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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-07
HOT SACK OFFERS
Job FOR HIGGINS
Fans Debating as to Whom
He Will Play There in
Coming Campaign.
BY BRIAN BELL.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, January MILLER
Higgins, mite manager of the world
champion New York Yankees, may
know who will play third base for him
next Season-no one else does. Higgins
apparently is more interested at the
moment in keeping golf ball on ting
confines of st. Petersburg green's.
Joe Dugan, who has played thiri
base for the Yankees in five world
series, will not be among those present
when Hug" calls the roll at st. Pete.
To replace Jumping Joe" on the face
of available returns, the little Strategist
has Gene Robertson, who played 10
games at the position last year; Mark
Koenig, if another shortstop is de
Veloped in the Spring, and Julian Vera,
who has been acquiring experience in
A. A. leagues for two years.
Leo Durocher can play shortstop, and
Lyn Larry comes well recommended
from Oakland, but has yet to earn his
big league spurs.
When Manager Higgins is conceded
only one infield problem it is assumed
that Tony Lazeri will be himself again
at second base. He was troubled with
bad shoulder last year. II the in
jury should persist Durocher would
have to be thrown into the second base
opening.
There will be no argument at first
base with Lou Gehrig playing the bag
and pounding out home runs and
George Burns in reserve to hit doubles.
There will be no outfield revision
Babe Ruth. Earle Comos and Bob
Meusel are intact and the two substi-
tutes of last year, Ben Paschal and
Cedric burst again will stand and wait.
Benny Bengough. John Grabowski
and Bill Dickey will be the clubs trio
of c3tchers unless Arndt Jorgens, an
Oklahoma City recruit, can fight his
way in.
Pitchers include five left handlers.
Herb Pennock, Tom Zachary and Fred
Heimach are followers and Ed Wells,
former major Lacquer, but later OF
Birmingham, and Lee Craig, another
Oklahoma City product, are additions.
Waite Hoyt, George Pipgras. Henry
Johnson, Myles Thomas and Al Shealy
are other veterans who will be back.
Gordon Rhodes, Hollywood; Fay
Thomas. Oklahoma City; Roy Sherid,
Montreal. and Floyd Van Pelt, Mont
gomery, will make bids.
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BOWLING WINNERS
TO RECEIVE PRIZES

EVANSVILLE. Md, January -
Winners in the annual Prince Georges
County championship singles bowling
tournament. which ended on the Arcade
alleys here Saturday night, will be pre-
Sented prizes tonight. starting at
o'clock. by Myles Quail, president of
the Count Duckpin Association.
Gold pieces will be awarded Atwood
BaSsford, class A winner, who rolled
6l3. and Carroll Garrison, class B, who
rolled $50 in the mems competition.
Mrs. Pauline Ford, who triumphed in
the women's division with 3l4 set,
will get a similar prize. Gold pieces
also will be presented runners-up as
follows: Tom Walker, class A, who had
594; L. Walsh and E. Aldridge. class B,
who were tied with 557. and Mrs Mary
Eaton, who was second among the
women with 284.
Other leaders win be awarded prizes
in merchandise offered by merchants of
the community.
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TEX COULD HANDLE
THEM WITHOUT GUN

WICHITA FALLS, Tex, January t.
Tex Richards ability to handle men,
which made him the greatest boxing
promoter of all time, helped him to keep
the peace as city marshal in Henrietta,
Tex, near here, without gun play in
the hectic days OF 80 years ago.
OldtimerS say that they can recall
no stories Of Tex beating bad men to
the draw and add that he was better at
drawing full house than a. gun, but
Henrietta was a peaceful town, as
peaceful towns went in those days along
the TexaS-O Oklahoma border, while Tex
was city marshal.
His chief occupation In those days
was seeing that skylarking cowboys
missed innocent bystanders when they
decided to cut loose with their ar
tillery" and make some noise.
Tex's father died when he was 10
years old and the support of the family
deVolved upon the only son, George
l.. Tex met the responsibility by be-
coming a cowhand, and for several
years he rode the range in Clay County,
Tex, and adjacent territory.
While serving as city marshal he met
and married his first wife. Leona Bit
tick, who died a few years later and
was buried here.
Richard was known as smart
poker player" long before he left Henri
eta to seek his fortune in the Klondike
He enjoyed any game of chance and his
decision to 60 to Alaska was largely
based on his love of taking gambler s
chance.
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Richard, Just ''Dink' to Texans,
Never Forgot Old Home Town

a friend in Henrietta to see that the
cemetery, no longer used for burial, re-
ceived attention and that the fence be
kept up.
Another grave he visited was that of
j. C. Curtis, who was killed in 1881. II
liked him because he was good TO me"
Rickard drawled.
To his old friends on that visit ne
told of his first fight. It took place at
revival meeting that was being con-
Quoted between Cambridge and Hen
r;etta. Richard, a small boy, was
standing on a watermelon wagon when
a boy from Henrietta challenged him
for a fight. 1t was a phase of the
rivalry between the two communities.
Rickard explained that between the
boots he wore and his long fingernails,
the fight honorS went to Henrietta.
Richard rode back home scratched
from head to foot. I told my father
I had fallen out of a grapevine" he
recalled. dad just remarked that 1T
was some grapevine" Richard also
pointed out the Van Epps place where
stole peaches when was years old"
He also recalled that he was never
able to make his New York friends be-
lieve that the famous Jesse James
used to come down to visit his sister,
VINO TVed across the street from US.
Beloved by Old Town.
Richard visited Henrietta after COM
ing to Fort Worth to obtain the sigma
ture of Jack Dempsey for prize fight
The papers were signed in the Office of
Anon G. Carter. lifelong friend of
Rlckard and at present newspaper
publisher.
HE was always a square shooter"
Carter said today when informed of
Richards death. "Rickard was a man
| cool under fire." Carter said. HE never
I became ratified and he attended to the
smallest details on the eve of a great
athletic contest with calmness and eff
| ciency."
| Richard was extremely fond of his
| Texas friends and never failed to extend
| courtesies to them.
| Among those who knew Richard as
a cowboy is Dayton Moses, attorney
| for q cattle raiSers' association. Moses
| said that Richard used to send tickets
to big prize fights to his friends with
whom he punched cattle on the East
ranch.
I'VE finally told him that it was just
so far to New York that we couldn't
get there and If he would just send
us a Christmas card once in a. while
we would be his friends, anyway" Moses
added.
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BY the Associated Press.
TORT WORTH. Tex, January T.
The wide world knew George
Lewis Richard as Tex" but
i when the telephone in his New
York Office rang and voice
said, Hello, Dink," he knew it was
some friend from Texas.
"Dink" Richard left Henrietta, Tex,
more than 80 years ago. and 80 years
later he paid his first visit to his old
home and came as "TeX" only TO within
Railing distance of those who had
known him as operator of neighbor-
hood flying jimmy, as cowboy on the Ed
East ranch in Archer County and as
city marshal Of Henrietta.
Richard obtained months leave
from his duties as city marshal "a years
ago and set out TO find out about flour
selling for 81 a pound in the Klondike
of Alaska. "If it is that high, must be
a lot of money there" he told a
friend In leaving, land I am going to
get me stake and buy 900 yearlings."
In the Klondike he made stake of
$50, 900 and wrote back to the friend TO
tell of having enough money to buy the
bank. The first money went quickly
and he set out again TO get the year
Iings. He kept his ranching ambition,
but instead of coming back to Clay or
Archer County, both of which lie. along
the Red River in Northwest Texas, he
turned his eye to South America, where
be purchased a ranch of $4,000 acres.
Rickaru-s IamlIy moved from Kansas
City to the Cambridge community, Clay
County, when the late famous prize
fight promoter was only year old. The
house in which he spent his childhood
was built by his father from logs sawed
in the county. On his visit in 1926 to
the old home, Richard found it in need
of repairs and occupied by woman
whose husband had been sent to the
penitentiary leaving the family some
what reduced Before he left, Richard
had remedied the family finances and
had bought the land on which the
homestead stood.
Maintained Cemetery.
His father had moved the house three
miles from Cambridge when Henrietta
won a fight for the county seat. A Shor'
distance away was a cemetery in which
are buried many of the old settlers
Rickard paid a visit to it and stopped a
the family plot and before the stone
over his fathers grave on which he reaC
the inscription Robert w. Richard
1840-1381" Nearby were the graves o
his grandparents. For a number o
yeSFs before. Rickard had sent funds Il
=
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FLYERS EFFORTS TO AID
RICHARD PROVE FUTILE

CAMAGUEY. Cuba, January up.
Eight Americans flying against
time, made a futile attempt to bring
medical aid to Tex Richard. After
landing on a precariOusly small field
at Manzanilio and getting DIR. Will
liam Mayo. famous surgeon. for
whom they had flown 1900 miles,
the party arrived at Camaguey yes
terday only to learn that Richard
had died.
DIR. Mayo dined last night with
Capt. J. nj. Patterson, GlOyd Glib
bOns and Basil WOOn, and expressed
regret that the attempt to obtain
his aid had been made too late. The
members of the party were unani-
nous in their praise for the doctor.
who. when told that Richard was
dying, said: "Where's the pIane?"
Although the plane was in cane
field, DIR. Mayo climbed into it, but
dusk forced the fiiers down at Ca
maguey.
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Highlights in Richards Life


IS7I-Born Kansas City
IS75-FamIy to Sherman Tex.
ISSI-COw punCher Cambridge, Tex.
IS94-TOwn marshal of Henrietta ..ye
IS9S-JOined gold rush KI0ndike.
matchmaking hall proprietor al Dawson.
S99-Esablshed gambling hail Nome
I9O3-ESabished gambling hall a (ioldhed
1906-Staged Nelson fight Oldfed
at
I9S-Staged Willard Dempsey Toledo,
9MOved New York charge old Madison Garden
1zStaged Dempsey Carpenter fight City 100000
92S-Staged match New York 100000
2Staged first Dempsey fight Philadelphia purse
19-Stagd second
RICHARDS MiILION-DOLLAR GATES.
l91I-Dempsey Carpentier $.626,5SO
I923-DempseyFirpO, $S3SS22.
I9z6-Dempsey- Tunney, $1,S9273.
I927-Dempsey -Sharkey, $1OS3529.
I927-Dempsey- Tunney, $26S866O.
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KNIFE FEAR OF TEX
MAY HAVE COST LIFE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January Tiff Tex
Rickard had not feared a surgeons
knife more than he did appendicitis,
he might be alive today.
He had suffered attacks of ap-
pendicitis from time to time for the
last IL years, dreading an operation.
He avoided it by repeated appIica-
tons of ice packs during each at
tack. Finally surgery was necessary.
Just before the Dempsey Carpen-
tier fight at Jersey City in 1921 the
promoter was stricken with a par
ticular violent attack. Physicians
eased the pain with ice packs, but
advised him to undergo an operation.
He refused.
They'll never get me with their
b0wieS," he used to say. "They can
shoot me but not cut me-"
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Nelson-Cans Battle Was First
Promotion Venture by Richard
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
@ONOPAH, New, January TEX
Richard came to the Nevada
gold fields in 1903 to retrieve his
l. fortune, which had been i'm
paired by streak of bad luck
at Nome, Alaska.
Rickard threw together the framework
Of the Northern saloon at Crook and
Main streets and with Ole Elliott and
Kid Highley he reproduced the gam
bling houses he had owned in Dawson
and Nome
The Northern resort was the scene
of what old-timers said were the great
est gambling plays ever witnessed on
the desert. THE sky" was the limit,
and promoters and "wild-catters" were
said to have got all the excitement thew
craved," frequently laying $4,000 on
the turn of card.
Eight bartenderS we're EMPLOYED on a
shift, making "a for each day. Each
man drew $12 from the till and paid
himself as he went off shift. More than
SO dealers were employed, and visitors
said champagne flowed more freely than
water.
Stages First Fight.
Through Richards efforts, the Cans
Nelson fight was staged in GoIdtieId as
community affair. Oldtimers DENY
that Richard conceived the idea, saving
John Matter, a reporter from Santiago.
where he had served under Theodore
Roosevelt, wrote the first message to the
Gans-Nelson fight promoters on his
own responsibility, saying Goldfield cit
lzenS would put up n purse of 100000
to stage the fight on Labor day.
W. cd l.
message to Richard, and that the latter
joined heartily in the movement. The
offer was accepted, and when a COM
m1ttee arrived from the East seeking
some assurance that the camp could fiji
the purse, they were shown, in the win
dow OF the Northern, pile of canvas
sacks containing $4,000 In $40 gold
Sieces.
The sacks remained in the window,
unguarded, until the day of the fight.
The display proved good advertising,
and newspaper correspondents who
came to cover the fight never tired of
telling about the reckless display of
treasure in that = big room, which
thousands visited daily
Fortune smiled on Richard and he
decided to give Goldfield It's first real
home. one which contained all the fur
inShings of an Eastern mansion, The
result was brick house which, miners
said, stood out like bonfire in Rag
town." The bricks were sent in from
Reno by express, and almost cost their
weight in silver. The house had a
bathtub. steam heating plant, and a
lawn, and cost $4,000, although San
Francisco visitors at the time said it
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RANGERS, AMERICANS d. C. NETMEN BEATEN
HOLD HOCKEY LEADS AS LEAGUE PLAY ENDS

NEW YORK, January (P).-When
there are no upsets to disturb the Ma
Sional Hockey League standings, tie
games always are present to cause
trouble for the leaders.
Five Of the II games played last week
ended in deadlocks, and contenders for
the top places In the two divisions fig-
ured in all of them.
Two New York teams, the Rangers
and Americans, still set the pace,
though both are being crowded.
The standing:
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RICHARD GOT NICKNAME
ON JAUNT TO ALASKA

FORT WORTH, Tex, January Up.
Tex Richards nickname, by which
the world knew him, was acquired in
1895, when he was on steamship going
from Seattle to Alaska during the
Klondike gold rush.
A sailor on the ship called Richard
ETex," and the name was taken up by
members Of a theatrical troupe on the
boat. ~
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RICHARD WAS FINE SON,
AGED MOTHER DECLARES

SEATTLE, Wash, January Z up.
The 81-year -Old mother Of Tex
Richard, Mrs. L. J. Adams, was dry
eyed when told OF the death Of the
sporting promoter at her modest
bungalow here.
He was one good son il there
ever was one" Mrs. Adams said.
He never brought me anything
but happiness and joy. We had
some good times together, and he
thought his mother was a good
sport"
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R0ETTGER Is READY
TO PLAY FOR CARDS
By the Associated Press.

Ls UTE ASoUCIhbtU FTtSS.
Wallie Roettger, star st. Louis
Cardinal outflelder, who was forced out
OF the game last July 4, is raring for
the call to the Red Birds training
camp at Avon Park, Fla.
When Roettger broke his leg. many
predicted he was through with base ball
and that he would never be as fleet. The
leg has healed completely. however. and
surgeons say his speed will not be az
fected.
Roettger is coaching basket ball at
Illinois Wesleyan College, where his
charges have won the Illinois Confer
ence championship three seasons run
ming.
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A Mystery Solved
party sent wire The replied
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They doube-crossed buyer
A full of fire He Mcguire
Inheld like it sire"
LARDNER.
Holiday for andG
sheardo Of of
preparatory
activities of three
college
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mention time
the the city
with 1t
the immediate
neiehborhood high
throw specialized
which
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neschoastc weight SO feet held the ntehoc hammer throw
with a tossof
the ability Shepard generally recognized foremost
at
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Specialists
asks G, the nominate
foot ball
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kicking kicking
since
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GRANDEE WINS RACE.

NIECE, France, January Up
Grandee, 5-year-old belonging to Jean
Racine, won the Grand Prix de
Monaco from field of 10 starters yes
terday. Jules Fribourg's Petit Bob was
second and Jean Iieu's Yarlas. the ia
vorite, third.
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Richard Leaves Unparalleled Record Achievement Promotion
THE SPORTLICHT
BY Crantland Rice
Rating the Dazzler.

a fanat
in
of
be
pitcher
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PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY.

Rangers, 0.
Niagara Falls, .: Detroit Olympics, 0.
Boston, i: New Haven. o.
Detroit Cougars, 5; Chicago Black
hawks, 0.
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FORMER UMPIRE IS DEAD.

CHICAGO. January z (P.-Calvin J.
Stambaugh, real estate dealer, and at
one time an umpire IN the old National
old.
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to let him up and drift along now and then.
Any pitcher who can lead the strikeout division
for seven consecutive years Is great pitcher
one of the greatest.
Vance belongs with Mathewson, Waddell, john
son. Alexander and Walsh-from the more or less
modern wing Rating the greatest-or the three
greatest-is job that is politely passed along to
some one willing to tackle an impossibty. But
when any select group is named, the Dazzler has
to be one of the collection.
How dye. like those birdshot I'm throwing at
you?" Vance asked Pittsburgh one day as they
were riding him. He comes pretty close to being
the Birdshot King He at least can make a base
ball look smaller as it skips across corner than
any pitcher in the game-snd you can go back to
the top days of Waddell and johnson and Rusie to
match him.
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BALTIMORE. January 7.-washing-
tons team was beaten, 3 to s, by Clifton
Park in the final match of the Balti-
more Winter Indoor Tennis League here
yesterday.
The victory enabled the winners to
retain the league title.
Bob Considine, George Washington
University luminary and captain of the
District Of Columbia indoor team, and
Frank Shore. District junior champion.
were the only Washingtonians to win
In the singles. O'Neill and Yeomans
triumphed in their doubles match.
Summaries:
SINGLES
Jacobsen fC.P.) defeated Mitchell es
6-4 ConSidine (W.) defeated IA Fleur
6-S, 1l-9; Shore tW). defeated Taylor,
6--3, Is, 6-3: Rudy (CP1 defeated
ONeill. 60. 2-6, SIS; Robinson (C.P1
defeated buchanan, 6-2, 6-3; Farber (C.PJ
dereatsd YeomanS, Ga, 60.
DOUBLES.
Jacobsen and La Fleur defeated Mitchell
ana Buchanan, IS, 6-3; Taylor and Rob-
inson defeated Considine and Shore. as.
Rudy and Father 80, Sd. Ga
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International Grouu.
American Group.
PRO BASKET BALL.

Brooklyn Vista tons, 81; Trenton, n.
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n YEW YORK, January IA
dreamer whose dreams came
NJ true, yet a man of action
4 with the born spirit Of a
gambler masses on with the
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n YEW YORK, January 7.--Boxing
N in general, and Madison Square
" Garden more particularly, will
/ have to look far and wide be-
fOro finds onnthpr Tpy
The Washington times., 1929-09-20
SKYSCRAPER POKER
IN Herbert kaufman

the pyramids Of Egypt brought over ana stuck along
Broadway those puny stone heaps wouldn't halt traffic for
a moment.
Time and destroy all wonders Even the Waahng
ton Monument has begun to shrive.
And when Congress appropriated the funds for its erection
America cocue thered be another such pile Of
masonry earth
But contrast has already robbed it distinction and stature
and in little while the impressive shaft that once amazed
civilization won't attract any attention that flag POLE
Exnewsboy former shop hands and several realty operators
tacng their signs much higher posts png their
winnings into the coudsplayng skyscraper poker-Man
hattan's latest thrill game.
WoolwOrh the encentstore starter sent the ball rolling
with zzng bet that the limit of safe construction had been
reached.
But that wager was long ago covered and the since
raised with dozen stacks Of extra floors
this keeps up Manhattan VIII soon De working a. nou
sandoot levels and housing million folk on single square
mile of land
FOoage grown precious in the Grand Central zone
that make both ends meet unless one OF them
is tickling star.
And 50 many these huge spires clustering in mid New
York that street and subway facilities cant hope to
keep step with neghborhood congestion.
So in the end, Necessity (which finally inherits
tough angle will solve the problem OF joining sets OF roofs
with canever spans between the open spaces and provide
the city with landing stages for the flock Of planes and
Zeppeins in which Tomorrow will ride to the office
Don't say 1T can't be done" decade ago. you
ready that engineering resource could never furnish
foundations overcome the vibration OF sxyegh story
structure.
But walter ChrysIer about his desk into that
Around the corner Channs contentg their modest
ambitions with fifty six-story rookery and Lefcour
at 4st and Madison is only three floors below them
Lest you forget Chyser mechanic wore
overas carried lunch basket the Chanin boys weren't
collectively worth five thousand dollars in 1920 and Lefcour
the little immigrant boy who used to sell papers around
Newark.
Tonight when the youngsters tease for new bedtime
story tell e how these overcae the handicap
of poverty and limited education and lived to their
grander monuments than George Washington's
OF course they're apt to ask why didn't DO something
Of the sort too
And you also cannot tell lie, you'll confess that back
the days where there autos radios motion pictures
or flying machines you Of the average Americans
thought all the opportunity in the United States had been
grabbed ted away before had chance to get in
on any ground floors.
The Washington times., 1929-09-20
A CHINESE "FooT-BEAUTY" EXPERT

DEAUTY may be oniy skin deep but in these days there
- considerable Of surface to be made beautiful
This lady of fashion has Caucasian expert working
make her hair wavy while expert Of the Mongoian
Chinese looks after her feet takes Of the toena cuts
Ahem nicely polishes them.
What lovely does display in these days hardly
worth mentioning, and it isn't much.
= You may ask why Chinese expert foOtbeauty?
We only offer guess.
It is rather delicate thing for lady, modern
woman allow to handle her feet But the KIND Of
man may make a difference.
An ancient Roman Empress, taking her bath, had male
slaves walking about the bathroom Rebuked she replied, "A
SLAVE is not a MAN
She was mistaken but that didn't change anything Pos
sbly this lady the picture finds difference between the
Mongolan expert and Of her kind.
Anyhow the picture shows you how busy woman Of
fashion must be in these days For many beauty work.
takes up the whole morning.
Probably it's worth it.
When this lady down the sand to the in her
bare sits slipping her cocktail with bare leg crossed
other bare Leg comforts her considerably to know
that the finest ruby from Bumah shines brightly
than her polished toenails