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Evening star., 1936-12-18
REDS LIST EXHIBITIONS.

CINCINNATI, December 18 (P.-
Warren C. Giles, general manager of
the Cincinnati Reds, has announced
that he has scheduled 29 Spring ex-
hibition games for the club during the
1887 training season.
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Program
For Local Fans

TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Wilson Teachers VS.. Millersville
Teachers, Wilson gym. SIS.
Bethesda Chevy Chase High vs..
st. Johns, st. Johns gym, $50.
Central VS.. Cambridge High,
Cambridge, Md.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
East Stroudsburg Tea chers vs..
Wilson Teachers, Wilson gyr.8:15.
Southeastern VS.. Shepherd State
Teachers, Y. M. C. A. gym, 8:l5.
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PACKERS ARE POPULAR
All-star Game, Other Bids Come
to Pro Grid Champs.

GREEN BAY, Wis, December l8
R.-Green Bay Packers, champions
of the professional foot ball world, have
q New Year date in Denver. another
to represent their league in the annual
all-star game at Soldier Field next
year and invitations for other post
season contests.
Coach Earl L. (Curley) Lambeau
has accepted bids for the all-star bat
tie and a meeting with the Brooklyn
Dodgers of the National League at
Denver New Year day.
He has under consideration invita-
tions for appearances during the next
two months at Honolulu. Los Angeles
and New Orleans.
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PATTY BERG ACCEPTS.

AUGUSTA, Ga, December 18 P.-
Patty Berg, youthful golfing sensation
from Minneapolis. has accepted an in
vitation to compete in the women's
title holders golf tournament which
will be played at the Augusta Country
Club January Is, 16 and II.
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FIVE "|MMORTALS"
YET TO Be NAMED
Speaker, Young, Laioie Are
Among Likely Choices
in New Ballot.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n YEw YORK, Decemer 1s-While
nj preparations are under way to
" install plaques Of the players
first selected as base balls i'm
rnortals in the diamond hall of fame
at Cooperstown. N. Y, base ball writ
ers throughout the country are facing
the duty of selecting another group of
stars to be included.
They had little difficulty on the
first ballot last year, picking Ty Cobb,
Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy
Mathewson and Walter Johnson. The
bronze plaques for these five, each
showing the players head in relief
and giving q terse summary Of his
achievements, were turned over yes
terday to Alex Cleland, secretary Of
the Cooperstown Memorial Committee
A brief survey Of the long list OF
half forgotten or entirely obscure
names in the record books reveals
what tough job is ahead now. The
members of the Base Ball Writer'S AS
sociation are charged with selecting
10 "immortals" no longer active who
have played since 1900. A rs per cent
vote is required for selection.
Evening star., 1936-12-18
LETO SIGNED FOR BOUT
Balitmorean to Fight Swetnam
Here Monday Night.

Jimmy Leto, hard-hitting Baltimore
feathe.weight, today was signed by
Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn to face
Doug Swetnam. local larruper, in .
four-round preliminary to the Phil
Furr- Johnny Lucas 10-round feature
scrap at Turner's Arena
In other preliminaries Sam Bracala
of Leonardtown, Nd, will clash In an
eight-round return engagement with
Bucky Taylor, Baltimore welterweight,
and Billy Edwards, local colored heavy
weight, will face Bruce Alexander IN >
six.ruunder.
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VOLS WANT DICKENS.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. December 1S
R,.-Nashville Vols of the Southern
Association will offer Phil Dickens.
Tennessee foot ball star, a contract
effective with the 1887 season.
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The Arguments Start.

1hC StdTt.
WHEN the race was over. the argu-
ments started. In the jockeys
room newspaper men wanted Wright
to tell them something Of the jam at
the start. but the little guy was crying
and he shrilled at them:
For Gods sake, let me alonei"
Brevity, some of those close
to the start said, had been ham,
pered by an assistant starter.
who had clung too long to his
bride.
The horse had been knocked out OF
the race almost before it was under
way. Otherwise, he would have won.
He would have won. anyway, if the
race had been a few strides longer.
Bold Venture couldn't have fought on
his closing rush much longer.
Those who had backed Granville
weighed in with a complaint, too.
They wanted to know if the Kentucky
Derby was a race or rodeo. They
said the other jockeys in the race had
laid for Wright, who had done some
rough riding, because they wanted to
get even with him, but that, shooting
at Brevity. they had hit Granville.
The stewards, apprised Of the rough
ness at the start, set down three
jockeys-Hanford and Wall and Burns
for Is days. But they didn't dis
qualify Bold Venture
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Out of a Thriller,

Out Of a Thriller.
So they took a story out Of dime
novel thriller and brought it to life on
Churchill Downs The Kentucky Derby
was won by 40-to-1 shot with an
apprentice in the saddle.
Hanford is just wisp Of kid
with big, brown eyes, who looks
as though he had strayed out Of
a school yard when the teacher
wasn't looking.
It seemed a shame to toss him into
q spot like that with riders like Wright
and Stout and Eddie Litzenberger and
Sonny Workman. But he brought
Bold Venture through that breath
taking jam at the start and rated him
perfectly and gave him grand ride,
and If, under his handling, the horse
had just enough left to win-well.
that's what he was trying to do all
the time. wasn't it?
(Copyright, 1885, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1ncJ
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SllII rTduk OF 4dle Is GIlc IlIlcSb
back he's seen in 10 years.
Those who know what's been
going on down there hope North
Carolina State decides to give
Hunk Anderson a new contract
=. The Giants have offered $25,-
900 for a Seattle catching prospect
named Spindell, but Seattle de-
mands $50, 900 in cash and players
:. Jack Chevigny's job at Texas
may 60 to Blair Cherry, Amarillo
High coach. Kansas also is f1irt-
ing with Cherry 1t probably
will not add to the sum OF Judge
Lands happiness to hear he prob
ably hasn't heard the last of the
Feller case Your agent now
signs on for q vacation. See you
next year. Cit along little dosgie.
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VOTED FAR ABOVE
OTHER SURPRISES
Foot Ball Furnishes Wider
Range of Odd Results,
but Less Startling.

(Note: This is another OF series
OF stories analysing results OF the
strth annual Associated Press
sports poll it coUerS replies
to the query: what tUere the
most surprising results in 1886
competition?")
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ing up to IS pins for men and so for
women.
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7 OW that Washington has a
professional foot ball team in
VI its Ian Or IL uniI Ike rnur

n VOW that Washington has q
nj professional foot ball team in
its lap or, If you like, now
that pro eleven has WASH
ington on it's hands, it might be in
order to investigate the why and
wherefore Of Americas fastest growing
sports industry.
Definitely, professional foot ball has
outgrown its short pants, a process
completed during the last three years.
Whereas a National League franchise
was worth approximately $50 when
the circuit was organized in 1921, most
Of them now are worth upward Of
$50,
It is estimated that the Green
Bay Packers, New York Giants
and Chicago Bears are worth
s25O,OOO each.
Pro foot ball dates back as far as 40
years ago It's cradles were small
towns, stepped in fierce neighborhood
rivalries. Players were hired and fired
every week. Grafters, gamblers and
fixers attached themselves like leeches
and retarded the progress Of the
moneyed game.
Then from Columbus. Ohio, stepped
a former sports writer to take pro foot
ball in hand He was the Moses to
lead the game out of the wilderness.
Carr Is Head Man.
THERE was much to be done
Hypocrisy had to be dismantled, for
one thing. Back in 1896 Pittsburgh
became the first large city to support
pro foot ball. The Allegheny Athletic
Association was organized. and while it
was supposed to be strictly amateur
foot ball. in reality it was primitive
hypocrisy.
In exchange for their services
players received watches, which
they promptly turned in at pawn
shops for cash.
The pawn tickets then were carried
back to the team officials. who re-
deemed the awards and presented them
all over again the following week.
Joseph Francis Carr was the man
to lead the way toward today's fine
organization of the National League.
In 1921, at Canton, Ohio. Carr called
a meeting of foremost teams and the
loop was born. He unanimously was
elected president, a post he as re-
tained ever since.
1t was an unwieldy enterprise at
first. Teams were tried and dropped.
Probably 80 cities failed. but today,
with the exception of Washington,
there are nine centers tried and true.
There are. roughly, $500 pro and semi
pro foot ball teams in the United States
today. but the National League is the
league-the goal for which all aim.
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ity, was arched over his mounts neck,
almost as though he were trying to
lift the horse and put him in front Of
Bold Venture. The crowd was hys-
terical. Brevity was gaining with every
stride. But when they flashed past
the judges, Bold Venture was in front.
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Pays $4,000 to Watch.

DRIVEN at first by necessity, pros
charge less than the colleges.
Today. riding the crest of the wave.
they have aped base ball by keeping
the same depression prices, but there
Is on record an instance of a spec.
tator paying $4,000 to witness a single
game.
That was in 1902, when Philadel-
phia had two pro teams. One Of
these was run by Connie Mack, man.
ager of the Athletics. Mack used sew
eral of his ball players, including Rube
Wadden, the eccentric left-hander,
and took his team to Pittsburgh one
Sunday to play the local pros.
The crowd was small and the
promoter. who had guaranteed
Mack $4,000, was not in evil
dence. Connie refused TO put
his team on the field.
There was a long lapse and then a
man approached Mack and asked what
held up the game.
When told, he brought out a check.
book, wrote out the necessary amount.
and sat back-the incurable fan-to
watch a scoreless tie.
Evening star., 1936-12-18
Hockey Results

BY the Associated Press.
National League.
Toronto, 5; New York Americans, /.
Boston, S; Montreal Maroons, 0.
American Association.
Tulsa, 8; Kansas City, !.
Evening star., 1936-12-18
Dizzy Silent for Week, St. Looey Fans Worried
IN Farmer-Jacobs Bars Big Fight for Germany

Dartmouth backf1eld coach, says
Clint Frank Of Yale Is the finest
back he's seen in 10 years.
Evening star., 1936-12-18
Middle West Is HOtbed.

OF ALL the teams in the National
League today the Green Bay
Packers are probably the most Uto.
plan. The team was organized in
1919 BY a packing company in the
little Wisconsin town. whose popu.
latIon is only approximately $4,000.
Several times the Packers were on the
brink OF financial disaster, but each
time local business men and citizens
raised fund to keep them going.
The Packers became the
towns No. institution and now
hold the distinction of having
won more championships than
any other outfit.
When they defeated the Boston
(WaShingtons) Redskins last week, It
marked Green Bays fourth title.
Most of the National League play
ers hail from the Middle West. which
this season furnished 80 per cent
OF the talent. Eighteen per cent,
roughly, hail from the Big Ten. The
next highest percentage is held by
the East, followed by the Far West,
South and Southwest in that order.
Washngton's only college player
who ever achieved recognition in the
big time was Tuffy Leemans, who was
a freshman" this season with the
Giants. LeemaRs. overlooked when
all-America teams were formed during
his career at George Washington,
wound up as the leagues greatest
ground gamer, with an average Of
4 yards per try.
Evening star., 1936-12-18
BY ALAN GOULD.

"a YEW YORK, December 18 (P).-
n The biggest shock of the year,
VI in any sport, to Americas
i newspaper commentators, was
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Roosevelt Explains Principle of Applying Taxation
EXPLAINS HIS PRINCIPLE OF
 APPLYING TAX
(Bv The Associated Press)

WORCESTER, Mass, Oct. 22, - President Roose- welt coupled his to what is called "Talk about high taxes under this Administration with the asser ton that the nation, as in 1776 must choose this year Between democracy in taxation special privilege in taxation
 The President spoke last night before crowded auditorium in of the maj jor speeches of his swing through the New England states. He talked almost entirely about taxato and repeated that or in- creased taxes not necessary to balance the budget and to begin rapid reduction of the national debt
 President Roosevelt said that at the time of the world war, another Democratic administration had pro vided enough taxes to pay the entire debt in fifteen years, levied according to the ability to payBut the succeeding Republican administration didn't believe in that principle. There They had political debts to those who sat there with their elbows the tables. To pay these political debts they reduced the taxes to their friends in the higher brackets and left the nominal debt to be paid by later generations.
 Because they evaded their obligation, the depres sion of 1929 started with sixteen billion dollar handi- cap us, and our children"
 He said the group would like to get back into power again. The President argued that the New Deal had improved and Amercanized taxes" operating the principle of taxation according to the ability to pay
 He asserted Here is my principle-'Taxes should be levied according to the ability pay that is ly an American principle"
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Vicious Traps
 Displayed In A
 Store in Juneau

Frank Dufrense, Executive Off, ficer of the Alaska Game Com mission, has recently received lO huge bear traps from the vicini- ty of Haines and Klukwan.
 The traps are steel Jawed' vicious affairs, weighing as much as 45 pounds each, with teeth of more than an inch in length. They are capable of mangling, crushing and infecting a mans leg to such an extent that ampu- tation, if not death, would be in evitab1e.
 Using steel traps having more than a nine inch spread of jaws has been prohibited under the Alaska Game Laws for several years and it is not believed that traps of the kind recently receiv ed by Dufresne are being used to any great extent.
 The Game Commission does receive reports from time to time
 (Conhinued on Page Throe)
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Insurgent Forces Drive Dis- ordered Government
 Troops Back
NEUTRALITY DISPUTE
Foreign Nations Become Peeved Soviet Atti-
 tude Neutrality
(By The Assoclated Press)

UNDATED, Oct. g, - Insur- gents today poked new spear head toward Madrid's fortified city limits, as diplomats of politi cally opposite nations rumbled fresh threats over Spanish neu- trality.
 Disordered government troops fled back behind improvised barb ed wire entanglements just ten miles outside of the capitol, at Mostoles, after Fascists had nov ed strong forces into captured Navalcarnero, the city of Mad rid'S vital defenses.
 In London, German and Ital- ian representatives struck at the Soviet'S sympathetic leaning to- ward the Spanish government, and intimated that their nations would act if the Soviet dumped the non-intervention agreement.
 The Russian representative re sponded: We don't care'
 Madrid accepted the French of- fer to evacuate refugees, follow ing similar British action.
 President Azana e S)ain is in Barcelona and h.s wife is in Foul ous-.
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Attempts at Extension Of Coast AgreeEsnt
 Fa:s' { 's.s,,1s4;yills s ,1s;yils
 -4Fk essasss ' .ss. !. sH'F0yNl = Unions 5. anted Changes: H'.ring Be Held
 Monday
(By The Associated PreSs)


 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22, - Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet of the Federal Maritime Cormis- sion, and it's vocal representative, issued statement Wednesday night indicating that the attempts to bring about a one year truce between shipowners and mari time unions, on the basis of the old working agreements, had fail ed.
 The statement said that the ship owners had agreed to years ex tension of the old contract, but unions had asked for certain changes, after which employers had requested that the matter "go along to an investigation of the entire situation"
 Hamlet announced they would start the hearings Monday.
 Changes asked by the unions were not immediately made pub lie. but it is understood they are the same as demands made pre- viously.
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A. Eide Writing
 Book Wife-Trad-
 ing In Diomedes

Wife-trading in the Diomede Island, not for variety's sake but to promote a unique and effective brand of insurance, will be the subject of a book to be printed in Norway next year.
 Author of the original manu- script is Arthur Eide, for many years a teacher in the Diomedes, who is perhaps as well acquaint- ed with the customs of the Es- kimos on these mid Boring islands as any white man living.
 Eide has translated his script into Norwegian and sent it to Os- To, where a noted Scandinavian author, Lars Hansen, and Axel Kragh, a contemporary will pre- pare it for publication.
 Eide has already published one book in English 'New Stories of Eskimo Land", which is now being used in the schools of Al aska.
 The wife-trading, once so pre- valent in the Diomedes, has just about become obsolete in recent years, Eide reports. Formerly, a group of eight families would sign contract agreeing to ex- change wives overnight at cer tain times throughout the year until a complete circuit exchange had been made.
 They also agreed that if any wife died, her man could not go out and fish or hunt for a year, but had to stay home and keep the young ones from starving.
 Thus, by exchanging wives, all members of the tribe became in- ter related and provided food for each other and no one suffered the bangs of starvation. The Dio- mede father found himself in a position dubiously similar to the American ice-man.
 All this, together with many other unusual customs and incl dents, are related in the book which will be published in Nor way next year.-Alaska Press.
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Three Children Hurt at Speech
 Pres. Roosevelt
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 FALL RIVER, Mass, Oct. 21, children suffered fractur ed arms, and scores were tramp led when a huge crowd greeting President Roosevelt at South Park, broke through the ropes, as the presidential party arrived.
 A section of the temporary grandstand collapsed, injuring others. Estrilla Pachecho was hurt when the stand collapsed.
 William Ferreira fell from park building roof. Eugene Mich anaski Jr., was pushed, or fell from a tree. All three were only twelve years old.
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wick in northern New Jersey.
 The Guffey organization in Pen nsylvania had its latest test in 1884, when it elected both gov ernor and senator in that tra- ditional Republican stronghold. As late as August 4, 1886. the Pen dergast machine in Missouri won one of the most impressive intra- party primary victories in its history.
 All of these five states are hot ly debated territory in the 1886 election. Probably few Republi can leaders would dispute that if all five are pushed into the Dem ocratic column by the strength of their five powerful big-city machines, MT. Roosevelt certain ly will be reelected.
 Will They Cooperate?
 Strangely enough, when the practical politicians consider this situation, the question asked off, tenest is not whether the big five among Democratic machines will be able to deliver their states and the presidency, but whether they will choose to do so.
 Outwardly, all five are for Roosevelt. But the ways of mach inc politics sometimes are strange
 (Continued on Page Three)
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Election May Be Decided By The
 Political Bosses
By Byron Price Chief Bureau, The AP Wash. D. C.

One little publicized aspect of the Presidential campaign is the great reliance placed by the Dem ocratic field marshals on the big city political machines.
 In some respects the situation IS anomalous. In the public mind the Roosevelt administration has been identified with idealism and the brain trust. Its vocal following is made up largely or those interested in "a cause".
 Daily it is indicted by the oppo sition on a charge of having ele- vated theorists, novices and inn practical zealots to place of high responsibility.
 In the quieter precincts where the political war plans are made, however, sit very practical men indeed. At several of the most important saients the tower of long experience and definite det- ermination. It IS not entirely in- conceivable however, that the out come in these particular salients may spell national defeat or vict- ory, regardless of the noise and fury elsewhere.
 Will Tammany deliver in New York? Will Hague come agross in New Jersey? Can Guffey swing Pennsylvania How is Pen dergast doing in Missouri? Will Kelly provide the needed major ity in Illinois?
 Very, very eagerly will the Democratic managers at head quarters watch for the answers to these questions when the re- turns begin to trickle in on el- ection night
 Could Swing Election
 The five states mentioned above, have among them, l43 el- ectoral votes. Added to the solid south, they would be more than sufficient to elect a president. In all of them, the rural sections nor mally are Republican; they go Democratic only when the Dem ocratic organization rolls up an overbalancing majority in the cit ies.
 It is worth noting also that each of the five organizations named has been doing very well for itself recently.
 In 1885 Tammany made tremen dous gains in New York City. In the same year, in Chicago, the Kellyites carried the city by the unprecedented majority of 630,- 900, and Frank Hague establish ed a new high for Democratic pluralities in his urban baili-
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Dust Smoke Was
 Thought Erup-
 ton of Volcano
(By The Associated PressJ

(By The Associated Press)
 HILO, Hawaii, Oct. 2, A re- port that Kilaul volcano was CT upting caused brief excitement here today but it was soon discov cred that visitors had mistaken smoke dust arising from the fire pit, as evidence of eruption.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-10-22
Gov. Ali Landon
 Must Remain In
 Bed Bad Throat
(By The Associated PreSs)

NDy 1ffC HA~>'OS SI"eSU CSSI
 FL PASO, Texas, Oct. g, - Gov. Ali M Landon republican presidential candidate was order ed to remain in bed today by Dr. Frank Schuster, due to throat in- lection. He will be unable to speak from rear platforms today.
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MARITIME COMMISSIONER ISSUED STATEMENT THEY
 FAILED GET AGREEMENT
Not \ Accept Peace
aFhe Associated Press)

. ;uI Is Calif., Oct. g, -
 fruit and vegetable workers union voted last night to reject the peace proposal to end the sev en weeks strike of 3200 workers.
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