Evening star., 1938-07-27
SOAP BOX HONORS
!. SET FOR TONIGHT
Norman RoCca, ID, Will Be
Crowned Champion-6O
to Share in Prizes.

Norman Rocca. IA, OF 2237 Nichols
avenue Sc, will be crowned officially
as Washington's first Soap Box Derby
champion tonight when prizes are
awarded in Central High School Audi
torium at O'Clock to the winners in
last Saturdays derby sponsored by
The Star and the American Legion.
Sixty boys will share in the prizes,
but the lions share will 60 to the
young champion, who defeated Robert
Banning, II, of 109 New York avenue,
Takoma Park, Md, in the final heat.
Norman, who will represent Wash
ington and The Star in the national
soap box finals at Akron. Ohio Au-
gust IA, will receive the M. E. Coyle
Trophy, a wrist watch and a medal
for the class A championship. a radio
for the seni-dnal heat in his class,
baseball bat for winning the second
heat and bronze medal for the first
heat
Bob Banning, similarly wins the
same heat prizes and a wrist watch
for the class B championship, as we'll
as a bicycle for being runner-up for
the city title
Star to Pay for Trip.
The expenses of Norman and an
escort, his father or mother, to Akron
will be paid by The Star. When he
arrives in the derby capital, he will
be presented with second wrist watch,
bearing the Soap Box Derby emblem.
Boys who will receive prizes in to-
nights special presentation, neces-
STATED by rain that poured down on
the derby course Saturday, include
winners of the first heats, who get
bronze medals bearing derby emblems;
second heats, for which the prizes are
baseball bats; semi-final heats in each
class, radios; prizes already men,
toned for class champions and for the
city champion; boys with the two best
upholstered cars and the three best
designed cars; boys who ran the two
fastest heats ttie for second); and
the best band and the best drum corps
In the derby parade
Cups donated by The Star will be
given respectively to the latter winners,
the Elks Boys Club Band and the Sons
of the American Legion Drum and
Bugle Corps
Sharing the limelight with Norman
Rocca and Bob Banning will be Will
liam Eacho, IA. of 1900 Plymouth
street NV. runner-up to Norman for
the class A title. and Leroy J. Poole,
H. of GIL Eighth street NV, runner
up to Bob for the class B crown and
runner of the fastest heat in the derby,
ho I
His prize for the latter achievement
Is tennis racket
James Wilbar to Get Prize.
James Wilbar, IA, of 4001 Twenty
first street NV. wins a bicycle for
the best designed car, and Joseph
Combs, II. of 1929 jefferson street
NV. and Lewis F. Horn, IA. of l248
Thirty-first street NV. radio sets
for the second and third best designed
cars
Erie Stacy, Is, of 1901 Brookville
road, Silver Spring. Md. won first
prize for the best job of upholstering
and gets pen and pencil set Second
prize, small radio, goes to Bob Maud
lin. 10, of, 1929 R street NV.
O. c. Holleran, director of the derby
and chairman of the Americanism
Commission of the District Department
of the Legion, will act as chairman
for tonight's prize party
Benjamin M. McKelway, managing
editor of The Star. will speak briefly
on the derby in behalf of The Star
and the Legion. Prizes will be pre-
sented by Col Lemuel Bolles, chairman
of the Derby Awards Committee and
member of the Board of Veterans
Appeals.
Prizes for derby winners were do
mated by The Star. Legion posts,
Chevrolet Motor Co., Chevrolet Dealers
Association of the Washington area,
Selingers Jewelry Store, Sears Roe
buck Co., the Washington Redskins
and Collins g. Aikman Corp.