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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
Report Few Changes in
Baseball Schedules {;
Two Leagues Make Cuts

Philadelphia, March 10. - Judging
from the various major and minor
league baseball schedules made public
TO date there is to be little change in
the general playing scheme for the
season of 1917. A majority of the
leagues have selected opening and
closing dates which correspond close
ly to those of the last few years.
The chief changes are to be found
in the schedules of the International
League and the American Association.
In round figures these two, organiza-
tions have cut six weeks off their reg
ular seasons in order to provide dates
for the interleague series of forty
eight games to be played at the close
of the pennant races in the two asso-
Citations.
The National and American Leagues
will open on Wednesday,Ap IL and
close on Thursday, October A, which
will permit the first game of the
Worlds Series being played on Satur-
day, October 6, if Eastern or Western
teams are competitors, on Monday,
October s, in case the series proves to
be an intersectional contest. In other
respects there are few novelties-the
Pacific Coast League having the long
est season, while one or more of the
Glass ID leagues will stage the shortest
pennant races. The list of opening
and closing days as announced to date
from official or semi-oft1cial sources
are as follows
National League opens April IL,
closes October 4; 154 games.
American League opens April IL.
closes October 4; 154 games.
international League opens April Il,
closes August 81 112 games.
South Atlantic League opens April
19, closes August IL; 100 games.
Western League opens April IS,
closes September 3; lao games,
Southern League opens April 12,
closes September 15; 154 games.
Texas League opens April 5, closes
September 3 154 games.
Pacific Coast League opens April g.,
closes October %; 20S games.
American Association opens April
IL, closes August 8; 112 games.
Blue Ridge League opens May i,
closes September 10; 98 games
Southern League opens April 12;
154 games.
Eastern League opens May II.
Western League opens April ~,
closes September 8; 14S games.
Georgia-Alabama League opens May
z; closes August 4.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
SOMETHING FOR
HALF HOLIDAY
Crack State League Team to
Meet Local Independents;
Lineup
BY Peter p. Carney

editor National Sports Syndicate.)
In most localities there seems to be
an unwritten law that makes Satur-
day a holiday. Very few stores can
afford to grant such a holiday
throughout the entire year, but en-
ployes of banks, mercantile and in
dustrial firms do enjoy 1t weekly:
From May until December the lover
of outdoor sports can always find ten
mis-, baseball, football or trapshooting,
but after December outdoor sport in
be popular, at least to the city fellow.
There is one exception. In late years
trapshooting has become an all-the-
year-'round sport, and many clubs
hold weekly shoots. OF course, sport
lovers who have not yet become ac-
quainted with trapshooting spend
their Saturday afternoons and other
spare moments at clubs, theaters, or
indoor sporting events.
The Boys on the Farm
But how about the young man who
lives on farm? Winter time is
really his joy season, for during the
spring, summer and autumn he has
ever, when he does seek recreation he
holds to the outdoors. lie kills time
in the fields and woods. Hunting is
his favorite pastime. Nearly all farm
erS have done more or less shooting,
but at the present time in many States
game laws are so rigidly enforced that
'open" seasons are very short, and
in other localities game is scarce,
hence clay birds are pleasure pro-
ducers.
Where the people of the farm do
not live near gun club, they find a
good substitute in the hand trap. With
this device, some shells and targets,
the young man can give the whole
family an afternoon of pleasure. Be-
sides, once trapshooter he becomes
a part of a short so fascinating that
it has captured the fancy of over
100000 Americans, and trapshooting
also improves the participants accu-
racy and quickens his judgment so
that when it is his fortune to go atieId
in a game country his bag limit is
assured
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
IMPORTANT GAME
FOR LOCAL GIRLS
Hassett Five to Play Philadel-
phia High Co-eds For Cham
pionship Honors

At Cathedral Hall tonight an inter-
esting basketball battle between CO.
eds will be staged. Hassett girls play
School, of Philadelphia. 1t will be part
Of the inter-city championship series.
Philadelphia girls hold honors in the
east and have been recognized as a
strong team of girls The asset girls
are undisputed claimants for last sea-
sons State championship and this year
have lost but one game. Winning to-
nights game will give Harrisburg q
strong team of girls. The Hassett girls
Bishop McDevItt VIII Attend
The Rt. Rev. Philip r. McDevitt. bishop
of the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg,
will attend to-night's game. He was
formerly identified with the Philadel-
phia High School. Accompanying the
Quaker girls will be the Rev. Francis
j. Flood, director of the High School,
and a number of women members of
the faculty. reception will be ten
dered the Philadelphia visitors after
the game.
Due to the fact that the seating ca
pacity at Cathedral Hall is limited and
there will be accommodations for 250
only women will be admitted to the
game tonight. The Philadelphia Rec
ord to-day says:
"As a result of challenge by the
Hassett girls basketball team, of Har-
riAburg, a picked team of former star
players of the Girls Catholic High
School, of this city, will journey to
the Capital City this afternoon TO meet
the Hassett aggregation for the inter-
city championship. The line-up of the
Philadelphia team is as follows: For
wards, Misses Anna Blake, Ursula Lud-
low, Anna Rae; centers, Rose Keenan,
Nan White, Josephine Curtis; guards
Rose Sullivan, May Torpe, Catherine
Ronner
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
STEELTON BLANKS
CENTRAL BUNCH
Lower River Lads Hold Local
Tossers Scoreless From Field;
Frank Scores II Points

Banking the Central High School
quintet from the field last night, on
FELTON, Hall floor, the Steelton High
School five captured the game and tied
the local lads for third place. in the
Central Pennsylvania Scholastic
League race. The final score counted
81 to IT.
The Steelton lads showed superb
teamwork and displayed unusually
clever guarding, covering so closely
that the Central players did not even
get chance to shbot even from the
middle of the floor. All of CentraPs
points were scored by Frank, from the
fifteen-foot mark. His work was SEN
sational, shooting II out of 25.
Scrubs Win Over Carlisle
In the preliminary contest the Steel
ton High School scrubs defeated the
Carlisle High School five by 20 to II
tally. The summarizes:
CENTRAL II. S
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
SPEEDY RUSH. TIGER COACH HANDS OUT TIMELY POINTS ON
[WELEYS doRNER

One encouraging feature with the
managers of the New York State
League is that the major teams in the
east will help in putting young mate
rial out to farm. No other organiza-
ton offers as strong inducements for
development of young players as the
Farrell circuit.
Something of special interest in a
girls basketball contest is scheduled
Tor Tonight at Cathedral Hall. The
Hassett girls will meet the Girls Cath
oiic High School five, of Philadelphia
1t will be an inter-city championship
series. The local girls have lost but
one game this season and to win to-
night Will mean much in the champion
ship claim for Hassett.
At Philadelphia tonight the eighth
annual track and field meet of the
Meadowbrook Club will be held. En-
tries number 1000 and include many
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10

as a physical but as a mental develop
er. Football makes fellow use his
head and it prepares him for battles
which he will have TO night in the fu-
ture. 1t teaches him to rely on him
self in after life. To my mind there
is no athletic game played in clean
er or more sportsmanlike manner. II
is played in spirit of fairness to all
and it teaches a man TO be square in
his dealings in later life.
Football Is Mans Game
"One of the greatest things the game
does, however, is that it makes a man
physically fit, and in these strenuous
days a business man needs strong
body as well as strong mind, foot
ball develops both to a marked de-
gree"
Football is mans game and 1t
takes a man to play it. Weaklings and
those physically unsound cannot and
should not attempt to play the game,
said Coach Rush.
Coach Rush inquired about the
strength of the High and Preparatory
School elevens in this section of the
State, stating that he had heard OF
several local boys who were contem-
plating entering Princeton next fall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10

OF the leading college stars. 1t prom
ises to be record d-breaking night.
City Park Commissioners announce
plans for additional tennis courts at
Reservoir Park. Other improvements
Will be made in the way of lockers and
accommodations for women. 1t is also
understood that the courts will be kept
in the best of condition at all timeo,
The Park Tennis Association has been
anxious for additional courts and now
that the improvements are assured,
plans will start for the annual city
tennis tournament.
General High School tennis players
will organize early for the coming con-
tests. The courts used last fall will
be put in shape as soon as weather
permits. There will be special matches
and interclass series. Central boasts
of number of tennis stars who prom
ise interesting exhibitions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
.HAZLETON FIVE
TONIGHT'S BILL
One Sport That Can Be En-
joyed All Year; Learn
to Shoot

An interesting basketball game is
scheduled tonight at Chestnut street
auditorium. Harrisburg Independ-
ents will meet the Hazleton team of
the State League. With the two hard
workouts this week the teamwork
and passing of the locals are much
improved. One or two changes may
be made in the local lineup for the
game tonight.
Hazleton Scoring Team
The Hazleton team is considered
one of the best scoring teams in the
league and will keep the locals busy.
In the visitors lineup are some of
the best known basketball players in
the State and all the regulars will ap-
pear in the game tonight.
Another pleasing feature in to-
nights bill will be several of the lat
est song hits, sung by Able Blum, for
merly of Gus Edwards School Kids.
A special dance program will follow
the game. The teams will lineup as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
Independents.
Hassett School Fives
Win Two Games Easily

Neither the boys or the girls fives
of the Hassett School of Gymnastics
were forced to go their fastest to win
last night. The boys fve defeated
the Altoona Triangle flve by the score
of Sc to 7. and the co-eds trimmed the
Susquehanna University girls five to
the tune of 26 to 5. Both contests were
Mayed on the Cathedral Hall floor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
LOUISVILLE LANDS THORPE

Louisville, KY, March 10.-A spe-
cial telegram from the training camp
of the Louisville American Association
club at Athens, Ga, to-day asserted
that James Thorpe, star athlete, will
be a member of the team and play in
the outfield the coming season. 1t
was stated that Thorpe was acquired
as n part of the deal when Pitcher
Middleton was sold to the New York
National League club. Thorpe played
last season with Milwaukee. He is
now with the Giants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
1dIng OF the TeaTnS
MISCELLANEOUS
Fickes-Ienoyne
WAGNER NOT WITH PIRATES

Pittsburgh, March 10. - The first
delegation of Pittsburgh Nationals left
here yesterday for the club training
camp at Columbus, Ga. The party
was in charge of William Hinchman
and will be joined en- route by Man
ager Callahan and other players. Hans
Wagner, who has not yet signed q
contract, was not in the party, and
Barney Dreyfus, club president, could
give no information as to when Wag-
-ner would leave or whether he would
go to the training camp at all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
TECH FfyEs yICTORIoUs

dletown the varsity and reserve tives
of the Technical High School, defeated
the first and second teams of the Mid
dletown High School. The former won
by the score of % to 81 and the lat
ter hung up 26 to 15 score on the
HSsAdletown scrub
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
1917 BASEBALL

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
1tBABE" MYERS TO BE MANAGER

KIchmond, md, March 10.-"Babe"
Myers has been selected manager of
the Richmond team of the Central
League and will go to Columbus, Ohio,
to-day to confer with Joe Tinker, the
Columbus American Association team
manager on the purchase of two or
three players. He will represent
Richmond at a meeting of Central
League executives at Muskegon, Mich.
Sunday, when a playing schedule will
be drafted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
CENTRAL GIRLS WIN

In closely contested and exciting
game last night at Williamsport the
Harrisburg Central High School girls
five defeated the williamsport High
School girls five by the score of 10 to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
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Copyright 1917 by the Tribune
THE DUFFERS SPRING SONG
Spring is the
And
The traps whispering
And the bunkers calling home
Home in the summers cline,
In the sanded deeps
Where
And the duffer prime.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10

7 Referee-Taggart. Fouls called on
Central, 13. Fouls called on Steelton,
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New Britain herald., 1917-10-05

Lutece, bound out Of Tahiti, Society
Islands, arrived at Mopeha and was
captured by the remainder of the
Seeadlers crew, who Immediately left
on the schooner with machine guns,
supplies, rifles and bombs, leaving be-
hind them twenty-seven white men
and seventeen native prisoners from
the Seeadler. marooned on Mopehma
Island. These men are in great need
of food and water.
The Navy Department is making
every effort to relieve the marooned
men.
For more than a week the Navy
Department is known to have been
aware that there was a German raid
er in the Pacific. but it was not until
last night that it was deemed advis-
able to disclose any of the facts. All
the information possessed by the de-
partment has not been divulged, but
only those Of no value to the enemy.
Mopeha Island is not shown on or
binary geography or atlas maps. The
larger photographic charts of the
Navy Depa rtment show that 1t is
about $50 miles west of Tahiti and,
while not in reality a part of the
Society Islands, is nearer those than
any other big Pacific archipelago, ex-
cept the Cook Islands. Tahiti is one
Of the insular cross roads of the Pa
There are not many steamers touch
ing at Tahiti, but it is a stopping
place for many schooners.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-05
BOY SCOUT
NEWS

The executive committee of the New
Britain Council Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca held meeting at the scout office
Thursday, October 4th, at 500 D. M,
with President Frank L. Wilcox pre-
siding. The need of two more Deputy
Scout Commissioners was brought to
the attention of the committee, and
Scoutmaster Harry Bonney and Will
liam Hickey were appointed. There Is
going to be new troop organized
which will be the headquarters troop
and the Scout Executive will be In
charge. The troop is being organized
to meet the need of the young boy
The troop meetings will be held at
the Scout headquarters once a week at
4:30 p. m, the day to be named at a
later date. Any boy that is interested
in becoming q member Of this new
troop will please call at the Scout
office and talk 1t over with the Scout
Executive. The football league will
open at the park Saturday. October
9Th, at $3.50 p. m. Troop 10 will play
Troop in the first game and Troop
IL will play Troop IA In the second
game. All troops are expected to fur
nish their own football for practice
and the council will furnish the ball
to be used in the games. The ball
that is used In the games will be pre-
scented to the team that wins the
cham pionship. Vice President Louis
Slade, Scout Commissioner e. W. Pei
ton and Scout Executive Dwight
| Skinner were appointed committee
to make plans for the Liberty Loan
campaign.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-05
WOULD NOT ENDORSE
Refused to Adopt Resolution Calling
for Party to Support Bennett for
Mayor of New York. ...: .

New York, Oct 5.-Amid an up
roar that bordered at times on riot
mittee at Bryant hall last night voted
down a resolution which had been
offered by the forces of William M.
Bennett to indorse him as it's candi-
date for mayor following his victory
in the republican primary. The vote
was 223 for the resolution to S43
against. While the supporters Of
Mayor John Purroy Mitchell had
everything their own way, they re-
Trained from having a resolution in
dorsing him put through. The COM
mittee will meet again within a few
days, when it is expected the commit
tee will then go on record as APP
proving the mayors candidacy.
The county committee has never
held more tumultuous meeting
Only one of the LOGS members of the
committe was absent. The crowd
overlooked the room, into the gallery,
and out into the corridor, and during
the three-hour session there were
demonstrations for the mayor, while
Mr.. Benefits name was Kissed again
and again. The Bennett forces, when
they saw how strong the tide was set
ting against them, tried to stave off
defeat by having the resolution Ia
bled. This was defeated by a vote Of
635 to 432. The Mitchell supporters
predicted that at it's next meeting a
resolution indorsing the mayor and
the other Fusion candidates would go
through Overwhelmingly.
The Bennett men tried hard to have
the committee indorse the candidate
who had won at the republican pri-
mary on Sept. 10 on the ground Of
party regularity. Prominent repub-
licans like Senator Ogden L. Mills
Job E. Hedges and James r. Shelf
field pleaded with the members that
Mayor Mitchell was the real choice Of
the republicans OF the city, and that
the issues involved in the cam paign
far transcribed party lines. They
argued that Bennett did not have a
chance of winning the election and
that the only result would be the re-
turn to power of Tammany hall. On
the ground Of patriotism alone, they
said it was necessary to stand by
Mayor Mitchell as the eyes Of the en-
tire country were focused on New
York in this election.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-05
completes |! i /: CHAIN
!. AROUND THE HUI
America Tightens Neutral Ell
barge and Cuts Foes Last CHAM

Washington. Oct. 5-A final I'll
to make complete the embargo whit
will prevent Germany or northe}
neutrals of Europe, from obtaini}
products of the United States, Canad
Mexico, or any of the South And
lean nations that might aid the eneml
was taken yesterday by the expor|
administrative board, by placing
ban upon bunker coal
In an official statement it was al
serted that the q United States HI
failed to obtain othet d e6nite inform
ton it had asker OF fnortllern ne
trails concerning their actual needs
home consumption. and the status
the traffic in which they had ensas9
with the Central Powers.
stated further that the admlnlstrj
ton had adopted as definite the Pc
lev that it would in no way contripul
to trade with these neutrals whid
will undoubtedly accrue to the benz
fit of the enemy
This policy is in line with the stel
which have been taken by the gof
eminent to obtain an embargo con
bination against Germany and tn
northern neutral nations Wild
have been feeding and arming her,
which all of the countries allta
against Germany will be involved, an
will work in concert. 1t will end tn
practice which has been engaged /
extensively by some neutral shippir9
interests. Of obtaining here the cog
necessary to the transportation
Europe of cargoes of foodstuffs. -foq
der. and other commodities whid
were refused to them by the Unite
States.
The step was taken with the al
prevail of all the Allies, who will Cd
operate by enforcing similar reguld
tons It follows close Great .Britain
declaration Of a complete euabars
against the northern European nel
trails, which was designed to strength
en- the embargo already put into fore
by the United States.
Latin American countries are tn
only nations left in the world in whic
Germany has a chance to obtain food
stuffs and other necessaries throug
the border countries. ~Wath TIL
source cut off allied statesmen fel
that the ring around Germany
drawn so tightly the economic pres
sure, reinforcing the Allies ever
growing military superiority, wi
make the German people see thel
cause is hopeless.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-05
WORLDS SERIES.
Ticket Spectators Are Being Carefully
Watched BY Officials.

Chicago, Oct. 5.-The reserved seats
for the Worlds series games at White
Sox park having been distributed
among the lucky applicants. hundreds
of baseball fans planned to stand in
line tonight in order to have advantage
eous positions when the ONCE opens
at the park for the sale Of unreserved
seats tomorrow.
The prediction for the opening
game tomorrow calls for fair wealth
or, with a slight drop in temperature.
Scalpers, who had promised to have
plenty Of tickets for the opening game,
were busy today making deliveries to a
few customers and returning money to
others. Their supply was said to be
far less than the demand.
Corporation counsel Samuel Ettel-
son caused some uneasiness among
purchasers Of scalpers' tickets by an
nouncing that any one found with
tickets purchased from scalpers would
be denied admission to the park. He
stated that the name of every bonafide
purchaser was known and that all
admissions would be checked.
Scalpers are refusing to take any
liability for the tickets and also re-
fuse to take back the two unused tick
cts at face value.
The national baseball commission
met today for the purpose of giving
final instructions to the four UNI
pires to off1ciate in the games, and
outlining the ground rules and other
playing coalitions to the arbiters,
scorers and managers.