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Evening star., 1925-02-18
Wife Sues For Divorce

Emma D. Mulligan has filed suit
for a limited divorce from Lewis
F. Mulligan, a chauffeur, charging
cruelty. desertion and inadequate e
support. They were married June 4,
1921, and have one child. Attorneys
James H. Littlehales and Leonard A.
Block appear for the wife.
Evening star., 1925-02-18
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Evening star., 1925-08-19

probation officer said. Shall we call
that boy a delinquent? / should say
not! There is absolutely no census
In Washington for children between
the ages of z and II years. The Chill
dren's Bureau simply approximated
the number of children In each pre-
ctnct. For instance. they say there
are l,227 white children in the first
precinct alone. If there are that
many I'll eat every one.
Then, when 1t came to figuring the
rate of delinquency, they arrived at
3.S per cent on the basis of $1,000
children here between the ages of Z
and II. As a matter of fact there
were more than that number of chill
dren enrolled in the public schools
at the time. Their figures from the
Juvenile Court included both official
and unofficial cases. Unofficial cases
do not represent delinquents. They
are the cases where charges have
proved groundless.
Opposes Use by Adults.
II do no want to appear in the DO
sition of driving out the Fairgrounds.
] believe In them; / believe they can
do wonderful work But there
should be one about every four blocks
and run for the children alone. Their
tennis courts should not be turned
over to adults in the cool of the eve.
ming and given to the children only
during the bliStering hours of morn
ing and afternoon
Il think, too. those in charge of
Evening star., 1925-08-19

refer to individual children but to
police precincts, and means that the
police precincts In which play fac1li-
tion to the population were the pre-
cincts where the child delinquency
rate was high
Miss Lenroot continued that the
delinquency rate is of greater signiti
canoe than the number of delinquent
children in that district. The bureau,
she said, found that in districts hav-
ing few play facilities the delinquency
rate is high. In Washington, she
said, the downtown districts were
found to have the highest percentage
of Juvenile delinquency. while pre-
clnct 10, out near Rock Creek Park,
had least.
Many Arrests Unjust.
Mr.. Sanford, however, pointed out
that police figures could not possibly
be accepted because they do not
represent individuals, but charges.
one boy, for instance, might be ac-
cuSed of 25 crimes and he would be
counted as rs boys. Furthermore.
Mr.. Sanford asserted, every boy that
Is brought into the Juvenile Court or
Is accused of a crime is not de-
lnquent At least 40 per cent of the
cases coming into the court are dis
missed as without foundation.
often we have a poor youngster
brought in just because he annoyed
some cranky neighbor." the chief
Evening star., 1925-08-19

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with resultant damage to store win.
nows and danger to life or limb.
Fairgrounds should be large enough
TO provide two or three large base ball
Fields, so that boys of all ages VIII
have chance to indulge in this most
popular sport.
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes. supervisor
of Fairgrounds, agrees with Mr.. San
ford that her department has a. prob
lem to meet In dealing with. older boys
who committed misChievous prangs on
the Fairgrounds and she gave what
She believes is the solution, namely
Larger Fairgrounds, on which
fhere would be ample room to provide
the kind of recrea ton these older
youths should have"
Mrs. Rhodes said her directors fire.
6uently have to put older boys off
She smaller Fairgrounds because they
interfere with the play of the younger
children.
Such occasions occur" the super
Sisor continued, because on the small
grounds there are no full-Size base
ball diamonds or other facilities for
the larger boys to use. When they
Hind themselves without means of
play wing the games that naturally APP
peal TO them, they get into mischief,
Bllu occasionally we tulStlNCc ia y
10 call the police.
IF we had Fairgrounds large
Enough to let these older boys play
base bah and other sports in keeping
with their age they would not inter
Eere with the smaller children and this
problem of the unruly boy on the
Fairgrounds would be solved
Larger Area Vital.
In support of this theory. Mrs.
Rhodes said that on the Rosedale,
Georgetown and CORDOBA. which are
much larger than the other play
grounds. she does not have this diff
Guilty of keeping the older boys out
Of trouble.
These larger Fairgrounds, she said,
range from . TO ) acres in size, af-
fording the big boys room for base
bali and other sports, while some of
the other grounds are only one-fourth
or one-h half of an acre in size.
In some cities said the SuperviS-
or. preference has been given to the
big boys, but here in Washington
Whenever we have had to decide be
tween the older boys and the chill
6ren on small playground we
bave decided in favor of the children.
1t is my hope that the new play
grounds bought in future will be of
such an area that we can take care
of those boys, who. when deprived of
room on the Fairgrounds, get into
xrouble.'
Evening star., 1925-08-19

Washington agencies concerned with
| the juvenile problem following publ
cation In The Star last Monday of
| statements of Joseph w. Sanford,
chief probation officer of the Juvenile
Court, which showed that the play
grounds are not IL panacea for the
evil.
While Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes. di-
rector of the Fairgrounds. believes
| there Is another side to the question,
and Mrs. katherine f. Lenroot, acting
chief of the Childrens Bureau of the
| Department of Labor, sought to cor
rect some misunderstanding" on the
question. Mr.. Sanford himself pre-
| sented further figures to substantiate
! his previous assertion.
Mr. Sanford added, however, that
| he did not wish TO he misunderstood
as objecting to the presence of play
grounds, or attempting to prove that
! they increase the danger of juvenile
delinquency. II mean" he declared,
that as now distributed, Washington
| Fairgrounds do not offer cure for
the child problem. If we had about
| four or five times as many, well man
aged, there is no doubt that they
would help wipe out child delin-
quency."
Figures Jiggled."
Mrs. Rhodes. in a public statement,
declared that to assert Fairgrounds do
not reduce Juvenile delinquency sim
ply because a large number of such
delinquentS live near existing play
grounds lis juggling figures. Mrs.
Rhodes added that 1t was because of
the presence of delinquent children in
certain neighborhoods that the reCres
alton centers we're created there, put
there expressly to combat existing
| laWleSSness.
Instead of saying that delinquency
follows the Fairgrounds, it should be
said that Fairgrounds follow delin-
QuenCy," she continued. From the
time the playground movement start
ed here, more than 90 years ago, we
have located Fairgrounds where they
were needed moSt-where child de-
| linquency seemed to demand them.
IF we had unlimited resources, We
could place Fairgrounds in sections
where child delinquency is unknown.
| Until then we will so place and man
age them as to do the most to help
the greatest number of our City's chill
| dren."
Misunderstood, She Says.
Miss Lenroot, In a letter to The
! Star, pointed out that the United
states Children's Bureau is interested
III every phase Ol Cnllu WeUare ana
therefore in the attempt being made
| by The Evening Star to present to the
| public the facts about Juvenile de-
! linqcency in Washington"
The bureau" she said. lis espe-
| cially interested in yesterdays article,
| in which reference was made to a
study during 1921 by the ChiIdren's
Bureau on Playground Facilities in
the District of Columbia This ref
erence indicated some misunderstand-
| ing about the figures shown in that
study and their significance
THE sentence quoted from the Chill
dren's Bureau report was: In generai
| those having the poorest play facili
| ties also had the greatest amount of
! delinquency This sentence does not
Evening star., 1925-08-19

Fairgrounds should have in mind the
need of fighting child delinquency. We
have interviewed a number of the per-
sons in charge of different play
grounds and none was found to be
watching for child delinquency. One
told us she could not let her boys
have more than two bats and two
balls at a time because she could not
keep track of them.
Fairgrounds and schools should
work together. Instructors should go
into the classrooms during the Win
ter months and carry on their play
ground programs. 1t is my opinion
that either the recreation work of
the schools should be in charge of
the municipal Fairgrounds or the
Fairgrounds should be in charge of
the schools"
Evening star., 1925-08-19
Rebekahs to Give Lawn Party.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, August 10.
A lawn party and dance will be
held Saturday evening by Esther
Rebekah Lodge. No. 20, I. o. o. f.,
on the lawn adjoining Odd Fellows
Temple. A beauty contest and a
prize waltz will be featured.
Evening star., 1925-08-19
FAIRGROUNDS DEFENDED.

The question of the municipal play
grounds usefulness in curing child
delinquency was discussed from var
ted points of view today by the three
Evening star., 1925-08-19

Building activity in Canada is ex-
ceeding all expectations, and is re.
lieving the unemployment situation
there.
Evening star., 1925-08-19
CITY FAIRGROUNDS
BENEFITS MARRIED
! BY HOODLUM BOYS

CONTINUED from First PageD
Evening star., 1925-04-10

would be a tie, as no extra holes
would be played by winning the last
hole.
Under the circumstances a halved
match would amount to a victory.
But after we had both reached the
green in 2, Wethered about % feet
from the cup and l about II. he laid
me d stymie on his first putt.
| usually putt very quickly, but /
ok a bit of time in studying this
dy. There was a suspicion of roll
IN the green, which, II could catch
II, might carry my ball around Weth-
ered's. Could / make It? The gallery
of 10000, which had been thrilled up
to this point by an unusual mum be r
of sensational puts in which both my
opponent and l had shared, fairl5,
held its collective breath.
My ball started as though bound
straight for a collision with Wether-
eds. A huge sigh went up from the
spectators. Then 1t sneaked OFF to the
side. drifted around the stymie and
fairly crawled into the hole for a
birdie 3.
never will forget the applause my
good British friends gave me. 1t was
a tribute to international good sports
manship.
Evening star., 1925-04-10
FOWNES SCORES OVER
WHITTEMORE, 2 AND |

PINEHURST, y. c. April IA
Elimination OF Parker ". White
more of Brookline. Mass. by W. g.
FOwnes, jr.. Of the Oakmont Club.
Pittsburgh. was the feature of the
second round matches of the North
and South amateur golf champions
ship yesterday The Pittsburgh vet
eran eliminated the Bostonian by >
and ]. the latter failing TO show golf
worthy of his sensa tional play in the
qualifying round.
Today Fownes will face 7. {. New
ton Of Brookline, another veteran of
the links. in one-half of the semi
final, while Arthur tDucky) Yates Of
Rochester meets w. W. Rixey of
Princeton, w. Va, III the other half.
Newton advanced at the expense
of 7. b. Wooten of Atlantic City,
who had been one of the stars Of
the tournament, by the margin of 4
and 8.
Yates defeated A. NJ Hoxie OF Bos-
ton, by and 2, while Rixey won
from 2. s. p. Randolph. jr., of Point
Judith, r. l., 4 and 2
Evening star., 1925-04-10
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

NEW YORK, April 1O.-Hot dogs
have been an important contributing
factor in the illness of Babe Ruth 4
fellow member of the Yanks told the
writer in Florida recently that he had
seen Ruth eat half a dozen frank
furter sandwiches in succession. top
ping off the lunch with q pint of solu-
ton of bicarbonate of soda and then
go out to the ball field and play.
Ruth has always been d big feeder
At the table, but it is probably what
he has eaten between meals that has
done him the most harm. Hot dogs
have been his particular weakness
fWhenever there was a pup empo-
rum" in sight
NO human being can disregard the
rules of conditioning as Babe has
done without paying the penalty. In
Florida he would hang around gray
hound derby to late hours of. the
night when he should have been in
bed getting his rest His weight has
been so high all Spring that playing
ball has been an actual menace to
him because of the strain on his heart
Ruths spells of dizziness undoubt-
edly have proceeded from a dfsor-
dered stomach, which affected cirru-
lation of his blood. Travelling
through the South, and especially
from hotel to hotel. would tend to
aggravate any stomach disorder he
, might have incurred while he was
taking his annual Spring course of
the baths al Hot Springs. After he
left the springs for Florida. the Babe
should have taken great care of him
self, especially as the weather was
warm and dangerous.
Conditions really were of the best
for training if Ruth had only re-
Karded his health a little more and
pampered his appetite a little less.
About a year ago the writer Sug-
gested that Ruth had the fight OF his
athletic existence ahead Of him. Ma
ure had begun to show that il meant
70 put flesh on him. and plenty of it
Susceptible to attacks Of the "nu." he
never has attempted to reduce with
out being ovcrtaken by one. and this
year his constitution has his appe-
lite to fight in addition to the 7u
\ man of Ruth's type has no chance
to remain successfully in base ball
without exercising caution. both
Winter and summer. as regards his
dict. This Spring the Babe has con
.tinued TO run and race over the ball
field like u boy. with an oVCrWei ight ed
body and an overloaded stomach. His
whole system has been paying tho
freight.
Evening star., 1925-04-10
NEW YORK GETS TWO
BIG BOUTS FOR june

NEW YORK. April 1o,-Harry Wills,
New York negro. and Tommy Glib
bouS. st. Paul ight-heavyweight will
appear in New York outdoor rings
this Sumner, but not against each
other.
r Gibbons opponent will be the
American light heavyweight king,
Gene Tuuney. and the battle will ia Ike
place at the Polo Grounds, June -.
\ week later wills will climb into
the same ring to encounter Charley
Weinert of Newark, y. J.
Both Wills and Weinert have con-
quered the erstwhile prominent South
American hcavyw eight, Luis Angel
Firpo. by newspa per decisions
The bouts featuring Gibbons and
wills will come close together, but
not close enough to satisfy the box
ing followers who demanded that the
champions most persistent chal-
'eugers fight il out" Their signing
makes certain of one factor in the
pugilistic situation-Jack Dempsey
viii not box before Labor day. There
viii be no opponent for him.
Evening star., 1925-04-10

Id like to go into the French and
Belgian open championship matches
while I'm over there-and perhaps
shall The dime makes me feel 50
much braver.
I'm sorry I'm tho only America n
girl to go, because d group of US
could have a good time, and because
if there were several there would be
A so much better opportunity to show
the English, who don't know, what
golf has come 70 be in America.
OF course, I'm as fit as can be I've
been practicine with d vengeance on
Southern courses all Winter, and am
pla wing, | think, better game than
ever | played before. But one hates
to count too much on ones self.
! took q lesson from Allen Smith At
WeStChester Biltmore Club ThurSda y
and he says his hopes arc high for
me. Id been feeling n little off for
"A day or two in my play in Provi-
dence. but Alex Smith said my drives
had picked up to snuff. | think I've
improved my putting little, too It's
been more steady this Winter, and
Evening star., 1925-04-10

Temple cIubmen OF Alexandria will
meet the Friends nine tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock at the Cardinal
park.
AnncOstin Eagle Juniors defeated
the Riverside Juniors, 10 to s.
Joe Diehl has been named 10 man
age the Anacosti&. Eagle Seniors.
while Chick Busher has been
chosen to direct the unlimited nine.
Pullman Athletic Club and the Post
Office team were scheduled to play
this afternoon At the Union Station
Plaza. The Pullman nine is booked
for a game with the Knickerbockers
on Sunday.
Bucky juniors are meeting at the
home of Raymond Britain Saturday
evening at $50 o'clock to elect a
treasurer
Shamrock Midgets have called off
their Saturday and Sunday games. As
several members of the team will be
out of town over the holidays.
Calvary VI. y. tOssers were to have
their first workout on the Monument
Grounds this afternoon.
st. Pntrick's MidRets defeated
the Immaculate Conception Midgets
9 to T.
Evening star., 1925-04-10
JONES USES RANGE
TO TRAIN FOR GOLF

ATLANTA. Ga, April 10.-Robert
H. Jones, jr.. amateur golf champion
of tho United States and former
open champion, is doing much of his
Spring training for the two big tour
naments this year on the military
target range at Fort Mcpherson,
near Atlanta.
Bobby has joined the National Rifle
Association and has been shooting
with considerable effect at the rife
and pistol targets
Jones has displayed "A remarkable
proficiency at the pistol targets,
picking up scores of 90 or better out
Of possible 100, at 75 feet. with
surprising frequency, say friends.
Its a great game" said the golf
champion today. 'At first the target
looked so small and far away that
at 200 yards on the rife range I felt
I'd much rather have a No. ! iron
and d golf ball to hit it, But the
rifle does pretty well. 1t doesn't
seem to slice or pull much and l can
always get far enough with it, even
against the wind"
Evening star., 1925-04-10
THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS
BY WILL H. DIG,
President I.aak Walton League Of America

is fierce fish with very sharp teeth
and he will attack people. Down near
Guatemala | saw some fishermen haul
in a big net in which there was a
very large barracuda. a native ran
out into the water among the fish. The
big barracuda rushe> at him and took
a large chunk Of his thigh. The man
ran screaming to shore, and, if the
fish had been able to get away, per
haps shark might have been
blamed"
] asked Ross about the motion pic
lures and stories of underwater nights
between sharks and natives armed
only with small knife.
'Ha, ha! ha," was his response.
Evening star., 1925-04-10
LIDO TOUGH COURSE,
SAYS BOBBY JONES

ATLANTA, April 10. Bobby Jones
4 fnateur golf champion and former
open title holder has declared that
the Lido course on Long Island
where the eastern section of the field
in the next national championship
will qualify, is the most difficult
course he has ever played.
IT'S the toughest course / ever
sa W." he said. "and there will be some
fine scores in the eastern section. But
7 suppose it's fair for one it is
for another. ] know ] played one of
the best rounds of my life at Lido,
was hitting my shots as we'll as !
could-and ] lost two balls and fin
ished with a card of S3."
However, in spite of his previous
record on the course. the former
champion said that he. would try to
qualify in May for another effort to
win the title.
Evening star., 1925-04-10
FRANCIS OUIMET TELLS:
On the 18th Green at ST. Andrews

Probably the most important putt ]
ever made was the five-footer at
Brookline in 1913, which allowed me
to tic NaTdon and Ray for the ma
tional open championship. which
won in hte play-of.
But certainly that occasion was
scarcely more exciting than the finish
of my match with Robert Wethere
iii the battle of 1928 for the. Walk er
cup.
1t Will be remembered that the
members of the United States team.
playing over the st. Andrews course.
made great rally on the second and
concluding day that pulled US to vic
tory by a single point. 6la to 5h.
The best l could do against Weth-
cred was to tie him But SO far as
/ was concerned. the whole struggle
seemed to be on the verge of dis
aster for US after the fourteenth hole
of the afternoon round
Wethered had beaten me in the
semi-finals of the British amateur
championship, at Deal, . up and
! to go. And during most of the
Walker cup setto he seemed to have
the edge on me again. After the
morning round he was . up, and
while | succeeded in tying up the
match at the tenth hole in the after
noon. he regained the lead at the
twelfth. We halved the thirteenth,
but on the fourteenth he holed a chip
shot for 8, making him . up.
can't describe my feelings as l
watched that chip-shot go down. And
when we halved the fifteenth, I knew
had fight ahead of me almost i'm
possible of d successful conclusion
On the sixteenth I pitched my Sec
ond dead to the cup and with birdie
), cut Wethered's lead to one
hole. But we halved the seventeenth.
SO the very best l could hope for
Evening star., 1925-04-10

As the clubhead "drifts" around TO
the right your weight will go about
10 per cent TO the right leg. which is
correct. You will note, too. that the
left heel stays fairly close TO the
ground, which also IL correct. At
the top of the back swing i'm the me-
dunn upright the shaft will he just
above and just slightly inside the
point Of the right shoulder. The
player should not GO so far up with
the wrist break of the shaft that IL
goes beyond the horizontal across tn
shoulders. Stop just short of pulling
against yourself up there. If you
make the swing 7 have outlined
you will find 1t wonderfully free of
eIeFtion.
Copyright. 1922
Evening star., 1925-04-10

According to tradition. and, for that
matter, popular belief, the shark is a
monster of the seas that roves around
the seaside haunts of man looking for
a choice human meal
But many sea fishermen. scientists
and sailors tell us that the shark is
about as harmless a f1sl. as swims. In
fact. the farther inland you get the
greater is the reputation of the shark
as a man eater
f.. H. Ross. associate editor of Out
door America, formerly a deep-sea
diver, sailor of the warm seas and
naval officer, has some interesting
things to say about the shark.
The shark" he said. ''is about as
kinds of sharks. The shark is scav-
enger, and has no time for meat that
rhas been dead less than a week. |
have caught great many of TIL EN-,
but [ never have been able to catch
one on fresh meat. Throw piece of
fresh meat among bunch of sharks
and they'll ignore it. 1t must be car
rion before they're interested"
The myth about the shark does not
extend to the brown skinned races
They will dive among them; even the
youngsters will swim around in
whole school of the worst kind of
sharks. On observing this we changed
our myth to the extent of declaring
that the shark would eat only white
men,
81 have sailed all over the world
especially in the warmer waters
where sharks abound" continued
Ross, "and l made it a hobby to find
out whether anybody ever had known
of a shark even nibbling at anybody
| never found anybody who had. You
can jump in among school of sharks
and if you get near enough to any
of them you can pet them. They'll
eat out of your hand, but not of it."
But there are some very fierce fishes
swimming the salt water, he pointed
out.
Il once saw a man badly bitten by
shark which turned out to be
barracuda" he said "The barracuda