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The Washington times., 1937-06-01
Patterson Takes
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Completion Of the Washington
Baltimore Major Bowling League
saw the Patterson Happy Five
win the championship with Balti-
more's standout bowler of the
season Johnny Miller win the in
dividual crown with an average Of
1926 for his So games. Ollie
Pacini twice U. S. No. / ranking
bowler was on his heels with an
average of 124-21 for so games.
Russell Motor had high team
game of 6S3 while National Beer
had high team set of 1916. Ollie
Pacini had high individual game
of 1872 while Cook and Keith were
tied for high set with 443. Stand
ingS:
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that in each succeeding important
3-year-old stake, history would be
made.
Now you take that fight bill to-
morrow night at Griffith Stadium
which is being sponsored by the
Metropolitan Police Association
for . grand, grand cause, their
widows and orphans 80.
There are several boys on that
card Of whom you may be say.
ing in q few years, "Why, I re.
m e m Der when that fellow
fought in Washington, back in
1887. He seemed then to be
going places"
Fellows like Lou Gevinson, Ray
Ingram, Norment QuarleS and
Bobby Tow are the cloth of which
champions are made.
Their beginnings have been
humble, but since there is no cut
and-dried path to boxing glory,
their chances Of some day being
important figures on the fight
horizon, are quite as propitiouS as
many Of the big household names.
They Haze E0rnrorks
Should you talk to Timekeeper
Pat O'Connor, who hasn't missed
q ring show since the sport was
legalzed in Washington, or if you
talk to not quite so much of an
old-timer, but withal one who has
grown up in the game. Major
'Heinie" Miller, they would no
doubt tell you there are many
striking similaritieS between some
Of the lads who fight tomorrow
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The most important thing in
the game Of tennis is to keep your
eye on the ball. I cannot en-
phasize this point too much.
BY keeping your eye on the
ball you show that you are serious
about the game and you will find
that the Shipshod shots you are
now making will be cut out con-
siderably.
I have seen players with mar
velouS stroke execution, perfect
footwork and fine coordination
fail to become good players
simply because they ignored the
most elementary rule of tennis,
which is to follow the ball con-
stantly even UP to the point of
contact with your racquet.
know that plenty of you viii.
say to me that you have per-
Sonally seen the ranking players
take their eye off the ball before
they hit it. and you are correct
but only to certain extent.
Watch the Ball!
These famous players have all
passed through the hard preiim-
mary stage Of keeping their eye
on the ball when they were build
ing up their games to their pres
ent high caliber.
Now they car play most Of
the time without watching the
ball to the point of contact with
their racquet,
But just let their games fall
off or let them have a bad dav
on the courts and the first thing
they will do in an effort to IT
back on their game = to ask
themselves: Am I watching the
ball?"
A few days Of this and a few
hours of practise on this one
point will in most case bring
them back to their normal game.
Do not spend too much time
watching your opponent. Pick
out the place on the court where
you want to hit the ball and hit
it there.
Try to Practice
If your opponent is there he
has outgueSse you. This is es-
pecially important when your op-
ponent is attacking you from a
net position. If you try to
watch him and the bal you are
surely headed for a losing point.
Now, besides keeping your eye
on the ball there are one or
two other things that I want to
J Continued on Page 80, Col. 81
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Oaks
From Little
ACorns!
BY KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

49,. S"SSS SPVES@ S~SS~S
The experienced eye
looking at a boxing
show, is ever on the
alert for some young
ster bearing earmarks
Of the gre a t n e s s
known to a Dempsey,
a Tunney, a Leonard,
a Kid Mccoy, a Kid
Williams, a Canzoneri
or mebbe a Jimmy Nc
Larnin.
In baseball, it's the same.
You are ever, sitting there in
the grandstand seeking the
swiftness Of a johnson, the
alertness of a Bluege, the shift
ness of a Joe Judge, the brains
of a Ruel or a Sewell.
In football you are wondering II
you'll ever see another Thorpe, an
other Mahan or another Brickley.
'Twos Ever Thus
And so on down the whole field
Of sports.
You missed Man o. War, be-
cause you were too young in 1920
to become minded, or because
you were like so many others who
hardly realized at the moment
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a team may be, it cannot lose
powerful men like Teller and
Cochrane and hope to 60 very
far.
The American League race is
CONTINUED on Page 80, Col. y
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Decoration DayFinds
Ball Experts Correct
By FRANK BUCK" o'NEILL

The first call post the 1887 pennant shows the field
dwelling cut for the long drive to Independence Day the
approximate order named by majority Of prognoscators
The Yankees first and they figures be first the end
of the Detroit and Cleveland looking each other
the eye and break here there may change the relative
positions of these two teams night.
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YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Cincinnati, SIS; Pittsburgh, 81.
Chicago, 4-6; st. Louis. 2-S.
Brooklyn, 10-4; New York, 3-5.
Philadelphia, 60; Boston, 3-6.
TODAY'S GAMES
New York at Brooklyn.
Only game scheduled.
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By ELLSWORTH VINES

Worlds Professional Tennis ChampOn)
The most important thing in the game of tennis to keep
eye the ball. cannot emphasize this point too much
By keeping the ball you show that you serious
about the game and you will find that the phod shots you
are making will be cut out considerable
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ELLSWORTH VINES shows the proper position for the
bachand Slice Note this position well behind the base
line Also note that his knees and body bent in read
for possible low ball. The grip, too important
is the position Of the left you will study the grip
you will realize that the thumb Of the right hand the
port the back Of the racket handle and that the heel Of
his right hand is in exactly the right position.
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Major League
Standings

*Games behind leader.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
WASHINGTON, 6-6; Philadelphia
81.
New York, 49,; Boston, 3-S.
Cleveland, 7-6; Detroit, Is (seCOnd
game IL innings.
Chicago, SO; st. Louis, 2-s:
TODAY's GAMES
Detroit at Cleveland.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Only games scheduled.
A LII N a
Evening star., 1937-05-23

JUNGLE INSPIRATION Mrs Martin Johnson is ossisted" by
two bbon opes her portfolio the Boneo Jungle The story
her explorations there with her oe hubond who lost his the
Pone cosh in which she injured is told the film which
vii show at Constitution Hail. Moy 28 for the benefit Of the Child
Welfare leoque
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
DEATH LAID TO STUDENT Gu

BUFFALO, N. Y, March 81
G.N.S0.-The tragic case of Mary
Ellen Babcock was to enter what
is believed to be its last phase to-
day with arraignment of an 18-
year-old honor student on a charge
Of numbering the girl.
District Attorney Walter c. New
comb said he had 22-page, signed
confession of the crime from
Thomas Smith, University of Buff
falo premedic l student. Smith
was arrested in connec-
ton with an attack on another
girl. The youth was pronounced
sane by two State alieniSts.
After 36 hours Of questioning,
Newcomb said, Smith confessed
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
Guatemala Native
Textiles Are Shown

Hand.woven textiles created by
Guatemalan Indians, using the
same process employed by native
tribes long before the arrival in
America of the Spanish conquis-
tadores four centuries ago, are on
display at the Pan.American Union,
at Seventeenth st. and Constitu-
ton Ave. N. w. The collection,
just received from Guatemala, in
cludes table covers, wall pieces,
luncheon sets, and blankets, OBJ
tanned from every locality in the
country.
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Bruce R. Allen Heads
Western Union Here

Bruce r. Allen, for five years
general sales manager Of the
Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, will become superintendent
and executive representative Of
the firm in this city April 1, 1t was
announced today.
Before being made sales man
aged he served for six years in
the office Of ]. c. Willever, first
vice president In charge Of the
commercial department. Prior to
that he was division commercial
manager of the Pacific Division
for four years.
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the Babcock Staying, along with
the stabbing for which he was ar
rested and attacks on two other
girls. The prosecutor said the vic
tins ranged in age from 8 to Is
The body OF the 1S-year-old Bah
cock girl was found in a field in
South Buffalo February 8. She
had been beaten and stabbed y
times.
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Noted Sportsman Dies

NEW YORK, March 81 G.N.S).
Frank Gray Griswold. 81. noted
sportsman, who was credited with
importing the first pack of fox
hounds to this country, was dead
here today.
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RARE EVENTS

In the middle of the morning
the telephone bell rang in the
Senate Press Gallery. A feminine
voice inquired:
els there any special legisla.
ton coming up in the Senate
tOday?"
The man who answered the
phone was little bewildered by
the question and he asked what
kind of legislation.
II mean," said the voice, els
there anything coming up that
will require all Of the members
Of the Senate to be In their
SeatS?"
NO." said the man sadly, 81
don't know of any legislation
like that"
"Humph," said the lady, and
hung up in disgust.
Now, now, lady, that only hap
pens once in q blue moon. One
time that happened, we are re.
minded, when the economy act
was passed in 1882. I wonder
if she heard it was time for an
other one?
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Marry Go Round
Bu Helen ROWLAND

it is a sad undisputed fact that
9 times out of 10, the average
man picks out the daffiest and
most impossible places imaginable
in which to tell girl he loves her.
Usually the vernal urge over
whelmS him somewhere in the
midst of traffic on a rainy day,
or when the car is stuck in a
snowdrift, or in the kitchen, when
they're foraging for a midnight
supper.
The Girl" may have something
to do with it. There are some
girls who have a talent for max
ing men propose to them. But,
generally, the more anxious a girl
is to get the matter settled, the
longer it takes for the love-idea to
penetrate a mans mind.
The girl doesn't really matter if
she happens to be near him when
he's in the marrying mood. He
will play around for years with
the girl who was made for him
and who would make him perfectly
happy-and then turn around on
an impulse and marry the girl who
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nOCelS, ClCKeC OIL Edwin c. Hill
ficeS and coutourier cash regis
tiers. They called us shylocks, but
they let no random centime, Ira,
mark or shilling escape.
In all close financial account
ing, this annual outpouring of
tourist money weighed heavily in
redressing European trade bal
anceS. This, and the steady tide
Of money from foreign-born work
erS in America, sent back home.
Both golden streams "ebbed and
sank and Saddened." Europe
turned to Showmanship.
Travel has been increasing, but
currency uncertainties, constantly
impending shifts and juggling OF
values against the dollar yard
stick, once more slow the east
bound traffic; particularly for
Americans who might spend con-
siderable time in Europe.
EXPATRIATES RETURN
Europe isn't the easy-money
paradise it used to be. The ex-
patriates are coming home in
flocks. Thousands, within the last
20 or 80 years, have made their
permanent homes in Paris or Lon
don or Southern France.
Since the days Of James Hazen
Hyde, who, irked by the investiga-
ton Of his 100000 dinner at
Sherry's on an insurance company
expense account, became a Pari
sian boulevardier, Europe has been
the Elysium Of many citizens OF
the upper social brackets who
found our rough-and-tumble de-
mocracy a bit too crude for their
liking.
Today Mr.. Hyde, old Berry
Wall and a few other old-timers
hang on, but the truth is that the
expatriateS are rediScoverine
America in multitudeS. Not alone
because of the exchange, but be-
cause Of the vast and disturbing
political turmoil Of the Continent
the uneaSe and danger over there
and a new appreciation of much
in America that they previously
had taken for granted-intellec-
tual and political freedom, self
contained security and Stimulat-
ing culture of our own for any ont
intelligent enough to understand
and appreciate it.
There Is another gIoup af xe
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Too Sensible To Pass

A S EXPECTED, the Labor Department has an
IA nounced its opposition to the Reynolds Starnes
bills aimed at freeing the United States of undesirable
aliens.
There are than six million aliens in this country
The great majority of these aliens are DESIRABLE.
Many have declared their intention of becoming
citizens.
Many others expect to do so.
No native born naturalized American wants to see
these types of aliens depored There is no thought of
deporting them.
But every intelligent and law-abidng American
wants alien CRIMINALS deported and the chief pur-
pose of the Reynolds stanes bills is to deport them
WITHOUT INTERFERENCE by the Labor Depart
ment or anybody else.
The bills provide for the mandatory deportation of
"aliens convicted of any crime carrying penalty of
year more in prison, espionage or carrying con-
ceaed weapons"
They would also "permt the Labor Department to
delay deportation in certain hardship cases for one
year, but report to Congress on each case"
Such action would the United States millions of
dollars year by Kidding it of portion of its criminals
The measures in short, MAKE SENSE.
So much sense, indeed, that Congress probably WILL
NOT PASS THEN, at this session anyway.
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,inely clever young people, many
of them, have been engaging in
learned disputationS along Mont
parnasse and RaSpail and the
Boul Mich, some Stick-in-the-mud
young Americans have been ZAP
plying the seat Of the pants to the
seat Of the chair'-Mary Vorse's
formula for literary success-and
we have right here and now some
thing comparable to an Eliza
bethan renaissance all our own.
doubt if Maxwell Anderson,
whose outburSt Of drama is moth
ing short of VeSuvian, ever went to
Europe. If he did, he didn't stay
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blight. Pain will always blight
you if you hoard it always
bless you if you share it.
Do not hoard your hurt. Do not
clutch your grief, your fear ana
humiliation, as though they were
UNIQUE and private experiences
which shut you out from the com
mon lot. They're not. Pain IS uni
versal. 1t is part Of everyone's oeS'
tiny It is Life. Take it that way
Do not let it separate you from
other lives. Let it bring you nearer
~ other lives help you to
understand and enter into oUner
lives. .L.-o
IT, Share it as you share the COM
nunion bread and wine.
HEARTENING TRUTHS
Do you remember that beautiful
story of the Last Supper" from
which the ritual of Communion
came? There is a mystery and
beauty in that story beyond my
stupid Interpretation. But there is
also a simple and heartening truth
which we all may grasp-a truth
which comes as close to you and to
me in our trouble today as it did
to the afflicted two thousand
years ago.
There they were-the young
Christ and the twelve who had
followed Him for those three brief
and glorious years. There they
were, gathered together in an up
per room to observe the Passover
as was the Jewish custom.
"And as they were eating,
Jesus took bread, and blessed 1t
and brake it, and gave 1t to the
disciples, and said:
Take, eat; this is my body.
"And He took the cup, and
save, thanks and rave d to
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The Human Side of the News =: By Edwin c. Hill

Ilong. Right in his front yard, and
way down route CIV, he found
the makings of High Tor" a play
as authentic and searchingly pro
found and moving as anything OF
Sophocles or AeschyluS or Racine.
John Steinbeck just ambled
around Monterey and here we
have "Tortilla Flat" and "Of
Mice and Men"-Salty, original,
workman-like American books
which are literature in any
mans country. And Margaret
Mitchell took the lore Of the
old South which lay within
hands reach and, with Gone
With the Wind" was caught up
in a grand razzle-dazzle Of justly
merited fame.
1t is the same story in criti-
cism and essays, and particularly
in biography-We have had a
string of magnificent biographies.
There is new sap and vitality
not only in American letters, but
in the graphic arts and archi-
lecture, and some Of the expa-
triates have been wise enough to
discover it and come home and
get on the job.
1.-THE Towering of New Eng.
land" by Van Wyck Brooks, Is,
in the opinion of this writer, one
of the most magnificent books Of
recent years. It happens to have
one chapter, 1.-THE Romantic
Exiles," which is exactly peril
nent to the subject in hand.
THE SECOND DRIFT
Hawthorne, spending four tire
some years as consul at Liver
pool, observed the American ex-
odus to Europe of that day and
was disquieted by it. He had a
wary Skepticism when it came to
the glamour Of Old World culture.
"The artists l1nger," he wrote,
"whiIe their originality dies out
Of them, or is polished away as a
barbariSm." He said, "it needs
the native air." if the writer's
work is to have integrity and
vitality.
When Henry James set young
people shifting at everything
American, there began the period
of decadence in this noble New
England culture, says Van Wyck
Brooks. And there began the sec
ond drift of the expatriates, break
ing out the pSaltery and harp for
anything and everything that
wasn't American. Walter Hines
Page, our British ambassador in
the pre-war days, an incurable
Anglophile, was an extreme case
of such remuneration and changed
allegiance am not quoting Mr.
Brooks here.
This may sound like the rabid
provincialiSm of the all-but-for-
gotten Know Nothing" movement
Of the last century. That, OF
course, was the pig-headed non
sense, with its ignorant condemna'
ton of everything foreign. Mark
Twain's raffish ridicule Of Europe
was perhaps his least worthy writ
ing. I am trying to steer into
mean where we can give Europe its
due and still do our own stuff. It
looks as If that were happening
now.
ECopyrlEht, 1887. by Cling Features
b. eYG4AsAtA 1A0.a
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PLEAS

In q Congressman's morning
mail:
ITO Americas Congress:
"Why are you not q body Of
men with will, strength of char
acter and purpose? How can
We admire you who allow your
selves to be offered prizes or be
intimated or to fear? / pray you,
raise your heads, strengthen
your backs, be men Of decision
and will. no matter what hap
pens. We live to think and be
as we see right. Allow those who
watch you to admire you, to
build faith in you"
And as if that wasn't enough
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"OUR FREEDOM"
"See the Serpent now hath
entered
To deceive and to beguile.
In this land we called our
Freedom
And protection for = while.
"Then arouse, ye men Of Senate.
And of Congress through this
land
May God give you ears to harken
Eyes to see and understand.
Men Of power throughout the
nation
Duty clean do not fOrsake
But arise ye to the conflict
For your country Is at stake.
with integrity and power
Act for glory to Gods name
To uphold your cOuntry'S honor
And its righteousness the same.
"And preserve your Star-lit ban
ner
That is floating Ger your head.
Change it not for crimes dark
emblem
Not for RusSia's murderOuS
Red.
"And may the God who gives uS
Wisdom
And the God who placed you
there
To inspire you to be worthy
OF your Stewardship 30 rare"
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free" is going to be married in
June and is totally unconscious of
the fact.
A man is always being "Sur-
prised"-but the biggest surprise
of his life is when he finds him
self standing at the altar. saying,
II Dol"
He loves to dream Of marriage
in the abstract, just as he loves
to loll back in an overstuffed chair,
while his valet pourS him a high
ball, and dream of roughing it on
a north-woodS fishing trip. But
nobody-not even the man him.
self-knowS what will wake him
out Of his dreams and make him
DECIDE to marry.
There is an old joke which comes
down from the Stone Age, about
"the Time, the Place, and the
Girl" But the only occasion when
a man considers the time" is
when he has a bunch that some
other man may beat him to it,
Then the words just pop out of
his mouth. before the don't.
lump" rises in his throat and
chokes them back. And nobody is
so aStoniShed when he finds him.
self engaged, as HE is. Otherwise
he will keep a girl waiting until
she is ready to fall into his arms
from sheer exhaustion.
AS for the "place"-NO mans
spontaneous declaration of love
can be attributed to place; be.
cause, regardless Of the popular
fallacy that most troths are
| phghted under q giamoenuG moan,
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k1G Sd1u,
81 remember, and the Senator
from South Carolina remembers,
that some seven or eight years
ago, when our beloved friend,
the late Senator Fletcher, was
member of the Senate, he sub
mitted a resolution calling for,
1 think, 100000 at first to
investigate and report on the
Mediterranean fruit fly in Flor
ida, and that sum was spent,
and the next year probably
three or four million dollars
more was spent; and the report
at that time showed, as / recall
it-and think I recall 1t accu'
rately-that the only fruit fly
ever found was . dead insect
that was said to be a fruit fly
and that was found under a
glass case.
"If there is . Mediterranean
fruit fly anywhere in the cOun-
try and the Senator has seen 1t,
let us 60 after It."
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"FOr this is my blood
Poverty and persecution. A
shabby upper room twelve
frightened men, most of them
common working men, bewildered
by a dread which lay beyond the
comprehension of their simple
minds some bread and wine
and one young Man who
shortly was to die an awful death.
Yet out of that shared misery
there came a power which was to
change the whole, sad human
world lift man forever to .
nobler, prouder plane. +
But how?
Because in that small room man
first learned how to share. z
That broken bread and wine
they were the symbols of mingled
life and love. And each man.
drinking, was the greater for the
thing he drank and each man,
eating, was the wiser for the thing
he ate. For with that wine and
bread they mixed lives with
GOD!
There had been gods before upon
this earth. Far gods who dwelt on
Mount Olympus, and left little
men to struggle on their lonely way
below. But Christ was not a God
who dWelt apart. He lived and
shared himself with men, in life
or death. And taught men how to
Share-by sharing his own lifel
And so built brOtherhOOd-that
deeper, wider plan of living which
binds man to man, and man to
God.
A COVENANT
Don't hoard your hurt-Share It.
Share it as they shared bread and
wine and hope and fear and
grief and rapture and the God they
loVed-in that small upper room.
So take your tears your
broken dreams and shattered
pride and of them make a
covenant. A covenant with every
other suffering, frightened soul.
A covenant that will not shut
you out from life, but will, instead,
make life so wide, so deep, that
you'll forget your own cruel, pri'
vate loss! And stretch your vision
till it's wide as life itself.
(This column welcomes Gn6
requests comments. Letters pre-
Senting personal problems may
also be sent. All letters aDilI be
handled contidentiGlIy and an
SDered promptly il stamped.
addressed envelopes are ~
cluded.)
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
Syndicate, Ine.l .
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turning eXpatriateS-the CAFE,
Dome and Cafe Rotonde exiles OF
Paris, who left with angry outcrieS
against the American PhilliStineS
in the 1920's. They wore velvet
jackets, gestured with their thumbs
and wrote dada-istic poetry and
execrated Amortization awhile.
Now they are back, chastened
and older for their apostacy, and
are hymning America and all
things American. There have been
at least a dozen such books within
the last year or two.
Again, it isn't altogether money.
While these lads and laSsieS, genu-