Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-16

| Golf Association recently received a
modest contribution as the result of
its Red Cross tournament on Inde-
pendence Day. With the check was
word of explanation to the effect
that the club only had sixteen men,
bers who were charged $40 a year
for dues. Further information stated
that the grass grew prolifically
along the sides of the fairway, so
THAT the club managed to meet its
, running expenses by selling the hay"
Benny Kauff is the most ambi-
tious rookie at Camp Sherman, al
though he has flat feet and will
probably never go over. Satisfied of
this. Benny has a dream of start
ing ball club so that each man in
the Twelfth Company will have a
cigar every noon and evening and
acquire a complete athletic equip
ment.
Lots of these boys" Kauff SAYS
haven't got lot of stray dimes
and will get very little pleasure un-
less some one gives it to them. I'm
going to do it. 1 already have book
ings offered for fifteen games and
well have a team that can draw
the crowds and make enough money
We'll give the Twelfth Company bows
a touch of real life. Most of them
need the little pleasures such a fund
can provide from them"
Practically all the good ballplayers
in camp have asked Benny for a
trial on his club. They all want to
play with the great Giant outfielder
and when he gets through coaching
them he will have a real team.
Who said professional ballplayers
had no imagination or poetic gifts?
New York sporting writer asked
the veteran George Schlei if he
thought he could make good with
the Chicago Cubs this year, and
George, to show how nimble his wits
are. responded with this letter:
NO, my knee joints do not creak,
nor do my muscles loudly squeek. [
still can throw and still can bat, and
have no need for antifat. My arm
is stronger than it was and I throw
to second withEa buzz. I don't pro-
pose they'll count me out so long as
I am fit to clout. With these few
words I'll say good-by and wish you
well. Yours,
GEORGE B. sCHLEI."
Same old story. Open a race track
and the loafers collect. Betting at
tracts the low-life like nothing else
does. Witness this: Five hundred
men were arrested yesterday at
Latonia race track by Federal Secret
Service men under the work or fight
law.
Sam Crawford tells a story on Joe
Sugden that, while not new. is worth
repeating.
Joe was catching and Clark Grif
fifth was pitching in a game in Chi
cago one day." said Sam. "a foul
tip knocked one of Joe's fingers out
of joint and he walked out to the
box to have Griffith pull it back in
place.
Joe extended his hand, which has
the worst-looking lot of gnarled
fingers on it you ever saw, and said
to Griff:-
lone of my fingers is out of joint;
give ii yank. will you?'
CLARK looked at the hand a
moment and then calculated:
Sure, if you tell me which one
it is. They all look out of joint to
me-"
Caroline Holley. Long Island City.
has been awarded the marksman
medal and diploma offered by the
Winchester Junior Rifle Corps, a re-
Gently formed national organization
to promote shooting among the boys
and girls in America. She made a
score of 204.
Marksman and sharpshooter
medals are offered by the Winchester
Junior Rifle Corps to any boy or
girl not over IS years of age. A
score of 10 out of a possible 20 on
each of ten targets wins. The marks
man medal and score of "a out of
a possible 25 each of fifteen targets
wins the sharpshooter medal. The
targets must be shot on a fifty-foot
range.
Bobbie Walthour, champion
bicyclist. who won a prize once by
riding fifty-seven miles into Dres-
den, Germany, in an hour, asked the
Y. NJ. C. A. to let him duplicate
that feat in Berlin as a "Y" physi-
cal director when the association
huts are pitched behind Pershing's
camp beside the Kaiser's palace.
Platt Adams joyously agreed and
Walthour will soon depart for
France, where he once lived for
thirteen years, and will take charge
of a foyer de soldat or Red Triangle
hut for the Poilus until the advance
on Berlin.
Pm going to train the Poilus to
ride bikes, so we can have a brigade
on wheels to chase the Kaiser" he
said. Walthour is training for over
seas work at the Y. NJ. c.. A. inten-
sive training camp at Columbia Uni
versity. Two hundred and eighty
men, among them bankers, brokers,
physicians. actors and businessmen.
some of whom have given up good
incomes to join the Y NJ. C. A. over
seas service, are training at Col
umbia. The camp there is in charge
OF. DR.. William II. Crawford, presi-
dent of Allegheny College. who
was in Paris as a "Y" worker when
the first German bomb. dropped down
on that city and was within 100 feet
of where it hit.
Discarding his feathers and war