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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-22

By H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright, 1884, BY International News
Service, Reproduction In whole Of part
strictly fOrbidden.)
BERLIN, Oct. % Q.N.S0.
More than 300,0O0,Oo0 Europeans
today are marching In lock-step.
In the Soviet Union 165 ZOO, 900
march under the red flag of
BolShevism. In Italy $4,000, 900
march under the black banner of
Fascism. In Germany 65,000,000
march under the hooked cross of
National Socialism.
For Better or Worse
America is still free. Her
workers are still free. But workers
are the propaganda target for
every dictatorship in the making.
Workmen Of Germany, Italy and
Russia know that now. How are
they faring today under national
socialism, fascism, bolShevism?
Are they better off because they
scorned democracy or had it taken
from them? Have they more to
eat or wear, and better houses to
live in? Is their work easier, more
plentiful? Have they more to say,
or anything to say about their
own fate?
In a word, would an American
workman want to exchange Amer.
lean democracy for German ma.
tional socialism, Italian fascism
or Russian bolshevism if he were
in a position to know accurately
how workmen in these countries
live?
Some leading men of Europe
consider that the answers to these
questions are more important even
than the answer to that black
query, will there be WARP"
Last Stand Seen Here
Eduard Benesch, aStute foreign
minister of Czechoslovakia, one Of
the last surviving democracies IN
Central Europe, told your CORE.
spondent:
ut Is more important to know
whether democracy can be pre-
served than - know whether
war will come, because war will
come anyway If democracy goes,
and If war came first the loss
Of democracy would be its most
probable and certainly its most
faGefuI cOnSeuuence
Until July Of this year the die
tators Of Europe could argue that
war would be more easy to avoid
if the peoples of Europe would
place themselves unanimously
under dictatorS. Sir Oswald Mos
ley, boss Of the British Black
shirts, gave your correspondent the
argument that a dictator can do
more to keep the peace than a Re-
publican statesman, because
dictator does not have to take ITO
account the turbulent spirit Of his
people.
Test DiSrupts Theory
This went down well, and even
Democrats could imagine Hitler
and Mussolini coming together
like general managers Of two rival
trusts, to reach an agreement I'm
restraint of trade" or in restraint
of war. Then they did come to.
gether, at Venice, in a historical
moment, amid pageantry befit-
ting the occasion.
They did reach an agreement.
Hitler did promise Mussolini to
respect the independence Of Aus
tria, to call off the Nazi terror in
Austria and thus prevent war.
Only thereafter did the whole
theory Of peace-making among
dictators collapse. The Nazi die.
tator could not keep his promise.
From the very date Of the Venice
the Nazi terror in Aus
Evening star., 1934-05-23
FEW MARKS SAFE
IN A. A. j. GAMES
Records for All Events Ex-
cept Shotput and Pole
Vault Predicted.
7 INDICATIONS are there will
he considerable record break

ii
be considerable record break
ing in the annual District
A. A. u. championship track
and field meet a week from to-
day in the Catholic University
Stadium.
It appears the shotput and the pole
vault are just about the only marks
sure to survive. Lauer Of Catholic
University holds the record for the
former. Al feet 8A inches. and Fred
eric of the Washington Track and
Field Club the mark for the latter.
II feet 6 inches.
Earl Widmyer, University of Mary
lands sprint ace. is expected to break
his 100-meter record of II seconds.
He Is to run the event in about 1925
seconds. What competition Widmyer
will have will, it is believed, come
from his teammates, Quinn and Ryan.
the Old Line freshman, who is unde-
teated. Layne of Gallaudet may sur
prise in this race.
In the 200 meters the record of 2225
seconds, held by Red Quinn of Mary
land, also will more than likely 60 by
the boards, especially If Evans of
Maryland elects to run the furlong
distance as well as the 400 meters.
Evans helds the record for the 400,
at 494s seconds, along with McGuigan
of C. u. A fine fight looms in the 400
between Evans and Al Reichman of
Duke, Washington boy, who attend
ed Tech High. Reichman defeated
Evans In the recent Southern Con-
ference championships, but Evans
beat him in the District A. A. U. meet
last season.
Evening star., 1934-05-23

will be available for the runners
at first-aid stations along the way
June 8. Tea also will be abun-
dant. Tea is one of the few
articles of diet that won't nause-
ate runner.
Arthur Dewhurst of the Y. M. G.
A., District champ. Is being
touted as q formidable contender
to dethrone the national title
holder, Dave Komonen. His recent
workouts has shown him to be in
Al fettle.
A. L. Monteverde, 64-year-old
entrant in The Stars race, Is In
dependently wealthy, following 40
years of repairing old manu-
scripts and binding books and
documents. Monteverde Is presi-
dent of the International Mara
thoners' Association. His 8-year-
old son, Jack, likes to gallop. too.
Last year Mel Porter, who ran
Evening star., 1934-05-23
Lee, 1888 Champ, Tops Field
In Twelfth Street 's.Y" Race

= = FADED by Edgar Lee. winner
of the event last year, a high
class field looms for the fifth
i i annual Twelfth Street Y. M.
C. A. three-and-a-half mile
run Saturday afternoon. The start
will be in front Of the Twelfth Street
Y at o'clock
Among runners Of proved ability
who have entered, in addition to Lee,
are Rozelle of the Sharp Community
House of Baltimore, Garcia Badin OF
the Staunton High School Alumni As
ISOLATION Of Annapolis, Sutler Of How
ard University, johnson Of Morgan,
Bellfield of Miner Teachers College
and Patton. Smith, Wagner and Ellis
of the Twelfth Street Y.
Sharp Street Community House,
winner of the team title last year, is
favored to repeat, but is expected to
get stout opposition from the Twelfth
Street Y group. which is rated much
stronger than year ago.
To the winner of the race will go
the John T. Rhines' trophy. The
Twelfth Street Y will award cup to
the victorious team and medals to the
first 10 runners to finish. Entries will
be received until Saturday morning at
the Twelfth Street Y.
The course for the run follows:
Start in front of the Twelfth Street
Y. NJ c. A., north on Twelfth street
to Florida avenue; east on Florida
avenue to Eleventh street; north on
Eleventh street to Fsirmont street;
east on Fairmont street to Georgia
avenue; south on Georgia avenue to
Fairmont street: east on Fairmont
street to Sixth street; south on Sixth
street to Howard place; turn east
through University grounds to Fourth
Evening star., 1934-05-23
EIGHT U. S. METERS
IN FRENCH TOURNEY
Hines and Culley Only Men, but
Helen Jacobs Leads Entry
of Five Women.

BY the Associated Press.
DARIS, May 23.-The first big ten
i mis- fixture Of the season, the
French hard-court champion
ships, opened today in Roland Garros
Stadium, with cosmopolitan entry
list which included eight Americans.
Two former collegians, Wilmer
Hines of Columbia, S. c., and Henry
Culley of Santa Barbara, Calf, were
the only United States standard bear
ers in the mems division and did not
figure to menace the leaders, but
there was a definite overseas threat
for the women's singles and doubles
titles.
All five members of the Wightman
Cup team-Capt Helen Jacobs, United
States champion; Josephine Cruick-
shank, Alice Marble. Carolin Babcock
and Sarah Palfrey - and Dorothy
Andrus of Stamford, Conn, were en-
tered.
Miss Jacobs, who reached the semi
finals last year before losing to Nine
Rene Matthew, was seeded second in
women's singles behind the defending
champion, Margaret Scriven of Eng
land
Evening star., 1934-05-23
My Best Golf Shot-Tommy armour

BY TOMMY ARMOUR.
(Written for the Associated Press

~HICAGO, May 23.-There Is
4 a little spot in my golf
shop at Medinah Country
~ Club that I always pass
with my head down. I
do not know whether 1t Is through
cowardice or sentiment.
In that cubbyhole stand my war
clubs of other days, and as pass
them they seem to call me IN a
pleading voice, asking me the rea-
son for my neglect. ! sometimes
stop and feel them, but am al
ways forced to put them back be-
side their brothers.
Undoubtedly, in the days of hick-
ory shafts, the love and affection
held for our heterogeneous collec-
tions of implements was many
times greater than that We feel for
our present-day highly manicured
pieces of golf merchandise.
That's how it strikes me. In the
old days they were golf clubs-now
they are golf merchandise.
In the hickory club days, clubs
were collected at random. A beau
tiful club might repose in the bag
of some hundred-shoote and we
would, with subtle salesmanship or
by making derogatory remarks
about the club, ultimately receive
it as a gift, buy 1t or steal 1t.
BY these methods it was noth-
ing for a leading player to amass
a collection of 100 or more golf
clubs. The heads would be twisted
in the wise and the shafts replaced
a dozen times, and then we might
ultimately find one good club out
Of 20. There was one fine club in
every players bag,@ club that was
the players bread-winner and pet.
Alas! those days are gone. Now
We have 20 or more beautifully
balanced clubs. Golf club senti-
ment has gone. The mechanical
age Is here.
1t was an old, rusty battered relic
of by-gone days that did more for
me than any other one inanimate
thing in my life. 1t won the
American open for me, changed my
whole life and made 1t possible for
me to become financially inde-
pendent.
I pulled it out of the cubbyhole
the other day and was reminded
of the day 1t came through for me
when I'VE" played the iron shot to
Evening star., 1934-05-23

street: turn north and around south
end of Reservoir to First street; south
on First street to w street; west on
w street to Second street; north on
Second street to Bryant street; west
on Bryant street Fourth street;
south on Fourth street to w
street; west on w street to Sixth
street; north on Sixth street to
Trumbull street; west on Trumbull
street to Georgia avenue; north on
Georgia avenue to Barry place; west
on Barry place to Florida avenue;
west on Florida avenue to Twelfth
street; south on Twelfth street to
Twelfth Street Y. NJ. G. A.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
NEW COACHES FOR DUKE

DURHAM, N. c., May 23.-Thomas
Rogers and Horace Hendrickson, star
end and quarterback, respectively, on
Dukes great 1888 foot ball team, have
been named assistant freshman
coaches at the institution.
They will succeed Freddie Sington,
freshman line mentor since 1881, who
has decided to give up coaching in
order to devote all his time to
base ball.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
BY ROD THOMAS.

- LARENCE DE MAR, per-
haps the most famous
marathon runner, couldn't
~ compete with your up-to-
date distance stars even If
IN his prime, according to the Rev.
Carlos M. Whitlock of Framing
ham, Mass, prosi ctive entrant
in The Evening Star race of
June 8.
According to this Presbyterian
minister athlete, the technique of
the game has changed for the
better.
To-day" says he, speed and
correct stride have become factors
Of equal Importance with en-
durance."
Having studied the styles of
winning runners. both as compe-
itor and observer, he has reached
the conclusion that the flat-footed
running style used by De Mar and
Evening star., 1934-05-23

brook Club of Philadelphia, who
won the recent 15l2-nile silver
jubilee race conducted by the Pat
erson Evening News A. A. at
Paterson, N. j., will compete here.
Charley Welch, who, with
Johnny Kelley and Bill Molloy
won the team prize for the North
Medford Club in the Boston con-
test, is a tentative entrant in The
Stars run.
Chicago, we hear from Jack
Nisberg, vice president of the Ma
tional A. A. U. Long-Distance
Running Committee, plans to be
more strongly represented than
last year. August Sloboda, Willis
Dreyer and Bill Mihalo have car
ried the Chicago standard with
credit.
More than so dozen sliced
oranges and four dozen lemons
Evening star., 1934-05-23
YANKEES POTENT
IN BRITISH GOLF
Seven Left in Running as
Third Day of Amateur
Tourney Began.
BY GAYLE TALBOT.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

DRESTWICK. Scotland. May
- 23.-W. Lawson Little,
husky 23-year-old young
L Ster from San Francisco,
led the American contingent of
on the third day of firing in the
British amateur golf champion
ship today.
Encased in a heavy sweater for pro-
lection against a biting wind, Little
teed of early this morning in his
second-round match against Lester
Rankin of Sunningdale. Little, like
his Walker Cup teammate, Johnny
Goodman of Omaha, American open
champion, was round behind most
of the field. Both were slated to
play third-round matches this after
noon in the event of victory this
morning.
Goodman's second-round rival was
Capt. G. A. Rusk of the Royal and
Ancient Club of San Francisco.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
VIRGINIA PICKS EVERETT
D. C. Boy Is Named Track Cap
tain-Rohman Leads Netmen.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. May %
R.-Grover w. Everett, product Of
Eastern High School of washington,
hurdler and broad jumper, has been
elected captain of the Virginia track
team for next season. He led the
scoring in every meet Virginia par
ticipated in this season.
Everett also won the 100-meter
high hurdle event of the Penn re-
lays. He holds conference cham
pionship titles in both hurdles events.
Carl Rohman of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was elected captain of the tennis
team. He is singles champion of the
conference.
Major sports letters were awarded
Rohman, and to retiring Tennis Capt.
Donald Morrison.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
other stars Of past years is obso-

"De Mar, even in his prime"
says the Rev. Whitlock, could not
keep up with Komonen or Paw
son, winners Of the last two Boston
marathons, or other present-day
stars who run oll the balls of their
feet. When Pawson runs he seems
to be way up on his toes every
minute"
The Framingham minister -ath-
lete has been a runner since child
hood. He Is 80 years old, married
and the father of two children.
Eddie Richardson of -Roxbury,
Mass, who walked the soles from
his shoes to get here for last years
marthon, Is coming again, along
with Bill Lanigan, a fellow MEM
ber of the Canadian-American
Club.
Robert Willouer Of the Meadow
Evening star., 1934-05-23
CENTRAL is NET CHAMP

Central Highs racqueters locked
UP the public high tennis champion
ship when they scored over Roose-
velt's team yesterday, winning all five
singles match and defaulting the two
scheduled doubles.
Centrsl also won the net crown last
year.
Summaries:
Yeomans defeated Dennison. 6-1. 60;
Root defeated Thompson, 81. 81:
Adair defeated Finckel e., default;
Brown defeated Oakley, 6-3. 60; Su-
rine defeated Chaconas. Go, Go.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
ONLY I ON SQUAD,
BUT ALL ARE ACES
Figures to Get 35 or More
Points, Which Coaches
Agree Are Plenty.
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n TEw YORK, May 23.-East-
M ern college track coaches,
" scanning their dope
" sheets" today, agree it
will take some extraordinary
performances to stop Stanford's
small but powerful squad from
carrying the classic I. c. A. A.
A. A. track and field trophy back
to the Pacific Coast again on
Saturday at Franklin Field,
Philadelphia.
I'VE have at least three better
than-average Eastern teams this year
in Yale, Cornell and Harvard" de-
clared one prominent coach polled,
but none appears to have sufficient
outstanding athletes-and by that I
mean sure first or second place men
to win the meet.
Six of Stanford's seven entries by
comparison, are 1-2 performers. Since
three Of them, Lyman. Dunn and
Klopstock, will double up. it is easy
to figure Dink Templeton's team will
score from 35 to 40 points. This will
be more than sufficient to win"
Evening star., 1934-05-23
CHOCOLATE, PAUL DRAW.

LOS ANGELES. May 20 LP.-Kid
Chocolate, former featherweight
champion of the world, met another
ex-title holder in this class last night,
Tommy Paul, Buffalo, N. Y, and went
through a dull 10-round bout to a
draw. Chocolate weighed 1913, two
pounds less than Paul.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
Ellis Sure in Two Events.

Z TALES chances, the consensus IN
I dicates, depend on whether the
two low hurdlers, Dunbar and
Pierson. and the two hammer tossers.
Holcombe and Aaron, get well up in
the final placing. The sure points"
for the Ellis are counted in the pole
vault and the 400-meter run, with a
few others scattered.
Cornell's points are harder to fig
ure because the Ithacans rely chiefly
upon foot racers and hurdlers. The
team has five hurdlers, including
Walter Merwin, the I. c. A. A. A. A.
indoor champion. and if only two or
three come through with top perform
ances, the complexion of the meet
will be distinctly altered in the big
Reds favor.
On the fiat. there is Capt. Dick
Hardy, 100-meter champion; Bob
Kane, who has the speed to run 1-2
in both the 200 and 400 meters; Paul
Vipond, in the l,500, and Bruce Kerr,
possible winner in the 5000. Kane,
however, may not be asked to double
up because of an old leg injury.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
INDIVIDUAL BIDS
NEEDED TO PLAY
Entry for Event Usually Is
Heavy-Three Qualifying
Days Probable.
BY WALTER r.. MccALLuM.

BY WALLER n. mcCALLUm.
~ IDS are to be sent out
x within a few days for
Washington's largest
amateur golf tournament
the invitation golf affair of
the Columbia Country Club for
the Wardman Trophy.
Other invitation tournaments are
held about Washington - many Of
them each year-but annually the
entry list Of the Columbia event over
tops all the others In the number of
entries, If not in the class Of the field
entered.
Three years ago, when the last of
the series Of tournaments for the
Wardman Trophy was played, the club
had 536 entries-the largest list ever
to enter an invitation event in this
part of the land.
The tourney this year will be con-
Quoted on a strictly invitation basis
with only those who have personal in
vitations being permitted to play. Two
days have been set aside for the quail
flying round, the days of June IL and
13, with q probability that If the en-
try list goes far above 400, a third
day-June 1l-also may be used to
take care Of the qualifiers.
Columbia's last invitation tourney
was b.sS In 1881. In 1882 the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association champion
ship was played over the course and
last year the tourney was not held.
Ruxv Week Precede<
THE week before the Columbia in
vitation is due to be one Of the
buster weeks along the golf
front, for in addition to the national
open championship, slated for June
7. 8 and 9 at the Merton Cricket Club
near Philadelphia, two events of more
than passing interest to both women
and men golfers will be played.
The high spot Of that week, from
the local amateur standpoint, will be
the invitation tourney of the Beaver
Dam Country Club, first Of series
of such events to be staged at the
Landover Club. Over at Baltimore
many of the better players among the
feminine stars OF Washington will
gather at the Elkridge Hunt Club to
compete for the Maryland vomen's
championship.
Mrs. Betty P. Meckley of Indian
Spring, Mrs. Roland r. Mackenzie
and Mrs. Jack Scott Of Congressional,
and possibly Miss Helen Dettweiler,
also of Congressional, will be among
the favored entries in that tourna-
ment. The Maryland women's cham
pionship precedes by only two weeks
the District women's title event, slat-
ed to start at Columbia on June l8.
Golf is having busy season along
the local front. Even in the days
before the late depression there was
not such varied and involved compe-
tition as there is these days. And the
end is not in sight. 1t will keep on
until well into July. when the Middle
Atlantic championship winds up the
Summer procession with its tourney
at Hot Springs, Va, the last week in
that month.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
CUBS LIKE FARM IDEA
Matching Cards and Yankees In
Fostering Chain Systems.

The Chicago Cubs are going to
match the st. Louis Cardinals and
New York Yankees in base ball farms
The Cubs now own class IA, B and D
teams and are in the market for class
A and C franchises
Not every major league owner can
afford such extensive farms but
sooner or later all of them will be
obliged to maintain some sort OF
chain system for the development OF
young players.
The Cardinals and Yankees have
proven the worth of chain store base
ball.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
Harvard Strong in Discus.

TTARVARD'S hopes are pinned
II largely on two topnotch discus
throwers, John Dean and John
Healey. Should they pick up or 8
points, despite Stanford opposition,
Crimson "dopesters" figure there Is
enough scattered strength on the
squad otherwise to make the team
battle a four -cornered affair
AS usual, Eastern teams will "cut
their own throats" despite common
desire to regain the big trophy from
the Far West, where it has been taken
for u of the past l3 years. In other
words, individual stars of several East
ern colleges will likely cut down the
point-scoring possibilities of the big
ger teams like Yale, Cornell, Harvard
and New York University.
Princeton is not going anywhere so
far as the team prize is concerned, but
Bill Bonthron is expected to run the
300 and 1900 meter fields dizzy.
Rhode Islands hammer-tossing ace,
Dreyer, may upset Yale's pair. Bow
doin's star hurdler Good, and Bos-
ton Colleges sprinter, McManus, are
others who may cut into the point
scoring scramble at Cornell's expense.
Evening star., 1934-05-23

matically gripped II firmly In the
roots of the fingers of my left
hand. Just as automatically, I was
slow at the top of my back-swing.
That iron knew the path from the
inside and it prayed for me to let
it, together with my hands, do the
work, and not my body.
am afraid my generally unemo-
tional soul felt a great pang of re-
morse as I replaced it in the cub
byhole with its brothers.
Evening star., 1934-05-23
How Americans Fared.

now AmcEtcdhS aAca'
~ ESULTS Of matches yesterday IN
K which Americans figured were as
follows:
fested Francis ouimet, United States.
johnny Fischer. United States. de,
feated Graham Patrick. Britain, ana g.
Jesse Guilford. United States, de-
feated r. A Howell. Britain. 2 and l.
Ter Eean, Omitted States, 3 and g. d.
Jack Westland, United states, oe-
feated Robert Harris. Britain L up
= A. hVssS' w. Breault. United states. defeated
s. Hamilton Gibbs, Britain. and 4
from S. J. chssterton, Britain. 6y default.
A. ]. Peech, Britain. defeated X; u
Van Arsdale. United States. ana =:
". Lawson Little: United states; nd oe-
George 7. Dunlap: jr.. United states States
defeated G. P. Packenham Walsh. Britain
b. II. r. Martin. Britain, defeated Max
Marston. United States, 3 and ].
Douglas Grant, United States ana
Britain, defeated w. W. Sharpe. Britain,
4 and 3.