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The Washington times., 1934-04-10

ture the next three holes with
pars to end the match.
A meeting to en1iven interest in
interscholastic golf in the Wash
ington area will be held tomorrow
night at the Washington Hotel at
8 o'clock with Frank Emmet pre-
siding. The proposed Metro
politan schoolboy championship
will be discussed and the Private
School Golf League schedule
arranged.
Pros will Assist
Assisting Emmett in his endeav-
ors to give impetus to Schoolboy
golf here will be Roland r. Mac
Kenzie, AL Houghton and Roger
Peacock. Emmet had attempted
to enlist the support of the Dis
trict Golf Association in his cru
sade, but received a cold response.
Emmett has also requested the
following Scho~-S to send repre-
sentatives to tomorrow's meeting:
Eastern, Western, Central, Tech,
Roosevelt. Bethesda Chevy Chase,
Silver Spring -Takoma, Hyattsville,
Alexandria, Dewitt, Emerson, Con-
zaga, Landon, st. Adams,
Friends, St. Johns, Woodward,
Episcopal and Georgetown Prep.
Five District golfers were listed
in today's qualifying round of the
Country Club of Virginia invita-
ton tournament at Richmond, Va.
They were Tommy Webb, jr.,
Washington; Luther C. Steward,
jr.. Congressional; Gene Gott, Co
lumbia: Capt. Kendall j. Fielder,
Army and Navy; Thomas j. Crow
ell, Beaver Dam, and William M.
Kochenderfer, Beaver Dam.
yam and Hines Tie
Tommy Ryan, pro and green
keeper at the Belle Haven Club,
and r. P. Hines, greenkeeper at
Congressional and Manor. scored
net 70s to tie for first honorS in
the sweepstakes which preceded
the monthly meeting at the Manor
Club yesterday. Complete results
follow:
Tommy Ryan. Belle Haven. ss-37-7S
-6-7O; r. P. Hines Congressional. a.
45-s6-16-7O; Tommy Fisher, Burn.
ing Tree 46-4O-86-14-72: George
Hook. Clifton Park. 39-4O-7s-6-73;
Bob Scott. Baltimore Country Club 90
42-St-7-74 Bob williams Navy
Academy, A1--4n--s1-e-7S; o. e. Fitta
Columbia, 49--SO-?s- 23--7s; Reginald
Giddings. Gibson Island. Gs-4s-Ss-14
-s4.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
ALEX. HIGH NINE
IN ) GAMES
THIS WEEK

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 10.
Alexandria High School nine plays
three games this week, opening
with Eastern High tomorrow.
Friday the Twins mix with
Roosevelt here, and on Saturday
Calvert Hall invades Baggett's sta
dium.
Jimmy Titcomb. Twins sen.
sational southpaw, will probably
hurl in tomorrow and Saturdays
games. Titcomb is undefeated in
scholastic circles.
The Times Herald baseball team
will use Baggett's stadium for its
games this season.
A dual track meet with Mary
land FroSh has been scheduled for
Episcopal High team April 13. The
Episcopal cinder-path warriors will
also enter the University of
Virginia scholastic meet on May
and the &C" club games on May 10.
The Columbia Firefighters'
smoker" will be held at Portner'S
Arena on Thursday night at $50
o'clock Eight classy amateur
matches have been listed.
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"Play Bali"
And quite a team will be on
the field-a team picked by
many to cop the American
League gonfalon for the second
campaign in a row.
At the present moment several
of its members are on the shelf
because of injuries. This num-
ber includes Catchers Luke Sewell
and Moe Berg and Outfielder
Fred Schultz. They'll probably
take things easy today, also
during the remainder of the
week, but they'll be ready and
rarin' to go by next Monday,
when the regular season opens.
Play 800 Ball
But what sort of a team will
prance about both today and
throughout the next five after.
Moons? Records of the training
camp games and those on the
short trip homeward, reveal that
800 ball was played, that the
boys, as a whole. hit to the tune
of .284, and that several potent
hitters were among the group,
namely. a "murderous" outfield
combination inc u ding Heine
Manush, in left; Fred Schultz, in
center. and the newly acquired
star. Johnny Stone, in right.
The last named performer hit
the best of the trio, in fact, led
the entire team in batting on the
trip. His average was .425. Stone
Socked out II hits in 40 trips to
the plate.
Good old Gus Schultz was next
to Stone in this "murderous" bat.
ting. He compiled an average OF
1873, including II hits in 20 times
at bat. Heine Manush ranks third
in these "figuringS," with an aver
age Of .346. Heine stepped to the
plate 26 times and socked out
hits for his total.
The Griff's didn't boast Of so
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Pickups and
Putouts

Ray Morgan, former Griff-
Ian secOnd-sacker, sells beer
for a local firm. Fred Buch-
hoIz believes he's a jinx to his
Occidental bOwlers. . They do
better when he's not around ..
Bill Terry hunts another SER
viceable pitcher to bolster the
Giants defense. Ted Wright,
third baSeman Of the local Ma
jestic SandlOt nine, was the
Jimmy Bankhead" of the
Washington Passers' pro eleven
last fall "A press dispatch re-
ferS to Jimmy LOndOs who "Once
claimed the wrestling champion
ship" When did the Greek
withdraw his title claims? >.
They adopt 'em fast on the Pa.
cific Coast. They're already
calling Bob Goodwin. the Adele
(Ga.) product, who meets
Mickey Walker in San Francisco
Friday night. as a "San Fran
cisco ligh heavyweight"
Sonny Burdine says he keeps in
condition by playing golf But
Sonny seems to have deserted
the SandlOts. Marty Gallagher
will take an extra gallOp over
the Rock Creek bride path to-
morrow. If he defeats Matte
Brown in their fistic duel to-
night.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
Johnny Mears, Mackenzie's
Golf Aide, Born Here
BY GEORGE A. sIMPSOl

Johnny Mears newest addition to Roland Mackenzie
ssional golf shop at the Congressional Country Club
born here 20 So he might say he's returning home
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many potent hitters among the
rest of their cast. but OSsie
Blueges 1853 isn't to be sneezed
at when you stop and figure that
Ossies supposed to be a weak hit
ter normally.
Pitching Up to Snuff
The Griff pitching. on the
whole. was better than average.
The veterans, Earl Whitehill and
Lefty Walter Stewart, particu-
larly turned in commendable ef-
forts, while Monte Weaver and
Jack Russell had the opposition
they faced bothered most of the
time.
Only the work of Gen. Alvin
Crowder and Tommy Thomas
lacked form. But their efforts
were not complete failures as
their "other" innings in the sew
eral games proved.
OF the rookie group, the work
of Ray Prim, left-hander, Eddie
Linke and Ed Chapman, right
handlers. stood out. Prim and
Linke held the Cleveland Indians
to seven hits and two runs in a
particular test against that club.
while Chapman's efforts against
New Orleans, boosted his stock
considerably with the club.
Then there is the case of Elmer
Klumpp. This lad was worked
harder than anybody on the club,
figuratively speaking, as Manager
Cronin had him in most every
game-and for nine innings at a
time. Klumpp did not hit as we'll
as he might, but this was proba-
bly, because he spent more of his
time developing his catching pow
erS-which promise to make him
real big league star one of these
days.
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P|LO7 I
NAMES FIVE

Joe Lapchick, playing manager
of the New York Original Celtics,
announces that he will start Dave
Banks and Nat Hickey, forwards:
himself, center. and Carl Husta
and Pete Barry, guards, against
the Renaissance basketers. Tues
day, April 17th. at the Masonic
Temple auditorium, Tenth and U
SITS. N. w.
The Rens will start Fats Jen-
kinS, TarZan Cooper, Saitch, Bill
Yancy and Willie Smith.
Saranacs, first half champions,
and Bureau of Investigation
Sleuths, second half winners,
clash in the third and deciding
game for the major section cham
pionship of the Community Cen
ter Basket Ball League Thursday
night at 8 o'clock in the Roose-
welt High gym. Saranacs de-
feated the Sleuths 20 to 26 last
night to even the series.
Heurich'S Flashes, 145-pound
District A. A. U. basketball cham
pions, will be the honor guests
at . banquet tonight at the Co
lumbia Country Club with Chris
Heurich, jr., as host
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However, MearS had oeen porn
but six weeks when his parents
moved to New York, where he
epent most of his young life
until last fall, when he began
the winter tour with the golf
pros.
Also, he enlarges Washington's
pro golfing army of "redheads,"
for his hair is a lobster red.
Other flaming haired pros or
assistant pros at the local clubs
are Bob Barnett, Chevy Chase;
Reds" Banagan and Billy Mol
10y, Columbia; Reds" Cunning
ham. Burning Tree; Gene Larkin,
woodmont: Danny Burton. Army
Navy. and Brick" Wood, Wash.
ington.
Relatives Live Here
Two of Mears' aunts, Miss Lena
wilkins and Miss May wilkins,
are school teachers here. Young
Mears also has taken residence
with his grandmother, Mrs. G. o.
wilkins, in Georgetown.
MearS hopes to take part in
the Middle Atlantic professional
tournaments, proviGing none of
these conflict with his duties at
Congressional. He also plans to
follow the 1934-35 golf trail, be-
lieving this the best method of
improving his game because he
can then follow more closely
the styles of the leaders.
AL Price, Rock Greek pro. and
John Connolly, Rock Greek
amateur, turned back Maury Nee.
Of Manor. and Billy Dettweiler. of
Congressional, and l, in an
exhibition match at Rock Greek
Park yesterday.
Surrender Early Lead
Price and Connolly we're three
up at the end Of the first six holes
but Nee and Dettweiler captured
the next four holes to go l up.
The eleventh was halved but
Price and Connolly evened the
match by taking the twelfth only
to have their foes forge ahead
again by winning the thirteenth.
Price and Connolly again
squared the match at the four
teenth and then proceeded to cap
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
HORSE RACING
BILL OPPOSED
IN SENATE

Although approved by the
House with little opposition yes
terday, the bill licensing horse
racing in the District apparently
will be left stranded at that point
when the present session Of Con-
gress adjourns.
Senator Pat McCarran D), of
Nevada, who is chairman of a
subcommittee of the Senate Dis
trict Committee in charge of the
measure. asserted today that he
will fight the proposal.
He said he will call his sub
committee together in the near
future to consider the PROPOSE
ton, but that he believes his
group will report adversely on the
measure to the full committee.
There is little sentiment in the
full committee in favor of the bill,
according to committee members,
and that, added to the fact that
the District Commissioners have
announced their op$osition to it,
probably will bring enoug n
strength to kill the bill in the
Senate.
Senator McCarran pointed out
that Washingtonians can go over
into Maryland short distance It
they desire to "see the horses
rum" and that he does not believe
the people of the National Capital
as a whole want the bill enacted
into law. He added that he is
not personally opposed to the
proposition, but that his views re-
garding the legislation are based
on what he believes the residents
of Washington want.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
SPORTS
By KIRK MILLER
Stone Deal Looks
Better Than EUer
YGnks To Be Watched

pared to the salaries for which
lot Of my players are In there
every day in the season hus-
Ting to earn.
Matter of Principle
"The Bolton case isn't one Of
money, but one of principle. II
1 let one player stand me up,
I'd soon have the same thing to
deal With all over my club and
that's one reason I've had to
take such q determined stand
in the Bolton case"
Within a day or two Griff ex-
poets to recommend Bottoms Sus-
pension to Judge Lands and after
that every day Bolton remains out
of camp will cost him a sacrifice
in salary. because if Bolton does
decide to report, he must put in
80 days Of training at his own ex-
pense and without recompense.
Griff is fairly beaming over the
Jack Stone-Goose Goslin trade, in
view of the immediate impression
which Jonathan has made on all
hands fror.l the fans right up to
Manager Cronin.
The local club president de-
clares Washington now has one
of those outfields which will top
anything in the league. and he
doesn't qualify that statement
in anV manner.
Yanks To Be Watched
Griff, like a great many other
baseball observers, is taking the
New York Yankees very serious
ly this spring and sees that they
are capable of making trouble
for Washington or any other
club.
'ThOse Yankees are always
dangerous and if their pitchers
come through are bound to
make the American League
race a dog fight right down to
the last" Griff admitted.
why, with those two kids,
Red ROIfe and Don Heffner,
livening up things around the
middle of the infield the whole
club is likely to catch the flam-
ing spirit of youth and go wild.
"The YankS always have q
good defensive club and this
year will be no different than
in other seasons. They've only
got one weak spot in their de-
fensive Setup and that is Babe
Ruth. and he'll make up for
that in offense, if he keeps 60
ing as he has since he dOnned
his uniform this spring.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
Baseball Fans! !
Schedule Is
Ready

Baseball fans are offered free
American League schedules by
The Washington Times, the
only requisite being that self
addressed, stamped envelopes
be sent to secure them.
Every game played in every
city each day of the season is
included in the schedule which
is the official American League
Vest-pocket edition.
These schedules will not be
issued in person to callers at
The Times office, but MUST be
applied for with a self-ad-
dressed, stamped envelope. Ad-
dress your request to the Base
ball Schedule Editor, The Wash
ington Times. But one sched-
ule will be issued to each ap-
plicant.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
GrHf Is S0nguine
OF His Clubs Chances
WhitehiH Is Ready

The one man in Washington
to whom the fortunes of the ball
club mean more than any one
else, Clark Griffith, thinks the
chances of the team are as
good, If not better, than at this
time a year ago when it was en-
tering on a campaign that saw
1t finish champions of the
American League.
Clark Griffith is positively
enthusiastic about the outlook
and declares he is not just look
ing through roSe-colored glasses.
He only admits one "if'' when
1t comes to his 1884 club, and
that concerns the pitchers.
Nobody can tell about the
pitchers until they have been
under fire for at least one trip
around the circuit" declares
Griff, "but until they prove
otherwise you've got to give
them the benefit Of the doubt.
"I'm as well fixed for hurlers
Hs I've been in a long, long time
as far as both numbers and
quality are concerned, but I've
been through too many baseball
seasons to predict positively
what any given pitching staff
will do.
Whitehill Is Ready
"Whitehill is ready to start
the season right now and Crow
der isn't far behind. Russell,
Thomas, Weaver and Stewart
have all shown plenty so far and
Ed Linke looks better and better
every time you watch him shoot
'em over. 1 expect Linke to be
. lot Of help to this club before
the season is far advanced and
the same goes for Alex McCOll
and Ray Primm."
Griff was not backward about
talking over the Cliff Bolton
issue. He is still a little indig-
nant over Cliffs attitude.
Much as Griff would like to
have Cliff on the team for his
hitting alone. he feels he can
not give in to the young man
who places, in Griff's estima-
tion, an excess value on his
services.
81 offered him a 25 per cent
increase in salary over last
year and he has refused to ac-
oept it," declared the Old Fox
today. For a catcher who gets
into as Jew games as he does
my proposition to him was ex-
ceedingly generous when COM
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
d. C.. Ping-POng Title
PIau Billed Apr. 1918

d. C. ping-pong championship,
top event of the local ping-pong
season. will be staged April 16, II
and 18 at 1910 H st. N. w. Out
of the competition will come the
D. C. titleholder for 1884. Eddie
Black will defend his title in the
tournament. Besides him, Bob Lee
and Ray Sherry are considered to
have excellent chances Of winning
the championship.
The Washington times., 1934-04-10

THE RIGHTHANDER is
Eddie Linke, a good man
last year with a knife and
fork) and who practically
"ate" himself back to the
minors. He has been diet
ing himself back into the
big league this year. The
southpaw is Ray Prim, sem
sional rookie who stood the
AS on their ears for 10
innings last year, and who
is almost sure to be re-
tanned by the Griffs. They
will be seen in action this
week in the Griff's exhibit
ton games. Times Staff
Dhotc,
The Washington times., 1934-04-10
JR. Gems. BEAT
JEFFERSON

washington Lee High nine
romped over Jefferson High. of
Falls Church. by a $50 score in
six innings. Erratic fielding by
the losers was responsible for
several of the Little Generals"
runs.
Darr with three hits for a total
of IL bases was the hero of the
attack. Brooks and Cost let the
jefferson team down with five
hits.
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Stone and Schultz
Set Hot Hitting
Pace In Series
Bv GARRETT WATERS

Believe it not big league baseball for the good old
of 1884 begins today.
If you aren't convinced, step out to Mr. Clark Griffths
ball orchard this afternoon where at clock the we'll
known Washington Griffmen will be playing the Boston
Braves in an exhibition game.
The Washington times., 1934-04-06
"A| Quiet on the Western Front
Is Revived at RiaIto Theater

War, stripped Of glory, flying
colors and blaring trumpets, re-
turns to the screen opportunely.
The tragic, moving telling of Re-
marques story of conflict, Gail
Quiet on the Western Front" is
playing a return engagement at
the Rialto and Mr.. Laemmle, pro-
ducer, sends a message to all
America in this reissue of one Of
the finest films of all time.
Those of you who missed its
first showing will do well to see
it this time and those who saw
it before will find it as intensely
interesting now as then.
The author would have us know
how futile is combat; he has one
Of his characters ask What starts
a WARP" and lad answers: Zone
country gets mad at another" No
one quite explains why except
that greed is the driving force
which sends school boys out to
meet a death they had no part
in making.
Youthful patriotism, fired by an
eager old professor, causes an en-
tire class to join the army and it
is the story of these lads which
is unfolded as a very real argu-
ment against war. It is a preach
ment, it pretends to be nothing
else, but so fine is the delineation
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Brilliant Concert
Closes Local
Symphony
BY RONALD THORNE

Washington has been eXcep-
tionally fortunate in hearing,
within two days, two excellent
concerts by two splendid SYM
phony orchestras, which have in
cluded in the programs two Of
the greatest works ever written
in symphonic form-the TSchai'
kowsky Fifth Symphony and Cesar
Franck'S masterpiece, the D minor
Symphony.
Naturally, with such an ex-
perience, comparison Of the ia
nous Boston Symphony with our
own National Symphony is hard
ly to be avoided. 1t can truth
fully be said that under the baton
of Serge Koussevitzky, the great
organization from the Hub has
attained it's highest stature since
the days of DR.. Karl Muck. Some
critics might even place DR..
KouSsevitZky first.
However that may be, and
brilliant though the Boston SYM
phony's concert proved on Wednes-
day, DR.. Hans Kinder and his
men do not suffer by comparison.
Yesterdays concert, in my opin-
ion, is the finest they have given
in their entire existence. It would
be unfortunate indeed if it proved
their valedictory, and it is incred-
ible that music lovers Of this city
should permit that to be the case.
The D minor Symphony, Of
course, was the principal work on
yesterdays program. It is no sur
prise that it was urged for the
request program by many WASH
ingtonianS, although it has not
been played this season, for it has
a rightful place among the great
est compositions of all time. And
seldom if ever have the members
Of the National Symphony given
a finer Interpretation Of the work
of a master.
Showmen tell us that Washing
ton audiences are less responsive
than those of other cities: only
extraordinarily fine work draws
forth an unrestrained tribute here.
But I have never witnessed in
Washington a more enthusiastic
ovation than that accorded DR..
Kinder and his men by yester-
days audience. It proved amply
the place they have won in the
cultural life of the Capital.
DR.. Kinder chose an excellent
program, and it was excellently
perform ed. Mozart's Magic
Flute" overture, the first number,
presents Mozart at the height of
inspiration; then the great Cesar
Franck work, an achievement Of
genius if ever there was one; third,
a novelty number of grace and
appeal, Georg Schumann's Dance
of the Nymphs and Satyrs," never
before performed in Washington;
and last, Tschaikowsky's 1872
Overture Solenelle," one of the
foremost of all overtures.
A splendid concert, one of the
most enjoyable Washington has
ever witnessed-and a splendid
climax to a season marked by
manY artistic triumphS.
The Washington times., 1934-04-06

Well, this week, Congress is
working on finance legislation
and the House is haunted by
lots of tax bills.
Things wouldn't be so bad if
they would just let us keep our
tax money and take the rest.
The government was very Op-
timistic. They mailed out in
come tax blanks to the old mail
ing list.
One friend Of mine was
Squawking about the gasoline
tax, and said, "What are you
complaining about, you don't
own an automobile He said,
"NO, but I've got a cigarette
lighter"
THE BEST IDEA OF THE
WEEK:
Taxing nudists under the
heading of cover charge.
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thing he does inspires noisy a
plause.
Night Club Hound

On the way pack TO the Carl
ton in a big airflow machine
Jimmy asks me if Washington
has any night clubs. Fancy that.
Then he confides that he visited
eight New York night clubs early
yesterday and didn't get to bed
until $50 a. m. Does this comic
like his night clubs? Keep an
eye peeled Ken Murray and Pete
Macias.
It was a big day. The dra-
matte departments went to Balti-
more and furnished an escort to
Union Station. The Loew's Band
met him. The house Of Loew did
itself proud as host and a
comedian bursting with gratitude
is ready to give all he has got
to Fox audiences for the next
Seven days. You must like Jimmy
Durante for he is one of the very
rare few who are just naturally
funny and he can keep his humor
clean,
The Washington times., 1934-04-06

we are properly impressed by the
realism of the play.
The boys become frightened
children, facing an unconquerable
monster, when ordered into the
barbed-wire deSolation of no
mans land; horrors, small and
large, become a part of every liv-
ing moment, death is a peaceful
haven.
Lewis Milestone has given his
directorial best to the screening
of "All Quiet while the cast,
headed by Lew Ayres, Slim Sum-
merville and the lamented Louis
Wolheim, includes also William
Bakewell, owen Davis, jr., Beryl
Mercer and Bodil Rosing, the last
two, briefly.
The programs lighter mo-
ments are placed in a cartoon
featuring Oswald, the rabbit, and
the Universal newspaper, news
reel talking reporter (Graham
McNamee, to you'll shows us the
Easter parade up Fifth Avenue.
and the charming Anne Morrow
Lindbergh receiving the Geo.
graphic award for aeronautical
achievement. *. Y.
The Washington times., 1934-04-06

ing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Betty has been loaned back to
RKO-this time for the ingenue
lead with Ann Harding in "The
Life of Vergie Winters"
In other words, Betty had to
get a contract at another studio
to get a good part at RKO!
Wanderings around Hollywood
In "The Merry Widow" Una
Merkel does the queen and Ed
ward Everett Horton clowns as
the ambassador Clarence Brown
gave WHEY, Alice, the sparkling
est diamond wrist watch to cele-
brate their wedding anniversary.
Molly O'Day and Dougie Fow-
ley are to the goo-goo eye stage.
Taylor Holmes long distance
telephoned to daughter, Made
liene (well, that's the way she
spells it, to rush eastward to do
the ingenue in big Hearted Her
bert" behind the footlights with
him. James K. McGuinness, the
scribbler, got new contract from
M.-G.-M. Sally Blame copped the
lead in "City Park" with Henry
B. Walthall. Johnny Chandler has
gone in for bee-raising-if any
body cares. Shirley Ross and
Bert Roach have feature roles
in 100 Per Cent Pure" the Jean
Harlow cinema at M..G..M,