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Evening star., 1937-04-20
Mats Even Lose
Roosevelt Luck

4 S far as the Washington ball
club is concerned. Franklin D.
Roosevelt's status as the 'luckiest
President" is in doubt today.
Until yesterday, when the Griffs
bowed in the American League
opener by a 4-3 count, Roosevelt
had never seen Washington team
beaten. In 1917 as Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy, Roosevelt saw
National club win the opening
game. When he became President
he not only watched the Griffs win
the 1888 opener, but witnessed
their only victory in the world
series with the Giants that year.
In 1884 the Mats lost but Roose-
welt was called from the park in
the fifth inning and did not see the
defeat. In 1885 and 1886 the
Washingtons won.
Yesterday was a different story.
F. D. remained until the bitter end,
but even his victory spell wasn't
sufficient. F. E. S.
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Travis Bat Is Missed.

IT WAS a surprisingly good Phila-
delphia team which defeated the
Mats, but the AS are not the Yanks
by any stretch of Imagination, and
only improved hitting seems capable of
getting the Washington firm out of
here with the series edge.
The Yanks, to all outward appear
anceS, still are the same old maulers.
Joe Di Maggie is out, but the club
still retains more than ordinary power
and definitely looms, from start to
finish, as the team to beat.
Cecil Travis is to be rushed back
into the lineup as soon as possible,
maybe today. Harris held him out of
the opener, except as a pinch-hitter,
and his absence was noticed. Ossie
Bluege did superb fielding Job in his
place, but Travis, after all, has been
the only consistent National at the
plate all Spring and his bat was
needed.
His spike wound in the left knee.
sustained last Saturday, is not healed.
With any fielding motion he is likely
to reopen the injury. But If Cece saws
the word he will bounce back into the
game.
Evening star., 1937-04-20

New York Journals base ball writer
decided they needed shorter name
They came up with Yankees"
Detroit's first team played in the
National League and later in the In
ternational League as the Wolverines
About 1898 or so, Philip ]. Reid, a
newspaper man, pinned the present
name, Tigers, on the club, and George
Stallings, manager at the time, said
it was because of the stripped stock
ings he designed.
Cleveland has been known as the
Indians since 1915. Originally in the
National League, the club was called
the Spiders, later the Wanderers, then
the Maps, when the great Napoleon
Lajoie was manager. and for short
time the Molly Maguires.
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Brucker Hero in 4-3 Win.

FOR three innings yesterday it was
joke game As soon as the
presidential ball-tossing act was COM
pleted and the flag had been raised
to the strains Of 1.-The Star Spangled
BANNER it seemed a question of
which club would crack wide open
first.
The Griffs opened with the filters
and the AS, capitalizing on an error
of judgment by Stone and an error
afield by Myer, held 20 lead in
the second. Then the AS took a turn
at kicking the ball around and the
Washingtons cut the score to 2-1 In
their half of the second frame.
In the third Bob johnson hit a
home run with nobody on, but the
Mats scored twice in their half, tying
the score at 3-3. This it remained
until the tenth, when Brucker threw
Evening star., 1937-04-20
Grabs Discarded Red Sex.

IN 1907 Fred Tenney. manager OF
the Boston Nationals. announced
he intended to abandon the clubs ira
ditional red stockings to reduce the
danger of dye infection. Next day
John I. Taylor, president of the
American League club, said, It'll grab
the color for my team and call them
the Red Sox." He did.
An official vote Of fans decided upon
the name Nationals As against
Senators for Washington. But in
many cities the team Is still known
as the Senators. Also frequently used
are the names Griffs, after Owner
Clark Griffith, and Mats.
Another club which owes its name
to base ball scribes is the New York
Yankees. Originally the club was
known as the Highlanders: First,
because it played at Washington
Heights, and, second, because the
name Of the first president, James
Gordon, suggested the famous British
regiment, the Gordon Highlanders.
Needed Yankees for Shert.
pUT Mark Roth, New York Globe
base ball writer, now the clubs
road secretary, and aPm Crane, the
Evening star., 1937-04-20
new SON, new COACH
GIVE LAYDEN BIG DAY
Notre Dame Mentor Caps 1t All
by Scurrying to Chicago
for Radio Address.

By the Associated Press.
COUTH BEND, Ind, April 20.-Al-
- together it was a pretty busy day
for Elmer Layden. Notre Dame lean,
black-haired athletic director and
head foot ball coach.
In the midst of Spring training
practice, Mrs. Layden, at st. JOS
eph's Hospital, presented him with a
new backfield prospect, a 71a pound
baby son, third child born to the
Laydens.
Anxious about the condition of Mrs.
Layden and the baby, Layden divided
his time yesterday between the hos
pital and the foot ball field
Then, in the afternoon, Joe Benda,
Notre Danes new end coach. arrived
from Minnesota to take up his new
duties He succeeds the late Johnny
O'Brien, who was killed in an auto
accident at Chicago recently.
In between times, Layden posed for
photographs with Benda and members
of the squad.
Then, after practice, he left for
Chicago to speak during radio
broadcast.
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NATSP|CKED OVER
SENATORS BY VOTE
Only Two A. L. Teams Keep
Original Nicknames-HoW
Others Resulted.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 20-Thousands Of
fans will attend opening major league
base ball games today, but few will be
able to tell where their favorite teams
got their nicknames.
In the American League but two
teams-St. Louis and Philadelphia
retain the names they had when they
entered the circuit.
The st. Louis club began as the
Browns and the Browns they remain.
Last year fans in that city voted an
emphatic mo" to proposal to change
the teams name. The club was named
after a crack st. Louis American Asso-
citation team Of the late 80s.
Athletics and Philadelphia have gone
hand in hand since the dawn of base
ball. At one time there were three
base ball clubs in that city, all Ath-
leticS.
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Live "White Elephants"

THE late John McGraw is RESPONSE
BILE for the teams white elephant
insignia with his comment in. 1902
that Ben Shibe, the owner, had a
white elephant on his hands" But
that year the club won its first pen
nant
Charley Conliskey brought his st.
Paul team to his home city, Chicago,
in 1900 as an American League unit.
The name White Stockings, formerly
used by the National League team,
was revived by two Windy City base
ball writer's, Carl Green and Irving e.
Sanborn, and soon shortened to White
Sox
Boston's Red Sox owe their name
to newspaper man.
When the club was formed in 1901
1t was known as the Somersets, after
Charles w. Somers, the owner Later
names included Puritans and Plym-
outh Rocks,
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AS, BosoX to Tangle

The triumphant Athletics returned
home to face the Boston Red Soy.
Detrolt's Tigers entertained the Cleve-
land Indians and Chicagos White Soy
hooked up with the Browns at St.
Louis in other American League
openers.
Manager Frank Francis Frsch Of
the st. Louis Cardinals called upon
his loquacious star, Dizzy Dean, TO
start the gas house gang at Cincin-
natl, where a capacity gathering Of
200 was expected. A pair of FIRST
division prospects, Pittsburgh and the
Cubs, met in Chicago.
The PhlllieS, with Manager Jimmy
Wilson posing as the most contented
man in base ball after his club beat
the Boston Bees. to l in II innings
and TO 0 in yesterdays Patriots dav
bill at Boston, drew day of, along
with their opponents.
Two of the games shining stars
were on the sidelines and there was a
rather notable casualty list through
out both leagues. Jimmy FoXx, the
Red Sox first baseman, was recovering
| from sinus trouble and Joe Di Magic,
Yankee center fielder, from an opera
| ton for removal of his tonsIs and
adenoids.
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aside the mantle of goat" and won
himself a halo.
Brucker it was who missed q
pop by Stone in the second, giving
Johnny another chance Stone then
produced a triple and a run. Brucker
it was who collided with Dean, as
he was to catch a pop, and this boner
aided in the two runs Washington
got in the third.
But Brucker it was who, with two
out in the tenth, doubled to center
and scored johnson with the winning
run. The gentleman seems quite as
adept at playing hero as at acting
the bum. Meanwhile, as far as hitting
goes, the Mats have yet to prove they
can play the part of heroes.
Evening star., 1937-04-20
Sad Sam, the Melancholy Man.


EW YORK April 20You sitting the Nationals
underneath Griffith Stadium waiting for something
" Then, 10 behold walking
He shifted
a II
intruder. There something familiar
well I'll be-" he
opening Cmere, mme
Buky looked his writing the batting
grnned We'll this sam?" Kuhel
walked
and said Good
a a
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stopped to look up his record, you
would be amazed at the number of
games he won during the course OF
his big league career.
He did nothing to hurt the Ma
tionals yesterday when he turned up.
They were glad, before the game, to
find somebody who could take their
minds off the affair And Saml could
do that. He walked over to the scales
and weighed in at l7s. -Four pounds
over my pitchin' weight" he said.
I'll have to do something about that
could Help Some Club"
SAD SAM, by his own admission, is
pressing the 45-year mark, al
though there are those who swear he
was AZ or 43 as far back as 10 years
ago. According to most Of the Mats,
he was pitching professionally since
Lincoln's Gettysburg address and some
Of them suggested he still could get by.
Sure I could" modestly admitted
the Woodsfeld, Ohio, farmer. Il could
help some team right now. Why, by
gosh, when Chicago let me go had
won four games in a row and I never
pitched better game In my life than
one day when beat Detroit in 1885,"
Somebody said something
about finishing in the minors.
Hell, no." answered Sam. II
wouldn't pitch In the minors for
= big league salary"
II believe you could help some club,
too," said Al Simmons. Il could never
understand why Detroit didn't grab
you last year when the Gen. (Crowder)
called 1t quits. Shucks, you had more
stun than Crowder. I can't under
stand base ball. Look At the buns
they keep in the league and look at
some Of the guys who aren't wanted"
well. they al ngger I'm 49," ex-
planned Sad Sam sadly. None Of the
fellows who do the hiring think Of the
fact that my arms in great shape and
that it amt how old you are Is much
as 1t Is how old you feel"
Evening star., 1937-04-20
LEAGUE SEEKING TEAM.

Another team is desired by the
Sports Center Government Base Ball
League. Interested teams should COM
municate with Mike Sklar at District
299, extension IT'S, between and 4
O'Clock for further information. Sklar
may be reached at Randolph 1855 in
the evenings
Evening star., 1937-04-20
Stars Yesterday
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
Morris Arnovich and Bucky Wal
trs, Phillies-Arnovich hit eleventh.
inning homer to beat Bees In first
game; Walters pitched four-hit
shutout for 10 victory in second.
Almon Williams and Earle
Brucker, Athletics-Willian1s held
Senators to four hits In ~ In
nings; Brucker drove IN winning
run in tenth.
Evening star., 1937-04-20
SubP Punch flinders Gr Sharing Yank Starter Today
MAJOR CAMP PA|GNS
/. GET IN FULL SWING
More Than 100000 Are Ex-
pected at Games, With New
York Leading Turn Out. !
By the Associated Press.

N yEW YORK, April 20-The as
N tonishing spectacle Of the two
" Philadelphia teams, almost
unanimously chosen for the
cellar berths, leading the major leagues
testified to the possibility of almost
anything today as the teams lined up
for the real opening after the pre-
liminaries at Washington and Boston.
Given good base ball weather all
around, an outpouring of more than
100000 fans was anticipated in seven
cities to top off yesterdays total Of
around $1,000
New York, with all three metropoN-
tan teams performing within the limits
OF the greater city for the first unani-
nous opening day in 25 years, looked
for the biggest crowds At least So
600 were expected at the Yankee
Stadium to see the world champions
open against Washingtons Nationals,
yesterdays 4-3 victims of the PhfIa-
delphla Athletics. Some 10000 mora
were looked for at Brooklyn's Ebbets
Field to see Burleigh Grimes lead his
Dodgers against their traditional rivals,
the Giants, for the first time.
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Hug Said "Old Man."

Johnny STONE butted in. "Lissen,
Pond" he said, 40 years ago
heard you say at the end of season,
Well, Jack, you Amt gonna hit me no
more. This Is my last year And you
allus came back the next Spring and
stayed the next Pail to say the same
thing. Now you're talking about pitch
ing some more
well. there's some pretty old
guyS still hanging around" said
Sam. II snly spent - years in
base ball. Loek ax0and yoa-"
"Yeah," spoke up Ben hChapman,
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POWER IS MISSING
ASA'S WIN OPENER
CascareIIa HurIs Well, but
Puny Attack Disappoints
Record Gathering.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Staff Correspondent Of The Star.

n YEW YORK, April 20.-The one
nj item which was taken for
" granted as an asset of the Ma
tionals-plate power-today
looms as their Achilles heel.
AS far as Bucky Harris can recall,
the only consistent power at the plate
this Spring has been shown at the
dinner table. In the last two weeks,
except for notable slugging bee in
Baltimore, the Griffs haven't hit in
exhibition games.
They again failed to hit yesterday
and lost the opening American League
game to the AS, to 3. Furthermore,
1t is to be doubted whether they will
do much hitting during a three-game
series here with the Yanks, what with
Gomez, Pearson and a fair aggregation
of other New York pitchers primed for
action.
Nobody seems to know just what is
the trouble. Right down the regular
line-up-Chapman Lewis, Kuhel,
Simmons, Stone, Travis, Myer and
Hogan-there appears to be power IN
plenty. Each is recognized as q peren-
nial 800 hitter. And yet the club
isn't getting runs.
Evening star., 1937-04-20
you're right, Pond. I remember back
in 1928, when I was kid third base

you're right, Pond. I remember back
in 1928, when 1 was kid third base
man with the Yanks. One day Hug
gins said to me: 'Lissen, punk, you
Wanta learn how to play third? Well,
watch that old man out there I
looked out there and he was pointing
to Ossie Bluege. Old man he called
va. Ossie. Haw, haw!
Bucky Harris laughed with the rest.
Can you still throw that buggy-whip
curve, Sam?" he wanted to know.
Gosh, I'll never forget one day in
Washington when you were pitching
for the Yanks. The game was tied,
the winning run was on base, and !
was at bat. You threw me that thing
and I just stuck out my bat. I didn't
expect to hit, but the ball went sailing
out to center for q double and we
won the ball game.
He Left With Regrets.
IT REMEMBER you caught hell for
= throwing IT," continued Bucky
Didn't Hug say something about your
being dumb for letting a punk hitter
like me break up a game?"
Sad Sam grinned and started tc
say something in the same spirit. But
then q club house boy stuck his head
in the. dressing room and yelled, 1.-THE
AS are hitting their last round. Git
hustling"
There was = sudden tighten
ing Of Jaws. The air Of gay
camaraderie was gone. Harris,
tight-npped, called his club y
order and announced = pre-
game, preseason meeting.
Sad Sam slipped OF the trunk or
which he was sitting and started foa
the door. After all he was out Of bas<
ball and had no business in q meet.
ing Of ball players. You thought, a!
you followed Sam out, that he wanted
to stay very much, though, and pull
on a uniform
Il could help some team right now,
he had said, and you felt he included
Washington in his statement. MOI
were YOU sure he was wrong.
Evening star., 1937-04-20
Walkathon
Ran for Hogan In eighth.

Ran for Hogan In eighth.
1Batted for Cascarella in tenth.
Philadelphia - O2l 600 600 II
Washington - O12 900 600 "a
Runs batted in-Cissell. Bluege johnson.
Stone, Myer. Brucker. Two-base hits-
Cisseu Finney. Brucker. Three-base hit
Stone. Home run-Johnson. Stolen bases
Chapman. Blueee. Double plays-Hogan
(unassisted). Left on base4-Philadelphta
10; Washington. II. First base on balls
liams. 8. Struck out-By Smith. l; BY
Cascarella. g.: by williams. 4. Hits-Oh
Smith. 3 In 2 y innings; OF Williams. in
IN innings. Winning pitcher-Williams
Losing Enthusiastically. Umpires-
Messrs. Dinneen, Moriarty and MCGOWAN.
Time-2:45.
Evening star., 1937-04-20
DISCRIMINATION
VICTOR WANTS lob
Young Canadian, With Wife
and Child, Would Get
Off Relief Rolls.
BY the Associated Press.

oS tiiC AoeOe4dltu EItSS
~ OSTON, April 20.-If cheers
- could drown financial wor-
ries and a laurel wreath and a
- silver trophy defy the hunger
that threatens his family, jobless
Walter Young, lanky 24-year old win
ner of the fortieth Boston A. A. mara
thon, would be superlatively happy
today.
But the transitory rewards of vic
tory, although sweet, are far from
adequate and he hopes that his proud
townsmen of Verdun, Quebec, will give
him a chance to get off the relief rolls
after four years and become a police
man.
"A job is what want most" said
Young after he had beaten Airing
tons great Johnny Kelley, the 1885
winner and the outstanding favorite.
Would Be Policeman.
THE Verdun citizens financed my
trip here for this race and prom
ised they would provide me with work
If won," he explained. Il haven't
had a job since I got married, about
four years ago, but have passed the
police examinations and I hope !
can get a speedy appointment. My
wife and 3-year-old son can't eat
cheers, laurel wreaths or silver cups.
Young won the Boston in his third
attempt. He and Kelley ran side by
side until 3 miles from the finish line
Of the 26-mile course the Canadian
unleashed a mighty squirt that en-
abled him to pick up almost five min
utes in less than miles.
Leslie Pawson who set the course
record Of 2:31.013s in 1888, neve,
threatened and finished third.
Evening star., 1937-04-20
Leave IL Runners Stranded,

THE current offensive weakness of
the Mats never was better illus
trated than yesterday, when $4,000
customers jammed Griffith Stadium
to watch the opener. Lefty Ed Smith
and Almon Williams, rookie Athletic
pitchers, gave up IL bases on balls
Evening star., 1937-04-20
Some Worries for Tigers.

MANAGER MICKEY COCHRANE
Of Detroit had few worries
over the illnesses of Pitchers Tommy
Bridges and Schoolboy Rowe, but was
consoled by the knowledge of his own
good health and by the return of
Hank Greenberg to his old frst-basing
job, as well as the acquisition yester-
day of hard-hitting Babe Herman.
The Cubs also were two men shy in
the mound department, Tex Carleton
and Curt Davis both being laid up with
sore arms. Third SaCker Joe Strip
of the Dodgers was absent and vam-
Gus others were limping a bit. Wally
Berger, the Bees cloutmg outfelder,
broke a finger during practice yester-
day
The Yanks' Charley rRedD Rufing
and Dolph Camilh of the PhiIlies,
who wasn't greatly missed yesterday,
remained as the No l holdouts-the
only players unsigned on the OPEN
ing day.
In contrast to these various miss
ing links in the base ball machines,
Lou Gehrig the indestructible Yankee,
turned up with a painful injury Of
finger on his right hand and every
intention of playing in his 1,8oeth
consecutive game in spite of it.
Evening star., 1937-04-20

1DA'S NINE WINS AGAIN.
Ida's Department Store base bail
team won another game when it wall
loped the Brooklyn A. c., 1872
Evening star., 1937-04-20
Phils Sure of Lead.

T 1NDER these conditions, virtually
the only certainty was that the
Phillies would remain atop the Ma
tional League for at least one more
day. They won their first contest
yesterday when Morris Arnovich, who
played with Hazleton. Pa, most Of
last season, hit home run in the
eleventh
Sylvester johnson limited the Bees
to four nits in eight innings of this
contest, while both his successor,
Bucky Walters. and Danny McFayden
turned in four -hitters in the after
noon. Errors by Tony Cuccinello and
Rabbit Warstler gave the Phils their
run.
Evening star., 1937-11-10

Of being confined to a hospital bed. But
the shock of the accident and the pain
which 1t involved ministered to her
spirit. She lacked strength to fight her
destiny. After few minutes of useless
struggle she submitted to the demand
of her fate-and became, incredibly, a
model invalid.
1t was year later that she died. And
during that final twelve months of her
earthly career she achieved a salvation
unimaginable to those who knew her
best. Doctors and nurses noticed it first.
Indeed, they watched it happen. She
softened visibly. The hurt of her body
was healing for her soul. BY the mo-
ment when she was carried home she
had changed so completely that the
cook declared: "Shes simply playing
'possum. When she's well she'll be a
she-devil again!"
But Mrs. Battersley never recovered.
Slowly, instead, she slipped away. Up
to the end she merited the love she had
won almost too late. 1t seemed to every
body that she was determined to wipe
out the past. She left the cook a thou
sand dollars "in acknowledgment of her
great patience"
Evening star., 1937-11-10
America Not Protected
From the Forces of War

To the Editor Of The Star:
The present conflict in the Far East
and in Europe has clenched the worlds
attention in viselike grip, as the gods
of war rub their hands in satisfaction
over the crumbling of humanity in the
wake of machines of death. The willing
student sees an evident lesson. teaching
the increasing immaturity of civiliza-
tion with the passing of time, and con-
cludes that men of real destiny have
spurned this era of unrest for perhaps
a more lucrative period in which to en-
ploy their talent for race betterment.
The residue, the remaining and present
mediocre leaders, ever ambitious, jeal-
Gus, retaliatiVe and instilled with a
craving for larger and more resplendent
inches in the depository of fame, race
each other down the corridors of history,
unaware of humanity's protest; pro-
test which, in the noise and hustle of the
race, they interpret only as spectator S
plaudit
Although two mighty seas barricade
us from actual slaughter, can we afford
to cherish the thought that destruction
will not some day ride the currents of
free air above us and in an unguarded
moment, drop living death upon us?
Unless saviour rises in our midst, may
we dare to hope for peace? Our pres
ent leaders have detoured from the
straight and narrow path so far that
we are indeed lost. H. c. WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1937-11-10
Administration Defies
Natural Economic Laws
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The recent statement of distinguished
professor in leading college that there
was an undoubted relation between sun
spots and business depression presents a
graphic illustration of the dense igno-
rance which now prevails in our halls of
learning in relation to possibly the most
important of all sciences, that of political
economy. Fundamental text books such
as THE Wealth of Nations" and Prog
ress and Poverty" have been cast aside
in favor of unrelated books on eco
nomics," and Sociology" etc., all of
which are based upon the premise that
there is no such thing as science of
political economy, no such thing as nat
ural law in the affairs of government, but
that decisions must be made in accord
ance with the wisdom of legislators as
each emergency arises.
The so-called brain trust at Washing
ton which has engineered New Deal legis-
lation has Illustrated the idea in every
one of it's major efforts to restore pros
perity that rational political economy was
a thing not to be honored but to be
avoided. So the Government defies nat
ural law and with less reason than did
King Canute in vain attempt to regu-
late production, to fix wages and hours
of labor satisfactory to labor unions and
to raise the prices of farm products and
reduce the rates of interest In accordance
with the demands of the farm blocs at
Washington.
HENRY WARE ALLEN.
Wichita, KanS.