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The Washington times., 1934-03-06
GRIFFS Have LARGEST SQUAD In YEARS AT biloxi
ROOKIE PITCHERS BIDDING FOR BERTH WITH 1884 CRFFMEN

AT LEFT is Mike RADIO
novich, 21-year-old Gary
(Ind.) hurler who was
recommended to President
Clark Griffith by a Hoo
sier editor as worthy of a
trial in the majors. At
the right is Steve Molnar,
of Wolf Creek, Mont, sent
along to Biloxi by natives
of his home town in hopes
he will eventually make
the grade with the Griff-
men. The development of
these two rookie hurlers
will be noted carefully by
Manager Joe Cronin
The Washington times., 1934-03-06
SPORTS
D.. KIDK AIllED
Bv KIRK MILLER
; Is Outstanding Here
In Many Sports
CGptGined Yale CrelU.

Terry McGovern and Kid Nc
Coy, and Of course Jack Demp-
sey, whom he saw fight Firpo,
Willard, Carpenter and Tunney.
So, I hear in the streets and
in the tap rooms and cocktail
hooks that Pete is a natural
for one Of the local ring COM
misSioners and I hasten to add
my hearty "amen." I've been
seeing him around the ball park,
golf courses and other sports
centers for a long, long time
and nobody, in my opinion.
would fit into a boxing board
more snugly than would the
Viscount Jules Henri de Sibour
plain Pete to you and me-a
gentleman and sportsman!
Mixed Interests
And speaking Of boxing and
wrestling, the question has often
come up as to whether the dyed
in-the-wool fight fan is also as
ardent a mat fan. Some say
yes, others say no.
OF course "Pete" de Sibour
may be the exception in his
fondness for both types of the
manly art, although it seems
to me you find much Of the
same gang at one event you do
at the other.
Yet, Ralph Faulkner. the bril-
liant artist who is making that
series Of wrestling cartoons ap-
pearing in The Times, was tell
ing me how difficult a time Col.
Jimmy Lake had last Thursday
night during the Londos-Malce-
wicz wrestling match in arrest.
ing the attention of the Audi
torium audience long enough to
announce the outcome Of the
Carnera-Loughran bout in Mi
ami.
That would indicate mat fans
are not ring enthusiasts, unless
it was that the Carnera-Lough-
ran match was not supposed to
be a good one while the Londos-
MalceWicz go was plenty lively
and the spectators just couldn't
be bothered at the moment with
anything happening so far away
as Miami.
An Eyewitness
Incidentally I have talked
with Charley Corcoran, a Times
circulation supervisor who chap
eroned some of his hard work
ing boys to the Miami fight,
and Charley gives me some first
hand impressions of the bout
which are interesting.
He does not believe Primo
Carnera has lost the punch
which knocked out Jack Shar-
key and at least was a contrib
uting cause to the death of
Ernie Schaaf. 1t is his obser-
vation that the punch was
there, but that Tommy Lough-
ran was thinking fast enough
most Of the time to be rolling his
head away whenever Primo
was shooting over a real hard
blow.
Tommy was just too clever
to ever get himself in the way
Of anything like q K.O. His
head either went to one side
or the other, or slightly back
ward so that he seldom
catch the full force Of Primo's
fury" declares the beau brum-
mel Of Washington circulation
men.
The Washington times., 1934-03-06
TAKES
CHARGE Of
VETERANS
By GARRETT WATERS
Times Staff Correspondent

Times Staff Correspondent
BILOXI, Miss, March 8.
Shades of the old days when
the training camp squads were
large and action at it's highest
pitch from the beginning of each
drill to the end.
One can easily report this OF
the washington clubs spring
squad this year as performer
upon performer goes through the
usual preliminary practice mo-
tions.
For today, the Griffs have one
of the largest squads at training
camp in the last five or six sea-
sons. The odd part of it is the
fact President Clark Griffith
started out the campaign with
the idea that only a small army
of players would answer the first
call for drills.
Twenty players are on hand
at this writing. This collection
is featured by the familiar group
of Lefty Walter Stewart and Bob
Burke, who arrived last night;
Alvin Crowder, Jack Russell,
Earl Whitehill, Monte Weaver.
Ray Prim, Ed Chapman, and
Eddie Linke, pitchers; Luke
Sewell, catcher; Cecil Travis. in
fielder, and the rockies, Mark
Filley, Mike Radonovich, Steve
Molnar, Andy Sierra, Joe Demo-
ran and Leonard Schopp, pitch
ers; and Elmer Klumpp, the
Chattanooga catcher. Coaches
Nick Altrock and AL Schacnt
complete the squad.
Await More
Eve0 more will be added by
the time Catcher Moe Berg has
arrived; Pitcher Alphonse Thomas.
Catcher Cliff Bolton, Pitcher Alec
McColl and Hal McKain. And
will Manager Joe Cronin have his
hands full then.
OF the entire collection only the
more familiar will be given at
tention by the youthful pilot. The
others, Cronin states, will be
turned over to Coaches Nick Alt
rock and AL Schacht.
Said Cronin today:
'I'm all for the youngsters
less known to me, but I feel l
must give most of my attention
to fellows like Prim, Chapman,
Linke and Filley, particularly
the first named three, because
of their excellent prospects OF
sticking with us this year. Still,
if AltrOck and Schacht report
that any of the others have the
!nakings, I'll Immediately con-
slider their chances. as realize
that they're here to win jobs for
themselves as we'll as their
brother teammates"
The usual light work will be fol-
lowed for the next day or so, Gro
min announced today, although he
was considering the start Of bat-
ting practice, maybe tomorrow
But the conditions of the pitchers
will decide this, even those among
the veteran group, who are jusd
as anxious as the rockies to fire
away with little thought Of the
sore results that might follow
their actions.
Had To Stop "Gen."
General Alvin Crowder is one OF
this vet group. Yesterday in prac.
tice, the North Carolinian had to
be stopped in the middle Of his
warm-up session because he began
pitching 'em with too much speed.
But Crowder told Cronin after the
drill that his arm felt none the
worse for the effort even though
he realized that it was a bit early
to "open up" the way he did.
Said CroWder:
"It was so nice and warm and
felt SO fine, / just had to let
couple go. But 1 know /
should take it little easier and
will until I've fully unlOOsened
all the kinks. Then watch me"
Frnnkip KLick Holds
The Washington times., 1934-03-06
Pete de SibOur Gets
City-Wide Mention
For d. C.. Ring Board

What would you think Of hav-
ing a genuine viscount as one Of
the three gentlemen in Wash
ington who will guide the des-
TIMES Of boxing and wrestling
If and when the Loring M. Black
bill now pending in Congress
becomes a law?
Well, there is considerable like
lihood, according to the CONVEX
sation along the rialto, that
some such a thing may happen
when it comes time to name
the local athletic board, because
Viscount Jules Henri de Sibour,
plain Pete to his hundreds of
friends in the sport world, is be-
ing given lot Of momentum
for one Of the three posts, and
an ideal choice he would be.
Now do not get the idea that
because Pete is a real viscount
he wears a monocle or is in any
otherwise one of those patent
leathered, striped trousered
noblemen. On the other hand
Pete de Sibour is quite a Virile
and rugged gentleman who goes
for everything in a sports line
that makes red corpuscles red
der.
One of the Regulars
At boxing and wrestling ring
sides, yes, and at ball yard, too,
he's accounted one of the reg
ulars, but if any of the many
sports he follows can really be
called his weakness, boxing and
wrestling are the ones. That is
why he's so prominently men
toned as a good man to sit in
on the board which will control
these two sports when the
Black bill becomes law-and
there is every indication that
will be soon.
Pete de Sibour is an archi-
tect by profession, Washington
and other big cities being sky
lined with elegant edifices de-
signed by him. He formed his
fondnesS for sports while at
Yale University where he was a
member Of the track team and
president of the yale Navy"
He took the crew to London for
the Henley Regatta in 1896
which he always declares was a
long way to go to take a lick
ing.
Racquet Club Founder
A founder and one time presi-
dent Of the Racquet Club, Pete
de Sibour has been one Of its
most active members. He is also
donor of the famous de Sibour-
Reyburn golf cup, perpetual
trophy for the amateur cham
pionship of the District Of Co.
lumbia.
After graduating from Yale
and before taking up the prac-
tice of architecture, he played
some semiprofessional baseball
in the Adirondacks, making
enough to pay his room and
board until he could become
grounded in his profession.
Pete de Sibour can entertain
you for hours recounting all Of
the famous fights for the
world heavyweight champion
ship since Corbett was king,
down to the night Primo Car
nera lifted the title from Jack
Sharkey. De Sibour has seen all
Of the good ones, both in the big
weights and the little ones.
Among his faVorites were
The Washington times., 1934-03-06
HILLSDALE WORKOUT

Players of the Hillsdale baseball
team, one Of the leading colored
mines in the country, will workout
tonight at 8 o'clock in the Twelfth
Street Y gym.
The Washington times., 1934-03-06
Bob Burke Ready to Sign;
Bolton Gets Ultimatum
BY Times Staff Correspondent

BILOXI Miss March 6-Presiden Clark Griffith holdout
lessened and heated at the time today when de-
velopments regard Bob Burke and Cliff Bolton to
sudden boiling noints
The Washington times., 1934-03-06
Diegel Gives Free Lessons
To Members Children
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

Leo Diege newly established golf pro the Phmont Coun-
try Club in the Philadelphia district has an nnova-
tion that might interest local pros.
The Washington times., 1934-03-06
Md. u. Football, Lacrosse
Candidates Practice
Rv HARRY COSTELLO

Aided by lusty wind the ground is drying out rapidly
All of which good to District college football
coaches who champng at the bit these days and anxious
To snrino football nractce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04

Town Hall audiences with an illus
trated lecture on gypsy music.
Another lecturer to be heard in
the series will be Richard Washburn
Child, formerly American ambas-
sador to Italy, and recently special
envoy to Europe sent by the present
administration. Mr.. Child will talk
on international Affairs"
Charles c. Batcheldor will talk
on current events. He has been
United States trade commissioner in
India, secretary of the interior
for the Philippines. special expert
on economics at the Washington
conference, special expert to the
limitation of armament in 1922 and
chief of far eastern division of for
eign and domestic commerce.
Literature will be the topic of the
lecture by Houston Peterson who re-
ceived his A. M and Phi. D. degrees
in philosophy at Columbia and Rut-
gers university.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04
Contract Bridge

three diamonds rather optimistic.
South shows a At in his partner
suit by bid Of three hearts.
North's bid Of three spades is
then made TO show partner a fit in
the original spade suit. This is ali
the information that South needs.
If his partner holds four hearts and
four spades. undoubtedly the same
tricks will be made in either suit.
However, it is safer to have the
diamond suit led up to rather than
through. While North happened to
hold five hearts, the fifth heart can
be used for a valuable discard, as
you will see in the play.
However. against a four-spade
contract, West will cash his king
ana queen of clubs, and will now
probably shift TO a heart, which
will be won in dummy with the king.
Now the spade suit its started, three
rounds Of spades being taken.
Then the declarer runs of the
heart suit and diScards the losing
diamond on the fifth heart. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04


The sponsor committee includes
Mesdames Thomas D. Sheerin, Syl-
vester johnson Jr., Paul V. McNutt,
Kate Miner Rabb, L. A. Ensmlnger,
J. A. Goodman, Hubert Hickam
Frank B. Shields, Oscar Baur, John
w. Kern, w. Richardson Sinclair,
Robert A. Milliken, R. Hartley Sher-
wood. Kurt F. Painter, George T.
Parry. Robert B. Failey and Misses
Mary Louise Shipp, Mary Orvls, l.
Hilda Stewart, Sara Ewing and
Rachel Baker.
Among the town hall speakers
this year are DR.. Louis Berg
prison doctor at Welfare island;
Harry A. Overstreet, head of the de-
partment of philosophy at the Col
lege of the City of New York and lee
turer in the new school for social
research, New York.
Arthur Kallet, author of 100000
900 Guinea Pigs" which has led the
nonfiction list of best sellers for
over a year, is on the list of speak
ers. as is Gareth Jones, correspond
ent for the London Times and for
merly on the staff of Lloyd George
Mr.. Jones, making his first Ameri-
can tour, will give "A Glimpse OF
Troubled Europe"
Viola lima, editor and publisher
of Modern Youth, will lecture on
What Youth Is Thinking" and
Alexander Afnogenov, Russian
dramatist, will talk on Drama and
the Theater in Russia"
European Dictatorships" will be
the subject of Lieutenant-C Colonel
Stewart Roddie, author of Peace
PATROL and Konrad Bercovici,
Rumanian gypsy musician, author
and world traveller, will entertain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04
Solution to PTeUiOUS
Contract Problem
BY W. f. MKENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League

~erFFNATN AmFfifAu bFiuEe League
no you remember, in the days Of
II auction, that We were afraid Of
a four-card suit, because Of the fact
that We never really knew whether
re had a proper fit with cur part
ner. or whether it was the proper
declaration?
Take. for example, today's hand
South has A perfect fOur-card suit
bid in spades. and his partner has
normal support. However. North
also has a flve-card suit, and South
has a perfect At there.
AS a result, in auction. We might
find ourselves playing the hand at
hearts. instead of spades. Even to-
day at contract. some players will
make the mistake of getting into the
wrong declaration
When your partner opens with a
fOur-card suit. and you believe you
have all the cards necessary to fill
in that suit, although you have a
five-card major of your own, don't
be too sure that the hand must be
PLAYED in your major.
Remember that contract is part
nership game. and it is up to you
and your partner to try to arrive at
the proper contract.
NVER Vests double. Norths
~ bid of two hearts is highly con-
structive. I think East's bid Of
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n % Z ? q liZ
school students
that the war
Taste d four
years and that
It's ma iOr en-
gagements we're
( o u z n { in
France and Bel
GUM These bows
and girls try 70
twist { n Q / r
tongues around
such names as
Chateau Thierrv
and strive 70 re-
rrnrrhar wrf1nfl7nr
Pershing led the
British or the
American forces
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Vests double. North's
~ bid of two hearts is highly con-
structive. think East's bid of
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SOrOritH PrOnrnnl Set

Miss Martha Pittenger will have
charge of an educational program
ar a meeting Of Epsilon chapter.
Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority. at
$50 tomorrow night at the Wash
ington. Miss Lucille Alexander will
preside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04
Circle Sponsors Event

P. w. Bennett Circle, Ladies of the
G. A. r., will sponsor a covered dish
luncheon at noon tomorrow before
Fourth of July program and bust
ness meeting at 512 North Illinois
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04
Climb Meetin0 Slated

Mrs. Howard Armstrong, 1924
Brookside parkway. will entertain
members of the Brookside Friendly
Club at her home tomorrow night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES :
Ruth Bryan Owen to
Open Town Hall Series
at Columbia Club Oct. E
DR.. Louis Berg, Harry A. Overstreet Arthu
Kallet, Gareth Jones, Viola lima and
Charles Batchelder Also on Program.

THE appearance minister to Denmark on Oct
the Columbia Cuo Will naugurate another
o. Indianapolis Hall lectures
international affairs events literature
science philosophy will give twelve
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04
World War
Aftermath
Continues
Youth Today Suffers as
Result of Conditions
Conflict Created.
By GRETTA PALMER
linz SnsrIal WIFI

NEW YORK. July 4-Twenty
4 ' years ago Sarajevo crept out
Of the more obscure geography
books and became a part Of his
tory. Twenty years ago the spark
that famed into the World war
was ignited.
The textbooks Of today tell our
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04
Today's Contract Problem

II South we're to arrive at
six-heart contract, and you
held the West hand. what
opening would you make and
why?
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losing club, of course, can be ruffed
in dummy with the spade.
All the declarer has to lose is a
diamond and two clubs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-04

Pershing led the
British or the Miss Palmer
American forces.
And then they sensIbly drop the
whole matter and 60 out for foot
ball practice. The World war seems
10 them as remote from their own
lives as the War Of the Roses or
the Battle Of ACtium.
There are grown-up boys and girls
today who do not remember the
years when their mothers folded
twO-by-tWO dressings in the towns
Red Cross. They have no recol-
lection Of the ticker tape celebra-
ton Of the Armistice. Sixteen years
is a long. long time especially If you
have been alive only eighteen or
twenty.
And vet these boys and girls Of
the post adOlescent age we're COM
batants in the World war quite as
much as those men who went to the
trenches. They DO not recognize
the fact-they do not think of
themselves as the postwar gen.
Grafton but as the mid-depression
set.
They are hopeless and frightened
Of a world which seems to bear
scant resemblance 10 the COSY.
prosperous place Of which they read
in the novels required for English
II. But they fail to associate their
difficulties with that remote mo-
ment-tWenty years ago-when an
assassin fired shot that was. in
earnest, heard around the world.
Tragedies Increase
Wars nowadays are not incidents
that are closed when peace is signed.
Their casualties are not limited TO
those of the battlefield. Mars has
acquired a trailer of tragedies which
are grimmer than those which &C
cur under fire.
There are, in every European
country today. ragged and wild
youths who have grown up in
state Of economic chaos. They are
orphans of the war, and their earli-
est memories were set to a martial
rhythm.
To them violence is part of nor
nal life and ruthlesSness a doctrine
for which nothing IN their expert
ence has offered a workable SubSti-
tute. And they are to be the sculp-
tors OF the tWenty-firSt century.
They are one element in the aft
ermath Of the World war.
There are bankrupt nations today
trying by devious and hysterial ef-
forts to restore prosperity to a
country which has got itself too
deeply into debt for an honorable
outcome. These countries are head
ed BY young men who are trying 10
pay for their fathers extravaganza
in the matter of cannonS and tanks.
They never can.
They are another element of the
postwar hangover.
Women Bear Burdens
There are women today who will
live out their whole lives in bitter
solitude because their potential nus
bands were moved down in the war
and there are not enough men left
10 go around.
There are other women who must
bear the stigma of unmarried
motherhood because the lovers they
send 10 the front were killed before
they could come back and marry
them.
They are a part Of the postwar
army.
II is hard 10 be a pacifiSt in war
time. when the drums are rolling
and the excitement of the moment
makes victory seem a finer thing
than peace.
But Is there an argument which
can make any Of us defenders Of war
after four years Of blOOdshed fol-
lowed BY sixteen years OF wars
grewsome aftermath?
Twenty years after Sarsjevo you
have 70 be a pacifist. for you have
had a fifth of a century TO study
what modern warfare means.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
YULETIDE RACKET
WARNING SOUNDED
Better Business Bureau Cites
Those Who Prey on Recip.
tents of Checks.

A warning against the horde of
petty racketeers who rise up with the
Yuletide to prey on recipients of
Christmas savings checks, was issued
yesterday by Louis Rothschild. direc-
ness Bureau.
Millions Of dollars in checks are in
the mails this week end, destined to
buy presents for the families and
friends of the city's thrifty, thought
full people of moderate means, and it
is from among these that the Christ
mas grafters select their victims,
Rothschild declared.
These racketeers concentrate on
schemes for swindling persons out Of
from IS to 5000, on the average,
knowing the temptation to try to
increase small sum in order to buy
a more generous present
One Of the most numerous of the
racketeers and the type hardest for
the law to reach is the borrower who
has no intention of repaying the loan,
Rothschild asserted.
THE sma-t financial racketeer does
not sell anything" he explained. He
borrows money and fails to pay it
back There is one particular schemer
here who for years has been making
faces at the law by merely posing as
a big and prosperous business man.
He borrows money from gullible peo-
pie, giving promissory notes in an
amount above the actual loan and
never paying the victims anything.
In other words, he borrows $500 from
a person, usually an elderly man or
woman, and gives his note for $500.
The creditor thinks that he is going
to make 5000. Actually he has lost
$500 and the promoter is in no fear
Of going to Jail"
Evening star., 1934-12-02
Liquor Consigned
ToKentucky Held,
But Later Released
Police PuzzledO OUer Cap.
itaI Concerns License
to Sell.

A truck bearing $4,000 worth of
liquor, consigned to a Louisville
buyer by the z. D. Gilman Co., Wash
ington wholesalers, was held up tenn
porarily by police yesterday, while
District officials puzzled over whether
the liquor license. issued to Charles
H. Franzoni, head Of the company.
was still In effect. Mr.. Frsnzoni died
last Sunday.
Police were informed the license
had expired, since 1t had been issued
to the head Of the company per-
sonally. However, they finally allowed
the truck to proceed with its
consignment.
Legal angles of the problem are to
be studied further tomorrow by the
corporation counsers office, police
were informed. While only techni-
cal legal point is at issue, 1t was said
the principle is important.
The truck, bearing South Carolina
tags, was stopped by the police liquor
squad under the direction of Detec-
tive Sergt. Roy Blick. 1t was allowed
to proceed after q memorandum Of
sale and sample of the liquor were
taken. Police were told there was TO
be . shift of drivers in South
Carolina.