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CUBS WILL WORK ALEX
AS LONG AS POSSIBLE

Cincinnati, o.. April 90, = Grover
Alexander was picked to start the CUP
series against Mathewson's Reds here
TO-DAY. Manager Mitchell has notlhed
his drafted pitcher to prepare Tor the
opener i'm Chicago next wednesday.
Aleck expects to report at camp
Funston April 80. Phil Douglas was
expected to Join the Cubs here
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MISS MABEL ARKLIE
PROVES TANK STAR

pittsburgh. April 2O.--In a swimming
meet last night at the pittsburgh Atm.
letic Association. Miss Mabel Arkle, OF
he PhiIadeiphia TurnEemelnde set Q
new high mark. She proved the star OF
the meet, and was individual high point
scorer Miss Arhlie won the women
fancy dive, successfully defended her
title as national champion breast stroke
s,s,in,n,eT al 200 yards. and lowered her
own time from 8i36 4-5 20 3,s1, new
American record
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Bethlehem withdraws Claim

Manager John bedford. Of the Dissto-
team having recently received word thAl
forfeit, Disston win travel to Bethlehem
to-day TO play on the seminnAi American Cdr
series originally scheduled for last eatutr
day. The lawmakers have little confidence
Of being able 10 win from the Steel team.
having lost moU all * their best PLAYERS
professional baseball
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CICOTTE WILL TWIRL
AGAINST TIGERS TODAY

Chicago, April 20.-Desplte the man
handling he received In the seasons
opener against St., Louis, Eddie Cicotte,
nf the White SoN, was chosen 20 pltch
here today. Icy weather postponed the
last Brown game Yesterday
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SCHEDULE FOR TODAY

NATIONAL LEAUVE
R,aoLIvn at PhIIadelphia--CIOud
RastHn AZ New YOrk--Clondy,
pittsbnrEh 81 ~, Losis--C Loudly.
ChIcaEO at CiRcinnati-PartlS elouus'
AMERICAN LEAGUE
A,hI.tic. at ClOudy.
Ne,N YO-k ~ Pastao-sie-
r.sls ~ CIeveland--Clear.
Detroit at Chicago--Clouass
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2 LEHIGH TEAMS
AT PENN TODAY
Quakers Offer Double Bill
in Baseball and Lacrosse
at Franklin Field
STRAUS AT THIRD BASE

University Of Pennsylvania aulhori-
traction at Franklin Field this after
noon. First the Lehigh baseball team
will play the Red an6 Blue tossers, and
then the Bethlehem Lacrosse twelve will
match It's speed against the Quaker CONF
blnation, all Of which will be for the
price of one admission.
The ball game will start at , o'clock
and II all goes well. the lacrosse play
ers intend to swing into action shortly
after 3 o'clock. However. In the open
ing game Of the season the Penn nine
went fourteen innings against Swarth-
more. II such is the case today, the
lacrosse men will play their game in
the dark, or suffer postponement.
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IN THE sPOTLIGHT-The Red sOS-aIsO
Irish MeuRel.


IN THE SPOTLIGHT-The Red sOx-alsO
Irish Meusel.
Ed Barrow's team has only won fve games
because the weather man forced one post
ponement.
for DrY tGe Yarfses. " p"R Hc made de- four Iits n i've
trips to the plate III the second game AZ
Boston.
vean GregE's cross-hre delivery had The
Senator'S buifRlOed. but they won on three
hits while Ayres 6lanked the A'''e'''s'
Nearly $50 years age the Espg,ss Re, cha chased Cd
war the Red SON are chasing the YANKEES
into the Atlantic Ocean.
There have been twelve postponements in
the big leagues this week
LegkigO heGuega,.
Dark 0rdg skv'
Bye aud bye'
Irish Meusers lusty wAllop was one OF Of
the hardest hit balls ever seen in the Phils,
Park' The pellet travelled against high
Wind and landed in the seventh row IN the
left-neid bleachers
Paul Revere made great ride up IN
New EnEiand, hut his work cannot com
pare with tho ride Of The Red soN IN 'he
American League - rr.
The Giants had hard luck in the series
ypIth BrooklVn Rain caused one postpone
ment, ana they only won three games
Eddie Burns almost rainsd StalIinggs ,ohss.
| be S1ifabf Kelly ddtJOoted OF third ~ tht
| ainth frame, Joe todS sspt ~ 70 rhp 20,
T."nvu and tried a double steal burns
LbyGsd n fbrOtp 10 second and then shot th'
! baU TO Stock for an odSU out. very 0ooa
| Eddiel
The BroOSlyn players are gluttons 20
| nunishmenT-or Charley Ebbets needs tht
| money After the ball game today the team
| issxses for Columbus. o., where they play 70
/ morrow, They hone 20 pc paeA III TINS iV'
| The game here on Monday
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AMATEUR NOTES

Frankford A. A.. a fast frst-class travel
ing team, would Ike to hear from teams
having grounds in Philadelphia and vicinity.
II. NJ. Stcarnc, manager. iG77 Mulberry
street
ROsemOnt J.. g.. fast sixteen and eight
cen year old nine, would Ike to arrange
and Offering fair guarantee. John BOyCe,
manager, 80 Roxhoruugh avenue.
Friends West philadelphia II. u. 7. wishes
to arrange games for saturday afternoons
with travelling clubs between the ages ~
sixteen and seventeen years. j., OpdyCkr.
manager, Powelton Apartments, Thirty -nfth
5ss7.
Rockledge \. ~. fast seventeen aud
sirous Of arranging sames with fully uni
formed teams OF that clas- having grounds.
Teams In PENNSYLVANIA md New Jersey pre-
forred. James Ferguson, MANAGE 2hbl he'-
singtOn avenue.
warwick 4. A.. a fast semiprofeEsonal
team would like to arrange games with
Offering a suitable guarantee. Would Ike TO
hear from teams played last yeRr. Paul IA,
Barth. manager. 2G45 North Twenty eighth
street. or phone Diamond d3l2 between Z,
and r. m.
IrnndS wine \. G.. drst-class travelling
tenn has open ties In June aud July II
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
Offering q fair EunrantCc John Jones man
ager. 5332 Greenwich street. or call Dickm-
son 4379 w.
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Brooklyn Here Today

Brooklyn. with Il clean record OF
defeats, will be with us today for the
first Saturday attraction Of the year,
Uncle Robby has not dlvulged the name
of the hurler to be inflicted on the home
folks. but Pat Moran makes no secret
of the fact that Erskine Mayer will be
on the job for his team. The battle will
start at 3 p. M, which is one-half hour
carrier than on week days Assistant
Business Manager Mallen says the
o'clock stun will hold good all summer.
1t was learned today that Yeabsley
the rookie catcher. would not report 10
New London or any other club this year.
He has enlisted in the navy and Will
sign a contract with Uncle Sam for the
duration of the war.
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RECORD IN DANGER WHEN HILL, :.
EXETER AND MERCERSBURG MEETL
INMILE EVENT AT PENN RELAYS
TOddD's Scholastic Schedule

BASEBALL.
Bryn Athyn Academy at Chestnut Mn
Academy.
Art and Textile At y. VI. e.
ulrard College At OeOrge school.
Central Hlah at Princet1n pren.
Penn Freehmen ne Tpme hchO0i.
Glrard ColleEe second ut oeorEe school
second,
EpIscopaI at Bordentown Military
sshSoi Of redaFogy at IAwrenesviiIs
Academy.
Rreyn Prep ut Atlantis City Hlgh.
Williamson Reserves at West chester
Ulgh.
TRACK
Williamson Trades, at Northeast.
Southern HiRh at Girard COlleGe.
SCREW
Central HiGh W.. Princeton Fresh at
Princeton, -
Cheitenham HiGh at Germantown
Aeademy. "a
Penn charter at Central Hlsh.
camden HiRh at West Phlladelphia
Northeast High at Frnnkford Hish.
EplscoDal Academy Mt GeFmantownf
High.
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Said he. 81 dream Of bVQolC ddVSi
I'm sdddcr noU but Wiser."
And then he said some UtctOuS things
About old Bill. the Kaiser,
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IL TEAMS ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH WTNNT7
THREE GAMES GO
EXTRA INNINGS
Overtime Play Necessary
to Decide Interacademic
and Interscholastic
Contests
CENTRAL DOWNS n. E.

It's good thing the Government Of
hcials down in Washington. p. g. de-
cide0 to put the daylight saving plan
INTO effect the beginning Of this month
instead Of next month, for II they hadn't
the schoolboys wouldn't have finished
three OF their important league games
OF the season. The umpires Of these
prep school games figure themselves
fortunate il the teams line up for play
before 3:45 and as it takes three hours
10 play nine-iuning game yesterdays
contests would have been called because
OF darkness.
Three cNtra-iuniug games were played
Yesterday. Central HighsSchool downed
Northeast in fast thrteen-lnning
game Trades School obtained the YER
3ist over Frankford High after twelve
innings Of close play, while Penn Char
ter had its hands full in defeating GER
mantown Academy in eleven frames.
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SOCCER TEAMS WILL
PLAY IN FINALS
Falls F. c. VS.. Veterans and
Bethlehem VS.. Diss-
ton A. A.
lNJURED-PLAYER RULE

sAls +. C., which. after battling with
~ strong New York shlpbuilding team on
No occasions for three hours and five min
wa before II was able TO nose out winner
ne seminal. viii line up again today for
~ mai round Of the amateur cup cham
s'uanlp against one OF the strongest soccer
s'rhl in this section of the country. the
Veterans
~ teams have shown some remarkable
seA'As style Of football IN their recent per-
n,ahess' and fast game is looked for
i.N- TO- Falls F. c. will rely upon its
ns aggressive players who have played It
many successful victories.
VAptAin Walsh. of the Veterans, an
'u'eea he would also use his strongest line
mat has brought his team its long list
nmes won. :,
lineup:
Falls y. c. yet.rans
a:ss..s asIIs.s ...... right fSiibecki.,', MsunteSss
fseSs ''.t,.. left fullhsck, 80. CRmDbell
s"a ''is' 'isis hSirssss hSihssss ScDonSsnsS ssnSS
hsvw.p.''', outside riGht ....... Wilson
iis%aA isSS. .ssstsr forward =. w. HsSsin
pgsasa aaS 49,. outside left Alex. brown
Nh lksh.hnaan be called at p, m, on the Fair
Mn ss,sau grounds, Third street and Lee
tsssmfIss,s,lhlus. Both teams viii play forty
hlnois w ~ ~ Ives, and In case of tie, fifteen
Sk,litsts 10 VIII be PLAYED each %.Eiy:.d VIZ:
Ahesrlsasnt John b. Farrell. OF the Allied
hs III u FQotnSl Association, while attend
fim seie r. C.-New York ShipbutldinE
lmsiei,s 'ae ~ IN the seminal round for the
iieA az Vsp Championship saw the urgent
bbstlts,a ehAnge In the ruling prohibiting a
I h ess niayer being used In any games.
" RnH Mlthin nYP minutes OF play wnen
Nfio1slss' lReon, shipbullding player. was
NJ W. and forced TO leave the gene,
n uhcs IN lhen remarked that he would
tff IN teionnee sn amendment TO the by
Iuigle IA IN, ts1hllHatioh permitting sub
hlre6 phy n the event OF n PLAYER being
MA AZ y ar Moor contests played by
fFfr. ~ eesnciAtio
tI.tl., .s,,,1 meefip~ ~ the delsEatcs the
nv. pe cenfidered, ard from many
~ a ~, ,.f"ngeent ,he soccer League
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Tener VIII Lead Liberty
. Loan DriUe in NeU York

John Il. Tener. president Of the Ma
tIonni LRague. will take hand In the
liberty BOnd drive Ut the Polo grounds
ioday. Tener will probably east n "few
yntpS" for each Of the players,
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Moran Is Pleased

The result of Yesterdays game was
hIEhly gratifying to Pat Moran, for IT
uncovered another high-class twirler In
Nike Prendergast. AS has been said
hfore the Phils need pitchers, so the
discovery was most welcome. Early In
iAe game however, It looked as II Mikel
vas sentenced to the clubhouse, for Bos-
toh slammed him hard in the first and
showed two runs across the rubber.
Bradley Hogg was hustled to the bull
pen, where he warmed up for one in
Ming, but after that he was not needed.
ptthdergast recovered his stride or
Smethlng like that. and breezed through
tAe remaining chapters like a regular
gW
Mike came through with flying colors
and proved beyond all question Of
doubt that he possessed the principal
requisite Of q pltcher-nerve. It's pretty
tough to start In with Il new club and
ny To make good after the other side
las walloped out three hits and two runs
d the first inning. That's a big handi-
up to overcome, especially when the
crowd is giving you the once over and
mltIng for a chance to yell, Take him
Sut /" But the new hurler, who, by the
way was sent here In the Alexander
deal gamely stuck to the job and held
he enemy helpless in all but one inning,
when Tom Hughes walloped one into the
ht.held stands in the seventh for q
homer Thus Prendergast Joined Meusel
10 making good with the fans.
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Hughes Pitched Well

Boston was hard club TO beat yes
terdAy with Tom Hughes in the box and
IlsrSog at short. In addition TO that,
there wac two-run lead To overcome
and that made II harder. For six tn
nnss Lengthy Tom had the home folks
eating out Of his hand, only eighteen
atters facing him and not a man was
ltit on base The Phils were moved
Gown like saloons before a prohibition
wave and few of the rooters sadly
sft the arena because they hadn't the
n'sft to see the boys go down in defeat,
No one could tell what would have
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Bushnell, Smith and
Woodring, An C h o r
Men, Are Exception
ally Fast Quarter
Milers
BY PAUL PREP

BY PAUL PREP
WITH the Hill School sending down
w an exceptionally fast one-niile relay
team to the annual relay carnival
Of the University OF Pennsylvania. which
will be held next Friday and Saturday
at Franklin Field, the spectators who
attend this meet are assured OF seeing
a great battle for honors in the one
mile relay championship Of America for
preparatory schools.
Although only three teams will toe the
mark IN this event--Hil, MercersburK
Academy and Exeter---the caliber OF the
quarter-milers alone makes this race
one OF the big events OF the two days
carnival. Daring the last Ave years
the race virtually has been dual con-
test between the speed kings of Mer-
~ersburg Academy and Exeter 1t will
be different this season.
Hill Victor Six Times
Since the relay carnival made it's
debut in 1895. the Hi School represent
atives have won the frst-place banner
moro times than any other institution.
The upstate school has registered six
victories while Mercersburg and Exeter
each have crossed thn line winner on
four occasions. Lawrenceville School
has scored two wins while Bethlehem
Preparatory, Brown Preparatory and 81.
Albans School, of Washington, d. C.,
each have won once.
The final tryout for places on the Hill
school team hasn't been held but in all
probability Adams. Boone. Bushnell and
Gordon will be Coach COlbath's selec-
tionS Bushnell Is one OF the best scho-
lastic quarter-mllers In the country and
was President Rubien's selection for this
! aN.npf m his All A gpbRln a. a
team fsr 1917.
III the Middle Atlantic scholastic
| championships held on Franklin Field
last spring he won the event from a fast
/ field, including Dewey Rogers, In excep-
/ tonally fast time. However, he will be
/ forced to travel his quarter around the
| so seconds mark, for In Smith, OF EX-
! eter. and alien Woodring, OF Mercers-
: burg. he faces two great prep school
| runners.
Dual Track Meet Today
Northeast High School will officially
! open IT'S outdoor track season this after.
noon when II meets the Williamson
! Trades School representatives In u dual
meet on the Archives athletic field,
/ Twenty-ninth and Clearfield streets. The
out-of-town team generally wins the
meet, which marks the first for each
team, and, unless Northeast uncovers
, some hitherto unknown star, will repeat
! this season,
II was in this meet last season that
| Dewey Rogers, making hts first attempt
at the 10O-yard dash, won his heat In
the time of 10 seconds fiat Coaches
Gerney and SiRnRn have been drilling
the Northeast team daily and are hope
ful OF scoring a win.
Start Cricket Practice
Cricket practice has started at Cen
trail High School, Penn Charter and
Northeast, in preparation for the Inter
scholastic League matches. Howart
Middleton. the cricketer Of the Phlla
delphla Cricket Club, sent out invita-
tions TO several other schools In this
section two weeks ago but as yet hasn't
received reply from all.
Mr. Middleton hopes TO form a seven
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LansdOwne Wins Opener

Lansdowne High School opened it's
baseball season yesterday by defeating
the Cheltenham High squad, 3-2, in a
game that wasn't decided until the last
inning. Lansdowne took its turn at bat
In this round with the score 20. Alt
mailer, first up, singled, took second on
an error, stole third and dented the plate
when Butterworth. the Cheltenham short
stop, threw wild to first in an attempt TO
throw out Dickinson. Roth, the Chelten-
ham pitcher, twirled a good game, fam
ming ten and allowing but five hits. Mil
ligan also was in fine form, holding the
Cheltenham sluggers to three safeties,
Catholic High had an easy time with
Germantown High yesterday, defeating
the Clivodens, ia. Dougherty was
in fine form, and held Coach Lewis $
team to six hits and famed fourteen.
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Evening Public Ledger Photoplay Calenda E
IS
THIS PROGRAM IS SUBJECT TO

MONDAY
The Kaiser
The Beast Of Berlin
Mae Marsh In
The beloved Traitor
Sossue HHvAkawp In
Honor Of His House
Alma Rcuhpns IN
The Love Broker
l.. Hun nnd T. Roberts
Wild Youth
star cost
The WkiU
billie Rurke In
Ewes Daughter
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nag~. Irvl~ u.7
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Is OF Clothesline Alley
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Du Barry
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Mo- plr'-f,r7 in
Stella MGris
Nnid 10. 'Nelt In
Naughty Naughty
"iNio Dave
.u Breakers Ahead
NtuIa Dana
IN BreRkers Ahead
Dorothy nsltOn
Love Ne
NuntaGu Love IN
The Cross Bearer
Edith Storey in
Revenge
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The Tiger Man
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Chaplin, A Dogs Life
Fraukl'p Farpum
In The Rough Lover
Tom Mix
in Western Blood
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In The Vortex
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Dorothy Dalton Ia
Love Letters
Norma TalmadEe IN
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Erscking Crew on Job

n order to work well one needs new
.,as and such was the case yesterday.
n, wrecklng crew -- that same gang
isst f4ll down on the job in the first two
s,M,s--came through beautifully. and
4, answer Is modern OF swatting
s,,,ohernalIa in the form of bats. A
sOdIe Of wagon tongues was delivered
"A Crayath, Luderus and Meusel Thurs.
Az right and glance over the box
sore will show how they worked. era.
y,th slammed ou. a single and a double,
fudsrus poed homer and Irish got his
M IN the tenth. Gavvy's double was
N. only hit tha' was wasted.
CAPTAIN Fred Luderus covered himself
s,A Rlory In the seventh when he tied
a Inc ball game all by himself. Nc.
GaigAn had bounced a single off Tom
gurhes's meat hand and almost put the
Elongated twirler away for keeps. stock
M, long one which was captured by
Powell after hard run and Cravath
,psshed single to center. Two men
we're on base and the score 3 to 0 in
Boson's favor when Ludy hit one over
he right field wall into Broad street.
m. captain could not have selected n
better spot to insert his four-base swat
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BingIeS and Burgles
SHERMAN WAS RIGHT

A iaa0ndte IdmDCd hiS gate receipts,
And SaiC that thcy tCPre slim,
He noted that the baseball fans
Were fast dcscrtinO him.
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:, ssttle all arguments. allow us to
-. ,hst Irish did NOT make home
y" 10 the official score. He knocked
ha,l out Of the lot but all he gets
~, 1hrse.bagger Had he biffed II all
s' vsv 10 Port Indian. Pa, the result
u Ia have been tn, same. The score
Vt ,isd one man on base and his work
~. w. ovsr when that man scored. Had
wsl,,sd been on third. the batter would
,.~s bssn credited with single,
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Four Hits OF Bernhardt

The victorious ball players OF Coacl
Thomas arrived in this city from Wor
cester, Mass, this morning after takiul
the highly-tOuted Holy Cross team into
camp yesterday I'll. Previously the
Worcester chaps won ten straight ant
tied one without "A defeat. But Walter
Bernhard stopped them aid he let
them down with four hits.
Johnny White, the clever Penn short
stop, was the hero Of the game outside
of Bernhardt. White connected for Il
home run, double and single out OF
four trips to the rubber. Hobey Light
also came through In a pinch, singing
for two runs when the bases were filled
Coach Roy Thomas will represent q
slightly altered lineup against Lehigf
from the one which faced Swarthmort
I'm the inaugural contests, He has
benched Lew Morgan and placed Jo,
Straus at third base, This is a popular
move, as Morgan looked very poorly il
the Garnet exhibition.
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ED Barrow's team has only won five game
ponement.
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Straus Makes Good

The football star got his initial tryout
at Worcester yesterday, and he made
good He did not have a chance ateld,
but he hit safely twice.
In view Of the fact that Bernhardt
worked against Holy Cross yesterday
he will not be sent back to the mound
by Coach Thomas, Bill Harvey, the
former Central High twirler, will do
the hurling Harvey is southpaw and
had good record with the freshman
last year and with the Crimson and
Gold in 1916.
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Trades Wins at Last

Gr.m's failure to keep awake i'm the
twelfth inning caused Frankford High to
bow to Trades School Yesterday, 9-s.
Entering the twelfth frame, on even
terms, Trades School slugEers. who had
been held hitless the day previous by
Gibson OF Germantown, decided that the
game had gone far enough and on sew
eral singles sent three runs across the
plate.
Frankford, however, wanted the game
and in jig time had two runs across
with tho bases loaded Grim. who was
on second, must have thought he was a
second Ty Cobb for with four stolen
bases to his credit, he wandered too far
OF second and was run down for the
third out. Siegle, of Trades, was wild
but he managed to pun through in the
pinches.
a healthy drive to right field by First
Baseman Simpson In the eleventh inning
which scored Brown, decided the Penn
Charter q germantown Academy game In
che QuakCrs' favor yesterday afternoon,
7-6. This game gives Penn Charter "A
commanding lead in the lnterscholastic
League
West Philadelphia High School slug
gers continued their deadly work yester-
day afternoon at Houston Field and won
their third consecutive InterscholaStic
League game from South Philadelphia
! High, 10. Carter. the SpeedbOys'
twirler, had the Southern lads at his
mercy, tanning twelve and permitting
bu' four safe hits, TWO of which were
doubles by Milestone and Leopold