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The Washington times., 1936-08-26

The two contestants coming
nearest to the Ruth selection
and submitting the best reason
for selections will be declared
the winner. He or she will see
two games of the World Series as
guests Of the Washington Times.
All winning ties will receive the
same award. This is a contest
requiring baseball skill, knOwl-
edge and judgment.
Contestants must not only try
to select the same team as Babe
Ruth picks, but must attempt to
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

That may be splendid atLlCuue
in which to approach Levinsky'S
fight here with Gallagher, insofar
as Steinman and his Kingfish are
concerned, but it hardly reflects
creditably on the fair name Of
Washington or the duly ordained
commission made up Of Police
Superintendent Ernest w. Brown.
Lawyer Kenneth N. Parkinson, or
Business Man Claude Owen.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
A Serious Charge

basis Of the 1885 playing season
only.
Address all selections to Bab0
Ruth Contest Editor, Sports
Department, The Washington
Times, Washington. D. C.
Each selection must be accom-
panied by q letter Of $50 words
or less, giving the reasons for the
selection.
The Babe Ruth AIl-America
Contest ends at midnight, Sep
TENDER S, 1886. II possible, use
the coupon printed on the
sports page for submitting your
team,
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Kaft Jr. Nine Seeks

The Kaft Juniors nine is looking
for competition. Call their cap
tain. Jack Fields at Potomac
2S79-W any time after 6 p. m.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Cdt|ins and Rei||ys
Resume SoftbaII Feud

With flashing eyes and vengeful
hearts, Hugh Reilly softball team
is out to get even with Catlin's in
their season-long feud when they
clash for the fourth time tomorrow
on Softball Diamond No. /.
Catlin won two of the three
games so far.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Japanese Boy
Star Of D. {.
'0|ympiCs'

Japan's remarkable showing in
the Olympic games seems to have
had it's effect on japanese all over
the world.
This was demonstrated yeSter-
day when young Sutemi Muraya-
ma, wiry Stoddert Playground
flash. sliced more than a second
off the 100-pound 60-meter dash
record, covering the distance in
7.3 seconds in the annual District
playground Little Olympics" at
Central High Stadium.
The old record of 84 seconds
was set by M. Servator, MacFar-
land, in 1888.
Two More Records Fall
Two other records were shat
tered. Chester Linney, Stuart
Playground, set a new time of
IL seconds in winning the 85-
pound 50-meter dash, while
Brookland relay team chalked up
a new 400-meter relay mark of
48 seconds flat. The team was
composed of Willard Babcock.
Jack Remington, Larry and
Slower Babcock.
Georgetown captured the meet
during the last few events, after
Sherwood, defending champion,
had taken a slight lead.
Sherwood barely nosed the fast
finishing Rosedale team for Sec
ond. Georgetown had 81 points,
Sherwood % and RoSedale 81.
Twenty-four Fairgrounds partic.
ipated.
Tied For One Title
Georgetown won only two titles
outright, the 100-pound 240-meter
relay and Schuyler Jackson'S tri-
umph in the 115-pound broad
jump and shared the 115-pound
running high jump with Sher-
wood, Richard King carrying the
Foggy Bottom colors into a tie
with Mike Thomas, at Is feet
~ inches.
VOTE AMERICAN
Kaft Jr. Nine Seeks
The Kaft Juniors nine is looking
for competition. Call their cap
tain. Jack Fields at Potomac
2S79-W any time after 6 p. m.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Steinman Convinced
Kingfsh Can't Get
Nod Over Marty
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

The ears of our boxing commission must be
burning these sultry August days, and be-
lieve their eyes would smart, too, if they
CHANGED upon letter which is being broadcast
to newspapers here bearing the signature of
Harold Steinman, manager of King Levinsky.
The Chicago heavyweight is down for fight at Griffith
Stadium Tuesday with Marty Gallagher and the Honorable
gher the breath records his conviction that fight
conducted in Washington that Gallagher CAN'T lose
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
EVINSKYS MANAGER CHALLENGES HONESTY OF D. C. BOXING
D. {. Qualities
Eight for
Golf
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON
Garden City, N. Y. will be the
next stop for IL golfers who sur
vived a field of 76 in yesterdays
S6-hole sectional national amateur
qualifying tests at Columbia
Country Club.
The lucky IL are Roger S. Pea
cock, Congressional Country Club,
who took the medal with 67-73-
40; Bobby Brownell, Indian
Spring Country Club, 70-7l-141;
Walter C. Greiner. Baltimore,
72.7o-142; Gene Pittman, Ken
wood Golf and Country Club, 49,
T2-145; Morton Mccarthy, Ports
mouth, Va, 74-71-145; Volney G.
Burnett, Indian Spring, 1873
l46: Spencer Overton, Baltimore,
71-75-146; Claude B. Rippy, East
Potomac Park. 77-71-148; Levi
Yoder, Kenwood, 75-73-148; Dave
Davis, Austin, Tex, 74-74-148;
Tommy Webb, washington Golf
and Country Club, 76-75-151, and
Forrest Thompson, Beaver Dam,
75-76-15l. The last two won their
places in q playoff that also in
cluded Harry G. Pitt, Manor Club.
who became entangled in the hon.
eySuckle and took frightful 7 on
the first extra hole. Webb and
Thompson scored fives.
Peacock Sets Record
Old Sol poured a blazing tenn
perature but the golfers were just
as mercilesS, especially Peacock,
who ripped asunder par in the
morning round, posting a 1884
st., for a new amateur competi-
tive course record. Par for the
course is 35-35-70.
He picked up six brides en-
route and was five under par go
ing to the fourteenth where he
slipped q stroke over standard
figures. He again dropped a
stroke to par at the fifteenth,
Snatched a birdie deuce on the
sixteenth, pared the seventeenth
and three-putted the eighteenth,
to finish his amazing round.
Peacock begged in the after
noon. taking 70. but the field kept
on his heels, nevertheless. Bobby
BrowIiell might be wearing the
medal today had he not hooked
out-of-bounds on the par three,
fourth hole, in his afternoon
round. That mistake cost him
two strokes. At that, he finished
only a stroke behind Peacock for
the SO holes.
Greiner, the Baltimore public
parks star, also had a chance at
the medal, but skidded on the last
few holes.
Eight of the qualifiers are from
the District. two are from Balti
more, one is from Virginia and
one is from Texas. Not a bad
showing for Washington golfers,
though Rippy, Pittman and Yoder
are not natives of this city.
Thompson Is Oldest
Forrest thompson, star sand
lot pitcher some 20 years ago, is
the oldest of the group, being on
the far side of 40. Overton is next
and the others haven't reached
80. Brownell is the youngest,
having passed his seventeenth
birthday last March.
Harry Pitt perhaps suffered
the greatest misfortune of any
contestant. Thought out of it
after exploding to 10 in the morn
ing, the Manor Moose" turned
in a 70 to tie Thompson and
Webb for the last two places, fin
ishing his regulation SO holes with
a birdie three. And then came
that terrible 7 on the first hole
Of the play-off.
Peacock, morning round
Out 80. 3 4 3 5 3 4 2 4-33
In ...... 3 4 2 ) 5 2 4 5-34-67
Afternoon round
Out g.. 4 3 4 3 5 444 5-S6
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
0ut-of-Towners
SwampContest
With Mail

NOr1OlK, Harr1SOnDurg, LeeSDurg,
Portsmouth, Fredericksburg, Rich
mond, Stanton, Va; MartinSburg,
w. Va, and Brentwood, Gathers
burg, Middleton, and Hyattsville,
Md.-letters from these places have
been received for the Babe Ruth
Contest by your editor.
Proving that the out-of-town
fans are as interested in the con-
test as the home folks. Right here,
your editor wishes to warn the
latter. These out-oftown boys
promise to wage a real battle for
the two tickets to the World Series
The Times prizes to the winners
Of the contest-and it is the sug-
gestion to get in your letters as
quickly as possible. The deadline
is midnight, September S.
Well. let's get to the Virginia
boys first. Mr.. Fish Wilson, jr.,
142 Delevan st. Norfolk. Va, sub
mits the following team:
AppIing, s.. AverilI, CT.
Gehringer, %. Dickey, c.
DiMaggiO, CT. Higgins, 3b.
Gehrig, 1b. ]. Dean, p.
Medwick, If. Hubbell, p.
Raymond Slattery, 227 Pleasant
ST.. Staunton, Va, likes P. Waner,
Averill and Medwick as his out
fielders. Yes, he has J. Dean and
Hubbell as his pitchers. His COM
plete team:
p. Waner, IF. Appling. So
Gehringer, %. Hale, 3b.
Averill, CT. Dickey, c.
Gehrig, lib. ]. Dean, p.
Medwick, If. Hubbell, p.
IF you can name any players
that can beat this team on 1896
batting averages, you'll have to
look in other leagues, writes
Kinsloe Schaeffer, TIT South
Mason St., HarriSonburg, Va.
Here's Schaeffer'S team:
Appling, IS. p. Waner, RI.
Gehringer, 2b. Fox, 3b.
Averill, CT. Dickey, c.
Gehrig, 1b. Hubbell, p.
Medwick, If. ]. Dean, p.
Fred c. Poh, 3115 Hanover Ave,
Richmond, Va, has Riggs, of the
Cincinnati Reds, as his third
sacker. His team:
Medwick. If. DiMaggio, CT.
Averill, IF. Gerhinger, 2b.
Dickey, c. Riggs, 3b.
Gehrig, lib. Hubbell, p.
Appling, IS. ]. Dean, p.
Roy V. Butler, Fredericksburg,
Va, has a well balanced team.
Look it over and see if you don't
agree:
Martin, 3b. OFT, RI.
Gehringer, 2b. Dickey, c.
Averill, CT. Appling, IS.
Gehrig, 1b. ]. Dean, p.
Medwick, If. Hubbell, p.
Brothers Odell and Eugene Ben
ton, 22l8 Queen St., Portsmouth,
Va, send in the following teams:
Odell'S:
Appling, IS. OFT, IF.
Gehringer, 2b. Dickey, c.
Averill, CT. Hale, 3b.
Gehrig, lib. Hubbell, p.
Medwick, II. J. Dean, p.
Eugene'S lineup:
Gehringer, 2b. Dickey, c.
OFT, IF. Hale, 3b.
AveriII, CT. DurOcher, IS.
Gehrig, 1b. J. Dean, p.
Medwick, II. Hubbell, p.
Best regards to Buck Newsom,
writes AL Kline. Box 548. Lees
CONTINUED on Page rs, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

In WhlCh TO approach IeVlnSkyS
fight here with Gallagher, insofar
as Steinman and his Kingfish are
concerned, but it hardly reflects
creditably on the fair name OF
Washington or the duly ordained
commission made up Of Police
Superintendent Ernest w. Brown,
Lawyer Kenneth N. Parkinson, or
Business Man Claude Owen.
A Serious Charge
Knowing the professional as well
as Sportive pride which all three of
these men possess, 1 hardly believe
Manager SteinmanS letter, sent
to the local press, will sit we'll on
their minds.
That trio of commissioners is
undoubtedly familiar with the
mental ramblingS of the most
species of fight manager, but
Steinman's letter seems to me to
amount to a little more than idle
chatter.
1t appears to be a direct chal-
lenge to the honesty Of boxing
control here and to the capabili-
ties and character Of the referees
and judges.
Steinman's charges might not
be taken so seriously did not he
close his letter with the boastful
statement that he was writing the
same letter to all newspapers here,
with the hope everyone in Wash
ington would know just how he
felt.
I sat in on a meeting of the
New York athletic commission a
week ago Tuesday and was i'm
pressed with the severity Of its
treatment of boxers and managers
for even the slightest infractionS.
Ruled With Iron Hand
am now wondering how Chair
man James Phelan and Commits
sioners Brown and Wear would re-
act to a letter such as Steinman'S,
broadcast to even one individual,
say nothing of the entire New
York press.
1 think Steinman's letter speaks
for itself, and in reproducing it I
waive a more or less ironclad rule
to pay no attention to partisans of
any sport daring me to print their
mouthings.
Steinman'S letter:
Dear Sir:
you CAN'T BEAT GALA
CHER IN WASHINGTON"
THAT is just what hear from
everyone when / tell them I
have Levinsky boxing Gallagher
in Washington. That's the repu-
tatiOn Washington has around
the country, especially when the
name of Gallagher is mentioned.
II FOR ONE BELIEVE IT'S
TRUE.
Especially after there (their)
fight last year. Gallagher refused
offers to box Levinsky out on the
Coast. / really think that Gal.
lagher won't fight anyone out
side Of Washington, for If I'm
not mistaken he hasn't for the
last three years. Or if he has
1t may have been once or twice
at the most.
Sees Marty Protected
'Levinsky is coming to Wash.
ingtOn the last part Of this week
and for the fight am sure he
will beat Gallagher very bad, but
can't say if he will get the duke.
Gallagher is well protected there,
and / am sure if LevinSky will
make q face at him during the
fight they will take the round
away from him. Not one, but
many, as it will be possible so
Gallagher will get the decision.
If Gallagher will purpOSely foul
Levinsky that I am sure will be
overlooked. Anything for Gal
lagher to win and Levinsky to
lose.
"Levinsky beat him last year,
but they took two rounds away
for nothing. Levinsky accident.
ally in the heat of slugging tap
(CovE;uuod an po~n OE Nol ~
Smyrna times., 1936-07-16
BLAME WORLD
ILLS ON EATING
Too Many Meals Clog the
System and Sets Up
Trouble
is MEDICAL OPINION

Vienna.-War, racial and national
hatreds, economic crises and un-
employment are all due to overeat-
ing.
Solution of these problems rests
with our stomach.
This is the theory of the Aus
trian physician, DR.. Franz Xaver
Mayr, whose recent book, THE Ra-
tionalization of the Human Machine,
a Radical Solution of the Unem-
ployment Problem" evoked severe
criticism and benevolent smiles.
Doctor Mayr contends that we are
all oyerfed and wrongly fed, from
infancy on.
Owing to irrational eating since
we were born we accumulate con-
siderable reservoirs of poison in
our system, the physician declares,
continuing:
"ToO much eating. Overeating.
Too many meals. Not enough rest
for the digestive system. Our di-
gestive apparatus is weary and dis
torted. Our nerves are poisoned.
"The glands of internal secretion
are abnormal All that influences
our brains and affects our thoughts.
This poisoning is the real source of
the crisis within our organism and
the crisis of the social system. 1t
leads to evil passion, anger, hate.
mania. destruction and war.
"Stop stuffing the human body
with poison. Cleanse the system
thoroughly with hunger cure. Re-
move the poison.
''Rationalize the human machine
so that the stomach will regain its
elasticity and dwindle TO the size of
a balled fist. That will restore the
equilibrium of the human body and
will rejuvenate it."
Smyrna times., 1936-07-16
STUDY
AGRICULTURE
Farmers Problems Trying To
Be Worked Out BY
InduStrialists
SOME AID PROJECTED

New York.-An exhaustive study
of the influence of agricultural well
fare on industry has been under
taken by committee of prominent
industrialists who expect to gain
from it a better understanding of
the farm situation.
The committee, headed by Lewis
H. Brown, an Iowa farm boy who is
now president of the Johns Man
vile corporation, is an outgrowth
of the agricultural resolution adopt
ed at the Congress of American In
dustry last December in which the
interdependence of industry and ag-
griculture as the two great produc-
ers of the national wealth was rec
ognized.
With the aid of farm economists,
agricultural leaders and other au-
thorities, the committee expects to
gather detailed information on the
farm situation which will be sum-
married. and distributed to Ameri-
can manufacturers at regular inter
walls in an effort to enlighten indus
try on the problems of the farmer.
Among the subjects receiving care
full attention are farm prices, facts
about specific crops, farm buying
power, problems of food storage,
farm labor, farm population trends.
mortgage and interest problems,
farm tenancy, new industrial uses
for agricultural products, farm tax
es and several others.
Back of the committees efforts is
growing recognition among man.
ufacturers of the interdependence
of agriculture and industry. Based
on figures of the bureau of census,
rural population is A per cent of
the United States total. Farm FAM
lilies form % per cent of all United
States families and furnish a large
part of the total market for stoves,
plumbing equipment, clothing, agri-
cultural machinery, automobiles, ETC.
Over 100000 manufacturing
workers are employed In industries
largely using agricultural raw ma
terials and about 6.000.000 more en-
ployees in the transportation, COM
munication, distribution. profession
al and service" Industries are
largely dependent upon the welfare
of agriculture. According to the De-
partment of Agriculture in 1919 and
again In 1929 farmers paid out for
labor Exclusive of housework) to-
tai Of approximately s1,000,000, 900
thus providing an equal amount of
buying power from industry as If
they had purchased goods.
Smyrna times., 1936-07-16
Dictionary Will Trace
u. S. English Historically

Chicago.-After ten years, the first
section of Sir William Craigie's
Historical Dictionary of American
English" is to be published. For
instance:
The word "whoopee" is no babe
In arms. 1t was in common use In
England during the Fifteenth cen
tury.
20. f." was used by The Boston
Transcript in 1910 as term of po-
litical opprobrium. 1t took its pres
ent meaning In the same year.
Davy Crockett was the first to
use blizzard" in the early 1Soos.
He used it to mean a rain of blows
in the face. 1t was first used to des-
ignate a snowstorm in March, 1870.
The word "skidaddle" came into
being during the Civil war.
From other manuscripts came
these:
Up until 1900 the word biscuit"
meant any small piece of hard
cooked dough. Later 1t came TO
mean soft baked bread, and the
term hard biscuit" was coined to
take its place.
Lumber In England means rub
bish," said Sir William, "but In
America 1t means timber"
Canoe" was picked up by Span
iards from the Caribs, taken to
Spain, then TO France, and from
there brought to America.
Bakery" first was mentioned Dy
English travellers in this country In
$500. This word, Of purely Ameri-
can origin, was taken back to Eng
land, where 1T is now in general use.
Settlers in Oregon said they were
going back to America" when they
meant returning to states east OF
the Mississippi. The incorrect use
of American" as applying to the
United States, Sir William said'
was due to Inability to create an
adjective from united States"
Smyrna times., 1936-07-16

resident, however, is elaborate. Pro
cessions of gondolas, their cabins
black curtains screening the mourn
ers, follow in the wake of a black
and silver funeral barge. Often 60
feet long and brilliant with floral
offerings, the barge is frequently
manned by gondoliers and fiunkies
in black velvet and silver lace.
TN contrast to such professions
are gay water parades' of richly
decorated, light-festooned gondolas.
filed with singing merrymakers,
which weave in and out of the ca
nal during the July festival of the
Redentore. September sees the
Doges' palace brilliantly illuminat-
ed In the annual nocturnal festival
on the Grand canal Across water
drenched with green light, and past
fantastic floats, gondolas glide load
ed with Venetian and foreign spec
tators."
Smyrna times., 1936-07-16
Students Will Hear
How They Really Talk

Middletown, Conn. - Installa-
tion of recording and reproduc-
ing apparatus for the use of
classes in oral English is under
way at Wesleyan university.
Next years classes will be able
to hear themselves as others
hear them.
The new speech apparatus is
designed to aid students who
have speech difficulties by re-
vealing to them how their speech
faults sound to others and to
enable instructors in public
speaking to demonstrate the
point which they wish to make
about the presentations of their
students. Many other uses Of
the equipment are visualized.
Smyrna times., 1936-07-16
SIDE LIGHTS OF
NEW YORK CITY
Told By L. L. Stevenson in
His Own Immical Way
of Doings in City
INTERESTING SKETCHES

Harbor Thrill: A blanket-like
fog hanging over the bay A
big Staten Island ferry boat, load
ed with hundreds on their way from
their homes to busy day in the
city, sliding through the thick mists
toward its Manhattan slip Di-
rectly in its path, little govern
ment cutter Hundreds see
what seems to be a great tragedy
collision between pigmy and gi-
ant Screams arise Mari
ners also see the peril. Sirens
send forth their blasts Whis-
ties scream But In the ferry
pilot house stands a keen eyed,
steel-nerved man Of the sea
At exactly the right moment, the
steering wheel turns The fer
ry shifts its course-and glides In
to the slip, leaving the little cutter
bobbing In its wake unharmed
A few seconds later the passengers
are streaming ashore with their
minds filed with their tasks.
and the ferry and the cutter for
gotten.
Give q Man Horse: Encoun-
tered William S. Hart in Times
Square. The years have dealt kind
ly with the two-gun hero of the old
days of the silent screen. He looks
much like he did when, In the close
ups, he gazed at his audiences with
a poker face. He's past sixty now
and hasn't acted for years. Near
Los Angeles, he has q 200 acre
Smyrna times., 1936-07-16
364-Foot Redwood Wins
Title of "Tallest Tree"

Sacramento, Calif.--After a sur
vey Of Callfornia's many redwood
groves, officials of that states divi-
sion Of parks have given the title
of "the tallest tree in the world"
to redwood In Dyerville Flat
grove, 40 miles south Of Eureka.
The redwood towers 346 feet. 1t
is AZ feet In circumference and con-
talns approximately 10000 board
feet Of lumber.
Another tree, even larger from
the standpoint of potential lumber.
is in Bull Creek Flat grove. This
tree is 72 feet In circumference at
the ground, Is 345 feet high and
would make approximately $4,000
board feet measure Of lumber.
Smyrna times., 1936-07-16

Honsybees Like Warm Weather
Honeybees seldom fly when the
temperature is below 45 degrees
Fahrenheit
Smyrna times., 1936-07-16
Observed Wedding ANN

Mr.. and Mrs. George sd
Milford, observed their "A
enth wedding anniveraT \
by enjoying a motor tr1 !
the New England Stats j
ada. While passing tau
yer they were greeted q
Der of friends. NJ. G.z
Grand Tall Cedar Of u
Forest, No. 49, Tall Csdls
anon, and is very vel ]
Masonic circles thragtj
State. He is an ofica !
D. Caulk Laboratory a. u