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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
TO SELL NOTED SlRES

LEXINGTON, KY, May IA R0.-
More than 200 thoroughbreds went on
the auction block at Col. Phil 7. Chinn's
Himyar Stud today in the second dis
persal sale Of the week. The blue grass
stable of Johnson N. Camden was
dispersed at Hartland Stud.
-Four famed stations were to be sold
at the CHM sale, conducted by his
receiver in bankruptcy. They were
High Time, F1ittergold, Noah and Imp.
Donnaconna. The price for High Time
was expected to reach 100000.
Tonight the Lexington Sales Co. will
sell so thoroughbreds consigned to its
Spring sale. Tomorrow horses in the
estate of the late Clifford A. Cochran
will be sold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
|LL-STARRED HERO
APPOINTED COACH
School Berth in Oklahoma
Rescues Jim From Pick
and-ShoveI Gang.
BY JOSEPH M. PARK.

= OS ANGELES, May 14.-May-
be the long, tortuous, uphill
trail across barren lands
that it has been the hard
fate e. I'm Thorpe, International
~ famous Indian athlete, to fol-
low for the last three years will
lead to happier huntingS grounds.
For Jim, once recipient Of the
favors of kings and of the world
of sports, will trek across what he
hopes is the last barrier between
him and the land of his dreams.
Thorpe, whose winnings for United
States at the Olympic games in Sweden,
1912. placed the sports world at his feet
is to be given an opportunity, after hav-
ing been forced by misfortune to dig
bitches for a living for himself wife
and babies, to take a bunch OF Okla
homa high school boys and girls and
make of them what he can in an ath-
letic way.
He will leave a bare little house
hardly pretentious enough to be called
a cottage, in the rancho edges of Haw-
thorne, a village near here, for the Put
nam City school district near Okla
homa City, where he will be athletic di-
rector of the schools. Until school
opens next Fall he will work in the
lumber Offices of Moore C. Hess of the
Board of Education, who heard of Jim's
plight and sent for him.
Jim frankly believes that when II
comes to the field of sports he can lead
youth to victorious glory that will swell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
hooed From Jim ThorpeS Door After Famous Indian Hard Struggle

his stocial redman's heart with pride.
So he is going to try 1t and next Winter
the world may hear something OF what
a particular group of Oklahoma school
boys and girls are doing in the fields OF
sports.
When after a glorious athletic career
that began when he was in Carlisle In
dian School, Thorpe turned professional
and continued to do well on the base
ball diamond and foot bail gridiron. He
came to an end of it in the close OF the
1928 season. For a year he more or
less wandered about. When c. C. Pyle,
sports promoter. staged his disastrous
transcontinental foot rare from New
York to Lon Angeles in 1928. the red
slim came along as sort OF master
of ceremonies with the runners for
Pyle. TIE doughty warrior came to the
end of that trail with the crash that
followed and even the California Labor
Commission was called on to try to help
him get what was coming to him in paw
When the national amateur golf
championship contest was held in Del
Monte in 1922. Thorpe was on hand as
assistant on the entertainment program.
There he told his story of hard luck
to the boys and that September Paul
Lowry sports editor of the Los Angeles
Times. told the world of The fact that
Jim Thorpe was financially down and
nearly out.
Had No Choice.
Apparently it mattered net, for be-
tween then and last March Thorpe did
what he could find to do. tie came to
Los Angeles from Del Monte and worked
with a Standard Oil Co. paint crew in
its Hawthorne and FL Segundo fields
Then he worked as day la5orer with
pick and shovel for excavation con-
tractors. he got 81 a day. Occasion
ally he gotta job at 81 day delivering
| telephone books to Los Angeles offices
unknown to all where cnce his name
was spoken as a great national sport;
! hero.
Last March an Associated Press mar
found him digging bitches for a Los
Angeles contractor and told the story
again to the world.
| Its a far cry from big money ir
professional base ball and foot ball t;
day labor, but I've got to Go it. have
to take care of my little family and beg
CARS cannot be chcosers," Jim said.
! His story went across the country, Q
tale of woe where scores of times before
| had gone tale of glory about the same
man. When it reached Hess in Putnam
Okla, it touched a responsive heart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
Age Improves Mickey Walker
Hayes Hopes Middleweight, Now 80, Will Be
Given Shot at Heavies.

AS for his title, he IS perfectly will
ing to give that up. A title does
not mean anything unless there
are some logical contenders. You
can't eat title.
Walker still can make 100, but
he has to work to do it. His best
weight now Is around 1855 pounds
They talk of big and little men, but
FitZsimmons. Mccoy, Dillon and
Wolcott were fighters who gave
away lot of weight and did pretty
well. 1t wouldn't have added any
interest to the game If they had
been forced to meet men of their
own weight.
Mickey is training a bit right
now. We are waiting around to see
whether Camera will be permitted
to fight. If not, Walker might get a
shot at Sharkey. Mickey has done
enough against heavyweights. to en-
title him to consideration with any
of them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY'S
~ ball team tied the score with a
run in the ninth and then went
on to win in the tenth over its old
rival, Fordham, 4 to 3, yesterday.
O'Ccnnor, G. U. pitcher, was stingy
with hits in the pinches. He also
slammed a homer.
In the District duckpin tourna-
ment just closed on the Palace al
leyS the winners were the Y. M.
C. A. and Pearls among the teams;
Carroll and Ricketts, and Gunde-
schimer and Eiker in the doubles,
and Hawksworth and Champion in
the singles.
Lee McC1ung won the mems sin
giles title in the Chevy Chase Club
closed tennis tournament, defeating
j. Upshur Moorhead, defending
champion.
John j. Campbell, Memorial A. c.,
was the first Washington runner to
finish in the marathon yesterday
from Laurel to Washington. He was
third. j. B. Bolac, H. G.. Hullfish.
Warner Gurley and Milton Groome,
Washington Cross Country Club, also
were among the leaders. Henry
c. Elphinstone, Baltimore Cross
Country Club, won the race.
Marshall Low, Friends School, and
Capt. Fritz Reuter-, Goodman and
Blackiston of Central, were Wash
ington schoolboys to show well in a
track meet yesterday at Baltimore.
H. E. D3yle is the mems singles
champion and the Doyle brothers
are the mems doubles title holders
in the Middle Atlantic States tennis
tournament, which starts at the
Bachelors Tennis Club tomorrow.
Miss Marie Winner will be among
those striving for the cup offered by
Lawrence o. MURRAY, controller Of
the currency, and Bachelors Club
president, to the womans singles
champ. H. E. Doyle and Hildegarde
Turtle are the mixed doubles title
holders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
SandlOtters of Other Years
Tougher Than Now, Says Monk

opposed Washington in the 1924 world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14

IN Hickey WALKER" says
IS Nh Teddy Hayes, "is better
VV fighter at 80 than he was
4 4 at Is. He knows a lot
more. He doesn't throw
as many punches, but, when he does
punch, he lands. You can't leave
Walker any openings now.
IT hope they will let Walker meet
the heavyweights. When we we're
in Miami took Jack Dillon around
to see Mickey work out against
some heavies. He is big enough
for anybody Jack said. The big
fellows always were easy for me and
they'd be easy for Walker
Walker has the punch of 200
FOUNDER. If you had seen him hit
Bearcat Wright you'd know he could
punch. Wright is no set-up for
anybody. There is nobody in
Walkers class for him to fight, and
there is no money in being idle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
1.-TWO out of three sandlotters today
i won't even slide going home,
ACCUSES Monk

negotiations we're begun and now Jim
is to have another chance.
On it he is stalking his hopes, not only
for himself. but for his little wife and
babies, 4 and 2.
(Copyright, 1881. by North American News
paper Alliance.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
SPECS BECOME COMMON

Once upon time a ball player wear
ing glasses was unusual. But Mead
ows, Toporcer and Hill have been fol-
lowed by Koenig, Hafey, MacFayden
and Sorrell. And Pie Traynor may
have to use them soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14

He spent a couple of weeks with the
Birmingham Barons, but was on
crutches with an infected foot. Sammy
West, the Mats crack gardener, was
outfielding for the Barons then.
Anybody could see West was one Of
the best fielders in the business even
down in Birmingham" says Monk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
- NE of the Washington sandlots'
r,anck lnr.i1iin,,A ,,,orircAr Ralrnf,

~ NE of the Washington sandlots
most brilliant products, Ralph
Monk Fraser, contemporary
Of Ping Purdy, Bottle Cox
Denny Sothern, Walter Beall ct al,
still follows sandlot doings, but can't
see them as compared to days gone by.
Monk. who hung up his spikes and
glove to become manager of John
Blicks Arcadia pin plant, says: It'll
say one thing about the old sandlot ball
players. They had more nerve than
the kids nowadays.
Did you ever see any of the indie
pendent Series games? They battled
then. If we needed a runner on base
bad enough, the batter would let one
of Walter Beall's drops hit him in the
head. And slidel Head first, feet first
any old way as long es we got, there
Do they DO that now? Not by long
shot!
And did you ever see uniform
cleaned and pressed then? 1 should
say not"
1.-TWO out of three Sandlotters today
i won't even slide going home,
accuses Monk.
Maybe times have changed, but II
take that old Independent Series to any
sandlot stuff now"
Monk might have been in the major.
today had not an accident-he was hi
on the arm by a fast ball-put hin
out of fast base ball for keeps. On the
sandlots he played first base and caught
but after playing a couple of years II
the minors, he was bought by Johr
McGraw for the New York Giants al
an outfielder
Monk was with the Giants when they
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
ribboned boxes of Don-bons for their
"sKIPPY".

Doing things by halves is not in
Robert Coogans program.
The five-year old brother of Jackie
Coogan, who makes his feature debute
In "Skippy', Paramount's talking ver-
sion of the Percy Crosby cartoon kid
and neighborhood at the Vashon
Theatre Wednesday and Thursday,
August and Q, either must put his
entire spirit into work or play, or else
be complete conscientious objector"
His youthful vim was cloquently
demonstrated during the recording Of
one of the scenes in the picture whose
title part is portrayed by Jackie
Cooper,
Playing Sooky, Skippy's pal young
Coogan has to carry on converse
ton about his dog while pulling slivers
from piano box which had been con-
verified into q boys club house.
AS the cameras ground away, Robert
selected large silver and pulled at 1t.
The silver proved Its tenacity and re-
fused to yield. Robert yanked hard
er. The roots of the silver held firm.
With a mighty tug, Robert put his
heart into his assignment and the en-
tire side of the box fell his way.
Property men were called into SER
vice to replace the damage and the
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
THEATERS
ANIMAL cRAcKERss

The 'prettiest girl" from each Of
fifteen Broadway musical comedies, is
introduced on the screen in Animal
Crackers Paramounts second all
talking feature for the riotous Marx
Brothers. This button-busting follow
up to "Cocoanuts," will be shown at
the Vashon Theatre July 81 and
August /.
That number OF girls was required
to make up the pulchritudinous back
ground Of the production. So the cast
ing director, desiring to out-ziegfeld
ziegfeld, let it be known at the vari-
GUS New York theatres that the pretti-
est girl in each chorus could have a
part with the Marx Brothers and still
continue their stage work.
Since working with the Marxes is
one Of the ambitions entertained by
every chlorine, many came. but few
were chosen at the New York studio
The fifteen selected worked at the
studio in the day time and on Broad
way at night, and comprise a motion
picture chorus which would make the
glorifier of the American girl weep
with envy.
1t is said to be such an eye-dazzling
array as to make lady-killing shieks
sob from sheer futility, and send
strong truck drivers home with re-
morse in their eyes, and prettily be-
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
scene retaken, this time with smaller
slivers furnishing amusement for
Robert.
WISCONSIN CLUE PICNIC.

Annual picnic Of the Wisconsin Club
of Seattle will be held in Woodland
Park, Sunday, August 9th. All former
residents Of the state OF Wisconsin
are urged to attend. The object Of
this gathering each year is to bring
former residents Of that state together.
Your opportunity tot meet friends you
have not seen for years. You will also
learn Of the important events In your
native state. Coffee furnished by the
club. -.
Charles M. Baxter, President,
1924 Joshua Green Bldg, Seattle.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
Robert D. HamIln
603 Colman Building
Seattle, Wash.
SHERIFFS OFFICE
NOTICE OF SHERIFFS SALE OF
REAL ESTATE,

REAL ESTATE.
STATE OF WASHINGTON County of
King, SIS.
BY virture of an ORDER OF SALE
issued out of the Honorable Superior
Court of King County, on the 9th day
of June, 1881, by the clerk thereof in
the case of
The University Plumbing and Heating
Company. corporation, plaintiff,
VS..
Maurice G. Bye and Helma Bye, his
wife; D. E. Canuteson and Minnie
Canuteson, his wife, now Minnie
Canuteson Skinner; Addison Miller
Company, Inc corporation; and
Paysse Hardware Company, a cor
poration, defendants.
No. 24243o, and to me, as Sheriff,
directed and delivered:
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
will proceed to sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, within
the hours prescribed by law for
Sheriff's sales, to-wit: at Ten o'clock
A. M, on the 9th day of August, 1881,
before the Court House door of King
County, jefferson Street entrance, at
Seattle, in the State of Washington,
the following described property, situ-
ated in King County, State of Wash
ington, to-wit:
Lots and 2, block 4, Riley's
Woodland Park addition to the
City of Seattle, as per map record
ed in volume of plats, page 49,
records of King County, Washing
ton,
levied on as the property of all of the
said defendants herein, to satisfy q
Judgment of foreclosure of mortg-
age amounting TO Seven hundred fifty
one and 92-100 ($751.92) dollars, at
torney's fees Of $500, the cost of suit
and interest in favor of plaintiff.
Dated this 30th day of June, 1881.
CLAUDE G. BANNICK, Sheriff.
BY L. E. ANDERSON Deputy.
LIST pub. July 2, 1881.
Last pub. July 80, 1881,
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HIS QUALIFICATIONS.

Mabel-You know, George, you'd
make a wonderful fireman.
George tsurprisedj-Whyp
Mabel--Because you've always got
your eyes on the hosc.--New York
Herald
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Robert ID. Hamlin
603 Colman Building
Seattle, Wash.
IN PROBATE
No. 52682

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Superior Court of the State Of
Washington for King County
In the Matter of the Estate of Ross
o. Hench, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the UNI
dersigned has been appointed and has
qualified as Administrative of the
estate of Ross O. Hench, Deceased;
that all persons having claims against
said deceased are hereby required to
serve the same, duly verified, on said
Administrative or her attorney of
record at the address below stated,
and file the same with the Clerk OF
said Court, together with proof of
such service within six months after
the date of first publication of this
notice or the same will be barred.
Date of first publication, July 10th,
1881.
LULU j. TREVERTON,
Administrative Of said Estate,
Address, 603 Coiman Building,
Seattle, Washington.
ROBERT D. HAMLIN,
Attorney for Estate, 603 Colman
Building, Seattle, Wash.
LIST pub. July 16, 1881.
Last pub. July 80, 1881.
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L e q A L
Weter, Roberts s. Sheselman
1912 Northern Life Tower
Seattle, Washington


NOTICE TO CREDITORS
III the Superior Court OF the State of
Washington for King County.
In the Matter of the Estate of Jane
Livingstone, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the I'M
dersigned has been appointed and has
qualified rs Executors of the estate
of Jane Livingstone, Deceased that
all persons having claims against said
deceased are hereby required to serve
the same, duly verified on said
Executors or their attorneys of record
at the address below stated, and file
the same with the Clerk OF said
Court, together with proof of such
service within six months after the
date of first publication of this notice
or the same will be barred.
Date Of first publication July 90,
1881.
JOHN LIVINGSTONE,
MAY EILEEN McLAREN,
Executors of said Estate, address 302
Smith Tower Annex, Seattle, Wash
ington.
WETER, ROBERTS g. SIEFELMAN,
Attorneys for Estate, 1912 Northern
Life Tower, Seattle, Washington.
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TIME SCHEDULE
Vashon Island Auto Transportation Co.


MOTOR VEHICLE PASSENGER EXPRESS SERVICE
BY main Travelled Portage
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Almon Ray Smith
800 Northern Life Tower,
Seattle, Wash,
IN PROBATE
No. 52762

IN PROBATE
No. 52762
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Superior Court Of the State Of
Washington for King County
In the Matter of the Estate of Alex
ander Johnston, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the I'M
dersigned has been appointed and has
qualified as executrix of the estate of
Alexander Johnston, deceased; that
all persons having claims against said
deceased are hereby required to serve
the same, duly verified, on said execu-
triX or her attorney of record at the
address below stated, and file the
same with the Clerk of said Court
together with proof of such service
within six months after the date OF
first publication of this notice or the
same will be barred.
Date of first publication, July 10th,
1881.
CATHRINE JOHNSTON,
Executrix of said Estate,
Address, 800 Northern Life Tower,
Seattle, Washington.
ALMON RAY SMITH,
Attorney for Estate, 800 Northern
Life Tower, Seattle, Washington.
LIST pub. July 16, 1881.
Last pub. July 80. 1881.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
QUITE TRUE.

Teacher-"Ikey, give me sentence
using the word 'diadem'."
Ikey-"people who drive onto the
railroad crossings without looking,
diadem sight quicker than those who
stop, look and listen"
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THOUGHTFUL.

John" called his wife from the
bedroom, Il heard that clock strike
as you came in"
Eyes, dear. 1t was beginning to
strike 10, but I stopped 1t for fear it
would wake YOU. Circuit Breakers.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-07-30
SOUTH BOUND

osundy
Sunday schedule will We holidays
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-09

might as well initiate the idea as
anyone else"
Studied Radio Engineering.
That she did. She began filling
the shelves, the files-and the mind.
She joined the evening classes n
radio engineering at Columbia Uni
versity.
Because" she explained. II knew
I must know the technical side,
speak the language, as il were, and
know what I was collecting. I must
be able to read. or / should say,
a~nalyze. circuit diagrams and under
stand Technology. A little know
ledge proved TO be a most necessary
thing.
so I studied at night, and spent
my days in the library, in second
hand stores, and in prying around
in the files and the old records.
getting a complete and unbroken
chain Of the events of the past IL
years while broadcasting has been
developing.
TO be sure, most OF us regard
radio as an achievement OF the
last decade. but II really goes : OK
further, TO 1913. And 1t Is surpris-
ing how difficult 1t Is to get hold
Of some Of the old engineering rec
ords and pamphlets. I have ran
sacked all the secondhand book
stores in New York. and advertised
al over the country for back num-
bers Of certain earlier magazines.
Even the most comprehensive pub
nc libraries are surprisingly limited
on the subject OF broadcasting."
Her own library, considerably less
than a year old, Is quite complete,
with more than 700 books on the
subject OF radio, besides many
bound volumes of magazines and rec
ordS, and many other books on al
lied subjects.
Some Of the most valuable mate
rial" she went on, Il have found in
old files and old programs-when
WIZ proudly stated II could be
heard for a radius OF a hundred
miles and the service was free. I
am sure I have assembled the most
complete history Of radio there IS.
but my ambition is to make II valu-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-09
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
NEA Service Writer.

NEW YORK, Aug. "a job that
has no past, but an unlimited. un-
bounded future, has just been Great
ed for a woman. Frances Sprague,
who has been selected by he Ma
tional B~roadcasting Co.. 10 start
the worlds first radio library.
Just collect everything that Is
known or ever has been recorded
about b~roadcasting, keep in touch
with everything that Is going on
now. and is planned for the future.
don't forget television, and have
everything where we can put our
hands on it on a minutes notice
that was the blanket assignment she
got frop headquarters, along with
an empty room empty shelves and
empty files.
Fortunately she did not complete
the general vacuum by adding an
empty mind. 1t was filled with rood
old-faShioned common sense.
Suppose I don't know anything
about a radio library" she asked
her doubling self. That's too bad
Of course, but then, neither does
anyone else. No one has ever at
tempted to build one. Radio is still
an infant. There is no compass OF
established customs, but neither Is
there any traditional red tape. ]