The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

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free world series tickets.
Tomorrow, the names of two a
will be announced, and on the
given; 80 that day by day, you I
seeing the games played in Wash
of the lead, sec the games along
where they are played:
On Friday. the next to the
last two members of Ruth COM
bination for this year will be Sc
lected, and on Saturday. the whole
team will be published, together
with the names of the ten con-
testants who came nearest to Sc
lecting the same team as the BAN
bino, as well as those who gave
the best reasons for so picking.
.'SIxiIIet's" contest closed at
midnight last night with the usu-
al rush of last-minute entrants
who were taking advantage OF
every minute possible to give
their teams the most thorough
consideration.
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Dozens and dozens of teams
reached Skillet yesterday in the
regular and special delivery mails
All day long, customers were
tramping into ''SkilIet's" den on
the third floor of the Times office,
delivering their teams in person and
fnquiring as to how the contest
was coming along.
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nominations by messenger while no
few, especially many from out OF
town, took advantage of night teleg-
raphic rates 10 submit their teams
and qualifications therefor.
Today Skillet" is practically i'm
communicate, with his heavy bur-
den of mail At least he is in
hiding somewhere, where only the
most urgent message can reach
him. He realized he had a big
task on his shoulders to go through
the thousands of selections which
have come to him since the opening
days of August, and hied himself
to some quiet place where ne could
do his work undisturbed. He
planned on devoting most Of the
day to his task. stopping only for
a couple of hours this afternoon
to see the Athletics and Griffinen
do their stuff at Clark Griffith
Stadium.
There will be no use of anyone
calling skillet" on the telephone
to inquire how they stand in the
contest, for he viii not be here
to answer, and besides he Is gO-
ing to release the names of the
winners and perhaps some Of the
near winners all at once next
Saturday.
The first intimation which any
one will have as to the winners
will be in the noon edition of next
Saturdays Times, when a clean
breast of everything will be made.
At this writing Skillet" didn't
even know the exact number OF
selections which have been sent
him, although yesterday he esti-
mated that fifty thousand Wash
ingtonians have tried their hand at
reading Babe Ruth's mind.
Several bystanders asked If the
late scandal in which Babe Ruth
has been involved would affect the
contest-which question is almost
foolish in itself.
Ruth's status as a playing MEM
Der of the New York Yankees only
is affected by his alleged miscon-
duct. But the wheel of his all-star
picking machinery have not slowed
up one whit. There was a special
communication from Babe to Skill
let this morning in which Ruth
simply named his team and gave
his reasons, and the contest, as
well as The Times offer to take
winners to local or out-of-town
games still goes, of course.
The cloud under which Ruth
seems to have passed last Saturday
has not had any deleterious effect
on "Skillet's" contest, he is glad %
announce. In fact, the response
which "Skillet" received in his con-
test yesterday morning and this
morning exceeded by hundreds that
of any day in the contest.
This is partially accountable to
the fact that the end of the contest
was drawing near when Ruth S
suspension was announced, but
skillet can't see that any fans
have stayed out of the contest be-
cause of the unfortunate fix in
which Babe got himself.
His Judgment as to fellow ball
players, of course. is not warped
nor in any way affected by his
trouble. and after taking look
at the team which Babe picked
- this year, "SIxiIIet's" only conf
ment was-"It's the best team
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