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The Washington times., 1938-09-09
&c. U. OPENS GRID
DRILLS; EAGLES,
C. ". TO FOLLOW
BY CHICK KENNY

Third Of the District college
football teams moved into action
today as Catholic University, out
Brookland way, prepared for the
fall campaign.
A week from yesterday, the Uni
versity of Maryland pried off the
collegiate grid lid, and then
Georgetown followed Tuesday. To-
morrow George Washington starts
the ball spiralling, and American
University tops off the five insti.
tutions Monday, when Coach Gus
Welch assemblies his charges for
the fall foray.
Catholic University inaugurated
drills this morning at 10 O'Clock,
when more than three full teams
Of candidates reported to Coach
Dutch Bergman and his assistant,
Fod Cotton. A few of the players
failed to check in, but the Card
inal mentor believes that all
should be on hand by nightfall.
DOUBLE DRILLS
Drills are scheduled for twice
O day in the c. U. stadium until
the opening Of the academic year,
when the double sessions will be
curtailed to afternoon periods.
The first game of the season is
booked for Saturday, October /,
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
ONE D. C. TEAM
LEFT IN CHICAGO
'SOFTY TOURNEY

CHICAGO, Sept. Q GN.S).
Competition in the worlds anna.
teur softball championship tour.
nament resumes today with 81
entrants still in the running. Rain
forced postponement of most
games last night, including that
of the National City All-Sta-s, the
girl champions Of Washington,
ID. c. They will play today.
The mems champions Of Wash
ington, U. s. Aggies, struck a
stumbling block their very first
appearance in the tournament
when they we're taken into camp
by the Montana State champions
yesterday by O score Of 2 to 1.
Washington was leading l to 0,
going into the seventh inning,
but q home run by shorttielder
Sadler, of Montana, tied the score,
paving the way for an eight-lnning
break that saw the winning run
come across for the victorS.
Eddie Todryk pitched well
enough for Washington until the
home run took the steam out Of
him and Larry Mills had to relieve
him in the eighth with two men
on bases. Mills, coming into the
game under difficulties, walked
in the winning run.
Washington scored its run in
the fourth inning on some smart
softball. After two were out,
Love connected for a single. He
stole second and tailed on Ken
Berry's safety to center.
First round games produced one
no-hit clash, participants being
Pittsburgh against Pittsburgh,
Cal. The latter qualified for sec.
ond round play behind faultleSS
pitching by Harry Cowan who al
lowed only three runners to reach
first. two on walks and one on an
error. The score was 6 to O.
Chicago's Litsingers, who de-
feated Detroit, defending champs.
play Des Moines, Ia., today. If
successful, they will bid for q
quarter final berth against the
winner of the Toledo-St. Joesph,
Mich, aggregation.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09

when the flying Cardinals tackle
American University in the c. U.
bowl.
Down on the East Potomac Polo
Field tomorrow at 3 o'clock, Coach
Bill Reinhart will make his debut
at the helm Of the George Wash.
ington University grid machine
Twenty-Five candidates are ex'
pected in uniform with the 10
others expected on hand by Mon.
day. Reinhart and his assistant
coach, Botchey Koch, felt the urge
for drill as early as last Tuesday
and so, collected about a half
dozen players and started light in.
formal workouts. The six players
were augmented by four on
Wednesday and raised to a dozen
yesterday. One notable absentee
from the camp of the Colonials is
Halfback Frank Merka, who wired
Rei11hart that due to illness he
would not be on hand until some
time Monday.
TEAMS DRAW INTEREST
Much interest is centered on
each college team in the District
this year. Maryland, which
|, boasted the finest team in this
section last year, is reported TO be
in the mood to top last seasons
gilt-edge performance, thanks to
the wiley tutoring Of Frank Dob
son.
Catholic University, likewise, is
expected to pop up with typical
Bergman special, which means q
banner season that may come
close to, if not surpass, the Orange
Bowl championship club of 1896.
The basis for argument is the ad-
dition of a sprinking of excep-
tionally fine sophomores headed
by the brilliant Charley Moutenot,
and the Grade-A Juniors and
seniors who round out the squad.
Georgetown, too. is expected to
furnish considerable surprise
throughout the campaign, al
though the schedule from top to
bottom is much weaker than last
season. Three warmup encounters
to open the season somewhat dimS
the slate and this trio of softieS
may upset the Hoya cause when
it meets Sterner opponents like
Temple and Maryland.
George Washington furnishes
an interesting study as it moves
into line under a new mentor and
modified order divorced from
the Pixlee system. G.. w. moves
from its Camp Let's retreat, near
Annapolis, and preps for the
grind in the shadow of the Monu-
ment.
American University embarks
on its second season with Gus
Welch in the drivers seat. BY
this time the former Carlisle In
dian star should have established
his system and style, and only the
lack of material may send Gus to
cover.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09


Riley is restless as the incision'
on the outside of his right thigh
is slowly but surely knitting to-
gether. But just when the former
Alabama University gridder will
rejoin his mates Is unknown at
this time.
And Riley can't get any infor.
nation from DR.. "Pete" Moran,
the Redskins medico; the good
sisters or the interneS. All they
say is "Only a few more days"
LIFE OF PLAYER
But then that is part Of the life
Of a football player. You can
never tell. One may be going
through a campaign without q
scratch and then-bingo-some-
thing happens, and you end UP
spending q few days in a private
room of q hospital.
The Redskin "chief" finds the
"going" tough right now. He
missed the ball game in Dallas
didn't even know the score Of the
game or who won until he picked
up the morning papers last Tues
day, the day after the game.
Riley knows he is needed by the
team. OF course he Is modest and
all that, but Just the same, he
knows he can do the job just a
little better than the other fellow
in there whoever he may be.
So the sooner he leaves the
hospital, the better, Riley main
tains. He'll miss the Redskins
league opener Sunday at Phila-
deiphia, but he'll be roofing them
home over the radio just the
a m Turk, Erny, Sammy,
Charlie, Jim and the rest Of the
boys. He made sure this morning
that the aerial was right and the
tubes Of the old thunderbox were
in perfect working order. How
ever, he may be out Of the hospital
by then, so he thinks, at least.
MAIL POURS IN
Mail pours in for Riley, brought
by a good-looking red-haired nurse.
Fan mail! Another from Chi
cago. That makes about so from
there. One from home. Wonder
what mother thinks? And several
from local fans who are roofing
for a speedy recovery.
Meanwhile there Is q strange
silence in the camp of the Red
skins at Fairlawn Field, Anacostia,
as the gridders go through the
PAGES for the opening league game
Of the campaign Sunday with the
Eagles at Philadelphia.
Grim silence is prevailing
among the yearling members Of
the team, for no word has come
from Coach Ray Flaherty as
yet-the word that will mean the
dropping of four players from the
squad in order to conform to the
player limit effective tomorrow.
Who will go? Will a veteran
or two be notified that waivers
have been sent out? Within "a
hours the news will arrive.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Golf Begins at IS

GEORGE MOLLOY, medalist
yin last Sundays Capital Club
championship, was relieved to
learn from his doctor yesterday
that X-ray plates showed his
left elbow was not broken in
the automobile accident he met
with during the holidays. His
elbow is still so bruised and
swollen, however, that he will
not be able to continue in the
tournament this week end.
The only Washingtonian to
enter the Maryland Seniors
championship vest erday at
Green Spring Valley Hunt Club
in Baltimore was r o. B E r T
STEAD, JR. of Chevy Chase
Club. MIR. STEAD did not hand
in a card.
Coming up on the national
horizon Is the 34th annual Sen
iors' Tournament at the Apa-
wants Club at Rye, N. Y, on the
goth of September. The Seniors
Association Of the country Is a
fairly exclusive Set-up. There
are TOO members, each Of whom
pays dues Of SO a year to be-
long. Every prospective member
has to have two sponsors and
must be elected to membership.
The national senior event is
run off in classes A,B,C,D & E,
which does not mean that the
player with an A classifi fication,
for instance, is a top-notcher,
but that he is rs years old or
over. Class f includes players
of SIS to SO years Of age. In ad-
dition, these members of Glass
A "who are 80 years of age or
over may, if they prefer. play
eleven holes the first day and
seven the second day"
Journeying up to Apawamis
this year are WALTER R.
TUCKERMAN Of Burning Tree
Club: EDWARD CLIFFORD Of
Chevy Chase, who is a member
Of the tournament committee:
and Opera Singer DAVID HIN.
SHAW of Columbia Country
Club.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Veddy, Veddy Mannish

The women of the British
Curtis Cup team wore the pants
at Manchester, Mass, although
they missed their best chance to
take the Curtis Cup to England
since international competition
began in 1882.
MRS. ANDREW HOLM, of
Scotland. 1888 British cham
pion, is one of the few women
who can appear on the links
in slacks and get away with it.
She is tall and lean and quite
feminine, which takes some Of
the sting out of dark gray slacks,
q wind-breaker and a mans
collar and tie. In the case Of
MISS JESSIE ANDERSON, the
other British Curtis Cup star
to appear in slacks, the COM
Ibination was not quite so happy.
Local golfers are wondering
| why the U. s. G. A. overlooked
OPAL HILL, Of Blue Hills, Mo-,
in selecting this years Curtis
Cup team. OPAL HILL is play
ing the best golf Of her career
and she has always been a tip
top match player.
The links duel between DAVE
HERMAN, PugiliSm's Puhlicist,
and FRANK CHalls Of Monte
zuma") O'NEILL continues on
its up-61-down way. Latest news
from the front, at which MRS.
CHARLOTTE STERNE and
MRS. c. P. MEDLEY we're
highly entertained participants
and spectators, is that DAVE
trounced buckle. 2 and /. He
is now only EIGHT DOWN"
HERMAN.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
FOre!
land
After
BY Lillian Rixey-

Since washington won't have
1t, it looks like Baltimore may
step UP and take the duke for the
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Grid Drills

New and old candidates for the
Stansbury A. c. 140-pound foot
ball team are asked to report for
practice at 2 p. m. tomorrow and
at l p. m. Sunday. Workouts will
be staged at Fairlawn Field at the
end of Naylor Road.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09

1899 national
women's anna
teur cha M
pionship. Five
Farms, Balti-
more Country
Clubs cham
p / on 3h / p
c o ur e, has
put In a bid
for the ma
tional event
n e xt y ea r.
Four Wash
ington clubs
turne it
down for one
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Playground Tennis
In QuarterfinaIs

Play in the mixed doubles of
the Playground Department ten
mis- tournament, now in the quar-
terminals, was to be resumed at
the Chevy Chase Playground at
2 O'Clock today.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09

other, none Of whom has the
layout that Five Farms has to
offer.
If Five Farms does get the
women'S 1899 amateur, 1t will
be the second national event
slated for the Oriole City. At
Cleveland last month, during
the national public links event,
U. s. G.. A. representatives ten
tatively decided to hold next
years public links championship
at Mt. Pleasant in Baltimore,
which some Baltimoreans be-
live is a better all-around course
than Swank Five Farms.
Score: Baltimore, 2; Washing
ton, 0.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
BROWNELL OFF.
FOR AMATEUR
LINKS TOURNEY.

Bobby Brownell, the 19-year.old
Manor Club member. left for Pitts
hursh today by automobile, to
participate in the national anna
teur golf championship which be-
gins Monday at Oakmont Country
Club.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Miss Golden Gate Out of Race

DETROIT, Sept 9 N.N.s).-Much-needed re-
pairs to the hull and work on the engine will pre-
secOndplace winner, entering the Presidents
Cup Regatta, owners Dan Arena and Dan Foster
said today.
A One-andO one half foot section of the right
The Washington times., 1938-09-09

pontoon must be repaired before the boat can
take the water.
After inspecting their craft yesterday, the
youngsters wired the Cup committee, saying:
Regret unable to enter Golden Gate in Wash.
ingtOn Regatta due to badly damaged condition
of pOntOOnS and other work necessary on boat.
Returning to California Saturday. Best wishes
for most successful regatta"
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Riley Smith Expects
To Leave Hospital Cot
Over This Weekend
By CHICK KENNY

Riley Smith, harduck quarterback Of the Washington Red
skins football team in the Georgetown University Hospital
where he recovering from operation result Of injuries
sustained in the Chicago asar game believes he'll leave his
rorM Mnndn
Evening star., 1938-12-13

only the sound of her voice "cas-
cadlng over silver"
lrudglng up and down the noun
tam are those two eminent realtors
1unny and afraid, because they've
seen 4 ghost, having their money
TURN to paper in their hands. trvinp
10 buy dream with cash and hang
Ing IN their own steam shovel. There
are some scenes here where acting
ana truth merge because Kenneth
banghart and Harry Westcott really
are AFRAID OF that steam shovel and
at times the comedy is tragic and
vice versa. But it does me good tn
laugh at men who think that money
can keep them warm and safe on
mountain when the thunder rolls
and the lightning strikes.
Still I haven't told you what's in
High Tor" Just as a man is more
than the skin and bones he's made
OF, SO the play is more than the
characters and the scenery. Using
the language of the market place
theres an extra dividend of beauty
1heres an emotional truth that de-
mes words and meanings. It's some
thlng you feel, not something yo,
know. '
But If on Tuesday night you don't
see what I saw because it wasn't
possible, then, in the words of the
play, 1T wasn't there at ALL"
Not too respectfully,
STRICK,
Evening star., 1938-12-13
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Nati0nal-"Our Town" Thorn
ton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize play:
$50 pm.
Earle-"Comet Over Broadway"
Kay Francis new starring picture:
II am, 1:55, 4:35, tbs and 9:55
pm. Stage shows: /, 3:45, 6:25 and
9:05 pm.
Capitol-"Dramatic School," with
Luise Rainer the prize pupil: l1:10
am, 1850, 4:35, tbs and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 1855, 3:35, $40 and
9 pm.
Palace-"The Citadel" absorbing
story of a doctors struggle for the
right career: 1880 am, 2, 4:30, 7:05
and 9:35 pm.
Metropolitan-"Angels With Dirty
Faces" Jimmy Cagney gives the
Dead End" kids some lessons: 1880
am, 1:30, $3.50, 5:25, 7:35 and
9:35 pm.
Columbia-"If I Were King" ad-
venture with Ronald Colman as Viii
lon, the gutter poet: II, 2:25, 4:55,
7:20 and $50 pm.
Belasco. Moonlight Sonata" with
Paderewski playing it and other fine
music: AIS, sos, 8 and 9:55 pm.
Keith's-"Little Tough Guys in
Society,"" Park avenue invaded by a
gang Of back-street brats: 10, 2,
4, s, 8 and 10 pm.
Little-'The Private Life of Henry
VIII" with Charles Laughton re-
enacting it: 11:15 am, 100. $40,
$50, 7:35 and 9:40 pm.
Trans-Lux-Newsa and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1938-12-13
Interstate Chorus to
Open Its Season

The Interstate Male Chorus. CLYDE
B. Aitchison conductor, will open
the 10th season with the 49th con-
cert to be given in the Departmental
Auditorium. Thirteenth street and
Constitution avenue NV, Thurs
day at $3.50 pm.
The conductor Of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Glee Club, Prof.
IVAN Servais, now Of Washington,
has composed a new song, "All Is
Sleeping" which will be sung for
the first time on this program.
Grouped with this number is Mr..
Aitchison's own THE Wreath You
Wove."
A. Roy Williams of Baltimore, a
member of the Baltimore Il Ohio
Glee Club, will be the soloist on
this occasion. Mr.. Williams is a
lyric tenor and will sing a recitative
and air from Handels Messiah, ="
a group of three songs and also the
solo part with the chorus in Dudley
Bucks cantata. The Nun of Nj
daros." Robert Feuerstein will &C.
company the chorus: Charlotte
Rodda Reed will accompany Mr..
Williams.
Harold M. Brown, manager, is in
charge Of the business arrange
ments.
Evening star., 1938-12-13
Bach Cantata Heard
At St. Johns Church

"Sleepers Wake" sacred cantata
No. 140, by j. S. Bach, was given a
performance last night by the choir
of st. Johns Church, Sixteenth and
H. streets NV. with the assistance
Of Katharine Harris, soprano; Rich
ard Hill, tenor, and Jeffrey Gould,
baritone. under the direction of Ar
thur Howes, with Henry Kerr at the
organ.
One can never 60 wrong by choos-
ing Bach's music for study, if only
for the benefit that a group may
derive from 1t, especially when hav-
ing public performance as the
necessary incentive. The cantata
was no exception, for each measure
offers sufficient technical difncul-
ties. the mastery of which is already
something Of an achievement. par
ticularly If the group includes young
or inexperienced singers.
There was precision in the at
tacks and a rhythmical security In
the work of the choruses, even if
sung in monotone and lacking that
peculiar musical quality which
Bach's style requires to make it en-
joyable. But what the ensemble
and the organ were unable to supply
was made up by the lovely quality
of Miss Harris soprano, the ease
of her delivery and by the warmth
and vibrancy of M. Gould's bari
tone. They were heard in two
duets. when Com'st Thou, My
Lord" and MY Love Is Thine Mr..
Gould sang also a recitative, which
took the place of a short aria. In
this he again confirmed the good
opinion one formed of his musician
ship and vocal powers. Mr.. Hill
had also an opportunity to be heard
in a solo.
The performance was well patron
lied and the audience was atten-
tive. The next sacred concert In
this series will be an organ recital
by Mr.. Howes on Monday. January
%. E. de S.
Evening star., 1938-12-13
Director Sees a Play
r. Cowles Strickland Has His Saw
POLITICALLY, on High Tor

Editors note: Because he has
said it so 1DeH, on the basis of
prepie1D performance last night,
F. CoDles Strickland's opinion of
1Uhat is in High Tor" is pre-
sented herewith - subject, of
course, to critics possibly dit-
terent opinion in tomorrow's
paper.)
DEAR JAY:
Last week you and Miss Hillyer
and Miss Hynes were kind enough
to come out and discuss with Civic
Theater audience the subject OF
Whats in Play" It was soon OBJ
vious that none of us knew very
much about the subject. May ]
apologize for having suggested the
subject, not because you and the
other critics found it difficult, but
because it has boomeranged on me
and I have spent sleepless nights
wondering what's in play, par
ticularly in High Tor" It seems
only fair that 1 should tell you be-
fore it opens tonight, and then, of
course, you'll tell me.
First of all. there's a mountain
not much of a mountain when YOU
first see it as the curtains open, but
a mountain which grows miracu-
lousy beautiful and miraculously
high as the play progresses. Clothed
in the magic mists of words it be-
comes your dream of a mountain
and then disappears again as quickly
as 1t came. And if you say I'm
loony and am seeing things, I'll say
you're right and will try to restrain
a note of pity in my voice.
And then there's Harrison Libbey
or Van Dorm. I'm not sure which.
At least there's a lad who loved q
mountain and wanted to keep it
And there's that same humble sim
cerity which made us all confuse
Harrison and Johnny johnson last
year. And there's me, there on the
mountain somewhere between Har-
rison and Van Dorm. Before the
play is over I find myself consumed
with pity for myself that 1 have
been so brave and seemed so silly
and accomplished nothing. It may
be that you, too, will find something
OF yourself in the play.
Maxwell Anderson has asked that
there be dream girl, too, Vans
dream of Lise. and, like most dreams
that it be more real than truth
Frances Brunt plays this part, but
If you asked me how she plays it
1 couldn't say. There she is, made
OF mists and winds and words
Sometimes I sit and listen as she
comforts Van, but hear no words
Evening star., 1938-12-13

The most provocative play of
the year simply will have to be
Thornton Wilder'S Our Town."
In this quiet and beautiful drama
Mr.. Wilder may or may not have
started a revolution in dramatic
construction for these times, but
he has at least created an expert
ence that no discerning theater-
goer can afford to miss.
Our Town." an examination OF
life and death narrated in the
poetic terms which Mr.. Wilder
used in THE Bridge of San Luis
Rey" several years ago, is like
nothing you have seen in years.
It is more like what the ancient
Greeks and Chinese saw when
the drama was simple and pure
in heart. 1t is played without
scenery, with the most primitive
of properties, an arrangement
which leaves the vision unob-
structed in ones effort to grasp
the full richness of the plays
meaning. There is a lot of mean
ing to grasp, too, for while the
landscape of the play is a small
New Hampshire town, the drama
tist found in chat tiny plot some
thing closely resembling the scope
OF life and death. If he didn't, he
accomplished the neatest trick of
the year in making an audience
believe he did.
The construction of "Our
Town" is such that the play takes
the audience Immediately to its
great and simple heart. Frank
Craven, who plays the part the
author has chosen to call the
stage manager, simply walks on
the stage, leans against the
proscenium (after arranging a
few simple props) and starts talk
ing directly to the audience. He
introduces the town of Growers
Corners, which is the hero of the
drama. and then he introduces a
few of its principal and subordi-
nate citizens. Throughout the
whole action OF the play he keeps
up a quiet. POLITICALLY written
philosophic narrative which ex-
plains pretty nearly the whole of
existence and a lot of the i'm
mortality that is supposed to
come after.
Our Town" does not have acts.
1t has instead three episodes.
Episode one is called Daily Life.
In it the audience follows the
population of the town through
such undramatic sounding things
as getting up in the morning,
Evening star., 1938-12-13

of the best singing yesterday. Par
ticularly unforgettable were the
arias. 'Lamento di Federico" from
Cilea's "L'Arlesiana" and "Vaine-
ment. ma bien aimee" from Lalo's
lie Roi dYs," Schubert's "Wohin'
and Fosters Il Dreamed of Jeanie
With the Light Brown Hair" Pene-
tratingly sweet or deeply emotional
these numbers showed the wide
range of Mr.. Crooks artistry to
perfection.
After singing Lehmann's "Ah,
Moon of My Delight" by request,
Mr.. Crooks added a charming
French song by Mrs. Townsend, in
sisting on, and finally persuading
Mrs. Townsend to accompany him
Her consent was gained on condi-
ton that he also sing the aria
that first brought him fame at the
Metropolitan Opera. lie Reve" from
"Manon," which he gave in his
matchless manner Immediately
afterward.
The program concluded with the
duet from Act Nv of La Boheme'
by Mr.. Crooks and Mr.. Nicholson
The accompanies were Frederick
Schauwecker for Mr.. Crooks and Mr.
Nicholson and Bernard Frank for
Mr.. Virovai.