Evening star., 1932-06-05
HOUSE MEMBERS
| AMEND BASE BALL
Final Score Is Plenty, Demo.
Gratis Decide, But Needy
Will Benefit.

II the Republicans score at the polls
at the election next November like they
did yesterday afternoon in the base
ball game with the Democrats of the
House, there will be no doubt Of Presi-
dent Hoover remaining in the White
House for another four years.
Somebody said the score was 20 to S
In favor OF the Republicans, but it didn't
make much difference what the final
score was, after the seventh inning.
Representative Douglas Of Arizona,
VINO undertook to subdue the Repub-
l1can upstairs in the House with his
righ-handed slants, did very well. In
fact, excellently, up to that so-caIled
lucky seventh, but In the seventh in
ming he grew tired, very tired. in fact,
he wearied considerably Of that ball
game. He couldn't get anybody out, and
nine runs had ratified across the plate
before the Republicans, out of sheer
WEAKNESS, swung at the air instead Of
the balls he was pitching over.
Everything Happened.
Everything happened In this ball
game, which was played for the benefit
OF the unemployed Of the District. The
official scorekeeper gave up the ghost
on scoring errors early in the fray, and
In the absence of an adding machine,
1t was not quite certain as to how many
hlts, assists and put-outs were made
during the three hours Of composing
the dlf1erenceS OF the two parties on
the diamond
Representative Carter after allowing
the Democrats five runs in the first in
ming, blanked them the rest of the way.
The principal casualty of the game was
Representative Mouser of Ohio, who
sprained an angle sliding into second
base in the eighth inning and had to
retire. Otherwise, the game was played
without undue incidents, except for
the fact that all the base balls gave out
while the Republicans were knocking
them hither and yon and the game had
to be held up for about 10 minutes
while Clark Griffith dug up few Of
the balls the American League umpires
have been throwing away on him during
the season.
No figures were available last night
as to the actual amount taken in, but
the attendance of upwards Of 5000
gave indication of considerable relief
for those in need here this Summer.
Big Show Put On.
A big show was put on before the
base ball game was played.
Jim Londos, world champion wrestler.
took on couple Of matmen as the flrst
feature of the performance. His first
opponent, Nick Altrock. gave him very
little trouble, and finally succumbed to
an airplane spin, which didn't seem TO
bother Nick much. 1t took Londos
about 10 minutes, however, to pin the
shoulders of Jack Zarnas to the mat.
Then Gene Tunney. retired world
heavyweight champion boxer, appeared
on the scene in an umpire's cap and
Immediately was mobbed by crowd
of girls and small boys, holding out pro-
grams for the famous fighters auto
graph.
Speaker John N. Garner Of the House
and Vice President Charles Curtis oc-
cupied the spotlight after Tunney had
been rescued from his admirers, posed
for cameramen, and then behind the
Army and Marine Bands led the mines
of their respective parties TO the flag
pole in center field, where. to the strains
of The Star Spangled Banner" Old
Glory was waited aloft. Meanwhile,
cavorting about the gathering at the
flagpole, were two very detected animals,
a makeshift donkey. composed Of two
very stanch Democrats, and a dilap-
idated- looking elephant. composed Of
two equally stanch Republicans.
In the stands was distinguished au-
dience, composed Of practically the en-
tire membership of Congress. members
of the Supreme Court. headed by Chief
Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and with
a large sprinkling of the diplomatic
corps. In the base ball game the most
notable achievement was that Of Repre-
sentative Hopkins of Missouri, who hit
the only home run, scoring Representa-
tive Baldridge ahead of him, with the
help of numerous fumbles, wild throws
and the like. on the part of the whole
Democratic team.
Representative Douglas, who had
pitched air-tight ball up to the fifth
inning in the ninth yielded the pitching
assignment to Representative Kleberg
of Texas, who had almost as much
difficulty himself. getting rid of the
Republicans. Representative Dyer Of
Kansas, who is in his sixties, came up
as pinch-hitter, for no good reason,
the Republicans being well ahead in the
ninth inning and showed that age does
not dim his batting eye by whooping a
clean hit through the infield He later
scored on some weird fielding by the
Democrats.
GEpTTpy IL