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The Washington times., 1931-04-10
A R MY OPENS
BALL SEASON

WEST POINT, N. Y, April 10.
Official opening Of the Army
baseball season will occur tomor-
row afternoon with the Cadet
ball players crossing bats with
the Connecticut Aggies. Wet
grounds forced the cancellation
of the University Of Vermont
game scheduled for last Wednes-
day. Moose" Mccormick, former
Giant pinch hitter, has developed
a we'll balanced team with a
number of experienced letter men
from last year in their old posi-
tionS.
Lineup-Conway, third base;
Powell, first base; Farnsworth,
shortstop; Golden, right field;
Hoy, catcher; Lewis, left field;
Parham, center field; Dreyer,
second base; Tiemann or Cough
lin. pitcher.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
MAJOR SH|F rs
ARE LIKELY

Several new faces will be seen
at first base in the American Lea.
que this year.
The White Sox, having fooled
around for several seasons try
ing to get a man in the minor
leagues, have bought Lu Blue
from the Browns. That has left
the st. Louis team with a new
conner. Irving Burns, to look
after the chores there. Burns is
willing, but is not a smooth
working first baseman.
The other day Manager Will
lam Killefer told him he would
have to improve in his fielding
or some one else would play, the
bag.
At Boston, Sweeney will do
the hOnOrs for the Red SOx.
TOdt, havinf been tried out,
there for several years, paid
so muCn &GCcNL1ON 10 MS IIclU-
ing that he lost his batting eye.
Todt at one time looked like
a coming Slugger, but the art
of first basing so occupied his
mind that he never gave a
thought to his hitting.
Connie Mack has Todt and de-
clares that the ex-Boston player
will appear in all games where
Foxx is shifted to other posts.
At Detroit it is said that Alex
ander will be a different first
baseman this season. Alexander
took off about 25 pounds during
the winter. practicing first bas-
ing at home, and seems fitted to
hold down the hassock in a more
acceptable style this year.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
Baseball Schedules
GiUen Fans By
The Times

For the third successive year,
The Washington Times is Civ
ing handy vest pocket Ameri-
can League baseball schedules
to all baseball fans for the ask
ing-or rather for the writing.
A self-addressed, stamped en-
velope inclosed with your re-
quest will bring you the sched-
ule by return mail. But one
schedule will be given to each
fan. Write to Schedule Editor,
Room 403, Times Office. 1921
H st. N. W.
Do not call at the, business
office counter or at the room
number at the sporting depart
ment for these schedules, but
write for them, and they will
cope to you by the next mail.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10

hustled bashfully back to the
dugout.
Nor could other pretty per.
formances overshadow that catch.
For, as Your Uncle Nick" Altrock
says:
"YOu can't beat 100 per cent?"
Phils, Braves
Ask any big league manager
who are the toughest major
league teams in spring exhibitions
and the likely reply is:
"The Braves and PhillieS."
Whatever can be said about
these ball clubs during the Ma
tional League season, it must be
admitted that they hustle in the
spring. For that reason Wash
ington's successive triumphs over
the Phils and Hubmen may mean
more than is generally supposed.
For one thing the Phillies only
recently captured two of three
games in their annual city series
with the champion Athletics. Yet
Washington's pennant aspiring
athletes checked them without
any apparent difficulty.
Whitney's terrific circuit
drive into the stands in left
center in PhiladeIphia's end Of
the second inning sent the visi-
tors ahead for the first and last
time.
The Griffmen jumped out in
front to stay in their half when
Judge singled, Bluege was hit by
a pitched ball and Spencer's fly
fell into left for two bases when
Lee lost it in the sun.
BY way of locking up the situa-
ton Washington used four hits
and a damaging error by Catcher
Rensa to add five more in the
third. Doubles by S. Rice and
Spencer featured the rally.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10

Many choice bits, that should
rightfully claim the attention OF
baseball-minded folk, go I'm.
noticed. Yet some 1000 Wash
ingtonianS today are still paying
homage to phenomenal running
catch engineered by Sam West,
Washington's pereless center
fielder, in the sixth inning of yes
terday's Washington-Philadelph
game.
Even Washington's decisive 10
to-5 defeat of Burt Shotten's slug
gish sluggers pales into insignif-
icance when Vests feat is dis
cussed.
Klein was on when "Pinkie''
Whitney ambled to bat full of
fire. Whitney had batted gen.
uine home run into the center
field bleachers in the second in
ming and apparently had designs
on another extra distance blow.
Speed Up
Anyhow Hadley, who had re-
lieved Crowder in the box, served
Whitney a fast one and the big
Phil, putting every ounce of
power behind his bat, took his
cut.
Like a rocket, the ball shot out
toward deepest center. Almost
unnoticed, West, antelope that he
is, galloped in the general direc-
ton Of the ball.
"'SnO USE" one fan back Of
the press box murmured, cts
good for three bases"
Suddenly Sam, in that miracu-
louS way of his, put on an extra
burst of speed. And while Grit
fifth Stadium customers gasped he
Speared the ball on the dead run.
There wasn't a large crowd at
Griffith Stadium yesterday. But
what was lacking in numbers was
supplied in enthusiasm as West
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
Spend Much Money

Anyone with a radio in his
home, and it seems to me there
must be one in most homes,
must have been impressed by
the enormity of the crowds
which Saturday upon Saturday
visit the larger stadia Of the
country for ootball alone.
Washington, you know, never
has any of the real big foot
ball crowds. Our football audi
ences don't average 10000 and
not 10 per cent of them are
visitors from out of town on
whom we need to impress the
advantages Of our city.
The reason for this, Bob, is
that we don't have a football
and track plant nor a field
house Of sufficient proportion
to stage these big interSec-
tional collegiate events, the
Olympic try-outs, or the other
sporting events outside of pro-
fessional baseball, to pull in
ChoSe croWdS tWlXt baseball sea-
sons.
With the tendency toward
intersectional football becoming
more and more emphasized
from year to year, with one
prominent Washington college
already cutting off local COM
petition in favor of big games
with Southern and Western
elevens and with a wonderful
immediate future in collegiate
football alone, it occurs to me
that this is a good time to
consider a huge stadium here
in Washington where monster
crowds can be handled and
wherein the best competition
can be invited and guaranteed
a crowd tina. will make it worth
their while accepting.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
Crowds Are Waiting

Bob, you and your committee
must know that every success
full civic convention, worlds
fair or gathering of any ma
ture in modern times has built
Its plans around an expansive
sports and athletic program.
If your committee doesn't know
it, 1t can determine the truth
of such a statement through
a little correspondence.
The biggest crowd of any
day at the Philadelphia Sesqui-
centennial was present for
the Dempsey-Tunney fight.
They've been working on a
Los Angeles Olympic plant for
two years. Chicago has a
stadium, San Francisco has
one and within 10 years you'll
find large and small cities
alike - incidentally Richmond
has one half completed-build-
ing their futures very largely
around a big enough sport
center TO pun nau dozen big
crowds into its midst annually.
With five important colleges
here, big interSectional games
are not available now.
Why?
You can't seat a crowd big
enough to make the guar
antees.. The crowds are wait
ing to come to Washington
for these games. but they
won't come until there's a
place to put them. More about
this later, Bob, but in the
meantime please talk it over
with some Of your committee.
KIRK MILLER,
Sports Editor, The Times.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10

he will have
to ke a
sterling sill
yer one next
year.
The p a S s
a d m its Mr..
a n d M r S.
HI o o er to-
gether. Catch
Griff issuing
in di vi dual
OakleyS when
they cost him
$50 q piece.
1t is good
at any Amer
The Washington times., 1931-04-10

the outset OF
t h e b a C k
S W i n g. T h e
moment you u
turn from the
top and start
b a C k, ou
right hand will
go to work. 1t
will begin to
push often
without y o u y
knowing it. It
is S tro n G e r
than the left
arm and hand.
1t grips tightly,
n VI O rc m ing
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
Chicago HOckeyists
Beat Les CnnndienS

MONTREAL. April 10.-A
hockey team that doesn't know
when it's licked-Chicago'S Black
Hawks, moved another step closer
to the Stanley cup today. The
Hawks came from behind to
tie Les Canadiens, Of Montreal,
and then went on to- win after
So minutes of overtime play here
la night, 80.
Cyclone Wentworth whipped in
the goal that brought the Hawks
their second victory in the five
game Stanley cup series on a
charge down the ice with Stewart
Adams. About $4,000 witnessed
the game,
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
OTHER CITIES
DRAW BIG
THRONGS
Mr.. Bob Fleming,
Chairman, Greater National
Capital Committee.

Capital Committee.
Dear Bob:
It says here in the paper you
and a splendid committee of
public-minded WashingtonianS
have banded for the purpose Of
promoting interest in Washing
ton, bringing more tourists here
to behold the educational, musi-
cal, and commercial advantages
of the city and otherwise
boosting the National Capital.
In this connection, 1 have
been wondering if your commit
tee has given thought to the
sporting and athletic faScina-
tion which Washington could
hold for people from other sec
tionS, if the city could be united
behind a project to erect a
stadium wherein might be held
sporting spectacles comparable
to those staged in Franklin
Field, Philadelphia; the Yale
OOWAS Vic x4dA Nu4N SOeSNAAUAAAB
Soldier Field, Chicago; the
Rose Bowl at Pasadena, and
the other important stadia
throughout the country which,
week after week during the
football season, as we'll as track
and-field season, bring thou
sands of visitors, yea, tens Of
thousands of them, to their
gates?
Bob, here is an idea worth
the consideration of your COM
mittee. It isn't a dream, it
isn't a fantasy, it isn't an ideal,
but it is a fact which other
centers of far less national i'm
portance than Washington are
cashing in upon in a CONNER
cial way-a very large COM
mercial way indeed.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
Last Nights Fights

At New York-Davey Alter, New
York 132-pounder, defeated Jackie
Tannyhill, New York, eighth
round. Harry Sanke and Charley
Nelson, New York lightweights,
drew, 10 rounds.
At White Plains, N. Y.-Eddie
Kid Whalen, Brooklyn middle
weight, knocked out Johnnie
Bates, New York, tenth round.
At Paterson, N. J.-A Diamond,
Paterson middleweight, defeated
ALI Ross, Spain, 10 rounds.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10

the left hand. It then shoves
the club somewhat outwardly
and causes it to cut across the
ball from outside the line in.
This shankS the ball and makes
it go to the left of the direction
line. 1t has much roll to it. A
sour shot for a fact. Given
enough of them, you wrap your
club around a tree, or have i'm
pulse to. This action gives your
right hand a pushing effect.
Kept underneath, as will hap
pen when the suggested method
is used, it Slaps. 1t is an under
hand slap-like skipping a flat
stone across water. When it
slaps it cannot slap too hard in
full shots.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10

NICK ALTROCK lean League
Park. / suppose if the Presi-
dent wanted to run up and
see the PhillieS play the Pi-
rates, he would have to pay to
get in.
Griff doesn't mind spending
plenty for a solid gold pass, but
it burns him up because al
though it's good for only two
admissions, Is Secret Service
men always crash the gate
when the President comes in.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
RUPERT IMPROVED

NEW YORK, April 10.-Col.
Jacob Rupert. owner of the
New York Yankees, was reported
improved today. He is suffering
from a severe cold and is con-
fined to his bed. He planned,
however, to attend the baseball
seasons opening on Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
NICK
ALTROCK
Says:

Well, the season can start
now. Griff has given President
Hoover his annual gold base
ball pass.
But if things get any tougher,
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
Sam Vests Great Catch
Features Griff Win

In these days Of super-sugglng your average baseball
fanatic derives enjoyment out of the home
The Washington times., 1931-04-10
GOLF
By CHESTER HORTON

Now suppose we examine what
happens with the stroke if the
right hand is not suppressed at
The Washington times., 1931-04-10

"Spencer's a world beater be-
hind the bat" Walter confesSeS,
"if he ever starts hitting consist
emily Mickey COchrane and the
rest of the big league catcherS
will have to sit up and take no
tice!"
Evening star., 1931-11-27
MINNESOTA ACT
MAY Be GIVEN TEST
Opponents of Reapportion-
ment Would Ask Supreme
Court Writ.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, November 27-Minne-
sofas reapportionment act, vetoed by
Gov. Floyd B. Olson, but found valid by
the Minnesota Supreme Court, may be
taken to the Supreme Court of the
United States today.
Representative John A. Weeks and
associated attorneys opposing the recent
legislative act, which would reduce
Minnesota's congressional represent
alton from 10 to 8, said today they
would ask the Supreme Court for a
writ of certiorari today or as soon as
Yale Smiley, one of the leaders against
the reapportionment, was able to leave
q hospital.
The writ would call for review of
Minnesota Supreme Court records by
the high tribunal. Weeks and his COL
leagues believed this would prove more
effective than direct appeal and more
likely to obtain a hearing
BY q 5-to-2 vote the Minnesota Su-
preme Court found the act valid. despite
the objectors' contentious that it was
ineffective because it was vetoed by
Gov. Floyd B. Olson and not passed
over his veto by the Legislature.
In a similar case, involving New York,
the United States Supreme Court de-
cided reapportionment effected in
that State. by concurrent resolution was
ineffective because it had not been
enacted in the regular manner of max
ing laws and had not been submitted
to the Governor for his approval or
veto. This is applicable to the Mime
sofa case and contrary to the holdings
of the Ramsey County District Court
and the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1931-11-27
Texas ''Snake'' King
Offers Congress
Political Medicine
Members Should Qualify
By Contest in Catching
Reptiles, He Says.

Washington was host yesterday to
Snake" King Of Brownsville. Tex, who
has been selling reptiles to the Zoo here
for 25 years.
In wide-striped suit and expansive
sombrero the picturesque Texan drop
ped in at the House of Representatives
lunch room with a new brand of po-
litical medicine
He proposed two measures: A snake
catching contest to open Congress and
bill to require all persons applying
for passports to Europe to produce
proof they had seen America first.
ANY Congressman who can't catch
snake shouldn't qualify" he said
After he has lined up as an expert
snake catcher he would know what the
brush means and would get broad
minded"
Kings chief argument for seeing
America first was: IF George wash
ington had seen America first he would
have put the capital in Texas"
Evening star., 1931-11-27
Court to Define Life.

LINCOLN, Nebr. Gp.-Do heart beats
without breathing constitute life? A
court has been asked to decide whether
an infant whose heart beat 10 minutes,
alive? Disposition of q $4,000 estate
hinges on the decision.
Evening star., 1931-11-27
NEW FEATURES ADDED
TO G. w. U. MUSIC SHOW
Special Scenic Effects and Two I'm
usual Comedy Acts Promised in
"Happy Landings"

Several new features have been an
nounced for Happy Landings" the
annual musical show to be presented
by the George Washington University
Troubadours in the Mckinley Audi
torium, Second and T streets northeast,
the night of December 10, IL and IL.
The play, a modern tale of a CO.
educational flying school, will have the
accompaniment this year of the uni
versity orchestra, and will feature
special scenic effects and two acts of
unusual comedy A 'three-in-one"
choruS-namely, a chorus comprising
three sizes Of girls-big, little and mid
die sized-will be another attraction.
Thirty-eight girls from the senior,
Junior and sophomore classes will
round out the chorus.
Denis =. Connell and Dan Beattie
are directing the show. The dancing
groups are rehearsing under the super
vision of Christine Spignul, while
George Wenzl will lead the orchestra.
Evening star., 1931-11-27
EXECUTIVE is KILLED
WHEN PLANE CRASHES
Head of Transport Company Dies
on Way to Hospital in
Danville, Pa.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUNBURY, Pa, November 27-Theo-
dore T. Hull, SO, president of the Aero
nautical Transport Co. at Torreon,
Mexico, was fatally injured when his
plane dived into the Susquehanna River
near here
Hull's skull was fractured and nearly
every bone IN his body broken. He
died on the way 10 hospital at Dan
vile without resaining consciousness
following the crash. The plane fell into
shallow water from an altitude of about
1000 feet.
Evening star., 1931-11-27

was accepted by Gov. o. Max Gardner.
George Gordon Battle, New York at
torney and alumnus Of the university,
made an historical address.
Evening star., 1931-11-27

alumni, John Motley Morehead, minister
to Sweden and Rufus Leroir Patterson,
New York manufacturer.
The tower, rising 172 feet and con-
Evening star., 1931-11-27
BELL TOWER DEDICATED

CHAPEL HILL. N c., November &c
P).-The University of North Carolina
yesterday formally received and dedi-
Gated bell tower, the gift Of two
Evening star., 1931-11-27

talring a carlton of IL bells, was built
at a cost of 100000. 1t was presented
by Frank Patterson, Baltimore editor
and brother Of one of the donors, and
Evening star., 1931-11-27

Actually contains phOsphorous than generous por-
on OF c0TTos-noe food iron than large serving
of spinach.
SchneidPr's WhoIe-Wheat Bread provides Vitamin A.
TitGnln f. pitamn and especially Vain B-the Appetite
stimulating Tain rhch Nature has distributed sparngy
in foods.
Schneder's the only WhoIe-W heat Washing.
ton made Of costly Purina Whole-W heat Flour.
Look for the Red Checkerboard Wrapper
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-18
PAY HONOR TO
CAPITAL DEB
AT MARDI GRAS
Miss Adele Jahncke Queen
of ComuS at Carnival;
Lent Ends Fete.

By United Press
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 1s.-New
Orleans awakened today in sack
cloth and ashes-and with a head
ache.
Mardi Gras was climaxed with
riotous merrymaking which kept
sleepy residents of the city awake
until the break of day.
Honors OF Mardi Gras were given
Tuesday night to Miss Adele
Jahnckeg debutante daughter of
Navy Secretary and Mrs. Ernest
Lee Jahncke. Miss Jahncke was
queen of ComuS, the most exclusive
carnival organization of Orleans.
She was glittering picture as
she entered her court dressed in
white satin, entirely covered with
rhinestones. Her train was golden
cloth covered with shining jewels.
Two pages carried the heavy
train, as, at midnight, the court of
Rex joined that of Comus, and Miss
Gladys Gelpi, queen of carnival,
shared the throne with Miss
Jahncke and Rex and Comus.
Merrymaking did not cease with
the coming of Lent. Long into the
morning hours people frolicked
thl ough the narrow streets of the
French quarter, crowding night
clubs, speakeasies and the gambling
casinos near the city.
Following the parade of the
Krents of Cosmos witnessed by a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-18
MOWERS HILL
SCHOOL ENDS
ITS FIRST YEAR
Mountain Children noinq
Remarkably WE'LL Says
Their Teacher.

5y United Press
CR1GLERsvILLE, Va Feb H.
A year ago this week the Blue
Ridge mountains west of here
hustled with preparation for the
opening of President Hoovers back
woods school.
Today the teacher in an unofficial
annual report pronounced the ex-
pertinent decided success.
Miss Christine Vest, Kentucky
girl, selected by the Hoovers to
undertake the work of educating
the children of untutored mountain
families, told the United Press her
pupils are doing remarkably we'll"
1T has settled down to a regular
thing now" she said, land getting
better all the time"
Except for last summers vaca-
ton and occasional trips to the val
leys below, Miss Vest has lived
alone, high UP in the Blue Ridge
since her arrival year ago Valen-
tines day.
The magnificent panorama
stretching away below the green
and brown bungalow which houses
her school and living quarters. only
serves to emphasize the loneliness
of her position. Miss Vest is
blue-eyed attractive brunette.
THE attendance and work of the
pupil has been better since last
September than it was before the
summer holidays" she said. 1.-The
attendance has been surprisingly
regular, considering the fact that
many Of the pupils have to help
their families with the farm work.
The children are all doing very well
IN their studies, too"
Miss Vests average attendance is
twenty-five, almost exactly the
number that attended the opening
day of her school last Feb. "a. Most
Of them are the same one who
trudged over the hills that chilly
morning.
Among them is Ray Burfaker, the
boy who started it all by taking an
opposGm into President Hoover's
fishing camp.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-18
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
William M. Thomas. s25 North Delaware
street, Apt. II. Ford coupe. 281-5l2. from
1925 North Delaware street
w NJ. Holland. 4l65 Ruckle street Oak
land coach. 734-395. from Senate avenue
and market street.
W. w Bond. 500 Hampton drive. Buick
coach. from Vermont and Meridian streets.
W. Q. Reed 1920 Ralston avenue. Ora
ham Paige coach. 86-l56 G931, from 1925
Me- ssschusetts avenue.
G.. @, Storms. Apt COL. Sixteenth and
PENNSYLVANIA streets. Dodge coupe. 64-l42,
from Michigan and Pennsylvania streets
P. B, Smith Auto Company. 1895 North
Meridian street. Ford sedan. M-680. small
ii 1881 from 1885 North Meridian street.
e. A. Weichel. Danbury. O.. Ford coupe,
E 1866 Ohio. from 400 North Capitol
aNenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-18

The greatest care is taken
to make sure that the Ford
crankshaft will be in perfect
balance in all positions and
at all speeds. The machines
for the dynamic balance tests
are set upon foundations of
gum rubber and. are so deli
cately adjusted that the very
air that surrounds them is
first cIeansed and then held
at 68 degrees by thern1o-
static control.
Though weighing many
pounds, the Ford crankshaft
is so carefully balanced that
it will remain moticnless
wlien placed upen two per-
fectly leveIed parallel bars,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-18
TORTURE AGED
WOMAN; FIRE
is SET TO BODY
Disordered Apartment Dis
plays Story Of Struggle
for Hours With Bandits.

By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. ia
soiled and torn cap was the only
clew today to the identity of BAN
dit-slayers who tortured an elderly
San Francisco grocerywoman, robbed
her shop, and set fire to her OIL
soaked clothing.
The body Of Mrs. Albina voor-
laies, IS, who preferred the indie
pendence of her store to a quiet
life with relatives, was found by
firemen in her blazing apartment,
located above the store.
Nearby was charred section of
rope used by the torturers, and the
cap. The cash drawer in the store
had been looted.
The disordered apartment showed
Mrs. VOORHEES, had struggled with
the bandits, probably for hours,
police said.
She had been beaten on the
head.
Apparently she was unconscious
when her Clothing was ignited, but
later she revived sufficiently to drag
herself to the bathroom, where her
body was found,