Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17

Family affair" Is the way Read
ing speaks of its baseball entrance
into the International League, al
though every one has a chance to buy
stock. Mayor Filbert was first TO
start the movement and organize the
Readins Baseball Association. j.
Turner Moore of the Reading Cast
ing Company, IS president Tor inc
time. Charles L. Miley. big chief in
the Rotary Club. is secretary, lnVit-
ing the public to subscribe VIII make
the game wonderfully popular, IT Is
believed. There had been much talk
were to be in on the good things OF
baseball this season, and 1t was oe-
cided that an opportunity would oe
given to everybody to subscribe an!
instead of having $4,000 backing, the
Reading club Will likely be suestano-
tiated to the tune of $4,000 to SoV'ooV'
Ball Player Killed by Fall
Lancaster, April Il. - News reach-
ed here Tuesday that James r. Baker'
a local pugilist and baseoall plaSer'
employed as a structural iron WORKER,
was Instantly killed when he fell
from a 265-foot tower at the Govern
ment wireless station at Honolulu.
IL Harrisburg Had This!
4 swimming pool 100 feet long ana
twenty feet wide. with an average
depth of five feet of water anu ma g
ing a capacity of 12u.O09 GaiioIs "
water is under construction at camp
DiX. New Jersey. under direction OF
knights of Columbus secretary :. A.
Wandlc. w aiai,,;,r
which will accommodate 120 men a,
one time. Each man will be permitted
iE the pool a half hour daily, Ihe
reservoir will be cement and con
structed along lines of the latest de-
ArranEements are under way to
conduct water polo. swimming races
and other aquatic sports in this pool
and some of the country's noted swim
mers will participate in the contests
West End =. c. Must Move
Lancaster. Pa, ARr,, 2h lInlHg tLat for scvx nsw
oral months has been rcNolutionlzlnG
the boxing game here has been forced
to seek new quarters. the manage
ment of the theater in when theE
have been staging their shows mas
called on them to move. and to-day
they are without a home:
The result is rather hard blow TO
tho club. From the start it has been
with boxer and promoter sharing
alike. Boxers and managers control
She club. 1t is believed they Will be
able to find new quarters.
The Big U. of p. Meet
PhITudcIphia. April II. = An un-
usually large nufnDer OF star dluit o'S
from colleges in the East and Middle
West are, entered in the special
program of the University of Penn,
sylvania's relay carnival. to be held
here on April % and 26. There are
sixteen entries on the. pentathlon. or
ali around championship alone, and
the other events, including the 4iO
yards hurdle. the running hop. step
and jump and the tifty-six- pound
weight for distance, are we'll filled.
With such men as Murray. of Dart
mouth; Brickley, of Pittsburgh; Hef-
felfinger, of Yale. and other fast low
hurdlers in the quarter mile hurdle,
stiff competition is expected.
In the fifty -siX-pound weight, Dart
mouth will be represented by Weld
and Bevan; Lafayette by Bender. and
Harvard by stevens.
Gourdin and Krogness, Of Harvard.
and Landers. of Pennsylvania, are
among the entries for the hop. step
and jump.
Most OF the leading colleges are
represented in one or more of the
relay championships to be decided
on the last day of the meet.