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Evening star., 1937-02-01
FAST FIELD KEYED
FOR SKATEF|NALS
Girl Champion Far on Top,
Male Ruler Fourth in
U. S. Meet Standing.
By tie Associated Press.

By tf.t ASSoclated Press.
ut. PAUL. February 1.-The 1887
North American indoor speed
skating champions will be de-
- termined tonight when the fast
field of blade artists. who already have
hung up three new national titles
complete the two-dav competition.
Dorothy Franey Of ST. Paul. vomen's
national outdoor tltlist and defend
ing champion In the indoor meet being
conducted as part of ST.. Paul's
Winter carnival. held a long lead in
her attempt to retain the honors.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
GRANT PROPHES|ES
VICTORY FOR RIVAL
Can't Beat RaCketer Like
Bulge Three Times in
Row, Says Bitsy.
BY the Associated Press.

= URFSIDE, Fla. February l.
Donald Bulge. the Nations
top ranked tennis amateur.
~ started toward another tourna-
ment test against Bryan Grant today
with his confidence apparently unim-
paired by two straight losses to the
little Atlanta dynamiter.
After ALL" philosophical the tall
Californian before first-round matches
in the Surf Club meet, Il can't be ex-
pected to play myself to frazzle
this early in the season"
Its true Bitsy has been outplaying
me. but it may be a good sign" he
added. I'm rounding into form grad
ually, pointing for the later and more
important tournaments"
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Bitsy Agrees With Rival.

THE unassuming little Atlanta in
surance salesman agreed heartily
MY victories in Florida" he said.
have been overemphasized II we
meet again in this tournament Bulge
will whip me in four sets. You can't
beat guy like that three times in a
row.
This event. like the Miami Biltmore
and Tampa Dixie. will be played on
clay courts, and Grant never has lost
to Bulge in a tournament on that
surface.
Bulge swings into action today
against Dr. Philip B. Hawk. veteran,
of Forest Hills. Long Island. Grant
faces S. A.. Lynch, jr., of Miami.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
MATCHGOLF SKILL
NETSL|TTLE$ $1,000
Ex-Amateur Champ Shows
Class in San Francisco
Win Over Christian.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
~ AN FRANCISCO, February L.
- Lawson Little, king of amateur
golf until his abdication in favor
- of professionalism last April,
put $1,000 and tournament cham
pionship into his pocket today as
convincing proof that he still is
master of match-play competition.
1t took 20 holeSin the final round
of the 72-hole San Francisco match
play open to do the trick, but the
husky son of a United States Army
officer fought 1t out with the courage
of a real champion.
Little edged out Neil Christian.
suuatty veteran from Yakima. Wash.
after the latter had staged a thrill
ing comeback to square the match on
the eighteenth green.
Little Skids Near Finish.
EOR three rounds of the match play
4 the British and American cham
pion of 1894 and 1885 played sub-par,
unbeatable golf. eliminating Orville
White, and 4; Jimmy Hines. and
2, and Horton Smith. S and 4.
He held a 3-up lead at the ninth
and virtually tucked the title sway at
the fourteenth-4 up and 4 to go.
Just when 1t appeared Little was
ready to claim his second tournament
victory since turning probe won the
Canadian open last September-the
bottom fell out of his bag of golflng
shots.
He three -putted the last four holes,
taking five shots over par. He missed
one putt of slightly over a foot. Chris
tian, meanwhile. was stroke better
each time, to even the match.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
pk Ace Moderutes Ambition Around Club Golf Rule

vanced steadily as his ability in match
play has been attenuated by actual
experience in knock-down and slug
fest tournaments against national and
international stars OF the FIRST magni.
tude.
1t seems inevitable that some day
he will fetch to America the world
crown that Paul Morphy, American
genius Of the mid nineteenth century,
merited and for which the American
blindfold marvel, Harry Pillsbury,
labored so long in vain.
In his European performa noes
Fine has lost a grand total Of
two games!
One OF these was TO Kmoch at
Amsterdam and the other was to ex-
world champion. DR.. Alexander
Alekhin, at Hastings. A most envi-
able record, indeed! No other Ameri-
can player can boast Of such match
less skill in international play dur
ing the last two years.
Reuben Fine was born in Manhat-
tan. October II, 1914 He was eradu-
ated from City College of New York
in 1888. with the degree Of bachelor
of science in social science. Since
receiving his sheepSkin, he has be-
come a professional chess master and
is bent on capturing the choicest
golden piums in the chess world
while he is young.
Local Team Matches.
A BE SEIDENBERG, tournament
director of the Metropolitan Chess
Association, announces that official
play in the tea mtournaments will be
resumed Thursday. $50 pm. at Sloss
Cafeteria. 8l8 Fourteenth street
northwest.
Capts. Hervey, Burch, Kun
kel, Sewall, Knox, Breeskin,
Bass and Shuman will put their
teams through the PAGES for an
all-team robin battle.
Members of the Utility quintet that
has played only one match IN the
current fray. are to be present for
scheduled play.
President E v. Fineran and his
Gas Lighters" are debating whether
TO compete in the second half of the
tourney But like all good chess
teams. Director Seidenberg says he'll
have a hard time keeping them out.
for the Washington Gas Light Co.
Chess Club possesses some players Of
sterling ability.
Although unannounced, il is prob
able that an educational chess lee
ture will be featured at the Slcss
Cafeteria for visitors during the eve
ning's entertainment. Tariff will be
25 cents for every one.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
will Set Tourney Dates.

IN ADDITION the solons viii set
the dates for a flock Of tourna-
ments this year and there isn't any
doubt the tournament list will sur
prise a lot Of folks who thought tour
naments were, like the wooden shaft,
on the way out.
There will be plenty OF links action
around Washington this year. from
the drst tnvitatioh AFFAIR of The yeay
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Long Chance Wins Match.

THEY halved the first extra hole III
par As. On the twentieth Lit
tie had the choice of playing his sec
ond shot safe or shooting over a clus-
ter Of trees. He took the latter course.
The ball sailed to the green. He was
down in two puts for birdie 4 on
the 500-yard test.
Christian chose the more cautious
method, and his par was not good
enough
Little finished the tournament l6
strokes under par for 100 holes, in
cluding 36 holes of qualifying. Chris
ton was under par for l08 holes
played. He won $500.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
M'KENz|E ALTERS
LOFTS OF STICKS
Roland Figures Bag Limit
Will Bring Back Now
Forgotten Shots.
BY W. X. McCALLUM

BY W. Il. McCALLUM.
~ GLAND MACKENZIE has some
- ideas about the 14.club lin.
II itation on golf tools that may
Il work out when the regula-
tion becomes effective on January /,
1885. Indeed. anticipating some
changes in lofts Of irons. Roland, at
his Florida post, already has oo-
tanned equipment for changing the
loft OF iron clubs, and has gone to
work on his tools. as If he needed
TO do that. Roland, in case YOU
didn't know, has quite a flock of golf
CLUBS. He could play with a new
set each day of the week and not use
all the clubs he owns.
IF this 14-club business stays in
the manufacturers will have TO change
the lofts of their clubs" Roland
writec They will have to cover the
lofts from l-iron u the l0-iron in
about seven clubs. That will allow
you to keep the putter, chipper and
sand club. plus four woods.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
LOOP HEAD BIG SECRET

Totals 161244 Totals 13 a32
Evening star., 1937-02-01
NHERE'S going to be plenty of
conservation about the stymie
at that meeting of the Dis

nv NAido AAiSStAAAt vi WIG ClS-
triot Golf Associa ton tonight
at the University Club, and 1t won't
be any great surprise to those who
know the way the golf winds are
blowing to find the whole thing tossed
open to full and free discussion
again. The ASSOCIATION Executive
Committee banned the stymie in the
local championships last Summer and
the District amateur and the junior
tournaments were played sans the
stymie.
But since that time several Of the
men who manage local golf affairs
have conferred with officials of the
United States Golf Association and
have been told on the quiet, we
understand, that the parent golf body
may itself bar the Stymie and that
in the meantime, it might be a nice
thing If all the sectional associations
strung along and didn't kick over the
traces.
And also. meanwhile, the
Maryland State Golf Associa-
ton is taking a poll Of its
member clubs on the stymie.
So any one who thinks the stymie
is dead, or at least recumbent. is in
for another guess. Our guess il that
it will come up tonight and will be
pretty thoroughly discussed, with a
bare possibility the local fathers of
the game may rescind their action of
last year and ride along with the
U. s. G. A. until the national body
takes some action.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Competitive Spirit Strong.

LIS coach. Stanley Brauninger Of
the Lake Shore Athletic Club.
SAYS Adolph is the creates backstroke
swimmer in history because of his
competitive spirit. his eagerness to do
a little better each time out. and his
ability to relax Equipped with amaz-
ing natural ability to yank his 6-foot
1-inch frame through the water,
Kiefer has made the most OF 1t.
Although he has been winning
championships for the last two years.
Kiefer still thrills easily. His biggest
one came last Summer. when he won
the Olympic backstroke title at Ber-
lin. He hopes to duplicate it in Japan
in 1910 and has a notion he can add
a free-style championship at the same
time.
Next to swimming. Kiefer, who is
Sonny Boy" to Brauninger and
"Ade" to his admiring brothers, likes
eating. He likes everything. but i.
he had his choice. would have sweet
potatoes-any style-at every meal.
Brauninger says the youngster has an
enormous appetite. Kiefer insists he
eats Just enough
Evening star., 1937-02-01
K|EFER UNWILLING
TOSW|M FOR COIN
Backstroke Star Grateful
to Game for Giving Him
Chance to Travel.
This is one OF series OF per-
sondlity stories on outstanding
younger sports stars.
RY WILLIAM WEEKES,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

HICAGO, February Swim
ming is all-absorbing now to
Adolph Kiefer but the l8-
~ year-old backstroke marvel
doesn't plan to make it his life work.
The strapping son of former Ger
man soldier, Kiefer swan on his back
from the start as naturally as most
kids dog paddle He may capitalize
on his great ability in the water but
he has no desire to earn his living
swimming. even before movie cameras.
II love swimming" Kiefer said. 1T
has done a lot for me. 1t has taken
me to Europe twice and I have been
to every part of the United States
except the West Coast. But I want
to earn my living in a regular busi-
ness. I want to make something sub
stantial for myself"
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Local Team Matches,

A BE SEIDENBERG, tournament
director of the Metropolitan Chess
Association, announces that offlclal
play in the tea mtournaments will be
resumed Thursday. $50 pm. at Sloss
Cafeteria. Sl8 Fourteenth street
Evening star., 1937-02-01
BY GEORGE HUBER.

~ ARTICULAR attention is being
l. paid by the Bethesda Chevy
| Chase Chapter of the Izaak
Evening star., 1937-08-30
REPETITION Of Sc
TOUR IS EXPECTED
Aides Think President May
Use "Check-Up" Technique
if He Makes Trip.
I By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Administration aides today saw a
possibility Of President Roosevelt en-
ploying the "check-up'' technique Of
his 1885 drought tour If he makes a
Western trip this Fall.
On that 5,0oO-mle excursion he
went to the very doorsteps OF persons
affected by his program to discuss
their problems and his ideas for as
sLting them.
1t was called "non-political' jour-
ney, but did not disappoint pre-elec-
ton crowds clamoring from country
sidings to the great terminals for him
to speak.
Reports from the Summer White
House at Hyde Park, N. Y. indicate
the chances are good that he now
will make cross-country inspection
of New Deal accomplishments" par
ticularly in the Northwest.
Advisers Urge Trip.
Many of his advisors have been
urging Mr. Roosevelt to go out and
get ''hrst-hand' expression of public
sentiment on the court issue and other
slde-tracked administration proposals
before Congress is reconvened. In
that case. aides believed he would
make few strategic addresses in be-
half of his program.
On his 1886 tour the President sat
in conference with Gov Alf M. Ian
don Of Kansas and six other Gov
ernors. He visited an area where
blistering sun had converted thou
sands upon thousands of acres into
dust bowl" sapped O,ooo, 900
bushels from the corn crop, put 49,
600 farmers on relief in % States
and cost the Government SIS 000.O 900,
with millions more to be spent in
help.
At Bismarck, N. Oak, he told an
audience: IT. came out here to see
things with my own eyes. I felt
could learn a lot more .. than
by just reading blueprints and re-
ports back in Washington"
"The Rain Maker"
Accompanied by Governors, State
officials and legislators, he drove by
automobile from farm to farm ask
ing How many acres have you? How
much live stock; hows the water
supply?'
Hang onto those chickens and
turkeys he advised gloomy J. j.
Boehme with CHEEKY good-by, and
he was hardly out of sight before
showers fell on the parched pas
lures.
He was Roosevelt the rain max
err" BY the time his nine-car special
reached jamestown, N. Oak, he
had to call for yellow slicker. A
Evening star., 1937-08-30

OF talk about flank movements and
such. In the absence of a decision,
the experts adjourned to the COM
memoration headquarters hotel for
lunch
After lunch the promoters and news
paper men went to the rehearsal of
the pageant. The pageant opened
with a prelude The two queens and
their attendants were seen standing on
a platform flanked by Boy Scouts
bearing American flags. Then at least
100 young girls in cheese cloth and
bare feet dashed out in multi-colors
and did an interpretive dance.
This ballet swing from the classics
to an Indian theme that suggested the
barbarous thump of skin drums. Out
on the race track dashed young red
skins with war hoops, leather breeches,
feathers and tomahawks. They set
up Wigwams. Then pioneers appeared
behind and in front of cart drawn
by patient oxen
Covered wagons followed and there
was a square dance and some real
two-fsted pioneer drinking at a log
cabin bar. George Washington ap-
peared in carriage Supporting
members OF the cast performed stately
minuets, which suggested that culture
had curbed the ruder traits Of the
pioneers.
A B. g. 0. steam horse" of the
earliest vintage then steamed around
the race track. drawing two double
decker cars which seemed to have
been designed as stage coaches
Other old trains demonstrated how
Lincoln was brought to Washington
for his inaugural and how his body
was taken home in a crepe hung
coach. This latter scene was set to
spiritual music by a colored choir
which knelt sorrowingly beside the
tracks while the body Of the Great
Emancipator passed.
Another scene depicted Lincoln at
Antietam Battlefield among the dead
and wounded, interviewing his not
too-victorious generals. A Civil War
tableau depicted the battle over Burn
side Bridge across Antietam Creek
where Union forces tried the passage
against the whitening fire of an in
ferior force on wooded hill above
them. It was said by the experts that
the Union leader lost several hundred
troops at the bridge before he dis
covered the water Of Antietam Greek
was not too deep to ford.
The finale of the pageant was q
grand assembly. with half of the cos
TUNED players forming huge wheel,
the spokes of which were delineated
by silver ribbons strung from a pole.
Evening star., 1937-08-30
new WACE-HOUR
BILL IS MAPPED
Measure Will Provide for
Fair Trade Practices
in Industry.

Administration advisers disclosed
today they already have started map
ping new wage and hour legislation
for the next congressional session.
The revamped legislation. designed
to replace that which was blocked in
the House Rules Committee during
the recent session, will include pro-
visions for maintaining fair trade
practices in industry, officials said
TWO bills probably will be submit
ted-one empowering a five-member
Federal board to fix wages and hours
within certain limits and one setting
up a system Of fair trade practices.
Labor Standards Similar.
The labor standards bill will be
similar to that offered in the last ses-
sion, 1t was said, and will retain pro-
visions permitting the Government
board to lift only those wages below
40 cents an hour and to shorten only
work weeks of more than 40 hours
Numerous exemptions for specific
industries added to the bill during
congressional consideration, however,
probably will be eliminated from the
revised measure.
The fair trade practice bill would
lation. 1t would provide for volun-
tary agreements among units in vari-
GUS industries. The pacts would de-
fine fair trade practices and would
ban activities considered harmful to
industry as a whole.
Officials said industries having such
agreements would receive advantages
through the exchange Of information
and through special services rendered
them by the Commerce Department
In addition, they would be in q
position to agree among themselves on
wage and hour standards and could
present industry-wide proposals to the
Labor Standards Board.
Fair Practices Measure.
The fair practices measure would
be administered jointly by the Trade
Commission and the Commerce De-
partment. The department would
consult industries in drafting agree
ments and would offer any requested
aid IN administering the accords. The
Trade Commission would approve O,
veto the understanding and would rule
on any complaints Of violation.
Ohcials predicted the administra.
ton will make a determined drive fol
| the new legislation at the next ses.
sion. They asserted action early ir
the session would be desirable. be.
cause 1t would require year or more
to place the projected program ir
| operation.
Evening star., 1937-08-30
new ARMY POWER
SOUGHT BY BRITAIN
Emergency Measure Raises Age
Limit of Recruits From rs
to % Years.
By Radio to The Star.

By RADIO TO Tne star.
LONDON, August 30-Still trying
to build an army without conscripting
men who have no taste for soldering
Great Britain today raised the age
limit of recruits from Is to % years
This emergency measure to win new
strength for the army. which is 1000
officers and $4,000 men under strength,
becomes effective Immediately.
1t is hoped that many youngster
who is too carefree at IS for army
discipline will begin, as he approaches
80, to see the advantages of an army
career. This automatically enables
a man to remain boy in red through
the age of 40, when, with 21 years of
service, he can retire on a weekly
pension of IA shillings (about $500.
The governments most heroic ef-
forts, heretofore, have failed to over
come the feeling of the man in the
street that, while its a thin red line
of heroes, when the drums begin to
roll," soldiers and soldering are
bloody nuisances meanwhile.
Copyright 1872
Evening star., 1937-08-30
BAND AND DANCE GROUP
ON FESTIVAL PROGRAM
scheduled to Join in 18th Summer
Event Tomorrow Night at
Sylvan Theater.

The Washington Gas Light Co. En-.
ployes Band and the Hunter Dance
Group are scheduled to join in the
Twelfth National Sylvan Theater Fes-
tival for the Summer at 7:3O pm. to-
morrow.
The band concert. first on the pro-
gram, will be directed by Prof. Otto
Siebenecken. More than 80 Wash
ington dancers will participate in the
second half of the entertainment, en-
titled I'm Garden"
Wednesday night the F. B I. The
ater Group will present The Man
Who Married Dumb Wife" postponed
from last week because of rain
The final event of the Summer sea-
son-sponsored by the Community
Center Department and the Office Of
National Capital Parks-will be the
fourth annual festival concert of the
Tempo Choral Club, conducted by DR..
w. Scott Mayo.
Evening star., 1937-08-30
Claim Air Endurance Record.

JACKSON. Mich, August 80 {P).-
Elmer Westerlund and Darrell Root,
seeking to establish a record for
sustained flight in low-powered
airplane, landed at Reynolds Field
last night after 20 hours 5 minutes
and S seconds aloft. They claimed
an official light airplane record. Pre-
viously two Detroit flyers stayed up
Is hours % minutes.
Evening star., 1937-08-30
Lawn Party Shifted.

The lawn party scheduled for to-
morrow night at 1923 Irving street
northeast by the Court District Of
Columbia of the Catholic Daughters
of America will be held instead in
Pilgrimage Hall, Fourteenth and
Quincy streets northeast. The party
will start at o'clock
Evening star., 1937-08-30

are not given spy courses before leav-
| ing Germany.
The speeches were marked by con-
| Germ over the cool reception in some
foreign countries to NaA organizing
| activities.
Evening star., 1937-08-30
TOWN POOL POPULAR
Attendance at Alexandria Best In
Recent Years.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 80 (Spe-
ciaD With the best season in recent
years having been recorded to date,
in so far as attendance is concerned,
the Alexandria municipal pool enters
its final week of operation today, 1t
was announced by Elmer Rudd, di-
rector.
The pool is the only establishment
in this section where children may
enjoy aquatic sports under supervision
of life guards
Evening star., 1937-08-30

reporter asked II this Is q flood.
control trip?'
Cavalry paraded, Indians whooped
it up. citizens put out bunting. The
PRESIDENT talked to ever increasing
crowds about drought relief, waved
to rear-platform throngs with "How's
everything going? All right2 I'm
glad to see you"
Evening star., 1937-08-30

One person in every six in England
and Wales has defective hearing, says
. specialist.
Evening star., 1937-08-30

Winner of Battle Undecided.
It was estimated that Lee had IS, 900
or $4,000 troops and Mcclellan about
$1,000. Lees dead were 1850 and
McClellan's not quite twice that. AS
to who won the battle none of the
experts could agree There was a lot
Evening star., 1937-08-30
MARINE RESERVES
END ENCAMPMENT
Return to Washington After Sue.
cessful Period of Training
at Quantico.

After a perfectly staged parade and
review in honor of Col. William P
Upshur, director Of the Marine Corps
Reserve, the 5th Battalion, Fleet Ma
rine Corps Reserve. returned to Wash
ington yesterday.
The Districts 500-man reserve bat
talon ended its 15-day training at
Quantico, Va, by receiving pay checks
at the local armory and today the
men returned to their civilian jobs.
Maj. Harvey L. Miller, commanding
the battalion, praised the battalion
members, saying
1T is the most constructive train
ing period l have Witnessed since I
first entered the service in 1906. I
think it was all the more remarkable
since it was brought about despite the
inadequate facilities here for basic
preliminary instruction and train
ing
More than half of the battalion
members are from Washington, the
rest coming from Roanoke, Va; Rock
vile and Alexandria.
One person in every six in England
| and Wales has defective hearing, says
Evening star., 1937-08-30
NAZIS DELIVER PLEAS
FOR GERMANS ABROAD
Urge at Stuttgart That They Be
Allowed to Live According to
Standards of Fatherland.
Nv the Associated Press


STUTTGART. Germany, August
30.-Nazi leaders demanded yester-
day that Germans abroad be permitted
to live their own lives according to
standards current in the Fatherland :"
The Nazi spokesmen. opening the
Germans Abroad Congress here. en-
phatically denied that the party was
creating spy cells abroad with sub
versive objectives in view.
Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin
Won Neurath. Rudolf Hess, minister
without portfolio. and Ernst Bohle,
head of the Germans Abroad organi-
zation, were the speakers.
Nazis abroad, they said, are not en-
trusted with conquering any foreign
land, and female household servants