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The Washington times., 1934-12-24

cafe. Ruth always felt more
kindly when he considered those
factors, but at the time it was
very trying upon Konetchy. The
safe was not injured.
On the night of that safe push
ing. the boys encountered a Biz
mingham policeman who lackeked
a sense of humor. He objected to
a lot of things and finally yanked
out the old equalizer and was
about to yank a trigger when
some one told him the target was
the combined forces of the Dodg-
ers and Yankees.
Yankees" he beloved
yankees: hey, lemme at 'em!"
"But these are the baseball
Yankees" said friend of both
sides.
They're all alike" roared
the cop. "Lemme at 'em."
By this time the boys had dis
appeared and the cop was finally
Modified.
Part Company
In any event the Dodgers and
Yankees parted company, not be-
cause of safe puching. but be-
cause the astute Yankee front
office decided that Ruth was
drawing card and that the Doog-
ers were getting too much Of the
gate receipts.
Now this is very long way
around to point out that really
you don't have to have big league
rivals to get into condition for a
season that lasts long time at
best, and forever at worst.
1--WE will have the sun down
there and a good baseball field
and good weather" Griffith
told the writer this morning.
"If those ball players want to
get into condition for playing,
they have every facility. If
pitchers want to get in cOndi-
ton, they can do all the run
ming and pitching necessary.
"The same goes for the rest
of the players. 1t is a matter
for the individual to decide.
And 1 would suggest that they
decide in the right way.
when l was pitching 1 could
get into shape ON a COW pas
ture" continued Griffith. "a
pitcher has to get his legs ready
before he can go any place.
Then the arm comes along of
it's own accord. Matty, Walsh,
Johnson or any of those old
timers could give you a ball
game, and they did give you a
ball game without worrying
about the competition they were
going to have on the way
home"
And one way and another, he's
right.
The Washington times., 1934-12-24


Rarely nowadays do you catch a
youngster playing too much golf
before a tournament, probably
the greatest golfing error which
can be committed.
Watch Mackenzie
Roland MacKenzie's dip into
Pacific Coast and Florida big
time winter gold tournaments
will be watched with interest by
Washingtonians, and by many
outside this city.
Here in Washington, Roland is
Congressional County Clubs pro-
feSsional. Outside Washington,
in many sections of the country,
Roland is more than that: he is
Jim Preston's Baby"
Some years ago, in the National
Amateur at Minnekohda, Mime
apolis, Mr.. Preston sang to all
and sundry great praises of Ro-
landd. In particular did the gal
liant Jim regale this observer
with stories of Roland'S ability
on the links, and to such an
extent that this observer shoveled
into the pool on Roland. The
youthful Washingtonian finished
nowhere, but he sure gave this
observer run for his money,
with a show of rare courage.
Leaves December 81
Roland is off to the coast on
December 81. He will strive for
prize money at Los Angeles,
Sacramento, San Francisco, Glen
dale and Aqua Caliente. Prize
money in this quintet of Journeys
total $4,000, the richest being
the Glendale $500 event. Los
Angeles and Aqua Caliente are
next with $4,000 each. San Fan
cisco is worth $4,000, and Sacra-
mento $4,000.
One of these days Roland prob.
ably will find himself. His many
friends in Washington, and in
other sections of the country, are
pulling for him.
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
MD. FIVE DRILLS
FOR BUCKEYES

Christmas holidays mean extra
basketball work for members of
the University of Maryland team.
Coach Burton Shipley has
ordered heavy practice sessions
in preparation for Sa turday
nights game with Ohio State
University in the Ritchie Coliseum
at College Park, Md.
The Maryland coach wants to
smooth some of the rough spots
that we're evident as the Old Lin
ers bowed to Indiana last week.
The Wilson Teachers-Gallaudet
College game is the only other
college contest billed here this
week. The teams are to clash
Thursday night in the Gallaudet
gym.
The Washington times., 1934-12-24

Ihe New York Yankees, which
by and large have been fairly
successful in the matter of win,
ming pennants, parted long ago
from the custom of playing
through the Southland with a
major league rival.
In the case of the Yankees, of
course, this was due to the fact
that the New York club had a
guy named Ruth, who could draw
the crowds through turnstiles if
he we're going to play nine pappy
old guys who couldn't hobble with
out crutch. The Yankees met
such hot competition as the Ashe.
vile Travellers and prospered very
we'll.
In fact, Ruth hit such pro
digious home runs against the
coffee-and-cakes pitching he en-
countered on these trips that he
was great copy for the next town
There was a game in ASheVille
for instance. Down there the
bank in right field rises abruptly
over the field, and far back on
the top of that bluff-it is three
stories highs a great oak tree
Well, Babe socked one that hit
that monarch of the forest, and
they christened it Ruth's oak.
Before the Babe made that
drive you could have gotten a
good bet that man could stand
on home plate and still not hit
that tree with shotgun.
Other Conditions
There were certain other condi-
tions to be considered with big
league competition - especially
Brooklyn. In those brave days
when Ruth and Meusel were with
the Yankees and Ed Konetchy
was with the Dodgers, the supply
of corn in a liquid state was al
ways available. One night Ruth
tried to push Konetchy around
and upon finding much stronger
resistance than he had antici-
pated, pushed all the harder.
It so happened that Konetchy
was up against a safe and the
safe was up against a wall and
the wall was two feet thick. In
fact it was the side wall of the
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
CORNELL SEEKS
FORMER GRID
PRESTIGE

ITHACA, N. Y, Dec. 24-Bet-
ter football material for Cornell,
once a power on Eastern grid.
irons, was assured today by the
action of the committee on ath-
letic control last night in leaving
the door open for the granting of
scholarships to athletes provided
that character and brains re-
main the primary considera-
tions."
While reiterating Cornell's ira
ditional opposition to "buying"
football material, the committee
issued a statement which indi-
Gated a definite change in policy.
Nub of Statement
The nub of the committees re-
statement of the university's foot
ball stand was:
Tf, by cooperative efforts,
within a | u m nj organizations,
small scholarship funds become
available, the committee feels
there is no reason in the ethics
of the situation why such
scholarship benefits should not
be extended to men with ath-
letic ability, provided only that
character and brains remain
the primary considerations"
A recent editorial in the Cornell
Alumni News suggested there
were four things the university
could do about its mediocre rec
ord in football in recent years:
Cd Take it and like it; (2)
drop football; 90 buy material:
or a. develop an efficient system
in which the sole compensation is
the advantages of Cornell as its
alumni have come to know them.
Able to Take 1t
In reply the committee declared
Cornell always has been able to
take it," although it didn't like
to-; that the university would not
drop football nor would it buy ma
terial.
The committee then gave its
approval to scholarship grants,
with the limitations listed.
The Washington times., 1934-12-24

According to the Auditorium
promoter whose matchmaker
has resigned because it was i'm
possible for him to cut in fifty
fifty on any profits, that outfit
has lost $4,000 meddling with
boxing over a span OF seven
months.
According to the Alexandria
Day Nursery it cleared $13,5OO
in IA months Of indoor boxing
ending last April.
Public Is Wised Up
Thus, is it not easy to con-
clude that the public had con-
fidence in weekly boxing in
Alexandria by making it highly
profitable without any boxing
commission or any political ALI
ances, whereas, the public has
been able to leave boxing pretty
much alone under a lifeless,
lethargic, inactive, catch as
catch-can, form of let-George-
do-it boxing government in
Washington, to the extent OF
permitting one promoter to
break even according to his
daily organ here) and to throw
another promoter $4,000 in the
red at the same time.
It's mouthpiece blames the
closing of the Riding and Hunt
Club on a vigorous press cam
paign, which, if true, indicates
that it is a pretty powerful
press which can close the doors
Of public places unfit for gen.
eral assembly when constituted
authorities fail to do so in the
face of negative reports from
fire and building departments.
And why has the public of
the District soured on boxing
under the current control in
Washington to the extent of
q $4,000 deficit for one pro-
moter and no profit for the
other, according to their re-
Spective spokesmen?
A Shiftless Commission
Because our boxing law is
deficient, leaves too much to
those indifferent to and ignorant
of their responsibilities, who,
in return leave everything to
a man of the ring racket, from
it and stamped by it, and be.
cause this weak boxing commits
sion has been dictated to from
one above to the extent that
what breaks were available
here were thrown toward an
organization Of which, accord
ing to letter-heads of Decem-
Der IA. that man was a vice
president.
Can the public be blamed
for being disgusted?
Can the public be blamed for
having no interest because this
same organization was not
closed last July when the build
ing and fire departments
branded it's housing unsafe for
public assembly; a fact known
to officials higher and lower?
What else was smart, en-
1ightened, discerning public to
do but find other forms of di.
version where safety and de-
cency prevailed?
Fails to Exact Self
And what has our august box.
Ing commission done to try to
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
NJ Alley TAKES
7 OP PRIZE
IN STAKES
BY GINO SINH

Tony Maley not only won the
Italian duckpin crown of the city
by chalking up high set, 619, from
scratch in the Italian Duckpir
Sweepstakes. but he also pocketed
first prize money for gross high
set, with 665, a check-up on
averages reveal.
Henry Corvelli, who was cred
tied with having annexed first
money, was discovered to have re,
ceived four more pins handicap
than he was entitled to and
thereby, instead of winning first
money by one pin, loses it bythree
Corvelli staged a great finish
for what seemed victory Saturday
sparing in the ninth and counting
nine, making the single and
counting six for an apparent one
pin lead.
Pricci Makes Bid
Corvelli never threatened to
nose Maley out of the champion
ship, which went only with high
set from scratch. Joe Pricci made
determined bid to overhaul
Tony, but fell II pins shy with
608. Mike Vitale. 1929 champion,
was third with 500, and Corvelli
fourth with 596.
Maley won the Class B Italian
Sweepstakes in 1880, when the
event was run in two sections.
Two years ago he placed fourth
in the Bill Wood Sweepstakes,
Currently he holds high game in
the Holy Name League with ITS,
bowling with Holy Rosary. He
also rolls with Brodt's, Inc, in the
Temple Major League and Atlas
Bros. Sporting Goods in the Tenn
pie Minor League.
Otto Beats Tony
Otto Santini, brother of Tony
Santini, Washington Singles
League leader, did impressive
work when he registered 594 to
beat out from scratch his famous
brother by 10 pins. Ollie Pacini
and Joe Freschi, both former title
holders, finished seventh and
eighth. Pacini was defending
champion.
Mike Vitale had high game 145,
but as he finished in the money,
Paul Pizza collected on his 1873,
second high.
Here's how they finished rolling
from scratch for the Italian duck
pin championship of the District:
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
Rens Five Average
1O6 Wins a Season

One hundred and six victories
a season. That's the record Of
the Renaissance Club, national
colored basketball professional
champions, for the past eight
years.
Their best season was during
the 1928 campaign, when 1877
wins were registered against only
eight defeats with the country's
outstanding teams as victims.
The Washington times., 1934-12-24


McSpaden is
a young Kan
Sas City pro.
T e d Lon g.
W or tn halls
from Portland,
Ore.
Dick Metz, a
bit b e t t e r
k n O W n than
the other two,
m a k es h i S
home in Chi
cago.
T h e P a S a.
d e n a $4,000
o pen epito-
mizeS the spirit
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
JOE SEWELL THROUGH

Joe Sewell is not likely to be
back as coach for the New York
Yankees next season. It is un-
derstood that he has been given
permission to make a new con.
nection.
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
TEMPLE BEGINS
DRILL SESSIONS.

BATON ROUGE, La, Dec. "a.
Temple University's owls" today
were to begin their practice sched-
ule in preparation for the Sugar
Bowl game against Tulane at
New Orleans January l.
Coach Pop" Warner said there
would be no Scrimmaging, but he
ordered the men to report in full
uniform including pads, today.
Horace Mowrey, halfback, will
watch the session from the side
lines, but his fractured wrist is
expected to be healed in time for
him to start the game.
The Washington times., 1934-12-24

Tne Tedsons IoT Cnls ueP1ordU15 sCdc5 o1
boxing inertia are many.
In the first place Congress tossed us
loose law, which, gotten into the hands of
unscrupulous and indifferent men, could
mean but one thing. That is loss of public
confidence.
That the public has turned its back on
boxing in Washington since it was legalized
April "a, last, is established by bare con-
trast between financial statements of the
two local promoters-as against the finan-
cial statement of the Alexandria Day Nurs-
cry when it ceased boxing activities follow
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
.DUCKPIN
HONOR ROLL
MEN LEADERS

MEN LEADERS
Bill Krauss COLUMBIA Heights) ..... 176
Jim Miller (Mt, Rainier) ............ 40
william Share (District) ............ 1853
Milton Jett (Merchants) ............ 1859
Lee ROthgeb (Silver Spring. ........ 1853
Perce Wolfe (TempIe MajOr) ... 167
Larry Fitzgerald mt. Rainier) ... 1874
Carl Rittenhouse (Takoma Sur.) .... 1854
LADIES' LEADERS
Louise Roberts (Agriculture) ........ $50
Irene Scott Ladies District) ..... 148
Ella Limerick Ladies' DistricD zee. 142
Blanche WOOtton Is. s. Ladies) ..... Ill
Lucille Young (Wash. Ladies) ....... 1871
Loretta Leamon Wash. Ladies)..... 1873
Mrs. Thelma COhee (Wash. Ladies).. 1873
The Washington times., 1934-12-24

The Chicago Cubs VIII be the flrst big league
team to be tackled two-game series being
played in Chicago on April and 7. The
Braves, Phillies and the jovial Dodgers are the
other big leaguers to be encountered.
AS matter of fact, the schedule is mapped
out with some regard to the advancement Of
the club in condition. The Birmingham
Barons are the first road team to be encoun-
tered, and be it said that Birmingham has a
better playing layout than the world champion
st. Louis Cardinals. There are few major
league clubs with a better plant than that
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
Veteran Pro Golfers
Help Youngsters
To Reach Top
By HARRY COSTELLO

Harold McSpaden, Ted Longworth and Dick Metz
They finished top the annual Pasadena $4,000 Open
Three youngsters and between %Th principally to
them they split $4,000 of the old timers
{ 0nrizo rooro
The Washington times., 1934-12-24

which is down in the Red Mountain country Frank BUCK "Ne
The matter of conditioning baseball club matter of indi
vidua attention to detail and the task in hand
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
CANADIENS WIN

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-The Chi
cago Black Hawks today smarted
under the 4-to-1 drubbing handed
them by Montreal Les Canadiens
here last night.
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
Gradual Conditioning
Of GnH Planned
In Spring Games
By FRANK BUCK" o'NEILL
By FRANK "BUCK" O'NEILL
Times Sports Writer

Clark Calvin Griffith attaches very little Importance to th
fact that major league competition will not be encountered
until 10 days prior to the opening Of the hereabous
The Washington times., 1934-12-24

ing the local legislation tolerating boxing
According to the official organ Of the Riding and Hunt
Club it has broken since its first weekly show May
"a last That means it has neither made lost money
The Washington times., 1934-12-24
and a Merry Xmas
To Kez All, " Says
Boxing Board
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

Eight small months ago today the President of the United
States signed bill which made boxing exhibitions lawful il
the District of Columbia.
Today there boxing here for such law to regulate
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

of 7,410,000 wage earners, a rate of 5.11 per cent. The rate of un- employment for the factory work CTS was lowest of all, 3.25 per cent.
 Labor organizations assert, how ever, that at the end of June, 1883, when government statistics showed only 429,000 unemployed and em- ployment rising, there were about 1,500,000 former industrial workers without jobs living meagerly on their ancestral farms.
 This ability of rural Japan to care for the castoffs of the ma chine is not likely to last much longer. The industrialization of the empire is shifting the majority of the population from the country to the cities. Japan's rural popula- ton Giving in communities of B. 900 or less) in 1898 was 67.16 per cent of the total; in 1913, 50.44 per cent; in 1925. 47.8 per cent; in 1880, only 39 per cent.
 More than 100000 Japanese workers depend on the machine. Of these 2,200,0oO are in modern industrial plants, with more than half this number in the great tex tile factories cotton, artificial silk silk and wool. Transport in all it's phases accounts for another mil lion.
 The machine came to Japan from the west, and for a genera ton the empire continued to de- pend on America, Britain and other industrial nations for it's machine ". That dependence is passing.
 The Japanese machine-makina industry, in addition to supplying the greater part of the home de- mand, has begun to export. Ex- ports of machinery have not yet reached the point of balancing i'm ports, but the adverse balance ii diminishing. The Dutch East In dies, British India and Latin Am erica are the best markets fol Japan-made machinery.
 But women still coal the ships al Nagasaki, carrying baskets of fue on their shoulders. Men still pull their carts along the rural roads The farmers. knee-deep in tht flooded, foul-smelling paddy fields still plant their rice by hand, ons plant at a time.
 Tomorrow-United States
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
CREwsoN ON TRIP

H. B. Crewson, merchandise broker, made the round trip to Haines on the steamer Alaska, re- turning to Juneau Monday morn ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
CALL FOR BIDS

To furnish all materials and to perform all labor in installing the windows and doors of the Juneau High School Building with Cham berlin or other metal weather strip ping of equal quality will be re- ceived by the Juneau School Board until o'clock pm, June 21, 1884. A copy of the specifications may be seen at the City Clerks Office. Bids should be submitted in writ ing at the office of R. E. Robert son, Seward Building, Juneau. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
 adv. JUNEAU SCHOOL BOARD.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
WAINWRIGHT PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSAULT AND BATTERY; IS
 FINED HUNDRED DOLLARS

William Wainwright, who was arrested following disagreement which took place at the Salmon Creek Roadhouse early Sunday morning, pleaded guilty to assault and battery in the U. s. Commis- sioner's Court late yesterday after. noon. Wainwright was accused of hitting Conrad Nordberg over the eye, inflicting a severe cut. He was released upon the payment of $1oo, the fine imposed by Judge J. F. Mullen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
GOES TO PETERSBURG

R. H. Chadwick, wholesale re- presentative, left on the Alaska for 3 business trip to Petersburg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
MRS, HAROLD E. REGELE TO
 VISIT FRIENDS IN SKAGWAY

f Mrs. Harold E. Regele, whose husband is science teacher and athletic director of the Juneau Public Schools, left on the Alaska to spend some time visiting friends in Skagway where they formerly
 made their home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
JUNEAU VISITORS RETURN
 TO SITKA ON ALASKA

Mrs. Jack Calvin and Mrs N Lovejoy, who have been visiting their father, the Rev. A. P. Rash evaroff for the last week, left or the Alaska for Sitka where they are living.
 They are accompanied by Mrs Legia K. Olson,, her daughter Pat ricia, and Miss Xenia Kashevaroff, who will visit in Sitka for some time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19

This is the eighth in 9 serfe5 of nine articles from as many countries On the status of the machine and its relation to employment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
VIII. JAPAN
By GLENN BABE

TOKYO, June 19.-Under the so- called tyranny of the machine the Japanese people rest easily with little disposition to revolt
 The machine has brought them new life, to many as individuals to all as a nation. It has made them one of the industrial leaders one of the great powers, of the twentieth century. So they have welcomed any yoke it may have imposed.
 This is due in part to their na- tive docility, born of ages of rigid social regimentation The coming of the machine age to the ancient East found people ready trained for it's disciplines.
 Then, too, Japan has escaped in the main the worst scourge of the machine. Long hours, meage1 wages, unsanitary working condi- tions-all these the more than g. 100000 Japanese factory hands have suffered, perhaps even more deeply than their occidental broth ers-but they have escaped the worst of the waves of mass unem- ployment.
 Old And New
 Probably that is because Japan has never submitted entirely to the rule of the machine Half the nation lives outside it's dominion Industrial Japan keeps pace with the foremost progress of the indus trial Occident, but rural Japan lives and works much as its fore fathers did 2,000 years ago.
 The soil is titled and the harvest sown and reaped by hand For the Japanese masses the frugal, bleak hardeorked living standards of the farms are still those by which well fare is measured. The extra com forts the machine gives are grate fully received r
 Japanese industrial workers fol the most part are only generation or less away from the farm; the ancestral far1nstead is still home and the Japanese system obligates the family there to care for the member tranSplanted to the factory town in his time of need.
 Thus, during industrial depres- sion, the factory hand goes back to the paf Sy fields and lives on the family rice. and the factory suburbs of Tokyo ard Osaka are spared the menace of idle, despairing crowds of jo5les5 men and women when the cotton mills and iron works must curtan.
 Ipdustrial Boom
 ToSay Japanese industry is en- toying a boom, fed by orders for the empires expanding export trade and the armaments programs of the army and navy. Statistics from the ministry of home affairs placed the number of jobless throughout Japan at the end oi 1883 at only 379.0 900 out of total
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
DOUGLAS NEWS
F..E. c. PLANS ANNUAL
 DANCE ON JUNE 23

The Finnish Educational Club of Gastineau Channel is making preparations for their annual mid summer dance to be given at the Natatorium on June 23. The Hol- lywood orchestra has been en- gagged to furnish the music for the affair, and other arrangements in keeping with the importance of the event are being looked after.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
MISS PEPoON LEAVES

Miss Lucille Pepoon, member of the Douglas high school teaching staff, left on the Alaska enroute to her home in Waverly, Nebraska, where she will spend the next two months with her parents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-19
EARTHQUAKE IN
 SEWARD REGION
Shock Lasted for One Min ute = Lakes Covered
 with Sulphur Film

SEWARD, Alaska, June 19. = A heavy earthquake was felt Sum- day night at 11:15 o'clock of one minute duration
 Kenai Lake and Seward Lake surfaces are covered with spots of film sulphur.