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Evening star., 1937-01-03
NO ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
Kansas Abolishes Office, With
Committee to Act.

TOPEKA, Kans., January 2 (R.-
The of11ce Of director of athletics at
the University of Kansas, held since
1919 by DR.. F. c. Prog" Allen. who
engaged American Olympic officials
IN heated dispute last Spring. was
abolished today by the State Board
of Regents.
The board announced Allen would
remain as basket ball coach and had
been recommended to head a physical
education department, yet to be
created.
The authority of athletic director
will be placed in a committee of two
faculty members and an alumnus.
Evening star., 1937-01-03

perfect Sealyham terrier, Champion
ST. Margaret Magnificent owned by
the Clairedale Kennels. Probably the
most consistent winner of best in show
awards in 1886 went to- the Dobermann
Pinscher Oh. Jockel Won Burgund
owned by Owen West of Lake Forest,
Ill. He has been shown and has won
from coast to coast, his latest victory
being at the ambassador show in Los
Angeles.
| GERMAN shepherd enthusiasts prob
ably will be interested in the
article on Adolf Hitler and his dogs
in the January number of the Ameri-
can Kennel Gazette. Hitler char
acterizes his shepherds as his only
perfect friends" They are perhaps
his only subjects Of whose Aryan
genealogy he can have no doubt.
INSURANCE for dogs is no new mat
ter. However the extent to which
CQaL klIlQ Ol llSuI oAlSc 10 Ao~ wing
pushed is new. One New York COM
pany Is extensively circularizing the
kennel world to take out insurance
on all dogs in transit. Life and ac-
| cident insurance for pets also is Of
fered by this company.
WEATHER permitting, the obedi-
" ence test class sponsored by the
Old Dominion Kennel Club will con-
tinue to meet at ten Sunday morn
ings at Pleasant Hill on the Lees
burg pike. three miles west of Falls
Church, Va. Anybody interested may
join the group at any meeting. A
very small fee Is charged for the pur.
chase Of oficial obedience test trial
squipment.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
REYNARD NOT so FOXY
Veteran Hunter Can Tell When
Prey Is Ready to Quit.

DES MONIES, Iowa PJ.-By the
way the fox lifts 'em up and puts
'em down Ed Mccall tells when the
animal is about to call it quits.
Mccall is a veteran of many fox
hunts without trumpets. hounds and
horses. All he needs is fall of good
tracking snow, his own keen eye and
knowledge of br'er foxs inclinations.
He says the fox leaves definite signs
Of WEAKNESS by the way he puts his
feet into the snow and pulls them out.
When Mccall sees these he proceeds
at snail's pace until he comes within
shooting range.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
WOMAN LOOP OFFICIAL.

LAWRENCE, Kans. (R.-Feminine
hands are holding official reins in the
Kansas Ban johnson League, anna.
teur base ball circuit. Mrs. Ely Davis
Of Lawrence b vice Feadent.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
|MAT MATCH CLASH
|0F SCIENCE, Drawn
Clever Piers to Struggle
With Rough Gariba|di
Thursday Night.
T ENRI PIERS, who recorded a

r YENRI PIERS, who recorded
II startling 2S-second victory
over Jim Cofiield In his last
L L appearance here, and Gino
Garibaldi, rough Italian veteran, will
launch the local 1887 graphing sea-
son in a feature match at Turner's
Arena Thursday night.
Extremely popular as q preliminary
muscle man here. having never been
defeated, Piers meets the stfiest test
of his local career in the pugnacious
Garibaldi, whose recent comeback pro-
vided one Of the features Of the 1896
season.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
SET BIG ROWING DATE
Oxford Cambridge Race to Be
Held Wednesday, March "a.

LONDON R.-The 1897 Oxford
Cambridge boat race will be rowed
Wednesday, March 24-the first time
in Is years that the event has been
arranged for midweek.
The last occasion that the race was
decided on q Wednesday was in 1921.
when Cambridge. with the heaviest
crew in the history Of the race. won by
q length.
Cambridge has won every race
since 1920, With one exception. OK.
ford was s1ceessful by three-quartera
e . i9ngth2 IN ie23.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
FORT MYER FIVE AHEAD.

With D. McGeever scoring % point
Fort Myers basket ball team trounced
the D. C. Fire Department courtmen,
1929, last night in preliminary to
the Heurich Brewer-New York Celtics
game at the Heurich Brewery gym.
The soldiers led 26 to S at intermission.
Fort Myer I45l DC Fire Dept d29)
Evening star., 1937-01-03
"Y" Basketers Defeated.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WILMINGTON. Del. January a.
The Y. M. c. A. basket ball team of
Washington. D. c., was defeated by
the Alec team of Wilmington here
tonight by the score Of 54-33. Alec
led at the half, 24-l4
Evening star., 1937-01-03
GRID PILOT DETERMINED.

Perry Hay, Marylands foot ball
manager for 1887, tried his hand at
playing in his freshman year and
part of his soph season before scrub
bing" for the managership.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
Ponte HgIv Rated by Ring Vet Ball Soug
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W.. By WRMGllu~ 81

with growing apprehension the way
gadgets are being turned out to make
golf purely mechanical game.
"The worst thing the u. S.
G. A. ever did was to o. X. the
steel shaft" says Davie.
Hickory Is the right stuff for a golf
club shaft, and there's plenty of it
around to take care Of the needs of
millions OF golfers. That stuff about
a shortage Of hickory is all hokum.
'And now the next thing you know
they'll have q gadget somewhere in
the shaft that will contain a battery
for heating the hands in Winter and
keeping 'em cool in Summer. Nope
I'm not kidding. You can look for
the next wrinkle to be battery under
the grip with a button to press to
heat up the hands in Winter. OF
course, 1t might be little expensive
to buy 18 or 20 batteries, but now that
the U. s. G. A. is going to let us use
only IA clubs that won't be so bad,
and Lefty Harrell will keep me in bat
teries, anyhow"
Davie is not chronic viewer with
alarm. Being Scotch he doesn't waste
his viewing nor his words. But he does
feel that the game is too mechanized
and that a return to earlier principles
would be good stuff.
Oh, yes. carry a sand
wedge" he said. But only be-
cause i have to to protect my
self.
"One of those ferocious bunkers
might rise up and bite me if 1 didn't
have something to fight it with, and
the sand wedge is pretty heavy. But
Fred Mcleod is right. They ought to
cut out the sand wedge He doesn't go
far enough, though. They ought to
cut out the steel shaft and make the
boys go back to wood. We'd all be bet
ter of and we'd play better golf and
get more fun out of it. The art of
clubmaking is lost"
HERE'S good news for John j.
Duffer. The greens section of the
United States Golf Association recon-
mends filling up bunkers. Not all of
them. but a good many of them. For
many years" says a bulletin Of the
greens section, I'VE have advocated the
leveling and sodding of the large num-
Der of useless and expenrive traps and
hazards that clutter up the fairways of
many courses.
Winter offers many oppor-
tunities to do much of the haul
ing of materials needed for such
changes"
THREE District Golf Association Of
ficials will attend the annual
meeting of the United States Golf As
sociation in New York on January g.
President Martin R. Wet, Vice Presi-
dent James Cosgrove and Secretary
William c. Barr all are planning to go
up to the meeting. where Cosgrove will
try to put the heat on the U. S. G. A.
to abandon the stymie.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
Both Shy of Dough.

ROB always is good for laugh, even
in the tough spot he's in. Neither
he nor Ear have any heavy dough
to toss around. I'VE stop along the
way" Bob writes, land Joe gives his
show and picks up enough cash to
make the next town, for neither Of us
have what could be designated as
heavy sugar."
Not so long ago, just after Joe re-
signed his job as helper at his
brothers banana stand in Waco, Tex,
Joe used to thumb his way along the
roads, heading for the nearest tourna-
ment
"Ezar may turn out to be the great
est comedian and trick-shot player
golf has produced" says Bob There
is some irresistible force in the man
ner in which Joe passes through adj
versity."
Joe is not altogether unacquainted
with luxury. The former banana
stand boy made at least two trips to
England last year. both on the Queen
Mary.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
His Idea 10 Years Old.

WAS about 10 years ago that
Goodman. former semi-pro
ball player. caught the germ of an
idea which he believed would trans
form amateur base ball in Kansas
City into a well-organized game for
boys 81 years of age or younger. and
at the same time give the players
capable instruction and provide en-
tertainment for spectators.
At the time there was an eight club
amateur league in the city, with
Joseph v. Dynan the guiding light.
Ban johnson, former American
League president, spent much time at
Excelsior Springs. Mo, before his
death, and both Dynan and Goodman
became we'll acquainted with him. In
1929 Dynan changed the name of the
Kansas City League to the Ban John
son League. but 1t was not until 1881
that the rules formulated by Good
man. which are largely responsible
for the organizations success, we're
adopted.
Briefly, Goodman's ideas were to:
Bring the educational feature to
amateur base ball by naming a for
mer professional player as manager
of each club.
Conduct the games as nearly as
possible in the manner in which pro-
fessional games are conducted. To
this end. have each club completely
uniformed, have uniformed umpires
and have a regular schedule.
These ideas were adopted as league
rules, and the game flourished in
Kansas City. Instead of 200 or 800
stragglers at the games, they began
to draw crowds Of 1000 and 5000.
Sponsors Of the teams, usually civic
clubs or commercial organizations.
sought franchises Two franchises
sold for 81 500 each.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
Fighting for Control.

kRED CORCORAN OF Boston now
holds down the tournament man
ayers post, and the scrap is on, with
Harlow attempting to line up the pros
and with Jacobus sitting OH the lid
down at Sarasota, Fla. And the little
mix-up isn't doing the P. G. A. any
good. either. Out of it may come an
independent tournament circuit, with
Harlow as the promoter, not allied with
the P. G. A., but whose players may be
P. G. A. members
Harlow claims to have lined up 60
or more of the big-name professionals
on his side. But, meanwhile, the al
ready arranged schedule will go mer-
rily on. Harlow arranged it while
he was in, and now that he is out it
will continue just the same.
Evening star., 1937-01-03

tournament manager of the Profess
sional Golfers Association, is on his
way to California to carry his fight
for reinstatement right among the
pres when the tournament season
starts with the playing of the Los
Angeles open. Bob left Florida few
days ago with Joe Ear, the trick shot
artist.
MY object in going is to tell the
boys about the buns rush I got from
President George r. Jacobus out OF
the P. G. A. and to win support in
my battle to get back in as tourna-
ment manager of that outfit" writes
Harlow.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
Bowling

Continued From Seventh Page.)
Evening star., 1937-01-03
GOLF SCRAP MAY
BRING NEW LOOP
Harlow Is on Way West to
Take Up CudgeI as Pros
Play in Journeys.

n yEVER a guy to sit back and
nj watch the wheels 60 round
" without taking wllirl HIM
4 self. Bob Harlow. depoSed
Evening star., 1937-01-03
BY r. r. TAYNTON.

by this time every
. one who sold one or more
puppies just before Christmas
l,a AaI 4 IL ,leI
The Washington times., 1937-11-11

This Is a sensationally low
price for large, meaty, 1887
crop pecans. Simply press
two together in the palm Of
the hand to break the shells.
While quantities last ......
The Washington times., 1937-11-11

Good quality, long-wearing,
easy-dealing cards-in o
choice Of attractive designs.
TWO decks at this sale
price.
The Washington times., 1937-11-11

Lubricates the intes-
tinal tract, relieving
constipation. Easy to
take, because it is
odorless and TASTE
LESS ...............
The Washington times., 1937-11-11

Just Put It On
Then Wipe 1t Off"
to clean carpets,
painted surfa C e S,
metal, woodwork, and
other household art
icles.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-08

Gene Buck, probably the most
confirmed of the BroadwayiteS, has
never failed to catch a train or
motor to Great Neck where he has
lived since the day of his marriage.
John Gordon is another Great
Necker who refuses to stay in the
city over night no matter how late
detained. Fred Stone was another
who could not abide the town when
his professional duties were finish
ed. Then there was that Broad
wayite, the late Tommy Gray, who
swore, he could never get a good
nights sleep save in room on the
Times Square side of some hotel
such as the Claridge or the Astor
Robert Hilliard could never sleep
on tour, but at his Broadway hotel
slept soundly and it was next door
to bowling alley.
90
+ My awe of the monocle increases
with the year And when worn
by woman is colossal. Last night
I sat near a woman monocliSt.
And gawked myself out of second
helping of stewed chicken with
dumplings, for PHYS sake.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-08
Editorials and Comment
THURSDAY, APRIL s, 1897
New York Day by Day BY O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK. April 8.-Those lit
tie quirks that make up the human
behavior Of the favored class called
celebrities are facinating to watch
from the side lines. Attitude strik-
ing or natural, none is without a
display of some minor eccentricity.
When Will and Inez Hayes Irwin
attend teas they are invariably
together in the seats nearest the
entrance. Alexander Wollcott. bob
bing along the street will at inter-
walls wheel and watch some pedes-
trian out of sight. William Lyon
Phelps always carries an umbrella.
Henry l.. Macken is seldom with
out a brief case. Guthrie McClintic
almost invariably dimes out in one
of the small tea rooms. Paul White
man, in talking to strangers, fid-
gets with a key chain. Mayor La
Guardia will always be found sit
ting on one foot.
George Jean Nathan, immacu-
late dresser, has a sprout of unruly
lock sticking up in the back. Gene
Tunney will rarely leave his seat
at theatrical intermisisons. Gelett
Burgess, sedate dresser, buys the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-08
WHERE THE CHILDR
LEAD THE WAY

Ell Centro in the last few days has
seen re-birth of tree planting-a thing
the community needs as badly as it
needs anything. Unfortunately, this par
ticular reawakening of interest has been
confined to school children, setting out
trees and shrubbery in the school yards.
This is one pathway in which Ell Cen
tro might follow the leadership of
Brawley, where residents have set up not
only attractive homes, but have surround
ed their homes with beautiful trees and
shubbery
Why the difference? Some say be-
cause the soil at Brawley is more adapt
ed to growth of trees. Some shrug off
the question without bothering to find
an answer. Others-but they seem to
be sadly in the minority-actually try
to do something about the sad lack of
verdure along the streets of Ell Centro's
residential sections
The truth of the matter is that trees
can be made to grow here. They are not
only an investment in beauty-they are
a business investment as WELL A beauti-
full towneattracts far more trade and en-
joys far more business than a drab one.
Shubbery enchances the value of resi-
Dental property to a considerable
degree. 1t is, any way you look at it, a
desirable asset
1t is high time that Ell Centro paid
some attention to Identification as we'll
as to pure industrial and business de-
velopment.
The adults of this city will be
doing themselves and their community
a signal service when they emulate the
the youngsters by setting out more
shubbery-and then taking care of it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-08
THE MOST SERIOUS
PROBLEM OF RELIEF

In all the helter-skelter of conflict
over administration of federal relief
money-who is to administer it, and
how-we are liable to lose sight of the
gravest problem facing the United
States as a result of its current relief
set-up. 1t is not problem of politics,
nor of expenditures, but problem of
human nature. In it is the danger that
Uncle Sam, through his largesse, is Gre
ating a race of loafers whose fixed be-
lief it is that somebody must and will
take care of them without the necessity
on their part of labor.
Ell Centro saw an example this week.
Philip w. Knights needed % laborers
for work on a street improvement job.
He applied for relief workers to fill
the Jobs, thinking that by SO doing the
city would help to cut down the relief
rolls.
Eleven men showed up on the job.
Perhaps some of the remaining II
had legitimate excuses for their absence
from the scene of work. 1t is not rea-
sonable to suppose, however, that any
thing but the fear of toll kept most OF
them. away.
When there was no system of relief
such as that we now have, and the first
man on the scene got the JOB, IL or Ia
miles was not long way to go to get
work-and the applicants arrived quite
a bit earlier than the time when Work
started. Now we see the spectacle OF
work offered to a group of men-laid
in their APPS, as it were-and less than
half of them with enough energy, ambi-
ton of self-respect to take it.
Certainly there should be some way
of working out the problem; there should
be some method of cutting adrlft the
able bodied men who will not work
purely because they are too lazy. If the
relief administration is to retain public
confidence and respect, this problem
must be solved.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-08
Bruce Cation Says:>>
National Indifference is Jingo's Worst Foe

There seems to be a tendency to
poke fun at Signor Mussolini and
at the Italian people generally be-
cause Italian troops in Spain did
not meet the test of battle very
we'll in the recent engagements
around Guadalajara.
The story is that the Italian SOL
diers evinced a great lack of en-
thuSiaSm for the fight, and head
ed for the rear in large numbers
as soon as the going got tough.
But just why this should be con-
sidered reproach to Italy is lit
tie hard to understand.
Indeed, to an observer at this
distance, it looks as if the Italians
were the only foreigners in Spain
who have been behaving with any
particular sense. And if the good
sense displayed by these Italian
troopers could only spread all
across Europe the danger of new
world war would be very much less
than it is.
For these soldiers from Italy
found themselves transported out
of their homeland and plopped
down in the middle of war which
was no concern of theirs at all.
They didn't know any of the pep
pie who were doing the fighting
and it is only fair to assume that
they didn't care a great deal what
the fighting was all about. But
they did know that they hadn't
started the fight and that it didn't
matter much to them who won.
They were not the first soldiers,
in the long history of war, to find
themselves in that position. But
they did something about it that
soldiers are not, by tradition, sup
posed to do. Instead of following
the old line about theirs not to
reason why" they very sensibly de-
cided that, under the circum-
stances, there was little profit in
getting killed like heroes at the
barricadeS.
The net result of all this is that
are a lot more likely to go on liv-
ing for while than would be the
case if they had turned themselves
into grim, battalion death he
roeS
And a little meditation on this
point might bring you to discov-
cry of the fact that the ordinary
mans greatest protection against
the pitfalls laid in his path by
scheming men is this heaven-sent
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-08

and when there was no company
ate with them. l recall one who
had been employed in & private
residence since taken from a chill
drens home and passed away in
their employ. Her estate, something
around $4,000, was left to her en-
ployer'S children. She was one of
the family and was buried in the
family lot.
Economic changes, too, have blot
ted out that small town character
the odd-job man. Ours was Joe
Sheline, who lived across the creek
on hillside patch of several un-
productive acres, had a sick COW, a
sour we'll and yard full of high
jimpSon weeds. About the most
industrious person 1 have ever
known, he cleaned up yards, white
washed the hen houses, chucked in
coal, chopped kindling and such.
His pay was 81 day and on this
he somehow managed to rear a
large family and give them a high
school education. His biggest honor
he probably never knew about. The
town turned out to his funeral en-
maSSe.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-08

quality of indifference.
X
You can see that working out at
home. The average American is
supremely and blessedly indiffer-
ent to what goes on in Europe. He
is the despair OF the International
lists, the ,idealists, and the sleek
gentlemen who have axes to grind;
they just can't get him to care
very much about the parlous state
of affairs overseas.
And because they can't, they
can't get him involved in these
things. His indifference is his pro-
lection. AS long it is taken for
granted that Americans aren't in
terested in European politics, Eu-
ropean rivalries, and European al
liances, American boys will not be
called on to die on any European
battlefieldS.
The man who Just can't be
bothered" often turns out to be the
man who actually is not bothered
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-08
News Behind the News
Not Euen a Semi official Peep
International Problem Is Embdrrdss-
iuo Back to Basic Facts :.

WASHINGTON-Jus where this country
would be left if a Spanish government SUBJ
marine should torpedo an American snip carry
ing munitions or other war materials TO Italy
is a question to which you can't get even
semi-official answer here.
Speculation as to the consequences of such
an incident however, is bound to get one
back to these facts:
| That neutrality legislation, existent and
pending leaves it entirely UP to the President
to determine whether a state OF war or civil
war exists abroad
2 That no provisions of the neutrality bills
passed by the two houses of Congress, whether
mandatory discretionary" can go into
effect unless the President formally finds and
declares such state of war to exist.
g. That the aggressive military powers OF the
world are falling out Of the habit OF declaring
war preferring to wage war, when they can,
under the pretense that they're doing nothing
of the sort
A. That such powers thus leave themselves
free to brand an unfriendly act any formal
declaration by this, or any other government
that they are in a state of war-eSpeclally When
the declaration is instrument for enforcing
commercial embargoes other restrictions.
s. That all this leaves operation of the neu-
trality act sort of guessing game with Pres
ldent and State Department guessing how best
to keep America out of war-asSumng that's
what they want most. 1t also leaves wide
field in which to play the game of international
politics, which diplomats have been playing
from time immemorial.
So much can be said without reference TO
the sections of the Pittman and McReynolds
bills, now being ironed out in conference which
confer other discretionary powers on the Pres
ident The Pttman bill leaves it up to the
President to decide which if any materials, in
addition to munitions, American ships should be
prohibited from carrying to a country he decides
is at war The President also must decide when
and whether begerent vessels should be barred
from using American ports as supply stations.
The McReynolds bill is believed to be more sat
isfactory to the administration than the Pitt
man bill. 1t leaves it to the President to decide
whether or not to require that title to all ship
ments to beligerent nations shall have been
transferred to the foreign buyer, and whether
or not American citizens should be prohibited
from travelling on belligerent ships.