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Evening star., 1938-05-31

~Aio oSoik>Seieaoh 40 opcA W JuiloIo
who did not reach their 18th birthday
before January / last and to boys
who were not Is on the same date.
But the interscholastic phase of the
matter carries few more require
ments.
Certificates from school officials
must certify the contestant in ques-
ton to have been in good standing
throughout the 1875 school year.
Further. If two players wish to quail
ify as a doubles team, they must be
schoolmates representing the same
school.
Qualification for one does
not qualify for the other, the
singles and doubles champion
ships being entirely separate
competition.
However, both the winners and r,,n-
ners-up in singles and doubles viii
qualify for the national tournament.
which will be held, incidentally, at the
Merion Cricket Club in Haverford. Pa.
from July II to 16 Incidentally. If
there are any hours in which 1t is not
possible for you to play your opening
match on Saturday, they should be
stated. Matches otherwise will be
scheduled Saturday morning, with
next weeks rounds being played after
school hours.
Cups for Juniors, Boys.
Qualification for national events
won't be the only big prize at stake
as, Tor the first time in recent wears
trophies will 60 to the singles cham
pions OF the Junior and boy tourna-
ments.
In the past two years, The Star has
gwen the winners of these tourna-
ments merchandise prizes such as
runners-up and the doubles cham.
pions again will receive in the coming
event, but so great seemed to be the
desire for q cup or trophy that The
Star purchased what the youngsters
seemed to want.
Unlike The Star perpetual cups
which are held by the mems and
women's champions for only one year.
the trophies which will be won by a
junior and boy will be their per-
manent possessions.
Robinson Strict Onicial.
Stan Robinson's defeat OF Bill
Howard yesterday marked only the
second time these Army-Navy Leech
Cup rivals ever had played each other
and it was a reversal of the result Of
the other time they played-back in
1929.
But constant observers of Robin
sons matches are becoming more and
more convinced that an umpire should
always be calling 'em when the Boiling
Field lieutenent Is one of the players
Otherwise, Stanley K. is going to lose
match these days that he has no
business losing.
The mystery? Simply that
Robinson always gives the close
ones to his opponent when no
one but he (Robinson) can see
where the ball hit.
The alternating currents of tennis
never were more clearly shown than
IN the David johnson Ray Sherry
match yesterday won by the former,
81, 4-6, 6-1. In the second set,
Sherry took 16 out Of II points at
one stretch to overcome Johnsen's lead
at 4-2 and square the match. In the
deciding encounter, there was streak
during which-by actual count
johnson retaliated by winning ~ out
of "a points.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
CHANGE HILLTOP GAME
Hoyas and Terps Play Thursday.
Knoxville Gets Wheeler

Hoyas and Terps Play Thursday.
Knoxville Gets Wheeler.
The Georgetown Maryland baseball
game, originally scheduled to be played
Saturday, has been advanced to
Thursday, it was announced today. It
will be played at o'clock on the
Hoyas' diamond at Thirty-seventh
street and Reservoir road.
Maryland, however, will be without
the services Of Third Baseman Waver-
ly Wheeler, who helped beat George
town in the first game last month.
Wheeler has signed major league
contract with Pittsburgh and has
been sent to the Pirates farm at
Knoxville. The former Tech High
diamond star already has left to join
the Southern Association team.
Pershing Mondorff will play third
for the Terps in Thursdays game, the
last for each team.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
Colleges Sports
Baseball.

DaSCUtlls
Chicago, 10; Northwestern, 9.
Brown, i; Harvard, 0 Go in
nings).
Dartmouth, 9; University of Yer
mont, z.
Yale, 6: Wesleyan, S.
Michigan, 3; Michigan State, 0.
California, 2; Western (Mich)
State Teachers, /.
University of Iowa, 10; Mime
sofa, 6.
Boston College. 8; Holy Cross, 0.
st. Thomas (St. Paul., As; St.
Mary's (Winona), "a.
Colby, ST; Maine, Al.
N. Y. u, 8; Fordham, 4.
Providence, IA; Rhode Island, 6.
Union, 8; Massachusetts, State, 7.
Williams, 6; Amherst, 3.
Track.
Middlebury, 87ia; Vermont, 4712.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
RECORD AUTO WIN
IS WORTH $4,000
Roberts Never Worse Than
Fourth in indianapolis
50O-MiIe Grind.
BY CHARLES DUNKLEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

| sAososidteQ IItSS SpOrtS writer.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 3l.-checks
that probably will total between $685.
600 and $4,000 were being signed
and sealed today for delivery to
brawny, 38-year-old Floyd Roberts,
former Sunday school teacher from
Van Nuys, Calf, who rode to a rec
ord-breaking victory yesterday in the
annual 5oo-mile Indianapolis Speed
way race.
The payoff will come tonight when
the 80 drivers who started the contest
gather for the annual post-race dinner.
AS the roar of IL other racing mo-
tors and cheers of upward Of .135, 900
fans sounded in his ears, Roberts sped
down the mile straightaway shortly
after o'clock yesterday afternoon to
get the checkered flag of victory with
an average of 1172O0 miles an hour.
His speed wiped out the old record
of 1850 miles an hour set last year
by Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis. Shaw
finished second yesterday, about five
miles behind.
Spectator Is Killed.
The days only fatality came when
wheel flew from the car driven by
27-year-old Emil Andres of Chicago
and killed spectator.
The victim was Everett Spence, SO,
Terre Haute und.) probation officer,
who had been watching the race with
nine other persons from a platform
built on truck.
The car went through a fence on
curve and overturned three times.
Andres was taken to a hospital with a
broken collarbone, two broken ribs, a
bruised lung and a slight fracture of
his upper jaw. His condition was re-
ported fairly good today.
Chet Miller of Detroit came in
third. Ted Horn of Los Angeles fourth
and Chet Gardner of Los Beach, Calf,
fifth.
Only the first five drivers COM
pleted the 500 miles. Rain, which
began just after Roberts finished,
caused Speedway officials to nag the
other seven off the track.
Others in Prize Money.
The other five to share in prize
money, in the order in which they
placed, are Herb Ardinger of Pitts
burgh, Harry MacQuinn Of Milwaukee,
Billy Devore of ST. John, Kans.; Joel
Thorne of Tucson, Ariz., and Frank
Wearne of Pasadena, Calf. Duke
Nalon of Chicago, eleventh. and
George Bailey of Detroit, twelfth, also
were in the running at the end.
Miller's third-place finish was heart
breaking. Driving about five miles
oenlnd Roberts and short distance
ahead OF Shaw, he had to stop on his
next-to-last lap for gasoline. That
stop cost him $1,000. Shaw passed
him and grabbed the $4,000 second
prize. Miller will get $4,000.
Roberts, who quit his Job in a Van
Nuys aviation factory to race here,
drove a red = and black speedster
owned by Lou Moore of Los Angeles,
former driver.
Roberts Always Well Up.
Never worse than fourth after the
first SO miles, Roberts led momentarily
dropped back after 30-second pit
stop for gasoline and a new tire, but
grabbed the lead again at 400 miles
for good.
Mechanical difficulties put three of
the four former winners out of the
race. They were Bill Cummings of
Indianapolis, Kelly Petillo of Los
Angeles and Louis Meyer of Hunting
ton Park, Calf.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
IDA's NINE NOW SECOND.

1da's Department Store nine slipped
into second place in the Takoma Rec
reation Center Baseball League by de-
feating Shankman's Market, SIS. Nor
ton pitched six-hit ball for the WIN
ners, as Bill Cassedy and Tom Robert
son led the batting attack with two
hits each.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
G. U. PREP TUTORS WIN

Faculty Defeats School Team in
Softball Game, 14-1O.
Georgetown Prep faculty defeated
the varsity, 14-1o, in a softban game
yesterday at Garrett Park as part of
the observance of the schools annual
field day. The day was climaxed with
the senior banquet at the Mayfower
Hotel.
At the track and field meet Ed
Cummings, football captain, won the
senior 220-yard dash, the half-mile
run and ran a leg on the winning
relay team. In the junior division Ben
Decker won the so, 100 and 220 yard
dashes and placed second in the high
jump to Ben Higgins. Higgins also
won the broad jump.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
SCHOOL MINES PLAYING
Roosevelt, Western Battling for
Second Place Today.

Roosevelt and Western High School
mines were to meet today at Roosevelt
Stadium in game which may decide
the runner-up team in this years
school series. Western at present is in
second place with one loss in four
starts. Roosevelt has two wins and
one loss.
Tomorrow Central and Woodrow
Wilson clash at the Central diamond.
Both games were postponed from last
week because Of rain.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
Lobs and Vo|Ievs
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Attention you hooboy rackers favorable from the u s.
T. A. that The Stars tournament for juniors
day Edsemoor will qualify for the national nshoc
as well as the national Junior and boy championships Culver expected
monenarly.
As tennis tourney
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Too Many Taxes
Found by Study
OF Legion Girls

About 40 junior and senior high
school girls who composed the Junior
Girls Nation of the Auxiliary of the
District Department of the American
Legion came to the conclusion yester-
day that Washington business men
are paying too many taxes and went
on record in opposition to contln-
uation Of the business privilege tax.
Action was taken in the House
District Committee room, where the
girls spent considerable time making
a study of the 1889 District revenue
bill and other proposed District legis-
lation.
Chairman Palmisano Of the District
Committee welcomed the girls and
explained some of the problems in
volved in pushing District legislation
through Congress.
If you solve the tax problem" he
said, you are better than Congress
itself"
The girls, under direction of Mrs.
Dorothy B. Harper, department pres
ident of the American Legion Auxil-
uary, are spending the Easter
vacation week at the Capitol making
a first-hand study of the legislative
machinery of the Government in
actual operation.
Later in the week they plan to hold
q meetir N the Senate District Com
mittee room and afterward view the
Senate in action from the gallery.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
BALANCED ECONOMY
HELD NEED BY GREEN
A. F. L. Head Says Raising Of
Mass Purchasing Power and
Relief Spending Needed,

America needs a balanced econ
omy, William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, de-
clared in an international radio broad
cast yesterday. This could be achieved
through teamwork of Government,
finance, industry, business, agriculture
and labor, the labor leader said.
Essential is the contemplated pro-
gram of Government relief spending
and the raising of mass purchasing
power, Mr.. Green stated. 1t is on the
basis of this lack of purchasing power
that the paradox of our economic
emergency rests, he continued, an
emergency caused by ability to pro-
duce more goods and more food than
the mass of people can purchase.
Warning that "the burden and de-
structive results of war fall most
heavily upon the masses of people,
Mr.. Green said America looks to the
democratic nations to save the world
from war and destruction" Mean
while, he said, we are deeply concerned
over conditions and talk Of war in
other parts of the world.
The A. F. of L. chieftain devoted a
large part Of his broadcast to casti-
cation of John L. Lewis and the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization,
blaming the former for splitting the
American labor movement and for
blocking q reconciliation.
The broadcast was sent by short
wave to Great Britain.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Keen Ear of Blind Musician
Inspires Double-Harp hrention
Greek Made Polychord
4 fter Noticing
Piano Defects.

A sense Of hearing so keen that it
can detect an almost infinitesimal
tone change led 50-year-old blind
Evangelos Tsamourtzis to invent a
new instrumental double harp COM
bination known as polychord-
which will make its debut before critics
in New York May II.
The swarthy. heavy-set Greek who
once roamed the coast of Asia Minor
as an itinerant singer until his acute
sense of tone distinction won him a
scholarship at the Conservatory of
Music in Athens, was in Washington
yesterday for a brief visit at the
Greek Legation before returning to
New York
Through his interpreter. NJ ]. Poll
tbs. the blind musician described his
invention as double harp. joined at
the end nearest the musician and sep
arating to an angle of 80 degrees. The
range of the instrument runs from
the lowest c on the piano to the next
to-highest A, but for three octaves
in the middle ranges the notes on
UOLN SeCtlOnS are ailke.
Five Years Perfecting Idea.
THUS" he explained, you can play
the same note at the same time on
two different strings-then hold it on
one and play notes around it with the
other" He got the idea. he said, from
noting tone defects in pianos, harps
and other instruments. 1t took five
years to complete
The advantage over the harp is that
the polychord plays automatically
rather than diatonically. he said
THAT is" he explained. 'on harp
the strings are tuned full note apart
and to play sharp or fiat you press
a pedal On the polychord the strings
are tuned for sharps and flats like a
piano and the pedals serve only to
soften or retain the note like piano
pedals
Another advantage in his instru-
ment is that it will be much cheaper
than harp, he said. His polychord
will sell for about $780, he declared,
while harp costs about $4,000
Evening star., 1938-04-20
'L|SNER'S ESTATE
IS 8,790,484
Value Of Phi|anthropist's
Will Fixed in Request
For Probate.

Abraham Lisner, who bequeathed
81 900, 900 to George Washington Uni.
versity and more than 100000 TO,
establishment OF a home for aged
white women, left an estate valued al
1890, ,4845O. his executors informed
the District Court today
The executors. George w. White
president of the National Metropolitan
Bank; DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin. presi-
dent of George Washington University
and Leon Tobriner: Washington at
torney. asked that the will be probated
Mr.. Lisner died March 26, year tc
the day after the death Of his wife
Mrs. Laura Lisner. He was 81. He re-
tired from active business in 1924
having owned the Palais Royal De-
partment Store
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Lisner had beer
prominent in civic affairs for many
years and were well known for theil
charitable donations.
The will of the wealthy merchant
was filed several weeks ago. 1t set
aside 100000 for his nephews and
nieces and the children of a deceased
nephew and deceased niece.
A chauffeur. Horace Key, was given
$4,000; the Hebrew Home for the
Aged. $4,000; Emergency Hospital
$4,000, and Children's Hospital, $1O,-
900.
A million dollars was set aside for
the erection and equipping by George
Washington University of an audi
torium. and all the rest of the estate
was ordered used for establishment
of home for aged and INDECENT
white women, bona -fide residents OF
the District, without discrimination
as to religious belief, nationality OF
descent"
The will provided that should one
OF the executors die, resign or become
lncapacitated, Walter N Tobriner, sor
OF Leon Tobriner, take his place.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
FAIR TRADE BILL
HEARING ORDERED
D. c. Committee Refuses to
Act Until Plan Has Had
Public Airing.

The House District Committee today
refused to take action on proposed fair
trade legislation for Washington un-
til the measure has had proper public
hearings before the Judiciary Subcom-
mittee
Chairman Palmisano led a fight for
immediate full committee considera-
ton, but was blocked largely by Rep
resentatives Kennedy of Maryland and
Nichols of Oklahoma. both Demo-
Gratis, who insisted that public hear
ings should first be held.
Mr. Kennedy argued the legislation
would result in higher commodity
prices, and pointed out it would meet
the opposition of President Roosevelt.
The committee, however, favorably
reported four other bills, and they will
be placed on the House calendar in
time for consideration Monday, the
next District day.
One of the measures approved would
change the name of Water street S.W.,
to Maine avenue. Another would raise
the salary of the Secretary of the
Minimum Wage Board to So, 300 a year.
The salary of this position was fixed
by the Minimum Wage Act of 1918
at $4,000 a year.
There was prolonged discussion be-
fore the committee favorably reported
by I to vote another bill that would
exempt the Mount Olivet Cemetery Co.
from assessments for public improve
mentS.
The fourth bill approved would in
corporate the United States Power
Squadrons, an organization which de-
sires to establish high standard of
skill in the handling and navigation of
yachts and to encourage the study Of
the science of navigation.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
MISS HOYT HONORED

Braille workers of the District
Chapter of the American Red Cross
yesterday honored Miss Adelia NJ
Hoyt, director of Braille work. for her
efforts in behalf of the blind, at a
luncheon at the Y. W. c. A. Miss
Hoyt retires May l.
Mrs. L. S. Wolfe, Braille chairman
Of the chapter. presided and Miss
Mabel T. Boardman. director of vol
unteer special services. spoke. Miss
Hoyt was given a handbag.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Mr.. Tsamourtzis spoke softly, almost
in husky whisper. and ran his chub-
by hands up and down the side of his
chair while the interpreter translated
his words
Blind Since Three.
Born in Perganus. in Asia Minor,
the home of the famous Renaissance
biologist, Galen. Mr.. Tsamourtzis be-
came blind at the age of 3. after an
illness. He began his music education
at 10 and learned the mandolin, gui-
tar and violin.
After winning his scholarship in
Athens, he studied instrument con-
struction and tuning in Vienna and
Leipzig, where he became known for
his amazing acoustical skill
Interested in aiding others who are
blind, he invented a process known
as the polygraph for rapidly reprint
ing texts in the Braille system. An
other of his inventions will measure
small dimensions from 200th to a
l,000th part of millimeter. it was
explained to interviewers.
The sightless musician arrived in
America April with three of his
instruments. his wife and Mrs. Phi.
Aranghi, harpist who demonstrates
the new instrument
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Tardy, five-week old Boston bull
terrier lived up to his name this morn
ing and waited two hours before he
finally decided to put his head into a
moose dropped by Fire Rescue Squad
members and be pulled up from an un-
used 50-foot we'll beneath the back
porch of his young mistress home at
3439 Holmead place NV
The puppy stumbled into the hole
when he knocked off a screen wire
cover and dropped wailing into the
dark pit. His mistress, Theresa Man
cuso, IL, was summoned by her play
mate. Elaine Cochran, 9, who heard
Tardy's cries.
With tears streaming down her
checks, Theresa ran to a nearby house.
where call was put in for the rescue
squad.
Using almost every device known to
Evening star., 1938-04-20

animal rescuers. including lowering an
Easter egg basket into the l2-inch-
diameter hole. the f1remen. under the
direction Of Sergt. George j. Kite,
worked for nearly two hours before
the dog finally was induced by the
jangling of bunch Of keys lowered
into the we'll to put his head into the
moose. While Pvt. Robert Powell held
a powerful flashlight furnished by a
news photographer and Pvt Paul
Burthe tangled the keys, Sergt. Kite,
with a sigh of relief, said: Hes
coming up"
A chorus of "Oh's" and "Ah's" went
up from the children. who had gath
cred from all over the neighborhood.
Theresa. overjoyed at the news,
hastily scrambled under the porch and
almost smothered Tardy with hugs
and kisses.
The we'll as about 40 years old.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
HOUSE DC. GROUP
KILLS NEW PLAN
ON HORSE RACING
Measures, Death Is Result
of Parliamentary TangIe.
No Discussion on 1t.
SECOND BILL IN YEAR
is VOTED DOWN, 7 TO 5
Hull Raises Point It Could Not Be
Considered, Since It Is Same
as One Acted On.

For the second time within year,
the House District Committee today
killed a bill to legalize horse racing
and pari-mutuel betting in Wash
ington.
Action came as the result of an
involved parliamentary situation grow
ing out of point of order raised
against the measure by Representa-
tive Hull, Progressive, of Wisconsin.
There was no discussion on the
bill itself. Representative Hull raised
his point of order as soon as Chair
man Palmisano called it up for con-
sideration.
Mr.. Hull argued that the subject
matter of the new racing bill was
the same as that of the measure
the committee killed last May II, and
therefore could not again be con-
sidered during the present Congress
Chairman Palmisano sustained the
point of order.
Decision Upheld.
Immediately Representative Sacks
Democrat. of Pennsylvania. sponsor
of the new racing bill. appealed from
Chairman Palmisanos decision, but
the committee upheld him by 7-to-5
record vote
Those who voted to sustain Chair
man Palmisano and, in effect, to kill
the bill. were
Representatives Kennedy of Mary
land and McGehee of Mississippi,
Democrats; Brewster of Maine, Cole
of New York. Bates of Massachusetts
and Shafer of Michigan, all Repub-
licans. and Hull
The five who voted to overrule the
chairman were Representatives Sacks,
Wood of Missouri, Bigelow of Ohio
and Nichols of Oklahoma, Democrats,
and Dirksen. Republican, of Illinois.
The Judiciary Subcommittee which
considered the racing bill placed it
before the full committee with a series
OF amendments, one of which would
have restricted the racing season to
SO days. In original form the measure
would have allowed 54-day season
Killed Before. 9 to s.
Another amendment would have re-
quired that at least one of the three
members of the proposed racing board
be a woman.
The committee killed the racing bill
last year by ordering It tabled by
close 9-to-8 vote. The measure, how
ever. had been previously favorably
reported and was recalled from the
House calendar as result of charges
that 1t had been "railroaded" out of
the committee.
Representative Bates, who took a
leading part in the battle that de-
feated the bill last year, attended the
meeting today, prepared to take a
similar course. He was armed With
reports on racing conditions in his
own State as we'll as in Rhode Island,
but did not have an opportunity to
use the data.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
PIE-EATING CONTEST
FOOD SHOW FEATURE
Is Boys and Girls to Be Chosen
as Competitors From Among
Tonight's Attendance.

A pie-eating contest will feature
tonight's session of the United Food
Show, being held every afternoon and
night this week at the Bus Terminal
Hall, Pennsylvania avenue between
Sixth and Seventh streets NV.
The contest will be open to IS boys
and girls chosen for the event from the
attending persons.
Miss c. A. Brooks 2l4 Twelfth street
Sc, was announced as last nights
winner of the best household hint"
contest
The Harmonica Troupe of the Police
Boys Club will present a musical pro-
gram tonight. A baby contest for chill
dren between 2 and 3 years of age
will be held tomorrow afternoon.
A silver trophy will be awarded the
winner. Admission will be free in the
afternoons for the rest of this week.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Benjamin Porter, colored trash COL
lector. never even suspected 1t was 60
ing to cost him IS to help Trafac Po-
liceman w. j. Smith with q spring
cleanup" job.
Although Omcer Smith failed to
mention it at first. he wanted to clean
up" an old case against Mr.. Porter, one
made last November when the police
man found the colored mans trash
truck blocking an alley.
At that time Mr.. Porter begged and
received permission to 60 home to OBJ
tain money for collateral, promising,
Omcer Smith said, to be back in an
hour" After the lapse Of many hours,