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The Washington times., 1923-12-07
TAKEN TO FACE CHARGE
or sWINpLINO VETERANS

Steven n. Babinchack. thirty-one
= nhotoprapher. went back to Mil
lers. Ohio. last night. to face grand
Jury indictmenes alleging he had
swindled war veterans OF more Inan
81, 900.
Babinchack was arrested here by
Detective Sergeants O'Brien and
livingstone, just as he was about
q leave the country. Police charge
that the prisoner had accepted de-
nosists on photographs which ne
never delivered.
aWere you sitting on the front
seat or the rear seat?
II was on the front seat.
What kind of a car was IT.
"a Dodge touring car.
You were sitting on the right
hand side, them
Petting Party?
-um-ah--nO-no, sir. was
sitting on the left side"
How could you be sitting on
the left side IL the defendant was
driving?"
'.He wasn't driving. Your Honor.
was
A Gallant Goat.
Defendant (Out OF turn: She
has permit, Your Honor, and
SO have I. The accident wasn't
really her fault, although it looks
like it. I'm ready to accept all
responsibility for her. ask that
the court permit me to continue
as defendant"
Unfortunately that is beyond
the courts power. There is no
testimony that the defendant was
driving as alleged In the informa-
ton, and the case against him
must be dismissed"
Some different from the turnip
feller, eh? Amt things the limit?
The Washington times., 1923-12-07

car and permitted her 10 Be brought
Is trial FOR the collision.
on the testimony 0f the witnesses
that Mrs. Reed was not driving
she was acquitted and case
against her husband taken up bv
the corporation counsel,s office III
was the intention To issue < war.
rant. according to Hauschild, but
Reed agreed to appear for trial today
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
DATES ARE Sc |
FOR GOLF
TIL IS
Big Events Scheduled for
America, Britain, Canada,
and France.

The following dates for national
championships both in America and
Great Britain have been scheduled:
United States Golf Association
meetings - Public link champion
ships, June 26 to 30. Potomac Park.
Washington; open championship,
July 8 to IS, Inwood Country Club,
Far Rockaway; amateur champion.
ship, September 10 to Is, aF'IosslnOor
Country Club; womer1's champion
ship, October to 6, Westchester
Biltmore C. c.. Rye, N. Y.
Western Golf Association-Ama-
teur, July 90 to %, Mayfield Country
Club, Cleveland; open, September 20
to %, Colonial Country Club. Mem
phis: women's championship. August
81 to September /, Exmoor Country
Club; junior, no date, Chicago.
British championships = Amateur.
May z to IL. Dean, England; open,
June IL to Is, Troon, Scotland; wonl-
ems, May z to II, Durham and
Barrow.
Royal Canadian Golf Association
Amateur, week of July 2, Kanawaki
Club, Ottawa; open championship, no
day selected as yet, Lakeview Golf
and Country Club, Toronto; women's
championship, no date selected, Mt.
Bruno Golf Club, Montreal.
French championships - Amateur,
July 4. Dieppe; open. July 1, Dieppe;
women's, June Is, Chantilly.
Metropolitan Golf Association
Amateur, at Siwanoy Country Club,
Mt. Vernon. June 6, Z, 8 and 8; open,
at Canoe Brook, July 18. 10 and. 90;
women's, week of June II, at West
chester Biltmore; Junior. June %, 20
and 80, at Garden City Golf Club.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
The Boost for Shrek.


<<THAT reminds me of the
time they wrote up Mike
Shrek.
81 was in Chicago doing an act
when a reporter friend of mine
asked me what / thought of
Shrek. l told him / had never
seen Mike.
"'Well,' he said, "a friend of
mine is Mikes manager and a
little boost from you would be
appreciated
81 told him to go ahead and
write up some stuff saying that
| thought Mike was a good man.
"He wrote it up all right" piped
James, with a laugh. "He wrote
it up. saying that l was willing
to bet on Shrek against Jeffres
and a lot more junk. ! want to
tell YOU that when Al Kaufman
knocked Shrek out a few weeks
later, l was the joke of the town.
81 guess I'll have to give out
typewriter interviews after this,
the way the financiers do, or else
take each writer before a notary
and give my talk. I'll have to
find out, too, whether the writer
wants me to tell him WHAT L
THINK of a fighter, or whether
he wants me to give him a
BOOST.
"It's tough going these DAYS"
said James as he relit the stogie
and eased his way through the
parade of strutters.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
YALE WINS THRILLING
VICTORY OVER TIGERS

PRINCETON. Feb. 23.-Yale went
into a tie with Cornell for first
place in the Interscholastic Basket
bali League by. virtue of a one
point victory over Princeton, the
score being 20 to 81.
1t was a heart breaking game for
the T-~ors TO lose, for a few min
utes before the final whistle they
were leading by a three-point mar.
gin. Throughout the entire game
neither teams lead was more than
three points, and first one five and
then the other would jump ahead
for a few minutes.
In addition 10 it's being one Of he
fastest games witnessed here This
year, it was also one of the cleanest,
but seven fouls being called on the
Ellis and eleven on the Tigers. Suis-
man led in field goals for the Visi.
tors with four, while Captain JEFF
ries was high man for Princeton
with three, but in foul shooting Yale
suffered. Suisman making but four
out of eleven tries, while Loeb was
successful in all seven attempts.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
SESLER MARKS
ARE HIGHER
THAN TVS
Ban johnson Admits His "Of-
fetal Statistician" Pulls
Another "Bone."

George Sisler fractured Ty Cobb 8
1871 batting record last year and
now is the real possessor of the
greatest batting mark turned in by
any athlete since the foul strike
rule became operative.
This fact has become established
through an admission by Ban John
son that the official scorer for the
American League should have cred
tied Sisler with the batting mark
Of APO in 1922, instead Of .419.
Cobb's mark of .420 was supposed
to have endured Sisters onslaughts
until statisticians began to carry
out the decimals in figuring the
rival averages. 1t was then found
that Sisters had topped Cobb
eleVen-year-O record by the slight
est possible fraction.
The official record books now list
Sisters 1922 mark at .419, but this
will be corrected in future compila-
tons and the ST. Louis first base
man will be credited with having
batted at more terrific clip than
the southern typhoon."
The ClOseness of the battle be-
tween the two hitters is revealed by
the records. which show that Sisler
outbatted Cobb by only a trifle more
than One-tenth of a point.
Here are the fipuraS.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
GREASY NEALE TO PLAY
WITH SEMI-PRO OUTFIT

PARKERSBURG. w. Va. Feb.
23-Earle Greasy" Neale, recently
released by the Cincinnati National
League baseball club, has decided
to retire from professional baseball II
and devote all his attention to his
new job as head of athletics at the
University of Virginia. At his home
here today the baseball and foot
ball man announced that he might
play semi-pro baseball this summer
to keep in condition.
Neale formerly coached the Wash
mgton and jefferson football team.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
KETONEN TACKLES
JOE TURNER ONCE AGAIN

Joe Turner, Washington veteran
middleweight grappler, and Waino
Ketonen, the Rutland. Mass, Fin
nish farmer, will provide the feature
attraction at wrestling show
staged next Wednesday night at
Convention Hall by the band and
drill team of Almas Temple, Mystic
Shrine.
These two athletes have met twice
before in this city. ketonen was
triumphant in the first tussle. The
second went to a draw after three
hours OF the hardest kind of work
In addition to the star bout of
the evening, Pinky Gardner, of
Schenectady. N. Y, and Hughie Me.
Donald, Of Pittsburgh, will appear.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23

For two years now the pitchers
have been. forbidden to soil the
ball in any way. They can't
rub it on their shirt nor on their
trousers. They cannot use the
splitter. They cannot use the
emery. The moment the ball
loses its pristine glory, out it goes
and a new one sails into the
game.
Undoubtedly, the batsmen have
had things pretty much their own
way for the past two years.
They have had white balls in
every game most of the time.
The pitchers have been restricted
to straight deliveries of the
ancient kind-fast ones, slow
ones and hooks.
There is nothing unheard of in
having pitchers barred from the
so-called freak deliveries-the
spitters, the emery, balls, the mud
balls. For years they were never
used. But those pitchers did not
have to use an absolutely white
ball all the time.
Every fan well recalls how the
pitcher used to take a new ball,
rub it in his glove we'll sprinkled
with tobacco juice, toss it around
the infield for further painting"
and, perhaps, rub it in the
grass before pitching to the bat
ter.
Yes, dear reader, and if you've
ever played ball yourself-and
what youngster hasn't-you know
how you used to. rub the new
ball in the grass to take away
the gloss and give your fingers
a grip before facing the batter.
Right there is the reason for
the slugging during the past two
years. It might have been all
right to stamp out the freak de-
liveries like the spitball, the
emery ball and the mud ball, to
name three. But the game has
suffered by the strictness of the
rules, which forbid a pitcher to
remove the gloss from the cover
of a new ball by rubbing it in
the grass.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23

After the first few days practice
the ball player finds his muscles stiff
and sore and he must find some ex-
cuse to let up on the work bit.
Then the ailments begin. Every
thing from black specks before the
eyes to jumping toothaches springs
up among the athletes, and after
about week the club trainer thinks
that he has a hospital on his hands
instead of baseball club.
If one was to take the complain
ing athletes seriously one would be;
lieve that baseball was a more Cruel
ling occupation than college rowing.
They develop boils and dizzy spells,
Clearinghouse and nightmares.
They develop lame arms from
reaching for the dishes at the
training table. They get sun
burned during the day and catch
cold i'm the night air. Dainty and
fraiI are the stalwart bali players
in the spring.
They have to have their tonsils re-
moved and be measured for new
teeth. They acquire stubbed toes
and stone-brulsed heels.
This alarming state OF affairs con-
tinues for several days, until the
trainer wonders whether or not
there will be nine able-bodied athletes
ready to start the championship
season. 1t mustn't be assumed that
the athletes are laZy-no, not at
all. They only sleep ten or twelve
hours a day.
About the time the camp is rid
lAA rHik npfr
comes to the conclusion that the
epidemic has gone about far enough
and he puts down his foot and
orders all hands to work, whether
they are lame or sound.
The balmy Southern air aUd the
orders of the manager work won
ders on the crfpples. and before they
are in camp two weeks. the pains
and ailments are forgotten and the
whole outfit settles down to playing
ball.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
They Like Smuggling.

DOUBTLESS the fans of to-
IL day, especially in the larger
cities. prefer heavy hitting
to the finer points of baseball as
it used to be played. Sometimes,
watching a game in New York
and listening to the remarks of
the fans, we wonder if they ever
played the game themselves.
Sometimes we have been con-
WINGED that they never did.
We had the pleasure of seeing
both longest games ever played
in the American League. On
July 4, 1905, Connie Mack's old
Athletics defeated Jimmy Collins
Boston Pilgrims, as they were
then called in the Hub, a to 9, in
twenty innings. We saw that
came and it was thrilling all the
way.
On September 1, 1906, the same
two teams hooked UP for twenty.
four innings, the Athletics finally
winning out, a to /. This is the
record game for the American
League and has been passed but
once. the Brooklyn Robins anc
Boston Braves playing a tie, 1 t.
/. in Boston on May /, 1920. AL
three games. as it happened, were
played in Boston.
Many Washington fans we'll re.
member Dixie Davis great victory
over George McBride's team here
in nineteen innings, to 6. That
game was played here on August
8. 1921. AS we recall, hardly a
ian left the park until the end
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
All Right, II Green
Hadn't Been
Moved

When a golfer plays blind
hole he is always more or less
in doubt concerning the final
resting place of the ball, espe-
cially if he be strange to the
course. In a round over a
Southern links not so long ago
a visitor made an approach,
the flag being hidden on the
other side of a hill. The
mashie shot was a beauty.
straight as an arrow. Turning
to his colored caddie, the golfer
said:
"Was that all right, boy? Is
the ball near the hole 2"
"Yas, sar." came the quick
response. fright on the middle
of. the green-1 it amt been
moved since yesterday"
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
Tiger Coaches Make
Athletics Play,
Not Work

Perhaps the success which has
come the way Of Princeton's
athletic teams of recent years
can be accounted for in what
apparently is a solving Of the
coaching problem. Bill Clarke
starts his fourteenth season as
baseball coach: Keene Fitzpat-
rick, track coach and trainer.
has recently been made a MEM
Der of the board; DR.. Spaeth
handles the oarsmen; Bill Roper
has built up an admirable foot
ball system.
And not the least of the sys-
tens of all the teams is the
fact that the players are taught
the game in a manner which
takes none of the fun of it out
of it for them. It is play, not
work. ~
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
PLAN To
CLEAN OUT
GROUCHES
Waving of McInnis Out Of
American League Part Of
Campaign.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-The un-
conditional release of John "Stuffy"
McInnis by the Cleveland Indians
is the result of an organized cam.
paign by the club owners against
dissatisfied players, according to
reports currents here today. In
support of this claim. it is pointed
to six big league clubs, namely, the
Brooklyn Dodgers, the st. Louis
Cardinals, The Chicago White Sox,
the Boston Red Sox, the Phillies
and the Boston Braves, yet all of
them waived claim to him.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
SQUAD
IS OFF FOR
ROCKAWAY
Washington Team of Stars
Will Find Strong Opposition
on Long Island.

Washington squash players left
today for New York, from whence
they will travel to the Rockaway
Hunt Club on Long Island to clash
with the Rockaway Clubs squash
team.
Those who made the trip are
Dwight Davis, noted tennis player,
Coleman Jennings, Horace Green,
G. J. Peters and s. E. M. Crocker.
The last two are substituting for
Wigglesworth, the famous Harvard
lOotball player, and Arthur Heller.
On the team which will play
against the Washinetonians are
Beals Wright and Henry Harper,
the Metropolitan squash champion.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23

way they could IN plain imitation Of
the way men played It. Lacking the
masculine strength, the womaTl's
game was not much to behold. She
swept the bal along with a sort OF
shove OF the club, seeking only to
avoid the traps. II she accomplished
q hole in 10 or IL strokes it was
fairly good.
Then some girl players began to
find out what men players had long
since leapned--that the girl had to
devise different ways OF playing, OBJ
serving things and learning for her.
self. She began to found her style
on sound principles for the woman
golfer. She began to realize the rea-
son why for each definite part Of her
style and she had an exact knowl.
edge Of why her style must be 90
1t was.
Thus It was that the woman
golfer who has the patience and
ambition to study out for herself
the science Of the game as Il re-
lateS to her can make Of herself
an excellent player. She cannot
do this BY Initiating the man play
or. but only by developing her own
game along lines Of style which
: have been proved fundamentally
right for the woman golfer.
The first obstacle the woman must
face on the golf course is the condi.
ton under which she must play
that is, on the full-sized mans
course.
Undoubtedly, the golf course for
women should be shorter, but 1T isn't.
We haven't any courses exclusively
for womeI9, 30 the woman. players
first problem is to. turn this disad.
vantage into an advantage.
knowing that great distances
must be accomplished viii aid the
woman player to grasp more quickly
than the man, think, the funda-
mental fact that not physical
strength, but rhythm, il the factor
Of the stroke that sends the ball
flying far and true.
It takes some men d long time to
get this data into their minds. and
some never get 1t. The woman
player is In the position Of having
to grasp 1t quickly.
The fact that women must play
the fulI.sized long courses il fine
thing. all told, for the woman golfer.
Because Of this fact / look for an
army OF fine girl players to come on
in the game within the next few
years.
The girl who takes up golf, how
ever, must not let the fact Of the
conditions she meets be discourage
mei1t. On. the contrary, she must
recognize it as a blessing in dis
guise, which it will surely prove to
be when the outdoor training makes
1t possible for her to negotiate the
entire distance without fatigue.
Copyright. John r. Ollie Company
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
KessIer a Youngster.

Bruce Kessler, that little fellow
who plays brilliantly at guard for
the Eastern High School team, is
still wearing short pants. Some
scholastic basketball sharks rate
young Kessler as the most skilled
guard in the matter of passing in
the school title series. -
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
GIRL BASKETERS READY
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

The Hurricane and Capital A. C.
girls are primed for the big game
tomorrow night at the Arcade
which will be the first of series
for the city championship in basket
ball.
In preliminary, the fast young
Epiphany and Wilson Normal Mid
gets will play. Each of the boys
teams has lost only two games this
season.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
Will Sail South.

The Brooklyn Robins. leaving
Tuesday, will sail from New York
to Jacksonville. going by train from
there to Clearwater. Fla, where
the training camp will be pitched
this year.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23

Golf is not an art, for a few OF the
blessed of the earth It is a science
to be acquired by the persevering.
One thing has been proved beyond
all doubt, and that is that there are
no physical limitations to keep the
girl player from becoming really ex-
pert at golf.
There was a time not so long ago
when women played golf in the best
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
LOOKING 'EM OVER
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER
SECRET OF THE sLUGGING.

VA ELL the secret out Now everybody should know why
Art Fletcher the latest Of the Phil
entire scheme It's merely the discOoaton
required to toss out ball
not unbleished able hammer the pill
the wicked No. indeed
pitchers ball with tobacco juice, Babe Ruths
would rapidly ftyine to nineteen
fhin~H ko
The Washington times., 1923-02-23

When the official scorer compiled
Cobb's record and he found that the
mark was .419627 he gave Cobb the
advantage of the extra point But
in the compilation Of Sisters rec
ord, the official scorer ignored the
fact that Sisler had scored nearly
four fifths Of point beyond .419
and held his average at .419, instead
of .Crediting him with 400
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
"'~--~., 4 - ~

Western A. C. won a hard-fought
ga
BY the score OF ~ 10 kreaIner
and Goodrich starred at guard for
abe winning team. and w. Gollan,
as usual, was the sharpshooter
He got twelve baskets
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
G. p. o. JUNIORS.
HITEM AND sPLITEM
Loses Star AthIetes.

Baynes, captain, and LaFountain,
two basketball mainstays at Ken
dali Gren, played their last games
for Gallaudet against Loyola. This
is their last year in college.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
BABE RUTH IS CERTAIN
TO BE IN SHAPE FOR
COMING SEASON
By HARRY SCHUMACHER

HOT SPRINGS 23It just about certain as anything
be Ruth will be the
pink when he steps to the plate at the new
the afternoon
of porty old gentleman
paunch will be surprised when they view ms
sleHder lines and they will have reason to be-
with of the real training full fort
night the Babe in better condition far MS weight
This may strike the reader somewhat
We
the bathhouse
yesterday the beam 209
de
The Washington times., 1923-02-23

Even obstinate, unruly or sham
pooed hair stays combed all day In
any style you like, "Hair-Groom"
is a dignified combing cream which
gives that natural gloss and we'll
groomed effect to your ha1r-that
final touch to good dress both in
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
By CHARLES CHICK" EVANS

The conditions
uniy of superfne player
why players coming the front and into the
attention of the world. i IA a.s
The conditions which mistakenly think
game
their remarkably
attitude they should maintain. . !.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
6. P. O. JUNIORS WIN IN
SPECIAL DUCKPlN MATCH

The G.. p. o. Juniors knocked off
the Hitem and Splitem team in an
independent duckpin match. Will
307. The scores:
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
DEMON ATHLETES MOAN
OVER AILMENTS

the baseball park and
adres the athletes and marv at their fine
and ailments They all make their at the spring training
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
Forty Men Report.

Forty candidates have turned out
for the Princeton varsity baseball
team.
The Washington times., 1923-02-23

When the Babe was q left-handed
pitcher with the Red Sox, years
ago, he scaled around 1876. This was
his normal weight and If he had
remained a pitcher he probably
would have hung around that fig
ure through the years that have
passed since then.
But when he learned that he
couldt hit he wanted to play every
day instead of only every fourth
day and sulked and "beefed" around
until Cousin Egbert Barrow, men
manager of the Red Sox, gave him
q chance to alternate between first
base and the outfield.
After he quit pitching until the
past few months the Babe became
heavier and heavier. When he
reported for training last spring
ne scaled between 235 and 240,
with heavy layers OF tat around
his middle and more Of the same
dfaped across his chest.
all of this excess baggage handi-
capped him at bat and much of IL
remained with him throughout the
entire season of 1892.
A strenuous winter at the old
homestead stripped a lotta fat from
the BANS massive frame and when
he entrained for Hot Springs he
weighed only 215 pounds.
Scott was just as delighted as the
Babe. when he read the figure at
which the indicator of the scales
had stopped. cts the first time
in years." he said, that the BAN
has been under 210 pounds"
At this rate 1t should be easy
for him to get down to 200 before
he reports to Higgins at New
Orleans next month. This means
that he viii be doing his stuff
weight was a terrible handicap to
him last season, and now that he
is rid Of it, there is no earthly rea-
son why he shouldn't step right out
as he did in 1920 and smack about
O dozen home runs in the first
month of play.
ha' en- seen him looking SO
good since the old days with the
Boston Red Sox and will be sur
prised indeed If he doesn't give the
home-run record long, hard run
for its money this year.
Atmospheric conditions around
the springs yesterday could scarcely
have been improved upon. AS a
too good, a bright. warm sun in a
cloudless sky bringing out golfers
in such profusion that the links
were all cluttered up with them
when Ruth and Deacon Scott re.
sumed their controversy yesterday
morning.
After playing only three holes
the Babe and the Deacon found the
congestion too much for them and
quit. After waiting more than an
hour at the clubhouse they started
again, only to call IL a day after
eDlayinR nine more holes
The Washington times., 1923-02-23
Roamers PIaV.

The Roamers will play the ORR.
noco team tonight at o'clock In
the Calvary M. X. Church gym,
The Washington times., 1923-02-23

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