davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1931-12-24
Straight Off Tee
Y G.. STORM of the Manor Club

~ G.. STORM of the Manor Club
~. writes in to inform us that he
made a 2 on the seventh hole at
Manor, which was recorded as not hav-
ing been made in in the recent story
Of the Manor all-time record score.
Storm holed the seventh in strokes
Oh June Is, 1880, sinking a nlblick
pitch for the deuce. Your pardon, Mr..
Storm, but the score was not recorded
at the golf shop, or was overlooked.
This brings the Manor all-time record
score down to AZ.
Gene Larkin, assistant pro at Chevy
Chase. is in Philadelphia for the holl-
days and will return to washington Tor
few hours Sunday or Monday before
hopping off for Florida, where ne Will
again take over the WINTER pertn al
Lake Wales. Larkin has oeen locateo
at Lake Wales for the last two Win
ters Bob Barnett, his boss, Is at the
Indian Greek Club at Miami Beach.
JUSTICE WENDELL PHILLIPS
STAFFORD of the District Su-
preme Court, is an ardent golfer,
although not many people know II De.
cause he plays only rarely around
Washington, devoting most OF his golf
ing hours to- play on course IN YER
mont in the Summer. But justice
Stafford is not only golfer but stu
dent of golf nomenclature. He Is one
of those who hold that the term
"pterooactyl' is the proper term Tor
hole made in 3 strokes below par, and
contributes the following verse to the
elusive bird:
"Oh, the song of the pterodactyl.
oh. the ring of the putters tune.
Oh. for one Of those glorious chances,
Gone, alas, like our game, too soon"
Evening star., 1931-12-24
Alexandria Notes

ALEXANDRIA, Va, December "a
Tommy Lucas, manager of the St.
Mary's Lyceum cagers, has scheduled
game for his charges with the Silent
Five of Washington for Saturday night
at $50 o'clock in Armory Hall. The
Crusaders. local seXtette, are arrang-
| ing a preliminary.
Sigma Lambda Nu Fraternity will
| give Christmas dance tomorrow night
| ct Windsor Arms, in Arlington County.
to raise funds for the Fraters' basket
ball team.
John Watt, pilot of the Virginia Five
is booking games with unlimited basket
ball teams at Alexandria 2020-J, be-
tween $50 and $50 pm.
No. Engine Company will drill to-
night at 7:30 o'clock on Hayden Field
in preparation for its game at Baggett's
Park Sunday with Hopkins Furniture
Store.
Mary Carne, manager of the Cru
saders, is scheduling games with girls
senior sextets. She can, be reached
by phone at Alexandria 1884
Olsen's Terrible Swedes, world-fa-
nous road quint, will appear here Janu-
airy 9 in a game with the Columbia
Engine Company'S strong basket ball
team.
Evening star., 1931-12-24

TINE course without a bunker
is the course with one of
j the highest all-time record
scores yet recorded around
Washington. The layout of the
Army-Navy Country Club, lying
in a historic valley in Arlington
County, Va, down which a troop
OF Mosby'S raiders rode on a dar-
ing thrust toward the Capital dur
the Civil War, is the only golf
course around Washington which
has not a profusion of bunkers
lying around in wait for the er-
rant golf ball, and yet the course
has one Of the highest all-time
records found so far.
Which would seem to point to the
TACT that bunkers are not necessary as
adJuncts to the game which has so
many millions of folks by the ears as
1881 draws toward a close.
Par for the course of the Army-Navy
Country Club, where many of the folks
IN IN Uncle Sans military services play
their golf, is II strokes The amateur
record for the 4-year old layout is 70
strokes, made last July by Lieut.. r. w.
Meals, who scored 35 and a 81 The
| PROFESSIONAL record is SO, made by
arthur B. Thorn on November 10, 1929
on a day when ThornS putting stroke
was genius itself. The all-time record
OF 49 is % strokes below par and
strangely enough, despite the fact that
there are the regulation four l-shot
hoIeS on the course, only one ace has
/ recorded hot
seventeenth hole. The seventh, ninth
and tenth, all short holes, have not
! yet been made in one, according to the
! records OF Lionel G. Walker, profess
slonal at the service club
Here is the all-time record of the
Army-Navy Club:
No. l, 265 yards. par 4, holed in 2 by
DR.. w. I. Ogus and others.
No. 2, $40 yards, par 5, holed in by
DR.. Ogus and others.
| No. 3. $50 yards. par 4. holed in 2
! No. 4, 525 yards, par 5, never made
IN 8, but holed in many times
No. 5. 1856 yards, par 4, made in 3
many times.
No. 265 yards, par 4, made in 3
many times. but never in 2.
NO. 1 III yards, par 3, made in 2
/ No. g. 335 yards, par 4. made in 3
LIdIly LILIES.
No. 9, $50 yards, par g, made in 2.
THIS gives a score of "a strokes for
tie first nine. which is the easiest
nine of the two
/ No. 10, 1874 yards, par 8, made in 2
many times. but never in l.
! No. II, 325 yards, par a. made in 3
many times
No; u. 437 yards, par a. made in 8,
/ by Tholn and others.
No. l2, $40 yards, par 5, made in 3
seVera! times.
No. IA. 335 yards, par 4, made in 3
many times.
No. IS, 400 yards, par 5. made in 3.
No. Is, A345 yards, par 4, made in g.
No. l7,s185 yards par 8, made in /.
No. l8. 395 yards. par 4. and one Of
the hardest finishing holes anywhere.
made in g.
/ This gives a total for the last nine
/ Of 25 strokes and course total of 40,
/ 20 strokes better than Thorn's record
and % strokes below par. This record
| is IA strokes above the al-tine record
Of the Columbia course
Evening star., 1931-12-24
LOW COUNTS GROSS
@ AT ARMY-NAW
Four-Year- r-0Id Layout Devoid
Of AceS-Thorn Holds
Record With SO.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

.AHE course without a bunker
is the course with one of
j the highest al-time record
Evening star., 1931-12-24

Joe Pricci, wearing On his right foot
q bowling shoc borrowed from Ollie
Clark end on his left his regular street
mGc2a~in, was away 10 a big start
WI al. b - ice folded thereafter. His
s. Was 5J3.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
Record PaN Seen in Star Tourney 7up Course Ringer Score
Dubs Intrigued
By Pin Stakes
A SIZEABLE group of dub boWlers

A SIzEABLE group of dub bowlers
n with averages under 100 are
expected to enter John S.
Blick's annual Dub Sweepstakes,
which will be run next Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday on the
Arcadia. Columbia and Convention
Hall drives, respectively.
The event is open to both men
and women, and a large portion of
the field is expected to be COM
prised of the fair sex All pinmen
with averages under 100 are ell
gible. However, nine or more games
must have been rolled in formal
league competition this year to at
test to a boWler's ability.
The entry fee will be $3.50 plus
the cost of the games Three strings
will be rolled on each of the three
nights.
Evening star., 1931-12-24

H2h.r Smith vas anothe~ last night
Wh) failed to gct hCt Ho,iie shot 594.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
PALACE-MERCURY CLASH

Game Sunday to Decide Grid Cham
pionship of Southwest.
Palace foot ball team, 150-pound
division. Capital City League, team and
Mercury gridders. who were runners-up
in the unlimited division, will clash
Sunday afternoon at Silver Spring, at
2:3O o'clock, for the title of Southwest
Washington.
Proceeds will go toward paying ex-
year.
Mohawk Preps. 125-pound eleven, is
after a game for either Saturday or
Sunday Call Wilson, Columbia 0O92
Evening star., 1931-12-24
HIGH CUNTS IDLE

Grade School Basketers to Keep
Busy Practicing, However.
For the next week or so there will be
virtually nothing doing in the way Of
formal competition for schoolboy basket
ball squads of the District area. Public
high squads, though, will get in practice
ticks during the holidays. They can
afford little loafing now, with the title
series opening January 8.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
COLORED TEAMS PRIMED
Pleasant Plains M ohawk Game To-
morrow to Start at l O'Clock.

Pleasant Plains All-Stars and Mo-
hawk A. C. gridders are primed for their
foot ball game tomorrow afternoon at
Griffith Stadium; the proceeds of which
will go for repair of the Banneker Co.
or2d Boys Club Building.
Play. billed for the colored title of
the District and Virginia, will start a.
] O'Clock.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
Listening Post
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

n YEW YORK, December 24.-When
nj Levinsky, the kingfsh, draped
Y some overland rights on Tommy
Loughrans chin he did James
Evening star., 1931-12-24

IVA GUIDE. another Convention Hall
IL girl, started of like a house aflrc
with $50. h.gf g1mn Of the tour
nev so far for women. but she ended
with Crlv pair of eos f3- a 317 set.
Annette Matthews of the same team
made a strong comeback after games
of 88 and SO for a $40 set.
Evening star., 1931-12-24
Line-Up for Last Five Days
In Stars Bowling Tourney

MEN-4.15 Pm
Evening star., 1931-12-24

WOMEN-g.3U PM.
SO A. Bowling.
l. Bunch.
Betty Dugan.
Reva Banks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21

but symbolical, in this Yorktown Sesqui-
centennial year. of the ties that first
united the American and French peo-
pl:S. Mount Vernon is one of America s
finest types of colonial architecture. AS
the 'Maison de George Washington
Frances official title for our building
it perSonif1ed the Revolutionary War
alliance and the memories of Lafayette,
De GrasSe, Rochambeau and all the rest
of that memorable galaxy
Exposition Is Success.
I'm public addresses. in private assur-
ances, and in innumerable othsr ways,
French officials have proclaimed that
the United States has done more to
make the Exposition Coloniale Inter
rationale a success than any other
country. The exposition is an unde-
niable success. Opened only in May,
its prosperity was assured before July.
Some 100000 people a day poured
through it's gatss at Vincennes, on the
outskirts of Paris. Attendance is larg-
est at night. Through the door of the
Paris Mount Vernon more than 10000
visitors go in and out. American tour
lists flock there with the same sense of
piety with which they pay homage at
the original site on the banks of the
Potomac in Virginia. Their testimony
is universal that the showing our coun-
try is making at the exposition Is de-
lightful, dignified and impressive. The
French and other European visitors
unanimously echo that sentiment.
Thanks to the skill of our archi-
tects and builders, the "Maison de
George Washington Is almost startling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21

in its resemblance to the historic origi-
nal. Every piece of furniture and deco
ration at Mount Vernon has been mi
nutely and faithfully reproduced. That
work was mainly under the direction
of Ann Madison Washington of this
city, a kinSWoman of George Washing
ton Under her superintendent, Grand
Rapids furniture factories turned out
an interior that would deceive even
some members of the Ladies' Patriotic
Mount Vernon Association, who are in
charge of the Nations shrine here at
home.
Other Buildings Reproduced.
1.-The complex of outer buildings at
tached to the mansion Is also repro
duced at the exposition, and good use
has been made of them. Instead of at
tempting to make them an exact COPY
Except as to exterior) Of the ones at
Mount Vernon, we are utilizing them
as places for exhibits, respectively, of
the products and environments of
Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philip
pines the Virgin Islands and our
American Indian reservations. In order
not to let exposition visitors run away
with the idea that the 'Maison de
George Washington Alaskan Eskimo
huts or Indian wigwams still typify
Yankee architecture, we have nook
in which imposing models of the En-
pire State Building, the Chrysler sky
scraper and the Irving Trust Co.
mammouth are displayed. We have in
stalled an extensive collection of fac
SMILED documents that figure in
Franco-American history, including
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21

throughout the Seven Seas over which
the tri-color flies. The exposition had
yet another purpose, namely, to con-
vince Frances vast colonial population
that the world recognizes 1t as a factor
in the might and strength of the French
people.
Few Countries Represented.
That is where, in a manner OF
speaking, the United States comes into
the picture. at least from the standpoint
of French appreciation Of our presence
at the exposition. Not many other for
eign countries are represented there.
The British, perhaps with a tactful de-
sire, as the premier colonial empire, not
to oVershadow the FRI nch on their home
grounds. confined their participation to
a comparatively modest display and
building. Germany has no more col
onies to make fuss about. The Meth
erlandS, Italy, Portugal and Japan are
about the only countries left with So
called foreign dependencies with the
exception OF the United States The
French sought. above all, for a truly
representative participation by our coun-
try
There was corresponding JOY when
Congrc SIS voted $250,000 for that pur-
pose. later experimenting the appro-
priation with an additional $4,000. But
the cup of French satisfaction was set
to overlooking when it was decided that
the physical form of our participation
should be reproduction of Mount Yer
non. The choice struck the French as
being particularly appropriate not only
to the colonial motif Of the exposition,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21
u. S. STRENGTHENING FRENCH
TIES AT COLONIAL EXPOSITION
C. Bascom SIemp Reports
American Success to State
Department.
"Maison de George Washing
ton" Draws Appreciation
From Sponsors, He Says.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Political economic and social rela-
tons b tween France and the United
States have been strongly soliditied by
American participation in the Interna-
tional Colonial Exposition at Paris.
That is the burden OF personal report
just submitted to the State Department
in Washington by C. Bascom Slemp,
Unit States commissioner general to
the exposition, who arrived here day
or two ago on a brief leave OF absence
from his Partisan duties. At moment
when chief responsibility for the eco
nomic reg neration of the world rests
upon the shoulders of France and the
United States, IS the outstanding
money powers, Mr.. Slemp thinks that
the colonial show has come along at a
critical moment
THE outside world" said Calvin
Coolidge'S former Whit House aide, lis
not fully conscious of the background
from which the French exposition
Sprang. Its basic purpose Is to turn
the international spotlight on the fact
that France is now one of the great
colonial empires. 1t is desired to en-
phasize that the French are nation Of
1l5,000,000 souls, consisting of 45.000,000
people in France end 100000 others
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21
Washington Watched Weather.

Keeping weather record appears to
exercise special fascination for many
people and was pursued as a hobby
long before the days of organized me-
teorology. The earliest daily weather
journal now eXtant is one that was kept
by the Rev. William Merle in England
during the years l334-1337.
George Washington kept detailed
account of the weather, along with
the happenings of the day, his agricul-
tural and other experiments. and a
record of his guests. in his Diary" His
attention to the weather was most par
ticular, and when away, he would have
record kept and on his return would
incorporate it in his book 1t Is be-
leved that his purpose in keeping this
weather record was to draw conclusions
as to the best time for planting crops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21
MEXICO RAPIDLY
ROUTING |LL|TERACY
Book Learning Fad and
. Teaching Are of Popu-
: lar Professions.

= MEXICO CITY-Mexico is waging
"a winning war against illiteracy. Book
learning has become a fad, and school
.steaching one of the republics most
popular professions. The Mexican
masses of today have a much better
acquaintance with the three RS than
they had yesterday. More youngsters
,are now going TO school, the old folk
delight in sitting side by side with their
children, and even grandchildren, in
the class rooms. working men and
women are eager to attend night school,
and the buck privateS of the army are
proud to be seen with scholastic phara-
phernilia under their arms.
The growth of elementary education
in Mexico during the past half decade
Is revealed by figures compiled by the
Bureau of National Statistics. These
data show that the republic had only
< pools school teachers in 1925, but that
nm 1929 there were 42,310 pedeagogues
spreading learning.
~, Distribution of Teachers.
OF this latter number 2l,l82 taught
in schools maintained by State and
municipal governments, 1872 in fed
eral government schools and 6,336 in
private institutions. In that year the
pupils numbered 1862, 371-slightly
more than 10 per cent of Mexico's
population-and schools, 1912, of
which states and municipalities con-
Quoted 9.228, the federal government,
5.S2J, and private interests 3,l49
Radio has become a prominent fac
tor in Ne%icoS rural school system.
Practically every country school house
has a receiving set. Even primary
seats of learning in villages eight days
horseback ride from the nearest rail-
road station have this equipment
Wireless has dramatized schooling for
the country folk, 1t is lot of fun for
them to gather about the village
sschoolmaSter or mistress and listen to
their Interpretation of the broadcast
lesson that the ministry of public edu
cation gives daily from its big stations
in Mexico City.
= Radio has made each town school
house a social center. for besides book
learning the ministrys breakfasts in
clude musical programs, lectures on
domestic science, dressmaking, etc,
and folk tales for young and old.
Embraces English Study.
This craze for education has en-
/. braced the study of English. The
greatest of Nordic tongues has become
d
& English is being taught and studied
= everywhere All MeXicans of culture
know English well. Many natives of
the republic who have never been out
of the country speak and know that
tongue very well indeed.
Several Americans and BritiSherS
are making good living teaching their
native language to Mexicans. Such
words and phrases as All right"
20. X" Sure" and kid" are part
of the everyday vocabulary of numer
Z Gus MeXicans. 1t is not uncommon to
find Office girl employees reading Eng
lish language newspapers. magazines,
or books in street cars. In off hours
mattresses may be found porting over
English grammars and dictionaries.
And there are newsboys who can make
themselves understood in the idiom Of
the United States and of the British
Empire
Copyright, 1881, by New York Sun Foreign
Service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21

If you're interested in the price of tires read this
advertisement
Never in history has tire mileage been priced so low
AT amazingly low figures you can get rid of the
hazard and worry of threadbare tires and yourself
for carefree driving for long, long time.
Goodyear Pathhnders sturdy Supertwist balloons
made to Goodyear standards, backed by Goodyears
reputation.
Just run your eye over these values:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21
House Is All Front.

In Leinster Gardens, London, there
is five-story house complete with
front door. windows, and balconies. but
only five feet thick from front to back
and possessing no keyhole, doorbell, let
ter-box, or inhabitants.
Here Is the story of this queer house
that isn't house at all. Many years
ago the Underground Railway built a
line through Leinster Gardens, one of
London's most dignif1ed residential
quarters. The inhabitants Of the Gar
dens protested violently against the
hideousness of an open culvert at the
mouth of the tunnel beneath them. So
the railway people covered it up by
building dummy house. From the
railway track it is simply blank wall;
from the Gardens it looks like q well
built house, complete in every detail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21
SUCCESSFUL NOVELIST
INSISTS HE is POET
Pierre Benoit, Recently Elected to
French Academy, Has
Many Best Sellers.

PARIS.-Although he has just been
elected to the French Academy and
although his books have brought him
large sums, Pierre Benoit is not happy.
He insists that he is a poet, in spite of
the fact that all his best sellers have
been novels and that it was as a novel;
ast that he was made an Aoademician.
In France today poems are somewhat
of drug in the market and few pub
fishers will consider them unless pub
LEGATION is at the expense of the poet.
In order to publish his first collection
of poems-he has issued two-PieYre
Benoit wrote novel It sold well. So
he wrote another, and so on, until now
his list runs to score But he insists
that he is a poet and nothing else.
(Copyright, 1881. by New Yerk Sun
Foreign Service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21

Louis ks proclamation recognizing the
American Republic.
THE exposition will close its gates on
November l. BY that time roundly
100000 or 100000 visitors will
have clicked through its turnstiles. The
French invested 100000 900 francs in
creating the plant. They have every
reason already to reckon that from
very standpoint it will turn out to have
been a magnificent investment. The re-
turn in American good will alone, they
feel, was worth 1t ALL"
(CopyriRht, 1872
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21
BRITISH PAY 100000
YEARLY MOTOR FINES
Type Of Lawbreaking on Increase
With Only 5000, 900 Autos
on Hi1hways

LONDON.-With fewer than 3,o00,-
600 motor vehicles on the roads Of
Great Britain today the chancellor of
the exchequer can still reckon upon a
steady income Of more than 81 1000, 900
in fines from lawbreaking motorists in
the course Of year. In fact, this type
Of lawbreaking Is on the increase. As
compared with 1929, the number of
cases Of reckless and dangerous driving
in 1880 had increased by $500. Again,
the total of offenseS committed In 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21

was 290,511, compared with 332,575 last
year.
OF last years 70 sentences for i'm
prisonment Sc were imposed for drunk
enness in charge of motor
More than a third Of all offenses
were committed in the metropolitan po-
lice area of London. But it must be
remembered that in this area is the
greatest percentage of motor vehicles.
Copyright, 1881. By New York Sun
Foreign ServiceD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21

Rumanian lumber dealers are protest.
Ing because Russian lumber Is being i'm
ported into Rumania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-21

resident in Algeria, Tunis, the French
Kongo Madagascar, West Africa, 1ndo-
China, Dahomey. Somaliland, the
French Sudan. Guadeloupe, New Hebri-
DIES, Guiana, Martinique and other areas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
.DorothyDir
Are You
Adapted
TO
Marriage?
Urges
Test
to Find
Out

TN some the colleges
gineeng or oe yhar aS'a they is
trying Vany to 1T themselves
@ Tb rS thew have no talent
to
All of us know so many intelligent
r Which tbey Sye no e Singers
M Dumb Business 5 men who v nsT see oa ed an p
John to be because the 16nsS Ha sS mao nave
she thought would be perfectly gsn to nave s9r
instead Of as she
Certainly will humanity millions
bitter and the soog 1arre
death because there food it
pity students tested for their M
nss; % Gvs p Be Ps fOr sp d for G holy estate
The thing that chiefly
husbands wives and mat
they make Of the calling They
always amatuh jacg sort Of job that viii never give any
may virtues They DO their
husband wife they not adapted
could dndth outbs marriage
there
the ughtwad man whose only passion IRE Is Ior ne man VINO
anything should Nor SHOULD the selfish Nor should
settle and be a hreside companion
thrill
the sS OF p1 nd PaR To @ soaG refrain t
happiness and digestion into her Roepg Nor shOiS any woman
being merely a wife and mother.
marry adaptable
a n Sh snd h5 s96 sd ' not Wiling @ Ss f
along with herb ub
Above ALL marry loving sunny
position the temperament the
prospective bridegroom bride test they
-