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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09
Some Real Bowling

Red Megraw.. Kingpin star, in his
last. twenty-seven District League
games has averaged 49,. He has
rolled fifty-one games in the league
only one OF which was under 100,
this one being 81.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09
An Accurate Shot

In shooting duckpin set of 421
with Curb Cafe in the District League,
Max Rosenberg missed only two
spare breaks, one of these being a
basket and the other a breadline.
He hit every kingpin he shot at.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09

rig, MandeA, Ben
ianain, Dundee or
Barbarian when,
where or how
often. That
means that they
can take Benny
Leonard's title
and tie It to 4
rabbit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09

commissions ante-chanaber or In
the austere studio itself.
Let the commission decide 4
champion and either one Of the
five Is willing to come along
and dent his nlansard.
Boxing is very highly organ
lied ii New York State. in fact
almost too much so. Officials
and cen gods are so numerous
they are tripping ell Over Zach
other in frantic efkOl p-
pear important
In fact, many fans contend
that if there were less red tape
and more adhesive tape in New
York's boxing scheme the public
wouldn't fall asleep 1T so many
ringside wakes.
AS q matter Of truth, fighters
and managers in the several
weight divisions are so Disguised
with this nonsense they have
escaped to California, the land
Of pugilistic promise.
Out there they can take it
and give it without legal advice
between blows or asking any
pop-eyed jury if it Is all right
to proceed with caution.
Back East the game is getting
so cluttered up with provisos,
rules, regulations, amendments
and clauses that every fighter
needs to be a graduate Of the
diplomatic service before he
should be trusted in q ring.
Mickey Walker is the last to
leave the commission flat on
its balloon tires and is on his
way West where men aren't
mice and q punch in the nose
should be spelled with capital
letters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09

One silver lining to the cloud is
found i'm the ruling providing that
where q club assesses its members
and specifies that certain portions
of the money raised are to be
used to redeem bonds, to build a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09


Here is an instance:--A club
raised 1000, 900 for the purchase
OF grounds and construction OF
buildings. This club was incorpo-
rated in such q way that every
member was required to purchase
several shares of stock as q condi-
ton for Joining. The mopey was
raised by these shares of stock. but
the Government now claims $2OO,0V
tax. Further. rulings have now been
made to the effect that such q tax
becomes due whether the club
issues shares OF stock or not. II
any such payment be demanded for
membership privileges.
A severe drain will be made on
many clubs by another ruling OF
the Treasury Department. Many
clubs have been organized without
capital stock, and have raised the
funds necessary for purchasing
their properties by requiring pay
ments for which no evidence of
actual indebtedness is given by the
clubs. The Treasury Department
now claims that these clubs must
pay 10 per cent upon the amounts
so raised, which may mean bank
ruptcy for organizations without a
real surplus in the bank.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09
Record Duckpin Game

The highest team game of duck
pins ever rolled in Washington was
G66, made by the old Rathskeller
team of the National Capital League.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09

Two-base hit-Crawford. Sacrifice rits
MILAN. bush Observation-Disclosures and
Moriarty. Left on bases-Washington,
o. Detroit 3. First on bails-Johnson,
\. kulian. 5. Struckout--zJ y Johnson
q: Killiau. !. Time, / hour Is minutes.
Gmplres--Egan and Sheridan. Attend
ance. S.S9s.
(TOMOKROW-"Big I'd" Walsh turns
u one Of his greatest pitching exhibI-
elons.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09

These boys viii
do their fighting
In 4 ring, in
stead of the
cloak room Of
the hon orable
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09
SAYS .sKu.LET''
Finn, ESQ.
Boxing Commission VIII.
Soon Have Only Itself
to Fight Among.
~, E4TpEs MffFER

~ I'VE willful littIs men cf the
lightweight division have,
III effect, told New York's
frock-coated boxing commission
that ii II talking through its
one and several high hats.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-09

Let The commission decide 3
champion and either one Of the
five Is willing to come along
and dent his nlansard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
SPEAKING OF A GOOD
ECCENTRIC COMEDIAN

Am going to make a prediction
One Of these fine days we will read
that McRae, comedian Of McRae and
big revue.
Good comedians are few and far
between. Look at the legitimate
stage. Very limited. Burlesque re-
Gently has given the revue stage
several of it's comedy leaders.
McRae is a comedian who works
along approved burlesque lines. His
funny getup, his trick talk, his
ability to create a new musical
sound as he does in the final num-
Der, and above all his ability along
with Miss Mott to introduce his
songs in a new way.
In their Offering you will find
music. Here is a team that is one
of the best comedy. bets I have seen
on the stage in several years. What
/ this man could and would do to big
revue! He is certainly cleaning up"
at the Lyric this week.
Want to call attention to Sid Hall
and his orchestra. Hall impersonates
noted orchestra conductors, White.
man, Ted Lewis, Lopez and the
others. He has a finely trained
bunch of men with him. Easily the
best orchestra that this house has
had this season. An easy winner
class and everything.
The Autumn Trio seem to go in
for a little bit OF everything. Pleases
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
From Here to the Horn

n OR years advocates Of closer Pan-Ameri-
L. can relations have dreamed of New
York to Buenos Aires railroad, but financial
and engineering difficulties have always inter
fered
Now 1t appears that an All-American high
way leading from Indianapolis and all points
IN the United States to Buenes Aires, Rio ia
nero and other South American cities will
come first. The good roads construction idea
has seized the South American countries and
they are anxious to duplicate the progress
being made in the United States.
The Pan-American Congress of Highways
at Bdenos Aires in October will be attended bv
an official delegation representing the United
States Government and large unofficial dele
CATION representing automobile organizations
and others interested in good roads.
Connecting roads throughout the Central
and South American republics will lead to bet
ter understanding and closer relations between
the peoples Of the Americas more than anv 9TH
er economic development. If proof is needed
one needs only to watch the thousands of
American automobiles daily crossing the line
into Canada
The neighborliness on the northern border
should some day be duplicated on the soutb
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01

present to give the east its share Of national
parks.
The great national parks, which all lie
west of the Mississippi, were created out of
public lands. There are no public lands in
the east out of which to create national
parks, The public lands of the west if they
had not been made into parks, would have a
cash value to the government today There
fore it is only fair that Government money be
used to buy for the east the land needed to
preserve what little remains of natural scenery
in that part of the country, before it is lost
forever
A commission named by the last Congress
has recommended that two parks be created
the Shenandoah, in the Blue Ridge mountains
OF Virginia, and the Great Smoky, in the noun
tains of Tennessee and North Carolina To-
gether, they would probably cost not much
over $10,000,000 With a $300,0OO,OO0 surplus,
the Administration ought to be able to include
the purchase OF these park lands in it's budget,
without the cost being noticed by the people of
the country. But these great parks themselves
lying close to the thickly populated sections of
the country, would certainly be noticed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
The City Circus

TT EW SHANK again is considering an offer
Il to go into vaudeville He should &C
cept it by all means. His particular ability
seems to be along comedy lines.
For instance, consider the present city adj
ADMINISTRATION. To~one who doesn t have to pay
taxes to support it, the administration has been
more or less Of scream, as our friends on
the stage would say In some respects it has
been what the vaudevillian would call
s wow
But Lew shouldn't consider taking along
"a trained horse as he did in some of his other
vaudeville acts. He has managed to get along
for four years in the mayor s office without the
assistance of horse, thus indicating that the
animal is not at all necessary to his act Of
course, he has been assisted by few mules
housed in a certain barn on the south side.
r. But Lew should take along by all means
his good friend, Bill Armitage Things
wouldn seem natural to Lew if Bill and pos
ssibly Roy Pope and Capt. John Zener were not
standing somewhere in the wings. Bill
gould deal with the booking agents. who,
Lew says, want lot of his money, and Zener,
with his experience in collecting campaign
.
a good ticket seller.
N On second thought, it may be mistake for
\ Lew to go into vaudeville. He is too big a
Snowman for that. He should go into the the
atcical business on larger scale, possibly in
tent. He could simply move the whole city,ad-
miuistration after Jan. l. out of the city hall,
where it has been performing for four years,
4an1 put it in the tent
& Lew could be his own ballyhoo man on the
~outsde. Then he could go inside and paint up
his face and ride one or two of the balzy mules
@out of the mule barn. Zener could sell tickets
land Roy Pope could drive stakes Bill Armi-
atage should be wonderful juggler, specialize
sing, possibly, in card tricks
r. Otto Ray and the other rebeliious council
men could don tin armor, and, like Sancho
sPanza, mount city mules and joust with the
members of the board of works for the edit
cation of the public. They have been doing it
more or less for the same purpose for months
and should be in good trim.
i II the tent were big enough there might
be staged small-sized automobile race featur-
ing Bull Moose Walker in that city owned au-
tomobile No. 2. Come to think of it, though.
Walker would do lot better Job as grand
marshal of the street parade.
tx Places undoubtedly could be found for all
The other participants in our present municipal
comedy. Undoubtedly the show would be
couple of ''wows"
No, Lew will be making a mistake if he
goes into vaudeville He has circus ready
made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON.

loon dispensing hard nkker" to
all corners was brought to life and
fiourished on every corner as in
the good old horse-and-buggy days?
Fragments of accident victims and
traffic would be strewn all over
the landscape. Sunday motoring
would be a precarious trip through
a shambles.
In the old saloon days an in
ebriate. after he got tired OF sing
ing Sweet Adeline," clambered
into a hack or buggy and ambled
home. He didn't menace other
traffic, for the horse was sober.
It's different now. An automobile,
unlike a horse, is only as sober
as its driver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
"0BEY" IN THE
MARRIAGE vow
INDIANAPOLIS

E7NDIANAPOLIS ministers
are not much concerned
- over the fate Of the word
''obey" in the marriage ritual
which has recently been the sub
ject of sprightly discussion by
Episcopal bishops. The majority
Of local preachers don't use the
word.
"Obey" might once have had
deep Significance powerful link
in the chain binding the woman TO
her lordly male. But now it is only
a sort of vermiform appendix-an
atrophied survival-in the mar
riage ceremony.
The modern bride who trips cool
ly and with utmost self Possession
to the altar glibly utters the word.
But naturally she doesn't really
mean to obey the flustered, weak
kneed thing at her side who
doesn't know what to do with his
hands and feet and who shutters
and gulps-except as convenient.
Modern marriage customs, say
anthropOlogists, can be traced
back TO the time when wives were
secured by barter or capture.
The ring ceremony, in which the
modern brute slips a ring on the
finger Of his chosen and leads her
proudly from the church while her
female relatives politely shed tears,
IS a pale descendant Of the Stone
Age practice where the masterful
guy cracked his bride over the
head with n club and dragged her
off by her hair to his cave. while
her sisters and aunts walled. There
We're men in those days.
Marriage is now conceded to be
a partnership.
The exact ritual by which 1t is
solemnized may be of interest but
not Of vital Importance. A bishop
or a justice of the peace may
officiate. Mendelssohn or the
Alabam Five may furnish the we'd
ding march. The success or fail
ure of marriage depends on what
comes after the ceremony.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01

and act moves rapidly. Cecil Gray
sings and the program explains the
effort as THE Question Mark. !"
Agree. Allen is the whole works
with the Reno Sisters and Allen. lie
plays the violin and does a corking
English impersonation. AS to dane
ing, the Reno Sisters as just so so.
Lou Miller and Alice Bradford pre-
sent Skin Deep" which is supposed
to be comedy and romance in a
beauty parlor. Olive and Mack en-
gage in wise conversation and some
melody in Lobby Laughs"
At the Lyric all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01

Last week the State Examiner,
in a letter to the trustees Of the
Indiana World War Memorial, de.
manded dismissal Of the architects
employed on that project. He
charged them with specifying use
in the building OF a patented steel
manufactured by a company in
which they were financially in
terested.
Such specification was in
timated to be highly improper.
Quite a kettle of fish was spilled.
The architects deny anything
unethical in their action and an
investigation is under way.
There is no claim that other
steel, equally suitable for the pur-
pose, would cost less or would re-
duce the cost of the memorial
project. Whoever furnishes the
material used in the structure,
the State suffers no real injury
unless compelled to pay more than
it should for the building.
In dealing with a State where
does good business end and inn
propriety begin?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
BY David DietZ
NEA Scrrice Writcr

WA 0fffFt HItfI
LANS are being made for the
r. celebration at New Haven
III Conn, of the establishment
of the first agricultural experiment
station in America.
The station was established just
fifty years ago with an appropri-
alton Of not quite $4,000.
Today, the experimental station
has grown into a great national sys-
tenn with a total maintenance fund
of 100000 a year.
DIR. E. w. Allen Of the United
States Department of Agriculture
points out, however. that agricul-
ture is a twenty-five billion dollar in
dustry from which half the entire
business Of the country and half the
tonnage value Of the railroads arise.
DR.. Allen points out further that
from the fall Of the Roman empire
until the close of the eighteenth cen
fury there were virtually no changes
in agricultural methods.
Today agriculture is on a scien-
tific basis.
Scientific research has produced
improved qualities in foodstuffs and
produced varieties which will grow
under conditions which were for
merly prphibitive.
Corn-growing. for example, is now
possible 500 miles further north than
il was once believed corn would
grow.
The study Of soil composition has
made it possible to increase the yield
per acre by revealing the type of fer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
ALCOHOL AND
ACCIDENTS

Cr7 LEVEN automobile acct
II. dents occurred in and
IL around Indianapolis Sun
day. Five of the drivers respon-
sible were arrested, charged with
drunkenness and operating an au-
tomobile under the influence of
liquor.
Sunday after Sunday there is
a similar record. Weekend alco-
hol figures in a surprisingly large
percentage of weekend traffic ac-
cidents. Alcohol in an automobile
radiator is harmless; in the driver
it is a menace.
Prohibition perhaps is a failure.
Neither the amendment, the
Wright law, nor any army of en-
forcement officers treading ruth
lessly on private rights have pre-
vented earnest drinkers from get
ting stuff that jolts them from
cellar to attic.
It is a prolific source of graft,
corruption, lawlessness and innu-
merable public evils and private
disasters.
But what would happen on our
congested highways in this auto
tomobile age If the old style sa-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
WHY WILD LIFE
DISAPPEARS

TT GORGE n. MANNFELD,
~ superintendent Of the fish
" and game division of the
Indiana Department of Conserva-
ton, predicts that more than
10000 nonresident hunting and
fishing licenses will be sold in the
State this year Only approximate
ly $4,000 were issued last year.
In 1918, 1857 nonresident IL
censes were sold. Since then the
number has increased four.fold
and during the same period, sale
of resident hunting and fishing
licenses has doubled.
Good roads and more automo-
biles draw an increasing number
of people to woods and lakes with
guns and rods. Every Hoosier
bluegill, bass. rabbit and game bird
now has a job to escape the per-
sistent sportsman and live to
ripe old age.
Nature lovers, sportsmen and
conservationists bemoan the van
ishing of wild life from forest and
stream. Fish hatcheries, game
refugees and closed seasons have
been established. They retard but
fail to halt the extinction Of wild
life.
The steady increase IN the mum.
Der of hunting and fishing licenses
sold tells the story.
Expanding population and civil
zation is hard on nature. Neither
the forest primeval nor it's deni-
Zens, from the red Indian to the
red squirrel, can stand the en-
croachments of the world-conquer-
ing white man. Eventually they
go.
Comprehensive conserv alton
measures may delay the depart
ure. But probably in a generation
or two the only thing a Hoosier
can hunt with shotgun will be
bank or craps game.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
SCIENCE MAKES FARMING
MUCH MORE PROFITABLE

tilizer needed and the type Of plant
which grows best in the particular
soil.
The study of plant diseases and
plant pests has saved the Nation
millions of dollars by saving crops
that would otherwise be lot.
IR OLIVER LODGE famed
- scientist, calls attention to an
LII incident that should teach us
to be patient with scientific re
search and not judge a piece of
work as useless merely because we
cannot see any Immediate practical
application.
Lodge tells thGe when Faraday
demonstrated his first magneto-olec-
trio machine-the forerunner Of the
modern dynamo with which we light
Our houses, and run our street cars
and electric motors member of
the Royal Society asked what on
earth the machine was good for.
Another member Of the audience
went further and deplored the inven-
ton, saying that it would probably
be used by firebugs to start fires.
LANS are now being made to
IL establish :1rge astronomical
observatory in Honolulu
Plans were made for this observa-
tory in 1914, but the World War
made it necessary to postpone them.
A four-foot reflector is to be
placed in the observatory at the
start. If it is found that the
Hawaiian skies are satisfactory for
astronomical work, it will be re-
placed later by a larger telescope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01

females in which to bear their
young. 1t is said that female goriIlas
make platforms in the trees by
plating the boughs upon which they
and their young sleep.
What Is meant by "atnmic disin-
tegration"?
1t is the decomposing of any sub.
stance into it's component atoms
Who originated the game OF I'm
door baseball?
Indoor baseball originated at Chi
cago in 1887 and is credited to
George Hancock and fellow members
Of the Farragut Club Of that city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
BY Walter ID. Hickman

LII monuments are not carved
IA in stone, but they are monu
ments just the same.
An author builds his own monu-
ment, maybe many of them.
"A And the late Charles Major, the
author of "Yolanda," Dorothy
Vernon of Haddon Hail." when
knighthood Was in Flower" and
several others.
4 A new monument has just been
discovered It's name is Resale, d"
a story of England and Canada,
nearly century ago.
3 But before this monument, Rosa
lie" could be revealed to the world,
1t was necessary to call in another
Workman.
Charles Major before his death had
finished writing or drafting a new
story. 1t was practically completed
But needed touching up and few
changes before it could be published.
8 Test Dalton, author and play
wright Of this city, was called in
and did the necessary work so the
reading public could enjoy another
Major story.
q Dalton, who is a most modest in
dividual when it comes to personal
honor, did not even ask that his
name be included along with that
of Charles Major. Dalton considers
himself doctor" in this case, max
ing changes for the better here and
there, adding this and taking a wee
bit of that away-and he has kept
professionally silent.
/ do know that Dalton worked on
this last Major book with the one
purpose of giving the reading world
a chance to enjoy Major again.
( know this to be the fact, because
AL man connected with certain in
terests with the Major estate asked
me to recommend an author, who
could help round out the story.
introduced Dalton and some weeks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-01
Write Your Own
Editorial

1T ENERAL LINCOLN C. ANDREWS
III head of all the Federal prohibition
FORCES, made the following statement in an in.
terVlew with the United Press:
used to be drinking man myself.
In fact, some of my friends called me 2
heavy drinker.
When was sworn in 1 went on the wafer
wagon"
lie was sworn in just six months agol