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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04

to make up the limit of 20 men-all a
team may carry during the season.
That. the White Sox will be better
off than most any team in the Ameri-
can league is certain. There is not a
single team in the league with such
a large percentage of married men.
Besides, three OF Rowland's cham
pions are past the military age-John
Collins, Cicotte and Benz. Catcher
Jenkins, Pitcher Scott and Payne and
Kaiser, recruits. are already in the
army.
Naturally, the biggest loss to the
Sox would be the drafting Of Faber,
who had considerable to do with win
ming both the pennant and the world s
flag. AS long as Gandil is In harness
Jourdan could be spared.
Up to Russell.
The drafting of Faber practically
would put the Sox out Of the pennant
race unless Comiskey could pick up a
couple of pitchers of more than ordin-
airy promise. OF course everything
will depend on whether Reb Russell
will stage a comeback If the big
left-hander should be able to iron out
his pitching arm during the winter
Rowland would have little to fear even
| if the brick-topped Iowan should be
compelled to spend the season hoist
ing grenades at Fritz.
How dependents" will be interpret
ed by the government is still unknown
but it is certain that the great major
ity Of Sox and Cub players would
qualify. Not more than three of the
Sox players are known to have a COM
petence which would provide for their
families if they were called to the
colors and two of these are above the
age limit. None of the others has
been able to lay up any great store
of wealth, although several have lost
small-sized fortunes through unfor-
tunate investments.
None of the Cubs is in the million
aire class and a number of those who
are single have dependents, SO it is
likely that some would be exempted
In comparison with the Giants, picked
as the real rivals of the Bruins in the
pennant race, Mitchell's team is like
| ly to fare pretty we'll. McGraw has a
number of regulars who are eligible
for selection. Cincinnati also is fkel,
| to be hard hit in this respect, SO there
is little to worry about on the North
Side
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
DENIES THAT CUBS
MADE AN OFFER TO
OBTAIN HORNSBY

st. Louis, Jan. because trade ru-
mors purporting to send Roger Horns
by to the Cubs within the last few
days have been as thick as British
tanks around Cambria, Branch Hickey
was asked yesterday to come to the
rescue of guessing populace and an
equally at sea baseball reporter and
furnish a tangible clew as to what
might be expected to develop from all
the reports.
Branch submitted to an examination
that endured for the better part of an
hour. 1t ran like this:
will you trade Roger Hornsby OF
have you an offer for him under con-
sideration?'
Positively not" Hickey replied. 81
have no offer for Hornsby, nor have
ever had one"
You say you never had an offer for
Hornsby. Isn't it a fact that WEIGH
man offered you something on his last
trip here?"
"Weeghman did not make me def
mite Offer"
Are you and Jack Hendricks going
to meet Weeghman and Mitchell in
Cincinnati Monday"
Il noticed" Branch answered, where
we were so dated in the newspapers.
know nothing Of such conference
Furthermore, l will say that if Char.
lie Weeghman makes me definite Of
fer for Hornsby in Cincinnati Monday
| 1t will be the first he has ever made.
What about that $4,000 WeeghmaI
offered in a letter to you?"
II never considered that legiti.
mate Offer" replied Hickey. WEIGH.
man advised me later that he wa:
merely kidding me in that letter. A:
for the $4,000 he is reported to have
offered. that's pure bunk. l never
heard of it."
Would it be safe to say that Horns
by will be a member Of the Cardinal:
next season."
1T certainly would" was the reply
That's the safest bet Of the baseball
world"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
SOx PLAYERS ARE
SAFE FROM DRAFT
II All Married Men Are Exempt, Chi.
cago Team win Remain Intact
During 1918.
ONLY THERE MEN ARE ELIGIBLE
Champions Will BE Better on Than
Any Team In the American
League.

Chicago, Jan. 4-That the worlds
champion White Sox will go through
next season practically intact was in
ferred from the report made to con-
gress Wednesday by General Crowder,
provost marshal general. General
Crowder reported that the policy had
been formulated to exempt all married
men or others with dependents in the
coming military draft.
If the order should be applied to the
Sox the champions would stand to
lose only two of their regular players,
not counting the recruits. The Cubs,
however, are likely to be hard hit, as
out Of 81 men Is are unmarried. The
majority of the veterans will come
under the married classification, SO
the blow is softened considerably.
Among the Sox players who were
on the pay roll last year only First
Baseman Jourdan and Urban Faber
are eligible for the draft All the rest
have families.
Grover Cleveland Alexander heads
the list of unmarried players on the
Cub team. Grover, however, claimed
exemption in the first draft, as he has
a mother to support. Here are the
Cub players who are eligible to the
draft:
Pitchers-Alexander Aldridge, Car
ter, Weaver, Bailey and Boeshling.
Catchers-EIliott, Daily and O'Far-
rell.
Infielders- Hollocher, Kilduff, Pech-
GUS and Lear.
Outfielders-Barber and McCabe.
Should all the above be found in the
net, Manager Mitchell still has the
nucleus for a strong team left in
Pitchers Vaughn. Hendrix and Doug
lass; Catchers Killifer and Wilson
Infielders Doyle, Merkle, Deal, Ze:der
Workman and Leslie, and Outfielders
Flack, Mann, Wolter and Paskert
Among the recruits, Pitcher Walker
might fill in.
Several of the players listed as ELI
gible as far as age is concerned un-
doubtedly would be exempted on the
ground of dependents, and it is almost
Ia certainty that enough would be left
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
MILAN FIVE DEFEATS
ROCK ISLAND LEAGUE

In the fastest and closest basket
ball game Of the season Milan defeat
ed the Rock Island Y. P. S. by the
narrow margin of two points by q
score of IA to IL.
The crowd at the game was held to
the highest point of interest by the
swift playing of both teams. Framing
led the Milan boys and the guarding of
Wilson was the feature of the meet.
F. Kruger and Farrar starred for the
losers.
The line-ups were as follows:
Milan-Center, Framing; guards.
Wilsonand Shore and forwards;
Guldenzopf and Van Alstine.
Rock Island - Center, Farrar;
guards. Jorgenson and Cohen; for
wards, F. Kruger and C. Kruger
Substitutes: Short for Shore and
Chaves for Short.
Referees-Lindgren and Poehlman.
All the news all the time-The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
CHASE TO HEAD NINE
FOR RED CROSS FUND

Cincinnati, Ohio. Jan. 4.-Hal Chase
will lead a team Of big league ball
players against a crack indoor ball
team here the night of Jan. ~ in an
indoor game. with every cent Of the
receipts going to the Red Cross. Chase
conceived the project and today got
the Cincinnati amateur commission to
take charge of it. Miller Higgins,
Lee Magee. Christy Mathewson, Heinie
Groh. Tom Griffith and Walter MAYER
are among the players who will be on
Chase's team.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
What Do You Know
About Your Blood Supply?

portant subject. 1t tells how to keep
the blood strong and free from the
many impurities to which it is con-
stantly subject.
1t gives the history of S. S. S., the
worlds most successful blood remedy.
which has been sold for more than
htty years b, druggists everywhere.
fhis book will be sent free to ali
who write to Swift Specific ca.
Dept. A Atlanta, Ga.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
CADORE TO RECEIVE
OFFICERS TRAINING

New York, Jan. Aeon Galore,
pitcher, who was a star with the
Dodgers last year-his first in the ma
jors-will become an officer il he can
convince his teachers at Camp Upton,
L. l., that he's good enough. Drafted
into the service, he has shown such
good qualities as soldier that he has
been admitted to the officers school.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
MANY CASUALTIES.

Harrisburg. Pa. Jan. 4.-Twenty,
i've men were killed and "A wounded
a hunting accidents in Pennsylvania
turing the season ending Dec. 81, &C.
sording TO reports received by the
state game commission. Game killed
included 100000 rabbits. 17g,40f
squirrels, lG7,2s7 grouse, 1850 deer
IeS bears and 1926 racoonS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
GRIFFITHS TO TEACH
BOXING TO SOLDIERS

Akron, o.. Jan. 4.-Johnny Griffiths,
Akron welterweight. received orders
from the war department yesterday
10 report for duty as boxing instruc-
tor at Fort Leavenworth. Kan, as
soon as possible. Griffiths plans to
leave about Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
WINS AGAIN.

Chicago, Jan. 4.-Frank Taberski de-
feated Ralph Greenleaf of Monmouth.
Isl to 104 in the second block of the
pocket billiard championship match at
Milwaukee. Taberski now leads
Greenleaf 307 to 1913.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04
RANGERS. rs: RIPON. rs.

Ripon, Wis. Jan. 4.-The University
of Wisconsin basketball shooters de-
feated Ripon college last night, 50 to
16,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-04

All the news all the time-Tht
Argus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10
Giants to Have New
Owners Is Latest Rumor

New York, Oct. 10.-The New
York Giants will likely change
hands before the December baseball
meetings here. 1t was learned from
an authoritative source last night.
Harry n. Hampstead. president of
the club, is known to be eager to sell
the outfit, and is at present consid-
ering a tentative or1er made him by
a prominent New York business
man.
Controlling interest in the Giants
is held by Mrs. John T. Brush, widow
of the late head of the club, and by
Mrs. Harry N. Hampstead, a daugh-
ter of Mrs. Brush. Minor stockhold-
ers are comparatively few, and, it is
said, Manager John ]. McGraw pos
sesses about twenty shares.
Hampstead became president of
the club upon the death of his faith
er-in-law, John T. Brush, in Novem-
Der, 1912. While the Giants have
been a paying proposition for more
than a decade, Hampstead has sew
eral times expressed desire to sell
the stock of $his wife and Mrs.
Brush.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10
o, Boy! Could You
Pull Out 314 Fish
With Rod and Line? +?

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 9.-An-
other worlds record in big game
hShlng was shattered in the Cat
anna Island waters, when James
w. Jump recently landed a ala
pound marlin swordfish !, 90
minutes, with light tackle. Not
only Is sthis unprecedented with
hight tackle, but the fish was
near the Tuna Club record for
a swordfish on any tackle. The
oiggest' one ever caught was in
1916, which weighed 362 pounds
Not in many years have the
aeep sea fighters been SO plentio
Iul as this season off the IA
nous southern California banks
Great swarms of yellowtail ana
other light tackle prizes have
peen frequent. The leaping tuna.
dolphin and marlin swordfish
varying in size from so to over
3OO pounds have been plantifnI
w. G. Boschen, of New York is
credited with capturing 90 tuna
and five swordfish for the season
His nearest competitor fs James
w. jump, of Los Angeles with
86 tuna and IL swordfish. RaInb
Vandeni holds the record for The
season with the largest TINA
caught 1t weighed 1912
pounds.
Prizes to be awarded nv the
TUNA Club for the largest yellow
tail, white sea bass, bonita. al
bicore and tuna sea bass this
year, will go to novices in the bip
game fishing sport from all parts
or the country, some of whom
have never previously caught
anything larger than a fair Size
trout.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10
F.AND M. VETS
MAY JOLT FOE
Swarthmore Is Likely to Find
Lancaster Team in
80 Fighting Shape

Lancaster football patrons are look
ing forward to Saturdays game be-
tween Franklin and Marshall and
Swarthmore with ill-conceaIed glee,
They believe that the White and Blue.
under Coach Weller. will surprise
Swarthmore. although it is known to
have a heavy team Weller knows
that the line has always been the
enemy's strong point, and he has been
working. the F. and NJ. lads to over
come this.
Jake" is placing his hopes for the
line in Good and Bucher, both tackles,
big, husky mountains of men, who
are the heaviest on the team. These
men, Weller says, are not only heavy
and strong, but they are both speedy.
and Morrison at ends and Madison
and Schaffner at guards. Who will
I'LL the center's position is a prob
lem not yet decided.
1t is the backfield that will spring
the surprise. Marshall surprised foot
ball fans last year with his speedy
and heady work behind the line. He
was a master at offensive and even
better on the defensive. This year
he has lost none of his pep" AS
has even more responsibility. Great
hopes are being placed in him. The
two Mellingers. with DOC" at quar-
ter. are others who will aid in open
ing the surprise packet. Both of
them are speedy backfield workers.
They are yearlings this year. but
come from Bethlehem Prep with a
reputation to uphold.
Bowers. from last years High
squad. is another who bids fair to be-
Young will probably be used alter
nafalX.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10
LEBANON ON friday FRANKLIN MARSHALL READY FOR SWARMOR
AROUND THE BASES

In the cozy but cool parlor of an
Allison Hill home, cheerful daugh-
ter with some friends Justify chanted
Keep the Home Fires Burning"
OUT in the hall Pop" was heard
tefphoning something like this:
S'How the blankety- ty-blank-blank am
l goin' to keep 'em burning if you
don't get that four tons of coal to
my house? Yes, you did; promised
to have it here yesterday" Chorus:
Keep the Home Fires Burning"
Lewistown, Pa, Oct. 10.-Mrs.
Fred Fish, of Lewistown, has taken
out licenses for herself and husband
to hunt this season, and says she ex-
poets to enjoy couple weeks camp
ing in the open for big and little
game.
Mrs. Fish has gained quite a repu-
tation as a breeder of tame hares
= and has one in her burrow that
weighs eighteen pounds. In taking
out her license she said the cotton
tail would have the advantage of her
little animals with which she was
brought in constant contact.
Probably one of the quickest pro-
motions on record in the army has
been that of Ed. (Strangler) Lewis,
now top sergeant at Camp Grant.
Lewis gained the promotion, thanks
to display of courage the first day
he entered the camp.
The famous wrestler was lined up
with hundreds of other draftees,
baggage in hand, when two husky
uniformed men looking the line over
began making fun of the recruits.
Giving Lewis the once over, one of
them remarked, Pipe the fat man, "
while the others laughingly said.
He sure looks like a prize porker."
Lewis flushed with rage, dropped
his grip and walked over to the first
of the camp testers, picked him up
bodily, twisted him upside down and
bounced his head on the ground,
leaving him there. while he took a
deadlock on the other and threw him
ten feet over the ground and then
asked the onlookers If they wanted
to sample any of his work. Getting
no response, Lewis again Joined the
line.
Jim Rice, recently Columbia Uni
versity coach, says rowing is done
until the war is over, and he has
gone back to his forest home at Sar-
atoga Lake, where he keeps hard as
a rock rowing.
When at the beginning of the
war, the government dismounted a
number of crack cavalry regiments
and distributed the personnel among
infantry and artillery regiments, in
terest in polo waned. Hundreds of
crack polo players, many of them
possessing international reputation,
were affected by the general order.
Now the cavalry regiments are
again coming into their own, polo
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10
Diamond Vets Recall
First Worlds Series

There was an impromptu cell
ebration by several old baseball
players and fans in Newark re-
Gently over the fact that thirty
three years ago Newark was
made prominent in the baseball
world by it's representative team
defeating the worlds champion
Providence Grays by score OF
l to O.
John F. Coogan. a veteran
player of those days. was the
leader in the celebration that
brought back recollections Of
the oldtimers.
The game was played on Sep
tember 80, 1885. The far-famed
Grays of Providence had won the
worlds championship in October,
1884, by defeating the old Nets
of New York City, who were the
champions of the American AS
sociation.
That worlds series. the first
ever played, took place on the
old Polo grounds at Fifth avenue
and One Hundred and zenith
street, and the Grays won three
straight games, Charley Rad
bourne pitching all of them. The
first game resulted in q score OF
to O; the second, 8 to /, and
the third. IL to 2.
Radbourne, at that time, was
at the height of his baseball
glory. He was the most noted
pitcher in the country and well
deserved his honors.
Tim Keefe was the old Nets
pitcher in the first two games.
He held the Grays to four hits in
the first game and to five in the
second. In the third game Mel
Becannon was in the Nets box
and was hit safely 13 times.
Radbourne's record was a sur
prise considering that the Nets
We're a splendid hitting aggrega-
ton. The latter made two safe
hits in the first contest. three in
the second and five in the third.
On the Grays' team were:
bourne. p; Start, h.; Farrell
2b.; Irwin, g.; Gilligan. CT Denny
3b; Radford, r. (.
The Nets lineup was: Nelson
g.; Brady, r. T.. Esterbrook, 3b;
Roseman, C. f.; Orr. 1b; Troy, 2b;
Reifschager, c.; Kennedy, p;
Keefe, .p.; Becannon. Foster
Lynch and Holbert.
1t will be noticed that Rad
bourne, although pitcher. was
third in the batting order. He
was some hitter.
Arthur Irwin, shortstop, is still
in baseball, having been manager
of the Rochester club of the In
.ternational League the past sea-
son.
"Old Joe" Start is still alive
being proprietor of a roadhouse
Just outside of Providence. r. L
Jerry Denny is now living in
Bridgeport, Conn. He attended
the opening game of the National
League championship season al
the Polo grounds last April.
OF the old Nets, "Dasher'
Troy, Jack Lynch, Jimmy (Chief)
Roseman! Mel. Becannon and
Manager Jim Mutrie, are living
in Greater New York. Tim
Keefe is a resident of Cambridge
Mass, and Billy Holbert is living
near Baltimore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10
VISITING MINISTER ILL

New Cumberland, Pa, Oct. TO-
Rev. Mr.. Weigle, of Mt. Carmel, Is
i'll at the home of the Rev. c. II.
Heiges at the Church of God par
sonage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10

Is all anxiety for an early return +o
the front, where he anticinates n
real good time for the Yanks and q
correspondingly bad time for Jerry
The latter is assuredly up against
the straight goods at last. Any-
way, whatever happens to the Eng
lish, for the United States forces il
Is going to be heaven, hell or Hobo-
ken by Christmas
Sammy says So"
The glass-armed toy soldiers of
| this town were fed to the pigs YES
terday by the cadaverous Indian
grave-robpers from Omaha. The
tiabby. one-lunged Rsubens who rep
resent The Gem City in the reckless
rush for the baseball pennant had
their shins toasted by the basilisk-
eyed cattle-drtvers from the West
They stood around with gaping eye
balls like hen on a hot nail. and
suffered the grizzly yaps of Onah ha
TO run the sawdust until their necks
were long with thirst. Hickey had
I more errors than a blind ASYLUM
eating soup, and led the rheumatic
procession to the morgue. The
Quincys were full of straw and
scrapiron. They couldn't hit the
water II they fell out OF boat, and
ran like lame paIibearers at a fun
eral. If three-base hits were grow
| ing on the back of every mans
| neck they couldn't have reached
them with feather-duster. It
looked as If the Amalgamated Asso-
clation OF Bulshevikers was warming
UP TO give the third degree. The
seezers stood about and whistled
for help, and were so weak tbev
couldn't life a glass of beer If IL bad
been all foam. Everything was vel
low and whangbasted, like a stig-
tossel full of doggle-gammon. The
game was whiskered and frost bit
ten. The Omahogs were bad
enough, but the Quincy Brown Sox
had their fins tied up so until they
couldn't hold a crazy quilt unless
1t was tied round their necks."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10
Yankee Shot9uns Doing
Deadly Damage at Front

Germany has curtly informed the
United Sttaes that any American
taken prisoner who has a shotgun or
shotgun ammunition on his person
will forfeit his life" reminds Peter F.
Carney.
This is just the same as informing
the United States government that
they do not like the trench guns-es-
pecialIy in the hands of Americans.
These Americans learned to use shot
guns at the gun club and were protici-
ent in scattering the shot before join
ing the colors.
"The trench gun does an irreparable
amount of damage to the German
cause We might insert at this point
that the German cause is not a wholly
popular one in the United States.
German Kultur gloated over the
invention of poison gas, the cutting
off of hands and arms of children
etc, but when the Americans bring
into the war a nice little subduer in
the trench shotgun the Germans cry
mind that old and true' remark. there
is no accounting for tastes. ETC.
Kaiser Bill, Won Hindy, ct al.
didn't figure that the United States
war. They were assured of this by
Won Tirpitz. But when the Americans
opened gaps in the German lines at
Seicheprey. in April, with shotguns,
and have been doing it ever since, the
German General Staff now pays us due
attention.
"We-speaking by and large-are
delivering the goods as per schedule.
Uncle Sam is the best messenger in
the world.
"This editorial from the Philadel-
phia Inquirer of September %, voices
our sentiments:
"Above everything else, it is said,
our short -barreled shotguns hurt the
Huns' feelings the. worst but at that
we didn't issue those cute little lead
sprayers to amuse him, and while
their use may not be gentlemanly, this
war, owing to the manner in which 1t
has been conducted by the .Boches," Is
not a gentleman's game, and we have
an idea that they will have to get
along the best they can under the
OF cIrcImstances'