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LEAGUERECORD
Seventeen Consecutive
Games Won By Cham
pions' of the World.
lly Gayle 'Jul hot Jr.
'Associated -Press Sports Writer)
''There was another parcel of bad
news today for the large but select,
group awaiting me omciai -cracK-tng"
of the Philadelphia Athletics.
About all Connie Mack's young men
' appear likely to crack this season Is
ine existing American league r
ord for consecutive vlotorles.
Bv defeating the New York Yan
kees ln both ends of yesterday's
double header at Shlbe park, 4 to 2
and 10 to 4, the champions ran their
, string to 17 straight and staked
themselves to a five-game lead over
the field. 'Idle because of .rain at
Boston,' 'the - Washington Senators
eased into second -place.
'' -' -10 Wins Is 'Record
- If they win from the Yankees the
next two afternoons, the Athletics
will tie the American league murk
for consecutive triumphs, set by the
Chicago White Sox In 1906. In a
way, tney will nave oeiiercu ino
previous record, as the Sox were held
to one tie In sotting up their long
' The most significant feature of
yesterday's double win was the pitch
ing of Loroy Mahnffey in the night
caps The young righthander, one
of Mack's "second string" mounds
men, held the Yankees to one hit
for the first seven innings and funned
five. Ho had nothing to worry about
after his mates fitted him out with a
nine-run lead In the first inning.
Jjcfty Grove scored his fifth con
secutive victory in the first game
when "he outduelleid young Henry
Johnson. Twice, with two Yanks on
and only one out, he struck out the
last two batters.
I'lUfhers lltt
Grove, Earushaw and Wa'lberg ocah
has contributed four wins to the Ath
letics' present streak, while Rommel
and Muhalfey each has scored u pulr.
Thb odd one was credited, to Hunk
' McDonald1 . " '
". Wes Forrell had to rush to Willie
Hudlln's aid In the ninth Inning be
fore the Cleveland Indians could
record a 7 to 6 victory over the Chi
cago White Sox. doing into the final
round three runs to tho good, Hud
lln weakened and put the first two
men on base before Ferrel appeared.
Both scored while Ferrell was retir
ing the side. Eddie Morgan hit his
first homer .of the year with one on
In the sixth.
Rain halted the only othor game
scheduled in tho American.
The Chicago Cubs pounded three
pitchers for 11 hits to defent Pitts
burgh. 8 to 0, In the National
league's lone encounter. Les Sweet
land went tho route for the winners
and had only two bad innings... - , .
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Northern Track
Meet To Bje Run
Off Jit Seattle
onnxAUEi, mwH'i j vi
than 100 of the best college athletes
n tlta Dfliifl Nnrthaiotit. Will Vlfi fOf
hnnni-K here Frldav and Saturday In
the annual northern division Pacific
Coast conference track and field
meet.
Tho University of Washington will
defend its 1930 championship on Its
i . i- i.,ct WoKhltiotrtn
State college, University of Oregon,
university oi iuuiiu, wiuho4j
-., ,1 -rAnn filntn r-nllOPA
aiuiuniiu uu wivgui r-
The Washington Huskies won? the
team title at Washington State col-
Isna last iraur ho a Diwl mflrtrin. CQD-
turing 66 2-5 points compared with
second. "
nnnnln flniim tin nfnt. will he
more closely fought this year as
wasmngwn mute, urcguu
while. Washington and Oregon have
lost some BtreiiK"-"-
A new sensation to the meet Is
expected to be Paul Swift, the speed
ball sophomore of Washington State
who is conceded better than an even
chance to lower the 100 yard con
ference meet mark which' was set
at 9.7 seconds In 1926 by Russell
Cu..t- nt Mnntnnn fitvlft. mil thp
century In 9.6 at the Kansas relay
guiuua nun cui.
Lolt Wins Match
At Auteuil Court
ROLAND OAHROS STADIUM, Au
teuil, Prance, May 26 (IP) George
Lott Jr., aspiring to the French ten
nis throno vacated by Henri Cochet,
today defeated Charles H. Klngsley,
ol England, In three straight sets to
advance to the third round of sin
gles In the -Prench hard court tennis
championships. The scores were 0-0,
8-1, 0-4.
NightFights
Hv the Awtoolated Prens
Chicago Bucky Lawless. Auburn,
N. Y., out)ointeti uoruia jones, .nit
ron, O,. (10); Ray Miller, Chicago,
outpointed Danny Delmont, Chicago,
(10); Charlie Retsdaff, Duluth, Minn.,
stonncd TInv Dlebolt, Cleveland, (1);
Wesley Ramey, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
outpointed Johnny JadicK. i'nua
dclphla (8); Hymie Wiseman, Des
Moines, la., and Midger Mike O'Dowd,
Columbus, drew (fl.
Puttsburgh Tommy Freeman, Hot
Sorlnus. Ark.. -outnolnted Buck Mc-
Tlernan, Pittsburgh (10); Angelo
Verglone, Swissvalc, Pa, outpointed
Benny Gold b lott, Chicago (0).
Milwaukee Tiger Roy Williams,
Chicago, outpointed George Court
ney, Oklahoma. City ( 10).
Minneapolis Art -Lasky, Minneap
olis, knocked out Angus MoOonald,
Winnipeg, Man., (3).
Omaha George Manloy, Denver,
outpointed Frankle Wine, Akron, O.,
110).
New Castle, Pa. Henry Flrpo,
Louisville, -Ky., outpointed Jack Mc
Vey, New -York (10).
Buenos Aires Arturo Scheckles,
Belgium, outpointed Antonio Castro -vie
Jo. Argentina (10); Jose Caratoll,
Argentina, and Domingo Cecoarelll,
Italy, drew (10),
lll ltl,i;i PltOM MOVING CAIt
PORTLAND. Mny 20 WV-Pitched
from a moving automobile in, which
throo men had given him ,a ride,
George Edlemau, 20, was In a hos
pital here today receiving treatment
for four fractured ribs and cuts and
bruises.
Edleman. who said he was a circus
employe, told police the men offered
him a rldo In the down town dis
trict. 'Ho was found on the side
walk on the oast side. He had boon
robbed, ho said.
ENVOY I NDDIt KNIKi;
WASHINGTON. Mav 20 MV-Charne
d'Affalres Carlos Lelva of Salvador
uuderwent a successful operation to
day for correction of n slight skull
fracture he received May 12 when
attacked In the legation by liquor
thlevos. Hospital attendants de
scribed his condition as good. j.
uno operation was cnaraoterized as
a routine jnoasuro to prevent com
plications from tho fracture.
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The News it
Used To Be I
TWKNTY-FIVR YEARS AGO
(From Observer. Thurs. May 24, 1000)
Judge Robert Aiken, Republican
nominuo for the supreme court, who
has been visiting the western parlor
tho state, ro turned homo last night
to be present at the commencement
exercises tomorrow evening.
Messcrs A. P. Grout, T. L. Davis, J.
L. Maxwell, Cole Leonard, Geo. Hodges
and T. Maxwell are Wallowa business
men who transacted business In this
city yesterday.
TKN YEA US AGO
(From Observer. Thurs. May 20. 1921)
On Monday, May 29, Memorial day.
tho merchants of La Grande will close
their stores all day.
. After spendUig a week In the moun
tains, F. W. Kendall, forest ranger,
reports the snow is melting fast.
ONK YEAR AGO -!
(From Observer, Tues., May 27, 1930)
Fifty-one lots of laud situated
within la Grande were sold by the
city yesterday ofternoou at the court
huu&c, because of delinquent assess
ments. Presenting an earnest plea for sup
port iroin Siiokane and tho stuto of
Washington in the matter of com
pleting the Lewlston-Enterprlse high,
way. J. A. Burleigh, Enterprise attor
nty. today addrtwtcd the Spokane
chamber of commerce.
Cecil Posey, of Wallowa, well known
Eastern Oregou athletic, will head
the Eastern Oregon Normal school
student bodv during the coming venr.
Mrs. L. K. Kiniu'l. of La Grande,
qualified for the championship flight
In the Oregon stole golf tournament
at the Eugene country club yesterday,
carding n score of 96.
LA
Three Teams In
Close Fight For
First Position
IJythe Associated Press
The Coast league's pennant racers
headed to date by the Hollywood
Stars unlimber again tonight after a
day's traveling and a change of op
ponents. Hollywood, back In Its home sur
roundings after a profitable series
with San Francisco's Seals, will play
Oakland, present holders of sixth
place. ,
Los Angeles, only a short distance
behind the Stars, appears on the
Portland Beavers' diamond. The
Beavers and Angels are tied for sec
ond place and both have a chance to
slide Into first place should the Stars
suffer very many defeuts at the hands
of Oakland.
Sacramento will play the Missions
at San Francisco and the Seals will
be at Seattle for a series with the
Indians. Night games will be played
until Sunday when the double head
er program comes off during daylight
hours.
Double Killing
Apparent Result
Of Racketeering
LOS ANGELES. Mai 20 tff) The
double murder of Charles Crawford,
wealthy political boss, and Herbert
Spencer, who left a 20-year newspaper
career to become an associate, was
described yesterday by District At
torney Buron Fltts as a clash of
"coldblooded racketeering."
The district attorney said he pos
sessed evidence that David H. Clark,
for eight years a deputy prosecutor
on Fltts' staff, Jield as the siayer, was
acting as the agent of a powerful
ring of racketeers and gamblers.
"Spencer and Crawford, when they
met their deaths," Fltts said, "were
trying to get In on this ring."
Clark, Fltts said, was conferring
with Spencer and Crawford as Mie
representative of Guy McAfee, a for
mer Los Angeles policeman who Fltts
Identified as the head of a "gambling
ring."
"I have Information," Fltts sold,
"that proves conclusively that the
murders of Crawford and Spencer
were nothing more or lefls than the
result of Crawford's attempts to gain
back the power he lost two .ycarB
ago.
"The true picture Is that racketeers
met racketeers and there was mur
der." in two complaints charging mur
dor. Clark is ullegcd to have shot
down Spencer and Crawford while
conferring with them last Wednesday
In Crawford's real estate office In
Hollywood. Clark left the district
attorney's office last February at
Fltts' suggestion. The district attor
ney said yesterday he believed at the
time that Clark was entangled with
"underworld Influences."
Clark continued to keep his silence
about the shooting, although his at
torneys said he has made "a complete
statement and we have no hesitation
in stating that his defense Is good."
A search for June Taylor, believed
by. police to have important knowl
edge of facts surrounding the crimo.
continued without success.
, Claittc Inipired by Whaling
Altliuugli the lurso3t cionlme on
t'lirlli, tlio whii I o, is technically not
a fish hut a wurm-bloodeil inn imiuil.
L'ncounturs botwt-en , wijules,, nnO
vlmlcrs holoiig lelllinulcly In the
aiiyus of tne Hcu Jlglits JicLwccn men
mid fish., And nt least mio classic
of literature, llt'rniiin Mulville's
'".Moby Dick," was inspired by whal
ing. Tho commuter who holds his scat
in a crowded oar by nretendimr to be
absorbed In a newspaper is one who
ocucves in utc power or the press.
mere woro ujo.uuu more teiepiionc
messages received at the White House
last year than In the previous year.
It seems that tho administration Is
called up as well as down.
Official Sanction of
Gunpowder Issue for Presbyterians
PITTSBURGH. May 20 UV) A ris
ing tldo of controversy over birth con
trol centers Ha force on the coming
general assumbly by the Pretibyterluti
church In the United Suites of Am
erica. . .
Meeting hero for six davs. begin
ning May 28. the assembly, supreme
governing body of the largest divi
sion of Presbyterians, will be asked
to give the practice its first official
ecclesiastical sanction.
Qualified approval of birth control
was given In a report of a special
committee of tho Federal Council of j
Churches of Christ In America, but j
that report carried no official weight.
The assembly however. v:ill have
before It for disposal a report of Its
own special commission on marriage.
aivorco ana remarriage, giving ap
proval to -use of contraceptives when
Impelled by economic necessity or
considerations of maternal health.
A storm of opposition to approval
of the report Is expected, led by Dr.
Baby Net Star Enters Play .
For National Junior Honors
SANTA MONICA. Cal. 00 Sun
baked Santn Monica, producer of
more than Its share of champion
tennis players. Is sending Into Junior
competlt Ion this year a 1 6-ycar-old
youth who In two years collected 41
court titles. Including two national
championships.
Basing tbelr estimates on his suc
cess in adolescent play. Jay Cohn's
followers rate him as the potential
equal of any of his illustrious towns
men, and this Includes the flashing
John Doeg. Mny Sutton Bunrty. Tom
Buudy and Marjorle "Midge" Glad
man. Young Cohn's early season per
formances this year In Pacific coast
competition against not only boy op
ponents, but also season players In
the men's division, have convinced
Coach F, Lee 8mtth that his protege
is ready for his planned Invasion of
Junior tennis.
In the New York state tournament
of 1929 Cohn played through with
out losing n single gume unt 11 he
reached the finals when he dropped
three to his fellow Calkfornian, Char
ley Hunt.
In the finals of the Wisconsin boys
tournament in play with Frankle
Porker of Milwaukee, these diminu
tive court strategists iiad one rally
in which the boll crossed the net 172
tunes for one point. Cohn won that.
Cohn and Vincent Richards are the
only two players ever to have twice
held the national boys title. The
former won it in 1929. his fiist year
of major competition, and repeated
la 1930.
GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. LA GRANDE.
Anti-Dry Liquor
Bill Estimate Is
Without Support
WASHINGTON, May 26 OP) The
board of temperance, prohibit fon and
public morals of the Methodist Epis
copal church said In a statement yes
terday that neither the association
against the prohibition amendment
nor any one .else knew how much
liquor was consumed by the Ameri
can people.
"There are no statistics in regard
to the consumption of liquor in the
United States and can be none with
any reliability whatever," it said.
"The association -against -the pro
hibition amendment has released a
statement alleging that the people of
the United States are now consuming
$2,848,000,000 worth of intoxicating
beverages annually.
"It is surprising that this antl
prohlbitlon body would risk its repu
tation for sincerity by the publica
tion of a story which can appeal only
to the gullible."
The association against the pro
hibition amendment had said it be
lieves Its estimate '"conservative."
The temperance board said there
were many; indications "that the con
sumption under prohibition was very
much less than It was when the
liquor trade was un trammeled and
afforded every facility for trade pro
motion." "That is all that can be said; defi
nite estimates are merely ridiculous,"
it added.
"It Is absurd to say that a trade
which has been deprived of the op
portunity of establishing public places
of sale, deprived of the privilege of
advertising, deprived of unhindered
transportation, deprived of the right
to make use of all of the methods of
promoting sales which Americans
have been taught for generations to
be necessary to flourishing trade, has
yet been able to 'build up a liquor
bill in excess of that of the pre-pro-hlbitlon
period. The opinion of any
one who believes anything so Incred
ible, must be discounted by serious
thinkers."
Return Indictment
In Gordon Murder
NEW YORK, May 28 W1) The Bronx
county grand Jury returned a Joint
first degree murder indictment In the
Vivian Gordon case against Samuel
Greenbere and Harrv Stein late ves -
terday.
The murder of Mfss Gordon, which
had baffled police for three months,
was murked as solved yesterday by
Commissioner Mulrooney, as a result
of a confession by Harry Schlitten,
Newark chauffeur, who drove the
automobilo which took her on a
"ride."
Sohlltteh. the police said Implicated
Harry Stein, already indicted for the
murder, as the actual killer, and
Samuel Grecnberg as Stein's accom
plico. Isidore "English" Lewis - was ; K m w srewi. greeay ocean,
named os thd man who helped hire i witn a confidence born of skill., traln
the automobile used on the death 1 ln keen airmlndedness. If
rldo to Van Courtlandt park -where I weather .and gasoUne permit,, she will
the body was dumped. f pi" 0 London or possibly.
BchUttcn .said tho four men amateur -thrill-seeker Is this
planned the murder and lured the com tollt daughtor of society, Whne
woman on the ride by telling her oth( debu preparecl themselves
that Oreenbcre had $250,000 worth of for the pampered & of danclng and
amonds 'that he was generous frly clSthes. Ruth Nlohols let her
thoughts soar to a new sphere for
. She went along, and there was 'a I women.
terrific struggle, but finally a. rope I Seir-Si,iortlmr Careerist
?t?"S?.V?d.rondiVer,HCk.B!!dBt?II?,l 0fc of her social background she
Mi Mulrooney said, pul ed at tout . ,,bccftnle .ft record-winner aloft and a
The ,conuniKsioner 'rofuscd todls-eltupporting Cftrefcrft)t p - s
close the motive. -. 1 NntiAh f,, ,nmB i iv
Gambling Trick
Milton C. Work sny.s that the
"Mississippi heart hand" is a
hand supposed to have been used
by pauiblei'H on rthit . Mississippi
steamers ami is apparently a very
strong hand, but in reality Is bad
ly beaten by the adversaries. t ft
Is the typo of linml that people."'10
take chances nu playing cards with
steamer or train pick-ups may ex
pect to have run in on them.
Birth Control
Clnrenco Edward MacCartney, ot
Pittsburgh, former moderator of tho
assembly and in 1927 a member of
the assembly's special committee on
marriage and divorce. '
"Economic conditions and a worthy
standard of living." the special com
mission's report said, , "clearly make
It wrong to bring children into the
world without adequate provision for
their nurture and proper considera
tion for the health of the mother."
Declaring that the commission's re
port "certainly will not be adopted,"
Dr. MacCartney said: "Men have a
perfect right to recommend pagan
and anti-Christian practices if they,
so desire. But this ought not to be
done under the guise of Christian
teaching and faith.
"The Protestant church by these
colossal follies Is simply digging Its
own grave ami renouncing the moral
leadership which it has so grandly
held in the world since the sixteenth
century.
:JAY COHN
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Ruth Nichols, ulio prefers ocean hops to the ballroom variety, and
the plane In which she wilt attempt her solo flight of the Atlantic.
The imtp heluw shows the course the avltitrlx will follow: from New
YorJt to Hariior Grace; Newrotimlluud, thence to. Europe.
t(Kdltor's Note: frills Is the first of
i " W,? v? rtlc .tracing during
!Kutu Mchols' .career from delMilaule
to premier hird-womnii.)
By Richard Massock
NEW YORK P) 'Ruth Rowland
I Nichpls, society sportswoman of the
air. hopes to fly the cloud route .to
Europethe lonely Lindbergh trail,
She, who has flown faster and
higher than any other blrdwoman, is
poised for the great adventure of
aviation. , .- , . .
Alone and unafraid, she Intends to
drive her pet monoplane over 2.000
she is going after another,
When Ruth Nichols was born In
New York, Feb. 23, 1901, there was
no thought in the minds of her par
ents that some day she would fly
over the family .housetop. Aviation
then was still the dream of vision
aries, and few indeed were even the
boys who thought of a career a-wing.
Her family was prosperous. Her
father. Erickson Norman Nichols, is
a retired broker, who had a member-
Wrestling
. .
By the Associated Press
New York Jim. Londos, 200,
Greece, threw Sand or Szabo. 200,
Hungary, 39:15; Gino Gariboldi, 209.
Italy, threy Koshay, 202, Syria, 11 1;
liay Steele, 212, California, .threw
ilevu Tcemon, aia, New xorn, au:i4;
Jim MuMillen, 215, Chicago, drew
with Babe Caddock, 197, Nebraska,
8:00: Earl McCreody, 229. Oklahoma,
defeated Sergei Kalmlkoff. 250. Si
beria, referees decision. 30:00; Nor
ton Jackson, 201, New York, threw
Floyd Marshall, 216, California.
Boston Tiny Roebuck, 245, Okla
homa, threw Dick Daviscourt, 220,
San Francisco, 27:00: Rudy Dusek,
210, Omaha, drew with Billy Bartush,
212. Chicago. 45:00.
Buffalo. N. Y. Hendl De Glane,
225, Montreal, defeated Johnny Spell
man. 205, in straight falls, 27:42 and
9 :36 Lea Macaluso, threw Sailor Ar
nold, 10:13.
Camden, N. J. Jim Browning, 230,
Los Angeles, defeated Jock Janson,
215. Cleveland, two falls out of
three (Browning first, 31:39 and
third, 17:04; Janson second, 6:38).
Memphis, Tenn. Pat O'Shocker.
Salt Lake City, heavyweight, threw
Don Le Laun, California in 35'.
. Davenportj. Ia. Gus Sonneuberg,
former heavyweight champion, de
feated Karol Zbyszko, New York, two
out of three falls.
Hafey-Wilson Deal
Rumored and Denied
ST. LOUIS. May 26 (d) Rumors of
a possible deal between the Cardinals
and Cubs, involving Chick Hafey and
Hack Wilson, erstwhile sluggers now
doing bench duty because of fail
ure to hit often and timely enough
to satisfy their managers, had the
official denial today of Sam Breadou,
president of the Cardinals.
Told that such rumors were afloat
Bread on said. "We don't want Hack
Wilson." He added, "We're satisfied
with out ball club ana we don t
need anybody."
Asked If the Cubs had sounded
him out on the possibility of a
trade. Bread on replied he couldn't
"say anything on this even if they
had."
Game Commission
Meeting Postponed
PORTLAND. Ore.. May 36 Post
ponement of the meeting of the state
game commission from June 8 to
June 15 because of inability of sev
eral members to attend, was an
nounced yesterday by Harvey L.
Moreland. chief clerk.
Several important matters among
them the question of moving their
offices to Salem, was to come before
the board, he said.
T!w British army has reduced the
(length of bayonets from 20 inches to
nine, A new low tor steel.
ORE.
ship in the New York stock exchange.
Her mother Is the former Miss Edith
Corlles Haines. The family home , is
in Rye, fashionable suburb.
Early Thirst for Thrills
Ruth early evinced that active In
terest in outdoor pursuits which has
mode her famous.
She was sent to The Masters, a
private .school at Dobbs Ferry, JJ. Y.
She joined the Junior League. She
went to Wellesley. and there she
pulled an oar on the crew, was the
lampion equestrienne, played polo,
tennis, golf, hockey, baseball and
basketball. ,
One holiday in 1919, when still , a
schoolgirl, she went to Atlantic City.
A young flier named Eddre Stlnson,
now known as a pioneer of aviation,
was taking passengers up In a plane
for a short "joy hop" at $10 a head.
Ruth paid her $10 and went up for
her first flight. The crowning thrill
of the five minutes was a loop. Ruth
was captivated by the experience.
Then was born her desire to fly a
plane herself.
Learned to Fly In 1023
But It was not until four years
later that she learned how. She wrfs
In Florida on a visit. There she saw
flocks of hydroplanes zooming over
the water. They fascinated her, and
she stayed out of Wellesley a year to
learn to fly the sea birds.
Her Instructor at Miami was Capt.
Harry Rogers, with whom she later
was to make her first .sensational
exploit the first nonstop flight from
New York to Miami. Her first solo
lllght was in 1923. Returning to col
lege, she was graduated from Wel
lesley in 1924.
Her future had become a certainty.
j She was bound to fly,
WILDCAT I'KTK WINS
SALEM, Ore., Mav 26 (ff) Wildcat
i Pete. Euuene mlddieweiiiht wrestler,
I defeated Jimmy Anderson, Salt Lake
1 city, here last night. Anderson took
the first fall with a half nelson and
cradle hold In ten minutes. Pete
.won, the second in eight minutes
I vilh a surfboard and the third in
eight minutes with; an airplane spin.
Both were out momentarily follow
ing the spin, but Pete recovered first
and leu on ni3 man,
COL' GARS WIN
MOSCOW, Ida., May 26 JF) Wash
ington State defeated Idaho 8 to 3
here yesterday, making it three out
of four games lor tne series.
R. H. E.
Washington State 8 8 4
Idaho 3 11 7
Fiscus and Nordby, Hull, Mitchell;
Lacey, Jacobs, Lindsey and Schuette,
S S S
33S3$Sg.SS
Clark Wood
Says
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The optimist is a chap who can be
glad because a penny in the slot pays
nis weign.
Drillers predict a big strike of
natural gas near Salem, although the
legislature tsn t even in session.
Mission head says the Indian will
go as far as the white man, with
equal education ana an equal start.
He usually used to go far enough
to catch up.
It must be that the process of
political rebirth palls upon Europe's
newest rcpuuiic, it s spoming ner so
"General Blowup of Powers Looms."
Instead of peace, then, there's likely
to be pieces.
Yale has dropped the "dead lan
guages" although there are some
things her students have undoubt
edly found It harder to decline than
a Latin adjective.
Although the lion's share of the
taxpayer's dollar goes to his own
bailiwick. It is general government
he condemns for extravagance.
KOTATKS CI.OVKR. WHEAT
WITHOIT MISSING CHOP
CANTON". Kan. (41 Growing sweet
clover in rotation with wheat with
out losing a crop is the achievement
of John Clark, farmer of this com
munity, who sowed the legume In his
wheat field In April. 1930.
This spring he had a stand of clover
that promised a seed crop approxi
mately equal in value to a wheat crop.
After harvest the land will be plowed
and seeded to wheat again next fall.
The plan Is particularly wrli adapt
ed In poorer wheat soils, rather than
i rich soils where the grain grows rank.
I Baseball Standings
BY the Associated Press
COAST Uiiuut
w.
L.
Pet.
.553
.643
.543
.500
.600
.477
Hollywood -.1..
Portland .....1...
Los Angeles
Missions
San Francisco
Oakland
Sacramento
Seattle
.26 21
25 21
25 21
24 24
23 23
.21 23
.22 25 , .468
..19 27
.413
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L.
Pet.
.774
.606
.594
.447
.424
.412
.400
.367
Philadelphia
Washington
New York .
Detroit
...:...24 7
20 13
19 13
17 21
14 19
Chicago
Cleveland 14 i
St. Louis 12 18
Boston - 11 19
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. 1.
Pet.
.692
.679
.586
.500
.469
.455
.441
.233
St. Louis .
New York
Boston ...
18 8
19 9
17 12
14 14
Chicago
Pittsburgh .' 16 17
Philadelphia ' ; 15 18
tirooxiyn
Cincinnati 7 23
YESTERDAY'S GAMES
American
At Philadelphia 4-16. New York 2-4.
At Cleveland 7, Chicago 6.
No other games.
National
' At Chicago 9, Pittsburgh 6.
JIM JEFFRIES TO REFEREE ,
LOS ANGELES. May 26 P) Jim
Jeffries, former heavyweight cham
pion of the world, steps into the ring
here at the Olympic club tonight as
the chief attraction of the regular
weekly fistic bill.
The grizzled veteran will referee
the ten-round welterweight main
event bout between Battling Dozier,
San Francisco, and George Kerwln,
of Chicago.
In the soml-wlndup, Jimozevans,
Dosier's stable mate, meets Swede
Berglund, San Diego middleweight,
in a ten-round bout.
WILSON GAW SIGNS
SEATTLE, May 26 (P) Wilson Gaw.
University of Washington baseball
captain In 1930, has signed a con
tract for a tryout with the Seattle
Indians of the Pacific Coast league.
Gaw has been batting more than
.400 as the right fielder of the West
Seattle team In the Northwest league.
He played first base while a member
of the university team.
Sport Slants
' By Alan 3. Gould
(Associated Press Sports Editor)
The sprinters are cutting up plenty
of cinders and capers here and there.
Especially on the West .coast, where
.they have been galloping at high
speeds from Dan Kelly to Frank Wy
koff. AI Fitch, Pasadena schoolboy, stag
gers the clock at 0.6 for the 100-yard
dash. Wykoff cuts his early figure
down to 9.5. A ten-second man is
one Jump short of .being a truck
horse. '
Peyton Glass, of the Oklahoma
Aggies, beats Eddie Tolan, -the
world's record-holder, in 9.7 seconds.
Emmet Toppino, the Loyola speed
ster, also clicks1 off the century In 9.7.
Meanwhile the Springfield Y. M.
C. A. college conducts an exhaustive
sfudy ;Cjf human timing vs. electrical1
timing that 'may show electrons do a
moro accurate job -than the steadi
est human hands. In fact, there is a
suspicion that this test will reveal
holders of stop-watches to be a trifle
Jumpy on. the fast side.
FASTER SPRINTERS TODAY?
It Is still a : big debate as, to
whether college sprint stars of the
present travel faster than the aces of
three or four decades ago, despite the
consistently ;fast times recorded In the
past half dozen years by such dash
men as Paddock, Russell, Locke, Wy
koff, Simpson and Tolan.
Arthur Duffey, wearing George
town's colors 30 years ago, ran the
only "nine-three" hundred that has
ever been registered In intercollegiate
A. A. A. A. competition. He was the
first to do this world's record time
in American amateur competition, al
though his mark later was erased,
following an A. A. U. storm over his
professionalism.
Bernie Wefers Sr., preceded Duffey
as the college sprint champion and
was the record-holder for years at 220
yards.
There are still witnesses to prove
that R. P. Williams, now a physical
director at Wittenberg, Ohio, ran the
100 as a professional in exactly 9
seconds at Wiuthrop, Mass., in 1906.
Furthermore, he was clocked three
times In 9 1-5 seconds for the "100"
In pro competition at Johnstown,
Pa., New London, Conn., and Mad
ison, Wis.
Williams, an all-around star, was
credited in 1896 with traveling the
440 in 47 2-5 seconds, the same time
as the present amateur world's rec
ord credited to the great Ted Mere
dith. IlOl-NCIXG n.MSB
For no good reason, we note that
Babe Ruth, In fancy uniform, rode '
in a safety day parade up Fifth ave- I
nue seven years ago this May. ... 1
A year later, the Babe suffered a ;
breakdown on the training trip and
had his poorest season with the Yan- I
yess, batting only .290 and playing I
in less than 100 games. . . . A Ruthlan !
"heart murmur" was reported in the j
spring of 1929 and he took a short
rest in the country. . . . This spring '
the Babe bounced around up In Bos- j
iuu ana emergen wun wliat Artie
McOovern described as a "black eye
on the hip."
All of .which shows. If anything,
what the great man can do when he
puts himself down to it.
3 Q $
J This Game
of Golf I
lly O. n. Keeler
One of the Hollywood golfers
and there Arp n flnrlr nf ty,am
extremely capable was asking me
uuf ii x buuuKiit inai tne
unique dominance In Great Britain
of the so-called triumvirate over the
British open championship, or the .
Similnr HntnAnn, nf tinKi... t i
, "uuuj uuiitrs in
the American side of the game ever,
"History." he said, "has a way of '
wnrntlno llplf "nt T .
--i a .... a uv uuk ue- '
lteve we shall see again anything
like the domination of Harry Vor-1
don. James Braid, and J. H. Taylor 1
In Britain, or Bohbv Jnn in a.oV.
lea." I
He was referring to the amazing
fact that in one string of 20 con
secutive nrltlfih nrtsn V, 1 I
ships. Vardon. Braid and Taylor
captured 16 Vardon six. and Tay-
Tuesday, May 26, 1931
I lor and. , Braid five each while in
tho last nine American open cham
plonshlps Jones finished first fai
I on4 swnnH .n,, .1
.... .c. -
imiis - . uuw mne con
secutive starts, at the same tim.
n,nnln. flv tm.Hn .
amateur.v
championships.
ANOTHER GOLF MONOPOLY
I suddenly remembered that 'tlw
American-born firm of Hagen and
Jones had done a fair share of Hnn.
Dating in British golf, and directed
'my friend's attention to a record
S which does not seem, to be urdver
I sally known, .though It is more re"
oent than that of the triumvirate"
and; indeed, may not yet be closed
if the old Halg ' should retain his
'.peculiar ability to win British open
I championships. ..
Beginning with 1922, for the same
nine consecutive years of the .lrn
era in the United States, Hagen and
Jones have captured seven -British
open titles. This Is in the ratio of
14 out of 18.
Jim Barnes, a Cornlshman for
many years living in the United
States, and an American citizen
and Arthur Havers, English profes
sional, are the only competitors be
sides Hagen and Jones to win the
British open since 1921, Hagen can
tured It in 1922, 1024, 1928 and 1929
Jones In 1928, 1927 and 1930. '
The comparative records of the "
great professional and the great f
amateur show that Hagen won the
British open in four . out of six
starts and Jones won in three out
of four. In. 1921, When Jock Hutch
ison a former Q0. Andrews, Scot,
who came to the United States-1
won it, Hagen finished in 55th posi
tion and Jones withdrew in the
third round. Bobby has won every
time he played in it since, and the
only othe rtlme In which Hagen
failed was in 1926, when Bobby was
the victor, at St. Anne's.
I HOnilY LEADS WALTER JV" :
It is a somewhat xurious circum
1 stance that Hagen, with his bril
I liant record - of two United States
I open championships and four Brit
. ish -titles, never was able to win a
; major event in which Jones com
i peted. They played in 13 tocether.
of which Janes won four American
and one British.
As to history repeating . itself in
the matter of the triumvirate, the
Jones dynasty, or the Hagen-Jones
dominance I think not. The earned
; is on the most truly open basis in
the last 35 years. I think' we shall
not see one man, or two, or three,
j consistently at the top of the heap
again.
Many A re In jured
In Boston Crowd
BOSTON, May 26 m Thousands
of persons who witnessed the army
air maneuvers at Columbia .park,
South Boston Monday formed an air
most impenetrable mass .at, the Co
lumbia subway station, as the dem
onstration, ended. Women and chil
dren were trampled upon and police
feared many were injured.
Mounted officers, unable to dis
perse the throngs, devoted their ef
forts to trying to assist women with
babies. . )
Rain which began falling soon af
ter the air demonstration ended added
to the excitement. Mothers held their
children aloft until exhausted and
then appealed. ,to men in the crowd
to help them . .
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