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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06

WASHINGTON.-C Congress will open
with a great op-te-doo over the
question of whether or not Senators
Frank Smith and Bill Ware are such
awful persons as they are said to be
and ifFso, they are too awful to be
allowed in the senate.
AS this titantic battle approaches,
the ordinary citizen undoubtedly will
be asking himself a question which
long has caused considerable puzzle
ment among the unsophisticated. That
question is:
Why are wealthy citizens so inter-
ested in candidates success that
they are willing to pour out hundreds
of thousands or even millions Of dol
lars to insure his nomination or his
election?
It will be recalled that something
like $4,OOOOOO was spent in Illinois
and Pennsylvania on behalf of three
candidates and that half of it was
wasted on the Hon. George Wharton
Pepper, who was defeated by Boss
Ware, the man who cost his hackers
only million.
Why those four millions? Did mil
lionaire public utilities men, bankers,
secretaries of the treasury and manu-
facturers chip in out of the kindness
of their hearts? Or was it because
they were determined that the people
must have the best men, at all costs,
who would represent the public's in
terestS alone?
One suggests reluctantly that we
must seek further for the answer.
Samuel insult, the millionaire
utilities magnate, gave $125,OOO-or
was it $3OO,OOO?-to the Smith cam
paign, but he also kicked in with at
least $4,000 for George Brennan,
Smiths democratic opponent.
And Mellon, after announcing that
the money he poured into the Pepper
sieve was given in as good cause
as money to the church, swung TO
the support of Bill Ware along with
the whole Mellon machine, despite
the fact that the Mellon organization
had nearly broken it's neck and put
up all the money in the attempt to
beat Ware in the primaries.
That would make it appear that,
after all, it never made much diff
ference from the standpoint of public
interest whether Brennan beat Smith
or Ware licked Pepper. And we still
have the question before us why, IN
that case, anyone should want to
shell out in such large quantities.
Attempts at answers, one observes,
come more profusely from the self
alleged pure than from the So-called
unclean. The candidates are all glad
to explain why they needed all that
money but their angels are reticent
as to why they produced.
Thus, one turns to consider the
explanation of such an ancient enemy
of political sewers as the Hon. Robert
L. Owen, for 18 years senator from
Oklahoma and now president of the
National Popular Government league
1t should be remembered, of course,
that the Hon. Bob, for all his sin
cerity, is not invariably dead right
and that if the wealthy angels ever
undertake to explain, their words
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06

advantage which
moder
in the delusion
that changes and the Sroutng
civilizations
fallen
greater pest
experience
all
knowledge acquired
Usually
grow up them preached generation.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
BAB18

We know an old fellow in the
country who speaks OF, the younger
generation" and maybe he's right.
Having seen pictures of both
Madame Lupescu and Princess Helen
of Rumania, most American men
have long been convinced that Prince
Carol wasn't quite all there.
that there is a place called Alaska
earthquakes and canned salmon.
Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
ABE MARTIN

Lots O. folks are too proud t. beg,
but. they seem t. enjoy bein' dunned.
I'd rather be wrong than tn president
o. Mexico.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06

Little Things
He came "a little sooner than the
Other fellow did,
And he stayed little longer
That the other fellow would
He worked little harder,
And ne talked little less,
He was never really hurried,
And he showed but little stress.
For every little movement
His efficiency expressed.
He saved little money
In hundred little ways,
And banked little extra
When he got little raise.
Of course it's little wonder that
He murmurs with a smile,
As his dividends come regular
care the little things worth while2"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
Keen Advertising

Keen Advertising
Rufe Johnson's pet hound disap-
peared. Rufe put the following ad
in the paper:
"LoSt or Run Away-One liver
colored bird dog named Jim. Will
show signs of hydrofobby in about
three days"
The dog came home the following
day.
SEidding
"Where is the carp" demanded Mrs.
Jones.
Dear me-" exclaimed Jones. did
1 take the car out this morning?"
"You certainly did. You drove it
to town."
"How odd. remember now that
after I got out I turned around to
thank the man who gave me the
lift, and wondered where he had
gone"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
All Right So Far

Uncle: Well, Herbert, might tell
you that 1 have taken out $4,000
life insurance in your favor. Gould
I do anything more for you?"
Nephew: Nothing more on earth
uncle. ~A M
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
Safer

"Girls were harder to kiss in your
day, weren't they, grandpa?"
Maybe, mebbe," venttlred the old
gentleman, "but it wasn't SO blame
dangerous. The old parlor sofa
wouldn't smash into tree about
that time"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
Plucked From the Plains
Dinner is Served

Dinner is Served
S. o. Gelgardo, dining car toward
on the Rock Island and Southern
Pacific, has a little business card on
the back of which is a very excellent
ly arranged menu. The menu reads:
CARTE DU JOUR
Canape Centipedes
Fleur de Yucca Locco Weed
Essence of Burro Tail En- Tasse
Filet of Rattlesnake. Panamint Range
Pommes> Fume
Glilled Horned Toad on Toasc
Toad Stools en- Creme
Potatoes, CreOsote
Roast Haunch of Coyote la Mojave
Salate de Pricl1h Pear, Desierto
Chloride Ice Cake de Famine
Goat Cheese Cyanide Waters
Cofte, Eau Claire
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
Red Tape

Red Tape
"Where is the managers office?"
Follow the passage until you come
to the sign reading, NO Admittance.'
Go upstairs till you see the sign,
Keep Out Follow the corridor till
you see the sign, Silence then yell
for him."
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
Is She CONVINCED?

Is She Convinced?
"Rastus, does you love me?"
Mandy, you is one woman don't
like none other no better than"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-06
PRIVILEGE of GrOwn-ups

Privilege Of GrOWn-ups
Willie: Gee, Ma. wish 1 was big
like Uncle Fred.
Ma: What noble deed would you
do then, son?
Willie: Why then 1 could spill soup
on the table cloth without gettin'
licked
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BUSH Is DUE TO INJECT
FIGHT INTO BUCCANEERS
With Pitching Staff Equal 10 That of Dodgers Pitts
burgh Would Run OFF With Pennant-Strength
of Giants Held Exaggerated

and Mack returned to Philadelphia
with big cluster of victories. Connie
has good club, But / still believe
he viii weaken his team if ne plays
Wheat. Collins and Cobb. All three
of these former stars have fallen off
in their defensive play, though they
still can hit. But then the men they
dlsplace-Bill Lamar, Ray French and
Max Bishop--are no slouches at bat
either.
Dan Howley has put a lot of hustle
into the Browns and will build a team
around his own personality. He is
predicting big things for Ernie New
ers, former Pacific Coast foot ball
star. CteveIand's pitchers are getting
IN shape and the Indians now look
better, That club again may fooi he
wise ones. Few are giving it a tuu.
bic this year, despite its capable
pitchers:
Next week I shall try to pick the
winners for 1927. / still am in Doubt
about several teams. NV record is
~ pennant winners out of l. in the
last six years.
tCoDyright. 19aT1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
BY JOHN II. FOSTER.

A TLANTA. + Ga, April 6.-~The
" New York American League
Il team is better in some ways
4 A than it was last year. Its
greatest hazard is in its pitch
ing. That fact is common property
from Miller Hugsins to the LOWEST
rookie.
The situation is something like this:
The Yankees are a team with an out
field which is second to none. collec-
lively; o. team with an infield which Is
second to none, aggressively; a team
with catches able to cope with about
any situation that may arise; but
team with a pitchinb staff which may
be either the salvation or the undo
ing of the champions of 1926.
Offhand the pitchers do not seem TO
be as strong as those Of the Phlladel'
phia Athletics. where eight men have
been whipped into condition. They
do not seem to be as strong as those
Of the Chicago White Sox and no bet
ter than those of Detroit Perhaps
they are on a par with those OF ST.
Louis. Certainly they are not so good
as the Cleveland pitchers.
Fight Between Four Teams.
If four of the Yankee pitchers de-
VHIOD INTO CONSISTENT ftAA@ltCAt9 A2~tS
pennock. Shocker, Hoyt and Ruether--
the fight for the American League
remnant will center into struggle
among New York, Philadelphia, Cleye-
land and Washlngton-provlding the
washington team rids itself of the
injury iinx.
Higgins doesn't close his eyes to the
situation.
"If / can carry pitching through
July and August, with what we have
in experience and WHAT we may de.
velop from physical strength and
youthfulness, we may win again" he
said. ''In fact, we probably can win
again because we have strength else
where But I'm not blindfolded.
know what we have TO do. TO be both
poetical and classical it looks to me
| like hell of race in the American
| League
AS long as Babe Ruth co-operates
with Col Rupert in the business OF
dealing in checks, the Babe will be
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Big Comeback Fo1eseen Pirates Pitching Greatest Hazard Yankees
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

event at scratch. with Is holes to DO
PLAYED each day, June /. >, 3 and 4.
The District women's title event
will be played June ii, Is. 16, II and
is, with the first day given over to
the qualifying round and match play
rounds scheduled for the subsequent
days.
jess Sweetser. holder of the British
amateur championship, is due to come
to Washington about April % and
play one or more Of the courses about
the Capital. Sweetser has many
friends in Washington, although he
has not played here since he competed
in the national open at Columbia in
1921. He will not go abroad to de-
fend his British title this year.
Another golf course in Montgomery
County. near Conduit road, may be
started by group OF Washington
business men. The proposed course,
if built. is to be laid out on a 250-acre
strip Of land Immediately north OF
Cabin John Creek and between Con-
duit road and the Potomac River.
Sponsors for the scheme hope to con-
struct q clubhouse near the river to
combine the aquatic advantages af-
forded by the Potomac with the golf
course possibilities.
Par of the Washington Colt and
Country Club course viii be reduced
| from II to 70. if the proposed reduc-
/ ton from to 4 in the par Of the
| eighth hole is made. Only once has
par been shattered over the difficult
| layout OF the Virginia club. Roland
Mackenzie burned up the first nine
| in a blaze of long puts one after
noon, getting out in 81 and coming
| home in 50, for a score Of 50. The
competitive record for the course ia
| 70, made in the qualifying round ot
the Middle Atlantic championship by
| Henry d. Nicholson last year.
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'HUCCNS WELL FORTIFIED
In CATCHING AND AFIELD
Consistent Winning by Four Hurlers Might Make
Pennant Race Center Into Struggle Between
Yanks, Athletics, Indians and Griffs

determining factor in all pennant races
in whcih the Yankees are involved.
When Ruth can no longer produce
home runs he thinks of going into the
movies, but this season he is a ball
player at salary which commands
the admiration of all the grapefruit
region, as well as the hot dog region.
Homer Output Doubtful.
Ruth would be in better condition
but for a slip on the sands. A man
with his big torso and slender legs is
likely to have trouble where the foot
ing is not firm. The Babe will make
home runs as usual in 1927, but
whether his record will exceed that
OF any other year is doubtful. He can
| hit them as hard and as far as ever,
| but the boys are pitching better to
him.
Combs improves in the outfield So
does Bob AIeusei who should be the
topnotch player in the outfield, but
| who is too lackadaisical. The Yanks
have reserve outfielders unsurpassed.
| Paschal Is too good to be idle, and
burst, always promising, is better
than he was. On the infield, Koenig
occasionally flmbles hit When the
forgets fumbles he will be as great
eio 4AdLuIG AiltSIlu6u JflaL he should be.
Lazzeri is the best second baseman in
the American League. Gehrig is a
better first baseman than he was in
1926 and Joe Dugan always is good
at third. Morehart is a smarter ball
player, thanks to year with the
lChicago White Sox, and Vera, kid
third baseman, is better than some
major teams have for regular third
baseman.
GrabowsSf is a big husky who will
stand all kinds OF punishment behind
the bat, and while he cannot throw
as Bengough does. he can outbat him
and the Yanks must have batting
power to keep in the front.
Has Hopes for Pipgras.
On the pitching staff Higgins has
hopes that Pipgras is ready to come
through. He wishes that Glare
might prove his worth as well as
Walter Beall and Henry Johnson. He
anticipates some results from the
lexertions of Thomas and Shawkey
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AS Old Legs Holding Up.

Those old legs on the Athletics have
held up pretty well in training games
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VOICTS GOLF FEAT THIRD
BEST IN SPORTS HISTORY

ships played over standard length
courses. Both these marks are to the
credit Of outstanding golfers in the
ranks Of the worlds leading club
swingers.
Bob Jones played the Sunningdale
course last year in the qualifying
roun dof the British open champion
ship in 66-6S-134. Walter Hagen
set what is generally regarded as a
world metal play mark at the Wolf
Hollow Country Club, Delaware
Water Gap, Pa, last year, when he
scored 65-67 for a total of 1872.
Both the courses on which the mark
OF Noigt was recorded lend them
selves particularly well to the sound.
ness and fundamental accuracy that
is the basis Of his game. In addition,
Noigt, with his unusual facility for
| holding lengthy puts is at a distinct
advantage on the sand greens Of the
Carolina resort, for the Washington
amateur has always been an excellent
putter with an unusual eye for ac-
curacy and run Of the ball.
Without question Noigt is the out
standing amateur golfer of the Middle
Atlantic section. His record over the
past three years establishes this be.
yond a doubt, and his showing over
the season last year proved beyond
question the supremacy of the Ban.
nockburn campaigner. Entering nine
big tournaments, including two major
championships. Voigt won seven of
them. His big failure of the year
came in the national amateur at Bal.
tusrol, where he failed to quality by
three shots.
BY his feat at Pinehurst, yoigt has
not only attained Nationwide fame at
one bound, but has established him
self as an outstanding contender for
first place in the list of amateurs who
campaigned in the South during the
past Winter and the present Spring.
Even il he does not win the North
and South he should take first rank,
for he won two Florida championships
and was second amateur to Bobby
Jones in the Southern open
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that is, as between using ordinary,
necessary physical strength and a
great lunge of all the power the
player can command.
It is assumed, Of course. that this
rule does not apply for tiny chip
shots or simple run-ups. 1t does APP
ply- to all distances OF 5000 yards or
more.
In the previous article the player
was told of the kind of swing to use
to make the ball run and the type of
swing to make it fall dead. Now re-
naming, is the choice of club for the
approach shot. Say you are 100 yards
from the pin. You could force q
mashie into a full swing and get
there, with q perfect full swing and
perhaps a bit of luck. You could
take a three iron and get there with
three-quarter swing. Or you could
take a midiron and put the ball up
there, easily and without struggling
at all, using a half-back swing. The
choice, then, would lie between the
three-iron and the two.
The swing with the iron is, for all
shots, slowly back, with D rhythmic
flow of the club. Figure i. Start
forward slowly, without jerking, and
| let the pace of the club naturally in.
crease. 1t will do this If you do not
| try to force its speed through physi
| cal strength and undue application OF
| power Then, as the club-head gets
near the ball, give it throw directly
into the ball and be sure to throw
clear through the ball. Figure 2
| Always, however, keep this exertior
/ well within your strength. That is
| there should at no time be a feeling
Of lost balance, with your body and
your feet drawn out of line and OF
| their stance position. Also do moi
let the head go forward at all unit
after the ball has been Inland above
all. see the ball
For good iron play cultivate a good
feeling rhythmic swing, with a nice
snap or throw Of the club-head into
the ball, then stay always within tina
| swing. You add to it only the righ1
choice of club for the particular slio1
at hand. Always figure on taking 6
club that is long enough, with the
swing YOU use; never figure on forcine
a club beyond the swing you have
decided upon. This practice will inn
prove your iron play almost unbeliey
ably.
copyright. 1927
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n previous Par Chart mention
was made that the actual swing
with an iron for an approach
Il shot never changes though the
distance to be taken by the ball
might vary. This subject, one of the
very interesting ones in golf, justi-
fies perhaps a further elaboration in
order that the player may get himself
right on this phase of the game
To comprehend this the player
should understand first and for all
time that the shape, design and
weight of the iron head, together with
the length Of the shaft, governs the
distance the ball will take.
The golfer should understand in
this connection, that the physical
strength he puts into his swing has
little to do with the result sought.
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A BUSY Spring season for golfers
" of the Chevy Chase Club is
~ promised by the schedule of
4 \ events announced today by the
clubs golf committee, headed
by Morven Thompson.
Opening with the competition for
the French High Commission Cup for
men, May 4, 5, and Z, the schedule
has one event listed every week
through June 4. Ten days later the
club win play host to the leading
woman golfers of the Capital, gathered
at Chevy Chase for the District wom-
ems championship, now held by Doro-
thy White Of the Washington Golf
and Country Club.
The is low net scores turned in be-
tween April 16 and 30, inclusive, will
qualify for the French High Commits
sion Cup event. the opening affair of
the year. Handicap match play at IS
holes on the basis Of ~seven-eighths of
the difference in the handicaps of the
competitors will start May 4, with the
final round listed for Saturday. May z.
The following week, beginning May
II. the club will be host to a large
group of golfers from Washington
clubs and the East generally, gathered
TO compete in the annual Spring in
vitation tournament. This event, to be
played May II, IL and IS, is open tc
all members of the club and to guests
having an official club handicap of II
and under.
Woman golfers of the club will com
pete for another French High Com
mission Cup May "a, IS, 70, q and
| %. An 18.hole qualifying round will
be held May "a, with the is low ne
| scores to qualify. Subsequent mater
play rounds will find the competitors
| playing on the basis of seven.eighth'
| of the difference in handicaps.
on May 80 the men golfers Of thu
club win compete in an 1S-hole handi
cap match play against par event TO
| the Victor Kaufman Memorial Da.
trophy. Contestants win use seven
Fights Of their medal play handicap
/ in this event.
The Spring season for strictly clul
events will end June 4, the last day o
| the competition for the f. Oden Horst
mann trophy-the club championship
cup-now held by Walter r. Tucker
man. This is a 72-hole medal pla,
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CRITZ'S PAY OVERTURE
IS REJECTED BY REDS

CINCINNATI. April lPl.-Hugh
Critz. holdout second baseman for the
Cincinnati Reds. made another over
ture to President Augustus Hermann
and had it promptly rejected.
Critz telegraphed Hermann from
Greenwood, Miss. that he would sign
up for the season for $4,000 and
would be on his way Immediately to
Cincinnati if the salary figure was
accepted.
Hermann sent back telegram
saying he would not agree to the
figure and would stand by his original
offer of $40. 000
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WILL RUN As MILES.

LAWRENCE, Hans. April 6 90
W r. {. Allen, director of athletics
at The University Of Kansas, has re,
ceiVed word from Mexico that a group
of Tarahumara Indian runners would
come here for the Kansas relays April
%. The Indian men, who have ac.
cepted an invitation. will make a As
nile run from Kansas City 10
Lawrence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06

A TLANTA, Ga, April 6.-The
" New York American League
"A team is better in some ways
4 A than it was last year. Its
IL
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80 HIGH-PRICED PONIES
ARE ON WAY TO AMERICA

DELHI, British India. April 6 Lp).
--Seventy-five thousand dollars worth
OF ponies-39 of them--are on the way
to the United States by way of Eng.
land for the polo competition in the
Westminster Cup tournament this
Summer.
An Indian officer, Is Indian troopers
ana q veterinary surgeon accompany
the horses, which are in charge of
Col. George Beresford, secretary Of
the team. The horses belong to, the
Indian Army.
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There is another young pitcher on the
team with q history. You will hear
more about him. lie is Wilcey Moore
"a young man unheralded and UNI
sung, but with something to his de-
livery that leaves batters with the
impression that balloon fell right
in front of their eyes and they never
saw it.
Copyright. 1877
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AS AND PHILs PLAY AGAIN

PHILADELPHIA, April Up
Gray and Mitchell were the probable
pitching selections Of the. Athletics
and Philiies. respectively for the third
game of their preseason base ball
series today. Victory today would
give the Athletics three straight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
BY FREDERICK G. LIEB.

JEW YORK, April 6.-As the
pennant races draw near, the
Ill Pittsburgh Pirates emerge
from the West with q club
which should give all ODp0-
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HINEHURST y. c., April g.
~ George Voigt, Washington anna
teur, yesterday wound up two
4 days Of the kind of golf every
duffer dreams about, and as a
result came within an ace of entering
golfdom's hall of fame along with
Bobby Jones and Jess Sweetser
A sliced drive and a putt that hung
on the lip of the cup were all that kept
him out, for his 135 for the 36.hole
qualifying round of the united North
and South amateur tournament would
have been 1873 had these two shots
worked.
The first had break came on the
third hole, when the Washington boy )
drive sliced into the woods and the
ball stopped behind a tree. He was
forced 10 play for safety and took a
FIVE, one over par, for the hole. On
the tenth he had a short putt for a
birdie three that would have made up
for the stroke lost on the third. but
the ball hesitated on the lip of the
cup and finally decided TO stay out.
He had four brides Monday and five
yesterday.
yoigt Monday shot the e.209-yari,
No. 3, course in 81 and yesterday he
had 50 going out OVER the 6,559-yard
championship course and 80 coming
in for a card of IS.
Voigt's card for the two days:
Monday
out. 444433444 Ia
In. 4 443 3 5 5 4-3s 81
Yesterday
Out. 4 { 4 3 4 4-35
In. 443 44 3 4 3 4--33-6S-67 135
141.ox.-t e,,,oIsfx.;,4o 80. 4na che m.