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Evening star., 1939-06-04
Olympic Feet-First
Diving Is Harmful,
Says Pro Coach
Aims to Check Yankees,
Marjorie Gestring,
Patterson Holds
By SAM JACKSON,

Associated Press Feature Service Writer.
The art of diving has been turned
upside doWn-or rather down side up
by ruling of the Government
Committee of the 1910 Olympic
games.
For the first time, the American
champions and Would-be champions
are being required to hit the water
feet-first instead of head-first.
In vain the divers plead that this
Is not diving as defined in the die
tionary. The Olympic Council has
spoken, and Americas A. A. u
wishing to be prepared for the 1910
games-has followed suit, made the
feet-first dives compulsory for all
competitions until further notice.
In Los Angeles. blonde Marjorie
Gestring, world champion of the
three-meter springboard, is having
to learn her specially all over again.
Helen Crlenkovich of San Francisco,
the second-ranking woman diver. is
hard at work, too, on gymnastics
she'd never even heard of.
Dangerous Business.
THE thing I don't like about it is
the danger to the diver" says Phil
Patterson, professional diving cham
pion and Helen's coach. 1T is a
recognized fact that feet-first dives
are injurious.
Il have the word of a recognized
nose specialist that the continual
forcing of water up the noStrils is
likely to cause serious and painful
sinus trouble. I require every diver
I'm coaching to put adhesive tape
over the nose and breath through
the mouth"
Competitive diving for men con-
sists of five required dives and five
optional ones selected from a recog-
nlzed list. Women do four COM
pulsory dives and four optional.
For both men and women, new
Olympic and A. A. U. rules require
two feet-first plunges. The point
score for optional dives is such that,
in Patterson's opinion, several more
feet-first must be selected if the
otiiiNtC iiOpCo W W III
Help TO Europeans"
The two new dives that every one,
men and women, must do from now
on are the running forward flying
single somersault and the backward
single somersault layout. In both
the feet enter the water first.
Il think the reason for this change
is the overwhelming success of
American divers in world competi-
ton" Patterson says.
The feet-frst stunts are the type
of thing done in gymnastics and
tumbling which are so popular in
Europe. Europeans believe the new
dives give the other countries an
edge on the United States.
But the Americans will learn
them all right. Don't worry about
that
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Rod and Stream

Dates for the International Tuna
Angling Cup Matches in Nova Scotia
this year have been set from Sep
tember 6 to 9, inclusive. at Wedge
port. An important announcement
connected with the setting of dates
and place is that Belgium will be
represented by a team this year.
Another change is that the Ameri-
can team will be selected by the
outdoor writer's of America instead
OF by the Board of Governors as in
the past.
This will be the third year
for the matches. Great Britain
won the first year, and last
year the Cuban team, cap
tanned by Julio Sanchez, took
the trophy.
Points will be awarded one for
the biggest fish of the day and one
for the greatest aggregate poundage
OF the day, the rules to cover three
fishing days out of possible five.
To make the contest more exciting,
an extra point will be given to the
team catching the most fish during
the three days.
Don't forget the meeting of the
Capital Casting Club this morning
at the Lincoln Memorial Pool. The
Eastern tournament is only six
weeks away and the local boys
should get in all the practice pos
sible. Special facilities for fly cast
ers, with plenty of room for a back
cast, have been set up at the Rain
bow Pool, and will be open until
10:45 am.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Model Motor Boats
Attack Time Marks
Here Next Sunday
First D. c. Club Regatta
To Lure New Jersey,
New York Croft

Model speedboat enthusiasts from
New York and New Jersey will Join
with local racers in the first annual
regatta of Washington's Miniature
Power Boat Club on Lincoln Memo
rial Pool next Sunday.
Between Is and 20 assorted racing
craft in four classes will take turns
at setting regatta speeds emitting
them to prizes sponsored by the
club here. Racing will begin at 9
am. and continue through the day
as each craft is sent off over a $780,
foot circular course.
One Clear Chance at Mark.
Events for classes A. B, C and D
have been carded. with an entity
list indicating boats predominately
on class B side.
Racers, a few of which are more
than , feet long, will be given a
single try each at setting the day
mark. In event of a breakdown. a
boat will be given one more chance
when all other entries have made
their circuits.
The out-of- town contingent will
be led by last years class B record
holder, Edmund Kalfus of Endicott,
N. Y. Others include Henry Parohl,
John Thorp and Archie Kimmell of
New York City; H. D. Brailsford of
Larchmont, N. Y; Julius and Teddy
Schon, Long Island. and Martin
Waller and Bob Graham of Jersey
City.
Meet First for ID. c. Craft.
Brand-neW or renovated racers Of
the local fleet make their debut in
competition following several weeks
OF informal brushes on the pool.
They include tiny speedboats of
Jack Buckley, club president; Ray
Meir, John Pendleton, Roy Emmons
and Mac Kemp.
The Race Committee is composed
OF Buckley, Meir and Pendleton.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
BY GEORGE HUBER.

From Oregon Inlet, Capt. Way
land Baum reports that small and
medium size bluefish have started.
Some catches are running to 100
a boat, and indications are they
will improve. Some mackerel, bonita
and channel bass also are being
taken. There were good rock catches
there last week.
Virginia this year plans to make
a big bid for the deep-sea, big-game
fishing business, but it is not the
State that is doing it but private
organization of anglers. You re-
member that last winter the State
Legislature failed to pass a bill ap-
propriating 5000 to hire good
angler for exploration along the
offshore reef in wrich game fish
abound. That money would have
been regained the first year if fish
were found, but the State law
makers couldn't see it that way.
Meanwhile, Ocean City, Md, is
getting lions share of the money
and trade, because marlin were
found off that coast.
The same conditions exist
off the Virginia shore. it Is be-
lieved. only the right spots
have yet to be found.
So where the State failed, the
Virginia Deep Sea Fishing Associa-
ton has stepped in. Winston
Montague, one of the directors, said
the association has hired one of the
outstanding big-game fishermen of
coast this summer. He is John Cass
OF Miami who will use his own boat
in a systematic coverage of the reef
formation 20 miles off shore. He
is expected to begin operations about
June 18, and will fish until the
associations money gives out.
Evening star., 1939-06-04

ings in which plans for the 18th
annual Presidents Cup Regatta
will be formulated is scheduled
for tomorrow at 1890 pm. in the
Harrington Hotel Others will be
July 10, August and 81, Septem-
Der 6, II and 18.
Osbourn Owings, commodore of
West River Sailing Club, has
called a meeting of all 20-foot
sailboat owners on the bay for
next Saturday at the Annapolis
Yacht Club. Steps will be taken
to organize into a class, with pro-
posals for class name, restrictions.
officers and bylaws.
1t is contemplated to divide
20-fO0ters into two groups, one
for round bottom and another
for chine boats.
John Maloney. skipper of sloop
Tralee, has yarn on the famous
old schooner Australia in the cur
rent issue of Yachting Magazine:
Al Knight, a former local boating
editor, has written a fine piece of
fiction for one of the better maya
zines, laid around the regatta cir
cults on the bay.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
20 Years Aqo
In The Star

Almost 100000 fans jammed
EPSON Downs as the famous
Derby was revived after A.
year lapse. Grand Parade, an
outsider, won.
Whitemore. V. P. I. shortstop,
and Dolan, Georgetown second
baseman, starred as the Gobblers
deefated the Hoyas in their final
game of the season. George
town won Is of 18 games.
Jess Willard announced that
the match with Dempsey was
the only one that has not Wor-
ried him during his career. The
champion appears to be in fine
fettle for the forthcoming bout.
Boston nosed out the Mats in
the ninth, 4-3, but Sam Rice hit
safely in his 18th consecutive
game Babe Ruth's pitching and
batting is expected to feature
todays contest.
A record entry list of 453 men
in the annual Big Ten track and
field games will necessitate the
running of trial heats Friday
with finals on Saturday.
Rooney Virnstein famed IA as
Southern blanked Electric, go,
in Terminal Y. NJ. c. A. League
game.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Crow Hunters Hold
Confab and Shoot
On Lake Erie

The fifth annual convention of
the American Crow Hunters Asso-
citation and the third annual Ma
tional Grow Shoot will be held in
Erie County, Ohio, with head
quarters at Hotels Breakers. Cedar
Point on Lake Erie near Sandusky,
on June 1925.
The shoot is open to all corners,
and to the winner goes the gaudy
title of national hunting cham
pion. Hunters will be examined on
their ability to use a crow call and
interpret the crow language and ex-
plain crow habits. Owl. hawk and
crow decoyS may be used and any
gun up to 10 gauge is permitted.
Evening star., 1939-06-04

among the 10 who decided that
May was too early in a rather full
season to break up a boat.
Mighty Atlantic was so stirred up
with fresh southeasterly wind that
some of the entries never got to
the starting line. And with tons
we'll. almoSt-of water falling in
his face and the seas so high a
driver couldn't tell when the inlet
was abeam, it ceased to be boyiSh
fun. That l0-mile slam down the
coast was enough for any man.
at least drivers of racers as small
as the 1855.
An airplane was sent out
to guide Crawford and several
others to the inlet.
Bill Gatewoods 225 hydroplane.
Miss Manteo, the same boat that
gave Count Theo Rossi a real race
i'll last years Presidents Cup Re-
gatta, was winner, but at cost. In
addition to fractured exhaust, she
had bent propeller and was leak
ing like sieve through holes
that formerly held screws.
Stress Fair Play.
Initial reactions to Chesapeake
Bay Yacht Racing Association s
drive to standardize open regattas
in this area indicate a desire to
play ball fairly, thus providing
visiting shippers the same condi-
tions they expect in their own club
events.
From st. MichaelS comes word
that Capt. Nick Hardcastle, chair
man of Miles River Yacht Club
Sailing Committee, has designed
and built an original type of signal
card to indicate various starts and
courses for classes. 1t remains
aloft on the committee boat while
changes can be made from deck
Dick Shaw, local dinghy sailor,
suggests that what should be de-
signed next is a turning buoy
that will eliminate fouling same,
one that will disappear momentari-
ly but will come back like a punch
drunk boxer.
Potomac Pushes improvements.
George Herman, perennial preSi-
dent of Potomac Boat Club, an
nounceS that extensive improve
ments and repairs to clubhouse and
floats are being pushed to compile
ton under the direction of Theodore
DOminick in order to have things
shipshape for the first of a number
of club affairs in connection with the
organizations 10th anniversary.
Seasons opener that will in
clude rowing races, canoe DEM
OnStratiOns and other aquatic
sports is planned for June IL
against Old Dominion Boat
Club.
Cooper Lightbown, William Belt,
Mike Polinhoff and Vincent Gala
CHER recently have added boats to
the fleet of single shells. Having
outgrown the lighter shells, Paul
Lanigan and Jimmy Burch, jr., will
join this group. With new accent
on canoeing. the Potomac Club is
giving instructions under j. w.
Burch, former commodore of the
American Canoe Association.
Cupboard Hearing Thursday.
A hearing on H. R. 6273. which re-
heves outboard racing craft from
carrying equipment now required
by law while tuning up or en-
gagged in racing Is slated for Thurs
day before the House Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
The first of seven luncheon meet
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Sanctions Are Granted
Speedbout Meets

Official sanctions recently issued
by the Racing Commission of the
American Power Boat Association
include those for regattas at Tren-
ton, N. j., July A. Chester, Pa, Au-
gust 13; Solomons Island. Md, July
1928; Stone Harbor, N. j., Septem-
Der 2; Boston, Mass, July 1890;
Geneva, N. Y. July SO; Hampton
Va, July "a; Baltimore. Md, June
1925, and Belleville, Ontario, Au-
gust 7.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
New Chesapeake SIoop
To Be Kept Busy
BY the Associated Press,

BY tht ASSOclated Press.
OXFORD, Md. June 3-An addi-
ton to the Chesapeake Bay racing
tieet-a trim, 36foot sloop owned
by Howard A. Perkins of Whining
ton, Del-is cruising in the waters
here.
The sloop has been named Yola
and is slated for action in numerous
local races as well as deep-Wate
events along the coast.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Ten Moorings Planned
By Milford, Conn.

Milford. Conn, plans to put out
10 guest moorings for the exclusive
Use Of visiting pleasure craft that
put into that harbor this season.
The moorings will be near the
town dock and convenient to the
shopping district.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
He's Champion Putter-out

CINCINNATI LPy.-Last year
Harry Craft of the Reds handled
more putouts and more total
chances than any other outhelder
in the National League.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
AND AFT

Never again. said Crawford from
anc City No. he didn't mean that he through with
that his
He simply
AbSecon Island
Seventeen drivers behind the
maze he way out the Atlantic
Evening star., 1939-06-04
TOday'S Matches.

Newcomb VS.. Stoddard and F1eShman.
BattiSte VS.. FieShman and Henson. Haley
VS.. Henson and Woodheld. BaranowSki VS.
Woodfield and Ronnlng Wilson VS. Ron
ming and Henry. Saunders VS.. Henry and
Stoddard.
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same satisfaction when we choose
oilcloth shelf edgings-thinking in
terms of color has a fascination
even beyond scallops with dia-
monds in the center.
The suggestion sketched here
for using shelf edging to dress up
kitchen windows was sent in by a
reader. The busy homemaker
will appreciate the fact that the
curtains are perfectly straight and
plain and easy to remove for laun-
dering. When windows and
shelves match the effect is es-
pecially good. Banded towels
may be of the same color, and
tin containers for bread, sugar,
and spices may be painted with
bright enamel, to match.
The new Sewing Book No. 3 by
Mrs. Spears is packed full of use
full, money saving ideas, that al
most any homemaker may put to
practical use. Every idea is
clearly illustrated with large
sketches. You will be fascinated
with the variety of interesting
things to make for the home and
for gifts. The price is only 10
cents postpaid. Send coin with
name and address to Mrs. Spears,
210 S. Desplaines ST., Chicago, Ill.
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May Call Congress to
Reuse the Neutrality Act

There is talk that Mr.. Roosevelt
will call congress into extra session
to deal with international problems
-and acting with Roosevelt sudden
ness, he may have issued the call
two hours after this is written. He
has wanted the So-called neutrality
act revised to meet his ideas. You
will recall that he could not even
gain consideration of his program
by the foreign relations committee
of the last senate. They turned it
down cold. But the question is due
to come up whether in an extraordi-
nary session or in the regular meet
ing next January, and it cannot be
avoided. Who can guess what the
political effects of that may be. I
can not foresee them, nor has any,
one been able to convince me of
their ability to see that far into the
future.
As l am able to examine the puz-
zle of the future, therefore, can see
only a very difficult time ahead for
those who want to have a voice in
their government. Of course, there
is going to be percentage of vot-
ers, as always, whose convictions
will be those of their political party.
But there is an increasing number
of voters who would like to know
what they are voting for or against;
why they are voting for one
man over another. They probably
constitute the blance of power in
American politics, and if they do it
is a splendid thing. Yet, I repeat
they are going to have their hands
full in trying to understand the is
sues next year. 1t is tough propo-
sition to learn what proposed poll
cies will do for or to us when those
policies concern affairs close at
home. It is just that much more
perplexing when we are called upon
to figure out what will happen when
the issues of a campaign involve
not only our own affairs but the af-
fairs of other nations, as well. And
it strikes me that next year would
be a good time for political lead
ers to start being honest about what
they seek to accomplish
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a gay campus career. Its cunning
tunic bustleback and its full circu-
lar-cut skirt gives it swank and dis
tinction such as collegiate fashion
ables demand. It's red suede belt
supplies a fetching dash of color.
Approval for the new bustle-back
dresses is assured for being inter-
preted in simple words, bustle-back
is merely a way of saying "back
fullness'' achieved in ingenious
ways that are conservative and
wearable without being overdone.
The suit to the right is very style
revealing, stressing as it does the
continued triumph in the mode of
richly colorful striped woolens. The
stripes, the plaids and the mar
velous artistry with which designers
combine them with monotones in re-
lated tone simply hold one spell
bound. The gorgeous striped wool
that fashions the costume suit keys
to the smartest fall colors, harmo-
niZing vibrant greens with luscious
blackberry tones. The skirt is all
around pleated The boxy jacket
tops an emerald green velvet blouse
closing with novel key-and-keyhole
ornaments. An oversize quill tops
the moss green sailor hat.
You may expect to see gay little
velvet jackets dotted all over the
college campus. The girl conferred
in the picture wears snug black
velveteen jacket quite military look
ing as so many of the newer fash
ions are, with plaid pleated skirt
that introduces an artful blend of
grape, pink and yellow tones, eli
NAKED with a sweater in warm yell
low hues. Juniors, likewise college
sophisticates, simply dote on the
new plaids and stripes. A Scotch
cap of black velvet with satin rib
bon streamer, together with the
plaid carries the message that fash
ions for young folks have gone very
Scotch this season.
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IT'S no secret as to who has been
chosen to play the part of lead
ing lady on the stage of fashion
during the early fall days-College
Girl is her name. To this impor-
tant parsonage all fashiondom is
paying homage at the present mo-
ment. On every side you are re-
minded that the idea is motivat-
ing to cater to the whins and ward
robe needs of the girl who is going
away to school.
The style program arranged for
Miss College Girl and her younger
schoolgirl sister fairly teens with
excitement. For instance, there is
the new hustle dress. The idea has
taken the collegiate set by storm.
The quaint hustle dresses that
grandmothers galvanized in as girls
in the '80s are actually proving
inspiration for frocks that the mod
ern girl will wear this fall.
The highpoints of these oldtime
silhouettes are being revived such
as waistlines of vanishing inches,
slim corseted midriffs and wide
back-swirling skirts interpreted in
novel hustle treatments but modi-
fed so cleverly they are made thor
oughly practical and wearable for
this day and age. Then there is the
new vogue that calls for a velvet or
velveteen jacket worn with a gay
plaided wool skirt or contrasting or
matched solid color as fancy die
tates. The decided military air that
the new fashions take on is also a
big factor in the new mode and
most outstanding of all is the i'm
portance attached to fine materials.
These and other significant style
trends were revealed at their CLAM
orous best in an advance fall fash
ion revue staged by the Style Crea-
tors of Chicago. The three models
pictured were especially applauded
by the audience of visiting mer-
chants as fashions that are repre-
sentative of what the up-to-date
fashion-alert girl will be selecting
for her going-away-to-school ward
robe.
The clever little date frock of
shepherd check velveteen shown to
the left in the group is sure to enjoy
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When Political Leaders
Took Wrong Side of Question

One needs to go back only to 1920
to recall what happened to political
leaders who took the wrong side of
question-the wrong side from ma
jority of the people. President Will
sons followers stood by him, as they
should have done in those days.
They committed the Democratic
party to a position on the League
of Nations and the Versailles peace
treaty that proved to be unpopular
and a good many of them were en-
quilted in the flood of the unpopular
ity of that side of the question.
If there were complex conditions
to be considered by voters and
thought through in advance of the
election of Warren G.. Harding over
James M. Cox at that time, the con-
ditions then must be regarded as
simple to what confronts America
at this time. Nor is there any
possibility of simplifcation of those
problems. The bulk of the people
can say, as I firmly believe the ma
jority sentiment to be, that we must
stay out of foreign entanglements-
must be isolationists-andt there still
will remain the influence of those
foreign conditions upon our own life
and living and means of making
living.
But to be specific with respect to
the political picture of presidential
Iaspirants:
The candidates now going about
the country herding in delegate
pledges or having their representa-
tives do so have thus far proceeded,
quite naturally, upon the basis of
purely domestic questions. These
questions include such as the Roose-
welt money policies; the undoubted
waste that has characterized the
governmental spending; the regi-
mentation of agriculture with its
crop control in one place and crop
expansion in another without appar-
ent rhyme or reason; the sudden
changes in national plans and the
consequent instability and uncer-
tainty. Others could be named, but
these few suffice to illustrate the
point,
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Offers Solution
For One Problem

For many women, the most try
ing coat length of recent ;nspira-
ton is the rather popular justice
low-the-waist length that nips in at
the midriff and hugs the hips.
1t is good style for slender
woman with streamlined figure
and is being shown in any number
of varieties, of which one of the
most popular is a monotone wool
jacket worn over gay print dress.
But the problem is not so simple
for those who border on plumpness.
One suggestion is that the slightly
swallow-tail version deals more
kindly with the heavy woman.