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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04
WOMAN SKATERS
SKATING RECORDS
Three World Marks Broken
by Loretta Neitzel in
Title Meet.
BY the Associated Press.

MINNEAPOLIS, February 4.-Loretta
Neitzel of Detroit today holds three
new world skating records and the wom-
ans amateur senior outdoor speed skat-
ing championship of America.
Miss NeitZel set new marks in the
440-yard and one-mile events in COM
petition and then in a race against
time established a record for one-sixth
Of q mile.
Five seconds fell off the old time in
the 440 when Miss Neitzel covered the
distance in SO 2-5 seconds. The former
mark was held by Mrs. Leila Potter of
Toronto. The Detroit woman flash
completed the mile event in 3:154-5,
which was 3 35 seconds faster than the
record time of Mrs. Potter.
In the race against time Miss Neitzel
beat her own figure of 80 seconds for
one-sixth of mile, making it in 80 Us
seconds.
Miss Neitzel so far outclassed the
field of woman skaters that she had
little difficulty in amassing 10 points
for the championship. Marie Becker
of Chicago finished second, with so
points, and Miss Mildred Bjork, Min
neapolis was third, with 40.
Allen Potts of Brooklyn, N. Y, won
the international mems senior outdoor
title, while the intermediate honors
went to Douglas Ellison of Chicago.
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SCHOLASTIC SERIES
| TO END TOMORROW
Battle Between Eastern and
Western for Runner-Up
Berth Marks Finale.

Central and Eastern and Business and
Western will meet tomorrow afternoon
in the Tech gym in final games of the
public high school basket ball cham
pionship series
In other matches tomorrow GonZaga
will entertain Georgetown Prep in the
I street school gym and University of
Maryland Freshmen will play host to
Alexandria High at College Park.
Eastern and Western will be battling
for wins tomorrow in order to gain sec
ond place to Tech in the race The Nc
Kinley team clinched the flag last Fri
day. Eastern and Western each has
won four games and lost three. BUSH
ness, which has triumphed three times
and dropped four matches, to stand
fourth, also will be striving for victory,
having chance to finish in a three
way tie for second place, with Western
and Eastern.
st. Johns is to entertain BENJAMIN
Franklin University tossers tonight, at
o'clock, in the st. Johns gymnasium.
In matches this afternoon Tech and
Catholic University freshmen were to
meet on the Tech floor, and George Ma
son and Dewitt had an engagement at
the Y. M. c. A.
If arrangements can be made, Tech
Highs championship basket ball team
will enter the annual University OF
Pennsylvania scholastic tournament al
Philadelphia. Should the Mckinley
team compete in the classic 1t will be
the first time that 1t has ever carried
the schools colors in the big event.
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TRIO of basket ball games stand
~ out on tonights amateur pro-
"A gram Probably the most spirited
4 "A will be played at Central High
gym at o'clock when Wolff
and Washington Gray quints engage in
a Community Center League contest
Grays COPIED the first-half flag, but
Woltz's lineup has been strengthened
by the addition of Joe Sweeney, Skinker
Eagle, star and Gwynn King, elongated
pivot ace
Another of these attractive contests is
also booked for Central High gym at 8
o'clock This fray will bring together
Kanawha Scholastics. composed of
schoolboy stars, and Hartman & Co.,
courtmen.
knights of Columbus and French A.
G. quintS will be involved in the other
headliner In the Casey gym. The former
team was eliminated yesterday when
Pierce A. c. halted its winning streak
at Hyattsyille. Manager Bus Scanlon
expects several of his French players
who have been on the injured list, to
return to action tonight.
De Luxe and Celtic teams of Boys
Club Unlimited League are to open a
series next Saturday night to deter
mine the championship team. The
former copied the second half flag,
while the former romped off with the
first half title. Manager Mansuy at
Lincoln 8333-W is seeking games this
week for De Luxe cagers.
Manager Phelps of Dupont A. C.. is
seeking rivals with gyms playing in
senior or unlimited class. Call Wis
consin 3759 for arrangements.
Skinkcr Eagles had to battle all the
way to gain revenge over Richmond
Blues in Congress Heights gym yester-
day, AZ to SO. A last-minute rally, with
Sweeney and Bonnie pointing the way,
enabled the local team to win.
Silver Spring Service Co. tossers won
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PLANSBY, FORMER G. U.
STAR, TO JOIN BRAVES

BOSTON, February 4.-Georgetown
University's former crack all-around
athlete. Tony Plansky of Boston, will
try to make the grade in big league base
ball the coming season.
Plansky, three time winner of the
American decathlon championship, has
never played much base ball. but the
Boston Braves. upon the recommended
ton of John O'Reilly. Georgetown
coach, will give him a trial. O'Reilly
believes Plansky would have been one
of the Easts best college pitchers II
he had had time to give to base ball
while at GEORGETOWN.
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WOLFF AND GRAY CUNTS
MEET In FEATURE GAME

over w. H. West Co. five, IS to 10, In
the feature game of big program at
Silver Spring yesterday. Other games
resulted as follows: Blair Reds, %
Red Shields, IL. Woodside A. c., 81:
Washington Loan & Trust Co., IA
Passaic A. c., A; Fort Leonard Wood,
3. Stanleys, Is; Mystery Five, IA.
Led by Falcome, who collected IL
points, Hartman 81 Co. tossers won
over French A. c. yesterday in Con-
gress Heights gym, % to Is.
Jewish Community Center Flashes
found they had % straight wins after
downing Baltimore Aces yesterday, AZ
to "a. German and Levine were the
heroes OF the fray.
Stantsns, who downed Casey Scho-
lastics yesterday, Is to "a, have Cancelled
games booked with Kennedy Red Stars
and Peck Seniors, because of conflicting
dates.
Young and Garland enabled Mclean
A. C. Cagers to gain a well earned 20
to-25 victory over Petersburg (Va) Y.
NJ. G. A.
In downing Dupont A. C.. five yester-
day, SO to Is, Company E, District Ma
tional Guard, basketers registered their
eleventh straight victory.
Wanley was largely responsible for
Pierce A. C's 25-to-21 win over knights
of Columbus courtmen at HyattSville
yesterday.
To Underwood and Norton went the
high scoring honors yesterday as Bat
terry A cagers downed Washington
Props, 43 to 80.
]. C. G. unlimiteds kept their record
clean yesterday by downing Phoenix A.
c., 46 to 81. Kramer was chief scorer,
with goals from scrimmage.
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FORMER C. U. RING STAR
TO COACH L0Y0LA TEAM

Loyola College boxers Of New Orleans
are to be coached by Don Greco, crack
lightweight and captain of the Cath
Ollie University boxing team of season
ago
Greco was a leading member of the
Cardinal ring team for three seasons
and also did considerable fighting in
amateur circles here. Loyola is taking
up boxing for the first time.
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from financial standpoint might be
a flop, whereas a like gridiron en-
gagement between G. u. and Navy
would be certain sell-out.
notice the Naval Academy ath-
letic officials have at various times
spoken of the comparatively poor
gates attracted for such big league
tits as Notre Dame and Michigan,
which Navy has staged in Baltimore
in past seasons. Why don't those
fellows wise up to the gold mine
right at their back door? Approx
imately 100000 people applied for
tickets to the Navy game
staged at Annapolis in 1926, where
only 10000 could fight and squeeze
into small stadium built for about
10000 spectators. Georgetown play
ing Pitt or some other big league
club In Washington would not draw
anything compared to the mob that
would be drawn out to the Georgia
avenue stadium to watch the Hill
toppers tangle with the Middies.
Georgetown has the class for such
a battle with an outstanding insti-
tuition like the Naval Academy and
best of all, the game would be A
natural, even more so than the
old G. U.-Virginia battles we're. Let's
see you newspaper boys do your
stun toward getting the proper pub
llc1ty for such an event. 1t would
De big thing for both the fans and
the town.
Sincerely,
WILLARD THOMPSON.
r ~
Mebbe So, Mebbe So.
February 2, 1929.
Dear Sir: Mr.. Sharkey and Mr..
Strlbling, who are going to display
their wares in few weeks more.
are already at Miami Beach in order
TO become acclimated, and incident
ally to go through few preliminary
workouts. for both are in good con-
dition and need only a few finishing
touches.
Having their training quarters in
close proximity to each other they
will be enabled to exchange those in
tereSting billet-doux more frequently.
samples of which they have given us
already. This course. If pursued.
should be Of great advantage to the
Bostonian, who loves to indulge in
these verbal ARRAYS, which he seems
to think necessary to put a keen
edge on his training.
Although Stribling has a greater
number OF knockouts to his credit
than any OF the other contenders,
there Is not one among them fit to
enter this elimination contest. 1t is
an easy matter for a man who un-
derstands the fight game to knock
out a fellow who knows little or
nothing about it. The best men
Stribling ever faced were in the
lght-heavyweight division, and even
there he did nothing to impress us
very much; he won decision from
Mike McTigue and lost to Tommy
Loughran.
Sharkey, on the other hand, has
been up against real heavyweight
fighters and won fair percentage
of the contests, but the winner of
this fight, while eliminating his OPP
ponent, cannot claim the champion
ship as so many seem to think, for
neither Of them has yet proved him
self superior to Pauline or Tom
Heeney, and Loughran is still to be
dealt with. whom really believe will
be the victor in this elimination COM
test, unless the bars are let down
and Master George Godfrey. massive
OF frame and eager for the fray,
comes to make his bow to the fight
fans of Madison Square Garden.
Then look out!
EDMUND MURPHY.
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HYATT AND SCHAAF TIED
IN BASKET BALL SCORING

NEW YORK. February LP.-
Charley Hyatt of Pittsburgh and joey
Schaaf of Pennsylvania are in a dead
lock for individual scoring honors
among Eastern collegiate basket ball
players.
In IL contests the Pitt flash has
tossed in 70 field goals and 80 fouls for
a total of 1T points the same Schaaf
has amassed in II games. Collins of St.
Johns, Brooklyn. is third with 152
points, and Wineapple of Providence
lourth with l4ls L..
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CATHOLIC U. GRID TEAM
SCHEDULES BALTIMORE

With the scheduling of a game for
October IL with University of Baltimore
in the Brookland Stadium the 1929
Catholic University foot ball schedule
Is now complete with the exception of
one game to be played November 8.
Catholic University will be one of
four Washington elevens to be met by
the Baltimoreans next Fall.
George Washington will be faced here
October S, American University at
Baltimore October 10 and Gallaudet
here November g.
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Standing of Teams.
HOYA TRACK TEAM
IN PAIR OF MEETS

Georgetown University tracksters will
show their wares in two meets this
week.
Jim Kennedy, Hoya freshman middle
distance runner, will appear in a spe-
ciaI 1-mile handicap race at the Newark
A. c. games at Newark, N. j.. Thurs
day night and a mile relay team in adj
dition to several entrants In the indi-
vidual events will represent the Blue
and Gray in the Millrose A. c. meet
Saturday night in Madison Square Gar
den.
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ON THE SIDE LINES
With the Sports Editor
BY DENMAN THOMPSON

M AK SCHMELING'S de-
mn ciSive victory over
wv Johnny RiSko in their
4 - brawl at New York
served to make ring sharps of
the metropolitan district look
pretty good. They insisted prior
to the fray that the Teutonic
importation bore all the ear
marks of a coming champion.
For once, at least, the news
paper boys were right.
It was not altogether the fact
that Schmeling delivered
against a formidable foeman
that has projected him promi-
nently into the heavyweight
picture. There are other con-
SiderationS, not the least Of
which is that in stopping Ris-
ko he accomplished a feat cred
tied to none of the other con-
tenders, nearly all of whom
have tried it.
Prior to Friday night stop
ped by" was charged against
Risko but once. Chuck Virgins
stands credited with a knock
out over the Cleveland India
rubber man, due to the fact
that Johnny was unable to
continue. because of an eye cut
that blinded him.
Schmeling, however, gave the
Ohioan the worst beating he
ever received, having Johnny
out on his feet when the bout
was terminated to save him
further punishment. The ham
mer and tongs manner In
which Max kept after Risko
would seem to answer the criti-
ciSm that the German Dempsey
lacks the killer instinct" Of
American Jack whom he so
strongly resembles, and gives
rise to genuine interest in what
will happen If he is pitted
against Pauline, Heeney or the
winner of the Sharkey-Strib-
ling bout.
II X X X
Reasonable Enough.
February /, 1929.
Dear Sir:
In today's Star you devote con-
siderable space to the Navy-Notre
Dame game scheduled for october
IL, 1929, and the possibilities OF
having it staged in the Griffith
Stadium. All fine and good, but
with all due respect to Mr.. Rockne
and his Notre Dame eleven-this
writer among numerous other Wash
ingtonians voices the query OF why
not start a campaign to bring the
game scheduled between our own
Georgetown and Navy, listed for No
vember Q, 1929, to Griffith Stadium,
instead Of worrying over the posi-
bilities of the N. D.-Navy tilt?"
Last year Georgetown had one OF
the ranking elevens Of the East and,
in fact, gained national recognition
by its splendid triumph Of the high
" touted N. Y. u. team, as the BAN
Quet given by the Veterans Athletic
Association at Philadelphia tomor-
row night testifies. A noted au-
thority on sports told this writer
only recently that If Georgetown was
lucky enough to retain Lou Little as
coach for a few more years that
Notre Danes supremacy among the
Catholic colleges and otherwise would
be seriously threatened.
A Notre Dame-Navy game here
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BARNARD GOLF TOURNEY
DRAWS MANY CHAMPIONS

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, February 4
P).-State champions galore today
we're prepared to begin play in the ma
tional horseshoe pitching tournament,
with Clyde Davis, Columbus, Ohio, pres
ent title holder, leading the brigade.
Putt" Mossman, Eldora, Iowa
George May. Akron, Ohio, and Harold
Falor, also of Akron, are three former
national champions entered.
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MANDELL BATTLES DAVIS,

PEORIA, ILL.,. February dP).-
Sammy Mandell, world lightweight
champion, will tune up his right cross
and left hook again tonight when he
clashes with Don Davis of Chicago In
a 10-round bout. They will meet at 140
pounds and Mandell's title will not be
at stake.
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OKLAHOMA FIVE AHEAD.

KANSAS CITY, February P).-
Oklahoma Sooners have flown their COL
ors on the top rung of the Big Six
basket ball ranking and def1ed the other
five schools to displace them before the
season ends in March.
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SnNNENRERG IN MATCH,

NEW YORK, February [P).-Gus
Sonnenberg, former Dartmouth College
star, defends his heavyweight wrestling
championship in a finish match with
Howard Cantowine Of Iowa in Madison
Square Garden tonight, -. =.
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SKINKER EAGLES LIST
GAME WITH WEST FIVE

Skinker Eagles will entertain w. H.
West Co. quint Wednesday night at
O'Clock in the main game of the usual
midweek card in Congress Heights Au-
ditorium. There will be preliminary
between Jewish Community Center
quint and team to be named.
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TAKES SOCCER H0N0Rs.

VALENCIA, Spain. February R.-
Espanol Club of Barcelona won the
soccer foot ball championship of Spain,
defeating the Real Madrid Sporting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04
GEORGIA TECH LEADING
IN DIXIE BASKET BALL

ATLANTA, February [p).-Follow-
ing is the record of games won and lost
by Southern Conference basket ball
teams in intraconference competition:
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A TRIO of basket ball games stand
~ out on tonight's amateur pro-
~ gram. Probably the most spirited
4 4 will be played at Central High
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PRO HOCKEY STANDINGS.

AMERICAN GROUP.
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BROOKLAND MATCH
LONE ON D. c. CARD
Maryland Starts Three-Day
Tour Meeting V. P. |. on
BIackSburg Court.
BY III. c. BYRD.

~ ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY and
Maryland are the local college
basket ball teams with games
~ tonight, the former with Mount
st. Marys on its home floor, at
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VACANCY SURVEY
PLAN TO Be URGED
Department of Commerce to
Advocate National y
Proposal.

Apartment vacancy surveys as con-
Quoted for the past several years by
the Washington Operative Builders
Association have attracted the atten-
ton of the Department of Commerce,
which is planning to promote national
ly a suggested plan for determining
vacancies.
Two experts of the building and hous-
ing division of the Department of
Commerce have been assigned to make
a personal study of the methods fol-
lowed by the local operative builders
in their annual apartment vacancy
survey. now being made.
Robinson NeWcomb economist, and
J. r. Riggleman, senior economist, of
the Federal bureau. have accompanied
Rufus S. LuSk. secretary of the local
builders association, in visiting key
property management Offices of local
real estate concerns to see now figures
are gathered here in this survey work
1t is understood the Federal experts
plan to incorporate ideas gathered from
the local operators in proposing a ma
tionaI method for the making of va
cancy surveys. The proposal is to
foster suggested uniform method of
making such surveys.
Vacancy surveys of comprehensive
scope, with emphasis upon accuracy,
made to show actual conditions as to
overbuilding or underbuilding in re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-16

markets as means of transportation
and handling are improved. Among
these are the pomegranate, not new by
any means, but rarely as numerous as
the present season, when they have been
offered freely and at reasonable prices.
In the old world the pomegranate has
been cultivated since ancient times and
is a highly esteemed fruit. In this
country the pomegranate is more or less
of curiosity and may always remain
such on account of the many other
more useful fruits, such as the apple,
orange, banana, pear and grape. The
pomegranate is, according to Bailey'S
encyclopedia of Horticulture" grown
commercially in Florida, Alabama,
Louisiana. Georgia and other southern
states and survives out of doors as far
North as the thirty-fifth degree of lati-
Farther north the pomegranate is
grown as a greenhouse plant, there be-
ing certain highly ornamental varieties
useful only as show plants.
The fruits of the pomegranate vary
greatly in size according to variety,
reaching the dimension of medium
sized grapefruit in certain Asiatic kinds.
The color is usually bright crimson,
giving the fruits a distinctly handsome
appearance. The interior of the fruit is
filled with seeds enveloped
with bright pinkish pulp with album
dant juice. In the South the crushed
pulp is used as basis of a refreshing
acid drink called granadine, after the
Latin name of the pomegranate, Punica
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GARDEN CLUBS

Cooperative purchasers In the Ia
koma Horticultural Club bulb order have
been busy of late getting their bulbs
into the ground and have been favored
with good weather and easily worked
soil. Literally thousands Of tulip ana
other Spring Towering bulbs are added
each year to local gardens through the
liberal provisions of this money-SaVing
order. If the club rendered its men,
berS no other service it would amply
repay for membership dues in this one
purchase alone. This year the manage
ment of this stable order has been
under the direction of l.. w. kepharC
of 226 Maple avenue, Takoma Park.
L. M. Clarke was reelected president
of the Woodbridge Garden Club at the
regular meeting held November 4, an
honor we'll deserved and guaranteeing
another successful year for this wide
awake club. Other officers include A.
L. Foster, vice president; Miss Flor
ence E. Tinker recording secretary; A.
r. Hester. corresponding secretary, and
H. I. Goddard, treasurer.
May the writer of this column take
this opportunity of thanking those gar
den club people who have during the
past year contributed information con-
corning the activities of their organi-
cations? The garden clubs are doing
an important service in spreading the
gospel of better gardens and better gar
dening practice among home owners,
among those to whom gar
dening is an entirely new avocation.
That this service is appreciated is evil
denced in the rapid increase in the
number of such clubs and the increased
membership of those already estab-
lished
Prof. d. ". Lumsden Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture will present a Ian
tern slide lecture on chrySanthemumS
before the National Capital Dahlia and
Iris Society at its regular meeting Mo-
vember 20 at the Carlton Hotel. Prof.
LumSden is one of the most popular
gardening lecturers in this section and
may be counted on for an entertaining
and instructive discussion. The hour is
8 pm.
Following the lecture the nominating
consisting of H. P. Simpson,
Mrs. George Rutley. Mrs. j. E. Willett,
j. H. Kesecker and DR.. w. S. Benedict,
will present its report and election of
officers will take place. The present
officers are Mrs. Edna Reinohl, presi-
dent, and Mrs. M. l.. Payne, secretary.
Miss Laura A. Wadsworth, secretary
Of the National Capital Federation of
Garden Clubs, announces that the reg
ular meeting was held last evening at
the home of Mrs. P. j. Christian, 37l1
street, Chevy Chase.
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GARDEN ITEMS

Relative to stamped aluminium labels,
a friendly reader informs us that he has
located a place on Pennsylvania avenue
where there is a stamping machine and
that labels may be printed at the cost
of penny each. Fastened to the plant
with copper wire, these aluminium labels
are extremely durable and easily read.
This gardener has solved his label prob
lem and wishes to pass on the informa-
ton to others.
With real killing frost on Novem-
Der 10. the growing season for almost
all plants came to close even in the
more protected localities about the city.
Roses seem to have endured the cold
and also chrysanthemums of most vari-
cites. but it cannot be for very long even
for these harder plants.
ChrySanthemumS are now sending up
small plants from the rootstock AS
soon as the old tops have ceased flow
ering they should be cut back to the
ground. Or If the new growth is Ell
dangered by careless walkers part of
the old stems may be left as a protec-
ton. Some of the prolific varieties of
chrysanthemumS produce several dozens
of young plants at the base of each old
plant. Separation in early Spring is
not only possible but wholly desirable
to prevent disastrous struggle between
the young sister plants
1t is rather singular that yellow flow
ers mark the beginning and the close or
the flower season in the open garden.