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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
HOLLY: MAJORS
N|NM|NUS
STARS
Big League Ball Players Not in
Lineup When Yankees Are
Licked. by ~ to rs.

The Holly Majors, supposed to be
major league ballplayers playing
basketball, slammed the Yankees,
Al to 25, but Nick Altrock was the
only major Lacquer brought along
by the visitors. Nick and his side
kick, Al Schacht, before the game
and between the halves, entertained
in their own inimitable fashion, and
their stuff was just as much, if not
more, appreciated than the basket
ball played, which was excellent.
Hickey was the Majors star,
shooting, dribbling and playing gen.
orally in par excellent manner. The
first half was a contest, the Yam
KEGS leading by II to II. The first
half was played under intercollegi-
ate rules and the second under pro-
feSsional regulations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
Gilks Spots a Speeder.

DOB GILKS, Yankee scout, lays
claim to the discovery of the
~ fastest man in baseball. The
veteran ivory snatcher has picked
up many good men for the Yanks
and is not inclined to be unduly
boastful. He probably will get a
strong argument from his old
friend, George Stallings, when he
declares that Burney Acton, a col
legian from Birmingham, Ala, is
a faster man than Maurice Arch
deacon, the Rochester Flash. But
Bob is willing to gamble on Acton.
He doesn't claim that this man is a
better ball player, but he stands
by his speed claims.
Acton, like Archdeacon, is CEN
ter fielder. He was first spotted
bv Gilks when he played with the
Howard College team. Graduating
last spring, he became the sensa-
ton of the South Alabama League.
Gilks, who covers thateterritory for
the Yankees, tabled the youngster
and lost no time in closing deal
for him.
A wear ago Gilks dug up young
man named Obadiah Tucker from
the Georgia State League. Obadiah
could sock. Higgins wanted to
leave him in New Orleans. The
New Orleans club demanded Camp
Skinner. The Pelicans got Tucker
and he was the leading hitter for
that team last season. Now he is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30

Aside from earning our daily
bread, we have many hobbies, one
of which is the stage and the light
literature thereof. Thus it was
that we learned of M Stanislav-
sky. Thus it was that we found
him suggesting something for this
more or less daily communication.
Maxim Gorky's play, 1.-THE
Lower Depths" made an instant
appeal when offered by the Mos
cow Art Theater Company in New
York, though it is what among
stage writer's is known as a "sta-
tic play" that is, making no sug-
gestion of motion. M. Stanislav-
sky was asked for an explanation
of the success of this play, though
given in Russian to an American
audience, with the suggestion that
possibly the director was largely
responsible. Hark to bis reply:
"The director" he said slowly,
lis as the physician assisting at
childbirth. He is not the one to
give birth-he must never be so
foolish as to think that-he can
only wait humbly on the one who
is doing so; he can free creation
of some of it's pangs and some of
the clutter surrounding it.
HE must stand at one side and
let the soul of the actor reveal it
self. All that is moving and ex-
citing in the theater occurs in
the mind and soul of the actor.
When an actor has a complete
psychological insight into his role,
when his feeling about it is clear,
then whatever gestures he makes
will be right. Any gestures, or no
gestures-the role will live and
the play will move. Twenty men
will express themselves in twenty
different ways, and they will all
be right. The director must only
hold the actor to his highest in
tegrity."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
Belongs in Baseball.

NOW this same situation be-
~ longs in baseball quite as
much as in the theater,
though sports writer's seldom ex,
press it. There is different
nomenclature connected with our
national game from that of the
mimic world of the stage. That
may be the explanation.
ain the theater of today" con-
tinues M. Stanislavsky, "the deco
ratOr and the mechanic and even
the director have begun to tyran.
nize. 1t is often no longer the
actors conception which shows it.
self in a role, but that of the deco
rator or the director. | do not near
to rail against that constant frienC
of the actor, the decorator, and less
against the director, the more sc
as | am myself a director. But
| must only urge that no spotlight
that ever was invented car
illumine the soul Of an actor, anc
that it is the actors emotion
which is the life-juice of Che the
ater"
What world of wisdom ir
that last sentence! 1t apple:
most particularly to the stage, OF
which he is speaking. 1t also ap
plies with heavy emphasis to bis
league baseball. 1t is fast be
coming applicable to college foot
ball.
Just as a theatrical compan,
amalgamates the efforts of many
to d certain end, so do the vari
Gus members of a baseball team
or a football eleven unite to brins
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
SIVVANOY CLUB IN LINE
FOR TWO BIG GOLF EVENTS

Should the Siwanoy Golf Club de-
eide to stage the intercollegiate
championship tournament, it will
mean that the Mt. Vernon organi-
zation will have two of the big
events of the season.
The metropolitan amateur has
been awarded to that club, and it is
more than likely that when the In
tercollegiate Golf Association puts
in it's bid for the course, that ST
wanoy will agree to entertain the
boys.
Inasmuch as Jess Sweetser, the
national amateur and metropolitan
champion, is a member at Siwanoy,
It looks as though all would be easy
going for Jess, as he will compete
in this years intercollegiate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
CUPID SPEARS
is ALSO STAR
ON COURT
West Virginia Football Star
Bemoans Fact He For
sock Tennis.

Cupid Spears, West Virginia Uni
versity football coach and Dart
mouth All-American in 1915, is al
ways regarded as a classy football
player, while if the truth were
known Cupid bewails the fact
that he didn't follow up tennis.
Spears was quite tennis player
despite his bulk, and paired with
another elephantic racqueter named
Colby the West Virginia coach won
the Dartmouth fat mems doubles
championship two years running.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
JOE HARRIS PLAYS BALL
BUT WITH FIRE FIGHTERS

Joe Harris, Boston Red Sox
pitcher, and the same Joseph who
figured in the worlds record TWEEN
ty-four-inning game almost a score
of years ago with Jack Coombs,
present Williams College coach,
pitches semi-pro ball every summer.
Harris is a fireman in the Mel
rose, Mass, fire department, the
town from which Herb Hunter, eX-
Giant player, comes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
MASSACHUSETTS GOLF
CLUBS TAX ETHE LEAD

The Massachusetts Golf AssOcia.
ton is the first to decide to shift the
time for it's annual meeting to Octo.
Der. 1t ia always difficult to line
UP the clubs once the usual season
is over, and the Bay State has hit
the idea of staging its yearly gather,
ing from January to October
incidentally, it is understood the
M. G. A. is planning to bring about
affiliation with the. Women's Colt
Association of Boston before many
months have elapsed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
Dog Show a Hit.

Hundreds of Washington people
who hitherto knew little about blue
bloOded dogs became enthusiastic
over the classy CANNES as a result of
a visit to the recent show of the
Washington Kennel Club. Next
years show, it is believed, will be
one of the best attended in the
country.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
TY COBB WORTH WHOLE
TRAINLOAD OF PLAYERS

Sal Sava, former star pitcher of
the Bridgeport team OF the Eastern
League and a great pal of Ray.
Grimes, smuggling first sacker Of the
Chicago Cubs. relates that when the
old International League embraced
four upstate clubs and four in Penn
sylvania, the upstate clubs, on
every southern invasion" of the cir
cult, hired a special train to carry
the upstate half of the league into
Pennsylvania.
One day when the four teams
We're all parked safely away, one of
the players stood out on the plat
form and after giving the train the
double-o, yelled out; "A million dol
lars worth of baseball players, and
Hughey Jennings wouldn't swap Ty
Cobb for the whole trainful."
lie escaped without serious injury.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
SARAZEN is NOT OVER
EFFECTS OF HIS ILLNESS

The failure of Gene SaraZen to
make any kind of d showing In the
southern California open champion
ship is surprise to golfers, who
believe that the champion has not
yet recovered from the effects Of
his illness.
SaraZen has an ailment in his
game now which with another
player might be serious. He has
lost confidence in his putting
With q player, however, of the
champions temperament, the loss
Of his putting should be only a tenn
pOrary affair
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30

The weakest spot in the Kids
1922 machine has been completely
braced by the acquisition of Willie
kamm, and the inner defenses
should be second to none in the
Junior organization when the bell
rings at Cleveland on April Is.
Although it now appears a cinch
that Shelly, Collins, Johnson and
kamm will man the four infield sta
tions on inaugural day, there's a pos
sibility that one of the youngsters
corraled by the Old Romans ivory
hunters may spring a surprise and
be chosen for regular service.
Next to Kamm the interest of
the South Side fans centerS about
Leo Taylor, shortstop; Ray Wood
worth, second baseman, and two
new Outfielders, Roy Fish and
Howard Pennington.
The cash customers have heard
glittering reports concerning this
quartet, and Gleason, wise old bird,
10 expected to develop them into bril-
liant performers.
Pennington and Elsh both swat
right-handed, and, in addition to
packing considerable drive, are ex-
ceedingly active on the paths. The
former halls from the Grand Rapids
club, where he established batting
mark Of 1920 during the 1922 season,
in addition to stealing fifty-three
bases.
Singularly, he has been a member
OF a championship club ever since
he entered organized baseball three
years ago. He was with the South
Atlantic League title-Winners in 1920,
with Birmingham, champs of the
Southern Association, in 1921, and
with Grand Rapids last year.
Fish, who started last summer
for Sioux City i'm the Western
League, also is a pr0digi0us per.
former in the daily offensive. his
sticking average for 1922 reading
1855. In addition he streaked
around the tOwpath while ring
ing up a record of fifty-three
steals.
Pennington and Fish are expected
to furnish a lot of competition for
Bib Falk, Johnny Mostil and Harry
Hooper, the South Side regulars of
1922, when the training program is
set in motion.
Falk and Strunk, by the way, are
heading honeward from their tour
of the Orient with Herb Hunter
all-major leaguers, and are due to
arrive at San Francisco on Febru-
AIRY 10.
Secretary Gardiner announced re-
ceipt. of a letter from Red Faber,
the curving Cascadian. who, with
Mrs. F'aber. left Chicago in October
for an extended sojourn in the
Northwest rs guests of Earl Sheely,
and in San Diego, where the climate
Ii just the thing for a salary arm.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
LOOKING 'EM OVER
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER
WE INTRODUCE STANIsLAvSKY

ETS add little glitter polish sports column today
by introducing Constantn Stansavsky, the generally ad
rhfatsr now playing at Al Josns theater opposite
before heard Of either Of the Moscow Art
have never heard of of Ban Johnson
DaH Itself So that makes Why do introduce this
stranger from ar-away Moscow? WE'LL there similarity
between baseball and the stage and thater
company, between the
comm
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
Girls Bowl Men.

Right sharp performers must be
the girl bowlers Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission who will op-
pose the Concurrence team of the
Interstate League Thursday night at
the Kingpin. The girls waived the
usual handicap offered by the men
i'm mixed contests.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
HILLTOP INDOOR MEET
FORESEEN AS SNAPPY

With Yale, Princeton Pennsylvania Navy, Virginia Maryland
athletes competition
field carnival
University Convention Hall February 2 the Hilltop
ment appears to be staging quite an indoor show. .
scheduled attractions
today announced their willingness to cooperate with the Capital
bringing here athletes
graduates anxious in action
authorities,
athletes of distinctive caliber.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
Champs Lose Players.

Several members Of the champion
Mohawk baseball team will be miss
ing when the call to arms is sounded
next spring Beall, Watt, and
Schmidt, first string pitchers, all
will be away. Beall is slated for
Rochester, Watt for Norfolk, and
Schmidt, a marine, is in Chicago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
George Fisher Signs.

George Fisher, the rookie OUT
fielder from st. Joseph in the
Western League, has sent in his
signed contract and will be at Tam
pa on March ! to start his fight for
a berth with the Griffmen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
They Are AutOmatons.

they Are AutOmatOnS.
THE big league ball player to-
day, especially on certain
teams, is but an automaton.
John McGraw recently said in his
alleged autobiography that he sig
nailed for every pitched ball de-
livered by his pitchers against the
Yankees in the last world series.
On some football elevens, notably
Harvard during the regime of
Percy Haughton, the quarterback
had absolutely no initiative what
ever. He was hardly more than
a voice crying in the wilderness of
the, gridiron.
The most successful team, it ap-
pears to me, is that in which the
various members are permitted to
use their own brains, granted they
have them. Such was the old Bal
timore club in the National League,
the White Sox under Fielder Jones,
the Pirates under Fred Clarke, the
Boston club under Frank Selee.
Ty Cobb, from the beginning of
his big league career, did his 0wn
thinking, whether at the plate, on
the bases or in the field. And yet,
if observation counts for anything,
he does all the thinking for his
Tigers today when he has become
manager. In other words, that
which he did cannot be done by
those working under his direction.
Just as modern stage custom is
placing a premium upon lack of
intelligence, SO, too, do modern
baseball and football habits place
a premium upon the dolt, the phys
ically strong but the mentally
weak.
Nevertheless, the life-juice0 of
baseball is the players emotions,
with their reactions, just as on the
stage. There can be no disputing
this.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
WHITE SOX WILL STAGE
HOT BATTLE-ROYAL
IN TEXAS CAMP
By HAROLD JOHNSON.

CHICAGO Jan. 30An odashioned battleroy is promised
among the White Sox oueders regulars and rockies when spring
launched month nence
fact judging the data file President
there's competition
ranks of the infielders.
Kid Gleason has been equipped with exceptionally classy
talent the coming through Uncle Toms Cabin circuit
and the fact of the Hosed management indnes to
Manhattans
directing third straight title Hugmen. Out around Thyfth
they October
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
7Gf255'
YANKEES EXPECTING KICKS.

OLD pen welded by stout determined genuea
office this week. are likely 70 cause
~ ang crashing of teeth various and sunoIy pai
United States where certain members VI NAo A"i ~
the good winter -. - ao.+-.o+. bn tho
will receive their contracts 3y
end of the first of next These documents VIII DC M
them Will be returned
On the dotted line the marks of tears the place
where salary figures written AT least mat ; t
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
He Denies Report.

Paul Robson, former athletic
star at Rutgers, denies reports that
he is training to become boxer.
On the other hand" he says he Is
about to take the bar examinations
in New York.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
They Play Hockey.

Many of Harvard's leading foot
ball players, including George Owen,
are identified with the hockey
squad this winter. Owen is cap
tain of the team.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30

No school is too far distant from
Washington to cause the Hilltop
pers to decline an invitation on the
grounds of expense. Last years
meet was a huge financial success,
considerable number having been
turned away at the doors, and with
better meet than ever in prospect
next month, it is felt that no ap-
prehensions need be entertained as
to the financial aspects of the
affair.
The officers of any of the Wash.
ington alumni associations are in
vited to communicate with Arthur
B. Meah, manager of track at the
Hilltop. with respect to any repre-
sentatives Of their schools they may
want to be invited here.
With great sprint series
scheduled between McAlliSter,
MurchisOn, LeCOney and Farrelel
and a special mile likely between
JOie Ray, Jimmy Connolly, Cur
tisS, late of Annapolis, and kiviat,
the holder Of many records, there
is but little reason to doubt but
that Georgetown will stage the
greatest meet of the year.
Meanwhile, the success of the Blue
and Gray team in indoor competi-
ton in and around New York makes
it appear that any of the universe
| I;e.A@ hnf
at the Georgetown games will have
considerable difficulty in defeating
the hosts for point honors.
Jimmy Connolly, captain of the
team, has found the climate of
the Capital rather a difficulty for
the past few years. And, he has
been persistently bothered with
colds. But this winter has been
SO open that he has been able to
| work himself into the greatest con-
dition of his career.
All difficulty with his throat
seems to have been remedied by an
operation on his tonsils last fall,
which incidentally has improved
his general condition considerably.
His great performances within the
past week in the Fordham, Sauna
lar and Brooklyn college games
seem to indicate that he is in for
! a long campaign of notwithstanding.
The HilltopperS are enthused
over the announcement that Oxford
will send over a two-mile relay
team to the Penn games in April.
Georgetown counts on having the
best four on this side of the water
this year and will be happy to
match strides with the invaders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
Want Basket Games.

The Mardelles want games with
110-pound teams having gyms. Her
man Witt, of 1903 Ninth street
northwest, phone North 2441 after
6 %. M, is the manager.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
Hornshy Makes Many
Errors Washing
Dishes

Rogers Hornsby may be a
great fielder at second base, but
according to his wife he makes
too many errors at home to
wash the dishes. "He drops
too many at home," she says.
Harassed husbands may per-
haps see a method in this APP
parent madness Of the leading
second baseman of the game.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
THE DAYS
Biggest Lie
BY w. E. JOHNSON.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
Jan. 3O-When boarding house
caught fire, university student.
saved own life by pouring
pitcher of water out of third
story window and sliding down
icfcle. This happened July 5,
1899.
Can you think of a bigger lie
than that? II so. send it to Big
gest Lie Editor today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30

ton at the University of Southern
California, having been there but
two years, on the varsity. / had
planned, however, to take voyage
to New Zealand to do some sprint
ing. but Morris Kirksey went in my
stead. In checking up found
the time consumed would have kept
me away from California so long Il
would not have been back in Los
Angeles when the spring term
opened at the university.
I'm still a young fellow, but ]
have already begun to map out my
life work. First off, in June of this
year, will take up ChautauqlIa
work. The way this is scheduled
now I will continue In this work
for two years"
Paddock's rise to world recogni-
ton as a sprinter has been one OF
the marvels of American, IL not
the worlds athletics. He was born
in Gainesville, Tex, August IL, 1900.
His parents moved to California the
same year. The Golden State has
been his home in the intervening
| years.
Paddock first became interested
i'm athletics while attending the
Los Angeles Elementary School In
1913. He has been competing I'm
State, Western and national cham
piOnsIlips ever since, a total of
nine years. For three years he
was State champion for 100 and
| 22O yards, the standard distances.
During the world war he went
overseas, being in the field artillery.
While in the service he competed in
championship events in France,
challing up a new world record
when he was victor at the interal-
lied games at Pershing stadium at
Paris in 1919.
In 1920 Paddock won the Olympic
championship at Antwerp, Belgium.
and also was national champion
that year.
| Paddock is a stocl1y-built, broad
shouldered youth with a shock of
| almost carroty-red hair. He speaks
impersonally Of his records, and
modestly admits he does not drink.
chew or smoke. He lives with his
parents at Pasadena, Cal, and has
done considerable writing as mem.
tber of the staff of one Of the Pasa.
dena daily newspapers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30

back with the Yankees. That's the
way ball players are developed.
They rarely make the big league
grade the first year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30

about certain end, victory. M.
Stanislavsky believes that the d.
rector and the decorator and the
mechanic, by overemphasis upon
their parts, can ruin an other
wise successful stage production.
Overmanagement can ruin a
baseball team. Too much coach
does the same for a varsity
eleven.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30
PADDOCK BE GINS STUNTS
FOR COMING MEETS
By WILLIAM PARKER
Cosmorol,tan Naxwa Servaee.


30Chare Paddock world
began this week with the University of Southern California
squad observers who daily gather the college fields
young showing promise of making world
he gets into action.
correspondent today the A A. u will shortly restore
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-30

Girls Clash at Bowls.
The Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone girls and the Western
Union maidens will meet tomorrow
night on the Kingpin alleys.