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The Washington times., 1924-04-25
TIGER RECRUIT
SOUTHPAW IS
RAREF|ND
Young WhitehiII Has All The
Marks Of a Major
League Star.

Ty Cobb put his new left.hander,
Whitehill, to work as soon as the
season opened and the youngster
came through. In the past it was
only the recruits with unusual tai
ent who were permitted to become
regulars as soon as they Joined a
major league club. There are man.
ayers in the game today who will
not trust the responsibility Of a
game with a youngster, but the
new generation of ball players in.
clude so many high-class performers
that once they get into the game it
Is difficult to keep them out.
Young Whitehill looks like the
left-handed find of the year. He
has been compared to Vean Gregg,
who used to pitch for Cleveland.
Whitehill has the asset which is
missing in so many left-handers,
control. Fred Carisch, the Tiger
coach, says "Whitehil has the same
kind of courage Gregg had in the
pinches. He has such good con.
troll that he will pitch curve after
curve when the count is three and
two."
1t doesn't look after all as IL any
youngster is going to get Cobb's
job for a while yet. The Georgia
Peach has limited at retiring more
than once during the past season,
but after the first few games Of the
season he finds himself in such
great shape that he has changed
his mind. Cobb's case is remark.
able inasmuch as he still has speed.
The legs are an important part of
the baseball players physical equip.
ment. That is where they start
to slow up. Cobb's ability to retain
his speed il partly due to expert
bandaging of knees and ankles, a
practice he cultivated through
trainer Harry Tuthill.
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v. M. l. FRESHMAN TEAMS
NAME TWO CAPTAINS

LEXINGTON, Va, April 25.-F.
A. Crockett, Of Roanoke, Va, has
been elected captain Of the ". NJ. 1.
freshman baseball team and f. l..
Pettyjohn, of Birmingham, Ala,
captain Of the freshman track team.
Both were elected unanimously.
Crockett, a product Of Blackstone
Military Academy, was one of the
leading prep school pitchers of the
State last year, and is the mainstay
of the cadet yearling nine this sea.
son. He is expected to bear the
brunt of the varsity hurting next
year.
The Washington times., 1924-04-25
GEORGIA TAKES SECOND
GAME FROM MARYLAND

Georgia. again defeated Maryland,
this time by to 8. The Bull Dog
got to Schrider in the initial frame
for five runs and five hits, but had
trouble thereafter, while, Maryland
kept nicking away at Nelson, finally
chasing him in the final frame, but
leaving the tieing and winning run
on the paths.
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EASTERN A. c. SLATED
TO MEET MT. RAINIEE

Having trimmed the MARYLAND
A. c., the Eastern A. C. is, cumming
for the big team of Prince Georges
county, Mt. Rainier, which copied
the 1923 championship.
Sunday the EASTERN and Mt.
Rainier teams will clash at Mt.
Rainier and Chris Hutchinson, the
Eastern manager, made bold to say
today that his team would win,
Chris Is in a Quandry over his
pitching selection. Speed Mallet
shut out the Maryland A. c, and
struck out twenty and ought to be
tough for Mt. Rainier. On the
other hand, Bonnie Wormsley Ia
anxious to face Mt. Rainier, which
trimmed him twice last season
when he was with Clinton. He
thinks he's ripe to take revenge.
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B u t 0w
there seems to
be some queS-

ETHEREAL concessions and so far
everybody from the best inter-
national lawyers to the office
scrub woman has pleaded igno-
rance without provocation.
1t seems that we are perfectly
able to direct the destinies of our
days, but that our nights need
some kind Of an overload to see
that silly strains don't come
floating down the antennas to
wake up the few who are sensi-
BILE enough to go to bed.
Radio is one form Of self-abuse
that it is hard to reform from.
The temptation to sit there until
the wee sma' hours and yawn in
the face Of nighthawk jazz bands
is too great to forfeit in behalf
of the laws of nature.
The question now is whether
reckless broadcasters shall be
allowed to stuff the nocturnal
acoustics full of uncooked strains
that have never been passed by
the national board Of chefs.
Moving pictures are censured
before being released for whole
sale or retail chagrin. Books,
periodicals and other forms of
relaxation are given the once
over by people who can't read
before being printed in any Ian
guage.
Then why shouldn't the broad
cast entertainments be submitted
to some deaf and dumb institu-
ton before the public ears are
singed to a beautiful burnt
sienna from stopping miscella-
neous bowls and boots?
You've heard Of things being
as free as the air you breathe,
but the air you breathe isn't SO
free from contamination as you
think, particularly the night air.
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{. ) + +. 49, 4
HILL TOPS.
.TRA|CKN|EN
FEARED
o'ReiIIy's Charges Conceded
Chance to Win in All
/ Events They Enter.
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April
26.-The sons of old Georgetown,
trained to the minute, are today
the dark horse of the great Penn
relay meet on Franklin Field.
Wherever track enthusiasts are
gathered, Georgetown is men,
toned with bated breath. John
d. O'Reilly's boys have done so
well all winter at the leading in
door meets that they are conceded
q chance to win every event in
which they are entered.
The Blue and Gray will make
two championship efforts today, In
the sprint medley relay and in the
South Atlantic relay championship.
Tomorrow they are entered in three
of the greatest attractions Of the
meet, the two-mile relay, the Mike
Murphy championship at a mile
and the four-mile relay. Thus,
the Hilltoppers as relay runners
have, five opportunities to startle
the athletic world and Coach
O'Reilly admits that his track steam
Is ready for the test.
Coach OReilly is sending Paul
Herlihy, Dowding, Ray Hass aud
Captain George Marsters into the
sprint medley relay today. Her
lhy is running the half mile,
Dowding and Hass 220 yards each,
with MarSters closing with the
half mile. The biggest handicap
is the position Of the Eilltoppers.
Out of sixteen entrants, the Hill
tcppers drew No. Is which means
Herlihy will be in the third rank
ut the gun.
: II hope for the best" said
Coach O'ReiIIy today before start.
ing for Franklin Field with his
collection of star athletes" but
will be satisfied with anything.
1.-THE British team, of course,
stands out as a powerful com.
petitor, and SO does Penn State.
Their starters will be in the sac.
ond rank. Cornell, drawing No. !
position, Navy and Harvard, not
to mention Yale, are sure to make
everybody Step. We have gen.
orally had trouble handling tRne
baton at these Penn relays. TN
pulling for the boys to cling to
the stick. IF they do that, George.
town may cross the line in first
place."
OF second importance in the
South Atlantic relay championship.
Only Virginia is entered to contest
this against the Hilltoppers. George
Kinnaly, Johnny Holden, Ray Hass
and Paul Herlihy. running in that
order will battle the Orange and
Blue.
Virginia has a wonderful pair in
Talbot and Bohannon, says Coach
O'Reilly.. They stepped the quarter
in 49.4 at the Syracuse meet on
Wednesday, so you can see where
they stand. Bohannon IL a fine
boy, too, with it,"
PlansIky and Dave Shannon will
represent Georgetown in the
PentathlOn today. Neither is ex.
pected to win il though Plansly
should make some good marks.
He finished fourth a year ago.
Shannon is making his initial
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Jack Williams Works.

Jack williams, for several years
chairman of the schedule commit.
tee Of the Washington City Duck.
pin Association, Is busily engaged
with several others on the schedtiIe
for the annual tournament start.
ing mex Monday. at tie Grand Cen.
The Washington times., 1924-04-25
SAYS SKILLET"
Finn, Esq.
Free as the Air You
Breathe" Was an Express
sion Copyrighted Be-
fore They Patented
Radio.
Rv KTRK MTTTEp
By KIRK MILLER.

OONGRESS summoned the
country's best bow-legged
- song writer's and musical
composers to testify as to who
owns the air that we inhale,
exhale and listen to concerts
through.
Heretofore nobody has appre-
ciated this stuff we live in
sufficiently to argna as to ulti-
The Washington times., 1924-04-25
NEW FRENC H CUE STARS
MAY DISPLACE CONT

France producing Of the best players in
world at the present time and seriously threatens the United
Of
they have produced couple of players
place Roger CONT champion
This the statement made by B. E. Bnsinge president the
Coender Company his from
se trip through Europe during the of which
of
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Boys Club Plays.

The Boys Club Juniors win meet
the fremont Juniors tomorrow at s
p. m. on the north diamond Of the
Ellipse.
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Sham Junior Booked.

The Shamrock Juniors will tackle
the Boys Club Juniors Sunday on
diamond No. 4, Monument lot, at
D.. m.
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m a t e owner
ship. AS we
h We be en-
packed in air
like sardines
in oil, W e
thought there
was plenty
for everybody
without ny
expert testi-
mony.
The Washington times., 1924-04-25

Vernon Ascher, the Chicago boy
who blazed on indoor track during
the winter as a Quarter.miler, will
appear today in the invitation 220.
yard event against Liddell, the
Edinburgh University star, Bowman,
Of Syracuse; Clarke Of Johns Hop.
kins, and Conway, Of Penn State.
Ascher may find the going too fast,
his real distance being the quarter.
but Coach O'Reilly willingly granted
his request to accept the invitation.
Ascher is a leading candidate for
Olympic honors.
Tomorrow Georgetown's try for
the two-mile honors rest upon
Brooks, Willie Sullivan, Holden and
Captain Marsters. They will find
stiff opposition from Penn State,
Cambridge, Boston College and
probably Michigan.
81 would say now that Penn State
is the most dangerous rival we have
in this event" says o'Reilly. How
ever, Michigan is the best in the
Middle West and may fool all Of
u.s."
For the Mike Murphy mile
championship Georgetown will de-
pend upon KinnaIIy, dim Burgess,
Hass and Herlihy. YaIe's entry
won the intercollegiate event i'm
3:22, Harvard finishing foot in
the rear. In addition are Holy
Cross, Virginia, Chicago and
Texas, q big winner at the Drake
relays last Saturday.
The biggest event tomorrow will
be the four-mile relay championship
Georgetown has a wonderful quar-
tet entered in that race. Brooks
leads off followed by Harry Helme,
Captain Marsters and Willie Sui
Ivan.
IT am inclined to fear most the
Oregon Aggies," says O'Reilly.
Three Of their team have done the
distance in 4:20, but Harvard, Bos-
ton College, and the Naval Acad.
envy have excellent teams. Inded,
the Navy looms up as a formidable
quartet"
Georgetown has lively fresh
man relay four battling for hon.
Ors tomorrow in Swinburne, Nc
Claim, EsterveZ, and EaStment.
Coach O'Reilly says the young
sters are good enough to win from
most teams right now, and are
filled with enthusiasm.
In the field events contested to-
morrow, Shannon is entered in the
pole vault and discus, Dowding in
the broad jump and Plansky in the
javelin, shotput and discus. The
latter has been putting the shot
forty-four feet right along this
spring, and is counted on for some
points anyway.
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start and should benefit from the
experience.
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Planslky and Dave Shannon will
represent Georgetown IN tho
PentathlOn today. Neither is ex-
pected to win it though Planslxy
should make some good marks.
He finished fourth a year ago.
Shannon is making his initial
The Washington times., 1924-02-13
Obscene Plays In Washington
Should Be Forbidden
By BILL PRICE.

The Washington police department Is well within its rights
IA requiring dubious plays put here to eliminate indecent
portions and failing to do to withdraw them altogether
from the public There isn't scinta Of doubt that the
moral sentiment Of this community will strongly support the
authorities in sensible reasonable action which will forbid
the portrayal in city Of plays that enthrone imo
rality and underworld habits and customs
The wckedness Of Paris and the doings Of that cis dem
monde do represent the national life Of France The
cabares and white Hghss Of Broadway not the life Of
the respectable people Of Kew York Of the United States
The portrayal Of these features Of the underworld give
false impression to the young who may ge often do get
ideas that these things ARE LIFE and that the
dirt and misdeeds Of the small minority Of humankind
portrayed and the sad awful consequences thereof emphasized
along with hem there might be excuse because the
hiding Of truth from the young is the worst possible
Too many modern plays throw fierce bright light around
vice and give atractiveness that is auring to the
houghess young Bitterly in later years. they learn the
difference these plays made the good Of the world stand
ou-because deCency and good do would
help build up human towers Of moral strength Instead
they pull down with their suggesveness the false thoughts
The other day glded butterfly Of New York
dered in her apartment where rich went to visit her
She had automobiles urs fine dresses money She probably
believed their lies her beauty her alleged good qualities
She believed their pretenses Of sincere friendship and affection
Her mutated body put in pine box and taken to the
railway station for shipment to parents in
Texas Not single who knew her accompanied the pine
box or shed tear at her horrible end
Yet that butterfly cabaret life Of New York and elsewhere
breeder Of love nests and rnaion for women magnied
In pays the tnse Of is made enticng but the LONE PINE
BOX is never brought Conspicuously into view.
This Federal Capital is clean pure city cities CO.
Our people proud Of it SUCH Thousands Of weodo
and rich here to make their homes feeling that their
children will benefit by the moral environments their wives
feel contented and happy their surroundings There
desire here to emulate the swift night life Of other places
desire that young shall this of social activity
beckoning to them.
The Washington times., 1924-02-13
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Amasing BlDnders.

0UHOOL teaching is not without its compensations
Among these are many funny things that happen in
The little leafet issued for schools by tho Institute for
that occur in examinations Some Of these foows
What is the Veterans Bureauf home for animal doc
tors
not allowed to 60 than twelve miles an hour.
What is the Electoral Collegef place for boys who
What specific heati The heat that the Pacific gives
off.
What is the difference between win and shali The wills
is future tense the shall is later.
How did slaves get over heref They knapsacked
from their homes.
What the esophagusi The eSophagus is the thing the
Who discovered the Pacific ocean' Balboa while
dering around the Mississippi River.
What is ownership? It means person Owns ship.
What aleni person who is born outside Of his
What does husbandman meant It means a married man.
Why the Flatron Building called that Because they
make Hatirons there
One inquiry sent in was ''what are gompersf"
Tell the number of tons Of coal shipped from the o. s. A.
in one year. Answer: In 1892, none.
What the five Senses and what Is meant by sixth
sensei One Coughing, crying, Sobbing, talking
and worrying. Some people have snoring
Where does Uncle Sam live and what is heY In Wash
ington D. G. He is always President.
Can you give sentence using the word gratitudei
We study gratitude and longitude in our geography
What the CarpathansS They are animals found In
South America.
What is vacuumf vacuum Is a large, empty place
Who are two great womenf Mississippi and Missouri
Who said, "Give liberty give me deathi" Answers
Johnny did yesterday in the history class.
Compare sick. Sick, sicker, dead. !
One pupil said 'In making talk voice should not
only be loud but extinct
Another statement Gone of the rights people enjoy
under the ConStituton is the right to keep bare arms
Why the Indians friendly with the French
than with the Enghf The French married the Indians
for wives and treated them like brothers.
What the by-producs Of petroleum. Vaselne gasC-
lene kerosene, paraffine and limousine
What is the meaning Of teami Boys divided in half.
Who discovered the Panama Canals Columbus discovered
the Panama Canal his second voyage Atlantic
Ocean.
And perhaps the prize exploit Of any member Of the
human is indicated by the following answer: Where
Lincoln born9 In cabin which he helped his father
make.
The Washington times., 1924-02-13
Poverty Is the Father of Vice,
Crime and Failure

No government summarizes its poverty but what
volume such report would make
is worth while discuss and to realize what real poverty
realize its meaning every Of must be
u.s. and especially anxious to work for the social betterment
that shall one day wipe out poverty forever
Poverty means dirt.
The thoughtless and comfortable have way Of saying
The poor might at least be clean But cleanliness is
LUXURY demands leisure and peace Of mind, well
bahtb SOAP hot water and good plumbing The very poor
cannot be clean.
Poverty means ignorance and means ignorance handed
down from father to
Poverty means drunkenness The pennies Of POOR men
and POOR pay for than half the vile whskey gin
and other posons that men buy to help them forget.
Poverty and its sister, Ignorance fill the a and the insane
Hsylums.
Poverty the mother Of disease and it fills the hospitals
Tens Of thousands Of ccnspves alone murdered
qursd II to save their a ives 90 p''l ~ 'D"' " - ~
The great Of the world do not emerge poverty
from squalor.
They from very modest homes from the log cabin and
from the towpa advertised They from those whose
at least enough ea and enough fresh air to give them
blood and proper nourishment for their brains.
Poverty destroys ambition inventive power and the capac
ty to struggle.
starved body produces starved brain: The greatest
genius that lived could not think better than child Of
ten if you deprived him Of food for ten days.
What expect Of the inferior minds that have been
half fed through lifetime through several generations7
Do you know what made the Revolution and changed
dons in France? It was not poverty Not single poor
leader in that revolution Every them was well
fed had welnourished brain-Danton Robesperre Maa
Demoulns Mrabeau-every welfed brain in vigorous
body
The labor unions and the great strikes although some
times unwe and unreasonable great blessings the
ton They compel the worker to get such pay will feed
himself and his children, giving the nation wefed brains.
The union is the enemy Of poverty and that
especially it is agent for good
AS poverty breeds ignorance ignorance breeds poverty
The greatest enemy Of poverty is the Public School, Work
and vote therefore, for public school betterment.
Miserable walk the streets by thousands on cold
winter nights-poverty has put them there
Hundreds Of thousands Of children born only strug
their graves.
For genius that has fought and conquered in spite
poverty ten thousand have sunk out Of sight in the fight
against the worst Of enemies.
Don't waste time extolng the blessings Of poverty-use
nanitv by viUU T. the mi sfScrcv S;ch Srea s n
worry alone give.
The great task Of humanity is the abolition Of poverty
The Washington times., 1924-02-13

n EAAMOUS ASLrU0Ou1eE anu "EAt1E Vn
~ SING for signals the light
transmitted from q large
~ number Of very short period
variable gtarS belonging to q star
cluster 10000 light years, OBS
thousand trillions Of mileQ distant,
Harlow Shapley. the director OF
the Harvard observatory. has dem
onstrated that blue and yellow
light differ In their velocity
through space by less than one
part In 10000 millions. That is
virtually the same thing as say
inR that there IL no difference in
the velocity with which light Of
different colors travels through
the universe.
Blue Light waves arc consider
ably shorter than yellow ones In
the ratio Of about nine TO eleven.
but together with red (still longer
than Yellow and orange, green.
violet and indigo. the other spec
trail hues that have recognized
names, they form a company OF
vibrations which, In combination.
produce the effect known as white
light.
And this company, from the
longest-legged red down to the
shortest-legged violet, appears to
keep step 20 perfectly that after
travelling In serried ranks for
10000 years at q speed Of 1S6,3SO
miles per second, the shortlegged
and the longlegged all come in
smiling together, shoulder to
shoulder, and side by side. SO per-
fectly aligned that a West Point
drill master, armed with billion
fold magnifler, would be unable
to discover the least irregularity!
It would have been idle to at
tempt to measure any difference
in the velocity Of the ,light-waves
Of different colors by noting their
arrival from signals on the earth,
or on such nearby bodies as the
planets. Even ordinary stars are
not far enough off to afford the
necessary time for a difference Of
speed, II any existed, to accumu-
late measurable effects, but It
would seem unquestionable that
in a race prolonged over a period
Of 400 centuries any actual diff
ference must certainly pile up to
q perceptible amount.
This experiment with quickly
The Washington times., 1924-02-13
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.

cientifiC Topics Of Popular Interest,"
varying stars In q star-cluster
serving for signal lights furnishes
another example Of the happy
chances that nature affords to
the fnQuir1ng mind Of man. An
other striking instance is that of
the moon In producing eclipses Of
the sun.
II the moon had been either
larger or smaller than It In, or
situated at q greater or less
mean distance, we might never
have discovered the extraordinary
and very Instructive phenomena
Of the solar corona. But the
moons size ana distance are 30
adjusted that her angular d.
ameter appears almost the same
as the suns, 80 that usually,
when she eclipses the sun, her
globe covers the suns disk with
very little tapping, thus permit
ting the luminous phenomena
close to the solar orb to be seen
like an aureole glowing around Q
black circular screen.
The star-cluster selected for sx-
perimentation on the light w.
locity was the one known In a.
Economical catalogues as Massier
s. It is situated in the constella-
ton Libra, has q globular form,
and contains among its great
multitude Of stars nearly q hum
dred variables, having q period
Of only six to twenty hours, the
average period being thirteen
hours. 1t also contains q few
long-period variables.
These stars, on the average, are
more than twice as bright at max
imum as at minimum. They are
gigantic suns whose light land no
doubt heat doubles In q few
hours, and in Q few hours more
falls Off in an equal ratio. Per.
haps it is not worth while trying
to imagine what would happen on
earth II our sun behaved In that
way.
These variations serve as "wing-
ing signals. With Photographic
plates and light filters, used with
very large telescope, it is pos
sible to record separately the light
curves Of the blue and the yellow.
as the star alternately brightens
and fades.
The Washington times., 1924-02-13

sympathetic glow within her Where is that cynical soul
who sald that woman had no interest In the more serious
So they married And you have Edith's version
of what happens Not only she bored but she actually
Int ms s hOn - wS 6 mS @
day is and have partyH She adventure in
work-merey tresome necessity. And he lays her ind
ference to stupidity lack Of love- To him she longer
girl to be courted She is who should be sharing
his interests and helping to carry his burden Yet all she
thinks Of is dress manicure bit Of neghbor-
hood gossip She's not interested in his job she
nothing about politics. she doesn't read the newspaper
to the divorce "Whats the Of a wife,
anywayf" sneers Ed.
Well, what's your answer to his question:
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