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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
V. c. MCCORMICK CHOSEN
YALE'S FOOTBALL GUIDE

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compete with the system perfected at
Harvard by Percy Haughton, the Yale
athletic committee last night placed in
charge of the football situation in all
its departments Vance C. Mccormick,
eX-mayor of Harrisburg; Brink
Thorne, of New York, and John r.
Fitzpatrick, of New York, three of the
greatest players who ever wore the
Blue on the gridiron and men who
since their graduation from Yale have
distinguished themselves in other lines
or activity. All were prominent Yale
men in social life as we'll as in ath-
letlcs as undergraduates, and none of
them has ever been professional
coach.
An Ideal Selection
THE selection of Mccormick, Thorne
and Fitzpatrick to take UP the matter
of football at Yale is generally consid-
cred here to be an ideal one. McCor-
mick graduated in 1898. was football
captain and has been very successful
IN business and politics. He was twice
picked on All-American teams.
''Mr. Thorne, who was captain of
the football team in the Fall of 1895,
was graduated the following Spring
lie lives in New York, where he has
been successful in business Both
Mccormick and Thorne were baekfeld
men and captains.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick, All-American end
on the teams of Ted Coy and Fred
Daily, was captain of the Yale track
team in 1911. his senior year.. and is
doing well in New York.
This special football committee will
go into the situation here with the
thoroughness demanded by both grad
yates and undergraduates and their
coming means that persons of respon-
sibility will make the selection of the
next coaching staff. The Yale Cor
poration only recently called the at
tention of the general athletic COM
mittee to it's supervision over athletics,
but the appointment to this board of
Mr.. Mccormick will lead to the ap-
proval of it's later actions Mr.. McCor-
mick is member of the Yale Cor
poration."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
DAVENPORT MAY
RETURN TO REDS.
If Feds Make Fight Gilmore's
Kick Will Bring Further
Issue
Special to The Telegraph

New York, Dec. 2,--Acoording to
advices from st. Louis, Dave Daven-
port, who jumped the Reds to the Feds
when Marsans flew the coop, and who
has since developed into great
pitcher, seeks reinstatement and
wants to return to Cincinnati. His
Federal League contract has expired.
If a fight is made by the Federal
League to retain this star, President
Gilmore must eat his own words.
Davenport thinks that he can be
practically classed as either u free
agent or a suspended Red, who is eligi-
bic for reinstatement. His case is
certainly an odd one, and presents
some curious angles, both from q legal
and a baseball point of view.
Since Davenport's original Cincin-
natl contract would by this time have
run out, he could not be held to Gin
cinnati allegiance, according to the
decisions of sundry judges who ruled
against the reserve rule and the style
of contract that was in vogue when
Long Dave played with the Reds.
Was u Jumper
At the same time he was a jumper
he Topped to the Feds while his
contract was still in force, and played
the theories of organized ball the only
way in which Davenport could count
himself eligible would have been 20
lay off and play no ball at all during
the period between his leaving Gin
cinnati and the expiration of his con-
tract.
The Federal claim on Davenport is
one which, if brought to an issue,
makes them turn squarely against
their own teachings and printed utter
ances. If this contract has run out,
he can only be claimed by the st.
Louis Feds under the same identical
reserve rule as that maintained by or
ganized ball. Therefore, IL the Feds
try to hold Davenport, they reverse
their own statements and attack their
own court proceedings.
There are two ways to look at the
Davenport case. He jumped con-
tract, and. therefore, according to
most of the heads of organized ball,
must stay outside the barriers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
Dinner For McLinn;
Retires as Sport Writer
Special to the Tclcgrabh

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 2.-Stoney
McLinn, associate sports editor of the
Public Ledger, retired from Phila-
delphia journalism last night to as
sume the editorship of the American
Shooter, new magazine which
makes its bow to the public on January
1, 1916.
In order to show the appreciation
of his worth his sports writer asso-
ciates and those whom he has come
constantly in contact with will make
him the honored guest at a good fell
lowship dinner to be given in the New
Winter Garden at the Hotel Bingham
Thursday, December 8, at $3.50 o'clock
An enjoyable program has been ar
ranged by the committee of which NJ.
Neagle Rawlins is chairman. Will
liam III. Recap is chairman of the ban
quet committee. While Harry T. Joc-
dan, of Keiths will look after the
entertainment end of the program.
The price per plate will he SO and
all applications should be addressed
to Arba M. Pennington, treasurer, New
Bingham Hotel, 11th and Market
streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
VINCOME HERE
SATURDAY NIGHT
Lost to Independents Last Sea-
son by Close Score; Locals
to Play at Huntingdon

The Harrisburg Independents line
up Saturday night against one of the
best teams on their schedule when
they play the Vincome five of Phila-
delphia. This team is in the same
class as the Garnets, who defeated the
locals Thanksgiving night.
Vincome lost to the home tossers
last season by one point in an extra
five-minute period and are coming
back for revenge. They have already
twice defeated Shamokin, whom the
Independents played in the opening
game on the Shamohn floor.
The glass blackboard which the In
dependents had installed for last Sat
urday night proved impracticable for
1t broke when the ball was thrown
against it before the game. and was
replaced by the wooden board. Plans
are now being made for a screen
blackboard, which will answer the
same purpose and will not be so
fragile. The Independents play Juniata
College ut Huntingdon tomorrow
night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
Air Waves Cause Curves
Says Lehigh Professor
Special to The Telegraph

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 2.-Baseball
fans who would know why balls
thrown by Alexander break away from
the. plate may read how DIR. William
S. Franklin. of Lehigh University ex-
plains it. The scientist lectured re-
Gently on How a Baseball Curves" be-
fore the Scientific Club of Haverford
College.
The ball curves, he said, because of
the difference of air pressures, accord
ing to the brenouli waves. As it
speeds through space one air current
accompanies it, while another, bound
in an opposite direction, resists, caus-
ing the sphere to spin and break.
AS for the spit BALI the smooth,
dry surface of the ball comes in con-
tact with the air, leaving in its i'm
mediate wake a vacuum. The damp
ened portion of the horsehide affords
the greater resistance, with the re-
sultant tantalizing wiggle when it
reaches the batter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
Deny Brickley Rumors;
Penn Chairman Explains
Special to The Telegraph

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. At was
rumored around Franklin Field yes
terday afternoon that Charles Brickley
former star backfield man of Harvard
University, of two seasons ago, and
having a very successful season this
year in coaching Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, is being considered for the
coaching job of the University of
Pennsylvania football eleven for 1916.
II was stated that Bricllley had been
asked to coach the Red and Blue grid
iron warriors, but according to Whar-
ton Sinkler, chairman of this years
football committee, there is no truth
in the statement.
The present football committee has
nothing to do with the appointment of
the coaching staff for next season.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
Sports of All Sorts

Camp Hill High school five will play
Lebanon High at Lebanon tomorrow
evening.
The Globe Right Posture team last
night won from Hummelstown
Juniors, score 81 to 20.
Local Gross Country teams were out
practicing yesterday. The first an
anual event between Central, Tech and
Harrisburg Academy takes place on
Saturday.
In the Elks series last night the
Braves won over the Tigers, scores
2311 to 2173. Weber was high man
with 212 and $780,
Cornell athletic authorities will not
permit post-season game with
Pittsburgh.
Fred Mitchell of the Boston Ma
tionals has been elected coach for the
Harvard football! team.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
Thespian Basketball Team
to Start Season Next Week

The Thespian basketball team is
getting ready for the season.. Muir
ray NJ. Washburn will be manager. lie
has been in charge of this crack five
for three years. Karl (Pete) Steward
will be the captain. The affairs of
the team will be directed by a board
of advisors which includes:
Wellington G. Jones, Harrisburg
Telegraph Robert r. Free, Star-In-
dependent, and e. A. Kirkpatrick,
Patriot. Games will be played with
college, eastern and central league
teams and scholastic flves The line
up of the teams will include Stewart
little, Krout, Crump, Tamm, T. De
vine, Fisher and Lynch. The team
will be trained by Frank J. (Cyclone)
Kelley.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
Syracuse Crushes Oregon
in Seasons Final Game
Special to The Telegraph

Portland, Ore, Dec. with the
aid of a bewildering assortment of
plays, the Syracuse University foot
ball team defeated the Oregon Agri-
cultural College here yesterday %
to 0.
The eastern aggregation got the
jump on the Aggies the moment the
latter kicked off and scored two touch
downs before the western players got
their hands on the ball. With one ex-
ception, the Aggies' defeat was the
worst they have suffered this season.
The Aggies had gained considerable
prestige earlier in the season by de-
feating the Michigan Aggies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
Cumberland Valley Railroad
TIME TABLE
In Effect June 27. 1915.

TRAINS leave Harrisburg-
For winchester and Martinsburg at
,5.63 s7:52 a. M, "3:40 p. m.
For Hagerstown. Chant bersburg. Car
isle. Mechanicsburg and intermediate
ss:4O. 5:37. "7:45. I'll: 200 p. m. -''''
Additional trains for Carlisle and
Mechanicsburg at 9:4S a. M. 2:16, 3:2s
For Dillsburg at 500, s7.52 and
s11:5s a. M. 2:16. '3:4O. 5:37 and $50
p. m. - ~
Sunday. II. A. RIDDLE,
J. H TONGE. G.. p. A.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
Fix Major League Dates
For Years Annual POw-wow
Special to The Telegraph

New York, Dec. 2. - Within two
weeks time the National League base
ball magnates will go into their an
nual session in this city. Such was
the information handed out by Presi-
dent John K. Tener here to-day. On
the same day that the league goes into
session, December IA, the board of
directors will gather for their pow
WOW.
The National League session will
probably be dragged out until Friday.
Probably what may command most
of the National club owners time and
consideration will be the oft-repeated
stories of peace between their league
and the Feds. This subject has been
discussed pro and con for months
now and if there is anything in it the
coming meeting should bring 1t out.
Peace in baseball may not be seri-
ously discussed at the meeting of the
American League officials, who will
hold their annual pow-wow on De-
cember Is in Chicago, but several i'm
portant rules regulating the game
may be adopted
Legislation against transforming
with the approval of the National
Commission is expected at this con-
fab. President Johnson thinks these
trips injure the game and also the
players.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
ROYAL ARCANUM BANQUET
Special to The Telegraph

Marietta, Dec. 2.-Chiques Council,
No. 1925, Royal Arcanum, held ban
quet and turkey supper to-day State
Regent c. Il. Geisneberger, of Lancas-
ter, and District Deputy Nauman made
addresses. Chiques Council has been
awarded a prize for gain in member
ship.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
WELLYS KSGORNER

Centrals claim to the scholastic
football championship for this year
has not been disputed. Greensburg
High won the honors in the west and
would not consider the challenge from
the local eleven
Weber, who is a member of the
Tiger team in the Elks bowling league,
Is running ahead for individual honors
this season. Last night he was again
prominent, pulling down two big
scores.
Here is some news that few people
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
vNCOE C. NEXT BASKETBALL ATTRACTION SPORT

One of the most familiar tricks that
has been associated with football as
they used to play it was that where the
Indian fullback snapped the ball up
the back of his jersey. and the oppos-
ing team ran around like chickens
after corn in a vain effort to locate the
player with the ball.
Another wise play was inaugurated
when the entire team. Just before the
game, came trotting out on the field
with life-size football painted on
each players jersey so that in play it
was next to impossible to be sure that
you were taclzling the right man. The
entire baclfield would embrace the
imaginary ball and crouch in run.
which made it very confusing for their
poor opponents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
BARRIERS WIN MATCH

In the Harrisburg Academy bowling
series last night the BARRIERS won over
the Bitters, taking three games The
scores were: 1920 to 1853. w. Zier
of the BARRIERS had both high scores
13O and S19. The standing of the
teams follow:
STANDING of Taap,c
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
INDEPENDENTS BOWL BIG SCORE

An interesting bowling series was
offered by the Casino Independent
League last night. The Puritans de-
feated the Oregon five, scores 21S0
to 2133. The Maiestics won from
the Trojans, scores 1902 to 2244. The
Puritans took third place. The stand
ing of the teams follow:
Standing of the Clubs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02

RETURNING - Special Train Will
leave Philadelphia, Reading Ter
mimi, at $50 u. M, same date for
above stations.
Tickets good only ON date of ex-
cursion ON above Special Train I'm
each direction. Children between 8
and IL years of age, half fare.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02

are familiar with: Did you know that
a former small college in Pennsylva-
mia, called the Pennsylvania Military
College, originated the use of signals
In football game, and with that sys-
tenn defeated Princeton by large
score just twenty-seven years ago?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02

The announcement that the Carlisle
Indians may not have. a football team
to represent them next season comes
as a surprise. The Indians have al
ways played clever. heady game, and
were noted for their trick plays.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-16
HIS MAIL ORDER
BRIDE CROSSES
US. IN STORM
Couple Meets for First Time
In Bridgeport This
Morning
OF ROMANCE IN {
UNCLE SANS MAILS
Girl Braves Blizzard to Come
Here From Montana to
Be Married

A pretty romance, which began in
the perusal of a matrimonial maga-
zine. resulted in the bride-to-beg trav-
cling halfway across the continent
in the recent blizzard. She missed her
husband in the crowds of New York,
but met him in Bridgeport. The
romance will be consummated by Rev.
P. E. Matthias, pastor Of the Kings
Highway Congregational church at z
o'clock tonight.
At that hour Joseph A. Heber1e, of
1921 Fairfield avenue and Miss Bessie
Naoma Whitaker, of Rock Island.
ILL.,, who never before this morning
saw each other, will be united.
To reach the side of the man she
had chose by photograph for her life
long mate, Miss Whitaker, who for
rnerly worked in Rock Island factor
les, braved the long railroad Journey
in the face of a blizzard which com
pIetely tied up transportation from
the west. She was plentifuIly sup
piled with money and though. her
train crawled eastward from Buffalo
and uponAreachihg New York, the pre-
arranged signals of red roses1 failed
in the dense jam of the Grand Cen
tra1 depot. She bought a ticket. for
Bridgeport, where she arrived late
last night.
HeberIe anxiously sought the New
ork police stations in search of her
and finally returned to Bridgepor
much cast down. When he arose this
morning he greeted his bride-to-be
for-the first time as she came out of
a room supplied by Heberle's land
lady, to whom Miss Whitaker told her
story
Seated in the parlor. 1921 Fairfield
avenue, this morning, the, parties to
the coming marriage consented to re-
late to the Farmer the history of their
romance.
Miss Whitaker. who is a brunette
with striking eyes, told how, with a
father and sister to support, she had
worked for a living from an early age.
Her mother had often spoken of the
East and she wanted to see what it
was like In a spirit of adventure
she inserted a small notice in mat
rimonial paper, which eventually
found it's way east and while lying
upon table in a. barber shop one day
was observed by Heberle, who is en-
ployed as a machinist in the Reming-
ton NJ. C. company, here. Struck by
the tenor of the advertisement he had
written to the girl and a vo1uminous
he sent funds for Miss Whittaker's
transportation and arranged for the
license.
At the wedding tonight the pair viii
be accompanied to the altar by Mr..
Percy Green and Mrs Minnie Hum
phreys, residents Of the West End. =
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-16
MISS K NOTED
SOCIETY BEAUTY,
in COLT DIVORCE
Mysterious Woman With
Husband in Paris, Plain
tiff Charges.
HER NAME A SECRET
BY ATTORNEYS PACT
Wife of New York Lawyer
Says She Drank Whisky,
Cocktails and Highballs.

The charge that her husband had
Hspent a night in Paris with q wealthy
| Miss x' and the admission that Mrs.
Colt had been in the habit of drinking e
whiskey, cocktails and highballs were
features of Mrs. Colts testimony this
the trial of her divorce action against
Harris Dunscomb Colt, prominent New
York lawyer, was resumed.
Much was said about the mysterious
Miss X,'' whose name was kept sec-
ret by agreement of counsel. Mrs.
Colt said her husband and the girl,w o
came from q well known New York
family. sailed on the same steamer for
Europe and both stayed at the Hotel
Continental in Paris. Then the cou-
pie went to Stuttgart in Germany. Mrs.
Colt said Miss x'' had no maid or
chaperone with her. although she
could well AFFORD to have one q
Under cross reorganization by Former
Assistant District Attorney Rand OF
New York Mrs Colt ssaid she did not
know of any improper relations be-
tween her husband and 'enGiss x-'' She
finally admitted she never had any be-
lief that there was. Later in the ex-
animation letter from Mrs Colt to
her husband was read in which Mrs.
Colt said that unless her husband
ceased his cruelty she would sue him
1 L
continued, Miss x shall figure prom
Iinently in the suit
ssDid you ever call your husband
Ia brute ?' asked Attorney Rand ST
have and do yet" she replied.
did yep ever call him damned
II don't remember"
st'Do you still consider him a cad, a
brute, a hypocrfte and a coward ?''
ssT dol,'
Mrs. Colt said her husbands actions
In disputing with her about the care
of the child made her a nervous
wreck
The question Of Mrs. Colts drinking
habits was then taken up. The plain
tin did not deny she had been sent
to sanitarium but said her husband
did this in order to take the child out
of her custody.
She said she had signed a pledge
on a previous occasion at her hus-
bands request and had promised not
to drink whiskey but she broke the
pledge when she found Colt was hav-
thought the pledge applied to whiskey
and did not include brandy, gin or
absinthe.
On examination by her own lawyer
Attorney jacobson of New York, Mrs
Colt said when she. lived with her
nuSDanQ she always LOOK "a cocktail
for dinner. Later when she was III
she drank whiskey and brandy~by the
teaspoonfu1 but denied she inbibed to
excess Judge Case asked her if she
always drank according to, teaspoon
full measure and she replied, "Oh, I
drank highbaIls all my life
She insisted it was her husbands 8
cruelty which caused her to have
nervous breakdoNns and declared that
since they had separated she had
never had a return Of her nervous
trouble. In the past five years she
had been i'll only twice, both occa-
sions being trivial. Prior to 1908
Colt had never accused hey of drink
ing. she said.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-16
AUSTRIAN REPLY SEEKS
SPECIFIC DETAILS, SAYS
UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT 4

ington cabinet now has given a. posi-
tive declaration that at the above
mentioned incident subjects of the
United States came to grief, the Aus
tro=FIungarian government in princi-
pie is prepared to enter into ex-
change of opinion with the American
government.
..But in the first incident it must
raise the question of whether this
government refrained from juridically
motivating the demands stated in its
note with regard to the special cir
cunstances of the discriminating Incl
dents which are especially. pointed out
by the American government and in
the place of such motivation point to
an exchange of correspondence which
il had with another government about
another affair.
1.-The Austro- Hungarian government
is unable to follow the Washington
cabinet in this unusual attitude as it
in no way possesses a knowledge of
all the correspondence having refer
ence to it, The AuStro-Hungarian
government also is not of the opinion
that the knowledge could be sufficient
for the present case which, according
t. it's own information is materially
different from the case or cases to
which the American government ap-
parently is referring. Therefore, the
Austro- Hun garian government must
leave it to the WashingtofS cabinet to
draw up the individual legal maxims
which the commander of the sub
marine is alleged to have violated
when sinking the Ancona.
The government expresses to Ann
hassador Perfield fullest sympathy for
the victims of the Ancona sinking
says the correspondent
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-16
SEAMAN
LOSES HIS LIFE
DURING STORM
Falls Down Hatchway in
Blow OFF Nantucket and
Skull is Fractured.


Tossed from the bridge of his ship
during the raging storm on Monday.
and thrown through the after hatch
way until he struck on his head in the
hold, Captain Charles Hubbs, one of
the best known seaman of this port,
was killed in Nantucket harbor. His
son was with hirp at the time and
the boat was SO swung about by the
waves that it touched the dock and
he was able to jump to land and seek
help. Captain Hubbs, however, was
beyond any help, as his skull had
been fractured at its base by the fall.
He was master of the two-masted
schooner L. L. Hammond and formerly
commanded the Oakwbod. Once he was
in the employ Of the H. J. Lewis Oys-
ter Co. He had engaged in coast trade
for a great many years and was
known all over the east. He is sur
vived by his widow and four children
in this city and the body has been
brought here in charge of Henry z.
Bishop, the local undertaken.