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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
HOPLITES IN LEAD TIE
Share Tri-City Top With De Molay
After Surprising Win.

LAUREL, Nd, January 19.-As the
result of their surprising 35-to-17 VIC
tory over De Molay of Washington yes
terday, Ellicott City Hoplites now are
tied with that quint for the lead in the
Tri-City Basket Ball League. Each team
has won five games and lost two.
In an exhibition contest here yeSter-
day, Eastern Whirlwinds of Washington
battled their way to a 1924 win over
Headquarters Company, National Guard,
of Laurel.
It was announced today by league ON
Gals that HeaquarterS Company Re-
serves have taken over the loop fran
chise formerly held by Brentwood
Hawks. The latter recently withdrew
from the circuit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
THIRD IN BATTING
. IS ENOUGH TO WIN
Yanks Only Team in Either
League in Three Years
to Slug to Flag.
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

n IEW YORK, January 19.-Big
M league managers still have
1 Y some promising deals on
the fire which they hope to
cook up into sweet dishes before
the Spring training season ends
and the 1881 campaigns begin.
Most of them are looking for more
Sluggers, though they probably
realize that they may have the
hardest hitting team in their
league and still not cop the pen
nant.
In fact, in the National League the
record for the last three years indicates
that to win the championship it is bet
ter for a team to be third in batting
than tap rollers. In 1923 the st. Louis
Cardinals were third in team batting
and won the pennant. The Chicago
Cubs in 1929 duplicated this feat and
in 1890 the Cardinals repeated.
In the American League, the cham
pion batting team has not won the pen
nant in the last two seasons. The Phil
adelphia Athletics, winners in both
years, were second in batting in 1929
and fourth in 1880.
The managers who insist that a team
of sluggers can pound their way to a
championship are not going to find
much solace in these figures. Those
who declare that good pitchers win
championships may squeeze q little
comfort out of them.
Yanks an Exception.
In 1928 st. Louis won the National
League championship more by It's per-
sistence than by the actual predom-
nance of batters or pitchers, and this
was true again in 1880. Back in 1926
when St. Louis won, it was because of
the style of its young players and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19

Foot Ban CndnSes
T@HERE is no longer any question
concerning the upheaval in foot
ball 1t is only matter Of time
now before there will be at
least two general divisions and possibly
more. One division will go along just
about as things are now. The other
will bring together only those uni
versities with the same scholarship
standards, with somewhat shorter
schedules and with the captains given
greater authority. One set will still go
in for Spring practice on somewhat
extended scale. The other will either
have limited Spring practice, or none
at all.
In a way it will mean about this
one division will still concentrate on
foot ball as the main intercollegiate
sport and the other will rate foot bail
in its stride, as one competition among
many others, without any added pres
sure on the foot ball side.
In time it will probably work out
after this fashion-those universities
which consider foot ball important will
play together and those that reduce the
Importance of foot ball will play TO-
gether. The two divisions can never
meet on equal terms. One has to face
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
JOHNNY MIMICS SEA LION
Weissmuller Entertains With
Speed and Antics in Pool

Several hundred persons. including a
number of Washington's leading SWIM
mers, assembled yesterday at the Vene-
tan pool of the Shoreham Hotel to
witness the special aquatic exhibition
staged by Johnny Weissmuller, said to
be the greatest speed swimmer Of all
time.
Performing with the grace and speed
of a sea lion, Johnny swan a hundred
yard, at a pace that left spectators
breathless but didn't even wind the
champion.
Proving that he Is a comedian as
well as a swimmer, WeiSsmuller played
as many antics as q high school boy,
diving through life preseryers and per-
forming comic swimming stunts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
BLACKHAWK STREAK
STRETCHED TO FIVE
Chicago Hockey Team Wins Three
Games in Week to Close in on
Leading Bruins.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 19.-The Chica-
20 Blackhawks furnished most Of the
thrills for National Hockey League fol-
lowers last week. They won three
straight games TO carry their latest
winning streak to five in q row and now
are only one point behind the league
leading Boston Bruins.
There were few important changes in
the Canadian division. Les Canadiens
Of Montreal, division leaders, picked up
o few points as they beat Philadelphia
and the Maroons in succession, but lost
some of them Saturday when they went
down before the Toronto Maple Leafs
81.
There are no games scheduled for TO-
night.
The standings:
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.THREE-RA|L STARS
START TITLE PLAY
Layton viii Defend Crown
in Tits With Leading
U. S. GUESTS.
BY PAUL NICHOLSON.
Associated Press Sports Writer.


~HICAGO, January 19-Johnny
Layton opens fire in defense
of his three-year- world
three-cushion billiard crown
tonight when he answers the challenge
of a newcomer to championship play, +.
S. Scoville of Buffalo.
Scoville, a veteran despite his debut
in the world championship classic, was
expected to give the Sedalia, Mo-, red
head considerable opposition, although
Layton was the big favorite to win and
thereby gain head start on the field
of seven challengers.
The match, like all the others So
point battle, will inaugurate the tourna-
ment, which will extend over %
matches and IL days and nights. The
other challengers will start by attacking
each other in Tuesdays games.
Former Champs Play.
Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia, Tiff
Denton of Kansas City and Allen Hall
of Chicago were considered the greatest
threats to Layton's hopes of establishing
a new record by winning the crown fer
the fourth straight time. All three are
former champions and all were seeded
players along with the champion dur
ing the matches for places in the tour
nament. -f
A purse of more than $780, will be
divided by the contestants, with the
winner receiving salary Of $4,000 a
year, $1,000 in cash and Is per cent Of
the net profits. The runner-up will re-
ceive salary of $4,000, 81 900 in cash
and is per cent Of the net receipts. All
contestants, regardless of their success
will share in the receipts, all Of which
go to the players.
Two referees, Herbert Lewis and
Charles McElligott Of Chicago, will Of
ficiaie
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All in the YiewpOint.

All in the Viewpoint.
THIS foot ball situation is something
i for each university to work out.
Take, for example, the matter of
Spring practice. There is no denying
the fact that extended Spring practice,
with a big squad out, is a tremendous
help in building up a winning squad
for next Fall and there is no particular
harm II most of the athletes want this
practice in place of base ball, track,
crew, golf or tennis.
1t will limit any athletes all-around
skill. It has almost wrecked base ball
in many colleges. But If that is what
the majority want, there is no reason
they shouldn't have it-provided they
meet only those rivals who go in for
the same thing. Those universities that
want to build up other sports and that
either limit or abolish Spring practice
can then meet together on even. ground
but they are not in position to COM
pete with others who go in for foot
ball as an all-the-year- around game.
1t all depends on the viewpoint.
(Copyrisht, 1881. by North American News
paper Alliance)
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and No. S play as in the play shown
yesterday, in order that No. 4, left
guard, may dribble for the basket.
But this time he's going to have OPP
position. So another stunt has to be
worked.
It's done by the Chicago center.
No. 3 driving in and legally block
ing the guard of the right forward,
No. 2, so that No. 2 may swing out
from his corner as in the diagram
and get a pass from No. 4. Then
No. 2 dribbles in for a short push
shot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
A. A. U. LEADERS MEET
Basket Ball Farley Will Precede
Managers, Session Tonight.

A meeting Of the board Of managers
of the District Amateur Athletic Union
will be held tonight at the Office Of
Norman Landreau, 729 Fifteenth street,
at 8 o'clock.
A confab Of the A. A. u. Basket Ball
Committee Is slated TO precede the
board meeting, starting ct Z o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
WOULD BEAT D. C. FIVE
Hyattsville High Tackles Wood
ward After String of Defeats.

HYATTSVILLE, Md. January 10
Hyattsville High Schools basketers will
be out for their first win over a Wash
ington scholastic quint when they en-
terrain Woodward School tossers of
Washington on the armory floor here
tomorrow afternoon So far this sea-
son the Blue and Gold has fallen before
Business, Central, Tech and St. Johns.
Hyattsville will be Handicapped by the
absence of York Hollingsworth, clever
forward, who is out with an injured
hand. His place will be filled by Vim
cent Stevens, it was announced today
by Coach Stanleigh Jenkins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
BUGS Will Train
On Way to Camp
ERNEST BARNARD,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
nTTTSBURGH, January 19.-Even
the train stops are to be utilized
by Jewel Ems this Spring in lin
bering up his Pittsburgh Pirates.
Old-faShioned gymnastics are TO
play an important part in the train
ing program, and the work will start
even before the: boys reach their
camp In Paso Robes, Calf. Every
time the engine stops for water or
coal the boys will be hustled out Of
the cars and put through their stuff.
Ems saws ;,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
Basket Ball Tips

Variety. variety, nothing but va
riety," Is the way one basket ball fan
described this game. to me. That's
the secret of Chicago's attack. Most
Of It's plays look alike at the start
Then they break so differently that
1t takes some canny guessing TO
know which player is to drive, in
with the ball for the shot.
. Take the one shown here. No. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
ROSEDALE is CHAMPION
Beats Silver Spring for Capital
City Soccer Title.

Rosedale soccerists, swapping Silver
Spring by to yesterday, are sporting
the Capital City League crown today
Rockville, the only eleven having a
chance to overtake Rosedale evidently
surmised the ultimate result of the
match between the league leaders and
the cellar champs and forfeited to
Army. Rockville now has completed its
schedule but while Rosedale has two
more to play, both can be forfeited and
the title retained.
The Rosedale boys, with Henry Irving
and z. Burdette showing the way, rung
up a 5-to-0 lead in the first half and
were content to coast along in the sec
ond Jack Turner's goal near the end
Of the game prevented white-wash Of
Silver Spring.
o1Y he to-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
Shib and Mas Need Powerful Bdoo Pennants Elude HARDEST
THE SPORTEICHT
by CRANTLAND RICE

too great q handicap to have much OF
chance. And it might be added that
big part of the new movement has
come from the inside, from the under
graduates more than from faculties or
alumni.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
GROCERS SEEK FOES.

District Grocers want basket ball
games for all nights of the week and
Sunday afternoon. Call Manager Deni-
son at West 2Ol3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19

Several clubs in the American ASso-
citation lost money in 1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19

American Division.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19

DR.. ]. :. K. STACK
Health Commissioner, City Of HoboEen, NJ. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19

The war osoinst spit % a crusade Of
deeeney. DIN it.. .smoke Certified
Crem0 "a really wonderful
SIN o ke-miId-m Q How nut.
sweet! Every leaf entering the
clean. sunny crsmo faetoriss 10
scientifically frsafed by methods
recommended by the United
States Department Of Agriculture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

which he claimed was blocking" a
liquor car he was trying to catch, Po-
liceman Claude Reese today arrested
Melvin Starro% of Washington on
charges of speeding and reckless
driving.
Reese pursued the car for several
miles along the Baltimore Boulevard
about S o'cock this morning, finally
stopping it here.
Starrow was released after posting
$50 collateral. The man admitted he
was attempting to Illustrate the officers
effort to catch the suspected rum car,
according to Reese.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

was decided at special meeting of the
organization.
Ernest c. Gartner, president, heads
the General Committee of Arrange
ments, and at a meeting to be held
Tuesday evening additional committees
will be named and plans furthered.
Invitations, President Gartner stated
today. will be sent to members of vari-
Gus organizations In the GaithersbCir9
and Washington Grove areas to make
the trip and large turnout is looked
for.
The present plans call for the start
being made around $3.50 o'clock, so as
to reach the resort by not later than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

ment has just been made that stillson
H. Hall of Leesburg, Kenneth Cromer
of Aide and Lucas Phillips of Leesburg
passed the Virginia bar examination
held by the State Board of Law Ex-
aminers in Roanoke, Va, last week.
Mr.. Hall Is brother of Wilbur C.
Hall, Delegate to the Virginia Assembly
from Loudoun County, and it is under
stood that he will be connected with
Delegate Hall in his law Office here
1t has not yet been determined where
Cromer and Phillips will locate.
.-E
Frances unemployment situation Is
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Glebewood Citizens to Elect.

GLEBEwOOD, Va, July IL (Spe-
ciaD The second quarterly meeting of
the Glebewood Citizens Association will
be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
w. G. Monroe, on Pershing drive. Tues
day evening. The election Of officers
will be the principal business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

Zelda. So, Wilson, Garrett County, con-
victed of manslaughter for poisoning
her husband, Mike Zelda, was sentenced
to five years in the House of Correction
today by Judge Sloan. The case was
removed here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
PASS BAR EXAMINATION

8. II. Hall and Two Other Men
Take Virginia Board Tests.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va, July 11.-Announce-
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II o'clock. President Gartner has been
authorized to make arrangements for
the use of the various amusement IA
cilities. including boating, bathing, fish
ing, dancing and other forms Of enter
tainment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
RUM CHASE ARRESTS
FOLLOWS 8 SHOTS
Policeman in County Charges Way
: Blocked by Auto Driven by
=, Man Held.


BY a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
EVANSVILLE. Md, July l1.-Firing
eight shots into the rear of a machine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
WOMAN GETS 5 YEARS
IN HUSBANDS DEATH
Judge Sloan Sentences Rose Zelda
SO, of Wilson to Maryland
House of Correction.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, July 11.-Rose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
GAITHERSBURG c. OF C.
PLANS ANNUAL OUTING
Nearby Organizations to Be In
vited to. Chapel Point Event
. July 90.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

GAITHERSBURG, Md, July IL
The third annual outing of the Gath
ersburg Chamber of Commerce will be
held at Chapel Point, Md, July 30, il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

Frances unemployment situation Is
improving.
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Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-08
HOOVER PLEDGES
FEDERAL AID ON
UNEMPLOYMENT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. U.P)-
President Hoover has determined TO
set up national organization ito
coordinate and support local agen-
cieS in meeting the coming winters
burden OF unemployment relief.
The problem. whatever it may
be. will be met the President
promised in a formal statement in
which he announced that the prob
able amount of distress and meth
DDS of relieving it were being
canvassed anew.
The nature of the national or
ganization will be determined in a
month on completion of confer
ences and surveys now in progress,
he said
The Presidents statement was
considered to mark shift from his
former policy that relief work was
entirely the concern of state and
city authorities. The federal gov
ernment took no part in direct re-
lief activities last winter. The
emergency committee for employ
ment was set up, but functioned
primarily as a clearing house on
ways and means of stimulating en-
ployment.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-08
Daily Report Of
Stock Markets

NEW YORK, Aug. s U.P) - An
other attack on the railroad shares
in today's short session on the
stock exchange turned an early rise
into a decline. Prices rallied to-
ward the close to end the day irreg-
u'arly.
Trading Jagged along at the light
est levels since 1924, bringing the
weeks total to less than 100000
shares.
The whole market was steady 10
firm at the outset with United
States Steel up a full point at 81.
During the early trading. this gain
was wiped out and the leading in
dustrials skipped back with the
rails.
American Telephone dropped from
16S to 1867 and then rallied a
point. Auburn ranged over a four
point course and came back to
around the previous close.
There was nothing in the day s
news to affect the market Foreign
markets were closed. The situation
in Germany was tranquil with a
foreign exchange restrictions lifted.
Grain futures continued to gain
and cotton futures rose 81 a bale
on the farm boards decision not TO
accept the German offer 10 buy
American cotton on credit.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-08
Article Relates
Valley History

"Relics Of a By-gone Age is the
title of an article in the August
number of National Republic, deal
ing with pre- historic formations TO
be found in Imperial Valley. writ
ten by Ernest NCGaffey.
It is his belief. from research
work made here that Imperial VAL
ley was once the playground Of the
plesiosaurs and the ichthyosaurC5
which disported themselves through
the waters OF the huge inland sea
that once covered this area, while
On the shore mastodons. the dino
saur and diplodicus. prowled among
the canyons and cavernS of the
western mountains.
This belief Is founded on the
odd formations founds in various
parts of the valley, among them
the coral reef which cuts across
Coyote mountain. CarriZo noun
tain and Fish mountain.
There are also the prehistoric
mastodon tracks which are to be
seen in several places. the best
ones being west Of Kane Springs,
about "a miles.
McGaffey's article is illustrated
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-08
DIRECTORS WIFE SUES NOTED
FILM STAR FOR HALF MILLION

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 8. UP)-
Exotic Marlene Dietrich, German
screen star whose alluring voice,
face figure and art have made the
hearts of millions, including her
husband. go pitty-pat, also won the
heart of her director, it is charged
in suits disclosed today asking
$4,000 for alienation of affection.
The suits were filed in New York
months ago by Mrs. Josef Won
Sternberg. divorced wife of the di-
rector under whose tutelage the
blonde film star placed her name
in the bright lights of American mo-
ton picture playhouses.
The suits were on file, in fact.
before Marlene's husband. Rudolf
Sieber, also stage director. arrived
in New York three weeks ago on
his first visit to America-just to
visit his star wife, the greatest
cook. beautiful cook, a fine haus-
frau"
Sieber looked forward with no
little pleasure to the Hollywood
visit. She will fix me an eirkuchen
(egg cake)," he predicted then.
Six times they talked by long dis
tance telephone from New York to
Hollywood.
Then he was met in Hollywood
by Marlene and Won Sternberg.
ME a jealous man?" Sieber
queried after arrival here. Il should
say not!'
He denied talk of marital unhap-
piness current at that time.
ITS a family reunion. Nothing
else. I'll be here four weeks, and
We'll live in house at Beverly
Hills. I'm very glad to see my FAM
ily."
After months of secrecy, the suit
became public knowledge in do
mestic relations court, where Mrs.
Ria Won Sternberg had hailed the
director to answer charges Of nom
payment of alimony.
Admitting his delinquency, Won
Sternberg defended himself on the
score that the alimony arrangement
had been conditioned upon Mrs.
Won Sternberg keeping the peace,
a peace which he said she had
broken with sundry "harrassments." 3"
Asked to detail the "harassments,' y
Won Sternberg said his former wife
had involved him in filing suits
against certain lady" There were
more questions, and the certain
lady" suddenly was named as Miss
Dietrich.
Charging that Miss Dietrich was
the cause Of their divorce, Mrs. Won
Sternberg added a long bill of par
ticulars, according to copies of her
complaint. Among them, she
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-08
LOS ANGELES TO
TIGHTEN UP ON
CHARITY FUND

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8. WP -
No longer will Los Angeles be a
paradise for the shiftless and :ndi-
gent.
Coincident with the discovery
that approximately 100000 per-
sons of the estimated 100000 pop
ulation have been obtaining aid,
the board of supervisors announced
its intention to enforce n newly
passed state law requiring three
years residence in California and
one year in the county before pub
lie aid may be secured
Disclosures that many have taken
advantage of the generosity of Los
Angeles in caring for its sick, poor
and helpless and INDECENT have led
ciyic-minded officials and citizens
to inquire the reason and necessity
of spending approximately 40 per
cent-s17, $4,000 yearly - of its in
come towards the upkeep of county
charities.
With an investigation now being
carried on to determine the actual
number of persons living off the
county, officials and particularly
Supervisor Hugh Thatcher, directly
in charge, have refused to make
any estimate of those undeserying
aid because the figure runs to such
n high percentage.
To Cut Costs
Approximately $4,000 cases are
treated yearly by the county and
Thatcher declared that the yearly
growth of these has to cease.
Instead of spending the present
sum to care for the poor and needy
sick at its seven institutions -
which include a gigantic county hos
pital costing millions-it has been
estimated that elimination of the
parasites will reduce the sum nee