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Foes of Criffs Fear Cronin
Think Club Will Win or Fall by His Amount of
Success-Plan to Check Him.

and he took the boy to Paso Robes
when Cronin was only 10.
Cronin did not acquire skill rap
idly enough to suit Pittsburgh and
1t let him 60, first with o string at
tached to him and then without.
Other clubs were uncertain as to his
strength and at last he was acquired
by Washington when 1t needed a
shortstop.
Cronin then bloomed overnight and
became one Of the best shortstops in
base ball. He was elected the most
valuable player to his team In 1880.
He is 50 modest that he asks other
players whether they think that he
has done the right thing when he
hits q ball and shares public con-
versation with Babe Ruth. It hasn't
spoiled him.
Has Griffs' Rivals Worried.
"Joe. what are you going to do
this season." he was asked today.
Try to do as well as I did last"
he replied. "They tell me that
lightning never strikes twice in the
same spot"
Seven other American League clubs
are so fearful that it will strike
twice in the same spot that their
managers are working every combi-
nation they can to make it hard for
Cronin to play rs successfully as he
did last year. They think Washing
ton will win or fall by the amount
Of success that Cronin has.
Pittsburgh got him for nothing.
Clark Griffith. owner OF the Ma
tionals, was asked what he would
take for him.
ANY price you can name I'll re-
fuse" was the reply. Such is the
fortune Of base ball.
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NEW BALL NOT TO AFFECT
AVERAGES, SAYS BARNARD
American League President Does Not Think II Will
Change Style of Play-Fails to See How Mats
Have Improved-Visits Biloxi Today.

Yankees and Washington. topnotchers
of last year, have improved They
haven't added any talent.
ION the other hand. the lower clubs
have strengthened considerably. Cleve-
land has added several good pitchers.
Detroit has well balanced hurting
staff. The White Sox have improved
greatly and the same goes for the st.
Louis Browns.
Il looked over the Red Sox yesterday
and Bob Quinn has assembled q team
with great possibilities"
The league head leaves today for
Biloxi, Miss, where the washington
club is training, before he returns to
Chicago.
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TWO WORLD RECORDS
SET, ONE TIED BY GIRL
Betty Robinson Dashes to Marks
for so and 20 Yards, Equals
Half-Century Time.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 2o.-Betty Robin
son of the Illinois Womens Athletic
Club set two new world indoor records
and equaled a third at the American
Institute of Banking championships.
She sprinted the so and 10 yard
exents for the record-smashing times OF
6!07 and 0:079, respectively, and step
ped of the 50-yard race in o:06 to
equal the world mark.
Ray Conger, Illinois Athletic Club,
won the invitation mile in 4:23.6, with
Joe Sivak, National Collegiate A. A..
champion, from Butler, second. An
unbanked track made for rather slow
time.
Phil Edwards, Negro runner of the
Hamilton, Ontario. Olympic Club, easily
won the 600-yard invitation race in
1855.
Clyde Bracey ran the 70-yard dash in
0:07.2 to win from Allen East.
The special pole vault event was won
by william Droegmuller, !. A. c., at 10
feet.
University of Chicago'S relay team
won the mile event in 3:278, with
Northwestern second and Notre Dame
third.
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Giants Find Blunt,
Theft, Worthless

GAN ANTONIO, Tex, March 20
- [P).-The New York Giants
have about decided that the
long hours they spent drilling on
base stealing and other features Of
tight base ball in preparation for
the use of the new National League
ball were just wasted time.
For three days had heavy
bunting and sliding drill" Manager
John McGraw said. "Then we
started against major league pitch
ing and found last years condi-
tionS. Runs arrived in patches and
there was no sense bunting and
trying to steal single run. It looks
like another season Of the lively
ball and big scores"
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pinning also will be favored.
JUDGE KENESAW . MOUNTAIN
Lands, who yesterday arrived TO
spend q few days at a nearby Gulf
Coast hotel en- route back to headquar-
tiers in Chicago from 'sojourn in
Florida. had date to play golf with
the Washington club chieftain today.
When extended the invitation the
commissioner of base ball said he had
sent his golfing paraphernalia on home,
but accepted Griff's challenge when the
latter volunteered TO dig up an outfit
for him. The car of the national
pastime laughingly agreed to pay for
any clubs he might break in excess OF
the number Of three.
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O'CLOCK Should Be Popular Rvuk Shortpper
Athletics Golf
Backed by Mack

TORT MYERS, Fla, March 20 (R.-
Il Some of the Philadelphia Attn
leticS are mixing golf with their
base ball conditioning.
Jimmy Dykes was in the semi
final round of the Fort Myers Coun-
try Club championships today after
defeating Jimmy Foxx, 4 and 3. Bob
Grove and Mickey Cochrane still
are in the tournament, but In the
second flight.
Manager Connie Mack is golf
enthusiast and believes the game Is
a big help In working out the kinks
Of his players.
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ERvAsT OUT OF RACE.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, March 20 Dr.
Baron Long, owner of Ervast, regarded
as real threat In the Aqua Caliente
Handicap, said today he would with
training convinced Long the horse could
not do himself Justice.
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CARD HoLnouT SIGNS.

LOS ANGELES, March 20 (P-For-
rest Twogood, Southern California
freshman basket ball and base bali
coach, a holdout, has signed his con-
tract with the st. Louis Cardinals.
Twogood. pitcher, was farned to. st,
Joseph Of the Western League last sea-
son.
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CHIEF TO MEET TRAJ0S

Chief White Feather will grapple with
George Tragos.,in one of the prelilni-
naries to the jim Londos- George Hagen
wrestling bout next Thursday night at
the Auditorium.
The Chief has plenty Of color and
Tragos Is willing battler.
Paul Jones and Babe. Caddock are
among others listed to show their wares.
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KoENIG PAYS 5000 FINE.

STOCKTON, Calf. March 90 Or
On a charge of reckless driving, re-
duced from charges of failing to stop
and give information following an auto
mobile accident, Mark M. KoeniR,' De-
troit ball player. paid a fine Of 5000.
He pleaded guilty.
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DIXIE PIGS OPTIMISTIC
Hope to Have Better Nine Than
Impressive 1880 Outfit.

impressive 1880 Outf1t.
EVANSVILLE. Md, March 90
Dixie Pig A. c., which won the pennant
in the Prince Georges County, loop of
the Capital City Base Ball League last
season, hopes to have an even stronger
team this year. All members of the
1880 nine again will be available along
with couple of newcomers in Frank
Giddings, pitcher, and Bob Gaylor, third
baseman, Berwyn boys. Gaylor is a
former University Of Maryland base ball
and basket ball player.
Manager Hugh Waldrop says he has
secured the Berwyn field for the Pigs
home games. 1t is said that Berwyn
will not be represented on the diamond
this year
After winning the Prince Georges title
last season the Pigs defeated BauSer-
man Motor Co. and AT1acostia Eagles in
the play-oh for the Capital City League
metropolitan crown, but lost to the
Takoma Tigers, who captured top
honors.
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Hockey Scores

Canadian American Loop.
Philadelphia Arrows, 3; Springfield
Indians. 3.
New Haven, 8; Boston. /.
American League.
Buffalo Bisons, 3; Chicago Sham
rocks, 2.
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LoNDoS, SONNENBERG WIN
Jim Beats Gardini and Gus Pins
Wagner in Nat Bouts.

Wagner in Nat Bouts.
DETROIT. March 20 QP).--Jim Lon
dos, heavyweight wrestler, defeated
Renato Gardini in straight falls last
night. Londos took the first fall in ~
minutes and the second in less than a
minute.
BOSTON, March 20 (R.-Gus Son.
nenberg used his flying tackles last night
to gain two falls on Jack Wagner,
Nick Lutte won the semt-hnal from
John Spellman.
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STRONG VIRGINIA NINE
Front Royal All-stars Reorganize
for 1881 Campaign.

TOT 1851 Campaign.
FRONT ROYAL, Va, March 90
Front Royal All Stars, an outstanding
State last season, have reorganized with
DR.. Willard w. Sonner, president; =. T.
Sinner, general manager, and Stewart
G. Payne, secretary and treasurer.
With all their regular players back,
along with q flock Of newcomers, the
All Stars figure they have a first-rate
chance of lettering their record Of q
season ago when they won IS out Of As
games.
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TT IL likely when the Nationals again
i journey to Gulfport next Monday
for the fourth game Of their series
against the Orioles, Heinie Manush and
one or two other regulars will get little
II any work4o do.
The diaudnd there is so hard and
the outfeld 81 bumpy the athletes run
the risk of injury to their limbs.
Thus far the. leg which Manush in
iured last season with the result ne
was laid up for month seems sound,
hsIt care Is 10 be exercised TO preyeni
i recurrence Of the injury and some o.
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rather wider margin than is evident at cursory
review. For isn't it conceivable that base ball
attracts more public attention in the big-time
cities than in the bush leagues and that, at the
same time, golf does not encounter any such
considerable diminution of interest when
moved from Long Island to the home town
country club? Golf is always golf, but base ball
loses some measure of its glamorous attraction
when it leaves the Polo Grounds Shibe Park or
CominSky Park.
Let me present another intriguing point in
this golf base ball debate. have 1t on the
word of a nationally known manufacturer of
sporting goods that approximately $29 600 600
worth of golf equipment sold In the United
States during 1880. This, he said, was more
than twice as much the sales of fishing tackle
and equipment, which ranked second on the list,
and more than three times the value of the
base ball equipment disposed of, which ranked
third in this comparison of sales voldme of
athletic goods.
Quite true it is, of course, that golhng para
phernalia is costly per individual player
than Is base ball equipment, and that the rabid
golfer spends more at his country club In
year than does the dyed in the-wool base ball
fan in following the fortunes Of his team" The
comparisons, however, remain very valuable and
significant just the same.
There's a deep, fundamental reason for this
change-over. It's found in the fact the United
States has become playing nation q country
of people who would rather play a game than
watch others in action. Americans are no
longer content to sit idly by and be spectators,
and so they naturally turn to golf, which in
addition to being q tremendously appealing
sport, doesn't require that II other persons play
with them to make a game Of 1t.
Johnny king, catcher for the old Chi
caxo Cubs, summed 1t up rather well when
he once said Golf seems to be taking the
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to golf They should sleep eat and think base
ball alone without the influence of any other
sport"
Mr. Mack, however, has these interesting
thoughts ancnt the golf-vs.-base ball question:
Golf has not cut into base ball to any APP
preciable extent. AS player know golf is
great game, but, with the exceptions Of watching
the champions some Of my close friends in
action, 1 myself am interested only in how I
swing my clubs and how I fare. Most of the
people actually interested in golf those who
play the game.
Golf will not in my opinion, eventually sue
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Johnny King, old base ball star, says
people go in for golf because they rant
to play themselves rather than scatch
others.
coed base ball, because it costs several dollars
on the average to play a round Of golf"
There's the base ball mans side Of the
question for you. And what Mr.. Mack has to
say Is mighty meaty stuff indeed.
But you can't get away from the earlier
clusion that our national viewpoint has changed
that We no longer are content to sit passively
and watch, but must get out and play the game
ourselves, and the game to which most Of us
have turned Is not base ball, but goH.
(Copyrighk 1ssI.l
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Is the time arriving When the diamond
sport will be forced to share It's title as
national pastime of these United Statcs-a
title it has held almost ever since this
country became seriously athletic-minded?
Not 50 very long ago any che who would have
been so brash to suggest that base ball Was
not Americas leading national p2stinc would
have been rdicled scorned and laughed right
out OF the place. It's not necessary to go any
farther back than five or six years to conceive
such situation
But times have changed Is t.sey Always do.
They've changed so much that, if one considers
all the known facts, It would appear that base
for many, and for the very good reason the
United States has no one sport that can be
classed alone and Singly as the national
pastime. There was q time when base ball
could claim virtually the undivided interest OF
the majority Of Americas athletic fans. Now,
however, 1t seems to have been forced to share
its leadership with golf, for, to all intentS and
purposes the links game has stripped it of ct
Least one-half Of its national pastime title
And so there Is this new lineup Base ball
- the most popular sport to watch: golf as
the most popular sport TO play. That's the
modern, up-to- the minute American viewpoint
on the situation, and It's Veracity cannot be
successfully challenged if all the facts are fully
considered.
0NE of these facts is found in a survey
~ made not long ago by the Boys Club
Federation of America, q report which con-
Guided that base ball Is becoming q lost art
among many lads of this country Lack of
playing fields and cost of equipment rather
than lack of interest were advanced as reasons
for such a state Of affairs.
1t was suggested that the magnates of organ
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played on Inks located IN
cities where National and
American League base ball
teams have home grounds.
Such a comparison appears
to hand the palm Of popular
interest to golf and nv n
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lied base ball take some precautions. else their
supply Of playing material might be sorely
depleted ere long. So the magnates lately have
spent and are spending considerable money to
build up more base ball interest among the boys
Of America.
Furthermore, lend an ear to the recital Of
some interesting statistics It has been esti-
mated by q certain golf club manufacturer in
the Middle West that the United States golfing
army Swelled by at least . cool million
additional players this year and that prior to
than 5000 900 persons playing golf in the United
States. Thus If this particular estimator is TO
be believed, there will be almost 1000 900
American citizens classified as golfers by the
time the snow flies.
c UGH a total is staggering in its proportions,
- especially when compared with the countrys
aggregate population Of approximately 100 O00,-
600. It's my belief that this is something of
an overestimate for another close student of
the game has figured that about 1000 900 per-
played at least one round of regulation
golf In the United States during 1880. The
discrepancy between the two estimates Is large,
yet the mean that lies somewhere between them
remains significant.
Moreover the latter observer discovered the
important fact that the total attendance at
major league base ball games last year
around the II 900 900 mark, while on the other
hand at least $4,000 600 rounds Of golf were
Vla HaEc tod In,
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.|Zinks Game Best to
. Play, Dinmond
Gam e IIenI to
Watch, ;" Say the
Fans as They Point
to the MarueIouS
.C10zUth in DeU0tees
of the Fair70ay.
BY HOWARD HOLT.

= golf threatening base ball in popularity?
Is the time arriving when the diamond
sport will be forced to share It's title as IA
national pastime of these United StatcS-a
title it has held almost ever since this
counting banouna SeriouSIy atill
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
STATE OF ARIZONA is
DOTTED WITH CITIES OF
ANCIENT RACES THE
LAST OF THE OLD
FRONTIER

-
dot all sections to the delight
of archaeolOgists and the
wonder of layman. Marks of
Spanish occupation when
the Thirteen Colonies were
very, very young are no less
interesting, and San Xavier
and Tumacacori Missions,
and ancient Tubac, are
among southern Arizona S
most famous points of inter
estS. To many, however,
traces of frontier life of half
a century ago are even
more colorful, and in vari-
Gus parts of the state are
picturesque summer-resOrt
sections which have chang
ed but little since the time
of open, hard-fought range
and mushrooming mining
camps.
Perhaps the most famous
of these scenes replate with
memories of six-guns, feuds
and bold men both good and
bad is the Tonto Basin coun-
try of northen ella county.
The villages of Pine and
Payson and the surrounding
mountain forests are an
ideal setting for the legends
of early days which fill
them, while Pleasant Valley
to the east is famous as the
locale of one of the blood
est of all range wars. Tonto
BasSin and its overhanging
Mogollon Rim are known
wherever books are read,
and visitors find this COM
paratively virgin country a
delightful and hospitable re-
sort region.
The Camp Wood country
northwest of Prescott is an
other area that vividly re-
calls the old west, and the
guests ranches of that vici-
nifty have taken care to pre-
serve the old-time atmos-
phere. Crown King, in the
Bradshaws, is a beautifully
secluded resort village,
strikingly like an early-day
mine and cattle camp, and
all through the forests of
Yavapai, Coconino, Navajo,
Apache and Greenlee coun-
ties are other spots where
only the automobile road
gives evidence of new and
different age.
Farther south are still
other spots where the front
ier spirit lives in stirring
tales. The Chiricahua and
Huachuca mountains of Co
chise county, and the pretty
rolling uplandS of Santa
Cruz county are filed with
scenes of bright recollection
to old-timers. Abandoned
mines, "ghost" camps that
flourished when Tombstone
was in its heydey, the
"bloody ground" of Apache
raids and outlaw battles, in
vite the seeker for the un-
usual. Arivapai canyon, in
southwestern Graham coun-
ty, and many other district
are just as they were de-
cades ago.
The entire state, for that
matter, abounds with ghosts
of the passing of the once
wild west. Along the Colo
RADIO river in Yuma county
lie the ruins of old-time
steamboat towns. Mohave
county is rich in reminders
of early transcontinental
travel, as is the whole south
ern route followed by the
first five stage lines. The
Arizona strip" north of the
Grand Canyon is almost as
hardy Norman pioneers
found it in the COS. Indian
warfare years still linger in
old army posts. Cattle
ranches half century old tell
a story of human triumph
over odds. and hundreds of
forgotten mines bear wit
ness to dreams that faded
when the state was young.
Wherever one may go in
Arizona, on almost any of
the "See Arizona" trips ad-
L
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Saturday and obtained food, waited
quietly today for Inauguration OF q re-
lief plan adopted by civic officials.
The plan was to have been operative
this morning. when many Of the unem-
ployed, most of whom are miners. were
TO have been put to work on civic
projects and paid with groceries. MAI.
Barclay Morgan, however, said action
would be delayed until he had con-
ferred with Gov. w. H. Murray today.
Gov. Murray. at Oklahoma City, as
sured the hungry men and women OF
the mining section that funds would be
provided. Part OF the money, he said.
will be raised by public subscription and
the State will furnish the remainder.
Although Statewide unemployment
conference has been called here for July
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the Nationalist government August /.
when Gen. Chang Fat-Kawi would lead
an army into Kiangsi Province. NOM
inally Nationalist territory.
This decision followed the announce
ment that Gen. Shih Yu-San, an anti
Nationalist. had begun hostilities in
Northern China. Gen. Shih's operations
north of the Yellow River caused the
declaration Of martial law in Peiping
and Tientsin and the invocation of a
news censorship by Nationalist authori-
ties.
Gen. Shin reputedly has accepted an
appointment to command Canton's 5th
Army, and Yen Hsi-Shan and Feng Yu-
Hsiang, Northern generals who last year
led an abortive uprising against thu Ma
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lions had forced many Of them to make
wide detours on the fight from Cha
mute, Kans., the luncheon stop.
Jack B. Story was the first to land.
followed by Harry Russell, Dearborn,
Mich, who Is leading In points, Lowell
Bayles Of Springfield, Mass, and Jimmy
Smart, Pine Bluff, Ark. Eddie Schnei-
der, 19-year-old jersey City youth, was
forced of his course by unfavorable
weather, but sighted Jimmy Doolittle
the referee, and followed him In.
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tionalists, are expected 70 command
the I'd and 3rd.
The japanese consul general here to-
day denied q published report that the
Japanese consul at Canton had been
named as an adviser to the Canton
government.
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These Deep Cut Prices for Wednesday, Thur

the prices and just why decidedly your advan-
tage shop for your needs at Peoples"
This sale for the benefit of customers only. We
the right limit quantities and refuse to sell dealers
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AIR TOUR CONTESTANTS
SCAN WEATHER MAPS
Arrive in Kansas City During
Rainstorm-Youthful Flyer
Forced Or Course.
, the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, July 21.-Contestants
In the national air tour scanned weather
charts to the north today as they pre-
pared to take off for Lincoln, Nebr.,
the next leg Of their flight.
The planes arrived here late yester-
day in q rainstorm. Weather condi-
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The Douglass Lighter lights auto
matically. just press the trigger, 1t is
made throughout with the precision OF
a fine watch.
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The Irish Free State last year bought
more British-made automobiles than ali
the foreign countries In the world com
bined or all the other overseas do
nnirdons.
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Discovery by Lord Hastings Of Rus
sian tick In a pat Of butter has started
a new campaign in England against the
importation Of tho Soviet product.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21
OKLAHOMA JOBLESS
QUIETLY AWAIT AID
Plan for Help, However, Is De-
layed Until Mayor Can Talk
to Governor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HENRIETTA. Okla. July 2l.-Ine
unemployed of Henryetta, who paraded
IN an orderly manner to stores mere
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CHINESE INSURGENTS
START DRIVE AUGUST |
Gen. Chang to Move Army Against
Nationalist in Kiangsi
Province.

BY the Associated Press.
HONGKONG, July 21.-The insur-
gent Canton government announced to-
day it would begin operations against
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81, the chief executive said he con-
sidered the Henryetta situation as call
ing for emergency action.