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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
Semi Pro Tourney

Somewhere In the United States
today is a semi-pro baseball club
that viii wind up the season In Puer-
to Rico for a series against the
championship team Of the West In
dies. t,a 1890. ~,
This team will be the best of some
5000 semi-pro clubs throughout the
United States. Already under way
Ia the all-inclusive tournament.
which includes 700 districts. The
district winners will compete in
state play-offs, and then in regional
tournaments. Top-ranking team will
be decided at the national tourna.
ment in Wichita, Kan, August 13-
Is.
The American series looms i'm
portant to Puerto Rican citizens,
who eagerly await the event. The
u. S. team will be wholeheartedly
entertained by island government
officials in charge of the series.
Financial honors also go to the
winning team. In addition to Sc, 900
cash award in the u. S. finals, the
1899 national champion will receive
a split of the seven game series in
Puerto Rico, estimated at from
$1,000 to $1,000.
Western Newspaper Union.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
LAYTONSVILLE

= Mrs. Charlotte Farquhar was host
ess at dessert party and afternoon
bridge at her home Tuesday. Among
the guests were: Mrs. Samuel Ricos
MRS. Thomas Stewart, Mrs. Francis
Spurrier, Mrs. Vestus Wilcox of
Laytonsville; Mrs. Laurason p
Riggs, Mrs. Henry Howard, Miss
Nan Riggs, Mrs. Douglas Riggs, of
Brookeville; Mrs. Thomas Ladson
Mrs. Ridgely Chichester, and Mrs.
James Cashell, Mrs. John Muncaster
and Miss Emma Muncaster of Olnev.
Mr.. and Mrs. R...W. Farmer of
Redland entertained at cards Mon
day evening for Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Fry, Mr.. and Mrs. Merhle Haines.
Mr.. Elgee Riggs, Jr., of Laytons-
vile; Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Walker,
Miss Clarke Freeman of Gathers
burg; Mr.. and Mrs. William Nichol-
son, Miss Margaret Jones, Mr.. Ber-
nard Mellon of Rockville. . The Eas-
ter motif was carried out in deco
rations, favors and the refreshments.
High scores were made by Mrs.
Haines and Mr.. Riggs.
Mrs. Uriah Griffith and her daugh-
ter, Miss Elizabeth Griffith also had
a bridge party this week, having
about thirty for lunch and cards on
Wednesday.
Miss Mary Ryan is the guest of
Mrs. Thomas Stewart this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Osbourne Williams
are in Hollywood, Fla, for several
weeks visiting with Mr.. and Mrs.
Franklin E. Beall of Damascus, who
are spending the winter there.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
-Speaking of Sports
Diamond World
Readies Plans
For Centennial
By ROBERT McSHANE

"pLAY ball-Americal"
That command keynotes the
campaign. launched by baseballs
National Centennial commissions
campaign to celebrate the hun
dredth birthday of baseball-Amer-
ica's own game.
Focal point Of the celebration win
be COOperstown, N. Y, birthplace
OF baseball in 1889. It was there
that General Abner Doubleday orig
mated the first game Of baseball
100 years ago.. Doubleday, who was
then a youngster Of 20, laid out the
first diamond and devised the rules
which sired the most truly Ameri-
can game Of ALL. ~ ~
From this back-iot game for boys,
baseball has grown in its hundred
years to the stature of the greatest
team sport in the world. Il has
come to personify Americanism ev-
erywhere, creating and fostering the
American qualities of sportsman
ship. team-play and aggressiveness.
BasebalPs history is inextricably
linked with that of the Civil war.
When the Union soldiers marched
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
Colorful Careers

It would be impossible to dwell on
the colorful personalities. who have
made baseball history, and those
who are now adding. new chapters.
"A century Of baseball has produced
managers, owners and players
whose names are written in large
letters in the games archives.
The National Baseball Centennial
commission, formed to celebrate
the games hundredth anniversary,
inclu6es American leaders from the
game itself, from the navy, the
army, the stage, radio and war vet
Grams organizations.
Baseball's big birthday party will
be Joined and celebrated not only
by every major and minor league in
every big and little city in the coun-
try, but also by semi-pro and anna
teur circuits, prep schools and high
schools, the American Legion and
hundreds of other organizations.
Each community will set its own
date for the celebration and make
its own plans. Special ceremonies
have been arranged by the Legion,
sponsor of junior baseball, now in
its thirteenth organized year. Each
city, town and community is includ-
ed in the centennial's vast program
directed full speed ahead to make
1889 baseball's biggest year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
Gaithersburg News And
Social Items

Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Reed and
daughter, Mary Jane, visited the
flower gardens in Charlestown, S. c.,
during the Easter holidays.
Miss Eulalie Boland was the week
end guest of Mrs. ]. ]. Carroll and
Mrs. Thornton Poole Boland of Balti-
more.
Mrs. Maggie Jacobs is visiting her
sisters, Mrs. Fannie Herman and Mrs.
Laura Rogers in Wilmington, Del.
Miss Claire Cushing spent the Eas-
ter holidays at her home in Chicago,
Ill, and Miss Ruth Davis spent the
holidays in New York, both being
members Of the high school faculty.
Miss Grace Darby is the guest of
her aunt, Mrs. Robert Wilson in
Washington for the holidays and Miss
Dorothy Chiswell is visiting her
grandmother, Mrs. Lawrence Chiswell
at GAINESVILLE. W
Miss Dorothy Plummer entertained
about twenty of her class mates and
friends last Thursday at the home of
her parents.
The Homemakers Club held it's
regular monthly meeting at the home
of Mrs. Norman Jacobs on Wednesday
of this week.
The Methodist Home was hostess to
the delegates of the Baltimore Dis
trict of the Methodist Conference
which was held in Grace M. E. Church
on Thursday and Friday of this week.
The home will also celebrate it's
thirteenth anniversary on Saturday.
The Washington Guild will be in
charge of the program.
Miss Lillian Walton and brothers
have opened their home on Diamond
avenue, after spending the winter in
Clearmont, Fla.
The "old fashioned square dance
scheduled to be held on April Is by
the Pentalpha o. E. s. has been in
definitely postponed according to the
Matron, Miss Edith Barnett.
Mrs. Mamie Shinnerman, Messrs.
William Jordon, Alexander McClaugh-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13

Order Nisi-
In the Matter of the Petition
of the
Hammond Motor Company
for Dissolution.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
No. 9013 Equity.
ORDERED, this 18th day of April,
1889, by the Circuit Court for Mont
gomery County, in Equity, upon the
aforegoing petition and affidavit
that The Hammond Motor Company,
a Maryland corporation, be dissolved
on the 4th day of May, 1889, unless
good cause to the contrary be shown
on or before the Bird day of May,
next, provided a copy of this order
be published in some newspaper pub
lished in Montgomery County for
two successive weeks before the 10Th
day of April, 1889.
STEDMAN PRESCOTT,
Judge of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County.
True Copy-Test: 173
CLAYTON X. WATKINS, Clerk.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
Notice To Creditors

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that the Subscriber of Montgomery
County, has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Montgomery
County, in Maryland, Letters of Ad-
ministration on the Personal Estate
of
JOHN HENRY OFFUTT
late of Montgomery County, deceased.
All persons having Claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with vouchers
thereof, legally authenticated to the
subscriber on or before the 18th day
Of October next: they may otherwise
by law be excluded from all benefit
Of said Estate. All persons indebted
to said Estate are requested to make
immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 18th
day of April in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-nine.
WALTER C.. OFFUTT,
Gaithersburg, Maryland,
III Administrator.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
Order of Publication

I'M RE: PROPOSED AMEND
~ MENT OF DEDICATION of GER
Tain land for Park, Mintwood
Street and Longbranch Parkway
bv N. A. and X. E. Woodson, in
Indian Spring Park, Section Two.
TN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
SITTING AS A COURT
OF EQUITY.
No. 9016 Equity.
The petitioners, Newton A. Wood
son and Katherine e. Woodson, state
that they are the owners of certain
land living to the South of and con-
+;ouous to a subdivision of land
Known as and called Indian Spring
park, Section Two, as said sub
division is laid out and described in
q Mat thereof, recorded among the
land Records of Montgomery Coun-
~ in Plat Book No. 5, Plat APO, and
thew signed said plat for the pur-
noses of dedicating certain portions
Of their lands for street, park and
parkway purposes; that all of the
lands dedicated by them for such
purposes are not needed, for park,
Street and parkway purposes and
thew desire to abandon sch part of
said subdivision as is not needed;
that the proposed abandonment of
such part of said subdivision has
been submitted to and approved by
the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission and
the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission, as is evidenced by their
consents filed in said proceedings;
marked Exhibit B" and Exhibit
CT; that the proposed abandonment
does not affect any property owner
except the petitioners and that no
one is damaged thereby, and that
there is no conflict in the lines of
any other subdivision of record; it is
therefore, this 18th day of April,
1889, ORDERED, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County,
Maryland, in equity, that all persons
having any interest in or who might
be affected by the abandonment Of
such part of said subdivision as set
forth in said petition, appear herein
and show cause, if any they have,
why an order should not be passed
as prayed, on or before the 10th day
of May, 1889, next; PROVIDED
copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper published in Mont
gomery County, Maryland, for three
successive weeks before the 9Th day
of May next.
STEDMAN PRESCOTT,
Judge of the Circuit Court.
True Copy-Test:
CLAYTON X. WATKINS, Clerk.
172
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13

days of 1919 and 1920. Big Red
won 20 out of 81 starts, accounting
for $249, 465. He was one Of Samuel
Riddles best investments. Riddle
bought him at the Saratoga sales
20 years ago for only $1,000. Re-
Gently he was reputed to have
turned down an offer Of $1,000. 900
for him. ~
His foais have started more than
5000 times, winning 800 races and
placing In 100, to win almost 81 &c.,
00O-a turf record for living sires.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13

lin and Albert Walker of Philadelphia
were weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Tate on Walker avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cross and three chill
dren have returned from a visit to
relatives in Sunberry, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Troxell have
returned to their home in Franklin,
Pa, after visiting their respective
homes in Gaithersburg and Olney.
Mrs. Eileen Wilkinson spent the
weekend in Crisfeld, Md, visiting
Mrs. Hall Miles.
Mrs. Mamie Dutrow is in New York
visiting her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Norson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
Bad Business

ION BULGE, though not un-
grateful to Promoter Jack Har-
ris, has done much to ruin business
for the Chicago tennis impresario.
Bulge has proved he is too good
for present competition. It all start
ed when he piled up an early, top
heavy lead over Ellsworth Vines in
the first half of the nationwide tour.
He had the series cinched when
Vines finally came through to win
eight Of the last dozen matches.
When Fred Perry Joined Bulge in
the second half Of the tour he wasn't
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
Sport Shorts

- has designed a barometer that
will tell anglers at a glance wheth-
er fish are biting or not Walter
johnson pitched his first and only
no-hit game with sore arm
Captain-elect Mark Ertel, Ed Riska
and Paul DuCharme staged the
'iron man"act by playing in every
one of Notre Danes 81 basket
ball games last season Davey
O'Brien, highly publicized Texas
Christian university quarterback,
will serve as counselor and football
coach at St. Johns Military academy
camp this summer Jockey
Nick Wall has ridden four conquer
ors of Seabiscuit-Today, Stage
hand, Jacola and Esposa Joe
Medwick has received eight wrist
watches for his achievements in pro-
fessional baseball -. During the
last year 336 dog shows were held
in the United States :. More than
1850, 900 persons have attended the
GA Kentucky Derbies run to date, an
average of $4,000 Thirty-ive
years with the same school is the
record of Mike Ahearn, Kansas State
athletic director The first BIZ
cycle was invented in Paris in 1890.
The rider placed his feet on the
ground and pushed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13

prepared to accept
the lanky tennis king
as a world beaten.
He didn't see the
need for a great
deal Of preparation
as he had always
managed to look
more than good
against Bulge as an
amateur. Don won
six straight matches
without losing a set.
He won the seventh,
too, : though Perry
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
Charles r. Bowman

Charles R. Bowman, II, of the mill
ing firm of Bowman Brothers, died
Tuesday at his home at Germantown.
The funeral will take place at 2
p. m. Friday from Upper Seneca Bap-
fist Church, Cedar Grove, with burial
in the church cemetery. The Rev.
Claude Brubaker will officiate.
Mr.. Bowman leaves his wife, Mrs.
Clara Bowman, of Cedar Grove, a
daughter, Mrs, Herbert C. King, Ger
mantown; a son, William A. Bowman,
Washington; a sister, Miss Emma
Bowman, Cedar Grove, and brother,
Lathey R. Bowman, Arlington, Va.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13

cut, ana q Wreatn OF
corn and carrots was
draped around his
neck. Nothing was
too good for the sire
Of 275 foals, many of
them among turf
d0m's outstanding
champions. Among
his sons are incIud-
ed War Admiral,
Scapa Flow, Battle
ship and Crusader.
The birthday testi-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13

took a set. ,iF i
Harris paid ]. Donald $4,000 to
turn pro. And even Harris didn't
realize Budge's uncanny skill would
result in a box Office lemon. Bulge
plays tennis with everything he's
got. He gives the game the old
college try, and plays hard to win.
Large numbers of cash customers
make it a point to stay away from
One-sided contests. Tennis is no
exception. According to Helen Hull
Jacobs, Bulge is ''the best in the
business today, and when he loses
to Perry or Vines it's because he's
had bad night like a golfer or any
other athlete"
So until competition is a great
deal keener, Harris will have a
hard time realizing interest from his
$4,000 investment.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13

off to the battlefields they took their
baseball bats along. War records
include reports of baseball games
behind the fronts and in prison
camps during the long, bitter strug-
gle between the North and South.
:. When the war ended, soldiers scat
tered homeward, spreading baseball
to the four winds.
Rags to Riches
Carried along by the love Of the
game itself, thousands of American
boys have followed it as a profess
sion, rising to fame and wealth on
the strength Of their batting and
fielding, the cunning of their throw
ing arm.
Success stories in baseball are
numberless. The 'Big Bam," Babe
Ruth, left a Baltimore orphanage
and slugged his way to the largest
salary in the history of diamond
warfare. In his greatest year the
orphanage boy drew an $50, 900 pay
check-$5, 900 more than the Presi-
dent of the United States-because
he could drive a baseball farther
than any other man, and because
people would come from miles away
to see him. q
Poor-boy-to-rich-man is a beaten
path in baseball. Almost every
player in basebaIl's Hall of Fame
had an humble beginning. Iris
Speaker, the great outfielder, was
once telephone lineman at a dol
lar-a-day salary. Ty. Cobb was a
Georgia farm boy who earned q
million dollars in baseball.
There are 16 major league clubs,
about 270 minor league clubs and
thousands Of semi-pro mines In the
u. s. No other game has produced
such an army Of participants. No
other sport has captured and held
throughout the years the loyalty and
steadfast attendance Of basebalPs
spectators.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
st. Luke's Lutheran Church
Redland

Ralph Hershberger, Pastor
1000 A. M. Sunday School for all
ages.
r. HOO A. M. Divine worship. Sermon
on parents and Children"-2 Samuel
1898; s1:265 Df -4-et f.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-13
Big Red Celebrates

M AN o. WAR, best loved and
Az most widely known horse in
American turf history, recently eel
ebrated his twenty-second birthday
at his farm home near Lexington,
KY.
All the conventions were observed.
Speeches were made, cake was
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-25
A KEY WEST MENACE

I. Some months ago Key West was in an
uproar about false rumor that an cpl
demic of infantile paralysis had broken
out here. The false reports were spread
from mouth to mouth It was the topic Of
conversation among housewives and curb
stone philosophers. The alarm died down
as soon as The Citizen published the facts
Now no one seems to be greatly
alarmed when Mayor Albury calls atten-
ton to the fact that venereal disease is
spreading among our citizens. It is q
peculiarly of Key West communal life to
find the insignificant magnified and the
important thing yninimized.. In the case OF
the alleged spread Of infantile paralysis,
which affects only few even at its worst,
the city was thrown into state of excite
ment. But now there is no excitement, al
though social diseases, as they are called
in polite conversation, are more dangerous
and have far-reaching effect on the living
and those yet unborn.
Mayor Albury claims that the spread
of venereal diseases has been traced TO
lewd women frequenting some of our lower
class cafes or employed bysthem IN serving
the public. The mayor has asked city
council to pass an ordinance giving him
full powers to rid the saloons and cafes of
such undesirable elements. Council has in
dicated it will meet soon to consider ways
of giving the mayor the power he seeks
The police department is familiar
with the women the mayor mentions. Sew
eral Of the women have been arrested at
various times on various charges. Such
persons, spreaders of dangerous and IN
sidious, are subject to arrest, it would
seem to the observer, as Migrants. The
Florida vagrancy laws cover multitude of
offenses and can be invoked by the police
on almost any occasion to bring about
needed action to protect the public safety
and health.
However, if the vagrancy laws are
not considered strong enough to rid the
city of the menace these women constitute,
. council by all means should adopt any
necessary ordinance. These dangerous
threats against the health and well-being
of our citizens should be run out of town.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-25
WALT MASON
6Palatka Daily News

walt Mason on a summers day closed his
eyes and hit the hay. No more of those verses he
will write. Walt has told the world goodnight :
So the Key Kest Citizen writes the obituary Of
Walt Mason, newspaper rhymster, whose homely
meter was appreciated by millions of readers of
his syndicated column of philosophical verse.
We have an idea that Walt would have liked
that obituary It sounds like him. He has al
ready perhaps set the measure to his celestial Tyre
Fragments of one of Waits odes stuck in our
memory for IS years or more. It was just one of
those things, which for no apparent reason inn
pinges itself indelibly upon the mind never to be
forgotten. 1t was Waits Ode to his wheelbarrow,
written at the time that automobile financing was
just beginning to come into its own He de-
veloped the idea that although he possessed a
wheelbarrow rather than an automobile, it was
fully paid for and he was content
my old wheelbarrow, it's long and narrow.
It's painted beautiful delicate green It's bright
and it's handy. It's simply a dandy. better
wheelbarrow, there never was seen"
Post graduate of the Kelley Institute, whose
alcoholic cure he had taken three times. Walt
Mason's innate genius elevated him from a
drunken tramp reporter to a syndicated writer in
the three figure income bracket, whose drolleries
had marked influence on millions Of readers.
His, was a, full career which touched the low ebb
and the high places Whimsy rather than rancor
marked his efforts in which there were many
chuckles but never barb
We believe Walt would have liked the citi-
zens tribute as saying just enough and no more.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-25
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
WILL always seek the truth and print il

WILL always seek the truth and print il
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person. clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue.
commend good done BY individual or organ
ization; tolerant of Others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never com
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-25
weekly and semi-weekiy newspapers

Weekly and semi-Weekly newspapers
are exempt from the wage-hour law, pro-
vided their circulation does not exceed B.
900. This Interpretation of the law works
hardship on all those small daiIies with
circilati6rs under 5000 and there are
many published under that figure. All
these manifold regulatory laws viii handi-
cap the smaller newspapers to such an ex-
tent that they will be forced to seek refuge
in i weekly which will work to the adj
vantage of the larger daiIies in continual
ties nearby. S
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-25
One thing we can say about the poll

One thing we can say about the poll
ticians, they have more sense than the peo-
pie they fool-The Key West Citizen. The
politicians are really not fooling so many
people after all. It just happens that the
'politicos are in the saddle, and the peo-
pie are just too lazy to put up the fight it
will take to tihseat them Florida Maya
zine.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-25

In race for revenue between the
common stockholders in American indus
trial enterprise and the tax collectors, the
former trailed poor second. Taxes paid
by industry for 1888 took almost two
thirds of earnings. For every dollar paid
in dividends to cofnnlon stockholders more
than 50 went to meet tax bills and
they're crying for more.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-25
DAILY QUIZ
Can you Answer seven cf these
Test ouestions7 Turn 10
Page 4 for the Answers

/. To what commissioned grade
in the Army are West
Point graduates appoint
ed?
2. Which is the larger contin-
ent, North or South Amer
lea?
8. The initials Mus.B. stand for
what degree?
4. Who was recently made SUI
pre- me commander of
frances defense forces?
S. What is the name for a sew
enssided geometrical fig
ure?
6. What is the meaning of the
nautical term, weigh an
Choir?
z. When is the only time that
another flag can be dis
played above the Ameri-
can Flag?
8. What is the correct pronun-
citation of the word norni-
native?
o. Where is the island of Ammo
bon?
10. What is the name of the ami
NAL that sleeps suspended
upside down in trees? :.