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The Washington times., 1921-08-10
SHE WANTS SANDLOT FANS
TO GET MONEYS WORTH

When a sand1ot fan chucks his
nickel. dime or quarter into the col
lection hat he wants to see as much
baseball for it as possible. This is
the attitude of Mrs. Lille Nicholas.
manager of the Independent A. c. in
the Junior city series, who has pro-
tested yesterdays game with the
Aztecs on the complaint that the con-
test was called before IT was dark.
She has requested that the game be
played over on the same field. declar-
ing that many of those who saw the
Aztecs win in six innings kicked be-
cause they believed the game could
have been continued. The contest
was stopped just after the collection
was made.
Because he wore no uniform,
player In a junior game was barred
by the, umpire from playing. Chair
man Haas has issued ruling that
the uniform isn't necessary.
Southland A. c. won game fight
with the Metropolitans in the unlim-
tied class, winning to 3 by virtue
of two runs scored In the last inning.
Bryant held the smuggling Nets to four
bingles.
Snow, of Southland, got three hits
and had o perfect day at lat.
Silvermsn. the Aztec second -sacker,
also was a perfect hitter with three
safeties.
Taylor, the Independents fast
young first Eastman. hit a homer and
double In four times at bat.
One of the youngest players in the
Junior series win be seen in action
today when Wilmer Long takes his
place In the outfield for the Clovers.
He Is fourteen years old and a coming
star. hitting over 800 and fielding now
like veteran.
Quincy A. c. failed TO outhit Lang
don in the unlimited class, but won
rather easily, to 4. r. Beall. the
Quincy pitcher. was the star OF the
game, getting three hits. one a double.
I'm four times up. Each team made
ten safeties. First Baseman Dunn
having three of the LAGOON total.
Government Printing Office set a
record for hits which may stand UP
through the series. In trouncing the
Mt. Vernons. 10 TO l, in seven innings,
they raped out twenty-five safeties,
including numerous extra-bases
The Washington times., 1921-08-10

ANY house pei
who finds him.
self looking at
the public from
between b ar 3
viii have none
b u I hisself %
blame.
w a 8 h ! ngton
hasn't inhaled a
h o u nd conven-
ton since q s I
spring. II was a
bowling success.
Wardman Park
Hotel was alive
w 18th I h e m /.
What? FL a q .
T h e insecticide
leaped jubilantly
from spaniel TO
daschund Xix Q
the police avoid
ing n ctilprit.
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fear Of running over into another
trap.
On an average green ] don't figure
the ball will run over two feet after
1t lands. IL it does / haven't played
the stroke correctly. In this shot
there is no breaking of the wrists as
the ball is struck. My way Of play
ing this pitch is not a method L
would advise unless one is within
to give it lot OF hard practice. ~
1t is quite different from the stand
ard method OF hitting pitch. FoI
example, Jim Barnes and ChicIe
Evans and Bobby Jones use theii
wrists more than 1 do. by which /
mean to say that their wrists seem
more flexible and are not an un.
bending as mine are. ~
The shot must be exactly timed
III the hands get in too much ahead
OF the stroke, not even turning ~;
club face In will be sufficient to saA6s
the shot. lHl
1t is neither right handed nor HI
left handed blow. / feel that both
my wrists and forearms are workfnc
together. I don't guide with the left
and hit through with the right al 30
many do. Ii is a double handed
double armed blow, with me. "a
The chief value of this shot In tffhf
can keep the pitch fairly low on
windy day and still put as much cut
to the ball as IL / thumped it high in
the air.
Ribbed Club Helps. ~
As 1 said before, the ribbed club
helps. but 1t does not make the stroke
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
Crane Is Bad.

Sam Crane. once with the Griffs. is
so weak hitter that he is In ninth
position In the Cincinnati Reds bat
ting order That's where Billy Sun
day used to hit when with the Chicago
club. Sunday was lust about as good
batsman as Crane.
The Washington times., 1921-08-10

turn II in slightly. On the down
stroke. In place of swapping the
club head through first, my hands
lead the swing. Both wrists are firm
as they como into the ball. the hands.
as / suggested. leading the swing.
Ordinarily this might mean slice.
But with the face OF the club head
turned In at the start of the swing
have found that this method OF
coming through with the hands turns
the club on q straight line and 30
gives a tremendous cut to the ball
There ID No Lift.
There is no lift to the wrists to
get the ball up as play to keep
the approach fairly low. Naturally,
/ hit the ball first. the back side of
It. on the downward swing, taking
turf Just on beyond. IL take turf
first the shot 10 spoiled.
Especial attention must be paid to
turning in the face of the club head.
not laying II back. In addressing the
ball my mashie niblick. held as 1t is,
IL almost as straight as the blade of
a midiron. IT. is by bringing the
hands through just a trifle in front
of the club head that the club. face
is turned back. giving me the cut
that I want
When 1 am playing this shot well,
even up on keen greens. I can pitch
right at the pin without any fear of
running over. For example when
wethered and came to the last
green at st. Andrews, after fine
drives. he had q to win and had
q 4 to tie him. His approach stopped
over 40 feet from the cup and he
failed to get down In two more.
My approach was pitched right at
the pin on a very keen green and
1 had 10 foot putt for q ..
Great Relief,
II IL a great relief when you como
to q fast, well guarded green to
know you can pitch bodily over q
trap right up to the cup without
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
Foster Nav Stick.

Eddie Foster. who used To guard the
hot corner at Georgia avenue, was on
the block several weeks ago. but his
playing has been so good that the Red
Sox are now likely To retain him.
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Want to Play.

The Balkin A. c. defeated the
Bradley A. c. yesterday by the score
OF 10 to 3. The Balkins wish to
arrange games with fourteen and
fifteen year old teams. Address Ern-
est Giovennette. 47o X street north
west.
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
Criffs Buy SouthpaW.

Pitcher Francis. southpaw, has
been purchased by the Washington
club from Seattle In the Pacific
Coast league. He will report at Tampa
next spring
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
APPROACH SHOT Is MOST Il
IMPORTANT, CLAIMS JOCK
BY JOCK HUTCHINSON.

have heard good many fine golfers discuss the
question to whether the drive or the putt
the most important stroke in the game of GEL.
Those who are not driving WELL who are finding
traps and bunkers and out Of bounds from the tee
sure that the drive is the most important There
is certainly very little fun in playing when is
driving badly. On the other hand those who ara
taking three puts to green, who missing the
short of two, three and four feet, equally
sue that the putt is even more important than
the drive. .sH
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
Pills Drop Miller.

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 1o.--Ralpb
Miller, shortstop, has been released by
the Phillies to Louisville in the Ameri-
can Association.
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
HERE ARE. THE YOUNGSTERS
IN JUNIOR SANDLOT SCRAP

Youthful Mas Of the junior andot sherd
Signs
age limit set by vote at INVENT years
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
SMALL BOYS SURPRISE
FANS WITH SNAPPY STYLE
IN CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
BY R. d. THOMAS.

Cant they play balv' a -
Small boys the independent sando championship will
be rvang the grownup attention before the
battles
present.
the first
with A. astonished by the
skill displayed of the
Many watching the by the Lnwohs to q
surprise in foregoing and similar the
performances the boys Of whom fifteen
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
JUNIOR SERIES
ToDAYs GAME,

ToDAYs GAME.
Roamers VS. Benning. at Thlrty-fifth
street and Wisconsin avenue
YESTERDAY'S RESULT
Owls. IL: Rennoes, T. -
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Miller in Front.

Bing Miller is leading the Griffmen
with seven circuit drives. He has
made five of them in the West
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
THE MIDGET SERIES

Sec. 4. WI Pet secB. WI Pet.
Mardelle. ! 1.eee Liberty. OF 900
Perry. 1 900 s.-Temp'r. 90 zoo
Linworth.. ] 0 900 Holy Name o 900
TODAY's GAME.
Christ Child vs. Warwick. at Christ
YESTERDAYS RESULT.
Mt Rainier. IL: Piketown, g.
ss SIC % " Pct cSc cn Sec; e, A. W Pct
Mt. Rainier, I 0 1000 warwick. o 900
Orioles. I 900 Ysie... 90 900
Piketown.. O1 900
ToDAY's GAME.
Stanton Templar vs.. Holy Name. at
Thirty-seventh and streets northwest
Linworth, 2; Liberty. .
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am quite sure golf mashe
mash niblick approach to the green t5sf5s
wouldn't have spent time THU
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
He's Hitting Well.

Fritz Maisel, the Baltimore midget
thirdsacker: yesterday hit safe for
the twenty-third consecutive game.
Barnes. J. r. stewart. 7. ". johnson. C. II
stephenson. A. VI. Frnmmel. ~ g. SchIlke
". Gray. C. s. wslker,SJ. G. Brinkmsn
y. A. witxelL W. r.. Griffith, G. VIM. 10.
Morton and ", NJ. Falls tmansssrJ.
The Washington times., 1921-08-10
Says SKILLET"
Finn, Esq.
Kennel Club Warns Dogs
That Show Will Be
Held on Stylish
Dates in
October.
BY SKILLET FINN.
Batting for Kirk Milier.)
Batting for Kirk Miliero
BY SKILLET FINN.
HR~tttuu Eo,- Kivk Miller

Domestic dog show announced for
stylish October dates. Local purps
can't say they haven't been warned,
The Washington times., 1921-08-10

Government Printing Office set a
record for hits which may stand up
through the series. In trouncing the
Mt. vernons. 10 TO l, in seven innings,
they raped out twenty-five safeties,
including numerous extra-bases.
The Washington times., 1921-08-10

fear of running over into another
The Washington times., 1921-08-10

Taylor, the Independents fast
young first Eastman. hit a homer and
double In four times at bat.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-09-30

The American Jewish World takes pleasure
in announcing to its readers that it will pub
lish during the ensuing year series of short
stories by Elma Ehrlich Levinger
Elma Ehrlich Levinger, many of whose
stories of Jewish life have already appeared
in the American Jewish World and have at
tracted much attention, is the wife of Rabbi
Lee j. Levinger, executive director of the
92nd Street Y. M H. A., New York City. Mrs.
Levinger, who was born in Chicago, has pur-
sued special studies in the short story and
Radcliffe College. She was editor of the
Jewish Child" for some time, as we'll as di-
rector of the entertainment department of
the Bureau of Jewish Education, of New York
City. Her one-act play "The Burden" won
the Sinai Center prize for one-act play in
1916: Mrs. Levinger has written four volumes
of stories, ''The Boy Who Fit In ARK Pub
fishing Coz, Jewish Holyday Stories," and
'The New Land" (Bloch) and "Playmates in
Egypt (Jewish Publication Society of Amer
ica).
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"And you?-Tell me about your
life," she urged. "Have you mar
ried?"
"No. Even if I cared to marry,
how could I take care of wife?
You know once had dreams like you
but there is not throne for every
one of us. ! thought 7 might become
a great writer. Well" drearily, 81
do write sometimes. For the Yiddish
papers and they pay me a little-and
l give Hebrew lessons so I do not
starve. And sometimes I write a
poem-to please myself-and then
destroy it. I keep my dreams safe
where nobody can hurt them-as you
hurt the dreams I dreamed as boy"
his voice grown accusing.
eve were only children, I did not
understand" she pleaded. Gwen
when we were older and my father
insisted on formal betrothal- i"
81 know" quickly, 81 know, you
were planning then to slip away from
US. do not blame you. You had al
ready gone after strange gods" He
looked at her almost insolently now.
Gwen if you had stayed I would not
have married you. For you never
were true daughter of our people,"
She told herself that she was fool
to resent the words of this half
starved Ghetto Jew, yet again the in
suited blood stained her face and
throat. She saw with relief that
their walk had led them back to the
synagogue and was about to climb
the stairs; but he stopped her.
"You said you would get me a
place." she reminded him. r.
He shook his head sullenly. "Your
place is not with u.s." he told her. 81
thought at first you came back be-
cause you were lonely, because you
wanted us. But you say you are only
thinking Of us as sort of show-to
help you with your play next year.
That you may act Jewish daughter
upon the stage and laugh at us in
your heart. I would much rather
have a gentle come to us if he did
so in reverence. -
Turning swiftly he knocked upon
the closed doors. A moment later he
entered, leaving Mariana standing
by her car, flushed and angry. With
a hooking little laugh she climbed
into her trim electric. Yes, she had
Continued on Page 5S)
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After Strange Gods
A STORY FOR ROSH HA SHONAH
Elma Ehrlch Levinger.
Copyright 1921 by Ema Enrich Levnge all rights eserved
A STORY FOR ROSH HA SHONAI

IoIlum 10 near you sing. 1 ola not
eat much for several days that I
might buy ticket" he added simply.
Hating herself for her cold-blooded
detachment, the star realized how
prettily her press agent could phrase
the story; humble Ghetto dweller de-
nying himself bread to hear the great
singer. But all she said was: And
you liked me?"
ut was not you," he answered
slowly, "only a strange woman in gilt
tering clothes. And you sang things
l did not understand. You belonged
to different world"
"But that was only while I was
singing" she explained patiently
enough. What she herself often
termed her vicious sentimentality
made her voice very gentle, her
brilliant eyes tender. soften after
my work is over-for it is really hard
work to sing and act although it
looks so simple to you, Jacob-after-
wards when I can rest, I think of
other things. How used to live down
here and go to school with brother
and you and play afterwards with the
other children. And once sang at
school entertainment. Do you re-
member ?"
"You wore white Dress" he an
swered unexpectedly" and your hair
was tied with red ribbon. And you
sang song about flowers and the
country. l had never seen green
things growing in all my life before,
but 1 could see the fields and the
flowers in them while you sang"
"That was the day the rich visitor
from the South Side spoke to me-"
Mariana said thoughtfully. "She
promised to arrange for singing les
sons for me; she said that some day
might become great singer and
travel all over the world like
queen"
"You told me after school," Jacob
reminded her, "and you said: 4 don't
want to be queen; just want to
marry you when l grow up"
Something like blush stained the
woman's face and throat. "Dont
children say the funniest things?"
she commented, her voice high and
artificial.
"Did you ever marry?"
eyes. One of my teachers over in
Paris. He was not Jew. We were
divorced the year l came to America
for my debut" Her voice had grown
sharp and cold like steel; somehow
she looked ten years older as GER
tain grey look settled over her ami
mated face.
$50 as soon as you became success
full you deserted him just as you did
your parents and-your friends"
said Jacob mercilessly.
The grey look was gone; her eyes
flashed angrily. "How could I ever
rise in the world if 1 never left Jeffer-
son Street," she cried fiercely. "What
did you want me to do-give up my
chance of developing my voice and
marry you and have a half dozen
children like my mother and be glad
if I could raise two? I'd be an old
woman now and what could I have
for all my troubles and worries ?"
81 am glad if you are so happy"
he told her, touch of satire color
ing his quiet voice. "The rich lady
was right have grown up a
queen. And queen should kick every
stone from her path as she rises to
her throne. Your parents and l were
oo1x, c+opoc CO Ua have no ripht to
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uoWH CHe SCreeCS OF long ago. lie
stood with head cooked a little to one
side, waiting for her to speak.
81 came to the services" Mariana
explained. perhaps I am a little
late"
"Have you a ticket?" he asked her
in broken English.
"No, but" she fumbled at her
gold mesh bag, then stopped embar-
raised. A long forgotten memory
arrested her, her father berating her
brother for the heinous crime of car
rying money on the Sabbath.
A young man came from one of the
rear seats. Not so very young either,
Mariana decided, after a quick
glance, although there was something
peculiar boyish in his keen dark face,
in the gesture with which he pushed
back the heavy waves of hair, clus-
tering beneath the rim of. his shabby
hat. Suddenly her breath came quick
ly, startled glance crept into her
eyes. Were the visions of the past
growing corporeal, or did he really
stand before her in the flesh after
their separation of over twenty
years?
"Jacob?" she faltered, wondering
whether he would recognize her.
eyes. I didn't think to see you
here, Miriam" He became conscious
that the old sexton was watching
them curiously. "I'll see that they
crowd you up in the women's gal
lery if you really want to come in,"
he told her, "but first let us take a
little walk. It is a long service, you
know, and we can always come back"
He spoke simply enough, but her SEN
sitive ear detected an ironical note
beneath his last commonplace state
ment.
They walked down the quiet street
together, the old man in the doorway
regarding them like benevolent owl
before he returned to his prayers.
Mariana, whose laugh had always
been the freest, her tongue one of
the wittiest, at certain merry supper
parties after the opera, could not
speak. She did not know how to
break the silence that lay so heavily
between her and the sullen, brooding
man who walked at her side.
"Why did you come here today?"
He was the first to speak. Knowing
Jacob as she did, she realized it was
IlO COuVSuClOIlcl 4uOoClOll, uCGCIOu
merely to break the constraint that
oppressed them.
Embarrassed and ill at ease, she
lied glibly. Not for worlds would
she have him know how each year
found her more lonely for the half
forgotten festivals of her people
which she had deserted along with
her boyish lover years ago. II may
sing in new opera next year," she
told Jacob, "a Jewish one based on
Tvanhoe' I'll be 'Rebecca', of
course, and so have been prowling
about bit getting atmosphere"
She stopped little confused, sudden
ly realizing how meaningless the
phrases of her profession would
sound to him.
Jacobs mournful eyes took in the
lovely picture beside him, the gracious
figure clad in it's expensive simplicity,
the well-kept luxuriant hair and
brilliant eyes; his thoughts flew back
to a scrawny little girl with tangled
hair, clad in ill-ftting garments,
playing with him in a certain dingy
court not far from Jefferson Street.
uo +occod bis head innatient1v and
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THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD
A S Mariana Raphelo, to use the
n name by which she was known
throuphollt the Annarican and

european press, guided her smart lit
tie electric across the bridge which
spans Chicago's river, she smiled
trif1e ironically at the errand which
had brought her out of her bed at the
ungodly hour of eleven. Now, fresh
from her bath, clad in the expensive
simplicity of her Paris garments, the
popular prima donna half regretted
the sentimentality that had drawn her
back to the little schul near Jefferson
street. eff l did have religious
spasm, why didn't I go to one of the
South Side Temples for the Rosh ha
Shonah services ?" she asked herself,
but she did not turn back.
Over the streets of that section of
the city which Chicago reporters al
ways call "the Ghetto" brooded a
strangely peaceful hush. Mariana,
WIN her sensitive artists instinct,
felt it and drove very slowly past the
closed shops. These poor fish-mong-
ers and dealers in secondhand cloth
ing could afford to close for the fall
holidays, she reflected, but last night
she had sung as usual even if it did
happen to be one of the great festal
days of her people. Her people! She
shrugged her handsome shoulders i'm
patiently; how foolish the words
sounded from the lips Of one who
never failed to declare herself a per-
feet cosmopolitan, a citizen Of the
world.
Yet the world she had deserted al
most twenty years ago was drawing
her back into an almost forgotten
past. Yes, that bleakly ugly build
ing was the school she had hated so
as she journeyed laboriously from the
primary grade to the graduating
class, each blackboard-lined room a
gloomy prison; that little store with
the smeary windows was the one
where her mother always sent her
for the Friday fish; there was the
same old grocery on the corner. She
tried to picture herself, a big-eyed
youngster in shabby, ill-ftting clothes,
passing her dreamy way down these
narrow streets, but failed "Isolde"
and "Brunhildeo and elisa" were far
dream-child
But her memory had not played
her false and the trim little electric
sped unerringly to it's destination, the
shabby old schul not far from Jeffer-
son Street. Suddenly Mariana wished
she had not driven her car to the very
door of the schul; her father, she re-
membered, never rode on a Sabbath
or Yomtov. And Marianna's good
taste was revolted at the idea of Of
Tending other Jews as pious as he who
might be watching her from the doors
of the synagogue.
Then she realized that there was
no one to see her impious approach;
the doors were closed and through
them came the rise and fall Of
mighty tide, the sound Of men and
women chanting and praying, voice,
high and powerful, rising above them
all. A sudden picture dimmed her
eyes and left them wet; her father,
the chazan, wrapped in his praying
shawl, leading the congregation. But
she knew that it was not his voice
she heard now; the only letters she
had received, since leaving her people
had been the two curt scrawls from
her brother, informing her of her par
ent's death.
81 will remember to say Kaddish
for them," he had written bitterly.
f.. IL
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have to set her broken legs, and he did.
They came out perfectly beautifully
straight. So then told him he'd have to
do the same for me and explained that IL
wasn't Just beauty-it was business!
81 guess he was afraid I might fix up
taxi accident of my own, SO he consented
I was working then and couldn't get lay
as ! had a vacation.
Gregory Kelly, my partner and hus-
band, and | finished our run in Clarence
Thanksgiving week and We went to At
lsntic City to spend the holidays, and to
rest. We expected to stay over Christmas
1--WE went one night to see Marilynn
Miller in her new play. AS watched her
dance-she's great friend Of mipe-I
kept thinkng-'her legs are straight! ]
wish my legs were straight. Lord! make
my legs straight
and that's all could think Of. l saw
her play every night for a week And
every time | saw her stand with her legs
together and not an inch OF back-drop
showing between them, | wanted to weep"
THAT decided me. Gregory and packed
ND and came right on to Chicago, without
even waiting for Christmas. There was
only one thing stopped to doIbefore rush
ing to the Presbyterian Hospital In Chi
cago. I stopped at Dorothy Dickson's boot
makers in New York and ordered a pair
of her kind Of slippers. Dainty, darling
slippers with tiny narrow ankle straps, the
kind that you can't dream OF wearing
with bowlegs.
"rye got the slippers here In my trunk
at the hospital. And every time the pain
becomes too terrible ! think with, all my
might OF my wonderful, straight-leg slip.
pers and can stand 1t.
81 hope nobody will think me vain or
foolish for having my legs broken. II was
seriously handicapping me as an artist l
had made up my mind either to abandon