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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
TEXAS LEAGUE
HAS FIVE IN
RUNNING
Fort Worth, San Antonio, DaI.
las, Wichita Falls and
Houston Contenders.

Enough Of the schedule has been
played IN the Texas League to give
the fans a good idea OF which teams
viii figure in the. pennant hunt.
Galveston is about ready to jofn
Shreveport in the cellar Of the cir.
cult, while Beaumont will be a
little more formidable and apt to
make trouble for the five flag
chasers.
The contenders are 50 evenly bal.
anced that the observers IN the
Lone Star State are hard put to
pick the probable winner. The
Fort Worth Panthers are always a
contender. San Antonio has some
good pitching this season and will
be a good bet. Dallas and Wichita
Falls look good and Houston has
taken decided brace since Hun
ter Hill dropped the reins as man.
ager and Marvin Goodwin, a pitcher
took his place.
Since Goodwin took the helm for
the Bluffs he has won four games,
lost one and tied one. Right off
the reel Houston won three straight
games from Fort Worth team.
The San Antonio Bears have az
good kick as there is in the
league. Dallas and Fort Worth
are hard for the Bears to beat,
but the Bears are in the first divi.
sion and look formidable opposition
for the flag winners.
The Dallas Steers have had q lot
Of inside trouble and the morale Of
the team has suffered a little on
account Of 1t. Suspensions and re.
leases have awakened the team and
better ball is expected. though there
Is no hope for a pennant.
The pitching staff, acknowledged
to be the one gloomy spot in the
Steer pennant hopes. has been
bolstered and now ranks with tho
best. Slim Love, Lefty Shuman and
Herb Thormahlen offer three clever
portsiders.
Harry O'Neil and Karl Eberhard
furnish the additional right handed
talent needed to boost the staff,
and the return to form of j. Sniper
Conley, the veteran, means the
Steers need not worry over chuck
ing.
Karl Eberhard may solve the
pitching problem for the Dallas
team-and he may not. At present
the. Beaumont purchase, who Is said
to have brought the price of $4,000,
refuses to report, demanding 4 part
Of the purchase price.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

Gus thing. Those Shelby folks
seem well supplied.
About Spark Plug"
TIME signing Of Sparkle" Mat
thews by the Washington
Griffs continues to attract
comment around the American
League circuit. For instance,
bark to Fred Lieb, head of the
Baseball Writer'S Association, in
the New York Evening Telegram:
"Wild Spark Plug Matthews,
the interesting game rooster, who
gave Athletic fans such q thrill
In the first half of the 1923 sea-
son, is back in the American
League with the Washington club.
Washington purchased 'Sparky'
from the Milwaukee club, and he
has displaced Memo Leibold in
center field.
Matthews is too good q player
to keep out of the major leagues.
Ty Cobb once described him as
40 per cent ability and go Per
cent spirit. That spirit was
broken in the Philadelphia camp
early last summer, and nothing
was left but the 40 per cent
ability. And when it was broken
the Athletics dropped from a close
second to seventh place, losing a
string of twelve straight games.
"In Washington, Matthews will
work for a manager less than half
the age of Connie Mack. Perhaps
Stanley Harris will have a natu-
raj sympathy with the speed boy,
and reap the maximum value of
that go per cent spirit.
while Matthews has his draw
backs and smart baseball men
say he never will be a really great
player, l think he will win his
spurs without difficulty and win
get talked Of far more than
other players of greater ability.
He sparkles with color. His
quaint way Of catching balls and
his dash on the bases appeal to
the fans. There is no doubt that
he has added considerable strength
to the Washington outfield, and
right now the Senator's are NOV
ing at a rather swift pace"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
ARMY STAR,
WILL COACH THIRD AREA

BALTIMORE, June 1l.--Captain
Vernon e. Prichard. former star
player and coach at West Point,
has been appointed head football
coach OF the Third Corps Area, to
succeed Major Alexander Day
Surles, also a former West Point
star, who tutored the squad last
year, but resigned following a
most successful campign in which
only one game, that with the Guam.
tico Marines at the end Of the
season, was lost.
Captain Prichard, who is now at
Fort Sill, Okla, will report here in
about week to begin shaping his
plans for the season. A training
camp at Camp Meade will be estab.
iished some time in August.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
PoToMAcS ARE CLINGlNG
TO SIXTH PLACE IN LIST

Rain and wet grounds played
havoc with the Eastern Colored
League schedule last week. The
Washington Potomacs played one
league game which was lost and won
two exhibition encounters.
The club still has a hold on sixth
place in the league standing, eight
games from the top, and with the
addition Of new players is expected
to give the leaders a real battle for
the pennant.
The Potomacs will play the
Atlantic City Bacharach' Giants in
their next home game at the Amer.
lean League Park on Sunday, June
is.
The Eastern Colofed League
standing for the past week ID as
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
BILL KlLLEFER WORKS
FIVE HURLERS IN ROW

Bill Killefer, manager Of the
Chicago Cubs, a contender for the
National League banner this season,
10 working five pitchers in success
sion--Alexander, Aldridge, Keen,
Jacobs and Kaufman. He finds
this system excellent.
Alexander Is a veteran big
Lacquer. Keen was picked UP from
the University of Maryland. Jacobs
Is a comeback from the Coast
League, with failures in PhiIadel.
phia, st. Louis and Pittsburgh.
Aldridge is another Coast Lacquer,
while Kaufman is a graduate from
the Canadian League.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

bags loaded every time he comes
NUp in such a spot. 1t is only our
failures that hurt, and nobody. ]
think, suffers more than Connie
Mack.
He has been ONE Of the most
successful managers the game
ever knew, but it has been a long
time since he has done anything.
I really feel sorry for him.
Connie, you know, is going ON
seventy. He can't keep going
forever and know bed like to
win one more championship be.
fore he retireS.
But just look what has hap.
pened to him lately!
Last year he had a team thai had
us all UP in the air for about two
months. Little spark Plug
Mathews seemed to charge up the
AS and give Connie just what he
wanted, but Sparkle petered out
and finally the AS blew"
Then Connie went out ana spent
q considerable chunk of money for
Paul Strand, Max Bishop and Al
Simmons and most everybody
thought the As would do even bet.
ter than they did last year. But
WOW! What happens?
Well, the AS don't even kick
up q fuss at all, as they did last
year. They went into a slump
right after the season started,
lost more than ten games in q
row, and ever since then they
have been in the cellar, when not
seventh.
Poor Connie! Some Phila delrhia
newspaper men tell ME he's all
broken up about the collapse Of his
outfit because he really thought
they'd come through for Fin this
year. Maybe they will do some.
thing later on, but / doubt it.
There are quite few Young
players on Comics club and young
ball clubs very seldom come hack
after they elbow"
That's exactly what Comics
team did last year and that's what
they did this year when they went
into that slump.
Copyright. 1924, by rhe Christy
Walsh Syndicate.)
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The Northerns have done lots Of
galloping on the base paths, too.
They've whipped every foe in Sec.
ton A of the senior gang and not
satisfied have turned to the un.
limited ranks in independent games
and conquered there also.
They've won all told nine games
and lost none. One uppish enemy
managed to gain a tie.
The NOrtherns have scored I22
runs In ten games, most Of them
short games, tOtaling fifty.nine
innings. That's an average of bet.
ter than Two runs an inning.
Their opponents have scored thirty
two runs.
According to Sam Orme, business
manager, the Northerns have made
Ill hits for a team average Of .493.
They have stolen eighty-one bases.
Their errors total twenty-nlne,
which would indicate that the
Northerns are fair fielders. Sand.
lot diamonds are not smooth enough
to allow accurate fielding.
The Northerns have three regular
pitchers. Eddie Nymark, a left
HAuUeTs mas won 1Our games, MS
principal achievement being a one
hit shutout over the Eastern A. A.
Seniors. Beal, a Highlander, has
won three games and Bill Jernane,
southpaw. has won two. Jermane
held the Herbs to one bingle.
The NortherHis' victims are:
RialtOS, Herzls: COIufOrters, Lans.
burghS, Mardfeldts. Eastern Sc
niors, Riversides, Eplphanys, and
It's a pipe they'll win the cham.
pionship of Section A. In Section
B are such teams as the Warwicks,
LinworthS and Shamrock Seniors,
and it remains to be seen how the
Northerns compare with these. At
any rate. the Northerns may well
be regarded as leading contenders
for the senior championships of the
w. B. A. A.
The Northern A. c. is a combina.
ton of the Maclxin and Park View
Clubs of 1928. 8. s. Hessler il the
pilot.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

NDY SMITH who was an All American fnlback twenty
eleven has had remarkable of
varsity team which has not been defeated since Thanksgiving Day
1919 He has been Philadelphia hobnobbing
old friend: and incidentally getting line the Quers who
meet his California eleven poason the
next season. Smith was fuback Of the dfashoned line batter
ing type With Vince Stevenson his Smith
eed opposing lines for yards yards rightly
honors AAerican selection Leaving college he became
coach for five has California
Therefore, It is worth listening when he talks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
MCLAUGHLIN WINS CUP
IN ELECTRIC LEAGUE

John c. Mclaughlin won the
prize for low gross score in the
golf tournament Of the Electric
League. A silver loving cup, do.
mated by the electrical jobbers of
Washington, was the trophy he was
awarded.
Other prize winners in tha
tourney, which was held on the
links Of the Bannockburn Club
were:
First prize, low net score. G.
Phillips Hill; second prize, r. p.
harrington; third. B. s. Beale
fourth, l.. T. Souder; fifth, H. p.
Foley, and c. II. Day won the
DOGGY prize.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

the raZz vet II
N Gu s ell hadn't
made that base
hit. But Bob
just about saved
my life, and
most Everybody
has forgot ten
what / did.
A week or so
ago I came to bat
again with the
bases filled and
again / struck
out. That was
In the ninth in
ming and a hit
would have won.
But, Of course,
nobody strikes
AGA ~,.SAI. 49,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Psychology Of Pinch
Hitting Biggest
Asset

The effect of the pinch hit is
q peculiar thing in baseball.
Often it is not the pinch hit
itself that helps as much as the
effect on the other batsmen.
A pinch hit often has the psy-
Geological effect Of rousing q
club from a batting slump.
There is not so much inspira-
ton in the move for the other
hitters. It is more often the
influence the sudden presence Of
a new style Of hitter has on the
pitcher. It upsets his plan to
adapt quickly his pitching to
a new hitter, The attack gets
under way before he can get
settled again.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
CLUB TOURNEY PAIRINGS
SHOW THREE SIXTEENs

Pairings for the June tournament
of the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club were made today. There
are three flights in the fight for
the club championship
With forty-eight players entered,
the affair promises to make trouble
for the regular champions at the
courRA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Chance For Trip

The Washington Wooden Mills
team. Fredericksburg, Va, desires
Saturday games with unlimited
class clubs in Washington, games
to be played at Fredericksburg. C.
II. Stevens, Washington Wooden
Mills. Fredericksburg. Va, is the
manager.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
AutomotiYe Mem Golf

The members Of the washington
Branch Of the Automotive Trade
Association will play a qualifying
round on the course of the Con.
gressional Club Monday, prepare
tory to the inter-city match which
is scheduled to be held at Forest
Hills June %,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
CONNIE MACK AROUSES
SINCERE SYMPATHY OF
BASEBALL'S BAMBINO
By BABE RUTH.

DETROIT 11Somehow or other think rrr;. AS.ol d.
sDout the saddest in all the baseball world Year in and
ever SINCE he last and his great ne
Collins Barry and Baker the old been DREAMING
n dream Of another year and wear out he ~
seen his dream castles down. - - -
We baseball people dream other pople hut soma
ZINES our dreams turn into nightmares For nothing oud
Havs made me appr than to drive out the deciding the
the last game took three healthy swings the old apple and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
sherWoods Want Game

The Sherwood team wants Oh.
ponents in the unlimited division.
Ike Thompson, manager, can be
reached by phone at Main 1924.
Sherwood has been able to ulav
only two games this season, rain
preventing most of it's scheduled
contests.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Herbs Seeks Game

The Herzl ball team seeks n
senior or unlimited opponent for a
game to be played Sunday at II
a. m. Jake Milwit, phone Franklin
49p2.W, between 4:3O and Up. m,
10 the manager.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
M. Chaconas Shines

Marcus Chaconas, former Wash.
ington sandlotter, now pitching for
Frank Bakers club in the Eastern
Shore League, pitched the onlv
game his club has won in eight
starts.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Lee Still Tagging

Dudley Lee. the Red Sox short.
stop, is still tagging with the willow.
He is now hitting for 1876, q bit
too low for regulars in fast com.
many.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

The other day Andy and Ed
Pollock, of the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger, got into a fanfest as
to how he sizes up his candidates
for the California football eleven.
Courage" writes Pollock,
twas the first point he. men,
tioned-not the kind of courage
which enables a man to take q
beating gamely, but aggressive
courage.
Sixty per cent Of the success
Of q football player said Smith,
lis the fight and spirit he puts
into his efforts. First of all, we
coaches search through the squad
for the men who are fighters.
It would be a waste Of time to
work on others.
"'We do not want men on our
varsity who may lie down brave
" to die, but men who fight like
blazes to live. We do not care
for the man who may be willing
to take a beating, but for the
man who will fight every second
to win and who will never admit
defeat
The members of the A. e. F.
would just about fill the bill out
lined by Andy Smith. The A.
E. F.. was a cross-section of the
American public, the so-called
man-in-the-street.
Every now and then we run
across tales of how rough and
tough certain folks may be, folks
sailing under foreign flags. We
always get a fine, large kick out
Of it, too, because the AVERAGE
AMERICAN, backed up to where
he has to show his real self, is
Just about as ROUGH AND
TOUCH AS ANYBODY IN THE
WHOLE WORLD.
Scratch him and find out for
yourself!
Shelby Is Joyous.
TyHEY must have good folks
up in Shelby, Mont. Why?
Well, read this, culled from
the Great Falls Leader:
SHELBY is contemplating an
other July 4 celebration.
"Now that the bank is again
open and gushers and flowing
wells almost a daily occurrence,
the wine of good times is making
us heady.
"Jack Dempsey will possibly be
invited to attend the celebration
but as a spectator. The last
time he and Kearns were here
they took almost everything that
was not nailed down. However,
we all had a ripsnorting time last
year, and Canada is again max
ing ar. oasis out Of what would
otherwise be a barren Northwets
lpardon, we mean Northwest).
"but to get back. Shelby hopes
to stage a ball game, in the morn
ing with Kelvin or Sunburst, and
in the afternoon, at an hour to
be decided upon later, a boxing
card, under the direction Of Sam
sampson as promoter, will be ar
eddie Shelton and Dan Dorey
may, mix again, and this will be
good. In the evening it is plan
ned TO have fireworks and
grand ball. So that would fill out
a day that would be enjoyable to
all visitors and not so expensive
TO Shelby as last years affair"
A sense Of humor is a marvel-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
he Scored ErenuuentIY

A major league record which has
stood for thirty years is that made
by w. Hamilton, OF the Philadel.
phia National League club In 1894
when he scored 1876 runs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Cox Loses Enulnnant

Bottle Cox, Petworth outfielder,
lost q bag containing his baseball
paraphernalia. He hopes some kind
soul Will return 1t to him at
Frenchls sporting goods store.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Northerns Challenge

The Northern seniors want games
with senior and unlimited teams.
Manager s. s. Hessler's phone
number IL c )lumbia 93S33.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Easterns Win Often

Chris Htuchinson's Eastern A. G.
team has won ten games ana lost
one, Mt. Rainier being the only
unbeaten opponent. Mt. Rainier
won, IL to 8.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Want Saturday Game

The Libertys seek a senior op-
ponent for Saturday, the Libertys
furnishing the diamond. Pop
Kremb, the manager, can be
reached by phone at Columbia
4166.J.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Criffmen Are Ahead

The latest unofficial American
League averages show the Griffs
out in front with a team batting
average Of 800, thanks to their
streak over the past two weeks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
indians Are Dropping

Though still in third place, DOME
Bush's Indianapolis Indians are
now four and a half games be.
hind st. Paul, the leaders
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Signs SchooIboy

The Mt. Rainier juniors have
signed Bill Werber, who played
with Tech High.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

Then Bob Meusel came along and
famnled out a sock that won the
game and ended the series. r
don't suppose I ever felt sicker in /
all my life than did when l tanned
and I suppose would be getting
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
YOUNG TEAM AVERAGES
TWO RUNS AN INNING
By r. D. THOMAS.

The Union Printers sabfferous team has rival In the
w. B. A. A, but the two will meet. -
ponents. - - fD = F--s "
The Northern A. c. division running close second
TO the Typo Of unlimited Printers games are
little more than leg exercise Unless their total written
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

InW Will no
d GU BIT invite
some Democrat
to run.
While Cool
idge is prac-
ticaNy a 1000
toll shot to
get the first
prize, at this
hour it looks
like most any
body might win
the 3 econ d.
There are only
two places on
this ticket. first
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

q
great country like America should
attach so little importance
to the second greatest office
within the power Of its veto.
AS a nonentity, the Vice Presi-
dency can't be equalled.
The chief duties Of this en-
ticing office are to preside over
the Senate, which is no bar
gain; speak at public functions
without saying anything and
carry water and peanuts three
times a day to the G. o. P.
elephant.
That sounds easy, but it be-
comes awfully monotonous
about the third year of incum-
bency. They have scrutinized
every paid-up subscriber in the
entire telephone directory and
haven't been able to get a Did.
der for the job.
This swivel-chaired office
amounts to political suicide. One
term in that tall and high
sounding upper berth and the
future is emptier than a church
pew.
Up to midnight everybody
within the city limits of Cleve-
land had been offered a crack
at the nomination and at 8 q.
m. they were we'll out into the
suburbs asking for volunteers.
Several college boys declared
they would take it for the
summer but would have to 20
back to their studies in Septem-
Der. 1t doesn't seem to be a
man-size proposition.
It doesn't require any qualifi-
cations, experience, references
or promises that you can't full
I'LL. You are neither interlocutor
nor end-inan, but just one Of
the chorus of Eyes men" who
come in strong in the ensemble.
In fact that is the only rea-
son they held a convention this
year-to get dumb, but
honest, office boy to open the
Presidents mail.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
this ticket, first and last.

No healthy political victim
with both eyes open wishes to
be cast into national oblivion
by using the back door to the
White House. It ruins his
chances to ever use the front.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
SAYS SKILLET"
Finn, Esq.
Wonderful Opportunity
Awaits Anybody in
Cleveland Who Is
Dumb Enough to
Take Il.
By KIRK MILLER.

COMETIME within the next
- forty-eight hours the Re-
publicans will try to in
veigle one Of their own party
into accepting the top sergeant
nomination. Failing in that,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

Gus thing. Those Shelby folks
seem well supplied.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11

/ bags loaded every time he comes
Nup in such a spot. 1t is only our
failures that hurt, and nobody. ]
think, suffers more than Connie
Mack.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-07-21
LEADERS PLAN
ALLIED MEET
Kellogg at Pre- Conference
Confab OF Premiers

LONDON. July 1.-THE commit.
tees Of experts Of The allied confer.
Hnee carried out intensive discus.
sions over the weekend. making
progress which virtually assures =
plenary session BY Tuesday
II now Is expected the German
delegates will arrive late thiG week.
altho no invitation had been sent
up 10 noon today
Ambassador Kellogg. who is the
American representative IN the con.
ference, attended the meeting of the
delegation heads az No. 10 Downing
At. o. 1880 q. m. today. on the IN.
yltation OF Prime Minister MaeDon.
aid u n understood tho leaders
discussed important points % the
decisions reached By the committees
IN their weekend meetings.
This mornings conference in
Downing a. was attended by tho
big five" Of the Eathsring-Prlme
Minister Macdonald. Ambassador
Kellogg. Premier Heriot OF France.
Premier TheuniE OF Belgium. and
Minister Des,sfani Of Italy when
tho meeting broke up. shortly after
noon, u WA understood the leaders
had decided 10 hold a plensry ses.
hion Tuesday. IN event the second
committee Of the general conference
completes It's report b. that time.