Evening star., 1935-09-21
ROOSEVELT SEEKS
T0SEE BALL GAME
Works to Clear Desk, Have
Afternoon .'ree, Come
to Capital Monday.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,
STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

Stan correspondent OF Ine Star.
HYDE PARK, N. Y, September 81. i.
-President Roosevelt was applying
himself with extra energy this morn
ing in an effort to clear his desk pre-
paratory to returning to Washington
early Monday, but chiefly, for the
moment, to free himself from the Ma
tons business this afternoon long
enough to attend the ball game be-
tween the Washington correspondents
and the Pawling, N. Y, team cap
tained by Lowell Thomas, the radio
talker.
This contest was to be held ca the
golf course at Pawling, about forty
miles from here, and from all indica-
tions there we're to be many specta-
tors. The game is played with soft
the players, particularly the CORE
spondents, are somewhat soft, 1t was
decided in advance to let six innings
serve as a full game.
The President was to be on hand,
not only to cheer and criticize. but TO
see two members of his family circle
in the lineup of the Washington con-
tingent. John Roosevelt, the 6-foot-
4, l9-year -old son of the President
was assigned to position in the field
by the correspondents, and John Boet-
tiger, the Presidents sOn-in-law, a
former White House correspondent
himself, was put at first base.
Dempsey Is Umpire.
The presence Of Jack Dempsey, for
mer heavyweight champion, as umpire
behind the bat naturally added inter
est James "Two-Gun" Stringfellow
of the White House secret service, was
base umpire.
Edward Roddan. of Universal Serv-
ice, captain and manager of the cor
respondents team. who was at sec
ond base, selected Charles W. B. Hurd
OF the Washington bureau of the New
York Times to do the hurting for his
team, at least for an inning or two.
Among the other correspondents IN
the lineup were F. M. Stephenson.
the Associated Press, at third; George
E. Durno, International News Service,
center field; F. A. Storm, United
Press, right field; and John O'Don-
nell. New York News; Coleman B.
Jones, New York Herald Tribune:
Willard Edwards. Chicago Tribune,
and Phelps Adams, New York Sun,
utility substitutes. Carroll Linkins of
the Western Union was chosen to do
the catching, with c. A. Penkert OF
Postal Telegraph as a substitute,
Col Marvin H. Mcintyre of the
White House secretariat, and J. Rus
sell Young of The Washington Star
were deputized as cheer leaders.
Thomas To Be Host.
After the game Lowell Thomas was
to be host to the President and all
the others in the Washington party
at a picnic lunch on the lawn of his
home a short distance from the soft
ball battle-ground
1t was raining during the morning,
but the local forecasters predicted
clear skies during the afternoon.
During the three weeks the Presi-
dent has been at Hyde Park he has
received at least half hundred callers
from various sections of the country.
He has listened attentively to the re-
ports they have brought him dealing
with economic and political condi-
tions. Mr.. Roosevelt has made no
definite comment upon them, al
though it is known that they have
been generally of an optimistic and
hopeful nature.
Indiana Held Democratic.
Gov. Paul McNutt OF Indiana, who
spent several hours with the President
yesterday afternoon, gave him a rosy
picture Of the Democratic prospects
in the Hoosier State. This Demo-
cratic Governor told newspaper men
afterwards that there was not the
slightest doubt about Roosevelt's car
rying Indiana in the next national
election. He explained that the Pres
ident is popular there and that, be-
sides, the Democratic organization Is
united and in good shape to enter
the campaign.
Gov. McNutt received from the
President promise to participate in
ceremonies incident to the formal ded-
ication, during the middle of Novem-
ber. of the memorial to George Rogers
Clark at Vincennes, Ind. 1t is likely
also that while participating in this
memorial celebration the President
will motor to the Nancy Hanks Lin
coin Shrine, about 40 miles from
Vincennes.
The President will attend the Vim
cennes exercises on his way to Warm
Springs, Ga, about November II.