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would make q great after

he would make q great after il
time.
So ne told the boy to try a lon
bat, holding II closer TO the han
and take a bigger swing. The =
suit was that Hornsby batted 3
during his first season as a Cardinu
regular and has been improving eve
since. For they say he IL 'natu
rail- hitter, and he is. But II too
an experienced baseball man Z
make him one.
As for myself, and the Yankee
we are doing well enough even
the Cardinals lid best us twice e.
succession. We batted well enough
against the st. Louis club to win
most games. but our pitching wnsE' Z
good enough to stop Rickey's slug
gers.
None Of the Fingers we used had
previously worked in n game, n
even in q practice affair with III
second team, and naturally werer
ready to hold 30 formidable . clu
as the Cardinals in any sort Of checE
Give them another week, however
and the same pitchers who prove,
easy for the Cards Will be making
the best of them throw their bait
away.
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will Fight Greb if the
Public Demands
Bout. "-Dempsey

CHICAGO, March 23.-Jsck
Dempsey will fight Harry Greb
II there Is any demand for the
match. he said here today. when
he stopped off between trains
on his way to Los Angeles. at
is possible that ! might get a
match with Harry Greb," he
said, "and II there is a call for
it surely will take 1t. There
is Just a chance he can beat me.
81 like to have lot of per-
sons with good drawing power
I'd think they can beat me. 1t
would make business for me.
Just now l can't see much in
sight unless 1t is this Euro
pean trip"
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Klein Says Umpires
Don't Want to
Train

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March
23.-Bill KLEIN is not wild about
Judge Landis' scheme Of having
all big league umpires 60 into
spring training. KLEIN has been
coming South for eight consecu-
tive seasons but he says not all
the umpires want to come. He
has been fortunate in not getting
into jams, but when an umpire
is with the same club for
days at a stretch, as is the case
on these spring tours, things
could easily become unpleasant
if there were any spats or kicks
Of moment, Is the opinion Of
KLEIN.
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THIRTY-FIVE MEN OUT
WITH KNICKERBOCKERS

Thirty-.,ve men are competing for
places on the knickerbocker baseball
team. Regulars for the season will
be chosen at practice session called
by Joe Kearney, manager, for next
Sunday at p. m. on the knicker-
booker Field.
The following players are request
d by Kea ney to report at that time:
Pitchers, Fisher. Serrin, Sothern,
Hackley, Delaney. Finan. j. Smith
and Humphrey: catchers, Poore,
O'Neal and Mansfield; infielders. Ho-
man, Cox, Smithson, Ortel. Hlllory.
Torens, Shoemaker, w. Smith, Wells
and Mayhem; outfielders, jenkins,
CAN'T, jaws, Eateman, Cross, Mat
thew, Jackson and Krause.
One of The strongest sandlot teams
In town is expected to be made from
this squad Teams desiring games
with the Knicks should write to Man
ager Kearney TT the Knickerbocker
Club, 1865 N street northwest.
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LEAGUESHO[D
MEETING WITH
SERIES in VIEW
District Sandlot Organizations
Expected to Gather at Union
Station Tomorrow Night.

washingtons sandlot baseball
league representatives are expected
to meet tomorrow night at o'clock
at the Terminal Railroad Y. M. c. A.
at Union Station to elect a commit
tee to take charge Of the affairs
for the year and to agree upon the
rules governing the league games
and the annual post-season contests.
From present indications there
will be something like ten leagues In
operation. 1t is expected that all
Junior leagues already formed or In
the process of formation will avail
joining the organization.
1t is proposed to have a senior and
junior organization under the anna
teur association here. The District
Umpire Association question along
with other matters pertaining TO
sandlot league baseball will come up
for discussion.
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Early Spring.

Early Spring.
0ARLY Spring, of thee we sing.
Sleet and all that sort of thing!
~ Singing sleet and clinging slush
To greet us in the twilight hush.
Moisture, dampness near and far,
Grippe, hay fever and catarrh!
Sneeze and sweat, shake and soakl
Early Spring, thou art joke!
Yet the outlook might be GUNNER,
For the Springtime heralds Summer,
And the Summer brings the call
Dear to Yankee hearts: "Play ballT
That is why, o early Spring,
Though the vernal blizzard sing,
We behold you with a grin
Just for what you usher in!
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The secret of bis greatness lies In
the fact that ne can hit almost any
kind OF pitching with equal driving
power. If a pitcher grooves" the
ball. almos. any halter can hit 1t long
distances. but you don't have 60
groove It for Hornsby. He Is SO
loose" 80 pliable at the plate. and
his coordination Of eye and body Is
so highly developed that he can go
after a bad ball and sock II to the
fences, and 30 far as can see, has
no real weakness.
Our pitchers figured there must be
some sort of ball that he couldn't
hit and set out TO find 1t. They gave
him everything they had. and In
eleven times ut bat he made two
triples, q double and four singles.
After trying him on everything else.
Waite Hoyt pitched ball that was
at least a foot outside Of the plate
and higher thsn his head. and he
smacked that one on a line to the
center field fence for triple.
! understand that Miller Hug
gins. the manager Of the st. Louis
Cardinals, Is largely responsible for
Hornsby's Success as . hitter.
When HOrnshy came up to the
Cards In 1918, M was what we call
a choke hitter. and not a very good
one at that. In two successive
years with the DennisOn Texas
Club he had hated only .23e and
.277, respectively, and In eighteen
games with the Cardinals at the
close Of the season Of 1916 ne hit
only .e46.
He had a habit. then. Of holding
his bat several inches from the han
die, with his elbows held close to his
sides. This cramped his style and
he couldn't hit a lick except wher
the ball was right in the groove. But
when he did meet the ball his black
smiths arms and forearms enabled
him to hit 1t a mile. and Higgins
figured that II he loosened up a tii
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23
GRIFFS' MYSTERY MAN
REVEALED AS PROMISING
PITTSBURGH YOUNGSTER
Indoor Sports
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

TAMPA, March Fisherman Kefer of Pittsburgh, right
banded pitcher the member of the Washington hall club
a if he maintains form evinced
yesterdays batting practice still further compcate the sua
ton facing Manager Milan
mystery In 1920
he Association
pitching Ed Walsh American League
Association
much Ker that he offered the Worcester club
81, 900 for him.
baseball this
asked Zeb
him uniform and took peek him in action He admitted
Kefer looked worth while
off batting practice the
curves he did show lot Of the ball
and player facing him said he had something He
Griffs and other
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out three and passed eight. He also
tossed in a balk, the first Of the
youthful season. Phillips pitched
four innings last Saturday against
the Braves. allowing four hits. walk
ing one and tanning nobody.
Manager Milan is working to have
Mogridge, Phillips, Erickson, Zach
airy, Courtney and Gleason ready to
start the season. Walter johnson
has lost so much time here this
spring that 1t is doubtful II he will
be ready to pitch the first game of
the season against the New York
Yankees. Ralph Miller Is having
some trouble with his arm and may
not be in shape for the curtain.
Ray Francis is sharing with Joe
Gleason the expert attention of
Manager Milan. There seems to be
a chance for the Seattle southpaw
to land steady Job with the
Griffs. II Keifer, the newly-signed
Highlander, makes good, he will
become one Of the second-string
Fingers.
Joe Gleason, though bothered
with lame wing, made an eI-
cellent showing yesterday against
the regulars. He held them to
one hit in four frames, . savage
slap to short left by Roger
Peckinpaugh. It was largely duo
to his work on the hill that tho
YannigaIE were leading, 1 to 0,
when he departed to tho showers.
The former Texas Lacquer used
change Of pace that greatly
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BABE RUTH IMPRESSED
BY HORNSBY'S BATTING
By BABE RUTH.

NEW ORLEANS March 23-I understand, why the St
optimistic the Cardinals chances for
National this Branch Hickey brought his cut
couple exhibition with the Yankees
only both battles but showed offensive
would impressed unfriendy observer Inc
denta showed the htes the has
produced.
Playing different league haven't had chances to
Hornsby action. him exhibition again
Charles spring, but that time
ball and the test wasn't fair H.
when New Orleans, however
study style and for myself just what it
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Perry A. c. to Meet.

The Perry A. c. will hold meet
Ing at the residence Of Paul Shop
pard, 1912 Perry place northwest,
tonight at $50. All members are
urged to attend.
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STROLLS THROUGH
SPORTVHLE
By William F. Kirk.
GOLF AND POKER.

vTyHE games Of golf and poker exceptional indeed
place with II not with every creed
Football is played by Yankees and the English over there
nd boxing is a that these nations share
But golf is universal, and since the late Big Muss
The game of poker has a grip a foreign cuss
both these who play them know
the that the dough-
Both in early morning and in midnghts solemn hush
the golf ball and the tickhsh boptal flush
Both played by and DID, but genius the guy
Whoever masters either game, however he may Try!
Both try both bring the blues
quake with when they lose
Golf social standing but fellow men
is still commanding attention and then:
full of and we'll frolc while we're able
and the and
tablet
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May Stage Tourney.

George Washington University
may stage a golf tournament for
students this spring on The Potomac
Park course IL there is sufficient
interest in the project and arrange.
ments can be made.
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REAL SOClABlE

Errors-GoebeI, Noone, Peck, Shanks
Runs-Goebel, Charity. Brillheart. Peck.
Goslin, Shanks. Left on bases-Yanni-
gans, s; Regulars, 2. Two-base hits
Charity, Goebel. Sacrifice hits-Harris,
Milan. Stolen bsse-Shanks Hits-Of
Gleason, 1 in 4 innings: off McGrew, in
innings; off Brillheart. in 3 innings;
off Miller, 4 in 2 innings. Bases on balls
off Gleason, .; off Miller. .. Struck
out-By McGrew. 4; by Brillheart, 1.
Double play-Harris to Peck. Hit by
pitched bali-By Miller (LaMotte). Time
OF game-One hour and IS minutes. Um-
pire-Martin.
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Conzaga Works.

Gonzaga High School is working
hard to develop it's baseball team
this season. The / street young
steers have several first-class trips
in prospect. Games with local
schools have been arranged for the
season.
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Bowers to Lead w. Va. Five

MORGANTOwN, w. Va, Marc
23.-Karl d. Bowers. formerly ..
Clarksburg High School, was elected
captain of the West Virginia basket
ball team for next year. Bowers
plays at guard position.
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Winter Baseball Notes.

DIG VAUGHN will probably play major league base
q with the Fairbanks
- independent and the expiration that term his
probably Vaughn his day. OF
the soupaw the American League and later star
little ancient should
give of himself where his lot is cast
Lands that he going make unpleasant for the
officials baseball club that amper with any player
the
and it is step taken long Many
q unprofessona his dealings with
players happened be angling There to be more
Of this, says H. M
The Chicago spring training trip this sea
going hold forth at Santa Catalina Island one OF
pretty tough
bapayer ride all the out to bamy
while remain the nice sush and seet OF the
Middle
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bothered the regulars, mixing his
fast ball with a neat hook. He is
sued walks to Harris and Torres.
but they with Peck were the only
regulars to land on the bases.
Freddy Noone, the only real
washingtonian on the squad, got
his first chance to go behind the
bat. He handled Gleason and
Brillheart in excellent fashion. and
1t was his resounding whack over
second base that brought Patsy
Charity over with the first run
Of the game in the second inning.
Leon Goslin found his lame ribs
SO much improved that he got into
the practice game which ended In a
tie, 8 to 3, in seven innings. Goslin
pulled down a couple Of long drives
that carried every which way in the
stiff breeze, but the outstanding
feature in the field was turned in
by Ossie Bluege.
With two out In the fourth Sam
Rice smashed one back ut Gleason.
Tho ball caroomed off the pitchers
glove high into the air, falling just
behind the box. Bluege was In on
that ball like q hawk, picked It up
and fipped IL over to Brewer to
get the flying Rice on a close de-
cisiOn. President Griffith was es-
pecially delighted with that field.
ing bit and didn't hesitate to say
50.
Pat Charity, who was in right
field for the Yannigans, got three
safe wallops in four attempts. His
H.. tttr mt
run on Noone's single to center.
Goebel, who had doubled down the
third base line.
The tieing run was forced across
Lightfoot opened that final frame
with single, and was forced by Brill.
heart. Lamotte was hit by a pitched
ball and promptly caught mapping by
Dick Torres. Brewer got on with a
pass, and another to Goebel forced
Brillheart over before shanks threw
out Charity.
The Regulars got an their runs
off Brillheart. A pass to Goslin
opened the latter half OF the fifth.
Harris sacrificed and Shanks
singled to right, scoring Goslin.
Shanks stole second and came I'm
when nobody covered on Noone's
fine peg to second.
In the sixth Peck led off with q
hard single to left. Milan's sacrifice
advanced the runner, and Rice's Juicy
slam to center scored him.
Peck was the only would-be base
fhief IN periah Mt tho hands NJ Fredd u
Noone, but Shanks should have died
Both pegs from the young catcher
were low and right to the mark.
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The former Texas Lacquer used
a change Of pace that greatly
Evening star., 1922-02-24
Josef Hofmann Recital.

The large auditorium of Central
High School was almost completely
filled yesterday afternoon with enthu-
siastic music lovers eagerly awaiting
the appearance of Josef Hoffman,.
master pianist. When he made his
initial bow they accorded him an ova-
tion of applause and then lapsed into
complete. eXpectant silence as the
musicians hands wandered over the
keys in a few informal chords.
While Josef Hofmann played his
listeners forgot everything. even the
amazing finger dexterity eXacted by
his selection. for they We're rendered
with such perfect ease that unless
you watched his flying hands they
didn't seem to be difficult. The soul
Of music. and not the mechanics of
its execution. was emphasized. and
the slow singing tones of his Chopin
"Nocturne" were as beautiful and inn
pressive as the brilliant passages
composed Of laundering chords and
lightning-like chromatic runs and
arpeggios Of the two Polonaises. one
of which, the "Polonaise Militaire,"
was played as a second encore after
a Chopin Waltz"
Two rather unusual compositions
were included in the artists roper
toire. the first of which was East
and West" by a modern French mu-
sician, Dvorsky. 1t was mysterious
bit Of harmony, beginning in dirge
rhythm, then changing to a jangling
oriental theme. and finally combining
the two.
Birds at Dawn" was also a CO.
temporary composer. Fannie Dillon. an
Evening star., 1922-02-24
GRIST OF THEFTS ARE
REPORTED TO POLICE
Man Held Up on Street Robbed
of $3O-Much Clothing
Disappears.

E. W. Young, 445 Lamont street
was held up by an armed colored
man, on Georgia avenue, between
Park road and Morton street, last
night about o'clock and robbed OF
$50, the highwayman overlooking va
he had in another pocket. Young
furnished a description of the robber
Mrs Mary c. Moore. 1903 North
Capitol street, reported that her home
was visited between 5 o'clock yes
terday afternoon and II o'clock last
night and robbed of wearing apparel
valued at $125.
John Malundy. Gospel Mission. PA
John Marshall place, asked the police
of the sixth precinct to investigate
robbery committed in his room.
The property taken included $45 in
cash, pair of trousers. insurance pa
pers and pair of eyeglasses.
Theft of wearing apparel and a
pin. valued at s45, was reported by
Ernest Crowder, George Washington
Inn. He said the theft was COM
mitted in a basement room.
James w. Wood. 2623 Garfield street.
told of the taking of an overcoat
from the law school of George Wash
ington University. 1895 X street. He
valued the garment at $25. A similar
theft at the law school was reported
by w. H. Hunt, 25O3 18th street.
Bernard Shepherd. 1924 Minnesota
avenue southeast, reported the theft
Of an overcoat from his automobile,
parked on G street last night.
Miss Agnes Herbert, 7l3 4fh street.
Yesterday discovered the lo.s of lib
erty bonds valued at $500. T'he bonds.
she stated, disappeared from the
home the past two months.
Taking Of $103 from the cash regis
ter at his place of business. 30O1
14th street. was reported by w. w.
Bailey.
Evening star., 1922-02-24

American girl. Descriptive of birds. as
the name implies. it was whimsical in
the extreme, with it's tinkling treble
notes following one another without any
regard for harmonic sequence. How
ever, even the artistic Interpretation Of
Mr.. Hoffman, could not lend it real
musical value, or make it altogether
pleasing to hear
The ''Ballade in f Minor which
headed the Chopin group, and the Don
Juan Fantasy" by Mozart List, were
the outstanding numbers of the after
noon In the first haunting melody
predominated. although at times it was
lost in difficult cadenZas which began
with deep stirring chords and ended
with runs of fairylike liglltness. The
Fantasy" which concluded the pro-
gram. attained dramatic heights in its
music painting of the career of its
hero, Don Juan. After an introduction
in which the signing of the wind was
heard in chromatic runs, the principal
theme began, light, lyrical and carefree.
Later it deepened for moment TO a
tragic minor, then returned to its gay
mood and finally was transposed into
a maze of chords, trills and runs which
marked the finish.
The audience remained standing and
applauding until Mr.. Hofmann gave two
encores Mendelssohns "Spinning Song
and the Butterfly Etude." by Chopin.
+. D. T..
Evening star., 1922-02-24
NATIONAL-"The White-Headed
Boy -

The National Theater was reopened
last night by the Irish players from
the Abbey Theater, Dublin, in Lennox
Headed Boy
The deferring Of the Charles Dilling-
ham presentation by reason Of the
closing Of the theater seemed to have
aroused the interest of all Washing
tcn-with Georgetown in the con-
spicuous foreground. its University
Hospital being beneficiary of the
performance. While pretty girls sold
flowers in lobby and aisles. to the
orchestras undercurrent of softly
played Irish melodies, and the big
audience crowded in. upstairs and
down, and the new curtain had come
in for its share of praise. the buzz of
social greetings silenced into an ex-
pectancy born of advance assurance
that the Irish players were about to
present the best. Irish play seen in
this country for years. And they did
measured by continuous laughter
that ranged from giggles to outlaws.
1t was not what Washington has
been taught to consider a typical
Irish play: There were no tenor
songs about shamrocks and green
isles; no sign of a cruel eviction,
nothing in the way of Irish reels and
it was a literal portrayal of the home
life of one Irish family was made
convincing because of it's human
kinship to family life generally
wherever elder children are made to
sacrifice individual rights that ad-
vantages may be centered on one
favored member, who accepts his privi-
lege as a matter of course.
In this case it is Denis, the youngest
son of six children and .lis mothers
xr,hf tnal l,I Strr rflNy nf
endearment, seeing that his hair IS
chestnut brown. He has come home in
disgrace from Dublin University be-
cause Of a failure in his studies-a mat
ter which he views with such amused
Indifference that the elder brother. who
has scrimped to give him an education,
voices the cry of the overimposed and
makes him realize what his failure
means to every member of the home.
Denis saunters out of snappy college
toss, breaks his engagement to little
Della Duffy, and is about to be shipped
to Canada. when in rusles John Duffy,
father of the girl, with a threat to sue
for breach of promise--a complication
which brings out so much of loyalty and
| love and lunny little contrivings that
! the outcome would be farce-like. except
that daughter Kate, who toasts bread
| before a peat fire, can never get back
| her girlhood. though. praise be. she
means TO marry certain somebody.
never mlnd II sac mas seen MN Dut
| twice!
! An adoring Aunt Ellen. failing in
| first effort to buy the Duffy off. finally
recalls the way-back day when they
| were sweethear,s. and the irate neigh
| bor inflammable in love as well as an
ger, becomes her oldtme slave. Their
| Interview, she with her antique coquet-
| ries. and he. standing off. Il figure of
adamantine coldness until the psycho-
| logical moment came to thaw. was 50
absurdly delightful that the c'ose-up
| brought applause enough to imply that
Evening star., 1922-02-24
Wonderful Tricotine Suits

a great collection of entirely
new Suits, of fine wool with tri-
-cotine, in fiared, belted. ripple,
blouse and tailored styles; also
beaded and embroidered mod
els. Every suit is elegantly
silk lined and the styles are
for misses and women.
Evening star., 1922-02-24
AmuSennentS
the audience would like to see them do

the audience would like to see them do
it over.
Duffy Is chairman Of the Rural Dis
trict Council and has his pride, but
when Denis and Della marry and the
boy gets a Job street cleaning so that
he may wear old clothes and shame
his father-in-law. there is nothing TO
do b1t grant hearty blessing.
The story is told in three acts that
cover an afternoon, that night and
the next morning in the Widow
Geoghegan's home in Ballycolman.
There is no change in scene or cos
tune, but such is the compelling nat
harness of each player in the cast
that the play steps out of the make
believe and becomes the real thing.
While Arthur Shields. as the White
headed Boy; Arthur Sinclair. as John
Duffy; Marie O'Neill, as Aunt Ellen
and Sydney Morgan, as George. repre-
sent the leading characters, each
player is of Individual excellence as
follows: Mrs. Geoghegan. Maureen
Delaney; Peter, Harry Hutchinson;
Kate. Norah Desmond; Jane, suzanne
McKernan: Baby. May Fitzgerald;
Donough Brosnan, engaged to Jane.
J. a. ORourke; Della, Gertrude Muir
ply, and Hannah. Christine Hayaen.
NANNIE LANCASTER.