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The Washington times., 1933-08-26

Should washington nOC parClCl-
pate in the annual classic, the
Times will take two fans to the
first two games, wherever they
be played. This, of course, will
include all expenses.
Times is optimistic enough to
say that one-half of the games
will be played at Griffith Stadium
In good old Washington.
If the enthusiasm one hears
expressed on all sides is any cri-
terion, the park will hold only
about half of the throng which
will try to crowd through the
gates. Reserved seats for the
series which must be purchased in
blocks of three will cost $3.50,
with boxes, of course, higher. The
only way you can beat this is to
stand in line all night to get the
bleacher seats, which go on sale
early the morning of each game.
Tenth Consecutive Year
Did we say the only way to
beat this is to stand in line?
If we did, we stand corrected
All you have to do is be one of
the winners in the Babe Ruth
contest. and that shouldn't be so
hard. It's been done before by
others for 10 consecutive years
through the Washington Times
Sports Department. If others
could do it. why can't you?
% If you can recognize oppor-
tunity when she knocks, take a
few minutes off from your golf
or shut off the radio for a little
while and get busy with your
, selections.
Most persons who have tried
to select the same team the Bam-
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Pick Ups and
Put Outs

Carl Cramer, Ohio State
quarterback, calls signals at a
filling station the long
trail seems ended for Burleigh
Grimes his arm has gone
lame and his departure from
active big league duty would
leave Red Faber the only spit
baller in harness a wasp
sting SO angered r. w. Franklin,
Texas golfer, as he was teeing
off that he proceeded to score
a hOle-in- one Jack Ryan,
jr., is the tennis "find'' of Mil
waukee Joe VOSmik and
Frank Pytlak, Cleveland players,
crashed into professional base
ball together in the Blue Ridge
League in 1929 Sam Byrd,
the Yankee Outfielder, drives .
golf ball farther than Walter
Hagen.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Five Fihsters
In Hollywood
For Movies

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 26
0N.SD Screen sirens were ell
bowed out of the spotlight today
by the mastodons of the prize
ring as the fistic invasion of
Hollywood got under way in
earnest.
Primo Camera, gigantic heavy
weight champion, was due here
Tuesday to essay his first bit of
movie acting.
Jack Dempsey, former cham
pion, will arrive in town Sunday
to resume his movie career.
Max Baer. prominent heavy,
weight challenger, is already at
work before the cameras.
Max Rosenbloom, broken -nosed
light heavyweight champion, has
been signed for a picture, and
Jose Santa, gigantic Portuguese,
is trading punches with Baer be-
meath the kleig lights.
The climax of the fighting cpl
demic in Hollywood will come
when Baer meets with Dempsey
as referee-all for the benefit of
a picture in which Baer is the
handsome hero.
Since a Baer- -Carnera fight for
the worlds championship is set
for next year, speculation is rife
as to how the movie mastermindS
will handle the sham battle in
HollyWood-will Baer, the star
of the picture, win? or will Car
nera, the champion, emerge on
top?
II love it was cut out to
be an actor" asserted Baer, who
is making a hit with the nat
uraI, carefree manner in which
he has taken to the cameras.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

ton is to have a man like Post
master General James Farley as
chairman of the BluegeiteS.
Bearing in mind that only a
year ago he was busy organiz-
ing the country behind Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, and also bear
ing in mind that Mr.. Farley's
Sportive background includes
not only boxing, Che was chair
man of the New York State
Athletic Commission but base
ball as we'll in that he was a
crack first baseman for the old
Alpha Club of Haverstraw, N.
Y. fully a quarter of CEN
tury ago, his acceptance of the
Bluege Day Craftsmanship was
indeed a break for Washington
ianS.
Already he has washington
solidly synchronizing for Ossie
Bluege. We note too, that Mr..
Farley was instrumental in get
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

Beaver, a 36-year-old electrician
assembled the throne yesterday,
but only after youth, portrayed
by Ned Lilly, debonair 17-year-
old gunner from Stanton, Mich,
had been spanked.
End Neck and Neck
Through 100 targets Beaver
and Lilly duelled bitterly for the
highest prize of the trapshooting
world-the crown of the Grand
American Handicap event. They
ended neck and neck, tied with
scores of SO each.
In the final thrust, however,
age proved it's worth when Beav-
er broke Is targets straight. Lilly
dropped his fourth and eighth
targets. Beaver fired from the
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

A Fan Speaks Up
And Orders Dish
He Wishes to DeUOur
Farley ShOWs LOUe
For Many Forms
Of Sport Activity

fresh fan who must have appointed himself member
OF the Ossie Bluege Day Committee but who failed to
close contribution to the Bluege Gift Fund kind of gets
on his uppers and baws out plenty.
o. K Mr.. Freshly, that's what we re here for-to catch
the brick bats along with the nosgays which sometimes
arrive.
de asks If it isn't about high time printed Bueges
lifetime baseball record and think about it, is
right as threefoot yard stick and this very day
going to slip you the official figures the being
honored here two weeks from today Washington fandom
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
CRACK COLORED
MINES CLASH

The Bacharach Giants, colored
baseball team from Atlantic City,
N. j., will make its first appear
ance in Washington this season
when it plays the Baltimore Black
Sox, also colored, at Griffith Sta
dium tomorrow at p. m.
Both teams have played high
class ball this year. The Black
Sox divided a doubleheader with
the Philadelphia Bolden Stars
Thursday, while the BacharachS
took the Belmar Braves into camp,
l to 0, as Cannon Ball Carter
Giants ace pitcher, shut them out
with nary hit.
The Bacharachs will present
their strongest lineup with George
Carr, Blue" Perez, j. Johnson
and Virgins, infielders; Briggs,
Stone and Cooper, outfielders;
Daniels. catcher, and Carter, Cock
rell and Lee, pitchers.
The Black Sox will present an
infield of Burnett, Lackey, Hub
bard, Dunn, Williams, Seay; an
outfield of Holloway, johnson and
Hubbard, with Eggleston, catch
ing. and Jones and Richardson,
pitching.
Today at 3 o'clock the colored
baseball champion team of Wash
ington begins a 10-game tourna-
ment sponsored by the Washing
ton Tribune when the Aztec A. C.
meets the Georgetown Athletics
at Green Valley field.
The second and third games
will be played tomorrow, with the
Hillsdale A. C. and Anacostia Ath-
letics meeting at l o'clock and the
Washington Royals and George
town at $3.50 p. m.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

BIuege is the second oldest
player in point of continuous
service on the Washington club.
. My Sam Rice antedateS Oswald.
Goslin came here in 1921, a
year before Bluege first reported
to Washington previous to being
farmed out to Minneapolis for
the remainder of 1922, but
Goose has played with St. Louis
since. Nick Altrock, however,
out-dates 'em all except Griff
himself.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

25-yard line, while Lilly shot from
"a yards.
First At Distance
BY his victory yesterday, Beav-
er became the first gunner in
the history of the coveted
grand" to win the event back
of the 23-yard line.
Six marksmen were tied for
third place with 81 breaks, but
in the shoot-off, Joe Heistand,
of Hillsboro, Ohio, emerged vic
torious. C. o. Carothers, of Ken
ton, Ohio, placed fourth; Morgan
Davis, of Springfield, Ohio, fifth,
and Fred Harlow, of Newark,
Ohio, sixth. D. L. Mcdonald, of
Amarillo, Tex, and J. P. Coffe,
of Sisseton, S. Oak. were un-
placed in the Shoot-off.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Noah Hazard Boats
Set for Fishing TRIPS

Noah Hazard, well-known fish
ing captain, has shifted his fish
ing activities to GaleSville. on the
West River, until the Seaside pier,
washed away by the recent storm,
is repaired.
Hazard was fortunate enough
to save his whole fishing fleet,
and will make his usual number
of Sunday trips tomorrow. Five
schools of bluefish were sighted
in the upper bay, off Galesville,
he states.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Rules for Winning
Trip to Next
World Series

The ten contestants coming
nearest to the Ruth selection
and submitting the best reason
for selections will be declared
the winners. They will see the
first block of world Series
games played in Washington
as guest of The Washington
Times. If Washington is not
in the series, then the two CD
contestants most nearly approx
imating Ruth's team will see
the first two ga m es of the
World Series played in the Ma
tional League city competing.
All winning ties will receive the
same award.
Contestants must not only
try to select the same team as
Babe Ruth picks but must at
tempt to arrange it in the
same batting order as those on
Ruth'S team. The two pitchers
will be named last and in that
only one pitcher could be in
the game at once, it will make
no difference which pitcher IS
placed first in the batting Or
der.
A player may be placed in
a position other than his regu :
lar position, provided he has
occupied the alternate position
in one or more games this sea-
son.
All players on all major
league teams are eligible ex-
cept Babe Ruth. Ruth will not
select himself.
Address all selections to Babe
Ruth Contest Editor, Sporting
Department, The Washington
Times, Washington, D. C.
Each selection must be ac-
companied by a letter of $50
words or less, giving the rea-
sons for the selection.
If possible use the coupon
printed on the Sports Page for
submitting your team. The con-
test closes at midnight Septem-
Der 5 and the winners will be
announced as soon thereafter as
possible.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
9-GAME LEAD
FELT SAFE
BY TEAM
BY GARRETT WATERS
Times Staff Correspondent


CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 90
1t was a downright merry group
that hoped on the train yester-
day evening after that Griff-Tiger
ball game in Detroit, which the
Griffs won, 5 to 4.
And why the unusual display Of
merriment in this particular in
stance? Well sir, you see the
Griffs happened to gain another
game on the faltering New York
Yankees by virtue of their victory
yesterday. as the Yanks dropped
an unexpected contest to the
Cleveland Indians.
The Griffs, therefore, realized
that their hold on first place had
been increased to nine full games.
What break, they said, what a
break.
Players Figure
Throughout dinner on the spe-
cial dining car set up for the
team, the players took out pencil
and paper and began figuring
just how many more games had to
be won before the old gonfalon
becomes cinched matter.
Lets See," mumbIed Ossie
Bluege and Fred Schultz, head.
ing one group, "if We win the
next 26 games out of our re-
naming 81, the Yanks would
have to win every one of their
remaining 36 games to even tie
us for the lead at the end of the
schedule"
yep" reasoned another
group, including Earl Whitehill
and Goose GosIin, "and even il
We were only able to break even
IN our remaining 81 games, the
Yanks would have to win "a of
thelrs to tie US. Looks pretty
bad for those Yanks, eh?"
And so it went from one table
to another throughout the spa
clous car. The merriment gave
out the impression that the
GrlffS, who have been very con-
ServatiVe about their chances of
coping the flag, are finally COM
ing to the safe conclusion that
they have grand opportunity
of finishing ahead of the pack
after all.
We just haven't wanted to
be too cOckSure of ourselves"
Manager Joe CrOnin explained.
You see, we've played con-
Servative baseball all along be-
cause we felt it was the best
thing to do. But now, as the
season is almost spent, we're
beginning to believe we have
the flag on our finger tips at
last and we just can't help but
give vent to our feelings every
now and then when the spirit
strikes us. Grabbing that final
game from the Tigers while the
Yanks were losing to the In
dianS, naturally made us all
feel pretty good"
The Griffs, by winning from
the Tigers yesterday, ran their
total of victories for this current
trip to 10 as against only three
games lost.
Won Four in Chi
The trip began with those four
contests in Chicago, all of which
were won. st. Louis was the next
stop, and as fate would have it,
three more were won from that
club. The record against the
Tigers was three games won as
against two lost.
Today, Cronin and his happy
gang open a five-game set with
the Cleveland Indians. A single
game is on tap today, a double
header tomorrow and single games
Monday and Tuesday. Although
the Indians have been playing ex-
cellent ball lately, the Griffs hope
to have as much success against
Walter Johnson's club as they
have had against their other foes
so far this trip.
The next few days will tell.
Weaver, CroWder, Stewart, White.
hill and probably Burke will be
Manager Cronin's pitchers for the
series.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Look For Yourself

The rapid-fire third baseman
par excellence put in his first
full year of playing for Wash
1ngton in 1923. But here's
Bluege'S record, with the excep-
ton of this season, as given
by Who's Who in Baseball, and
you can follow him down
through last season for your
self:
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Grid Leaders Hold
Interpretati tiOn
Meeting Sept. 9

The annual football interpre-
tation meeting of the Eastern
intercollegiate Association will
be held September 9 in the
Hotel McAlpin in New York.
There will be a morning ses-
sion at 10 a. m. with a demon
stration game at Baker Field
by the Columbia U. squad at
3 p. m. and a final meeting
at 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Fans!! Select Ruth's All-Star
Team and See Series

Disguised the Washington Times Babe Ruth Contest
editor Santa Claus will make early this year and will
leave 10 tickets to the local World Series for those nteprn
fans who duplicate the Babes allstar selections
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
&C. Year-Old Electrician Is
Trap Crown Winner
IL

VANDALIA, Ohio, Aug. 26.-Youth the perennial cha
nger stood side today age invested in the experience
handican tournament here.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
PHOENIX ANXIOUS

Phoenix diamonderS are with
out a game for tomorrow. Call
Lincoln 5603-J.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

There you are, Mr.. Fresh Fan,
and thanks for the call down.
If someone like you would tell
us each day before we sit down
to pen this piece, exactly what
they would like to read about,
boy, what soft touch this old
Job of ours would be.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

ting President Roosevelt to at
tend some wrestling matches
which Farley and Jack Curley,
New York mat impresario,
staged for HaverStraW Elks
Lodge.
There's a sporting Postmaster
General for you, and a sporting
President for you, if you ask us,
but then why try to gild the
lily? Roosevelt and Farley con-
Stitute the greatest ENTRY" that
ever ran the American sweep
stakes, and you can gamble on
that.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Farley Man of Hour

And, speaking of Bluege and
the Bluege Day and the likes
of that, we were thinking this
week how fortunate Washing
The daily worker., 1933-09-08

2:3O pm. on the first shift, and on
the second shift until 1890 pm.
They are to keep the machinery in
operation all of the time.
''No time is allowed for cleaning
up and no time allowed out for
washing up, and we expect the over
seers to enforce these rules"
The week work was changed from
so hours to 40, but the amount of
work is maintained just the same by
the speed-up system, which is now
life crushing.
No Lunch Period
Men eat their lunches while they
are at work. In the washing depart
ment of this woolen factory, the
worker has one hand full of slime
from the washing material while he
holds his food in the other.
To intimidate the workers the
company has recently advertised for
men. About 500 applied. Out of these
500, only five were taken TO work.
And those taken on work for five
days and then are sent away.
Many workers have walked many
miles to reach the factory and we're
compelled to go back hopelessly, and
others had spent their car fare in
the hope of remaining on the job
and were left out in the cold in the
strange town tens of miles away
from their homes.
In the company's advertisement it
said: italian and Polish workers
preferred" from which the workers
understand that the company in
tends to SOW friction in the masses
of workers who are acquiring an
understanding of the NRA.
The wages we're raised only Slight
ly, from the original average Of $11
to the present $14 per week. The
man who does not work out enough
to cover his pay is fired, and since
the reduction of hours has increased
the rate OF production per hour, the
force was decreased accordingly.
The daily worker., 1933-09-08
Letters from
Our Readers

Bronx, N. Y.
The Daily Worker.
have always been reader of
your paper. don't like to see you
advertising the Columbus Laundry as
the first to settle with the workers.
would call all the workers there
scabs, for the wash-room help and
the engineer went out on strike and
after two days went back and work
ed with the strike breakers. Also
some Of the girls. So when they
settled with the drivers and the rest
of the girls, they kept all the strike
breakers there SO that leaves them
all scabs. Then they returned and
are still working with strike break
ers and scabs.
The Pretty and Port Morris are as
bad. think you should look up this
especially as you advertise the Co.
iurnbus.
A Laundry Driver who lost
out on strike.
Editors Note: This matter has
been looked into and the phrase
in the ad to which the worker OBJ
jects, is being deleted. The Laun-
dry Workers Industrial Union
writes us as follows, in reply to
this worker:
In reply to your communication
regarding the position of the Laun-
dry Workers Industrial Union in the
Columbus Shops we state the follow
ing:
The Columbus Laundry was the
first shop to settle UP with the
LWIU. in the mass strike. The agree
ment however expired on August Is.
Since that time the workers griev-
ances have been taken up through
the shop committee. If the shop
committee has not functioned proper
1y it is to be accounted for by the
state of affairs in our whole organi-
2ation. Disruptive elements have
generally weakened the activities in
many shop. This of course has
q natural reaction on the organiza-
ton in the Columbus Laundry. Last
week a Columbus driver was fined,
He was put back by the shop com1
nittee
We appreciate the interest in the
LWIU as an organization of struggle
among the Laundry workers, and in
the Daily Worker as the organ of the
working masses as shown by the
writer Of the above letter We would
suggest however that in the future
such conditions be brought out in
the regularly arranged shop meetings
that they might be taken care of
before conditions develop more seri-
cusly.
The daily worker., 1933-09-08
How the Comrades
Stuck Together - But
Far from the Masses
Living Example of Sectarianism Described
by Western Pennsylvania Organizer

cne side-and started singing the
international" Not only was the
song unknown to most workers pres
ent, but our own comrades them
selves did not know the words Of
the song. Two or three were there
fore singing-while all other workers
merely looked on.
This was stopped, and the COM
rades were asked not to appear ridi-
culous by singing an unknown song
to the workers, and by themselves,
thereby isolating themselves. They
we're told to sing Solidarity. AS soon
as Solidarity was struck up, dozens
and hundreds of workers joined in
the singing.
THIS incident, unimportant in it
L self, nevertheless shows how far
removed we are from the American
working class. After leading and Or
ganizing such splendid mass action
of American, Negro, youth, and for
eign born workers-and farmerS-our
comrades withdraw unto themselves
and start singing by their lonesome
selves. 1t completely cut our COM
radeS off from all workers present
1t was startling expression Of Sec
tarianism-despite the honest desire
of our comrades to give vent to their
revolutionary enthusiasm. 1t reflects
the correctness of the Open Letters
statements about the deep-rooted Sec
tarianism that weighs down on our
Party like the Alps.
I'VE initiate, organize, lead mass
struggles-and then forgetting our
selves for moment, we set our
selves apart from all other workers
present. Of course, the Information
al is the fighting song of the world
proletariat. We must acquaint the
American workers with this stirring
battle cry of the workers of the
world, and America as well.
At all times, under ell conditions,
we Communists must struggle to
overcome the deeply rooted sectan-
arianiSm in our ranks.
Had we recruited only or of
the American workers present into
our Party, had we spoken to a dozen
workers and raised their class and
political consciousness to higher
level as a result of the mornings
experience and speeches made-this
surely would have been of far greater
Importance than our good, active,
fighting comrades at the head Of this
action Transforming themselves into
small sect.
The daily worker., 1933-09-08
Jobs Are Rotated
To Hold Pay Down
To Beginners Rate
BY a Needle Worker Correspondent


GARY, Ind.-At the La Mode Gar
ment Co. girls and women were en-
ployed at starvation wages, many of
them at less than SO and 81 a week.
The workers were delighted when
they heard that their wages would
be increased up to $8 a week for be-
ginners and S12 for experienced
workers.
They soon found, however, that the
bosses were getting their interests
protected. The workers were warned
by the bosses that unless they pro-
duced $3.50 worth of work every DAY,
they would be sent home. At the pre-
vailing rate, this is practically i'm
possible, though the bosses have
tried all kinds of speed-up devices.
Last Monday, all of one shift was
sent home because they were unable
to produce enough work to make up
$3.50 day.
New women are being hired to
work at beginners rates. and as soon
as they are on to the ropes they
are fired, so the bosses pay begin
ners' wages.
The daily worker., 1933-09-08
Food Workers Get
No Increase But
Lose Their Tips
CHy q Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK-The blow dealt by
the NRA to the workers In general
and the restaurant workers in par
ticular caused the latter to realize
that the National Recovery Act is
nothing but National Slavery Act.
On the first day when the blue
Wllture was conspicuously displayed
in the window of the Alpha Res
taurant, at 1So Fifth Avenue, every
one of the employees was in high
spirits. Soda dispensers, cooks, SAL
admen, dishwashers and mattresses
we're having grand good time.
They hoped that they really were
going to get higher wages and re-
duction Of working hours. Every
thing went along fine until IL
o'clock, when the rush started. BY
one o'clock the Joy and mirth of the
mattresses gave way to gloom.
No Raise and No Tips
What's the matter, Mary7' the
cook asked waitress whose face
hung down and whose eyes saw red.
You look as if your ship sank
Roosevelt fixed US all right"
Mary grunted.
YEA, he fixed us good and plenty"
a second waitress reiterated.
Two o'clock. The rush is over.
Mary stands at her station. There
are no customers. She looks tired,
beaten, down and out. The girl
from the next station starts talking
to her In low tones.
Mary, you know, everyone thinks
we're getting higher wages. That's
why they don't tip u.s. They kept
asking me If we're satisfied with the
code"
The Excel Restaurant, situated at
The daily worker., 1933-09-08

Journal Square, Jersey City, is re-
puted for its generosity" to its en-
ployes For the last two weeks the
generous" owners of this place are
running back and forth to Paterson,
NJ. j., where they are holding meet
ings, trying to devise ways and
means whereby the code" may
bring in more profits. 1t has been
revealed that they are willing to pay
hundreds of dollars to lawyers in or
der to put into effect the code they
have framed to their own benefit as
against that Of the employees, of
course.
One OF the walters whom 1
happen to know used to earn $40
week up to the time the blue swa-
stika was displayed at the window.
Now the customers refuse to tip him
because Whey think he Is getting
higher wages.