The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-15
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span is no doubt concealed
somewhere in today's football
schedule. We got our biggest
reaction out of Ruth Elder and
her daring air exploit and we
were no little fascinated by the
splendid effort of Mona Nc
Clellan in negotiating the Eng
lish Channel under her own
power and under probably the
most adverse circumstances the
treacherous stream has yet
been stroked.
A little late in the season for
swimming the Channel or any
other body of water in its lati-
tude, Mona McClellan's feat
was accomplished with the wa
ter at the lowest temperature
at which any one of the 13 sue
cessful contestants have turned
in their feat. Her time, too,
was a new one for a woman,
being SO minutes more than
that made by Trudy Ederle.
Now you may ask, "How do
you get that way-calling Ruth
Elders hop across the sea
sporting event ?" Well, we get
that way for two reasons. First,
because the sporting depart
ment telephone rang dozens of
times Thursday afternoon to
inquire whether it was true she
had been found and to inquire
if she and her co-pilot, Captain
Haldeman, were safe and alive
So, some part of the public
must be considering hers a
sporting feat, even if the re-
ports on her didn't appear in
the first column, first sports
page.
Secondly, we call any attempt
against such elements quite a
sporting proposition. To under
take it requires the same basic
attributes that most sports re-
quire-nerve, courage, conf
dence, physical equipment and
fighting spirit with a desire to
conquer.
Our hat, among the many
others, is off to Miss Elder and
Miss Mcclellan, whose right
name, by the way, is not McClel-
Ian at all, but Dorothy Logan.
Washington and Philadelphia
have commenced their wedding
out processes, and thus the
American League begins to take
on a different front for 1928.
Locally Thurston, Stewart and
Rigney have gone hence to make
room for new material. The
AS have released "Babydoll"
jacobson and Zach Wheat. Both
the latter names have been ones
to conjure wi ! in their time,
but time moves swiftly and they
must give way to more youth
full timber. Rigney and Thurs
ton are hitting around 80 and
may be through as major
leaguers, but Stewart is much
20 Inger and will likely catch on
with some big-time team before
he is many years older, being
only in his twenty-third year
now.
You'll see many more changes
in both the Griffmen and the
Athletics ere 1925 baseball
season rolls around. Both clubs
have a rebuilding program which
is vast. Neither has clicked to
the owners satisfaction in the
last Two years, although there
are plenty of worse clubs in both
leagues than the Griffs and
Macks. But il the Yankees are
to be stopped some real re-
vamping will have to be done
both here and in the Quaker
City too.
John Miljus, the goat of the
1927 world series if there was
such an individual, and Wilcy
Moore, the hero, if indeed the
series gave birth to one, have
received substantial raises in
salaries. How much more Mil.
| jus is to receive is not made
clear by the Pittsburgh an
nouncement, but Wiley, the lac
who was hired by telephone or
the strength of his minor leagle
showing alone, to have his
salary doubled.
Moore should go long way
farther in a monetary way
than he has. He was only get.
ting $4,000 | t season from
the Yanks, as they took hin
purely as a gamble, or an ex'
pertinent. He had asked Miller
Higgins for a $500 raise, solely
on the strength of his pre-.
series work. Miller told Wiley
he'd see Rupert about the mat.
ter.
The next time Higgins saw
Moore, he told him that thu
"old man" had rejected his re
quest for a $500 raise, but haC
substituted a $1,000 one in it
stead.
Yes, there is plenty Of senti
ment in baseball, if you lool
for it.