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Evening star., 1937-12-09

she could now get busy and develop
her seed children.
The flowers were in terminal clus-
ters, some creamy white with a waxy
appearance, others lovely pink. The
five corolla lobes turned back as the
flowers grew older. Girdlipg the green.
dome-shaped seed box (ovary) there
was deep ring of pink around the
center, over which were the 10 double
anthers sof purplish hue. The tiny,
five-scalloped, fiat stigma stood ready
to receive the pollen so easily trans
ferred from the guests face.
We found the stems holding the
flower clusters from to 10 inches
high, straight, sturdy and dependable
in appearance Well we knew that in
December, when we returned, we
Evening star., 1937-12-09
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

~ TROLLING through the dry pine
and mountain maple woods
last Summer, we were delighted
~ to find the charming pipsiSsewa
in bloom. Resting awhile beside the
slightly fragrant blossoms, we had an
opportunity to watch the shouldering
and nudging of the bee guests. They
were the short-lipped bees belonging
Evening star., 1937-12-09

from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In
the North Carolina hills she climbs
to an elevation of 1000 feet. In Eu-
rope and Asia pipsissewa also has
many admirers.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-09
SPONSOR SELECTED
Mrs. Freeman to Participate al
Launching of Submarine.

Secretary Swanson yesterday desig-
mated Mrs. Charles S. Freeman, wife
of the rear admiral who commands
the Submarine Force of the United
States Fleet, as sponsor for the new
submarine U. S. S. Sturgeon. Ad-
miral Freeman was on duty in WASH
ington some years ago as superin-
tendent Of the Naval Observatory.
The Sturgeon is slated to be launched
at the Mare Island, Calf, Navy
Yard on New Year Day.
Wisconsin makes two-thirds OF the
cheese made in the limited States
Evening star., 1937-12-09
D. C. PODIATRY SOCIETY
TO HONOR DR.. RUTLAND
representatives Bloom and Arends
to Speak at Dinner Tonight
at Mayfower.

Representatives Sol Bloom and Les
lie c. Arends will be guest speakers
at a dinner in honor of District
Health Officer George c. Ruhland by
Evening star., 1937-12-09
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Evening star., 1937-12-07
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Rx RIIPTON HAWKINS
BY BURTON HAWKINS

of Madison Square Garden and will
respond Immediately Abrams,
whose middle name is Freedom.
was born on Arnistice Day, 1918
>. On Lucks street, in New York
Johnny SWank, former all
high tackle at Central, is slated
for much varsity use next season at
Virginia as result of mis- perform
ance on the freshman team this
year q. F'rosh Coach Dick Fletcher
rated the 22O-pound lad the most
improved player among the year.
lings.
Leo Katalinas, Catholic Uni
versity heavyweight, fractured the
nose of Coach La Fond in a recent
sparring session Jimmy Lake,
who introduced everybody but the
ushers from ringside last night at
Turner's Arena, missed Benny AL
perstein, Maryland's lightweight
-. Who is the only fighter ever to
win national intercollegiate
championship as sophomore
There can't be anybody more
handsome in professional football
ranks than the Redskins Charley
Malone.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
D. c. SCHOOL STARS
PREP FOR INVADERS
Selected Squad Has First Drill
for Game With Georgians
on Decemher 10

PREPARATION begins on two fronts
today, when 81 scholastic huskies,
selected from high and prep schools
of Washington and vicinity hold their
initial drill in fundamentals, prepara-
tory to their classic post st-season grid
battle with the Monroe A. & M. eleven
of Monroe, Ga, to be staged Sunday
afternoon, December 10, in the Catho-
lie Universit.r Stadium
Due to the unwieldiness of the squad.
practice will be divided between the
Central and Western stadiums. Artie
Boyd, Dan Ahern and Orrel Mitchell,
assisted by Jim Draper, associate
coach at Harvard, will handle those
at Western, while Johnny Baker, Gene
Aagusterfer and Hardy Pearce will
tutor at the Mount Pleasant field.
It has been announced that over
5000 seats will be available to students
at so cents each, 5000 general admis-
sions at ST each and more than 800
s125 reserved seats. to go on sale to-
morrow at points to be designated.
Evening star., 1937-12-07

swapped peoples choice" ball
player in Walker last week and now
Mickey is afraid to return to Detroit.
Maybe Dykes listened and learned.
The writing mugs and the
managers were winning and
dining, safe in the knowledge
that the American League was
going to pick up the tab, when
the truth came out.
Mr.. Cochrane still was trying to
explain his parting with Walker. See
the gray hairs on this side of my
head?" said Mickey, pointing to the
noggin which was cracked in three
places last summer. Well" he con-
tinued, these are gray hairs got when
Walker was OF, my ball club and get
ting picked off the bases.
And these" he added, turning his
head and pointing to the other side of
his head, "are the gray hairs l
sprouted since last week, when
traded the guy 1 can't win," he fin
ished. meaning, but I can take it.
That's more than this Dykes guy
can do"
Evening star., 1937-12-07
TWOSER|ESLOOM
FORH|CH CR|DDERS
New Schedule Policy viii Be
Needed in 1888 With 7
Schools in Loop.

~ IVIDING the inter-high school
football series into two
leagues, with the winner in
~ each division facing for the
championship, looms as possibility
next season, with the addition of Ana
costa High in the series necessitating
drastic revision.
Birch E. Bayh, czar of local public
school athletics. shortly will recon-
mend several plans to the Board of
Principals. suggesting at the same time
that one or two night games be in
cluded in the schedule
In the past, scholastic series games
have been played on Tuesdays and Fri
days, but with the league grown to
seven teams continuance Of this plan
would extend the season too much. it
is felt. Splitting the series into two
leagues is one of the alternatives. Bayh
will offer.
Difficult to Adjust Series.
WITH the addition of Anacostia, If
the previous schedule pattern
we're followed. the 21-game series would
extend into December. Two games on
the same day or three games a week
would solve the problem, but each of
these plans, it is felt. will be rejected
by the Board of Principals, final au-
thority in such matters.
High school cadets drill Mondays and
Thursdays, automatically eliminating
those days from consideration, due to
the fact that the cadets also form a
large part of football crowds Because
schoolboy followers would be forced to
miss many games if two tilts were
played on the same day, the principals
are not expected to favor that plan.
Dwindling gate receipts have
prompted Bayh to insert a clause re-
questing night football at least be
given a trial: He eventually hopes to
have the scholastic sports curricula
subsidized by the Board of Education,
but feels that day is too distant and
will suggest night football as a means
Of buoying drawing power of the games.
Night Basket Ball Pays.
FRIDAY night basket ball games
were given a trial last season and
proved so popular they now have been
installed regularly at Tech High.
Regardless of whether Bayh's plan
OF splitting the series into two leagues
is adopted for next season, the addi-
ton OF Northside High in 1889 will
force officials to approve his idea. The
series then would consist of eight teams
with four clubs in each division.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Interest Here Is Increasing.

EVEN Chicago, which has had three
teams in the play-of before, is
excited over the coming dollar bowl
game. Halas and his Bears. who first
rooted for the New York Giants to win
the Eastern division, now are happy
the Redskins triumphed. The Red
skins, representing Washington, are
brand-neW to Chicagoans Baugh has
captured the fancy of all Midwestern
grid fans. The ticket sale, which was
slow at the start. has doomed since
the Redskins smashing victory over
the Giants and now it looks as if the
game will be sell-out.
The odd-layers in Chicago are
making the Bears 7-to-5 favorites on
the strength of their comparatively
easy schedule in the last couple weeks
While the Redskins have been forced
to play hard games with the Green
Bay Packers and the Giants, the
Bears. with their title clinched, took
1t easy.
Against the Cardinals six of the
Bears regulars were held out of play
so as to avoid possible injury. They
were Joe Stydahar, tackle from West
Virginia; Danny Fortmann, guard;
Bill Karr, end; Bronko Nagurski, full
back; Bernie Masterson, quarterback,
and Jack Manders, halfback and star
place-kicker. Manders was sent in
the game to kick point after touch
down, but this hardly constituted
playing. He was yanked Immediately
after his effort.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
~ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY'S
1 boxing team received an
other terrific Jolt today
~ NeStOr Martinez rrack

)AlHOLlC UN1VERS1TY'S
boxing team received an
other terrific jolt today
~ Nestor Martinez. crack
lightweight, failed to pass a make
up examination yesterday and
flunked out of school Coach
Eddie La Fond also will be minus
the services of Joe Bunsa, talented
155-pounder, who still is confined
to the hospital as the result of
football injuries.
Ivan Nedomatsky, Maryland
three-time Southern Conference
champion, will make his local pro-
fessional debut Monday night at
Turner's Arena. swinging in a
semi-flna D.. Charley Jones, Gen.
trails three-time all-high football
ace, is ticketed for Florida If
he makes the grade in his sopho-
more year, Charley will perform
against his brother, Johnny, a
Maryland reserve gridder.
Ferdinand Ryzewski who altered
it to Ferd Rogers while fighting as
heavyweight for Catholic Uni
versity, now is a professional pug
:. Employing Jersey City as the
base of his fistic operations
Ed Hahnfeldt, the Bulls Prep
track sensation, who fractured
shotput and discus records in the
&C" Club meet last year, now is
enrolled at Maryland And is
considered a fine prospect for the
varsity boxing team next year.
Calvin Calp, the Baltimore
featherweight who dropped a de-
cision last night to Vernon Cromier
at Turner's Arena, is expecting the
second addition to his family in
August :. A local lad who lost out
in the Golden Gloves toruney held
here recently is taking it so seri-
ously his friends are worried .
The National Boxing Association
Rating Committee will meet here
December 18 to discuss and release
quarterly rankings of fighters.
George Abrams, local middle
weight, has heard the clarion call
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Battles Too Fast for War Admiral. Giants Swear
DeepPane "Cner Fielder Grid Worries

making goo-goo eyes at Frank
Peterson, quarterback on Reno's
tt1defeated high school team, who
scored l8 touchdowns in nine
games and completed 10 of 80
passes for seven more touchdowns.
Note to Van Mungo. Pageland,
S. c.: Looks as if you're stuck in
Brooklyn another summer, Butch.
unless you want to stay down there
and plow How're crops?
1t was worth exactly 1000 potatoes
to Max Baer when Mrs. B. pre-
sented him q bouncing baby boy
=. Jack Dempsey had bet the new
arrival would be little gal.
La Didrikson allows as how she
must be psychic At party in
Shreveport she was able to call the
given name Of the mother Of every
one In the room Babe says she
Evening star., 1937-12-07

pa few years ago -. Incidentally,
the correct way to pronounce that
name is Gu-gee-no j. Jimmy
Braddock has started training for
whatever may bob up, and it may
be Miami in February.
Florida's novel system of having
football players sit in dugouts just
like baseballers isn't going over so
we'll with the visitors :. In an ex-
citing moment of the Georgia Tech
game two subs leaped, cracked
their heads against the concrete top
and all but knocked themselves out.
Every account we've heard of
the Joe McCarthy-Bill Terry word
war in Chicago has been different
-. . Perhaps the right one is that
advanced by one New York scribe
who cracked Terry must have
thought Mccarthy was . baseball
writer"
Evening star., 1937-12-07
LOOP LAURELS AT STAKE

Second-half laurels will be at stake
when the strong Victory Posts and
Community All-Stars square off in
the feature struggle of the Community
Center Indoor Softball Leagues BIZ
weekly doubleheader in Tech gym
at $3.50 o'clock tonight.
BY virtue Of a forfeit from the Y.
NJ. G. A. ten last week, the Posts now
lead the second-haH race with three
wins and no defeats. The All-Stars
have won two and lost mona,
Evening star., 1937-12-07
DRY GRID ASSURED.
FOR START Of TILT.
Husky Bears, Cautious, but
Confident, Groom Plant
for Running Game.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Stan CORRESPONDENT OF The Star.

)HIcAGo. Dec. with their
Dollar Bowl" game with the
Redskins for the pro football
championship only six days
away, Chicagos Bears are determined
to have solid footing at Wrigley Field.
The Bears, winners of the Western Di-
vision of the National League, learned
q valuable lesson about ice skating
without skates last week They learned
that on an icy field the only means
Of gaining ground is by passes.
That is what the Bears game with
the Chicago Cardinals developed into
last Sunday-an aerial battle. The
gridiron at Wrigley Field was solid
sheet of ice at one end of the field.
A total of 10 touchdowns were scored
in the Bears 42-to-28 victory and all
except one were counted on passes
to the frozen portion. The single ex-
ception was the last Cardinal touch
down, when pass had left the ball
on the 1-foot line.
What the Bears discovered was that
ice degenerated the game into a touch
ball contest. Ball carriers could find
no footing. They fell fiat as they
started forward. The only means of
gaining was to pass from short punt
formation and against the Redskins,
with their Slingin Sammy Baugh,
this would be fatal.
Evening star., 1937-12-07

doesn't use her power often be-
cause it gives her the headache.
Some of the meanies are saying
it wasn't flu that sent Travis jack
son to his bed in Chicago, but the
news that Babe Herman had been
wished on his ball club Max
Schmeling will be fighting his thir-
teenth fight in this country on De-
cember l3, when he takes on Harry
Thomas next Monday night.
First football post-season cas-
ualty was reported today ;. After
escaping the rigors of the season,
Bernie Bloom, New York U. back
field star, slipped and broke an arm
while carrying load of books.
Red Guggino, Hartford light
weight, wants to know why his once
hery locks have turned entirely
black since he came UP from Tam.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Bears Burn Wrigley Field.

THE Western champions never have
seen Baugh, as pro anyway
but they have heard and read plenty
about the Redskins star pitcher
Coach George Halas realizes Baugn
is tops as a HEAVIER and to have the
game depend solely on passes is giving
Sam and his team a great advantage
AS a result, Halas today started to
take steps to insure a dry field.
With snow falling intermittently
and the weather consistently far be-
low freezing for a week, Halas had
asphalt burners wheeled onto the
battlefield this morning. The burners
will be run up and down the field to
thaw the ground to a depth of 6
inches.
To keep the ground in good shape
marsh hay to depth of one foot will
be spread over the entire playing field
and the end zones. Over this hay a
tarpaulin will be placed and instruc-
tions will be issued not to touch the
field until shortly before game time on
Sunday.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Bronk0 Still. Is a Buster.

DESPITE flattering accounts of the
Redskins crushing win over the
Giants, Chicagoans confidently expect
the Bears to take the title They point
out that Washington's line, which
has taken two bad gatherings in the
last two weeks, will be unable to stem
the bone-breaking plunges of big
Nagurski. The Bronx may be getting
old, but he still is the hardest hitting
back in football.
In one respect the Bears are SINH
lar to the Redskins. Their reserves
are not nearly as capable as the first
stringers. Still, their regulars are in
good shape and if they are fortunate
they may be able to outlast the Red
skins starters and take advantage of
Coach Ray Flaherty's substitutes.
The Bears have lost only one game
this year. Green Bay trimmed them,
"a to IA, after the Bears previously
had beaten the Packers, IA to 2.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer

"A YEW YORK, Dec. THE
M New York Giants swear if
IN they would I'D, match ,a. up Cliff
they'd bet on Cliff =. Out at Chi
cago Burleigh Grimes plumb for
got Bill McKechnie had gone to
Cincinnati and asked him If he
wanted to swap Lopez.
Clark Griffith, owner of the
Washington Nationals, at 68, has
become q red hot football fan
In pro game at Washington the
other week the safety man was
playing deep "Looky here"
Griff said to George Preston Mar
shall, Redskin owner, "ain't your
center fielder pretty far back?"
More than one Western school u
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Knows Nothing of ii Duce.

Knows Nothing of II Duce.
THERE was the time cook in a
Boston hotel was recruited to
affect an accent and pose as an
Italian consul in front of Zeke, who
was dining The chef donned street
clothes, came out and introduced him.
self as missionary of Mussolini
'Mussolini he wanta ball boys from
America to come to Italy," said the
bogus consul. "Iffa you come da
Mussolini pay $4,000"
Bonura. elated. agreed. Make it
Sl2 800" he said, ball player-like, and
I'll come" The bogus consul drew
forth an equally bogus contract and
zeke signed.
This was one rib on which
Dykes wasn't "in." Jimmy also
believed the story and agreed to
accompany the Consul to an
American Legion get-together.
There the hotel chef, still affecting
his accent, sat with Bonura and Dykes
on the stage of an auditorium. Finally,
called upon to speak of Mussolini," "
the consul" walked up and began:
What the hell do know about
Mussolini?"
Evening star., 1937-12-07
"POPPlNG >r,T7
OFF" ~JhGf on@zza39e s.: IS
Mr.. Dykes Shiuers and Shakes.


H1CAGO Dec THE dope
First Baseman
afraid to brave the fury of the Man
been In baseball for
and tagged out V Cobb when the Georgia third
base spikes high Fundamentally Mr. Dykes stands
trade Zeke and face those
Maybe Dykes had ouhed
Gerald Walker he would have
OF the Washington at this
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Mats Still May Get Him.

FOR one brief instant Bonura sat
stunned Then. suspecting Dykes
of framing him, Zeke struck out and
punched "Pappy," who was knocked
off his chair
There are some things Dykes likes
about the big guy who calls him
"Pappy" and other things he doesn't
like. Maybe that punch figures in it
all. I wouldn't know about that and
Dykes isn't saying.
Anyway Dykes wouldn't mind trad
ing Zeke for Kuhel if he thought he
could get away with it. But Chicago
idolizes its ham of the infield, votes
him automobiles and presents as re-
wards for his capers, and Dykes is
afraid.
The reason this is passed
along, though, Is that Harris
and Clark Griffith give the i'm
preston that, idolatry or no
in Chicago, Bonura will wind up
in Washington uniform.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
TWO PILOTS AT ROANOKE,

SALEM, Va. Dec Z (P).-Kenneth
Moore and Fred Coots, end and center,
respectively, on this years Roanoke
College football team, have been
elected as co-captains for next season
at meeting of members of the var
sity football squad.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
PIERCE V. P. I. CAPTAIN.

BLACKSBURG, Va. Dec. 7 (R.-
Frank M. Pierce of Suffolk has been
elected captain of Virginia Techs
1888 football team. The new captain
elect was announced at the annual
banquet given the Tech squad and
athletic staff.
Evening star., 1937-12-07


( expected that the number of
fans travelling to Chicago
~ Sunday to see their WASH
ington Redskins battle the Chicago
Bears for the National League football
championship would approximate the
number which travelled to New York
for the game which decided the East
ern title.
But we said Ordinarily" and II
theirs anything ordinary about the
current situation surrounding the
Redskins the same goes for the seven
wonders of the world. And, with bow
to the Redskins, Washington fandom
today is the eighth.
Redskins who have played on VIC
torious Rose Bowl teams say they
never received the adulation at their
alma matters that they still are receiv-
ing on all sides today. Coach Ray
Flaherty, who has been in pro foot
ball for IL years, remains utterly
dumbfounded.
George p Marshall. the reason for
it all, just keeps grinning and wink
ing. He knew it all along, he says.
Give the Washington public what it
wants and it'll back it."
Evening star., 1937-12-07

Merrick Boys Club gridders will
stake their 4-year-old title Satur-
day morning against the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club No. S, for the Junior
Colonial Football League champion
ship The game will start at IL O'Clock
on FairlaWn Field.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
SKINS SET RECORD
IN TEAM PASSING
Also Best Ground Gamers
in East, Being Second
Only to Packers.
IN THE wake Of Slingin' Sam

IN THE wake Of Slingin' Sam
Baugh's singing his way to a new
i individual National League record
for forward passing, statistics re-
leased today revealed that his WASH
ington Redskins had set a new team
record for the aerial game
In addition, as the leading ground
gaining team of the East, they became
the first Eastern team in four years
to gain place among the first three
ground-gaining teams of the league,
finishing second only to Green Bay
Packers.
The Packers have rolled up 3,2ol
yards to the Redskins 1898 Both
were far in excess of the leading
teams yardage last year, when the
Detroit Lions accounted only for 2,707
yards.
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Complete 80 Passes.

THE Redskins passing record was
made only week after new
all-tine league record had been set.
The Packers eclipsed their own all
time mark-made last year-in their
losing stand against the Redskins here
week ago Sunday, but the Skins
broke that mark in the final game.
Records now show the Skins to have
completed SO passes in 222 attempts
this season for an average of AS per
cent. Green Bays mark had been
439 per cent. an increase of nearly
three per cent over its 1886 record
The average for the entire league
was 38.5 per cent, another all-time
mark. This figure is based upon 594
completed passes in 1,543 attempts
and constitutes an increase of exactly
2 per cent over last years ali-time
record
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Bears Bound to Be Tough.

"YOU know what that means" Riley
Smith was saying today. Those
Bears will be laying for us with every
thing they've got, just as if they
weren't tough enough in the first
place. Forty-nine points sounds like
an awfully powerful team and the
Bears won't belittle us.
IF we'd licked the Giants only by
a narrow margin, we'd probably be
much better off for next Sundays
game than we are now. I don't think
many of us will start resting on our
rout of the Giants, cause if we do, it'll
prove fatal. Before last Sunday, the
winner of our game was expected to
be the underdog against the Bears.
but now, everybody seems to think
that we're tops. I think we're good,
but I'll speak more about being tops
after Sundays game is over"
Evening star., 1937-12-07
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
Catholic University vs. Maryland
State Normal, Catholic U. gym,
8:l5.
Hockey.
Local all-star girls hockey
game, Cathedral School for Girls
field, 8.
THURSDAY.
Wrestling.
Jim Londos vs. Billy Bartush,
feature match, Turner's Arena,
$40.
Evening star., 1937-12-07

ran as never before until the laughter
of the nearby witnesses halted him.