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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
CATHOLIC u. is ONLY ONE
TO PLAY ON HOME FIELD
Brooklanders TO Entertain Vermont, While Maryland
and Gallaudet Go Away to Meet Loyola and
Blue Ridge. u. Is Winner.

/ through a good season without good
pitching In fact. a teams success
| may almost be judged by the measure
of it's pitching. The team seems able
tn hit. At least it has batted well
against the hurting it has faced, and
few college s1abmen are going to be
better than the two Springfield used
in the game Tuesday.
Georgetown turned back the Spring
| field nine yesterday by TO 2, an un
usual aspect of the score being that
both mines did all their scoring in the
| fourth inning. Bobby Nork and Tom
my Phelan contributed to George
| towns victory with a homer each In
| that period. In fact. it was a real
batting inning for the Blue and Gray
because after Phelan and Nork had
tied up the count with consecutive
home runs, Donovan doubled and Gil
/ lespie won his own game by sending
Donovan across the plate with a
| sharp single to right.
The game was a good pitchers duel
with Erickson of Springfield hurting
just as well as Gillespie. Odlum did
some nice work in right field for
Georgetown.
American University has an en-.
rollment of approximately 20 man
students, and yesterday nearly so of
them reported for practice for the
various Spring teams. More than 20
reported for base ball, Is for track
and for tennis.
Dave Whelchel, who was star quar-
terback on the Maryland freshman
eleven three years ago. then held
down a varsity berth in the back
field. and last Fall was a member of
the plebe eleven. is being groomed for
the varsity quarterback berth at
Navy next Falk> Right now in Spring
practice Coach Bill Ingram is using
Whelchel in his regular quartet OF
hacks and is expecting him to come
through. Last Fall 1t generally was
felt at the Navy that Whelchel was
an excellent prospect for the 1927
quarters position.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
by LAWRENCE. PERRY.

N yEW YORK, April Am hour
or so spent in close observa-
NJ ton of Spring practice at one
of the important universities
where foot ball is stressed
impressed the writer with the idea
that before a great deal can be made
of lateral passing. coaches will have
TO learn more about the intricate
possibilities of the sidewise game than
the gridiron instructors at this par
ficular university seemed to know.
On the other hand, it should in
fairness be remarked that these
teachers may have more and deeper
ideas than they showed. Naturally,
fhe primary object is to instill into
the men the basic theory of the lateral
game and to perfect the backs IN the
art OF deftly handling~~-receiving and
catching the hall ons the. run,
Use ii ~ Decoy.
When this has been accomplished,
devious tactics designed to work the
ball into enemy territory may be ap-
f,lied. From what the writer has seen
thus far this Spring there is a pre-
yaiiing tendency among coaches 10
use the pass as means of delay in
launching the forward heave and UNI
auestionably this maneuver alone IS
going TO add 10 the defensive pufdSil,
fnasmuch as there will be doubt until
the play finally develops whether it is
to be straight Ranking rush move
Ynent or a toss to some eligible re-
ceiver.
The strength of the straight flank
ing rush, however. will have to be
demonstrated against a defense
which in modern foot ball has taken
pretty strict account of plays outside
3he wings. Widen the gridiron ten
or fifteen yards on either side and
then you would see lateral fireworks
galore.
In the Spring workout above re-
ferred to. the defense seemed not to
find it a difficult matter to force the
ball out of bounds no matter how
many times 1t changed hands. With
good tackles alert in breaking through
and the other members Of his defen-
siye triangle, the end and the back,
moving out with the play on a man
fo-man basis, 1t would seem as though
the lateral pass has got to grow out
of lot OF strategy II ii is going to
operate with sufficient consistency to
make it a valuable element in the at
tack
Does a lateral pass which is
grounded on any down proceeding the
fourth down go back to the point OF
ecrimmage as In the case of a
grounded forward pass. or shall il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01

"ECH teams will figure in both
athletic contests involving local
schoolboy teams tomorrow. The
i base ball team, that lost it's first
game 8 to 8, to st. Alban S
School on Tuesday, will visit Alex
andria to engage its old foe, Episcopal
High, on Hoxton Field starting at
$3.50 O'Clock The Manual Trainers
golf team will engage Business in the
first match of the public high cham
pionship series at East Potomac Park.
Eastern and Dewitt and Business
and Smithfield Seniors were scheduled
to clash this afternoon at Eastern
High, but rain was expected to pre-
vent play.
Central Stadium will again this
season be the scene of the public high
championship base ball series which
starts April 20 with Central taking on
Business. This is the announcement
of DIR. G.. Harris White, high school
athletic director. w. w. Watt, who
has umpired the games for the past
four Springs, will again officiate. 1t
is reported that there was some OPP
position to staging the contests in
Central Stadium because of the short
right field.
Westerns rifiemen were to make
their bow in the public indoor cham
pionship matches this afternoon en-.
gaging Eastern on the range of the
Lincoln Park School The East End
boys will be striving to come back
after losing their first engagement to
Central on Tuesday. However, the
combination from across the creek
comprises n number of crack shots
who were expected to show we'll.
Central bOwlers were to end their
season today with st. Paul's quint on
the King Pin drives.
Hyattsville Highs basket ball team
is primed for its clash tonight with
Allegany High for the State cham
pionship in the National Guard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
DATES ARE SELECTED
FOR WINTER OIL YMPICS

NEW YORK. April / LP.--The Win
ter sports program OF the 1928 Olym-
pics has been completed and will be
held February IL to 10, inclusive, at
st. Moritz. Switzerland. the Ameri-
can olympic committee has announced
today.
Individual competition Is listed in
speed skating, fancy skating and
skiing and team contests in hockey,
bobsledding, military skiing and horse
racing on snow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
WASHER OF BELGIUM
IS RUTH OF TENNIS

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS. April Jean Washer,
Belgium's Babe Ruth of tennis. is
placed fourth among European racket
wielders by the latest ail-tennis rank
ing-the first ever published in Bel
gium-edited by Victor Boin, Bel
GUMS recognized tennis authority.
Washer is the cannon-ball driver, "
NJ. Boin writes. and it has been said
of him that Belgium is too small to
hold him.
He has been called the Babe Ruth"
of tennis. When his left-han ded drives
are working properly, they skim the
net like rife bullets but when he is
wild he drives the balls into the North
Sea from Brussels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
Colleges Are Scheduled Figure Base Ball Games Tomorrow

JUDD & DETwEILER bowlers
u

Judd & DETWEILER bowlers
won the Typothetae Duckpin
League race by five games over
- the second-piace Washington
9 Monotype Co. team. Washing
ton Printing Co. pulled up third. just
a lone game behind the Monotype
men.
High men of each team were: Judd
& Detweiler. Goodall and Morrison;
Washington Monotype Co.. Sullivan
and Homan; Washington Printing
Co, Fox and r. FabriZio; National
Capital Press. AIischou and Gralley:
National Publishing Co, Seis and
Reckeweg; Packwood Printing Co.,
Connolly and Knopka: H-K Advertis-
ing Service. Heinzmann and King:
Columbian Printing Co. Noack and
Eckloff; Thayer-Printcraft. Cole and
Stringer: Standard Engraving Co..
Ennis and Houser: Ransdell. Inc.
Smith and Cole; r. p. Andrews Paper
Co. Kline and Roberts. and Stanford
Paper Co., Goodman and Stanford.
Final league figures follow;
Team Standing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01

~
Jack Hendricks. The boys
had a lot of questions saved
up and Jack volunteered to answer a
few.
@. What sort of fellow makes the
best third-sacker?
A. l like 'em tall and rangy with
strong throwing arm. He must be
aggressive and able to throw over
handed or underhanded.
@. Do outfielders have signals:
A. Yes, indeed! They get the sig
nal for each pitch so they'll know
where the batter is likely to hit to-
Q. If the base runner is hit by a
batted ball which bounds into the
hands of the second -sacker and is held
what happens?
A. The runner is out and the ball
is dead
q. How many games are won with
two out in the ninth?
A. You probably would be sur.
prised at the percentage. Even il it
were only one-half of one per cent. il
would be worth trying for. The team
that plays to the last out Is the team
for me. If you get in the habit of Civ
ing up hope when only two are out
in the ninth. you may get in the hab'
it of giving up hope at the end of the
eighth, or even the seventh.
Q. What batter is the hardest 10
pitch to?
A. The one that hugs the plate and
chops at ball instead of swinging.
Q. Who threw the first curveo
A. Arthur Cummings, Brooklyn
amateur, in 1867.
Wen, thanks and good by Mr.. Hen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
SCOTCH HAVE LEGEND
or ST. ANDREWS GOLF

BY the Associated Press.
Legend has 1t that golf was intro
duced at st. Andrews, famous Scot.
fish shrine of the ancient game, by
workmen from the continent who
were building the st. Andrews Cathe-
dral, says John Fyfe, veteran caddie
master at st. Andrews, writing his
"reminiscences.
When the cathedral was dedicated
In 1920 in the presence of Robert
Bruce, so the story goes. some of the
nobiemen who were present played a
game Of golf after the ceremony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01

@. Do outfielders have signals:
A. Yes, indeed! They get the sig
nal for each pitch so they'll know
where the batter is likely to hit to-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
BY III. c. BYRD.

"HREE local schools are sched.
uled for base ball games to-
morrow. Catholic University
Il and Gallaudet appear in their
second contests, the former at
home with University of Vermont and
the latter at Blue Ridge College.
Maryland goes to Loyola. College at
Baltimore for its third set-to.
Local schools seem TO stand about
an even chance to win in all three
games. Vermont usually brings South
a good ball team, but it probably will
not be in as good shape as Charley
Moran's aggregation. Gallaudet may
run into snag at Blue Ridge, espe-
cially If the latter has good pitching.
What kind of a team Loyola will be
represented by is not known, but
Maryland will have the advantage of
two games already played.
This afternoon at o'clock Mary
land opens it's lacrosse season with
New York University as its opponent.
Yesterday the Gothamites were beaten
by st. Johns College at Annapolis.
and apparently do not have as strong
a, combination as was reported Mary
land will send into the game team
minus the regular goal keeper. but
otherwise seems to be in fair shape.
Considerable interest is evident in
what the Maryland stickmen will ac-
complish, especially as the team has
been developed under adverse cir
cumstances. 1t faces an exceedingly
difficult schedule, with the stars of its
1926 team lost and without the serv-
ices of the man who has coached for
several years and who has been almost
entirely responsible for the develop
ment of the game at Maryland.
Maryland seems to have a base ball
team capable of giving the best of its
opponents real battles il its pitching
staff holds up. SO far, though, the
pitchers, with the exception of flash
or two, have not done as well as is
necessary for the hurlers of a sue
cesSfnl nine. No ball team ever went
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01

Wv YE spent the day with the
Cincinnati Reds, command
Nv ed by the iovial veteran.
Jack Hendricks. The boys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
CITIZEN TRAINING CAMPS
WILL STRESS ATHLETICS

Regular athletic equipment, plus
$4,000 worth of bats, balls, rackets
and other essentials will be available
for use in the Sd Corps Area Citizen
Training Camps this Summer
An autographed bat. donated by
Babe Ruth. will be given the leading
home run hitter in each of the camp
leagues. Fishing and swimming also
will be stressed this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01

April 90 and Georgetown Prep at Gar.
rett Park on May 2. The usual
matches with st. Adams and Friends
schools are expected to be played and
Baltimore Poly may be met.
The Manual Trainers will engage
Business on May 6 in the former
first title brush.
Base ball preparation at Hyattsville
High School is slated to get under
way in earnest on Monday. deter
mined bid for the Prince Georges
County crown now held by Laurel,
will be made by Hyattsville.
The schedule for the county series
is to be drawn at a meeting of the
county teachers association to be held
in this city tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
Tbe Gbenii1g 5tar
BOYS CLUB

bricks. We must be on our way TO
visit Jack Dunns Orioles.
tCopyright 1927
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-11
Near East Relief and
Golden Rule Sunday

Near East Relief, caring for the
children who are the immediate bene-
ficiaries of Golden Rule Sunday was
chartered by Congress, August 6,
1919, and operates in three areas !:
Greece and her islands; Russian
Armenia and Persia; Syria and
Palestine. Refugee children are be-
ing cared for in Bulgaria. Egypt
and France are sheltering some tex
orphans" Annual report is made to
Congress. It is now aiding orphaned
children, giving them simple school
ing and training them for self-sup-
port. The funds gathered on Golden
Rule Sunday, December fourth, will
be devoted to this purpose. Send your
gifts to Potomac Division Headquar-
tiers, Near East Relief, 1884 Connecti-
cut avenue, Washington, D. c.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-11
Believe That Stolen
Articles Bring Luck

An extraordinary example of the
survival of foolish superstition was
disclosed ip the case of Hampshire
(England) farmer who was convicted
of stealing turnips from neighbor.
He explained to the magistrate that
he could easily afford to pay for them,
and that, moreover, he had plenty Of
turnips Of his own, but he wanted
stolen ones to make a concoction for
COW which had fallen sick, for he
Rrmly believed no other could be SO
ficacious.
similar belief is held in many
s Of Germany, where practically
'yone buys ticket. for one or
ler of the state lotteries. Many I'M
Educated peasants will tell you they
are sure of winning If the ticket they
have was bought with stolen money.
In Turkey, copper rings are worn
|On the fingers to prevent erysipelas.
II the ring has been stolen from some
one else. it Is supposed to answer its
purpose twice as well.
Examples might be multiplied from
every quarter of the earth. Most
probably the superstition arose from
the natural desire Of the criminal to
find some excuse for his delinquencies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-11
Everlasting Fires in
Region of Desolation

Few regions are more remarkable
than those near the Caspian sea. The
waters of the sea once stretched far
north and joined the Arctic ocean, but
now, after countless ages, they have
receded to their present limits. Vast
stretches of waste and barren land
are left where sae waters once extend
ed-deserts Of reddish clay. with oc'
casional marshes.
This Is the region known as the
fLand Of Everlasting Fire" After sun
set, leaping up on all sides from rents
in the ipterminable plain, rise ghostly.
dancing tongues of fame. untarnished
by smoke. casting a lurid light all
around.
Dotted about lie squat temples FROM
whose pinnacles rise columns of fierce
flame, the dread gods incarnate of the
1ire-worshipers. The columns are said
to have burnt continuously since the
birth of Confucius.
The everlasting fires are not the dis
embodied souls of dead men and de.
mons, as the natives believe, but are
due to torrents Of gas which stream
from underground regions. and are ig-
nited spontaneously.
1t Is possible to dig small hole and
then. by applying live COAL cause
1t to burst into flames. If tube Of
paper is stuck about two inches in the
ground. and the top Of it touched with
a live coal, a flame will issue from 1t,
but If the edges of the paper have
been smeared with clay it will not
take fire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-11
u. S. Grant Won Bride
While Fording Riuer

Ulysses S. Grant selected an odd
time to propose marriage to Julia
Dent. Lieutenant Grant from West
Point had met Julia while on q visit
to the home Of his chum in St. Louis.
He fell In love with her and decided
to return to pursue his attentions, re-
lates Edna M. Colman in "White
House Gossip"
Their betrothal occurred while they
were fording the Gravois river. They
were in light rig, the young man
driving, The waters were swollen and
the current so swift from the recent
heavy rains that they were in grave
danger. The manner of her clinging
to him in her fear of the water In
spired him with the courage to pro-
pose to her then and there. In after
years she often related to her grand
children the story of the betrothal,
placing special stress on the old SUI
perstitien that unusual strength and
constancy were attributes of many
pledges made over running water, says
Capper's Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-11
Thrift Aid to Courage

Thriftlessness often fosters cow
ardice. Thrift inspires courage. Shift
less persons rarely have much back
bone. They are so dependent upon
others for assistance that often they
cannot assert themselves to preserve
their self-respect. Their wasteful
habits sap their self-reliance, their
self-assurance. The thrifty individual,
of the other hand. has learned to stand
on his own feet. He has learned how
to take care of himself, how to man
age bis affairs. how to provide against
Emergencies. Therefore, he is little
INCLINED to submit to uncalled for IN,
dignities, Nor is he afraid to take
reasonable risks. His financial back
Ing gives him courage. And without
courage few successful careers have
been built up. Thus we arrive at this
formula; Thrift develops success
Forbes Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-11
Junior Red Cross Army
of 100000 in Schools

Members of the Junior Red Cross
proved a new capacity for service
during the Mississippi food, accord
ing to reports to Red Cross National
Headquarters covering their work.
This group Of enthusiastic school
children responded spontaneously and
generously to the needs Of the food
victims. An indication of the impor-
lance of this help is contained in the
report that Juniors In Boston :'one
contributed $500 to the relief fund.
Junior Red Cross members shared
in reconstruction VIZ In the Mid
west tornado several years ago, after
the Florida storm, and are in the
post-fiood operations Ct the Red Cross
among the people in the Mississippi
Valley.
Junior Red Cross has k,822,7 57
members, an increase Of 273,329 in
the last year.
More than a million of the Junior
Red Cross membership is distributed
in the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam,
Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands. and
Alaska, and includes Indian and
Eskimo children. Through the medium
Of the Junior Red Cross in the United
States. and similar groups abroad,
children all over the world are being
brought into closer understanding by
international correspondence carried
on by classes in the schools.
The Juniors at present have nearly
twice the membership of the senior
organization. but in the forthcoming
membership enrolment Of the Red
Cross. from November u to "a, the
goal OF the adult membership is
100000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-11
BEWARE OF FAKE INSPECTORS

Realizing that people can be i'm
posed on by admitting unauthorized
persons into their homes or places OF
business with the understanding that
they have come to inspect" certain
equipment, such as telephones, cleo
trio lights, or radio apparatus, the
telephone company has supplied its
employees who perform this serial
number which the employee will be
glad to show upon request as
means of naturalization
If there is any question on the
part of the BUSINESS man or the lady
in the home, it is only necessary to
secure the workman's name and
badge number, telephone the mana
gers Office, and the repairman's
identity will be checked in a few
minutes. In this way there Will be no
doubt anyone's mind as to who's
who and why" officials Of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Conn
pany state.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-11

New York and eastern points In 1911
and San Francisco in 1915. Since then
two additional transcontinental lines
have been built and more recently
radio telephone service has been estab.
lished with Great Britain.
"In inaugurating long distance tele-
phone service between points far apart,
distance Is not the main criterion"
Mr.. Clifford said. what we, in the
telephone business, are chiefly inter-
ested in is service. Service is not
getting one message through under
favorable conditions for a record.
Service is getting everybodys mes.
sage at all times and getting them
through quickly and effectively and at
a reasonable cost-in other words, pro-
viding sure servant for the human
intercourse of friendship and com.
merce. 1t is this which is the ambi-
ton Of the International Telephone
and Telegraph Corporation and the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company to provide between the two
countries.
"In the history of telephony. Mexico
was first among Spanish speaking
countries In the public use of the
telephone. Four years after the in.
vention of Alexander Graham Bell, q
telephone exchange was being OPP
Grated in the capital of Mexico Two
years later the Mexican Telephone
Company, the predecessor of the Mex.
lean Telephone and Telegraph Com.
pany began to operate. 1t is over
the lines of the latter company, which
is an associate company of the Inter.
national Telephone and Telegraph
Corporation that the present messages
are being transmitted"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-11
Foreign Calls for Help
Answered by Red Cross

Despite the unHsual requirements
of relief In IA disasters within the
United States. the people Of the
country, through the American Red
Cross. extended relief 10 sufferers
In 90 disasters In foreign lands.
These included hurricanes In the
West Indies, desolating portions Of
Cuba, Sants Domingo, Porto Rico,
the Isle Of Pines, the Bahamas. and
other islands In the qraups fires In
Haiti and Porto Rice. foods In Mex
loo and Juaoslaxia. earthquakes In
Japan, the Azores islands. Armenia
and Albania, and refugee relief oper-
atloRs In Bulgaria. Syria, and China.
During the Eleventh Annual Roll
Call, November II to "a, the AmerI.
can Red Cross will seek member.
ship Of S,ooo.o 900 to keep its dlsas-
ter relief and other services CON
stantly ready for any call.