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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29

The action at the ball is very
important - whether the club
head is still or in motion. To
those who have the clubhead in
the air as they address the ball
advise them to put it on the
ground so that they get q solid
take-off before swinging it up.
When the ball is hit, ones hands
must not be ahead Of q comfort
able line going from the ball
upward.
The nearer one gets to the
hole the more one should coi1cen-
trate.
One should learn the sweet
feeling Of q caught" shot. II
there is the. interference Of
growing grass, dirt or sticks be-
hind the ball, be very careful
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
OLD ILLINOIS STARS TO
ASSIST HUFF AS COACH

URBANA ILL.,, June 29.-Frank
Rokusek captain and end for the
University of Illinois football team
last fall. and Leo Klein. star end
on the Illini elevens from 1915 to
1918, inclusive, have been added to
the University OF Illinois football
coaching staff. George A. Huff, d..
rector Of athletics, announced to.
day.
Klein will coach the varsity ends,
while Rokusek will assist Olander
with the freshman varsity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
IL00KINCTnOVER
WITH LOUIS A. BOUCHER


world Grfffmen engaged in important
series with the Philadelphia Athletics involving the midsummer
baseball world
directed toward them
instantly coming flag winner nothing Ike that
considerable
upon ball club the Mackn the edge
coming with the G the play, the
impetus should them quite distance into their
should begin the Athletics than they have
late quite little, by the 1t may be
Yrouoh on team still there 'front.' but
oucher that by day. that runnerup
hanging bulldog and will not be shaken off,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
Friday in Birmingham

Spartanburg was supposed 20 get
Pitcher Greer Friday from NAsnr
vile, but the refusal OF three clubs
in the Southern League to waive en-
him held him up. He Ii now with
Birmingham,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
Going Higher
wAsHINGToN

Totals az II q 10l Totals 80 S7II6
sBatted for Stokes in fifth inning.
washington . lbI3O
philadelphia ..... 0 0 0 0 0 Q / o-i
Runs-Galloway. McNeeIy 90, S. Har-
ris. Ruei, Ruether Errors-HaIe wal
berg, Stokes. 8. Harris. Two-base hits
Gosiin. Hale. Stolen bases-Judge. Rice,
McNeely. Double plays-Peckinpaugh
20 g. Harris 10 Judge: Hale TO Poole:
nases-Philadelphia 7: Washington, g.
FIRST base on bails-Off walberg, 2:
off HeImach. 2: off Ruether. >.
mach /; by Ruether. l. Hits-Off
wafberg. in Ia innings: off Stokes
in "a inning; off Helmach, 3 81 4
srnfngs. Losing pitcher-WalbeFg
I1nspirss-Messrs. Connolly. NaIIin and
Nct5owar. Time of game hour and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
Roudabush Shines

Gladstone RoudAbush held the
Moha;wks to three hits and the
Union Printers copied 10 to 2.
Dufour, former Catholic University
catcher, got two OF the hits on
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29

The recent games between tne
East and West in this league IN
dicate an odd thing. The Mack
men played sixteen games, che
Girffs fifteen. The Mackmen won
ten and lost six, the Griffs won
eleven and lost four. The cham
pions' winning percentage was
better than that of their rivals
for first place honors.
The Mackmen won their games
through savage smuggling. They
made 116 runs on. 1S1 safe hits,
totaling 2S3 bases.
The Griffs, in one less game,
scored SO runs on 161 hits, total
ing PIT bases.
Five times did the Mackmen
score more than nine runs in a
single game. Only twice did the
Griffs turn that trick.
And yet the champions had a
higher winning percentage than
did the Mackmen.
This writer is not especially
enamored Of becoming a prophet
Most prophets have no reward for
so being. But every now and
then a sports writer must turn
prophet, even though he has his
tongue in his cheek.
Johnson, Ruether, Zachary, and
Coveleskie form a quartet of pitch
ers that will give the champions
a decided edge over the AS Con-
ME Mack knows, no matter what
he says about it, that his greatest
weakness is his pitching staff.
He lacks the calm, even, steady
pitching that makes for that slow
but deadly climb to the top, and
it is that same slow, deadly oppo-
sition that takes the heart out OF
the opposition.
The Mackmen have done we'll at
home. They have the sluggers
working in bandbox park. One
wallop has made amends for much
sloppy pitching. The Griffs, over
the same time. have won their
games, not so much through their
smuggling as through their steadier
plf IF IS THE PITCHING, NOT
THE HITTING, which can be de-
pended upon as the final half Of
the season gets under way.
Therefore, Bucky Harris is bet
ter fitted for what is ahead than
his ancient rival-Connie Mack.
The Griffmen need but keep
close on the heels of the Mack
men to have the edge through the
last six weeks, and it is the last
six weeks which decides most pen
nants.
The champions have the pitch
ing. The pitching usually deter
mines the winner.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
Shamrocks on Top

The Shamrocks had to struggle
all the way to trim the revampcd
Dominican Lyceum ball team, TO
s. Pick Hamel's homer with one
on turned out to be the winning
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
Weinert Is Handicapped

When Harry Wills and Charley
fight in New York, July 2.
the Newark fighter will De under a
big handicap. He will have height.
reach and 20 pounds Of weight
a Nainat him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
Lieb Chats Of Scotty.

4
TVERETT SCOTT made many
friends among New York
sports writer's and one Of
them, Fred Lieb, chats like this
in the Telegram Mail:
"Poor Scotty! As penalty for
having slipped with the Yanks,
another world series melon is
likely to drop into his lap. Scotty
shared in three of the world series
plums in Boston, 1915, 1916 and
1918. After the Red Sox were
through, he was traded to the
Yanks and had a finger in the
world series pie in 1922 and 1923,
getting a second place slice last
season. =
"Now that the Yanks have shot
their bolt, and may have diff
Guilty in getting into the first divi-
sion, 'Scotty' again is shifted to
the club which has the best chance
of winning the American League
pennai1t. He can't do any worse
than get a piece Of second money.
When 'Scotty' does get out of
baseball, he'll have a roll big
enough to choke an OK.
eve wonder how he finds the
bridge players down in the Capt.
tall"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
Eoatar Now scoutine

George Foster, veteran pitcher, ID
doing q little scouting for Oakland
in between times. His present
trip viii take him as far east a.
the Three-Eye League.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
Big D.'s Win in Ninth

The Alexandria Dreadnaughts won
in the ninth from the crack Fort
Humphreys team, 3 to 8, Clown
netti driving Lee home with the
winning tally.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29

Young. another valuable asset
20 the Giants at all times. isn't
watherire much attention this year,
and Kelly, while. away to a spec
tacular start and undoubtedly q
most important unit in the Giants
machine because of ability to play
and play well any one of several
nositfons on the field. must yield
60 the amazing Hornsby.
A few weeks ago Hornsby was
lust a player. perhaps not on the
best of terms with his manager.
Overnight he was appointed to
lead the st. Louis team.
Not every star player has been
ab1e to manage a club. especially a
second division club. without IL Aav.
inx a harmful effect on his own
work.
Hornsby. instead of slumping
away. began to play even more SEN
eationally than he had been. The
club. taking program from him.
started a winning squirt. and has
been going along nicely ever since.
Hornsby, the hitter. who would
be able to get his safeties no mat
ter what other matters were on
his mind. incidentally Ii including
a nice bat collection Of home runs
IA his output.
Hornsby will lead his league In
batting again If his supply of bats
holds out. There Is no telling
what he will do with the club he
Is managing. On every count.
therefore, he is going as strong
as even q National Leagues most
valuable player picking committee.
man could desire.
So far ahead of his field il Horns.
BY at this time that one can pre-
dict that the. committee. in picking
him as the most valuable player.
will be able to do so without the
formality Of explaining, as was the
case with Vance.
What explaining there is to be
cone Hornsby will do himself. He
will say it with base hits.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29

Sunday. despite threatening
skies which brought a thunder
storm an hour or SO after the game
ended. drew 3O.sos paid customers
to the Clark Griffith Stadium and
most of that mighty throng re-
joieAd when Dutch Ruether van
quished the league leaders, to /.
The veteran southpaw never looked
better He had excellent control Of
all his stuff, his change of pace
battling such good batsmen as Sim
mons, Dykes and WEIGH. Ruether
surely was entitled to that triumph
and the fans gave him all credit.
The Griffmen looked the fighting
team they are when opposing one
of their strongest rivals for the
1925 pennant. At no time did they
show the slightest sign Of ursteAdi-
ness and with Ruether going along
like the veteran he is, the argu-
ment never was in doubt after the
first frame. The most nervous fan
could see how the wind was
blowing.
Earl McNeely gave another Of
his dazzling exhibitions. not so
much in the field as on the bases
and at the bat. The smiling
Californian was up four times
and reached first base four
times, twice on passes and twice
on safe hits. He scored half Of
his teams runs. That's the sort
of a Ieadoff man he Is.
McNeeiy opened the game with
O. pass scooting to third when
Bucky Harris bumped Walberg for
q single The next two gents did
nothing but Joe Judge scored Nc
Nelly with a rousing single to
right.
Bucky Harris opened the third
with a single. galloping to third on
Goslfn's double and scoring on
Judges infield out. Those two
tallies would have settled the result
behind the smooth Ruetherian
flinging, but in the fourth the
champions scored three more runs
and drove Walberg to the showers.
with one down Ruel and Ruether
each singled. advancing on wal
berg's bad peg to first base. That
induced the irate Connie Mack to
yank Walberg, Art Stokes taking
up the mound burden.
McNeely greeted the new man with
a sweet single to left, scoring both
Ruel and Ruether. Rice's poke to
left scored McNeely.
Lefty Heimach assumed the
mound Job with the fifth and
yielded one run in the sixth on a
pass to McNeeIy. who swiped sec.
Ond, and infield outs by Bucky
Harris and Rice. That was q
soft tally IL ever there was one.
Heimach pitched good ball after
that. though, and the champions were
Lnable to do much with him. But,
come to think of it. they had the
game salted away by that time. 80
what's the odds?
Ruether held the AS to three
scattered hits in the first seven in.
nings. and. having fancy lead, he
could be excused for yielding three
hits and one run in the eighth.
Galloway's single to left started
that frame and when Bucky Harris
made a wretched peg Of Heimachs
Grounder two were on with mons
out. Jimmie Dykes whitfield. but.
while Hale was forcing Heimach.
Galloway hiked to third and tailed
ion Laraar's SINGLE Simona Strollsd
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
Allows But One hit

On June IS Bayiin, Of Chatta.
nooga, let Nashville down with one
hit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
He Likes Goslin.

IND SULLIVAN, writing base
~ ball for the New York
Graphic, likes Goose Goslin
and proves it by writing the fol-
lowing for his column:
when the time comes for the
baseball writer's to select the most
valuable player in the American
League, the name of Goose Goslin,
cannot be overlooked.
"Goslin at present is setting the
league afire with his brilliant,
resourceful fielding and powerful,
timely hitting. His feat of SOCK
ing three homers over the garden
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29

wall recently was 4 particularly
vivid days performance.
1.-THE Goose is we'll up with the
leading speed merchants Of the
league, having stolen eleven sacks
to date. His fielding is q thing
of joy and beauty.
1.-THE Goose must be reckoned
with in any award Of individual
laurels. He is the bulwark of the
Senator'S, extensively and de-
fensively."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29

Lefty Heimach assumed the
mound Job with the fifth and
yielded one run in the sixth on
pass to McNeeIy. who swiped sec.
Gnd. and infield outs BY Bucky
soft tally II ever there was one.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29

Vance this year has gone the
way of many another pitcher.
after one phenomenal season.
Frisch. who might have been 2
rival for Hornsby, hasn't been OF
much use to his club because Of
injuries.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29
IS
DIPLOMA.
ENTRY
eackers Support Him for
Choice As Most Valuable
National Lacquer
BY WARREN W. Drown.

DIV "AnnG1N W. Inv w 4Na
The National Leagues commit
tee, seeking to discover the most
valuable player within its limits,
need not look very far for him
this year.
Rogers Hornsby is the candidate,
the only candidate, the candidate
who comes close to being perfec-
ton in playing according to COM
mittee standardsl. such as Babe
Ruth of the Yankees was in 1928.
He has no rival in his league.
Last year "Dazzy" Vance, Of
the Robins, was given the National
Leagues player award amid the
protests of Hornsby's great fol-
lowing.
That the committee evidently
anticipated some such protest was
evident when It issued statement
to 90 with Vance's award.
.Hornsby, hitting .423. shattered
all modern batting records in the
past season and played grandly
in the field" explained the commit
tee but the committee members
were moved to almost unanimous
and decisive choice Of Vance be.
cause of his twenty-eight victories
for BROOKLYN and only six defeats.
His strong and cunning right arm
all but won a pennant for q team
not accorded a first division berth
on its roster AMI its playing record
up to May. And 50, notwithstand.
ine the fact that he took part in
only thirty full games, and that
Hornsby took part in lao. Vance
was selected because Of his anlaz-
ing effectiveness IN the box.
That HcrnsDy would have
won but for Vance's phenonaenai
pitching record il attested BY the
balloting."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29

New York, 6; Boston,
Pittsburgh, s; Cincinnati. 3
st. Louis. 3-s: Chicago. Ia
Philadelphia Brooklyn. rain
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-29

Game at $50 o'clock.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06

The one thing that should at all
time be borne in mind is that such an
organization must have some assur-
ance that it will at no time become
a conflicting force in the battles that
are yet to be waged in the interest
of the organized as well as the disOr-
ganized producers; that it must be
essentially cooperative and that it's
militancy must always be directed
against those that have in the past
lived by the exploitation of the labor
ing and producing forces in this
country.
Such an organization must neces-
sarily succeed if carefully, conserva-
lively and properly managed. It's
campaign by propaganda must be ed
vocational, social and political.
To the proper success of such ar
organization it is necessary that they
should have a state paper and print.
Ng office that would constantly keeI
their organization informed as to the
progress being made in their interest
in every field of endeavor.
I sincerely hope that the sugges-
ton made in your valuable paper
that such an organization should be
/ started will bear fruit and that in {
short time a movement will be launch
ed to bring this about.
Sincerely yours,
Roundup CHAS. F. HUPPE
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06

It seems that he did not know thats
the Montana farmers paid as much as
10 per cent for most of it with the
commission mortgages added thereto.
Now I agree with the article in say
ing that the need and formation of a
Farmers organization such as ppoint-
ed out would be good thing, and
that also of the previous organiza-
lions such as the Nonpartisan League,
did great deal of good even if it
did turn out in a fake away, through
its leaders, which is a great means of
discouraging the farmers and the
workers. An organization such as
pointed out would be a great help in
many ways if the farmers and work
ers of the State will take interest
enough to build such an organization.
The need for some one to be at
Helena to help the Farmer members
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06

college should train young men to be-
come managers of farmers coopera-
tives.
FARM FINANCING
Another thing we might go after
is a State agency to finance farmers.
You know Congress attached a pro-
vision to the appropriation for the
Sun River project that the State must
arrange to finance the settlers IN
making improvements cn the land
and in the purchase of livestock. Why
not have a general law for the whole
state
These are merely suggestions. The
important thing is to get a large
number of farmers into some organi
cation to work together on their owr
problems. I hope you people may
succeed in doing this. I shall b,
glad to know what plans are made
and will help as far as l can.
Very truly yours,
Oct. 20, 1925. J. H. McGUFFEY.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06

FARMERS UNION
l wonder if we could not use the
Farmers Union that is organized
down about Billings. Mr.. Dow, the
president of the Montana Union, is
a radical and l believe we could work
with him. What they need is Give
wire" to take charge of the organiza-
TONS work. believe it will be east
er to get members for a National
organization. The educational feat
ure of the Union offers a good OPP
portunity. The State Committee could
recommend books and outline topics
for discussion. And then we must
have state paper that will really
discuss the individual situations.
! DON'T LIKE CLOSED FORM
don't like the closed door sugges-
lions. 1t savors too much Of K. K. K
methods. Our work at first will have
to be largely educational.
We might demand that the State
Agricultural College give courses or
farmers marketing and buying. The
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06

can get the farmers to put up the
money before we start the paper. 1t
is hard to organize mortgaged farm
ers and believe the only way you
could make most of them believe that
there isn't a real valuation in Gold is
to take the farmer to the North Pole
and one person to have a loaf Of
bread and the farmer to have a sack
Of gold. 1t seems easy for a few
prelates to start up a K. K. K. and
get the people fighting over religion
while the capitalist class robs both
sides. My money is ready for the
paper as above stated.
Respectfully,
w. c. BERNE. .
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06

/ put up S3164 for the farmers here
on their notes to back the Kalispell
Monitor. I have a bunch of these
notes yet that haven't been paid. The
farmer has first got to learn that he
has to pay enough for his subscrip-
ton to run paper without adver-
tisements. He wants something
cheap and he surely is getting it
where the chicken got the ak. AS
long as the capitalists control the
papers feeding him advertisements
and propaganda they control his mind
and all he can talk about is what he
saw in the Kept Press-the daily dis
appointment. Now I will join farm
ers' cooperative organization and pay
$40 CIR So per year for a paper if we
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06

confront them.
WHAT LEGAL BUREAU
SHOULD DO
think that this organization
should be incorporated and empower
ed to engage in any basic industry
necessary to preserve and protect the
interest of all of its associated mem
bers.
The backbone of the organization
should be a militant legal department
that should aggressively protect them
in all of the ventures that they I'M
dertook and that would render ser
vices to the organization in all the
different phases eff human endeavor.
This legal bureau should be mCdul-
ated somewhat on the plan already
in force and in effect by the Bnited
Labor Boards and farmers grange of
the Pacific Coast, having IT'S head
quarters in Seattle and branches in
every large city in that state. This
legal bureau handling all of the bust
ness of the labor and farmers move
ment in Washington and the fees toI
the services charged are fixed by the
organizations through their commit
! tees.
By such thorough organization
! the individuals as we'll as the Organi-
cation have obtained the same eff
cient protection that is afforded tt
the large groups of organized capita
that has, in the past, continuously
exploited and opposed them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE
FARMING SITUATION IN MONTANA
By James L. Wallace, Missoula

Demand Farmers
Organization
to The therein
You have stated the correctly the condition Agriculture
might well be said be bankrupt The
a nOtl
money LEFT from the farm AS all
there
eptOns Their debts created when easy ghey
hard of
until loaded with debt followed
monetary that spells for the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06
New Scobey Corporation

A new Scobey corporation filed its
papers with the Secretary of State
August 81. The business is to be
that of conducting and operating a
hospital, which will do business at
Scobey. The incorporators are to be
Harry 7. Thompson, ]. r. Mcintyre
and A. 3. Collinson, all residents of
the Daniels County capitol.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06

lation favorable to the farming in
terests will be enacted.
As to myself personally I will con-
tinue to contribute my mite toward
attaining q place for the farmers
equal to other lines of business.
Yours respectfully,
Culbertson 7 w. WTX,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06
MILITANT LEGAL DEPT. SHOULD BE BACKBONE
OF ORGANIZATION
By Chas. F. Huppe, Roundup

October oath read with much
the of a Farmers Organization
producing
themselves into militant industrial representing all
alliance with all cOrre
organizations other industrial harmony of
differences that
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06
Fl ATHEAD FARMER DISCUSSES A FREE PRESS
AND THE GOLD STANDARD
BY W. c. BERNE, COLUMBIA FALLS.

ID like organized
difficulty accomplishing
The hand Of Greed under s Gold STANDARD beats &C.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06
THE NEED FOR EXPERT ASSISTANCE AT HELENA
By Representative Robert Larson


Montana and that he himself
mortgages that
for Of his
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06
ROOSEVELT COUNTY MAN WRITES

In will say that honest sung
Oe and deep that doubt much of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06
WHAT ORGANIZATION COULD DO FOR FARMERS
By ]. H. McGufey, Lake County

glad people going start
together
their salvation No one will do it them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-11-06
FOR A FARMERS ORGANIZATION.

WEEK GIVE OVER THE ON OUR EDITORIAL PAGE TO
SERIES OF LETTERS FROM PROGRESSVES RESIDING IN WIDELY SCAT
DISTRICTS IN MONTANA ARE
MANY COUNTIES AND SHOW THAT THERE is SENTIMENT EVERY
WHERE IN
LETTERS ARE INTERESTINGLY WRITTEN AND DIFFERENT
PHASES OF STRUGGLE PRODUCERS.
THEY SHOW THE WAY TO BRIGHTER DAY AND
DISCUSS