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Evening star., 1939-03-28
Tony Says Dempsey
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, March 28.-Bul-
letin: Members of the Yankee
brain trust believe Lou Gehrig
will be good for two more years
and that his successor will
be Frank Milani, last year with
Wenatchee, Wash, who will
cavort for Binghamton this
summer.
Jockeys arriving from the coast
say the stewards out there were
tougher than ever this season,
knocking the boys off for 10 and
is days for minor offenses.
Horace Stoneham, Jint owner,
flew in from New Orleans
crammed to the adenoids with
good French food and higher
than a kite on Zeke Bonura.
Casey Stengel has decided
Buddy Hassett can't sing first
base as well as he does first tenor
and has consigned him to the
outdeld.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Mats Vet SIobmen Get Jittery
AS Weaver Sale Proves Gri4
Serious About 'Young' Club

Deshong is sitting right across
from Kelley in the same boat.
Jimmy had bad years in 1897 and
1888. This year he looks stronge"
than at any time since 1886. When
he won 18 games for Washington.
but the only time he has been tried
was against Chattanooga in a
highly informal game. His work
today against the Cardinals will
carry an extra measure of import
In the case of Appleton there is
not so much pressure. Harris is
convinced that Pete is pretty fair
sort of relief pitcher. particularly
IN the spring. Appleton has curve
ball that ranks close to being the
best and as he grows older Pete
seems to become more confident.
But he still must deliver. There
are too many other candidates for
his fire-hat role to- allow Pietro to
become lax. Kelley is one and De-
shong is another. Then, too, are
Joe Haynes, Rene Monteagudo. and
Bucky Jacobs. All of them have
the earmarks Of capable relief
pitchers.
"Rainmaker" Kills Mats Game,
The first real Florida rain of the
year washed out the Mats game
yesterday with Kansas City in
Haines City. A Miss Ellie Shoate,
62-year-old "rainmaker" from Ok
ford. Miss. and imported by the
fruit growers Of Central Florida, sat
beside lake near Haines City and
wished for rain yesterday. It fell
and the Mats, after taking the field,
were ordered off.
The success Of the "rainmaker.' "
widely hailed by citrus growers.
postponed Harris look at a couple
OF his more promising newcomers,
Haynes and Carrasquel, they were
to have divided the pitching against
Kansas City. As it was, both
warmed up and were sent back 10
Orlando, while the remainder of
the Griffmen climbed aboard the
bus and came to Tampa to spend
the night.
Weaver. who stoically received
news of his trade to the Red Sox.
jumped into his car and chased
the bus as far toward Tampa as
the road that bends and leads to
Sarasota, training site of the Sox.
ITS all right with me-" said Monte
AFTER all. it's their (Griff, Cronin
Yawkey. ct all business. I sup
pose I'll get more chance to pitcn
with Boston than I would have with
Washington.
Evening star., 1939-03-28

Benny Leonard has donated
his services as referee for the
Pal Moran benefit shot in New
Orleans April 10. (Moran is the
guy who convinced Benny he had
better retire while he still had
his healthy
The Reds are denying their
chimpanzee mascot will be used
as trading material to the
Dodgers That East-West de-
bate over which had the worst
f1ght-Louis- -Galento or Louis
Roper-ended in a dead heat.
Today's guest star-Tommy
Meany, New York World -Tele-
gram: Bob Feller has the fastest
ball since Walter johnson and
the fastest auto since Ralph De
Palma"
When Tony Galento heard
Jack Dempsey's prediction that
Louis will win in q round, he
said: That's just another saloon.
keeper talking"
Joe Gordon, who batted eighth
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Not Power,
Gets Yanks Flags,
Records Show
Team Play Also Helpful
To Club Batting Sixth,
But at Top on Slab
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. March
28.-Manager Joe Mccarthy cited
the record books today to prove his
contention a combination of team
work and pitching was the success
secret of the New York Yankees.
"All this talk about the Yankees
blasting their way to the champion
ship on sheer power does not COIN
eide with the records" said Nc
Carthy, getting ready to close the
spring training camp here and head
northward with his team.
What power are they talking
about? The Yankees only had
three hitters in the 800 class last
year. Look it up for yourself"
A quick check of the averages for
1888 upheld the stocky manager.
Team Play Great Help.
Washington, Chicago and Boston
all had seven sluggers who hit for
300 or better last year. Cleveland
had four, and the rest of the clubs.
including New York. had three each.
Look at the team batting aver
ages and see where We finished"
Mccarthy prompted.
The Yankees finished sixth at
.274, nosing out only Philadelphia
and Detroit.
If you want to know how the
Yankees win championships. it is
because they play championship
ball." Mccarthy continued. We
have the best team play. Our club
has been playing together for years.
The boys work together. They
know each others weaknesses and
fine points. They back up plays.
They talk baseball and discuss win.
ming plays. They are out there
helping each other all the time.
Yanks' Pitching Superb.
But the chief thing that is over
looked when people start talking
about Yankee power is our pitching.
We had the best pitching in the
league last year, if you'll recall the
records"
Again cCarthy was right.
Yankee pitchers led the league in
yielding the least number of runs,
the least number of earned runs and
had the lowest earned run average
per game, 3.31.
You can't win without pitching
and the Yankees have been getting
it." Mccarthy said, almost wistfully
as if he had his fingers crossed for
his pitching in 1889.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Day Big Menace
Armstrong
Fans Feel
Odds on WeIter Kinq
Drop os Challenger
Stars in Training
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 28.-Proof
that Henry Armstrong, the welter-
weight czar, no longer is considered
unbeatable along Tin Ear Alley was
offered today when the odds on his
fight with Davey Day dropped to
2 to in favor of the champion.
This is a very short price on
Henry. He was a more substantial
favorite before he licked Barney
Ross and Lou Ambers for the well
terweight and lightweight titles.
There is plenty of Day money and
prevailing opinion is that Henry's
three years of almost continuous
mauling have taken their toll. He
is liable to be beaten by Day, a
heady. courageous workman.
Days cheering section of Man
ayers Sam Plan and Art Winch and
Ex-Champion Barney Ross may
have something to do with it. The
betting boys get an earful of the
trio in full voice and then whittle
the price.
Tall Day Is Inf1ghter.
Armstrong was a 4-to-1 favorite
when he came to town last week.
Day had been working out only a
couple of days when the price
dropped to 3 to !. Yesterday there
was flock of fresh folding money
in evidence, much of it from people
who saw Davey cut up Tommy
SPECIAL out in Pittsburgh and more
from chronic short-enders, who
think Armstrong is ripe. 1t is to l
today.
The lanky Chicagoan has helped,
too. He looks very good. He is tall
for welter, 5 feet 8, but he does not
fight like most fellows built that
way. Instead Of standing off and
jabbing, he moves in with his hands
close to his body and fires away. His
best punch is right uppercut.
which is the punch Ambers cut
Henry with. He is very durable and
never has been stopped.
We talked with him yesterday
after the cheering session nearly
blew the roof of Stillman's during
his workout. 1t is pleasant to know
he has no set scheme for beating
Armstrong. but he is very sure
Henry is ready to be taken.
Confident Of Victory.
"Lookit," he said. Armstrong has
been fighting for 10 years, about
twice month for the last three
years and nobody knows how much
before that. All the guys I know
say he can't be licked. He probably
don't think so himself. That's the
time he can get licked and I'll do it,
Days worst point is this: He
warns up slowly. II don't get un-
tracked till around the sixth or
seventh round" He will have to
warm up fast against Henry or the
Negro will knock his head Off
Davey was born in Des Moines,
but he has lived most of his life on
Chicago's West Side, district that
has grown many good fighters.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
BY q STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

oS 5tdH SUIIeSpUIlUSQL Oh 4ue St6I.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
28.-One more pitcher shy, follow
ing the sale of Monte Weaver to
the Red SoX, the Nationals today
picked up the thread of their ex-
hibition campaigning against the st.
Louis Cardinals here. And, as they
did so, more than one veteran hurler
began to look around and hope for
a safe landing.
The sale of Weaver, always one of
President Clark Griffiths favorite
workmen, proved beyond doubt that
the Old Fox is serious about rebuild
ing on youth. Ever since he came
back from Albany in 1896, Weaver
mas been a winning pitcher for the
Mats. But his crime was being 80
years old and, ostensibly. there is no
room for old ballplayers on the
Washington squad.
Griffith said. in the beginning,
that he was going to rebuild his ball
club. 1--WE may get worse before we
get BETTER he warned. but we're
a-rebuilding" So he sold Zeke Bo-
nura and AL Simmons and Elon
Hogsett and now he has dispatched
Weaver to Son-in-Law Joe Cronins S
team for price believed to be $4,000.
And, in the wake of the deal, Messrs.
Harry Kelley, Jimmy De Shong and
Pete Appleton are wondering and
hoping.
Griff, Bucky Not FOoling.
Weaver's sale proved that Griffith
and Manager Bucky Harris weren't
fooling when they talked of starting
Ken Chase and Joe Krakauskas. the
in-again- -out-again Finnegans of the
pitching staff. They must use Dutch
Leonard as starter. too, and the
fourth assignment figures to fall
either to De Shong or Alexandra
Carrasquel, the broad shouldered
Venezuelan.
Even with Weaver gone, the Mats
have more pitchers than they can
use. The quality may be dubious
but the quantity is here. Kelley
showed enough at times last year to
be ranked as one of the better pitch
ers, but there was nothing consistent
about the roly poly veteran. And If
Harry doesn't work his way into a
starting job the chances are that he
will lose out. He is too inclined to
pick up weight if idle for long, even
as relief pitcher.
AS the Mats were to resume COM
petition today, Appleton and De
Shong were to pitch. Tomorrow,
when the Griffs return to Orlando,
Chase and Kelley will face the Car
dinals in another test. For all ex-
cept Chase these are important as
signments.
De Shong, Kelley Must Deliver.
No Nat has been more oonscien-
tious in training than Kelley, who
was bought for $4,000 by Griffith last
year when the old gent figured the
Washingtons had a chance to sneak
into the first division. When Kelley
reported he weighed 218 pounds, or
close to IS pounds over his best
pitching weight. He was heavy when
he came South this year but he has
worked much of his extra weight of.
But Harry has yet to be seriously
tested this spring and tomorrow's
assignment will be important to him.
If he shows that he won't do, Harry
may find himself back on the mar
ket and there is no guarantee that
he will be as fortunate as Weaver
and wind up with q club that figures
to be In the nag fight.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Varied Sports
BY the Associated Press,

Cellege Baseball.
Ohio State. 4; Maryland. 8.
Hampden-Sydney 12: Colby. q,
1. 8 o.. Z: U. Of Minnesota. 4.
q. Of Delaware 3; Bridgewater, 1.
Georeia. 3; Michigan State. 2 40 in.
N. C. A. A. Basket Final.
q. Of Oregon. 40; Ohio State. 80.
Professional Basket Tourney
New York Rens. 81; Harlem Globe
Oshkosh AIl-stars. 40: sheboysan Red
skins. %.
CelleEe Hockey.
PITTSBURGH. 2: Duouesne. /.
National Amateur Hockey.
New York Rovers 4; Detroit Holzbaush-
Ford. 8.
College Tennis
Colby. z: Hampden- Sydney o.
North Carolina, 8; Richmond. O.
Williams College-William and Mary.
rain.
Cellege Golf.
osofsis. 18M: Hamdm-eydnsy. ~.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Training Season Indicates American League Has Increased Edge Over Nona
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY,

TODAY.
Baseball.
Washington VS.. st. Louis Car.
dinals, st. Petersburg, Fla.
Bethesda Chevy Chase W.
Georgetown Prep, Garrett Park,
Md, $3.50.
Swimming.
District A. A. U. low-board div
Ing championships, Ambassador
pool, 8.
Basket Ball.
Annual game between current
and former high school stars,
Tech gym, $3.50.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
st. Louis Cardinals VS.. Wash.
ington, Orlando, Fla.
Ice Hockey.
Georgetown Hockey Club vs..
Catholic u, Chevy Chase Ice
Palace, $3.50.
Boxing.
District A. A. U. tournament,
Turner's Arena, $3.50.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN
al Corresp ndent The Star
The Professor Moves Along

PETERSBURG national import the
rgtnded in batting and
throwing Washington
which accepted casually
shrugged their shoulders eloquenty asked
what?" ordered another with chaser
AS far the baseball carvoyant it
unmporant TOKEN popular transfer
ball poentaties Most
OF ALL 1t break for good guy.
Mats didn't Monte They really haven't regarded
him indispensable since when Cronn led Wash
ington Bucky Harris the of trade could find
Carolnian
His slate advance Weaver ddn
figure. newspaperman
Bucky planned pitch him.
II don't know said Harris If had shouted the houops
would
palmer something suspicion that
washed
Evening star., 1939-03-28

last season, has been promoted
to the Yank power division and
hits sixth this year The
Indians are rowing with the
company that supplies the juice
and may not have night baseball
after all.
The Philadelphia Eagles offer
to Davey O'Brien was the largest
in the history of the National
Football League When Henry
Armstrong hangs 'em up, Eddie
Mead will open boxing booking
Office here.
You're not going to catch
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Baseball

Games To-day.
BY the Associated Press.
St. Louis tN) VS.. Washington AO.
Chicago tND VS.. Chicago tAD.
Pittsburgh tN) VS.. San Francisco P. C).
Cincinnati tN) VS. Detroit IAD.
Philadelphia (N) VS.. st. Louis (A).
Brooklyn (N) VS.. New York "a.
Boston (AD VS.. Kansas City "a, Az.
New York (N) VS.. Dallas tT).
Detroit B team fA) VS.. Buffalo 0O.
Results Yesterday.
Washington AJ vs.. Kansas City "A.
st. Louis tN). 10: Boston tN.). s..
Brooklyn (ND. 3; New York (A.). q
Boston (AD, "a: Louisville "a. AZ. 2.
Philadelphia (Ao. Z: New Orleans Il.
PITTSBURGH CN.). s.; San Francisco P.
Chicago (N) VS.. Los Angeles tP. C).
Detroit (A.) VS.. Cincinnati tN.). can.
celled. rain
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Fought His Way Back From Minors

could thrown back had he
been inclined and fingers of would been raised His
health went bad him pitch He stopped
eating took swallowing ppink brown
his weight dropped alarngly it followed that strength
Life Monte visits doctors after
another He dropped into the period
Albany
farm to Newsom Louis
A lot Of critics said that Monte would be back
there Albany that displaying characteristic
doggednes found himself He lost Is
of sandoes and minor mss malconents
he pitched himself another the
he didn't lose when he finally back He of 10
1886 IL Of 81 the Last lost and most
of all, he
may develop pitcher
He wouldn't have the Mats The Washington firm
relief spot pitching
for pitchers
Mats
gaping the time the Mats that
will battle
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Monte Always Cove the Enemy Bottle

There to knowing just Monte Weaver
would have been the aint
he superb In his second which the 1888 which
the Mats the only 10
he only lost veand when they decisions
Weaver pitched the best Washington the World
Series that fall against Giants He fell
him. but typical Weaver threw fought
grudgingly lost
have been thinking that he authorized the deal lot
think When Jack all washed
American couple grabbed him
what grand relief pitcher he for the 1888 Mats
Harris Mccarthy Del Baker and all have the
thing always bring the form
showed them Whether question
that whenever Weaver pitching there always chance victory
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Brandt Now an AnqeI

HOLLYWOOD, March % P.-
Pitcher Ed Brandt, released last
week by the Pittsburgh Pirates for
what Manager Pie Traynor called
keeping late hours" came to terms
today with Hollywood of the Pacific
Coast League
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Kansas City Golf OFF

KANSAS CITY, March % P).-
The Kansas City Golf Association
today cancelled its second annual
$4,000 open golf tournament, tenta-
lively scheduled in July.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Pirate Rookie Improves

SAN FRANCISCO R.- Bill
Clemenson has shown greater i'm
provement than any other rookie
hurler on the Pittsburgh Pirates
squad this season.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Sports Mirror
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Today a year ago-Luke Ap-
pnng, Chicago White Sox short
stop, fractured leg sliding into
second base In exhibition game
with Cubs.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
He Faded After Being Freshman Sensation

But talking about Weaver weren't we? As said before
popular deal Nearly all the said
Of uniform
Weaver not great pitcher Eight there
OF his Monte
stomach revealed
losing his
his ball from the sharp and after
Ing him closely far they began cali his pitches
But Monte always has been what the bapayes
His fighting O.
physical distress Monte
box and plugged when
1t had been through
We wondered
baseball He graduated from
job teaching mathematics the University
good professor hear those studied him.
seemed about salaries
yet he drted into the established eligible
minor Washington
Evening star., 1939-03-28
The Red Sox Had to Have More PITCHING

AS said it good break for Today
Baltimore
pitching unlike
large have pretty ball club
the pitching
them making quite fight of it.
10 painful during to
pitchers spending Weaver-he
$5000hey sacrificed little Pitcher Galehouse
Outelder
obtain Pitchers Eden
lished
whether
pitching
than last there definite
place Chapman Higgins bayr
all h-Boston
Higgins Galeouse addition
Oufeder
pennant.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-15
OLr-hrE ard SURVIVORS.
INSURANCE PROVISIONS
I,cri Ore

In the state Of West Virginia,
there acn more than $4,000
persons who now have ocim SCI
curity eccou0t numbers and
most cf them ve-t 70 know how
how the change in the law arply
TO then, b wcy c3 supplying IN
formation n orr readers this
pare begins this week = series
Of articles, each Of which will
explain cre provision Of the new
social security program.
Three OF the amendments to
the oct concern almost every
family in tho United States. in
one way or another
] The we're tav NJ cuo nor
cent remaio fire a~n uut"loa.
That is. the tax will no, b. lie
creased in l940y as was provo-
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-15

BENIN m, Why y, eel,
| Herdon for CNA-l'hc auuo.ny,
nent last week by the ilisto ll
Museum of Bennington Num,.t
| If = mural painJjnr '.n..u.. d
scene in the life g a.. Rev
nuel Hayes, unfoi.- u, Hn
:hapter in the life o She N,a,
people.
Perhaps the name Lcmucl Hay
les has no meaning to the aver
age Americanthan just another
name" Of an individual charac-
ter who lived il Il profoundly in
teresting perioi OF oar hiSt1r.
And then, too--f We take into
account the opc-s,5ed way l..
which Americnn history j S
taught in our school his nam,
is undoubtedly unknown cWtire
" puV 10 a lew
Tho Rev. h nce Is not the
only Negro, VIII by his contrl-
buttons commends resrect and
recoglVion I ON ell American
who regard with Genuine ainceri
~ me ploneerhE traditions
Oh the many generations before
u.s. ihoeeo, therH gre countless
OF Neg .'t ~ Nme'ic-
~ history VINO h"."' m"u'''-
oa themselves : .n."'
2"+ "d"'. The sl>
.@"He mural Il
.1' ".l 81 pre- ..a".
rev WIght 70 l.
i"eia ere hard r.,o t'".
In a country bic America.
raclal persecution, eco
nomic' political .ad social re-
preston still rel unchecked,
II takes a good 6 ot t.n. toll
recognize that tt" facts o. n.a-
lory are hard an stubborn
Such facts are .cI&ted 80 the
history anG ach GVemCutS o.
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-15
Green Ducks Behind Red Issue

New York. Dec. S.-That Nn.
l Green, president OF the AFotL
stopped to red-baiting in an eff
| fort to stymie a Investigation
coducted by the National Associa
ton for the Advancement of
Colored People for shipbuilding
unions of Tampa, Florida, that
| resulted in the loss of 500 JOBS
| to Negro union men. was reveal
| ed here today by Walter White
| secretary of the Association.
According to the letter which
was sent to Green December l.
White refers to the statement
made earlier by the AFofl
head, In which he said that
Frak McCallister, secretary OF
the Florida branch Of the Work
ers Defense League, was Com
munist. W.
According 20 q previous letter
in which he stated that the
AFofL could have nothing to do
with Communists, Green quotes
ar AFofL investigator whom he
sent to Florida TO probe the Jim
Grow union conditions, az saying
that Walter White was liable to |
meet Charles Silva, president of
the AFoTf trades council, inl
Tampa last summer to discuss
the JiLa Grow problem in the
trades unions there because
Frank McCzllistc- nlsde the ep- !
pointr,art and Silva had always !
refused to deal with McCal'iater
because the latter Wa comrun
list. 49, r.,
Mailing the accusation a 90 'is,
White pointed out that silva, not
only knew McCaliiSter, hus gave
as the real reason for his not
wanting TO talk to White the fact ,
that he "did not want to talk to
any Negro from Washington"
"This is the South" White 5
quoted Silva IS saying, and No
know how to handle situations |
like this down here
Disposing Of the Communist
accusations made in Green's
letter, the N 4 A CP secretary
pointed out that the Al'ofL in
vestigator's re0ort Of the rotten
conditions in the AF'ofL uEions
in Tar'Ca was not only untrue,
but "Wbitawash as we charged |
IN our letter to you Of Scptem- |
Der goth" ~
Following an investigation las
july, WHOM Walter white wect !
to TAMPA to investi%ato the
matter, the NhACP has SOUGHT
repeatedly to get tho hTocI I'll
conduct on investigation Of tho
freezing-ort o. 500 Nero union !
members who formerly worked I