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Evening star., 1938-12-15
Western Girls Lead
With Six Places in
Hockey Selections

Western is represented by six
players on the honorary all-high
field hockey team. chosen by officials
Of the Washington Field Hockey
Association as the climax of the
annual hockey play day among local
schools. Central Tech and Roose-
welt also are represented.
The play day-really a 2-day
affair-was held yesterday at West
ern Stadium and Tuesday at Cen
tral. Games were played between
teams chosen with no regard for
school affiliations, and several social
events marked the session.
Oficials selecting the all-high
eleven were Virginia Junkin, Eliza
beth Plimpton, Elizabeth Cooper
and Nancy Sondorn. The teams:
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Further Honor Paid Memory
OfMiIIs, Princeton Kicker

the first annual award of the Touch
down Club of New York at a dinner
at the Columbia University Club
attended by some 300 persons, in
cluding Coaches E. E. .Wieman and
H. A. Mahnken.
The bronze trophy yearly is award
ed to "the individual who has
rendered an unusual service or made
outstanding contribution to foot
ball" Making the presentation ad-
dress G.. H. McCracken, chairman Of
the club Award Committee, termed
Mills "a genius-America's No. /
guest COACH
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Yonks to Appear
In Opener Here
By the Associated Press.

oy tte ASSOCl&teO TTcSS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-The
New York Yankees, who Jared all
right on all other kinds, will get
. look at presidential pitching
next spring.
The world champions drew the
assignment to open the American
League season at Washington
next April II.
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Only Two Reasons for Bio Prices-Cobb

1t isn't reasonable and yet could
buying The Tigers
ehorstop Cecil Travis but the Old Fox SELL
He turned Zeke Bonura the Giants
players This deal in itself worthy
OF the American League Any club the circuit could
Tor s7OO which the waiver But let
paid $4,000 for the fellow.
To the odmers the whole business pheno-
enon For SOO0O In the old days fellow could
league club with park to play in Now just good
players command that kind price still
Ty Cobb said it all few back mo
than S30o0 said Iy when he of
either means the difference between
another he people into the
ball park just to watch him play"
Cobb started playing big
endous purchase prices He
today would bring Cobb fingered long
enough Babe Kan,m for
1876 900 and he had an inklng of what
Evening star., 1938-12-15
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Heroine of
the outstanding sports comeback of
1898 is Helen Wills Moody.
The talented San Francisco tennis
player earned the No. l bracket in
close race with Jimmie Foxx.
clouting first baseman of the Boston
Red Sox.
Twenty -four of the 10 sports crit
les participating in the eighth annual
Associated Press poll cast their first
place ballots for Mrs. Moody and
her achievement in winning the
Wimbledon championship after a
three-year lapse Twenty-four other
f1rst-place votes went to FoXx for re-
capturing the American League
batting crown for the first time
since 1933-and that after a poor
season in 1887. But second and third
place support swung the decision to
Mrs. Moody, who rolled up 1872
points against 81 for Foxx.
Helen Second in 1895.
Points were awarded on a 3-2-1
basis, with each expert naming three
comebacks in the order of his choice
The result marked the second
time in four years that Mrs. Moody
figured prominently in the come
back section of the poll In 1895
when she emerged from a two-year
retirement 20 defeat Helen Jacobs
for the Wimbledon title, Mrs Moody
finished second to Jimmy Braddock
in the annual poll.
Jerome Herman Dizzy Dean, who
followed a late-season comeback
with a well-pitched, though losing
game in the World Series, took third
place in the final standings by a
narrow margin over Joe Louis
heavyweight champion, and Solly
Kreiger, N. B. A. middleweight
! champion. Louis figured in e
comeback" role on the score of hi
one-round knockout of Max Schme
ling. avenging his 1886 setback
the Germans hands.
Picks Ambassador to Germany.
The poll covered a wide range c
"comebacks," AZ in all One W;
added a 43d-Hugh r. Wilson
American Ambassador to German
who came back" to report on tn,
Jewish problem.
The tabulated results.
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Greenberq Homers Didn't Draw Crowds

Most OF the odtmes spiling
Astoria inclined
ball player in
ball q
first baman and great player and
thing
young who talking in group
Take that
didn't
reenberg hit
had daned good ball club plenty pitchers
outed
with Greenberg they figured beat
would be worth 100000 otherwise,
Pause, howm "a
Individual drawing
Detroit
had something that
drawing card all by himself
fellow
that didn't figure hitting
For reasonable
back,
Evening star., 1938-12-15

PoSthumous honors continue to
pile up for Leroy N. Mills, Princeton,
05, the modest little man who as
a hobby taught some of Americas
finest punters controlled kicking.
First announcement was made of
the establishment at Mamaroneck,
N. Y, of kicking school bearing
his name; then his Princeton class
established in his memory a trophy
annually to be awarded to the most
proficient kicker among Princeton
undergraduates. Now signal recog-
milton has been accorded him by
his designation as the recipient of
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Varied Sports
Pro Basket Ball.

Pro Basket Ball
Sheboygan Redskins 36: Hammond 80.
Akron Goodyear. 35; Warren. 81.
Intern ationaI- Hockey.
Cleveland. /; New Haven. O.
Philadelphia. l; Pittsburgh. q.
Eastern Amateur Hockey.
Atlantic City Sea Gulls 5: Baltimore
Orioles. (overtimel
COLLEGE Hockey.
Dartmouth. 9; Springfield Blue Way. 2.
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Jefferson High Tossers
Win Third Struiaht

Jefferson High Of Falls Church,
Va, today had captured its third
basket ball straight victory, defeat
ing Bladensburg, Md, High, 1922,
as Dixon registered 20 points yes
terday on the losers court.
McNab scored IL points for JET
ferson, which was aided consider.
ably by Simpsons defensive work
Friedrich. with II points, led Bla-
densburg's attack.
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Net Queen Tops
All Comeba(ks
During 1888
Mrs. Moody Is Given
Close Race by Foxx
In Editors Poll

fNote-This is the fourth OF a
series analyzing results OF the
eighth annual Associated Press
sports poll 1t deals ,Dith replies
OF the Nations sports editors to
the question: What ,Dere the
leading sports comebacks OF
1887
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Troions Toke Holiday

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IS P.-
Southern California's gridders took
q holiday today from drilling on a
rain-soggy field for the January 2
clash with Duke In the Rose Bowl,
Evening star., 1938-12-15

Five and one-half points: Alice Marbl-
United States tennis champion.
Five points each: Paul Runyan, profe
sonal Golfers Association champion: Pa
Dean pitcher recalled by st. Louis Card
mails from Houston.
Four points each: Chicago Cubs; Not
Dame football: Young Corbett, 3d. mic
dleweight boxer.
Three points each: Fred Fitzsimmor
Brooklyn pitcher; Max Baer. heavyweie'
boxer Amos Alonzo Stagg, football Goa
at College of Pacific: Chicago Blackhaw''
hockey team; Bob Feller, Cleveland Il.
dians pitcher.
Two points each: Jim Braddock. heavy
weight boxer: JOHNNY Revolta profession
golfer: Michigan. football; Joe Gordo'
New York Yankees second baseman: Ern'
lombard. Cincinnati Reds catcher; Sic
ney Wood tennis player Patty Berr
United States women's golf champion
Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit pitcher sent T.
Beaumont; Tommy Armour. professiona
golfer.
One point each Tufy Leemans. prc
football star: Eddie Shore. Boston hockeN
player; Frank Shields. tennis player; Bel
Zuppke. reinstated Illinois football coach
Brown, football: Tony Galento. heavy
weight fighter. after pneumonia attack
Bill Stewart, Chicago Blackhawks hockey
manager; Seabiscuit for defeat of Wal
Admiral; Cincinnati Reds; Ritchie Fon
taine. lightweight boxer. injured in auto
mobile accident: Babe Ruth. baseball
One,haf point: Southern California
football
Evening star., 1938-08-23
SIS Fine Floors Slattery,
Ex-Champ, in Fight for Job

Jimmy has been in Washington
about three weeks making the rounds
Of the employment agencies. He said
he has given a fictitious name, how
ever. It seems he would have the
public, even stenographers, in an
agency, remember "Slattery" as the
name If big money" prize fighter,
not as doWn-and-outer.
When Tommy Loughran resigned
his light-heavyweight championship
in 1929, the New York State Boxing
Commission held tournament to de-
eide on his successor. Jimmy won in
a walk.
The National Boxing Association,
however, preferred to recognize Make
Rosenbloom as title holder in that
division. Later, Rosenbloom defeated
Jimmy on two different occasions to
gain undisputed possession of the
crown.
Jimmy said yesterday he fought "a
few times" after that, but decided to
try his hand at something else.
Something else" let him down.
Evening star., 1938-08-23

Mrs. Edwin w. James, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. E. Hits, MIR. and Mrs. L. s. Tuttle,
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Curran, MIR. and
Mrs. j. T. Lynch, Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.
Siegle, Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Paddock,
MIR. and Mrs. 0. K. Normann, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Bradford, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. G. Wright, Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Krichesky, Mr.. and Mrs. H. w.
Stowell, Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Rogers,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cof1man, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin H. Holmes. Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester ]. Carpenter, Mrs. Gladys w.
Eldridge, Mrs. Fannie Weinberg, Miss
Eileen Moran, Miss Glauvina Mussel-
man. Miss Ruby Crawford, Mics
Martha Showalter, Mr. John Quimby,
Mr.. F. w. Haxton and Mr.. David
Beach.
Evening star., 1938-08-23

Jimmy Slattery-the same smiling
Jimmy who not SO many years ago was
lin the money" as possessor Of a dis
puted worlds championship light
heavyweight crowns walking about
in Washington today, almost penniless
and chagrined over his inability to
pay IS fine in Police Court.
The ex-champion turned up in court
yesterday, still smiling, as a prisoner
charged with drinking in public.
Jimmy had been arrested In Mount
Vernon Park while taking a drink
with two fellows" he saw sitting on
park bench.
Judge John p Mcmahon fined the
trio SIS each or five days. The officer
who made the arrest. Park Policeman
Albert Kruger, already had asked
Jimmy to allow him to call Jack
Dempsey who was in Washington and
is known generally as the fellow who
always is ready to give deserving ex-
fighters break when they've hit the
SkidS.
Jimmy's pocketbook might be fiat
but his pride is still tops. He declined
the assistance, telling Officer Kruger,
lease dismissed"
A newspaper reporter called the
Boxing Writers Association and was
told to put up the fine to be reim-
bursed by the association later.
Il was good in my time" Jimmy
commented, but I went down fast.
Things were breaking wrong and I
guess I got a little disguised with
it ALL"
The former fighter weighs 1874 now
and looks to be in excellent physical
trim. He insists, however, his wind
is very short due to "a little too much
drinkink. I guess" and he has no
intention of attempting a comeback.
At "a, Jimmy figures he's washed
up as a fighter" He will grant, never
theless, that there were times when
he was working out of doors for the
w. P. A. after he left his home in
Buffalo that he felt like giving the
game another try once I got some
fresh country air in my lungs"
Evening star., 1938-08-23
Tree Planting
TodayOpens
Convention
Ladies' Auxiliary to
Mail Carriers
Gathers.
TREE-PLANTING ceremon

lREE-PLAN 41NI CeItI1lOily
n at 4:30 pm. today on the
II Monument grounds will open
4 \ the convention of the Ladies
Auxiliary to the Rural Mail Carriers
Association this week at the May
flower
A hickory has been selected to
honor the main rural carriers of the
Nation. 1t will be planted h soil
brought from every State in the Union
and watered with water from the At
lantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf
of Mexico and from all the principal
rivers.
Mrs. H. G. Courtney of Nowalk,
Iowa. president of the auxiliary, will
preside at the ceremony and water
will be poured by Mrs. Crit Petty of
Louisiana, Mrs. w. B. Burwell of Iowa,
Mrs. H. C. Myers of North Carolina
and Mrs. Wayne Knapp of Wisconsin.
Tribute to the active carriers will
be paid by Mrs. Ellis Harris of Kansas.
Mrs. Luckey Job of Arkansas will
honor the retired carriers and Mrs.
Marie Muchmore of Nebraska will give
q tribute to the deceased carriers.
There will be banquet today of
the State presidents and State secre-
taries at Wesley Hall. with Mrs. James
E. Vaughn of Hemple. Mo, presiding
Representative Virginia E. Jepckes
of Indiana will be the speaker at the
opening session of the convention,
scheduled for 1:30 pm. tomorrow at
the MayfloWer Hotel. Mrs. Courtney
will preside.
Several State delegation luncheons
have been planned for the latter part
Of the week. The Georgia delegation
luncheon will be held tomorrow, with
Mrs. Thomas Walters. State president,
In charge. The New York State dele
cation will give a dinner Thursday,
with Mrs. Charles Staflnger, presi-
dent, in charge of the arrangements
Rural Letter Carriers conventions
are family affairs. Not only is the
Ladies Auxiliary well represented but
the Juniors are also here in force The
junior registration began this morn
ing at the Mayfower and this after
noon before the tree planting the
young people were to go sightseeing.
Their program will begin tomorrow
afternoon with an address by Walter
johnson, which will be followed by
a speaker from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Lloyd Hepner, jr., Of
Woodstock, Va, is the president of
the junior group.
Men, women and children will join
in the annual banquet tomorrow. The
speakers will be Postmaster General
James A. Farley and Representative
James M. Mead, chairman of the
Post Office Committee. The entire
group will also join in the boat trip
on the Potomac on Thursday after
noon. Representative Thomas G.
Burch of Virginia, chairman of the
Evening star., 1938-08-23

Bettina Belmont. l9-year-old Capital
socialite and Virginia horsewoman.
was arrested for second offense speed
ing early today.
She was released for appearance in
Police Court Wednesday after she
posted $100 collateral at No Z.
Miss Belmont, daughter of Mrs.
Arthur White and the late Raymond
Belmont of Chiffon Farms, Middle
burg, Va. was arrested at Thirtieth
and N streets NV, after Motor Cycle
Policeman D. L. Dodds said he had
paced her at so miles an hour.
Miss Belmont, police said, spent
about 20 minutes at the precinct be-
fore money for her collateral was sent
from the Mayflower Hotel.
Miss Belmont was first arrested for
speeding last June, police said it was
shown on her traffic record.
Evening star., 1938-08-23
Farley Declines Bid.

NEW YORK, Aug. % (P.-Post-
master General James A. Farley,
announced here yesterday he would
be unable to address the annual meet
ing of the Maryland Chapter Of the
National Association of Postmasters
at Friedrich, Nd, Saturday.
Evening star., 1938-08-23

Miss Otie r. Nelson has returned
to the city from . months vacation
in Virginia Beach, Colonial Williams
burg and Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred ]. Hughes were
guests at q farewell dinner given
Saturday in their honor at the Rixey
Mansion Inn, Country Club Hills, Va,
by fellow employees Of the Bureau
Of Public Roads. Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes,
who were married in Arlington Au-
gust S, will leave shortly for Newark,
N. j., where Mr.. Hughes will resume
his duties as bureau manager on the
New Jersey Highway Planning Sur
vey. Mrs. Hughes, the former Mar
garet Pickett Of Columbia, s. c., has
been employed in the bureaus Divi-
sion Of Highway Transport for several
years.
The POSTMASTER was Mr.. Edwin
w. James, chief Of the Division OF
Highway Transport Of the bureau.
Among those present were Mr.. and
Evening star., 1938-08-23

Rural Free Delivery Subcommittee of
the House Post Office Committee, will
be the guest of honor on the boat ride,
with Walter johnson and 300 auto
graphed baseballs as an added attrac-
ton.
Evening star., 1938-08-23
NAVY FLYER BURIED
IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY
1t. q. g. Clarence Kasparek,
U. S. NJ, Was Killed Practicing
Night Landings Aug, Is.

1t. q. g. Clarence E. Kasparek.
U. S. N, killed August Is at San
Diego, Calf, in an airplane crash,
was buried with full military honors
today in Arlington National Cemetery.
1t. Comdr. E. w. Davis, Navy Chaplain
Corps, offlciated.
Honorary pallbearers were 1t.
Comdr. D. v. Gallery and Its. w. A.
Evans, jr.; George Hatton. Joseph
Jaap, Harry Sosnoski and S. G. Mitch
ell.
It. Kasparek crashed while en-
gagged in night landing practice. He
is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gather
inc Kasparek. and a daughter, Cath
crime Jean, OF Coronado, Calf.
Evening star., 1938-08-23

Unemployment In Czechoslovakia Is
decreasing.
Evening star., 1938-08-23

Of Milwaukee are stopping at the
Dodge while in the Capital.
Evening star., 1938-08-23

Alaskan Air Service.
Air services of Alaska, which has
10000 whites, carried nearly 10000
passengers in the past IL months.
Evening star., 1938-08-23
Residential

Continued From Page B-3.)
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
TIT DONOVAN stood before

NlT DONOVAN stood before
IA her boss desk, looking
down at the letters she had just
opened and neatly piled in the
order of their Importance. On
top was one with its envelope
unslit.
She picked it up, held it in her
hands uncertainty and then, as q
step sounded outside in the corri-
dor, she .hrust it to the bottom of
the heap She did not need to be
told who was coming or what kind
OF humor the boss would be in.
Bill Keogh this morning was the
embodiment of eXuberance.
oh, Kitty. me darling, isn't it
grand day that's in it?" he cried,
with his beSU imitation brogue.
Kit wished her heart would not
pound SO wildly every time size
saw him. but there was nothing
to do but bear it and produce a
strained grin.
TIE ONLY GIRL
isn't ir?" she said. THE suns
out at last"
Who cares about the weather?
With the only girl in the world on
her way to town. the sky might
rain buckets but the sun would be
shining. In my heart" he caroled.
"Quite a poet, am I not? I am
not"
Giving her an affectionate clap
on the shoulder, he sat down to his
desk, and groaned.
Lord! why does every face
The Washington times., 1938-08-09

'proved inadequate, Bill offered
his.
Take all the time you want"
he told her mockingly. I'm in no
hurry. I'll be glad to hear an ex-
PLANTATION of this, if there is any,"
Goaded, she lefted her head and
looked him straight in the eye.
IF you weren't such a fool"
said his able secretary, you'd
know it without being told"
I'm afraid" he said after a
pause, "it's beyond my masculine
intelligence" His tone was gent
Ter, more encouraging, and know
ing she was caught anyway, Kit
began to humble into her hand
kerchief.
1t was eventually made clear
that Miss Donovan, having sized
up Miss Gwinnett in her intuitive
way, had decided that she should
be given a chance to show her
self in her proper colors and ex-
press her real opinion of one Will
liam Keogh. $50 you were trying
to save me from an unhappy mar
riage?"
That was a flattering thought to
any man, and Bill looked at Kit
with new eyes. Kit, in tears, was a
much more appealing person than
she had ever been, pencil in hand.
But, being man and egotiStic, what
he said first was:
CAN'T UNDERSTAND ERROR
what beats me is how ever
came to make the mistake!"
"Oh, why don't you page Mr..
Freud?" cried Kit.
Though she did not see them,
Bills eyes were beginning to dance
with amusement.
"Freud?" said he. "You mean
the guy who believes in suppressed
emotions or something? Do you
mean I had a suppressed desire
to insult Miss Gwinnett?"
How do I know how you felt?"
Trying to recover her dignity, Kit
added, "I'll take your handker-
chief home and wash it,"
IT didn't know you had a do.
mestic turn. You've always been
so efficient" he was teasing her.
you know nothing about me, u
chn InoloroI nhcfinof
Time I found out, I guess. How
about trying out your taste in fur
niture? I have several dates with
buyers that have to keep. Rather
diSconcerting, you know, to have
to keep them without lady along.
After what I told them"
You can call them off"
But I went to so much trouble
to make them with the right peo
pie" Suddenly he went off in a
fit of laughter. kitty. me darl
ing!" he cried. "You have no idea
how funny you are when you are
in a temper"
"I don't see anything funny
about it."
MOP" Well, I couldn't see any
thing funny in Miss Gwinnett'S
temper. At least you and have
the same taste in tempers. That's
something"
, us it?" She caught his eye
and smile would come.
"Oh, go on and wash your face,
: said Bill. Then we'll lunch anc
celebrate the breaking of my en-
{ papnmpOt -
The Washington times., 1938-08-09

cream manufacturer I've ever con-
tacted pick this time to take up
the question of his advertising?
He dictated one answer.
Certainly was break for me.
when got you as a secretary,
Kitty, me darling" he said. Il
never could figure out why Mac.
milan let go without kick"
BOSS WATCHES WATCH
She could have explained that
where the heart is the mind is,
and her heart had not been on
Mr.. Macmillan. Funny Bill Keogh
never even noticed it. Certainly
men were blind. AS they ploughed
through the pile of letters his
watch came out constantly. Sud
denly, so it seemed in the end, the
time was 1920.
ANY minute now," cried Bill,
his fingers drumming nervously
on the desk. The heap of letters
was getting low, and now Kit
could see the corner of the un-
opened envelope coming into view.
Wonder why she doesn't call?"
Bill was getting restive. "She's al
ways so punctual. The most pune.
tual of all the well-regulated Gwin,
netts-that's my Marion, Miss
Kitty. Just what this ill-regulated
1unatic needs.
Lets call the station and see if
the Philadelphia train Is in," said
Bill presently.
They called, and information
announced that the train had been
right on time.
Are you sure she said this
train?" asked Kit, trying to re-
lieve his suspense.
"Of course. I'm sure. Here it is
In black and white" He dug a
letter out of his pocket. "She-1
wanted her to arrange to come
back to town the day after the
party, but she said she would need
q day in between to rest up"
you haven't heard from her
since the party them"
"No, why should I? She never
phones. Economical, not like me. u
"She must be delighted about
the contract"
"Oh! She doesn't know I pulled
1t off. Just knew I had to stay in
town for the conference and miss
the grand splash in my honor" He
gave a feeble grin. 1T mightn't
have been such a success. me
totally surrounded by the Gwin
nett family. I told the whole story
in a letter she must have beer
proud to show in my place. Grano
letter, if I do say so myself"
At last Kit suggested he tele
phone Philadelphia. While he
spoke into the phone, he stared al
it unbelievingly.
Halo, halo! The Gwinnet
residence? Miss Marion there
Yes, this is Mr.. Keogh. I mus
speak to her. Thanks"
Marion? Darling, what hap
pened? mean I know. I've jus
got my letter back. What? Blu
listen"
Sitting tensely. Kit Donovan
watched the conflicting emotion
sweep back and forth over Bill
Keogh's face. Anxiety, irritation
incredulity, anger, astonishmen
and, finally, white rage.
They told her even more clearl.
than his incoherent phrases jus
what kind of lady was at the othe
end of the wire. Joy was shame
lesSly mixed with the nervousness
Kit felt, when finally Bill Keogl
banged the receiver back on it
hook and arose to his feet.
did you hear what she said t.
me?"
IT only began Kit, but h
was not interested in her reply.