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Evening star., 1940-03-14
Hard Tennis Season
Is Faced by Team
At American u.
Schedule of 18 Matches
includes Georgetown,
Cornell Colgate

Eighteen matches, constituting
the toughest assignment ever hand
ed an American University tennis
team, make up the Eagles 1910
schedule released by DR.. William
Holton, team coach. Cornell, Col
gate and Georgetown are on the list.
The three top-ranking members Of
last years squad, Bud Fausold,
Ernie Webb and Harold Landsman,
head sizeable group Of racketers
trying for berths on the team. The
outstanding candidates at this writ
ing are Bart Reese, Latimer Evans,
Bill James, Les Boykin, Dick Bond,
Bill McMillen, Charley Mayer and
Bob Mcdonald.
Howard Hudson and Peter Stink
were the only members of the '39
team lost by graduation. Last years
record was II victories in is matches.
Stink, incidentally, lost only three
singles matches throughout the en-
tire season.
March 2s. at catawba: 90. at Elon: 80,
April /. Cornell; 8, Colgate: 8. at George
town: IL. Richmond; '12, ". State Teach
sTs; 1s' Johns Hopkins; 1ps 20 at Randolph
Eon: 8, Wake Forest: IL. Randolph
Macon; 13. GEORGETOWN: Is, GEORGETOWN.
Evening star., 1940-03-14

shooting and ball-handling. Ernie
McDermon, the Newport News selec-
ton, placed at guard, was the player
who ran wild against G. w. to score
13 points and all but upset the
Presidents chances of making the
finals.
G. w, also placed two men on the
second team, as did Newport News,
Glass getting the fifth berth. Gift
is the center and John Shelton one
of the guards. Newport News Steve
Sokol, selected second team captain
is placed at one of the forwards
along with Glass Jay Evans, while
Buddy Seward of Newport News is
the other guard.
Jack Tulloch, sports editor of the
Alexandria Gazette; Bill Smith, also
of the Gazette; Bill Garner, a men,
ber of the Approved Board of Basket
Ball officials, and Jack Swank of
The Star made the selections.
Evening star., 1940-03-14

Two sophomores have been rum
ming in regular backfield posi-
tions in Alabamas s spring drills.
Dave Brown, 180, at right half,
and Don Sails, Its, at quarter
back, look good bets for regular
varsity assignments in a quartet
which will have two juniors, Paul
Spencer and Jimmy Nelson, there
with them.
Jack McAfee, brother of Dukes
star gridder, Wesley McAfee, is
q candidate for the william and
Mary eleven.
George Glamack's home town
folks at Johnstown CPa.) are all
set to give the North Carolina
basket ball star . big celebration
when he returns home for spring
vacation.
Great Falls Is. c. is putting
on a big banquet March % for
Banks McFadden, the all-America
gridder and basket ball star at
Clemson.
Says zipp Newman (Birming-
ham News: Pew are putting
Mississippi in a class with Tulane,
Tennessee and Georgia Tech, but
don't be surprised if Harry
Mehre's Rebels finish among the
first four in football next fall. He
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Dorothy Poget's KiIstor
Whips Aintree Rivals

CHELTENHAM, England, March
14.-Dorothy Paget's Kilstar, third
in last years Grand National and
current co-favorite for this years
race at Aintree April S, turned in q
handsome victory yesterday in win
ming the 3-mile National Hun,
Steeplechase from a field of 10 that
included eight Grand National can
didates.
The French-bred Takvor Pacha
was 10 lengths back.
Shandwick Place, not entered in
the Grand National, was third by
two lengths.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Three CUNTS Selected
For College Event
BY the Associated Press,


INDIANAPOLIS, March a.
Three basket ball teams have been
picked to play in Eastern elimina-
tions of the annual National Cole
giate Athletic Association tourna-
ment here March % and %.
The winner will meet the western
champion for the national title in
Kansas City March 30.
Springfield OMass) College has
accepted an invitation to partici-
pate.
Already chosen were Indiana and
Western Kentucky State Teachers
The fourth contender-to repre-
sent Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Maryland and the Carolinas-stil.
is to be named.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Pitching Staff Only
Uncertainty for
Virginia Nine
Veterans Who Can Swut
And Field Available
For All Other Jobs

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, March
IA R.-A good hitting and fielding
team. with possible pitching weak
ness, is the outlook for Virginia s
2l-game Baseball campaign, opening
March 26, against Maryland.
Ten lettermen are available for
the cavaliers who won IA of last
Years 20-game slate.
Absence of a standout pitcher is
the only concern of Coach Gus
Tebell. Joe Pinder, the No. / pitcher
of last year, departed with the grad
uating class and were no notable
additions from the freshman.
Walter Smith, senior, credited
with five wins and no defeats last
year: Frank Nichols, senior; John
Wiley, junior, and Bill Terry, out
of school last year, are the leading
slab aspirants.
Recovered from his basket ball
injury, Bill Harman will be back at
the catching job he handled last
year, along with three regular in
f1elders, Jim. Gillette, first; Billy
McCann, second, and Luke Gosney
short.
Prospective replacement for Jim
my Sergeant, last years captain
and leading hitter, at third, is
Charles Walsh, sophomore.
Bill Roughen, sophomore, looms
as a hard-hitting addition to the
outfleld, which retains three letter.
men in Jimmy Dodson, Justin Burnes
and Sam Marshall.
The schedule:
March 20. Maryland; %. Haverford.
April !. Dartmouth; 2, Vermont 8
Dartmouth: :. Pittsbursh; s, Y; NJ l. .,
Michigan; 13. Washington and Lee at Lex.
inston; IS. Virginia Tech at Blacksburg;
10, Richmond: %, Virginia Tech; a5
North North CaEolina; q. v. NJ. l.: 80. Rich
May 2, William and Mary at Williams.
burg; 4. North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 8
WASHINGTON and Lee; 10, Maryland at Col
leRe Park; IL. Navy at Annapolis
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Brooklyn Enthusiastic
BY the Associated Press.

LAKELAND, Fla, March 1.-THE
Brooklyn Dodgers, who have had
some luck with castoffs, are enthusi-
astic over Tex Carleton, the veteran
pitcher whom they claimed from
the minors.
He hald the Yanks to one scratch
hit yesterday and famed six In three
innings.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Exhibition Games

BY the Associated Press.
At Brsdenton. Fla. Detroit (A). 8;
.sSs y Mi;%i ssI.ss:: Ss:sA; 3rJ ,,. Phn'dslDhi.
(A), 6; BROOKLYN (NO, 2.
At Nv Winter Ter. HayeSn' iNS Fla Boston tAo'
At Tampa. Fla. Cincinnati (N). 2;
o. At ANA Hnsheim. Calf, HOLLYWOOD Up. CO.,
&: Philadelphia (AD, 2.
TodAy's Schedule.
At st. Petersburg, New York (A) VS..
Cincinnati M.
At Bradenton. Boston (N) vs.. st.
At Lakeland. Fla. Detroit (A) VI.
Brooklyn (N).
AT Los ANGELES. chicsso No VI.
At San Bernadino, Cslif., Pittsburgh
(ND VS.. Philadelphia (AD.
At West Palm Beach. Fla, Philadel.
phia (N) VS.. Rochester 0O.
AT Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Cleveland
(A) VS.. Syracuse U0.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Brewers, Loop Game
Losers, Have Trio
OF Exhibitions

AUBURN, N. Y, March a.
Washington's Heurich Brewers were
to launch a three-game barnstorm-
ing tour here tonight before con-
tinuing to Chicago, where they will
compete in the worlds professional
basket ball tournament starting
Sunday night.
The Brewers will play here to-
Evening star., 1940-03-14
FIexibiIity as Player Aid
To Dykes as MANAGER.

BY that time Connie Mack had
his infleld set, and Dykes settled
down at third base, where he re-
mained for the balance of his stay
in Philadelphia. -Four years later,
in Chicago, Jimmy was on the move
again third base, second base,
shortstop.
His f1exibility has been a big help
to him as q manager. Any time
one Of his infielders begged down
and so disrupted the play of the
others he has been able to step into
the breach, pull the infield to-
gether and give the player whose
work had fallen off q chance to
rest.
He also has done a fine Job as
manager, OF course. For the most
part he hasn't had very good ma
terial with which to work, but he
has worked as well with it as any,
body possibly could, and the rival
managers know him as a fighter not
easily overcome in any circum-
stances.
This year the Sox do not look
very good, at least on paper. But
with Dykes to hustle them along.
plus the possibility that some of
the recruits will come through, they
NAV spring some surprises on the
long haul from April to October.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
FIuqsteud Dies at 46

OLYMPIA, Wash, March IA R.-
Ira Flagstead, 46, former major
league baseball player, died at his
home yesterday. He had been Ill
since August.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
college Coaches Wrest With Variety Of Problems Spring Games Near

nlgnt, shift to ,Watertown, N. Y, for
another appearance tomorrow night,
and will play at Syracuse Saturday
night. .,sggr
Chick Reiser, high-scoring guard,
led the Troy CeltiCs to q 44-32 VIZ
tory over the Brewers last night at
Troy in an American Basket Bail
League championship playof series
game. Whitley Wilson and More
Oubilier, with IL and 10 points, re-
Spectively, sparked the Brewers.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Piker to Lead Wildcats

EVANSTON, ILL.,, March IA R.-
Myron Piker, Junior, has been elect
ed captain Of the Northwestern
track team.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Grid Power Appears Plentiful at W. & M.
Bomo Bob Up With Fine Soph Backs; Ole Miss Held Strong

has plenty Of fine material and
the boys are working like
Troians,"
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Being Moved About Never
Bothered Jimmy DYKES,

Part Of the answer, of course, Is
TO be found in the general setup of
the Sox roster. The regular infield-
ers are wearing down, none Of the
youngsters has had any major league
experience at all and, through q
long, hot summer there may be
many day when Jimmy will be
needed.
Jimmy Webb, obtained from
Cleveland. is the baby of the in
field-at %. Eric McNair is 80, Luke
Appling, 81, and Minter Hayes and
Joe Kuhel each nearing "a.
Dykes, like Lyons, is a remark
able player. Most inf1elders, shunt-
ed about from one post to another,
either cannot accommodate them
selves to the shifts because of sheer
mechanical difficulties or lose their
enthusiasm and, with it, much of
their skill. But being moved about
never bothered Dykes.
At his best at third base, he could
do good job at shortstop or second
base or, in pinch, at first base
With the Athletics he roamed the
infield, playing every position at one
time or another as the AS made
the climb that finally took them
past the Yankees to the American
League pennant and the world
championship. In 1929, the year
they won the first of three success
sive pennants, he played second
base, shortstop and third base-and
hit .327.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Lyons Needed No Sore Wing
To Moke Him Use Heed.

This could be the answer to Lyons
latter day effectiveness-but I hap
pen to know it isn't. Ted was a
smart pitcher right from the start.
He swung into the major leagues
from Baylor University and never
had to 60 to the minors for train
ing. He had plenty of stuff and he
knew what, to do with it. OF course
he is smarter pitcher today than
he was then. But he didn't have
to crack his arm before he started
to think.
There must be something invigor-
ating in the atmosphere of Comis-
key Park. The only one on the Sox
roster older than Lyons is Jimmy
Dykes, who is heading up for 43-
and has put himself down as an
active player again.
Jimmy stuck to the bench and the
coaching lines last year, and it must
have made him restless. At AZ, when
most inflelders are moving toward
the shadows - if, indeed, they
haven't been in the shadows for
five or six years-he is moving into
the sun again.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
The
SP0RTLIGHT
Another Big Campaign
Seen for Ted Lyons
BY GRANTLAND RICE,

Special Correspondent Of The Star.
MIAMI BEACH, March II (N.A.
N.A).-Ted Lyons is limbering up
for another season. Here, in case
you haven't noticed it, is one of the
most remarkable pitchers baseball
has known-now or at any other
time.
Ted is rolling on to 40-he will
reach it next December-and has
been pitching in the American
League since 1923. Some years back
he came up with lame arm and
couldn't pitch atall. After that. for
q while, he was once-a-week start
er, usually on Sundays.
Now he is the best pitcher the
Sox have. Lsst year he won IA
games and loft 6, hanging up bet
ter record than Johnny Rigney,
Thornton Lee, Edgar Smith or any
Of the younger pitchers could
achieve. Enemy hitterS told me,
during the 1899 campaign, that Ted
looked better than he had for years
-hitters who were swinging against
him when he was at his peak.
Ball players particularly older
pitchers who have been through the
mill-say that pitcher has to have
q sore arm before he can become q
real pitcher. The idea Is that as
long as pitchers arm doesn't both
er him, he can pitch without think
ing, and as long as he is doing that
he is thrower and not a pitcher.
When his arm troubles him, he has
to stop and think-to concentrate on
the hitters' weaknesses and so save
his arm as much as possible as he
moves through the innings.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
LABOR AND DEMOCRACY

The American Federation of Labor
has helped to make democracy work
in America by practicing it as well as
preaching it. We have helped to
make democracy secure by fighting
social and economic injustice and OBJ
tanning the enactment of great body
of social legislation. In these days,
when the forces of hatred, oppression
and dictatorship have engulfed most
of Europe and are making threaten
ing gestures toward America, we of
the American Federation of Labor
stand stalwartly in support of our
ready to work, sacrifice
and fight, if necessary, in defense of
the American way of life.-William
Green.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29

Managers Association reports. In
view of the appalling loss from fires
every year, this is cheering news.
The Cleveland fire department in
spected $4,000 homes in an intensive
campaign during the past nine months,
and co-operated with the school sys-
tenn in giving a course in fire preven-
tion to all high school students within
the city
Cincinnati, conducting special cam
paign to eliminate the overlooking of
electrical circuits, got 10000 fuses of
25 and 80 ampere capacity replaced
by Is ampere fuses.
The Houston, Tex, fire department
is sponsoring two educational radio
programs each month over local sta
ton. Miami and Tallahassee, Fla,
have recently adopted ordinances set
ting up fire prevention bureaus.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
COUNCIL OUTLINES
Continued from page one)
AFL Seen Holding
Inside Track

In the whole sphere of relation to
government, leaders here feel (and
this includes some that weren't too
strong for Roosevelt) that now the
A. F. of L. has the inside track in
Washington. That means, as they see
it, more appointments to important
boards, commissions, administrations
ETC., and more consultation in formu-
lation of policies.
1t is convention that feels itself
strong, riding high tide, able to take
care Of itself; not worried much about
the CIO; worried, more sub-con-
sciously than consciously, about the
wars in Europe and Asia. That war
issue may come little more omi-
nously into the picture before the last
gavel bangs down on adjournment
sine die.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
Sites For Training School

Three sites for the erection in Ham
ilton of a vocational training school
plant as a National Youth Admins
tration project are being considered
by committee named through the
Chamber of Commerce to work out
preliminary details of the plan, R. Cal
vin Skillman, Hamilton, chairman,
said Tuesday.
The sites are:
General Machinery Company prop
erty at North Fifth Street and Ford
Boulevard
John A. Schwalm property along
Erie Boulevard in the rear of Buch-
anan School.
Webster tract at Second Street and
Pershing Avenue.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
Slight Increases In
Relief Are Reported

Slight increases in the direct relief
case loads of Hamilton, Middletown,
and the townships were recorded in
the weekly report of Miss Isabel
Beardsley, commissioner of the Ham
ilton Department of Public Assist
ance, issued Monday. The total num-
Der of cases in the county for the week
ending November 81 as compared to
the previous week, November Ia, was
629, an increase of 10.
Recapitulation shows Middletown
had an increase Of six cases over the
previously reported 237, total of 243.
Hamilton reported 224 cases, an in
crease of three. The townships had
an increase of one, raising their total
now to 1862.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1910.
FIRM STAND is IMPERATIVE

Attacks on the 40-hour week con-
tinue. Some spokesman of big busi-
ness think they see chance to break
down the 40-hour standard by spread
ing the erroneous idea that the de-
Tense program requires lengthening
of hours. There is no indication that
they are getting anywhere but the
friends of the 40-hour week, which
includes the vast majority of Ameri-
cans, must be on the alert, as the
American Federation of Labor Exec
utive Council pointed out in its report
to the New Orleans convention.
Only constant vigilance and united
action on the part of labor can prevent
the "pernicious drive of reactionary
employers" for longer hours, the coun-
Gil emphasized. 1t went on to say:
"We must keep the facts before the
public. We must insist on maintain
ing the 40-hour week because it makes
for greater production. 1t has taken
IA years of persistent effort, since we
made our first declaration for the
5-day, 40-hour week in 1926, to win
this standard for the United States.
We cannot now relax our efforts and
see our gains for human conservation
swept away.
THE 4O-hour week standard is one
of the strongest bulwarks of Ameri-
can defense. Countries which have
heightened hours to increase arm
ament production have found that
longer hours defeat the very purpose
they are intended to accomplish. In
creasing accidents, poor quality of
work, and decrease production are the
result of lengthening the work week"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
SEEK APPROVAL ON
PROPOSED HIGHWAY

Further steps toward the proposed
construction of super highway along
the route of the old Miami Erie Canal
were taken this week at conference
of Hamilton and Middletown civic and
business leaders with State Highway
Department officials in Dayton.
C. L. Hardin, secretary of Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce, who attended
the meeting, said Robert Fisher, State
Highway Department engineer for
Districts z and 8, informed the dele
cation that his department was wait
ing for advice from the federal gov
ernment as to whether the proposed
route might be included as military
road in the national defense program"
'AThe proposal" Hardin said, zap
pears to be viewed with favor by State
Highway Department officials, but the
project requires action of the federal
government from a financing stand
point"
Hardin indicated that ultimate ap-
proval of the plan was likely. The
proposal has been presented to fed
eral authorities by William Howe, sec
retary of the Butler County Automo-
bile Club, and Murray Urmston, rep
resentative of Butler County rural or
ganizations.
Attending the conference were:
Hardin, Howe, Urmston, Mark Welli-
yer, and Ralph Asbury, Hamilton; H.
H. Waller, managing director of Mid
dletown Civic Association, and Paul
C. Ackerman, secretary of the Dayton
Automobile Club.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
Eagles Activities

The Hamilton lodge of Eagles will
give a fish fry Friday night for all
members and their families.
On Tuesday, December 3, another
membership supper will be served and
efforts will be made for another large
membership drive.
On Sunday, December Is, the initia-
tion will be held, and the Norwood
degree and drill teams will be present.
There will be lunch and entertainment
for the ladies in the afternoon.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
Mop Parking" Rule
For N. Third Street

Traffic congestion on North Third
Street where the thoroughfare runs
between shops of the General Machin-
cry Corporation was alleviated this
week with the installation of mo park
ing" signs by the company. The signs
were supplied by the city of Hamilton.
Workmen are parking automobiles
now in company lots in the neighbor-
hood.
Last week company employees petit
toned city council for action to clear
up the congestion, citing an accident
in which a pedestrian was injured.
City and company officials are CO.
operating to iron out the condition.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

An object lesson of what happens
to organized labor under government
tending to totalitarianism is being
given in France, where the Nazi-dom-
mated Petain government has just
abolished labor unions, employer or
ganizations and the steel and coal
trusts. Marshal Petain's action is
something for unionists and employ
ers in America to think about.
Marshal Petain called his decree
abolishing the various organizations
coordination by the government of
private interests" breaking the
forces of the trusts and their power
of corruption" and freeing individual
liberty of its shackles by subordinat-
ing it to the national interest"
The Confederation Generate du Ira
vail, Frances principal labor organ
ization and the employers association
were accused of entering into politics.
Properties of labor and employer or
ganizations will be temporarily man.
aged by the government.
Translate the Petain action into
terms of American unions and cor
porations and draw your own conclu-
sions. 1t may or may not agree with
a body of opinion in the United States
that holds organized labor and organ
lied industry are inextricably in
volved as part of our democratic sys-
tenn and national economy and that
they must find way of working out
their problems together in order to
avoid the fruits in the United States
of the European totalitarian systems
Previous to announcement of Pc
tain's ban on the unions, nothing had
come from France about the French
labor movement, in the months since
the surrender to the Nazis. The bull
letin of the International Transport
Workers Federation explains the 81
lence by saying that the German au-
thorities and puppets of Vichy were
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
WISDOM

Charity is universal duty, which
it is in every mans power sometimes
to practice; since every degree of as
sistance given to another, upon proper
motives, is an act of charity; and
there is scarcely any man in such a
state that he may not, on some
occasions, benefit his neighbor.-Dr
Samuel Johnson.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29

anxious to suppress the truth, which
is embarrassing to them"
The bulletin goes on to report that
the French workers have refused to
support the Petain regime, and have
stood firmly against the Nazis. 1t
says:
'The Nazi-backed Petain govern
ment provided itself with show horse
in Rene Belin (next to Jouhaux, the
most outstanding personality of the
French labor movement). After the
surrender, Belin made common cause
with the Vichy government and placed
himself in their service as Minister of
Labor. 1t was though to show by
this that the French workers had
changed their opinions.
Information now available shows
that the principal leaders of the
French trade unions have turned
against Belin. In the first half of
August a meeting took place in Tou-
louise of representatives of fifty of the
unions affiliated to the C. G. T. This
meeting very distinctly dissociated it.
self from Belin.
"Since his entry into the authori-
tartan government, Belin has sought
to persuade the trade unions to CO.
operate with the Petain authorities,
but met with blunt refusal from the
great majority of the movement. At
Toulouse, far from declaring them
selves prepared to cooperate, the
trade unions sharply condemned as
weaklings those who in the confusion
of the national disaster has answered
The call of the turncoat who has ac-
cepted Office as Minister, and who was
unanimously ignored by the meeting.
''The Toulouse meeting confirmed
that Belin does not represent the or
ganized workers of France, who de-
sire freedom, in spite of Hitler, Mus
solini and Petain, and in spite of
Belin."