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Evening star., 1934-02-26
Don't Want Him as Champ.

4 S A result of the delegates con-
~ fession the fight customers down
here are beginning to like his
chances. A blind fan, Mr.. Schwartz
heard Camera work out from a ring
side seat and promptly laid his roll
on the challenger. Some 1900 pay
ing guests went out TO the stadium
to watch Tommy wind up training.
This is very gratifying to the gentle
men in the fight racket, so long as
Tommy doesn't win.
IF he gets that decision one OF
these gentlemen told me, taking the
lapel of my coat in a vlse-llke grip,
1.-The fight game will fade out with
noise you can hear in that Japanese
island-what's it. Manchuria?"
incidentally. the presence in this
city of Signor Camera and Delegate
Loughran has not drawn the atten-
ton of the citizens from Bill Terry
and the Giants. Any number OF
Miamians have asked me the way
to the training grounds. It's tough
town to find your way about in, and
I look as though I knew.
(Copyrieht 1894. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1ncD
Evening star., 1934-02-26
McCraw Lauded
By Leaders Here
VIIHOLE-HEARTED tribute is

WHoLE-HEARTEsD s tribute tie -. is
Capitals prominent figures
in base ball who express deep sor-
row at the passing of the games
outstanding character.
"McGraw did as much as any
one to place base ball on its high
pinnacle. I feel a personal loss
in his passing" wire Clark Griffith,
Washington Club president, from
Biloxi, Miss; base ball has lost
its greatest figure" says Edward
B. Eynon, jr.. Washington secre-
tary; more than any other figure
did McGraw contribute to base
ball." is the opinion of Bucky
Harris, Red Sox manager, and
Walter johnson, Indian pilot, feels
"the game has lost its greatest
leader McGraw had base
balls most wonderful winning
spirit"
Evening star., 1934-02-26
Kent Club in Good HumOr.

n TcGRAW seldom refused a drink
lNI himself and usually paid for
it. The night before the
famous play-of game in 1908, I was
looking for him for an interview and
found him i'll old Rector's, one of
the rendezvous of the town He was
with DaVey Johnson. then the owner
of Roseben: Leo Redding of the old
New York Herald. at that time one
of my many bosses; Herbert Swope
and other big shots of those days
No one was ever nicer to timid
kid trying to get a story. Win or
lose, you could count on old Mac
if he liked you.
The Giants won the pennant in
1911 in driving finish on the last
Western trip. The team had been
Joined late in the season by queer
character named Charley Faust. who
had been told. by a palmist or
astrologist he was a big g-league
of Tommy Loughran's left hand.
He couldn't pitch a lick. and the
ballplayers, always humorists, used to
fill his dress suit case with pig iron
whenever they got a chance They
told him to put his arm in the ham
mock in Pullman cars so it wouldn't t
get Jared. These, they said, were
only in the berths of pitchers. Nc
Graw carried him because he thought
he kept the team in good spirits, and
after the pennant was cinched, ac-
tuall" started him in the second game
of double-header in Chicago.
The Giants of those days were no.
torious for their brains and speed,
and they actually stole their way to
a pennant. l think one of the great
est moments of McGraw's career was
when he had to send back for some
new uniforms because Doyle, Devore
and some of the rest had slid the
seats out of their pants stealing bases,
and he did not wish to shock the Mid
Victorian West with partially dressed
ballplavers.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
SPORTS BILLS UP
Virginia Senate Holds Boxing,
Turf Hearings This Week.

RICHMOND, Va, February 26.-
The fate of bills to legalize professional
boxing and horse racing in the Old
Dominion may be decided this week
by the Virginia Senate.
A hearing on the Daughton bill to
permit 15-round boxing bouts was to
be held today by the Senate General
Laws Committee. A public hearing
before the Senate Finance Committee
on the Hall bills to permit pari-
mutuel betting will be held tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
FROM THE PRESS BOX
BY JOHN LARDNER.

he works. Half a dozen sleuths, after
third -degreeing the delegate night
and day for a week, have wrested
from him a confession that he is
going to win.
L never have doubted the outcome
if I got the champion into ring, y
Tommy said, his shyness completely
broken down. I'm at my best against
these big fellows 1mpellitiere,
CamDOlO'
Evening star., 1934-02-26
.TYP|F|ED SPORTS
|. FIRE SAYS Lands
Commissioner Regarded
Mac Greatest Natural
Leader in Pastime.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

.DHOENIx, Ariz.. February
- 26.-I was talking about
the next two pennant
races with Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Lands. the high
commissioner of base ball, when
some one handed him a mes
sage.
When he looked up there
were tears in his eyes. The
greatest of the old Orioles" he
said, "is flying West. John
McGraW is dead"
At this statement there came TO me
flashback to 1905-to Matty in his
prime-to Bresnahan and Donlin-to
Bowerman and McGann-to Mertes
and others of the old Giants-to the
fiery, flaming McGraw who won 10
pennants and gave base ball more
managerial color than any other two
leaders had ever shown.
When the judge spoke you could
almost hear the flutter of Oriole wings
across the Arizona peaks, sharply out
lined against a sky of azure.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
D. c. GIRL IS LEADER
Katherine Fulton Is Manager at
Connecticut College.

Katherine Fulton, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. c. w. Fulton, 3539 Edmunds
street, has been elected manager for
the various Winter sports at Con-
necticut College, New London, Conn.
Miss Fulton plays left guard on the
nrst-string freshman basket ball team.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
CLASH AT PORTNER'S

Paddy Ryan and Wild Bill Howard
will meet in a four round bout to open
the card tomorrow night at Portner's
featuring Benny Britt and Frankie
Covelli.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
Us egion and War Combined to Mcu1u Leader Champions
DOUGHTY LITTLE PILOT
MASTER MIND OF GAME
Greatest Managerial Snowman Splashed Sport
With CoIor-Bitter i'm Invective, Yet Kindly.
Never Wealthy, but Ever Generous.
BY IOHN n. WHEELER.

\ Jew YORK February 26-When John J. MoraW hnalIy
league base bali For few years aerward he fdgeed
benc managed his Giants from there, but
the McCraw in civilian doughty
little warrior buStling the plate bawl out umpire
Evening star., 1934-02-26

lAMl, ria, feDIu Iuary 20
nn There's no reason why
VI Tommy Loughran shouldn't
4 L be the most popular man in
the country. He's the Yam
kee fighter, Americas choice, the
delegate of Congress and of the people
to bring back the title snatched from
our shores by the Venetian raviSher.
Primo Camera. In addition to all
this, Tommy is generally regarded as
the incest man in town.
In John L. Sullivans day it was a
fine thing TO be Americas choice.
You could have the keys of any given
city. You could have the shirts off
some of our best backs. What's more,
it was a good idea, strictly as a mat
ter of cash profit, to wave the Star
Spangled Banner as often as pos
sible Flag waving lost its charm
only a few years ago. when Jack
Sharkey used the Stars and Stripes
as bath robe in his fight with Max
Schmeling
On past form, therefore. Delegate
Loughran should be the idol of the
whole country, instead of just Phila-
6elphia and vicinity. Patriots should
be swarming to Miami from all the
States and Territories. can't explain
why the facts are otherwise, but 1
got an inkling of the truth out at the
Madison Square Garden Stadium,
watching Delegate Loughran go
through his final workout.
Tommy Is Too Nice.
THERE are several hundred Amer
leans who have no desire at
all to see the heavyweight title
brought back to America just now
These gents are connected in various
ways with the fight racket. They
concede the niceness of Delegate
Loughran. He's very nice, so much
so that they wonder what in the
world is going to happen to the
heavyweight division if he beats the
colossus of Camenbert, Signor Car
nera.
Very few of the people who like
Delegate Loughran are paying to see
him fight this week. The gate is the
slimmest in the history of heavyweight
title bouts. Mr.. James Joy Johnston,
the scholarly Garden promoter, re-
ports that the advance sale to date
has been slightly in excess 0f $4,000
Il hope it'll pick up" unused Mr.
Johnston. ITS going to be a good
fight
1t probably will pick up, for the
boys with their ears to the ground
find an increase in interest here
abouts. But at the very best the gate
is apt to fall short of 100000. A hun
dred grand is puny pickings for a
heavyweight championship. If Dele
gate Loughran wins, there is reason
to believe that the pickings will be-
come even punier.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
SILVER FLASHES WIN.

Silver Flashes trimmed the Silver
Streaks, an all-star roller skating
hockey aggregation, by 8 to 3 at the
Silver Spring Armory rink last night.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
Weeks Schedule.

Weeks Schedule.
115-pound class-Tomorrow 7:45 pm,
Clark Grifiths VS.. Brookland A. C.; Thurs
day. 6:45 pm, Clark Grifiths VS.. B. c.
Mercurys
145-pound class-Tomorrow s:45 I'M.
Heurich Flashes VS.. e. c.. Vets; Thursday.
7:45 pm. Heurich Flashes VS.. George
town B. G.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
Team standings.

An all-star quint comprising, with
others, Joe Sweeney. Dick Streeks
Julie Radice and George Madigan,
will meet the Heurich Brewers, pro
toSsers, next Sunday.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
No Rebuke for MerkIe.


T. VERS, standing on second, hol-
T. Tered for the ball, but McGin-
nifty, coaching on third and
sensing what was going on, ran out
on the field and managed to catch
the ball and throw it in the crowd
One of the Cubs rushed in, recovered
the ball and threw it to Evers who
touched the bag and claimed Merkle
was forced out. The league held
Evers was right
This play cost pennant, but Nc
Graw. notwithstanding his reputa-
ton for being rough with his ball
players, never bawled Merkle out. He
could take it. and he knew we'll how
Merkle felt and how he might break
his heart for good if he jumped him.
Once years ago this writer was rid
ing uptown in New York with Nc
Graw in the early days Of the auto
mobile when there was an ordinance
against cars smoking. The machine
was belching from an overdose of
heavy oil. and an Irish cop stopped
the car at Thirty-third street with
the usual police sarcasm, which was:
Hey, what you'se burin' there?"
Soft coal, answered McGraw, and
what of it?"
The cop recognized the Giants
manager and waved us on with a
smile.
L always figure cop about the
same as an umpire explained
McGraW.
Hank O'Day and Bob Emslie were
the veteran umpires of the National
League, and Mac got an idea old Bob
was missing a lot of close ones be-
cause OF his age and supposedly fall
ing eyesight. The Giant boss had
been riding him pretty hard about
being blind aid calling the shots on
a guess. Ensl1e turned on the tumlng
McGraw.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
Most Vital Spark on Bench.

n TcGRAW was a stout believer in
NI showmanship - in color - in
anything that would add to
base ball interest. He was the most
vital spark the bench and the coach
ing lines have ever known.
We'll miss him a lot, Judge" I
said to the commissioner.
Here's to the Old Oriole flying
West" the Judge answered. Happy
landings
Quoting from an unknown author:
"GOOd'Dy, old SCOut-0nd once
again-good-by-
The umpire called you out Won
der Why?"
There ought to be quite gather
ing when McGraw, Matty, Donlin,
Jennings, Keeler and all the old ORR
oles and Giants get together in base
balls Valhalla to talk over old wars.
And when they meet John Joseph
McGraw will take his old place at
the head of the table-and they will
listen and learn.
And no vagrant ghost will receive
keener welcome from those who
knew him under fire.
(Copyright 1894 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1934-02-26

Potomac Boat Clubs quint engages
the Central Y. M. c. A. big five to-
night at the "Y" at 8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
Emslie Got Away With II.

"T ISTEN." he said. Did you ever
hear of Wilhelm Tell? You put
an apple on second base and
III bet you a hundred dollars III hit
it with a rife four times out of five
from the home plate"
Old Mae, although he was a real
gambler, did not take the bet. He
knew Emslie had been one of the
best shots in the country and thought
he might still be good enough to win
Probably two of the bitterest rivals
In the history of the big leagues were
Frank Chance and John McGraw.
Chance was the burly who made it
rule TO lick every ball player as soon
as he joined his club, so there would
be no doubt about who was boss
Mac seldom fought with his ayers.
Once he had a battle in the club
house with Charley Herzog and lost
and then shook hands with the victor,
grinning through puffed lips
These two leaders ran their clubs
on different lines. McGraw was al
ways in the drivers seat Chance,
having once proved he was the boss,
was inclined to be lax. The Cubs OF
1908 and thereabouts were one of the
greatest teams of base ball, and yet
hard drinkers. Chance played with
them after hours-liquor and cards.
The old Cub outfield was made up
of Sheckard in left. Circus Solly Hof-
man in center and Frank Schultz in
right On a hot day in park where
the acoustics were good you could
hear either Sheckard or Schultz hol-
lering on every fly ball hit unless
either one of them could catch it in
his hip pocket.
"You take it, Solly" Old Holman
would go and get thence his name
In the bright lexicon of the old Cubs
there was no such word as training.
Evening star., 1934-02-26

Premier Cab Juniors defeated the
Omeiga quint, 30-15, last night in the
Senior "B" League at the Jewish
Community Center. Premiers also
claim a win by forfeit over the Owls.
A game for tonight at Central High
is wanted by the Times-Herald 13o-
pound quint. Call Alexandra 2l30,
between 5 and pm.
Evening star., 1934-02-26
PICKED FIVE POINTS
FOR SHOLL TUSSLE
Center League Stars Get Drill
Tonight-A. A. U. Tourney
Play to Be Speeded.

TINE squad of 10 which has been
i picked for the all-star Com
munity Center Basket Ball
League team that will face the crack
Sholl five next Saturday will meet
tonight at 8 o'clock at Central High
School. The game will be played at
Roosevelt High at 9 o'clock and will
be preceded by a match between the
Olmsted Grill quint and the Twin
Oaks Black Hawks. which are bat
tling for honors in the minor loop of
the Community Center League.
officials in charge of the District
A. A. U. basket ball tourney. which
gets under way next Monday night
on the Roosevelt and the Mcfarland
Junior High courts today again re-
minded that the deadline for entries
is Wednesday midnight. Teams must
file entries with Charles M. Fyfe,
chairman of the D. c. A. A. U. Reg
istration Committee at the Boys Club,
230 c street.
1t is hoped that by using two gym
nasiums tourney play this year may
be finished in two weeks The un-
limited 145-pound and girls teams
will play their games at Roosevelt
and the others at Macfarland
With titles in four of the five
divisions yet to be decided, four games
are carded this week in the Boys
Club of Washington League. Boys
Club Fyfes have won the lone PEN
nant decided, triumphing in the 130-
pound loop.
D.u.I nI-..
Evening star., 1934-02-26

\ A IAMI, Fla. February 90
Nn There's no reason why
wv Tommy Loughran shouldn't
4 L be the most popular man in
Evening star., 1934-09-09
new INDIAN PACT
SIGNED IN BRAZIL
Whites Allowed to Use Rivers
and Lands Only by Per-
mission.

BELEM, Para, Brazil DIN this
vast, unexplored state. twice the size
Of any European nation except Russia,
Indian raids on communities Of white
Invaders" still occur and IN extensive
regions relations between whites and
Indians are regulated by treaties.
A new treaty has just been drawn
up in the Alta Mira region, in the CEN
ter of the state along the Xingu River.
In the negotiations white settlers were
represented by Catholic prelate, and
the commitments, for the Indians were
made by a tribal chief.
A letter from the prelate, Friar Sc
bastiao Thomaz, Bishop of Araguaya,
sets forth the terms of the treaty.
The Tuchaua Indians, by terms Of the
document, are to be permitted to fish,
hunt and farm throughout the Var
jao region.
Were it not for the pact, the bishop
wrote. there would be repeated raids
on the homes of settlers and doubtless
many killings. The Indians, he said,
invariably refer to their" rivers,
their" chestnut groves and "their"
forests. Until treaties are arranged
they do not recognize that white set
tiers have any rights in the region, he
said.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
BRAZILIAN BAD MAN
TERRORIZES SECTION
Bandit Leaders Exploits Dismay
Brazil-Emerges From
Retreat.

RECIFE, Pernambuco. Brazil (P1.-
With his daShing horsemen and his
women, Lampeao, Brazil's universally
feared bad man." has emerged from
his forest retreat again to terrorize
the northeast section Of the nation.
Reputed to be q dangerous cattle
rustler, LAmpeao Is reported 20 be
encamped near AguaS Bellas. 1S6
miles west Of here. A large section
of the populace fears more barbaric
raids.
THE news of his coming hIlS IN
with terror and indescribable panic"
wrote q correspondent Of the formal
do Recife.
The correspondent stated that the
same day the outlaw came to the
vicinity Of Aguas Bellas with IS fol-
lowers and five women, a lieutenant
exclusively named TO render an ac-
counting of Lampeao" moved out Of
town with his eight aides, going IL
leagues away to Tacarazu.
Commenting editorially on the ac-
tivities of the bandit leader whose
exploits have diSmayed all Brazil the
Jornal do Recife said:
Emergency measures must be
taken to preserve the Pernambuco
sectors from the tremendous peril"
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Campaigns by Sea, Land, Air.

When the member of Parliament
for Kalgoorlie, Western Australia,
protested against the proposed re-
arrangement of his electoral district,
his fellow members began to realize
that electioneering in that district is
something of job. He pointed out
that the new plan would give him TN
area equal to the four smallest States
OF Australia-Victoria, New South
Wales, South Australia and Tas-
mania. AS 1t is, when he goes elec-
pioneering he has to cover nearly
100000 square miles. He travels for
eight weeks, $500 miles by sea, 1000
miles by land and 5000 miles by air.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Propellerless Plane Tested.

Without wings or propeller, an air.
craft with body shaped like a cigar,
Is being subjected to rigid tests at
Helsingfors, Finland. The inventor,
viljo Louhai, declares that his ma
chine will revolutionize aviation. Al
though not helicopter, it is said to
be able to rise from the ground ver-
tically and develop q speed In hori-
zontal flight of $50 miles an hour.
The fuctions of wings and propeller
are performed by "a specially devised
instrument which will develop driving
power and insure stability and lift"
Evening star., 1934-09-09
RAIL CARS TRAVEL
WITHOUT TRACKS
Chassis Developed in Ger.
many Delivers Vehicles
at Factory Doors.

BERLIN R-Railway freight cars
can now be delivered at the doors of
factory far removed from q railway
track with an invention by Hans
Culemeyer, chief engineer of the Ger
man State Railways.
The freight car is simply switched
on to a 16-wheeled, rubber-tired con-
traption drawn by q Diesel tractor
and delivered wherever the factory
has stored its consignment for freight
shipment.
The costly laying Of tracks from the
nearest station to the factory Is
obviated. Factories situated some dis
tance from the railway tracks are no
longer at q disadvantage as compared
with those whose property adjoins the
tracks or railway station.
Developed I'm Secrecy.
The entire staff of employees Of the
Gotha wagon factory at Gotha was
pledged to secrecy when, in July, 1881,
Hans Culemeyer presented his speci-
,fication for the construction of what
might be termed the chassis on to
Wl1lCu LA1C 4AC16llI Cdlo WCIc W UC
placed. For whole year Culemeyer
and his assistants experimented. until
finally, in October, 1882, the first
chassis was ready for operation.
It was tried out IN Viersen, q small
town in the Rhineland, and Germans
generally knew little about the in
vention until newspaper correspond
ents were rather mysteriously invited
on q certain morning to ride through
Berlin in q railway dining car" When
they arrived at the designated subur-
ban station, they found the dining
car ready for slipping from the rail-
way track onto the Culemeyer chassis.
Within nine minutes the car was
mounted on the chassis, which this
time, on account Of the length and
Evening star., 1934-09-09

weight Of the diner, consisted Of two
pairs Of 16 wheels each. and then
the trip through o section Of Berlin
began.
I'VE chose the diner" said DR.
CuIemeyer, because 1t is the heaviest
car made, also the longest. and be-
cause we wanted to demonstrate that
even with so guests aboard. this
heavy load could be hauled through
metropolitan streets without hurting
them. I figure that the chassis was
carrying a load, all told, Of 10000
pounds"
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Couple Say Is Lucky.

Geray. the Hungarian actor. and
Fraulein Magda Kun, the German
actress, consider 13 a lucky number.
They we're married on June l3 while
playing in London and are very happy.
The bride wore at the ceremony q
necklace and brooch, each Of which
bore the number Is. She was born on
the 18th Of the month. So was her
mother
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Worldwide Clan Proposed.

Camerons all over the world are
asked by Capt. Evan P. Cameron. q
liner captain, to revive in modern
form the clan spirit, and he has IS
sued q call outlining his plan. He
would have all the bearers of this
Highland name enrolled as paying
members Of the clan duly certified by
the head Of the clan, the subscrip-
tions to 60 to the Cameron Society of
Scotland. He envisages world wide
union Of Camerons for mutual bene-
fit pledged to their chief and looking
to Achnacarry as their gathering
place,
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Air Transport Gains Told.

Fifteen years Of regular flying be-
tween London and the Continent have
brought many gains, ofacial figures
reveal. Air passengers to and Irom
London have increased from q hun
dred or so weekly to thousands; the
reliability Of commercial flying has
increased from about so per cent to
just 100 per cent; air mail loads have
grown from a few thousand letters q
year to millions and parcels consigned
by air from the British capital have
increased from a mere handful to
more than go tons weekly.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
u. S. Planes and Pilots
Enter 12,OOO-Mile Flight
Observation-Disclosures Contest Lures Finest
Aviators in World With $4,000
Offered In Prizes.
BY JOSEPH s. EDGERToN.

MERICAN airpanes pilots match endurance speed
and skill with the best the world
in the longest and most difficult air aviation history
More than go hghspeed arpanes representing virtually
every nation boastng established aviation service have
entered for the 12000-mile flight
bourne Australia for the MacRoberson Trophy $4,000
cash prizes.
This country will be in the great
classic by Of its most noted armen Such world
American flyers Wiley Post Col Clyde Pangbon
George Pond Laura ingalls, and Ruth Nichols have filed entries
Although of the original American
withdrawn them by the death of Jimmy Wede
counrys strongest contender
entries according the latest
Aeronatic Association.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
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