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WAS ORIGINAL CRAB
Burkett Carried AppeI|ation
Throughout Diamond Career.
NEVER REALLY FITTED HIM
Like Evers, He Was Hard Worker.
But Always Popular Among
the Players.

BOSTON. December 20-Johnny
Evcrs is sometimes referred to as the
Human Crab but the real original
crab" of the game was Jesse Burkett.
of late years the manager and part
owner of the Worcester club of the
New England League and long prom
inent major league player Burkett
ranks among the veterans of the pas
time, for he is forty-fve years old
The appellation of crab" so often
bestowed upon Burkett was no more
deserved in his case than it is by the
fiery Trojan of the Cubs and Braves.
In his. major league playing days
Burkett was a bit different and he was
sometimes considered surly and quar-
relsome. but he was popular among his
fellow players and enjoyed The favor of
all the fans who came in contact with
him. 1t is said that the nickname of
crab was first applied to Burkett be-
cause he wore Il pin with a crab design
in his tie. but after while the public
began to inpute to him the alleged
surly disposition of the crustacean
Was a Star Slugger.
Burkett was good ball player at the
age of forty. and in his prime he was
one of the star siuSgers of the game.
He started his base ball career as a
pitcher but failed to get away with 1t.
Then he became an outfielder and
gradually developed that capac city as a
batsman that made his name famous
throughout the base ball world. While
with New York, Cleveland and St
Louis Burllett Swatted the pill over the
500 mark for eleven years, and in
three seasons-lS95, 1896 and 1S99-he
batted over 400. Burkett is the only
player in MAJOR league history since
the organization of the National
League, in 1876, to bat over 400 three
years.
Burkctt's ability with the bat was the
fruit of long and tireless practice He
was below the average as batter
when he began playing in the majors.
Having failed as a tWirler, and realiZ-
ing that only good stickwork would
keep him in the game. he set about the
task of mastering the art of batting
Few other players the game has had
have been his equals in the science of
place hitting. His batting was mar
velous. and, although he was not very
fast, he nearly always beat out his
bunts. He could make long drives and
home runs when the occasion seemed
to demand but his great specially was
placing them where the fielders
weren't When he began his great
Swatting career the foul strike rule
hadn't yet been adopted. and when he
wanted 10 get a pitchers goat he could
stand up to The plate and foul 'em off until
the slab artist was soaring high in this
blue empyrean. Jess certainly wasn't
one of those who favored the foul
strike rule, for it put one of his favor
ite stunts on the blink.
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than either of the teams was during
the past two years.
What would be true at st. Louis also
would obtain at Chicago should the
Whales and Cubs be combined. good
ball team could be presented there, for
the Cubs were not a weak team last
sea- son. though its showing was dis
appointment.
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By 7. ED GRILLO.

While will be made have league
Baltimore the by means
will be possible 1t is understood that Jack Dunn
the Feds broke the Maryland meop
had League club there does intend to
his franchise old and likely that league OF
place franchise in the old home OF the
Orioles.
final league recognition
during meeting the committees New York last week
was turned down because OF the fact that
league club has been successful there Even the Fed venture
advertised major league failed to hold its
Baltimore heavily during the it opera
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H. l.. Chancey. the new outfielder of
the Braves. secured from the Macon
South Atlantic League club. hit .359
the past season. but he stole only ten
bases, which would not indicate much
added speed to the Braves.
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Sacrifice Flies. National League, 1915

BOSTON-55.
Magee l3: Smith, :: Schmidt. 5: Maranvilie.
4: Cowdy 4: Rudolph. 4: Gather. ): Moran 8;
Connolly .: Evers, =; Esan. :; Whaling. L
Compton. l. Tyler. !: Nehf, /; Davis, l. j.
Shannon, ].
NEW YORK-52.
Fletcher IL: DOYLE 10: Merkle d l;ooert o:
Robertson l. Burns. !; Meyers /; Snodsrass, :;
Brainard /: Grant /; Mclean. /; Kelly, l.;
Becker, i; Stroud. /.
ST LOUIS-51.
Miller. 10: Long 8; Wilson; 9: Doian o; Snf
der 4: Butler 4: Hyatt. 3; Bescher. 3; Bethel,
3: Gonzalez 2: DarrinGer, l. Sallee !; Hornsby,
L. Roche. /: II ggins. /.
PHILADELPHIA 46.
Paskert S: Crayath. ): NichOff, 3; Becker. .;
Weiser 4 Luderts 4 Whitted. 3; kilefer 3;
Bancroft .: Ryrne = Alexander. l. Chalmers,
/: Demaree. !: RiXey. L. Adams /.
CHICAGO A.
Schultz q: Phelan. 4: Williams. 6; thinner
man. ): Safer, 3: Archer. 3 Murray, ,: Good, ::
Br.snahan =: kniscly, - McLarry. :: Fisher,
L. Standridge /.
CINCINNATL42
Griffith s: Wingo. 4: kllefer. 3: Herzos. :;
Mollwitz A. Olson. 3: Groh. 3: Leach. =; Clarke.
/: Williams i; Wagner, l; Beail. /; Dale, /;
McKenery. /.
BROOKLYN N-40.
Cutsl,aw 6; Hummel. ): Wheat, 4: Myers, 4;
S.engeI 4: Daubert, 4; Miller 4: McCarty. .;
Olson >: Nixon /: Smyth. l: Coombs. /; Zin-
merman 1: OMara |.
PITTSBURGH 40
Baird .. Wagner. :: Hnchman. q: Johnston
6: Schang . Carey. =: Viox. .: Gibson. |: Bar
uey /: Marnau1. l; Mccarthy, / Murphy. l.
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4 to y; Off
Reduction
Sale

We want our customers to get
the benefit OF these bargains in
buying a Suit or Overcoat for
Christmas. That's why we have
inaugurated this reduction sale.
Thousands Of yards of all-wool
fabrics from which to select, and
every garment made in our own
workrooms and fully guaranteed.
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MARK FOR FLETCHER
Led National League in Sacri-
flee Flies With Fifteen.
SHERWOOD MAGEE SECOND
Aerial Suicides Sent In Winning
Runs in Forty Three Games
Last Season.
SHERWOOD MAGEE SEC0M[
BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN.

Larry Doyle of the Giants still would
have been the 1915 National League bat
ting leader If the raising Of a sacrifice
ay had not exempted him from time at
hat. but his stick credit would have been
.314. not 800 The aerial sacrifice rule
helped Fred Luderus' batting average to
the extent of three points, Tom Griffith's
four points, Bill Hinchman's three points
and Jake Daubert's two points. The
Superba captain would not have been in
Society of the Three Hundred If the rule
makers of the major leagues had not de-
cided, prior to the start of the 1908 cam
naign. that a fly to the outfeld that scored
a man was just as valuable as an infleid
bunt that advanced a runner. Jake pat
ting average, under the scoring rules III
vogue in 1907, would have been .2s9.
MANY wears previously a batter scoring
a man from third OIL d long fly was eX-
empted from time at bat. Billy Muir
rav former Philly manager and eX-Plrate
scout had the old rule restored to the
code.
Arthur Fletcher of the Giants led the
Tenerites in manufacturing sacriflces oil
the outfield kind. He was credited with
fifteen. or two more than the runner-up-
Sherwood Magee of the BRAY ves-obtallied.
Resides Fletcher and Magee, two other
athletes-Doyle of the Giants and Miller
of the Cardinals-reached double hgures
in suburban suicides. Each was credited
with ten Fletcher led the Giants ana
the league with fifteen, Masee OF the
Braves with thirteen, Miller of the
Cardinals with ten. Baird of the Pirates
with nine Griffith of the Reds with eight,
Paskert of the Phillies with eight and
Cutshaw of the Superbas with six. There
was a lie for the leadership on the Cub
machine, Schultz and Phelan each boost
ing seven flies to the outfield that scored
men All told, there were $40 sacrifices
of the Murray kind. Boston getting the
most fifty-fve, and Brooklyn and Pitts
burrh the least--forty The individual
and club records are appended:
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DISPOSAL OF MORGAN TREASURES

1t is reported from New York that although j.
P Morgan is about to sell his father collection of
majocas rare Italian potteries including speci-
mems owned by Popes and members of the Medci
family he will probably make no further sales
of the Morgan treasures on exhibition in the Metro
'politan Museum of Art The explanation is made
that the hnancer is disposing of sections of the
collection at present in order that he may iquidate
accounts for art objects outstanding against his
father at the time of DEATH to the amount of
$60000 0O0 and that he has already realized within
a million dollars of that figure by the recent sale
of Chinese porceains and Fragonard paintings
That the Morgan treasures are being disposed of
has of course disappointed persons who are inter
ested in SUCH things. The collection of Chinese por-
ceains the most complete of its kind and
doubtless never be duplicated. The aggrega-
ton of Fragonards could not be matched in this
country, and the majoicas by far the finest in
private possession anywhere.
Even with these treasures taken from the Metro
politan Museum however there will still remain
there Morgan art objects to the estimated value of
$15000,000. Indications seem to be that these
objects, worth more than the cost of our Capitol
upon the hill, will, if they should not remain
much longer where they are, be retained by
Mr. Morgan, for they free of debt and therefore
give no good justification for their sale.
The present owner of the treasures then. too is
said to be shrewd enough business man to sell art
objects only when he make profit on the
investment. The treasures remaining in the Museum
were bought by the elder Morgan at unusually high
prices, and in the present market they would hardly
bring satisfactory figures.
1t may not be too much to presume, therefore
that Mr.. Morgan will soon have disposed of all the
art objects he intends to sell, and will then turn
over the valuable remaining specimens to the Metro
politan the Morgan Memorial Museum: espec-
tally so inasmuch as these treasures will be subject
to taxation under the Inheritance Law on March
81, next, when the specified time will have ELAPSED
since the elder Morgan's DEATH
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CAUTION FOR AN EARLY SPRING

Signs of spring not lacking in this merry.
merry month of February. To be sure we still
are wearing overcoats and the man of the house
still is compelled to rise at an unhoIy hour and 90
down into the cellar to look after the furnace but
those are mere incidents and do not dispose of the
major fact that there some grounds for belief
that the backbone of winter, perhaps, has been
snapped
From Middletown comes the announcement of
blue birds being by members of the Eddie
Collins Club at Branch Intersection From Allison
Hill, never behind in the matter of early spring
news, come well authenticated statements of the
warble of the robin being heard near Reservoir
Park. In New Cumberland the creepy shad fly has
been seen, and in all parts of Harrisburg BOYS are
playing marbles, and top spinning has begun
Baseball has invaded the vacant lots, and the
first accident the diamond has been reported
from Long Island where players arm was broken
sliding to second" Near Selinsgrove garter
snake emerged from its lair and looked with defiant
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HITCHCOCK IS VERYFUNNY
Comedian in Sprightly Musical Piece,
''The Beauty Shop Provides
Laugh h-Producing Show

Raymond Hitchcock and his spright-
ly company in the musical comedy,
"The Beauty Shop made lot of fun
for big. audience in the Majestic
theatre last night. Tuneful musical
comedies have been scarce in Harris
burg this winter but the warmth of the
reception of the Hitchcock aggregation
seemed to indicate that there still is
demand in this city for this long
tabhshed sort entertainment.
"The Beauty Shop is built on the
lines of the usual light musical show.
1t has the usual accompaniment of pret'
ty girls and catchy songs and dances
OF course every musical comedy does
not have Hitchcock in it and that is
what made the show last evening dis
tinctive. This funny man, with voice
so conspicuously bad as to make it alb
solutely ridiculous,-as was intended,
was on the stage most of the time
and made the whole thing "go.' I'm.
fortunately Hitchcock injected a good
deal of by-play suggesting profanity
which did not add to the fun of the
piece in any particular and which
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WHEN NAMES NEED TO BE CHANGED

Following the efforts of family in Boston to
have its name changed to one less ordinary a
metropolitan newspaper conducted investigation
in effort to learn whether average persons would
alter their names if they could The results of the
symposium, which need not be taken to seriously
but which are of some interest, to the effect
that the average man would not go out of his way
to have his name changed. and that it is seldom
that person is dissatisfied with the name of his
fathers.
The trouble with the members of the Boston fam
lily seemed to be that they could not properly enjoy
life with an Ordinary name as constant him
drance to their social advancement. Their petition
name was Grimm seemed to be of the opinion that
if he could have happy existence with such a
name, the petitioners should be able to get along
somehow with theirs. The case if it had any merits
at all, had very weak ones.
That most persons thoroughly satisfied with
their names seems evident. Even when surnames
are common ones, first names can always be made
attractive. They may be arranged so as to give
an individual distinctive appellation, no matter
what last name runs in his family. This must, of
course be attended to by parents at birth of their
children, and the bearers of the prescribed names
have no choice in the matter. Yet it is only in ex-
cepional instances that persons would to make
any changes in after life.
One case in which change of name was certainly
justified that of Viola Cecilia Sezepankowicz
who applied the other day in Philadelphia for per-
mission to be called Viola Abel This is but one
example of the names of immigrants which do not
fit well in the United States Changes in such case
should be encouraged
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eye at the ground hog. Down near Philadelphia
in Chester county, to be defnite-the dandelion has
reared its saffron face and kissed merry salute to
the sun. In Capitol Park the grackle and the
squirrel have said 'heo" to each other, and the
sparrows "bushy-tas' '-and doves have had their
first taste of imported southern peeans.
But not yet shall we sing Hail. beauteous
spring! for the ides of March yet to come, and
with them may appear that stealthy breeder of
pneumo-ac actinomyeosis- last snow Till that
is past will take chances in diseardng woolen
undergarments.
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More Who Served the State

But three former. Secretaries of In
ternal Affairs are living-Thomas j.
Stewart Norristown, now Adjutant
General; Isaac b. Brown, Cory, and
James w. Latta, Philadelphia. Only
one former Adjutant General is living,
James w. Latta, Philadelphia. Of for
mer Insurance Commissioners there
survive James H. Lambert, Philadel-
phia; David Martin, Philadelphia, and
Samuel W. MeGulloch, harrisburg.
Former superintendent of Public
Printing and Binding vet living are
William Hayes Grier. Columbia; Bar
ton D. Evans, West Chester, and
Thomas NJ. Jones, Harrisburg. Former
State Librarians are represented by
DR.. George E. Reed, of Carlisle, now of
Delaware. Robert MeAfee, Allegheny,
and John A. Berkey, Somerset, are the
surviving Commissioners of Banking.
Henry Houck, of Lebanon, who served
from 1869 to 1907 as Deputy Superiu-
tendent of Public Schools, is the only
survivor of that Office, and he is Sec
retary of Internal Affairs.
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might much better have been omitted,
but he had besides whole lot of orig
inal, droll humor that was thoroughly
enjoyed
Hitchcock s curtain speech after the
second act was especially amusing. He
poked fun at the Washington admins
tration in a harmless sort of way and
also took a harmless fling at Colonel
Roosevelt. He attacked lawmakers as
a class, characterizing them as
"'boobs who don t work but who are
paid, by those who do work, to make
laws for the people. .-
The play has about as much plot as
usually is written into the lines of a
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Tonaue-End Topics
At the Pretending Age"

Jenny and Louise, aged and a.,
were at the happy pretending" age
Whatever they did not have they pre-
tended they had. Thus their happiness
was complete. One afternoon Jenny,
arriving with her doll for social chat,
found Louise seated on the doorstep in
the intense enjoyment of a bag of
candy, The caller sat down close to
her hostess, who munched away in 81.
ience. AT last Jenny said sweetly:
80, Louise, tend you gave me some
cardy."
80, Jenny, was the serene re-
sponse, =" tend you had some"
Contributed by Cora C. Staples.
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Some Other Former Officials

Six former Attorneys General of
Pennsylvania still are William
S. kirkpatrick, Easton; William T..
Hensel, Lancaster; John P. Elkin. Indl-
ana; Hampton l.. Carson, Moses Hamp-
ton Todd and John G. Bell, Philadel-
phia. Former Auditors General still
on the active list are General David
McMurtrie Gregg, Reading; Amos II.
hylin, Laneastef;, Levi G. McCauley,
West Chester; Edmund B. Hardenbergh,
Honesdale; William P.NSnyder, Spring
City; Robert X. Young, Wellsboro,
the present State Treasurer, and A. l..
SiSson, Erie. OF former State Treas
urers there yet live Henry K Boyer,
Philadelphia, now of Norristown; john
W. Morrison, Allegheny; James S. Bea-
CON, Greensburg; James Z. Barnett,
Washington; Frank G.. Harris, Clear
field; William H. Berry, Chester; John
o. Sheath. Philadelphia, and c. Fred
Wright, Susquehanna, now a member of
the Public Service Commission.
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Whatever became of "Hampy" Moores project to make
the Susquehanna river navgabe up Harrsburg
Perhaps the electric light eompanys on the
island merely a forerunuer
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THE LIMIT OF sLowNEss

Rankin-"It takes long time get anything through
Beanboroughs SKULL doesn't it9'
Phyle-"I should say it does; that will be dead
and buried before he finds he sick"-Youngs-
town Telegram
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light musical production. AS explained
by Hitchcock it is intended only to
make the people laugh and in that it
succeeded admirably.
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MAY BE FALSE ALARM

"Oh, DEAR daughter Here the telegraph boy up
to the house!"
Don't worry, mother Perhaps it's not coming col
lect. ''-Yonkers Statesman.
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HIGH TONED

She-"Are the Howlers very high-toned peopel'
He-"High-tonedi I should say they When they
quarrel You hear them two blocks away."-Boston
Transcript.
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NEITHER so EFFICIENT

He-You don't keep house with half the efficiency that
my mother did
She-"And you don't make money with half the rapidty
that my father did."-Richmond Times Dispatch.
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The Colonel has been heard from. He made speech
somewhere the anniversary of Washington BIRTH and
referred falls election in Pennsylvania
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CONDUCTOR HANDICAPPED

With but three minutes to catch his tain the travelling
salesman inquired of the street conductor:
Cant you go faster than thisi'
Yes, the bellringer replied "but to stay with
my car."-Harpers
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THOUGHT HE UNDERSTOOD

Waiter any of the compounds this bill of fare
of deleterious nature2"
Oh, yes, sir, have the latest things out-Exchange
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CAN'T MAKE EN- LEARN 1T

Gaylord Tin cafe dansant)-"Theres my wife! And
I'll bet she's looking for me-"
Fair Companion-"Oh. dear Why can't some people
understand that womans place is in the homef"-Puck
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FOR LITERARY DIGESTION

II would like literary fare before guests
What author would you recommend
why not begin with Hogg and Lambf''-Exchange.
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OVERHEAD CHARGES

The Boss-"whats this item your expense account,
Overhead expenses SAT-"
The Travelling Salesman-"That was an umbrella
ght."-Philadelpha Bulletin.
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With three bills before the Legislature covering the
subject of child labor that body ought evolve something
worth while.
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LYkENs VALLEY COAL SHIPMENT

The shipment of coal over the Sum-
nit Branch Railroad for the week end
ing February 20. 1915. together with a
comparison with the corresponding
week last year, was as follows
short Mountain COIIiery
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TOLD NLIGHTER VEIN
COMES BY PAIRS

Trouble never comes singlv, does it p
mo; know family who last year had double pneu
mona and the next wear had wins.'-Exchange.
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GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD

The Man-"Of course, you understand. dear, that
engagement must be kept seeret?'
The Woman-"Oh yes dear. 1 tell everybody that. -
New York American.
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Lines by w. H. Kister

Belknap. old boy. you're a peach;
You oert'nly can hand out some screech;
BY which | don't mean
That you're off in your bean;
Don't mistake my abrupt style of speech.
The topics you handle so clearly
Compel us to prize you quite dearly;
Even though. now and then,
Your vitriolic pen
Affects our digestion most queerly.
No form of prose under the sun.
From sermon to frivolous pun.
Abstruse, scientific,
Wide awake, soporifie,
That you have not cleverly done.
Don't assume for one single minute
We think you wouldn't be in 1t
II poetry you'd tackle;-
You'd sure make things cackle;-
So hesitate not to begin IL.
Some people might dub you smarty
Because of your arguments tarty;
But say, holy smoke
With one logical stroke
You demolish the opposite party.
SO. Belknap. old top, go to 1t;
II you're thinking of quitting. don't do
y il;
There's just this about YOU
We can't do without you:
At least that's the way we view 1t.
(These lines were written by w. H.
Kister, member of the~Dauphin
County Bar but now resident of Phila.
delphia, and printed in recent issue
of the Philadelphia "Record.~
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Watch Harrisburg grow! Keep your eye on the
''iitney bus"
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Perhaps the vagrants who fled the stone-pile
the almshouse had touch of spring fever.
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How the War Hit Him

Madam, said the tattered and
torn suppiant to the benevolent lady
who answered his timid rap at the
door, "have you any old clothes you
can spare for an unfortunate victim of
the European warf'
II think have. my poor man; but
how does this happen2 You cannot
have been in this war, surely"
No, Madam humblv replied the
sufferer; '.but my wife has sent all
my clothes to the Belgians.
Contributed by Cora @. Staples.
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WEATHER FORECASTS

Harrisburg and vicinity: Rain and
cooler tonight, Thursday partly cloudy
and cooler.
Eastern Pennsylvania: Rain and
cooler tonight. Thursday partly cloudy
and cooler. Increasing south winds
shifting to west tonight.