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The Washington times., 1933-12-22
Fall of Matty in Play-Off Game to Cubs
Was One of Baseball's Mighty Moments

it in New York, and with that
game decide the pennant race.
At first John T. Brush, owner
Of the Giants, refused to accept
that ruling, but after he had
consulted his players he agreed.
The Giants were sure they would
win. Matty was to pitch for
them.
Excitement Reigned
New York seethed with excite
ment the night before the game.
Thousands assembled outside the
Polo Grounds before midnight,
and hundreds scaled the walls
surrounding the playing field.
The gates were thrown open at
10 o'clock in the morning and
within an hour the park was
jammed to its uttermost capacity.
It is estimated that upwards Of
100000 people tried to reach the
Polo Grounds that day.
While the game was in prog.
ress the 155th Street viaduct, the
speedway and the elevated struc-
ture above the Polo Grounds
were black with people. One
man fell from the elevated Struc-
ture and was killed. He was the
only fatality, but scores were
injured in the crush.
Inside the park the widest
disorder prevailed. The crowd
shouted it's defiance at the Cubs,
hurled epithets and threats, too
and pop bottles. A special
Gordon Of police surrounded the
Chicago bench to protect the
Cubs from harm.
Early Developments
Early developments allowed the
crowds enthusiasm full rein.
Matty, the peerless, struck out
Jimmy Sheckard with three
pitched balls, and ended the in
ming by tanning the dangerous
"Wild Fire" Schultz.
The Giants scored promptly.
Chance had indulged in a master
minding spree before the game,
and started the left-handed Jack
Pfeister instead of the celebrated
Three Fingered" Brown. Pfeister
was a good pitcher and some
thing of a "jinx" to the Giants,
but this situation was beyond
him. He was obviously unnerved.
First he plunked Fred Tenney,
the lead-off man, in the ribs, and
then he walked "Buck" Herzog.
But a moment later his courage
made Chicago's eventual victory
possible. For he struck out Roger
Bresnahan after the count had
gone to three and two.
Naturally, the base runners
were in motion with the decisive
pitch, and the infallible King
doubled up Herzog with a rifle
peg to Evers. What that break
cost the Giants no one will ever
know. What happened vas that
Mike Donlin, Turkey Nike" fol-
lowed with a double to score one
run, instead of two or three.
Chance took no more chances.
He derricked the faltering PfeiSter
and substituted Brown.
Didn't Worry Crowd
The substitution didn't worry
the crowd. Matty, blonde, tow
ering, master Of the fadeaway,
was their pitcher. It didn't seem
possible he could lose. Not after
he added in the second inning
two more strikeouts to the pair
he had collected in the first
inning.
The diSillusionment was crush
ing. The Cubs struck suddenly
with brutal force. Joe Tinker, all
through his career Matty'S nem-
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The Washington times., 1933-12-22

"TAD" HOWARD was
blazing away at duckpins
long before the Wrights
flew the first airplane, be-
fore Edison gave us the
mazda electric lamp, be-
fore Marconi discovered
the wireless and before the
first auto caused onlookers
to laugh. Indeed, some of
"Tad's friends assert he
was bowling when called
to duty for the Civil War.
Times Staff Photo.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
FRISCH VISITS PLAYERS

frankie Frisch is planning to
visit members of his Cardinals be-
fore spring raining time rolls
around. frankie will tell each guy
what wonderful player he is and
trusts that his praise will produce
good results next summer.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
GIRLS
MATCHHELD
IN 1907
So Ill

This is the Sirth of the "Duck-
pi1-M1kerS" series, biographical
sketches of outstanding figures in
the duckpin game. Nert In series
1DtH appear Monday.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

A homo is your castle your
greatest protection wise invest
ment! Study the many worthwhile
home buys advertised for sale in the
WANT AID SECTION Of this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1933-12-22
By GARRY SCHUMACHER

This is the fourth of a series OF
articles By Garry Schumacher, in
Which he 1UiH describe dramatic,
thrilling incidents, moments and
battles in baseball that 1UtIl lve as
long as the game Itself. The Grti-
czes tDiI appear daily in The Wash
inQton Times.
Baseball's epic game?
If you ask Dad he'll have an
answer ready. One game will al
ways top his list-the memorable
pennant play-off between the
Giants and Cubs.
And Dad probably does cover
it all when he says that one was
tops. McGraw'S staggering,
truculent Giants, and the flawless
Cubs of Frank Chance-their's
was a rivalry baseball has never
reproduced, and fate threw them
together in game that held q
nations enthralled attention, and
stirred popular feeling and parti-
san enthusiasm beyond any other
that ever was played.
The play-off had to happen, Of
The Washington times., 1933-12-22

course. It was inevitable. A feud
so bitter, so intense, simply had
to reach a showdown, a game
when all the checks were down.
Leaders Bunched
What finally brought it about?
The Merkle incident, the game
in which he failed to touch second
base, led to it directly, but need
ed, too, were series equally
dramatic games on other fields.
To achieve a last day tie, the
Cubs had to eliminate the Pitts
burgh Pirates, and having done
that, they made it necessary for
the Giants to sweep a three.game
series at Boston.
That the Giants did-and the
close of the season listed this
standing:
Chicago ..o..sss."e.'sS''' 20 %
New York se.......""'..' S0 % %
Pittsburgh ................ 9S 90
The day before, the National
Leagues board of directors. after
a stormy and acrimonious meet
ing at Cincinnati, ruled that the
Merkle game was a tie, and
ordered the two teams to replay
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27

ICE CREEPERS and OOLIGAN NETS at J. l.. Graef.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27
AT THE HOTELS

VAN GILDER-Mr. and Mrs. L.. c. Hess. MT. and Mrs. J. DeVane, MT. and Mrs. R. s. BragaW, Mrs. Frank Reed, MT. and Mrs. D. L. Green, Dr. B. La ROu, MT. and Mrs. Jackson, E. D. Hawkins, Lu- cille Meighan, Mrs. Ray Wise, Ly- man Brewster, MT. and Mrs. c. H. Ruttan.
 SEWARD-Mr. and Mrs. Buch- anan, Frank L. Knight, Frank Armstrong, Mrs. c. H. Casey, MT. and Mrs. J. L, Hague, J. R. Camp bell, Matt Casper, F. Gleason, Henry Stuck, Al Jones, M. Clancy, Ray Driscoll, Jas. McKenery, L. MandShed.
 OVERLAND Carlson, Mott Lick, w. Neimi, L. Bayer, M. MIG Kinnon, D. Winterberger, George Moran, Dan Keller, M. Anderson.
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PUBLIC DANCE TONIGHT

Terpsichorean dancers, ct al, will have the opportunity tonight, after the basketball games, of dem onstrating their wares at Odd Eel lows hall at the dance which is be- ing given in honor of the Anchor age athletes. The usual admission price of 40 cents for each individ- ual will stand, with the exception of the Anchorage team who may enter free with the compliments of Seward.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27
PIRATES RAN UP THE
 JOLLY ROGER' IN FIRST
 CAME HERE SATURDAY

Not so hot!
 Both teams must have been tired or something, Saturday night, for the Anchorage and Seward City both appeared to be in rather a daze for the first few quarters and not until the last quarter did they really come to life.
 Anchorage won 26-23.
 Seward took the lead in the first quarter 7-6, but from that time on Anchorage was never in any danger unless it was in the third period when Seward forged to within two points. The second quarter ended 16-9, the third, 1917, and the final 26-23. ..
 There is no question that the visitors have a swell team but so has Seward and it was the opinion of many Saturday night that the locals should have annexed the game. Steady playing, with almost total lack of the spectacular, was paramount.
 Anchorage balisticS:
 Leik 5, Carlson 16, Bayer,3 3 and Neimi 2 .-..
 Anchorage shot and missed 65
 Seward:
 R. Manthey 10, Shellhorn g, and Kunz 4.
 Bob Carlson and Leik starred for Anchorage City and Kunz and Shellhorn for Seward.
 Seward shot and missed 39.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27
SECOND LOCAL. CITY CAME WON BY WIDE
 MARGIN, "P|RATEs''

If Seward City could kidnap Bob Carlson, tall, lean and lanky An chorage City center eager, perhaps the Localities might win a game but while this antelope gambles upon the hemlock SWard. there seems to be little chance. With his teammates constantly feeding him the old horse-hide globe, and supported by royal guardsmen, it IS now seen why the Pirates" have been using all other squads in this and the Interior as mops all thru the winter.
 The visitors took a half-hitch in thelr Step-lns, in Sundays game, then went to work and when the dust rose at the end of the game the score board read 39-18, An- chorage.
 That makes it three in row one victory at Anchorage and two here. But, because of the delay in steamer arrival, the locals will get one more crack at them, tonight at 5 o'clock, when the last game of the year, school or otherwise. will be run off.
 The brilliant work of Lick, as elusive as a San Diego beach flea, as well as the remarkably accurate field shots of McKinnon, almost made some of the local fans break down and cry like a child; all hope vanished.
 Shellhorn and Sandbeck. both guards, again stood out above their mates, while Ray Manthey began to hit his usual stride which has been missing.
 Pirates:
 Shot and missed 70.
 Lick 6, McKinnon 13, Carlson 15, Ruttan ?, Bayer 3.
 Seward City:
 Shot and missed 35.
 R. Manthey 8, Paul 3, Shellhorn 5, Kunz 2.
 First quarter GA Seward; End quarter 141C Anchorage; 3rd quarter 21-11 Anchorage; last quarter 39-18 Anchorage.
 One noticeable trait freely com upon by spectators Is the real sportsmanship exhibited by the Anchorage athletes.
 Unless a banner crowd turns out for tonight's game, the last of the series, the Anchorage team stands to lose at least $50, the crowds be- ing exceptionally poor on account of the weather. It is hoped Sew ard residents and visitors will res pond and come over tonight. It is a certainty they will enjoy the game. What do you say?
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27
MAKING FIRST TRIP
 STATES IN 90 YEARS

Thirty years ago young chap by the name of Louis Wamsted de- cided to go to Alaska. Today, for he first time since coming North, he has decided to return to the States on his first trip out to find out for himself what makes 'em click
 MT. Wamsted, of Wamsted & Dahl, Anchorage contractors, has been actively identified with many Alaskan projects in recent years, his firms most recent being the construction of the fine, modern Anchorage school building.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27

The regular passenger train, de- layed in departing for Interior points on account of the latenesS of arrival in port of the SS North western, departs tomorrow (Tues- day) morning at 7:30 o'clock.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27
TODAY'S WEATHER

Fairbanks A below, clear and calm Nenana 40 below, clear and calm. Healy 36 below, clear and calm. Anchorage l below, clear north wind. Seward above, clear but far from calm.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27

George Colwell, general road master, Alaska Railroad, was an official business visitor over the weekend from his Anchorage of flee.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27
EASTERN STAR NOTICE

The Eastern Star Lorge will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Masonic hall.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27

SEATTLE ICE CREAM-alwayS FRESH at the Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-27
SPECIAL,

SUNFREZE BRICK ICE CREAM in assorted fIavors. "Free-zee" in our new frigidaire-Alaska Shop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
FRENCH STUDY
 MOVIE DECREE

Paris, (UP)-While an inter- Ministerial commission was draft ing a new decree for film imports for 1884, a group of $500 of the 4.054 moving picture theater own- CTS in France were insisting upon the lowering of barriers to allow American films back into France.
 The government commission will have to sit many more days before the decree finally is draft ed, for there evidently Is 8 very wide difference in opinions of French film producers and exhibi- tors. The producers. led by M. Natan, chief of the Pathe-Natan group, want all foreign films barred; the exhibitors insist that would kill the theaters.
 Harold L. Smith, representative in France of the Will Hays Bu- reau at the head of the American film production industry, is close- ly following the negotiations and is optimistic that American films will be treated fairly.
 In 1924, French moving picture theaters had 963 films for their screens; in 1882 they had but 496. There was such a shortage that many theaters, equipped for sound-films, had to show silent ones. In 1882. there were but EOS American films allowed in France and of these 127 weres hown but 10 times under the restriction law which permits English-language films to be shown in but five Paris and five provincial theaters. The exhibitors are urging the prolongation for one year of the 19S2-19S3 decree, preferring it to the Natan plan, which climates ! all but a very few foreign films.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
Waterbury Man Tells How
 His Stomach Was Relieved
Hopes His Experience Will Help others who suffer. Gas So Bad Had a Smothering Feeling, also Quite Nervous. Says New Medi- cine Vendol Acted Quickly.

MT. Fred Lasher, residing at 1247 w. Main Street, Waterbury, who IS a Tool Setter at the ScoviH ME. Co, called on the Vendol Man Tn the Waterbury Drug Co.,, ana re- ported how much good this new medicine has done him and gave permission to publish the facts so other sufferers may know what 10 take for stomach disorders ana nervousness. He said,
 My stomach has bothered me for quite a while, not bad enough to see a doctor or go to a hospital, but bad enough to make me un- comfortable after eating. I didn't know just what to take for 1t until one day I read in the papers what a man here in town said Vendol did for him so I got some. That was two weeks ago and I wouldn't take anything for the relief Vendol has brought me.
 "My stomach would fill up with gas after eating till couldn't smother. had headaches, my nerves kept me from sleeping and my whole system became rundown till almost felt I couldn't keep at work.
 "But it's great the way Vendol got my Towels acting regularly, cleaned of my liver and helped my digestion. I'm free of the gas. breathe. easily, never have a head ache or dizzy spell and my sleep Is sound and restfui.
 rYou may tell anyone that I
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
Fixtures at the
 Hotel Waterbury
Difference Over Owner ship Adjusted in Deci-
 sion Yesterday

A compromise settled the dis pute over ownership of certain fix lures at the Hotel Waterbury and after 1t was approved by Judge John Richards Booth in superior court yesterday afternoon, the pro- posed appeal from a previous de- cision was dropped.
 Attorney John r. McDonough, receiver for the hotel, accepted S1,000 from the Colonial Trust company which acquired title to the premises, in settling the dis pute. The hotel owed the bank S1,5O0 for rent and the $i,oO0 offer will be applied against the rent.
 The bank and the receiver asked the court after the foreclosure proceedings had been brought, to determine the ownership of certain fixtures in the hotel. Judge Booth ruled they belonged to the bank because they were part of the es- tate. Attorney McDonough object ed and got permission to appeal the decision to the supreme court. The compromise agreed upon yes- terday winds up the disagreement and halts the appeal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
Citizens Violating
 Obsolete Statutes
 May Be Reprimanded
Any Number of Laws Casually Broken Without Fear of Reproach May Now Find Investigator Check ing Up on You or Even Taking Your Picture GO. P. Mayoralty Candidacy Still Considered Publishers

liable to be reported and your pie ture taken. Watch out for "our Mir Seabury". He may have Q camera man with him and cameras don't lie, it is claimed.
 The "Our Mir Seabury" is pri- vate detective from Providence, R. I. He hires "drive-yourself-car", number KH-763, at a local gar age. He covers the city as a whole. He did not take part in the pic ture, T Cover the Waterfront" although it is said he has been seen along the banks of the Naugatuck river. No theme song has yet been issued covering those activities of "Our MT Seabury" for his water front" activities. Maybe that will come out in the coming campaign. in the opinion of many interested in the sleuth's activities.
 Political lines are expected to become definite during the next few days and the city as a whole is waiting with interest to hear who will definitely come out with the announcement of the candidacy for the nomination of mayor on the g.o.p. ticket. Town Chairman Crary was waiting today for a de- nial from MT Pape to his story statement of last night that the publisher would be the chief and possibly the only contender for the "honor"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
BY MARTIN KANE ed Press Staff Correspondent )

United Press Stan COrreSpOnucnt)
 Salem, Mass, Aug 10-(UP)-A maze of contradictory theories con- fronted defense and prosecution today in the trial of Jessie Burnett Costello, charged with the cyanide murder of William J. Costello, her fire captain husband.
 Summed up and placed in or derly array it appeared that Bill Costello was dead and that he died either of heart disease, acute in- digestion or poisoning by cyanide of potassium.
 Supporting the heart disease and indigestion theories was the testi- mony of the comely defendant her. self, who told how her husband had walked the floor from 2:30 a. m. until 5 a. m. on the early morning of February 17, com piaining the while of pains in his stomach. She found him dead. she said, a few hours later, his crunl- pled. white-faced form on the sec- ond floor of their stucco cottage in Peabody.
 But the theory of death by cya- hide of potassium was bolstered by the defendants admission that she had purchased that poison with OK allie acid the night before her hus- bands death, to be used for clean ing a copper boiler in their kitch- en.
 Prosecution experts testified and were not refuted by defense experts that hydrocyanic acid, formed by contact of potassium cyanide with the moisture of the body, was found in Costello's vital organs. The state medicos declared that this established death by cyanide poisoning as a certainty although defense pathologists and toXicolo- gists insisted it was not certain ty.
 In any event the defendants principal expert, Dr Alexander O.. Gettler, famed consultant in such cases as the Snyder-Gray murder and the death of Starr Faithful, declared that death might have oc- cured through accidental tnhala- tion of cyanide fumes or by ab- sorbing the poison through the skin while Costello wasj mixing it with oxalic acid.
 The capsule theory, to which District Attorney Hugh A. Gregg clings, was backed by testimony of pr J. Stewart Rooney, Harvard pathologist, that a gelatinous sub stance discovered in, Costello's stomach may have been the resi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
Evidence In Murder Case Of Fire Capt.
 Is Contradictory
Theories Are Spread All Over the Horizon - One As- sured Fact Is That Capt Bill" Costello Is Dead How He Died Jury Must Decide

due of a capsule. The defense pa- thologist, Dr Francis P. Mccarthy. said, on the other hand, that the residue discovered was no more consistent with Q gelatine capsule. than it was with an oyster or or dinary stomach mucous.
 Although the presence of cyan- ide in Costello's body was virtually admitted by the defense. 1t was not admitted that 1t was there in suf- ficient quantity to cause death and it was further testified that hydro cyanic acid is 8 product of putre- faction, as shown by experiments made by Dr Gettler on the bodies of dogs. .. from the gelatinous substance in the dead mans stomach, which might, after all, have been an oys- ter, there was no evidence that the poison had been administered in capsule form. Tosbe sure. the state had been found in the Costello home after the fire captains death and that she was familiar with their use and had once purchased them, but 1t has yet to offer direct evidence of capsule administration.
 Dr Gettler's theory of inhalation or absorption was considerably de- Hated under cross-examination when John J. Ryan, assistant dis trict-attorney, drew from him an admission that the inhalation hy- pothesis, as applied to the present case, was Improbable" and that he knew of no case where absorp- tion through the pores was fatal. Dr George Burgess Magrath testi- fled that a cut he found on the lit- tie finger of Costello's hand prob ably occurred after death, so that the defense was unable to. show evidence of cut or abrasion through which the poison might have entered.
 Meanwhile, the dark-eyed de- fendant remained outwardly com posed in the face of a situation that baffled the best pathological and pathological talent either side was able to secure. She derived apparent enjoyment from chats with her several personal friends, who atetnd court sessions daily and from informal conversations with newspaper reporters and court at- taches whom she has come to call by their first name.
 At moments in her trial which affect her case vitally she has been seen to turn in her seat and in- Gulge in light banter with Rachel Craig, jail matron, who has been her constant companion since her indictment on March IT, and who sits directly in back of her in court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10

Hartford Conn, Aug 10-(UP)- Threats of a milk holiday in Con- necticut faded today as the state milk control board and a produc- CTS committee established common ground for settlement of their dif- ferences.
 A revelation by the board that its plans provided for open bidding among dealers for surplus milk changed the tenor of yesterdays conference at which the producers committee presented demands for conditions more favorable to the farmers.
 The farmers had demanded:
 IA fixed price of z cents a quart off 3.7 per cent butterfat milk delivered on a straight con- tract basis to the market centers.
 2-EstabIishment of a produc- tion. ouota system, based on the daily needs of dealers over a one- wear period, each producer receiv- ing a pro rata share on the basis of his production as for the year ended Aug 1. 1883.
 3-A fixed spread to dealers of 5 cents a quart and lowering the price to consumers to l2 cents' (The 14 cents quart schedule went into effect today.)
 4-Provision for public bidding on transportation.
 At yesterdays conference. which was adjourned until Friday morn ing. the board and committee agreed on price fixing, the charge to the consumer providing a req sonable return to the dealer and producer; that production should be controlled, and that data con- corning the surplus be made pub lie record.
 Pending the outcome of tomor- rows conference, resolutions adopted by various groups asking the governor to remove members oR the milk board and urging adop- ton of the producers plan in full, were held in abeyance.