The Washington times., 1930-05-01

The Yankees won their third
baseball game of the season
yesterday-we. w a h i n ton,
lost our third. Play that over
on your piano" as they used
to say in 1906, eh, Bryan Morse?
While the comfortable crowd
of 10000 didn't get a break"
at the ball game, they did get
one at home. They got back
in time to hear Amos n
Andy" Game was played in
1:47, compared to $50 the
day before and Oil Monday,
the first time our black-fsce
boy friends went on the air at
6 p. m. eastern standard
time).
There's only one way We
know how a Washington base
ball audience can have its
baseball and it's favorite radio
entertainers 100 per cent of tee
schedule, and that's for the club
to put amplifiers in the grand
stand. They'll do that when
they put a place on the score
board to indicate hits or errors.
However, there's no COM
plant on the things the base
ball powers here do for the
benefit of their customers.
They've gone a long way in
putting hume erals on the
players backs. Next year we
hope to find EN- on their
fronts" as we'll. And then
some fans will want player
numbers on the tops of their
caps and soles of their shoes,
so a player can absolutely be
identified. no matter what he
happens to be doing on a ball
field.
If President Clark Griffith
gets half as many suggestions
about running a sporting section
of a newspaper as we do about
running a ball club. a swapping
of ideas might be mutually bene-
ficial. The last one we got from
a fan was the Pittsburgh idea
of having a place on the score
board to show the number OF
foul balls knocked over the
stands for the season, the same
being awarded by the Dreufyses,
father and son, to Pittsburgh
boys orphanages. etc. It does
look a bit silly for grown men
to scramble for "fouled balls"
and then stick 'em in their poe
kets like boys ducking for ap-
plies Halloween Night! What!
Speaking of boys, about so
or a hundred were tn guests
of Clark Griffith at yesterdays
ball game-boys, the sons and
young relatives, of newspaper
men, who had gone to the Press
Club the night before to hear
Babe Ruth and other baseball
celebrities. Griff was the only
celebrity of baseball who put in
appearance, and he carried the
show by making a bang-up talk
about boys-he adopted four
and inviting every kid in the
audience to go out to the park
the next day as his guest.
After the talk he signed inn
promptu orders on the pass
gate" to let his juvenile audi
tors into yesterdays game. and
as he was handing out tiny
passes. we thought how early he
was catering to the dead-head
tendencies of those young men
of newspaper families.
Griff, who, by the way, can
explain everything. even deA
feat, told the Press Club folks
what's wrong with the Wash
ington ball team" this year. He
said he had been impressed the
last couple of seasons with the
speed with which the Washing.
ton team finished up the SEA.
son, compared to the lack OF 1t
with which they started 1928
and 1929. !"
He declared he talked this
over with johnson, who spent
most of last year learning
about the material he had fol-
lowing his absence from the
team for a year, and explained
to him that a club which can
play the best ball in the league
the last two months of the
season, might win a pennant if
it could play the best ball of
the league through April. Griff
claims that johnson has been
meditating that thought and
points to its April showing as
the result.
Seated within speaking dis.
tance of each other In .the
boxes back Of the catcher yes
terday were that rahid base.
ball fan. George r. Holmes,
who woreS q firemspS Z blue
shirt with collar and cuffs at
tached; Crusaders Jimmy
Salkeld and Frank Morse.
Lawyer Rudy B. H. Lyons. Pub.
licity Relations Counsel Charlie
McClintock, Masterio Happy"
Walker. Baker Boy Carl Corby
and a White House detective
whom We believe should enjoy
diplomatic immunity insofar as
mentioning his name 10 con-
cerned.