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Player and Manager.

MILLER HIGGINS was one OF the
lNl tribe of hardy old ball players de-
spite his apparently frail physique
When he played in st. Louis he was one
of the great infielders of his day, and he
remained actively playing until an age
at which most of the ball players are
tired or chased back to the minors.
Higgins was not for the minors. He
had too much in the way OF base oaii
brains and business brains. He was
qualified attorney, but he liked the game
and wanted to stay with it, They dis
covered his capacity for management III
st. Louis and they made him manager
in a country where there were no mil
IONS behind him.
Higgins used to tell one story that
showed what a fight it must have
been to keep that st. Louis team 60
ing from season to season. There
q was a time when one of his scouts
came to him and told OF Wondertui
base ball player, an infielder, ne mao
seen in Texas. Higgins saw inns
particular player and agreed with
the scout on first glance.
But there came up the question OF
money. The owner of the minor league
club that owned the player wanted what
was tremendous sum for st. Louis
base ball club in those days. He de-
manded $500 in cash. There was not
that much in cash in the assets OF the
St Louis club, and the opportunity and
the player were almost lost forever TO
HIGGINS. Finally they raised that huge
sum That particular player happened
to be Rogers Hornsby. for whom, some
wears later, Charles H. Ebbets offered
S275,000 in cash.
It was in the st. Louis setting where
HIGGINS kept a big-league team to-
gether. with practically no backing, that
he showed his force as manager. Ana
vet his task in controlling the weird
fen,neraments on the expensive Yankee
team was the more difficult.
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BOWIE, TAKOMA TIGERS
TO BATTLE TOMORROW

Takoma Tigers and Bowie Motor Co.
mines will clash tomorrow afternoon at
230 o'clock in a single game on the
Silver Spring diamond in the first of a
proposed series of three ct<teSts to de-
termine the unlimited class base ball
championship of Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties.
The Tigers hold the Montgomery
County title and Bowie recently annexed
the Prince Georges crown.
A double header is scheduled for Oc-
tober at Bowie, starting at 100
o'clock, to end the series.
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some field tarther Soutn IMAM Ilie
President Griffith has said IT
would not be warm enough IN
Chattanooga for the proper condl-
tioning of his pitchers at the time
they would have to begin prepara-
ton for the 1880 campaign in the
American League. He would not
care to move them NorthWard to
the Tennessee city until they had
had at least two weeks OF train
ing in a milder climate.
Griffith has declared the Nationals
training season next Spring will not be
AS long as it has been in the past few
years. He has minated that the bat
terymen will not be asked to report Tor
conditioning work until about March
and that the full squad probably would
not be assembled until about March 10.
Would Cut Training Games.
Such a curtailment of the training
season would, of course. reduce greatly
the number of exhibition games for the
Nationals 1t probably would mean the
club would not swing into contests
with other outfits until near March 70.
That would make the training-tllt list
at least a dozen games shorter than II
has been in the past few Springs.
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DOW n. THE LINE
WITH w. o. MCCLELLAN
Miller Higgins.


JUDGING the that the only way Whcn oase
of the greatest OF the pase
~ hall which he managed the
pennantS and
three the latter being won in four
straight games. =, ooo, o,d .
It was Wbert member of the old Orioles ana
manager in rival league the greatest
pment frank enough to insist that the YANKEE Teams
o27 and 1924 we're the most together in the
tory of legend always had been that the ancen
McCraW heeer ana
the all time. - 41.,+ .o
pointed out that he
had his command and that ne gov ne
always
concentrated the results
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POLO TEAMS TO STAGE
FINAL GAME TOMORROW

Second Corps Area poloists of New York
will meet War Department Blues in the
final match of the annual loW-goal polo
tournament which is being conducted
by the War Department Polo Associa-
ton tomorrow afternoon at $50 O'Clock
on the Potomac Park oval.
To gain the final the New Workers
yesterday overcame 3rd Cavalry Vel
lows of Fort Myer in TO extra period
thriller. A goal by Lieut. Kornblum
gave the I'd Corps Area team victory in
the last two minutes of play.
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CANZONERI CLASSY
IN STOPPING MACK
BY the Associated Press.

by Ine ASSOCIdbSO
CHICAGO, September % The
humping fists of Tony Canzoneri, for
mer featherweight champion, nave
thrust back the bid of Eddie Mack OF
Denver for the right to challenge Tor
the world lightweight championship,
Mack, rated as one of the best light
weight prospects the West had produced
in years. became a technical knockout
victim of the New York Italian in the
eighth round of the main bout In the
Chicago Stadium last night.
Mack's chances of overcoming the
former featherweight ruler were wrecked
almost as soon as the fight started
when he sprained his right ankle. He
fought gamely and managed to give
Canzoneri trouble with his left, but
could not withstand the fasteners
assault in the later rounds.
The bout was stopped in the eighth
after right to the jaw had dropped
Mack for a nine count, Referee PM
Collins hating the bout to save the
Westerner needless punishment.
A crowd Of more than 1900 PAID
$4,000 to see the card.
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CUBS TO TAKE PRACTICE
CONNIE DENIES MACKS

CHICAGO. September 20 (P).-Connie
Mack's decision not to permit his Ath-
letics to work out on Wrigley Field be-
series has not altered Manager Joe
McCarthy's plans for the Cubs. He
will take his men out to Shibe Park
in Philadelphia October 10 to give them
a chance to line up their sights.
The Cubs will reach Philadelphia at
noon the day following the second game
of the series, giving them time to accept
Manager Mack's hospitality at Shibe
Park.
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tennessee CITY.
The Washington president contends,
though that is to Is tuSSleS with major
and minor clubs during the training
period would be sufficient to perfect
team play and have his club in readi-
ness for the opening of the American
League championship season. Grittlth
has about concluded the Nationals
played too many exhibitions for their
good in recent years, and believes cur
tailed schedule in the Spring might
leave them in better trim than for
merly for the opening bell.
Griffith Likes Birmingham.
While no site has been selected for
the training of the pitchers and catch
ers, it is known that President Griffith
rather favors Birmingham, Ala. The
Barons have a fine plant there, and on
the average the weather in the Ala
bama metropolis during the first two
weeks of March is mild enough for the
work that would have to be done.
Then, too the Birmingham club
would be pleased to offer its quarters
to the Nationals for training purposes,
it is understood. And this readiness Of
the BaronS to cooperate with the Ma
tionals might influence the local Off
Gals in the selection of training camp
for the Washington hurlers.
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TINE man behind the gun and
the power behind the throne,
SO to speak, with the Phila-
4 delphia Athletics this season
has been Edward Trowbridge
Collins, alias Sullivan, coach of AS
and Connie Mack'S right-hand man.
Imagine the combined brain power
of the Philadelphia board of strategy
Connie. Eddie and Kid Gleason!
There isn't much in base ball that
those three wise men don't know
about! But we're getting off the
subject.
Eddie Collins played for Connie
in the world series of 1910. against
the Cubs which was won by the AS.
four games to one. Eddie batted
.429 in that series, stole four bases
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After the Yankees won their flrst
world series of four straight games
somebody asked Mr.. Higgins what were
the chief requisites for succesS1ui
manager Mr.. Higgins replied laconl-
cally. players"
1t was said that anybody could man
age a team like the Yankees. with
Babe Ruth and an array OF sluggers
and some firSt-claSS pitchers. But there
is where they made a great mistake and
underestimate the modest little man
who took the Yankees out OF second
division and made them the most spec
tacular and successful base ball team
of the latter days.
l am convinced that no other
manager could have handled the
strange collection OF temperament
that made up the great Yankee base
ball team. Higgins had the patience
and the understanding to manage
the strange and wild mentaHtles that
we're on the team. Ruth, perhaps
the greatest modern base ball player
and certainly the greatest boX-offce
attraction that base ball ever knew,
had to be handled"
He could not be driven. If the Yam
KEGS had a manager who was less SELL
effacing than Higgins there would nave
been plenty of trouble on the Yankee
base pail team. f1uSSlIlS, VIII was q
keen and quiet student OF tempera-
ments, made this collection into CO.
herent machine and, according to the
admissions of unprejudiced students OF
base ball, one of the most poWer1ui
base ball teams in the game, II not the
most powerful.
Higgins always avoided the lime
light. Where other managers sought
it and always were ready to take
bow for the success Of the team,
Higgins rarely had anything to say.
When asked for predictions In ad-
vance of base ball season he always
was modest. When the Yankees
were not in first place, where the
fans seemed constantly to expect
them to be, Higgins took the change
of fortune philosophically.
SO far as I can remember, Miller Hug
gins never advanced an alibi for himself
or his team. If criticism ever even an
moved him he never let it be known.
Because he was what is known as
graceful loser, there were some VINO
labored under the misunders /ndns
that he lacked the fighting spirHv.
He had plenty of that, but he never
clustered. There was as much OF the
real fighting base ball spirit in that mar
row chest of his as there was in the
breast of any member of the old Orioles,
VINO were famed for the fighting spirit
of base ball.
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years or so following 1906 are IA
miliar with Eddie and his deeds on
the diamond. They know how, when
a pitcher got two strikes on him, he
would reach up, take the wad OF
gum off the button of his cap, put
it in his mouth, and then more often
than not get hit His average for
81 seasons with the AS, White SoX
and AS again was 1893, and he be-
longs to that select group of veter-
ans who have made 5000 hits. He
managed the Pale Hose from De-
cember. 1924, to November IL, 1925.
and acted as second baseman and
pinch-hitter for Connie Mack in
1927 and 1928 In his prime he
was one of the greatest of all at
the keystone sack.
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DEATH TAKES G0CHNAUR,
OLD-TIME BALL PLAYER

ALTOONA. Pa. September % tP).-
John P. Gochnaur, old-time major
league base ball player, is dead at his
home here. Gochnaur played Short
stop for the Brooklyn National League
Cleveland Later he played with San
Francisco and Los Angeles Pacific Coast
League. He umpired in the Interna-
tional, Kitty Three Eye, Middle At
lantic and York-Pennsylvania leagues
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FIVE GOVERNORS TO SEE
CHICAGO END OF SERIES

CHICAGO. September % (P1.-Gov-
errors of five Middle Western States
VIII witness the Wrigley Field install
ments of the world series.
President William l.. Veeck of the
Cubs has approved the applications "a
tickets made by the following Sta
chief executives: Harry Leslie, In
ana Louis L. Emmerson, Illir
Walter Kohler, Wisconsin: Georg
Shafer. North Dakota, and Clyt
Reed of Kansas.
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Certainly two of the strongest teams
in the East will be Pittsburgh and West
Virginia Carnegie Tech has good
chance to be included in this list.
One trouble is that the schedules ar
ranged will make some of the best teams
look bad before the year is out. 1t will
be something of a miracle if Notre
Dame Army and Yale. to mention only
three teams, can take the pounding they
will face from one Saturday to another.
The luck of injuries and accidents IS
another factor. Dartmouth had star
team wrecked last Fall before the sea-
son had barely more than opened up.
Al Marsters limping On one leg was half
a team gone to seed, and he wasn't the
only Dartmouth entry rendered null ard
void. The break of the schedule and
the run of injuries can make all the
difference in the world. A lot depends
upon the physical and mental conci-
ton of a rival team on certain date
and no one can figure this out. A foot
ball team can change its character by
so per cent from one Saturday to an
other.
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KANSAS CITY ON TOP.
CHICAGO. September % (P).-The
,fflcial American Association standing
Fights Last Night
BY the Associated Press.

CHTCAGO.-Tony Canzoneri. New
York, stopped Eddie Mack, Denver 49, !;
Johnno Datto, Cleveland, defeated Ben
ny Bass, Philadelphia, foul %: Jackie
Brady, Syracuse, N. Y, outpointed
Roxie Allen, Camden, N. j. 80; Paul
Pierrone, Cleveland, outpointed Joe
Bezenah, Cincinnati 90.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. - Irish Jackie
Dugan, Louisville, KY, and Jimmie
Reed, Columbus, drew Q0).
TOLEDO-Babe Keller, Toledo. out
pointed Soldier Dombrowski Detroit
(1O).
DENVER, Colo-Mickey Cohen, Den
yer, outpointed Mike Vasquez, Ell PaSo
Q0).
HOLLYWOOD, Calf. Newsboy
Brown, Los Angeles. outpointed Ernie
Peters, Chicago (10).
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CONNIE MACK understands that the
~ Cubs have Guy Bush and Hornsov.
Hack Wilson and others, but he is just
as we'll satisfied locking back "a years.
that a young fellow named Mathewson
will not be out throwing a base ball
when the show opens.
Twenty-four years ago Mack saw
Matty set his team dowE for three shut
outs in three starts and it never looked
as if they could have scored if the series
had lasted three months.
Beating Matty, when Matty was
young, was all the job any team could
handle. One season he beat the cham
pion Pirates eight times in eight starts.
The Matty of 1911 and 1912 had had
a block of the rubber worked out OF his
arm through winning and saving games
others had about lost.
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O'DOUL HAS A BIG DAY
AS RIVALS TAKE REST

With all the other members of the
big six idle through gaps in the sched-
ule yesterday, Frank O'Doul enjoyed a
perfect afternoon against Boston pitch
ing, lifting his mark points to 1874 and
virtually clinching the championship of
the National League and the big six
Babe Herman now has only six games
in which to make up a deficit Of 10
points.
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PIRATE OWNER DENIES
TRADE OF PAUL WAIVER

PITTSBURGH, Pa, September %
R.-Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, issued a statement
today denying reports that Paul Waner
is to be traded to the st. Louis Card
inals for jim Bottomley, Gard first base
man.
Dreyfuss said no deal involving Waner
was contemplated.
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THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE.
The Ten Best Teams.

Anybody writes can pick the 10 best foot ball teams after
the but how about taking chance before the season
Starts?"
In the first nobody pick the 10 best teams even after
without disagreement
them will be In 0ecen
watching the first
Illinois, Minnesota
Florida, Oregon Teams
Harvard
Nayv a be
foot ball teams either in September or
diSageeing with
few lines written
served with fast one
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ling Camps for G Likely: C1er Hopes to Shine in Series gain
HIJRLERS TO GET ONE SITE,
FULL CLUB OTHER, is PLAN
Chattanooga May Be Field for Assembly of Entire
Squad-Birmngham Favored for Conditioning
Ground of Nationals Batterymen.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

training be by the Nationals next
Spring scout Joe Enge successfully completes ne
the Chattanooga franchise In
Association Enge is in Chattanooga and so
Secretary the Washington club Aided by
official the scout hopes to get possession OF
LookoutS .-, ..., A., ,ro.,,,.o+o, o,,,o
officials OF the
of the training of the club next spring WIZ De
should he
However also stated that Chattanooga selected as
Nationals baymen will begin training Garner ON
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Big League Leaders

BY the Associated Press.
AMERICAN.
Batting-Simmons Athletics. 81.
Runs-Gehringer, Tigers, 129.
Runs batted in-Simmons, Athletics.
$50.
Hits-Simmons, Athletics, 209.
Doubles-Manush, Browns, A.
Triples-Combs, Yanks; Gehringer
Tigers; Miller, Athletics; Scarritt, Red
Sox, Is.
HomerS-Ruth, Yanks, 46.
Stolen bases-Gehringer Tigers, 26.
Pitching-Grove, Athletics, won 20.
lost 5.
NATIONAL.
Batting-O'Doul, Phillies, 1894.
Runs-Hornsby, Cubs, 148.
Runs batted in-WilSon, Cubs, 152.
HitS-O'Doul, Phillies, 244.
DoubleS-Frederick, Robins, So.
Triples-L. Waner, Pirates. 10.
Homers-Ott, Giants, AZ: Klein
Phillies, AZ.
Stolen bases-Cuyler, Cubs, 40.
Pitching-Bush, Cubs, won 10, lost s
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGuE.

San Francisco. 2; Los Angeles, 4.
HOLLYWOOD, 8; Missions, 4.
Oakland. 8; Portland, 1.
Sacramento, 4; Seattle, o.
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A Boost for Dykes.

DEAR SIR: When the world series
- is over and the shouting's done
how about giving Jimmy Dykes credit
due him for the victory of the Athletics
in the American League? Foxx, Sim
mons and the rest did their share. but
Dykes was the man who plugged all
gaps on the team. Jimmy played short,
second, third and once in a while was
at first. Had it not been for him Con-
ME would have suffered when Hale,
Boley and Bishop were out of the game.
DYKES is unquestionably the best utility
man in base ball and Mack was lucky
tn have him SAIGON SAM.
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A MiSnnniatiOn.

DR. HAROLD PATTISON writes
- that it was not Shakespeare who
wrote, Beware when men speak too
well of thee" The correct quotation
should have been from st. Luke, vi.26, TO
this effect: "Woe to you when all men
shall speak we'll of thee" AT least there
Is every proof here that at times a
knock is better than a boost.
The new tennis champion is SO or 81
wears old and the new golf champion is
81. These ages do not belong to old
age. Neither do they belong to that
portion Of youth which is always wait
ing to be served. Apparently there are
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Columbus. I; Kansas City z.
indianapolis. I; st Paul, 2.
Toledo. s: Milwaukee, 2.
Louisville, 8; Minneapolis, 10.
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National League

GAMES TODAY
Pittsburgh at St. l..
Boston at Phila.
Brooklyn at N. Y.
Cincinnati at Chicago
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GAMES TOMORROW.
Pittsburgh at ST. l..
Cincinnati at Chicago.
Phila. at New York.
Boston at Brooklyn.
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A MaCkian Reflection.

times When II IS served WIN IdSI
under the left ear.
The Kusko times., 1929-03-09
BOOTLEGGERS QUITTING 1
 USE OF COSTLY CARS

WASHINGTON.-Bootfeggers are beginning to quit the use of the high priced and fashy automobiles in which they commonly hauled their il- legal wares, E. W, Camp, commits sioner of the United States Bureau of Customs, told a House. appropriation committee.
 Liquor dealers and haulers, it was said, choose to lose less when car is 
 The border patrol of the customs service seized 1880 automobiles in the 1927 fiscal year and confiscated 571 boats. The total number seized at all sources was 2,157 automobiles and 761 boats.
 Some of the boats and cars are sold, but many are turned into pursuers of the class of lawbreakers from which they are taken. The Coast Guard gets many of the boats, and prohibit tion agents most of the automobiles.
The Kusko times., 1929-03-09
EVERYONE KNOWS HOW
 TO MAKE A NEWSPAPER?

Getting out good newspaper IS a fascinating task, but 1t is also a diff cult one. No other job that comes to mind is quite so taxing, so hurried or demands greater pains. From the moment newspaper is started, be it either daily or weekly, the work is carried on under pressure, a race against time. Put yourself in an ed itor's position-could you do it?
 Could you, for example, spell cor rectly, offhand, the names of large percentage of the residents of this town? If you could do that, could you write their initials correctly with out resorting to the telephone direct ory or other authority? Could you write down, offhand,s the names of your city officials, your leading state and national officials, getting all the rames, initials ahd offices correct :? could you gather the threads of a story from a dozen people and weave them inso anintelligent, readable ac- count the first writing? Could you write seven columns of material of 1,2O0 to- 1,40O words each in two or three days, week after week, year after year, and when you had finished
The Kusko times., 1929-03-09

these those seven pound out two or three columns more before press time? In writing a headline, could you call to mind in moment enough synonyms so that. you would not re- peot the main thought in the same words? Could you judge in. a mini mum of time what size. headlines. and what position in the paper, should be given to each of the 75, 100 or more stories thot might go into your paper? Could you decide ins a mo- ment, or exercise "snap" judgment, on the dozens of auestionsta newspaper man must face daily and; get a ma jority of them correct?
 We won't tire you-7but, if you could do these few simple things and .+ 9 thousand and one more difficult ones, you should be newspaper editor.
 The pointwe wish to make is, that one can produce good newspaper only after continual, diligent study and years of practical experience. You have heard dozens of persons re- mark that they could turn out news paper, and a good one too, a bit bet ter, in fact, than the one they are getting. That is not true, unless they have gone through the years and study that good newspaper. demands of it's makers.
 Were it not for the peculiar fasci nation associated with newspaper work, there is no greater taskmaster, and money alone wuld be far too scant compensation.-Re Redwood (Min- nesota) Gazette I'd