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The Washington times., 1936-03-31
Harvard
Fr0sh In Tilt
Tomorrow
BY GARRETT WATERS

DIV OANNL1 i wa GASS
Following the same procedure
as last year, the st. Adams base
ball nine has arranged an inter-
esting schedule for the season.
schedule that would make most
teams stop and hesitate moment
because Of the Importance Of the
games.
It starts as early as tomorrow,
when the Harvard Freshmen are
entertained on the st. Adams dia-
mond at 3 p. m. 1t finishes on
May 16. when McDonough High,
of Baltimore, is engaged in a con-
test at Baltimore.
Ten games are on the list alto
gether. Georgetown Prep comes
April 7 at Garrett Park. The
alumni is scheduled April IL at
st. Adams, the Navy Plebes at
Annapolis, April 18; Gilman, of
Baltimore, April % at st. Adams,
and Woodberry Forest at st. Al
bans April Is.
Tome, May 2
The first contest in May is with
Tome Institute at Port Deposit,
Md, May 2. A clash with Epis-
copal High at st. Adams follows
on May 5, while Woodberry Forest
is scheduled May at Woodberry
Forest, Va. Then comes the clos
ing contest of the season against
McDonough.
The Taints believe they are well
fortified With material for all
these games. Two veteran pitch
erS are on hand to guide the team
from the mound in Roger Morris
and Fan Carver, the latter Of
football fame.
Behind the bat are Jose Arias
and Carter Hall, reserves last
year; Richard Lee, second: Cor
don GraySon. captain. Shortstop;
and Billy Adams, third base.
Sherry GraySon and Jake Fouh
lois are regulars of the outfied
array. Others are Art King, Cal
vert Bowie and Bill Shippen.
Second Base Open
Second base is the lone position
open for battle in the infield.
There Charles Fetterlein, of foot
ball fame. promises to press Rich
ard Lee for final honors. Both
will get through trials before any
final decision is made
The Rev. James Henderson is
coach Of the Saints. He likes the
prospects of the team and believes
it is as strong. if not stronger,
than last season.
His lineup lacks only four young
sters who were stars in 1885. They
are Charlie Grant. third baseman;
Randy Lee, second sacker: Tinsley
Adams, first Sacker, and Benny
Good, catcher. All are nov gradu-
ated.
The SainS won seven and lost
five last year. This record is held
satisfactory. considering the heavy
and tough schedule played. Coach
Henderson likes schedules of this
type. He believes it gives his boys
excellent experience, not to men
ton the fact it develops good
craftsmanship, lively battles and
talented performers.
The Washington times., 1936-03-31
TURF GOSSIP
By PADDOCK

Mrs. ]. H. Whitney's Singing
Wood, gave the rail birds some.
thing to talk about when the colt
breezed five-eighths in 1:01 with
Jockey Bobby Jones in the saddle,
as a final prep for the Inaugural
Handicap, the five and a half fur.
long feature attraction at Bowie
tomorrow. Singing Wood, has
been allotted top weight of 1873
pounds.
Jockey Jackie Westrope checked
in this morning from Florida and
will be astride Stubbs in the
feature event tomorrow. Westrope
is down to 105 pounds.
Jimmy Hunter, who used to ride
for George D. Widener. has signed
a contract with E. F. Seagram
Stable, of Canada. He will per-
form on the Seagram horses at
Bowie and during the remainder
of the spring meeting in Maryland. l.
Jockey F.. Chojnacki, second
leading winning rider during the
winters racing in New Orleans,
also made his appearance this
morning at the Southern Mary
land Agricultural Racing Associa-
ton plant. Chojnacki, an excep-
tional strong finisher, will be much
in demand by local turfmen during
the meeting. He can ride at 101
pounds.
Turtles are reminded that the
Daily Double" windows will close
promptly at 2:20 p. m. each day
and the double will be on the first
and third races.
The racing strip at Bowie is in
excellent condition, and if a fast
oval prevails tomorrow a new
track record for the Inaugural
Handicap may be established.
Dick Pending. track superinten-
dent has had workmen go over
the course day and night for the
past 10 days.
The Washington times., 1936-03-31
.riff Explains
Why. He Sold
JoeCronin
By DAVIS J. WALSH
International News Service
SDOrtR Editor

ORLANDO, Fla, March SIT
must be that all of us have things
to contend with that the rest Of
the world never suspects, for quite
without warning Clark Griffith
decided today, more than a year
later, to make a clean breast Of
why he traded his manager and
favorite relative, Joe Cronin, to
the Boston Red Sox for the
worlds record price of $250.00O.
He had to sell Cronin, he con-
fided, because the young man was
his son-in-law.
That's all very clear and the
next step, presume, is for old
John D. to break everything az
gently as possible to young John
D. before our resentment mounts
to a point where cooler heads will
be necessary.
Before he had fully delivered
himself Of his message, Mr.. Grit
fifth managed to explain about
Heinie ManuSh, Lynn Larry, Roy
johnson and Buddy Myer, and to
imply a rebuke Of baseball "sales.
men,"
Doesn't Mention Mack
He did not mention Mr.. Mack,
Of Philadelphia, who, with a heavy
heart and a reluctance that has
been noted by all, has sold upward
OF 100000 worth of distinguished
ivory to Boston, Detroit and Chi.
cago. AS a matter Of fact, Mr..
Griffith made it clear that he was
speaking only of and for himself.
'1'm no salesman of playing
stars" he said. 81 never sold a
star before the CrOnin deal. 1
never will again. The 100000
price on Buddy Myer to the Yam
KEGS was a joke. There isn't
any money value with me on a
player like that. An advanta.
geOuS trade? That might have
been different.
anyhow, CrOnin had to go
from Washington to Boston for
his own sake. A sensitive boy,
he had become my SOn-fn-Iaw
and the fans would have ridden
him to DEATH"
Larry, who was accepted by
Washington in the Cronin deal,
was traded within the year to st.
Louis for Allen Strange.
On Other Side of KeOkuk
Larry has become a star with the
Browns, while Strange is now
somewhere on the other side Of
Keokuk, but Mr.. Griffith can ex-
plain that. Larry. it seems, was too
frivolous in Washington. Said he:
"Ly' simply decided in st.
Louis to play the kind Of ball I
knew he could, if he only would"
Heine Manush? The Senators
traded him to Boston for Out
fielderS johnson and Carl Reyn.
oldS. He kept Reynolds, whom he
wanted, but traded johnson, whom
he didn't, to the Yankees. The
Senators. he said, thus got three
players out of ManuSh, who had
fallen from a .349 to .273 in one
| season,
The Washington times., 1936-03-31

Twenty-nine qualified for varsity
major sports monogramS, nine for
minor sport monograms, and %
members of the class of 1899 won
freshman numerals. -Four varsity
and three freshman teams engaged
in intercollegiate competition
during the season.
Nine Players
Nine players and two managers
won major awards in varsity
basketball, nine athletes and one
manager won awards in varsity
wrestling, and seven boxers and
one manager won awards in varsity
boxing. Nine members of the
varsity swimming squad qualified
for minor varsity monogramS.
Nine freshmen won numerals in
basketball, seven in wrestling, and
seven in boxing.
Forty-five of the award winners
were Virginia boys. Among Is out
of-State boys honored. four were
from Pennsylvania. three from
Ohio, two from West Virginia, and
one each from New York, North
Carolina. Florida, Delaware. New
Jersey. Maryland, and District Of
Columbia.
Local Boys
Four of the award winners were
local boys from Blacksburg. Pitts
burgh, Suffolk, and Waynesboro
claimed three each. and Bedford
and Petersburg two each. The list
of awards:
Varsity MOnOgrams
Rasketball-O. L. Day. WaYnesbOro:
The Washington times., 1936-03-31

Reds Beat PhiIs
Cincinnati (N).... 900 100 1lO-3
Philadelphia (N). 1O1 900 OOO-2 10
The Washington times., 1936-03-31
Schwartz W in S
InHandba||

Jack Schwartz, of the Jewish
Community Center, is today lead
ing the District A. A. U. handball
tournament at the Y. M. c. A.
He defeated Tom SharShee. Of
the "Y." 2l-15, 2l-8 last night
in the first round. The other
feature match of the evening was
between Pete StasinoS, Of the
"Y," and C. Alvarado, the former
winning, 21-0 and 21-2. Sta
sincs is favored to give Schwartz
tough run for the title.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-21

st. James, Baron and Baroness de Car
tier played brilliant role in Washing
ton social life. In 1926 they became, re-
spectively. dean and doyenne of the
diplomatic corps. 1t was in 1923, early
in the Coolidge regime, that the Yankee
born Belgian ambassadors caused a
storm by refusing to be escorted to a
state dinner at the White House by DR..
Otto Wiedfeldt, the German Ambassa-
dor. The episode gave rise to fears OF
grave international complications, but
blew over without official consequences.
One United States gold piece, a S. coin
not in official captivity, has just been
publicly auctioned at New York for
S1,175 It Is dated 1851. Seven years
ago, for some reason which collectors
are somewhat at loss to explain, the
coin fetched $500. 1t is described as
perfect piece of the greatest rarity, and
probably excelling any of the four or
five known specimens of its kind. On
one side it bears the head of Liberty
surrounded by Is stars, with the date
beneath. On the reverse are the familiar
American eagle and the words, Pure
California Gold, Five D." The sale took
place in the auction room of j. c.
Morgenthau & Co-which is not a
branch Office of the Treasury.
Il x X X
Lambastings such as Japan recently
suffered at the hands of Senator Pitt
man don't discourage the Toxic govern
ment from continuing to seek the adj
vantages of the American money mar
ket. 1t has just filed an application
with the Securities and Exchange Com
mission for permanent registration on
the New York Stock Exchange of STA
.297 900 of 61s per cent and $70,438,0OO
of 51s per cent bonds. In addition, the
cities of Toxic and Yokohama and two
japanese electric power development
companies have asked for bond llstlngs
aggregating roundly $70000000. All OF
the issues are payable in gold dollars
in this country or in British sterling, at
option of the bondholders. Japan in
forms the S. E. c. that none of its do
nestle laws affect the service of the Sc
curities and that hitherto all principal,
interest and sinking fund payments have
been punctually met.
Any doubts that at least some men,
bers of Congress are already flirting with
the idea of enlarged bounties for veter-
ans would seem to be removed by
form letter which one Southern Repre-
sentative sent out to service men con-
stituents following passage of the bonus.
The letter says: "Now that this victory
has been won, our next goal is liberali-
cation Of compensation laws, together
with more beneficial provisions for wild
ows and orphans. I shall strive at all
times to be helpful to your interests"
n X X
Herbert Hoover is scheduled for an
other speech in the East. On March II
he will address the anniversary dinner
of the Life Underwriters Association Of
New York. It is not announced whether
his remarks will be of political nature
or not.
(Copyright, 1861
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-21
Sisters !?

A policeman, walking his beat in
Allen street, New York, one night sew
eral years ago, found two middle-aged
women lying dead in a little recreation
park between Delaney and Rivington
streets. The first was penniless; the
second had in her possession $3.50 in
cash and bank book showing deposits
of $6,305. According to the judgment
of the medical examiner, natural
causes" accounted for their demise. It
was merely an accident that they should
have been associated in single entry
in the police registry.
Moreover, those familiar with the his
tory of the metropolis never are sur
prised by such parallels. The law of
averages, they know, works to such
effect with consistent regularity. In
deed, the pattern Of human life in any
given place at any given moment Is
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Senate would not err on the side of
leniency in agreeing to the House
measures.
The Senates answer to the House pro-
posal for accumulative overtime, which
may be added to annual leave, is that
the whole subject of overtime work
should be given serious study. That is
a good suggestion, but none knows better
than Government employees familiar
with congressional processes what a
great volume of water will flow under
the bridge before any such careful
study" is completed and translated into
needed, remedial legislation.
Overtime might not be such serious
problem in the Government service were
it not for the fact that ability to work
employees overtime is SO often abused,
with the employees the helpless victims
without means Of relief or redress. In
every organization there are periods
which require additional work No Gov
eminent employe worth his salt would
object to doing his share. But overtime
work is often used to cover up de-
ficiencies in personnel or to satisfy per-
sonal ambitions of petty chiefs to make
a fine showing. There should be no
overtime unless there is some compen-
satory device for making it up to the
employe. Additional wages for overtime
being out of the question, additional
time of leisure when the opportunity
affords it seems reasonable enough
form of extra compensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-21
Almost Restored.

The Government leave bills, unless
strategists in charge of the measure
decide to rest on their laurels and risk
no further chances for delay by seeking
House agreement with Senate changes,
will now go to conference. There is
possibility that the Senate will yield
through conference to the more liberal
House provisions and that final enact
ment of the measures will mean actual
restoration of the privileges lost through
the economy act instead of restoration
with string tied to it-as represented
by the Senate measures.
The twenty-six-day leave bill passed
by the Senate is better measure than
the previously proposed compromise"
which would have included Sundays and
holidays. But it is new leave bill, not
strictly a bill restoring former privileges,
as does the bill passed by the House.
While differences between the measures
regarding accumulative privileges in
sick and annual leave provisions may
not be of great practical Importance. the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-21
American Institutions of
Government Must Prevail

To the Editor of The Star:
At this time, when the future of
American independence and freedom
from political despotism appears to be
hanging in the balance, it is we'll that
all of us give thought to the origin and
real nature of our charter of Govern
ment, and the place of the Supreme
Court as the balance wheel of that
Government.
People generally are not given to con-
sidering questions, even of great con-
sequence, very deeply. However, the
people have great deal more intelli-
gence and common sense than some of
their appointed representatives some
times seem to think. Nevertheless,
when adroit and crafty departures from
established principles of justice are being
made, in the name of the common
welfare, the most reasonable creatures
alive are susceptible to the soft voice
OF deceptive fraud, and may respond to
the extent of their undoing.
We have been told that these are
''arduous days" and call for extreme
measures. 1t has been implied that,
when we invoke the support Of our tried
Constitution to render us more cautious
and farseeing in our legislation, we are
reverting to old-fashioned, outWorn
tradition.
1t is no new thing-this discrediting
of enduring principles based upon
human experience and embodied in our
laws for our lasting protection. 1t is
no new thing to challenge the estab
lished laws under which we live, and the
balancing powers of those laws, created
and incorporated in our system of gov
eminent for the forestalling of excessive
political power on the part Of any one
division of government.
The American Constitution was born
of turmoil of poverty reaction and
anarchy following the long war for
independence, that tried mems souls to
depth which we, in our prosperity,
find it hard to conceive of. The people
were impoverished from the long, weary
struggle. Young manhood had been
destroyed. The States were bitterly
jealous of their separate rights and
fought against union of States into
a national government. The soldiers
remained unpaid. Decentralization and
disintegration were predominant to a
far greater degree than in our present
circumstances.
Even so great soul as George Wash
lllStUll was llluVCi ny GliC 1CoCllOlI dIlI
chaos following attainment of indie
pendence to cry:
What, gracious God, is man, that
there should be such inconsistency and
RIGHTEOUSNESS in his conduct! 1t was
but the other day that we were shedding
our blood to obtain the constitutions
under which we now live. and now we
are unsheathing our swords to overturn
them. The thing is SO unaccountable.
1 hardly know how to realize it or to
persuade myself am not under an illu-
sion of dream"
Our democratic founders were pro-
foundry impressed with the unalterable
truth that the union of legislative,
executive and judicial powers in any one
man or body of men could only mean
tyranny They knew also that social
control is unsound, in any age or under
any circumstances.
DONNA CECILIA Give.
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Our fish fancier took extreme care
that the mite he had added to his COL
lections should not be subjected to this
hazard.
Carefully he waited until the waters
were equalized, though the process took
several hours.
In its new home, the tiny fish was
not fed until next day.
Then it was given a small portion of
dried food.
The amount was adequate.
Yet even to the trained eye, in such
matters, it seemed woefully inadequate.
How the little creature responded!
The caved-in stomach disappeared,
quickly giving place to neatly rounded
one.
This happy state of affairs continued
for three days.
Then, almost unconsciously, the
feeder succumbed to the temptation to
put in lust little more food
He knew that this same lure has killed
thousands of helpless fishes, but this
time he, too, was unable to resist the
animal pleading for more, more"
The next morning, when he came
down, he found the little fish dead
Not more than dozen grains, or
morsels of food, had stood between its
health and its death.
Overlooking was thus dramatized
made plain and evident.
Had this small fish received just a
tiny bit less, no doubt it would be alive
and happy today.
But because it had all the food 1t
wanted-which was just II bits more
its stomach pressed against it's heart and
the pressure was too much.
One of the interesting things about
fish keeping is that its lessons are very
plain-and easily overlooked or for
gotten.
No matter how long one has kept
fishes in tanks, no matter how expert
one may think himself, the ease with
which he may violate his own rules and
do things contrary to experience is sur
prising, or perhaps, knowing the ease
with which mankind errs, not Surpris-
ing after all.
No, often the greatest temptation to
do thing incorrectly comes when one
knows too well the correct way.
Just little deviation will not hurt
so one says, all the time knowing full
well that the slight change will hurt a
great deal.
Yet so accustomed has one become to
the standard, that the deviation is dis
regarded, as if it did not amount TO
much.
The fact is that all such changes from
a normal amount to more are dangerous
mostly because they seem SO little.
That is, the danger comes in failure
to realize that the excess is not just an
excess, in itself. but is that much piled
on top of plenty.
In goldfish feeding it is easy, but when
it comes to keeping the same truths in
mind in other affairs of life greater
difficulty is met.
Goldfshes kept in tanks with water
ranging between so and 10 degrees
should not be fed more than once day,
and then only in such amounts as to
make the feeder ashamed of himself
! for seeming to starve the creatures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-21
Those Sneezing, Spraying
And Coughing Car Riders |!

To the Editor Of The Star:
A few days ago I was passenger on
a Fourteenth street car, and the lady
sitting beside me had one of those
graveyard" coughs, one of those "hark-
from the tomb "a -doleful-sound" things.
She gave few preliminary; tuning-up
hack hacks when I sat down. Finally
she got the direct range on my face and
really opened up. She seemed to be very
proud of the volume and tone she was
able to put into that cough, not to men
ton it's spraying effect, which caught
me from eyebrows to chest. AS I was
not wearing my diving suit and as there
was no plumber handy to work on the
lady, was compelled to move in order
to escape drowning. I moved, carrying
fifty billion cold germs with me. 1t was
no good, though. The chap in the seat
directly in front of my new location
also had bad cold and cough. In addi-
ton to that. he was lonesome and in
sisted on talking to me while he took up
the spraying process where the lady had
left off. I began to wonder if this pair
intended to iron me after they had got
me sufficiently dampened. There was
one vacant space left in the car. A man
was occupying part of the seat, sitting
in huddled, detected ATTITUDE nexC the
window I was just on the point OF sit
ting down beside him when he uncoiled
like huge spring, stretched his neck
to its limit, moved his head around like
a swivel gun trying to get the range and
gave an exhibition of coughing that
sounded like trained seal circus. What
was the use? I sat and took 1t.
During all these paroxysms never
saw cougher put his hand to his mouth
nor did I see single handkerchief in
use. I was feeling good when got on
the car, but am now at home enter
tanning my wife with lifelike limitations
of the coughs of my fellow street car
passengers and taking cough medicine
between performances.
Why do people do this sort of thing?
Is it ignorance? Is it utter selfishness?
Is it lack of a handkerchief? Or IS it
because they are just too blasted lazy
to take out handkerchief and cough
into it? How about some suggestions
for remedying the situation? Someding
should be dud to stob the spreading OF
desc coads S. H. MUMFORD.
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characterized by general uniformity and
sameness. Variation is the exception;
not the rule. The distinction in the
instance of the two dead women was
one of relative wealth and poverty.
Otherwise, they were sisters in COM
mon destiny.
But further analysis prompts doubt
of the perfect accuracy of such theory.
1t appears. in fact, to be at fault in not
allowing for natural struggle to escape
from the RECOMMENDATION of fate. The
women, of course, may have striven
equally to achieve self -sufficiency. Pos
sibly, the first simply was less fortunate
than the second. Yet the difference
remains-one was totally without means;
the other possessed much more than
enough for her immediate requirements.
A trained psychologist surely would find
it fascinating task to endeavor to trace
back the winding thread of experience
in each career.
And the problem also has attraction
for the philosopher. For centuries
humanity has struggled to evolve a
state of civilization in which the indi-
vidual may be born, live and die on a
plane of social equity-like his fellows
in cultural, economic and social status,
but free to rise above them in all those
classifications by the exercise of the
powers of his own personality and tenn
permanent. Thus it seems that the goal
has been at once democracy and a
degree of liberty which contradicts the
democratic doctrine. So the two dead
women were coincidentally sisters and
strangers, and in that respect were both
handicapped and advantaged as millions
of their contemporaries are. They SYM
bolized a riddle which not yet has been
read which perhaps never may be COM
pletely resolved.