YOUNG WILSON COMES
TO FRONT QUICKLY AS
DEPENDABLE CATCHER
(fiy Associated Fres«)
NEW YORK, Mar. 11— Jimmy
Wilson, youthful catcher of the Phil
adelphia Nationals, is tugging at the
portals of big league fame, clamor
ing for recognition among the lead
ing mask and mitt performers in
the big wheel.
Any major league owner will sub
stantiate the statement that a “club
is as good as its weakest catcher,”
and without a capable backstop a
ream cannot hope to attain cham
pionship heights.
In Philadelphia, Manager Arthur
Fletcher nas had plenty of trouble
with his infield and outfield, but he
has two good maskmen in Walter
Henline and Wilson. Henline, a ca
pable, hard-hitting, colorful receiver,
has often been named in the head
lines during the past two years, yet
Wilson displayed class enough to
break into no less than 6S games
during 1924.
In 1923 Wilson was used in an
emergency capacity by Fletcher. Last
season he hit .273 «*.nd was regarded
as a dangerous batsman at all times.
Wilson won Ills spurs when he
caught a doubleheader against the
Giants at the Polo Ground last sum
mer. Fletcher had not then gotten
his team into its stride, the pitch
ers were off form and both games
went badly against them. In the
face of this disaster, Wilson radiat
ed efficiency and determination that
made the Phils look good even in
defeat.
Wilson came to the Phillies from
Boston in 1921. They gave up Baum
gartner, a pitcher, and cash for him
and then farmed him out to New
Haven for more seasoning. He was
recalled in 1922 but served only as
a subordinate to Henline. When
Fletcher took charge in 1923 he was
attracted by Wilson’s willingness and
ambition. He began to use the
youngster in pennant games and lie
did so well Henline’s ability could
not keep him on the bench consist
ently.
Wilson was born in Philadelphia.
He is a skilled worker in the silk
knitting mills and draws lucrative
wages during the off season. He is
24 years old.
PORTLAND PROPERTY BRINGS
LARGE SUM WHEN SOLD
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 10.—R.
Phillips of Los Angeles, today pur
chased from the Failing estate an en
tire block of Portland’s business prop
erty for S4t!S,000. Most of this prop
erty is now occupied by auto con
cerns.
WINNIPEG, March 11.—Cities in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
are completely snowbound, the heav
iest fall in years lasting over twenty
four hours, covering the districts.
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OLD LANDMARKS GIVE
GROUND TO PROGRESS
IN NATIONAL CAPITAL
HISTORIC RELICS OF EARLY-DAY
BUILDERS BEING RAZED;
SIGN OF PROGRESS
EVEN OLD JUSSERAND IS GONE
All Officialdom Finding More Up-to
Date Office Buildings—British
Embasy Move New Location
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 11.—
The diplomatic landmarks of old
Washington are passing. Other his
toric landmarks of (he national capi
tal also are giving way before the
progress of a new day and the cas
ual visitor who prided himself on
knowing his way about Washington
20 years ago will find himself quite
lost now. Recent events serve to
emphasize the changes in the diplo
matic quarter.
Fallowing closely upon the depar
ture of Jules J. Jusserand, ambas
sador of France for 22 years—a land
mark all in himself—came the an
j nouncement that the old British em
i bassy on lower Connecticut Avenue
| was being abandoned for a more
modern and tasmoname location, me
great Victorian building which has
housed the British embassy so many
years is to be converted lor busi
ness purposes. Among the great fig
ures in the life of the British com
monwealth of nations that lived
there was Sir Lionel Sackville-Wesr,
who got his walking papers for med
dling in American politics during
Cleveland’s time. The new embassy
will be located near the Naval Ob
servatory.
The building that was the Austro
| Hungarian embassy in the old dyas,
■ and which proudly floated three
flags from its flagstaffs, has been re
modeled as a business house and
now is used as a cleaning and dye
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The first direct cable between Italy and America has just been laid.
Photo shows workmen at Anzio, Italy, attaching the submarine cable to
the Central Telegraph line of Italy, connecting it to Rome.
ing shop. Count Dumba, the ambas-,
sador, who also, by the way, got his
walking papers, was a brilliant host
there.
The former Mexican embassy in
the heart of the uptown ' business
section, now is a real estate office,
while the embassy occupies a palace
in embassy row on upper Sixteenth
street. The Italian embassy soon
is to move into a million dollar pal
ace across the way.
The Russian embassy has stood
dosed and boarded up for several
i years.' Built by Mrs. George M. Pull
man of Chicago as her home, she
sold it to John Hays Hammond, the
mining engineer, who in turn dispos
ed of it to the Russians just before
the collapse of the czarist regime.
By a strange trick of fate the Span
ish and Cuban embassies stand close
together and, so far as anybody
! knows, the Spanish ambassador, Se
! nor Pon Juan Riano, and his Cu
ban neighbor, Senor Torriente, are
good friends.
A number of new legation build
ings which have brought with them
i new faces, have come since the war
! by the partition of the old Europe
an states. Among these are the le
gations of Chechoslovakia, Egypt, Es
thonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania
and Slovenes. Social gatherings find
the former enemies generally on
speaking terms.
The German embassy still occu
pies the site it did when Coun von
Bernstorff presided, and his succes
sors have occupied it. If it could
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be said that any diplomat in Wash
ington had hard sledding socially, it
probably is the representative from
Germany.
The only ambassador still living
downtown is Japan’s representative.
He lives in Franklin street in a
house built and occupied by John
Sherman when he was secretary o
state.
Other historic landmarks which
have changed include the house in
which Mrs. Surratt lived when she
participated in the conspiracy that
culminated in the assassination c
Lincoln, which is now a radio shop:
Doniel Webster’s house and that of
Slidell, one of the Confederate com
missioners, which gave way for the
new home of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, and the
old home of John Hay, recently sold
and probably soon will be used for
business.
British Women To Give
10,000 Tea Parties
To Aid of Hospital
■ LONDON, Mar. 11.—Ten thousand
' tea parties are to be given in Lon
! don in celebration of the thirty-fifth
birthday of the Elizabeth Garret An
derson Hospital, which is raising a
fund of $375,000 for improvements.
The institution was founded by a
woman for women and is run by
women.
The parties are to be held during
March, April and May and many
well known hostesses have promised
to entertain at their homes to aid
in collecting any amount from a
farthing to as many pounds sterl
ing as their guests care to give.
HARVARD EGYPTOLOGIST
HOPES HE FOUND HIM
CAIRO. Egypt, Mar. 11.—Dr. Re
sines. of Boston, on the Harvard ex
pedition which has been working
for several years in the vicinity of
the Giza pyramids, has discovered
what is hoped to be the tomb of
Seneferu, the first sovereign of the
fourth dynasty about four thous
and years before Christ.
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