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The Washington times., 1925-10-05
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PIRATES
Hitting and Speed on Bases
Only Hope of Pittsburgh
in Series
BY AL MUNRO ELIAS

Bill McKechnie, leader of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, will send one
of the youngest teams to compete
in a world series since Connie
Mack's Athletics of 1910 against
the Washington Griffs.
The Pirates regular infield,
Grantham, Moore, Wright and
Traynor, is the youngest in major
league baseball, not one of the
four having spent more than three
years in the big leagues. Cuyler
and Barnhart, In the outfield, are
young, while Gooch, behind the
bat, is not ancient. With the ex-
ception of Adams and Meadows,
none of the Pirate pitchers have
done many years in the big show.
But those young Pirates possess
q mighty batting wallOp. even
though the percentages show them
only one point ahead of Washing
tons In two more games than the
GriffnIen the National League
champions have compiled 21S more
bases on their hits than sthe Ameri-
can Leaguers. -
NT0Slln, rice anu 0uuS0 dEC ~ itc
leading extra base hitterss of the
Griffmen. but the Pirates have
Wright, Carey, Cuyler, Barnhart,
Traynor, Smith and Grantham cap.
able OF ripping anything from a
double to a home run at any mo-.
ment. The history of the worlds
series. shows that distance hitters
always have starred.
Pittsburgh will depend upon its
batting punch and speed on the
bases to get the jump on Wash
Ington. The Pirates are slightly
. better base-running team than
its rivals, but the predOminance )
Is found in the f00twOrk Of Carey
and Cuyler. ..s4
Pittsburgh's greatest weakness in
the coming series is in its fielding
abilities, for it is eighth in its own
league. Moore is noone too certain
around second, while2 .Grantham's
weakness on slow-hit;. ground balls
may be disastrous against team
that overlooks nothing in the way
of attack.
PittsbHrgh's main hope Of win
ming the series lies in their batting
punch and speed on the bases, the
same factors that helped it to win
the National League fonfalon this
season.
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
MOVE TO STOP DEMPSEY
FROM BOXING FLYNN

4 Los ANGELES, Oct. 5.-Action.
may be taken. it was reported to-
day by the state athletic commits
sion, to prevent Jack Dempsey,
heavyweight champion, boxing four
rounds here October 10, with Jim
Flynn. Pueblo fireman, who is the
only man ever credited with knock.
ing out Dempsey.
The commission was said to have
frowned on the bout because Of
Hymns age and lack Of training
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
JOHNSON IS KEY
T0GR|FFNEu'S
PROBLEM
Pittsburgh Thinks Defeat OF
Barney in Opener Means =
Series Triumph
nv DAVIS j. WASH

PITTSBURGH. Oct. 5.-Actuated
by that spirit of strict impartiality,
peculiar to home towns about to
indulge in one end of a world series,
the local intelligentsia today came
out on its flat feet with the pre-
diction that victory for the Pirates
in the opening game meant victory
for the Pirates in the series. The
argument has its points and so
has a barbed wire fence.
However, there can be no evasion
OF the fact that if Pittsburgh can
toss Walter Johnson behind the
line of scrimmage at the outset.
then washington immediate tut
ure will be that of the gent with a
colIapsible floor at his feet and a
rope for a necktie. Johnson is the
key-man OF the series and on Wed
nesday he will unlock the door to
the secret within.
The fact furnishes the answer to
d pre-series situation that has made
the Pirates rather unnatural faV'
orites at odds of to D. The
gamblers wanted to get their
money down on the club that
seems to be the maJority's favorite
before the odds went beyond all
reason.
III the Pirates beat johnson in
the opener, there will be plenty
of Pittsburgh money going about
with hat in hand and pleading
for a home. Under such cOndi-
tions, it would surprise no one
If the odds SCARED to 3 to ..
since johnson probably would
have to turn in two victories for
the Senators to win the series
and he might not get chance
to pitch two more games before
it was all over.
However, if Johnson wins the
opener. the Senators Immediately
would go to even money or better
and the gamblers would proceed to
Law off their bets at the prevailing
odds, insuring them against loss.
Your gambler, of course, is so called
because he is a man who never
CANDLES. He merely bets on both
clubs at the proper odds and pockets
winning no matter what happens.
In any case, the club that takes
the first one on the chin usually
has been the loser of a world Sc
ries; therefore, Washington can re-
verse the Pittsburgh prediction with
ample justification, to wit: If john
son beats the Pirates in the opener,
the Senators will be as good as IN.
Baseball history supports this
contention. In the tWenty-One
years the modern world series has
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
Why I Became
a Big League
Baseball
Player
By CLARK GRIFFITH

FreeIdent Washington Ball Club.
r DON'T claim to be different
from the ordinary mortal,
but / do believe / am an
exception in one particular.
From the time | was the tiniest
kid l never had any idea I'd be
The Washington times., 1925-10-05

anything but a
baseball play
err, but ! must
confess that in
those ten er
years / never
d r e a m e d of
being a club
manager, own
err or proprietor
of a world DIS
C h q m pionship
team.
As far back
as / can reneI11-'
Der, IL h av e
played ball IN
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GEORGETOWN and Lebanon valley
will play their football game Satur-
day in the morning, thus permitting
the fans chance of seeing the
world series game in the afternoon.
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Double Play Record

The most double plays ever made
in one world series totaled nine. The
Chicago White Sox of 1919 made
'em. In 1920 the Cleveland Indians
made eight double plays and one
triple play.
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
Wvckoff Is Shining

Douglas Wyckoff, captain of the
Georgia Tech eleven, is shining with
all his 1924 brilliancy in the back
field this fall. He was called the
best back in the South" year
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
G,.iff Wading
in Money
Up to
Hips
By NICK ALTRoCK

: Z
They are asking me what i am
going to do IN the world serum.
That made me ambitious so I
sailed up to Griff and asked him
about 1t.
Z He was taking a long walk ir7
side the office safe at the time
and was very busy. He was knee
deep in money. Griff was busy
pushing the dollar bills aside so
he could get at the tens and
twenties.
/ knew the time in Washington
around 1910. when they used to pay
off the team in cigarette coupons
There was only one bat in the bat
bag, and on pay day Griff used
to give that bat to the cashier so
he could club the players, away
irons the window.
Now. paper money is blowing all
lover the park and the sparrows
are building, nests with it.. / said
to Griff, What's my job in the
world serum, Griff? I'm as, tambi-
tious as a cat with steel claws.
GIiff tossed handful of soiIed
|. tens into the waste basket, He
said, II want everything bright
and clean around this office. Did
you ever see one, of them Indians
outside cigar stOre?"
said, What's that got to do
with ie?''
Griff said, "well, that's your
job in the serum. You stand out.
side the ball park and then folks
will know we are inside"
Well, am not going to be a di.
rection flag for no bum golfers. /
called up Barney Dreyfuss on the
long distance buzzer. Barney said,
who is dis inside der telephone?"
! said, "Dis is me by der wire
I want to pitch for Pittsburgh in
the world serum. My name is AL
trock and ] got a curve ball that
would make a contortionist break
his back"
Barney said, "AItrOck, huh?
You don't want the ball park.
You want the Carnegie Hospital"
Then he hung up the business
FISHb HI my race.
Well, maybe he is right. I have
lost my control so much that /
can't even drop lump sugar into the
cup. My arm feels like a bundle
Of wet banjo strings. My legs are
cross-eyed and ! got a body squeak
like an old one-boss chaise. II the
Statue of Liberty was as old as !
am it would tumble into the bay.
But 7 still got enough left to beat
those Pirates in the serum. I'm
going to, pitch one of the games if
I've got to have a bed put in the
pitchers box
I'm still a big Lacquer, boys, and
member Of Hook and Ladder
Company Number One, in the me.
tropolis of Scattered Sand. Dakota.
I'm fifty years past the Boy Scout
limit and / am not going back to
them. ~
If Griff and Rarney don't want
me OH their teams, then Al Schacht
and | will start world serum of
our own on the foul lines. ! came
near selling AL to the Barnum and
Bailey circus, but the Old Folks
Home refused to give waivers on
him.
However, we old eagles will be
out there with them young spar.
rows. AL and / have got new set
of signals which are guaranteed to
score man FROM first base on a
tumble by the umpire.
Copyright 1925, by the Christy
Walsh SyndScate)
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
Didn't Have a Chance

In a world series contest played
on October 5. 1921, the New York
Giants outfield failed to make a
putout Emil Meusel got one as
SiSt
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He Can Name Them

Fred Marberry has made five hits
this year and can name the date
place, and opponent for every one
Of them.
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However, the writer will venture
this much: If the Pirates drop
the first game. their cause will not
be as desperate as would be that
of the Senator's IL they lose behind
Johnson. He must be right or the
thing is off.
OF course, he wasn't right last
year and still the Senators won.
But it isn't in the book that it can
be done two years straight, and,
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been played since 1908, the club
that won the opening game won
occasions. The exceptions were
furnished by Pittsburgh in 1903,
the Giants in 1911, the PIiIIies in
1915, the Yankees i'm 1921, the
Giants in 1923 and the same out
fit against the Senators last year:
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besides, the Giants had ~two-man
pitching staff and the Pirates
haven't.
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Barney said, "AItrOcIx, huh?
You don't want the ball park.
You want the Carnegie Hospital"
Then he hung up the business
right in my face.
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quality that sweeps both men and
things into an overwhelming wave Of
popularity, has made La Palma cigar
the biggest selling cigar in the world
Over a million La Palinas are bought
every day by men who know cigars
and insist on that extra something that
makes the difference between "just .
smoke" and real smoke satisfaction.
Get behind one today. You'll get IL
Immediately.
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
tAoooR 5RoRTE

s1ASpibj 6 81 AS ONE
or H4osE AETH suPPR
coNuE72SAT7oN ttuN7E1
DROPS ~ oN ne
kE posoL GAVE
The Washington times., 1925-10-05

Griff tossed handful of soiIed
tens into the waste basket, He
said, IL want everything bright
and clean around this office. Did
you ever see one of them Indians
outside a cigar stOre?"
The Washington times., 1925-10-05

XX7FfEN Charley Sweeney pitched
w way back in 1884, it took 3
strikes to put a man out. Fouls didn't
count. Sweeney had to have more than
little Something" on the ball.
He did have something something in
his head, in his grit, courage and stami-
ma, that moved them all down, that
won him ball games and made him the
idol of the crowds. He had that PLUS
quality that all champs are made of.
That same something, that super
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
MARKET PLANS
ARE DISCUSSED
Committee Of Organiza-
ton Here to Draft
Constitution

A constitution and by laws of the
notato marketing organization of Cam
eron county will be drafted by a COM
mittee of Paul r. Dye and C. L. Hunter
of Ell Jardin, and Fred Rosenkoetter of
Los Fresnos. this committee having
been appointed at the potato committee
meeting held here Friday afternoon
The committee will submit it's report
at later meeting of the marketing
association, the date Of which has not
been announced.
A request that w. B. Lanham, market
ing specialist Of the Texas A. & M. Col
lege, visit the Valley and assist the
potato committee in handling it's prob
lens was made at the meeting, and met
approval Of all present.
A further discussion of grading was
held, with all those present in favor
of it.
Some members of the potato market
ing committee met yesterday morning
with shippers, and held informal dis
cussion of the situation here, the CO.
operation of shippers being promised.
CORES of the state laws on cooper
ative marketing, and copies of charters
of other marketing association have
been requested by the committee here
from the secretary of state at Austin.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
SECRET SERVICE
PROSECUTE
MONEY LENDERS
One Man in San Antonio
Found With 235 Ger
tificates; 100 Per Cent
Interest Charged
fBv The Associated Press,


WASHINGTON, d. C. June
20.-As a result of the seizure of
235 soldier bonus certificates in
the hands of one money lender
in San Antonio, Texas, the Sc
cret service today declared war
on those who are trafficking in
the certificates.
The veterans bureau, advised BY
Chief Moran Of the secret service, also
has promised immediate action.
The San Antonio money lender is
said by Chief Moran to have charged 81
as a commission for making a loan. and
interest at the rate of almost 100 per
cent. He said the loans totalled more
than $4,000.
The law permits the holder of GER
tificate to file civil suit against any
one who accepts certificate as loan
security prior to January /. 1927. the
first date upon which a loan can le-
gally be made.
In each case the veteran can recover
S100 damages.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
THREE IN AUTO
PARTY WOUNDED
Men Stop to Repair Tire
Ordered to Move On;
Shotgun Fired
(By The Associated Press.)

DALLAS, Tex, June 20.-Three per-
sons were shot and injured slightly
south of the city last night, they told
officers, by man armed with a shot
gun after he had ordered them to get
in their automobile and leave within
two minutes.
Those shot were Mrs. George Robin.
son, so, Thetas Shurley, 20. and Il. w.
Harris, %. Two young women in the
automobile were not hurt.
The five were compelled to stop by a
punctured tire. The young men were
out of the car working on the tire when
they said they heard the order to hurry
on. They frightened the tire rim I'D
when attempting to start the car de-
elared the shots were fired. Bird
shot dents we're found in the body.
A man later was taken into custody
but no charges had been filed today.
He made statement to the officers in
which he is said to have admitted he
saw the automobile stop, to having told
the occupants to drive on, and after
ward going home where he was found.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
M|MlLAN told
T0CLAlMLAND
FOUNDATP POLE
Government F ails to
Sanction Proposal at
Maine Dinner; Party
to Sail Today
~ The Associated Press.)


WISCASSET, Maine, June 20.-Lieut-
enant Commander Donald B. Macmillan
sails today for the Arctic with authori-
cation to claim any lands he discovers
in the polar seas for the state of Maine
and with pledge from a captain in the
United States navy that if the American
flag is planted on the unknown land 1--WE
will see that you keep 1t there"
The authorization and pledge were
given at dinner last night at South
port, which was attended by many per-
sons of prominence in state and nation
al life. The dinner was given by the
state and constituted the official fare
well to the explorer and his party.
Captain D. iEL Dismukes. command,
ant of the Portsmouth. n. H., navy
yard, who represented Secretary of the
Navy Wilbur at the dinner. in short
address told Macmillan he hoped he
would dig as big hole as possible, plant
a Maine pine in it, and nail the American
flag to the top, and said ''we will see
that you keep, it there"
Governor Ralph o. Brewster said
Macmillan 'is authorized insofar as the
sovereign state Of Maine is concerned to
claim in our behalf such lands as he
shall discover in this region that is still
unknown"
Commander Macmillan, who was the
last speaker at the dinner. made no re-
ference to these remarks and dispatch
from Washington said Governor Brew
ster's statement had failed to break the
silence that the state department has
maintained concerning press dispatches
from Canada indicating that the nation
might claim any land lying between her
and the north pole. 1t was pointed out,
however, that no formal Interchange OF
notes on the subject has passed between
the two governments. The two Mac
MILAN ships, the Bowdoin and Peary,
will sail at o'clock Eastern standard
time, this afternoon. Huge crowds are
expected at this little village to watch
the departure.
The land which Macmillan expects to
find lies in an entirely different region
than the 10000 square kilometers of
territory which Amundsen surveyed in
his recent flight without noting traces
of land. Macmillan looks for CONT.
nent of flowers, birds and fishes.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
TEAPOT RULING
PLEASES
Decision Leaves Sinclair
in Possession Of Dome;
u. S. to Appeal
(RY The Associated Press y


CHEYENE, Wyo., June 20.-Teapot
Dome which for three eyars has been a
storm center of national politics, was
left today in the. legal possession of
Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate.
Decision, made in the governments
lease annulment suit here yesterday by
Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy, smoth-
cred every charge of scandal, colusion
and fraud in connection with the leasing
of the dome under a $4,000 word ruling
The ruling was interpreted by former
Secretary of. the Interior Albert B. Fall,
leading figure in the oil leasing in
vestigation" as refutng all taint of
scandal, statement to The Associated
Press indicated
Edward L. Doheny, like Sinclair, a
prominent oil magnate whose leasing Of
naval oil reserves also has been sub
jected to court investigation, expressed
qualification over Judge Kennedy's de-
cision. Doheny's company, the Pan
American Petroleum and Transport
company, was loser in similar suit
of annulment in connection with the
leasing of Elk Hill naval reserve. Frank
j. Hogen, lDoheny's counsel in the case,
in statement for Doheny said that
Judge Kennedy's decision upholds the
contentious of the Pan-American Pc
troleum company in it's Elk Hills suit.
Counsel for the government an
nounced that the case would be taken
at once to the United States circuit
court of appeals.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
ROADS TO POINT IN
GOOD SHAPE TODAY

Roads to Point Isabel out from
Brownsville. and from BarNda on down,
are in good shape. according to Mrs. G.
d. Pendleton, proprietor Of the Jeffer-
vile today.
"In fact we would like to see a little
rain at the Point" Mrs. Pendleton said,
cas- there has been none there since the
rain on May 81. The roads are dry in
the country near the Point"
The only wet road between here and
Point Isabel is in Ell Jardin, although it
is in good shape to travel now, she
said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
BROWNSVILLE TO BE
ON AIR TONIGHT

Some new artists will be introf
duced to radio fans throughout the
land over KWWG, Brownsville's
municipal broadcasting station.
when Brownsville artists again
go on the air with a splendid pro-
gram tonight. E4
The following program was given
out today by Director Jessup:
Post Orchestra, G. A. Horton,
Director.
Post Orchestra.
Vocal Solo, Sweetheart, Mrs.
Ira Webster.
Violin Solo. Audautino", Mrs.
A. A. Hargrove.
Vocal Solo, mi viejo Amor,e
Cornelia Anzaldua.
Cornet Solo, "valse.' Sgt. John
r. Callahan.
Violin Solo, Miss Evelyn Horton,
Miss Adeline Horton at piano.
Vocal Solo, "Old Song" Ed
Shumway.
Violin Solo. Love Old Sweet
Song" Mrs. A. A. Hargrove.
Vocal Solo, "Morir en- su Amor, =
Carlotta Villareal. "a
Vocal Solo, ITO You." George
; Desha
Quartette. Messrs. Fsbra, Tooth
man, Barber and Nye, Mrs. John
Morgan at the piano.
Cornet Solo, Sgt. John r. Cal
lahan.
Vocal Solo, Memory Lane,r
Sgt. s. G. Nunley.
Vocal Solo, Land of Romance"
Mrs. John Starck.
Vocal Solo, Spanish Tango"
Jose GEza Rougier, (Self accom-
panied on the guitar).
Vocal Solo, "Old Song, I'd
Shumway.
Post Orchestra.
Post Orchestra.
Vocal Solo, (a) aEl Colobrir,
(b) Cuba, Bernardo Ornelas.
E. L. Kowalski at the piano.
Miss FIorine Pierce. accom-
panist.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
Ruling Skyrockets
Sinclair Securities

NEW YORK, N. Y, June 20.-As the
result of Harry F. Sinclair's victory in
the governments suit to set aside the
ruling in the Teapot Dome leasing case
the market value of outstanding Sim
clair oil securities has increased nearly
$13,0O0,00O already.
After the decision was announced yes
terday the common stock of the Sinclair
consolidated oil corporation shot up
2 IL points to high of "a 3-8, and
first lien six per cent bonds Of the cor
poration scared four and three -fourths
points. Other bonds of the corporation
scored lesser gains.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
Maryland Congregation
Plans Prayer for Rain

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Jun 20.-As a
result of the most severe drought in this
section of the state in years, prayers for
rain will be offered at all of the ser.
vices in st. Johns Episcopal church
here tomorrow and the rector, Rev DR..
Walter Byron Stehl, has asked all Chris
tisns to join in the appeal.
Farm crops are suffering, gardens
blighted and fruit. including a large
raspberry crop, is drying up, threaten
ing heavy financial loss, to growers. No
rain has fallen in the vicinity of Hagers-
town in six weeks.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
Czecho- -Slovakia, France
Plan Debt Settlements
(By The Associated Press.) }

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20
Further indications that both France
and Czecho Slovakia are preparing to
make formal moves toward negotiation
of war debt refunding agreements have
reached the Washington government
through official channels.
The advices are ergarded as too in
definite to permit any formal announce
ment. The messages received presum-
ably from the American diplomats at
the two capitols, were said, however
to contain information justifying the
belief that both countries would soon
set in motion debt settlement negoti-
tions.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-20
DEFENSE RAPS
TESTIMONY OF
EABELLEPOP
Faiman School Graduate
Says Institution Had
No Germs to Give to
Alleged Slayer
(By The Associated Press.)


CHICAGO. ILL.,, June 20.-The defense
of William Darling Shepherd continued
its case today by further attack on the
testimony of Miss Isabelle Pope, the
pretty young school teacher who waited
with a marriage license while million.
aire Billy McClintock. foster son Of
Shepherd, died of typhoid fever.
Frederick II. Squibb, shorthand re-
porter. who recorded portion of Miss
Popes testimony before the coroner's
der of the rich youth, testified that the
young woman had not mentioned
"germs" or study of germs.
On the witness stand against Shepherd
she said the defendant had informed
her he had studied typhoid and germs. "
The second defense witness of the day
was Walter Smith. drug clerk, former
electrical worker and graduate in
chiropractic from the National Univer
sity of Science. a small school conduct
ed by Charles O. Faiman, star witness
against Shepherd.
Through him the defense sought to
show that Faiman's school never housed
test tubes filled with live germs.
Faiman testified that from an ice box
in his school where he had preserved
typhoid baccilli for some time, he gave
Shepherd three tubes of them, learned
later they were wanted for the murder
of Billy McClintock and aided the con-
spiracy by teaching Shepherd how to
administer them.
Smith said that there was an ice box
at Faiman's school but denied that it
ever had contained pathogenic germs in
test tubes.