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Evening star., 1939-01-04

parallel to third base and behind
home plate. It is here that the
new rest rooms and concession
stands are being installed.
That" says President Griffith,
"was one Of the best deals I ever
made"
Some time in the future, but not
until another Washington pennant
can be expected to materialize,
Griffith Stadium will be enlarged.
1T may not be in my time" Grif-
fifth says, "but some day think it
will happen"
Griffith will leave late this month
for Florida to spend brief vacation
and then assist Bucky Harris in
separating the wheat from the chaff
among his % brand-new rockies,
who will swell the Nat squad to 46
this year and make it the largest
in the history of the Washington
club. Training camp will open in
Orlando on February L..
Evening star., 1939-01-04
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Get
ready for some grade A squawks
when Van Mungo lamps his 1899
Dodger contract. He'll be offered
the fat sum of $5,OOO-just one
third of what he pulled down
for winning nine games last year.
You've got to put little Davey
O'Brien of Texas Christian down
as the No. hero of the bowl
epidemic, but save a place near
the top for Eric Upton of Duke
and Hugh Mccullough of Okla
homa. Miami correspondents re-
port this lad did everything but
tote the water bucket during
times out. Some of the accounts
from Miami indicate the favorite
play down there was a straight
left.
Town tattle: The Yanks will let
Evening star., 1939-01-04

$4,000, which amt tin in our
book.
The White Sox player roster
to be issued shortly will include
Monty Stratton, who insists he'll
be able to take his regular turn
on the hill wearing an artificial
leg :. Baseball men say WASH
ington lost one-third of its bat
ting punch in letting Bonura and
AL Simmons go.
Success story: Jimmy Cannon
has quit writing sports for the
New York JournaI-American to
go to Hollywood to write scenarios
at 600 berries per week
Johnny Buckley has sold interest
IN Jack Sharkey's Boston beer
tavern and will turn promoter.
Looks as If Johnstown and Por-
ter's Mite may give Ell Chico some
competition as winter book fa.
Vorite for the Kentucky Derby.
Extra: Every Dodser pitcher
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Apprentice Phenom
Good Turf Bet Now
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4.-The
boys who bet the jockeys instead
of tine horses looked over Warren
(Peewee) Van Tassel today, WON
dering If his startling record the
first three days at Santa Anita
was q flash in the pan or the
reaA thing.
The young apprentice has rid
den five winners, four seconds
and a third in IA races.
The youngster rode his first
winner less than six months
ago.
Stewards today set down
Sammy Rennick for Is days be-
cause of rough riding at the
start of yesterdays first race.
Rennick, under contract to the
w. L. Stable of Harry Warner
and Mervyn Leroy, film figures.
also was denied privileges Of the
erAndStand
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Operation Thworts Central
Youth in 4-Yeor Attempt
To Make Basket Team

ton kept him an invalid until school
started. Although apparently re-
covered, his physician will not per-
nit him to play so fast a game as
basket ball, so Central is without
player who gave promise of be-
ing able to sink them from all an
giles, ard Aaron Silverman doesn't
get letter this year, his last.
Some of Centrals best graduate
basketers returned Monday to trim
the regulars. 1882. In the first Pc
riod the grads rang up IL points to
none. Rays double-defe system,
in which one team uses the man-to-
man and the other the zone defense,
worked okay, he says. Last years
lightweights are using the zone de-
fense, and as most of them are
juniors they will be the regulars Of
next year.
Among the old Centralites giving
the present team the works were
such wel-remembered court stars
as Forest Burgess, Buddy Nau, Cliff
Keyser, Bill Vermillion, Don Fones
dHQ AOe 1enOeISOH.
Roosevelt's alumni return on Fri
day night for an annual test. Coach
Herman Littman recalls that about
500 of the old-timers turned out last
year for the game, a dance and eats,
and expects an equal or larger crowd
this time. Three of his present play
ers are from baseball families. The
Robertson twins, Billy, captain of
the quint, and Jimmy, are nephews
Of Clark Griffith, and Ernest Travis
is nephew Of Cecil Travis.
Riders Strong In Track.
The Rough Riders track team is
looking forward to another success
full season under Coach Lynn Wood
worth. They have engagements at
the 5th Regiment games in Balti-
more and the Catholic University
indoor meet, and possibly will go to
Chapel Hill for a meet there. Sew
eral informal sessions also are
planned about town.
Woodie helps run the Roosevelt
Community Center, and most of his
lads are members of the boys club
there. They made good showing
in the Christmas Sports Carnival
at Tech, winning two events and
placing in two others. The same re-
lay team that won at Baltimore
last year-Louis Napoi, Wilbert
Lewis, Clark Shiflet and Kent Ellis
-triumphed again at Tech. NapoH
also won the 40-yard dash. Hyman
Lancaster, brother of Truman Lam
caster, interhigh mile champion Of
1887, placed third In the unlimited
division high jump, and Eddie
lee0 HUBER, Page A.l6o
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Advancement Seen School and College Sports by Big
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Basket Ball.

Basket bau.
Georgetown VS.. New York o..
New York.
Maryland VS.. Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia.
st. Johns VS.. Tech, Tech gym,
$3.50.
Mount Rainier VS.. Gonzaga,
Gonzaga gym, $3.50.
Western VS.. George Washing
ton High, Alexandria, 4.
Anacostia VS.. Calvert Hall, Bal
timore.
Charles Town (W. Va High VS..
Washington-Lee High, Arlington,
Va, 8.
TOMORROW.
Wrestling.
The Golden Terror VS.. Chief
Chewacki feature, Turner's
Arena, $3.50.
FRIDAY.
Basket Ball.
Baltimore City College VS..
Tech, Tech gym, $3.50.
Gonzaga VS.. Eastern, Eastern
gym, $3.50.
Westinghouse High VS..
Mount Rainier High, Mount
Rainier, $3.50.
Roosevelt VS.. Alumni, Roosevelt
gym, 7:30.
Montgomery-Blair Jaynees VS..
Webster Jaynees. Silver Spring, 7.
Western VS.. Montgomery Blair,
Silver Spring, 8.
Dewitt VS.. Annapolis High, An
napolis.
Miner Teachers College VS..
Morgan College, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Hockey Miracle Man. Is Out

son. His club barely managed to
qualify for the playoffs. But in
the title series they rose to great
heights, finally beating Toronto
for the Stanley Cup and world
title, bringing Stewart into the
limelight as the leagues miracle
man."
This year the Hawks got off to
a spectacular start, then begged
down. They have won only 3 of
their last II games and now are
in fourth place.
Maj. Fred Mclaughlin, owner
of the Hawks, said Paul Thomp-
son and Carl Voss, both veteran
players, would direct the team
as co-coaches the remainder of
the season.
Evening star., 1939-01-04
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-Bill Stewart
was on the outside looking in
today, less than year after he
was hailed as the miracle man.
Of big league hockey.
The plumpish, partly bald
Stewart, fired as manager of the
world champion Chicago Black
hawks, said he was leaving the
game with mo regrets" and that
now he planned a Florida vaca-
ton. In the spring Stewart
resumes his job as a National
League baseball umpire.
Stewart was a National Hockey
League umpire before the Hawks
hired him to replace Manager
Clem Loughlin during last sea-
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Rockville Five Looks
To Four Contests

Rockville Athletic Association bas-
ket ball team opens a busy two
weeks tonight with a game at Rock
vile against the Greenbelt five. The
schedule:
January 7, Marine Barracks; 8,
Farm Credit; 10. Army Medical Gen.
ter at Army Medical Center; II, Dis
trict Silents; IA, District Firemen.,
Evening star., 1939-01-04
By John GRIFFITH

by JOHN l.. GRIFFITH,
Commissioner Of Athletics for the Western
Conference.
CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-Three i'm
portant developments of 1888 in
school and college athletics stand
out IN my mind above all others.
First, more good players than
usual reported last fall to their COL
lege coaches; second, there was an
increase in participation and in
spectator attendance at school and
college games, and, third, amateur
athletics, especially college football,
still attract the largest crowds.
Looking at these three phases
of school and college athletics in
order:
All Get Good Talent.
First, the colleges generally had
larger squads composed of first
class players than ever before. There
was time when few of the lead
ing universities attracted a major.
ity of the star players, but this is
no longer true. One reason why
there are more finished football
players on college teams than for
merly is because the high school
coaches have improved their tech
nique of coaching.
Second, the State high school ath-
letic association secretaries last
year provided statistics which show
that, in a large number of States
reporting, only three stated there
had been no increase in attendance
at school football games. The rest
reported an increase both in at
tendance and player participation.
In basket ball two reported no in
crease, one stated that the interest
in 1887 was about the same as in
1896, and the remainder reported in
creases.
Baseball Also Booms.
Six-man football has made a start
in the schools and colleges. About
one-half of the educational insti-
tutions now think of six-man foot
ball as an institutional sport. In
baseball 10 States reported an in
crease in interest, 10 reported de-
crease and reported no change.
Third, there were a number G.
college games this year which at
tracted from $4,000 to more than
100000 spectators. None of the pro-
| fessional sports, with the exception
of major heavyweight prize fight,
has the same public appeal as evil
denced by the numbers attending
the events. College football this year
showed a marked increase over 1887
in attendance.
Grid Game Standardized.
College football has become pretty
we'll standardized, due to the fact
that the Rules Committee has not
recently made material changes in
the code. Further, the coaches, with
the aid of pictures, have been able
to reduce coaching to a more or less
exact science.
Prospects for football in 1889 are
bright. There is every reason. to
believe this game will grow in favor.
This is an age of easy living, easy
thinking and easy playing. Football
is hard game, but there are several
thousand young men and boys who
still enjoy such a bodily contact
sport.
There is no indication that the
colleges generally favor changes that
would make football a modified out
door game of basket ball. Most Of
the coaches still believe the ground
plays constitute the basic weapon of
attack. This has been the theory
of American football through the
years. and in the writer's judgment,
1t will continue to be the principal
basis of ofense and defense in the
colleges.
Evening star., 1939-01-04

Five years ago-Bill Tilden list
ed Henri Cochet of France and
Norman E. Brookes, left-handed
Australian, as his No. ! and 2
stars Of all time in tennis.
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Win, Lose or L raw
ScoIzo, Future Champ, an Unusual Young Man;
He Doesn't Know the Enemy and Doesn't Care
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

competent boxing
of them Armstrong and Joe
Louis The third was sitting in corner Of the smoky shabby little
you thought
for the future feherwght of world There weren't
boy out of pro fights
fellow who will be the champion has mnee and dress with his
opponent and all the preliminary boys in l2by room without even
where else is fellow going to hgh smiled Pete scalzo Where
boxing Chicago
long with Kodak That's good It's good fight in
New York too But can't find steady work only Cities
Petey pro ought played
lead in Golden Boy He's typical prize fighter at 81 He's little
been in the racket little longer He has fighters twtc
of while thinking
thing Small Montanas left that scazos
eyes That was before you saw scazos own left
frequent alley
been going around and saving that scao cnch be the
champion and
long watching
two get the impression that he do again."
authoritative night
good for while For thing Mr. Pete Reilly who scazo
wasn't around Usually hand whenever of his
good the Scalo
the only fighter Reilly
along Anybody Then he got
singing, This Can't Be Love Because Feel So Grand
black walked inside followed larger
opposition" observed
and temporarily stopping his singing
He'll Soon Find What Trunspurenti's Got
couple newpapermen
scazo he had opponent fight
Nope said grand
Ia"
persisted newspaperman
INC, don't think
Hey, anybody ReiIy?"
Nobody had
ced in listening somebody who Transparent
Lew did win out of fights and the only blew
sscobar the bantamweight champion of the world.
II don't know he's southpaw
does make? I'll find out what he's
IA, la
very unusual young
You could his 0ond fights
end here he facing
he persisted singing in
wasn't like fellow championship going
fight.
1t May Be Thot Mr.. Reilly Has System
One of the with
trainer and asked in whisper
the trainer they
thing to about said scaos sapping
They called you got
thinking about that conversation you anything
about, he had said,
Transparent found that he had plenty to
Transparent of fighting family
fighters before him. The
night
The champion
but somehow he didn't thinking
maybe that they meant back
the with terrific right hand
end Transparent No. fell
red rivuets his of
right This time 1anspants feet
first,
bother to count five minutes before bring Transpar
to abou1
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world at 126
teys way OF doing things resolved
time Reilly. possible because
Pete had fighters Delaney Bat
class And off night belongs with them
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Talent Greater,
More in Action,
SaysGriffith
Crowds Also Grow:
Six-Mun Football
Gains Place

Mote: This is the first OF a
series Dritten for the Associated
Press by leaders in sports.)
Evening star., 1939-01-04

(eeo HUBER, Page A.16o
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
SMALLPOX SCARE
 IN N. Y. JAIL

Albany, June s - (Up) = State health department officials feared today that . smallpox outbreak in the Onondaga county penientiary might spread throughout the state and possibly to g other states.
 Already cases had been reported from northern New York and the lower Hudson valley. Both patients were former inmates who were dis charged in the two weeks period be- fore 10 inmates contracted the di- Sease.
 In that period, which began on May Il, all of more than 400 inmates and jail personnel were exposed to the malady by . negro inmate. The negro subsequently, was discharged without a rash on his body having been identified as smallpox.
 Twenty other cases have been re- ported and the negro has not been located. Eleven victims are still in the penitentiary. One is a prison guard. Two others had contact with the penitentiary in their work. The remainder are former inmates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

Anthrax among cattle has just been discovered near Belfast, North ern Ireland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

authorized, to be backed by the state.
 Originally. the bonds were to be issued by private bonding houses without having them as legal state obligations.
 Military Bill
 The military reorganization bill, which provided for the appointment of state adjutant general June 15, was ready for action in the house after passage in the senate. If the bill received approval and was signed by the governor, it was believed un- likely Adjutant General William F. Ladd would receive a reappoint- ment.
 Baby Budget Fight
 Exciting battles were forecast on the "baby budget" prepared by the appropriations committee. About $20O, ,OOO surplus was expected on the major $l06 6,00O, ,000 budget, largest in the states history and virtually ev- cry so-called pressure" group in the state was urging use of the money on new services.
 Some wanted a jail farm, wider juvenile court system, regional mar ket and others.
 Scores of other bills awaited action on the calendar. Committees still held many others. But with the bud get passed. many observers regarded what happened during the remain ing hours as merely anti-climax.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
THREE DAYS LEFT
 IN LEGISLATURE
Continued from Page D

(Continued from Page D naming of Democratic Judge Paul R. Connery at Norwalk.
 Fair Division
 Gov. Baldwin was understood to favor a flair" apportionment of the court jobs between Republicans and Democrats. Tn courts where an equal division was decided on, it was believed the Republican would be granted the higher job, with the Democrat getting the deputy's or as- sociate's position.
 The house resumed the battle over the establishment of toll on the Mer- ritt Parkway to finance extension of the road into the upstate Wilbur L. Cross highway. A strong bloc in- sisted bonds which may be issued for the project should be state obli- gations, rather than dependent on uncertain income from tolls.
 The highway bill carried an op- tional provision for the $l2.000.0 900 bond issue. If enough income was received from tolls and the highway fund, bonds would not be necessary.
 Still More Trouble
 Further trouble was expected on the provision making the cross high- way c so-called "freeway'-with special lanes for trucks. Some quarters wanted trucks to use the old highways and leave the super highways to passenger vehicles. That is the system in force on the Merritt Parkway now.
 The senate prepared to take up Tuesday measure authorizing the building of toll bridges at Hartford and New London. already passed by tho house. Approximately 9iS.o00, 900 in bonds for these structures were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
ANGER PREVAILS
 IN ALL ENGLAND
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Continued from Page D
 Shakespeare planned, in answer, to read full statement of the known facts, while his chief, Earl Stanhope, first lord of the admiralty, made statement to the House of Lords.
 Demand Publicity
 The admiralty had intended to handle the inquiry in the ordinary way, in secret hearings, and to issue its findings later. Members of par- lament, however, urged that full public investigation was necessary, particularly in order to bring to light aspects which a naval court of in- quiry might not consider.
 At the admiralty meeting before the House met, were Earl Stanhope, the first lord; all permanent of- ficials and sea lords of the ad- miralty; Rear Admiral Bertram c. Watson, who commanded rescue work at the scene of the Thetis dis aster off Liverpool, and Capt. H. P. K. Dram, commanding the fifth submarine flotilla, who was one of four men saved. Dram, who was not in command of the submarine, offered himself as human buoy, to test the Theti's escape apparatus. He came up from the Thetis with messages strapped to his body, be- heving that he might die in an att tempt and that rescue vessels, by finding his floating corpse, might locate the Thetis.
 Hold Nothing Back
 Members of all parties joined in the demand that nothing be held back from the public in merciless investigation of the sinking.
 Commander Robert Bower, con- servative who served throughout the World War in the navy, said of the sinking:--
 "The point that strikes me is that there should have been some method of sound signaling between the Thetis and the tug which escorted it. If this system had been in use the escorting vessed would have been aware almost instantly that the Thetis was having trouble"
 Other members were ready to ask why, in view of previous accidents to the Theteis. there were not more escorting vessels; yny there were 103 instead of 53 men-the normal complement-aboard her: how 1t was that even though the Thetis' stern stuck IS feet above the water Tor 12 hours, no hole was cut in 1t to permit those aboard to escape.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
Thetis Sinks As
 Tube Filled Up
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Whether the hearts of the three men failed or whether they were drowned we do not know. I under stand from the description had from those who escaped that it is rather alarming when you get in the chamber and feel the water rising
 "Unless you have strong nerves and are accustomed to this sort of thing, 1t is alarming to feel the water crawling up to your neck" !"
 Doubt About Raising Her
 As admiralty divers sought to put steel hawsers around the hull of the ship, 130 feet oown at the bottom of Liverpool Bay, R. s. Johnson said:
 "It may take two days to raise her. It may take two weeks. Perhaps we shall not get her up at all. A lot depends on the weather"
 Divers were able to go down only
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
CHIEF JUSTICE
 HUGHES IS ILL
tcontinued from Page D

decisions on three major cases. in- yolying validity of Mayor Frank Hague's administration of Jersey City, status of the proposed child labor amendment, and constitution aiity of the federal milk marketing agreement program.
 Associate Justice James o. Mc- Reynolds, T7-year-old dean of the court. who presides in Hughes ab- sence, has left town on his summer vacation.
 May Reveal It Soon
 Should Hughes decide to retire. it was believed that he would reveal his action soon. If retirement should be delayed until after Con- gress recesses, the court probably would be forced to function without a chief justice until after the first cS the year. The president has au- ruled them out.
 thority to make recess appoint snents but precedent has, in effect,
 Butler probably will read one or more opinions for Hughes today. Observers believe that Hughes may have written the decisions in either the Hague or child labor cases, since both suits cover subject matter on which he likes to write.
 The milk cases involve specifical- ly validity of milk marketing orders promulgated by the agriculture de- partment for the Boston and New York milk sheds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05
HOMELESS JEWS
 STILL AT SEA
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tContinued from Page D to the coast guard. Hamburg Amer ican officials in Havana said they did not even know the ships posi- ton.
 Trying tO Find Home
 Meanwhile. several Jewish groups were making strenuous efforts to obtain entrance into some country for them.
 It was believed the talks between the Cuban government representa- tives and the coordinating commit tee group had reached a temporary impasse.
 However. early today Nestor Pou, Dominican consul at Havana, emer- ged from meeting with Berenson with this statement: T have just had a long conference with Law renee Berenson concerning the refugees on the St. Louis pursuant to the instructions of my govern ment. Berenson telephoned the (coordinating) committee in New York. I cannot say more except that the negotiations are proceeding most satisfactorily"
 Berenson refused to comment.
 Aboard the St. Louis, hope held Up the refugees morale. Reports from the ship said they were driven into a riear-panic Saturday when the vessel changed Its course in the general direction of Europe.
 Schroeder took his ship out of Havana harbor Friday under orders. of Cuban President Federico Laredo Bru. The St. Louis had left Ham, burg, Germany, after the May 5 Cuban decree banning refugees. It's passengers viSas had been issued by consular officials who either had not been informed of the decree or had ignored it.
 Conferences Go On
 In Havana, Lawrence Berenson, New York city lawyer who is coun- sel for the national coordinating committee for Jewish refugees, and other committee representatives conferred with President Laredo Bru and with a committee he had ap- pointed to study the situation.
 It was reported that the conferees were considering the Isle of Pines, supposedly the inspiration of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island" and present location of the Cuban penitentiary, as 8 refuge.
 The Dominican republic also was a possible refuge. The Dominican government had decided to relax its requirement. of a $500 entrance fee termed prohibitive by the refugees and announced it would make ar- arrangements for lesser sum. The refugees said they were able to sup port themselves.