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Evening star., 1937-07-24
WHY'S First Attempt.

IN MANY ways the affair will shape
DIP as a scrap between the strong
professional delegation from Wash
mgton against the best men from
Virginia and Maryland. Ralph Beach
appears to be the top man from Bal
timore, while Erie Ball, Chandler
Harper, Al Houghton and Jack Isaac
Will be the men to lick from Virginia
But even with that bunch of talent
IT'S An even-money bet a Washington
pro will grab the major slice of the
dough. Witty Cox will be making his
f1rst start in a Middle Atlantic P. G. A.
championship.
washington Is going to have six
competitors In coming national
championship. to be staged at Cleve-
And next month. It's the coiored
championship of the United States
and one Of the local entrants NAV
grab the title. Harry jackson. a
hurly colored lad who has caddied
1T Chevy Chase and Columbia. won
the title several years ago and will
enter the tournament again. Others
who will play include Bobby King
and Billy Adams of Columbia's s csddie-
pen; Clyde Martin of Beaver Dam.
and probably Pace Rayburg. Con-
gressional bag -toters,
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SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
star dIpr Of the Ciuhx

Ma SnVllle. l5. Atlanta 4
Little Rock. Is. Memphis 2
birmingham. ) New Orleans. 3.
Knoxville. :. Chattanooga, 3.
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EASTERN SHORE.
Stsndinx Of the Clubs.

EsSton, x Pocomoke. Is
Salisbury. u Federalsburg. 8.
Crisheld X: Dover y
Cambridge, 2 Centreviile. 2.
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Minor Leagues
INTERNATIONAL,

d
Jersey City. 3 Toronto 4 Q2 1nnlnsS
syracuse, ;. Rochester a.
baltimore. Buffalo. &
Newark, 10, Montreal o.
Evening star., 1937-07-24
RAY FRYE HEADED
FOR RINGER TITLE
Entrant in Stars Tourney
Declared on Par With
World Champion.

" " champion when the ninth
annual Evening Star cham
pionships open next week on the new
Municipal Playground courts at Nc
MILAN Park. The young man in CUES
ton. Deadpan Ray Frye of Orkney
Springs, Va, is no stranger to these
parts. but since he appeared last in the
Capital, year ago, Frye's prestige in
the horseshoe world has zoomed.
No less an authority than CLAYTON
Henson, Virginia champion, who has
seen the best in national competition,
holds that Frye is the equal OF Ted
Allen, world title holder.
Evening star., 1937-07-24
PACIFIC COAST.
STANDING Of the Clubs,

Missions, : Seattle 3
Oakland ;. San DIEGO
Sacramento. ., San Francisco. I I3 in
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WITH Cliff Spencer and Leo WAL

WITH Cliff Spencer and Leo Wal
per out of town, the pros will
have to dig up two more lads to play
IN the exhibition match tomorrow at
Columbia. Walper is playing in the
Chicago open and Spencer is in New
York, which means that Mel Shorey
and probably Al Jamison Of Kenvood
will fill in, with Jamison and AL Tre-
der playing Shorey and Bob Barnett.
The other match finds Witty Cox and
Roland Mackenzie paired against
Fred Mcleod and George Diftenbaugh.
The matches are open to club mem
bers without charge, and will be con-
tinued through August and part Of
September.
The Kiwanis Club tourney. post
poned from last Tuesday at Washing
ton will be played next Tuesday over
the same course.
MRS. J. o. RHYME, one of Congress
sional's steadiest woman players,
today holds the Noah Pomeroy Tro-
Evening star., 1937-07-24

tered the fairways. and he's had IS
and even 65 since they started
spraying water on those immaculate
ly Rroomed fairways. But 66 is quite
a score, In. any league and any COM
pany. Bob played the nine in "a and
80.
The card, against par for the
Evening star., 1937-07-24

TT WAS big day for Washington
tennis that started at 10 o'clock
this morning on the Chevy Chase
Playground courts. At that hour,
the only title encounter OF the day
was to take place, sending Lucille
Mcdowell against Hazel (Jimmy)
Bishopp for the girls playground
championship.
But later scores OF other local
players were to be found on the
courts at the Army Navy Club and
the Sixteenth street reservoir. in the
late and early rounds Of two i'm
portant tournaments.
Army Navy was the site Of
the semi final round Of the
Middle Atlantic doubles tour
ney, in which four local teams
are battling for the right to
play for the sectional title to-
morrow afternoon.
The Reservoir courts furnished the
setting for the opening of the public
parks tournament, In which "a men
day. The women and mems doubles
will start tomorrow.
One Unseeded Duo Sticks.
THREE Of the four teams left In
the running for the Middle
Atlantic doubles championship were
among the four seeded. Only the
seeded No. team Of Tom Mangan
and Ralph McElvenny was missing,
following their elimination yesterday
by Harry March and Allie Ritzen-
berg. the only unseeded pair to reach
the senis
Although the result Of that match
was more or less expected, it took
Harry and Allie five sets to do it.
victory coming only after scores of
3-6, 81, 6-4, 4-6, Ga. Were it
Evening star., 1937-07-24

The card, against par 70.
Evening star., 1937-07-24

w WIMBLEDON. England, July
\A 24-Frankie Parker. who
" " has been making tennis
headlines almost since be
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-13
Skeleton and Hide Used
to Aid Animal SCULPTOR

The animal sculptor begins his
clay model Of the animal from meas
urements, photographs and studies,
writes James Lippitt Clark in Nat
ural History. He places the skull
and leg bones Of the animal on
frame and piles on clay until he
has an anatomical study Of the ami
NAL without the skin, the clay going
over the bones where the muscles
came off.
While he carefully sculptures the
contours, the tannery is at work
preparing the valuable skin, which,
In relaxed condition, is frequently
thrown over the model to check the
ut and posture of the animal.
When all is satisfactory, a plas-
ter mold is made of this clay model,
and in this mold is constructed q
thin, light shell of mache and wire
screen or bur1ap. This shell, rein
forced with wooden ribs and iron
rods in the legs, is removed from
the mold and assembled.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-13
Music-Loving Wolf Found

A music-loving. wolf is reported
from Mount Mckinley National
park, Alaska. His responses to the
charms that are supposed to soothe
the savage breast bear out the claim
that all wild animals are attracted
by music, says the Detroit News.
Repairs were being made on the
telephone. lines and the park ranger
engaged on the job kept the radio
In his tent, short distance away,
turned on while he worked. One
evening he noticed that wolf had
stopped to listen to the program.
The ranger was interested. At vari-
GUS intervals, for approximately an
hour, he walked around the tent to
see whether the wolf had gone on
his way. Not only was the animal
still listening, but apparently he
was so entranced by the musical
program that he was oblivious of
the presence of man.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-13

ress him and murmur low words.
They laid him on her bed.
While Carpy tore open Denison's
clothing and made hasty exami-
nation, buckets of hot water were
brought in.
The surgeon, with wearied back,
presently Strengthened up. "Jane."
he said sslemnly, you're lucky
girl. The bullet that meant death
for your boy struck his belt buckle
and tore around his side. Look here.
This was all was afraid of, this
stomach wound. I didn't think so
much about Bill, here. But, Jane,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-13
"Spick and Span" Comes
From "Spike" and "Chip"

"Spick and span" is the correct
spelling, but it is often enormously
spelled "spic and span, -" due appar-
emily to a mistaken notion of it's
derivation, asserts a writer In the
indianapolis News. The original
phrase was simply "span new"
span being an old word for chip
just cut. In Icelandic, it is span
nyr," from spann, chip, and "nyr,"
new.
"Spick and span new" was mere
ly an emphatic extension of the
earlier phrase, spick being an old
provincial or colloquial form Of.
spike, large nail. When a thing:
was particularly fresh in appear,
ance It was said to be "spick and
span new" that''is, bright and new
as new spike and freshly cut.
splinter. ~
Those who write the phrase
"spic and span" do so .on the as
sumption that the obsolete word for
spike was spelled "spic." There is
no evidence that such was the case
and the examples given in the Ok
ford dictionary indicate that it was
always spelled "spick." There was,
however, an old word "spic," mean
ing bacon or fat meat.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-13
yitamin c Factor

Vitamin &C." which is contained
in oranges, lemons, carrots, turnips,
rhubarb, tomatoes, and baked pota-
toes in appreciate quantities, pre-
vents scurvy. 1t is essential, there
fore, that the food Of explorers and
workers in the Arctic regions should
be strongly impregnated with it.
A Russian scientist, while porting
over an old MS. written by Jacques
Cartier, was surprised to find that
in 1886, while sailing up the st,
Lawrence, this famous pioneer lost
20 Of his crew from scuryy, but
saved the remainde. by an infusion
of pine needles. Now Russian sci
entists are extracting vitamin &c"
from pine needles, says Tit-Bits
Magazine, and adding it to canned
food which has no vitamin &C." 50
that their workers in the Arctic will
keep fit,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-13
Wash Day in Switzerland

In the Italian-speaking canton Of
Ticino, Switzerland, the women in
the rural districts know nothing Of
washing machines. Clear brooks
saunter through their country every
where and they, altogether with a
certain amount Of elbow-grease,
suffice for laundry purposes. With
a basket full Of clothes, wash
board and q piece of soap, these
dark-eyed, good-looking women Of
Switzerland's southland proceed to
the nearest shallow stream. They
do their work ON their knees and
with the aid Of the soft water are
able to turn out linen which is Of
the proverbial Wilderness Of bios
SONS. -
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DiscUvtry w '''" s M ~ s .,:s


~, yet with vacant stare that
seemed to have no definite focus.
lmpulsively Annister went to him,
threw his arm about the others
waist. Under the deceptive furs he
felt the sword thinness of Lamp
sons body.
Not until then did the glaze go
from the captains eyes. His upper
lip twitched, and a flicker of aware
ness, Of recognition, passed across
his face. He raised thin hand,
placed it exploringly upon Annis-
ter's arm. The fingers frightened
weakly, experimentally, before he
whispered" Annister-Tom? Here?"
He slumped in the lieutenant's
arms.
With muttered growl of pity
Annister lowered him to the floor.
You're damned right, I'm here!'
He turned and started for the door.
He'd have to get some fire and food
he stopped suddenly and stared
at map lying outspread upon the
table. "a new mountain range had
been marked. upon .it-and in small
blue, letters were printed the words:
'"The Annister Mountains"
The lieutenant wheeled slowly
and looked at the unconscious form
Of Captain Lampson. IA new dis
covery, en-? Thanks, old man." He
wagged his head. "But it's nothing
compared to what I've discovered ~
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GUNL OCk RANCH
by FRANK H. SPEARMAN
Copyright Frank H. spearman 49, Service
WNU Service


ion his third or fourth cup of
steaming stimulant when the sound
of hoofs was heard. In a moment
a resounding rap came at the door.
Jane started. In terrified appeal,
she looked at the doctor. Carpy re-
sponded by calmly wiping his lips
Jane had introduced napkins at
Gunlock - and motioning Jane to
her bedroom.
"Who's there?" he demanded
curtly.
bill Pardaloe!" came the boom
ing response.
Carpy flung the door open.
Jane ran out of the bedroom.
"Oh, Mr.. Pardaloe!" she cried.
"Where is Bill? Where is he?"
"He's on his way back to the hos
'pita1."
us he hurt? Is he wounded? Tell
me!' cried the frantic girl.
"Why, no, yes-that is, he was
amin to get back to the hospital
before Doc found out he was gone"
parted the veteran awkwardly.
Carpy interviewed sternly: "Where
is he now? Talk, Bill"
CANT talkin'? He's on the way
here with Bob Scott"
''Then he's not hurt?" cried Jane.
'Why, no, yes-a little, maybe."
where you from?" demanded
Carpy, still stern.
Deep Creek"
"Was there fight?"
"There was a little brush, Doc"
"Was Denison wounded?'
"Why - guess he was pinked,
Doc"
"Where was he hit?"
I'm the forearm, Doc. We got a
tourniquet on that-he got another
in the stomach"
well bring him out, If that's
all. Who was in the fight2 Talk
fast!"
"Dave McCrossen and Barney
with Bill"
"Where are McCrossen and Reb-
stock?"
fright where they were when
John Fryin' Pan left me. He was on
bis way to the Reservation to hunt
up couple of bucks to bury 'em
and bring in the CATTLE"
"Sit down here, Bill. Jane" d.
rected the doctor, "get the boy a
pot Of coffee" ?' .,@;
"And, boil plenty of clean water
on the stove." az. W!
Eyes, doctor, Bill is going to stop
here on the way in, isn't he?"
Pardaloe nodded. "Ought to show
up after while."a
Jane ran to 1.-the kitchen. She
reused, Quong to2heat the water.
"No," continued Parda1oe, deep in
a saucer of: hot coffee, II didn't see
it. Twas .o1er: Spn the west side Of
the .ereek-it'ss bad crossin' there.
] 5sdont know, how Bill up.
They hever cou1d-a got him across
DOWN there. We cut over the res
CREATION and plugged for Gunlock
- He pricked up his ears and In
terrupted himself. "Shucksl That
sounds like somebody now!"
Jane listened eagerly. II can't
hear anyone" she said.
. "You will in a minute. There
they are again." III
Jane ran for the door. "Hold on
a minute, Missy" exclaimed Parda-
loe. "Let's make sure who 1t u.s."
He opened the door himself,
stepped quickly outside, and shut it
behind him. Within a very few
minutes, ages to Jane, she heard
the stamping Of horses. Pardaloe
flung the door open and called for
Carpy. Jane hurried out with him.
Dropping low, Denison, iron
willed, had stuck to the end Of the
gruelling ride. Scott told him they
had followed up the east bank of
the creek-he himself on Rebstock's
horse: how by great good fortune
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CHAPTER xlV-continued

when he felt a sickening blow in
the stomach from McCrossen's gun.
hardly ten yards away. He had
oeen crouching on his horses back
and was already stirrup-loose. He
slid off and rolled like a cat to-
ward the brush. Rebstock saw the
trick but, forgetting that a wound
ed man is the most dangerous man,
he yelled and spurred straight at
him.
The horse refused the smell of
blood. He SHE'D. Rebstock spurred
him. AS the horse reared, the fee
bic light Of the moon struck, for
an instant, Rebstock's features. In
that instant Denison fired point
blank at him.
Fully expecting that McCrossen
would ride in to finish him, Deni-
son Tipped open the loading gate Of
his gun instinctively, and punched
out the empty shells.
His head in whirl, expecting
that any instant McCrossen would
be on him, Denison tried to reload.
Just as ne got the cartridge into
his revolver, he caught the sound
of horses hoofs and then heard
Bob Scott calling.
Here, Bob" exclaimed Denison
from the brush. Look out for Nc
Crossen."
Scott slipped off his horse. enc
Crossen won't, bother for a while.
Are you hit, BillT'
Il stopped couple of slugs
somehow. What about McCrossen?"
he asked irritably.
"He's lynn over by the bridge. He
wants to talk to you, Bill"
"What the hell does he want to
talk to me for?"
"He asked me to tell you he did.
You can't lose no time, Bill. Can
you stand up?"
Twist a tourniquet around this
arm before try it, Bob. Don't trust
McCrossen. Have you got his guns?
He'd like nothing better than an
other crack at me-" muttered Deni-
son, staggering, with Scott's help,
to his feet.
"McCrossen's stripped clean," de-
clared Scott. Hes dyin'.. That's.
the plain truth. Can't you make up
your mind to see what.he wants?"
go ahead. But give me my gun
and watch out" muttered 'Denison.
In the light Of the moon, McCros-
sen, prppped' up by Frying Pan, re-.
tined against the trunk OF. a half:
grown tree,
Here's Bill, Dave" Scott spoke
low and gently. "You said you
wanted to speak to him."
Eyes, Daye?" said Denison, halt
ingly,: ..g
"Im done, Bin.
Dave exclaimed Denison. "I'm
sorry it. had TO end this way" "
~ talked pretty rough tonight"
said Nc Crossen, brokenIy,, splitting
the blood out of his throat.
"tfhat's all right, Dave.":*
Didn't really mean it ALL You've
always shot square, Bill, If some
folks I've trained with had done
that way, I mightn't be here to-
night gGa b Bill, ns a favor :.::::
"I've got an o1d-maid sister back
East. She's all I've got. I'd hate
her to know this come, rustlin',
Bill" a
It'll never be said, Dave"
"Let it be straight-out fight,
Bill-you know"
II know, Dave; I know. What's
her address?"
an my trunk, Bill" murnhured
McCrossen thickly. "Promise?"
Il promise"
"Give me-your hand"
Pardaloe was the first to reach
Gunlock on the way home shortly
hoforo DAYLIGHT He rode in on hts
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~ 1At0 tCdtu Jay AACuICAoAI
~ Annister sighted the snow
capped peaks looming high above
the southernmost limits of the Ice
Barrier. Two days later he was
able to see the vertical cliffs slash
ing their black and scarlet TANKS
across the white wilderness of Ant
arctic snow. 1t would take three or
four days more to reach Captain
Lampson's stricken party at the foot
of Mawson's Glacier.
Annister, in a steady lope behind
the skimming sledge, cracked his
long whip at the Malemute leader
and swore. The ninety-mile gale
tore the oath from his lips and
shredded it into sullen echo be-
hind him.
For years Captain Lampson had
been basking in the sunlight of pub
lie alteration. Adulation from the
mobs, ovations from the press, med
ais from congress! To him had gone
the credit for being the first explor-
er to cross Antarctica from sea to
sea. Yes, and he was the discoverer
of the Luber range, the Lampson in
let, the
Bah! A grandstand player, that's
what he was! And it was typical
Of the American populace to make
hero out of handsome STRIPPING
| whose courage and resourcefulness
had never been put to the test.
Day after day Annister ,plodded
southwark. He came at last to a
weird region Of crevasses and tum-
bled ice blocks. Presently he found
the portable hut Lampson had erect
ed before leading his expedition up
to the Polar Plateau.
Annister halted his team at the
door, his handicapped forehead
puckering in a frown of puzzlement
at the snow heaped in front Of it.
He kicked the snow away from the
entrance, pushed the door inward,
and stood for a moment squirting
at the interior darkness. He went
in then, pulling the door shut be-
hind him.
When his eyes were adjusted to
the gloom he saw two forms, en-
cased In sleeping bags, lying inert
upon the floor. In a corner he saw
a gaunt-faced, bewhiskered man rise
weakly before a Primus stove. 1t
was Lampson.
A sheer sprang to Annister's frost
cracked lips, but it died unut-
tered The dull misery and
grief in the young captains eyes
was terrible to see. He was star
ing idiotically at the lieutenant.
After moment his lips began to
move, soundlessly. Then, when his
voice came, it was faint and hol-
low, as If he were muttering to him.
self, "Steepton-made-it?"
Annister wet his lips with his
tongue. he found himself suddenly
drained of anger, bitterness, re-
sentiment.
His glance wandered to the still
figures on the floor. Divination
came like a knife thrust then.
Draimer and Kent. were dead
They'd been dead for days, possibly
for weeks. Lampson, too, was dead
dead save for the fact that he still
stood upon his feet!
"Draimer and Kent?" asked An
mister, turning. "What happened"
The young captain pivoted slowly
until he was looking at the motion
less figures. ION the Plateau" he
murmured. "Draimer fell-in
crevasse. Conclusion. Kent lost
both feet-with frost bite. Both
died. But - l. sent - Steepton-
home-to the-base" He still spoke
in a curiously dead voice, like one
uttering his thoughts aloud.
Annister's mouth dropped open.
He stared at the younger man in
credulOusly. LampsOn had not sent
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Her Address?"
I didn't want you fixing for fun
eral when you ought to be fixing
for wedding! Wen get him back
to the hospital in few days."
ooh, no, Doctor" exclaimed Jane
unsteadily, but with cold decision.
"Why, what do you mean, grip
II mean he's at Gunlock to stay.
Hes never going to leave i'll"
{THE ENID
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-12-10
OPERA in ENGLISH
IS ADVISED FOR
u. S. AUDIENCES

Baltimore, Md.-Opera in English
for American music lovers would do
much to stimulate general interest
in this form of musical entertainment
and would help solve the problems fac
ing operate production in America,
according to Eugene Martinez, found
er and director of the Baltimore Civic
Opera Company which is to give the
world premiere of "The Captive" a
3-act opera by DR.. Gustav Strube
(libertto by Frederic Arnold Kun
mer), in the Lyric theatre on Febru-
airy %.
Opera in English? And why not"
Mr.. Martinez asked, when an inter-
viewer put the question of language
to him. "In Europe operas are usual
ly sung in the language the audience
understands, so why not here, espec-
tally as it is a well known fact that
the average knowledge of foreign
tongues is less here than among
European nations. Indeed, / feel it
is a form of snobbery to expect the
American public to enjoy its opera
when nine-tenths of those in the aud
fence don't understand word that is
being sung"
All the productions of the Balti-
more Civic Opera Company, which has
been giving operas in Baltimore for
five years, are in English. "The Cap
tive" will be sung in English, of
course, since it is originally an Eng
lish work and not translation.
Eugene Martinez, who founded the
Baltimore Civic Opera Company in
1882, has had wide experience on the
professional stage. A Baltimorean,
he studied at the Peabody Conserva-
tory of Music. Following the World
War, in which he was wounded at the
Battle of Montfaucon, he sang with
the Society of American Sing, the
Brooklyn National Opera Company
and then went into several Schubert
productions. He was in the original
cast of Blossom Time" and toured the
country with FRITZ Scheff, famous
light opera star. A season with the
Montreal Grand Opera Company fol-
bowed after which he returned to
Baltimore, where he soon became one
of the musical leaders in this city,
founding in 1892, the Baltimore Civic
Opera Company which has produced
10 major works in that time.
This opera company now has CHOIR
us of 1875 singers and is one of the
largest and most important musical
groups in this section. Two perform
ances ("The Captive" on February %
and double bill "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana" and "Elisir glamour" on April
25) will be given in the Lyric Theatre
in Baltimore, this season, for which
subscriptions are already being receiv-
ed from music lovers in Washington,
and various sections of Maryland and
nearby states.