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Sunday, their guests including Comdr.
ana Mrs Q. G. KreSs, Lieut.. Comdr. and
Mrs. Lorimer Graham, Mrs. Paul Tap
pan, Miss Anne Britton and Miss Mary
KreSs, all of Philadelphia.
Capt. and Mrs. Kraft will entertain
at dinner tomorrow evening at the Army
and Navy Country Club for their guests,
who Will accompany them to the Horse
Show tomorrow afternoon.
Capt. and Mrs. George B. Wright of
Newport, r. l., who are making a short
visit to Washington, are at Wardman
Park Hotel.
Capt and Mrs. Frank T. Coffyn have
arrived in Washington from New York
City and are stopping at the Carlton.
Comdr. William L. Beck, U. S. N, cap
tain Of the U. S. S. Nokomis, with Mr..
Is staying at Wardman Park Hotel while
IN Washington.
Judge and Mrs. AnSberry
Have Guests From New York.
Judge and Mrs. Timothy r. Ansberry
have as their guests for a short time
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Wilson Of New
York City.
Judge and MrS James w. Remick had
guests dining with them last evening at
the Carlton.
The Rev. Or. and Mrs FTorian Vur-
pilot have closed their town house and
have gone to their Summer home at
WillianStown, Mass.
Mrs. Sidney L. Cousins and Mrs.
Roger Eisinger entertained jointly at
the Kenwood Country Club at luncheon
today in honor of Mrs. Elmer Stoffel of
Norfolk. Va, sister of Mrs. Glen c.
Williams. who also is present. other
guests, who are remaining through the
afternoon to play bridge, are Mrs. Ban
croft Foley. Mrs. E. N. Marsteller, Mrs.
Everett Kern and Mrs. Harry E. Hill.
Former Senator and Mrs. George
Wharton Pepper have arrived In Wash
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ington from their home in Philadelphia
and are at the Carlton for q brief stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel P. Davis are
at the Willard for q short stay before
returning to their home. in Princeton,
N. j.. Mr.. Davis is in the consular
service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Carpenter Of
Chestnut Hill, Pa, accompanied by Mr.
r. Thaxter Bicknell and his son, r. T.
Bicknell, jr., are at Wardman Park
Hotel for a short stay.
MIR. and Mrs. John D. MacKnight
gave a dinner at their residence on
r street Wednesday evening to DR..
Ellen Spencer Mussey, honorary dean
of the Washington College Of Law, In
honor of her birthday anniversary.
Covers were laid for %. Among the
distinguished guests were DR.. Edwin c..
Dutton, president of the board Of
trustees of the college, and Mrs. Dutton;
Maj. j. Garfield Riley. dean Of the
Washington College of Law and Mrs.
Riley.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Aitchison have
had as their house guests in their home
on Garfield street the latterS brother
in-law and sister, DR.. and Mrs. Roy l..
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Mrs. James Gillespie. with her daush-
ter, Miss Polly Gillespie, Who have ar
rived in washington from their home in
wichita, KanS.. have taken an apart
ment at WardInan Park Hotel.
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Mrs. George Calhoun Of West River,
Md, is the guest of Mrs. Thomas w.
SymonS at the Carlton for a few days.
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Lippincott Of Goshen, N. Y, who were
en- route home from their wedding trip
to Pinehurst, N. c. Mrs. Lippincott was
before her marriage, last month, Miss
Lucy Wallace.
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Capt. and Mrs. Ralph Payne Kraft
will be hosts at a house party over
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Capt. and Mrs George B. Wright of
Newport, r. l., who are making a short
visit to Washington, are at Wardman
Park Hotel.
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The Rev. DR.. and Mrs. FIorian Vur-
pilot have closed their town house and
have gone to their Summer home at
Willian1Stown, Mass.
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Capt. and Mrs. Frank r. Coffyn have
arrived in Washington from New York
City and are stopping at the Carlton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
TURNER SIGNS INDIAN
FOR FEATURE BOUT
White Feather Will Meet McMillen
Thursday on Mat-Schmeling
to Exhibit Punches.

While Make Schmeling Diseases part
Of his boxing repertoire at the WASH
ington Auditorium Thursday in Joe
Turner's wrestling show, Chief White
Feather, champion razzberry magnet Of
the District and environs, VIII get q
chance to stop some of Jim McMillen's
flying tackles with his stomach and
break into the rasslin' elite.
The Chief might never have had this
chance (Which is not particularly en-
viable) had not Paul Jones, who was
slated to rassle White Feather last
Thursday, been rendered hors de combat
in Baltimore bout Mike Romano,
who was substituted, became a victim
of the Indians vicious bar chinlock and
Promoter Joe Turner, impressed with
the Chiefs victory, Immediately signed
him.
Schmeling, while not permitted to
engage in actual fisticuffs, will shadow
box, etc.
A supporting card including bouts
between George Hagen and John MaxoS,
Milo Steinborn and MatroS Kirelenko
and Tiny Roebuck and Jack Washburn.
Is expected to round out a big evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
FORT ELECTED HEAD
OF SHOE TWIRLERS
New Metropolitan Club Will Have
Charter in National Body.
League Match Tonight.

Charles A. Fort, former Washington
champion, yesterday was elected presi-
dent of the Metropolitan Horseshoe
Club, which will become affiliated with
the National Horseshoe Pitchers League.
Fort is a Government chemist.
The organization meeting was held
at the Greenway, on Fourteenth street
northwest near Decatur, where the
Metropolitan Indoor League is operat-
ing. r. H. Brown was named vice
president and Andrew Casper, secretary
treasurer. All pitchers desiring to be-
come charter members should apply to
Casper at the GreenWay.
A league match tonight between Ar
lington and Falls Church will bring
together several keen rivals. A team
composed of Gene Monk,S Ed Pierce and
Ray Grissett has been awarded a fran
chise in the league and will shoot two
matches this week, meeting NJ E.
Peake's Maryland Stars Wednesday and
Cherrydale Friday.
Ex-service men are sending in entries
for the American Legion tournament to
be held at the GreenWay starting Feb
ruary II.
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Tennyson Midget Golf Pioneer
Invented ''Tin CAM Game on Spur of Moment
to Occupy Playground Lads.

next day each brought cans, which
were deposited in the ground.
Artificial obstacles we're added to
the natural ones, to wit, the seesaw
and sliding board. Oh yes, there
there was a Maypole, too.
AS a final touch, flags we're added.
They raise fuss over the rabbit
ball in the major leagues. The same
problem was presented to the tin
can golfers, but it didn't take Dick
long to remedy the situation. He
bought wooden balls. The golf balls
bounded too far when they struck a
stone or hard object.
1t wasn't long before Dicks first
course was overcrowded. Boys began
to desert other Fairgrounds and
flock to the one at Seventh and O,
which later became the Garfield
Playground site. Tennyson's job be-
came bigger. He established more
golf courses.
Dick at that time was contributing
quite a bit of his journalistic efforts
to the monthly playground organ.
In one of his stories he touched on
tin can golf"
At the annual convention of the
playground heads at Atlantic City
he was asked more about it. Many
cities followed his example. Tourna-
ments were held at Cleveland and
San Francisco.
It may be that the Blackfeet and
Shawnee Indians played the game
on the Western prairies, using gopher
holes and wigwam poles or it may
date further back than that.
But Dick Tennyson today eyes the
modern indoor and outdoor course
and wonders, Il had plenty of time.
If I only hadve patented my tin
can golf"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
Prince Georges CUNTS Scrap
For Lead in County Circuit

7 VYATTSVILLE, Md, February 9.
- Consumers and Richards
Colonials, who are tied for first
place in the Prince Georges
County Basket Ball League, each with
wins and 2 defeats, will clash tonight
on the National Guard Armory floor
here at 7:30 o'clock Company F, Ma
tional Guard, and Hyattsville Southern
Methodists then will face in another
league match.
Company F, following a 20-19 defeat
Yesterday at the hands of Griffith-C Con-
sumers, will be out to take the Metho-
dists tonight in order to keep in the
pennant scramble.
Battling was close all the way in the
Consumers Company F game, with the
former holding slight advantage most
of the time Sherman for the winners
and Shanklin for the losers, each with
points, we're leading scorers.
Company F Reserves walloped Wilson
Avenue Baptists, 40 to 8, in a prelimin-
airy. Watts. Morris and Bassford headed
the winners assault.
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THE SPORTLICHT
BY CRANTLAND RICE

badly, The next time he drives badly.
hut his approaching is all right. And
nossiblv the next start finds the putter
has turned into a corkscrew. 1t is
these constant shifts that leave the
average golfer bewildered and baffled.
But it also affects the best. l recall
Leo Diegel before the Open at Winged
Foot. I'm playing fine golf up to the
green's" he said, but my putting Is
saw Leo after his first round. How
did they go?" I asked him.
If it hadn't been for my putter,
he said, Il wouldn't have broken go.
I couldn't hit a shot with any club up
to the green, but never holed as many
good puts. anywhere from to ID
feet" His entire game had changed
around overnight, from one round 10
another
If that can happen to Diegel. why
should the average golfer be aStonlsheo
at the bizarre turns that strike his own
swing?
Armour and Iron Play.
TOMMY ARMOUR was discussing
iron play, which he considers the
main foundation of any good
scoring game.
at is much easier for the average
golfer to swing the club head with driver
or brassie." he remarked, where the
ball is teed up. Under these condlCloIiS
he can use his hands and wrists and
arms more freely. But when 1t comes
to iron play there is great temptation
to let the body take charge. Inc pooy
is more powerful than hands or arms
and once It gets too active there Is no
chance to get any speed in the clup
n fa1N a KNOWS
he has a pair of hands and wrists and
who also knows they have to be used In
throwing the club head, or swinging the
club head.
paul Waner says he is hitting the
ball better on days when he feels that
his body has stopped in time" 1 re-
marked to Armour.
1.-THE same is true of the golf swing, p"
Armour caid. What really happens. is
that the body gets out Of the way ana
lets the hands and arms go TO work.
The average golfer hasn't any left hand
at all. He hasn't feel or power or ac-
tivity with his left hand and left arm.
So how can he expect to use 1t cor
rectly in the swing. where it Is such a
big part of the swing? 1t will be quite
a help if he will build up the left arm
and the left grip by swinging the club
with the left hand for while. Let him
get the feel of using the left hand or
swinging with the left hand.
Il believe it is much easier to get the
body out of the way by using the closed
stance, with the left foot pretty well
advanced. You are then in better start
ing position for both back SWING and
down swing. There is less temptation
to throw the right side around and 1t
is simpler to swing from the inside in
place of cutting across the ball. I be-
lieve this closed stance is something
almost every average golfer should take
up if he wants to make the game SIM
pier and sounder. Let him stick that
left foot out beyond the right and then
start his swing back on the inside circle.
He will then have simpler problem to
tackle through the rest of the swing"
Copyright, 1881, by North American News
paper Aliance)
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LExANDRIA, Va, February 6

A LEXANDRIA, Va, February -
~ Flashing once again the bril-
~ liant form that carried them
to II straight triumphs before
dropping a pair of Washington indie
pendent League games last week, the
Richmond, Fredericksburg g. Potomac
Railroad Co. cagerS yesterday doWned
the Woodlawn A. G. of Fort Myer, 80
to 80, in basket bali game.
The battle featured a five-game pro-
gram presented by the Railroaders, in
which the Alpha Delta Omega Frater-
nifty staged a scoring spree in the tlnai
quarter of its contest with the Boys
Club Yorkes of Washington, to cop the
semi-final attraction, 80 to 16.
Cabell, with 10 points, and McMen-
amin, with 9, were best for the Rail
readers, while Woodlands best bets
were Faro, who counted 10 TALES, and
Fitzpatrick, who sec ed 9 points.
Bottles West and Doc Dreifus dlvld-
ed IA of the Alpha Delta Omega Fra
ternitys points in the Semi-f1nal, with
Eddie German giving them a close
race with 6.
Robert Vogt, manager of st. Mary's
Lyceum Five, has arranged four games
for his team next week, as follows:
February Is, Fort Myer post team at
Fort Myer, va; IT, Boys Club Celtics
at Alexandria Armory: 10, Del Ray at
Alexandria Armory; 81, Griffith Con-
sumers at Tech High Gym, Washington
Flashes and All Stars girls teams
played under boys rules in one OF the
preliminary games, with the former
winning, 20 to Z. Ada Hicks was the
outstanding star of the encounter.
In the other games, Clover A. c. de-
feated Friends A. c., % to 3, in an Al
exandria Junior League game, while the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
BY FRANCIS e. STAN.

~ lex TENNYSON, director
of athletics of the District
of Columbia Playground
Department, views with a
laconic air the multitude of minia-
ture golf courses.
Dick could get as much nourish-
ment from the hole of a doughnut
as he got cash from miniature golf.
but he at least has the satisfaction
of knowing that if any individual
invented pee wee golf. he did
Only he didn't call it any of the
modern heightened names. Dick
appropriately tagged it "tin can
golf"
1t happened back in 1922, on the
old City Park Playground, at Seventh
and o streets. Dick was playground
director and was figuring one day
on ways and means to keep the boys
busy. A shipment OF playground
base balls was tardy-nothing was
left except seesaw. Among the boys
present we're Goldie Ahearn, Benny
April, Jimmy Munro, Nal SimonS
and Chester Freeman. Not many
could picture on of these chaps see
saving or sliding down the sliding
board.
A youngster dragging a broken
golf club happened along. Dick dug
a hole in the ground and invited the
fellows to shoot at it. The next day
he dug another hole. At the. end of
the week half dozen miniature ex-
cavations married the turf.
Dick didn't stop at that. Rather
he redoubled his efforts to make up
for the absence of base ball. He
made a request for tin cans. The
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Three home games will be played by
the Richmond, Fredericksburg 81 Poto-
mac Railroad Co. tossers this week. The
Railroaders plan to appear at the Arm
ory on Wednesday and in Schuler's Hall
Saturday and Sunday.
Manager Robert Mcdonald is seeking
opposition for the Wednesday and Sat-
urdav games and may be telephoned
between 5 and 6 pm. at Alexandra
1856. Washington Union Printers VIII
meet the Railroad five in the Sunday
encounter.
Whitestone's Store and Boy Scout
cagers will battle in the Alexandria Ju-
nior League game Wednesday night.
Tickets will be placed on sale this
week for the benefit basket ball program
to be presented at Armory Hall Febru-
ary II for the HustlerS' Bible CLASS OF
the Methodist Protestant Church.
Alpha Delta Omega Fraternity and
the Kensington HowitzerS of Mont
gomery County, Md, who have broken
even in 2 games, will vie in. the feature
at 9 o'clock. ST. Mary'S Lyceum ana
washington Union Printers will play at
pm. and the Fraters' Pals and Ken
sington Girls at Z.
Aloha Delta Omega and Fraters' Pals
have a double header set for next Mon,
day night at Leesburg, where they VIII
play the Leesburg Independents hVe
and SeXtet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Hyattsville Southern Methodists will
entertain Maryland Avenue Baptist
basket ball team of Washington tomor-
row night on the Hyattsville High
School floor.
Company F has booked game for
Thursday night on the armory court
with Second National Bank of Wash
ington. The contest will follow a
Prince Georges County League game be-
tween Hyattsyille Southern Methodists
and Mount Rainier.
Hyattsville Highs basket ball team,
which used a lineup in its winning
game against ST. Adams Friday espe-
cially calculated to check Bob Freeman,
scoring ace of the Cathedral School,
and which did its job in good style, will
present the combination it has been
using in most games tomorrow against
Woodward in Washington. This is Nc
Chesney and Kidwell, forwards; Evans,
center, and either Cogar or Byrd or
Headley, guards. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Our golf teachers tell us to use
a straight left arm in taking the
club back and in swinging through.
Then we go forth and happen to
see such a fine player as Duncan,
former British open champ, or
Hagen, winner of many national
titles here and abroad, and we note
each bends his left arm bit at the
elbow. You decide at once that your
pro is wrong.
But is he? The straight left arm
Is a marks>. point in the game Of
Bobby Jones, and Of that Philadel-
phia star, Woody Plat. But 1t
Isn't Of many a great golfer.
People are continually asking Sol
Met5Ser why can't make my
appfeA ch shots stick on the greens?"
Metzger has answered the question
in his newest leaflet, The Art of
Pitching" If you wish this leafiet
send stamped, addressed envelope to
Sol Metzger, in care Of this paper.
Gcopyright. 1881 -
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TILT AT EVANSVILLE
Girl Basketers to Entertain Tear

Girl Basketers to Entertain Team
of Annapolis High School.
EVANSVILLE, Md, February g.
Hyattsville High School girl basketers
will entertain the Annapolis High sex
tet tomorrow afternoon in the National
Guard Armory here. Annapolis will be
seeking revenge for the 22-l9 defeat
handed it by Hyattsville at Annapolis
recently.
Margaret Wolf, Hyattsville coach, ex-
poets to start Jean Hamilton and Jean
Goss, forwards; Kathleen Hannigan,
center; Roberta Hannum, side center,
and Dorothy Ordwein and Ada Burns,
guards
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
Ring Show Put On
By Five Nations

NEW YORK, February R.-
IN Leading amateur boxers from
ireland, Belgium. Norway
and Canada, will battle outstanding
Simon pures from the Metropoli-
tan district in big international
tournament in Madison Square Gar
den tonight
Fourteen of the 16 bouts on the
program will be international affairs.
Ireland will be represented by Matt
Flanagan, John j. Chase, Thomas
Hickey and r. j. Herlihy; Belgium
by Franz van der Ausweraer, Jan
Arnould, Edmond de Lanoit, and
Andre de Ham; Norway by Knut
Petersen, Reidar Olafsen, Olaf Lund
and Ole Roisland, and Canada by
Harold Stewart and Johnny Keller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
EXPAND BASKET LEAGUE
Pros Will Have Eight Clubs in
East and Eight in West.

CHICAGO, February 8 (P.-The
American Professional Basket Bal
League will be expanded into a 16-club
organization for the 1892 season
with eight clubs in the West and eight
in the East George HalaS, operator OF
the Chicago Bruins, said today.
The eight teams will represent two
separate leagues, with a championship
series between the title holders at the
end of the season.
According to Halas, the Western
section of the league will be composed
of Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Fort
Wayne, Dayton, Milwaukee and two
teams from Chicago
The league this year dwindled to five
teams, two from the East and three
from the West.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
LEAGUE CUNTS BEATEN
Laurel Guards and Hoplites Lose
to Palace-D. G. S., Waverly.

LAUREL, Md, February 1.-TWO In
tercity Basket Ball League teams were
beaten in exhibition games yesterday on
the National Guard Armcry floor here.
Palace-D. G. S. Of Washington con-
quered the Laurel National Guard team,
% to 20, and Waverly A. c. of Balti-
more overcame Ellicott City Hoplites,
Al to 81.
Eagles, a Laurel midget quint, drub-
bed Ellicott City Midgets, Al to IT,
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Central Victory Oer Eastern Might Pecpitate ROW in High 81
Pingg-POng Event
Lures IL Nations
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BUDAPEST, February 9-Wild
~ wielders OF the ping pong pad
dies from dozen countries are
gathering here today to fight out
the worlds ping pong championship
beginning tomorrow.
England is sending a heavy team
of six fast players, and from far
off India have come five of the
leading ping pong players of the
Far East. Germany also~.will be
represented at the tables, as will
Rumania, ESthonia, Lithuania,
Czechoslovakia. Austria. Hungary,
Sweden, France and Latvia The
United States is not taking part in
the tourney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
ROSEDALE KICKERS WIN
Second Half Conquers Patterson
Team of Baltimore, 8 to l..

Rosedale hooters, champions of the
Capital City Soccer League, put on a
second-half rally TO conquer the Patter-
son team of Baltimore, to 1. yester-
day at Silver Spring.
At the end CT the first half Patterson
was leading. l to O, as the result of a
goal registered by Grothmal just before
the intermission. In the first five min
utes Of the second half, however, E.
Burdette of Rosedale came through with
a pretty kick from just outside the net
to tie the score, and then Henry Irving
made good on penalty kick to put the
Washingtonians ahead A long shot
also by Irving, in the closing stages
clinched victory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
SIMPSON MAKES RECORD
Does Best 22O in New Zealand and
Equals Century Mark.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand. February
8 R).-George Simpson, former Ohio
State University sprinter, broke one
New Zealand record and equaled an
other here.
Simpson ran the 220 yards in 81 is
seconds, shaving one-fifth of a second
off the national record He was timed
in 9 As seconds for the 100 yards.
equaling the national record.
Harlow Rothert, giant weight man
from Stanford, established a new ma
tional record in the shotput with a
heave of 40 feet inches.
The American middle distance run
ner, Rufus Kiser, was beaten in the
mile by G. Savidan.
Japan now has several base ball
teams composed of women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
COPELAND CUE WINNER.

NEW YORK. February 9 LP)-Frank
Copeland of Cleveland, defeated Joseph
Cosgrove of New York, 40 to %, in the
Eastern open three-cushion billiard
tournament. The game went so in
nings. Copelands high run was eight;
Cosgrove'S, four.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
POTOMAC QUINT ACTIVE
Slated to Play Three Basket Ball
League Games This Week.

Potomac Boat Club basket ball team
faces three games this week, two in the
Community Center League and the 9TH
er in the District of Columbia loop.
The Boatmen will meet Mercury to-
morrow night at Eastern High School
and Griffith Consumers Thursday night
at Central High School in the Com
munity Center League matches and
Saks & Co. Saturday night at the Boys
Club in the District of Columbia loop
test.
Potomac also has booked a match for
next Sunday afternoon with Company
1 at Fort Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
Railroad Basketers Triumph
In Alexandria Card Feature

Virginia clubmen trimmed Columbia
Engine Co. Firemen, 40 to 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

In this period of
cold we other
and cracked lips,
above all insist
on q eigar-free
of the spit germ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Japan now has several base ball
cams composed of women.