williams,
then bantam champion and a pro
tege of Johnny Kilbane, feather
weight champion; Jack Britton,
welterweight champion, and Bat
| tling Levinsky, light heavyweight
; champion. In fact, during Bar
j rett's thirty years' experience every
; boxer of note from Fitzsimmons
I down to the present day has boxed
I for him, and it should not surprise
: the fans if Barrett announced that
j lie had Johnny Kilbane booked for
a show here, as Jimmy Dunn, Kil
bane's manager, is now negotiating
with Barrett with that end in view.
The outcome of the Schiff and
O'Keefe match to-morrow night will
go a long way in deciding who will
meet the champion here. The first
I bout will start, as usual, at 8.30
sharp; no delays between bouts, and
the usual quiet order. Barrett
wants his friends to know that
there are plenty of tickets on sale at
Shenk & Tittle's sporting goods
store in Market street, also at
I Bob Fairlamb's, in Steelton.
Sacrifice hit Karl. Struck out —By
Swartz, 11; by Michlovitz, 10. Base
on balls Off Swartz, 4; off Michlo
vitz, 2. Left on base Swatara, 3;
Leaves, 2. Hit by pitcher Zerby.
Stolen bases Hoover, Faust, Lentz,
Zerby. Lcnigan, A. Michlovitz. Innings
Pitched Swartz, 6; Michlovitz, 6.
(Time 1 hour and 30 minutes. I'm
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Berks Ball Players
Have Clean Slate;
Winning Each Game
The Berk A. A. opened its baseball
season, Monday," April 14, defeating
Hickok A. C. 9-0. It also defeated
Riverside team Friday, April 18, 8-6,
and a return game with Hickok A. C.
resulted in another victory, 5-4.
Games are now arranged with
Commonwealth Juniors, this evening
at the Division street diamond, and
with Riverside on Thursday evening,
on the Academy diamond. Teams de
siring games should communicate
with Charles W. Aucker, 2724 Jeffer
son street, or Berk's Store, 2734 Jef
ferson street.
The Commonwealth Juniors men
tioned here are managed by William
Weimer, 437 Reily street, who is anxi
ous to arrange games with strong
junior teams out of town.
YALE ATHLETES MUST
PAY FOR EATS
The board of control at Yale Uni
versity has approved of supervised
training tables for members of ath
letic teams, provided the bills are
paid by the individual members. The
only possible exception will be de
auctions for self-supporting students
when these deductions have been
approved by the bureau of appoint
ments. Provision will be made for
tiunsportation of candidates for ma
jor sport teams to and from the
playing fields.
WEST SHORE NEWS
BRONZE TABLET
FOR SOLDIERS
Marysville Civic Club Plans
For Erection of Memorial
in Diamond Square
MarysvUle, Pa., April 22.—Defi
nite action to erect a suitable bronze
memorial tablet in honor of the
more than one hundred Marysville
men and women who served with the
United States forces during the war,
was taken at a special meeting of the
Marysville Civic Club at the home of
Mrs. James Allen, Dahlian street,
last evening.
Plans for the securing of the
memorial tablet already are far ad
vanced. Further arrangements will
be in charge of a committee, of
which Mrs. Pearl B. Hippie has
been named chairman. It is under
stood that the tablet will be erected
at the east end of Diamond Square.
Plans were made at last evening's
meeting for the planting of trees
as memorials to the three Marysville
men who died in France while serv
ing with the United States forces.
These trees will be planted on the
plot of ground surrounding the
Marysville High school building.
The three men for whom trees will
be planted are Daniel Speidel, who
was killed in action and was the first
Perry county man to die in France;
James Brightblll, died of disease, and i
Blain Barshinger, died of disease.
Mrs. W. H. Hench has been named
chairman of the committee in charge ;
of this work. The plan is also being
considered of planting one tree on ;
the plot for Theodore Roo/ievelt. i
Plans were made at last evening's
meeting for a big meeting of the or- i
ganization in the Knights of Pythias
Hall on Monday, May 5, when hus
bands of members, some invited
guests and the ministers of the bor
ough and their wives will be in at- i
tendance. An attractive program .
will be presented at this meeting.
At last evening's meeting, it was
decided that the Civic Club should
take steps to provide for the erection
of street signs at all street inter
sections in the borough. The cost
will be borne entirely by members
of the organization who will direct
the work.
Miss Klise Wise, of Dahlian street,
who served in France for more than
a year as a nurse with a Philadel
phia base hospital unit, and the lirst
of the live Marysville nurses who
served overseas to return home, gave
an interesting talk to the members.
After the business session, a dainty
luncheon was served to the members
by the hostess, Mrs. Allen.
Marysville Civic Club
| Starts Borough Cleanup
! Marysville, Pa., April 22.—Mrs.
John G. Berger has been named by
Mrs. Jennie Wox, president of the
Civic Club, as chairman of the com
mittee in charge of the annual clean
up of Marysville, under the auspices
of the Marysville Civic Club. The
cleanup was scheduled to start yes
terday morning and some work was
done throughout the borough, but
real activity will not start for several
days it is believed.
The cleanup this year will be two
weeks in length. This length of time
has been decided on by the Civic
Club that it may permit ample time
for every householder of the borough
to place his property in a clean and
sanitary condition.
Mrs. Mervin Otto and children, of
Washington Heights, were the week
end guests of the former's parents at
Carlisle. .
Miss Clara Moran. of Harrisburg.
visited Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Rishel, at
Washington Heights on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Rapp. of Wash
ington Heights, spent the weekend at
Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs. I-au and daughter, of
York, were recent guests of Rev. and
Mrs. R. R. Koontz, at Washington
Heights.
Mrs. I. W. Rishel. of Washington
Heights, spent a day with her moth
er. Mrs. Ida Smith, of Harrisburg.
Mrs. John H. Bowers, of Harris
burg, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
.1. H. Bowers, IJr., at Washington
Heights.<
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Bowers and son
Harry were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Bowman at Washington
Heights on Sunday.
Mrs. Robert L. Smith has returned
to her home near Dillsburg after
spending the weekend with her
daughter. Mrs. Russell R. Elicker, at
New Cumberland.
Jacob Beil, Jr., and family bave
moved from Harrisburg to the Shell
property at Shiremanstown.
John Blgler has returned to Shire
manstown after spending the winter
in Florida and other Southern States.
Mr. and Mrs. William Small and
family, of Penbrook, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Starr at
Shiremanstown. .
Mr. and Mrs. Kuhn and Mr. Wise,
of York, were weekend guests of Mr.
and Mrs; Roy Wise, in Fourth street,
New Cumberland.
Mrs. Charles Krb and daughters, of
Sporting Hill, spent a day recently
with the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Jacobs, at Shiremans
town. . .
John D. Bitner, of Harrisburg, vis
ited her parents at Shiremanstown on
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Howry and Mr.
and Mrs. Abe Miller, of Shiremans
town, spent Easter Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. James Miller, at Enola.
Mrs. Wayne Fisher and Miss Helen
Fisher, of Winding Hill, visited the
former's sister, Mrs. Ray Hoffman, at
the Harrisburg Hospital on Saturday.
Mrs. Plough, of Hagerstown; Mr.
and Mrs. Stouffer, of Hazleton, and
Mrs. Robbins, of Harrisburg, were
Easter guests of Rev. and Mrs. Ayres
at New Cumberland.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eicher and
son, of Baltimore, are visiting rela- ®
tives at New Cumberland.
Miss Julia Rue. a student of the j
Syracuse University. New York city,
is visiting her parents, the Rev. and .
Mrs. V. T. Rue, at the Methodist par
sonage at New Cumberland.
DINNER TO HONOR SOLDIER i
New Cumberland, Pa., April 22.
Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Naugle, of
Bellavista, gave a dinner on Sunday
in honor of Herbert Snell, who re
turned from overseas recently.
TRACTOR DEMONSTRATION j
Shiremaiistown, Pa., April 22. i
A tractor demonstration was held ,
on the A. M. Hess farm, south of |
town on Monday afternoon, by Mr. j
Shaul, of Mechanicsburg.
"CLEAN-UP" DAY
Shircmatistown, Pa., April 22. I
Clean-up Day will be observed by j
Shiremanstown borough council on
Thursday, May 1, when teams will
be furnished to haul away all ashes
and rubbish.
SERMON TO LODGEMKN
New Cumberland, Pa., April 2 2.
The Rev. A. R. Ayres, pastor of Trin
ity United Brethren Church, will
preach the annual sermon to the Odd
Fellows lodge of New Cumberland,
on Sunday, April 27, at 10.30 a. m.
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APRIL 22, 1919.
ST. MARY'S SCHEDULE
The St. Mary's Catholic team, of
the Allison Hill League will have a
number of games before and after
their league season opens, beginning
with Mlilersburg on next Saturday,
up there. The next Saturday they
journey to Duncannon, of the Dau
phin-Perry and the following Satur
day, West End is their opponent:
another game is with Hershey, and
on May 25 they are scheduled to
meet the husky Eightli Ward bunch
of Lancaster. The Allison Ilill sea
son opens on May 6.
BANQUET FOll TARSUS
The Tarsus gymnasium athletes
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will liave a banquet at the Pcnn-
Harris on Thursday evening next, as
a starter for their summer camp,
for this club is not going in for
baseball, but will concentrate on
football, beginning practice in the
summer time.
ARTIE ROOT GETS DECISION*
PlUladelpliia, April 22.—Artie
Root, of Cleveland, had no trouble In
in defeating Joey Fox, of England,
in a six-round fight here last night.
Root had the advantage in every
round except the fifth when Fox
showed to his best.