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Evening star., 1936-04-12
IT, Ends Spring Ball Toll: California Ce,u Eeing Olncs
Lucille Young Breaks Record
In AU-Epents; Wins Singles
To Climax U.S.. Pin Tourney

the Connecticut star shot 4c3. Then
came her winning Alb singles set, in
which she reeled off games Of 16l, 118
and 139. Lucille then yanked the throt-
tie for 393 in the team events, COM
ing through with double-header strikes
in the final two frames of her last
game.
Ed Cleary of the Masonic Five of
washington was one of the standout
shooters Of the day and night with
401 in singles. 395 in doubles and 426
in teams, which gave him fourth place
in all-events with 1922.
Blue Ribbons Victorious.
THE Connecticut Blue Ribbons,
sponsored by Frank Barber, recog-
nized as the greatest duckpin COM
bination in the country, upheld their
prestige by winning the mems team
title with l,948, taking first place
from Barber's second team, the Lucky
Strikers of Willimantic, who had shot
1915.
Mamie Payne and Marge Smith of
Washington, with a TIC total, won
sixth place in doubles. Leone Adair
of the Washington Convention Hall
team. with 378. and Mrs. Smith. with
1853 in singles, will land in the money.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Keeps EN- Guessing.

EBRIGHT is noted for his penchant
for shifting his oarsmen around.
No man can feel certain that he will
remain in certain position. even
when the crew is winning. KY is for
ever trying out new combinations.
Testing the crew as team and then
testing the men individually. He has
been known to make drastic eleventh.
hour changes in the makeup of his
crews. His shifting of sweep-swingers
on the eve of the 1882 Olympic regatta
amazed the foreign coaches-the Eng
lish coach in particular, for his crew
had rowed as a unit for almost a year
prior to the Olympic contest. The
California crew won the Olympic
championship, so one must give KY his
due-he certainly knew what he was
doing.
Another instance Of his willing
ness to make changes whenever he
deems them necessary occurred a
few seasons ago at Poughkeepsie.
Ebright was lecturing his squad on
the eve of the big race Final in
structions mostly concerned the rae
ing conditions they were likely to en-
counter the next day His eyes rest
ed suddenly on the reclining form of
his varsity coxswain, Oxie Hottie. And
Oxie was sound asleep.
Hottie Unseated.
EBRIGHT interrupted his talk long
enough to awaken his coxswain
and bundle him off to bed with in
structions that unless he wanted to
get up to watch the boat race he
might as we'll sleep right on through
the next day another coxswain.
one less apt TO fall asleep. would
guide the boat down the Hudson River
when the starter called row" Hottie
sat on the river bank and watched
his team" sweep on to victory
Ebright's crews always have been
blessed with intelligent coxswains.
And that is very likely due to the
fact that KY himself was a coxswain.
and good one. at the University
of Washington. Sitting in the stern
of the boat gave him an ideal spot
to study the strokes and actions of
the oarsmen. He learned his lesson
well, for he has been most successful
since he took charge of the oarsmen
at the University of California in
1924.
His crews won the Olympic cham
pionships in 1928 and 1882. They
carried off the honors at Pough-
keepsle in 1884 and 1885. The Bears
are likely to be strong favorites to
repeat in the Poughkeepsie regatta
when the crews line up for the start
on June 10. Ebright plans to keep
his crew in the East for the Olympic
tryouts, scheduled for July "a.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
WHEATON WILL CUT
W.P.A. SQUAD TO is
Base Ball Team Will Play v. A.
Outfit in Government Loop
Opener Nav 4.

NOW putting more than 60 candi-
dates for the w. P. A. base ball
team through their PAGES daily, Man.
ager R. J. Wheaton soon will cut the
unwieldy squad to Is players.
Among those conceded an excellent
chance to earn regular positions are
Joe Eaton, Andy Gleason, Max Coe,
Frank Grabrilla. Tommy Rust, Bill
Aicher, Jerry Verdi, Sam Norris, Joe
Taylor. Bus Pfau, Bob Evans, Dickey
Fitzgerald, Lee Raiford and Joe Mills.
The w. P. A. nine will open Govern
ment League action on May 4, when
1t stacks up against the crack Veter-
ans Administration team on one Of
the Ellipse diamonds.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR


WALTER JOHNSON is to pitch
the opening game of the sea-
son against New York today. Wash
ington undoubtedly will be playing
before the largest crowd ever to
see game in New York. more than
$4,000 expected to tax the Polo
grounds to capacity.
AS the season started. Iris
Speaker. recently traded by the
Boston Red Sox to Cleveland,
signed his contract with the In
dians, and will appear in the start.
ing lineup against st. Louis.
A Washington trapshooter, R D.
Morgan, won place in the national
spotlight when he captured the first
prize In the National Sporting
Good Co.'S national event in Ball
timore. Morgan shattered 120 tar.
gets In the l25-bird competition.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
SUNDAY OPENING
SETS PRECEDENT.
A. A. Stages First Sabbath
Inaugural in History of
Pro Ball Today.
BY the Associated Press.


- HICAGO. April 11.-Inaugu-
rating something new in pro-
fessional base ball, Sunday
~ opening, the American ASso-
ciation starts its thirty-flfth cham
pionship campaign tomorrow with the
same eight clubs that opened the
initial race back in 1902.
The Minneapolis Millers, 1885 pen-
nant winners. play at Toledo, with st.
Paul going to Columbus. Kansas City
engaging Indianapolis and Milwaukee
meeting Louisville The game between
the Brewers and Colonels will be
played before the watchful eyes of
George B. Trautman. the new presi-
dent, who replaced Thomas jefferson
Hickey, retired last Fall after a quar-
ter of century of service.
Opening games probably will be
played before close to $4,000 specta-
tors. President Trautman said the
advance sale in the four opening cities
was in excess Of all records OF the past
10 years.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
WHITES PIECES.

PIECkS-
White to play and mate in three moves.
Key to Problem No. S: B-Q6. What
brain teaser," writes Charles J.
Barner, who seems to hit the nail on
the head each time with correct
solution. Rev. Fred Miller agrees with
Charles. But some of those who did
not agree with the ace apple knockers
are: Billie Bauer. George Carun.
James Fort. A. B. Fay (who says.
Many thanks for the pleasure your
column gives mel'O, William B. VIII
bur and Stan Wancki.
Thanks, Benjamin NJ. Connolly, for
your correct but belated solution of
Problem 4. You know a chess editor
has deadline for copy for his COL
umn, so speed up your answers in
the future. One more Sunday and to
the ranking solver for April goes a
copy of the Laws of Chess, R. S. v. p,
by early mail.
This column welcomes chess inquiries.
news. facts and views. Information readily
given if self-addressed, stamped envelope
Copyright. 1880
Evening star., 1936-04-12
WILL NOT SWITCH ENGEL
Griff Denies Report That Joe Will
Return as Scout.

President Clark Griffith OF the Ma
tionals last night denied report from
Atlanta. Ga, that Joe Engel, presi-
dent of the Chattanooga Lookouts,
would be recalled to Washington next
season and again installed as chief
scout of the Griffnien.
The report also said that Calvin
Grifith, son of the Washington club
owner by adoption, would replace
Engel. Young Griffith now is vice
president of the Lookouts.
There is no truth to any of the
report" declared Griff last night.
'Engel is the president Of the Chatta-
nooga club and as far as I'm con-
cerned he's going to stay at the job"
Evening star., 1936-04-12
NAVY STICKERS END
PRINCETON STREAK
Hand Tigers First Collegiate De.
feat in Three Years, s.5.
Mann Leads Attack.

PRINCETON, N. j., April ll.-A
brilliant Navy lacrosse team to-
day handed the Princeton 10 its first
collegiate defeat in more than three
seasons, 8-5, in fast game played on
Poe Field
Led by Steven Mann. who tailed
three times, twice without assistance,
the Navy broke into a 80 lead by half
time, taking advantage of the Tigers
slow start.
Displaying distinctly superior stick
work the visitors were prevented from
piling up higher score only by the
remarkable work of Capt. Ed Britten
in the Tiger goal. Line-ups:
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Three Pilots Make Debuts.

HE many new faces in the line
ups this year." President Traut-
man said, indicate there will be many
unusual performances in the associa-
tion. The eight managers are conf
dent-all of them-that their teams
will make gallant efforts to land in
the first division.
The clubs returned from Spring
training strengthened, and they will
be stronger later. Louisville, Mil
waukee, st. Paul and Toledo appear
to be the most strengthened over
1885"
Three new managers will make their
first appearance in the league tomor-
row. Bert Shotten, former National
League player. will replace Ray Blades
as manager of the Columbus Red
Birds, while Charley Gabby Street,
the old sergeant, who led the Cardi.
mails to the National League and world
championships. will handle st. Paul,
replacing Marty McManus.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Varied Sports
College Base Ball.

College Base Ball.
George Washington. 3: Western
Maryland, o.
Maryland, II: v. M. l., 3.
Boston College, 10; Navy, 6.
Duke. 2; North Carolina State, o.
Virginia Tech, 8; william and
Mary, 2.
Illinois, S: Ohio State, 3.
Northwestern, 6; Carleton, 3.
Michigan. S; Ohio Wesleyan, 2.
Indiana, 13; Carson Newman, IL.
Purdue. $40; Butler, 7-9.
Iowa. S; Western Illinois State
Teachers, 0.
Wisconsin. Ala; Bradley Tech, 40.
Erskine, 6; Clemson, 3.
South Carolina. Z; Rollins. S.
Richmond. 8; Virginia. 0.
Lacrosse.
Maryland, Is; Alumni, o.
Navy. 8; Princeton, 5.
Harvard, 6; Tufts. 1.
Baltimore A. c., 8; Johns Hopkins, 4.
Mount Washington, IA: st. Johns, 4.
College Track.
Maryland, 81; Washington and
Lee, 80.
North Carolina, II; William and
Mary, 40.
Stanford, ssB; U. c. L. A., 314s.
College Tennis.
Navy, 9; Haverford, o.
Alabama, 2; Furman, o.
College Swimming.
Stanford, 46: California, SO.
College Golf.
Davidson, l51z; Hampden-Sydney,
21a.
Scholastic Base Ball.
Washington and Lee Frosh, 4;
Roosevelt, 2.
Mercersburg, 10; John Harris
High, 3.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

mores, presented one of the best
young teams he ever had seen.
The old standout of the 1928 Eli
team was appointed to his present
post at N. Y. U. in March. 1884, sue
ceeding Howard G. Cam who had re-
signed. His first Violet team won three
games and tied one on an eight-game
schedule while last year his eleven
was one of the sensations of the East,
winning seven straight games before
bowling to Fordham in the seasons
finale He was reappointed head coach
and given a five-year contract last
January.
Stevens started his coaching career
at Yale in 1924, the Spring of the year
in which he graduated. He served as
head backfield tutor and chief scout,
ascending to the position of head
coach in 1927.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Minneapolis Looks Strongest.

RURLEIGH GRIMES, last of the
National League spitballers. who
played under Street with the Cardi-
mails, succeeds Ken Penner at Louis
vile after a successful year as the
manager of the Bloomington team in
the Three Eye League.
While Minneapolis, managed by
DOME Bush, appears to be the class
of the league, the experts figure that
Milwaukee will be the team to beat,
with Indianapolis. runner-up last
year. back in the thick Of the pen
nant fight.
hTe possible pitching selections for
the openers are Kolp, Minneapolis,
VS.. Boone, Toledo; Herring or Wein-
ert, st. Paul, VS.. Klinger, Columbus:
Hamlin. Milwaukee, VS.. Lamaster,
Marrow or Holley, Louisville, and Phil
Page or Shores, Kansas City, VS..
Vance. Page or Bolen, Indianapolis.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
MAT AMATEUR HARDY
johnson of Minneapolis Rides
Cattle Train to Tourney.

MINNEAPOLIS. April II R.-A
cattle train jolted over the rails today,
carrying Caifson johnson, University
Of Minnesota Big Ten middleweight
champion. on his way to Bethlehem,
Pa, to compete in the Olympic wres-
tling trials beginning April l6,
The l6l-pound grappler must get
down to 155 pounds, at which he must
wrestle. Workouts with steer or two
on the train, he grinned, may solve
that problem.
johnson said he is making the trip
at his own expense.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
ELIOT NAVY SLAB ACE
Little Texan Pleases With Win
Over Penn State.

wei Z CnA SIdICs
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, April 1l.-Navy peo-
pie are delighted with Joe Ehot's work
on the slab. The diminutive Texas
MILDLY pitched a winning game
against Penn State here Wednesday
in the first full varsity game he had
ever player.
Eliot. who weighs but 140 pounds
and is feet, inches tall, pitched
for the plebes last season and is
easily the best of the varsity twirlers
at this time. He has speed. control
and a sharp breaking curve.
The third class, to which Eliot be-
longs, promises to be one of the Naval
Academy's best athletic classes. Be-
sides Eliot, four members of the class
now hold down regular jobs on the
varsity nine.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

Unlimited teams seeking games to-
day and next Sunday are asked to
get in touch with Manager Burne of
the Quantico Indians at Quantico 81.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
EbR|GHT CLAIMS
ARRAY Of TALENT
Has Half Dozen Boatl0ads
From Which to Develop
One Great Eight.
By the Associated Press.

w yHEN KY Ebright gets through
w Of University Of California
giants which comprise his
fleet and selects the eight which is to
row as the varsity, it will be fair
guess that you will be looking at the
crew which may represent the United
States in the Olympic games this Sum-
mer at Gruneau, Germany.
The Golden Bears have been on the
water since late in January and yet
Ebright has no definite idea of how
his first crew will row. Four of the
six crews he rates exactly even. The
veterans of last years winning crew
are scattered among the newcomers.
When the coach is satisfied that his
oarsmen have learned to row he will
separate the sheep from the goats and
line up his first and second boatloads.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
LOOKING FOR DATES.

Congress Heights Juniors want
games for today and tomorrow.
They may be arranged between S and
Z o'clock at Atlantic ATS.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

ta> After this move White had tn.
enc choice OF loss OF Pawn to gam Ks
sas aeB Black R two e@ihR5s M k staaa
sefeteS 6 Not hs as Gs aood Of thfse
tcl Black at once plays to retain the
Pawn. with q distinct advantage on the
os d' Sidf decided Cd y to Hssss sy. uD tn. Pawn in
order to free my pieces for action. tsour-
'eD The RIP usually takes, probably the
Sn u ois eaan0! yer; sSK Hs soioE.d s.
(gl The White attack begins to crumble
and Black starts counter-attack on the
KS side. (sournin)
Interhigh Chess Schedule.
1--WE teams are entered in the
Spring tournament of the Wash
ington Interhigh Chess Association.
Robert Knox secretary, and William
Heatwole, president, announce that
official play for April is:
Mckinley VS.. Roosevelt at McKin-
ley. April 81.
Central VS.. Wilson at Central.
April %.
Mckinley VS.. Central at Mckinley.
April %.
Other bouts are in the making. but
in view of conflicting dates. the COM
plete program of activity will be with
held until the difficulties are ironed
out. A beautiful loving cut al
ready has been donated by one of
Washington's greatest chess enthusi-
asts, I. S. Turnover. Regulations gov
erning this award will be announced
durign the week.
Problem No, 6.
By H. w. BETTMANN. Cincinnati. Ohio.
Published by courtesy Chess Review.
BLACK-I3 PIECES.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
SPIRIT Of SQUAD
WARNING TO FOES
Dubofsky, However, Is Not
So Well Satisfied With
Work of FroSh.
BY w. H. HOTEL.

BY w. n. HUI Ell.
GEORGETOWN has ended its
Spring foot ball practice,
T closing a little earlier than
~ planned because Of a number
Of injuries and the lack of backs to
carry on the drills as completely as
Coach Jack Hagerty desired.
While the "kibitZers" at the prac-
tice thought they witnessed lot that
was encouraging for next Fali, Mush
Dubofsky, line mentor, declared that
last Falls frosh players did not do
as we'll as he expected.
However, the squad showed plenty
of spirit and the enthusiasm shown
should not bode so well for the foes of
the Blue and Gray next season.
Georgetown had a capable, we'll
coached team last year and 1t ap-
pears to be certainty that it will car
ry considerable more punch during
the 1886 campaign.
Hagerty and Dubofsky make pair
of highly efficient young mentors, who
rate the friendship and full co-opera-
ton of their charges.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

Goals: Navy-Mann 60. Thing 62),
Bowers, Daily Maxwell. Princeton-Mc-
Substitutes: -Navy-Daily Maxwell, Thing.
eri{neeton"cl {ns r. Foster; Mathews Finck
Mr.. Brewer (Hobart. Time Of periods
Is minutes.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
ANOTHER LEIsHMAN RIDES.

] wallace Leishman, younger brother
Sof the well known Jockey Robert
Leishman, Is an up-and-coming rider
. on Western tracks.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Has Giant Pitcher.

r UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN'S
~ base ball team. that plays Mary
land at College Park next Saturday,
believes it has the tallest pitcher in
the country. He is John Gee, 6-foot-
s-inch southpaw, who boasts a tower
ing curve and a smoky fast ball In
q Big Ten game last season he al
lowed Northwestern only three hits
and famed Is.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

after it came within one point of tying
his highly favored New York Univer-
sity team, will have an opportunity to
repeat his remarks here on the eve
ming of April %.
For, Dr. Marvin A. (MaD Stevens,
former Yale star and now head coach
at N. Y. u. will be one of the prin-
cipal speakers who will address the
ninth annual Georgetown Varsity G
Dinner which will be held at the
Mayflower Hotel one week from
Thursday.
Stevens paid the Hilltop eleven an
unusual compliment in New York last
Fall when he visited the G. U. dress
ing room after the game to say that
the Hoyas, for the most part sopho-
Evening star., 1936-04-12
D. c. LEGION VICTOR
outpoints Meriden Duckpinners
as Ed thinner Stars.

MERIDEN, Conn, April 11-Shoot-
ing a score of 1894. Washington's
American Legion bowlers defeated the
Meriden Legion today by % pins. Ed
thinner Of Lincoln Post, with 359
set led in the visitors win. Scores:
Evening star., 1936-04-12

well-fought game Stark gave up the
ghost. Here is the score Of the bril-
liant partie. Appended notes are by
Sournin and A. Y. Hesse, president
OF the D. C. League.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Cavalier Gridders Busy.

VIRGINIA is working its Spring foot
~ ball squad in two units. One group
Is made up of veterans. led by Capt
Harry Martin, and the other prin-
cipally of freshmen from last Falls
yearling team.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

Johns Hopkins has revived base ball
this year and, as usually is the case
in such a season, is not going so hot.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

Dukes great success in base ball
Is attributed mainly to Jack Coomb's
ability to develop pitchers. The former
ace of the Athletics always has a
capable slab staff, most Of the time
q fine one.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

cipally OF freshmen 1foii Aas' GIL
yearling team.
Dave Smukler. whom, 1t Is said, Pop
Warner rated on a par With Jim
Thorpe and Ernie Nevers 1--WE doubt
such a statement), has left Temple to
20 into business. If Smukler was
near as capable as either Thorpe,
regarded as the all-time king by most
grid folks, or Nevers, he was plenty
good.
Navy, with Dnty Moore. former ST.
Johns College mentor at the helm, is
expected to cut wider swath than
ever before in intercollegiate lacrosse
this season. The Middies just got their
full lacrosse strength with the dis
bandment of "A" squad from foot ball
toll, "B" squad is now doing its
chores on the gridiron.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
QUANTICOS WANT ACTION.

Totals ------- 622 533 516-1.671
Evening star., 1936-04-12

Quttn UdmUU DtCHncd.
MARTIN c. STARK, victor in both
" club and league tournament play
in 1885. struggled valiantly to escape
the encircling coils of Sournin in their
match game played in the fifth round
of the 1886 league battle, but to no
avail. On the forty-sixth move of a
Evening star., 1936-06-30
By Anne Brooks.

NA@A
| on and let your momma help you de-
eide on one, and your poppa can
bring the rest back tomorrow"
Thanks, Goldy, you dear"
The one chose combined the stink
iness Of Cleopatra, the mystery of
Garbo, the beauty If Helen, the
sophistication of Kay Francis, and it
was WOW!
Nom gave one look at it and said,
Sally, you can't wear that"
But, mom," walled, you do like
Hank, don't you? If don't do some
thing drastic we're going to lose you
a.-.-:e son-in-law."
| 4 x x
MON reflected. She likes Hank
pretty well. And when dad said,
Il think the gal looks stunning my
self" MON relented.
9 Hank doesn't care for Bob, so I
asked Bob how he'd like to take me
to the dance. Everything was agree
| able to him and after long hour Of
identification I felt I even did the
drese justice.
We'd Just gone around the floor
once when spied Hank cutting In
on ClarisSa.
Thank goodness my intuition hadn't
failed me! True to my hopes and ex-
pectations, there she was in a pale
pink organdy dress with white gar
denia in her hair looking very demure
and sixteenish.
Hello" I smiled at them as we all
met at the corner.
Hank recognized my voice before he
turned. and I saw the excuse and eX-
planation he was formulating, freeze
into surprise, chagrin, admiration and
| jealousy, successfully.
1t was quite a moment.
See you later" I said noncha-
lantly.
I really carried on the rest of the
Evening star., 1936-06-30

ry Arslow hope you go ahead and
marry her. You deserve to have to
suffer for being taken in by her"
It couldn't have been her looks, al
though she was pretty in an appealing
sort of way; but I've been told, even
il my nose is tip-tilted, that 1t tits
at exactly the right angle, and that
my lashes, when I use just tiny bit
of mascara, are simply lavish, and
that my lips are provocative-and
Hank has always told me I am just
the right size! And now he was going
in for a dizzy blond. AS I said be-
fore, it made me mad!
Clara had changed her name along
with the color of her hair, and some
fitted everything.
Shed gone as a church delegate
down South to a convention, got a
lob and decided to stay there. Ill
bet she wasn't so ritzy down there.
HANK had come back to Washing
4 l. ton after she left. He had not
seen her since the time she fell in the
creek when our Sunday school class
had gone on a picnic Is years before.
1 guess he'd forgotten how she looked
when she stood up with the brackish
water dripping off her pigtails and her
mouth wide open so you could see
that two of her front teeth were
missing.
When Hank said he had to be get
ting along, Clarissa jumped up and
said, "Oh, deah All really must be
leavin', too. All had no idea it was
gettin' so late" and linked her arm
through Hanks, and smiled up at him.
"Cahtah williams has asked me. to
q dawnce tonight. He is chawmin'
boy, isn't he, Sally?"
oh yeah. Quite chawm-I mean
charming" I answered. Shall I see
you tonight, Hank, at the usual time?"
I could have kicked myself-that
slipped out before had time to
think.
"Yes-oh, well. I may have to
go back to the Office for a while,
Sally. Maybe I'll come early and then
leave about TO-"
oh" thought. so you're 60
ing to the dance, too" Then aloud,
':Well, don't bother about coming to-
night, Hank I know you're much
too busy, and I'll see you some other
time" I smiled at him to disarm his
suspicious.
Sure you don't mind?" he asked
absently as he held open the door for
ClarisSa.
Not at ALL" airily. In fact, may
have another engagement tonight,
anyway" My diamond suddenly
seemed to cloud over as if it reflected
the true state of my feelings.
"I'll call you tomorrow, then"
X X
7 DASHED up the stairs as the front
door closed, patted down my hair
with one hand and grabbed a hat,
Evening star., 1936-06-30

evening, and could take scarcely u
steps without being cut in on.
CLARISSA pouted. Hank and she
danced five dances in succession
before Bob took her off his hands.
"Where'd you get that dress?" hissed
my fiance in our eight steps we man
aged
Tell you later" called over my
shoulder as another stag cut in.
I'm taking you home" Hank as
serted, pushing me toward the door
the next time
mo. I'm not going yet-Bob's TAX
ing me after the party's over-we're
going to Jake's place for breakfast" !"
At noon MON pulled the window