The Washington herald., 1922-08-16
The Spotlight
In Washington
By The Stroller.

\ G ONE singing the public rot the
~ other day when the town was
pasted with the statement that Babe
Ruth. of the battering bat. was GO
ing to be In town for q ball game !
The street car company went to
II strong and one paper fell for
page-deep picture Of the player.
Result the attendance on q rainy
Sunday was given as 1900. Let
an street business man pull tia,
kind fof stun and the Advertisins
Clubs of America and kindred or
ganizations would be on his necH
the following morning. The man.
agement of the New York team
/ must have known not later than
/ Friday that Ruth was 70 be sent
to q hospital on Saturday. No won-
der the American League can charge
on 500. 900 for q monument 70 the
most -useful player. Babe Ruth
should top the list. judging by the
4 way he 10 handled and the way the
msnagement packs 'em in. for the
4 Babe Is the most useful at the nate
to the management. whether he is
to the team or not Fans all over
town are talking about this sting
and they will not soon forget the
Ysnks' method Of not tipping OF the
local management
John w. Davis. of the Veterans
Of Foreign Wars. is working over
time on the plans for memorial
forests by the various posts. The
plan has been approved by the
National Capital Post and the
Equality-walter Reed Post. A COM
mittee is IN Seattle at the annual
encsmpment boosting the plan. On
the District committee with Davis
are J. Edward Cassidy. Frank b.
Lewis and Melvin Ryder. Gen. An
ton stephan is in accord with the
plan. as is Richhard S. Jones. nA-
tionsl Junior vice commander.
Charles Lathrop Pack. of the Amer
lean Forestry Association. has
added his approval of the outline
Of the plans. Town forests will
be 70 the greatest economic value
to the country Davis tells me
DAVIS has seen them in operation In
other countries. Every town with
town forest In these times or
fuel shortage would have an asset
worth thousands OF dollars" says
Davis.
The pumping season" says Dig"
Mathews. certainly has been great
this year around Washington. with
all the building operations going on.
pumps have been kept going try
ing TO free the excavations Of
water. No sooner do We get II out
I than more water comes down. At
sixteenth and NJ streets a retaining
wall had TO be put in to hold up
an alley. The walker Hotel Cor
poration at Connecticut avenue and
DeSales street has q pump going.
This holds things back all over
town, but Of course IL means more
work and it's a dry rain that don't
wet somebody. eh whst7-
! heard q good one on stu"
Goodwin the other day. A friend
called 70 him as he was coming
into the Eighteenth hole. How YOU
this back at him: Great. found
two Silver Kings and a Baby Dim
pie"
They say Senator Pepper swings
the hedge OF the White House these
mornings. And he swings IL before
the dew IL OF the grass II Just
goes to show what an even tenn
pered man the President is. Just
think what restraint 10 needed on
the part OF an honest-to-goodness
golfer when he sees all the Pepper
energy wasted on a tennis ball when
IL should be directed at a gorf ball.
The senatorial poetic ct by SEN
ator Hitchcock seems to have
started the town Herb McCherry
took a try at IL and now Lew
Ashley comes acong to The Spot
light with this:
Goslin has a great big bat,
That he knows how TO swing
He socks that apple every day
) And makes the back fence
ring
Harry Shildman insists that Nc
} Cherry shall have nothing on him
and offers the following. to wit:
Tom Wise is an actor man
Whose weight can't keep him
down.
He has a face-wide smile with
him
And was never known to
frown
Go TO IL. the Hall Of Fame is
open to everyone who can uncork
the talent" needed to make the
grade. Senator, you started some
thing and here is hoping you help
keep IL going.