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The Washington times., 1936-11-27
BY GARRETT WATERS
"For being the most valuable

The deserving young footballer
is:
Bill Kemp, Eastern High
School.
And there, good friends, you
have it, the winner of the 1886
Washington Times Most Valuable
Player high school football award.
Officials of the 1886 series met
at Olmsted's Grill to reach the de-
cision. They agreed on Kemp after
a thorough discussion and study
The Washington times., 1936-11-27
Crash JoIts Macfadden

FALMOUTH, Mass. Nov. 27
GNSO.-Uninjured when an air
plane carrying five passengers and
pilot, Somersaulted while landing.
Bernard MacfFadden, 68, New
York publisher, today was resting
from the Shakeup.
The Washington times., 1936-11-27
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair and continued cold with lowest tenn
perature about "a tonight; tomorrow mostly
cloudy and warmer.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
BY r. r. TAYNTON.

- EVERAL weeks ago the news
papers Of the world carried q
short news item about King Ed
wards vacation trip to one of
his country estates. and made much
Of the fact that he was accompanied
by his dog. Since then the eyes and
the attention Of all the world have
been focused upon this man, who Is
no longer q king, and whose vacation
has become . voluntary exile from the
land Of his birth.
Nobody can adequately imagine the
anguish and mental torture that the
last few weeks must have held for
Edward, Duke of Windsor. But every.
body who has q dog knows that Ed
wards dog must have given him some
slight measure Of comfort in that ter
rible time. And everybody who has
a dog knows why, and is glad that Ed
wards dog Is with him on this vaca-
ton as we'll as on the former one.
The rulers Of Britain have al
ways been doggy race. Queen
Victoria inaugurated the long
and lasting popularity Of the
collie.
Queen Alexandra made fashionable
the borzoi, or Russian wolfhound.
King Edward preferred. above all
Evening star., 1936-12-25

different breeds took part in some
form Of field trial or activity. Thirty
different breeds were entered in the
obedience trials which have made
such great headwsy in the last year.
In addition, there was 1
beagle trial. l Dachshund trial,
f0xhound trials, 3 spaniel
trials and pointer and setter
trials.
This does not. Of course. take into
account the numerous pedigreed dogs
that are not entered in formal trials
yet work constantly in field and on the
farm. that lead the blind, guard homes
and industries and aid the police of
many cities and countries in MAIN
tanning law and apprehending crimi-
mails. One of the greatest settlers OF
ell times. Blue Dan of Happy Valley,
rolled up the most impressive show
record of any dog Of that breed. and
likewise had few to equal him In the
actual work of getting birds.
Nor are show dogs animated dolls.
The biggest and best kennels treat
their dogs like dogs, not like puppets.
They are well fed and groomed. but
they eat dog food and are groomed
with dog brushes. Their houses are
snug and clean. but they are not
artificially heated, gaudily decorated
palaces.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
SWETNAM BATTLES
BALTIMORE BOXER
Letto Billed With Washington
Lightweight in Prelim to
Geyinson.Temes Go.

DoUG sWETNAM, local feather
weight, will stack up against
Jimmy Letto of Baltimore in a return
four-round bout in a preliminary to
the Lou Gevinson-Joe Temes eight
round feature scrap at Turner's Arena
Monday night, 1t was announced today
by Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn.
Vastly improved in his last start.
Swetnam pounded out a decision over
Letto in a four -rounder last week.
The semi-final bringing together
Sammy Williams. local colored middle
weight, and Mark Hough of Brooklyn
also is return engagement. Sammy
having captured a technical knockout
triumph over Hough last week They
are slated to swing for six rounds.
Clarence Sloat, who has fought go
professional engagements and scored
48 knockouts, will meet Young Palmer,
Camden welterweight, in another six
round preliminary. Palmer invades
with an impressive record compiled in
New Jersey and New York rings.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
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on the golf course. And AL is just
as good at "rummy" as he is with
the putter.
They miss the pungent observations
of Cliff Wright at Indian Spring. Cliff
has been dead three years or so, but
the fireside conversations on golf go
on around the bar just the same. Tom
Utz, John Wineman and Tom Belshe
build each other up and knock eacs
other down, and If you could hear
'em without being seen you'd think
the boys were getting ready for little
private scrap.
But it's all in fun and there
aren't any hard feelings after
all the joshing is over.
Golf Is that way. It's worse than
bowling and not quite as bad as
bridge. There aren't as many ifs
and butts" as in bridge, but it gets
'em just the Same.
Out at Manor they are getting
ready to open next year the new
holes on the first nine laid out two
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Installing Watering System.

THEY'RE really going to town with
that fairway watering system at
Columbia. where they still have only
15-hole golf course, pending OPEN
ing of the fifteenth, sixteenth and
seventeenth holes.
Concrete dams have been installed
in the area around the sixteenth
green to impound the water flowing
in the creek which crosses the first
fairway, and by early Spring Lake
Stevinson" will be full of water to
catch bad tee shots from the six.
teenth and seventeenth holes and
to irrigate those fairways all over
the course.
Deep trenches line the fairways,
and the job of laying pipe goes on
every cay. Greenkeeper Fits has
been lucky. He's had good weather
from the time he first started NOV
ing dirt, with only few days of freez-
ing temperatures sandwiched in, and
now he's past the worst of the job,
which was the building of the con-
crete dams.
So everything is rosy and the goose
hangs high. And shortly clubhouse
improvements will get going at Co
lumbia costing around $4,000.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Brownell Loses Trip.

CARL DAMN. JR., of Orlando and
the Dubsdread Club, where KY
Laf1oon Is the Winter pro, will be the
only entrant eligible to win the Walter
j. Travis Trophy outright when the
championship Of the club cham
pions" comes of at st. Augustine In
February. Damn has won two legs
on the cup, which goes to a three
time winner.
None of the local champions has
announced their intention to play,
although Bobby Brownell, Manor and
District champ, might go well in the
tournament. Bobby had intended to
60 to Miami for the holidays, but
L. q. Pray. with whom he had planned
to motor to the Florida city, sprained
his back and the trip was of. Mean
while Jim Brownell, Bobby's older
brother, earned himself . broken arm
in a roller skating jamboree at Silver
Spring.
Evening star., 1936-12-25

A L JOLSON called golf the "hoof
~ and mouth disease" explain
~ ing that golfers hoof it all
a day and mouth it half the
night. And if you could drop into
any one of half a dozen clubs around
noon these Winter days and listen in
on the conversation you'd realize how
true was the crack of the singing
scion of the Yoelson family Of Wash
ington. D. C.
Washington, Columbia, Congress
sional, Manor, all have their luncheon
groups who gather daily for sand
wich and lot Of conversation, and If
they played as well on the golf course
as they do around the coffee and
doughnuts they'd really be hot golf
ers.
Over at Washington, half the
fun of a golf game is listening
to Calvert Dickey angling for
what he calls "balanced
match"
''Whaddye mean a balanced match"
asks Jerry Black.
"a match balanced in my favor"
cracks Dickey.
At Congressional where Brice Con-
lyn, Howard Foster, Troy Carmichael,
H. F. Mikkelson and Clagget Stevens
gather daily to chew the fat over the
newest thing in golf, the converse
tions between Conlyn and Mikkelson
are famous. For months Mikkelson
could stop Conlyn but lately Brice
has been playing well and Mick
doesn't talk so much.
Columbia's conversation goes to
golf. but not to matches. Columbia
Is unlike the other clubs. Columbia
has its Red" Banagar, who compe-
tently and quietly takes charge of the
business of making up matches. And
the boys don't play for more than a
buck round, which makes the busi-
ness of wrangling handicap5 rather
unproductive from the cash angle.
Al Treder is the arbiter at Manor.
where Jack Daily, Fred Walen and
Emerson Moore would rather scrap
with AL over a 'rummy" game than
Evening star., 1936-12-25


w YIFFY COX has had rough
\A/ time this year. The guy
" " had planned to play in all
the pre- Christmas tourna-
ments in the South and had looked
forward to making the Western swing
through California, playing for the
heavy dough laying loose in them thar
hills.
But fate reached up and kicked
Witty in the form Of a severe oper.
alton on Mrs. Cox. Now Witty is no
guy to 60 gallivanting around the
country while his wife is Ill. So Wits
little golf jamborees are over. at least
as regards the early part Of the sea-
son. which brings us down to the
main point.
WHY Cox, one Of the leading golf
pros in the land, should be q member
OF that Ryder Cup team next year.
He should be on the team for ore
thing alone-the fact that he tied
for fifth place in the national open
championship, biggest tourney of 1896.
Witty has been on q Ryder Cup team
before. so 1t wouldn't be new to him.
Now the Rider Cup team Is limited
to American-bo professional golfers,
which tosses out guys like the Eng
lish-born Harry Cooper and MacDon-
aid Smith, who finished in front of
Witty in the open. And VIII. be-
cause Of circumstances beyond his
control, cannot play in many of the
Winter tournaments to pile up a rec
ord which would, without question,
earn him a spot on the team which
will play British pros at Southampton,
England next year.
The one tarnished spot on WHY'S
1886 record Is his failure to qualify for
the p. G. A. championship. That
alone may bar him. but it shouldn't.
Witty is the kind Of guy who believes
in sticking to his club job. Winter is
the time for tournament golf VIII
thinks, and so he sticks around Ken
wood during the playing season and
goes away when things get dull at the
club.
But he hasn't had the chance to
play in tournaments so far this Win
ter and get himself record for the
Ryder Cup. But he deserves a berth
on the team just the same. He prob
ably won't get to California at all.
and may be able to play only in few
of the Southern tournaments, and
meanwhile new set Of clubs he
hasn't been able to use lie idle in the
Kenwood shop. When he gets back
into the game he'll be rusty, but he'll
soon get going again.
Evening star., 1936-12-25

THE new rules for the conduct OF
obedience test trials have been
issued by the American Kennel Club
These new rules provide for trials
independent of any bench show. Like
bench shows, they may be either sane
toned or licensed. the former with
out points, the latter with. Provision
is also made for trials at which the
dogs are handled by professionals.
Under the original rules only amateurs,
supposedly, handled the dogs during
these tests.
A group Of dog enthusiasts
have organized for the purpose
Of training their dogs to meet
the obedience test rules.
This group will meet every Sunday
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Huis-
man, on the Leesburg Pike, near Falls
Church, Va. Among the dogs there
will be a German shepherd, of course.
q collie, . bulldog, q Boston terrier,
an Irish terrier and several others.
The leader of the group is Bill Comp
ton, otherwise known as Professor.
Compton has the honor of owning
both the dog who made the highest
score In the obedience trials held so
far, q neat 100, and the youngest dog
to qualify for the companion dog
title. Both are German shepherd
Evening star., 1936-12-25
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bitches. And Bill isn't proud of then
and their record, no, not q bit.

bitches. And Bill isn't proud of them
and their record, no, not q bit.
CERTAINLY the best antidote for q
lonely heart Is . dog. Have you
ever taken q dog for . walk through
the crowded sections Of the city, or
shopping with you? The average
number Of greetings and comments per
block is astonishing. Countless people
too shy or formal to talk to q stranger
anywhere loosen up when that stran-
ger is leading . dog, particularly II 1t
Is an unusual breed or striking animal.
Clerks in stores almost invari-
ably tell you all about their dogs
and how they were acquired.
Stately dowagers ask impertinent
questions about how much your dog
costs and how acquired. Food mer-
chants grow generous with their wares,
restaurateurs provide free meals-for
the dog-everybody feels little more
kindly disposed toward everybody else,
merely because . dog with gently wag-
ging tail and friendly manner has
passed by.
THE latest batch Of statistics from
the American Kennel Club reveals
that Of the lot breeds Of dogs recog-
nized by that body no less than 81
Evening star., 1936-12-25

end Of the purse. Attributing the
oversight to Mr.. Pollok, he accosted
the latter In a refreshment parlor and
found him far from cooperative. So
Mr. Welsh sank his teeth into Mr..
Pollok's ear. and removed 1t practi-
cally intact from the side of Mr.. Pol
lok's head.
They put the ear on q radiator to
dry, and Mr. Pollok, Is soon as he
was able to continue the discussion,
conceded the justice Of the claim. But
he never recovered fully from his
fighters ingratitude.
tctpyYisht. 1885. BY the North American
Mswspspse Ailiaass. Ins.)
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Champ Demonstrates How Easily 1t Is Done
BUNNIE SHEFFIELD

OF Lake Placid, N. Y, ,pho jumped 23 feet
inches to break the world record, Is sho,on
leaptng across fve feminine Winter sports
enthusiasts at the resort in the Empire State
In the picture, left to right, are: Elsie Rushia,
Mary Ames, Mary Cro,uley, Katherine Hasten
and Alice Masuzan They do not appear at all
disturbed ouer the possibility that the skater
may land too soon. Wide World Photo
Evening star., 1936-12-25
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.
WALTER MARANv1LLE, Bos-

WALTER MARANVILLE, Bos.
ton Braves shortstop, who
holds the major league record for
starting double plays, topped every
one in the major leagues in this
respect again last season. He did
not approach his banner year of
1914, however, when he set a mark
of So. 5 more than this yer.
Percy Woodland, famous English
steeplechase jockey. has been shot
down while serving with the Royal
Flying Corps in Egypt. Woodland,
splendid horseman, twice won the
Grand National while he once won
the Grand Steepiechase de Paris.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
MACKENZIE LOOKS
TO TOURNAMENTS
However, He Will Be Sure
He Is Prepared for Action
Before Competing.
BY w, r, McCALLJJM.

V YOU'VE got to keep on playir. :
" tournament golf to get any
where In the toughest racket
= Of them all-competitive pro-
fessional golf. Roland Mackenzie.
down at Ponte Vedra, Fla. Is going
to play in all the tournaments he can
locate, but he's going to get plenty
Of golf under his belt before he starts
In another one.
why do all the tournaments com,
after q Washington pros playing sea-
son is over, or am trying to kid my
self?" Roland asks in a kidding letter
from Jacksonville Beach. But Tn
playing well again, after they're all
over here. All needed was a couple
Of weeks Of practice after the lay-off
at home and couple Of tournaments
under my belt.
Il played nine holes with Bob Bar
nett at Indian Greek. They only had
nine holes open, and Harry Cooper
and KY Laffoon went along. Bob is
hot stuff on that course. He knows
the wind and he plays the shots very
well, but got mine back around the
locker room afterward.
PUT boy how did suffer at the
Biltmore. You know how 1t is
when you aren't playing well (Note:
no truer words ever were spoken)
tried everything. All it was, though,
was just lack of play and tournament
play, particularly I'd be Just little
of the line on shot after shot, but
my first round was masterpiece of
bad golf and fairly good scoring.
hit two greens in par figures and
scored rs. That's one for the books.
I remember one shot well. On the
14th I'd hit an iron shot right over
the green, nearly to the road between
Cocoanut Grove and Coral Gables, and
had a shot to a green sloping away.
I took a super-dynamiter and hit it.
Immediately knew it was too hard,
but it carried right into the cup, and
hoped out a foot away, an easy 8.
But you've got to have q lot of
golf and tournament golf under your
belt to stay along with the big boys
in these money affairs. No pro with
club job can come cold to the
tournaments, no matter how well he
happens to be playing and hope to
stick along with the top notchers.
It's too tough a game-this competi-
tive golf"
Evening star., 1936-12-25
ALIMONY JAILs GRIDDER.

CLARKSBURG, w. Va, December
rs R.--Charles (Tod) Goodwin.
former West Virginia foot ball star
and a member of the New YORK
Giants pro team. is in jail pending
a hearing on a charge he Is $500 II
arrears in alimony.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
PLANS TO RESUME POLO.

CHESTER, Pa, December Is R.--
Col. Frank NJ. Hyatt. commandant OF
Pennsylvania Military College. has an
nounced the Cadets will resume indoor
polo matches with major Eastern
teams with the view of returning to the
intercollegiate Association.
Evening star., 1936-12-25

others, the sprightly little Cairn ter
rier, q preference that Wallis Simp-
son seems to share, as the only pic
ture Of her published with dogs shows
two of them in her arms.
The Cairn terrier, which is known
as the smallest working terrier, is the
progenitor of the popular Scotty. From
a dog very similar to the Cairn of to-
day was evolved both the Scotty and
the West Highland White, and prob
ably the Sealyham has liberal per-
centage of Cairn blood. He is small,
shaggy dog who needs no barbering
to enhance his charms. Fleet Of foot,
game to the last gasp. hardy and af-
fectionate, he has the appealing Scotty
characteristics with none of his dour-
ness. 1t is truly said that the person
who has once owned a Cairn terrier
will never be without one If he can
help it.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Stevens Goes 10 Houston.

A HOST of good wishes for future
success will go with Eddie Stevens,
24-year-old assistant pro at the
Manor Club, when Eddie leaves Wash
ington on January l for his new post
at Houston, Tex.
Eddie has been at the Manor Club
for eight years as assistant to AL
Tredor, golf pro at the club. He has
grown up in the game with District
Amateur Champion Bobby Brownell,
with whom he has played a great
deal.
Steves will take over the professional
berth at the Glenbrook Country Club
of Houston for the months of Janu-
ary, February and March and prob
ably will remain there permanently.
As a golfer the Stevens man has done
well in the few competitions in which
he has played. His best mark is a
score of 68 made at Manor this year.
He is a brother Of Claggett Stevens.
assistant pro at the Congressional
Country Club. Both the Stevens boys
live at Rockville.
Eddie Stevens was on his way back
to Manor on Winter night two years
ago when train crashed into school
bus at the Rockville railroad crossing.
He had crossed the tracks a moment
before the train struck, and he aided
in helping the wounded.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Pin Standings

Season Records.
High team games-Equipment. 63s:
Green Bag Coffee. 602.
High team sets-Green Bag Coffee.
1892: Sanico Bakery. 1865.
High individual games-R. Paul Equip
High individual sets-E. G. Bittenbender
Equipment. 397: F.. Blevins (Sanico
Poultry. 393: T. Bradford Green Bag
Coffee, 3q3.
High individual averages-William La
Billie (Ofice), 1914: T. Bradford (Green
Rag Coffee) 1l5-lQ.
Evening star., 1936-12-25

ONE never knows where or when OF
" why the muse Is going to hit. Just
an ordinary ad in the classified section
of this paper inspired the following
verse by Royal M. Tinker Of 28ll
Fourteenth street northwest,
A warm snuggly muzzle.
little cold nose. and heart that
beats for you; He may b. puz-
zle, not smell Ike . rose, some
times get you in a stew.
Wcen your heads In . frazzle,
your eyes he will dazzle with
antics both quaint and new.
Buy one for the m;ssus this
happy Christmas, then she will
love Won, too.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
HUNTING AND FISHING

Bill Briggs, District traffic man
ager of Eastern Air Lines and in
formal head of our even more in
formal Flying Fishermen's Club, has
returned from Florida with the very
latest dope. The latest flying fishing
trip to the South included Briggs,
Miss Marie Sullivan. Ed Skinner.
Ken Kinnee, Sam Wilkes and Arthur
Porter.
At Miami they found sailfish not
as common as they will be later on,
but those they did catch were large
specimens. In one day they landed
two spindlesnouts. one weighing SO
pounds and the other IS. Both were
well over Z feet long.
Other fish taken were dol
phin, bonita and m&ckerel. Bar
acuda and amberjacks have not
started hitting yet.
A few blue marlin have been sight
ed of the Florida Coast recently,
probably having wandered over from
Bimini waters. Few tarpon are being
taken from the Everglades City area
over on the West Coast. indicating
that the run has not started.
West Virginia Nabs EN-.
WE WHO obey hunting regulations
and buy our expensive licenses
regularly, often wonder what happens
to those who DO not. Here's the an
swer from West Virginia. Fifty-flve
game protectors acting under Chief
Protector Z. H. Morford show q rec
ord Of arrests and convictions for the
three. month period ending Novem-
Der 80 which does them credit and
augurs well for the future Of law en-
forcement.
OF the ia arrests made there
were 165 convictions, or about
IS per cent found out that it's
better to obey the regulations.
The chief transgression seems to be
that Of hunting or trapping fur
bearing animals out Of season, 80
arrests being made and as many con-
victions obtained. One Of those ar
rested had "a skunk pelts and one
opossum when confronted by q game
protector. The next favorite violation
Is that Of hunting Without . license.
Twenty-seven Of 28 arrested were con-
| victed.
Other things hunters did and later
wished they hadn't were: Hunting out
OF season, So: hunting on Sunday. 6;
license violations dncluding hunting
with another persons ncense). 81;
exceeding the bag limit 1--WE didn't
think it could be done, but they did
IT.. O; hunting on posted land, in
cluding game refugees, II; carrying
uncased guns in the field during
closed season, 81; manning, /: leaving
camp fires burning. 8; fishing in q
I closed stream, 2: catching bass under
legal size. 3; using . spotlight, 2:
hunting red fox In closed county. !;
giggins, ].
IhatU lAen 81.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
SET DERBY CLOSING DATE.

LOUISVILLE. KY. December IS Op>.
Churchill Downs officials have fixed
February Is for closing entries for the
1887 Kentucky Derby.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Bites Managers Ear.

A CELEBRATED managerial part
= nership which evolved about this
time was that Of Harry Pollok and
Dan McKetrick. Both were eminent
ly successful at their trade in the long
run, but both, like King Lear, suffered
keenly from the ingratitude of their
fighters at one time or another Nc
Ketrick managed Frank Moran when
the latter fought Jack johnson in
Paris, but Moran turned on him.
"McKetrick was supposed to manage
me to a win against Johnson" said
the fighter one day in court. "and I
want to tell you that he didn't do 1t.
I touched johnson twice in that 20
round fght-once when we shook
hands at the beginning and once when
we shook hands at the end"
Mr.. Harry Pollok's fighter showed
his ingratitude in q much more prac-
tical manner than Mr.. McKetrick's.
Mr.. Pollok's fighter was Freddie Welsh,
one-time lightweight champion. After
losing his title to Benny Leonard, Mr..
Welah discovered d, 900 defleit IN his