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Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-10
WILSON'S FATE
NEXT SEASON
IS UNCERTAIN
By GEORGE KIRKSEY

CHICAGO, Dec. TO- U.D - The
baseball world today speculated over
the fate of Lewis r. (Hack) Wilson,
traded to the world champion st.
Louis Cardinals, yesterday along
with Bud Teachout, southpaw pitch
er, by the Chicago Cubs for Burleigh
Grimes.
! Although Samuel Breadon, Car
! dinals president, has neither af-
| firmed nor denied that he will keep
! Wilson, rumorS would not down that
the former National league home
run king will be traded to another
club before the 1882 season.
Three possible deals for Wilson
have been mentioned. They are:
To Brooklyn for Dazzy Vance or
Johnny Frederick.
To the Boston Braves along with
other players and cash for Ed
Brandt, star southpaw who won 18
games and lost II last year.
To Cincinnati for third baseman
Joe Strip.
Inasmuch as Boston has shown
no inclination to part with Brandt,
the player most wanted, not only by
the Cardinals, but the Cubs and
one or two other clubs as well, 1t
seems that Wilson will wind up
with Brooklyn if he is traded. The
Robins are willing to gamble on
, Wilson staging comeback after his
disastrous slump from 1880 to 1881,
, but it is a mystery why the Cardi-
nails want Vance, five months older
than the 38-year-old Grimes and
whose salary last year was $4,000,
approximately $4,000 more than
; Grimes drew.
Wherever Wilson winds up,
whether it is with the Cards, Rob-
ins, Braves or Reds, he is due for
one of the biggest salary slashes
any major ever received in the ma
jors. His salary last year was $37,-
500, and the Cards, for instance,
didn't pay their two greatest play
ers, Grimes and Frisch, that much.
Wilson be lucky to stay in the five
figure class His sc home runs, a
National league record, and 100 runs
batted in, a major league record, in
1880 enabled Wilson TO command
his big wage last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-10
DEMPSEY STILL
POPULAR WITH
BIG FOLLOWING

ST. PAUL, MINI, Dec. 10. U.P)
Scene l. Gillett state hospital for
crippled children.
Jack Dempsey, former heavy
weight champion, appears in the
doorway and is greeted with shouts
Of recognition from scores of beds.
Hey, Jack, do you have to eat
spinach?' piped one little fellow.
Sure, you betcha, and look at
that muscle" and Dempsey flexed
it.
Scene 2. Governors office, Min
nesota state capital.
Dempsey had been watching Gov
ernor Floyd B. Olson work.
Il wouldn't trade jobs with you,
governor" Dempsey remarked
"How's that?" Olson asked.
Il only have to take them on the
chin part Of the time" Dempsey
said.
The men shook again at parting.
MY gosh, but you're tall" Demp-
sey said.
six feet, two" olso said grim
ming broadly.
you top me by an inch," said
Dempsey admiringly.
Each man turned to friends after
they parted and remarked:
Just great big boy"
Scene 3. Rose Room gymnasium
Tommy Gibbons who battled 10
rounds with Dempsey at Shelby,
Mont, watching Dempsey work out
Dempsey fights three opponents, in
cluding young, tough Art Lasky to-
morrow night.
You're plenty fast, Jack" Glib
bons complimented.
"Timings still little off," Demp-
sey murmured.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-10

VALLEY BOXER Is
RANKED HIGHLY
In SAN JOAQUIN

Vincent Solano, local boxer, who
has been doing good work up in the
San joaquin Valley, with Bakers
field as his principal stamping
ground, Will be in FL Centro shortly.
according to letter received by his
brother, Mike, who is known to
older boxing fans as Kid Mex.
Last week Vincent got draw
with Willie Pitcher In an eight
round main event at Bakersfield.
He previously defeated Pitcher IN
six-round main event at Bakers
field. He previously defeated
Pitcher in a siX-round affair and
many fans thought he should have
been awarded the decision in the
second bout.
Rosalio Cabellero with a record of
200 battles, was another victim of
the local boy in the Bakersfield
ring, although q favorite 10 defeat
Solano. Vincent took this one III
six rounds.
One of the best fights Solano put
up was a draw decision with Bat
Ting Dodo, the sensational Filipino
battler, who was expected to put
the Ell Centre lad away. The Bak-
ersfield Californian in reporting the
fight says Solano is bound to be in
the top ranks. Although Dodo
dropped him twice in the first
round, Solano came back with a
furry of uppercuts and used his
favorite blow with such effect that
Dodo was almost out at the end of
the fight.
Solano also has to his credit a
draw with Max farley who was de-
cisively whipped here couple Of
weeks ago by Tommy Murphy.
Valley fans will also be inter-
ested in knowing that the referee
stopped a fight between Solano and
Hulett Naples, the latter also be-
ing a former valley boxer. Naples
and Vincent fought several times
in the local arena, but Solano has
progressed SO much that Naples
was no match for him.
Nike is hoping that Vincent can
get bout or two here while he is
home to show the fans that he is
a real fighter and predicts that
Vincent will trim any boy who can
be picked to fight him.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-10
BY DIXON STEWART
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 10. {U.P> - If
the worlds heavyweight boxing
championship is to be brought back
TO the United States, it would seem
a smart idea to keep the veterans
Jack Sharkey and Tommy Lough-
ran around TO do the job.
Unless either Sharkey, or Lough-
ran, receives the assignment of
beating Max Schmeling and sue
ceeds In dethroning the German
boxer, there is little likelihood of
the title returning TO America In
the near future.
For, with all the talk of recent
months regarding the brilliant
young crop of heavyweights bidding
for honors. 1t now appears that the
youthful sensations were mere
morning glories.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-10

the contest, giving the Bulldogs
more time to practice under local
conditions than any team that hos
met Southern California this sea-
son.
Mehre took advantage Of the good
weather to send his men through
prolonged workout yesterday at
Tournament Park, Pasadena. The
Bulldogs went through their signals
with the snap and nerve that char
acterizes the Notre Dame attack.
Speed is the essential factor Of
their offense, and it behooyes the
Trojans to get on their ponies when
Georgia takes the field Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-10

score one of the quickest knockouts
of his career, stopping Leslie Carter,
1874, Seattle Negro, In the first
round.
The end came two minutes after
the start of the scheduled 10 round
bout. La Barba launched a vicious
attack With both fists, pounding
Carter quickly to the floor. Carter
failed to hit the former champion
once.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-10
WAR WAGED OVER MAGPms

ELKO, Nev. The annual
tight to eradicate magpies has been
started here by E. n. Sans, leader
of predatory animal control in the
state Of Nevada. The farmers de-
spise the birds because they de-
stroy crops, and sportsmen like To
see them poisoned because they eat
game birds eggs.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-10
La Barba Scores
Quick Knockout

OAKLAND, Cal, Dec. 10. UP
Fidel La Barba, 1873, Los Angeles,
former flyweight champion, went
out OF his weight class last night to
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CATHOLIC u. BOXERS
DIFFICULT TO RATE
Team Admittedly Of High Glass,
but Lacks Standing in Eyes
Of College Body.

ANNAPOLIS, March 12.-The Naval
Academy boxing contingent, which in
cludes practically every one connected
with the institution, was interested in
the suggestion that Catholic University
might send its fine boxing team to the
intercollegiate finals q be held at Penn
State March 20-21, but inclined to be-
lieve that the entry list would not be
enlarged.
1t is pointed out that the association
decided some time ago that the entries
would be confined to six members,
Georgetown not having q team this
year, and that special meeting of the
association would be necessary to make
a change.
1t was further pointed out that II
seven teams competed, the meeting
would be unwieldly and hard to handle.
A further reason Is that the entries this
year are confined to the four best men
at each weight, and as Catholic u has
met none Of the stronger teams of the
association, such as the Naval Academy,
Penn State, Syracuse and Western
Maryland. a rating OF its members would
be extremely difficult.
The work of the Catholic University
team this season has been watched with
much interest here, and Spike Webb
Navy coach, who has seen it In action
stated that 1t was one Of the best col
lege aggregations he had ever seen.
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MISS O'NEAL WRC
FEATURE TONIGHT
Originator of "The Varsity
Drag" Will Assist VaIIee.
Cordoba on WMAL.

zelma O'Nea1, originator of 1.-THE
Varsity Drag" who starred in such hits
as Follow Through" and Good News, F."
will assist Rudy Vallee and his Con-
necticut Yankees in presenting tonight
the weekly Sunshine Hour over WRC
and other National Broadcasting Co.
stations.
Miss ONeal will sing with Vallee
from Detroit, contributing a group of
songs from her recent shows. The or
chestra will feature the songs Of q well
known university and several new Sc
lections.
Making a musical bow to st. Patrick,
Eugene Ormandy's Orchestra, in the
Melody Moments broadcast, has ar
ranged program of all-Irish selections.
The soloists will be Oliver Smith, tenor,
and Nine. Ada d'Orsay, soprano.
Leland Stanford Guest.
Leland Stanford, founder of the IA
nous California University, will be the
honor guest in the radio reincarnation
at the Birthday Party broadcast. On
the musical portion of the program are
The Little Trees" of Osgood, the PRO
logue" from Leoncavallos "Pagliacci'
and Arne's Lass Eth the Delicate
Air"
Peter de Cordoba, noted actor, will
play the leading role in a dramatic ver-
sion of Rose Thorpe's poem "Curfew
sented at 8:45 o'clock tonight over
WMAL and associated Columbia Broad
casting System stations. Helen Brown
will play opposite him.
Lee Morse, "blues" singer. accompa-
MED by Nat Brusiloffs Orchestra, will
present program of four popular
numbers at O'Clock. The selection are
I'm So Afraid of YOU" Say Hello to
the Folks Back Home" Got the Bench,
Got the Park" and Them There
Eyes"
Toscha Seidel, violinist, in his weekly
recital with the Columbia Concert Or
chestra, will feature the first move
ment from the Concerto for Violin,
No. g." by Spohr. The orchestral spe-
cialty will be the overture to "Fingals
Cave" of Mendelssohn.
In Radio Round Up.
Freddie Rich and his orchestra, as
sisted by Beth Challis, soprano, and
Milton Watson, tenor, will take part
in the Radio Roundup. There also
will be character sketch by~Lela
CASTOR.
A Joint recital by Louis Dorfman,
violinist. and Romeo Guaraldi, baritone,
and a dance program by the American
Legion Orchestra are among VOLS
musical attractions. In addition, there
will be q popular program by Jack
Ralston's Orchestra and Joint recital
by Vesta Pollock, contralto; Eugene
Zuck, trumpet, and Paul De Long Ga
BILE, pianist.
The Banjo Twins, Walter Holt and
Julian Monk, will contribute to the
program tonight of WJSV.
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PROS PLAY OFF GOLF,
TIE AT MIAMI TODAY
Sarazen-Farrell and MacFarlane-
Cox Teams Even After 40
Holes in Match.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, March 12.-Unable to
break a golfing deadlock before dark
ness fell last night, Gene Sara7en and
Johnny Farrell had to 60 to the links
for 10 holes today to end their 40-hole
tie-up with Willie MacFarlane and
Witty Cox for the championship Of
Miami's $4,000 international four-ball
matches.
Sarazen and Farrell, seeking to re-
peat their tournament win of 1928
found the opposition of MacFarlane
and Cox too much to down in the reg
ulation ,36-hole final match, after see
saying one and two hole leads through
the day. before the largest gallery in
the history of the $1,000 event.
Coming to the thirty-sixth all-square
the teams halved the last hole and
went into the extra hole phase. Then
they went through the thirty seventh
thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth
holes without breaking the tie.
At the thirty sixth hole Cox missed
q and took q 5. MacFarlane, shoot.
ing his fourth, putted feet, only Il
see the ball rim the cup and bounct
out Sarazen picked UP. Farrell, q scant
8 feet from the cup. appeared TO win
but the ball rode the rim and lifted
out on the other side to card halv.
ing s.
With dusk falling at the fortieth cup
tournament officials postponed play un.
til today, calling for an 1S-hole match
to decide the issue.
Should Farrell and Sarazen win, they
will upset q tradition that no cham
pions Of the event have been able tc
repeat.
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D. c. BOXERS PRIME
FOR AMATEUR MEET
Title Bouts to Be Conducted
by A. A. U. in Ring at Rock
vile This Month.

Hopeful of lettering last years credit
able showing in the national junior
championships, many of Washington S
leading club, college and unattached
boxers are preparing for the 1881 Dis
trict Of Columbia amateur boxing
tournament.
The championships, which are open
to all amateur ringsters residing in and
about Washington, will be held March
~, % and 80 at the Rockville High
School gymnasium, Edward Rosenblum,
chairman Of the local A. A. U. Boxing
Committee, has announced.
Local tourney champs will be sent
to Boston, where they will fight in the
national semi-f1nals on April and q
The remaining contenders then wind up
hostilities at Madison Square Garden
New York, on April ~, %, 29 and 80.
Five local boys-Mike Tardugno, liz
Nevin Barber 126 pounds; Eric Sonnech-
sen, lat pounds, and Henry Irving, $50
pounds-won titles here and went to
Boston, where Miller, Sonnechsen and
Irving advanced to the finals.
Four of the 1880 crop Of local champs
announced their intentions Of defending
their laurels, while boxers from the
Jewish Community Center, knights of
Columbus, Catholic University, Boys
@IuU, f1ydGJSNllIG, EkOGhNlllC ullA AACAdA1-
dria clubs, in addition to many un-
attached scrappers. are to sign up.
Eight classes are included in the
tournament-the fiyweight, liz pounds;
bantamweight, 118 pounds; feather
weight, 126 pounds; lightweight, lS5
pounds; welterweight, 147 pounds; mid
dleweight, 100 pounds; light-heavy-
weight, ITS pounds, and heavyweight,
over ITS pounds.
Application blanks will be available
shortly at Chairman Rosenblum's ONCE,
1917 F street.
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

mittees Of the two clubs have made an
agreement that If Washington does not
wish the date Of April 20, 30, 80 and
May !, the Woodmont club will take
the dates for it's annual invitation tour
ney, and decision Is shortly to be
made.
For a good many years-with only
one eXception-Washing has opened
the tournament golf season around the
Capital with Its invitation affair.
Woodmont which is relatively young
member OF the tournament family. Of
clubs about Washington has agreed to
take the earlier date II Washington
gives it up and permit Washington to
take its dates, which have been set for
May 8, 7, 8 and 8.
The decision rests with the Golf and
Greens Committees of the Washington
club, since Woodmont has expressed its
willingness to take either date. Mean
while, an attempt is to be made to Sc
cure from the Weather Bureau a FORE
cast of the probability of rain during
| benefit to both clubs. Averages of the
| weather for that week over several
| years past will be scanned in an at
| tempt to figure out the probability of
| bad weather. The willingness of both
| clubs to give concessions is another evil
dence Of the good feeling that exists
| between the clubs about the Capital.
Shortly after April 1 j. Munro Hun.
| ter, president of the Middle Atlantic
Professional Golfers Association, is u
gather his brother professionals togeth-
er and draw up a schedule of tourna.
ments similar to the schedule which
was played last year. The schedule can.
not now be drawn up because severa
Of the professionals Of Maryland clubs
are in the South.
Both the big open tournaments II
which the local professionals will play
this year are closed events. The Mary.
land open will be closed to professional
affiliated With Maryland clubs and tn
Middle Atlantic open will be closed II
professionals connected with clubs II
Maryland, Virginia and the District o
Columbia
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A CTIVITY in women's golf, like |
~ that Of the men, is beginning !
n TO pick up spirit with the near
approach of Spring. But you
wouldn't know Spring is just around
the corner judging by the multiplicity
women are wearing these days. The
fair golfers Of the Capital have taken
heed of the promise Of warm weather
by setting the date for the annual
meeting of the women's District Golf
Association for 4 pm. next Monday at
the willard Hotel.
Mrs. Frank r. Keefer of the Chevy
Chase Club, who has presided over the
destinies of women's golf around the
Capital for the past year, is in Europe
and will not be back in Washington
until about April !. She probably will
be reelected president Of the organi-
zation, for it is customary to retain
president two years. Mrs. H. B. Hird
of the Manor Club, vice president of
the association, is to preside at the
meeting.
The Executive Committee of the
women's organization already has been
busy lining up a tentative schedule of
tournaments much along the line Of
those which we're held every fortnight
last year. The first tourney of the
year under the tentative schedule will
be played on April Is, although the
club has not been chosen.
In between the April Is date and the
date for the next tourney, set for Co
lumbia on May 4, will be played the
competition for the Phyllis Keeler Miller
Memorial trophy, which is always held
at the Washington Golf and Country
Club.
Dates for the several fixtures staged
annually by the women golfers will also
be set at the meeting. These fixtures
are the competitions for the District
women's championship, The Evening
Star trophy, the Corby Cup event and
one or two other tournaments In addt-
ton there will be several intercity
events between a team chosen by the
Womens District Golf Association and
teams from other cities, notably from
Baltimore, Richmond and Norfolk.
Mrs. Harry A. Knox, a former presi-
dent of the woman's golf organization,
and presRnt Handicap Committee chair
man, and Mrs. william S. Corby, also
q former president, have been named
by Virginia Holzderber, president OF the
Maryland State woman'S golf body as
the washington representatives ON
Maryland Handicap Committee, and
are meeting today with the Maryland
committee in Baltimore. An attempt
Is TO be made TO draw up handicaps
for all the women golfers who are
members of Maryland clubs. The
Wonen's District Golf Association al
ready has a handicap list, but in the
opinion of some Of the fair golfers, their
handicaps are too low to enable them
to figure in competition with golfers
of other sections.
TOURNAMENT dates Of the Wash
i ington Golf and Country Club and
the Wcodmont Country Club may
be CHI nred by agreement between the
two cidbS. Chairmen of the Golf Com
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radio singers have done, Miss Belkin
gained her first chance in front OF the
microphone as a member OF Roxy
gang" Then her stock as an operate
soprano began to boom.
Miss Belkin's early life was colorful
She is the daughter of former profess
sor of horticulture in various govern
mental Indian schools. She was born
in New York City, and later moved to
Carlisle, Pa, and thence to Lawrence,
Kans., where her father is now in bust
ness.
X X X X
TN preparation for the third anniver-
i sary program on March IA, listeners
of Cheerio, the morning feature on
WRC and other N B. G. stations, are
displaying cards bearing large red
"C'' on white background in the win
dows of their homes. The suggestion for
the cards, which are made by the listen
ers themselves, was sent in by fan.
-
ID A. ROLFE, famous orchestra con-
ID. ductor, once spent his last IS bill
for a vaudeville addition. The
addition took" and he went on the
road
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iO:00-Echoes Of the Opera; Astrid
Fjelde, Julian Oliver and Harold
Sanford's Orchestra WIZ,
VIDAL, wHAM and VICAR.
10:30-Clara, Eu and EN-; humorous
sketch - WIZ, VIDAL, WBZ,
WJR, KDKA and wHAM.
IL :00-Slumber music: string ensemble,
under direction of Ludwig Lau-
rier--WJz, WHAM, VIDAL and
KFAB.
II :00-Anaos m Andy. second broad
cast-WMAC, WREN, WHAS,
WINS, WSB, wSNB, VINO and
KrHS.
II :00-Organ recital-wQY.
12:o0-Henry Buses Orchestra; dance
music-WJZ, WREN, WHAS
and WSB.
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voice and she would
have the world and
a pack of contracts
at her feet.
Miss Belkin went
to New York, but
she soon found
that hard work,
and much of 1t,
would be necessary
to become o prina
donna. SO she set
to work, and today
she Is rank e d
among the better
X n o W n prim q
donnas of radio,
singing regularly
over the. N. B. G.
networks.
AS so many other
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Folks Behind
The MicrophOne
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

- ONE years ago, at the University
of Kansas, Beatrice Belkin, agon-
lied over her economic lessons,
- decided that she really owed 1t to
the world to become q prima
donna. She had a nice soprano voice;
every one liked her voice and every one
felt quite certain that all she had to do
was to 60 to New York and exhibit that
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GOLF SITE is SELECTED

Chattanooga Gets Southern Event
First Time Since 1920.
ATLANTA, Ca, March IL (P).-For
the first time since Bobby Jones won
the 1920 event the Annual Southern
Amateur Golf Association Tournament
will be held in Chattanooga, Tenn,
next June.
The 1880 event, won by Emmett
Spicer of Memphis, Tenn, was held at
Greensboro. N. c.
The exact dates of the tournament
have not been announced, but 1t prob
ably viii start Tuesday of the third
week in June and continue through
Saturday.
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Pointers on Golf

When we apply pressure with the
extended index finger and thumb OF
the right hand to the leather of our
golf shaft we begin to see the reason
when we swing the club to the top.
This pressure holds 1t firmly in place
and prevents it sagging into the v
formed by this finger and thumb, a
sag that means absolute loss of con-
troll of the club during the swing.
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One must control his club at all
times during the swing, if the club
head is to meet the ball correctly.
One must also have forearms and
wrists relaxed If he is to gain dis
lance by the sole sane method Of
doing so-speed of clubhead when 1t
whips through the ball.
The grip described in this and pre-
ceding articles insures Doth control
and relaxation. 1t Is the one used
by the great masters of the game
Harry Vardon and Bobby Jones.
Par golfers make their approaches
stick. Metzger's printed and illus
trated leaflet, 1.-The Art Of Pitching"
explains in detail how to do this.
Send stamped. addressed envelope to
Sol Metzger, in care OF this paper,
and ask for it.
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WEIRD DEATH WATCH
Friend Thought to Have Guarded
Corpse Week Before Collapsing.

CHICAGO, March II Cp.-Circun-
stances OF a weird death watch puzzled
police authorities today.
The bodies of Miss E. We'll, So, and
her friend, Esther Whise, SO, a divorce
were found in an apartment Both ap-
parently had been there for several
weeks.
Police suggested Miss We'll, a para
lytic, died first, and that Miss Whise
after living q week in the apartment
with the body. collapsed on the living
room floor and died also.
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TRAPsHoTs TO TRAVEL.

Washington Gun Club shooters will
travel TO Baltimore Saturday to oppose
the Oriole trapshooters in singles and
doubles. Washington has won three
singles races and two doubles matches
in the series thus far.
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The Dial Log.
tatiOns Heard in washington Regularly

Flashes from The Erenino Star,
a resume OF tCorld netDs, Is broad
cast daily by WMAL at 5:l5 o'clock,