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The Washington times., 1923-08-25

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ly for the Central stadium. 1t may
be shifted to American League
Park.
Also on Monday will come a big
clash between the Shamrocks and
Dominicans, rivals of old at Wash
ington Barracks. The Dominicans
are putting up a determined fight
for Section b honors with the
Mohawks slightly ahead of them.
Thursday will be played the
game that thousands of sandlOt
fans look forward to. The Mohawks
and Dominicans will battle it out
at Union Park.
Several big games will be played
tomorrow in the Arlington county.
Virginia, and Prince Georges coun-
ty, Maryland, series. Principal
among these will be the contest be.
tween Cherrydale and Rosslyn at
Cherrydale in Arlington county and
the Maryland A. C.-Mt. Rainier
clash at Mt. Rainier in Prince
Georges county.
The weeks schedule in the city
Independent series will be published
tomorrow morning.
The showing of the ROssIyn
team in the Arlington county SC.
l1es has made baseball a thriving
topic in ROsslyn, which here to.
fore has been backward in this
respect.
While a victory for Rosslvn
over Cherrydale tomorrow would
make Rosslyn almost a certain title
winner, there still would be a math.
ematfcal chance Tor Arlington. II
is unlikely that any team in the
series Will give up until the last
ray of hope is gone. Baseball
spirit runs high in the county.
Jimmy Hughes, president of the
District Umpires' Associat ton, has
been requested to send two umpires
to the Cherrydale- Rosslyn game.
Sometimes the best of umpires need
four eyes and as many legs if
they would handle a tight game
satisfactorily to all, and Rosslyn
and Cherrydale expect tight game.
1t should be no closer, nor
fought with greater spirit than the
contest between the Mt. Rainier and
Maryland A. G. teams in the Prince
Georges county, Md, series, at
Mt. Rainier. Here, indeed, is a
paSeDaIl battle.
The oldest inlabs Of Mt. Rainier
can recall no baseball game Of
greater interest to take place i'm
their community. A victory for
Mt. Rainier would send the Mary
land A. e. home Inundated.
Should the Maryland A. G..
triumph, there would be a string
to it, for Mt. Rainier has a hot
protest In OH MaryIand's win of
a week ago.
From all over Washington sandlot
fans will go to see the Aztccs and
Linworths play at Washington BAY.
racks In the game that will decide a
winner of Section b Of the senior
division In the city series.
For several years the Aztecs have
tried valiantly but in vain to win
a championship. They have made
many friends. So have the Lin.
worths, who reached the finals OF
the junior class in 1922, only to lose
to Holy Name
The LinWorths and Aztecs, CLOSELY
matched in every respect, are CON.
tending for the honor OF represent.
ing the Southwest section in the
series finals. There is no harsh feel.
ing between the two teams, hut
there is wholesome baseball rivalry
aplenty. 1t should be the most in.
teresting senior clash of the season.
Play will Start at 80 O'Clock.
Lieut.. Mike Raedy. in charge Of
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the Policemen's ball team, actually
believes the cops will give the cham
pion Mohawks lacing tomorrow at
Union Park, splay starting at 3
o'clock.
Lieutenant Raedy has firm con-
1ldence in Private Finney Kelly.
F1nney Is Mohawk pitcher, but,
knowing on which side his bread
Is buttered, will toll for the blue
coats tomorrow. The MOhawks
are sympathetic to Private KeIIy's
cause, but they are not hilaTiOusly
happy over having to bat against
him. Finney's famous right arm
is still strong and supple.
Stanley Haney, the O'DonnelPs
manager, believes the O'Donrells
will figure prominently In the next
sandlot championship competition,
Haney organized his team in q
hurry this season. 1t failed to make
good early in the series, but got bet
ter as time went on.
Then came several bad breaks
that forced the team to jack up in
the series. Haney lost too many
players to keep a full lineup, some
Of his men going out Of town.
He kept the players left and oh.
tanned more. At this time his team
is stronger than ever. 1t has won
seventeen games and lost six, four
of the latter being series contests.
Johnny OBrien, a young lawyer,
Is having considerable success ~ a
pitcher for the ODonnells. In fact.
he has. yet to lose and has won six
games. Lefty Khunert is another
O'DOnnell moundsman. He and
Bradley. both of whom perform for
the Phils in Section c of the un-
limited class in the series, will do
duty for the O'Donnells in their
game tomorrow with the Cardinals
at Alexandria
Barney Oldfield is playing fine
ball at third base for the O'Donnells.
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Example Right Here.

II ERE'S an example of what
we mean taken from a ball
game at Georgia avenue last
year. 1t happened when Roger
Peckinpaugh was not yet the
popular player be is now, yet
when the double play total of the
team was known to be rising
rapidly.
With men on first and second
and one out, a ball was hit we'll
to Peck's right. The fans howled
for another double play" know
ing the side would be retired.
Making an almost impossible stop,
Peck Tipped the ball to third base
and just barely managed to cut
down the runner going into that
bag.
/, When the ball was hit Peck's
experience told him that a double
play Swas almost an impossibility.
that he would be fortunate to get
the man at third. He made the
best play possible to his expert
enced eyes, yet because it was
not what the fans expected, his
brilliant assist at third was lost
absolutely and murmurs filled
the stand because another double
play had not been chalked up.
That is what we mean when
we say that knowledge of the
finer points of baseball is being
lost. Before baseball was a spec
tacle the fans would have appre-
ciated the position of Peckin-
pangh on that ground ball and
would have enjoyed his wonderful
play.
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DECISIVE CONTESTS DUE
FOR COMING WEEK
By x. ID. THOMAS.

Excitement plenty sandlot
independent championship series
Washington skilled young
Lnworh will play to which will represent their section in the
senior class finals They tied While they battle other
champion Wavery which the title in
e Wavery has first honors its section The Azen-
worth game will start at 130 o'clock.
On Monday will the grand smash in
limited class The American
field apparently only Section
Peworh will be making its effort
Petworthans would leave them with much than
for the hcno they have fought vanty Having
be defeated the American Legion lose the game
being fatally
The Washington times., 1923-08-25
They're All Razzers.

TODAY the fans apparently
go to. see certain players do
certain things and to be
tremendously aggrieved if those
certain players don't do those
certain things.
Babe Ruth must hit a home
run or hear the razzers. Some
other player, praised in the news
papers for his base running, must
immediately steal flock Of bases
or be damned in loud tones.
Some pitcher, described as a
strikeout king, must strike every
opponent out or hear the anvil
chorus. Some outfelder, known
as a great fielder, must catch
everything hit in his direction.
escaping the severest criticism
only if the drives 90 over his
head into the seats4
In other words, the fans of TO-
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There are many precedents for
this rule. For instance, George
Washington, first baseman on the
Bunker Hill club, socked a lead
ball into British flag at Sara
toga-or, was it Gettysburg or
the Marine? The ball did not drop
back into the playing field, and
the whole club.scored.
Infielder Foch, with Right
Fielder Pershing and Catcher
Joffre on base, knocked an iron
ball into German flag and 4,OOO,-
900 men came home. Some OF
them came home late, including
Bob Shawkey of the Yanks, who
stopped by the way to see If the
Navy was going to get into a
worlds series.
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y LOUIS A.DOUGHER
SOME ABUSES, IN RASERAIJ.

ID ASEBAL frequently called national game"
ID sense is fourishing only in the United
this
Canal Zone the Philippines and among Japanese
ge Students We have been watching baseball closely many,
many years We have seen It played under conditions
theory that from sports viewpoint baseball of
OF americans then have suffered psychological
change We
of all real KNOWLEDGE of anv
than that have former spirit
The Washington times., 1923-08-25
Gets Easy Money.

Champion Johnny Dundee,
worlds featherweight champion.
will draw down $1,000 for battling
Kid Wagner, the Philadelphia light.
weight, In the main bout of eight
rounds In Philadelphia on next
Monday night. The show Is being
put on by Max Hoff.
The Washington times., 1923-08-25
Whitfield Lands Job.

DURHAM, N. c., Aug. 25.-
George Whitfield, former manager
of the Toledo American Associa.
ton team, and one-time ma ior
league player. has been signed to
play the ~emainder OF the season
with the Durham club of the Pied.
mont League. Whitfield lives here.
The Washington times., 1923-08-25

but that need be Of no concern. to
the pupil.
It has become apparent that j
need exists in this country for q
school where golf pros could take q
course in the art of teaching. The
army Of golf pros, most Of whom
learned to play golf in their youth
In England or Scotland, need to
learn how to get into the pupils
shoes. They need to know how they
can learn from the pupil, a. the
good teacher always does.
Like the university professor
before his class, the golf pro must
learn to transmit his knowledge in
terms and by examples which the
pupil compartments.
Learning to play golf IL an accom-
plishment, but learning to teach 1t
Is a greater one. Competitive golf
playing requires the dominating
competitive spirit and the absolute
will to win-personified wonderfully
in Walter Hagen.
Teaching the game requires pa
thence, a. liking for little details. and
. gentleness and charm OF manner
These characteristics do not mix
well with the traits which make the
star player.
"A school for golf pros, where they
could learn the psychology OF teach
ing, would be help to the game.
have no doubt that many golf pros
would eagerly take advantage OF it.
Copyright by John r. Ollie c1.3
The Washington times., 1923-08-25
RUTH CAN TELL SIZE OF
HOME RUN CROP BY
SIZE OF MAIL
By BABE RUTH.

CLEVELAND Aug 25.-As sort of amateur farmer know
spring coming The calendar March FL
robin That redbreasted bird the sure
tip-of
baseball have different Of judging things When I'm
slump only letters when
hoers system and boost my batting average
getple of them. Then know I'm going good
They from all parts of the country and there all kinds
them ALL because of them be
who dough and just naturally can't
The Washington times., 1923-08-25
Golf Stars Favor West
Coast Over Souths
Resorts

. It is understood that Walter
Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Jock
Hutchinson and Joe KirkwoOd are
planning to spend the winter
months in California. Evidently
from q professional point Of
view Florida and other South
western States were not Is
alluring last spring as in other
years, as many Of the scheduled
open tournaments for money
prizes fell through. Numbers
of the rank and file of the pro-.
fessional talent that went South
with a fair expectation Of at
least making their expenses were
bitterly disappointed and equally
indignant.
The Washington times., 1923-08-25

AOOSS OGCW4EC N1BA1CAh1 anu OtH1CT Be
Golf needs more Of these teachers.
The game has developed on grand
opera basis in this country, 50 far.
That is, the performers have had
the spotlight.
Few have realized, i dare say, that
in golf, as In music, or in other
sports, too, the great performer
seldom makes the fine teacher. We
are all familiar with the names of
great singers, for instance, but we
know them as singers, not as voice
discoveries and trainers.
A parallel I'm sport is the case OF
one Of our All-American quarter
backs--I dare say the greatest of
all quarterbacks. As teacher he
revealed practically none Of, his quail
ties as a player.
If it is possible for the novice
seeking golf instruction to put
himself in touch with an accom-
pIished teacher Of the game he
viii benefit accordingly. And tho
golf pro, wherever he is, who now
goes i'm for the psychology Of
teaching rather than for tourna-
ment IlOnOrs, is on the right road.
Teaching requires special quail
fications, the teaching temperament
and patience. Such teacher may
not be able to play under 80 to 100,
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They Miss Fine Points.

ANOy MISS EIN6 FOlHtSs
GO intent are fans today on
~ finding some victim upon
whom they may vent their
spleen or exercise their yokel
wit, they miss the fine points of
the game being played right in
front of them.
The longer the public pursues
its present course, the quicker
will pass that expert knowledge
once possessed by the bleacherite
to an expert degree and by the
grandstand patron to one slightly
less.
Already the major league ball
player knows that the patrons of
the stand know little of the game
they support and that the real
fans are to be found only in the
bleachers.
Furthermore, this knowledge
on the part of the player is hav-
ing its effect. He is willing. "to
go along" knowing that any un-
expected effort will be a mere
flash in the pan. Why should he
do anything the crowd won't I'M
derstand?
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Bears Are Fastest.

The Newark Bears lead the Inter.
national League with 140 stolen
bases. Baltimore is second with
1903 theNts>
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NICK TALKS OF HOME RUNS.

ETROT Aug 25President Heydler, OF the National
League has the Boston clubs protest OF the second
- game with Brooklyn july e. II weren't
will remember how Jack slammed ball that mt
the in ruled a home
President Heyde holds that the flag was essentially an article
the bali dropped field home ruled by
tho IIrnnn Roh E
The Washington times., 1923-08-25
CARS IN
ROCKVILLE
RACES

Seven automobile races over a
first-class dirt track will be part
of the entertainment afforded to-
days visitors to the Rockville Fair.
Among the speed demons are some
of the best known pilots in the
eastern section of the country and
their cars are tuned right up to
the second.
These include such daring drivers
as Frank Ripple. Canadian speed
star and dirt track champion, with
his 140-horsepower aeroplane motor
Disbrow
Happy Jack Cottrell. noted speed
way driver and champion of the
South, put his F'rontenac 20 a test
yesterday and declared that the
track Is in perfect shape for the
competition.
Two foreign machines and six
American built cars are now listed
to start, including Johnny Rose in
a Benz Special.
There will be seven events as. fol-
lows:
First event-Introducti of the
drivers and cars as they appear on
tho
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No Pro Football.

Washington will have no profes.
s!onal football eleven this coming
eeason, according to Capt, Tim
&Crdan.
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day seem to be all razzers. That
is their days pleasure, finding
somebody to razz, something to
damn in loud tones.
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More Home Runs.

VTOU can recall all kinds Of
flag home runs. The other
Il day a semi-professional play
er was driving a flivver on Long
Island and went into a red flag
at railroad crossing. 1t went
as a four-base blow, and now he
has to have three men and horse
run for him when he is wheeled in
his upholstered chair to the plate.
AS President Heydler points out,
the playing field and playing wall
are definitely fixed. For instance,
if Uncle Wilbert Robinson, who has
a well-rounded windcutter that
makes you believe his ninety-two-
inch chest had sagged to the belt
line, if Uncle Wilbert should get
in the way of hit, who would ex-
pect it to count for less than four
or seven bases?
president Heydler says to the et-
feet that if a peanut seller who has
nothing but soda pop should get
package of chewing gum IN stLe
wav of fly ball or other kind, and
if the ball should stick there, why
II is improper for a fan to start
chewing the ball instead of the gum
or tobacco. And it would count
for a home run. If the fan swal-
lowed the ball, not only would it
be a home run, but it would be a
severe case of Indigestion.
An Infield Fly.
0UPPOSE Ruth would knock a
~ ball against an apple that a
~ customer was eating and an
insect would be on the apple and
the fan would swallow the insect
instead of the apple. Well, then,
friends, would take issue with
President Heydler and say it would
not be a home run.
/ told this to our Washington
club manager, DOME Bush, and put
it up to him as a problem, and he
says:
"Well, then, if the fan should
swallow the insect, why wouldn't it
be home run, and what would it
be them"
So l replied, carefully:
"Well, Mr.. Bush, if it is all the
same to you and you will not have
somebody fire me, why it would be
no home run at all, but it would
be an infield fly"
Copyright, 1923, by The Chrlsty Walsh
Syndicate.)
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TAKE CLIdLGC JIG passing k4A0S W.
For the last month or two I have
been hitting more than I ever did
In all my life. I can't break home
run record every year but do get
a share of them, and ] also get my
share of letters from fans.
Some time I'd like to sit down
with Jack Dempsey and a few Of
the other champions and punch the
bag about the kind Of letters they
get. 1 wonder if they're anything
like mine?
Naturally, only few of those that
handsome movie hero and / know
it. But the others go all. the way
through the alphabet.
Lately I've been getting heaps
> and heaps Of them-I think more
than / got when 1 hung up my
home run record two years ago.
Quite q few send me their pic
lures and ask me to autograph
them. Practically all ask for a
letter In reply. Others ask for
autographed basebaIis. Charity
donations of many kinds are re-
quested and / get q lot of invita-
tons to como in on stock invest
mentS.
But more than anything else I'm
surprised at the number of peo:
pie who ask for cash on account
Of illness, poverty and one thing
and anothear.
OF course, it's absolutely impos-
sible for me or any one else to
come through every time I'm asked
to kick in, and yet / don't want
to hurt anybody. I can't answer
all the letters I get, so / want
to explain and 70 apologize for
not writing. / haven't reached the
stage where l can afford to have
q couple Of secretaries and don't
suppose l ever will.
I like to hear from all my friends,
those that l know and those I've
never met who ..ull for me from
the grandstands and bleachers
throughout the country. But they
can't and mustn't expect me to an
swer all because if tried to Il
wouldn't have time to play base.
ball, and if I didn't do that 1
wouldn't get any letters.
Some of the fans who write
me nut me in the grease and pan
me but I'm glad to say that for
everyone who does there's a hum
dred that write to say they're
glad I'm doing well.
Youngsters ask me to tell them
the secret Of my hitting in conf
dence and swear, cross their hearts,
that they'll never tell. It's no &C.
cret and 1 don't mind telling them.
Simply walk up to that plate, catch
hold on your bat, keep your eye
on the ball and swing from a way
only thing that can stop you is
the pitching-not a thing more.
A few of the letters I've got
Sam Crawford gave me. There's
this to say about that; had that
bat long time before I started to
use it and when did I let every
body know it.
There's nothing i'm the rules
that says a fOur-piece bat Is IL
legal and IL i thought there was
/ wouldn't have used the bat
ut all.
But when I started to use It
did well and got to like 1t q lot.
Then they said the glue that held
the pieces together was illegal, and
90 1t was ruled out. / didn't use a
bat like that two years ago when
made my record and since then II
have been hitting even better and
getting more homers.
There was nothing tricky about
that bat. 1t just had a feel" that
The Washington times., 1923-08-25
GREAT GOLF PLAYERS
NOT BEST TEACHERS.
BY CHARLES (CHIcK) EVANS, JR.

professionals three classes The FIRST
scattered throughout the country and Of whom little
heard outside their immediate circle activities Then have the
golf playing class like Saazen, Barnes Vardon Mitchell
Duncan, and others. 1880 ss tfsssFR
themselves constituted the development
thrill Among these find Chester Horton Bob Eddie
C4n-un. ;don 49,.
The Washington times., 1923-08-25
Some EXAMPLES Here.

= examples supporting this
statement. They all do it. If
New Workers have Kissed and
booed Babe Ruth, Washingtonians
have done the same toward Zeb
Milan. Detroiters have towled for
Ty Cobb's head, and even the won
derful iris Speaker was severely
razzcd in Cleveland this spring be-
fore his team got moving.
In the years gone the fans,
whether in the fifty-cent grand
stand seat or the twenty-five-cent
bleacher, made themselves a part
Of the game. Chicagoans went to
see Chicago win a baseball game,
to cheer on the home players, to
hold their silence when errors oc-
CURED, to cheer madly the good
plays Of the day on either side.
But even more than that, thew
went out to enjoy themselves.
Baseball itself, that is, the man.
agement, has changed greatly with
the passing years. Constant eff
fort apparently has been to make
the games spectacles rather than
contests between home and Wis
iting team. This may explain. at
least in part, the falling off in in
terest on the part of those who
formerly went out to enjov them
selves and to cheer the home team
in its triumph.
The Washington times., 1923-08-25

Driver-Name of Car. No.
Ripple, Disbrow ................ 10
Bunce,. Haynes IL .....4....... DO
Reich, Deusenberg .............. IL
Feterman, Fetterman Special =. 81
Rose, Benz 81
Condor, Wisconsin Special ..... IA
Cottrell, Frontenac ............ II
Clark, Marmon ................. 90
Second event-One mile dash, all
ears entered.
Third event-The first heat Of the
Texaco Trophy.
Fourth event-Second heat Of the
TeXaco Trophy.
Fifth event-Those finishing first
and second in the third and fourth
events will compete in this event.
Seven laps.
Sixth event-Time trials to estaD-
lish a track record.
Seventh event-Free for all, ten
miles.
There will also be two periods OF
auto polo.
The Washington times., 1923-08-25

We have little belief in the idea
expressed by "those were the hap
py days." It is a habit of many
to bark back and there find per-
lection when they are blinded to
the improvements under their very
noses.
Those ancient, heroes, the An
sons, the Delehantys, the Tenneys
and the Radboufnes, were no whit
better, save in some small particu-
lars, than the heroes of today, or
at least such is our belief, and we
can endure considerable showing.
But we do believe that in the
days when 10000 was a huge
crowd, taxing the capacity of the
major league ball parks, the fans
enjoyed baseball more and under
stood its fine points more than
the fans today who crowd into
the New York stadium to the
number of $4,000 to howl when
Ruth hits a homer or curse when
he doesn't.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-12-11
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