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The Washington times., 1937-03-18
Presidents Fete
Varsity Teams

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 18.
One of the most elaborate ban.
quets in the history of the George
Washington High School Pep Club
will be held tomorrow night in the
cafeteria of the local institutions.
The varsity football and basketball
teams will be honored.
Frank Dobson, of the U. of Md. :;
Gus Tebell, U. of Va; Frank Sum-
mers, Randolph Macon; Pop
White, of Roanoke College, will
be the speakers.
Maurice Given, athletic director
of the George washington High
School, will preside as toastmaster
The event will be attended by over
300 local sports followers and be-
gins at 7 o'clock.
Southern Railway, local bowling
team, captained by Jimmy Luckett,
will travel to Richmond, Va, on
Saturday for match with the R.,
F. and P. team.
Bowlers making the trip will be:
Jarman. Harp, Heishley, Marcel
liono, Weingart, Gleason, Rush,
and Captain Luckett.
Word from London, England, to-
day stated that English promoters
are willing to offer Lou Ambers,
lightweight champion $4,000 for a
title match with Petey Sarron,
since the postponement of his bout
with John McGory.
Sarron at present is in Johannes
bur, South Africa, for two fights
and will receive $4,000 for the
bouts.
He will return to the States in
June and is willing to box Henry
Armstrong, Mike Beloise, Lou
Gevinson or any other feather
weight with the title at stake if a
proper offer can be made, accord.
ing to his manager, Jimmy Erwin.
The Washington times., 1937-03-18
GRIMM VISIONS EVE CLUBS BATTLING FOR " L. PENNAN
Training Camp Briefs

M arch 18.-Manager Charley
Grimm today refused to accept his
regulars" alibi for the l0-to-6
licking handed them by the Yam
nigans yesterday. The regulars
contended they were provided with
rookie pitchers while forced to hit
against veterans. But Ken O'Dea,
Billy Herman and Augie Galan
were unable to explain away er-
rors, despite their homers.
GLENDALE, Cal, March 18.
When you're sewed up by a club,
you're not worth a nickel"
Thus Babe Herman, hard-hitting
Cincinnati Reds outfielder, today
summed up his holdout troubles.
The Babe admitted he had been
negotiating with the Chicago
White Sox for job, but said War.
rem Giles, Red manager, had
"queered" it by asking too much
money for him.
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL,
March 18.-Little Lee Handley,
former Cincinnati star rookie,
was pressing veteran Floyd
Young hard today for the second
base position on the Pittsburgh
Pirate team. Meanwhile, work
outs at the Bucs training camp
speeded up under the promptings
of Manager Pie Traynor. Paul
Waner was still among the hold
outs,
The Washington times., 1937-03-18
Manager Says
Breaks Will
DeCideF|dg

Editors Note: FOLLOWING is
the third in the series OF In
ternutiondl NetDS SerUtce 1rtt-
cleS on the pennGnt prospects
of the bio league baseball teams.
This article concerns the Chicago
CubS.)
AVALON, Cal, March 18.-It's
not going to be any runaway race
for any team in the National
League.
You can take the word of Char
lie Grimm, manager of the Chicago
Cubs, for that.
I'VE look for a great race for
the pennant this year, with
five strong teams practically
evenly matched as cOntenders,
Grim told International News
Service today at the Cubs train
ing camp on Catalina Island.
Cincinnati, New York, Chi
cagO, Pittsburgh and st. Louis
have all strengthened their
teams during the winter" he
said. Because of that it is very
hard to say that one has the
edge on the other"
Grimm made it plain he did
not intend to jinx the Cubs by a
too glowing account of their own
chances.
Smiles Confidently
But he was smiling confidently
as he watched his veterans and
q fine crop of young hopefuls going
through their PAGES on the prac,
tice field.
"The team to win the pennant
will need all the breaks" he de-
clared emphatically.
"The Cubs have a bunch OF
fine-lOOking young prospects this
year.
1--WE can count on five star
ring pitchers in Jimmy Carleton,
Larry French, Bill Lee, LIE Roy
Parmelee and Curtis Davis.
During the few workouts that
we have had so far, Joseph
Marty, Henry MajeSki and Al
bert Epperly look impressive.
"It is too early to figure on
picking even a probable lineup.
1--WE intend to carry nine
pitchers, three catchers, five out
fielderS and six infielderS on the
team for the 1887 season."
Many baseball experts here fee
that the Cubs chances will depend
in a great measure on Joe Marty
the San Francisco outfielder who
led the Coast league hitters last
year.
Remains Question
Whether he will be able to per
form in the center pasture for the
Cubs as he did for San Francisco
Is the question.
The Cubs, however, have had
great luck with the players they
have picked from the Coast.
Grimm is said to be lying awake
nights wondering whether Marty
may not do for the Cubs what Joe
DiMaggio did for the Yanks.
The Washington times., 1937-03-18
Kirk Miller SAYS:
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shanty Hogan, from the minute
they had to splice two suits to
uniform him at Griffith Stadium
one day early last September.
They like his great, good ma
ture, and they admire what he
has under his cap to catch a
swell game.
They have sensed nothing Of
the bellyaching or grousing in
him in his bid to rejoin and
remain in the majors and when
he comes North for the local
exhibition games and to open
the 1887 season you will find
he will be the life of the party
and the idol of the grandstandS.
Meanwhile the team has seven
or eight outstanding ball players,
SobersideS as they may be, for
whom Hogan might we'll be the
bell ringer. In Kuhel, Myer, Travis
and Lewis there is an infield that
can play up to any advertising,
and day-in-and-day-out give a bet
ter-than-average account of them
selves.
Ben Chapman is capable and
scintillating Spearhead of the out
field department and DeShong,
Appleton and Cascarella, yes, and
NewSom too, send off pitching
flavor that ought to at least make
the team respected in your best
baseball circles.
Yes, I like this Washington ball
club. It has talent, it has spirit,
it has managing and Shanty
Hogan gives it the wheel-horse ap-
peal the team hasn't had since
Goose GoSlin.
The Washington times., 1937-03-18

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
18.-Pat Malone, Irving Hadley
and Johnny Murphy were selected
to do the pitching today for the
Yankees in their exhibition game
here with the Cincinnati Reds. Joe
Mccarthy is we'll satisfied with
the work of his pitching staff to
date, and hopes to make it four
straight with today'S trio of vet
Grams.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, March
18.-Having beaten the Senators
6 to 0 at Orlando, the New York
Giants go up against the Cardi-
mails today for the third time in
their exhibition series. in which
each has won a game. Yesterdays
victory was the third in succession
for the Giants against major league
opposition.
WINTER HAVEN, Fla, March
18.-After half-holiday given
them by Manager Jimmy Wilson,
the PhillieS today we're ready to
clash with the Boston Bees here.
Three of the new players, Del
Young, who will lead off the
batting cast, Herschel Martin
and George Scharein will be in
the Phils' lineup when they
square off against the invaders.
CATALINA ISLAND, Cal,
The Washington times., 1937-03-18

Noel Laing, since deceased, after
his jaunt around the Aintree
course, on Troublemaker, made an
amazing observation. Noel said:
I'D rather ride three Grand
Nationals than one Maryland
Hunt Cup. There's a big differ
ence between the hazards in the
two races. England's Grand Ma
tiOnal has fences which you can
hit and still stay Up. Maryland'S
Hunt Cup has no such fence.
In the Maryland Hunt Cup, if
your mount ticks those Stiff-tim-
Der fences, he's down. The Mary
land Hunt Cup is the harder
race of the twO."
Well all wait to see what Billy
Street, has to say about it.
Good Fencing Form
Some devotees of steeplechasing
in this country hold that What
Have You stands a good chance
of winning tomorrow's classic.
They point out that What Have
You'S victory in the Foxcatcher
National Cup, at Fair Hill, Md,
last year, indicated to Billy STREET.
that at last he had an animal
whose fencing form suggested vic
tory in the Grand National at
Aintree.
While the Foxcatcher event is
only at three miles, the hazards
at Fair Hill are similar, in respects,
to those at Aintree. What Have
You, in taking the FoXcatcher Ma
tional Cup, was left at the post,
got moving finally, passed the pace
setter, won going away, and then
ran an extra mile or so before his
rider was able to pull him up.
Incidentally, What Have You
has come a cropper only once in
his career, quite a record when
you come to consider that we're
great for stiff timber in this
country.
And, speaking Of stiff timber
jumps in America brngs us around
to the fact that there's a differ
ence in clearing stiff timber and
clearing brush fences. Billy Bar
ton was as good over brush as he
was over stiff timber, but then
Billy Barton was Billy Barton, and
there was only one Billy Barton.
He had speed on the flat, some
thing our American 'chasers lack.
| RN,,.A n Co..e.,N
The stiff timber leaper must
be deliberate, careful. His rider
must take him comparatively
slowly at fence. It must be
remembered that a tick may send
him down. 1t is not so much
speed as it is fencing ability with
the American steeplechaser in
our timber races.
Over hedges, the animal can
brush through, moving at a
pace comparable with speed on
the flat, and not come a crop
per. The rider doesn't have to
worry about ticking: the horse
doesn't have to be so deliberate
and so careful as he must be over
stiff timber.
When you realize that the 4
miles 856 yards of the Grand
National is run from 9:20 (Gol-
den Miller's record of 1934 to
1920 in modern days, you get
some notion of the speed of con-
tending animals in covering the
Aintree course.
It is difficult to agree with
those who see What Have You
as a winner of tomorrows big
event, for, after all, he has been
called on to go over stiff timber
more often than over brush, and
any animal who has faced stiff
timber becomes cautious. In the
history of the Grand National,
I dareSay, cautious animal has
never been known to win.
The Washington times., 1937-03-18

Chapman made a silly throw
and Kuhel made a sour muff try
ing for a double after Whitehead
had flied to Chapman. Throw
that ball ahead of the runner, and
let's play baseball,
The Washington times., 1937-03-18
Travis Victim
Of Trip|eP|ay
BY FRANK BUCK O'NEILL

ORLANDO, Fla, March 18.
Maybe there wes another, swiftly,
nifty and true, but your agent
saw his first spring exhibition
series triple play yesterday as the
Giants shut out the Griffs at
Tinker Field.
Using this fell circumstance as
a chute or vaulting pole, as you
wish, Travis accounted for six
outs for the GriffS in four times
at bat.
Not a record, to be sure; Bur
leigh Grimes hit into triple play
and double play in one game.
but it's pretty good.
The triple killing came in the
second inning. Fred Sington
walked and so did Jess Hill.
Travis snapped a dropping fly
into left center which both Sing
ton and Hill thought was good
for base hit. So they tore for
the plate. Joe Moore, however,
tore for the ball and caught it on
the run.
He threw to Burgess Whitehead
to double Singron, and Whitehead
pegged to Mccarthy to retire Hill
and complete the triple play. 1t
was a defensive manouver that
was as swift as thought and as
smooth as cream. The Griff run
ners were dead ducks the second
Moore's glove closed on the ball.
Travis was a victim in the out
standing play of baseball, for
there is nothing more numbing in
its defensive completeness than a
triple play.
Travis, too, was the star actor
in the finest defensive move
turned in by a Griff. In the
fourth inning OFT smashed a blow
that looked for all the world like
base hit. Travis turned his
back to the stands, trapped the
ball and threw to Mihalic for a
force on Moore that ended the
frame and the rally; likewise the
scoring for the afternoon.
The Griffs were loud in their
praises for the effectiveness of the
Giant pitchers, but not so certain
that they will last through a sea-
son. The New York club is
stronger at third base and weaker
at first than last year. 1t IS about
the same otherwise. but this
writer cannot see the pitchers
holding their form.
Maybe the Giants will get off
to such a flying start that they
will sew up the flag by July 4.
Well, in that event okay. But in
a driving finish. watch the Cards
or someone else. Purely hunch,
if you like lunches.
They say that these profes-
sional ball players are athletes,
and of course that is true. But
what I cannot fathom is why
they cannot carry their speed
for 100 yards, the distance
around the bases. Buddy Lewis
got to third yesterday all right,
but then he staggered and al
most fell. A college sophomore
can run 100 yards and finish
with a burst of speed.
Lanahan was just as wild as
ever. He set up a couple Of
runs by passing Mccarthy and
Whitehead. Then, oh wurTa,
wurra; he threw a slow ball to
Castleman. A triple resulted and
three runs before the frame
was over.
Sound off cheer for Sgd
Cohen. The quiet gentleman left
handler was the best looking of
the three pitchers for Washing
ton. He allowed no runs and
only three hits, one of which
was lucky. What's more, he gave
the Giants a few screw balls to
hit, and they didn't come close.
Sgd made Jimmy Ripple look
like a sucker.
Chapman made a silly throw
and Kuhel made a sour muff try
ing for a double after Whitehead
had flied to Chapman. Throw
that ball ahead of the runner, and
let's play baseball.
The Washington times., 1937-03-18
VEST POCKET
SCHEDULES
AVAILABLE

The Washington Times has .
limited supply of complimentary
American League vest pocket
baseball schedules for 1897,
which may be had by mailing a
self-addressed stamped envelope
to the Vest-POcket Schedule Ed.
itOr, Times Sports Department.
But one can be given out to a
person.
The Washington times., 1937-03-18
Billy May Win Where
Other Yanks Failed
By HARRY COSTELLO

Warrentons own and popular William B. Billy STREET.
shoots at the tomorrow.
Over Aintrees narrowing and reacherou hazards Billy will
guide Frank M Gouds stout steeplechaser What Have You
in a gallant effort to wreck precedent
An American rider never has won the Grand National!
Evening star., 1937-03-29
SUSPECT IS SEIZED
BY INVESTIGATORS
|0F TRIPLE MURDER
Brother of Gene Tunney
Makes Arrest in New
York Mystery.
OFFICERS SPIRIT MAN
AWAY FOR QUESTIONING
Dog Only Is Spared by Killer in
Apartment of Pretty Ar
lists Model.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 29-Police IN
spectors Thomas Tunney and Rudolph
Mclaughlin investigating the Easter
triple Staying of pretty Veronica
Gedeon, 20-year- artists model;
her mother and man roomer, took
into custody for questioning today a
man identified by them only as 'Lodis'
or "Frenchy"
Tunney, brother Of Gene Tunney
former heavyweight champion, said
the man was taken in a tenement
house at 223 East Fifty~third street
directly across the street from the spot
where Miss Gedeon's mother, Mrs
Mary Gedeon, 54, operated furnished
rooming house until last December.
The man was taken by the officers
to the East Fifty-flrst street station
He was described as being short and
stocky Shortly after his arrival a
squad of officers took him away in a
car.
Girl Was Strangled.
Miss Gedeon. known professionally
to artists for whom she had posed as
"Ronnie,' was strangled and beaten
to death some time after am. Easter
morning and her nude body thrown
across a bed under which the body
Of her mother was crumpled
In another bed room adjoining the
living room of the Gedeons' unpreten-
tious apartment lay the body of Frank
Byrnes, the roomer, fatally stabbed
six times on the left side of the head
with some sort Of sharp instrument.
The Gedeon apartment is on the
fourth floor Of an unpretentious build
ing at 3l6 East Fiftieth street, on
fashionable Beekman Hill, only block
and a half from the apartment house
where Mrs. Nancy Titterton was killed
last April by John Fiorenza, uphol-
steNr's assistant, who recently was
electrocuted.
Man Sought Since Yesterday.
Tunney was grim-faced and non-
comm1ttal as he and McLauehlin
brought the suspect into the station
They made no statements, but ad-
mitted the man had been sought since
yesterday.
Only a few hours before the two
officers had returned from North
Adams, Mass. where they went yes
terday to talk with William Lewis, 80,
an acquaintance of Miss Lucille Biac-
CO, another model and friend OF Miss
Gedeon. They sought Miss Biacco to
learn more about the activities of the
slain Ronnie. Lewis, they said, told
them he had not seen her since last
November
A telegram, purportedly from Lewis
to Miss Biacco, found in the Gedeon
apartment, sent them to Massachu-
sets.
Fifty picked detectives, working
under the direction of Deputy Chief
Inspector Francis j. Kear, pieced to-
gether fragmentary clues to the slayer
DR.. Thomas A. Gonzales, chief medi-
cal examiner, estimated that the kill
ings had taken place between pm
Saturday and 4 am Easter Sunday
and that Mrs Gedeon was the first
Evening star., 1937-03-29
CHILD LABOR BAN
CHANGE URGED
Vandenberg Would Modify
Amendment to Read
For Hire"
BY the Associated Press.

6S Inc hsSOClaLeQ HIeSS.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, OF
Michigan proposed to Congress today
modification Of the pending child
labor amendment to eliminate the OBJ
jections raised against the proposal.
His proposal would cut the age limit
from 18 to 16 and provide plainly
that Congress would have authority to
legislate against child labor only
where it was labor "for hire"
The child labor amendment has
been before the States since 1924
Supporters Of the Roosevelt court bill
have cited it as their chief argument
that constitutional amendments take
too long to ratify.
His amendment, Vandenberg said
seeks to eliminate the major OBJ
stacles which have largely contributed
to the delay or failure of ratification
by the States heretofore"
Under his proposal, he added, the
Government would "still be doing
everything to eliminate the commercial
exploitation of children, but will have
eliminated possible misunderstand-
ings."
Two major objections have pre-
vented ratification Of the pending
amendment" Vandenberg said. "One
objection is that the age Of 18 is too
high to correctly define children The
other objection is that the power to
regulate may be expanded far beyond
the intended control of the CONNER
cial exploitation Of child labor.
THE third objection has come from
farmers who felt the original amend
ment would prevent them from using
their families for farm work. By
putting the words for hire you
eliminate that objection"
Evening star., 1937-03-29
$4,000 Seen at White House
For Easter Egg Rolling Fete
afternoon attendance indicates Rec.
ord, Guards Say-Mrs. Roosevelt
Mmgles With Guests.
Pictures on Page B-1.

A record breaking crowd at the
White House egg rolling was indicated
today as more than 10000 children
and adults frolicked over the White
House lawn under bright sun.
Guards who counted the guests said
they expected more than $4,000 per-
sons before the entertainment is over.
President Roosevelt was expected to
appear on the south portico at 3 pm.
to extend an Easter greeting and
speak few words into microphone.
Earlier, Mrs. Roosevelt made two
appearances. On one occasion she
circled the lawn with her 5-year-old
grandson. William Donner Roosevelt,
and shortly afterward came out on the
portico to accept the gift Of a large
Easter bouquet.
Little Bill Donner wore brown
snowsuit, blue coat and beret and
carried fuzzy elephant. 1t was his
first visit to an egg rolling.
When a little girl shyly offered the
First Lady an egg Mrs. Roosevelt gave
it to Bill.
do I eat it?" he asked.
Evening star., 1937-03-29
LEWIS HITS GREEN
IN S|T-DOWN ROW
Attack "CoWard|y and Con-
temptib|e," c. !. o.
Chief Says.
BY the Associated Press.

Is. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 29.-John L.
Lewis today called William Green S
condemnation OF sit-down strikes
"characteristically cowardly and con-
temptible'
The chairman OF the Committee
for Industrial Organization, return
ing from conferences with Walter P.
Chrysler in Detroit, said this was
his answer to Green's statement yes
terday that sit-down strikes are "il-
legal" and to be avoided by loyal
American Federation Of Labor mem
bers
THE Green statement is char
acteristically cowardly and contempti-
ble," Lewis tod newspaper men as
he returned to the conferences here
on the soft coal wage negotiations.
"Sells Breed Down River"
He again sells his own breed down
1ANCl oAAu ACSCASCo VIC V2AoAAAo
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers.
/ "'He bends the pregnant hinges
of the knee that thrift may follow
fawning.'" he said.
The quotation comes from the sec
ond scene of the third act Of Ham
let" The passage, as Shakespeare
wrote it, reads:
"No, let the candied tongue lick ab-
surd pomp,
"And crook the pregnant hinges of
the knee
where thrift may follow fawning. >
He insisted he had nothing more
to say on labor questions Of the
day. He brushed aside reporters who
sought to ask him about the progress
of his negotiations with Chrysler for
settlement of the strike Of automo-
bile workers in Detroit.
Lewis refused to comment on either
the Chrysler strike or the coal wage
negotiations.
At the same time Green issued hi
1see IKWIs Paxe A-2,)
Evening star., 1937-03-29
D|PLOMAT|CC0RPS
CHANCESPEND|NG
President Expected to An.
nounCe Shifts in Service
This Week.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.


President Roosevelt will announce
this week number Of changes In the
diplomatic service. While the key
posts in Paris, London and Berlin are
not affected yet, certain Ambassadors
and Ministers will be shifted from
their present posts to others where
their services are considered more val
liable.
Among those affected is Ambassador
jefferson Caffery who is slated to
leave his post in Cuba to take over
the embassy at Rio de Janeiro Caf-
ferry at present is on holiday and
will go to Brazil at the expiration of
his furlough.
His successor in Havana will be
Minister Butler Wright. who now is
representing the United States in
Czechoslovakia
New Post for Schoenfeld.
Arthur Schoenfeld, United States
Minister to the Dominican Republic,
is slated to become Minister to Fin
land Henry Norweb from Bolivia is
replacing Schoenfeld as Minister to
San Domingo.
Tony Drexell Biddell, Minister to
Norway, will be elevated to the rank
of Ambassador and sent, in all prob
ability, to Poland Ambassador
Cudahy will either get another post
or resign.
1t is probable that in the course
of this Summer a number of changes
in the more important ambassadorial
posts will be made.
Ambassador Robert Bingham will
retire after the coronation of King
George There are number of candi-
dates for this plum of the diplomatic
service. Joseph Davies, the present
(See DIPLOMATIC, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-03-29
COURT UPH0IDS MINIMUM WAGE LAWS
WITH RAIL LABOR, FRAZIER LENlKE ACTS
Collective Bargaining Legal
In Virginia Railway Opinion
Indications of Courts Vie,Os on Wagner
Relations Act Studied; Farsier.
Lemke Acts Are Held Valid.

The tribunal affirmed a ruling by
the Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals
directing the railroad to engage in
collective bargaining.
The Government also emerged VIC
torious in several other important de-
cisions handed down today
The court unanimously held consti-
tutional the revised Frazier-Lemke act
authorizing three-year moratorium
on farm mortgage foreclosures
1t unanimously upheld the Govern
ment in its effort to punish George w
Norris, Broken Bow, Nebr., grocer. for
perjury growing out of his primary
campaign against the veteran Sena-
tor George w. Norris of Nebraska
1t unanimously held constitutional
(See BARGAINING, Page A-2.)