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The Washington times., 1931-03-16

Fright you are," Denny
Southern chimed in immedi-
ately afterward. His fast one
cut the corners inside and
outside like magic. And his
hook broke two feet"
Yes, fans, Lloyd Brown was
the real hero of a great spring
game. In the final three periods
he failed to allow the semblance
Of a hit. He whitfield four men,
striking out the side in the last
frame, and not once could the
opposition get the ball out of the
infield.
Only four hits were gathered
by the Orioles. Washington got
but five. Three safeties we're
coined off Bobby Burke during
the first three heats. The lone
run resulted in the second para
graph when Strower tripled with
one away and Sand singled to
right.
Following Burke's shift but
one bingle was allowed the
enemy. A single off Ad Liska
in the fourth bracket was Iol-
lowed by hitless five innings.
Washington was trailing, / to 0,
until the sixth. Then Liska
walked, and Myer tripled vigor-
ously to right center. Sammy
Rice's Single sent the Griffs ahead
to stay.
Harry Smythe pitched three
hitless opening chapters for Bal
timore. Luther Roy, an ex.Griff.
man, then climbed the hill and
gave up the two deciding tallies
in the sixth. Bill Clarkson fin.
ished and was nicked for a final
run in the eighth.
A beautiful stab of Harris
smoking grounder with the bases
loaded in the eighth and his sub
Sequent retirement at first base
was the days outstanding feature,
Stroner contributed his bit.
The Washington times., 1931-03-16
RICHMOND PART.
Of MINOR LOOP

NEW HAVEN, Cam, March Is.
Bonds Of $4,000 each must be
posted before April by manage
ments of eight teams that are
to make up the Eastern League
baseball circuit this year, accord
ing to announcement following
meeting of league directors held
here last evening.
The meeting voted to furnish
franchises to Hartford and New
Haven. Other teams are Rich
mOnd, Va; Allentown, Pa;
Springfield, Mass, and Bridge
port, Hartford and New Haven,
Conn.
The meeting also accepted the
resignation of William z, Carey
The Washington times., 1931-03-16
NINE TO GATHER

The Columbia Business Mems
Association baseball team will
hold an important meeting to-
night at 8 o'clock in the Arcadia
Bowling Alleys. Fourteenth Street
and Park Road Northwest. All
members are urged to report
promptly.
The Washington times., 1931-03-16
J. C. C. FIVE WINS

Jewish Community Center five
downed the Palace-D. G. S. last
night in the Center gym, "a to 25.
Hirsh and L. Singman were the
big guns for the winners while
Les starred for the losers.
The Washington times., 1931-03-16
North Of Washington
Bowling League

Records
High team game-625. S. S. Giants.
High team set-1SOS, S. S. Giants.
High individual erage-H. Campbell,
113. High individual game - Joe
Overland, 167. Spares-Campbell1r 1S2.
Strikes-J. Wolstenholme, Al.
The Washington times., 1931-03-16
Congress Heights
Forms Athletic Club

Congress Heights athletic club
has organized and will have
baseball. basketball and track
teams. The club will be sponsored
by the business men of Congress
Heights. -~""
Officers are George B. Stevens,
president; Valentine Walher, first
vice president; Frazier White, sec
ond vice president; Louis Gel
man, secretary; Norman Murphy,
treasurer; E. L. Russell, business
manager, and Ted Otte, baseball
manager.
The Washington times., 1931-03-16
Lloyd Brown Is Impressive
In Defeat of Orioles
BY JOE HOLMAN
Times Staff Correspondent

BILOXI, Miss, March 16.-"A barrel of stuff
Joe Hauer 1880 International League home king and
siege gun of the Baltimore Orioles paid Lloyd this
Baltimore here Yesterday. to /
The Washington times., 1931-03-16

The OutflelQerS VINO are 10 sup
plement the regular trio. quite
naturally, are Harry Rice and
Dave Harris.
Griffith May Stick
Of the pitchers it is beginning
to look as if Lynn Griffith alcne
has better than an outside oppor-
tunity of remaining in the big
time. Other promising rockies,
however, are to get their fling.
Pitchers Art Fidler and Walter
Tauscher, for instance, may wind
up in Chattanooga on option.
That is if Fidler shows enough
to warrant Southern Association
classification. Otherwise he re-
turns to Hagerstown of the re-
organized Middle Atlantic circuit.
The elongated youngster has
flashed a puzzling delivery but
needs more investigation.
Leo Burns, Joe Cronin's out
fielder, will transfer either to
Chattanooga or HagerStOwn,
while CrOnin'S other discovery,
Infielder Charley Montague,
seems headed for HagerstOwn
with strings attached.
Pitchers Joe Smith and George
Grayson, if they impress suffi-
GENTLY, may join the Hagerstown
bound contingent. That is un-
less one of them is used as a big
league batting practice pitcher.
Pitchers Lefty Griffith, Walter
Tauscher and Carl Fischer, the
same trio that opposed. Baltimore
last week, will alternate at Gulf
port Wednesday when the Orioles
are met on their home field.
The Washington times., 1931-03-16

of Springfield, as president, and
voted to create an executive COM
mittee to manage the league dur
ing the season.
Arrangements for opening the
season will be made at Spring
field on March %.
The Washington times., 1931-03-16

II you do not know the convenience
In owning your own home, find out
right away. Turn to the Classified
Real Estate Columns
The Washington times., 1931-03-16
YANKEE INSECTS SCORE

The Yankee Insects opened
its session yesterday with a
AL win over the Clover In
sects on the Mt. Rainier field.
The Washington times., 1931-03-16
TEAM PLANS
To HAVE SUB
|NF|ELD
BY JOE HOLMAN
Times Staff COrrespOndent

BILOXI, Miss, March 16.
Eight extra players, exclusive of
the pitchers, likely will be carried
by the 1881 Washington club.
So said President Clark Griffith
today.
Griff, who stresses the value
Of reserve strength, declares that
eight men now in camp have
shown enough to warrant con-
Sideration.
Three catchers, he claims, will
be selected from Roy Spencer,
Bill Hargrave, Ed Kenna and
Cliff Bolton. Due to Hargrave's
improved physical condition and
Bottoms healthy sock, it is gath
cred, genial Ed must extend him.
self to stick.
The Washington times., 1931-03-16

"This isn't a closed matter,
though" Griff will tell you.
eff Kenna spurts up and shows
enough he will get the same
chance as the other receivers"
Four infielders, other than the
regulars, are highly regarded by
Griffith.
"First Baseman Joe Kuhel
and Second Sacker Jackie
Hayes, of course, have locked
up their jobs" he explains.
''But we also like second base
man Wally Dashiell and Baxter
Jordan, whom we're working
out at third. Those last two
look mighty good to me. And
don't be surprised if they stay
put"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29
CHAPTER iii

Long before the end of that first
nightmarish day in Usage, Sabra had
confronted her husband with blazing
eyes. II won't bring up my boy in a
town like this''
1t had been a night and day fam
tastic with untoward happenings.
Their wagons had rumbled YEARLY
down the broad main street of the set
tlement-a raw cash in the prairie.
All about. on either side. were wooden
shacks, and Indians and dried mud
and hitching posts and dogs and crude
wagons like their own. 1t looked like
pictures Sabra had seen of California
in 40. They had spent that first
night in rooming house above one
of the score of saloons that enlivened
the main street-Pawhuska avenue.
1t was called. The street stopped
abruptly at either end and became
suddenly prairie.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29

There are so churches in Charles
ton, S. c., and they range in age from
223 years down. st. Michael's church,
where George Washington and the
marquis de Lafayette both worshiped
on their several visits to the city, was
built in 1852. st. Philips church, COM
pleted in 1923. had for centuries In its
spire a light which served to warn
ships at sea. In it's interesting old
graveyard is buried Edward Rutledge,
one of the signers Of the Declaration
of Independence. and John c. Cal
houn. the South's great statesman.
Also in Charleston is the Huguenot
church (French Protestant), said to
be the only one of its kind In the
United States. Its architecture and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29

sound of a piano hammered horribly.
Horses clattered by. Voices came up
in jocose greeting; there were con-
versations and arguments excruciat-
ingly prolonged beneath her window.
Yet somehow she had fallen asleep
in utter exhaustion, only to be awak-
ened by pistol shots, series of blood
curdling yells, the crash and tinkle of
broken glass. Then came screams Of
women. the sound Of horses galloping.
She lay there, covering. CHM stirred
in his bed, sighed deeply, slept again.
She was too terrified to go to the
window. Her shivering seemed to
shake the bed. She wanted to waken
the child for comfort, for company.
She summoned courage to go to the
window: peered fearfully out into the
dim street below. Nothing. No one
in the street. Yancey's bleeding body
was not lying in the road; no masked
men. Nothing again but the clink of
glasses and plates; the tinny piano,
the slap of cards.
She longed with unutterable long
ing. not for the sweet security Of her
bed back in Wichita-that seemed I'M
real now-but for those nights in the
wagon on the prairie with no sound
but the rustic of the scrub oaks. the
occasional stamp of horses hoofs on
dry clay, the ripping Of a nearby
stream.
1t was midnight when Yancey came
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29

The greasy food set before them in
the eating house sickened Sabra. She
shrank from the slatternly bold-faced
girl who slammed the dishes down In
front Of them on the oilcloth-covered
table. At this same table with them
there was only one, long board &C
commodating perhaps twenty-sat red
faced men talking In great rough
voices, eating with mechanical and
absent-minded thoroughness, shoveling
potatoes, canned vegetables, pie into
their mouths with knives. Chm was
terribly wide awake and noisily I'M
ruly, excited by the sounds and
strangeness about him.
Sabra had taken him up to the bare
and clean enough little room which
was to be their shelter for the night.
From wide-eyed wakefulness Gin had
become suddenly limp with sleep.
Yancey had gone out to see to the
horses, to get what information he
could about renting a house. and a
shack for the newspaper. A score Of
plans were teeming in his mind.
you'll be all right" he had said.
"A good nights sleep and everythingll
look rosy in the morning. Don't look
so down in the mouth, honey. You're
going to like it."
sits horrible! It's-and those men!
Those dreadful men,"
"'For my part, had rather be the
first man among these fellows than
the second man in Rome" He kissed
her; was gone with a great flirt Of his
coat tails. She heard his light step
Gathering down the flimsy wooden
stairs. She could distinguish his beau
tiful vibrant voice among the raucous
speech of the other men below.
The boy was asleep in rude box
bed drawn up beside theirs. Black
Isaiah was bedded down somewhere in
a little kennel outside. Sabra sank
suspiciously down on the doubtful mat
tress. The walls Of the room were
wafer thin; mere pine Stats with
cracks between. From the street be-
low came women's shrill laughter, the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29
Section Overlooked

Too much game is what Is the
trouble with the Olympic peninsula,
vast wilderness stretch across Puget
sound from Seattle. according to F.
s. Mavis, United States forest serv-
ice worker. Roosevelt elk, distinct
species indigenous to the peninsula,
are protected, by the law. AS a re-
suit, the animals are multiplying SO
fast grazing land is disappearing,
Mavis asserted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29
IL:
Wo,r,aan's
Dreaded
Forties

PHYSICIANS call this perioo
"Menopause." It is the dreaded Change
of Life. Women should face this
period with well-balanced health, or
dangerous symptoms may appear. This
is the time when deficiencies in gem
eral health must be helped. Every
woman approaching middle age should
take DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton, that splendid herbal tonic.
Every package Of Prescription contains
Symptom Blank. Fill out the Blank and
mail It to DR.. Pierce's Clinic, Buffalo. N. Ys
for FREE medical advice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29
The STORY

Yancey Cravat, just returned
from the newly opened indian
territory, relates njs experiences
to large gathering Of the Ven-
able family. Yancey Is married
to Sabra venable; is criminal
lawyer and editor Of the Wichita
Wigwam. When the Run started.
Yancey had raced his pony
against the thoroughbred mount
of q girl. The girls horse was
4 injured and when Yancey stopped
to shoot it she grabbed his pony
and got the land Yancey wanted.
Yancey announces he is going
back to the Oklahoma country
with Sabra and their four-year-
old son, Cimarron. They make
the journey in two covered
wagons.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29
Charleston Famous for Its Fine Old Churches

its history are interesting and dis
tinctive. st. Andrews church, built
first in 1896 and rebuilt in 1706. and
the Goose Creek church, built. in I'LL,
are in the plantation area, less than
ten miles from the city.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29
Observations

animals have no matrimonial
troubles, for they mate by INSTINCT"
says psychologist. We've noticed
a rabbit never marries wildcat
and crow never ruins it's health
digging worms for bird Of para
dise.-Life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29
III Nature Defined

III nature consists of a proneness
to do i'll turns, attended with secret
Joy upon the sight OF any mischief
that befalls another.-South.,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29
Expert Jugglers

Figures may not lie, but many q
queer proposition is put over by a>ju-
dicious selection of statistics.-R
land Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29
For Sturdier Breakfasts

Few women ever oyerestimate the
Importance for breakfast Woman's
Home Companion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-29

Women are gamer than men.
They face life with a smile.
Evening star., 1931-05-14

Texas Association of Colleges was or
unnized on the Baylor Campus in 1915.
Helped Elect Wilson.
the Baylor faculty he taught the first
course in sociology ever given in this
State and in 1915 he was elected pres
ident Of the Southern Sociological Con-
gress.
Indicating the civic interests Of DR..
Brooks, he was vice president OF the
American Peace Society, spoke ex-
tensively in various parts OF America
in behalf of international peace ana
in 1907 organized the Texas Peace So
ciety, the first State peace body ever
formed in this country.
DR.. Brooks was widely used as a
speaker in behalf of the Democratic
ticket in 1912, when woodrow Wilson
was elected President the first time.
DR.. Brooks was active in religious cir
cleS. From 1914 to 1917 he was presl-
dent of the Baptist General Convention
of Texas, and in 1910 and again in 1877
he was elected vice president of the
Southern Baptist Convention. In 1924
and 1925 he was president of the South
ern Baptist Education Association ana
at the time of his death was vice pres
ident of the Board of Trustees OF the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
at Louisville, KY. In January of 1881
he was invited by the Baptist Bible In
stitute to deliver the Tharp lecture on
1.-The Preacher From a Layman's Point
of View"
In 1895 DIR. Brooks married Miss Mat
tie Sims of Cleburn, who survives him,
along with two children. They are Miss
Aurelia Brooks, a member of the Eng
lish faculty at Baylor, and Sios Brooks,
a. Waco attorney The president has
one granddaughter and is survived also
by brother, Prof. George Brooks of
the State School for Deaf Mutes at
Austin.
DR.. Brooks was a member Of num-
ber of Masonic bodies, the Maccabees
and the Rotary Club.
Numerous colleges over the country
had conferred on him the honorary de-
gree Of LII. D.
Evening star., 1931-05-14
BAYLOR PRESIDENT
EXPIRES IN WACO
Or. Brooks Victim of Cancer
After Completing Labor of
Love for School.
ny the Associated Press.


WACO, Tex, May 14.-Dr. s. P.
Brooks; 81, president of Baylor Univer-
sity, died at the Baptist Sanitarium
here early today.
He succumbed to cancer q few days
after physicians had forbidden him to
complete a last labor of love for the
school at which he had served % years,
the signing of diplomas for the 400
members of this years graduating class.
Former Gov Pat M. Neff and Dean
w. s. Allen Of Baylor were with the
the end came. Neff, former school,
mate of DR.. Brooks, has been spoken of
as a likely successor to the presidency
OF the Baptist school.
Native Of Georgia.
DR.. Brooks did not have the oppor-
tunities of even a common school edu-
cation until he was ~ years old. His
fight upward among students to a place
of prominence among the Nations edu-
Gators came after he had supported his
invalid father for several years by
working as a farm laborers and as a
section hand on the Santa Fe lines in
johnson County, Tex.
DR.. Brooks was born IN Milledgeville,
Ca, December 4, 1868. His father,
Rev. s. z. Brooks, q Baptist minister,
moved to Texas when the son was S
years old, and located in johnson County
at Joshua.
Having had q consuming desire for
an education since childhood, however,
the young man was not discouraged by
the late start In schooling. At the age
OF % he taught a small rural school in
johnson County, from the proceeds Of
which work he was able to enter the
high school department of Baylor at
the age Of "a, and continued his work
until he was graduated with the A. B.
degree In 1893 at the age Of 80. Fol-
lowing his graduation he entered Yale
University, from which he received an
other degree in 1894. He then returned
to Texas, where he taught for a while
as principal Of the public school at
Mckinney before being called to the
chair Of history and economies at Bay
lor University.
After several years on the Baylor
faculty DR.. Brooks returned to Yale
University to take his masters degree.
and It was while pursuing his work
there that he was elected president of
Baylor and returned to his alma mater
as chief executive in the Summer of
1902.
DR.. Brooks was active in promoting
The cause Of education in q general
way and it was upon his call that the
Evening star., 1931-05-14
DOGWOOD TREE WALK
is PLANNED BY CLUB
Washington Soroptimist Group
1882 Program Includes
Pilgrimage.

Planting of walk Of dogwood trees
in the Capital is one of the projects
sponsored by the Washington Soropti-
mist Club as part of its 1882 program,
it was announced today after meeting
of the Bicentennial Committee Of the
club in the La Fayette Hotel.
The program includes pilgrimage
to Wakefield, Va, birthplace of George
Washington, on June 81, 1882, by all
Soroptimist Clubs in the United States;
a display of Wakefield china and the
promotion Of it's sale through clubs in
all parts Of the country and the COM
pletion of a Soroptin1ist walk Of trees
in washington and in every city where
there is Soroptinlist Club.
The trees will be adapted to the cities
where the walks will be located. The
selection Of the dogwood for the Capt.
tai Is expected to create mass of dog
wood blooms which will be a center of
attraction during the blooming period
each Spring.
Evening star., 1931-05-14

college freshmen has been awarded to
Miss Dorothy McCanne Of Texas, a
student at Goucher College, here, 1t
became. known Tuesday.
Miss Elizabeth Gray of Baltimore,
Evening star., 1931-05-14

also o Goucher student, received the
$500 second prize. Miss McCannes
paper was on chemistry and better food
and Miss Grays on utilization Of agri-
cultural waste.
Evening star., 1931-05-14
TEXAS GIRL WINS PRIZE

BALTIMORE, Md, May II R.-
The $500 first prize in the American
Chemical Society's essay contest fer
Evening star., 1931-05-14
Vet you find me the friend of the man in the street,

TOR NINETEEN years, Research Department has
kept intimate touch with every development of Science
hat could be applied the manufacture of cigarettes.
During this period there has been development tested
value ow importance the smoker which have not
incorporated into the making of Chesterfield cigarettes
LggeH Myers Tobacco Co
Evening star., 1931-05-14
for between-meaI hunger
Jerome williams
The BFoodmooF

At eleven in the morning or thereabouts and
n again at four in the afternoon you feel
literally famished?" Kso, tnens the time to drink
q bunch Of grapes" A generous glass of Welch's
at these hunger times will quickly revtalize your
entire system.
Welchs is the pure juice of luscious fresh Con-
cord grapes rpened to full flavor under the October
sum- It gives you the energizing Sweet" your
body needs, without adding to your weight
1t abounds, too, in mineral salts, so vital to your
heath-all IN Natures most easily assimilable FORM
Wonderfully appetizing as breakfast fruit.
Drink all you want, any hour of the day or night;
your health, your disposition will be all the better
for it. 1t is mildly laxative and non-fattening
Six servings In every pint-a large cluster Of sweet
fresh Concords in every glassful. Many prefer it
with one-third water added. Just be careful to
say Welchs, so that you may be sure to get pure
unadulterated grape juice. tempting, deliciousl
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-06
FISHERMEN AND BOAT OWNERS kT
 WAR IN SEATTLE
CORRECTIONAL FEATURES IN WORKING AGREEMENT,
 IS CONTROVERSY

SEATTLE, Feb, 6, (P)-The bit terneSs Of the fishermen's strike is increasing and the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union warned it's members that they will not countenance violence or intimi- dation.
 The following resolution was adopted, "Be it resolved that this Union is forced into the present controversy after all means to settle grievances be- tween the Fishing Vessel Own CTS Association and the Union were exhausted. As the mem bers are loyal to the United States government it intends to conduct its efforts to protect the rights and interests of mem bers in a lawful and peaceful manner" .
 Fl B. Gill, secretary of the Union, said the present contro- Versy resulted in attempts of the owners to have objectional fea- lures placed in a working agree ment. He said the Union con strued the demands as lock- out The owners say the fisher men are on strike.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-06
cO|NPROM|sEI Is IN TIE DIPPING OVER
 DROUGHT RELIEF
CONFERENCES RESUMED TO AVOID POSSIBILITY EA-
 IRA SESSION - .

WASHINGTON, Feb,, 6, (P, The solution to the relic dead- lock appeared probable as ne- gotiations were resumed in con- ferences in order to avoid an extra session of Congress
 The proposal to increase the drought loan appropriation from Sl5,ooO,o0o to s6o,0OO,OOO with the provision in case of an emer- gency it can De loaned for hu- man food, is the basis of the compromise for s25, 100000 fund .## Senator Robinson said they were not standing on technicali- ties President Hoover said nothing. .
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-06
ALASKA A|RPLANE
 NAH. SERVICE IS
 FRONNED ! UPOV
TERRITORY IS NOT GROWING DECLARES HIGH POST
 MASTER GENERAL

WASHINGTON. Feb, 6, (P)-- A 9OO-mile belt in inland Alaska with shelter huts at 30-mile in- tervals, is Postmaster General General Browns idea Of an air plane star route service
 All mail delivered, he said, un- der this plan, would do in 48 hours what dog teams take six weeks.
 The better of the two plans would be to shorven the route to Alaska, one via Seattle north ward, and the other extension via St. Paul, Winnipeg, and the Calgary route but these woEld only save a few days in speedier delivery of mail
 Therefore, the actual delivery of mail as first suggested is the more desirable, he pointed out, mainly for the reason Alaska is not growing