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Evening star., 1937-01-30
Have Faculty. Backing,

NELSON is chairman Of the Rules
= Committee of the so-called Big
Seven" made up Of the schools with
the largest enrollments and more
powerful athletic teams. These seven
revolters from the 12-team confer
ence are Denver, Utah, Colorado,
wyoming, Utah State. Colorado State
College and Brigham Young.
Left with the conference structure
are Colorado college, Colorado School
of Mines, Greeley State, Western State
Of GunniSon, Colo, and Montana
State.
Three years ago. the seven seceders.
along with Colorado College, decided
to form "big eight" but this died
quickly in the face of faculty disap-
proval. This time, however, leaders
of the split movement say they have
faculty backing.
Evening star., 1937-01-30
OPEN MATCH PLAY
|. AT SAN FRANCISCO.
Thomson-Smith Duel Marks
First Round of 5000
Golf Tournament.
81 the Associated Press.

AN FRANCISCO. January So
Sixteen survivors Of 36-hole
qualifying trials paired on today
- to start four rounds Of match
play in the 72-hole IS 900 San Fran
cisco open golf tournament.
Weather conditions remained un-
certain Is the dwindling field teed
OF.
One Of the main events of the
morning round was the duel between
long hitting Jim Thomson Of Shaw
nee. Pa. winner Of medal honors with
. 36-hole total Of 131, and Horton
Smith. long-legged stylist of Chicago.
Smith qualified with 68-7l-139.
On the basis Of his first two rounds
Thomson was the tournament favorite.
His 64 for the second qualifying
round cracked par by seven strokes.
For setting the pace he claimed an
extra $25.
Evening star., 1937-01-30
KENWOOD, manor
EVEN IN PIN RACE
Two Shoot Timely Big Set.
Aces Out to Nip Clarke
in Campbell Stakes.

\ II AMOR No. ! bowlers today
Nu shared first place in the
wv Country Club Golf League
4 4 with Kenwood No. /, which
last night blanked Argyle No. 2 while
the Manors were losing q game to
Beaver Dam No. 2.
Lanky George Tew was the big gun
in the Kenwood sweep. aiding in piling
up high team counts Of SIT and I'LL
with 132-365. Perry Nutwell shot
139-349.
Harry Bachman Of Indian Spring
No. /, who earlier in the season
chalked up 174 for high game, gar
nered the individual honors of the
night with 141-370 to top of a 81
win from Argyle No. 1. Congressional
No. l had little pity for their fellow
club members, sinking No. further
into the cellar by winning the rub
Der game with 573 total.
Evening star., 1937-01-30

1AMI, Fla. tA).-RuDe Mar
nn guard. one Of base balls
wv highest-priced players
q = quarter Of a century ago,
greets old fans today from the mutuels
window at Hialeah Park race track
here. The fortune he made as a
pitcher was wiped out by the collapse
Of the Florida real estate boom.
Thirty years ago Marquard's sale
from the minors to the New York
Giants at $1,000 set a new price
mark.
"I lost everything I made in base
ball. about $4,000, in the BOOM"
Marquard says. Now I'm broke but
happy. I've got my health. and that's
all want"
The famous southpaw still is inter-
ested in the game and hopes to man
age a team, but he thinks present-day
base ball is too commercial and lacks
fighting spirit.
Years ago we loved to play ball and
to win," signs Marquard. you never
heard Of holdouts for more dough or
pitchers complaining of being over
worked If they had to pitch more than
two times q week.
To Majors at IL.
"THE game Is slowed up. They
haven't the hitters they had
years ago, and the pitchers have
changed. Nowadays fellow doesn't
want to pitch II he has little head
ache or his nails aren't manicured
Just right.
"The whole game needs more fight.
more hustle and hustle and more
cussing. Get some Of the oldtimers
back and develop these youngsters"
Marquard, christened Richard Will
liam, but dubbed "Rube" for the bal
ance of his days by fans after he out.
grew the title of Stats" entered pro-
fessional base ball at the age Of 16.
The late John McGraw. manager
OF the New York Giants, bought
Rube for s11, 900 in 1907, when he was
II, after the youngster won 27 games
and lost 6 for Indianapolis in the
American Association.
You don't look like the man I
bought" McGraw told him when he
failed in his first game for the Giants.
II was pitching against Cincinnati
that day." Marquard recalls. About
$4,000 fans were out to see what an
$1,000 pitcher looked like and my
heart was pounding.
Evening star., 1937-01-30

'AINTLY reminiscent OF the
~ Spanish athletes Of America
(bull throwers), Is Washing
= tons newest sportsmen's Or
ganization, the Hook, Line and Sinker
Club, founded Tuesday at luncheon
meeting at the Willard Hotel. It's for
fun only, and the only membership
qualifications are that you must be an
ardent angler.
The idea behind the club Is to get
together once a month with q group
of kindred souls and spin fish yarns
in an informal fashion. For those who
like to indulge in bit Of vocal fishing
in between meetings, a corner Of the
round robin mems grill Of the Willard
Hotel has been set aside exclusively
for the use Of club members. There
they can 60 at odd moments and
match story for story with whoever
happens to feel in the same mood at
the same time.
The only dues are true (sup-
posedly) fish stories, two Of
which must. be submitted to the
club secretary each year.
These stories will be duly inscribed
in the club roster, which will be
placed in the grill so that members
can drop in and look over the efforts
of their fellows. For the best story
submitted each month q pair Of free
dinners will be given the truth
stretching angler. Failure to pay dues
promptly will result in the delinquent
member being forced to fish for one
hour in the Lincoln Memorial Reflect
ing Pool in the presence Of q club
committee.
Evening star., 1937-01-30
Club Omcers Elected.

IT'S fine idea, don't you think? 1t
is Frank Romer's brain child, and
he induced H. p. Somerville to spon-
sor 1t and send out invitations for
the first meeting Tuesday. Charter
members of the club are Frank Bell,
commissioner of the Bureau of Fish
cries; DR.. M. darcy Magee, president
of the Washington Chapter Of the
Izaak Walton League; Bill Briggs, w.
B. Garrison, Fred Orsinger, Kilbourne
Castell, Charles jackson, Glen Leach,
Don Carpenter, Jack Hawley, James
J. Fitzpatrick, o. r. Rouke, David
Apter, George r. Rolston, Romer,
Somerville and yours truly.
Commissioners Bell was elect
ed president Of the club, DR..
MaGee, vice president and
Somerville was name record
ing secretary.
Charles jackson was named chair
man Of the committee which will
Judge the stories submitted by mem
bers, which more or less puts crimp
In his chances ct the free meals.
Charlie. IN case you don't know him. y
Evening star., 1937-01-30
Six Tie for Sixteenth.

DIX IIc IOI SIXEccnCns
SIX Of the starting field Of lat tied
for the sixteenth qualifying place
at 14l strokes. They were Sheppard,
Christian. White, Harry Cooper, Chi
cago; Bill Nary, Vallejo, Calf. and
Bud Jelliffe. Hollywood. Calf. Chris
tian won the extra hole play-off.
Second-round matches were sched-
uled for this afternoon. with semi
final and final 18-hole rounds tomor-
row. The winner will receive $1,000
and the runner-up $500. with the re-
mainder Of the purse distributed
among the losing qualiflers and those
finishing from seventeenth to thirty
second place in the qualifying trials.
Evening star., 1937-01-30
<7RpB AND STREAM5{
ATHXlI" nv GEORGE r HuRrR >SI
~ -
BY GEORGE z. HUBER.

noted around town for the almost un-
believable stories he tells in regard to
his angling experiences.
Evening star., 1937-01-30
Golf Pro Is Star.

CLIFF SPENCER, Beaver Dams
long hitting golf pro. rifled $50
set along with Freddie Moore's 345,
but the pair couldn't stave OF Q two
game trimming by Indian Springs
No. team.
The Kenwoods all but made 1t q per-
feet night when their No. team won
two games from Manor No. 2, barely
missing q sweep in dropping a close
last skirmish.
Evening star., 1937-01-30
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
COLLEGES IN RIFT
Seven Secede From League
to Organize Big-Time
Association.

~ ENVER. January 30.-For the
second time in three years
the Rocky Mountain Confer
- ence-the athletic league
which straddles the Continental Divide
has been split. This time 1t looks
as though the rift is permanent.
Prof. Albert c. Nelson OF Denver
University says he sees nothing in
the picture" to prevent the seven COL
leges which instigated the secession
movement recently from going ahead
with their plans for a big-time league.
Evening star., 1937-01-30

- EoRGE JAcoBUs and his
bright men Of the Profess
sional Golfers Association
have no easy job ahead of
them choosing O Ryder Cup team to
meet the British next Summer. Their
task this year Is made rougher than
usual by the surprising number Of
younger pros who are showing for
ward and taking the place Of the old
and familiar nam"5.
Such youngsters as Sam snead, Ed
Oliver and Jimmy Demaret, who have
been performing sensationally In the
tournaments along the Dixie CALI
fornia circuit, aren't making the job
Of choosing the Ryder Cup argonauts
any easier. Nor has the sensational
showing Of Ralph Guldahl proven ex-
actly boon to the task of the team
selectors. when you consider the fact
that Ralph isn't a member of the p.
G. A. and the Ryder Cup team Is a
p. G. A. outfit with all expenses to be
paid by the P. G. A.
HOW they'll leave Ralph of the
team is something that will be a
sweet little job to explain, If they do
leave him OF. Guldahl, the slow man
OF golf, won the Augusta and Biltmore
open tournaments End was the second
biggest money winner Of 1885, but he
still isn't member Of the P. G. A.
Snead, a former caddy master and
assistant pro at Hot Springs, Va, who
now IS located at nearby White Sui.
phur Springs, Is a newcomer to big
time tournament winning, but he isn't
new to those who have watched him
develop into a first-class golfer. Sam
has been a consistently fine shotmaker
for three or four years.
Demaret is Texas youngster, the
same lad who carried National Open
Champion Tony Manero to the twenty
third hole in the P. G. A. champion.
ship at Pinehurst. Oliver. q youns-
ster out of the Middle West, put on a
fine show In the recent Miami open.
British Open Extra Goal.
OBVIOUSLY the p. G. A., when it
gets around to choosing the Ryder
Cup outfit. will select the tried and
true men. those who have been up
in the heavy dough for 50 many years
that they must be regarded a. top
notchers.
Another angle is that this year the
American pros will make strong bid
for the British open. an en- nlaSse in
vasion as 1t were. and the p. G. A.
wants only the best. But how can
they overlook the youngsters who are
doing so well, and particularly
Guldahl?
Somewhere in Britain they'll pick
up Walter Hagen, perennial captain
Of the Ryder Cup outfit, but it's doubt
full If Walter will captain the team
this year. That honor probably will
go to Ed Dudley. tournament chair
man of the P. G. A, and recent winner
Of the Sacramento open.
Like the U. S. q. A, the Profess
sional Golfers Association isn't both
cred by lack of material. There are
so many good pros around that the
problem is one of choosing from q
flock Of fine performers rather than
limited few,
Evening star., 1937-01-30
How They Square on.
nTTiER first-round pairings and

III ii
qualifying scores:
Charles Congdon G36). Tacoma,
Wash, vs.. Sam Parks, jr. Q40),
Pittsburgh.
Jimmy Hines (136), Garden City,
N. Y, vs.. Johnny Revolta (140),
Evanston, III.
lawson Little G3S). Chicago vs..
Orville White 14D. Chicago.
Sam Snead G36. White Sulphur
Springs. W. Va, VS.. Byron Nelson
Q39), Ridgewood, N. j.
Henry Picard 03D, Hershey, Pa,
vs.. Charles Sheppard DAD, Pleasan-
ton, Calf.
Ed Dudley (136). Philadelphia vs..
Leonard Dodson Q4o), Springfield,
Mo.
Paul Runyan O3s), White Plains,
N. Y, VS.. Neil Christian Q4D. Va
kima, Wash.
Evening star., 1937-01-30

Washiugton's strongest money
shooters will roll the second round
Of the Howard Campbell sweepstakes
tonight at the Lucky Strike, starting
at 8 o'clock. There are 81 In the field.
Heading the pack, and q strong
favorite to win, Is Astor Clarke. who
opened the tournament with q record
TIC set. Sam Simon, with 703, Is his
closest rival, trailed by Howard Par
sons. third with 65l, and Jack Talbert,
fourth with GAL.
First prize in the event will be 5000.
The tournament will be finished next
Saturday night at Convention Hall.
The second annual dance Of the
American Legion Bowling League will
be held next Saturday at Almas Tenn
pie. I'VE expect to make this one Of
the merriest occasions Of the season" I"
says E. H. Campbell, league president.
Incidentally his Lincoln Post team
trimmed the front-running Jasper
Post outfit two games last night. One
game separates these clubs In the
pennant chase.
Evening star., 1937-01-30
GAME NEEDS MORE
CUSS|N', HE HOLDS
Once Famous Pitcher Loses
Fortune, but Is Happy
in Race Track Job.

a \ IAMI. Fla. R.-Rube Mar
NH guard. one of base balls
wv highest-priced players
4 quarter Of a century ago.
Evening star., 1937-01-30
CUP TEAM CLASS
IN YOUNGER PROS
GuIdahI, Not in Paid Clans
Organization, as Winter
Ace Offers Problem.
BY w. r. McCALLUM,

4: : :; !; : !: =; :: :; :
have no easy job ahead of
Evening star., 1937-12-07

legged bookmaking establishment in
the 900 block of Ninth street NV,
which was raided April 8.
A third defendant, Thomas w.
Bean, was found not guilty, while
earlier in the trial Justice Jesse G.
Adkins directed verdit of not guilty
as to the fourth, Walter Campo. At
torney Fred j. Icenhower represented
Evening star., 1937-12-07

last night by DR.. J. F. Neumueller.
director 70 the Bureau Of Visual Sci
ence of the American Optical Co.. In
an address before the District OPP
tometric Society.
The new lens, DR.. Neumueller said,
should prove successful in correcting
aniseikonia, a defect causing unequal
occular image sizes. and will be Of
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Street to Be Silenced.

Lombard street, narrow and noisy
and q plague to London nerves, is to
be silenced. It Is to be gagged" with
rubber. The job will be costly, for the
price set is $6.25 square yarG. This
is in addition to the cost Of the con-
crete foundation at IS a yard.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Wild Bees Kill Man.

Wild bees killed railway oniciaJ
and seriously injured four others ~
Manbhum, in Bihar. The buz7ers at
tackled the party while it was riding
in a trolley during an inspection tour.
The official died almost instantly and
the other men were taken to Q hospital,
Evening star., 1937-12-07

both defendants who we're acquitted
Police testified that Zirkle and
Roach took horse race bets at . pool
parlor.
Assistant United States Attorney
CharleA B. Murray prosecuted the
case.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
new AID FOR EYE
DEFECT is REPORTED

Perfection of q new type Of lens
which simultaneously controls both
power and magnification factors In
eye defect correction was revealed
Evening star., 1937-12-07
JURY CONvICTS TWO
ON GAMING CHARGES

A District Court jury late yesterday
found Melvin o. Zirkle and Herman
E. Roach guilty of setting up gam
ing table in connection with an al
Evening star., 1937-12-07

great assistance in overcoming neu-
rological and intestinal disturbances
from which aniseikonia victims suffer.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
New LIQUID Welcomed.

People Of Britain are welcoming q
new liquid which makes all material
impervious to tea stains.
Evening star., 1937-12-07

Arctic clubs are popular in Russia.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
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The Washington times., 1937-08-13
For the Supreme Court

NOMINATING Senator Hugo L. Black Democrat
l Of Alabama. to be justice of the Supreme Court,
President Roosevelt has moved forward another dark
horse" and has continued his program of surprises in
government appointments well as in legislation.
Although Senator Black has been consistent follower
of the President since his nomination. his name had not
been mentioned in the speculation who to go to
the bench in the place of the retired Justice Willis Van
Devanter.
Senator Black was born in Alabama in 1886 and
worked his way through the University
"" o''oe of Alabama, receiving degree in law
'0"'' De''' in 1906.
A reform wave in the municipal government of Br-
mingham where he practicing brought him to the
police court bench in 1910.
In 1915 he elected prosecutor of Jefferson county,
serving in that capacity until 1917 when he joined the
Army for service in the World War; during which he
was commissioned captain of artillery.
Returning to Alabama after the he entered
politics on Statewide scale and ran for the Senate in
1926 to succeed the late Senator Oscar Underwood, and
was elected over John H. Bankhead who later came to
the Senate as successor to Thomas J. Heflin.
Senator Black came into prominence in the Senate
with the advent of the Roosevelt administration His
hirty-hour work bill almost enacted early in the
Roosevelt tenure and in 1882 he conducted the
onal investigations into air and oceanma contracts.
He followed that up later with his investigation of
lobbying activities.
In the current session he has been most active as
sponsor of the wages and hours b natural outgrowth
of his defeated thirty-hour bill.
ArdentIy he supported Mr.. Roose
p~, velt's proposal for reorganizing the Su-
preme Court.
Two legal points raised in opposition to his
firmation.
The first advanced by Senator Borah, is that there
vacancy the court Justice Van Devanter having
retired but not having resigned required in the Con-
stitution.
The second is that Senator Black is disqualified be-
he member Of the Congress which passed the
Supreme Court retirement bill thus increasing the
emolumens of the office to which he aspres which is
forbidden by the Constitution.
The Washington times., 1937-08-13
Washington

VIZ the decadeold squabble over providing de-
w cent airport facilities for the National Capital
continues the country gets shock a high-tension
power line fatal crash the border of the fly
ing field at Daytona Beach.
How long will it be before Washington is the scene
of similar tragedy with even a higher death toll?
And how many such tragedies will be needed to force
Congress to intelligent action in connection with the
r-.. ~, local problem and with the prob
temporary 1"e'e' lem as it exists nationally?
Permanent Here Tho o;ro,,,s+aroos s,rro,,od
ing the Daytona crash would clearly to absove
the of the plane the condition of the plane and
the operating company of blame.
During the night the power line was strung on poles
hastily erected near the airport and in the morning
when the ship took off it struck the pole and wire
This apparently to be but temporary obstruc-
ton.
Washingon's air fields have just bad hazards to
safety but in the local instance they are PERMANENT
Out of the welter of local airport legislation the
NJ. House has passed a bill designed
oS D' to improve Washington Hoover Air
OF the Cherry mort
Maybe it would do that but improvement isn't the
only thing that is wanted.
What we want is SAFETY and there is considerable
question to whether the House bill would give us that
A substantial grohp of airline pilots, intimately
familiar with conditions at Washington Hoover say
that much is needed than the removal of the road
, which now cuts directly across the field
Common sense tells everyone that that is the fact
Must Daytona Beach come to Washington before
we can get safe and convenient landing facilitiesl
The Washington times., 1937-08-13
Squabble, Squab6le

The airport squabble is now
in a fine mess when a short
time ago it looked as though we
might be getting around to
cleaning it up. Camp Springs
as a site is. of course, out, and
anybody but commission in
vestigating the matter would
have known it from the start.
Now they are trying to patch
up old Washington-Hoover as an
airport. That simply can't be
done. If the authorities don't
learn that soon we will have a
repetition of what happened the
other day at Daytona Beach.
AIR PASSENGER.
The Washington times., 1937-08-13
Hits Traffic Hogs

While the traffic problem
continues to disturb the city au-
thoritieS and its solution draws
no nearer, the thought occurs
to me this might be a timely
occasion to direct attention to
one of the most abominable
type of traffic-hogs.
I refer to the motorist who
swings from his center traffic
lane all the way across the
middle of the street when traf.
fic is halted, and adds to the
confusion that already exists at
certain intersections.
This condition is particularly
aggravating on the highway
bridge where traffic is halted a
number Of times daily to per-
nit the "Albemarle," tugboat
from Norfolk, to pass under the
span. While the bridge is only
four lanes wide, there will al
ways occur, when cars are
waiting in the southbound lanes,
that one or more Of the "traf'
fic hogs" usually taxicabs, will
rush past the waiting lines and
form a third lane at the end
of the drawspan.
Invariably a wild scramble is
caused while these attempt to
squeeze ahead of those who
operate their machines properly
and with regard for others.
If the nuisance of the cal
bemarle" cannot be abated, the
Traffic Department should, at
least, have officers on hand to
keep the traffic hogs" in order.
VIRGINIA MOTORIST.
The Washington times., 1937-08-13
Minute
Journeys
BY TEMPLE MANNING

BY TEMPLE N1ANNANN
EVER SINCE a celebrated
couple went on a Dalmatian
holiday, that part Of the world
has loomed large on the travel
map. Already the number Of
tourists registered in and around
Dubrovnik is 100 per cent over
the number of visitors last year.
And this years visitors come
from all over the world. All
this is very disturbing to those.
who for years have been making
their way to the garden spot Of
the Dalmatian coast to enjoy
ideal holidays.
Dubrovnik is really a garden
spot, glorious beach set in glori-
GUS surroundings. The climate
is semi-tropical but without the
bad features of this type Of wea.
ther.
Palm trees, olive groves, cum
quat trees, great masses of rose
bushes bearing roses in the most
amazing colors. enormous beds
of forget-me-nots, cactus plants
with magnificent blossoms, flow
ering almond and other fruit
trees are there in abundance,
within sight of the blue Adriatic
and ringed in by green-clad
mountains.
BEAUTIFUL DRIVEWAY
There is a driveway along the
sea that is surely one of the most
beautiful anywhere. Superla-
tives are in order when describ.
ing this part of the Adriatic
coast, and we for one would like
to invent some new ones, partic-
ularly when writing about La
Chrome. This is one Of the
islands that edge the coast. BY
motor boat and sail boat, the
swimming enthusiasts get over
to La Chrome, and it Is worth q
much longer trip than a pleasant
sail over the blue Adriatic.
Great hedges of oleander
bushes, rosemary and cypress
trees add beauty to La Chrome
The lovely old palace that was
the home Of Maximilian aad
Charlotte before the Inflated
Mexican adventure is now =
summer home for underpriv.
ileged Yugoslavian children.
The Washington times., 1937-08-13
Voice of the People
Please give full and address and conine letters
tn 200 aCorde

ington people don't want these
children placed in such build.
ings.
While we are about it, how
ever, we should eliminate some
of the other buildings which are
unfit to be used for any kind
of instruction. Many of the
buildings offend as to light and
as to sanitary arrangements.
Let's insist that Congress let us
spend our money, for these pur.
poses instead of wasting it on
foolish experiments.
MOTHER.
The Washington times., 1937-08-13

have been especially good.
The Prince and the Pauper,'
however, fell short of its posi-
bilities. There is too much
blood and thunder for the
youngsters, a lot of whom get
ideas from pictures of that
type"
X X
Mrs. Bernice Mann, a clerk
in a chain laundry store, liv-
ing at SAB B st. N. E.:
The Washington times., 1937-08-13
Let There Be Light

I'm glad the Fire Department
has discovered the highly dan
gerous conditions at the schools
for crippled children before it is
too late. AS you said in your
editorial on the subject, Wash
The Washington times., 1937-08-13

enemy stuff.
T h e histori-
C al releases
are very good,
but most pic
lures seem to
be manufac-
t u r e d by
firms which
have ! o S t
sight of the
f a c t t h a t
children pos
SeSS v e r y