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The Washington times., 1931-08-13
SETS AUG. 22
ASDATEFOR
TOURNEY

Sputred on by the response Of
other clubs to the District golf
championship which will be held
under the auspices of The Wash.
ineton Times, the White Flint
Club is the third to announce it
will. enter the tourney.
Through George F. King, the
White Flint Club informed The
Times today that it would hold
preliminaries on August "a. The
preliminaries will be open only
bo members of the club.
McKimmie Club Pro
White Flint is located on the
Rockville Pike, a few miles be-
Sond Bethesda. It was formerly
Known as the Harper Country
Club, r. Cliff McKimmie, one of
~ best pro golfers in this Sec
6nS is the club pro.
eve are glad to enter the
EOR driving championship
hich The Times will sponsor"
declared Mr.. King. "Our mem
bers welcome the chance to
measure their drives with
golfers from other clubs"
Beaver Dam and Army and
Navy Country clubs have already
bet dates for their driving tests.
Beaver Dam PreIiminaries
Beaver Dams preliminaries have
been scheduled for Saturday after
noon at o'clock, while the pre-
liminaries at the Army and Navy
Country Club will be run off on
August %.
Columbia Country Club, Wash
kngton Golf and Country Club and
indian Spring Club are other local
organizations that look with favor
upon the driving championship.
These clubs, however, have reached
no definite decision as to whether
they can find room for the pre-
liminaries on the golf programs
for their members.
1t is essential that the pre-
IminarieS be finished before
Labor Day, as the finals will be
run off the second week in Sep
tember.
Three balls are to be driven by
each contestant in the prelim-
inaries with the longest drive to
be counter as the best, Balls
driven into the rough or out of
bounds are to be considered as
driven ball. Only those balls that
land in the fairway are to be
meaSurer.
In the finals, five balls will be
driven with the total distance of
the three longest drives to decide
the champion. These three balls,
however, must land in the fairway.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13

opponent will least EXPECT and
lay to 1t. Keep all your services
as varied as possible.
Do not allow the opponent to
get set for sure thing. If his
strong shot on return of service
is a forehand drive, keep the
ball away from that spot until
you think he is unprepared for
it, or else when you are ready
to handle that particular re-
turn.
Serve to his strong points
when you Judge 1t does not
matter so much. and let him
expend his best shots when you
are best prepared to meet
them.
When serving into opponents
right court Gas score $1,000
there are three areas into
which to hit: Cd wide to fore
hand, which generally invites q
crosscourt return, leaving him
far enough over for your shot
to backhand: (2) straight down
center line to backhand gives
very little chance for any an
gled return, Also hardest SER
vice to receive; CD into center
of service court. directly at
him. Often causes indeciSion
as to whether to play backhand
or forehand.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
HUNT SURVIVES
IN TITLE TEST

CULVER CITY, Ind, Aug. 13.
A husky, black-rnaned 15-year-old
youngster from Washington, D. c.,
is battling his way to national
prominence in the boys national
tennis championships here.
Gilbert Hunt, District and
Middle Atlantic boys titlist, has
smashed his way to the quarter.
finals, yesterday taking the meas
ure of Ralph Burns, of Indian
apolis, by 6-3, 11-9 score.
Jock Mclean, another D. G.
boy, fell before the slightly
steadier racqueteering of Ned
Russell, a Californian, after q
hOtly contested three-set battle,
As, Is, 6-4.
Mclean. teamed with Frankie
Parker, of Milwaukee. and Hunt.
with John Behr, of New York, as
a partner, both won their first
round doubles matches by the
same score, 60, 81.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
.DUPL|N LEAVES
c. j. PREP POST.

Ralph Duplin, former star quar-
terback of Georgetown University,
has resigned as athletic director
at Georgetown Prep school to ac-
cept a position as football coach
at Mills (Mass) High.
Duplin, while at Georgetown q.
was known as a keen football
player and a great field general.
While no successor has been
named by the Georgetown Prep
school authorities. there is a pos
sibility that joey Gardner, an
other Hilltopper. who was Dup
Inns assistant last year, will prob
ably be named.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
Commerce, Repair,
Hone to PL1V TOd1u

The Department of Commerce
and the D. C. Repair Shop nine,
prevented from playing the sec
ond game in their series for three
days by rain, will play today, II
weather permits, at Sis o'clock
on the East Ellipse. The series is
for the championship of the De-
partmental League.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
Dept. Store Teams,
EnlpLOyes, on OUTING

The employees of Hecht's,
Lansburgh's, Kann's and Palais
Royal, local department stores,
numbering about 1000 and in
cluding the teams of the Depart
ment Store Baseball League, will
hold their annual excursion to-
night down the Potomac.
During the cruise the officials
Of the league, william Lowman,
T. H. Mullenburg, and George
Malone, will hold a brief meet
ing with the managers of the
teams.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
Dempsey Returns
To Ring WednesdUu

RENO. New, Aug. 13.-Jack
Dempsey, former heavyweight
champion, will return to the box.
ing wars here next Wednesday
night. He will step two rounds
each with Tony Fuente, Mexican
heavyweight, and Jack Beasley,
Oakland battler.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13

woods that are an inch or so
shorter than yours, and very
heavy-1434 ounces. Johnny
Farrell uses similar equipment.
Bob Mcdonald favors lighter
clubs, but he is taller than
the average player. The target,
too, is so small that greater
length of club would only null
tiply the difficulties of timing,
which already are difficult
enough.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
HAWKS IN WANT

The Hawk Midgets are seek
ing games for the rest of the
season with strong out-of town
opponents. Communicate with
the manager at Adams 0686.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
Potomac Loop Pilots
Meet TO1iqht at 8

There will be an important
meeting Of all managers of Poto-
mac Junior League teams tonight
at 8 o'clock in the Sports Depart
ment of The Times. The mana
gers are requested to report
promptly,
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
TENNIS
BY WILLARD CROCKER
XIV. Service Tactics

AFs service 1aCG1CS
One of the distinguishing
marks of a good tennis player
is service. Tt is not sufficient
to have a devastating, hard-hit
service. Speed alone is not the
essential. Many of the worlds
greatest players whose services
were nearly irvincible did not
rely upon speed.
Even Tilden's "cannon-nalp
service did not overshadow his
other types Of serve. There are
more effective uses of the serve
than attempting to knock the
racquet out of the opponents
hand. Tactics in service out
weigh all other points. Tactics
put the service to a definite
use. That use is to place the
opponent at a disadvantage and
never giving him an opportu-
nifty of doing what he wants
with the ball.
Decide definitely before you
step up to the service line what
you intend to do with your serve.
Make your guess as to what the
The Washington times., 1931-08-13

The membership books Of the
club are shut down tight, and
have been so for several years.
The 20-odd remaining members,
all well up in years, are looking
forward to disposing of the club
grounds in the near future.
The clubhouse and estate Is
located on Conduit Road, opposite
Great Falls. It includes over
seven acres Of land and is a vital
cog in the proposed Great Falls
project.
The club members are in no
hurry to sell. continuing to use
the grounds for their recreation,
though there is little fishing and
no hunting to be done in those
parts now. When the property is
sold, the club will disband.
The club was organized on No
vember II, 1870, with the ex-
pressed intention of providing
recreational facilities for the busi-
ness men of the city, who, in
those days, were evidently as tired
as those of today are reputed
to be.
No one but established bust
ness men of high standing were
admitted. The chartered men,
bership numbered 40, all Of
whom have long since passed on
to the happy hunting grounds.
The charter president was Will
liam K. Mendehall, a distin-
guished patent attorney. Samuel
Einstein, well-known merchant.
was vice president. Theodore
Freibus, prominent furnace and
stove dealer. was secretary and
William P. Pearson treasurer. p.
B. Otterback, high in Washing
tons mercantile circles of those
days, succeeded Mendehall.
Early in it's career the club was
influential in agitating for pres
ervation of game around this Sec
ton. It was through their efforts
that the Fishery Commission
started restocking the Potomac
and it's tributaries with small
mouth bass.
Met In Log Cabin
They were responsible for hiring
of wardenS for the enforcement Of
game conservation laws.
When the club was organized,
1t met in q little log cabin. Lat
ter the present clubhouse was
built around it.
Among some of its most promi:
nent members have been Joseph
H. Hunter. one Of the leading trap
shooters Of the country, and once
U. s. medalist; Conrad Becker,
famed leather goods dealer, and
OAAO Va OAAO NAOy AAOoO NC4ONCA
sportsmen, and Henry Burgling,
twice president of the organiza-
ton.
At present Bill Mooney, genial
District postmaster, is the presi-
dent.
j. H. Conrad, a leading builder,
Is vice president.
Lee H. Harris, a Treasury Off.
cial and a great lover Of outdoor
sports, tells with q twinkle in his
eye, how Government clerks were
finally accepted as members,
around 1914. He was one Of the
first Government clerks to enter.
He has been secretary for three
years.
when we sell the club
property, the club will diSband,"
says Harris. But q bunch Of
us boys are going to carry ON
up around Seneca. Can't afford
to forget those grand old days."
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
GOLF
By CHESTER HORTON

Why are wood clubs not
made four or five inches
longer? Many golfers think
longer clubs would give them
better results. Longer clubs
would make your golfing more
difficult. Club length results
from experience by the best of
players, which means the pro-
fessionals. Gene Sarazen uses
The Washington times., 1931-08-13

Home seekers who want to establish
themselves in a home of their own
before the hot summer months will
find a timely home selection in the
Real Estate for Sale Columns Of the
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
Oldest D. c. Fishing Club
Nears End of Career
By GINO SINH

The Anglers Association Of Washington, D. g. the Oldest
fishing and hunting organization in these regions doomed
fore
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20

the sky like giant Martian figures
stalking across the landscape. HOr-
rible new towns-Bret Harte wood
en-frOnt tOwns-sprang up over
night on the heels of an oil strike;
towns inhabited by people who
never meant to stay in them; stark
and hideous houses thrown up by
dwellers who never intended to re-
main in them; rude frontier cross
road stores stuffed with the neceS-
stiles of frontier life and the lux
uries of sudden wealth all jumbled
together in sort of mercantile
miscegenation. The thump and
clank of the pump and drill curses,
shouts: the clatter of thick dishes,
the clink of glasses, the shrill
laughter of women; fly-infested
shanties. Oil, smearing itself over
the prairies like a plague, killing
the grass, blighting the trees,
spreading over the surface of the
creeks and rivers. Signs tackled to
tree stumps or posts: For Ambu
lance Call 4S7. Sim Neeley, Under
taker. Call $40. Call Doctor Koegh
735.
Oklahoma the Red Peoples
country-lay heaving under the hot
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
[)(UETR.y
ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
BRINGS MORE EGGS
Hens Found to Respond to
Lengthened Day.

Use artificial lights to give the
hens about a thirteen or fourteen
hour day, advises T. E. Andrews of
the New York state college of ag-
riculture. If lights are used to in
crease the length of day to seven
teen or eighteen hours, hens will
lose weight and egg production.
Lights are used in laying houses
to lengthen short days of fall and
winter so that the hens will eat
enough to maintain their weight and
egg production. This is merely max
ing a normal condition in an alb
normal time and is not forcing
process, if used with reasonable
Judgment. Ordinarily, the poultry
man should try to make in fall and
winter the same length of day and
night that the birds normally would
have in the springtime. This Is
abOu thirteen to fOurteen-hOur day
and ten to eleven-hour night. The
length of time of artificial lighting
will vary according to the quality.
age and condition of the hens.
Hens use lights more efficiently
in the morning than at night. In
the morning they are usually hungry
after several hours on the roost,
but in the evening their appetite is
not so keen and many of the birds
will go to the roosts and wait until
the grain is fed before they eat
Morning lights have another advan-
tage over evening lights; no dim
ming device is needed for the lights
are turned off after daylight. In the
evening it is necessary to dim the
lights for ten or fifteen minutes be-
fore turning off, to send the hens
to the roOsts. Ordinarily the COM
bination whereby a portion of the
lights are given in the morning and
balance in the evening is most sat-
isfactory, both for convenience to
the pOultryman and to the lighting
system.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
Reducing tuberculosis

In one South Dakota county where
practically all the f1ocks in two town
ships were tuberculin tested, says
a writer in the Southern Farmer,
only l per cent of the pullets re-
acted whereas 33 per cent of the
birds over two years old reacted.
This would indicate that if a farm
flock is infested and the practice
is followed of disposing of all birds
at the end of the first year of egg
production, that in itself would re-
duce very greatly the losses from
this disease.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
Mites Work at Night

A real thief in the dark" is the
common red mite of poultry. Dur
ing the day mites stay hidden in the
cracks and crevices around the
perches and rests in the poultry
house. At night they come out to
feed on the fowls.
Red mites appear in all poultry
houses as warm weather approaches.
A good way to control them is to
paint the woodwork in the poultry
house with some strong, oily, pene-
trating material. Carbo1ineum !;
creosite, crude carbolic acid and
kerosene mixed in equal parts !;
whitewash; waste crank case oil !;
lime sulphur, and nicotine sulphate
are all recommended.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
Winter Eggs Most Profitable

Poultry flock records kept by
North Dakota poultry raisers last
year show that high producing
flocks averaged several cents per
dozen more for eggs than those of
lower production.
This higher return was brought
about by much higher production
Of eggs during September, October,
December and January. last year,
when egg prices are nearly twice
as nigh as during the other months.
Nearly all hens laid well during
spring and summer, so that it is evil
dent that increases in production
which come at periods of high
prices are most important.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
How to truin BABY'S
e w q S

Babies, bottle-fed or breast fed.
with any tendency to be constipated,
would thrive if they received daily
half a teaspoonful of this old family
doctors prescription for the bowels.
That is one sure way to train tiny
bowels to healthy regularity. To
avoid the fretfulness, vomiting,
crying, failure to gain. and other ills
OF conStipated babies.
DR.. CaldwelPs Syrup Pepsin is
good for any baby. For this, you hare
the WOrd Of a famous doctor. Forty
seven years of practice taught him
Just what babies need to keep their
little bowels active, regular; keep
little bodies plump and healthy. For
DR.. Caldwell specialized in the treat
ment of women and little ones. He
attended over $500 births without
loss of one mother or baby.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
Preservation of Eggs

Put down some eggs in water
glass to be used when egg prices
are high. (Only about two-thirds
as many baby chicks were raised
as last year, The procedure in
putting down eggs is simple. First
candle all eggs and remove all spots
and cracks. Then place them in
a crock. Next make up a solution
consisting of one part of CONNER
cial water glass and nine parts of
cooled boiled water. Pour this solu-
tion over the eggs so that there is
about two or three inches of solu-
tfon over the top layer of eggs.
Place crock in cool place.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
Rlackhead Carriers

Blackhead is generally carried into
turkeys by very small worms which
have been deposited on the soil by
chickens. Since these worms live
over in the soil from one year to
the next, the best means of prevent
ing the disease in turkeys is to have
them run on clean ground that has
not been contaminated in any way
by either chickens or turkeys in
the previous two years. A system
of ground rotation is the best to use
in accomplishing this end.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
Dr.. w. B. CALDwELL'S
SYRUP PEPSIN
ADoctOrS Family Laaatipe
The Reason

81 think I'll name my last story
Boomerang
Eyes, then it's sure to come back"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
summer sun, a SCARED and dread

summer sun, a SCARED and dread
ful thing with the oil drooling
down its face a viscid stream.
Tracy Wyatt. who used TO drive
the bus and dray line between Wa
hoo and Usage, standing up to the
reins like good-natured red-faced
chariOteer as the wagon bumped
over the rough roads, was one of
the richest men in Oklahoma-in
the whole of the United States, for
that matter. Wyatt. The Wyatt
Oil company. In another five years
the Wyatt Oil companies. You were
to see their signs all over the
world The big Boys" from the
East were to come to him. hat in
hand, to ask his advice about this !;
to seek his favor for that. The sum
of his daily income was fantastic.
The mind simply did not grasp it.
Tracy himself was, by now, a port
of a little more than fifty. His
good-natured, rubicund face wore
the grave slightly astonished look
OF a commonplace man who sudden
ly finds himself parsonage
Mrs. Wyatt, palmer, more horse
faced than ever in her expensive
New York clothes, tried to patron
iZe Sabra Cravat, but the Whipple
blood was no match for the Marcy.
The new money affected Mrs. Wy
att queerly. She became nervous,
full of spleen, and the eastern doc
tors spoke to her of high blood
pressure.
Sabra frankly envied these lucky
ones. A letter from the adder
tongued Felice Venable to her
daughter was characteristic of that
awesome old matriarch Sabra
still dreaded to open her mothers
letters. They always contained a
sting.
'All this talk of OF and millions
and every one in Oklahoma rolling
in it. I'll be bound that you and
that husband of yours haven't so
much as enough to fill lamp.
Trust Yancey Cravat to get hold
of the wrong piece of land. Well,
at least you can't be disappointed.
1t has been like that from the day
you married him. though you can't
say your mother didn't warn you.
hope Donna will show more
sense"
Donna, home after two years at
Miss Dignum's on the Hudson,
seemed indeed to be a granddaugh-
ter after Felice Venable's own
tour. manner, and outlook. so un-
like the other Oklahoma girls
CZarina Mckee, GaZelle Slaughter,
Jewel Riggs. Maurine Turket-as
TO make that tortured, wind-deviled
day of her brit. on the Oklahoma
prairie almost nineteen years ago
seem impossible Even during her
/ homecomingS in the summer vaca-
/ tions she had about her an air of
cool disdain together with a kind
of disillusioned calculation very
| disconcerting to her former init
mates, not to speak of her own
family.
The other girls living in Usage
and Oklahoma City and Guthrie
and Wahoo were true products OF
the new raw Southwest country
They liked to dress in crude high
colors-glaring pinks. cerise, vel.
low, red, vivid orange, magenta
They made up naively with white
powder and big daubs of carmine
on either cheek. The daughters OF
more wealthy parents drove their
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
Birds Travel Far

The arctic tern, a species of sea
gull, makes the round trip from the
Arctic to the Antarctic region each
year, a journey of $4,000 miles; the
tiny humming bird Of North Aver
lea winters in South America.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-07-10
BIRTHDAY WAS LOST
 BY GEORGE WASHINGTON

It is generally known that George Washington was born on February Il, instead of the 22nd of that month What is not generally understood is that the great man lost a birthday when the calendar was changed in 1752. Tn order to avoid the confusion attendant upon this change, historians have ac- cepted February 22. 1732, as the simplest way to express the date of Washington's birth, and have made no attempt to explain the situation, according to the Division of Infor- nation and publication of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission.
 Prior to the year 1752, the Julian calendar was used by England and the rest of Europe. The colonies of course, followed the example Of Great Britain, and time was marked here by the same measure. Un- der this calendar, the new year be- gan on March 25. The practice of observing New Years Day on Jan- uary 1st is, therefore, compara- lively recent except in Scotland, where the custom began in 1900. The difference in these dates is due to the fact that they were arbi- trarily fixed-perhaps future gen. erations will observe the begin ming of the year on still another date.
 The manner in which Washington lost his birthday is not universally known, but a brief consideration of the situation will make it quite clear. Under the Julian calendar, as has been stated, the new year began on March 25 until 1752. By an act of Parliament, the year 1751 ended on December 31 instead of on March 24. The act also states that "the first day of January next following the said last day of De- cember shall be reckoned, taken, deemed and accounted to be the first day of the Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two." Therefore, the months of January, February and March were completely dropped from the calendar of 1751. This change oc- casioned a great deal of confu- sion which was avoided by those who were born between January and March 25 by merely skipping a birthday, and Washington was among these people.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-07-10
SHEAR OLD 0PTTCIAN
 FLIES FROM CALIFORNIA
 TO ENJOY JUNEAU FOURTH

Watkin Davies, S1-year-old opti- elan and optometrist of Stockton. California, spent the Fourth in Ju- neau, reported Pilot Anscel Eek man, of the seaplane Wrangell who was here Saturday and Sunday.
 Mir. Davies boarded a mail plane at Oakland at o'clock Tuesday morning. He landed at Seattle seven hours later. At s;30 We'd nesday morning after a visit with friends and good nights sleep he boarded the Wrangell, reaching Ju- neau at 5 o'clock that evening. Stops were made at Alert Bay, Ketchikan and Funter Bay. He planned to return to Seattle Mon day on the Wrangell and be back home a week after leaving there, having enjoyed a three-days visit in Juneau, day and two nights in Seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-07-10
TRANSFERRED TO VERNON

An audience that crowded the citadel at Prince Rupert, Sunday, June 28, took farewell of Com mandant and Mrs. William Kerr, who have been transferred to Yer non, B. C., in the Okanagan valley, reports the Prince Rupert Empire. A letter from Mayor Orme was read, in which, on behalf of the munich pality, expression was given to the great appreciation felt for the splendid service rendered to Prince Rupert by the officers and members of the Salvation Army. Commandant and Mrs. Kerr were transferred from Wrangell a few years ago to take charge of the Calgary Even tide Home, a home for bed-ridden old people. From Calgary they were sent to Prince Rupert where Commandant Kerr has been in charge of the citadel
 Mrs. Kerr and two sons have gone to Edmonton to visit her parents before moving to Vernon.