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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26

He is constantly getting On base,
DAVIS q lot of bases on balls and
has scored "a runs in 123 games, bis
batting average being .31s. Yet with
al his speed, Witt is not a good
base stea1er, and has stolen only
two bases this season. However.
this is partly due to the fact that
Dugan and Ruth follow Whitley IN
the batting order. AS Ruth Is like
u to come through at any time,
with q long hit. Higgins doesn't
gamble with Witt trying to steal
any bases.
Wits arm Is not particularly good,
but he roans over a lot Of ground,
and has been real fly hawk this
season. On long hits, Witt does
the chasing and lets Meusel and
Ruth, with their stronger arms,
relay the ball back to the infield.
Stengel still can smash the ball,
and has knocked out an average
Of .338 en- sixtysseVen games. His
average, however, has been aided
by the fact that he has been
called to hit only against right
handed pitching. Stengel Is an
alI-around left-hander and can't do
much to pitching of that nature.
Casey" has slowed up in the
field since last season, as his legs
give him trouble occasionally and
McGraw has been saving the vet
eran as much as possible. It win
be recalled that he pulled up on
his Charley. Horse in the second
game Of the 1922 series and watch.
ID the remainder of the series from
the Giant bench.
Bill Cunningham, better fielder
and thrower than Stengel, plays
the center field shift against left
handlers. He will get into such
games as Pennock pitches against
the Giants. Cunningham's hitting
has taken a decided slump this
season, dropping from 1927 in 1922
to 1865 this year.
In the 1922 world series Stengel
hit 400, getting two hits in five
times at bat, while Cunningham
hit only 200. getting two hits in
ten times up. Cunningham, how
eyer, made that spectacular catch
on Ruth near the Eddie Grant
monument at the Polo Grounds,
WHICH prevented the Yankees from
winning at least one game Of the
1922 series.
Witt fell down at bat in the
1922 world series just as did all
the regular Yankees. AS the best
American lead-off man he scored
only one run, cracked out four
hits and drew only one pass. He
hit only .222. The time he fell
asleep off first base making no ef.
fort to get back when the ball was
AnGaAA 70 Kellu laHt an alolu faakA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
There Isn't Any More.

A FTER reading Friend Igoe's
a words, apparently written
A both from the head and
heart, there really isn't any more
to be said, at least, about that
tumble of Dempsey's out of the
ring and what the Duke of Null
doom said about it.
Harry 'Simonds, of the Palais
Royal, got so het up over what
we had to say about the Duke of
Muldoon in this column that he
dashed off the following OH a
post card:
"Your story in tonight's Times
about the Dempsey-Firpo fight
is certainly good and to the point.
81 think, though, a Topographic
cal error is there as it should he
'Fluke' Muldoon."
Not so bad, Harry, not so bad.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
"cAP" MURRAH TO PLAY
LINE FOR ST. LOUIS PROS

ST. LOUIS. Sept. 26.-"Cap"
Murrah. star Of the Texas A. and
Nd. college eleven for four years
ana center on the Canton Bulldogs,
professional football team last
year. mas signed to play a line posi-.
tlon on the st. Louis professional
team being recruited now by Ollie
Araene' former captain of the
Washington University team.
Murrah was All-Southern R1iard
for several years and receivad
honorable mention for an All.Amen.
can place from the late Tiny
Maxwell and from Ernest Quigley.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
LOOBE 9fHCYER
BY LOUIS A.DoUGHER ~
STILL HARPING ON THAT BOUT

W ES mail continues mention offhand like
Of Luis Angel Frpo by William Harrison Dempsey Occasion
other way all Of which means little nothing to We have
Pampas the socad "Manasa Mauler We their clash
New York. about all Of it, being lucky that way
of
Muldoon the boxing com
missioner It is therefore, with
following Icoe York World seasoned
veteran writer of ring affairs:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
BATTLING MURRAY WILL
BE KEPT BUSY IN RING

Battling Murray the little Phila-
delphian who lost to Benny
Schwartz at the Maryland A. c..
September II, has been a busy
little battler. His aggressive and
hard-hitting style has made him
good attraction. Murray is to meet
Al Bremen at Lancaster, October
l; Steve Cole at Williamsport, Octo-
Der and Bud Taylor at Indiana
polls the latter part of october.
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"They still talk of Dempsey
being showed back onto the plat
form of the ring floor at the
Polo Grounds as the worst crime
that ever came about IN cham
pionship bout. William Muldoo:1
has gone on record as saying thai
he would have upheld a referee
if Dempsey had been disqualified
for outside interference. We
hope for the sake of boxing, that
Muldoon or any other man will
never pass a law to that effect.
No such rule exists, though Null
doom says it does. To disqualify
a man because a spectator, in
saving his own neck, shoves a
fallen fighter off him and back
onto the ring floor as Dempsey
was, is the silliest thing imagin-
able. There is no foul in that
and shouldn't be.
Dempsey was actually pushed
out of the ring. We're not saying
that a punch didn't go with it..
But convince yourself. See the
pictures. The "push' punch can't
be missed. Dempsey went over
the middle rope laughing at his
own predicament. To have dis
qualified him with the attending
loss of his title because news
paper men, in saving themselves,
showed him off and back onto
the edge of the ring floor would
have been criminal. If his own
seconds did that it would be quite
another matter.
"Muldoon tells me it would be
a foul and warrant disqualifica-
ton if some one in the crowd
threw water OF a fighter. We dis
agree with Muldoon there and
say that if such a rule was made,
much less enforced, the sharp
shooters would be CARRYING fire
buckets to every fight, that they
might get one fellow disqualified
to pick up wager on the other
fellow.
Suppose, for instance, that
every ringsider carried a towel
or a sponge with him, anil when
a particular fighter be"ame
groggy, any one of those carry
ing a towel or a sponge, tossed it
in. Wouldn't it be brainless to
dlsqualify that man?
I'VE have one incident in mind
and 1T goes to prove that helping
hands are life saving hands at the
ringside sometimes. In the first
place, the ring, built high as it
10 now, has no business being
perched up in the air. In the old
days the men fought on the
turf, with no chance of getting
hurt II fellow slipped through
the ropes. Conditions Oh lge
everything. IF it is plain III
man. has lost his balance and
gone through the ropes it is
only human and natural to save
him from getting hurt. Dempsey
might have injured his head in
that fall had he not been caught.
Allowing him to get crack on
the head would have been giving
Flrpo an advantage that he
wasn't entitled to. The slack
ropes really caused Dempsey to
fall out OF the ring.
I'VE sat at the rinpside the
night that Johnny Curtin fought
frankie Jerome. Curtain was
push" punched in the same way
dempsey was, and it so happened
that he came flying out Of the
ring into this writer's arms. He
was slippery from water and he
came down 8 dead weight. We
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
Phillips Is Planning.

f. Lawrence Phillips. proprietor
of Union Park, will have his base
ball field at Fifteen and H streets
northeast converted into a grid
iron as soon as the series between
the Mohawks and General Account
ing office is finished.i Phillips ex-
poets the Mohawks to draw fat
gates. The Indians will play all
their games at Union Park.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
Don't Blame Marston.

A LREADY the dispeptic
a grouches are bawling out
"A the new amateur national
golf champion because he won
from Jess Sweetser largely with
the assistance of a stymie.
Can you beat it? A lot of
birds who's couldn't shoot the East
Potomac Park courses in 1O4
making wise cracks about a man
who climbed to the contest with
Sweetser over the bodies of
Bobby Jones, national open cham
pion, and Francis Ouimet, for
mer national amateur and open
titleholder.
The stymie is a foolish thing,
hut Marston is not to be held
accountable for that. If any
criticism is coming, it should be
directed against those wonderful
old fogies who run the United
States Golf Association.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26

in the mouths of American League
partisans.
Stengei and Cunningham each
fielded 1000 in the 1922 series,
while Witt also handled all of the
eight chances which came his way.
In the fielding average for this
season, Cunningham has made
the brilliant record Of going sixty
four games without an Outfield
error. Stengel has been charged
with only two errors i'm sixty
seven games for a fielding aver
age Of .981, while Witt has fielded,
971 for the Yankees.
Two Of the strongest players of
the Western National League con-
tenders the Pirates and Reds, are
the respective center fielders, Max
Scoops" Carey ard Eddie Roush.
Both of these men belong among
the great center fielders of base.
ball history ranking close behind
Iris Speaker, the marvel player of
the American League.
Roush is hitting 1853 and Carey
.S15. while the latter also is tho
National Leagues champion base
runner with 5orty-one steals and
one Of its greatest run getters,
with 1O4 runs. Carey leads the
center fielders of both leagues In
chances accepted with 421.
Roush was Cincinnati's greatest
hitter on paper in the Reds-White
Sox series of 1919, but hit only .214
in that series.
Copyright. 1929. by AL Munro Eliaa)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
Dreadnaughts Champs.

The Dreadnaughts, who trimmed
the champion Mohawk club of
Washington last Sunday, are this
years undisputed baseball cham.
pions of Alexandria. The Dread.
naughts won an average of seven
out of eight games played.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
Desper Is Leader,

Doc Desper, the Union Printers
handsome catcher, is president of
The Washington Herald's Bowling
League. Desper played fine ball for
the Printers all season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
ER F1EI,DERs, FIELDING RECORDS.

Whitley Witt speed boy, again oppose
Casey SengB Cunningham combination of the Giants
The a
1923 world playing
$4,000 Jimmy OConnen Jimmy
of the veteran Senge harder and timely hitter
Witt has edge the
Casey provided Whitley doesn't take his off first
he did ago. Witt played Of
fielding ability
big the remarkable of the Yankees
best leadof baseball
man in The to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
Penn Advertises Its
Athletes To Pay
For Stadium
PHILADELPHIA. Ser

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20.
"Come out and root for Penn"
This is the invitation extend
ed generally to the public by
the University Of Pennsylvania
in trolley car ads and subway
posters today.
It is the beginning of a new
advertising campaign to fill
Franklin Field every Saturday
and thus aid the Quaker insti-
tuition in paying for the new
stadium.
In q background of red and
blue, the white letters catch the
eye and caused considerable
comment this morning. There
will be thousands "rooting for
Penn" at the opening game next
Saturday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-14
III LEY CENSUS
NVCRE. ASED
BY $3.50
PclIce Make List Of al Dwell
ers and Find Conditions
Generally Good

Alley jewellers have Increased By
racro than 500 since 1919. recording
10 the police census made public
today. Captains 81 the eleven pre-
cincts have been preparing the tig-
urcs Cor the past week.
The census. unofkicialIy, shows
there are s.e4g alley houses II the
District occupied 81 s.Dsz persons.
The last census showed s.el7 alley
occupants. This i a increases q
s66 persons.
All Of these persons, according
u Iaw, must vaeate these houses
BY June o. Be sebject to heavy
tine by the polies Court
Commissioners James b Oyster,
who ordered the census last week,
said today the Commissioners had
compiled the figures IN order 20 -.
better acquainted with the alley ~.
the Ninth police Precinct u lead.
inh. with I ,811 alley jewellers. the!
Eleventh Precinct reports no alley
houses or dweIiere.
ImD &CNDE ms 1MNs1A t4AA14 - - q
cincts, follow:
Second precinct. ss4 houses, 80
Thifd Precinct so hopses. i.sa4
Fourth precinct. 90 houses. i.t4s'
Fifti precinct, 1ss houses. 40 a.
Sixth precinet, 40 houses. $50 n
kabitanfe.
Inhabitants.
inhabitants.
Ninth precinct zoe houses. LIZ
inhabitants.
habitants.
EIsvsnth precinct. 40 Inhabited
public alleys.
In some instances there were
found eight and nine persons "a q
house. Police report however. that
aIlsy conditions generally are good.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-14
BU TTERFLY KISS
IS Defined
At TRIAL
American Taught Dream
Baby" Girl Naughty Pastime,
Defense Lawyer Says.

LONDON, March ibid an
American teach Mrs. John Hugo
Russell the art Of butterfly kiss.
ing?" And just what il butterfly
kissing?" i.
Mrs. Blanche Hart, Mrs. RusseII's
mother, testifying In the divorce suit
case yesterday, denied her daughter
learned the butterfly kiss" from an
American.
Hall, OF counsel. for Russell, volun.
tarily explained to the court that
butterfly kissing was kissing not
with the lips but with the eye.
lasheS."
A mysterious American in Paris.
known as "G. H." was discussed In
the nearing. It was this American
who knows the art Of fancy kissing.
counsel for Russell tried to show.
Mrs. Hart admitted her daughter
had been engaged to this American
for one week.
Mrs. Hart testified that her daugh.
ter thought the kissing OF a man
would result in woman having a
child. She said her daughter asked
her what marriage was.
Il told her she would have to ask
her husband" Mrs. Hart said.
Continuing her testimony, Mrs,
Hart admitted that her daughter
mad received first payment on an
offer to write her memoirs.
When the question of the child
came, Mrs. Hart declared that She
was sure Russell was the father o1
his wife's child.
In his suit, Russell denies he is the
father of the child. He names Edgar
jacquard Mayer, of Cincinnati, ar
correspondent and an unnamed man
as the father Of the child.
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Defends
DAVID HOUSE
KING
Declares Charges BY Girls Are
Part Of Plot by Former Mem
bers to Get Money.
CONTINUED from First Paee.l

CONTINUED from First Ra9e.l
one answer. Nor would /. II !
believed for one moment that Zen.
would have nothing to do with
him. I would divorce him 81 once.
But ! know he ID not guilty
know he has never mistreated q
/ girl iii the colony. ! knew he has
done everything ii his power to
make them happy.
II ask You, who could Be . bet
ter judge2 / am Benjannin,s wife.
am with him almost constantly.
Do YOU suppose I would endure
such things In my home as are
charged? Do you suppose BeIijae
min could bring girls into my home
as he willed if knew about it,
Queen Mary said she does not
believe the two BarnfOrd sisters.
who are suing Pnrnell for 5000, 600.
are moved BY their own desires,
but rather that they have been
forced into what she termed q
blacknaiI sschenae by John EanseI.
q former member OF the colony.
whose suit against PurneII Is to Be
heard in Federal court at Grand
Rapids next week.
King on Vacation.
Former members Of the colony
who are bringing al these suits
against Us are moved By the desire
to get money, Queen Mary said.
While they were with us they had
oil their food. shelter and clothing
Furnished. But when they got out
in the world and perhaps could
not find work. things were diff.
ferent. They needed money. They
figured the easiest way to get Il
was to sue the House OF David"
Queen. Mary said 'sKing's Ben.
jaxnin Is not at the colony now,
but is taking q vacation following
an attack OF influenza. She would
not say where he is. except that II
Is quite Tar away.
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l||VL Y DOC HEARD
CAP PETIT
SHOT

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CONTINUED from First Page1
the point of endurance by her adj
niirer and who fled, thinly clad, into
the snow to escape from him.
Alternately, during day of dra-
mates, the case of the State ais pre-
scented to Nassau County Judge
Smith and a jury In Mineola by Dis
trict Attorney Weeks and his assist
ant, Elvin N. Edwards. looked
strong and weak.
Cool ut Her Trial.
1t would be unkind to say that
billie" Wells started and ended the
day with a sheer. Yet so it seemed
as she sat near her counsel, George
M. Levy, and Helen p. Mccormick,
and listened, without a CULVER, to
the sordid story Of Pettit's last week
alive and her life with him.
1t was story Of parties, alcoholic
indulgences, quarrels between Petit
and herself, threats and counter
threats and finally aforementioned
variations Of events on the night Of
January z.
I'll remembered because the two
principal witnesses, George Schweit'
ger, chef at the inn, and John
Mitchell, head waiter, admitted they
themselves had followed the exam.
pie of Petit and billie" Wells and
were in no condition to take proper
cognizance of sound and event.
No Other Heard Shot.
Astonishing as it appears, with
half a dozen people within the
roadhouse and a dozen persons liv-
ing within ear shot, no one actually
heard the report of the shot that
ended Pettit's lif9
And the time cannot be fixed
with any degree of definiteness.
In the absence of expert testi.
mony, which is yet to come, this is
the story of billie" Wells move
ments on the night Of January Z,
as developed in testimony:
She drank heavily. Her temper
did not improve. She made at least
two trips to the private suite &C.
cupied by Petit and herself on the
second floor, rooms No. ! and 2.
Each time there was a bitter quar-
rel. Petit had been on one of his
worse carousals for week.
When the last of the guests left,
and they were few because of
the Indictment weather, Mitchell,
Schweitzer and Thomas Boyen, the
their own amusements.
Mrs. Rebecca SchweitZer, wife of
the chef, went early to her room in
the rear. She said on the stand,
with frightened little gesture, she
didn't like the atmosphere and
whistled to the Great Dane to escort
her.
This was the setting, snow, ice
and sleet outside, servants dipping
into the bottle inside. when "Billie'
went first up to big Jim" Pettit's
room. There was quarrel. Mitchell,
curious sort of individual who
plainly showed his dislike for the
defendant, said he heard Petit cry:
"Don't. Billie. don't"
Discharged, She Said.
Soon afterward she came down,
encountered him and accused him
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MRS. CHRIsToBAL RUssELL.

sums OF money were mentioned. On
one occasion, when Ruth and had
told representative OF the com.
plainant that we did not care what
they did, there was talk OF pub;
lefty as q possible development.
Under Instructions Of Ruth en-
plOyed detectives and tried to learn
what the girl looked like and who
she is have been unable to get
any information except that she
and Mrs. Barbara ". Escoe, with
whom she lived at 583 Riverside
Drive. left there suddenly about d
week ago.
Barbara v. Escoe appears in
the papers Of the suit as the guard
ian ad Item for Miss Dixon, a
minor The suit against Ruth was
filed in this county, but the APP
pIication for appointment OF a
guardian was made and the guard
ian appointed In another jurisdic-
ton, Kings county. although minor
and guardian both were residents Of
New FORKS county. That made IN
formation concerning them more
difficult for as to obtain.
The charges as made In detafl
are rather astonishing. as the conn
plant reports the repeated and con-
tinued association Of the complain
ant with my client last summer, all
though she charges she was the vic.
tim Of violence by him on many OF
the occasions she met him.
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Wife Joins With Ruth
In Wire to Attorney to
Fight Suit to Finish

NEW YORK. March 1S. George
Herman Babe" Ruth, idol OF thou.
sands Of baseball fans and home
rum record holder, Is going to hat
before the season opens, this time
"a fight d $50, 900 lawsuit threaten
"a ~ Miss Dolores Dixon, nineteen
years old. who charges him with
being the father Of her expected
child.
SITS blackmaiI, that's all rye rot
10 say" Ruth told reporters today
nk the New Orleans training camp,
according to . dispatch received
here.
Ruth, In : telegram signed By
both himself and wife, has In
ntructed his lawyer here LYMAN
Bushell, to fight the case and not
- pay one cent on q compromise.
Miss Dixon, late OF 53S Riverside
drive, charges that all through the
months of July and August Of last
year she was the victim OF repeated
violence by Ruth, according to q
statement made by George Fem.
berg. attorney for Miss Dixon.
Although Ruth is supposed to
have known Of the proposed pro-
matter did not become public until
yesterday.
Attorney Feinberg made 1t public
when he called on q news dis
tributing association here 10 serd
reporter to get story about
Babe Ruth. He told the reporter
the entire story OF the alleged af-
fair between Ruth and Miss Dixon.
Efforts TO locate Miss Dixon In
New York have thus far failed. At
t0rney Feinberg says he knows
her whereabouts, but will not make
Il public until the proper time
has arrived She Is said to have
vacated her apartment on Rive.
Utde Drive several weeks ago.
Attorney Bushell, representing
Ruth. declared today that Ruth has
never seen Miss Dixon in his life.
He said that recently when the
&irl's attorney came to Ruth for
the purpose of discussing q corn
promise. the hOme-run hitter told
him to $50 to hell sfs
The necessary papers In the case
viii be filed today, Attorney Fein-
berg said today.
Mrs. Ruth Is acquainted with the
threatened law suit and the charges,
clared that Babe told his wife
- 8AtAgAA I'D az 4AAtAtGGAA 4kSGAA A1E0 III
the proposed suit.
issues Statement.
.sAGrs. Ruth joins her husband
- his determination to fight the
case. 4 Attorney Bushell declares.
In statement today. Attorney
BushelI says:
The first intimation Ruth re-
eeived was the service OF q sum-
mons on his In this case on No
vember IL, 1922. entered my APP
pearance as his counsel December
2, and as q matter OF routine agreed
to q poetponement Of the proceed.
ingg at request OF compliments
counsel. "A copy Of the complaint
WAS served on me February "a.
Suggestions of compromise, set
Element Of the suit were repeatedly
made to Ruth and considerable