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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-22
Sense and Nonsense
COUNTRY VISITING.
(By Abe Martini.


cit wuz sorry day fer tn
farmer when tn automobile was
invented, . said Jake Bentley,
t'day.
"a farmer an his family used
t be reasonably sure of few
quiet Sundays certain amount
of peace am privacy, but that
a thing o. tn past.
so course we used t know that
we had some relatives scattered
through t. states-maybe an aunt
-!IYH .ql luq-uMo4 III oMl 40
hood 0 ever sein' 'em wuz blamed
remote.
"All durin tn Chicago world s
fair we only seen one relative-a
nephew. He wuz from New Hamp-
shire an got ont us somehow an
drove over in a buggy from Cham
palgn, Illinoy, t. see us, but he
only stayed an hour an didn't
want any thing.
my wife's aunt's half brother
an his family, o. Provo, Utah,
has been viSitin' us fer two weeks
an hopes t. start t drive back
before tn fall rains set in.
Last Sunday we had two
uncles, four nephews, seven cOus-
ms, an an ole chap my father
knew durin' the civil war, fer din
ner an supper. All come over
land.
II never knowed pop had
brother till tn automobile was in
vented, an my wife thought her
sister wuz dead.
MY brothers. first wife stayed
three weeks with us in May, an
she didn't know he wuz divorced
an married agin. She thought he
wuz lost.
Yesterday we got letter from
a Teller I used t go t school with
in Hancock, Maryland, ffty-fve
years ago. His Letter wuz dated
at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, en- route, an
he an his family will visit US
few weeks. He works fer NAL
order house and stumbled ont
ur address.
- Al Timmons has sold out his
m an has moved over int
y ryan county, where he's farm
ii under an assumed name jest
10 Gil rid o. tourin' relatives.
We've killed erery chicken on
tn farm, an next Sunday we're
goin T. begin t. serve hot dogs on
pasteboard plates as nav jest
can't stand tn cookin an dish
washin'.
Distance don't mean nothin'.
Relatives II find you wherever tn
roads cut out. We've had 'em
from Socora, New Mexico; Med
frod, Oregon; Jeanerette, Louis
lana; Hillsdale, Michigan, an
Copper Creek, Canada, an we've
got fresh consignment comm
in from Maryland.
"Ill be gosh dinged if tryin'
T. operate a farm haint work
enough without tryin' t run
hotel an garage on tn side.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-22
Wanted Story wan a Purpose.

Billy had fallen and hurt himself.
and called him to me saying: Don't
cry, Billy. Come here. and III tell
you a story"
He stopped sobbing, and came.
Tell mo what kind Of a story You
want" said
We'll" he said with sigh. tell
me one that will make my thinks glad
again."-EXchange
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-22
Increased Use of Tobacco

Smoking is on the increase in the
United States. There was jump of
156 per cent in the value of cigars and
cigarettes from 1914 to 1921, and of
this 4 per cent was from 1919 to 1921
The value in 1914 was S314,SS4,0O0:
1919. $773,6G2,OOO. and 1921. $685.
$4,000
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-22
The Other Way Around.

81 want to get divorce from
my husband.
son what gromd2" asked the
lawyer.
Insanity"
Was he crazy at the time of
your marriageY"
"Oh, dear, no; was. Boston
Transcript.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-22
Blind Persons Privileged.

Blind persons who reside In On
tario may travel free of charge on the
street cars of Toronto and environs.
Applicants for passes on this account
must be totally blind
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-22
Chinese War Lords Ask
Prices on Poison Gas

China is asking for bids on
poison gas and instructions
for It's use. The war lords Of
that country are anticipating
civil war and they want to shoot
gas at each other.
The representative Of an
American firm, doing business
in China, was recently APP
proached and asked for prices
on quantities Of deadly gases
for immediate delivery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13

Misses colIett and Cummings
Expected to Compete in
British Play.

That America will have two OF
it's most formidable golfers abroad
at the time that the British ladies'
championship tourney is played this
year is now a certainty.
Miss Edith Cummings of Chicago,
who is generally hailed as one of
the first four women players in the
country, sailed for Europe recently,
and, inasmuch as she is not plan
ming to return to America until
June, it is quite probable that she
will be one of the competitors in
the British championship which is
to be held in May.
Miss Glenna Collett, of ProVi-
dence, the national title holder and
winner of the women's eastern
championship, is making her plans
for the British event, and it is not
at all improbable that few others
will Join the attacking party. Miss
Cummings was a winner of the
Western New York title last year
and was one of the semi-finalists in
the national tournament at White
SULPHUR Springs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
REB RUSSELL'S
ARM ITCHING
TOSTART
May Be Seen in Box for the
Pirates Before Next Sea-
son Is Over.

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13.-Don't be
surprised if Eweu Albert Reb) Rus
sell, the hard-hitting right fielder,
isn't out there working on the rub
Der for the Pirates some afternoon
next season. He declares that his
pitching arm is as good as it ever
was, in fact, last fall he told Man.
ager Bill McKechnie that he would
60 in and pitch any time Bill
wanted him to do so.
McKechnie probably would do. a
lot of thinking and would also hest
tate before deciding to use Russell
as regular pitcher, even IL he
was sure in his own mind that Reb
could win games in the National
League. When Russell joined the
Buccos last summer he supplied
the necessary batting punch that
had been lacking all season, and on
account of his hitting Russell may
be peedkd every day.
While with the Chicago White
Sox from 1919 to 1918, Reb Russell
proved To be q whale" of a pitch.
er. He had speed, a sharp break.
ing curve, and best of all, control
He could always beat the danger.
Gus clubs Of the American League
Russell, Of course, knows very
little about the National League
hatters except from what he has
seen Of them during his short stay
with the Pirates. but it would moi
take him long to learn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
ESTERN Steps
OUT IN TITLE
SERIES
Composition for School Title
Appears to Be Between
Green's Team and Central.

+
Competition for the high school
day to have resolved into q battle
between Central and Western.
Western won it's second game OF
the series at the Coliseum when
Tech was defeated, 80 to AZ, and
Eastern's lighting team bowed to
Business, Fl to 20.
Comparative showings in the Sc
ries make Western q favorite TO WIN
the title. In the opening game OF
the title campaign Western easily
disposed OF Business, while Central
had fearful time subduing Eastern,
which had little to offer besides e
spIend1d lighting spirit.
so Westerns easy victim was aple
to triumph over the team that gave
it's rival, Central, a tough scrap. This
would appear to make Western Ia
vorite to cop the championship.
Westerns lads are battling Tor
something more than the city title.
They are more eager, perhaps, tnan
otner teams IN the series 10 WIN the
privilege OF meeting Chicago.s cnam-
pion school team in an interclty
championship contest here in Marcn.
George Green, the western coacn'
keenly interested IN affalrs OF the
Mldole west Wnere ne mas summer
camp Tor boys, Is naturally ueslfous
OF having his lads appear In the Dig
game. Green was in chicago re-
Gently and sized up the high school
situation there. He has used the
chicago game In spurring ms young
sters to great effort. ana western
IS determined ana con1ldent that Cen
tral, champion or last season, VIII
fall before its smoothly working
team.
Green shifted Capt. Paul Frisby
from center to forward and In.
creased the OFFENSIVE strength or
Western. The Wearers or red dis
played some classy teamwork and
stopped Tech cold. The Manual
Trainers, their regular team hurt
by the recent eligibility ruling, can
hope for little.
Eastern no doubt will give every
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
CONTEST
EXPECTEDBY
WESTERNS
Crack 135-Pound Team Meets
Yosemite Tonight in ingram
Gymnasium.

Western A. c., which has taken
the lead in competition for the
135-140-pound independent basket
ball title, is counting on stiff oppo-
sition tonight from the Yosemite
A. c., which has played only a few
games in it's class, but is known as
a powerful young combination. The
game will be. played in the Ingram
gym, not the Peck gym, as had
been announced.
Yosemite has played a number Of
teams in the unlimited class and
come away in good shape. Boiling
Field, which trimmed the Washing
ton Collegians when the latter were
strong, defeated Yosemite by a mar
gin of only one point, 90 to 10, in
a practice game.
Walter Reed, with a strong quint
in the military league, took Yosem-
ties measure by only 20 to 10 in
practice.
Georgetown A. G. handed Yosem-
lite a walloping in an early contest,
but since then the Yosemite play.
ers have shown much more team
work and Individual skill.
Western A. c. has the finest rec.
| ord in it's class. Here are it's VIC
tories: Calvary M. E., 1912; st.
Paul, 1914; Hilton, 2S-25; Otis,
65-11; Linworth, 1927; Mt. Pleasant,
1898: Elliott, 20 forfeit); Delta
Gamma Tau, 20 (forfeit); Dean,
1874; Black Spots, 1913; Park View.
42-15; Columbia, 1920; Faith, 1929;
Takoma, 1921.
The Navy Yard quint, unlimited
class, defeated Western A. c. AZ
to 33, and Warrenton High School
with one of Virginia's leading high
school quintS, beat the Westerns
SO to rs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13

AS indicated before, the Dominic.
can Lyceum Club Is about every
thing in the life of Happy Raeder.
It's successes are his; failures. too.
Through the long and bitter base-
bali campaign of 1922 Happy stuck
to Dominican Lyceum Hike q bar
nacle to a ship Wherever was
Dominican Lyceuln there. too. was
Happy.
His peculiar high-pitched, draWl-
ing voice distinguished him apart
from the rabble and roar Of the
baseball crowd. 1t was q trick q
Happy,s to take d place on the side.
line Of the opposing team and
there root for Dominican Lyceum.
In the camp Of the enemy,
Raeller could dull the sharp wits
az 3 dozen opposing rOOters ~
the keeness 81 his own. There
were times, though. when Happy
waxed more irOnic than might
have been wen for his physical
beiI1r had not Dominican Lyceum
fans Or players gently persuaded
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
EXPECTING
NO WAR OVER
ORAF I RULE
President Toole Believes Ma
jors Will Come to Their
Senses.

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.--In state.
ment made public today. John Con-
way Toole. president OF the Inferno
tional League, predicted there would
be no war between the major and
minor leagues over the new phase
of the draft issue.
AFTER they get. q chance to think
1t over" he said, 1.-THE majors will
realize that they made a blunder and
that their position il untenable."
Toole was emphatic in stating his
league would accept no players sent
to it with the proviso that such play
ers be subject to draft.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13


"Willard's talk about being
thirty-six years of age does not de-
ceive me at ALL" says Chairman
Muldoon. "The question of his
age was Investigated some time
ago. and there is not the slightest
doubt that he is past forty years
old"
Myron L. Willard, brother Of the
former champion, at Westmore-
land, Kan, the county seat Of
Pottawatomie county, is quoted as
saying, "Jess will be forty right
soon now" The records in the
probate court are to bear this out
in detail.
In 1918, three years after his
triumph over johnson at New Or
leans, Willard was q target for
those who wanted all prominent
athletes in the army. Stacker"
had become q word Of dire omen.
Plans were being made for a bout
between Fred Fulton and Willard
on July 4, 1918, and hundreds Of
critics were roasting the cham
pion alive daily.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
A Poor Contest.
CONTEST between Villa


A CONTEST between WIZARD
u and Dempsey would be a
"A poor contset at best and the
wonder of it all is that Tex
Richard, usually considered wise
man when it comes to sporting
events, is willing to bark to the
request of the big Kansan.
Some 10000 men and women
paid all the way from S. to son.
not to mention war taxes, to see
Dempsey defeat Carpenter. 1t
is doubtful if half that number
would have paid but SIS each to
have seen a repetition OF that
''battle of a century"
Some $4,000 men and women
saw the downfall of Willard at
Toledo. 1t is doubtful If more
than a handful would pay real
money to see Willard attempt IN
1928 what he could not do in 1919,
allowing that they had witnessed
the destruction of the behemoth
at Toledo.
Willard is the only former
champion with any possible claim
to a bout with Dempsey, but
there are several others more en-
titled because Of generally reeog-
nized ring value. Harry Wills
Tom Gibbons and, possibly, Bill
Brennan would make a better
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
Issues . Statement.

I'm APRIL 9, 1918, almost five
years ago, Willard issued
a formal statement, defend
ing himself against the charges
of those who would put him in
khaki and send him to the trenches.
He said:
"I am close on to forty years Of
age and have wife and : five
children. / am far beyond the
draft age. It's a matter of law,
not choice. When the President
sees fit to call men Of my age, |
will be ouly too glad to respond.
It's my country first, then my
SELF"
If Jess Willard was "close on to
forty" on April 8, 1918, he is
close on to forty-five today.
Willard was married in 1908.
He then gave his age as twenty
six. In that case he is now forty
one, or close to it.
In the application for guardian
ship papers over Willard in 1901,
his age was given as nineteen.
That would make him forty or
forty-one today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
OLD BASEBALL MAONATE
IS DEAD IN CLEVELAND

Howard w. White of Cleveland,
who awas one of the owners of the
Cleveland club when that team
was in the National League, died
last week.
white was one OF seven Cleve-
landers who placed Cleveland In
the old American Association in
1887, his associates being Frank
ne Hass and Stanley Robson,
George Howe, Charles Brayton,
Charles Sheffield and Davis Haw-
lev. OF the seven Hawley now is
the only survivor.
land entered the National League
in 1889, but the Robson brothers
purchased their partners interests
in 1892.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
Farrell Seeks Job.

Charlie Duke Farrell, in his
days a first class catcher with
Washington and Boston in the
American League, is a self-an
rouuced candidate for a managerial
or scouting berth somewhere. With
Bill Dineen. he formed q famous
battery with the old Boston Red
Sox in the early days of the Amer
lean League.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
FIVE REGULARS TUMBLE
TRYING FOR HOME RUNS

Fifty regulars made most of the
home runs scored in the American
League last year, yet five Of them
failed to get even one.
Ernie Johnson, White Sox short
stop; Bill Wambsganss, Indian
secondsacker: Muddy Ruel, Red Sox
backstop: Eddie Mulligan, White
Sox third baseman, and johnny
Bassler, Detroit catcher, make up
the quintet unable to make a four.
ply swat.
Bassler, hitting for more than
800, did not even hit triple, while
Ruel got but one.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
"a Como to Life.

He Comes 20 Lie.
NY the way, Tom Gibbons has
come to life. He is in New
York and seeking to be con-
sidered for a battle with the
champion before the hot weather
sets in. .a
Gibbons is growing bigger each
year, also older, and has now about
reached his prime as q heavy
weight boxer. 1t is true that he
made a sorry showing with Harry
Greb, but the Pittsburgh pinwheel
can make the best Of them look
bad without ever hurting his OPP
ponent..
The st. Paul man was beating
Billy Miske in New York when
the referee discovered foul blow
land on Miske. The physician
found no proof and no one else
in the vast throng happened to
see the foul blow, but the decision
went against Gibbons just the
same.
Later Gibbons severely beat
Miske in st. Paul, the home town
of both men, and now Miske comes
out with a strong boost for Glib
bons as an opponent for Dempsey.
Gibbons is clever boxer. He
lacks the pugnacity of Dempsey,
however. The champion in1presses
one as boxing because he likes it.
Gibbons works like a man on a
contract. What the word painters
call the "divine fire" is missing.
Possibly that explains why Demp-
sey is champion and Gibbons
merely challenger.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13

HAP RAIDER SOL YES HIS
FREE SHAVE PROBLEM
By r. D. THOMAS.

Happy Raeder has his barber shop.
To-day the most ardent sanOt rooer Southwest Washington i
clipping hair and chns the old Seventh
street southwest the Dominican Lyceum Club which the
Of nearly all the Of Raeders life
Haprsp is shorn of the dignity Of proprietor.
king IS dead. the
barber shop who is erstwhile employee Of Happy
those who would ifortune
no sympathize with Raeder
philosophy,
happier and weather. than ever also wiser.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
LeIiveIt Is Kept.

Jack Lelivelt, once q Washing-
ton outfielder, has been retained as
manager Of the Tulsa Oilers in the
Western League for 1923. He plays
first base and clouts the ball well
above the 800 mark.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
COOKING 'EM OVER
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER
HOW OLD IS JESS?

q as one william Mudoon chairman q the new
Jess Willard the ret q ros
aWatomie will be permitted TO- enter tne ring Win
else Recently When LII
Johnson former title holder Of s sTOVn nov cleaning up
ring say said William Muldoon sd mani
edic boxer had reached ms
considered grata Wne y
receiving permission opponent IN the ring
t,sallthp that A v K sg l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
HE CERTAINLY WAS GAME ENOU

Mr.. Armstrong; man smiled as
they faced one another for the
three-round go. He started by jab-
bling the Swede. The latter looked
so soft that Bob's man decided to
stiffen him before the first round
was over. He got to mixing with
the Swede and let him have all he
had. Suddenly, from nowhere in
particular, q wild right caught
Bob's man on the chops and al
most looSened his teeth. Instead
Of mixing, he hoped out of dam
ger and danced. He danced until
the bell. Then he danced the next
two rounds.
Patsy Haley, who had been
watching the pair, said to Arm
strong: "Your man is nice boxer,
Bob, but don't think he's game"
Bob smiled and replied: eyes, he's
game enough, Patsy, he's game,
BUT HE'S GOT TOO MUCH I'M
AGINATION."
The Old Winner Take-AlI Bluff.
nEFORE champions and their
II managers had the eff the
public demands it" bunk to
fall back on in order to avoid a
tough opponent, the boys had the
color line and the winner-take-all
bluff. Sometimes it worked, other
times it just went blooey.
John l.. Sullivan passed up a
few with the color line and tried
to scare off w. A. Brady with his
contender, James J. Corbett, with
the winner-take-alI thing. Brady
called the bluff and then called
the added bluff, which was a $10,-
600 side bet.
1t was hard work digging up
the dough, but Brady managed it,
got the fight and won the title for
Corbett.
The Sydney referee, in speaking
Of the winner-take-all gag, has
this to say:
"a notable case was when Pc
ter Jackson and the giant Mission
Boy, Joe McAuliffe, fought their
memorable battle at San Francis
co many years since. McAuliffe
refused to allow himself to be
matched with Jackson unless the
whole purse was marked for the
winner. After a lot of remon-
strating, during which he pointed
out that he was far away from
his home in Australia and without
money to fall back upon, Jackson
very reluctantly consented.
"The despised Jackson beat the
vain, confident McAuliffe from
start to finish. And the dcspised
Jackson did something more
something which redounded to his
credit far beyond the great vic
tory achieved. He handed Nc
Auliffe a goodly proportion of
the purse as a salve for his
wounds of mind and body. Mag
nanimity such as that had never
been known in pugilism before,
and has not been known since"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
He Takes No Money.

Phil Ball, president of the st.
Louis Browns, has not drawn a
cent of salary in the last seven
years. This comes close to being
a big league record.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
Patsy Cline Ill.

Irish Patsy" Cline, in his day a
capable featherweight and light
weight boxer, ID seriously i'll of
pneumonia ct Lincoln Hospital,
New York.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-13
Land Still Playing.

Grover Land, a Cleveland catcher
ten years ago, will be with Dan.
Vile in the Sally League next
season.