WEST END AND READING WIN IN CITY; DRAAK MUST ESCAPE DOCTOR ROLLER'S TOE TO WIN
ruy a Button if You Want to
Have Season Seat at Allison Hill
STANDING OF TIIK CI.VHS
W. U Pot.
Reading: . 5 0 1.000
Rosewood 2 2 .500
Galahad 2 4 .333
St. Mary's 1 4 .200
To-night—St. Marys' vs Rose
wood.
Umpire—"Clint" AVhit^
Last Night—Reading, 6, Gala- j
had. 1.
By mixing its own hits with Gala- |
lad's errors. Reading - Railway i
cored its fifth successive triumph 1
if the season and remains unde
cated by winning from Galahad last
veiling in an Allison Hill league
:ontest by a 5 to 1 score.
"Dutch" Conner was invincible,
wirltng for Reading, holding the
osers to three scattered hits. Gala
lad's only tally came in the fourth
vhen Cobaugh doubled and scored
vben Starry drove out a slashing
ingle.
The winners landed the victory in
he fourth when a base on balls, two
lits. a like number of errors and a
ielder's choice sent three runs over
he plate. Of the twelve hits made
luring the game, just half of them
rent for extra sacks. There were
ive doubles and a triple slashed out
uring the battle.
Another large crowd was on hand,
ml thoroughly enjoyed the battle.
Strikeouts were plentiful. Black
rhitfing eleven and Conner four
een. "Be a Booster" is a slogan
hat is being taken up by the fans
rho are anxious to see the monster
'teachers completed. Booster but
ons will be given to the contrib
itors who make a "bill" cowtribu
ion. This button will give the wear
r the right to a seat reserved in
ho best part of the grandstand for j
he remainder of the season. The >
ul! score:
( READING
AB. R. H. O. A. E.
hartle. 2b 3 1 1 0 0 1
'. Swartz, ss . . 4 1110 0
■•evan, 3b 2 1 2 1 0 1
lowinan, lb.. 4 0 0 2 0 0
1. Swartz, c ... 4 1 014 1 0
'onner, p.... 3 0 2 I 2 0
lerbert. rf ... 3 1 1 0 0 0
■lcllinger. If .. . 3 0 0 1 0 0
4. Swartz, cf . . 301100
Totals 29 5 8 21 3 2
GALAHAD
AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Cobaugh. If .. . 3 1 12 0 0
•tarry, lb 3 0 1 3 1 0
Clerrier, 3b . . 0 0 1 0 o
Irenisholtz. 2b. 2 0 0 0 0 0
•touffer, ss .. .. 1 0 0 0 o l
„utz. c 3 0 n 12 1 o
•"etrow, cf .. .. 3 0 0 1 1 0
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TUESDAY EVENING, HXKRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH MAY 27, 1919.
Zerbe, ss 3 0 1 1 3 1
Reilv, rf 2 0 0 0 0 0
Black, p 2 0 0 1 1 1.
Totals 23 .1 3 21 7 3
' Reading 0 0 0310 I—s
! Galahad 0 0 0 1 0 0 o—l
Two base hits—H. Swartz. Co
: baugh, Starry, Zerbe. Herbert. Shar-
I tie, Levan. Three base hit —C. I
( Swartz. Sacrifice fly—Levan. Struck i
j out—By Conner. 14: by Black, 11.
! Base on balls—Off Conner. 0: off j
i Black. 2. Stolen bases—Levan. Time |
J —1.30. Umpire—White.
BASEBALL RESULTS
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterday's Results
New York. 4; Pittsburgh. 3.
Brooklyn. 3: St. Louis. 2.
Cincinnati. 7: Philadelphia, 5.
Chicago. 1: Boston, 0.
Standing of the Clubs
W. L. Pet. |
New York 17 6 .738
Brooklyn 10 7 .693
Cincinnati 16 9 .540
Philadelphia 10 10 .500
Chicago 20 7 .741
Pittsburgh 11 14 .4 44
Boston 5 15 .250
St. Douis 6 19 .240
Schedule E>r To-day
Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh at New York.
St. Louis at Brooklyn. .
Chicago at Boston.
AMERICAN LEAGIES
Yesterday'* Result*
Chicago. 3: Washington, 2.
St. Louis. 3: New York, 1.
Philadelphia, 5: Detroit, 5.
Cleveland, 12; Boston, 7.
Standing of the Clubs
w. u ret.
Chicago 20 7 .7 41
Cleveland 17 S .6 80 ]
St. Louis 13 11 .542 |
New York 11 14 .444 >
Boston 9 13 .409 |
Detroit 10 15 .400 |
Washington 8 14 .363 j
Philadelphia 5 16 .23S ,
I Schedule For To-dny
Washington at Chicago
New York at St. Louis.
Philadelphia at Detroit. •
Boston at Cleveland.
THE CROWD
Were you at their wedding?" , '
"Yes." *
"A big affair, wasn't it?"
"The bride's relatives outnumbered I
those of the groom four to one."—
Detroit Free Press.
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"Mose" Swartz in the Box For
Swatara Vs. East End Tonight
Ix-aauc Standing
W. L. Pet. 1
i Swatara 7 3 .700 j !
! East End Juniors .... 5 3 .625 i i
(Algonquins 2 4 .333!
West End Juniors .... 1 5 .166 1;
Week's Schedule
To-day—Swatara vs. East End.
. Wednesday Swatara vs. West
End.
Thursday—Algonquins v£. East j
| End.
Saturday—Swatara vs. Algonquins !
(two games). t
The West End Juniors and Algon-j
quins failed to get their teams on |
the field for the game scheduled to'
| be played last evening in the City \
.Junior League at Nineteenth and!
j Greenwood streets. Both teams;
i were short of players, so the contest'
j was canceled until, a later date.
; The East End Juniors and I
j Swataras are to clash this evening!
|at Nineteenth and Greenwood!
streets.
"Mose" Swartz will probably be
i on the mound for the Swataras and j
| Books for East End.
Manager Simmons, of the West!
! End Juniors, and Manager Zimmer- •
! man, of the Algonquins, are failing
i to get their teams on the field for
; the games scheduled and, unless the
i players report more regularly, they
' will be forced to drop from the
j league. Members of these two teams
! are requested to report more rcgu
j larly.
WEST END IN VICTORY
LEAGUE STANDING
W. L. Pet-
West End 5 1 .833
Commonwealth ... 3 3 .500
Motive Power <... 3 3 .500
E. and F 2 4 .333
Knight and McKeever, of West
! End, each had a brace of hard and
i timely hits in last evening's fast
battle with the Engineers and Fire
j men, whereby they practically won
the game, 4-1, and gave the leaders
■ a tighter grip on first place. The
| losers were only saved from a sliut-
I out by Rote, who repeated his stunt
of last week, smashing the pill for
j the circuit, with two men out. This
| was in the first.
The West End team started its
j scoring in the fourth, when Mc
! Keever connected with the first ball
j pitched for a single. He was sacri
! Seed to second by Kline and scored
i when Knight hit to deep right for
i three bases. Cochlin followed with
j a two-bagger to center, scoring
I Kline. Strieker went out on an in
| field hit. after which Cochlin scored
■ when Boss fumbled a grounder
I knocked by T. Euker. Euker was
caught between first and second a
minute later when he attempted to
steal.
In the sixth inning the West End
ers scored their final run when Mc-
Keever again opened up with a sin
gle and scored when Knight added
The Swatara team is to oppose
the Xliddletown Independents at
Middletown on Decoration Day, two
games, morning and afternoon.
Swatara has more batteries than
any other team in the league, Xlc-
Linn. Prowell, Zerbe, Strine, Lentz,
Lenniken and Swartz being among |
the pitching staff, while Snyder,]
Dayton, Nye, Foland, Strine and i
Barry are the backstops. All of
these players are able to fill in other
positions when not among the bat
teries.
The Algonquins and West End
Juniors are falling behind with too
many postponed contests. Swatara
has played ten; East End. eight, and
the West End, six. To-night's game
will put Swatara and East End an
other game in advance.
The Swatara team is going through
a good bit of baseball this week..
This evening they meet the East]
End Juniors; to-morrow. West End
Juniors; Decoration Day, two games
at Xliddletown, and Saturday after
noon, two games with the Algon
quins at Seventeenth and Chestnut
streets.
Swatara is ready to challenge any
first-class amateur team averaging
from 16 to 20 years old, in or out
'of town. The following dates are
i open: July 4, 25, 26; August 16, 23.
30; September 1. Any teams desir
[ ing games should connect with
I Manager E. H. Matchett, 1543
I Swatara street, o;- Captain Shriver,
Dial phone 6411.
his second hit of the game by clout
ing the ball to right center for two
•bases.
This evening the Commonwealth
♦earn will meet the Xlotive Power
aggregation in a regularly scheduled
league game. The score:
WEST END
AB. R. H. O. A.
T. Euker, cf 2 0 0 1 1
W. Euker, ss . ... 2 0 0 1 2
XlcCord, 2b 2 0 0 3 2
Xlatter. lb 3 0 0 4 0
McKeever, If 3 2 o 2 0
Kline. 3b 2 0 0 1 0
Knight, rf ...... 3 1 2 0 0
Cochlin, p 3 l i 7 o
Total 23 4 5 21 7
ENGINEERS <Sr FIREMEN
AB. R. H. O. A.
Waltz, lb 3 0 Oil 1
Boss, 2b 2 0 1 4 2
Rote, 3b 3 1 1 0 2
G. Ford. If 2 0 0 1 0
Rupley, ss 2 0 0 0 1
Hoover, cf 3 0 1 0 0
XleCann, rf 3 0 0 0 0
Dill, c 3 0 0 2 1
Biever, p.. 2 0 0 0 4
Total 23 1 31 8 11
E. and F ',,. 1 0 0 00 0 o—l
i XVest End 000301 x—4
Two-base hits—Cochlin, Knight.
Three-base hit—Knight. Home
home—Rote. Sacrifice hits—T.
Euker, Kline. Double plays—W.
Euker. XlcCord and Matter: Mc-
Cord, W. Euker and Xlatter. Struck
out—Biever. 2: Strieker, 7. Base on
balls—Biever, 2: Strieker, 4. Left on
base—West End, 5; E. and F., 4.
Hit by pitcher—XlcCord. Stolen
bases —Boss, Hoover, Dill. Time—
-1.25. Empires—Baxter and William'-
son. Attendance—2,ooo.
Dempsey Boxes Four
Fast Rounds With
Sparring Partner
Toledo, Ohio, May S7,. —Boxing
with the speed and daah of a light
weight, Jack Dempsey to-day step
ped four rounda wtlh Bill Tate, the
giant negro sparring partner, in
the fastest workout the challenger
has had since he began training
for his championship battle with
Jess Willard, here July 4, Demp,
eey went through his paces this
morning as Trainer Jimmy DeFor.
est beilevsd the heat, of the mid-,
afternoon would make strenuous
boxing unpleasant,
When the crowd arrived in camp
this afternoon, Dempsey was ob-,
llged to do some shadow boxing,
tugging at the weights and bag
punching to satify the hundreds
of onlookers who made the trip to
eamp with the expectations of
seeing seme ring work.
Tex Rickard, promoter of the
contest, was a visitor at the same.
heard nothing definite in
regard to Willard's departure from
I.os Angeles, but assumed that the
champion had started for Toledo as
scheduled. Ray Q ; Archer, Vvillard's
business representative is on the
way here, having left the Coast
yesterday,
Colliding with an automobila at
one of the busiest- street corners
in the pity, Jack Kearns. manager
of the ehallenger, drove his ma
chine into a motorcycle, attached
to the Army Recruiting Service
and seriously injured two soldiers.
The motorcycle and side car was
wrecked. Kearns rushed the in r
Jured soldiers to a hospital and
then drqxe his car to a garage for
repairs.
The bulldog -presented to Demp
sey by a Toledo admirer, was re
sponsible for a fracas at the camp.
The dog. h winner of a score of
fights, Attacked a neighborhood
pet and ghewed tha animal to
death before Dempsey's trainers
could stop it.
Dempsey was in no way respon
sible for the fight, as the dog had
been locked up, and he regretted
the accident so keenly that he
made a canvass of the houses In
the neighborhood until he found
the dog s-owner.
Roller's Toe-Hold Is All
That Tom Draak Fears
Eager to demonstrate , Vis self-]
asserted wrestling superiority over
Dr. B. F. Roller, Tommy Draak, in
forms Maxwell Baumann, the local
promoter, that he will force the
match next Tuesday evening in the
Chestnut street auditorium, to go
until Roller is completely exhausted.
Then, Draak states, he will down
him. The doctor's terrible toehold is
the only thing the Belgian-Nether
lands champion fears.
Tickets for next Tuesday night's
attraction will go on sale to-morrow
morning at Shenk and Tittle's sport
ing goods store and Harry's cigar
store. Orders for seat reservations
from out of town fans will be filled
immediately if a check or money
order is enclosed with the request.
Although Roller does not believe
that Draak can possibly make good
his boast next Tuesday, nevertheless,
the doctor is going to run no chances.
He is training hard. Dr. Roller does
Protective Association of
Sportsmen Is Formed
at Mechanicsburg
The leading sportsmen of Mechan
icsburg and vicinity have formed the
Mechanicsburg Sportsmen's Protec
tive Association. The club has 100
members, and is growing rapidly. At
a meeting on Friday evening. May 23,
resolutions were drawn and adopted
and the following officers elected:
President, G. W. del wicks; secretary,
C. K. Huber; treasurer, F. M. Slyder.
A governing committee composed of
the following was also elected: E. E.
Nailor, G. C. Morrett, Ross Lehrman,
H. Clay Ryan. G. W. Gelwicks.
Busy Program For
the East End Team
Decoration Day will see East End
hooked up with Hummelstown in a
morning and afternoon battle. On
May 31, the day following, Swift &
Company's huskies engage them at
Qi-P-E-E-D ! Man, alive; you just wouldn't dare use all the
speed Atlantic Gasoline can give you. You'd be arrestedt
But that self-same speed is indicative of great potential Pov/er.
And there's no law against power, absolutely none.
Along the level stretches your Atlantic-fed motor bowls like an
aeroplane making up lost time; up the hills and over the top she
goes, with the dash and spirit of a blooded horse.
Power? Just you call for power and you'll think there's a
Niagara under the hood. But, mark you, there's just one gasoline
built to these specifications. Its name is "Atlantic".
Whether you have one truck or a fleet; one passenger car or a
garageful'—be sure to ask for Atlantic Gasoline by name. It's got
Zing and gobs of it,
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not wish to be thrown by a man he
has beaten and have it appear that
he won the last match accidentally.
Roller will use his toe hold and j
expects to use it effectively. This is'
a dangerous grip and some grapplers|
are mean enough to cause their op- i
ponents terrible suffering by its use. |
Roller, however, is one of the clean- j
est men in the game and never uses j
the grip except to force his man to
break his hold.
This will be the third meeting of
the two wrestlers. The first engage
ment resulted in a two-hour draw
at the 1916 New York State Wrest
ling Tournament. The second wgs
last Tuesday night in the Chestnut
street auditorium and the third will
be next Tuesday night. It will be a I
hard battle next time for Draak, ati
29 years of age, does not relish be-j
ing beaten by a man 43 any morel
than Roller, at 43, desires to appear j
worn out at that age and unable to i
put up his old game.
I Nineteenth and Greenwood, and on ]
Sunday they invade Lancaster to j
j meet the famous Eighth Ward club. |
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Tech Ball Club Meets
Reading High Here on
Decoration Day
On Friday afternoon the Tech bail
Be Cool and Comfortable
Decoration Day-
At the same time
be well dressed
at a small
expense (ffl /I H
Be Sure to see
our new stocks of w;JNnL
Straw Hats, Silk Shirts, [iwSMr
Outing and Dress Shirts,
Plain and Silk Hose, Neckwear
and cool comfortable Underwear
You'll be surprised at the splen
did qualities and very low prices.
Do you know that we make a specialty of selling
"made-to-your-measure" suits—
If not, why not?
W. C. Consylman & Co.
* UPTOWN GENTS' FURNISHERS
1117 North Third Street.
team will play its big game of tin
season. Reading High School will in
the Decoration Day attraction or
Island Park.
It has been announced that th<
Shenk and Tittle sporting goods ston
has offered to put up a cup to be com
peted for in this game.
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