The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18

be printed and the successful conn
piler ola winning acrostic Is eligible
to submit others until the close 0f
the competition which will continue
until the entire personnel Of the
team has been run
IN CHARGE or PARTY.
.SlkiIIet win be IN entire charge
or the party and you must submit
your acroBtics to him In writing and
call for your tickets when your name
n announced. There will be three.
prize winners daily, the first prize
being two tickets TO the opening
game here and the second and third
prizes one ticket each.
Now ais to the ncr0Aticg
Take, for instance, the name Of
EBUSH, the new manager OF the
washington team An acrostic
formed from the letters of his
name might read:
Bring Bugs
Some Safe
Hope. Hits.
LOTS or OTHER WAYS.
But the fans participating IN
this contest OF wits and literary
ability will not be confined to any
such simple formula rs that; they
win be permitted TO turn this into:
= real mental composition BY sub
hitting something ike this:
baseball !
Success
deserves 60
SO you see IL not eaIl1e 81
chance. but i contest equIrfng
skin III the arrangement 81 words
containing certain letters, which,
taken together win form some Az
fusion % baseball.
u Merit alone win count 81 de-
Gliding the winners. and com.
petent board of Judges win decide.
who win receive the four free base.
which viii be distributed daily
until the name of every player.
on the team shall have been useI
as q target for Washingtorl's acfos-
tic-crazed fans.
TO the winner ii each daily com.
petition will go two tickets % the.
opening game and to the second
and third best authors of acrostics
will 60 one ticket each. The fact
that you have won once viii not
prohibit You from submitting acros-
tics on names to be printed on
subsequent days This competition
Is wide open TO everybody until
the bitter, bitter end.
OF added interest to the daily
winner OF the first prize win be
the knowledge that his ticket-win-
ming combination Of words will be,
telegraphed by this newspaper to
the particular player whose name
furnished the basis OF the acrostic,
thus lending encouragement TO the
player and giving him the knowi-
edge that the home fans are be-
hind him even to an acrostic.
A SAMPLE MESSAGE.
Here is a sample OF the daily
telegram which will inform the
player daily what the Washington
fans are writing about him:
Mr.. Pat Charity. care washington
Baseball Team,
Tampa Bay Hotel. &,
Tampa, Fla.
Give A Real Race In Everything
To Yankees. s
(Signed) -----------
Winner OF Times Acrostic Contest.
Not so good? All right! But
That's all there is to the contest
which will run right UP to within
few days of the opening game
in Washington, April rs.
There is only one other stipula-
tion-the acrostics must be in the
hands of Skillet Finn. ESQ, not
later than O'Clock on the evening
following the day when the subject
name is printed,
NAMES OUT TOMORROW.
In tomorrow's Times the first
name will be published and all
acrostics must be In The Times Of
flee by s o'clock Tuesday. And so
on during the contest, which will
run approximately five weeks. On
Wednesday the first winners will be
announced in The Times.
BY the opening baseball day there
will have been upwards OF $50 win
ners announced and these win be
the members of Skillet" Firms,
ESQ.,, baseball jambouree on April 26.
The tickets, which will all be
clustered in Section p of the lower
grandstand, have already been re-
served and are tucked safely away
in Skillet" Firms, Esq, private
safe In the sporting department.
The winners win be announced
on the second day following the
printing of the ball players. name
and tickets may be had from I
Skillet" upon suitable Identified
ton. He will be found up In the
cuckoo's nest on the top floor OF i
the Munsey Building, twelve flights
UP. When you get off the elevator,
just keep turning TO the left ana
you'n find 'SNilieke In his atticl
boudoir.