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Evening star., 1940-02-26
Griffmen Figure Prominently
In A. 1. Record Book; Park
Here SIuggers' Nemesis

among the current clan, have played
prominent parts in producing
records.
There was that occasion on July
10, 1915, for instance, when WASH
ington stole eight bases in one
inning for a record. Danny Moeller
swiped second, third and home,
while Clyde Milan, now coach with
the Mats, and Eddie Ainsmith each
stole two bases and George Mcbride
added another.
Washington, too, owns the longest
winning streak ever compiled on
the road, its 1912 club capturing 16
straight games on foreign fields.
The Mats 1884 club set another
record, hitting six doubles in one
inning, while Sam Rice of the 1925
Mats hit 1872 singles, more than any
other performer has been able to
accomplish over a season.
The Mats have had some polished
first basemen, but two of them
possess dubious distinctions. John
Freeman, former Washington first
baseman, holds the record for the
most errors in a season with Al,
while Jimmy Wasdel shares with
George Sisler the record for most
errors in game-four.
Myer = Double Play Ace.
Buddy Myer participated in 1873
double plays in 1885 for q record
for second basemen, while Wash
ington'S Sammy West and Dick
Porter, formerly of Cleveland, are
tied for the highest fielding per-
centage among outfielders at 1896.
Nick Altrock, the Mats comedian
coach, who pitched for the White
Sox, is credited with the most put
outs registered by a pitcher in q
season with 40, in 1904, and is tied
with Ed Walsh for the most chances
accepted in game by pitcher, 13.
Walter johnson still holds such
records as most games won in q
lifetime, most strikeouts in a life
time, most shutouts in lifetime,
most consecutive shutout innings,
most games pitched in league, most
years with one club and shares with
Joe Wood, Lefty Grove and School
boy Rowe the record Of most con-
secutive games won at Is.
Never q Nat, but now athletic
director here at Wilson Teachers
College, Doc White, formerly of the
White Sox, holds the record for
most consecutive shutouts by q
pitcher, at five.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
OFT Started as Catcher and Moved

So much for the background the
Lewis never has played Of baseball outed
He never has much peeked through of
glasses At 23 he at close to his peak For four
been remarkable kid ball and
batting is 3o3 and while he isn't third
the business he isn't the
Mr.. Griffith taking play
ouheld This brings interesting
payand considered
of the diamond to another and still make good?
Past history consistent providing
OF the Giants broke baseball catcher
right field which
tolerabe game third base.
couple there lively
the Washington
distant relation ned
Evening star., 1940-02-26
DC. Roller Hockey Team
Coins PIoyoff Round

Washingtons roller hockey team,
the Capitol Casinos, was assured Of
being involved In the East-West
playons today for the Amateur AS
sociation's championship as . re-
suit Of its 2-1 victory over the Mount
Gretna Tigers here yesterday.
Sugrue and Loemer scored the
winners points in the second period
the latter's coming four minutes
after the visitors had tied the score
midway the period.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
BY BURTON HAWKINS,

With microscopic scrutiny which
explores every pertinent point con-
corning American League baseball
players except, perhaps, whether
they'll have 'em sunnyside up,
scrambled or soft boiled, the annual
rookie and record book of the loop
is hot of the press and sizzling
with statistics.
Ordinarily as dry and dull as
the Congressional Record, statistics
seem to leap to life in this rose
colored pamphlet. Lurking behind
almost every figure is a yarn worth
repeating, for most of those figures
concern American or major league
records.
Among other things, the book re-
veals Griffith Stadium Is the tough
est park in the circuit for distance
swingers, as already, suspicioned
over a span of years. Last year.
for instance, 100 home runs were
belted at Yankee Stadium and an
other 100 at Detroit. At st. Louis
129 homers were pumped among the
customers or over the stands and
128 circuit smashes were registered
at Philadelphia.
Washington Park q Poor Last.
Boston Red Sox fans viewed 95
home runs, while SO were smacked
at Chicago and 63 at Cleveland.
Washington finished a poor eighth
in that respect, with only 81 homers
being hit by all players in the league
here. The Mats hit only q total of
IL homers in II games in their own
park, while the Yankees Dashed 9
of 'em in II games here. No St.
Louis player hit a home run mere
and Hank Greenberg blasted De-
troit's only one.
American League players generally
hail from the maps pimple spots.
From such places as the Middle
Amama, Iowa, residence of Cleve-
lands Bill Zuber; the Snohomish,
Wash, home of Detroit's Earl
Averill: the Appalachicola, Fla,
home Of the Mats Jimmy Blood
worth, and the Atco, Ca, home of
Detroit's Rudy York, come the bulk
Of diamond heroes.
From Canada to Caracas, from
Oregon to North Carolina, the Mats
are converging on their training
site at Orlando, Fla, and perhaps
some Of them will fashion records
which will be scribbled into league
annals. Washington players, some
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Tricky Fast Ball Gives Rookie Ghrman Chance to Make Grade With Nat
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN,
1t Seems to Be Up to Buddy
By FRANCIS E. STAN,
Star Stan Correspondent.

ORLANDO Fla, Feb 26-Saving
conditioning and ubthupng period
strictly rating this time experiment
sends John Kelly Lewis, jr, into the outfeld.
The behind the scheme repetition.
Briefly the Washington firm
sale last summer and bought him. The price
Minneapolis was Pitcher Harry Kelley outfeder Bobby
farmland shortStop Thock
to Mr.. Clark Griffith it represented $4,000 outlay.
But the Mats already had shosop
first thought
kid in his place Washington
Blu. the trade didn't off and the
shcrops
But Travis happened to break organized
third
the plan to play Pofah and Travis in the nd
for Lewis This deemed
hitter the club
and defensive ability all power they get.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Bio Homer Excites As

ANAHEIM, Calf, Feb. 26 @-
The Philadelphia Athletics camp
still is gossiping about a 373-yard
home run drive Bob johnson deliv-
cred on his first trip to the plate
over the week end. The Messrs.
Mack also are excited about their
''kid" infleld, starring Benny Mccoy
at second base.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Collegiotes Ahead Aouin

Leonard Williams "a points paced
Recreation Colegiates to . 66-62
victory over Baltimore Scholastics
yesterday ct Baltimore In = colored
basket bali game.
Evening star., 1940-02-26

THE WASHINGTON CLUBS YOUTHFUL
VETERAN AND LEADING HITTER. MILL
BE EXHIBIT A N The GRlFF- HARRIS
NOBLE EXPERIMENT OF CONNECTING
AN iNFtELDER INTO AN ourflELDER..
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ficiently to allow food to come
in from overseas. They offer TO
buy our enormous surplus. pay
for it and take it away IN their
own ships if Germany and Eng
land will permit.
The William Allen White COM
mittee, which is said To be
front for the administration, .
Is opposing this, lest it help the
Germans win the war" But
We have assurance that not one
pound of the food sent will fall
into German hands or help them
in their nefarious enterprise, in
deed the proposal is to make the
help contingent on this not hap
pening. Only two weeks sup
ply is to be shipped at time.
II the Germans seize It, the
British blockade will be clamped
right down again.
Readers would prove rea
Americans and good neighbors
If they would write Lord 10th
ian. British ambassador, WASH
ington. D. c. and plead with
him to ask his government to
lift the embargo so these ships
can get through. The future
of democracy is more at stake
In this enterprise than in the
national preparedness program.
STANLEY T. SHAW.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22

Stamps
President Roosevelt Moy
Add New Stomp Portroits

THE next four years may bring
new philatelic honors 10 Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, the
only living American to be pic
tured on the stamps of three for
eign countries. The U. S. PreSi-
dent IS shown on the Turkish issue
above. with President Inonu. The
stamp was one of three commem-
Grating the l50th anniversary of
the L. s. Constitution.
The President also has been
pictured on stamps of Brazil and
Guatemala. Three other living
Americans have portraits in the
stamp gallery.
President Roosevelt IS an ardent
philatelist. has kept a stamp COL
lection since he was a boy. He
owns from $4,000 to 80 900 stamps.
has specialized in North. Central
and South American issues. He
also has collected Hong Kong and
British West Indies.
The President has been active
IN increasing u. s. stamp issues,
has personally designed several
stamps. and passes on all sug-
geSted designs. Il Is likely that
MS third term will see continu-
snce OF the expanded l. S. stamp
program
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to Wo-
mans page for the answers.
L How many points does a
safety score in football?
2 What is the popular name
for woodchucks
8 Is Montana. Wyoming or
Nevada the least populous
state?
4. What is the name of the
IVA dam on the Clinch river a
few miles north of Knoxville,
Tenn.
s. What letter is used to de-
note so in Roman numerals?
s Which Is the largest statue
in the world
7. The name of what agrieul-
tural implement is used to de-
note q person OF dissolute char
acterr
S. Name the national leader Of
the Communist party in the
United States.
Q. At what a e are alien chill
dren required to register in the
United States?
10. Who wrote DIR. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde >"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Communist Line Stretches

The Communist lne-that u.s. the official plan of action
to which all party members in all countries bounds
made of rubber
When war broke out in Europe last September the
final push that made unavoidable the agreement be-
tween Stain and Hitler. Stain evidently assured Hitler
that O. K to ahead; he. Stan would not inter-
fere That all Hitler needed Stain clearly figured that
Hitler would get enmeshed in long and disastrous
promising booty.
But it didn't work out that way Hitler smashed through
Stain roughly handled in the Finland grab He saw
that Her's power, which he had helped unleash,
great threaten Russia itself. So Stain francally
grabbed the Baltic states and Bessaraba and redoubed his
effort
Any day may expect to American Commu-
nists who have roundy condemned the in Europe
mperalistc and capitasc and urged the United States
to stay clear TO beg in urging stop Hitler now When
they do remember that the changed situation of Russia
the changed situation of the United States will be the
key.
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L.ANGU AGE OF
THE WORKING MAN

Editor. the Times. 7 speak
the language OF the working
man. the steady worker. or the
one who works whenever he can.
I met one while I was burning
leaves IN our alley. I heard
someone behind me say:
Please, grandmother I've lost
my way. Can you tell me now to
reach the Veterans hospital
I have tramped all day and I
am tired. I seem no nearer
than when 7 started. I reckon
that's the way when you are
lost
Answering him, I said. Rest
yourself. I must go in the
house. When I return. III tell
you every step to take where
you want to go. will tell you
where you can find a job. Don't
DC discouraged Trust in God.
II you are lost. and through him
you'll find your way. There.
have given you the directions.
Now be on your way
Thanks. mother. for the
bread and milk.
Sobbing. he wiped ms stream
ing eyes upon his sleeve and
went TO burning leaves. There
are many more such.
MOTHER SAWYER
3T3s "a. ST.
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We Are Lucky---Let's Be Thankful

Americans the luckies people in the world
If they anything but devoutly and humby thank
ful this Thanksgiving Day, they would be the most I'M
grateful people in the world.
We are AT peace-and thus have been granted the
most precious boon granted to any people IN these days
We live in pleneous continent stuffed with all the
good things of material life
We have freedom; we have hope.
OF all the people in the world who should give humble
thanks for their blessings we should be foremost.
We at peace-but that is great credit TO
superior policies superior goodwill Other
tries have earnestly sought and worked for peace have
great goodwill but peace snatched from them
We live amid plenty That this plenty is not available to
all matter for shame But the opportunity has been
given Plenty is ours That have not had the wit
the will distribute it that all might share is certainly
fault but our own.
We have freedom. Our forefathers it for with
blood and tears 1t to today through special
merit of Whether shall keep it and extend
ithat will be the test of merit But il is given to
US today without regard to our effort or merit.
Surely people so blessed can do no less than to take
day of solemn thought to consider how it may become
nearly worthy of this bounty.
More than 300 years ago tiny band of Pilgrims on
the rocky New England coast their struggling
wher in drought They visioned another starving time
such they had looked upon before. when loved
weakened and died before their for lack of little
Then rain. The crop saved. And for this
simple bounty they declared day of Thanksgiving
This is the day which we, who have been thousand
times more favored, to observe again May we
render these thanks with something of the humility and
devotion that moved the Pilgrims kneeling amid their
ragged cornstaks at Plymouth.
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HOROSCOPE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER %

Good and adverse planetary
influences are active today. but
benefic aspects appear to domin-
ate. In the early hours the mind
may be disturbed and the judg-
ment warped, owing TO too much
holiday celebration. but later
there is a good sign for business
men.
Heart and Home: Women
are under the most stimulating
and Promising planetary direo-
tion today. II Is especially favor
able To foresight which enables
wise decisions. II is fortunate
sway for love affairs. Engage
ments or weddings are under
planetary direction presaging
progress and good fortune. This
is a lucky date for social enter
tainments and for theatrical
events, A play is to make last
ing hit
Business Affairs: The seers
declare that since this is to be
the foremost nation on the globe
in coming years, under the new
order of things II is safe to de-
velop business on large scale
and TO expect ultimate expan-
sion of commerce. II is true
that an economic war is fore
cast and a snarl in international
finance. but for the sound or
ganization. mercantile or manu-.
featuring the future is bright.
While the old DAYS of sudden
fortunes and great profits may
have vanished. there will be
firm foundations for American
trade and conservative methods
OF building IT,
National Issues: Danger is
foretold that new aristocracy
of national defenders may de-
velop from the officers who are
commissioned in the army,
navy and aviation service. AS
the outlook is for continued
wearing OF uniforms, many men
will be long withdrawn from
business and the various profess
sionS.
International Affairs: Brit
aims courageous defense against
invasion will last until some
sort of honorable truce or
armistiee is arranged. ii Is fore
told. Changes in the govern
ment are forecast and there will
be deaths among the states
man of the empire. Inhabitants
Of London are TO suffer greatly
from disease as the winter adj
vanees. Novel variations pf in
fluenza and lung affections are
prognosticated. The L n / : e
States is TO render aid more sub
stantisl than any that has been
given
Persons whose birthdate IL is
have the augury OF year of
good fortune. There may be
journeys OF business and pleas
ure.
Children born on this DAY will
BE- vigorous. energetic and
courageous. These subjects Of
the Archer know how 10 hit the
bull eye OF success
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gatla season. = new records
were established = we're set h
ne inbosrd speed merchants.
an the other i were accom-
phshed b the cupboard hydrod-
plane chauffeurs.
However. the overall speed
boat record Is stu he'd o. SIR
Malcolm Camnhells Bluebird IL
with the official score o. 14l.14
miles an hour That was made
Aug 19 1893. a. England. at
which time the Bluehird II ae-
tuany covered one lap Of the
mile course al 1925 n 7. h
Pioneer riYermen Of the Co
lumhia this week saw the end
Of the steamer Umatilla, 81
year-old veteran Of that great
inland waterway.
Built at Cello, the Tmatilla
spent u years as an L. s army
engineer dredge She was later
converted into a river towboat,
and her last Job was towing the
Feltre TO Portland after the lat
ter ship was rammed and sunk
in 1897.
Now she has been stripped of
machinery - which has been
shipped TO Seattle to be used in
some sort Of a vessel abuilding
in this area
Apropos 10 nothing whatever,
Teller told us that those big
silk neekerchiefs worn by Amer
lean naval bluejackets are an
enduring reminder OF the time
when American forces paid re-
spectful tribute upon the death
of England's famous admiral,
Lord Nelson. Seems we went
into mourning and never came
out of it.
AS for what our blue jackets
use those neckerchiefs, the only
practical thing we've encounter
ed was the trick of filling a to-
bacco sack with damp sand and
Incorporating ii in the big front
knot. Makes swell weapon
when blandished during an i'm
promptu brawl
OF all the hard lives, the
sailors is the worst: toll :.
hardship danger little
else beside. Forever on the
move, like one acoursed; his
home. his seabag the sea,
his bridge.
It's hard, and a grim. and a
thanlless life; no profits and
little mirth-
It's tough old game, but I'd
swamp same for no other life
ON earth,
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EMBARGO ON FOOD
FOR STARVING EUROPE

Editor. The Times: II I had
a great supply of food. more
than could possibly use before
II spoils, and my neighbor were
starving and II refused TO
share this surplus with him. I'd
be s rat.
II ne offered to buy the sur
plus from me with his own
money. and carry II away: and
still refused I'd be commonly
called q fool
II my failure to stave off his
starvation would later threaten
my health and life through dis
ease and eontsgion. Id quality
fully as nut.
Some - millions Of our neigh
bors are precisely IN TINS case.
The citizens Of five little Euro
pesn democracies. resisting the
Nazi hordes with their very lives
but now oyerrun by them. are
facing starvation and death.
They ask not one cent Of char
ity. They ask only that the
British blockade De lifted suf-
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toward an economy more closely
resembling our own system. II
may become a more profitable
customer than 1t has been In
the past. but the Dominion may
also become a threatening COM
mercial rival after-and because
of-the European war.
Harry Alvin Mills appoint
ment to the National Labor Re-
lations board-the first ma jor
act since election-buoys the be-
lief that the president will pur-
sue a moderate course in his
third term. The 67year-old
Chicago professor is no radical
in his economic slant.
His friends characterize him
as the Brandeis type. He feels
that vast concentrations of
power whether of capital or Ia
bor-invite danger when utilized
for pressure purposes against
society. Therefore he believes
that they should be rigidly con-
trolled. With respect to labor
he is considered a middle reader
in that he does not lean toward
the CIO or the AFL. He and
Member Leiserson will probably
stand together against the more
radical Edwin S. Smith. The
timing of the appointment to
coincide with the Lewis and
Green conventions suggests that
F. D r. feels fairly confident
of labor peace Otherwise, the
president would probably have
waited while longer.
Former Chairman Madden
would have been renamed had
his big hacker. John L. Lewis.
been more responsive To preelec-
ton peace offers from the
White House. But when the
CIO boss told presidential
emissary that not even Mr.. Mad
denis reappointment would pla-
cate him-and when he declared
for Wendell Willkie all bets
were off Il would have been
branded as political decker
for campaign purposes.
President Roosevelt is giving
serious consideration to the ap-
pointment of an assistant sec
rotary of war for air. Difficult
ties confronting the expansion
program-finaneial. production,
export-convince ms military
advisers of the need of q CO.
ordinator with no other duties.
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PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC
ALCOHOL AND DEATH

Editor, The Times; What is
to be done to control the tri-
umphant advance of intoXicat-
ing liquor in Pierce county?
That advance is marked by a
large increase in. the fruits Of
liquor-men on every hand with
bloated faces. bleary eyes, and
other signs of human degrade
ton, DRINKS, violent deaths.
And, then. there are those
long and frequent professions to
the cemetery, to lay to rest the
young, the fair, the good, who
have fallen on death by motor
cars driven by King Alcohol.
And the coarsening effect
enters into the souls of all of
us II. one year ago, it re-
quired six OF these violent deaths
each month to stir our wrath,
it will now require ten or more
of such deaths month thus
to effect us, so hardening and
brutalitizing is the drinking of
Intoxicating liquor.
What is to be done about it,
II Is said that the sureness
and promptness of punishment
in Canada explains the much
lower crime and tragedy rate
there, Think for moment of
that Ruston tavern keeper, who
drove al perilous rate down
past the Temple theater, ran
into very good woman. threw
her body far into the air and
tore off one leg at the knee.
Then followed all the laws
delays. and, finally. the husband
was almost impoverished by
court costs. Now this brute is
in Jail, to be out again in a
few months, and the report In
the newspapers states that he
has been made 'trusty" there.
as though the Jail authorities
sympathized with booze. What
a spectacle.
II We could have martial law
in booze cases. a firing wall.
firing SQUAD. to be faced within
certain few hours of the
CHASTITY accident. how would
that work
Surely. Tacoma is not going
to stand for these multiplied
deaths at the hands OF booze
crazed motor-car drivers.
JAMES P RAwSON.
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atuned To peaeetime navigation.
Who has not stood the lonely
watch in the nights blaekness
Can ne ever forget the utter
relief even a thrill-when the
faithful lighted beacon Is raised ?
Nothing is so vital to ma
riners mere man being what he
is as the sentinel aids to navl-
cation on the worlds shores
which have made modern, swift
and safe maritime trade what II
Is today
Thus we think often OF the
unhonored mariners -they who
are the single link between need
ful civilian populations. whose
amending struggle with the sea
and elements knows no quarter
at best. who accept as unques-
tionable duty to follow their
peril beset course with infinite
distain of hazard.
You see, we are thinking of
them these days because the war
has made necessary the abso-
Lutte unreliability of lights,
buoys and other navigational
markers in WARRANTED areas.
Those aids are the very foun-
dation of the worlds maritime
commerce and traffic. We know
their Importance. just as GER
tainly does every mariner.
Yet that keystone of naviga-
ton has been destroyed. Aids
TO navigation on the coasts of
so-and-so are liable to be ex-
tinguished, reduced in power,
changed in characteristic or re-
moved entirely without further
notice'-such official announce
ments are frequent nowadays.
Good luck, sailorman! In
your cargoes you have more
than worldly goods. The destiny
of people and nations depends
upon you-yet can do nothing
TO ease your burden and vital
responsibility. Good luck!
During the 1910 speedboat re-