Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-13

tude of friends in the amateur and
semiprofessional baseball world, for
he shows more enthusiasm in the
grand old game than any other mag
istrate who ever reigned in Harris
burg. Many a man so busy would
have sidestepped the job of tossing
out the first ball at this and that
field. but not Keister. Sure, boys,
I'll be there" he would promise, and
it meant money for the enterprising
amateurs at the gate, for His Hon
or is an added attraction.
That his love of baseball is very
genuine the boys prove by the fact
that nearly every night he appears
at the Allison Hill grounds or at
West End, and he needs no expert to
help him size up the quality of sport
His intense interest and support is
greatly appreciated by the Harris
burg managers, who are doing their
best to establish the grand game on
solid and prosperous basis in the
home town.
Allison Hill fans are positive that
the league is real (ReeD circuit
With all the managers conniving
to win the series, Manager Pressler,
of the Reading nine, ought to be able
to eucher the other leaders. The
railroaders have w. Euker at short
and T. Euker in center field.
Rumor has it that Murray Wash
burn has ordered a diet of Victory
bread for all the players on the
"Hickie" team.
When it comes to knocking out the
ball, those brothers Glenn and Earl
are surely killing 'er.
Manager Fritz has at last signed
a neaCh (PietschO of a catcher,
The opening of the league was
quite different from that of last year.
Then there was a continual down
pour for ten days that prevented any
playing at all. This season each
evening brought a larger crowd and
the weather was great for the ma
tional sport.
Batters in the league seem to be
in better shape for the opening of
| the season than the pitchers. While
there was goodly number of
! strikeouts, the batters hit the ball at
a lively clip.
| George Levan, who has participat-
| ed in each Hill series, ended the
! first week with a perfect batting av-
| erage. In the opening contest he
| had one hit in one time up, while,
| against Rosewood on Wednesday
! night, he had two triples and two
singles out of four times up.
| Eddie" Harris is credited with
| the first home run of the season. II
came Wednesday night, when two
runners were on base and gave the
Rosewoods a 10 to decision over
the Galahads.
Fans will not see a closer contest
than the one staged Thursday night
| between Galahad and Hick kA-Thrift
! 1t was / to struggle, with scor-
ing at a minimum.
No team in the league shows more
pep" than the Killinger crowd. The
| "Rosies" are never defeated until the
| last man is out.
The Reading nine is fortunate in
! having the services of Pitcher Platt,
! formerly of Dartmouth. He will be
in the city until June Is. Then
Putty" Lynch will be back from
Princeton to join the squad. The lat
ter played all of last season at first
base without an error.
That Pine Street aggregation is a
bunch of fighters. While they lost
two close games during the week.
they will make some of the other
teams hustle in future contests.
Shay, an 1S-year-old lad, who for
merly pitched for the Ruxton A. c.,
has been signed by the Galahads.
He proved his worth by winning his
first game, to 0. The youth looks
like a conner.
Pete" Shickley. former manager
and captain of the Stanley aggrega-
ton, has been doing good work as
an umpire. None of his decisions
brought any dispute during the
week. Pete" also went to the res
cue one evening with a fire extin-
guisher when a slight blaze started
in the neighborhood.
The Galahad nine should pick up
strength with the advent of d. c..
Hawley. With Mickey" Boyd on
first and Hawley on second. the
"Green Sox" will be better balanced.
Several bluecoats are on the job
each evening and handle the crowd
in better fashion than ever before.
The playing field has also been
greatly improved by the city off,
cials.
John G. Martin, a Harrisburg
gunner, won runner-up honors at
the annual Spring Valley Gun Club
shoot held over the Spring Valley
traps near Reading Saturday after
noon. The leading honors of the
affair went to Curtin Strauss, of
Pottsville, who registered 122
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