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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
5
Harrisburg youths showcase talent in track events at Island before a large crowd. Fast amateurs may be selected to bolster Steelton’s hill league squad as trials highlight rising sprinters and distance runners.
The Allison Hill League standings show Rosewood 5 1 .833 Galahad 3 .625 Reading 4 3 .571 Hick-A-Thrift 0 7 .000 with a busy week ahead. Tonight Hick-A-Thrift hosts Reading, Friday Rosewood meets Hick-A-Thrift in a postponed game, and various makeup dates follow as league officials adjust to rain and ties. Major league scouts are visiting town to gauge local talent, with players from Galahad Rosewood Reading and Hick-A-Thrift drawing attention. Several new signings and contract talks boost expectations as teams strengthen for the pennant race.
Miss Marion Hollins former runnerup in 1913 national golf championship and ex Metropolitan champion turned in thirty eight trophies from golf tennis and dog shows to the War Savings stamp market in New York. The prizes will be exhibited and then sold to bidders to exchange for War Savings Stamps.
Yesterday results from the American and National Leagues include Chicago beating Philadelphia and New York defeating Pittsburgh. Standings show Boston leading the circuit with 37 wins and 17 losses, while New York tops the National League and several clubs chase. The schedule lists Washington at Detroit and New York at St. Louis among others for today.
Tech stars Snitz Snyder Pete Sutch Hank McFarland and Buckie Buffington have arrived overseas and will apply Dutch skills learned at Tech to chase the enemy. Sutch aims to beat a 4.36 mile or 10.01 two mile, Oss once held both school records. Snyder starred in football and hurdles, McFarland served as left end and multi sport athlete, Buffington famed for his trombone. Tech band hopes to outshine Heinz abroad.
The colored Monarchs, featuring Home Run Baker, clash with the Keystone Giants Saturday afternoon at Monroe and Broad streets. Steelton Giants fans will travel, but Baker is noted to swing harder. The Giants won their last game against the Monarcha.
Hugh High clashed with Miller Huggins and was suspended without pay by the New York Yankees. He would not report to Connie Mack’s Athletics after the deal was arranged to sell his release. High left the Polo Grounds with his belongings, ending his stint with New York.
Marysville manager Abe Kennedy announced a game with Palmyra Juniors to be played in Palmyra on Saturday. Marty Clendenin and Pet y Benfer to handle battery duties for Marysville in the Lebanon county town.
Superior Judge Franklin A. Griffin signed the death warrant for Thomas J. Mooney who was sentenced for murder in the 1916 preparedness day bombing. The warrant will not be executed until the state Supreme Court rules on the probable cause writ for a possible new trial.
Secretary McAdoo asked Liberty Loan workers to boost the national war savings day effort closing Friday June 28. The campaign seeks pledges from every American to buy and save war savings stamps.
The Harrisburg grammar school track meet opens at Island Field at 1 30 PM under heavy local enthusiasm. Clarence Beck inspired athletes while Yale man W O Hickok III serves as referee. Officials include school board members, Y M C A leaders, and university staff across track judging scoring timers and marshals.
Steelton’s big leaguers defeated the P. and R. Division squad 10 to 0 with steady practice and veteran guidance from Lew Ritter and Steve Yerkes. Buck Ramsey and Jing Johnson pitched all nine innings as Steelton hit well despite Clarke and Kid Stutz having rough days. next home game is June 15 against Lebanon, with Cockill’s team playing Bethlehem on Saturday.
Amsterdam reports the death of Count Von Bienerth the former Austrian premier who served from 1908 to 1911 and later became governor of Lower Austria. The obituary notes his Vienna death and long public service.
Belford Atkinson and BE Stackpole with Dr. J George Becht to speak at the opening mass meeting of a large Army recruiting drive in Market Square tonight at 7 15. Central YMCA hosts with a band concert and community singing. Major General Clement may address Friday’s Rotary Club event. The drive runs through next week with Masons and Odd Fellows plans and a full dress parade to close.
Next Saturday the twenty six camps of the Patriotic Order Sons of America will meet in annual convention at Williamstown Halifax PA. Morning and afternoon sessions will include two delegates from each camp Officers for the year are named with dignitaries from Halifax Enhant Dauphin Millersburg Williamstown Hershey Palmyra Philadelphia Millersburg Steelton and others State leaders Moyer and Helms will attend along with local clergy The afternoon session will elect officers and discuss important questions
More than 400 Moorhead Knitting Company employees will march through Harrisburg at 7 p.m. as Monito week activities unfold. The procession starts with the Municipal Band, followed by a band concert at Walnut and Cameron streets, with a reception at the plant and a theater tour tied to Monito hose purchases. The week also features a Saturday theater party at the Majestic Theater for all employees.
Harrisburg Lodge of Elks will host flag day events at Reservoir Park Friday evening June 14. A parade starting 7 30 p m from Front and Market streets includes Elks Kiwanis Central Democratic Club Republican Club Moorhead Knitting Company Harrisburg Cigar Company and municipal and other bands. A ritual, community singing and band concert follow with Meade D Detweiler monument tribute and speeches including Congressman Edward Robbins Greensburg on Our Country and Our Flag.
William Potter state fuel administrator appealed to Pennsylvanians to conserve fuel by using wood in farming districts economizing natural gas deferring furnace lighting in early fall and restricting coal use by businesses and institutions. William Weaver of Gettysburg College was selected to attend the Reserve Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg.
Harrisburg and Dauphin county merchants will hear E. Lawrence Fell of Philadelphia and William Smedley of the Retail Merchants Association of Pennsylvania speak on store economics during wartime and general business issues. The event at Fahner stock Hall is open to the public with free Chamber of Commerce tickets.
In Sea Isle City New Jersey a mother and a maid spent hours removing six feet of sand from a dune collapse to reach the bodies of her two sons Richard 12 and Edward 10. The boys had ventured with their sister to play in a sand cave when it caved in killing them by suffocation.
Highway Commissioner J Denny O Neil announces support for Senator William C Sproul to back national prohibition and push Pennsylvania dry in 1919 He condemns liquor traffic urging wartime prohibition to conserve resources and defeat booze politics while urging friends to follow his lead and defeat wet candidates.
Judge Witmer of a United States Federal Court in Williamsport suspended the sentence of Irving J. Tashman an 18 year old from Steelton who pleaded guilty to accusing the Red Cross of improper conduct after a severe lecture and a warning that his age saved him from a penitentiary sentence.
Joe Saraceni of 1114 North Seventh Street has been sent to Camp Meade for the Lockport New York district draft board.
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