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The Washington times., 1931-09-18
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Many members of diplomatic official and resident society
will assemble today to witness the opening OF the Pres
dents Cup Regatta, the Potomac River which is being
sponsored by the Cornthan Yacht Club WHICH this year
combines with the Chesapeake and Potomac Power Boat
Association to make this occasion the outstanding event
of the boating world. y :
Yachts and speedboats filled with fashionables will line
the course which Gold Cup will race and
the keenet interest being shown this speedboat classic
Many Will Witness Regatta
1t will give an opportunity for members Of the
to meet after their wanderngs and the grand
stand which has been erected the point in front of the
War College, overlooking the river will present interest
ing appearance for here the important personages will
gather to witness the first heat of the Gold Cup event
The speedboat taking part in this contest include
Mr. Theodore Hall and Mr. Gerald Holbrook, of Red Bank
n j.; Mr.. George Res of Lake George; Mr. Victor Kle
rath of Port Washington L. L. winner of this event last
year; Mr.. John Shve of Philadelphia Mr. Felix Adams
of Wyandotte Mr. Richard Loyne of Los Angeles, and
Mr.. William Horn of Hampton, Va.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam has been invited by Mrs
William B. Huntingdon of Bradenton, Fla. view the
regatta from the latters yacht, the Marabe Mrs Hunt
ington will entertain a number of other guests well.
Mr. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia has arrived aboard
his yacht with party of friends and will be interested
spectator
The official boat Coast Guard cutter will be the
and finish line the Corinhian Yacht Club and
will have aboard the judges timers and starters and
they will follow the first heat the 15mle course,
this afternoon. Two other heats will follow tomorrow
President to Attend If Possible
The President has expressed his hope to attend the
gatta if his engagements will permit and Mrs Hoover will
doubtless accompany him.;
Commodore Edward G. Baltz, of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Power Boat Association is chairman of the
tive committee and Vice Commodore Robert Schoz of the
Corinthian Yacht Club, is vice chairman.
The regatta should present attractive and colorful
scene with apanes zoomng overhead flags everywhere in
evidences bands playing and everyone in holiday mood
The regatta will close evening with dinner
dance and entertainment the National Press Club when
the prizes will be awarded for the various events the
regatta program.
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Rep. Tilson Goes :. :.
To the Metropolis

Representative John @. Til
son of Connecticut is in New
York for a brief sojourn at
the Roosevelt Hotel. ..
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Cen. and Mrs. Hugh
Matthews at Resort

General Hugh Matthews Of
the U. S. Marine Corps and
Mrs. Matthews arrived by mo-
tor from Washington yesterday
at White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va, for the week end.
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program.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
The Neqe, Problem

How would you bid and play the following
hand, North and South being vulnerable with
South the dealer?
Evening star., 1931-12-27

Those who rate no trump hands by honor
tricks require about five to bid two no trump
and therefore would start with one. North
has close question to decide whether to bid
two clubs or force with three He barely lacks
his three honor tricks" but has several plus
values to justify the bid. If he says three,
South should bid four no trump and North
pass. If he says two, South will call three
no trump, North four and all will pass.
Devotees of the 4-3-2-1 count" having all
suits stopped and good II count, must open
with two no trump. North has plenty to make
. game e-demand takeout opposite this 50 calls
four clubs South shifts to four no trump,
North should 60 to five, and it Is close whether
South goes to six or not. The confident type
Of good player Of the cards will do so.
The hand produces beautiful play. Daniel
J. Kett, as declarer, made a grand slam with
It. The jack Of diamonds lead fen to the
queen. After . club won by dummy's nine the
spade queen was covered, then won by the ace.
The spades were continued, hoping they would
break, but they didn't. Then the clubs were
run, producing this end position:
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Woodla70n Horse Company

Talbert, Reuben Gillingham, 1900 No attempt
can be made to list the complete roster Of
members
The two Oldest surviving members Of the COM
pany are probably J. Norman Gibbs, who joined
in 1880 and served for II years as president,
and J. P. H. Mason, who entered In 1882. Both
men are still active and interested in county
affairs.
At the annual business meeting Of the Horse
Co., held each year on the Monday following
Christmas day. officers and directors viii be
elected or reelected as usual. Attendance IS
not as good now as in the older days when
the society met more pressing personal need
Of the members, and when the non-attendance
fines were strictly enforced. Each year some
Of the younger members, feeling that the COM
pany has outlived its usefulness, propose that
the organization officially disband. Each year
this proposal Is as firmly vetoed by the men
who feel that the old Woodlawn Horse Co. still
has its mission to fulfill in carrying on the
traditions Of the sturdy men and women who
helped to mold a new Virginia out Of the dis
order and the chaos that followed In the wake
Of civil strife.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Oil Fruit Spray FaOored

A FTER eight years Of intensive study with
y various spraying materials, the Depart
ment Of Agriculture Is ready to place the stamp
Of its approval on the oil emulsion spray to
control the San Jose scale and other fruit pests.
The oil spray must be used while the trees
are dormant with the leaves of. A special
bulletin has been prepared describing how the
emulsions should be made and in what strength
they should be used ..s..
Pests In addition to the San Jose scale which
are successfully treated by the emulsion are
scrrfy scale, terrapin scale cottony peach scale
European red mite clover mite, leaf roller, pear
psylla and apple aphid
Evening star., 1931-12-27
On the Advis0ry Council

Charles Stuart Street, known in New York
and its exclusive environs for several decades
as "the bridge instructor of the Four Hundred"
has become member of the advisory council
which sponsors the Official system" of bid
ding. From the beginning of contract Mr..
Street one of the most respected figures In
the game, has been an exponent of natural"
bidding and a believer in the importance OF
partners telling each other as much truth as
possible about their hands every time they
speak That is the underlying thought behind
the new system, which he and his stanch fol-
lowers have welcomed enthusiastically as the
latest development of the kind of methods they
have always favored.
Evening star., 1931-12-27

THE unscientifc native Of the tropic areas
knowing nothing of science and probably
caring less, has long known one scientific secret
which the experts have sought for years in
vain until they undertook study Of the fish
ing system Of the natives.
For years, research workers have sought an
insect poison which would be fatal to insects
but absolutely harmless to men and animals.
Such . poison would be ideal, and if it would
serve the dual purpose of being both a stomach
and contact poson-that is, poison either
the bodies Of the intended victims-science
could ask no more.
The South American and East Indian native
has solved the problem and so certain is science
Of the success Of the new poison, one unsung
hero took large quantity in capsule to show
1t was harmless to man, although samples Of
the same poison had laid many an insect low
ia tests Of its poisonous nature.
The poison in question: rotenone, product
Of the znots Of the cube pronounced coo-bayl
and the deryis bush, has long been used by ma
hves to catch fish. Quantities Of the poison
are dumped into the waters Of. "a river being
hshed aD6, in spite Of the extreme dilution, It
brings the stupefied fish floating to the surface
of the water, where they are easily gathered in
BY the fishermen.
The fact that the poison was SO terribly
potent aroused the interest of scientists at once
and when the even more striking fact was
noted that the poison after stupefying the fish
had no IN effects on the people eating the fish
Evening star., 1931-12-27
The Perfect Insect Poison Found

afterward, the answer to the insecticide prob
lem seemed at hand.
The next question, of course. was the pos
sibility Of producing the poison on a CONNER
cially profitable basis. This so far, has not
made as much progress as might be desired,
although rotenone is being produced by two
companies.
1t has been found that cube may be produced
in the Philippines, Porto Rico and possibly in
the Virgin Islands and the Southern part of the
United States 4
Derris can be raised on rubber plantationA
placed between the rubber trees, which are
spaced 80 feet apart. Cube is found growing
wild all over the basin Of the Amazon and it is
believed that the possible sources Of rotenone
may be found to be almost lmitless
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Mathematics Upside Doom

forcing bidder, who does not understand
the intermediate two bid of the new official
system, has calculated that with some esti-
mated number of players using it, the bid will
cause an annual loss in the country Of more
than 100000. He doesn't seem to realize
that the loss will be by the unfortunates who
oppose the users of the new bidding weapon
But we confidently predict that within the next
three years man as bright as he will see that
an intermediate bid of some kind is absolutely
necessary to patch up his system, which was
fine for its time when devised three years ago.
Maybe the fact that not one forcing" two bid
was dealt in the first 100 hands of the Cul-
bertson- -Lenz-Jacoby contest will accelerate the
process. at least with other players, if not with
him
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Continued from TDelfth Page


H. Most Of these men are still represented In
the company through their children and grand
children.
Other well known names in Fairfax County
history, among the older members taken in
prior to 1900, include S. w. Mason, 1866 Wal
ter Cox and Charles Way, 1867; Oscar Baker,
Valentine Baker and D. P. Smith, 1868; A. w.
Harrison, N. W. Pierson, Charles Wilkins John
Mason, David Frost, E. o. Belts, Jonathan Ed
wards, Richard Roberts, Frederick Pierson, E.
Daniels, 1869; Sandy Alexander, Charles Hunter,
Ephraim Lukens, 1870; Jasper Way, DR.. E. P.
Rowland, 1871; N. Way, 1873: Alfred H. Roberts,
William H. Sncwden, 1877; J. Norman Gibbs,
William Hunter. jr, 1880; John c. Hunter. Mrs.
Hannah Cox, Henry Hunterson, Charles Stiles,
1881; Mrs. r. NJ Ballenger, j. P. H. Mason, 1882;
Miles Thompson, 1888; Egbert Thompson, 1886:
Joseph w. Cox, j. p Agnew, 1887; Harry W.
Pterson, Frank H. Wilkinson, 1891; Mrs J. p
AEnew, 1892: Mrs. A. S. Walton, George j.
Hatnes, 1893; Harold Bucknan, 1898; Scott
GDlingham, A. Lewis Lukens, 1897; Albert r.
Harrison, 1899; Edward Walton William T.
Evening star., 1931-12-27


in while. Second, certain classes of questions
keep bobbing up again and again.
Right now the most prevalent inquiry, due to
the Culbertson-Lenz-Jacoby match Is: Who
wins the rubber, the side that makes the most
points or the side that wins two games? The
laws give the answer twice--49 (a) says: THE
side having the net points wins the RUBBER
So Co says: AT the end of the rubber the
total points of side obtained by adding
together its contract score and its honor score.
Substracting the smaller total from the greater
gives the net points by which the rubber is won
and lost" 1t is absolutely incorrect ever to
say: They won the rubber but we scored the
most points, The correct way in this case is
They got the rubber bonus for winning two
games, but we had the larger number Of points
and won the rubber anyway"
One recurring point is whether after your
partners double. you have the right to ask him
If it is informatory or business. You have no
such right. Most ethical PLAYERS will answer
an opponents question abo, the purpose Of
their double, but all consid that If partners
make declarations they car. understand 1t Is
their own hard luck and tt y must take the
risk OF their own misunderstanding the same as
If they misunderstood each others bids.
Here's bright one: After an insufficient
bid, can you make it sufficient by doubling?
No, the laws allow you to do it only by sub
stituting any higher bid in any suit or no
trump" Otherwise player sitting In third
hand position might make an insufficient bid
OF his suit, which directs lead, then double
and feel confident of defeating the contract.
Are there any yet of championship
events being won by users of the official sys-
tenn of bidding?" Yes, several In the
Pennsylvania State tournament both the pair
and team of four events were won by them In
the mems pair championship of st. Louis Edgar
v. Maher, attorney, and Lester C. vogel, insur-
ance man, won. They say: "On two hands
where game was reached it would not have been
possible without the intermediate bid of two of
a suit" One pair of the new national champion
team OF four, Mrs. Norman N. Newman and
Comdr. Winfield Liggett. jr. used the system.
These victories and numerous others have all
been in the first three months since the system
was first promulgated
Who is the hero of those beautiful hands
you give, when you don't announce the name
OF the one who played or bid them? Is It
YOURSELF" We have nothing to say. when
you mention bad bid or play you never name
the player, though frequently telling who did
fine work. Why?" People are more sensitive
about their bridge than anything else It's
easier to avoid hurting them and anyway, stu
dents don't want to learn about bad bridge but
how to take advantage of it when it Is fur
nlshed by opponents
Evening star., 1931-12-27
The 'ODicial System -

Instead Of using original suit bids Of three
to proclaim game strength, pair can employ
the artificial two-club bid, called sometimes
Evening star., 1931-12-27

NY person who devotes his workaday
time to bridge must be struck with
two conclusions about the kinds Of
questions asked by players of" all
ranks. First, there is no limit to
the different typeS of queries:
Evening star., 1931-12-27

at least five cards long, containing one of
the indicated big cards, or at least four con-
tanning both.
After the response original bidder shows his
higher ranking declaration. If it is no trump
partner must answer with thoroughly stopped
suit or else deny with three clubs; original
bidder now shows his diamond heart or spade
suit and his partner takes choice between
that and three no trump. One value Of this
is that the strong hand gets led up to and Is
out Of sight, whereas under all older methods
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Start N0qv!

II We should take solemn VOW,
Or make resolution now
To never bawl partner out,
And swear to keep it all the year,
Our chance to make it good, fear,
Is subject to lot of doubt.
But if we mean to do our best
To meet this most exacting test
And do without an alibi,
Let's start big endurance race
To see how long We'll hold the pace;
If you will enter, so will l.
Evening star., 1931-12-27

the two-club forcer." 1t merely means Here's
q game" saying nothing about any particular
declaration. The hand may contain at least
eight probable tricks at major suit or suits,
nine In minors or enough to trump count, 81,
20 that the player Is prepared for a no-trump
game regardless Of partners holding.
Partners denial response is two diamonds, to
Ay he does not hold an ace and a king or
two aces. II he holds those cards, two no
trump viii show them So will a different
suit bid, which also will show the suit to be
Evening star., 1931-12-27
4 Tie BRIDGE Forum i

the same hand would be led through and be
the dummy with its strength and weakness
exposed
After the first response, If the original hands
optional declarations are suits, the higher one
is bid. Partner keeps it open with no trump,
then the lower suit is shown, partner being
obliged to make choice or bid no trump
again. The bidding must not be dropped by
the partner short Of game, though in rare
cases the original bidder can do so when he
has received the denial diamond response
When this artif1ce is employed, original three
bids Of suit indicate strong and long suits
requiring no support in trumps, the hand hay
Ing eight probable tricks.
Bidding after the opponents have opened
1t will be discussed next week
Evening star., 1931-12-27
ALaqU q Week

What occurs IL East leads aoIaen it ts Vests
turn, decldrer plays to the trick and dummy
then points out to decldrer that it ,oos not
E1Sts lead?
Nothing occurs. Dummy was too late with
his warning. Declarer, by playing to the trick,
ratifies and o. ks Easts out-of-turn lead and
therefore cannot exact any penalty for it.
What occurs it declarer, playing no-trun,p
hand, leads club from his hand toaodrd a
singleton jack in dummy; the only club still
out is held by East, who promptly plays it be-
fore either West has played or declarer has
called or touched the card in dummy?
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championship tennis form, marched
in marriage from the altar and gave
up the game in which she had be-
come the greatest woman performer.
Babe Ruth found himself playing
second fiddle to thick-set Hack VIII
son of the Cubs in the matter of
pounding a baseball out of the lot
=
TT is hard to imagine another dra-
4 matte Tilden, another such sup
erb Snowman as Hagen, another
sweetly dominating personality as
Helen Wills. another colorful, over
grown boy, Babe Ruth.
These great characters in sports
have defended the perilous ramparts
year after year against the fierce
onslaughts of youth. They are be-
ginning to pay the price of all those
who occupied the pinnacle over a
span of days. Their places will be
saken by others, perhaps not as
colorful. But who is there to say
what kind of men and women their
successors viii be?
Besides the featS of Jones and the
Horse, the year that has gone saw
other startling examples Of sus-
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a fast passing attack with very
little dribbling.
This style of offense is very eff
fective and much harder to stop
than one featured by the drihble.
Good passing tends to get the de-
tense out of position and encour-
ages a f1ve-man offense as COM
pared with the trend to individual
ism in the dribbling attack.
Joie Schaaf, high scorer of the
Eastern Intercollegiate conference
two years ago, was one of the main
cogs in the offenSe diagramed here.
The olfense consists of fast passing
by three men out in front who pass
in to two men who have penetrated
the defense. Fast accurate passing
to men meeting the ball and cut
ting for basket describe this attack.
The Pennsylvania team has one
of the finest playing floors in the
country. The Palestra seats sew
eral thousand people and is a per-
feet example Of basketball playing
conditions.
NEXT: Popular out-of- bounds
plays.
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by. the Belmont stakes and the
Arlington clasSic-a feat never ap-
preached by any other great 3-year-
old before him.
Oddly enough, his winnings,
which were more than a quarter of
q million dollars, were not greatly
different from the sum for which
Jones decided to play golf for the
films.
Will the year to come produce
such stars as these? There has
been no indication. The impossible
has been accomplished. 1t is hard
to repeat.
While Jones and Gallant Fox were
rushing to their undreamed of rec
ords, heroic 1iksTes of other years
began to fade. Big Bill Tilden final
ly lost national singles champion
ship, and there strobe into the ten
mis- picture swarthy. left-handed
Californian, Johnny Doeg, son of
the former star of the courts, Violet
Sutton Doeg.
For the first time in years, the
name Of Walter Hagen was far
down the list in the major golf1ng
tournaments.
Helen wills. ~ the height Of her
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Wednesday Net Scores

COLLEGE
indiana. "a: PENNSYLVANIA. 90.
Ohio State. 38: Cornell. "a.
Northwestern. 80: Alabama. 10.
Iowa State, II: Drake. 16.
University of Oklahoma. SO: Southern
Michigan. Is: Ohio Wesleyan. 49,, =,
Citv College of New York. 81: Yale, "a.
Briehan1 Young. 81: ST. Louis. 81.
HIGH SCHOOL
Shelbyvile, 81: Athens CTex). IL.
Huntington. "a: Goshen. Ia.
Rochester, "a; Fairmount 90
Alumni. az: Southport. ID.
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tanned power. Notable among these
were the performances of the Notre
Dame football team and the Phila-
delphia Athletics. For two years
now, these forces have reigned SUI
preme in the fields Of football and
baseball.
Now, for a moment among the
sufferers. You can guess quickly
what sport underwent the greatest
hardships, and the reason. Boxing
was the game and fouls and unsat-
isfactory fights were the cause of its
dereliction.
Tt started with the fierce f1asco
in Miami last February between
Jack Sharkey, the sailor actor man,
and Phil Scott. This silly struggle
was epitomized with the bout under
Milk Fund auspices in New York
in which heavyweight for the first
time in history won the champion
ship sitting down.
Max Schmeling won from Shar-
key while in this reclining posture,
with his hands low on his abdomen
and eli the agony Of the LAGOON
group WRITTEN upon his swsrthy
German features.
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/. u. Five
Raps Penn
Hoosier Rally 0vercomeS
Four-Point Lead Late
in Fray.
Ey Times Special

Ety Times Special
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Jan. l.
Coach Everett Deans fighting In
diana university basketball team
treated Pennsylvania fans to one of
those thrilling Hoosier finishes at the
Palestra Wednesday night to nose out
their intersectional rivals, University
Of Pennsylvania, 24-20.
A wise substitution in the last
few minutes by Coach Dean supplied
the Hoosiers with enough power to
come from four points behind to the
same number in the lead. It left
the fans, who had watched Penn
lead all the way, groggy. 1t was the
rub game of an intersectional series
that began back in 1928 and each
team had won one game.
Campbell kept the Cl .mson in the
race during the first half with one
field and two foul line sinkers. For
a few seconds the Hoosiers led,
to z, until Peterson and Tanser
dropped field buckets to make the
count IL to s at the half in favor
of Penn.
The locals dashed into a greater
lead of II to IL early in the sec
ond half. A determined drive
brought the Indiana team up to g
20-to-16 position, but sapped their
strength. Dickey went in for Jas
per and Massey took Veller's place
in the Hoosier lineup. Miller and
Joe zeller Topped in tying baskets
and the two subs each S-liped one,
Dickey from under the hoop and
Massey from the side, to give the
boys from Bloomington lead
which Indiana teams know how to
protect in final minutes.
The defeat was a bitter pill for
Coach Lon Jourdet, who believed he
had found winning combination
after four straight defeats. Miller
with mine points was the high scorer
for the winner while Len Tanseer
stood out for the locals.
Indiana plays Pittsburgh today
and Purdue is in Pennsylvania to-
meet Temple today.
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THE - By VERN BOXELL

tai. moral or social for the players
or others in the stall game" they
give away the fact they haven't seen
Frankfort "stall." When those Tor
rid Weiners start stalling they
look like bunch of busy flies
around a jam laf.
This is the day when all good columnists
win agree not to do so and so and to do
this and that. Our only resolution is. to
pick state champion that will come
through. But all resolutions. made in the
best of faith, may be broken. don't you
know.
E. G. B., the Washington scribe,
prints an interesting if true account
of meeting Big Dave De Jernet,
Washington's all-state center, enter
ing the Ratchet gym.
Going to practice for the Big
Four tourney, Dave?" De Jernet was
asked.
Nope. Gotta get ready to beat
Frankfort" was Dawes reply.
Sunny. We thought Dave grad
uated this year.