Evening star., 1936-08-22

toned athletes, notes that "the solemn
Firms" continue to win races over
5000 meters: that Jap won the ma
rathon; that Negroes have been prom
inent on our teams, and announces that
Art Jarrett, husband of Eleanor Holm
disbarred swimmer, will sue those re-
sponsible for her disbarment, although
he has mo idea what amount, no idea
what court, and no idea of the precise
basis of the action"
Thus the Olympics.
Golfers for the week announces a
new professional sport in the roller
skating derby. 1t is sweeping over the
country, says the piece, which is by
Quentin Reynolds and is called
Round and Round" The new derby
is run by a man named Leo Seltzer
goes on for 35 days at a performance,
has already played in Chicago, Miami
Louisville and Kansas City, and seems
to bid fair to give six-day cycling fans
a new occupation.
Golfers also gives space to steel
head fishing in its current issue, in
a piece called Fighting FISH" by
Frank j. Taylor. Steelheads are now
running in the Klamath, Rogue and
Umpqua Rivers, says Mr.. Taylor, and
anglers are swarming to Suicide Row
for the fun. A steelhead is fresh
water trout who goes to sea and Sui
eide Row is the end Of the sandbar
where the Klamath River empties into
the sea. When steelhead were run
ming. says Mr.. Taylor. "the lagoon
was electric with activity. The
water churned as tens of thousands OF
silver bodies flashed about the slough
The flashing steelheads did the Graz
lest things, such as jumping in the air
cavorting and shaking themselves in
defiance of the anglers ." Fish
ermen should like it.
Liberty, also sportminded, 1t would
seem, revives memories of base balls
great triumvirate, Tinker to Evers to
Chance in an article by that name by
Evers himself. 1t is a bit of reminisc-
ing on the base ball of almost forgot
ten days. Those double plays we
made" says Mr. Evers, were all part
of a prearranged program and there
was more than Joe Tinker and Frank
Chance and concerned in their ex-
ecution."
Running currently with Mr.. Ever's
revelations, John Francis Hennessey's
athletic confessions appear in the
September Esquire, purporting to tell
how it feels to be just tennis player
grown old. Mr.. Hennessey is now G
grocery clerk and happy at grocery
clerking. says he. No more tourna-
ment stuff for him. He turns down
an offer Of $1,000 a month to turn
pro, and goes right on wrapping UP
rice and coffee. Why? In his own
words, the smart operator is the one
who shifts courses while the winds
are best Remember, boy, it,
tough sailing when the wind dies
DOWN. This wisdom comes from tht
only man who beat both Cochet ant
Tilden. He began clerking at $40 q
week,
Esquire also looks at foot ball in
its current number, prophesying that
it will not be long before the naming
of the all-America team ceases to bt
an event Of any interest. There are
too many players. it observes, in an
article by Lynn Waldorf called 'Tht
Vanishing All-American." When tht
first team was picked. says Mr.. Wal.
dorf. there were just three school.
represented. Now the all-Americs
has become a classic myth by reason
of his rapid multiplication.
TRAILING, or getting about the
country in a trailer, or perhaps
Just sitting on a tourist camp lot ir
such a vehicle, has recently come in
for a surprising amount of attention
Trailing seems Individually to have
caught on-if you can bear the Ian
guage. One indication CT its assunlp-
ton of place in the public mind
might be that the Saturday Evening
Post has a story (lctlon) IN Its cur
rent issue about a man who kept q
cow in a trailer.
Another bit of evidence lies in the
recent appearance of book. Folding
Bedouins," wherein an astute news
paper man sets forth, in the guise of
wisecracking humor, the facts about
the comforts and discomforts Of trail
ing life. But vastly more impressive
than these lowbrow recognitions Is
the fact that the current Nation--no
less-has taken up the trailing ques-
tion this week in a leading article.
One thought, on seeing the title,
that it is, after all, pretty hot down
in Vesey street in August and rumi-
mated sadly how even an intellectual
high collar will melt. But a little
investigation proved that the Nation
is still the Nation. Miss Ernestine
Evans piece, "Resettlement by Trail
er," is strictly class conscious and the
spirit which dictated it Is plainly the
one which envisages the trailer as an
instrument of more abundant life.