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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
JONES IS PLANNING
BUSY YEAR IN GOLF
Bobby, in Great Shape, Looks
to Most Extensive Play
in Recent Years.

ATLANTA, February rs (R.-Down
to his best playing weight, tanned,
hardened and shooting better golf than
usual this early in the season, Bobby
Jones, national open champion, is ready
for his most extensive campaign of
recent years.
A program of indoor and outdoor
sports, intermingled with a little golf,
has kept the Atlanta ace in near per-
feet trim throughout the Winter. He
now tips the scales at IT'S pounds,
stripped.
The stocky champion, who has won
every major crown golfdom offers ex-
cept the British amateur, plans to get
in at least four rounds of golf over the
East Lake Country Club course here
his home course-every week until he
sails for Europe April 80 as captain of
the Walker Cup team. He may enter
the Augusta, Ga, open on March 81
and April /.
Jones has his eyes set on the British
amateur title this year. His tentative
schedule also includes the British open,
in addition to the Walker Cup matches,
and the American open and amateur.
With only few chances to test his
clubs this year, Bobby finished a To-
hole grind at Savannah just one stroke
behind Horton Smith and six strokes
ahead of Bobby Cruickshank, who took
second money among the pros. Bobby
carded 279.
But for bad second round of rs
and poor putt on the sixteenth hole
on the final journey he might have won
the Savannah event.
The green's on the East Lake course
here are in bad conditions as a result
OF an extremely long and exacting VIM
ter and Bobby has had little chance to
recover his putting touch. Calamity
Jane, his famous putter, missed nearly
a dozen 10 to is foot puts on each
round at Savannah.
But his showing at Savannah served
to inform the golfers of this country
and Britain that Bobby needs only a
little more practice before he reaches
the great form that has brought him
many championships.
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MICHIGAN SEEKING
SECOND PLACE TIE
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 25.-Michigans
basket ball team tonight will seek to re-
gain a half-share In second place In the
western Conference championship
scramble-at the expense Of Chicago,
perpetrator Of the seasons biggest up
set.
The Wolverines will play their sec
ond game Of the campaign with Chi
cago at Ann Arbor, aiming for then
sixth victory In eight starts. Wisconsin
last night broke its tie with Michigan b.
scoring its second triumph of the sea-
son over Illinois at Champaign, % to
II. The Illini made a desperate last
period attempt to pull the contest out
OF the FIRE. but only succeeded in CIV
ing the spectators q thrill when they
whitfield a 14-point lead to Z.
The first outstanding contest of the
week will be played at Lafayette, Ind,
where Purdue tackles the re-awakened
Northwestern nvel The undefeated
Purdue club faces a real test in North
western. which apparently has regained
the form expected of 1t.
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On the Drives Tonight

Of District district LLeague-Meyer Davis vs. Petworth.
:, National Capital League-Lucky Strike VS..
y Es Mi SMITH En- at Lucky Strike.
Miriam vs. Mart6aS Fdetyy Is vs. MSEmOny
Masonic fiea hsssTys VS. Te%Rs at Lucky Strike
vs.. Stansbury. Osiris VS.. Silver Spring. Jopns
Fsvett aW Ss kiPE David VS. cenEres
Was Centsnnial; National VS. Poto.
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MsSS Hcgnt sf RsinlerA vs. asnt
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Sa6sTs ses vs. Aisa R6o asns.F cu xi
Gfare vs. Req Streaks. Olive cafe vs.. Sears
Kins Pin BUSINESS Me P's Learue--Mar.
f Ger ~ Ico5vin vs. Royal Arcsnum, at KinG
u,North Of WASHINGTON Ladies' League
AG ydihsWooa a. F sJsr vs. William F. Redman
tSn i.TT5snsie SsrsEe vs. stsndsrd 9 xc-
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suburban Ieasa Ss Greeks VS.. Co.
0'csa H hi'aEe at Lunch
Mahoney Pepper Co. at Capitol Hill. 70
y, 'pS ", u a; "; League-E. y. Ross No. !
Ei F Esn9 No NO !; OLD Glory rs. BsnnlnS
vs.. Reno No 2. 3. j. Ross No. AOS -. J ss
l. Burnett; at Recreation.
Commercials. Beeques VS.. Colunbians. Bill
lies vs. Hilltoppers, Nationals VS.. Dauehters
of Isabella, at Coliseum,
North ,Washington Church League--First
Reform1d vs. Gunton- Temple. Emory M r.
VS.. Petworth Baptist. Columbia Heights VS.
Central PRESBYTERIAN, Wallace Memorial VS..
Asbury NJ. ". at Arcadia.
Matthews Takoma No vs.. St Johns No.
3; Grace vs.. IncRrnation No. 2, GEORGETOWN
vs.. Reformation: Zion VS.. Georgetown No 2.
Christ vs. Ct johns No. !. Trinity VS.. st.
East WashlnEton Church LeaEue-Lineoln
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Anacostia. Douglas No, ] VS.. Eastern, Ep-
worth VS.. Brookland. Ninth No . vs.. second
Is. No, 2ysi FIFTH RaptlIt. Ninth No, 1 vs.
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BUSTING INTO BASE BALL


JUST a few lines in letter from a
one-tine big league star who
- was famous as home-run hitter
some years ago provided me with
the greatest thrill of all my base ball
career and I always will remember the
sensation it gave me when glanced
at that signature. That letter was TO
start me on the way to the big leagues
and in a very short time I was to be-
come a member Of the famous Phila-
delphia Athletics.
When / was Is years old, I started
out playing third base as a semi-pro
player in the Caroline County League
of Maryland, and played for two Sum-
mers.
So one day, during the Winter of
1924, when I was Is years old, a letter
came to my house and it was from the
Easton team of the Eastern Shore
League inviting me to train with them
in the Spring, II cared to.
At the bottom of the letter was this
famous signature:
Frank Home RUM Baker!"
"If 1 cared to''-there wasn't any
question about 1t, and I reported to
Manager Baker in the Spring. To this
day do not know who recommended
me to him, but when I arrived there,
told him was a third baseman.
In few days, however, Manager
Baker said to me:
Jimmy, think I'll make a catcher
out of you"
Five months later. at the age of Is,
he sold me to the Philadelphia Athletics,
the same team with which he made
such a great team name for himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
BY TRIP" COLLINS.
As Told TO ]. p. Glass.

For the doctors told him he had Bright's
disease. He wasn't only Just about
through with base ball. He was finish
ing with the game Of life. 1t was only
matter Of months.
well, guess news like that would
be knockout for most of us. But Os-
car Mellilo isn't built like that. He did
the only thing he could do. He went
home at the end of the season on a
strict diet and made up his mind he
was going to fool the doctors.
When we went South in 1929 to
train we never expected that the little
fellow would be our regular second base
man. Fact is, We were surprised to see
him show up.
"All he said to Manager Howley was
I want to get in at second
THE manager stuck him in. He
never took Inn out again. Oscar played
star game from the start He was an
even better fielder than ever and as q
batter he had improved wonderfully.
1t was sheer determination and con-
slant holding on to his diet that did it.
Right now he seems to have as good
health as ever.
"It sure tickles me to have him play
ing back OF me. More than once last
year he helped me out of tight holes.
Il remember one play of his that was
wfliz We were playing the Athletics.
It was the ninth inning and we were
leading, to /.
philadelphia rallied. They scored
one run and, with two men out. had a
baserunner on first. Haas was next at
bat and he hit low one on line over
second.
Il don't know whether any one else
could have got that ball or not. I know
as the ball passed me thought that tho
old game was slipping away. But some
how Mellilo slid over on his belly and
letics. ~
Yes, sir, q game kidd real game
kidd"
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Fights Last Night

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-Bob Olin, New York.
outpointed Leo Williams, New York
Q0).
SARASOTA, Fla.-Ernesto Saugues,
Chile, knocked out Ollie Joiner, Bra
dentown, Fla. CO...
TORONTO. - Steve Rocco, Toronto,
outpointed Pablo Dano, Philippines
G0); Frenchy Belanger, Toronto,
knocked out Kid Lencho, Mexico ca.
NEW ORLEANS. Primo Camera,
italy, knocked out Farmer Lodge, Min
neapolis ca.
PHILADELPHIA. - Paulie Walker,
Trenton, N. j., and Sergt. Sammy Bak-
er, New York, drew 90.
LOUISVILLE, KY. - Pat Freeman,
Louisville, knocked out Billy Roads,
Indianapolis "a; Rip Wilson, Louis
vile, outpointed Paul Anderson, Indian
apolis C0); Tuck Henning, Jefferson
vile, Ind, knocked out Jackie Coogan,
st. Louis 60.
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NgA -
Washington won so many titles
at Baltimore that it wasn't thrill
ed by a near-clean sweep the FOL
lowing year at Richmond. But
only a title or two this time would
be reliShed. New England hereto
fore has been unable to put its full
strength against other sections.
Even our own Lorraine GULL, whom
Washington is pleased to regard as the
queen of girl bowlers, may find compe-
tition worthy of her mettle at Hartford.
Lorraine got a bit of national pubnclty
recently by shooting game OF l76, out
this was only four pins better than one
rolled last season by Lillian FISK al
Hartford, Conn.
She Averages 1OS.
Moreover. Lillian this year has carried
the hirest average ever made by girl,
her l0s being three points better than
I,orraine's. The National Duckpin
Bowling Congress figures New Englanos
round cutters are worth three pins
game over the square cutters In vogue
down this way so the Frisk-Gulh race
is about a tie. Miss GULL likely Will be
called upon to shoot some exhlnitions
while at Waterbury and wouldn't De
aVerSe, IL IS UNDERSTOOD 10 IudISAl
with the Hartford star.
Another who might give her a battle
is Janette Killgren of Boston, who has
been bowling only year or SO, but al
ready is achieving man-sized scores.
Jack Whalen of Atlanta will have
the longest trip of any of the nation
ally recognized experts and he will be
counted by force of habit among Wash
ington's representatives. Somehow one
can't become used to the fact that
Jack no longer is q Washingtonian, but
a proud citizen of booming Atlanta.
His partner in the doubles, John Bell,
Is unknown here.
Whalen tied with Howard Campbell
last year for the singles championship
and lost the roll-off.
Distance No HIndrance.
Although one lives in Atlanta and
the other in Philadelphia now, the
women's doubles champions, Marie
FTere Whalen and Marjorie Bra0t
Smith. will defend their title. These
two are at their best when the going
Is tough.
Lillian Frisk is a member of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25

RASE BALL carries as many breaks,
= good or bad, as any single sport
can show But one of the most i'm
portant breaks, so far as the ball player
is concerned. is the team that he hap
pens to draw, or the team that happens
to draw him.
Take the case of young Klein of the
Phillies. Last season Klein broke the
National League records for home runs
with 43. He moved out beyond Horns
by'S old mark. He batted 1855 on the
side.
You can figure about what a ball
player Of this type would be worth
to the Yankees, Giants or Cubs. As
II Is, he Is reported to have asked
for $4,000 with the PhiIIies and only
$1,000 offered. The Phillies don't
happen to be financially equipped
to compete with Yankees, Giants
or Cubs. But that isn't Klein's fault.
He might beat Babe Ruth by a dozen
home runs this season and still draw
less than a third Of Ruth'S salary,
or a fourth Of Ruth's salary.
If all the good ball players were
taken away from clubs that couldn I
afford to compete with some others
there would be no race left.
But, asUsh, this isn't the ball players
fault. It just happens to be one of
those tough breaks that at times assail
some sections of the human race.
The ball player is no part of slave,
but not all Of them get the best Of the
breaks when 1t comes to open financial
competition in an open market. And
yet there Is practically nothing that
can be done about it.
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1875 DIAMOND ASPIRANTS
START WORK AT NAVY

ANNAPOLIS, Md, February 25y--
Base ball practice began at the Naval
Academy yesterday when about rs can
didates reported for the varsity nine
and some so for the plebe team.
The candidates were put to work
at once in the armory, in WHICH sew
eral cages have been placed. Ernest
Mohler, head coach, took charge Of the
varsity candidates, while Bill Walsh
will handle the plebe squad -
OF last years regulars there >were
on hand Gentner. captain this season
and Byng, outfielders; O'Toole, second
baseman; Lowrence, third baseman F;
Moore and Schultz, pitchers, and Cub
bins and Torgenson, catchers.
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TUNNEY TO WITNESS
MIAMI RING BATTLE

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, February u.s.
Gene Tunney has arrived here for an
indefinite stay. He plans to be at the
ringside for the Sharkey-Scott fight
Thursday night in Miami, to mark his
first appearance in boxing arena since
he retired as undefeated heavyweight
champion in the Summer of 1928.
Tunney, friends said. appeared strong
and we'll on the road TO recovery from
an operation in New York six weeks
ago. He said, however, that he tired
rather easily and felt the need of rest,
He carried a cane for support. He was
tanned by three weeks in Florida.
He motored here from USeppa Isle,
Of the West Coast, accompanied by
Mrs Tunney and the latter's sister, Mrs.
Edwin S. Dooing of Hartford, Conn.
Tunney told friends he was glad to re-
turn TO the spot where several years ago
he first began training for the heavy
weight career that led to his first VIC
tory over Jack Dempsey for the title
in 1926 at Philadelphia.
Dempsey, who was conspicuous In the
promotion of the Sharkey-Stribling
fight here last year, will not attend this
weeks show. He has wired his regrets
TO William F. Carey, the Garden presi.
dent.
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Ban Fight Broadcast Absolute Bells Tennis Too Fast for
Sharkey Sure He viii Beat
Scott Inside of Five Rounds
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, February 25-Jack Sharkey made
few since he started training here but he
today
Here the last of my hard work" I'm through
except for light exercise tomorrow and cashencs
Wednesday. Then it will be matter of possibly
minutes of heavy work in the ring
That would appear to indicate that Jack expects
inside of five rounds.
used boast" continued Sharkey "but suppose
learned better have older Still here promise
will make Tell American boxing fans the heavyweight cham
ponship of the world will remain in America that
Sharkey will that it is kept here"
Al Lacey Sharkeys trainer announced that Sharkey
the best conditioned athlete he had handled and so
cent better than he when he boxed Young Striblng
year
by America AnianceD
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L
~ of the st. Louis Browns, says
that when it comes to nerve
you have to hand it to Oscar
Mellilo, second baseman of the club.
eff ever there was good, game kid, "
declares Rip, IT guess he's the one.
81 thing Mellilo was as good as any
second baseman in the league last year.
Some may have outhit him, but at that
he certainly had a way Of coming
through when hit was needed. And
an average of 1896 in 141 games isn't
rotten by any means.
"As for fielding, nobody had it on
him. I'll bet he saved IL or is games
for our club by fast work
I'm willing to give Oscar credit for
making the st. Louis Club last season.
And when think of the fight he had to
go through to reach that position I've
just got TO tip my hat to him. Talk
about your battling Irish and Dutchl
Nobody ever had anything on this scrap
ping italian from Chicago.
you remember that Mellilo's first
year at st. Louis was pretty promising.
He wasn't a sensation, but he did very
well, hitting ass in 90 games and
fielding nicely It looked like he was
going to develop for the next season,
1927.
But instead Of getting better he fell
of. His batting average dropped TO
225.
The kid was sick that was what
was the matter with him. He was COM
ing out to play feeling rotten and ac-
tually in pain. No wonder his game
didn't improve.
ut wasn't any better in 1928. Fact
is, 1t was worse. He only got into 81
games and he hit nneaSly .1s9.
1T looked like his finish In the big
league. Or for that matter. any league,
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All SET Is ROLLED
BY CLARENCE KIRBY

This Clarence Kibby of the Treasury
Team OF the Federal Bowling League is
burning up the drives. Last nirht he
cnalked up his second recent 400 set
when he amassed 421 for three games
The counts were 1853, lat and III. 1t
was only last week that Kibby shot 425
for new circuit mark.
E. Parks won the Georgetown Recrea-
non bowling sweepstakes with 62I, H.
Bromley was second with si3 n Ynurg
third, with 500, and S. Benson fo,,rtS
with SIT. Because of the success OF
The event, which marked the second
anniversary of the opening of George
town Recreation, weekly sweepstak es
WIZ be held on the drives starting sat
urday night. ~
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Two Types in Golf,
Hitter and Swinger
BY SOL METZGER,

The way to better golf concerns
itself rarely with detail. Neither Is
great strength for hitting a requi-
site. Distance with accuracy comes
only by swinging the clubhead
through ahead. But some do gain
results by sheer hitting power.
Hagen, who introduced the hit, is
striking proof.
Such type can be picked out by
the position of the hands and club
head at the top of the swing. Their
clubheads do not point straight
down at the ground. And were they
to glance back at their clubhead
here they would not see the hitting
surface, but only the top of same,
bearing the makers signature.
The hitters hands differ, too, in
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ESPEY AND VIERS FINISH
THEIR MATCH TOMORROW

Eddie Espey and Noble L. Viers, jr.,
crack juvenile bowlers, will conclude
their special 10-game match tomorrow
night at 1880 o'clock, on the Silver
Spring alleys instead of Saturday night.
Espey represents the Arcadia and Viers
holds forth at Silver Spring.
Espey will enter the final FIVE games
holding lead Of IS pins. In the first
block rolled last Saturday night at the
Arcadia, he shot SIS against 4e3 for
Viers.
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CARNERA ADDS ANOTHER
VICTIM TO HIS K. 0. LIST

NEW ORLEANS, February rs Orl.-
Farmer Lodge of Minnesota is the
seventh victim of Primo Cameras cam
paign through American prize rings,
The mammoth Italian knocked out
Lodge in the second round of their
scheduled 10-round bout here last night.
Lodge was the fourth of Camera s
opponents in this country to last two
rounds.
Lodge weighed 2S5, Camera 27S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25

up in the advance chatter before he
meets Sharkey.
If Scott beats Sharkey, there will be
nothing like any million-d dollar gate.
If ShaFkey merely outpoints Scott, the
same will be true. Sharkey will have
to win with knockout to build up any
million-dollar ballyhoo for the June
show, and even then the intake may
not pass 100000
lion-dollar gate is to get Dempsey In
the picture or to have Camera turn
into real Colossus Of Clout, with q
shot at the royal cloak It will take
some unusual circumstance to bring
back another million dollar carnival
but it may happen, with the right break.
Any fight that will mean a real heavy
weight championship, that will be ac-
cepted as real heavyweight champion
ship and not merely one by commission
edict, will come close to the big pot.
An inventor has discovered that q
golf ball stays on the club face after ii
has been hit just a bare fraction of q
stay in heel prim in a bunker several
seconds after 1t has been hit.
The idea was once advanced that q
golf ball remains glued to the face OF
8 club for several inches after being
struck. The rebound Is almost imme-
date, ball and club face travelling about
a half-inch together before the ball Is
under way. So one can see just how
important the carefully posed finishes
of many golfers are. The idea isn't to
look like Bobby Jones at the finish OF
swing. but TO look like Bobby Jones
as the club head reaches the ball. That
is something else again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25
GLENDON, COLUMBIA CREW
MENTOR, QUITS HOSPITAL

NEW YORK, February 25.-Dick
Glendon. head rowing coach at CO.
lumbia. has been discharged from St.
Francis Hospital, where he has been
recuperating from an appendicitis oper-
alton performed February 8.
Columbis's Spring rowing practice has
been directed by Glendon's younger
brother Hugh, coach of the champion
Columbia lightweight crew. Dick plans
to resume his rowing duties toward the
end of the week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25

Charter Oak team of Hartford, which
Is said to be, on paper, the strongest
girls quint in the country.
Howard Campbell has the best record
among those who competed in the first
two tournaments. In 1928 he won the
all-events and helped the King Pins
to the team title and last year he won
the singles crown. He is the only man
to shoot two 400" sets in national
competition.
Can Still Enter.
Only few DAYS remain to turn in
entries. The deadline fell officially last
Saturday night, but Secretary George
L. Isemann, TIA Denrike Building, has
kept the lists open at the request of a
number of bowlers awaiting a pay day.
Isemann has just returned from Dur
ham, N. c., where he did the hofors
at the opening Of new bowling estab-
lishment.
In the meantime bowlerS are not
marking time for the national t0urna%
ment. All sorts of special events, but
mostly sweepstakes, are scheduled for
the next several weeks, the most i'm
portant being the Bill Wood Sweep
stakes for bowlers with averages OF
less than 106.
A tournament with similar limitations
will be held by Prince Georges County
bowlers March l and 8. at the Hyatts-
vile Arcadia. entry fee, SIS. All captains
of section B of the Prince Georges
County League are requested to al
tend a meeting Friday at z pm. at
the Hyattsville Arcadia.
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TILDEN AND CoEN WIN,

BEAULIEU, France. February IS Up.
Bill Tilden and Wilbur r. Coen, IT.,
Americas first and eighth ranking ten
mis- players, won the doubles title In the
Beaulieu tournament, defeating DR..
Daniel Prem and Heinrich Klein
Schroth. a German team, by scores Of
8-6, Ga, Ga.
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THE SPORTLICHT
BY cRANTLAND RICE.
Fame and the Game.


Asst Fall ColumbiaS ball failed
the leading gdron herds but only short while before
lumbia much glory any
earned But the big difference is that
the old hphip publicity
ball team can draw-and does draw.
Yet winning needs much in the of skill stamina
probably tre The four close to being the
hardest test all sport 1t test where the weakest
the strongest crack the rhythm
take terrific punishment the time
fourm calls much better physical condition
ball there resting
foot action demands motion
the two hours a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-25

In the course of time Columbias foot
ball team will be heard from, with Lou
Little in charge, but in the meanwhile
young Glendon is busy building up an
other Columbia crew that will also be
heard from before the Poughkeepsie
party is over.
Giendon's crew might beat the best
in the world and still not get as much
publicity as Lou Little can draw by
building up a foot ball team good
enough to beat Cornell, Pennsylvania
and Syracuse.
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BRUINS ARE THINKING
OF STREAK AND TITLE

NEW YORK, February Is (P.--Now
that they have walked of with almost
all the honors of the National Hockey
League season, the Boston Bruins have
Just two more questions to answer
The first Is how long will their
present winning streak, now at 13
games, last?" The other, "w1l they
repeat last years triumph In the play
e SERIES. -,.s.-.s,.s. s,...., -