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The Washington times., 1923-06-15

Here's the latest dope obtainable
On the national public links cham
pionship. to be held here in less
than a fortnight. The tournament
committee apportioned the contem-
plated $50 entrants among thirty
two sections and localities. The
Washington Times has been able to
ascertain the I.ameF Of the PLAYERS
that will compete from fourteen.
Six report that they will not have
O single participant. Five will
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
0LENNA COLLECT SETS
COURSE RECORD FOR SEX

BROOKLINE. Mass, June ID
Glenna Collett, Of Providence, r. L.
women's national golf champion,
established new course record Tor
women at the Country Club here
when she went around in II. Miss
Collett was playing with q Provi'
dence team against team Of North
Shore golfers.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
LEGION COUNCIL SHRlNKS
FROM FIGHT CONNECTION

SAN FRANCISCO, June ia
protest against the use Of the name
of the American Legion on tickets
or in any other. manner connected
with the Dempsey-G Gibbons fight at
Shelby, Mont, July a, was wired to
Comdr. A. M. Owsley, Of the legion,
today by Milton H. Epstein, head
Of the San Francisco council. The
action was authorized by the coun-
Gil
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
PiketoWners Play.

The Piketown A. C.. will tackle
the Mikado A. C. tomorrow at S p. m.
on the Rosedale field. The Pike
towners will use Cheseldine O'Con.
nor, Shelly, Hale or a substitute,
Larner, Randolph. Licarione, Wal
lace, Schorank, Wondrack, McCath-
rem and Bopp. All members Of the
team are to report at the Managers
home at p. m. tomorrow. Mrs.
Cheseldine, phone Lincoln 3095. Is
booking the Piketowners' games.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
BrookIand Booked.

The Brookland team will play the
crack Dreadnaughts of Alexandra
tomorrow at Alexandria. The Brook
landers. are hitting a fast pace. All
members of the team are to report
tomorrow at 2 p. m. at Twelfth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
mort invest
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Job for Mcbride.

George Mcbride, for years the
Washington shortstop and manager
Of the Griffmen in 1921, may land
the berth as baseball coach at
Notre Dame University
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
WILLING TAKES'HOTSH SHOT
AT BOB GARDNER

PORTLAND, 15Englsh golfers thoroughbred
sportsmen the Prince Waes jolly
gentleman and Queen Mary charming woman said Dr. o. F.
Willing his arrival home after months Absence during
Of which his brilliant golng achievements British
member Of the United States golf made five con
wag
After saying
the Atlantic DR. Willing maintained smiling silence
Of the tourna % the Walker
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
TWENTY-FIVE FOOT PUTT
GOES WRONG WHILE
"BIG CY" RAVES
By LEONARD w. COLLINS.

going and tell him So. baJ
!hunderOus and tones Of c efeed was
none ether than Tom Moore president Of the Indian Spring
just twenty vefoo putt yet cummings "
branded shot rotten golf - ~ ~ooder
Whether will left to the Judgment on Ine anv
missed putt made KNOWN
opinion the sage O. that
county while many VINO opme0
Moore played perfectly The four WINDS are nO
The golf
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
St. Paul Is Fast.

The st. Paul club in the Amer
lean Association, averages slightly
more than one stolen base to a
game, which Is much better than
most major league clubs are doing
these days.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15

But by this very reticience he
confirmed a report that had already
reached here and is common prop
erty on the eastern seaboard to the
effect that both he and Fred
Wright were sighted by Bob Card
ner, captain Of the American team,
because of the leaders envy Of their
successes in tournaments played
previous to the great team trophy
contest.
Gardner lost his match in the
first round Of the British amateur
championship" said DR.. Willing,
rest Of Us had to play all through
that trying week without the pres
ence Of our leader to encourage Us.
He never showed mp until the
entire championship was over.
The other members Of the team
plimentary terms on GardnereS
lack Of craftsmanship.
"Soon after our arrival on Brit
ish soil Gardner and I happened
to be playing on the same course.
At the end Of a match In which
we and others had been playing
he came up and asked me what
my score had been.
"I told him, and 1t happened to
be one stroke better than Gard
ner's. Without congratulating me
he turned and walked away from
the green.
Our captain has been criticized
vigorously by golfing writer's and
by members of the United States
team because he led Us all over
the country the woak before the
British amateur championship
playing in comparatively unfmpor.
tant matches, when It would have
been greatly to our advantage had
we spent the time practicing ~
Deal The Deal course is difficult
and unusually hard for strangers
because of the shifting winds.
IF we had practiced at Deal
long enough to havo acquainted
ourselves with some Of the pecu.
liarities Of the course we would
have made a far better showing
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Has New Umpire,

Charles McCafferty, an old UNI
pire. is receiving a trial in the Ma"
tional League. working with Hank
ODay and Charlie Moran.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Shams PLAY Teresas.

The Shamrocks and st. Teresa
teams will clash today on the Randle
field. All Shamrock players are to
report at 5:15 p. m. sharp. st.
Teresa is a senior team but Is play
ing all-comers.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Crandall Is Winning,

Otis Crandall, veteran hurler, Is
winning regularly for Los Angeles
In the Pacific Coast League. grab
bling six of his first seven starts,
nearly all Of them by low scores.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Easy for MohaWks.

The champion Mohawks lambasted
the Southeast Stars, IL to l.
Denny Sothern walloped a homer
and single for the Hawks. Mallett
pitched for the Indians and allowed
three hits In the six.inning game.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
In Cleveland Sunday.

The Mackmen and the Indians
meet in Cleveland Sunday. making
the wild jump from Philadelphia
tomorrow night and back again on
Sunday night.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
He's Still Wild,

Roy Moore. sent to Birmingham
bv the Tigers. is just as wild as
ever he was with the Mackmen. He
is likely to be released or sent back
to Detroit.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Will Be Satisfied,

The Brooklyn Dodgers. Claiming
the Giants cannot be beaten, will
be satisfied if they can finish Sec
ond in the National League race
this year.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Says SKILLET"
Finn, Esq:
They May Kill Babe Ruth
By Passing Him The Air,
But They Murder The
Game At the Same
Crack.

DASEBALL alienists have full
set Of figures to prove
- American League pitchers
would rather walk Babe Ruth
and force home one tourist than
let him smell the biscuit and
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Is Using Numbers.

The San Antonio club in the
Texas League is numbering Its
players to the entire satisfaction of
the fans around the circuit.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Brief Is Leading.

Bunny Brief is leading the Amer.
lean Association batsmen with an
average of 400 for thirty-Seven
games.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
New Team Wins.

The Epiphany independents. new
ly organized, knocked off the Epi-
phany Lutherans, to o. as a
starter.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15
Graft in Beaumont.

Molly Craft. once a Washington
pitcheE has been released by New
Orleans to Beaumont In the Texas
League.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15


the bat with him are his spiked
shoes and his cap. When he
trips to the cashiers cage twice
a month he leaves his shoes
home and just takes his cap.
They wouldn't pitch him any
thing he could hit, not II he had
both hands tied behind his ears.
Baseballs are getting too expen-
sive for him to knock them into
the Appalachian mountains for
goat food.
Baseball managers have calcu-
lated the least expensive thing
they can do when Ruth comes to
town 10 pray for rain or heighten
their outfield fences.
But time unravels everything.
It took them last season, season
before last and one-third Of this
squirt to discover bacteria which
would successfully isolate Babes
batting germ.
Written instructions to each
pitcher to give him the silent
treatment every time he threw
his shadow across the plate has
somewhat lessened the torrent of
explosions which often disturb
the umpires' maps.
When Babe goes to the plate
now there is no speculation as
to where he will knock the ball.
He might as well wear hand
cuffs.
But the wise birds who give
Babe the air are simply curd-
ling their own game. Corpulent
gents who crowd the turnstiles
pay their dollar and a half to
see Bambino put English accent
on unnaturalized horsehide.
Cheated Of their favorite sus-
pense they are liable to assume
a bilious attitude toward ma
tional agony and buy marbles
with their money so they can
have some honest excitement.
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riot.
In therapeu-
teal hieroglyph
les Ban John
sons twirlers
h a " q ampu-
tated the ton
sils right out OF
national pas
time 50 far as
Banbino's ap-
petite 10 con-
cerned. He has
totally stopped
taking a bat
to the plate.
The Washington times., 1923-06-15

Hhere was the situation as II
came UP on No. 1S green. Horace
Chickering, of the Wilmington
Country Club, and B. Warren Cork"
ran, of Rolling Roads, Baltimore,
had finished their qualifying rounn
In the Middle Atlantic champion
ship with stroke total OF % eacn.
This was a new record TOT L
event and q new amateur RECORD
Tor the Chevy Chase course.
Going to No. II Moore needed
but a pair Of tours to equal the
T2's OF Chickering and Corkran. he
encountered trouble on IT and TOOK
n five. It was still possible Tor
him to tie the Wilmington and
Baltimore stars. From NO. ID tee
he had q beautiful drive, straight
down the fairway. His approach
was on. but some distance from
the pin-approximately twenty-five
feet.
ICY" was pulling for Moore to
sink that putt, in fact, ne was
pulling for the Indian spring
executive to hole out on n1s aP
proach. just why we don't know.
INF Ia was. Anyway, Moore
sighted the line from ball to cup
rom this angle and from that
anrIe He putted. Three feet
from the hole there was . gen.
eraI cry, Its good, but Il
wasn't.
The law of inertia was not to be
denied. That putt when it started
on its way was as accurate as WI
Ham Tells arrow. six inches from
che cup IL came to rest for no other
reason than a lack of momentum.
"A hundred or more gathered around
the green to see Moore either make
that putt or miss.
He tried and failed. There was
chorus of "Oh's," sharply punctu-
ated by d short grunt from ICY
Someone started in to quote THAT
oft-heard golfing phrase, Never
up, never in" and 1t was then tnaI
SsCy'' quoted Cummings, General
sherman and other well-known and
famous Americans. y
Some there were who. condemned
Moore for not playing his putt more
boldly. He had everything to gain
and nothing to lose. Even had he
gone beyond the cup yard or
more. he still had three or four
more puts In which to run the
bali down and still be in the first
sixteen.
Had Moore sunk his first putt
AZ would have established record
unknown and unheard Of in
competitive golf. 1t would have
resulted In three players being tied
for low medal I'm the qualifying
round Of championship play. 1t
r. too bad that Moore missed.
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Evening star., 1923-07-31
DTDTr1VNFT1 CT10DTEC BY Thornton
DILL Il l1VlA ~ Il OlOlLO ".
Danny Has a Close Call.
Who always does his very best
Alone is ft TO meet life's test.
old Mother Nature

There is such Il thing as being too
safe. Yes. sir. there is such a thing
as being too safe. 1t is a good thing
to have to watch out for danger at
least once in a while. Those who
don't have to are apt to forget that
there is such thing as danger.
This is the way 1t was with Danny
Meadow Mouse. Since he and Nanny
had made their home in the old scare
crow in Farmer Browns cornf1eld they
hadn't been in danger once. OF
course. none of their enemies ever
thought to look for them in such a
place as that old scarecrow So day
after day and night after night they
played about and went and came as
they pleased. At first Danny had
kept a sharp watch for possible dan
ger, as he had been obliged to do all
his life. But as the days went by he
thought of danger less and less often,
and finally not at all
Early one morning he ran over to
the Green Meadows. which began just
beyond the fence that bounded Farmer
Browns cornfield. Danny had gone
to get his breakfast. He was busily
eating a blade of grass when, hap
pening to look behind him. he saw the
grass moving as if some one were
creeping through it very softly. 1t
was Just pure good luck that Danny
had looked back when he did.
Through the grass stems he saw
something black. 1t was Black Pussy.
the cat from Farmer Browns house,
Danny dropped his piece of grass
and started to run. Black Pussy s
ears must have caught the faint sound
of Danny's footsteps. for instantly
she sprang. She all but landed on
Dannys short tail. Danny squeaked
with fright, and. my, my. how he
did run, 1t didn't seem as if those
short legs of his could move so fast.
Now, ii Is probable that If the grass
had been short ] would have no more
stories to write about Danny Meadow
Mouse. But the grass was tall and
Black Pussy couldn't see Danny. She
had to be guided by her ears and by
movements of the grass as Danny ran
through it. Several times she all but
Evening star., 1923-07-31
An Indian War Dance.

Betty and Billy Cut-out hurried
along in the gathering dusk as they
heard the low rhythmic beat of
tom tom down by the Indian booth
at the county fair. They Joined the
crowd of people who were watching
A little boy as he first beat on his
strange instrument, then began a
series of low crouching movements
in a circle.
1t was Wapasso in his war cos
tune. The suit was heavily beaded
in blue and red and yellow.
Now. he's getting fierce" whisper
ed Billy excitedly. for Wapasso had
snatched red tomahawk and again
circled, making wild. striking mo-
tions. Then, with a whoop, he fin
ished the dance. Afterward he went
around the crowd with palms out
.tretched and the people gladly gave
him coins for his entertainment.
All the leather thongs on the Indian boy 8
how they swished when he danced. The suit
on the costume to make it look like a war.
rior's dress The tom-tom is red.
Copyright. 1891
Evening star., 1923-07-31
The Diary of Professional Movie Fan
BY GLADYS HALL.

taken, but l can see the color of your
eyes and / can look up your birth
certificate, IL 1T comes to that. Id
rather know what you think of Pearl
White and serials; whether or not
you have sense of humor: whether
You like to read By such things as
these is man made known.
Mr.. Sell: Pearl White is peach-A1
to work with. and unspoiled, abso-
lutely; the best ever. AS for serials.
know that some people laugh at
them and disparage them. but. to my
mind. the most important thing in
the theatrical game Is to keep on
working. and 1 don't know any better
means than in serials. AS for mar
riage, you can say that l am not
married. with perfect safety Gas l
say, girls and boys. this tea took
place some little time ago, and l
such perfect safety now, however,.
You may also say that I hope to be
some day. l don't care about going
through life as a gay bachelor lad.
Just now. my home consists of three
rooms. wherein l do all of the most
approved bacheloresque things. My
reading hobby is centered in Oscar
Wildes Dorian Gray" but by way
of counteracting that, 1 have only
one silver-framed photograph in my
room, and that is-my mothers.
Well, as / have recorded on this
page Of my diary. this tea took place
some time ago; Pearl White is
Of a slump in serials. and Henry G.
Sell may not now be reading Oscar
Wilde or sticking to one silver-framed
photograph. Times do change-how
have they changed him?
(A:I rights reserved.)
Evening star., 1923-07-31
little BennyS
Note Book

1 was setting on my frunt steps
waiting for something to happen and
Persey Viewer started to go past on
his way home with something in
bag, me saying. Watts you got, Per-
sey?
Razzberries for suppir. my father is
crazy about razZberries, Persey said.
G, wait a minnit, l wunt to show
you peetch of trick. bet you cant
do 1t. / ony need one razzberry to
show you, i sed.
Wien Persey reetched in and gave
me a razzberry and l threw 1t away
ate 1t, SAYING. There. you cant do that,
l bet. You haff to be expert Jug
guler to do that. 1 sed.
/ bet / can. watts you bet? Persey
sed. And he took a razzberry and
threw 1t up and tried to catch 1t in
his mouth and 1t bounced off his nose
insted and went on the pavement
and he tried more and they all went
on the pavement, me saying, Well,
you're doing pritty good, for the ferst
ferst time. Heer. Ill show you agen,
l sed.
And I threw up razzberries in
succession and cawt them all in my
mouth like trained jugguler and
then Persey tried 1t agen and missed
8 and then I gave him another lessin,
not being eny trubble to me on ac-
count of razzberries being my favor
ite froct besides wattermelonS, and
all of suddin Persey looked in the
bag, saying. G, look at watts left.
Meening look at wat wasent left.
on account of the box being half
empty. and l sed Gosh. l bet you'll
catch il.
No / won't, neither. nobody will
say thing to me. Persey sed. But
enyways he picked up some of the
razzberries off of the pavement that
wasent mashed too bad and put them
back in the box and went home say
ing nuthing wouldent happen to him
no matter how menny razzberries
wasent left. but he dident come out
agen after suppir. being a Suspicious
sine.
Evening star., 1923-07-31
Your Home and
You
The Unlucky Age.
by HELEN KENDALL.

Daddy, want to talk to you. It's
important" Betty, aged thirteen.
corralled her youthful-looking father
as he dropped into a deep chair on the
veranda and fixed an eager eye upon
him.
Well what is it now?" he said
idly. Want to go and teach African
head-hunters to play the ukulele, or
start a movement for the utter. an
Inhalation of parents?"
"oh, Daddy" protested the suppl
cant. Il only want to go to an art
class next year stead o. going to
school"
Certainly not" Daddy put both
feet on the floor. unfolded his arms
and looked stern. Last week you
wanted to study chiropra tic. or some
such thing. The week before you
were going to be a tea-room queen
because you had learned TO make
pretty cheese balls. Just before
that"
Daughter" interrupted a pleasant
voice from inside the house, won't
you run over to Mrs. Anderson's with
this beef tea for her sick maid?" And
as the eager little figure darted away
Evening star., 1923-07-31

again is failing in the endeavor. be-
within his wee soul and cannot come
as a gift.
Let him be made comfortable by
bathing and powdering and feeding.
] Clothe him in nakedness as nearly as
health and comfort will permit. See
that his bed is cool. Feathers under
g baby on f. hot day are barbarity
sheet. stretch the netting snugly
over him, try to pitch his tent where
| opy, and let him alone.
1t is hard to listen to him cry. but
picking him up won't stop him. Hold
| ing him makes him warmer and irri-
tates him afresh Even if he is i'll,
holding him won't help him. His bed
feels surer to his body and much
more comfortable.
| This does not mean that baby is
to be fed. bathed, laid on his bed and
permitted to vegetate there while
the family goes on unheeding. Chill
dren need to he cuddled and loved
, and played with. Above all, they
need to be talked to, so that they
may learn to talk in their turn. 1t
does mean, though. that a disturbed
| child. uneasy and fretting because OF
! the heat, should not be further tor
mented by his we'll wishers but left
! to the grim comfort Of expressing his
| annoyance WITHIN reasonable bounds.
| Sometimes all the youngster needs
/ is a spoonful of cool water. Grown
| folk forget that babies like a drink
| cool water in warm weather. They
are so used to feeding them milk and
barley water and infants food that
| they overlook the drink of pure
| water.
Just turning the mattress helps,
too, and IL he has a pillow turn that
ever so often and have an extra one
| to change off with. Pillows get hot
and Soggy.
| Wipe off the little head and lay it
on cool pillow and see the light of
relief steal over the wee things face.
But don't hold him if you can help it.
1 \
Evening star., 1923-07-31

Don't fail to direct your attention
to the very important little diagram
which accompanies this sketch of a
truly delightful summer frock, pat
terms for which. cut in sizes sixteen
years. SO. 38, 40 and ~ inches bust
measure, for without the diagram
you'd never dream how really easy it
IS to make. The waist. sleeves. belt
and skirt, all combined in one length
of material not single extra piece
to bother about. but at the same
time the model bears the chic that
one would expect to find only in an
imported design. For size 36 you
will need 21s yards of 36-inch ma
terial with 2A yards of binding.
For tennis and other outdoor sports
dress made like this of ratine, Gre
tonne or eponge would do splendidly
1t is also an excellent style for ging-
ham. in fact, any fancy cotton could
be used.
Price of pattern, 15 cents, in postage
stamps only. Orders should he ad-
dreSsed to The Washington Star Pat
tern Bureau, - East 18th street, New
York city. Please write name and
address clearly.
Evening star., 1923-07-31

Often called scrub pine, this tree
seems to be one OF those whose lot it
is to secure meager yet happy living
out of worthless soils. On exhausted
soils in the east and on the pine bar
rens of New Jersey it seldom attains
to very great heights, rarely over
thirty or forty feet. but in the middle
west it may be found growing to
height of eighty and even 100 feet
1t is a picturesque tree of struggling.
irregular outline. The safest points
of Identification are in the leaves and
cones. The rather short, gray-green
needles are in bundles of two and the
scales of the cones are terminated
with short spines. These cones often
persist for four years.
The pines are among tho oldest
families of plants in the world. They
are distributed in vast forests over
the northern half of the globe and
reach into the tropics by following
Evening star., 1923-07-31

pounced on him. 1t was a long time
since Danny had been in such dan
ger.
At first Danny was too frightened
to think. He was too frightened to
do anything but run. But he knew
he must get to safe hiding place
soon. Then into his head popped the
memory of that old tin can at the
foot OF a fence post on the edge of
Farmer Browns cornfield. If he could
reach that he would be safe.
i've got to get there. I've got to
get there" he kept saying over and
over to himself as he ran. And it
seemed somehow as If just saying
that over and over helped him to run
faster. He did get there, but only
just in the very nick of time. Just
as he whisked in through the little
round hole in the end Of that old can
Black Pussy made last swift spring.
and Danny actually felt one of her
claws. He sQueaked with fright and
pain, and then he was inside. He was
safe for the present. But it had been
a close call. Yes. sir. it had been a
very close call. Had he had to run
any further Black Pussy certainly
would have caught him.
Copyright. 1923. by T. W. Burgess).
Evening star., 1923-07-31
Watermelon Marmalade.

Cut the seeded fruit into pieces
weigh it and to every pound allow a
pound of sugar and the grated rind
of half a lemon Bring to a boil and
let simmer slowly. stirring the con-
tents of the kettle to keep from
scorching. Cook on the back of the
range. until the mixture is of the
consistency of marmalade Fill pint
jars or tumblers while hot, and seal
This marmalade has the lovely pink
tint of a pomgranite. Dainty desserts
may be made by slipping a mold from
the tumbler, cutting 1T in half and
placing on a glass dish with whipped
cream on top. -