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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-17

The general seat sale for "Waitll
va see" the Senior Follies of 1927,
which will appear at the Grand Thea
tire here on the evening of May 4th,
will open week from Monday at the
owl Drug store, according to Aaron
Levy university alumnus. Levy, pres
dent of the Douglas association of
University of Arizona alumni, was in
strumental in securing the Follies for
a performance in Douglas.
."waitsll va See" will be a musical
comedy revue, written and directed
by George Wettle, author of the sem
Tor follies of 1925 and 1926 &
The performance here was booked
because Of the demand of the univer-
sityS alumni in Bisbee, Douglas and
Tombstone that the show be given IN
the southern section of the state. Open
ing in Tucson on May End and 3rd,
the show will play here on the 4th and
finish the state tour in Phoenix with
two performances on the evenings of
the 9th and 7th.
The cast of the production including
comedians, singers, speciality dancers
and chorus girls, will number IS, the
select OF the campus talent All of
the principals and chorus girls were
selected following series of try-outs
in which more than 200 students, both
men and women, were entered.
Those who are sponsoring the Iper-
formaflce state that the booking of
the show for. a performance here is an
Fonor to the district, and it is hoped
that full house will greet the Fol-
lies in order that in future years the
appearance of the musical production
will be the outstanding event of the
local theatrical season.
"Waitll va See" viii be featured by
specially built scenery, costumes de-
signed under the direction of Miss Ag-
ness Mahoney, a Douglas girl; snap
py dancing, catchy melodies, clever
and comic skits, we'll blended chorus
and brilliant individual vocal rendi-
tions, and special 16-piece Follies
orchestra.
More. than half the cast are Choir
us girls being distributed in three
choruses, the Ingenues, the Double Sex
teste and the Show girls.
The price of seats for the perform
ance will be $3.50, 50 and 81. Mail or
ders accompanied by check may be
sent ia Aaron Levy now and they will
be filled in order of receipt.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-17
PLAN TO SPEND
THOUSANDS AT
GRAND CANYON

GRAND CANYON, April 16.-At the
close at conference here today
between officials of the U. S. de-
rartment Of the Interior, the U. S.
bureau of pull lie roads, and rcpre
sentatives of park operators, it was
announced that over a million ana
4 half dollars would be spent in the
Grand canyon national park during
the coming year for the construction
OF new roads, trails, and other IA
cilities.
In discussing these developments,
John H. Edwards, assistant secretary
Of the interior who presided at the
conference said, "The increasing pop
ularity of the Grand canyon nation-
al park has made necessary a great
expansion of all facilities for hand
ling the rapidly increasing number
Of visitors to. the park. From the
Standpoint of government exDendi-
lures, it is urgently necessary that
the park road system be expanded
in order that everyone may reach
the more isolated beauty spots Of
the area"
"In order to accomplish this, the
interior department, through the ma
tional park service will authorize a
road construction program for the
current year costing $766,000; this
amount to complete hard surface
highway from park headquarters to
Grand View and complete roaG ex-
cept for surfacing to Desert View
an entrance road from the park
boundary to the starting points or
the above highway, and a road OH
she north rim from Bright Angel
T'oint to Point Imperial
AIS road construction work in the
national parks is under The super
vision of the u. S. bureau of public
roads, and it will handle the Work
in Grand canyon gfs4 3s
Regarding developments of park
operators, Edwards said, Keeping
race with government expenditures
will gbe Wv ell organized efforts sof stha
park operators to meet the ever
growing demands for hotels, camps
and transportation, and other accom-
mcdations for the public benefit
"On the north. rim the Utah Parks
company will start work on q tour
ist camp at Bright Angel Point to,
cost $550.000 and which will be
operated rs part OF tnetI sySeeiis
(Which also includes operations tn
zion national park and Bryce can-
yon.''
an addition to the ss7O,ooO spent
the past year" the assistant secre-
tary continuci, Fired Harvey and
the Santa Fe railroad have already
made definite plans for additional
developments on the south rim which
will fcost S25o.Oo0, aaqd aft is also
more than probability that work
will lie started on the new Bright
Angel canlfs this fall.'
Concluding, E1dwartts stated, DUR
ing my inspection of Grand canyon
national park. have found that
such difficult sproblens as those OF
sanitation, power supply, public auto
camps. and .othvrs have either been.
solved or a satisfactory solution is
sin sight. The government spent.
sa71, 900 FOR construction the past
year in addition to the large ex-
srenditures Of park operators"
During the conference it was
brought out that road and other de-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-17
TRrToN SHOWS HEELS

HAvRE DE GRACE, Md, April 16
N1--Mrs. Walter M. Jefford's Triton
won the fifteenth renewal of the
Hartford handicap, a six furlong
sprint for year olds and up; Harry
Payne Whitney's Croydon was sec
ond; ]. f. Griffith's Single Foot was
third and E. E. McLean's Prince of
Wales, fourth. The time was
1912 As
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-17
al. TRACK TEAM WINS

TUCSON, April 16 (P.-The Univer-
sity of Arizona track team defeated the
65-57 score. San Diego men took
nine first to Arizonas six, but the Uni-i
versity took the majority of seconds
and thirds.
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BIG LEAGUERS FLOCK
TO DIXIE THIS WEEK

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 21.-The an
nual exodus to the base ball training
camps--most welcome to fandom of
all signs of Spring-gets under way
in earnest this week.
Already members of the Washington
club and st. Louis Browns are in
camp at Tampa and Tarpon Springs
Fla. respectively. The first squad
OF the New York Giants is at Sarasota.
Fla; some of the world champion
st. Louis Cardinals are at Avon Park.
Fla, and the vanguard of the Cleve-
land Indians. under the direction of
the new manager. Jack McAllister. Is
at Hot Springs, Ark.
The Braves reach st. Petersburg,
Fla, today and the Athletics detrain
at Fort Myers, Fla.
And a busy week of packing and
travel lay ahead of other clubs. A
half dozen Yanks will leave Friday for
st. Petersburg. Fla. and the Robins
flight for Clearwater, Fla, is slated
for Saturday.
Pittsburgh's pitchers and catchers
are on their way to report at Paso
Robes. Calf. on Wednesday. when
DetrOit's battery men will be leaving
their homes to answer the roll at San
Antonio, Tex. next Sunday The first
squad of Cubs will entrain from Chi
cago Thursday for the camp at Cata-
lima. Calf. Members of the Cincinnati
Reds take off Saturday for Or
lando, Fla.
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OUR of the ten teams Of the
l. Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone League are waging a
4 merry war for first honors in
the circuit. Coin Box now
holds the lead, with 40 wins against %
defeats, but Engineers, in second
place, have won 3S games and lost %,
while Western Electric Branch and
Plant Accounting, deadlocked in third
position, each has a record of So VIC
tories and u defeats.
Following these teams, in the order
named, are Commercial. American T.
and T., Inspectors, Wire Chiefs,
Western Electric ms. and Construc-
tfon.
The third series cf the schedule now
ia under way. The Coin Box crew
took the lead recently by grabbing
two of the three games bowled with
the Engineers.
Coin Box holds both team records in
the Telephone circuit. 1t has rolled
high game of sos and high set of ,639
Toop and Wolfe share individual high
game honorS, with a score of 147.
Hughes is the high set bowler, having
toppled 8S4. Kenealy is the high aver
age bowler of the league. having
slammed the naples at a rate of 1877
per game.
Scoring a triple win over Bureau of
Domestic Commerce No. 2, the Coast
ana Qesdstic Survey team wrested
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BILLIARD TOURNEY
MEETING WEDNESDAY

Proprietors of all local billiard estab-
lishments are to gather Wednesday
afternoon at O'Clock at the An
napolis Hotel to plan the world cham
pionship 1872 balklin tournament to be
held at the Arcadia March 1-12. B.
II. Smith, field secretary of the Ma
tional Billiard Association, has called
the meeting.
w. V Thompson. secretary of the
National Billiard Association. arriving
here this morning to complete plans
for the tournament, said that Wash
ington had been selected for the
classic because the Nations Capital
was deemed the logical place to stage
the event that will bring together
ranking GUESTS from all over the
world. Many diplomats here are in
terested in the game.
1t was explained that this will be
the first tournament to be held by
the association, independent of any
commercial interests. Heretofore dur
ing the &c years it has been conducted
the event has been held either at
New York or Chicago.
1t is said that the Arcadia will
afford the largest seating capacity of
any building previously used for a
billiard tournament.
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woods stood out. They were master
full against Compston. Archie started
off by winning five holes in d row.
Then Mehlhorn got In some wonderful
brassie and spoon shots and by the
time the morning round was over had
almost caught his opponent.
He started the afternoon one down,
halved a few holes and then, at the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
got brides, which placed him IN the
lead.
Long wood shots which left him
short puts were responsible for those
brides. He never relinquished his
lead.
Woods Bring Eagles.
MehlhOrn says that one of the best
days he ever had with the wood was
at the Miami, Fla, Country Club last
Winter. His performance that day
can be taken as typical, when ne is
right
There were four par holes on the
course.
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and Tipped the cup, leaving himself an
inch putt for birdie.
strangely, on the previous hole, the
fourteenth, he had trimmed the cup on
mashie niblick second. sinking
Pinch putt for a birdie.
On the siXtcenthy the pin kept him
from holing mashie niblick second
from "A distance of 40 yards. He had
to do this, too. TO win the hole, for one
of his opponents already had left him
self 3-fOot putt for a 3.
Bits irons are not quite as STEADY
as his woods. His putter sometimes
fails him. too. Nevertheless, he is one
of the cOuntry's steadiest golfers. In
his last rs starts in medal competition
he always has finished in the money
He has won ii tournaments since 1920.
and he often has been close to- the top
in the national open. He's about due
to win it.
Next week: The Champion on ii
Hard, Baked CourSe)
Downright 1927
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UZCUDUN MAY LAND
BOUT WITH MALONEY

bS ihe A~SOFldteU HFeSS.
NEW YORK. February 21.-Pros
pect OF an indoor match with JIMMY
Maloney. Boston's new edition of John
IL. Sullivan, dangied today before the
eyes of Paolino Uzcudun. last of four
entries in Tex Richards heavyweight
elimination tournament.
The basque woodchopper, by an i'm.
pressive victory over knute Hansen
husky AlinnesOtan, in their 10-round
match at Madison Square Garden Fri.
day night, can battle his way into a
bout with the conqueror of Jack De
laney, Richard said today. A close,
featureless fight will mean the elimi-
nation of both Paolino and Hansen
from future consideration in the series
to produce Gene Tunney's challenger
for the heavyweight crown
Richard indicated that unless Pao-
limo should force himself into the spot
light Maloney would be held in re-
serve for an outdoor battle in May
probably with the winner of the Jack
Sharkey-Mike McTigue struggle March
3. Or the Boston giant may tackle
Jack Dempsey then or give Delaney,
whom he battered to defeat in 10 vi
ciouS rounds last Friday night, an
other chance to prive that after all a
good little man" might beat "a good
big man." Richard said he was not at
all sure of his plans.
He did disclose. however. that Pete
Reilly, manager of the French Cana
dian, had sought a return match.
The second 100000 of the $200, 900
forfeit that Richard agreed to deposit
on or before May to bind Gene Tun-
ney to a title match next September
already has been posted in St. Louis,
Richard said. The promoter has until
June Is to select a challenger
An injury to his left thumb sus-
tanned in the fight with Maloney will
prevent Delaney from fighting for six
weeks, it is stated.
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MEHLHORN is ALLcAROUND
STAR WITH WOODEN CLUBS
Leader i'm This Phase of Golf Because of His Low
Flying Shots-Gives Remarkable Performances
for Accuracy-Cets Distance, Too.

On the No. hole, ass yards, with
a head-on gale blowing. he got a drive
OF 235 yards. placed a 220.yard brass!c
Is feet from the cup and sank al
eagle 3
At the seventh hole. 400 yards. play
ing against a cross-wiss wind, h
drove 240 yards. laid full braasie
feet from the pin and dropped another
eagle.
No. 10, 470 yards. presented similsr
wind conditions. Two woods left hin
with a 20-foot putt. but his effort wa
inches short. and he had TO be satis
fed with birdie I
Il was at the eighteenth that he out
did himself. This hole IS $40 yard
long
THE wind conditions were bette
here, says Bill. and | got of n driye
of about go yards My brassie car
rted me TO the green. ] , feet from tn
pin. and | sank my putt FOR my third
eagle
Par for those five holes was 20
Mehihorn did them IA 70 strokes, am
only failed to cut the figure 20 t. b.
cause one putt was inches short. ~"
was putting well on all four holes. but
1t was really his woods that earned
him this remarkable record.
Trap Stops 35j-Yard Drive.
Bill can hit. and does hit. p yer,
long ball. Just before the 1922 ma
tional open at SholSie. while PLAYING 20
practice round. he drove his ball into
a trap in front OF the fifteenth green
The hole measured $50 yards BIS
ball was stopped 10 yards from the
pin If there had been no trap 20 IN.
terfere II would have gone past tuc
flag az least yards
Bill exploded his ball from the trap
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NORTHEAST HILLTOPS
ON DIAMOND AGAIN

After a layoff OF two years. the
Northeast Hilltops will resume dia-
mond activities this year They will
hold base ball meeting Saturday
night at the home Of Manager Edin-
GER 1904 Florida avenue northeast. at
O'Clock. All players and candidates
are expected to attend.
"A base ball meeting of the Liberty
a. G. will be held tonight at o'clock
at the home of Pop kremb, rs Taylor
street. Kremb intends to place a team
in the unlimited class and any player
who expects to bid for the team should
be at hand tonight.
Members of Hess A. c. will hold a
base ball meeting Thursday night at
T22 Seventh street southeast at 8
o'clock. The Hess diamond team plans
to enter the unlimited class this year.
and will have number of veterans
to play on the outfit.
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ROSENBERG SHOWING WAY
TO MASONIC DUCKPINNERS

Max Rosenberg of S. ]. Gompers
Lodge team is setting the pace for
other members of the Masonic Bowl
ing Association this season. Max has
hit the naples in 4S games for an az
erage of 1882.
High game honors' for the league is
held by George Iseinann of the IIar-
mony Lodge team with figures of 164.
Schmidt, bowling with Columbia No.
8. has established high set mark at
420.
Individual records following are for
bowlers who have participated in 20
games or more, excepting the men of
the New Jerusalem team that replaced
Mount Pleasant Lodge in the league:
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With the BowLers

first place in the Department of
Commerce League from Bureau of
Standards, that dropped one game of a
set bowled with Secretary's Office.
Coast Survey now has record of IA
wins and losses, / game better each
way than the standing Of Standards.
Bureau of Mines grabbed three
games from Census and Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce No.
took three from Patent Office. AS
result Mines moved to third place in
the circuit, while the other three-time
victor went into fourth place, tie with
Patents and Secretary's Office. Cen
sus is in seventh place and Bureau Of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce No.
, is last.
Standards holds both league team
records, having hit high game of 578
and high set of 1,643. Watson of
Standards has hit high individual set
at 1856 and the highest average. 111.18.
Miltner of Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce No. / has hit high
game at 1855.
First Reformed team strengthened
it's hold on first place IN the Christian
Endeavor League by taking three
games from Park View. In scoring
this three timer First Reformed made
the league set record for the season,
1860. Crawford of the losers was high
for the match, with $50. Warnan's
1888 set was best for the winners
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Nationals Add Blair Young Florida Winter League Catcher Club Rosie
GALLAGHER TO BOX
IN RING AT ARCADIA

Another ambitious local heavy
weight contender will get into action
tomorrow night when Marty Gal
lagher steps through the ropes at the
Arcadia to do battle with Billy An.
derson of Baltimore. Gallagher re
signed the South Atlantic amateur
light heavyweight title to enter the
professional ranks and Is pointing
toward a bout with Henry Lamar.
The bout is the semi-final Of an Inn
pressive card arranged by Frankie
Mann, matchmaker for the Arcadia
Sporting Club. The final bout will
find Andy Bowen of the Arcadia and
Sailor McKenna Of the Naval Air sta
ton swapping punches in a hereunder.
Chick Holden will oppose Kid
Bender of Baltimore in q six-rounder.
and Jack Cafoni will clash with
Soldi r Tellic of Camp Hoiabird.
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EVANS Is SELECTED
AS GOLF ARCHITECT
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, February 2l.-Chick
Evans has been named architect for
one of the most extensive golf course
projects ever OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
of chain of approximately so golf
courses that eventually will circle
Chicago
For a salary of $500 month Evans,
former national Ops and amateur
champion. will devote his entire time
to advising the Cook County Board as
to the best manner of laying out the
courses. These links, to be located in
tracts totaling $4,000 acres, some of
which are undeveloped and timbered,
will extend from the north around
the city and touching the lake just
inside the Indiana-Illinois line.
Evans amateur status will not be
impaired by his employment.
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BACKED FOR LONG SWIM.

LONG BEACH, Calf, February Fl
R).-Henry Sullivan of Lowell. Mass,
the only person who has swum both
the English and San Pedro Channels,
has announced that he has been
backed to the extent of $25, 900 by w.
w. Compton of Long Beach for a
race around Santa Catalina Island, to
take place between June IS and July
l5- The distance is so miles.
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HANSON IS POINTING
FOR STECHER CLASH

Fully recovered from an injury to
his spine which nearly caused his
death two years ago, Charley Hanson,
physical director of the Arcadia, is
training for the mat battle Of his life
Thursday night, when he will meet Joe
Stecher, scissors hold king, at the
Arcadia is a finish bout.
Stecher, the man with the invincible
legs. has gained fame and fortune by
his scissors hold and trusts mainly to
this grip to subdue opponents. 1t is
similar to Frank Gotch's toe hold and
the Zbyszko hammer-lock in effective
ness.
Dutch Green, Rob Roy Mackey's
middleweight champion. land Harry
Nixon of Fort Myer will grapple for
the Southern middleweight champion.
ship. Green claims the title.
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BOXERS WILL SEEK
D. C. TITLES TONIGHT

Nearly a score of amateur mitt
pushers from colleges and clubs in
Washington have entered the Jewish
Community Center ring tournament to
open tonight with bouts in the lighter
classes for the. District championships
Jim Mcnamara, athlete director at
the center, urges all contestants to
report between and O'Clock to be
weighed in and examined. Referees
will be Goldie Ahern and Mortimer
King.
The boxers will compete tonight in
five weight classes. ranging from 10S
to 1875 pounds.
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FIGHTS TONIGHT.


BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO.-Bartley Madden, New
York, VS.. Chief John Matoquah,
Chicago Q0l.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis.--Harry Kahn,
Milwaukee, vs. Basil Galliano, New
Orleans O0). Billy Bortfield VS.. john
ny Mendelsohn. Milwaukee (S).
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HAGEN TOPS SARAZEN
IN IS HOLES BY 3 UP
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MIAMI. Fla, February 21.-Walter
Hagen, professional golf champion.
has Il good start toward avenging
two ranking defeats administered to
him in recent years by Gene Sarazen.
When the first half of 72-hole
special match was completed yester-
day Hagen led up The match will
be finished next Sunday.
Four thousand followed the players
yesterday.
The cards We're:
First round
Sarazen 4 4 3 3 44445 434336 so
Hagen. 4 4 4 5 8 4 3 i 4 / 3 81 SO
Second round
Sarazen 5 50 444335f 5000 SD
Hagen. 5 ) 3 3 4 5 1 3 5 3 4-73
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ENDS SEASON TONIGHT.

UNIVERSITY, Va, February 21.--
Nirginia's basket ball team will not
play in the Southern Conference tour
nament in Atlanta, but will end the
season tonight in Blacksburg against
Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
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WILL RESUME RACING.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, February 81
(R.-Horse racing at the Tijuana
Track, interrupted during last weeks
torrential rains, probably will be re-
slImed next Sunday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21

The Asheville club of the South
Atlantic Association has bought from
Atlanta of the Southern Association
Ralph Monk Fraser. former District
sandlot foot ball and base ball star,
to DlaY the outfield.
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CphOlds His Reputation.

a rare thing happened. Bill lived
up to expectations
In the international team matches
at Wentworth. he was the only ne
OF the Americans to win. beating a
tough opponent III the redoubtabl
Archie Compston.
In the British northern professional
championship, at Ormsby. he finished
in tie for second place
In the British open he had the sixth
best score.
In all his playing abroad. Bills
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Dorothy White of the Washington
Golf and Country Club. the District
womens champion, will return from
a three month jaunt in Europe with
in a fortnight. Miss White, although
she took her golf clubs abroad. has
not been able to play a great deal she
has written friends.
Miss White is expected home in
time to attend the annual meeting of
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The Middle Atlantic Golf Associa-
ton will meet at the New Willard
Hotel the evening of March 5.