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consistent, for on the road it has
lost 81 of 80 games and at Griffith
Stadium the team has dropped Is
of % engagements. Should the
Mats remain that consistent they
doubtless will comprise the first
Washington Club to finish In the
cellar in 80 years.
If Griffith is planning to bolster
the club through the medium of q
deal he'll let be known by Sun
day midnight, when the trading
deadline expires. The Yankees are
reported willing to part with Short
stop Frankie Crosetti, but they are
requesting Pitcher Leonard in ex-
change.
Griffith is confronted with a
ticklish problem. Certain to be
missing from the club next season
are Third Baseman Travis and Out
fielder Lewis, whose plea for draft
deferment has been denied. Buddy
has been granted a 60-day exten-
sion and instructed to report for
induction into the Army on August
II, but he is allowed to apply fol-
another 60-day extension when the
first is completed. If granted, the
second extension would carry him
through the season.
Travis has not appealed for defer
ment and since enlistments in his
draft area are high he also may
survive the season. Washington
isn't exactly making a success OF
1941, but next year may be equally
as distressing.
Idle today, the Mats will oper
a prolonged home stand tomorrow
at Griffith Stadium, meeting Detroit
in the first of a three-game series
| Washington's scheduled tiff with
the Indians yesterday at Cleveland
was postponed due to downpoul
shortly before game time.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Berths for Boys Nine
In Loop Available

The second half of the Western
Division of the Boys Club of Wash
ington Baseball League will start
June % and teams desiring to en-
roll for the competition should con-
tact Paul CaSassa, athletic director
of the Georgetown branch of the
club.
Casassa may be reached at Mich
igan 2122 or by writing at 2726 M
street NV.
There will be two age divisions
one for teams IA years old and
under and one for teams Is and un-
der. Entries close a week from to-
day
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Thumb Hurt, Helen Dettwei|er
Easy Prey in Western Open;
Two New Stars Appear

champion, who tackled a convincing
7-and-6 defeat on Miss DettWeiler,
and Mrs. Burt We'll of Cincinnati,
a three-time winner of the Ohio
championship, who ushered Miss
Wall to the sidelines, l down.
Miss Dettweiler did not win a
hole from Mrs. Platt. A sore thumb,
injured when her automobile door
closed on it, hampered the losers
game and sent her l3 over par for
the dozen holes.
Miss Berg reached the semifnals
with a 3-and-2 decision over IT.
year-old Georgia Tainter, Western
junior champion from Fargo,
N. Oak, while Miss Jameson
missed par by only one stroke in
hammering out a 4-and-3 win over
Miss Dorothy Gardner of Steuben-
Vile, Ohio.
Heavy interest centers in the
Berg-Jameson match, for the critics
believe the winner will 60 on to
take the title in rather easy fashion
Saturday in the 36-hole final.
The two stars have met four times
and each has two verdicts in her
favor.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Minor Results

B. the Associated Press.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Jersey City. 5: Montreal, O.
Buffalo, 2; Newark. l.
Rochester at Syracuse. threateE.ng
weather.
(Only sames)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Kansas City, 4: Toledo, g.
tOthers. rain)
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
San Francisco, IS: Seattle. l.
San Diego. 4: Oakland. q.
Sacramento. s: Hollywood. J.
Los Angeles. L.: Portland. IL 90 in
ninRSJ.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Beaumont, :; oklahoma City. 3.
Houston. 20: Dallas, Is.
Tulsa. g. Shreveport, g.
Fort Worth, 4: San Antonio, O.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Knoxville. 3; Chattanooga, 2 90 in
New Orleans, 8: Birminsham, 3.
Little Rock, 4 Memphis. 3.
tOnly games)
EASTERN LEAGUE.
Albany. 3; Hartford. 3
Williamsport. So; Scranton, 81.
tOthers, rain)
VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
LynchburE. 8; staunton, z.
Others. rain.
NORTHERN LEAGUE.
All games, rain.
MIDDLE ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Charleston. 9; Erie. /.
Dayton, 8: Akron. 9.
Springfield, 4; Canton, !.
PIEDMONT LEAGUE.
Charlotte, Z: Portsmouth. 3.
Greensboro. /; Durham, 0 (six innings
rain).
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Tribe, Reds Celebrate
BasebaII's Birthday
AT Cooperstown
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PRESS.
,COOPERSTOWN, N. Y, June l3.
Celebration of baseball's 102d an
niversary here today is an all-Ohio
event.
Cleveland current American
League leader, opposes World
Champion Cincinnati of the Ma
tional in an exhibition expected to
draw about 10000 fans to this
birthplace of the sport.
Minus club expenses. game re-
ceipts go to support the Baseball
Museum and Hall of Fame dedi-
Gated two years ago in honor of
the centennial anniversary of Gen
Abner Doubleday's invention of the
diamond sport.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Crashes May Prevent
Trio Of Auto Stars
From Racing Here

With their machines in repair
shops as result of crashes, it was
apparent today that three of the
leading midget car drivers compet-
ing in the East will be unable to
face the starters flag Tuesday in
the West Lanham tracks inaugural.
Ernie Gesell, Ted Tappett and
Henry Banks are the doubtful en-
tries, but Cappy Lane, chief steward
OF the track, has announced that
capable requirements will be avail
able in the event that the trio does
not 60 to the starting line.
Four new drivers were enrolled for
the curtain-raiser yesterday. They
are Tony BonadieS of Brooklyn,
N. Y; Bill Troutwine, Bridgeport,
Conn; Earl Johns, Camden, N. j.,
and Walt Walker, Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Managers Still Believe
There's Curve Boil

So strong is this ancient belief
that manager will juggle his
whole lineup to pit the maximum
Of right-handed batting strength
against a southpaW. Switch-hitters
men who can bat either way-in-
variably 60 left-handed against a
right-handed pitcher. When a
hight-hander relieves left-hander,
the rival strategist will yank the
regular batsman. if right-handed,
in favor Of a left-handed pinch
hitter; and his opponent, in the
grip of the same heather doc
trine, will cross him up by re-
calling his new pitcher and in
serting still another, this one left
handed again.
1t breaks your heart to think that
all this is rigamarole and idol
worship, not science; as hollow as
the mummery of the druids.
1t grieves you to remember that
Jim Thorpe, the worlds greatest
athlete, was turned out of base
ball because he couldn't hit curve
balls. And all the time there were
no curve balls. That's ironical.
That's bitter.
Your correspondent is bitter, too.
Curve balls-or what I thought
were curve balls-kept me from
getting even as far as Thorpe got.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Louis Will Finish Conn Three Rounds Says Critic Impressed by Workout
Boxing Fans Vote
Steers Promoter
BY the Associated Press,


NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark,
June 13.-The customer, who's
always right, will have no one
but himself to blame if Promoter
Henry Levys next fight program
isn't satisfactory.
Some 1900 fans greeted Levy's
first venture in which Bob Sykes,
Pine Bluff, Ark, claimant to
the Southern heavyweight title.
scored a three-round knockout
over highly recommended Lee
Oma of Detroit.
Yesterday Levy invited 200 Sc
iected fans to special workout
of Al Refs, Indianapolis heavy
weight A poll showed major
ity thought Refs worth the ad-
mission price, so he was booked
to meet Sykes next Monday
night.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Brewer Nine Is Kept at Peak
BY Quintet of Sturdy Vets
Around SondIots 20 Years

wearied of seeing him at shortstop
year in and year out. That was 16
years ago, SO it would seem that
nothing less than a 16-inch shell
will stop him.
Collier Always Good Hitter.
Colliflower and Collier were bat
terry mates at Gonzaga High School
a couple of decades ago and a
finer pair never has seen action on
the lots. Eddie served an apprentice
ship at Petersburg, in the Virginia
League, along with Mike Gordon and
the late Earl Clark He also plays
the outfeld and can murder the pill.
The st. Louis Cardinals picked him
up in 1927 and intended to farm HIM
out for more experience. but when
he heard he wasn't going on the
spring training trip he tore up the
contract.
There weren't many pitchers Ed
die couldn't tag for an extra base
or two, but he couldn't do much with
Dick Hughes or Mike harrington,
both now dead Hughes was a spit
/ ter and Mike put his trust in the
slippery elm and everybody had
trouble with them. Collier, Coli
flower, Knight and Stahl have been
300 hitters since their midget"
days, incidentally, SO stopping not
one, but all, was no mean feat.
Tots" Long was the toughest bat
ter Collifower ever pitched TO, and
he seldom outsmarted the old
/ Southwest star.
Collier was big-leaguer from the
top of his head to the tip OF his
toes when coming up, but didn't
come up far enough. Big league
scouts tabled him too short for the
big time, but admitted he had every-
thing else an Al catcher needed.
A sharper, shrewder player never
pulled on a mask and a stolen base
with Fee" behind the plate was a
feat that justified bit of chest
humping.
Barry Fast on Paths.
Barry was one of the fleetest play
ers ever spawned on the lots and
still picks 'em up and lays EN-
down with the swiftest. Never a
heavy hitter until the last five years,
Pep rates as one of the most dan
gerous base runners in local sand
lot history, but he admits it was
simply plain foolish to try and grab
an extra bag on Fee"
The five have played on more
championship teams than the aver
age eighth-grader can count and
since teaming up at Heurich the
city championship banner has been
coming to the riverside plant regu-
larly in the last five years. Old
as ball players go the five still
put most of the color in their club
and in the leagues they play in and
Bennie is afraid he'll be through
as manager and holding down a
rocking chair before any of them
hangs up his glove.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
SoftboIIers Meet to Plan First
Junior Championship Here

Plans for the Districts first junior
softball championship tournament,
to be held next month, will be made
Monday night at the Eastern
Branch of the Boys Club of Wash
ington.
The competition will be sponsored
by the club and will be held in
Eastern High Schools stadium.
Two classes are planned-the pee
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Major Leaders
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Mullin Detroit. 1854.
Runs-Di Magic, New York. 81;
Williams and Di Maggie, Boston. A.
Runs batted in-York, Detroit. AS;
Keller New York. 46.
Hits-Cramer, Washington. rs;
Travis. Washington. 73.
Doubles-Boudreau: Cleveland. 19;
Cronin and Di Magic. Boston. Is.
Triples-Keltner. Cleveland. and
Travis. WASHINGTON. 8.
Home runs-York, Detroit, 13; Will
liams, Boston. and Di Massio, New
York. Il.
Stolen bases-Case. Washington. Z;
Di Maggie and Newsome. Boston, 6.
Pitching-Feller. Cleveland. 13-2;
Benton, Detroit, 81.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Batting-Reiser. Brooklyn. 1854:
Slsughter. St. Louis. .355
Runs-Hack. Chicago, A; Moore. 81.
Louis, 40.
Runs batted in--Nicholson. Chicago.
so: OFT. New York, 80.
Hits-Slaughter. st. Louis, 76;
Brown. 81. Louis "A.
Doubles-Dallesand Chicago. II;
?. MCCORMICK, Cincinnati, is.
Triples Slaughter. st. Louis, and
Moore. Boston. q.
Nicholson. Chicago. and Csmilli, Brook
Iyn. IL.
Stolen bases-Frey, Cincinnati. Q;
four players tied with 5.
Pitching-Krist St. Louis. SO;
Warneke, ST, Louis, I'll,
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Nationwide Field
Colts for British
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Robert T. Jones, jr, chairman
of the one-day, Nation wide
Handicap Golf Tournament to
be played tomorrow as a bene-
fit for British AFRAID victims.
figures the event will set some
sort of record for quantity, re-
gardleSs Of quality.
Nearly $50 clubs have signed
up with each expecting from a
few score to a few hundred COM
petitors.
Bobby will do his shooting
down at the Ponte Vedra Club
at Jacksonville Beach, Fla.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Rigney Will Join
Army Next Week
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 13.-Pitcher
Johnny Rigney has decided TO
take his regular turn in the Army
draft after all.
The 26-year-old Chicago White
Sox hurler said last night he had
been ill-advised in asking a stay.
that he had withdrawn his re-
quest granted by his local Draft
Board, but appealed to Wash
ington by the Illinois selective
service director and that he
would report for induction June
20 as originally scheduled.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Robey Brothers Earn
Letters at Peddie
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HIGHTOWN, N. j., June 13.-Wil-
liam F. and Robert H. Robey. sons
of Mrs. o. H. Robey of Washington
D. c., have won letters in baseball
at Peddie School.
William was on the varsity team
this spring while Robert made the
JayyeeS.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Murphy Wos Quite Wrong
About His Pitch

It's funny about these supersti-
tions. They must be congenital. 1
had never heard of the curve ball
the first time I went up to the plate
against a good schoolboy pitcher.
He threw right at me. stepped
back. The ball cut the heart of
the plate. Or it seemed to. Auto
suggestion by hereditary impulse, I
guess it was. But it resembled a
curve ball.
Down in training camp one
spring I took a practice lick at the
bat against Johnny Murphy of the
Yankees. He threw one right at my
head. Thinking there must be some
tomfoolery afoot I didn't finch; at
least, not very much. The ball hit
the dirt feet wide of the plate. I
figured it had curved feet.
So. like a chump, did Murphy.
We little suspected that later
events would prove that it trav-
eled straight as a pigeon all the
way. The more study The New
workers." thesis about the curve
the sorrier I feel for Mr.. Thorpe
and me and the other suckers who
thought they couldn't hit the thing
we thought was there but wasn't.
Evening star., 1941-06-13

wees for boys who won't have
reached their 18th birthday by July
l and the insect for those who won't
be II on the same date.
All managers and interested
parties are urged to attend Mon
days meeting which will begin at
7:30 o'clock.
Further information may be OBJ
tanned from the Eastern Branch's
physical director.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
From the
Press Box
Curve Boil Debate Hints
Botters Are Botty
BY JOHN LARDNER,


NEW YORK, June l3 (NAN.A0-
Non-readers of the New Yorker fail
to realize, likely as not, that there
is a sizzling debate in progress as
to whether a pitcher can throw a
curve ball.
For the first time in many year,
the curve ball editor OF the New
Yorker is earning his salary. This
fellow, a political appointee, used to
sit around six days week with his
feet on the desk, rising only to get
a cup of champagne at the cooler
down the hall or to draw his prince
" wage. Suddenly HI has broken
loose. The curve ball editor is
swamped with communications.
There seems to be a school of
thought that the curve is SuperSti-
ton. Other readers write in to say
that the tangibility of the curve
has been proved with pegs sta
toned at strategic spots, around
which the ball curves. The Freudian
school replies that the peg people
Just think they see the ball curving.
Imagination is what does it. Or
auto-suggeStion. Or too much cider
in the middle of the day.
New Theory Would Shock
Pitchers, Botters
It's a good thing the average ball
player reads the Sporting News in
stead of the New Yorker. 1t would
come as a terrible shock to a thou
sand hitters in organized baseball,
young and old, to know that all the
stuff the pitchers are throwing in
there is just as straight as string.
1t would be a shock to some of
the pitchers, too. I know pitchers
who pride themselves on their No. 2,
or curve ball, to such an extent
that they refer to it affectionately
as the "old jug'-the jug-handle.
To avoid hurting the feelings of
these boys, jugmakers will have to
develop a new kind of handle, at
right angles to the jug.
It's amazing the way the supersti-
ton about the curve ball has taken
hold in baseball Managers and
similar strategists have built up
complete cult, or black art, OF ma
neuver based on the curve. They
all will lose their jobs if some blab-
bermouth who can't keep a secret
gets hold of a copy of the New
Yorker.
Managers reason-or pretend to
reason-like this:
The curve (as opposed to the
screWbalD breaks from right to left
when a right-handed pitcher throws
1t. The left-hander's curve breaks
from left to right.
1t Is easier to hit a ball which
breaks in to meet your bat than a
ball which breaks away.
Right-handed hitters therefore hit
best against left-handed pitchers,
and vice versa.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
Softie Tilt Is Wanted

A softball game for Sunday morn
ing is wanted by the Takoma A. c.
ten. Call Shepherd 1868.
Evening star., 1941-06-13
NORTHAIR

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worsted yarn s.
Light in weight.
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-11-20
|Violets Are Blooming
In Kennewick Valley

Kennewick Vaney-The Valley"
correspondent, when calling at the
nome Of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Wash
burn was told that Mrs. Washburn
had outdoor violets in bloom-be-
lieve it or not.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Bishop were
Armistice Day visitors at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Long. The
evening was spent at cards.
10 Barke Of Minnesota was a
dinner guest at the home Of ASr. and
Mrs. O. A. Quasi November 6. He
was enroute to California where he
plans to spend the winter
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Smith ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. w. I
ludlow, motored to Walla Walls
for an Interpretation checkup or
Mr.. ludlow. From there they con.
tinued to the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Bert Miller and Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Hutchins in the Blue Mountain
nearby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Thompson
were dinner guests at the A. L. Rea-
Wis home Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Washburn ex-
pect as Thanksgiving guests MIR. and
Mrs. Chet Turner and Mary Filing
SON Of Yakima.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-11-20
LAY AWAY CHRISTMAS GIFTS Western este gnu Auto Supply

years work and are eligible to at
tend the festivities Saturday.
Miss Alma Reese was given a
birthday surprise party Sunday eve
ming at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Rudy Boettcher in East Kennewick
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Hall and son
Ramon Edwin returned from Port
land Friday.
Frances Ludlow and Everett
Anon were Walla Walla visitors
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. j. L. Stradling returned
from Prosser, where she has been
visiting friends and relatives.
Sunday afternoon about IS women
from Benton and Franklin counties
met in the Nazarene church at Ken
newick to form a w. c. T. U. coun-
ty organization. Mrs. Alice Lamp
son of KenneWick was elected to
vice presidency Mrs. c. A. Craw-
ford of KenneWick was elected to
serve as evangelistic department di-
rector; Mrs. William Mills of Hover,
Loyal Temperance League director;
Mrs. Frank Montague of Hover,
scientific temperance instructor and
Mrs. Lucy Berry of Kennewick,
parliamentary usage instructor.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-11-20
IpEMINISCENSES
p.,nx Items Culled From Our
ss,,x Of Ten, Twenty and Thirty
years Ago.
TEN YEARS ABOLISH

.-ank Mason, husband of James
,,hnstorfs niece, has been engaged
:: manager of the Columbia Irriga-
-, district. MIR. Mason is a ma
co of Prosser, where his family has
s.sd for many years. He is a grad
nate Of wsc.
county agent E c. Durdle and w
M,ldrow will attend the annual
..ssion of the Washington Irriga-
,,o,, institute to be held in Wenat-
.sse the last of this week.
willard Campbell, Jay Perry and
II smith were elected Tuesday as
commissioners for the port district
Covers were laid for eighty Tues
a.y evening in the Masonic rooms
sra seven O'Clock dinner the o. E. S
ave for the members and their fam
;Ses r. l.. Parks and his high school
nchestra gave several selections and
nsan Yedica and Martha Chellis tap
danced. Dorothy Allison played a
violin selection.
County wide Al club Achieve
nent Day IS to be held in Kennewick
saturday, November 21st. Twenty Of
the $50 boys and girls enrolled in
the club work have completed their
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-11-20
TWENTY YEARS AGO-1921

Mrs. b. F.. Neel and MIR. and Mrs.
Henry Neel spent Sunday with Mrs.
Minnie Owens in Horse Heaven.
The Courier-Reporter has been no.
titled by Congressman John w
Summers that beginning January g.
a rural mail route will be establish
ed at Benton City.
The annual Red Cross roll call
will he conducted here Jointly by the
Minute Women and the American
Legion.
The Church Mfg. Co. Of this city
has recently opened general sales
offices in Seattle from where an
extensive selling campaign is being
conducted.
F. G. Lorenz and sons have sold
the Home Grocery to "A. N. Hood and
R. "A. Hutchins of lone, Oregon.
The annual Thanksgiving football
game between Kennewick and Pasco
is to be Turkey Day game in fact
as well as in name. Between halves
the Associated Student Body of the
Kennewick high school is going to
give somebody a turkey.
A deal was closed Saturday be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs. B. j. Pinckney
and Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Amon, where
in the Pinckneys traded their 5-acre
tract on Wash. st., two houses and
some personal property for two
hundred acres and some stock and
machinery at Days Greek, Oregon
belonging to the Anons. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pinckney expect to leave next
week to make their home on their
new property.
Ross Willsey, who is attending the
Whitman College, spent the week
end at his home.
Mrs. G. F. Winkenwerder went to
Toppenish today to attend the dis
trict meeting of the Rebekah lodge
Mrs. Winkenwerder is treasurer ot
the district.
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Red Cross Annual Roll
Call Opened Tuesday

BENTON CITY-Mrs. I. M. Hart
man, local Red Gross representa-
tive, has placed posters in the Argus
Hughes and Fred Grending stores,
the Potlatch Yards and Oscars bar
Der shop and subscription lists at
Hughes and GrendingS. The annual
roll call opened Tuesday. The most
of the communities are doubling
their pledge this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orval Montgomery
(Wilma Chapman) are moving to
ProSser this week.
Milton Smith of Chicago was
calling on old friends here Wednes-
day of last week. He and his bro
ther, Ed Smith, now located at Gary,
Indiana, lived on the Rattlesnake
hills with the Iowa settlement and
left here about % years ago. This
is his first visit since.
Attending the Kennewick-P ascc
Armistice Day football game at
Pasco were Argus Hughes, Rolf An
derson, Robert Johanson and sons
Bobby and Dick, Tommy Mathews
and Sirel Kossman.
Everett Snyder of San Francisco
came Sunday to visit his brother,
Glen Snyder, his sister, Mrs. Mike
OFerreu. Everett enlisted in the
army a year ago and is stationed at
Camp Baker in the quartermaster's
division.