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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-13

DenIldI1J lOI 10 AL
1928 and he should be much better
as result of the experience gained.
Walker has as much stun, II not more,
than any southpaw l have looked az IN
wears. He hasn't the poise OF Huboell
as yet and is inclined to be WHO, put
/ am willing to go on record by stating
that he should be an outstanding
pitcher within two years.
Then there is my ace, Larry Benton,
a great pitcher, and I see no reason
why he shouldn't be as good as last
season. When I tell you there was no
better pitcher in the National League
in 1928, that means considerable. Ben
ton is a money pitcher, at his best when
the going is toughest.
Desired More Punch.
''True. would like to have little
more punch and there is some uncer-
tainty as to who will play the second
base position, a most important one,
but on the whole am very well salts
fed with my club and feel that we Will
be contender all the way, with a good
chance to win"
That was one year ago and one has
only to glance at the averages to see
why the Giants didn't win. The reason
several players on whom McGraw
banked didn't run true to form.
Hubbell won Is games and Walker
IA, total of 30 victories. not half bad,
but still eight games short Of what
McGraw figured.
The real big reason for the pitching
staff to fall below standard, however,
was the failure of Benton to win con-
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Herb Pyle, Rookie Nat Hurler,
Was o. Star athlete in School

This is one OF a series Of sketches on
the recruits being tested this Spring by
the Washington ball club.
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BY ALAN GOULD.

Associated Press Sports Editor.
~ RADENTON, Fla, March 1S.-On
* their record as pennant winners
in 1926 and 1928, the ST. Louis
Cardinals have had sufficient
interval to furnish impetus for another
pennant drive.
Their new manager, Charles (Gabby)
Street, has tackled his job with spirit
of enthusiasm, manifesting no concern
for the short shrift experienced by his
immediate crop of predecessors.
some people may not think we have
a great club, but I think we have a
real chance to win," remarked Street.
Sam Breadon, the club president, was
even less conservative. He said:
This is the best club we have hao
in recent years"
Unfortunately, 1t will take more than
this optimism, more than the excellent
record of past performances TO put the
Cardinals in anything approaching a
contending position this year. The clubs
extensive farm system has failed to
produce all the requirements needed to
check the decline of the two-time cham
pionship machine. (.
with only a few changes, some of
which have not been for the better, the
Redbirds are the same flock that Rogers
Hornsby piloted to the pennant IN 1926
and Bill McKechnie led to the top In
1928. The veteran pitching staff, fea-
turing Willie Sherdel, Jess Haines and
Clarence Mitchell, has gone somewhat
rapidly doWnhill with no immediate
reinforcements in sight to measure up
to their old standards.
If any thing is to be accomplished this
year by the Cards-in fact, il they
are to stick in the first division. they
must uncover at least two or three new
pitchers capable of carrying on where
| the veterans weaken or leave off. Gabby
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Nationals Pinned With New Orleans Mcaw Has Second Base Problem

sistently. Here was one pitcher Nc
Graw believed had a very excellent
chance to win 20 games, yet the best
he could DO was to win IL while losing
II. When the ace of your pitching
staff, really great hurler, can turn
in only IL wins in 80 games in which
he oft1ciated, then 1t is Just too bad for
the manager and in this case it hap
pened to be John McGraw.
AS later events proved, McGraw also
was right In having his doubts about
the play around second base. Neither
Cohen or Reese came up to McGraw's
expectations. Despite the fact that
Andy Cohen hit 80 points better than
Jimmy Reese, he already has been sent
to the minors. with the odds in favor
OF Reese again holding down second.
Eddie Marshall, a rookie, is expected
70 of1er the most serious opposition that
Reese VIII have to overcome.
Views Are Unchanged,
McGraw's opinion of the chances to
be fighting for the pennant in 1890
are just about the same as they were
a year ago.
THE second-base problem must be
satisfactorily solved" he SAYS, Larry
Benton must return to form and the
CIup SHOW more power at the bat. We
were fourth in batting last year, which
wasn't bad. but we didn't show quite
the power had hoped for, particularly
in the matter of extra base drives
which do so much to win in these DAYS
of the lively ball"
However, no matter what problems
McGraw may have, it's a good bet that
he will solve all of them and have the
Giants in, there as usual, fighting ali
the way for the. pennant.
(Copyright. 1900
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jumper and broad jumper, pole vaulter,
discus HEAVIER. shot putter and javelin
thrower. During his high school career
he helped his school win many meets
and established many records that still
stand in his section of Texas.
This wasn't all Pyle did In high
school. He played on the foot ball team
for four seasons and went through as
many seasons in basket ball. He was
a halfback on the eleven, and having
plenty of speed and strength, ripped
through or ran around for many
dazzling gains. But, It's said he really
was better defensively than extensively.
He was center on the basket ball team,
a good place for him, as he then was
as tall as now, when he was q height
Of feet 2 inches.
It's no wonder Herbert Ernest had
no time for base ball while in high
school, but he did not neglect this
pastime at that. He had taken up the
game when he was a. dozen years old,
playing in the outf1eld. He was q
pretty fair hitter then, but as he pro-
crossed in the game his fielding waxed
as his smuggling waned. But he de-
veloped sturdy arm, and when he
swung into semi-pro ranks in 1924 1t
was as plCcner.
A Semi-PrO Three Years.
Pyle played semi-pro bah for three
seasons, getting into games In Houston
and San Antonio as well as In his
own and neighboring counties. He
steadily advanced as a pitcher and In
1927 moved into the Texas Valley
League as member of the Mission club.
Pyle had a good year with Mission, but
the circuit, a class D affair, blew after
that season and Herbert Ernest was
without job.
1t so happened, though, that Joe
MatheS, who had managed a team at
Houston, had seen Pyle perform, and
when Mathes assumed the MANAGEMENT
of the Chattanooga team In the South
ern Association in 1928 he grabbed the
young fellow. Pyle did so well with the
Lookouts then that the Giants picked
him up before the season ended and
he spent month with the big leaguers.
John McGraw took Pyle to training
camp with the Giants last year, but
returned him to Chattanooga before
the National League campaign started.
He went through the season with the
Lookouts and last Fall was shared by
Washington in the draft
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PIERCE A. C. TO HOLD
BASE BALL MEETING

EVANSVILLE, Md, March 49,
Pierce Athletic Club will meet tomo--
row night at o'clock at the home
of President Bob Minges, 6 Cedar street,
to discuss plans for the base ball sea-
son and for a card party to be given
next Monday night at the Hyattsville
High School for the benefit of the nine.
Members of last seasons team and
other candidates are asked to attend
The Pierce tosSers hope to use the
diamond in Magruder Park, Hyatts-
ville's recreation center, and are plan
ming a benefit early in May to raise
funds for putting the grounds in shape
Prospects foS a good Pierce team
are bright, as a flock of players of
proved worth are available In the
group are Charles PETER. Ferdinand
French and JEFF Small, pitchers; Will
Rob nson, Lloyd Miller and John Troy,
catchers; Stanley O'Donnell, first base
man: Bucky Wonder, Moore Fauntleroy
and Ed Fowler second basement: Harry
Herity. Blair Hamill shortStops; Spen-
Ger Chase, third baseman, and Charlie
Reed, Bill Walton, Frank Jarboe and
Payne Slinkman, outfielders.
Some of these boys are expected to
make berths on scholastic or college
freshmen teams and will not be avail
able the early part Of the season.
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Cards Must Bolster Aging Box
Corps to Get IN Flag Scramble

Street, who handled Walter Johnson's
fast ones in the days of the Coffeyville
Cyclones prime, knows his pitchers, but
he has man-sized job on his hands to
develop an effective corps out of the
material on hand. OF the principal
veterans, Mitchell is 80, Haines SO and
Sherdel 80. All possess a lot of the
old stuff, and their experience counts
considerably, but, as Street admits,
"They need lot of rest between starts. y
Sylvester johnson, a courageous right
handler, is only 20, and should be a
fine record with Houston, one OF the
Cardinal farms, may be the best Of the
newcomers. He is big right handler
with lots of stuff. Street has the task
of finding two or three other steady
workers from among Herman Bell, Bill
| Hallahan, an erratic southpaw; Fred
Farmhouse, Carman Hill, former Pirate
| finger and AL Grabowski.
Bell has come back after a term with
Rochester and Grabowski was with
Danville, Ill, most of last season
Charles Flint Rhem. If he fulfills a
promise to reform his training habits,
may contribute some right-handed eff
fectiveneSs. Hal Haid Is the chief re-
lief man.
Behind the bat the veteran Earl
Smith and Jimmy Wilson will do most
of the work again, with Gus Mancuso
ready to step in.
When the Cards obtained Sparky
Adams from the Pirates, the assump-
ton was he would play second and
Krankie Frisch would move to third.
Street, however, vetoed this plan. He
will keep Frisch at second base, because
- l,s1 -VN1a -frfIl r1wy
High, a great Spring performer, at
third and hold Adams in reserve.
Charley Colbert is expected to improve
at short and Jim Bottomley still Is
among the hardest hitting first sackers.
| Joel Hunt, former Texas A. and M.
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the ball clubs in late years. Although
it has the term city tackled to it, the
town in which Pyle was reared was little
more than hamlet in his childhood
days and still was part of the COW
country. At tender. age, Herbert
Ernest had his first experience at horse
back riding and it was not long before
he became plain and fancy equestrian
Perhaps this gave him the build and
stamina that later helped him become
the outstanding track and field athlete
in the high school at Karnes City.
Track and Field Star.
He was the big star in track and field
athletics all his four years in the school.
He specialized in the 220-yard dash
in track events, but also was a nifty
hurdfer and not at all poor at the
quarter mile In the field he did about
everything and well, too. He was high
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quarterback, has shown ability at third
and may land a utility post.
Chick Hafey. his eyesight improved,
and Taylor Douthit have no serious
rivals for their regular jobs, in left
and center. With the speedy movie
actor, Ernest Orsatti in right, there is
q $3.50 punch or better in every out9eld
post, enough to satisfy the most exkct-
Ing. Homer Peel, obtained from the
Phillies, has hit hard enough in train
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ART OFFERED $500
SANS Temperament
nv thA Assnciated press-

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 13.-CharIes A.
Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White
Sox, apparently is willing to come more
than half way in his dealings with
Charles Arthur Shires.
The old Roman has offered the shy
one $500 season to play first base
for the Sox, and is ready to add a bonus
at the end of the campaign, If Arthur
will conduct himself becomingly, both
on and of the field.
However, in letter written to Shires
yesterday, Comiskey insisted the player
promise to make no displays of
temperament.
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in a superb game.
far better than any
he pitched during
the regular season.
In the Spring of
1929 Mc(5raw was
perfectly satisfied
with his pitching.
He put it this way:
"There are no
better left-handers
in the National
League than Hub
bell and Walker.
They should win
close to 40 games
between them. This
fellow Hubbell, al
most single hand
ed, nearly won a
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~ LOxI, Miss, March 13-Down
K in Southwest Texas, close to the
- Rio Grande Valley, folks never
knew much of Herbert Ernest
Pyle as base ball player until after
he was out Of high school. True, this
young fellow who now is striving to
earn a place on the Nationals pitching
staff had fooled around lots in his
home town of Karnes City and in
Karnes County since he was IL years
old. but he had been so good at other
branches of athletics that his base ball
playing was all but overlooked.
Pyle, born in Helena. Tex, on Janu-
airy 81, 1906, became citizen of Karnes
City when only years old, and has
been there since except when out with
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RACE FAvORITE HURT.

CHELTENFIAM. England, March 10
P)-J H Whitneys = steepIechaser,
Easter Hero, was found to be lame after
winning the gold cup here Tuesday and it
is extremely doubtful If he will be able
to compete, in the Grand National, in
which he has been a favorite.
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FIGURES ON BENTON
STAGING COMEBACK
Giants, However, Expected
to Be in Thick of the
Fighting for Flag.
tInterriew with John Mcaraw.)

~ NE year ago at this time
4 John McGraW, reSourceful
Y manager of the New York
Giants, believed his club
was strong enough to win. he
revealed that information When
the Giants came to New Orleans
to play a two-game series with
Cleveland.
The club certainly looked the part
every inch champion in those games,
which were split, Cleveland winning ths
eacond tilt because John Miljus turned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
By FRANK E. O'BRIEN.

THURSDAY, October, 9, Chicago witnessed
its greatest fasco since Mrs O'Leary's
COW kicked over the lamp. Thursday was
Chicago Prosperity Day. In other years the
day has been observed merely as the anniver-
sary of the great Chicago fire, but "Big Bill"
Thompson this year conceived the idea of put
ting over one of his so-called "big shows" and
incidentally using the occasion to again toss
his hat into the ring for reelection to the Of
flee of mayor "Big Bill" who, it is said,
makes his best political campaign speeches
when soused with booze, brought another of
Americas master showmen, VIM. Randolph
Hearst, to Chicago to help the thing along.
Although Thompson had publicly announced
that over three hundred thousand reserved seat
tickets to the Soldiers Field Stadium had been
circulated throughout the city and its suburbs,
less than thirty-five thousand people were in
the stands when the fascist clown, Mayor
Thompson, and his guest, Hearst, drove into
the huge bowl of the stadium. About three
quarters of that number were school children
who were excused early from classes by the
Thompson-controlled board of education. The
remainder was made up, chiefly, of city and
county employees whose jobs were in danger if
they failed to turn out and whoop it up for
Thompson and Hearst.
In the sections where the grammar and high
school pupils were seated one could notice the
shoddy clothing that is being worn by work
ers' children. On many of the faces one could
plainly see evidences of under-nourishment.
These school kids didn't cheer when the two
fascist leaders entered the stadium, thanked on
all sides with police on motorcycles, detec-
tives in Cadillac squad cars, whistles blowing
and cut-outs open. Hundreds were Indifferent,
hundreds actually booed them.
The jingostic demonstration finally got
under way. There was the boom-boom of
bursting bombs and Immediately the air was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17

meaning, aims and accomplishments of Com
munism.
The only witnesses" allowed to speak freely
before this Fish boss-class committee were the
representatives of the boss-class enemies of
the workers.
But the workers in the meantime are pre-
pairing case against Hamilton Fish and the
whole capitalist class he represents.
Among the evidence gathered by the work
ers against this fascist inquisitor, Hamilton
Fish, is the fact that Fish is the owner of
New York tenement houses where consumptive
workers cough themselves to death.
Where the Fish Grow.
We have already learned that Fish lives like
a veritable potentate, is the owner of several
palatial homes, and is constantly surrounded
by formidable staff of servants, lackeys and
guards. The Pictorial Review, October 1929,
speaks of Hamilton Fish's nonentity of
daughter, Elizabeth, as ca member of Wash
ington's youngest set"
"a stately line of ancestors is behind this
little girl" says the Pictorial Review. "Con-
gressmen, senators, diplomats, lawyers, rail-
road magnates, bankers. Elizabeth Stuyvesant
Fish's father-Hamilton Fish, Jr.,-is men,
Der of the House from New York, her mother
one of Washington's most gracious hostesses.
"Mrs. Fish has always been very particular
about definite schedule for her children. They
have lots of outdoor exercise and their time
for homework, maps and indoor play is care
fully systematized
"With the same thorough and personal care
that she gives everything the childrens health
and welfare, Mrs. Fish takes pains that their
diet shall be laid out by leading child special
lists"
More Facts About Fish.
These facts are merely prelude to the in
side dope that we are gathering about Hamil-
ton Fish and his pampered plutocratic family.
We expect soon to unearth some very curious
and interesting family skeletons. But in the
meantime let us remember what while Fish's
children are having their maps and diets regul-
ated by corps of expensive specialists work.
ing class children are starving and being evic-
ted from their homes or are forced to sacrifice
their little bodies on the altar of mammon in
the southern textile mills
Fish comes from family of bankers that
rot its money by robbing the working class.
Fish, true to his class, is trying to forge new
chains for the already unclaimed workers
But we will not wear your chains Mr.. Fish.
We American workers will do what our Rus
sian brothers did. We will destroy your cap
italist system and set up workers. govern
ment. Our children then, Mr.. Fish, will look
back and compare you and your barbarious
committee with the "holy" savages Of the
Spanish Inquisition.
Worker! Fight Fish! Vote Communist!
written at Harris Island Penitentiary)
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&4<>~*.<-
It Works Both Ways
By JORGE

Before the gang of frothing patriots could
get still more frenzied about the awful Boil
sheviks who are supposed to be to blame Tor
the business depression in America because
they bought machinery and cotton and sold a
bushel or two of wheat here, the news from
France tells US that in France the nationalist
press is raising holy hades about American
spectators robbing the country
Commenting on the bankruptcy OF the
Prince and Whitley brokers, whose collapse IN
New York carried ruin to thousands of French
bourgeoisie who had been playing around with
the firms Paris office, the paper "La Liberte"
says:
This firm is one of those which recently
have been installed in France and have con-
tributed to drain our national savings for
the profit of the American spectators. 1t
is one of those which have placed on our
market American shares which had scared
to enormous prices in the crazy speculation
boom and which now have caused loss to
our countrymen of between eight-tenths and
nine-tenths of what they paid for them"
After the fashion of Secretary Hyde, the
French paper should assert that American
Imperialism did this deliberately with the
intent of stirring up discomfort and Bolshev-
ISM"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
North Carolina BlaCkshirts Get
No Workers

class to organize to fight against increased
Communist activity and influence in the South.
1t also comes at time when the attack on
the standard of living of the mill workers is
most vicious.
Only the other day the employers of the LOUIS
Mill where the fascist meeting took place de-
cded to install the II hour day in place of
10 hour day beginning Monday. The Comnlu-
mist Party will proceed to form defense COM
mittees in every mill and mill village.
The campaign against the fascist attempt
to terrorize the workers of North Carolina will
be defeated by the strength of the defense
committees of Negro and white workers. The
fight will also be linked up with the struggle
against lynching, and with the anti-lynching
and terror conference which is now being called
for October 27 at Charlotte, N. C.
That the infamous committee of hundred
headed by Bulwinkle and other prominent law
yers of Gastonia is affiliated with the Amer
lean Fascist Order of Black Shirts was estab-
lished by the Atlanta speaker who told of
visiting that branch of their activities.
All present at the meeting received copies
of the organ of the American fascist, ''The
Black Shirt" edited by Gewinner, former Ko
Klux Khan official, and published in Atlanta,
Ca In reality the paper, a four-page affair,
largely defeats its own purpose, as at least
three-quarters of the space is devoted to re-
prints from the Daily Worker and the South
ern Worker, of such nature as to make new adj
herents for rather than enemies of the leader
in all working class struggles among the work.
ers, the Communist Party
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Utterly Unnecessary

We see that corporation is going to build
a 22-inch pipe line from Kentucky to Detroit
to supply that city with natural gas.
Likewise we see that the Guaranty Trust
Company of New York, the Continental ILL
nois Company and the Northern Trust Com
pany of Chicago, are going, with the aid OF
Mayor Murphy, to "help the unemployed" Of
Detroit, by mailing a mortgage on the city
for S15,0o0,000, at price of spar for tbs
bonds as 26ss plus premium of $50"
From the way Murphy is helping the bank
ers under the guise of 'helping the unem-
ployed," we judge that piping natural gas all
the way from Kentucky is waste of energy.