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Evening star., 1935-07-10
EDITOR TYPES OBITUARY
DATA AND KILLS SELF
Richard Earl Walker, Associate
Executive of Chattanooga Times,
Was in Failing Health.


BY the Associated Press.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. July 10
Writing that he was mo longer able
to work." Richard Earl Walker, So
year-old associate editor Of the Chat
tanooga Times, typed out data for
his obituary and shot himself to death
in the newspaper office.
Walkers body was found slumped
at his desk yesterday, bullet wound
in the right temple. In his type
writer was the obituary note ad-
dressed to Whom it may concern"
II have been in failing health for
two and half years." it said. st am
going because I am no longer able to
work"
A pistol was found in Walkers
right hand.
Evening star., 1935-07-10
Punished for False Mark.

For putting the mark Made in
England" on cheap German cloth,
Pasquale Arabia. an italian. has been
sentenced in Berlin to five months
imprisonment,
Evening star., 1935-12-23
Golfer Must Putt.

lad Cliff Spencer been one Of the
- better putters, many champion
ship would have fallen to the war
clubs of this long -smiting Baltimore
boy. Cliff did himself 73 in the
opening round of the national open
championship last June and was up
there in third place at the opening
of the title tourney, but thereafter
the puts wouldn't drop and the tall
Beaver Dam mentor finished among
the also-rans. He tried all his quar-
tet of putters, but none Of them would
work on those keen Oakmont greens.
So it is with Mooney. When one
putter fails him he takes out another
one on the next green.
Putting is like the weather, or Mark
Twain's version Of it. The sage of
Missouri remarked that he heard q
lot of people talk about the weather,
but no one seemed to do anything
about it. So with putting. Over
the years there has been many a
scheme proposed to neutralize the
value of putting, from the eight
inch cup of Gene Sarazen's mind
child down to proposal to count
each putt one-haf stroke. Yet moth
ing has been done about it and
nothing probably will be done.
So long as the game of golf Is played
putting will be the single most i'm
portant part of the game, more potent
than the lengthy tee shot, the deadly
approach or the pin-seeking iron shot.
There's an old axiom in golf which
goes something like this: "You can
miss your tee shots and miss the green
with your iron shots, but you can
score if you are putting" Never was
o truer word spoken in jest or earnest
Y1eSs
Evening star., 1935-12-23
SEAVALL PACING
CALIFORNIA GOLF
Score of 139 Gives Home
Pro Stroke Lead-Little
Has Card of 142.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ LENDALE, Calf, December
4 23.-Eric Seavall. young resi-
I I dent professional, held q
~ slender lead today against a
host of invading golf stars as the
Southern California open champion
ship turned into its final stages.
The tall pro enjoyed exceptional
success with his putter and moved into
front place by a stroke yesterday
when he shot So, two better than the
difficult par Of the Oakmont Club
course, for 36-hole total Of l3e.
His closest rivals as play moved into
the third round were Ralph Guldahl,
pro from Dallas. Tex, and q young
amateur. Pat Abbott Of Altadena,
Calf, with scores Of 140.
Levi Lynch, Gladewster, Tex; Har-
old McSpaden, formerly of Kansas
City, Kans., and Jim McHale. a young
amateur from San Gabriel, Calf,
were tied for fourth, two strokes back.
Within easy striking distance were
half a dozen others, including Lawson
Little, jr., British and American ANA
teur champion, whose two rounds of II
gave him a total of 142 strokes.
-Four pros, Emory Zimmerman Of
Portland, Oreg.; John GeertSen, Og-
den, Utah; Bunny Torpey, Kansas
City; Ray Mangrun. Los Angeles, and
Paul Jopes, La Habra, Calf, also had
totals of 142, only three strokes away
from the leader.
Only 43 professionals and 81 ANA
teurs out of the original starting field
Of more than 200 players remained In
the competition for the $4,000 in prize
money and trophies.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
WEST IS IGNORED
IN POLO CHOICES
Squad to Face Britons in
Westchester Cup Play
All From East.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, December 23-The
stars from Texas and the Pa
cific Coast, who have cut
\ large figures in American polo
during the last few years, are not in
cluded in the squad named today by
the United States Polo Association to
face England in the renewal of the
Westchester Cup matches next Sum-
mer.
Headed by Tommy Hitchcock, again
the worlds only 10-goal player, the
five players are drawn entirely from
Eastern fields.
Named with Hitchcock are four
young players, each handicapped at
four goals: Winston Guest. Elbridge
T. (Ebby) Gerry, Michael c.. Phipps
and Stewart B. Iglehart. William
Post, I'd, also was invited to make the
trip, but declined for business reasons.
Strawbridge Teams Pilot.
ID OBERT E. STRAwBRIDGE, jr.,
himself seven-goal player and
a capable substitute, was chosen team
manager. This team will renew the
competition for the historic trophy
for the first time since 1880 at the
birmingham Club, London, July 10,
13 and 20.
It will be the first American in.
vasion for cup competition since 1921.
The series will alternate between Hur-
lingham and the Meadow Brook Club,
Long Island.
The probable lineup for the team
will be Gerry or Phipps at No. /,
Hitchcock, who staged remarkable
comeback last Summer after being Sc
riously injured in each of two pre-
vious seasons, at No. Q; Iglehart at
No. 3 and Guest at back.
Two Have Shipped Ponies.
GUEST and Phipps already. have
shipped IA Of the teams 42
horses to England.
The absence of Western players is
seen not only as a result Of the failure
of all but Cecil Smith of Texas to play
in the major tournaments last year,
but as q concession to the English
style of play, where the softer turf
places more emphasis on short pass
ing and less on long hitting.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
Bowling Aces Find 1t Tough
To Grab Euening Star Coin

1--WE would think 1t a cinch for bowlers in the 100
but "a d t05 ali nsd
enough pins to land among the top Is cent OF the
field at establishment but it isn't sounds
Shooting from scratch they must concede handcaps
naples in the majority when the time comes to roll for the
main prizes.
Irving Blhmer Is striking example Of the expert who
finds it difficult the roo of The Star tournament
recently shot set of GA which is quite certain to
qualify Convention Hail. but it will be the first time
in years that Irving has made the grade seemed as
though the ink still with him when he started the set
with game of SO followed with O7. in the third he
fired score of 165 and the rest was fairly easy.
The qualifying test will continue throughout this week at
all duckpin establishments with the roo to open week
from next Thursday Every bowler within the washington
metropolitan and invited to compete for
the $500 prizes given by Star With entry fee
and liberal handicaps entries ockng into the tourna
ment greater numbers than attracted by any other singles
event held here
Evening star., 1935-12-23
BA RK S Korn
DOGDOM

station site and house on the Balti-
more pike where they plan to COM
bine the kennel business with the
service station business.
The Westminster Kennel Club
premium lists for 1896 now are in the
mail. While the class prize money
is larger this year than before, If the
classes exceed six entries, it seems to
me that the special trophies and
awards are not nearly as numerous
as in past years. Can it be that the
Morris and Essex is diverting some
of the classic 'specials"? 1t has long
been claimed that Twin at the
garden is worth two elsewhere. 1t
Is hard to believe that 6-year-old
show can undermine seriously the
prestige of a 6o-year-old one. Yet the
Evening star., 1935-12-23

former Is sttuned more nearly to
modern conditions. It occurs at
beautiful time of the year, It Is held
outdoors, 1t Is conveniently located for
modern travelling facilities and it Is
one day instead Of three, all factors
which allow the exhibitor to combine
O delightful week end outing with
an important dog show instead OF
necessitating an enforced weeks or
half weeks vacation at q poor time
of the year for most kinds Of business.
Mrs. John Anderson Of Glenmont,
Md, reports q swing In favor back
to the black chow. For some years.
the reds have been high in favor.
For a while 1t looked as If the blues
would come to the front. but this Is
a hard color to breed, and Is really .
color for the connoisseur. Popular
demand is now giving the accolade
to the black. Mrs. Anderson has just
acquired son of international cham
pion Young Fu Tang and Rosa Too
for stud and showing.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
SHOTS ON GREEN
PROVE L|NKSMAN
Deplorably important Hit Is
True Test of Greats in
Ancient Sport.
BY w. Il. McCALLUM.


NUTTING being the deplorably
- important business it is, no
one will think it strange to
l. find many golfers going to
great lengths to find putter that Will
put the ball into the cup.
For there isn't any stroke in the
game that has the Importance Of a
4-foot putt. Scores of championships
have hung on the turn Of a ball from
the distance of feet, where junpy
nerves come into the picture as at no
other time in the game of golf.
So it isn't surprising to find one of
washington's better professional golf
ers carrying four putters in his bulg-
ing bag of golf tools, nor to find an
other amateur who has been so per-
picked with the problems of putting
that he also carries four holing-out
clubs.
The pro is Cliff Spencer, the tall,
dark haired mentor at Beaver Dam,
who has gained for himself more
than local reputation as a long hitter
from the tee. Yet, strangely enough,
Cliffs main troubles in the game have
come on the putting green. He totes
four putters around with him, two OF
the aluminium headed variety and two
with steel blades, and he changes
them around to suit the whim OF the
moment.
So does Herbert Mooney, an anna
teur of Indian Spring and a brother
Of Postmaster Mooney, but Mooney
doesn't use his putters for putting
alone. He brings 'em in to George
Difenbaugh once in while to have
the loft changed, the shaft bent or to
have something done to the club to fit
his purpose, for he uses putters for
chip shots and those delicate little
shots from just off the green.
Evening star., 1935-12-23

n mr. ANY q home will have o
mn barked merry Christmas
Vl greeting this year. And many
4 4 q pup will fnd that 1t Is a
merry Christmas indeed when he
finds what q royal greeting awaits
him on Christmas morning. Here's
hoping that every boy gets a pup and
every pup gets a home That will be
some assurance at least for happy
year for the youth Of our Nation.
The Irish are hard headed, there's
no doubt about that. An Irish terrier
pup and a wire-hair terrier pup ran
from opposite sides Of their yard to
geet their master, Mr.. F. w. Jones
of Merrifield, Va. So great was their
hurry that they collided, head-on,
right in front Of him. The Irish
Evening star., 1935-12-23
UNBEATEN FIVE PLAYS

Dave Keppel's undefeated Rinaldi
Tailors play the Little Tavern five at
$3.50 o'clock tonight, in the feature Of
three Heurich Cup series games at the
brewery gym.
Heurtch Flashes and the Coffey Sales
f1ves open the competition an hour
earlier, and, after the Tailor-Tavern
game, Resettlement Bureau and the
Bovello Plumbers will wind up the
three-game program.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
'STRAgGNT OFE TNE TEE
BY w. R. Ms CALLuM

YUST in time to miss the big snow
and cessation of the playing Of
golf for a few days, Rudolph T..
~ Lefty Harrell bagged enough
pars on the holes where he had missed
to grab himself big Virginia ham IN
the pref Christmas tourney staged at
Washington Golf and Country Club.
Harrel scored a IS, five strokes
below par, over the IL days Of ringer
tourney to win by three shots. DR..
Calvert E. Buck was second, with 6S,
two better than par.
Early next month, well in advance
Evening star., 1935-12-23
CARAS CUE CHAMP
AFTER FINE RALLY
SpIurges After Six Blank
Frames to Score 1858
Win Over Rudolph.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK. December 23.-The
M tradition that q good game Of
VI pool is sign Of wasted youth
4 has been shot to pieces by
Jimmy Caras of Wilmington, Del.
Jimmy, who celebrated his 25th
birthday last week, stood today at the
top Of his profession, which neces-
sarily involves shooting q good game
Of poo-or pocket billiards as it is
called in the championship class.
Caras won the world championship
last night by defeating Erwin Rudolph
of Cleveland, 125~to So, In a 16-inning
play-of match.
Youngest Victor In Is Years.
JIMMY stands out as the youngest
player to win the major title
since Ralph Greenleaf crashed into
the limelight at the age Of l9-16
years ago. Caras' record shows him
to be the most consistent shooter since
Greenleaf took the title in 1929.
In charging through his regular
tournament schedule to win seven of
nine matches, rallying brilliantly
when the pressure was put on to beat
Rudolph Saturday and tie for the lead,
Caras made grand average Of S.1S
successful shots an inning.
He continued that brilliant form In
the play-of match for 7.8l average.
CIinches With Run Of 53.
A BIT shaky at first, Caras got
"a started after six scoreless in
nings to take the lead with runs Of
IL, Is and 26 in succession. He fol-
lowed this up in the eleventh frame
with a brilliant cluster of So, halted
only when a difficult half-masse shot
went awry.
Rudolph, whose best run was 80, es-
sayed a comeback, but ran into a
series Of scratches which took away
most of his points. Jimmy then ran
out with cluster of IS.
George Kelly of Philadelphia I'm
ished third in the tourney. beating
another Philadelphian, Willie Mos
conf, in play-of game Saturday.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
Poor Putting Golfers Chief B4gaboo Rugged Mitchell VIII
20 YEARS AGO
GEORGE WASHINGTON failed
IN THE STAR

rEOftGfE WAo11ANd4SV Aoaace'
to score in the last half
against Navy yesterday and was
trounced, 45-11, by the Middies.
Matthews, former Y. M. c. A.
player, was the only member Of
the @. w. five who was not q
regular last year.
Georgetown took it on the nose
for the third straight time when
it was beaten at Brooklyn by st.
Johns, 26-16.
Foot ball letters for the past
season have been awarded the
following Central players: Capt.
Ochstadt, Capt. .-elect Saxon, Belch-
er, Belnap, Kaplan, Stoner, Hunt,
Jones, Carey, Roberts, Mac
Donald, Selden, Hoover, Long and
Manager Lefevre.
Concentrated action to discour.
age the efforts of pitchers to in
vent freak deliveries has been pre-
dicted for the annual meetings Of
the American and National
Leagues to be held next week.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
BASKETERS RE0RGANIZE
Prince Georges League Will Meet
Thursday at Hyattsville.

Reorganization of the Prince Georges
County Basket Ball League will be ef-
fected Thursday night at the Hyatts-
vile National Guard Armory. The
meeting has been called for 8 pm.
Two games are scheduled for the
armory tonight with the Brentwood
Hawks and Mount Rainier Grays
playing at 7:30 o'clock and the Silver
Spring and Company F five Of Hyatts-
vile immediately following.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
EAST'S GRIDMEN DRILL.
Settle to Serious Work for Big
New Year Day Battle.

New ear lay Battle.
SAN FRANCISCO. December ,23
P.-Scrimmage replaced sightseeing
for Eastern stars in the Shrine grid
classic New Year day.
The % huskies from east Of the
Rockies devoted most of yesterday TO
trip through the city. Last night
they took quarters in Berkeley and
dug in for nine solid days practice
under Coaches Andy Kerr and Dick
Hanley.
The Western squad, under coaches
Percy Locey and Orin Hollingbery.
moved to Palo Alto for similar work.
outs.
No attempts have been made to
pick starting line-ups for either squad.
Evening star., 1935-12-23

Of the affair. Harrell will begin max
ing preparations for the annual Win
ter. junket Of a group Of Washington
golfers to Augusta, Ca. where some
30-odd of them went last February.
The trip this Winter Is planned for
the same week, the week Of February
"a, and from present indications the
number will be larger than last year,
when they went to Augusta for the
first time, after several trips to Pine
hurst.
They were enthusiastic about the
golf In the Georgia city. The trip cost
each member Of the party around $50
for four days Of golf.
A PITCHED ball cannot be stopped
on frozen putting greens unless
there has been slight thaw, in the
opinion Of Dave Thomson, the Wash
ington pro. Davie played yesterday
with @. II. Doing, Ross Colwell and
". G. Dickey and found 1t impossible
to make the ball stop from Q pitch
shot on the frozen green's.
"I don't think any man In the
world can put enough spin on a
pitched ball to stop 1t on frozen
green" Dave said. I'VE tried it on
the second and the eleventh holes, and
1t just couldn't be done. In fact,
although three of us hit the eleventh
green, 14o yards from the tee, with
our pitch shots, ! won the hole with
q 4. You Just couldn't stop the ball.
There's only one way to play these
frozen green's. That Is to pitch well
short and try to figure on the bounce
and roll. OF course, it's hard enough
when they aren't frozen, and its worse
now, but it can be done If you watch
closely"
u POLAND MCKENZIE, Congress
~ sional pro, finished the Nassau
open yesterday with a par-snattering
e6 and yet was far down the money list
with o 72-hole total Of 285. He I'm
ished IA strokes behind the leader, Leo
Mallory, who scored 271 for the four
rounds.
Leo walper Of Bethesda wound up
the tourney with 293.
Roland's average was II and frac-
ton, and yet he finished away behind
the leader. which Is just another ex-
ample of the low scoring In the South
ern Journeys. The course at Nassau Is
short and fairly easy, but, even 50.
good golf alone won't win. You've
got to be strictly on your stick every
minute Of the time in all the Winter
tournaments. or you won't get q slice
Of the dough.
walper and Ralph Beach today
started the long drive across the South
for California, hoping to reach the
Evening star., 1935-12-23
j. C. C. QUINT WINNER
Harry Cohen Leads In S4-to-24
Victory Over BOYD Pharmacy.

Harry Cohen sent the Jewish CONF
munity Center basketers on TO o good
start last night, when he scored nine
points to lead In the 34-24 defeat OF
the Boyd Pharmacy.
The winners are booking games
through Jack 1Tierney, at Decatur
1911, between IND pm.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
! .HoNoRs CENTRAL TEAM.

Central High Schools graduate "C'
Club viii reward the Blues champion
ship foot ball team tonight at the
New Colonial Hotel when gold foot
bells will be awarded the members
of the team, Coach Hardy Pearee
and DR.. Harvey A. Smith, principal.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
eRAYs BEAT CARDINALS.

Collins and Colaan led the Grays 10
q 31-26 victory over the Cardinals IN
q Tri-C County League game yesterday.
Cohan topped his teanmate By three
points, scoring six field goals and .
foul.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
BASKET MEET CROWDED

Registered for Tourney.
With 112 teams already signed to
play in the Metropolitan Police Boys
Club basket ball tournament, which
begins Thursday at the George Wash
ington University gymnasium, entries
for the event were to close at o'clock
this afternoon. Until that time regis
trations were still being taken at No.
5 precinct.
Competition ranges from the 100
pound to the unlimited class.
Evening star., 1935-12-23

Pacific Coast In time to play In the
Pasadena open, starting next Friday.
Yiffy Cox, who didn't play at Nassau,
already has left for the Pacific Coast.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
Evans Weak With Putter.

d1OA . puttmg really was pitiable
The finest player of the medium
irons among the amateurs of America.
ttme after time he knocked the bali
within 10 feet of the cup from 200
yards away and missed the putt. One
match he played with Bob Jones, back
in 1925 at Baltusrol, was a good ex-
ample. Outplaying the great Bob
from tee to green over the entire
match, Chick had eight successive
puts for brides from 10 to S feet
over the last nine Of the match. He
didn't get single one, and Bob beat
him by Q and /.
It all sounds goofy that man
should play such golf from tee to
green and not be able to get the ball
down. But putting is as much part
OF the game as is the zooming tee
shot.
Roland Mackenzie used to be one
Of. the better putters, as an amateur.
He still Is, as pro, but he isn't as
good as he used to be back in 1927,
when he used to knock the back out
of the cup on those 1o-footers. The
man who can putt still is match
for any one In his class.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
GRID OFFICIALS TEST
Examinations for Membership in
Group Here Scheduled Friday.

Oficials desiring membership in the
Wash%y yton District Foot Ball OH
cials' Association must take the exam
nation to be given at $50 pm. FRI
day In Gouzaga High School. ~ I
street northwest.
Prospective applicants are required
first to pass oral and written quizzes,
which may be arranged by calling Ho-
hey OMeara at North 6867. O'Meara
must be notified before Friday.
Evening star., 1935-12-23
YOUNGSTER FACES
WILD FOE TONIGHT
Brooklyn BattIer Vastly Dif-
ferent From Fragile
Boxer Al Beat.
BY FRANCIS Z. STAN.
CCIAIA6En hu Washing

A CCLA1MED Dy WaShlngtonS
" ring colony as great young
~ heavyweight prospect sol -
n on the strength Of kayo Wa
over Bob Goodwin, 20-year-old Al
Delaney Of Buffalo steps against q
sharply contrasting type of foe tonight
in Joe Turner's Arena.
In his second local fistic test, De.
laney, instead of facing an out-and-
out boxer of known fragility, will
tackle rugged, wild-swinging young
ster in Terry Mitchell Of Brooklyn.
Mitchell is no world beater, but he
swings hard and often, although FREE
quently his direction is of line
Eight rounds is the scheduled dis
tance, but the local wagering gentry
today was willing to lay even money
on a knockout by Delaney and 2-to-1
odds on the Buffalo boy to win either
by kayo or decision.
KayOes Goodwin Early.
Mitchell was not without his sup.
A'A porters, however. The failing
Irishman, on the strength of three
previous showings in the Capital, rated
many flyer" in the opinion Of local
ringwormS: That Terry can hurt
when he lands punch was demon
strated when he flattened Kirk Burk
in his debut here. That his style is
puzzling was evident when he out
pointed Joe Lipps in a succeeding
battle. Mtchell's only local setback
was handed by Bob Tow, who far
outweighed Terry.
Few invading fighters have struck
as popular a chord here as did De-
laney, nee Borchuk, when he made
his bow in Turner's Arena a couple
of weeks ago. Substituting, through
a quirk Of fate, for the man he fights
tonight. Delaney slapped Goodwin
around the ring in the first round
of their bout and proceeded to knock
out convincingly the former N. B. A.
light-heavy champion in the second
heat. =
The kayo completely killed of God
win as a card here and cataputed
Delaney to a position as one Of the
most talked-about young scrappers
to invade during the current year.
Scott to Make Debut.
RACKING up the main event viii
~ be three six-round scraps and a
four-round opener. with most Of the
attention due to be focused on Eddie
Burl and Cowboy Howard Scott, pair
of featherWeights.
Scott. newcomer to these parts,
halls from the Southwest. with a
knockout of California Joe Rivers to
his credit. He figures to hurdle the
ancient Burl, but Eddie, always q
boxing "spoiler" on a minor scale,
may pick this spot to upset the dope
again.
Mike Tardugno, former captain Of
Georgetown University's boxing team,
will return to a local ring after a
long absence to battle Joe Bruno Of
Baltimore in another six-rounder. The
third tussle at this distance will in
volve Frankie Lift and Bud Fisher. Q
pair Of New York lightweights.
The opener, between Doug Sweet
nam and an opponent to be named
this afternoon, will begin at $50
o'clock.