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Evening star., 1937-01-16

field since 1896, the revival year OF
the ancient Olympic Games in Greece.
We believed Germany would be our
chief rival and that the Germans
would present a serious threat with
many stars in both track and field.
They did finish second. with several
first places to their credit.
Fine Job by GERMANY.
WOELLkE, the German shotputter.
who won his event on the first
Gay OF competition in the Berlin
Stadium, was the first German to win
a championship in the history Of the
Olympic Games. dating back not only
to 1896, but TO 1000 years before that.
Little wonder that Adolph Hitler
shook his hand at the completion of
WoellkeS final throw, on which he
beat our own Jack Torrance, the
world record-holder.
To my way of thinking Germany
did splendid job of staging the
Olympics and deserves great credit
for her forethought and efficiency in
handling and providing for more than
1000 athletes from so countries.
For example, we we're provided with
our own American menu, which I
sent over in May. and the Germans
Voluntarily even imported our meat
from Chicago, along with condiments.
relishes and vegetables from here at
an almost prohibitive cost.
Germany won the Olympics if you
take into consideration all % events
on the program. and We were second:
but We again proved our superiority
in track and field by winning IL Of
the % contests in this branch Of sport
Foreign Athletes Interesting.
Japan has been awarded the twelfth
Olympics and Germany already
has plans afoot to send her competi~
tors 10 Toxic in three Zeppelins, which
will be built in the next three years.
As an aftermath of the Berlin games
great interest has been shown in this
country in the prowess Of some OF
the foreign competitors. So much so
that several star athletes from for-
eign countries have been invited con-
ditionally to compete in the Winter
games that have been so successful
in Madison Square Garden, New
York, during next month and March.
The outstanding long g-distance run
ner and 5,000-meter Olympic cham
pion is Hoeckert of Finland. He not
only defeated the worlds best at 5000
meters, but subsequently broke the
world record for two miles, dropping
it TO 1913.
Hoeckert's mark. if allowed, will
supplant that of Donald Lash, the
Indiana University student, who won
special 2-mile run at Princeton
last June in 1885, breaking Paavo
NurmiS record.
( 1t is planned TO bring HOeckert and
Lash together at least once during
the indoor season.
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.REAP|NG REWARD
DERBY FAVOR|TE
Pompoon, Leading Juvenile
of SO, Lacks Stamina,
Experts Figure.
BY the Associated. Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, January l6-Reap-
nj ing Reward, from Mrs. Ethel
v. Mars Milky Way Farm,
was picked today by many Of
the Nations leading turf experts as the
winner Of the sixty-third running OF
the Kentucky Derby at Churchill
Downs May 8.
BY q decisive plurality Of the IS
sports editors and turf writers, the
brown son of Sickle was rated as the
horse to beat in a poll conducted by
the Louisville Times in cooperation
with the Associated Press.
Seventeen experts cast their ballots
for Reaping Reward, which won only
5 of his Is starts as a 2-year-old, but
was good enough to lower the colors OF
J. H. Louchheim's Pompoon in the New
England Futurity and then Travelled
West and won the Kentucky Jockey
Club Stakes. Eight others saw Mrs.
Mars colt finishing no worse than sec
ond, while two rated him the No. 3
position. for a grand total Of SO points
out OF possible los. figured on a
3-to-l basis.
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Terps ANNOY Duke.

| PSETTING Duke has become
somewhat of habit with Mary
land, however, the Terps carving out
neat triumphs seven out Of 10 times
they have met on the court. In the
role Of underdog last year, Maryland
booted the dope can with a startling
1884 victory
The Blue Devils invade with an i'm
pressive record, having won six con-
secutive games in as many starts IN
the Southern Conference. while Mary
land enters the fray seeking its fourth
win in six tusSels.
Coach Burton Shipley will start
Waverly Wheeler and George Kneoley
a. forwards, Eddie johnson at center,
and Knocky Thomas and Charley
Keller at the guard posts. Wheeler,
who has been handicapped by an in
jured foot, now Is primed for action
and is expected to bolster the Terps
considerably. AL Waters who scored
10 points against Western Maryland,
probably will crash the lineup before
many minutes have ticked by.
Richmond will enter the ring under
20 deficit, having elected to forfeit
the 145-pound and light-heavyweight
engagements. Ivan Nedomatsky an6
1Ancelot Jacques thus will sit idle on
the Maryland bench, but two bouts
each in the 125 and 155 pound divi-
sions will round out the card.
Maryland Boxing Line-Up.
COACH HARVEY L. MILLER, whose
eebut as ring coach was sue
cessful last week as Maryland
launched its season with 6-2 con-
quest Of Western Maryland will en-
ploy the following men: lis Ed She
gogue: 125, Tom Birmingham and
Bob Bradley; 1875. Benny Alperstein;
l55, Mike Lombardo and Bob Walton
l65, Alex Males, and heavyweight, Ed
Engell.
Richmond will send the following
punchers into action: lis. Lee Copley:
125, Ralph Arthur and Joe Flax, Ed
Hughes or John Ridenour: 1876,
Charley Minor; 155, Bill O'Flaherty
and Roland Nuckols; 165. Lew Tobias
and heavyweight, Mike West.
The Spiders will be making their
1887 debut.
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POmpoOn Leads Coin Winners.

POmpoOn Leads Coin Winners.
THE heavy support for Reaping Re-
ward forced Pompoon into the
runner-up role. although the son OF
Pompey generally was recognized as
the leading juvenile of 1896. He
dropped only two OF his eight start,
and topped the 2-year-old money win
ming list with $82 $50.
Although rated contender by most
only eight experts gave Pompoon the
No. ~pot. Six voted him the likely
runner-up. while 10 placed him third
for a total Of As points. For the
most part, the voters figured he is
not bred for both stamina and speed
so necessary in the mile and quar-
ter of the Derby.
He hung up new track record OF
l:l6 2-5 for 61a furlongs in win
ming the Belmont Futurity and was
beaten by Reaping Reward in the
final furlong of the New England
Futurity at mile and one-sixteenth
Those who believe Pompoon will not
go the distance pointed out that his
sire quit in the Derby in 1926, and
that Ladysman, another Pompey or
spring, did the same thing four years
ago.
Brooklyn Rated Third.
CHOW honors in the forecast went
to E. r. Bradley's Brooklyn. a son
OF Blue Larkspur, which did not ex-
hibit his true racing form until last
Fall due to injuries. Brooklyn COM
piled Al points in the balloting. with
s f1rsts. 10 seconds and thirds.
Beyond the big three" which scored
combined total of l56 out of a DOS
sible 2lo points. the voting was scat
tered.
Only three other horses received
hrst-place votes. They were Case
Ace, stablemate Of Reaping Reward,
which was ranked No. by two
writers: War Admiral, Samuel Rid
dies Man O. War colt, which wor
the Eastern Shore Handicap, and
Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Mauritius. an
offspring of Gallant Fox, which won
only one Of his IL races last year.
Case Ace Has Support.
CASE ACE, winner of the Airing
ton Futurity and two overnight
events before an injury forced him
to the sidelines. was rated fourth on
the basis of his two firsts, as many
seconds and four thirds. Although
receiving no first place votes, Warren
Wright's Privileged, disqualified win
ner Of the Pimlico Futurity and rum
ner-up in both the Belmont Futurity
and Jockey Club Stakes, merited No
S position on the strength of two Sec
onds and six thirds.
Others which received scattered
votes were Dewitt Pages Maedic, VIC
tor in five straight stakes at Sara
toga; w. M. Jeffords' Matey, a son OF
Man O. War and credited with the
Pimlico Futurity when Privileged was
disqualified; Mrs. Emil Denemark's &
Orientalist. Anthony Pelleteri's Bottle
Cap and Gerald, the King Ranch's
Dawn Play, William Woodward
Riparian. E. r. Bradley's Billionaire
C. v. Whitney,s Flying Cross, and
Heelfly. from the Waggoner Brothers
Three DIS Stock Farm.
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Many Questions.

A T THIS range, it looks as though
the Yankees will get their most
formidable opposition from the Detroit
Tigers. Pennant winners in 1884 and
1885 and world champions in 1885, the
Tigers were favored by many to win
again last year, but whether or not
they could have STAYED OF the Yam
kee rush-and, looking back, 1t doesn't
seem they could have done so In any
circumstances - their chances were
wrecked by an injury to Hank Green
berg and Mickey Cochrane's illness,
plus some mishaps to the pitch
ing staff.
II Cochrane is right again and II
Greenberg's injured wrist has mended
properly and II the pitching holds up
If all these things happen. the
Tigers should be the top team among
Evening star., 1937-01-16
They Hit the Peak.

THE Yanks had been moving back to
the peak from which they slipped
after they had won the 1892 series in
four straight games, and last season
thev reached it. Gehrig was himself
at first base, Lazzeri took a new grip
on himself at second and Crosetti and
Rolfe continued to develop at short
and third, respectively. The addition
of Joe Di Maggie and Jake Powell
made the outfield, with Selkirk in
right. Dickey handled the pitchers
superbly again and walloped the ball.
This may not be the best
Yankee team Of all time. The
die-hards on that question still
hold out for the team that hit
the top Of its stride In 1927.
But the records say this was the best
team in base ball in 1896. and. in this
instance. the records aren't even family
misleading. At the base ball meetings
in New York last month. Joe Mccarthy
was a man neglected. The other man.
ayers were afraid to do business with
him for fear they might add unwit-
tingly to his strength. This didn't
concern Joe in the least. He felt that
he could stand on what he had-and
let the rest try to beat him.
Evening star., 1937-01-16
DUKEBOXESC CARDS,
MEETS TERP QU|N7
RiChmond'S Fist ThroWerS
in Maryland Twin Bill.
GaIIaudet at A.U.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

HE eager, grdSplIle CLAWS VI
Duke University'S Blue Devils
will clutch at a double victory
in local collegiate activities
tonight when Catholic University
strives to dodge the pitchforks of a
good boxing team and Maryland seeks
10 upset a crack basket ball club in
the first half q double-header which
finds the Terps pushing punches at
Richmond's ring squad in the night
cap.
Maryland'S twin bill will be
launched at O'Clock, while the flStic
festivities at Brookland will get under
way at $50 O'Clock. In a strictly
local court argument, American Uni
versity will entertain Gallaudet at
the Eagle gym at BIS O'Clock, with
Catholic Universitys dribblers invad-
ing Philadelphia to meet LaSalle.
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|P0LO IN j. s. GAINS
| AS A[L-YEAR GAME
Medium Goal Play Will Be
Advanced in Campaign
Already Under Way.

fThis is the tueltth in series
of stories nritten tor the Associated
Press by outstanding sports lead
ers. They deal 1Dith 1886 derelop-
menfs and 1887 prospects,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-25
Heart Will Act as Long
as Blood Supply Lasts

The heartbeat consists of a re-
Taxation, then a powerful squeeze,
like the closing Of a fist, states
an authority in Literary Digest. In
the relaxation phase, the heart fills
with blood. It then contracts, send
ing two powerful streams, one
through the lungs, the other through
the body. The right auricle fills
with turgid, venous blood which
flows through flap valve into the
right ventricle. The muscle then
contracts, driving the blood through
the pulmonary artery into the lungs.
Returning from the lungs, the
blood flows into the left auricle. On
the next relaxation, it pours through
a flap valve into the powerful left
ventricle. The subsequent contrac-
ton swishes it, bright red, crammed
with oxygen, into the aorta, the
largest artery of the body, from
which tributary arteries branch
away to all parts of the body.
To keep the beat in proper rhythm,
serving somewhat the same purpose
as the balance-wheel of a watch,
the heart has a little bundle of
nervous material in the right auri-
Gle known as the pacemaker. But
if anything goes wrong with the
rhythmic nerve impulses, the heart
will go on beating, though jerkily
and irregularly. Amazingly enough,
the heart continues to beat even
if removed from the body, detached
from all nerves, as long as its blood
supply continues.
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CABLING WITH
JIM BRADDOCK:

THE big man in the brown coat,
L red sport shirt and striped fan
mel trousers was on his way to get
a much needed shave, but, as
greedier fellows have found out to
their own scurvy advantage, he is
one of the worlds most kindly citi-
zens. While the Florida sun beat
down he stood and talked.
There were questions, naive and
wondering, as to why supposedly
vacationing reporter should fly over
from Havana just for the day. There
were other questions, rejecting all
the zeal of grown-up who had not
forgotten New Jersey sandlot days.
They concerned the Giants pitching
problems and what Travis Jackson
might do with the new farm across
the river this season.
Then there were answers. "Yeah,
Mae was along. She liked this place
pretty much and she deserved a va
cation. No, the kids hadn't come.
One of them was in school and there
wasn't much sense in breaking up
the routine of the others just for a
couple of weeks down here. He'd
bring them back some swell pres
ents though and he'd bet they liked
that" Would, asked the reporter,
any of them be as swell as the
turtle" he brought home two Junes
ago?
Jim Braddock grinned. When he
was preparing to fight Max Baer
for that uvsterioI1S
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paper stories which Jack Hammond
had not seen. His evasiveness only
nettled them.
what if you haven't seen the
newspapers" they asked. "You
made the discovery. The Vancou-
yer papers have been full of it. You
know all about it-what's the use
of trying to keep it secret?"
Soon a crowd had gathered about
him. Hammond fenced frantically.
A big man, with faint break of
accent in his voice, poked a hard
skinned, hewed-out face close to
to that of Hammond.
"My names Olson" he an
nounced. give got a map here
suppose you point out the place to
u.s."
Hammond pulled at his breath.
maybe I'd BETTER" he agreed.
Then, as Olson poked the map be-
fore him, Didn't see you on the
boat from Vancouver"
''Yah, you saw me-" said Olson.
"And lot of others"
'Why didn't you come to me
then? I could have explained all
this to you-maybe you wouldn't
have been so anxious about get
ting off here"
"You got off, didn't your" asked
the man with the pack on his back.
''That was enough for me-" came
another voice. Then a short man,
red-faced, and with an excitable
manner, edged forward.
''How about me? I saw the story
in Winnipeg paper and took a
plane for Jasper Park. Then caught
the train up here"
"Yeh, and I came from Prince
George" cut in another member of
the crowd. 81 thought we'd 60 in
from Alaska-around Wrangell."
Look here" asked Olson, "you
didn't try to throw us off the trail,
getting off here, at Prince Rupert?"
Hammond spread his hands in a
gesture of disgust, and for a mo-
ment silenced them.
"How in the world could I try to
throw you off, when I didn't even
know you were on my trail? None
of you came near me on the boat. "
"Yah," laughed Olson, show
could we? You were in your cabin
most of the time. Getting over
that head you must have had when
you got aboard down at Seattle.
Some time you had down there,
yah?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-25
Ground Fire Found
Bad Medicine for
Vests White Pine

Washington.-Fire in the
forest, which is now actually
used in the South as a tool for
the control of yellow pine tim
Der growth, is still wholly ''bad
medicine" so far as western
white pine is concerned.
So declares E. F. Rapraeger of
the U. S. Forest Service, who has
recently completed a study of fire
effects in the great historic tim
berlands of Idaho, which Lewis and
Clark saw on their famous ex-
ploration trip during the presidency
of Thomas Jefferson. Mr.. Rapraeger
has studied extensive areas of West
ern white pine in this region, and
finds that the effects of even mild
ground fires are never beneficial.
Bad In Three Ways.
He found that fire damage was
discernible in three different ways:
through understanding and reduced
yields, through decay started in
burn wounds on the trees and
through the encouragement of ex-
cessive branching which results in
rough timber of lowered market val
ue.
Mr.. Rapraeger concludes: "Evi-
IDENTIFY complete protection from fire
is essential from infancy to maturity
if the aim is to grow Western white
pine of high quality
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the suffering, the jealousies and hat
red which must inevitably follow.
He passed AL Monson's trading
store and Ben Deacon's. Both were
jammed with purchasers; many
had the white faces of persons who
knew nothing Of wind or ting ice
particles, the whip of b.izzard or
the blaze of sun on ice. Hammond
tried to tell himself that it was none
of his business. He entered the no.
tel.
"Joe here?" he asked the clerk.
Mckenzie Joe? No, he pulled out
yesterday morning, all in a rush. !"
Down North?"
"Didn't say. Must have. Got out
on work train. Left a note for
you though, Mr.. Hammond"
Jack unfolded the scrawled let
ter that had been left by his bearded
partner. 1t was brusque and jerkily
frank.
well. figured you might play the fool If
you ever got to Seattle and met that girl.
but ! never thought you'd spill the beans
like you did. Why didn't you wait until you
hit the bush again before you got drunk2
There'n be thousand fools up in the Stikine
country before breakup. I'm hitting out of
here with short supplies to get in there and
protect our interests before the rush starts.
See our lawyer and be sure our claims and
leases are in good shape. Then come on
with supplies as quick as you can"
Hammond turned to the waiting
boy beside him and ordered his
bags taken to his room. Then he
headed for the door; again on the
street, he started toward a three
story building a few blocks away.
His course was a broken one.
Townspeople he knew halted him
to question the accuracy of news
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Did you know. that Walter Mic
Shipstead, is publisher of the Times,
BLOOMING PRAIRIE weekly. -.
that, before the drouth years, Big
Stone lake used to lap dangerously
near the foundation of the ORION.
VILE depot?. that Lieutenant Nick
Manner, regarded as the outstanding
air pilot ON the Pacific coast, is a
brother of James Manner, HASTINGS
chief of police?. that TRIUMPH
MONTEREY and PENNINGTON sent
teams to the state basketball tourna-
ment for the first time in history this
year,. that Martha Osterso, the
states own authoress, has written a
new novel about Minnesota entitled
"The Stone Ffeld?"
TWIN CITY TWISTS
Workers chased an echo out of the
st. Paul auditorium as they busily
installed new acoustic equipment.
The University of Minnesota played
host to the national intercollegiate
swimming meet as the mermen splash
ed up waves in the new athletic build
ing pool.
The Minneapolis hockey club clinch.
ed second positio in the final AHA
standings, prepared to enter the play
off. the Saints dropping to lower
notch in the first division.
James Mayfield, st. Paul streetcar
motorman, battled a would be holdup
man, sent him to the hospital with
knife wounds in his chest.
University of Minnesota professors
vigorously denied charges emanating
from the state legislature that cer-
tain faculty members are active Com
munists.
A split in the Minneapolis Farmer
Labor ranks resulted in the indorse-
ment of two mayoralty candidates
Mayor Thomas E. Latimer and Ken.
meth Haycraft, former Minnesota foot
ball star.
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| MINNESOTA
ON PARADE
Gopher News Review

Near TEWARTVILEE a fast NOV
ing stream sucked in Workman Earl
Kinsley, whipped him rapidly through
a stone culvert, delivered him at the
opposite end uninjured
Cotter high school of WlNONA
STAYED off last minute rally to beat
st. Augustine of AUSTIN, 1926, cap
tured the state Catholic basketball
championship.
At BENSON, Wilbert Knutson skid
ded a mop over the floor of his gas
oline station. Suddenly the mop ex-
ploded, hurled amazed Wilbert to the
floor, ignited his cap.
After adjoining the corner of the
OLIVIA city hall property for IS years,
a large spruce tree has been moved
to the village park. WPA workers
assisted in transplanting the land
mark.
Fire destroyed the Baxter building
at LEXINGTON, oldest structure in
LeSueur county. In the early days
it housed general store and post.
office, focal point of a star mail route
from LIE Center
cHASkA played host to civic
drinking party-but not the kind
you're thinking Of! Carl A. Kayeske,
caretaker at the waterworks, proudly
doled out sample nips of the towns
new water, product of deep well.
Among baseballs holdouts this sea-
son is Roman Lefty" Bertrand of
Golden. Back to his Hazelton,
Pennsylvania, bosses went the unsat-
isfactory contract. Bertrand Is the
property Of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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arrived home with the title they
were disappointed, perhaps foresee-
ing far better than others how emp
ty a thing a championship is unless
properly administered. So, being a
wise and fond father, he had to go
out and buy them real live turtle
as actual, visual evidence of good
faith. The turtle still is doing well.
The title-?-Jim Braddock's grin
slowly faded when the reporter men
toned it. He was not exactly en-
barrassed. The champion is too
honest and well meaning to be
swayed from his poise of simple
dignity when alone. But new years
make new friends and divide the
best of loyalties. Perhaps while he
answered, Jim was thinking of those
two Junes ago when only one New
York reporter had faith enough to
remain in his camp, shout his praises
and bet on him while later friends
were yelping about 1000 to shots.
"Yeah, he felt swell. Later he
would go up in the Wisconsin woods
and rough it for a few weeks. Then
he'd be ready. What? Sure, he'd
had trouble with his hand last year.
Arthritis, right here. Look"
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