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Evening star., 1939-04-24
Baseball TiIts Today
Open Full Week for
Colleges Here
Lacrosse, Track, Tennis,
Golf Crowd Program
Keeping All Busy

Maryland's baseball team was to
seek its second victory in three
Southern Conference games this
afternoon at College Park as Charley
Weidinger started pitching against
Virginia Tech at 4 o'clock. Weld
niger was on the mound when the
Terps walloped the Gobblers, 22-5,
in an earlier game at Blacksburg.
The first Of two intracity games
IN successive days also was on the
books this afternoon as American U.
met Wilson Teachers. Tomorrow
the Eagles will move out to George
town for second game with the
Hoyas who whipped them, 1874. in
the opening game for each three
weeks ago. Q
Lacrosse Tilt Saturday.
Today's games marked the start
of busy week for local college
athletes whose baseball, lacrosse,
track and tennis activities will find
one or more groups active every day.
After tomorrow. however, only two
major events are scheduled here
through Saturday-the Georgetown
West Virginia ball game on Friday
and the Maryland-Princeton la
crosse fracas the following day.
Track again will get a big play
from G.. u, G. U. and Maryland
when they go to Philadelphia for
the famed Penn relays on Friday
and Saturday. The Cardinals, in
cidentally, will get last warm-up
for the relays when they engage
Western Maryland In q dual meet
at Westminster on Wednesday,.
Hoya Golfers Start.
Maryland's tennis squad, on q
Southern trip the first three days OF
the week, will return home Friday
for two Southern Conference
matches here over the week end.
Georgetown and American racket
ers will entertain Pitt, Bridgewate1
and Bucknell.
Georgetown's golf team opens Its
season Saturday when 1t plays Navy
at Annapolis.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
20 Years Aqo
In The Stor

Harry Harper will be intrusted
with keeping Washington on the
winning side Of the ledger In to-
days game with the AS. The
club got off to a fine start behind
Walter johnson yesterday, win
ming q 13-inning battle, 10. All
of the rockies in the lineup looked
good, but Hal Janvrin unwittingly
gave the squeeze" play signal
with Eddie Foster on third and
the latter was caught flat-footed
making a dash for the plate.
Babe" Ruth's home run helped
the Red Sox swamp the Yankees,
100, in their debut at New York.
Charles Stoneham, owner of
the Giants, has offered to back
Jake Schaefer against Willie
Hoppe In an 1872 balkline bill
uards match for a S, 900 side bet.
Bob Folweu has signed to coach
at Penn next season,
Evening star., 1939-04-24
High School Diamond
Fans Size Up Three
Teams This Week
Central, Western, Tech
Play First Games
In Title Series

Schoolboy baseball followers, still
puzzled over the chances of their
favorites in the inter high cham
pionship series, this week will have
an opportunity Of sizing up the re-
naming three teams that haven't
made their debuts with two games
scheduled involving Central, West
ern and Tech.
Western, with its ace southpaw,
Carmel Nance, doing the f1inging,
invades Mount Pleasant tomorrow
to test Coach Jack Rays highly
touted nine. Friday Teck opens its
drive for the title in, game with
Anacostia, while Central, in its Sec
ond game of the week, faces Wilson
at Western.
Central, with an abundance of ex-
perienced talent available, is a IA
vorite to capture the Western Divi-
sion honors. Tech, although still
untested. stands at the head OF the
Eastern Division. They face formid-
able opponents in their opening
games.
Anacostia made the most of four
hits cleaned from the offerings Of
Eastern's "Puddin'" Lovett to chalk
up a surprising AZ victory over
the Light Blue last week, and West
ern, in turn, gave evidence of its
power by turning back the Indians
in a non-series game, 90.
Western, of course, will rely on
Nance's effective chucking to stop
Central. The calm, lanky young
ster displayed a nifty curve and
judicious change of pace in fan
ming 13 Anacostia batters and is
being saved especially for Gen.
tral. The Georgetowners also have
a fairly good attack, although Cen.
tral with its little "murderers' row
appears q little stronger in thi.
department.
Tech was to open a busy week
this afternoon, encountering Mont
gomery-Blair at Silver Spring
Roosevelt, which made an auspiciou.
series debut last week in blankine
Wilson, 60, journeys to Garret Parl
for a game with Georgetown Prep
Evening star., 1939-04-24
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

When Referee Tim Ferrick handed
Joey Archibald the world feather
weight championship last week after
Joey's wrestling match with Leo
Kodak, he committed a grave social
error that attracted considerable at
tention and still threatens to raise
hob in more exclusive 126-pound
circles. He forgot to wrap the gift.
1t was gift. if we are to believe
majority of competent ringside OBJ
servers, not the least of whom was
Gene Tunney, scholarly heavy
weight titleholder in his day Tun-
ney intimated that Kodak was the
victim of hometown decision
Others rushed boldly into print with
the unvarnished charge that Kodak
was robbed
But getting the best of the breaks
is no new experience for Archibald.
A lost N. B. A. suspension bulletin.
setting him down for fouling Tony
Dupre, enabled him to get started
in Washington in preliminary bout
and more good fortune followed in
swift order. The first occurred in
the featherweight elimination tour
nament sponsored by Messrs. Turner
and Ahearn.
Providence Smiles on Joey.
There was suspicion among ring
folk that Petey Scalzo, an able
craftsman under Pete Reilly's direc-
ton, could whip Archibald. Efforts
to match the pair had failed dis
mally. Archibald was painfully cool
toward Scalzo, but fans hoped the
tournament would throw them into
the same ring together. 1t should
have, but the goddess of fortune
sprinted to Joey's rescue.
Scalzo was matched with Dupre,
and after piling up a comfortable
lead in the first four rounds found
himself in dire need of waterwings
as cloudburst hit the stadium. His
usually excellent footwork was rem
dered null and void, and Dupre. a
good mudder. came on to win de-
cision. Scalzo later knocked out
Archibald in two rounds, however,
confirming the fans theory, but
that's ahead of the story.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Hope Of '4-F|at' Mile
Seen in Match Of
Record Holders
Cunningham Apt to Give
Wooderson Greatest
Duel at Princeton
BY the Associated Press.

LAWRENCE, Kans., April "a
Don't sell Glenn Cunningham short
in his duel with Sydney Wooderson
The modest Kansan has habit of
winning those races he sets his heart
on capturing. And there's no reason
to believe he won't go after Wooder-
son in the Princeton mile June II.
They never have met. Wooderson
holds the world (outdoor) mile
record of 4:064. Cunningham had
chopped it to 4:06.7. Cunningham
sped a mile in 4:044 indoors-the
fastest ever recorded for human
but only outdoor marks are recog-
nized as world records.
Track experts hope the duel will
wipe out the Englishman's 1904:
possibly answer the query Glenn's
own speed first raised: Can any
one run 4-minute mile?"
Gayle Talbot, Associated Press
sports writer who saw Wooderson
grow from an unknown to world
record holder. picks the Englishman.
"The frail looking Londoner," he
wrote. is capable Of beating = =
Cunningham any time he meets him
in q special race"
The reticent Kansan appeared un-
impressed today. He said, Sure.
Wooderson may win; even listed
reasons why he, Cunningham, did
not expect to be at his peak June II.
Chief of them was:
you've got to train to a fine edge
for a match race and I can't. My
work (extension agent for Kansas
University keeps me travelling too
much. You can't train in an auto
mobile"
Take heed, Mr.. Wooderson. When
Glenn tells why he won't win, you
may be certain he'll run one of his
best races.
Talbot credited the Briton with
as much stamina as Cunningham;
with greater burst of speed at the
finish.
So how will Cunningham race
Wooderson? Will he try to run him
lIlGO lllc SlOuIlu III Illc 1ll ot tlll &C
quarters? Or will he discount Tai
bots estimate and try to win with
his famous "kick" in the final fur
long?
Il don't know" said Glenn. "It
will depend largely upon how feel.
If I'm right, I'll run by own race.
If he can beat that he will win"
Cunningham, racing outdoors the
drst time this season. defeated Chuck
Fenske, the former Wisconsin ace, in
the disappointing time of 1922, at
the Kansas relays here Saturday.
But don't take that as a hint the
Kansan's slowing up. With 12-
mile wind blowing, Cunningham let
Fenske set the pace until the final
100 yards. Then he sprinted to
victory.
Cunningham ran the final quar-
ter in So seconds. There, Mr.. Wood
erson, is the tip-off. Glenn still can
run-When he needs to.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Stars Yesterday
BY the Associated Press.

Lynwood Rowe, Tigers-Held Cleve-
land to four hits in first comeback
attempt.
Henry Mueller, Phillies-Delivered
pinch double with bases full in 18th
Bucky Walters, Reds-Efective six
hit pitching beat PittsburRh Pirates.
Ted Williams. Red Sox-His home
run, double and two singles stood out
boldly, although Boston lost to Phila-
delphia Athletics.
OF season with one on base to help
defeat st. Louis Cardinals. 6-5.
Harry Gumbert and Burgess White
head, Giants-Former gave only seven
hits: latter tied record with IL as
sists in great fielding display at sec
ond base to beat Bees.
Mary Owen. Eric. McNair and Mike
Kreevich. White Sox-Owen eQualed
major league record with four dou-
bles: McNair and Kreevich homered
to account for seven of Chicago's II
runs
Jake Powell, Yankees-His single
scored two runs and insured victory
over WaShington
Evening star., 1939-04-24
D. Table Net Team
Lands Tight Victory

Washington's table tennis team
still was in second place in the
Eastern 1ntercity League today
despite an lilo victory over Reading
yesterday at the Chevy Chase Ice
Palace. Philadelphia, the current
leader, dealt the locals their only
defeat in eight matches.
With the score tied at 10-all,
Stanley Fields and Leonard Sum-
mers paired to give Washington the
winning point by beating Nuke and
Anderson in the final doubles en-
counter.
Evening star., 1939-04-24

A challenge to the quarter and
half-mile stars among Washing
tons collegiate trackmen was
laid down today with the an
nouncement that Jimmy Milks,
former Washington-Lee High
School ace, would compete in
The Evening Star Games May
13 at the University of Maryland.
Milks, who breezed through a
stiff campaign with the Little
Generals last year without losing
q race, will try for the District
A. A. U. 40 and $50 titles. He
likely will run unattached.
A number of other unattached
and club athletes are expected
to make the going tough for the
Evening star., 1939-04-24
MiIks Enters Star Meet
Former Woshington-L Lee Middle Distoncer
Boasts Undefeoted Record for '38

college representatives who will
make up the bulk of the field in
the A. A. U. events. Notable
among these is George Began,
who is a student at Georgetown
but not a member of the track
team. Began will defend District
A. A. U. titles in the century and
220. He won them in 1887. There
was no A. A. U. meet last year.
Began, who has had two years
OF varsity competition at George
town, skipped this season to give
more time to studies. He expects
to rejoin the Hoya squad next
season. He will bear the colors Of
the Washington Track and Field
Club in The Star meet.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Rodak-SiIva Battle
Planned 10 Start
Outdoor Season
Manager Lewis Is Eager
To Send Feather Stor
Into Action Here

A top-notch featherweight match
for the initial show of the outdoor
ring campaign here appeared as
sured for the District today follow
ing a telephone conversation between
Nate Lewis, manager of Leo Kodak,
and Heine Miller, secretary Of the
District Boxing Commission and
chairman of the National Boxing
Association Ratings Committee.
Lewis, highly incensed over the
decision which gave Joey Archibald
undisputed claim to the 126-pound
title after the recent bout with
Kodak at Providence, said he was
willing to send his man against any
other fighter in the division to prove
Kodak the best of the class. He
made no exceptions, including Petey
Scalzo, who has strong claim to
recognition by virtue of his two
round knockout of Archibald In an
over-the-weight match.
Silva Suggested as Foe.
Miller suggested that joey Silva,
who made a tremendous hit with
Washington fans in whipping Pete
Galiano and AL Reid. would be a
good match for Kodak. Promoter
Joe Turner agreed that it looked
one Of the best 126-pound pairings
possible and the matter seemed
destined for happy ending after
the adjustment of few minor de-
tails.
If the match is closed, there Is a
strong possibility that portion of
the gate receipts will be turned over
to the N. B. A. to help defray ex-
penses for its annual convention
which will be held here in Septem-
ber.
The Boxing Commission will hold
an open meeting at its offices, 49,
Indiana avenue NV, tomorrow
morning at II to discuss plans fol
the summer season. Suggestions fol
conduct and improvement Of the
game will be welcomed.
Eddie Alex, New York veteran
dllu SlllCO 1LOIllO, d OOIllllly -COlIlc-
lately from Colorado. will demon
strate their punching prowess this
afternoon in a public workout at the
National Sporting Club gym. To-
morrow night they meet officially ir
one of three eight-round bouts head.
lining the boxing program at Tur-
| ner's Arena.
Romo, who claims the lightweight
championship of his native State,
will train at noon, while Alex Il
scheduled to pull on the light glove.
for q session Of bag-punching two
rounds later. This will be Romo'l
first appearance in the ring here
but Alex is well known to the fans
having whipped Bucky Taylor
Galiano and Straiges in this terri
tory.
Romo, a member Of Jack Laken'
stable, will be seconded by Silva.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Six Champions, Best
Of Sprint, Hurdle
Fields in Races
Team Contests Dominate
Card; Great EIIerbe-
Greer Duel Likely
BY GEORGE A. SCOTT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

PHILADELPHIA, April 24.-In-
dividual athletes may steal the show
this week end when the University
of Pennsylvania presents its 45th
annual relay carnival-an event
originally built around the four Imam
running combination.
Relay races, from sectional high
school affairs to American cham
plonship events, dominate as usual
the tWo-day program Friday and
Saturday. But the individual events
have attracted entries of some of the
Nations outstanding stars.
The presence of six defending
champions and the Nations leading
sprinters and hurdlers account for
the potential brilliance of the special
events.
Great Sprint Battle Looms.
Mozel Ellerbe of Tuskegee and
Wilbur Greer of Michigan State will
compete in a picked field for 100
yard dash honors. Greer recently
turned in 95 seconds performance
in winning the Texas relays, while
Ellerbe. national collegiate century
champion, turned the tables at Sat-
urday's Kansas relays in the same
time, winning by inches when Greer
pulled a muscle.
Such Eastern standouts as Herb
Weast, Columbia: John Maher, VIII
lanova, and Frank Oil, Pittsburgh,
are others in the sprint field.
Defending Champion Don Kinzle
of Duke University, Pennsylvania
native, who won Southern Confer
ence honors, faces title holders of
two other conferences in the 120-
yard high hurdles event. Elmer
Gedeon of Michigan, Big Ten cham
pion; Jay Shields of Yale, I. c. "A
indoor champion, and w. E. Whaley
of washington and Lee are rated
as Kinzles chief rivals.
Other Defending Champions.
Other defending individual cham
pions include Francis Ryan, Colum-
bias shotputter, seeking his third
straight relays victory; William
Watson, Michigan broad jumper;
William Faymonville of Notre Dame,
who set carnival record in the
discus last year; Nick Vukmanic,
Penn States national collegiate,
A. A. U. and I. c. 4-A javelin throw
champion, and Richard Ganslen of
Columbia. who tied for first place
in the pole vault last year.
Three collegiate quartets will be
seeking their third straight Ameri-
can championships in the relay
events-Manhattan in the mile,
Indiana in the 4-mile and Pitts
burgh in the sprint medley. Not
since 1908, when Michigan won its
last of six straight titles, has any
college won more than two conse-
cutive 4-mile races. The last team
to win the 2-mile event three years
in a row was Pennsylvania 1912
quartet.
Rideouts Again in Meet.
The Rideout twins, Wayne and
Blaine, will return as members of
North Texas Teachers 4-mile team
that set new world record last
year. They turned in a remark
able job Saturday to help clip more
than II seconds off the Kansas
relays distance medley standard.
The 1-mile relay classic, with
Pittsburgh as defending champion,
has strong field that includes
Fordham's indoor world champion
ship combination.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
7-Up TRIPS Cardinals

A seven-run rally in the lucky
seventh failed to save the Washing
ton Cardinals from 1873 defeat at
7-Up's collective hands. beavers
and DiNenna held the losers to five
hits.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Heurich Defeats Indian Head

Heurich A. c. handed Indian
Head 7-3 defeat on its home
grounds, Stohl pacing the attack
with three hits. Brown connected
for a home run for Indian Head In
futile ninth-inning rally.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Individual Athletes Threaten Steal Spotlight 45h Annual Penn Relays
Rod and Stream
BY GEORGE HUBER.
(Anril % 1Q2QA

ANYTHING can happen this week down Chesapeake All
about time for them what with this
the auspcious believe
mans calendar has this solid black.
And using references fishing
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Girurdiuns Win HundiIy

With Coe limiting the host club
to four hits, the Guardians defeated
Purcellville, II. The winners want
more games. Call D. G. Richards
at Georgia SOL. >s
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Berwyn Defeats Camden

Moran showed rare mound form
as Berwyn defeated Camden Tavern,
3D., on its home diamond.
Evening star., 1939-04-24

lundover Downs BIddensburo
Landover took at 21-2o decision
from Bladensburg In . loosely played
game. s5
Evening star., 1939-04-24
From the
PRESS Box
Long, Hord.Life Yields
StengeI Anecdotes
BY JOHN LARDNER,

opcCldA ASoIIccpOuUeut OI AHc 0tdI.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Unlike
most of the famous gag stories of
baseball, the gag stories about Mr..
Casey Stengel usually are true.
A specimen of the untrue story
the apocryphal, as we say at the
barber shops the one having to
do with Walter Johnson's fast ball
In the World Series of 1925, when
rain and darkness blanketed the
Washington Senators. the Pitts
burgh Pirates, and the world in
general.
The boys tell, with considerable
glee, how Mr.. johnson grew tired
of throwing his hard one through
the murk and finally decided to
conf1ne himself to the mere motion.
He wound up and brought his arm
around, and the catcher, Muddy
Ruel, plunked fist in his mitt to
initiate the thud of the ball.
Strike one!" bawled the umpire.
you're crazy!" snapped Barn
hart, the batter. THAT pitch was
q foot outside!"
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Arcade Pontiac Bows

Arcade Pontiac dropped q al de-
cision to Movie Operators in Q prac-
tice game at TatrAVn.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Steneel Protects McQuiIlon
Through lmitotinq Voice


"'Why didn't you go out with
Meusel. you law-breaking so-and-
SOP hollered McGraw.
Il drew myself up to something
around my full height and tole him,
Mr.. McGraW, did not 60 out with
Meusel because knew you had q
detective shadowing him, and I am
very particular about who shadows
me- That like to choked him to
death, because he saw where he
would have to put up the money for
an extra detective.
There was hardly dull moment
working for McGraw," continued
Mr.. Stengel. II was with the Giants
the same time as Hughie McQuillan
McGraw had a system where one
of his detectives would go around
the hotel each night at midnight,
knocking on the ball players doors
to see If they was in bed. roomed
with McQuillan, and got so could
initiate his voice pretty good.
"The detective would hammer on
our door and say 'Stengel?' and
would yell back here! in my own
golden baritone. Then he would
say 'McQuillan?' and I would
change my voice and say here in
McQuillan's voice, which was a nice
rough tenor.
"This was very good experience
FOR me If I wanted to go on the
stage. The trouble was, of course,
that McQuillan never would CO.
operate and do the same thing for
me, because he couldn't spare the
hotel any of his time at night.
Besides. he didn't use the old brain.
He overdid it. When McGraw heard
McQuillan was home every night
he knew either he was crazy or
McQuillan was. So pretty soon he
had Hughie dead to rights.
''Everything happens to you," con-
cluded Mr.. Stengel, IF you live a
long, hard life"
The more you hear of Mr.
stengel's memoirs, the truer this
seems to be.
(copyrisht. 1e39)
Evening star., 1939-04-24
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Evening star., 1939-04-24
BY the Associated Press.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Indianapolis, 81: St. Paul. 20.
Minneapolis T-6; Louisville. IA.
Columbus. A: Milwaukee. 3-3.
Kansas City. 13-3: Toledo. "a.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
On the Other Hond, Here's i.
True Story on Stencil

4lllS dlleCuOVe Gall Ue dIlu Is tOlu
Of any one of a dozen otner fast-ball
pitchers and dark-day ball games,
and never happened, of course, until
Mr.. Joe E. Brown brought it to the
screen. But the story of Mr.. Casey
6tengel dofflng his cap and releas-
ing live sparrow from under it, as
a token of his bitter contempt for
umpires, is factual. Mr.. Stengel
admits 1t.
Listen, boy" says the sad-faced
manager of the Boston Bees, I've
lived long, hard life, and I've done
everything. I don't remember it all,
but, when somebody tells me they
seen me do something out there on
the ball field, I tell them they are
right. T must of done it. That's
how it is when you live long,
hard life.
II was always decent-living ball
player. I never had nothing to do
with these roisterers. But I've had
detectives shadow me. McGraw put
his detectives on my tail when I was
playing for him, and all because I
used to go out at night. That's all
I did. Naturally, now that I'm a
manager I can see where it's bad
thing for an athalete to sneak out
at night against orders. If any of
my boys do it I will fine their ears
off. But I never could see McGraw's
point of view, back when I was a
lowly athalete.
Il used to go out with Irish Meu-
eel once in while, but one day after
the ball game I noticed that Nc
Graw had a detective on Meusels
tail, so I left Meusel at the hotel
and went out by myself. McGraw
expected he would get the goods
on both of us, but the next morning
his detective told him that Meusel
broke training alone. That made
McGraw very sore.
He come over to me In the lobby
and yelled, Where were you last
night?'
Il says, Why, Mr.. McGraw, what
do you mean by that?'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-02
PACIFIC COAST
EYED BY NAVY

wAsHISGTON-Rep. Franck r.
Havenner. D. Calf, and Richard
]. WEIGH, r. Calf, said after a
conference with President Roose-
welt that the chief executive told
them congress will consider seri-
ously at the next regular session
plans to expand west coast naval
facilities.
Havenner said the president told
them congress will consider the
possibility of building up naval
facilities on the west coast COM
mensurate with those on the At
lantic seaboard. WEIGH added that
particular attention will be given
to San Franeisco's possibilities of
having great naval dry dock.
Havenner revealed that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is exploring the
possibility of exploiting western re-
sources, to increase production OF
steel on the Pacific coast. They
said Roosevelt told them he has
asked the geologic survey to re-
port on iron resources on the Pa
cific slope.
THE idea is to make possible
production of steel with the ex.
tensive hydro-electric resources In
the far west" Havenner said.