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MUSCATINE JOURNAL AND NEWS-TRIBUNE FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 22 Strong Mt. Pleasant Team Plays Little Muskies Here Panther Game Tests Forces in Little Six Visitors Come Here With Lopsided Victory at Winfield to Their Credit. Probable Lineups. Wuscatine Mt.

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Pickett Will the Little Muskies be as strong this year as they were in 1932? This question, which has been on the tongue of every Muscatine football fan this fall, will be settled to some extent tonight when Coach Neal A. Sands sends his Little Muskies against the highly touted Mt. Pleasant Panthers under the Jefferson field floodlights. Coach Erwin Langlas will invade the Musky camp intent upon dumping Coach Sands' partly veteran aggregation in its iirst conference start, but the Muskies undoubtedly have something to say in their own behalf. To- nights' game will also be the first on the conference schedule for the invaders.

Mt. Pleasant has gained a preseason reputation of being one of the hard teams to beat in the Little Six conference this year. Last year the Panthers were one of the tail-end teams because they lacked experience. This year, however, they are used to hard knocks, and expect to do a little upsetting in the league. Last week the Langlasmen made an auspicious start with an easy 46 to 0 victory over the veteran Winfield high school eleven.

Max Pickett, negro backfield star xvho will probably prove a thorn in the Muskies' side here tonight, ran wild in that game, scoring four touchdowns with long runs. Pickett Boys Star. Max and his brother Jerry Pickett will hold the attention of the Muskies here tonight. Both boys are reputed good ball handlers, with plenty of speed and ability. Another member of the Pickett family will help clear the for his ball carrying brothers from his left tackle post in the Panther line.

Preparations for the Mt. Pleasant reception have been progressing rapidly in the Little Musky camp this week. Coach Sands nns worked overtime on defensive and offensive formations that he hopes will prove effective in stopping the invaders. Butts Will Start. With the exception of a few minor injuries that will probably not result in any losses tonight, the Muskies are in good snape physicially and anxious to gel started on their conference drive.

Despite a sore shoulder, Captain Allen Butts is likely to be in the starting line-up and several other boys who have been working light this week because of bruised muscles will be ready to go. Thursday night under the Jefferson field lights the Musky mentor kept his A squad members limbered up with a short signal drill. They ran through their usual Thursday night schedule, then knocked off to get some rest before the game. Last year at this time the Little Muskies defeated Mt. Pleasant for the first Little Six victory ever chalked up by a Muscatine team.

The Muskies gave promise of going places after that, and they climbed to second place in the league. Many of the huskies who played regular in 1932 will don Musky uniforms again tonight for another crack at the Panthers. West Liberty to Hold Night Grid Matches West secured the co-operation of fair board members, West Liberty high school athletic officials have definitely decided to play night football at the fairground field here this year. Lights used during the summer at the North Point field for kit- tenball are being moved to the fairgrounds today where they will be installed in time for the first home game. Six new lights will be added to the equipment already available, school officials said.

An attempt will be made to use the amphitheater to seat spectators at the night games. Additional Sports (On Page Eleven.) Her Curves Fool 'Em! Here's Jackie Mitchell, noted feminine star of the diamond, as she appears when ready to serve up some of her best offerings from the pitcher's box. Jackie achieved fame when she struck out Babe Ruth in an exhibition game at Chattanooga last season. She was in Muscatine Thursday. Vines Relates Trouble With U.

Net Team Davis Cup Players' Were Treated Like Babies; Suggests New Plan for Next Year. Newport, R. it can be told! When Ellsworth Vines, fresh from the Davis cup campaign, came here to make his unsuccessful attempt to retire the famous Newport Casino bowl with a third straight victory, he frankly discussed the reasons for the American team's failure after obtaining a pledge that publication of his remarks would be deferred until the end of his 1933 campaign, which came when Jack beat him in the quarter-finals of this week's Pacific southwest tournament at Log Angeles. "We were not good enough in Paris to beat the English cup players," Vines said during a Casino interview, "but there were several factors in the preparation of the team that militated against our success. For one thing, we were treated like babies.

"One night we went to the follies and the first ace ended at 10:30. We were bundled out of the theater to our hotel on a sizzling night. We tried to sleep but couldn't do it. I got up and went into Keith Gledhill's room and we had a 'bull-throwing' contest until 2:30 in the morning. "The air of super-seriousness that marked all our actions wa 1 depressing.

George Lett, Wilmer Allison, Johnny Van Ryn and myself had been through this Davis cup play previously and we didn't have to be convinced of its seriousness. There were pliases of the Saturday Only MAYNARD Also Pathe News, Comedy and Cartoon. Last Time Tonight RALPH MORGAN, SALLY BLANK, VICTOR JORY in "Trick for Trick" Selected Short Subjects. DANCE DANCE DANCE Grand Fall Opening Saturday, September 23rd Home Society Hal! MUSIC BY CLIFF WARNER HIS ORCHESTRA (HAROLD HCrNTE UNIT) Dancing 8:30 'till 12:00 Refreshments and 3.2 Beer Conple, 35c Extra Lady, 15c training- that were not to the best interests of the team, such as a match between Lett and Allison on which they had a wager and went 'all out' for four sets. following day Lott played me and didn't even give me a workout "Our captain, Bernon Prentice, did his best to get us ready for the inter-zone final, but we failed miserably, except in the doubles, and I'd like to see a new plan tried next year.

Let's try Hunter or Richards or Williams as non-playing captain and see if we can fare better than we did this year." Prima and A. to Two Games Sunday Prima will meet the South End A. at the Oregon street field at 7:30 tonight in a kittenball en- jrasement. Sunday afternoon a doubleheader has been arranged. The A.

will meet the Royal Clothiers of Davenport in the first game at 2 p. m. with Hyink's Da yy playing the Davenport club in the second engagement. Jackie Mitchell Is Both Modest and Attractive Father Does Most of Talking for Girl Pitcher Who Once Struck Out Babe Ruth. Modest, attractive, and a whale of a big hit in the big show where only men have won glory before her.

That's Jackie Mitchell, famous girl baseball pitcher and athlete who is now the feature attraction with Ray L. Doan's House of David baseball team which passed through Muscatine Thursday headed for Lost Nation to play a ball game. Miss Mitchell is well known to readers of sporting pages as the girl who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, sludgers of the New York Yankees, when the Yankees went to Chattanooga, for an exhibition game last year. The Chattanooga club of the Southern association' lost that game to the New Yorkers, but Jackie Mitchell, who at that time was still in her teens, gained nationwide fame in one short day. Interviewed during her short stay here, Miss Mitchell had little to say, but her father, Dr.

Joe Mitchell of Chattanooga, had plenty of words in praise of his daughter. Jackie was willing enough when questioned by a Journal representative, but her father did the talking. Vance Inspired Her. Dr. Mitchell, who travels with his daughter constantly in her private car, explained that Jackie received the inspiration for a baseball career from "Dazzy" Vance, former star hurler for the Brooklyn Dodgers who is now with the St.

Louis Cardinals. "Vance is a good friend of mine, and also of Jackie," Dr. Mitchell said. "He was a next door neighbor of ours when we lived in Memphis, and Jackie was still a little girl. At that time the great hurler noticed the ease with which my little girl threw with her left hand, and jokingly predicted that some day she would be a great hurler.

That's how she started." "Later when we moved to Chattanooga, Jackie began to take baseball seriously," Dr. Mitchell added. "She was constantly playing ball with the boys on the public play grounds and she could match skill with any of them, too. Later she joined a girls baseball team, and she was with that team when her pitching attracted the attention of Joe Engel, president of the Chattanooga club of the Southern association and scout forthe Washington Senators. Engel put her under contract at once, and she has been the property of his club since." Belongs to Chattanooga.

"She is still the property of father to the Chattanooga," Jackie's said. "She was loaned House of David club for the summer, just as she has been loaned to many other cluts throughout the east and south to help fatten their gate receipts. Jackie almost always draws a record crowd." Today at 20, Jackie Mitchell Is recognized as one ofthe foremost girl athletes of the nation. She rates above the famous Babe Didrikson on the diamond, and is almost on a par with her as a basketball player. Miss Mitchell a.nd Miss Didrikson are good friends.

Besides playing baseball and basketball, Miss Mitchell also flies. She is not a licensed pilot but she has often flown a plane by herself. She is the first and only girl ever to hold a regular contract in organized baseball. Miss Mitchll sews, cooks and lives the life of any normal girl while at home. She likes all kinds of sports.

She is a blonde, quiet and unassuming. She receives hundreds of fan letters and tries to answer them all herself. Pitches Every Day. At present she is pitching daily with the of David duo. "She seldom pitches more than two or three innings in any one game," her father said, "but she is on the mound regularly each day and enjoys every bit of it." Jackie pitched against the St.

Louis Cardinals recently in an ex hibition game at St. Louis, and turned in a good performance. She pitched against the Kansas City Blues Tuesday night, and Sunday she will face the Milwaukee American association team at Milwaukee. So far this season she has pitched in 68 consecutive games, and has received credit fcr only one defeat. That was at Oswego, N.

Y. She has never in her pitching career been driven fron the box. "Jackie's skill with a baseball is not a gift," Mr. Mitchell said "She attained success only after months and months of hard work. She hopes some day to be an attraction with some major league club, probably either the Wash; ington Senators or the St.

Louis Cardinals." In regard to the last statement the girl's father said that there is a possibility that the Cardinals will sign her as a special attraction for their pre- -season tours next spring. On the mound Miss Mitchell fools 'em with plenty of good control, a slow curve ball and a fast drop. She has pitched to some of the best hitters in the country during her two years in organized baseball, and never yet has she been pounded all over the lot. Tonight Saturday Fox News of World Events Paramount Souvenir "Away Back When Serial llth Chapter "Phantom of the Air" The Pickens Sisters in "Boilesk" NOTE Saturday Mailnce, 2:30. Admission, 10c-15c.

7-0, 10c-25c. Wait Till You See Her! The Most Perfectly Formed Girl Since Venus Became a Statue! Would You Like to Chuck Everything and Take to the Open Road Where There's No Dull Routine? THEN SEE "The Good Companions" From the Novel By J. B. PRIESTLEY With Jessie Matthews You'll Be Humming and Whistling "Three Wishes," "Let Me Give My Happiness to You Extra! TEXAS GTJINAN in "Down Memory Lane" "Strange As It Seems" Fox News I hereby request that The Journal operate its Playograph baseball board during the world series this year. Signature Address Senators Cinch Flag With Win Over St.

Louis Walter Stewart Takes Tight Duel With Hadley; Tigers Beat Marcum and Athletics. decisive series in August and had piled up an ever increasing lead through the "dog rtays" when playing baseball is hard work. After the last out was made a part of the ladies' day crowd of 10,000 rushed out on the field to cheer ana congratulate the players they hurried to the club house but the demonstration only lasted a mi.iute or two. Walter Stewart, the southpaw iContinued On Page 11.) Fate of Series Baseball Board Rests With Fans Whether or not The Journal will operate its playograph baseball board this year will be left to fans. For several years the big board has, given play by play accounts of world series games.

However, in late years The Journal has been, wondering if interest in the board has been sufficient to warrant the -jcpense and trouble of its operation. For the next several days, The "lournal will publish a voting ballot which fans will be asked to fill out and sign if they want the bo-ird operated. If enough interest is shown, the board will be again. If the board is not operated, play by play reports of the game will be given through The Journal's loud speaker system. (By HUGH S.

FULLERTON, JR.) (Associated Press Sports Writer.) Tne last lingering doubt has removed and it's Joe Cronin his mighty men of Washington against Bill Terry and his hustling New York Giants in the 1930 world series. The Seiators, jong regarded as a "sur thing" to capture the American league flag, reached the point where they can't be beaten by defeating the last-place St. Louis Browns, 2 to 1, Thursday in a close game, fought out before that already were being prepared to receive the series crowds. Washington has six more games to play and the second place New York Yankees eight, but if the Se lose them all and the Yanks chalk up an unbroken string of victories the final standing will sht'W Washington with 97 victories and 55 defeats, the Yanks with 95 won and 55 lost. The game which finally settled the pennant chase Thursday brought little excitement to Wash, ington fans, perhaps less than the was in New York where a crowd of 5,000 stood in a.

drizzle rain to pay tribute to the Giants as they received a civic welcome fh3 day gater their return from the west where they clinched the flag Wednesday. The followers of the Senators knew all along: thev had a team of after they had fought rff the of last year's series winners, the Yankees in a UPTOWN Tonight and Saturday Mat. and Eve. 10-25c CHARLIE CHAN RETURNS Earl Derr Biggers' fascinating character, Charlie Chan, returns once more as the bland Chinese detective to solve his greatest case under the romantic and colorful Honolulu Moon. See Warner Oland With Heather Angel in CHARLIE CHAN'S GREATEST CASE Filled With Action, Mystery, Thrills, Plus "3 Musketeers" News Events, Cartoon On Our Stage Next Week Wed.

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