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Evening star., 1939-04-27
SPORTS Mirror
BY the Associated Press.

Today a year ago-Arky
Vaughan, shortstop, homered
with bases full to give Pittsburgh
Pirates 6-5 victory over Chicago
Cubs.
Three years ago-Cleveland In
dians defeated st. Louis Browns,
81, in 16 innings; Johnny Allen
held Browns to 2 hits in last
825 frames.
Five years ago - Cavalcade,
Kentucky Derby entry, won
$500 Chesapeake Stakes in track
record time of 1:433s for l mile
and 1-16 at Havre de Grace.
Evening star., 1939-04-27

But doc" has more than per-
sonal magnetism to help the
Phils. He has shown he can
handle men, and has displayed
a mack when to switch pitchers
and batters. In the Brooklyn
series he inserted a whole string
of pinch hitters and relief twirl-
ers and all came through. In
the second game with the Giants
he caught Bill Terry's men fiat
footed by ordering Claude Pas
seau to lay down squeeze bunt
with q man on third and two out,
It scored the winning run.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Maryland Hunt Cup
To Draw 7 10 II
Timber Stars
Blockade, Cog Bruyere
Choices of Field to
Compete Saturday
BY ROBERT HENRY.

Headed by Mrs. E. Read Boards
1888 record-breaking winner, Block
ade. field of seven to II thorough
breds Is expected to march to the
post at 4 o'clock Saturday for the
46th running of the classic Mary
land Hunt Cup on the estate of J..
w. Y. Martin In Worthington VAL
ley, Glyndon, Md.
From an original entry list of IS
the probable starters include all but
a lew OF Americas ranking cross
country runners, several having been
declared out for various reasons.
From a local viewpoint chief
among these is Maj. and Mrs. Tur-
ner Wlltshire's recent surprise Mid
dleburg Cup winner, Black Sweep,
which will discontinue timber rae
Ing for a career over brush. Two
other veterans which will be con-
splcuous by their absence are Mrs.
Frank M. Gould's Ostend, and Mr..
Martins 1896 winner, Inshore. Both
failed to train properly for the race
ana are due to retire from the sport
after many years OF consistent cam
paigning.
Two Are Standouts.
While the race cannot be con-
ceded a cinch for any starter, Block
ade and John Strawbridge's Coo
Bruyere are due to receive the most
backing from the $4,000 expected to
witness the 4-mile, 22-jump event,
acknowledged the toughest timber
race in the world.
A possible upset may come from
Justa Racket, which will represent
hve years of careful training and
planning on the part of his owner,
Hugh j. O'Donovan.
Young John Harrison. who rode
Paul Melons Melbourne Jake to
victory two years ago, will try to
repeat this year with Mrs. Eva S.
Spillman's Music Mountain, which
is trained by the former amateur
rider, William Streete, of Warren
ton. Music Mountain is fresh from
victories at Richmond and Middle
burg. where he won the Raymond
Belmont Memorial in handy
fashion.
Other probable starters are DR..
Walter Wickes' Deflation, Mrs.
Elizabeth Bucks Espadin. Mrs
Frank M. Gould's Postman Home.
William Cockrane's Or Else,
Maurice F. Powers Lucier, w. Nor
rls Hampson's King Ladislaus and
J. w. Y. Martins Comonhome.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
B'noi Birth Ball Captains
Hold Final Meetino

A final meeting OF the captains
OF the B'nai Birth Fraternal Soft
ball League, which opens its season
Sunday morning, will be held at $50
O'Clock tonight at the Jewish Com
munity Center.
The league, which is composed of
10 teams, will play all of its games
on the Rock Creek Park softball
diamond. at Sixteenth street and
Colorado avenue. League officers
are Sam Jeweler, president: Stanley
w. Norman, treasurer, and Manuel
Landsman, secretary.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Deudtine at Hand
For Fair Rollers

Woman bowlers are warned
that the deadline for entries in
the Washington Women's Duck
pin Association tournament falls
tonight.
Entries will be accepted until
midnight at Arcadia, scene of
the 18th annual championships,
which open next Monday.
Tomorrow night the Schedule
Committee, composed of Mar
garet Lynn, Lorraine GULL and
Mabelle Herring, will meet at the
home of Secretary Alice Lauer,
1861 Park road NV.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Bow Jam Colba Biggest Night City Championship Tournament
HondIey's Beoning
Costly to Bucs II
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 27.-Manager
Pie Traynor isn't Offering alibis
for the current slump of his Pitts
burgh Pirates, but he thinks Lee
Handley's absence has something
to do with 1t.
The Pirates third baseman was
hit on the head with a pitched
ball in spring exhibition game
with Cleveland and hasn't ap-
peared in any league game.
I'VE looked to be a good ball
club going into New Orleans two
weeks ago." said Traynor before
leaving town yesterday. I'VE were
in good physical shape. and just
starting to hit well. Then Hand
ley got hit on the head by Johnny
Allen, and it seems to have taken
something out of our club"
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Farm Credit Net Meet
Slated for Week End

Men of the Farm Credit Admin
istration will engage in a tennis
tournament Saturday and Sunday
on the East Potomac Park courts
First-round matches will start at 2
o'clock, with semi-fi scheduled
for Sunday at 2 and the final match
an hour later.
Seventeen entries have been
paired without seeding.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Ledvinu Prevents G. u.
Shutout on Links

Jerome Ledvina was the only
Catholic University golfer to win his
match against Baltimore U. yester-
day at Baltimore, the Cards bowing
to the hosts, 5-1.
Ledvina beat Harry Cunningham
to prevent shutout for his team.
Dick Berberich. Jack Miller and
Fred Slant were unable to score for
G. U. Otto Greiner and Emily
Khyatt accounted for three of the
winners points and Eddie Johnston
for the other two.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
BY the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-
The man behind the surprising
Phillies-a dentist who has
yanked 1885 most downtrod-
den team into second place in
the National League-isn't prom
ising they'll stay there, but, he
says, 1T can be done"
Such Is the faith Manager
James Thompson DOC" Prothro
has in the club that has won
four straight from the New York
Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers
and has not lost in five straight
games. One was an thinning tie
with Brooklyn.
I'm not a doctor, you know,
just a dentist" said Prothro to-
day, but I know something
about medicine and I think I
have discovered q serum for that
last-place poison baseball experts
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DANVILLE, Ill.-Dick Kist, 152,
Danville, ILL.,, stopped Johnny
Shaw, 159. Los Angeles (5).
SAN FRANCISCO. Newsy
Mi1lich, ITS, Sacramento, Calf,
stopped Ralph De John, ITS,
Syracuse, N. Y. Cd.
&9RPUS CHRISTI. - Manuel
villa, I'd, 1872, Mexico City, out.
pointed Jimmy Lancaster, 1873,
Wilmington, Del. QO.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Prothro Admits His Club
Hos No Kovo Punch

The Phillies' pitching would carry
q better ball club quite far. There
are only about two sound players on
the rest OF the team, and it's hard
to put name to them. Hershey
Martin is one Without the burden
of fielding half the outfield and run
ming all the bases for the Phils, Mar
tin would bat we'll over 300. AS 1t is,
he gets his share of hits and is
dangerous in pinch and plays a
fine defensive game.
Among the rest of the Philadel-
phians, you can speak a good word
for Scharein as a defensive Short
stop, Morrie Arnovich as a power
threat, and Merrill May, the new
third baseman, as prospect. But
none Of the three has proved him
self a steady and rounded major
league ball player.
That brings us back to the pitch
Ing, and 1t brings DR.. Prothro along.
The Doc has had good pitching up
to date, and he has won some games
for that reason.
Hugh Mulcahy, Claude Passeau,
Max Butcher and Sylvester john
son constitute better than average
starting staff, though johnson has
to be spotted against the right sort
of ball club. The other three are
workhorses, strong and willing. At
least, Butcher has been willing so
far. He didn't thrive under Bur-
leigh Grimes. in Brooklyn, because
Grimes, though a good manager in
most respects, had little patience
with a well-equipped pitcher who
lacked the qualities that Grimes
himself had-tremendous gameness,
and an appetite for pitching base
ball and winning.
II have a couple of pitchers who
are better than fair" admits DR..
Prothro. That's why we've won a
few this season. They've had some
help, too. The club hustles, and no
club that hustles can be beaten
easily.
Il haven't got team with a
punch, and why should I kid myself
that I have? Well build. Maybe
we'll wind up by catching ourselves
q couple Of hitters. Meanwhile, !
haven't got any formula and !
haven't got any illusions. I know
only that I get kick out of beating
better clubs, and I'll 60 on beating
them from time to time when the
pitchers get help"
This means, If the Doctor contin-
ues to wreak his modest share of
havoc, that the National League
race will be worse scramble than
ever, and it looked pretty bad to
begin with.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Rod and Stream
By GEORGE HUBER.
(April 27. 1p3a.)

Here's information from Capt Buck Parker Of Wachapeague
first this
after making a fine start
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Viroiniu Leuque Filled

HARRISONBURG, Va, April q
R.-Ray Ryan, president of the
newly formed class ID" Virginia
League, has announced that Har-
risonburg, Staunton, Salem and
Lynchburg will compose the loop.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Softly Loop Inaugural

Anacostia Baptist and East Wash
ington Heights will play the opening
game of the East Washington
Church Softball League next Tues
day night at o'clock at Fairlawn.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Glen Echo Is Dotino

A softball opponent for Sunday
is wanted by the Glen Echo Fire
Department 10 on its own diamond
at 1:30. Call George Arnold at
Bradley 141.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Cougars Seeking Catcher

A catcher under l8 years of age
Is wanted by the Northeast Cougars,
who may be contacted at Atlantic
6948.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
BeneoIs Win Tight Tilt

With Ted Schildt leading the at
tack. the Garrett Park Bengals de-
feated Briarley Hall, 4-2, yesterday
at Beltsville.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Dogs S Life
BY r, r, TAYNTON.

~ The old Dominion Kennel Club show: which starts at
o'clock Saturday morning the Alexandria
entry 652 dogs increase Of almost 300 last
Capital scheduled
the East-West highway has
These entries the
Evening star., 1939-04-27
From the
Press Box
Pills Victories Upset
Already Jumb|ed Dope
BY JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent Of The Star.

NEW YORK, April q (N.AN.AD.
What Doctor Prothro, the only
dentist in major league baseball, is
doing for the Phillies of Philadel-
phia, unanimous choice for the cellar
in the National League, merely is
the best he can.
The best the Doc can do has been
more than good enough, so far. He
has won ball games from the New
York Giants and the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Strictly between us, it's a
better trick to win from the Dodgers
than the Giants. The Dodgers get
good pitching from several guys,
while the Giants get good pitching
from nobody but Harry Gumbert,
and, pitching to one side, the Giants
are hopeless crew of misfits, who
will fall apart very shortly, unless
William Terry moves to get himself
a sounder third baseman than
George Myatt and little more hit
ting from his inflelders.
Doc Prothro has beaten the Giants,
and he has beaten the Dodgers, and
to hear the critics tell it before the
season began, it was even money that
he wouldn't win a ball game all
year. Thus, everything the doctor
has won up till now is sheer velvet,
with Scalloped edges,
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Pepsi-CoIo to Drill

Pepsi-Cola baseball players are to
report at the Beltsville diamond at
S pm. Saturday for practice.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
Mat Matches

TRENTON, N. Jim Londos,
1873, defeated Chief Chewaki, 245,
straight falls.
ROCHESTER, N. Steve
"Crusher' Casey, 232, Ireland, de-
feated Hal Rumberg, 227. Wash
lngton, two of three falls.
Evening star., 1939-04-27

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Evening star., 1939-04-27
Phils Have Two Pitchers
Who Con 60 Distance

Naturally, the Phils will not win
very often during the year. They
are over their heads even when they
whip the Dodgers and Giants. But
Doc Prothro does the best he can,
and so do the Phillies, and the best
you can do in the National League
is good enough to win now and then,
even with team Of semi-pros.
First of all. there are no tooth
troubles among the Phillies. DR.,
Prothro would look very bad indeed
If dental ailments should develop
under the auspices of the only
dentist in major league baseball.
There is not a loose plate or a
decadent fang on the whole roll call.
AS matter of fact, the Phils
have more gold in their jaws than
Phil Wrigley of the Chicago Cubs
has In his treasury. This explains
the reluctance of Mr.. Gerald Nugent,
president of the Phillies, to part with
his ballplayers. Up till now, Mr..
Nugent has sold his stars at the
drop Of two-bit piece. Today the
Phils carry their purchase prices in
their mouths, and Mr.. Nugent is
standing pat. When the club dis
gusts him on the ball field. he al
ways can melt 1t down for its value
In yellow ore.
Casey Stengel once studied to be
q dentist, but gave it up to be a
baseball manager. Today DR.. Pro-
thro has proved that you can hold
both jobs at one and the same time,
and Mr. Stengel is gnashing his
teeth Gall In Al condition. at the
thought Of the bet he overlooked.
Mr.. Stengel's Boston Bees have tooth
trouble, which may tell against them
in the long, hard pull for the pen
nant.
Dental surgery to one side, DR..
Prothro has another sure-fire recipe
for winning with the worst team in
major league baseball. He has q
couple of pitchers who can 60 a
distance, which means that, any time
the hits are even, as they must be
now and then, he has a chance to
take the ball game.
Evening star., 1939-04-27

MAT VILLAIN RETURNS-Laverne Baxter the pound
Caronian who makes his first appearance in years
Turner's Arena tonight the wrestling card to
by the Golden Terror and Jack Hader Baxter
who has been in Hollywood doing extra bits in the
heading wrestling shows, will meet Rosy Red Ryan.
Evening star., 1939-10-21
DeplOres Attitude
OF Star COlumnist.
To the Editor Of The

To the Editor Of The Star:
Mr.. David Lawrence's article in The
Star Of october and his general view
point in other recent articles on-the war
is deeply Disappointing They suggest
that peace must be had, at any price, and
would allow Hitler to keep the countries
and non-German peoples he has so
ruthlessly seized. Mr.. Lawrence places
Britain, France and the Nazis all on the
same low level, without distinction. Not
word is said of Hitler's blood purges,
attacks on the Christian religion, false
hoods. concentration camps, or the over
throw of small nations by agents paid
with Nazi money to foment unrest and
even assassination.
Britain and France have their faults
but no one can truthfully assert that
any one living in either of the two .coun-
tries is not accorded humane, kindly
treatment and regarded as having soul
and certain God-given rights which a
government must respect. 1t is sad that
an American, a citizen of a Nation
established upon the principles OF the
Declaration of independence and Bill of
Rights can so ignore moral values.
Hush, hush, do not be critical Of Hitler
and his barbarity. Let him have his own
way and his own peace.
October 16. CHARLES v. POOLE.
Evening star., 1939-10-21

specting Ukrainians and White Rus
slams in the territory allocated to
Moscow under the Polish partition,
and these claims will not be chal-
lenged. What the bear has, he will
hold.
1t may not be easy to understand
why the democratic allies are ready
in Eastern Poland to compound a
territorial felony which they refuse
to recognize in Western Poland. It
is possible that British and French
statesmen contemplate the time
when Hitler and Stain will fall out
and when, in consequence, the Soviet
Union may again be in the market
for bedfellowship they rejected last
summer. Against that hour Britain
and France are plainly casting an
anchor to windward by avoiding any,
thing designed to ALLEVIATE Russia.
London and Paris are also as clearly
minded to respect the friendship long
existent between the Soviet Union
and Turkey-an entente which seems
not to have been weakened materially
by Ankara's final decision to do busi-
ness with Downing Street and the
Quai d'Orsay rather than with the
Kremlin.
1t is also advantageous for the
allies not to split with the Russians
while uncertainty remains as to
Italy's future course. Now that
Turkey, Greece and Rumania have
come within the Anglo o-French orbit,
it means that firm barrier has been
erected against Mussolini's Balkan
and Near Eastern expansion plans.
1t means that non-antagonized
Russia, too, may one day be found
athwart Fascist Drang mach Osten
ambitions. That is definitely some
thing to give Rome pause. 1t dis
tinctly increases the likelihood of
1taly's remaining neutral-that is,
unwilling to make common cause
with Germany.
Altogether, the feat of allied diplo-
macy in winning Turkey deserves the
description which is being applied to
it all over Europe, as one Of the major
developments of both the pre-war
and war periods. If there were any
doubt of its magnitude, such uncer-
tainty would be dispelled by the fact
that it has stunned Berlin and caused
a typical outburst of Furor Teu-
tonicus to the effect that Poland's
fate may soon overtake Turkey.
Evening star., 1939-10-21
Urges Congress to Stop Talking
And Buckle Down to Action.
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
What is all the noise about in Wash
ington? Is it really an honest effort to
decide what is best to be done about the
neutrality law, or is it just fanatical
desire on the part of few legislators
for popularity and free advertising?
Free that is. to them; costly to the
people who have to pay for time spent in
so much useless talk. Why do they ex-
press such loud and noble sentiments
about the cruelties of war, and at the
same time permit Japan to buy war ma
terials here with which to massacre help
less Chinese? Why be stubborn in re-
fusing this same assistance to other ma
tons? Why are not these noble isola-
tionists and vocal Christians denouncing
Japan instead of England? Which is it
Justice, or hypocrisy?
If they must be oratorical, let them at
least explain these matters for the bene-
fit of us ordinary, bewildered human
beings. PUZZLED.
Cleveland, Ohio.
October II.
Evening star., 1939-10-21

ton, ways and habits are not English,
but European as whole. Hence the
whole Europe not England is our mother
country.
History shows that English and French
imperialisms are just as rapaclous and
undemocratic as Hitlerism. Hence they,
the imperialism and Hitlerism, are twin
brothers. Irrespective of what they say,
English and French imperialsms are not
fighting Hitlerism; they are fighting the
pro-Soviet Hitlerism. If Hitler would
pledge that he'd annul the Soviet-Gcr-
man non-aggression pact and make war
on the Soviet English and French would
not only make peace with him, but as
a reward would give him a few more
small countries. BY snubbing and re-
fusing the help of the Soviets. English
and French are solely responsible for
the second worlds war. Let us keep out
Of it by all means. MAX TYDINGS.
October IA.
Evening star., 1939-10-21
Time Marches On

The march of time is purely rela-
tive. EinStein proves it, with the aid
of dozens of trained tensors and diff
ferential equations; less gifted NOR
tails know it by instinct. 1t may be
technically true that a minute is only
a minute, wherever and however
spent; practically, in a dentist chair
it may be equivalent to an hour
somewhere else. Careful research by
Gyp the Blood and his fellow sci
entists, have convinced them that the
Alcatraz year is roughly co-extensive
with three cons, an era or so, and
ten per cent of eternity. Conversely,
time may also fly. To a woman on
the telephone it often travels with
the speed of light.
Miss O'Reilly found it so, when
from her Chicago hotel she called her
family in Waterbury, Conn. 1t had
been six years since she had been
home, and there was a lot of back
talk to be made up, so time meant
nothing to her. To the telephone
company it meant money-if it could
be collected.
Miss O'Reilly, after making down
payment of quarter or so, is now
obliged by court order to repay the
rest Of the $37.35 bill in INSTALL
mentS from her earnings. AS she
works in a restaurant as waitress,
it is thought that she will wait quite
a while before again calling Water
bury.
Evening star., 1939-10-21
DeplOres Attacks on
Col. Lindbergh.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
September 27.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor of The Star:
There is nothing so ranking to the
senSlbilitieS as to have some one or q
group of persons spread what they know
to be untrue, unmerciful and violent ver-
bal and written attacks upon prominent
figures in public life.
Nothing could be any worse than the
verbal and written invective campaign
started against Col. Lindbergh because of
his two recent radio speeches. Lindbergh
has been labeled pro-Hitler and pro-
German because he was the victim of an
unforeseen and deliberate attempt at
German propaganda to show the world
that he had been decorated by the Hitler
government for his contributions to the
welfare Of aviation.
1t would have been just as embar-
RAISING and humiliating to the President
Of the United States had he been a VIC
tim of the same German enterprise and
had he attempted to reject the decora-
ton at time when every eye was upon
him. Lindbergh had not expected to be
SO "honored" by the German government.
LID CillOdA1 ooSlllcIlC Was llUGlCedUlc dt tIle
time. But what could he do about it?
The fact that he did not smile when q
German official approached and placed
the decoration upon his coat-front should
be ample show to the American public
that Lindbergh was not pleased.
There are experiences in life that peo-
pie cannot forget. When some one hints
that America should help her former
allies in their present dilemma, those who
have knowledge by the past experience Of
having been called "Uncle Shylock" be-
cause they insisted upon being paid for
a just debt cannot reconcile themselves
to give until it hurts" in men and money
to the same debtors. There is bitterness
over this situation, and there always will
be-unless those behind in their obliga-
tions can come to some sort of an agree
ment with their creditor. Even a rea-
sonable adjustment would help to elimi-
nate some of the pain and anguish con-
fronted by the two English speaking
countries. How reasonable can be the
settlement, only they can decide.
October 16. FF.