Evening star., 1938-01-17
TRAFFIC DEATHS
REACH 8 AS TWO
DIE IN COLLISION
Former Major League Base
ball Player and Woman
Are Fatalities.
COMPANION INJURED
IN AUTO-CAR CRASH
Girl Critically Hurt as Bicycle
Strikes Side of Auto
mobile.

The Districts 1898 death toll from
traffic stood at eight today as the re-
suit Of an automobile street car
crash early yesterday that took the
lives of former major league baseball
player and young Government
worker.
j.. Another person suffered severe in
turies in the same mishap, while in
other accidents here and nearby five
more were hurt.
Those killed were Bailey Earl Clark,
-. of 48l8 Ninth street NV. former
outf1elder for the Boston club in the
National League and st. Louis in the
American, and Miss Lucy Ketchum. 20,
Of 1920 N street NV, a Federal
Housing Administration employe.
Auto and Car Collide.
Mr.. Clark was the driver and Miss
Ketchum passenger in a machine
In collision with street car at Four
teenth street and Arkansas avenue
NV, about l:30 am. Another occu-
pant of the automobile. Miss Helen
Evans, %, also of the N street ad-
dress. was injured.
The women, friends of the Clark
family, were being driven home by
Mr.. Clark when the accident occurred
The machine, proceeding west on
Arkansas avenue. was struck almost
broadside by the street car, said by
police to have been operated by Ray
mond Crist, 26, of 1888 Columbia
road NV.
Mr.. Clark was pronounced dead on
arrival at Garfield Hospital, where he
was taken by passing motorist Miss
Ketchum died at the same hospital
several hours later At Emergency
Hospital. Miss Evans was said to have
. dislocated collarbone, multiple con-
tusions and several fractured ribs.
The street car conductor was re-
leased in custody Of an attorney for
appearance at an inquest tomorrow.
Girl, IL, Is Injured.
A 12-year-old girl, Ann Donnelly,
b3l6 Twenty-eighth street NV. was
injured critically in another accident.
She was taken to Emergency with a
fractured skull, broken collar bone,
fractured ribs and cuts after her
bicycle struck the side of an auto
mobile at Thirty-second and North
ampton streets NV.
Irving w. Sayer, 10. of $50 Min
nesota avenue NE. received a back
injury and Shirley Shelton, IS, of SOB
Varnum street NV, was cut about
the head, face and arm in an accident
near Largo, Md. They were taken to
Casualty Hospital.
John L. Thomas. %, of Eighteenth
street Sc, was treated at Garfield
for cuts. and Rebecca Bomar, whose
age and address were not learned by
police. was given treatment at Gar
field for shock as the result of an
accident at Eleventh and U streets
NV.
Athletic Career Ends.
The fatal crash closed a colorful
athletic career for Mr.. Clark, who
had been employed for the past two
years as a photostat operator in the
r. H. A. distribution. department. Third
street and lexington place NE.
Before he became a professional
baseball player he was we'll known as
an amateur athlete in Washington,
having starred in sandlot baseball,
soccer and playground track meets.
Unusually fleet of foot, he set two
major league records for outf1elders
that still stand. This happened in
1929. when. while playing with the
Boston Braves, he faultlessly handled
13 chances and made IL put-outs in a
single game.
Funeral services for Mr.. Clark will
be held Wednesday at 10 am. at the
residence. Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Eleanor Clark; his parents, two
brothers. Abner and Thomas, and a
sister, Rachael.