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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-20

Frank Nesbitt. Front Royal, Va,
writes to ask il, in the event
that he sent in a successful team,
would other teams that he sent
in be counted against the wig,
ming one. They would not. Each
team is considered solely on its
own merits, and other teams are
not counted one way or the other.
Meadows, Uhle, Pennock, John
son, and Shocker are the pitchers
most of the fans like, and they
should not forget that there are
many others in the Big Leagues,
No one knows. Of course, what
pitchers the Sultan Of Swat viii
pick for his team. but the wider
the choice the wider the chance
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Of picking his candidates for i'm
mortal baseball fame.
Bubbles Hargrave, Muddy Ruel,
HenIine. Johnny Bassler, Schalk,
and Luke SeweIl seem to be
the fayorite catchers of the fans.
Buf. are there no other catchers
who have been developed this
Maybe some youngster has just
come 10 the front this year,
and the BambinO is always on
the alert for some new mate
rial for his team.
What baseball fan wouldn't like
to have some one hand him tick.
cts for the first block OF world
series games, railroad fare, hotel
expenses? They all would. You
ought to see some of the men
and women who have taken the
time to sit down and compose
an all-star team in The Wasning'
ton Times Babe Ruth All-American
Contest.
Government clerks, butchers, un-
dertakers., doctors, lawyers. boot
Iegers, sweet young things, ma
tronIy ladies', young kids, and
aged and respectable business men
have sent in a, team of 10 men
for the contest.
It's great sport. It creates
lot Of gossip. It's all a matter
of opinion. Who is the best INST
baseman in either the National or
American League? Who Is the
best center fielder? Who can send
them all into ecstacies around short
stop?
Maybe you won't get into some
hot arguments when you Try 10
settle those questions around the
festive board. Go next door TO
this office and ask some one in
Bill Larman's place which is tile
best secOnd-saeker in the Dig
leagues.
Bills customers will desert their
bean soup and rush forth with
arguments. It's a great life, this
business of picking h real, honest
to-goodness all.star team.
And after you select your two
pitchers all you have TO do is
select nine other men who com
pare with the best in the land.
The pitchers are usually easy be-
cause each year sees some out
standing hurlers. There are sew
eral this year.
Joe Pate and Dean are a couple
of real dark horses. and many
fans have selected one or the other
for their teams. One chap has
about exhausted every possible
pitching combination and is start
ing all over again on the other
positions.
Don't forget that The Times IL
taking five of you to the first
block of world series games.
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The Corner Cutters Hotel

HE cut the corner out OF y
Street into Fourteenth Street so
sharp that it amounted to driving
on the wrong side Of the street.
YOUR honor. I heard somebody $
brakes shrieking and turned
around around in time to see the
defendant half way between my
semaphore and the left curb, ana
a Black and White taxi skidding
to a stop about five feet shy OF
an inquest.
The defendant said he was in
hurry and couldn't wait for the
left turn signal. I asked him
why he was in such hurry 10
get to the police station for, and
he said he wasn't going to the
police station-hef was going to
the New Willard. But no changed
his mind and put up at Number
Eight instead"
Boob: 81 didn't see the officer.
your honor"
The Court: THAT shows the
need of obeying the regulations.
whether you see an officer around
or not, $10."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-20
Envoy May Resign

REPORTS are current that
j. h. Sheffield. American Anlbas.
sador to Mexico, may resign. be-
cause Of differences OF opinion
with Secretary of State Kellogg,
concerning the protection OF
American rights in the Southern
Republic.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-20
Fourth Barnes Has
Major Leagues
AT His Mercy

Another brother Of Jesse,
Virgil and Charley Barnes has
Joined the rangs of big league
pitchers. His name is Clarke.
When the Barnes boys are all
grown they are going to be a
big help to their folks. Maybe
the fact that they were born and
brought up in Circleville, Kan,
makes it impossible for these
fellows to throw a straight BAH.
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of picking his candidates for i'm
mortal baseball fame.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
COACHES SATISFIED
WITH HARVARD DRILL

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. I'll
The Harvard coaches were jubilant
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
to see If / indeed had what / call
"a championship mind"

There is a champion" in each
and every one Of us. In each one
OF us SOMETHING DOMINATES
Maybe 1t 10 an emotion. trait or
characteristic, such as generosity
industry. or sincerity. Or. unhap
PLY. possibly 1t is greed. avarfce
vice or q yellow streak. The big
gest battle Of all, the history OF
morals teaches us, is within the self
rather than without Just what my
championship mind" was and HOW
GOOD it was. was the thing that
tried TO ascertain by introspection
while / nursed my egg she'll
knuckles in the woods.
On the success of my pilgrimage
to the wilds OF Maine depended my
future as a pugilist. On the
thoroughness with which 1 weighed
and analysed MY character. my emo
tons, my desires and my whole
spiritual being. depended my future
as man.
For six months, then, remained
in the woods. My life was almost
that Of a Thoreau. I, too, CHANGED
on a little lake that became my
walden" I, too, studied the woods.
the birds, the creatures Of the out
doors and grew to love the songs
OF the dawn and the chants Of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21

wild creatures at sunset. Mean
while, my hands grew larger,
stronger. My mind attained an
even more soothing serenity than
ever before.
Gene Tunney, the boxer. and
Gene Tunney, the man. often held
serious conversations together. I
met with this temptation up there:
I wanted to linger forever among
the trees, for my whole nature re-
sponded to the call of the country
side. But felt that / had mis-
sion in active life. I put away the
ak and went to New York city.
There / instructed my then man.
ager, doc" Bagley: to get ring
work for me. My hands were now
as calloused as the business end of
a steam shovel.
The experts had forgotten me.
When ii was announced that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21

This season, however. Urban did
his full share in putting the Yanks
on top of the heap, while the two
youngsters at st. Louis dropped to
the doldrums with the Browns.
Higgins and Barrow are betting
now that Ruether will be more val
liable to the Yankees during the
next two or three years than Brax-
ton and Cullop would have been,
and that the benefits to be derived
from Dutch during that time will
outweigh the possible value to the
club of Braxton and Cullop long
after Dutch has taken permanently
to fishing in the Florida waters.
Ed Barrow, business manager
of the Yankees, stilIed criticism of
the legal aspect of the deal this
afternoon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
'LIJB|NATES
MEET
By Bingy Bryan

Washington golfers lost a main.
stay in the Middle Atlantic golf
championship at the Baltimore
Country Club yesterday. when Mrs.
E. r. Tilley. Indian Spring, suf
fered defeat on the twentieth hole
at the hands Of Mrs. Jean Jones,
State champion Of the Country
Club of Virginia. 1t was a real
upset and none too fitting for the
cold, rainy day.
However they have two players
meeting each other in the semi.
final round today. They are Mrs.
]. M. Haynes. Columbia Country
Club. and Mrs. Alma Won Steiner
Of Indian Spring.
Meeting they do, assures
Washington "A place In the finals
The winner of the match will meet
Mrs. r. Boyd Morrow, thrice.
crowned champion of Maryland
links women.
Mrs. Tilley lost her match on the
second extra hole when she failed
to sink her putt on the slow
green's. 10footer by Mrs. Jean
Jones did the trick after Mrs.
Tilley missed
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Everything has been approved
It would not have been legal for
US to deliver Braxton ana CuIlop
during the restricted period. but It
is legal for us to do It after the
restricted period closed. Boston and
Brooklyn had the same kind Of q
deal last year."
Spencer Adams also came to the
Yankees after the end OF last sea-
son in part payment for Alex Fer.
guson, who was delivered to the
Senators during the restricted trade
period.
Mr.. Barrow declined to comment
upon the wisdom Of the deal.
That is up to Mr.. Higgins. He
would not have arranged the deal
had he not thought 1t wise
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
GENE QUITS F|CHT|N c
FOR SIX MONTHSTO
REPAIR INSISTS
BY Gene Tunney
CHAPTER XIII

Ny occasionally trouble have told how corrected
punching the danger
Of broken sometimes apsed into hitting habits
that threatened to dull my pugilsic weapons.
perusal of record for three prior to my
Battling will
about 80 of engagements AT time my string
figure
believe Stanley Ketche held the record having delivered
knockouts while a bus boy in Butte, Mont.
All during this knockous If
fighters least somewhat experienced strong we'll
conditioned athletes When struck of hem with
dependable right evenings ended
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
RING OF KNOCKOU7Y PUT TUNNEYy HANDS ON BLINK
Cullop, Braxton-Ruether
Deal Called Gamble

NEW YORK Oct 2Baeba authorities today that the
New York Yankees gambling again the trade of Garland
Cuop Washington part payment
Rueher They repeating the they made agha
veteran with ahead of him desired
than two youngsters just of the bush.
They Giard Shocker
seemed that Higgins had been badly beaten by Ssr because
Topped with 1925 while
nknd oond :
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
SNOW PREVENTS FINAL
COLGATE SCRIMMACE

HAMILTON. N. Y, Oct. 21.-FoI.
lowing a short signal drill this
afternoon. the Colgate squad will
leave for Annapolis tonight for the
Navy game. Snow prevented the
| team from scrimmng.ng Yesterday
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
DARTMOUTH WORKOUT
WITHOUT CAPT. HORTON

HANOVER, N. H., Oct. 21.-Capt.
Hooker Horton, star back, is out Of
the Dartmouth lineup because Of a
leg injury. Dick Black will replace
him in today's scrimmage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21

today over the Varsity's feat in
scoring five touchdowns in yester-
days scrimmage. The team is con-
fident Of making a good showing
against Dartmouth on Saturday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
YALE TO FACE BROWN
WITHOUT MOBILES AID

NEW HAVEN, Oct. 21.--George
Phillips has won the center post
on the Yale varsity. Halfback Noble
will be unable to play against
Brown, but capable substitutes are
available.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
WaverIY PREPARES

The Waverly football team will
hold practice tonight at 1880 in prep
aration for its game Sunday with
the LansdoWne team of Baltimore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21

During this run and after each
contest, was forced to lay off Of
my gymna SUM work for a period of
weeks to nurse my hands back into
condition. They seemed as fragile as
egg shells. Along about October,
1920, they were in such sorry ;ilape
that i could not punch at all effec
lively and three opponents went the
distance with me. In addition to my
hands crumpling, l suffered no lit
tie pain when | hit. | consultef
specialist after specialist. | baked
my hands. | bathed them in all
sorts of iil-smellinG connections.
some Of which would put to shame
the contents Of the Witches, Caui.
dron In Macbeth However, in
stead Of repeating those Shakes
pearean lines when shall we three
meet again2" I would look sorrow
fully at my fists and ask: wien
shall we three fight again-particu-
1arly you two?'
Veteran boxers had various and
sIlndry remedies to suggest. Final
ly decided to invade the Maine
woods. / quit The ring for six
months to WELD an Ak. ] thought
that exercise would prove bene.
fetal to my hands and / also
IOnged TO ret close to Nature and
again search my innermOst mind
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My showing, I am sure, was the
most miserable in my entire career.
I was awfully fat-the result of
having eaten the lumber camp and
woodsman's heavy victuals with no
time to train 1t off. I think
weighed 1873 pounds that day, and
that was Is pounds too much for
me at that stage of my career.
whipped Jones, we'll enough.
knocking him out in the eighth
round, but l was a dub. / was
woefully slow. My punches lacked
the ''plop" that spells fistic art.
My Judgment of distance was
atrocious. Il
Next day, buried away in the
columns written about the Battle
of the Century" could be found a
few lines in each metropolitan
daily:
Gene Tunney, light heavy.
weight champion OF the A. E. F.,
and regarded, not so many months
ago, as a most promising boxer.
stopped Soldier Jones in the eighth
round of the semifinal. It was
Tunney's first appearance in some
time, and PROBABLY MARKED
HIS LAST BOW. He has lost ell
the form which once stamped him
as conner"
Was I discouraged? I will tell
you about it in tomorrow's chap
ter.
Copyright 1925. by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
To Be Continued Tomorrow
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was to box Soldier Jones. of Can
ada, in a preliminary to the Jack
Georges Carpenter. con-
test at Boyle's Thirty Acres, the
news was barely good for two or
three agate lines in the press
and not one OF those lines was
any too complimentary to me.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1926-12-28
LARGE SUMS
Be REFUNDED
ILLEGAL TAX
Secretary Mellon Asks Con-
gress for Authority to
Refund Millions.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28- Secre.
tary of Treasury Mellon has asked
Congress for authority to refund
$174,120077 Illegally collected in tax
es for the fiscal year of 1927 and
prior. About 2S7 600 firms or per.
sons will get refunds from one cent
to hundreds of thousand of dollars.
A truck hauled a list of closely
typed beneficares to the Capitol
Those to receive refunds include
the British American Tobacco Co.
$15C, 900. New York Tribune 1896.
600 Tiffany and Company $161 900
Albers Brothers Milling Company, of
Portland, Ore, $101 900, John d.
Rockefeller, Sr., $1,000, William
Gibbs McAdoo $7,70O and National
Democratic Club of New York $17,-
600
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1926-12-28
alaska Miners
In accident
In Interior

LITTLE SQUAD MINE. Alaska
Dec. 27-Awakened at 2:30 o'clock
yesterday morning by malamute
scratching and whining at his door.
Oscar Ottersonix miner. found his
dog Niger with penciled note, tied
to his collar, which read Come,
both seriously injured. explosion"
Niger had been lent few days
before to j. B. Shaw, who was min
ing with his partner, C. Dunlap. on
Toben Creek.
The two men started in the dark
ness without trail, over the barren
5000 foot pass with the temperature
at 40 below.
Ottersonix left his cabin imme-
diately and set out to find Shaw
and Dunlap. He reached them yes
terday forenoon, then returned to
the Squaw Mine Signal corps Station
and radioed to Fairbanks for an ait
plane Both men were taken to the
hospital at Fairbanks. Dunlap had
been blinded by an explosion of
box of denotators. Shaw was lace
rated on his face and body. The ex-
plosion occurred when they fell over
cliff.
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Contracts Let for Mines
Building at Wash. Univ.

SEATTLE, Dec. 2S.-The Board
of Regents of the University of
Washington has awarded contracts
to 100000 for the con-
struction of a Mines Building, dis
regarding Gov. Hartley's request
that the money not be used under
the bids submitted. Last April the
structure could have been built for
heating and electrical cost is noted.
Unless the building is completed by
April l, next year, the $3.50, 900
appropriation will revert to the State
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1926-12-28
PASADENIANS
PREPARE FOR
FLORAL FETE
Expect Almost One Million
Guests at Tournament of
Roses, New Years Day.

PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 2S.-Cali-
fornias famous mid.Winter floral
fete. the Tournament Of Roses. will
be held here January first for the
thirty-eighth time on as many con-
secutive New Years Days.
AS in the past, the days program
will comprise gorgeous parade of
flower-decked floats in the morning,
an intersectional football game at
the Rose Bowl in the afternoon and
ball at one of the Pasadena hotels
in the evening.
Preparations are being made .Gr
handling crowd of almost one nnl-
lion persons. Last years attendance
was estimated as approximately 500
900
Many of those who attend the
forthcoming tournament will journey
two-thirds Of the way across the
United States on special Tournament
or Roses trains operated by three
trans-continental railroads. More than
| 100, 900 others will travel from their
Southern California homes on four.
car electric interurban trains run
into Pasadena at three-minute in
tervals over two lines. The remand
er--numbering hundreds of thousands
will surge into Pasadena between
| midnight and ten o'clock New Years
morning in automobiles that will run
four and five abreast over half &
(NonAlnnon
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1926-12-28
BIG STRIKE OF
COLD REPORTED
IN CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO Cal. Dec. 2S.-Tne
Sacramento Union, the daily news
paper here, says "A gold strike. re-
ported to be the most important in
Calfornia's history has been made in
the Big Buzzard mine, nine miles
northeast of Folsom, III Elrodado
George w. Peltier. banker. and
Albert c. Nandercook, metallurgist.
owners of the mine, announced
enough ore has been blocked out to
insure operation for four years. A 50
stamp mill will be erected in the
Spring. The mineralized zone is from
200 to 500 feet wide and besides gold
carries silver and copper in paying
quantities.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1926-12-28
ADMITS
KILLING nine
IN ONE FAMILY
Also Confesses Numbering
Woman and Three Child
rem In California.

FAREWELL, Texas, Dee. 2S. -
George j. Hassell yesterday confessed
staying his wife and eight stepchil-
dren. whose bodies We're found last
Friday on the Hassel farm near
here He also confessed killing
woman and three children in Cali
fornia three years ago.
Iassell said he killed his wife and
seven stepchildren on December s
after his wife accused him of in
timacy with her oldest daughter.
Hassell shot the oldest boy two
days later. The boy was away at the
time he killed his wife and her
other children. When the boy re-
turned Hassel said the remainder
of the family were visiting in Okla
homa.
Hassell said he induced the boy -
play a game of cards with him. The
boy fell asleep and Hassell shot him
and placed the body with the others
in a shallow dug-out, 10 feet from
the kitchen door.
Hassell refused to give the names
of his California victims.
81 had just quarreled with my
wife" said Hassell. Il Went out to
the barn and took a drink of whis-
key. When ! returned the wife be-
gan quarreling again. | grabbed Il
hammer and struck her, She fell to
the floor. The smallest baby began
crying. | reached down and choked
it then a secured a stocking and
tied it around the baby's neck | do
not know why, but when | saw what
| had done, | decided the best thing
to do was to kill the whole outfit"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1926-12-28
SALESMANSHIP ABROAD
BOOSTS FOOD EXPORTS

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-American
foodstuffs, pushed by American sales
manship, have entered every country
of the world.
A recent survey shows that buy
ers' resistance and the gastronomlc
prejudice of home-fed natives have
capitulated to tickled palate.
Japan and China smack their lips
over steaming corned beef hash and
canned sausage. India is growing
sturdy on Columbia river salmon and
California fruit. And Brazil keeps the
American market swamped with de.
mands for canned asparagus.
Tariff Walls Scaled
Not even tariff walls, which the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1926-12-28
Mounted Policeman Is
Killed in Fire, Arctic

VANCOUVER, b. C., Dec. Is
Constable Rhodes, mounted police
man, was killed in fire that de-
stroyed the police headquarters at
Fort Rae, $50 miles south of the
Arctic Circle on December 6. Con-
stable Armstrong was severely in
jured. Messengers hiked 400 miles
to Fort Smith with word of the fire.