The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-05

Rogers
Kirk miller Hornsby
has made a good manager
for the Browns, having pro-
duced funds through player
sales that a championship
team out in St. Louis prob
ably couldn't produce
through the turnstiles.
BY the same token, Jimmy
Foxx will likely wind up with
the Boston Red Sox, Tom Yaw.
key still fancying rare baseball
bric-a-brac and the Shibes OF
Philadelphia already being re-
duced to their last couple OF
million.
Abraham Lincoln
Fred Marberry went fishing
Thursday night with an old
Washington cronie, Joe Hen
lein, the sightseeing man who
tourists in Washington often
mistake for Abraham Lincoln.
Marberry dreaded his first time
in Philadelphia as an umpire,
but everything went smoothly.
Friday, Fred had a day off,
instead of an off day, as so
many umpires have, and OF all
places, where do you think ne
spent the afternoon?
Right!
Fred tells Joe Judge he doesn't
think he's cut out for umpiring;
but to the contrary, George
Moriarty says Marberry is do
ing splendidly and has what
Heinie Miller calls eth makin's."
Tom Connolly, the head man
of the American League umpir-
ing staff, is agin' major league
ball players turning umpires di-
rectly from the big league play
ing ranks.
He prefers they all go to the
minors and 'get experience"
You see, if it is going to be pos
sible to get good umpires from
the top loop, then Connolly's
job of digging up umpires out
Of the minors is in jeopardy.
The worst blow the Yankees
have been hit is the collapse of
Johnny Allen, who wasn't much
has met with an accident after
q good start this.
Big Watermelon Man
Benny Bortnick, wrestling
referee, says he sells as many
as 1900 slices of watermelon on
real warm Washington eve
nings.
There will be no use Of Izaac
Waltons lathering at the mouth
over bluefish, trout and rock
fishing until late this month, as
that's the earliest such finsterS
run in quantities hereabouts.
When the writer's play the
park employees baseball, Uncle
Clark Griff will both pitch and
play shortstop. His niece, Miss
Thelma Griffith, says she will
play first and that if some OF
those writer's can play, she Ger"
tainly ought to be able to. She
weighs 112 in her high heels.
Should DOME Bush succeed
Walter johnson at Cleveland
next year, will he be able to do
with the Indians what Mickey
Cochrane was able to do in De-
triot with the same team Bucky
Harris abandoned?
And what Joe Cronin did with
Washington after Walter abdi"
Gated?
Aides Not Fixers
One of Walters big draw
backs in Cleveland has been
that he didn't surround him.
self with a staff of aids who
could take annoying difficulties
off his hands, and perform mis-
Sionary work in the ranks of the
mutineerS.
Patsy Charity is a good base
ball coach, but Patsy isn't the
type who could do a bit of lobby
ing after games and during the
morning workouts and pre-
game practices. When the ball
game is over, work is over for
Patsy until game time next day.
Steve O'Neill is practically the
same type and is just spanning
q gap until g. permanent pilot Is
named in Cleveland.
Now, had Walter had a smooth
worker around him like AL
Schacht, little uprisings and an
noying incidents would have
been ironed out before they
showed like a welter on the sur
face.
The way to stop insubordina.
ton on ball clue, you to know,
is to take the fresh guy out back
OF the clubhouse and knock his