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Evening star., 1939-06-21
Walters Tenth
Victory Boosts
Lead Of Reds
Bucky Nominated to
Open World Series
With Raging Yonks
BY BILL WHITE,
Associated Press Sports Writer

Maybe 1t was just a coincidence,
but the day Bucky Walters of the
| Cincinnati Reds became the first
National League pitcher this season
to win 10 games the New York YAM
KEGS went on one of their most
lucrative batting sprees.
That deserves more than passing
mention. since along about October
4. if you're watching the first game
of the World Series, you probably
VIII see Walters and the Yankees
hook up in clash that may be as
stirring an opener as ever produced,
Bucky, the stringbean right-hand-
er, won No. 10 with a smart AZ VIC
tory over the Brooklyn Dodgers,
whose current Western swing has
hardly been sensational to put it
mildly. That elbowing not only put
him in class by himself. but moved
the Reds up 612 games in front Of
the second-place ST Louis Cardinals.
Dodgers Sink in Standings.
The Dodgers. by their loss and the
Chicago Cubs 81 win over the Bos-
ton Bees. plummeted down into the
second division and the Cubs
usurped the fourth-place spot.
Claude Passeau was the big noise in
the Cubs win, hurting fve-hitter.
In the American League that
Yankee uprising that must have
sounded unpleasant to .Walters,
though he was miles away. kept the
| Chicago White Sox strictly in the
Yankees cousin" class. The 1873
win was the seventh over the sox,
and the records further show that
for the Hose the Yanks are harder
to whip than a four-minute egg.
They've done it only once this sea.
| son.
Yesterdays tuSsle started out very
| creditably. the Yanks out in front
only by 6-3 going into the seventh.
But coming out was different. The
champs blew Vic Frasier out of the
box and weren't much kinder to Ed
Smith. his successor.
Vosmik Stars as Hose Win.
The Boston Red Sox, with Joe
Vosmk having perfect day at the
plate, :blew down the Browns, 81,
to ruin Harry Kimberlins major
league pitching debut. Apparently
that 14-inning victory over the Sem
ators the day before was too much
for the Browns
In the leagues only night game,
Tommy Bridges shut out the Ath-
letics and the Tigers coasted to a
SO victory. Earl Averill's homer
with a mate on board was the
strongest blow struck in the victor's
favor
Evening star., 1939-06-21
He FinoIIy Decides On McCoskey

Skipping York and into Philadelphia what has Connie
Mackgo a franchise and lights?
replied Grif Hes Kid named Can
tenben or something baplaye Comics
that's all
Washington
rookie, but he's good
enough outstanding I've
he's Welaj? Wal he's better
throwing Id string along
arm.
at all we shifted
to of all people There No
Berardino second base
Old positively Just another
Chicago got? can't remember
couple catcle fresh and Syvesri They must
haveth thought sell Luke SeWel
of There's Ceve-
the Indians go Shilling Weoo
How about Detrolt?'
whipped his sixth innings Vcousy
snapped his question There's the
rookie" McCokey fele of Detroit is the best
He's the who held up
McCosky, outfelder bats left handed?
OCoskv" agreed held He's
book De Cosk Donald Williams and CarIasque
they're Hey, here's Taft Wright up
a That
Wright anybody the bases. Now watch -
Evening star., 1939-06-21

Toronto Maple Leafs, will take a
day of today and go down to
Yale and get his M. A. degree
IN mathematics. His thesis was
entitled THE roots of the deriva-
tive Of a polynomial." Moe Berg
ought to look him up.
The Yanks and Cardinals are
bidding their heads off for Joe
Nelson, a Daytona Beach (Fla.)
Prep School pitcher who is aver
aging IS whiffs per game. Mai.
Bob Neyland of Tennessee has AZ
former football students in COL
lege football jobs. Mebbe Billy
Rose can use Clarence Giles of
Glendive, Mont, who swan 62
miles up the Yellowstone River
in only seven hours. And it was
only a warmup, at that. Nat
Rogers of the Hippodrome staff
is booking Dave Castilloux, feath-
erweight and lightweight cham
pion of Canada. Yep, that's old
Gabby Hartnett the wolves are
bowling at.
Evening star., 1939-06-21
Pilot Bush Made Ill Getting Louisville in First Four
Move P for ousG!emson Has Ace Athlete MeFodden

1899 most valuable player award.
At this writing I'd say Bill Dick
ey of the Yanks merits the Amer
lean League honor and Frank
Mccormick of the Reds the Ma
tional League laurels."
The Broadway wise boys still
are shaking their heads about
those 81 odds on Woods to beat
Garcia last week. Joe Smoot,
who built the Hialeah and Gulf
stream Park hoss tracks, wants
to get into the Jersey racing pic
ture, if any. Add scouts trail
ing Dominic Di Maggie: Clarence
Rowland of the Cubs. Joe ia
cobs volunteered to do their 1--WE
wuz robbed" hollering for the
British after the Princeton mile,
but they didn't like his accent.
Good news: Lantern-jawed Dick
Porter will survive the face lift
ing the new directors are plan
ming for the Syracuse Chiefs.
Boy, oh boy, Walter Klimczak
(Yale '3D. now catching for the
Evening star., 1939-06-21
Dizzy Pans Third
For Quitting
Gobby Voices Disgust;
FickIeness of Fans
Raped by Prexy
BY EARL HILLIGAN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

CHICAGO, June 2l.-The 1899
tailspin of the Chicago Cubs. now
battling to stick in the first division,
is kicking up almost as much gen.
eral excitement in their home bali
wick as did their stirring charge to
the National League pennnat last
September.
Ever since the Cubs started a skid
which sent them into fifth place a
wave of Whats wrong with the
team" comment has swept the town
Then yesterday, just after a pub
lished open letter" by Owner P. K.
Wrigley anent his clubs showing, To-
quacious Dizzy Dean came up with
one of his well-known pop offs as
his contribution to the furore.
Dean Accuses Mates.
Diz, speaking before the Chicago
Association of Commerce, accused
his mates of mot trying hard
enough" Winner of three games
and loser of none this season, the
s185,000 pitcher said "the reason
we're down where We are today is
because the players aren't pushin
hard enough. Only two-t thirds of us
are doing our best. The rest of us
amt. Just let me pitch more often
and everything will be okay. I'm
getting tired of pitching only on
Sundays"
20, what the heck" snapped
Manager Gabby Hartnett when he
learned of Deans diagnosis and
remedy for the case Let him talk.
I'm not going to comment. It's
none of my business what he says.
It's his story, not mine"
Obviously, Gabby wasn't feeling so
good about the whole thing, even
though his team had just defeated
Boston to move from fifth to fourth
place in the standings. He hasn't
been feeling too cheerful for some
time, what with reports floating
around that he'll lose his manager
ship any day now if the Cubs don't
show some signs of cutting down
the 9l2-game deficit between the
Cubs and the leading Gin
cinnati Reds.
Big Trade Is Criticized.
Then, too, Gabby has been taking
lot of criticism for the winters six
player trade with the New York
Giants. Dick Bartell, the shortstop
who came to the Cubs along with
salary of some $4,000. has been
fielding and hitting poorly as COM
pared to the defensive play of Bill
Jurges, the shortstop who went from
Chicago to New York in the deal.
At that, some observers think the
Cubs have done quite well-consid-
ering the quality of their offense.
The team batting average is 255.
In his open letter" to a Chicago
sports editor Wrigley said 1T is
always little disconcerting to me
to have it so forcibly brought home
from time to time that the winning
team, which belongs to every one,
is so exclusively mine when it is
losing"
Wrigley said the Cubs have not
been crippled by injuries, 80 there
can be no alibi," and added: Il also
agree with the experts who picked
the Cubs to repeat this year that
we have good team. If we have
not we most certainly are being
badly fooled"
Evening star., 1939-06-21
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, June 21.-Flash-
DOME Bush, boss farmer for the
Red Sox at Louisville, may have
to give up field generating and
move into the front Office for the
rest of the season. He burned
himself out so badly getting the
Mint Juleps into the first division
he needs a rest and maybe hos
pitalization. Lou Nova will fight
two tuneups in the South before
going against Louis in Septem-
ber df he does. Birmingham
will get one and probably New
Orleans the other. Ray Carlen
already has given Jimmy Erwin,
Birmingham promoter, the green
light.
How to pick 'em. Rather than
get on a soap box out at the
Worlds Fair and tell you how
we picked Byron Nelson to win
the National Open, you can have
the low down right here for the
Evening star., 1939-06-21

price of your daily paper. We
put five names in a hat and our
little girl drew out Nelson
Simple, amt it?
Don't know what they wrote
in their papers, but most of the
British writer's quit on Wooder-
son after that 64-second first
quarter. DR.. Dutch Meyer, pro-
fessor of football at Texas Chris
tian, Is due this week for a
lecture at the Worlds Fair.
Banks McFadden, Clemson star,
will be named all-America CEN
ter in a basket ball year book
soon to be published. Also, Nc
Fadden will tie with George
Cafego of Tennessee for the best
halfback honors in the South
next fall That Armstrong Rod
erick fight in Lunnon went into
the red for a cool 100 grand.
Today's guest star-Charles
Bailey, Buffalo Times: They al
ready are speculating as to the
Evening star., 1939-06-21
Big Ten, Pacific Race
May Bring World
Relay Record
Both Quortets Capable
Of Betterine Mile
Mark of 3:ll.6
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERKELEY, Calf, June 21.-A
new world record for the 1-mile
relay may be added to the exploits
of track and field here early this
evening when athletes of the Big
Ten and Pacific Coast Conferences
wind up their annual meet with
the four-lap event.
The record for it, 3:1l.6, was set
by the University of Southern Cali
fornia team in 1886 at the West
Coast relays.
BY running up to their best times
for the season the four Coast Con-
ference entries, Erwin Miller and
Howard Upton of Southern Cali
fornia, Don Watts of California and
Mel Pettichord of Washington State,
could compile a clocking of 3:O9.7.
Midwest Four Also Fast.
The Middlewestern quartet like
wise is a potential record breaker.
Three Michigan men, Warren Brei-
denbach, Phil Balyeat and Jack
Leutrit, and Jack Sulzman of Ohio
State are capable of a 3:1O.6 mile.
The race will take place on one
of the fastest tracks in the Far
West, Edwards Stadium of the
University of California.
First important twilight meet to
be held in this section, the all-star
athletic show will get under way
at Sis pm. Coast time, on the
longest day OF the year.
Coast Team Is Favored.
Seasonal times and distances ia
vor the Coast Conference team to
win for the third successive year.
The first running of the meet, 1887,
saw the Coasters win, 90 to "A. Last
year they rolled up a 101-to-35 de-
cision over the squad from the
Midwest.
Most of the competitors were point
winners in the national collegiate
A. A. championships in Los Angeles
last week end. Six members Of the
Coast team took first places in the
national event, compared to no
top scorers on the visiting squad.
Evening star., 1939-06-21
Mats Plan to Call on Vernon
As Pnichord Fails at First:
Lose to Tribe in 18th

surroundings as his 1872 average in
eight games would indicate
Prlchard, in time, may catch up
with the hurlers and start to hit
at a more gratifying pace, but
club owners as group are rather
impatient. Prichard may not stick
around long enough to become ac-
climated.
Vernon, now performing with the
Springfield, Mass. club of the East
ern League, hardly figures to rep
resent fielding improvement over
Prichard, who has done very little
wrong in that department. but un-
less Bob displays a sudden fond
ness for whacking the leagues
pitching he doubtless will be sent
to Springfield and Vernon rushed
here
De Shong Goes to Champs.
Meanwhile the Mats are ponder
ing the tickle finger of fate which
pointed at Pitcher Jimmy De Shong
of all people, and made him a Yam
kee yesterday, for Jimmy was
claimed on waivers by New York
from the Mats.
Jimmy's kick upstairs was real
lied when the Yankees were the
only club to claim him the second
time Griffith asked waivers. De-
troit and st. Louis previously had
put in bid for him and Griffith
withdrew the waivers, but was
forced to let him 60 the second time
due to an American League ruling.
De Shong performed impressively
only once for the Mats this season,
in losing Washingtons first game
of the year to the Athletics at
Philadelphia, 20, on six hits. After
that he was several points below
mediocrity, failing to win a game
Il really wouldn't care so much
about winning a few for myself
right now," said De Shong recently,
"but I would like to be able to
help Harris. He's given me every
break he possibly could and I
haven't come through for him once"
Won Is Games for Mats in 1896.
Jimmy never clicked after cap
turing 18 games for the Mats in
1886, his first season with the club,
after being traded by the Yankees
along with Jesse Hill for Bump
Hadley and Roy Johnson.
While the Mats have lost De Shong
and another ball game, to the In
dians in IL innings, 4-3, they have
regained the services of Coach
Clyde Milan, who has returned from
Hot Springs, Ark, where he travelled
for treatment of shoulder and arm
ailments.
Three of the Mats last four en-
gagements have developed into en-
durance affairs, Cleveland scoring
run in the ninth off Ken Chase
to tie the score at % and whacking
Relief Pitcher Alexandra Carrasquel
for the winning margin in the
twelfth yesterday. The Mats rallied
to produce a run in their half of
the inning, but Jimmy Bloodworth
left Taft Wright and Bobby Es-
talella stranded by fouling to
Catcher Rollie Hemsley to end the
game.
Joe Haynes was to face the In
dians' Mel Harder today in the
second game of the series.
Evening star., 1939-06-21
Red Sox Rockies Have Slowed Up

Williams the ouheder he the fellow
knocking all of those runs?
either answered the Old Fox He started oka but
another who looked good but
of them feers
Moving New York there Charley Keller the
University Washngtons didn't
all right, hitting 1903
bringing forth start the
him. The Yankees have benchd him
they amt
Keller Ill take that fel Donald of the Yankees
and defeats
reminded how difficult to rank Yankee
pitchers Hadley for instance Bump has won six
Sundra, definitely second-rater has
Rfng has won out of TO- Every pitcher
wins he a Yankee uniform.
thought Still he
Donald one Gf probably thinking
nothing pitcher his Wash
ing
Evening star., 1939-06-21
Cubs Flop Aoes Dean Sows Pilot Hane and Embo Owner Woev
Win, Lose or Draw
The Prize Rookie of 1899
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,

baseball
League rookie unsettled probably
when semitropical skies
Grandpappy
Clark Griffith gentleman
ball
Yankee blow-ups.
call rookie?" asked Grf
He rookie Well
let's taking em by y"
slight interruption this point The Senators
badly and Taft Wright bat He
old anybody
lifted right field the side and
of his cheoot
Taking them by teams, Mr. Griffith in the East
stopped shifted Gri He started all right but he amt
ahiting
Evening star., 1939-06-21

BASEBALL ,!,s T1D1x 1.x.
Washington VS.. Cleveland
AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK
-Clevelsnd--3:l5 PM.
Evening star., 1939-06-21
Sports Mirror
By the Associated Eress,

BY the Associated Eress.
Today year ago-Pinky Hig-
gins, Detroit third baseman, set
new major league record with
18th consecutive hit, breaking
Iris Speakers mark of II, made
in 1920 with Cleveland.
Three years ACCOUNTED States
defended International Polo Cup,
winning second match, 8-6, and
taking fifth successive series from
Great Britain.
Five years ago--Bill Terry of
Giants and Joe Cronin of Sena-
tors named managers for all
star baseball game.
Evening star., 1939-06-21

VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Harrisonburg. 3: Staunton, l.
LynchburR 12; Salem. o.
Evening star., 1939-06-21
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

Washington fifth first baseman
OF the season looms as next weeks
attraction at Griffith Stadium, for
there is a growing conviction the
youthful Bob Prichard. currently
handling that assignment, was i'm
ported too early.
The next young man to suffer the
scrutiny of Prexy Clark Griffith
and Manager Bucky Harris doubt
less will be Jim Vernon, considered
the Mats most likely minor league
first base prospect, and the way
Prichard's going he probably will
receive that test within a week.
Practically everybody except Man
drake the Magician has been en-
ployed for varying periods to han
die first base for the Mats this
season and thus far the job has
represented something of jinx
to all of them.
Jimmy Wasdell was there when
the season started, but Jimmy's
attitude in general and his field
ing failed to click, SO Ossie Bluege
began to alternate with him. That
kept up for some time, but finally
Wasdell was shipped to Minneapo-
lis as incompetent and Outfelder
Sammy West was drafted for first
base duty.
Prichard's Hitting Mild.
Sammy hadn't played a half doz-
en- games there in his lengthy ca
reer, but he had fiddled around the
bag in spring practice and in vari-
GUS odd moments. He didn't do
bad, considering, but he wasn't a
first baseman, so Griffith plucked
Prichard from Charlotte of the
Piedmont League and installed him
as Washington's regular at that
position.
1t would be nice and sort of dime
novelish to be able to say Prichard
has made the big jump in spectacu-
lar fashion. He swatted .346 or
so in the Piedmont League, but he
hasn't adjusted himself to the
more polished pitching of his new
Evening star., 1939-06-21

EASTERN SHORE LEAGUE.
Federalsburg. 12; Pocomoke, /.
Cambridge. 8; Easton. /.
Salisbury. z: Milford. 1.
Evening star., 1939-06-21
Official Score

'Batted for Chase In ninth.
Cleveland 010 600 001 002-
WASHINGTON oil 900 600 0O1-3
Runs batted in--Grimes, Lewis. Chap
man. Keltner. Hale. Estalella. Two-base
hits-Estalella t2). Lewis. Trosky, Chap
man. Three-base hit-Keltner Sacrifices
Travis, Allen, Hemsley, CHAPMAN Eou-
BILE plays-,,Travis to Boodworth to Prich-
ard t2l; Allen to Webb TO Keltner to HENS
ley to Keltner to Allen Travis to Prichard.
Left on bases-Cleveland, 13: Washington.
T.. First base on balls-of Chase. 2: off
Allen, Allen =: on C GCarrasouel 2 Struck out-By
Hits-Of Allen. in innings; off Chase,
] in 8 innings; off Eisenstat. 8 in 4 in
nings: off Carrasouel 3 in 3 innings
Passed ball-Ferrell. Winning pitcher
Eisenstet Losing pitcher-Carrasoue
Umpires-Messrs. Pipgras, Quinn and Nc
Gowan Time-2:52.
Evening star., 1939-04-03
where the light dawned in the new

world.
It was at the corner of Lexington
and Liberty streets here that In
1916 the first commercial illuminate
ing gas plant in the United States
started operations-the dim dawn
of the great white ways of a thou
sand cities from ocean to ocean.
The annual convention opened
with the unveiling of a tablet to
commemorate this event.
AS far back as 1902, it was re-
called, an Englishman named Ben
jamin Henfrey carried out his first
experiments here at the falls Of
the Patapsco River where he learned
to obtain from coal and wood "a
gas or vapor which the moment
the inflammable gas came into con-
tact with the blaze of taper it
took fire and burned with beau
tiful and brilliant light, so bright
that one could distinctly read small
print at distance of 80 feet" That
same year Henfrey obtained
United States patent on IAN i'm
provement, being a cheap mode Of
obtaining light from fuel"
The discovery was not accepted
in Baltimore at the time. The in
ventor went to Richmond where he
made contracts for lighting houses.
Meanwhile gas lighting had been
taken up in London and proved a
commercial success. Thus Baltimore
missed the distinction of being the
first gas-ighted city in the world.
It was in 1916, IA years after
Henfreys first exhibition OF his
new light" that group of Bal
timoreans headed by Rembrandt
Peale, the artist obtained a charter
to furnish the city and individual
householders with gas for lighting.
This company has been in existence
ever since. Other American cities
rapidly followed the lead of Balti-
more. Some in the natural gas
regions, in fact, already had started
to light their streets with this
product.
Century Behind Pioneers.
Actually, specialists in chemical
history pointed out here today, Hen
frey was almost a century behind
the first English experimenters with
gas lighting. This dates back at
least to 1889 when Robert Boyle,
father of chemistry, made expert
ments with spirits of coal" OBJ
tained by distillation. In 1892 Will
liam Murdock, Cornish engineer,
produced gas to heat his own house
and almost at the same time a
French chemist lit his Paris house
and garden with gas obtained from
distillation of wood.
The United States stuck largely
to its tallow candles until 1906 when
David Melville lighted his house and
the street in front of it at Newport,
r. l., with gas distilled from coal. He
obtained patent in 1913 and con-
tracted to furnish light for Rhode
Island cotton mill.
Up to the time of the Baltimore
installation, the chemists pointed
out, streets of American cities for
the most part were unlighted at
night, crime was unchecked after
dark, and even oil lamps were not
widely used on account of the ex-
pense. The gas light had another
important effect, it was explained,
in putting ghosts out of business.
Their numbers began to diminish
rapidly when houses began to be
brilliantly lighted, leading to the be-
lief that most "spokes" could be ex-
planned by the weird shadow cast in
pale candlelight, which failed to illu-
inmate corners of rooms.
Evening star., 1939-04-03
D. c. Girl, Is, Missing;
Police Aid Is Asked

Police today were asked to help
find Annabelle Thompson, 16, who
disappeared last Saturday from her
home, 1925 Rosedale street NE. She
is feet inches tall, weighs 110
pounds, has brown hair and blue
eyes.
Her grandmother, Mrs. Eva Laurie,
told police she might be on her
way to North Carolina.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-28
Sharp Reply
 Given FDR

NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-Chairman Dies of the Unamerican Committee, defied President Roosevelt when he announced that he had overwhelm- ing proof that the Communist Party controls the American League for Peace and Democracy.
 Dies answered the Presidents con- demnation of publishing the names of government workers as members of the league in speech before the 10th annual convention of the New York City Federation of Womens Clubs.
 The President had described the Dies exposure as a "sordid picture" ."
 Replied Dies: q cannot hope to compare in prestige and influence with my Chief Executive. It may be that was wrong, but this I tell you, Franklin D. Roosevelt, that you may regard the naming of members as sordid but in my estimation Fed eral servants who belong to any organization dominated by foreign power, ought to be disclosed"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-28
ARTILLERY FIRE
 INTENSIFIED ON
 WESTERN FRONT
Germans Reported Con- tenfrdfing-Frenth 0b-
 servers Puzzled

PARIS, Oct. 28.-The Germans intensified their artillery fire along the western front today.
 French observers noted that new pieces of artillery are being put into action and the fire is becoming more regular and systematic. Whether the increased volume of artillery fire in- dicated an imminent German offen- sive, French military leaders will not say It also is noted that the Ger mans have been increasing the strength of their patrols so that 100 men are now being sent out where parties of dozen were making raids on the French outposts.
 French experts said that informa- tion reaching the high command indicated that the Germans had ev- erything in readiness for large scale operations when and if the word is given from Berlin.
 German troops are reported to be concentrating in northwest Ger many behind the Netherlands front.
 The forces are said to be arriving in small units, one regiment at a time.
 French observers said it is im- possible to state the purpose of this concentration. The French hig h command was not, however, over looking the possibility of German thrust into the Netherlands.