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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05

OF the city's crack sandIot clubs.
The Dominicans started by knock.
Ing down the champion Mohawlks,
who haven't been trimmed since.
Next Sunday Haley's men win
tackle the Arlington club, which
won the 1923 championship Of Ar
hngton county, Va, and in its last
game stopped the Waverly team,
which, until then undefeated, had
shared first place in the league with
the Dominicans.
The Arlington club is planning
to handle a record mob Sunday.
Every sandlot baseball bug in the
county. 1t seems. is talking about
the coming contest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Midgets Will Clash

The Eastern and Northern mid.
gets will battle in the midget
division Of the w. B. A. A. tomor.
row at p. m. on Diamond No. 1,
Monument lot,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Alec Again on Job

Alec Weinberg, who managed the
Gibraltar team when 1t won the
first Independent championship
series, in 1921, 10 now handling the
Barrett A. C..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Minor Teams Have
Bad Financial
Beginning

Unless there is a big Jump in
the attendance at ball games in
the minor leagues, It is doubt
full if some of the circuits of
lower classification will survive
the season. The bad weather
since the season opened was a
hard blow to the limited treas
tries Of the smaller teams. In
many cases only unusually large
crowds from now on will save
them.
The majors and the minors
have not been getting on any
too well for the past few years,
and there isn't any too much
sympathy exchanged between
them. The relations got so
strained at one time that the
majors were ready to have their
own minor leagues for develop
ing new players. The minors,
being the base Of supply for
future major leaguerB, need
help to survive.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Play Practice Game

Cherrtdale and Rosslyn viii meet
tomorrow at s p. m. on the Ross
lyn field in a practice game. Coach
Eddie Foster, Of Cherrydale, wants
all PLAYERS to report.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Twas a Long Wait

The Wardman Park tennis tournaD
ment is under way after having
been postponed from time to time
for a month because Of rain.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Want Diamond Games

Unlimited class teams can arrange
weekday games by communicating
Wltn the Cherrydale Club through
M11lanager Mickey johnson, address.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Juniors TO Meet

The Mt. Rainier Juniors will hold
q meeting tonight at the home Of
President e. w. Flesters. All mem.
bers are requested to be present at
7:00 o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Will Play Dominic ans

Arlington will attempt to halt the
indicated Dominican Lyceum team.
which leads the Independent League
in a clash next Sunday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Pets Lose Charles

Squirrel Charles has been released
at his own request by the IPetwortn
club, in the Independent Sandlot
League.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05

The Barrett A. c., wants game
with fast unlimited class clubs.
Alec Weinberg, manager, may be
reached by phone at Lincoln 1906
after D. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Loses But Six Bouts
Out Of Hundred,
Two to Jack

Out Of 100 battles fought by
ELL Brennan he has lost three
by decision and three via the
knockout route. De mpsey
knocked him out twice and Firpo
once.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
ONCE HITLESS LYCEUMS
PACK PENNANT PUNCH
By X. D. THOMAS.

South Washington's sandlot hopes ballooning.
For four long the Southwest
Capital. 7-+ = = $500
Now real opportunity hand Lyceum
ball team that HIT and Southwests
foremost representative in baseball.
When Jimmy Butler, shrewd rshnan running the Lyceum
team ne made the most Of collection brilliant eders But their
oouDe
ingenuity giving them every advantage in the matter Of arguments
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
OLYMPIC TEAMS FACING
CUT AS FINANCIAL
SCHEME FAILS
Ry DAVIS ]. WASH.

International News Service Sports Editor
NEW YORK, 5Barring sudden financial wndfAH indi
cations today that the American Olympic team will be sent
month
the condition fallen arch The abused
guest without wedding garment in less embarrassing posi-
ton than the Olympic committee at Having instituted
drive for $35OOOO tacy nubbed by the American public
in its plans send repesentatiye 70 Paris.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
Dominicans Practice

The Dominican Lyceum bah
players will hold a practice session
today at p. m. at the Washington
Barracks In preparation for their
big game Sunday with Arlington IN
the Independent Sandlot League.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05


For one thing, spark Plug"
Matthews is a ground-covering
fool. He is going to run all over
the garden at the Griffith Sta
dunn. If Bucky Harris, an in
fielder, got into a scrap with Sam
Rice for intruding upon his domain
last season in Boston, the doughty
Samyouell is'going to have a rough
time with Sparkle" who will keep
right on intruding, too, no matter
how Sam may feel about it.
For another thing, Sparkle" is
q wild runner on the bases. He
takes all sorts Of chances to ad-
vance an extra base. He is not a
hard hitter, but he is a dangerous
hitter at all times. He is sure to
show up some Of the base-runners
on the bali club.
For a third-and most import.
ant-thing, Sparkle" is a scrappy
winning ball player. He is not
going to be satisfied with merely
ALMOST winning. He wants K
be WINNING ALL THE TIME
From what we know of Bucky
Harris, sparkle" ought to gel
along easily with his new mana.
ger and, therefore, should prove
of vast assistance to the Griff'
men.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05
insects Want Games

Opponents are sought by the Car
dinal Insects, who may be reached
by phone, Lincoln $685. after S D. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05


Georges has been rather "a
bust" on this side of the ocean.
Carpenters Wallop.
EFORE coming to this coun-
try. Carpenter was given
~ credit for having a tremen-
dous wallop in his right hand. He
landed it once on Jack Dempsey
and had to fall into a clinch with
in ten seconds to save his ribs.
According to Bob Edgren, vet
eran writer on fistics, the French
man Started and missed fifty-six
right hand punches during the ten
rounds" at Michigan City.
Quick victories over the paper
iawed Bombadier Wells and the
stodgy Joe Beckett served to give
Carpenter a fictitious reputation
as hitter. He was outclassed by
Dempsey in hitting way and by
Gibbons in a boxing way.
Real hitters don't "start and
miss fifty-six" of their best wal
lops in ten rounds.
Come to think of it, this Georges
Carpenter doesn't shape up 40
much of hitter.
More Important Now.
TWENTY years ago the stoSy
of the national open golf
championship tourney might
have been given half column,
including the scores.
Ten years ago it nigh have re-
quired a column.
Today it is "played up" on
sports pages everywhere. Column
after column is needed to tell the
story properly, with stroke-by.
stroke descriptions of the final
matches.
Twenty years ago golf was q
rich mans pastime. Today it is
rapidly assuming the proportions
of national game.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05

<6CNPARK PLUG" MATTHEWS overnight When
Connie Ma young team proceeded wild through the
first months Of the 1923 campaign unanimously
agreed that Matthews playing center field the spark plug that
put into the engine And when Matthews benhed all life
ceased and the AS finished in sixth place instead running close
the champion New York Yankees The Gmen somewhat
like the AS exceedingly need of spark plug" There
points about their game but they lack color Goose Gosn is
the only player the club with his work But the Goose s
spark plug Matthews will rally thousands of
the the club if he will perform here he did for
Mackm last
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05

victim to him on this side of the
pond.
Georges has been rather "a
bust" on this side of the ocean.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-05

With Haley ut the helm, the
GarfieldS were such . collection
Of players and sandlot baseball
lost q lot when tbe Garfields dis
banded.
The daily worker., 1924-04-05

his constituency and, rs the local
branch of the fascist party had
warned him beforehand mot to show
his face in the streets of Bari" be-
fore leaving Rome for Bari, he
wanted to make sure that the gov
ernment would protect him. The
government let him know that in
structions had been given providing
for his personal security at Bari.
But when Signor Vella reached Bari
he was received by such hostile
demonstration from the fascist that
he deemed it prudent 70 take shelter
inside the perfect's house.
The prefect received him very
kindly, but seemed helpless. "How,"
exclaimed the socialist candidate, "I
was given the assurance by the gov
ernment that l would be enabled to
make my electoral campaign here,
and you do nothing to prevent the
fascist from organizing their at
tacks upon rae "Sir, answered the
prefect, "you are quite right, but
you see that am helpless. These
devils you know and l
- am helpless. Take my
friendly advice; go back to Rome,
and I'll see that you get safe back
to the railway station" And the
socialist candidate had to take the
projects friendly advice and accept
also the offer of a strong police
escort on his way back TO the
station.
The daily worker., 1924-04-05

Of those men who did the militant
work. 1t is for this reason that
Lenin possessed a marvellous attrac-
ton; he charmed people; they came
to him (not as to a chief, but as to
the best friend and conrade, the
most experienced, the wisest; and he
bound all these people~to himself by
means of a cement which no force
could have loosened.
Never more will there be found in
history leader so much loved by
those near him. Everyone had spe-
cial feeling for Lenin. 1t was not
for his vigorous intelligence and for
his iron fist that he was loved. No,
he was simply loved. He bound
people to himself by intimate bonds.
He was a comrade in the real sense
Of the word, this great word to
which the future belongs. Such will
be in the future the relations be-
tween people.
The greatest simplicity was the
essential trait of his policy; it was
not the simplicity of naive people;
it was the simplicity of genius. He
found simple words, clear slogans,
easy solution of the most compli-
Gated problem. Nothing was more
foreign to him that sinuosity, pose,
sophism; he hated all that. He ridi-
The daily worker., 1924-04-05
A COMR ADJ By N BUCHARl

culed this cursed heritage of the old
order.
Enemy of Sterile Verbiage.
He knew the value of action and
was the most implacable enemy of
all sterile verbiage, and at the same
time he guided his Party in a mas
terly way and he swept along all
the workers. He was dictator in the
best sense Of the woru: Absorbing
all the asps of life, he made the ex-
pertinent with thousands of men in
his marvellous spiritual laboratory
and directed with his audacious hand
as a powerful chief.
He never adapted himself to the
backward ones; he never passively
noted down events; he knew to
march against the current with his
whole aroused ardor; 80 ought a
chief to be.
Comrade Lenin has left US; he
has gone away forever. Let us dedi-
cate all our forces to his heir, our
Party. May this Party be animated
by his spirit, his will, his illimitable
daring, his devotion to the working
class.
Let us all know how to listen to
the mass as did Lenin, our common
chief, our great master, our immortal
comrade.
The daily worker., 1924-04-05
BY GIOVANNI GIGLIO.

THE ITALIAN electoral campaign
Il is in full swing. But the opposition
parties have not been able to hold
single meeting as yet, not only be-
cause of the fact that open air meet
ing are, as a rule, never allowed by
the police, but also because the fascist
violence makes it impossible for the
candidates of the opposition parties
to return to their constituencies,
from which they have been driven or
compelled to escape. Here are two
or three examples:
Signor Salvatore di Fausto, ex-
M. P. and a prominent member of
the Partito Popolare, sends to his
Vicovaro constituency, small
town within the Rome province, his
private secretsry with instructions
to do some canvass work. At the
small railway station of the con-
stituency The private secretary is
soon noticed on his arrival by three
fascist and followed at close dis
tance on his track. The secretary
gets aware that he is being closely
followed by the three fascist and
therefore tries to elude their pursuit
by entering swiftly into a church.
But the three fascist notice his
move and follow him inside tho
church. Perceiving the impossible
ity Of getting rid Of his spies, the
secretary very wisely, as you will
zee, tries TO approach them.
The daily worker., 1924-04-05
Fascist Intimidation.

In the face of this kind about
one hundred of the late NJ. P.s have
informed their constituencies that
they perfer to retire of their own
will, and it is expected that the op-
position parties may at the eleventh
hour abandon completely the arena.
They are already wondering what is
the use of participating in the elec-
ton when it is already known be-
forehand what the result of the
election is going to pe. rhe fact Is
that Mussolfni has already ensured
for the morrow meek and obedient
parliament. He is already sure that
he will have 356 faithful followers
in the future '.Camera del Deputati"
out of total of 535 M. P.s.
The result of this election will be
to throw the crowds Of laborers and
farmers outside parliamentary life
and deprive them, as a matter of
fact, of the universal suffrage. In
fact, for them it is almost impos-
sible even the total conquest Of the
places officially reserved by the elec-
toral law to the minority. If to this
is added the preoccupation of the
fascist electoral methods, one will
get a clear insight of the meaning
Of this election which Is aiming at
vanishing with lawfulness and
democracy an oligarchical regime
resting on a daily and systematic
violence. (Nection, Sunday, April g.
The daily worker., 1924-04-05
Vladimir Ilyitch UIianOv-- Nicolai Lenin
By MAX BARTHEL (Berlin)

In the workers quarters of Prague and Berlin,
London Paris and Copenhagen
A changing hammer struck crashing:
'Lenin is dead, Comrade LeninI"
An outcry from the cities of Moscow and Vienna,
Bombay and Cape Town with frantic heart,
A wailing arises from depths of grief:
'Lenin is dead, Comrade Lenin!''
Odessa bends in sorrow to Moscow:
"There lies our father at feet,
He whom earth's dsinherited greet,
Leader of the poor, Comrade Lenin!"
Paris is in tears, Vienna walls,
Rome and Athens are struck down.
The other cities and ask:
Comrades what is it?"-'Ienin died, Lenin!"
Chinese coolies, despised, spat upon,
The yellow stokers of pitching ships,
They shudder and imagine dreadful cracks:
'Eenin is dead, Comrade Lenin!"
And all the slaves of the colonies,
Negroes, Mulattos, and slender Malays,
Arise like lightning and say and cry:
'Lenn is dead, Comrade Lenin!"
Then silent the cities of Moscow and Berlin,
Rome Prague and London devoured with bitterness
Hereupon a voice speaks clearly thru sorrow:
"Lenin is dead? Long live Lenn!''
The daily worker., 1924-04-05
By N. BUCHARIN
AS WE SEE IT
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

1t would be interesting to read the
reports in the Moscow papers of the
manner in which election campaigns
are waged in Cicero, Illinois. They
may say, ''Well what can you expect
in a capitalist country where the only
incentive in public life is not service
to the community as in our Soviet
Republic but the accumulation of
wealth, and as the shortest road to
wealth is via the graft route, why
graft is the rule and not the excep-
tion. When graft begins to thin out
the grafters begin to shoot" That is
about the size of it.
Oswald Mosely, NJ P. son-in-law Of
Lord Curzon has Joined the Indepen-
dent Labor Party Of Great Britain.
Mosely married Lady Cynthia Cur
zon, Lord Curzon's daughter in 1920.
His wife is a generous contributor
to the Labor Party's campaign funds.
nobility for membership in the fnde-
pendent Labor Party. The society
columns of the London papers are
filled with stories of dinners and af-
ternoon teas at which the King and
Queen rub shoulders with trade union
leaders and intellectual" members
of MacDonald's cabinet. This state
of affairs is not universally popular.
Thomas Johnston, editor of the
Glasgow forward" comments with
his customary incisiveness on this ten
dency to kiss the royal foot that is
still massaging the neck of the Bri-
tish working class. Tom Griffith is
Labor Treasurer of the Royal House.
hold. Says Johnston, Tommy, it
seems had a great time with the King.
IF you had seen us there, chatting in
formally with the King, you would
have thought this sort of thing had
gone on for centuries. A more de-
llightful half-hour / have never spent.
EThe King gripped my hand"
"Note it wasn't his throat or his
lanIle that was gripped, just his hand,
the hand of an honest son of toll
but more, there was feeling of con-
straint. He obviously looked on US
as friends" "Not as snobs, but as
friends. Chums in fact" "Oh,
brothers." means Johnston, who is an
M. P. himself, ''give US air and loosen
our collars; for we are like to chokel
1t may be that certain ceremonials
have to be undertaken; but surely
there is no excuse for those public
Exhibitions of snobberyw No doubt
Jim Oneal will make vicious attack
on Thomas Johnston for his undigni-
fled criticism of His Majesty's Labor
Socialist (yellow) Government.
The daily worker., 1924-04-05

T ENIN is dead. Never more win
IL we see this powerful forehead,
this marvellous head radiating revolu-
tionary power; these cleaning, pene-
trating, attentive eyes; these ener-
getic and vigorous hands; never more
will we see this human statue nodded
out of one block on the frontier Of
two epochs of human evolution.
The peak of thought, of feeling,
of the will of the proletariat has
collapsed. His energy flowed up in
invisible currents to wherever the
heart of workers beat, to where the
conscience of a powerful class is
formed, to where the weapon of the
battle Of Liberation is being forged.
Across the centuries Le=sin has been
and will remain unique, without
equal.
Lenin-The Leader.
Comrade Lenin was above an =
leader, a leader whom nature gives
to humanity but once in a century.
His is of those who give their name
to their epoch. He was one Of the
greatest organizers of the masses;
like a giant, he advanced at the head
of a human wave, organizing the
innumerable human units into an
army of disciplined work, crushing
the adversary; he dominated the ele-
ments in throwing the light of his
powerful mind upon the straight
roads as we'll as upon the obscure
alleys where resounds the rhythmic
step of workers columns following
the red standards of revolt.
What IS it that made Of Lenin so
inspired an expression Of millions of
beings?
It was above all his extraordinary
understanding of the needs of the
masses; he possessed a myterious
sense which enabled him to perceive
in the masses the movements, the
thoughts which were most imper-
ceptibIe to I'll others.
No one could listen as he. He lis
tened with patience and attention tC
an old soldier, peasant from some
far away place, a worker.
1t was enough for him to exchange
some words with humble peasan
woman to determine the pulse-beat'
of the life of the country places; on
word caught from worker during
meeting was enough for him t
feel the road taken by workers
thought. He disentangled the com
plexity Of social relations, and befor'
the eyes there arose the picture o
the life of millions of beings.
Simplicity in Bearing.
Lenin had a singular talent fo
talking with people; he got so init
mately near them that they conhde'
to him all their doubts, their de
sires, their questions.
For every one Lenin found
simple language. Hating the enc
mics of the working class with al
the force of his mighty soul, break
ing with them brutally, definitely
categorically, Lenin knew how t
convince; he dissipated all the doubt
The daily worker., 1924-04-05
The Italian Elections Under Fascism

So, with the most fascinating
smile on his lips, he ventures to ask
he three gentlemen" to be so kind
IS to tell him what they wanted.
"Your id skin," answered in a
wild chorus The three gentlemen"
The secretary was shocked. Then,
one Of the fascist continued: "We
know that you are the secretary Of
Mr.. So and SO and we also know the
purpose Of your coming here. Now,
he best you can do is 10 follow US
Jack to the railway station" The
secretary attempted to make timid
protest, but he soon repented for
having made the attempt.
When he, in company Of his three
guides, reached the railway station,
the fascist requested him to tele-
phone his candidate in Rome. And
he was compelled to warn by phone
his candidate not to think any more
of his constituency. Three days
later the candidates went to his con
stituency and under the protection
Of strong police forces was able to
hold meeting. But the day after
the meeting the fascist had their
terrible revenge, by numbering three
of the candidates friends in the
constituency.
Here Is Another Example.
The province of Bari gave, in the
last election (1921), heaps Of votes
to the socialist ticket. A few days
ago, Signor Vella, a socialist M. p.
for Bari, tried to get in touch with
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-31
Another shining example of the self

Another shining example of the self
made jew who has risen from humble
environment TO Il place of real prom
incncc in the literary horizon of the
hour, is Frank Swinnerton Of London
He is to visit the United States for an
extended tour during the next few
months. In the parlance of our own
Journalism, he began life as "A print
cr's devl' with Chatto & Windus,
London publishers. Today Mr.. Swim
merton is one of the owners of this
famous British printing house. His
journalistic efforts have sparklcd for
years in his weekly columns of literary
criticism in the Manchester Guard
ian" with which publication Ae is still
actively connected. As novelist, how