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Evening star., 1934-04-16

DAY after day, according to the
/ legend, Frankie received mes
sages of advice with California
postmarks. Day after day, he moved
down the opposition. 1t is only fair,
at this point, to credit Postmaster
General Farley and his men with an
assist. Their loyal zeal and unf1ag-
ging devotion conquered such natural
barriers as the Rockies and the APP
palachians. The mail went through,
and Frankie won the title.
With his prestige in good running
order again, Mr.. Beasley came to
Princeton this Spring. The pretty
Continued on Page 2, Column So
Evening star., 1934-04-16
Criffs' Leaders Conservative
Pennant Up to Pitchers, Says Club Prexy.
Cronin Looks for Sitter Competition.

like they did last year We should
be sitting pretty"
Cronin, somewhat bolder, said:
I'VE are going into the 1884
race with the confidence of pen
nant winners and excepting Luke
Sewell, catcher, who still has bad
finger, and Al Crowder, pitcher,
who hasn't reached top form as
yet, we're all in splendid condition.
Stones Spring training play has
been outstanding. We have reason
to believe this outfielder is a
worthy addition to our club. We
hope to repeat, although we look
for sitter competition from the
Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers and In
dians. Those White Sox. Browns
and AS are certain to be tough
teams to beat, too"
Evening star., 1934-04-16
The National League Race.

Inc NdtDHdl LcdSut NdCCs
A FTER talking with long parade
n of big league managers and big
league ball players, most of them
veterans of many campaigns, the
National League race seems to be
more of a tangle than it was at the
start.
Giants won't finish better than
third"-"pick the Cardinals
are best bet"-"don't overlook the Pi-
rates"-"Pirates lack pitching" ETC.,
etc.
The main facts are these: Giants,
Cubs and Cardinals all have been
strengthened. The Pirates are about
the same.
The Giants have a hardboiled,
winning manager in Bill Terry. They
have Travis jackson back, and they
| have added Watkins and Leiber to
their attack. They have tackled on
three promising young pitchers to an
| all-star staff, embracing Hubbell,
| Schumacher, FitZsimmons and Par
melee. They will be hard to stop.
The Cardinals have an able pitch
ing staff and stouter punch than the
Giants. They must be given an even
chance with the world champions OF
| 1888.
The Cubs, with Klein, and the Pi-
rates must be given practically an
even start in what should be a great
four-team race down the September
stretch. There is little to choose
among these first four. There will be
a flock of games hanging by the mar
gin of a single run, and, for this rea-
son, like the two pitching staffs that
Giants and Cardinals can throw into
action day after day.
The Braves will miss Maranville
but they won't be outclassed. The
Reds should slip into sixth place anc
the Dodgers, with uncertain pitching
should outjostle the Phillies.
Carl Hubbell, the luminary of 1888
Continued on Page 3, Column 81
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Exhibition Games

BY the Associated Press.
Washington CA) II; Baltimore
Il. L. Z.
Cleveland (A.) 5; New York (N) 4
Detroit (A) 7; Cincinnati (N) 4.
New York (A.) 4; Brooklyn (N.) 2.
Boston (A) 10; Boston (N) 3.
Philadelphia (A) 4; Philadelphia
(ND 3.
Pittsburgh (N) II; Louisville GA.
A. 8, 10 innings.
Today's Schedule.
At Worcester, Mass.-Boston (N)
VS.. Holy Cross.
At West Point, N. Y.-New York
(N) VS.. Army.
Evening star., 1934-04-16
WINS AT SOFT BALL.

One-hit pitching by Abe Rosenfeld
and two home runs by Johnny jan
kowski helped the Catholic University
All-Stars to an 81 soft ball win over
the team of Victory Post, American
Legion, yesterday in the c. U. Sta
dium. Jankowski's first homer came
with Dutch Bergman, c. U. athletic
director on third base, and the second
in the sixth scored Babe Gearty.
Evening star., 1934-04-16
THE OPENING SALUTE.
No,U rolls young ApriFS thunder
To end our cares and UoeS,


NolD rolls young April's thunder
To end our cares and UoeS,
In cheers that break aSunder
The silence of the snous;
The scene is spread before US
Where dge-old echoes ride
That SHIFT the ancient chorus
OF "Slide-you bonehead-slide"
Let rd1D fate string its ares
We rise up from the mat
Who cares for debt or tdres
When Babe is at the bdti
When Cochrdne cracks a double,
You'll hear the battle cry
When Chuck Klein faces HubbeH,
There's blood against the sky!
The meadow ldrks are singing
But Udit-I hear q crash
Glue me the music ringing
From Cronin's shining ash!
I'll giue you all the masters
For Uhorl the critics pine
Slip me the bloke that pldSterS
A triple doUn the line!
Evening star., 1934-04-16
THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE

two pennant races full of fame and
smoke.
Each new base ball season brings a
national stir from coast to coast, not
only in the major cities involved, but
in every wayside hamlet from which
so many stars report in their battle
for fame and gold, thereby casting
new luster upon the town squares OF
their native heathS.
Evening star., 1934-04-16
THE BATTLE FRONT.
American League.

American League.
1-2-Yankees-SenatorS - toss
up.
3-Cleveland Indians.
4-Red SoX.
5-Tigers.
6-White SoX.
7-8-AthleticS-BroWnS.
National League.
1-2-Giants-Cardin
3-4-Cubs and Pirates-even.
5-Braves.
6-Reds.
dodgers.
8-PhillieS.
Evening star., 1934-04-16
NEW BUSH LEAGUE SET
Central Circuit Will Open Its
Campaign on May IT.

Campaign on May IT.
CHICAGO, April 16 (P).-The Gen.
trail League, a new class B circuit
with membership composed of three
Michigan cities, two from Illinois and
one from Indiana, will open its season
May II.
Grand Rapids and Muskegon in
Michigan; Fort Wayne, Ino.. and
Peoria and Springfield, in Illinois, are
organized for action, and the third
Michigan franchise will be decided
between Flint and Battle Creek. this
week. Ed w. Dickerson of Grand
Rapids, president of the league, said.
Evening star., 1934-04-16
Distance Doesn't Count

Distance Doesn't Count.
TINE beauty of Mr.. Beasley's
/ thinking is that it can be done
at close range or from dis
tance. With the Davis Cup team last
year. the Calico of the nets worked
in close. He handled the athletes in
Evening star., 1934-04-16
Mace Music
Totals AZ 19271l Totals. 80 037lO
.Batted for Thomas in seventh.
fRatted for Richmond in third.
4Batted for Butcher in sixth
SRan for Hargreaves in sixth.
fBatted for Melton in ninth.

Wafhington W. aislnInZ. -, 4 49, 500 @-12
Runs-Myer (2). Stone. Manush (2).
Schultz. Kuhel o., Bluege -. Klumpp'
Travis. Oliver, Gilbert MCGOWAN. Bis
sonette, Alternately. Hargreaves. Mayo En-
Gilbert. Runs batted in-Manush,
Cronin CO.. Bluege (4l. Schultz. Oliver,
Gilbert. MCGOWAN. Abernathy 81. Stone
Manush, Burke. Home -Abernathy,
Biuege. Stolen base-e,Schulte Double
plays-MolesWorth to Olson to BisSonette:
Olson to Molesworth to Bissonette: Left
on bases-Washington. s; Baltimore. =;
First base on balls-Of Weaver. 4: of
Richmond, of Thomas, .; off Melton. ?:
off Burke. !. Struck out--By, Richmond.
l. by Weaver. 3; Dy Butcher J. by
Thomas, l.; by Melton. >; by Burke Burke - :
Butcher. Z in 3 innings; of Melton. 4 n
3 innings off Weaver, in , innings; of
Thomas, | in innings: of Burke. J IN
3 INNINGS Hit by pitched ball-By Mel
ton (Bluegel Wild pitches Weaver
Winning p,tcher-Thomas. Losing pitcher
Butcher Umpires.Messrs- Snpie: coz
and johnson. Time of game hours ana
10 minutes.
Evening star., 1934-04-16

person, 5 u y Z l.
vised all black
board talks and
signal drills and
thought his way
t h r o u g h t h e
matches t h e m
selves from a
ringside seat.
The result was
a technical de-
feat for t h e
American b oy S,
b u t a glorious
mental and NOR
al victory. When
H. Ell S W or t h
Vines ma SSed ont
Evening star., 1934-04-16
RACING PLANS REVISED

Charles Town Meeting Runs
From May % Through July 7.
CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, April
16-Revision of the 1884 Summer
racing dates here under the auspices
of the Shenandoah Jockey Club calls
for SO continuous days of the sport,
starting May %, and continuing
through July 7.
Two Summer meetings originally
had been planned.
There will be no Fall meeting.
Evening star., 1934-04-16
The New Campaign.

The New Campaign.
~ UTSIDE OF the lone engage
4 ment in Washington today
prelude to the big fan fare
~ base balls Spring curtain
rises tomorrow on what
should be record breaking year.
AS far as all signs go, with the JON
quils again blowing revellle through
their yellow bugles, the campaign of
1884 should set attendance records in
more than a few citadels and provide
Evening star., 1934-04-16
Pacific. Coast League

Los Angeles, 11-3; Hollywood, SIS.
Sacramento, SIS; Portland, 3-6.
San Francisco, 11-3; Missions, 5-4
Oakland, 6-6; Seattle, 81.
Evening star., 1934-04-16
FROM THE PRESS BOX
BY JOHN LARDNER-

April curiosity of tennis has been pqued
/ | noted curoity-piq Mercer BeaSey
of
developer of prodiges the master mind OF
he formulateS idea about tennis
tennis bug between Azu Ca
Portland,
they
It Mr. Beasley simply dea but whole
Evening star., 1934-04-16
Pitching Puzzles Crnnin.


CTANLEY HARRIS, Washington
- resident who pilots the Red Sox,
- has intimated he will pick Gordon
Rhodes to do the pitching tomorrow
against the outfit he once guided to
world championship. Looks like
trouble for the Nationals at the out
set of their touring, for the right
handed Rhodes when he is good
and he usually isis very, very good.
Joe Cronin, though, was not pre-
pared to pick his pitcher for the BoS-
ton inaugural SO early. His choice
was to depend upon what might hap
pen to his pitching corps in the prob
lematical starting clash here. ice
hopes to have Jack Russell fire at the
club for which he fired when a rookie
in big time. In the event it were
necessary to rush Russell to Earl
Whitehill's relief this afternoon
however, Cronin probably would
swing to Walter Stewart, veteran
left-hander, for the Fenway Park
flinging The Washington pitchers
are not yet so we'll settled that Cronin
can figure far ahead on his choices.
Serious Series for Champs.
VTTHEN the Nationals take the
w field against the Red Sox to-
morrow, Clark Griffith, their
president, will be at hand to do a lot
of roofing. And that's what he does
best-for his own club. Boy and man,
Griffith has been in base ball nearly
half a century, and he still is the
games greatest fan.
Griffith is going also to see Tom
Yawkey's new FenWay Park, of which
the young millionaire owner Of the
Red Sox is justly proud. and to return
Yawkey's visit to the season inaugura
game here. Will Harridge, president
of the American League, who was tc
be among those present in Griffith
Stadium this afternoon will be at the
Boston opening. too. So will severa
other circuit officials.
There'll be much ceremony. Bostor
likes its pomp. But after formalitie.
end, friendship between the teams viii
cease. The Red Sox have big ideas O.
going places this year. but the Ma.
tionals haven't had their fill of glory
and world series coin-and they'll stel
out with every intention of knockin!
off this big threat.
It's a serious series with the Ma
tionals. this Boston set, and they'll d.
all they can to play it that way.
Evening star., 1934-04-16
w vASHINGTON'S war clubs
"A were welded in no tell
wv ing manner through
Y the greater part of the
fro{oit,u COO con h1It tho

band bent on getting another
American League pennant certain
ly swung in sterling style in Balti-
more yesterday as it wound up its
exhibition series.
Eighteen hits, among them home
run propelled over the left-field
wall by Ossie Bluege, were cleaned
off three Oriole hurlers as the
Nationals crashed through to
12-to-7 victory.
The triumph was their sixth in
IL exhibitions played with major
and minor rivals this Spring. No
smart record for a club that won
q league championship last year
and is more than hopeful of re-
peating this time, but results in
the title campaigning will be better
Evening star., 1934-04-16


w saH vs9s League 5s ha7s sHs"PiSas 3hsis
day" - ceremonially
If not otherWiSe-at Griffith
Stadium this afternoon as
major league base ball was to
be ushered in for the year,
weather permitting, but for
them it is only the beginning
of this season inaugural for
mality.
More of it is slated for to-
morrow when they are due to
assist the Red Sox, their pres
ent guests, put on BoSton'S
starter.
This evening the Nationals will en-
train for Beantown to remain there
three days during which four games
are 10 be rlayed. Morning and after
noon tits listed for Thursday,
Boston's big Patriots day holiday,
swell the schedule. Then they'll jump
to Philadelphia for trio CT tussles
with the Athletics on successive Gays.
Not until a week from tomorrow
play their wares on the Georgia ave-
nue. lot with the Red SoX as guests,
then for a three-game set.
Early Games to Test Mats.
TIME was when meeting the Red
SoX in eight games in little more
than the first week Of the cam
paign would have made the Nationals
laugh themselves sick 1t would have
meant perhaps six wins for the Wash
ington club and a great season start.
But this is anc.her year and it is
another Boston ball club that will be
encountered. Manager Cronin and
his charges are doing no grinning as
they contemplate the early stretch of
engagements with the once despiSed
BeantoWn bunch.
On paper, the Red Sox now look eX-
ceptionally formidable and on the
field they are more than likely to
make all kinds of trouble even for a
wonderfully balanced ball club start
ing with no little confidence in itself
a struggle for a second successive
championship.
The Nationals we'll realize the Red
SoX are not the pushovers they used
to be and that a lot of ball playing
will have to be done right off the reel
if the club is to get off on its best
foot in this pennant pursuit that
promises to be more trying than last
years.
Evening star., 1934-04-16
Early Schedule Trying Nationals Optimism High Ball Season Opens
STAR RACKETERS
SEEKPLAzABOW[
Frank Shields Heads Field
in Tourney for Mason
and Dixon Title.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
w YHITE S U L P H U R
W. SPRINGS, w. Va, April
Y Y 16.-Led by Frank x.
| Shields of New York
Evening star., 1934-04-16
RED SOX DEEMED
DANGEROUS FOES
Figure in 8 of Champions
First II Games-GriffS
in Boston Tomorrow.
BY JOHN Is. KELLER.

TX TASH1NGTONs Ameri-
\H can League champions
w were to have their
ryD ,r,l
Evening star., 1934-08-27
REMOTE CONTROL
MUSIC IS PLAYED
Scientist Produces Accom-
paniment as He Plays
Special Cello.

ITHACA. N. Y. UP).-Through the
wizardry of the electric pickup, Prof.
Vladimir Karapetoff OF Cornell Uni
versity plays the cello with his hands
and his own accompaniment, by re-
mote control, on the piano with his
feet.
His cello is a new type of instrument
with no sounding board. There is no
piano in sight, but its notes roll out
loudspeaker, perfectly time by couple
OF pedals under the professors feet.
The cello is only some strings with
sufficient mounting to keep them in
place. Beneath them there is an elec-
trio pickup which changes the sound
into electric current. The notes from
the instrument may be virtually In
audible, but they issue from the loud
speaker in full volume and perfect
tone.
Accompaniment on Record.
Connected to the same loudspeaker
is a phonograph record, previously
made by Prof. Karapetoff, of the ac-
compartment to his cello music. Three
windingS in mixing transformer do
the magic work. One carries the
piano, another the cello notes and the
third Is connected with the amplifier.
Both instruments are synchronized
and each may be loud or soft sepa-
rately at the will Of the player.
Prof. Karapetoff has been demon
strating the new cello at private con-
certs The instrument was developed
by a group Of musicians and scientists
at the Allencraft Laboratories in
Orange, N. j.
1.-THE volume" says Prof. Karape-
toff, 'is practically limitless. At my
last demonstration, in a large public
hall, saw some persons close their
ears when the full volume Of the am
plifier was turned on.
Can Hear Oneself.
"With these instruments. which in
clude some violins and plucked
stringed instruments, string orches-
ira needs only one Of each kind
namely, first violin, a second violin,
viola, a cello and bass.
There Is another important feature.
The sounds come from a distance, so
the player can hear himself play.
thereby improving both the tone quail
ity and the expression.
ANY of these instruments can be
played through an ordinary radio,
and by using a mixing transformer
any number of instruments can be
played simultaneously through the
same loudspeaker."
Evening star., 1934-08-27
GIRLS NONSTOP HOP
ESCAPES DISASTER
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 27.-Despite
near disaster which threatened to end
their flight, two Texas girls passed the
one-third mark early today in their
attempt for a new woman's air en-
durance record.
The two, Mary Owens and Jean La
Rene, accidentally threw overheard
their reserve oil supply last night, be-
lieving it to be used lubricant. Then
they brought their Lone Star low
over the ground and gave a distress
signal.
A note was hoisted by rope from
their plane to the refueling ship, and
soon six gallons of oil were lowered
in the first refueling contact at dark
since the flight started.
The girls took of at 8:13 pm.
Thursday. To pass the record, they
must remain aloft until after 1853
pm. Sunday, September 2.
Evening star., 1934-08-27
POLICE RUN DOWN
VAN METER CLUES.
St. Paul Officers on Mystery
Trip-Deny Hamilton
Link.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, August 27.-Chief of
Police Frank Cullen and Detective
Thomas Brown returned today from a
mysterious trip prompted by clues they
obtained following the Staying Of
Homer Van Meter, Dillinger aide, here
THURSDAY
The officers, who left Friday on
their secret mission, refused to disclose
where they had been or what they
had discovered.
They denied they had been search
ing for the body of John Hamilton,
another Dillinger gangster, who had
been reported slain. They also said
they had not been looking for George
Baby Face" Nelson, another of the
outlaw gang still at large.
According to reports, Hamilton was
believed to have been shot by deputy
sheriffs near st. Paul Park last April
% after John Dillinger and his gang
fled from a trap set by Federal agents
near Mercer, Wis. En- route to Chi
cago, Hamilton was reported to have
died and was then said to have been
buried by friends in Indiana secretly.
Dillinger Quoted.
Two Tucson, Ariz., policemen who
figured in the capture there of John
Dillinger yesterday added their stories
to the effect that Hamilton is dead.
Dillinger himself told them. said
Sergts. Harry Foley and Milo Walker,
that Hamilton had died from effects
of five bullet wounds suffered in the
robbery of the East Chicago Qnd)
Bank.
"Dillinger wouldn't tell us the de-
tails" the officers said, but he did
say positively that Hamilton was dead.
OF course, we wanted to know whether
he had died while the gang was fleeing
after the Indiana job. We asked him
many questions, but he was pretty
close -mouthed.
Last June when another Dillinger
mobsman, Tommy Carroll, was slain
at Waterloo, Iowa, he was reported
to have mumbled that Hamilton was
dead.
Evening star., 1934-08-27
PRISONERS LOCK UP
JAILERS AND FLEE
Il Make Dash to Freedom in
Chattanooga-Three Are
Recaptured.

ty the Associated Press.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, August
.i7.-Eleven prisoners took charge OF
he Hamilton County jail today, i'm
,risoned all jailers and TRUSTEES and
escaped under a fusilade of shots from
officers
Three of the II were recaptured.
Lige eagle, charged with highway
Iobbery, admitted, Chief Deputy
fsheriff w. G. Sears said, that he led
the break. A girl in Savannah, Ga,
eagle said, sent him $50 worth OF
laacksaws with which he and two cell
mates severed lever in lock box.
The prisoners then went to the jail
office and captured Night Jailer Tom
Garter and several TRUSTEES.
Trying to escape in an automobile
!1e said the girl had sent, eagle was
eaptured near the jail He was shot
through the leg The girl, he de-
.:lared, had written him to come at
once
I'll take the whole blame" eagle
declared Il cut the hole"
Evening star., 1934-08-27
ROOseUeIt's Aims
Divine, in Opinion
Of Church Council
Message Says American
Labor and Capital
Are on Trial.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 2T.-The Fed
eral Council Of the Churches of Christ
in America yesterday in a statement
declared the measures proposed by the
Roosevelt administration to help the
forgotten man were of human origin
and therefore fallible, but that the
aims sought were divine
The purposes sought are divine If,
as We steadfastly believe, the heart
Of Jesus Christ is revelation of the
divine" the announcement continued
He cared whether men were cold
or hungry or sick He felt the woes
of those in bondage of any sort and
longed for their freedom. Many goals
sought by the present leaders Of Amer
ican affairs are indisputably in har-
mony with the purpose and spirit of
Jesus
whether these goals will be at
tanned will depend upon the wisdom
Of the economic system itself and
certainly upon those in control of
our economic life"
Evening star., 1934-08-27
V|G|[ANTES WATCH
FARM STRIKE PLAN
Abducted Union Leader in
Ohio Defiant After Re-
turn Home.
NY the Associated Press.

NY the Associated Press.
McGUFFEY, Ohio, August 27.-
Secretly organized vigilantes, pledged
70 heed any call, kept watch over the
strike-torn Scioto marshland today as
n union delegation headed for Toledo
with the asserted intention of seeking
Federal court action against the abb
s;uctors of their leader, Okey Oden.
The vigilantes were known only
among themselves, but they were
authoritatively represented as pledged
10 retaliate If strike violence should
tecur.
Willing to Compromise.
Fresh efforts to settle the three
Inonths' long strike were begun.
robert Fox, a Federal labor conciliator
cent by Secretary Perkins, arrived and
won from Odell a promise of willing
less to compromise on the original
demands of the union strikers.
Odell said he would be willing to
gree to a wage scale of 25 cents an
hour for an eight-hour day. The
strikers, since early June, have stead
lastly insisted they would hold out for
IS cents an hour.
Most full day workers for the large
farm companies now receive SIPS to
$3.50 a day. Some, in addition, re-
telve free rent on their small cot
tages and grants of the use of COW.
Membership Disputed.
Odell disputed an assertion by Allen
Edwards of the Scioto Land Co. that
the union has lost most of its men,
tership Odell said the union strength
Ct 400 had not decreased appreciably,
Q although Edwards represented it as
Snly one-tenth that number.
Odell further asserted that IL farm
operators already have signed union
{ ontracts.
The belligerent 3S-year- Odell,
a;ill nursing minor wounds inflicted
ty the kidnapers. defied enemies to
sttempt a duplication of the Satur-
cay kidnapping and beating.
Let them come" said the president
G. the Agriculture Workers Union,
't'd give $500 head for any who got
way alive"
Evening star., 1934-08-27
Bell Hop Returns
To Scene of Job
And Royal Suite
mheriting Fortune, He
Decides to Haze Others
Wait on Him.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Calf, August 81
Raw D. Cremona, who was hopping
bells at hotel here last Spring, to-
day occupied the hostelry's royal suite.
Last March Cremona learned he
had become the principal heir to five
European hotels and $3.50, 900 in cash.
He and his wife left Immediately to
zee what the hotels were like. Return
ing from their tour yesterday, they
ordered the royal suite reserved for
them.
1--WE missed the States" said Gre
mona. There was something about
Europe that made US want to come
back to Hollywood.
why we had to pay IS cents over
there for a package Of American
cigarettes"
Cremona plans to sell his hotels,
which he said are located in Vienna,
Gorblitz, Germany; Merano and San
Reno, Italy, and Nice, France.