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Evening star., 1934-01-10

president Amateur Athletic Union, Presi-
dent American Olympic Association
)HICAGO, January 10 P.-
1 Amateur athletics give
" prospect of booming in
the United States in 1884.
This is because the year marks
the beginning of preparations for
the Olympic games of 1885, to be
held in Germany. Also because
American teams have been in
vited to compete in various ma
tions this year.
Friendly international relations pre-
vailing in amateur sport and the respect
for American methods and competitors
existing abroad is demonstrated by the
fact that the A. A. U. has, at this time.
invitations to send a track team to
Japan, an ice hockey team to England,
a track team to Sweden, and SWIM
ming team to Japan. In addition, 1t
Is expected the winners of the 1888
A. A. U. women's basket ball crown
will visit England for the international
championships.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
FROM THE PRESS BOX
BY PAP
BY JOHN LARDNER.

nghts engagement Ellsworth Vines
Trdns life than in Vines
tractf from glory a T1lden
at the age of So Big Bill was
fading champion Rene La Coste and Henri
threw their ackets
out Coch particularly the rening genius Of the
Phadphan and the ball boy OF Lyons
their respective primes
EN Young Master Vines California with his adoScent
9o his Tse % eon ip % phas Maer Vnes could Whip
M Hills in 1882 and destroyed the canny ball boy IN
This event experts youth
cocs was setting nd vnss Sas d p s9p to coch the o V
grsndfaher Yet tonight a at A. & Grandpa
Bill Is the favoIite to peat tne Co 20 Inos
@ tn tsDn1 oUaa
seneraoDs and
figured other tennis ang There was ns
period for instance when he Bill Johnston and vincent acnaas d &
usually Richards And Richards some
could beat Tnden 1t pretty problem In net psychology ano
liked Tdns tactics the courts and of them
the of that pOney % chDs5y = Which & re-
doubtful against opponent the Athuian code doesn't
apply to professional ten tennis though hope nnSs n0 other grievances against
Bill occasionally has shown
himself to stage and screen saw him once m the rGe o. @ ou
and left the thea convinced that the producers could nick MIN l0f "
That nothing to do h9Tse with & neen atcn aen Tn ss es
pected remarkable he
this decrep still the greatest tennis player
the world If he beats Vines hand he can beat Crawford or Perry
that match of some & importance M nee in & the life
of H % I sR % I'D ke ' S ses ae @ 90 me M N I'd m ne T the see
tennis flourish sufficiently to attract recruits and make an
open @ more more G less .enn and tha ns who don could
There might be further need for the udal lords
" (copyrsht by Alliance 1nc)
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LISTS WATER CARNIVAL
Diving and Varied Races on Card
at Ambassador Friday.

A water carnival including diving by
leading performers and candle, balloon
and tailor races and other features will
be held in the Ambassador pool Friday
night.
A water polo team is being formed at
the Ambassador and candidates are
asked to report to Henry s. Reich at
the pool tomorrow night at 8 O'Clock.
The team will enter the D. C. League.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
SPEED SKATERS ENTER

American Championships.
OCONOMOWOC, Wis, January 10
P)-Seven Canadian speed skating
stars, all of whom wore the Maple Leaf
in the 1882 Olympic games, have en-
tered the North American champion
ship meet on Lake Fowler January
1928.
The Canadian delegation includes
Frank Stack, Alex Hurd and Herb
Flack, along with Mrs. Leila Brooks
Potter, Gladys Ferguson, Hattie Don
aldson Briggs and Florence Hurd.
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NAMED GRID CAPTAIN.

VALPARAISO, Ind, January 10 (F).
Rudy Smatlak, Chicago, has been
elected captain of the 1884 Valparaiso
University foot ball team. He Is a
Junior and played at fu1lback last year.
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SWIMMING MEET OFF.

The swimming meet carded tonight
between the George Washington Unit
versity "B" squad and Western High
has been called off.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
4 MEXICAN u, after five straight

"A MEXICAN u, after five straight
! q defeats, showed great improve
4 \ rnant last night to defeat Hamp-
sen-sydney, 26 to o. The invaders
Fad beaten the Eagles last week at
Hampden-sydney, 20 to 10.
The Eagles rallied in the last hall 10
win AZ they trailed, 15-11, at inter-
mission. Bob Hill was the spark plug
Of the American o. team on attack and
defense combined.
Summary:
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B..C, C, SEXTET WINNER
Miss winkler Gets 2S Points II
Defeat of Mount Rainier.

Bethesda Chevy Chase High School
girl basketers scored over the Mount
Rainier High lassies yesterday at
Bethesda, 1925.
The winners, led by Miss Winkler,
who piled up % points, trailed at the
half, l4-18.
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Bill Looks for Close Tilt.

ynNES, on the other hand, will be
v playing under conditions with
which he is comparatively un-
familiar. He has had little experience
in indoor play. Nor has the young Cali
fornian been nearly so impressive In
practice as his rival.
Tilden himself thinks the match will
be close.
"Vines has nothing to lose against
me this time" Big Bill explains. "Natu-
rally he will put everything he can on
the ball for this match, and I hope my
experience and legs will carry me
through the blast. firmly believe ten
mis- followers will see in Ellsworth an
entirely different player from the boy
whose game temporarily collapsed on
amateur courts last season. He has un-
doubtedly regained confidence"
The match. best three-of-five sets,
headlines a program which also includes
a singles encounter between Vincent
Richards and Bruce Barnes and dou-
bles contest between the Tilden- Barnes
and Vines Richards combinations.
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Students Willing Helpers.

TN THE erection of a board track !
the Brooklyn gym and the perform
ance of other stiff tasks, Grifit4
will be forced to call upon studen
labor. But the Cardinal track squad is
with him to a man, it seems, and will
ing to make sacrifices to bring back
the only event of its kind Washington
has had since Convention Hall became
a bowling alley and Georgetown was
forced, a decade back, to abondon its
elaborate meet.
Griffith has received encouragement
from leading colleges, prep schools and
athletic clubs throughout the East. The
Ryan 1000" again will be the featured
contest and it is possible that several
world famous runners will compete.
Princeton, with its llustrious Bill Bon
thron and Penn, with Gene VenZke, are
expected to enter teams, but there Is
considerable doubt that the two great
milers will be willing to forego ma
tional indoor championships scheduled
on the same date.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
V|NES2-1 UNDERDOG
IN PRO TENNIS BOW
Record Gallery of $1,000 and
Gate of $38, 900 in View
Tonight.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N IEW YORK, January 10
M Ellsworth Vines will make
/ Y his professional tennis de-
but in Madison Square
Garden tonight against big Bill"
Tilden, with the odds favoring
Philadelphia'S "Old Master" at
to l.
Promoters said the advance sale had
reached $4,000, with prospects Of a
sellout and gross receipts Of $38, 900. A
capacity crowd Of 10000 would set q
new record for attendance at any
American tennis match, indoors or out,
amateur or professional.
Although Tilden Is Al years old, ex-
pert opinion all leans heavily in his
favor. They concede the 22-year-old
Vines q big advantage in stamina and
admit the binding speed Of his game,
but still pick Tilden to win.
Critics who watched Tilden wade
through to win the American profess
sional indoor title at Philadelphia re-
Gently say he never has played more
brilliantly.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
GRIFFITH IS GIVEN
CD SIGN AND JOB
Must Recruit Labor ANON
Students-Many School"
Encourage Cards.
BY ROD THOMAS.


@oMING as a happy ado
| ton to the track and fiei
" Winter program of tn
East, Catholic University
annual indoor games, interrupted
last year by financial curtailment
will be renewed on February "a.
1t became definitely known today
In granting him permission to con
tinue the meet, the University authori-
ties at the same time passed consider
able burden to Track Coach Dorsey
Griffith, who organized the three pre-
ceding events and with such succe:
the Cardinal games, at the time Of the.
suspension. constituted one Of the me
important indoor meets In the East.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
Summary
CONFER C. U. GRID LEADER

Totals. ...12 a2o Totals. ~
Evening star., 1934-01-10
AMATEUR SPORTS
BOOM COMING UP
Brundage Sees Inspiration
in Foreign Meets and
Olympic Tune-UpS.
BY AVERY BRUNDAGE

president Amateur Athletic Union. Pres
dent American Olympic Association
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Referee-Marraret
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27

dists who spread the word that the union
leaders we're crooks. middlewestern strike
failed after gossip-mongers let It be known
that the plant would be moved to another
city If the strikers we're victorious.
Plots Of this kind are impossible to trace.
The victims may work themselves to a fragile
trying to spread the truth, without success
For there is perverse streak in human
nature which makes many people believe such
runors tenaciously. no matter how many de-
mails are broadcast.
Yet it is only through refusal to take any
stock in gossip that this vicious kind Of propa-
ganda can be checked.
The next time some one confdentially
tells you that such-and-such firm employees
diseased persons to package its goods, or uses
poisonous or adultered materials in its prod
uct. or contributes to Hitler's war chest or
follows an anti-Catholic anti-Jewish. or anti
Protestant policy-remember that some one.
way of in the background, probably has an
ak to grind.
Some one is trying to play you for
sucker. Don't let him do it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
DEATH RETREATS

THE fell sergeant Death" always will
L De victor, but, in this country at least he
is retreating
According to the United States census
bureau, last years death rate was 1,O67.7 for
each 100000 population. This means that one
American in every 100 died in 1888, the lowest
rate since 1900 when the bureau started coll
lecting death data. The figure is significant,
too, in that for the first time it is based upon
mortality reports from all forty-eight states.
Hopeful are the bureaus figures on cancer.
The number of victims Of this No. l public
enemy had been increasing for the last fifteen
years. Last year the rate was held stationary.
tuberculosis deaths continue to decline due to
preventive and curative measures. Rejecting
the high pressure tempo of American business
and worries over insecurity are mounting fig
ures on heart disease. But rejecting the up
turn in business is a decline of suicides from
the 1882 peak.
Slowly science is winning over disease and
premature death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
PROBLEM IN POPULARITY

TINE present political campaign is one OF
the oldest in our annals. Not the least
odd part about it is that practically every
one comedies that the administration will
suffer no appreciate loss of strength in the
mid-term elections-while, at the same time,
the Literary Digest poll shows a very marked
decline in the popularity of the Presidents
policies.
These Digest polls have been, so far, pretty
accurate refectors Of popular sentiment. The
latest one shows that while the New Deal en-
joyed the support of nearly 10 per cent of the
electorate last spring, it now gets only $3.50
break.
One would suppose that such a shift in
sentiment would find expression in the con-
gressional elections. But no political expert
has predicted that such will be the case. On
the contrary the administrations strength in
congress is expected to diminish less than is
usual at the mid-term point.
How are you going to solve this contradic-
ton?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27

curity? What would you do with
the goods manufactured?
Why did you, under Hoover,
vote millions to the railroads, big
banks and insurance companies,
and forget the little fellows whose
votes you now are begging?
Being SO stuck on the Constitu-
ton, why have you remained 81
lent for nine years while the
southern states have disfranchised
the Negro vote, contrary to the
federal Constitution? And while
in the Indiana legislature, why
did you vote appropriations to
state schools, contrary to the
state Constitution?
Did you ever handle pay roll
or do any practical work that
would enable you to know the
needs of the common man or the
capacity of the taxpayer to pay?
Haven't you always voted for
higher salaries and wages and in
creased pensions and bonuses to
specially favored classes of the
country?
Don't you know that those who
are "Whooping it up" for you are
lot of old barnacles who want to
get back on pay rolls?
Honestly, do you think you fit
into the seat once occupied by
Morton, Hendricks, Harrison and
Fairbanks?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
CIVILIZATION RESTORED

COCIAL historians of the future will prob
- ably remember the present moment as
the era in which the United States finally dis
covered how to cope with large-scale crime.
After the wild years following 1920, in
which lawlessness seemed to be utterly be-
You'd control, and underworld leaders were
not so much defiant of the law as comtemptu-
Gus of it, society has found way to reassert
itself.
Capone, Dillinger, Kelly, Sankey. Barrow,
and now Floyd-one after another, the bad
men are cut down.
The old rule that the outlaws path can
lead only to a prison cell or an early grave
is being enforced again in the United States
as in other countries
The bullets which ended the career of
Floyd merely emphasize the fact that the
United States is regaining its right to call
itself a civilized country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27

ten politics have about cleaned it
out. If you want to prove this
statement just get in your auto
and canvass the factories in this
town. You will find a few in the
food lines still going, but in other
lines hardly able to keep their doors
open, and some entirely closed.
wish to make three suggestions
to employers in this city which I
believe viii put back to work some
of our worthy citizens who have
lived and paid taxes here all their
lives:
Dismiss all married women whose
husbands are working and able to
support them.
Dismiss all persons who live in
small towns around Indianapolis
who come here each day to work
but do not pay taxes here.
Do not employ persons who come
from other states looking for work,
for we have plenty of unemployed
here who should have first chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
WATERFOWL IN DANGER

ONE of the consequences of the recent
~ drought is apt to be a disastrous reduc-
ton in the number of American waterfowl
Arthur Newton Pack, president of the Amer
lean Nature Association, says that the dry
ing up of so many streams and ponds has
brought about an alarming decline in the
numbers of game birds-so much SO that
sportSmen in some states are even urging
closed season.
But, instead of being accorded freedom
from shooting" he adds, "the harassed birds
now face an open season that promises to be
the most disastrous in the history of North
America wild fowling."
Most hunters undoubtedly gladly would
agree to a curtailment of this falls hunting
season, if they were fully convinced of its
necessity.
From every standpoint, it would be a
calamity for us to lose any of our present
species of waterfowl. To no one would it
be more of a calamity than to the hunters
themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
/ WHY HOOVER FAILED TO
GET COOPERATION
By Mrs. A. d. johnson

BY Mrs. A. ID. Johnson.
I have been an interested. and
some of the time, amused reader OF
the Message Center for a long time,
but the article by J. w. Hughes in
Tuesdays paper seems to be the
most inconsistent of any I have
read. He notes, If the people would
cooperate with the Republicans as
they are with Roosevelt"
Can he tell why the people did
not cooperate with Republicans?
Was there any plan offered for their
relief to call forth cooperation?
If conditions were as good as he
implies, why the uprising OF 1882?
! Democrats did not elect Roosevelt.
It was done by the people. some Of
whom can be fooled all the time,
all of them some Of the time, but
not all of them all Of the time.
Listening 10 Mr.. Hoove-'s radio
talks during the campaign Of 1882
did not hear any constructive plan
for relief from the depression. His
attitude was that Of the man who
borrowed broke. and failed to re-
turn his neighbours lawn mower
thus:
There is no depression. It was
here when I came, and it is all over
now anyway. Also, that he intended
to continue the same program that
he had during the four years past
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
NEW RACKETEER RISES

THE gossip is always with uS-haS been,
Il no doubt, since the pyramids were a-build-
ing. But it has remained for preSent-day
America 10 put gossip on a paying basis and
make racket out OF an ancient failing.
Reporters for the New York World-Tele-
gram recently dug up news Of one OF the
oldest businesses ever invented.
They found that there are in New York
certain firms. some Of which have branches
in other cities which will circulate rumors
for YOU for a price: rumors about your COM
peutor. about yourself. about some individ-
ual-insdious whispers that will spread
from mouth to mouth all across the country,
untraoeable and unstoppable.
They have trained operatives who go about
circulating such rumorS. Some OF them pose
as house toulouse statesmen. and drop their
propaganda in the ears OF housewives. Others
filter about through hotel lobby crowds and
travellers in railroad stations. dropping a
word here and there 10 help the cause along.
Anybody. apparently. can hire their services.
one large corporation has lost thousands
upon thousands Of dollars because runor-
mongers have persuaded people that employees
OF the firm we're suffering from leproSy. An
other has taken huge losses because it has
been whispered about that the firm has made
big donations TO the German Nazis.
This sort OF work has been found useful
in labor troubles strike in large Con-
necticut city was broken by sly propagan-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
Rv Will H. Craig.

BY Will H. Craig.
A few questions for Senator
Robinson to answer:
During twelve years of public
service, did you ever vote for a bill
to reduce taxes?
Did you not vote to override the
vetoes of Presidents Coolidge,
Hoover and Roosevelt on measures
of economy?
Don't you think you have made
a fool of yourself in fighting the
world court, strictly Republican
measure?
Don't you believe you are in a
class with Norris, La Toilette and
Hiram Johnson, who should be
outlawed by the G. o. P?
Don't you know you have and
are catering to the groups and
classes as against the masses?
Why don't your dear friend,
jim Watson, come to your relief
in these times of dire distress?
In shifting your campaign tao
tics, you have found a panacea
for all our ills-Ioaning govern
ment money to small industries so
that the wheels will go round and
men be employed.
why should the government
come in competition with private
banks that have oceans of money
to lend to industry on proper Sc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
FLYING'S GOAL

QUITTING the flying time from England to
~ Australia by more than one-half of the
previous record merely confirms the inevitable.
Given the dependable speed of an airplane,
most any one can foretell what the travelling
time will eventually be between points
We know, for instance that airplanes soon
will be crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
at the rate of approximately 200 miles an hour,
and that if straight hops prove too long for a
reasonable factor of safety, seadromes will be
provided.
We know that twelve-hour schedule be-
tween New York and San Francisco is well
within the range of probability and that the
day is not far off when passengers can girdle
the world in five or six days. The problems
which such achievements involve now rest
chiefly on the questions of capital and organ
ization.
Aviation is not new form of individually
controlled travel as many supposed it would
be, but of highly organized transportation.
You can't string garages and service stations
along an air route to take care of amateurs
and nitwits. The f1ier can not pull up at the
roadside and telephone for help when his
engine stalls. The success of aviation de-
ponds on ground work, the absolute GER
tainty that plane is going to reach the
place for which it starts.
1t has taken thirty years for people to
realize that they were not blessed with a new
type of plaything and that air transportation
could only succeed through system, experience
and discipline.
There always will be individual flying, but
it won't mean very much except in the field
of tests, experiments and discoveries Insofar
flying becomes a business, an agency of gen.
eraI convenience, it will be managed by large
corporations.
When the time comes for people to fly
from New York to London in day, as it surely
will, they will fly on ticket not in their
own craft All save the adventurous few have
sense enough to know that the air is one field
which men can not afford to trife with alone.
The right of way is plenty wide and there is
little danger OF getting wrecked on a rock or
reef The one thing TO guard against is the
likelihood of men and machinery going wrong,
and that can be overcome by caution and
alertness.
We are, It appears, at the edge OF great
new era in transportation, an era which dazzles
even the most fertile imagination and which
presents opportunities that past generations
never conceived as possible. Furthermore, We
look for transportation to become compare
lively cheap. so that moderately circum-
stanced folks can visit distant parts of the
world as easily as they now go to nearby lands
or TO far parts of their own country.
Fifty years hence when people talk about
going abroad. it Will really mean going abroad,
not just to Paris, Berlin or London. 1t will
mean seeing places that are now virtually
barred to most of us, such as India, Africa and
the interior of Asia. 1t will mean the wiping
out Of those vast differences which now sepa-
rate the more advanced and the more back
ward countries. It will mean the spread of q
| common language and common standards of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
THIS VETERAN WANTS
SENATOR ROBINSON

By ]. A. Perkins.
I see James F. Walker is at it
again. He does not like the tone of
my letter in The Times of recent
date. I notice he places judgment
on many others as well. Mr..
Walker, I would suggest you brush
up a little on the history of your
Democratic party as it applies to
veterans legislation.
You say in part:
THE veterans will get a square
deal from Roosevelt, Minton and the
Democratic party. Lii Arthur, like
Sunny jim, will be set aside and
forgotten"
I would like to ask you where you
were when your Senator Frederick
Van Mugs. promising Democrat,
stood when the test came to stand
by the people back home or Wall
Street. He voted to stand behind
the present administration, in no.
wise living up to campaign prom
iSes.
The Democrats, in majority in
both houses, passed the economy
bill, thus wiping off the map every
pension bill since 1776 to the present
time. At no time has the Demo-
cratic party been our friend. The
Republican party never in its his
tory took a cent from veterans
pocket. We want Senator Robin
son, not Minton. We old veterans
are not going to be fooled. Minton
is an unknown quantity. We want
Lii Arthur.