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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-07
BY p. C. WODEHOUSE.

~ COULD tell my story in two wOrds-the
two words, IT drank" (But as long as
editors make q practice of paying for
human documents by length, I'm hanged
If I'm going to do So.) But was not
always a drinker
The other day met wild young fellow,
chum of my undergraduate days, up in New
York for q good time He took my arm and
began to steer me to the nearest soda fountain.
Come, Cyril" he cried. I'VE shall be young
only once. Let us enjoy life while we may.
III blow you to nut sundae. -
I shook him of. mo. Clarence" replied,
kindly but firmly, st am through with all that
sort of thing am saved"
lost a friend, but retained my self-respect.
I was not always slave of the soda fountain.
The thing stole upon me gradually, as 1t does
upon so many young men. was young man
before temptation really came upon me. My
downfall began when I joined the Yonkers
Shorthand and Typewriting Correspondence
College.
IT was then that I first made acquaintance
with the awful power of ridicule. They were
hard-llving set at college-reckless youths.
They frequented movie palaces.
How wildly can recall that day! The shin
ing counter, the placards advertising strange
mixtures with ice cream as their basis, the
busy men behind the counter, the half-cynical,
naI1-plCylng eyes oil the glrl IN the cage where
you bought the soda checks.
It was apple marshmallow sundae, recol-
lect. dug my spoon into it with an assumption
of gaiety which was far from feeling. The
first mouthful almost nauseated me. 1t was
like cold hair Oil. But stuck to it. set my
teeth and persevered, and by degrees strange
exhilaration began to steal over me- felt thai
had burnt my boats and bridges; that had
crossed the Rubicon. I was reckless. ordered
another round accosted perfect strangers
and forced sundaes upon them. was the life
and soul of that wild party.
The next morning brought remorse did
not feel well. had pains, physical and mental
But could not 60 back now. I was too weak
to dispense with my popularity. was only
. boy, and on the previous evening the captain
Of the Checkers Club, to whom looked ND
with an almost worshipping reverence had
slapped me on the back and told me that
was corker. I felt that nothing could be
excessive payment for such an honor That
night gave party at which orange phosphate
flowed like water. 1t was the turning point.
had got the habit
] win pass briefly over the next few years
continued to sink deeper and deeper into
the slough. knew all the drug store clerks in
New York by their first names and they called
me ny mine. no longer even had to specify
the abomination desired. simply handed
the man my check and said: ''The usual.
Jimmy, and he understood. neglected INV
business and undermined my health It became
Q regular thing for me to steal out during once
hours and hurry to drug store Ny manner
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F0fPMh>Mg u1zdngE1ufnmyEoze- Graeme Lorimer

you know I think 80. Not many girls-its
pretty low 10 hand you into this and then duck
Out. Do you mind II go?"
do you want to really Duke?" Her voice
Was family. wistful.
4 "Gosh, no, but I've got to get back to the
house to help work on this freshman-thats
the whole idea-and If you'll just keep Brother
Groben's mind of rushing till get back I'll
be your slave for life. Yes, and I'll be out here
tomorrow night with tickets for the theater.
VIII you? Can your"
'Of course I can" Nellie accented the chaI.
lenge and went back into the living room where
Groben sat swaying slightly with a far-away
look In his eye.
And then we settled down to long, steady
stroke" was the last Duke heard as he
quietly closed. the front door. He coasted
silently for a distance, then let the clutch in
and sped to the house. There he found Ell
bridge Sawtelle Strawbridge already ensconced
IN the stuffed chair in Beanies room-always
used for sweat sessions because it had the best
furniture. Beanie was talking:
This is congenial bunch of fellows. this
house. We don't want an uncongenal man
no matter who he is, and when we bid you it's
because we know you will be happier here than
anywhere else on the campus
This house stands for congenia!itv" he went
on loudly as the freshman's mouth opened to
speak. There are no cliques here like you will
ind in most houses, and we're well rounded
TOO. We stand for scholarship and for activities
as well as athletics. AS said before you'll find
this well rounded bunch of fellows and above
all they're congenial."
AS Beanie paused for breath Duke took the
baton. Looking the freshman hypnotically in
the eye, he briefly reviewed the national stand
ing of the brotherhood, but more important
than that, he went on, did Sawtelle know that
the bowl. now filled with cigarettes on the table
downstairs. had been awarded to a Beta XII last
year-the highest honor the senior class could
give-and this year the house had five senior
hats and two junior?
AS Duke opened the album of newspaper
clippings about great deeds of famous Beta Xxi
athletes, Elbridge Sawtelle Strawbridge threw
. leg over one arm of his chair and interrupted
What really want to know Is what fresh
men are coming Beta KIP" A smooth boy, this
freshman.
Duke proudly gave the lis. of men sewed I'D.
THE crowd you've been running with, you
See" . !,
The freshman did not seem properly impress
sed Some Of the crewmen I like are going
Pi Rho"
you mustn't let that influence YOU" Duke
said quickly. The friendships you make your
first term In college don't count for a thing
My best friends today hardly knew my fresh
man year. And besides you'll see plenty oR
those boys down at crew without being i'm the
same fraternity with Them
well, haven't made up my mind yet but
whichever way go want you fellows to know
like your crowd lot" Sawtelle was still ON
the fence at the beginning of the 1s-hour silent
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NV Battle Win Drink.

with customers became strange. was nervous
and distract. I became a secret candy eater
At first considerations of health did not
trouble me- was young and strong, and my
constitution quickly threw OF the effects Of
my dissipation. Then, gradually, began to
feel worse I was losing my grip. found q
difficulty in concentrating my attention ON my
work. I had dizzy spells Eventually went
to doctor. He examined me thoroughly and
shook his head.
eff am to do you any good" he said, you
must tell me all. You must hold no secrets
from me-"
Doctor" said, covering my face with INV
hands, IT am q confirmed soda fend"
He gave me q long lecture and a longer list
Of instructions. I must take air and exercise
and I must become q total abstainer from
sundaes of all descriptions. must avoid lime
ade like the plague, and II anybody offered me
frosted chocolate I was to knock him down
and shout for the nearest policeman. !.
I learned then for the first time what n
bitterly hard thing it is for man in a large
and wicked city to keep away from soda when
once he has got the habit. Everything was
against me- The old convivial circle began to
shun me. could not join in their revels and
tney began to look on me as crouch. In the
end fell and in one wild orgy undid ALI Al1e
gooo OF a months abstinence. I was desperate
then. felt that nothing could save me, and
l might as well give up the struggle. drank
Two pin-ap-o-ladeS, three grapefruitolas and q
milk shake before pausing to take breath.
a ND then one day, luckily met May the
girl who effected my reformation She
was clergyman's daughter who to support her
widowed mother had accepted a non-speaking.
part IN musical comedy production entitled
"Oh joy! Oh Pep!" Our acquaintance ripened
and one night asked her out to supper
/ look on that moment as the happiest of
my life. l. met her at the stage door and con-
Quoted her to the nearest soda fountain we
were inside and was buying the checks before
sne realized where she was, and shall never
1orget her look Of mingled pain and horror
And I thought you were live one!" she
murmured
/ confessed everything to her. 1t seemed that
sne had been looking forward to little lobster
and champagne. The idea was absolutely new
to me- She quickly convinced me- however.
tnat such was the only refreshment which she
would consider, and she recoiled with uncon.
cealed aversion from my suggestion Of a
crushed violet frappe or O whoopee college ice
That night tasted wine for the first time
and my reformation began
IL was hard at first, desperately hard Sone-
tnlng inside me was trying to pull me hack tn
the sundaes for which craved but resisted =
the impulse. Always with her divinely svmua
tnetic encouragement, I gradually acquired a ].
taste Tor alcohol. And suddenly one evening
IKE nasn 1t came upon me that had shaken, .
on the cursed yoke that held me down. that
never wanted to see the inside of a drug store
again. Cocktails, ct first repellent have at last
become palatable to me. I drink highhalla for
breakfast. ! ann savedl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
RYAN DIVORCE SUIT
ENDS IN DISMISSAL
Plaintiff Ascribes Action Due TO
Impulsive ental Condition
Ir1ucei oy Accident.
o. the Assccla ed Press.

ey the kssccia ed Press.
SHERIDAN, Wyo.. August 12.-The
divorce suit of Thomas F. Ryan, I'd,
which was fled IN District Court here
Saturday, came to an abrupt end yes
terday when a motion to dismiss the
case without prejudice was filed by the
plaintiff.
Mr.. Ryan, scion of a wealthy New
York family, in statement said the
"charges brought against Ms. Ryan
were absolutely without foundation or
justification"
The statement added that the plaint-
N could offer no explanation for such
action on his part other than being
directly attributable to injuries to his
head suffered in q recent automobile
accident, which left him in an impul-
sive mental condition"
Ryan is a grandson Of the late
Thomas Fortune Ran.
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LATE MELVILLEE. STONES
DAUGHTER WEEDS DOCTOR
Announcement of Marriage to DR..
Malcolm Goodridge Made at
Woodstock, Vt, Today.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August l2.-Announce-
nent was made here of the mar
riage yesterday afternoon in Woodstock,
VT, of Miss Elizabeth Stone, daugh-
ter Of the late Melville E. and Mrs.
Stone, to DR.. Malcolm Goodridge Of
New York
The brides father for many years was
general manager and later counselor Of
the Associated Press. DR.. Goodridge is
a practicing physician in New York and
has been a friend Of the Stone family
for many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12

Argentina exported nearly 400, 900
pounds of fox and skunk skins in the
last II months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12

Brown only. Enjoy grateful shade for the
mainder of the Summer, and be prepared for Sum-
mers to come.
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ureS to stand for many a moon. Swain
made eight marks, shooting nat in the
seventh and tenth frames. He had two
disconnected strikes.
For IS consecutive seasons Earle
Stocking has rolled anchor for King
David Lodge in the Masonic League.
He never has carried fiashy average,
but has been more than moderately
successful in the hot spot.
When King David was struggling for
the Masonic League pennant last sea-
son Stocking proved his mettle with an
unusual streak of tenth-box marking.
In each of three successive matches
he made good an opportunity to win a
game in the last frame.
AS a youth in college Earle aspired
to be Shakespearean actor and even
now his showman's instinct occasional
ly asserts itself. He built up the dra-
matte atmosphere around each of his
Garrison finishes by carefully aScer-
tanning how many pins he needed to
win.
His success was uncanny. In the first
crisis the demand was for mark and
seven-pin count. He got just that. In
the second he gathered 90 sticks to
VIII again Dy q LnaKBlu Oh one.
In the third he was told that mark
and nine-pin count would lift the bacon.
This time he made fortunate mistake.
Instead of 10 pins he got 20 and re-
count revealed that 19 would only have
tiedi
Stocking was present the other night
when these doingS were recalled by
Fritz Oppenheimer for the edification
of a group discussing anchor man feats.
But you didn't finish the story"
broke in the hero with an air that
promised something of real interest.
THE next week." Oppenheimer re-
sun1ed, Earle could have won game
with fat eight. He cut three deuces."
King David won the pennant with
lots to spare. Moreover, Stockings
team rolled high game and high set
of the season, was first in strikes and
spares and average, individual game
and set and about all else at stake in
the 36-team league.
That. extra expanse of chest notice.
able lately on Monk Frazer, the up
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Country Club, which saw a remarkable
tribute paid TO John I. Power. retiring
chairman Of the house committee. The
golf committee Endorsed all the details
of the forthcoming invitation tourney,
and appointment of a number of sub
committees was announced.
DR.. James T. McClenahan, DR.. w.
r. McLister, DR.. r. N. Sutton and a
number of others were pictured in the
motion pictures taken and shown by
r. T. Harrel, a member ofsthe club,
and II the balls they hit went as far
as the vigor of the swing that propelled
them some new records for long driving
must have been set. It was decided to
make the tourney an invitation affair,
with all entrants to be passed on by the
golf committee. It will be held April
90, 80 and May / and 2.
Power was presented with a hand
some leather golf bag and with one of
the rolls OF film showing him driving
from the first tee. Many testimonials
were paid to him and his work BY the
members OF the committee who gathered
to do him honor, and humorous sketch
by Ralph S. Fowler brought down the
house."
Committees were appointed as fol-
lows:
Golf fund-Harry D. eastman. chair
man; z. j. Swift, o. L.. Veerhoff. A, B.
Gait and r. G. Hunt.
Invitations-F. D. Paxton. chairman;
DR.. j. T. McClenahan, A. w. Howard,
DR.. T. J. Rice and r. J. Norman.
1ntraclub events-O. L. Veerhoff, D.
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DeeS Defeat BY Campbell No Criterion OF His Rank Bowling Star

and-at-'em Arcadia manager, is due to
the arrival of Monk, jr.
Frazier is the idol of bevy OF tiny
lads who disport at the Arcadia,
usually accompanied by parents: Tney
would be quite as well Of in the care
of Monk, whose interest In them Is real.
One of the shayers had special mStcn
on recently with youngster at silver
Spring and Frazier went along as man
ager, coach and moral support. his
charge won and of the two Monk easily
was the more enthusiastic.
Today he will start tournament fof
the pantalooned brigade. with all over
IL years of age barred. The winner VIII
receive a gold medal
Takoma Park, D. c., will have
bowling alley starting tomorrow and It
promises to be marked success. Q. w.
Carl will open a place at 317-19 CEDAR
street with eight drives and four pocket
billiard tables. Later on there will be
eight more drives and several more
tables.
The christening ceremonies will be
held at night, with Bert Heifs Bethesda
All-Stars meeting Charley Walson's Sc
lect lineup from Silver Spring. The
doors will open at / pm.
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MRS. MOODY WILL PLAY
IN TOURNAMENT TODAY

PASADENA, Calf, March Il Dr.
For the first time as Mrs. Helen Wills
Moody, the world womens tennis cham
pion came out for some tournament play
here today.
Mrs. Moody's opponent In the first
round Of women's singles competition
in the Huntington Hotel invitation
tournament was Helen Marlowe of San
ia Monica. Calf, second ranking girl
player of the Nation.
Since Helen Wills laid down her
racquet after a successful court CAM
paign last Summer she has married
Frederick S. Moody, jr., young San
Francisco broker. Her appearance here
in tournament marks the opening Of
her 1880 campaign.
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Some of the members of the Manor
Club claim that Pitts new wrinkle
from the tee is bad news to Miller B.
STEVENSON, and that Steve" will have
more trouble than he usually has
trouncing the Manorite this year, If he
beats him at all. They assert that II
Harry can avoid that bouncing hook
which used to end his ball far OF in
the tall and uncut rough or in the
Ynazes of flock of traps, he will depose
the District amateur champion as the
top ranking golfer hereabouts.
Harry has been practicing steadily
for the past few weeks and Is playing
with the same grace and skill that has
kept him In the forefront of the local
amateurs for several years. The first
or woods" nine at the Manor Club is
not open. Chairman Dave Thomson
of the green's committee deems 1t un-
wise to open the nine until better
weather sets in and wants to give the
new fairways chance to settle. But
Harry Pitt is knocking the ball around
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BALTIMORE GIRL GOLFER
WILL. MAKE TRIP ABROAD

BALTIMORE, March 14.-Virginia
Holzderber of the Baltimore Country
Club, one of the best woman golfers In
the East, has been invited to Join the
United States team which will play
England at London next May.
Holder of both the State and the
Middle Atlantic titles, Miss Holzderber
intends to make the trip and will leave
with the other members of the team on
April o.
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MACCARTEE REELECTED
CAPTAIN AT ST. JOHNS

ANNAPOLIS, March 14.--Robert
MacCartee, ST. Johns basket ball cap
tain-forward, was reelected to lead the
1881 court team at the annual ban
quet last night. He came to st. Johns
from Tech High.
MacCartee has been member of
Johnny quint for the past three sea-
sons and has been one of the leading
scorers. Besides Captain MacCartee,
five other players received monograms.
They were Snowden Hoff, Larry Car
penter, Ferd Fader, Walter Baird and
Steve Wolanske. Manager AL Landers
also was given letter.
walter Baird, center, who has been
letter man for two years. will be the
only member Of this years regular
team to graduate.
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A.' NAia,r
STE

simple. It's an arm swing entirely,
an arm swing that automatically
whips the clubhead on through and
out toward the hole.
Details, such as the pivot, foot
work, wrists cooking and so on take
care of themselves according to this
fine old player. So, well take his
method as pattern these next few
weeks and look into it in the hope
that many of the secrets Of this
perplexing problem of lowering ones
score will become more clear.
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Thorn Gets First Ace
In % Years as Golfer

Twenty-Five years of knocking re-
calcitrant golf balls toward distant
pins were capped by his first hole
iI1-one yesterday by Arthur B.
Thorn, professional at. the Wood
mont Country Club.
Thorn holed his tee shot ON the
eighth hole at Woodmont during a
playing lesson with Mrs. s. w.
Straus. The hole is 100 yards in
length and Thorn played the shot
with a mashie-niblick.
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r. Elmore, r. T. Harrell, J. e. Rice and
DR.. e. w. Titus.
Handicap-R. j. Norman, DR.. r. N.
Sutton, c. B. Stewart.
Publicity-E. j. Swift Lowell Mellett,
w. r. McCalium, Henry L. West.
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Guaranteed. In all-rubber
cases. 0-vOlt 90 OK
1l-plate. ......... 0UOoOO
and old one.
Every battery charged and
ready to be used.
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Much has been SAID OF CleHl
Weidman's 100 average in the Dis
trict League, which shoots on a
circuit of seven pin plants. II
Weidman holds it to the end he
will have an all-time washington
record.
But Won Dreele has an average for
this season of l2l for 437 games rolled
In all sorts of competition and on II
sets of drives. In the Baltimore major
league his agevage Is 100 and II ne
maintains this he will have beaten the
previous Baltimore record for seasons
league average by points. He cstab-
lished three seasons ago the mark ne
Is trying now to beat.
Record Not Recognized.
Because there was no foul ire judge
the flve-Rame set of 756 rolled by Won
Dreele in a Baltimore doubles league
has never been recognized oficially as
a record. But it was anything but a
fiuke Not In is years has the count
been guilty of a foul. He finishes his
slide about 8 inches farther behind the
line than majority of expert bowlers.
The name of one washington bowler
is a by-word because he once rolled AS
in league play. Twice, under the same
conditions, Won Dreele has shot $50 and
once 45S, which equals the Districts
all-time record.
Twice in league competition and four
times in other kinds of matches Vo-
Dreele has come within che stick OF.
equaling the best game ever rolled here
In league.
"Its queer about my 1885," says he.
"just can't get that other pin. Once /
made 10 straight marks for this score
without double-header. In each OF
the other games got triple-header.
Any one of these performances would
be the high point in the bowling careers
of nine-tentl1s of those who have won
fame on the mapleways. but Won Dreele
has still another achievement that pales
all the others.
In q l2-man INDEPENDENT match
rolled on four drives. he SHIT ACT for
three consecutive games. The scores
were 1855. ITO and 162.
A crowd that filled every inch of spesc-
tator space saw Campbell beat the Bal
timorean. 621 to $50. and it was typi-
cal Campbell victory Howard bore down
successfully at a critical time. They en-
tered the final game with Won Dreele
three naples in front Tho Dutcllman
proved through while Cariubell was get
ting spare breaks and making them per-
fectly There never was steadier
bowler in pinch.
However, the pay-off will b on total
pins for 10 games the last i've to be
rolled next Thursday at the Recreation
in Baltimore.
Ed Blakeley and Art Waters, Won
Dreele's playmates, found rather easy
pickings in Jack Wolstenholne and
Bernie FRYE. Campbell's fellow King
Primers. The Baltimore pair picked up
q lead Of 50 sticks. The scores:
SINGLES.
campbeIl 122 Io7 140 LOT 1881
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the short 1S-hole course at Manor in
scores around 20 and Is playing "hot"
golf. II his scoring pace remains the
same, he will indeed give STEVENSON q
close tussle this year The margin be-
tween them never has been bigger than
a gnat's eyelash, and the struggle usu-
ally is won and lost on the putting
green's, where both men are excellent
performers.
That keen and friendly rivalry be-
tween the aces of the Columbia and
Manor Clubs is a good thing for golf,
but STEVENSON is no easy man to take
over the jumps. For example, yester-
day he could not ar1aSs more than four
brides on the first nine holes and
breezed out in "a, including 6 on a
par hole.
Golfers who never before have been
in the movies" saw themselves pic
tured in the Pickering films last night
at the annual meeting of the golf COM
mittee of the Washington Golf and
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VardOn Golf Calls
For Arm Swing
BY SOL METZGER.

BY SOL METZGER.
Golf needs simplifying. Details
have to often clouded the main
issue. To this end 1t is often wise
to return to the methods of the old
masters. There is Vardon, for ex-
ample, whose record viii always
stand the test of time unless the
future stars out-Jones Bobby him
self.
Harry's idea of the golf swing is
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brought disappointment to Won Dreee
accustomed 900 sets with an occasional TOO score IN ogane
matches. -, =.
talent hundreds Of expert bower will be
with the Bamoreans
in duckpnneS shoot
1905 Dreele has rolled 1879
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oOKING Harry Pitt has turned to sicer The long hitter
- Of the Manor Club universally ranked the second golfer
Washington to hook them around
the his turned the other around
slcng knocking them just
years down