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The Washington times., 1934-03-13

to tax State institutions. Iowa'S
agricultural college, Ames, Ia,
has refused to collect the tax at
the gate and is planning to carry
its case into the courts as a test
case.
(9) It is true that colleges and
universities "overbuilt" during the
boom days and now they have not
the wherewithal to pay off bonded
Indebtedness.
(10) The Government is trying
to collect an admission tax that
is driving people away from the
college games, the only games
through which colleges may re-
coup their fortunes.
CID Athletic receipts last year
at 1877 key colleges and universe
ties fell off so per cent.
(12) Instead of getting $3,OOO,-
900 through this admission tax,
the Government actually will get
only about $132, 900, which amount
is not as valuable to this country
as the life of intercollegiate ath-
letics.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
GUARDS BATTLE
AGAIN MAR. a

The District National Guards
men are looking eagerly forward
to the night of March "a when
their next boxing show is staged,
for that time the lightweight
championship will be determined.
Frank Mckenzie, camp cham
pion. will meet William Harrison,
challenger. Sanford Ross, former
Central High baseball star, will
meet Slugger Cox in an exhibi-
,tion bout.
Cox, Twenty-ninth M. T. Co.,
won the middleweight crown by
default Saturday, while Harrison
won the semifinals with a tech
nical knockout in the third round
of Battler Kines.
Other titles determined by
Saturdays bouts are heavyweight,
in which big Bad" Wolfe won
the decision from Powerhouse
Ketcham, camp champion, in
three rounds: light-heavyweight
which went to Speed Powell by
default; welterweight, which saw
Bill Clifford win the decision
from Bill Thoma in three rounds
and the 126-pound class, in which
Queenie Quenneau won by a
technical knockout of Spike Dor
Sey.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13

ALI GO4O, CQeTe WILL Oe seven IN
vitation events and possibly eight
on the program. Included in this
number is the annual Baltimore
Country Club event, which will be
held May 1926, because upwards
Of a hundred local golfers partici-
pate. Hence it is important to
local golfers.
Belle Haven Opens
The tournament season opens
with the Belle Haven play, April
26, 81, %. The dates of May /,
2. 3 and have been reserved for
Washington, the latter club hav-
ing come to no definite decision
on the matter.
The tournament scene shifts to
Indian Spring May 8, 9, 10 and II,
and then comes the Chevy Chase
tourney, May IS, 16, II and 18.
Beaver Dam will sponsor its first
invitation tourney June S, 6, 7
and 8, and Congressional Country
Club closes the invitation sched-
ule October 16, IT, 18 and 10.
Besides, the District amateur is
scheduled August 1881 at Co.
lumbia and the District Juniors
at Indian Spring, September S, 6
and Z. Method of play for the
amateur has been changed to
match play with an 18-hole quail
flying and 16 to qualify for the
first flight, followed by four
match-play rounds. The same sys-
TEN will apply to the District
Junior competition. The entry fee
for the District amateur was
slashed from So to So.
Advancing to Presidency
Otto L. Veerhoff, Washington
Golf and Country, advanced to
the presidency, succeeding Robert
Stead, jr., of Chevy Chase, who
automatically became a member
of the executive committee. Tom
Belshe, Indian Spring, was elect
ed first vice president and Capt.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13

They will add that GD it is not
right and it is not logical to tax
education, and intercollegiate ath-
letics Is part of education, and
CD in the cases of State sup
ported colleges and universities,
the United States cannot tax, for
the reason that the Unied States
has no power to tax the States.
The three spokesmen for inter-
collegiate athletics are Frank Nc
Cormick, University of Minnesota,
representing the Big Ten; D. H..
Harrison, University of Pittsburgh,
representing the Eastern Colleg-
late Association, and C. P. Miles,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, rep
reSenting the Southern Con-
ference.
Twelve Points OF Brief
Here are a few salient features
OF the brief that will be filed in
favor of permitting intercollegiate
athletics to live:
l. 1t Is necessary that college
games be exempted from the
Federal 10 per cent tax in the
revenue bill now under consldera-
ton.
2. Only four intercollegiate ath-
letic establishments are at pres
ent moneymakerS. The are
NOtra no1ooa Coy+ha1ro To1iforpoio
Army and Navy.
3. Although some football games
in recent years have drawn as
much as 100000 in gate re-
ceipts, the athletic associations
of the colleges are in the red.
4. While football pays at the
colleges, this game will not carry
baseball, track and field, rowing,
boxing, gymnastics, fencing, Ia
crosse, tennis, golf, cross-country
running, basketball, touch foot
ball and other sports.
Tax Overestimated
S. The first tax placed against
intercollegiate games was ex-
pected to net the Government
the sum Of $3,000,000, but actu-
ally it only netted 100000.
6. Since the tax was imposed,
gate receipts have fallen off
enormously.
7. So great have been the losses
accruing to intercollegiate ath-
letic establishments that games
like baseball are about to be
wiped off the collegiate calendar.
60 State colleges and universi-
ties are now banding together for
the purpose Of challenging the
right Of the Federal Government
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
SPORTS
BY KIRK MILLER
TRAVIS and KLunlpp
Learned Baseball
At Kid ELberfeLd's

There are two young men
striving for recognition in the
Griffmen'S training camp at
Biloxi who, If they are success
full, will owe much of the mo-
mentum they received in their
baseball climb to an old-time
Washington player who used to
get the fans out of their seats
with his sensational playing
around Shortstop and third
base.
Cecil Travis, knocking at the
door Of opportunity which is
already half ajar owing to the
approach of the end of Ossie
Bluege'S active days, and Elmer
Klumpp, rookie catcher, who
casts his shadow across the sal
ary dispute between Clark Grif-
fifth and Cliff Bolton, both got
their baseball start in a school
conducted by Kid Eberfeld, the
Tobasco Kid hereabouts of a
quarter of a century ago.
Opens Baseball School
The Kid opened his first
baseball school in Little Rock
two years ago and last year
moved his base Of operations to
Atlanta, where he will HE
shortly from Miami Beach. He
believes many lads pick up the
theory of playing baseball too
loosely. whereas if they had an
experienced hand tutoring them
in the fine points, their
chances Of ultimately making
the big leagues would be
greatly enhanced.
Travis is the only player El-
berfeld has succeeded in selling
during his schoolmaster days,
and Cecil netted the Kid a cool
$500, which Elberfeld had to
split with couple of his assis-
tantS. For Elmer Klumpp FL
berfeld predicts great things,
declaring the Chattanooga re-
cruit is a natural hitter as well
as a p1O missing backstop not
very far away from major
league caliber.
A Land Office Business
But as manager of Little Rock
Elberfeld used to do a land Of
flee business in peddling mate
rial to the majors. In one sea-
son there he put $4,000 worth
Of black ink figures on the
ledger for that Southern Asso-
citation club.
Bing Miller was sent UP to
Washington by the Tobasco Kid
in 1921 for $4,000 and a couple
of players in that famous deal
which Pittsburgh disputed,
Washington ultimately being
awarded the player. Firpo Mar
berry came here out of Little
Rock, too, and Travis Jackson,
who is staging a comeback on
the Giants with those shaky legs
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
BOKEN REMAINS
GR|FFS CHIEF .
UTILITY MAN
Times Staff Correspondent

Times Staff Correspondent
BILOXI, Miss, March 13.-
Bob Boken, the young infielder
who set the league on fire last
year by gathering timely base
hits, is the picture Of confidence
as he trains with the Griffmen.
Bob is out to move some vet
eran from his regular infield job,
preferably Ossie Bluege at third
base, which is open for conten-
ton.
Boken will probably find him,
self first-string utility per-
former by the time the season
opens, Manager Cronin intimate5,
and that he was figuring on
making a utility first sacker out
of the former Kansas City young
ster.
Plan Tentative
This plan is purely tentatively,
Cronin states, and may never be
carried out, once Dave Harris
hits camp and divides his time
between first base and the out
field.
However, Boken, because Of his
height and ability to shift his feet,
might develop into a first base
man. Boken has played first be-
fore. In fact, during his minor
league days when he was the
whole infield for the Kansas City
Blues
The lanky youngSter filled in at
the initial sack for the Griffmen
in an exhibition game last spring
and acquitted himself creditably.
Cronin to Decide
Whether he will be made Joe
Kuhel's assistant will be decided
by Cronin in the near future. In
the meanwhile, Bob looms as the
Griffs' chief utility man, for Cecil
Travis apparently has the inside
track for Bluege's post at third
base, if Ossie's job is to be taken
away from him.
This means that the youngster
will have to content himself nth
serving his club as first, second or
shortstop assistant, which posi-
tions Manager Cronin knows he
can fill.
The former Kansas City star en-
gagged in his first practice session
yesterday, and impressed both
a-field and at bat. He sent liner
after liner and fly after fly into
the far spaces of the outfield with
"hit" written all over them when
they left his bat.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
.FRESCH| ROLLS
PAUL HARRISON

Joe Freschi (Rendezvous) and
Paul Harrison (Arcadia) are ex-
pected to complete their second
round District match-play, duck
pin-elimination match Thursday at
2 o'clock at the Rendezvous.
Freschi is leading after the first
block.
The winner will face Bill Clam
pitt, of Petworth, in the semifinals.
whip" Litchfield, Convention
Hall, gained the final round by
eliminating Jack Whalen, Colum-
bia. Scores:
First Block
whalen ...... 112 1876 l%4 118 144-633
Litchfield .... 15s l25 ia 10s 147-653
Second Block
Whalen ....... lis 118 1871 115 1850
Litchfield ..... 145 11s 1877 LOT lite
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
Barry OutpOints
CharLey MeSSerG

PITTSBURGH, March 13.-Don-
aid ("Reds") Barry, popular
Washington, D. c., heavyweight,
today proceeded to that city fol-
lowing his 10-round victory gained
here last night over the up and
coming Charley Mascara.
Barry's points, piled up IN the
first seven rounds. permitted him
to coast to victory in the final
three, when MaSSera staged a
sharp offensive. Barry weighed
1913, while MaSsera scaled in at
l82.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13

Kendall J. Fielder, Army-Navy,
second vice president. DR.. William
c. Barr, Columbia, was retained
as Secretary-treasurer. Albert E.
Steinem, Woodmont, and DR..
Bruce L. Taylor, Congressional,
were appointed to the executive
committee.
With Columbia naming June
IL, 13, IA and IS as dates for
its tournament, the Women'S
District Golf Association must
select other dates for its annual
championship, which had been
assigned to Columbia for June
IL, 13, IA, IS.
George P. James, golf chairman
at Columbia, stated that Colum-
bia might elect to open it's tour
ney on June II but this was
contingent upon the number Of
entries. Chairman James stated
he expected more than 500 en-
trantS and, if this occurs, three
days of qualifying will b. nee.
eSSary.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
PLAN
BOWL|NGLOO

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 10.
Leslie Saunders and Peyton
Luckett, Alexandria High ath-
letic leaders, are organizing a
high school duckpin league at
Health Center. It is proposed to
form a girls league also.
Truman Cowhig, Health Gen.
ter manager, is cooperating with
pupils in realizing their plans.
An athletic smoker will be held
at the Old Dominion Boat Club
on March 10. The program will
be featured by boxing bouts be-
tween local boys.
Coach Given has called out
his Alexandria High nine for
drill at Baggett's stadium for
Monday, weather permitting.
The Twins tracks team also
plans workout under Coach
Jeff Williams. Several dual meets
have been lined up for the boys.
Plans are on foot to tender
the Old Dominion Boat Club
quint, local basketball champions,
a banquet shortly. j. Earle Ross,
clubs basketball chairman, will
arrange the details.
Theodore Beach, st. Mary's
Celtic's baseball manager, plans
a drill for the local semipro
champions at Baggett's on Sun
day.
The Celtics leader announced
today a series of five games
would be played with the Fred
erickSburg ElkS nine.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
School For Teaching
Proper Fundamentals
Ruth Starts 2Ist

of his, is another Kid Elberfeld
product, being purchased by the
Giants in 1922.
The Kid is pulling for both
Travis and Kumpp, needless to
say.
Babe Starts 21st
Defying the prophets who, as
far back as 1880 and some even
earlier, were crying him out Of
the game, Babe Ruth dons the
spangles of baseball for his
tWenty-firSt season.
Many are saying this will be
his last, but the remarkable man
has fooled the observers so long
1t i'll behooves them to count
him out until the Babe himself
admits he is through.
Babe Ruth will be in baseball
just so long as his legs hold cut.
His days are numbered only by
his underpinning, and for a
man with such slender ankles
to carry around so huge torso,
he has already proven a modern
miracle.
That he expects to fulfil his
promise of last winter to play
in 100 games is shown by the
ear1estness of his pertaining
campaign Of health building,
following an illness in New York
last winter. Babe has golfed
and fished and lived under the
sun for the last month. He
starts his so-called last roundup
with the enthusiasm that might
mark much younger player.
One Dozen Bats
Babe has had a dozen Louis
vile sluggers shipped into st.
Petersburg for his especial use,
hoping to make merrier the
home-run derby which will find
the big fellow out there trying
to wrest back the honors from
Jimmy Foxx.
Ruth is quoted as believing
Washington isn't going to find
it so easy to repeat. He dis
counts the general belief that
the Red Sox are going to be
bothersome. and adds that if
Connie Mack's young pitching
staff comes through the AS will
have to be figured. The young
sters on the Yankees, too, he
believes will be the salvation of
McCarthy's crew.
So far nobody has been able
to bottle up the Babe on the
question having to do with his
some time managing the
Yankees Joe McCarthy's con.
tract has 1885 to run through
and Babe Ruth is as much of a
diplomat as he is a baseball
player Still playing for Nc
Carthy he'd be the last man in
the world to talk about sup
planting him.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
Big Crowd Watches
Bambino Begin
Camp Grind

ST. PETERS, BURG, Fla.
March 13. U.N.SO-Babe Ruth
may be at the end of the trail
as far as his playing days are
concerned, but he can still
draw the cash customers
through the turnstileS.
A phenomenally large crowd
turned out to see the great
man in his first workout Of
the 1884 training season here
and the Babe obliged his ad-
mirers by slapping the horse
hide to all corners of the lot
in typical Ruthian fashion.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
FIRES
TEAM WITH
FIGHT
BY GARRETT WATERS
Times Staff Correspondent

BILOXI, Miss, March 13.-The
winning type Of ball club is one
that possesses the performers
with the determination to win
the instant they enter the ball
park. The Griffmen of 1893
were that way in every particular
shape.
Manager Joe Cronin hopes
his 1884 combination will con-
duct itself in the same man.
ner, not only from the start of the
campaign when interest is always
high, but throughout the schedule
and especially when the going be-
comes toughest.
On the surface, one could al.
most say the 1884 Griffs will be
just that type of ball club. For
every performer who represented
the team in 1888 is back in har-
ness and the same spirit and
aggressivenesS is sure to prevail
again, much to the annoyance to
Gne OCleT ClupS.
Winning Characteristics
But what comprises the winning
type of ball club other than
collection of players with the will
to win every day they step on the
ball field What must the ball
player be made Of? How must he
act? What characteristics must
stand out?
The Griffs' gruelling battle for
last years pennant helps answer
these questions. Take Manager
Joe Cronin, as example number
one. There was never a more de-
termined ball player in the league
than the youthful pilot last year.
His spirit and efforts proved this
at every turn.
Then there was Luke Sewell. A
great performer, Luke, and one
of the best team" players the
Griffs have ever had on the ros-
ter. And a fighter in every sense
of the word.
Always in Fight
Next, Heine Manush, Earl
Whitehill, Gen. Alvin Crowder,
Jack Russell, Lefty Walter Stew
art, Joe Kuhel, Buddy Myer, Fred
Schultz and Ossie Bluege. Win
ming types, all of 'em and each
a fighter in his own particular
style.
Manush's aggressiveness was
easily the outstanding bit during
the hectic season which the entire
team experienced. Whiteh1lPS
heart and will to win kept him
constantly a fighting figure from
the moment the campaign COM
menced until it ended.
CroWder's willingness to pitch
every game, if necessary, made
him stand out; Russell's steel
like nerve as a relief hurler, kept
the winning-type idea prominent
every moment; Stewards fighting
qualities on every pitched ball. ana
especially those against the New
York Yankees, put him among
rthe fighting elite, while the
stomach" Of Kuhel, Myer, Schultz
and Bluege demonstrated at all
times, tipped off the opposition
that the Washington club was
dynamite.
will Fulfill Aims
And so it is that the Wash
ington entry of 1884 promises to
fulfill Manager Joe Cron1n'S
every aim as the new season
gradually nears it's opening. It's
bound to be this way as the
team in it's entirety is made up
of the type which stamps all
winners, and that includes such
performers having been left out
in the above discussion, as
Tommy Thomas. Monte Weaver.
Bob Boken, Johnny Kerr, Dave
Harris, Bob Burke, Alec McCou.
Moe Berg and Johnny Stone, the
latter sure to be the type desired
even though a great deal is not
known of him at the present
writing.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
Title eHandbaI|
Tourney Due
March 26-31

The Fourth Annual D. C. A.
A. U. Four-Wall Handball Cham
pionships, singles and doubles,
will open on the Y. M. C. A.
courts March 26. with the finals
scheduled for March 81.
John B. Payne of the "Y"
holds the singles championship
while Jack Schwartz and j. L.
Kosowsky, of the Jewish Com
munity Center, hold the doubles
title. Entries, which close March
81, should be forwarded to Ralph
W. Foster at the "Y."
The Washington times., 1934-03-13

SOUTHPAW PRIM REVEALS HIS FORM

RAY PRIM is giving the rest
Of the young pitchers in the
Griffmen camp the fight of
their lives for recognition from
Manager Joe Cronin. Prim
Joined the Griffmen late last
season and worked mostly in
relief roles. But he knocked
Washington fans cold when he
held the Athletics scoreleSs for
/, 10 innings in the last game Of
the season, only to fill the
bases in the eleventh and lose
3 to 0 when Jimmy Foxx rat
tied off q two-baSe hit.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
GR|FF DEMANDS
KUHEL REPORT

BILOXI, Miss, March 10
GN.S0.-Joe Kuhel. first base
man Of the American League
champion Washington Senators,
was ordered today by Owner Clark
Griffith to report here to settle
their salary dispute.
Kuhel, the only player on the
team who has no capable under
study, is using this fact in holding
out for more money this season.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
Tony MdLey Anneres
HOLu Rosary Stakes

Tony Maley. Italian Sweep
stakes Glass B winner in 1880,
won the second Holy Rosary
Sweepstakes when he rolled GIL,
to top a field of nine.
Tony Leone was second with 672
and Tony Trilll third with 566.
Leone had high game, 1856.
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
Three College Groups Fight
10 Percent Sport Tax
By HARRY COSTELLO

Tomorrow before the Senate Finance Committee three
outstanding intercollegiate athletic directors will tell their
tales.
They will that unless the 10 per cent admission tax
college games is eliminated college athletics for the smaller
colleges is doomed
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
Attractive Program Faces
District Golfers
By GEORGE A, SIMPSON

Optimism flowed in the veins Of local golfers today they
glanced at the tournament schedule drafted at last night
meeting Of the District Golf Association
The Washington times., 1934-03-13
C.. U.-DuQueSne Game
MQu Go to Pittsburgh

Catholic University's football
game November "a with Duquesne
here may be played in Pittsburgh.
On that date, Georgetown plays
Maryland, at College Park, and
George Washington clashes with
North Dakota in Griffith Stadium.
Neither Pitt nor Carnegie Tech
have games in Pittsburgh on the
date set for the C. U.-Duquesne
game.
DUEL ON MAT TONIGHT
NEW YORK, March 13.-Sam
Cordovano and Sam Stein, meet
in a finish clash on the mat of the
New York Coliseum tonight.
The Washington times., 1934-11-30
OCTOBER PHONE
PROFITS RISE

Operating revenues of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone
Company for the month of Octo
ber amounted to $845, ,204. Ex-
penses, including interest, amount.
ed to $674, 1872. Taxes for October
amounted to $66,034. The cost Of
plant in service on October 81,
1884, was $35 5,943,O96. Balance be-
fore dividend amounted to $170, ,402
compared with $158,577 for Octo-
ber, 1888.
Washington was served by 1885,
432 telephones on October 81 as
compared with 175,605 on the
same date last year.
Telephone calls during october
of this year we're increased 1,645,-
900 over the same month last year,
there having been 2O,638,000 calls
in October, according to John A.
Remon. general manager of the
company.
The Washington times., 1934-11-30
WHEAT SLUMPS
AS CORN RISES

CHICAGO, Nov. 80 G.N.SD.
Wheat prices ruled easy in early
dealings today, but corn swung
upward shortly after the opening
with the December contract NOV
ing up to Gle, the highest price
for corn futures during the last
four years.
Corn opened 1s to 5sc off with
wheat then turning upward, recov.
ering the loss and advancing as
much as 34c over Wednesdays
finish. The strong cash Situa-
tion continued a buying influence
in this grain.
Near mid-session wheat was 5s
to 11sc off or about steady with
the opening, corn was 3s to Sac
up, oats unchanged to 14c off and
rye unchanged to 1sc down.
The Washington times., 1934-11-30

District Court decision on the
IVA on Wednesday having worn
off, the utilities fell back from
fractions to a point on fairly
heavy profit taking. Consolidated
was down about a point from
Wednesdays close. while North
American, Columbia Gas, Public
Service and United Gas Improve
ment suffered smaller losses.
Railroad shares were again
sluggish, with New York Central,
Southern Railway, Lackawanna
and other recent favorites down
fractionally. Traders were appar-
emily inclined to take the selling
side and even up their accounts,
pending the issuance of the car
loadings report, which was ex-
pected to show a substantial de.
cline from the previous week. 81
The Washington times., 1934-11-30
down
23.212 CARS

Loading of revenue freight for
the week ended November "a
totalled 561,313 cars, a decrease Of
1922 cars below the preceding
week and 24,425 cars below the
corresponding week in 1888, the
Association of American Railroads
announced today.
Miscellaneous freight 2O6,809,
decrease 1881 and ISL: less than
carload lots 9,635, increase 2,154,
decrease 5,467; coal II: 119,165,
decrease 6,321 and 1902; grain
products 1888. decrease So and
1902; livestock 10, 152, decrease
4,101, increase 1,545; forest pro-
ducts 20,108, decrease 1903 and
8 ,040,
The Washington times., 1934-11-30
Western Maryland
Earnings Increase

Western Maryland Railway re-
ports for 10 months ended October
81 net income of $804,322 after
taxes and charges, equal to $4.53
a share on III, ,420 shares of 7 per
cent first preferred stock on which
no dividends have been paid.
This compares with $682,713 or
$3.85 a share on first preferred
stock in 10 months ended Octo-
Der 81, 1888
The Washington times., 1934-11-30
CALL POWER BONDS

The power corp. Of New York
has called for redemption on Janu-
ary 20, 1885, all of it's outstanding
first mortgage bonds.