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The Washington times., 1928-03-24
L4llle.
BY Il. D. Thomas

A patch Of ground near the
clubhouse at Indian Spring
that was used for growing,
creeping-bent grass il icing
made into . practice green. Il
will be one Of the few practice
green's around Washington SO
situated as to permit pitch
shots.
Such q green Is or inestimable
value to the ambitious golfer. The
short strokes are tire most difficult
to master and ~ half hour Of prac-
tice Is more effective In reducing
ones score than q half dozen rounds
Of actual play. so say the experts.
For the want Of practice green
George Voigt used to play round
after round with q single club, pick
ing out spots OF varying distances
on the fairway and shooting at EN-
Thus he mastered the irons.
Its q human fault In most
golfers that they take more
pride generally I'm long drive
than In any other shot The
result Of effort seems more APP
parent and the long tee poke
snacks Of physical prowess.
To this dub. whose drive Ii lit
tie more than an elongated putt,
the pitch to the green from Tnoder-
ate distance is most appealing. 1t
calls for more skill than a tee shot
In at least three different ways
the target is smaller, there's the
matter OF judging the distance and,
most difficult of all, the keen co.
ordination necessary for accurately
restricting force.
The chaps who five you 70
death" usually are satisfied with
d fairish tee shot. Such q player
Is Bill Price, the newspapermarl,
about whom IL told an interesting
story OF q short game, or rather a
putting battle that took place on
No. IS at Columbia during winter.
There were snow. patches all
over the course. On No. 1S,
which was partly shaded by the
clubhouse, an ice-c0ated patch OF
snow surrounded the hole for a
distance of many feet. ~
It was here the battle was to he
decided, and Price thought he had
the victory sewed up when. with his
third shot. he was nine feet from the
pin. His three rivals had used up a
lot of strokes fighting the snow in
the fairway and rough.
The Ice around the cup was
bumpy.
The first putt by Price, who
considered hOling out q mere
formally, rolled, hoped and
skIdded ON nlerrily past the cup.
TO Prices establishment 1t came
to rest further away from the
goal than it was originally.
He tapped 1t again with similar re-
| suit.
Again and again he tried, and the
| pesky thing each time found a way
| to avoid the cup. BY this time one
Of the other players. Arthur Nc.
clroy, was getting close, due. too. to
| Prices consumption of strokes. Nc.
Elroy was having trouble, too. First
| one and then the other would be
away.
1t finally got 30, says Price,
that l could almost see that darned
| ball leering at me-
1t ended in draw Price and Nc.
Elroy halved the hole in 49,.
The regular green's were thrown
| open at Indian Spring today, to the
| great JOY OF those who have been
| playing the temporaries. The green's
are in excellent shape. They have
been carefully guarded and contrast
| with those Of some other clubs that
were used when soft from the win
| ter's thaW.
The Washington times., 1928-03-24
/ EAN PLAY
IS AIM OF
MANAGER
BY Babe Ruth

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla,
March The longer / stick
around baseball the more ! N
convinced that it doesn 7 take
stars to make championship
club.
What | mean is this. In
dividnaI ballplayers may pack
IN the money at the boxcffice,
but it's the team as q whole
that tells the story for the sea
son. We seen teams 60 into
the race with pitching staff
that stuck out like sore thumbs.
rye seen teams that had group
0k hitting stars: or teams thaf
were great fielding outfits But its
fmIways the well,rotlnded. smoothly
working club that wins the pennanf.
That's one reason why managers
i nav little attention. to all the wild
lmtories 81 new stars that come out
4 oE the camps every spring. The
smart manager isn't interested ~
individuals. He's interested Ia the
LEAN - u whole.
Ever sirlce Rogers Hornsby was
8raded to the Braves there has been
n lot st talk among the fans about
why the trade WIS made. Iney
can't understand II. Of course -
"a no position 70 explain y. either.
But i've rot hunch the trade
!, vvas made FOR the very reason
explained. McGraw pr0Dapy
figured that the Giants were
weak III the Cutflel0 ana psnsna
flae bat. 70 himself ne prODaDiy
!. naid, Wei, 4 can ahioru e
nacrifice ny CEae really great
IL $50 ler fIle salSe Of building
- 4 team that's little better
rnunded and little better bal.
nmceds
II r7ndarstasad. I'm not handing that
ant aa the true explanation. But
l1sn, putting the idea out a. the way
1,ir league managers generally look
ssarssn their trades and their Ideals.
YOU know ii man has i've star
Es,ifchera. foe instance, but no second
lfesarnarI - no catcher, ne can
arf0rd to give up one Of nls
4 Tsifrllers ia get the other. And nine
Ssnnes out Be ten when he does i
i 4lsa fan will rise up on his hlnd
saefga md howl about the poor TRACE
that was made. 80
arn convinced that shreWd trad
samr IL one OF the most important
ahinre In baseball. A few years
80 Miller Higgins was panned 2
hi hecause he traded Garland Bra1-
t1e and Nick CuIIop to the Griff-
e.aen for Dutch Euether. claim
IL was smart move.
IN the Open market Ruether
nrObably wouldn't have brought
The money that the other Two
would. But at the time me
N Wnmkees needed . left.handed
s.sfcIser who could win . few
kalI games, Ruether did that
for ffaem-and gave them
remnant and ball clubs are Out
20 win pennants.
There was another big howl q
iwear later when we let Wardie go
"a the White Sox for John Ora
nowekf. But you must remember
that the Yankees already had .
Great second baseman. ana they
needed q catcher. They could
afford to trade a star. IL they
didn't need him-for an average
v,Iayer who filled the hole. Johnny
.Israhowsld to my mind Is better
catcher than he was given credit
for being at the time the trade
was made-and most fans now
realize that Hug was pretty smart
But sven IL Johnny had been only
ordinary I still believe 1t would
haye been good trade.
(Cepyright, 1923, by the Christy
Walsh Syndicate)
The Washington times., 1928-03-24
Gro ITO BOXING
SHOW PLEASES
BY George A. Simpson

Approximately 1000 Master Ma.
sons OF the District were treated to
j keen boxing bout that featured the
stag Nite' Or the KaIlipolis Grotto
last night 1T the Arcadia. The card
was arranged BY frankie Mann. and
the fighters mixed 1t fslricusly.
District Commissioner sidney r..
Taliaferro was the guest Of honor
and made i. short speech. No de-
cisions were rendered at the ringside
and the bouts were Of four rounds
each.
Ray Bowen Outpolnted Joe Per
ron ia tlas main event; Billy Ed
wards had the better Of Kid Woody;
Jesse Belt shaded Gypsy Smith, end
Eddie Bowen scored q technical
kayo over Jack White in the fourth
round.
An added attraction Was IN
exhibition between Marty Gal
Ia9her and Chef Thomas, with
the boys using 16-OMnce gloves.
John 8. RIick, the sports mag
nate and GaIlagher'& manager,
was introduced from the ring.
side. He corrected Jimmy Lake
when the latter announced that
GALLAGHER, was 3 light heavy
weight instead Of . heavy
weight.
Perron tried hard to reach Bowen,
but the shifty member OF the
famous ring family evaded Per-
ron,s swings and countered ef-
fectively.
Gypsy Smith, though losing to
Jesse Belt, did all the leading ana
forced the fighting. Belt had height
and reach on his opponent ahu
used these to advantage.
Billy Edwards and Kid Woody
did not damage each other, though
few crunching punches were
landed. Edwards appeared the VIC
tor because Of his aggressiveness.
The crafty Eddie Bowen bat.
tered Jack White In the third
round and put across two solar
plexus drives that doubled mp
White early in the fourth
round.
White was paralyzed by these
blows and couldn't continue, 80 the
venerable Referee Pat O'Connor
lifted Bowen's hand.
James Jay ("Jimmy'O Lake, who
did the announcing. far excelled the
speechmakers as Jimmy basked In
all his glory. His voice roared
through the hall, shook the rafters
and rocked the building. His witty
remarks also drew ripples of laugh
ter. Joe Mann, young son N
frankie Mann, amused the fans by
his militaristic steps as he marched
around the ring with the signs
telling Of the round.
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ward the ceiling, and settled more
deeply into his chair.
Nov, Markham, just what are
the universally recognized features
of a sordid crime of robbery and
murder?
Brutality, disorder, haste, ran
sacked drawers, cluttered desks,
broken jewel-caseS, rings stripped
from the victims fingers, severed
pendant chains, torn clothing,
tipped-over chairs, upset lamps,
broken vases, twisted draperies,
strewn floors, and so forth.
"Such are the accepted inme-
mortal indications-eh, what?
"But-consider a moment, old
chap. Outside of fiction and the
drama, in how many crimes do they
all appear-all in perfect ordina-
ton, and without a single element
to contradict the general effect?
THAT is to say, how many &C
tual crimes are technically perfect
in their settings? None! And
why? Simply because nothing &C
tual in this life-nothing that spon-
taneous and genuine-runs to ac-
copied form in every detail.
"The law of chance and fallibility
invariably steps in"
He made a Slight indicative ges-
ture.
But regards this particular crime
look at it closely. What do you
find?
"You will perceive that its mis-
en-scene has been staged, and its
drama enacted, down to every mi
mute detail-like lola novel.
"It is almost mathematically per-
feet. And therein, dye see, lies the
irresistible inference of its having
been carefully premeditated and
planned.
ITO use an art term, it is a
tickled-up crime. Therefore, its con-
ception was not spontaneous.
And yet. don't y know, I can't
point out any specific flaw; for its
great flaw lies in its being flawless.
And nothing flawless. my dear fell
low, is natural or genuine"
Markham was silent for awhile.
You deny even the remote pos
sibility of a common thief having
murdered the grip" he asked at
length; and now there was no hint
of sarcasm in his voice.
IF common thief did It," con-
tended Vance. then there's no sci
ence of psychology, there are no
philosophic truths, and there are
no laws of art.
IF it was a genuine crime of rob-
berry, then, by the same token, there
is no difference whatever between
an old master and a clever tech
nician's copy"
You'd entirely eliminate robbery
as the motive, I take it,"
THE robbery" Vance affirmed,
was only a manufactured detail
THE fact that the crime was
committed by a highly astute per-
son indicates unquestionably that
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1.-THE poker, man-the pokerl . D.. q.
Don't you see? That amateurish
assault upon the jewel-case with a
cast-iron coal-prodder couldn't have
been made after the case had been
pried open-it would have had to be
made before.
And that seemingly insane at
tempt to break steel with caStiron
was part of the Suggesting.
1.-The real culprit didn't care if he
got the case open or not. He merely
wanted it to look as if he had tried
to get it open; so he used the poker
and then left it lying beside the
dinted box"
II see what you mean" This
point, think, impressed Markham
more strongly than any other
Vance had raised; for the presence
of the poker on the dressing table
had not been explained away either
by Heath or Inspector Bremen.
rs that the reason you questioned
Skeel as if he might have been pres
ent when your other visitor was
there Q"
Exactly. BY the evidence of the
jewel-caSe 1 knew he either was in
the apartment when the bogus
crime of robbery was being staged,
or else had come upon the scene
when it was over and the stage di-
rector had cleared out.
From his reaction to my ques-
lions I rather fancy he was pres
ent."
YES That would account for the
closet not having been disturbed.
LAS I see it, it wasn't ransacked,
for the simple and rather gro
tesque reason that the elegant
Skeel was locked within.
How else could that one clothes
press have escaped the rifling &C
tivities of the pseudo-burglar?
HE wouldn't have omitted it de-
liberately, and he was far too
thoroughgoing to have overlooked
it STANDARDIZATION there are the
finger prints on the knob. ....."
Vance lightly tapped on the arm
Of his chair.
IT tell you, Markham, old dear,
you simply must build your con-
ception of the crime on this hy-
pothesis. and proceed accordingly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-11
TANGO BANDS IN
WAR WITH JAZZ
Vat PARIS CAFES
Negroes GIeaningS Are Cut
as ArgentineS Enter
Challenge.
BY RALPH HEINZE
United Press staff Correspondent

PARIS, Feb. i1.-It's a war to the
death between American jazz and
Argentine tango bands with Paris
as the battlefield.
The present mortality rate is
about one jazz band a week, but
with the hundreds of American
bands in service in Paris, and with
hundreds of other French jazz bands
In reesrve, the war threatens to be
a long and noisy one.
A few years ago, American jazz
bands were supreme in Paris from
the palatial restaurants around the
Madeleine to the dance halls atop
Montmartre.
In some theaters, the ordinary or
chestras were given notice, the pit
raised and Negro jazz bands put to
work between acts. Paris became
noisier than it had been at any time
in history.
The stately French dances disap-
peared entirely. Jazz bands con-
Quered the country and even on the
greatest of French national fete, the
anniversary of Bastille Day, July IA,
such music replaced that of the &C
Gordon and clarinet for street
corner dancing.
Naturally, the demand exceeded
the supply and American Negro mu-
sicians were asking and getting I'M
usually high salaries.
1t was not unusual, for band of
FIVE musically inclined Negroes to
play in three or four theaterS and
restaurants in the course of the day
and night, banking away each week
total checks for $4,000 francs,
News of the earnings must have
been carried to the Pampas, for last
year saw the start of the war and
this winter finds tango bands and
Jazz battling on even terms.
There is no hiding the fact that
Paris is as tired of jazz as is Ameri-
ca. Until America exports some
thing new in music, Paris will con-
tinue to turn for its dance music
towards the Argentine singing bands,
which have capitalized the trend Of
favor by changing the tempo SO that
Charleston inclined dancers can
strut their stuff to the modernized
tango.
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CHAPTER XIV
w KNOW, Markham" Vance

| OI1AE i GEb (A<AAt
" KNOW, Markham" Vance
u began, in his emotionless
drawl, every genuine work Of ar
has a quality which the critics call
elan-namely, enthusiasm and
spontaneity.
"a copy, or imitation, lacks the
distinguishing characteristic; it's too
perfect, too carefully done, too ex-
act.
Even enlightened solonS of the
law, fancy, are aware that there
is bad drawing in Botticelli and
disproportions in Rubens, what?
I'm an original, d. we see, such
flaws don't matter. But an imitator
never puts 'em in; he doesn't dare
he's too intent on getting all the
details correct.
1.-THE imitator works with a self
consciousness and a meticulouS care
which the artist, in the throes of
creative labor, never exhibits.
and here's the point: there's no
way of initiating that enthusiasm
and spontaneity-that elan-which
an original painting possesses.
However closely a copy may re-
semble an original, there's a vast
psychological difference between
them. The copy breathes an air of
insincerity, of perfection, of
conscious effort. =. You follow me,
eh?"
Most instructive, my dear Rus
kin"
Vance meekly bowed his appreci-
alton, and proceeded pleasantly.
Nov, let us consider the Odell
murder. You and Heath are agreed
that it is a commonplace, brutal,
sordid, unimaginative crime.
But unlike you two bloodhounds
on the trail, I have ignored its mere
appearances, and have analysed its
various factors
II have looked at it pSychologically
so to speak. And I have discovered
that it is not genuine and sincere
crime-that is to say, an original
but only a sophisticated, self-con-
scious and clever imitation, done by
a skillful copyist.
II grant you it is correct and typ
ical in every detail. But there is
where it fails, don't y know. It's
technic is too good, it's craftsman
ship too perfect The ensemble, as
it we're, is not convincing-it lacks
elan.
"Esthetically speaking, It has all
the earmarkS of a tour de force
Vulgarly speaking, it's a fake"
He paused and gave Markham an
engaging smile. II trust this some
what oracular peroration has not
bored you"
Pray continue" urged Mark
ham. with exaggerated politeness.
His manner was ocular, but some
thing in his tone led me to believe
that he was seriously interested.
What is true of art is true OF
life,' Vance resumed placidly.
Every human action, d. we see,
conveys unconsciously an impress
sion either of genuineness or of
spuriousness-of sincerity or calcu-
lation.
For example two men at table
eat in q similar way, handle their
knives and forks in the same fash
ion, and apparently do the identical
things.
Although the sensitive spectator
cannot put his finger on the points
of difference, he none the less
senses at once which mans breed
ing is genuine and instructive and
which mans is initiative and self
CONSCIOUS"
He blew wreath of smoke to-
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there was a far more potent motive
behind it.
ANY Ran capable of so ingenious
and clever a piece of deception is
obviously a person of education and
imagination; and he most certainly
would not have run the Stupendous
risk of killing a woman unless he
had feared some -whelming
diSaSter-unleSS, indeed, her con-
tinuing to live would have caused
him greater mental anguish, and
would have put him in greater
jeopardy, even than the crime itself.
Between two colossal dangers,
he chose the murder as the lesser.
Markham did not speak at once:
he seemed lost in reflection.
But presently he turned and, fix
ing Vance with a dubious stare,
said:
What about that chiseled jewel
box? A professional burglars jim
my, welded by an experienced hand
doesn't fit into your esthetic
hypothesiS-it is, in fact, dia-
metrically opposed to such a
theory"
II know it only too we'll" Vance
nodded slowly
And I've been harried and
hectored by that steel chisel ever
since I beheld the evidence of its
work that first morning.
Markham, that chisel is the one
genuine note in an otherwise
spurious performance. It's as if the
real artist had come along at the
moment the copyist had finished his
faxed picture, and painted in a
single small object with the hand
of a master"
But doesn't that bring us back
inevitably to Skeel?"
"Skeel-ah, yes. That's the expla-
nation. no doubt; but not the way
you conceive it.
"Skeel ripped the box open-l
don't question that; but deuce take
it!-it's the only thing he did do;
it's the only thing that was left
for him to do.
That's why he got only a ring
which La Belle Marguerite was not
wCaring that night Ali her other
bau )les-to-wot, those that adorned
her-had been stripped from her
and were gone"
"Why are you so positive on this
point?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-11
MINT NEW HALF DOLLAR
Coin to Help Defray Expense OF
Hawaii Celebration.

HaWau CeIeDrdtlOn.
By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Feb. I'm COM
memoration of the 150th anniver-
sary of the discovery of Hawaii,
which, since that time, has ad-
vanced to point where it now
pays more income tax than thirteen
States, Uncle Sam is getting ready
to issue a new kind of 50-cent piece.
A bill for the minting of 10000
of these special coins has been ap-
proved by Secretary Mellon and by
a congressional committee and early
passage is expected.
The design will be left to the
Treasury Department. Promoters
of the Hawaiian sesqui-
to be held on the islands Aug. Is
to 20, 1923, will sell them at a pre-
MUM to help defray expenses.
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LOTS TO BE SOLD

Delinquent tax sale of approx
mately 1900 lots is set for Monday
in the office of County Auditor
Harry Dunn. The list includes all
lots on which taxes have not been
paid except those barred from the
sale order of Superior Judge Joseph
M. Miner.
The lots involve a total of $685.
033.56 in taxes. A clear title can
not be obtained until two years. the
original owners getting that much
time in which to redeem the prop
erty. Such lots usually are sold for
taxes.
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! "If you don't, each edif1ce you
rear will come topping about your
ears"
ITO Be Continued
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THE STORY THUS FAR

The jewel case had been opened with
a steel chiseI after being battered with
a poker. And this puxzIes Vance when
IL Is found near the ,stranSled body Of
Skeei's arrest, and Vance indicates he
believes Skeel was hiding In q clothes
closet in the "Canary's" apartment when
believing in SkeeTs guilt. ridicuIes the
theory and Vance's notion that the
crime was committed by a man OF su-
periOr intellect and ingenuity. Vance
proceeds to explain how he arrived at
his conclusion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-09

being a daughter of Marie) are also
among those surrounding the young
king.
Michael, who has travelled a good
deal in his short career, has seen
other palaces than his own. Last
year he was guest of the king of
Italy. Victor Emmanuel, who likes
children, is very popular with them.
On his visit to Rome, Michael found
for a playmate little girl of his own
age, his cousin and the daughter of
another former Greek king. They got
on very well, except one day when
she leased him too much. Michael for
got his gallantry for moment then
and the two had to be separa ID. On
that day Michael was sparkle New
York Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-09
ROAD PETITION.

THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE, That
thirty days after the first publication
hereof, application will be made to the
Board of County Commissioners of
Garrett County for the appointment
of viewers to examine and relocate
portion of the public county road
leading from Oakland to Brookside,
said proposed change to begin at or
near a gate on F. L. Wensel's land and
running thence through the land of
E. E. Sollars' estate and intersecting
the old road at or near the dwelling
house on the E. E. Sollars farm, a
distance Of about one-fourth mile.
Said proposed change will eliminate. a
very steep hill and also blockade of
road by snow drifts.
WALLACE BOWSER,
WESLEY L. WHITE,
w. r. BECKMAN and Others,
48-4t* E. Petitioners.
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RED HOUSE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Rev. and Mrs. W E. Waybright,
who spent last week visiting relatives
and friends at Gettysburg and at
points in Maryland, returned to Red
House on Saturday.
The Red House Lutheran congrega-
ton members have subscribed $340 of
their quota of $500 to the ministers
pension fund.
The official board and members of
st. Johns church at a recent meeting
voted to eXpend the sum of $500 for
repairs and for the purpose of redeco-
rating the interior of the church.
Rev. Waybright, during his pastor
rate of six months, has succeeded in
awakening new spiritual life in the
members of his congregation. He be-
lieves in doing things and he keeps
every member of the church busy at
some task for the church. The Sum
day school has increased nearly forty
per cent in membership and is still
growing.
Everybody in this community ex-
poets the West Penn interests to be-
gin work on the extension of it's SER
vice through this section at an early
date. More than the required number
have subscribed to meet the require
ments of the company.
The Red House school will have a
parent-teacher meeting on February
9. The pupils of the school will pre-
sent a short play.
Guests at radio party at the home
of Ray Mosser on Saturday were Mr..
and Mrs. Harmon Rolf and daughter
and Mrs. and Mrs. Ira Miller and son
Ivan.