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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

stockings with gesture of sublime
defiance at the feet of the board
of governors of the West Side Tennis
Club.
With his knees to the breeze and his
face toward the foes in the gallery, he
should make picture that will be cher
lShed by the many generations of male
tennis players who are to follow him.
Later, when William Tilden, I'd, and
Mr.. Hunter are cavorting on the inter-
national courts bare-legged and with
their brief accordion-pleated skirts
mapping In the wind, they will be sing
ing the praises Of the unknown martyr.
nERHAPS am wrong in anticipat-
l. ing any violent opposition to this
revolution. No attempt has been made
to get the views of the board of gov
errors Of the West Side Tennis Club
in this matter. For all I know they
may welcome the movement. 1t Is far
cry from Wimbledon to Forest Hills.
And at that the objections to the
barring of the knees in sports is far
from unanimous in England. I I'M
derStand that Mr.. George Bernard
Shaw always has been an ardent
dress reformer and, naturally, has
big following. But I understand fur
Their that Mr. Shaw is rather too
extreme a reformer for our more
conservative country. He has posed
for his portrait in something more
abbreviated than shorts. In fact,
there is one famous portrait OF Mr.
Shaw for which he appeared in alb
solutely nothing at all.
hope that none of our American
male reformers will go that far. think
that the sight of male version OF Lady
Godiva, particularly in long gray whis-.
kers would not advance the interests OF
this great cause. If there is any stunt
of this sort, it can be charged against
the opposition.
This revolution is not seeking ex-
tremes, but striving only to attain the
happy medium. Most revolutions go too
far in the right direction, which is just
as bad as moving in the wrong direc-
ton. For this reason the leaders OF the
dress reform movement would prefer
that Mr. Shaw remain aloof while the
revolution is on. The revolution does
not care to enroll extremists, however
distinguished There must be no fanat-
les in the ranks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

Foot ball receives a severe blow
through the graduation of Burke, cap.
tain and guard, and Wilson, tackle. II
is conceded that these two were among
the best college linemen last season. :
Other foot ball men who graduated
this week we're Giese, Hardin and
Woerner, linemen, and Clair Miller and
Morse, change backs. Lloyd, another
important back, has another year at
the academy, but has played for three
years and is ineligible for foot ball.
Best Pitchers Lost.
Base ball will feel the graduation Of
its class in the pitching department, as
Wilson and Brandley, its best twirlers,
are members of the class. 1t also loses
A. J. Miller, its hardhitting first sacker.
The rowing squad loses Strong and
Mcclure, strokes of the varsity and
junior varsity crews. Other members
of the varsity squad who graduated are
Butts, Ciese, Lincoln, Hardin and
Wales. Woerner rowed in the junior
varsity last year and also played guarc
on the eleven. but he did not take any
part in sports during the season just
closed.
The basket ball team is one which
suffers heavily through the graduation
Of the class of 1929. 1t will lose Clai.
Miller and Farrin, its regular forwards,
and bennett and Carmichael, also gooo
players in those positions, as well as
A. j. Miller and Bernet, guards.
The gymnastic team loses Adamson
its captain, and Galbraith, intercolle.
glate champions, respectively, on the
parallel bars and at rope climbing an6
Perreault, fine tumbler.
Boxing Fares Well.
The boxing team loses only one reg
ular, Capt. Ricketts,, who boxed in tbs
l60-pound class Ballenger, who boxed
bout or two at 125 pounds, also grad
yates. as does Burke, who boxed at ITS
pounds two years ago, but stayed out OF
the game last season.
The losses of the wrestling team will
also be comparatively slight. Capt.
Ashford, a fine wrestler at lis pounds,
is a member of the class, as are Meeker
and Epps, who did some wrestling.
The championship water polo team
loses Twohy, its captain and goal; Rabg
and Yoho. and the swimmers must do
without Crist, Hezlop, Huff and Lucas.
the last two being fancy divers.
The fencing team loses Wait, Loomis,
Eller and Helnlein, while two cracks.
Hood and D'Avi, go from the rife
team.
Facing such serious losses, Navy peo-
pie regard themselves IS fortunate that
the varsity squads will be recruited
next year from this years plebe class.
which contains much promising ath-
letic material. o..
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A triumph over Simpson would be
particularly sweet to Bowen as the for
ner, in addition to having earned the
title of the worlds fastest human con-
quered him recently in the Ohio and
Penn relays.
Bowen Going Good.
Bowen has been performing sensa-
tionally this seano. Last Saturday he
negotiated the 440 in the intercollegiate
meet in Philadelphia in 48.4 seconds,
and earlier, in a dual meet between
Pittsburgh and Penn State, won the
100, 900 and 440, his times being 98
for the century, 2l.4 for the furlong
and 40 fiat for the quarter mile.
In Simpson and Bowen, Washington
fans will be seeing in action two of the
six fastest-stepping runners in this
country. The four others regarded in
their class are Claude Bracey of Rice
Institute, Texas; Jack Elder of Notrc
Dame, Eddie Tolan of the University Of
Michigan and Karl Wildermuth of
Georgetown University.
1t has been announced by Earl
Thompson, coach of the Naval Acad-
envy team, that he will enter his full
contingent in the meet.
Smile walk in which Earl Reigle of Bal
timore, national junior and South
Atlantic champion, will compete; a
special 1-mile relay race among teams
picked from the enlisted personnel of
the Army and Navy, for cup offered
by Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Ernest L. Jahncke. and a medley relay
test among policeman teams of WASH
ington. Baltimore and probably for
cup offered by the public order COM
mittee of the Washington Board OF
Trade.
There also will be a hop, step and
jump, Smile run and the following
other events:
100, 220 and 440 yard dashes; half
mile and mile runs, 120-yard and 400
yard low hurdles, high jump, broad
Jump, pole vault, 16-pound shotput,
discus and javelin throws.
The meet will be held under the
auspices of the Welfare and Recreation
Association Of Public Buildings and
Public Parks.
Five hundred tickets calling for
seats near the finish line went on sale
yesterday at Spalding's, the Office of
Winfree 3. johnson, director of ath-
letics of public buildings and public
parks, and at the ONCE Of Ernest F.
Splitter, A. A. U. commissioner, 343
Munsey Building.
High school boys of this city may
secure q general admission ticket for
IS cents. These tickets will go on
sale at the schools tomorrow morning.
The offer will stand until the day
before the meet. All tickets sold at the
gate will be so cents.
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SEMI-FINAL TENNIS PLAY
IN MIXED DOUBLES TODAY

Miss Elizabeth Meyer and A. o. White
will engage Miss Marian Wells and Bob
COnSidine, and Miss Corinne Frazier
and Maj. J. Huntington Hills will face
Miss Phoebe Morhead and Joe Rutley
in semi final matches in the mixed dou-
bles of the city of Washington tennis
championships tomorrow evening on
the Sixteenth Street Reservoir courts
Play will start at o'clock.
Title play will take place Tuesday at
pm, when the survivors in tomor-
rows match clash
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NV interplayground basket ball
championships we're feted
yesterday at banquet held
on the Chevy Chase playground, home
field of the 1929 championship squad.
Chevy Chase basketers, captalned by
Florence Grady and winners over Gar
field Park playground tossers for the
title in a long postponed final match
played off this Spring, were each pre-
sented with a silver basket ball by Mrs.
Susie Root Rhodes, supervisor OF play
grounds, in recognition of their victory.
Mrs. Rhodes presented bronze medals
to the runners-up from Garfield. The
winners of third place, New York Ave-
nue. tossers, were accorded honorable
mention and were guests at the feast.
Mrs. Ruth Tate, director of Chevy
Chase playground; Mrs. Evelyn Sheri-
dan, director of Garfield, and Miss
Marie McAuliffe, director Of the New
York Avenue center. arranged the BAN
honor guest. Miss Maude N. Parker,
director of girls playground activities,
was unable to be present on account OF
a recent illness from which she is re-
operating.
Chevy Chase players who were hon.
ored include Miss Grady, captain; Betty
Hartman, manager; Catherine Crane,
Watkins and Catherine McCandless.
Grfield's squad consists of Dorothy
Kelso, captain; Marie Shorb, manager:
Loveye Adkins, lone Hoffman. Helen
Vowel. Amarillo Smith, Zelda Madeoy
and Elizabeth ORourke.
New York Avenue Basketers are cap
tanned by Catherine Conner and in
clude Evelyn Lingbach, manager: Marie
Lingbach, Elizabeth Blanter, Ruth 30
harmon, Catherine Wenchel and An
toinette Conner.
Five senior and six junior schlag ball
championships have been decided in the
elementary school leagues. being con-
Quoted under the supervision Of the
District Playground Department. Titles
in three divisions still remain unde-
cided.
In the Bloomingdale division, Keene
School won the senior championship
without the loss Of a game. Burroughs
won the junior title.
Reservoir School took the junior title
in the Georgetown division Peabody
Carbery won the junior loop on the
Plaza Field and Gales scored in the
senior division. E. V. Brown School
won tbs Happy Hollow division cham
pionship-a senior league. There was
no Junior play in this division.
Benning seniors and Benning juniors
took honors in their respective leagues
of the Rosedale division, while on the
Virginia Avenue Field. LenCT senior and
Junior teams were the title winners in
the senior and junior leagues.
Park View juniors were crowned in
the Columbia Heights Junior League,
while senior teams from Park View and
Monroe are tied for the senior cham
pionship. Neither team has lost game,
and upon the occasion of their first
meeting they ended in a deadlock. The
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HOPKINS LACROSSE
TEAM LOSES FINAL

BALTIMORE, June 8.-The 1929
lacrosse season drew to a close at Home
wood today when the Mount Washing
ton twelve outclassed the Johns Hop
kins team by an 8-to-2 count.
The game was little more than an
easy workout for the Hillmen, but the
Blue Jays gained lot of valuable eX-
perience despite the one-sided decision.
Mount Washington. with Fenny
Baker at the helm, rushed into fast,
powerful drives at the start and piled
a Stool advantage in the initial half
and then let down in the final session,
but added three easy goals in this
period, while Hopkins succeeded in get
ting lone pass through STREET.. Line
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
WEST VIRGINIA ELEVEN
Boo OREGON AGGIES

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, June H)-
West Virginia University and the oregon
Aggies will meet on the gridiron in
1880 and 1881, it was made known
today by Mountaineer athletic author
tiles
The 1880 game, it Vas said, would
be played either here or at Chicago
and the 1881 encounter at Portland,
Greg. The dates will be the Saturday
following Thanksgiving or Thanksgiv-
ing day.
The 1880 contest will mark the Aggies'
Thanksgiving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
AMATEUR RING CHAMP
Is ALMOST A Hermit

Albion Holden national amateur
118-pound champion, lives in the vii
lage of Briggs Corner, outside of
Attleboro, Mass, and none of his
neighbors. excepting the woman next
door. who took his telephone calls,
even knew that he was working out
with other boxers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
SIMPSON WILL COMPETE
In A CENTURY" SPECIAL
Bowen of Pittsburgh Is Expected to Make Ohio
State Sensation Hustle in Event at Central
High Stadium Saturday.

stars headed by Simpson of Ohio
University who yesterday set world record OF 20
w 100 yards and Reginald (Pete Bowen uni
of Pittsburgh flyer entered the annual South allan
field Central High School STADIUM
Saturday will be headline attraction Competition Will
start at o'clock 49,, -, ,oo -, 49,. xoo.,~ino
Indications that Simpson ecpSed
world yesterday when he sreaked the century IN 2S seG1nd
little opposition by Bowen sprnter whose flying feet nave
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DOWN THE LINE
WITH w. 0. McGEEHAN.
The Unknown Hero.


ME nrst the for freedom athletic
Hills
in
o consequences
After makes his stand before packed gallery
wear mask when appearing in the reformed tennis
the modern tennis
orlet
from revealing his identity
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inte1s viii Race Here Navy Loses So Letter Men BY Graduation
FOOT BALL is HARD HIT:
BOXING TEAM FARES WELL
NIidshipmen Bank on Recruits From Plebe Ranks
and Improvement in Lower Classmen to
Plug Holes Next Year.

NNAPOL1s June 8Fifty three letter cut of 239
bS marks the class of 1929 of the Naval Academy though
of the smallest graduate of the
athletics of which graduated from
that institution.
number of midshpnen
letters in two or three sports in the class
useful athletes will affect
branch sport at the Academy though it hoped the loss
and from recruits from the pebe class Of last
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Might Be q Spy.

DEING of an entirely frank and
ID unsuspicious nature myself, 1 am
taking this letter of the professed
ardent dress reformer with all sin
certify. I am taking entirely for granted
that he is a recruit to the great move
ment for freedom of movement to male
athletes.
But our Mr.. Fred Hawthorne, who
experts on tennis and tennis politics
(of which there is superf1uity), sus-
poets that the writer of this letter is an
agent for the opposition, which would
keep the male tennis player in long
white ducks. Seeing the possibilities Of
the revolt against long pants. the OPP
position is determined to nip the move
ment in the bud or in the stockings.
At any rate, this is Mr.. Hawthorne's
theory The Tory dress part in trying
to- stop the revolution before it gets
we'll under way consists In knowing full
we'll that when tennis Is once played
in shorts it never again will be played
in longs.
But have more faith in my fellow
men. I am confident that this gentle
man is sincere and a crusader at
heart. / hope he will keep me in
formed, that may be present when
he cuts his long duck trousers TO
s. ss.ne minimum aad hurls his long
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

Substitutions Mount Washington-Barge
for Gessford, Blake for j, Turnbull. J. Turn
bull for Blake, o. Norris for W. Norris,
Crosswaithe for o. Norris. o. Norris Tor
Taylor Notwithstanding for Bromley. r.
Levy Tor Cone, Ness for Nickel, Frisch for
Dukehart. Love for Lyons.
Goals-Baker "a, Gerstmyer. .. Norris.
p. Norris ID. Turnbull, Herpsberger. Lang.
Referee-Mr. Hoban DARTMOUTH. Goal
judges-Mr Robinson Hopkins. Mr.. Mil
burn (Hopkinsl. Time of periods-3o min
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

When the opening pair of knees in
the great revolution are exposed, the
board OF governors Of the West Side
Tennis Club cannot say that they were
not warned and given time to place
themselves in a defensive position-if
there Is any defense for the present
tennis modes for men. Following is the
letter of the self-sacrificing tennis cos
tune revolutionist in full:
Il have noticed with interest and
approval that the number of women
playing tennis without stockings is
on the increase, and among those
prominent In the game who have
done and are doing so are Miss
Helen Wills and Miss Eleanor Goss.
IF it is proper and suitable for
women to not only play tennis wearing
very short skirts and rolled-down Sox,
thereby exposing a vast extent OF bare
legs, but to sit so barred for a consider
able length of time on the terrace in
front of the clubhouse. think it en-
inently proper and fair that, to con-
siderable extent, I follow their illus
trious example.
II, therefore, beg to inform you that
have provided myself with short pants
of flannel cut of above the knees. The
pants are we'll made and have broad
red stripe down the side, and 1t Is my
plan to wear the same in the near fu-
ture while playing tennis at the club.
The club book for 1928, which /
have perused with considerable care, ap-
parently contains no rule or bylaw
against such a costume.
Il inclose a clipping from the Herald
Tribune on the subject which may be
OF interest and for your information
would mention that I am forwarding
carbon copies to Mr.. Mcclellan of the
Herald Tribune and to Mr.. Danzig OF
the Times"
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w WINNERS of first. second and
third place in the annual
NV interplayground basket ball
championships were feted
NJ q lnnt ncr11nf hold
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-12-06
While endurance flyers circle over

While endurance flyers circle over
airports, Transatlantic flyers spin
off over the sea and other spectacu-
lar stunters go about their tasks, tie
rank and file of aviation continues
with the ordinary, unexciting tasks
that are making aviation valuable to
the people as whole. Lost in the
dispatches telling of more stirring
events is a brief paragraph from OF
tawa, Ontario, telling how Flight
Lieutenant N. c. Forks has just fin
ished an experiment in busting trees
in a northern Ontario forest from an
airplane to exterminate the spruce
bugworm. This insect pest ruins many
acres of trees annually, says the
Wheeling News. Lieutenant Forks has
found that it can best be attacked
with the airplane.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-12-06
Atlas of American Dialects

The atlas of dialects, which is
planned by large number of learned
men and scientific organizations work
ing together, is said to be one of the
largest undertakings that American
scholarship has ever undertaken. 1t
will require at least ten years of work,
which will be shared by large num-
Der of the leading American scholars
Of many universities, including stu
dents of dialect, photographers and
phoneticians, Anglicists. Germanists,
Romance scholars and specialists in
general linguistics, who will collabo-
rate in the compilation, according to
present plans. Thousands of phonetic
speech records will be compiled in 500
strategic speech centers and the ma
terial collected in the field, will form
the basis for dialectic maps and pub
lished analyses. This important work
has just been started, although it has
been discussed and, in fact, outlined
for some time. The development of
habits Of speech will be studied in
relation to the history of the settle
ment of the country, and main dia-
lectic divisions will be traced histOr-
ically and geographically.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-12-06

Bird protection in the country is
not a fad nor piece of sentiment.
We have not engaged in a 17-year
campaign of education for the fun
of it, says the Farm Journal, but be-
cause bird protection is the strong
est weapon in the defensive war of
the human race against insects. And
this leads us to speak of cats. Cats
are not the sole enemies of song and
insectivorous birds, but they are among
the most dangerous. Many families
cannot, perhaps, put up bird boxes
and make TIE - bird refusel
bird population slaughtered by cats.
Tramp cats should be mercilessly shot.
Household pets should be presented
with set Ct bells. preferably of the
kind with strap passing between
the forelegs and around the body.
That will warn and protect adult
birds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-12-06
Nigerian Women Hold
and Exercise Powers

In Yorubaland, Nigeria, women
WELD great power, having a very pei
feet franchise. In every village, add
tional 10 the head chief and his coun-
ell, is the head woman, or iyalodi,
who also has her council Of titled
women. In her hands lies the respon-
sibility for issuing the native admin
istration orders to the women.
The potters, who are all women.
have guild, and it is their preroga-
tive to be buried in their ,ottery.
The religions of this essentially
happy people consist to a degree Ut
ancestor worship, although they are
primarily nature worshipers, revering
a supreme Creator, accessible through
such subordinate gods as those Of
thunder, of lightning, or iron, and agri-
culture.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-12-06
Can Scientific Breeding
Produce Men of Genius ?

Human geniuses must be bred as
race horses by combining carefully
selected pedigreed stock" the presi-
dent of the Eugenics Research associ.
alton said at meeting of the organi-
cation in New York. Whether that IL
true of the future or not no one knows.
It has not been true in the past.
Physical development may he SO IN
fluenced, and morons may be the de-
scendants of morons. But genius and
leadership appears in SO many unex-
pected places and persons that we are
unable to draw any diagram or ar
range plan whereby we can plot
their creation. One genius may come
out of family which produces others
of no account. Yet the brilliant iir-
tellect and the lazy nit-wit possessed
the same parents.
Eugenists may prove that certain
families over several generations have
produced only mental detectives. while
other families have given society
high grade of superior intelligence.
But there are often exceptions to up.
hold or break the rule.
But genius is hard to trace. We do
not know why one man becomes
great leader or a wonderful engineer.
1t may be heredity, or environment,
or education, or what? That man
must continue to advance through evo-
luton and better breeding Is undOubt-
eddy true. but that we can create II
genius by planning is yet to re proven
No age has seen so many geniuses as
the present, and eugenics had nothing
whatever to 90 with the manufacture
of this wealth of brains.-Miami Her.
aid.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-12-06
Scottish Kill

The kilt is part of the characters.
tic and ancient dress of the natives
of the highlands of Scotland. The
word means that which is girdcd or
tucked up. 1t is of Scandinavian orr
gin. The Danish word kite, In use to.
day. means to tuck up. The kilt Of
the highlander is short but has very
full skirt, belted in at the waist, ami
reaching to about the Enees. The early
kilt was not separate garment, hut
merely the lower part of the plaid in
which the Highlander wrapped him.
self. hanging down in folds below the
belt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-12-06
Worth Remembering

There are loyal hearts, there are
spirits brave, there are souls that are
pure and true. Then give to TIL ID
the best you have and the b VII
come back to you; give love, 81 We
to your heart viii floW.; ard Il :
your uttermost need. have faith and a
score of hearts will show their faith
in your word and deed; give truth and
your gift shall be paid in kind, and
honor will honor meet; and smile
that is sweet will surely find a smile
that is just as sweet; for life is
mirror of king and slave, tits just what
we are and do, so give to the world
the best you have and the best will
come back to you.-Author Not Known.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-12-06

The word Volga is the name of the
longest river in Europe. It rises on
the Valdai Plateau, south of Lenin-
grad, former capital Of Russia, and
1t flows in southeasterly direction
and then south across Russia, and
empties into the northern part of the
Caspian sea at Astrakhan. Its total
length is 2,310 miles, and it drains an
area of 5S5,OO0 square miles. 1t pos
sesses only slight and gradual fall,
and this is excellently adapted for
navigation. In spring floods the wa
tiers at certain parts are from ten to
thirteen miles across. The river is Ice
free from 1913 to 260 days each year.