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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17

years the Philadelphia Athletic,
in the American league. That,
last again in 1871.
Crabb. ksrehildon won 10 AND
lost Is and hcCrsbb won Q snd
lost IL.
The As infie,d 10 hkeiy To
kne up with Dick Seib~rt at
first, Benny Mccoy at second,
Fred Chapman or Al BrAncsto
At short. and Sudsr At third.
Mack believe. Mccoy sill h
better hall player this s~s-
son with the pressure off.
II he doesn't improv. Ms Job b,
likely 10 90 10 Crash Davis, who
came UP last season from Duke
university II Suder fails at third
the only other third ssck.r avail.
able 10 Bob Kshls from Hollywood
JOHN son IN LEFT
Last years outfisd Of Bob John.
son in left. sam Chapman IN cen.
ter and Wslly Moses In r1ght prob
ably will remain intact sines IL,
tho bsst department m the olub
The rsplscsments will Ne Dee nil.s
Rookie Collins and the vet Al Sim.
mons. who also serves as a coach
The As three beet pitchers
hast season were Johnny Bah
ieh. Bill Beekman and Nelson
Potter. That trio IL likely TO
do the As best pitching again
this s>aAon with sonpe help
from Chunky Dean. who
pitched . brIllisnt Eaaa
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
Hot Stove
Tickets Ready

Tickets for the annual dinner OF
the Tacoma Hot Stove league, 10
be held Saturday night. Feb. !. al
the American Legion hall, South
%th and C streets. are now on
sale.
They can he purchased at
Chappell 4 Grimes. 946 Pa
cific avenue; Scotty's, North
Ist and Tacoma: Roy Archer's,
south 10Th and X streets;
broadway Sports Center. 1877
Broadway. and from Ted
Van Fossen, Bank OF Cali
fornia-
Attendance Is limited to 500,
capacity Of the hall. and indica-
tons are that the available tickets
will NJ sold week before the
event.
Russell FAR and his committee
w charge Of the dinner are maxi
irs arrangements for an outstand-
Ing program for the baseball kick
off Of 1871.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
Community Pin
League Active

Following are the results Of
Community leagu. matches las,
night at the X ST. Recreation
alleys.
Home Plat. Tavern defeated
French Bakery. 27l5 10 2505. Jack
Lohre Of the winners rolled high
three game total. scoring s27. and
X. Kirby. a isammats. registered
high singl. with 100
Arctic Mist defeated Memo
Caba ret. 1895 10 1sss. Eb~rt
of Nemo's won individual scor-
ing honors with . total NJ
sss. which included high single
Of .oz.
General Distributors defeated
Coast House Materials 2s35 u
277s. Jack Hsdland % Coast
House Materials with s5l. mad
high total and Dan Fijsiks. his
tssmmsts. posted hizh nngls Of
z1<
Csmmsfsn Brothers nsst X 81
Recreation, 7777 10 27ss y
Peterson 81 Cammsf.no Brothers
rolled high total. si3. ann p.
CAruso. also Of Csmmaranos,
registered high single. ist-
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Tadich Leads
Pin Whackers
Misses City Loop
Mark by One Pin

Tea radirh. fcr ths sseond I'm
seeutivs eses. 80 to city lssku.
bowler. n their matches - IN.
Broadway alleys "Wednesday n
CITY stars steamed up ~ thsll
games sna turned IN the e~ss hstrf
~ tets. ~ the present sssson
Fenr 81 the trIndisrs were sses
eoo .na asny averaged 10 pc
game o. hsttsf
rsaieh nsl.-es tho le..ss
reesra Tor the ses.sn ~ .
single PIN. nees. ago. mn
NeTisrts relied . sas fatal
and not until ls-t night sss
~ seriously Ihr~sfeard. Ted
started h1s series iasusr.ciaas.
~. shooting iA In hls fir.s
Ismes Ne moved s,st %
alley. = and 10 and h~sKea
out sir, Then. 90 ! and .
alleys. he r-sii, went "a work.
starting Win five STRIKES IN .
row. following with . spare
and another series % feur
strike. 10 register -es a.a
hrisG his score for the eve
ming 10 aaF. Ne marked mp
asa . week ago Ter . pretty
average for the first I've
week. Of .ecend half play.
sooftY Murdoch. csrstsns cap
tain. rolled hls best series n tn.
present season. stth games ~ ait
22t and 2os. for e.s fetal ~.
had only tao open frames in IN.
three games Toby Tyler missed
his third 200 game by enc pin
rolling iso IN his third game. huI
enough wood fell 10 sive him ,
big sit score q v Snyder. Pa
eifie Match star. rolled 80 In hi
third game 20 make his series
mark read All.
Tram ssofrs we're also btuhs
with Pacific Match taking The
top h.rors with i0as single
and sspo fatal. . score sss
enough In Win thr~e points
from Hill uerdpssn's strong
Nerriek and Race quintet
johnson Painters won thr~~
from Ru.s Nichsei's service.
Coast nrush Won three from
Hub Csthier.. Carstens Pack
.rs captured = trio from Grit
FIN Fuel. and Hiehfieid W.
Octane hsttied Gsswsii op-
ticisn. Ia . draw. zach win
ming tse poinis, The scores
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Herman Bssss. VINO came up from
Memphis lsst season highiy-ioutsd.
10 Also expected 70 come around.
~. ~zs tn. ma jors worst pitcher
last season Jack Knott. yho zane
N ~. A. from the White sos IN
IN. Dsrio LDdiglsni dssi also -
counted on In me pitching picture
Two other followers are Ire Hoss
and Porter Vaughn. the rookie
lefthsnder who should be a winner
II he masters control
Frankie Hayes. who hit .sos
within one point OF leading the
club will 90 the bulk Of the catch
ing again. Hal Wagner Will be
~. NJ 2 man snd IN. veteran
Ear Rrlleksr tns thirc-slnnSey.
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.fiIPyAHD LEAGUE
Broadway Alleys

A hAf aozsn pinmsn q fhs tao
snipyards leagues rolled hish 10
tzs in their matches On tns Broad
rsy alleys wsdnssdsy. sftn Jim
sbsug hnessy shooting ssT 10 isAd
ne 40 ,r1indlsrs His games ~sFs
zis. ia snd lse u Andrews. IN
me sight iesE1s. rolled zta for
the hixn single game and wound
up with sss Howard Robbins had
three good games and = sss total.
BIZ Pisatss started with 2i0. then
finished with isz and isz. for a
STA marx Ford Wiley failed 70
reach 200 In any rams. but check
81 in with a nice 5ss. Russ Olson
reached zis in Ma second game
and ysS,slsrsd ss& for the ssnss.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
Neuro Ghosts Lose

SALEM. willamette Uni
versity's first and second teams
scored at will over the travelling
Negro Ghost. here last night to
chalk up a ~ 10 81 basketball II
victory
The clever hall-hsndling antics
~ The Ghosts produced laughs for
THE crowd hut not enough baskets
! nor the visitors a. they trsilsd
throughout the game The Bear
lea. led. 20 to 10 at the halfway
Inark.
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stsg>S. Ore. Ray uendsses.
-n' coach n University High
school here for thu last fivs
years, received order. yesterday
10 report for active duty In the
United state. army HendrioAson.
hrst lieutenant. vas instruct 81
10 report To Fort nenning. ga.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
City Lsagusrs
Expect Crowd
Three GENES Set
For Lincoln Floor

Another h3 crowd y sxp~rsed
the thursday siGAs q L1neclu
hsss gym ts witness rseoma CITY
nssssss~ii Issrss play. ~nsch ~ai
r<s underway 81 : s'einss wfth
Mlehs.i's msstlns cnursmsrs
A. e'eie~h rSevtses go
fs~iers ss>es 10 . vsnops
ssss~N my have sp1ss 10 sa>>s
s~s ps~ssssss rpsesssss
rhs ciahs 9TH play s~~- har1
nss@stfsEl for the entertainment
ef the fsas s><sr. they sesrs thssr
regular ssms
Al . n'ele<s csssrm<n as1 so<n
signal cerps wet. ne wsrres
assured cf ~ isass . ne fns fsrsg
plsce.
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Crucial Tilt
On Schedule
b. Abes Need Victory
To Keep Loop Lead

More important than an erdi.
nary Cross state league game be
cause L also counts n he Cts
series which decide = state tourna-
ment berth. Friday nights Lincoln
Stadium nssket engagement al
Lincoln doomed over the prep hori-
ron biz IS = harvest moon with
game time only IS hours away
Both john Kennedy snd his Lin
rom Ahes and Y. G. Lowmsn and
his Stadium Tigers realize the cru
eisl nature o. Fridays fray.
Lincoln needs the victory TO
maintain it, position atop the
Cross state league. since the
contest counts in both N-Stats
and City standings.
Stadium needs the victory
To get back into the Cross
State league race hut also 10
helghten their morale for an
other CITY series game With
Bellarmine at Stadium on sat
urday night.
Abe Lineup Set
Kennedy was about set with ms
lineup Of Ingwsld Thompson and
Logan Blades at forwards, Vince
Hanson at center. Ed Huntington
and Raw Sturgeon at guards. Big
sest task for Kennedy was to see
. rat this quintet was in peak ply
zeal and mental condition.
Thompson had been bothered
.ome with bhsters following last
veekend's two tough Cross State
engagements in which Thompson
was high point man for the Aoes
IN both contests as they split with
Walla Wana and Bremerton. All
the other regulars are in the pro-
verbal pink
Iowrnan ordered pep se.-
sion before Wednesdays work.
out and what the Stadium men
tor had to say In this heart
10 heart" confab was "of the
record but 1t was noticeable
that the Bengals came out OF
the meeting and rushed into
their practice session with
zip and zinnegar.
Seeks Aggressiveness
Far from satisfied with the per-
Torrance against Bremerton last
Tuesday when the invaders DOM
mated blackboard play, both often
.iyelv and Extensively. il is believ-
cd that Lowmsn made some very
rointed ~emarks on Wednesday re-
lating 10 blackboard aggressive
ness
II is believed that Lowman found
nothing wrong with Bobby Ange-
lines work on Tuesday and that
the S feet inch flipper would get
call. but the personnel
Of the rest Of the initial quintet
could not be determined at We'd
nesdays session.
Midget quintets of the two
schools were also bearing down
a. they initiate their City series
in Fridays preliminary contest.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
OREGON COLLEGE WINS
MONMOUTH. ORE. Org Q

college OF Education won the first
gam. OF an Oregon intercollegiate
Basketball conference series las,
nisht when they defeated Eastern
oregon College Of Education. 81
b a..
SINH. Eastern Oregon forward
sd 81 scorers V1th J. points
tHowsger. Nonm outh forward.
MD is.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
THRIVE IN GARDEN
MINNGAeofla ~.

BASKETBALL teams In their appear
ancs in Madison sausrs Garien
have averaged nearly 10 points
above their normal scores else.
where
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
Too Light to Play Football at Ohio State,
Paul Brown Now Returns as Its Head Coach
Became Nation S
Most Successful
Gridiron Mentor

First Of two articles % Paul
Brown. phenomenally success
full football coach NJ Nsssiilor.
q, and rev coach ~ Ohio
STATE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
HuRk SELLS spsHI.fA
pUpt.ADyt.pIsrA Ia. a

'sS I'm - JOG Hnfh.
champion amatsur oarsman nj the
world, has sold all his shsiis. fear
Ing they would tempt him 10 break
his retirement.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
Connie Mack S As Remain
Good Bet for Bad Season

NEW YORk-For the past q
have been the most consistent cit
why they are quite likely TO finisi
From 1888 through 1910 the
Athletics victories have ranged
between SO and IS each season.
Their top percentage has been $50
and their low .346 during that per
iod. -Four times they've finished
eighth and twice seventh.
There's nothing IN the lS+i
Philadelphia material 10 ipdi-
cate that the As are going
ANY place this seAson. Connie
Mack has done = bit of house
cleaning, getting nd Of such
piayers - Bill Illard, Joe
Gantenbein, Al Rubeling, Bill
Maggie, George CaAter, I'd
Hsusser, Eric Upton and Dsrio
Lodigiani. but his replace
ments aren't anything 10 write
bome about.
Perhaps IN. best Of the new
corners 10 Pet. Sud.r. a 73-yesr-old
third nsssnsn who hit .30i for IN,
Ringhsmpton Eastern iesgu. club.
he 10 expected n TAX, over IN.
not corner Eddi. Collins. n. son
Of the great Athlstics-Whit. Sox
second basemsn, comes up from
Baltimore to bid for a berth in the
outfield.
ROOKIE HURLERs
He 10 fast and may have q fu-
ture. He hit 2s3 last season. The
best OF IN. other rockies are two
rght-hsnded pitchers from Torn
70. Phi Asrchisdon and Lestsr Nc
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Young honrmsn ~ University
Place ius, getting aff n their
lsti sea~nn. iost q R'nsl nrth
squad last night st University
Place school. " 10 ~. A return
ssfns - Oh for Monday. same
gymnasium
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subs University risss kast<Fs.s
esuustti stout and anuasnn n-nsf
hfith utsenhiatt and Afsrs
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
MRS. BROWN NO
MONDAY QUARTERBACK

me whole family IL football
conscious. Mrs. Brown. an at
tractive brunei, attends all the
games. but shes no Monday morn
ing quarterback.
Both Robin, s. and Michael D.
hope to be players. Michael has
other activities. Last fall In emu
lation OF his favorite comic strip
character. he jumped off the ga
rage roof, a sheet draped over
him. The sheet didn't buoy him
up much. and he broke a leg.
Both Robin called Bunkv
and Mike are sturdy. rosy
checked.
Their parents have only one
fault to find with them. They
have trouble getting them 10 wear
pair Of red and black wooden
play shirts.
Red and black, you see, ar.
Csnton's colors.
NEXT: MAssilIon football.
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ny DON SANDERS
Tacoma Times Correspondent

NASSILLON. ON the fan ~
1925 slim. wiry youth from
Massillon went out for quarter
back on the freshman football
team az Ohio State university
He had played in high school.
but he weighed only about $50
pounds and didn't get a second
look from the coaching staff.
Chagrined. he transferred the
next year to Miami university at
oxford. o. where they didn't put
so great a premium on size and
weight.
Even then football was pretty
important TO Paul Brown
Ever since then 10 has hem
his major interest. Otherwise.
he'd never have become the
phenomenally succes
coach he ls-with = record OF
one defeat In four years.
He'd never have been doomed
for an important Big Ten
coaching berth.
He'd never have been the CEN
trail figure in a spontaneous. wide
spread campaign which yesterday
made him head coach at this same
Ohio State university.
Paul Brown has made the name
Msssillon symbolic Of the best in
scholastic football. He has made
the Massillon Tigers a fearful OPP
ponent for such teams as Gary.
Ind. Marblehead Mass. New
Castle. Pa. Toledo Waite - and
always Canton. o. For nearby
Canton is Massillon's great nat
ural rival. They are feared justly,
for the Tigers not only win-they
win by 80 or 40 or 20 points.
Massillon's football outdraws
every school and college in Ohio
except Ohio State. During the
1910 season the Tigers 10 games
attracted 1872 .00o-more than all
but the biggest college teams.
LOST ONE GAME
ON FIRST JOB
What's Paul Brown like,
Well, physically he's still slim
and wiry. He stands about s feet,
weighs 1872. His dark hair is re-
ceding At the forehead; ne has
sharp eyes that size you UP quick
~. He's 32-pretty young TO be
a big-time college coach.
After being ineligible In his
sophomore year, Brown PLAYED
varsity quarterback 1T Mi
ami for two seasons. He
graduated In 1890, got his
masters degree at Ohio State
In 1910.
On June 10. 1929. he married
Kathryn kester. who followed
him by two years at Msssillon
high school. Mrs. Brown studied
nursing at Clevelands Mount
Sinai hospital. became school
nurse at Severn prep school when
her husband was named coach
there in 1880.
Ssvern-a Maryland school for
naval academy appointees who
want TO brush up on their studies
before entering Annapolis
one game in the two seasons
Brown WAS football coach there.
Then he got a chance 10 return
TO Massillon. where football was
in the doldruma In the nine sea
sons he has been there, the game
has become an obsession with the
whole city.
JUDGES PLAYERS
ON THREE POINTS
His teams are famed for their
intricate ball handling and fines.e
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Classic LIAoIE. Pi.Af Mon

Olympic Dairy 1899 ~ Model
Lumber Co 159b "a. him sAms
Lowell is7. ~riss Lowell 80
Tacoma Truck 1850 ca. Ransas
Drug 7ss4 IL high sams Hshaa.
msn2o5. seriss HshsdsmAu ss8
Pabsi Blue Ribbon 7s31 o. DAM
PANTS 1881 i1. hish game Dfiffitb
is3. ssriss oTifflth s7s
tsssirus is.Ens
Lsfds lsb2 o. BAaous ssA 20
hisn game " Aquino zoe ssfis. ~
Aquino 100
Drivers issT nf Hams 1850 "a.
nigh game and<rson iss seris.
Anderson 40
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17

lie SAYS he considers three things
when Judging a players merits
/. Is he brave enough
2. Is he smart enough
:. Can he run
he instills IN his players an
attitude toward work They
must be willing TO spend long
hours perfecting technique.
Il know OF no team" h. told
me. which spends so much time
on details"
Every boy in Massillon wants
to play football. but Brown car
ries a squad OF only IS. He usu-
ally uses no more than ~. trains
his players to 20 the fun game
when the going is tough" No
smoker. he keeps in shape the
year round.
He uses a variation Of the box
single wing formation. His own
development. II resembles the
system employed by Cornell and
Columbia.
He makes full Use Of movies.
has pictorial records Of every
game his Tigers have played.
Daytime games are photo
graphed in color.
He plays golf, travels with his
family. lie and Mrs. Brown play
chess, too. but football i. his prin-
cipal hobby. Almost every sum
mer he Is on the teaching staff
OF a midwestern coaching school.
The library in the Browns
modest white home includes every
book on soothaii Lnau
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Coliseum Pin
Scores Good
Rogon and Barnard
Short OF Records

Coliseum Boosters isaguers came
close to beating their own records
last night at the Coliseum.
Larry Ragsn 81 Johnson Paint
rolled three games. 2oi. 2o3. 177
$40 Eleven pins more would have
tied the record.
Jimmy Barnard fell short only
eight pins Of poeketinE new
single game record. He registered
ass In the third game
The Iadie. kream krust
Bread team showed . high
single Of Iss nv Msbl~ Ander-
son. Mrs. Barber rolled aver
sso pins In . high three game
series.
Some good shooting WIS done
In getting seven games OF 200 or
better. Bernard, 2s5. y Hoffman.
204. Larry Reagan. 20i and goa
Harvey Richardson. 7O1. Hawlsy.
2io. Hewitt. 200
Biz bad Wolf. 1914 "a vs.
Hooker Office. 2ss7 u HIGH
single game. Barnard. 23s. High
series. v Hoffman. 623.
Defiance lumber. 7lsi t0D. vs.
Jordans Bread. 2sss 81 High
single game. Hsrins. 100 High
series. Bates. 5i3
kream krust Bread. 7stt f5D.
VS. Simonds Saws 2632 %. High
single game. Anderson. ls5. High
series, Ferguson. tss.
Johnson Paint. 270e 90. " Post
Office. 2o7s 81. High single game.
Hawley, 210. High series. Larry
Raglan. $40.
Penn Salt. 2577 49,. vs. Hooker
Plant. 2sst ~. High single game.
Russ Hansen. 100. High series.
krehbisl. ts3
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= -HVFN IINgI y HIaNtN
Wsldsfs 74sg a. Nsehi shop
NO ] 1851 IL hisn game n Polk
100. seriss Anderson so
Accountants 1854 "a Painters
ISIs ~ nigh game a Nelson go
seFi<s " Manson bI7
Mil 7bl7 a. Esetrie shop 7sob
% hish game " TODD is7 series
" Todd te2
Gam 1ass % hish .ams Cal Hisr
lls series Cal Hisr h11
Car SHOPS 1bs7 a. Lumber Tsfd
l7is 20 hlsh ssnls Burlington 80
.~Fiss Burlington bzS
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wEsT-tND ITAsfg

NFafH NFfHUF MIL
Boailns Center LDnen. 1881 30
" Hammond LsunaFg. ziss ~ Hign
ssfns X BA1s~st. iss s~riss. y bss-
s~tt t3s.
Fslchfisid Stations zIs5 ~. W
J. psdFicxson. i7s Series. n Dad
rlcsSon. at
sth Ave. Bowling Center. zfss ~
Va Hsros Lunch. zts7 "a blgn
Fasns. o. Pie. zz7. Series. ) schinn-
me- t3i
OAKLAND D~aSs, zzss 90. "a soNi=
ma Center NJ 4 10ss 90 Hlzn
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40, rn siD, LT,et, si.w,f

Primo Artos. rolling for Emiis
Tavern posted the big Outstanding
scorss ~ the evening sfth q nx
7s5 single and SAB xries
CrYssalis. z471 a.. Tacoma Anus
n1snt 1872 nish ssms Kramer u ~
~Fiss KF4nsf go
AaDitou bsrstes zfSi ~ aagssss
HondiFOO 1870 AZ hlzh sHuzs
Nsatnsfil no series Hsrcg1s bzs
Little Coffee Tavern 1ozs 10 Pa
cific HiiHoFs co zbb7 "a nan
game uppnan 7of ssriss Anal
bis
Ennlls' Inn 7b6z - Bishops fo0ds
se7s o. hizn game Primo trtes
14b sF8ss Primo aFtN~ ss1
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17

Ne" fORk-For the past Philadelphia Athl.
have been the most consistent club
why they quite likely to finish asst again in le4
From 1888 through 1910 Crabb k.rehiloon x,o, IN
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17
JUDGES PLAYERS
ON THREE POINTS

His teams are famed for their
intricate ball handling and finesse
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-17

Coliseum Boosters isagu.rs came
close to beating their own records
last night At the Coliseum.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
GIVE 'EM
n SMOW!
Continued from Pose four

Nothing much happened. Then, later,
President Hoover named Bloom chair
man of the commission - and things
began to hum.
He organized committees in every
state, city and town in the country,
got churches, schools, bar associations,
lodges and clubs everywhere working
on the celebration. He gave them
scripts for pageants, texts for orations
and songbooks, plaster busts. card
board cutouts - and, between Wash
ington's Birthday and Thanksgiving
in 1882, 4,76O,0OO separate programs
were staged, with master celebrations
at the Capitol, Independence Hall.
Mount Vernon. Valley Forge, Alex
andria and at Washington's birth
place, Wakefield. Virginia. Eighty
one foreign nations or their possessions
observed the event. Mussolini partici-
pated in Rome; Berlin renamed
square George Washington Platz;
Toxic staged an official banquet.
Bloom solicited unsold radio time
and delivered countless speeches. He
gave school children medals for essays
on Washington. He hired historians
and exploded, among other legends,
the cherry-tree story. He set women's
styles for the season - with red, white
and blue predominating. He got stores
to sell Washington statues, book ends,
leather goods, scarves, even neckties.
Called commercial for encouraging
such products, he retorted, How can
you celebrate something without
something to celebrate WITH" He
appeared in knee breeches and three
corner Colonial hat. and Representa-
tive Florence Kahn observed in dis
may. Either Soils getting to look
like George Washington, or George
Washington like Sol - I'm pretty
much confused"
The cost to the government was
$l99, ,545 - less than some Broadway
productions. Congress had appropri-
ated $1,270.OOO, but Bloom got five
sixths of it back - 81 ,O00. 900 from
memorial stamps that we're never
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used and $4,000 from volumes of
Washington's writings.
This led, five years later, to his
management of the celebration of the
l5Oth anniversary of the Constitu-
ton. And the general formula was
the same. Replicas of the Constitu-
tion. Pictures of the signers. State
ceremonies on their respective dates
of ratification. He produced an ex-
Army sergeant who recited the Con-
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stitution by heart, whole sections
in a single breath. The Supreme
Court fight which was raging stimuli
taneously dampened enthusiasm some
what. but, with only $35O,OOO in
volved, the celebration broke even.
Sol was satisfied.
He operates from four suites of
Offices, three in Washington, one in
New York, in the Broadway theatrical
district. He keeps six stenographers