The Washington times., 1929-08-22

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Williams Electric Grove, just
across the District border on
Sheriff Road, they slap four
employees into the hoosegow,
including Kid Sullivan, who had
been hired to referee, two
fighters probably innocent of
knowledge they were doing any
thing wrong, and a woman who
was selling tickets.
The legal aspect of this is
probably built around the fact
that they were the four caught
in the act of violating the law,
but there have been three days
since this evidence was "col-
lected and slapped in JAIL" for
the Maryland authorities to get
out warrants for those who hired
the four people now in Jail.
When they do this, they will
have the real offenders against
their dear old Free State.
A former fighter by the name
of "Dixie Kid" was introduced
to this office by very high
authority as the matchmaker
and promoter at Williams Elec-
tric Grove and a fellow by the
name of Williams has appar-
emily permitted "Dixie Kid to
promote fights on his real estate
holdings, as they were widely
advertised and two compliment
tary tickets for the same now
repose in our editorial top drawer
signed by Dixie Kid" 1t win
be interesting to see what "Dixie
Kid" and Williams do at the
trial of Sullivan and the others
at Marlboro tomorrow, to help
them out of their trouble for
which Dixie, and Williams are
certainly somewhat morally re-
sponsible.
Father Joseph O'Brien, who is
the new athletic moderator at
Georgetown, has been in town
nearly a month, familiarizing
himself with sports at the Hill
top.
Tobe Edwards, correspondent
for the Atlanta Georgian, who
is in Washington covering the
junior Legion baseball semi
finals, could pick up a glove
and go to work any time at all,
at first base, if the Atlanta
juniOrs needed him, which they
did yesterday.
He used to play at Georgia
Tech along with Bobby Reeves,
and later had some professional
experience. However, the news
paper urge got him, where it
gets so many of us, and he now
pounds out pieces instead of
base hits.
Tobe is six feet, if nothing,
bronZed as an Indian, and must
have been a very rangy first
baseman indeed, if appearances
count for anything.
Fer a fight that is barely a
month away, the Sharkey-
Loughran heavyweight elimina-
tion set for Yankee Stadium,
September 26, is drawing about
as little ballyhoo at this stage
of the proceedings, as the
Sharkey-Stribling Miami affair
did at the same time.
Neither of these lads is really
a gate attraction. Neither has
a great deal of color. Neither
is mixed up in any legal pro-
ceedings and there is very little
on which the fight can be
steamed up. If President Bill
Carey, of Madison Square Gar
den, can't get Sharkey or Lough-
ran to rescue a little girl from
being run over by an automobile
or save some society queen from
drowning at Newport, he might
experience some difficulty pack
ing 'em in at the stadium, come
month from next Monday night.
How you'd like to be the taxi
cab driver who sold Babe Con-
naughton's watch to George
Beach, and discover yourself
driving Babe out along Conduit
Road some dark, dismal night?
Reporters seeking local color
sent along stories from Jasper
Park, Canada, that three bears
and a deer had to be chased off
the links on the day of the
! qualifying round of the Western
Open golf tournament. Follow
ing the first day of match play,
the same story came out of
Jasper Park, minus the deer.
1t is only to be supposed by
the credYlous public that the
three beafs had eaten the deer
over night. ooh, Little Goldie
Locksg" And, "What Big Eyes
You Have Grand Mama!"
AL Harper Houghton seems
to be holding a Breaking Par
Week. Monday he did Burning
Tree in 50. three under par.
Tuesday he was four under the
orthodox count at Columbia with
a 66, and yesterday he sliced
one stroke off the regulation
number at Town and Country
with a SO. Incidentally, All
Harper holes out all his puts
and never improves his lie-a
quaint old custom of golfing
that has grown very passe in
these days and times.