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TEAM matches in all classes were

TEAM matches in all classes were
being played today at Indian
Spring, Beaver Dam and Congress
sional. as Beaver DAM last years VIC
tors in the second team matches, de-
Tended a lead they won yesterday in
matches played At Indian Spring.
Beaver Dam whipped Columbia in
the play-on Of . postponed series, 6
to 3, while Manor beat Washington, 9
to 0; Kenwood whipped Woodmont,
6 to 3, and Congressional beat Army
Navy, 6l2 to 212.
Third-team matches at Congress
sional found Chevy Chase white
washing Indian Spring. 8 to 0, while
Columbia beat Kenwood, 511a to 81,
and Manor licked Beaver Dam, 8 to /.
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BATTISTE RINGER VICTOR
Wins Three in Row From Brown
in Horseshoe League Match.

Francis Battiste, newly risen Dis
trlct star and st. Johns College STU
dent, defeated Edgar Brown, another
Washingtonian, in Metropolitan
Horseshoe Singles Major League
match Sunday, 3 games to 0.
Battiste averaged AZ per cent for
his three games, while Browns ay-
erage was IS per cent.
In the first game Brown led, 40 to
81, but Battiste tossed eight straight
3-pointers to win, 5o-49. The margin
in the other two games was 50-35 and
SOIL.
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Major Leaders
BY the Associated Press.

DS lAc hSSoClAteC HIeSS.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
BaIsiaRae.Walker, Tigers. .455; Gro
Runs . - Walker and Gehringer.
Runs batted in-Wslker. TIGERS "a;
Bonura, White Sox, 30.
Hits-.Walker, Tigers. 80: Larry. In
Double-Bell, Browns 8; Lazy, In
dams and Cronin. Red Sox. =
Trlples-White, Tigers: Stone, Sena-
tors, and Rosenthal, White Sox 3.
III Home sI Iuns-tWalker. Tigers. 5; Sell
Stolen bases-Chapman, Senators.
and Pytlak. Indians. 5.
Ptching-LaWson Tigers. 40;
Pearson, Yankees, and Marcus. Red
Sox. 80.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Batting--Medwiek. Cardinals, AIS;
Goodman. Reds. AIS.
Runs-Brack, Dodgers. II; Bartell.
Giants, ID.
Runs batted in-Demaree. Cubs, 30;
Medwtck. Cardinals. II.
Hits.,Brsek, Dodgers. and Medwick,
Cardinals. 2S.
Doubles-Hassett. DODGERS. and
Medwick, Cardinals. 3.
Triples-VauEhan. Pirates. s: Braek.
DodEe.s: Hsndley. Pirates and Scar
- Home runs-B.rtell Giants. and
Kampouris. Reds. 6.
Stolen bases. Martin, Cardinals,
Q: Brack. Dodgers, 5.
Pitching: Dean, Cardinals. SO:
Hubbell. Giants, 40.
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SYRACUSE COACH HERE

Ossie solem, new foot ball coach Of
Syracuse. will be honored by local
Orange alumni at a banquet tonight
at the Dodge Hotel garden house,
starting at o'clock.
The erstwhile Iowa mentor Is here
with Charlie Lee, former Syracuse
athlete, now acting field secretary OF
the alumni association.
Solem also will be interviewed dur
ing Arch McDonalds sports program
over Station WJSV at 6:15 O'Clock.
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said Pat and proceeded to make such
a skillful shot out of the hazard that
the high-hying pill hit Jello's chest
and lodged in the open throat of the
wind breaker. Shake yourself, Jel-
TO-" yelled Senator Pat.
Jello shook, and presently from his
labors emerged the golf ball from the
lower end of the wind-breaker. And
1t rolled smack into the cup for a 3.
OF course, there was some CONVERSE
ton about it, but nowadays no penalty
Is involved, and Pat insisted the birdie
stand. 1t did.
NIFTY COX Is going ahead with
w his scheme for improving the
eliminating the punch bowl sixteenth
hole. The bird baths" at the twelfth
have been done away with and now
VIM plans to cut out that very Pc
culiar sixteenth by putting in a one
shotter as the sixteenth OF the course,
and playing the seventeenth as = COM
bination Of the present 18th and sew
enteenth by making a dog-leg two
shotter Of it. Otherwise the layout
will be much the same, but the punch
bowl green will be forgotten.
Watch those Georgetown kids
John Burke and Billy Shea-in the
medal round Of the Chevy Chase
tournament tomorrow. Starting late,
after 3 O'Clock, these two lads can well
turn the tournament upside down
with \ brace Of scores that may shove
some Of the IT'S and 78s into a playoh.
The field in he medal round tomorrow
is small, but it's composed OF Just
about the best golfers in the city. The
course Is in excellent condition and
for Chevy Chase Is fairly fast in con-
trast to the soft condition Of the lay
out for several previous tournaments.
Match play will start Thursday and
wind up Friday.
lCL1FF SPENCER, long hitting
~ Beaver Dam pro, was few dol
lars richer today after grabbing nth
money in the middle-Atlantic P. @. A.
sweepstakes tourney at Old Point
Comfort. A dozen amateurs and pros
from Washington played in the tour
nament put on by Al Houghton, former
Washington mentor, and saw Chand-
Ter Harper, the skinny Norfolk young
ster pound out twin rounds OF SO to
take the major portion Of the purse.
Harper won 500 with his scores Of g.
| kQ-1QR IA knorkAd his eoroY1A Rhnf
within inches q the cup on the
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W00DFIELD IS HIGH
IN HORSESHOE TEST
Makes 1855 Points of Possible 600
in Qualifying Round of
Metro League.

WITH 355 points out of q possible
600, Bill Woodfield is on top in
the field OF dozen who are COM
petlng for places in the B section
OF the Metropolitan Horseshoe Singles
League. Woodfleld ousted Mel John
son from the lead by eight points.
Bits dad. Harry, secretary of the
District Horseshoe Pitchers Associa-
ton, Is third with 329 points.
One more 100-shoe round remains
TO be pitched before the players to
form the league are chosen. The
figures:
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Yoder Monopoly Foreseen.

FASTING 4 reflective glance back
over the record, We find that
Yoder won the last Manor Club
tournament two years ago. Another
Manor affair is coming up fortnight
hence, and if Yoder grabs the Chevy
Chase meet. which he well may do,
we may have the making Of another
links monopoly like that held by the
George Voigt of decade back. And
Yoder, who works in local cafe, will
defend his crown in the Middle At
lantic title tourney at Congressional
next month.
Don't play Levi Yoder short. He
has what it takes on any mans golf
course.
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UMPIRE HART DEAD.

LOWELL, Mass, May II F.-Eu-
gene F. Bob" Hart, 81, former umpire
in both major leagues and in several
minor circuits, died last night. In
1912 he entered the American League
service, later serving with the Inter-
national League and American Asso-
citation. From 1920 to 1890 he worked
in the National League.
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Prohibition Stimulates Game.

"POWL1NG ALLEY Is the name Of
two English hamlets. Others
are Bowling Junction and Bowlers
Green. The Surrey mansion of Will
liam Pitt, made Earl of Chatham for
navigating the British ship Of state
through revolutionary waters, was
Bowling Green House.
"One reason for the far-flung use
Of this sports name is that the game
was given the stimulus of prohibition.
A law in force until 1845 permitted
only the landed gentry to obtain a
license for bowls, and bowling green
became . symbol Of distinction and
special privilege. Soon after Its rise
to popularity In the thirteenth CEN
eury, the game was prohibited for
fear it might detract from the follow
ing Of archery, then 50 important a.
q means of national defense.
Later, when it became the pastime
Of the wealthy, it aroused criticism
because Of betting. A non-ecclesiasti-
cal tradition, however, Is that pioua
John Knox once encountered pdous
John Calvin at game Of bowls on
Sunday. Last month President Roose-
welt signed a bill legalzing Sunday
bowling In the District Of Columbia
Even more than bowling has affect
ed geography, geographys influence
Is seen In variations Of the game
Standard bowling in Northern anc
Western United States is played with
tenpins adopted when the game Of
ninepins once was declared illegal)
and q 16-pound ball ~ inches around
with two holes for finger grips.
"Duckpins, with larger following.
farther South, uses smaller pins anc
balls, finger holes omitted from ths
latter. The number of pins differ.
for the varieties known as cooked hat
(3), cooked hat and feather a. ane
quintet (5.
1.-THE lawn bowls game is popula,
In resort sections wherever the eli.
mate gives an encouraging answer t.
weather permitting
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30ng Boasts C00rf History Looms c. Golf
20 YEARS AGO
IN TIE STAR.

WASHINGTON lost the first
game Of its western trip when
1t was nosed out by Cleveland,
As. The Indians won the game
In the first inning, when they
scored all their runs, making two
Of their three hits in that frame.
Doc Ayers held the Indians In
check thereafter.
George Mcbride will be miss
ing from the Mats lineup for sew
eral days as q result Of = split
finger nail received when Iris
Speaker slid into him at second.
Sam Crane will substitute for the
regular shortstop.
Central and Business were to
meet in the game which probably
will decide the interhigh base
ball championship. So far Gem
trail has won all Of its games by
such large margins as to render
comparison useless. Business has
proved capable Of winning, how
ever, and may surprise.
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Homer Standings
n the Associated Press.

n the Associated Press.
Yesterdays homers-Di Maggie,
Yankees, 2; Selkirk, Yankees, l;
Greenberg, Tigers, /; Trosky, In
dams, 1; Hayes. Athletics, /;
Galan, Cubs, /; Collins, Cubs, l;
Bartell, Giants, 1; Whitney, Phil
lies, /.
The leaders-Bartell, Giants, s;
Kampouris, Reds, 6; Selkirk, YAM
KEGS, 5: Walker, Tigers, s.; Green
berg, Tigers. 4; johnson, Athletics.
4; OFT. Giants, 4.
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Sports Mirror
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Today a year ago-Lawson Little
failed to qualify for national open;
Petey Sarron won N. B. A. feather
weight title by outpointing Freddie
Miller.
Three years ago-Cubs pulled
first triple play Of season against
Dodgers with bases loaded.
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GREENBELTS BEAT P. W, A,

Resettlement Greenbelts outslugged
P. w. A., 1877, yesterday to win a
Departmental League game Each team
scored four runs in the first, and
after p. w. A. took . lead Of IA in
the third, the Greenbelts scored twice
In the fourth and six times in the fifth.
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YHEN Senator Pat Harrison
I Of Mississippi says he gets
! q birdie 1t means he gets

The yarn of how Senator Pat made q
birdie on the sixth hole at Burning
Tree Is getting laugh out OF men,
bers of the club these days.
Harrison has a caddie called "Jello,"
who totes his bag regularly Jello is a
colored boy whose chief characteristic
and undoubtedly the reason for his
nickname are the rolls of fat that
adorn his ample frame, for when
Jello walks he wobbles.
This day he wore a wooden wind
breaker, for the day was chilly and
Jello wanted to keep warm. They
come to the sixth-Senator Harrison
and Harry Butcher, broadcasting
company tycoon, and Butcher grinned
as the Mississippi solon put his second
shot into q bunker right under the
green.
Go up and get that pin, Jello. "
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Ganslen in Pole Vault.

collegiate pole vault champion,
and Howard johnson of Temple are
entries in the vault Artie Burns,
Manhattan freshman, and Jim Dill
bingham, another of Columbia's COL
lection Of college indoor titlsts, will
compete in the high jump.
Frank Ryan, also from Columbia
and also champion, shotputter,
heads his field, and johnson, Pea.
cock and Weast are entered in the
broad Jump.
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f&SJRAIGHT OFE&
~ THE TEE@7
.~-SDSk4
d ~*~":4xsx-.~>- By Walter McCoIum ~
By Walter McCo||um

thirty -sixth hole to nose out Jack
Isaacs of Newport News. Bobby
Cruickshank and Al Houghton tied for
third with 14ls. and Spencer topped
the local parade with 73-72-l45.
The reSlltS
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KENW0OD PLAYER
At PEAK Of GAME
Levi Is Favored to Take
Chevy Chase Meet After
Win at Woodmont.
BY w. r. McCALLUM,

A YODER year looms In local
~ golf. The lanky, knock-kneed
~ guy from Kenwood, who holds
4 a the Middle Atlantic title, will
be the stand-out performer In the
Chevy Chase invitation affair this
week and 1t won't surprise the cog
noscenu, even including Bill Hillyer,
to see Yoder win his second tourna-
ment within fortnight at Chevy
Chase. We mention Bill Hillyer in
passing because Bill has looked EN-
all over, man and boy, for 30-odd
years and Bill opines that Yoder Is
quite \ SHOEMAKER. Coming from the
man whom the old-timers call the
father OF golf" that Is quite q compli-
ment to Yoder.
The slim Levi Yoder, who came from
LinWlle, N. c., three years ago to
elevate the local links situation, al
ready has tucked the Woodmont
Country Club affair away in his bag,
winning impressively from good field.
He will 60 up against substantially
the same field at Chevy Chase, with
few added starters and perhaps
better competition, but if you know
your Yoder you won't be surprised to
see him carve his methodical way
through the Chevy Chase tournament
just as he did at Woodmont.
Two Stars out Of Running.
r IGHT of the bat Roger Peacock
and Claude Rippy won't be there
Rippy won't have time to play and
Peacock is too busy learning all the
angles Of his new job to play tourna-
ment golf. Page Hufty, the Chevy
Chase champ, who is no pushover on
his own course, will be in there trying,
and Ralph Quinter, last years winner,
won't be any soft spot. But Yoder
looks the top man.
It's funny thing, too, how the
guy goes about this golf business. He's
so methodical, so utterly lacking in
the spectacular that few people who
watch him play realize how lethal he
is In golf match He has few Of
the attributes Of Hagen, he doesn't
crack those tee shots q mile, nor is
he q spectacular iron player. In
stead. he concentrates on keeping the
ball in the groove from tee to green,
and he hits it far enough.
He IS one OF the better putters any,
where. particularly under fire. All
in all Yoder Is quite golfer in any
company.
Had a 4 iron shot been on the
pin In the national amateur cham
pionship at the eighteenth hole at
Garden City last September he might
very we'll have changed the course
Of the entire title tourney, for he was
! down to Jock Mclean, the even
tual runner-up, at that point, and
had he stuck his tee shot on the pin
he probably would have licked the
jittery Scotsman. Mclean went or
to the final and thirty-seventh hole
licking by John Fischer, which may
give you vague idea Of how good /,
the Yoder guy.
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CUNN|NGHAMRUNS
IN TWILIGHT MEET
Beccali, Venzke to Oppose
Glenn in Three. Quarter
Race in New York.
BY the Associated Press.

n Jew YORK. May 1l-Glenn
M Cunningham, happy warrior
" Of middle distance running.
returns to New York, scene Of
some Of his mightiest triumphs for
the three quarter mile run, which will
feature the first annual twilight
games OF the seth Regiment A. A. at
LeWisohn Stadium, tomorrow night.
Gene Venzke, Glenns persistent
shadow; Luigi Beccali, the Italian
Olympic l,500-meter champion in
1882, and Joe McCluskey, the New.
York A. c. warhorse, will oppose Cum
bingham. Beccali, who has CAM,
paigned with some success since ar
irving here last Winter, should be
the Kansan's strongest competitor.
Sprint Draws Star Field.
THE other top field of the meet has
been gathered for the 1OO-yard
dash, with Ben Johnson, national and
intercollegiate indoor titleholder;
Eulace Peacock o. Temple, brilliant
performer indoors this Winter, and
Bob Rodenkirchen of the New York
A. G. competing. Herb Weast of CO.
lumbia is another entry
HOWE Borck Of Manhattan Col.
lege, Johnny Wolff, former Manhat-
tan captain, and Edgar Stripping OF
New York University are included in
a competent field in the 6OO-yard
run for the Father Duffy Memorial
Trophy.
Lou Burns, Manhattan's intercol.
leeiate indoor mile champ, will run
in the l,o00-yard race, with Ernest
Federof1 and Sanford Goldberg of the
Millrose A. A. also in the field.
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STOCK CAR FASTER
THAN 1871 RACER
De Palma Does 1918
M.P.H., Compared to 1850
for SOON Inaugural.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
T INDIANAPOLIS May lit took
suver-haired, 55-year-old vet
eran OF the roaring road to por-
L tray dramatically the progress OF
the automobile industry in the last
quarter of a century.
Ralph De Palma returned to the
scene Of his old exploits at the In
dianapols motor speedway yester-
day to drive 500 miles at an average
of 82.18 miles an hour in an ordi-
nary stock car, the one to be used as
pacemaker for the annual race
May 81.
Ray Harroun, driving 4 special
built racing car, the Simplex, won
the first 500-mile race at the Speed
way in 1911 with an average speed
Of 7459 miles an hour.
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Not q Final Gesture.

I'VE PALMA'S run wasn't simply q
final gesture from q grizzled vet
eran who insists he is through with
racing. His drive against time was
sanctioned by the American Automo-
bile Association and was designed
solely to show the progress automo-
bile manufacturers have made since
the original race in 1911.
The husky Italians elapsed time
for the 500 miles was hours min
utes O.59 Of a second. But at the end
he stepped out of the car and said:
I'm not at all tired. It was just a
nice days drive"
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RUNYAN SHOOTING
FOR RYDER BERTH
Aims to Start Drive With
MET" Open Win, but Has
Tough Opposition.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, May 1.-THE little
man with the big game is 60
ing to leave no stone unturned
in his quest for one of the four
Evening star., 1937-01-30
60, THE bite of
ambition urging
By G. G. Coler.
,inn m he nlannA

to get into something where routine
was the exception, rather than the
rule. His life had been too filled
with taking chances to permit him to
be comfortable leading an average
life.
Against his wife's advice, he sold
his business. his property. nquidated
every valuable thing they possessed.
In the city his daring could not fail
to increase his wealth. And so it
proved. With little capital and large
fund of business sense and nerve, he
became the sensation of the board
of trade. In no time at all, he was
worth more money than he knew what
to do with.
His wife. a simple soul. Just a little
bewildered by the sudden affluence,
provided the beginning Of Grants
downfall. She went completely hay
wire. Still young and good-looking,
she gathered the inevitable coterie Of
admirers who are attracted by wealth
band has little time for her. In the
end, she climaxed her actions by run
ming away with one Of them.
Grant was stricken by the news.
He loved his wife as he loved moth
ing else. Too late he saw that his
business had divorced him from his
wife long before she divorced him
actually. It did something to Grant.
He worried, brooded. The business
acumen he had had formerly went
unused, and he lost money rapidly.
IT WASN'T until he had been al
most without funds for over a year
that he became desperate. Crossing
the bridge at the river one night late
in Fall, he decided again with flash
of his former self. He leaped in, de-
termined to end it all. His luck held.
A sailor on barge saw him. leaped
in and rescued Grant. The story hit
the papers with a bang. Offers came
to the hospital where he had been
taken from old friends on the board,
offering him jobs. loans. chance to
make a comeback. Grant thought 1t
over.
During the long hours in the hospi-
tai he rationalized. He was sap to
do what he had done. What was
one woman more or less? What he
needed was a chance to get into the
thick of things.
From the many offers of job he
selected the best. He sent word to
his friend that he would be glad to
work for him. And he settled back
to recuperate from the exposure. He
congratulated himself upon having
taken the chance OF leaping into the
river.
AS was mentioned, every one car
ries around an Achilles heel. Chance
was Grant Pemberton's. He never
had another chance. Four days later
he died in the hospital Of 'pneu-
moria.
. tCopyrisht 1887
Evening star., 1937-01-30

what appeared to Sammy to be solid
wood. There was no sign of another
hole or Of borer. It was way around
almost on the opposite side Of that
branch from where the borer's hole
was. Sammy shook his head sadly.
It must be that Drummer was crazy.
Drummer said nothing, but kept
hammering away and making the tiny
ships fly. That hole went in deeper
and deeper as he bored for that borer.
Then, just as Sammy was about to
leave and 60 about his business,
Drummer gave triumphant cry and
piled out a yellowish- white fat grub.
It was the borer. Drummer held it
up for Sammy to see, then ate it with
relish.
"Now feel better" said he. "That
fellow vas worth working for and,
after all, it wasn't much work after
had found just where he was
Sammy looked at the entrance to
that hole made by the borer and the
place where Drummer had bored in.
Any one could see at glance what
tremendous amount Of work Drum
mer had saved himself. 81 still don't
see how you knew just where to BORE" :"
said Sammy admiringly.
1T is Just little special knowledge
we woodpeckers have" replied Drum
mer, and started to look for another
borer.
tCopyrisht 1937J
Evening star., 1937-01-30
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
sTis those who work. you will observe,
who get from life what they deserve.
-prummer the Woodpecker.

<IN VOW that you know where
M that borer is, why don't
" you pull him out? I would
4 like to see him." said
Sammy Jay the Woodpecker as they
looked at q little hole that Drummer
had uncovered by stripping away the
bark from over it.
II can't pull him out yet, but will
later" replied Drummer.
why can't you do it now? All
you've got to do is to poke your bill
In that hole and pull him out" said
Sammy. "That is, If there really Is
borer in there" he added.
There's one in there, all right,
big fat one, but this hole turns and
I can't reach him. guess I'll have to
bore for him." explained Drummer.
What do you mean you'll have to
bore for him?" asked Sammy. He
was becoming curious.
Just what said" replied Drum
mer. "I'll first have to find out just
where that fellow is and then bore in
until get to him"
"why don't you just follow that
hole? It Is bound to lead you to
him." said Sammy.
'Too much work." replied Drum
mer, shaking his red-capped head.
"Altogether too much work. The first
thing to do Is to find out exactly
where that borer is. Then I'll know
Just what to do. II you'll excuse me,
Sammy, I'll get busy right away"
"Of course, I'll excuse you, but I
stiu don't see what you have got to
do. That fellow, If there is one in
there at all Is at the end of this
hole. so you know already where he
s." said Sammy.
True enough, know he is at the
end of that hole. but tell me. please.
where the end of the hole is," replied
Drummer.
OF course, Sammy couldn't do that,
and Drummer went to work. He be-
gan tapping around that little hole,
tapping with his stout beak. He
would tap, then appear to put his
head close to the tree as II listening.
Perhaps he wasn't, but 1t certainly
looked that way. Then he would
shift his position and tap on another
place and seem to listen. Sammy Jay
watched him. He saw Drummer shift
about until he was a couple Of inches
below that little hole and almost half
way around that branch. It looked
very silly to Sammy, like a great
waste of time. Suddenly Drummer
gave a sharp little exclamation of sat-
tsfaction.
what Is it," asked Sammy, moving
10 where he could see better.
"I've got him!" exclaimed Drum
mer.
Good! Let's see him!' cried Sam
my Jay.
Drummer looked o bit sheepish.
n mean I've found Just where he is,
- explained. r haven't actually got