Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

| company appears a trifie too fast for
them. but they are all pluggers and
seem to be getting a lot of enjoyment
out of the league games.
No other industrial and few minor
leaguers have such a widely scattered
circuit. From Lebanon. Steelton or
| Bethlehem, Pa, to Fore River, Mass,
is a jump of more than $50 miles.
| Whenever one of these teams is
scheduled to play in Fore River on a
| saturday. IL is necessary to leave on
Friday. The jump from Bethlehem to
| Sparrows Point. Md, is more than
! $50 miles.
Bethlehem and Lebanon. the two
teams that are fighting for the cham
pionship honors, have bunch of star
players.
Lehigh Stars I'm Lineup
Anderson and Wright. a former
Lehigh University battery. do the
bulk of the work for the Schwab
headquarters team. Wright also saw
service in Lafayette. Mathag and
Twombley. two Of Lehigh's hardest
| hitters during the last season, are
playing in the outfield. and Yap. for
| mer Lehigh first baseman. who first
attracted attention as a member of
the Chinese University team. which
toured this country for several years.
is also in the outfeld.
"Achenbach. who used to play under
the name of Charles in the old Tri-
State, is second base, and Fishburn,
Lehtgh's brilliant shortstop. is hold
ing down that position. Tesch and
Roth minor league sluggers. are play
ing third and first base, respectively.
Bill Ritter is the star pitcher of the
Lebanon team. The ex-PhiI curver
recently held Fore River to one hit
He had -
Tom Jones, veteran Pennsylvania,
who used to whale out home runs
while with St. Louis and Detroit, is
still hitting the ball hard. He plays
first base. Clauser and Heating, two
clever minor leaguers, are second base
and shortstop. respectively. Speraw
| Is at third.
In the Lebanon outfield are Hobey
Light, Penn's brilliant halfback and
left fielder; Zeigler. Lebanon Valley
College lad. and Yeiser. Light is
big favorite with his hometown fans.
The Steelton team is virtually made
up of Villanova and Swarthmore
players. John Ogden. Eddie Carris,
Allie Cornog, all of Swarthmore fame
and Murray. Robinson. McGucktn and
Mcclellan, of Villanova, are on the
team. Miller and Zellers are also
regulars. Hoar. former Gettysburg
College 1ootoall and baseball star, is
member of the pitching stafr.
"Steelton has been somewhat of a
disappointment. as the team has won
but two out OF eight games.
"Sparrows Point has a weIl-hai-
anced team. with Runt Walsh, Bill
Cranston, Kolseth and Bahs holding
down the inield posts. Cranston has
seen considerable service in the New
York state and other minor leagues
Walsh's last league job was with the
Federals. Pie Way, ex-Yale football
and baseball star. pitches all the
games, and has been fairly successful.
Last year Way was with Rochester
in the International League.
The Fore River team is made up
principally of New England collie
gians, semiprofessionals and amateurs
Duggan, former Federal League and
New England outfelder. is included
The Harlan and Hollingsworth
team. representing Wilmington, con-
tains several semiprofs. the leading
battery being Hamilton and Kelly.
All the clubs are drawing we'll and
in most towns the Steel Corporation
has built new fields. It's a real
league