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The Washington times., 1929-01-02

/ clared, was not Vanderbilt at
all, but Hostetter-and the play
| In which the money had been
lost was not staged In Canfield's
establishment but In the Forty.
third Street gambling house
formerly owned by Dayey john
son.
The story was a Today sensation
in New York. and It was the evi.
dence In this particular night OF
play which, as much as anything.
| led to the complete extinction OF
New York's gambling palaces by
Attorney Jerome.
! In person, Hostetter was tall and
slight. His features were rather
patrician and his manner was Ches-
terfieldian. Born of good family,
and given every advantage Of edu-
cation and travel, he was every inch
the gentleman both In dress and In
manner.
His credit. even during his wild.
est splurges, was unlimited. Book.
| makers would accept his bets for
any amount, and the mere raising
Of q finger was sufficient to have
his bet accepted. During his short.
metoric career he wagered thou
sands OF dollars ION the cuff with
out 80 much as the scratch Of a
pen as evidence Of the transaction.
And so meticulous was he In pay.
ing his debts that the real scole
of his activities probably would
never been known had he not died
suddenly, leaving behind him thou
sands Of dollars in debts to be col.
lected. It was the collection OF
these debts from the estate which
ings into the limelight.
And probably Dayey Johnson
was 100 per cent right when
commenting ON HOstefter's
activities. he remarked: mo
man ever lived who gaTnbled so
many thousands in 50 short q
space Of time. No man ever
more willing to take chance
or got more thrill out of the
sheer excitement Of winning
and losing"
Hostetter died at 30 Of pneu-
monia; the victim probably of his
own living. OF all the men who
have gambled and gained since time
began there was never one, per.
haps, to whom money meant less
or who had less appreciation and
understanding Of the value Of a
dollar.
Certainly there never had been
one who gambled with such care
free abandon; with such utter nom
chalance and with such complete
scorn Of odds, or form, or of the
laws of averages.
In his own way Ted Hostettsr
was as unique as Garfield, as un.
| usual as Brady: as courageous and
as chance taking as Gates or
| Grammar.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02
SHARE BURDEN

Two captains will lead Marquette
University's football team next sea.
son, both an offense and a defense
leader having been chosen by this
years letter men.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02

He never took the time to make
of gambling an exacting science.
Horse races thrilled him, but his
bets were placed with careless
abandon and without any real ef'
fort to study form DIR handicaps. He
would risk thousands because he
happened to like the color OF the
Jockeys silks. or because he liked
the looks of a horse as he came
prancing from the paddock.
With Hostetter, the great marvel
was not that he lost a million in a
year, but rather than his losses
were not even larger.
Probably the greatest single
winning HOstetter ever made in
his meteOric career was made ut
JOhnsOn's advice and suggestion.
johnson, once had quit the
track, became betting COM
missioner and adviser for the
young Pittsburgher.
A Western 3-year-old, fernando,
had been entered for a race at Nor
ris lark in 1901, and Johnson liked
the horses chances He told Hos
letter about 1t, and Ted pulled a
huge roll OF his bills from his
pocket and handed it TO johnson.
Here he said, "bet this"
f'How much Is there In the roll?''
Johnson asked.
HELL" was Hostetter's retort.
''how should I know. Bet 1t all,
and II we win we can count up
afterwards.
Johnson counted the money. There
was $27 900 in cash. He started
placing the bets and the opening
odds Of s to were hammered down
to to / at post time.
fernando won-and after the race
Johnson counted some $4,000 into
Hostetter's hands.
Great" Hostetter remarked, Nov
we'l have to do a little spending" :"
And, Johnson declared, three
weeks later Hostetter had lost and
spent the entire amount, without
compunction and without regret.
Naturally Hostetter, being the
care-free. lovable, easy-going chap
that he was, became the victim for
many bit OF gambling sharp prac-
tice. One such instance was brought
out in the public prints and the
courts when District Attorney Jer-
ONE uncovered evidence of, the rob-
berry, through crooked gambling de.
vices, Of 100000 from the drunken
kid" as Jerome characterized him.
The story was printed far and
wide and the public was much in
terested. The narnO Of Reginald
Vanderbilt was whispered about as
having been the victim and there
was much speculation as TO who
"the drunken kid" might be. Prob
ably the truth would never have
been known had not public opinion
connected the incident with Cam
fields Forty.fourth Street establish
nnent should be branded as 4
CROOKED" house.
The Drunken Kid. Garfield de.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02
EXTlMCT SP0RT

One Of the sports which has
succumbed to the whirl Of time is
flying rings, once q popular pastIme
Of which Robert Stoll was cham
Rloa from 1885 to 1895.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02
Ter Illness May Delay
AarkeyStribling Bout

NEW YORK, JAN 2-The Jack Sharkey- Young Stribling
heavyweight elimination fight scheduled be held Miami
Beach, Fa February ~ may have to be postponed be-
Of the illness Of Promoter Tex Rckard according
Col John S. Hammond who is acting manager Of Madison
Square Garden here in the absence Of the promoter
The Washington times., 1929-01-02
SPEAKER Bent
upon TRIUMPH

Mr.. Trs Speaker Of Texas, the
Gray Eagle who cavorted with the
Red sox. managed Cleveland. played
with washington and more recently
was associated with the luckless AS.
intends to win a pennant at Newark
the first time out.
Having taken up the managerial
reins relinQuisfed when Walter john
son jigged back to the Senators, Iris
Isn't standing pat, but Is adding such
formidable strength TO the husky
Bruins that already they are figur-
Ing his club the one to beat In John
Conway Toole's circuit.
Speaker intends to play the
0usfield himself. That's one
boost for the Bears right there,
for while iris isn't the same fel-
low that could cover second base
and the center field sector at the
same time IS In days Of yester-
year, he still has fair speed and
can hit the apple on the nose
when the occasion arises.
iris is signing up players every
week who can help In his flag drive.
His first announcement was the
acquisition of Vic Aldridge, pitcher,
and Russell Wrightstone, infie!der,
from the New York Giants. and hard
on the heels OF this news came the
purchase OF Nike Gazella, infielder,
from the Yankees.
Aldridge, with the reputation ~of
being q "hard man to handle" viii
robabIy find that he has met his
match in Speaker should he be In
ciined to kick over the traces.
Speaker isn't any easy boss. He
commands, and doesn't use moral
suasion either. iris is nice fel-
low off the playing field, but e
driver on the diamond. He expects
his men TO keep in shape and takes
no alibis. Aldridge win walk chalk.
line at Newark or run afOul Of an
enraged iris, who won't resort to
gentle snachs on the wrist.
All In all, It looks like q tough
season at Bruinville for ballplayers
who plan to act up. Speaker will
show 'eIn.
TTndOubted strength has been
added 70 the Bears ranks by
sfgning GazeIIa, Aldridge and
WrightstOne. GazeIla will hold
down the hot corner, q berth va
Gated BY Walter Lutxke's return
10 the majors, and while Mike
isn't the equal Of Walter as an
infiels-r. he's better batter
and calculated to give his club
harder punch.
Wriehtstone should prove q good
man for the Bears, and Aldridge, in
condition, is pitcher who should
cut d wide swath In international
League ranks.
Speaker also declares that he
will retain Bin Lamar, Maryland
bow and former oriole, and If Bill
really trys, something he may do
under Speaker, he can help his boss.
Lamar is naturally a good bah
player and fine hitter. Bad advice
probably made him make some
moves in baseball which didn't help,
to wit, his failure to report to the
Senators when sent to Washington
by the AS.
Walter johnson had trouble han.
ding him at Newark. Speakers
methods viii be better. His playing
under Speaker win form an inter.
esting comparison Of the Johnson
regime as contrasted to that Of
Speakers.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02
HOSTETTER MADE MANY FOOLISH WAGER
.B[ICK AND WOOD TANGLE
|NBDWL|NC TOURNEY
By r. D. Thomas

The battle Of alley bosses will be fought tonight in the
Evening Star singles at the Lucky Strike For
that appear bit devish John Bck and J. Bill
Wood have been scheduled for the same aley-No. Is.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02

These two leading moguls. fight
ing it out for control Of the bowl.
ing business here, have been thrown
together willingly on tonight's field
Of battle. It's one Of those "let-
me-at-'im" things. John and Bill
each thinks he has an edge. but no
odds have been offered.
On the next alley win appear
the well known hOwitzer that
recently misfired with q bang
which sounded throughout the
duckpin wOrId-H. Glenn VOL.
stenhOlme, Of Convention Hall.
The 654.record established on the
opening night by Clarence w. Taft
will be in danger. One of the
greatest tournament bowlers Of all
time here, Arthur Urban. and Nal.
colin Watson. one Of the Masonic
Leagues high average men. will
shoot on No. Z. On No. win be
Sam Simon, who lately has won his
way to atardOEm.
Earl McPhilomy. a mighty man
a m D n g duckpin maulerP until
stricken III two years ago. will
make his first tournament appear.
ance In what promises to be q
comeback campaign. Earl II booked
for Alley No. 10 along with other
Stanford Paper Company stars who.
as q District League team. hold
the seasons record for league
set-1, ISL. the highest evsr re.
corded In the crack District League.
Bradley Ma1dlsy, Peree E.
lett. Irwin Blliheimer and
TomEay Walker win be together
and this group likely Will have
gallery. It's cinch that one
Of them, or more. win land
among the leaders.
Ten eligiblas for the Junior Camp.
bell Sweepstakes, open only to
sports writers, alley lroprietors and
manager tstars excluded and Off
cials Of the Washington City Duck.
pin Association, will perform on
alleys II, 1s and 10.
They include: John b. Keller, Bill
Hotel, Ben McAiwee, Charlie QUAINT,
John Blick. BilI Wood, Ed Fuller,
Al Gardner, r. Thomas and Arvllle
Ebersole. How Glenn Wolstenholme
feels about being scheduled with
this crowd is not known but con.
sidering recent performances the
Junior Sweepstakers may invite him
to their party.
DESPITE WoIstenhOlme's two
defeats last week, By. Barney
Spfnella Of Brooklyn and Jack
White, Of Stamford, the cannon
ball shooter has lost little pres
tlge outside his own bailiWick.
They're calling for him IN New
York as headline attraction.
He win bowl next Sunday at
Paul Dcyle's Bowling and Bill
Hard Academy In New York,
against Karl Kisch.
WolstenhoIme's graceful, pic
turesque delivery attracted Doyle
who visited here with the Brooklyn
Ail.Stars.
Kisch Is an expert with rubber
banded pins. Wolstenholme ii
famed as hardwood bowler. 81
they VIII shoot both styles, with
five games Of each and total pins
to determine the victor.
Whether Glenn win be called
upon to shoot the singles wheE
Convention Hall meets the Brook
lyn All-Stars In Brooklyn next Sat
urday win be determined probably
by his form In the team match. He
was plainly off form againsI
Spinella and White and was re
luctant Co have the boys risk theil
cash on him.
"I think you've picked the wrong
Wolstenholme this time," he said
meaning that his kid brother, Jack
should have drawn the assignment
Of repelling the invaders. ThG
younger WolstenhoITne showed hil
class by defeating White after thu
New Englander had vanquishet
The Washington times., 1929-01-02
HE'D RISK THOUSANDS
BECAUSE He ADMIRED
JOCKEYS COLORS
This is the chapter of article of series
1ewS 0aD;tb 0n4nbIer
By Ford g. Frick

At heart, Ted Hostetter just play boy
He loved the bright lights and the thrill Of New York
night f He drank he smoked he dined, he dsspaed with
rare good hunnor and iollitv.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02

pendix and the promoter was rest.
ing easily about the time the bugle
sounded for the third race.
It was not so much that Tex
had narrowly missed taking q
long count, it was the regret,
rising through the lingering
fumes Of ether and the asSur-
ance Of his attending physicians
/ that the operation had been sue.
cessful, that he had been unable
to be In on the premier Of his
newest sporting venture.
The operation was performed
while a crowd OF 5000 sma-tly
dressed men and women were at.
tending the inaugural meeting of
the Miami Beach Kennel Club, Of
which Rickard was q sponsor. At
his invitation the elite Of the Miami
Beach winter colony had left their
New Year night festivities to be
the guests of Rickard IN the club
house. Not until they arrived
did they learn that Rickard :. 4.
self was on the operating table. It
was such an occasion as Rickard
loves. The throng that has grown
to know his inevitable cigar and
stick at boxing classics knows that
the box office, important as that is,
does not give him all his thrill.
The foremost sports Snowman, he
still has the small boys Joy In
being the moving figure behind the
biggest sports panoramas. Not for
twice the sizeabln surgeons fee that
the loss OF his appendix meant
would Rickard have missed this new
sort OF a first night.
But for this trick of fate, he
would have been the happiest
figure at the track, greeting his
friends, watching the races and
visualizing the crowd he plans to
draw with the Sharkey.Stribling
fight on the same site February 27.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02
HAVANA ENTRIES

IRsT RAcE--Four- year-olds ana
yard; CLAIMING; $500; mile and six-.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02

CIared, was not Vanderbilt at
all, but Hostetter-and the play
In which the money had been
lost was not staged In Canfield's
establishment but In the Forty.
third Street gambling house
formerly owned by Dayey john
The Washington times., 1929-01-02

Bradley AGnndlsy. Peree HI
lett. Irwin Billheimer and
Tommy Walker win be together
and this group likely viii have
Q gallery. It's cinch that one
Of them, or more. win land
among the leaders.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02
III lUANA ENTRlES

9NsA1IWIIh 4AUIE0E VLgEEg
SECOND RACE - Four.year-olds and
upward; purse. 5000; claiming: fur.
The Washington times., 1929-01-02

Speaker intends to play the
OuSfield himself. That's one
boost for the Bears right there,
for while iris isn't the same fel-
low that could cover second base
and the center field sector at the
same time IS In days Of yester.
year, he still has fair speed and
can hit the apple on the nose
when the occasion arises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
TAMMANY SLAPS
TAKES
NO RENT ACTION
Harlem League Wages
Fight; Meets Monday

The widely-advertised plan of
Mayor Walker to aid tenants who
are being threatened with rent raises
or eviction yesterday collapsed with
cut causing the faithful henchmen
of Tammany Hall to bat an eyelash.
A meeting of the Board of Esti-
mate, which was supposed to con-
slider his ''plan" for extending the
emergency rent laws that expired
May 81, was adjourned by the
mayor until September without con-
sidering the question of rents at all.
Refuse Floor to Tenants.
Not only did the mayor forget
entirely about the famous "plan," /"
but when a delegation of tenants,
under the leadership of the Harlem
Tenants League, demanded the
floor, they were promptly refused.
Meanwhile hundreds of Harlem
tenants are threatened with rent
raises on July 1. "Pay or get out!"
is the slogan of the landlords, who
are being actively aided by politi-
clans of all three capitalist parties
posing as friends" of the tenants.
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
IRON STRIKERS
TO PICKET TODAY
Workers Mourn Death
of Striker

A mass picketing demonstration
cf the striking architectural iron
and bronze workers will be held at
six o'clock this morning before the
Madison Iron Workers, Tiffany st.
and Randall Ave, Bronx, leaders of
the strike announced last night.
Today is the beginning Of the
fourth week of the walkout and the
ranks of the strikers are as firm
as they were on the day of the walk
out. In spite of continued arrests
and police brutality, picketing con-
tinues regularly.
George Zaretsky, a striker, was
arrested yesterday and fined $5 in
121st st. Court for picketing the
Derles Torn Works, on 131st St.
Strikers yesterday mourned the
death of Alexander Simon, a striker
and active member of the union.
Simon was in his early forties and
the speed-up conditions under which
he was forced to work is held re-
sponsible for his untimely death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
Morrow, Bishops on the
Same Train to Mexico;
Gil to Support Church

PALESTINE, Texas, June 6. -
Dwight W. Morrow, U. S. ambassa-
dor to Mexico, arrived today in his
private car attached to the st. Louis
San Antonio express, enroute to
Mexico City. On the same train were
Archbishop Ruiz Y. Flores and
Bishop Diaz of Tobasco, who had
boarded the Sunshine Special" at
st. Louis.
During the morning the church
men had visited Morrow's private
car, which will proceed to San An
tonic and continue on to Mexico
City Friday. The prelates however,
were to journey to Mexico City with
out any stop-over.
Immediately after the Portes Gil
government began to disarm peas
ants and shot the secretary of the
National Peasants League, it be-
came known that Morrow had ar
ranged for the return to power of
the reactionary church in Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
JAIL 4 BOSTON
SHOE STRIKERS
FOR 'CONTEMP
Drive for Relief to Be
Held Sunday

BOSTON, Mass, June 6.-For
violation of the injunction in the
Boston shoe strike, Judge Louis Cox,
in the Equity session of the Su-
perior Court here yesterday ad-
Judged II strikers in contempt of
court and sentenced three of them,
Michael Salaggio, Charles thurman
and John Slattery, to Jail for 20
days each and one of them, Louis
Cortino, to Jail for 10 days.
The cases of six of the strikers
were continued, and orders for ar
rest were issued against two strik-
ers who failed to appear for SEN
tence.
Despite these repeated arrests,
the strike of the 10000 shoe work.
ers here is continuing and picketing
demonstrations are held daily. The
capitalist press here is continuing
its conspiracy of silence in an eff
fort to break the spirit of the men.
The Workers International Relief,
which sometime ago established a
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
Labor Defense Tag Day
for Shifrin and Mineola
Cases This Weekend

Tag days will be held on June Is
and 16, Saturday and Sunday, in
New York City, by the international
Labor Defense, in order to collect
funds for the defense of the Shifrin
and Mineola cases. Shifrin now
faces term Of 20 years because he
defended himself against the attack
CT six gangsters hired and paid by
the right wing Butchers Union of
ficials, because of his left wing ac-
tivities. Two out of the nine Min
cola defendants are now serving SEN
tences of five years and the seven
others are in dangar of going to
prison for like terms.
There will be ten stations in the
tag days, as follows: Bronx Coop
erative, 2700 Bronx Park E.; Bronx
Workers Club, 1472 Boston Road;
Unity Cooperative, 1900 Seventh
Ave; Non-P Partisan School, 143 f.
103rd ST.; Workers Center, 1928
Union Square; Williamsburg, Sc
Manhattan Ave; Boro Park Work
ers Club, 43rd St.; Bath Beach, 154
Watkins Ave, Brownsville, Coney
Island, 2901 Mermaid Ave. .4 s.I ss;s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07

against gangsterism, police brutal
ity and police interference with the
rights of workers"
Declaring that the fur manufac-
turers and their flunkey company
union fear an exposure of their ac-
tivities in hiring professional thugs,
gangsters and sluggers, tho Joint
Board declares that they will never
dare submit to genuine investiga-
ton, for this would reveal unmis-
takably their hiring of these under
world characters to murderously as
sault workers and their representa-
tives. AS proof of this it points to
the brutal and murderous attack in
1927 of Aaron Gross, of the Indus
trial Union.
Expose Hypocrisy.
By prating of Investigations and
other pious gestures, it is declared,
the scab Joint Council seeks to con-
ceal its mobilization Of the under
world against the furriers.
At the same time militant furriers
in the market discussed contemptu-
ously the announcement that Inter
myer was being asked to make an
Impartial investigation. They
pointed out that it is not surpris-
ing for Stetsky, Woll and the other
misleaders to be clinking glasses
with this wealthy corporation law
yer who has served the bosses well
for many years. Several of them
characterized the latest move as a
cloak to shield tho murderous,
III Continued on Page Five) Al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
100 FURNITURE
men ON STRIKE
Brooklyn Workers Are
Fighting for Union

Over 100 workers employed by the
Miller Parlor Frame Co., $40 Nor
gan Ave-, Brooklyn, are now on
strike to enforce union recognition
and improved conditions.
The immediate cause of the walk
out was the increase of the work
week from Al to 49 hours. After a
mass protest on the part of the
workers, the hours were changed
back to the original al, but the
bosses proceeded to cut wages on
the basis of the earnings of five
hours work.
The strike then followed, and the
place is now being picketed regu-
larly despite the fact that the boss's
hired thugs are on hand to terrorize
the workers.
The Miller Company was origin
ally a member of the Furniture
Manufacturers Association, but left
recently when dissension broke out
among the members, and the or
ganization disintegrated.
The strikers meet regularly at
Clinton Hall, 151 Clinton st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
Leather Workers Mass Meet
Demands General Strike Call
Prepares for Betrayal by
Calling In State "MediatOr'

meeting filled Webster Manor to
overflowing. When several hundred
workers stood for some time in
front of the hall, unable to gain ad-
mittance, arrangements were made
to engage Stuyvesant Casino, on
Second Ave.
Practically all of the speakers who
took the floor at yesterdays meet
ing demanded immediate strike ac-
tion. They criticized the Shiplacoff
administration severely for "drag-
ging along" since the expiration of
the agreement, thus giving the
bosses an opportunity for preparing
themselves. BY this dilly-dallying,
the speakers charged, they failed to
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-07
Needle Union Wins Important
Victory on Eve of Fur Strike
Furriers to Mobilize All Labor in Defense of
Right to Picket
"Whalen's police cannot make flu
uarp,optStv

"Whalen's police cannot make fur
garments!"
This was the comment last night
by the Joint Board of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union to
the announcement by Tammany Po-
lice Commissioner Whalen that he
had detailed 500 extra police for
duty in the garment district on the
eve of the general strike of the fur
workers. These will be used to club
and terrorize the strikers back to the
shops.
Al the same time the Joint Board
challenged the fur manufacturers
and their company union, the "Joint
Council" to proceed with an inves-
tigation into gangsterism in the fur
strike, following reports that Stet-
sky, head of the company union, had
approached Samuel Untermyer, cor
poration lawyer, with such a re-
quest.
Concerning Police Commissioner
Whalen's extraordinary police prep
arations," the Joint Board state
ment said, eve declare that despite
all assurances of police neutrality
we are nevertheless aware of the
fact that the employers and their
company union ore planning to use
and are already using these police
preparations as a means for intim-
idating and terrorizing the workers
who contemplate responding to the
strike call. The Joint Board is pre-
pared to arouse the entire labor
movement and its sympathizers