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The Washington times., 1927-01-17
PLEBE BOAT
IMPROVES

ANNAPOLIS. Jan. 16.-Coacf
Bob Butler of the Naval Academy
oarsmen is making progress with
his plebe candidates and has ad
vanced them from the machines tc
the improvisei shell which is
moored in the pool.
Butler has a squad Of IS
first.year men, most OF whom
had some instruction on water
under Butler last summer.
There are about rs of these
youths. of whose work Butler
thinks well. and most of them
have the physical qualifications
for the work.
The majority of the plebe oars
men who have been approved by
Butler weigh around $50 to 16i
pounds, but there are about eight
or ten who weigh from 40 to 1S5
and who look the type from which
the members of the strongest Naya
Academy crews have been formed
The oarsmen who, according &c
the coach, have shown some apti
tude are-Port: Baffe, Bardell, Cole
stack, Eddy, Engheman, Frieburg
Cunning, McGill. McNeeley, Pirie
Russell and Sewers. Stanford: Aus
tin, Chadwick, De Graft, Hutchins
Jung. Kilmor, Marshall, McKin
strey, Piecyewskowski, Rienecke
Sturgeon, Swanson and Leavitt.
The first year Oarsnlen were
given a three weeks start on
the varsity because OF the i'm.
pOrtance which is attached to
their training and development
this year. The varsity will be
badly broken up by graduation
in June and the outlook is that
the crew of 1928, which will
aspire for the Olympic hOnors,
must be largely recruited from
the present plebe squad.
The varsity oarsmen will reporr
on the oath, of the present month
There remain Tom Eddy (captair
and stroke), Born, Broadbent anC
Bagdanovitch, all very powerful
oarsmen, from last year. Also
there is Hoerner, football center
who started vita the varsity las
season, but had to stop on accoun
Of illness. Lindell. Olson, Glenn
Stukey and Freeman, varsity sub
stitutes of last season, are also a.
hand, with four or five strons
youths from the plebe crew.
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
DUFFY AT NASHVILLE

Duffy Lewis has signed to play
the outfield for the Nashville club
of the Southern Association. Lewis
started out as manager Of the
Mobile team last season and fin
ished up with the Jersey City
Shelters.
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
NOT So EXPENSIVE

The Robins pay list for next
season will be considerably lighter
than last year. as three OF his
highest paid stars have left the
club. Wheat last year drew down
SIS, 900, Fourier $4,000 and
Grimes $12,500. That's a total of
$40. 300.
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
ROBINS GAZE WAS POOR

1t is said that the Robins lost
money both in 1925 and last year.
The official attendance figures Of
the National League showed that
the Robins finished sixth In this
respect last season.
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
COSTLY CARGO

John ]. Brady, manager of the
Thoroughbred Horsemen's Associa.
|, ton, estimates that he ships about
$50, 000,0 900 worth of thoroughbred
stock during the racing season, at
cost of close to a $l,00, 600.
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
HARD LUCK

Paul Wiley of Huntington. Ind,
missed a perfect bowling score by
a single pin when No. failed to
topple after he rolled his twelfth
ball.
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
TENNESSEE MAKES BID

In order to stimulate horse.
breeding in Tennessee, application
has been made to place Nashville
in the grand circuit Of harness
horse racing.
The Washington times., 1927-01-17

green, and eat up shots instead of
distance. think that there is no
doubt that the old ball is more de.
pendable on the putting green. ]
speak from bitter personal expert.
ence. Realizing the tremendous dis.
lance of the Oakmont course, / ar.
ranged last fall to get a particularly
fast ball. It lived up to its name
but when IL reached those green's,
disaster confronted me. ! took four
puts on three greens, and three on
many others. The bali simply would
not stop rolling, acting as If on a
tin roof.
or course, the green's were
very fast and very undulating,
and / had not had time to prac-
tice putting with this ball.
Whether after practice it would
have been more easily con-
trOlled. do not know, but it
did show the immense differ
ences of the new BAN between
the shots on the fairway and
the shots on the green. / had
not practiced the shots through
the fairway either with this par
ticular ball.
There is q big question as to
what lies before us. II the drive is
heightened to to green on every
hole, golf win be a putting contest
among the long drivers. All of the
skillful shots once played through
the fairway will disappear for any
except the short drivers. VIII our
championships be divided into two
classes? The long drivers who will
putt their way to victory and the
short drivers who will still play the
skilled shots We used to know. 1t
Is a strange situation that confronts
US, for the new ball has advanced
the long game in a remarkable way
and left the shot game either I'M
touched or worse.
Copyright, John r. Ollie Coz
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
Putting Par
Remains
Same
By Charles Chick Evans, j

BY Charles Chick Evans, Jr.
Two important facts have been
emphasized. In present day golf:
One is the cutting down OF strokes
between tee and green, while the
green itself still holds to a par two
strokes. The Iong,flying new BAH
has cut down the distance on our
courses, but 1t proves even less
manageable than the older and slow.
er bail when 1t reaches the putting
green. There was a time when q
par drive was considered to be 200
yards, now it IL 225 and the long
drives greatly exceed that.
The other shots are cor.
respOndingly increased in length,
but once reach the putting
green and oId.time figures pre-.
vail. Two strokes are still par.
Three are not SO bad Il not re.
peated too often, one is still
something Of q miracle that
spells success.
The humorous question we have
so often heard as to what is the
easiest shot In golf is still In order
And the answer is "the fourth
putt"
The new balls fairly eat up the
course. But they Craze and hop
and bounce all over the putting
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
A. OZARK" ACE

Gene Sarazen played night golf
at Briar Cliff. N. Y, three years
ago and made q hole in one.
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
Fans Waste Their AR

Fans Waste Their Air
BASEBALL fans everywhere are
ID wasting their wind voting for
or against iris Speaker, Ty Cobb
and Joe Wood.
Judge Lands has never made
any decision against any of them.
He said they were no longer in
baseball. Therefore, he had no
jurisdiction over them.
If the fire-breathing Ty Cobb
and the heaft-broken Iris Speaker
are confident of their innocence,
they have but to horn into Or
gained baseball somewhere, thus
reopening their cases.
Let Speaker, for instance, de-
mand a contract from the Cleve-
land club, if he is still on the
retired list. Cobb is said to have
been released by the Detroit club,
so might have trouble starting
anything.
But the fans should remember
that they waste their wind in
ARGUING about matter which has
rendered both Cobb and Speaker
absolutely dumb.
Hornsby a Private
WASHINGTON baseball fans
w are going to hear lot
about Rogers Hornsby this spring.
He will be playing second base
for the Giants in 13 contests with
the Griffmen before the regular
campaign opens in April. Fur
thermore, unshackled of the duties
and cares of managing a team, it.
is expected that he will once more
become the "great Hornsby" of
a few years back.
A year ago Hornsby was man
aging a team of great potential
strength in all but it's pitching.
At a crisis in the league race he
obtained Alexander and was able
to sweep over the line in first
place. Serious injury to his own
back. however, kept him from
equaling former records in hitting
and his personal record was swai-
lowed up in the glory Of the
world title.
This year Hornsby will be in
perfect physical condition and
without the worries of handling
a team trying to repeat it's pen.
nant triumph. He should prove a
wonderful player and drawing
card for the Giants wherever they
appear
The Washington times., 1927-01-17

Dependa BILE professional, business or
commercial service can be acquired
more easily through reading the
WHO'S WHO" columns of today's
Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1927-01-17
q - WASHINGTON TINES SPORTS
MONDAY. JANUARY II, 1927

Copyright. 1927 international Feature
Service. Incl
Evening star., 1927-09-14
DE HAVILAND PLANE
SOUGHT BY BIDDERS
Ninteen Offer $100 to $4,000 for
Nine Mail Carriers at Post
Office Department.

Nineteen bidders, scattered through
out the country. offered prices ranging
from 500 to $4,000 for the nine re.
manning De Haviland mail planes in
possession of the Post Office Depart
ment, it was revealed yesterday aft.
ernoon when sealed proposals were
opened. The planes. the department
announced, will go to the highest bid
derS.
General Always. Inc. of New York.
submitted bids for all of the planes.
Among the individual bidders was shir-
ley J. Short. former air mail pilot and
holder of the Harmon Trophy for 1926.
now flying for the National Air Trans
port, Inc. He offered $1,527 for plane
No. 42S, which he used to fly on the
transcontinental route for the Gov
ernment.
Other bidders were: Fairchild Avia.
ton Corporation. New York; John
Berry, Cleveland; Harry J. Brown,
Cleveland; Walter A. English, Taft.
Calf; Robertson Aircraft Corporation,
Anglum. Mo-; Crawford Motor Supply
Co., Chicago: Pacific Air Transport.
San Francisco: Harry A. Holman, Col
orado Springs, Colo; Boeing Air
Evening star., 1927-09-14
BIRTHDAYS REMEMBERED.
Pershing and Mrs. Macauley HonOred
on Ieyiafhan

s. s. LEVIATHAN, September IA
CP).-Fifteen hundred American Ie-
gionnaires en- route to Paris gath
cred yesterday to congratulate their
fellow passengers. Gen. Pershing,
commander of the American eNpe-
dictionary force. and Mrs. Macauley.
national president of the Legion
Auxiliary, on their birthday anniver-
sary.
In the receiving line. in addition
to Gen. Pershing and Mrs. Macauley.
We're Howard p. Savage. national
commander of the Legion; Charles
A. Mills, head of the Forty and
Eight ana Mrs. Kramer. head of
the women's Eight and Forty.
Gen. Pershing said he was getting
younger every day and refused to
tell his age. so the crowd congratu-
lated him on being y and Mrs.
Macauley on being 16. Gen. Per-
shing was born September 13, 1860
A committee TOR the direction OF
sports and eatrtainmnt aboard has
been elected, with one member from
each State in the Union.
Evening star., 1927-09-14
BIG OFFICE ESTABLISHED
Phone Number Is American Legion:
.,Decial Cables Are Rushed.

PARIS. September II (P).-"Ameri-
can Legion" is now the telephone mum
her of the staid old Palais du Troca-
dero-one of the first signs of the com
Ing invasion of the American Legion
naireS.
No figures and no exchange are
needed Just American Legion" will
put one through to the American
downtown business, office. in which so
.enographl- ana as many clerks es-
tabliened headquarters today.
The state-owned auditorium, which
hitherto has been reserved for artis-
tistic manifestations of music, song
and dance, now resembles any busy
New York office. Two special cables
both of which. are operated by
American companies--are doing land
offico huSiueSS
Evening star., 1927-09-14

Mrs Windsor kale writes t ole
friends here that she's still married
an feelin' fine, cept her husbands S
father has no other place t live.
All our vacationists are returnin'
wishin they had ther money back.
A husband is a feller. accordin' t
his wife in tn back scat, who can't see
load o. hay comm.
Evening star., 1927-09-14
WOMAN HELD IN OREGON
AS SLAYER OF HUSBAND
Loreno Trickery Of Lakeview
Charged With Numbering "Slim"
Harris. Star Rodeo Performer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LAkEVIEW. Ore, September IA
After nine da 5 of investigation
Lorena Trickery. widow of Slim Har-
ris. star rodeo performer. has been
charged with murder in connection
with her husbands death.
Harris was stabbed to death as
he and Miss Trickery. also a winner
of many rodeo prizes, were driving
along a highway near here the eve
ming of September 4. She testified
at a preliminary hearing yesterday
that man jumped on the running
board of their car and plunged
knife into her husbands heart.
She admitted purchasing the knife
with which Harris was killed, but
declared it was removed from sta
bic where she left it.
In one month recently minerals
mined in the Transvaal weighed 5,000.
600 pounds.
Evening star., 1927-09-14
PENNLANDPARTy
HOLDS CEREMONIES
Legionnaires En- Route to
Paris Pay Tribute to Flyers
and Men Who Died at Sea.
By the Associated Press.


5. 5. PENNLAND September IA
The 400 American Legionnaires on
board the Pennland are looking for
ward eagerly to their arrival at Ant
werp mex. Sunday morning, TO begin
the pilgrimage which will take them TO
Paris for the Legion convention. They
VIII stop off in Brussels and place a
wreath on the tomb Of the Unknown
Belgian Soldier.
Impressive memorial services were
held early in the voyage for Nunges-
ser and Coli, the French aViators lost
in an attempt t. fly from Paris to
New York A miniature airplane and
a wreath were lowered to the water
by Wade Phillips, Legion representa-
tive. A tiny ship was also launched
in memory of the sailors. soldiers and
Marines who died at sea in the World
War.
A memorial address was delivered
by ]. G. Sims. national vice command
er of the Legion; sacred music was
rendered. and the ceremony ended with
the sounding of TAPS"
Evening star., 1927-09-14
CONTRACT is AWARDED.
Transportation Provided for Tu-
bercular School Pupils.

A contract for transporting pupils
attending tubercular schools during
the new school year. which begins
Monday, was awarded by the Com.
nissioners yesterday afternoon to the
Washington Coach Co., the low bid
Ter. which offered to furnish busses
1t a rate of $l0,50 n day per bus.
The Capital Traction Co., the only
other bidder wanted SIS a day per
bus for hauling children to and from
the Health School and S12 a day for
those attending the Harrison School.
Evening star., 1927-09-14

Bureau. The District home for the
feeble-minded is located in Maryland,
near Camp Meade. Seven persons
were admitted to the institution for
the first time in 1925.
Sixty of the IS State institutions
for feeble-minded and epileptics. in
operation in 36 States, received a total
Evening star., 1927-09-14

of 1908 patients during 1925. an in
crease of 8.6 per cent over 1922. the
bureau statement said.
There were rs first admissions per
100 900 of the general population. as
compared with IA in 1922. indicating.
the bureau said. that the number OF
patients who had not previously been
Evening star., 1927-09-14
SCHOOL SITE COMPLETED.
Purchase of Final Lot for Bright
wood Junior High Authorized.

~ Purchase of the final lot needed to
complete the site for the Brightwood
Junio. High School was authorized
Yesterday afternoon by the District
Commissioners. The lot contains
4,422 square feet, and will be acquired
at a cost of IS cents a square foot,
or 81 1,9S9.90.
The remainder of the site was pur-
chased several months ago. 1t is
bounded by Eighth and Ninth streets,
Peabody street and Concord avenue.
If You think you are working very
hard, the chances are you are not.
Tne hardest workers don't look upon
work as work.
Evening star., 1927-09-14
Al PATIENTS ENROLLED.
Report Of Institution for Feeble
Minded and Epileptics.

Forty-one patients were in the one
Washington institution for feeble
minded and epileptics on January /,
1927. compared with % in the same
institution on January 1, 1926, ac-
cording to a survey Of such institu-
tions made public today by the Census
Evening star., 1927-09-14

Transport, Inc. Salt Lake City. Utah;
w. Huking, Salt Lake City George r.
Anderson, San Francisco; w. II. Dun
can, Reno. New; Edward Hubbard.
Salt Lake City; r. p. Jonesc. Vallejo,
Calf, and II. T. Willsey, Martinez,
Calf
Evening star., 1927-09-14

the uery finest
Just as he was going to buy the usual suit,
he stopped turned in here at this store and
bought Society Brand!
He was surprised at himself, and in.
clined at first to doubt the wisdom of the
purchase The suit was a wonder-made
up in the new Haddon fabrics, rich
worsted cheviot. He'd never bought any.
thing like it in his life.
But if he had doubts, the first friend he
met settled them. No one had ever com.
plimented him so on clothes as people now
began to do. And for the first time he ex.
perienced the assurance of being perfectly
dressed-of wearing clothes that were flaw.
less in cut.
We hare fine selection Of
this nep Haddon fabric for
Fall Crays, bro,ons and blues,
all in exclusive iUedUeS
SIS
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Direct Elevators fronM len Second Floor
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LOT H E S
Evening star., 1927-09-14
given institutional treatment increased
only a little more rapidly than the
general population.

Apples sent from this country to Ar
gentina in the past year filled 10000
barrels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-13
GRASSELLTS WIFE
WINS DIVORCE SUIT
Former Ticket Seller Granted
$4,000 a Year and Prop
erty Worth 100000.
Ey the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 49,
The romance of a blonde beauty,
who was employed as a ticket seller
at a local motion picture theater, with
her millionaire prince" ended yes
terday when Mrs. Helen Long Gras-
SELF was granted divorce from Ed
ward Grassell, heir to the Grasselli
chemical fortune. in Common Pleas
Court here. Gross neglect of duty was
given as grounds for the divorce.
Once a ticket seller drawing So
week in a local theater, Mrs. GraS-
SELF found herself today with prop
erty valued at more than 100000 and
an allowance of $4,000 a year from a
trust fund provided by Grasseiil,
While permitting her to retain her
$4,000 annuity the court decreed she
must relinqush any interest in Gras-
SELLS trust, the income from 1900
shares of preferred stock in the Gras
seli Chemical Co. and she must pay
$15 600 in debts outstanding against
her. Mrs. Grasselli, through her at
torneys. had entered a motion to
withdraw her divorce petition after
weeks had been spent in taking depo-
sitionS at notary hearings, but the
court refused her motion.
Sllowcrcd With Gifts.
Testimony at the notary hearings
revealed that Grasselli had lavished
money and gifts on Mrs. GraSselli
and her relatives, settling a dover
right on her sister. Leita Long, and
purchasing expensive presents and
automobiles for his wife.
The notary hearing barred Gras-
SELLS relations with another Wom- |
an" whom he met in Miami. Fla, |
and is now living in Washington, |
d. c. Grasselli admitted that he had |
lavished gifts on the "other woman
who was saleslady in Miami shop, |
and had made half a dozen trips to
Washington to see her.
Are you intending to marry this
woman if divorced?" Mrs. Grassellis
attorney asked Grasselli during the
hearing
That is unanswerable at the pres
ent time" Grasselli replied. but ad- |
mitted after further questioning that |
he had a tentative agreement with |
the "other woman" whose name was |
never revealed, to consider marriage |
after the legal entanglements involv- |
Ing his present wife were cleared.
Fed Hungry Relatives.
For six years during our married |
life, every time the dinner bell rang |
at our home it was Mrs. Grasselli's |
hungry sisters and their husbands |
who composed four-fifths of those who |
put their feet under our table,"
Grasselli said
Early in the hearing Mrs Grasselli |
complained that she was unable to |
live adequately" on the $4,000 per
year Grasselli had been giving her
since their separation. When asked
by Grasselii's attorneys if her husband
had ever failed to provide her with
things she desired, she replied that
she had never been "skimped' for
money but that Grasselli had fatty
refused to buy her $4,000 speed
boat, a $4,000 automobile, and a
100000 home on Long Island. which
she wanted
In granting the divorce today, the
court ordered Mrs. Grasselli to return
Jewels that belonged to Grasselli's |
mother. Testimony during the hear
ing revealed that Mrs. Grasselli had |
pawned the three pieces of jewelry
to secure $4,000 cash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-13
BIG DOWNPOUR FLOODS
ARIZONA-UTAH POINTS
Man Electrocuted as Result of
Storm and Communication
Lines Are Crippled.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PHOENIX, Ariz., September ia
trail of crippled lines of communica-
ton from southern Arizona north to
central Utah today marked the prog
ress of storm which brought record
rainfall to many points. One death
was reported.
The heaviest rains in years were re.
ported in northern Arizona. More
than five inches of rain sent streams
to flood marks north of Prescott. A. E.
Wright, superintendent of a construc-
ton company, was electrocuted near
here when the ella River undermined
a power line.
Price, Utah, where :: res Of motor
lists and passengers on transconti-
mental trains were marooned last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-13
MINISTER SHOOTS TWO
IN GUN AND ROCK FIGHT
Clergyman Tells of Beating Over
Pulpit Utterances--Men Say
Parson Provoked Trouble.

BY the Associated Press.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. September
t3.-~Two versions OF gun and rock
battle at Fort Payne. Ala, In which
two men were shot by Rev. Frank
Casey, Baptist minister. Saturday.
have reached this city. The min
lister said he was beaten because he
refused to retract pulpit statements.
Rev. Mr., Casey, badly beaten about
the face and head. said he was at
tackled on highway by George Mil
Ter, who knocked him into ditch,
while Fl. G.. Miller beat him about the
head with stone. The minister said
he fired on the men with a shotgun
when they followed him to his home
The Mllers say the minister fired
on them as they passed his house
Warrants were sworn out against the
Mfllers charging assault and attempt
to commit murder. The Millers re-
ceived charges of shot about the face
and chest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-13

week, again was clearing away debris
from washouts caused by torrential
rains yesterday. Water several feet
deep poured through the streets. leav-
ing a mass of mud, timbers and rock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-13

Believed to be the heaviest star, one
recently weighed" has 800 times the
weight of the sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-13

England has a women's cricket
league.