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The Washington times., 1936-02-29

If a winning smile means any
thing at all, Billy Chappalear
ought to go great guns in track
at Eastern High School this spring.
Billy is one of a small handful
Of veterans Coach Artie Boyd has
around him at the Lincoln Park
institution these days.
He is a half-miler and a pretty
good one. Boyd believes he'll gain
several points for Eastern in COM
ing spring meets and is pointing
the lad to this aim in daily prac-
tice sessions in the armory at the
school and in the corridors where
space permits.
MONDAY, Dan DAILY, Georgetown
Prep.)
The Washington times., 1936-02-29
Kirk Miller Says:

(COnt. from First Sports Psge)
so fancy a price as Joseph Paul.
because Eckherdt is one Of those
30-year-old rockies, whereas d
Maggie is 9 years younger.
A Powerful Hitter
Too, Eckhardt's other &C.
complishmentS read nothing like
Joe's I'll scored runs, 451 total
bases, and Isl runs driven in. In
his assortment Of hits were 81
home runs and II three-base hits.
For such effective waving Of a
hickory wand the young Italian
was voted the most valuable
player in the league.
DiMaggio did not come by his
big league trail nor his expensive
cost tag, easily. Like any kid
who goes in. for professional ball,
he had plenty of discouragements
and set-backs.
On outside Looking In
Joe was veritably yanked from
a knothole of the Seals Park in
Frisco to a trial, when a friend
Spied him peeping through the
fence, and knowing of his ability
as a semi-pro player. said:
you shouldn't be out here
looking in, you should be in
there playing"
He offered to introduce him to
the club president, who gave him q
trial. That was in 1882. Near
the end Of the season.
Three days before the season
ended Joe broke into the game, as
q shortStop. getting q triple his
first time at bat. Despite the fact
his fielding was ragged in those
last three games Of the season
wherein he went to bat nine times
and got only one other hit out.
side of his triple, the Seals
signed him.
When DiMaggio reported for
1888, he got away to q discourag.
ing start, fumbling 10 chances at
Shortstop at the outset. They
shifted him around to other infield
positions, with no improvement in
fielding.
Gets Big Chance
For days he sat around on the
bench with Brother Vince expect
ing to be farmed if not fired out
right when one day Manager
Jimmy Caveney, needing : a pinch
hitter, motioned Joe to the bat. Joe
was getting the chance Vince had
awaited. He walked and when his
side was retired started to the
showers, but was pulled up short
by Caveney and told to go to right
field for the player he'd hit for.
He fielded little better in the
right pasture, but not much. How
ever, his batting kept him in the
game and he improved his fielding
as the 1888 season wore on.
From st. Petersburg DiMaggio
has said he doesn't expect 1t to be
ally uA44 III GA1C L1IdJO1O GAAdAA
in the minors. Baseball is baseball,
everywhere, he has said. He ex-
poets the pitchers in the American
League to be tougher, of course,
but he isn't going to press at the
bat, like he did the day in Frisco
when Colonel Rupert, his owner,
went out to see him play. Then he
pressed so much at the plate to
make a hit for and with his new
boss, that he went without safety
all day.
So, in this young DiMaggio, per-
haps the question that has so often
been asked in baseball circles
who is going to take Babe Ruth's
place?"-may be answered. At 81
and with nearly 200 pounds Of heft,
with a swell Pacific Coast record
behind him, DiMagKio certainly
has some Of the qualities to make
EN- forget the Babe.
The Washington times., 1936-02-29
Helen DettweiIer
Gains Golf Final

Miss Helen Dettweiler, 20-year"
old Congressional Country Club
golfer, today was meeting Mrs,
Jackie Fuller, st. Augustine, Fla.s
in the first flight consolation final
of the women's South Atlantic
championship at Ormond Beach,
Fla. Miss Dettweiler reached the
final by disposing Of Mrs. Arthur
A. Jones, New York, 4 and 3, yes
terday.
The Washington times., 1936-02-29
Army, Navy Bow|ers
To Battle Toniqht

The Army and Navy traditional
sport rivalry swings into another
field tonight at the Arcadia alleys
when the War Department Duck
pin League All-StarS clash with a
picked team from the Navy De-
partment League.
Singles and doubles as well as
team matches are carded. Hos
tilities begin with the team match
ct 1880 p.:m m.
The Washington times., 1936-02-29

Speaking Of yearlingS, Mrs.
Dodge Sloan paid less for the best
two youngsters she ever bought
than for any Of a dozen that
proved unworthy of their salt.
The two were Cavalcade and High
Quest, for which she paid $4,700.
Out of the same sale she drew Sea
Trance (bet you never heard Of
that fellow at $500 and National
Anthem at $1,000.
But expensive horses often prove
bargains. AL things considered.
young Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
may never get a bigger bargain
than he bought in Discovery at
$25, 1000. That would have seemed
a lot of money If Discovery had
proved q bust.
Colorful characters Of racing:
Willie Applegate out Of Louis
vile . his uncle owned one Of the
sweetest Of all race horses, Old
Rosebud. Willie once beat a long
shot, Neva Lee, at Saratoga.
Played her all over the ring at odds
as high as 100, 40 and 20 and
she ran second.
Willie collected a nice fortune
. gathered up his family .
and took ship around the world
visited all the interesting
spots bought presents by the
trunkful for his friends and
landed at San Francisco on the
morning Of the opening Of win
ter'S meeting at Emeryville .
but Willie lacked the dough to pay
customs duties on the presents!
Had barely enough money to taxi
up to his hotel. He'd spent all his
Neva Lee money!
A friend from Spokane Staked
Willie to two hundred and
Willie proceeded to pick four win
nerS that day next morning
Willie visited the custom house,
his pockets filled with money, to
redeem the presents for his
friends Two days later =. .
Willie welt broke again. Six IA
vorites won that day-the players
wiped him out. But he spent many
happy evening through the win
ter in the homes and apart
mentS Of friends recounting
where he picked up this relic and
that antique.
The Washington times., 1936-02-29
NAcCARTEE NAMES CROCKER STAR PREP SCHOOL ATHLE7]
Sweepstakes,
Va. Tourney
0nPinCard
RL GINO SIM

Local duckpin fans will be d.
viding their attention between
three events today.
One is the third annual Ollie
Pacini Near-Star Sweepstakes for
bowlers averaging under 11e, at
the N. E. Temple alleys at 4
o'clock today. Some so of the
city'S second Fighters are expected
to battle for q share Of a $50
purse, with the winner receiving
besides big slice Of cash a hand
some trophy or medal.
Taking on greater significance
hourly, the Virginia State Tournar
ment is attracting considerable
notice locally with IL teams from
Rosslyn and four from Clarendon
carrying the Capitals colors in
the event which will be rolled at
John Marshall alleys, Richmond
tonight.
The third test on the card is the
opening block of Dutch Sber.
balm handicap sweepstakes at Ia
koma Park tonight at 8.
Different in Two Ways
The Pacini Near-Star Sweep
stakes is not only different in
regards to the class Of bowlers
it is being staged for, but it is
also different because it is .
Seven.game affair. Seven-game
sweepstakes favor the bowler
with q "hothand" who is likely
to cool off between two five
game blocks.
Gait Davis is taking one Of
the most powerful teams avail.
able in Northern Virginia, the
RoSslyn An7Stars, down to Rich.
mond. The lineup includes Joe
Freschi, Washington Times Dixie
Stakes champion: Russ Spilman
and Paul Jarman, Washington
Times Atlantic Coast doubles
champions: Whip" Ltchfield
ana Gait himself.
Lorraine GULL, Washington
Times Ladies Dixie Sweepstakes
champion, will head one Of the
two women teams. CULTS Ross
lyn teammates are Rena Levy.
Evelyn Ellis, Blanche Woottou
and Edna Lynn.
Swanee Lineup
Lucille Young, Ella Limerick,
Hazel Jarrett, Mamie Payne and
Marge Smith make up the Swanee
team, the other women entry.
Besides the mems all-star team,
Rosslyn will have the following
teams: Dickey Company, Aubrey
Moore. captain; Chronicle, G. M.
Van HoeSen. captain: B ell Cab,
Louis Pfoutz, captain; Shady
Grove, George Clark, captain: Ar.
lington Trust, Charles Haverty,
captain; Shaeffer Flower Shop,
Arthur Shaeffer, captain; SmySer'S
Pharmacy, Eddie SmySer, captainS
AIS Place, Frank Stump, captain,
and Potomac Distributing, Milton
Crutchley, captain.
Clarke Heads Clarendon
Astor Clarke will head Claren'
don's four teams, bowling with A.
L. Kelly, along with Ted Floyd.
Gene Gordon, Joe Weakley and
Roy Wilson.
The other three teams are Man
ming Service, Roland Manning
captain; Clarendon Cleaners, Bob
Hawthorne. captain. and Yeatman
Hardware, Eddie LovelesS, captain.
Clarke and Gordon will team UP in
the doubles.
Several mixed doubles pairings
have been made with Clarke and
Ida Simmons duo q standout.
though not far ahead Of GULL and
Litchfield. Davis is bowling with
Wootton and Spilman and Lucille
Young will team up.
The Washington times., 1936-02-29
BannoCkburn Club
Reopens Course

The Bannockburn Club has re-
opened its golf course and expects
heavy play today and tomorrow.
However, Bannockburn Is the only
club course that has been reopened
in this section.
The Washington times., 1936-02-29
Glen M McCaEthy
AT THE RACES

in New England, overcame many
diScouragements and conducted
his meetings on a highelaSS scale
endeavoring to build for the fu
ture.
Copyright, 1885, by the Christy
Walsh Syndicate)
The Washington times., 1936-02-29
Shamrocks Win

Shamrocks defeated Anacostia,
35-16, and Hine Junior High de-
feated the Hine A. c., 25-16, in
Southeast Community Center
League games.
The Washington times., 1936-02-29

Lou Smiths passing from direct
ing control of Rockingham Park is
to be regretted. He was the pio-
neer Of modern mutueliZed racing
The Washington times., 1936-02-29
TurfGossip
By PADDOCK

Walter E. O'Hara, owner of Mar
rangansett Parks, steps forth with
q $4,000 offer to Albert Baroni,
Top Row owner, and Frank Car
reaud, Time Supply owner, for a
match race at the Narrangansett
meeting, which opens May 2.
The distance and weight carried
to be the same as in the Santa
Anita Handicap last Saturday.
Frank Carreaud inform e d
O'Hara that he is ready to run his
thoroughbred against Baroni'S
horse for the $25, 900 purse, adding
he would wager $25, 900 side bet
that Time Supply would beat Top
Row.
Would Bet Other $3.50
Upon receiving this information,
Mr.. O'Hara Immediately informed
the press that if Bert Baroni in
sistS upon the $4,000 side bet.
he would wager the additional
$25. .00O that Time Supply can beat
Top Row."
Baroni said he knew nothing of
the offer and will make no plans
for Top Row until the colt had
fully recovered from injuries re-
ceived in Saturdays race. Mr..
Baroni, of course. is too smart a
horseman to bind himself to a
match race at this time, until Top
Rows condition is determined,
Top Row came out of the Santa
Anita with a badly cut foreleg
which needs considerable time to
heal.
Jockey Danny Brammer won
the $500 Bing Crosby prize offered
to the leading jockey at the Santa
Anita meeting. Brammer, who
halls from Grand River, Iowa, is
under contract to Henry Clay Nc
Connell, of the same town.
Joseph Boyle, general manager
at Bowie, announces the Daily
Double" will again be featured At
the spring meeting, opening April
l. Boyle introduced the Double"
to Maryland and District fans last
spring.
The Washington times., 1936-02-29
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Washington. D. o.
Rates delivered By Carrier 10 the District
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The Washington times., 1936-02-29

COII0CLIOU II fMUUB W0uNIT " .
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RATES By MAIL
Payable in AdOaHee
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
SHALL WE AMEND
THE CONSTITUTION?

Now that reverberations have died
away from the explosions of recent Su-
preme Court decisions, and hot blood
has had time to cool, it would seem
we'll to determine our mental attitude
toward that reversed document, the
Constitution.
There is nothing sacro-sanct about
the instrument, that is to say holy, un-
touchable, divinely sacred and inspired.
The present Supreme Court has twice
stretched it, to a degree, in the gold
contract decision and the IVA decision.
If they had not used eXpediency in these
cases, there would have been certain bus
mess smash-ups that the court did not
wish to cause The rest of the time, IN
passing upon New Deal legislation, the
court has hewed to the line of literal III
depreciation and nobody can impugn
their right.
1t is matter of history that John
Marshall, Chief Justice in the early
part of the nineteenth century, by
long series of decisions, gave sort OF
authoritative Interpretation Of the con-
stitution which has been held to, most OF
the time. ever since. Now is it unthink-
able or impossible that different master
minds on that bench, and especially diff
ferent circumstances in the social and
economic conditions of the day, should
lead to different interpretations? In TACT
whether we like it or not, that has been
our experience with the constitution and
the court. Different men, different times,
different decisions.
The conclusions seem highly sensible
then. that at present no amendments TO
the constitution are either necessary or
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25

desirable; that the constitution is elastic
enough for all practical purposes; that
we can do whatever is necessary to do,
to deal with our problems and meet our
needs. It's too big a job to amend the
constitution when all we have to do is
stretch il bit now and then and shape
it to the current conditions. We have
gone to the trouble of amending it once
and then repeating the amendment, a
slow and costly business. Better leave it
alone. Great Britain has no written con-
stitution at all, but limps along pretty
well, or as she says, muddles through
with her unwritten one. We can do the
same with our India-rubber one!
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25

talking songs that achieve polite
ribaldy without vulgarity. Clark
and Delys, also glossily surtouted,
essay the same silken-voiced, razor
edged thrusts at the headline es-
capades.
Too, there are Endor and Farrell,
a bit rowdier, but cleaving to the
whispered innuendo. Such singers
in the muted meter as Eve Sym
ington, Jean Sargent and Frances
Maddux receive the pay of actress
stars. Also the mimics Sheila Bar
rett and Eddie Carr who portray pi-
anissimo.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
LOOK BETWEEN
YOUR FEET

II is a Well-known fact that most per-
sons do not see the wonders right around
them. Many who live in New York state
never visited Niagara. not even on y
honeymoon. Most of the population of
Kentucky has never seen Mammoth
Cave and probably few Egyptians have
travelled as much as twenty miles TO
view the Pyramids or the Sphinx HUI
man lnertia-or to put it more brutallv
-laziness has blinded their eyes.
1t is true Of us who live i'm Imperial
valley that we do not see that which
travellers from afar would give time
effort, and money to behold. The largest
irrigation canal on earth, the All-Ameri-
can canal, crawls closer and closer every
day to our doors. Huge diesel driven
shoVels that could bite off the ground
on which an automobile stands. lift it,
swinging it nearly a hundred yards and
spit 1t out on the same heap, are roofing
their way through the desert. Have YOU
been out to see the work?
The Mexican line lies twelve miles
away. Have you crossed it. eaten a Mex
lean meal in a Mexican restaurant, sat
in a Mexican night club, looked in at
Mexican schools and Mexican govern
ment houses, tried to learn what new
day is bringing to a neighbor republic?
Motion picture producers spend hun
dreds of thousands to construct desert
fortresses, desert scenes, desert atmos-
phere almost at our doors, with long,
plank roads across the sand and with
huge camps for men and beasts. Have
you driven out to glimpse it?
Harold Bell Wright wrote his Bar
bara Worth at ranch on the edge of
Ell Centro. Have you ever driven into the
yard of that ranch. and seen the palm
covered shed where the author worked?
If none of these things have been reflect
ed in your eyes in this fascinatingly in
teresting valley, then how about the des-
ert verbenas that blossom in the dry
sand, modest, shy. lovely? And all the
myriad tiny flowers that spring up in
the arid lands themselves among the
greesewood and the mesquite and the
tumble weeds?
Look between your feeti
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25

was always on the wing for me
there was one in especial who al
ways seemed to pop out of unex-
pected places to call me to one side
about a certain matter. To be
more specific, I had on loose eve
ming run up a chit of $16.80 in a
Dayton, o., rathskeller, and what
did I intend to do about it? 1 was
Juggling settlements in those days,
and he was far down on the list.
He accosted me everywhere. But
the climax came in an amusement
park one night when the ferris
wheel in which I was riding with
the bosss stenographer stalled on
the top swing. On the opposite seat
a fellow arose-it was none other
than he-and antedating Al Smith
some 20 years observed: well,
here we are!"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
oh So!
says
FRANK WALANABE
6St> ED HOLDEN
IT G A

-OO--
u. S. A.
We having i'm u. S. 122 mil
lion population. IS million of
same never going to any kind
of church. One person out OF
375 are in Jail! wondering if
the first figures having some
thing to did with the second?
Maybe So. II seem nowadays
many High School students are
afraid to admitting they believ-
ing in anything-especially God.
1 using High School for exam
pies because that are where the
population are bursting out of
eggshells of childhoods to citi-
zenhOod. 1t seem it are a very
touching age. That are where
u. S. need looking at. 1t are
pretty nice to having something
besides books to fasten on when
perplexture of life are setting in.
Thank you please?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
Everyday Philosophy
HAROLD f. DOTY, Th. b.,
Pastor, First Baptist Church.
COlumnst for This Week
1--WE ARE WHAT WE THINK ABOUT"

thoughts influence lives
to what extent thinking does really mould character and shape
personality
field
OF
do like things they think
follow thoughts definite end whether it
his he That the things think about
They the innermost
fill the and hooks being whether will that
so
Granting is naturally o
thinking BETTER
of really become
beyond
o thinking
determine this, dispute.
The do also part The sort of books read
the background
the individual also large factors involved in the business of
very reasonable
everything within
he possibly all possibly
to
be thinking then the
to
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
TEN YEARS AGO
February 25. 1926

Another Step IN the procedure
necessary to eliminate Eighth
street ditch can now be taken by
property owners along the ditch,
who are given opportunity to sign
quit claims to the city.
According to a statement made
today to Doc Zinn, chairman of
the Dairy Day committee, by lep-
resentatives of the various cream
cry organizations every dairyman
in Imperial Valley is pledged to
be present tomorrow at the Cen
tral Union high school grounds for
the big dairy day celebration under
the auspices of the Ell Centre
chamber of commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Feb. 25. - The
names that flare in lights across
theatre facades are not always the
most highly paid entertainers in
New York. They are often topped
by the Suayely polished singers and
such' moving in table-to-table in
timacy in cocktail bars and night
clubs.
especially is there a demand for
the exploiters of sophisticated and
topical lyrics that mirror the world
events. A double entendre line
that may be caroled with a wink is
worth a lot. The king-pin of such
SophlStries is Dwight Fiske.
In full evening dress splendor, he
draws a four-figured salary for
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
February 25, 1921

According to a member of the
new highway commission it has
been decided that the Calipatria-
Brawley paving contract will be
the next one undertaken by the
Peterson Dillon company after
completion of the work between
CaleXico and El Centre.
A special meeting of the direc-
tors of the chamber of commerce
yesterday authorized the officers
of the chamber to enter into a
lease with G. w. Knapp for the
middle room in the new Knapp
building between Sixth and Sew
enth streets on Main.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25

Indeed Jimmy Durante is about
the only apostle of confusion and
crash left that might be night
club draw. Silence is the reignlng
motif. Jass orchestras have been
kicked out for exponentS OF the
soft and rhythmic music. 1t is the
night clubs way of showing the
world it has become refined. A we'll
planned gesture that detoured 1t
from oblivion, incidentally.
When Jed Kiley was running a
night club in Paris during the war
a gentleman who introduced him
self as Lord Chester" claimed to
have lost his coat check. Jokingly
Kiley told him he never let anyone
in the wrap room on that gag, add
ing he got a fur coat that way
himself. Lord Chester said he
would wager a bottle of cham
pagne his coat was the oldest and
raggediest in the lot. Kiley took
him up and had a girl attendant
pick out the most disreputable look
ing coat. 1t was his, and in order
ing the champagne Kiley discover
ed Lord Chester was the then
Prince of Wales 1t was an old
raincoat he had worn at the front.
And it was to Kiley on another
of the Princes incognito rounds OF
Montmartre that the cafe man OBJ
served he had never married and
never would. The Prince stuck out
his hand and said: Shake, BROTH
er!" Then in sudden blurt: After
all, England had virgin queen,
didn't She?"
The Hartman National Bank
building so long deserted and a
finch to hundreds of depositors in
its neighborhood, has been done
over in a striking. brass-purfled
colonial design and is now occu-
pied by an established, long honor
ed bank The famous corner in its
stark desolation was next to the
Wendell mansion, the midtoWn'S S
greatest eyesore. I always passed
it with a shudder. Had it not been
for af riend who sat up all night at
a time when he was himself in the
shadows, urging me to discontinue
banking there, I would have lost
lifetime of frugal savings AS did
many friends.
One of the slick gags of trailing
bad debtors is the phoney inheri-
tance bureau. To the bad debtors
last address they send a question:
naire indicating he is in line for a
fortune and must reveal his busi-
ness and present address. General
ly he does pronto and then the col
lectorS sWoop down. Tableau!
In the days when the ornithor-
hyncus-a bird with large bill
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
L O 0 king
b a c k W ard
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
February 25 1919

AT a meeting Thursday night of
the executive committee of the
Imperial Valley chamber of COM
merce an invitation was extended
to the Ell Centre chamber of COM
merce to name its representative
on the executive committee of the
valley chamber.
Temporary relief has been given
the Mexican cotton growers by
Governor Cantu, who has set aside
the high export tariff of that
country pending settlement by the
commission which has been inves-
tigating the situation.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
Other Editors Say
WORTH REPEATING
GoS Angeles Eyaminerl

There is no better way Of counting the cost
Of government than by counting the counties
and multiplying the total by the average num-
Der of office holders California has fifty-eight
counties though FIVE would be ample
With only F E counties the state
could save millions of dollars more than it will
collect from an income tax calculated to drive
business out of California.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
Answers to Foregoing Questions

|. AthanasiuS and Arius.
2. Spain.
3. Archimedes discovered tn e
principle that body immersed in
water loses in weight as much as the
weight of the volume of water dis
placed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25

What Greek physicist, while in
his bath, cried Eureka" upon dis
covering means of testing the
amount of alloy in King Hiero's
crown?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-25
GRAB BAG

What two great prelates of the
fourth century held violently con-
Trajectory views on the subject OF
the creed of the Christian church?