Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-29

James j. McCaffrey, president of
the Toronto club, is ambitious to
| take ball team composed of Cana
dians to France to play for the SOL
diers from the Dominion who are
| lighting in that war-torn land. 1T
is a fact that in proportion to the
population there are more baseball
| fans in Canada than there are in the
United States" he says, land the
game is especially popular with our
soldiers overseas. They play base
ball constantly behind the lines, and
I have been assured by officers who
have come back that a team of pro-
| fessional players from Canada would
be enthusiastically received over
there.
Artie Nehf of the Braves is trying
hard for one more victory as it will
! mean the neat sum of $500 to him.
He is working under bonus con-
tract which calls for that sum in
addition to his regular salary If he
wins fifteen games. He has won
fourteeY and still has a chance, as he
will patch one of the games with
Philadelphia this week and one game
of the double-header yith the Giants
in Boston on, Labor Day.
Alumni of Pennsylvania State Col
lege in this neighborhood do not
hesitate to express their approval
of the selection of Hugo BeZdek as
football coach and general director
of athletics for the Blue and White.
Their feeling of satisfaction is shar-
ed by other gridiron followers in this
section. Penn States supporters
around here are not confined TO the
alumni, for the elevens of the Center
;oc hnan ranno-
nized for many years as CHASING
with the best in the country and they
have long been very popular with
all classes of football fans and pa
irons on account of the cleanliness
and quality of their play, their
workmanship and their spirit The
signing of so capable coach as Bez-
dek to fill the vacancy caused by the
departure of Dick Harlow for war
work, therefore, is pleasing to pa
irons of the fall sport in general
as we'll as to State men, both for the
sake. of the college, which deserves
a winner, and for the good it will do
the whole game in this part of the
country. The splendid record made
by Bezdek at the University OF Ar
kansas and the University of Ore
gon. and the exceptional ability at
handling men and getting their best
effort which he has shown in his
capacity as manager of the Pitts
burgh baseball club, furnish plenty
of ground for the confidence that he
will make good at Penn State. He
will have little experienced material
as q nucleus for his 1918 football
team, as only four of last years
PLAYERS remain, but his - ess at
Oregon last year in builu..g up u
winning team around only one sea-
soned player left over from 1916 in
dicates that handicaps of that kind
do not faze the Blue and Whites
new grid chief.
It is believed that che war will
result in resuming the magnificent
international yacht races, for the
New York Yacht Club is already
talking OF the event. Sir Thomas
Upton made his bow as challenger
Just twenty years ago. The first
race was held October Is, 1899, and
the Columbia breezed home under
the wire by a margin of 10:OS. The
next day the Shamrock was disabled
and the Colum bia won in a walk. The
Shamrock made her best showing in
the third race, but it wasn't good
enough. Thus ended Sir Thomas
first lesson. In 1901 he returned
to the fray, and the Shamrock III
did better than her predecessor, but
the Columbia won all three races.
The Shamrock III was equally un-
successful, but Sir Thomas did not
despair. He built the Shamrock ~,
and was convinced that he would
lift the cup, when the war came
along and his 1914 effort was indefi-
nitely postponed.