The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-08

3 Ine prizes VIII be distributed at
today's game between the Yankees
and Griffmen. when the entire fif-
teen winners will be guests OF Clark
Griffith and Skillet" Finn, ESQ,
on the occasion of the Yankees
final visit to Washington this
season.
Dezendorf, the first prize winner
OF trip to the world series with
Skillet" is a law clerk in the Blu.
reau or Navigation, Department OF
Commerce.
He is twenty-seven years old
and has never seen q world series.
He graduated from Central High
| School after which he matricuIated
at Georgetown Law School.
He picked his team on the very
last day of the competition. August
81. His wife urged him, to enter the
contest, and after much persuasion
he jotted down his idea of an all
American team and mailed 1t to
Skillet" the envelope being post
marked at 1880 last Friday evening.
j. F. McInteer. winner of the Sec
ond prize, which is also world
series trip, is the day telegraph oper-
| ator on duty at the Quantico sta
ton Of the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac railroad.
McInteer personally took" the
| telegram off the wires in which
Skillet" informed him he had won
| trip to the series as a guest of
The Washington Times.
He declared he nearly had heart
| failure as the magic words ratified
off the wire and before Washington
1 ~ hi
telee raphic acceptance to Skillet"
He submitted his winning comb.
| nation to Skillet" on August Is,
just midway of the competition. Nc
Inteer has seen one world series be-
| fore, the contests between the Cubs
| and Athletics in 1910.
Some of the followers of this
contest will recall semi-editOrial
"Skillet" tossed at the trained and
unframed seals sometime back
about the degree Of baseball en-
thusiasm predominant in the small
country villages as against that
found in the big cities.
Apropos of that theme, skillet"
calls your attention to the fact that
three of the total of fifteen win
ners in this contest are from the
| outlying sections.
McInteer, one of those to take
the trip is in the true sense a
country gentleman" James Ashby,
the lad who wins the Babe" Ruth
bat, significant Of the third prize
in this contest lives at Bronson,
Va, a little postoffice near Sperry~
Vile. incidentally Skillet has q
letter from James mother this
morning stating that the boy In
sick In bed and win be unable to
attend today's ceremony at the bali
park. His prize bat win be saved
for him and awarded him when he
is we'll and can come In to see
Skillet"
The third out-of.towner to ring the
bell in "Slillet's'' competition IL
Winfield Hutchins, Of Owings, Nd,
down there near Chesapeake Beach.
He finished fourth and leads the
dozen bugs who get autographed
baseballs.
All Of the others are ''city guye"
as the saying goes, but three out Of
fifteen and those finishing second,
third and fourth, is sufficient proof
that baseball is followed closely in
that great portion Of the United
States often referred to as "the
sticks"
Skillet" wishes to congratulate
and thank all Of the baseball bugs
who submitted estimates in this In
teresting contest. Without their
ready and cheerful cooperation. the
contest could not have been the talk
of the town. as Skillet" unhest.
tatingly and with pardonable pride
believes that 1t has been.