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Evening star., 1938-08-17
Queens Gambit Declined.

The Avro tournament, fostered by q
well-to-do radio corporation, opens in
early winter and the Dutch fray
promises to Nottingham the great
Derbyshire festivity that attracted all
the ex-world champions and Title
holder Euwe some two years ago to
England.
"Ajeeb," Chess Automaton.
Pillshury, the master OF combina-
tion chess. cards, blindfold play and
American chess champion around 1900,
is reputed to have been the mystery
man in the mechanical contraption
that resembled a Turk engrossed in
chess-play.
According to Irving Chernev, author
OF Curious Chess Facts" one G. F..
Burille has concealed within the me-
chanical chess-player, "Ajeeb," and
during his stunt" career lost only
3 games In some 900 playedl
At Jackson, Miss, lives Maj. j. B.
Holt, who conducts simultaneously
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having special Catlin set of cellulold
pocket chessmen for every unseen
opponent.
A frequent visitor to Washington,
Maj. Holt took a leading part in the
development of the Georgia Florida
Chess Association, later the Southeast
ern Chess Association, today the So
called Southern Chess Association.
North Of jackson, at Tupelo, Is the
home of r. F. Goodlett, lumberman
and creator of Kingsbattle, or Chess
on-the-Lawn." which is a garden YER
sion Of the indoor game.
Kingsbattle chessmen are
carved from pine and rare .
hardwoods and retail from $50
to over $500 per set.
In front of Mr.. Goodlett's beautiful
brick dwelling is spacious lawn
adorned with a chessboard of marble
and close-clipped grass. On sunny
Evening star., 1938-08-17
FEDERAL GOLFERS
. LED BY TREASURY
Has Clean Slate With IL
Points-Army Defeats
Navy Handi|y.
By WALTER McCALLUM.

An open day in the Government
match play tourney today found eight
teams in the Federal golf loop spon-
sored by The Star practicing their
shotmaking equipment for four
matches scheduled for tomorrow ande
Friday. hopeful of catching the lead
ing teams in the league topped by
Treasury, which has won IL points
and dropped nary a point.
Heavy shelling on the military front
today had died away to mere skir-
mishing for position, as Army and Navy
gathered their forces again for fur
ther battle next week, following their
contest yesterday at the Army-Navy
Country Club, won by Army by
score of AZ to IL. That match, billed
as the high spot in week of activity,
proved exactly that, for both matches
were close. In the first match Tom
Belshe and Capt. r. D. Rodgers OF
War went to the last hole to win 2ia
points from Comdr E. K. Patton and
Lou Harrison. 1t all hinged on
Belshes approach putt at the 18th
and dependable Tom put that ball
from 40 feet-so close he couldn't miss
the next one, to win. Col. Kenneth
Buchanan and Capt. F. L. Parks of
War carried too many guns for Jim
Gipe and Comdr. A. H. Yando of
Navy, but here again the match was
close, although Parks, who is aide to
the Secretary Of War. carded a IS,
while Buchanan was II. The entire
match lived up to its billing as one
Of the high spots of rugged schedule
in The Star-sponsored tourney.
Four More Matches.
The schedule for the balance of
the week finds Commerce and Justice
meeting tomorrow at Beaver Dam,
while Securities and Exchange Com
mission clashes with the strong Fed
eral Housing outfit at Belle Haven.
On Friday scheduled matches are
Interior vs. Government Printing
Office at Army-Navy, and Veterans
Administration VS.. Soil Conservation
at Indian Spring.
General Accounting Office, medal
play champions of the Federal service,
finally mustered all their available
strength as they administered a 6-to-0
drubbing to Internal Revenue at
Belle Haven. Jock Olmsted, the tall
Indian Spring lad, played for General
Accounting and turned in a 78-the
lowest score of the day-as Frank
Buffers doughty lads swept all points
from the hapless toilers in Uncle
Sans revenue division. Butler and
Olmsted won 3 points from C. j.
Dineen and Victor Knoop of Internal
Revenue, while Sam Harvey and w.
A. Covert were grabbing 3 more
from John P. Dwyer and Ellis Jones.
Covert started the second nine with
four birds in row, which took all
the wind out of the sails of the
Revenue men.
Play Tie Match.
Post Office and Social Security split
a 3-to-3 contest at Indian Spring,
where Paul Rosendall of Post Office
scored 70 and, with r. Sheridan.
teamed to win 2i2 points Russell
Buzzard of Post Office didn't appear
for the match and w. Boston played
the best ball of two Social Security
men and dropped az points.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY
Baseball
Washington VS.. New York, Grif-
fifth Stadium, 3:15.
TOMORROW
Baseball
Washington VS.. New York, Grif-
flth Stadium, 315.
FRIDAY
Baseball
Washington at Boston.
SATURDAY
Baseball
Washington at Boston.
Swimming
Diving meet. Airport Pool, 8.
Colored A. A. U. swimming and
diving championships, Banneker
Pool, 2::30.
Tennis.
Federal Employees Tournament,
Potomac Park, 2.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
EVERETT SIGNED
TO BATTLE BOYD
Dempsey Asked to Second
His Protege in Scrap
Here Next Monday.

Buck Everett, former District heavy
weight champion who always has per-
formed creditably here, will clash with
Bill Boyd, Jack Dempsey's latest pro-
tege. in the 10-round feature bout
Monday night at Griffith Stadium, it
was announced today by Matchmaker
Goldie Ahearn.
Everett, who squelched the rise of
Murray Kanner after that local bat
tier had compiled a string of victories,
also has spanked such scrappers as
Marty Gallagher. Matte Brown and AL
Delaney in local engagements. In
his last appearance here he gained
favor in an impressive but losing ar
gument with Bob Pastor before a ca
pacity crowd at Turner's Arena.
Boyd Unbeaten as Pro.
Boyd, 24-year-old former COB, was
acquired by Dempsey on recent trip
to the Pacific Coast to referee the AL
Hostak-Freddy Steele world middle
weight title bout. Undefeated in 81
professional engagements after snatch
ing the all-Navy championship, Boyd
performed before Dempsey in gym
nasium sparring sessions and imme-
diately was signed.
Included among Boyd's victims are
Bob Nestell, who was kayoed in one
round; Sandy Mcdonald, who was
stopped in two, and Hans Brkie
Ahearn attempted to obtain Pastor,
Jorge Brescia or Steve Dudas for
Boyd's local debut, but none of the
trio was eager to sample the punch
ing prowess of the 6-foot, pinch, 190-
FOUNDER.
Planning an all-heavyweight card
in support of the show, Ahearn also
will plead that Dempsey arrange his
affairs in order to second Boyd.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
BY PAUL ]. MILLER, Jr.

Max Buwe, the bespectacled methe-
matics professor of an exclusive girls
school near Amsterdam, again has
vindicated the faith of his country
men by annexing the national chess
title of the Netherlands, without the
loss Of single game, registering a
go score.
Opposed by II master players DR..
Euwe. who held the world title for
two years until deposed by Alexander
Alekhin last winter. won seven
matches and drew four.
N. Cortlever, scoring 8-3, was
runner-up, while third place was cap
tured by the 71a-3l2 tally of DR.. ]. M.
A. Van den Bosch
In his game with S. van Mindeno
the ex-world champion sacrificed a
knight on the 25th move and tossed
his queen into the discard at the 30th
turn. -Four moves later Mindeno re-
signed. The game:
Evening star., 1938-08-17

We must hold the District open again.
It's too good tournament to abandon,
and furthermore, it doesn't do the
pros any good to have them disagree
on such thing as golf matches"
Bowers Favored.
Bobby Bowers, the blond medalist,
still reigned today as the favorite to
win the midsummer tournament at
Rock Creek Park, even though he
had to go to the last hole to win his
first-round match yesterday from Gail
Holmes, the District junior municipal
links champ. Bobby bagged a bird on
the final hole to win the ding dong
contest, and met Joe Rodgers today in
the second round. Other matches
found Tom Cook clashing with Bill
Leapley, Lloyd Myers meeting Harold
Kelly and Ray 10y matching shots
with George Nealis.
Leapley got into the second
round with an extra hole victory
over lanky Pat Axtell, the dou-
BILE -jOinted runner from a Con-
necticut avenue drive-in spot.
The blond boy from Central High
School Won the match with a bird on
the 10Th hole.
Chairman Leopold Freudberg of the
Woodmont Golf Committee is look
ing forward to revenge next Sunday
when his golf team will entertain
Nate Kaufman and his boys from the
Baltimore Suburban Club. The Balti-
more lads trounced Woodmont in an
early-season match, but Freudbere
claims they can't do it over the
Bethesda course. If they lick us
again, III admit they are our masters, /"
said smiling Leo.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
FOR GOLF
CLOUTERS LISTED
Doerer, Booming Twomey,
Would Find Longest
Hitter in District,
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

ny WALLER McCALLUM.
Who Is the longest hitter of a golf
ball around Washington? Is 1t Leo
Walper, Cliff Spencer, Roger Peacock,
Charlie Malone, the Redskin end, or
Billy Shea, the District amateur cham
pion? Or is it Bob Albertus. Tiny"
1ngham or Matt Twomey, the burly
gent who handles the ring destinies
of George Abrams and Lou Gevinson?
Tommy Doerer, the little bundle Of
dynamite who runs the golf affairs
at East Potomac Park, wants to find
out, so he announces today an open
driving tournament to be staged un-
der the floodlights at the down-river
park next Wednesday night, August
"a. The guy who can pole ball the
longest distance will get himself nice
prize
DOerer Likes Twomey.
With all the talk that has been
going around about the ball-belting
ability of Charlie Malone, the rangy
Redskin, Doerer thought he'd find
out once and for all just how far
the big boys can hit 'em and who is
the longest from the tee. And my
personal choice is Matt Twomey," he
said. Now. there's guy you wouldn't
associate with golf. You figure Matt
to look at home in an atmosphere
of flattened noses, cabbage ears, iodine
and rosin, but you don't associate
him with the more urbane (measured
by boxing standards) business Of belt
ing golf ball.
Yet Matt. to hear Doerer ten It,
is by way of becoming quite golfer.
And he has in his brief six weeks at
the game become slugger with the
power clubs. Playing with Bob Gar
ner, brother Of the Vice President, the
other day, Matt hit one that was
paced off at 342 yards from the tee,
And that was Only one of five like
it that he hit" said Garner.
Some Clever Southpaws.
Charlie Malone, the big football
player, is a power hitter who can
belt 'em as far as any man around
the Capital. He can win the affair
which Doerer has listed as a wind-up
to his southpaw tournament to be
played at Potomac Park August "a.
If Earl McAleer, who knows East
Potomac Park like a book: Byrn Cur
tiss and Tommy Bones Of Manor play
in that southpaw tourney it should
be quite an affair. But if these three
do not play it will be one Of those
what of it" affairs. They are the best
three southpaw golfers around the
overheated town and have been for
quite few years.
Entries will be taken for the south
paw event up to Tuesday night.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
BY GEORGE E. HUBER.
:. (Aur,lst II 1891

Every day in every way blue fishing
Is getting better and better. Things
look very rosy and the fish are show
ing up in numbers if not in size. 1t
started last Friday with large school
reported by Capt. Harry Woodburn OF
Solomons to be churning the waters of
Cove Point. Skipper Harry got into
them and captured about Is before
they sounded.
Latest spot heard from is Sharps
Island Another large school, or pos
sibly the same one, showed up there
Monday afternoon, and Herring Bay
boats that happened to be over there
caught as many as so. Capt. AL Kin
noman, who works with Bill Becker at
Breezy Point, verifies the report of fish
on the bar southwest of the island.
They all are small, running
from IL to 2 pounds, but plenty
are, or were, there.
Blues are fast fish and can run from
Cove Point to Point No Point and back
in day and think nothing of it. So
~ may tlAdU yOA WlAA AAAA0 OAACLA CAAC
place in the morning and another
place in the afternoon. However, the
Gooses Is one of their steady hang
outs and chances of running into them
there are as bright as any other spot.
Rock Around Also.
, Capt. Kinnoman also says that
plenty of rock are in the bay. espe-
cially across on the shoals and some
good specimens have been taken troll
ing. But it will require some cooler
weather, he says, before you really
can count on taking good striper.
Trolling often puts blues
down when they are schooling
on the surface, so chum If you
possibly can.
Needless to say 1t is difficult to get
the stuff. But if you phone well in
advance to Galesville or Breezy Point
possibly you can get . buslel or 20 re-
Evening star., 1938-08-17
AMBERS' BACKERS
ARE FEW BUT FIRM
Jacobs Sees $780, 900 Gate
Henry's WeIter Crown
Safe in New York.
BY GAYLE TALBOT.
Associated Press Sports Writer


NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-H they don't
melt down and run off in a puddle.
Henry Armstrong and Lou Arnbers will
gang up on each other for is rounds
in Madison Square Garden tonight,
with Ambers' 135-pound title at stake.
1t promises to be hot event, with
upward of $4,000 ohlookers stuck to
emporium.
One thing is certain: Rain cannot
interfere with the festivities as it did
last Wednesday night at the Polo
Grounds. when Promoter Mike Jacobs
swallowed a $4,000 installation loss
and hoped he could get it back indoors.
The postponement has not affected
the betting odds. The men with talk
ing money still are offering up to 3
to that Armstrong leaves the ring
the holder of the featherweight, light
weight and welterweight champion
ships, the first triple-plated crown
wearer in boxing history.
Confusion Likely If Lou Wins.
A loud minority, however. is con-
vinced that the upstate Italian will
outleg and outpunch the phenomenal
little Negro and retain his title, dis
rupting Armstrong; run of 38 consecu-
tive victories.
II Ambers should win, he will not be
recognized as the welterweight cham
pion in New York State. The commits
sion pulled the rival managers and
Promoter Jacobs in on the carpet yes
terday and made them sign an agree
ment to the original contract, stipu-
lating that mo title except the light
weight Is at stake"
Regardless of that Amhers, of course,
will claim the l47-pound throne if he
wins, and there will be widespread
confusion, because the National Box
ing Association has served notice that
it will recognize his claim.
Jacobs Is Optimist.
Nothing of moment has happened
10 either fighter since they weighed in
q week ago, Ambers at 1875 and Arm
strong at 1884,. The respite, however,
gave cut at the side of Armstrong;
mouth chance to heal.
Jacobs claims the poStpOnement
has increased the ticket sale and that
there will be 100000 in the house
tonight. More conservative estimates,
based on the heat and a rousing in
difference on the part of many fans,
say the scrap will be lucky to do
$4,000.
The outcome, in the opinion of most
critics. still SINNERS down to the
question of kmbers' ability to travel
IS rounds at the terrific pace habit
ually set by Armstrong. And, of
course, his luck in lodging Henrys
shammering fists during that time.
It should be a rattling good fight,
with Armstrong the probable winner
on fairly close decision.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
Rod and Stream

| served Blues also have been reported
at oxford and Cape Charles, with 6
few coming in at Shadyside aboart
Capt Robert E. Lees boats.
Walter Crawford, Everett Hinwood
Bob Raines and ziggy Hyman trollet
off Blackstone Island with Capt. Dave
Bailey of River Springs and caught q
weaks and Is blues from 1h to az
pounds. Junebug spinners were the
lures.
Broadcasting Stunt Planned.
Max Chambers, the busy secretary
of the Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fail
Association, is securing the country
looking for diving bell and air pump
If you have one you could lend out
get in touch with him at Preston, Md
He wants to use it for from the bot
tom of the bay broadcast over WFBR
during the fishing fair at Rock Hall
August 27-28. A novel stunt If II
works
Fishing at Ocean City shas
turned from marlin to tuna. As
many as Is have been landed
recently In one day.
Among the local rod wielders scoring
with this fish were F. w. Leonard
George D. Lane, Cliff Stephens and
Florence Hazard. They landed a So
FOUNDER after 50-minute fight aboard
Capt. Clarence Carpenters Suzie B
J. F. Steig and Mrs. F. A. Handy both
battled 52-pound tuna for nearly an
hour before they could put it in Capt
Leo Droughton's Sanpam. 1t kept
diving after being hooked and carried
them all the way from the steamship
lane over to the lightship buoy.
Another score for the fishing Roose-
velts-During their honeymoon trip
to Bermuda, John Roosevelt and his
bride, the former Anne Clarke, caught
five barracuda and one bonito while
fishing of the Challenger Banks, about
20 miles from shore. The barracuda
tipped the scales from l6 to IS pounds
and the bonito weighed -.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
Two Amateur Golf Threats
PIoy Of Fischer ond Wehre in Cleveland Open Ronks
Them With Goodman and Votes.

In the wake of Cleveland's big
golf jamboree, two new challengers
step into the picture at Oakmont
for the coming amateur cham
pionship.
They are Wilford Wehrle of
Racine and Johnny Fischer of
Cincinnati. These two long hitting
amateurs were up with the leading
pros. Each finished at 290 and
both played the type of golf that
will go far in any championship
miX-up.
Johnny Fischer has been around
the top for some time. Wehrle has
come along in q hurry through
Evening star., 1938-08-17

the last year. These two bolster
up the outlook for the Middle West,
as either is quite good enough to
win-especially over a test such as
Oakmont happens to be. They
will be coupled in the rating with
Johnny Goodman, defending cham
pion, and Charlie Yates, British
champion, who will be two Of the
standouts.
Any one who can play the golf
that Fischer and Wehrle played at
Cleveland against such fast-flying
competition must be given some
thing better than slim chance in
the next big show.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
AL Fresco Games Urged Here.


Washington has catered to all types
of visiting masters, but only orthodox
chess seems to prevail. AL fresco
games between rival clubs would do
much to popularize the game. Squares
of colored cloth could be placed on
the sod in Franklin Park so as to
form a chessboard. School lairds and
lasses could be decked in fitting cos
tunes to portray the divers pieces
Or even the local debuantes could take
hand and make al fresco chess a
seasonal social festivity.
President Anton Hesse of the Chess
Divan and Chief Executive c. w.
Stark Of the Capital City Chess Club
might match their respective clubs in
an outdoor public exhibition.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
PLAY FOR TENNIS SEMIS
Two Matches Are Slated Today in
Women's Tournament.

Two semifnalists in the Women's
Tennis League tournament were to be
decided this afternoon, with Joan
Bransford and Charlotte Decker await
ing the winners. Mrs. Bransford be-
came semifinalist yesterday by de-
feating Sally Miller, 81, 6-1, while
Miss Decker previously had entered
the next to last round.
Today's matches called for Edith
McCulloch to play Kay Baker and
Margaret Graham to play Hazel (Jim-
my Bishopp. Miss Baker defeated
Eleanor Voith, IS, 3-6, 6-3, yes
terday.
Consolation matches yesterday
found Dorothy Harding defeating
Matte Pinette. IS, rs, and Helen
Espey rallying to overcome Ethel She'd
low, 3-6, Ga 60.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
MEDALIST SHOOTS 1877
Avent's Great Score Makes Him
Choice at Asheville,

ASHEvILLE, N. c., Aug. II R).-
Medalist Arthur Avent of Jackson
vile, Fla, whose sizzling seven under
par qualifying score of 1877 for 36
holes made him prime favorite, faced
George Jones of Asheville today in
the first round of the Asheville Coun-
try Club golf tournament.
L. G. Heller of Asheville, runner
up to Avent for the medal with a card
of 143, had Weldon Doe of Mont
gomery. Ala, as his initial oppo-
nent. Defending Champion Maynard
Ramsey. jr., of Tampa, Fla, who
barely squeezed into the select circle
with 155 total, was paired against
Jimmy Westall of Asheville.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
Minor Results
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Toledo, 8; St. Paul, L.
Columbus, Q: MINNEAPOLIS, !.
Kansas. City. 3: Indianapolis, I.
Milwaukee. Z: Louisville, 4.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Nashville. 1913: Knoxville, So.
Little Rock. 5: Memphis, /.
Birminsham, 3; New Orleans, e.
Atlanta 5-2: Chattanoosa, IS.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
Armstrong Remains Favore A,u Fight Tongk
Straight off the Tee
By WALTER McCALLUM.


his golf hear him tell all wet I've
this
really
Of a "ehes
r.
enabling military golfers
another
Evening star., 1938-08-17
BECOME NET CHAMPS
Nunez, Bensinger Are Senior and
Junior Playground Victors.

Miguel Nunez and Bobby Bensinger
are the new senior and junior tennis
champions of the District Fairgrounds
NuneZ, captain of Western Highs
championship team and representing
the Palisades Park, won the senior
title by defeating Arthur Abel OF
Georgetown, 60, Go. Bensinger,
crowned boy champion of the District
in The Star tournament in June,
copped the junior title by whipping
Bud Edwards, 6-4, 6-1. Bensinger
represented the Takoma Park Play
ground, and Edwards represented Bur-
roughs.
Nunez outclassed the senior players
throughout the tournament. He not
only was unextended, but he didn't
even have to call upon his best tennis
in yesterdays final match against
Abel.
Evening star., 1938-08-17

In the dictionary "chess" may mean
game, a flower or a weed. There
is no mention of pie. Travelling South
one notes in Dixieland a molasses
tart about the sibe of a coffee-cup
saucer. The confection trade labels
the molasses delicacy chess pie"
Evening star., 1938-08-17
# &fEtE5: f: & s

days the chess players sit under
bright colored canopies on metal
swings and dictate their moves or,
rather. direct dark complexioned
lad to shift the 3-foot pieces from
square to square while the players
slowly sip Southern mint juleps.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
EASTERN LEAGUE.

Albany. a. Elmira. 4.
Hartford, s: Hazieton, = 11 innines)
Wllliamsport Z: Binghamton. 1.
Wilkes-Barre, 3: Trenton, 2.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Savannah. e; Macon, o.
Spartanburs. 3-3: Greenville, Ii,
Augusta, s: Columbia, 3.
Columbus. 5: Jacksonville, 2.
EASTERN SHORE LEAGUE.
Federalsburg, z: Dover. o.
Cambridge. 3; Centreville, 1.
Pocomoke, IL: Milford. l.
EaSton. Z: Salisbury. l.
The Washington times., 1938-10-10
Seek $4,000 Rob
Clue at AICatrez

SAN CISCO, Oct. 10
G.N.SD-In the belief that John
Obey, former lieutenant of Jack
Legs" Diamond, may have in
formation they need to solve the
$427 900 holdup of an armored
car in New York four years ago,
New York police were to question
him today in his Alcatraz peniten-
tiary cell. Obey was convicted on
participating in the $4,000 ran
som kidnapping of John j. O'Con-
mel Jr., of Albany, N. Y, in 1888.
He is serving a 77-year sentence.
The Washington times., 1938-10-10

Office Building "details also on
way) Agriculture Post SO, Le-
gion, dimes and shags at the
Shawn this Saturday, to felici-
tate the District Department S
newly-electS and install its own
big-wiggies Lynn R. Edminster,
of Illinois, has been appointed spe-
cial assistant to State Secretary
Hull, and it isn't surprising to find
Harvard. BrookingS, American U.
listed in his record.
Falsely allowing agents to rep,
resent themselves as Internal Rev
enue men is charged by Federal
Trade Commish against a River
dale man operating an Income
audit" service. Convention re
ports will occupy Ages st. Eliz
abeths Lodge tomorrow (R e d
Cross Hut. Johnny Federal
croaked today: "a bachelor is q
man who never makes the same
mistake once!" Labor'S Wage
Hour Division is to give prefer
ence Cd to those now working in
Labor, (2) to those now in the
Government and 90 to those
seeking jobs; preference applies
to jobs less than $4,000.
X 4 4
Took courage: Lloyd Brakeman
of War, who recently married q
charming st. LouiSette, actually
resigned to make his home out
there Cmost U. s. benedicts stick
tighter than ever to their new
CAT grade). Though hiring