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The Washington times., 1924-07-23
WILL
TN|RL FOR
GR|FFS
JungaIeers Top League by
Half GameNats Are Game
Behind Champs
By LOUIS A. DOUGHER.

'F'irpo'' Marberry and George
Connaliy, two young men from
Texas, win oppose each other on
the hill today when the fighting
Griffs hook up for their fourth
tussle In this series with the Chi
cago White Sox.
Marberry is pitching effectively,
growing better as the season ad.
vances. and Manager Harris be-
lieves he will stop the White Sox
cold with that speed of his.
Manager Evers. Of the White Sox,
Is saving Urban Faber, his veteran
spitballer, for tQmorrow's eonclLd.
ing game Of the series. He says
Connally is good enough to win,
II his hackers give him any runs.
The Detroit Jungaleers are today
In first place, thanks to two VIC
tories In succession over the New
York Yankees. Washington fail.
ure to take yesterdays doublehead.
err prevented q tie for second place
today.
Detroit has half a game over
the Yankees, who are leading the
Griffmen by one full game. The
fight among the leading three
teams is likely to continue for
many days. continuing through the
coming invasion OF the West which
opens next Saturday.
The Griffmen have two more
games to play here before hiking
West. On Saturday they open 4
series with the Indians at Clevc-
land, playing seventeen games in
the West before returning to the
Griffith Stadium.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
BLAMEs HARD CIDER
FOR INTo>lcATIoN CHARGE

Lee @. Reinhart, who claims to
be a dentist employed at 433 Ninth
street northwest, was arraigned in
Police Court before Judge Schuldt
today charged with being intoxi.
Gated yesterday in a front yard in
the 800 block Of 7 street north.
west.
Reinhart pleaded guilty, saying
that he had consumed five or six
glasses Of hard cider in saloon
on Seventh street. He said he had
spent the winter in Florida and
had come north to practice for this
summer season. His case was re-
ferred to the probation officer for
investigation.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
CHfL D Slayer
G. IS 5-YEAR
TERM
Brooklyn Student in British
Capital Found Guilty of
MansIaughter
b international News Service.

LONDON, July 2s-C Charles Wei.
ford Travis, Brooklyn. N. r, stu.
dent. found guilty yesterday OF
manslaughter in killing his ten.
Enonth-old baby. was today sen.
fenced to five years imprisonment.
Justice Shearman, who sentenced
Travis, said he had reports before
him, which were not made public,
indicating that while the prisoner
was q man OF exceptional intelli-
gence, he was subject to criminal
impulse.
There's no question but that he
Is perfectly sane" said the court.
The home office can, IL 1t desires,
consider the prisoners mental state
and his liability to criminal i'm
pulse"
The court said the jury found
Travis did not kill his child pur-
posely, but did 80 owing to a
criminal impulse, and under the cir.
cumstances. because Of the great
cruelty in committing the crime, the
court could only consider the Ques-
ton Of law and NOT the question Of
criminal impulse.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

mother also win be called. She
has been ill-almost Frustrated
since the battered body of her baby
was brought home to her q day
after she last saw him alive and
kissed him good-by as he started to
school. However, her personal at
torney and friend of the famil,
Samuel Ettelson, promised to ha e
her in court IL 1t could be arranged
to summon her to the court just
before she was to appear on the
stand. States Attorney Grove
promised this and she win follow
her husband, who win be the first
witness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franks were expect.
ed to establish the fact that their
son was murdered and also to fur.
nish the court with ample evidence
that he was kidnapped and that they
were the objects Of an attempt ia
extort $4,000.
According to the present program.
the bereaved parents were to be
followed on the stand by Mrs. 10.
seph Springer and Axel r. Benson,
who were to testify as to the cause
Of the boys death.
No Cross Examination.
There was to be no cross ex.
animation Of witnesses by the de.
tense. Attorneys for Leopold ana
Loeb. acting under orders from
parents of the boys, were to allow
the State to establish as quickly
and firmly as possible the fact that
Robert Franks was kidnapped and
slain BY their sons. There will be
no opening statement from defense
attorneys. Their sole hope lies in
an appeal to the mercy of the court.
If Judge Caverly sentences the
boys to death an appeal viii be
made for examination by sanity
commission, and IL that fails in its
purpose then--and only then--an
appeal will be taken to higher
courts.
The case will be appealed Just as
far as 1t is possible in case the
death sentence is imposed, Attorneys
barrow and Bachrach, for the de.
Tense, declared.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
Mother-Pigeon Makes
U. S. Attorneys Desk
Family Home

A pigeon-mother, searching
high and low for q nice, quiet
place, free from intrusion, where
she might attend to family mat
tiers, finally decided that q desk
in the office Of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Arthur Presmont
in the courthouse was a good
family residence.
She promptly selected q wire
paper basket on the desk gem
orally used for official CORE
spondence, but empty at this
psychological moment, and laid
two eggs.
Mother-pigeon is strictly at
tending to the Matching business,
gives precious little concern to
Doctor Presmont or callers at
his office.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
FOURTH Child
BODY IS
FOUND
Three Others Are Still Missing
il Fairfield Beach Canoe
Tragedy

BRIDGEPORT. Conn, July 23.-
Floating on the surface Of Ash
Greek, . long distance from the
spot where the tragedy occurred,
the body Of Clinton Nordquist,
twelve. one Of seven children lost
off Fairfield Beach in a storm last
Thursday afternoon. was found BY
a Bridgeport police sergeant today
-Four bodies OF seven missing chill.
dren have now been located.
With assurance Of water men
that the other bodies win be found
before then, plans are underway for
q funeral for all the victims here
on Friday afternoon.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
You Did Good Job, =
Police Tell Slayer
81 Hold Up Man

NEW YORK, July %. Jack
Sheppard, who shot and killed
one Of the two robbers who
attempted to hold him up with
i gun In the vestibule Of his
home, was congratulated for
his bravery by District Attor-
Iley John 3. Mcclellan Of the
Bronx. The man who was
killed was Vincent Di Mar
tino. The other escaped.
One of the robbers had his
gun pressed against Sheppard's
chest as he pulled the trigger.
but the gun missed fire.
When Sheppard presented
himself to the district attorney,
Mr.. Mcclellan exonerated him
Of all blame. You did a
good job in Kidding the COM
Tnunity Of that man, the dis
trict attorney said.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
LEOPOLD AND LOEB TRIAL OPENS WITH STATE ASKING
Cabinet of Death
Taken to Court IN
Franks Case

CHICAGO, July 23. States
Attorney Groves cabinet Of
death" was moved into the court
room today Just before Chief
Justice Caverly entered. Moved
in on 3 merchandising truck, it
was ranged directly before the
bar. It contained:
A heavy, tape-wrapped chiseI.
The erstwhile white tape was
dark splotched.
"A pair Of heavy horn-rimmed
spectacles, the mute testimony
that actually linked the name
Of a Inillionaire's son, Nathan
Leopold, jr., with the Bobby
Franks murder.
A spade, still stained with the
oily clay which It had turned
over the clothes of the victim.
A motorists robe, IN which the
nude body of the victim had
been wrapped.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

Predetermined AIlbi.
This statement, Grove said, was
m alibi determined upon by Loeb
and Leopold in case suspicion should
fall upon them.
Grove also told Of later question.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-16
Yanks Win After
Long Argument

New York. July 15--The New York
Yankees made it four out of five
from st. Louis here today. winning
the last game of the series by score
OF 5 to 4. The game was held up for
fifteen minutes in the eighth inning
by protracted argument. with
I,ugan on third, Ruth on first and
none out, Meusel hit a low liner TO
left, which Bennett scooped in on n
low bound. Dugan scored. and Ruth
reached third. The st. Louis club
claimed that Bennett caught the
ball and Ruth was doubled off first,
This claim was sustained by Evans.
who ruled that Meusel and Ruth
were out New York then took the
protest back to Owens, the base
umpire, who stuck to his original de-
cjsion that the ball had not been
caught, and Meusel and Ruth were
returned to the bases. st. Louis re-
fuesd to take the field for seven
I6ore minutes. The decision cost st.
Louis the game, rs Ruth scored the
winning run after play was resumed.
Williams, of st. Louis, turned his
right ankle and gave way to Ben
nett. The score:
st. Louis :. ! 0 0-41O l
New York 4 OIL 20 Ks 3 l
Shocker, Boyne and SEVERED; Hoyt,
MamauX, CASTOR and Schang.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-16
Yale Crew FavOrite
To Win Olympic
Rowing Title Thurs.

ArGentcuil, France, July 15 (By A,
PD-Wearing the American shield in
competition for the firts time. Yale's
great varsity crew today maintained
it's unbroken string OF triumphs by
racing to n decisive victory in the
trials of the eight Dared Olympic
rowing competition, thereby estab-
fishing itself as the favorite to cap
ture the Olympic championship in
the finals next Thursday.
Demonstrating that The waters Of
the Seine river were as much to
their liking as those Of the Thames
or Housatonic, the Ell oarsmen row.
eG away from the strong Toronto
University eight representing Cana
da, winning by three and one half
lengths with five length margin
over the third contender, Holland.
Yale's time of Ave minutes. 81
seconds. establishing record for the
course OF 1000 metres or approx
matcly | Ia miles. was 10 seconds
faster than the performance OF the
Thames crew representing Great
Britain. which won the first heat and
l" seconds faster than the mark Of
the Italian crew. which defeated
Australia and Spain in the third heat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-16
WH|TEH0USE BLANKS AUGUSTA
And EASTERNS COP, a TO 0

Especial to the Kennebec Journal)
South Brewer, Me-, July 15.-In
the most classy baseball game. seen
on Eastern Park for many a day the
Easterns turned back Ben Houser's
crew with a dash OF whitewash, 4 to
y this afternoon. 1t was mostly a
case of Gil Whitehouse for he not
only held Augusta to five scattered
hits but poled a homer over the
fence in the 9Th with men on,
which clinched the game. The East
erns drew first blood in the first in
ming when Joe Smith, first man up,
landed for a double, was sacrificed
to third and beat home an outfield
fly by Earl Heal. from then on it
was a case of looking for the break
which didn't come. Hair raising in
field plays and lightning doubles
were scattered all along. Augusta
flashed in the 7th when Higgins led
off with a double but was out at
third on Hills blow and a double
killing stopped the rally. With two
down in the 9Th johnson and Heal
singled and Whitehouse came across
with mighty wallop out of the lot.
The biggest midweek crowd of the
season saw the contest and got their
moneys worth. The score:
EASTERNS
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U. s. MAKES WINNING
SHOWING IN OLYMPIC
EVENTS OF THE DAY

Paris. July 15.-(By A. P)-The
Americans are strongly entrenched
tonight on the various fronts of the
Olympic battle after notable victories
today in four outstanding branches
of competition. The famous Yale
crew, the Magnet for the greatest
crowd that has yet witnessed row.
ing competition, easily won in the
elimination heat for eight cared
shells over the 1000 metre course on
the Seine river.
Jack Kelly and Paul Costello. the
Philadelphia stars, qualified with
plenty to spare in the double SOULS,
in which they hold the championship.
In the swimming contests. the
American girls outdid the men and
shared the laurels with the Austria
liam swimmers, who led the Ameri-
cans at the end of the days three
events. "a points to %.
Sixteen American boxers In the
opening skirmish of the battle for
ring honors came off with a big
share for the first day, while the
American tennis stars continued their
victorious march through the field.
Miss Helen Wills. American cham :
pion, won decisively against Mrs.
Satterthwaite. of England. though
Vincent Richards was compelled TO
60 five sets to conquer the Indian
Sleem.
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|, How can q man get a good
aund, smashing drive?
Answered by
/. ROR CRUICKSHANK

s.,,., no in the National Open
...n,;onship, 1923. and the man
M. in 1921, defeated Hutchinson,
s.,,.n. and Barnes IN an invitation
..,n,r.nt at ST. Joseph Mo. Run
y, no in Pittsburg tournament for
s.sisssional golfers, 1922. being de-
t,..d only by Sarazen.
MAKING a good drive is the great
4 !, Measure Il man has. Very few.
Esreyer. can hit a bali well with
n, greater part Of their strength.
.,d vet control the swing. Profess
mails and FIRST class amateurs can
H. Il because they nave greater
|sre Of accuracy and proper tim
|hg The only way TO get a smash
In drive consistently Is to time the
|da perfectly. Today there are
thousands of golfers who could in
|gssse their length IL they could
lime their swings better.
Strength and pep" are all right
|nt Of no use when used at the
wrong time. Balance, Of course, Is
|rother thing which counts greatly,
I,,d 10 have proper timing one must
nave perfect balance at the top Of
The backswing. Most professionals
can swing the club back almost any
I'D way and do the same coming
down and yet hit a fine ball. This Is
|due Of course to their wonderful
timing and balance powers and that
liz the only way real smashing
i,ve can be developed.
Copyright 1924 Associated Editors
Incl
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Seeded Group Move
To Fourth Round
In LOngWOOd Tennis

Boston, July 15.-The seven seed
ed players remaining in the 32nd
annual Longwood Bowl singles
tournament moved along to the
fourth round today without the loss
of a set. The Longwood doubles
tournament also opened today on the
Chestnut Hill courts and in the early
stages no overturns were recorded.
Wallace f. johnson of Philadel-
phia, and the two Longwood stars.
Nathaniel w. Niles and Lawrence B.
Rice. gained their brackets today
in convincing fashion, dropping a
total of eight games in the nine sets
they won. Jerome Lang and Gerald
Emerson, two Columbia players,
were also victorious although with
greater effort. Fritz Mercur of Le-
high and Hugh kelleher of New
York were the other seeded players
who won.
The most spectacular match Of the
day was staged on a side court
where Henry l.. johnson of Waban.
who holds the national boys singles
title. battled through five sets re-
curing fifty-six games, to defeat
Horace Taylor, a Longwood veteran
with unorthodox strokes. Taylor
led 5-3 in the final set but his 16-
year-old opponent had sufficient
stamina to stage late rally.
Wallace johnson, whose chop
strokes have carried him to victory
in many tournaments, had a new ex-
perience when he faced James r.
McFarlane of Lexington, Ky. The
southerner never employed back
hand shot, shifting his racquet from
his left TO his right hand to bring off
singing forehand drives with no.
table success At close range. how
ever. McFarlane was unable to shift
his racquet with sufficient speed to
keep Johnson's shots within the
.baselines and the Philadelphia vet
eran won with comparative ease.
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|L& H. Romps Away
with One Sided
Victory Over Co. f

Starting off with. and keeping up
"a savage batting attack. the fast
Oa~balI team from Vickery and Hill
ttinmed up co. T.. before n small
Goud Mt Williams field last evening
|HA score Of 80.
Soup" Austin started the game
|M Co. f.. but was admittedly off
|sp and gave way to Mills in the
Fourth. Austin was up but once and
|troye out savage two Dagger.
c. Prime relieved Webb In the
|h1 In the third and pitched q good
lame, whipping seven of the conf
|nny bRtters.
Paquettc. third sackcr for Co. F..
Taught "Honk" Webb fiat footed off
|Ard In tho sixth on an ancient hid
Ten ball trick.
The game gave the publishers a
Forts OF baseball good and bad.
|naking clever squeeze play In the
|sventh. This game strengthened ".
u rs hold on the top position.
Summary.
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i. S. Second in
Olympic Swimming

Paris. July Is (By A. P)-Upon
the completion of two days Of the
Olympic swimming program this eve
ming, the United States stood second
liz the list of % nations entered.
Australia was first with 81 points
while the United States was one
point behind.
Americas unrivalled women swim
mers piled up il points in the 400
metre swim. free style. finishing one.
two, three and we're mainly respon-
s;ble for their countrys showing
while the men swimmers failed to
earn n single point in the 1900 metre
event the plain high divers placing
fourth and sixth to add four points
to the feminine score.
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Vermont Democrats
Name Full Ticket

Burlington vt, July 15-Park H.
Pollard of Proctorsville. cousin of
President Coolidge, presided at the
Democratic state meeting held in
this city today. The convention put
full state ticket in the field to be
voted in the September primaries.
Howard E. Shaw of Stowe was NOM
mated for governor and George n.
Tilden of Barre. Lieutenant Cover
nor. A. T. Calhoun Of Middlebury
was nominated as congressman from
the first district and III. {. Shurtleff
o. Montpelier congressman from the
second district.
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Dodgers Hammer,
2 Hurlers for ia Win

St Louis, July 15.-The Brooklyn
Robins hammered Allan Sothoron
and Herman Bell from the start and
the visitors defeated the Cardinals
today to 4, in the final game of
the series.
Rogers Hornsby. Criminals second
baseman. increased his season home
run string to IL by smuggling out cir
cult drives in the sixth and eighth
innings. No one was on either eth
or time. Score:
Brookrn > = 700 900 O-7-11-O
, st. Louis o 600 POI 1-4-1O-O
Roberts. Doak and Perkins: Soth-
oron. Bell, Sherdel and Gonzales.
Wick.
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NAB0BS EARLY
! LEAD Tue MUCH Fur
WORUMBO CREW

Especial to the kennebec Journ2)
Lisbon Falls, July 1J.-Bar Har-
Dor won from the .Worumbos by a
score of 10 to Z, here today many
errors by the Worumbos enabling
the Bar Harbor aggregation to win.
knight, the new Worumbo pitcher.
who came from the Boston Twilight
League pitched very fine game and
showed up well with the willow,
getting home run and three bag
ger. Wiggin, the Bar Harbor center
fielder was taken out of the game
because of torn ligaments received
in the fiplds
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FARMINCTON'S BIG
FOURTH ENOUGH TO
DEFEAT P. TO2

Especial to the Kennebec Journal
Pennington. Me-. July 15-Farm-
ington defeated P. c. F.. here today
4 to in well played game. P. c. F.
started off things in the very first
inning by scoring a couple of runs
OH Ingram's single. Farmington
came back at them, however, in the
third and scored a run when Masci-
adri drove in Hartsgrove. They
scored again in the fourth when
Eartsgrove drove in Lunge and Can
non and scored on Brosnan's two
Dagger. Stewart pitched a very
strong game and excepting the
fourth auckland also pitched we'll.
The score:
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Property Damage
of Million i'm Flood
At Kalgan. China

Washington. July~15-Damage to
foreign properties in Kalgan, China.
estimated at $1,000, 900 were reported
today in consular advices to the state
department, as result of food wa
tiers which destroyed practically the
entire section of the city on the south
bank of the waterway there.
The loss of life. however. was not
great. although the railway bridge
and hundreds of houses were COM
pletely destroyed
Advices from Picking at the same
time expressed fear lest the dykes
protecting the city of Tiensin would
not hold against the onrush of wa
tiers and perhaps precipitate flood
condition worse than that of 1871.
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Ealmouths Win. AZ

Portland, Me-, July 15-Falmouth
defeated the Portland knights of
Columbus team here tonight in a
close game. coming from behind in
the final inning with four runs TO
win. to 8. Both teams played
practically errorless ball. The Cas-
eys, using two pitchers in the at
tempt to hold the visitors. The
score:
Falmouth ......>0 0 0 o o 40 IS 0
h of C. ........ l 0 4 0 0 3 0-S IL /
Batteries Lunt and Spear: Barron,
Lacey and O'Connor.
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0LDTOWN TAKES
SlUGCINC Matinee
FROM TACONNETS

Especial to The Kennebec JournaD
Oldtown, Me-, July 15.-ln a heavy
hitting game in the Maine League
this afternoon, Oldtown out slugged
the Taconnets of Waterville, winning
without much trouble IA to Z. Old
town piled up IL runs in the first
three innings by batting Klosex and
Smith. his relief, hard and often
Smith after poor start went fairly
well. Meanwhile the Taconnets
drove Kirshtein out of the box but
could not do much with Neubauer,
who succeeded him. Both sides
showed some snappy fielding. Reed
for Taconnets and Silva for OldtoWn
turned in some classy work.
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Hornsby Poles
Out Two HOmers

st. Louis. July 1J.-Rogers Horns
by, Cardinal second baseman, and
leading major league batter, drove
out his tenth and eleventh homers
of the season off Doak in today's
game with Brooklyn. The first cir
cult clout was in the sixth and the
other in the eighth. No one was on
base either time
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Pirates Take Series
Final From Pills

Pittsburgh July 15-Pittsburgh
made it three out of four in winning
the final game of the series from
Philadelphia today z to l. Earl
Smith obtained this week from the
Boston Nationals made his first ap-
pearance behind the bat in a Pirate
uniform. The score:
Fhila .... 0 % / 0 o 0 0 0-1 10 0
Fittsb'G ... . o ! 0 0 G 0 0 Ks 0
Glazner Belts and Wilson. Mead
ows and Smith.
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Giants Big Seventh
Turns Back Cubs. 81

Chicago. July 15-EIard hitting and
the ;wildness of Keen in the seventh
inning gave the New York Giants the
mai game today with Chicago Q to
4 Nehf relieving Dean in the fifth
held the Cubs safe excepting for a
homer by Hartnett in the seventh.
Kelley and Dean also contributed
homers. The score:
New York :. 0 ! OF . 5 0 % 10
Chicago ...... 5000 SOL o. Z 1
Dean Nehf and Snyder: Kaufman,
Keen, Wheeler and Hartnett.
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''
ATHLETICS

Hits and earned runs, off Gillispie 5
and in %. off Gisentaner and in
7 ID, off Adams 10 and in 3. Two
base hits. Stevens, Adams, Masterman,
French. Home run, Masterman. Runs
driven in, by Masterman 4, Adams 3,
Stevens, Cordova. Sacrifice hit. Young.
Caught stealing. Cole, Gaudette. First
base on errors, Giants I. First base on
balls. off Gillispie /. off Gisentaner I.
Left on bases, Giants z, Athletics 5.
Double PLAYS. Adams to Cole to Prior,
Cole to Merriwether to Prior. Struck
out, by Gisentaner ?. Adams 8. I'M
pires, Conway and Gibson. Time, l.o5.
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Tigers on Top in
Slugging Affair

Philadelphia. July 15.-Detroit
came from behind and beat Phila-
delphia today IL to 3 in hard hit
ting contest.
Seven pitchers were used during
the battle. In the third inning the
Athletics had seven straight hits off
Collins and Holloway. In the ninth
Cobb made an unassisted double
play to end the game. Score:
Detroit 90 4O4 TO- 0-11-1J-O
Phila. 90 4 90 O 0 O. 0-14-2
Collins. Holloway, Dauss and
Bassler: Burns, Meeker, Harris.
Rommell and Perkins.