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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
WHETHER CASH WAS BRIBE
j OR REWARD UP TO lands
Commissioner, Uncommunicative Concerning Lat
est Scandal Has Only One Established Fact to
Consider i'm Reaching Decision.

the crookedness charged against them.
In two days of hearing last week
more than two score base ball figures
told their version of base ball as il
was played 10 years ago. Incidentally
they ran up bill for the commission
err of approximately 100000 in ex-
penses incurred in appearing at the
hearing.
The commissioner has been uncom-
muncative concerning the Risberg-
Gandil charges as he has been about
the bomb Dutch Leonard exploded,
shrapnel from which struck Ty Cobb
and iris Speaker just as they stepped
from base bal.
Attorneys for Cobb and Speaker
have sought official exoneration of
their clients from the commissioner,
and it is possible that his decision
Wednesday morning may include
some statement on the status of these.
two stars.
The evidence which Lands ponders
includes the charges of Gandil and
Risberg that pool was collected
among the 1917 White SoX and dis
trihuted among certain Tiger pitchers
in return for "sloughing" four games
to Chicago, and the denial by the &C
cused players of any wrongdoing.
May NOnSlUeF I-OOl.
The one established fact from which
the commissioner may work is that a
pool actually was collected and paid
to Detroit pitchers. Whether, as Gan.
dill and Risberg charge, it was for
throwing games, or, as the accused
players contend, to reward the De.
troit pitchers for beating Boston in
later series that meant much to Chi
cago, is the question the commissioner
must decide.
Risberg, back at his farm near
Rochester, Mimi, expressed the hope
that the whole affair might be white
washed" and that none of the men he
named be expelled from base ball.
Il have nothing against those fe!
lows, he said. Il wouldn't like to see
them kicked out because | know what
it is to try to make a living in the
bushes. That's more than they said
for me when l was let OUT
The former player intimated that
he had some further revelations up
his sleeve, but declined to be specific.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
WOMEN IN SPORT
BY CORINNE FRAZIER

Practice has begun in the new girls
gymnasium on the Nebraska avenue
campus, and. according to Julia Pen.
nington, coach. some excellent mate
rial is being developed. Lucille Ely
has been chosen manager of the sport,
but the captain has not been named.
Interclass games will precede the
opening of the varsity loop, according
to Miss Pennington.
Washington Recreation League team
managers have been granted a time
extenEiOn of two days to complete the
physical examinations of players and
the payment OF entrance fees, accord.
ing to Louise Sullivan, general man.
ager. The extension was found neces-
sary because of the last-minute or
ganization of several news groups,
making it impossible to complete ar
rangements for the schedule by Janu-
airy IL, as was planned originally
January IL Is now set as the dead
line. All entries must be In by that
date, reports of physical examinations
made and fees paid. The latter should
he paid to Miss Sullivan. Physical
examination reports should be sent TO
Margaret Craig at Main 992.
A meeting for the purpose Of dis
cussing the new basket ball rules,
some of which have caused confusion
among players, will he held at Bust
ness High School this evening at $40,
under the direction Of Miss Hazel
Sayre, chairman of the examining
committee of the Washington board
of officials of the National Amateur
Athletic Federation.
All players and coaches are invited
to attend this session, which will be
h01A in . h.
rules may be illustrated as they arc
explained.
Members of the Washington Field
Hockey Club who are interested in
basket ball will meet for their initial
practice Wednesday night in the Hol-
ton Arms gymnasium. on Church
street near Seventeenth. The club
plans to engage in one or two games
later In the season, the principal
contest being one with the Baltimore
Field Hockey Club sextet. Definite
arrangements have not been made vet
for this affair, but il is probable that
If it takes place 1t will be held in
Washington this season. as the Orioles
played hostess last year in the annual
court clash of the rival clubs.
Basket ball and examinations of
officials for rating by the Washington
board OF officials will feature the
Wednesday night recreation hour of
the y, A. A. F. group To he held as
usual in the Central High School Com
munity Center gymnasium from $50
to 10 o'clock.
The examinations will be conducted
by Hazel Sayre and the members of
her committee. beginning promptly at
$3.50. Any local Official who wishes to
be given an official o. X. and TO he
placed on the national rating list of
qualified officials, may report We'd
nesday night and take the examina-
ton which will consist of a written
quiz, on rules and a practical exami-
nation in refereeing.
officials will he graded in class a or
class B. according TO the results of
their tests, and each will receive a
credential card giving her national
rating as qualified court official
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
BY the Associated Press.


- HICAGo. January 10.-Sweds
Risberg's remark in a
Rochester. Mimi, billiard
~ room, caroming from the
newspapers straight into the
Offices of Kenesaw Mountain Lands
here, has left the table in the most
chaotic shape that base balls high
commissioner has seen it IN the six
years he has held office.
The balls had all been racked neat
~ after the annual meeting of the
major league maSnates and the re-
election for seven years of Commits
sioner lands at salary of SOS, 900.
Then the commissioner raised his cue,
and Ty Cobb and iris Speaker rolled
from the American League.
The other balls remained nicely
punched in the center of the table
until Swede Risberg,@a figure in base
balls biggest blow-off when he and
seven others were driven from base
ball on crookedness charges, walked
into the Rochester billiard room and
heard heated discussion of the Cobb
Speaker affair.
What Cobb and Speaker did was
nothing" Risberg remarked. They
were square shooters. II the commits,
sioner wants to hear some real scan
dial, I can give it to him."
A newspaper man. Commissioning at
Rochester hospital. heard of Risberg's
statement, He talked with Risberg
and the story was broadcast.
If you know anything that's wrong
with base ball, come on and tell it,"
Commissioner Lands wired Risberg.
Risbers came, telling a story of
game throwing in 1917 that impressed
Lands so that he summoned 3S play
ers, past and present, to appear here
and tell what they knew of the slough
ing of the two 1917 Labor day week
double-headers which Risberg said De-
troit handed to Chicago.
Gandil Has His Say.
Echoes of the story reached Chick
Gandil. outlawed from base ball with
Risberg in 1920, and he added his tes-
timony in substantiation and e!abora-
ton of Risbergs. The accused play
ers also responded, almost to the man,
and chorused their emphatic denial of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
CRACK AT LEADERS ONLY
SOUGHT BY LICHT-HEAVY
Jack Averse to Meeting Other Aspirants for Bout
With Tunney Next Scptember-Dcposed
Champ TO Battle Before TackIing Gene.

asking information IN sae date Of the
former heavVuslRn' titlsholder's re-
turn here III" exTScts Dempsey 10
accept ~ Isssf me r0afen before seek
Ing 10 Hr"sf bacE hls lost laurels.
Richards present plans call for
ma i0r fights IN nis elimination series,
as we'll az the championship bout. TO
be staged at Ysnke" Stadium, hut he
has Indicated ne MAJ accept another
site for the title struggle ifn already
has received offers % promote the
battle at the Baltimore Stadium,
which seats approximately l35. 900, or
at Soldiers Field in Chicago, scene of
the Army-Navy foot ball game
Meanwhile, Eastern fistIc circles are
concerned over a series OF weller
weight conflicts in the East this week,
including a 10-round bout Friday
night at Madison Square Garden be-N
tween Joe Dundee of Baltimore and
Eddie Roberts OF Tacoma, Wash
Roberts knocked Dundee out in the
first round of Pacific Coast bout
several weeks ago.
On the same night. Pete LatzO. the
I47 -pOund champion. is billed to box
mis- long deferred match at Wilkes.
Barre. Pa, against Sergt. Sammy
Baker of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
PAIR OF CUE STARS
DISPLAY SKILL HERE

Devotees of the green table and
cue. will have ample opportunity to
look at the stars Of the pocket
billiard and billiard world this week.
with Albert cutler, former world
junior balkline champion, scheduled
TO appear at the Arcadia every day
at 2:30 and S:15. and Willie Lewis.
former Pennsylvania State pocket
billiard champ, billed TO appear at
the King Pin, in afternoon and eve
ming performances.
Cutler will take on leading billiard
experts of the Capital. and will show
number of trick and fancy shots
No admission will he charged.
Gene Ruark, one of Washington
outstanding pocket billiard stars. will
oppose Lewis tonight at s O'Clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
BY the Associated Press,

Ry the Associated Press
N YEW YORK, January 10.-Tex
Richard today bent to the
VI task of ironing out details Of
1 his elaborate heavyweight
program. seeking to fix def.
nitely Jack Dempsey and Jack
Delaney in the scheme of his elimApa
ton program.
A conference with Delaney was
expected to decide whether the light
heavyweight champion is to be in
cluded in the race with Jack Sharkey.
Jimmy Maloney, Paolino Czcudum and
Paul Berlenbach for the chance to
battle Gene Tunney next September.
Pete Reilly, Delaney's manager, thus
far has declined to fight the rank
and file" of contenders, holding out
for bouts against Dempsey and
Tunney.
With the heavyweight champions
contract already in his pocket. Rick
ard today was prepared to deliver an
ultimatum 10 Delaney. IF Delaney
elects to ignore the other heavy
weights who have done all that has
been asked of them, then it is his
funeral" said the promoter.
Richard also has wired Dempsey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
NET CELEBRITIES CLASH
IN MATCH HERE TONIGHT

A new era in local tennis will be
inaugurated tonight at Arcadia when
Big Bill Tilden, four times world
champion, and Manuel Alfonso. Span.
ish ace, take the court In the first
indoor net exhibition ever staged in
Washington. Local fans will be on
hand in full force, both as spectators
and officials. -, -
The familiar voice Aof DIR. L. Wv.
Glazebrook, who for many years has
umplred District title events as well
as the Chevy Chase invitation event
each Spring, will call the players to
action from the umpire's chair.
The -16 leading netmen of the city
will act as lihesmen for the asfnsfes
and doubles encounters featured an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10

the program. Coming Junior racket
ers have been invited to serve as
ball boys. The stage is set for a gala
opening of indoor tennis competition
in the Capital.
Although Tilden and other famous
players have exhibited their skill be-
fore on local courts, this is the first
time that premier racketer has been
put in setting where the thousands
interested can see his every stroke,
and this fact has added doubly to the
interest of the occas sion.
Because of the great demand for
tickets for tonight's performance rex.
ua seats are being installed In the
auditorium floor, tickets for which
[.MErs~to so on sale today at / O'Clock
at the Arcadia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
BROOKLYN GETTING RID
OF VETERAN PLAYERS

NEW YORK, January 10 @.-
Wilbert Robinson is rapidly making
good his house -clea ming" promise to
Brooklyn base hall fans.
With the. passing Of Jack Fournier
and Zach Wheat, only pitcher Bur
leigh Grimes remains to remind Robby
of the pennant he won in 1920.
Grimes il on the market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
CUNTS WILL OPPOSE
MINUS SPECTATORS


BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 10.-A basket
ball game without spectators between
keen scholastic rivals, unique in this
athletic era OF cheering crowds, was
on tod%es sport bill of fare in the
metropolis.
The cOntending teams represented
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
High Schools.
Principals and coaches of the insti-
buttons decided to bar spectators as
precaution against possible demon
stration, resulting from feeling over
the forfeiture of foot ball game last
Fall to Jefferson
Madison's eleven left the field after
dispute.
Players and officials only, was the
sign out for today's melee.
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sal Base Ball Case Czx Richards PROGRAM Not Liked BY Delaney
PRO BOXERS TO FACE
IN UNIVERSITY HALL
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Nebr., January 10.-For
probably the first time on record
professional boxing contest will he
staged in the coliseum of university.
When fire damaged the City AUDI
torium. the athletic board of the Unit
versity Of Nebra ska, waived its rul-
ing barring the professional contests
from university property. to permit
the meeting tonight of Ace Hudkins
and Pat Corbett.
The university coliseum was the
only other building of sufficient seat
ing capacity for the affair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
AL WATT WILL MANAGE
RICHMOND NEXT SEASON

READING, Pa, January 10 R.-
AL Watt, second baseman Of the Read
ing Internationals, has been released
so that he might accept a position as
manager of the Richmond club of
the Virginia League.
Watt was traded to Reading last
season by Newark.
Watt is a product of the Washing
ton sandlots and his home is in the
Capital City.
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BALL CLUB TO ELECT.

Officers for the coming season will
be elected at meeting of the Takoma
Park base ball club tomorrow night
at s o'clock at Takoma Park Theater
Hail. Members are urged to bring a
new member.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
GRIDDERS TO BANQUET.

Celebrating their winning of 49,
pound city gridiron laurels the past
season, Mohawk Props will banquet
Friday night at the Blue Triangle
Club, Twentieth and r streets, start
ing at $50 o'clock.
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basket ball year in the history OF the
school.
The boys quintet already has estab-
lished reputation for itself. listing
some of the best local squads on its
schedule. and the girls plan to arrange
a similar card with leading college
and seminary sextets. 1t will be the
first time the fair tossers have had
a regular interscholastic schedule
since the school became an undergrad
nate institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
CIRCLES TO GATHER.

National Circles will hold a base
ball meeting tonight at 1880 o'clock
at the home of Manager Andrews.
$50 Fourth street southeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10
PRO COURT LEAGUE.

LAST NIGHTS RESULT.
Washington. AZ: Baltimore. 81.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Baltimore at Philadelphia.
New York at Fort WAYNE.
GAME WEDNESDAY.
New York at Chicago.
GAMES THURSDAY.
New York at Chicago
Washington Al Baltimore.
GAME FRIDAY.
Fort Wayne at Baltimore.
GAME SATURDAY.
Chicago At Cleveland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-10

r WITH 20 girls trying for posi-
Y n tions on the varsity squad,
NM American University co
v eds plan to assist the boys
in NAL king this the biggest
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ri BSOLUTE supremacy of
80 " Washington bowlers in the
"A hadwood duckpin game
4 4 again was clearly demon
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-02-11
NORTHERN MINNESOTA AGAIN
GETOFDESTRUCTIVE ACTION
BYLAWMAKERS AT CAPITOL
the Scenes of the 1921 Session. When Per Capita
Came Out of Clear Sky, Are Being Reinacted
In the Present Legislature.

will ever seriously disturb the scru-
Piles of the present legislators. Ev-
cry mans mind is made up, in spite
of Doctor Riley or his adversary. The
those who believe their grand
line is sharply drawn, today, between
fathers were monkeys, and those who
dare to disbelieve.
One does not have to be a David
Lawrence to predict that there will
grow out of. the present session, a
startling suggestion of failure of the
governors "Big Three" economy
board. Day by day, more instances
are revealed to the senate and house
members of glaring ridiculous ex-
travagances now prevalent in the
purchasing of state supplies. For
instance, several of the senators, not
friendly to the reorganization plan
of government, discovered that about
sixty typewriter accessories just
purchased by the "Big Three's"
economy expert wede billed to the
state at about $3.50 each, but at the
same time available for any single
purchase at the standard going price
of $3.50. And then, again, others
are rallying to the cause of the "Big
Three's" program that money is be-
ing saved, and if the pitiful absence
of legislators writing paper and
pencils is any criterion, then surely
the big Three" is earning it's proper
concentrations. Some are for, and
some are against, but time alone will
tell how well the principle of economy
is being practiced in the great COM
mopwealth of Minnesota.
This week saw the approval by both
houses of the so-called small loan
bill, which fixed, under approval by
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the state, rate of interest that can
be charged by loan sharks amount
ing to forty-two per cent a year.
This applies on all loans up to three
hundred dollars. Under the protec-
ton of the great state of Minnesota,
these loan sharks would be able, un-
der the terms of the bill, to loan an
iron miner one hundred dollars this
Easter and get back from him and his
family by Easter-time, 1928, the sum
of one hundred and forty-two dollars.
Great fuss is made by the proponents
of the bill that this is a measure
laboring classes who are today being
strictly in the interests of the poor
mulcted by city loan sharks. A
worthy motive and a splendid phil
anthropy-yet, at a public hearing
held Tuesday, not one spokesman or
representative of labor from the
down-trOdden masses, appeared in
support of the legalization of forty
two per cent interest rate. 1t is said
that if this bill passes, on Mr.. Mackey,
who dimes and wines with the king of
England, is about to flood our down
trodden state with his barrels of gold
in order to help these poor wretches,
who in the past have had to pay high
rates of interest in an emergency
This bill will be bitterly fought, and
the lines are closely drawn. 1t is
bill well worth watching, and in a
few weeks it will be known wheth-
er or not eight percent shall remain
to be the maximum legal rate of
interest in Minnesota, or whether
forty-two percent shall be the hope
and consolation of the masses.
Of interest to the people of the
Range are several bus bills, aimed
to correct the obnoxious situation
that prevails today; bills giving to
local communities, the right to reg
ulate the busses and fix the rates
that they may charge. The success
of these bills will depend largely
upon the respective efforts that the
bus lines and the travelling public
must put forth. Game and fish pro-
visions are being suggested each
day, and it is all that one can do to
keep in step with the maze af legis-
lation that is headed our way. A
few weeks more will find the law
makers of this state anxiously at
| work, sitting the bad from the good,
trying to do the most good to the
most people.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-02-11
Ancient Wood Analysed

Wood dredged from Lake Nemi,
near Rome, and supposed to have been
a part of a pleasure barge used by
mobiles 1000 years ago, has been iden-
titled by the United States forest prod
ucts laboratory. Microscopic exam
inatiOn of the timbers showed the
presence of normal resin ducts indi-
eating the wood was either pine,
spruce, larch or fir, though it is con-
Sidered likely It was spruce.