Evening star., 1933-06-08
PRESIDENT HOPES
TO SEE BALL GAME
Letter Lauds Relief Cause for
Which Democrats and Re-
nubIicans Will Play.

Expressing the hope that the needy
of our District of Columbia" will bene-
fit greatly from the receipts of the
annual Republican Democrat congress
sional base ball game, at Griffith Sta
dium, June 10, President Roosevelt
today wrote the chairmen in charge
that he would attend if possible.
The letter, addressed to z; F. Col. Coz.
1aday and Joseph P. Tumulty, joint
chairmen of the Committee on Ar
rangements for the game, reads
1T is with a great deal OF pleasure
that 1 look forward to the congress
sional base ball game, to be held on
June 10. You can count on me II 1t
is at all possible for me to get away,
more so because you gentlemen and
those associated with you in this pleas
ant way of aiding common cause
have convinced me that the perform
ance will be worth close attention.
May I add the wish that the gate
receipts, which go toward the relief OF
unemployment in our District OF Column
bia, exceed your most optimistic ex-
pectations."
Grayson on Committee.
Admiral Gary T. Grayson, formerly
chairman of the Democratci Inaugural
Committee, yesterday accepted the post
of vice president of the committee in
charge of arrangements for the game,
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt leads a
group of prominent women who have
agreed to act as sponsors for the game.
These include Mrs. John N. Garner
wife of the Vice President Mrs. George
H. Dern, wife of the Secretary of War;
Mrs Claude A. Swanson, wife OF the
Secretary of the Navy; Mrs. Henry A.
Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, and Mrs. Henry T. Rainey, wife
OF the Speaker.
Women Handle Boxes.
Mrs. Edward Shouse and Mrs. Vir-
ginia White Spiel, co-chairman of the
Women's Committee, are rapidly per-
fecting an organization for the handling
of boxes and other features in connec-
ton with the game Mrs. A. Mitchell
Palmer wife of the former Attorney
General, is chairman of the committee
On boxes and is preparing for an active
campaign for the sale OF boxes in the
next two days.
Those who have accepted member
ship on the Women's Committee are:
Mrs. George Barnett. Miss Cornelia
Basil, Mrs Emily Blair, Mrs Marx
Kinsey Carpenter, Mrs. Melville Church,
Mrs. Sidney Cloman, Mrs. Edward F.
Colladay, Miss Eleanor Connolly, Nine.
Emanuel Dimitriu, Mrs. John Allen
Dougherty, Mrs. A. McCook Dunlop,
Mrs. Edward P. Finkenstaedt, Mrs. Cary
Grayson, Mrs. Louis Greene, Mrs.
Charles A. Hamlin, Mrs. Ollie James,
Mrs. Jesse Jones, Mrs. Karl Kurtz, Mrs.
j. Hamilton Lewis, Mrs Malcolm
McConihe, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merry
man, Mrs. Frank Mondell, Mrs. Walter
AZ hall palv AHre
Stanley Reed, Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross,
Mrs. Marcy Sperry, Mrs. Sidney F.
Taliaferro and Mrs Ellis Yost.
Batteries for the game this year will
be: Representative Allen, Illinois,
pitcher, and Representative Andrews of
New York, catcher for the Republi-
cans, and Representative Cannon of
Wisconsin and Representative McMil-
Ian of South Carolina. twirling and re-
ceiving, respectively, for the Democrats
Many Players Listed.
The lineup follows:
Republicans-Carter, Wyoming, first
base; Blanchard, Wisconsin, second
base Lambertson, Kansas, third base;
Hartley, New Jersey, shortstop: With
row, Wisconsin, left field; Peavey, Wis
consin, center field; Wolfenden, Penn
sylvania, right field; Andrews, New
York, catcher; Allen, Illinois. pitcher
Democrats-Ellzey Mississippi, first
base; Meade, New York, second base;
Kelly, Illinois, third base; Richards,
South Carolina, shortstop; Jeffers, Ala
bama, left field; Schultz, Indiana, cen
ter field; Brown, Kentucky, right field;
Mcmillan, South Carolina, catcher;
Cannon, Wisconsin, pitcher.
A formidable list Of utility players
include: For the Democrats-West Of
Texas and Caldwell of Florida, pitchers;
Berlin, Pennsylvania Smith, Washing
ton, and Walter, Pennsylvania. Repub-
licans-Fish, New York; Carter, Cali
fornia Marshall, Ohio Dirksen, nr-
nois, and Brumm, Kelly and Muldowney,
Pennsylvania.