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The Washington times., 1927-05-18
ruth lays GRIFFINEN'S
FAILURE To Loss Of
STARSBYNJURY
BABE RUTH

DETROIT May with the road trips both leagues almost
finished most of have pretty good line the strength
the pennant
There have been a lot Of surprises.
Nothing has fooled me far during the than the flop
OF the Gen the American League and the Cincinnati Reds
the National League No foong before the opened
figured both clubs would be right there in the fight The Gr
men, have good They've been busted into small
bits by injuries expected
OF ON the delines
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
MARATH0NERS' STYLE

A shambling dog trot seems to be
the gait best suited to Marathon
runners. Clarence De Mar shuffles
along. Like Nurmi. he carries his
body I'm the middle of his running"
meaning that he favors an upright
carriage
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
FLOCK OF NE WREC0RDS

Twenty-three new swimming
marks were hung up in the National
Collegiate A. A. during the season
Just closed. James House. Of Yale,
ciippea koar vacordg.
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MaIoney Sharkey
As Cold Figures
Reveal Them
MALONEY
SHARKEY

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2O3 pounds. Weight ..190 pounds
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Sh in. Ankle. .......9 in.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
BY Davis ]. Walsh

NEW YORK May 18-Bac fighters occasionally
lost all and became quite begrnt the Of
the promoter to advertise the nnocuous his enterprises
grudge fights
But the authorities refused further
advertising of gudge fights because the zenry
clned miss the true spirit thing They got starting
private braws in the body Of the there payo
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
ONLY TWO OF THEM

Max Carey, now with Brooklyn, is
the only player left who was in the
National League when Grover Alex
ander came up, in 1911.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
CIRLSSPCRI'
GOSSIP
BY GERRY" Martin

The Griffith Stadium is a scene
Of a field day and festival this
afternoon at o'clock featuring
the children of all elementary
schools in the city.
The events listed include mass
drills, games, relay race, felix dane.
ing, wand drill. old fashioned dane.
ing and circus stunts. The relay
team win be composed OF girls from
the fourth grade only.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
2-YE:AR
MARGIN

Sam Hildreth Is likely to be q. big
swath with the two-year-old dis.
vision this year. Every time one
refers to Sam Hildreth one means
the Rancocas farm, owned by Harry
Sinclair. Harry may pay all the
freight, but nevertheless his runners
are known as Hildreth horses.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
THE EXPERT GAME

A sports authority nominates base
ball as the game which carries the
highest average of skill. He puts
golf next.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

pleasant to one or the other Is
destined to happen in fifteen
rounds with q pair like that
But suppose you really loved your
opponent for himself alone, and
suppose that neither OF you could
be figured to work up a fast walk
against the other. And then sup
pose that before the winner doomed
the prospect Of a million dollars,
Tunney, acclaim. happiness and the
right to call yourself the champion
OF all champions. Wouldn't you
contrive to go after that opponent
rather heatedly? / think you would
and I think they will.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

Sharley, the boxer with q
fine left hand: MaIOney, the
combination bOxer-fighter, Cross
ing his right. They may not be
great hitters but something un.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

So far Sam has turned out a
pair Of nifty youngsters I'm
Novice and Nassal1, which has
won easily. Novice is . son
Of the great LuciIlite, while
Nassak's Papa Is John p. Grier,
which gave Man o. War q
terrific battle q few years ago.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
YIELDS YARDsTIcK. TOO

Earle Combs, the other outfield
star Of the Yankees, used to be
school teacher in the Kentucky
The Washington times., 1927-05-18


Cincinnati, though. is different.
The Reds have gone bad in the
very department where everyone
expected them to show the most
strength. That's pitching. If Hen
bricks can't get his pitchers going,
then he's out on limb-and until
the boys start tossing up something
besides singles and doubles it looks
as though the Reds would be also
rams.
Aside, from these two clubs,
though, the strength is diStrib-
uted Just about as / figure It.
The Giants. st. Louis and Pitts.
burgh already are tied up in q
bow knot in the National
League. and figure they'll be
fighting that way right to the
finish. There are three great
clubs-and they stand out above
all the rest Of the league.
If you follow the box scores
close you see that McGraw's pitch
ers have been turning in some
pretty good games lately. They're
rounding into shape, and I have
to laugh when / think of the way
the boys put Macs pitchers on
the pan before the seasons opened.
Mac hasn't the best pitching staff
In the world, but he has a pretty
falr one. And just remember this.
When you're working with a hard.
hitting club like the Giants the
pitching don't have to be so air
tight.
In our league things are a bit
.f1pV IL,
Tor a sure second division berth.
are way up toward the top. Wash
1ngton is way down. ] don't be-
lieve the White Sox can stay up
there. They have a good club but
they haven't the punch to win a.
pennant, or even finish third,
wouldn't be surprised to see them
slipping back in another couple of
weeks.
Washington will climb a bit,
and Philadelphia is pretty ant
to keep going all season Just
about the way they have this
Tar. The Tigers still look to me
like dark hOrses-and dangerous
ones.
Cleveland is a puzzle. The pitching
ought to be great ana is. Fellows
like Uhle and Shaute and Levsen
and Hudlin are apt to win any ball
game they start. On the other hand
the rest Of the club lacks balance.
There are lot Of rough spots in
Jack McAllister's lineup, and / don't
see how he's going to fix them up
this season.
Until he does I don't figure Cleve-
land has much of chance of doing
as well as they did last year.
Baseball is funny game. A
bunch that looks sure and GER
tain today may be all wet to-
morrow. Maybe the White Sox
will stay in the race. Maybe the s
Athletics will slump. Perhaps
the Yankees viii lose their punch
and their power and slip right
out of the picture.
But I don't think so. I've sized
the thing up as it looks to me now
and I've got bunch it will look
about the same way along next
september when the boys straighten
out for the stretch.
copyright, 1927, by Christy Walsh
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

They should have that emotional
something that carries men on be-
yond the limit OF their ordinary ca
pacity once the issue becomes less
professional than personal.
Both were wrought up today,
Sharkey in his volatile, garrulous
way, Maloney in the seething dis.
quiet that only q sensitive man
knows. I understand Sharkey
threatened an impromptu at the
Richard dinner the other night with
a sport critic whose articles had
affronted him. Yes, the boys are
getting unduly exercised when they
want to fight for nothing.
Perhaps Sharkey, in spite of his
optimism, won't be so certain of his
decision against Maloney as prob,
ably he had reason to be with the
writer he challenged, but I don't
think that win stop the fight from
being good one.
Even throwing out the personal
issue, we have the matter of re-
spective styles. Those of the prin-
cipals should make for an interest
ing evening.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
NOW A MANAGER

Johnny Lavan, the dentist who
starred at shortstop for the st.
Louis Cardinals for several years,
now Is managing Lincoln, in the
western League, and is said to be
showing some real managerial
ability.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
B4MBlNO FOOLED By FLOP OF WASHINGTON TEAL
AND MA[ONEY.
Unreal GRUDGE BOUT

Gene Tuey heavyweight champion, viii the Sharkey
Maloney tomorrow night exclusively for the Times
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

It was thus that prize fights be.
came boxing contests and everyone
understood each other better. That
was It: a slight misunderstanding.
The citizens were on the level about
tho thing and sometimes the fighters
weren't.
This preamble is merely leading up
to the statement that the meeting
Of Jim Maloney and Jack Sharkey
at the Yankee stadium tomorrow
night doesn't have to be advertised
as grudge fight. Everyone knows
it win be. And that is one reason
the writer disagrees with the ma
jority opinion, which Is to the effect
that the Maloney-Sharkey bout Of is
rounds will be a terrible thing to
behold.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

DO not miss captain Saliva
tlon, the great new serial story
starting Friday In The Times.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

Nassak's Papa Is John p. Grier,
which gave Man o. War q
terrific battle q few years ago.
These two are not the best Of
the Hildreth Juveniles, for Sam
never leads his ace right off the
bat. He has % more youngste- 9
ready to skip around the course,
and you can bet they win gather
kale. OF the "a youngsters In the
stable, ten are Lucullite's progeny.
-Four are colts and SIX are mem.
bers Of the present Steiner sex, the
filly division. Two Ge descendants
from Kai Sang, one by Grey Lag,
five by Purchase, one by Eternal.
John p. Grier, Sweep WraclS, Bada-
Joy and Omar Khayyam. You can
therefore see that Sam has q nice
classy lot Of bluebloods.
To help these youngsters
gather the currency, Hildreth
has Laverne FatOr to guide
them. This poppy yOungster is
without doubt the best In his
class.
Fator has piloted Novice and
Nassau to their winning debuts,
and we win .ay they made very
suspicious bows. In addition to his
formidable 2-year-olds, Hildreth holds
a strong hand II the older division,
With Sweepster, Silver Fox, Celidon,
Black Curl, Lachen, Ntchavo
Hesper, Sankari, Cheops, Adjutant,
Grange and Jumbo in action fans
expect to see the familiar white
jack and green caps Haunt VIC
torously. They may be Sinclair's
colors, but to the turf world they
are Hildreth's horses.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

the fourth grade only.
DIR. Rebecca StOnerOad,
director of physical education in
the schools, will have charge Of
the affair. She win be assisted
by Misses Martha Adkin, Evelyn
Major, Blake More, Elizabeth
Angle Margaret Chamblin, Vera
Chambers, Elizabeth Nj lister,
Mabel Kennedy, and Carol Wroe.
It seems that competition In the
inter-high rifle series is going to
keener than the scores first in
dicated. Central High shooters went
down in defeat before the Western
High rifle girls yesterday after
noon ringing up only q score Of
900 to the 925 score turned in
by the Western girls.
Tomorrow Central shots meet the
Eastern girls at the Mount Pleasant
range. The Easternites may reverse
the dope of their last encounter
with the Blue and White lassies and
chalk up win.
e. v. Brown school seems to
have the edge on the champion.
ship of the schIag ball series i'm
the Columbia Heights division.
They have COPIED the opening
game of q triple tie pIay-Off,
wrestling It from Cooke players,
15-1O.
In the Plaza division, the Peabody
tosserS are still going strong with
not one defeat recorded against
them.
Mary Kelso and Teresa Breen,
ranking tennis stars of Eastern
High, came through their first
round matches safely yesterday, the
former by downing Anna Pickett,
6-3, 81 and the latter by beating
Catherine Gray, Ga, Go.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

/ think It win be q good fight;
perhaps not . particularly do
cisive one in which kn0ckdOwns
win be spread all over the prem
Uses, but . fight In which the
principals, inspired by q sin.
cere dislike for one another, viii
60 to IL with cold Viciousness.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

Washington will climb a bit,
and Philadelphia is pretty apt
to keep going all season Just
about the way they have this
far. The Tigers still look to me
like dark horses-and dangerous
ones.
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admit. but there is sufficient rela-
tionShip between them to provide
the basis for prophecy concerning
the automobile industry. This rela
tionship is becoming more clear
yearly to Americas car makers.
The fttest always have survived
industrially. The odds arc largely IN
favor OF their continuing 10 do so.
SO the race is on in motordom
Every manufacturer is out 10 estab-
lsh himself as the httest in his field.
The public will collect the purse
that goes with victory. 1t knows
this and as result, the automotive
industry is counting on the greatest
year in its history with full knowl-
edge. too, that some OF the past
years will be hard to beat.
Steps should be taken to curb the
Unfortunately reckless driving which
continually is taking place on
Macomb street from Wisconsin TO
Connecticut avenues, an important
cast and west thoroughfare connect
ing two great arteries Of traffic, both
OF which are carrying an increasing
~ heavy volume of passenger auto
mobiles and commercial vehicles.
Macomb street is long. steep in
cline, and must be driven with ex-
IRENE care if it is to be driven in
safety. There is no excuse for rush
ing the hiu, because it can be made
with case by most cars Of anywhere
near recent design; or. if it cannot
be made in high. there always are
lower gears to resort TO. so that the
speed limit never need be violated
However, the greatest offenders
are not those who 60 up the street
too fast, but those who. for some
idiotc reason. feel impeled to &C
CELEBRATE viciously for the two blocks
between Wisconsin avenue and
where Macomb street takes an
abrupt drop These drivers-many
OF them are constant offenders-then
find themselves hurting down at be-
tween 40 and IS miles an hour under
conditions absolutely and completely
unsafe.
Traffic authorities have done as
much as they can toward helping
the situation by placing Stop"
signs at the streets which run into
Macomb What now should be done
is for the Tenleytown police Off
Gals to station themselves at the
top of the hill, ready to intercept
the wild fight of the irresponsible
motorist who cannot see long down
grade without jamming his foot
down on the accelerator to assist
the law of inclined planes.
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AUTO SHOW PLANS
ARE COMPLETED
lose Declares 1927 Display
viii Excel Any Ever Held
in Capital.

Plans have been completed for the
seventh annual automobile show of
the Washington Automotive Trade
Association, to be held at the Audi
forum January % to February 5, it
was stated yesterday by Rudolph
Jose, chairman of tie committee in
charge of arrangements.
According to Mr.. Jose, a veteran OF
the local automotive field. under
whose direction previous shows have
been marked successes, practically all
models of all cars to be represented
have arrived in Washington, and the
fore part of this week will be devoted
to working out details of position, and
so on.
Mr.. Jose. who attended the New
York show for the purpose of obtain
ing new ideas for the Washington
presentation. declared that practically
every inch of space in the Auditorium
already has been taken by local deal
ers, and predicted that this wear s
show will be more complete, in every
respect, than that of any previous
year.
Decorations about the hall will be
better and more costly, while every
effort has been made to arrange the
~o.i . ~ thot tuS pubiC may view Inem
with the least expenditure of physical
energy and to the very best advantage.
The cars this year form a glitter
ing display of beautiful models. and
we have allowed nothing to stand in
the way of giving the public the best.
the easiest and the most comprehen-
sive picture of Them" said Mr.. Jose.
According to Mr.. Jose, all major
preiminaries prior to the opening of
the show have been taken care of.
and minor details alone remain to he
adjusted by the show committee of
the trade association.
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The Old Mechanic Saws:

It's funny. but the simpler automo-
hiles become the more of a mystery
they SEINE to be to their owners. In the
old days when the automobile really
was a conglomeration of funny.lookin'
machinery owners used to come in
here with a fair idea of which one Of
the funny-lookin' parts had gone
wrong.
| guess the worlds goin' too fast
these days for a man to take the time
to know all about his car, but more of
them would know more If they knew
how simple it is to gain this knowl.
edge. Take my own case. / never
was inclined TO look upon a car as
bein' mysterious, but, honestly, l
didn't know how simple it was in prin-
ciple until a woman came in here and
wanted me to tell her all about how
one worked.
I'm no hand to deal in technical
language, so I just set about tellin'
her in my own way. 1t took only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
MOTORING
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN

purify
atmosphere collide.
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Premature starting on the yellow
light on the streets where the cleo
trio traffic control system is in opera
tion still is practiced by enough
motorists to cause annoyance to
other drivers. and the continuation
Of practice that has concerned
traffic authorities since the lights
were fist turned on.
1t is "a dangerous habit. and those
motorists who have formed it would
do well to break themselves of it
before its serious possibilities ma
terialize for them. The danger is
apparent, as traffic officials point
out, and its imminence may be OBJ
served at almost any time.
The hazard to which drivers ex-
pose themselves is created by cross
traffic. SO long as the yellow, which
immediately follows the green, is
showing, cars in the moving traffic
stream still have a right to continue
across the intersection. If they are
so lar back of the cross street that
they cannot clear the intersection
before the rcd shows then, Of course.
they should stop.
With the yellow light that imme-
diately follows the red, the condi-
tlons are different and the ruling of
the authorities also is quite opposite.
The red signal means Stop" On
that. motorists will agree. The yell
low signal that Immediately follows
also means Stop" because the cross
traffic has the right to keep moving.
1t IS evident that premature starting
often results in a collision.
specifications on all the latest
models produced by the automotive
industry now are available in all
parts of the country. To the per-
son who reads specifications literally
they seem rather drab and uninter-
esting descriptions of a product that
IS too vivid for such listless phrase
ology.
he observer who reads the speci-
hcations with a knowledge of what
they really mean. however. is con-
Sclous of the fact that the latest ones
tell an amazingly interesting story
OF automotive progress. This is how
the technical language and mathe-
NAUTICAL formulae are translated into
description of the 1927 automobile :
The most economical car ever built
Unparalleled safety, due to better
TOUR wheel brakes, and much more
ethcient brakes generally.
Greater power.
Greater hexibiity.
Better acceleration.
Lowered maintenance cost.
Comfort that transcends anything
hitherto created in all cars, from the
lowest to the highest priced.
DRIVING ease that will astonish
even the driver of the 1926 automo-
bile.
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Have you ever lonEed for an auto
mobile that would steer so easily you
could not feel" the road nor have
any sensation of effort in plotting the
car along the highways and byways?
Have you ever said to yourself.
Such car would he an overwhelm-
ing success The whole world would
flock to it,
If any motorist has entertained
such an idea of the car with thorough
~ effortless steering. let him immedi-
ately Danish the thought and hide it
away with the thousand and one ideas
that are good in imagination only.
For such q car was developed by
fine automobile maker just a. few
months ago And. II was condemned.
Why? The answer is simple. The
engineers who tried 20 drive 1t could
not tell where they were steering.
One If them started away from the
experimental station and took down
one of the doors Another went to
pass another Gar and ran into ditch.
No o-p who drove that car could
fee" the road.
Philosophy Interiected.
If il Ia permissible To mix a. little
philosophy with so commonplace
subject as steering n modern auto
mobile it may he said that the situa-
ton Just discovered by the overen-
thusia site engineers simply proves
anew that there is little bit of good
In everything had. Motorists and
many engineers consistently have
scorned the necessity for feeling" the
road through the steering gear. Drtv-
ers complained of every severe bump
and told themselves that the day was
coming when the toughest of roads
could not be felt by the driver. But
they failed to appreciate that there
was a certain positive need for those
very vibrations that are transferred
to the hands of the driver through the
steering mechanism.
1t has been discovered that motor
lists steer by feel as we'll as by sight.
That Is, the driver does not judge
front wheel positions by the steering
wheel as he sees it. but rather by the
way that wheel feels to him.
Assuming that a driver could take
his eyes off the road without danger
of running into something, 1t is con-
ceivable that he could learn to steer
by watching the position of the steer
ing wheel. knowing its position when
the wheels were pointed straight ahead
and for the extreme cuts to the side,
he could, by analogy. tell pretty we'll
in what direction he was steering even
IL he could not feel thing through
the wheel. But this sort of steering
never has been INDUCED in and prob.
ably never will One cannot escape
the fact that motorists know what
positions their front wheels are in
chiefly by the feel of these wheels
as transmitted through the steering
assembly.
Front Wheels Out of View
Drivers do not even see their front
wheels. If it were not for the high
instrument boards. the low seats and
the tenders. 1t is possible that cars
could be steered successfully by visual
means, even If there were absolutely
no feel" in the steering assembly
wheel
Effortless steering is achieved by
designers with considerable ease The
engineers who turned out the effort
less steering car carried the principle
of leverage to a higher degree than
usual. In addition, they laid out the
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short time. and in some ways it helped
me almost as much as it did her.
The new devices that are helm used
on nearly all cars these days seem to
confuse some motorists. Rectifers,
cleaners and filters are being adver-
tised everywhere. and the owner sees
so much about them that he doesn't
see that between the lines describin'
their virtues they're about as simple
as simplicity itself.
Just had a case in here that illus
trates this point. One of my custom
ers, a dairyman, by the way, dropped
in to ask If an air cleaner really
cleaned, and IL he ought to have one
on his old car.
Does your cream separator really
separator" / asked him.
When he told me it did. / said that
air cleaners must clean, then, because
they operate on an identical principle
that of separatin' two substances of
different GRANTEES by centrifugal force.
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Winter Fire Hazard Greater

Winter brings the greatest fire haz.
ara 10 motordom. Misfiring, carbu.
rotor nooding and "shorting" are more
common at this season than any other
me motorist who realizes the greater
danger exercises greater care. particu.
larly when starting the car
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Clutch Drag Tests

III the ammeter continues to show
charge when the car Is coasting. # il
an almost certain indication that the
clutch is dragging. A Gathering under
me Moor boards when starting off in
low IL another indication of this
maladY.