The Washington times., 1935-10-30

"G10 yOu VNO1 VI o AOVAVAA
to clean out your top, right
hand desk drawer7
Man, it's worse than running
across the old family album
Here is q letter from Helen
Wills, when she was indeed
queen, regretting she could
not come to Washington to
put on a charity match-bach
in 1899.
And one, dated Bethesda
Md, from Walter johnson, year
or two later, agreeing to pitch
some innings in an unemployment
relief game. If you were an auto
graph hound, those letters would
appeal to you.
Here's another from the late
TAD, IT. A. Dorgan) the creator
of the famous cartoons, JUDGE
RUMHAUSER" and "INDOOF
SPORTS as well as OUTDOOR
SPORTS" Tad thanks US, back
in 1925 for a mention. He never
failed to show his appreciation
even when an obscure sports
writer praised his cartoons.
In January. 1882, a famous law.
yer, now deceased, writes that
"Dutch" Reuther still wants settle
ment because he didn't like the
writeup Of his exit from Washing
ton in August, 1926. when he was
the teams leading pitcher.
A Very Tiny Event
A scared and yellowed telegram
from a Quantico admirer occa-
stoned by the birth on November
/, 1923, Of Skillet" Finn, jr., q
bouncing eight-pound heir.
And in the same tattered en-
velope carrying q parental nota-
tion, Nov. /, 1885," written in a
tight-fisted penciled Scrawl, the
young mans first newspaper con-
tribution found in an overcoat
pocket en- route to work:
"The Fillmore School took the
first soccer game Of the series
from COrcOran by the score Of II
to 0 yesterday. The star was War
mem (Warren) Marten (Martin) y
Which is just the kind Of spell.
ing you could expect Of the son Of
O newspaper writer. -.
An old bank book covering the
years from 1921 to 1928, with not
more than a dozen deSpiSed de
posits credited therein.
A Short, Short Ride
A receipt in the amount of 5000.
dated June IL, 1915, for q second.
hand, yellow Studebaker automo-
bile with an E. M. Flanders en-
gine.
Bugs Baer and Jim Sprigman
took the first ride with us in that
coughing machine, leaving the
Munsey Building to go to Keith's
Theater, then located on PennSyl-
vania Avenue across from the
Washington Hotel, q distance Of
exactly one block.
At Fourteenth and the Avenue,
the thing stopped dead. and I'll
never forget how Jim and Bugs
got out, allowing as how they
could walk the rest of the dis
tance and leaving me there with
q lot Of throttles and levers and
q red.faced policeman.
Two Severe Lessons
A returned expense account to
and from the Dempsey-Tunn
fight in Philadelphia, 1925, which
the managing editor refused to
o. K. Probably because I picked
Dempsey. Both experiences were
awful lessons to me.
One Francais-Anglais ct Anglais-
Francois dictionnaire, which went
through part of the war in an
olive drab blouse pocket, and,
Merci Dieu, didn't stop any hot
lead. (Cover In bad condition,
but leaves look like they'd never
been opened)
A subpoena to be witness in
court in 1927 which was ignored
and nearly cost night in Jail for
conte mpt. The punishment
couldn't possibly have been any
worse than the high dudgeon Of
the Judge, who relented.
Copy Of the official American
League pitching averages for the
season Of 1928 wherein Stanley
Coveleskie won 20 and lost 5
games. The same year Walter
johnson also won 20. but lost Z.
Boys, there were pitchers, then!
But don't forget, Fred Marberry
was finishing UP a lot Of the
games for those Timing hurlers!
Funny. isn't it, what you'll find
on q rainy day clearing out an
old cubby-hole!