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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
SO GUARDSMEN HURT
Victims in Storm That Hit Camp
Expected to Recover.

ALEXANDRIA, La, July Is (P).-A re-
check of consequences of a sudden wind
and rain storm that swept through the
tents of Camp Beauregard near here
late yesterday, showed today 83 mem
berS of the Mississippi National Guard
in training there were injured.
Although 10 were listed as seriously
hurt, physicians said all were expected
To recover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
NAUTILUS MAY CRUISE
wilkins May Take Submarine to

Norway Tomorrow.
PLYMOUTH, England, July IS P-
Sir Hubert wilkins said today he might
take the submarine Nautilus to Bergen,
Norway, on Monday.
The time for successful Arctic explo-
ration has not yet ended, he said, and
there are still two or three weeks Of
the brief Arctic Summer ahead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
INSURANCE MAN DIES
DR.. Lee Kaufer Frankel of New
York Succumbs in Paris.

PARIS, July IS (P).-Dr. Lee Kaufer
Frankel. IS, second vice president of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
New York, died suddenly today OF a
heart attack. He had just returned to
Paris after tour of Europe and was
accompanied by Mrs. Frankel. The
body will be taken to America aboard
the steamer Olympic July 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
What's What With Griffmen
In Training on Gulf Coast

~ ILOXI, Miss, March at is
K more than likely that in several
of the early exhibition games
the Nationals are to play here
this Spring the Washington batsmen
will be called upon to face pitchers
from their own camp.
The first three of the score of battles
listed for the Griffs before the regular
season opens, for instance, are with
the Baltimore team, the dates being
March H.. is and 10.
In view of the fact that the Orioles
are not scheduled to open their train
ing camp at nearby Gulfport until a
week hence it stands to reason that
they are not going to have any slab
men ready for real effective work with
only three or four days Of training.
AS a consequence Pilot johnson has
evolved the idea of offering to loan
younger Washington fingers to toll in
the Oriole uniforms until such time
as tn Baltimore boXmen are ready
to do their stuff on the mound.
I'VE wouldn't figure to get very bene-
fetal batting practice in facing bunch
Of pitchers who haven't even gotten
their wings limbered up" is The way
johnson reasons, 80 rather than do
that I'm willing TO let some Of our
own gang play with the opposition. II
Maisel is agreeable TO the suggestion
it will help us in two ways. The pitch
ers we loan Baltimore will be getting
the kind of work under fire that they
need to properly condition them and
our hitterS viii be benefited In sharp
ening their batting eyes by facing tar
gets Of a more formidable brand than
otherwise would be the case"
DARNEY did not indicate the iden-
ID tity OF the slabmen he would tenn
porarily farm out for this purpose
and he probably doesn't know at this
time who they will be, but he has COM
mitted himself to the extent Of saying
that from the way his hurlers are shap-
ing up Lynn Griffith, Walter Tauscher
and Carl Fischer will be among the
first to be assigned to real slab duty
as they are considerably farther adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
BOWIE KINDERGARTEN
WILL BE RUN APRIL 8
Fine Field of Two Year-0lds Is Elk.
pected to Start-Four Stakes
Billed.

BOWIE, Md, March a. Joseph
McLennan, racing secretary of the
Southern Maryland Agricultural As
ISOLATION, which will usher in the
Eastern racing season here on March
81, has selected Wednesday, April 8, as
the date for the fourth renewal of the
$500 Bowie kindergarten, half-fnile
dash, exclusively for 2-year-olds.
fields for his 2-year-old Spring feature,
years event will attract the best band
augurated in 1926.
Mrs. M. P Aliens Vanderpool, brown
son of Campfire -Bramble Rose, won
the Bowie kindergarten a year ago,
and then went right on through the
season to hang up IL consecutive VIC
tories
Others who have had their names
placed in the record books as winners
of the Bowie Kindergarten are Red
Rocket, Rapid Transit and Sand Fid-
dler, a trio that could burn oil during
their racing careers.
Vanderpool, who Wintered at Beck
ers Farm in this State, is the time
record holder for the Bowie Kinder
garten. The colt raced the half-mile in
0:47 to win by length from Schooner,
one that won the Aqua Caliente Derby
Trial on Sunday, February Is.
There will be four stakes to be run
here. Horsemen are advised to file ap-
plication for stalls with Track Supt.
Dick Pending, as all signs point to a
capacity house this Spring.
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vanced than any of the others who
boast the necessary experience.
Such juveniles as Joe Smith, Art
Fidler, George GraySon and Ray Nc
Mahon may have their flipperS nicely
oiled up by the time the initial exhibit
ton date rolls around, but how they
will shape up on the slab under reg
ular playing conditions remains to be
seen.
IT is a foregone conclusion that sew
L eral members Of the curving corps
will not be called upon for duty in
regular engagement until farther
along in the conditioning period. Fred
Marberry, Sam Jones, Bump Hadley
and Al Crowder, for instance, all being
veterans, probably will be rated along
until about the last week in the month
before they are assigned to even three
innings of box work, which is the Gus
tomary length of toll a finger is asked
to travel his first few times out 1t is
likely the younger and more agile Lloyd
Brown, Bob Burke and Ad Liska will
have seen considerable service, however,
by the last of March.
THIS is expected to be particularly
l. true of Brown. The small left
handler from Corpus Christi, Tex,
IDS OcSH eHCdHpeu mere lOF dDOuL d
month now, golf1ng, fishing and hiking
as means of preliminary conditioning,
and is expected to attain real pitching
shape far ahead of any of the other
regulars.
AS a matter of fact, Brown is being
banked on by Manager johnson as one
Of his early season slab dependables.
Brownie was a life-Saver for us at
the start Of last season." johnson OBJ
served today. "He turncd in string of
wins for us in the first month of the
campaign and had half a dozen VIC
tories to his credit before some of the
others got in shape to perform with
any effectiven SIS. Games won in the
Spring count just as much in the final
reckoning as those turned in at any
other time, and am looking for Brownie
to repeat his 1880 performance and help
us get of to flying start.
"I don't think some of the boys who
were so late getting started then win be
as backward this year." Barney added
with significant gleam in his eye, "but
if they were all like Brownie We would
get so far out in front in the first two
months we never would be caught"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
MITCHELL, SHAPIRO
IN TENNIS FEATURE
Washington Racketer Will Defend
Title Thursday in Maryland
Indoor Championship.
BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE, Md, March O.
Dooly Mitchell, crack Washington
racketer and defending title holder in
the Maryland indoor tennis champion
ships in progress at the 5th Regiment
Armory, will face Morton Shapiro of
Baltimore Thursday night at o'clock
in the feature match of the evening
Mitchell was seeded No. /.
Three Washington players, Frank
Shore, Colin STAN and Anthony La
tona, we're eliminated yesterday. An
other d. c. entrant, Eddie Yeomans,
was to face Louis Kurland, former Bal
timore public parks champion, this aft
ernoon in a second-round encounter.
Kurland eliminated Shore in the first
round, 2-6, 8-6, 10-8; STAN was de-
feated by Elmer Rudy of Baltimore in
q IS, IS second-round match after
downing Joseph Skrentny, 1912, 8-6,
8-6. After vanquishing Harold Foil
mer, 60, 2-6, 50, in the first round
Latona fell before Morton Shapiro in
the second. The scores were Ga, CO.
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CLUBS TOO LARGE,
SAYS CH|SOX BOSS
Would Set 20-PIayer Limit
and Cut ReServe--StiII
Factor in Game.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

~HICAGO, February 28.-The
4 "Old Roman" has reached
~ back beyond the years for
some OF the fire of his
youth. Though past his seventy
fifth milestone, he promises to be
in the thick Of the fight this year
to win another championship III
the American League with the
Chicago White Sox.
Charlie Comiskey was one of tie
greatest ball players of his day. To-
day he is as enthusiastic as ever about
the game, but he is nevertheless the
most radical ball club owner in tte
United States. He thinks there are
things in base ball that need to be
corrected, and he is out for reform.
Hit by Black Sox Scandal.
Comiskey has not forgotten the
severeSt blow of his life. That was II
1919, when his players sold their homo
to gamblers and threw away the world
series in the notorious BLACK Sox"
scandal. He grieved over it for years
and he is still grieving.
Today Comiskey Is Of the opinion
that base ball from the standpoint of
player holding has grown beyond all
reason. He believes 20 ball players
should be the limit on the roll of each
major league club between June is and
September /, instead of the Is now
permitted. He believes the total player
reservation of 40 men is too large.
TOO many men sit idly on a bench
when they should be out in the field
playing base ball. said the White Sox
owner. THE net loss of man power
on the ball field is twice enhanced by
the surplus off the field. Too much
ball playing ability is dulled and dead
erred because players have no oppor-
tunity to show what they can do.
Not Good Business.
mo railroad company would do this
sort OF thing, no manufacturer would
do it and no great employer of labor
would do it. Yet here we base ball men
go on from season to season carrying
rs per cent surplus of players from
which We gain little or nothing, and
then We boast that the business i'm
portance of this sport has been nagni-
fed by millions of dollars.
In my time almost every player
on a team could play three or four
positions. Nowadays we hire Is pitch
ers on one club and maybe we can't
find one who can pitch when we want
real pitching"
The most heroic figure remaining in
base ball is Charles A. Comiskey. And
he still Is a powerful force, whose voice
will continue to be heard in the coun-
ellis Of organized base ball:
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major league company at least half,
and possibly three-fourths, of the pony
infield" that performed record breaking
defensive tricks for the Wichita Falls
club of the Texas League last year.
Plucked from scattered points, kept
under cover and drilled for faster COM
pany at the Browns farm, the trio up
for the big test now are Shortstop Jim
Levy, rangy Jewish lad obtained from
the Quantico Marines; First Baseman
Irving Burns, Irish boy from New Eng
land; Second Baseman Lin Storti,
italian product of West Texas.
Perform SensationalIy.
The fourth member of the quartet
that set flock of double-play records
in the fast Texas League, including
seven in one game, was Walter Butler,
German, Abw with Milwaukee.
Burns and Levy have performed SEN
sationally in the early workouts. Storti
has been drilling well at second, but
faces keen competition from the vet
eran Oscar Melillo, reporting with the
regulars this week.
With Levy at short, Killefer plans
to shift the hard-hitting Ralph Kress
to third base. If Burns makes good at
first, it will mean the passing from
active duty of Lu Blue, for years one
OF the leagues best first Sackers. The
veterans, however, will be kept so that
two complete inflelds will be available.
The club needs more outfield punch.
The big gun is the veteran Goose Cos
lin, who laid aside his golf sticks this
week for his bats. Killefer expects the
Goose to hit at least so home runs,
even with the new ball in use. The
Browns have not yet received the new
ball for testing.
Fred Schultz probably will hold down
center field, but he will have to battle
Earl McNeely. Perhaps the best look
ing prospect for right field is Larry
Bettencourt, former st. Mary's all
America center, who batted 800 and
hit 43 homers with Wichita Falls last
season. His rivals are Tom Jenkins,
who hit .345 with Milwaukee: Ted
Gullic, with the Browns last year, and
Frank Waddy, former Georgia Tech
foot baller, who hit 344 with Memphis
last season. Waddey has been a hold
out.
Good Pitching Staff.
Wally Stewart, slim southpaw who
won 20 games and lost IL with a second
division outfit last season, is the ace of
the pitchers. The veteran Sam Gray,
after a hard luck season, reported with
the rockies to begin a comeback.
George Blaeholder, a protracted holdout
a year ago, is Id the fold. The staff
has other seasoned performers in Dick
Cofman, Warren Collins, Chad Kimsey
and Lena" Stiles.
Most of the boys are picking us to
finish last" smiled Killefer. You can
do the same thing without hurting our
feelings. We are making experiments.
We have better reserve strength. If
the inf1eld shapes up and we get more
punch to help Goslin and KreSs, the
Browns will be on their way up"
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Two District SandlOt Grads
Strive for Big League Jobs

Kuhnert peeking in his medicine chest
to see how the IMMINENT supply is hold
ing out :. Heinie CTypo) Webb finger
ing the new ball Wesley (What-a-
NAM Mcdonald talking Interstate and
the Government League flag :. Herb
(Georgetown Church League) Tucker
buying himself new Scorebook
Charlie Celtic Corbert and Buck
Red Bird Grier renewing the st.
Mary Northern argument 4. Vic
Guazza calling his Departmental
League moguls to arms :. Bill Flester
doing the same with the Industrial
League bambinos.
TAKE it from Wesley Mcdonald, cap
L tain, manager, pitcher and coach
of Interstate, there's nothing like
bowling in the Winter to keep in shape.
Wesley, ranked in the "old folks"
class now, claims he has plenty of ball
games left in his wing yet, and attrib-
utes this feeling to the little naples.
Ray Trego, Jimmy Pearson and
Reese Hair, McDonalds teammates,
back up their redoubtable captain in
this. They all roll in the Interstate
Duckpin League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
ALEXANDRIA QUINTET
DOWNS RICHMONDERS
R., F. & P. Team Topples Rotary
Club Second Time in Two
Engagements.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 2.-Three
visiting cage teams fell before Alexan-
dria combinations in the triple bill pre-
Sented at Schuler's Hall yesterday
afternoon by the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg & Potomac Railroad Co. quint
The Railroad tossers defeated Rich
mond Rotary Club for the second time
in as many days, As to 80; Alpha Delta
Omega Fraternity bested Chevy Chase
Grays of Washington, 30 to %, and
Virginia A. c. triumphed over Company
I of Fort Myer, 80 to 80.
Lester McMenamin and Elicit Cabell
led r., F g. P. to victory over the
Southern Virginia Champions, the for
mer scoring IA points, while Cabell
netted the ball for .12..
The work OF Wee Lyons and Wilson
Sinclair was almost sufficient for the
Virginia clubmen to trim the Soldiers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

IF the well-wishes of local sandlotters
count for anything, Washington's
two Earls of base balloon, Earl
Clark and Earl Mattingly, will wear
Boston Brave and Brooklyn uniforms
this season.
Clark. who learned his base ball on
the local Fairgrounds and the Terminal
Park, is battling with several high
priced rookie outfielders at st. Peters,
burg for his berth.
Among Uncle Wilbert Robinson's as
sentiments of rockies at Clearwater Is
Earl Mattingly, who won his sandlot
spurs with Buck Grier's old Petworth
Wonders.
Local sandlotdom is pulling for its
Earls.
| TLATTERING train wheels are con-
~ veying the Districts usual share OF
sandlot grads to the various minor
league training camps.
Denny Sothern is working with the
Baltimore Orioles Mike Gordon
goes to Norfolk So does Abbey
Clark, brother of Earl .. Pepco Barry
hits the trail for Clarksburg :. Eddie
Ault Is pointing for that catcher's job
on the Rock Island club :. . The third
of the Clark family, Tommy, is await
ing farming out orders from Clark Grit
fifth ., Lefty Mcintyre, who jumped
Milwaukee year before last, is waiting to
see whether he'll be reinstated or be-
come free agent.
THE 1891 sandlot season will open
l. minus a diamond that has been
spike -riddled by many of the city IS
greatest base ball battles-Terminal
League Park
The passing of the 12-year-old sand
lot field, through which part of F
street northeast is expected to run, Is a
source of sincere regret 20 local sand
lotters.
Among Terminal Parks alumni are
the three Clark brothers, Denny Soth-
ern, Freddy Noone, Vic Keen, Pepco
Barry and Eddie Collifower.
'sTHAT's news to me-" chimed in
i G. Lewis Hightman, president of
the Terminal League, generally
considered Washington's fastest sandlot
circuit
Hightman was commenting on the
rumor that the passing Of Terminal
Park meant the fms of the Terminal
League, % years old this Spring and
second in seniority only to the Depart
mental League.
continue" advises Hightman, but
there's a good chance another team
win be added. understand the Termi-
nal Y. M. G. A. may organize a club
and enter"
Undaunted by the loss of their dia-
mond, at least the four original teams
Pullman, 1890 city series champ;
Terminal, Southern Railway and Ex-
press-will shift headquarters to new
field now being constructed near Ivy
City, on New York avenue.
CURE signs that local sandlotters will
- beat the first robin TO the tape
this Spring-Lefty (Navy Yard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
MARINE nine STARTS
DRILLS AT QUANTICO
Team in It's Last Season Will
Play 81 Colleges-Keady
to Coach Again.

QUANTTCO, Va, March 2-The ALI
Marine base ball team is scheduled tc
begin its final practice here, this after
noon, for its last season Of play, for Maj
Gen. Ben H. Fuller, commandant of thu
Marine Corps, has ruled that this aggre-
cation will pass out of existence in q
few months.
With a schedule Of 81 college games
ahead of 1t, the team will get down to
business, with Mai Gen. Smedley d
Butler, commanding general at the post
taking an active interest in its fortunes
Coach Tom Ready again is in charge
and the first game will be played al
Quantico on March % with the Univer-
sity of Vermont.
The Quantico basket ball team yes
terday went by plane to Paris Island
S. C. There it will play a two-game
series with the Paris Island Marines,
returning Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
RAILROAD BASKETERS
TO MEET PRO CLUBS
Alexandria Outfit Has Dates With
Cleveland Knits and
Skinkers.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 1.-Two
strong professional clubs will be played
by the Richmond, Fredericksburg 81
Potomac Railroad Co. basket ball team.
Tomorrow night the Cleveland Knits
will be met here and next Sunday the
Railroaders will play Skinker Eagles at
Silver Spring.
Alpha Delta Omega Fraternity will
play a trio of cage battles this week.
appearing in prelimS to big games here
tomorrow and Wednesday and in Alex
andria City Basket Ball League en-
gagement with Del Ray A. G. Friday.
ST. Mary's Lyceum five will play Saks
at Armory Hall Wednesday.
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COBB IS GOLF VICTOR
IN ACTUAL PLAY-0FF
Refusing to Accept Default, Ty
Postpones Match, Then Wins
First Tourney.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga, March 2-Ty Cobb
has won a golf tournament, incidentally
the first one in which he ever played,
after having refused to accept victory
by default
r. H. Daniel of August won the right
to face the former base ball star in the
final of the annual Bon Vanderbilt
Cup tournament. Ty was on hand and
waited three hours until q telephone
call explained Daniel was tied up by
business and would have to default.
That wasn't Cobb's idea of victory.
He insisted on later date.
Daniel showed up yesterday, and Cobb
demonstrated how golf should be played
on the tough hill course of the Augusta
Country Club. winning 2 and /. His
medal score was SO for 18 holes.
Ty didn't start playing enough golf
to count until he retired from base ball.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
ST. ALBANS IN BOUTS

st. Adams School boxers, who de-
feated Stuyvesant School ringsters of
Warrenton, Va, AZ to 21a, in the st.
Adams gymnasium last Friday, will go
next Friday.
Mccarthy, Whitehead, Speer and
Finerty for st. Adams and Scully and
Kinnell of Stuyvesant won matches in
the recent engagement. Chandler of
st. Adams and Simpson Of Stuyvesant
fought to a draw,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
KANSAS THRICE VICTOR

KANSAS CITY, March R)-
Kansas supremacy in Big Six major
sports now includes not only outdoor
track and foot ball, but basket ball as
we'll.
The Kansas Aggies aided materially
In the Jayhawker basket ball award
last week by downing Nebraska, 80 to
80, after Kansas defended its position
at the top of the pile by defeating Iowa
State, ~ to Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
FREEMAN ASKS DELAY
Welter Champion Would Regain
Strength Before Fighting

CHICAGO, March 2 R.-Tommy
Freeman, world welterweight champion,
has petitioned the National Boxing As
ISOLATION for an extension Of time in
which to sign up for bout in defense
of his title.
Freeman pleaded he has been Ill and
is now regaining his strength. Gen.
John " Clinnin, president of the N. B.
A, advised Tommy McGinty, manager
antee that suitable challenger would
be taken on within a reasonable time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
ALEXANDRIA LOOP ENDS
Six Games This Week Will Wind
Up Basket Ball Play.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 2.-The
Alexandria Junior Basket Ball League
will be brought to a close this week
with a schedule of six games, as follows
Tuesday-Central Cougars VS.. Friends
A. c., Boy Souts VS.. Glover A. c.
Thursday, Friends A. c. VS. Whitestone's
Store, Alexandria High School Sec
onds VS.. Central Cougars Saturday,
Alexandria High School Seconds VS.
Clover A. c., Boy Scouts VS.. White
stones Store.
Games will be played at Schuler's
Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
De MOLAY WINS AGAIN
Ends League Season by Beating
Pirates-Independents Shine.

neutrality-suspicious. Shine.
LAUREL. Md, March 2.-De Molay
toSSers of Washington, who sometime
ego clinched the title in the Intercity
Basket Ball League, ended their league
season by drubbing Black Pirates, SO
to 10, on the National Guard Armory
floor here. II was the twelfth victory
for De Molay against three defeats.
Sterling Levi scored IA of the Pirates
1S points. Anderson, with pc nts, was
high for De Molay.
in an exhibition game, Laurel indie
pendents surprised by conquering Head
Quarters Company, National Guard, II
TO Is. It was the first time the indie
pendentS have downed the Soldiers in
TWO years of league and Independent
play The Independents, trailing, II
to is, at the end Of the third quarter.
spurted to count points while holding
the Guards scoreless.
Games which probably will decide
second place III the loop are scheduled
tomorrow night between independents
and Western Electric Co. of Washing
ton and Headquarters Company and
Black Pirates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
Ball i'm Pocket Golf Puzzle
Remove Pants or Take Penalty? Raleigh Man
Refuses to Embarrass Gallery.

lima Country Club today. Nickel,
playing an iron shot from a bad lie
in the rough, sliced across the fair
way into Biggs' pocket.
The Sunday crowd made removal
OF the Riggs' pants impractical, Biggs
also objected to McEeel applying
his niblick to the ball wikhout inn
proving its lie.
81 formalities were dispensed with
and Nickel took 8 penalty stroke
and played the ball from the arr.