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Evening star., 1934-12-10
the roads improves during the day.
The polls were to be open for four
hours from to 4 and from to pm.

the rOdQS improves curing llle Ody.
The polls were to be open for four
hours from to and from 6 to 8 pm.
NUT at Washington the battle con-
I tinued between Calvert Dickey
and Dorie Gruver. On Saturday
Dickey holed 20-foot downhill putt
to lick Gruver on the eighteenth, yes
terday Gruver gave him a dose Of the
same medicine, winning on the final
hole. You couldn't find two men who
finish more matches on the eighteenth
than those two. Gruver shot a II in
the cold yesterday and yet Dickey gave
him plenty of trouble.
James NJ Barnes. former Wash
ington Club champion, has bagged
three consecutive brides, deuces on
the par-3 ninth. Stretching out to a
distance of 100 yards from tee to
green, with a valley and a water
hazard in between, the ninth is one
of the tougher one-shotters around
Washington. Yet Barnes not only hit
the green three times in a row, but
thrice he holed the putt for the birdie.
Dickey bagged two in row, one of
them coming within inches of being
a hole in one.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
MILLERS PICK CAMP.

MINNEAPOLIS, December 10 P.-
The Minneapolis club will train next
Spring at De Land, Fla, President
M. j. Kelley has announced. He said
the Millers would spend the month
following March 10 in training.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

will be selected consists of William
r. Bonthron, Benjamin B. Eastman,
Glenn Hardin and Ralph Metcalfe,
track and field athletes, and Jack
Medica, Lenore Kight and Katherine
Rawls, swimmers.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

UPCHIK defeated Denker in the
N twelfth and semi-flnal round
Of the Manhattan Chess Club
tournament and seems to be winner
of the championship. His score is
sh-11a. Kashdan's score is 81. with
two more games to play. Horowitz
comes next, with 71a-412. Kashdan
lost his only game to MacMurray, who
stands fourth, 7-3 Kupchik is good
strategic player, but is not brilliant.
He always ranks high in tournaments.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Quarles, Bullock Oppose.

"HE preliminary card is not so
hot, on paper, but could sur
prise. Roddy Davis, Bill Bull
lock and Joe Moro never have won
any medals in this village-home
town for Davis and Bullock-for
action.
Bullock, a lightweight. will box
the best-looking prospect on the card
in Norment Quarles, formerly of
North Carolina University. They are
to go six rounds in what has been
tagged the Semi-windup.
Davis, debutting as welterweight,
will meet Sid Silas in another six
rounder. Moro, a Welterweight from
Brooklyn and almost pitiful against
Jimmy Reed a couple of weeks back,
returns against Joe Firrone in a four
round bout.
The first gong is supposed to sound
at $50 O'Clock. incidentally, the Hunt
Club will be heated for the comfort of
the customers.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
BATTLES
of the
CENTURIES
1.-The
FOrerunner
of
Boxing.

Long before Marquis OF QueensbWy was born or
gates dreamed OF the prize ring and its duotees were mag Color
gdaos long their battles
presented
series of articles utten student OF the
snort contemporary accounts
Evening star., 1934-12-10
BY TOM HENRY.

CURIOUS procession OF thugs,
~ hostlers, innkeepers, big -jawed
~ amazons, poets, blacksmiths,
butchers, pickpockets and
belted knights parade through the
story of the first days of prize fighting.
Combat with mans natural weapons,
bare fists, must be about as old as the
human race, but it was only in the
London of Queen Anne that 1t first
began to be formulated as a sport, to
be conducted according to rules, and
records began to be kept of the prin-
cipal events.
From the first, the ring was meet
ing place for all classes, where philos-
ophers rubbed shoulders with junk
men and princes traded black eyes
with blacksmiths. There court and
gutter met, yelled for blood, and bet.
The colorful story, aside from dryest
detail, would have been lost except for
the reports of contemporary battles
and eyewitness recollectlons Of earlier
ones contained in the files of single
journal, the Sporting Magazine, or
monthly transactions of the turf, the
chase, and every other diverse interest
to the man of pleasure" The COM
plete files since 1892 of this obscure old
publication, which it Is believed cannot
be found elsewhere in the world, have
Just been placed for permanent pres
ervation in the vaults of the rare book
division of the Library Of Congress.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

n 70 WORD has yet come from
M the committee having in
Y charge the raising of funds
for the match between Frank
j. Marshall and Isaac Kashdan for
the championship of the United
States. and it appears the necessary
amount, $4,000, was not raised.
In that event the match between
Kashdan and Reshevsky may be re-
sumed. One game was played at New
Bedford. Mass, on November 4, which
was won by Kashdan. Reshevsky OBJ
tanned the advantage at the start, but
became short of time just before post
ponement for dinner He diverted his
queen, and got it out Of play in cap
turing a pawn, when it appeared he
had a win in sight.
I w. BYLER, the champion of the
Il Federal Chess Club, says he saw
Reshevsky play in the recent
Syracuse tournament and realized
that he is really above any of the
others in combinations; that as a
boy, when he appeared here IL years
ago, he thought Reshevskys playing
was overrated, but he now plays with
an intuitive perception of the position
that will make him a strong con-
tender for the next world champion
ship If he continues
Byler expresses regret at not being
able to attend the simultaneous ex-
hibitions given by Kashdan and
Reshevsky. He recently left the hos
pital,
Evening star., 1934-12-10

DE GRASSE, one of the greatest
little crowd pleasers ever to
throw a glove in the Capital,
has beaten a flock of good boys in
his six-year career-many more good
boys than Eddie has whipped. Younger
and faster than Burl, the little
French-Indian can and will beat a
good many more. But De Grasse
also has been defeated quite fire.
quently, more often by lesser battlers
than by good ones.
There is a formula for licking
De Grasse. Covelli did not have the
prescription, but Burl, who had the
Indian sign on Sarron, may have it.
Eddie is not a good boxer, nor is he
a hitter, but he possesses a boring,
swinging style that attains a power,
sometimes marvellous, from a great
heart.
The winnah, so hopes Matchmaker
Goldie Ahearn, will fight the most
popular and best feather in this
sector, Sarron, shortly after the Yule-
tide holidays. Overtures already have
been made to Sarron for the match.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
.R. EMANUEL LAsKER, former

DR. EMANUEL LASKER, former
IL world champion, is sc years old,
and is now a resident of Lon
don. Recently he played against 80
on the occasion of the Ealing Chess
Clubs jubilee He won %, lost o
and drew Z. He was guest of honor
at dinner He held the world tile
for 27 years prior to 1921.
Another series of weekly chess talks
on the air has been begun at New
York City. The first speaker was DR..
Norbert L. Lederer, who was the ref
cree here for London in one of the
cable matches between London and
Washington.
Chicago announces that an open
tournament will be conducted under
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Isaac Newton a Fan.

TN BOTH England and Ireland,
through the seventeenth century,
the fist fight had been a favorite
way to settle disputes, taking the
place among peasants and tradesmen
of the duel with pistols among the
upper classes. 1t was by no means
confined to the lowly. Among its
early enthusiasts was perhaps the
greatest Englishman of all time, Sir
Isaac Newton, who. even in his old
age, liked to roll up his sleeves. show
his muscles, and explain to his phi
losopher companions his favorite
blows.
Newton had been lonely, highly
introverted, prosecuted boy who had
first gained confidence in himself by
thrashing a bullying school fellow.
His fists had made life endurable for
him, and, consequently, he was de-
voted to the art. 1t may not be i'm
probable, so tortuous are the ways Of
the mind, that the world owes the
discovery of the law Of gravity, and
all the immense structure Of civiliza-
ton that rests upon Newton's re-
searches, to his bare fist fights as a
schoolboy that made it possible for
him to face the world.
But Sir Isaac was destined to be-
Evening star., 1934-12-10
IN CHESS CIRCLES
By FRANK B. WALKER

the league of that city, to determine
the Chicago chess champion for 1888.
Cash prizes amounting to sl49 will be
awarded to 90 of the 80 entrants.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
WILLING BOXERS
BATTLE TONIGHT
Eddie's Future May Be at
Stake in Hunt Club Go.
Sarron Gets Offer.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

~ UNCH-SCARRED Eddie Burl,
neither great, neither bad,
sometimes like a preliminary
boy oftentimes like deuce
wild trumping a pack of fistic kings
and aces, tonight attempts to pro-
vide another example Of refuting that
age-old sport axiom, 'They never
come back"
The elderly Jacksonville veteran,
whose fighting heart must account for
most of his 126 pounds, fights box
ing counterpart-a higher-ranking
counterpart-in Pete De GraSSe Of
Brooklyn. Burl's ring career may
hinge on the result of the 10-round
bout tonight at the Riding and Hunt
Club.
With the local betting fraternity
laying odds of to 5 on De Grasse,
the flashy French-Indian, Burl will
be seeking to climax an uphill climb
back to a status as an honest-to-
goodness main-eventer. Real odds are
at least 10 D against IlliIl, puI GooAc
has done it before and many flStic
follower thinks he can do it again,
even at the expense of the bronzed
buzz-saw who whipped Frankie Co.
velli twice in a row here.
Prelim Kids Whip Him.
CCARCELY ring critic didn't join
y in the chorus of Burl's swan song
when Dominick Nicco and Dan
Tardugno, a pair of preliminary boys,
licked him here not many weeks
back. True, Nicco beat him with a
lucky, executing punch that result
ed in a technical knockout, but even
before the blow Eddie was not the
man who had beaten Petey Sarron
and flock of other well-known feath-
erweights here. Then Tardugno, a
southpaw novice, whipped Burl.
But Burl, who loves his fighting,
wasn't finished as fighter He al
most chased Nicco out of the Hunt
Club ring in a return match and then
followed up with two wins in sue
cession over the promising Carl Gug-
gino. 1t was a commendable squirt,
but it merely may have represented
q dying gasp. Tonight should tell.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Fencing New Florida Sport

Miss Mdu-
rine Kerns OF
Miami, Fla,
is among the
concerts to
fencing as a
Winter sport
at the Flori-
dd resort. She
is a student
of Capt. Jean
st. Maurice,
former U. S.
Army Olym-
pic coach.
A. p. Photo.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Pete Younger, Speedier.

DE GRASSE, one of the greatest
little crowd pleasers ever to
- tbrow q olive in the CaDital
Evening star., 1934-09-21
CHANNEL DEEPENING
URGED FOR CAPITAL
Engineer Says Four-Foot In.
crease Would Allow Ocean
Going Tankers.

Dredging Of the Potomac and Ana
costa River channels at Washington
4 more feet would permit ocean-going
tankers to make port here and result
In cheaper petroleum rates, Maj. Rob-
ert w. Crawford, new District engi-
neer for the War Department for this
area, was informed yesterday by wit
nesses at a public hearing. Added in
surance against floods would come
about by deepening the channels, 9TH
ers declared.
The hearing was In response to q
resolution of the House Rivers and
Harbors Committee and attended by
several representatives Of maritime in
terests.
James N. Stout, representing the
Staten Island, N. Y, Sound Deep
waterways Association, told the hear
ing it would seem logical to provide
q depth Of "A feet In the Anacostia
River that now prevails south Of
Giesboro Point In the main channel
Of the Potomac River, with not less
than 400 feet as the width.
The Washington Gas Light Co. ex-
poets to use 100000 gallons of oil
this year, Thomas B. Hopper, general
superintendent, declared. and this will
he shipped IN hoEEnA
Evening star., 1934-09-21
MEMORIAL SERVICE
TO OPEN SESSION
Police Chiefs to Pay Tribute to
Maj. Sylvester at Cathe.
dral Sunday.

A memorial service to the late su-
perintendent of police, Maj. Richard
Sylvester, Sunday afternoon at the
Washington Cathedral will open the
forty-first annual convention of the
International Association of Chiefs of
Police.
Seven hundred Washington police
men will take part in the ceremony in
honor of their former chief. Right
Rev. James e. Freeman, Bishop Of
Washington, will conduct the services.
A considerable portion Of the 1,700
police chiefs who are expected to at
tend the convention viii be present
at the memorial exercises.
Maj. Sylvester was president Of the
Association Of Police Chiefs for is
years, having been elected to the Of
flee Just as years ago. He has been
dead about 2 years.
The Citizens Committee assisting the
local Police Department. In arranging
for the convention held its Anal meet
ing last night In the Mayf1ower Hotel.
It was announced that the benefit
boxing matches In Grifath Stadium
September 4 netted the association
$22, ,75o. Other receipts brought the
total up to $28, 900, Of which 81, 500
has been spent, the committee was
told.
The frst business session of the con-
vention will be called to order Mon.
day morning by Charles A. Wheeler.
Bridgeport. Conn, association presi-
dent.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Father O'Leary, D. c. Native,
Acting President of Georgetown
University Headed By
Washingtoniar, for First
Time in 40 Years.
DR.. Coleman NeviLs to
attend Toxic Meeting
of Red Cross.

For what is believed to be the first
time In almost 140 years. Georgetown
University is to have native Wash
ingtonian as its directing head for the
next two or three months, during the
trip abroad of President Coleman
Nevis, s. ].
From New York City came the an
nouncement today that Rev. Arthur
A. O'Leary, s. j., professor Of ethics
and head Of the department OF phil
osophy In the College Of Arts and
Sciences, has been appointed acting
president. DR.. Nevils made the an
nouncement at morning exercises held
in connection with the official opening
Of the new academic term at the
university.
This afternoon DR.. Nevils will turn
affairs over to his temporary successor
and leave Washington, en- route to
Toxic. Japan. He is one Of the Amer
ican delegates to the fifteenth inter-
national convention of the Red Cross,
to be held in the Japanese capital
next month. His term as president
of Georgetown having been extended
to February l, the opening date OF
the second semester, he will return to
Washington In December.
DR.. Nevils will 60 first to Chicago
and Kansas City to attend alumni
meetings and then will visit Los
Angeles and San Francisco. On Sep
tember 20 he will be guest Of honor
at a dinner given by the University
of San Francisco. the University OF
Santa Clara, both Jesuit universities,
and alumni of Georgetown.
The following day he will join
Judge John Barton Payne. chairman
of the American Red Cross. and
together they will sail aboard the
Asama Maru. The ship will stop
one day at Honolulu, where Judge
Payne and DR.. Nevik will be enter
tanned by the former Ambassador to
Japan, William r. Castle, jr, at his
home there.
After the Toxic convention, which
will be attended by delegates from
81 countries, DR.. Nevis will visit
China. In Toxic he will visit the
Jesuit University of Sophia.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Decrease Is Due
In Liquor Licenses
On Renewal Date
Board to Check Food
Sale Reports Before
Issuing Permits.

With q warning by the Alcohol Bev-
erage Control Board that all present
liquor licenses must be renewed before
January 81, indications arose today
that retail license holders who have
done business primarily for the sale
Of liquor, rather than food, may not
obtain new licenses.
Among other things, each renewal
applicant will have to submit sworn
statement Of the amount Of receipts
from sale Of food and sale of bever-
ages, the point being that the business
Of the "on sale" licensee must be pri-
marily for the sale of food.
The A. B. c. Board will accept
license renewal applications begin
ming, November IS, and since there are
now nearly 1000 licenses Of all classes
in effect, warning was given today
that considerable time will be re-
quired to handle the renewals and
late applications probably cannot be
handled.
Before the board can act on re-
newal applications the request for the
new permit must be published fol
two weeks. the premises must be
posted, police reports on the appli-
cant must be on file, hearings mus
be granted to any who offer objections
to the permit, and then the boarc
must sit in judgment on the petition
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Marriage Licenses.

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W. n. Herbert. 'sR 81. carmody Hills. Nd;
cnd,lh and Elsie e. I. colvin, e. 247 Rock Greek
ne. and Mona Buckley. 25, 1915 Y st.
Sc; Rev. John J. Buckley.
st.. and Lois Fiesinser. Is. 4x0s q st.: ::
Judge J. G. Adkins.
FS1; Ia So9E 49, ;ns No1.,
ave, % Sc: 4 Rev. John G. Ball D.'A oA'0ln'
J. B. Morgan. %. Corinthian Yacht Club.
and Marie Rasan. 2s. Washington;
o.sts. sss zAl..:. q ( tssr: and Lillian Newman a.
beth q 1919 Allison ST.: Judge Il. e.
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and Edith N. Matthews. 10. 1015 T ST.;
Chsries Il. Nicfens. 30. a4ee Ontario I'd.
and Dorothy Y. Bias. 80. 1925 T ST.;
oeCrs: Barber. f 30. so Myrtle st. ne. and
Annie Power. 2S. 1882 New Jersey ave-:
Judge r. Z. Mattingly.
Jarrett. ii. 20e L St; Rev. Hampton
John Myers. 4s. s12 Twenty-fifth st.. and
Rachel I. Myers. SO. 1918 L st.; Rev.
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both of 1888 Q st.; Rev. Robert
Evening star., 1934-09-21
HOSPITAL REPORTS
FUND IS DEPLETED
High Costs at D. c. tuberculosis
Institution Expected to Cause
Deficit in Spring.

If the present rate of expenditure
continues, the District tuberculosis
Hospital, Thirteenth and Upshur
streets, will encounter lack of ope-
rating funds before the fiscal year
is ended next June 80, according to
a report from DR.. j. Winthrop Pea
body, general superintendent of tu-
berculosis hospitals.
DR.. Peabody has informed the Board
Of Public Welfare that 81 per cent of
the hospitals appropriation for the
current fiscal year was expended the
first two months. The costs in July
and August amounted to $31,310.
DR.. Peabody said the principal rea-
sons for the heavy expense were the
increased cost of food, partial restora-
ton Of the pay of the staff and q
continued high daily number Of pa
tients under care. If deficit is faced
next Spring, a request will be sent to
Congress for a deficiency appropria-
ton.
The average daily number of pa
tients in August was 218. Twenty
five patients were admitted to the
hospital last month, 10 others were
discharged and six died.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
RELIEF COST HERE
S73,2A HIGHER
August Total $603,3S9,
Commissioner Allen Is Told
by Miss Hill.

The cost Of emergency relief in the
District last month was $73.254
greater than in July, according to q
report placed before Commissioner
George z. Allen by Miss Alice Hill.
relief director. The August cost was
sso3, ,3ss, as compared with $52s.l35
in July.
There were 22,759 families and in
dividuals receiving relief during the
past month, whereas the total in July
was 21.s74.
Miss Hill reported that 567 persons
who applied for relief last month were
rejected as ineligible. OF these, she
said, 127 sought work rather than
relief; 1913 were found to have sufa-
cient income or aid from relatives;
121 merely failed to prove they were
In actual need; 81 were referred to
the District Employment Center; Al
were found to be non-residents; %
were members of families already rep
resented on the relief list; IS were
referred to the Transient Bureau; 16
were referred to social organizations,
and IA failed to return or wait for
an interview.
While 1851 cases were dropped from
the list because the client found work
or was determined to be ineligible,
there were 2,417 cases added to the
list during the same period. There
fore. the net decrease in the case
load was 270.
Sixty-six per cent Of the cases re-
ceiving relief were families number
ing 14,s67. while 81 per cent, or 1872,
were individual cases.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
NUMBERS RUNNER"
is FREED OF CHARGE
Man Accused Of Speeding Claims
Two Policemen Tried to
Frame Him.

Charging he was framed because he
refused the demand Of two policemen
that he turn in his gambling receipts
to local operator, John r. Walker,
self-styled numbers runner" was ex-
onerated yesterday afternoon in Po-
lice Court trial of the speeding charge
against him.
Walkers attorney, Charles Ford,
tried to introduce evidence purport-
ing to show the arresting officers at
tempted to use their official position
to throw business from an out-of-town
operator to downtown gambler. The
officers denied any connection with
the numbers game.
Walker testified the officers stopped
his car August 20, searched it and
said: you're turning in your numbers
play out the road you'll have to
turn your play over to somebody
downtown" The next day, he testi-
fled, he was arrested and charged with
speeding.
The defendant told Judge Isaac r.
Hit he was q numbers man" and
covered a regular route every day.
Police officials are investigating
Walkers charges. Lieut.. George M.
Little, head of the vice squad, to
which the officers concerned have
been attached since last October, said
he had faith in the integrity of the
policemen concerned.