The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05

pons before
starting his BilI coFum
spring tour Of the ball orchards.
He is also thinking Of opening q
brokerage office. Not with an
idea Of making money. Nobody
expects to make money in q
brokerage office any more, But
he's q nice fellow, AL, and he
thinks Wall Street could stand
Q little cheering up.
Schacht has condensed his re-
port on the camps into three
WordS-Beware Of Brooklyn!
He says the Dodgers will be
the most improved team in
either major league.
BETTER BUSINESS
Baseball must be q better
business. even than those Of US
who are close to it realize, for
Stark's in town to study models
for q new home he is going to
build in Palm Beach this fall.
Dolly has bought q lot on Re-
tirement Road and his next
door neighbors will be Joe Ban.
non and Sam Harris (Winkin',
Blinkin' and Nod
I can just hear some Of those
tobacco-chewing ball players
when the news gets around that
Stark has built himself q villa
In Palm Beach.
II wish I knew your butler"
they'll tell him, so I could send
my card in to tell you that you
are q blind, thieving, half.wit.
ted crook, that's been playing
hooky from Mattewan ever
since you fell out Of your cradle
on what passed for your head"
UmpireS have to travel pretty
much alone for six months Of
the year. They stay at little
hide-away hotels. ride on differ.
ent trains from the ball teams,
and are under orders about the
sort Of places in which they can
and cannot he seen.
I bumped into Beans Reardon
in Los Angeles this winter and
he confessed, somewhat rue.
fully, that 1t looked as though
he was going to wind UP saving
money In spite Of himself.
Stark says he didn't see q
single ball game while he was In
Florida, or q team in practice.
He's going to spend the next
couple Of weeks playing hand.
ball with Jim Crowley In the
Fordham gymnasium to get in.
to shape, although he looks fit
now.
Incidentally, the writer wishes
to thank the young men OF
Fordharn for voting him their
favorite sports scribbler. We
didn't make that Rose Bowl,
but nobody can say We didn't
give it a brisk wrestle. And our
loss was CALIFORNIA; gain. They
didn't have to try bouncing
''Wojee & Co." around.
POPULAR DISH
They are going to have a
Fordham night in Jim Brad
docks new restaurant soon,
which reminds me that steak
with cauliflower has become the
most popular dish in our town.
Dempsey Is on every corner
where there's a policeman.
Benny Leonard caters to the
ITpper Broadway trade In q most
ettracttve spot. Mickey
walkers '"Toy Bulldog" is busy
and busting across from the
Garden, Little Jack Sharkey
manages q "sportman's CAFE"
Ia the filet mignon fiftieS.
Tony Canzoneri descended
from his championship throne
to the dull martS Of the eating
trade and now comes Brad.
docks Corner" which isn't on q
corner ct all.
We wish Jim Braddock
mighty well. Everybody does.
His native sincerity and his
dramatic comeback from the
docks and relief roles have com.
bined to make him one OF
sports most popular figures.
It's getting so the old line
chop house proprietors shudder
every time they hear Of another
fighter retiring, and it's q ques-
ton now whether the production
Of beef cattle can keep up with
the cauliflower trade.
Conditions have reached the
point, indeed, where the MesSrs.
willie Moore and Toots Shor
have petitioned me to see what
I can do about securing them
licenses to wrestle this summer.
They figure that a restaurant
run by q wrestler would be a
novelty. They were all doing all
right at last accounts, however,
which is the way we hope 1t
will continue to be.
But think Of all the poor, sad
eyed cattle that are going to
have to suffer. II o hart was
Q steer, instead Of a deer, you
could say that there was .
broken hart for every light on