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Evening star., 1937-07-27
GET OUT NET CUP
TO GIVE It TO j. S.
Britons Act When Yanks Win
Doub|es-Need Only Split
in Singles Today.
BY GAYLE TALBOT.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

w WIMBLEDON, England, July
~ 27.-Barring an upset.
wv which the most sanguine
Englishman doubted was
possible, this is the day when the
Davis Cup, emblematic OF world ten
mis- supremacy will be given back to
the United States after a European
sojourn OF 10 years.
The Davis Cup isn't the prettiest
trophy in the world-it has all the
graceful lines of an old-fashioned
washtub-but the United States has
wanted it back since Bill Tilden's
joints began to creak and the French
men took 1t to Paris, only to lose it
later to Fred Perry and company.
Two Wins Today Likely.
A IL the United States had to do
today was to win one point in
the concluding play of the challenge
round matches against England With
the score United States, 2; England,
l, the Americans had two chances to
complete their conquest.
The chances were that Frankie
Parker would outlast England's bril-
liant but erratic Charles Hare, but
II he failed there remained the Amer
ican and Wimbledon champion, the
imperturbable Don Bulge, to beat
England's mainstay, Bunny Austin.
Austin, on his day, conceivably
could lick any amateur in the world
except the red-headed Californian.
Nobody who has seen Bulge in ac-
ton thinks any amateur can beat
him in five sets.
lands tennis authorities withdrew
the big cup from the bank where it
has been protected for three years
and carted it to Wimbledon, where
husky Scotland Yard operative kept
a wary eye on it until the time for
the presentation, probably by some
member Of the royal family.
Need Bulge to Protect 1t.
4 FTER that it's Americas baby. And
it should be Americas for at
least another year-or at least as long
as Bulge remains an amateur He
and Gene Mako have already signed
up for tour OF Australia next VIM
ter with all expenses paid and So
day for ''eating money"
Bulge honestly doesn't even act as
il he is interested in turning profess
sional. He's having entirely too much
fun whaling his amateur rivals, and
Wimbledon's applause is something
hard to give up They even cheered
wildly yesterday when he broke a
racket In making a kill at the net
during his and Mako's doubles vic
tory over c. D. r. Tuckey and Frank
Wilde. They won, 6-3, IS, TO,
12-10.
Evening star., 1937-07-27
TRIBE WINS EXHIBITION.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, July ~
(P)-Limiting Wilkes-Barre to seven
hits, Lloyd Brown. George Uhle
and Bob Feller coasted to a SO vic
tory here yesterday as their Cleve-
land mates pounded out IA hits of the
New York-Pennsylvania League nine.
Evening star., 1937-07-27
BROWNS LOSE. BLUES WIN.

After the Lorton Browns lost, 81,
to the Washington Sears, Roebuck
nine, the Lorton Blue team trounced
tho Washington Colored Elk dia-
monders, 1911.
Evening star., 1937-07-27
SCOTT WHIPS SHEPHERD.

PHILADELPHIA, July u Especially
Cowboy Howard Scott. Washington,
D. c. lightweight, won a decision
over Jack Shepherd in an eight
rounder here last night.
Evening star., 1937-07-27
Hunters Attributing Too Muc1,
Speed to Birds, Surrey Sho,vs

After two birds of similar type
get into the air the heavier bird is
the faster. The quicker rise and get
away of the smaller bird give false
impression OF swiftness.
Evening star., 1937-07-27

sard are further along the road to the
annual Maryland State boy cham
pionships today as q result of victories
yesterday.
Although Walden had to con-
tent himself with . default,
Brossard won two matches and
Titus took one after also get
ting . default.
Brossard's two victims were Donald
Conner, 81, 60, and Russell Davis,
60, Ga. while Titus trimmed Dom
aid James. 81, go, after getting
the default from Steuart Shpritz.
No junior matches were played be-
cause of rain.
FOR the first time in years, no
womens public parks tournament
is likely to be held. Only IL singles
entries had been turned into Felix
Silva last night and the committee
announced it would not start competi-
ton without at least 16.
Two reasons are blamed for the
lack of entries. First. most OF the
better tennis lassies hereabouts are
club members and, second. the
womens winner has not been sent to
Evening star., 1937-07-27
PEEWEES CHALLENGE.

Junior Senator Peewees, Columbia
League leaders, are In the market for
an ace twirler, preferably a southpaw.
Call Billy Fisher at Col. 0298-W.
Evening star., 1937-07-27
MIDGETS NEED RIVAL.

Takoma Playground diamonders
have a field and challenge all midget
mines. Call Georgia 9772 between
am. and pm.
Evening star., 1937-07-27
By Walter McColIum

on the four entrants, and also has re-
ceived no notification of further action
in the case Of five public linksmen
whose status was questioned by the
U. S. G. A. Herman, after investi-
CATION. gave Harry Saunders. S. G.
Leof11er, jr.; Tom Doerer, jr.; John
J. Ruane and George Graham a clean
slate.
Evening star., 1937-07-27

the national tournament-as have the
men.
Sara Moore probably would
have won anyway for the third
straight year.
Quarter-finals in the mems doubles
were to be reached this afternoon with
the playing of four matches. All prom
ised to be unusually keen, with the
seeded No. l team of Joe Baker and
Fred Doyle meeting Ray Stocklinski
and Harry March; the seeded No 2
team Of Allie and Hy Ritzenberg fac
ing Erwin Niemeyer and Art Sim
mons; the seeded No. 3 team Of Harry
Goldsmith and Bob Bradley meeting
Billy Contreras and Hugh Trigg and
the seeded No. team of Maurice
Goubeau and Melvin Tarpley meet
ing Joe Burns and Gerald Smith.
THAT was clean sweep Of five
titles local players made In the
West Virginia championships over the
weekend to those who may have
missed it. Barney Welsh won the
mems singles and shared the doubles
title with Paul Kunkel OF Cincinnati
Edith Clarke captured the women's
singles championship and shared the
doubles title with Marge Robinson.
And Mrs. Robinson teamed with her
husband, Stan, to win the mixed
doubles
incidentally, Sara Moore was
= losing finalist in two events
the women's and mixed doubles.
TOM (BUD) MARKEY still is after
championships. You probably
wouldn't recognize him by the 20 ex-
ira pounds he's reported carrying
around, but the last report was that
he was playing for the championship
Of Akron, Ohio, his new home town.
Evening star., 1937-07-27
By DILLON GRAHAM,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


7 UNTERS. perhaps a little too
~ anxious to explain why their
shots found no target, have
a a been attributing too much
speed to game birds.
Government wildlife experts have
disclosed the exaggerations.
They said the flying speed OF birds
usually had been computed from es-
Inmates rather than exact measure
ments.
"Guesses have been based on esti-
mated distances Of bird to gunner,
the lead necessary to hit the flyer
and the time for the shot to travel"
said one authority Of the Biological
Survey. "Of these estimates only the
velocity Of the shot definitely is
known"
Vary Like Humans.
CTOP watches. theodolites, automo-
bile speedometers and airplpane In
dicators in recent years have enabled
experts to get better. but still in
exact, idea of bird speed.
Tests have shown that speed Of
species cannot be determined ac-
curately. for individual birds vary just
like human beings. There might be
. War Admiral in the flock that would
leave the others standing still.
Evening star., 1937-07-27

PITCHER IS SOUGHT.
Cardinal A. G. Peewees are seeking
good pitcher. Call Bob Hayes at De-
catur 067l-J.
Evening star., 1937-07-27
Must Overcome Star Netman.

IAuSb oSCICUiIC SldT lNckHldH.
SHOULD he defeat Jack Mclaughlin,
another newcomer to local ranks,
when they meet tomorrow afternoon,
he still would have to take on one of
two local veterans-Hugh Trigg or
Ray Stocklinski-Who meet in the
quarter-flnal Of his bracket today
And it was not for lack of reason that
Stocklinski was seeded first in the
tournament. Assuming that he does
get by them all, however, his opponent
in the final round likely would be
Harry March or Allie Ritzenberg, po-
tentially the best players of the oppo-
site bracket. who were to clash in an
other quarter-final encounter this aft
ernoon.
Tarpley. personable young chap,
now holds a ranking in the Southern
Association dominated by such nota-
bles as Bitsy Grant. Ernie Sutter and
Charley Harris, although he hasn't
taken the game seriously for a couple
years. In fact, he resumed competi-
tion-as suggested by Maurice Gou-
beau, fellow worker at a local gro
Gerry company, where he is employed
as saleSman--to get back into condi-
ton as much as anything else.
Game Is Well Rounded.
LIE is Is years old, which would
indicate that he won his first boy
championship in '25 at the age of a.
He won the boys title of Tampa again
the following year before passing on to
an undisputed reign as junior and
senior player. Tarpley hasn't con-
fined his tennis to Tampa, either, and
last year took a set from Bitsy Grant
in the Dixie tournament ultimately
won by the Atlanta atom, when he
beat Bulge in the final round
Tarpleys game is we'll rounded,
stocked with a full variety of strokes
Although his service is not too fast. he
takes the net quickly behind it and is
An outstanding volleyer His volley-
ing, more than anything else. has
accounted for his straight set defeats
OF Paul Gibbons, Sam Meloy and Billy
Contreras. Defeat of the latter, last
years playground champion and one
of the city's outstanding young play
ers. by So, 6-1 scores, gives you
fair idea of Tarpley's game.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
New TarZan-the EIGHTH!

IF PONCE DE LEON had found Tarzan, he
| would have discovered his tabled fountain of
perennial youth!
Glenn Morris, worlds champion all-around
athlete and winner of the decathlon at the last
Olympics, is the newest Tarzan, and will be for
the next five years under a half-mion dollar
contract to which he signed by Principal
Productions, exclusive owners of the rights for
that period.
But he is not the first, or even the second or
third, Tarzan. In fact-he is the eighth of i'm
portance in the last nineteen years.
Amazing, but true-Tarzan is the most filmed
character in cinema history Time passes and
Tarzan moves on to new adventures, but never
grows old. His muscles he swings from tree
to tree, never lose their strength.
Generations of boys who read the original
Tarzan stories kave grown to manhood have
children-some grandchildren, but they look af-
fectionately on the idol of their youth, again
haar his call echo through the jungles to the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

GOlQWyn, the rOle 1ell
to a non-professional,
the strong man of the
New York Fire Depart
ment, former Lieuten-
ant Gene Polar. A
strong man" in those
days was supposed to
be a cross between
Sandow. and the mem
ory of John L. Sullivan.
That was in 1920.
IT'LL Tarzan's fame
= marched on in
books, and yet more
books. The comic strip
and Sunday "funnies"
had yet to be born.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11


civilization, who spoke the language of animals,
that he was starting something which would
grow to such vast proportions.
The result of his first efforts was "Tarzan of
the Apes" and he was famous overnight. The
world of travelling statesmen and wholesale jew
elry saw him no more Tarzan books began to
flow from his pen
Back in the dim era of early silent films,
rushed to completion under difficult conditions
during the final months of the World War, when
the material of cellulod needed for powder
instead of pictures, this first story was screened
Elmo Lincoln, then popular movie hero, was
the first Tarzan and this was the first picture
produced by the newborn National Film Cor
poration headed by William ("Smiling Bil)
Parsons. What it like only the generation
of Youngsters who saw it can tell, for the film
and negative have long since been melted down
for the silver they contained
The role of Tarzan has always called for
strong man-in fact as well fiction, SO when
"The Return of Tarzan was made, this time
the new story having been purchased by Sam
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

boys who devoured the books
as avidly as had their fathers.
The comic strip came, and
MGM and its microphones
discovered what the small
boy, as well as his dad, and
the girls and women who ad-
mire marvellous physique and
athletic prowess, were really
thinking. Casting about for
a vocal Tarzan, they hit on
Johnny Weissmuller, then at
his peak as a worlds cham
pion swimmer. Tarzan really
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

professional actor, or the sidewalks of
New York. another producer purchased "Son of
Tarzan' and cast the character, Kamuela
Searles the third Tarzan, in the role semi
Hawaiian with very heavy Polynesan flavor
to the acting
Next came fourth Tarzan, who touched Sec
ond base twice. He was James H. Pierce. Pierce
was an All-American football player the
University of Indiana team. Coming to Holly
wood to what the 1ickers had to offer, he
fell under the eye of the indefatigabe Edgar
Rice Burroughs. Mr.. Burroughs had written so
many Tarzans that he had come to have quite
definite idea of what his dream child should look
like.
When he set eyes Pierce he said: That's
just what Tarzan looks like in my minds eye
FBO-the company that later became RKO-
had just purchased "Tarzan and the Golden
Lion from the author, and the latter was so
impressed that he wrote into his contract with
Edwin c. King head of the studio clause that
none must play this Tarzan role except Mr..
Pierce. This was quite a break for Mr.. Pierce
who had only lately arrived, and was doing bit
parts.
So play Tarzan Mr.. Pierce did, and very cred
itably, too 1t was by far the best Tarzan pic
ture to date. But this was not all. Mr.. Burroughs
was determined not to let Tarzan escape in real
life as he always did in his books He feted and
dined him and invited him to his home, "Tar-
zana Present was Mr.. Burroughs beautiful
18-year-old daughter who soon came to share
her fathers enthusiasm for the stalwart foot
ball hero. Pierce had similar ideas, making it a
threesome, and the result was a very splendid
wedding between 'Tarzan and the Golden Lion"
and the author of TarZans' daughter. They
went to live in pleasant home at Tarzana, near
the famous writer's home
Pierce wisely enough went back to coaching
football in nearby high school, spending his
springs and summers he still does, in acting
character roles in movies. But there are no
more Tarzan roles for him.
In our next as you might say, Tarzan went
to pieces. Universal purchased rights to two
more of the popular novels, and turned them
into two-reel serials, with Frank Merrill, the
fifth, in the title role
That was the last of Tarzan the silent. The
famous character languished for time while
the screen became vocal, but Tarzan did not die
in the hearts and minds of millions of American
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11


young out of precarous places in trees where they
play at giving the Tarzan yell of the apes
Tarzan was now national character not only to the
younger generation but to every adult Sol Lesser head
of Principal Productions and veteran producer, decided
to experiment with Tarzan again, and signed Buster
Crabbe then the Olympic swimming champion, to play
the role in Tarzan the Fearless The picture, although
Crabbe was the seventh Tarzan, and not permanent
acquisition proved that the old charm had not faded
That in 1888 Meanwhile, the last of old Unver
sal purchase, 'The New Adventures of Tarzan, with
Herman Brix, appeared and ended that cycle.
But Tarzans in the flesh do grow older, though
in the stories and cartoons the character parakes
said before of Ponce de Leons tabled fountain of youth
Lesser recognized this fact and also recognized the
permanent value of Tarzan to oncoming generations
for five six million children in America alone not to
speak of foreign countries, come of move-going age
each year.
For this reason Lesser purchased exclusive film rights,
sight and sound, to all of Author Burroughs Tarzan
stories for five years. and entered into contract
Twentieth CenturyFox to deliver two Tarzan pictures
year for the same fve-year period
But in this series Tarzan must be found
last throughout the entire fveyear period. The
must be superb athlete, retain his fine
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

Morris keeps himself in fin,
physical form. He maintains I
vigorous routine and retires rea
sonably early. He does three
hours road work or other exer
else every day, rain or shine
and when it shines, sun bath
are added to the schedule.
Regarded as the finest of al
the Tarzans to date, he wa
given a five-year contract whicl
will net him in that time clos
to a half million dollars
The Tarzan books have beei
translated into fifty-eight differ
ent languages and dialects, The,
sell a million at a crack, anc
Author Burroughs publishe
them himself, thus collecting
the profit coming and going.
So Morris is the eighth 4
Tarzan - a decathlon in
characters, ut must be my
lucky number" he said. y
Incidentally, Author Bur-
roughs has never been in
Africa, and may never go.
ut might DESTROY
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

physical form throughout the life of the contract.
Lesser started a nationwide search during
which the name of Lou Gehrig, the big base
ball and bat man, was discussed. Finally, how
ever, he found exactly the man who in looks
and athletic prowess proved to be the ideal
Tarzan.
The man was Glenn Morris, decathlon win
ner at the last Olympic Games in Berlin. In
the decathlon an athlete must not be the best
man in just one event, but average the best in
ten events, and Morris, Colorado boy, had
done it. He mopped up the world.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
ROCKEFELLER KIN
MARR|ES BROKER
GrandnieCe of Late Oil Mil
|ionaire Wed Quietly
at Baltimore.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 2.-The
marriage OF Miss Gladys Rockefeller
-, grandniece of the late John D.
Rockefeller and daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Rockefeller, to
Dudley F. Underhill, "a, New York
broker. was announced here last
night.
The couple obtained a license yes
eerday at the court house in Balti-
more and were married quietly in that
city later in the day.
Underhlll formerly lived in Cali
fornia and is member of a WE'LL
known West Coast and New York
family. He is graduate of the Uni
versity of California.
Miss Rockefeller is one OF five
children for whom an estimated
100000 was placed in trust at the
death, in 1885, of their mother. The
latter was the former Miss Isabel
Stillman, sister Of James A. Still
man, who was president of the Ma
tional City Bank for many years
The brides father, who died Sep
tember IS, 1884, was one of the lead
ing industrialists and f1nanciers of
the country and at one time served
on the boards of 81 corporations. His
father, William Rockefeller, particle
pated with John D. Rockefeller in
the development OF the Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey
Miss Rockefeller made her debut
In 1929 and is member of the
Junior League. She recently had
been living with sister, Miss Faith
Rockefeller, near Greenwich, Conn.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
Tractor Rugged Up by Farmer
Works ROW of Cotton in Spiral

60 to town, or do what he wants to
and the tractor will keep right on cul-
tivating that row of cotton just as
slick as you'd want
It makes no mistakes. It comes
just as close to the growing cotton
plant as Mr. Hider wishes.
A little after lunch, the farmer goes
out to his mechanical farmland, re-
fuels it, and away it goes down the
low again, chugging contentedly at
the 3-mile-an-hour pace, never STOP
ping to 60 lie down under a shade
tree.
This is one idea that goes round in
circles and really gets somewhere. The
tractor has attached to it a strong but
small airplane wire The other end
is attached to what looks like a small
oil derrick in the middle of the field.
1t is about II feet high.
A large pipe, about a foot In di-
ameter, extends from the top, like 4
smoke stack. The outer surface Of the
pipe Is threated 50 that it takes the
thin wire like winch takes a steel
cable.
Pulls Tractor Inward.
BY starting the tractor at the outer
end OF the circle. Farmer Hider has
found that the pull OF the wire slowly
Evening star., 1937-09-02

winding about the pipe pulls the trac-
tor steadily inward. following the
splralled cotton row.
The tractor also can be started from
the center and work outward, pulling
away as it receives slack from the un-
winding pipe.
Although the row is 80 miles long,
the tractor is never farther than an
eighth of mile from the outer edge
OF the circular 40-acre tract.
The experiments at the Hider farm
began in 1896. All of the planning
and work has been done by Hider, 4
Cornell graduate, a Legionnaire and
town councilman OF Lake Providence
for many years
Mr.. Hider calls his device the May
pole system" and has taken out 4
patent on it.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
BY the Associated Press,


LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. septem-
Der Out on George Hider's farm
there's a row Of cotton 80 miles long
and Mr. Hider wouldn't be surprised
if that isn't about the longest un-
broken row of growing crop any one
ever had
OF course, 1t isn't straight II it WAS
1t would run from here to Vicks-
burg. and 40 miles beyond It is a
spiral. starting at the center of a
40-acre plot and spiralling out, mile
after mile.
The 80-mile row of cotton isn't Just
some ones idea Of being different.
Behind it is something that Farmer
Hiders neighbors think may revolu-
tionize farming.
The idea is to cultivate the land
almost entirely without the touch OF
the human hand. Mr.. Hider doesn't
say he's got that solved; but he's got
something pretty nearly that remark
able.
Tractor Does the Work.
Farmer Hider can arise with the
dawn and walk back to his 8O-mile
row Of cotton. He can start his tractor
at one end of the row. Then he can
stroll into breakfast, read the papers,
Evening star., 1937-09-02

Cork Plant Opened.
San Martin, Argentina, has just
opened one OF the most modern cork
manufactures in the world.
Evening star., 1937-09-02
AIR CONTRACT LET
Hartford, Conn, Company Gets
e4,153,e3s Army Award.

Secretary of War Woodring an
nounced yesterday award of $4,153,-
o3s contract for 455 aircraft engines
and spares to the Pratt IL Whitney di-
vision Of the United States Aircraft
Corp, Hartford. Conn
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-11

from Nash county, that they have
been socializing and hob-nobbing to-
gether. 1t is also understood that some
of the leaders of the "Old Guard" here
in the State who heretofore have been
very cool towards Cooley, are now go
inc out of their way to be nice to him
Just what effect all of this is hav-
ing on Cooley remains to be seen,
however So far Cooley has been able
to remain on friendly terms with al
most all of the political groups in the
State and still wears no mans collar,
with the result that he is regarded as
being especially strong among the
groups who backed DR.. Mcdonald and
Sandy Graham for governor a year
ago, his friends maintain. They are
convinced that no matter how many
Establishments may be showered upon
him by the "old guard" Democrats or
how much they may try to convert
him, that he is not the sort to be
taken in and that he is going to con-
tinue to be just as politically indepen-
dent in the future as he has been in
the past.