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to depend upon his own ability to
provoke interest.
Little problems such as this give
geniuses like the Warmers no pause,
and so they set about to present
Morris in a picture as much like
kid Galahad" as is possible to find.
In fact, 1t is suspected that the
young mans current epic, Broad
way Cavalier" is nothing but kid
Galahad" rewritten In comedy form.
In this Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell
and May Robson are devoting most
of their talk to Morris, and once
again the illusion of a great actor
will be created.
Comes Now a Cycle
OF Old Time Songs.
Audiences are in for a cycle of
old time songs used by the screen
for the deliberate purpose of pro-
ducing nostalgia. The idea was
suggested by the success of the
music of two decades ago in Alex
ander's Ragtime Band" and seeing
the effect of such music on an 9TH
erwise unworthy picture, other lots
are fashioning photoplays in which
old-time tunes will play an impor-
tant part.
Metro has written a Gay Nineties
cafe sequence into Broadway Ser
enade" to permit jeanette MacDon-
aid to give forth with Just a Song
at Twilight" "Yip I Addy I Ay,"
my Mother Was a Lady" and "A
Bird in a Gilded Cage" Charles
r. Rogers is using with more rea-
son some old-timers in Bing Cros-
by's life of Gus Edwards. THE Star
Maker" The film deals with the
discovery Of such people as Lila
Lee, Eddie Cantor and George Jes-
sci. and there will be re-creations
in the Edwards manner of School
Days." by the Light of the Silvery
Moon," In My Merry Oldsmobile"
and others Of the period.
Whether these producers have
analyzed the reason for the success
Of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" will
not be known until their pictures
are completed. Those familiar with
the sentimentality Of human beings
realize that the Irving Berlin story
engendered enthusiasm because the
old songs were used for the most
part in their entirety. Snatches of
a refrain are not enough to produce
any great satisfaction. When man
hears an old tune he likes to ac-
company the singer in his mind; a
fragment Of the song is like an in
terrupted revery, aggrevatng and
never gratifying. Az q gentleman
Of the old school, I hope they give
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what truth 1t speaks is in jest.
Jane Cowl is there to speak 1t in a
manner internationally beloved,
and she is assisted by June Walker,
Percy Waram and Joseph Sweeney.
They and Mr.. Wilder seemed to me
infallible. Their work filled me with
demure delight, although once
again it should be noted this de-
partment is in a minority among
the reviewing fraternity. What filled
me with demure delight filled others
with pain, and one critic assured
me he had to keep driving his fin-
gernails into the palms of his hands
to keep awake.
Mr.. Wilder's farce has had two
ancient forebears, but 1t arrives at
the Guild Theater as the tangled
frolic of suburban penny-pinching
merchant, his two clerks, their lights
O. love and the woman who is out to
arrange marriage for the merchant
and finally marries him herself.
Everybody keeps tumbling over
everybody else. hiding under tables
and in closets, passing themselves
off as each other, plotting each
others destruction and encompass
ing their own, and at the final cur
tain they all get married and, with
tongue in cheek, live happily ever
after.
The larkisness of the plot is broken
on occasions by an actor stepping
forward to address a little homily
to the audience. For instance, there
is a moment when Mr.. Sweeney, in
the role of an employe trying out
employers, finds a wallet and de-
cides to return it to the one he as
sumes lost it. "Surprised?" He says
suddenly to the audience. And pro-
ceeds to explain to the audience the
philosophy of vice. A man without
vices, he says, is horrible example
to all of us, as is man with many
vices. The point is to have one vice
at time. He. personally, used to
be thief. That was all right. He
made out well with it. Then he
became a drunkard. That was all
right, too. He had fun. But just
think how bad 1t would have been
If he had become a drunken thief.
No, one of the vices had to 60.
The play, it is true. has an aca-
demic quality to it. 1t reads like a
professors joke. But I've always
liked professors Jokes (and city edi-
tors jokes, too), and I laughed so
hard at this one I almost swallowed
my mouth.
Everywhere l Roam"
A Valiant Attempt.
Everywhere I Roam" is an ex-
pensive and ambitious attempt to
put on a stage a history of the
United States and plea for the re-
turn to simple, productive economy
OF our agricultural days. Arnofi
Sundgaard and Marc Connolly wrote
it. Mr.. Connolly and Bella Blau pro-
duced it. Credit them with a valiant
attempt. The play seemed to me as
moving as the sight of Babe Ruth
striking out.
tcepyriEht 1889. by the North Ameri:,n
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
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correct first-year nurses wear blue
and white check uniforms with white
collars and aprons without bibs.
Second-year juniors wear plain blue
outfits with white collars and cuffs,
white bib apron and a halo cap.
Seniors wear white uniforms with
long sleeves and a starched cap,
while graduate nurses wear the same
uniforms as seniors and same cap
as Juniors, but with a black band
across the front.
Now. movies aren't shot chrono-
logically and the actresses may be
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Everywhere l Roam"
A Valiant Attempt,
Harry Langdon Gets
A New Contract

After viewing a rough cut" of
ITS Spring Again" co-starring
Oliver Hardy and Harry Langdon as
new comedy team, Hal Roach
awarded a new, long-term contract
to Langdon. Its Spring Again" is
Langdon's first full-length screen
feature since the days when he was
a silent film star.
Edward Sutherland produced Its
Spring Again" and Gordon Douglas
directed it from the screen-play by
Walter de Leon. The supporting cast
features Jean Parker, June Lang,
Alice Brady, Billie Burke, Stepin
Fetchit and Mary Kornman.
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MONDAY

q llu IlClll + Olldd AL
Mad Miss Manton."
James Caeney and Pat
O'Brien in Angels
With Dirty Faces"
Ray Milland and
Fred MacMurray in
Men With Wings"
Luise Rainer
in
dramatic School"
Ray Milland and
Fred MacMurray in
Men With Wings"
I'm From the City"
Priscilla Lane in
-Four Daughters"
Just Around the
Corner" and
Mad Miss Manton."
Ray Milland and
Louise Campbell in
Men With Wings"
James Cagney and Pat
O'Brien in ANGELS
With Dirty Faces"
Shirley Temple in
Just Around the
Corner"
George Raft and
Henry Fonda in
Spawn of the North
Constance Bennett
in
Service De Luxe"
Down on the Farm. "
Beery and Rooney in
Stablemates.
Ronald Colman and
Frances Dee in
IF I Were King"
Shirley Temple in
Just Around the
Corner"
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6Oullu Ike n IldIUI dl OutDuot. WHICH,
you saw her hips wiggle, her eyes pop
and her mouth burst open, and heard
her voice with its fabulous range
from soft, meaty sounds to high.
rattling shrek, from sullenness and
sorrow to a stormy kind of gayety
that enveloped the air like a glare
of red, then you were present at art
in the throes of creation. But it was
a new, and at least more complex,
art that she revealed in the new
play, "Mamba's Daughters"-the art
of creating and communicating
character as well as emotion.
The extraordinary thing about this
first legitimate performance of her
career is that Dorothy and Du Bose
Hayward, the authors, were more
hindrance than help to her. They
have gone sappy over mother love,
and out of Mr.. Heyward's novel of
the same name they have made up a
melodramatic saga of Gullah Nine.
x of the plantation country. What
ever there is substantial that
VAlCA 6CS ~ JILL 40 StColIlk1lk 6OuldSll VI
violence, despair, injustice, cruelty
and stupendous, self effacing sacri-
fee seems to be the contribution of
Ethel Waters.
She is present in the role of Hagar,
who admits God didn't seem to
make it good for me to think" An
inarticulate. elemental creature,
strong in the heart and arms and
weak in the head, with the power to
shake man to death slowly and an
ability to express herself only in
song. After her baby is born of
father who might be any one of
great number, she devotes her whole
life steadfastly to providing for the
child's support. No more liquor. no
more men. Mamba, Hagars mother,
rears her granddaughter in Charles
ton and Hagar works as field hand,
seeing the child rarely. The climax
comes when Lissa, Hagars daughter,
on the edge of success as a singer, is
threatened with oblivion by a black
mailer. Hagar chokes the black
mailer, invents an excuse for his
murder in written confession and
then shoots herself to prevent the
police from questioning the truth out
Of her.
AS in anything the Heywards
write there is a certain amount of
quality in the piece. 1t emerees in
what the trade calls the local
color'-the fabric of the life Gullah
negroes live, church scene filled
with frenzy, an animated rebound
from terror by large group. But
that's all familiar stuff now, and
no matter how well it is done here
1t has been done well before. With
out Ethel Waters to go through it
like a great animal, like dark sor-
row itself, there would be nothing
m it at all that is both new and
good.
New Comedy Sounds
Like Professors Joke.
This Is comic valentine that
Thornton Wilder has written in
The. Merchant of Yonkers," and
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Now Crying
Is Statistics
Subject
Veteran Weeps and
Stops More
Quickly
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
A crying contest on q film set
may have determined two things:
(O Young actresses are slower at
turning on the tears and then
can't stop SO soon; (b) Veteran ac-
tresses can cry sooner, produce more
tears and stop quicker.
Priscilla Lane and Fay BANTER
furnished the tear statistics" on the
set Of "Yes. My Darling Daugh-
ter" at Warner Bros.
Neither had to have menthol
blown into their eyes. They did
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Theater Finally Discovers
A New Dramatic Actress
Ethel Waters Wins New Plaudits
For Her Playing in 'Mamba's
Daughters New Hayward Play
By Ira WOlferf.
NEW YORK.
actress of great

The heater has finally discovered dramatic of great
talent, the first in several years.
carpet is for Ethel a
gal making
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laying out the costumes until eve
ming when she puts them away.
Hazel is a jittery girl. Besides the
principals, there are the stand ms
but why goson? The story is not
about psychopathic wards. but Hazel
feels If it were she'd really feel at
home these days.
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Down in Arkansas. ="

Luise Rainer and
Fernand Gravel in
The Great Waltz"
James Caeney and Pat
OBrien in Angels
With Dirty Faces"
Spencer Tracy and
mickey Rooney in
Boys Town"
Swing That Cheer" +"
KAY Francis in Sc
crets OF an Actress"
James Caeney in
Angels With Dirty
Faces"
Freshman Year"
Joel McCrca. Youth
Takes q Fling."
Ronald Colman and
Frances Dee in
If I Were King"
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graduates in one scene and proba-
TONERS in the next, and back and
forth. and Hazel must know just
where they are in every part Of the
script and what is right to wear
each time.
So from 7 am. when she starts
Evening star., 1939-01-08

J. Carroll Naish and
Mary Carlisle in
Illegal Tramc."
Luise Rainer and
Fernand Gravel in
The Great Waltz"
James Cagney and Pat
O'Brien in Angels
With Dirty Faces"
Painted Desert"
Edw. G. Robinson in
II Am the Law
Flight to Fame"
Barbara Stanwyck in
Mad Miss Manton." i"
James Cagney in
ANGELS With Dirty
Faces"
Bob Burns and
Fay BANTER in
Arkansas Traveller"
, Errol Flynn and
Bette Davis in
The Sisters"
Luise Rainer
in
Dramatic School"
Luise Rainer and
Fernand Gravel in
The Great Waltz"
Wayne Morris and
Priscilla Lane in
Brother Rat"
Bette Davis and
Errol Flynn in
The Sisters"
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their crying by thinking sa
thoughts.

UIIOUBIICb.
Miss Lane took ! minute, Is sec
onds by the script girls stop watch
before she wept enough to start tho
tears rolling down her cheeks. Then
Director William Keighley gave .
signal, and the scene started.
Miss BANTER had to start dry-eyed
and cry as soon as possible after
the scene had started. 1t took her
u seconds. She stopped weeping
Immediately after the scene was
over. While she was at it tears
streamed from her eyes. Miss Lane,
on the other hand, couldn't stop for
near five minutes.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Week
OF JANUARY s

WEEK OF JANUARY s
Academy
Sth and G st. Sc.
Ambassador
18th and Columbia Rd
Apollo
6o4 II st. NE.
Arcade
Hyattsville. Nd.
Avalon
6612 Connecticut Ave.
Ashton
Arlington. Va.
Atlas
1881 H st. NE.
Avenue Grand
e45 Pa. Ave. Sc.
Beverly
18th and 2 sts. NE.
Boro
Bethesda. Md
Calvert
1924 Wisconsin Ave.
Cameo
Mount Rainier. Nd.
Caroline
11th e. N. c. Ave. Sc.
Central
425 9th st. NV.
Circle
21O5 Pa. Ave. NV.
Colony
Ga. Ave. and Farragut
congress Ave. ss..'aI and
Portland St Sc.
Dumborton
1349 Wis. Ave. NV.
fOlnOW0
Anacostia. D. C.
Hippodrone
K near 9th
Home
18th and c Sts. NE.
Jesse
18th mr.. R. I. Ave. NE.
Lee
Falls Church. Va.
Lido
1927 N St. NV.
Little
9th between + ana q
Marlboro
Marlboro. Md.
Milo
Rockville. Md.
Newton
10Th &Newton sts. NE.
Palm
Del Ray. Va.
Penn
$50 Pa. Ave. 6.E.
Princess
10th and H sts. NE.
Richmond
Alexandria. Va.
Reed
Alexandria. Va.
Savoy
5000 14th st. NV.
Seco
Silver Spring. Nd.
Sheridan
Ga. Ave. & Sheridan St.
Silver
Silver Spring. Md.
Stonton
9th and c SITS. NE.
Stote
Bethesda. Md.
StOte
Falls Church. Va.
Sylvan
104 R. I. Ave. NV.
Tokomo
Takoma Park. D. c.
Tivoli
14th and Park Rd.
Uptown
Conn. Ave. q Newark st.
Wilson
Arlington. Va.
York
Ga Ave. e. Quebec Pl.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

Rivers End which was l920's
most successful box office Aim end
made Lewis Stone a star, will be
filmed again by Warner Bros, with
George Brent in the leading role.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
TUESDAY

CLARK Gable IN 81
Too Hot to Handle"
James Caeney and Pat
O'Brien in Angels
With Dirty Faces"
Ray Milland and
Fred MacMurray in
Men With WINS"
Luise Rainer
in
DRAMATIC School"
Ray Milland and
Fred MacMurray in
Men With Wings"
Gold Is Where You
Find It" and Broad
way Musketeers.
Ronald Colman and
Frances Dee IN
IF I Were King"
Dick Powell and
Olivia de Havilland In
Hard to Get"
James Cagney and Pat
O'Brien in ANGELS
With Dirty Faces"
Dionne Quintuplets
and Jean Hersholt in
Five of a Kind"
Bing Crosby and
Margaret Lindsay in
Sing. You Sinners"
Bobby Breen and
Charlie Ruggles in
Breaking the Ice"
Down on the Farm"
Beery and Rooney in
"Stablemates.
Claudette Colbert and
~1,-l, ~.LIN ..Yk hn-
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Drums"
Simplest Task Is Not Always
Simplest on a Film Set

anything usually the
headaches example
Harvey working
uniforms Rutherford
there
IS uniforms.
But the film shows the from proboners grad
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Brown Against the Field

COMMISSIONER BROWN of the New York athletic board
fighting his brother commissioners and the Mike Jacob
mob The issue stake of is the absurd title match
between Joe Louis and Tony Galeno Brown fiery of tongue
scathng insists the match will take place in New
York, if he prevent -.
swndle insult to the pubes intelligence
alright don't know about the insult to the
York public They'll sail for
they finally have decided Jacobs
with this phoney looking nothing
will lose He's alone against the
will reach the public print
perhaps added fuel the bayhoo that certain
o bring the disgusting match to high pitch
WHAT is noe rarity, WW in time become common.
Meaning telerisioR for sports fans. IN London re-
centlp for instance spectators tco heoterS tight
REPRODUCED on the screen ehe the ring Simu-
taneouslv fighting hall at another part Of the city
all Gamble. the ana sports
- a Mandrake. Bot he's just like and
he sat AT the wheel OF
victims expected mere
wave from Ray and poof! out OF II all
w PARKER sportsfsn and salmon angler
W. jumped political pond his object seat on
board
the shuttle board and ping pong
the honolulu
daredevil who went in for Interesting sports
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Bobby G'ayson
Quits Grid Post
STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

STAN FORD UNIVERSITY.
Calif.-Bobby Grayson, backfield
ace of Stanford's vow boys" who
went to the Rose bowl three sue
cessive years, today announced his
resignation as ssistant to Head
Coach Claude y. (Tiny) Thorn
hill.
Although his appointment
does not expire until Aug. |,
Grayson said his resignation
is effective Mz,rch 81. The fol-
lowing day. he said, he will
enter the employ of a major
oil company.
He said he would attend the
company's school for three months
to prepare himself for an excel
lent post"
This looks ID Ike the chance of
lifetime to me- he said, and I'm
not going to pa SIS it up
His resignation was not entirely
unexpected as the board of ath-
letic control dill nothing about re-
newing his contract recently
when ThornhSl's was given
years extension.
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BY HENRY M'LEMORE

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
one grows older the old familiar
things grow dearer. Though
am not yet quite to the age
where l have silver threads
among the red. ! find myself
yearning for the things used
to do.
Out in California ] suddenly
suffered an acute attack of nos
talgia. For a few days j couldn't
decide what my longing was for,
and seeking solution ! tried
jackstraws, drop the handker-
chief, spin the bottle and other
games OF my childhood. On the
off chance that il was the south
! missed. / played Swanee river
on the victrola and fried myself
a chicken.
These didn't work so l went
out and in my imagination ! got
myself whipped behind the
woodshed. and forced myself to
do the last five minutes OF
churning Of an ice cream frefer'
which, a. some Of you viii re-
member, ID when the churning
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All. THAT OLD AND SWEET refrain!

don't know who writes the
baseball managerial music but
here are the words:
II we are lucky. well he in the
first division the team that
beats us will know it's been in
a fight-if our third baseman
comes through-if we get our
share of the breaks-l never
have seen a team with such
spirit-he WAS overweight last
wear, but you should see him
now-if our club plays the same
kind Of ball during the season
that IL has down here watch us
go
Do YOU wonder that ! am
hurrying to Florida ? Nothing is
older and more familiar TO me
than the song of the managers.
II takes me back across the
wears TO the DAYS when / was
a beginner as sports reporter.
They sang il then. they sing It
now. Nothing is changed. Not
even the setting.
A hotel lobby. deep cushioned
chairs. with a red-necked base
ball player in every one. men
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SteeIe's Boys
On Ring Card

Frank Lui and Bill O'Brien. two
of Freddie Steele's prize pupils IN
the former middleweight cham
pions boxing classes at St. Mar
tins college, were matched with
Tacoma opponents today for APP
pearances on the American Legion
amateur ring card at Greenwich
coliseum Thursday.
Lui. heavyweight. was
paired with Cliff Edwards,
Northwest A. {. stalwart,
while O'Brien will meet John
nv Morris. clever coIored
youngsfer and also a member
Of the Northwest A. {. simon
pure stable.
Steele has been working with
st. Martins boxers for several
months. but Thursday evening will
find his proteges making their
initial starts in Tacoma
A third new scrap on the pro-
gram. bringing together Vern Will
son of Lincoln High and Willie
Williams of the Northwest A. c.,
featherweights, was announced to-
day by Matchmaker VIII Maylon.
Thursdays card Is featured
by a Tacoma ~. Renton team
match in which pupils of an
other former worlds cham
pion, Tommy Burns, one time
heavyweight titleholder, will
tanglc with local youngsters.
Burns, who has been giving
glove instruction to Renton hope
fuls for nearly year, is said to
have some likely-looking boys,
four of whom have been paired
with Tacoma battlers to date.
The lineups: Willie Muse, North
west A. C., VS.. Paul Schaeffer,
Renton. middleweights; Al Miller.
Eatonville high. VS.. Tanner Ed
wardson. Renton. welterweights:
Joe Burris, Fort Lewis, VS.. Bob
Chapman. Renton, heavyweights,
and Tony Marker, Northwest A.
C., VS.. Frank Leibrich, Renton,
Three other bouts renal nto be
signed.
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Match Billed
for March q

Climaxing his meteoric rise 70
fistic stardom. Davey Ward will
appear in his first main event
Thursday evening. March %. at
Greenwich coliseum. Promoter VIII
Maylon announced today.
An opponent for the brilliant
young Tacoma welter has not yet
been selected. Maylon said. but the
choice has been narrowed down 10
three formidable ringmen. any one
of whom figures to give Ward
plenty of competition.
The trio under consideration
are:
Frankie Collins. Shoshone
Indian youngster and brother
of Ernie Collins. who defeated
Jock McOmber here last week.
Truman X dy. burly
Bellingham battler who stop
ped Glen Strong here in JAN
uary.
Eddie Spina, game and hard
hitting Portland boy whose
two great fights with frankie
Lembo here last year were
standouts.
Collins is by far the more ex-
perienced, having 6s professional
and SIS amateur starts to his
credit. Rugged as they come. he
has never been knocked off his
feet, even by opponents who out
weighed him as much as Is and
20 pounds.
INHERITED TOUGHNESS
In that respect he is much like
his big brother. Ernie. who took
McOmber's heaviest shots without
wavering in their scrap last week.
Kennedy is also a rugged
campaigner. Strong. ter
rifle puncher. winged him
squarely on the chin without
any visible effect in their
battle here a few weeks back.
The powerfully constructed
Belling CHAM yOungster has had
better than so fights against
some of the best lightweights
on the Pacific coast and in the
middle west and has always
managed to go the distance.
Spina, also built along substan.
tial lines, is well known here for
other fights in addition to his
sensational performances against
Lembo, and Tacoma fans know
him to be a willing youngster with
plenty of heart. The chunky Port
land boys weight has shot up TO
around the 145-pound mark in the
last year, giving him at least an
even break with Ward in that re.
spect.
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BOWLING

Jimmy Bernard, lead-off man
for Big Bad Wolf. led the scorers
of the Industrial league in their
matches at the Broadway alleys
Monday night, turning in games
of 1877. 195 and 211, to account for
a 603 total.
The Big Bad Wolves showed
some of their last years power,
when they won the Industrial
league championship, by scoring
2764 pins to win four points from
Ray Printers.
Close behind Bernard on the
Wolf team was Sam Blackburn,
with a nice 500 total. Earl Mahn.
key led the Printers with 573.
Tacoma Towel supply
scored high to win three
points from Three Little Pigs,
losing the fourth marker when
the Porkers won the play-Off
of the second game. which
ended in tie. Captain Ed
Sorensen led the Towel Sup
ply quintet with 56I, and
Paul Schaeffer paced the
Three Little Pigs with the
same score.
Doc Boyer women, first half
champions Of the Industrial league,
won three points from johnson
Candies, with Marjorie Shaugh-
messy leading the attack with a
nice $50 total. Virgil Wepfer
scored $40 for the best total for
the Johnsons.
Ice Delivery won three points
from Redmen in the play-off Of
a postponed Commercial league
match. Paul Pearson led the Ice
men with SIT and AL Dengis
topped the Redmen with 521.
Charles Thomson rolled
PA single game and 401 two
game total for the best scores
in the weekly session of the
Penn salt league.
Rufus Fairbanks led the pinmen
of the Telephone company bowling
league, shooting 156, 166 and 1875.
TO finish with a $40 total.
GAS co. LEAGUE