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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

Because of the fact that most of
the players in the Allison Hill League
will participate in various events on
the Fourth of July, there will be no
contest at Seventeenth and Chestnut
streets on that evening. The regular
game between Galahad and Reading
will be played Friday night.
"Bill'' Hoerner is now playing the
optfield for the Hick-A-Thrift team.
He batted over 400 for Rosewood up
until two weeks ago. Because of
leaving the city Rosewood filled his
place with another player. In the
meantime "Bill" returned for the
summer and was signed by the
"EIickie" management.
With the season well underway,
being over half played, three teams
are still in the running for the PEN
nant. While the "Hickies" have
one of the best teams in the league,
they are at a disadvantage because
of having dropped the first eight
games. The team mnaged by Dan
Griffin is one of the strongest outfits
in the circuit, and one always feared.
Galahad seems to have lost its
equilibrium since "BilP' Reiff left the
team to enter the service. While the
team is still in the running for first
place, the aggregation mas not held
together as we'll since big Bilf' left.
Whenever Reading plays, Captain
McCurdy entertains the fans after
the contest with quotations from
Shakespeare. Mack has quite a
memory for poetry.
Fans are of the opinion that there
is better talent, in the league than
ever before. The best amateurs in
the city are signed in the league.
Four members OF the Swartz clan
play with the Reading nine. They
are brothers and cousins. The Euker
brothers are also with Reading
Rosewood has its Killingers. Earl
and "Os" Waltz are another pair of
brothers, but the former plays with
Reading and the latter with Rose
wood.
Earl Waltz will likely twirl to-
night against Hick-A-Thrift, while
the latter team will be represented
by either Eveler or Alcorn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

Attention Americans! Politically
we scrap. When a foreign foe as
sails us we are a unit and put up a
solid front for the protection of our
beloved country and flag against a
common enemy. We stand by Uncle
Sam and endorse our president. until
the crack of doom, unless victory
perches upon our banner prior to
that time. We are into a real war,
where no favors are shown, having
resolved itself into the survival Of
the fittest."
Is America a nation of skilled
marksmen, emphatically yes, not
only marksmen, but fight at the drop
of the hat soldiers. The pioneer ele-
ment Of our country both male and
female. were conVersant with the
use and handling of firearms, in the
pursuit of game and securing OF
meat, which meant family suste-
nance. In every home in the out
side districts of America, there is
now standing in the corner a gun,
which was in former days the family
tucky rifle with hammered barrel
and a stock extending the full length
of the barrel. A COW horn powder
receptacle, scraped to a paper thick
ness and bent to conform to- the
body. Bullets run by hand, the
patching having done duty as the
tail of a shirt. A carefully adjusted
flint fitted above the flash pan, with
no guarantee that an explosion
would occur when desired or the
trigger pulled. The unwritten code
of just enough powder to cover the
bullet was the accepted load. The
rife was the family pride and di-
vided honors with the spinning
wheel as a utility factor, both were
family necessities. In those days
all Americans were accredited
marksmen. every man a made-to-
order soldier ready to report and
fight because he was able to ac-
now. Pioneers in quest of game were
continuously on the hike, their
muscles became hardened, lungs
taught to pump up the proper
amount of ozone to fill his carbura-
tor, speeding up his accelerator with
out evidence of exhaustion. They
were ever trained soldiers. In Of
fees and homes of the present gem
ration a very different condition has
prevailed. In the mad hustle, hustle
and desire to acquire and spend
money, the enjoyment of life in, the
open has been disregarded. MANY
phases of life in the present age has
been overlooked, which necessity
and environments in the past made
compulsory. The meal ticket of to-
day is not the gun or rod. This has
been supplanted by the ticker tape
or the formulating Of corners on life's
commodities. Turning of the spin
ming wheel, has relegated into the
winding of the victrola. Cross coun-
try hikes in search OF game are now
made in automobiles. The accurate
and effective placing of ball is not
done through sights, the putter has
supplanted them in locating the ball
on the green. The shooting spirit
of 1916 has been a neglected art
eliminated by the passing of our
pioneer relatives. Wake up, Ameri-
can. and again become a nation OF
skilled marksmen. This applies to
both men and women and should be
started at once. while a sufficient
number of the "old guard' remain to
teach and direct the rising genera
ton along the proper lines. Citi-
zens, regardless of sex, should be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
AIR LINE URGED
OVER ATLANTIC
TOFINISH WAR
Briton Asserts He Can Build
Ten Thousand Planes
by April 1

New York, July 1.-The claim
that Handley Page, the British air
plane constructor, could turn out
10000 super dreadnaughts" in the
United States by April l, 1919, was
made in formal statement by w.
III. Workman, special representative
in this country of Handley Page,
Limited.
These planes, Mr.. Workman de-
clared, could be landed in France,
under their own power, with enough
guns, bombs and aviators ito defeat
the Germans within thirty to sixty
days, If we start now.
After announcing that he had ac-
quainted the War Department and
the aircraft board with this pro-
position, Mr.. Workman said he be-
lieved none of the 10000 planes
would be lost in transatlantic flights,
and that with British and an
American aviator ne would be will
ing to make the first flight, proceed
ing from New foundland to France,
via the Azores and Portugal.
Asserting that he considers this
route the best, he explained that a
7,oO0-foot volcano in the Azores
would serve as one guide and sug-
gested that "at least ten destroyers
stretched out to act as lightships'
so that pilots of the airplanes
would never be out of sight of a de-
stroyer, together with their COM
passes and wireless"
"Once this is started" he said,
there will be a continuous chain of
airplanes connecting the United
States with the continent OF Eu-
ropue, from early morning until late
at night, one machine leaving every
ten minutes every day"
Mr.. Workman said Mr.. Page could
bring here a staff of expert design
ers and turn out the machines in
factories in Cleveland, Buffalo, De-
troit and Grand Rapids, deliveries to
start December 1, 1918.
He added that in three days these
planes could be flown from the Mid
die West to France, saving many
tons of shipping.
These 10000 airplanes. he deelar-
ed, could drop $4,000 tons of explo-
sives on and behind the German
lines each night, or the equivalent
of $4,000 shells from "the biggest
guns yet constructed"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

The third match OF the series will
likely be shot on the Pennsylvania
state rifle range at Mt. Gretna and
viii be as the men say, some match,
as both teams are making great pre-
parations for winning.
The finest thing about these
matches is the spirit of clean sports
manship and good fellowship dis
played by the members of the two
clubs toward each other in spite OF
the intense rivalry existing between
the two clubs for the city champion
ship.
There is considerable talk of the
teams making up team to contest
for the city rifle championship of
the state of Pennsylvania.
Each of these two clubs are do
ing all that they are able to interest
the men of the city of Harrisburg
and vicinity in the expert use of the
high power military rifle.
This city is sending hundreds of
its men each month into the United
States Army. Practically all of these
men have had practically no instruc-
ton whatever in the expert use of
the high power military rifle, most
of them have never fired such a
weapon, and yet they are going to
hight the most thoroughly equipped,
trained and organized army that
the world has ever seen.
Both of these clubs extend a cor
dial invitation to Harrisburg men
TO visit their rifle ranges, to join the
clubs, to obtain expert instruction in
military rifle shooting.
The United States government is
granting another free issue of both
80 and 30 caliber ammunition to
these clubs for the use Of the men
of this vicinity.
The efficiency of the soldiers OF
this city will not be measured by the
number of them that are in the
Army, but by the number of Ger
mans that they kill. To be of effec-
tive use in the Army anyone must
be able to hit what they shoot al
and there is no better, cheaper
quicker and more absolutely certain
way to obtain that ability than un-
der the instruction of expert rifle
shots on the ranges of these two
rifle clubs. Will the men of Har.
risburg avail themselves of this op.
portunity?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

The three Steel League games on
Saturday drew tremendous crowds
and such is the gathering of talent
to the Schwab plants that quite as
much general interest was manifest
cd in the outcome of these battles as
those of the big leagues. Steelton
trimmed Fore River 6-2, with Eddie
Plank in the box all the way, and
that too, though his opponent was
Dutch" Leonard, former Red Sox
star. Plank has been conscientiously
working out every day at Cottage
Hill and his careful training shows
now in his success. Men on bases
do not worry him, that's when he
pitches his cleverest.
Manager Cockill again shifted his
lineup, following his policy of get
ting a squad that can hit, run bases
and show fast team work. He used
young AL Kaufman, who recently
came from the South, at first base,
his regular position, and in his first
game with Steelton, Kaufman made
good by rapping out a clean single,
which scored the always industrious
Hunter who now leads the batting
order. This Hunter is playing the
finest ball of a long career. A quiet
man, he delivers the goods, opening
the run fest on Saturday with a hard
wallop for two bases. This is the
kind of punch to have in a COM
pany which is constantly getting
faster. Cockill's team looked good all
over in this game. The box score
shows how general was the hitting
Steelton has a great chance to
crawl up further in the standing by
taking two from Wilmington on
July 4. If this should happen the
Bethlehem plant will have to shut
up shop for week. "Sockless Joe"
Jackson will be one of the great at
fractions in this duel. He pulled a
bone in Saturdays game and was
partly responsible for losing to Spar
rows Point.
At Lebanon, Bill Ritter sang his
swan song in the league by beating
big jeff" Terseau, of Bethlehem.
The local leaguers not only have
two games on the Fourth with Will
mington. but Immediately following,
on July 6, they encounter the swift
Bethlehem bunch. Saturdays score:
FORE RIVER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
MISS WYNN TALKS
OF WAR SERVICE
Rotary Club Hears Charming
Little Singer Just Home
From War Countries

Bessie Wynn, the charming little
songstress who is singing at the Ma
jestic Theater this week, addressed
the Rotary Club at its noon luncheon
in the Y. NJ. G. A. to-day, telling of
her war work in France and Eng
land, where she has been for the
past three years.
Miss Wynn has spent most of her
time singing for countless thousands
of weary or wounded soldiers, some
times while the big guns were roar
ing in the immediate distance and
again while bombing German air.
planes were trying to smash a Brit
ish hospital where she was giving
an entertainment, and she brings to
her fellow Americans a message Of
hope and good cheer. Having de-
livered it she will return to her work
'over there" where she will remain
until the close of the war.
Miss Wynn's recital was so dra-
matte and her message to the women
of the country so impressive that the
Rotarians invited her to address an
other meeting of the club Wednes-
day at noon, when the wives and
friends of the Rotarians will be in
vited.
The club decided to-day to give
$50 toward the Fourth of July cele-
bration and to march in the pa
rade, following an address by eX-
president Arthur D. Bacon. Arch
Dinsmore asked the club to Coop
crate in making the annual Y. M.
c. A. boys camp near Inglenook a
success and G.. NJ. Steinmetz, vice
president. who was in the chair in
the absence of Eli N. Hershey, presi-
ident appointed AL. K. Thomas,
John s. Musser and ]. William Bow
man a committee to aid the associa-
tion in any way possible. John
Heathcote reported in favor of the
organization of a War Savings Stamp
Society in the club and this will be
done at the meeting next Monday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
Thousands Crowd Streams
on Opening Of Bass Season

Every fishin' hole noted for bass
was so crowded early this morning,
opening day for the delicious water
game, that some of the returned
Waltons had to call on first aid.
The call must have melted Harris
burgs entire quota of bass fishers to
judge by the mob gathered at Oys-
ters Dam on the Conodoguinet.
"It was only a. m. when 1 reach
ed there" related one of the en-
thusiasts as he Topped back into
town, water soaked and dazed, but
there must have been 800 ahead of
me. 1t is only a small pool and,
men alive, we were walking all over
one another. Ten men got their
lines tangled, and when l beat 1T
the prospects were for a free-for-all
battle.
Bass? Say, IL bass had wan
dered into that place he would have
been trampled to death in time.
There wasn't room for the fishermen,
let alone fish. The water was too
muddy, anyhow, for good fishing. 1
counted forty automobiles collected
at this one place, with more COM
ing"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

educated in the use and handling OF
firearms. Boy scouts, merchants,
bankers, farmers, Aborers, clerks,
professional, military and femininity.
every person who loves their coun-
try and flag, their liberty and honor,
should Immediately learn how to
shoot, regardless of sex, creed or
color. To be able to accurately shoot
increases your efficiency as an Amer
lean citizen at least 100 per cent.
Every municipality, school and
CLUB, should Immediately organize a
Home Defense Reserve. with Gun
noon each week should be designated
Patriotic Day, at which time the
ranges should be open for gratuitous
instruction. The Home Defense
guard should be taught military tac-
tics and shooting accuracy. The
Boy Scouts should be given a gun
and taught to correctly and safely
handle firearms, that they might not
be q menace to themselves and COM
rades later in life. Any boy who is
of requisite age to qualify as mem-
Der of the Boy Scouts is old enough
to be taught safety first in the hand
ling of guns. On Patriotic Day COM
pulsory gun instruction should be
llnpOSeu upon the enllTe pOpuldCo
of the city and all taught to salute
Old Glory. Those called in the
draft or on the eye of cantonment
duty. should be taught to shoot and
handle firearms, thus conserving
valuable time, before they are men,
bers of Uncle Sans family in camp.
Many of the wives, mothers and
children of those who have gone in
defense of the flag, will be left
without a male defender, they will
be the head of the house and in de-
fense of the home. They should be
taught to shoot.
Men who remain at home are the
acknowledged home guard and have
a responsible duty imposed upon
them. To them is entrusted the
care of the wives, mothers, sisters
and children, in a general manner,
representing the boys "over there"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
Human Fish Insures
His Feet For $4,000

According to Owen Herrick, of
Honolulu, Duke Kahanamoku,
prior to leaving Honolulu, had his
feet insured for $4,000 with
Lloyds. Willie Hoppe and Ignatz
Paderewski had their hands in
sured, but the Duke went to ex-
tremes and got his pedals" in
sured.
Duke learned to use his feet to
advantage by watching the pro-
pellers of the steamers as they
churned the water in the harbor
at Honolulu. His "kick" is not so
high as that of other noted SWIM
mers, but the way he uses his feet.
says Herrick, he gets every ounce
of power out of them when he is
racing. Several of the best swim
mers in the islands have patteren-
Cd their style after Hawaii's fore
most norman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
GOLF TROPHY ron FRANK PAYNE

The rich golf trophy offered by
Edward A. Herman. president OF the
Harrisburg Country Club. is now the
property of Frank Payne, who won
Saturdays tournament in a big and
clever field OF contestants at the club
links. Payne carried a handicap of
two. his gross score being rs, net
score rs. Next to him came Miller
and Samuel Todd finished third.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
o.rnYoTIc ADDRESS

MnrysyiIle, Pa July 1.-Chlioren >
Dav services were held last evenins
in the Trinity Reformed Church ana
the Church of God. 20
state Senator Scott S. Leioy' OIL
Marvsyille, delivered a patriotic ad
dress at the Trinity Reformed
church service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
NO NEED OF JURORS
IN TWO STATE COUNTIES
By associated Press

Williamsport, Pa, July 1.-There
being no prisoners in the Clinton
Jail at Lock Haven awaiting trial,
Sheriff William Rathgeber will to-
morrow notify the jurors summoned
for the July term of court not to
appear. The same conditions exists
at Danville, where the Montour
county Jail. reported empty at the
last quarter sessions, is still with
out q prisoner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
Famous Athletes Drop
in Last Hun Drive

London, July 1.--Many famous
British sportsmen have fallen in
the recent severe fighting on the
western front, among them
Johnny" Summers, celebrated
boxer, we'll known in this coun-
try, who lies in French hospital,
seriously wounded. He visited
America in 1907 and boxed all the
leading lightweights. In 1909 he
defeated Jimmy" Britt in twenty
rounds in London. losing a few
months later to FREDDY" Welch.
Captain r. c. Rice, the British
Olympic sprinter. who represented
the United Kingdom at Stockholm
in 1912, has also been wounded.
He won the United Hospital sprint
on several occasions in the years
1906 to 1910.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
ss KNOWN DEAD IN WIRE

:. Sioux City, Ia. July THE death
roll in the Ruff building disaster
II. ounted rapidly yesterday reaching
score or more missing. The injured
number thirty-three. Searchers stiIl
are hunting for bodies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

base hits, Jacobson. Hunter
and knight; three-base hit, Weiser;
double play, Plank, Edmundson to
Kaufman; struck out, by Plank, q;
by Leonard, /; base on balls, off
Plank, /; off Leonard, /. Umpire,
Barry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
FINED FOR HoARDING SUGAR

Newport, Pa, July 1.-For hoard
ing sugar, Clyde A. Collier and Har-
per d. Collier, of Marysville. were
each fined $5 by Archdeacon William
Dorwart, Perry county food admin
istrator. The sugar was sold and the
amount received, together with the
fines, was turned over to the Marys-
vile Red Cross Auxiliary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
SCHEDULE FOR TO-DAY
American League

Brooklyn at Boston.
Philadelphia at New York.
Other clubs not scheduled.
National League
st. Louis at Chicago.
Detroit at Cleveland.
New York at Philadelphia.
Boston at Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
What They Did Yesterday;
Where They Play Today
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
American League

American League
Boston, 3; Washington, 1 (10 in
nings).
st. Louis. 4; Chicago, 8.
Detriot, 10; Cleveland. 2.
Detroit. 2; Cleveland, 0.
Other clubs not scheduled.
National League
st. Louis, 2; Pittsburgh, L..
Pittsburgh, 5. st. Louis, 4.
Cincinnati, /; Chicago, 0.
Cincinnati, z; Chicago, z I'll in
nings. called).
Other clubs not scheduled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01

Heywood Butler, who has Just re-
turned from the Kansas City inter-
national Rotary convention made
brief report.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
No Game on Hill on 4th;
Reading-Hickies Today
ALLISON HILL LEAGUE
.NnING OF THE CLUBS

Schedule For the Wee
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-07-12
CHAPTER XIV.
The Crown Princes Pilgrimage.

The Crown Princes Pilgrimage.
The day when Olga Loschek should
have returned to the city found her
too Ill to travel. No feigned sickness
this, but real enough, matter Of fever
and burning eyes, and of mutteringS
in troubled sleep.
Minna was alarmed. She was fond
of her mistress, in spite of her oc-
casional cruelties, and lately the
countess had been strangely gentle.
She required little attention, wished
to be alone, and lay In her great bed,
looking out steadily at the bleak noun
tain tops, to which spring never
climbed.
"She eats nothing" Minna said
despairingly TO the caretaker. "And
her eyes brighten me. They are al
ways open, even in the night, but they
seem to see nothing"
On the day when she should have
returned, the countess reused herself
enough to send for Black Humbert,
fretting in the kitchen below. He had
believed that she was malingering I'M
til he saw her, but her flushed and
hollow cheeks showed her condition.
"You must return and explain" she
said. 81 shall need more time, after
ALL"
When he hesitated, she added /:
There are plenty to watch that do
not escape. / could not, If would.
I have not the strength"
IF madame wishes, l can take let
ter"
She pondered over that, interlacfng
her fingers nervously as she reflected.
~ will send no letter." she decided,
but win give you a message, which
you can deliver"
Eyes, madame"
"Say to the committee that ] have
reflected and that / will do what they
ask. AS far" she added. "as lies I'm
my power. / can only try"
"That is ell the committee expects, !"
he said civilly, and with reIief that
was not lost on her. with madame's
intelligence. to try Ia to succeed.