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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
MUST REPORT ALL
SALES OF SUGAR
Food Administrator Will Dis
regard Retailers Claims
Unless Records Are Filed

All retailers not forwarding
weekly customers sugar sales rec
ords to the Dauphin County Food Ad-
each Monday. will have
their claims for additional sugar
disregarded.
That is the substance of an order
issued to-day by the local admins
traitor. The sales records. blank
copies of which may be secured at
Room 203 Dauphin Building, Harris
burg, should contain the name and
address of purchaser, number in fam
lily, amount of sugar on hand, num-
Der of pounds purchased and the date
of purchase.
Retailers must have the customer
sign the registration blank, except
ing where children known to the
grocer. make the purchase. In those
instances the grocer may enter the
name and information required.
This system permits the admins
tration to check all sugar purchases
each week and prevent boarding. 1t
does not interfere with purchase of
sugar for canning, which may be
made by signing the purchase certi-
fcates supplied by the grocer.
Redemption of Sugar Purchase
Certificates for Home Preserving
turned in to the Food Administra-
tor for sales made in July by gro
GERS, has beent authorized Only
those certificates which show, under
investigation to have been issued for
sugar SOLD. not contracted for, will
be honored These certificates must
be properly dated. filled out and sign
ed. in order to receive attention.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Matty Has His Troubles

AS the season nears the close
comes news of a move by Manager
Mathewson. of the Cincinnati
Reds. which explains in part why
the team of greatest natural
strength in the National League
should have been among the also
rams ever since the late Spring,
when it looked like a pennant
contender. That factionalism has
torn the team is shown by the sus-
pension of Captain and First Base
man Hal Chase for Indifferent
play. This is no new thing in the
case Of Chase, who is a very tenn
peramental player. and one of the
stormy petrels~ of the game.
Away back in 1912, with the, New
York Yankees, he would not get
along with Manager Stallings. and
eventually took his job as team
leader. At this he was such a
failure that Frank Chance was
engaged. Chase failed to give
Chance loyal support and the lat
ter shipped him to the White Sox
which he. in turn. deserted for the
Buffalo Club of the outlaw-Fed-
eral League. When that league
went under Chase secured a berth
with the Cincinnati team, and last
year played splendid ball for Nam
ager Mathewson. This year, how
ever. a faction fight grew up in
the team over question of Sher-
wood Magee supersedlng Harold
Chase as regular first baseman
owing to his superior batting. and
this led to the trouble which re-
suited in Chase's suspension for
indifferent playing. Manager
Mathewson has certainly had his
troubles tmanaging a team con-
tanning such temperament players
as Harold Chase, the sulker; Sher-
wood Magee. the erratic; Greasy
Neale. the supersensitive sIugger.
and Fred Toneyf the Stacker pitch
er; and his comparative failure
this season is not to be wond cred
at.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
AROUND THE BASES

The Giants appear to have given up
all hope OF beating out MitchelIs
league leaders. The Cubs took all the
so sure of winning the pennant last
spring that they were talking about
the worlds series as early as May.
All the New York critics admit that
the Cubs look like much the better
club and deserve to win.
Zach Wheat keeps up his hitting
streak. He has now batted safely in
twenty-six consecutive games.
"Heinie" Groh, of the Reds. is
working hard to finish the season as
the leading hitter of the National
League, but he is being CLOSELY press
ed by Wheat and one or two other
sluggers.
Old Otis Crandall, picked up when
the Coast League disbanded, pitched
his first game for the Boston Braves
the other day, and beat St. Louis in
eleven innings. Chadbourne's single,
Terry's sacrifice, and Red" Smiths
double to the left field wall in the
last of the eleventh gave Boston the
winning run.
Speaking of the Coast League. a
curious story comes from there of how
the magnates quit cold because the
players were jeered and scoffed at
for not joining the Army or Navy. 1t
was not because the fans failed TO
attend the games on the Pacific coast
that the ma gnates decided to quit. 1t
was because the fans did attend the
contests TO jeer and hoot the players
and make life miserable for them that
the club owners banded together and
decided to call a halt on the sched-
ules. Their patriotism was assailed
and such high minded men as
Johnny" Powers and Al Baum simply
could not endure the thrusts at their
pride. They decided IL best to shut
down for the duration of the war.
These same fans now are clamoring
for the organization of ship leagues,
Navy leagues and Army leagues TO
take the place of the disbanded Pa
leagues are organized players will be
offered fresh inducements to enter the
employ of ship yards.
Eddie" Sticking is playing good
ball for the Giants at third base. The
great Zim has been set down bv Nc
Graw for refusing to run out infield
grounders and for general Indifferent
work. so Jay Kirke is playing first
| base and Sticking is at third.
One Of the reasons for the Cubs
! winning ways is the surprising come
back of Fred Merkle, the Giants for
mer first baseman. Merkle was slated
! for the minors when the season open
/ ed. Chicago critics declared that he
I had lost his batting skill and had
/ slowed down to nothing as fielder
/ Merkle. however. refused to be side
/ tracked. He went to the training
camp determined to remain in major
! league company. To-day he is one oi
/ the best hitters in the National League
! and is playing first base as we'll as
anybody Perhaps Merkel's return tc
his best form is due to the fact that
| he has been encouraged at all times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
SPORT HELPS
, THE SOLDIER
London Field" Says That
Outdoor Games Make For
Fraternity and Friendship

That public interest in sport is not
confined to the United States is made
plain in, the July 1S issue of the
London Field, which has just reached
this country. In commenting on
what it describes as an "unoftlclal
Davis cup contest" 1t praises the
Queens Club for starting series or
tennis matches between teams repre-
senting the United States, Great
Britain, Canada, Australia, ana
South Africa. These began on July
8 and are being played each week
Considered in connection with the
plans of the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association for It's
national championship beginning
August 26, the following opinion OF
the field is significant: This war Tor
freedom has called all free men to
action and the great comradeshlp
pf arms dedicated to common cause
and sharing a common sacrlnnce'
muz assuredly find expression when
peace returns, in great camar-
aderie. 1t is certain that those out
door pursuits and games which have
a universal vogue. will play their
part-and no mean part-in a
stronger determination founded on
mutual sympathy and understand
ing. whi n will be the outcome OF
the democratic ordeal. Englishmen
who went overseas on athletic expe-
ditions before the war can TESTIFY to
the value of these tours, not only TO
the mental outlook of the tourists,
but to the national sentiment or the
peoples among whom they moved
and who were influenced uncon-
sciously by their advent. The rally
70 tho Si6p nF the
mother country, followed later by
the coming of the American armies
this mighty mobilization of English
speaking forces for a common cause,
is an event in the hosiery of the
world, of which no man can guage
the significance or the sequel. That
the great reunion has been fastened
by international sport is certain and
we may safely predict that the ties
of friendship and goodwill will be
strengthened in wartime If their ele-
ments are maintained behind the
lines"
Commenting on this, Julian S.
Myrick, vice-president of the Ma
tional Association, said This state
ment encourages us to believe that
what we are doing here meets with
approval overseas. Our whole idea
has been that sport is worth while,
not only for its physical benefit TO
our people but from the standpoint
of morale The Association empha-
sizes the value of tennis and other
athletics in keeping everyone physi-
cally nit, and the fact that British
sportsmen find time for games in
their fifth year of war; indicates that
the idea is sound and that sport
, serves a useful purpose in wartime
as we'll as in peace"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
c Consolation Shoot Trophy
Goes to III. Marksman

Chicago, Aug. s.-Ralph r. Rosen-
theil, of Freeport, ILL.,, won the con-
ISOLATION handicap, the dnaI event of
the nineteenth Grand American
Handicap trapshooting tournament,
to-day, breaking So targets from
seventeen yards.
This event is staged for the shoot
ers who failed to share in the prize
money of the preliminary Grand
American Handicaps. The purse
amounted to $995, OF which the
winner received s99.50. The low
prize was 1925.
second place. with 95, and R. ].
Kommisky of Texarkana, won third
place on the shoot-off from c. r.
Swartz, of Kenton, o. They each
broke ga. The shootff was 19 to
II.
The tournament was the most sue
cessful ever staged. There werel
214,740 targets thrown; amateurs
made 1873 long runs over so and pro-
fessionals made twenty-one.
The high money winner of the
tournament was H. ]. Pendergast.
of Phoenix. n. Y, with s105O.
The high scores of the consolation
handicap follow:
r. r. Rosentheil, Freeport, ILL.,.
IT yards. 96.
r. A. Merrill. Milwaukee, 10
yards, 95.
r. ]. Komminsky. Texarkana,
Ark, 16 yards. 81.
C. r. Swartz, Kenton, o., 10 yards.
A. b. Laniels. Douglas, wyo.. 16
yards, 80.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Army Calls 400
Men For Camp Greene

Fourteen hundred white men were
to-day called from Pennsylvania to
go to Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. c.,
call received by state draft head
quarters summons men from class i,
group c, and they are to be entrained
for the southern camp in the two-day
period commencing August 80. The
quotas will be apportioned all over
the state.
Harrisburg will be called upon to
furnish some of these men and they
will be made ready as soon as the
10000 men for Camp Lee get started
in the five-day period commencing
August 26.
In addition to the quotas of white
men announced for Harrisburg and
Dauphin county yesterday for Camp
Lee, Harrisburg No. will send one
colored man and No. 3 five colored
men for Lee, while Dauphin No. !
will send seven.
The quotas from nearby counties
are as follows: Adam. SO white and
one negro; Cumberland, No. l, 6S
white; No 1, 35 whites and negroesi
No. 2, 26 whites and one negro; Full
ton County. six whites; Huntingdon
2S whites Juniata, II whites; Ian
caster City No. 1, 81 whites; No. q
S3 whites and 2 negroes; Lancaster
County No. l., SO whites and one
negro; No. 2. Al whites No. 3, is
whites and one negro; No. 4, rs whites
and one negro; Lebanon County. No
/, so whites; No. 2, 40 whites and two
negroes; Miff1in County, As whites and
two negroes; Perry County. 80 whites;
Union County. 80 whites; Schuylkill
County. No. l. "a whites; No. 2. IL
whites; No. 8. 81 whites; No. 4. Is
whites; No. 5, 81 whites; No. 6, 30
whites; No. 7, 81 whites; York City
No. 1, 6 whites; No 2, 13 whites and
negroes; York County No. Il. IL
whites; No. 2. 16 whites; No. 3. 8
whites.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Tener's Resignation Is
Accepted by League Chiefs

New York, Aug. 9.-The resigna-
ton of John K. Tener. former Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, as president
of the National Baseball League, was
accepted tonight by special COM
mittee of club presidents authorized
to take such action.
A letter to Mr.. Tener, signed by
H. n. Hampstead, of New York;
William F. Baker, OF Philadelphia,
and c. H. Ebbets, of Brooklyn. men,
bers of the committee, wished the re-
tiring league leader success in his
venture in the highway construction
business, and termed his withdrawal
"a heavy loss" to the National or
ganization.
Until the annual meeting in De-
cember, the leagues affairs will be
conducted by John A. Heydler, Sec
retary and treasurer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Reserve Bugler
Training Scouts

The Harrisburg Reserves last
night extended their training worh
by providing instruction for Boy
Scouts in bugle calls. While men,
bers of the active class were being
instructed in guard duty and riot
formations by the officers and a class
of men of draft age were being
taught facings and other simple
movements by Captain w. H. Moore
and Eugene L. Miller, Paul e. Kur-
zenknabe. who served with the First
Cavalry, the bugler of the Reserves.
had a squad of Scouts sitting out on
the bleachers at the Island drill
grounds learning to blow calls.
Vacancies in the two Reserve
companies caused by men being
drafted or taking commissions will
be filed during the coming week and
extended order work taken up next
Friday night. Reserve officers will
be at the Island Monday and
Wednesday nights to drill men OF
draft age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
APPOINTMENT OF
MATRON DELAYED
Mayor Recommends Mrs. E. E
Bergstresser For Import
ant Police Position

At the request of Commissioner
Gross, at the special meeting of City
Council yesterday afternoon, the ap-
pointment of a city patrolman to fill
the vacany caused by the resignation
of Patrolman Heagy, and a police
matron, to begin her duties August
Is, was postponed for a week. to give
the commissioner a chance to make
a personal investigation. Mayor Keis-
ter considered the delay unnecessary.
saying the submission of the names
by the civil service board was suffi-
cient recommendation to make the
appointment.
Joseph b. Pollock, 1916 Hunter
street, and Mrs. Edith e. Bergstresser.
317 Walnut street, were the appoint
mepts recommended by the mayor
from among the eligibles named by
the board. The name of Charles V.
Foreman, as an eligible on the civil
service police list, was withdrawn at
his request.
An ordinance, submitted by Commits
sioner Gross. which would prohibit
parking of any vehicles in Second
street between Strawberry and Wal
nut streets any longer than is neces-
sary to load and unload passengers
or supplies, passed first reading. Com
missioner Gross declared he had the
approval of the businessmen along
the street. The fine for violation of
the ordinance would be SIS for the
first offense. $40 for the second and
s25 for each subsequent offense, or
a thirty-day Jail sentence.
The ordinance providing salary in
creases for employees of the Water
Department at the filter plant, pump
ing station and pipe lin@ shop was
passed finally, granting each one a
$40 raise monthly, dating from Au-
gust 1.
The rules of the Seneca street BATH
house were approved. Commissioner
Gross also announced that the show
ers and lockers under the bleachers
at Island Park are open for use for
bathers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
EDDIE PLANK
IN THE BOX
Critical Game at Cottage Hill
Today With Lebanon and
Her Star Pitcher

All they asked for at Cottage Hill
to-day was fair weather, for Man.
ager Cockilrs league leaders were in
fine fettle, full of ginger and
mighty determined to win one with
Lebanon. Eddie Plank had to stand
for lot of kidding after his down
fall. Incidentally, beating Plank
has puffed up the Bethlehem club so
insufferably that she is prating now
as though the pennant already flew
over her headquarters. I'VE will
have something to say about it,
as he peeked at the lowering clouds.
Plank worked out every day dur
ing the week and he was in form.
The team lined up as it was last
Saturday with the new men Beall
and McCarty on the job. 1t was al
most certain that Jess Buckles would
do Lebanon's box work, for the
other two Fingers are not eligible,
it is said.
Regarding a post-season series be-
tween the Bethlehem Steel League
winner and the. victorious club in
the Delaware River Shipyards
League Mr.. Leck declared to-day
that no arrangements had been made
and the subject was not near so hot
as that of who will get the flag in
this close Steel League race. I'VE
are like Uncle Sam just now," said
he. win the war first and then talk
about post seaso ngames. However,
our officials are talking about this
proposition and it would not be sur
prising if series of three games is
arranged One game would be
played here, one there and the other,
if necessary. at a place to be selected
by a toss of COIN"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10

by Leader Mitchell. At any rate,
Merkle is one of the Cubs aces and
the Chicago critics have taken OFF
their hats to him.
Jess willard champion heavy
weight pugilist. who is here
to box to-day for the overseas
war fund benefit of the Salvation
Army. expressed himself as willing to
meet Jack Dempsey. champion aspir-
ant.
The athletic carnival which was
scheduled for White Sox Park here,
was transferred to Fort Sheridan
when the city officials objected to box
ing being held in Chicago. Willard
said he did not know who his oppon-
ent was to be, but that he preferred
Dempsey.
Manager McGraw thinks that the
worlds series should be played, II
only out of consideration for the play
ers. who proved loyal to the game and
to their clubs. especially as this time
the players of the first four clubs of
each league will share in the worlds
series receipts.
Russell Ford. once noted spitball
pitcher of the New York Yankees, is
now working in shipbuilding ward
as craftsman. He plays ball on the
side of course, but his work as
craftsman is his chief consideration.
There will be enough players out
side of the draft age limits to carry
on baseball next year, says William
]. Clymer, a noted minor league man.
ager. But il may be necessary to
change the major leagues because of
the excessive railroad and Pullman
rates. II might be good plan to
group the best cities in the eastern
and western circuits. In the East, for
instance, you could have Boston,
Brooklyn. New York, Philadelphia:
Baltimore. Washington, Toronto and
Buffaio. A good league in the West
could be formed to include Chicago.
Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati st.
Louis. Pittsburgh, Louisville and In
dianapolis. The railroad jumps in
short and the players salaries could
be greatly reduced. A worlds series
in the fall between the pennant win.
ners might be big event
Walter Holke. who deserted the
Giants last week to go into a ship
building plant, will never play a game
for the Giants again, according TO
Secretary John Foster, who says:
'Holke was so afraid tht he might be
drafted that he left our club without
| giving notice TO anyone. and ran off
! to get a Job at a Government plant.
IT is such actions as this that bring
| discredit on the ballplayers and hurt
| their prestige. Holke will never play
another game at the Polo grounds
/ and you may say that this is official
A 14-year-old brother of outnelder
| George Burns of the New York
| Giants, was killed the other day in
an accident at Little Falls, n. Y,
| where the Burns homestead is locat-
ed. The loss was quite heavy blow
! to Burns, as he and his younger
brother were great buddies. George
| being quite a hero to the youngster
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
COLUMBIA BOYS MISSING

Columbia, Pa, Aug. 1o.-Four
ficiaIly reported missing in action,
in France, July Is. They are Eugene
Gibson, David NJ. Hamaker, Leon
Kise and John w. Helwig, all form
er members of Company c, 4th
Pennsylvania Infantry, when that
body went to Camp Hancock, Ca,
and was afterward transferred to the
10th Infantry. with which con-
tingent they went to France. This
brings the number up to six from
Columbia, missing in the same action
the other two being George DIETRICH
and William Bosler.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Newsies Jolt Applebys
With First Defeat
INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE
Last Evenings Results
Newsies, g; Appleby, 2.

The newspaper ball players, rep
resepting the Telegraph, Patriot and
News, handcuffed things for fair in
the Industrial League last evening by
beating the fast Appleby team and
tying three clubs for first place. Ap-
pIeby had held premier position
since the establishment of the league
and it was something OF a blow to
step down.
The Newsies have been playing
consistent ball and yesterday they
swung their ash clubs for a couple
runs soon as the jumps called time.
Pitcher Ensweiler had plenty of
stuff. holding Appleby runless until
the last set. Saunders had more
strikeouts than his opponent. The
summary:
Newsies ...........2O0 O1OO-S
Appleby ..........0 0 0 0 o 02-2
Struck out by Enswiler, z; by
Saunders, 10; base on balls, off En-
sweiler, 1; off Saunders. 2; hit by
pitcher, Holahan; umpire, H. Bell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
YORK COUNTY FARMER DIES

Dillsburg, Pa, Aug. 1O.-John Fer
ence. aged 7S years. died at his home
in Washington township, about four
miles south of Dillsburg on Thurs
day afternoon after suffering from
an attack of paralysis for several
years. He was a well known farmer
in Washington township and a men,
Der of the Lutheran congregation at
the Barrens Church. He is survived
by his wife, five children, Levi and
Allen. OF Hogestown; Enos, of Me-
chanicsburg; Samuel, of New Jersey,
and Mrs. NJ. Z. Shultz, of Dillsburg;
also one sister, Mrs. John Speck, of
Washington township. Funeral serv-
ices were held this this afternoon, the
Rev. George II. Eveler, of the Luth-
eran Church in charge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
AVIATORS AT WEST END

The ace ball game scheduled for
this neighborhood to-day was that
between West End and the Middle
town Aviators, at Fourth and Seneca
streets beginning at 2.30 o'clock.
Middletown put up a rafting good
game against the Steelton Leaguers
this week, a couple errors alone pre-
venting them from making the score
closer. As the only attraction this
afternoon this hattie was expected to
draw a big crowd.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10

Admiral Won capeile. German min
lister OF marine, will resign shortly,
to dispatches from Zurich.
Admiral Won Capelle succeeded von
Tirpitz as German minister of ma
rine in 1916. His reported resigna-
tion may have some connection with
the retirement of Admiral Won Holt
zendorff, head of the German naval
staff, who several days before his
announced retirement had apologized
for the failure of German U-boats
to sink American transports.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
LITTLE GIRL HURT

New Cumberland, Pa, Aug. 10. -
Lena Rosenberger. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Rosenberger of Mar
ket street, had her ankle broken last
evening. She was coming from the
store in Prowelps delivery wagon and
was getting out of the wagon when
the accident occurred.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
MASS MEErING TOMORROW

The Rev. ]. A. Pinson, of Jenkin-
town, will make theaddress at a
union mass meeting to be held In
the courthouse tomorrow afternoon
at 3 O'Clock. The meeting will be in
the interest of the State Baptist con-
vention and association.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
STANDING OF THE CLUBSB
American League
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY
American League

Chicago at cleveland.
Detroit at st. Louis.
Washington at Philadelphia
New York at Boston.
National League
Boston at New York (two games.)
Phillies at Brooklyn.
Chicago at Pittsburgh.
st. Louis at Cincinnati.