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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-09

He got nine-pin count, and
again made the spare. The same
stunt he pulled in the ninth and
tenth frames, and Brown must have
felt the thrill that comes once in
.. lifetime when his scores were
totaled. and it was found he had
beaten the famous record made by
Chaplin some years ago in the Dis
trict and National Capital Leagues,
Tor Chaplin twice rolled 434, once in
each league and both within a short
time of each other.
When Brown faced a One.pin
break in his last box with a
record dependent ON making it,
ne was i'm the same situation
halTy Krauss once experienced.
This famous star blew his chance.
But ne came SO close to the all
important pin that some say It
shook. Krauss' big set was 4S3.
Immediately following his record
performance, Brown rolled with the
washington Centennial team. Again
ne was star. with 1853, and as
sumed a commanding lead in tho
ail-events. He needs only a moder
ate total in the doubles, which he
WIN roll tonight, to be assured of the
title.
Throughout his big set Brown
left only seven pins standing. He
missed two spare breaks.
The new record-holder shoots
i0st, straight ball He delivers the
SsV1N Il
rolls consist emily well, but hereto
fore has never been ranked as a
star. Last season in the Masonic
League he averaged III, but did
not oil enough games to qualify
as contender 70. the title. In the
TWO previous seasons he had aver
aged 102. He has modest average
now in the Government Printing
Office League.
Brown, with Webb, teammate,
are scheduled to shoot doubles to
night at IL o'clock. and likely will
attract large gallery.
George Isemann and Henry
Rodier rolled into first place in
the doubles with 697, which in.
cludeS their handicap of seven
pins a game each, Isemann get.
ting S74, and R0dier 1923. Their
team, Harmony No. 2, also rs.
sumed the lead, with 1854, ROdier
being star with an actual S38.
Isemann finished second in the
singles in the last two Masonic
tournaments and thought he was
about due to win. But it so hap
pened that he rolled this time on
the alley next to Brown, and was
so absorbed in the latter's rare per-
Torrance he forgot all about win
ming himself. He had plenty of
company, too.
Tonight's schedules:
Singles, 1880 p. m.-Logan, Boss,
Croft, Denham, Simmons, Styles,
Evans, Fagne, Hammer, Post, Ar
tino, McLaren. Dudley, Burroughs.
Ferber, Woodford.
Teams, 8, p. m.-Stansbury No. 2,
Lafayette No. 2, Mt. Pleasant No. 1,
Mt. Pleasant No. 2, Hiram, Lebanon,
Washington Centennial No. 1, Wash
ington-C Centennial No. 2.
Doubles, p. m.-Ebersole and
Lancaster, Stoner and Shah.
Singles, 8 p. m-Stoner, Shah,
Ebersole, Lancaster, Ehlis.
Singles. 1915 p. m.-Robertson,
Newmeycr, l.. Krauss, Jollieff,
Champion, Beck, Mertz. Peterson,
Spencer, Meaney, Stock Dyre,
Walter Wire, Oliver, Phipps,
Schlagg. Draper. Reaney, Fletcher.
Doubles. IL p. m.-Brown and
Webb, Hancock and Fink, Rice and
Supplee, Schunann and Collier,
Lanman and Ashford, Ettinge~ and
Folger, Fenton and G. Lord, Wood
and Weiss, Hough and Scott, Baker
and lettering.
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Easterns Practice,

The Eastern A. G. unlimited class
players will practice today at $50
p. m. on the field at Fifteenth and
G streets northeast in preparation
for their opening game Sunday
with the Navy Yard Marines.
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Three in Duckpin Tie.

Preble, Of the Registers; Klein,
Of the Accounts, and Parker, of the
Registered Accounts, virtually are
tied for the leadership of the Pub
lie Debt Girls League at the King
Pin, each having an average of 81
and a small fraction,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-09
Dreadnaughts Work,

The Alexandria Dreadnaughtg
Will work out today, tomorrow and
Friday at p. m. The following
players are to report: Miller, Nc
Donald, Patterson, Dreifus, Howard,
Devers, Purdy, Wise, Alexander,
Nicols Giles, Carroll and Lee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-09
VIRGINIA TO CONTRIBUTE
TO JEFFERSON MEMORIAL

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April
9.-Gate receipts of Virginia's base.
ball game with the University of
Richmond to be played on Lambeth
Field tomorrow will be given to the
Thomas jefferson Memorial Foun.
dalton as gift from the General
Athletic Association toward the
purchase Of Monticello.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-09

But this season / have been look
ing ahead while looking back, and
find a very great difference-to
me-between my condition last
spring and what it is now.
/ had an awful time at New
Orleans and the way North year
ago. I simply couldn't hit. I
struck out time after time, and be-
fore that, in 1922, I was a, terrible
Dust"
1t seemed I picked UP at New
Orleans where I left off against the
Giants the fall before, and the first
thing ! knew I was hearing and
reading, everywhere turned, that
I was either through or slipping
fast.
Even Miller Higgins was dis.
this has never been told-that he
came to me on the way North and
said, Babe, there never was ball
player who could keep going for
ever. YSu ought to know the
truth. You're slipping. Make up
your mind to that. Try to forget
base hits and you will do a lot
better.
''There is still a lot of good
baseball in you. You can come
mighty close to leading the
league in hitting il you will choke
up on your bat and try to hit to
left field instead Of trying to hit
into right for homo runs all the
time"
/ don't mind telling you that Hug
didn't cheer me up much. l didn't
like to be told / was slipping or
hear that was through. But
what he said stayed in my mind
like bad headache and on the way
North that headache became worse
and worse until l thought my bean
was going to pop right open.
I'll never forget that trip. In one
game 1 struck out five times. That
was something I had never done
before, even when was kid, just
beginning to learn to play. Some
of my friends among the ball play.
ers came to me and TOLD me never
was much good in spring training
II.
Still, that didn't take the sting out
of the awful experience I was hav-
ing.
The season started and made a
homer on the opening day at the
The rest you know, and now 7
want to compare this years spring
training work with last years.
What ho,nrry xlfRPnrnAna %Lo~no -
me, tremendous difference. In
the first nine games we played in
the South I struck out only twice.
That means have been keep
ing my eye on the ball and not
missing it so much as / did last
year. Only two stT-ikeOuts in nine
games. as compared with five in
one game a year ago. I'm not
OvercOnfident from that, but I'm
rarin' to go.
This here ballplayer isn't making
any predictions. But If I had my
best year in 1923, following an aw-
full spring, I hope to do even better
this year, following the best spring
| ever had. Everything started off
bad last year. But everything
ended well.
This year everything has started
off even better. Maybe / viii i'm
prove on 1923. Maybe / won't. But
all the arguments Of past perform
ances make me feel that I will do
better. Still, I'm not making any
predictions. hope my friends re-
member that.
CopyriTht 1924 bv The Christy
Walsh Syndicate.
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Got GOslin His Job.

III was Bill McGoWan VINO
signed up Goose Goslin for his
first professional job.
II saw Goslin playing in a little
league not far from my home
town, Wilmington, Del.," says Nc
Gowan. "He was young and
green, but l thought he could
make good so wrote to the man
ager of the Columbia team in the
Sally league.
"Here is what l wrote: Can
sign Goslin for so much. Guaran-
tee he will be big league prospect
in two years. That was in 1920.
Washington bought him in the fall
Of 1921.
81 kept in touch with Goslin's
work while he was in Columbia.
/ used to buy Columbia papers
and study his hitting in the box
scores.
Finally / decided he ought to
get a chance and l wrote Clark
Griffith a letter. 1 told him of
Goslin's work and said he ought
to take a look at him to see for
himself if the kid had any promise.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-09
BABE RUTH GETS AWAY
TO PROMISING START
By BABE RUTH.

KNOXVILLE Tenn, April g. For the. years laid
OH predictions have let friends make
binding myself to them Last year, playing the Yankee
stadium they had idea going another
record. Az - " 80
Instead made record for bases balls hit
neded better and had better all around than did,
Frankly that BAH park there big everybody
I'm not making predictions this year. have discovered there
always lot OF people around to pick and remind
OF your predictions when don't h
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BROWN SHOWS COURAGE
NSMASHINC BOWLING
RECORD NTOURNEY
BY r. D. THOMAS.

IL anything but fluke when Brown of Washington
centennial Lodge shot of 4S5 in the Masonic upn ourna
at the and smashed by the Washington record
Tor three championship competition held by Ray Chaplin
Browns the about ready concede him
Today there of uy guy" Brown shot straight and
true for about everything he got.
He exhibition of that good In the
seventh box OF his last with the most desired record Wash
He Ynad
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HRFFIN, Ga April 9-Ths Bill MCGOWAN, travelling with the
Griffmen umpire for their exhibition games,
~ cracker He has been official for with much
experience in the international League Last he the
Southern Association and is going back there this But it
Johnson circuit He has the class that with the big show
He knows how call and he knows how along pleasantly
with the players Ban johnson always looking for good pres
who hard to find and MCGOWAN is in line for American
League berth before long In addition to being good umpire
MCGOWAN knows ball players He responsible for the Washington
clubs having Buky Harris and Goose Gon for instance while
his tip that brings Ben Egan the coach
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The next thing knew the Wash
ington club had bought Goslin and
was playing him in left field"
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Three Schools in Meet.

Episcopal, Tech and Western will
engage In a three-cornered track
meet next Saturday at Episcopal
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Odd Fellows Roll.

Teams representing the Odd Eel.
lows of Washington and Baltimore
will clash in a bowling match Sat-
urday night in Baltimore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-09

McCOWan TOOK q liking CG'
Harris when the present Wash
ington manager was with Buffalo
in the International League in
1919.
Harris wasn't setting the
league on fire or anything like
that" explains the smiling UNI
pire, "but ! liked the way he
took a cut at the ball and, above
all, / liked the way he could think
fast in the field and on the bases.
$50, one day, loafing around
the hotel, sat down and wrote
a letter to Clark Griffith. I told
him all l knew about Harris and
said that, if the Washington club
would get Harris, it would have
the best second baseman in the
league when Eddie Collins quit.
"a few weeks later l picked up
newspaper and saw that the
Washington club had bought
Harris, so I figure I at least
called its attention to him when
he was in the minors"
Giants Lost Out.
"OW the New York Giants
lost out on Harris and
AA Arthur Devlin lost his Job
as scout fits in right here, though
MCGOWAN doesn't tell that story.
When McGowan's letter reached
Clark Griffith, Joe Engel was
sent in a hurry to look at Harris.
Joe found that the Giants had
first pick of the Buffalo club
and he kept mighty quiet. He
was hoping Devlin would over
look the Buffalo secondsacker,
who was playing with a broken
finger.
lin, acting for the Giants, had ex-
ercised its option on a pitcher,
Pat Shea" says Engel. 81 got
Griff on the long distance tele-
phone at once and told him to
hurry up and look at Harris for
himself. Sure enough, Griff
rushed to Buffalo and we got
Harris, though the Giants could
have had him for the asking"
When John McGraw found that
Devlin had overlooked Harris
and picked a punk pitcher in
stead, he released him, saying,
Anybody who could overlook a
player like Bucky Harris can't
scout for me-"
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DOubIes-Tuesday, ADriI a.

DOuDIos-IueBday, April 3.
oWilIiamson:Brall, sos; Urban-Inge,
6SS; Wolstenholme- ArmfRer, 6I4: Rodier1
iseman. 6s7; Hixon- Eisman, 500; Conr-
dis Hopkins, 678; Halley-H. Krause. 679: :
wis.Stanford, 61S; McCarthy-B Borden,
80; Williams Fookes, 626; Vanderbilt
DOubles-April 7, 1924.
Crown Patrick, CTS; Megan -watnOn.
671; Yeatman-Blick, 662; Peterson.
Beck, $50; Krause- Champion, 654
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-09

George Isemann and Henry
Rodier rolled into first place in
the doubles with 697, which, in.
cIudes their handicap of seven
ting S74, and R0dier 1928. Their
team, Harmony No. 2, also as
sumed the lead, with 1884, ROdier
being star with an actual S3S.
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That means I have been keep
ing my eye on the ball and not
missing it so much as / did last
year. Only two strikeOuts in nine
games. as compared with five i'm
one game year ago. I'm not
OvercOnfident from that, but I'm
rarin' to go.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-13
CHAPTER XII
The SeanCe

They were both silent as they
thought Of the immensely of this; the
convoy by the dead Ivan, always
something of a mystic, caught fire
at once and leaned toward her in
deepest interest. Peters spirit has
held me up all the way through, 3"
she told him in a soft monotone that
did not in the least conceal her
emotion. 1T kept me from being
afraid. all these days-and has com
forted me when the wind blew and
during those long hours that /
watched for the Warrior to return"
IT'S not very f1attering to me
that the ghost Of dead man could
be more assurance to you than L"
You've been a wonderful help,
too" She paused, and her face was
stark white in the dusk. Ivan, do
you think we could get a message
through to him?"
II don't know" Ivan spoke very
softly.s 1.-The dead have been called
back. What do you want to tell
him?'
II don't want to tell him anything
Il feel that he knows my every
thought. But / want him to tell me
something. 1 want to know that he
has forgiven me for any failure in
duty toward him-and I want his
advice. how to go on"
Ivan was fully receptive to her
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mood. and he sat a moment with
bowed head we can try, Dorothy,
he said at last. I'VE can hold
seance-surely every advantage is
in our favor. Fortune Joe is q medi-
cine man, and Bradford described
what he called the spirit rite He
might bring a word through. Who
knows?"
.~ Get all five Of us, in a CIRCLE
THE bigger the circle the better.
Shall / summon the three men?'
But they chose to walk together
to the guides quarters. finding the
men smoking in comfort before their
low fire. Joe, isn't it true you are
a medium" Ivan began addressing
the witch doctor. That you can get
word through to the dead? Mr.,
Bradford told us you had that repu-
tation-"
Yes. Me talk with dead" Joe
answered simply.
Then tonight Mrs. Newhall wants
YOU to try to talk with the man who
lies buried here" He pointed to the
cross. wan and ghostly itself in the
pale light, on the beach but short
distance below the camp. He was
Mrs. Nawhall's husband. as you
know-and she wants to get a mes
sage from him. Will you be willing
to try a seance?"
Don't know seance. Sometime
call-no answer. Maybe get answer
tonight"
you'll come too. Paviof-and
Pete. We're going to make a little
circle"
To Pete, it was the browning touch
Of the whole, fantastic tragic-comic
adventure.
Yet there was a solemn air to the
little meeting that was held straight
way on the grassy land just above
the grave. The medium sat between
Dorothy and Ivan; Pete was on the
other side of Dorothy and Pavlof
next to him. Touching hands light
ly. they sat intent.
Fortune Joe had gone into what
seemed a halftrance; his head was
bowed his face white as if with I'M
utterable agony. They heard him
moan softly, in the utter silence.
What you want?" he mumbled
at last. me all tangled-spirit
keeps floating up there, keeps com
ing back here. Who you want Joe
to call?"
MY husband" Dorothy answered
quickly "The man who lies here
dead-under this CROSSE
There was a brief spell Of silence
then the native moaned again
There ensued a second of struggle
in which liquid fire seemed to leap
through the chain Of their hands.
Then Joe's trance seemed to deepen.
Dead mamie here he said
slowly ''Man--died in the water
lay under cross. What you want?"
+
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-13
BROTHERHOOD OFFICIAL
GIVES TANLAC CREDIT
FOR RESTORING HEALTH
Oldest Member of B. r. I.
South of Ohio Keeps
Medicine in His family
Medicine Chest.

E. Walter Trippe, 324 Healey Bldg,
Atlanta, Ca, legislative representa-
tive Brotherhood Railway Trainmen,
and Oldest member of the Brother
hood south Of the Ohio River, lends
his name to further the cause Of
Tanlac, the medicine that has proved
of such great benefit to him.
Mr.. Trippe was formerly freight
and passenger conductor on the
Seaboard, w. & A, Southern, and
4. & w. P. He numbers his rail
road friends by the score and is
also popular fraternaI order man.
Mr.. Trippe has also served as as
sistant collector internal revenue.
Northern district of Georgia, and
IS now a publisher and editor.
Il have not been without Tanlac
in my medicine chest in years."
said Mr.. Trirpe. but I have aad
two experiences with it that stend
cut especially in my history. Once
when I came in from my run with
my stomach all upset and my Ii
eestion just about wrecked, Tanlac
proved effective and I began to
swear by it. Again following an
accident that kept me in bed for
a long time and pulled me down to
a mere shadow of myself, I turned
TO Tanlac and it built my weight
right up and gave me back all the
energy and strength I ever had.
mot only has Tanlac helped me.
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ASK him If he forgives every
thing" the girl whispered. Tears
softened her voice. ASK him if I
am to go ahead-and do what Ivan
wants me to do"
The medicine mans blanched face
and subdued struggles seemed to in
dicate tremendous difficulty in get
ting the questions through, and
hearing their answer. His face
worked. You make fun of me-" he
moaned softly. You laugh at
NE"
Dorothy cast one indignant glance
about the circle, saw that every face
was intent and sober, then pressed
tight the natives hand. "Oh, no,
We're not laughing. Get what
message you can for me then"
She waited in ineffable anxiety for
this word from beyond the grave.
The mamie here" the native NUT
tered, half-intelligibly. He drown
cut up by rocks. He say--'change
the name"
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her from VANS arms so long. Part
ly this loyalty was an echo of her
remembered love for him. partly 1t
was born Of her remorse for failure
in duty toward him. And now that
she stood at Peters grave. the situa-
ton had reached it's crisis.
Tell me something, Ivau?" The
girl spoke quietly, her low, deep.
beautiful voice tremulous with won
der, and the soft, starlike luster Of
tears in her eyes. Ivan, do you be
ieve in ghosts?'
"Of course" he said. who
doesn't? No one can believe in i'm
mortality and not, strictly speaking.
believe in ghosts. The whole world
knows of them-not just believes in
them"
"A great truth has just come to
me-" The girl was exalted. I've
known it all the time, but 1 Just
wasn't aware Of it. Maybe that
isn't plain. I mean that I've sensed
it, subconsciously-al the time I've
been herein some back part of my
self; and 1 can't imagine why I've
taken so long for my conscious self
to be aware of it. The music sent
it home to me. just now"
1T often takes music, or some
other stimulus to the emotions, to
send home the truth. What is it -
he asked gently.
Peter is watching over me. feel
his presence just as surely as if he
were in the flesh"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-13
EAGLES CHOOSE
MADISON IN 1875
State Convention Elects Of
fiCerS for Year,

Madison will he host to the 1925
convention of Eagles.
z. G. Sproat, Hammond, new head
of Indiana Aerie, and Ernest E. Cloe,
Noblesville, retiring president, with
Herbert Priest, Linton, delegates to
rational convention at Providence,
r. l., in August, were elected Thurs.
day at the nineteenth annual con
vention here
New State officers, besides Sproat:
Charles BaUgh, Lafayette, vice presi
dent; Rev. J. F. Mellett, New Al
bany, chaplain; William Ratcliff, An
dersOn. conductor; ". J. Bingham,
Warsaw, secretary (re-elected); Dan
iel Gutsell, Michigan City, treasurer
(re-elected; Peter KnOlles, Terre
Haute. inner guard; Henry Schrader.
Richmond. outside guard; George
Kisinger, Logansport, State trustee,
three years.
South Bend won first prize in the
ritual contest.
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81 don't want to think about it
any more tonight" she told him
earnestly. Ivan, L wish you would
play. Sometimes music is like a
light, helping me to straighten every
thing out"
He took the violin in his slim
hands. He hesitated, then began
softly the immortal "Elegie" by
Massenet. This song of tears, death
lessly sweet, brought her very near
ly to the answer Of her problem. She
did not actually come to a conclusion
in regard to VANS suit, but she be-
lieved she found the reason why she
had not yielded to him long since,
and thus the source of all her uncer-
tainty, her haunting doubts and
fears. This was a song Of the dead
and through the magic Of its genius
she was able, vaguely, to pierce the
veil Of death.
1t was, indeed, loyalty to Peter
mistaken, perhaps, but yet an emo
ton Of great power-that had kept
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This was something concrete, and
the girl trembled in the brooding
mystery OF the moment. rs that
ALTO change my name?"
Change namer Me no get no
more. Everything else all clouded."
Yet was it not enough? Dorothy
did not doubt but that she had her
answer. To change the name-and
surely that meant nothing more or
less than to yield her destiny to
Ivan. The man who lay dead was
willing that she should, by the fact
Of marriage. disclaim his own proud
name and take the name Of another.
They waited a while more for fur
Their word from the other side ;but1
the medicine man seemed only COM
fused and faltering. Can you talk
to Paul Sarichef?" she asked. MAY
be you can get in touch with him.
want to know that everything is for
given-over there. That all debts
are paid"
Continued in Our Next Issue)