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The Washington times., 1924-08-26
CORNELL SENDS
SEVENTY GRID
INVITATIONS
Candid ates Report For
Practice September 8;
Seven Vets Available

ITHACA, N. Y, Aug. 26-At a
conference between Gilmour Dobie
and Graduate Manager Berry plans
were completed for the opening Of
Cornell football practice on Septem-
Der 8, the usual time. Notices to
seventy prospective candidates for
the varsity eleven to report on that
date are going out from the 'ath-
letic associations offices, and foot
ball equipment is being overhauled
and replenished in preparation for
the Fall campaign.
Seven letter men from last. years
varsity team will be available this
fall. The list is headed by Captain
Frank A. Henderson of Detroit,
who played left end on the eleven
last fall and is a two-year veteran.
The other varsity wingman, Har-
old F. Kheen. of Cleveland. also
will be eligible again. OF last
years tackles, Frank L. Sundstrom
was graduated. but Francis Kear-
ney jr., who showed great promise
will be back.
OF the guards of the 1923 team,
John H. BereaE,. right guard, will
not be available, but Robert Morris,
left gaurd, is due to retrun, as is
Frank o. Affeld, the big centre.
The heaviest losses from the 1923
team are in the backfieId Gradua-
ton removed George B. Pfann, last
years captain and quarterback who
returns this Fall in the role of an
assistant coach; Floyd Ramsey, for
three years right halfback and one
OF the most valuable men in re-
cent Cornell football history and
Charles E. Cassidy, fullback, fine
line plunger and lead-off man in the
interference.
Only Robert F. Patterson, right
halfback. will be left of the 1928
backfield. The loss of Pfann, RAM
sey and Cassidy confronts Dobie
with one Of the most difficult situa-
tons he has had to face since
coming to Ithaca.
Coach Dobie has been canvassing
the list of candidates from among
last years substitutes and the
freshman team. The varsity sub.
stitutes available include Gordon
Trousden, David Hill and Gordon
Taylor, guards and tackles; Henry
Reed, center; Berry L. Tilton, half
or quarter back, and Henry Wade
and Frederick L. Wester, lIalfbacks.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
OMALL STUFF q
y FOR ROOTERO

The Griffmen bring their third
long home stay to a close tomor.
row. If today's doubleheader is
played according to plans, a single
game will be played tomorrow. The
Brownies will leave at once for
st. Louis where they are to tangle
up with the Detroit Jungaleers on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Cobb
and his Jungle Cats have won but
one game in st. Louis this season
and have lost ten out or eighteen
played with the Brownies. The
Griffs will be pulling for the
Browns while doing their best to
pull down the Yankees over in
New York.
Curly Ogden, whose pitching wing
has been bothering him for several
days, is reported as feeling much
better and may soon be able to
take his turn on the slab. ogden
makes up the first string quartet
Of Fingers, the others being John.
son, Mogridge and Zachary.
johnson. Mogridge and Zachary
are certain to start against the
Yankees In this coming series which
may be so important in determining
the final standing of both teams.
Ogden or Marberry win start the
other game.
While Tommy Connolly will never
look the same in his new cake-eater
uniform, the new style might be
called a success except on a dark
afternoon and with the st. Louis
Browns on the road. There is
small difference between any one of
the Browns, sporting his travelling
uniform, and one Of the arbitrator.
The first throw from a Brownie
to an umpire, mistaken for a fel.
low player. will send the officials
back to their old-fashioned blue
suits.
Tanning Walter Gerber and
Hank SeveretdS in yesterdays alb
breviated game, Walter johnson
ran his total up to 3,189, strikeouts
since entering the league. His
shutout victory was the sixth of
this season and the. 10th in the
veterans brilliant career.
The Yankees stayed in the lead
by trouncing Cleveland, 8 to 8.
Ruth got his 10th homer.
The Giants split doubleheader
with the Cubs. Chicago won the
first game, 3 to 2, mad the Giants
slugged their way to an 11-to.7
victory in the nightcap.
Pittsburgh beat the Phillies, 7 TO
., and advanced to within three
and a half games Of the lead.
Brooklyn knocked Haines out Of
the box and defeated the Cardinals.
3 to 3. despits Hornsby's 21st
homer.
The Braves nosed out the Reds
In the tenth, 6 to s, punching three
hits off Carl Mays for the winning
run
Flagstead and Ermke, former
Tigers, were contributing factors
as the Red Sox beat Detroit in the
eleventh, to 8.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
KENYON AND o'REILLY
WILL AID LOU LITTLE

Bill Kenyon will coach the
Georgetown University second team
and John d. O'Reiily, director OF
athletics on the Hilltop, will handle
the Freshmen's eleven, 1t is an.
nounced.
Lou Little, head gridiron coach,
has instructed the candidates to re.
port at the Hilltop September 1,
and has received communications
from nearly all of them expressing
eagerness to hop into football toys
and get going.
Georgetown looks forward to a
strong eleven with a determine ton
to make up for the mediocre show.
ing Of a year ago.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
Eight Straight Wins
For Griffmen Is
Latest Mark

Coping that abbreviated VIC
tory in the rain from the st.
Louis Browns ran the Griffs'
winning streak up to eight
games. A double victory today
will shove it up to ten.
Since losing to. Urban Faber
in Chicago on August 9, the
Griffmen have won twelve
games out of fourteen played.
This is exactly .S57 baseball.
1t will win any pennant any,
where.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
May Have Supporters

n UCKY HARRIS and his gang
n of fighting Griffs may have
their own cheering section
when they go over to New York
for this weekend, Judging from
what was noticeable in Sundays
game between the Jungaleers and
the Yankees.
1.-THE crowd of 5O,O00," said a
writer in the New York World,
was about the biggest of the
year, and it was about evenly
divided as to Detroit and New
York sympathies. There were
more Yankee straw hat singers,
but the applause for the home runs
of Cobb and Manush were louder
and more prolonged than the
cheers for the Yankee big hitter.
Washington usually does excite
the sympathies of a handful of
fans in New York, but so often
have we heard their cheers
drowned in /, a swelling Bronx
salute that it may be surprising
to find half the attendance root
ing for the fighting Griffs. Yet
that is to be expected.
The closer comes the end Of
the campaign, the more support
will be thrown to the Griffmen
in their travels. 1t would not
be surprising to find fans all over
the circuit pulling for the Griffs
as soon as it is seen that Walter
johnson is likely to pitch the
first game in the 1924 world
series. Walter is the lodestone.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
He Admits It.


A T last one New York sports
~ writer has been found to adj
NIT the general popularity
of the Washington club as a corr
tender for the 1924 American
League pennant. He is George
Daley, sports editor Of the New
York World, and he comes right
out in meeting with his admission,
not only that Washington is pop
ular, but that New York is not.
Well, read it for yourself:
up Eros, down Mars! The
Yankees threaten one day and
sink the next. The Giants seem
secure for a week and then send
the chills down the backs of their
friends for the next half q dozen
days by their in-and-out tactics.
Old-time baseball men say it's the
same old story-no result till the
last weeks of the campaign. They
assert that any club with a real
punch, which could win fifteen
games in a row, just now could
win the pennant in either league.
Trouble is, say these old-timers,
there is no club with a punch.
They are all on one level, and all
are floundering. Washington is
the popular choice in the Amer
lean League. The Pirates would
be the popular choice in the Ma
tional League if the team would
show some spirit. There is a gen.
eral feeling against an all-New
York series again. this fall. The
fans don't want it, no matter
whether the weight of baseball
skill is against them"
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
" louis A.DOUGHFR


Always h does the hOmerun hitter possess superior skill
For instance to last Sunday the New York Giants had
amassed total OF seveny-one home Their rivals the
Yankees led the major leagues with total of
the other end Of the National League list with
circuit outs and Washington with fifteen
trick ball park so the Yankee Stadium The eucroach
SO upon the playing that what would flies falling
the outeders hands in Braves Field the Griffith Stadium
Tor nome runs IN the metropolis providing the baseball writers with
columns OF encomus Studying the home-run totals tells
the truth about the ball parks in the major leagues
The Washington times., 1924-08-26


Bill donned the livery of the Mack
outfit in, early July, when the
60-year-old leader began wedding
out his onions and shipped Rollie
Naylor and Paul Strand, the high
priced flivver from the coast, to
Toledo in exchange for Bill.
Lamar hasn't been ringing the
bell at his customary 800 pace with
the White Elephants, but is up
within 10 to Is points of this mark.
With Toledo in 1928 he hit 1897 and
was far above 300 in the American
Association averages when he again
set sail for the big leagues this
summer.
But for 4 trick throwing arm it
is probable that Bill would have
been a regular under the big tent
long since. AS late as last season
Bill was having considerable trouble
with his salary flipper, but after
having been repaired in the early
summer it Is said to be AL now.
Another young player who has
Ied Connie to repeat his annual
optimistic prediction for next sea-
son Is Max Bishop, the, young
ln1ieIder transferred to the Sleepy
City at great expense from the
Baltimore Orioles last winter.
Bishop was a batting cipher at
the start and not any great shucks
as a fielder, either. The keystone
tender finally found himself with the
stick and his batting average began
to climb past the $50 mark his
fielding started to improve to a
corresponding degree.
At his present gait Bishop should
finish the season around the .27O
mark, and If his batting can be
just a bit improved in 1925 Macks
second base worries should be about
over.
The spindly strategist is also en-.
couraged by the discovery Of AL
Simmons, the "one-foot.in-the.wa
bucket" outfielder, who despite his
unique and usually ineffective style
at bat has smacked the ball well
over the 800 mark all season. AS
a fielder Simmons Is said to be i'm
proving every minute. He can
cover acres Of ground and holds
everything lie gets his hands on.
Chick Galloway, who literally
set the circuit on fire in 1892 and
last season, only to fall off in his
work this year, has shown some
thing Of his old form Of recent
days. He Is playing his usual
.dashing game at short and puzzl.
ing the opposition with his trick
hits.
When in form Galloway is the
hardest man in the batting order
to pitch to because he can sock
the ball, bunt or place his hits.
"Cy" Perkins, the first-string cat.
cher, whose case has been almost
identical with that of Galloway. is
also playing in something approach
Ing his real form.
The AS were literally left stand.
ing. at the post this season and
never did catch up with the rest
OF the procession. It was mid sea-
son before the team began to play
anything like the brand Of ball of
which 1t is capable. But the Athle.
tics have been playing almost a 800
brand Of ball for several weeks and
it may be that 1925 is the year that
they will step out and surprise and
likewise shock the baseball world.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
CONNIE MACK IS Still
BUILDING ON FUTURE

Connie Mack for hapess
hapless big league ball recordhe Philadelphia
building for the future built
since he broke his pennan winning combination Of 1914
exceedingly small pieces Bill Lamar the
New York Yankees the Boston Red SO the Brooklyn supeba and
international League
plays prominent the schemes
Bill the Lamme they called this youthful globe
in Toledo the beginning
back to the American Association various
dimensions and he being voted dividends
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
LOUISVILLE CLUB GETS
JOE DAWSON FROM BLUES

Joe Dawson, Kansas City pitcher.
was claimed by the Louisville
Colonels for the waiver price
$4,000. Waivers were asked on
Dawson about three days ago.
The Blue hurler recently was sent
to the Cleveland Club Of the Amer.
lean League for months trial.
but failed to make good and was
returned to Kansas City,
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
Veterans Are Going.

|"HE veterans among the Bos-
ton Red Sox are doomed, ac-
cording to word from the
Hub. Bobby Veach, "Shano"
Collins, Jack Quinn, Steve O'Neill,
Hank Shanks and Bill Wamby are
among those said to be booked
for new fields by the time the
1926 training season rolls around.
Boston wants a winning ball
club. Boston fandom showed the
new owners this year that it
would support a winner. Z During
the wild rush of the Red Sox into
first place, Boston fans. went mad
with delight, setting attendance
records for Fenway Park.
The pace proved too fast for
the Red Sox. Open dates, usually
caused by rain, had permitted
three veteran pitchers to swing
the team into first place, but once
they had to keep on pitehing,
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
Have Some Good OnAs

The best pitchers in the Western
League this season are Davenport.
Of St. Joe; Koupal. Of Omaha: Hall.
Of Denver; Songer, Of Oklahoma
City: Blaeholder. Of Tulsa: Grover.
OF Lincoln; Wilson. OF Des Moines.
and HovlIk, Of Wichita.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
CORNER WILSON REPORTS
TO Ro5INSoN'S DODGERS

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 26.-Gormer
Wilson. the southpaw, purchased
from the Des Moines club, of the
Southern League. reported to the
Dodgers here today. With a last
place club at Des Moines, he won
seventeen games and lost sixteen
this season.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
Would Help Others

President Martin Of the Southern
League has issued a bulletin calling
attention to a considerable slump
in attendance, and asks that the
magnates think Of way to help
out the leagues smaller cities
Mobile, Little Rock and Chat.
tanooga,
The Washington times., 1924-08-26

Philadelphia's band box park in
the National League is responsible
for the Phillies' high total of
sixty-five home runs.
In the National League five
clubs-New York, Philadelphia
Brooklyn, Chicago and st. Louis
had at least fifty home runs
apiece.
In the American League three
clubs were up to the fifty mark
New York, st. Louis. and Phila-
delphia. Both clubs in st. Louis
use the same park, a trick affair
with cute little fence in left
field built just right to be hoped
by bouncing balls.
l. Cleveland has a trick park and
iris Speaker has led the league
in two-baggers for years because
Of the screened wall in right field.
He bounces liners off the wall. If
he played here half the year those
liners would go to opposing out
fielders, cutting down his batting
average and chopping down his
total of doubles at one and the
same time.
Whenever home runs are chalked
up at the Griffith Stadium they
have been earned. Babe Ruth's
honest-to-goodness clouts over that
high wall in right center would
be home rups anywhere, but he
! doesn't make a habit of polling the
ball over there, come to think
Of it.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
CUYLER BENEFITS FROM
BIGBEE'S AILMENT
BY THOMAS S. RICE

ST LOUIS Aug 26Few baseball players years
have made favorable
azen Cqye the rookie outfdr brought up spring BY
pittsburgh Pirates from Nashville
One mans meat another mans poison Cuye his big chance
outfeders in the league had and still
yesght seriously and nterfered with fielding hitting
bgbee operated last
ported in bad shape following persuasion from Manager Bill
cKochni
The Washington times., 1924-08-26

things were different. To make
matters worse, Joe Harris and Ike
Boone were injured and had to lay
off. The. Red Sox dropped like
a plummet.
New blood is decidedly neces-
sary, if the Red Sox are to make
much noise next season. Presi-
dent Quinn knows it, which
explains the tale that the veter-
ans are on their way out.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
Niehoff Makes Good

Bert Niehoff has done. SO well at
Atlanta that terms for a contract
in 1925 are said to have been agreed
upon. Niehoff has his team second
despite many injuries to players
this season.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
They Miss the Crowd

Arlington and Cherrydale, playing
in the Independent League this
season. miss the large crowds that
turned out for their games when
they played in the Arlington County
Series q year ago.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
BASEBALL q
. STANDINGS
American I,eazne.


Yesterdays Results.
Chicago, 81; New York, 2-l1.
Pittsburgh. z; Philadelphia, 4. end
game (first game postponed, rain).
Boston. 6; Cincinnati, s Go jnninRs).
Brooklyn, s. st. Louis, g.
Today's Games.
New York at Chicago.
Brooklyn at OF. Louia
Boston at Cincinnati
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh q Eamssl-
The Washington times., 1924-08-26
Johnson Was There.

washington ..ssss..'. W IL
Runs-McNeely. johnson. Error-Davis.
Two-base hits-JudEe (2) Three-haSe
hit - Goslin Sacrifices - Harris (2),
johnson. Left on bases--St. Louis. 2:
Washington. o. First base on balls
Off Johnson: ?: off Davis, 3. Struck
lut-By Johnson. 2: by Davis. 2.
BASED ball-Severeid. UNAplres-Messrs.
AmD Holmes and Evans. Time. i:3k,
The Washington times., 1924-08-26

This youth is improving instead
! OF slipping. When the Pirates were
I last in Brooklyn and winning three
OF five games there we drew at
tention to the fact that Cuyler had
stolen sixteen bases in sixty-four
games, or an average of one every
! four games.
That was less than three weeks
ago. Cuyler is getting better as he
! becomes more familiar with the
pitchers, and familiarity with the
pitchers is the secret of base steal
| ing in the majors, not the strength
Of the catcher's arm.
/ In 70 games, including that the
Brooklyn Superbas won from the
Pirates on Monday last, Cuyler had
stolen % bases, or an appreciable
fraction better than one per four
games. Last season in the South.
ern Association he batted about 40
points below his present 1886, and
stole one base per two and one-fifth
games.
/ Asked how he found base-running
in the big show, compared with that
! in the minors, Cuyler said:
Grabbing base up here is a
lot different from what it is in
the minors. Stealing is good base.
ball, and / like to steal, but the
boys in the National league have
shown me many things l didn't
know.
In the minors you seldom find
more than one or two smart
! pitchers on one team, and some
have none. Also, minor teams do
not carry many pitchers. BY con-
stantly studying them you find
who are smart in hiding their in.
tentiOns about holding up a rum
ner, and you give those wise ones
intensive study to learn tile tip
off on when they are going to
deliver the ball to the plate. The
lesser lights usually furnish the
tip quite plainly and you pro.
coed accordingly.
major league pitchers are alto
J gether a different, proposition. Prac-
! tically all pitchers in the majors
are smart. If they are not so when
they come up, the managers drill
them until they acquire the trick
Of hiding their intentions.
"As every major league club has
from seven to nine pitchers, all
more or less skilled in hiding their
Intentions. and every one of them
having his own peculiarities, you
have steady problem of from so
to GO pitchers confronting you II
you want to steal bases.
"Of course the batter meets the
regular pitchers more often than
second string men, but even. the
The Washington times., 1924-08-26

Just when Moe thinks
he has q real stopper up
his sleeve the. owner gets
the shivers and scratches
the gander. He had
vALADoR yesterday for
a take down cinch, but
they kept the founder in
the barn.
Noes old buddie,
Walter shean, Of Spring
field, Mass, dug one out
of the mud for the
plunger today, and when
Walter digs he generally
strikes oil.
Assets, $S,S55.21.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26

After Bigbee did join the Pirates
it was found that ne was off form.
Cuyler was sent to left field merely
because McKechnie had to fill a
vacancy. In his early days as a
Pirate this season Cuyler mis-
judged flies at Forbes Field, the
Pittsburg grounds, and was err.
ratio in other respects, except hit
ting. He began to hit at once,
and has never stopped. The ex-
pertinent of using Bigbee had to
be permanently abandoned, Cuyler
had a regular berth forced upon
him, and in the last two months
he has sprouted into a topnotcher
among major leaguers.
Cuyler is a right handed, swing
ing hitter, and has an excellent
eye for all sorts of pitching. Brook
lyn pitchers have tried a little of
everything on him, from delayed-in.
transmission slow balls to Vance's
fastest shoots, but while he does
not get a hit every time, and &C.
casionally strikes out, no weakness
in his attack has been discovered.
He is just natural born hitter,
with the added advantage of being
fast in the field and on the paths.
CuyIer made 122 hits in his
first seventy mine games for that
average of 1856. Among those
hits were twenty-One doubles,
fifteen triples and two home
runs. That means he made
eighty-fOur singles, a point worth
noting. The more extra-base hits,
the less occasion for stealing
bases. 1t might also be men,
toned that since Forbes Field is
one Of the largest ball parks in
the big circuit quite a number
of doubles and triples CuyIer has
made would have sailed over the
fences In smaller parks, even
though he is rather q line hitter
than a holster.
The Washington times., 1924-08-26

Dixie Davis, kept in the league
largely by his ability to win from
the Griffmen, was ON the hill
against johnson and he was wild
and ineffective. He forced over
the first run and two WaIlopS by
McNeely and GOslin accounted for
the other in the seventh.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO LEASE
STATE LAND

once of the State Board of Land
1924 1' So
Notice is hereby given that applica.
ton has been made to lease the follow.
ing described School and Agricultural
College Lands. situate in Phillips Coun.
ty Colorado. to-wit:
All of Section 36, Township 7
N. Range AZ w, B-5993 (Agrl-
cultural and Grazing lease.)
All OF Section 16 Township 7
~. Range AZ W., B-6OOO (Agri.
cultural and Grazing lease)
The Sh of NEA of Section &c.
township N. Range 46 w.
B-59s2 agricultural lease.)
Notice is further hereby given that all
other persons desiring to file an appli-
cation to lease all or any part of this
tract of land must file same in this
otlice prior to August 2s, 1924. as no
other application to lease the above
described lands will be considered after
said date.
EARL COOLEY,
Register State Board Land
n,u Commissioners
Published July 81, August I, IA, 2l. 1924
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Cash FINANCIAL STATEMENT

annual report of the receipts and ex.
penditures of School District No &.
fhiillps County, Colorado, for year end
ing June 30, 1924.
RECEIVED
Amount on hand July /. 1929
held by County Treasurer:
General Fund .S47S az
;, Special Fund 2SS,29
Received from general fund by ''-'
p apportionment for teachers 1916
Received from general fund
county levy for payment of
minimum salary 914.3S
From special tax for teachers
From special tax school par. 40V''i |
poses ................ 279.47
From special tax for interest on
bonds .'................ 142,9 80
From all other sources go. 160O6
TOTAL opAALTn ,...$ 2,SS7.S5
For fuel, rent. insurance and all
current expenses ...... 340S4
For redemption of bonds -. .120.30
FOR interest on bonds ...... 240.6O
For rebate taxes and fees -. SS3
Balance in hands of County
Treasurer to credit of district
June 80. 1924:
General Fund ........ 226.33
Special Fund ........,. 257.S5
interest Fund ........ $3.50
TOTAL ....$ 2,S37.35
We certify that the foregoing is true
and complete report.
George Weis,
President.
Geo. o. Hall
Secretary.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Highest and Lowest Tide.

The highest and lowest tide Of the
ocean occurs on the eastern coast OF
Nova Scotia in the Bay of Fundy.
The range of the tide is so feet
that is, 1t rises at high tide to a
height of 25 feet above mean sea level
and at low tide drops to 25 feet be-
low sea level.