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Evening star., 1939-03-22

Southeast Europe,
Griipped by Fears,
Mobi|izing Armies
Rumonio Shifts Troops
Against Hungary
And Buieorio
b tho Associated Press.

3, the As'oeiastd Press
BUCHAREST, Rumania, March ~
The nations Of Southeast Europe
were ready to defend their many
frontiers today.
No country would say 1t had mobil-
lied: but there were soldiers on
every border and hundreds Of thou
sands Of men had been called from
their homes to NIL frontier fortifica-
tions. The contagion Of military
activity ran from one country to an
other.
Rumania, alarmed by troop con-
centrations In Hungary, called out
special troops Of several yearly
classes. Then significant military
activity in Bulgaria prompted Ru-
Evening star., 1939-03-22
$3.50 Domoqes Awarded

OKLAHOMA CITY CR.-A Dis
trict Court jury decided it was worth
$3.50 to Lois Ann Tighe, 10, to have
a horse sit in her lap.
Miss Tighe sought $15,40O dam
ages from the owners of a horse
she said threw her over its tail and
sat down on her.
Evening star., 1939-03-22
Hungary Keeps Troops
On Rumonion Border

BUDAPEST, March % (P.-Hun-
gary kept the bulk Of her armed
forces at the Rumanian frontier to-
day but slowed further military
preparations.
Movement Of additional troops to
the border areas was suspended and
official sources indicated that some
troops now in the sector would be
withdrawn soon If no new disturb
ing elements arose-and II the Ru-
manian government took similar
action,
Evening star., 1939-03-22

house soldiers. Uniforms and
weapons were being issued to re-.
servists.
Political and military leaders of
the Balkans feared that along some
frontier an incident might become
"the spark" which could start the
military machines.
Evening star., 1939-03-22
6. U. Alumni PIun Dinner

The Washington Chapter of the
Catholic University Alumni Asso-
ciation yesterday discussed plans
for an athletic dinner to be held in
May. Arrangements were also made
for requiem mass at 7:3O am. in
the Gibbons Hall Chapel Saturday
for John Cammack, an alumnus,
who died March 20.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
-FdreUUeU to Sport
Amateurs Defined as Guys
Who Won't Take a Check
Hypocrisy of Some
Officials Deplored
By Writer
CHAPTER TX
BY PAUL CALICO

In departing this happy and
more or less carefree world
where nothing is ever more i'm
portant than one young man
in shirt and drawers and spiked
shoes chasing another young
man similarly attired. or 10000
people sitting tense and semi
hySterical, wondering whether
one big loogan VINO has been
hit on the chin by another big
loogan is going to get up so that
he can be hit again. or the same
number of people waiting breath
lesSly to see whether a man with
a big leather glove is going to
catch a little white ball descend,
ing upon him from the sky, l
realize that I have left the anna
teur question still unSolved.
If you try to arrive at a
proper and Watertight definition
of exactly what an amateur is,
you will wind up considerably
confused. The dictionary says
that an amateur is one who is
not rated as a professional. and
that a professional is one, gen.
orally. who has competed IN
sport for a stake or purse, or
gate money, or with a profes-
sional for a prize, or who has
taught or trained in sports or
athletics for pay. To this. mod
ern amateur governing bodies
have added that a professional
is also anyone who capitaiizeS
his athletic skill or name. di-
rectly or indirectly, for pay.
But the exigencies of modern
sports still leave considerable
room for doubt and argument.
The Ame erican SportSWrlter
comes much closer to it. He de-
fines an amateur as a guy who
won't take a check.
We are, by dint of long prac-
tice. the greatest nation of hypo-
critics on the face of the globe.
If we have any conception of the
real meaning of the word anna
teur," we never let it disturb
us. We ask only one thing OF
an amateur, and that is that he
doesn't let us catch him taking
the dough.
The entire Subversive scandal
of amateur athletics would be
ended if certain standards of
proficiency and the amount of
time devoted to a game we're
made the basis of determining
an amateur or a professional
status. 1t would also be con-
siderable h elp if the various
amateur protective and regulat.
ing bodies would get out of the
racket of promoting amateur
sports for gate receipts.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
REF K. Old, MAT
BOUT TO O'TOOLE

An old-fashioned uppercut that
landed on the smooth-shaven jaw
of Referee Benny Bortnick ter
minated the wrestling show at
Turner's Arena last night.
It all happened after 80 min
utes of the feature bout involving
Tommy O'Toole, current hero in
local matfests, and "Bibber" Nc
Coy, villain. Bibber let the hay
maker fly and was promptly dis
qualified.
In the semiwindup, wild Man"
Fam, a Pacific Coast importation,
was pinned by Chris zaharias,
brother-in-law of Babe DidrikSon,
the great girl athlete. The finish
came in 16 minutes.
Bull Martin won over Lord Al
bert Mills in 10 minutes with a
body slam and Dutch Schulz
tossed Whiskers Wells in 1612 min
utes with crotch and body slam.
In the curtain raiser, Angelo
Savoldi and Frenchy Larue staged
3O-minute draw.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
"Jobs" for Golfers

The most celebrated of such
cases in recent times was the
suspension of Jesse Owens, the
colored American one-man track
team, who, after winning four
gold medals at Berlin in the
Olympic games, was suspended
by the A. A. U. for failing to fill
a contract to run in Sweden,
where he had been booked by
The A. A. U.
What's your game? Golf?
Can't afford to play, Ell? Got
just the thing for you. Fellow
1 know, ]. G.. Whoffenheimer, of
the Whoffenheimer Dye and
Chemical Works, Inc, has
place for you in his office. Nice
job, good salary, easy hours.
What's that-you don't know
anything about dyes and chem
istry? No. no, no, you don't get
the idea at all. 1 told you this
was just the thing for you.
You don't have to know any,
thing about the business. You
just go down to the office every
morning and check in, or call
up on the telephone and see
whether j. G. wants to play golf
in the afternoon or wants you
to take some of the out-of-town
buyers or wholesale men out to
the club and play around with
them. Give them a thrill to say
they played around with the
North-Southeast amateur cham
pion. Get it? j. G. is a lousy
golfer, but he is trying to i'm
prove his game, see? You're not
instructing him, because that's
against the amateur rule and you
want to be very careful about
the amateur rule.
have often wondered what
the boys and girls think of the
business, as they begin to learn
the racket, youngsters who have
gone into sport for the thrill and
excitement and pleasure of it
at first, to wake up gradually to
the fact that they were being
played for suckers by their
elders, who in return for this
would frequently let them get
away with murder. They learn
all too quickly. The American
amateur athlete who cannot
capitalize in some tangible
form upon his skill and pub
licity and doesn't is either too
dumb to be successful at any
thing but patting a ball with a
stick or running around a track
or Juggling a football, or else is
nothing but a rank amateur and
not deserving of the fair name.
(TomorroD'S article 1DiH haze
Baseball as its then1e.)
Copyright, 1899, by Paul Calico.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Aces Here Sunday
Bulge N0w 4 Up on Vines

Reservations deadline for the
V1neS-Budge coaSt-to-coast series
match, scheduled for Maryland
University's Ritchie Coliseum
Monday at 8;15 p. m, has been
set for tomorrow. Following
Budge's victory last night in
Cleveland, 6-1. Ga, the red
head now holds an 8-to-4 lead
over his fellow Californian.
The star duo will arrive in
Washington Sunday morning
and will be quartered in the
Ambassador Hotel. The famous
pros come here directly from
Baltimore, where they play their
thirteenth match.
A round of entertainments
have been planned in their
honor, including a golf game
at Congressional in which Jack
Harris, the series promoter,
and Vines will be hte partici-
pants. Bulge doesn't like golf,
particularly. so he'll go sight
seeing.
Because Bruce Barnes and
Dick Skeen teamed to beat the
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
No Pros Wanted

Track athletics and boxing
furnish us with two perfect eX-
amples. For years there has
been no market for professional
foot-runnerS and jumpers. But
the amateur runner who is col
orful. who can break records
and draw crowds, will fill arenas
night after night. He can make
plenty for himself, and does.
And it is no secret how he does
it. Therein lies the scandal.
The Amateur Athletic Union
must know what is going on, but
if it stops it, it also stops a
chief source of revenue-gate
receipts. One famous runner
was such a financial success
that he had to have manager
to conduct his tour.
Amateur boxing is the great
est professional racket in all
sport-unless it is ANA teur
hockey that is worse-and the
reason why boy today finds it
more profitable to box as an
amateur than to turn profes-
sional is purely economic. ANA
teur boxing was always some
thing of a petit ty professional
racket, but never to the extent
that it has become in recent
years.
The Lawn Tennis Association,
or the golf body, or the Inter
cOlleglaye Athletic Association
will catch a young athlete in
the act of selling a belt or a
sports implement, or indorsing
a brand of yeast or nerve tonic
or cigarette, or an automobile,
or will apprehend a college
player who during his summer
vacation played semipro base
ball, or who, perhaps, when the
football season was over, slipped
away to a town a hundred or
so miles away and collected
few dollars for playing halfback
for the Four Corners Bulldogs
under the name of PSmith.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Century Of Baseball
5000 to VielU Picture as
Herdld-Ti111eS Guests

More than 5000 young Wash
ington sportSmen will gather to-
morrow morning at Loew's Capt.
tol Theater to witness the
famous baseball film "The
First Century of Baseball" as
guests of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Izaak Walton League
chapter, the Herald-Times and
Station VOL.
Bucky Harris, Joe Judge, Wal
ter johnson, Jack Bentley and
other baseball celebrities will be
present.
Abner L. Roe, of the Izaak
Walton League, will make a
brief talk on conservation.
There will be hunting and fish
ing reels furnished through the
courtesy of Sidney B. Lust.
Loew's theaters are offering
the big playhouse for the young
SterS, who will be given a few
pointers on conservation Of wild
life and hunting and fishing.
Many high-school groups in sub
urban sections are building
shelters and feeding birds DUR
ing the period of snow and ice.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Purge Impossible

Out they go, bag and baggage,
branded as dirty professionals
and a detriment to fine, clean
amateur sport, never again to
be permitted to compete under
the pure and, worst blow of all,
profitable banner of modern
amateurism. The newspapers
print the pictures of the tar
nished athletes and also those
of the expulsion committees
sitting around a long table
passing sentence with hurt looks
on their faces. After which the
chiseling, grating, cheating,
and petit larceny can resume
with renewed vigor because
everyone has just had a clear
demonstration that sport is
pure and clean and that dirty
professionals are cast out into
darkness.
If the various associations
(all self-appointed) that govern
amateur sport really wished to
clean house of all athletes who
were not amateurs under the
Strictest Interpretation, there
wouldn't be enough competitors
left to hold a caucus race, let
alone regular competition. They
would have to throw them all
out, boxers, runners, tennis and
golf players, baseball, football,
and hockey men.
Technically the athlete is sup
posed to be competing for the
fun of it, because he loves the
sport and enjoys playing. But
once the game reaches the high
pressure, big-money level as all
our games do eventually, there is
precious little fun left in it for
the athlete. He is required to
remain an amateur while his
governing association functions
strictly as a professional pro-
motion organization.
Actually, once he has signed
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Amateurs Taboo

The U. S. Lawn Tennis AS
sociation, for instance, has no
use for a real amateur tennis
player on the Davis Cup team,
because a real amateur cannot
maintain the standard of play
demanded by big-time tennis.
The candidate for a berth on
the Davis Cup team must play
all the time. He must make the
swing of the winter real-estate
and chamber-of-co tour
naments in the South to keep
his edge for the spring and sum-
mer competitions.
The amateur (Sic) football
player must give every second
of his free time to football prac-
tice and blackboard lectures,
and more and more demands
upon his time are being made
by the high-pressure football
college teams which have now
included and heightened spring
practice as a vital part of the
training necessary.
There are amateur boxers who
have had from $50 to 300 fights
as amateurs, and professional
boxers who have fought no more
than 30 or 40 bouts. Which is
the amateur and which the pro-
feSSional?
The old money standard for
amateurs won't do any more.
because with very few excep-
tionS everyone takes money for
sport, in one form or another,
and chiefly in the engraved or
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
; Games Listed in
Alex. Court League

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 20.
Three important court contests in
the Alexandria Unlimited League
will be played at the Armory to-
morrow night, it was announced
today by Billy Smith, director.
In the initial contest, Fort Hunt
CCC and Nicklins will clash, fol-
lowed by the Potomac No. 2 VS..
Lyles, and Columbia VS.. Kleiman's
contests.
Four teams, the Kenorick
Flashes, Potomac No. 2, Columbia
and Klienman are tied for the
lead.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Two Giants Return
Signed Contracts

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 G.N.S).
Walter Brown, whose 27O pounds
make him the biggest pitcher in
baseball, and Tom Hafey. third
baseman whose "a homers led the
Southern Association last year,
today returned their signed con-
tracts to the New York Giants.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

an entry blank to appear at
and run in a certain track meet,
he can no longer exercise any
option as an amateur compet-
ing for the fun of the thing,
and stay home on that night
and listen to the radio because
he does not happen to feel like
running. That entry blank is
as rigid a contractual obligation
as any legal form signed by a
professional prize fighter or ball
player. 1t is true that no one
can force him to keep to it and
appear, but if he wishes to con-
tinue in amateur competition
he knows he must, otherwise
the A. A. U. will suspend him or
blacklist him for what techni-
cally amounts to breach of
contract.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

minted form. Why, then, if they
all take it, don't they turn pro-
fessional? For one thing, be-
cause from a business point of
view. both before and after the
crash, the boys and girls found
it much more profitable to COM
pete as amateurs than as pro-
fesSionalS.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

spring. none
packs them in
like that mis-,
leadingly coy
prima donna
of the silver
blades. Miss S
Sonia Henle.
In her Sl35.-
900 eXtrava-
ganza. which,
durin the
course of 81
days this win
ter, will give
63 perform.
anCeS. MISS
Henie is the
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
MD, U. TO OFFER
COURSE ON CARE
OF GOLF TURF
BY Lillian RIXEY

On January 25. Maryland Uni
versity joins the growing list of
colleges and universities which
offer short courses on golf turf
maintenance to greenskeeperS and
golf course supervisors. For three
days, lectures and informal dis
cussions will be presented by au.
thorities in the field for the bene-
fit of local and visiting green's
keepers.
Other halls of learning which
have opened their doors to golf
course mentors include Penn
sylvania State, pioneer in the
field, Iowa State, Michigan State,
Wisconsin. Minnesota, Purdue and
Ohio State.
Maryland decided to hold it's
short course on the recommended
ton of the Middle Atlantic Asso-
citation of Greenskeepers, whose
newly-elected secretary is C. A.
Hook of the Clifton Park Course
in Baltimore. Registrations for
the course are being accepted by
Mr.. Hook and at the University
of Maryland.
CHIEF SPEAKER
Chief speaker on the three day
program will be DR.. John Mon
teith, who is in charge of the
U. S. Golf Associations expert
mental turf project at the Airing
ton Agricultural Station. He will
be able to give the green's STU
dents first-hand information COL
lected by members of the green
section staff during their visits in
the past year to $50 golf courses
in "a States.
Among the members of Mary
land UniverSity'S staff who will
lecture on various phases of the
turf question are j. E. MetZger;
F. S. Holmes; R. P. Thomas; w.
B. Kemp; J. B. S. Norton; R. w.
Carpenter; S. S. Steinberg and
Ernest R. Cory.
Other specialists include Fred V.
Grau, of Penn State; j. S. Houser,
of Wooster, Ohio; G. ]. Noer, of
Milwaukee; C. H. Hadley, of the
Department of Agriculture, and c.
IB. Fits, of Columbia Country
Club.
BOOSTS SOLUTION
An added boost to scientific
handling of greens and fairwayS
problems was given by the an
nouncement, at the recent U. S.
G. A. annual meeting in New York,
that the Green Section will shortly
revive it's Bulletin, which had to
be discontinued in 1888 for lack
of funds.
The Bulletin serves to keep
greenskeepers throughout the
country in touch with the expert
ments being conducted at Arling-
ton on grass varieties, disease con-
troll and the use of different types
of fertilizer.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Five 10
Face HYattsviNe

The Greenville A. C. basketball
team clashes with the Hyattsville
Company F team in the Greenville
gym tonight at $50 o'clock.
A preliminary game between the
Greenville Boys Club and the Colo
NAL Village Boys Club is carded
for 7:30 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
M'KINLEY Tech
EASILY BEATEN
BY BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. 20.
Basketball tables were turned to-
day with Baltimore City College
having avenged an earlier defeat
by downing Mckinley Tech OF
Washington here, 28-22.
The Trainers were unable to
hit their stride until the third
period, when they pulled up from
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Christmas
Presents

Miss RhOda Christmas Sc
lectiOns for today at Hialeah
Park:
FIRST RACE-Dicty Step,
Grand Pageant, Sure Miss.
SECOND RACE-Sun An
tiOch, Saranite, Upton.
THIRD RACE BriertOn,
Bob c., Early Times.
FOURTH RACE - Merry
Gesture, Pause, Sure Off.
FIFTH Pastry,
Count Morse, Robert L.
SIXTH RACE-CrinOIine,
Sunset Girl, Micro.
SEVENTH RACE Macie
Margaret, Gold Dart, Brown
Ben.
EIGHTH RACE-TOni,
Skaggerak, San AntiOca.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Y Quint's 8-Game
Win Streak Broken

RICK, Md, Jan. 20.
Washington Y. M. c. AS eight
game winning streak today has
been halted by the HershbergerS
Bakers, Maryland State A. A. U.
champions, who trounced the Dis
trict uuint, 48-32.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

producer manager, star and dis
ciplinarian.
To date. with the close OF its
current stand at New York S
Madison Square Garden, the
HOLLYWOOD Ice Review net re
ceiptS for the tour are estimated
at Sl.000,000. Out of this tidy
sum, Miss Henie's cut is paltry
100000.
OOPS! SORRY!
In dressing room No. 30
at the Garden. where Lou Nova
recently held forth in an atmoS-
phere Of wet towels and lima
ment.soaked ozone, Miss Henie
reclipes in-between sessions on
A~Louis XIV chaise Tongue, sur
rounded by paStel-tinted drapeS,
mirrored dressing table and
orchids.
Miss Henie is a perfectioniSt
and something of a Tartar when
1t comes to expecting only the
best from her ice choruseS. Woe
betide the member of the en-
Semble who foot-faults or spoilS
the general effect in some other
gauche manner.
Nor is she less exacting when
it comes to evaluating her own
performance. All figure skaters,
no matter how good, make mis-
takes. In the Ice FollieS which
recently came to Baltimore, on
one night there were no less
than five spills by star perform
ers. They took their misfor-
tune as a matter of course,
laughing at themselves with the
crowd. This display of poise
had the effect of making the
performe-: that much more pop
ular and the general attitude
was, We'll, she can take it.
FOUR-ENCORE DESSERT
But such trivial mistakes dis
may Sonia no end. At one per
formance during the tour, she
took a spill in the midst of
a difficult free-Style execution.
She finished her program, like
the good trouper she is, but i'm
mediately after her perform
ance, while the inconSequent
little debacle was still fresh in
the minds of the spectators, a
uniformed usher was sent out
on the ice to search for the Of
Tending foreign matter which
certainly must have been re-
Sponsible.
The usher looked and looked,
and finally pounced triumph
antly upon a small silver of
wood some 20 yards from the
spot where La Henie had come
to grief.
The speciality which brought
down the Madison Square Gar
den enthusiasts during the past
week was the tango duet which
Miss Henie performed with
Stewart Reyburn of Toronto.
The usual dessert following this
little number was four encores.
CROWD SEDATE
Those who have watched her
on tour believe that the Holly
wood star has never given per-
formances half as beautiful for
the cinema as she has in her
road shows. Perhaps, like so
many actors of the legitimate
theater, La Henie really gives
out only when she can feel
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. At any
rate, it is true that some of her
most beautiful speciality num-
bers, like the tango, have never
been seen on the screen. Her
favorite tour number, however,
Is the Alice in Wonderland Sc
quence which is soon to be re-
leased from the Coast in a
movie.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
WI. s. in Action

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Jan.
20.-Washtngton and Lee High
cagers of Ballston engage Ben
Plotnicki's High YellowjacketS
here tonight.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

a 15-6 halftime score to within
five points of the winner. The
Marylanders withstood the surge.
however, to coast on into their
triumph.
Working, center, and PoSner,
guard, were the pacesetters for
the victorS
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

Don Bulge Ellsworth Vines
featured pair in Cincinnati the
other night, after wagering they
could win, there is some talk
that a "gruGge" match between
the pairs will be staged in the
Coliseum.
Following the engagement
here, they will make Richmond
their next stop.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Women's
Rights
And Lefts
By Lillian Rixey

OF all the half-dozen or so
ice shows that hit the main
stem between Christmas and
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
HiaIeah Park Entries

FOR TOMORROW
ST RACE-Two-year-olds; purse,
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

producer. manager, SIdI anu us
ciplinarian.
To date. with the close of its
current stand at New Yorks
Madison Square Garden, the
HOLLYWOOD Ice Review" net re
ceipts for the tour are estimated
at Sl.00O.000. Out of this tidy
sum, Miss Henie's cut is paltry
100000.
Evening star., 1939-05-24
Corporation
Reports

NEW YORK, May 24.-The fol-
lowing is summary of corporation
news prepared by Standard Sta
tistics Co., Inc, New York:
Briggs Manufacturing Co.-Union
employees in seven of this company's S
plants in Detroit were called out on
strike. Company's plant at Evans
vile, Ind, was not affected.
Selby Shoe Co.-Declared a divi-
dend of 1912 cents on common
stock, payable June to holders
of record May 25. Previous dis
bursement was Is cents share on
March 6, 1899. Company stated
smaller payment was caused by re-
duced earnings and desire of man.
agement to operate conservatively.
United Shoe Machinery Corp
Common share earnings, year end
ed February %, were s395, against
s424.
Socony-Vacuum -Oil Co., Inc
Company plans to register $50,000,-
900 debentures in connection. with
refunding 81 per. cent issue. Corr
pany announced that interest rate
on debentures held by insurance
companies has been reduced to 27s
per cent from 3A per cent.
Texon Oil & Land Co.-Declared
a dividend of 10 cents on common
stock, payable June 80 to holders
of record June 9. Previous pay
ment was Is cents q share on Sep
tember 30ss1938.