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ness in 1920-it was the first for
Jones, Sarazen and Diegel, too. I've
been in every one since then, but
I've never felt the same thrill as
when / walked up to that first tee
at Toledo Qualifying in my
first British Open-at Troon in Scot
land in 1922. That was the worst
storm I've ever played in, and the
gales were bowling around my head
at about ninety miles an hour. Sar-
azen, who was National Open cham
pion at the time; Long Jim Barnes
and initimabIe Harry Vardon all
failed to make the grade in the
teeth of those clustering winds !.
Riding up Fifth avenue on my re-
turn from Chicago, after winning
the Open.
Those are only some of them. The
greatest of all, though, was in win
ming the $4,000 first prize at La
Gorce in Florida in the winter of
1928. ] was way back going into
that last round. ] was the last
man in and knew what I had to
get to win. And on that stiff par 70
course turned in 30-33-63, nine
strokes under par, to take that
prize-the biggest in tournament
history-by a single stroke. That
was the greatest round of golf I've
ever played in my life.
There have been disappointments,
of course-times when it all didn't
seem worth the work. But looking
back down the years, have no re-
grets. Golf has been good to me.
NOT IN THE BOX SCORE:
THE wrestling war is on again
Il with the Dusek brothers cross
ing To0ts M0ndt and thinking of
Joining Bowser and Pfeffer in New
York /. Moe Bloom, who ranks
close to the top of the East's soccer
referees, was born in Scotland, edu-
Gated in Wales and married Man
chester lassie Contrary to press
reports, Lightweight Champion Lou
Ambers' bit for fighting Pedro Mon
tanez is a flat $4,000 instead Of
$65,0OO
University of Southern California,
with Ken Carpenter, Olympic dis
Gus champion in best form, may be
the Pacific coasts top football team
this fall Sol Strauss, the emf
nent Twentieth Century fight club
attorney, has only one complaint
concerning his recent trip to Eng
land. He is peeved because the
country which originated the sand
wich does not make them thick
enough u. Harry Voiler, the fight
movie man, wires that he has just
spent go G's fixing up his Miami
Beach hotel John German,
Brooklyn baseball business manag-
err, is to be congratulated for en-
raging home talent and appoint
ing the able young Babe Hamburger
as his travelling assistant Dur
ing his amateur soccer days, DAN
ny Devlin, now associated with
Mickey Walker, was an Irish Inter-
national.
Rudolph Caracciola, who won the
German Grand Prix, averaged
S2.561S miles per hour over this
most famous of European road
courses. While winning the Wander
bilt cup here ON July Bernd Rose
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-08-19

meyers average was 82.564 miles
per hour. That ought to prove some
thing about the Roosevelt Raceway
providing faster time for its auto
racers, according to Publicist Steve
flanagan So. Keep an eye on little
Helen Rains, the swimmer. She
weighs about eighty pounds and is
only twelve years old but she's do
ing mighty well racing Erna Kompa
and the rest of the big girls !.
The schooner America, for which
the international yacht trophy is
named, was used during the Civil
war as Confederate blockade rum
ner and also as Federal navy dis
patch boat.
Orville Paul, one armed semi-pro,
pitches to the Cardinals in batting
practice {. Bill Killefer and Lefty
O'Doul, Coast league managers, put
on a milking contest prior to re-
cent game Colleges in Turkey
have adopted crew racing :.
Barney Ross is the only fighter al
lowed to train at the exclusive Gros-
singer club in the East Boston
Red Sox teammates call Bing Miller
Uncle Tom Knoxville Of the
Southern association has released
Beattie Feathers, Bear half back,
for failure to hit /. Carl Hubbell
has beaten the Pirates 33 times and
lost only IS to them since entering
the National league.
Jockey Johnny Gilbert, who rode
the Arlington Classic winner, wears
a little gold idol in his cap for
good luck during the running of
race. Owner Jock Whitney gave it
to him III. Pitcher Larry French
spends his spare moments studying
astrology and is one of the worlds
most superstitious ball players il.
Three weeks before Tommy Farr
ran out on Max Schmeling, Sgd Hull
the Harringay promoter who
thought he was sponsoring the
match, gave him a present valued
at IS pounds. 1t was travelling
bag which Tommy found very
handy on his trip over here to meet
Joe Louis So badly was the
California sensation, Bob Nestell,
beaten in his last fight that he is
still in retirement on his chicken
ranch. The guy who did the beat
ing was Bob Pastor.
Freedom From Bull Pen
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-08-19
Let Guest Colu11lnist
Johnny Farrell Tell
Of Gol6ng Thrills

(Hugh Bradley presents as his guest
columniss this toeek Johnny Farrell,
king Of the tairways decade back ,Uho
continues on as one of our foremost
golfers. One of the most popular Of
all the pro troupers, the BaItusr0l hero
tells of the trials and thrills that haze
come to him on his tOay d0tUn the
tournament trail.
By JOHNNY FARRELL
X7HEN Hugh Bradley asked me
w TO be his guest columnist this
week, that made me smile. Be-
cause, Hugh, I know as much about
pounding q typewriter as you do
about pounding golf ball.
Speaking Of smiling, though, lot
Of people have asked me why I al
ways seem to be smiling when ]
get in tough spot out there on the
fairways. That's easy. Ever since,
I first started playing golf up in
Westchester shortly before the war,
I've told myself to keep smiling.
For think that's the answer to
golhng success. When you're cheer
full and smiling you are relaxed and
easy, your swing doesn't freeze and
you're able to keep your club in a
flowing groove. It's when you fail
to find that groove that you find
yourself in trouble-and lots Of it.
I can remember standing on the
eighteenth green at Olympia Fields
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-08-19
Lost Interest

Lost Interest
SIS your auto horn broken?"
mo, it's just Indifferent"
Indifferent? What do you meant"
Doesn't give a hoot."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-08-19
Freedom From Bull Pen
Aids Gomez Pitching

Lefty Gomez's return to form this
year is attributed to his abandon
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Chemist Mistakes
Poison for Polish:
Dies in Hospital
Confidence in Product
Samuel Wright Inrent-
ed, Costs His Life.

Pride and confidence in the mani
fold uses Of chemical polish he had
developed contributed to the death
yesterday of Samuel Wright, 40, Of
1928 o street.
Reaching for a bottle OF his polish
to test its powers as a tooth cleanser,
Wright picked up a hottie of deadly
poison by mistake. The poison bore
a close resemblance to the polish in
appearance.
Confident that his polish could
cause no harm. Wright swallowed the
poison after using it as mouthwash.
A short time later he was taken to
Emergency Hospital in agony. He died
after being transferred to Gallinger
Hospital.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald,
after hearing the story of Wrights
mistake, issued certificate of acci-
dental death
Wright is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mae Wright, and four sisters,
Mrs. William Whitfield, Mrs. Hampton
Barnett, Mrs. Lorraine Campbell and
Mrs. Mary Dulaney. all Of whom are
living In Virginia.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
PRESIDENT TO LAY
APEX CORNER STONE
Marine Band Concert to Precede
5 O'Clock Ceremony at
New Building.

President Roosevelt will lay the
corner stone of the new Apex Building,
at Constitution and Pennsylvania ave-
nues, tomorrow afternoon at o'clock
in a brief ceremony. Prior to the
Presidents address, there will be an
hours concert by the Marine Band,
beginning at o'clock.
w. A. Ayres, chairman of the Fed
eral Trade Commission, which is to
occupy the building. will preside. The
commission has issued invitations to
official guests, who will be given seats
on the special platform for the occa-
sion.
Loud speakers will carry the voices
OF the speakers to a wide area around
corner stone, so the public may
listen in.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
CLEARED IN DEATH
OF FRIEND BY GUN
Bethesda Resident Not to Blame
Say Witnesses to .Ac.
cident.

A coroner's jury yesterday absolved
Howard L. Melton, 21, 804 Garfield
street, Bethesda, Md, of blame in the
death Of his friend, Charles w. Calder
head, who was killed Friday night by
the accidental discharge of a 90
caliber rife as it was picked up in
the rear of filling station at Thir-
teenth and K streets.
All Witnesses testified the shooting
was accidental. George M. Schertzer,
1912 L street, owner of the rifle, stated
he had thought he had removed all
the cartridges from the gun Thursday.
Calderhead, %, lived at 1881 Cali
fornia street. He died at Emergency
Hospital an hour after the shooting
The slug had struck him in the left
temple.
Melton, who was graduated from the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute in June,
wept as he took the stand to tell that
the gun discharged somehow" as he
lifted it from It's position leaning
against a car. The weapon was in a
cloth case.
Both men were employed in the
tire department of the filling station
where the accident occurred.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Three Sent to Tubercllar Camp
By appeal to Mrs. Roosevelt
Contributions of Washingtonians Make
Weeks at Bald Eagle Hill Possible for
9Others, but Many Beds Still Vacant.

Grant said They were selected from
the approximately 300 names on the
waiting list as in greatest need of the
camp care
There still are many others for
whom the Summer spent at the camp
might mean the difference be-
tween a healthy life and early death,
Mrs. Grant added Although suffer-
ing from only the early stages of
tuberculosis, they live in homems where
there are communicable cases of the
disease. These contacts must be
broken and the proper treatment pro-
vided to conquer the disease in the
children, she said. tuberculosis is
arrested in from so to 70 per cent
Of the children who spend a Summer
in the health camp
Letter Is Appealing.
The children whose mothers let
tiers to Mrs. Roosevelt singled them
out for camp attention are 12-
year-old girl and two boys, aged II
and g. Their mother wrote
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt:
Il am the mother of seven children,
my youngest being Is months old
My husband is away I only get $50
a month which is my husbands pen
sion tas veteran of the Spanish
American War;. I pay s27.50 of it
for rent. I have no lights Three of
my children have tuberculosis, and
the others haven't had the proper
nourishment and they are run down
and they have not any clothes.
II am back in my rent and the rent
agent is about to serve some sum-
mons on me. I have tried the emer-
gency relief and cannot get any help.
So if there is anything you can do
to help my children I would like to
hear from you as soon as possible, on
account I want to get my children in
the health camp"
When the letter reached the asso-
citation from the White House, an in
vestigation showed that the three chill
dren mentioned were in the early
stages Of tuberculosis. but had an
excellent chance of being cured by
a Summer in the health camp. Their
father had recently spent six months
IN a tuberculosis hospital.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
DR.. PERGLER TO TALK
ON CENTRAL EUROPE

Political and economic conditions
in Central Europe, where many be-
lieve the next European war may
start, will be discussed tomorrow by
Dr. Charles Pergler in the first of
four addresses at the University OF
Maryland.
DR.. Pergler, dean Of the National
University Law School, is one Of
six speakers who will analyze pres
ent-day conditions in various coun-
tries in connection with a special
Summer course, 1.-THE World Today"
which is being given at College Park.
Formerly active in CZechoslovakian
politics and diplomatic work, DR..
Pergler will base his discussion on
information obtained at first hand.
He will speak Tuesday on "The Lit
tie Entente-Origins, Development
and Purpose; Wednesday on "T'he
Balkans-Background and Founds-
tions." and Thursday on 'The New
Balkans"
Evening star., 1937-07-11
MRS. SHURTLEFF, SIS,
DIES AT HOME HERE
Widow Of Army Officer Became
III Suddenly, Her Son
Saws

Mrs. Mary Ross Shurtleff, IS. widow
Of Lieut.. Col. Dwight K. Shurtleff. q.
S. A., died suddenly last night at her
apartment, 1910 Mintwood place.
Mrs. shurtleff's son, Dwight K, jr.,
said he noticed his mother. an invalid,
become i'll shortly after dinner and
that he summoned a physician i'm
mediately DR.. Edmund Barry pro-
nounced her dead on arrival.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said an autopsy would be performed
this morning. He said physicians at
Walter Reed Hospital, who had treated
her recently, had not believed her
chronic illness critical.
Mrs Shurtleff came to WASHINGTON
from Panama after the drowning Of
her husband there year ago today.
Her son attends a business school
here.
Burial will be in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
TAXI STRIKE MOVE
Is VOTED DOWN
brotherhood Members, at Meet.
ing, However, Hit Compulsory
Liability Legislation.

Advocates Of strike in protest
against the proposed compulsory La
64lity and limitation of taxicabs legis-
Nations were voted down last night at
. mass meeting Of the Industrial
brotherhood of Taxicab Drivers at
Coconut Grove. Fifth and K streets.
Omcers of the brotherhood pointed
out that the comparatively small num-
her Of drivers at the mass meeting in
dicated that strike would not re-
cefve the necessary support
The cab drivers adopted a resolution
protesting against passage of the COM
pulsory liability and the taxicab limi-
tation bills in their present form and
voted to send delegation to Congress
tomorrow to make their views known.
The brotherhood Is opposed to COM
pulsory liability insurance unless the
cab rivers are assured higher in
come. The brotherhood favors limit
in9zthe number Of cabs, but believes
this should be accomplished by limit
ing the number Of cab operators per-
naitA.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Local Business Outlook Good
As Rise IN Store Sales Is S1lOlvn
Increases Reported by Federal Reserve
Bank Orer Last Year Despite Income
Decline IL, the District.

With local department store sales
rejecting a slight advance for June
over the same month of last year
when the bonus payment brought ab-
normal trade. and new confidence en-
gendered by President Roosevelt's
declaration for the maintainence of
present wage scales despite Govern
ment economy moves. Capital mer-
chants are able to take an optimistic
outlook.
On the basis Of reports from seven
concerns, the Federal Reserve Bank
at Richmond in its June summary
made public yesterday, showed depart
ment store sales UP one-tenth of !
per cent over June, 1886, and 1873
per cent over 1885.
For the six months ending June
30, the increase over 1886 was 26
per cent, and over 1885 1872 per
cent.
This certainly is a good showing, "
said Edward D. Shaw, secretary Of
the Merchants and Manufacturers As
sociation.
Rise Made Despite Obstacles.
The showing here in June was made
in the face of buying power that
had been reduced by an estimated
$4,000 900.
The Treasury figured as of July g..
last year, that on national average.
SO per cent of the holders of soldier
bonus certificates had converted them
into cash. Applying that measuring
rod locally, where the amount of Ger
tificates held was s16,278716. the con-
versions were bit over S960O.O0O
Between June 30, 1886. and May
81 of this year lthe last date for
which statistics are available) Fed
eral employment dropped from the
peak of ll7.l03 to 1892. a decrease
OF l,l9l, which is responsible for an
other income drop that ordinarily
would approximate upward of $780,
900.
The rise here was less than for other
cities in this district totaling 5 per
cent more this June than last and
Evening star., 1937-07-11
CIVIL WAR BATTLE
TO Be RECALLED
Anniversary Of Fort Stevens
Clash Cause of Rites To-
day and Tomorrow.
Ceremonies, commemorating the

Ceremonies, commemorating the
seventy-third anniversary of Gen.
Jubal Earlys march on Washington
and the Battle of Fort Stevens, will
be held today and tomorrow by the
Ladies of the Grand Army OF the
Republic and the Department of the
Potomac, Grand Army Of the Re-
public.
A permit was granted the women's
organization by c. Marshall Finnan,
superintendent Of the National Capt.
tai Parks. for a tour OF the Civil
War forts encircling Washington. to
end at Fort Stevens for their final
exercises at $3.50 pm. today. Donald
Edward McHenry, park naturalist. will
conduct the tour Bertha I. Cross
is chairman Of the committee arrang-
ing the program.
Department Comdr. John NJ Kline,
G. A. r., survivor of the 9Th Army
Corps. which was commanded at Fort
Stevens by Gen. Horatio G. Wright.
will tell of his war experiences at the
meeting at $50 pm. tomorrow. Kline
was not present at the historic bat
tie. having been taken prisoner at
the Battle of Cold Harbor. Va. June
l, 1864. little more than month
before his division defended the Ma
tion's Capital. He was with a re-
copnoitering party when he was cap
tured and taken to Libby Prison at
Andersonville. Ga, where he remained
for 10 months.
Proctor to Speak.
John Clagett Proctor, vice presi-
dent of the Brightwood Citizens AS
socia ton. co-sponsor Of the exercises.
will be the principal speaker. Charles
w. Ray, association president, is
chairman.
Others on the program include Mrs.
Mary E. Bowen. president of the
Noman's Relief Corps, who will lead
the pledge of allegiance; Mrs. May S.
Parker Of the same organization, who
will act as chaplain the Fort Stevens
Drum and Bugle Corps, American Le-
gion, and Mrs Alice c. Neal, soloist.
The remains of the Al heroes who
died in the two-day battle of Fort
Stevens July II and IL. 1864, are bur-
led in the Battle Ground National
Cemetery opposite Walter Reed Hospi-
tai. a short distance FROM the fortress
Shot Down at Chantilly.
Although the fort was named for
Maj Gen. Isaac ingalls, Stevens, an
outstanding hero of the Civil War,
he was not present during the battle
which took place in the Brightwood
area. He died September l. 1852, after
he was shot down at Nearby Chantilly.
| Va, while aiding Gen. Pope's defeated
army to pass along the Warrenton-
Alexandria pike.
Gen. Stevens, who had commanded
a regiment of New York Scots, self
styled the Highland Guard" since
May 1861, led his .1en to flank Gen.
Pope along the pike after Gen. Phil
Kearneys troops had fallen bach un-
der whitening fire OF bullets.
Five color bearers of the Highland
ers had fallen in rapid succession
when Gen. Stevens seized the colors
to carry them himself The Scots
were successful in aiding Gen. Pope,
but, under cover of darkness when
the men dared to 60 upon the battle
field to pick up their dead and wound
ed, they found their leader. a bullet
through his head his body covered
with the Highland Guard colors.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
Yacht Once O,U1,ed
By Royalty Goes
Into Banana Trade
Ship Which Bore Kaiser
and Prince Viii Ply
Caribbean.
Nv TIE Associated Press.

BY tEe ASSOCIATED ffeSS.
BOSTON, July 1o.-The steam
yacht Hirondelle. which once bore a
royal standard across the seven seas,
today stood refltted to haul bananas
in the Caribbean trade.
Mahogany and teak-finished cabins
have been ripped out to make room
for $4,000 stems of Mexican bananas.
Sturdy oak-lined officers quarters have
replaced q music room.
The story Of her downfall is one Of
unfulfilled plans.
She was built at La Seyne, France,
in 1911, for Albert Honore Charles.
then Prince of Monaco. Two million
dollars was the cost.
Kaiser Wilhelm chartered her for
time. Then came the World War.
The yacht was returned and Monaco
lent her to France. She came to this
country in the late 20's and was
bought by one commercial arm and
hen another.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
PARLEY TO MAKE PLANS
TO RENEW TRANSIT QUIZ
District Subcommittee of House
to Hold Conference
Tomorrow.

Plans for resumption of the investi-
CATION of the Capital Transit Co. by
a special subcommittee of the House
District Committee will be made at
q conference tomorrow between Rep
resentatives Randolph, Democrat, Of
West Virginia, and Dirksen, Repub-
lican of Illinois.
The inquiry was abruptly halted
several weeks ago due to the neces-
sary absence from Washington of
Dirksen, who has taken an active part
In conducting the probe. Randolph
is chairman Of the subcommittee.
The financial structure of the
transit compay and its relationship to
the North American Co. of New York,
gigantic holding corporation, is ex-
pected to be the next phase Of the
investigation.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
LONE BURGLAR ROBS
TWO ELDERLY SISTERS
Threatened to "Come Back and
Murder Them if They
Gave Alarm
Gave Alarm.

BALTIMORE. July 1O.-The Misses
Cecilia and Daisy Gladfelter, two
elderly sisters, reported to police to-
day a burglar robbed them of s58 in
cash and threatened to come back
and murder" them If they called au-
thorities before daybreak.
The sisters waited until 7:45 am.
before notifying northern district
officers.
Miss Daisy said the intruder awak-
ened them and forced her to obtain
all the money in the house-s50 in
currency and So in pennies-together
with few articles of jewelry. She
said the man warned her against turn
ing on the lights.
After securing the cash and jewels,
Miss Gladfelter said, the burglar Or
dered her to return to the upper floor.
She refused, she said, and told him
she wanted to lock the front door be-
hind him.
Evening star., 1937-07-11

Three of my children have tuber-
culosis . haven't had the proper
nourishment and are run down &.
I want to get my children in the
health camp -"
So read an appealing letter to Mrs
Franklin D. Roosevelt She forwarded
the letter to the District tuberculosis
Association, and yesterday the three
tubercular children we're enjoying a
new chance for life at the associa-
tions health camp on Bald Eagle
Hill.
Prompt answer to this tragic ap-
peal-typical of hundreds of others in
the associations files-Was made pos.
sible only by the generosity of individ-
uals and organizations whose contri-
buttons have swelled the camp funds
by s79l, Mrs. Ernest r. Grant. man
aging director Of the association, said
yesterday
Only Half Of Beds Filled.
The camp. designed not for recrea-
ton, but to give the proper rest, nour-
ishment and medical care to arrest,
AL carly oGdSCS, VIC III eau ulSCdSC
that has darkened the lives of the
youngsters. opened Tuesday with only
half of the 100 beds occupied. The
association had only money enough
from its Christmas seal sales to care
for so children.
Newspaper descriptions of the plight
OF the children left behind, with no
chance for proper treatment to stop
ravages of the disease on their young
bodies. started a flow of contributions
ranging from IS to Sl00.
AS Mrs. Grant counted up the lat
est donations yesterday, a telephone
call informed her that another s16O
was on its way from the Phoebe
Hearst Foundation Of the Parent
Teacher Association. The PIT. A. al
ready had given $780,
Nine Added to Roll
The $79l received up to last night
makes it possible for 9 children,
in addition to the go provided for In
the associations budget. to spend nine
life-giving weeks In the health camp
this Summer Three began camp
life Friday, four yesterday, and two
more will be added tomorrow. Mrs