The Washington times., 1925-08-10

From Hyattsyille, Rockville. Ten
nelytown, Burleith, Georgetown. PEI
worth. Lyon Park. clarendon. Her.
aid Harbor. AnEa0olis. Marlboro,
Lanham. District Heights. AlexaTl-
dria and way stations. letters are
coming to Skillet" indicating that
the race is going tn be hot one
for the remaining three weeks OF
the contest.
One entry has even come from
M I'm the State of Connecticut.
which is all perfectly fair and
square. as this contest is wide
open to anybody who thinks he
can show as much Judgment and
skill in the matter of selecting
the star PLAYERS of the two leagues
as the eStinlabIe Mr.. Ruth. whose
choice is to be used as a standard
for the many fans who annually
try for the favors of The Wash
ingtOn Times free tickets.
Every mail is bringing hundreds
Of teams and. so far. no two of them
have been exactly alike. showing
how hard a job it really is to COM
bine the best ten PLAYERS on one
ten-man outfit. III fact. 1t is be-
ginning to look mole and more like
an impossible task TO reconcile the
ideas, Of all the fans and Skillet"
finds different ideas and opinions
emanating from every section and
source where his customers have
nut their minds to this business Of
duplicating or apDr5ximating Ruth g
idea Of the ten stars.
However. the fact that no two
entrants are absolutely agreed or
that no one exactly measures up
to Babe Ruth's choice. does not
enter into the chances the authors
have of earning the tickets, as the
teams coming closest to Ruth's
and accompanied by the soundest
reasons for their being, will be
awarded tickets, should Ruth's
team not be duplicated in this
contest.
In other words, there is no
reason for any one to stay out
of this interesting competition
for fear of being an also ran, be-
cause somebody rs going to get
the tickets and it might as
well be YOU!
II you know anything at all
about the stars of the two major
leagues, you are doing yourself
an injustice by staying out. The
lightning is going to hit somewhere
and while this is no needle-in-the-
haystack contest, little thought
and judgment combined with a
close study of the dafly box scores
and weekly averages may result in
your seeing a part of the world
series without a penny of expense
to yourself.
No contest was ever staged in
Washington with so few strings at
tached as the one in which thou
sands of Washington fans are now
competing. It isn't necessary to
BE ANYONE. it isn't necessary to
BELONG TO ANYTHING. and
there are no ELIGIBILITY RULES
"Skillet's" contest is a veritable
free-for-alI, in which every fans
chances are identical with his
fellows.
He doesn't want anybody to
feel that there Is no use OF try
Ing TO Outsmart so many con-
= teStants or that the chances Of
winning are so small that only
miracle could bring the good for.
tune of having won these free
tickets-fOr such is not the case.
The approximating Of the Babe
Ruth team is no hit-and-miss af
fair. Each team that the Bambinc
has selected in other years has
been named because Of certain spe
cific reasons which he outlines ir
his annual story on his All-Ameri
can team. These same reasons
exist this year, and apply to ter
players whose particular service t.
their teams have reared them head
and shoulders over their fellows
throughout the two leagues.
There are dozens of combination:
of effective players drawn from