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the winner of the tournament.
Earl McPhilomy. bowled his score of
$40 at Thursdays session of the
tournament. He toppled from the
leading position Arthur Urban, whose
count OF 639. made on the opening
night of the tournament lasted
through the event for second Iaurels.
Twenty eight prizes were awarded,
the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth
prizes being divided among four
bowlers who tied at $40, while Will
liam Martin got prize for his 1856
game, best of the tournament.
complete list of the prize winners
follows:
First-Won by Earl McPhiomy tsolid gold
watch, $40.
seeond-won by Arthur Urban (silver cup).
Third-Won by John Ruppeil. Baltimore
Fourth-Won by Max Rosenberg (silver
Fifth-won by Nick Chaconas (silver cup).
sixth-won by. GF. Henderson ts,,rer
Seventh-won by V. OFT tsilver cup), 6O4
Eighth-Won by c. 0. Caskey. Martins
burg. W. Va. (silver cupl; 6o2
Md. (siIver cupj. ea11
Tenth-won by Perez Elicit (silver cup).
Eieventh--won by Louis Psntos (siIver
TweIfth-won by L. L. Rinaldi (cuf links),
sos
ThiTteenth.wTon BY J. A. Flynn tcuf links
Fourteenth-Won by J. A. Campbell (cigar-
cite easel, $50
Fifteenth-won by c. NJ. Charest Cigarette
easel, 593.
sixteenth--won by C. NJ. Anderson. Mar
tinsburg, w. Va. (hat), 500.
Seventeenth-Won by Joe Gress (boudoir
lamp, sol.
Eighteenth-won by John Pappas (hatl,
$50.
Nineteenth-Won by j. O'Lone (leather belt
and silver buekle), $50.
Twentietlt-won by George L. Isemsnn
(shrt), $50.
Twenty -first-Won by l.. oeser (necktie),
5S4
Twenty second-Won by A. Zeiler. Balti-
more Md. tive pounds OF cofeel, 5S2
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EVENING STAR LEAGUE.
SfsudtnU oT Taan

Whitford's Giants, by taking the odd
game from the Reds. while the Dodgers
were trimming the Bucks, 2 to 1,
brought about a triple for the leader
ship, Bucks, Reds, and Giants now being
on equal terms with Is wins and 9
defeats.
Dodgers, in their recent form revers-
ais, have been steadily climbing from
their former cellar position, and now
are camped in fourth place, their sue
cess In topping the leading teams be-
ing mainly responsible for the we'll
balanced standing Although Charlie
Holbrook rolled a game of 1872 and a
set of 344, his team, the Bucks, could
only account for one win over the
Dodgers. Roderick rolled best for the
Dodgers, with 336 total.
Pirates won their first set in sew
eral weeks, showing the Yanks a lit
tie further down in the rut when they
whipped them in their first two starts.
Isemann's 125 game and 323 set fea-
tured this match.
Last weeks prize winners were:
class A, c. Holbrook, 1872: Class B,
Burrows, III; Glass c, Rodrick,s 1877;
Class D, Curtin, liz.
Tuesdays schedule follows: Yanls VS..
Dodgers, 3d. Reds VS.. Pirates, rs;
Giants VS.. Bucks, $40.
whitford continues to lead the in
dividuals WIKI n4.1o, followed by
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ODD FELLOWS, LEAGUE.


Record Performances to Date.
High individual average-P Elicit, 1925
High individual game-Campbell and P. Ell
lett, 149.
High individual set-P. Elicit, 1873.
High team game-Amlty, ST.
High team set-Amlty, 1.6o4
Greatest number spares-Campbell, SO.
Greatest number strikes-P. Elicit, "a.
Several changes were made in stand
ing of teams during the week, Mount
Pleasant displacing Eastern for the lead
by virtue of its clean sweep victory.
The last-year champions can place a
good team on the field and will be
mighty hard to displace, now that they
are In the van.
Harmony was forced to use a dummy
score in its match with Fred D. Stuart,
but this did not seem to handicap it to
any extent, as 1t won two games.
Washington and Brightwood staged
a pretty close battle, with the former
emerging victor in two of the games.
BY winning two games from Salem,
Amity went into second place. dead
locked with the Eastern team for that
position. j. Elicit rolled the best set
for the winners, getting 335.
Golden Rule failed to have a team on
the alleys and was forced to forfeit to
Columbia This was a hard blow for
Golden Rule and put crimp in its
pennant aspirations. Had it rolled this
match and won two games, 1t would
have been leading the league, but this
loss places it in fourth position.
1t seems to be a hard proposition to
pick the winner, nearly every week
showing a different leader, with six
teams still in the race.
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AGRICULTURE 1NrERBuREAU LEAGUE

High team sets-Soils- Solicitors. 1923; Ac-
counts, ] SOC.
High team games-Accounts, 063: Property
562; Solicitors, $50.
High individual sets-Gowan, 37s; Adams
375: Kettler-Be 373.
High individual games-Adams, 1885, Ben
ner, IA; Gowan, 142.
BY taking all three games from Ac-
counts, Plant Bureau not only showed
the former team into seventh place,
but also helped tighten up the race
generally, as Soils and Property both
lost Moore. with a set total of 1926,
led the Plant Bureau bowlers, but the
star of the match was John p. Evans
of the Accounts five, who totaled $50
for the best set of the evening. Evans
has had the rather discouraging ex-
perience of rolling for better than
ia for the past six games and yet
seeing his team lose five of them.
ICY" Young, well known to the vet
eran bowlers of the Interurban
League, was out for the first time
this season, teaming up with the fast
travelling Solicitors outfit. His games
of us and III helped materially in
enabling the Solicitors to take two Of
the three games from Property.
Property had to roll high game of
the evening, 562, to take even one game
from Capt. Murphy's bowlers, Casper
contributing a game of 1877 to this
1913 and set of 343, was the best man
on the Solicitors five, but all rolled
we'll
Staging a comeback after a rather
serious slump, the Economics team
succeeded in getting two of the three
games from Soils, all the matches
being very close. This puts them
again in a tie for first place. Barber
and McKericher, captains of the Eco
Monies and Soils outfits, did the best
bowling of the match.
Matthias, Rupert and Costello. mem
bers of the Messenger five in the
Agriculture Independent League, have
been going good and promise with a
little more competitive experience to
hold their own with the best of the
Interbureau's pin spillers. Matthias
game of 1928 won for Public Roads in
the first match with the Interbureaus,
while Ruppert's lis was the deciding
factor in enabling Plant to take the
third game from Accounts.
MAT" Sazama, rolling his first
match of the season with Accounts,
showed much of his old time form,
and Will prove tower Of strength to
the team in its remaining matches.
This team, when going right, is about
the best in the league. Frequent alb
sence of regulars has kept it down in
the race to date.
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WASHINGTON LADIES LEAGUE.

With the season about half over, 1t is
almost a certainty that, barring acct
dents, the final struggle for titular
honors Will be between the Mount Pleas
ants and Commercial, with the former
having a slight edge at present. How
ever, the Commercials have been going
at fast clip in recent matches, and
the uptown bowlers will have to speed
up to maintain their advantage.
significant feature of the Com
mercials' improved score is the return
TO form OF one or two of their team
who have been decidedly off their game
most of the season. The team should
If 1t keeps up to it's recent standard
win big percentage of its remaining
games.
Bubbles" Watts, after being in a
slump that has kept her average below
normal, seems to have regained her
stride and is turning in some neat
scores in the league matches.
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nett Urges Nev Pro Golf Body Shaeer His Greatest Rru Hoppe Admits
LOCAL DUCKPINNERS
TRIM BALTIMOREANS

With lead of 1919 pins. obtained
last Saturday night In Baltimore, the
Terminal Ice quint of the Distric ct
League. had an easy time last night
defeating the King Pin team of Bal
timore by 234 naples.
The total for the two sets of five
games were: Terminals, $3.50; King
Pins, 1896.
The Baltimore bowlers were off
their stride. Ruark, who carries the
reputation of being the best pin
spiller in the Terrapin City, knocked
over only 70 NAPLES in his fourth
game.
All Works was the star, his set
totaling 621. He was the only bowler
to go over the 500 mark Ruark of
the King Pins had the high game,
14S.
Johnny Ruppell of the King Pins
took SHADES place in the fourth and
fifth frames, scoring lis and 1913,
after shooting a 633 for third place
In the individual tourney down at
the Coliseum.
Andy Zeiler. who has always stood
up well in previous matches for Bal
timore, shot but one game over the
hundred mark.
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BarnettS idea is not to have the
proposed body a purely local one, as
the association now functioning in
Washington is, but to embrace all
the pros in the territory for more
than 100 miles about the Capital and
TO hold big annual tournament
each year in addition to several one
day affairs.
Such a project was discussed ex-
tensiVely last Fall when the repre-
sentative of a local sporting goods
store attempted to obtain the assent
of many of the pros in Maryland and
Virginia. and really went quite a
long way toward it's organization.
Consequently the groundwork is laid
IN Maryland and Virginia, and there
Is lacking now only a pushing spirit
to- put it across. An organization
such as is contemplated, according
again TO Barnett, would take the
place of the local professional or
ganization in dealing with the Pro-
fessional Golfers Association of
America.
:, fUhe Country Club of Virginia. one
of the leading clubs of the South and
the largest in Richmond, is planning
to hold an invitation tournament
this Spring, according to word from
f. j. D. Mackay. member of the
club and president of the Middle At
1antic Golf Association. The clubs
course was reconstructed during the
last two years and now is reported
TO be In excellent condition for a big
tournament
. Washington is to have another big
golf project northwest of the city
during 1925, details of which are not
yet ready to BIZ made public.
Although IL has been unpiayable for
o month due to weather conditions,
the East Potomac Park public golf
course closed officially yesterday for
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GREEN SECTION GOLF
CARDED FOR MAY 80

NEW YORK, January 31-The Ma
tional Green Section golf tournament
has been scheduled for Memorial day,
May 80.
The competition will consist of an
1S-hdle match play round against par,
the net handicap being based on
seven eighths of the regular stated
club handicap, the best score against
par to produce the national winner.
A player may use another than his
home course, but he must place his
own clubs handicap against par of
the course on which he plays.
Seventy-f1ve per cent Of the entrance
fee Will go to the Greens Section
Endowment Fund through the United
States Golf Association.
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KENNEL AND FIELD
BY MARY. C. POPE.

Frank Leach reports the sale of
Lombard. The puppy was shipped to
Lombard's plantation near Havana,
Cuba, few days since.
Allan Haffar had to cancel his en-
gagement to judge bull terriers at
the Lancaster show, on account OF
illness in the family.
Mrs. II. C.. Birney. owner of the
Aspen Hill kennels, reports that she
has purchased lovely puppy from
the st. Botolph's kennels. Mrs. Birney
says that 1t is a promising pup and
will be entered In the Spring shows.
The puppy should repay Its owner
with some good wins, as the amount
paid was up in the three figures.
Mrs. b. b. Thompson reports the
sale of two beautiful Pekingese,
Marking Chu S. A 1. and Marking
Be-ti to Mrs. A. S. Plankers of St.
Paul, MINI.
Johnny Cassassa, who has one of
the most typical Boston terriers in
Washington in Princess Mary. has
bred her and is looking forward to
some winning pups.
Mrs. r. H. Johnston recently gave
beautiful luncheon to her friends,
who are members of the Washington
Kennel Club. The table was especial
~ pretty with Spring flowers and red
satin heart-shaped candy boxes for
souvenirs. Before leaving, the guests
were shown through Mrs. Johnston
kennels of wire haired red Scottish ter
riers. Mrs. Marion Murphy and Mrs.
Frank Myer were unable to attend,
both being indisposed.
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Chicago; d, WeIkcr Cochran, Los
Angeles; z, VI. CassignoI, France, >,
Roger Cont, France; o, George sIOs-
son, Boston; 10, VI. FOurnn, France.
Amateur BaIkIine.
i, Edgar Il. AppIeby, New York; =,
Francis :. Appleby, New York; ..
John A Clinton, Pittsburgh; 4,
Nathan Hall, Boston; 8, Percy y. Col
Inns, Chicago; q. Emil Renner,
Youngstown, Ohio; Z, DIR. Richard VI.
Roscow, baltimore; >, Edward W.
Gardner. Newark, y. J.; %. Herbert
Hammer, Brooklyni 10, Jacob klinger.
New York.
Three-CusbiOn.
1, Robert l.. Cannafax, New York;
=, Gus Couples, Detroit; 3. John lay
ton, st. Louis; 4, Tiff Denton, Kansos
City; 3, Otto Resist. Philadelphia; q,
Augie kieckhefer, Chicago; =, CIar-
ence Jackson, Buffalo; S, Allen Is.
Hall. Chicago; o. Charles McCourt.
Pittsburgh; 10, Charles Ellis, Pitts
burgh.
Pocket Billiards.
1, Ralph GreenIeaf, Philadelphia; .,
Frank Taberski, New York; B, Benny
Allen. Kansas City; 4, Andrew st.
Jean, Minneapolis; 5, PasquoIe Ma
taIie, Baltimore; q, Edwin Rudolph
Chicago; Z, Joseph ConcannOn, Brook
Ign; s, Arthur Woods, Syracuse; .,
Tommy HuestOn, Chicago; 10, jerome
KeOgh, Rochester.
Experts Consensus.
All-time first ten-1, Willie Hoppe,
New York; =, Young Jake Schaefer,
San FrancfscO; 3, Frank Ives, Chi
cago; 4, Old Jake Schaefer, Chicago;
), George SIossOn, Boston.
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An interesting comparison with
Hopes all-time list is afforded by
similar selection based on the con-
sensus of opinion of 10 leading
billiard experts. Hoppe naturally
heads this array, but it is interesting
TO note that although in slightly
different order, the remaining nine
experts rate Young Jake Schaefer
next to Hoppe.
This consensus and Hopes selec-
tions, which also include a second
ten" well aII-star selections
among amateur. pocket billiard and
ee-cushion billiard players, are as
follows:
Present-Day First Ten.
L, Young Jake schaefer, san Fran
ciscoj z, Weiker Cochran, Los An
geles; 3, Roger Cont, France; 4,
EdOuard HOremans, Belgium; ,,
Erich HaEenlacher, Germany; g, Ora
Morn1nsstar, California; z, Felix
Grange, France; s, Edmond Derbier,
France 0. George sutton, Chicago;
10, George BLOSSOM, Boston.
Present-Dny Second Ten.
II, Charles G. Peterson, ST. Louis
Il, X. Suzuki Japan, IL, Albert
Cutler, New York; IA, Tadao Suganu-
mi, Japan; Is, Kinney Matsuyama,
Japan, 10, David McAndless, Chicago;
II. Al Taylor, Detroit, Is, AIRY Bos,
Belgium; 10, Jean Bruno, Austria; 20,
NJ. GIbeIin, France.
AII-Time BalI<Iine.
/, Young Jake Schaefer, San Fran
cisco; 2, Frank Ives, Chicago; 3, Old
Jake Schaefer, Chicago; 4, Maurice
Vignnux, France; 3, George sutton.
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YOUNG JAKE PLACED FIRST
in RATINGS BY CHAMPION
Tite-HOlder Eliminates Himself Putting Cochran
Second and Cont, French Star, Third-Experi
COnsenus Has Willie i'm Front
By the Associated Press.

EW YORK January 3lYoung Jake Shacfer of
the greatest match player faced by Willie Hoppe
bakine billiard champion This is the
drawn from ranking lists his compiled by Hoppe which
the wizard places Scha 40"
well as the list of modern
Schefer
Angeles
world
ponship In his first TO- for all
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ROD AND STREAM
by PERRY MILLER

HILE Washington anglers
wv the closed Potomac
which is expected take place Mary
Of stone dams used for fish in the Potomac River
The fish fish Maryland
L.
The dams will be destroyed
Many the dams used hold the OF
and have been place than 100
quen destroyed the continually replaced
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The blade. as shown in figure 1,
moves straight back, from pointC IL,
as If the player meant to project the
blade straight back to the figure IL
alongside the chart. The blade is
kept at direct right angles to the ball.
This means there is no circular move
ment to the right with the blade. A slight
wrist movement, with the left wrist
takes the blade back. A similar ac-
ton with the right wrist brings it
forward. In the address have the
hands very slightly in advance of the
ball Then, when you take the ball.
make the blade go clear through the
ball and as far out after it as YOU
can go by making the right wrist
to reach under" Never follow the
blade by letting the hands and arms
move forward.
Copyright, 1sc5.)
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~ ''oioiS eiot oHyDouy SdH grasp IT.
The overspin putt differs from other
puts in this respect. The ball rolls
as a wagon wheel rolls. That is.
there is no tendency in the ball to
spin to one side or the other Given
this over -and-over roll, the ball sticks
to its line uphill and down dale
Moreover. If it hits the back of the
hole 1t will be likely to hop straight
into the air then drop into the cup.
The side-spin putt hits the back of
the cup and jumps out to one side.
Figures 1, 2, g., and show the
execution of the true overspin putt
Observe that the hands remain in a
fixed position with relation to the
ball. Study this particularly in Fig
ures Q and 4. Note that at the end
of the back swing the hands are just
the same as they are at the finish of
the stroke, shown In Figure 1.
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High individual average-Murdock, An
drews, JOG.
Second high individual averaze-Noack. Co.
lumbar, 1O5
High Individual game-Noaek, Columbian.
Second high individual game-Morrts An
drews. 1877
High individual set-Morris Andrews. 374
Second high individual set-Smith, RansdeIl.
$40 a.
Most spares-Noack Columbian. e5.
- Second high in spares-Murdock, Andrews.
Most strikes-Murdock, Andrews 81; NJ
o'Brien, Joyce, 81.
Second high In strikes-M. O'Brien, 81
High team game-Andrews Paper Co. 57s
Press. 57S
High team set-Judd & Detweiler 1873
Second high team set-Ianman Engraving
Co.. 1859.
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HERZLS BOWL BEST
IN HEBREW LEAGUE

Herzl Club bowlers are setting the
pace for the other teams in the He
brew 1nterclub Duckpin League, the
last official statistics of the circuit
giving this CUNTS record as % games
won and IA lost. Pressing the Herbs
are the Young Friends, with "a vic
tories and Is defeats.
The Herzls also hold records for
team set and game, but individual
marks have been established by mem
oers or other quints. Wolf of the
Nordaus is leading strike and spare
maker, while Weinberg of the Y. M.
H. A. has bowled the highest game
and Siegel of the Alpines the highest
set
League statistics follow:
STANDING OF TEAMS
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fishing in America.
tiveness should be our first organized
effort.
Everlasting Is not serious as
this check. for at least somebody
profits by the fish taken for food and
by the recreation involved in their
capture. and it does not hinder re-
stocking, while pollution and inter
ference with the water supply pre-
sent no such mitigating features and
make restocking futile. IF boards of
fish and game were more careful to
investigate the waters they restock
and refuse to restock waters that are
impure or otherwise tempered with
they might at least arouse the fish,
Ing population to the point where
they would insist on doing away with
these menaces to fish production"
DO you know that the catching of
fish, scientifically regulated, has moth
ing to do with the depletion of our
waters? That is the view of DR.. o.
burn.
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ANDREWS B0WLERS
LEADING IN LEAGUE

Although the Andrews Paper Co. ouint
is leading the Typothetae Duckptn
League by small margin, there are
TOUR other teams close enough to make
IT very interesting for the leaders. The
Wheefer-Jones team is in fifth place.
only six games behind the Andrews
crew, which demonstrates the closeness
of the battle.
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WOULD GREATLY EXTEND
SCOPE OF ORGANIZATION
Proposes Players of This Section Form an Alliance
With Those in and About Philadelphia and
Hold Big Annual Tournament
RGANIZATION of professional golf to embrace

RGANIZATON
territory Philadelphia and to>incude
- ship the professionals the District of Columbia yandan
Virginia the aim
who will Philadelphia meeting Pro
Golfers Philadelphia vicinity
% fornm sucha body
Although there organization professionals of
Washington did holding
but small failing altogether District open
professional pros Virginia
ton would capable offering several really good
a clubs within named.
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DISTRICT LEAGUE.
Record for Performances.

High team game-stanford Paper Co., 623.
High team set-King Pins, 1,T55.
High individual game-Miller, Curb Cafe,
40
High individual schiller, Curb Cafe, 405
High individual average-Megaw, King
Pins, 115-4
Greatest number of Observation-Disclosures
King Pins. 1873.
Greatest number of strikes-Pratt. Good
fellows, q.
Walter Megaw of King Pins as
sumed the league leadership in indi-
vidual average by means of $40 set.
while Glen Wolstenholme of the same
team moved into second place, forcing
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SOUTH BEND. Ind. January al
Tom Lieb, assistant foot ball coach
at Notre Dame does not expect to
renew his contract which expires in
June. I4ieb has under consideration
several offers from schools to coach
foot ball. track and hockey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-01

men and fly casters said Prof. Kin
caid. Although our manufactured
flies may be more substantial and a
trifie more beautiful, the Romans in
500 &c. considered angling a fine
art and had many magnificent speci-
mems of flies in their collections"
The puffer fish. sometimes called
globe fish. is notable among the
denizens of the deep with peculiar
characteristics. These fish have
curious way of protecting themselves
when they are menaced with danger.
They are capable of initiating the
belly until it is nearly spherical, so
that they resemble big rubber balls
or toy balloons.
When thus inflated their specific
gravity is, of course, very low, 50
that they float on the surface of the
water. However, if the pursuer
chases a puffer regardless of conse-
quences and gobbles him up, so much
the worse for the captor, since the
flesh of nearly all of these globe
fishes is poisonous.
Sometimes, in curiosity shops along
the waters edge in seaports. one sees
the expanded and dried skins of these
strangers, which have been brought
in and sold for a very small sum by
wandering sailors. These fish are
found in all the warm and tropical
seas and q few species live in fresh
water. The skin is naked or covered
W. tn movable spines.
Fish have tremendously long lives
compared with many animals. Salmon
have been known to live more than
100 years and some interesting ex-
periments In marking them and keep
ing tab on them from year to year
have been made even in open waters.
Eels often live to be so years old,
and carp, like the salmon, are cen
tenarians. Pike are said to live
longer than any of the fish family.
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McPHILOMY HOLDS LEAD
AS DUCKPIN EVENT ENDS

OWlING the annual individual dukpin championship
ment of the District Washington Duckpn
Association ended Coliseum night with
the
IN the making all last week Those successful the last session the
John 633 rolled him
third place the and Victor OFT of this city, who totaed
QUA IN seventh place the list
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ST. PAUL QUINT SCORES
FOURTH VICTORY IN ROW

st. Paul took the measure of Cal
vary Baptist. "a to IL, and Epiphany
beat Mount Vernon, % to 1s. last
night in games of the Sunday School
Basket Ball League played at the Y
NJ c. A ST. Paurs victory was its
fourth in a row in the circuit