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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19
BY BURTON HAWKINS

zoos. Which will be the first
time in four years.
To cure heavy cold, Rod
Thomas, Star sports writer, once
swan nearly four miles in chilly
water from the Pennsylvania ave-
nue. bridge to the middle of the
Potomac, much of it against the
current. He then climbed in
the accompanying boat and rowed
back. :. He cured the cold, but we
wouldn't recommend the treat
ment.
Bobby Smith, a former Central
High lad, will be a regular end at
Yale next season. Bobby, who
now Is playing lacrosse for the Ellis,
was the famed Larry Kelly's sub
stitute last year. Ben Nickel
way, The Stars news editor, Is a
former Western High foot ball
player.
The Columbian Athletic League,
a local sandlot base ball organiza-
ton, is frantic in its appeal for
publicity. Following is an in
stance. Publication of the
following release will be greatly
appreciated, as over 1000 of the
leagues juveniles await its appear
ance failure will disappoint
hundreds" Bet they tell that
to all the papers.
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~ US PFAU, all-America
l. goalie at Maryland several
seasons ago, stands an ex-
IL cellent chance of being
named freshman lacrosse coach
ut George Washington when the
sport is inaugurated there.
Eddie Johnson, who has done all
right this season as an outf1e1der,
will pitch for Maryland University
next year. Whether he per-
forms on the mound like his
famous dad won't mean too much,
however, since the angular lad
wants to be farmer anyway.
Charley Moutenot, rated the
sweetest foot ball prospect ever to
enroll at Catholic University, has
hunked out. Tommy Whelan,
one Of the Cards greatest backs,
enthusiastically Endorsed Charley,
who starred with the freshman
eleven last year, and Dutch Berg
man, Eddie La Fond and Fod
Cotton also stamped him Al var
sity timber.
Bob Boucher, former Maryland
track athlete, now is peddling real
estate. Unless some team turns
the trick this week, when its season
closes, the District Duckpin League
will be without 4 game score IN the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19
DUNBAR NINE is DATED

Plays Vocational in Baltimore in
Opening Contest.
Starting Wednesday, Dunbar High
Schools base ball team will play
an 1l-game schedule. Coach Perry
Jacobs will take his diamonders to
Baltimore to play Vocational in the
opener, but of the 10 remaining
games are scheduled here.
James Shepard Harold Jenifer.
Roscoe Brown, Robert Eldridge and
Brady Hoffman has shown up best
among the newcomers.
The schedule:
April 81, Vocational at Baltimore !;
%, Parker Gray; 80, Douglas at Bal
timore; May 3, Armstrong; T. Voca-
tional; 10, Cardozo; IL, Rockville;
10, Cardozo; %, National Training
School; 26, Armstrong; %, Douglas at
Baltimore.
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20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR

NEW YORK overcame four
run lead Of the Mats to de-
feat them for the second straight
day. rs. Bert Gallia, the starting
pitcher was knocked out Of the
box In the third inning and Doc
Ayers was no better. The Mats got
to Urban Shocker for four runs on
two hits in the first inning, but got
only two more hits the remainder
Of the game.
The inter-high base ball season
will open at the old Union League
Park, Fifteenth and H streets
northeast, with Western meeting
Eastern. Eastern, defending cham
pion, has lost most Of its regular
team. Either Fraser or Hunt is
expected to pitch for the title
holders while Davidson will start
for Western.
Joe Judge is the only Washington
regular batting over 300, his S hits
in is trips to the plate giving him .
mark Of 1888.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19

JUST to prove to the world that
it can be done, Roland Mac
Kenzie. Congressional pro,
parked his second shot on the
first green at his home club. It
happens to be some $50 yards from
the tee and it was the big shot in a
little 9-hole match wherein Roland
walloped Billy Shea and Frank Good
win, a couple of youngsters, who
thought they could whip the pro. The
bird started Roland off on a par
busting SO.
Twas all part Of the merry-go-
round Of golf that started with the
first really warm day of the year and
the linksmen turned out in droves.
There's many an aching muscle and
plenty of sore dogs around Washing
ton today as a result.
Low scoring was the order Of the
day, for over at Washington Dave
Thomson knocked the ball around in
II whacks in a match with DR.. J. T.
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CONE Of the lads in the South were
booming Sammy Snead for this
years open, among them Gene Sar-
aSen. But while Sam Is good, you
couldn't find many Of the pros who'd
string along with the idea that Sam
might grab the 1887 open champion
ship out of the hat while practically
novice in the tournament game. For
Sam has played big-time golf only q
year, and the open championship is
the big tournament of the year. Sam
won't play at Chevy Chase. He will
qualify in the West Virginia area.
The open championship still is the
big one OF the year, and it has pres
sure that no other tournament carries.
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ONE Of the major contentious made
by hackers of the Barkley-Vinson
measure is that We are not ready for
pollution control because we do not
know enough about the subject. They
want to mark time for another 10
years with useless surveys and studies,
all the while having no positive con-
troll over pollution matters.
1t is interesting to note that in the
report submitting the Vinson bill to
the House, this contradictory state
ment appears: THE Public Health
Service > has been making studies
and investigations OF this subject for
80 or more years, the records of which
are in its files Also, there is in each
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49, By Gtooet trsrR- ~
BY GEORGE t.HU5tR :

TINE pollution fight this month is
in the House, having been
moved from the Senate, where
Il the Lonergan and Barley
pollution bills still are deadlocked in
committee. Moving with surprising
speed when compared to other major
legislation, the House Committee of
Rivers and Harbors held hearings End
reported out pollution bill in less
than month.
The bill reported, however, happens
to be the Vinson bill Oh. r. 271D,
duplicate of Senator Barkley's bill,
while the Pfeifer bill Oh. r. 3914,
which contains all the good features
Of the Lonergan measure, lies buried
in committee.
The Barley -Vinson bill pro-
vides for = 1o-year-study Of
pollution, and provides for an
appropriation Of 100000 an
nually for this study
The Lonergan bill also provides for
q similar study, but In addition 1t
gives the National Resource Board,
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SCH00LBOYS TO GOLF
South Atlantic Tournament on
Tap at High Point, N. C.

HIGH POINT, N. c., April 10 (P).-
The annual South Atlantic scholastic
golf tournament, one-day. 36-hole
medal event, will be played here Sat-
urday over the municipal course. The
tourney has been held here the last
three years.
The defending champion. John
Marshall High School of Richmond,
Va. and four-man teams from New
port News, Va; Chevy Chase, Md;
Columbia, S. c.; Durham, Winston
Salem, Raleigh, Highpoint and Bur-
lington, N. c., and Tech High and
Boys High of Atlanta are entered.
Officials said further entries were
expected.
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TREES FOR HUNT COURSE

WARRENTON, Va, April 10 (P.-
The Virginia Gold Cup Race Associ-
alton has contracted for more than
1000 cedar trees to replenish the
brush jumps on the Broadview course,
where the Virginia steeplechase classic
will be run May l.
A large force is putting the course,
which was laid out by William du
Pont, IT,. in shape for the six-race
program
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League Out Washington Golf Clubs Will Sponsor Team Contests

Is the possibility that something more
drastic will be introduced.
Nothing Is planned on it in the i'm.
mediate future. The committee which
has 1T now has several other very i'm
portant matters to consider ahead of
it, and it may be month or more
before hearings are held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19

jured every year when blow-outs throw cars out
of control-thousands upon thousands of car
owners who do not seem to realize that one great
factor in safe motoring is safe tires.
To halt this menace to motoring safety, SO, 900
Goodrich dealers have been modified. Their main
objective is to remove tread-worn tires from the
roads and replace them with new, safe full -treaded
tires-with tires that provide motorists with pro-
lection they need against todays high speed
blow-outs
salute each and every Goodrich dealer be.
cause victory for them means safer driving for
American motorists.
EDDIE RICKENBAcKER
Unfortunately. there's no sure way to tell in ad-
vance when or where you may have blowout.
But you can be sure of one thing-heat generated
inside the tire by today's higher speeds-is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19
Golden Ply Silvertowns Are
Sold by
NORTHWEST

Blair Road Service Station
Blair Road d Underwood st. NV.
Buchanan Service Station
14th q Buchanan SITS. NV.
E. F. Clark Service Station
1901 Wisconsin Ave. NV.
Dome Oil Co.
1928 Blair Road NV.
Enkelherg's Battery & Service
1888 Florida Ave. NV.
c. F. Gibson
800 9Th st. NV.
Milton Kolodin Service Station
Harvard st. g. Georgia Ave. NV.
Parkway Motor Co.
3040 NJ st. NV.
Potomac Filling Station
33rd & NJ SITS. NV.
Rogan's Service Station
HOO New Hampshire Ave. NV.
Sheridan Service Station
6312 Georgia Ave. NV.
Standard Tire g. Battery Co.
935 Pennsylvania Ave. NV.
McKeever Service Station
Wisconsin Ave. g. River Rd. NV.
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which 1t makes a permanent establish
ment, power to set up pollution stand
ards and regulations and power to en-
force these regulations.
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Can't Overlook Cox.

4 ND don't overlook Witty Cox him
self in this years open. With a
little putting luck Witty can win. He's
not a youngster any more, for Win
is getting close to 40 years OF age. but
he can go when the checks are down
He's had the experience It takes
to stay in there and pitch under pres
sure.
He'll go 10 Detroit fresh and ready
and he can win.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19

Maybe Sammy can stick in there when
the chips are down, but the open
championship Is quite different from
the Oakland open or any other tour
nament. Ask Joe Turnesa or Jimmy
Thompson or Ralph Gulhahl or Rol-
and Hancock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19

great unseen cause of high-speed blow-outs. Un.
less this heat is resisted rubber and fabric begin
to separate. A blister forms and grows bigger and
BIGGER until, sooner or later, BANG! It's q
blowout!
To protect you and your family. every new
Goodrich Silvertown Tire is built with the Life
Saver Golden Ply. This layer of special rubber
and full-hoating cords, scientifically treated to
resist internal tire heat. BY resisting this heat
the Golden Ply keeps rubber and fabric from
separating. 1t keeps heat blisters from forming.
And when you prevent the blister, you prevent
the high-speed blowout
Join the safety first" army by riding on Good
rich Slvertowns. Remember, you pay no price
premium for these life saving, super quality
tires. For safety tomorrow, put set of Golden
Ply Silvertowns on your car today.
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State health agency, and the ma
jority Of these agencies have a di-
vision Of sanitation which is more or
less familier with pollution problems"
And yet they claim nothing Is
known about the subject.
The 10 per cent tax on sport
ing goods, firearms and am
munition, first imposed in 1882,
likely will be renewed.
The present nuisance tax bill ex-
pires the end of June, and although
nothing definite has been decided,
there is strong likelihood that the
House Ways and Means Committee will
Introduce bill continuing these taxes.
Included with sporting goods in the
long list Of items on the nuisance tax
rolls are such things as amusements
chewing gum and oleomargarine.
Aquatic Study Planned.
A LSO in the legislative hoppers up
on Capitol Hill are one or two
other items vitality affecting sports
men. Senator Schwellenbach has in
troduced resolution Is. Res. IT'D
calling for the appointment of q
committee OF five Senators to investi-
gate all matters pertaining to the
replacement, conservation and proper
utilization Of aquatic life, including
marine and fresh water food and
game fishes. Twenty thousand dol
lars is provided for this investigation.
This is considered more or less
perfunctory legislation, and
more than likely will pass with
out objection.
Something which possibly will re-
ceive bit Of objection when 1t Is
considered y the Copeland firearms
bill IS. 81. 1t already has passed the
Senate, and now is in the House
Commerce Committee. 1t provides for
500 tax or license fee from manu-
facturers OF firearms and ammunition
and 81 fee from dealers.
The primary purpose of this bill Is
to control criminal traffic in firearms,
and is perhaps the bill which affects
sportsmen the least Of all those pro-
posed. Some sort Of control has been
demanded, and many sporting organ
izations are behind this bill and would
rather see it pass. II it doesn't, there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19
Six Tie for Top Spot.


INDIAN SPRING started the COM
petitive season with a blind DOGGY
tourney with six men tying for the
top spot. These were H. B. Swarthout,
H. M. Conner, Arthur McArdle, Will
liam Howell, Lloyd Kilken and H. S.
Stein. Over at neighboring Argyle
Wilton Allen won the blind bogey
after tie with E. T. Cassidy and w.
H. Flannery. Jack Olmstead shot the
nine in 36 after scoring brides on the
first four holes.
The blind DOGGY tourney at Manor
went to George Boyer with a card Of
88-15-73, J. T. Maddox was in Sec
ond place and Ray Koontz was third.
with District Amateur Champ Bobby
Brownell and Harry Pitt tying with
B. N. Pratt and Max Taylor for fourth.
Indian Spring had its first big test
OF the season today as some IS ANA
teur-pro combinations started In the
initial tourney of the Middle Atlantic
P. G. A.
Clayton Williams turned in q card
OF 8l-7-74 to top the scoring at
Beaver Dam in the Maryland State
Golf Association handicap tourney.
j. j. O'Connor scored an ace on the
l35-yard tenth hole at Chevy Chase,
At Kenwood tomorrow second teams
OF the Women's District Golf Associa-
ton will open the team match season,
First teams will start their matches on
May 4.
Montague Yarns "Hokum."
CHIP SHOTS: who is the best
looking golfer you saw In the
South?" we asked Helen Dettweiler
land we didn't mean pulchritudinous)
-. why guess Katherine Hemphill
was the best Helen answered :.
She Is the finest swinger I ever have
seen and one of the finest shot
makers Her record speaks for
itself -. She was the only golfer who
seemed to be able to lick Patty Berg
-. She'll go long way in this game"
Helen is looking forward to a
visit from Maureen circuit, but the
time and even Maureen's visit at all
Is indefinite
All this hokum about Superman
Montague in the California sector
leaves me cold we've been around
golf a few years and have yet to
see superman :. they simply don't
exist . reading yarn about the
Paul Bunyan of golf in the current
Esquire leaves us shuddering and a
bit i'll, something like the sensation
OF guy on small boat in Chesa-
peake Bay storm, If you get what we
mean.
What if he does go over a $50
yard hole in two shots? that isn't
anything to get excited about :.
and all this stun about 350-yard
tee shots leaves us clammy bet
he didn't sock 'em that far on
watered fairway and We'll bet Jimmy
Thompson and Sam Snead would have
him breaking his back.
AS for the hokum about holing a
dozen 20-foot puts in row, it must
have been down grooved green or
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NORTHEAST

Bokaw Service Station
New York Ave. & o St NE.
Camp Meigs Filling Station
401 Florida Ave. NE.
Paul Honor Service Station
18th & Benning Rd. NE.
Northeast Auto Body Co.
134l H St. NE.
Pearson Service Station
424 Rhode Island Ave. NE.
Saurs Service Station
3008 Rhode Island Ave. NE.
The Service Station of Washington
1901 Bladensburg Rd. NE.
Some Tire Co.
10th & H SITS. NE.
Smith & Stevenson
5th & Eye SITS. NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19
SOUTHEAST

Absher Motor Co.
1911 E St. Sc.
Mattingly Battery Service
18th g. North Carolina Ave. Sc.
Mazzullo Motor Co.
1887 Good Hope Rd. Sc.
Harry Sollars Co.
1l01 18th St. Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19
MARYLAND

Central Service Station
Berwyn, Md.
Bethesda Sunoco Service
Bethesda, Md.
Keller Garage
Beltsville, Md.
Noah Joffee
Bowie, Md.
Brookville Garage
Brookville, Md.
c. r. WilIett.
Brandywine, Md.
Carlin Supply Co.
Boyds, Md.
Frank A. Rooney
Capital Heights, Md.
]. c. Rippeon Garage
Clarksburg, Md.
Payne Service Station
College Park, Md.
N. E. Hawkins
Etchinson, Md.
Harry Appleby
Gaithersburg, Md.
NJ. ]. Gartner
Gaithersburg, Md.
Germantown Garage
Germantown, Md.
Johnson's Garage
Hyattsville, Md.
Justice Nicholson & Co.
HyattsviIle, Md.
Riggs Valley Service Station
Hyattsville, Md.
Stewards Super Service
Hyattsville. Md.
Indian Springs Motor Sales
Indian Springs, Md.
Smiths Garage
Landover, Md.
d & B Chevrolet Sales, Inc.
Laurel, Md.
Poolesville Motor Co
Poolesville, Md.
Norbeck Service Station
Rockville, Md.
Disney Service Station
Silver Spring, Md.
Brown Motor Co.
Sandy Springs, Md.
Schwein's Garage
Townsend, Md.
S. Rebecca Lonovitz
Rockville. Md.
VIRGINIA
Boyd's Super Service Station
Arlington, Va.
Cherrydale Garage
Cherrydale, Va.
Jenkins Auto Co.
Falls Church, Va.
Humme & Robinson
Herndon, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-19

McClenahan, j. G. c. Corcoran and
R. T. Harrell, and at Beaver Dam
long-hitting Cliff Spencer carved out
level par u and with "IroS Man"
Martin Mccarthy whipped Leo Walper
and Mel Shorey. Cliff had a flock of
three-putt greens, but bagged a lot
OF brides, too.
Dick Lunn, former District cham
pion, announced that he will play in
the British amateur championship at
Sandwich the last week in May, along
with c. c. Trautner, an Indian Spring
player. It's the first time in more than
a decade that two Washingtonians
will have competed in the British
tourney. Back in 1925 Donald Wood
ward, Roland Mackenzie and Albert
Mackenzie played in the champion
ship. Dick won the Mason and Dixon
title last week.
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INFORMAL MEETS
0NL|NKS PLANNED
Maryland Association to
Support Journeys That
D. c. Body Spurns.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

BY ". r. McCALLUM.
THERE will be no golf team
matches staged this year under
the auspices of the District
a of Columbia Golf Associa-
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Local Golf Clubs
Land Journeys

Manor Club Of Norbeck, Md,
and Chevy Chase Club haze been
awarded prize golf tourney events,
it has been learned.
The Maryland State Golf AS.
ISOLATION received the annual State
championship, which will be played
the latter part of June, and the
annual qualifying rounds for the
National Open championship in
the Middle Atlantic section has
been rendered Chevy Chase by the
United States Golf Association.
In regard to the National Open
qualifying rounds, the number of
places for the championship
proper will be determined accord.
ing to the number Of entries re-
ceived. The finals test will be
staged at Oakland Hills Club, De-
troit, June 10, II and IL.
The annual Maryland State
championship has been awarded
a Washington club for the first
time in three years, and the de-
cision of the association came as
a big surprise.
Dates have not been settled for
either event.
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Andy Oliver
Will Defend
Golf Title
Bv CHICK KENNY

East Potomac will stage its an.
nual spring open Monday, April
26, and the event will carry over
through Thursday, at which time
the championship round will take
place.
The tourney has been growing
during the last several years by
leaps and bounds, and this years
edition of the play will feature
perhaps the largest number of en-.
tries ever received.
Medal play will start on Monday
morning with 10 holes to qualify
for match play.
Last years defending champion,
Andy Oliveri, the former Roose-
welt High School star, will be on
hand to defend his laurels, as will
Barney Welsh, the runner-up. Close
followers of the tourney remember
the stirring clash staged by these
two in the finals last year which
resulted in the scholastic ace scor-
ing a clean-cut Banda decision
over the District motoriSt.
Among the other top-flight per-
formers to be on hand for the
tourney are Claude Rippey, the
sporting goods salesman; Herman
Allen, George Graham, and George
Malloy.
The tourney ZONES the day fol-
lowing the first golf match of the
season at the course, which will fea-
ture the appearance of the Rich
mond team against the East Po-
tomac clubbers.
The naturalization Of Jim
Brownell, former Roosevelt High
star, at the University of Mary
land, has started new interest in
golf at the Old Line institution,
with the result that an informal
varsity team is in the process of
organizing. The Terps will re-
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Converted Everyone

One couldn't help warm to his
personality and the land for which
he spoke.
The little man in the big shoes
scored-decidedly.
He made little Japs" of us all,
even the very Irish Jerry Mahoney
and the other Tammany Demo-
Gratis at the head table.
You became attached to the
soft-spoken. hola rly jockey
sized gentleman with a total lack
of braggadocio, yet confidence
in his subject and the, task his
country is undertaking a few years
hence.
You liked him for his quiet dig
nifty, just as a few moments later
you reacted to Judge Mahoncy's
star-spangled dissertation of what
organized sports mean to the boys
and girls of this country, the young
men and the young women still
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Ross Nine Ready
ForCan1paign

Ross Jeweler baseballers are
primed for the 1887 campaign
and plan to MAKE a real bid for
the National City League, Section
B title.
Inc team has been close for the
past two years, but has never won
championship. In three years
Of competition second place has
been its best.
The ROSES cross bats with the
Star Radio Tossers Sunday at
Fairlawn, No. 2, at 3 p. m. The
game will mark the teams debut.
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strict matches to an inter ano
extra-mural capacity this year
with a varsity slate to be drawn
up next season. Informal matches
will be played with Catholic u.
Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and
one or two other teams in this
territory this year.
Another lad who is showing up
we'll at Maryland is John White
Should this pair continue to show
form (and each is now cracking
80 there is a possibility that they
will be entered in the Southern
Conference tourney, listed for next
month.
Leopold V. Freudberg has again
been appointed chairman of the
tournament committee at Wood
mont, and is working out an at
tractive slate for the coming sea-
son. Mr.. Freudberg is particu-
larry interested in the coming
matches with the Lakeside Coun-
try Club of Richmond which will
be played here later in the year.
These matches were suspended
during the past several years.
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KIRK MILLER SAYS:

Continued from LIST Sport Page)
insofar as international amity is
concerned
Undoubtedly" sports constitutes
the one common field on which
all countries Of the globe can
establish their friendship and re-
spect-or words to that effect.
Ambassador Saito's was not a
sales talk at all. Rather it was an