Evening star., 1938-06-27
DERBY Winners
TO GET MEDALS.
Each Heat Victor in Race
viii Receive Special
Bronze Award.

Each boy who wins q heat In The
Star-American Legion Soap Box Derby
will be presented with = specially de-
signed bronze medal. Derby Director
O G. Holleran announced today.
The medals will be struck OIL within!
! the next two weeks, Mr.. HdllerAn. said,
and will be delivered 70 derby head
quarters well, In advance Of the local
race. which will be run on July 2S.
Every boy who runs car in the
Capitals first derby will receive an
all-steel. turret-top helmet and a spe-
cial sweat shirt with the insignia of
the 1898 washington Soap Box Derby.
Committee Gathers Prizes.
The Derby Awards Committee. led
by COL Lemuel Bolles. member of the
Board of Veterans Appeals, Is going
to work in real earnest this week to
gather for Washington boys the finest
list Of prizes Of any derby city in the
United States. '..t.
There will be prizes for the cham
pion and runner-up, for other lads
who nearly win the big race. for the
boys with the best-designed and best
upholstered cars and for the boy
whose car has the best brakes. In
addition, there will be 4 number of
consolation prizes.
Meanwhile. Legionnaires, parents
and derby. boys themselves joined In
an extension of roundup week."
which is designed to bring every in
terested boy in the metropolitan area
into the derby by July l.
Worth Working For.
These prizes are worth working
for" declared the derby director, and
to win one Or more OF them, every
boy in the derby should work hard to
built the best racing car"
Washington I. Cleveland, manager
Of the District branch Of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association. was to be
the speaker At 4:15 Sp.m. today over
Station WJsv in the current series Of
broadcasts to publicize the derby.
The Derby Question Box, for the
benef1t Of boys who need help on
problems relating to the race in gen.
eral and racer building in particular,
was to be conducted on the same radio
period by Jack Kaiser, IA, Of 1904
D street Sc, member of the south
east branch Of the Boys Club of
washington, and Mr.. Holleran.
NAL Brown to Speak on Radio.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintend-
ent Of police and founder Of the Bows
Club of Metropolitan Police, Will
speak on WJSV tomorrow at 1890
pm. in behalf of the derby. The boy
questioner will be Dumont Heath, is.
OF 520l Kansas avenue NV. DERBY
candidate from Roosevelt High School.
Boys not younger than 9 nor older
than Is years are eligible for the mid
summer competition The boy who
wins here will be sent to Akron, Ohio,
escorted by parent and At The Stars
expense, to race August II for the
United States and world Soap Box
Derby championships. Registration
Tor the derby is being conducted by
IL Chevrolet motor car dealers in
Washington, Silver Spring and Hyatts-
vile. Md: Clarendon, Alexandra and
Falls Church, Va.
Interest in the derby is not con-
nned to Washington alone, because
there already Is stable list of entries
from nearby Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties, Nd. and from
alexandria and Arlington County, Va.
New Derby Entrants.
The latest list OF derby entrants
includes:
Frederick Frissell. 'jr., Is, Of 1857
Eosedale street NE. Eliot Junior
High; Raymond g. Giovanoni, 10, Of
Sl2 Rittenhouse street NV, Whit
tier School; Alvin Brown, l3, of 1714
Fourteenth street Sc, Anacostia
Junior High; David Lenarduzzi. 13.
OF 1878 Owen place NE, Stuart Junior
High; William Wheeler, is, and
Elmore Wheeler. IL, Of 1853 Massa-
chusetts avenue Sc, Buchanan
School; Daniel B. Hager. IL, of 1s46
K street Sc. Tyler School: Newton
James. Route 1, Benning. d. c., Mary
iano fark School; John P. Slattery,
II, OF 1929 Otis street NE, st. An
thony School; Eugene Crawford. Is
OF aS6 D street NE. Stuart Junior
High: Warren Oliveri, IA. of 14os
Morse street NE, Eliot Junior Hish
ana Herbert Hutson, II, of 81s North
Jackson street. Arlington, Va, Wash