Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-16
THE BASES

News note says: The will of Isaac
w. Cherington. of Roaring Creek
probated at Bloomsbury. revealed
the fact that he gave his two daugh-
ters, Edith E. and Mary A Cheering
ton, $50 for each year they stayed
single after they were 21. Good
night, Miss Methuselah!
How's this for progress: CITY
Manager ii. G. Hinkle, of Altoona,
has made municipal farming pay the
past season. A crop of 1,0O5 bushels
of corn was raised on the city's
filter beds and a profit of so per
cent. realized. According to carefully
kept figures, 1t cost 1876 cents to pro-
duce a bushel of corn. After storing
enough to feed the city's livestock,
ESQ bushels were sold to the public.
Editor Brisbane has his hands
full. Million brewers asking him to
use their plants for newspaper pub
fishing offices.
z The Sons of Rest basketball team
would like to arranges games with
any strong amateur teams of the city
and nearby towns.
The Sons of Rest lineup will in
clude: Hap" Frank, McCord, Storey,
Bihl and Sullivan. Cahill is a substi-
tute. The team will again be coach
ed by Charles Clark, the former
Tuts College man.
Address communications to Alfred
Dunlap, 1244 State street, Harris
burg.
Carlisle, Pa, Dec. 16.-Although
the deer season opened and closed
on Sunday, thus missing two days,
the number of bucks killed in Cum
berland county was up to the aver
age, although many of the hunters
of last year and other years are on
the other side of the ocean. Camps
closed last night. Reports show 100
bucks killed with several camps
getting the limit of six. over 1000
hunters opened the season and the
average daily number is placed at
500, most of them in camps.
Lucky for this school she did not
meet Harrisburg Tech: "Phillipsburg
High school football eleven has been
awarded the premier position in the
standing of New Jerseys scholastic
teams, according to the ratings an
nounced by Earl c. Macarthur, presi-
dent of the newly-organiz New
Jersey Interscholastic Football AS
sociation. This body was organized
in October.
1.-The classifications are made ac-
cording to the schedule played by
the New Jersey schools and the
abilities of the teams an eleven has
opposed. East Orange II. S. is placed
second, East Side, of Newark, third
Harrington II. S. fourth, and Tren-
ton II. S. fifth. In the preparatory
school division the place of honor is
awarded Peddle Institute, with
Montclair Academy second and
Blair Academy third. tl~
This from Owner Hearst: "Ameri-
cans from childhood have been
taught to regard both Germany and
France as their proven friends. we
therefore deeply deplore the war be-
tween these great nations which
have contributed so much to the
progress and civilization of the
world, and we earnestly desire to
employ the influence of our country
not for the extension and protrac-
ton of the war, but for the promo
ton of just and lasting peace"
The Harrisburg Garnets are billed
to meet the York Safe and Lock five,
at York, during the latter part OF
this week. They will play at Stew
artstown next Friday and on Christ
mas Day they will meet the st. Jo-
seph's Catholic Club at Lancaster
on the Red Roses floor. e
The York Safe and Lock team Is
organized for the coming season and
wish to arrange games with teams
in and about Harrisburg. They will
play either in York or away. The
team is practically the same as last
years York Professionals.
Their lineup is composed Of e
8 Seasholtz, c. SeasholtZ, Bixler, Hoff-
man, Garland and Remsburg. Ad-
dress all communications to Emory
Seasholtz, EOS South Queen street
York.
New York, Dec. 16.-"Jim" Rice
rowing coach of Columbia Univer-
sity, was reported to have reached an
agreement with Cornell University Ia
accept a similar position there. He
will succeed Charles +. (Pop) Court
ney, who for years coached the
Ithaca crews, and who retired be-
cause. of ill-health.
Lebanon, Pa, Dec. 16.-"Bobby'
Stowe, coach of two intercollegiate
basketball championship fives al
Yale, has consented to coach the
Lebanon High school team during
the coming season, practice begin
ming next week on the Lebanon W,