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Evening star., 1926-04-11
Dinner for Senators Thursday.

Several reservations have been
made by out of town residents for the
testimonial dinner to be given Sen
ators Burton X. Wheeler and Thomas
Walsh by the Wheeler defense com
mittee at the Mems City Club Thurs
day evening. it was announced last
night. Judge Charles A. Douglas of
Washington also will be a guest of
honor and Norman Hapgood, former
minister to Denmark, chairman of
the committee, will preside.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
TREASURY UNION TO MEET
Charles I. Stengle VIII Speak al
Regular Session Tomorrow.

The regular April meeting Of Trea-
sury Local, No. 262, Federal Employees
Union, will be held tomorrow night,
at the Interior Department auditorium.
Former Representative Charles /.
Stengle Of New York, an advocate of
liberal pensions for Federal civil en-
ployes who has delivered over 800 ad.
dresses in favor of such legislation,
will speak. Dancing will follow the
meeting. All Federal employees are
invited.
A dance will be given by Local, No.
e62. Friday evening, at the Franklin
Square Hotel. Proceeds will defray
the additional expenses incurred for
social and entertainment features at
the regular union meetings held dur.
ing the past few month";.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
St. Marks Mems Club Meets.

The Mems Club Of st. Marks Par.
ish met in the Parish Hall Thursday
night Capt. Burton Smith spoke and
refreshments were served.
Plans were made to hold the May
meeting on the third Thursday night,
instead of the second, at which the
regular ladies' night will be held.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
BRITISH UNIONISTS SAIL.
Engineers End Months Survey of
U. s. Labor Conditions.

NEW YORK, April 10 R.-After
a months survey of American labor
conditions. the IL members of the
British Trade Unionist Engineers
sailed for London today on the AS
cania.
Frank Mcpherson of the London
Daily Mail. escoiting the party, said
he was impressed with the perfection
of organization in factories and with
welfare work among employees.
Il think the reason the American
worker receives higher wages than
the British worker" he said. lis be-
cause there is higher consumption
and higher production. This means
higher wages, of course
Evening star., 1926-05-17
che7s Furnish IipO Major Clubs College Athletic Season Near Close
SMALL G. U. SQUAD
FOR COLLEGE MEET

Coach John O'Reilly of the George
town University track team is con-
templating taking only eight men to
the intercollegiate championships at
Harvard, May % and 20. Although
he realizes the task of such a small
group, attempting to bring back the
title would be immense, the competi-
ton is so keen that none but the finest
in college track circles reach the
finals, making it practically useless
to bring any bpt potential champions
to the games.
The tentative squad includes Ascher
and Burgess, to compete In the fur
long dash and quarter mile, Swim
burne in the $50. Gegan in the mile,
Capt. Ray Hass in both hurdle races,
Dowding in the broad jump, Plansky
in all the weight events and Norton
in the high jump, pole vault, shotput
and discus.
Time trials will be held this after
noon. however, and If the perform
ances warran mt it. there may be some
additions. Harry Helme may go as a
two-miler as may Moroney to throw
the javelin, McL.ain In the quarter
and Greenafege in the mile. If Dus-
sault comes up to the standard they
may start him in the half mile, while
sprinter may be picked from
Whalen, John Hass and Melton.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
SPORTS HELD BEST
EDUCATIVE FEATURE

NEW YORK, May II P).-An
about face" in sports, whereby the
weakest player would be in the great
est competition, and the lowliest
athlete awarded the same prize as
the outstanding one. was sponsored
by DR.. Henry S. Pritchett. In his
twentieth annual report as president
of the Carnegie Foundation. made
public today.
His recommendations he sum-
married. as follows:
Manage sports as we do our
studies; minimize exact achievement.
and measure a contestant by his eff
fort, not by his success; invite a pupil
to compete chiefly with himself: make
rigorous selection; keep chronic fail
ures on the squad; finally. to every
one who can jump the bar at two
feet give the same medal as marks
the finished athlete"
Sports said the report, "are per-
haps the most genuinely educative
feature that our schools at present
possess" and DR.. Pritchett asserted
that this competitive element also
must again be instilled in mental
contests.
This he pronounced the major
operation" which, 'if cunningly car
ried out" probably would make un-
necessary the present constant "regu-
lation" of student activities.
1t is said Boston school pupils are
using the base ball averages for eX-
amples in arithmetic.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
BY ALPHONSE SMITH,
Champion Boy Tennis Player.

IT HE first thing in tennis is tc
have a place to play. Mem
u bers of the Boys Club have
been given that sort of information
by Ralph Robinson.
The next thing is to learn some
of these points by observation. But
if this is a tennis class we must
start back near the first and work
forward.
In base ball you'd first need a place
to play, then know something of the
rules, then possess a ball and bat.
Other equipment would be supple
mentary.
In tennis you need a court, a knoWl-
edge of the game, a racket and ball.
Tennis is a more expensive game than
base ball for boys, for tennis balls and
racketS must be of better quality than
the cheap bats and balls that a young
base ball player is satisfied to have.
Now we have the court, the racket
and ball. and We'll discuss a few
points OF the game. First is the
serve. That starts the game. The
server hits the ball from a toss of the
hand into a certain territory Of his
opponent. If it doesn't strike in the
proper courtit is fault.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
MOORE BIRD WINS
31O.MILE CONTEST

Beating through the rain and fac
ing a stiff wind, homers of the Wash
ington Racing Pigeon Club yesterday
engaged in the closest contest held
this season over the course from
Concord, \. c., 80 miles from Wash
ington.
SiXty-siX birds. representing nine
lofts, We're released at 6 am, and the
first arrival clocked in at the loft
of A. B. Moore at 3:45 pm. The win
ner veraced 30 miles per hour in
spite of the obstacles.
A feature Of the race was the fly
ing of Storm King, a young bird
hatched this year and belonging to
D. Roy Matthews.
Average speed in yards per minute
Of the first bird returning to each
loft follows:
a. B. Moore. 919: c. and W. r.
Pennington. 917.S; w. F. Dismer,
917.6; d. Roy Matthews. 917: f. H.
Crown, 906; F. f. Schmidt, S81; D. E.
Fitzgerald. 844.
Evening star., 1926-05-17

otherwise, and after his team had left
jumped a freight train and beat his
way to the meet. When the teams
went on the field they found Stephens
out there in track suit ready to
jump. When the meet was prac-
ticallv over and only the high jump
remaining Louisiana State had just
about an even situation with Missis
sippi A. and NJ. for first place and
had in competition the man who was
expected to win the high jump. But
Stephens Went TO work IN justify
what he had done and won the event
with leap of nearly feet II inches.
That ) points gave Mississippi y. Il
NJ. the championship. Shortly after
the meet was finished Gormlcy. Louis
lana State coach. remarked rather
sarcastically TO the Mississippi a. &
NJ. coach: II guess he'll go back in
your Pullman. won't he?'
There are three really fine hurdlers
down South. Baskin of Auburn, Nash
Of Sewanee and Watt of North Caro-
lima. Raskin is a 15-second man in
the high hurdles and will do better
than that; Nash and and Watt are
capable of doing around 24la seconds
in the low hurdles, and, incidentally.
there are other brilliant track and
field men in the South. of whom more
will be written at another time.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
THREE DIVISION MEETS
DURING NEXT TWO DAYS

Three division meets tomorrow and
Wednesday wind up the preparations
of graded school athletes for the an
nual city championship meet TO be
held Saturday morning at Plaza track.
Both Bloomingdale and Garfield
divisions hold their tests tomorrow at
Plaza. while on Wednesday teams in
the Virginia avenue section will COM
pete. Winners of first. second and
third places go to the city meet.
Four divisions held their trials last
week. Maury School won easily in the
Rosedale group. Monroe took a close
decision from Ross in the Columbia
Heights race. Peabody won by good
margin from the other schools in
Plaza division and Force-Adams out
classed the field in the Georgetown
division
Evening star., 1926-05-17
MARINE CORPS nine
ON NORTHERN JAUNT

QUANTICO, Va. May 17.-The
Marine Corps base ball nine plays
Fordham today in New York City in
the opening game of northern trip
which winds up its activities against
college teams.
New Hampshire University enter
tains the Leathernecks on Wednes-
day at Durham. On Thursday the
nine goes to Hanover for n tilt with
Dartmouth, Vermont University is
met on Friday at Burlington, Boston
College is played on Saturday
and on Sunday the jaunt will come
to a close in clash with the New
York Athletic Club at Travers Island.
The Marines have won % games
and lost only 6 during the season.
On the tour in the North they are
hoping to boost string of. IT straight
victories.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
DISTRICT PYTHIANS
WIN DUCKPIN MATCH

A picked team of the Washington
knights of Pythias Bowling League
now claims the championship of the
order for Maryland and the District
of Columbia as a result of defeating
the quint representing the Baltimore
league Saturday night in the last five
games of a ten-game match by 45
pins.
AS the District Pythians had an ad-
vantage of 66 naples gained in the
first five games of the match, the ten
game battle was won by Ill pins.
Pacini of Washington had the high
set, $50, and Mack of Baltimore the
high game, 12S.
The local Pythian league has chosen
the following officers for the season of
1926-27: President, S. IT. Pearson, re-
elected for the fifth consecutive year;
vice president, Carl C. Lipp; secretary,
w. T. Baum, reelected; treasurer,
Christian Eckert. and scorer. w. J.
KeSsler, reelected.
President Pearson was reelected as
representative of the Pythians in the
Washington City Duckpin Association.
Evening star., 1926-05-17

achievement for him than to reach
that mark at the fiftieth annual ma
tional intarcollegiates in Cambridge
on May 2S and 90.
incidentally, l do not believe that
l60 feet will be the limit of discus
tossing. / believe that the ultimate
throw will be around 180 feet. and,
although that mark will not be reach
ed during the span of my life. l would
predict that perhaps the next genera
ton will see such a feat.
''As in the case of any other COM
petition, temperament plays great
part in discus throwing. Houser is at
his best when under the strain of
having to produce. You might meet
him at a social function without
knowing he ever had on a track suit
and talk with him all evening and he
would never mention the fact that he
is even a discus thrower. Yet let him
get onto the field and he becomes as
full of confidence as champion
fighter.
'On the day Houser competed
against Sanford this year he found
Glenn Hartranft, former Stanford
weight man and at that time world
record holder, was to act as measur-
ing judge for the discus. Hartranft is
now with the Olympic Club Of San
Francisco. Houser had set the record
at 156 feet 3H inches in 1925. Hart
ranft had beaten that mark only a
week later by throwing 157 feet ia
inches. Houser went out at the Palo
Alto track and uncorked such pow
erful throw that a new record was
chalked up. 1t was a coincidence that
Hartranft was the man to announce
that his record had been broken.
Glenn congratulated Bud warmly
after the event"
Evening star., 1926-05-17
NAVY LOOKING WEST
FOR SPORTS RIVALS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Naval Academy athletes must look
westward for adequate competition
in the future, Comdr Byron Nc
Candless, Navy athletic director, be-
lieves.
Not only do the West and Middle
West supply the academy enroll
ment, with consequent desire on the
part of authorities to develop sports
competition with those sections. but
there is increasing difficulty in ar
ranging schedules with Eastern in
stitutions, Comdr. McCandless has
told the Associated Press.
"Only this Winter" he said. "the
Navy was asked not to enter the
Eastern intercollegiate Symnastic
competition" He added that Navy
gymnasts have dominated the event
for several years.
I'VE are building up mentally and
physically at the Naval Academy the
future representatives of the United
States in all the ports of the world
These boys represent the finest
Young manhood in the country We
must breed in them through athletic
competition the spirit of combat
while developing at the same time
the highest type of sportsmanshlp
To do that, we must meet the finest
teams in the country.
1--WE will be whipped sometimes
perhaps, as Michigan crushed us in
foot ball last fall, but the Navy
must be made able to hold her own
against any athletic team in the
country"
AS far as possible under Academy
regulations limiting all teams except
the foot ball elevenS to one trip each
season away from the Academy
plans are being formulated for in
creasing Western sports relations, ne
said. The foot ball team is allowed
two away-f from home trips each
rpar
Evening star., 1926-05-17
COLLEGIATE GAMES
DRAW 859 ATHLETES


By the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May II
Thirty-two of the thirty-nine members
Of the Intercollegiate Association of
Amateur Athletics of America will
have teams on the field when $50
athletes assemble in the Harvard sta
dunn here May % and 20 for the fif
tieth annual intercollegiate track and
field championships.
OF the IS place winners in last
years meet AZ are entered again, with
nine champions included in the list.
University Of Southern California, last
years winner. is coming East with
a team of 20 men that includes two
Olympic champions. Lee Barnes in the
pole vault and Capt. Clarence l..
Hauser in the shot and discus.
Among the entries are: Harvard,
"a; Cornell, 20; Princeton. 68: Dart
mouth, SO; Yale, 81; University of
Maine, so; Penn State, 81: Stanford.
SO: University of Pennsylvania, 35;
Pittsburgh. 35: Columbia. 35: Boston
College. 90; University of Southern
California, 20: Georgetown. %: Cali
fornia. 16. and West Virginia Univer-
sity, 4.
Evening star., 1926-05-17

OF DISCUS IIITUWIIS. ,.
He holds the four greatest discus
records in existence" his coach went
on. "The lowest is the intercollegiate
records of $50 feet PA inches, made
at Philadelphia last year. Next is the
Olympic mark of ISL feet "a inches
established in Paris in 1924. The Ma
tional A. A. u. record he holds at 1856
feet inches, made at San Francisco
last Summer. On April of this year
Houser set a new world record mark
at 158 feet IA inches in Palo Alto,
Calf
Last Fall I made a prediction that
Houser would break the world record
this season. I placed the mark at 100
feet for him and I still believe that
he will do it. 1 can think of no greater
Evening star., 1926-05-17
PADDOCK TO STRIVE
TO BEAT MARK AGAIN
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, May II.
Three attempts will be made by
Charles Paddock. sensational sprinter,
within the next so days to further cut
the time of % seconds for the 100
yard dash that he set here Saturday
in the Southern Pacific A. A. L. meet.
Plans for a series of dasheS on a
specially constructed track on the
property OF the Breakfast Club, an or
ganization Of local sportsmen. have
been announced calling for appear
ance of the blonde-haired flyer May
2S and June 4 and II.
He will be paced by n field of South
ern California dash men, including
Charles Borah, brilliant University Of
Southern California freshman, to
whom some of the honorS Of Pad
docks race yesterday go. He led the
recOrd-smashing sprinter almost to
PaddoCk's spectacular finishing leap.
AS a member of the Los Angeles
Athletic Clubs track and field aggre-
cation, Paddock will participate in the
National A. A. u. meet at Philadel-
phia in July.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
TEAMS USING THE MOST
= ARE LOWEST In RANKING
Cardinals and Browns Have 10 Listed i'm the Won
and Lost Columns, While Red Sox and Braves
Each Have Called on Nine MOundsmen.
BY JOHN 3. FOSTER.

n YORK 17-One interesting
that overlooked generally has to do with pitchers
many them being what they be
developing.
After the first lap of bit than month the St Louis Cardinals
National number pitchers who had either
Rlem Bell Keen Sohoron
Sherd Rnhart Johnson, Mails and Haaan had taken
fall the had hoored regular battle
Ten pitchers Not much OF anything can
when 10 worked like Mails
found and he Syracuse The only get any
out Of nothing
than batting by and by viii either find himself turn
nn1sn hadt lis clul WON'T de- ire TO
Evening star., 1926-05-17
RECORD TRACK FEATS
ARE GETTING COM MON
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, May 17.--Annuals of
track and field events will have to be
revised as a result of the brilliant per-
formance of three athletic stars last
Saturday. Three new records were
made.
Charlie Paddock won the hurdles,
100 yards, at the Los Angeles A. A.
U. games in Q 80 seconds. by four
or five timers watches. to clip fifth
of n second from the world mark. He
had held joint claim on the old time
of OOPS.
At Palo Alto. Lee Barnes of the
University of Southern California
vaulted 13 feet s inches for new ma
tional collegiate record,
John kuck. husky Kansas teacher,
cast the javelin pa feet 1-3 inches in
the Kansas Conference meet for a
new American record. The 212 feet 5
inches made by Johnny Myra at Los
Angeles last year was the previous
mark.
Roland Locke sprinted the 220 in
O:o0.7 to lower Paddock's world record
for the dash, at Lincoln. He missed
a record because it was an exhibition
run.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
SPORT HEAD INSURED.

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. May j.
P).-Subscribers to Mountaineer
Field Stadium of Weset Virginia,
have insured the life of II. A. STAINS
bury, university athlete director.
for 100000 The West Virginia
University Stadium Corporation said
the policy was taken out ito pro
vide against any loss by the organi'
Zation due to the premature death
Of the individual who has thus far
carried on the work of the corpora
ton"
Evening star., 1926-05-17
-, Tbe Gberi1g 5tar
~ BOYS CLUB
Conducted by ROBERT C. MCCLELLAN
Conducted by ROBERT c. MCCLELLAN

Most serves are returned after ball
has bounced.
The ball is in play from the time
the server hits it until the point has
been decided.
The first score is the point.
The next score is the game. A.
game is won by the player or side
which first scores a points, providing
that then the opposition hasn't scored
points. If opposition has then
game goes to side which first gets a
lead of points.
A set is six games unless the op-
position has five. In that case the
set goes to the side first getting a
lead of two games.
Copyright, 19@6D
Evening star., 1926-05-17

The team leaves Friday for Worces
ter, where on Saturday it plays the
first game of it's trip. Monday it
meets Boston College at Boston. has
lay-off Tuesday, and on Wednesday
plays at West Point. Thursday 1t
goes to New York for a meeting with
Fordham, on Friday has another off
day, and Saturday jumps to New
Haven to wind up the schedule at
Yale
Georgetown has two more track and
field meets. The first is a dual meet
with Navy Saturday, and the next the
Intercollegiates at Boston. May %
and 90 1t is not likely that any men
will be sent to Chicago to take part
In the National Collegiate Athletic AS
sociation games.
The Blue and Gray will beat the
Navy without difficulty and has hopes
Of winning the meet at Boston, al
though it realizes that it will be
against tough proposition in the
Southern California squad.
A composite base ball team from
Maryland will play two games with
two teams of the Eastern Shore
League. Salisbury and Easton. The
schedule, however, wound up last
week, and these games are not count
ed as a part Of the season. Several
men not eligible for varsity Competi-
tiOn will be members Of the team that
goes to play against the professional
clubs.
Probably the biggest contest Of any
in Spring sports al Maryland this year
will be played at Baltimore Saturday
when the lacrosse team hooks up with
Hopkins. Both twelves have been
through the year without defeat, and
the game probably will draw the
greatest crowd that has watched
lacrosse contest in years. In their
final games last week Hopkins beat
Pennsylvania, - to 0. and Maryland
won from Lehigh. TO 3. Hopkins
has beaten Oxford Cambridge. Onon-
daga Indians, Virginia, Pennsylvania,
St. Johns, Army and SWarthmore.
Maryland has beaten OXford-Cam-
bridge. Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ste
vens, Lehigf, Swarthmore and Lafa-
yette.
Last year, when Mississippi A. &
NJ won the Southern Conference
track and field championships, it was
done in way that was rather anus
ing to it's opponents and which rather
Chagrined its coaching staff. When
the team left for Sewanee. where the
meet was held, the coach decided that
his high jumper. Stephens, was not
much good and not worth taking to
the meet. The high jumper thought
Evening star., 1926-05-17
GEORGETOWN TO BE LAST
TO WIND UP COMPETITION
Ball Team Has Number of Games While Trackmen
Are to Take Part i'm Two Meets-CathOlic u.
Nine Ends Campaign This Week.
BY H. c. BYRD.

@ATI1OC UNIVERSITY winds base ball schedule Wcdnc
completion of its trip North and Georgetown leaves here
Friday which will mark end Of base ball for the
And of fact college athletics of all kinds nearing
Close remaining before the uniforms
laid for the Summer.
plays three before comes home to pack its
The Boston today for with Boston College
Tomorrow jumps Tufts and Wednesday winds with Pov
dence College at Providence
oyoa of Baltimore Thursday with
Evening star., 1926-05-17
MICHIGAN LEADING
CONFERENCE MINES


by lne ASSOcldteu TTCss
CHICAGO, May 17.--With Michi-
gan leading, Western Conference base
bail teams today started on the final
three weeks of the season. Wisconsin
had n. chance at Urbana to take
second place from Illinois. Michigan
is playing at Iowa and Ohio State at
Purdue Iowa figures in two mid
week games, playing at Northwestern
Wednesday and at Minnesota on
on Thursday and Ohio State has Fri
dav's lone conference tilt at Ann
Arbor
Saturdays schedule sends Purdue
to Chicago. Indiana TO Minnesota,
Illinois to Michigan and Wisconsin to
Northwestern.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
CARPENTER TRAINING.

NEW YORK. May II (P).-Georges
Carpenter, former world light heavy
weight boxing champion, is going
through Is rounds daily at Atlantic
City for his bout in Madison Square
Garden next Friday night with Eddie
Huffman. the sailor from the Pacific
Coast.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
BALL GAMES SOUGHT.

Hyattsville base ballers wish to
book games with the best unlimited
teams of the city and suburbs. G. II.
Hayes at Hyattsville 109S-W is ar.
ranging the schedule.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
BASE BALL INJURY FATAL.

YORK, Pa, May II [P.-Curtis E.
Brenneman, jr., II, a freshman OF
Gettysburg College, died in a hospital
yesterday as the result of having been
struck on the head with a pitched
base ball Saturday in an ameteur
game
Evening star., 1926-05-17
CZECHS WIN AT TENNIS.

PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia. May l.
P).-Czechoslovakia has eliminated
India from the European zone elimi-
nation play fo- the Davis Cup, taking
four out of the five matches.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
The Standing.

Golf clubs and ground in Canada
represent an investment of about
SIS 900 900.
Evening star., 1926-05-17
Rid HOUSER is LABELED
GREATEST DISCUS HURLER

Is a
golden jubilee Of the
L.
By the
OS ANGELES -Carence (Bud) IIouser, OF the
University th discus
- thowr world today the opinion OF his coach Dean
Cromwell.
Weghng comparatively light performers this
has rhythm the nth
delivery brought him