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The Washington times., 1938-04-05

The setup was this: BarabaS
was on third and Keegin and
Heating on second and first, re-
spectively. AS Roger Beadle, Yer.
mont pitcher, started his slow
southpaw wtndup, Barabas
streaked for home and was safe
across the plate before Beadle
caught the act. Keegin and Keet.
ing moved UP simultaneously with
Barabas' steal Of the plate.
HELPED BY ERRORS
Georgetown failed to live I'D to
its hitting power yesterday. Per.
haps 1t was the southpaw slantS
OF Beadle which Silenced the vii.
lows. Eight bingleS were scored
however, but errors and walks
contributed greatly to the 10
runs scored by Joe Judges outfit.
Georgetown will clash with
Harvard on the Dental Field
Thursday at 8 o'clock, while Mary.
land takes to the road Friday
meeting Washington and Lee at
Lexington, Va. The Hoyas like.
wise have q Thursday engagement,
stacking UP against dartmouth
here. 81
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Georgetown, Maryland Victories
Auqur Greet Year for Local Mines

Fully convinced that they have
pretty fair baseball teams this
year, Georgetown and Maryland
return to heavy workouts this
afternoon, which will probably re-
suit in intersquad games, to pol
ish up for hard tits scheduled
later in the week.
Yesterday Georgetown pried off
the lid by whacking the Univer-
sity Of Fermont, 10-1, on
Dental Field, while Maryland an.
nexed its third straight game OF
the season by pounding out q
1873 decision over Cornell.
TERPs ON SPREE
Cornell and Maryland staged q
free scoring duel for the first
four innings Of play with the
score deadlocked at Ball. The
Terps. however, settled down and,
with Charley Weidenger on the
mound, came through in the late
stages Of the fray as the Big Red
team was held hitless. Maryland
collected Is hits in 81 times at bat.
GEORGETOWN stretched its win
ming ktreak to 10 straight VIC
tories yesterday The string ex-
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
Rowe Still Puzzle
Despite Fine Work

LAKELAND. Fla, April 5
QN.S0.-Just how much Of his
old-time form Lynwood School
boy" Rowe has recovered was still
a mystery today. This despite his
fine work in pitching the Detroit
Tigers to a SO victory yesterday
over Buffalo Of the International
League.
Hurting five innings, Rowe
yielded seven scattered hits, allow
ing one tally. Chef LaabS, chunky
centerfielder. contributed a home
run to the victory. The Brooklyn
Dodgers came to Lakeland today.
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everything seems to 60 alright.
However, when 7 started to play
in tournaments I quickly dis
covered my weakness was chip.
ping. When my approaches
SHE'D at the green's and I needed
q precise chip to offet the error
I didn't always get the bail close
enough to get down In one putt.
You can't do that two or three
times q round and expect to 90
places. Not in our kind Of com.
petition.
mo, I don't use a certain
club for chipping. There are
far too many different kinds Of
chips. If the green runs away
from me I use q maShie-nib
or even q nihlick and put brakes
on the ball. # the green Is
level or slightly upgrade I use
clubs with less loft so the ball
will have a chance to run.
Chipping Is fine for building
concentration. The little shots
demand careful, measured Strok.
ing, and 1t is here where most
Of the poorer players lose q
good many Of their strokes. The
nearer they get to the green's
the more their heads are likely
to go for the sky. Anxiety does
1t and anxiety is just plain fear
Of doing something wrong. Fear
shows the concentration to be
wobbly. On the other hand,
concentration breeds confusion.
"And there you are. II the
practice is made deadly serious,
concentration and conf d ence
will naturally follow"
fTomorrow IN the Washing.
ton Times Lester Rice presents
COILS nttghttest hitter, Jimmy
Thomson, tDho wiH tell hot0
balance gaze him hts great
length.)
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Precoution
Rookie FLees From
DOdger Bid

LAKELAND. Fla, April 5 GIN.
S0.-Skeeter Webb is so afraid Of
becoming a Brooklyn Dodger he
has gone into hiding.
Webb is a shortstop freed by
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands
Grand Rapids decision. Webb as
sured the Brooklyn club he
wouldn't sign with any club until
he heard their proposition.
Larry McPhail, vice president Of
the Dodgers, learned Cleveland
was after Webb and assigned Trav-
cling Secretary John A. Mcdonald
and Ted McGrew to sign Webb.
The shortstop was located at Or
lando, where he was being advised
by Eric McNair, Of the Red Sox.
Mcdonald asked him to talk to
Burleigh Grimes on the phone.
After contracting Grimes McDon.
old couldn't locate Webb. He not
only left the ball park but checked
out of his hotel.
And Mcdonald and McGrew
can't locate him.
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WALPER FORCES
CLAIM VICTORY

Cont. from First Sports Page)
dent; AL Houghton. Old Point Com
fort, vice president; Willie Schrei.
Der, Mt. Pleasant, secretary-treas.
urer, and Alec Taylor, Rolling
Road, honorary president.
The rotating system Of elections
was abolished at this meeting and
in all meetings hereafter elections
will be made from the floor much
in the same manner used by the
National P. G. A. It was also an.
nounced that qualifying rounds
for the National P. G. A. cham.
pionship would be played during
the week of June Is over a Balti.
more, Md, course selected by a
committee composed Of Ralph
Beach. Witty Cox, Bob Barnett,
and Willie Schneider.
The following tournaments
dates were selected:
April 11-Belle Haven Country Club,
Alexandra, va, amateur-pro.
April %. 20. 24-Middle Atlantic P. q.
A., Old Point Comfort, Va.
May 2-Woodholme Club, Baltimore.
amateur-pro.
May iS-woodmont Club, Washing.
ton, open.
June 6 - Winchester Country Club,
Winchester. Va, amateur-pro
June 27-Clifton Park course, Balti-
more, amateur-pro.
July I1-BeaTer Dam Club. Washing.
ton, alnateur-rro.
July 36-Hillendale, Baltimore. anna.
teur-pro.
August S-capital Country Club, Wash.
ington, amateur-pro.
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CAGERS
A, A. U, CHAMPS

Regal ClothierS hold the Metro.
politan A. A. q. senior basketball
crown today.
In a low-scoring game at Tech
High last night, Royals defeated
Federal Bureau Of Investigation,
20 to II, to win the championship
Of the unlimited division.
Regal started auspicious1y
enough when it took q 6-to-0 lead
In the first few minutes Of the
game. But close guarding by both
teams cut the shooting short and
as a result the Clothiers held q
15-to-9 lead at intermission.
The second half was slower with
only IL points scored. Royals &C
counted for but five points, while
the Omen contributed seven.
In the preliminary, the cham
pionship final in the 145-pound
division, Columbia Beverage de-
feated w. w. Chambers, AZ to Il.
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School CastOff
Signed by Browns

LYNN, Mass, April 5 (1.N.s).
Although he failed to report for
baseball at Lynn English High
School because he thought he
wasn't good enough" Oscar
Carppi, 21-year-old southpaw hurler
today was signed to q st. Louis
Browns contract and will report
to the Middle Atlantic League
farm team at Johnstown, Penn,
April II.
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weight, was eliminated without an
opponents glove landing on him.
It was the physicians stethoscope
that kayoed him as sub-par physi-
cally.
Washington, D. c. boxers failed
to survive the days activity. Willie
Tapp, 11S, was defeated by Bob
QuammeS Of Salem, Ore: Ray
Pursley, lat, was trounced by
Harry Shaw of New Orleans; and
Ralph Harris, 169, after defeating
Armando Pieroni Of San Fran.
cisco in the first round, bowed out
to Shelton Bell Of Wherefore,
Ohio, in the second round.
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second In his first national open
championship, that the average
golfer doesn't use his head when
he practices, but goes about
schooling himself desultorily
and haphaZardly.
"A half hour Of intelligent
practice is worth 80 hours Of
'diddy-bumping' about the
course" Snead said. Most
golfers who play badly have poor
concentration or no concentra-
ton whatever.
Concentration Is the very
core Of good golf. No one can
pin his mind on the ball properly
unless he's had plenty Of heads
down practice.
THOUGHTLESS GOLFERS
USUALLY golfers stand ct q tee
and bang away at q bag Of balls
without paying more than
casual attention to what they
are doing. When they finish
they aren't any better than
when they started. That kind
Of practice is worse than none.
"When the practice is intelli.
gent each stroke Is made delib"
erately and carefully. Concen-
tration then deepens quickly.
The player becomes completely
wrapped UP In what he Is doing.
He makes every shot an impor-
tant shot. When he goes out for
8 round he then doesn't find it
too difficult to do the things
he wants to do. He is better
able to think about them.
Those who look. with wonder
on the splendid form and ease
of the professional do not real.
lie the long hours he has de.
voted to practice slavery.
CHIPPING ONCE PROBLEM
Nov take myself. I've always
worked hard at my game. I used
to give an hour or two every
day to concentrated practice.
Whenever the mood struck me
I'd work, for 1t was then I
found the mind most willing.
Now that am playing in more
tournaments I don't practice as
much because opportunities
don't present themselves as
often.
There is nothing about my
game I really have to watch.
with mo It's more Of q mental
attitude. II I feel keen to play
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
One in a Thousand

IT know now that it takes
time to make a great ball player.
I think I can become a good
player with experience, but I'm
green"
What do you think of a man
like that?" demanded Frisch as
he told me the story Of Baugh.
"He is one in one thousand. He
IS a great star in football; one
Of the greatest I ever saw. A
lot OF men with hsi reputation
would be chesty. Rockies come
in here and think they're big
leaguerS. Baugh is different.
"He will be a player. He is
better right now than I was
when I joined the Giants. I"
Frisch said, 81 don't know why
Mr.. McGraw ever kept me.
do you know that when I
Joined the Giants I batted cross
handed?" asked Frisch. Think
= that, batted cross-handed. It
took weeks of work in the morn
tngS to teach me to hit correctly.
"Baugh was all wrong. at the
plate. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall.
but he hit out of a crouch. His
swing was bad. He couldn't get
the bat around,
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ton of base Frank Buck" cNeill
ball: His hands were swifter
than a cats paws. He made
plans instinctively. He was des-
tined to join that select group
of boys who stepped from
college into the major leagues.
The picture has changed
slightly since that time. Baugh
still has the fine hands, and the
same swift reflexes. He is a
good ball player. Best of all, he
Is smart. Baugh sought out
Frankie Frisch voluntarily and
admitted that he would welcome
q year in the minors to really
study baseball.
II thought major league base
ball was like college baseball"
Baugh said to Frisch the other
day in the sanctuary Of the
managers dressing room at st.
Petersburg. But I've been
using my eyes and my brain.
I've watched Johnny Mize and
Joe Medwick hit. I've seen Pep
per Martin get the break on a
pitcher. Gutteridge and Stu
Martin taught me things about
infield play. saw how they did
the things you told me to do.
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
Central High Nine
Faces Roosevelt

In a practice game to be played
at Central High Stadium, but
having no bearing on the inter.
high baseball race, Central and
Roosevelt will tangle today start
ing at $3.50 o'clock. Both teams
are reported strong, and the re-
suit Of the game may give follow
ers Of inter.high baseball here
some idea as to the relative
strength of the two clubs.
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The West held the edge over the
East. 80 to "a, in number Of
survivors.
A total Of "a boxers remained In
the eight classes, following 100
preliminary bouts, "a Of which
ended in knockoutS.
New York's survivors came from
Buffalo, Albany, and New York
city. California placed three from
San Francisco and one from
Stockton. New England had three
remaining, the South had four and
three come from Territorial
Hawaii.
Elimination bouts continue TO.
night, with semifinals and finals
tomorrow.
Ed Sweet, King College middle
The Washington times., 1938-04-05

tends from the season before last
when the last five games were
won. Petroskey and Bertrand
divided the hurting assignment for
the Hilltoppers and limited the in.
vading Green Mountain boys to
four scattered hits.
The feature Of the game at the
Hilltop was struck when the HoyaS
ENGINEERED o triple steal.
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
WINS DECISION

NEWARK, N. j., April 5.
Freddy Cochrane, 1873, Elizabeth,
N. j.. defeated Make Fisher. 1877,
Newark, in the eight-round main
event at Laurel Gardens last
night. In the eight-round semi
windup, Steve Kahley, 154, Hazel.
ton, Pa, dew with Tony Fisher,
Newark,
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
Washington Boys
Club Schedule
CENTRAL BRANCH
RAsKETRALn LEAGUE

BAsKETBALL LEAGUE
14S-pound class-Friday, April Q. 1913
p. m.-Metropolitan Police Boys Club
No. 5 W. Georgetown Branch. Friday,
April 8, s:15 D. rn.-salvation Army vs..
Northeast Branch. Saturday, April o.,
p. m.-GeorgStown Branch We. Vienna
NORTHEAST BRANCH
Soft Ball-wednesday, April 8, $50
.. 1m.-Yanks vs.. Braves. Friday April
9, $50 p. m.-Giants We XankA
GEORGETOWN BRANCH
JUNIOR SECTION
overwhelmingly, April Z, 8 p. m.
wonders vs.. Shooting Stars. Thurs
day. April Z, S:20 p. m.--FlaShes vs..
Terrors.
INTERMEDIATE SECTION
Baskstball-Thursday, April !. P. m.
-0iover PARK 70. FogRy Bottom. Thur
day. April Z, s:20 ,. un.-Wiseonsan Ave.
W. Key Bridge.
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ton Redskins,
appa re n t ly
was establish.
ed as third
baseman of
the st. Louis
c in a Is.
The boy who
thrilled grid
iron enthuSi-
aSts around
the circuit of
the National
Football Lea
6 u W a S
hailed as the
coming SenSa-
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
Daniels OutpOints
Swimmer in Six

Maynard Daniels, Arlington
county heavyweight who has been
fighting as q professional but six
months, scored a 12-round decision
over Jimmy Swimmer in Norfolk
last night.
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
Strafaci Sets Pace
In Pinehurst Golf

pINEHURST, N. c.. April 5 GIN.
SO.-Frank Strafaci. Of New York,
today was out in front In q field
Of ITS entrants In the North and
South amateur golf tourney. He
led the qualifying round yester-
day with Q 32-3S-70, two under
PAL.
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Natural Player

$50 figure out for yourself
how I feel when a prospect like
9augh comes and tells me that
he sees where he is lacking IN
baseball knowledge. That he
wants a chance to play ball so
that he can come back in an
other year and win place on
the team. Don't let anyone tell
you that I'm sour On that boy
or that he hasn't a chance to
make a great ball player.
I'm stronger for him now
than I was when he first re-
ported. He is a far better ball
player, with some idea Of how
to use his natural talents.
Anyone who has seen Gut
teridge and Stu Martin and
the only Pepper knows that
right now Sam is outclasSed. A
year in the minors, with careful
instruction which I shall see
that he receives, will be the
making Of Sammy Baugh."
Outside on the bench, Baugh
sat with his eyes riveted on the
infield practice. He chatted
pleasantly but never lost track
Of the ball
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COLLEGE BASEBALL

Maryland ....12 Cornell .......S
Georgetown. 10 Vermont .......1
Princeton al c. C. N. Y.....5
No. Carolina. II Dartmouth see. 1
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DISTRICT TENNIS
BODY MEETS TO
SCHEDULE.
BY GNO SINH


Now that Old Sol seems to have
DOTTED his "drizzle-puss" and gone
into his spring dance for keeps,
the corpuscles are popping in the
veins Of local tennis addicts Of
either persuasion.
Drawing Bill Shreve stopped
tomping out termites at the
Tennis Shop door, shifted him.
self q COB Of springlike ozone and
reckoned that it was time to call
q meeting Of the tennis schedule
committee to arrange the dates
Of the divers major tournaments
within this Jurisdiction.
And so Thursday night at 8
o'clock WaShington's Titans of
tennis viii foregather at the
Tennis shop to arrange the Jig.
saw puzzle Of tournaments into
a recognizable pattern Of names,
dates and maybe locations.
AMONG THOSE PRESENT
Present will be Stan McCaskey,
District Tennis Association vice
president, Felix M. Silva, Bill
Dismer, Shreve and Mrs. Dorette
Miller. lending the feminine touch
and also keeping an optic on the
female angle.
Eight major events, several of
them yearly institutions, are to be
fitted into their places. First on
the card is the City Of Washing
ton tournament, about the mid
die Of May. This event includes
mems singles and doubles and
women's singles and doubles.
Early part Of June will witness
the second running Of the Wash
ington Times tournament, which
also includes mems singles and
doubles and women's singles and
doubles.
JULY BUSY MONTH
Toward the end Of June the Dis
trict mems tournament takes over
the spotlight, followed during July
by the Middle Atlantic mems
doubles, the Public Parks tourna-
ment, including men and women
events, and the Middle Atlantic
singles, with q probability that
either the women's District League
or District open tournament will
crowd itself into the 81 days Of
the month commemorating Julius
Caesar.
August will entertain the Gov
eminent Clerks tournament, o.
closed affair which draws q large
field, and the Fairgrounds tourna-
ment which attracts the city's top
Fighters In a final bid for ranking
honorS.
THREE PROS MAP WORK
Washington's three tennis pros,
Gene Hermann, at Army and
Navy; Dan Watson, at Chevy
Chase, and Frank Goeltz, at Co
lumbia, are mapping their seasons
work at their respective places.
Watson has come up with q lot
Of fresh ideas from Florida winter
resorts, while Goeltz Is down from
his Wilkes-Barre, Pa, home ready
for q crowded calendar, and snil-
ing Gene, who does his wintering
right at his job, has been prepar-
ing himself for his usual efficient
week by week grind, leavened with
q good deal Of special activities.
Spring is in the air and the
rollers and the kalsomine line
markers are on the tennis courts.
Swing that racquet, chuml
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u. &. Boxers Lose In
NAtIA. Il. Il. T0urwev
By FRANK THOMPSON
International NeWs Service Sports Writer

BOSTON, April (IN.S) -Placng II men, New York
State today led all others the number of in
preliminary rounds of the National Amateur Athletic Union
boxing championships at Boston Garden
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
Over the Fence

HE couldn't hit an outside
PITCH" explained Frisch. 81 took
him out to center field and sat
down with him and had him
watch Medwick and Mize. I
showed him where they held
their bats and how they followed
through on their swing. Sam is
hitting that outside pitch now"
"He heet two outside balls
over the rightfield fence These
morning." said Miguel Gonzales,
the famous old Cuban catcher,
now coach Of the Cardinals.
Hell hit a lot Of them before
long," said FriSch.
The theme changed. Frisch
ceased to talk about hits and
runs.
II have a heart-breaking Job
every spring." he said. 81 have
to call in a squad Of boys who
come down here just as went
down with the Giants. They
have great hopes. I can't tell
them that they can't play ball.
Not in those words. They're hui
man beings. But a lot Of them
are not major leaguers, and
some Of them never will be.
But they argue and try to shout
their way over your decision.
Most Of them think that there's
nothing to this major league
baseball business. Try to show
them their mistakes and you
have a fight on your hands.
They have a thousand excuses.
Some Of them quit, their
spirit broken when you tell them
that they've got to go back for
further seasoning.
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Chief Fault Of Poor Golfer Is the Lack Of
Concentration, Says Sam

This Is the first of OF educational golf articles
Lester Rice international Neos Services noted golf expert
ch he presents to readers OF The Washington Times the
endGtons for better golf Of IL Of the couys outstanding
professionally
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
By LESTER RICE

NEW YORK April 5-Sammy Snead speaking
IF prescribe the thing amateur golfers need
most, it is serious intelligent practice in
doses Of say one-haf hour day"
It is the opinion Of the drawy West Virginia who finished
The Washington times., 1938-04-05
It's This
Way
By FRANK BUCK" ONEnL

ORLANDO, Fla, April 5.
Two weeks ago Sam Baugh,
"Slingin' Sam of the Washing
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-09-02
RECORD SHOW WOMAN
FORMED JURY IN 1879

WPA workers on a historical pro-
ject have discovered that jury COM
posed entirely of women heard case
at Accomac, Va, March 18, 1879.
The jury of IL sat in a case be-
fore his "majesties justice of thu
peace" involving another woman ant
is believed by officials of the project
to be the first such jury in this coun-
try.
The records unearthed by the WPA
workers named members of the jury
as Mary Watts, Elizabeth Cutler, Jane
Taylor, Mary Hill, Margaret Jenkins
Matilda West, Mary Mikell, Mary An.
derson, Amey Calvert, Ann Fem
Mary Sipple and Elener Calvert.
The women actually sat as a cor.
oner's jury Investigating the parent
age and death of an illegitimate child.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-09-02

er story of human beings, millions and
millions of human beings, all engaged
in a giant plan of self-betterment. 1t
is not a story of centralized paternal-
ism in governmental is story of
cooperation, a story of the states func
tioning Jointly with Washington, a
story of citizens working with their
democracy in stirring effort to make
the ancient dream of well-being for all
become a lasting actually for all.
This is not fiction; it is reality; it is
taking place now.
There is this further spirit in the
story: as it is being written, no Amer
lean deliberately seeks to obstruct it's
natural development. Social security
as an idea, as principle, as a nation
al system, is favored by all. Differ
ences of opinion-and there are some
important differences-exis only in
respect to methods of administration
and the technique of financing. These
are matters that must be ironed out
and will be ironed out. They are by no
means insurmountable. Not at all per-
feet, the American system of social
security is still young; as it natures,
it can be expected to effect constant
in itself by eliminating
flaws and weaknesses as they appear
or are demonstrated.
And in thus improving itself, the
system will remain what it is today
basically sound, basically sensible
When he marked it's third anniversary
with speech last week, President
Roosevelt struck the right note. "1n
our efforts to provide security for
alp, he said, "let us not allow our
selves to be misled by those who adj
vocate shortcuts to utopia" The
system now in it's fourth year is no
such shortcut. It is simply what one
official has aptly called "a partner
ship of mutual protection between the
American people and their govern