8
ttrin mm in i in mi in
i I The Exploits of Elaine
——■—— ——————
A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama
" HBy ARTHUR B. REEVE D "
*** I Th. Wtfl-K—n N,etll,t ,nd (A« I
_ || Crtakt Utt "Crmif Ktnntjy'' Stmria J
Presented hi Celsborstien Wtih the Psthe Players sad ths Ideate TOa Cotspasy
* 11
Copyright, 1M«. by KM O—»paa J. All roralfm Rlfhla BHUTII
CONTINUED
SYNOPSIS.
The Mew Tork police are mystified by
• series of murders of prominent men.
The principal clue to the murderer Is
the warning letter which Is sent the vic
tims. signed with a "clutching hand." The
lateet victim of the mysterious assassin
Is Taylor Dodge, the Insurance president.
Hie daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Ken
(Mdy. the famous scientific detective, to
try to unravel the mystery. What Ken-
Siedy accomplishes Is told by his friend
Jameson, a newspaper man. Clutching
Hand tries to kill Elaine by means of a
diabolical device which generates a poison
In the wall paper of her room that is
deadly to breathe for any length of time.
Again Kennedy's scientific knowledge Is
brought Into play just In season to save
She heroine from death.
SIXTH EPISODE
"The Vampire."
Kennedy went the next day to the
fe)odge house, and, as usual. Perry Ben
nett, Elaine's lawyer, was there in the
library with Elaine, still going over
tte Clutching Hand case in their en
deavor to track down the mysterious
Roaster criminal.
Bennett seemed as deeply as ever
fen love with Elaine. Still, as Jennings
ladmitted Craig, it was sufficiently evi
dent by the manner in which Elaine
left Bennett and ran to greet Craig
that she had the highest regard for
liim.
"I've brought you a little document
•hat may Interest you." remarked Ken
nedy. reaching into his pocket and
pulling out an envelope.
Elaine tore It open and looked at
the paper within.
"Oh, how thoughtful of you!" she
exclaimed in surprise.
It was a permit from the police made
out in her name allowing her to car
ry a revolver.
A moment later, Kennedy reached
Into his coat pocket and produced a
little automatic which he handed to
fcer.
"Thank you." she cried, eagerly.
Elaine examined the gun with inter
est, then, raising it, pointed it play
fully at Bennett.
"Oh, no, no!" exclaimed Kennedy,
taking her arm quickly and geutij. de
flecting the weapon away. "You
mustn't think it is a toy. It explodes
at a mere touch of the trigger—when
that safety ratchet is turned."
Bennett had realized the danger and
had jumped back, almost mechanical
ly. As he did so, he bumped into a
auit of medieval armor standing by
the wall, knocking it over with a re
sounding crash. ,
"I beg pardon," he ejaculated, "I'm
■very sorry. That was very awkward
©f me."
Jennings, who had been busy about
the portieres at the doorway, started
to pick up the fallen knight.
"Too bad, too bad," apologized Ben
nett profusely. "I really forgot how
close I was to the thing."
"Oh. never mind," returned Elaine,
■ little crestfallen, "it is smashed all
right—but it was my fault. Jennings,
send for someone to repair it." *
It was late that night that a masked
figure succeeded in raising itself to
the narrow ornamental ledge under
* 'laine's bedroom window.
Elaine was a light sleeper, and, be
aides, Rusty, her faithful collie, now
fully recovered from the poison, was
in her room.
Rusty growled and the sudden noise i
awakened her.
Startled, Elaine instantly thought of
the automatic. She reached under her
pillow, keeping very quiet, and drew
forth the gun that Craig had given
her. Stealthily concealing her actions
under the covers, she leveled the auto
matic at the figure silhouetted 1:. her
window and fired three times.
The figure fell back,
Down in the street below, the as
sistant of the Clutching Hand who
had waited while Taylor Dodge was
electrocuted, was waiting as his con
federate, "Pitts Sllln"—which Indlcat- j
ed that he was both wiry in stature
and libelous in delegating his nativity j
—made the attempt.
As Slim came tumbling down, hav
ing fallen back from the window above
mortally wounded, the confederate lift
ed him up and carried him out of sight
hurriedly.
Elaine, by this time, had turned on
the lights and had run to the window
to look out. Rusty was barking loud
ly-
In a side street near by stood a walt
ing automobile, at the wheel t which
eat another of the emissaries of the
Clutching Hand. The driver looked
up, startled, he saw his fellow
hurry around the corner carrying the
wounded "Pitts Slim." It was the
work of just a moment to drop the
wounded man, as comfortably as pos
sible under the circumstances, in the
rear seat, while his pals started the
car off with a jerk in the hurry of es
cape.
Jennings, having hastily slipped his
trousers on over his pajamas, came
ruaning down the hall, while Marie,
frightened, came in the other direc
tion. Aunt Josephine appeared a few
seconds later, adding to the general !
excitement.
"What's the matter?" she asked,
anxiously.
*A burglar, I think," exclaimed
Elaine, still holding gun in her
See "Exploits of Elaine," Sixth Episode,
In Motion Pictures, Victoria Theatre, Saturday, March 27
• READ THE STORY IN THE STAR-INDEPENDENT EVERY WEEK j
k J)
hand. "Someone tried to get into my
window."
"My gracious!" cried Aunt Joseph
ine, in alarm, "Where will this thing
end?"
"Well," Blaine laughed, a little nerv
ously, now that it was all over, "1
want you all to go to bed and stop
worrying about me. Don't you see
I'm perfectly able to take \.are of my
self? Besides, there isn't a chance
now of the burglar coming back. Why,
I shot him."
"Yes," put in Aunt Josephine, "but
Elaine laughingly interrupted her
and playfully made as thourh she
were driving them out of her room.
"Rusty!" she called. "Down, there!"
The intelligent collie seemed to un
derstand. He lay down by the door
way, his nose cloee to the bottom of
the door, and his ears alert.
Finally Elaine, too, retired again.
Meanwhile the wounded man was
being hurried to one of the hangouts of
the mysterious Clutching Hand.
Ths car containing the wounded
"Pitts Slim" drew up, and the other
two men leaped out of it. With a hur
ried glance about they unlocked the
front door with a pass key and en
tered, carrying the man.
Indoors was another emissary of the
Clutching Hand, a rather studious
looking chap.
"Why. what's the matter?" he ex
claimed as the crooks entered his room
supporting their half-fainting, wounded
pal.
"Slim got a couple of pills," they
panted as they laid him on a couch.
"How?" demanded the other.
"Trying to get into the Dodge house.
Elaine did it."
Slim was, quite evidently, badly
wounded and was bleeding profusely.
A glance at him was enough for the
studious-looking chap. He went to a
secret panel and, pressing it down,
took out what was apparently a secret
house telephone.
In another purt of this mysterious
house was the secret room of the
Clutching Hand himself, where he hid
hia identity from even his most trust
ed followers.
His telephone rang and he took
down the receiver.
"Pitts Slim's been wounded, badly,
chief," was all he waited to hear.
With scarcely a wbrd he hung up
the receiver, then opened a table
drawer and took out a full face mask.
Next he went to a nearby bookcase,
pre«ed another secret spring, and a
panel opened. He passed through, the
mask adjusted. x
Across, in the larger outside study,
another panel opened, and the Clutch
ing Hand, all crouched up, trans
formed, appeared. Without a word he
advanced to the couch on which the
wounded crook lay, and examined him.
"How did it happen?" he asked at
length.
"Miss Dodge shot him," answered
the others, "with an automatic."
"That Craig Kennedy must have
given it to her!" he exclaimed with
suppressed fury.
For a moment the Clutching Hand
stopped to consider. Then he seized
the regular telephone.
"Doctor Martin?" he asked, as he got
the number he called.
Late as it was, the doctor, who was
a well-known surgeon in that part of
the country, answered from an ex
tension of his telephone near his tjd.
The call was urgent, and apparently
from a family which he did not feel
that he could neglect. '
Doctor Martin was a middle-aged
man, one of those medical men on
whose Judgment one instinctively re
lies.
It was only a matter of mlnntes be
fore the doctor was speeding over the
now deserted suburban roads, appar
ently on an errand of mercy.
At the address that had been
given aim he drew up to the side of
'.he road, got out and ran up the steps
to the door. A ring at the bell
brought a sleepy man to the door, in
his trousers and nightshirt.
"How's the patient?" asked Doctor
Martin, eagerly.
"Patient!" repeated the man, rub
bing his eyes. "There's no one sick
here."
Slowly it dawned on the doctor that
it was a false alarm, and that he
must be the victim of some practical
joke.
"Well, that's a great note," he
growled, as the man shut the door.
He descended the steps, muttering
harsh language at some unknown
trickster. As he climbed back into
bis machine and made ready to start
two men seemed to rise before him
as if from nowhere.
As a matter of fact they bad been
sent there by the Clutching Hand, and
were hiding in a nearby cellarway un
til their chance came.
One man stood on the running
board, on either side of him, and two
guns yawned menacingly at him.
"Drive ahead that way!" muttered
one man. seating himself in the run
about with his gun close to the doc
tor's ribs.
The other kept his place on thesrun
ning board, and on they drove in the
s ' ' %
HARRIBBURG STAB-INDEPENDENT. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1915.
direction of the mysterious, dark
house. Halt a mile, perhaps, down
the road, they halted and left the oar
beside the walk.
Doctor Martin was too surprised to
marvel at anything now, and he real
ised that he was In the power of two
desperate men. Quickly they blind
folded him.
It seemed an interminable walk, as
they led him about to confuse him, but
at last be could feel that they had
taken him into a house and along
passageways, which they were making
unnecessarily long in order to de
stroy all recollection that they could.
Finally ho knew that he was in a
room in which others were present.
A moment later he felt them remove
the bandage from his eyes, and. blink
ing at the light, he could see a hard
faced fellow, pale and weak, on s
bleod-statned couch. Over him bent
a masked man and another man stood
near by endeavoring by improvised
bandages to stop the flow of blood.
"What can you do for this fellow?"
asked the masked man
Doctor Martin, seeing nothing else
to do. for he was more than outnum
bered now, bent down and examined
him.
As he rose, he said, "He will be
dead from loss of blood by morning,
no matter if he is properly bandaged."
"Is there nothing that can save
him?" whispered the Clutching Hand
; hoarsely.
"Blood transfusion might save him,"
replied the doctor. "But so much blood
would be needed that whoever gives
it would be liable to die himself."
Clutching Hand stood silent a mo
ment, thinking, as he gazed at the
man who had been one of his chief
reliance. Then, with a menacing ges
ture, he spoke In a low. bitter tone:
"She who shot him shall supply the
blood."
• ••••••
A few quick directions followed to
his subordinates, and as he made
ready to go he muttered, "Keep the
doctor here. Don't let him stir from
the room."
It was just before early daybreak
when the Clutching Hand and his con
federate reached tlfe Dodge house in
the city and came up to the back door,
over the fences. As they stood there
the Clutching Hand produced a mas
ter key and started to open the door.
But before he did BO he took out his
watch.
"Let me see," he ruminated. "Twen
ty minutes past 4. At exactly half
past I want you to do as I told you—
see?"
The other crook nodded.
"You may go," ordered the Clutch
ing Hand.
As the crook slunk away Clutching
Hand stealthily let himself into the
house. Noiselessly he prowled through
the halls until he came to Elaine's
doorway.
He gave a hasty look up and down
the hull. There was no sound. Quicklv
he took a syringe from his pocket and
bent down by the door. Inserting the
end under it, he squirted some liquid
through, which vaporized rapidly in a
wide, fine stream of spray. Before he
: could give an alarm Rusty was over
come by the noxious furties. rolled
over on his back and lay still.
Outside, the oilier crook was wait
ing, looking at his watch. As the hand
slowly turned the half-hour he
snapped the watch shut. With a quick
glance up and down the deserted
street, he deftly started up the rain
pipe that passed near Elaine's win
dow.
I This time there was no faithful
Rusty to give warning, and the second
intnider, after a glance at Elaine, still
sleeping, went quickly to the door,
dragged the insensible dog out of the
j way, turned the key and admitted the
j Clutching Hand. As he did so he
| closed the door.
Evidently the fumes had not
| reached Elaine, or, if they had, the
inrush of fresh air revived her, fot
she waked and quickly reached for
the gun. In an instant the other crook
had leaped at her. Holding his hand
over her mouth to prevent her scream
ing, he snatched the revolver away be
fore she could fire it.
in the meantime the Clutching Hand
had taken out some chloroform. ar J
rolling a towel in the form of a cone
' placed it over her face.
When Elaine was completely undet
the influence of the drug they lifted
| her out of bed, the chloroform cone
still over her face, and quietly carried
her to the door, which they had opened
stealthily.
Down stairs they carried ber until
they came to the library with its new
safe where they placed her on a
couch.
•••••••
At an early hour an express wagon
stopped before the Dodge house and
lennings, half-dressed, answered the
bell.
"We've come for that broken suit of
irmor to be repaired," said a work
man.
Jennings let the men in. The armor
was still on the stand and the repair
ers took armor, stand and all, laying
it on the couch, where they wrapped
it in the covers they had brought for
the purpose. They lifted It up and
started to carry it out.
"Be careful," cautioned the thrifty
Jennings.
Rusty, now recovered, was barking
and sniffing at the armor.
"Kick the mutt ofT," growled one
: man.
The other did so, and Rusty snarled
; and snapped at him. Jennings took
him by the collar and held him as the
repairers went out, loaded the armor
' on the wagon, and drove oft.
I Scarcely had they gone, while Jen
nings straightened out the disarranged
j library, when Rusty began jumping
I about, h&rking furjouslv. Jennings
looked at him in amazement aa the
1 dog ran to the window and leaped out.
He had no time to look after the
dog. though, for at that very Instant
he heard a voice calling, "Jennings.
Jennings!"
It was Marie, almost speechless. He
fotlowed her as she led the way to
Miss Elaine's room. There Marie
pointed mutely to the bed.
Elaine was not there.
There, too were her clothes, neatly
folded, as Marie had hung them tor
her.
"Something must have happened to
her!" wailed Marie.
Jennings waa now thoroughly
alarmed.
To Be Continued
BOWLING RESULTS
CASINO LEAGUE
Oi jihcums win close contest—
OK PHBUMS
Ross 18S 202 150 — 540
i Boris 142 157 171— 470
!W. A. Miller 172 188 188— 548
Beck 163 171 168— 502
Wilson 201 186 183 — 570
Totals . . 866 904 860—>2630
SENATORS
1 .\lcntgomerv 183 162 195 540
Oourley . 197 142 129 468
. Stigelman . 144 183 171 — 498
j Kobb 184 207 156 547
! I bach 170 177 ■ 202 543
Totals . 878 865 853—2596
P. R. R Y. M. C. A. LEAGUE
Kasv for the Bisons —
EAGLES
I Bitner .... 157 186 181 — 524
Hartzell .. 169 136 142 447
| f'nnll 124 161 157 442
Askin 119 133 167 419
| Diller 157 224 175 556
Totals .. 726 840 822—2388
BISONS
Ford ...... 221 157 203 581
1 Chord .... 150 164 135 449
1 Davis 159 148 138— 445
I Miller .... 171 202 185— 558
j Hostetter .. 179 170 160— 509
Totals .. 880 841 821—2542
AT THE CASINO
Schmidt bowlers defeat Ilarrisburg
Baking Co. tcam -
HAKRISRIRG BAKERY
Hinnenkamp 125 82 104— 311
I Smith 121 89 97 307
Ogden .... 98 'J2 95 — 255
j Farriday . . 84 75 84 — 243
j ' Totals .. 428 338 380—1146
SCHMIDT'S
'Storm 96 99 93 288
j Balsbaugh . 109 82 112 — 303
1 Xu.lrell ... 96 96 81— 273
j Plank 92 111 101 — 304
j Totals .. 393 38S 357—1168
SMOKERS 1 LEAGUE
Even Stevens defeat King Oscar by
88 pins—
EVEN STEVENS
Brenner .. 143 ■4 5 130— 418
! Wallace . .*. 164 128 190 — 482
Totals .. 307 273 320 900
KING OSCARS
I Gi'bson .... 142 150 153 — 445
Woodward . 107 125 135 — 367
Totals .. 249 275 288— 812
| Counsellors top Taros bv 32 pins—
TAROS
Troup 128 152 147 427
Cunningham 90 91 72 253
Totals .. 218 243 219 680
COUNSELLORS
Cunkle ... 94 112 132 338
ItSebourn .. 130 115 129 374
| Totals . . 224 227 261 — 712
ENOLA PLANE LEAGUE
Biplanes faster than Monoplanes—
MONOPLANES
A. M. King 119 154 122 395
| Winn .... 150 117 186— 453
Totals .. 269 271 308 — 848
BIPLANES
I Branyan .. 153 87 126 — 366
I Brenner ... 142 150 201 — 493
Totals . f 295 237 327 859
Slight margin for Hvdroplanes—
DIRIGIBLES
AJ. King. 133 129 103— 365
Kosenberry. 127 70 123 — 320
Totals . . 260 199 226 — 685
HYDROPLANES
I Bitner 92 124 121— 337
j Totals .. 261 256 295 — 811
PENNSY MEET DELAYED
Date Changed From April 10th to
April 17th
I The indoor track meet of the Pcnn
| svlvania Railroad Young Men's Chris
j tian Association, which was to be held
|in Chestnut street auditorium, this
j city, April 10, has been postponed un
til April. 17. The change was made
I yesterday when secretaries from a
number of associations throughout the
State held a meeting In the rooms of
the local association.
It was also announced that the Ty
rone band has been secured to furnish
the music for the occasion.
McCreath Defeats Whipperman
McCreath won from Whipperman by
the score of 100 to 72 in the Common
wealth pool tournament last evening.
Cqrl defeated Snyder by the score of
100 to 59. Slabaugh and Cleckner will
settle tournament honors Thursday
niotht.
SIX TEAMS ENTER HILL
BASEBALL ORGANIZATION
Fast Amateur Teams to Play Twilight
Qam ea During Season—Howard
Mengel, of the Beading Railway
Club, Is President
For the first time in many seasons
Harrisburg is to have a city baseball
league, the Allison Hill Amateur Base
ball league having organized with six
teams as follows: Hiek-A-Thrift, Iner
seal, Albion A. A., Galahad Club, Read
ing Athletic Association and Kagle
Athletic Club.
The leaguo will play strictly ama
teur ball and all contests will be play
ed during the evening leaving the clubs
to schedule other attractions for Sat
urdays. Three such games will he
played each week. The season will
run from early in May uutil Septem
ber. The grounds of the Reading Rail
way Club and one at Fifteenth and
Herr streets will be used. Officers
were elected as follows:
Howard Mengel, of the Reading
Athletic Association, president; Benja
min Whitman, of the Hick-A-Thrifts,
vice president, and Louis Jenkins, a
former Central High athlete and mem
ber of the Bethany Boys' Club, secre
tary and treasurer.
Committees to report at the next
meeting of the league have been ap
pointed as follows:
Rules—A. H. Fritz, chairman; A. E.
Atkinson, W. F. Stroup, H. F. Stcbbins,
George Bacon and Morris Cleary.
Schedule —Benjamin Whitman, chair
man; Charles Pattison, George Bacon,
1* A. Sanders, Karl Stonesifer and W.
W. Sterrick.
Grounds-- Earl Stonesifer, Charles
Pattison and W. W. Sterrick. Louis
Jenkins will act as a member of all
three committees.
The following representatives at
tended the meeting: Hick-A-Thrifts, A.
E. Atkinson and Benjamin Whitman;
Iner-Seal, W. P. Stroup and L. S. Lan
dis; Albion, H. F. Stebbius andi Charles
E. Pattison; Galahad, A. H. Fritz and
Paul D. Marsh; Reading, Howard Men
gel and George Bacon; Eagles, Morris
Cleary and J. E. Stonesifer.
"WILD BILL" DONOVAN SUED
Wife Seeks Divorce From Manager of
the Yankees
Savannah, Ga., March 24. —William
E. Donovan, manager of the New York
Yankees, was served with notice here
yesterday that a suit for divorce had
been instituted against him at Reno,
Nev., by Mrs. Helen Stephens Donovan.
He did not receive the bill of complaint
simply the summons, and the charge on
which the divorce is asked is not yet
known to the Yankee manager. It is
understood, however, that desertion is
the charge.
Donovan and Miss Helen Stephens
were married in March, 1905, at Wind
sor, Ont., where the bride was a noted
beauty and very prominent in society.
Donovan at that time was a member of
the pitching staff of the Detroit Amer
ican League team and was generally
regarded as a star.
Mrs. Donovan left Philadelphia in
September, 1913, and the JJew York
manager has never seen nor heard from
her since that time, has been liv
ing since that time with relatives at
Reno, which fact explains why the ac
tion was brought at the noted divorce
city. Donovan is allowed forty days to
make appearance in answer to the sum
mons, but he announced yesterday that
he did 1 not plan to contest the suit.
YORK WILL MEET TECH
Fast Scholastic Game in Chestnut
Street Hall To-night
Tech High will meet York High,
claimants of the Eastern Pennsylvania
sehblastic basketball championship, this
evening in the Chestnut street audi
torium. It will be a lively battle as
York will bring 200 rooters' up for the
game.
Melville and MeCurdv will start the
game at forward for the local team.
Yoder, who has been out of game for
more than a month on account of an
injury, will likely get back in the game
for a short time. The scrub teams of
the two schools will play a dual con
test. Dancing will follow the games.
The lineup:
Tech. York.
Melville F Wiest
Yoder F .... Eichelberger
Emanuel C Grecnawalt
Beck G Kraber
Scheffer G Shetter
Stanley A. C. Organizes
The Stanley A. C. baseball nine, com
posed of employes of the State Print
erv, organized and elected H. E. Earp,
manager; John S. iMacklin, assistant
manager; Mr. Mackert, treasurer, and
John Sweigert, captain.
Address communications to John S.
Macklin, assistant manager, 1276 State
street, for games.
DR.KLUGH, Specialist
k PkTrici.. )««««
Offices) Me Walant St, Harriahnr*. Pa.
Olacaaea of womrm all mm ■pedal,
private, apeclflc, aervona aad rhrnale
dfaeaaea. General office work. Coaaal.
fnttoa free aad coaSdeattal. Medlcta«
rurnlahed. Work guaranteed. Ckarsea
moderate. M reara' experience.
UK. KI,UGH. tke vrelUkaona Specialist
ASK FOR-, I
Lancaster's Favorite Brew ■
RIEKER'S BEER I
JNO. G. WALL, Agt. I
Nercr an |
Error T/UMOr&jk
m * h ° BASEBALL fl|
' JLs HOE S;.j I
1
you surely would trat '.j^R
pay a sporting goods
dealer $5 for a pair of '"
\j£sj Baseball or Athletic shoes
■KM . when you can buy shoes j net
like them Direct from the
*. Maker at $2.50. Remember
Hf that sporting shoes are made |U^|
by the Shoe Maker, and that
- the sporting goods dealer is
but the middleman whose
profit you have to pay— S«T« thin
profit tor your-
wlf—b ay the
Votvarlf Newark shoe , Mmn
« « O I «a Direct from the
Shoe Stores Co. frti'u" MlKi^H
Harrlsburg Branch Sitaj ,lT
315 MARKET ST.
In un o'clock
accommodate our
Order* Spertief Gttii
Hmmi cLria $S
Other c A
neiirhy t York, Rend- a ■ . ty ui)
ittK. Altoona. rne# Vfcf
more, l.ancoMfr.
-137 Stores In 97 CH'tt- l ~ = — === —
LANCASTER IN THE RUNNING
Objects to Independents Being in Line
. for Championship
To t'he Sporting Editor:
An article published in the Philadel
phia "Public Ledger'' of March 21st
states that the Harrisburg Independent
bask'etball team is in a fair way to
claim the basketball championship of
East Pennsylvania. A record of the
team is given, but no mention is made
ot' the game played at Lancaster De
cember l,.when the Independents were
defeated by the Lancaster five by the
score of 36 to 23. The Lancaster to.«s
ers have also had a great record this
season, having played 4 0 games, scor
ing 1,807 points against opponents'
1,468. They have defeated such teams
as Harrisburg Independents, Philadel
phia Garnets, Maryland State Cham
pions, of Baltimore; Vincoine, of Phila
delphia (twice); Olivets, of Reading
(twice); Camden, Eastern League; St.
Elizabeth, of American league, of Phil
adelphia; Hazleton Professionals, Har
risburg P. R. R. Y. M. C. A.; Senecas,
of Pottstown. and Jasper, Eastern
League. Jasper was defeated by 19
points.
When it comes to elaimiug the bas
ketball championship of East Pennsyl
vania, we think Lancaster is right in
lino and entitled to make a claim for
the championship.
STEELTON HIGH TO PLAY
Second Game With Central High Fri
day Night
The Steelton High school five which
defeated the local Central High five in
Steelton by three points several weeks
ago will meet the local team in a re
turn game in the Chestnut street audi
torium Friday night. This is the start
of Central's final rush toward the close
of the season.
Monday they will meet Tech High at
Chestnut street and Wednesday even
ing Altoona at this place.
LANCASTER HERE SATURDAY
Fast Independent Five to Meet Harris
burg
The Harrisburg Independents will
meet the strong Lancaster five on Sat
urday night in Chestnut street audi
torium. This game should prove an in
teresting one as Lancaster has an un
usually strong team.
On account of the rivalry between
the two towns a large crowd of Lan
caster rooters will come along and
plenty of excitement and fast basket
ball will be seen. The game will be
called at 8 o'clock and will be followed
by the usual dance.
CENTRAL TRACK TEAM
Begin Practice for Penn Relays On
Thursday
Practice of the Central High school
track men for the Penn relays, which
will be held on Franklin Field, Phila
delphia, April 24-25, will be started
Thursday afternoon at 3.45 o'clock on
Island Park. A meeting was held in the
school assembly hall yesterday and en
thusiasm for the season was stirred by
Faculty Athletic Advisor Saul and
Captain Bingham, who spoke.
Coach E. A. Kirkpatrick will have
a job getting the new men in shape
for the spring meets. Few of last
yeer's stars are in school and most of
the track men will 'be out for their
first time this seasou.
LAYS BLAME TO PLA^H
Hard Times in Baseball
Holding Up Magnate^^H
Chicago, March 24.
Chivington, president of the
Association, does not agree
plan of arbitration proposed
■ Fult 7., president of the
crs' Fraternity, for settling ti^^|
I ball
'' Fultz is talking from
I viewpoint," Chivington said
night. "Unsettled busiuess
! combined with the baseball
forced all leagues in the couitfl
adopt a policy of
aries and player limits have
and I do not think it is an
tion to say one-third of the
erg in the country will be
plovment this season.
"All this is due to the
j by the players last season.
Federal League as a club
Fraternity to buck them
of their demands, the men
! ties that cannot be allowed if^^^J
to prosper.
"Repeated jumping
' the patrons of baseball, forßPWhj
' club owners must suffer. To pro
■ themselves the club owners icirtt
I expenses."
| KLING WITH FEDERALS
Veteran Slated to Succeed Stovall
Kansas City Manager
Kansas City, Mo., March 24.—(
sistent rumors which were unden
have it that John G. Kling, for]
world's champion Cub catcher,
signed a contract to catch for and n
age the Kansas City Federal Lea
club, in case the court wills the t
here, which now seems certain.
Kling announced a month ago t
:he wanted to play in this, his li
I town. He said he wanted to buy
I American Association club here.
| failed to meet Owner Tebcau's lei
According to his close friends, li
Federal backers induced him to !
for one year at a reported salary
SIO,OOO. The deal will be annoui
at a Federal League banquet here
night.
George T. Stovall, former mana
is in very bad with the local Fed
backers, and it would not be siirj
ing if he were succeded by Kling.
Gerdes Honored at Chicago
Paul W. Gerdes, a former ten
High school basketball star, was el
ed captain of the Freshman team
the University of Chicago vesten
He was awarded class numerals for
work on the Freshman team this ,
son.
A Convalescent
requires a food tonic that will rapic
build up wasted tissue
SsssSSi S
containing Ilypophosphitea
is a most reliable prescription which'
always recommend for that purpose.
George A. Gorgas