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Evening star., 1939-01-10
81 the Associated Press.


AMSTERDAM, N. Y, Jan. 10
The smoldering ruins was all that
remained today of the main racing
stable at Sanford Stud Farm after
fire destroyed Is thoroughbred race
horses.
Owned by John Sanford, mil
lionaire sportsman and devotee Of
steeplechase racing, the horses in
cluded Supply House, one of the
best timber toppers in the country;
Pharsalia and Sun Port. both recent
winners.
Hollie Hughes. trainer Of the
stable, estimated the loss at upward
Of s200,000." He said he would not
be able to tell which of the other
Evening star., 1939-01-10
Break SoftbuII Tie

Community Center All-Stars and
Victory Post softball teams will meet
at 7::30 o'clock tonight at Tech Gym
in the second game of the play-of
series to decide the championship
Of the Community Center League
,sThe regular series ended in a three
way tie.
Evening star., 1939-01-10
LocoI Lads Murksmen

WAYNESBORO, Va, Jan. 10
Leland johnson of Washington is
one of the seven letter men back
on the Fishburne Military Schools
rifle team. Among the outstanding
candidates are Dan De Young, Perry
Hand and Kenneth Whitehurst, all
of Washington; Dick King Of Ar
lington, Va, and John Mccain
bridge of Chevy Chase, Md.
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Huber
Continued From Page A-12)


step over the line just once to see
how it felt.
Now the center court is eliminat-
ed with one of the centers turned
into a forward and another into q
guard. A line across the center of
the court gives them more room
in which to roam, making the game
faster.
The change is optional in intra-
mural competition and even in out
side games if both coaches agree, so
some schools have adopted it and
some have not. Central Is sticking
to the three court idea, but Ana
costa has gone two-court in a big
way.
The Fairfax County Conference,
in which five schools play interhigh
girls basket ball, also is divided on
the subject. Jefferson likes the
two-court, but one or two other
schools didn't hear about the rule
change in time, so occasionally q
game is played with three courts.
Sports at Jefferson may be in for
a tough winter. There is no gym
at the school, so both the boys and
girls teams have been practicine
in an old church. It was cold and
dusty, but better than being out
doors. Now the church has been
sold and shortly will be torn down
Campaigns for several years to get
a gym at the school have come tc
naught, and now the teams face
the prospect of practicing outdoors
in the winter or not at all.
Both teams have good records, but
they can't keep 1t up without prac-
tice. The boys are defending cham
pions and undefeated in four games
while the girls have dropped but
one in four.
Vic De Leon is the cue shark ane
Jack Walsh and Eli Blank the bowl
ing stars Of Techs cage outnt. They
won their lau1els about 10 day
Evening star., 1939-01-10
Hung Up 70 Or More
Wins a. Season for.
ID Years in Row
% Consecutive HitIess
Innings Among His
Other Great Feots
BY WHITNEY MARTIN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-It's quite q
trick, like swallowing a watermelon
without first slicing it up into one
room kitchenettes, but Mr.. Edward
S. Kennedy Of Kansas City not only
names the greatest athlete Of one
year in one sport, he names the
greatest athlete of all years In all
sports.
Mr.. Kennedy climbs out of a rec
ord book to nominate Denton T..
"Cy' Young, a baseball pitcher who
not only was a man of a century but
a man Of two centuries. He per-
formed from 1890 to 1911 and when
he voluntarily retired it wasn't be-
cause he couldn't see the plate any
more but because he couldn't see
his feet. The old arm still had its
zip, but his waistline needed Upper.
Durable and Efficient.
Mr.. Kennedy's selection is based
both on durability and performance,
with the fact that Cyrus won 20 or
more games season for IA consec-
utive years the main talking point.
Other data dug up by Mr.. Ken
nedy to qualify his candidate in
cludes:
In one five-year stretch he won
167 games, an average Of more than
80 per year.
He pitched % consecutive hitless
innings.
He pitched three no-hit games, in
one Of which no man reached first.
The mark has been equaled, but
never bettered.
He won Sill games in his % years
under the big top and lost 3l5. His
total of 1926 games nearly doubles
that of his nearest rival.
Young's victory record is the more
remarkable, Mr.. Kennedy points
out, through the fact that during all
but three years of the % he was
with teams which were anything but
potent.
Waistline Stymied Him.
The baking oven and surgeon s
knife were strangers to Young's S
pitching arm, and whereas hurlers
OF the present generation show a
tendency to come up periodically
with wings so sore they can't even
reach for dinner check, Cyrus
always was ready for duty.
His blazing fast ball remained
with him to the end. 1t was that
bay window which finally stopped
him. One Of the games best field
ing pitchers, he refused to continue
when bunts began to go for hits.
Mr.. Kennedy has his "bests" for
Individual sports, also. He ranks
Jim Thorpe as footballs greatest,
Jack Dempsey as king of the prize
fighters. Don Bulge tops in tennis,
Bobby Jones in golf, Johnny Weiss
muller in swimming and Hank
Luisetti in basket ball.
But he considers Young the great
est of them all, and on the records
it seems like pretty fair selection
However, it's like trying to make one
pair of shoes to At everybody, and
personally we'll conf1ne our best
choice right now to the best Of luck
Evening star., 1939-01-10
From the
Press Box
Fun in the Tonk-No. 2;
Seals Ask for Primo
BY JOHN LARDNER,


NEW YORK, Jan. 1O.-A big game
hunter named Walter Good Time
Charley Friedman was stalking the
plains, valleys, fens and waterways
of Europe in search of heavyweight
menaces for American delivery, cash
on the line, when he ran across M.
Leon See, who also lives of heavy
weights. This was in 1923.
60 no farther" said MIR. See.
II have found menace so fearsome
that he scares even me-"
The menace was Primo Carnera
Of Sequals, Italy, discovered and
promptly staked out by M. See while
doing a strong-man routine with q
wandering carnival show. M. See
introduced this kind-hearted ogre
Ito Mr.. Walter Friedman. and the
.rest is a textbook on tanking tech
.nique. No fighter in history ever
has been tanked so enthusiastically
and grotesquely as the giant of
Sequals.
First, while Primo was splitting a
pair of gruesome foul decisions with
Willie (Young) Stribling in Eng
land, Mr.. Friedman lined up a pur-
chaser and bookings in America.
This was easy. Mr.. Friedman sold
his new man mountain to Mr.. Wild
Will Duffy and hackers of New York
City, c. o. D., and Mr.. Duffy did
the rest.
When Camera planted his man.
moth feet on American soil on the
last day of the year 1929, he was
accompanied by. M. See. Mr.. Fried
man and staff including Messieurs
Jean Boireau, Ivan Laffineur,
Maurice Eudeline and Louis Behring'S,
all looking forward with relish to
The prospect of making living out
of Primo Carnera.
Evening star., 1939-01-10

ago at New Brunswick, N. j., while
staying at the Y. M. c. A. there
following their game with South
River High.
Eddie Richardson, one Of the
better junior tournament tennis
players around the city, is a mem
ber OF Anacostia's lightweight basket
ball team.
Evening star., 1939-01-10
Rucino Dutes Are Set

MIAMI, Fla, January 10 F.-The
State Racing Commission has set
February through March 18 as op-
Grating dates for the new Gulf
stream Park at the request Of the
Hollywood Jockey Club.
Evening star., 1939-01-10
Rod and Gun
BY GEORGE HUBER.

participated
Orngers
business from start to finish was loaded with good eating
would
thirst quencher in which figure prominently
Evening star., 1939-01-10
Embarrassing Incidents
Of Aquotic Corniyol

An embarrassing incident occur
red In San Francisco. The ogre was
matched with a somewhat head
strong colored boy named Bombo
Chevalier. Chevalier refused to take
hints. though his second, Mr.. Bob
Perry, who, strangely enough. had
travelled west with the Duffy troupe,
kept pointing out the path of duty.
Keep away from me-" Chevaier
muttered to Mr.. Perry between
rounds.
The fight was even, going into the
sixth round. Bombo got in the way
of clubbing right and went down.
He jumped up and was pummelng
Primo's ribs, when Mr.. Perry had
the presence of mind to heave a
towel into the ring. Chevalier was
counted out on his feet, protesting
loudly.
1t was also embarrassing when
Ace Clarke hit Primo in the eye in
Philadelphia. The eye went up like
an angry thermometer, and the
commission doctor warned Mr.. Will
Duffy that he would let Primo fight
only one more round.
"Okay," said Mr.. Duffy. That's
enough"
1t was. Clarke sank apolegetically
to the floor as the next round
started.
Primo went from there to longer
and duller triumphs of aquatica, in
cluding his win by foul over Feab
Williams, better known as George
Godfrey, the Black Shadow of
Leiperville, Pa. He carried on to the
world championship, and, after that
the fix was of, and Primo was
brutally belabored. He left this
country broke and physically para
lyzed.
1t all happened in seven years
time. And Primo has one distinc.
ton, through no fault of his own
which few fighters share. A tanker
who refused to tank for him wa:
shot to death. You'll find the story
in Ernest Hemingway's 9TH,
Killers"
(Ccpyright 1889, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc)
Evening star., 1939-01-10
land State Game and Fish Protec-

land State Game and Fish Protec-
tive Association.
Another exhibit will include
an illustration of the life his
tory of diamond back terrapin
and native Maryland fish.
Now that the hunting season is
over, Kenwood Skeet Club is becom-
ing active. A dinner and meeting
for members will be eld at 6 Thurs
day evening at Kenwood Country
Club, when plans will be made for
several tournaments during the
year.
Evening star., 1939-01-10
Freshman Game.
Straiqht Off the Tee
Nv WALTER McCALLUM.

obtain representation OF the Middle Atlantic section
Committee Of United States Golf
Not 1919 when the late Dr. Walter Harlan
Columbia president Of the national golf body
Committee
consistently
Evening star., 1939-01-10
French, American Managers
Make Primo Poy IS Woys

He was met by Mr.. Duffy, his
American manager; Mr.. Pete (the
Goat) Stone, his assistant American
manager, and Mr.. Joe (the Goniff)
Solomon, his second assistant Amer
can manager, all looking forward
to the same thing Also looking
forward, but not appearing at the
pier in person, were Mr.. Owney
Madden, Mr.. Big Frenchy de Mango,
Mr.. Honest Abe Attell and affiliated
Interests.
These parties counted on making
Primo pay IS ways, and they got
their wish.
It's hard to believe it today,
though it happened only nine years
ago, but 10000 persons turned out
to see the ogre's American debut
in Madison Square Garden. Big
Boy Peterson, the first outsider to
make a profit in Camera preferred,
went out in l minute 10 seconds of
the opening round.
Mr.. Duffy then led the troupe to
Chicago, where $4,000 house yelled
its earnest disapproval when Elzear
Rioux toppled under an invisible
punch In Al seconds of round one.
Rioux's work was uniformly unsatis-
factory. The commission took his
share OF the purse away, though
there is no record of its being given
back to the customers. Primo went
out of Chicago with $4,000 in his
jeans-or, to be specific, in Is pairs
of jeans, belonging to members of
the troupe.
Cowboy Owens. colored, was the
Arst fighter to last until the Sec
ond round. In the first round he
gave Primo a careless buffet in the
kisser and Primo was a picture of
dismay, until they told him in his
corner that the Cowboy meant well
The Cowboy proved his good faith q
minute later.
The diving carnival swept the
country. Among those leaping of
the springboard here and there were
such noted jack-knifers as Farmer
Lodge, K. o. Christner, Bearcat
Wright, Chuck Virgins, Big Jim
6igman, Sam Baker, George Traf-
ton, Frank zavita, Buster Martin
Neal Clisby, Jack McAuliffe, Pat
Mccarthy, Sully Montgomery and
Man Mountain Erickson.
Evening star., 1939-01-10

Vic De Leon is the cue shark and
Jack Walsh and Eli Blank tho bowl
ing stars Of Techs cage outnt. They
won their laurelB about 10 days
Evening star., 1939-02-19
TRANSMISSION Service

South Africa's blood TRANSMISSION
service has called for 800 volunteers
to give blood to be stored In Cape
town ready to be shipped on call
to any point in the Western Prov
ince.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Loot Worth $1,000
Taken in Series Of
Robberies Here
Visitors in City Among
Those Victimized; Car
Ronsocked for $50

Thieves made of with money and
personal belongings with a value
of more than $1,000, in housebreak-
ings and other robberies from Dis
trict residents and visitors yester-
day.
Mrs. Myrtle Stearns and Mrs.
Grace w. Seelye, visitors to WASH
ington from Millinocket, Me-, re-
ported to police that money and
property valued at $50 was stolen
from Mrs. Stearns' car parked on
Library drive, at the east end of
the Capitol, about noon yesterday.
Property stolen included $3.50 in
cash, 5000 in travellers checks,
camera, travelling bags and cloth
ing.
William T. Ballard, Arlington, Va,
told police that colored man took
$65 in cash and a check for $37
from an open safe in Mr.. Billiards.
real estate Office at 1921 I street
NV. yesterday morning. The real
estate operator said the robbery was
committed while he talked to the
thief's companion in the office.
Theft of lady's pocketbook con-
tanning s72 in cash and personal
belongings from a desk in a room
at l424 K street NV. was reported
by Mrs. Jane H. McEachern yes
terday, and Pvt. Joseph H. Hunt,
policeman attached to No. 6 pre-
cinct, reported jewelry valued at
$3.50 stolen from his home in Falls
Church, Va.
Evening star., 1939-02-19

Mountain zebras in South Africa
are becoming vicious and attack hui
mans.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Law Sponsored
| By Coolidge
| Is Under Fire
By the Associated Press.

0y tne Associated Press.
BOSTON, Feb. ia storm of
controversy today fused in Massa-
chusetts over legislation written by
former President Calvin Coolidge
when he was Governor, as a young
legislator led an attack on veterans
preference in civil service.
With the issue headed for an air.
Ing on the floor of the Legislature,
the American Legion called upon
more than 10000 war veterans to
meet the challenge of Representa-
tive George T. Ashe, 34-year-old
Lowell Democrat, who seeks to wipe
out or modify veterans preference.
Massachusetts has closed the
doors of public service to her youth, j"
Representative Ashe cried, and Leg
ion spokesmen replied: Every allied
country in the World War has
adopted some form of preference
for veterans"
Veterans now 60 to the top of the
list by obtaining passing mark
with disabled veterans listed first.
Representative Ashe would give
veterans a per cent advantage in
ratings and disabled veterans 10
per cent. The present law was sub
mitted to the Legislature by Mr..
Coolidge In 1919.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Aranha 10 Get Degree
AT 6. ". Wednesday

Senior Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian
foreign minister will accept an hon.
orary degree of doctor of laws at the
George Washington University win
ter exercises Wednesday, university
officials disclosed yesterday.
Senior Aranha, who is here on
an official mission, holds the degree
OF bachelor of laws from a univer-
sity at Rio de Janeiro. During his
term as Ambassador to the United
States the Brazilian statesman S
daughter, Senhorita Zazi Aranha,
matriculated at George Washington.
The award. which university Of
flcials said was in recognition of
Senior Aranhas achievements as q
diplomat, statesman and supporter
OF the an-American ideals, will be
made at the convocation exercises
to be held at Constitution Hall at
8 pm. Wednesday. The awarding
of the degree by the school was
described as particularly appropri-
ate" because of the fact that much
of the university's program is de-
voted to increasing American
understanding.
The scheduled exercises will be
unique in the schools history. In
stead of the usual speech, the more
than 300 students who will receive
degrees and certificates will hear
Miss Gladys Swarthout, opera singer
and movie star.
1T is coincidence, said Senior
de Moura, private secretary to Sem
hor Aranha, that Miss SWarthout
is the only movie star that Senior
Aranha met when he visited Holly
wood in 1885"
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Fourth Accident Victim
Dies at RichIunds, Va.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHLANDS, Va, Feb. 18.-Otis
Eugene Zeigler, II, senior student
at Richlands High School, died at
midnight Friday, the fourth victim
of an auto-truck accident last Tues
day.
DR.. and Mrs. Vernon c. Hall and
four basket ball players we're en-
route to Bluef1eld, w. Va, for a
game when their car collided with
a gasoline truck.
Mrs. Hall and Eddie Jewell, Rich
lands basket ball player. met instant
death. DR.. Hall, hospital tech
nician here and who as an aviator
was credited with downing ~ Ger
man planes in the World War, died
on Wednesday,.
Guy Flanary, commander of the
local American Legion post, said
arrangements had been made for q
military funeral for DR.. Hall at Ar
lington.
Evening star., 1939-02-19

ticipated. They included Japan with
a $1,000, 600 building and an 5000, :
600 art display, France with an ex-
tensive outlay and Italy with $685.
000, 900 worth Of art masterpieces and
q separate Italian exhibit. Germany
was not represented.
The fair is to run 288 days, ending
December 2 unless the management
deems 1t worth while to continue the
show into 1910. The exposition ex-
poets to have at least %, 600 900 paid
admissions In the 288 days.
Evening star., 1939-02-19

the costs of moving the furniture
out and storing it.
If this doesn't get some action,
the marshal will get an auctioneer
to sell the property. The proceeds
minus the costs incurred by the
marshal and small fee-are
turned over to the man who got the
attachment.
Few Garry Arms.
Beyond this. deputies have the
power of arrest. An act of Congress
empowers them to make arrests in
a felony. They can also make
arrests In contempt of court cases
and with body warrants.
Few deputies carry arms. They
rarely need them and the higher
ups consider it a bad practice.
The deputies are also charged
with guarding prisoners while they
are in court awaiting trial. Men who
are sentenced to serve terms in Fed
eral penitentiaries-such as At
lanta-go from Washington shackled
to an armed deputy marshal. Pris-
oners being returned to other juris-
dictions for trial are guarded also
by deputies.
Four of the deputies are women.
The women serve primarily as Office
workers. but are called upon to serve
papers in unusual cases and to guard
juries on which women are sitting.
Charges for Services.
The marshal's Office has a cash
income, since it makes q charge for
every duty it performs for private
citizen. A citizen who wants a
subpoena served pays so cents. a
summons costs 81 and an attach
ment costs $3.50. In cases where the
marshal attaches valuable property,
the plaintiff must post a bond so
that the expense of operation is
guaranteed.
Duties performed for the District
attorneys Office are on the house.
No charge is made Uncle Sam, since
the marshal is under the Depart
ment of Justice.
The work the deputies dislike
most. probably. is serving disposses
notices in landlord tenant cases. II
the people refuse to move, the
marshal calls a moving company and
sets them out on the street.
The current scandal is the worst
that has ever hit the marshals Office.
Mr.. Colpoys, in addition to worry
over the departing deputies, is a
fugitive from the patronage wolves.
Long hours-little pay-abuse and
all the tough parts of the deputies
job considered, there are still thou
sands of men in Washington who
want a job. Mr.. Colpoys said they
have all called him up in the last
two days.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Father Bonvin, Composer,
Dies in Buffalo al 80
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 18,-The
Rev. Ludwig Bonvin, Jesuit priest
known internationally as a COM
poser. died here tonight a day after
his 89th birthday anniversary.
A teacher at Canisius College here
since 1887, Father Bonvin wrote
more than $50 separate compositions,
including masses. chorals, hymns
and one symphony.
He received a note of appreciation
from the late Pope Plus XII follow
ing publication of his English-Latin
hymn book, "Hosanna"
A native of Siders, Switzerland,
Father Bonvin studied medicine at
the University of Vienna. There he
became closely acquainted with
Franz List, Anton Rubenstein and
the Strausses, noted composers, and
decided upon a career in music.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Roosevelt and Olson
Aid in Opening Of
Coast Exposition
President Speaks From
Florida; Thousands
View Exhibits

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18.-The
amplified voices of President Roose-
welt and Gov. Culbert L. Olson rose
above the din of Treasure Island
construction work today to open
formally the $5O,Ooo,00O Golden
Gate Exposition to a constantly
swelling flood of visitors.
Ferry boats and automobiles
began pouring customers onto the
40O-acre, man-made island even
before an army of all-night workers
finished snatching up the more
noticeable piles of litter in the
courts, the streets and the exhibit
palaces.
Speaking from Key West. Fla,
the President termed the exposition
an instrument of international
good WILL" and described the San
Francisco Bay island as IAN out
standing example Of territorial ex-
pansion without aggression"
Gov. Olson welcomed the world
to the exposition with the hope that
1t would cement those ties OF
human brotherhood between the
peoples of the different nations
which must be relied upon for world
peace"
80 Per Cent Ready.
An island-wide address system
carried the words Of the speakers to
the ears of the thousands streaming
to the scene as well as to packed
grandstand in the Court of Nations,
where the ceremonies took place.
Works Director w. P. Day said the
fair as a whole was about 80 per
cent ready for visitors.
But the main exhibits were ready
for the crowds when the exposition
threw open its gates at 7 am. an
hour ahead Of schedule. Workmen
continued on those nor>yet finished.
and construction was just into its
final stride on the Gayway, 40-acre
concession area.
At 8 o'clock tonight 5000 per-
sons had passed through the turn
stiles. More were expected before
closing time, but the total was far
below the expected 250,000 to 300, 900.
BY far the greatest number Of vls-
itors went by ferry boats. operating
from both sides of the bay The rest
of the crowd streamed in Via COLI
course leading from the SIT 1000, 900
bay bridge. The exposition Is to cele-
brate completion Of the giant bridge,
the companion $1,000 900 Golden
Gate span.
IS Cents for Complete Tour.
The crowd soon learned that the
best way to get around was to board
the elephant trains s'-multi-tzailer
passenger buses with the motive
power housed in a pachyGerm-lil:e
covering. 1t costs 35 cents for COM
plete tour of the island in that man
ner, and 10 cents for poirt-to-pojnt
ride.
Some visitors took ceadil! to fleets
of rickshaws and rolling chairs for
individualized service. The rick
shaws. pulled by costumed Chinese,
rented for $125 an hour per pei SON.
A rolling chair for two persons. with
guide, cost 81 for 80 minutes and
Is cents for each additional quarter
hour.
Food prices varied in the COMES
sions. Coffee was and 10 cents:
milk. 10 and IS cents a glass; bot
tied beer, Is cents to Is cents; ham,
burgers, Is cents, and hot dogs a
dime
The buildings sponsored by Illinois
and Missouri filled rapidly, as did
those of the 10 Western States whose
shows were ready.
Thirty-five foreign nations par
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Betty Boop Bonned

Betty Boop cartoons, altered by
japanese artists for playing cards
for children, have been banned by
the police of Toxic, Japan. Six
hundred sets of these and other
pictures designed to delight the little
ones during Japan's new year holi-
days were seized. In one month
40 picture books were censored
for depicting cruelty or otherwise
adversely influencing the emotional
growth of children. The campaign
is expected to stop the sale of other
favorites of children.