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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
LOCAL ATHLETES
STAR IN FRANCE
Former Scholastic Players
Form Fast Football Team
"Over There"
HAVEN'T LOST A CAME

Since athletics have been the order of
events among the members of the Ameri-
can eXpeditionary force, and the boys
abroad have been able to turn this time
from the more serious business
of defeating the Huns TO the defeat of
each other in sport, Battery + of the
108th Field Artillery, formerly the old
Second Regiment, n. G.. p, has come
rapidly to the fore with an all-Peru-
sylvania football team.
This team has defeated all opponents
in the regiment and also Battery A of
the 109th Field Artillery by a score of
10 to 0. In the games played their goal
line has not been crossed, while they
have never failed to score on their op-
pOnents. The battery is located at pres
ent in the little town of Parne in France.
and this ancient village has for the first
time seen football as played in America.
The team has many former scholastic
stars in its lineup, and, although light,
has proved exceedingly speedy. The
captain, William =. Britch. better known
as Bill" was formerly captain of the
Harrisburg Technical High School team
and latter played on the Harrisburg
Academy team. He holds his old posi-
tion of quarterback. with Earl Fadden
brother-in-law of f. S. Newbold, of
Philadelphia as substitute.
Other players are Albert Dipple, Of
Northeast High; Walter O'Donnen, of
Catholic High; Hank" MacFarland and
"Snitz" Snider, of Harrisburg Tech
Among others who have made good are
Roland Watson, Mike" Wagner. John
Steitler. Wiawell O'Neil and Jack Nc
Carty, of Philadelphia, and Jake"
Burgenstock, Lloyd Pike, Art" Sellers
and Bill Cunningham from Harris
burg
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HERE IS ONE RING STAR
WHO NEVER SA AW'PRO' BOUT
Miss Roehm, Leading Female
Boxing Expert. Nerer Wit
messed Real Battle
is PRAISED BY EXPERTS

WALTER JOHNSON never saw a big
w league game until he joined the
Washington club :; Joe Bush never gazed
upon the major leaguers until he re-
ported to the Athletics and DOZENS of
other stars failed to see the big g-time
ball tossers perform until they were
discovered in the bushes and transported
to tile majors by clever scouts.
But did you ever hear of a boxer
who never saw n regular fight. yet en-
cages in boxing daily for public inspec-
tion? This individual has Witnessed
many gymnasium exhibitions but always
lost courage when an opportunity pre-
scented itself to see a regular professional
ring battle
This is an unusual condition. Yet
this unique individual, with the aid of a
novice for q partner. gives exhibitions
that would make Kelly and Hagen and
Kilhane and Dunn envious.
Women are well represented in the
tennis. go'f hockey billiard and bas-
ketball world! but when it comes to
boxing, there are few with the courage
to don the gloves The exception is
Miss Vera Roehm, a New York girl.
who has been entertaining the public
for a few years.
With the aid of Miss Carolyn Arnold,
a girl who has been boxing for less than
three months. Miss Roehm puts over an
act that rates with the exhibitions OF
professional male boxing entertainers.
Miss Roehm IL seen TO advantage IN
the gymnasium scene In the Melting al
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Ball Players Viii Watch Moran and Reds


before the show
a in
vile the other night the athletes
he
working together cham
like
BILE get them going but usually bad with his
II remember in Brooklyn when
anything s
morning But
and the practice held.
a 20 it
workout
that nineteen the
the
cat MORAN tciH
you
P ban cnb this
but did nd. soafch Cincinnati tNs year"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
NEWARK HIGH LIFTS TITLE
Hill School Second in lnterschol.
astic Championships

Newark, y. j.. March "a. -- Central
High School of Newark won the national
indoor interscrolastic athletic champion
ship here Saturday night, defeating
twenty-five of the leading schools in the
East The Newark school scored 20
points. Hill School. of Pottstown, Pa,
was second with -.
In a special event held in connection
with the interscholastic meet the New
York team. composed of Ed Hosmer,
Homer Baker. Jack Sellers and James
]. OBrien. won the one-mile relay from
representative teams from philadelphia
and Newark. Ted Meredith. running
anchor for Philadelphia. was beaten by
a yard by OBrien. of New York,
In other special events Jack Sellers
won the l000-yard Metropolitan cham
pionship and Sherman Landers, of the
University Of Pennsylvania. took first
place in the seventy-yard low hurdles
with an allowance of three feet, in 3-t
seconds,
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Scarcity of $780, Runners
Causes Coach Robertson
to Break Away From
Quaker Custom
LANDERS SHOWS FORM
BY EDWIN J. POLLOCK

AWSoN ROBERTSON is going to
- break away from Pennsylvania
manners and customs on April &c, the
second day OF the relay carnival at
Franklin Field. Penn tradition will re-
ceive X. o. walop when the pack
gets away in the two-mle relay. for
there will be no Red and Blue-clad lads
In the field
IL always had been the custom at the
University to enter team or individuals
IN every college event on the program,
no matter how poor the class of the
athietes competing for the Quakers.
Penn felt that as host such q thing was
proper and fitting Lawson Robertson
thinks otherwise
What is the use of entering a team
IN the two-mile races?" said Robertson.
McHale is the only half-miler we have,
ana II we ran him at anchor he would
be so far behind when he started his
relay that the others would be at the
tape.
$50 Men Few
can't see the sense of starting third
ana fourth raters in the race merely
ause 1t is the custom No college
VIII think Pennsylvania Is less obliging
as a host if we don't enter a team.
fuNhermore, 7 doubt If I could scrap
up iour half-milers and still enter men
IN the distance and sprint medleys and
the one and four mile relays"
Coach Robertson intends running
Mike McHale on the four-mile team as
"ell as the distance medley, which will
be held on April 25, the first day Of the
races. With McHale on the four-mile
quartet will be Harvey Price, Bill Cum
mings and Sam Kiviat.
The one-mi!e team probably will be
composed of the same men who ran for
Penn in the Millrose games in New York
last month. This combination is made
up of Creed Raymond, Fred Davis, Mar
vim Gustafson and Elmer Smith, who
Will run in the order named.
Rogers Has Chance
Dewey Rogers the former Northeast
sprinter, may break into the one-miIe
quartet. Raymond has a lot to learn
about running the quarter mile yet, and
Coach Robertson may keep him for the
22O in the sprint medley and then enter
him in the special hundred. Granger
also has chance of making the team,
although a rather slim one.
Robertson virtually has decided on
the personel of the sprint medley aggre-
cation. Davis and Raymond are the
selections for the furlong. Smith will
run the quarter and Gustafson the half
mile. 1t will be noticed that most of the
runners will be called upon to compete
In two hard races in two days. The
scarcity of good men will mean tax
on the few reliable athletes.
Sherman Landers, 1916 national pole
vault champion and 1918 national indoor
300-yard champion. scored his first win
in big league competition this season
when he captured the 7O-yard hurdles in
Newark Saturday night. Landers made
the distance in 3-5 seconds. Landers
was stricken with pneumonia after he
won the A. A. U. 400 last year. but is
returning to his old form.
Sherm will be used In the hop skip
and Jump and the pole vault in the relay
carnival and in the intercollegiates will
try the poe vault, broad jump and the
century dash.
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HARRISBURG QUINTET HERE
Meets St. COLUMBIA Five at Tray.
more Hall Tonight

Jim Coffey's championship st. Co
lumba five will meet the Harrisburg
Independents in the first of a series to-
night at Traymore Hall. The Saints
Will have their usual lineup, while the
visitors will depend on such well-known
stars as Horse" Haggerty, ike" Nc
Cord, O. wonderful foul shooter, and
Rote
Jimmy Brown arrived back in town
last evening, and Will take his position
at guard for St. Columbia. Gallagher,
Lawrence, Martin and Dunleavy will
take care of the other places. After
the game there will be dancing.
Pusey & Jones plays New York Ship
tonight in a contest to determine the
second half championship of the Ship
yard League. This game will be played
in the Camden Armory. II Pusey &
Jones wins another series will be neces-
sary to decide the season championship
as New York won the first half.
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jim, Duncan, Worlds Rec
ord Holder in Discus, Also
viii Stay abroad for Car
niUdL
TOM HALPIN TO GO OYER
BY TED MEREDITH

INTEREST has grown in the inter-
l. allied track and field meet to be held
in Paris sometime in the early part of
the summer. Not only has there been
more action over here, but, in France,
too, steps have been taken toward the
development of the games.
I have received three letters from the
other side which cause me to believe that
considerable attention is being paid to
the meet by the army authorities. Earl
Eby recently wrote telling of his trans
fer to the southern part of France for
these games.
Jim Duncan. the holder of the world g
record for the discus. writes that he is
to remain in France until after the car
nival Jim was taken out of his division
lust before it sailed SO that he would
be abroad to compete in the discus.
Pete MaXfeld. the former Lafayette
star; Alma Richards, Harry Worthing-
ton. Pat Ryan, Leversledge and Maker
also will remain on the other side Of
the water,
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Casey Stengle May Go to PhiLs

has been lot Of gossip spilled down here
which II
confident
the
through The Phls all
players having disposed
a
Pittsburgh Brooklyn Phues Brook
with Coombs
and stengle do swell outfeding
" THAT deal Whitfield FIRST
It to
perhaps 0
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
ANNUAL BILLIARD MEETING
Amateur Association to Convene
March 81 in New York

New York, March 24.-Legislation
which will advance the development of
organized amateur billiards will be en-
acted at the annual meeting of the Ma
tona Association of Amateur Billiard
Players which will be held March 81 at
the Liederkranz Club
Probably all of the national champion
ship awards for the coming year will be
made at the coming meeting. The Bos-
ton A. A. has applied for Glass A 1872
championship. Detroit, the Chicago A.
A and the Illinois A. c. are all bidding
for the three-cushion carom and pocket
billiard tournaments. Detroit has
scheduled a. total of 1913 tournaments at
various styles of billiards to be held
there next season.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

Molly now playing at the Chestnut
Street Opera House.
Miss Roehm once saw Johnny Dundee
work out in Billy Grupp's New York
gymnasium, and now introduces few
of the Jumping Johnny's ring tricks into
her act
Jack Hagen, of the Kelly-Hagen box
ing duo, saw Miss Roehm's exhibition
and was impressed.
THAT girl knows how TO handle her
self" commented the veteran. She
hits well and never backs away when
nailed on the jaw. She blocks we'll and
boxes cleverly. It's q great act "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

PENN WON'T ENTER
2-NILE RELAY RACE
Lancaster High Students
Mobbed After Cage Game

Lancaster, Pa, March 24.--Weary
and bruised, 200 students of the local
high school rode into. town at
o'clock Saturday morning in auto
trucks and reported that they had
been mobbed and stoned out of York
Friday night following a basketball
game.
Police were called to protect them.
After being chased to their trucks
they found that the machines had
been damaged so badly that several
hours work was necessary to put
them in shape. The local school has
severed all athletic relations with the
York High School.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
KENTUCKY DERBY ATTRACTS
Fifty-one Nominations Made for
Race Classic

Louisville. KY, March 24.-Fifty-one
nominations have been made for the
i'll Downs May "a. The list made public
by the Kentucky Jockey Club includes
such handicap horses as Cudgel, Billy
Kelly, Old Rosebud Exterminator, Eter-
nal: Ranchsf. Midway. Viva America
and Pif Jr.
The distance will be at a mile and a
quarter for three-year- -olds and upward
II will carry $4,000 in added money and
be worth about SIS, 900 TO the winner
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YALE TAKES SWIM HONORS
Princeton Second and Penn Third
in Title Meet

New York, March 24.-Yale won the
Intercollegiate swimming championships
In the pool of the College of the City of
New York Saturday night, capturing
four frsts, second and a third for a
total of 10 points.
Points scored by other colleges were:
Princeton, .; Pennsylvania, 5 Rutgers,
4; Columbia. 81 Amherst, 3; Wesleyan,
]; Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy /.
Edwin Binney, Jr. Of Yale. defeated
George Rogers, of Columbia, in the fifty
yard swim.
w. NJ. Chamberlain, Yale. was elected
president of the Intercollegiate Swim
ming Association G. Newman. Colum-
bia was chosen vice president, and w. L.
Harris, Princeton, secretary-treasurer
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YALE PRACTICE MAY |
Guy Bates Will Have Charge Of
Football Drill

New Haven, March 24.--Yale's foot
ball campaign will begin in about four
weeks, when the spring practice will be
ordered. 1t was today decided that be-
cause the sport has lapsed two years a
training season of about three weeks
was desirable about May I. DR.. Albert
Sharpe, the new head coach and athletic
director. will not be able to take charge
of the squad till about September 10,
when the early fall work will be started.
The spring practice will be in charge
of Guy Gates, who was elected captain
at the close of the 1916 season. If Gates
decides to return to college next fall he
will captain the eleven.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
MICHIGAN TAKES MEET
Johnson Stars for Winners II
Conference Games

Chicago, March 24.-Scoring in every
one of the ten events, the well-balanced
team of the University OF Michigan Sat.
urday night won the Western Conference
indoor track and field championship with
a total of 36Is points; Chicago was sec
ond with 34h and Illinois third with 1S.
The remaining points were split "a as
follows: Northwestern, 13 Purdue. Az p;
sin. l.
The victory was a repetition of the
Wolverine triumph in the event year
ago.
johnson. of Michigan, was the star
taking first in the high jump. fifty-yard
dash and slxty-yard low hurdles.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Mayor Al Lang Loses Out All around

McGRAW, who
out for himself what kind of
Jawn is in Gainesville
here on April to play the Red
AL Lang the great baseball fan
would take tickets at the sell
club
Phies
will be like that
His Honor things
the
citizens will deliver Fourth
MILLER HUGGINS and his In JAR
A'A havet yad
10Th IT, The park is the chch
and his aoorries Is
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PINEHURST PARINGS
Mrs. X. H. Barlow Will Meet Mrs
E Pritchard Today

Pinehurst, n. G., March 24.--The draw
for today's match round in the cham
p!onship eight Of the North and South
tournament for women resulted in the
following pairings: Mrs. M. J. Scamet,
Baltimore. and Mrs. John D. Chapman.
Greenwich: Mrs. J. V. Hurd, Pittsburgh,
and Miss Sara Fownes, Oakmont Mrs.
j. r. Price, Pittsburgh. and Miss Elaine
Rosenthal, Ravsloe; Mrs. Ronald H.
Barlow, Merton, and Mrs. J. c. Pritch-
ard, Midlothian.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Earl Eby to Remain in
France for Track Games
Wilmington Gunners Lead
in Trapshoot League

Wilmington winner of last years
championship after an exciting shoot
off with West Chester. has gone
through this season without a single
defeat: and, as there are only two
more matches on the schedule, with
the four runner-up clubs each
charged with two defeats, the worst
that can happen will be a tie.
The club standing:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
MIDDIES ELECT CAPTAINS
Hales to Lead the Gymnasts and
\Swigart Wrestlers

Annapolis. Md, March 24.-The cap
tains have been elected at the Naval
Academy in gymnastics and wrestling,
two sports. in which all the matches
were won during the season just closed.
Raleigh G. Hales of North Carolina, a
regular place winner on the flying rings,
was selected to lead the gymnasts next
season. Carl r. Swigart, of Indiana,
will captain the wrestlers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Big Stakes at Latonia

Cincinnati. March 24.-Nine stake events
with total value of $4,000 will be
run during the summer meeting OF the Ken
lucky Jockey Club at Latonia which begins
June, 4. The big event Of the meeting. as
usual. will be the Latonia Derby, at a mile
and a half, which has a value of sis 900
and which will be run June Z.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
CHAMPION PREACHER
AND CHAMPION SOX
s. RIVAL ATTRACTIONS
Bill Sundays Tent to Be Pitched in Center Field OF
Ball Park Used by Boston Title.Holders at
Tmpa-Reuiuaist Praises Baseball
BY ROBERT W. MAXWELL
Sports Editor Evening Public Ledger

ST. Petersburg Fla,
holding
the Ed
batting practice.
There conflict in dates and
worlds
cancel the annual visit The Tampa authorities told Sunday
which
told the
Tampans wante
himself
"Ptch a
ground. will
So everything settled
rookie
of
waited the field The
of
SAW Mr. Sunday in Tampa yesterday asked him
thought arrangement.
Don't mind it q bit" S a greats
md
me- lie EN- off the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Lagerblade and Howe Win

Pinehurst, N. c., March 24.-Herbert
T.agerblade. of Youngstown, and Walter
Howe Of Worcester. who were defeated here
last Sunday by Emmett French. of Yorke,
and Willie Wilson, of York Harbor. In the
the tables in a return match yesterday, and
won by 3 and 2.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Sunday to Practice With Boston Sor

81 ALSO wish state resumed Sunday
field a 7 and
can't enough of it
Baseball should have big believe
the but the
interested
nized established
However will be
the
they to the saved
those afternoons
s for a
Most Of the players today
will
having his troubles in signing them
training Frazee will visit Tampa the
THIS old city lost athou the PhA
straight
and considered the
Municipal Band NoW citizens
fohtch decorate each
the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
RECORD FOR POLLARD
Meadowbrook Star Sets Worlds
Mark in Hurdles

Baltimore, March 24.-In the big in
door athletic meet here Saturday night,
in which there were 544 entries, Fred
Pollard (scratch mani, of the Meadow
brook Club, Philadelphia. made a new
indoor worlds record for 100-yard low
hurdles of IL 2-5 seconds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

New York March 24.-Grim determina
ton, such as that which led to the sma shing
Of the Hindenburg defenses, gave the Twen-
y-seventh Divisions champion soccer team
tie with the superbly trained Morse Dry
l1ock eleven. strong contenders for the ma
tlonal soccer title this season, at Morse
Fleld. Brooklyn. Yesterday afternoon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Navy Selections

The Navy already has picked some
men to go over Among these men are
Tom Halpin, Rose and Whelan, all of
the Boston A. A. We will soon hear
of the officials on this side picking
team of army track men to go to
France.
If a representative team is picked
here and shipped over. America will
have a much better chance of uphold
ing its prestige in track athletics AS
it is there are not enough good athletes
in France to bear the burden against
the pick of the other Allied nations.
The college men here either are going
to be at a disadvantage or eliminated.
If the college men do go over. that is
those who have been in the army and
navy, they will not be able to leave
until the college year is complete ed
This will mean that they will have to
jump into the meet right after arriv-
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Shorten Signs With Detroit

Scranton. Pa, March 24.-Charley Shor-
ten. Minooka. who was traded to Detroit sew
eral months ago by the Boston Americans
today that he had signed COM
this week VIII leave for Macon. Ca
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

Ann Arbor, MICh.. March 24.-Ralph Q.
Kitchener a junior literary student from
Archibald, o., has been elected captain of
the NJ 20 basketball team of the University
Of Michigan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Races at Palace Rink Tonight

There will be a special one-mlle roller
skating race between eastern stars and a
mile race open to all men in the service
tonight at the Palace Roller Skating Rink
ThirtY-nirth and Market streets
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

Earl Eby, who has been in France
for sometime in the infantry seems very
anxious to get back and finish hts col
lege career. He is pleased to have the
opportunity to go to southern France
and train. but would mucl: rather be
back here and doing that same training
for the intelcollegiates.
Lawson Robertson feels much the
same way about this and there is
very good reason. Eby is wonderful
little runner and could be used in the
quarter and half mile. In the latter
event he would be the best man from
all past records. while he would be sure
of a place well up in the 44O.
Robertson has been also robbed of the
services of Bob Maxam in the 440. The
latter was not discharged from naval
aviation until it was too late to enter
college.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

Columbus, Ga. March 24.--James Car
Isle Smith. third baseman of the Boston
Nationals who has been holding out for
more salary. signed a contract last night.
officials of the club said The salary was
not announced.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Murray Returns to Harvard

Boston. March "a. = Billy Murray, Har-
yard illustrlous athlete. has received his
Harvard and then trekkd out TO his home
in Natick. where he will remain until he
DO candidate for the Crimson baseball
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

jacksonville, F1a., March 24-Four more
Brooklyn Dodgers have arrived at the spring
training camp. They are Kreuger. Snyder
Braxil and Zack Wheat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Reedsyille After Franchise

ReedsyiIle. Pa. March o4.-The local atb.
letc association has decided to put a base
ball team in the field this season and is ne
League.
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ing in France without any preparation
abroad.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-11-12

Two hundred shares Jontcnn oil
and gas, Si.20. Address Box +. q.
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OIL MARKET QUOTATIONS..
wilcox Stockholders Here.

Tho stock holders OF the big Milcok ooh
pany viii hold a meeting here today 10
faliiy the lnctsasa IN capital stock from
o. 900. go 10 90, 100000 Mr. " iiooi a.
expected back iroin New Yors this morn
Ing AID many of The stookhoidcrs arc
here, including " A, neers aot SOW fors
Charles b, Morse vi Boston, J. William
bvsrhAu u Chicago, who has had charge
Of The Wileo, ORGANIZATION IA Chicago snd
Cleveland since the beginning, snd j. 4.
Coakley. Mr.. EllenbcIGsr, Mr., AAhrr " J..
shuftlinn aud A. N wrsy Of Cleveland.
They ~ill lind ih'Hss much to their ii.ihs
h.f