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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
From the Camps

SACRAMENTO, Calf; March 2 Up
Manager Stanley r. Harris OF the
Detroit Tigers is embarrassed by a
wealth Of promising outfleld material
and there are indications that he VIII
carry six nelders after the squad Is
reduced to Is men on June is.
II he does the quota for some other
positions must be cut, and present
prospects are that the pitching stall
win not exceed nine men.
Hoyt, Whitehill, Uhle and Sorrell
are to take turnes as regulars while
the relief squad probably will embrace
Wyatt, BRIDGES, Hogsett ana eitner
Sullivan or Cantrell, or both.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March Z
R).-Fred Walker, son of the OLD
minor league pitcher, Dixie Walker,
has caught the eye of veteran players
in the New York Yankees training
camp.
canny observers with the way he hits,
his strong arm and dy-chasing ablaty.
He may not stick this time, but says
that mo matter where they send me
I'll work my head OF to get back"
CLEARWATER, Fla, March Up.
The Brooklyn Robins are blessed
with an abundance Of firSt-rate
material this year, but perhaps the
rookie with the hardest row to hoe Is
Paul Richards, a young and likely
looking catcher.
Richards, under ordinary circum-
stances, would stay up with the club,
but Robinson already is equipped with
knA
and Val Picinich, regulars, and Ernie
Lombardo, the giant from Oakland.
Richards is almost certain Of spending
at least another year In the minors.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March z up.
The continued absence OF Bill Terry,
hold-out first baSeman, makes Samuel
Andrew Leslie of Moss Point, Miss, a
more important figure In the New York
Giants training camp than he other
wise might be.
Sam Is the best FIRST baseman in
camp right now and should see plenty
Of service with the Giants whether or
not Terry signs his contract.
wINTERHAvEN, Fla, March Up.
-For the second straight day the
Phillie regulars trounced the yaniganE
today, Z to 4, in six innings.
One big inning was all the regulars
needed and they hammered In runs
in the third. Jumbo Jim Alliott was
the losing pitcher and all the runs were
scored Of him. Frank Watt pitched for
the rockies the last three innings and
held the regulars runleSS.
PASO ROBES, Calf, March (E).
The regulars beat the yanigans to
/ In the first base ball game Of the
Spring training season at the Pitts
burgh Pirate camp today.
Grant, Meinee and Wood pitching
for the regulars in the seven-inning
game, allowed 4 hits
The regulars gathered 8 swats.
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BAPTISTS FACE LEESBURG
B. z. p. q. Loop Champions to Play
Independents Wednesday.

LEESBURG, Va, March IA basket
ball game between the Leesburg Inde-
pendents and the Maryland Avenue
Baptist team of Washington, winners
of the B. Y. p. U. League champion
ship, Is scheduled for Wednesday eve
ming in the local high school auditor
ium.
Out of 30 games played, the wash
ington outfit has won as, Two or
dained ministers are members Of the
team.
On Monday evening, the Peerless
Athletic Club girls teams will play
the Leesburg High on the local court.
On the same evening the Manassas
High win play the Leesburg High boys.
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LIGHTNING BOLT AHEAD
Mrs. whitney's Horse Is First IL
$4,000 Florida Derby.

MIAMI, Fla, March tP.-Light-
ming Bolt, racing for Mrs. John Hay
Whitney, today defeated the class Of
the Winter turf's 3-year-olds TO win the
SO 900 Florida Derby at Hialeah Park.
G. II. Knebelkamp's Spanish Play, king
Of the New Orleans thoroughbreds, fin
isi1ed second, and w. z. Caskey, jr.'s
MYnheeE third.
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ITALY'S GIANT DUE
FOR new PROBLEM
Striking or SChmeling Will
Give Him First Fast, Wal
Looping Rival.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

n yEW YORK, March Primo
nj Cameras showing against
Y Jimmy Maloney at Miami
this week was like jolt Of
high-power moonshine to the
public's tagging interest in the
boxing game. A suspicious
knockout or a dull exhibition
would probably have put the
finishing touches on the sport.
Leon See, manager of the giant
italian, realizes the value Of theatre
Gals. His claim that his man had
broken rib and the presence Of
physician in Primo's corner during the
fight had all the earmarks of pre-
Venetian lost to the Boston heavy
weight.
Tried Out Second Raters.
When See first arrived with Car
nera In America he asked for chance
to bin his man in a series OF con.
tests with Second-raterS, as he did not
think Camera was fully qualified 70
cope with the -notchers. When the
1880 circus tour wound up at Boston
and Maloney won a decision over the
Italian, 1t is more than likely that Mr..
See decided his fighter was even worse
than he feared he was.
This writer has witnessed at least
five contests in which Primo was the
high light of the show. The massive
frame, web punched muscles and glow
ering countenance were impressive.
The big fellow moved around with a
natural for one of his size. The left
lab and overland right did not look
so good, however. Primo's idea OF q
lab was to push out his hamlike fist.
In close it was another matter entirely,
which accounts for his long string OF
knockoutS. Once in the clutches Of
his powerful hug, Primo's opponents
were powerless.
Gross Fight Remembered.
One fight in particular stands out in
the writer's memory. It was Camera
Jack Gross contest at the Chicago
stadium last September. For three
mounds the Philadelphia southpaw
rolled away from the vicious lunges
of his bigger antagonist. Gross got
over many wild left swings. Primo
Just grinned and kept on boring In.
In the fourth round Gross looked
out at the audience with sort Of
hopeless grin and put out his hands
as IL to say, whats the use? can't
do q thing with this guy!" Primo
reached OUT and pulled Gross to him.
A few short cuffs TO the head and
right on the neck and Gross went
down. He got up several times and
then rolled over for the count.
Fast Feet His Nemesis.
The first Maloney fight convinced
students OF the game that a bobbing,
weaving opponent could stay away
from Camera and make him look bad.
.Maloney Is short, squat man with
an abbreviated reach for q heavy
weight. And yet Jinamy's best fights
were against such finished worknen as
Jack Delaney, whom he outpointed
form, and Jack Sharkey. It Ii true
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ARLINGTON PITCHERS
WIN CLOSE VICTORY
Casper's Points Decide Issue in
Metro Horseshoe League Match
With Plaza.

In one of the closest matches of the
indoor season, Arlington's horseshoe
pitchers vanuuished Earl Cranes Plaza
team, 382 TO 373, in the Metropolitan
Horseshoe League at the Greenway.
Andy Casper of the Arlington team
supplied the winning punch. scoring
1873 points, against hts opponents 109
winning all of his games and allowing
only 81 points to be scored against him.
A round robin tournament viii open
today, starting at 3 o'clock
The summary of the last match and
this weeks schedule follow:
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SCORES IN WRESTLING

Starting in 1923, the wrestling team
of Franklin and Marshall College has
scored victories In IS meets out Of 90
engaged In, with six defeats and one tie.
The team L. coached by Uncle Char
ley Mayser and annually arranges O
schedule with the best teams in the
country.
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PETW0RTH PINMEN LEAD
outro11 Takoma 136 Points in First
Block of Match.

Petworth bowIers assumed a 13e-pin
lead over Takoma last night in the first
five-gane block of a home and home
match at the Takoma drives.
With Burt Parsons blazing the way
with 628 set and Scott following with
Ga, the Petworth crew rolled q team
total of 2,903 Parsons started and
ended with big games, I56 and 146.
Scores:
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WALTER REED LOSES
Carlisle Medical School CUNTS
Late Rush Tails.

CARLISLE, Pa, March THE Car
Isle Army Medical School closed their
home basket ball season here tonight by
snubbtng the walter Reed Hospital
quintet, 35 to %.
The Army Medical Center team took
an early lead, which was swept aside
by the local soldiers, with Harlow ana
Hetricks scintillating to close the half,
1915, favor of Carlisle.
Lawnicii and the lanky Patterson
starred for the Capital City I'VE ana
forced Carlisle TO the limit by making
several close bids for the lead.
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SIGNS AS MATCHMAKER
"Pa" Striking to Plan Miami
Shows Next Winter.

MIAMI, Fla, March z Pl.-"Pa"
Stribling announced tonight he had
signed an agreement with William r.
Carey. president of the Madison Square
Garden Corporation, to be ofilcial match
maker for the Garden IN Miami next
Winter
Etribling said he planned three or
four boxing shows in the Miami garden
next season with "a big show late in
February"
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D. c. De MoLAY's BEATEN.

BALTIMORE, March IA rally in
the last quarter gave the Baltimore
Chapter, Order of De Molay, a 1923
victory over the Robert lie Bruce Chap
ter Of Washington in their basket ban
contest tonight at the 104th Medical
Regiment Armory.
Tina-1yrlS.
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EABRooKE WINS TITLE
OeIeaN ut. Vernon, 80 to %, in
Nnday School Loop.

n Se's snowbird basketers with
SSco.lS Nxo won for Eldbrooke the
Saaa.ia la of the Sunday School
. LSasus laaght at the X. NJ. G. A.,
VI a nv rnon was turned back in
Sii S L..aaL iTs.sA clash. 30 to 20.
rOLress pu.As was the outstanding
player on Ine gAe, keeping Mount Ver-
seven field goals. ,cheeIe snnne far the iFas
victors.
Eldbrooke held 1e-to-1A Had q.
half time.
Line-ups:
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Schedule.
Monday-Arlington VS.. Cherrydale.
Tuesday Cherrydale VS.. Midwestern.
Wednesday - Maryland VS.. Falls
Church.
Thursday-Finals American Legion
tournament.
Friday-League tournament.
Saturday-League tournament.
Sunday-FinalS in tournament.
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HOWARD cAGERS SCORE
Defeat North Carolina A. and Z.
Five, SO to II, in Easy Game.

walloped North Carolina A. 81 r., 80 to
II, last night in the Howard gym
naSium.
It was all Howard from the start
The Bisons' lead at the half was Is to 8.
Howard used flock Of substitutes.
It was the second game In as many
nights for the Bisons, who were drubbed
IL to 90, by Lincoln, their old foe, Fri
aey night in New York.
Line-ups:
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SAKS DEFEAT CAVALRY
CIothiers Carried to Victory, $500
by Strong Finish.

Saks' Ciothiers scored over Calvary
Methodists, IS to 20, in a basket bah
game last night at the Boys Club.
A strong finish carried the Clothiers
to victory. They were trailing at the
half. II to IL.
Iine-ups.
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PLEASANT PLAINS WINS
Beats Willow Tree for Section q
Title in Gage League.

Pleasant Plain tossers won the
section A title Oh the Colored Com
munity Basket Bal League by defeat
ing Willow Tree, "a to 13, in the Gar
nett-Patterson gymnasium.
Manchester quinn downed Shaw
Night School, 80 Il "a, in another
match.
Line-ups:
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WASHINGTON FIVE AHEAD.

CHEETERTOWN, Md, March t.
Washington college tonight closed its
State basket bail schedule with q 30
to-26 victory over the Western Mary
land Terrors.
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10 BASE BALL GAMES
ON v. NJ. |. SCHEDULE
Six Dual Track Meets Also Listed,
With Probability Of Going
to Conference Games.

LEXINGTON, Va, March Eight
cen base ball games and six dual track
meets appear on the schedules Of vir-
ginia Military Institute varsity teams
for the coming season. In addition, q
full team Of cadet track men. will be
entered In the State meet for South
ern Conference institutions TO be held
at washington and Lee, and several
outstanding track men probably will
compete In the conference champion
ship meet at Birmingham
Seven letter men, of whom three are
pitchers, are, available to Coach Raftery
In base ban. Lefty williams, Hank
Noble and Norris Mason are veteran
moundsmen, who, with Walter Blocker,
regular catcher last year, will give the
strength. Capt. Gilly I.aughorn, third
baseman; Braxton Cutchin, infielder,
and Ralph Waite, outfielder, are the
other letter men. v. NJ / lost by grad
uation such stars as Biggs, Grow and
Saunders, and Lewis Jacobie, stellar
first baseman, was killed in an automo-
bile accident during the Summer. Pop
Gillespie, pitcher and outfielder, hav-
ing played on the varsity for three
years, Is now q candidate for the track
team In the weight events.
An even dozen letter men have re-
ported to Coach Read in varsity track,
but Jack Read and Joe Swank, pole
valuters; Bin Haase and Aubrey Grow,
weight men, and Charlie Holtzclaw,
sterling quarter miller, have graduated
Bob Mitchell, holder Of the local 800
yard record. has completed three years
OF competition, and Maury Gatewood,
promising sophomore star who set O
record l:575 In the big four" fresh
man meet last year In the $50 and was
capable Of lettering so seconds in the
$40, is not in college.
-Four letter men, Capt. Ham Smith,
JACK Bond, Henry Wise and Duke
Ron1m, are members of the cross -coun-
try team which won the Southern Con-
ference title last Fall. They win COM
pete in events from the 440 to the 2
miles. Other letter men are: Gus Shir-
ley and Jim Brewer. sprtnters; Bill
Rorabaush, John Head, Harrison
Nicholas and Harry Wanger, murders;
Bob Brown and Joe Phillips, jumpers
The schedules:
BASE BALI.
= April and 8, Dartmouth and 6, Yale:
9, Hampien-Sydney; 10, Virginia; IA North
State at Raleisa; Is. North tn & Carolina al
chspel nil; q. \. 6; State;
ginta at University; Q, " P. l.; is, Richmond
at Richmond; Is, Maryland at College Park.
TRACK.
March 90, Lynchburg.
April 4. Maryland; II. william and Mary
az Wii ,isn ID. Virginia; rs, Davidson
May o, " p. L at BIacksburK: 0, State
meet at Lexington; 1915, Southern Confer
ence meet at Birmingham.
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william Blagrave of the Indiana q
basket ball squad Is so tall he can z
stretch and reach the basket.
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EASE BALL.

March 20, Bridgewater; 81. Maryland
April and 8, Dartmouth; and 6, Yale;
9, Hamplen-5y Sydney; Is, Virginia: IA. North
Carolina: 10. William and Mary; 20, N. c.
state at Raleigh; IS, North Carolina at
Chapel hill: %. n. 6. State.
May q, Y. r. l., at Blacksburg: 4. Vir-
at Richmond; 16, Maryland at College Park.
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TEN BIG BOYS GET
MAT CARD PLACES
No Champions Are on Weeks
Program, but All After
Higher Rating.

w YASHINGTON'S pachyderm
M picnic promoter, Joe Turner,
who goes out Of town to sign
Smyrna times., 1931-05-13
Cobra Worshipers Hold
Deadly Reptile Sacred

Every year the dreaded cobra is
responsible for the death of many
thousands of persons in India, but
so sacred is the snake considered
that it is difficult to get the Hindu
to assist in killing one.
In many Hindu houses these
deadly reptiles have regular homes,
and are daily fed with milk, and
solemnly worshiped morning and
evening.
At a place known as Subramany-
aim, cObras are to be found in prac-
tically every house, and on certain
festival occasions special services
are held in their honor in the tenn
pie, thousands gathering from long
distances to participate.
Although at any moment some
member of the households harbOr-
ing the snakes might accidentally
be bitten-which means certain
death-no one dare destroy the CO.
bra on account of its sanctity.
Even where the living snake is
not worshiped images of the cobra,
carved in stone, are common, and
in the early morning one can fire.
quently see men and women offer
ing gifts before these snake
shrines."
Smyrna times., 1931-05-13
PARDONS REFUSED At DOVER
3 LONG TERM PRISONERS
BOARD DENIES CLEMENCY
AFTER HEARING PETITION
Clarence Graham, Eddie Wolf and
Francis Mccoy, Two Convicted
of MansIaughter, One Robbery

The State Board of Pardons
Thursday had three applications
for pardons before it for consider
alton, the first of which was that
of Clarence Graham, serving 20
years sentence in the New Castle
County Workhouse. Graham was
indicted for murder of first degree
at the February term of the Kent
County Court in 1926, for the muir
der of Gordon C. Riley, at Har-
rington, in November 1926. Gra-
ham, pleaded guilty to manslaught-
er and was sentenced to pay a
fine of $1,000 and be imprisoned for
a term of 20 years. In his plea for
a pardon, Graham stated that he
believed he had been sufficiently
punished for the crime committed
and that his parents, as well as his
family, were in need of his help.
The application was denied. The
second case was that of Eddie
Wolf, who was indicted with
Francis Mckinney in the hold-up
of the paymaster of the Delaware
Pulp Mills in Wilmington, in which
nearly $4,000 was taken, and di-
vided between Mckinney and Wolf.
It was shown that $4,000 of the
amount was recovered from Wolf
1t was pointed out that Mckinney
was the master-mind in the hold
up and that Wolf had known Nc
Kinney but a few days before the
crime was committed. A brother
of Wolf, from Marion, Ohio, was
present at the hearing ready to
take Eddie Wolf back to Ohio and
give him a job if he was pardoned.
Wolf and Mckinney were each
sentenced to 25 years imprison-
ment. This petition was also de-
MED. The third case heard by the
board was that of Francis Mccoy,
negro, serving eight years sentence
for shooting James Turner, negro,
in Dover, on Halloween night in
1927. He was indicted for first
degree murder but pleaded guilty
to manslaughter on which plea he
was sentenced. The plea was made
that Mccoy was needed at home to
help his parents who are becoming
aged. The board refused the par
don. Graham was represented by
Professor J. A. Barkley, of the
University of Delaware, who teach
es at the workhouse. Wolf was
represented by John w. Huxley,
Jr., Wilmington, and Mccoy was
represented by Max Terry, of Do
yer.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-13
Earliest Use of Horse
Probably for Warfare

In Babylonia the first domesti-
Gated horse appeared about 1000
B. G. It was introduced into Egypt
By Hyksos, or shepherd kings, who
came from the north and east of
Syria, and conquered lower Egypt
in the Seventeenth century B. @. In
both these cases it is to be noted
that the horse was preceded by
many centuries by the OK and the
ass. From these facts and few
other scraps of evidence one may
picture the first domestication of
the horse as occurring in central
Asia. Probably it was accom-
plished by people of nomadic
herdsmen to whom the convenience
of riding would be obvious Sooner
or later the mounted nOmad came
to realize the measure Of his ad-
vantage over the man who Travelled
and fought afoot, and was encour-
aged to wander far afield, conquer
ing as he went. In any case, the
horse (either as a charger or yOked
to a chariot) became in very early
times an important factor in war.
The use Of the horse for the work
aday purpose of transport and till
age is comparatively a modern de-
velopment; in Britain, for example,
oxen were the common plow ami
mails until the end of the Eighteenth
century.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-13
Choir Music Evidently
Had Grated on Pastor

Music in parish churches was
not always distinguished BY its
charms. This was partly due to
the fact that it often was wrung
from ancient instruments of the
harmOnium order and before that.
of course, by the village fiddlers
and bands armed with wind instru-
mentS.
1t was probably after suffering
severely from these that the vicar
of Ashton, so years ago, was driven
to record in the register that "On
the second Sunday after Trinity the
wind instruments in the choir hap
PLY ceased, and no instruments all
lowed but a viOloncello."
To the Puritans an organ was a
pagan instrument, and even the late
Charles Haddon Spurgeon resisted
all attempts to have one installed
in his tabernacle. He compromised
by allowing a cornet player to lead
the singing. On one of his evan
gelizing tours he and his cOrnet
player were supping with d coun-
try host, who asked, Tell me, Mr..
Spurgeon, can a cornet player be
a Christian?"
'Yes," he answered, ''he might re
main a Christian, but his next-door
neighbor cannot. London Morn
ing Post.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-13
Statesmen Not Always
Masters of Foresight

1t is curious how great things be-
fall. Chancellor Livingston, at the
time our minister to France, closed
with Napoleon's offer of the Louis
lana territory without authority
of government and to the dismay,
so one reads. of Jefferson.
In the war with Mexico, Calhoun,
who was secretary of state, sent
Nicholas z. Trist, chief clerk of
the State department and husband
of granddaughter of Jefferson, to
confer with Santa Anna about end
ing the war. Santa Anna offered
Trist the treaty Of Guadaloupe,
which gave US New Mexico, Ari-
zona, upper California, and the Rio
Grande as the southern boundary
of Texas.
He gave Trist two days to take
it or leave it. Trist lacked author
ity to accept it, but did so and car
ried it back to Washington, where
it gave great dissatisfaction and
got Trist into trouble, but it stood.
Mr.. Seward, who had a vision of
the destiny Of the United States,
bought Alaska and fairly earned
credit for that. He had imagina-
tion and large ideas. The Philip
pines we got because it was not
convenient to dodge them. They
were left on our doorstep and are
not a popular acquisition even now.
Edward S. Martin in Harper'S
Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-13
Quality in Marble

Marble which may be grained
with beautiful shadings, while it
is beautiful in appearance, in real
ity is not pure marble. The col
ored marble is that which at some
time has been fractured and during
the period of consolidation follow
ing coloring matter has made its
way into the fracture and brought
about the grain that is so desirable
in certain classes Of marble install
lations.
Black and grayish shades are due
to the presence Of carbonaceous
matter, usually flake graphite. Red,
pink or reddish-brown shades indi-
cate the presence of manganese OK
ides. Hydrous oxide Of iron ac-
counts for the yellow-brown, yellow
and creamy shades, while other col
ors, such as the blush tints, are so
far Of undetermined sources.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-13
EXPLAINS NEW MOTOR LAW
Mrs. Clara @. Raymond of Dover
Office Instructs Magistrates

Mrs. Clara C. Raymond, assist
ant director of the State Motor
Vehicle Department at Dover, has
been visiting magistrates in State
to explain the new provisions
of the State traffic and motor
vehicle laws. She particularly
stressed the new method of regis
tering commercial vehicles accord
ing to weights. The magistrates
spent all day studying the new reg
ulations and comparing them with
the old ones. Some of the out
standing new regulations are those
against hitch-hiking, against walk
ing on a road in the dark without
a f1oatlight, lantern or a white
bandage on the arm and against
stopping cars in progress to solicit
contributions or to sell merchan-
disc. Another interesting feature
of the new regulations that inter
est the magistrates a great deal is
the So fine for sending a worthless
check to the Secretary of States
office at Dover for a drivers lie
ense. This has been a serious prob
lem in the past, magistrates say.
The magistrates are also studying
with interest the extension allowed
in weights of commercial vehicles,
and in the increase of the speed
limit for 35 to 40 miles an hour
and in the extension of the permits
for persons learning to drive cars,
from 80 to so days with no refund
of fees. The new laws also forbid
any part of the bodies of passeng-
ers on cars to protrude from the
limits of the car, and forbid any
one to throw bundles from cars in
progress.