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Evening star., 1939-07-18
0'Brien Is Standout
In Vote for Grid's
An-Star Team
T. c. U. Quarter 81 Pick
To Foce Pro Giants
In Charity Game
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 18.-The football
fans participating in the Nation
wide poll to select a squad of college
all-stars to play the New York pro
Giants are showing a decided pref
erence for Davey O'Brien as quarter
back on the composite selection.
O'Brien, brilliant star at Texas
Christian last fall, has polled 242, ,173
votes, almost three times as many as
his nearest rival.
The squad of college seniors will
play the Giants in Soldier Field the
night of August 30. The poll closes
at midnight next Saturday.
The leaders:
Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee, 11s, ,94s; Bill
Daddio, Pittsburgh, 115,726; George Lenc,
AuFassna Rb Goese 1d$1ss
Ed Beinor. Notre Dame 1192O4: Al Wolfe,
Santa Clara 101.517; Joe MihaL Purdue.
'ausrdsz.Ralph Heikkinsn. Michisan,
Kochei. Fordham 919s2.
Centers-Dan Hill. Duke. 126.95s: I'd
Lonahi: l.. Metre Dame; 7a,324. o.,,,.. -,
ofs4 Sasrss5Rs'fs Sotqe Dame osssa sssa S42l7s Ed
Haifbacks-Bob Macleod, Dartmouth
1S6,173; Marshall Goldberg, Pittsburgh
d5s,4S6: John Pineel: Michigan State; ~
esE 4gasna Wess
l94;s02: Dave Anderson, California,
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Griff' S 40 Niqht
Ti|ts Idea Hit
ByMcPhai|
Introducer of Arcs
Now Fears Goose
Will Be Killed
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, July 1s.-Look who's
becoming alarmed about that sinis-
ter newcomer, night BASEBALL
None other than Larry MacPhail.
the ballyhoo man who introduced
the arcs, and, so to speak, forced
them down the unwilling outlets of
his fellow big league magnates.
The Brooklyn boss, smart Show
man, is scared now that his less
far-sighted comrades will overdo
the thing in their feverish excite
ment over the night games obvious
financial benefits. The fresh money
has gone to their heads, fears Mac
Phail.
What flushed Larry was the news
that President Clark Griffith of the
Washington Senators, once a Stub
born opponent of night ball, was
sponsoring proposal to play 40
games a season after dark, and that
an owner or two in the National
League favored hiking the present
quota Of seven nighters a year.
Threatens to Quit Game.
They're wrong, just like they were
when they opposed night ball in the
first place RACES the Dodgers out
spoken Barnum. It'll quit baseball
If they load on the night games.
Can't they see they will destroy the
benefits we've already had?"
With the season just half over,
Brooklyn already has passed the
half-million mark in attendance.
| MacPhail estimates that 100000 Of
these were new fans, first drawn to
Ebbets Field by the innovation Of
night ball.
I've regarded the night game all
along strictly as a means of stimu-
lating interest said MacPhail. It's
done that. But baseball remains
basically daylight game. Give the
fans an overdose of night ball and
we'll be worse off than we were
before"
Radio Seen as Backfiring.
incidentally, night ball is not the
only one of Larry's pets that is
growing up and beginning to snap
at the master. Local observers were
convinced that the radio was par
TALLY responsible for the fact that
only 13,000-odd fans paid to see the
/ closing game of the Brooklyn-New
York Giants series Sunday before
| last.
Thousands of rabid Brooklyn
rooters went to the beaches and
listened to the play-by- play descrip-
ton Of the game on portable sets.
Wherever one went on that hot aft.
ernoon it was next to impossible to
escape the roar of the announcer's
voice. The air in the metropolitan
area was saturated with balls and
| strikes.
Where some ci their rivals are
going hog-wild about night ball. the
Yankees and Giants show no signs
of weakening in their resolve not to
play after dark at Yankee Stadium
or the Polo Grounds. Right now
they are having some pleasant
chuckles at MacPhail's discontinue.
Evening star., 1939-07-18
OnIy in Classroom Was He "Mr. Hordell"

Hardl called Mr Hardel' by even the veest
candidate the classroom Mr. Hardel
assignment but the
his track shorts climbed into his football
should be- That was part OF
When he held meetings and addressed his SQUADS
his sight
being sent home to group
OF they loved him for it.
Haps rivals learned early In the chaps
amazing He good for
high college him up BY the
had become seniors
themselves had bruises to show Tor It,
football NO
could Techs and
better than those OF the other schools Ihey simply
grounded them fundamentals and
piercing tenor blocking and tacklng
We always thought that Hap when Juggling
books and hoping school, The period
icaly stories of offers Hap from wknown colleges
couldn't Hardl thing him the
promote him. hoped he'd
take Of those jobs and
Evening star., 1939-07-18
The Trainers Were the Yonks Of the Day

difficult diagnose Hadeu was ana st IS
walked with quick and talked even more
quickly He had quartermier Michigan but nobody
exploits football held at coeg re" even Mic"
h Washington boy, in the beginning
little dynamos who picked place on te oech
kickoff on MS 1eel
paadng the Tech bench He always remldo the
Club OF toX terrier WIN his
bright buging ewes nervous shrl piercing voice
Year after still Tech reigned supreme HaoeH
would find him winning again.
a somehow ecnpeo ue nelo VI .e
originally mtended 10 go 10 sh
because was
Tech that Tech that boaseo hap faroe
1926 1882 the high school
gorfed Mccarthy Alexander Wocot
little Wodehou tossed in for good measure The
Whimsicaly called the Yankees
Harde he their pilot biting learned driving
-pang sentimental humorous little fellow who managed
to maximum of his talent
Evening star., 1939-07-18
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Star staff Correspondent.

DETROIT, July 18-With some
what the same sensation as a SELL
ing platter would suffer chasing
Johnstown, the Mats shortly are
expected to chalk up the 1899 base
ball season to bitter experience and
import for inspection crop of
minor league satellites.
Manager Bucky Harris, recog-
nized in diamond circles as a scrap
per who wouldn't quit struggling
as long as a shred of hope remained
on the horizon, has visioned the
futility of attempting to construct
respectable record with the cur
rent group of athletes laboring for
the Griffith A. C.
What would cheer the Mats pilot,
although he is in no position to
admit it, would be to start building
for the 1910 season Immediately.
1t is an accepted item that if the
Mats finish higher than sixth this
year 1t may precipitate an investi-
CATION, so with nothing more rosy
than that lowly berth in view there
hardly is any plausible excuse for
delaying establishing an experiment.
al station with the future in mind.
Leip and Quick Promising.
Scattered on several of Washing
tons farms are youngsters who are
given excellent opportunities of
making the major league grade.
Among them are pair of young
Sters who will alter the present
team considerably, showing Short
stop Cecil Travis over to third base
and Third Baseman Buddy Lewis to
the outfield.
Among the Washington chattels
Harris would prefer to scrutinize
are brace of hard-hitting, smooth
fielding lads now performing bril-
liantly with Greenville of the South
Atlantic League, identified as Sec
ond Baseman Leip and Shortstop
Quick.
Leip and Quick, swatting .375 and
$40, respectively, are regarded as a
sizzling second base combination.
They have been converting difficult
chances into double plays with
amazing frequencies and represent
an embryonic crack duet.
Harris, of course, hasn't given up
on all of his youngsters. Despite
his present lowly batting average,
First Baseman Jim Vernon has pre-
sented proof he will bear watching.
So will Second Baseman Jimmy
Bloodworth, Outfielder Johnny
Welaj and some others, but it may
pay the Mats to scan the capabilities
Of promising minor league stars.
Pitcher Bucky Jacobs with Spring.
field, Mass, Of the Eastern League,
for instance, owns a record of IA
victories and l defeat. He cap
tured l3 Of those triumphs in sue
cession and despite a slight frame
looms as a likely candidate to aid
the future Mats.
Bob Loane Of Springfield and Pit
ko Of Greenville are right-handed
hitting outfielders who are scorch-
ing their respective leagues. Right
hand power is q sore need Of the
Mats and both Of those boys have
demonstrated enough of that COM
modify to warrant early trials.
If Vernon fails to click at first
base the Mats have insurance at
Charlotte, N. O., Il the rugged form
Of Jack Sanford, . former Uni
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Kayak Il Even Money
To Take $4,000
Hollywood Race
Short Priced Despite
Topnoteh Opposition;
Hos Fast Workout
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INGLEWOOD, Calf, July 18.-
Kayak II and nine optimistic horses
will face the barrier Saturday in
Hollywood Parks S5O,000 Gold Cup.
c. S. Howards Argentine Beauty,
carrying l24 pounds, looks like a
good thing at even money in the
field that comprises Cravat, Specify,
Can't Wait. Whichcee. Olimpo, Co.
sum, Shining One. Teddy Kerry and
Mount Vernon II.
Kayak in Top Form.
Kayak worked the Gold Cup dis
tance, a mile and one-fourth, in
2:04s5 Sunday. That is 11s seconds
off the track record. Trainer Tom
Smith has Kayak ready. and so,
barring interference, there will be
no excuses if one of the others
comes flying home ahead of the
pride of the Pampas.
Shining One has an outside chance
Of not starting. Trainer Bill Finne-
gan, who conditioned him for the
$25 1000 Hollywood Derby, which he
won, breaking the track record at a
mile and one-quarter, will put him
through a stiff prep today. If the
time is good and Shining One pulls
up sound he will go into the race
as decided threat. Nick Wall, re-
garded as one of the great light
weight riders of the country, will
fly here to pilot Shining One, which
will go in at 103 pounds. That is II
pounds less than he carried to win
the Hollywood Derby.
Cravat Hasn't Impressed.
Townsend B. Martin brought Cra-
vat here to even the score for the
pasting Kayak gave him in the
100000 Santa Anita Handicap, but
the horse has not worked within
three seconds Of Kayak to date. His
best time was turned in last Sat-
urday, a mile in 1:40H. Martin is
satisfied, nevertheless. He says the
son of Sickle never was much Of a
workhorse.
Whichcee is back in condition
again. He worked a mile last Sat-
urday in 1875. That means he will
set a sizzling pace, with perhaps
Specify going right along with him.
Kayak, Cravat and Shining One
stay just back Of the pace and do
their running in the stretch.
Evening star., 1939-07-18
And Now He's Where He BELONGS

In the end his love for his athletes that removed him
When Tech school housed modest dingy white
Seventh and Hardel
1T moved handsome SITE with stadium and
And that principal
stadium might for other activities Harde
" feud and then rde resigned coach Later he quit
his coaching
the principal barely possible that he like others
connected with Tech srfeied with athletic
Hap retirement broken only
ud him Hilltop The Of the old Harde
Marching Club WhyDoesn Hap Play Where He
place like Georgetown where
should and could have had he cared
think anything better at the than
simple against the football fros
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Mats Ready to Give Up 1899
Ghost and Test New Talent
For Next Years Outfit

versity Of Richmond athlete who
has stepped into organized baseball
and clouted at a terrific clip.
The influx of minor league stars
isn't expected to materialize for sew
eral weeks, due to the fact those
lads are involved in keeping their
clubs in minor league pennant
scraps, but when they do arrive for
tests it will mark an interesting
period in Washington baseball an
nails.
Meanwhile the Mats were striving
to fracture a three-game losing
streak here, with an improved Joe
Krakauskas nominated as Harris
hurting selection in the opener Of
a three-game series with the Tigers.
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Hartnett Making Goat
Of Him, Says Dir in
0|dtime Popoff
Used to Arouse Team,
He Ayers, Saying Arm
Was Cut by TobIe
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 18.-Dizzy Dean
may not be his old self on the
pitching mound, but he returned to
brilliant form in the popoff league
today with a verbal blast at Gabby
Hartnett, manager of the Chicago
Cubs.
Hartnett sent Dean home from
New York Sunday with his left arm
gashed under mysterious circum-
stances and OF Diz didn't like it
bit.
Il don't belong here, belong with
the team Dizzy told reporters.
What are they doing, making a
goat out of me? I wonder what's
behind 1t all, anyway.
I know the Cubs are nuts for a
winning streak on this trip, and if
discipling me for something didn't
do will help-why, hell, I'm glad to
cooperate. But I should be with
the team
The versions of how Dizzy cut his
arm rolled in from all sides. 1t was
reported he had had domestic
trouble, had been fighting, had
slipped on a soapy hotel lobby floor,
ad infinitum.
But Dean said these reports were
"the silliest things 1 ever heard Of"
explaining that he scraped his arm
against the corner of a glass-top
table as he reached for a phone
IN the dark In his hotel room Satur-
day night.
Il never thought a little scratch
on my arm would move Hitler and
the w. P. A. off page l." he wise
cracked.
Dean will remain here until the
Cubs return from their Eastern trip.
The team now has only 20 players,
flve shy Of the player limit.
The latest injury cropped up yes
terday when it was revealed South
paw Earl Whitehill suffered a broken
bone in his pitching hand during
batting practice at Philadelphia last
Thursday night.
Outf1elder Hank Leiber is in Phila-
delphia taking treatments for a sore
leg and Rookie Infielder Leonard
Merullo has gone home to rest an
ailing arm. The other vacancy will
be filled by Bill Nicholson, Chat
tanooga Southern Association out
fielder, scheduled to report in August.
Evening star., 1939-07-18
But Tech Kept Winning the Championships

the record But,
boiling putting brutaly Hades football
13 His track
athletes hold Of the l3 WASH
coached four Central &C. Club championship
when good high school athletes dime
Central the best scholastic
punter Heke supported by
asunder
David Huck
Charley May But Tech kept winning the
They not
profound naturally but nevertheless most OF the Central bu
looked the matter They deduceo
that Harde ALL only had 80 boys IN
uniform than the squads of the other schools
perhaps little drer han
the wasn't difference So must nave oeeh
magic of Hardel
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Giants Flag Hopes Fade Team Shot by Injuries at Crucial STAGE
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN
Hop HordeII Finally Comes Into His Own

Don't look but that mans again Only fellow
Hap Harde has moved notch After
the most astounding
coach Hap marching the collegiate George
o
Mr. Hardel the Hilltop this fall
freshman football and
Hill
dell Chowder and Marching Club whose has wish the little
college that other school besides Tech could
championship.
We like think know all this because shortly after Harde
from Michigan with
begin styled Central Western
Business battling Chaune taking
biology lab manfuy die the
old Dark Blue White after And tough
Tech wouldn't have been forced to try hard.
around this recall it, that foundation laid
the Harde Chowder Marching Club 1923 of Hap
football Central
the championship In 1924 Hap went slump and tied for
later undiputed
Cena Eastern tied Tech but from 1928 through
1882 it strictly Hardel.
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Sports Program For Local Fans

THURSDAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Detroit, 500.
Tennis.
Public Parks Tournament, Res
ervoir courts, 3:00-6:00.
Wrestling.
Mani Singh vs.. Jack Hader,
feature bout, Turner's Arena,
$50.
FRIDAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Cleveland, 800.
Tennis.
Public Parks Touruaansnt, Res.
evcoir courts. 3:0o-6:oo.
Evening star., 1939-07-18

TODAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Detroit, 800.
Tennis.
Public Parks Tournament, Res
ervoir courts, 3:00-6:00.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
washington at Detroit, 800.
Tennis.
Public Parks Tournament. Res
ervoir courts, 100000.
Polo. 4
Round robin. PotoAas Park,
500.
Evening star., 1939-07-18

GAMES TODAY.
enc. at Boston.
Snic. at Brooklyn,
Eltts At Phila.
81. L. at New York.
Evening star., 1939-07-18
Maritime in Front

Maritime surprised j. c. Flood in
the Departmental League, scoring
5-4 victory over the early pacemak-
ers. Three runs In the eighth set
tied the issue. Hurley's homer failed
to save Flood from defeat.
Evening star., 1939-02-11
France Is Reported
Seeking Explanation
Of Hainan Seizure
Said to Be Preparing
Formal Demand on
Toxic Government
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 1.-THE French for
eign ministry was reported reliably
today to be drafting formal de-
mand that Japan explain her mill
tary occupancy of the strategic is
land Of Hainan, of the coast of
Indo- China. Frances most important
Asiatic possession.
The French note, sources close to
the ministry said, was being pre-
pared in close consultation with
Great Britain. Hainan, Chinese is
land, is in an equally strategic loca-
ton with respect to the British COL
ony Of Hong Kong.
French national defense and colo
NAL ministries meanwhile we're re-
ported conferring on the possibility
OF strengthening ndo-China's de-
lenses.
In view Of the 1907 French-Jap-
anese treaty which France inter-
preted as Japanese promise not to
occupy Hainan, the French have
not maintained an elaborate defense
establishment in Indo-China.
Should the japanese answer to
the projected note not be satisfac-
tory, it was believed France would
rush work in fortifying the Far
Eastern outpost of her empire.
Foreign Office sources said France
would ask Japan to explain her in
tentions In regard to Hainan, par
ticularly in light of the 1907 treaty.
Previous indications had been that
If the Japanese should declare their
occupation only temporary, France
would accept it as military neces-
sitY.
Evening star., 1939-02-11
|rreguIarity in Records
Charged 10 Magistrate
Ry Stan Correspondent of The Star.


ROCKVILLE. Md. Feb. 1.-Two
warrants charging Justice of the
Peace Charles M. Woodson of Silver
Spring with malfeasance in Office
were sworn out in Police Court here
today.
The warrants were sworn to by
Detective Sergt. Theodore Vollten of
the Montgomery County police. One
was a general charge alleging viola
ton of the Maryland code in failing
to keep the proper records of civil
cases. The second warrant charged
that on or about July Is, 1888, Judge
Woodson did neglect and fail to
keep docket and enter therein
record of a cause filed before him of
Southern Building Supply Co., Inc,
versus Homer c. and Ethel v.
Clouse."
Acting States Attorney James c.
Christopher said that the offense
was misdemeanor and that bond
would be $500 in each case. Judge
Woodson had not been arrested at
noon.
Mr.. Christopher said that he was
investigating the records of Judge
Woodson's court and could not esti-
mate the extent of the apparent ir-
regularities at the present time.
Judge Woodson has been serving as
justice of the peace for about four
years, having received his appoint
ment under former Governor Nice.
His term expires in May.
Evening star., 1939-02-11
M.G-M 10 Discontinue
Radio Show JuIy1
By the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 1.-THE Ma
tion's theater exhibitors, who have
been putting the pressure on pro-
ducers to keep motion picture stars
of the air, held another victory
today.
Metro -GoldWyn- Mayer. which in
the past has discouraged appear
ances by its stars except on its own
sponsored show, Good News of
1885," explained through its general
sales manager. William F. Rogers,
In New York, that:
I'VE are discontinuing the show in
difference to the wishes of theater
owners. M-G-M accedes to the
opinion of its customers that the
appearance of film stars on the air
Is tn direct competition to theater
attendance.
"Since our business is with ex-
hibitors, M-G-M in fairness to them
is taking this step to discourage
radio participation by its stars"
The program, for which the
sponsor paid $4,000 weekly, will
leave the air July /.
Last week, Daryl F. Zanuck, head
of Twentieth Century-Fox Studio,
announced that exhibitors protests
had caused him to withdraw Tyrone
Power from q weekly broadcast.
Evening star., 1939-02-11

Catholic University today inau-
gurated a national crusade for God
In government with subdivisions in
each of the 10000 parishes in the
United States embracing 21,000, 900
American Catholics as a memorial
to the late Pope Plus XII.
At the same time announcement
was made of the cancellation of the
special mass scheduled for tomor-
row at 10:30 am. in the Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception on the
campus to celebrate the 18th an
niversary of the coronation of the
late Pope. Instead, invited diplo-
mats and high Government Off
cials will join in solemn pontificial
mass of requiem in the shrine We'd
nesday at 1890 am.
The Right Rev. Joseph M. Corri-
Evening star., 1939-02-11
President Better,
But Cannot
Leave Bed

President Roosevelt was better"
today, his physician reported. but
still was confined to his bed at the
White House with grippe.
DR.. Ross T. McIntire said the
Chief Executives temperature was
down to 992 degrees and that "he
feels much better"
The White House physician gave
orders, however. that his patient
should not leave his bed or receive
callers today and said he would be
confined to the White House to-
morrow.
Two members of the White House
staff, Secretary Stephen Early and
Miss Marguerite LELAND, the Presi-
dents private secretary, also were
bed-ridden with colds today. Both
were reported better.
DR.. McIntire told reporters the
President could, If he decided to,
depart as early as Monday night on
his projected two-week trip South
to witness some of the fleets annual
war games.
Plans for the journey are still in
the tentative stage. but it has been
thought likely Mr.. Roosevelt will
start southwark by special train
Thursday. This would put him in
q Southern Florida port in time to
embark late Friday or early Sat-
urday.
He is expected to board his IA
vorite vacation ship-the 9,050-ton
cruiser Houston-at Miami or Key
West or some point in between. The
trip probably will keep him away
from Washington about two weeks.
The Houston. used by the Chief
Executive on half a dozen other
voyages since he entered the White
House, was at Norfolk, Va, yester-
day.
Evening star., 1939-02-11
Rumaniah Troops
Rout Terrorists in
Battle for Radio
Armed Clash Occurs on
Bucharest Outskirts:
One Is Killed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Feb. 11-Soldiers,
firing rifles and pistols in a brisk
clash with terrorists. last night re-
pulsed what appeared to be an
effort to seize the Bucharest state
radio station.
An announcement of the clash
was withheld until this noon and
there was nothing in brief COM
munique to indicate whether the
attackers were outlawed Iron Guard
conspirators who have played ajor
roles in Rumania's recent domestic
troubles.
The communique stated that !
of the attacking group was killed
and Is captured. Troops said the
assault was easily resisted.
In darkness the fighting occurred
on all sides of the station, which
is in sparsely populated district
4 miles from the Bucharest city
limits.
Wary because of excitement pro-
voked by the trial of Iron Guard
members-who have Fascist SYM
pathies-at Cluj. where military
court sentenced 2 persons to death
and Sc to prison terms yesterday.
the government strengthened guards
about public buildings and reinforced
troops in the radio station district.
The sentences yesterday were i'm
posed by Cluj military court on
members of the Iron Guard accused
of murder, bombings and the wound
ing of Flory Stefanescu Goanga,
rector of Cluj University.