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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
TAFT DROPS GAME

Watertown, May s-Suffering its first defeat of the current season. the Taft School baseball team fell before the superb pitching of Joe Wood. Hopkins Grammar School pitcher, to- the tune of 8 to here yesterday. Wood limited the home team to three hits. while Taft sent in two relief pitchers to stem the tide of it's opponents battering bar- rage in the sixth. The Score:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
New Umps

Joe COrsgrove and Walter Ahearn have not played base ball in many . year but they ought to draw quite . crowd as unpires on the Bunker Hill Esquire-Fu1tOn A. c. game Sunday afternoon at Rolling Mill field. Just how it feels to be an ump after playing in front of them for so many years ought to make . good subject for discussion after the game, when the former Eastern and Connecticut league stars get to piling it up, about the good old days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
BUFF YS FITCH

Johnny Bufk will return to ac' live warfare fn tho amateur rine t7-nlshk <Fhen he heads the sImen- IEsre card ln Meriden meeting <&1an4 Hizot. eeieFed cieuief from #t# Haven. Wffo fnifened him in I4o rounds ni enc New HneeN &<HHa 6pmt limo neo ending nir &7<|Ha of victories which hao
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
|KENNECOTT NEW YORK s
 CLUB MEETS CHASE

The Kenecott club of New York
 city will be the rival of the Chase company baseball team at Hamil- ton park on Saturday afternoon. Many of the leading baseball play CTS in the Metropolitan area and those of this district are to be in both iinups and the result should be an interesting tussle. Francis (Speed) Conway, fireball tosser is listed to be on the peak for the locals. The game will start at. 2:30 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
Opportunity

Joe Shugrue, graduate of St Thomas Parochial and Crosby high schools where he played baseball so well that he cap- tained the Blue and White nine last season is missing from the north end these days, having gone to New York where Bill Terry of the Giants is looking him over as third baseman, who may get a job on a Giant farm later in the season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
Winning Jockey Discusses Great Kentucky Derby Horse
Victory With Omaha Just
 A Matter Of Getting Off,
 Says Smokey" Saunders
BY HARRY CRIMSON

Baltimore May g-Omaha's smashing victory in the Kentucv Derby makes the William Woodward chestnut the favorte in the Preakness be the Pmco course here May II.
 Omaha has exclusively demonstrated that all he re- ures is route and the Preakness is only sixteenth shorter than the mile and quarter Derby.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
TRIBES WORK OUT

'Tipper'' coniey, pilot of the 1FI- bunes. announced this mornipE that there will be a drill at Hanl- iIton park beginning at obciock fhis evening. The drill ig Co Do 70 charge of HuRhlo Cunningham and ail aspiFants for els amateur hertha are asked to bo present TOT the iryouts. The Tribes will have Johnny Hobcn aa hackntop and BiIiy shcQhF. city league veteran, ht second base. It G 6e|ieV9d thai several other players VIII >oin to- night
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
|FRIARS TO PLAY | PARK ROAD ARRAY

The Putsic Friars, winners of a practice tilt over the Trolee. Elm eralds last Saturday, will play their first regular game this Sat- urday afternoon at Waterville Park at o'clock meeting the Park Road Recreations. Johnny Kulmann or Eddie Kosloskey will be on the mound for the Y boys with Johnny Brown receiving. All members of the team are requested to meet at the Central Y not later than 1:30 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
WRESTLING

Nashville. Tenn = Ray Steele, Nebraska. deciai0ned lsd (siranK. 'ier) Lewis. California tfoul). Or vile Iirown. kanans. threw Tom
 Marvin. TenReneei Roland kiEsch-
 meyer, 1ezas. threw Lew riummei
 Chicago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
B. A. c. MEETING

Plans for the Old Timers night on enfuFdny nt fhe Brooklyn A. C. will be completed at meeting t0 bo held tonight at the club rooms. The sension wiII get under way at { o'clock and Matt nunphy is chairnian of the arrangements committed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09

outfielder, Melo Armada, plays grounders like n first-class infield- CT, is the best stylist on fly ball that hc knows of. and gets the ball away quicker than any other retriever. .. Clark Griffith as- serts that threo of WnshIngton's half dozen left-handed hitters = Myer, Manush, stone, Travis, kuhcl. and nolton~-are aa effccs tive against southpaws ns they arc against rIght-handerg. . Lou 0ehrigs who has a ren,lin. lion aa a lconulnef of els, likes Co enteh them. but hnH never eat- en one because they remind him leo much of nnAi.ea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
Roxbury Wins
Especial to the Democrat)

Especial to the DemOcrat)
 Cheshire, May S.-Hitting in the pinches, and with Devens and Hine in the leading role, Roxbury school baseball nine turned in its third win of the season yesterday with a 6-4 game over Milford.
 ROxHURY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
Remember?

One year ago-Max Schmelling defeated Poulino Uzcudun in a 12- round bout at Barcelona, Spain.
 Five years ago-Seven American women golfers, led by Blenna Col- lett, survived the third round of the British women's golf tourna- ment at Formby England.
 Ten years ago-The French Boxing federation adopted three rules advanced by the New York Boxing mission-boxers under IS should not fight more than six rounds: scale of weights to be fiy- weights to lightweights: and that 10 days must elapse between bouts in which Q boxer engages.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-09
Last Nights Fights

London-obie Walker. 20s. Att lanta. Ca, outpcinted George Cook, ls6, Australia. (i0).
Evening star., 1935-02-17

Union Veteran Corps (Old Guard, Washington
Continentals, Emmet Guard, Washington Rifle
Corps, Butler Zouaves, Washington Cadet Corps.
Capital City Guard, Washington High School
Cadets and Corcoran Cadet Corps. And from
nearby Virginia came the Alexandria Light
Infantry and st. Johns Academy Cadet Corps.
Maj. Gen. Fitxhugh Lee Of Virginia mar
shaled the second division and Bvt. Brig.
Gen. w. w. Dudley led the third division,
Evening star., 1935-02-17

which included the congressional commission,
orators, chaplains, the Washington National
Monument Society, members and ex-members
of the Joint Commission for the Completion Of
the Monument, the engineer of the Monument.
his assistants and detail of workmen; the Pres
ident Of the United States, members Of the
cabinet. President and Vice President elect Of
the United States, ex-Presidents of the United
States, judges of thu Supreme Court and other
Evening star., 1935-02-17

THE exercises were conducted by joint COM
] mission Of Congress, Of which John Sher-
man Of Ohio was chairman, and the ceremonies
began at the base of the Monument at IL
O'Clock, with Senator Sherman presiding. Rev.
Mr. Suter of Christ Church, Alexandria, de-
nvered the invocation, followed by an address
prepared by w. w. Corcoran, but read by DR..
James G.. Willing, as Mr.. Corcoran was unable
to attend. Then came the Masonic ceremonies
by the Grand Lodge Of the District including
an address by Myron M. Parker grand master
ct the time.
Lieut.. Col. Thomas Lincoln Casey, who had
charge Of the work Of completing the Monu-
ment, and who later became chief Of engineers,
United States Army, was then called upon for
remarks in delivering the completed shaft to
President Chester A. Arthur, who, in an ad
dress. dedicated the memorial to the people Of
the United States.
From the Monument there was procession,
with military escort. to the Capitol. 1t was
an imposing parade. embracing the regular
forces Of the Army and Navy and visiting
military bodies, and a civic division under
command Of Lieut.. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan.
with Gen. Albert Ordway, chief of staff, as
marshal Of the day.
Conspicuous in line were 200 members of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Massachu-
setts oldest martial organization on the Ameri-
can Continent, its charter signed by John Win
throp, first governor of Massachusetts,, bearing
the date Of 1888. Then followed the 1st Troop
Of Philadelphia Cavalry, organized in 1774;
then the Governors Foot Guard of Hartford
Conn, organized It'll; the Kentish Guards of
Rhode Island, granted a charter by the Colonial
Assembly Of Rhode Island in 1774 in response
to petition Of citizens of East Greenwich
The German Fusiliers of Charleston, S. c.,
an organization dating from IT'S was also in
line, as was the Lawrence Light Guard, or
ganized 1851. The Richmond Light Infantry
Blues marched upon that occasion, as did the
Detroit Light Infantry, and our own local
military bodies, including the famous WASH
tngton Light Infantry, the National Rifles,
Evening star., 1935-02-17
Incidents Of Con-
styuctiou Haze Be-
come Features of
DHtrictHiStory.
Story ofhe Monu-
ment Society-Ac-
cident TO Corner
Stone in Canal.
Financial Prob
lens.
BY JOHN CLACETT PROCTOR.

OW time nleS! Many OF u.s. VINO saw
the capstone of the Washington
- Monument put in position, saw the
aluminium tip added as a final
touch and a short while afterward
witnessed the exercises dedicating
the great white shaft to the memory of the
Father of His Country can hardly realize that
next Thursday, February 81, we will be just
one-half century older than We were when
these services took place. Perhaps We do not
notice it, and maybe we do. but whether we dc.
or do not we are actually that much older and
no doubt appear so to others, If not to our
selves.
Indeed, look around us on all hands, see how
the city has increased in population, almost
three times what it was then; see how 1t has
extended way out into what was then the
country; see the great advancements in the
mechanical arts and sciences, in educational IA
cilities, in almost every conceivable way.
Just turn back the hands of time, If you will,
and see the washington Of SO years ago-a city
of horses and carriages and just few high BIZ
cycles; without automobiles or radios, and with
only q very few telephones: then look at 1t as 1t
Is today with population Of 100000; profusely
lighted with electricity: with its 100000 auto
mobiles, 180, 900 telephones and its numberless
radios, and its vastly different way of living,
and no doubt you will agree that so years have
elapsed since that momentous dedication back
N 1885,.
How really fitting it was that the cornerstone
Of this massive. and lofty structure. which
means 80 much to patriotic Americans, should
have been laid on July 1, 1848, the birthday
near to the birthday Of the first President as
possible, since February "a. 1885, the day fol-
lowing the services came that year on Sunday,
and Saturday, the twenty first of February. was
deemed the most appropriate date, under the
circumstances.
Evening star., 1935-12-16

POSTMASTER Hostess Trays. Com
plete with two-slice Toastmaster,
two appetizer dishes and four in
dividual snack plates. Trays in
beautiful walnut fin Col En-
Ism ----------------
HOUSEWARES, FIFTH FLOOR.
Evening star., 1935-12-16

Imported Footed Beverage Glasses
with fare tops. In clear Ct E0
pastel color tones. Dozen YI '~S
Small Imported Beverage Glasses
in colors to match above. GE
Evening star., 1935-12-16

Monosrammed Waffle Servi-Sets. Smart,
new, efficient. Tray, waffle iron and ladle
in chromium finish, syrup pitcher and
batter bowl in heavy black &I9 or
HOUSEWARES, FIFTH FLOOR.
The Washington times., 1935-11-19
Fights
For Life

NEW YORK. Nov. 19.-sam
Langford. the Joe Louis of another
generation, was fighting e tougher
foeman today than any he eyer
encountered in the ring.
"Old Tham," as he was known
to the fans, is in Harlem Hospital
with critical internal injuries, sus-
tanned when a taxicab driven by
Eustace c. Eaves, one Of his own
race, ran him down in Harlem.
Langford, partly blind as a re.
suit of his more than 500 fights,
was crossing the street when the
cab bore down upon him.
For the past few months Lang
ford has been living in tiny furn-
ished room in Harlem and paying
his rent with small ~el:ef grants
from the Department of Public
welfare.
Although never a champion,
Langford was considered one of
the greatest heavyweightS of all
time, and must have earned AT
last 100000 during mis- ring ca
reer, although his purses would be
considered puny in this day OF
pugiliStic affluence.
The Washington times., 1935-11-19

The pre- Olympic Bicycle
Sweepstakes which will be held
around the Ellipse Sunday will be
the last If the nationwide series,
Ohrt, in charge of the nation
wide campaign announces.
The cancellation of feature
events has been necessary be-
cause the Nazis Nuremberg de-
cree depriving Jews of all civil
rights in Germany has so
aroused Jewish hackers of the
League of American Wheelmen'S
pref Olympic physical preparatory
bicycle program, that they have
advised the leagues officials
that they would withdraw their
financial backing if the current
campaign to develop talent for
a strong United States bicycle
team to be sent to the Olympic
games at Berlin was not aban.
doned. Already II cities have
staged bicycle trials. Washing
ton is the eighteenth. However,
Louisville, KY, next on the pro-
gram, will abandon men events
and concentrate on popularizing
the sport among women. Meets
scheduled on the Pacific Coast
will also be confined to women.
Louisville, KY, is to be a feml-
nine racing feature with the best
The Washington times., 1935-11-19
CoIonia|s Drill.
For Noddks

George Washington's gridmen
resume practice this afternoon,
beginning preparations for their
Thanksgiving Day engagemtnt
with North Dakota University
which will be played in Central
High Stadium.
All seats for the game are
priced at $1.10, but those pur-
chased on or before next Tues
day at S p. m. will be good for
seats in q special reserved sec
ton. The ducats may be pro-
cured at the G. w. U. ticket Of
flee, 2016 H st. N. w.
Having escaped any severe in
juries in the Tulsa victory last
Friday night, the ColonialS expect
to place their strongest array
against the Nodaks, who go un-
defeated into a Saturday game
with Western Maryland at Balti-
more.
North Dakota Is the champion
of the North Central Conference
which it has dominated every
year with one exception since
1928. Omaha University was a
14-6 victim of the Nodaks last
Saturday.
The Washington times., 1935-11-19
GERMAN BAN ON JEWISH ATHLETES ENDS
U S. OLYMPIC BICYCLE TRIALS

tain the same talent as he lined
up Sunday.
Cecil Hursey, champion of
America, and the greatest hope
this country had for the Olym-
pics, will only return if the event
is made a road race out to Mt.
Vernon and back twice, equaling
6212 miles.
That, after all is the same type
of course the Olympic Games
have, and even if it rains says
HurSey, we can still ride.
A meeting will be called by Win
free johnson, National Capitol
Parks, with view to having the
big race start at the Park and go
to Mt. Vernon, and while said
event was in progress the other
five events could take place.
Ohrt says the largest supporters
of this type of race are the News
reels and the Cycle Clubs of this
city.
The Ward sisters, members OF
the Empire Ladies Club in To,
ronto. will remain in the city to
help the local girls form a cycling
club for racing. touring and to
appreciate that great international
sport-bicychW-to its fullest
extent.
The Washington times., 1935-11-19

same count: Yale disappointed
Navy, 7-6; Penn lost to Prince
ton by the same score, and U.
c. L. A. relieved Stanford of any
Rose Bowl worries also by rs.
Swinging over to the other
battlefront, where armies of
football fans are contesting the
practicability of returning the
goal posts to the playing field,
thus enhancing the utility of the
field goal. the following barrage
is respectfully laid down:
It has been said in some mil
lions of wellchosen words that
a field goal from the 5-yard
line requires a 25-yard boot
Ten from goal posts to goal line,
five from there to the ball. and
10 more back to where the kicker
tees off. 1t has been pointed out
that coaches prefer trying a last
down pass or run from the five,
with the juicy six points at the
end of the rainbow if the play
clicks, to attempting the ex-
tremely doubtful 25-yard field
goal. What hasn't been said
is this:
Field Goals Many
Despite the alleged diSadvan-
tages, the field goal this year
has managed to be the deciding,
or at least a vital, factor in al
most as many games as the
moot point-after-touchdown. 1t
has won II contests, just fallen
short of winning six more, and
has been the sockdologer which
has placed II other struggles on
ice.
Among the outstanding games
in which the three-pointer has
broken the tape were Holy
Cross 3, Colgate o: Illinois 8,
Michigan o: Bucknell 8. Western
Maryland 0; Notre Dame 9, Pitt
6; Stanford 9. Santa Clara 6;
Stanford 8, Southern California
0: George washington 8, Tulsa
o; and Oklahoma 8, Kansas
State 0.
AS witnessed by the record,
Stanford is fortunate indeed to
possess the great kicking offices
of James Monk" Moscrip. prob,
ably the smoothest field goal
producer in collegiate football.
Three heartbreakers in which
a successful field goal stood up
until late in the game were:
Penn State 8. Syracuse 7; Van
derbilt 8. Temple 6; and Case 8
Carnegie Tech 6.
The Washington times., 1935-11-19

Pacini was awarded a paid-up
entry in the Dixie, which will take
place here Saturday, November %,
for winning the preliminary sweep
stakes at Temple last night. He
rolled los, 148, and 146 for S9e
set.
After winning the preliminary
event last night, Ollie made this
statement:
It should give those boys a lot
of trouble in the Dixie this year.
You know won it in 1881 by roll.
ing 1875, and I'm way overdue" "
George :, Honey. Washington's S
leading unort hodox bowler,
finished second in the contest,
but will not receive one cent for
his BIT set. This doesn't worry
Honey in the least, because he is a
bowling man at heart, and bowls
for the fun of it. He said that
he'll compete in the Dixie even If
he has to pay his own entrance
fee. Scores.
The Washington times., 1935-11-19

Sam "Lumbago" Benson will
carry Georgetown Commercial
Bowling Leagues colors in The
Washington Times Mems Dixie
Sweepstakes.
He won the preliminary sweep
stakes last night by shooting 392
at Georgetown Recreation Alleys.
Ed Cleary was second with 375 and
Jack Talbert finished third with
800. Seventeen bowlers competed.
Probably the hottest bowling race
in town is going on in the Fed.
eral League. National Parks are
leading the league. one game
ahead of the Second-place Bureau
of Investigation. The Sleuths are
one game in front of the third
place G. P. o. team, and four
teams are tied for fourth place
Navy Yard, I. B. E. W., Highway
and G.. P. o. Union Printers.
Jumbo Bread added to it's lead
in the Sanico League by taking
three games from Certified Eggs.
wNile Office whitewashed Sanico
The Washington times., 1935-11-19

hereby presented.
Start your own arguments !!
Write your own letters-to-the-edi-
tor! Here we go!
Out of LIS football games
played on the regular schedules
of 1877 of the largest colleges,
only so hinged on the point
after-touchdown. Of this so, Is
we're won by the margin of sue
cessful kicks for the point. while
Is tie games might have been
thus decided.
Of the 25 institutions which
were victimized by the accuracy
of some fellows toe-No college
was caught in the swindle twice
six were major gridlron
powers, to wit:
HOyaS Nipped
N. Y. U. nipped Georgetown.
7-6: Vanderbilt nosed out Georgia
Tech, 14-13; Tennessee got the
duke over Mississippi by the
The Washington times., 1935-11-19
Army-Navy Ducats in Mail

. ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 19.-Fifty-
one hundred envelopes, containing
10000 coveted tickets for the
Army-Navy game, November 80, at
Franklin Field. Philadelphia. to-
day were mailed out by Naval
Academy officials to association
members.
Demands exceeded the supply
by approximately 1S.nn0.
The Washington times., 1935-11-19
YourFact
Finding
Report!
Bv KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

As chairman of your fact
finding committee today, I
have the following to report:
Rogers Hornsby will trade
almost any m en- ber of his
Browns except Catcher Rollie
Hemsley in order to bolster his
pitching staff.
The resignation yesterday of
Billy Evans as general mana
ger of the Cleveland Indians
gives credence to a rumor that
swept baseball last year to the eff.
feet Evans, after taking a cut in
salary for 1885, was on the verge
of resigning, but was prevailed
upon by friends to reconsider.
william Woodward, master of
Belair Stud Farm, has a dark
horse for the next Kentucky
Derby, Isolator, by Blandford, out
of Priscilla Carter. Isolator has
never started, but his owner and
trainer lay great store by his con.
formation which indicates he will
be a distance racer Isolator is
bred to be a slayer, also.
Official list of the unbeaten,
united college football teams of
the country as the season ap
proaches its final two Saturdays:
The Washington times., 1935-11-19

Coach Abe Stuber, of Missouri
Teachers, recently got paid for
scouting a football team the
Teachers were soon to play. In
the stands to look over Missouri
School of Mines, he was sum-
moned to take the place of a
field judge who failed to appear.
He was indeed in a very admir-
able position to get the informa
ton he sought.
Out in San Francisco they are
experimenting with a formula
which will insure dry track for
horse racing. If they succeed,
the only uncertainty about rae
ing will be the winners.
Other results of the fact-tind'
ing committee today. are:
Bob Smith. potentate OF
Almas Temple, has son, Rob,
ert v. Smith on the Yale "B"
SQUAD. If the boy makes the
Varsity Blues next year, Bob"
has promised to take every Wash
ington football writer to the Yale
Harvard game as his guests.
George Preston Marshall put
his limousine and chauffeur at
the disposal of Jack Dempsey
during the latter's one-day visit
to washington Saturday to bally,
hoo the candy bar to which he
has lent (actually sold) his
name. Major Ernest w. Brown
put two motor cycle policemen
at Jacks command. Jack will
soon also "lend" his name to a
brand of whisky made by prom
inent distillers.
Dempsey revealed to some
luncheon guests while here that
there's one thing he can't take
seafood. He motioned the waiter
away with the first course OF
assorted saltwater appetizers
with the admonition, they make
me sick"
Business has been very good at
the Dempsey restaurant in New
York since the cold weather set in.
Several times during the evening
meal hour Jack has had to rope
off the entrances, letting a GUS
toner come in only as one
exited.
Bob May has returned from a
three-Week trip to Florida and
is amazed the fight business has
fallen off here to practically
nothing.
Clark Griffith will observe his
66th birthday on the morrow.
Uncle Billy Smith, the park con,
cessionaire, has cooked three
turkeys. two hams, a cake and
IL pumpkin pies for the celebra.
ton to be rendered "the chief"
by the park staff.
Eastern High School will hold
its annual football dinner Thurs
day at 6 p. m.
Charlie Payne, University OF
Detroit fullback, brought his
point total for the season UP to
48 when he re- iStered two touch
downs in the B "kne11 game won
by the Titans, SO to 0.
Western Maryland made but
two subStitutions in its game with
Catholic University. Limited in
manpower anyway. the Green
Terrors have been hit hard by
iniuries-LaSSahn, Benjamin. Or
tenzi. Mcpherson. Adriance. 1"en-
nan and Lothrop all having played
so minutes each in the c. U. and
Rnstnn College games.
The Washington times., 1935-11-19

American talent competing. Stock-t
ton, Calf, is to be a Santa Clause
Cycling Parade and Hollywood is
to be a race between artists of
the cinema and San Diego En-
The Washington times., 1935-11-19
Pacir1i, Benson Annex
Dixie Stakes Entries
By SID KATZNELL

Ollie Pacini first Washington Times Mems Dixie Duckpin
Sweepstakes winner has his entrance fee for the fifth annual
Dixie the hands of Secretary George Lincoln emann today
The Washington times., 1935-11-19
figures Offer Idea
OF Point SquabbLe
By LEON w. sHLoss

desirabity-or oherwseof the touchdown
having thus far provdenyor otherwise the burrow
ing statsican the underlying facts Of the to date
The Washington times., 1935-11-19

lsenada is to be know as the
Border Sweepstakes.
Ohrt is particularly anxious to
make next Sundays classic a big
success and is endeavoring to OBJ