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Miss Luella Chase
And Miss Richards
Honored by D. A. R.

MISS JANET RICHARDS and Miss
Luella Chase were elected hon.
orary members Of the Overseas and
Territorial Daughters of the American
Revolution" in recognition of their in
terest in the work Of the D. A. r.
chapters In foreign countries.
Fort McHenry Chapter recently
made . pilgrimage to Baltimore to
visit Fort McHenry. This chapter is
named for Col James McHenry, Sec
retary Of State under Washington, for
whom the fort is also named. On the
occasion Of the recent visit, members
met for short services under the tree
placed in the fort in 1882 by the chap
ter in memory Of Col. McHenry. Miss
Viola Reece, regent, conducted short
services. A brief history of the fort
was given by Mrs. Delos Thayer.
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The annual June dinner dance of
Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter will
be held at the Army and Navy Coun-
try Club Thursday at Z pm. It will
be the final social fuction of the chap
ter for the year. Miss Josephine Davis,
vice regent, is in charge Of arrange
ments. She is being assisted by Miss
Fredericka Owen, Miss Charlotte
Garland, Mrs. George F. Glover and
Mrs. Arthur E. Kimberly. Mrs. Edgar
E. Good is the regent.
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Wins Award.

Mrs. l.. L. Hurley was given the
Country Gentlewoman's award for the
outstanding rural woman. at the meet
ing of the Woman,s Community Club
Of Beltsville, Md, last Monday at the
home Of Mrs. r. Lee Sellman. The
club, which has sponsored a All Club,
entered Mrs. Hurley's name in the
contest because of her outstanding
work in the All Club and because
she has served as director of the glee
club. The award, which was made
by Mrs. T. +. Woodward, was one Of
50 given in different parts Of the
country.
Omcers elected were: Mrs. Roderick
Benton, president; Mrs. Walter Beck
er, vice president; Mrs. Rose Armiger,
corresponding secretary; Mrs. Milton
Davis, recording secretary, and Mrs.
Theodore Byerly, treasurer. Mrs.
Herbert d. Newman was chairman of
the Nominating Committee.
The retiring president, Mrs. George
Hughes, was the assistant hostess.
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Home Economics
Group to Meet
In Capital.

THE twelfth biennial conclave Of Phi
Epsilon Omicron, the home eco
nomics professional sorority, will be-
gin Thursday at 9 am. at Wardman
Park Hotel and will continue through
Saturday, closing with banquet that
evening. The Washington Alumnae
Chapter will be the hostess group, as
sisted by the active and alumnae
chapters of Buffalo State Teachers
College at Buffalo, N. Y, and the
West Virginia University Chapter of
Morgantown, w. Va.
The program includes business ses-
sion and round-tables discussion, and
an educational tour which will consist
OF visit to the White House and to
the Bureau Of Home Economics on
Thursday afternoon. Election Of OIL
GERS and committee reports will occupy
the Saturday morning session and an
initiation service for national honor
ary members will be held Saturday
afternoon.
-Four speakers will discuss the con-
tinuing influence Of Phi Upsilon Omi-
cron at the banquet They will be
Mrs. Katherine Van AIKEN Burns
president Of the Home Economics AS
sociation, who will speak on Home
economics in Extension; Miss Edna
p. Amidon Of the Once of Education
Home Economics in Education: DR.
Marietta Echelberger of Chicago
Home Economics in Business" and
Mrs. Genevieve Forthum Of Fargo, N
OAK. Home Economics in the Home. >
Mrs. Harriet r. Howe of the Amer
1can Home Economics Association will
be the speaker Friday morning. She
will discuss the national project OF
the fraternity, the consumer education
service. DR.. Lucille Reynolds of the
Farm Credit Administration will pre-
side at this meeting.
Phi Upsilon Omicron is composed OF
home economics specialists. Its men,
bership is drawn from the upper two
f1fths Of the college classes In this
subject. There are 81 chapters in
various home economics institutions
OF the country, rs Of which are active
chapters and the others alumnae.
Two Of the members of the national
council are Washington women. Miss
Florence Fallgatter of the United
States Once Of Education, is the ma
tional president. and Miss Margaret
A. Lunn, national secretary. The
other officers are: Vice president, Miss
Winona Morgan of Ohio State Uni
versity; treasurer, Mrs. Elizabeth
Shirley Of Midland, Tex, and Gus
todian. Miss Emily Brown Carter of
Wheeling, w. Va.
Mrs. Barbara Potter is the chair
man of the committee in charge Of
the conclave. The members are Mrs.
Elizabeth Shirley, Miss Villa Jane
Wolfe, Miss Ruth Frank, Miss Alma
Roudebush, Mrs. Ella Mae Simmons
and DR.. Lucille Reynolds.
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home Of Miss Mary Connolly, 1884
Girard street NE, to make plans
Tor the events Of the coming week,
which will include an outing today
at North Beach and the regular club
meeting Thursday evening at the
Continental Hotel for election of Of
hcerS.
Miss Mary Bourke Of the WASH
ington Soroptomist Club Is chairman
IN charge of luncheon to be given
by the South Atlantic region of the
American Federation Of Soroptomist
Clubs Tuesday at the Claridge Hotel
IN Atlantic City, N. j., as q part Of
the convention now in session. Diane
Deering Christenberry of Arlington,
Va. will be the guest artist on this
occasion
Mrs. Nathan N. Wallack, first vice
president Of the Washington Branch
Of the Woman's Auxiliary Of the jew
ish Consumptives' Relief Society, will
represent the local branch at the
annual conference this week In Den
yer. She was selected because Of her
outstanding work for the organiza-
ton. Mrs. Louis Dinowitz will 60 as
alternate.
Mrs. Joseph Millenson will also at
tend the conference, Is recording sec
retary for the National Council Of the
Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society
Auxiliary. Miss Irene Saloman will
represent the Junior Auxiliary Of
WashinSton,
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Pen Women
Plan Tea
June 26
District Branch to
Mark Founders
Day Then.

"HE founders day tea Of the
District Of Columbia Branch
Of the League Of American
L Pen Women will be held June
26 from 4 to 6 pm. at Martha Wash
ington Seminary.
Mrs. Emma Triepel, Mrs. Virginia
King Frye and Miss Anna Patten. the
only living charter members Of the
branch, will be the special guests Of
honor.
Other honor guests are Mrs. Joseph
Auslander, national president; Mrs.
Theodore Cunningham, national first
vice president; Mrs. Samuel Wassell,
second vice president; Miss Clara
Manderschied, national recording sec
retary; Mrs. w. w. Scott, national
corresponding secretary; Mrs. Millward
c. Taft, national treasurer; Mrs. Mar
jorie Luckctt. national librarian; Mrs.
Lillian E. Gaddess, national registrar;
Mrs. Thomas J. Cajigas. national audi
tor; Mrs. E. Richard Gasch. national
parliamentarian; Mrs. Matilde Kolb
Bartlett national chaplain; Mrs. Her
bert Votaw, State president, Chevy
Chase Branch; Miss Louise Worden,
State president Of Maryland, and Miss
Marguerite. Merigold. State president Of
the District of Columbia.
Mrs. w. w. Scott. reception cnair-
man, will present the guests. Receiv-
ing with Mrs. Inez Sheldon Tyler,
president of the District Of Columbia
Branch, will be the three founders,
Mrs. r. c. Sheriff., first vice presi-
dent, and Mrs. Minnie Briggs, Sec
ond vice president.
Mrs. w. Harry King and Miss Mat
tie Tyler will receive the guests. Tea
will be poured by Mrs. Victoria Faber
Stevenson. national past president;
Miss Marguerite Merigold. junior past
president; Mrs. Dawson Olmstead. DR..
Frances Moon Butts, Mrs. w. Wal
ton Badgley. Mrs. E. Richard Gasch.
DR.. Jean Stephenson, Mrs. w. M.
Moses. Mrs. Aaron d. Newman and
Mrs. Theodore Tiller, who was the
first of these branch presidents.
Generally assisting will be Mrs.
Helen r. Watson, Mrs. Royal S.
Copeland, Mrs. Nellie Irish. DR.. Mary
Meek Atkinson Moore, Mrs Ruth
Norcross Hoxie. Mrs. Augustus O.
Thomas, Mrs. Mathilde Kolb Bartlett,
Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett. Mrs. Agnes
Mccall Parker, Mrs. Thora Henshaw
Seaton, Mrs. Dykstra. Nine Felian
Garzia, Mrs. H. B. Zimmele, Mrs.
w. F. Dennis, Miss Agnes Winn, Miss
Iva Sullivan, Mrs. David McDougal,
Miss Marguerite Bailey, Miss Ruby
Nevins, Miss Elizabeth Hartman, Mrs.
Angela McHugh Barr. Miss Susan c.
Baker and Mrs. Leroy w. Tilton.
Special aides to the founders will
be Miss Katharine Wootten, Mrs. Hat
tie Meyers Junkin and Miss sPhronsie
Marsh. There will be q program Of
music. Mrs. Tiller, Mrs. Hoxie, Mrs
Newman and the three charter mem
bers will respond to I'm Retrospect
and Prospect" Mrs. Sheriff. will read
an original poem dedicated to the
founders.
With this event the social season
Of the league will close until October.
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Beta Chi Sorority
Will Convene
At ShOrehan.

THE eighth national convention Of
Beta Chi Sorority will open at 8
pm. Thursday at the shoreham Hotel
when delegates from the 23 chapters
will assemble for three-day session.
Miss Els Linden Of Chicago, national
president, will preside at the business
meetings. Following the business
meetings, which will continue each
day until 1890, the delegates will be
entertained at social events.
Thursdays business session will be
followed by luncheon at Carvel Hall
In Annapolis and trip through the
United States Naval Academy. A
cocktail party and buffet will take
place at the Shoreham Hotel that eve
ming. A luncheon and fashion show
at the Kennedy-Warren Hotel are
scheduled to follow the Friday busi-
ness meeting, with a tour of the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation on
the afternoon program. Dinner at
Normandy Farm, followed by Monte
Carlo party at Wardman Park Hotel,
Will complete the Friday schedules.
Nation elections will be the buSi-
ness of Saturday mornings meeting,
which will be followed by luncheon
at the Little Tea House in Virginia.
The convention will close June Is with
banquet at the Shoreham Hotel with
Mrs. Frances Squires Ekman, former
national president, as toastmistress. A
dance will end the festivities.
The entire convention program is
In charge of a committee from Beta
CHS eight local chapters, whose chair.
man Is Mrs. Dorothea Ulman. About
100 local girls from those chapters
Will also join in the various social
events with the delegates from Chi
cago, Philadelphia, South Bend and
Elkhart, Ind.
The second annual conclave of the
Sigma Gamma Delta Sorority will be
held at the Lee House next Friday.
Saturday and Sunday. The local
chapter. Beta, will be the hostess to
the group which will include dele
gates from New York, Baltimore and
Philadelphia chapters.
The agenda includes cocktail party
and dancing at the Shoreham and
business meetings at the Lee House.
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Mrs. John r. Fleming was elected
president Of the Washington Alumnae
Chapter of Alpha Phi recently at the
Chastleton. The other officers are:
Miss Genevieve Parks, vice president;
Mrs. Seth Gordon, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Patrick OJeary, corre-
spending secretary; Miss Betty Co.
burn, treasurer, and Miss Bonita Fin.
ney, quarterly correspond. Miss Rosa
Wingate was chosen as Pan Hellenic
delegate and Mrs. Willard Mills as
alternate. Miss Minna Gill was ap-
pointed delegate to the national con-
vention Of the fraternity, which will
be held this month.
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ter, Miss Ramona Randall, left Friday
for Kennett Square, Pa, where yes
terday they attended an open air
pageant of Robin Hood" at the Pierre
du Pont estate, Longwood Gardens.
Mrs. Eugene C. Weeks entertained
at bridge Monday evening at her home
IN Wynnewood Park, when her guests
were members Of the Hansen Club.
Mrs. Lillian Lamond gave luncheon
and bridge party Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. v. Chandler Of
Linden are entertaining at their cot
tage near Tall Timbers, Md, today.
Mrs. Herbert Eek was hostess at
dessert bridge Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warner E. Pumphrey
are again in their Silver Spring home
after vacationing in Atlantic City. N. ].
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Benner and
their children, Patsy and Barbara
Benner. are spending the summer at
Plum Point, Md.
Mr.. J. A. Vanden Heuvel is leaving
tomorrow for Luray. Va, for an In
definite stay.
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Club Notes
Civic and Study Clubs.

CiVie and Study Clubs.
D. c. Federation Of woman's Clubs
Monday, 1890 am, Roosevelt Hotel
Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle, president, pre-.
siding.
Women's City Club, 736 Jackson place
NV Club night, informal dinner
Thursday. Miss Martha Lane, Miss
Flora Hoff, hostesses.
American Association of University
Women, clubhouse, 1884 I street
NV. Club tea Monday, pm
Speaker, Walter Meyer, Current
Events" Mrs. Karl E. Pribram,
hostess.
Miscellaneous Clubs.
Curley Club Outing at North Beach,
today. Group meets at the Cont
mental Hotel at 2 pm. William
Boyd, chairman. Regular club
meeting, Thursday, 8:15 pm, Cont
mental Hotel Nomination and elec-
tion Of officers. Dancing and cards
will follow the meeting.
Kenilworth Ladies Guild, wednesday,
1880 pm, with Mrs. Clementine
Heltg, 1908 Kenilworth ave. Sc.
MRS. Edna Cook, assisting hostess.
Final plans for the annual picnic,
June 20, will be formulated.
Women's Auxiliary of the Craftsman's
Club of the United States Veterans
Observation-Disclosures meeting.
followed by program, Tuesday, 8
pm, Thomas Circle Club. Plans
for the picnic will be discussed.
Writer'S League-Picnic. Saturday, ;
pm, at the home of Mrs. Leila w.
Marshall. 3703 Bangor street, Sum-
init Park, Md. Members Of Profess
sional Writers and Free Lance
Writer'S Club invited.
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American War Mothers.

The State Chapter will give card
and bingo party at the national head
quarters, 1927 New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV. Thursday at pm Mrs
Emma Warren, ways and means
chairman, will be assisted by the
president, Mrs. Emil Walter, Mrs.
John Eckert in charge Of the card
tables and Mrs. Jessie Richards, bingo.
Reservations may be made by tele-
phoning North 8490.
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Finance Club Meets.

The Finance Club Of the William B.
Gushing Auxiliary, No. 4, Sons of
Union Veterans of the Civil War, met
recently at the home Of Mrs. Sophie
Bergner, with the vice chairman, Mrs.
May Watts. presiding.
The report of the last meeting was
given by the secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth
Davis, and plans for several field trips
we're discussed. A birthday celebra-
ton for Miss Helen Downing, q mem
Der OF the club. was held In connection
with the meeting.
The next session will be at the home
Of Mrs. Anna Mayer. s.a.
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Tea and Musicale T0dav
In WOodside Park
MIR, and Mrs. Elkins to Entertain.
MIR. and Mrs. Friedrich Hosts.
Silver Spring Notes.

ME home of Mr. and Nd will be
the scene OF tea and musicale this
Inc will
Woodside Assisting the
MRS L. M Herriman Mrs Henry NAPLES, Howard
r. 6aey Mrs Gerard Hubbard Mrs
Mr. and Mrs Charles dance Monday
ming for than SO Friedrich
earlier
echooi Mr. and Mrs Friedrich
Mrs Mary Friedrich niece nephew Mr.
Sruckman OF
end attend the several
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Travel Club to Meet.

A meeting Of the Wanderlust Travel
Club viii be held Tuesday evening at
the home Of Miss Lee Biggs, 9l6
Thayer avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
The speaker will be Mrs. Marjorie
OKelliner. and her topic, "The Brit
ish Isles" She will also show pic
lures Of Scotland and Ireland.
Included among the regular activi-
ties Of the club Is an annual week end
trip. The members are planning to
visit the Spring Mountain House, near
Valley Forge, over the week end OF
July 23-24.
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OF the Rev. and Mrs. j. Wesley Lofts,
is leaving today for Colorado Springs.
where she will attend the Delta
Gamma Sorority convention this week.
Her brother, Mr.. Randall Lofts, has
returned from his studies at Southern
Methodist University at Dallas, Tex,
and will spend the summer in Silver
Spring.
Mrs. William E. Henderson enter
tanned at luncheon Friday at her home
in Forest Glen.
Mr.. J. r. Mcqueen, Jr.
On South American Cruise.
Mr.. James Russell Mcqueen, jr., son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Mcqueen of
Linden. sailed from New York Thurs
day morning for a South American
cruise on the S. S. Southern Cross.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcqueen have opened
their summer cottage on ST. Leonards
Greek, Calvert County, Md, and are
spending each week end there.
Mrs. John w. Ayers was hostess at
luncheon and bridge Tuesday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs Lawrence Lutes have
visiting them Mrs. Lutes' brother, Mr..
Harold Walker of Walkerton, Va.
Miss Betty Taylor. who is . pupil
at the Hewlett School for Girls, Cedar
hurst, Long Island, is spending part
Of the summer vacation here with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. C.
Taylor, and her father, Mr.. w. c.
Taylor. Miss Taylor will be here until
the early part Of August, when she
will sail with her mother, Mrs
Odette Takamina OF Upper Montclair,
N. j.. for . European cruise of two
months.
Mrs. j. G. Pratt of North Woodside
entertained at luncheon and bridge
Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs Harold Harmon were
hosts at bridge last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Ernest Price have had
visiting them Mr.. Prices cousin, Miss
Virginia Price Of Wrightsville, Ga
They brought Miss Price back with
them when they returned from fam
lily reunion at Lyons, Ga, where they
were guests Of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Price.
Mr.. and Mrs E. M Sanford and
their two children, Dolores and
Emmons, jr., moved from their home
in Silver Spring the latter part of the
week and are now in their house,
which has just been completed, at 75o
Dale drive, Woodside Park.
Mrs. c. w. Mitchell entertained at
luncheon Tuesday.
Mrs. George Butler of Seven Oaks
Manor and her sons, George Butler,
jr., and Sidney Roy Butler, are leaving
this week end for Danville, Pa, where
they will visit Mrs. Buffers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Blue, for several
weeks.
Mrs. c. w. Broaddus left yesterday
for Richmond. Va, where she will
spend the summer with relatives.
Mrs. Newton D. Wyvill entertained
at bridge Tuesday night.
DR.. Lloyd Beers Has Daughter
Visiting Him This Month.
Miss Charlotte Beers, a student at
Northfield Seminary, East Northfield,
Mass. Is spending this month in Silver
Spring visiting her father, DR.. Lloyd
Y. Beers.
Mrs. Harley Prentiss entertained at
luncheon and bridge Thursday after
noon at her home in Northwood Park
Mrs. Thomas Fisher gave a party
and shower Monday evening in honor
of Mrs. Roger Prichard Of Woodside.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira c. Whitacre and
their daughter, Miss Pauline Whitacre
Of Woodside. accompanied by Mr.. and
AKrs Harlan RandaM and thai, AasIsul.
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A. A. u. w. Survey Seeks
Value of College Work
Quiz of $50 Women Gives Idea
OF Its Worth to Their Sex.
BY RUTH MONTGOMERY,
Women's Club Editor,

FIER graduation what? Does higher
becomes of the the
nons that are being asked at this time Of
youthful B. AS their relatives
recent Of the membership
Association University
gives idea Of what
making Of their college experiences
Ffy-three cent Of them per
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OUTING IS PLANNED
Dartmouth Graduates to Hold
Event at Bay Ridge.

Dartmouth graduates living in
Washington and their families will
hold an outing next Sunday afternoon
at Bay Ridge, Md
Festivities will begin at pm. In
addition to a softball game. there will
be swimming, ping pong, bowling and
volley ball. A dinner also is planned.
Duke Barto is in charge Of transpor-
tation arrangements.
Evening star., 1938-06-19

London has What Films Would
You Like to See Again." voting con-
test.
Evening star., 1938-06-19

Japan is now rationing gasoline to
motor cyclists.
Evening star., 1938-06-19

The annual luncheon of the Pet
worth Mothers Club was held Tues
day at Olney Inn. Several of the
members brought guests. The club
has recessed until September, when
the meeting will be resumed.
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The Executive Committee Of the
Curley Club met Thursday at the
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Mrs. Helen Orr Watson, registrar of
the District of Columbia branch of the
League Of American Pen Women, will
be hostess at buffet supper, Tuesday,
at O'Clock, at her home, 3619 Van
Ness street NV.
Honor guests are: Mrs. Bess Heath
Olmstead, Mrs. Inez Sheldon Tyler,
president, and Miss Marguerite Meri-
gold, Junior past president. Mrs.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
$4,000
Whizzer Weighs Pro
Offer Again

BOULDER, Col, Jan. 81 I.N.sO
Byron "Whizzer" White, Univer-
Sity Of Colorado'S All-American to-
day weighed the benefits Of addi-
tional education at oxford Univer-
sity as Rhodes Scholar against a
pot of gold containing $500 for
a season Of professional football.
The "Whizzer" returned from
an invasion of Wyoming and Utah
with his basketball mates to find
the offer from the Pittsburgh
Pirates of the National Profess
ional Football League, in his mail
box. ....
White admitted that "$15, 900
is a lot of money" and said that he
would take plenty Of time" to
decide.
White, a senior who will grad.
uate in June with a bachelors de.
gree, plans to study law.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
BREWERS REACH
SOCCER final

It is Heurichs and the Sun
Radio for the Recreation Soccer
League championship.
Heurich earned the right to
meet the Radiomen in the first
Of a three-game series Sunday,
when it defeated Marlboro on the
Potomac Park Polo Field yester-
day, 81, in a playoff Of a tie
for the Second-half race. Sun
Radio had won the first half play.
Heurich won the game in the
first half when it registered all
its tallieS with Sienuta, r. Nc.
Balm and Gum scoring on intri.
cate maneuverS that completely
overwhelmed the Marlboro team.
Marlboro came back in the sec.
ond half, however, to take to the
offensive and succeeded in Scor.
ing a goal when M. Buck broke
through for the goal.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
Royal FamlIy
LAmb00ned BY Wr1terS
PLAQUE TO DiMAGGIO

pert did not rush over with his
golden fountain pen.
PLAQUE TO DiMAGGIO
DiMaggio received the plaque
awarded annually to the player Of
the year, and Commissioner Lands
received another plaque in recog-
milton to his constructive work in
baseball over a period Of years.
Aud acquaintance was renewed as
the baseball writer's presented to
Babe Ruth a silver replica Of his
1928 model bat: the bludgeon with
which he hit go home runs, the
all time record for homers.
"Honus" Wagner, probably the
greatest shorstop who ever lived,
was one of the guests of honor. He
told the story of how the game
was played in the old days, when
teams went out to win at any
price, when bean ball whiStled and
spikes cleaned; when players had
to fight to survive.
Official tone was loaned to the
dinner by the presence Of Gov.
Herbert Lehman of the State OF
New York, who spoke Of his untir.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
Berg and NOvOtny
Win Scotch Match

CORAL GABLES, Fla, Jan. 81.
In a mixed Scotch foursome, Patty
Berg, sensational young Mime.
apolis golf star, paired with Gus
Novotny, of Chicago, to win from
Kathryn Hemphill, Of Columbia,
S. c., and Charles Whitehead, of
South River, N. j., in an extra
hole match.
The teams finished the regula-
ton 18 holes with identical cards
of 39-38-77, but a birdie four on
the nineteenth by Miss Berg and
Novotny sewed up the match.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
D. G. Links Women
In Fla. Golf Event

CORAL GABLES, Fla, Jan. 81.
Mrs. Leo Walper and Mrs. L. G..
Pray, of Washington, D. c., were
among the rs entries who teed off
this morning in the qualifying
round Of the annual Miami-Bilt-
more women's golf championship
here.
Patty Berg, 19-year-old Mime
apolis sensation, is the defending
champion. Other star women
golfers include Dorothy Traung,
runnerup for the national WON.
ems championship in 1896: Kath-
ryn Hemphill, Mrs. Jane Cothran
Jameson and Marion Miley.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

Baseball's royal family gathered
at the Hotel Commodore in New
York city last night to make merry
at the annual banquet Of the
Gotham chapter Of the Baseball
Writers Association of America.
Where there is royalty, there are
court testers, and the baseball
Scribblers donned grease paint and
wigs to flay club owner, manager
and player in a spirit of good clean
fun.
SEVERE PANNING
Bill Terry, whose battle Of the
printed page with his summer
travelling companions has en-
riched the winter sports pages,
came in for a vigorous lampoon-
ing, but the barbS were not too
cruel, and didn't penetrate toe
deeply.
Fraternal spirit ruled the hour,
and Joe Cooks advice to Col. Jacob
Rupert to sign Joe DiMaggio was
well received by the crowd. Cook
asked DiMaggio if he would be
willing to sign a contract for
$4,000, and the player at once ad.
mitted that he would. It was as
simple as that. But Colonel Rup.