The Washington times., 1925-08-31

For thirty-one long dreary days
ssgl<flIet" has been inviting WASH
fnrtnnians and near Westinghouse
TO be his guests at the world series
games. and today is about the last
chance they will have to bid Tor
seats. as the contest closes at mid
night tonight, as practically every
one knows by this time.
All selections brought into The
Times office up to that hour ana
all letters bearing q posenark up
60 or before midnight tonight VIII
he considered. After that the
eenders viii just be out OF luck
that's all.
..Skillet,' has surprise to offer
his followers today, it being the
announcement that beginning to-
morrow the identity OF Babe Ruth
team will be revealed, two play ers
mt a time each day through next
SATURDAY when the last two will. be
ANNOUNCED. together with the names
OF the winners. 5fs1. 80
According to tile nature !. of this
contest, there must of necessity DE
two principal winners and eight sec
ondary. In case the series Is. PLAYED
partly in washington, all Will share
alike in the awards, except that
the two main winners will receive
an autographed bat and an auto
graphed ball from Babe Ruth. In
case washington loses its lead and
Is nesed out by the Athletics or
White Sox twho can telD the two
principal winners viii be the ones
to earn the trips to the out-of-town
games in company with Skillet.
In any case, these two will be pre-
scented autographed bats and balls
by the Behometh of Swat.
Next Saturday, in this newspa-
per, the names of the fans finish
ing in the ten first positions so
tar as their Teams and explanations
are concerned, will be published.
Al stated, there will be two main
winners and the eight subordinate
ones. the latter beings so-called
largely for the need of a better
term for, in case Washington plays
In the series, there viii be- no sub
ordinates. All ten will receive tickets
to any games played here.
By watching tOmorTow's paper
and those of the ensuing days Of
the week up to and including Sat.
urday, the fans can gauge how
near they have come to duplicat-
ing Ruth's team.
There will be no telling how close
to il il will be necessary to come
In order to fall heir TO tickets, for
even Skillet" won't be sure of that
until far toward the end of this
week. In the contests of. the last
two years which were conducted
along identical lines with this one,
no entrant has ever exactly dupli-
Gated Ruth's team.
The closest that fan has ever
approached Ruth's tep-man team
tectly and get one out of that eight
In the wrong position. Skillet"
would like TO see some Washing
tonlan or some reader of this news
paper pick Ruth's team exactly
tome day-as such a feat would
be tribute to the baseball brains
pf this locality.
Now, "SkiIIet" wants TO attend to
little social duty which has been
on his mind for days. Early in the
contest he received a letter from
Joe Santon, of Mullens. W. Va,
which. If even through courtesy. re-
auires an answer. The letter came
to Skillet" in the regular course Of
the mails and was written in a
rather scrawly, though very read
able, hand AS they say. but with
pen and ink and it's contents touched
"Skiifet'" to the heart. and made
him with that the hope expressed
therein might be granted.
The business Of conducting this
contest has kent "SI<ilIet" from
answering in the mails. but he
decided TODAY TO Incorporate his
answer. together with Joe San
tons letter itself. I'm tOday's story.
Here's what Joe says:
Dear Mr.. Finn: I have picked
out my team, and will try my
best to get the free trip to Wash
ington ] am a boy fourteen years
DID, and ] am five feet tall, weight
I12 pounds. and ! am the mascot
on the Muilens' ball team. Mullens
has player that has a contract
with Detroit, Buddy Dear. His
real name is Paul Dear. They call
him Buddy. He is hitting 400 for
Mullens. haven't seen a big
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