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The Washington times., 1923-07-26
NICK TALKS OF LIVELY BAIL
Trade NGrE oppIied ~
By Nick

osToN July 26-For long time noprobaby more than
the lively ball. The fact that home-run hters
gran running wild is subject of annual conversation
those think the pill
Why my stenographer ball lively,
where WE'LL
kind has been used since the President Heye of the
National League President Harding thinks
The Washington times., 1923-07-26
Galloway Is Back.

Chick Galloway, after nursing n
broken finger for three weeks or
So Is back in Connie Macks lineup
and playing his usual snappy game.
The Washington times., 1923-07-26
Hale Resting Again,

Sammy Hale, Connie Mack's brittle
third sacker, is resting again. Harry
Riconda is holding down the hot cor.
ner for the AS.
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l am sure it is a different ball,
as the one I was throwing around
a couple of years ago was knocked
over the fence and into a river.
L am sure they never found it
again. But, if the ball is faster
than a dollar watch, the reason is
simple. 1t is just this: They make
the covers out of horsehide. And
horses are faster than they used
to be.
So, friends, with faster horses,
it is bound to be that their skins
are faster than the old horses
skins. If the skins weren't faster,
why they would be left behind by
the horses, and that wouldn't be
modest, would it?
The Washington times., 1923-07-26

1t had originally been intended.
that all of the preliminary rounds
and finals would be played on the
Sixteenth street courts, but the
committee now finds that these
courts will prove wholly Inadequate
to take care of the large number
which have signified their intention
Of competing in the event.
| AS a result Colonel Johnson has
stated that in the drawings which
will be made tomorrow evening, i'm
mediately after the close of entries,
| that those drawn in the upper
bracket will play their preliminary
rounds on the Sixteenth street
courts, while those in the lower
half will be taken care of on the
Bathing Beach courts.
The complete list of drawings,
with time scheduled for each en-
trant to play will appear In the
morning papers of Saturday. The
drawings for Sunday will appear
in the papers of that date.
The committee. has further Hourd
it necessary to continue play on
Sunday If the tournament is to be
concluded within a reasonable
length of time. Play Saturday aft
ernoon will start at o'clock, while
the contestants will resume con1pe-
tition again Sunday morning as
early as o'clock play to con-
tinue throughout the day.
The committee wishes to en-
The Washington times., 1923-07-26
TWO COURTS NECESSARY
FOR MUNY TOURNEY
BY LEONARD w. COLLINS.

list the first municipal tennis championships
which will naugurated Saturday afternoon has far exceeded the
number anticipated by Col Waite Johnson and his fellow
mittee members, Louis l. Doyle and John H. Holmead.
Colonel johnson found
with Sheriff.,
officer charge public buildings grounds the add
fionalo
The Washington times., 1923-07-26
DEMPSEY NAMES THREE
REASONS FOR HIS
UNPOPULARITY
Bv MARK Kelly

LOS ANGELES July 26-Heres Something bit the
line OF interviews with Jack Dempsey Something perhaps
champions unpopularity. +
takes little courage to him from
Jack do you know that today the most unpopular
how would YOU reader take that you his shoes?
it. We
us along WITH sqhe other nsghts Shelby asco not
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For the Championship of Ireland.

For the Championship Of Ireland.
WYE hear that Frank Moran
" and Jim Coffey are to fight
w in Dublin soon for the
championship of the corned beef
and cabbage belt.
That's one we'll mufF, isn't it?
Do you remember the two great
fights those big turkeys put up
at Madison Square Garden? Will
you EVER forget them?
All, yes, but the boys aren't
what they used to be. They may
LOOK the same, but they're not.
Charles Francis Moran now pos
sesses a pair of gutta percha legs,
while James ]. Coffey, OF Ros-
common, has cracks in his old
glass jaw.
The Washington times., 1923-07-26

phaSiZe the fact that any player
failing to be on the ground at the
time they are scheduled to COM
pete will default. Competitors are
urged to ascertain the time of their
playing and be at the courts fully
fifteen minutes before scheduled to
play.
Rock Creek players to the num-
Der of almost fifty will enter the
competition for The Washington
Times trophies embIematic of
the singles and doubles champion
ships and will also make an effort
to secure as many places as pos
Sible on the team which will rep
resent the National Capital in
the inter-city matches against
Baltimore.
Potomac Park players are just
as determined that one of their
number shall carry off the highest
honors in both classes of the. com.
petition and that their representa-
tives shall uphold the prestige of
Washington in the matches against
Baltimore's best.
The Washington Times silver
loving cups which will be awarded
to the winner in the singles and
the winners in the doubles win be
placed upon exhibition at the scene
of the competition just as soon as
they are received from the makers.
The Washington times., 1923-07-26

sure I'm unpopular" prefaced
Dempsey. I know it. I see it in
many PAGES any regret it in few.
I realize that am held up to pub
lie view asa mercenary murderer
one Snyl6ck, who demanded his last
pounQ~b flesh and almost got it.
--See that dear old lady sitting
over there?
That's my Many buddie. See
e those folks around that dinner
table? Those are my brothers and
my sister.
Take a look at the joint here,
and you'll see that it cost a lot If
money to maintain. want to
maintain and make permanent this
home for my family. I don't par
ticularly care about myself yet.
This is my mother s home.
Popularity is not going to ges
Ma, Sis, Joe, and the rest of the
family by.
The Washington times., 1923-07-26
SPEAKING OF FIGHTERS PAST FO]

WI
HERE was great deal lately regarding Wizards
at of fortyone People thought 1t
his could get into such good shape
Fitzsimmons and of his fights
had the of forty Both remarkable men,
Bobby fighter He waged war when
the good andt the
The Washington times., 1923-07-26

big, fat purses for services rem
dered will. If L can combine
pugilistic ability with popularity
would like it. 1t seems 1 can't,
so I do the next best thing-get
all j can while can.
The Washington times., 1923-07-26
They Say So, Anyway.

Luis Angel Firpo, according to
collars.
The Washington times., 1923-07-26

would hike 1T. 1t seems / can't,
so I do the next best thing-get
all can while 1 can.
'"This here old chin that I'm go
ing to treat to Il shave in ten
minutes is just as vulnerable as
Jess Wizards.
The day isn't many years away
when Jack Dempsey will get his,
and get it plenty. Youth, I know,
will ne served, and while I hope TO
retain the championship, 1 am not
silly enough to believe possess
supernatural powers-I can be
TAKEN and I expect TO be some day.
I tried to keep my mind off the
financial end OF that Shelby affair.
That's Jack Kearns' end Of our
agreement. He gets the dough; L
do the fighting. He was promised
$4,000 to come to Shelby to have
me meet Tommy Gibbons. The
money was to pe made in three
payments. The first one was handed
over, the second was scraped to-
gether late, and the third one isn't
paid yet. I'm not moaning. But {.
contract Is a contract, and so
kearns insisted on payment.
1--WE offered privately ten days
before the fight to gamble with
the promoters on the third $780,
600, but were told that the money
date, July 2. 1t wasn't and then
Kearns was put in the light of a
shylOck, when. as a matter of
fact, he wasn't.
You see, Buddie, folks overlook
the fact that when Uncle Sam gets
through dissecting my income these
big fat purses don't look so big.
81 came into pugilism from moth
ing. you might say. I never had
money and never expected to have
much. But when 1 did get into the
big money 1 wised up to the fact
that so long as I kept some Of it l
would always be Mr.. Dempsey. II
I wasted it, would be Jack, the
Boob
81 have no misguided idea of my
popularity. No champion should
have. There are three distinct
causes that work against my own
popularity. l believe they are:
My tangle over the draft. /
was vindicated in this and thought
that would clear me, but with a lot
of folks it didn't
"2-Unfortunately for my popu-
larity-fortunately for my bank ac-
COUNT came into the champion
ship at a time when big purses
came to be the order Of the day
This arouses jealousy among all
classes who believe that a man,
supposedly a big, uncouth rough
neck, isn't entitled to $4,000 for
hitting another guy on the chin or
being hit himself Yet the folks
who believe that, or 80. 900 of them
anyway, made my s300,00 purse
with Carpenter possible.
"3-The fact is that overzeaIOus
friends have built me up as a sort
of greatest fighter of all times
hero. 1 don't believe that for a
minute, yet j like to read it. to
hear 1t, to think that other folks
believe it. Folks who read that
stuff believe that / think that
well of myself and naturally saw,
"The big cOnceited ass, / hope
somebody knocks his block off,
"I'm amenable to raspberries
1ust as much as the next fellow
and a little bit more than most
athletes. Yet 1 have the good sense
to realize that the public is paving
me my money and the public has a
Observation-Disclosures
The Washington times., 1923-07-26

1--WE offered privately ten days
before the fight to gamble with
the promoters on the third $780,
600, but were told that the money
would be paid on the specified
Kearns was put in the light of
shylOck, when. as a matter of
fact, he wasn't.
The Washington times., 1923-07-26

I'm amenable to raspberries
Just as much as the next fellow
and a little bit more than most
athletes. Yet 1 have the good sense
to realize that the public is paying
me my money and the public has a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
0IIIN1zI11 i
Ss0A aSSS
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
VOCAL DEVICE
IS HELP To
SCIENCE
New instrument Determines
Vibrations and Helps Deaf
Folks to Talk.
BY international News Service.


VIENNA, April 24.--Have you a
voice? If you don't know for Ger.
tain just use a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The laryngostroboscope is one of
the many new instruments which
are being used in the department of
experimental phonetics at the Uni
versity of Vienna, which is now
under the direction of Prof. e. w.
Scripture, formerly Of Yale Univer-
sity. This instrument makes it
possible to study the vibrations OF
the vocal chords in detail and to de-
termine howse each voice acts or fails
to act properly.
Another study which is being
pursued under Prof. Scripture il the
incubation of the voices of deaf per-
sons. BY the use Of new instru-
ments it becomse possible for deaf
persons to determine just how
loudly they are speaking and to pitch
their voices accordingly.
Prof. Scripture has also discovered
that epileptics have a peculiar kind
of speech record that distinguishes
them. From these records he has
been able to show that epilepsy is
not a disease of the brain, but a
popularity of the mental character.
Epilepsy, he claims, is, therefore, a
durable disease and not an un.
changeable defect of the brain as
heretofore supposed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
.24COUNTR|ES IN.
NARKE FOR
j. 5. GOODS
Turn to America for Needed
Supplies. and Exporters
Profit.

Twenty-four foreign countries in
dicated, during the. past week, q de-
sire to purchase American goods, q
report Of the United States Departs
ment of Commerce today says.
Importers and merchants in those
countries seem to be turning to
America more and more for their
needed supplies, the report indicates,
and judging from the diversity or
wants, the present time Is the
day. for American exporters.
Argentina wants neWs-print pal
per; Poland wants locomotives, cars
and equipment; the United Kingdom
wants oak timber; Belgium and
China want copper ingots, anu q
French importer wants manganese
ore.
Textiles, foodstuffs, industrial ma
chinery, lumber and leather are in
good demand, the report says.
Almost every conceivable article
of machinery and merchandise have
been inquired about by importers
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
'COPETTE' TEST
To BE GOOD
WORK
Cleveland Mayor Declares
Beauty Will Not Get Them
Jobs There.
BY International News Service.

CLEVELAND, April 24.-"Police-
women in Cleveland will not be
picked for their looks"
This is the dictum of Mayor Fred
Kohler, of Cleveland, maker of cpl
grams and the man who made
Cleveland live within it's income for
the first time in years.
A Civ Service examination has
been called to select a number of
women to be added to the police
force, and the mayor tells the
world that "dolling up won't help
any of the successful candidates in
landing a job.
Neither will we use the women
members of the force as spies, as
has been done in other cities
Mayor Kohler told International
News Service. "Nor will they be
used to pay anybOdy's political
debts. l want the women's clubs and
mothers organizations ito dig up
the right kind of women to add to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
PARIS DRESS MAKERS
LOCK OUT EMPLOYEES

PARIS, April 24.-Paris dress
making shops closed their doors at
noon yesterday, the employers hav-
ing declared a lockout in retaliation
for the strike of midinettes which
has crippled the industry for two
weeks.
The midinettes gathered outside
the establishments to welcome those
comrades who had heretofore refused
to Join the strike, and all went sing
ing through the streets to an after
noon ball. where two orchestras and
a jazz band helped them to forget
their troubles.
The strikers chad previously re-
jected a compromise offered through
the ministry of labor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
NORD|CA CLUBS
GIVE CLASSIC
CONCERT
Lighter Subjects Also Given
MusicianIy Rendition on
Fretted Instruments.

Strummers of fretted instruments
came into their own last night
when the combined Nordica clubs
gave a highly musicanly rendition
of the classics, together with a
shrinking Of lighter music at the
Hotel Raleigh.
The concert was in connection
with the twenty-second annual con-
vention of the American Guild of
Banjoists. Mandolinists and Guitar
lists. There will be another concert
tonight at 8 o'clock.
Under the direction Of Walter T.
Holt, the musicians played with rare
skill and regard for the technique
of the compositions.
The program opened with the
rather tiresome "Semiramide." of
Rossini. The piece de resistance of
the evening was the rendition of
Two compositions by Herbert Forrest
Odell-"Shifting Shadows" and "a
Moonlight Frolic." Both are ex-
quisitely lyric in quality, and the
harmonic effects are pleasing. Odell
conducted the orchestra in the
presentation of his compositions.
Miss Ruth Peter. soprano, sang
ANGELS Ever Bright and Fair" by
Handel, and "Un Bel di Vedremo."
from Madame Butterfly" The fol-
lowing soloists were heard: Guitar,
Miss Margaret Lichti; banjo, Claud
G. Rowden; mandola, Lloyd Loar,
and guitar, Johnson G. Rane.
The Nordica Hawaiian Guitar and
Ukulele Club and the Nordica Banjo
Club PLAYED several selections which
were well received.
Yesterday afternoon, at the con-
veOtion business session. Miss Jessie
MacBride. music critic Of The Wash
ington Herald. spoke on the sub.
ject, Newspaper Publicity as 1t
Comes to the Music Editors Desk"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
CAMPERS PLAN
BIC SUMMER
SEASON
Potomac Association to Lead
Off With Ladies' Night
on May 1o.

Preparations for the biggest sum
nner season in the history of the
impromptu summer resorts along
the Potomac river are under way,
under the auspices of the Potomac
Campers Association, organized last
year and now arranging it's pro-
gram for the approaching warm
weather.
Coincident With the rise of the
thermometer and the tuning-up or
the tree-frogs along Washington
historic waterway, the campers OF
1922 are packing their kits and re-
pairing their shacks for the warm
months of 1928.
The initial event Of consequence
to the Potomac Campers Assoc!a-
ton is the ladies' night to be held
on May 10, on the Washington
Hotel roof.
500 Invited.
Special stunts and features are
planned by the executive committee,
of which Louis S. Grigsby, Of the
Williston Press, is chairman. His
associates on the committee are
George w. Birch, G. w. Prettyman,
J. w. Burch, Reginald Rutherford
and s. w. Williston.
The committee today sent out 500
invitations to the first affair
the season. This number is In
tended to afford a representation
from the more than fifty camps
which threw their flags to the
Potomac breeze last summer.
The intention of the association
this year is to. have a number Of
inter-camp aquatic meets, canoe
regattas and numerous social fu1c-
tions. The association was formed
by a group of men interested in
establishing camps along the
Potomac which would be. credit to
the community.
Volunteer Police.
One of the most important feat
ures of the associations work this
year is to be a volunteer police
system. whereby order is to be
maintained at all times in all the
camps. A standard code of camp
life is to be adopted, in line with
the adv &c of the best authorities
on camping and public order.
Sanitation also is to be stressed,
and considerable discussion has
been given to the participation of
the campers as unit in the Shrine
convention in June.
The first meeting of the associa-
ton is scheduled for the Colonial
Canoe club, April 90, at 1890
o'clock. Representatives from girls
clubs will then jo with the execu-
tive committee and the other men
in arranging for the ladies' night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
Horses Fewer Each
Year, U. S. Records
Reveal

"Old Dobbin's" ranks are
steadily diminishing. Latest
Governmental figures show an
IL per cent decrease in the last
decade in the number of horses
in the world.
The United States ranks first
with 2O,559, 900. Russia is Sec
ond, with 18,5O7, 900. This de-
spite the fact that these coun-
tries registered the greatest
declines in the number of horses
since 1913.
There are today 103,550, 900
horses in the world, whereas
before the war there were 116,-
5OO,O 00.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
WOMEN'S MINIMUM WAGE
AMENDMENT SUGGESTED

NEW YORK, April 24.-A con-
ference of governors of several
States to urge upon Congress the
submission of an amendment to the
Federal constitution allowing States
to pass minimum wage laws for
women is asked by Hollis B.
FultZ, secretary to Governor Louis
+. Hartz, of Washington.
He spoke at a meeting called by
the National Consumers League to
consider means of retaining the
minimum wage scale in those States
affected by the decision Of the
United States Supreme Court in
setting aside the law for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
Wellesley Girls Play
Marbles With
Their Toes

BOSTON, April 24.-Writlng
and playing marbles with the
toes is the latest fad for
Wellesley College girls. IL has
taken such Q hold on the fancy
of the young women that It has
become q regular part Of the
course In corrective gymnastics.
It's introduction Is to be credited
to Miss Mary Haagensen, Of the
hygiene department, who sees
in 1t an excellent means Of COR
recting foot troubles.
The popularity Of the exercise
has led to the adoption Of q
regular series Of sports, such as
picking up marbles with the
toes, ball striking, tic-tac-toe,
foot, Juggling and foot hockey,
. the last played with beanbags,
using the feet as hockey sticks.
All the games are played ac-
cording to regular rules.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
ADVERTISEMENT.
Loosen Up That Cold
With Musterole

Have Musterole handy when a
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vantages OF grandmother's mustard
plaster WITHOUT the blister. You
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you feel a warm tingle as the heal
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then comes a soothing cooling sen.
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Made of pure oil of mustard and
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is recommended by many nurses
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pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago.
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cold of the chest 1t may prevent
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Better than a musfarI ,,Ios4o.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
MORNING PEDESTRIAN
LOSES SEAS IN HOLD-UP

While walking at North Capitol
and X streets early this morning,
Samuel Gibson, 33 / street north
east, was held up at the point of
a pistol and robbed of $2.45. The
hold-up man was described as a
negro weighing about $50 pounds,
twenty-five years old, about five
feet six inches in height and wear.
ing a SLOUGH hat ana dark clothes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
Gasoline Substitutes
Cut Motor Costs
In Europe

Use of gasoline substitutes is
cutting automotive maintenance
into less than half in Europe,
the Department of Commerce
was informed today by London
agents.
"Natalite," a sugar cane dis
tillate, is being used extensively
in France, while a mixture Of
grain alcohol and aviation gas
is said to have proven success
full in ENGLAND,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
POWELL MOTOR PLANT
BURNS WITH $4,000 LOSS

VICKSBURG, Miss. April a.
The plant of the Powell Motor
Company was destroyed by fire
yesterday with a loss of over $75,.
900.
Chris Wachter, fireman, broke
a bone in his ankle when he
jumped from a ladder after he felt
q wall quaking.