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The Washington times., 1939-01-31

through the harm done to breed.
ing in the State.
MARYLAND FOALs"
Under the rules as they now
stand, a horse is bred where he
or she is foaled, regardless Of who
owns the mare or stallion. Thus
any lilly or colt foaled in the State
OF Maryland may be termed q
Maryland-bred, when it actually
Is no more a product Of that State
than imported Sir Gallahad III
or Imp. Kanter, who came all the
way from England and France.
1t has developed that under the
present ruling, number Of out.
State breeders are shipping their
mares that are carrying foals into
Maryland to breed to the stations
standing in the State.
When these foalS are dropped,
they can be clasSed as Maryland
bred foals, and there is nothing
forbidding these youngsters from
taking advantage of the conditions
as set UP for Maryland breeders
by the Maryland Horse Breeders
Association, who provide special
races and bonuses for Maryland
bred horses only.
BONUSES
Numerous cases are now arising
from the flaw in this ruling. Many
mares are being shipped in from
the West and other parts Of the
country that are in foal to SireS
standing in those territories. When
these foals are dropped in Mary
land there Is nothing to prevent
them from being termed Mary.
land-breds.
At present, during the racing
season in this State, there are
three Maryland-bred races offered
each week and any Maryland'bred
winning an open race that has q
value Of $4,000 earns for its
breeder $3.50. A $500 bonus is due
the breeder Of the horse who wins
race with more value.
At Pimlico the breeder gets $50
in each race open only to Mary
lands-breds, and this money is
taken from the winners share Of
the purse.
Now this expansion in foals, so.
called Maryland.bred, is going to
be an extra tax on the different
racings associations, through CIV
ing them so many rewards to
settle, as well as leaving the Mary
land breeder Of the thoroughbred
unprotected. With the Maryland
racing season opening April !
there is little time for the Horse
Breeders Association to lose in
getting this matter Strengthened
out with the racing commission.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
All World Roots

It is not at all necessary to
have played games or to be an
expert to be a successful sports
writer, provided that you can
write and have imagination. It
merely makes it a little more diff
ficult. I have always found that
it helps to have played or at
least attempted to play the
games and do the things that
the athletes and sportsmen do,
because it gives you a better feel
of the thing, If you understand
what the men and women are
UP against in the matter Of
speed, timing and stamina, and
what they are trying to accom-
plish.
have never had much respect
for a sports writer who can sit
calmly and coldly in a press
coop with no interest whatso-
ever In the outcome OF the game
or event he is watching. The
bored sports writer who doesn't
root isn't a good one and never
will be. It is human to take
sides, to want to see someone
win and his or her adversary
lose. All the world roots. It
merely requires tact and expe-
rience to know when to do it.
It is in the long run a COM
mercial proposition. Your job,
after all, is to please people
and sell papers. And you don't
please readers by ridiculing their
favorites. The sports writer must
feel the public pulse as deli
cately as the editorial writer.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
School Cage Slate


st. Johns Prep VS.. Georgetown
Prep at St. Johns.
Eastern vs. Anacostia-Interhigh
at Eastern.
Central VS.. Tech-interhigh-at
Eastern.
Roosevelt VS.. Maryland Frosh at
Roosevelt.
Roosevelt Reserves vs.. W. & L.
at Roosevelt.
Friends Of Washington vs. St.
Albans at st. Adams
Bladensburg VS.. Laurel at Bla-
densburg.
Maryland Park VS.. oxon Hill at
Maryland Park.
TOMORROW
Western VS.. Episcopal at Alex
andria.
Anacostia VS.. Maryland Park at
Maryland Park.
THURSDAY
ST. Adams VS.. Friends School at
Baltimore.
BladensburE VS.. Rockville High
at Bladensburg.
Roosevelt VS.. Wilson-interhigh-
at Tech.
Western vs. Tech-interhigh-at
Tech.
Central VS.. Cambridge (Md.)
High at Cambridge.
Coma a VS.. Bethesda-Chevy
Chase at BIC. c.
Blair VS.. Mount Rainier at Blair.
Bladensburg vs.. Kendall Green
at Bladensburg.
Maryland Park vs.. Hyattsvills at
Hyattsville.
Montgomery-Blair va Mt. Rainier
at Blair.
SATURDAY
Central VS.. York (Pa.) High at
York.
St. Adams VS.. st. Andrews.
Roosevelt VS.. Randolph-Macon at
Randolph-Macon.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Usually Wrong

Some sports writer's build up
a following by the accuracy Of
their forecasts. I built mine up
by being wrong much more often
than right. I don't have to fake
it, just was. And then admitted
it, worried over it, and marveled
that should not have seen
what was apparently obvious to
many thousands of readers. It
pleased the readers to see how
much smarter they were than
the so-called expert and to come
up behind me at the ringside
and yell: Hey, Gallico-wrong
again, eh?" and see me shake
my head in despair. But 1t all
helped to sell papers. which is
the first job of the sports writer.
One cannot live a certain kind
of life for nearly a decade and a
half and then abandon it with
out missing something. I think
most of all in the days to come
I shall banker after that magic
ticket of admission marked with
the red letters: Nv. P.," stand
ing for Working Press" the
press Enclosures themselves, and
the men gathered in them to
cover the big sports events.
There are few people in any
walk of life who are as alive
and entertaining as sports
writer's, I shall never forget how
I used to look forward to that
hour at the ringside before the
first preliminary to a big fight.
You went up to the Yankee
Stadium or the Polo Grounds
early, around 6 o'clock in the
evening, to avoid the crowds and
perhaps do an early filler story,
but mostly to hang around and
gossip with the gang.
1t was the same in the world
series press boxes, or the big golf
and tennis Journeys, or great
interSectional football matches.
1t seemed as If there were was
no place in the world as excit-
ing, alluring or entertaining as
the press box, or the hotel rooms
out Of town, before or after a
big show, when the gang gath
cred for a tanning bee. Most Of
the boys were even better con.
versationally than they were on
paper. I shall miss them all
like the very devil.
THE End.)
tcopyright,. 1899, by Paul Calico:
Distributed by King Features, Inc)
The Washington times., 1939-01-31

more editorial liberty and free
dom from interference than any
other employe on the paper with
the possible exception Of the
columnist. Whereas the news
writer is confined rigidly to fact,
a sports story is considered dull,
drab and almost worthless un-
less colored by the personal
opinion of the writer.
There is an ancient scandal
that adheres to the sports writer,
a hangover from the days when
no professional sport was in
especially good repute, and when
the sports pages were less i'm
portant and we'll considered
than they are today, when the
salaries of sports writer's were
lower even than those paid the
leg-men or the copy readers on
the local side.
The basis of the pay roll scan-
dial was economic, and the blame
in most cases lay with the pub
fishers who paid starvation
wages in the sports department.
and were satisfied to have the
editor and his staff make up
the difference-on tips, like a
waiter. The sports pages in
those days had no powerful cir
culation-pull or value and were
considered a necessary evil.
There was nothing particu-
larly dishonest about it. It was
merely short-sighted on the part
of the publisher who was willing
to have the professional pro-
moter pay his sports editors and
sports writer's salaries for him
instead of collecting it from
them in the form of paid ad-
vertising. BY so doing he laid
the foundation of a custom and
usage which eventually cost him
millions of dollars in free ad-
vertising. The most he has ever
been able to get out If the base
ball magnates in revenue has
been three-line agate reader,
daily: Baseball today-Yan-
KEGS VS.. Boston, Yankee Sta
dium, 3 p. m. Grandstand seats,
$1.65."
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Colonial Village IS
Score Triple Victory

Colonial Village Clubs today hold
their ninth consecutive victory in
competition in the Arlington
County Federation of Boys Clubs
League. following last nights
three-game sweep in the Washing.
ton and Lee High gym.
Their three triumphs came in
the midget class, 16-5; junior
division, 1914, and unlimited
section, 26-14.
Another three-game sweep came
when Bon Air topped the Cherry.
dale Boys Club midgets, 5-2:
juniors, 27-15, and unlimiteds,
on a forfeit, 20.
Colonial villages gym will be
the scene Of boxing show to.
night at 7:30 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Free Publicity

There are, roughly, three
classes of sports writer's: The
specialist who is assigned chiefly
to one sport, baseball, boxing,
golf, turf, or what not, and who
is able to double in other sports
during the off seasons; the gen.
eral sports writer who special
ICES in none, but is sort of Jack
of-all sports, and the feature
writer or columnist.
Reporters are reputedly cyni-
cal and hard-boiled, but actually
they are not. They are soft
hearted and frequently senti-
mental and their code of honor
is often more rigid than might
be found in many other indus
tries, much more stern and reli-
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
ChuckIe Sd Wins 1st
Havana Yacht Race

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 31.-First-
race honors for the Havana Cup
in the international star class
yacht competition today have gone
to Harold Halstead's Chuckle Sd,
which covered the course IN one
hour, 26 minutes and So seconds.
Adrian Iselin I'd skippered his
Ace I'd into second place, while
Oh. de CardenaS' Kurush was
third
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Indian Spring Holds
Women Golfers Fete

Mrs. Alma Won Steiner, man.
ager of the Indian Spring club,
was hostess at a tea yesterday in
the club given to officers of the
1899 Women's District Golf Asso-
citation.
Members who attended the
luncheon and bridge included
Mrs. j. H. Bullock, chairman;
Mrs. H. w. Sharpe, vice chair
man; Mrs. K. S. Giles, tourna-
ment chairman; Mrs. w. R.
Stokes, team captain; Mrs. L. E.
Kihiken, secretary.treasurer. and
Mrs. w. B. vogel, handicap
chairman,
The Washington times., 1939-01-31

local chapter
Of the A. A. U.
today seemed
to lean q bit
in favor Of
the Steeltown
in S tt t ution
thinclads.
N eth er
side had any
definite state
m e mt s to
make on the
situation to-
dav. but there
was no over.
looking the
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Promoters Trying to Outshout
Each Other About Galento, Louis

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 81 I.NS)-Out
Of what now looms as an impasse over the site
of the proposed fight for the heavyweight cham.
piOnship Of the world, between 'Two-tOn" Tony
GallentO, challenger, and Joe Louis, the cham.
piOn, will develop a compromise between Mike
Jacobs, Of New York, and Herman "Muggsy"
Taylor, of Philadelphia. Jacobs, front man for
contract giving him exclusive rights to the
services Of Louis. TAYLOR has q five.year con:
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Beck Top 1888 Md.
Clay Pigeon Shooter

Franklin D. Beck, Of Harve de
Grace, is Maryland's premier clay
pigeon shooter for 1888 according
to the statistical releases which
have been revealed.
He compiled the remarkable
average Of .9763, with 2,142 tar
gets as against only SO misses in
2,200 shots.
Second place averages Of .944
gave runner-up honors to both w.
F. Wilson, of Woodside Park, and
H. C. Kraut, Of Maryland Line.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31

tract granting him similar rights to Galento's
services.
Jacobs wants the fight in New York. Taylor
wants to hold 1t In this city. Right now the
promoters are putting on the loud pedal and try
ing to outshout each other. But neither one Is
going to pass up the rich dividends that will de-
velop out of heavyweight fight.
Il will hold the fight in Philadelphia or 1t
won't be held" Taylor says.
''The fight belongs in New York." says Jacobs.
A lot Of fans think it belongs in an alley.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
6. Washington High
In Two Gaze Games

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 81.
Two games are scheduled for the
George Washington High School
basketball team this week. On Fri
day 1t will meet Eastern High in
washington, and Saturday night
battle washington and Lee High
School here.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31

John Woodruff. lanky Negro
star at Pitt, and other mem
bers Of the track squad were
still training, confident that the
team would be allowed to COM
pete in the Millrose, the Penn
A. c.. the Boston A. c. and the
N. Y. A. meets scheduled for
February.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
|. |. Meeting

NEW YORK, According to an
announcement by Bill Manley,
secretary of the International Base
ball League, the 1899 meeting will
be staged in the Hotel Commo odore,
SATURDAY..
The Washington times., 1939-01-31

industry Is ham,
pered by the
leniency Of the
Maryland . bred
race rule. II
the Maryl q n d
Breeders Associ.
alton does not
ask the Mary.
land r acing
Commission to
alter this rul-
ing, the racing
association, as
W e II as the
breeder, Is GO
Ing to suffer a
great iniugtica
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Seven-Up in Action

The Community Center All.Stars
have booked q basketball game
with the Seven-Up team to be
played tonight at 8 o'clock on the
Anacostia High School court.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Woodward JaVeeS Win

Woodward Prep Jayvees noSed
out the Georgetown Prep juniors
at Garrett Park, IA to IL. The vic
tors were led by Bill Moves and
Dave Bell.
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
--FareweII to Sport
Sports Writer Oddest
Animal in Newspaper
Zoo, Calico Contends
By Paul Calico
CHAPTER Xxx

Of all the queer animals in the newspaper zoo the sports
writer the srangest of the lot He reporter critic ed
toa writer special investigator press agent cync and hero
worshpper all He is today essentially honest He has
tremendous Of and rarely msuses it. He has
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Maryland Race
Rules Should
Be Revalrlped|
By Rhoda Christmas

In spite Of all Maryland's prog.
ress in breeding the thoroughbred,
in both quality and quantity, the
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Dots and Dashes
By CHICK KENNY

AFTER XMAS STORY-DUGAN AYCOCK, Charlotte
N c., golf pro, received Christmas present of trip
to the Rose Bowl from q Virginia businessman, who
credited AYCOCK with changing him from 80 shooter
to 7Oer The Virginian heard that DUGAN rabid
The Washington times., 1939-01-31
Favored
Pitt Tracknoen Hold
Edge in A.A.U. Fight

PITT sB URGH, Jan. 81
QN.S0.-The University of
PittSburgh's squabble with the
The Washington times., 1939-01-31

Duke ian ENH4CO CAR~
UsO is a basketball player on
the Fordham team, while JACK
FROST is playing hockey at
Notre Dame That was a
good break for HENRY RED"
KRAUSE. The Redskin center
was released by the Redskins
one day, and hired by his alma
mater, st. Louis u, the next.
KRAUSE is the third Redskin
player Of last year to enter the
college coaching ranks-the
others being RILEY SMITH to
Wash..Lee, and BILL HART.
MAN to Georgia DR.. LEO
DONOVAN celebrates his birth
dow foY1ooTrAUy- ora tio1oc
The Washington times., 1939-01-31

PICKIN THA W11NAH-Toledo to defeat g. w. y. at Tech
High tonight Recapttulaion Right IA wrong o. average
.736.
MIKE MCDONALD Woodrow Wilson's basketball player,
the Gonzaga game several weeks
ago. probably through playing the game for the
this isn't helping the Presidents RALPH LSS1SSEE he
substitute who the for Eastern over Roosevelt last
week has brother GEORGE who was some snucs drioor
eight HAL Brady, SUBSTITUTE end OF
the Redskins coaching Hobucken IN Co. High School
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24
Residential Building
In Lead In State
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ages, which make dry reading at the
very best, it is worth noting that last
months construction in the 81 cities
provided living quarters for 1874 fam
lilies, far more than twice as many
as the 345 shown in October's report
last year. Principal cause Of the ire
mendOus increase was CharlOttes
record of issuing permits for con-
struction Of residence space for SIG
families.
The entire estimated amount to be
~'O0~t On residential construction in
October reached S1,874,474 for the
90 Uullulngs authorized Last Oc-
tober's figures showed expenditures
of $l,3l1 1853 for 284 buildings.
Multi-family residences accounted
for by far the greater part of the
total, the SO such structures being es-
timated to cost S1,O62, 400. There
were 233 one-family dwellings au-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24
ANSWERS.

|. Within the 40 years from l9OO tC
1880. The population Of the State IN
1890 was 1,617,949, and in 1880, B.
17O.276, nearly doubled.
2. Roanoke Island. 1t was on this
island in 1884 the first English land
ed to attempt a settlement. This was
SO years before the Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth Rock, and % years be-
fore Captain John Smith landed al
Jamestown
3. From 10 with total salaries of
S3O,535 in 1882 to 70 with total sal
aries of S129,912 last year.
4. On June 2, 1857 when Governor
Tryon and the Cherokee chiefs held
conference on the location Of the
western boundary. Chief Jud's
Friend told the North Carolina royal
governor There are rogues among
your people and among my people
but l will give my people good and
strong talk to be SO no more, and
hope your EXcellency will also give
your people a talk to be honest"
S. FOrty-four.
6. After General Green had taken
command of the southern army at
Charlotte in December 1880 he wrote
General Washington telling him Of
the condition Of the army. The fol-
lowing extract is from the letter: "A
tattered remnant OF some garment,
clumisly stuck together with the
5horns of the locust tree form the
sole covering of hundreds, and we
have 800 men without arms, and
more than 1000 so naked that they
can be put on duty only in case OF
desperate necessity"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
BY FRED HI. MAY

/. Within what period ending IN
1880 did the population OF North Car
DINA double?
2. What place in North Carolina is
known as the Cradle of American
Civilization?"
3. How much has the personnel OF
the State Board Of Charities ano
Public Welfare increased during the
past six years?
a. What did Jud's Friend, Chero-
kee Chieftain tell Governor Tryon?
5. How many mountains over 5000
feet high does North Carolina have?
6. What did General Green write
General Washington from Charlotte
about the condition of his soldiers?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24

thorized to cost S639,21 and % two
family buildings at a cost of $55, 100
Two other on-housekeeping dwell
ings were estimated to cost $4,000
OF the 81 reporting cities only New
Bern failed to show that a single new
resident had been authorized. Char
lotte's AZ buildings topped the list as
did its SIG families provided for, az
already mentioned.
The number Of residences, fam
lilies provided TO rand estimated cost
in the reporting cities follow:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24
November "a, 1919.

Four rganizations-the Board OF
Public Welfare, the Red Cross, the
Helping Hand and the Whatsoever
Circles of the Kings Daughters
were to be represented by their exc
cutive committees in a meeting al
the Chamber Of Commerce Tues
day night when an effort was to be
made to unity all charity work done
in this city.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24

Father .-o4Aard r. Hubbard, the
noted jesuit glacier priest Of
Santa Clara, Cant, born in San
Francisco, 81 Jears ago.
Frederick j. Libby, executive sec
rotary OF the National Council Tor
the Prevention Of War, Washington,
D. c., born at Richmond, Maine, IS
yed1o ago.
Dale Carnegie Of New York, au-
thor of ''F1ow TO Win Friends and
Influence People," born at Mary
vile, Mo, 81 years ago.
Gov William H. Vanderbilt of
Rhode Island, born in New York, SO
years ago.
DR.. Edwin G. Conklin, Prince
tons noted professor emeritus of
zoology porn at Waldo, Ohio, rs
years ago.
Frederick H. Prince of Boston. fl
nancier, born Winchester, Mass, 80
years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24
November "a, 1914.

At the regular meeting of the
Board of Aldermen last night, the
mayor and supervisor Of public
works were authorized to Investigate
the establishment Of a convict force
here for working the streets of Hen
derson, and to make suitable ar
rangements for lodging and boarding
the convicts who are to be under the
control of the supervisor of public
works.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24

stated in the release, it is not I'M
lawful to solicit contributions from
Federal employees other than those
paid from relief funds and 'volun-
tary contributions to campaign COM
mittees are organizations are per-
mitted, except those receiving COM
pensation Of any sort from relief ap-
preparations" A Federal employee,
however, may not "solicit, collect or
receive contributions"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24
YODA1 IN HISTORY

lOoZ--IAI, LOI1c GOQln OdIO1lllo
ANnuuImenL Act.
loo---ouuuodore Perry leaves
Norfolk, Va. on historic mission to
open Japan to the world.
1863 = DaIWln'o epoch-mak1ng
Origin OF Species first issued In
ali eoltIon OF 400 copies-an sold
Inc very llrst Gay.
lool-1l4c o4o1,A Indians defeated
by the t0urtn Y. S. Cavalry at a
pass III Tie Dlg horn Mountains IN
Montana.
looy-Ihe National Woman Stuff
rage Convenuo met IN Cleveland,
with Henry Ward Beecner presld-
ing.
l918-American forces demolish
the great barriers guarding the old
German 'front.' cast OIL Verdun.
1925-Gov Ma Ferguson OF
Texas grants 81 Thanksgiving par
cons, Is ot tnem TO persons COM
ritted Tor muroer.
1901. S. supreme Court rul
ing that reckless auto driving q
serious U441lI-~ unu CnlItIeS TO trial
ny jury.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24
vLRS TO
AE HUNS
~ bocic Page

l. Guatemala City.
g. The krone.
8. Ap'-pro-ba-tiv; not ap-pro'-ba-
tiv.
4. Frank Murphy.
5. Pups
6. Germany and Japan.
7. Trees.
8. An cay death or mode of dv-
ing; mercy killing"
9. Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
10. Survey Of Mason md Dix
on'S line
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-11-24
Hatch Law No Bar
On Donations
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tContlnued From Page One)
OF employees in the executive branch
o 1the Federal government, under
ne Hatch Act, are not as severe as
ilolcated IN the metropolitan press,
.ccofdlng to Senator Carl Hatch'.
ullS news release with which Dem
9clatc headquarters in Washington
las armed Senator Larl<ins.
According to the Hatch opinion. as