The Washington times., 1936-08-17
THE WASHINGTON TIMES OFFERS TWO WORLD SERIES TRIPS
Contest
Opens
BY BABE RUTH
Chairman, AIl-America Board
OF Baseball


OF Baseball
The All-America baseball team
for 1896. What players will make
the grade? How many of the old
stars will be squeezed out and
how many new faces will take
their places?
AS September approaches and
the baseball favorites who have
survived the long, hot grind make
their bids for annual honorS, I
can appreciate what "Al[Amer'
ica" meant, each succeeding foot"
ball season, to the late Walter
Camp, pioneer in this business OF
naming All-Star outfits. To Mr..
Camp, the picking of the best
eleven football players became a
part of his life and I want to
say right now, that If I tried
to get through the month OF Au"
gust without picking the best ten
players in the two major Leagues
well, 1 thin my family would
call the doctor.
1 Just pick AllAnerica baseball
players in August like other peo"
ple pick Christmas cards in De-
cember.
AlI-America Board
I must remind my readers that
this baseball team for 1886 will be
selected by the following members
of the All-America Board of Base"
ball-Christy Walsh, New York;
j. E. Wray, st. Louis; Ed Geigers
Chicago; Stuart Bell. Cleveland;
Bill Slocum, New York; Tom
Swope, Cincinnati; Bud Shaver,
Detroit; Jack Malaney, Boston;
James Isaminger, Philadelphia:
Harry Keck, Pittsburgh; Kirk Mil
ler, Washington. They didn't
know what to do with me so they
made me chairman.
And right here want to express
my personal thanks to three mem"
bers who have served with me for
the past 10 years and did much
to make the All-America Board Of
Baseball a success - Warren
Brown, Chicago; Ed Bang, Cleve-
land, and Bill FarnSworth, New
York. Anyway we have been pick"
ing the All-America baseball team
for the past II years and now
we're ready to do the job for 1885.
If you don't think time has been
scooting by. just take look at the
lineup of the first team we selected,
back in 1922: Heilman, Speaker
and Cobb in the outfield: Sisler,
Hornsby, Scott and Frisch in the
infield; Wally Schang behind the
bat and Joe Bush and Shocker as
the pitchers. Except for F'risch
and Hornsby, both managers, not
member of that old-time cast is
left in baseball.
Fun For Fans
Who will be the players on this
years All-America? That's where
the fans and newspaper readers
come in on the fun. We're all set
for the annual contest and now
that I'm sitting on the SidelineS.
as neutral spectator, I'm more
interested than in any past year
and can't wait to see how the
fans are going to pick 'em in the
1886 contest, which starts today
and runs to midnight Saturday.
September 5.
A brief check-up on the regula-
tionS, with a few of my own Sug.
geStions tossed in, may help the
fans get quick start.
You let me give you a tip-select
your team at once and mail it in
to the Babe Ruth All-America
Contest Editor of The Washington
Times today. Nothing is likely to
happen between now and Septem-
ber S CLOSING date of contest) to
change the importance of the
various players. So get busy to-
day and shoot your lineup-in.
Guiding two pitchers-to the con-
test editor. You know the old
saying about the early bird
catches the worm, well the same
thing goes in a contest like this.
Don't delay to the last week
you might be too late.
What is the first object of the
contest? The board will select
the All-America baseball team for
1886 from players in the National
and American Leagues and the
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