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Evening star., 1940-12-11
BY SID FEDER.

BALTIMORE. Dec. 11.-Challedon
still is the boss.
William L. Brann's big 4-year-old
bay today was named the horse of
the year" for 1910 by the Nations
turf experts in the annual turf and
sports digest poll. thus becoming the
first galloper to retain that throne in
the flve-year history of the voting.
Big Pete" did it by a convincing
margin in year in which the class
of competitors in the racing world
was decidedly off" He received "a
nominations from the ITO experts
who cast votes. compared with the
"a for Charlie Howard's Seabiscuit,
the richest money winner of all time.
Also Leads Handicap Class.
Challedon also was chosen first in
the handicap division, among the
4-year-olds and up. Col. E. R
Bradley's Bimelech. despite his loss
in the Kentucky Derby and the hoof
injury which forced his retirement
in mid-season, was named best Of
the 3-year-olds. In the two other
devisions voted on, Crispin Oglebay's
Level Best, Equipoise's best daugh-
ter. was easily the outstanding q
year-old fllly. while the closest con-
test of all found Warren Wright's
Whirlaway besting Royce G. Martin S
Our Boots for top billing among the
2-year-colts.
In choosing Challedon to retain his
championship, the experts ended the
hottest argument they have had over
any division in years. The records
of the leaders being what they were
-Chanedon was upset twice in seven
starts, Seabiscuit only ran four times
and Eight Thirty fell off badly after
mid-season-the turf writers talked
more about their choices for the
honor in recent weeks than they did
about the weather. or that hot tin
on an 8-to-1 shot. Some even wanted
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Buns in September, Sturs in December

All of the ball players who called by their
developed
coveted players suddenly fine
English
National lobby
part other
will bulletin headquarters procaiming deal
The American League has different technique the isn't quite
the the prestige The Nationals
alar anstar
would
be technique S
Evening star., 1940-12-11

in the Hoya victory, Giebel with his
defensive work and ability to take
the ball off the blackboard and Mar
tin with his shooting which kept
Georgetown in the game during the
first half.
The Hoyas hit the hoop from all
angles to start the second half. with
Kiernan and Bornheimer leading a
drive that netted Is points before
the Terrors could score again. Then
Georgetown's second team came in
and matched Western Maryland
point for point to keep the game
on ice.
The Terrors had an outstanding
shooter in Frank Suffern. In the
first half he got five shots at the
hoop and connected each time.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
BY BILL BONI,
,soriotad prees SpOrts Writer,


NEW YORK. Dec 1.-THE coun-
trys sports editors, following the
precedent they themselves estab-
lished in eight of the nine previous
Associated Press polls. today sim
eled out the Cincinnati Reds cap
ture of the National League pen
nant and the World Series as the
outstanding team performance OF
the sports year.
Each winter since 1882 the ex-
perts have awarded this honor to
the current baseball champions, bas-
ing their verdict on the reasonably
sound theory that any club which
can beat seven others over a 154-
game season and then go on to
whip the rival leagues best has
proved its worth as team in every
sense.
Double Minnesota's Score.
The Reds got 26 of 62 first place
votes, were named second by IA and
third by Is for 121 points on a
3-2-l scoring basis. Their first
place total was more than three
times that of any other team and
their point score almost double that
of the second-place Minnesota foot
ball team.
The Gophers, last week named No
I grid team of the year, were ranked
flrst by eight and got 81 points for
winning the Western Conference
championship and coming through
eight major games unscathed.
Third place went to Stanford's
Pacific Coast Conference football
champions, whose So points gave
them slim edge over Texas A. and
M. The University of Washington
crew won fifth place on the strength
of its victory in the Poughkeepsle
Regatta, the Tigers sixth for theil
surprise triumph in the American
League race, and the Chicago Bears
seventh for taking the pro football
title with that historic, 1910, licking
of the Washington Redskins.
The Redskins, incidentally, got
one third-place vote-received be II
noted, before the Bears ran riot.
Other sports contributed the New
York Rangers, whose Stanley GU
hockey victory was good for eight
points; the Ryder Cup golfers, WHIT
played a number of exhibition
matches, and the Indiana Univer'
Evening star., 1940-12-11
What Good Is Winter Meeting, Anyway?

And what the doing Going final
hours of twoday which this afternoon the
precisely nothing The American all
the clutterng big hotel lobby.
What baseball meeting? Well it's
Around
missapen felt hats pushed back their
better Is they the
has been behaving, it is merely a picnic
has been football
which with suspicion
anecdotes of how bad
Of various hotels the
Now and then nqutlve with deadne to will
when
will wounded
where could be and nobody has approached me-
Evening star., 1940-12-11

Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN
The National League Is Still in Front
By FRANCIS (. STAN
Star Stan Correspondent.

CHICAGO Dec lThese lines written before the American
League hats had made either the annual
mdWnter meeting the during theeday
ocaed league meeting Atlanta which preceded this
bunion carnival The National
everything worth printing National
What suby that
hasn't been helping itself with this customary display nid
National League rocked the
indicated
They demonstrated farsightedness.
Now is the time when there lapse The
attractions football bowl New
there m National Leguers discovered
to create of interest make trades
necessarily but trades nevertheless If
trades
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Undefeoted Quintets
Will Face Tonight

United Typewriters and Adam
Hats cagers will clash tonight at 9
o'clock in Heurich gym in game
that will have decided bearing on
the first-half championship in the
Heurich loop. Both teams are un-
defeated in four tilts this season
to lead the l2-team league.
Sunday at o'clock another i'm
portant game will feature Delaware
and Hudson cagers and Regal
Clothiers battling to remain unde-
| feated, each having played three
times without q loss.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Colorado u. to Change Grid
Tutor Third Year in Row

ably by April l, in time to supervise
spring practice.
It was reported that Russell
Murphy, assistant coach at Cornell;
Bill Hargiss, track coach and former
football mentor at Kansas, and
John Mason, Colorado Mines coach
might seek the job.
Colorado, with practically all Of the
veterans on hand from its 1889 big
seven championship team, won five
and tied one Of its nine games thi'
season and tied with Denver fol
! second place.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Bears Place Seventh as Reds
Are Chosen for Outstanding
Team Performance of 1910

sity and Phillips Oilers basket ball
teams, winners of the N. C. A. A. and
National A. A. U. titles, respectively.
Trojans Lone Exception.
Only in the first poll, in 1881, did
the experts choose a team other
than the World Series winner. Then
it was great Southern California
football team which, after losing its
opening game. won the next 10 with
356 points to its rivals 33.
But if the Reds selection carried
on one tradition, it at least brought
to an end a streak which was
threatening to become monotonous
For the last four years the New
York Yankees had been given the
No. l spot. This time they didnt t
get point.
The standing.
Evening star., 1940-12-11

Kirksviile tMo) Osteopaths. A.; Kinks
vile Teachers. Al 1.-TWO overtImesi.
Southwestern Louisiana. 80; louisiana
State, 30.
ST Johns Brooklyn so: s.. Peters. 2s
Doane, ~: Kearhey tNebr) Teach.
ers. 30.
Central IndD Normal A.: Anderson. 80
Valparaiso. 40: Huntington. 27.
Bluffton. +3; Kenyon. 33.
Bowling Green. As; Findlay, 40 lover
time).
Xavier.t 81; Centre. 25.
Friends, a.: Bethany fKans }. 30.
John Marshall, 6S Blue Ridge. -.
Stevens Point, A.: Luther. 40.
River Falls, "a: Mscalester AS
Washington tSt. LOUIS, 81. Missouri
Mines. 21
Western Illinois Teachers. 80; St
Louis. IS.
Tarkio 81. Peru (NebrA Teachers. SO.
Washington State, 81: Montana 80.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
BY the Associated Press.

BOULDER, Colo, Dec. 11-Colo-
RADIO University will have its third
football coach in three seasons in
1941.
Big Frank Potts, who succeeded
Bunny Oakes for the 1910 season
has stepped down, informing uni
versity heads he prefers to return
to his position as head track coach
and assistant in football.
President Robert l.. Stearns said
this action was voluntary.
The new coach will be named prob.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Indians Pyt|ak
Is Figured in
|3-Way Deal
Conferences Of Tribe,
: Hub and Griff Heads
Back Up Rumors
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CHICAGO, Dec. 11-Roger
Cramer was within an eyelash Of
being Washingtons new center
fielder early today, before some-
thing went wrong. but as the annual
winter meeting of the major leagues
moved into its final hours the bet
ting still was $3.50 that Bostons
crack fly chaser would wind up in
Senator uniform in 1941.
OF all the multiple deals outlined
by President Clark Griffith and
Manager Bucky Harris, this trade
with the Red Sox seemed to stand
the best chance of materializing.
AS far as any one could guess,
Cramer would come to Washington
in exchange for ranking Senator,
probably Outflelder Gerald Walker,
and Immediately upon conclusion Of
the trade the Red Sox would send
player, again probably Walker, to
Cleveland.
In exchange Cleveland was ex-
pected to send at least Catcher
Frankie Pytlak TO the Red Sox by
way of completing three-way deal
which, until the wee hours Of this
morning, appeared ready for an
nouncement.
Cleveland Hitch Is Claimed.
Harris would not comment, nor
disclose names of any players con-
sidered in the deal. Griffith, after
long day in the meeting rooms,
retired early. But frequent confer
ences among Harris, Owner Tom
YaWkev of the Red SoX, Manager
Joe Cronin Of the same outfit and
General Manager Eddie Collins Of
a certain American League club IN
New England were watched closely
and. after several trips by both par
ties to the overstuffed lobby throne
of Manager Roger Peckinpaugh OF
the Indians, a credible story was
pieced together. At least il was a
story which satisfied some desperate
newspapermen. hoping to report
something from an American League
angle.
Harris claimed that a hitch de.
veloped in the Boston-Cleveland ne
tSee BABESALL, Page abb
Evening star., 1940-12-11
College Quints

BY tfe Associated Press.
Ohio State SIS; West Virginia, ~.
Dartmouth. 54 Vermont. 81.
Kansas, As: TEXAS. Al
Kansas State ~: Washburn. 90
Texas Tech, 40; Eastern New Mexico, rs.
Baylor. A.: Stephen F. Austin, 35.
Texas Christian, AZ: N Texas State. 80.
Rice. 50: Sam Houston. 33.
St Benedict's. 81; Ottawa tKans) 10.
Illinois Tech, AZ: Grand Rapids. 81.
WaynesburR, Al; Carnegie Tech. "a.
ST. Joseph's (Phila.), So: UpSala. Is.
Dickinson, 40: Elizabe thtown. 3S.
La Sale. "a Wyomisslng Poly. Al.
Central Mich } STATE. 40: Alma. 3S.
Westminster tPa.). so; Anderson -Broa d.
duS. A.
St. Francis PaD. 80; Morris Harvey. 80.
Evening star., 1940-12-11

Three points each-Na shville Vols, base
ball; Boston College, football.
Two points each-United States Ryder
Cup team professional golf: U. of Cali
fornia, track: Bob Linney's Lyon Mountain
One point each-Bostwick Field. polo;
Washington Redskins, pro football; Texas
Tech. football; u. of Kansas, basket ball;
ball champions; st. Louis Browns. baseball:
Boston Bruins. pro hockey: U. Of Mime
sofa. A A. U. hockey champions: George
town, football; Naval Academy, rowing: q.
OF Colorado, basket ball.
One-half point-Harvard, rowing.
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Seats Go on Sale
For January's
Special Movies

Tickets for Washington's two big
movie openings this month, the
world premier Of ABE Lincoln in
Illinois" at Keith's and the presen-
tation of Gone With the Wind" at
Loew's Palace went on sale this
morning. Special box Offices we're
opened at each of the theaters to
accommodate reserved seat seekers
for the night performance of both
pictures. Each will be shown dur
ing the day on a non-reserved seat
basis.
The Lincoln finn opening, bene-
fit for the Children's Hospital fund
of the Newspaperwomen's Club, is
scheduled for the night of January
%.
As previously announced, the
Gone With the Wind local OPEN
ing will be January 26. I" connec-
ton with this picture, Loews divi-
sion manager, Carter Barron, an
nounces that under no circum-
stances will the picture De cut. It
will be exhibited here in the identi-
cal form of its Atlanta premiere.
running 3 hours and 46 minutes. In
addition, there will be a orief inter-
mission.
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Three After Three" I"
new musical with Simone Simon,
Mitzi Green and Mary Brian: $50
pm.
Earle-"The Great Victor Her.
bert" with % of his melodies: II
am, 1:35, Ais, 7:05 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 1910, 3:20, sos and
8:55 pm.
Another Thin Man. new
adventure of Nick and Nora Charles:
1905, 2::25, 4:50, ITO and 9:35 pm.
Capitol-"The Earl of Chicago"
Bob Montgomery goes sinister again:
II am. 1:45. 4:35. 7:20 and 1910
pm. Stage shows: 1875, 3:2o, 6:10
and 8:55 pm.
Keith's-"The Hunchback of Notre
Dame" melodrama with Charles
Laughton: 11:l5 am. 1:50. 4:25. 7
and 9:35 pm. March of Time:
1::3O, 4:05, $40 and 9:15 pm.
Metropolitan-"Four Wives lat
est adventure of the popular -Four
Daughters: 1920 am, 1.25, $3.50,
$50, 7:45 and 9:40 pm.
Columbia - "Ninotchka," Carlo
goes gay in Paris: 1885 am, 2:15,
4:40, ITO and $40 pm.
Little-"My Man Godfrey that
daft and deft comedy with Carole
Lombard and William Powell: II
am, 1:20, 1928, 5:35, 7::35 and 9:45
pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts.
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Broadway Actor
Si6ns for Films

Frank Swami, jr, handsome and
talented young Broadway actor, has
finally succumbed to the lure Of Hol-
lywood.
The player, signed to long-term
contract in the East by goth Gen.
tury-Fox, arrived In Hollywood by
plane to begin tests for q major role
in one of the studios most important
forthcoming features.
Three other offers from as many
major studios had been rejected by
Swami before he accepted the tempt
ing contract laid before him by East
ern representatives of Goth Century
Fox at the insistence of Daryl r
Zanuck. studio production chief.
Evening star., 1940-01-08

staging OuT 1OWH CTlQdy anu
Saturday nights at Fellowship Hall
of Western Presbyterian Church.
The Thornton Wilder play about life
in New England small town is the
first major production of the season
by the G. w. U. group. Previous
efforts of this fall and winter have
been two groups of one-act plays.
The stage manager. the chap who
sets the stage and acts as narrator
for the scenery-less Our Town" ="
will be played in the Cue and Cur
tain production by Ernest Paine.
The two young people who provide
the romantic interest will be Nancy
Morgan and Clinton Braine and
others in the cast will be Eugene
Lerner, Marjorie Beall. Keith Adam
son, Betty Green, Shirley Cox, Sue
Preston, William Zeller. Alexander
Baisden, Frank Miller Ward
McCabe and William Darnell Floyd
Sparks is directing Our Town
Civic Theater Director Day Tuttle
has discovered one way of crowding
in a little more rehearsal time and
at the same time giving his players
the feel of an audience Saturday
they the players, if We are again
exiling pronouns from their antece-
dents) went through one of the
most mysterious scenes of their mys-
terious next play, Edgar Wallace S
Criminal at Large" at luncheon
meeting of the Harvard Club. That
was the fourth performance of the
week. others being before the OPP
timist Club, the American Business
Club and the Reciprocity Club.
These scenes. along with all the
others in Criminal at Large will
be unveiled next Sunday night at
the Wardman Park Theater, when
the play begins its one-week run.
This week also brings the Falls
Church Community Theater tof
Falls Church, Va with its second
major production of the season. The
groups second production is some
thing of a double bill, the program,
instead of one full-length play. in
cluding Barrie's The Old Lady
Shows Her Medals" and Downs
Maker of Dreams" musical fan
tasy. Date: Friday; time: 8 pm;
place: Madison School auditorium,
in Falls Church.
THE Old Lady Shows Her Med
ais" directed by j. o. Martin, will
Evening star., 1940-01-08

of a nearby dressing room, q yawn-
ing, stretching figure appeared.
Actor Claude Rains, rubbing his
eyes after a snatched 40 winks,"
strolled YEARLY toward the illumi-
mated patch of interior.
On his way to work, Rains passed
a man of almost his identical height
and build. He grinned and slapped
the fellows back cheerfully. The
man was his stand-in-Eric Petit.
Like scores of obscure figures be-
hind the scenes of movie making,
Petit draws a weekly wage of ap-
proximately $40 for taking the mis-
cry out of a stars working day. The
misery represents hours of tedious
posing under hot lights, along
chalked lines, shifting an inch this
way or that way, at the command Of
a cameraman arranging the newest
setup.
But Petit turned out to be no or
binary stand-in. He's actually a
stand-out among stand-ins. He's the
pioneer of Hollywood's star-stoog-
ing brigade-in point Of service, the
colony's oldest stand-in. Petit is al
most a dead ringer for the former
star, Richard Barthelmess-in fact,
that resemblance. which still fools
many, got him his first Job as stars
buffer.
Il was with Dick Barthelmess II
years." said Petit. During all the
time he was a big star, acted as his
standin. l guess I was just about the
first stand-in the movies ever had
Petit is short and stocky like
Barthelmess, cocks his head slightly
to one side as he talks, and in many
other little ways and manners re.
minds one Of the star whose per-
formances in Broken Blossoms"
and "Tol'able David" will never be
forgotten }
You see, a stand-in gets that way
after working so long with one &C
tor" Petit explained. Unconscious
ly, found myself trying to talk and
act like Barthelmess. I think every
stand-in who works any length of
time with star absorbs plenty Of
his appearance and personality"
Petit named several veteran
stand-ins who not only resemble
their employers physically but act
like them as we'll.
There's Bill Hoover, who works
for Edward Arnold" continued Pet
tit. You never saw two men more
alike in your whole life. Why they
have to pin carnation on Bill
every day so the director and crew
won't get 'em mixed up. Bill has q
deep voice like Arnold's, walks with
the same swinging gait and I've
noticed they even eat the same sort
of fare"
Other outstanding star stand-in
doubles in both looks and manner
isms, according to Petit, are Will
liam Powell and Doc Dearborn and
Warner Baxter and Frank McGrath.
AS far as can be ascertained the
stand-in business was inaugurated
some 20 years ago at the old First
National studio. Barthelmess re-
ported Ill one morning and asked
to be relieved as much as possible
from the wearisome preliminary
tasks that all stars were then
obliged to shoulder. The director
spotted young Petit, a messenger
boy who had been subjected to much
kidding because Of his striking re-
semblance to Barthelmess. He an
nounced the young fellow would do
stand-around relief work for the
star that day. And he's been at it.
in behalf of one star or another,
ever since.
Il think that first day standing
in for Barthelmess was the most
thrilling of my life," said Petit. Il
felt then that nothing could, stop
me from becoming a great star.
Evening star., 1940-01-08

result of careful reading, but she has
stage job now, not to mention Q
definite contract, and she is trying
to make success of 1t.
In that connection, she feels, she
is having an easier time pleasing
audiences than critics, and she is
learning to be philosophical.
If have a bad day thinking
about myself" she says, 'it's always
Tuesday. That, of course, is the day
I read the notices. But, maybe II I
keep on, Tuesday will be better"
Miss Simon's elfln face takes on
no grave look of distress when she
speaks of her Tuesday filters, with
neither an excess nor a deficiency OF
humility, and somehow it proves to
be very engaging quality in her.
So is her friendliness when, say
ing gOOd-by. she adds:
Come back after the show to-
morrow night and say hello, even
If you don't want to say anything
else"
Evening star., 1940-01-08

be played by Mrs j. H. Chambliss,
Mrs. j. N. Proctor. Mrs. Grover Hill,
Mrs Richard Sutton. Comdr. Ed
ward c. Forsyth and James E.
Martin.
The cast of Maker of Dreams"
includes Emily Freeman, Stephen
Gray and Ralph Staebner and Mrs
Alex Nordholm is the director.
The ST Paul's Players have Sc
lected Dark Victory" that story
Bette Davis also liked, as their ini-
tial venture in 194O They will stage
the play January is. II and 18 at St.
Paul's Auditorium. 1921 v street NV.
under the direction of Arthur S.
Harvey, jr. The cast includes Ber-
nadette Norris. Gene Nichols, jr.;
Austin Carlin, Eleanor Boylan, Dor
othy Stillwell, Jack Connen. Mar
garet LIE For, Martha T. J. Allison.
Augustine Bresnahan, Mercedes B.
Rock, Ralph Carrello, Louise Hell
frich, E. Meredith Norris and George
Hall
4
Mary Olive O'Connell, who is di-
recting outward Bound" third
Blackfriars' Guild production of the
season, has completed her cast, now
has It's members laboring toward ac-
complished performances and the
end of the month. hoping they will
reach both simultaneously The
players will be Nell Fleming. Albert
Sigafroose, J. Loren Freund, Dor
othy ODonnell, Gertrude Heagney,
Julien Zier. Paul A. Newlord. Raw
ley C. Donohue and Sidney Bossler
Miss O'Connell has directed many
local productions. She is graduate
of Georgetown Visitation Convent,
Trinity College and in 1898 received
her M. A. at the Blackfriar Institute
of Dramatic Arts at Catholic Univer-
sity, where she now is teacher
The Blackfriar outward Bound
will have three-day run. opening
January 80 at St. Paul's Auditorium
Students of Rose Robson Cohen s
Children's Drama Studios will pre-
sent program including Shake
spearean scenes and an original play
at the Chevy Chase Women's Club
Friday evening" The play is Miss
Lollypop's Party" written for the
children by Leona Patterson Tller,
with incidental music by Alinda Cou-
per.
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Cast of Our Town
Starts to Grow

The signing Of three Of Holly.
woods leading character actors By
Sol Lesser for roles in Our Town"
is the first step in the actual produce
ton Of the Pulitzer Prize play by
Thornton Wilder. Further casting
announcements will be made next
week. Fay BANTER and Gene Lock
hart will be seen as DR.. and Mrs.
Gibbs, and Beulah Bondi has been
engaged for the role Of Mrs. Webb.
They join Frank Craven, who viii
be seen and heard as the narrator,
the role he created in the original
Broadway stage production. .
Evening star., 1940-01-08

Lawrence Grossmith, veteran
character actor, and Charlie Rug
giles, Paramount comic, met for the
first time in "a years recently, when
they were cast together in Opened
by Mistake" at that studio. The two
worked together in a Broadway pro-
duction in 1916.
Evening star., 1940-01-08

Seven former stars o( stage and
screen are at work in Paramount's
Women. without Names" which
features Ellen Drew, Judith Barrett
and Robert Paige. They are Alice
Lake, Mae Busch. Fritd Brunette,
Vera steadman. Eva Novak, Helen
Lynch and Esther Howard.
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Nazi Naval Tactics
Give a New Word
To Film Makers
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
The fate of the Graf Spec and
the Columbus has added asnew
word to Hollywood's workaday slang
vocabulary.
Usually, when a sets usefulness is
ended and it can be dismantled, the
order is:
Wrap it up!"
But when a director killed" set
at goth Century-Fox the other day
he barked:
"Scuttle it,"
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Role for Polly

Ann Rutherford, popular sweet
heart Of the Hardy Family series,
Is to leave the role Of Polly Bene-
dict temporarily to play the leading
role In "Hooray I'm Alive" soon to
be made at M-G-M with Frank
Morgan in the featured role. The
picture will be directed by William
Thiele, Albert Levoy is the producer.
The story is an original by Harry
Ruskin and Richard Maibaum did
the adaptation.