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DEATHS

CRAWFORD-On Thursday, August Z 1917
at 4:1O a m, JOHN D.. beloved husba nd
OF the late Mary c. Crawford (uee Con.
nor), in the sixty-second year OF his
age, at his late residence 52l Rock
Creek Church road northwest
Requiem mass Saturday, August 9 al
a. m, from Church OF Holy Comforter.
Friends and relatives invited 50
GETTY-At $3.50 p. m. August 8, 1919.
ARTHUR RADCLIFFE GETTY, dearly
loved husband Of Marie Reid Getty and
brother Of Walter B. Getty.
Funeral services at his late residence,
Sl2 Eighteenth street northwest, at $50
.. m. Saturday, August 3, 1919. Friends
invited. 60
Thursday, August Z, 1918, at
1908 .. m. at her late residence, 624
Randolph street northwest. after a long
illness. KATIE BROWN INGLE, beloved
wife Of the late Samuel S. Ingle and de-
voted mother Of Mrs. Bessie n. Wiley
and Mrs. z. Z. Vrooman.
Funeral from st. Dominic's Church,
Saturday. August 9, 1919, at 10 a. m.
where requiem mass will be said for the
repose Of her soul Interment at Con-
gressionsl Cemetery. Relatives and
friends invited g
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BIRTHS
SONS.

James L and Mary L. Wood.
George c. and Virginia E.. Strobel
Henry G. and Bessie @. Milans.
Henry and StaIla H. Kalomeries.
John 1. and-Johanna p. Isokson.
James N. and EllensG: Haslett.
John q. and Anna n. Harlan.
Benjamin c. and Elizabeth r. Dyer.
Patrick L. and Lillian z. Collins.
Robert n. and Annie p. Barnet.
Charles J. and Bessie e Ayers
Edmund and Dorothy Wheeler.
DAUGHTERS.
William A. and Estelle NJ. Trigger.
Hugh r. and Mae V. Thatcher.
Charles e. and Grace L. Kline
Louis and Katie FainberE.
c. z. and Loris CoIlihoWer.
Tony and Helen Casimano.
William ". and Esther Robh.
John 7. and Carrie Stewart.
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'WRECKER' ADDICKS
DIES IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Aug. s.-John Edward
Addicks, one of the most widely
known men in finance and politics in
this country up to a decade ago, and
who for a period covering thirteen
years attempted to be elected to the
United States Senate from Delaware,
died yesterday at the residence OF DR..
Rita Dunlevy, who treated him. Heart
disease was given as the cause.
Mr. Addicks was born in Philadel-
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AERIAL AHTBULANCE NOW.

SAN ANGELO, Tex, Aug. s.-The
air ambulance has arrived. When
Leander Widen was accidentally shot
at Victoria, friends bundled him into
an airplane and few to a hospital in
Waco.
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CLEMENCEAU MAY
ATTEND LEAGUE
MEETING HERE

PARIS, Aug. 8.-Pre-
mier Clemenceau will at
tend the meeting of the
League of Nations to be
held in Washington this
autumn, the Echo De
Paris reported today.
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The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
Gu. IS SWAMPED
BYF0RDHAM nine
Brooklanders Are Defeated
By Gothamites IN One
Sided Game, l5-4.

Fordham's base ball team defeated
Catholic University nine yesterday on
the Brookland diamond by the one
sided score of IS to l.
Fordham Twas on to an early lead.
but c. U. came back in the first and
tied the count In the next inning
the Gothamites forged to the front and
were never in danger during the con-
test
The visitors two marks in the opener
were the result of two hits, with an
error by Lucey. Again, in the second.
a base on balls with a double scored
another tally. which tied up the count.
On two hits and a free pass two more
markers were over the plate. In the
fifth the blow-off came when. on four
hits, one of which was a double, with
two errors. five runs came across the
pan.
Kendrick who relieved Long in the
fifth. stopped the scoring, and held
the Gothamites safe until the ninth.
when three hits. with a hit batsman,
resulted in three runs. McNamaree,
who did the hurting for Fordham, held
the Brooklanders to six hits and kept
them well scattered.
c. L. scored three tallieS in the
opener on one hit and a sacrifice.
which put them in the van for a min
ute. but Fordham came lack with a
run which tied up the ball game. c.
u. was held or until the seventh.
when two hits. with an infield out,
scored their last tally OF the game.
The score:
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
SCHOOL MINES
START TUESDAY
Central Will Meet Western
In Initial Clash in
Scholastic League.

Scholastic baseball will take a de-
termining stride when Western and
Central clash in the iirst game of the
scholastic baseball series. which will
begin Tuesday. Both Central and
Western have decidedly well-baIanced
teams. which indicates a battle royal
contest Ernie Scls.sc~. who has dis
played wonderful pitching ability SO
far this season. will undoubt -dly 60
10 the mound for the Blue and White
team. He has been instrumental by
his twirling in winning six out OF the
nine wins for Central this season.
In his last game with Bnarley Hall
he was in exceptionally LOod form,
and Coach Metzlor anticipates Schafcr
will do even better in the oper.pE
game of the scholastic series. Claude
is slated to do the twirling for West
ern, and with two competent pitchers
opposing each other the opening game
should certainly be worth seeing.
Among the Western boys who prob
ably will participate in this game are
Burke, Nordinger, Jeffress and
Claude
Central will be made up Of Dasher.
A~'HAplA. s1Alldltls
mie, Ballanger. Wood, Cullen. Russell
and Dunlap. If Schafer is not in form
Frank krupp. another pitching mar
vel. Will go for Central Krupp has
only pitched one game. but in that
game he did well. and is already
classed to be CentraTs second best
pitcher.
The opening of the scholastic base
ball series is expected TO draw a large
crowd, making the attendance exceed
that Of previous years. The scholastic
baseball seahon this year is hoped to
be successful. and with five competent
teams fighting for the title. ought to
reveal sterling baseball ability among
the boys. They have been in training
at least four weeks. and each school
has played a number OF practice games
in preparation for the scholastic series
Western has won the ma jority of
games played and Coach Morse. of
Western. hopes to start the season
right by winning the first game.
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gether. that was so much the better.
But that object didn't enter mate
rally into my scheme OF things.
When l became a more experienced
pitcher. my strikeout record declined.
for l learned to pitch to each batter's
weakness and to depend upon my
fielders. Only in a pinch would try
deliberately to strike out the batter
and any pitcher will do that at a criti-
cal stage. If he can.
a speed pitcher is affected by the
weather more than most pitchers; or
| rather. the weather affects his par
| ticular type of pitching. The speed
| pitcher likes a dark. cloudy day, for
then If he is good. he can put the ball
! over the plate almost before the bat
! ter sees 1t. On a bright, sunshiny
day, he cannot do this.
| Curve Ball Effective.
i have developed what / consider a
| pretty good curve ball. / will not at
tempt to say how it compares with
| that of other pitchers. but it has prov
| ed serviceable to me. Many days now
| when my fast ball is not quite as good
as it used to be, l fall back on my
| curve. Probably l shall depend more
| and more on my curve as time goes
\ on.
l have often been asked If il were
| possible to use SO much sheer speed
that a ma jor league batter could not
| hit the ball. 1 won't say that any
| pitcher who ever lived could do this
very long against such expert batters
| as we have in the American League.
But there were times when l was
younger and maybe a little over-con-
| fident. when l really felt that / could
| do so.
| 1 remember once when was pitch
| ing against the Athletics while they
were worlds champions and the great
est team l ever saw. They were an
awful bunch to pitch against and my
! particular hoodoo was Frank Baker.
I believe even now / had rather face
any batter in the world than Baker.
Yes, suppose Baker has lost more
games for me than any other player.
But this particular day speak of, the
Athletics had three runners On the
bags and no one was out. Futher-
more. Collins. Baker and McInnis
were the next three batters i'm line
and three worse meE to face in a
pinch never lived.
Take Macks On Strikes.
l had lot of speed that day and
I made up my mind that l would
put the ball over the plate so fast
that they couldn't hit it. Perhaps
| that was an of day for them. All
batters have off days. But the fact
remains that 1 pitched exactly nine
balls. and they went out one after
the other on three strikes. 1 be-
lieve that was the best single in
ming that 1 ever pitched.
The other day I read an ingenious
little sketch proving that my speed
was falling off because I no longer
struck out as many batters as 1 once
did. l took the trouble to look up
this particular feature of my work
and discovered that 1912 was the
last year in which I struck out as
many as 800 batters. The next sea-
son, although I believe it was the
best year 1 ever had. my strike out
record had fallen to 243 and = has
been declining pretty steadily ever
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
CLERKS READY
FOR BIC YEAR
Government League VIII
Get Under Way Saturday.
Schedule Announced.

The Government League will open
its season on Saturday afternoon.
May 3. when the Marines battle the
Naval Operations team, champions OF
the District last year.
The Marines were runners-up in the
title series. and had they not been
ordered away before the series was
finished, IT might have been inter-
esting for the Operations team. as
the Devil Dogs were considered the
strongest team in the District last
season
The season will consist OF sixty
games, which means the clubs VIII
be playing until the middle OF Au-
gust. The schedule follows:
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
BY WALTER r. JOHNSON.

Every dog has his day and I sup
pose that rule also applies to pitchers
Nhat is far more disconcerting I
suppose I have had my day in the
sense that I can never expect to BE
any better than I now am, il indeed
L am quite as good as / was a few
years back
Records don't tell all the story; and
yet. records can't be ignored. As
look through the records find that
won thirty-siX games back in 1913 and
lost but seven.
can't look into the future, but
doubt If 1 ever experience another
season where l am fortunate enough
I" win thirty-six games and lose but
seven.
sometimes batter who has been
IN the game for a long time will
slump for few seasons and then
when everybody begins to imagine
he Is about through, will blossom
out with the best season of his en-
tire career. Sam Crawford did this
thing back in 1911 when in his
thirteenth season. He hit for S7S.
by far the best mark he was ever
able to reach. Iris Speaker slump
ed for number of years and then,
majors nine years. beat out Ty Cobb
and won the batting championship
with heavy average of 3S6. But
such feats are rare even among bat
ters. They are unheard of among
pitchers and there is a reason.
Pitchers Arm Main Reliance,
The batter. even after his legs have
begun to go back on him, might
strike season where things break
exactly right and breeze through to
the finish with fine batting aver
age. But the pitchers main reli-
ancc is in his arm He grows old
first of all in his shoulder or his
elbow.
When his arm begins to fail him
and he loses little of his old-time
speed. and can no longer get a sharp
break on his curve ball, he can rest
assured that his best days are all
behind him and that he is facing
the inevitable end. True, that end
may still be far of or it may Iurk
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| just around the corner but the main
| thing is, every season means ore
/ more step on the down grade.
1t is easy enough to speculate
about some other pitcher or to
make the claim that he is no longer
the man he used to be. But it's
pretty tough to analyze your own
case and do it honestly. However.
there is no particular use in trying
! to deceive anybody. A pitcher can't
deceive other people about his fall
ing skill and he is foolish IL he de-
ceives himself. My best season was
in 1918. That was long time ago.
and l do not think that my ability
to pitch has fallen off much since
that l have gained in the interim
has at least partially offset that de-
cline.
OId-Time Speed Gone.
But l may as well admit and be
done with it, that 1 can no longer
depend on my speed as l once could.
Some days 1 believe 1 am as fast as
1 ever was. But there are other days,
and they will probably grow more
frequent as time passes, when / can
no longer burn the ball across the
platter as | could when my arm was
little younger, and / had more
reserve strength.
Still, 1 have no cause to complain.
If l have had my day, it has been
long one and good one and l
am not done yet, nor anywhere near
done. Barring accidents, or sickness,
/ know that l can do good work for
several years. But the fact remains
1 am on the down grade. and 1
know it.
Probably few pitchers have ever
used their speed as much as l have
done. And yet 1 do not believe
that the use of speed has worn
me out 1 remember a long time
ago, when 1 broke into the league,
my whole idea of pitching was to
shoot the ball over so fast that
the batter could not meet it. In
those days, well-meaning people
told me l would use myself up in
two or three seasons, but 1 did not
believe them. And 1 think my
record has proved that they were
wrong. Not that 1 didn't need to
really knew very little about
pitching in those days and have
learned a great deal since. But
from the first day that 1 broke into
the league. / have depended main
ly on my speed.
Fast Ball Is My Best.
This is only natural. My fast ball
is my best ball. Every pitcher has
some particular type of ball which
Is his best and he invariably uses
this best ball when he is facing a
difficult situation.
In my younger days, l used to
strike out a great many batters. In
fact 1 was repeatedly accused of
attempting to establish records. But
never deliberately undertook to do
any such thing. had a great deal
of speed. 1t was no exertion for me
to pitch a fast ball. and / rather
liked to baffi> the batter. Still my
main object was to give him the
kind of ball that he could not
meet fairly. II he missed 1t alto
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
Chevy CHASE
WINS MATCHES
Lands Seven Events from
Columbia Country Club
In First Tourney.

Chevy Chase drew first blood in
the Washington Tennis Association by
defeating the Columbia Country
Clubs racquetters on the formers
courts yesterday afternoon. The vic
tory was an overwhelming one. the
home clubs representatives taking
five of the six singles. and losing
but one of the three doubles. max
Ing the total count to ..
Connie Doyle, captain of the Wis
iting team. figured prominently in the
Columbia victories. He disposed Of
Dudley Morgan in straight sets in
the singles and did the lions share"
of the work when he and Fischer
disposed of Gordon and HELEN in
their doubles match.
The second set of this latter
match was. incidentally. the only
extra game of the day, the Chevy
Chase pair taking this one 12-IO,
after having dropped the opener,
6-4. The third and final set went
to the Doyle Fischer combination
by the same score.
Doyle had little trouble in beat
ing Morgan in their match. On
the other hand, with the exception
OF the two matches which CoIum-
bia won, Chevy Chase appeared to
have all the edge. Summary:
Singles - Chevy Chase. 5; Columbia, IL
Conrad y. Doyle tColumbia) defeated Dudley
Morgan Chevy Chasel. q, g.: Speuces Cor
don tChcvy Chasel defeated j. NJ Hancock
tCCiumbial. 60. 81; Arthur HELEN IhevS
Chasel defeated L. A. Fischer (Columbia( 81.
81: ]. Ballard Moore tChevy Chasel defeated
Herbert T. Shannon Columbia 6-i SIS:
Walter Wilcox Chevy Chase defeated McLough-
Ian NOlumbial. 81. IS: Irwin iChevy Chasal
defeated y. h. Heaton tColumbisl. 6-3. ell
Doubles - Chevy Chase. =: Columbia. IL
e. B. DOYLE and Fisher tCOlumbia) defeated
Gor5un and HELEN Chevy Chasel, O., l0-l2
81; Morgan and Moore Chevy Chase) defeated
H. E Doyle and Hancock tCOlumbia) g.
l-6. 6-3; Wilcox and Irwin CHEVY Chasej
defeated shannon and Mclaughlin (CoIumbiaJ,
6-3 6-J.
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Boxing Referee Appointed.

Newark, y. J.. April 26.-The New
Jersey State boxing commission to-
day appointed James Brennan. of
Newark, as referee of the boxing con-
test between Willie Ritchie, of San
francisco, and Benny Leonard. light
weight champion. that will be held
at the Newark Sporting Club here on
April 2S
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
GALLAUDET PLAYS
QUANTICO MARINES

Gallaudet's baseball team will
battle the Quantico Marines at
QuantiCO, Va, Saturday. May 8,
This is the first time the Buff and
Blue has ever met the Marines and
a good game is looked forward to
by the followers of both mines.
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Veteran Saves His Speed.

The veteran has learned TO save his
arm and TO supplement speed and
strength with superior experience and
cunning. No doubt my strikeout rec
ord has declined mainly because
have acquired experience and use nv
head. where before l only used my
arm Also the fact that | have taken
so much TO curve pitching partially
accounts for this. since the strikeout
Is usually a matter OF speed more than
anything else. As have already said.
/ now try TO strike a batter out only
in a pinch.
Another reason why my strike
outs have decreased in number is
due to the batter. 1t is pretty hard
to strike out a foxy batter il he
wishes to prevent it. Batters choke
up more on the bat than they used
to do. which enables them to meet
the ball more easily
Willie keeler's famous record Of
going a whole season without a
strikeout is not half as difficult as
1t seems. Ty Cobb could do the
same any time he wanted to. But
the good batter has something in
mind altogether different from
avoiding a strikeout. He is either
trying to advance the runner or to
get on the bases himself.
In order to do this, il is frequent
ly necessary for him to take two
strikes before he even swings at the
ball. Then, of course. the pitcher
has him at a disadvantage and il is
often possible to slip over third
strike. If his intention was merely
to hit the ball somewhere. he could
always do so. though of course in
the majority of cases he would not
hit safely. Personally I have little
respect for such records which. after
all. are made at the expense of a
batter's own club.
One thing that the veteran pitcher
learns, is not TO do all the work
CONTINUER on PAGE THIRTEEN.
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Totals. IS Is 2 3 d Totals. . = s
score BY innings.
FoTdhan ...---..-..---. o 0 q J-Ij
q. T. --..----.----..-.. ; o 0 0 Q O-4
I;urs-S-hOnhCrE EU-faCe ~. IIolIohran ~.
fusch, BuCkiev -. Gl"I-1n - lSfpvre -.
SNCCtlanj. MrNamOrr. GlCnnCu. Rooney, Cor
WiU. J. KCnlrick. First base BY errors-FUri-
ham. ). e T.. : Left Oh base Forrlham :
=. T.. / FjrSt bt-r baIls-OF McNamOre
J. of Long. J. OT y Kendrick / Innings
IltCGed-By Long. IS: hy i. kendGick 4 ? J
Hits H1d,-bT Long. 10; of Il. kendT7ck, &.
stricS oUt-By SIrNamorr. I: b, Long. ;. by
y. hendrich. L TwOhaSe hits-Eustace Buck
ley. LHcey- Sacrifice hit-Roonpy. Stolen hases
- Hoilohrsn p, Buckley. Gleason Cjl LefefTre
80. >wce-land Hit by TItcIler-Ry McNamOrs
"a. b. B. kendTCk ~. Wild TStcleS-Lnns q.
Impre-Mr. HaniihOe. Time Il game-lSa
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Veteran StrikeOut King
Gives Advice to Young
Hurlers - Frankness in
Each of His Statements
Unusual for Big League
Stars.

since. In fact the last two years
II has fallen under zoo
l have already admitted that I can
no longer conceal even from myself
the fact that my speed is declining.
But 1T has not fallen off to any such
degree as my strikeout record would
indicate. There is a lot of misunder-
standing )n the subject of strikcouts.
Iou will usually find that the kid
pitcher strikes out more batters than
the veteran. He has A lot of speed
and strength and he likes to use all
he has.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
JOHNS HOPKINS TEAM
SHOWED UNDER STATE

Baltimore. Md. April 26.-The L.
crosse team of Maryland State Col,
lege was simply showed under by tht
Johns Hopkins University stickers to-
day on HomewoOd field ny a score of
L TO Q. The visitors did not even
have a lOok-in. and they were kept
playing on the defensive all the time.
At the end of the first half Hop
kinS had rolled up nine points Bax-
ley, Blum and DfTnnderfer did the
hest work for Hopkins.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27

Totals. Is 70 2 > u Totals. 16G
score by innings.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27

CoNTINUER on PAGE THIRTEEN.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
Walter johnson Frankly Admits Speed is Not
What 1t Used to Be; Believes Smoke and Curve
Assure Him Manv Successful Years in Majors
Kansas Cyclone Openly Dis
cusses His Present-Day
Pitching Form, Modestly
Pointing to Facts and
Records He Has Estab-
lished.

Editors Note-In the unusual article from
the Baseball Magazine. uf May. which fol-
lows, the great Washington pitcher frankly
discusses his present pitching form. He ad-
mitS Tan uncommon confession for a big
leaguerl that his sTeed is not always what 1t
used to be- But he believes that his remain
ing speed tstill greater than that Of any
other twirlerl, his fine curve. and above all
his extensive experience. assure him several
more great wears
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SUMMONS

In the Superior Court of the State OF
Washington, in and for the
County of Whitman.
J. w. Burgan and Evelyn F. Burgan
his wife, Plaintiffs, VS.. Jacob
Price, Eva NJ. Price, A. w. Mott
and also all other persons and
parties unknown, claiming any
right, title, estate, lien or inter
est in the real estate described In
the complaint herein, Defendants
The State of Washington to the
said Jacob Price, Eva NJ. Price, A.
w. Mott, and also all other persons
and parties unknown, claiming any
right, title, estate, lien or interest IN
the real estate described in the COM
plant herein:
You are hereby summoned to ap-
pear within so days after the date
of the first publication of this sum
mons. to-wit: within so days after
the 14th day of March, 1919. and de-
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fend the above entitled action in the
above entitled court, and answer the
complaint of the plaintiffs, and
serve copy of your answer upon the
undersigned attorneys for the plain
tiffs at their office below stated, and
in case of your failure so to do, judg-
ment will be rendered against you
according to the demand or the COM
plant, which has been filed with the
clerk of said court.
The object of this action is to quiet
title in the plaintiffs and to exclude
you and each of you from all claim
of right, title, lien, estate or interest
in or to the following described real
estate, situated in Whitman county,
Washington, to-wit:
Commencing at a point where the
north line of the tract of land con-
veyed by John Glaspey to Lawrence
e Holbrook of Garfield, Washington,
intersects the west boundary of the
right-of-way of the Northern Pacific