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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26

Recreation.
District League-Hecht Co. VS.. North
east Temple.
Lucky Strike.
National Capital Coliseun1s
Specials VS.. Packwood.
Typothetae League-Ctias H. Potter
co. VS.. Standard Engraving Co., Gibson
Bros. VS.. Lew Thayer, Center Printing
Co. vs.. Columbian Printing Co., Crafts
men VS.. Potomac Electrotype Co., Amer
lean Electrotype Co. VS.. Washington
Typographers, National Engraving Co.
VS. Judd & Detweiler, Geo. A. Simonds
Co. VS.. National Capital Press, Maxwell
Jones VS.. H-K Advertising Service,
Typothetae VS.. National Publishing Co.,
Fellowship Forum VS.. On Time All
Time, Ransdell. Inc. VS.. Big Print Shop.
Western Union Mems League-Repeat-
ers VS.. Delivery, Equipment VS.. T. and
R., Accounting VS.. Automatic.
Western Union Ladies' League-Lucky
Reds VS.. Orange, Silver Six VS.. Greens,
Colds VS.. Orchids.
Arcadia.
Federal League-City Post once VS..
Supervising Architects, Navy VS.. In
ternal Revenue, Post once VS.. Mer-
chants Fleet Corporation, G. p. o. VS..
P. B. & p. p, Treasury VS.. Veterans
Administration.
Convention Hall.
Merchants League-Penn. Electric
Co. VS.. Thompson Bros. Furniture, Ma
tional Glass Shop VS.. Uneeda Bakers,
w. r. Winslow Co. VS.. Coco-Cola Bot
ting Co., E. w. Minte Co. VS.. Skinless
Franks, ThompSon's Dairy VS.. M. zap
neck Electric, District Grocery Stores
vs.. Southern Diaries No. l, Barber &
Ross VS.. Southern Diaries No 2.
Sanico League-Mercer> VS.. Diehl,
Bremerman VS.. Letter, Bradford VS..
Roberts, Pagan VS.. Mortimer, Gartrell
vs.. King, Willis VS.. Smith.
Income Tax Unit League-T2 VS.. BE-,
AS VS.. apo, C5 VS.. M, RI VS.. tt, Tim
VS.. Al, Rec VS.. Do. E2 VS.. Gil. HO1 VS..
Min. B1 VS.. CO, R3 VS.. D1, SA VS.. CS,
RI VS. OG, Sec VS.. CL2, DC VS.. Ell, Az
VS.. HOO.
Hyattsville Arcade.
Prince Georges County League, Sec
ton 1-Chillum VS.. Arcades.
Prince Georges County League. Sec
ton Eagles vs. Huddleston's Garage.
Prince Georges County Ladies' League
-Woodpeckers VS.. Hilltoppers.
Rockville.
Rockville League-Fire Department
rs. Mechanics
Silver Spring.
North Of Washington League, section
1-Avignone FrereS VS.. Potter-Nash
Motors. Commissioners VS.. Geary- john
son. White Pig VS.. Faulconer g. Proctor,
American Legion vs.. Manhattan, Frank
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
SLUGGERS OF 1880
LIKELY To DECLINE
Few Continue Speedy Pace
After Pitchers Study
Batting Styles.
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

~ ABE RUTH and Hack Wilson
X and the other kings of swat
- soon will go to work on
their waistlines in the
Southern and far western train
ing camps. Maybe some of the
big bans even now are dreaming
of making new home run records
in 1881. Still and all, the predic-
ton is hereby made, reading the
base ball weather signs, that the
worst of the home-run cyclone is
over.
OF the home-run clouters of 1890
Wilson in the National League and
Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx in
the American League were the men who
improved over the previous season.
improvement Is Doubted.
Can they improve in 1881 over their
records of 1902 Capable students of
batting insist that they are more likely
to fall off than to speed up in the man
ufacture of home runs. All four prob
ably have reached their peak as slug
gers.
It is a fact that heavy hitters seldom
continue to keep up the pace-Ruth be-
ing an exception in recent years.
1t Is also fact that the major
league pitchers know more about batters
than they have known for the last five
years, and the smart ones have been
making special study of the home
run hitters' weak spots.
If the home-rln records Of 1929 and
1880 are compared, they show that the
leading quartet In both major organi-
cations retain their membership quite
closely. In 1929 the four leading home
run batters in the National League were
Klein, with 40; OFT, AZ; Hornsby, 40,
and Wilson, SO. The four leaders in
the American League were Ruth, 46;
Gehrtg, IS; Simmons, "a, and Foxx, 80.
Several Drop Out.
In 1880 the leading home-run bat
ters in the National League were Will
son, with Sc; Klein, 40; Berger, SO, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
TYPOTHETA
FULLER TEAM CUTS
STANDARD PIN LEAD
Tompkins Bowlers Also Gain in
Building Contractors Race.
Lee, Newcomer, Shines.

Fuller Stone Plant No. / bowlers
gradually are narrowing the gap between
themselves and the Standard Art
Marble crew in the Building Contrac-
tors League. The Fullers won two from
James Baird, while Art Marble was
beaten in the odd game by Hudson
Dougherty.
George Lee, a newcomer to Hudson
Dougherty, was high with 337.
Charles Tompkins. in third place,
picked up a bit by whitwaShing Ru-
dolph g. West; Lake Stone grabbed a
pair from Columbia Sand & Gravel;
A. w. Lee, cellar champs, surprised
with a twin victory over j. p. Evans;
Fuller Stone Plant No. 2 won a pair
from p. T. McDermott and Southern
Asbestos, despite a dummy score, tri-
umphed over d. C. Butcher in two
other matches of the week.
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Hermann, IS. In the American Leagthil
the leaders we're Ruth, AZ; Gehrig, ar
GoSlin, 81, and Foxx, 81. OFT droppeC
out of the home-run factory in 1890
and so did HornSby. ta"'
The latter had no chance, as he wac
injured and was out of base bali most
of the season. Their places were taken
by Berger Of the Boston Braves, who
was a complete surprise, and by Her
mann Of Brooklyn, not so much Of a
surprise. =
In the American League Simmons
failed to do as well in 1890 as he did IN
1929, but at that he was only one
home run behind Goslin and Foxx. -
An interesting study this year will be
the record of Berger, the youngest man
to venture into major league home-ruHi
batting in 1880. The coming season
will prove whether he Is a slugger oiit
and out or whether he made such bold
dash last year because pitchers of rival
clubs did not know how to handle him,
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swing. The pitch Is an orthodox
shot in so far as the arc Of the
swing is concerned You bring the
club to the ball from inside the line.
In playing the cut your swing Is
just the opposite. You bring the
club head to the ball from outside
the line. In other words you pull
the club In toward your left hip in
going through. More spin is i'm
parted to the ball when this Is done
and quicker stop thereby results.
That is Abe Mitchells idea in play
ing it.
A fine printed leafiet containing
nine illustrations on THE Art Of
Pitching" has been prepared by Sol
Metzger. If you wish to have a
copy send stamped, addressed en-
velope to Sol Metzger, in care Of
this paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
SCOTT CAN HIT PINS
Old Base Ball Star Leads Bowling
Team to Record Score.

AURORA, Ill, January 26 [R.-Ev-
erett Scott, former iron man" short
stop for the Boston Red Sox and New
York Yankees, also throws q mean
bowling ball.
Scott shot scores of ali, 238 and 232
Sunday to lead the Farnan I'VE of Fort
Wayne, Ind, into FIRST place in the
five-man event of the sixteenth annual
Interstate Bowling Tournament The
Farnans scored team total of 3,267, q
new record for the tournament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
NORTHWESTERN AT TOP
Sure of Big Ten Basket Ball Lead
at Least Two Weeks.

CHICAGO, January 26 UP).-North-
western held lease of at least two
weeks on first place in the Big Ten
basket ball championship campaign to-
day as the race slowed down to a walk,
because of semester examinations
The wildcats, undisputed leaders with
four victories in as many engagements,
do not get into action again until Feb
ruary Z, when they meet Chicago.
Meanwhile they naturally run no risk Of
spelling their perfect record.
Only five games will be played in the
sporadic firing along the Big Ten front
during the next two weeks, two this
week and three next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
IF Ball Du1S Fire of Slump Home-Run Hitting Predicted
Pointers on Golf

The cut shot. the shot played
with the toe of the blade Of your
iron club open so that the heel
leads in meeting the ball, results,
as Jones or any outstanding golfer
will tell you, Is a fade or slice and
a quick stop at the finish. 1t is used
in exploding and in pitching over a
guarding hazard from near the green
to a cup placed on the near edge Of
the green.
It is also used to dig a ball out of
thick, long grass, the heel of the
club in this case, as in exploding
affording better chance of getting
the. club through to the ball. The
other difference between the cut shot
and the pitch is in the arc Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
J. C. C. GIRLS WIN.

Jewish Community Center girl bask-
eters opened their season by scoring
easily over the Baltimore & Ohio sextet,
80 to 8, last night at the Center Gym
naSiun. Frances Teplitz's shooting and
Pauline Banners guarding were high
spots of the winners play.
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LOTT PLACED ON TOP

Hennessey Ranked Second and
Pare Third in Western Tennis.
CHICAGO, January IS (R-George
Lott of Chicago stands No. / in the
rankings of the Western Lawn Tennis
Association, with Johnny Hennessey of
indianapolis second and Emmett Pare,
Chicago, third.
However, O new doubles team is
found at the head of the rankings,
Hennessey and Pare displacing George
OConnell and Fred Roger, Chicago.
Miss Catherine Wolfe of indianapolis
also displaced Clara Louise zinke of
Cincinnati from first place in the wom-
ems singles rankings. Miss Zinke fell
to second.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
SPRING GRID DRILL OUT
Carnegie Tech to Drop Practice
From Program This Year.

PITTSBURGH, January 26 (49.-Car-
negie Tech will drop Spring foot ball
practice from its athletic program,
effective this year, Graduate Manager
Clarence Overend has said.
Abandonment of the practice, a re-
form recommended during the Nation
wide controversy recently by those
contending the gridiron sport was over
emphasized, has the approval of Judge
Walter p. Steffen. Chicago, Techs foot
ball coach.
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RoCKNE HERE THURSDAY.

Knute Rockne, the famed foot ball
coach from Notre Dame, viii be In
washington Thursday. at the Hotel
Mayfiower. He is coming here TO make
an address before dealers meeting of
the Studebaker Corporation of Ameri-
ca, which will be held at $50 O'Clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
WAR GIRLS PICK UP
Runners-up Gain Game on Leaders
in Ladies' Federal Loop.

In the Ladies Federal League, while
War swept its match with Census to
get a firmer hold on second place and
gain a game on the league leaders.
Treasury postponed its match with
Commerce Comets, Interstate swept
three from Commerce Juniors, G.. A. o.
took one from Labor. Veterans Bureau
won a pair from Commerce. and Agri-
culture took three from Census Stars.
Alice McQuinn and Jennie Malcolm
shot high sets in the Aggie-Stars' battle
with 300 each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
Lebowitz and Dixie Pig Five
Hog Mount Rainier Pin Race

TIME Lebowitz and Dixie Pigs
teams. tied for first place, are so
far out front that the pennant
4 race in Section A of the Mount
Rainier ,Bolwing League has
become a two-teaYn affair. Miller OF
Lebowitz, end Mccall of Dixie Pig are
setting the individual pace with liz
and fractions each. The figures:
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Basket Ball Tips
BY SOL METZGER.

One of Iowa's pet basket ball
tricks on a set play is worked around
its center, the No. 8 man in the
diagram. He circles as shown in
order to lose the opposing center. In
this play the No. guard has the
ball.
AS No. comes back along the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
McPhiIomy's Ito Average Nets
Him Long Lead in Typo Loop

EARL McPHILOMY, who a few years
IL ago ranked as one Of the foremost
duckpin shooters of Washington,
may not be taking the little naples
seriously now, but he has an enviable
average in the Typothetae League.
McPhilomy's 116-pace by far tops the
22-team league, Hodges ITO ranking
second.
Earl also holds the high individual
set record for the season with 407.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26

In Section A of the Mount Rainier
League the Woodbridge team has COM
Portable lead, trailed by the Scoofers.
H. Goebel is high individual with a 10
average and has the best game and set
and high strikes. The figures:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
THURsDAY GAME SOUGHT.

A game for next Thursday is wanted
Nv Eaks Ciothiers. who have the use
n a gYua. Cali Dtstrict a05l
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AUGUSTUS GOLF VICTOR
C1evelander Beats Hobard, Medal
list, in Final at Belleair.

ASI' III GAIa4 aI beIIedIE'
BELLEAIR, Fla, January 26 Dr.
Ellsworth Augustus of Cleveland de-
feated Carrot A. Hobart, Paterson, N. j.,
6 and S, in the 36-hole finals of the
Beleair January Golf Tournament.
Hobart, winner of the. qualifying
medal, remained on even terms with
the player through the morning round
but Augustus steadily piled up lead in
the afternoon, taking only SO strokes for
the Is holes of the second round, over
even Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
Team Standing.
Season Records.

Season Records.
High game-H ]. Crawley, 159.
High SETH. J. Crawley, 407
High team game-Whataman, 636.
High team set-Iebowitz. 1,753.
High strikes-Galeher, so.
High Spares-H Aidridge, las.
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Team Standing.

High game-H Goebel, las.
High SETH. Goebel. 3S4.
. High strikes-H. Goebel, 10.
High team game-Scoofers, STA.
High team set-Lakeman's Service Station,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
SPHERE HANDICAP
SAY FOREIGN PROS
Claim 1t Will Hurt Ryder Cup
PIay-Ban on Stars
IrkS BritonS.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

:::;:: s: :s : :: :;: ' 4; 4:
1881 Ryder Cup matches
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28
REPORT ON MINE
TERROR SUNDAY
Sherwood Anderson to
Be Among Speakers

NEW YORK.-The complete report
of the National Committee for the
Defense of Political Prisoners, ten Of
whom were indicted for criminal
syndics1ism" while investigating the
working and living conditions Of coal
miners in Kentucky, will be delivered
by members of the Committee at a
gigantic mass meeting to be held at
the New Star Casino, 10Th st. and
Park Ave. on Sunday, December 6,
at 2:30 p. m. The meeting will be
held under the auspices of the Ma
tional Committee for the Defense of
Political Prisoners.
Members of the committee who
were indicted by the coal company
controlled Bell County grand jury
are: Theodore Dresser, novelist; John
Dos Passos, novelist; Samuel Ornitz,
novelist; Charles Rumford Walker,
novelist; Adelaide Walker, actress;
Celia Kuhn, secretary Of the commit
tee; Lester Cohen, novelist; M. P.
Levy, novelist; Harry Cannes, mem
Der Of the stat fof the Daily Work
er, and George Maurer, assistant
secretary of the International Labor
Defense.
A resume Of the committees re-
port will be given by Lester Cohen,
who will be chairman of the meet
ing. Among others who will speak
are Sherwood Anderson, novelist;
Aunt Molly Jackson, Straight
Greek, Kentucky, nurse, who will also
sing several miners songs she has
composed herself, including Hungry
Miners Wife's Blues" Jim Grace,
Harlan miner who was beaten and
kidnapped by the coal company depu-
ty sheriffs, and Adelaide and Charles
Walker. A well known lawyer will
give brief history of criminal syn
dicalisn laws and how they have
been used against the working class.
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remarks on the Hunger March and
the other one to collect money. This
has been tried out with success in
the past.
Send in Money.
4.-ThoSe in charge of the stations
must have a few messengers in the
evening to bring the money to the
w. I. r. headquarters at 16 w. 21st
st. We must impress upon all that
this is very important as we will
need money on Monday for various
expenses in connection with the
Hunger March. Comrades at the
stations: We advise that those in
charge Of the stations prepare them
selves with wrappers of all denom-
nations and save themselves the
trouble to carry loose money to our
headquarters. We ask that the COM
rades strictly adhere to this sugges-
ton.
5.-No one should delay bringing
the money collected for the Hunger
March later than November 80 as all
plans must be completed by Monday
evening. Our plans will greatly de-
pend on the amount of money we
will have on hand, so please be at
the w, I. r. office with all your col
lections at the latest Monday No
vember 80.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28
MASS MEET SUN. TO LAUNCH FIGHT
ON HARLAN, KY, TERROR REGIME

Rumford Walker, Adelaide Walker,
Lester Cohen ard Harry Cannes of
the Daily Worker staff. George Mau-
rer, assistant national secretary of
the International Labor Defense, who
was indicted with the committee, B.
D. Amis, national head of the L. S.
N. r., and Jim Grace, Marian min
er and one Of the leading victims of
the terror regime, will also speak.
Carl Hacker, secretary of che New
York District of the I. L. D., will be
chairman.
Coming in the midst of the trial
Of II Harlan miners on murder
charges, this meeting will demand
the release of all those whom the
coal operators courts are trying to
send to the electric chair or long jail
terms for fighting against the hun
ger and terror program of the bos-
ses. The meeting will also be a coun-
ter-attack on capitalist terror not
only in Kentucky, but throughout
the country, a smashing answer to
the bosses efforts to beat the work
ers into submission in order that they
may put over their wage-cut and war
program. The meeting will show the
determination Of the workers every
where to fight for their elementary
rights of free speech and assemblage
which the bosses are trying to des-
troy
Admission is Is cents at the door.
so cents for reserved seats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28

case is based on the growing working
class pressure for the release of Moo
ney.
The hearing has been set for Tues
day morning December LIST. Speeches
will be made by Walsh and Shapiro,
Moneys l awyers, and then by
Walker. But the plan of action has
already been worked out between
Mooney and Governor Rolph.
The International Labor Defense
will hold a mass demonstration at
the place of hearing on Tuesday to
expose Walker, Rolph, the socialists
and Morgan bankers who have united
to use the Mooney case against other
workers, and against the
unemployed masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28

NEW YORK. The opening gun
IN an intensified nationwide fight
against the coal operators. terror in
Harlan County, Kentucky, will be
fired at great mass protest meet
ing tomorrow Sunday afternoon at
2:so p. m. in Central Opera House,
los E. 67th st. At this meeting mem
bers of the Dresser Committee of lead
ing American writers, who were rec
entity indicted for criminal syndi
caliSm because they exposed the ter
Yor and starvation that they found
in Kentucky, will speak. Among them
will be John Dos Passos, Charles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28
Admit Walker, Rolph Use
Mooney for Political Ends

NEW YORK. - California news
dispatches to capitalist newspapers
on the latest developments of Mayor
walkers sudden "espousap of the
Mooney case bring out the fact that
the California bosses 90 not oppose
walkers fundamental idea of using
the Mooney case against the militant
workers.
An editorial in the San Francisco
Eh1aminer says that Governor Rolph
should use the case for his own ends
and that Walker Is butting in when
the scheme was already worked out
by Rolph himself.
Walker, as well as many other cap
italist tools, have already admitted
that their new interest in the Mooney
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28
Call Workers to the
Aid of the Merhige
Silk Mill Strikers

The workers of the Merhigi silk
have been out on strike for the
past ! weeks as q result of third
wage cut of 10 per cent has been
given to them in the past period.
These workers have been carrying
on a very militant struggle in the
past period. All the mass organ
izatlons In the territory should
mobilize their forces to help the
workers win this strike. A mass
picket demonstration will be held
on Monday morning, Nov. 80. All
unemployed and employed work
ers should report Monday at a.
m. to 535-39th Street, Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28
West Va. Mine Wages Lower
Than 1898; Prepare Struggle

PuRsGLOvE, ". Va, Nov. ~
TO establish the unity of all West
Virginia miners in their struggle
against starvation, the United Front
Conference Arrangement Committee
has issued string appeal for Uni
ted Front conference November 20 at
So4 Water Street, Fairmont, w. Va,
NEW YORK.-A special series of
articles to the New York Times from
Fairmont, West Va, written by their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28
SCRANTON BAZAAR FOR
HUNGER MARCH

SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 27'--A ba-
zaar for the benefit Of the National
Hunger NTarchers will take place on
Saturday, Nov. %, ct International
Hall. 427 Lackawanna Ave, Scran-
ton, Pa, at pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28
Robin Hood Pickets
Smash Injunction Plot:
Relief Dinner, Sunday

NEW YORK.-The mass picketing
and determination not to be stopped
by threats of an injunction at the
Robin Hood Hat Shop has defeated
the whole injunction scheme. The
Injunction is not granted.
Relief is needed for Robin Hood
strikers, who have been out now five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28

correspondent Louis Stark, admits
mass starvation among the West Va.
miners. A few Of the admissions
from this capitalist sheet follow:
miners in some sectionsare re-
duced to a standard of living COM
parable to that of 1898. Many work
but two to four days a week and find
their not earnings when they actu-
ally work yield but so cents to a
dollar day. These earnings from
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIvED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28
UNIT 6 TEA PARTY.

A Tea Party for the benefit Of the
Hunger March to Washington" is
being arranged by Unit Six of the
Bronx Section of the Communist
Party, on Saturday evening, Novem-
Der 18th at 1918 Tiffany St., neal
176th STD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28

weeks. A solidarity dinner has been
arranged for them, at the Icor Club
in Cooperative House, 1900 Bronx
Park, East from 3 to 10 p. m. Sunday.
The dinner costs only 60 cents. Come
and bring your friends.