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CENTRAL
.'DeviI's Island. =

Devils Island" melodra.
matte romance Of the French
penal colony off the coast of
French Guiana. being presented
the first two days of the present
week at Crandall's Central The
alter, affords Pauline Frederick
thoroughly impressive outlets for
those emotional endowments that
have made her one of the tore
most stars. In this subject, Miss
Frederick Is admirably supported
and to it she brings the mature
art of star of the first rank
The companion attraction is
Mack Sennett's amazing two-reel
comedy, Muscle Bound Music,
In which all of the Sennett com :.
dams and beauties appear. An
other Offering is new Grant
land Rice 'sSportlight."
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It is 4 decadent English mo-
biIity that Lonsdale lmns IN
this pseudo crook dran1a--the
tea-swigging, incessant cigar
ette-smoking, generally bore
some, titled society. One could
hardly blame the Lord Cham
berlain if he frowned upon the
opus as an intimate picture OF
British stupidity. To the cas-
ual American playgoer Somer-
set Vaughan in the same at
mosphere yields more al-
thentic pen, certainly a more
interesting one.
The plot of "Mrs. Cheney"
has been told succinctly in
these columns. Suffice it to
say, it tells Of genteel thief
MRS. Cheney who ingratiates
herself with British society and
thus provides a convenient set
ting and opportunity to carry
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ST. PAT GRAD
PRINCIPAL AT
THE STRAND

Elizabeth German. charming
little dancer Of the st. Patrick
Players. runs away with first
honors on the bill at the Strand
Theater this week. Mr.. Hyde has
signed Elizabeth as a regular
member. of his company and that
he has made no mistake was tes.
titled by the waves of applause
that greeted the young artists
numbers yesterday. Miss German
sings and dances, we all know
that by this time. but on this pro
gram she is furnished with rit h
opportunities and takes advantage
of them in ready manner. Her
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voice and sings with expression.
Justine Gray. Earl Rot Lew
Lewis. Leo stevens and Rush and
Butler are the othcr players sn.
titled to praise.
The screen feature brings uB
Shirley Mason in Sweet Rosie
o'Grady." II Is adapted from the
song OF that name and ellis a 70.
nance OF 4 child Of the streets
Fl 81
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ruffles and plumes, so much in
character are they,
The tragic, the ridiculous, the
dramatic, the pathetic and the
humorous are to be found in
Stella Dallas" magnificently
portrayed.
The feature picture is long and
is supplemented only by the
Pathe News and an overture by
Dvorak.-G. @.
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ness that makes it interesting
and quite worthwhile.
Aside from these two features,
there is yet the Metropolitan
World Survey, which is as usual
full of interesting shots, an Aesop
Fable. which tells it's lesson and
the overture, THE Student
Prince" heard only three times
daily. But the Pennsylvanians
more than make up for any de.
linquence on the regular orches-
tra's part.-E. Z. p.
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shOWgirIs and christening y
all yThe Passing Show Of 1925"
the sponsors of this music-hall
bill manage, but not convinc-
ingly, to get $40 for the best
seats and that's q new price
level for this type Of entertain
ment. Not many vaudeville
lovers can love vaudeville $40
worth. Such devotion is just
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performance Is graceful and charm.

performance Is graceful and charm
ing.
/: B. Hamp, the only Swedish
comedian in captivity, Is. the boy
who produces the laughs and he
Is excelIentiy gifted for the job
Hamp IS most OF the snow when
1t comes to comedy. Ills very an
pearance Is good for a laugh and
his work In the 7everal humorous
playlets brings forth q flood Of
them.
Beatrice Jamison has q sweet
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about the best way it can be
played.
Film bsidiaries include
"Aesop's Fables" Topics of the
Day" and the news reel. All of
which are worth seeing.-J. w. 3.
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COLLEENS, KIBITZERS,
ALL IN FUN

"Koher Kitty Kelly perturbation of the everyday
Keys Feinbaum in the coorful Ghetto
amusing entertaining Rao
Theater The play adaptation of Leon DeCoas stage version
is repete in hunOr pathos thrills excitement.
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P0la Resting

Pola Negri has left Hollywood
on a short vacation trip to some
unnamed resort before starting
on her next picture for Para
mount.
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PALACE>HAS ANOTHER
ALL-QUALITY BILL

Many features and all above the program
Palace this week.
Gay Deever" the featured picture
Lew Cody at his best fact if the writer judge
is vehicle which Cody turns up last actor
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NEEDN'T WORRY
ABOUT THIS
BY HAROLD PHILLIPS

The Shuberts experiment Polls this week and
that smart Snowman Abee will just have send them a.
postcard admitting he's nearly licked
magic the experiment develops BY
phaanx Of vaudeville talent and thirty forty
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sSTELLADALLASONTO
OF THE HEAP

Dallas" mother-ove and dragnet Tor
eahros which the enthusiastic has been teasing
Washington for nearly year. comes to the Columbia.
Bennett Lois Moran by the hand stalks into fame with
Stella Martin Stephen Daasa
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WARNINGS BAND AND A
FINE FILM

The Metropolitan probably put better
program than offered this week. for both the stage presena-
feature much out of the Ordinary
already been said both and OF Warnings
Pennyvanang. that what said here will only add new,
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INA CLAIRE GARDENING
A SLENDER WEEK

Ina Claire Lonsdale comedy he Last OF Mrs.
Cheney weeks at the National TheateT last
nipht The play visit with the popularity
imprint fu Broadway and prestige destined 70
that lead the Pacific coast
Evening star., 1926-03-28

A set of four "Kum-
pax" glass food saw
ing dishes with every
refrigerator.
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HOFF APPEARS DUE
FOR A. A. u. CENSURE

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 2S.--Charley
Hoff, champion pole vaulter, ap-
parenly is open to censure by the
A. A. T.. because expenses OF his
relatives were paid on his tour.
DR.. Forrest c. Allen. director of
athletics at the University of Kansas,
has revealed that expenses of Mrs.
Hoff and of Hoff's brother-inlaw, J.
G. Daan, and wife. were paid while
Hoff was at the Kansas relays.
The rules of the A. A. u. forbid
payment of travelling expenses of any
kind for manager, trainer, rubber,
friend or relative, except chaperons
for girl swimmers.
Secretary Frederick w. Ruben is
continuing his investigation.
SEATTLE. Wash, April % R).-
Charles Hoff of Norway, world
champion pole vaulter, today started
intensive drill in preparation for the
University of Washington relay carni-
val here Saturday. Hoff. who arrived
last night from Chicago, went I'M
mediately to the university stadium
for a brief practice session under
artificial lights.
Hoff will attempt to break his own
outdoor record in the pole vault OF
13 feet II 1916 inches. He will share
the spotlight in the carnival with
Pacific coast conference athletes.
Darwin sMeisnet, graduate manager
of athletics, said that no money will
,, be paid Hoff for his appearance here
without the approval of Murray HUI
bert of New York, president of the
A. A. L. He explained he intended
to protect" TIoff against charges of
violating the A. A. T.. rules govern
ing expense money, which followed
his recent appearance at the Kansas
| and Drake relays.
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TOWN AND COUNTRY
GOLF EVENT STARTS

Washington first golf tourney of
the season-the third annual invita- =
ton event of the Town and Country
Club-got under way this morning,
with the first half of a two-day quail
flying round.
Today and tomorrow will be given
over to qualifying the small field
that has entered the tournament.
Town and Country Club officials pre-
pared for a large field, and are dis
appointed because the entries are
hardly enough to fill four flights.
Notwithstanding the paucity OF
entries, however. the field makes up
In class what it lacks in numbers,
for many of the players are num-
bered among the best around Wash =
ington. The tourney is open only to
club members and especially invited
guests.
Match play will get under way
Friday morning and continue through
Saturday afternoon, when the final
round in all flights is scheduled for
settlement.
Long.distance telephone converse,
tionS between Robert 7. Jones, jr.
in Atlanta, and Fred d. Paxton,
chairman of the golf committee at
the Washington Golf and Country
Club, and Al Day, manager Of the
Congressional Country Club, straight
out the misunderstanding regarding
the playing engagement of the ANA
teur champion over the week end.
AS a result of the conversation,
Jones will pair with Watts Gum,
runner-up in the amateur champion
ship, against Roland r. Mackenzie
and Miller b. STEVENSON of Columbia
in a 36-hole exhibition match at the
Washington Golf and Country Club
on Sunday.
On Monday the amateur king will
pair with his close friend, Tommy
Armour, the Congressional Country
Club pro, in another 36-hole match
at Congressional, against Leo Diegel
of New York and Fred Mcleod of
Columbia. Jones will arrive in
Washington early Sunday morning
to join Gum, who is now in the
North touring with the Georgia Tech
golf team. The matches both Sun
day and Monday will start at 10 in
the morning and i'm the afternoon
Jones and Armour paired together
in Florida during the past Winter
and enjoyed uniform success.
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BY Sol Metzger.

With runner on first or second
the pitcher faces a different prob
lem than when no runners are on
base. He has to keep these base
runners close to their bags or they
will steal on him. That prohibits
him using a windup and, conse-
quently, changes his stance. In or
der to pitch as effective.y as when
he uses a wind-up he takes his po-
sition with his rear foot on the rub
ber and his forward foot advanced,
with his back toward first base. IL
he is a right-hand pitcher. That
enables him to shorten his swing
and also to watch the bases so the
runners cannot take too great a.
lead. The correct stance is shown
in the illustration on the left. With
a runner on first or second he
should not use the stance pictured
on the right. That is the one he
uses when he can employ his entire
wind-up in making his delivery.
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The main broad jump competition,
however, was won by De Hart Hub
bard a negro, without coming near
the world record. But many people
were sure that Hubbard would be the
next one to break the record, and he
was.
The next year he jumped % feet 10.
Speed Is Important.
And that is not the limit, for ! have
seen Gator, who represents "a French
club, jump more than 20 feet >.
What is it that has made the new
stars in broad jump so greatly
superior to the old ones?
The answer is easily found-speed,
speed and still more speed.
The length of the jump is deter
mined by it's height and the speed of
the athlete during the time he is in
the air. But the speed is of more
importance than the height, a point
which was not as clearly understood
once as it is now. We notice there
fore that the jumps made now are
always much lower than those of
earlier leaps.
Suppose broad jumper lifts his
center of gravity three feet and jumps
IS feet: he will be exactly the same
time in the air as a man lifting his
center of gravity three feet and jump
ing 25 feet.
This clearly proves that height has
little influence upon the length of the
jump. The main point. then, is 10
have as much speed as possible, in
order to get as far forward as pos
Sible i'm the time one is in the air.
II may seem that if the jumper tries
q. s<wt- IN l.,
enormous speed. he will get the best
result, but that is wrong. because the
strength one uses to get up in the
air must be taken from the strength
used to go forward.
The greater speed one has the
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defeated squad from Toner. The
count was to 3.
Benning is leading in the Rosedale
League, with 4 victories. Yesterday
this team won from Maury, 81 to 8.
Blow and Wheatley are each close on
Benning's heels. This series promises
to be productive of many thrills and
some tight competition as it progress
es, according to Daisy Robsion.
director of Rosedale playground, who
officiates at the matches.
Brookland bowed to Gage in the
Bioomingdale division yesterday. tast
ing defeat for the first time this sea
son. The score was IS to ~. Small
wood Bowen took the measure of Wal
lach-Towers, IS to 4, in the Garfield
League; LenoX gained the decision
over Ketcham-Van Buren, by an So
count at Virginia avenue, and Peabody
Hilton defeated Taylor, AZ, on the
Plaza field
Junior sOccerists at the Marjorie
Webster School won the interclass
series yesterday by defeating the
Seniors for the second time on the
Ellipse field. The underclassmen
fracas.
-, ut tIe CiOSc VI llt
first half, the teams battled for the
break in the opening moments Of the
final period. The Seniors kicked two
goals in succession, giving them the
lead, but the Junior attack forced
over seven additional goals before
time was called.
Line-U Ups:
Juniors-Ehzabeth Jones. Dorothy Hum
IAIn A,,lro NJ
Mary Linn Giles. Virginia Peasley Barbara
Brown. Margaret Ackerman, Leila George.
Lillian Susser and Helen Vernier.
Seniors--Sue Mowety. Clare Cogswell,
Beatrice Ziegler. Elizabeth Collins. Marjorie
Costello. Catherine stopper. Betty Langen-
field. Ruth Pobasco. Agnes HOwatt, Delphlne
Wysocki and Phyllis Ditts
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Rev. Charles W. Lyons, $. j., presi
dent of the university; Rev. Vincent
S. McDonough :. j.. faculty director
of athletics; Parke II. Davis. national
~ known foot ball authority and old
time coach, and Lawrence Perry
writer on college athletics, are to talk,
Georgetown athletes of the present
and past. gathered around any board
form group that is justified III feel
ing proud of present and past accom-
plislnnents Arthur Duffy, Bernie
Wefers and Bill Holland are a trio,
whose track exploits of % years ago
still are among the greatest the world
has known. plansky, Holden, Mars
ters, lie Gendre are among the great
est of recent years, all capable OF
holding their own in any company.
Ed. Mclaughlin, George butcher,
Jimmy Kerr, Jack Hegarty, Johnny
Gilroy, Harry Costello We're years ago
foot ball stars just as brilliant as the
Hagertys, the Waites, the Murtaughs
and the Flavins of today. And Doc
White, Cantwell, Cromwell were
pitchers, who were better than any
who have worn the Blue and Gray in
recent years. notwithstanding that
Reynolds, Hyman and Burch are right
now fine tWlrlerS
A Georgetown banquet OF athletes
and for athletes really is worth While.
Past glories and present achievements
are mingled TO give the Blue and
Gray escutcheon an appealing luster.
Whether teams have been strong or
weak, great or insignificant in the
world of sports, one distinction al
ways has belonged to those that have
IF 70 hp
they have been fighters And even
when beaten, Georgetown teams al
Z. ways have given good accounts of
themselves.
One of the greatest games any
Georgetown team ever played was one
in foot ball in which ii was beaten
A school with that kind Of back
ground in athletics has something of
which it naturally is proud. and when
its men get together to recount stories
of things that, after all, are closer
TO their hearts than anything else
in their college lives the getting to-
gether is looked forward to and then
long remembered. Georgetown is
justified in setting 50 much store by
the annual gathering of it's athletes
because in such gatherings are its
finest traditions preserved.
university or Maryland took the
measure of Mount st. Mary's yes
terday in base ball after the latter
had scored three runs in the first
inning. The score was s to 4, the
visitors getting only one run after
that opening period. Ed Nihiser
after his bad start, tightened up and
: hurled splendid ball. His work at all
times was good except for the first
few men who faced him. Mike
Stevens led the Maryland team in
batting, connecting for three safeties
Gallaudet College goes to Annapolis
today to play st. Johns College. The
Kendall Green nine is Of the opini On
that it has an even chance for
victory.
Georgetown has another ball game
tomorrow, Western Maryland Col
lege being scheduled to appear here.
The Blue and Gray under ordinary
circumstances should not have much
difficulty beating a team from the
Westminster institution.
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farther forward he must put the take
off foot to get any height in the
jump, and that stops the forward
movement
! have tried all possible styles Of
broad jumps myself 10 study the
event and have come TO the conclusion
that if one runs with enormous speed
and does not use any strength TO
kick in the take-off, but merely
touches the take-off board, he gets
the best distance.
The funny thing is that without
knowing anything about the Ameri
can styles i'll broad jump. my coach
Kreigsman and l worked out a style
which is exactly like the one with
which the latest world records have
been made.
| never have trained specially for
the broad jump, because the pole
vault takes up most of my time, but
even SO l have jumped % feet with
! this style.
| George Daan. Hoff = manager. said
| today he believed the present in
vestieation of the athletes amateur
status resulted when Hoff incurred
| the emnity Of motion picture photoe
raphers by refusing to allow them to
| snap him in action at the Kansas
| relays.
| I'VE expected the investigation,
Daan said. But nothing will come Of
it. When we barred movie men from
| the field at the Kansas relays. we
realized that they would start some
| thing.
we will not allow movie men OIL
| the field Saturday. Hoff. believing he
owes 10 himself and his country 10
keep his style secret. does not want
movies made of him. A movie, es
| pecially slow motion picture, would
reveal his peculiar style
Next: Is There Limit of Athletic
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BR1TONS LOSE FINAL GAME.

NEW YORK, April 2S.-Stevens
defeated the oxford Cambridge la
crosse team yesterday at Hoboken in
the final game of the English teams
American tour. to 0. In the first
half Stevens kept almost constant
possession of the ball. the play being
entirely in the Britons' territory, but
the invaders did much better in the
final 80 minutes
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GIRL MAKES TRIPLE PLAY.

GREENVILLE. S. c., April 28-A
triple play unassisted by Clarabell
King, a Greenville schoolgirl, made
base ball history here yesterday in a
scholastic game. She was playing
third when she caught a line drive,
tagged the base as runner started for
home and also tagged out a runner
coming to the far corner.
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ADDS TO CUE LEAD.

NEW YORK. April % @.-Kinrey
Matsuyama of Japan continued his
sensational play in the second block Of
the National Junior 1872 balk line bill.
lizard championship match and won
from the titleholder, AIRY Bos Of Hol-
land, 400 to 223. Matsuyama now has
a. total of 500 to 413 for BoS.
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HEIGHT NOT IMPORTANT
FACTOR in LEAP, HE SAYS
Declares Greatest Distance Can Be Obtained by Run
ming Fast as Possible and Merely Touching
Take-Of Board.
BY CHARLES HOFF.

CONNOR'S II about Is
that athletes all the world
had reached and that the mark would
athletes began
First the several times
enough his
distance recognized.
Then Gourdn, who record little better
His until the Oynp
Paris when lie Gndre surprised by making world
record his the pentathon
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STARS. PAST AND PRESENT,
ITO ATTEND ANNUAL AFFAIR
Several Men of Prominence Will Speak, Including
Parke Davis and Lawrence Perry-Maryland
Nine Beats Mount St. Mary's.
BY III. c. BYRD.

Georgetown athletes gather night the City
= Athletes far and athetes
y OF many years athletes expected to
make up the athletic ife O a modern university
Little began together
been the requests tor
probability the gathering Will the largest OF all
a have beer n connection with the ~ Club
of obtained expected to
TOWN the
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SUZANNE EASY WINNER.

ROME. April % Cp.-Suzanne Leng-
len, the French tennis champion. con
tinued her winning exhibitions by de-
feating Miss Ducros of England, 60.
60. Mile. Lenglen and Miss Ducros
then defeated Countess Carpigna and
Sonora Malaspina of Italy, Go. Go.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
U. S. BOXERS ON SCENE.

BUENOS AIRES. April % [E).-The
American team of eight amateur box
ers which is to meet a representative
South American team to decide the
pan-American amateur boxing cham
pionship has arrived here. The tour
nament opens May II.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
This is Wednesday. Well start
preparing now, and on Satur-
L day we'll have a new base ball

THIS is Wednesday. Well start
preparing now, and on Satur-
L day we'll have new base ball
stunt. Here's the program:
A base ball pentathlon.
Saturday is May Day. Let the lit
tie girls dance around the May poles
in their pretty curls and bright rib
bons, but let us gather out on the
base bali diamond and have some
real sport.
This base ball pentathlon will have
to consist Of five events. else it
wouldn't be a pentathlon. Wen split
it up so that it will be a test of each
boys all.around ability. The events
will be:
/. Fastest time between home plate
and first base.
9. Pitching control; who can throw
most strikes i'm nine attempts.
3. Who can hit the longest fungo.
4. Who can throw the ball farthest.
5. Fastest time around the four
bases.
Now. il we don't get an older fellow
or two to officiate, we may have some
arguments over the timing and meas
uring, because every fellow wants to
win, naturally. SO round up an older
brother. or your uncle or dad. or, If
they are too busy, coax your grandpa
to come out.
In circling the bases you must start
with foot on plate and touch each
Evening star., 1926-04-28
SOCCER GAME IS CLOSE.

LONDON, April IS Up).-Manchester
City defeated Leeds. to ]. in a first
division game of the English Soccer
Foot Ball League.
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PEABODY NINE SCORES.

Peabody School base ballers swamp
ed the Ludlow team under a 34-to-1
score in the graded school league.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
SECONO B0SE

The sketch illustrates this point.
The timer should have stop watch,
but ii he hasn't he'll just have to
watch the seconds very closely.
Let the official be the umpire in the
ball and strike event. Have an Ordi-
nary sized boy stand at plate-as
though he were batter-fOr each
cOntestant-dOn't change of.
A fungO is a fly ball hit as you toss
the ball I'm the air.
That's the program. Don't forget
to send in the winners.
OF course, you remember how to
score in the pentathlon. The boy fin
ishing first in each event gets one
point, the boy finishing second two,
third three, and so on in each event.
At the end of the competition the
score Of each boy is added and the one
with the lowest number of points
wins. Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon
in the 1912 Olympics with five points,
He was first in each event.
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Banquet o Emphasizes Speedin BoadJnp
WOMEN in SPORT
BY CORINNE FRAZIER

YESTERN SCHOOL wede will into action this
NV of the four class which
than 80 girls competing Twenty been received by
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Tbe Gbenimg Star
BOYS CLUB
Conducted by ROBERT C. MCCLELLAN

base, but you don't have to cut them
square or stay directly in the base line
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8 for the Junior
All lists closed
be completed forfeited by May
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That's the program. Don't forget
to send in the winners.
Evening star., 1926-04-28

In circling the bases you must start
with foot on plate and touch each