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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-24
HIGHER FINISH.
seen FOR
GR|FFS
By BOB THAYER

Remarkable hustle and heads
up baseball have been marked
features in the successful getaway
Of the 1880 Washington Club.
Virtually the same ball club
that finished in fifth place q
year ago promises to crash into
first division this year.
Probably the most gratifying
surprise in the teams makeup
has been the development Of
youngsters. And one Of these
kids, Jumping Joe Cronin, is not
one bit backward in giving credit
where credits due.
The San Francisco boy, who
In two years has achieved major
stardom, promises to develop into
one Of balloons liveliest short
stops. And he readily credits
, Manager Walter johnson and
Trainer Mike Martin with his
rapid improvement.
II can speak for myself and
all Of the young ball players
when / say that Walter and
Mike are two of the greatest
fellows in baseball to rOrk
fOr,"s CrOnin remarked yester-
day in the clubhouse. "They.
deserve all the credit in the
world for our 1880 improvement.
anyone looking over our
} club can tell you we're in con-
ditiOn. Mike Martin saw to
that, this spring: Also wen you
see that Washington club on
the ball lid you will notice
it's MI keyed up with pepper
and fight. Who wouldn't fight
for Walter Johnson"
Walters sound reasoning and
splendid personality have ur1-
doubtedly made splendid Roadway
with his youthful talent.
'T'd pitch my head off for
him." Lloyd Brown re-
marked this spring while
Voluntarily taking over an
extra turn in batting prac'
tice. "When you're working
for q fellow like Walter he
always gets the best you've
gOE."
It isn't spirit alone that has
marked Johnson's managerial
Improvement, however. It is his
understanding of ball players
and the game itself.
The Griffmen, for instance,
are now boaSting one Of the
most promising pitching stats
In either big wheel. Yet the
same material that forms this
years slabbing corps was little
more than q rank failure In
1929.
when reporting at Biloxi, Miss,
for spring training this spring
johnson Immediately started
working on his young slabsters,
with Bump Hadley, Lloyd Brown,
AID Liska and Bob Burke receiv-
ing particular notice. That his
work has borne fruit goes with
out saying.
Cold weather resulted in
days and tOday'S contests.
The games will be played here
as parts Of dOubIeheaderS on
May FL and r.. .
Connie Mack's champion Phila-
delphia Athletics are to make
their 1880 bow before a Capital
audience tomorrow, when they
open a three-game set with the
Washington club. .,.. .--... 20.
The AS, who last year slaugh-
) tered the. Griffmen in early
season conquests, have broken
even In two starts against Walter
Johnson's 1880 edition.
Lloyd Brown, Sam Jones and
Bump Hadley will likely be
pitched in that sequence against
the Elephants. .<...
DYKES ANXIOUS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-24
Odds Against Yanks to Win
Flag Are Now 10 to |
BIZ DAVIS ]. WASH

= NEW YORK April 24-one of the best handcappers In
the country Jack Doyle laying" to against the New
York Yankees American League pennant possibility
just before opening day. ..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-24
DYKES ANXIOUS

The Dixie Pigs are cunning for
q Sunday game. They have the
use of the Seat Pleasant diamond.
Call Hyattsville. 112 between 6
and o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-24

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-24


teen bucks and the money will
be split into first and second
prizes.
The entry is limited exclusively
to those who are leading an out
standing league or who have an
average Of lib or better for at
least SO games.
Those men and women who
take the drives in the first week
of competition In the city tourna.
ments going on at Convention
Hall and the Arcadia, have a
chance that Is denied those who
roll toward the flag end. An
exceptional set win place them
on top of the heap and they
can proclaim themselves as
kings and queens for a day"
Joe Pricci, peppery Pet
worth pin-plugger. l. the star
of the Class A b0wlerz for
the time being, having q $50
set to his credit. W. j. La
Billie, SanicO League, leads
Class b with 375 and r. H.
Petila's 359 gave him the call
over L. King for Class G.
A. B. Parsons Glass D BAT set
survived. but c. KisSner's 321
topped M. Brownell's first night
319.
Nothing uncovered for hap
pened in the team events.
Margaret Miltner and Elsie
Fischer took theSClass A doubles
lead in the W. w. D. A. Tourna-
ment with a nifty $50 total, Mrs.
Miltner amassing a $50 set. Last
year Scott and. Sullivan won the
doubles title with q $40.
Bronson Qualities and Bertha
Greevy also topped last years
Glass B doubles, set with 636, the
girls doubling UP In the final
game to topple 24s sticks. Last
year Smith and Updike rolled 612
to win.
War team took the Class
b lead with a 1901 set, crash
ing the naples for q mighty
$50 opening game. Virginia
Yarnell and Pauline Brad
burn were the stellar per
formers, with Shines 1872 max
ing the heavy first game
possible. This set is 80 pins
better than the set which
won Glass b team title last
season.
The girls have knocked three
records to smithereenS on the
very first night, and plenty Of
stars and stellar combinations
waiting to take their turns. It is
safe to predict that practically
every record will be smashed.
The Clarendon-King Pin match
has been postponed until Mon
day because of the Junior match
listed for the Lucky Strike to-
night.
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The tentative alley seiec-
tiOns are Lucky Strike, Recre-
alton and Silver Spring, and
the match will be over the
15-game route nth twO~five-
game blocks to be scheduled
for next week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-04-24
HIGH AVERAGE
LEADERS LIST.
ROLL.OFF
BY GrNO SINH

The nl.uc h brute d ducEptn
league Ieaders-high average men
post season roll-off Is settled.
washington "bis league" maple
shooters have come to an agree
ment and are merely waiting to
name dates. i
Those who will participate ere
Howard Campbell and Joe McGol-
rick, National Capital high aver
age man and runner.up respec.
lively; Glen Dutch" Weidman.
District aid Federal League
leader; Jack Wolstenholme, lead
ing the Electrical League with q
118 ave- age, Sam Simon, Masonic
League top-notcher; Charley Wal
son, who is the king,pin of bowlers
on the Silver Epring and Bethesda
alleys, and Ollie Pacini, Recrea-
ton League leader.
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Cold weather resulted in
days and tOday'S contests.
The games will be played here
as parts Of dOubleheaders on
May FL and r..
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-01

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them though he would have made
thousands had he recast the Mem
phis Blues" in sixteen.
His is a great business ability, not
only on the broad scale. but in mi
nutest details as well.
The man is full of energy though
he must be somewhere in his flfties.
He often smiles. He gets kick out
of life. It amuses him when the
sharks of Broadway try to fleece him.
While the race is justly proud of De-
Priest, sole Negro member OF Con-
gress. the race will likewise feel pride
knowing that Handy enjoys the dis
tinction of being the sole Negro
member of the Music Publishers
Protective Association, the strongest
organization of its kind il the world.
Through his connection with an
other group, the American Society
of Composers, Authors and Publish
ers, also his foreign representatives
in Europe, South America and Aus
tralia, he is receiving valuable con-
tracts out Of radio and sound pic
ture rights.
piece, has had more recordings than
any other composition Of any Kind
Before the blues, there were three
monograph companies. With Handy
and the new music, a dozen sprang
into life. Jazz bands gave employ
ment to thousands of Negroes. Thou
sands of Negro artists made record
He has edited an anthology,
"Blues," in an exceedingly scholarly
style. It is the most Illuminating
book on the subject of American
music, with an introduction by Able
Niles, published by A., g. Q. Boni, IL
Illustrated by Covarrubias. So much
for the man and his work in life.
But what about the works 1nflu-
ence? Such men as Auric, Honegger'
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with him most Of the Pace & Handy
organization. Handy's business was
almost wrecked.
Many photograph companies had
failed after giving notes amounting
to thousands which banks discounted.
Handy. not only made these notes
good, he in addition paid back heavy
loans from four colored banks in the
South.
Music dealers and syndicate stores
felt the same national depression.
The five and ten cents stores In
dulged In a music war. Woolworth
cut out more than six hundred mu-
sic counters. AS these counters han
died the firms publications, approx
mately half million copies of mu-
sic we're left on Handy's hands, copies
that could not be sold for junk, yet
on which large printing bills were
due.
But the blues had an honest bust
ness man for father. He sold his
beautiful home on 13sth Street and
paid of many of the debts. In at
tempting to do the work that had
been done by large organization,
work in which no Sunday was his
own and no hour OF the night too
late, his health was impaired as well
as his sight. Two years he was kept
inactive. But even in this period he
continued to compose some OF his
most beautiful works,-not all blues.
Business was in bad way. Life,
too. At the end Of those two miserable
years Handy staged his grand come
back. Nobody knows how. He regain
ed his health and his sight, took a
band on the road, and returned with
money sufficient to liquidate what
debts remained. BY paying, and pay
ing, and straining every nerve, he
was able singlehanCed to lift this
great burden from his business.
In April, 1927, he and his band ap--
peared in support OF the Worlds most
sensational composer direct from
Paris, the young George Anthell, at
Carnegie Hall, in jazz symphony:
When Handy. therefore, announces
a concert of his own works and 9TH
ers with his own band of thirty and
a large chorus at Carnegie Hall again.
the audience numbered not only his
old admirers, but new admirers, stu
dents of music; and among both
groups were the elite OF America ana
the sophisticateS of Europe.
The drama inherent in this mans
struggle, its crown of success, has
reached even the proverbially dense
HOLLYWOOD magnateS. They want TO
fashion a film about him.
Well. let them. 1t can't hurt Han
dv. The man is bigger than his size.
His head is normal. AS a composer,
blues are his life. When Handy
writes a blues number, all OF Handy
goes into it. The words are his. READ
"The CHICAGO Gouge." His many,
sided experience casts lights and
shades of meaning over the blues. :,
Don't forget the sound. classical
musicianshio he has had. He doeSSn't
fall into the musical pitfalls that
mark lesser mems work. The tune,
the rhythm, the orchestration-all
are his and all are racial. To this
dav they remain-and consequently
ali blues remain--in the twelve bars
that the rigidly formal custom gave
Milhaud, Wiener, Krenek>[ the great
Antheil, the greater StraVinsKy,
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women, but their splendid success proves
what unusually big money can be made.
All you have to do is call on your friends
and my established customers in your To-
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Blazed A Path From Beale St. To Broadway

Richard Strauss the master, are 4
hodgepodge of people better known
in Europe than in America. They
write symphonies, symphonic poems,
operas. But even these men were so
inspired by what they heard in the
truly racial and native American
songs and dances that q new pigment
found it's way to their musical
palettes-the blues.
The white American composer,
however, is more truly represented
by his work in musical comedy as
well as popular" songs and dances
than in those longer, mora serious
forms. These songs and dances are
a decadent form of the original blues
Governed by the supposed require
ments of bathrooms. picture palaces,
and Broadway, they are played in
the most refined saccharine style,
with an empty precision in place of
real rhythm and spontaneity, with
also, sixteen bars instead Of twelve.
Thus the ears of the white Ameri-
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CONTINUED from page .

The rhythm, familiar and native,
conjuring up things in his hearers
past. caught on. A queer beat fused
the crowd and Handy into unit, a
plant played on by the forces OF
the universe. After this, Hanov al
most symbolically returned to Ala
bama.
If a composer, creator OF music
remain academic and classical ne
becomes merely initiative.
So when Handy returned to Aa-
bama, all jejune imitation, stopped
He had realized what his people
wanted. and as Wagner had SAID
"Iatin music for Latin Threats. Ger
man music for German throats,
Handy added, Negro music TO- Ne
gro threats"
From 1900 to 1908 Handy was at
A. and NJ. College, where he mad
charge of the band and vocal music
Often he would go around, strlolng
through the cotton fields outside
Huntsville, his ears drinking in the
work songs and spirituals OF the peo-
ple he knew-songs that had sprung
I'D without any apparent origin, ike
the poems attributed to Homer, epics
of men like John Henry ana Jill
Crow. r,s,,o
Mississippi. where he saw aeSthetlc
g
"Beale Street, Beale Street!"-that
was the next station on MS Jazz
journey. n,,,essee
meant moving to Beale Street. Here
he organized a band and orchestra
employing fifty men. A man named
Crump ran for Mayor. Handy wrote
words and a tune. The words went
,.NIister crump, don't low no easy riders
here, .,s,-.
here.
7 don't care what Mister Crump don't low,
I'm gwine to bar'l-house anyhow
Mister Crump can 60 an eaten hISseLA
some airl"
The tune was that of the MEM
phis Blues" which Handy pubilShso'
but soon after, in despair, sold: the
first real blues, it became ar inter-
national hit, and still makes money
for all but its author. He knew IT'S
commercial value but Memphis was
not then a market for music, ana
besides would not at that time BUY
sheet music from local colored pub
After the success of the Memphis
Blues" which uShered in the pres
erlt era Of jazz, both races recognized
his genius and lent announcement,
Ee then formed the Pace & Handy
Music Company to publish SUISSE
uuent blues in their original form as
well as the ballads Of Harry II. Pace
In Handy, we have the Comblna,,
ton, weirdly successful. Of artist ana
business man. In addition 70 manag-
inc this business, Handy wrote music
Ee writes words, music and orches-
trations himself and in spare mo-
ynents relearSes his band.
In 1917 the Columbia Phonograpn
Company engaged Handy's bano
which made twelve records. In 1915
Pace &c Handy moved to Broadway
and Handy with his wife and 1iVe
children moved to Harlem. In the
postwar depression Pace dropped
out. ~.
Phonograph Company and manutac-
tured Black Swan Records, taxing
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can composer are deaf to this rhythm
and spontaneity, and he is callous
to the range of feeling all the way
from the lugubrious to the "hot,"
which distinguishes the blues and ex-
cites all of Europe. Only one color
is known on the White American
palette; it isn't true blue. it Is an
adulterated Alice Blue.
Now, the blues have definite
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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-01
ARE WOMEN MORE
CONSTANT THAN
MEN?
Continued from Page Eighty

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but they will make better companions
end healthier mates.
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-01
Mother Jones, Labor
Supporter, Is 100

SILVER SPRINGS. Maryland.
Ery f.-iP-Mother Jones. lifelong
fighter in the cause Of labor. was
ioday celebrating her one-hundredth
birthday.
She has reached the century
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trasted with the turbulent life she
has lived. At the country home Of
Ne. and Mrs. Walter Burgess. where
even a telephone call cannot reach
her. the white-haired old lady now
STAYS.
Letters and kilograms have been
pouring in on her for days from
All parts OF the country. Word Of
Mother jones illness has gone out
among the various industries. From
San Francisco to New York hard
listed men who listened TO sier fiery
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-01
INDIA REVOLT
ACTION Seen
Civil Disobedience Move
May Be Hit BY
Local Force

LONDON, May 1-tP)- British
newspapers today said that they
understood that the Indian adj
mi~nistration. working with the APP
proval Of the home government,
would take immediate strong action
10. put down the civil disobedience
campaign OF Mahatma Gandhi and
the all-India national congress.
was believed. the papers said
thAt Gandhi would be arrested. II
some quarters IL was recalled, how
ever, that the Mahatma's arrest
often has been reported as immi-
nent, but has never materialized-
There IS a widely held view that
the governments refusal 70 grant
the Satyagraha leader the martyr
dom of arrest has strengthened its
position.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-01
WEATHER CONDITIONS

Barometric pressure was moder-
ately high over the southeastern
and eastern states this morning and
relatively to moderately low over
the eastern Rocky Mountain and
Plains states and over s~outh-central
Canada AS q result the weather
was still cloudy and unsettled over
the central and southern portions
OF the country, where light to mod
crate rains occurred also within the
last "a hours. Temperatures were
seasonable to above normal practi-
cally throughout the country this
morning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-01
Proud Mother!

Jackie Tom. 4, Of l722 s. Olive st.
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The word California marks the
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-01
7HE Man STEM
Intimate Glimpses of the Valleys Alley
BY J. r.
Along Elizabeth

Along Elizabeth
John Wray, Of Edinburg . In a
black car with white wheels. -. in
specting Brownsville. Mr.. and
Mrs. Buel Lanier -. also OF Edin-
burg. -. walking up and down the
Main Stem. looking things over
...-Knight Douglas. dressed in
white ..giancing s~uspiciously at
the black clouds. k. G. Buckley. y.
Of the Mexican Aviation company
lines. looking at the large paSsen-
ger list. 49, George Barclay -. .of the
FL Jardin hotel. saying good
morning TO Owen P. White. Senior
Bogus. Ford salesman. look