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Evening star., 1939-05-17

it was down there near the cellar.
Are you telling me?" asked Will
son. II was in there five years"
Attention, Seattle: Solly Krieger
has made up with Promoter Nate
Druxman and will be out there
to fight AL Hostak June 81.
Leominster and st. Bernard's
High baseball teams opened the
football season five months early
up at Fitchburg, Mass, the other
day by playing to a 1928 score.
Somebody ought to tell the Gar
den brass hats the coal crisis is
over. 1t was so cold in the joint
Monday night even the bike riders
were beefing& Heinz Vopel, who
got conclusion in the first spill,
is in bad way. While they car
ried him out, the band played
You're a Sweet Little Headache"
Tdoay's guest star-William F.
M'Crea, Salt Lake Telegram:
How about battle of the Grip
ples-Dizzy Dean vs.. Carl Hubbell
when the Giants visit Chicago?
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Bulge Has Job Of Luring Won Cromm to Pro Tennis
NIer Roted chomp ner Both LeoguesD

the second round it will only be
because he knocked Baer out in
the first.
One of Don Budge's tasks
abroad will be to try to talk Baron
Won Cramm into jerning up for
pro tour next year. Joe Di
Maggio's M. D. thinks he'll have
Joe ready to 60 against either
the White Sox or Indians this
week end.
Andy Farkas now says he isn't
through with pro football and
will play with Washington again.
He must have changed his mind
= since being interviewed by the
Detroit News last week. For our
money, Doc Prothro has the
toughest walk in the majors.
Just to see him lump it across
the field makes a guy feel like
reaching for his gun.
Short story: Bill Terry and
Jimmy Wilson had dinner to-
gether the other night and Bill
was telling how cold and damp
Evening star., 1939-05-17

It would lure plenty of the faith
full"
Harry Mehre is trying to get
his U. of Mississippi rebels on
Notre Danes 1914 Chats right
schedule. Bantamweight Champ
Sixto Escobar hit town today with
Luis Rogi, a red-headed Puerto
Rican welter, in tow. The job
Rogers Hornsby is doing at Balti-
more Is getting rave notices
around the International League.
Old Art (What-a-Man) Shires is
refereeing wrestling matches in
Texas and getting top billing.
One song barred in the Yankee
clubhouse these days is Il Can't
Get to First Base With You" It
was authored by Mrs. Lou Gehrig.
Question Box-A Western editor
read over the list of authors,
scientists, Yogi teachers, ct Get,
Lou Nova Is hobnobbing with At
Nyack and inquired: "Is that guy
training for a fight or to get on
Information, Please7'"
Evening star., 1939-05-17
By EDDIE BRETT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, May 17.-Obser-
vation ward: Mickey Walker be-
gins a Nationwide hunt for a
heavyweight white hope at
Hagerstown, Md, June 7. He will
try to pick up expenses by boxing
two-round exhibitions with local
cutups at each stop. (That noise
you heard was Joe Louis yawn-
ing. Some of the gallery GUS
toners at the siX-day bike race
were hollering for Bob Pastor and
his bike. Van Mungo will lay you
dough his roommate, Coach Bill
Killefer, will lead both the Ma
tional and American Leagues in
snoring. Tickets for the 1910
Olympics at Helsinki, Finland,
60 on sale here today.
That's his story. Mr.. Kayo
Janic, personal bodyguard to Max
Baer, blew in from the coast yes
terday repeating his prediction
that If Nova answers the bell for
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Delaware Champions
Seek More Ldure|s
In e. Club Meet
Sturdy Middleton High
Team Has Stur Pair
In Reed, YeursIey

An influx of new entries, includ-
ing that of Middleton DelD High,
which recently successfully defended
its State championship, has en-
dowed the &C. Club games coming
up Saturday at Central Stadium
with greater Importance and sent
the entrance record to a new high.
With more than $50 individuals and
some q teams listed. the standing
room only sign will come in handy.
Middleton is sending a squad of
IA boys to the games and reports
from Delaware indicate they are not
coming for the ride.
Rout Delaware Rivals.
Against the cream of the State
scholastic talent the boys made a
show of their field, piling up 42ls
points to 1913 for A. I. du Pont, the
runnerup. Most of the schools, in
cidentally, boast much larger en-
rollments than Middleton's 212
pupils, but sports seem to be a sec
ond nature with the champions and
they We always done we'll in every
branch of athletic endeavor.
Two of the brightest stars in the
visitors lineup will be a high jumper
by the name of Reed and Yearsley
a middle-distance runner. Reed has
gone as high as feet 11s inches in
the high jump and holds the State
record Of 5 feet liz inches.
Stars in Broad Jump.
He is no drawback at the running
broad jump, either, negotiating %
feet ~ inches. On these per-
formances he appears to have an
excellent chance of collecting at
least 6 points toward the team
trophy.
Yearsley does the 44O-yard dash
in So seconds consistently and hoofs
the half mile in minutes and 4
seconds.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Old Speed Gone,
But Definitely
Dir Is Back
HurIs Five Brilliant
Frames as Rescuer
In First '39 Toll
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Head for the storm cellars, boys:
Dizzy Dean is back-and the din is
terrific.
Not that the great one is any
blushing violet any time. But when
he's in there showing the batters
up, he's not one to let the boys and
girls forget it.
And Diz definitely is back. He
showed that yesterday with a s.
inning relief trick during which the
Brooklyn Dodgers were lucky to get
more than loud foul off him. He
allowed only three hits and no runs,
famed five and walked none, which
still is par for the course.
Brooklyn won the ball game 1872,
but the dizziness boys did all their
scoring before old Diz ambled in for
his first National League appear
ance OF the year.
Pitches With His Head.
It's not the same Diz now, though.
His motion yesterday was a lot more
natural than it has been recently,
but his fast ball had no more zip
than hangover. However, he has
taken a page from King Carl Hub
bells book and is pitching with his
head as much as with that famous
right arm. And don't forget, when
he does that, the great one is
real cutie"
So Phil Wrigley may yet realize
something on that s185 900 invest
ment. And, with Iupbell on the
road back, too, one of these fine
Sundays you're going to hear your
favorite umpire announcing a pair
of batteries headed by Old Square
pants and Old Diz.
Both the Cubs and the New York
Giants can use those lads. For
while the Cubs hold fourth place in
the National League they dropped
game farther off the pace set by the
st. Louis Cardinals, who seem to
have plugged up the leak, some
how, from which all of their ia
nous gas" rapidly was oozing.
They reminded one a little of
1884 yesterday coming from behind
to top the Giants, rs, boost their
flrst-place edge to a game and
half and sink the New Yorkers into
seventh place. With no Hubbell
handy, Bill Terry called on a cou-
pie of run-of- the mine tossers, and
they gave Johnny Mize, Ducky Med
wick and Pepper Martin a home
run ball apiece.
Yank HOmers Beat Browns.
Another home-run trio turned UP
for the New York Yankees, but
that's to be expected Babe Dahlgren,
George Selkirk and Joe Gordon &C
counted for six runs as the Yanks
topped the St. Louis Browns, rs,
for their sixth straight win. The
Yanks needed the victory to keep
Ia games in front in the American
League, for Boston's Second-place
Red SoX collected 10 hits to jar the
Chicago White Sox, 1874 And they
did it without their biggest gun,
Jimmy FoXX, who went to a hospital
with his old sinus trouble.
Clnclnnati's Reds, largely through
Ernie Lombardis bat and Lee Girls
SONS soupbone, climbed into
second-place tie in the National
League by drubbing the Boston Bees,
Al. Joe Bowman pitched a 9-hitter
and drove in four runs himself in
pacing Pittsburgh to an 8-5 decision
over the Phillies, which boosted the
Bucs to sixth place.
The first night game of the year,
featuring Connie Mack's Athletics
in an evening "at home" went into
overtime before the Cleveland In
dians paraded five rur,s across in
the 10th to top the AS, 3-3.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
.40.Goa| Outfit
Appears Sure
To Start
Unique Combination
Shows Its MettIe
In Practice Test
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, May Tits prac-
tically certain now that the United
States will shoot its dream" polo
team at the British in the inter-
national cup matches starting June
at the Meadow Brook Club out on
Long Island
This team is 40-goaler, the first
in the history of international play
and the first perfect" polo team
there ever has been For that mat
ter, it probably is the first 100 per
cent unbeatable team ever put to-
gether in any sport, for the simple
reason that polo is the only form
of athletic outing that attempts to
grade its performers with math-
ematical precision.
The American team now practicing
to face the British is composed Of
Mike Phipps, Cecil Smith, Tommy
Hitchcock and Stewart Iglehart. each
and every one Of them a 10-goal
super-star Three of them attained
perfection on Long Islands playing
fields. Smith is 200 pounds of Texan
and tough as an alligator
BritOnS Are Not Worried.
If the British are not awed by this
assemblage of talent. they should be.
In the history of American polo
there have been but 16 players called
perfect, and here are four of them
ganged up Phipps was the 18th to
be elected, and he is the baby Of
the team
Up to Yesterday there had been
some doubt Uncle Sam would use
this terrific quartet against the in
vaders. 1t happened that none OF
the four had had much experience
at the No. 4, or goal-tending posi-
ton A l0-goal man, as his title
implies, is a player accustomed to
leaping on his pony and tearing
sort of roughshod through the OPP
position.
So there they were. with four
highly-strung polo Red Oranges and
not a man among them with much
frst-hand experience at heading off
the opposition. This happens to be
a mighty important factor in polo.
as in other games.
Very much wanting place on the
American team was Winston Guest,
veteran of the last three victories
over England and a star No.
player, or back The question
naturally arose: Would it be better
to use Guest, crack defensive
player, despite his rating of only
seven goals, or to toss in the dream"
team, lock, stock and barrel.
Little Defense Is Needed.
I think I saw the question decided
yesterday out at old Westbury. where
there's a polo-playing millionaire
behind every trim hedge. The four
perfectionists will ride against the
invaders next month with Iglehart
swatting the ball and taking his de-
fensive duties very lightly After
all, what does a 49-goal team need
with a goalkeeper?
They played practice match on
the Phipps family's private meadow
with Iglehart trying his wings at
No. for the 'big" team and both
Winston Guest and his brother, Ray
mond, playing on an opposing side
Mike Phipps was out with sprained
wrist and Edible Gerry took his place
The Guests really were in there
battling. But the l0-goalers won
without much difficulty, to S, and
Iglehart looked great at his un-
familiar post. That appeared to
settle it.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Sports Leaders
Talk Star Meet

Leaders in Washington anna
teur athletics, in a meeting Of
the District A. A. U. tonight at
the Jewish Community Center,
will get together on a date and
review the set-up of the first an
nual Evening Star track and
field meet postponed from May
13 because of foul weather.
1t is expected that May 80 will
be the new date, with the meet,
for the District A. A. U. and
Metropolitan Washington public
high school championships, to be
held in the University of Mary
lands Byrd Stadium,
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Pepco Tops SIeuths

Overcoming Investigations early
20 lead, Pepco defeated the Sleuths
by an lis count in the Government
League. Snyder connected for a
double and a triple for Investiga-
ton, which outbatted its rival by a
1873 margin.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Minor Results

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Toronto g: Baltimore o.
Syracuse. 10; Montreal. 10.
Rochester, 4; Jersey City. l.
Newark-Buffalo. threatening weather.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Minneapolis. 10; Kansas City, z.
India Indianapolis. q Toledo !.
Louisville Columbus. wet grounds.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
Sacramento, 8: San Diego, 2.
Oakland IL; Hollywood, Z.
Seattle 7; Portland, ]
Los Angeles. 10; San Francisco. g.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Atlanta, IL New Orleans, 2.
Little Rock. 8: Knoxville, 8.
Birmingham. 3: Chattanooga, /.
Nashville. 10: Memphis, 4.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Tulsa, 8; Beaumont. o.
Shreveport, 16: Fort Worth, q
San Antonio 8: Oklahoma City, I.
Houston-Dallas, threatening weather.
EASTERN LEAGUE.
springneld, s; Wilkes-Barre. 4 I'll in
Scranton, 12; Hartford, 4.
Elmira 8; Albany. f.
Binahanston. Z; Williamsport. q.
EASTERN SHORE LEAGUE.
EederalsburR. 4: Pocomoke. l.
Centreville. 6; Dover. g.
Salisbury. 4: Milford. 3.
Cambridge at Easton. cold
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Enqruvers Defeated

Bureau of Engraving dropped an
other Departmental League engage
ment, bowling to Maritime Commis-
sion, 1871. The losers outhit Mari
time but couldn't make them count.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Buck Says the Browns Were Okuy

NeWsom
he got
break Red
out OF it. the Browns raised the
that's the club that's
he his
to leave the Browns"
of Tigers nearby laughed
rubbing table,
right Blushing Buck defensively
fellows gotta
That's correct Bridges As long
larly well doesn't make difference where
this question settled, ugged
for the field his
Newsom. I'm statement, Bushing
Witt said
said? Why, pitcher
I HI
I'll do contender? How anybody?
contender. HaW!"
Evening star., 1939-05-17

Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
Tiger Man
By FRANCIS {. STAN.

clubhouse boy rummgng through yellow striped
trunk and trying find Detroit uniform fit the Tigers pitcher
Mr. Louis Norman Newsom held
yelled Here's of Pofenbergers. They oughta fit"
Mr. NeWom freshly traded from didn't bother
his head Won't do" he said. Not big enough"
How about
OF pants
TOO SMALL sighed Buck "See if Yorks pair"
Manager Del Baker ggged know
Everybody the laughed asked
fellow
he's good hunk of the world Wilmington
Brooklyn Jersey Chicago
with the Cubs Albany Angeles
Browns Washington Boston back to the Browns and
Detroit.
the good
will become landmark Mel
oie Buege But he is looking
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Official Score

Runs batted in-Greenberg, Fox, Wright,
BridgeS t3). Travis. Kress. Two-base hits
-Gehr niger. Greenberg. Lewis. Bridges.
Stolen bases-McCoskey, Fox Sacrifices
Bell, Bridges. Higgins. Double plays
Wasdell Left on bases-Detroit. Is;
WASHINGTON, T. First base on balis-Of
k-aEauskas, 5 Struck out-By Bridges
g. by krakauskas. 4. Hit by pitched ball
BY Bridges CTravis): by Krakauskas
lBelD. Passed ball-York Umpires-
Messrs. Rommel. Moriarty and Hubbard.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Buck, 1t Seemed, Liked the Browns

Bushing Buck talking
sadly "The Browns They
busted by this trade No kidding it
and Bell and happen
fellows"
tight Rudy York big fellow but Buck filled
build
waist difficult
mandibe
Just little heavy explained
bout Had tons II
and that did it. I'll be all right.
called little Bridges
skinny rghthande the rubbing table Tommy
stomach and NeWm said where's the place
You you?"
laughed Shuck
Grf Alan Griffith Newsom
the kid Christmas Not half or Grif."
But it from the
of the That heat
when the wind blowing toward the and privacy
playing the park
Evening star., 1939-05-17
NOTHING Bothers BIushinq Buck

properly by the Witt incident IF
think Del Baker first he
I'D release should all the Do
A
partial
by O. givin hesiated.
finally "al that Witt thinks
m while
Witt
Pacific Coast licked him
q popping off about? Who is Vtt?"
field surveyed momenary
pitching batting for the Mats
pitch the batter didn't swing
he Harris" criticized Blushing Buck
curled his lip and sneered
Listen Newsom" yelled from the box "f could get the
bali over win 80 year.
Louis this wordy jest I'll still win 20
for the make difference
who pitch for 2Ogame
Andt
Evening star., 1939-05-17
He Says He's Only 80

might until last did Mr. NeWsom
exactly 20 the Browns But
Flushing his book
that's enough
a to NeWsoms trade to the Tigers In
the And only for
unofficial spokesman We're counting New
except 1885,
suggest that Mr. Newsom
he explained
last few There Poenbege
and all of sudden, Briggs
coloress
fellows swell good copy
Newsom
walked
and the bench waited After ALL
baseball calling him.
only saying opener, good
that out"
couldn't figure Fellows like Bushine
tust
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-09-30
ADjUTANT
IS ACCUSED OF
RUN.AROUND"
Resolution Called Illegal
By Army Officers In
Report To Gov.

Opposition to the resolution OF
State Senators Charles C. Digs
and Allen Ludington,- introduced
last May and proposing the forma-
ton of Negro unit of the National
Guard of Michigan, was revealed
last week by John c. Bersey, adju-
tant general of Michigan, in an eval-
uation of the proposal compiled by
him at the request Of Governor
Luren D. Dickinson, Mr.. Bcrsey
opens his report with the following
statement quote:
In response to your Gov Dick
inson) communication enclosing
Senate Resolution No. SO, a reso-
luton urging the establishment *
a Negro National Guard unit di-
recting my consideration and rec
concentrations, the following is sub
mitted, for your consideration and
through you TO the Senate.
1T is regretted that the Senate
committee did not call me for a
hearing. 1t might have given them
such Information as would have
avoided making an appropriation Of
$4,000, which probably will be
unusable during this biennium.'
In these opening paragraphs Mr.
Bersey lays the foundation for AZ
reasons supporting the Illegally
as well as the impractibility Of act
ing upon Senate Resolution No 36
and establishing a Negro unit Of
the National Guard in Michigan.
Act Would Be Illegal
Foremost among his AZ objections
is the statement in which Mr.. Ber-
sey attacks the legality Of the reso-
luton. Citing the fact that during
the reorganization Of the National
Guard, following the Worlds war,
in 1920 under the provisions Of
Section 3 a. Of the National Defense
act the following ALLEGATION Of troops
we're made for the National Guard
to Michigan: Michigan was to have
(a) Divisional troops, Cb) Corps
troops, (c) Army troops and Oh.
Q. Reserve, the latter to be COM
prised of a 2l6th Field Artillery
Regiment and 193rd Engineer Bat
talon auxiliary the latter group
according to provisions is to be
comprise of all Negroes.
Mrs. Bersey states that the legal
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-09-30
n@- See DIGGs. Page 2
ELKS PURCHASE
A new HOME

The Motor City Lodge Of Elks
No. 1852 have arranged to purchase
the large brick building located at
225 E. Forest avenue.
1t is the plan Of the lodge to take
possession Of its new home on or
about November /.
Inc grand exalted ruler, ]. Finley
Wilson, was in the city to see the
Louis and Pastor fight, and re-
manned until last Thursday night in
order to attend the regular meet
ing Of the lodge, held at the Union
Progressive League, located at
Chene and Chestnut street, and
congratulated his brothers on the
Ane progress made under the lead
arship Of Exalted Ruler Lieutenant
Wallace Williams.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-09-30

Learn Fate
October 9

Twenty eight-year-old Elizabeth
Booker will be sentenced on October
9. by Recorders Judge John p.
Scallen for the death of thirty-two-
year-old June Brown Of 1923 Hast
ings street, on last August IL, b.
After a conference between De-
tective Edward Wurm and assist
ant prosecutor Charles Jones, Eliza
beth Bookers previous plea OF gull
ty of murder was changed to one
Of manslaughter. Detective Wurm
told the court that after an inves-
tigation of the case and informa-
ton gained from the accused woman
he was convinced the plea of guilty
to manslaughter would meet the
facts of the case. Judge Scallen
accepted Elizabeth Booker's plea
Of guilty to the charge of manslaugh-
ter and referred the case TO the
probation department.
June Brown, white common-law
wife Of Negro construction worker
James Sails, So, was found dead
in her home Saturday, August IL,
by her husband She had been
fatally stabbed with a butcher knife
Elizabeth Booker, a roomer in the
home for approximately two weeks
was arrested by police and held
pending a complete investigation
Of the crime. Police learned the
two women had quarreled over a
sum of eight dollars which the
Booker woman was alleged TO have
been given by her friend, June
Brown for safe keeping.
Detective Edward Wurm Of the
Homicide Squad was in charge Of
investigating the case.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-09-30
BUS. PREXY
ADDRESSES
DINNER MEET
Emphasizes Service AS
Keynote For Business
Activity

TOLEDO, Ohio-N- B. Allen,
president of the board Of directors
Of the Frontiers Of America, Inc.
Columbus, Ohio, talked 10 group
of business and professional men
at a dinner meeting Friday evening
at the Indiana Avenue Y.MC,A.
concerning the program, purpose
and possibility Of organizing a
Frontiers club here in Toledo.
The Frontiers club is a business
and professional mems group for
those men who have caught the
idea Of service and wish to trans
late the idea into action. How
ever" said Mr.. Allen. they must
be an independent supporting ac-
ton group" Service Club" said
Mr. Allen. "is a language that all
business men. white and colorcd,
understand and it is platform
NJ Allen gave The following as
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-09-30
.ephewCuts
Auntie, so,
Over Money

AZ fifty-year- aunt charges her
nephew with assaulting her at her
home On Goodwin avenue last Mon
day evening on being treated at
Receiving hospital for a stab wound
Of me fefr crcst wtrirt1 -severed-tAe
intertostal artery Her condition
was still serious at 3 PM Tuesday,
hospital attaches stated,
Mrs. Allane Conyers Of 1898
Goodwin street told Detective Doane
that she was stabbed by her nephew,
Walter Conyers who was rooming
at her home. She stated he came
home drunk and started an arRu-
ment over his room rent and that
she had called police who settled
the argument between them.
After the officers had gone, Mrs.
Conyers stated Walter accused her
Of calling in the police and followed
her as she started out the back door.
He overlook her and stabbed her IN
the chest, the fifty-year-old woman
told police investigating the case.
At approximately $40 that eve
ming Walter Conyers was arrested
and when searched police found ar
open knife in his pocket Taken
to the Homicide Squad headquar-
tiers. the nephew refused to make
any statements relative to the cut
ting. He was held on charge Of
felonicus assault.
Later police learned from Maggie
Sherrod Of the Goodwin street sd-
dress that Walter Conyers had told
them he escaped from a prison al
Nashville, Tenn, where he was
serving a life sentence for killing
his wife, police records revealed.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-09-30
Indiana Ave.
~ Names
Drive Heads

TOLEDO, Ohio-Leaders in the
Tenth Annual Membership cam
paign of the Indiana Avenue
Branch Y.M.C.A. were announced
this week by W. A. McCogiin,
chairman of the. Membership COM
mittee. The drive is scheduled for
October 20 to October 30.
]. B. Simmons Jr., has been ap-
pointed general chairman, assisted
by Silas Harris and thhe Rev. c.
X. Stalnaker, associate chairmen;
Ernest G.. Wade and Jerry Hobbs,
division leaders; Harry Hughes and
Louis Allen, assistant division lead
ers. DR.. j. N. Hobbs, eJsse S. Hes
lip and Miss Maude B. Ford, spe-
cial gifts; DR.. E. E. Hart and Joseph
E. Joneghy, Boys division and
the Rev. E. J. Richardson, Rev. ]. c.
Hayes, Rev. z. Benton and the Rev.
C. W. Marcus, Church Cooperation
committee
The above group Of leaders met
Wednesday evening at Sis o'clock
around the dinner table to discuss
the plans for the 1899 Membership
campaign. The goal get is $1,000 and
$50 members.