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Evening star., 1939-05-12
Haynes Earns Starting Berth
With Mats by Tanning Tigers;
Bosox Invade Tomorrow
! OnOrrOW

and, when the Mats arrived here
this morning, felt he wouldn't be able
to take his turn on the mound to-
morrow. Dutch was hit hard by the
illness and may not be able to per-
form for several days.
Carrasque1, whose altered mon
ECKER Is Alexandra, looms as Harris
choice to replace Leonard at least
temporarily, having left an indelible
impression on Bucky with his gen.
orally effective relief labor.
Alexandra. who limits his compan-
ionship to Roberto Estalella for the
simple reason the chunky Cuban
outfielder is the only player on the
club who can interpret his Spanish,
has demonstrated he can hurl with
marked success for brief period and
Harris is eager to test him over a
longer route.
Thomas, q clean-cut. well-con-
structed lad, who absorbed his base
ball apprenticeship on local sand
lots, also is in line to receive the
nomination to oppose Boston's famed
Lefty Grove in the series opener.
Ken Chase and Joe Krakauskas will
follow in that order.
Jim Heaps Praise on Joe.
De Shong wasn't downcast con-
corning his demotion. II can't
blame anybody but myself" ad-
mitted the twitchy. likeable hurler
Il haven't shown Bucky much yet
and I guess that's to be expected
until get going. Haynes pitched
a whale of game out there, too. "
The gratifying performance of
Haynes, plus the fact they will be
playing in a more spacious park, has
buoyed the Mats on the eve of their
l3-game home stand. BY now the
Mats are convinced they won't blast
many home runs this season, as evi-
denced by the grand total of one
they have compiled to date, and
calculate they will be at more of an
advantage in park where the oppo-
sition doesn't figure to smash many.
Less )heartening Is the dubious
condition of Catcher Rick Ferrell's
injured finger. Since he damaged
the digit in Chicago, Rick has feared
cracked or broken bone, but has
refused to have the finger X-rayed
because he breads the worst. The
finger, however, has failed to re-
spond to treatment and Ferrell
planned to have X-rays made today.
The loss of Ferrell would be a
severe blow to the Mats. Rookie Jake
Early has performed creditably in
filling in for Rick, but while Jake is
an excellent prospect for the future,
he hardly Is the polished receiver
that is Ferrell.
Not until Pinky Higgins launched
the fifth inning with crisp double
to center did the Tigers CLEAN hit
of Haynes, who retired in order the
first 10 men to face him. The Tigers
scored a run in the fifth and added
another in the sixth to grasp q 20
lead.
The Mats had Dizzy Trout in
trouble throughout the flrst four
innings. but left signt man stranded
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Boeon May Be Potentially the Best

And there Mr. George
Mr. Began defending
Washington Track and Field Club He title setting
OF 1O1
whether Mr. Began the gaopng dentist will break
Mr. Began, for
be considered fellow probably
tial spne in Washington
the heat insist he
down the local pike Marands
competition really
he
now he is trying to back three training
We got sufficiently
poll OF local
style, follows:
Joe Muphy35Record edge start but
bumped at the barrier.
'Vernon Miler35-Improving Late
sKenneth Barnes-3-5-Part o
George Bogan-31-May only back to
past performances.
xMory Alnwick-2-1-Former city sprint champion
Improving all the time Dangerous
xPete Dawson -8-1-Freshman in
zRoger Cooper--1-In Possibility Recent work.
zCharley just stabemae May be
. sleeper"
Schuyler Jackson-51-l-No FORM Long shot.
Maryland
xCeorgeown
zCatholic University entry
Evening star., 1939-05-12
WIN Lose or Draw
All Out for the 'lO0'
By FRANCIS (. STAN.

There lot of things recommend Evening
College
about the 100yad DASH Within the
town
tape the other dual something
the track bugs and the inmates of the
probably young Murphy accepted top
and there talk of scratching Chaendon the Pakn
substituting Mr. Murphy a
sky Mr. Awk licked
to conond asonish the critics
Part of the
figures be the exciting
and Anwick will be the field Maryland that
remach in order Murphy off
second meeting AnWick
that he is faster sprinter.
the stop On the Catholic
University there whispers grooming
pair OF sepers If
towns fastest having
IN he
Evening star., 1939-05-12

saying the caliber of oat burners
at Narragansett this season is be-
low par. Tony Canzoneri VS.. Nick
Camarata at New Orleans May Is
looks to be sellout.
The quest-Warner Bros. should
rush scouts to look over Tom
Monohan, athletic director of the
Bristol Comm High School. If
they want to find dead ringer
for the late Knute Rockne.
Ladislav Hecht, the Czecho-Slo-
vakian Davis Cup star who ar
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Baseball.

Washington and Lee at George.
town, 3.
Western Maryland at Amer.
lean u, 3.
Wilson Teachers at Maryland
State Teachers.
Western at Roosevelt, Central
at Wilson, interhigh series, $3.50.
Washington = Lee at Eastern,
$50.
Bethesda Chevy Chase at Ana
costa, $3.50.
Randolph Macon at American
University, 3.
Western at st. Adams, $3.50.
Maryland in Southern Confer
ence Tournament, Williamsburg,
Va.
Georgetown VS.. Pittsburgh,
Ithaca, N. Y.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
Boston at Washington, 8.
Washington and Lee and v. M.
I. at Maryland, first game, /.
George Washington Frosh VS..
Jefferson High. Ellipse, 3.
American University at Ran
dolph- College.
Western at Randolph Macon
Academy.
Tech at Loyola Of Baltimore.
Track.
Evening Star games for Dis
trict A. A. U. and scholastic
championships, College Park, 2.
Gallaudet at Bridgewater.
Central in Tome interscholastic
meet, Port Deposit, Md.
Lacrosse.
Maryland at Navy, 2:3a.
Tennis.
American U. at Bucknell.
Maryland in Southern Confer
ence Tournament, Williamsburg,
Va.
Golf.
Georgetown VS.. Cornell and
Penn State, Ithaca, N, Y.
Evening star., 1939-05-12

rived here the day Hitler took
over, will play the summer circuit
as a free lance. His former dou-
bles partner, Roderich Menzel,
will campaign for the Nazis. New
York scribes say the Pirates are
the best team to show at the
Polo Grounds this season. They
played smart, heads-up baseball
against the Giants. Just in case
the Red Sox are interested, Lou
Finney, the new addition from
the Athletics, is pretty handy
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Record Pot of Gold for Star Piled p for aess
Prodigious Homer
Hit Out of Turn

LONG BRANCH, N. j., May II.
Bill Geroni, Red Bank High
school outfielder, had cause today
to be the saddest scholastic base
ball player in the Nation.
Geroni, playing against Long
Branch High, hit what Umpire
Chris Schwartz described "the
longest ball I've ever seen a
schoolboy player smack" and it
went for a home run.
When Geroni completed his
circuit of the bases, Schwartz
waved him out.
He had batted out of turn.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
$4,000 at Stake
For Slim Field
Apt 10 Start
ChoIIedon, VoIitont
Held Main Threats
To Johnstown
BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

BALTIMORE, May 12.-The big
gest pot of gold ever piled up for the
3-year princes of the turf will
be waiting for Johnstown and his
five or six challengers for glory at
the finish line of the historic Freak
ness Stakes at Pimlico tomorrow.
At this writing, a 25-year low of
six gallant gallopers figure to go to
the post in the 3/16 miles run over
Pimlicos cushiony footing, thereby
insuring an all-time high of some
thing around ST. ,000-more than for
any 3-year-old stake event since
they've been sending 'em to the post
in American racing history.
Although most every one here
abouts is ready to admit that Will
liam Woodward's "Old Man of the
Mountains will come home in the
Preakness, just like he waltzed in
with the Kentucky Derby a week
ago, this record business does not ap-
ply to the winners share of the un-
precedented pot.
Winner Gets about $4,000.
But, with the nominating fee from
322 thoroughbreds originally made
eligible, plus the carrying charge"
for those continued in the running
at their second and third birthdays,
as we'll as the half dozen supple
mentary eligibles" at 81, 500 each, and
the $500 fee to start, the grand total
of prize money tops all listed cash
totals for coming of age" stakes.
Some $1,000 of this aggregate
goes to second, third and fourth
flnishers in tomorrow's running.
The rest is the property of the
fellow who ducks under that finish
wire on top. This makes the net
value to the winner something
around $4,000. and while that in
itself doesn't come up to some of
the other 3-year-old winners prizes
in the past-notably the $4,000 pot
Victorian collected in l928-it still
will put hay in the barns for
day or two.
Not since Rhine Maiden showed
a fllly could win the Preakness
back in is has such 'puny' field
turned out for the time-honored
racing headliner of the Old Line
State.
FitzsimmOnS on Spot.
But that is only more evidence
that it won't be long before Johns
town is entrenched among the rae
ing greats of all time, with Man
o War and War Admiral and the
rest. For. at the current rate of
chatter, the Woodward whirlwind
probably will 60 to the post pay
ing no more than 20 cents to
the dollar to his hackers Saturday.
AS matters now shape up, he
will run as part of an entry, either
with Gilded Knight. from the
Wheatley stables, or if 1t comes up
mud, with the great Challenge, from
the Woodward barn. Sunny Jim
Fitzsimmons, who trains for both
Wheatley and Woodward stables.
is on spot in this one, and probably
is one of the few fellows around
the track not hoping for rain. be-
cause on a dry track his worries
(See PREAKNESS, Page C-20
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Stors Yesterday
By the Associated Press.

Joe HAYNES. Senators-His seven-hit
pitching JOB enabled Washington to
beat Tigers. A.
Cliff Melton. Giants-Held Pirates to
four hits in lifting New York out OF the
National LEAGUE cellar.
Dolf Camilli. Dodgers-Hit fifth
home run of season with one on to beat
Reds.
AL Milnar. Indians-Shut out Ath-
letics on five hits.
Charley Keller. Yankees-Tripled
with bases loaded to get New York of to
big lead AGAINST Browns.
Ted Lyons. White Sox-Scattered
five hits to beat Red Sox.
Bill Herman. Cubs-Tripled with
bases filled in ninth inning to overtahe
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Potomucs Want Games

Games with strong unlimited
teams are being booked by the
Potomac A. C. for its diamond at
Potomac, Md. Call Rockville 13-F-12
after 6 o'clock.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Official Score

Runs batted in-Croucher. Higgins
Early Myer .Wasdell Two-base hits
Higgins. Greenberg, Wasdell. Early. Double
play-Travis to Myer to Wasdell. Left on
bases-Washington 13: Detroit = FIRST
base on balls-On Haynes. 3: on Trout, 3.
Struck out-By Haynes. 5; by Trout $:
Hits-On Trout. II in. ga innings: ,cn
Eisenstat. none in u inning. Passed ball
York Losing ptcher-Trout. Unpires-
Messrs. Grieve, Quinn and MCGOWAN. Time
DOR
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Major League Statistics
NATIONAL.
NAV 12. 1889.

Standings.
WI. Pct. 0.B. WI. Pct. 0-B.
st. L. 10 .588 - Bos.- 500 lE2
Cin.- 10 8 .556 1aN, Y. Gil .450 ~
Bkn, 10 8 .556 12Pitts. $40 "A 2H2
Chic. 10 10 500 III Phil. 811 .4213
Results Yesterday.
New York, 4: Pittsburgh, l.
Brooklyn, 4; Cincinnati, 3.
Chicago, 6; Boston, 2.
st. Louis Philadelphia (rain).
Games Today. Games Tomorrow.
Bkn. at Boston. Bkn. at Boston.
Phil. at N, Y, Phil. at N. Y.
st. L. ct Cine. Chi. At Pttts.
onlv eanes scld. e&. L. at Cinc.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
Lettuce Growers
Continue to
Sian Agreement

Lettuce growers IN the Imperial
Valley continued TO sign up under
plan to eliminate shipments of
six dozen size lettuce during 1899
in order to stimulate market con-
ditionS.
Nearly rs per cent of the valleys
growers have already signed, ac-
cording to B. A. Harrigan, a9ricul-
tural commissioner. Harrigan pre-
dicted that the necessary 100 per
cent signup would be completed
sometime next week.
Arizona growers are renewing
signatures they obtained earlier in
the year when a similar program
was considered. The original plan
was discarded because early season
market conditions We're good and
because size of Arizona lettuce ran
in smaller sizes.
Last week, however, a market
slump caused the growers to meet
again to discuss the shipment cur
tailment plan, Harrigan pointed
out.
Elimination of the six dozen size
lettuce will cut down the bulk
OF shipments somewhat, according
TO Harrigan, and Will windup Phoe-
niX's fall lettuce deal
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
Post Press Building Page
over THE BACK FENCE

umbrella trees are not kept pruned
they are likely to be badly broken
by the wind
Now if you have a pine tree or
a cypress or almost any other vari-
ETY. of evergreen in your yard, and
you are thinking of cutting the top
out of it and stripping it of all its
foliage as you would an athel tree,
then you had better kiss it goodby
before you begin. Because the
chances are that it will not be with
you long. There are very few ever
green trees which can survive that
kind of treatment. Pruning Of
most ornamental evergreenS should
be limited to removing the dead
wood, removing any limbs which
grow downward and cutting back
any limbs which by reason of too
rapid growth are causing the tree
to become unbalanced. The prin-
ciple of pruning ornamentals is en-
tirely different from the principles
of pruning fruit trees, where the
object is to promote the bearing
of fruit and build strong frame
work to support that fruit. The
object of pruning an ornamental
or shade tree is to simply preserve
its symetry and beauty and to re-
move any limbs which might be
in the way
In doing any kind OF a pruning
job it is best to 90 slow, and to
know just what you want to do be-
fore doing it. If you haven't taken
off quite enough you can always
take off a little more; but if you
have taken off a little too much,
il is pretty hard to put it back on.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
BY FRED AMES

Ii you have not taken care of
that little pruning job yet. don't
put it off too long. Spring comes
early to the Valley of the Sun, and
after the sap has begun to rise in
the deciduous trees and shrubs 1t
is too late for pruning.
l wish there we're some general
rule of procedure for pruning all
types of ornamentals which l could
give you in few words, but there
is no such general rule. Each vari-
eyt of tree or shrub must be han
died differently. according to its
own nature and habit of growth
I am afraid a good many people in
the Imperial Valley have been
spoiled for pruning other types Of
trees by their familiarity with the
common procedure in trimming the
athel and umbrella trees The athel
tree seems to be capable Of with
standing any amount Of abuse or
mistreatment without suffering ser
ious injury: and unless you are
going to Just allow them to run
wild all over the landscape. il IS
necessary to keep them severely
pruned back. In fact. after an
athel tree has been topped once 1t
is necessary to repeat the operation
every three or four years to pre-
vent wind oreakage The long
slender limbs which shoot up from
the Old stubs, generally have a
weak union with the main trunk,
and will break out in Il nigh wind
if allowed to become too heavy.
It is customary to speak very
disparagingly Of the athel trees. i
is true they do not belong to the
aboreal aristoCracy. and they have
their undesirable qualities, but they
are trees, and in a desert country
l would think twice before de
Stroying anv thrifty tree. We can
remember a few years back when
the Model T was the butt OF a
thousand depreciatory Wise-cracks
but after all was said and done
many a man was able TO lift up
his feet and ride, who would have
had to keep on walking, had 1t not
been for the Model T And many
a man and woman in the Imperial
Valley has had shade. who would
have had 40 shade, had it not been
for the humble athel tree.
There is not much TO say about
pruning Texas umbrella tree which
is not we'll known. If YOU want the
dense. rounded head which is so
much admired, the tree must be
cut back within a few inches Of
where last years cuts were made,
each winter. In this district if the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
Valley Grapefruit Growers Charge
Coast Concern with Violation OF
Contract in Market Hearing

Cases of seven valley grapefrul
growers against the Virginia Groves
Inc. of Riverside we're taken under
adyisement by w. B. Woodburn,
assistant chief of the division OF
market enforcement, and by Deputy
District Attorney Charles Halliday
Saturday following a hearing in
which growers charged that the
company had broken a contract
agreement.
The growers, Henry Hora, Tony
Homula, John Fiala and w. E.
Sima. of CaleXico E. Steiner, OF
BraWley; Mary Callahan, Ell Cen
tro; and C. A. Willeford, Calipa-
tria. charged that the Virginia
Groves inc. promised as high as
$25 per ton for grapefruit but
paid only $4 per ton in settling
for the fruit.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
POST PRESS
r A B WI PAGE
Valley Grapefruit
Growers Mark Time
AsMarket SIumps

Imperial Valley grapefruit grow
erS marked time this week as prices
ON the Los Angeles market dropped
to $40 per ton following Suspen-
sion of the desert area market
regulation prosram last week.
The marketing order, put into
effect by a majority of desert area
growers. was lifted last week when
"chiselerS" dumped their produce
on the Los Angeles market at a
price below that set by the prorate
agreement
The "chiSelerS". according To B.
A. Harrigan. represented that min
ority group which did not sign
the regulation agreement.
Harrigan pointed out that under
the prorate agreement grapefruit
prices rose from SO pc ton to S25
per ton during the period in which
the prorate was effective
The regulation was lifted in an
attempt to force the minority group
OF growers into the agreement, Har-
rigan said.
II at the end of two weeks. the
minority group still hasn't signed
the agreement. steps will be taken
to put the marketing order of the
department Of agriculture into ef-
feet. A 81 per cent majority is
necessary under the code, Harrigan
declared.
Less than 25 per cent of the des-
ert area grapefruit has been ship
ped to date.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08

after inspecting every section Of
the state for his future home. this
week moved his realty office from
its location on downtown Main
street to his ranch home ON west
Main.
Hancock pointed out that he is
one of the few early farmers who
came to the valley with the intent
of staying in the location. Because
so many of the valleys farmers
came to clean up and leave 65
per cent of the ranchers in the
county are tenant farmers. Hancock
declared
Dairying will never become one
of the valleys leading industries,
Hancock said. because economic
conditions have forced large num-
bers of farmers in other sections
of the nation to take up dairying
Flax and beets have shown up
well in past years and loom as
stable crops for this section. the
realtor said but vegetable industry
has fallen off because of new pro-
duction in other localities.
Hancock urged development of
more livestock feeding and farm
homebuilding as a solution TO the
valleys present problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
Small Income
Group Offers Huge
Building Market

The housing Of members Of the
small income groups, particularly
the 60 per cent Of our population
whose annual incomes range from
$1,000 to $4,000, offers the greatest
potential market for the building
contractor" members Of the Build
ing Contractors Association Of
Southern California were told by
Colonel VIM. II. Evans, president
Of the association.
At the December meeting of the
association, Colonel Evans stressed
the economic advantage offered the
contractor and the building materi-
al dealer IN this important and
almost untouched field and urged
members Of the association to take
advantage of this enormous market.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
Specialists Inspect
FLA Projects

J. l. Thompson and b. r.. Den
bigh. specialist in animal husbandry
from California Polytechnic school
and regional supervisor of voca-
tional agriculture, visited Future
Farmer projects and agriculture
departments at FL Centro, BraWley,
and Holtville high schools Wednes-
day and Thursday.
Following a dinner at the Cali
fornia hotel attended by Thompson
and Denbigh and instructors of
agriculture from the three high
schools, tentative arrangements
were made for the Future Farmers
livestock judging contest to be held
March 18th at the Imperial County
fair.
Students visited Thursday haV-
ing typical projects in the FL Cen
tro chapter were Henry House,
John Waterman, Bob HaVens, Lee
Westmoreland, Rex Zinn, Stanley
Scaroni, Dick Ingle and Frank
OSuna.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
Three New Homes Started in Valley
During Past Week. Builder Reports;
Small Home Loan Plan Boosted

Three new homes, one in Ell Cen
tro and two in BraWley, were start
ed during the past week by Aubrey
Moody, builder.
Construction of a five-room house
for w. w. Grassland was started
on Seventh and Holt streets.
The Grassland home will be fea-
tured by a back screen patio porch,
which can be used as a spare bed
room or sleeping porch Tile drain
in the kitchen is another feature.
Interior walls will be finished in
plaster. Redwood siding will be
used in exterior walls.
Ernest Wear is contractor for the
two homes in BraWley, Moody said
The residences will be constructed
on 163 C street Both are one
bedroom rent-houscs.
Hugh Latham of Builders Supply
pointed out thaC the Mcbride home
should be used as a model for in
expensive home construction The
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
Work Speeded
On Homes in
Fl Centro

Hammers rang louder in Ell Cen
tro during the past week as work
was speeded on the Gentry Mason
and Frank Hopewell homes and on
the Nishimoto apartments, accord
ing to Whiting-Nead company.
Plaster work and siding was COM
pleted on the Mason home and
foundation work was completed on
the Nishimoto apartments, Bud
Johnson of Whiting Mead reported
The Frank Hopewell home, a five
room house west of Imperial, NOV
ed ahead of schedule. 1t is one OF
the most complete farm homes in
the county. Johnson said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08

traction plant that would incite
the envy of any carpenter or engin-
GER.
The framework of the plant,
Edwards pointed out, is constructed
entirely of discarded automobile
frames. More than $50 frames were
used in the building of the 70 foot
structure.
Sidewalks are corrugated iron
and the floor is made of cement
A small insulated room. finished
in celotex houses machinery for
the extraction of honey from combs
Another small room contains equip
ment for cleansing of hives for
future use.
Edwards wired the building for
lighting and for power to run ma
chinery. Several electrical devices,
too complicated for me TO COM
prehend, shortened hours of prep
aration for raids on Edwards $50
colonies of bees.
Edwards is proud of his plant
1t took him two years to build but
he is certain he has the most COM
plete setup in the valley. With his
modern machinery he can extract
more than 1000 pounds of honey
per day.
The honey season in Imperial
Valley is June to August, Edwards
said. and unlike most sections Of
the nation honey can be taken
from hives each year.
Edwards sells more than 10000
pounds of honey each year and
though the honey market is COM
paratively low he nets a sufficient
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08

The 1899 building increase, pre-
dicted by contractors and material
men, was not evidenced during the
past week. according to Sones Lum-
Der company who reported no new
homes.
Progress was reported on jobs
now under construction, however.
The w. A. Scheniman and Jim
Brock homes. on Sandalwood be
tween Seventh and Eighth streets,
moved ahead on schedule despite
delays by rain in the last week Of
December. E. Gerard is the con-
tractor.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-08
Hay Prices
Reported Same

Prices TO hay growers in produc-
ing sections tributary 10 Los An
geleS market were reported largely
unchanged during the past week,
according to the federal-state mar
ket news service.
Demand from livestock feeders in
Imperial Valley fell off because Of
improved weather conditions and
drier pasture. A good proportion
of the No. l and No leafy hay
was still being held in the valley
at S11 and s1050 per ton baled at
the ranch Current sales. however.
were generally reported at 80 cents
to 81 under those figures.