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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27
MARYLAND TO VOTE
ON VALED|CTOR|AN
Washingtonian Is One of
Three Chosen for Senior
Class Post.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

COLLEGE PARK, Nd. February
26.-Clark Beach, William Hill and
Milford Sprecher have been nomina
ted for valedictorian of the senior
class at the University Of Maryland
Election will be by vote of the class
at a meeting to be held next Thurs
day. Beach is from Washington and
the other two are from Maryland.
Two juniors and five sophomores
have been pledged by Phi Chi Alpha
honorary engineering fraternity. They
are: Juniors, r. FL. Brubaker and A
r. Myers; sophomores. r. r. Bill
meyer, William LAMAR, H. e. Ort,
G.. T. Semensky and c. 1. Smith.
1t has been definitely decided that
the Junior prom will be held at the
New Willard Hotel in Washington on
March IS. This action was taken at
a meeting of the junior class. r. w
Powers is chairman of the prom com
mittee, the other members being
Frances Morris, Nelson Spottswood
John Ryerson, Albin Knight and
Bruce Emerson.
Fifty-one students, the largest
number ever listed. have been per.
mitted by the Graduate School to be.
come candidates for advanced degrees
to be awarded in June. Fifty.four are
striving for their masters and seven
for Phi. DIS. They were picked at a
meeting of their professors and the
Graduate Council, Of which Dean G
o. Appleman Of the Graduate School
Is chairman.
A novel method OF teaching public
speaking has been devised by Prof
Charles s. Richardson. head Of that
department. A club has been organ.
lied with a president and other Off.
GERS, and a program committee plans
the speeches and readings for each
day. The club. which is called the
Winono Civic Club, is supposed to
represent the citizens association OF
town of about 10000 inhabitants
The discussions include parliamentary
law in addition to a variety of other
subjects.
Dean A. n. Johnson of the College
of Engineering has just returned
from Urbana. where he gave paper
on Highway Traffic" before the
University of Illinois Road School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27
FIVE ARE HURT AS TRAIN
SIDESWIPES ANOTHER
Flamingo Annex Hits String of
Freight Cars at Chris
tiansburg, Ky.
By the AssociatedlPress

BY the AssociatedFPress.
CRAFTSMANSHIP KY, February
26.-Three passengers and two train
men were hurt. one seriously, today
when the Flamingo Annex, fast pas.
senger train of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railr :. d sideswiped a string of
freight cars on siding here.
r. l.. Thomas, fireman of the Annex,
suffered injuries to his skull and
spine when he jumped. The other in
jured, all Of Louisville, were: G.. /.
Dorsey. engineer of passenger train,
cut and bruised; Mrs. c. Il. Clark, wife
of a Louisville & Nashville employee,
injuries to the neck and back; K. II.
Daley. back probably sprained, and
8. e. Booker, thumb cut and back
probably sprained.
The engine. tender and baggage
cars were derailed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27
Boone Kinsman Dies.

NEW YORK, February Is R).--
Death of James w. Barnhill pioneer
Kentuckian. and great.grandnephew
of Daniel Boone, was announced to-
day. Mr.. Barnhill, who was 80 years
old, died at q hospital last night. His
grandfather, who migrated to Ken
lucky from North Carolina in 1859,
married Ruth Boone, niece of the IA
nous frontieramAn. He Is survived
by his Vie and seven children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27
SOCIETY TO HEAR PAPERS

can evening with the Plymouth
Pilgrims" will be held tomorrow
evening at the Franklin Square
Hotel. Fourteenth and X streets. by
the Society of Mayf1ower Descendants
in the District. The governor OF the To-
cal society, Thomas F. Whittelsey
will preside.
Papers will be read by Harold NJ.
Marsh, Mrs. Bertha NJ. Robbins. John
Altheus johnson. Mrs. Bertha NJ. Rob
ertson, Maurice III. Thatcher, Miss
Catherine B. Barlow. Frank Fl.
Briggs, Miss Mary w. Durham, Henry
g. Croker, Mrs. Eli A. Helmick. Car
ter b. Keene and Anthony Burns.
Music will be given by the Women's
City Club quartet. Mrs. Gertrude
Lyons, director.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27

T. Harvey Henshaw and C. M.
Price of Alexandria. Va. were taken
to the Alexandria Hospital and
treated for cuts and bruises, follow
ing an accident on the Alexandria
Washington road at Four Mile Run
at 8 o'clock last night, when the
small sedan In which Price and Hen
shaw were riding collided with Win
chester Washington bus. No one on
the bus was hurt. Both the sedan and
the bus were damaged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27
Cousin Nearing 88.

The surviving cousin, himself
nearing his eighty eighth birthday,
tells the story of Cap'n Burge that has
been rivermen's gossip for years, a
story that goes back over 35 years to
a little drygoods store in Alexandria.
Frank Burge, the real name of the
old "Cap'n,' was clerk in the little
shop and he was prospecting. He
asked the girl of his choice to become
his wife and she accepted him. Plans
were being made for the wedding,
when
II don't know just what hap
pened," the cousin said yesterday, but
for some reason the two of them split
up suddenly. Somebody said the girl
had run away and married another
young man, but don't know. I don't
know whatever became of her; but
Frank, newell, he was hurt mighty
bad and / reckon he showed 1t"
Then there was a period of taunts
by the other young men of the time
and the continuous suffering of heart
break, the cousin related, and he con-
tinued:
AT last Frank packed up few
things and dumped them in a row.
boat and came over here. He hit the
bank right about where that shack is
now and there he stayed. That was
80 years ago. and he hasn't been
away from there since, except to row
folks across the river or to take
fishermen out in his boats, or to go to
q nearby store for his provisions"
Guests Barred From Hut.
The cousin said that through all
the years he had never known of any
one who visited Burge to be allowed
to enter the little howell. He himself
had called several times, the last visit
being a month ago, but he had never
been invited indoors, he said.
The shack today presents a pitiable
sight. Its walls of thin boards are
caulked with tufts of cotton and the
interior Is sheathed with newspapers
long Drowned with years. In one cor
ner there Is a broken-down iron cook
stove and in the back end q single
bunk of boards spans the entire width
of the room, scant seven feet. Two
narrow windows of crude design per-
NIT the only light and ventilation.
Four rowboats which We're used by
Burge in his ferry and fisherman
livery were tied together at the very
doorstep of the shack and they have
now been removed to the float of the
District institution.
Burge, his cousin said yesterday
was the youngest son of a family of
seven-four girls and three boys, all
Of whom died just after the Civil War
His parents were Thomas Burge, a
barber of Alexandria, and Mrs. Han.
nah Burge. That is all the cousin
knows, and that, he thinks, is con.
siderably more than any other living
person knows of the man whose life
may have Knocked Byron, who wrote
MANS love Is of mans life thing
apart; tits woman's whole existence "
New Britain herald., 1927-07-27
JOHNSON PLAYED
 IN ONE CONTEST
Ban Caught for College Team
 Against Cleveland Mats

Chicago, July 27 CP-Yn the twi- light of his baseball career. Ban Johnson today recalled the only major league game in which he ever participated as a played. 47 years ago.
 Johnson was a catcher. and his team. representing Oberlin college. defeated the Cleveland Nationals in 1880, to o.
 We had strapping big negro named Davis pitching" Johnson said. "and l caught him, with no mask. chest protector or shin guards. Davis surely had wicked inshoot and after the game I soaked my catching hand in hot salt water for hours.
 That was before the days of the modern catcher's glove and I pad ded up my fingerless mitt for the game, but not enough, it seemed. Davis was six feet tall, and black smith. from St. Louis.'
 Ban was then in his fifteenth year and freshman at Oberlin. Two years later he entered Marietta col- lege the Alma Mater of Vice-Presi- dent Dawes.
 It was there that his real affection for the diamond developed and he said today that he had promised to go there for the dedication of the new athletic field this fall.
 T played at second. besides catch ing, at Marietta, but I remember best the dormitory windows I used to knock out with home runs.
 My mother objected strenuously to my playing so could never take my suit home to wash 1t. I remem- Der one game when I got razzed for being the only Marietta player in a dirty suit. but after I got a couple of long drives. they forgot about the soiled uniform"
 Johnson's first efforts at building up ball parks, he said. was at Mari etta, where he headed the student organization which raised funds to build Marietta colleges first diamond and grandstand.
 Johnson laughed as he recalled a story told him by the vice-president about that first ball park.
 You are the only man who was ever able to talk my father out of such donation" Mir. Dawes told Johnson. My father subscribed Sl50, and no one else was ever able to win him over like that"
New Britain herald., 1927-07-27
 IN
MUCH TALK ABOUT
 SALE 0F TICKETS
Chicago Fans Think Champion
 ship Bout Is Settled

Chicago. July 27 R-one of the customary accompaniments of heavy weight cham pionsnlp boxing matches a ticket scandal. would be as novel to Chicago boxing fans as the cham pionship fight, for neither has been on display here since boxing was -legalized.
 With the conference of Tex Rick ard and Chicago officials set for to- morrow, much of the fight discus- sion here among those who assume that 1t Is as good as settled. has ragged around the ticket distribution.
 An $S0,000 gate is the highest that has been attained here, even though titles in all the classes but heavy weight have been at stake, the Dempsey Tunney match promises a gate of more than s2.000.000.
 The Army-Navy football crowd of 110, ,O00 at Soldier Field last fall was handled with barely murmur of discontent concerning tickets. The South park board. controlling the stadium, handled those tickets direct and some similar arrangement has been advocated for the title match, should 1t come here.
 Jack Kearns, Dempsey's former manager, who renewed his threats of legal action against Dempsey here If the fight is awarded to Chicago, expressed surprise today when Jim Mullen, the leading Chicago pro- moter, said he had not been con- suited about the Dempsey-Tunney match.
 Mullen declared he might have something to say if Rickard decided to bring the championship fight here.
 "The way it looks to me-" Mullen said, "is that as long as local pro- moters were asked to live up to the law very strictly, there is no reason why some outsider should come in here and violate the laws even if he does have the right kind of political backing.
 Mullen referred to the provision in the Illinois boxing law which re- quires that promoters must be bona fide residents of two years standing before they can obtain licenses. George F. Getz, millionaire coal man and head of Mayor Thompson's civic affairs committee. has an- nounced that he will take out the promoters license himself for the title match,
New Britain herald., 1927-07-27
RIVALS TO BATTLE 0N AMATEUR CARD
Joe Howard and Jack Kelly
 HeadlinerS at YelOdrOme

Hartford, July 26 - Joe Howard of Hartford and Jack Kelly of Waterbury are two of the keenes, rivals in state amateur boxing circles.
 Howard formerly owned the state middleweight title while Kelly is the present titleholder. They have met three times. Kelly was the victor the first two bouts but three weeks ago at the Hartford velodrome How ard gave things a vicious reverse English by kayoing the Brass City youngster.
 Wednesday night they will meet in the feature bout of the Massa- soft A. c. show at the Hartford veiodrome and the fur is sure to fly. Kelly insists he was not thinking of the fight when Howard knocked him cut. but was concerned chiefly about his younger brother, who, earlier in the night. had been knocked out for several minutes by Joe Bard. The Brass City youngster says he will knock out Howard this time.
 Other bouts on this card promise to make it the banner amateur show of the season. "Pinkey' Kaufman will meet Joe Mccarthy of New Ha- ven; Joe Bard of Hartford will clash with Lucien Lariviere of Waterbury and Bill Taylor of Hartford, former Hartford High star athlete, will take on Paul Terzo of Hartford in three of action. There will be at least a dozen bouts with the first set for S:15. Ladies will be admitted free. There are some 40 entries.
 Tasillo's band will give a concert before bouts and v!ll play in the intervals between the bouts.
New Britain herald., 1927-07-27
BROWNS FAIL TO BEAT
 YANKEES THIS SEASON
Hugmen Defeat St. Louis In Double Header-Cleveand Twin Washington Senators Take Two From Chicago - Pittsburgh In Tie For First Place By Downing Brooklyn Robins
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
 The St. Louis Browns already de- feated 13 times by the Yankees. have yet to win ball game from their New York foe this season.
 A crowd of 30,000 welcomed the American league champions on their return to New York yesterday and Miller Higgins outfit replied with a broadside of hits that laid the Brownies low in two games. The Hugmen took the opener by a l5-1 count and then pounded out l2-3 victory that gave additional weight St. Louis that his team was over loaded with fading veterans and re- conditioned players.
 Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig started their home run derby whirring again. Bambino belted one of Gaston's slants out of the lot in the first in- ming of the opener and found an- other in the sixth to his liking. Ruth's two wallops brought his sea- son total to 33, but Gehrig connect ed for his 32nd in the windup con- test.
 Cleveland trimmed Boston by 7-2 score. Both teams scored all their runs in the third inning. Ira Flagstear hit home run with Myer on first. Shaute held the Red Sox to six hits.
 The Athletics and the Detroit Tigers split doubleheader at Phil- adelphia. Detroit won the first game 10 to 1 and the Mackmen the second to 2. Fothergill and Manush hit for the circuit
 The Washington Senators return ed to their home grounds and won a twin bill from Chicago 5-1 and 6-5. The second game went II innings, although the Senators outhit their rivals IS to 5. Joe Judge collected five hits in six attempts in the night cap.
 Pittsburgh went into tie with the Chicago Cubs for first place in the National league when they de- feated Brooklyn 6-5.
 Max Carey starred for the Robins witt t'"ec hits. Three runs and three sic. hases but the rest of Uncle WilbSrts flock was somewhat dor mant. Lee Meadows went the route on the mound for the Cubs.
 Cincinnati made it four straight from the St. Louis Cardinals and in- creased their winning streak to six games by handing the worlds cham pions the short end of 1l-1o count.
 AMERICAN LEAGUE
New Britain herald., 1927-07-27
LANDERS' WIN AS FAFNIR
 LOSES IN DUSTY LEAGUE
Universas Nose Out New Britain Machine After Hard Uphill Battle Bearing Makers Victims of Slants of Rittner- Stanley Rule Team Shows Great Strength In Attack-Both Contests Are Marked By Bitter Fights of Teams
Newnatics.

Newmatics.
 The Newmatics were unable to score in their haf but Landers l.ept it up in the seventh. Dorazio led off with a single. Hillstrand scored him with single into right. Goeb lined double into left scoring Hillstrand but Goeb was caught at third trying to stretch the hit. Charlow got g. life when Ference dropped his high fly in right field. He got around to third but was caught at the plate on an attempted steal.
 Pattison dropped Hillstrand's Fly in left iE the first of the ninth to put one man on. Charlow singled 10 right and Hillstrand went for third. Ference threw wildly to catch him and he scored.
 The Newmatics staged a spirited rally in the last half of the ninth. Erny Anderson was safe when Vim cent fumbled his grounder to short. Krause was hit by pitched hall. Eric Anderson lined double just inside the first base bag and Enry scored with Krouse stopping at third. Argosy ended the inning when Darrow threw him out at first.
 Mickey Bucheri was forced to re- tire. in the fourth inning when he was struck in the eye by ball that took bad hop. His optic was badly swollen Nester featured on the de- fense with two beautiful stops at third base of balls that seemed to be sure hits on which he got his man at first. Eric Anderson pulled the sensational catch of the day when he stabbed fly one hand after 3 hard run. Darrow played nicely at second. Hillstrand. Goeb and Charlow were the leading hit ters for the winners while Eric An- derson was the big sticker for the Newmatics. The summary:
New Britain herald., 1927-07-27

The Landers Frary & Clark base ball team yesterday climbed back into the race for the Industrial league pennant by nosing out the New Britain Machine team in hard fought game last night. The Faf- mir team was dumped out in the cold by the Stanley Rule team in their clash on the first diamond. The win of the Landers team makes a triple tie for first place possibility as the Stanley Works team is just behind the Corbin crew in the stand ing.
 Landers Win Game
 The Landers Frary & Clark base ball team nosed out the New Brit ain Machine team 8 to on Dia- mond No. 2 last night in one of the hardest-fought games seen in the Industrial League this year. It was an uphill battle for Landers and it was only in the seventh inning that the Universals were able to tie the score and go into the lead. The Newmatics scored one in the last of the ninth but with two men on, could not produce the necessary punch to bring in the tying counter and the game went to I,anders.
 Preisser started on the mound for the winners but he had a night mare for time while in there. An error and four solid snracks, one double. brought in four runs and gave the Newmatics a big margin to work on. Chant relieved him in the second inning and allowed only four hits for the rest of the game. Three runs were scored off him.
 Erny Anderson pitched an air tight game until the sixth inning. He held the Universals hitless until this frame but when the winners started to crash them out, they did it in earnest A total of 10 safe bingles was registered in the four remaining innings off Anderson's delivery.
 Bucheri fumbled hard grounder by Krause to start the first inning after Landers had been retired in order. Smith crashed a single to center. Eric Anderson followed with with single to left. Argosy singled 1 into right and Mainello hit over the tennis courts The Newmatics were in the lead to o.
 Landers got on back in the sec ond inning. Vincent walked and stole second. He went to third when Krause booted Darrow's roller. He scored on an infield out. The Newmatics increased their 1 lead by two in the fourth. Haines. | lead-off man, crashed a double into | the tennis courts in deep left. Erny Anderson lined hit into right field | that went for a double. Eric An derson's single brought his name- sake in with the second run of the | frame giving the Newmatics a good sized lead to ].
 Nothing happened in the fifth but the seventh Gawned with Anderson still flinging them over in good form. Chant started the rally with q single just inside the third base | bag. Hillstrand filed out to left. Goeb landed q single through short and third and Chant pulled up at second. Charlow lined a single into center and Chant scored. Vincent doubled into the tennis courts in left field. Darrow cleaned the sacks with l a triple into right, making the score to still in favor of the
New Britain herald., 1927-07-27
American
TWINKLE STARS WIN

The Twinkle Stars baseball team defeated the Speedboys yesterday morning at Walnut Hill park by the score Of 10 to 4. The Twinkle Stars line up as follows: Leo Balicki c, Zigmund Pawloski p, Frank Kowa!- czyk 1b, Edward Pawlowski 2b, Sebastian Cannata SIS, Walter Ba- licki 3b, Joseph Miadkowski If. An drew kopy Of, and Henry Pawlow- ski, If. The Twinkle Stars would like 10 play any team in the city averaging from 10 10 13 years of age. Address Edward Pawlowski, 104 Cleveland street.
New Britain herald., 1927-07-27
(BY NEA SERVICE)

New Orleans, La. July 27.-Upon the head of a 15-year-old golfer rests the championship of this state.
 The "kid" is Edwin Mcclure of Shreveport, who won his laurels by defeating, among others. the nation ally known Fred Lamprecht twice winner of the national intercollegiate championship.
 Louisiana golfers. remembering how Atlanta and Georgia went wild over Bobby Jones when that great golfer was mere youngster, are not claiming 8 similar career for their youngster.
 They do predict, however. that Mcclure has the possibilities of fol- lowing in Jones' footsteps to a great extent. They are sane enough to know that golfers of the Bobby Jones type are few and far between.
 This Mcclure is like another great Golfer, Harry Cooper. in many re- spects. He's cocky and chance taker, and don't mind the world knowing he thinks he's pretty good!
 He never worries. He never knows when he is beaten. He plays his best at all times. regardless of whether he is up or down in a match. Natural ability he has, and plenty of it.
 The new champion had his first real tournament experience in 1926 when he qualified in the state meet with an so. He didn't get far in that meet losing out to Reuben G. Bush III. one of the greats in southern golf, in the second round of match play.
 This year the same two players met in the same round that they had the year previous, and Mcclure won and went on to the champion ship after beating Lamprecht, the titleholder.
 The kid has been playing golf for five years. N. W. Mcclure, his dad, used to take him and his brother James to the club regularly and bought them a set of clubs to while away their time while he was out on the links.
 Neither Edwin nor James wasted their time. They were learning to play golf. Pros at the country club and there were several of them in those five years, took an interest ir the lads in short trousers and taugh, them the finer points of the game.
 When Edwin was 13 he broke 90 for the first time. He also wa, runner-up in the junior club cham. pionship that year, losing out to hit brother in the finals.
 He didn't break 80 until after he had taken part in his first state tournament. But since then break ing so is just one of those things ht does every time he plays.
 You never can tell how these bo, wonders will turn out but Mcclure seems to have all the essentials tt become a national figure in golf They believe in him in Shreveport they gave him a testimonial dime, after he had won the state cham pionship. and they're encouraging him to go on in golf to bigger ant better things, like Bobby Jones did.
 So you never can tell-the futur, Bobby Jones may be Edwin McClur, Of Shreveport. La. present stat, champion at the age of IS.
New Britain herald., 1927-07-27
SEEDED PLAYERS MEET
Helen Wills Plays Mrs. B. F. Cole End and Molla Mallory Battles Helen Jacobs.

Manchester, Mass, July 27 R@ Seeded players in the third annual Essex County clubs invitation ten- his tournament for women faced each other for the first time today with Miss Helen Wills, new British singles champion. aligned against Mrs. B. E. Cole 2nd. and Mrs. Mol la Mallory, American titleholder, facing Helen Jacobs of California in two of the matches.
 The latter battle was expected to be the feature of the day. Miss Ja- cobs forces play throughout and while not the equal of the Ameri- can champion from the backcourt, she holds threat of trouble if she can bring her net play into action.
 Miss Wills has come through her early matches with little visible ef- fort and her play here has been adjudged the best of her career. It Is expected that, barring the un- foreseen, she will meet Mrs. Mall lory in the finals.