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Evening star., 1938-01-02
Keep Your Eye on Safety !
Don't let ronk eoreIessness destroy your sight
bv PAUL w. KEARkEy

volve air rifles; falling on sticks.
lollipops. etc; humping into table
edges, door knobs, low hooks. screen
door handles and other sharp objects
at about their eye level.
Scores of children. of course. share
the misery of the little Rochester girl
who was helping her mother with the
sewing Adult scissors are dangerous
for young children; 50 are standard
sized knives and forks and other sharp
implements of that order. Most parents
seem to forget that youngster
develops muscular strength a long time
before it acquires muscular control or
coordination Because child is strong
enough to manipulate a big fork like
Daddy's, it doesn't follow that he has
control enough to get it into his mouth
every time. instead of into his eye
with painful results.
More than once, as dinner guest.
I've protested when the nerve-racking
suspense of watching Juniors waver-
ing, uncertain fork flick his eyelashes
has overcome my self-control. Those
polite hostesses doubtless put me
down as an old fuss budget - and so
may you.
My only defense is that on twenty
four holrs' notice IN rOalnd IN for vOll
two dozen children whose empty eye
sockets confirm the old physical law
that two objects cannot occupy the
same space at the same time
When one of those objects happens
to be an eyeball. it pays to take that
maxim on faith!
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Then. take the daring - perhaps
the word SILLY" would be more ap-
propriate - feat of Carl MesSelt,
former Norwegian instructor in the
Poconos. Wearing "a pair OF skis. he
took off on glider at Buck Hill Falls.
Pa. in 1929, and after soaring several
hundred feet, landed among grove Of
trees with nothing to show but few
scratches on his face.
There also was the case Of Nor
wegian out West who made ordinary
ski jumping look silly by turning a
complete somersault in the air after
take-off from half speed. To cap it all.
his landing was perfect and his dis
tance was l2O feet.
For that matter. the thrOng of 5000
that packed one of the night perform
ances of Madison Square Gardens
gigantic Winter Sports Carnival and
International Ski Meet in 1886 will
never forget the somersault made by
Sverre Kolterud. Norway's virtuoso
on skis. He came down the 85-foot-
high steel slide at top speed and then
executed his turn, which drew a gasp
from the crowd as he landed on the
back of his neck. He was none the
worse for the spill Sig Ruud, Alex
Hendricksen. ct al, are other promi-
nent skiers who have somersaulted
from the take-of of regular hills.
Non-followers OF the skiing sport
have tried to "debunk" it by saying
that it is only for the young and not
for the aged or matured man. This is
not 50. For instance. during the Hol-
menkollen international skiing games.
a 65-year old veteran, Aksel Refstad.
and his two sons, 20 and % years of
age. used to open the famous tOurna-
ment with their spectacular leaps.
For that matter. in New York, the
59-year old Maurice Rocco. 53-year-
old Ivar Dahl and the 45-year-old Sig
Steinwall. former Swedish Olympic
ace. may be seen in any of the local
tournaments.
As rare as the proverbial dodo bird
is woman ski jumper Yet there is
23-year old Miss Johanna Kolstad. of
Norway, who has proved the equal of
the best in the world during competi-
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Stranger than Man
bv CARL kULBERG
by CARL kULBERG

WIrHoUr a single conviction -
$50, 900, 900 murders year! Common
domestic cats kill that many birds an
nually in this country. The number of
cats in the United States is one-half
the human population. Farmers, par
ticularly, suffer huge losses through
the slaughter of birds.
n PITTSBURGH golfer got five brides
without using a club. A rain-soaked
pair of pants, hung over line to dry,
was appropriated by a pair of wrens
for their nest. He tied up the legs
of the pants and brood of three was
hatched
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Stars Of the Ski

from the hospital and used a nearby
car for transportation, returned to the
jumping slide swathed from head to
foot with bandages. The crowd was
dumbfounded when he fought his way
to the top of the knoll, just below the
take-off. and came down with perfect
run. 1t was superb exhibition of re-
gained nerve. 1t was a bad omen,
however, for two weeks later the youth
was seriously hurt in another tourna-
ment and died.
Another remarkable exhibition of
courage was shown by Anton Lekang, a
second one-eyed skier, some four years
ago. The former national champion
and present instructor at Yale aided
in the construction of the 1,3OO-foot
slide at Winsted, Conn, heralded as
the most dangerous jump in the world.
1t was Lekang's misfortune, day
before the event was to take place, to
contract pneumonia But this serious
illness did not prevent the diminutive
skier from inaugurating the new slide
as some 10000 persons looked on, He
collapsed just after making the longest
fight of the day and was confined to
the hospital for week.
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Continvsd fros poes seven

$4,000 pounds of ice was used, and
the average temperature inside was
ten degrees lower than outside
The craze for skiing struck the sub
tropical shores of Hawaii with terrific
boom. Several parties have climbed
the snow covered slopes of Mauna
Kea Q3,823 feet high) and reported
excellent downhill running at the
1900 foot level. There was only one
drawback: the bright Hawaiian sun
on the tropical snow caused few
cases of temporary blindness. Open
volcanic craters that have ceased to
be active for many years also provid-
ed good skiing terrain.
1t takes a lot of nerve to go slipping
down the steep slopes of such huge
mountains - but one of the greatest
exhibitions of grit ever recorded in any
sport was in Connecticut. Here Chris
Hoidalen. the redheaded daredevil.
competing in tourney at Salisbury
in 1884. misjudged his take-off and
tumbled badly on the transition.
He failed to stir at the bottom of the
hill and was rushed Immediately to
Canaan Hospital Two hours later,
the indomitable Chris. who had fled
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Olympic team, winning with two as
founding fights of 1877 and 142 feet.
Brattleboro, VT, home of the Brattle-
boro Outing Club, also had exhibition
jumping on its towering incline, while
Russell Slope, at the Bousquet Grounds
in Massachusetts,, and the cross slopes
of Gore Mountain at North Creek,
N. Y, are some points where skiing
has been held under starlit skies and
electric bulbs.
Yes, skiing is even being done in
such remote and unexpected places as
Hawaii, Patagonia, New Zealand.
Afghanistan, Morocco, Kashmir and
Japan. They ski on sand in Peru and
Cape Cod and on borax-covered car
pets in department stores.
InNew York, real skiing was brought
indoors in December, 1896, with the
extravaganza at Madison Square
Garden. A huge slide of steel construc-
tion was built; it almost touched the
roof of the famous sports emporium.
The snow for the hill and 5000
square feet of arena space was made
by special high-speed ice-crushing
machines. each having capacity of
24,OOO pounds an hour. A total of
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Mosozins Section

tions abroad. Her longest leap is 1885
feet. In fact, when Miss kolstad came
out of the backwoOds of Norway to
take part in the Holmenkollen at
Aiker, the judges refused to let her
participate, it was stated, because
they felt that "a woman had no place
in such a dangerous event. This
created nationwide controversy
in Norway for some time before the
Medical Board decided that woman
was physically capable of leaping
through the air some 200 feet at a
speed of 70 miles an hour. Thereafter
she competed in events throughout
Europe - not as an exhibitionist, but
as an honest-to-goodness jumper.
One of the premier skiers of the
world is a lad who did not see snow
until he was ten years of age. This is
Dick Durrance, of Dartmouth fame,
holder of six national championships.
He was born at Tarpon Springs,
Florida. and first saw the swirling
white flakes in 1924, when he attended
New York Military Academy Dick
and Ted Hunter, both Olympians
from Dartmouth, have not only been
pioneers in many ski fields, but re-
Gently brought forward another inno-
vation - water skiing.
The questions of just how fast ski
jumper travels through the air after
leaving a take-off and how fast it is
possible to 60 on skis create consider
able discussion each winter. Another
favorite subject for annual discussion
is, "lIow far can a jumper leap with
out falling?"
Several years ago, the Swiss Ski
Club at Engadine conducted expert
ments to determine the greatest speed
ever attained over the ground by an
unassisted human body. The crack
Swiss skier, Chiogna, was used in the
experiment over an electrically timed
and very steep ski track
Chiogna used racing skis - longer.
wider and heavier than the ordinary
type. The track was laid out on the
side of an Alpine peak at an angle of
thirty-seven degrees. Chiogna's aver
age speed over the whole stretch was
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lave you ever recoiled in
panied surprise from smack
of piece OF kindling across
the eye - blood streaming
down your cheek from shattered
glasses - knifelike throbs probing
your whirling brain?
There's stunned split second just
after the impact which mentally lasts
for an hour It's that frightful moment
in which you grab blindly at some
thing for support and try to screw up
enough courage to open your eye - to
find out if you can see.
Just having been through the ordeal
of a stupid eye accident, l speak feel
ingly. And although l escaped with
nothing more than few agonized
hours. there are thousands less for
tunate. who carry an even more vivid
recollection of how easy it is to lose an
eye.
Look at the case histories:
Rochester. ". Y: A four-year-old
girl, playing at helping Mother with
the sewing, lost the sight of her right
eye when she accidentally poked the
scissors into it.
Richmond. Va: A six-year-old child.
standing at the stove, fascinated by
her mothers operations in making
griddle cakes, was critically injured
when some hot grease spattered into
her eye.
San Francisco: A ssven-year- old boy
at birthday party accidentally stuck
his fork m his eye, puncturing the
eyeball.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
by PAUL w. kEARNEy

Chicago: A night-school student will
probably lose the sight of both eyes
because Of burns received when Gel
luloid eyeshade burst into fame as he
lighted his pipe.
New York: A bridesmaid, putting
the finishing touches on her hair for
the wedding ceremony, destroyed the
sight of an eye by thrusting hot curl
ing iron into it. Working on the side of
her couture away from her reflection
in a mirror. she miscalculated the dis
tance.
This business of working from the
false perspective of mirror is an
extremely common cause of serious
eye accidents. If you must do it, at
least cover the eye on that side with
one hand.
Another simple cause of eye injuries
is the business of unsnarling knot in
a string or shoelace with knife. an
ice pick or some other sharp instru-
ment. Leaning over to see better. the
victim is in a prime position to get
caught in the eye when the tool slips.
Adults also sacrifice eyes in CHASTITY
numbers in accidents with lye. am
monia and other splashing household
caustics; in wood chQpping. especially
kindling; in removing bottle tops with
forks, screw drivers, knife blades. etc
Soft-drink bottles are also common
offenders, especially when the car
donated contents have been agitated
in the "wrassle'' with the cap.
The accidents which bring most
juvenile victims into the hospitals in
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lave you ever recoiled in
panied surprise from smack
of a piece OF kindling across
the eve i blood streaming
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-09
Steeplechase Racing Popular
 atAgawam Track

Springfield, June 9.-Steeplechase racing, judged on the results of two days of the sport at Agawam park will be part of the curriculum of every major race track in New Eng land in another year.
 The racing fans of western New England have accepted its intro duction with hearty enthusiasm, and the reaction has been so favorable that two of the most famous hunt clubs in New England intend to stage their traditional races here this year. Announcement at this time would be premature, for per- mission of the racing commission is first necessary, but it can be said with authority that Agawam park officials have agreed with officials of two hunt clubs to allow them to stage their races here, provided that permission can be obtained from the commission.
 Race track heads, throughout New England and the country, have been watching the Agawam park experi- ment closely. In its initial stages. they were of the opinion that it would be an impossibility to conduct jumping races here, but through the cooperation of William duPont, Jr., one of the finest courses in the country has been laid out.
 Agawam park officials were fully
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-09
BINGHAM QUITS OLYMPIC BODY
 DUE TO LAPS
Foreign Policy of Tokio Government Displeases
 Harvard Official

Boston, June William J. Bingham, Harvard athletic di- rector, has resigned from the American Olympic committee be- cause the 1940 games will be held in Japan.
 "I do not see how anyone could be expected to support an Olympic entourage to participate in such a country as Japan when she sup ports such policies as she stands for today" he said last night in dis closing his resignation at Boston Y. M. c. A. dinner.
 Bingham was chairman of the track and field events committee at the 1886 Olympics in Berlin Though he deplored "all that Hitler stands for" Bingham said, Hitler was virtually unknown when Ber- lin was selected in 1882.
 Knew It
 No such excuse existed when Japan was selected, however, he n- sisted.
 sThe Olympic committee realized at the time the date and place were established for the 1940 games that Japan already had invaded Man. churia, and therefore I cannot pos Sibly see how anyone could be asked to support such a team. l wouldn't ask my university to sup pert it."
 Bingham deplored the case of Eleanor Holm Jarrett backStroke swimming star who was suspended from the 1886 Olympic team for her champagne training habits. She did not belong on the team and was not tf.e type of woman to represent the Jnited States at games of the ideal stic character of the Olympics, he said.
 ''It is too bad such news received such publicity" he declared. Tt is also too bad that man of fine reputation like Avery Brundage should have to take the rap"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-09
MRS. MARTELLE MAY HOLD TITLE
Defending Women's Golf Champ Reaches Semi=
 Finals

New Britain, Conn.,, June 9-(R) The semi-final round in the 21St annual Connecticut Womens golf championship opened today with Mrs. Hazel P. Martelle, Hartford the defending champion, favored to retain her crown.
 Mrs. Martelle played Mrs. I. L. R Browne, Pennington, in one semi final bracket, while Mrs. A. L. Row. land, Indian Hill, clashed with Mrs Raymond s. Patton, Jr., Hartford in the other
 Finals will be played tomorrow over the Shuttle Meadow course.
 Mrs. Martelle entered the advanc- ed bracket by defeating Mrs. Rus sell s. Fenn, Pennington, and 3 Mrs. Patton downed Mrs. w. M Kellogg, Wampanoag, 6 and 4, in a quarter-finalS match.
 Mrs. Browne eliminated Mrs Charles E. Brainard, Hartford, the medalist, on the 18th hole after a ding -dong match in which the lead changed several times.
 Mrs. Rowland defeated Mrs. P c. Barney, Pennington, last years runner-up, and 1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-09
CROSBY 'BL0WS' 6 RUN LEAD TO NAUGATUCK NINE
Borough Boys "Steal" 7=6 Game in II Innings;
 Czaplicki's Hit Wins

Naugatuck, June 9-A timely sim gle by Gene Czaplicki made with two out and Tuohy on base, per- mitted Touhy to score the run which gave Naugatuck high nine a 7-6 victory in 8 game played at Recreation field yesterday afternoon The score came in the 11th inning after three scoreless innings.
 Crosby tallied four runs in the first and added two more in the second for 60 lead. Shea tight ened up then and had the stuff in the pinches from then on. Nauga- tuck started with one in the third two more in the sixth and a three- run furry in the seventh tied the score. Two walks, two errors and Frarrer's double aided in this.
 Both Wood of Crosby and Shea bore down from then on. In the 1lth Daly got base for Naugatuck but was tossed out at the plate However, Czaplicki banged out the hit which won the game. Nauga- tuck made five errors, three of which Czaplicki contributed, and Crosby had six, with Adducci making three.
 The important game for Naugy will be against Ansonia Saturday at Ansonia. The down-valley team trimmed the locals here several weeks ago and can tie for the Val ley league title and force a playofl if they win Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-09
By ROBERT WEBB

(UnlteQ ffeSS SLaH COrTeBpOn0entD
 Boston, June 9-(UP)- tions were today that War Admiral and Seabiscuit, who have ducked each other from coast to coast, would avoid meeting in the $50,000 added Massachusetts handicap at Suffolk Downs June 29th.
 It was expected that the mile and one-eighth stake race, which Sea- biscuit won last year in track record time, would bring together for the first time the two brightest stars of the handicap division.
 After the recent $100000 match race at Belmont Park fell through when Seabiscuit was scratched sev- eral days before post time because of sore knees, turf experts have ex- pressed doubt that the two horses would ever meet.
 Since Charles F. Adams, chair man Of the Suffolk Downs board announced that the swo horses would race in the Massachusetts this doubt has increased. Adams is still confident that the two will go postward in the rich stake but a majority of those in close touch with the Suffolk Downs situation feel otherwise.
 No Word
 It has been ten days since c. S Howard, owner of Seabiscuit, wired for sal reservations forthe 1887 handicap champion and eight other horses. Several reasons have been advanced for the continued absence of the Howard horses from the local course but the fact remains that Seabiscuit is still in New York.
 Suffolk Downs officials felt so positive that Seabiscuit would arrive yesterday morning that photograph CTS waited at the track railroad siding for the big horse. It turned out that Howard had cancelled the car at the last minute. Now the Howard strnig is not expected until next week.
 Admiral Coming 1 Meanwhile, George Conway, train CT of War Admiral, has wired Suf- folk for stall accommodations for 15 horses. This probably means that the 1897 three-year-old cham pion will be on hand for the Massa- chusetts because it is unbelievable that riddle would ship here without the Admiral.
 Although week ago, it appeared that Seabiscuit would definitely go, War Admiral now appears as the more logical starter. Perhaps Sea- biscuit will pass the Massachusetts in favor of some other stake where the competition is not quite so keen.
 Suffolk Downs is certain of fine field for the big race whether War Admiral and Seabiscuit both accept or not. Racing Secretary Gene Bury said yesterday he believed the fol- lowing would start: Seabiscuit, War
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-09

body then. A year earlier he had been a complete nobody. He had no money, no job, few friends and wife and a sick baby.
 Unknown
 Spectators did not besiege him, that day at Oakland Hills. He was just another gambler in sports most hazardous game.
 Three days later and Guldahl, the unknown, had completed the writing with his woods and irons-of one of the finest dramas golf ever has known. I can see him now. with thousands of excited folk trailing in his wake, standing on the home green with the blue riband of golf in his grasp. Calm, cool, unruffled, he took little comb from his pocket and smoothed down his hair before sinking the putt that gave him the open title.
 T wanted to look all right for those neWsreel cameramen," he said later.
 I talked to Guldahl yesterday, just before he went out on the course for final practice round. He wasn't nervous at the thought of defending his title. In fact, he scoffed at the old belief that the greatest pressure is on the titleholder.
 No, I'm not the one that has the heat on him." he said. "The real pressure is on the fellow who never has won the open. My name is on the cup, and it never can be erased. I know I'm good enough to win, because I have proved it, and while I don't like to brag, I might be good enough to win it again. like this title, and won't give it up without a fight. It has brought me and my family security. And if you think having little money in the bank ever hurt a players game, then you never tried to win when there wasn't any money in the bank or anywhere else. That's when missed shots hurt you-when you're broke and need em."
 Disbeliever
 Another golf belief with which Guldahl has no patience is the one that the biggest strain is always on the leader in a tournament.
 That makes me laugh, that one, " he said. And it will always make me laugh until some player who is in the lead by stroke or two swaps places with a fellow behind him, or deliberately misses a putt or two in order to lose the lead. Nothing would make me feel better than to shoot a red hot third round that would put me out front for the final 18 holes.
 q wouldn't have any strain on me, because then I would know that I could waste a stroke or two and still be level with the field. But the other fellows, the ones back of me would be working under the handi- cap of knowing that if they wasted stroke they would be almost out of the running
 My guess is that the big man in the white cap is going to be aW- fully, awfully tough to beat.
 Copyright, 1888, by United Press)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-09
BULLDOGS OPPOSE
 PLATES MILLERS

The Bulldogs are going to cross bats with the PlattS Mill nine Sat- urday afternoon at 300. Manager Sammy Procpion will start the brother battery Able" Deschenes pitching and Harold Deschenes catching Able" Deschenes has won two games and lost none and is looking for his thirdt straight vic- tory. Manager Sammy Procopion requests Henry Droznick, Ferdinand Fournier, George McAnn, Jackie Traver, George Holmes, Able De- scenes, Harold Deschenes, Gerald Caulifield, Mickey Maffia, Harold Parateau, Ray Lessard and Patsy Gelinas to show up at the South End diamond at 200 where cars will take them to the baseball field in PlattS Mill.
 Manager Sammy Procopion is still booking games with teams out of town. They would like to play any team from IA to IT years of age. For games please write to Sammy Procopion, 623 South Main street, or telephone 3-963l, Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-09

ITO attain successful golf shot the head must be kept down and the eyes glued on the ball until after it is hit" says Dick Metz, youthful Chicago pro and co-win- ner with Ky Laffoon in the Miami Four-Ball Matches last spring.
 Lifting the head is the most com mon fault in golf, and when this error results only luck can give you good shot.
 When the eyes are taken off the ball, which is just another way of saying the head has been lifted, the hub of the swing is thrown out of line. The left shoulder is lifted and the right shoulder dropped. This throws the clubhead out of the path it took in the backSWing and it either rips into the sod back of the ball or tops it completely.
 Note in the accompanying sketch of Dick Metz, that although the ball already has been hit, the head is down and the eyes are still glued on the spot where the ball was teed. Another good point to notice is the position of the hands. Close to the body.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-09
GREENWICH DENTIST
 WINS GOLF MEET

Dr. William Hills of Greenwich was the winner of the annual Con- necticut Dental Association tourna- ment yesterday at Greenwich when he scored a IT with Dr. John Con- nolly's 79 being good for runner-up honors. In the 36 hole test Dr. F. P. Marine had 139 plus handicap to win while the 18 hole handicap event went to Dr. Angus White o1 New Haven who had net 70.
 At the dinner following play Dr. White was named president of the association on for the coming year, with Dr. Gilbert Kilduff of Water town as vice-president and Dr. George Gilbson of Waterbury as secretary and treasurer. About 60 members and guests attended the outing.