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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-15
|2LIQUOR PLANS l. P PRESERVED TO LEGISLATURE
Open Dispensary, Territor- lal Store Proposals Intro
 duced by Committee

Two plans of liquor control. one calling for the operation of Terri torial liquor stores and the other for open dispensaries, were pre- sented to the legislature today, like measures being introduced in both the senate and house.
 The open dispensary and high license bill which provides that liquor could be sold by the glass and handled privately, both retail and wholesale, is an enlargement of the previously introduced Me- Cutcheon measure and provides for a consumer permit. Licenses would be authorized in three classes un- der it, wholesale, retail and manu- featuring. Wholesale license would cost $500, retail, 5000 annually, and manufacturers $100.
 Store Plan
 Under the Territorial store bill, patterned after the Washington state system, liquor control board made up of the Governor, Audi tor, Treasurer, Attorney General and Highway Engineer, would have complete charge of handling liquor in the Territory. Stores could be located at the discretion of the board and all employees would be appointed by the board to conduct the business in the various stores.
 All purchasers would be required to have a permit, which would cost dollar and expire annually at midnight, December 31. Other li- cense requirements under the mea- sure include: Brewers license for manufacture of beer for sale only to Territorial stores, s200 a year; sale of beer and wine in restau- rants, $25; club license, $25, with the privilege of selling hard liquor by the glass; to sell beer and wine on airplanes. dining places on boats and dining cars, $25.
 Set Up Fund
 A fund of s100,0O0 is asked to set up the Territorial plan which will be known as the Liquor Re- volving Fund" and to which all revenues from sale of liquor by the board would go. Under the bill 90 per cent of the profits would revert to incorporated cities and towns and 10 per cent to the gen. eral fund of the Territory.
 Private handling of liquor under license supervision is the mair plan of the dispensary bill, an ad- ditional feature to the McCutch. con measure being that it require. the consumer permit" In order to buy or be served with liquor thu customer would have to have sucf a permit. issued by the United States Commissioner and costing $50,
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Planta said the ceded territory would provide British Columbia with seaports much needed in the development of the northern hin- terland.
 Planta said, however, he would have Juneau continue a part of the United States,
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Landubber Now

OPELIKA, Ala. - Commodore Herbert Hartley, former command CT of the Leviathan, now lives the life of landlubber at his boyhood home here, after follow ing the sea for 35 years,
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FUR FARMERS
 FIGHTING TAX

SEATTLE, Feb. 15.-Fox and fur farmers of Puget Sound have started a drive against the ten percent Federal tax on raw furs, saying it jeopardizes the vast fur revenue of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
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Women Office
 Workers Single

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-In a survey of 43,OO0 women office workers it was found that 84.8 per cent of the women were single. the Woman's Bureau reports.
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SALMON HELD
 UP IN FRANCE
One Hundred Tons on Docks, Entry Refused
 Quota Reached

PARIS, Feb. 15.-One hundred tons of frozen salmon from the United States are now held on the French docks and ships with sal- mon bound for France, will be re- fused entry because the quota is filled. This was revealed by the Government officials.
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M. E. BACKUS
 DIES, SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Feb. 15.-Manson F. Backus, aged 81 years, dean of Seattle bankers, i'll since last Janu- ary 24, died at his home here to- day. He was Chairman of the Di- rectors of the National Bank of Commerce.
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CAPT. NELSON
 DIES ON SHIP

SEATTLE, Feb. 15.-Capt. N. S.. Nelson, aged 51 years, died aboard the Point Bonita while that craft was off Neah Bay, according to a report received here.
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CLAIM HAUPTtlANN HAD ACC0MPLlCE
Business, Trade Sho,Us Increase In Volume

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-The advancing tendencies in busi- ness and trade that have been prevalent since the first of the year, continued in increasing volume during the past week, the Dun-Bradstreet, Incy re- view said today.
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Evening star., 1935-02-10
BY JOHN CLACETT PROCTOR.

- HE west-end section Of old Washing
ton was once considered to be about
the best part of the city in which to
reside, and especially was this true
in the very early days. when land In
the neighborhood Of Washington
Circle was suburban In character and Rock
Creek was q considerably larger stream than
it Is now. and when it had a much more pic
turesque setting than the eye can visualize
today.
Building In this section began quite soon
after 1t was decided to move the Capital Of the
Nation to the River Potomac, "at some place
between the mouths of the Eastern Branch
and the Conococheague," as the act Of Con-
gress puts it in designating the limits within
which the District of Columbia shall be placed.
OF course we assume that the Eastern Branch
Is familiar to ALL and for the benefit Of those
who may not know, the Conococheague Is
small stream which runs through the upper
part Of Western Maryland and emptes into
the Potomac River at Wil1iamsport, q little
over six miles from Hagerstown
When the City Of Washington was laid out,
Pennsylvania avenue from Rock Greek to the
White House ran through three parcels Of
land. From the creek to about Twenty
street 1t separated q tract known as Mexico
and Newbottle," owned by Robert Peter; from
about Twenty second street to about Eighteenth
street it divided q tract called widows Mite"
owned by James M. Lingan, and from there
70 ana 1ncluolng the nOftnern part OF the
White House grounds was the farm Of Samuel
Davidson, known as Port Royal"
OF that part Of Pennsylvania avenue nearest
10 Rock Creek there are several early sketches
and few photographs that will Senlighten US
On the beginnings Of this part Of Washington,
and an inexhaustible amount of valuable in
formation to draw upon which cannot help
but always prove entertaining to the reader.
A CCORDNG to reliable authority, as early
as 1900 there was in the block bounded
BY Twenty-ffth and Twenty-sixth streets and
Pennsylvania avenue and NJ street Q small
wooden house surrounded by an orchard and
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occupied by q colored man. This square was
only separated from the creek by a portion
Of q block.
From the same source we find that there was
also standing to the north of the Avenue be-
tween the creek and Nineteenth street the
following buildings:
Between Twenty-second and Twenty third
and M and N streets, two-story frame house,
occupied by a Mr. Houseman. On square
bounded by Pennsylvania avenue and L and
Twenty-third and Twenty fourth streets, four
brick houses, one a three-Story and three one
and-a-half stories (known as the Round Top)
and owned and occupied in part by a Mr..
Pollock. On the square between Pennsyl-
vania avenue and K and Twenty-first and
Twenty second streets the Six Buildings three
stories high-owners and occupants not recol-
lected Also an old frame adjoining. On
square between and K and Twenty first and
Twenty-second streets, three houses, two brick,
three stories, one owned by Joel Brown, esq,
and the other by william O'Neal, esq, and one
two-story frame occupied by Samuel McIn-
tyre, esq. On square bounded by Pennsylvania
avenue and I and Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets, 10 houses-one three-story frame occu-
pied by Mr.. Middleton; one two-story frame.
owned and occupied by William Waters, esq,
and the Seven Buildings, brick three stories
high. On the square between I and K and
Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, four frame
houses-one q small one-story, occupied as q
Quaker meeting house; one q two-story, occu-
pied by Joseph Hodgson, esq. and the other
two. Of one story each owned by Mrs. Ray.
afterward Mrs. Kedgeley"
The area known as Round Top" approxi-
mately between Pennsylvania avenue and L
street and Twenty third and Twenty fourth
Streets was one Of the first places to be built
upon in this part Of Washington. Just what
kind Of houses were early erected there it
would be difncult to definitely say at this time
as ALL no doubt, have been removed ere this.
The four brick houses mentioned as having
been there around the year 1900 might have
been as described or they might have been
slightly different, but at least all agree that
there were four old houses there around this
time, and We are even told that they were
erected by Robert Peter. the first mayor of
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Twenty-fourth street, was destroyed by fire
while it was still incompleted. A second group
was midway the block between Twenty fifth
and Twenty-sixt streets. and the most historic
OF all, the two which stood between Twenty
sixth and Twenty seventh, where President
Washington usually stopped with Mrs. Thomas
Peter, Mrs. Washington's granddaughter. who
resided in the one to the west-now numbered
1920 X street.
Besides Robert Peter, the other residents of
Round Top" residing there at an early date
were Joseph H. Hilton, a Miss Smart and
Mrs. Coerr, said to have been the mother Of
Mrs. Green; Mr.. Strup, tailor. and Mr.. Kirby.
Quite an old residence which once stood on
the northeast corner Of Twenty fifth and L
streets. and which formed the nucleus Of the
Columbia Hospital for Women at this site, was
the old Ringgold property, where once lived
Tench Ringgold, an early United States marshal
for the District of Columbia. 1t was erected
by Mr. Ringgold in 1912. and was his home for
number Of years, and was later the residence
Of Sir Frederick Bruce and other foreign diplo-
mats, including Mr.. Baggott. the British
Minister. John Mason, jr., and other persons
also resided here.
In 1872 the mansion and 40 900 feet of ground
was purchased by the Government for $25 600,
with an allowance Of $1,000 in addition for
altering and repairing the building, and the
following year Congress provided $4,000 to
complete the alterations and for ref1tting the
hospital and $2850O for its maintenance, and
InuCl dQUlIlOudl BTOuEu was subsequently aC-
quired.
THIS hospital had its beginning in 1866,
mainly through the efforts of DR.. J. Harry
Thompson, who was surgeon in charge from
1866 to 1878, when he removed to Rome, Italy,
where he died. Originally the home OF the
hospital was in the old Hill mansion, which
stood to the northwest of Thomas Circle, where
Fourteenth street and Massachusetts avenue
intersect.
This was then beautiful site the hospital
grounds covering nearly the whole square But
the chances are that this section was about as
unimproved then as it was in 1840 when the
Chevalier de Bacourt, the French Minister.
described the travelling conditions as being any
thing but desirable, saying:
II went to see Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hill,
who live at the extreme end of the city; my
carriage sank UP to the axle-tree in the snow
and mud; it was necessary to leave the car
riage, which had to be dragged out and scraped
to remove the mud and slush which stuck TO
it like glue. I don't know how any one can
get to the Hills on Monday next, when they
give a ball; they count on the moon shining
that night to save their necks. This is how 1t
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Georgetown, and that In one Of these he lived
shortly after his marriage
p OBERT PETER, who was substantially
~ Georgetowns pioneer business man, was
born In Scotland In 1726 and came to George
town shortly after he had attained his majority,
and in 1852 embarked upon what proved to be q
successful business career begun in robert
Peters Rock Greek store" One authority gives
the names Of his sons as Thomas Robert,
the senior Mr. Peter erected six three-story brick
houses on K street in groups of two each prior
to 1900.
One group. which stood at the corner Of
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WEST-END WASHINGTON PIONEERS

old 'Round Top" and the RinggoM
Home, Site Of Columbia Hospital for
Women Franklin Hotel and the
Daughter of Its Proprietor ''Peg'
ONeale, Who Married Gen. Eaton.
President ./ackson?S s Interest in 'Zittle
Peg and the Disruption Of fills Cabinet.
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Gen. Motors Highest
Since 1881 AS Stocks
Turn Upward

General Motors sold at the
highest level since 1881. Chrys-
Ter firmed up after first hour
SIuggishness. Sears ROebuck
jumped 2 points and MOntgOm-
cry Ward rose over a point.
Bendix and Electric Auto Lite
were turned over in large volume
in the accessories and bettered
their previous highs. The avia-
tons staged a furry and went to
new 1885 highs in large scale
activity. Douglas and United Air
craft were the pacemakers.
Merchandising shares improved
under the stimulus of rising prices
for the mail orders. Steels firmed
up after early Sluggishness. U. S.
Steel went above the previous
close. Bethlehem preferred rose
over points.
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COTTON SRALLY
CUTS LOSSES

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 0.N.SD.
The cotton market rallied after
earlier evening up prior to the
report and cut losses to about 10
cents a bale.
Trading decreased slightly as
the market improved and traders
settled back to wait for IL o'clock.
The South, cooperatives and
spot houses were selling as was
the Continent. Trade was buy
ing and some support also came
from locals, New Orleans and
professionals.
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GRAIN OPENING
IRREGULAR

CHICAGO, Aug. 8 GN.SO.
Grains opened irregular today
with wheat unchanged to 3sc up,
corn unchanged to 1ac off and
oats "a to Ac off.
Wheat September, 9024 @91c;
December, 23s@9234c; May, 94c.
Corn, September, 7524c; Decem-
Der. 593s@59Ac; May, 6OA@
607sc. September, 3Obc;
December, 32@32bc; May, 343sc.
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and auto &C.
cessories.
A factor was
q firmer tone
in the rails
after an early
drop, running
to a point in
A t c h i S o n q.
Losses we're re-
covered a n d
gains subSti-
tuted as Union
Pacific rallied
more than a
point in ad-
vance of the
dividend meet
ing.
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BY LESLIE GOULD

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 GN.S).
The stock market turned stronger
today after early irregularity,
with leadership provided by Gen.
eral Motors, mailorders, aviations,
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golf professional duties at the
Woodmont Country Club, having
spent the last few months at his
Philadelphia home. Larkin will
retain Dick Barnsley as his as
sistant.
Local professional golfers can't
be bothered by such a trifle as a
cold, gnawing rain, such as that
which poured down from the skies
yesterday. Undaunted, the pros
engaged in their informal sweep
stakes at the Congressional Coun-
try Club with Roland R. Macken-
zie, home pro, and Mel Shorey,
East Potomac Park, deadlocking
for first with 76's. Reds" Cum
ningham. Burning Tree, Tailed 78,
while Claggett Stevens, Congress
sional; AL Treder, Manor; Leo j.
Walper, unattached. and George
Diffenbaugh, Indian Spring,
counted 79 apiece.
Opening first and Second.team
matches for the Women's District
Golf Association next week follow:
April Second teams. at Columbia
Country Club: 9. Columbia VS.. Indian
Spring: 9:2O, Woodmont VS.. Beaver Dam
9:4O, Manor VS.. Kenwood; 10, Army
Navy VS.. Chevy Chase. Congressional,
bye.
April First teams at Indian Spring
9, first tee, Indian Spring vs.. Beaver
Dam; 10, tenth tee. Army:Navy VS..
Washington; 92O first tee, Columbia VS..
Woodmont; 9:2o, tenth tee, Congress
sional VS.. Kenwood; 9:40, first tee,
Chevy Chase VS.. Manor.
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New York Yankees, the Boston
Rel Sox, the Athletics, the Tigers,
the Senators, the Browns and
the Cleveland Indians, the White
Sox at least had the early salts
faction of taking a wide edge in
their first games with the Chi
cago Cubs, who also train on the
Pacific Coast.
Fans Are Amazed
Los Angeles fans looked on in
amazement one calm Saturday
afternoon when the White Sox,
with no less than Whitehead and
Slime pitching, shut out the Cubs
SO, and then on the following
Sunday, again won, 9-8, in a
game that had everything from
home-runs to unaSsisted double
plays, to say nothing of a barrage
of errors that drove Manager
Dykes of the Sox, and Manager
Charley Grimm Of the Cubs, al.
most crazy.
The Sox incidentally have been
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jake Powell, the young center
fielder of the Griffs, hit the long.
est golf shot this agent ever saw
fly off the head of a golf club,
and I covered the open champion
ship when Bobby Jones, Horton
Smith, Hagen, Espinoza and the
rest of the good ones were TAX
ing their cuts.
Out on the Edgewater Hotel
course yesterday afternoon, Powell
cut into a drive and sent it hur-
tling over the heads of Clark Grif'
fifth, Nick Altrock, Uncle Billy
Smith and this writer. We all
had hit good drives and were
walking after our second shots.
Distance Real
Technically, we were out OF
range, but Powell tagged one and
it whistled $50 yards over our
heads so that he had a niblick
shot to a 45O-yard green. Don't
argue about the distance, boys. 1
was there. I saw it.
Incidentally there was a play
ers' tournament at Edgewater yes
terday, and the ancient game took
a royal beating. The players were
in the woods and out of the traps;
in the woods and over the trees,
as they pursued Col. Bogey hither
and yon. When the last divot
had been torn out of the fairways,
it was found that a four-cornered
tie had developed.
Earl Whitehill, royal chancellor
of the Duchy of Biloxi, was
hooked up with Joe Kuhel, Bucky
Harris and Johnny Stone. Their
scores were up in the millions, but
free-handed handicapping by Pres
ident Clark Griffith brought them
into the circle of champions. What
were the scores? Well, figures
don't lie, but pencils do slip.
We had a near fatality down
here yesterday morning. Cecil
Travis was rolling around at third
base during batting practice
when Red Kress was at bat. He
turned his back to the plate just
as Kress swung, and a line drive
missed his head by a fraction OF
an inch. Kress' auburn hair
turned white for a second until
he discovered that his teammate
was uninjured.
ANOTHER GOMEZ
"Another Gomez in two
years." President Clark Griffith
again enthused over the pitch
ing skill of little Archie Scrive'
ner this morning. "He has the
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more than a little successful In
their other exhibition games. Sum
day, for example, they defeated
the Pittsburgh Pirates. 10 to z,
thus swapping a 7-game winning
streak by the Buccaneers.
Dykes Tips Lineup
Dykes tipped his hand on his
possible starting lineup when the
following employees Of the White
Sox pay roll were allowed to re-
main throughout most Of the ex'
hibition games, in the following
order: Hayes, second base; Haas,
right field; Simmons, center field;
Bonura, first base; Hafey, left
field; Appling, shortstop; Dykes,
third base; Sewell. catcher, and q
miscellaneous aSSor m e mt OF
mound laborers including George
Earnshaw, Johnny Whitehead, Yer
non kennedy, Babe Phelps, White
low wyatt, and Joe Vance.
John MichaelS has recovered
with reasonable early season
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Clarendon Juniors
Lose First Match

The Clarendon Juniors suffered
their first duckpin defeat of the
year last night as the Arcadia
Juniors out-pointed them 1858 to
1881.
In winning the doubles, Sidney
Kibler had a 180 game and a 43l
set while his partner, Ed Wilson
had a 329 set for a total 760.
]. Simmons and r. Nocera, Of the
Arcadia Juniors. were out of it
with a 608 total. B. Sisler, Ar.
csdia Juniors, scored victory in
the singles with a 3S5 against Bill
KingSolver'S 321.
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Dykes has worked hard with
his players and those to aspire to
such classification. The only
time he seemed bit upset was
not, curiously, when he lost an
exhibition game, but when the
New York Yankees released
Babe Ruth to the Boston Braves,
a team in the National League.
"It's a shame" said Dykes.
"After all Babe has done for
the American League in gen.
eral and the Yankees in par
ticular, they turn him out to
pasture in Boston, Of all places.
It wasn't right. Babe1l show
EN-"
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Schedules Ready
For All Games
In League

Baseball fans, your American
League schedule is ready.
For the sixth consecutive year,
The Washington Times is giving
its readers vest pocket editions
of the entire 154 games played
on the 1885 American League
schedule.
These convenient little book
lets telling where every team
plays every day are available
Immediately to all who send a
self-addressed stamped envelope
to the Baseball Schedule Editor,
The Washington Times.
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FOWLER, OLSON
WIN ENTRIES
IN STAKES

Joe Fowler, veteran of 30 years
on the duckpin drives and Walter
Olson, a beginner, won free
entries in the second annual
"Superdub" Sweepstakes sche-
duled at Northeast Temple
Saturday.
Fowler clicked off games Of
1874, 125 and 1874 for a 383 set,
while Olson had 1876, 100 and 1874
for $50. Bill Mangum placed
third with 1863. Lee Siemon had
high game, IA.
The "Superdub" Sweepstakes is
for bowlers averaging 1l2 or
under for the current season.
Entry fee is SIS per man including
games. Seven games will be
rolled, Summaries:
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S11S SSS4A4S
the ringside, out there in the
For even in defeat, California
Joe Rivers looks better than a
lot of victors Washington has
been handed in the last 10
months. The young man has
fortitude. Too, he has a wicked
right uppercut to which Sarron
can attest, probably better than
lot of us who only saw it, but
never felt it.
Wants Another Crack
Rivers also has enough cour-
age to keep on trying for Sar-
ron's scalp, because no matter
how unanimous many of you
may be in the theory that Rivers
can never take Petey Sarron,
the young man told his we'll
wishers in the dressing room
after last evenings cyclone had
blown over, that he wants one
more, just one more, crack at
his older, more experienced pub
lie enemy No. !.
From the first to the tenth
round, Sarron and Rivers regis
tered enough action to keep all
pulses hammering and all nerves
atwitter. Indeed, there were
some symptoms of hysteria, the
Rivers rooters remaining Staunch
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WALS0N, KLINE
SPLIT TIMES
PIN PRIZE
CONGRATULATIONS! Mrs. M ary
%tts. Charlie Watson and
Bv SID KATZNELL

"Cnuck huue.
Mrs. Pit t S
captured first
prize in the
women's divi-
sion of The
w a S h i n G ton
Tim es high
duckpin game
contest by roll
ing 152 la s t
w e d n e S d a y
night with In
ternal Revenue
t e a m in t h e
Ladies' Federal
League. Wal
son and Kline
will Sn1it. first
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particularly pa.
tient in train
ing camp at
Pasadena with
the newcomers.
Patient. that
is, until the
regular hurlers
started to" "bear
down" a f ter
freeing them
selves Of creakS
a n d 6 r o a n S
that gather in
pitching bones
during the win
ter.
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larly feared his
deadliest golf
rival, V. Calvert
Dickey, W o uld
benefit mostly
f rom his mis-
hap.
C a m e t h e
spring, and Cru
ver's arm was
pronounced fit
again. He i'm
m e d i a t ely re-
sumed his golf
ing W ar f a r e
with Dick e y
t hey h a v e
~ Z n
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matches year between them
selves), and Gruver was apprehen-
sive as he teed off.
Gruver's fears disappeared after
discovering his arm was as strong
as ever and he lashed into Dickey
with all his old fury winning the
match, 1 up, with a par 4 on the
final hole. Of course, Dickey will
have something to say in the
many golf "rebuttals"
Gene Larkin has resumed his
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from q sore
arm.
"Zeke" Bonu-
ra has enjoyed
a bonanza of eX
hibition h 1t s.
In one game
he made a dou-
BILE and three
singles. He was
pleased. SO was
Dykes.
Ray Radcliff
made a spirited
bid for a regu-
lar position in
the V hite SoX
o,,tf;nId