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Evening star., 1937-08-04
Hesses, Tandem Tonight ut Parkside.

FOSTERING the first father-and
son District exhibition of tandem
simultaneous chess-play tonight at
8 o'clock, Parkside Hotel, 1886 I
street northwest, Norval Wigginton,
assistant chess director of the Wash
ington Social Chess Divan, and Simon
Naidel, tournament director, say the
accommodations are ample for 20
players and reservations should be
made early to insure first use of these
boards.
Players in excess of present equip
ment facilities must provide their own
chessmen and board Seating accom-
modations are ample.
Anton 7. Hesse. president Of
the former D. C. Chess League,
and his son, Carl Hesse. one Of
the strongest young masters"
IN the District, will meet all
corners IN the entertainment
feature this evening.
A gratis membership in the divan
will be awarded to the first player that
scores a win against the Hesse COM
bination.
The public is invited, that is, the
exhibition is open to ladies and gen.
tlemen whether they are chess players
or not. AS customary, either visitor,
spectator or player may obtain a
courtesy card at the entrance to the
game room by paying the usual cover
charge Of rs cents.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Stars Yesterday
BY the Associated Press.

Johnny Stone, Senators-Singled
with, bases full in 10Th to give Wash
lngton 3-2 win over Browns
Bill Dickey and Lou Gehrig, Yankees
-.-Dickey,s home run with three on beat
White Sox, SO, in second game:
GehriR,s 22nd with two on sent Yanks
of to 7-2 win in opener.
Lefty Grove, Red Sox-Yielded eight
hits in tenth victory as Sox trimmed
Tribe. 1872.
Earl Brucker, Athlet;cs-His fifth in
ming home run gave AS 2-l win over
Tommy Bridges and the Tigers
Gus Suhr and Al Todd, Pirates
Suhr singled home winning runs to win
opener in ninth, 5-4 Todd hit two
triples double, and single in second
game to lead 1914 triumph.
Al HollingSworth and Chick Hafey,
Reds-HollinRsworth held Giants to six
hits and Hafey singled home winning
run as .9sds won in tenth, 80.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Incentive Now Greater,
Now With Semi-Pros.

lie Is convinced young players have
greater incentive for trying to
reach the majors than ever before.
The bushes aren't as thick as they
once were" said Alex. mo matter
how obscure his team is. a promising
player comes under the eye of big
league scout sooner than you'd ex-
pect."
What about the futurei
We'll, I hope to stay IN base ball as
long as it'll have me- said the now
paunchy Alexander, with smile.
It's all I know"
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Stretch Run a Breeze

FIGHTING back with a slew of
ringers, FARRELL was away to lead
In the seventh and deciding game but
Fleshman soon caught him and
breezed on to the title:
The scores were:
Feshman --5O % % % so so so
farrell ---15 so so so So 48 %
For the seven games Fleshman threw
81 per cent ringers and FARRELL SIS.
In the semi-fnals Fleshman elm
mated his young brother-in-law, Lem
Sales, and FARRELL defeated Joe Merry
man.
In clinching his match with Sales.
Fleshman came within point of
tying the ringer record for a game
IN The Star tournament, with 83 per
cent. The record of "a was estab-
Hshed several years ago by Harry
Saunders of Washington in a match
with Clayton Henson, present Vir-
ginia champion.
All Star Show on Tonight.
THE horseshoe scene switches to-
night from the municipal play
ground courts at Mcmillan to Mclean,
Va, where eight crack pitchers will
shoot in the annual Mclean carnival
invitation tournament In the first
round Deadpan Raymond Frye, de-
Tending champion, will meet Merry
man, FARRELL will take on Joe Walsh,
District intercollegiate title holder;
Freshman will play Bill Woodfeld,
rising Washington star, and Saunders
will meet Henson. The survivors of
the round will play round robin for
the Randolph Leigh Trophy and other
prizes.
Competition in The Star tourna-
ment will be resumed tomorrow night
at Mcmillan with the Virginia play
offs, which promise to be almost
strictly a Henson-Frye show. Only
Hoot Danzberger, Washington-Lee
high school athlete, who lately has
raised his ringer percentage to thor
oughly respected figure, is conceded q
chance for the title outside of Henson
and Frye.
The all-star Mclean party will start
at 7:30 with Tournament Chairman
Henry Huschke officiating.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
SWIFT'S DAD WAS HURLER,

Bill Swift's father was opening day
starting ace for Pueblo in the 1909
Western League race The Pirate
pitchers father was a southpaw, but
Bill grew up right-handed.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
johnson, Recalling Debut 80
Years 4 go, Says He Vas ''Too
Dumb" to Fear + Famed Hitters

I could fog 'em in all day I didn't
have curve or a change of pace.
They tried to get me to use a splitter
but I couldn't work it.
Il was ignorant of the tricky base
running, with batters and runners
working signals on every pitch and
didn't know how to keep a runner
on base"
Evening star., 1937-08-04
SIMMs WHIPS BEAUPRE.

LOS ANGELES, August P.-
Hammer-n listed Eddie Simms, 1913. Of
Cleveland nailed crepe on Tom
Beaupre's Pacific Coast debut by win
ming 10 straight rounds from the
Dallas heavyweight last night.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
MO0TY IS A COLLEGIAN.

Jake Mooty, youthful right-hander
back with the Reds after some Syra-
cuse farm life. halls from Texas A..
and NJ, where Umpire Charlie Moran
was once athletic director
Evening star., 1937-08-04
PIRATES HAVE MANY BIS.

Boston has its Bees, but most of the
National League BIS are at Pittsburgh.
On the Pirates active playing list are
Pitchers Bauers, Blanton, Bowman,
Brandt and Brown and Third Base
man Brubaker.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
MRS. PRAY SETS RECORD.

B1GWIN INN, Ontario, August A.
Mrs. L. G. Pray Of Washington, play
ing in the annual Lake Of Bays tourney
yesterday. shot a 80 to break the
course record for the difficult layout.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
FEMININE FANS FLOCK.

During the past 20 years the Chicago
Cubs have been host to 2,478,672 FEM
mine fans on ladies days at WriQley
Field
Evening star., 1937-08-04
:@ %EE; & s #

over Mrs. Anderson OF Sweden, and
Vera Menchik of Czechoslovakia de-
feated Miss Larsen Of Denmark.
Evening star., 1937-08-04

4 MOTHER little-known fact about
the tourney, now in its fifth day
at the Edgemoor Club, is that it came
within an ace of losing, by default,
Dooly Mitchell, the first locally seeded
player. In fact, it did lose him, only
10 get him back when Mitchell exer-
cised what usually is an exclusive
prerogatory of the fair sex-that Of
changing his mind.
In the midst of getting the tourney
under way last Saturday. the COM
mittee received a letter from Mitch
ell, then out of town. that he wished
to withdraw his name from the list
of entrants. over -tennised" was the
reason given by the local star for his
action.
Saturday and Sunday passed with
out Mitchell showing up, but officials
sensed that the young accountant
might reconsider when he came out
to his clubs court and saw the
competition,
1t happened just that way.
Mitchell rode out Monday aft
ernocn, took look around and
said, Sure, I'm going to play.
Where's my opponent"
Evening star., 1937-08-04

ON HUNT had day OF rest today
before meeting Jiro Yamagishi, the
japanese champion, in the quarter
finals at Southampton tomorrow. The
local star had to flash brilliance in the
third set yesterday, however, before
downing Gardnar Mulloy, 6-4, 10,
SO.
Barney Welsh though, was out Of the
running, eliminated by top-seeded
Bobby Riggs, the country's fourth
ranking player, 6-8, 6-4, 6-3. After
taking the first set. Welsh was only
one point from leading So In the
second. but Riggs pulled his service
out of the fire in that seventh game
and took it and the next three.
Mary Cootes, the only local
girl entered, bowed to Dorothy
Bundy, daughter Of the great
May Sutton, 6-1, 60.
Evening star., 1937-08-04

fault over Tommy Moorhead, who was
forced to leave the city.
Bill Howard, who wss extended to
two rs decisions by Peter Gartner,
was to meet the winner of the CARRIER
Parrish match, while fourth-seeded
Tony Latona was to play Stan Nc
Caskey. Dooly Mitchell. who found
time for only one set against Charles
Heacock, ex-Missouri Valley champion,
yesterday after beating Stewart Par
ker, 81, 6-l, was to complete the
Heacock business today Mitchell won
the first set, 6-3. Bill Breese. who
again had trouble in turning back an
unseeded player. ElWood Hoffecker,
yesterday, was to face Ray Stock
linski
Breese was extended to 81
after taking the first set at love.
Two Junior Davis Cuppers, Billy
Turner and Billy Contreras. rounded
out today's schedule, the latter ad-
vancing yesterday with hard-fought
victory over Harry March, 6-l, 81,
IS
Evening star., 1937-08-04

carry it through for the sake of fun
AS it turned out, it was not only q
Joke on Smith, but on players, spec
tators and the three Sunday papers
who fell for the baron" hook, line and
sinker.
Evening star., 1937-08-04

- lo l1diliC NdSll llltluOSQ dlIOllS
the favorites who won yester-
day to enter the round of 49, but
young Jimmy Hardey deserves just
as much credit as any of his better
known rivals who won third-round
matches. Kept waiting two days for
his flrst-round opponent. Tom Ridge
way of Philadelphia (whom officials
kept hoping would show up, but who
never did. Hardey awoke yesterday
morning to find himself scheduled
to play his next-round match in the
afternoon. To Hardey that meant
only one thing-that he must play
two important matches in one day,
for he previously had been sched-
uled to play John Bruins for the lat
ter's sixteenth position on the local
Junior Davis Cup ladder.
Did Hardey protest to either the
Middle Atlantic or J. D. c. COM
mittee?
He did not
Instead, he went out in the late
morning hours to trim Bruins in three
tough sets, 3-6. "a, Ga, and then
journeyed to Edgemoor in the aft
ernoon to eliminate Jack De Cola in
another hard three-setter, 6-1, +6,
6-4
And that's why Hardey is the six
teenth ranking member of Wash
ingtons Junior Davis Cup team to-
day and how he earned the right to
meet fifth-seeded Frank Shore in
the Middle Atlantic tournament this
afternoon.
HARDEY'S match with Shore was
only one Of eight scheduled
which was to bring the sectional event
down to its quarter-final round by
nightfall. Two preliminary matches.
between Capt. Stan Robinson and
f1rst-seeded out-of-towner Frank
Goeltz and between Don CARRIER and
Fred Parish, were to be played prior
to the in the round of is.
Should Robinson pull the un-
expected and beat Goeltz, 1t
would throw Army and Navy
Leech Cup stars against each
other, for Jimmy Farrin Of the
Navy is awaiting the winner Of
the Goeltz Robinson encounter.
George Parks, the new 16-year-old
Southern interscholastic singles cham
plon, from Miami, Fla, was to meet
Hugh Lynch in one of the days out
standing matches, Lynch having con-
quered one of Parks sidekicks, Dick
Howell, also Of Miami, yesterday,
6-1, e-1. Parks advanced by de-
Evening star., 1937-08-04
SISSY BASE BALL
PEEVES OLD ALEX
Fears School and College
Grads Think More About
Pay Than Winning.
BY the Associated Press.

by the hSSOCldteO PfeSS.
~ ENVER, August 4.-Grover
Cleveland Alexander-whom
no one has ever accused OF
~ being "sissy''-saw no rea-
son today why the national pastime
should be any softer" than in the
roistering days when he was star
major league hurler.
THE big show has more high
school and college graduates than in
my day." he said, but that doesn't
keep real ball player from knocking
the baseman head over heels to get to
that bag"
But I'm afraid lot Of these kids
think more about what salary they
can collect than about playing ball."
he added.
Now With Semi-Pros.
HEY ought to think first about
bearing down in there and play
ing base ball. thought the man was
crazy when he offered me money to
pitch for Galesburg, Ill, back in 1908.
Why, I got $3.50 a month the first
year 1 was in the big leagues and
thought was getting rich"
"Old Pete" brought Springfield,
Ill, semi-pro team here for the Dem
yer Post tournament and yesterday
watched one of his pitchers, Jim Goff.
strike out % batters in scoring Spring.
fields second victory
Alex said the high point Of my
career was when he struck out Tony
Lazzeri of the New York Yankees
with the bases full to save the 1925
world series for the st. Louis Cardi-
nails
But I wasn't the least bit nervous"
Alexander said. I'm more nervous
on the bench managing this team
than I ever was out there on the
mound"
Evening star., 1937-08-04

Fighting back with a slew of
ringers, FARRELL was away to lead
In the seventh and deciding game but
Fleshman soon caught him and
breezed on to the title:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13

President Roosevelt's appeal to the
American people to travel as means
of securing a new conception of ma
tional problems, made in the course
of a radio address from Cleveland, has
been the subject of widespread com
ment. This is true because field
work., as the President terms the OBJ
servations gained through travel, wilt
help to breakdown provincialism and
narrow viewpoints so frequently en-
countered among those who see ma
tional conditions only in the light Of
their immediate needs.
At the risk of injecting personal
note into this column, | would like
to say that it is most gratifying to
find the chief executive Of the United
States stressing 2 point that 1 have
often made. Travel has always been
a method of securing fresh informa-
ton and understanding. And I am
sure that I can say, with pardonable
pride that travel at home and abroad
has been most helpful to me in max
ing decisions with reference to at
titude and action on legislative pro-
posals. 1t has brought better under
standing of how these proposals will
effect the great cross-section of our
citizens.
Whv is travel helpful? 1t is a pro-
per question and deserves an answer.
The North Carolina farmer, worried
over cotton prices and SURPRISES goes
to the West and he finds that the
wheat market is source of concern
to the western farmer. Thus he is
impressed with the fact that the pro-
blem of agriculture is national in
scope and he has more sympathetic
attitude toward those trying to solve
it. In other words, the North Caro-
linian secures a better understanding
of the problem from a national rather
than a local viewpoint. The same holds
true of the manufacturer, the store
keeper and the teacher
Sometime ago, in discussing travel
with a teacher in one of the North
Carolina schools, she, told me Of q
trip she had made to the Pacific coast
and the national parks of the west
She had new enthusiasm for her duties
and there is no doubt that the first
hand information she brought to her
students made a greater impression
than would have the same information
cleaned from a textbook
AS one who has Travelled consider
ably, and at all times urged others
to travel it is a source of satisfac-
ton to find that the President holds
to the same idea. His understanding
of national and international pro
blems, gained through travel, was one
of the arguments used IN his favor
when he was first mentioned for the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13

Presidency. It's advantage has been
amply demonstrated from time to time
as he has been forced to advance pro
grams, which might not be advan-
tageous to particular sections, but
were designed to help the country
as a whole. No one questioned the
sincerity of the President because
they knew that he had first-hand
knowledge of the actual effect of the
legislation he advocated.
In reading the Presidents Cleveland
address, one paragraph stood out. It
was with reference to the advice that
the chief executive had once given
a young friend. In the words OF the
President he said: Take a second
hand car put on a flannel shirt drive
out to the coast ~ the northern route
and come back by the southern route.
Don't talk to your banking friends
or your chamber of commerce friends
but specialize on the gasoline station
man, the small restaurant keeper and
the farmers you meet by the wayside
and your fellow automobile travellers"
That paragraph made an impress
sion because l had done just that Two
years ago, CraVel1ng by trailer, had
covered the route the President had
suggested and had talked with the
people he identified. The benefits
gained cannot be adequately express
ed in understandable terms.
Naturally, when the President OF
the United States urges the American
people to something which an indi-
vidual has long advocated, that in
dividual must be pardoned for finding
it a great source of personal satisfac-
tion-such as that I now find.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13
ONCE UPON OCT. 18TH.

It is stated in school histories that
George Washington laid the corner
stone of the first public building (and
now the oldest structure) in the city
named for him, 145 years ago today.
The cornerstone of the grey sandstone
mansion later to be known as the
White House, was laid, but George
WASHINGTON was not there, says the
fascinating WPA Project written his
tory, washington, City and capital,
which this writer cOmmends to all IN
terested in the environment in which
our government machinery operates.
Another erroneous legend is that
the effect that, with his wife, first
President inspected the partly finish
I'd structure in 1899.
The first Presidential Mansion or
White House" was, of course, Wash
ingtons residence in Cherry Street,
New York.
The John Adamses, who were the
first to occupy the executive man
sion in Washington, didn't care much
for it. Mrs. Adams complained they
couldn't get enough firewood to keep
the house dry. surrounded with for
GSIS, Cdn YOU UCllCNO CIdL WOOO Id AAOI
to be had, because people cannot be
found to cut and art it?"
The residence was also surrounded
at that time by rough shacks in which
the workmen who built the mansion
lived. Attempts were made to remove
the quarters, but the men, because of
a housing shortage, refused to vacate.
hem. Mrs. Adams had to have the
amily washing hung in the new
umptuous East Room.
An Irishman, James Hoban, was the
architect as a result of winning $500
prize offered for the best original de-
sign for a presidents Palace" There
is legend Hoban modelled it after the
esidence Of the Duke of Leinster in
Ireland. This is not true, though it
IS perfect type of the late 18th Gen.
fury renaissance mansion popular in
England and Ireland at the time.
AMERICA AT WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today-Voluntary en-
listments had not been sufficient to
fill National Guard units to war
strength, so the War Department is
sued orders of transfer of $4,000 more
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13
OTHERS VIEWS
WANTS G. o. p. CONVENTION.

10 the Editor:
Former President Hoover u~oee
national convent on OF 7n',--'>': -,
Affirmative leadership of this kin
should .e met in like spi il. Instead
we have inexcusahle e;Eer.coDing. O.
ly out of the searching debate Of
national convention can we De3u'
leans fit ourselves, spiritually n
intellectually to meet the Nay d y
We have failed in this 10 da'o.
cause we have not as yet mo- :.
challenge of the du Pont-IL :che'ac
smear.
The New Deal Was founded on til
smear 1t continues to harp on it. o.,
of the smear it has built It's scare
crows and on the smear based i.
emergencies" The smear was NJ
merely an attack on Mr.. Howe. l
went to the very heart of the Rcpl,,
lican record. Only after we have me
this challenge, therefore, can we re
dedicate ourselves to Republican prin
ciples and refresh ourselves at the
fountain of Republican history
DemOcracies demand clean-cut ~
sues. The New Deal is leading Amer
lea to the treadmill of forced LABOR
under the collective state. The place
for the Republican party is at inc
very opposite to such a program. Mr..
Farley says the Republican party IS
dead, but 100000 voters in 1896
signed vehement protest against
such a verdict, furnishing glorious
evidence of vitality. In these l7,OoO,-
900 we find the bone and sinew of
Republicanisn A political party with
a record of achievement as great as
that of the Republican party never
dies-unless it dies at the top. What
We now need, therefore, is opportunity
for debate-out of which will come
new grasp of principles and vigor
Gus fighting energy.
The mask has now been torn iron.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13

the design behind the "objectives" of
the New Deal. Issues are clearer, and
a national convention is all impor-
tant in giving Republicans the stimuli
alton and inspiration needed in plan
ming the struggle for the preservation
of America.
1t is time that the rank and file
of the Republican party expresses it.
self, and hope this letter will slim
ulate other Republicans to write the
editor of this newspaper, giving their
views.
BALLARD DUNN.
Los Angeles, Calf
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13
Today is the Day
By CLARK KIfNNAIRD
Copyright, 1887, for this Newspaper
by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

drafted men to six National Guard
Divisions. The orders also involved
the transfer of about $4,000 drafted
men from eastern and middle-western
environments to Camps Gordon and
Pike.
At this time 100000 drafted men
were still awaiting mobilization be-
cause environments weren't ready.
Same day, details of the War Risk
Insurance being provided for all mem
bers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps
and Coast Guard, were made public.
Men and women were to get $4,000
insurance at a cost, for those aged 25,
of $500 and other ages in actual pro-
portion.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

DIR. Frederick A Middlebush, presi-
dent of the University of Missouri,
born at Grand Rapids, Mich, AZ years
ago.
Irene Rich of New York, actress,
born at Buffalo, N. Y, As years ago.
U. S. Senator Theodore G.. Bilbo of
Mississippi, born at Juniper Grove.
Miss. go years ago.
U. S. Senator Frederick Steiwer Of
Oregon, born at jefferson, Greg, "a
years ago.
DR.. William 2. Ripley Of Newton,
Mass, noted economist, born at Med
ford, Mass, 20 years ago.
Dr. John Johnston, chemist-director
oe U. S. Steel research, born in Scot
land, Sc years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13
TODAY IN HISTORY

792-Cornerstone of White House,
then called the Presidents House,
laid-Plans those of an Ir1shman,
John Hoban, winner in competition,
the prize of which was lot and $500
in cash.
1837-Wreck of the steamer Home
off the coast of North Carolina.
1866-Great fire in Quebec.
1922-Hague arbitration trlbunal
awards Norway $12,0O0,OOO for ships re
QUESTIONED by United States in world
war.
1927-In speech at Pittsburgh, Pres
ident Coolidge states Americas men
of wealth devote their money to
spread of democracy and development
of the arts.
1936-In "battleship versus aircraft
problem, British naval authorities
come out in favor of the battleship.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13
TODAY Il
roDAY,s ANNIVERSARIES

1754-Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley
CMolly Pitcher) Revolutionary heroine
horn near Trenton, N. ]. Died tnere'
Jan. %, 1882.
1863 Horace H. Hayden, Baltimore
dentist-geologist, who did much 10
make dentistry an organized pro1es-
sion. born at Windsor, Conn. Dleo
Jan. 26, 1874.
1926 Lafayette c. Baker ltlnerant
mechanic, Union spy, U. 5. secret
Service chief in the Civil War, born
at Stafford, N. Y Died in Philadel-
phia, July 8, 1868.
1s31-John w. Hoyt, Wyoming ana
Wisconsin professor, author, Wyom-
ing governor born near Worthington'
Ohio. Died May %, 1912.
1833-Pierre Lorillard, merchant
race horse breeder, born in New York
Died July Z, 1901.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-13
TODAY,S HOROSCOPE

Today indicates quiet pleasure-lov-
ing person, and probably one who will
take much interest in the study of
religion, perhaps a clergyman. The
life may be 2 secluded one, certainly
it will be rather quiet, and the native
will hold many firm and powerful
friends who will exert themselves for
his or her benefit. Beware, however
of lapsing into self-indulgence.