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Mccarthy May Lose Job Yankees Flop in Race This Year
and

Frank Crosetti was given a SCAT on
the bench to permit the kids to
show their stuff, but the Coast
italian was hurriedly rushed into
the fray when the kids fell down.
Jack Saltzgayer was hauled back
from Newark to help out.
When the Yankees win by a lop-
sided score, it is not news. But
when they are shut out and held
TO one puny hit it is something
else. Earl Whitehill's feat in keep
ing them hitless for eight and one
third innings lent substance to
Bucky Harris statement that left
handlers are poison to the Yank
wrecking crew. From now on one
can expect rival southpaws TO be
a steady diet. for the Yanks. Moth
ing delights the other teams so
much as when they beat the
Yanks. They are good attractions
on the road and doubly so when
the home team hands them .
drubbing.
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the American Association until
Jake Rupert decided he was far
too valuable for the minors. Nc
Carthy was assigned to put some
life in the Yankees and they moved
UP two notches the first year he
took them over. In 1882 the
Yankees won the pennant and
faced McCarthy's old team in the
world series. They throttled the
Cubs in four straight games.
Last year the Washington Sem
ators were too good for the rest of
the league, the Yanks IN particu-
lar, and Mccarthy set out to mend
his fences and turn the tables this
year. In April the Yanks threw
plenty of dust into the eyes Of the
opposition. But the Western clubs
showed fight and changed the en-
tire complexion of the pennant
!. race.
Mccarthy placed much conf
dence In a young pair of infielders,
Red Rolfe and DON Heffner.
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Cameras Best Chance.

CARNERA'S best chance is to keep
u away from Baer for the first
five or six rounds. If he can
travel that far without being belted
on some vulnerable spot, he should
be on his way to win.
1t seems incredible that he should
suddenly discover punch with
enough power to knock Baer out, un-
less the Californian tires down the
stretch.
Camera must fall back on his left
hand.
I've studied this stuff pretty WE'LL"
Baer said. He has one fairly dan
gerous range-and that is about Is
inches away-there in the uppercut
zone. He hasn't anything at close
range and further away he has only
a left jab that can't do any damage,
so far as Furnishing blow is con-
cerned."
1t might be recalled that Baer is no
dumb cluck in the ring. He knows
what 1t is all about-uses his head
well-and is alert to take advantage
of every chance.
He won't appear as clever as the
champion, but he Is more of a natural
fighter and this can mean lot In any
championship turn. No one knows
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Training Camp Angles.


X/OU get very little help in any
i guessing contest from a train
ing camp.
Two of the worst training camp
performers were Benny Leonard and
Mickey Walker.
I recall going to Stroudsburg in
1926 with Leo Deigel and Johnny
Farrell, two Tunney supporters. They
came away in a daze. Gene was all
out of gear-apparently easy to hit
showing little in any given direction.
He was an entirely different Tun-
ney when the war opened.
1t might be said here that neither
champion nor challenger is another
Tunney nor another Dempsey.
So far as Baer is concerned, he has
been working hard enough in the last
few weeks. His main trouble was
some or 10 months of ring idleness,
night life and the primrose highway.
The point has been made that the
same thing had no harmful effect on
Harry Greb The only difference is
that Greb kept on fighting-sometimes
twice a week
Any long rest given set of muscles
demands extra time to get them
trained and ready again. They don't
come back in few days or few
weeks.
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Baer happens to have youth and
natural strength. He has a native
ruggedness to fall back on. But he
can't be the Baer he might have been
If he had put at least two good battles
under his belt and had kept in light
training after the Schmeling show. In
that case believe he would have been
safe and sure pick.
After talking to him, don't believe
Baer quite realized his position until
he came through the first week at
Asbury Park. 1t was at this point he
suddenly realized the ground he had
lost, wishing more than once that he
had taken a different course.
AS Hughey Keogh once put TIT
Is better to train today than wait for
tomorrow to be outclassed." This Is a
line every type Of competitor should
read every day. It might save q mas
sive amount Of vain regrets. There
certainly is less to regret when one Is
ready with everything he has to shoot.
(Copyright. 1884. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncD
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NAME TIGER STARS
FOR BRITISH JAUNT
Cornell Also Will Send Eleven
Men to Vie Against Oxford
Cambridge on Track.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PRINCETON, N. j., June H.
/ Twenty-Five trackmen, II each
from Princeton and Cornell. will
sail for England July to meet the
combined Oxford track
team in London July 81.
The Nassau entrants. announced
yesterday, are headed by Capt. Bill
Bonthron, whose world record break
ing mile against Jack Lovelock of OK
ford featured the 1888 meet. which
the Americans won 8-4 here last July.
Bonthron will again meet Lovelock in
the mile, but is favored to win this
time since the Britisher suffered leg
injury last Fall.
Princeton men who will make the
trip include: Hurdles-George j. Will
lock, jr., '35, of Pittsburgh and John
T. Smithies, "a, of Chicago.
Sprints M. Curran, IT,. '35.
OF Mercersburg, Pa. Quarter miller
Warren R. Rainear, "a, of Cynwyd,
Pa. Half-mile and mile-William r.
Bonthron, "a, of Detroit. Two-mile-
Henry v. Hogan, '36, of West Orange,
N. j. Pole Vault. Alexander Nc
Williams, '35. of Dwight, Ill.
Shotput-Michael E. Berman. '35.
OF Newark. High jump-Louis- p.
WenZell, jr.. of Cynwyd, Pa. Broad
jump-William E. Fackert, jr., of
Montclair, N. j.
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B|GLEAGUE ROCKS
STARRING ON HILL
Half Dozen Yearlings Max.
ing Good in Each of
Major Circuits.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,

TINE first years the tough
test, especially for major
league pitchers, but a
4 surprisingly large number
of yearlingS appear to have
made the grade this season.
More than a dozen youngsters,
about evenly divided between the two
leagues, have shown enough stuff to
indicate their jobs are safe. Some
Of them may take their places among
base balls pitching greats before
they're through.
Most conspicuously in the limelight
recently has been Johnny Murphy.
erstwhile Fordham athlete, to whose
brilliant work in crisis the New York
Yankees owe one large vote of thanks.
Used principally in relief roles at
first, Johnny took over a starting as
signment when the Yankee staff, save
only Vernon Gomez collapsed. Since
then he has won four games and lost
only one. Gomez, in the same span,
has won three and lost one, and to-
gether they have kept the Yankees in
the race. They may get help soon, for
Johnny Broaca's three-hit game
against the Athletics last week, even
though he lost 1t, indicated the Yale
alumnus will be useful fellow.
Joe CaScarella won four in a row
for the AS to become the early sea-
son sensation. but the former Jersey
City twirler has taken four beatifgs
in succession and Connie Mack's best
- H.
Alton Benton, a Highlander from
Oklahoma City. Benton has won his
last three starts, the last a six-hitter
in which he shaded Broaca.
Newson a WorkhorSe.
Buck Newson has been a workhorse
for Rogers Hornsby's Browns. The
talkative right-hander has pitched in
13 games, allowed 85 hits in 85 in
nings and won five victories against
four defeats
Fritz Ostermueller, young Southpaw,
has rounded into form for the Boston
Red Sox, and Eldon Auker's relief
pitching has helped Mickey Coch-
rane's Detroit Tigers, now leading the
American League.
In the National League Paul Dean.
younger and less dizzy half of the
Dean brothers, has chalked up six
consecutive victories Curt Davis has
developed into a valuable member of
Jimmy Wilson's Philadelphia ensem-
BILE. wining five games and losing four
with a Seventh-place club.
The Cubs have two fine prospects
in big Jim Weaver and Bill Lee.
Weaver won two games for the St.
Louis Browns. but was turned back to
Newark because the price tag on him
was too high. The Cubs promptly
stepped in, bought him, and he has
won three games in row for them
Lee started out with two successive
shutouts. but has been getting his
bumps lately.
Ralph Birkofer, pitching his first
fun season for the Pirates. has won
six games and lost two, and Joe Bow
man has been. helpful to Bill Terry's
crippled staff.
Yesterdays major league open date
was prelude to new East-West
series, starting today. The Eastern
clubs of the National League open
their second tour of the West, while
the Western clubs of the American
League are invading the Atlantic sea-
board.
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DUTRA NOT TO PLAY
IN WESTERN OPEN
Passes Up Tourney at Doctors
0rders-Many Celebrities
in Large Field.

By the Associated Press.
%HICAGO, June 12.-Although Olin
~ Dutra, the new national open
champion, has been ordered by
his physician to pass up the event,
the Western open championship will
have a field of many of the Nations
greatest shotmakers this week at the
Peoria Country Club.
Dutra, who def1ed his doctors or
ders by competing in the big open
show at Merton last week. today said
he would not compete at Peoria.
The list of pairings issued today for
the Western open, to be played Fri
day. Saturday and Sunday over the
72-hole route, had 164 names, includ-
ing Walter Hagen, Harry Cooper.
Willie Goggin, Gus Moreland, Tommy
Armour, Al and Abe Espinosa, KY
Lafoon, Johnny Revolta, Bill Melhorn,
Horton Smith, Willie Hunter and AL
Watrous. Macdonald Smith, defend
ing champion. will not defend his
title.
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Consequently he cannot learn how
capable a man is for months at
a stretch.
Johnny Broaca got his degree at
Yale and now is a full-fledged
member of the Yanks. How well
Johnny will go is uncertain just
now The college pitcher not only
missed Spring training but was
unable to get the hard work needed
to put a big Lacquer in shape. Not
withstanding this. however, he has
started impressively.
If the Yankees do not win the
pennant- this year, the resultant
uproar may cost Mccarthy his job.
Marse Joe came up from Louis
vile to Chicago in 1926. Three
years later he led the Chicago Cubs
to the pennant, but took an awful
lambasting in the world series from
the Athletics.
Failing to repeat In 1890 at Chi
cago, Joe seemed headed back to
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Major Leaders
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
American League.
Batting-Gehringer, Tigers, .407;
Manush, Senators, 800.
Runs - Gehringer and Goslin.
Tigers, 43.
Hits-Manush. Senators, 81; Geh-
ringer. Tigers, 76.
Runs batted in-Gehrig, Yankees,
So; Bonura, White Sox, 46.
DoubleS-Averill, Indians, 20: Geh-
ringer and Greenberg, Tigers, and Ma
nush. Senators, 18.
Triples-Reynolds, Red Sox, 7; Ma
nush, Senators, 6.
Home runs-Gehrig. Yankees, and
Bonura, White Sox, Is.
Stolen bases-Werber, Red Sox, 49,;
Chapman. Yankees, and Walker.
Tigers. 10.
Pitching-Gomez, Yankees, 9-1;
Weaver, Senators, IL.
National League.
Batting-Leslie. Dodgers, 1866; Med
wick, Cardinals, 1862.
Runs-Vaughan, Pirates, At; Med
wick, Cardinals, A.
Hits-Moore, Giants, IS; Urbanski,
Braves, 70.
Runs batted in-Ott, Giants, 40;
Collins, Cardinals, 43.
Doubles-Berger, Braves, and Eng
lish, Cubs, II.
Triples-Suhr, Pirates. z; Vaughan,
Pirates; w. Herman, Cubs; Medwick,
Cardinals, and Jordan, Braves. 5.
Home runs-Ott, Giants, Is; Klein,
Cubs, IA.
Stolen bases-Martin, Cardinals, and
Maftell, Phillies, ..
Pitching-P. Dean, Cardinals, SO;
Farmhouse, Braves; J. Dean, Car
dinals, and Bush, Cubs, 81.
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never group which assayed so much
tonnage per individual.
These are big fellows" she said
'and they have big appetites. Yes
the champion is good eater. though
he can't let himself go the whole way
before a fight like this"
There is no doubt that If the heavy
weight title fight were being waged
with knives and forks at 10 PAGES the
Colossus OF Camembert would finish
in the van Max Baer, by all accounts,
is not in the big fellows class. One
of my acquaintances who watched
Primo launch an attack on a vat
of his national fodder some years ago
assures me that he is the worlds
leading menace to the spaghetti crop
I've seen him do some fair jobs my
self.
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get up there, and four other clubs
do not fear the Yankee bats.
Manager Joe Mccarthy Is be-
ginning to shed some Of his gray
hairs. His pitching suddenly went
to pieces. Red Rufhng started OF
like his old self and then faded
badly. Rus Van Alta made quite
a record in his first year In big
league base ball and was counted
upon as q starting pitcher. This
season he has made discouraging
start for a youngster with plenty
of natural ability. Johnny Allen
has been held back by Illness.
Mccarthy had to call on the
youthful Johnny Murphy, who
made good. The trials of Marse
Joe and his pitching staff may
yet work out for the best. Send
ing in relief hurlers as starting
pitchers and having them make
good is gratifying. Sometimes a
manager cannot take such risks.
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Baer's Side of Argument.

VXyHILE sentiment and public
w favor have switched to Primo
Carnera in the last few days
after Bill Browns report-there are
two factors that Baer still can fall
back upon.
He will be the puncher and he will
be the harder to hurt. He can give
it and he can take it-and these are
two highly valuable qualities-quali-
ties not to be thrown out of the win
dow as If they were junk.
There always is the argument that
the puncher must first hit his target
before it counts-but Baer's type of
leather swinging has a better chance
Of reaching Camera than a more
orthodox style would carry.
Carnera is no floating shadow in
the ring. He is fast and active for
mammoth, but he isn't at all that
baffling.
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6A VIC AlO oAAOAo 4OA
the Nationals on the score
of physical strength
L should they fail to make
headway in the stretch of 81
games that was to begin un-
reeling in Griffith Stadium this
afternoon.
For the first time this season
the entire cast of the Washing
ton ball club was to be available
for service-Luke Sewell, Walter
Stewart and all.
Sewell, idle since the index finger
of his right hand was knocked out of
shape in an exhibition game in
March, at last believes he is ready to
return to his position behind the bat
and was expected to be there this
afternoon in the opener of the four
game series with the White Sox.
Stewart, though still slightly af-
fected by disordered facial nerve,
was to be out in uniform prepared to
step to the pitching hill if an emer-
gency demanded and confident he
would be ready to take his regular
mound turn in another two or three
days.
Every one else is as hale and hardy
as usual so far as the physical being
is concerned. It's the mental attitude
that must be looked after. Their set
back in Boston recently made the Ma
tionals somewhat gloomy Even Joe
Cronin. their ordinarily exuberant
young manager.
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Harmony in 3 Languages.

nut there was no intention to in
n troduce this note of Grass ma
terialism into an essay on the
harmony of the life in Primo's camp.
The harmony is pretty to watch.
Only once was there any reason to
suspect a lack of complete mutual
confidence and trust among the boys.
That was when Signor Soresi, ad-
viSing Primo of the number of rounds
he would fight with each sparring
partner, lapsed into the French
tongue.
"Deux chacun," said Signor Soresi
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\ OMPTON LAKES, N. j.. June
= l2.-You might refer to the
inmates of the Carnera fight
camp as one big happy family

any one by the reference. because
that's the way they refer to them
selves.
We're one big. happy family" said
Louis Soresi. the champions man
ager, when questioned on the subject
There is nothing but cooperation in
this camp, and very little of that"
The champion feels the same way
about it. So do his sparring mates
and Ma Bier. who serves up the
rations in this serene little Eden. The
thing which impresses Ma most of all
is the justice done by the inmates to
her cuisine, or cookery. She's had
fighters around the place before, but
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THE SPORTLICHT
by GRANTLAND RICE.

n 1Ew YORK, June l2.-1n spite
N of the busy chatter about Max
" Baer's condition, the Liver
L more Larruper and his camp
are banking heavily on the
California angle. Just what is the
California angle2
Well, there was Lawson Little of
Stanford, who won the British amateur
crown and led the amateurs in the
recent open.
There Is Olin Dutra of Los Angeles
or Santa Monica, who took over the
United States open in the Merton
merry-go-round.
There were Stanford's seven track
and field men. who won the inter-
collegiate games at Franklin field.
Philadelphia-seven men against 700
or thereabouts.
There is the California crew, picked.
with Washington, to win at Pough-
keepsie.
These are only few details. 1t has
been a big California year and Baer
is banking on the Western run.
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Special Dispatch to The Star.

N YEw YORK, June 12.-The
M Yankees started off as
VI though they were going to
4 Y hog-tie the rest of the
clubs and make runaway
of the American League race. The
local fans became SO confident they
simply took another winning game
for granted.
Setting out on their first West
ward trip, the Yanks began to do
some queer things and dropped
games right and left. They did
not resemble the same jaunty ball
club which left Yankee Stadium to
show the fans Of the hinterland a
few tricks. Lefty Gomez then came
to the rescue by hurting an air
tight game and the boys took
sudden brace.
But the Yanks are not out Of
the woods by long shot. Detroit,
Washington and Cleveland want to
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BOYS BOX TONIGHT.

Boxers of the Metropolitan Police
No. Precinct Boys Club will engage
the Oxon Hill (Md) Boys Club
battlers In a show tonight at the No.
S Club at 8 O'Clock. The public is
invited.
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The sparring ring is set in a ma
jestic grove, like Robin Hoods quarter
staff arena in Sherwood Forest. James
J. Johnston resembled viii Scarlet or
Alan the other day when he
crawled into the ring from the shadow
of clump of saplings. James was
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TEAM STANDING

Z Western League.
Sioux City, SO; Des Moines, IA.
Topeka, 4; Rock Island, /.
Cedar Rapids, Z; st. Joseph, o.
Davenport, 10; Omaha, 4.
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Odds and Ends.

TXIASHINGTON fandom was to
" see the newest National work
in batting practice this after
noon. John Milligan, left-hand pitch
er obtained from Albany in exchange
Tor Ray Prlm, was slated to chuck to
the club swingers. he's a chunky
chap =. about feet 91a weighs
l85 E. Ned Porter, right-hander that
Albany sent up for inspection was not
to be around. he is back with Albany
:. Elmer Klumpp, catcher, who went
to Chattanooga when Phillips was
brought up several weeks ago, now is
with Albany . the Nationals shifted
him from the Lookcuts to the Inter-
national League club. under option
1.-The White Sox are apt to use Bernie
Uhalt and Joe Chamberlain instead of
EVar Swanson and Luke Appling III
the series here. Uhalt was seen in
the outfield in Griffith Stadium when
the Chicagoans were here in May.
Chamberlain, who did most of his
playing for the Waterloo, Iowa, club
last year, was on the bench during the
last visit. "a few Nationals braved the
heat yesterday and golfed. most of
them saw the fights last night. Berg
didn't. .on the way down from Boston
Moe dropped off in Newark to visit his
folks. he was to get in early today.
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American.
Kansas City. 4; Minneapolis, 2.
Milwaukee, 9; st. Paul, 2.
Louisville, Z; Toledo, S.
Other clubs not scheduled.
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Scout Changes Mind.

TT WAS natural that a youngster
with so much promise would at
tract the attention Of big league
scouts. Bill Hinchman. the Pirate
ivory hunter. was ordered to look him
over At first Bill was inclined to
pass him up as too young and raw.
But when shown the impressive fig
ures chalked up by the boy in his
first year in the Coast League, Hinch-
man decided to stay over awhile
longer and see what made him click.
When the Pirates reported at Paso
Robles for Spring training it was
generally agreed that the veteran
Tommy Thevenow or Floyd Young
would plug up the hole around second
base. But they reckoned without the
Oakland sandlotter, Harry Lavagetto.
In games between the rockies and
regulars Lavagetto pounded the ball
to the far reaches of the field. He
was promoted to the regular lineup
and there he has been since the sea-
son started, with the exception Of a
short period when slight injury
forced him on the bench.
OF course, Lavagetto has yet to
make his mark over a seasons play
The rest on the bench may have been
the best thing that could have hap
pened to him. Playing day in and
day out is not always good for first
season man. A rest permits him to
let down" after being keyed up to
a high pitch.
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TEAM STANDING.

New York-Pennsylvania.
Elmira, IL; Reading, 2.
Williamsport, S; Scranton, 3.
Hazleton, 6; Wflkes-Barre, 0.
Binghamton, SD; Harrisburg, 2-5.
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yet just what will happen to Camera
If he happens to catch one.
There are more than a few who
have studied him at close range who
figure there is an excellent chance
that he will blow wide open.
This may be all wrong. It has
been a tough year for guessers so far
and the coming championship isn't
making it any easier. Many of those
who were first picking Baer have
switched their guess-but there still
are more than few who travel with
the puncher-with the fighter who
can both give and take.
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Southern.
Nashville, 13; Chattanooga, 5.
Knoxville-Atlanta, rain.
Others not scheduled.
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Western Association.
Ponca City, 10; Muskogee, 5.
Hutchinson, g.; Joplin. S.
Bartlesville, 2; Springfield, O.
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Honus Proud of Protege.

r AVAGETTO showed his nerve
when he first faced the great
Carl Hubbell. In the first in
ming he singled sharply to score run.
And in the ninth, with two on bases.
Cookie" rammed out a two-baser to
score the winning run and cause Hub
bells first defeat of the season.
Lavagetto still has a lot to learn
about playing the keystone sack. But
he has the veteran Hans Wagner to
tutor him and if you don't think
Cookie" is an apt pupil you should
hear old Honus talk about his protege
With Vaughan hitting a fast pace
and playing in close harmony with
Cookie" as they rattle off double
plays, there is no telling where the
PittSburghers will finish. The regu-
lars. especially Gus Suhr, are coming
up to the attack in fine fashion and
the pitchers rounding into midseason
form. A good deal will depend on
the pony combination in the midway
field. So far they have produced the
goods, and the only question is
whether they will hold up over the
long stretch of l54 games.
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! Minor Leagues

International.
Baltimore, 10; Buffalo. 3.
Newark, 6; Montreal, 3.
Toronto, 5: Syracuse. 3.
Albany, 3-ll; Rochester, 2-7.
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Texas.

Houston, 10; Tulsa, 6.
Dallas, 10; San Antonio. 3.
Fort Worth. IL; Galveston. 5.
Beaumont, z; Oklahoma City. /.
Evening star., 1934-06-12
A Sherwood Forest Scene.

"HE sylvan setting of the Camera
camp is conducive to thoughts
of nature, and thoughts of
nature make for an even completer
and more solemn harmony. The
trees in Pompton Lakes may not be
chopped down, because trees are at
a premium in this section of New
Jersey, but the boys like to stand in
front of an oak or an elm and
imagine what noise it would make
if it were chopped down.