The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-02
BABE DECLARES
. HE WON I PICK
HIMSELF
King Of Swat Gives a Tip to
Those Seeking World
Series Games.

tCOHtlnueu from F1rSC FaSe1
1t Is. entirely up to you.
How much do you know about
present-day baseball?
Can You select the same all
American baseball team that
Babe Ruth will select from the
American and National League
rosters? =,
Cam you give your reasons for
your selections i'm $50 succinct
and crisp words?
Skillet" wants to hear from
you, every one Of you Washington
baseball bugs, between now and
the end Of this month, for he wants
the smartest TWO fans in Wash
ington to earn the honor of a free
trip to the big series month after
next.
Everything Is Paid.
All you have to do is make your
selections and give your reasons,
and you are IN on "Skillet's" lat
est form of entertainment and The
Washington Times biggest piece
Of generosity.
It doesn't cost you a penny out
side of postage and 1t won't cost
you anything except shoe-leather
IL you wish to walk into the Mum
sey Building and ascend in one of
it's six copper lined elevators to
the twelfth floor, where Skillet"
has his lair in the editorial dun
geon, which Is straight around TO
the left as you hop off the hit.
Twenty-Five thousand Washing.
ton fans volunteered as "Skillet's"
playmates when he shook Wash
ington to its funny bone last
March and April with his acrostic
contest.
The squirrel editor wants to
double that number in the Babe
Ruth all-American selection con-
test which started yesterday. Win
you play with him?
Aw, come on!
What combination of players, func-
tioning in their regular positions.
would be the most effective baseball
team to place on a field? That IS
what you have to answer and make
conform as nearly as possible to the
renowned annual selection announced
by the Bambino each September.
His choice will be printed in this
newspaper sometime in September,
the exact date to be named later.
1t will probably be around the mid
die Of next month. Last year he
tore loose with his all-star team on
September 16. He is likely to moan
around that same time this season.
Send EN- In Early.
Anyway, you have all of this
month to pick your team and back
it up with your reasons which viii
be judged by Babe Ruth, Louis A.
Dougher, duke OF local baseball
literati in collaboration with Avery
c. Marks, editor of The Washing
ton Times and Skillet" Finn, Esq.
This doesn't mean that you can
take your time about submitting
your team choice or that you should
wait and send 1t in at the end of
the contest, for you wouldn't want
to be a party to flooding those three
gentlemen with all of your cor
respondence in a bunch.
Give them q chance to thoroughly
consider your team formation by
submitting 1t early. 1t will be
sure to receive more thorough de-
liberation than If you wait. No
body knows yet, not even the Babe
himself, what the personnel of his
1928 all-American nine will be. OF
course, Ruth has his ideas, the
same as you or any other baseball
fan, but so far as giving his definite
and final decision for this season,
why, he won't move a muscle until
early in September at the soonest.
1t will be announced exclusively
here in The Washington Times
with announcements
in newspapers of other cities for
which he writes.
Last Years Selections.
For the season OF 1922, Ruth fooled
some OF the wisest sporting au-
thor1ties in the country when he
his personal views on an
combination. Do, YOU
want to know what his choice last
season looked like? Here it is:
Pitcher, Bush, New York. A. l..
Pitcher, ShOcker, St. Louis.
A. l..
Catcher, schang, New York,
First base. Sisler, st. Louis,
A. l..
Second base, Hornsby. St. Louis,
N. l..
ShOrtstOp, Scott, New York,
A. l..
Third base, Frisch, New York,
N. l..
Left field, Speaker, Cleveland,