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The Washington times., 1925-01-27
Athletics to Make
Their Earliest
Start

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27.
AS it requires forty-four hours
to make the hop from this city.
to Fort Myers, the Macks' new
training quarters, practice will
not start before Monday, Feb
ruary 23. The Athletics are 20
leave IN two squads, the pitch
ers and catchers February 20
and the infielders and regulars
q week later, Friday, February
"a. As they do not get away
from here until $50 p. M, this
means that they will not reach
Fort Myers until Sunday after
noon. Even the boldest rookie
will hardly feel like rushing to
the bail field and doing q bit
Of practice on Sunday after two
days spent on the rattlers. This
departure on February 20 IS
one Of the earliest getaways an.
Athletic team has ever made
for the South.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
.CR0VN ET Sc Is.
HIRE / Of HIS
Pals
~
Stricken Horsemal1 Better
Say Physicians and
Visitors

CHICAG q, Jan. % Jimmy
Crowley, cheered by visits from
Harry StuhIdreher and Don Miller
fellow horsemen on the champion
ship Notre Dame eleven. was RES
ported BY his physician, Doctor HAIR
l0rall, as on the road To recovery s
at Mercy Hospital. sIf Crowley con
tinues to improve as he has today
he should be out next week Doctofs'
I1alloran said Members OF the
Jim s aid. a
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
:. J. WYLIE TO HEAD
THREE I" BALL LEAGUE

CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-L. J. WyIie,
OF Decatur. today was preparing to
take over the duties Of president
of the Three I" baseball league.
Wylie was elected president 20
succeed Al Tearney, at a stormy
session of Three II magnates here
late yesterday.
The magDafes also added two new
members to the Three I" family,
Springfield and Quincy, Ill.,, thus
making it an eight team affair.
Tearney res:gne1 leadership Of
the league because Of press Of other
business He win. however, retain
an active part in the game as
executive of the Western League.
According to present plans, the
ball clubs in the cities just sd.
nnitted to the league will be con
..ucted largely by a fans association
a thousand shares at $40 Il snare
to be sold in each. place toward the
placement and support of tenn.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
MIG cI E2IE no COACH
0tlANTICO MARINE NINE

The Quantico Marines intend to
have a baseball team that VIII COM
pare equally with the Wonder foot
ball team turned out at the instlflf
Clarke, veteran big league baseball
player was signed up as the
coach.
Clarke was one or the first to en.
list In the war. He served with the
marines overseas, and he caught on
the marine baseball team He ha
been at the helm for d couple at
years. !
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
California Gridiron
Produces Gate Of
S604.438

BERKELEY, Cal, Jan. 27.-
Football at the University Of
California brought in gross re-
turn Of S6S4,43S during the 1924
season, it was announced today
by r. w. Cortelyou. graduate
athletic manager.
There were 3O4, ,568 paid ad-
missions at the games. OF the
net returns Of 1854 ,O65, Califor-
MAS. share was 1854 ,256. The
gross receipts showed an increase
of $154, 4,088 over 1928.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
About Mickey Walker.

"HOSE who belong to- the
Congressional Country Club
or are fortunate enough to
receive an invitation from MEM
Der of Washington's snappiest
organization are to be given an
opportunity to look at REAL
CHAMPION in action on the
night of Feb. 5. Mickey Walker,
holder of, the welterweight title,
is to show his wares before en-
training for the Golden West,
where he expects to gather many
simoleons under the new regime.
Mickey Walker is, with the
single exception of Jack Dempsey,
the most popular of all our ring
champions today. 1t is easy to
explain. He FIGHTS in the ring
whenever he is on the card. He
doesn't merely dance through a
given number of rounds, grab
the dough, and move on to the
next town. Furthermore, he is
willing to tackle all the leaders
in his set. He isn't ducking and
lodging the tough boys all the
time.
It is but few weeks ago that
Mickey entered the same ring
with Mike McTigue, holder OF
the light heavyweight champion
ship of the world. Walker easily
shaded McTigue, if only because
he did all the work. Merely be-
cause he gave away weight meant
nothing to him. 1t was McTigue
who backed up throughout the
bout at Newark.
Walker is still a young man
He will put on weight, or rather
should, in the next year. 1t will
be a good thing for the middle
weight class when he begins per-
forming in that circuit and the
entire ring game will benefit when
he enters the light heavyweight
class.
McTigue, afflicted with brittle
hands and but one ventricle, is the
light heavyweight champion Of the
world. Gene Tunney, blessed with
the most careful manager in the
country holds the American title
Tom Gibbons, the famous family
man of ST. Paul, Mimi, is the
BEST OF ALL THE LIGHT
HEAVIES, though sporting nc
title.
By the time Mickey Walker
graduates into the light heavy;
weight class, McTigue will be done
with the ring, Gibbons may bs
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
~ LOUIS A.DOUGHER
CONNIE'S ALL-STAR TEAM.

ONE MACK ancient elongated leader Of the Philadelphia
Il other day by Gordon Mackay, p
Philadelphia writer the best aggregation that
all the who played
during the Of life Of the Macen Says acay
positions catcher left field umped him for the time and IN
the he refused to pick out bacop a superior
in fielder named
men, Rube Oldrng Topy Hase if pinned down
he Of his ability IN
certain direction acquainted with
Mack the lineup
Mackay CLEANED the famous leader
The Washington times., 1925-01-27

Mr.. Floto Il visiting Los Angeles.
renewing friendships formed many
wears ago, and tanning with ring
followers about the old and the new
in fistiana.
Despite the fact that Jim CoTbett,
practically as q novice, went sixty
one rounds to a draw, with Jackson
III san Francisco. EIoto declares
that the Australian as an all-round
boxer and fighter was the greatest
man he has ever seen in the heavy
weight ranks.
Jackson practically fought On
one foot the night he and C0rDeet
battIed," said Firp0, and tnat u
the only reason COrbett STAYED
with him.
sullivan was in his heyday when
jackson arrived in this country,
but the Boston strong boy drew
the color line at the behest Of the
late Jimmy Wake1ey and Jackson
was denied the chance to fight TOR
the championship.
1T is the wonderful speed and nit.
ting power Of Dempsey that makes
Floto rank him the best OF the
white heavyweigIlts. He figures
that Jeffries at his best would
have given Dempsey the battle of
the ages, and that the willy Bob
FitzsimmOns would have made the
champion step at his fastest pace
to win.
But unlike lot Of oIdtimers, who
can see only the heroes Of the past
and give but faint praise to the
modern gladiators, Floto puts Demp-
sey in q class by himself.
al bit of inside history on the IA
nous Sullivan Corbett fight at New
Orleans on September Z 1892, when
Gentleman Jim won the heavy
weight title. was unfolded during
the tanning bee.
Few may even have heard the
story. but It IS q fact. declares
MIR. FlOtO. that the great John
u. tried to f0nl COrbett.
Jack McAuliffe, the former
lightweight champion. was SuIli.
van'sscaief second that night 81 said
Mr.. FlotO AtV that time ! was
acting as McAuIiffe.s manager and
i always regarded him as not only
one of the greatest fighers Of his
weight the world has ever seen
but one of the fOxiest, man whose
brain was always working To put
something over on the other fellow,
..As early as the fifth rounds Nc,
AuIiffe saw that Su1Iivan's case
was hopeless and that Corbett
would surely be returned the win.
ner.
sWhen Sullivan came back to
his corner. McAnliffe bent over and
said to him:
Hit him low, John. IL you're
disqualified the people will never
believe you fouled him and the
whole country win be yelling that
you've been robbed.
sullivan tried to follow out the
instructions, but he couldn't lay q
glove on Corheft. "
The Washington times., 1925-01-27

y c e q n Whicn
eliminated with
the marriage of
b city Becker
and C1aren nc e
Pinkston, tn e
woman and the
man : who sIold
world champion
diving titles.
Betty Becker.
W ho is just t
twenty-one, left
Atlantic City
e ar1y in the
spring to go to
Los Angeles In
order to defend
her diving title.
After she had
..~1S~~R-Il,v ,,,1k
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
Sol Metzger Quits
Football For
Business

ATLANTIC CITY n. J., Jan.
27.SoI III Metzger former
Pennsylvania football star two
decades ago, who coached the
University Of South Caroline
eIeyens for the last five years,
has decided to retire from the
gridiron sport, It was announced
here today. Metzger recently
refused to sign another long
term contract to direct the des-
TIMES of South Carolina He
plans to enter business At Al
lantic City.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
HASKELL INDIANS WILL
PLAY GoNZACA ELEVEN

SPOKANE, Wash. Jan. 27.-
Terms were closed today for foot
ball game between Gonzaga Univer-
sity and the Haskell Indians, to be
played here October 81, it was an
nounced by Coach Charles L..
Dorais, Of Gonzaga.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
FIVE BIG LEAGUE CLUBS
WOULD PURCHASE KoENIC

Five major league clubs are re-
ported to be after, Mark Koenig,
sensational young infielder of the
st. Paul American. Association
team. Bob Connery says the
Yankees, Cubs, Athletics, Browns
and Senators would like to have
him.. II he Is sold, according to
Connery, It will be with the pro-
viso that he is permitted to re-
main throughout the 1925 season
with the SAINTS.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27

Here's Comics own selections;
Catcher Undecided.
Pitcher-Eddie Plank.
First base Harry Davis.
Second base Eddie Collins.
Shortstop-Jack Barry.
Third base-Frank Baker.
Left field--Rube Oldring oI
Topsy Hartsel.
Center field Amos Strunk.
Right field-Danny Murphy.
American League fans with
long memories will recall many
other great players who have
worn the dirty brown uniform OF
the Philadelphia Athletics, some
going back to the days when
Dave Fultz and Lave Gross and
Rube Waddell and Ossie Shreck-
engost were in action. Neverthe-
less, the above selections are
those of Connie himself.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27

champion for the first time since
Bob Fitzsimmons wore the crown.
Changes Should Come
=nvHERE may be some changes
seen in the ring world be-
fore another January rolls
around, indeed, before another
September hops up with grin,
Pancho Villa has not been de-
Tending his flyweight title fcT
many, many days. Laziness helps
no boxer and, if he happens 20
come back to the United States
and has to tackle frankie Genaro,
it is fair to say that he may
emerge from that ring bereft OF
his worlds crown.
Ed Cannonball Martin, bantam
champion, and Louis Kid, Kaplan,
featherweight champion, may ex-
pect trouble almost any time.
Kaplan is actually but the winner
of a tourney staged by the New
York boxing commission. He has
many strong opponents to meet
before making the public believe
him worthy of his title.
The lightweight class is all up
in the air with the resignation of
Benny Leonard. There may De
plenty of action in this class ali
summer, with a title claimant far
off in the future.
Mickey Walker has things
cinched in the welter class. Harry
Greb is much the best of the
middles.
Gene Tunney and Mike Nc
Tigue, holders of the light heavy
weight titles, may be depended
on to do little or nothing. In
deed, there are not so many really
good light heavies in sight, un-
less. Young Stribling be one of
those bound to the top.
Jack Dempsey, king of 'em all,
hints that he may quit, but wise
ones believe he will defend his
title at least once before hang
ing up the gloves for all time
and joining Jimmy Barry, Jack
McAuliffe, and Benny Leonard in
the retired undefeated" class.
It is a possibility, too, that if
Dempsey faces Tom Gibbons in
fifteen-round decision bout in
New York, the st. Paul family
man may take the decision. Glib
bons' many admirers think this,
anyway.
There should be plenty of action
in the ring during the coming
summer, especially if Jack Demp-
sey talks about boxing. There's
nothing like having the heavy
weight champion in action to put
pep in the other classes.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
OIL YMP IC ? All
FIND REAL
ROMANCE
By JACK" MARTIN

When the America" sailed for
France last summer. with her
Olympic team members aboard, we
were told by wireless throughout
the journey just how the many
team members were taking adj
vantage of all the apparatus on
board in order to keep in trim.
But the little dots and dashes
failed to inform us about the moon
light nights far out on the Atlantic
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
Workers at Yale

Out of forty men on the Yale
football squad, eighteen are working
their way through college, Twenty.
five members of the scrub squad of
1924 we're earning their way, too.
pension.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
RECALLS SINGLE BE / ! I.ll
HEAVY THAN JACK
n Bill SMITH

Los ANGELES Jan 27Ooot Floto Of
editors witness Of nearly ngn gas
this continent the year,
Dempsey champion the greatest heayyegns nae
Hved-with exception
And exception not Jim Jeffres Bob Fitz9Lnons slm
Core Sullivan other title holders ok the ast tWo
generations
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
COSTA RICAN BASEBALL
TEAM ASKS JOHNSON
FOR UNIFORMS
Bv WALTER JOHNSON.

So many egrams cables letters and postcards came to
that did have time really
read enjoy them until the hurried events after the big
big stack of them and read
the Pacific Coast and indeed never
SOLID
with the world in general through baseball pitching.
While couldn't begin to recie the wonderful which
in of picking
show how the championship Of the
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
Seek Basket Foes

The Independent Club basketers
desire games with 135-140-pound
teams. Mrs. l.. Nicholas. phone
Iir1coln 4O60. is the manager.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
A Baseball Rarity

No major league ballplayer since
1894 has been at bat three times in
one inning.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27
MY
PITCHING
YEARS
By Walter johnson
Copyright, 1926,
By the Christy Walsh Syndi.
cate.
WARNING TO READERS

Unfortunately find Il accessory %
assure the reading pubhc that thss
ts my oscn personal story. There hoe
been a story 1ppeGrissO ta cert0sn
Newspapers alleging to eGpresS n1N
opinions on my life IN baaebaH The
unauthorized story Is beng published
tofthoWt my permission. tDtfhout my
assistance, IN spite Of O1y protests, and
coHtoips many statements attributed
to me 4Uhjch I never said. Dispstss
hare GItc0ys been djStaStefWI to ne,
titled to kMOsc that this ~ nsV 0sOM
story and accurate. The other ONe
Is not.
issgmed1 wALTBR JOHNSON.
citation extends to your team mates
our congratulations
w. Stephens, a Canadian mayor,
wired: Thousands of admirers in
Guelph, Ontario, Canada tender
their heartily congratulations. !"
Frank }. Navin, Owner, Detroit
Tigers: Il want 10 congratulate
erfuI club on great victory. 1
don't think there is another city
in the country that has more
kindly feeling toward yOu than
Detroit"
John f. Gerscllow, Detroit, Mich:
Greetings and best wishes from
Ten Thousand Shriners
The following letter shows the
great hold that baseball has in other
places besides America and is re-
printed just as received from Jose
Luis Fournier, San Jose, Costa Riea:
Actually in Costa Rica. the base
bali is situated in a critical situa
ton. The footballs friends are most
influential and they are trying their
best to kin the baseball. The
friends of the football are very
very little. For that they are best
they are struken u.s.
I'VE need the help of any known
player Of baseball and for this object
] request you to help one Of the
clubs, the Championship of the Sec
ond Forces League, formed by
young boys, of which am one. We
solicit from you little pity. II
you send as complete uniform Of
which our club. in this moment js
willing to need very very much
urgently. Without this requisite,
We could not play in the next sea-
son. II you would be able to send
to my club some uniform, we viii
remain yours grateful servants.
In the passed year, we won the
Champion Ship, as / told you in the
'3rd paragraph Of these letter, and /
have received as premium, a cup
and we are obliged to fight for it
three years consecutive. And in our
present year, our principle trouble
is that we have not any uniform to
participate in the League"
Tomorrow: Offers, and Gifts.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27

done and Tunney may be battling
heavies. Which means that the
light heavies will then have real
champion for the first time since
Bob Fitzsimmons wore the crown.
The Washington times., 1925-01-27

Honorable John w. Davis,
Presidential candidate, wired from
PhiIadelphia: 81 am glad to have
the opportunity, for which / have
waited long time to c0ngratu-
late you on being q member Of q
world championship team and on
your contribution TO its victory
The Washington times., 1925-01-27

ciation extends to your team mates
our congratulations"
w. Stephens, Canadian mayor.
wired: Thousands Of admirers in
Guelph, Ontario, Canada tender
their heartily congratulations"
The Washington times., 1925-01-27

u. Few may even have heard the
story. but II IS q fact. declares
MIR. FlOtO. that the great John
II. tried t0 fOul COrbett.
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27

BUENpS AIRES. June D. {t4o,-La Razon, of Buenos Aires considered t. be the leading after noon newspaper South America. has built handsome edifce the Avenida de Mayo which it will occupy in June. The building, faced with lofty Cornthian columns has five floors an! two basemeas. and extends through the block. it interior is especially designed to meet the needs of modern newspaper. Up to date mechanleal equipment including six fast rotary presses and 2o linotype machines. will insure still greater rap ditv in the publication of its three daily editions
 the most complete newspaper morgues
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27
MAJOR MARTINS RECORDS
 RECOVERED FROM HIS PLANE
 BY FISHERIES WATCHMAN

BellineEam. Wash Jun . 4.- Major Fredefck L. Martin commander the inited states anm8 world flight last wear missed death b. only few in tn crash his airplane, the Stattle the Alaska peninsula in May. 1921. ill the opinion oe Robert N4-t. watchman for fisheries company who returned here recently after having visited the i- fated machine.
 MT. West expressed the belief that had Major Mar tin and his mechanic. Sergeant Ava l.. Harvey struck the mountain Port Moller 15P feet high they never have out of the bleak country alive He brought here the personal effects, instru and records of the aviatorss including their fyinp suits and the chronometer of the arship Although bears had clawed the leather all
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27
B00TL EGGERS 0F PACIFIC STATES
 DEVEL0PE SOME CRAFTY METHODS

robortad the judges statements "Bootiezsars hat have prosecuted during the last month have claimed O be the victims of disease from barber's itch galloping consumption, he said. .'The who is caught with the liquor in hts possession usually undersizad. and pleads for tae court to give him chance get iu the country and regain his health"
 the mystifying feature of the situation is that the convicted bootlegger rerely remains in jail more than days. if heavy fine is posed the officers The money pay his fine and ehect his liberation always is forthcoming from source, which they believe be the employing bootegger.
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27

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WINDSOR CASTLE COULD USE
 4 GOOD VACUUM CLEANER

wendsor- On Thames June 25 (P,--Of all the snrine cleaning jobs in the houses of royalty that that at Windsor Castle is the most difficult De- cause of d two-ton carpet which covers the iloo' has to he taken outdoors and beaten by hand
 The Waterloo Chamber is used as the royal hih'hs room during Ascot week. when King George all" Queen Mary make Windsor thelr heaoqu'' A force of about 60 men is required to caii' ~ massive corpet down stairs to the la"nS' It N so feet long and 40 feet wide and was "oNe" III India by he prisoners of Agra who were enS'se' on the task years.
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27

SPOKANE. Wash. LP,--June 26. lP,-The lat est strategy of bootleggers of this locality, the civil authorities declare. is hire person suffer- ing from chronic illness to market their wares Then when the old peddler comes before the court the plea is made that he has money and that iail sentence would death
 Within the last three weeks there have been at least three cases of this kind tried before me. declared Police Justice Fred Morrill,. "The de- fendan had physician take the witness stand and testify that it might mean death for the accused if he should be compelled to serve tune in jail
 Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Louis Bunge cor
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27
SOFT, FEMININE BEAUTY
 REPLACES BOYISH FLAPPER

Hollywood. Cal. June 24. GP,-The manuish, boyish type beauty which last year regned favore has been replaced by the slim. youthful and decidedly feminine creature it indicated by d contest which 800 of the beautiful girls here participated.
 An average height of five feet three inches predonnated among the 90 winsome misses selected from the 500 candidates for appearance in forthcoming film production. Tta weight of this ideal 1925 girl is slightly less than 11S pounds. She has ray-hlue eyes and hair of golden chestnut color. bobhed of course. shin gled in back but not extreme.
 This slender representative of the film ter's beauty who has only 20 birthdays. measures 26 inches around the waist: her bust is 34 inches and her hips 35 She slippers sized four and half.
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27

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sEATTIr -'-,ne 27, GP,-The Foreign Trade Council adjourL<a yesterdays session after hearing tas only all action being left to the committee o sixty of which E. P. Thomas. president of the United States Steel Products Corporation is the head
 in accordance with long standing custom they continued James A. Farrell president of tue United States Steel Corporation president of the coanctl lie declared .The development and maintatnance of the American merchant marine under the Ameri-
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27
GROWING ARGENTINE PAPER
 BUILDS MODERN NEW PLANT

in South America will be installed, with steel ia deX sufficient to hold 5OO,OO0 envelopes Of reference to events, obituary sketches aud other information. There Will also be library of S0000 volumes open the public. which ~tLi also be available for lectures. meetings and cera- monial affairs.
 La Razon started its successful ear=er just before the by the late Dr. Jose Corteiar- who succeeded by its present directing editor. pr. Angel L. Soj9. Within this time its circulation and advertising have tripled. the for Iner now beng 15o.O00.
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27

The aecord- Intaot h. ssla
 Accompanied by natives Nr West made cee .gt1s b the aiapiane, n November when the 1irn.eas personal recgsefea and anota~r jn Feb raary. when the instruments were hauled oo- an dog sleds
 Even had the plane been wrecked tn it. tact with the mountain, Mr West believe i would have been impossible for the avators to have -akeo the again, they landed in pocket 15o feet from the summit of sharp peak. The altitude was 16o0 feet above level and all sides ware mountains iooo to 6oo0fee in height SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NONE WEEKLY NUGGET AND THE DAILY BULLETIN s2oo PER MONTH
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JAPANESE DIVERS TRAVEL FAR
 TO RECOVER SI-NkEN TREASURE

Tokyo June 26 LP--A party of Japanese in cluding expert divers expects to leave for Port Said to engage in salvaging the government tran sport Yasaka Maru. which sent to the bottom by German submarines during the world The transport had on gold bullion valued at $50o.00o.
 The Japanese will attempt also to salvage the British liner Egypt. which sunk by submarines near Marseilles with s1O0 900 aboard.
The Nome nugget., 1925-06-27

ssssEATTLE, June 27, lPD- The Aerial the mis- sion ship which will sail next week for Siberian waters via Nome, under the command of Rev N A. Hoijer is being finished here This ship was bought from the government recently at a public suction and is being reconditoned and fitted more to the necessities of northern waters.
 g On leaving Seattle there will be seven persons