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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07
Iandoh Carolina Basket Ball Game and Boxing at T. Ca,
PALACE PROS ENGAGE
FORT WAYNE TONIGHT

Washington's professional basket
ball aggregation will meet the Fort
Wayne Caseys tonight at the Arcadia
and then start the longest layoff from
tition of the current season, not hav-
ing a regular league game scheduled
until February 10 when the Rosen-
blums will be met in Cleveland.
Palace cagemen maintained their
hold on first place at the Arcadia last
night, nosing out Garry Schmeelk's
Chicago Bruins, 26 to "a, by a desper-
ate rally in the closing moments.
Unless the Palace outfit performs
more up to it's standard tonight
against Fort Wayne. the local floor
men are in for a lively evening, for
the Caseys from Indiana have re-
vamped their team and are billed as
one of the strongest of the profess
sional loop. A Fort Wayne victory
will tie them with Washington for
first place.
Schmeelk's outfit held the Palace
tossers even in the first half last
night, the count standing at 10 all.
Then Sankovic tossed in a couple
from the floor, Mahoney rang UP a
pair of free losses and Palace soon
was on the short end of a 16-to-11
count
With Kennedy, Saunders and Voss
playing rings around the Bruins later
to knot the score at % ALL Palace got
back in the game. Then Mahoney for
Chicago shot one in from the side
court, only to have Saunders again
tie with back hand shot which found
the hoop. Saunders tossed in the win
ming two pointer after George Glasco
had missed a try.
Lou Sugarman, former Washington
and Baltimore player. refereed the
game, and kept the players on their
toes. Washington has now won three
straight games in the second half of
the league race
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PENN FIVE CAN GAIN
LEAGUE LEAD ALONE

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February Two
games in the Eastern Intercollegiate
Basket Ball League this week offer
Pennsylvania an opportunity to gain
undisputed possession of the top of
the circuit, while Princeton and Dart.
mouth continue to wrestle with mid
year examinations. The three teams
now are locked in tie for first place,
each with three victories and a single
loss.
Columbia. champion last year, fig
ures in both contests this week. 1t
meets Cornell at ithaca Wednesday
and tackles Pennsylvania here Satur-
day. A double win for Columbia, now
in fourth place, will bring about a tie
with Pennsylvania for second place,
while one victory will carry Penn to
the head of the procession.
Johnny Gartner, Princeton forward,
and Simmer, Yale center, lead the in
dividual scorers with "a and 33 points,
respectively.
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OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
BY THE MOHAWK CLUB

Members of the Mohawk A. c. yes
terday elected Rob Roy Mackey presi-
dent of the organization at meet
ing at the clubs quarters. Mackey
will succeed Ralph Smithson, who has
directed the affairs of the Southeast
organization for the last five years
Other officers are c.. e. Cornell, vice
president: William Day, jr.. secretary;
Eneas Mccarthy, sergeant-at-arms;
Patsy Donovan, treasurer and foot
ball manager: Bottle" Cox, base ball
manager, and John Wilkinson, bust
ness manager of the nine.
John Wilson, John Reese and Paul
Cox were elected members of the
board of directors
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CITIES ARE APP0RTIONED
FOR PRO GRIDIRON LOOP

NEW YORK, February (P-
Officials of the National Professional
Foot Ball League here tentatively
approved plans to divide the teams in
the league into two divisions.
The teams In the tentative class "a.
division of the league are: New York.
Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals. De-,
troit, Kansas City. Cleveland. Phila.
delphia, Milwaukee, Pottsville, Pa;
Brooklyn, Providence. Los Angeles,
Duluth and Green Bay, Wis.
The class "B" teams are: Akron,
Dayton, Columbus. Canton, Louisville,
Racine, Minneapolis, Hartford and
Hammond. Ind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07
SOCCERISTS EDUCATIVE
TRIP is CALLED OFF

Walford and Concord teams of
Washington Soccer League will not
go to Lynchburg. Va, on February
% to play game designed to show
the fine points of the pastime to resi-
dents of that city.
The department of recreation of
Lynchburg public schools has been
unable to get use of the municipal
athletic field at that time because
it is being sodded and will not be
ready for use until late Spring.
An effort will be made, it is an.
nounced. to get the two local teams
to appear at Lynchburg during the
Spring or early Fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07

J. Craig Ruby. great coach of the
University of Illinois, says of the CEN
ter:
"Many centers, tall and ideally built
for the job and able to leap high in
the air, lose all their advantage by
letting the ball come down too far.
tipping it about midway. 1t should
be tipped from the lower quarter
This gives you two or three inches ad-
vantage. Leap as high as you can,
stretch your arm as far as it will go
and tip the ball before it comes down
too far. That is the way to play cen
ter"
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Tbe Gbellii1g Star
BOYS CLUB

Earnest f. Bearg, University of Ne
braska, says:
THE player who shoots with his
hands and doesn't jump toward the
basket is playing it wrong. BY jump
ing and extending the arms you guide
the ball to the basket TO the last
inch. Jump and shoot and then you
are in the air and ready to get the
ball first if it misses and bounces
back
Next-"Training Boxer" by Spike.
Wobb.
Copyright. John F. Ollie Coz
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SHADE TO RENTER RING.

NEW YORK, February z (P).-
Dave Shade, California middleweight,
whose sensational string of victories
in 1925 and 1926 brought him close
to the top of his class, will return to
the ring again this week after long
illness. He is scheduled to box 10
rounds with Vic Mclaughlin in New
York next Saturday night.
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RACE NOW CLOSER
IN COUNTY BOWLING

EVANSVILLE, Md. February 5.
st. Jerome's and American Legion
quints standing second and third re-
spectively, in the Prince Georges
County Duckpin Association, picked
up game this week on the league
leading Collegiates.
League statistics follow:
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LEAGUE RECORD

High team set--St. Johns, 1871.
High team ganle-Incarnation. $40
High individual set-Barnard, Reforma-
ton, 1888.
High individual game-Barnard, Reforma-
ton. 100
High strikes-N. OFT. Incarnation. 81.
High spares - Schackelford. George
town, los.
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SOCCER GAME CANCELLED.

GerEan-Americans and German.
American Reserves Cancelled their
scheduled soccer game yesterday be-
cause of the condition of the field at
the Monument grounds. The game
will be played next Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07
FOUR TIED AT SWIMMING

NEW YORK, February R.-
Princeton, Yale, Navy and Syracuse
still have clean states in the Eastern
Swimming League.
Princeton and Yale have gathered two
each.
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GUESTS PLAY TONIGHT

Everett Crouch, jr., and H. d.
Cross will meet tonight in the opening
contest of the second weeks play in
the pocket billiard tournament at
Scanlon s. Play starts at 8. Other
leading District cue men will meet
during the week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, February
Z R.-Playing before. crowd of
6 900 the Victoria Hockey Club of
Montreal defeated a Stockholm team
here yesterday, II to /. King Gustav
attended the game.
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WINS AUTO RACE.

Los ANGELES, Calf, February 2
Pl.-Ed Winfield won the 100-rnile
feature event of a dirt track racing
meet here in 1:33:41.4 at Ascot Speed
way. Otto Lind finished second and
Speed" Hinkley was third.
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WRESTLER SEEKS BOUTS.

Rob Roy Mackey is seeking bouts
for the star of his wrestling stable,
Dutch Green. Green is a middle
weight and, according to Mackey, is
willing to concede Is to 20 pounds.
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GRACE QUINT TOPS
LUTHERAN ROLLERS

Grace Church is enjoying a lead
of only three games over its closest
competitors for top honors in the
Lutheran Duckpin League.
Statistics for the circuit follow:
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PRO COURT LEAGUE.
SECOND HALF

LAST NIGHTS RESULT.
Washington, 20; Chicago, "a.
GAME TONIGHT.
Fort Wayne at Washington.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Chicago at Baltimore.
Fort Wayne at Philadelphia.
GAME WEDNESDAY.
Chicago at Baltimore.
GAMES THURSDAY.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
Fort Wayne at New York.
GAME SATURDAY..
Cleveland at Rochester.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07

Local teams appearing on the Spring
sports schedule of the Army are Cath
Ole University and Maryland, to be
met in base ball and lacrosse, respec-
lively, on April 8. and Georgetown, to
be encountered in track on May IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07

7 ERE are three more elements
of play in basket ball that
are frequently done the
4 i wrong way.
Frank Is. Bridges of Bay
lor University: Most basket ball play
ers starting in basket ball take their
eyes off the ball and try to find the
basket before they catch the pass.
This is over-sagerness to get the right
aim. 1t is better to keep your eyes
on the ball until the ball is in your
hands and then you can locate the
basket. You have a general idea
where the basket is, anyhow. The
longer you play this game the more
unnecessary you will find it to go hunt
ing for the basket, for you will soon
know where it is at all times. Catch
the ball, locate the basket. jump and
then shoot"
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to the University of Richmond games
on February 10.
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Besides the Maryland North Caro-
lima court game tomorrow afternoon,
Coach G.. Baillie Springston's clever
American University combination will
entertain Teddy Hughes doughty Gal
laudet five in the Methodists' gym in
a game that likely will produce brisk
battling. Jim Birthright, stawart
center, will he missing from Ameri-
cans lineup because of an ankle in
jury suffered in the recent game with
Western Maryland. Bill Banta or
Leon Shloss probably will hold forth
at the tap-off post, with Herbie Elliott
at a guard post.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07

Coach Fred Rice's strong Catholic
University team will take on George
Washington on wednesday night in
the Brooklyn gym in the lone game
scheduled that night on a local college
floor. The Cardinals will leave Friday
for a four.day trip in the North. open
ing with City College of New York
on Saturday and ending with Ford
ham in New York on February is.
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A pair of contests are listed for col
lege courts here Saturday night. St.
Bonaventure basketers, coached by
Jack Flavin, former Georgetown ath-
letic star, viii invade the Fl street
gym for a crack at George Washing
ton, and Virginia Medical College will
be here as the guest of American Uni
versity.
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While no games are carded this
week for Coach John O'Reillys George
town tossers. the Blue and Gray plan
considerable work to keep in condition
for tests to come.
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So far as actual competition is con-
cerned this week will be a mighty lean
one for local college track teams. In
fact, Georgetown alone will show its
wares. And the Hilltoppers will have
lust one man, Capt. Jimmy Burgess,
in action. He will appear in the
suburban Quarter in the Knights
of st. Anthony's games on Friday
night in New York. The Blue and
Cray flyer won this event last sea-
son. Both Georgetown and Maryland,
however, are listed for stern tests
next week. Both will have their relay
teams in the New York A. G. games,
and I'm addition the Old Liners will
send both varsity and freshman squads
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19
The Spirit of Truth Of the Fireside
Expressed in the Life Of Roland Hayes

he obtained from the teachings Of
his mother before the fireplace OF
long ago.
Because this spirit Of truth IL not
confined TO any race, / surrendered
TO the simple beauty and devotion
Of purpose Of this man.
The essence of life, that's the
spiritual" he said. II want TO rub
off the scabs of error. l want TO
help all TO see and understand the
truth, the beauty of life"
And so this man goes on and on,
secure I'm the heritage OF his faith
and his art. He speaks many Ian.
euages. but regardless OF the Ian.
guage of his song the same message
is always present"
The greatest beauty, the power Of
faith and Of the spirlt-that Is what
! found in Roland Hayes, clad In a
brown business suit and brown slS.
pers in his room at local hotel
And because Of that beauty, 70
land Hayes will sing Sunday after
noon at the Murat to an audience
which will more than tax the capa'
city of the theater.
Again Ona b. Talbot brings the
messenger of great beauty or spirit
10 indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19

Just to sing spirituals for enter
tainment. ! would not" he told me.
There are people on the variety
stage who sing 1t that way and they
have it thousand times on me.
The spiritual is the very soul of
life"
lie felt this spirit when he as
youth sat before the fireplace Of
his mothers home in Georgia. He
then began TO feel the universal
truth Of his mothers teaching.
My fathers We're often inarticu-
late as to words, but became beau.
tiful in truth" he said. remem-
Der years back when we took the
grain to the grist mill and there it
was ground into -four by a mill run
by water Then the machine came
in and gave us finer -four, but it
seemed to lack something.
And | asked my mother for the
difference and she told me that ma.
ture (the use OF the mill run by wa
teri was responsible"
He told me that he was IA years
old when he first felt the spirit OF
the message of truth. 1t was only
in 1919 that the world at large was
ready to accept his message.
AS l watched the sincerity OF
Rohlnd Hayes, | felt the spirit that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19

dents up with lot of useless classics teach them
now to better their material condition.; give
them training that will enable them to make $4,000
a year where their fathers made $4,000; train them
for business, for industry; make solid, prosperous
citizens out of them and forget all unnecessary
"frills."
This attitude represents the feelings OF a con-
siderable proportion of citizens.
Schools giving technical training undoubtedly
are highly important. These range all the way from
the post graduate schools of medicine and law TO
agricultural colleges and business schools They in
clude training in business administration banking,
craftsmanship, industrial chemistry and so on; and
they do a\vast deal of good
This much admitted, however, the question re-
mains should we make this kind of training the
most important part of education? Why? Is it that
we as a nation, can comprehend and appreciate only
those things which really convertible into dollars
and cents?
true, education according to the older school
of thought has very little do with the realities of
business and industrial struggle its chief aim is to
equip the young mans mind that he will see busi-
ness and industry in their proper perspective; SO
that he will be able to get from life meaning and
a richness totally apart from money; so that he will
be able to provide his values for the world and
it's rewards of accepting unquestionngly the
values his fellows place on them.
1t is for this that universities teach Homer
and Virgil and Horace. 1t is for this that Dante is
studied and Petrarch, and Shakespeare and Marlowe
and Keats and Whitman 1t is for this that students
study the PHILOSOPHERS of Plato and Spinoza and
Kant 1t is for this that they delve in the history of
ancient Rome the of the distant stars
and study such things geology and psychology.
These studies perhaps do little to help the aver
age graduate gather wealth. But they do immeasur-
ably increase the young mans capacity for living
life full of beauty and meaning.
Which, perhaps, may be slightly more important.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19
STILL TIME

Surely the honest and decent Republicans in
the State Legislature will not dare to return to
their homes and tell their neighbors and friends
that the interests of the Republican party demanded
that thew refuse to investigate charges of corruption
and fraud lodged aganst Republican officials.
That is the situation it stands.
It is an unfortunate situation for the great rank
and file of Republican voters stand with Abraham
Lincoln for honesty and decency.
But the organization of the Republican party
in party caucus voted to refuse to investigate the
charges made against the men the Republicans had
placed in Office.
Those charges, many of them certainly and per-
haps all of them, may have been untrue.
But the fact that these officials have not de
manded vindication has aroused grave doubts and
suspicious
They have acted as guilty men act. They have
acted as men who are afraid would act. They have
pleaded for inaction and silence where honest men
would have demanded and pleaded for the open in
qury.
What were these charges which it took party
caucus to suppress?
That the Governor of this State had named, be-
cause of utility contributions in his campaign mem
hers of the public service commission who were sold
in advance to the desires of the utilities.
That a grand jury in Marion County had as its
legal advisors men who paid $1,000 from the
Governors fund and that this grand jury had in
vited suspicion of its report by its own declara
ton that unusual conditions prevailed within its
organization.
That Stephenson, who two years ago boss
ing this Legislature and who is in felons cell,
condemned to spend his remaining days in cell be-
cause of the brutal murder of girl, had in despera
ton charged that he could produce evidence in
documents, of corruption.
That every official influence used to sup
press his evidence that attorney general of the
State had charged that this convict, once the boss
of the machine which put most of the State officials
into power was attempting blackmal.
That the "red trail of graft and corruption had
the State House yards and into that build
ing and that grand uries had been used by politicians
to Cypress and brighten honest men.
If these charges be false, why refuse to inquire?
If they be true why should honest men in the
Legislature turn their consciences to the tender
custodianship of Clyde Wab and vote, as partisans
to suppress and to hide?
Somewhere and at some time, guilty men
disclosed.
Somewhere and sometime nnocently
charged with crime are vindcated and eXonerated
Why should party caucus suppress inquiry un
less it fears that inquiry will disclose crime?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19
SCORE ONE

One bit OF good news comes from the Legisla-
The people will still continue to make their
own nominations for Governor United States Sena
tors and other State officials.
The effort of the Republican machine to destroy
the primary and permit the bosses to their
lections for Office without chance of contest has
apparently failed.
The members of the Legislature refused to
listen to the Statewide missionary canvas made by
the Republican machine and killed the measure
which had the support of the State organization
which provided for conventions to name all State
officers.
The only argument that could possibly be adj
Vanced with any for the elimination of the
State In recent years.
Viewed from that standpoint, there may have
been some reason for abolshing the primary. but
about the same would suggest that elections
also be abolished and that Indiana hunt for some
Mussoini to direct it's affairs.
There may be even those who look at the State
House and the two Senators which Indiana furnishes
to the nation and declare that selfgovernment itself
is failure.
They could be excused for holding that belief.
But the trouble is not the primary and its workings,
but vastly different reason
If the source of the present Senators and State
untrameled judgment OF the voter or the machinery
officials be discovered it will not be found in the
of the primary but in the fact that very sordid
and very venal forces moved in and took charge of
the primaries and the elections when the people
we're asleep.
II the present officials be bad If they the
products of unholy bargains made with very selfish
forces, then be it remembered that the same or
ganization which sought the destruction of the pri
mary made those bargains and secured ratification
at the polls by methods than questionable.
Indiana has reached a low estate in it's standard
of government 1t has pride in it's National repre-
sentatves. The Nation does not look upon them
with honor or with any considerable respect
But to blame them upon the primary is more
than illogical They the products of organized
Misrepresentation and alliances with forces which
furnish unlimited funds to overthrow the real iudg
ment of the majority.
The primary stands as the one weapon of wrest-
ing power away from the forces which control
government
The members of the Legislature wise
enough to know that the people would resent any
effort to take away their power and provide for
the perpetual guardianship of the Walbs and the
Watsons and the Collins of politics.,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19
BY Walter ID. Hickman

The teachings of TIE flreside gave
this nation Abraham Lincoln.
And the spirit of truth as ex-
pressed around the flreside of his
mother in Georgia has given the
world Roland Hayes, tenor.
1 visited Roland Hayes yesterday
for the single purpose of asking him:
What does the Negro Spiritual
mean to your"
AS l saw the man leave the piano
where he had been practicing for
hours, it seemed to me that 1t was
really unnecessary to ask the ques.
ton.
His life, his thought and his great
purpose of life is to spread the beau.
ty of the truth which is the basis
OF the spiritual
It is difficult for Hayes TO ex-
press in words just what the spiritual
means to him because the spiritual
is the essence of life, the thing that
makes life worth while, that really
big thing. which brings beauty, un-
derstanding faith into life"
The spirit of beauty as expressed
in the spiritual through Roland
Hayes is so strong that it has be-
come the life work of this great
Negro tenor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-19
Tickle Texas

The Texas Senate has decided that
James e. Ferguson is not fit TO hold
office, even though the last Legisla-
ture freed him from that disability
Ten years ago he was inpeached
and deprived of his right to hold Of
flee in that State. Two years ago
his wife rode in as Governor on an
anti-klan wave. Through her in
f1uence and a popular reaction in his
favor, the Legislature passed what
was called the amnesty bill' by
which he was restored to the full
privileges of citizenship.
His wife's administration, for
which he was commonly held respon-
sible, was so unfortunate as to have
led to revulsion of public opinion,
and if the House concurs with the
Senate, Ferguson will be right back
where he was when impeached.
Whatever may be said OF him,
Texas has certainly shown surpris-
ing degree of flckleness.