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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1918
Page
3
Evers makes a baseball circus catch to save the game as the Hill tied duel ends in a tight finish. Bill Hoerner leads cycling efforts after a fly ball.
Reading and Rosewood played a seven inning tie in the Allison Hill League with eight runs apiece. Key performers include Eddie Harris with three hits and four RBI for Rosewood, McCurdy adding three hits for Reading, and Hoerner making a circus catch to save Rosewood. The game was halted in clouds but completed, setting up Rosewood vs Galahad next.
American League results include Boston over Detroit 7 to 6 and Washington 3 over Cleveland 1. National League scores show New York 2 Pittsburgh 1 and Chicago 3 Boston 2 with doubleheader results Cincinnati 5 Philadelphia 4 and 5 0. Schedule lists Washington at Detroit and Philadelphia at Chicago among others.
The Susquehanna Fisk Bicycle Club track team meets the Speedway Fisk Club on June 17 at the Academy field. Entries include H HAR SH, Bitting, E Taylor and A Taylor in events from low hurdles to relays. Timekeeper is McMorris and scorekeeper Peffer. Meet starts at 10. First through fifth place earn 5 to 1 points, relay 10 points.
The Telegraph team defeated the State Printery outfit 3 to 2 in a brisk game on the Island. Umpire Whitey Keister, son of Harrisburg Mayor, handled the plate as Manley fanned 13 and Waltz 20. Notable plays included Richards' deep-to-center catch and a costly error by Smith that tied the score before Telegraph won.
Johnny Evers is selected to manage all baseball activities in Europe for the war effort. He sails next week to assume a role likely titled general and has backing from the YMCA War Council and the Knights of Columbus.
The Grammar School Track Meet starts at 1 30 with no toll for children under sixteen as Harrisburg Bridge Company waives crossing fees to draw a large afternoon crowd. The athletic committee promises a grand pageant and exciting contests to inspire the next generation.
Urban Red Faber, ace pitcher of the Chicago club and hero of the last series, leaves tonight after being classified AI in the draft. He will rest at Cassade Iowa before enlisting at the Great Lakes naval training station.
The Marne front relief by American troops arrives just as Chateau Thierry faces capture. American machine gunners help repel the German advance after landing May 21, joining French Colonial troops in immediate defense. Berlin reports three American tanks engage the enemy, one captured and later used. the other two disabled.
The Pennsylvania Eagles convention in New Castle, Pennsylvania, nominated candidates and chose Scranton as the 1919 meeting site. Elections were to be held next day with M. J. Maguire of Allentown opposing Joseph Kane of Ellwood City for state presidency. other posts filled by John P. Bisbing Bethlehem and John F. Coggins Scranton among others.
Dining rooms will close from June 15 to about September 1 while the club rooms stay open all summer. At the recent meeting three new members were elected: B. E. S. Hsich of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, William D. Dohoney of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Rev. Alfred L. Taxis of Gettysburg College.
El Paso's Brigadier General Anson Mills publishes memoirs recounting his rise from a failed West Point student to brigadier general. He details creating the Mills cartridge belt adopted in the Spanish American War, frontier experiences, Civil War service, pursuit of Geronimo, the boundary commission, and his friendships with national and international figures.
South Paris Maine unique in little sailing vessel the Good Intent carrying sixty eight tons cargo and built 128 years ago has just been used for three times her original cost. She was built of sturdy oak timbers taken from British men of war and is still in excellent condition.
Harrisburg theaters feature Enid Bennett in Naughty Naughty at the Regent with Son of Democracy and The Hired Man in schedule. Colonial presents Alice Joyce in The Triumph of the Weak and Viola Dana in Riders of the Night. Paxtang Park hosts a vaudeville bill headlined by Manor Troupe and Yap and His Dancing Dolls, plus local film making at Majestic with Mollie and Her Suitors and Making Movie Stars.
A large mass meeting for the Palestine Restoration Fund is planned in Harrisburg at 7 30 pm next Monday in the Technical High School Auditorium. Local Jewish groups arranged the event and out of town speakers are expected including Rabbi Meyer Berlin of New York and Charles A Down of Philadelphia. Broad Top strike off as 3000 coal miners return to work in Washington.
Representatives of unions in Huntingdon Broad Top Pennsylvania reported to the fuel administration last night a unanimous vote to submit demands for resuming an agreement. The proposal calls for a ten cent per ton bonus to be decided by arbitration among the men, operators, and fuel administration.
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