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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18
"SKILLETS' PLAYMATESI
COMING IN COSTUME

TODAY'S WINNERS ON BRuLHEART.
CHARLES h CoNLEY, 1418 Perry place, two tickets
Buying star pitchers, Like gambling Chances REALLY
Are very greaT)
p. j. BoISEAU 1883 Newton street, one ticket.
Better Root IF Loss Looms Hootng Erring Athletes
Rattles Them.)
HARRY M. KENNEDY, u. g. Veterans Bureau one ticket
(Bush's heRlooms VIII play philadelphia with great
Ambitions april eighTeenth)
which this morning when
entirely osc feed the fans who have
flirting with his contest for the past five weeks
become such habit with skillet that he his most
upon ra baseball wordand his search not hope
less.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18
Eveready Seeks Games.

The Eveready A. c. il all shar;,-
ened up for the season, and seeks
games in the midget division. Phone
the manager at Adams 416.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Totals. "a 10 u l0l Totals 80 824 10
'Batted for Hankins in sixth.
Georgetown. ...... o 0 q Ia
Washington, ...... 0 0 !. 0x~-4
Runs--Rice, Goslln (2). Harris. Muir
ply, Nalley. Errors Peck Flavin.
Crann, Two-base hits-Evans Mudd.
three base hit--Goslin stolen bases
Rice. Sacrifices - Flavin. Left on
bases-Washineton 3: Georgetown, &.
Bases on balls--Jenkins. > HanknA, /;
innings; off Brillheart 2 in 2 innings
Wit by pitchsr--Ry Jenkins lRice)
struck oat--By Jenkins. 3; by Hankins
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

day that baseball sornnambulists
have been sleeping through the
winter to stretch their Semi-con-
scious elbows for. Whatever you
do. don't start any arguments
that haven't got nine innings for
their insidious end.
Insane day for Washington.
opener has been postponed until
bugs of Philadelphia and New
York have been completely tanned
or the equivalent thereof.
Twenty-odd thousand are ex-
pected to whet their eyes on
sublime tableau week from to-.
morrow when lid is pried off
here. Most of them will be so
blamed odd they will be almost
queer. Only those who have
official keepers along are expect
ed to survive afternoons STAN
pede.
Capital City has been thorough
ly warned of impending holo-
caust, so Irate families can't be
surprised if they don't see addicts
crossing doormat with usual hest
fancy. A baseball game is ex-
cuse for anything up to aIiena-
ton suit.
Impartial housewives can make
up their minds to establish photo
graphic or correspondence flirta-
ton with husbands, until next
September at soonest.
When this baseball bug bites,
you have to let disease run its
course.
Frantic victim is usually de-.
tected frothing slightly at the
mouth and having difficulty keep
ing his elbows in place.
His memory is not Trustworthy
on anything except last sea sons
batting averages, and he knows
them backwards, forwards and
sidewise. You bet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Umpires have both thumbs oiled
up to major league limit so that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Be this true or otherwise. the
Mohawks stand ready today to de-
fend their title with anything but
one-man team, and they are firmly
confident that the phantom laurel
wreath captured last year will re-
main as is throughout the ap-
preaching struggle.
A brand new team represents the
champion club. In its lineup are
star performers, even as last year,
but no one of them stands out as
did the redoubtable BeaH.
By shutting out the Philadelphia
Athletics i'm a fhree-hit perform
ance, Bean convinced the Miracle
Man that he made no mistake by
troubling himself to untangle the
young mans twisted status with
organized baseball. BeaIl, IL NAV
be recalled, Outlawed himself by
playing semi-prO ball while sign.
ed to Norfolk. Virginia State
League contract.
The oldest inhabs of Southeast
Washington thought that Finney
Kelly long ago had worn out his
lanky pitching arm. But last year
the four-fingered curve HEAVIER sur
prised them all by cutting down
the enemies of Standard Oil in the
Potomac League.
This is by way of introducing
Finney as a new member of the
Mohawk mound staff. Several
years on the police force may have
made the Irishman a bit flat-footed
but physically as a whole, perhaps.
Il has done him well. Anyway, he
hurled fine ball when it was thought
he was through and Kelly is eager
to try the grind once more.
ArnnAInnr nanuu, and n..r,n,.in.,snl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

They play in all kinds of weather
and have become accustomed to the
conditions which prevail abroad.
They have played so much in the
wind over here that the wind
abroad doesn't BATTLE them any more
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Another new and experienced
pitcher on the Mohawk roster IL
Forrest Thompson. the Southern
Railway star. These many years
Forrest has been a first-stringer
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

They had heard for many years
that there was no wind in the
United States and that Hagen was
an inland golfer and would sue.
cumb to the tricks of the breezes
at the seaside courses. 1t was all
a delusion.
Hagen was the least disturbed
player on the course in the wind.
while the homebreds played as if
they had never played in a wind
before.
The American team which is GO
ing abroad next week expects to
encounter more or less trouble with
the wind at St Andrews
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Insane day for Washington
opener has been postponed until
bugs of Philadelphia and New
York have been completely tanned
or the equivalent thereof.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

The other day at WOlIaston
Francis Ouimet picked out a fifty
mile an hour gale and played a
round with Bobby Jones under
conditions far worse than he has
reason to expect at st. Andrews.
Ouimet and Jones had a hard
time Of il and neither of them
broke eighty.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18
THE DAYS
Biggest Lie

BY GEORGE STOREY.
4 PRIL 1.-THE beIlbOys of
"A the Washington Hotel
have agreed to refuse a larger
tip than a dime.
Can You think of a bigger lie
than that? If so. send it to Biggest
Lie Editor today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Walter Hagen gave the British
golfers a shock at Sandwich last
summer, when they expected him
to be q victim of the strong
wind. They expected that ne
would be all over the course.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Paul Cox. otherwise called Rot.
tie. Fats and wIlatnot, will cover
eenterfiesd, a large part of il
without moving. More than that
Cox viii n1asla &c the team. hay.
ing been selected TO succeed
E'Icky Burns. Burns is now a
Shamrock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

The wind was so strong at times
that a straight ball was carried out
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

and is said to be iusk as effective
as ever.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Impartial housewives can make
up their minds to esta blish photo
graphic or correspondence flirta-
ton with husbands, until next
September at soonest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Freidinger and COvet will fight
II out at second. ad the same goes
Tor Stevens. veteran Of last
year, and Snyder, in right field.
Sothern has a rival for the left
field position in Tony Jarvis.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Frantic victim is usually de.
tected frothing slightly at the
mouth and having difficulty keep
ing his elbows in place.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18
HILLTOP DOES WELL
WASHINGTON
GEORGETOWN

Totals. "a 10 II 10 Totals. "a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

When this baseball bug bites.
you have to let disease run its
course.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

His memory is not trustworthy
on anything except last seasons
batting averages, and he knows
them backwards, forwards and
side-wise. You bet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06

stepped away and said that it was better that
you go with me. And that was wy he made
no effort to fight for you these last days,
Molly-the thing which hurt you most of all.
1t was only the greatness of his love-"
"My dear-my Hall! she cried, in an
anguish of shame and self-reproach. "And
now you forgive me?"
He turned his head away so that she
thought it was refusal, and cried out with
a heart-broken voice.
EYES," he answered, stammering 81 for
give you, God knows l forgive you, dear"
eff you wonder why I'm telling you the
truth" said Keene, cts because l see that
I've failed, and the failure might as well
be complete. Besides, Molly, you admit that
the scheme was clever?"
Her hatred had no voice, but it came
blazing to her eyes,
Lets go-quickly, Hal. hate the room;
the sight of it sears my eyes-and that the
scheme was clever? You must admit that at
least
Burton fingered.
He said in "a singularly low voice: 81
suppose this is the last time we meet, and
for the sake of the old days I'd like to
shake hands with you, Steve"
She pressed in front of him.
cts touching poison to go near him. Hal,
if you love me, come away"
So she drew him from the room he
backing out with his glance fixed upon the
gray face of Keene, who smiled upon them
to the last.
The door closed, and the smile of Keene
continued as he stood staring down into the
dance of the flames. He drew, absent
mndedly, a wallet from his pocket, and ex-
tracted from it dozen little slips of paper.
They were I. o. us signed with the name
of Hal Burton, for amounts ranging from
five to twenty thousand dollars. He let
them flutter one by one down into the fire,
and go WIRING up the chimney like the
notes which children sent to Santa Claus
on Christmas Eve
Copyright, 1922, by the Bell Syndicate,
Inc.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
He smiled again.

he smiled again.
"And of course, by all the laws of chance,
Hal was to have been hopelessly ruined. You
see, when l discovered that | couldn't buy
him, l used the other alternative and started
to complete his ruin"
She drew herself closer to Burton's side,
looking unutterabe hatred toward the big,
wolflike man.
"But that was where failed for the first
time The shaft of the mine was turned in
a new drection-a lode was struck-the
stock suddenly jumped to the sky and Hal
was once more a comfortably wealthy
man."
A little cry of exultation came from
Molly, and Burton slowly wiped his fore
head. He seemed like a man dazed.
"Yet the thing worked out my way, be-
cause Burton, with his fine sense Of honor,
felt that he was under a terrible debt to
me because l had advised the investment
you, Molly, and that was why he seemed
to give up hope and self-respect and you
at the same time. Do you see?"
She only answered. Hal, my dear-my
sweetheart! Do. you forgive me for the
thoughts I've had of you?"
He said in a half-choked voice: "For
Gods sake, hush, Molly-hush!
And Keene was saying: $50 I, in the
CHEEKY part of the devil, when Hal was at
his worst one day"
She caught breath and closed her eyes,
remembering some of those worst" periods.
event to him and laid down the law in
the most matter-of-fact manner. l showed
him his future was an inevitable ruin, and
that he was merely drawing you down into
the mire with him. l showed him his face
in the mirror, and l swore to him that you
already shuddered every time you looked at
him.
He waited a moment, his eyes lowering to
the floor while he drew a breath, and then
went on: "And Hal agreed with me that
there was no hope for you with him-that
he was the lead about your neck And his
love was SO great for you, Molly, that he
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
The Gifted Ghost
By Gardner Hunting

answer and he turned and plunged into the
dark alley.
The back window of the bank proved to
have been left unlocked AS Terry raised
it with exquisite care, the Ghost was at his
elbow again.
when you hand the money over to Nellie,
will you tell her you got the raise you want
ed?" he inquired mildly.
"Aw" exclaimed Terry, and shrugged his
way savagely up on the sill.
Inside, dim light burned beside the
vault door, By it's illumination Terry ap-
peared to see only familiar objects He
seemed quite blind to the sinister shadow
that crouched at the corner of the filing
cases beyond. The Ghost was aware of the
black figure, but it was not his first con-
Germ.
81 suppose it's going to make you and
Nellie quite happy, this money!" he con-
tinued in his catechism.
'"I'm going to have what's minev
snarled Terry, peering around the partition
at the barred front door. 81 know what's
right"
But again he seemed strangely unable to
see. Another form, more bulky than the
first, was creeping stealthily across from
the teller's cage toward the vault
"Often the only thing that's wrong with
a deed people call crime is the method of
doing it, Terry. You're dead sure your
method is right?"
cts the method Pm going to use," re-
turned Terry.
He began to draw himself erect. 1t was
just then that the man creeping toward the
vault came into the light. Without warm
ing, the other, by the files, sprang to his
feet. Almost simultaneously two pistols
spat rose-flame and the confined space
roared with their din. And the bulky man
by the vault gave horrid groan and
slumped to the floor.
Next instant the other man was at the
phone. "Hello! Central This is the bank
Waterman. Tell John Melville a robbery's
been attempted here-and the town marshall
that I've killed mani"
Terry still stood hidden by the partition.
LUCKY you didn't get out there first"
whispered the Ghost, who noted how the boy
was quivering.
"Good Godv' whispered Terry, and COW
cred his face.
OF course little crowd came. And then
John Melville. But, though the back win
Centinusd on Page Thirteen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06

The streets of Hometown lay still and
white under February moon when the
Ghost first came back to use the gift that
lad been given him. Only one young man
stood shivering and wavering at the corner
of the alley 1t was the message from him
that had reached the Gifted Ghost, by that
sort of radio to which the ears of ghosts
are attuned.
"What's the matter. Terry" he asked in
that voiceess whisper that penetrates where
greater noises seem unable to reach.
.I'm through-see?" answered Terry.
sI'm going down there and take that money!
1t belongs to me by rights" He seemed
as unsurpassed as if wraiths who asked
questions about your predetermined under
takings, after you have finally secuted the
last of your weakly persistent misgivings,
were not so uncommon as men say they
are.
"What money!"
"That package of twenties that lies just
inside the vault, exactly where l put it to-
night, when 1 carried it in from the teller's
cage"
"If it belongs to you, why does it hap
pen to be there?"
because old Melville hasn't paid it to
me in salary this three years I've been
working my heart out for him."
He wasn't much more than boy, Terry
Darrell, though he was teller in the old First
National in Hometown. His lips trembled
visibly; the Gifted Ghost felt sorry for him.
But if it's yours" he queried, "why
didn't you take it home with you, instead
of waiting till frosty midnight to go back
and get it-almost like a thief"
'I'm not a thief" The words came like
a cry.
"Of course you're motor President Mel
vile would hardly keep you on"
'He's the thief-every day that he makes
me work for my salary, when I'm ashamed
to face the girl I'm to marry and tell her
there's no raise for me yet"
Frank statement of inside facts seldom
surprises a ghost = he rather expects them.
Besides, this one lived in Hometown and
knew Terry-and Nellie Patterson.
81 suppose you've told Nellie about this?"
he asked.
Terry Darrell gulped and made no reply
audible even to a disembodied spirit.
''Of course, it's for her you want the
money that belongs to you!" pursued that
inquisitive entity.
tive got right to it," Terry found t.
The Washington times., 1923-11-27
DARTMOUTH GETS GAME
WITH HARVARD IN '2A

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 27.-
A tentative Harvard football sched.
ule for next year made public bv
the Harvard Athletic Association to.
day, lists the following games to
the approval Of the committee on
athletics:
October 4, University Of Virginia:
IL, Middlebury; 1S, Holy Cross; 25
Dartmouth; November /, pending.
s, Princeton; 10, Brown; %, Yale
All games will be played in the
Harvard stadium except that with
Yale, which will be staged at New
Haven
An accompanying statement rs.
serts that the game with Dart.
mouth was not to be considered a
fixture for coming seasons.
"The game with Dartmouth" It
read, has been arranged for an.
other year with the understanding.
satisfactory to both colleges, that
neither is to consider it a fixture
The date October 25). is one which
both colleges wish to keep for
future seasons. In the case that
in any year it may seem desirable
to take on some other big game.
whether International or not
The Washington times., 1923-11-27
ATHLET| |CS LET
BARRETT CD
TOO SOON
"Bahston" Bill Proves His Real
Worth with White
Sox.

Connie Mack, Of old, the wizard
at changing ball players into stars
In new positions, didn't try out
Bill Barrett long enough.
"Bahston'' Bills sensational bat.
ting and outfielding with the White
Eox only proves that Connie knew
something, but didn't stick to It
long enough.
Bill went to the AS from the
New England semi-pros in 1921 as
a pitcher. Connie sent him to Earl
Mack's Moline Three.I team for a
season and decided that he wasn't
q pitcher.
But for his batting and aIl.round
baseball ability, Connie switched
him to shortstop. He was carded
to be the 1922 Athletics shortstop
until a grounder hit him in the eve
at the Eagle Pass training camp.
That bad-bounding bali made him
grounder shy. Connie decided he
wasn't any infielder and released
him.
The Washington times., 1923-11-27

victorious army, q funeral Of a
national leader do not excite us.
But they interest as greatly. And
Neutrality-suspicious. love uniforms.
Maybe that's why so many donned
them some five or six years back,
yes, and all who did were not
swivel chair boys, either.
Washington is blase. That's
right. But Washington would just
love to act as host to the military
and naval academies next Noven1-
Der, and Clark Griffith, as an
adopted son of the District of
Columbia, would like nothing
better than to see the Army and
the Navy decide its football argu-
ment on his field.
If those interested mostly in
service football will stir them
selves to keep the ravening wolves
up on the Hill away from the
feast, it should be possible to
stage this game right here in
Washington.
It should be dinned into the
heads of everybody that the pro-
ceeds Of this game 90 to the
widows and orphans Of service
officers and that everybody who
attends the game free of charge
is taking away three dollars from
some woman or some child.
Americans are q sentimental
people, but this side Of the argu-
ment has never been showed to
the front. It should appeal to
them If offered rightly.
Suppose capable artists pre-
sented posters, such as were seen
during the great war, showing
what becomes Of the proceeds Of
these annual service games, it
might shame some Of the 1--WE
boys" into loosening up to the
extent Of three dollars per, thus
ending for all time one Of the
principal complaints heard against
Washington as a scene for this
big football game.
AS for the hotels and the
theaters, Washington has handled
bigger things than a service foot
ball game without dishonor. It
can do it again. Let's hope it
gets a chance.
The Washington times., 1923-11-27
.HE|N|E bunker
MAY CAPTAIN
HARVARD
Is One Of Four Varsity Line
men Who VIII Return
Next Season.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Nov. 27.
Heinie bunker, tackle in 1922 and
guard for the last month this.
season, IL the man most likely 20
be elected captain tor the Har-i
ward 1924 eleven. bunker IS one
OF the four varsity Hnemen who
win be back another season.
The entire right wing, Hill, East
man and Captain Hubbard win be-
graduated in June, but Greenough.
bunker, Evans and Combs all VIII
be hack next fail. Lee. the first
string quarterback, ID q senior, but
both McGlone and Spalding VIII
be back for another season. COs
burn has played his last game land.
so has jenkins, but Cheek and
Hammond will be available next;
September for the backfield.
Both substitute cenfers, s. Brad
ford and Herman, are through, as
is Grew, first substitute guard; r.
Hubbard and HObson, the second
pair OF tackles. Crosby and Cor
don, two ends, alCo have finished
with college football.
Pfaffmann and Lockwood. sub
stitute backs, also are through, but
Harvard will have CordingIy, Howe,
Samborski and Maher for the back
field next, fall and the Bradford
twins for the tine, for which Vic
tor, Daniel, TheopoId, Adle and
Macomber also win be available.
The Washington times., 1923-11-27
Zuppke Has Referee
Playing On Scrub
Eleven

Playing this year for the third
season as center Of the scrub
team, there is certain young
man at the University Of Illi-
nois who is the center Of an
amusing story. To Coach
Zuppke he is known simply as
referee"
The story is that in his sopho-
more year he was chasing an
opposing back down sideline.
Suddenly he stopped and allowed
the player to continue easily to
the goal line. After the game
Zuppke asked him about it. ~
thought he was out of bounds"
replied the player.
Eve pay four men good money
to decide when a player is out Of
bounds" said Zuppke, land they
will do it. Your business is to
play football; not to referee.
Tackle every man with the ball,
no matter if he is ten feet out Of
bounds
The Washington times., 1923-11-27
JUDGE lands IS
NOT AFRAID
To FIGHT
Pride Neither viii Keep Him
From Defending His
Position in Game.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.--Judge
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball
commissioner, will not be too proud
to fight" in the baseball meetings
booked for Chicago next month.
Something has been said to the
effect that I am 'grasping after
power because an amendment has
been offered to the major league
agreement which will put appeals
by the umpires under my jurisdic-
tion,' said the commissioner today.
THAT is only something which
should have been in the agreement
from the start. 1t was overlooked
when the agreement was first
drawn. The commissioners office
viii have no more power over the
umpires' work on the field, over
their work in baseball games than
now. What is desired is a way to
settle financial disputes"
This is taken to mean that Com
missioner Landis desires official au-
thOrity to act in such cases as that
submitted to him by the umpires Of
the recent world series games, for
their work in which the umpifes
asked more pay.
The Washington times., 1923-11-27

The business meeting was no
awake and the amount Of good COM.
quiet affair. Every GIRL was wide
mon sense that flew back and forth
argues well for the clubs future.
Basketball has started and the
next few practices will be at ingram
Church Friday night at 10 o'clock
and at Central High School Mon
day night at o'clock.
Pamphlets for the enIightment Of
any girl desiring information about
this club can be found at all sport
stores.
So, altho the doubters' eyebrows
may be lifted ana the unbelievers'
smile grow wide, this club. 'For.
women, OF women and any woman"
is growing, and IL their purpose
to put Washington women on the
map is not accomplished. 1t win be.
because there is no map-not be-
cause our National Capital women
are unable to take possession.