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other fine forward pass receiver. This
player caught one of the passes in the
Michigan game for a Gopher touch
down He stopped Wolverine players
sent at him, and was strong defen-
sive player throughout the season. He
makes an ideal running mate for
Oosterbaan."
Another sports writer, in describing
Haycraft's playing in the Michigan
game said in the Minneapolis Journal:
''Haycraft has been coming like a
cyclone of late. He was more the tor
nado than at any time. He made a
great catch of the pass which he grab
bed behind the goal line. He played
eXcellently in the defense and manhan.
died Gable, the big Michigan tackle,
to such an extent that this biggest
player on the Michigan team was
taken out of the game.
Haycraft was too light to make the
first eleven when he was at Central,
but played a few games on the basket
ball team during his senior year. He
has one year more at Minnesota, and
great things are expected of him next
season.
Everett F. Haycraft, one of the
members of the Board of Review of
the Federal Trade Commission here.
Schoolboy basketers will appear in
three games tomorrow. Business Is
carded to take on the all-star quint
made up of former scholastic tossers
which 1t drugged recently, in the Ste
nog GYM Eastern will entertain Sioux
A. c. on the Eastern floor, and Tech
will meet a Manual Training five made
up of ineligibIes at the Boys Club.
st. Johns was to engage American
University Freshmen in the lone court
contest listed today.
For the second time this season,
| Coach Lynn Woodworth's Business
High quint vanquished Emerson Insti.
tute yesterday, 80 to "a. Business got
away to an early lead only to be over
hauled in the late moments by Emer-
| son. The Stenogs, however. had the
| punch TO come back and win. Keefer
and Revelle jones for Business and
Alton Buscher and Clifford for Emer-
| son We're top scorers.
Business reserves, however, We're
beaten, bowling to Jewish Community
Center Juniors, "a to AZ.
With Pat Rooney, husky forward
| alone accounting for 80 points. Tech
| High tossers routed Woodward School,
| 50 to 5. The Manual Trainers. who
also were aided by heaving scoring on
the part of Louis Berger and Torney
! held the whip hand from the outset
| Woodward got but one goal from
scrimmage.
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or whatever he may be, is immaterial
at the two academies. OF sole sig
nificance are his scholastic capacity
and his reactions to the spirit of the
service.
II boy who has played foot ball
in college is willing to enter West
Point or Annapolis and submit to the
rigors not only of the curriculum but
the sharp restraint placed upon his
personal liberty and the numerous
exactions of iron discipline, and at
the same time go out on the foot
ball field and accept all the hard
knocks and the battering incident to
this rugged game, then more power
to him-and more honor.
Civilian institutions understand
this and it is certain no demand for
the three-year rule at Annapolis or
West Point came from them.
Real Work for Cadets.
Now take West Point (and it is
assumed that Annapolis would show
nothing differently. Any one who
spent one week at the United States
Military Academy following the sys-
tenn there, getting up with the
cadets in the morning, going to
classes, to drills, to athletic practice.
then in turn to studies, would get a
very graphic impression of the sac
rifices the varsity men make. There
probably is no school in the coun-
try-at least not outside of Annapolis
where the athlete does one-third of
the work of the cadet varsity men,
Compared to other institutions, in
deed, the United States Military
Academy, in it's memorable rules, its
r,olIIfiforpo restrictions 10 less a seat
of learning in the accepted sense of
the term than an educational prison.
Undoubtedly this is no less the case
at Annapolis. This being so, it may
we'll be wondered whether the Navy
fully realizes all that this three-year
rule may mean to Annapolis, by
which token, also, arises the extreme
improbability that the Army would
ever be willing to place herself in
this position.
Copyright. 1927
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1000 SEE PALACE QUIMT
TAKE FREDERICK GAME

FREDERICK, Md. December IA
About 900 persons, the largest crowd
ever to witness a basket ball game
here. saw the Washington Pros defeat
Cresaps Rife quint on the Army floor
here last night, 81 to 35 The local
team made better showing than was
expected
Ripley and Conaty led the pros in
scoring.
Austin Esworthy. former local high
school star, went through the Palace
defense for goals.
Jack Smith and Larry Boerner
Washington boys. also played well for
the home team.
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DEWITT SCHOOL PLANNING
TO STAGE A TRACK MEET

IF a plan to be presented at a
banquet of the alumni and ath-
letic associations of Dewitt School
4 at the City Club, December %, is
approved the institution will stage
a big track and field meet on George
town University field the latter part
of April Schools from various sec
tons of the country would be invited
to compete in the affair which il is
planned to make an annual event. The
proposition will be laid before the
meeting by ]. L. Count Cornwell
president of the alumni association
and faculty advisor.
Letters will be awarded members of
Devitt's crack 1927 foot ball team in
connection with the banquet. Lou
Little, Georgetown University direc-
tor of athletics, and other notables in
the local sports world are expected to
attend.
Deyitt's outlook for a successful
track sea son is unusually bright. The
squad will begin training under di-
rection of Coach George Marsters
after the Christmas holidays.
James Y. Hughes, Nate Sauber and
Ernest Collifower, all we'll known
court officials, will handle the public
high basket ball series starting jan
uary it has been announced by Or.
G. Harris White, director of athletics
for the high schools. Hughes and
Sauber will alternate as referee ana
umpire and Colliflower will serve
when either Hughes or Sauber are
unable to be on hand.
This Winter valve ball with a
lace will be used in the series, instead
of the old lace ball. The valve ball
keeps its shape better, high school
, officials point out.
Coach Gordon Il. Rath plans to get
| his Eastern High track and field squad
| down to hard training following the
| Christmas holidays. Beaten by JUST
/ two points for the title in the puDhc
| high meet last Spring by Hap i1ar-
dells Tech team. the Lincoln fdr ;
are going to put forth mighty elort
/ next Spring TO land the crown.
Such crack performers as Henry
! Talbert, Splinter; Buck O'Brien, mllef
and half-miler, and McGlathefy
hurdler, have been lost, but Rath mas
bunch of youngster available VINO, as
a lot, are decidedly promising.
1t is probable that Eastern's nrs'
competition this Winter will be in the
University of Richmond games in Feb
ruary. The Light Blue and White ath
letes also will appear in a dual meei
with the Navy Plebes, and likely VIII
encounter Episcopal High in addition
to taking part in the c Club games
and the public high meet.
A graduate of Central High School
Kenneth Haycraft, was named or
Water EckeRsall's 1927 all-Westerr
Conference first foot ball team as &
running mate for Oosterbaan. and was
on virtually every second team. Hay
craft has been playing a great game
at left end for Minnesota for the pas
two seasons. In picking him for hi:
team, Eckersall said:
| THE other end position is given Il
Kenneth Haycraft of Minnesota, an
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n TEW YORK. December H.
| Studying the three-year eligi-
| VI bility rule which the Navy
i Y has passed-and wants West
Point to adopt-the question
arises as to how long the Naval
| Academy will be able to weather a
| self-imposed condition and maintain
her status in intercollegiate sport.
With the limit of entering age lying
between 16 and 20 and with the years
which midshipman has played on
a college eleven counting in the
total of the time he may play in
varsity teams at Annapolis. it would
seem as though the Naval Academy
has taken steps to remove itself from
even competition with Michigan,
| Notre Dame, Princeton, and, of course,
the Army, unless the Military Acad-
envy authorities follow the Navy peo-
pie in adopting this rule.
In such event both service institu-
| tons in all probability seem to have
| eliminated themselves from the top
flight of foot ball playing institutions.
If the Navy alone observes the
| three-year rule, she will most GER
tainly be handicapping herself not
only in the case of her West Point
rival but in the case of all her strong
in which the Navy foot ball schedule
would involve only elevens of what
may be termed minor rating would,
it strikes the writer, be the only
course that would prevent a sharp
cry from Navy folk for a readjust
ment of the rule within short period
of time.
Conditions Are Harsh.
Quite frankly there was a time
when the writer looked askance of
the practice of playing college men
at the service academies and express
sed himself quite definitely on this
score. In the course of time his at
titude changed for several reasons.
First, it became clear that at both
West Point and Annapolis conditions
exist that are not present in civilian
instructions. For one thing, the es-
sential aim is the development of Off
GERS for the two arms of the service.
This requires, above everything, in
tensive study and rigid discipline
which no other institutions-unless it
be Virginia Military Institute-know
Whether a boy be a college product,
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with teams having gyms are sought.
Call Adams 1889 after pm.
Action is wanted by Hadleys, 49,
pound court team. Cali Adams 22S.
Lightning A. c. basketers trimmed
Oakton High tossers on the Virginians
floor, 25 to 20.
NOrtherns, 115-p0und basketers,
nosed out Washington Barracks
tossers, % to %.
Carolina basketers wish to notify
Berwyns that they will be unable to
keep their engagement with the Mary
landers tomorrow night.
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oc Starts Season Tonight Three Year Rule May Hit May Hard
VARSITY SPORTS
DROPPED BY SYRACUSE

SYRACUSE, n. Y, December II
R.-The athletic governing board
of Syracuse University has voted
to drop boxing, golfing, hockey,
rifle, tennis, wrestling, soccer and
fencing as intercollegiate sports.
This sweeping change i'm the con-
duct of athletics was made i'm favor
of system of intermural athletics.
"TOO small proportion of the
men students of the university en-
joy the benefits of organized sports
under skilled coaching" said a
resolution adopted by the board.
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SWIM MEET FRIDAY.

Eight events are on the program of
the swimming meet to be held Friday
night by the Washington Swimming
Club and Washington Canoe Club at
the Y. M. c. A. Individual winners
will be assigned places on the Wash,
ington all-star swimming team.
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BREAKS EVEN WITH CUE.

f. f. Lewis broke even yesterday
in matches in the three-cushion billiard
tournament in progress at Elmer's
Academy. After being defeated, 35 to
%, by r. A. Reel. Lewis won from
G. w. Harsin, 35 to %.
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RICHMOND, Va. December Ia
Moe Levy of Norfolk, member of the
bar of that city, has bought the Mayo
Island ball park of this city for $17 500.
The owner of the local ball club has a
lease for another year on the property
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COLLEGE BASKET BALL.

Northwestern, So; Marquette, ~.
DePauw, 43; Indiana Central, Al.
Purdue, 40; Terre Haute Normal. "a.
Princeton, 35; Muhlenberg, IS.
Western Maryland, 80; Lafayette. IL.
st. Johns of Brooklyn, 43; COlum.
bia, Ia.
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PRO COURT FIGURES
TEAM STANDING.

Games Tonight.
New York at Chicago.
Rochester at Cleveland.
Results Yesterday.
New York. 80: Fort Wayne, Is.
Philadelphia, AZ; Detroit, "a.
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Despite of regulars of last Winters combination
entry the public high basket ball title series, which
month"; probably will be just about formidable not
than that of rival
Coach Coggns turning crack Central
believes that reasonable tie his
Blue and White qun will be to seriously reckon with though
and less experienced than most Central
squads This the view of others who have the Columbia
Heights in action In fact Central right appears strong
schooboy hereabout all the trouble
seeks.
Capt Forrest Burgess forward the lone regular left from last
but Coggn has sturdy in Bill Woodward
forward Ben Burch and Dick Cas Duvan Lemon Nelson
Coley, Ken Fisher and Bill Simmons guards
Miller forward; Nichols center and De Lo guard
other asprants who show promise
Regulars the last campaign who missing include Pete
Nee, Warren Swift, Bill Crouch and Sam fash.
Everett Dahl of the Central and Otis Wngo
and Thomas Schaffer are assistants.
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Catholic University will meet
Rutgers in foot ball next Fall on No
vember 3 at New Brunswick, accord
ing to the nine-game Rutgers SEIZED
ule announced yesterday
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Southern A. G.. cOurtmen make their
debut tonight against Washington
Barracks five in the Barracks gym
at 8 o'clock.
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Rusty Saunders quint, 110.pound
combination, has been formed. Games
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Catholic University has scheduled
a game with Virginia Medical College
for tomorrow night in the gym at
Brookland.v EhisIfsthe third home tilt
arranged for the week for the Cardi-
nails, who open tonight with Univer.
sity of Baltimore and entertain VIII.
liam and Mary Friday.
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Trinity Methodists went down be
fore Marine Barracks five. II to &C.,
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Star tossers routed Speedwell, 81
to Is.
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Deyitt's outlook for a successful
track season is unusually bright. The
squad will begin training under di'
rection of Coach George Marsters
after the Christmas holidays.
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New York University's basket ball
schedule, announced yesterday, shows
an engagement with Georgetown at
the Hilltop on January IA. The N
Y. L. boxing team has a date with
Catholic University in New York
February IL
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Basketers of HOwitzer Company, Ma
tional Guard. nosed out the Naval Hos,
pital Ave, 16 to Ia, in the victor's
armory at Kensington, Md.
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Cresap's Rifles, National Guard
basketers of Frederick, Md, fell easy
prey to the Washington professional
team in a game last night in the Mary
land city. The score was 81 to 35.
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Company f, District National Guard
basketers. win be unable to meet Com
pany f Regulars at Hyattsville tonor-
row night because Of a schedule mix
up. The Company T. team has the
use of the Coast Guard Armory Fri
day nights and wants action with I'M
limited teams. Call Adams 1107.W.
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Calvary NJ. f. tossers showed the
way to Silver Spring, Md, courtmen,
AZ to 81.
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Army War College defeated st.
Martins unlimited team, AZ to 3s, and
Red Star Rangers downed the Saints
junior five, 81 to 10,
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Sioux A. c. bowed to Crescents, II
to II. Sioux will meet Yosemites to.
night at Hine Junior High at $50
o'clock.
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ANNAPOLIS FACING
LOSS OF PRESTIGE
May Be Unable to Maintain
Strength for Contests
With Big Foes.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK. December IL
nj Studying the three-year eligi-
NJ bility rule which the Navy
i Y has passed-and wants West
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his efforts and he served at arious
times az. its secretary and on the
board Of trustees.
DIR. walcott was born in, Oneida
Continued On Pasa z, Column 81.
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.anyEnter Contest for
Times SHckers

Washington boys and girls Do want their sIickers.
This the evidence in the mail coming to the Sckere
Editor yesterday and this morning And there many
clever the line about Polly Perkins who quite
smart.
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CITIZENS TO MEET

The Brightwood Citizens Associa.
ton will meet Friday night. at 8
o'clock. In the Holy Comforter par.
~ Hall, S71s Georgia Ava
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IS MADE
BIC rs ISSUE
---TnlsIrnatlonal Nsr.r..l phote

Prohibition il to be a controver.
sial issue in both the Republican
and Democratic National conven.
tions next year-perhsps the big
issue. This was universally &C.
.cepted in the Capital today by
leaders Of both political parties.
They deplore it. or most of them
do, but say they do not see how
it can be kept out.
The Democrats, of course. have
been headed for a wet-and-dry fight
Garden, and the Republicans had
been congratulating themselves that
they would let the Democrats
hang themselves on the hooks Of
that controversy. DR.. Nicholas
Murray Buffers assumption Of the
leadership of the Republican wet
wing. and his assertion that no
man can be elected in '28 who does
not take stand against the Vol
stead law, has changed the party
outlook.
BOrah Joins Butler
Republican drys, headed by Ser
ator. Borah QR-l of Idaho, fairly fell
over themselves today in their eager
ness to accept DIR. Buffers challenge
to thresh it out in the Republican,
convention next year.
The Republican party, as a parry,
should Enthusiastically declare itself on
this question. said BoFah. ''and !
shah contribute in every way can
to force the issue to q fiIa' conclu-
sion in the next convention
The die thus appears cas- in both
parties.
OUTSTANDING Republican vets of
the type of Senator Wa swortf1 of
New York and Senator EGye of New
Jersey, while they indorse DIR. Blu
ler's position rather deplore iniec-
Stion of the isspe in the '28 conven
ton
They think 1t is too soon.
They believe that sentiment
against the rigors of prohibition is
growing rapidly. as reflected by the
re erendums in various States last
November, and that given another
four years perhaps and wet victory
would be easily obtained.
Some of the Democratic wess bes
lieve. too, that their cause NAV he
hurt by rushing into battle to soon.
Nevertheless, none of the vets see
any way OF avoiding fight next
year.
Borah's suggestion that both
parties fight out the wet and dry
question in the elections of dele.
gates 10 the national conventions
apparently found little favor with
either Republicans or Democrats.
II don't see any occasion TO fight
over the subject in the primaries. .
said Senator Bruce OBJ OF Mary.
'ttcontinusasos Rase .. Column 81
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The situation in Lisbon is
very serious and the
American Legation there has
been repeatedly struck by rifle
fire, forcing Minister Fred NJ.
bearing to vacate, according
to a dispatch to the State De-
partment.
Situation At Lisbon very
serious and probably viii con
TIME 10 for several days. The
minister has been obliged to
abandon the legation, which
was repeatedly struck by rifle
and machine gun fire, I" the
message said.
All Americana and the legation
staff in Portugal are sab. Ameri.
can Minister Fred M. Dearing re-
ported to the State Department to-
day.
He said that heavy fighting and
constant sniping continue between
the government and revolutionary
forces, with ths government appar.
emily victorious in Oporto and
slowly winning In Lisbon.
The State Department has not
determined whether to send war
ships to Portugal to aid Americans.
Republican Government Formed
MADRID. Feb. s.--The leaders of
the Portuguese revolt, claiming the
movement to have been successful,
today announced the formation of
a Republican government. accord
ing TO q message from the Portu.
guese border.
1t was reported that the dictator
president. General sCarmona. has
Continued on Page 2. Column, II
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DR. WAL GO I I
DIES HERE

DIR. Charles Doolittle Walcott,
secretary OF the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition since 1907 and world re-.
noWned scientist, died at his home,
1743 Twenty-second st. N. W.. at
1920 p. m. today. 4
He had been i'll for a week. A
complication of diseases caused his
death. He was ~ years old, having
been born in 1850.
Al week ago DIR. WaIcott was at
tending his duties at the Smith
sonion offices When taken i'll he
appeared to have presentment of
his approaching death and left a
statement that in event of his
death. the conference of Smith.
sonian Institution, scheduled for to-
morrow, should be held as planned.
DIR. Walcott's lifelong researches
included principally the study of the
older rock formations.
Besides his purely scientific activi.
ties, he was responsible for the
formation of numerous scientific
organizations.
The Carnegie Institution of Wash.
ington was founded directly through
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T0DAY'S SCRATCHES

4 NJ ~ hUWallW
FIRST RAcETop Lady. In the
Bag. and Roberto C.
SECOND RACE-Chow Chow, Jane
Elizabeth. GIorianes DantEic. clarencd
Thomas. ana Mid Nod.
Raconteur. Sycamore. Royal Fisk. and
Marvin,
FIFTH RAcE-what,s the Time.
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Father Has 5 Names
For His 18th Baby,
A Daughter

ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. 81
1--WE have list of eight
Names said Lee Gentle, who
was asked as to what name
their latest baby, the twenty.
ninth child, would bear. eve
will select one Of the eight and
save the others for future use"
The newcomer, a baby girl,
came into being at Grady Hos
pistal since the father and
mother, with their twenty
eighth children, visited Wash
ington and called on President
Coolidge, who greeted them
warmly.
Later they were taken to the
Capitol Building and received
congratulations of many Of the
nations solons.
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world Holds Nothing
So Shin Steward Dies

BALTIMORE. Feb. 9.--''We come
into this world without our con
sent, so why can't We leave ii
when it holds nothing more for us?''
Leaving this philosophic query
scrubbed on a piece of note paper.
William G. Forquignon, Is. chief
steward on the steamer Atlantic,
committed suicide in q local hotel
early today by drinking q bottle Of
laudanum
His address was given in his
papers as 1898 Fienston St., San
Francisco.
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BUSINESSES
0R[)ERL Y
BYRJSE

Finding an excuse to send
away the orderly attending
him, George Metz, 81, resi-.
dent Of the United States
Soldiers Home, jumped from
the porch on the third floor
of the hospital and killed him
self before daylight this morn.
ing
Wheeled Out On Porch
He complained Of needing
fresh air and was placed III j
wheel chair and taken. out On
the porch. Saying it was chilly,
he asked the orderly to get him
a covering for his shoulders.
When the orderly returned the
chair was found at the edge Of
the porch, but he was not in it.
Suicide Verdict
A search of the ground below re-
vealed his 1ifeless body. He vas
pronounced dead by a member Of the
hospital staff. Coroner J. Ramsey
hewitt issued certificate Of Suicide
Metz had been at the home about
month. He came there from the
home Of his daughter, Mrs. c. Yer.
non Thomas. In Baltimore.
Some 30 years ago he served two
years a. a member of the Fourth
Field Artillery.
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AZ New Orleana

FIRST RACE-Red Rocjxst End nr..
SECOND RACE-The Captain. Ems
bryo. Baltic. Master Sweep, Ben Omar.
Water Baby
THIRD RAcEstar sweeper, Real
Little Annie, Yorick.
FOURTH RAcE-King NadiN Tip Top.
Old slip.
SIXTH RAcE-Resourceful. eoldeR
Rule, Starbeck.
SEVENTH RACE --- Pianist. Tick
Took.
weather. cloudy: track. muddy.