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Evening star., 1940-03-29
fine Array Of Scholastic Track Talent Sight for Maryland Field Day
Sports Program
ForLocuI Fans

TODAY.
Baseball.
Washington VS.. New York
Giants, Orlando, Fla.
Tennis.
American University vs.. Elon,
N. G.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
Washington VS.. Boston Bees,
Bradenton, Fla.
Maryland VS.. Dartmouth, Col
leee Park, 2:30.
Tennis.
American University VS.. v. M.
l., Lexington, Va.
Table Tennis.
District championships, Heur-
ich gym, 2.
Hunt Meet.
Piedmont point-to-point, Up
perville, Va, 200.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
20 Years AGO
In The Star

An unusual double-header, the
Griffs VS.. Brooklyn and the New
York Yanks VS.. the Cincinnati
Reds, will be played at Jackson
vile, Fla, today. Never before
have 50 many stars from both
leagues met on the same dia-
mond.
An Evening Star nine, COM
posed of such stars as Curley
Byrd, Walter McCallum, Mike
Lipscomb, Newbold Noyes. G.
Adams Howard, Kirk Miller,
Ted" Noyes, Jim Chinn, J. Rus
sell Young and Bill Hotel, has
issued a challenge to other news
paper teams here.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
Heuer, Burnwe|I Shoot
Standards to Title

Spectacular shooting by Heuer and
Barnwell. each of whom scored 18
points. paced Bureau of Standards
tossers to $3.50 victory over Farm
Credit and the Conveniently. M.
c. A. Basket Ball League Champion
ship. Brockman led Farm Credit
with II points.
Patent Office snatched third place
by trimming Social Security, 1923.
in the consolation preliminary.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
More Than 500 Likely
To Vie in Annual
Games May a
Flow Of Entries to Sturt
Soon; 6. W. May Have
Surprise Ball Team
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

Almost any day now the postman
will ring twice, knock five or six
times and begin heaving bulging
mail sacks into Geary Eppleys Office
on the University of Maryland cam
pus. Nice, big sacks. too, stuffed
with envelopes postmarked from
Virginia and the District. as we'll as
Maryland and other points. contain
ing hundreds Of schoolboy signatures
and multitude of queries such as.
Can Willie run in the dashes and
on the mile relay team?"
Athletic Director Eppley will be
reaping the harvest of letter writ
ing spree of several days ago which
saw him dispatch invitations to
scholastic trackmen in this area for
Maryland's 9th annual field day.
The event is scheduled May at
College Park and, if past events are
a criterion. there won't be enough
room in the stadium for an idle
thought when the youngsters take
over
Great Field for Scouts.
It's a most important meet for
several good reasons. Old Line au-
thorities figure they owe it to school,
boys of the State represented by the
university, and it also affords Eppley
an opportunity to see prospective
timber for future Maryland teams.
1t lures number of rival coaches.
too, but 1t serves the purpose.
Last year more than 600 young
sters trampled the grass, churned
the cinders and raised the very Ned
at Eppleys invitation, and this year
he expects fully as many. Washing
ton and Lee. led by its sensational
all-around athlete, Wally Legg. cap
tured top honors last year, but, If
reports from the provinces are reli-
able, will have heck of a time re-
tanning its laurels.
Just how the affair will shape up
Epply couldn't say, aside from the
fact he expects to be as busy as
usual But when the mail truck
barges up to his door he'll be in a
better position to size up the situa-
ton.
HOya Star Is Ailing.
Dave Wiley, crack end on last
years freshman eleven at George
town. will miss spring practice
which gets under way Monday at
the Hilltop. Dave is recuperating
from an operation which will keep
him idle until autumn. Another all
ing Hilltopper, Mike Connolly, was
we'll enough to get out for the OPEN
ing ball game after siege of grippe.
Winnie D'Angelo, one-time George
Washington pitcher who now pre-
sides over the Students Club at the
university. thinks Diamond Coach
Ed Morris has an ace or two up
his sleeve for the right spot this
season. D'Angelo may be right. For
chap who expects to win the
minimum of games, Morris certainly
is cheerful about it.
Tom Nolan. who played for
Georgetown and now is with the
A. A. U. championship Delaware and
Hudson quintet, SAYS Bob Custer
must yield the palm to "Dopey'
Dean as the greatest high school
basket ball player developed in
Washington. To which Pete Haley
adds a fervent amen Dean pre-
ceded Custer at Eastern and later
studied at Georgetown until he left
school to accept a Government po-
sition.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
Terp RifIemen in Tune
For Sectional Test

Maryland rif1emen should be in
fine fettle for tomorrows sectional
tests in the annual intercollegiate
championship if yesterdays victory
over Virginia Tech is a criterion
The Terps won, 1857 to 1893, for
their tenth victory in l3 starts.
SEVERN Laughead, Maryland's No.
l shooter. topped the individual
scorers with 285 points, including q
perfect prone score.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
Petworths Need Players

PetWorth A. c. diamonders need
left-hand first baseman and two
pitchers Aspirants should call Ran
dolph 5026 after o'clock.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
Rod and Stream
BY GEORGE HUBER.
March DO ll1l

While
tackle dreaming
translated gadgs.
catch dollar
yourself S
designed fly fishermen
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Seattle Gets Schuster

LOS ANGELES, March % ;P.-
Purchase from the Boston Bees of
Shortstop Bill Schuster has been
announced by Seattle.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
No Spot for Poffenberxer.

Bill Flester. president of the In
dustrial League, reports that a
number of boys from the three COL
leges sponsoring the game in this
area will be in the circuit this sum-
mer. Boots Poffenberger. eccen-
trio hurler first with Detroit, later
Brooklyn and now Nashville. tried
to Wangle position out of local
firm to play in the league He
talked the matter over with Flester.
American University officials are
bending every effort toward obtain
ing fellowship at a large Eastern
university for George Brown,
greatest all-around star in the
schools history, who receives his
diploma in June. George also rates
as one of the highest ranking STU
dents to matriculate at the insti-
tuition.
Shorty" Chumbris, Bill Bryant
and Waverly Wheeler are former
Maryland diamond stars who
showed off for minor league train
ing camps. "Knocky" Thomas. an
other Terp alumnus, still is unde-
cided about his future. although he
has an attractive offer. Chumbris.
headed for Greensboro in the
Coastal Plains League. reputedly be-
longs to Detroit. Bryant is with
Portsmouth in the Piedmont
League and Wheeler with Williams
port in the New York-Pennsylvania
loop.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
The
SPORTLIGHT
Poychek Must Tie Up
Louis or Suffer
By GRANTLAND RICE,


There are two things that must
happen to every champion. Either
he must retire or he must get
whipped. There are no human
Tennysonian brooks that 60 on for
ever. This applies to Joe Louis as
well as all the others
Few believe that Johnny Paychek,
the Iowa challenger. has any en-
larged or fancy chance against Louis
tonight at Madison Square Garden
in New York. But as Louis keeps
on defending his title he is drawing
nearer and nearer to the inevitable
day-defeat or retirement.
Few thought that Godoy had any
chance of travelling IS rounds against
the blasts of the Bomber. but on that
night there were no blasts you could
hear beyond the ringside. You'll still
hear mutterings here and there that
Louis loafed against Godoy to build
up interest in later fights, but Ill
say this for Louis-whether it was
a good fight or bad one, it was the
best fight he could make that night
He happens to be great two
handed puncher who can be tied up
by certain battling tactics that often
leave him beWildered But his op-
ponent had better tie him up. He
isn't carrying any target he can hit.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
Champion Ever Reody
To Fioht ANYBODY

There is one thing you have to say
for Joe Louis. No other ring cham
pion ever hung his crown on the
rack as often to let some challenger
try to carry it away.
Through good fights and bad fights
he has taken them as they happened
to come along. He never has asked
for any setups or refused to meet
anybody named. 1t isn't his fault
that no Dempsey or Tunney hap
pens to be in the offing. l don't
believe for a second that he would
duck either.
Heavyweight Champions in the
past have been rare defenders. This
includes Jim Corbett and Bob Fitz-
simmons. Willard beat johnson and
then fought only Frank Moran be-
fore Dempsey nailed him. After
beating Willard. Dempsey met only
Miske, Bremen, Carpenter. Glib
bons and Firpo through seven years
before Tunney caught up with him.
Tunney tackled only Dempsey and
Tom Heeney before retiring.
This happens to be the Bomber's
10th defense. Most of them buns
or punks? Look back over the list
other champions ran across along
the road. At least Joe's opponents
were the best any one could dig up.
Evening star., 1940-03-29
Poychek to Encounter
Irritoted Louis


Johnny Paychek is good boxer,
q fair puncher and he has enough
experience to know what it is all
about. He Is up against one rough
hurdle. Louis has been broodlng
over the criticism thrown against
him after the Godoy fizzle, and he
will be in there shooting all the am
munition he carries to prove the
Godoy matter was an off night.
Paychek, wandering in from the
West as an Eastern unknown, would
have had a much better chance If
he had caught the Bomber a bit
careless and off guard. But the
champion isn't likely to get careless
and remain off guard twice in row.
He still is sore at himself for what
he calls lone of the worst fights l
ever made and so Paychek will
have to meet tougher opponent
than Godoy faced.
Paychek's main job will be to
weather the dark storm through the
first two or three rounds. Louis, be-
yond any argument. will try to close
out this show as quickly as possible.
It isn't any secret that II Paychek
happens to have some unusual form
In the way of either defense or at
tack he can put on the battling act
and cause at least some trouble.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
New Hompshire's Primary

New Hampshire, the lead-off State
among the bakers dozen which con-
tinue to hold presidential preferen-
tial primaries, will send Roosevelt
pledged delegation to the Democratic
National Convention and an "unin-
structed" delegation to the Repub-
lican National Convention.
The decision of the State appears
to be in line with the general attitude
of the country at this stage of the
preconvention campaign for presi-
Dental nominations. No one doubts
that President Roosevelt can have
denomination at the hands Of the
Democratic conventional he wants
it. There has been no such crystalli-
zation Of sentiment among the Re-
publicans as to warrant prediction
that any one of the candidates for
the presidential nomination is out
ahead.
In the main, the Roosevelt slate
of delegates was without opposition,
although two delegate candidates
pledged to Postmaster General "Jim"
Farley and another couple favoring
Vice President Garner were in the
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Headache

In the frantic rush to pay income
taxes by tomorrow, it is possible that
many victims have overlooked little
gem of thought contained in the
last sentence Of Uncle Sans billet
doux to taxpayers, under the head
ing OF deductions" AS an example
of what can be done with language
If the user is willing to scrap all
rules, it is in a class by itself. Word
for word, it reads as follows:
mo deduction is allowable for the
amount of any item Of expense or
part thereof allocable to a class of
exempt income other than interest"
Fired with humane desire to cut
down insanity in the United States,
a corps Of experts has been working
on this for some time. A report of
the survivors has just been turned in,
which settles the whole question.
Quite clearly, they say, the taxpayer
is deharred, except insofar as the
act is imperative. or imperative in
part, with exceptions, from deduct
ing, except in certain instances, or
from allocating either whole or frac-
tional items of expense carelessly.
To be more explicit, it is o. K. for the
item, whether split or intact, to be
part and parcel or integral with ex-
empt income II said income is taY
free by virtue of being classed as
interest; but, on the other hand, the
aforementioned item or essential part
of an item is not exempt from tax
within the meaning of the statute if
applicable or otherwise pertaining to
income exempt by virtue of being in
some other classification or alloca-
ton than that OF tax-rree interest.
Evening star., 1940-03-14

to support his experiment In prole-
tartan government. The influence Of
the new" Russia. he said, and his
followers repeated, would be altru-
istic in its effect. Such was the
theory Of the proposals for the liqui-
dation OF the first World War an
nounced from the Kremlin in 1917
and 1918. =
Stain inherited the traditions Of
Lenin. Under his guidance, the Red
republic would practice a higher
morality than that of capitalist and
imperialist states. Russia was to be
force for the amicable settlement
of international disputes. Bolshevik
representatives at Geneva wouldsin
sist upon disarmament. The success
sors Of the czars condemned such
dictators as the masters of Italy and
Germany. Fascism, it was argued,
was the real enemy of civilization
and progress. The American branch
of the Communist movement met in
convention under the Stars and
Stripes and saluted a gigantic por-
trait OF Abraham Lincoln in proof
OF the humanitarianism of the
Marxist philosophy. What more
could doubters ask for evidence Of
the fallacy of their skepticism?
The answer was not long in COM
ing. Stain the Great Philanthropist
entered into an alliance with Hitler
for the control of the Baltic area.
Joined in the conquest of Poland,
coerced Latvia, Lithuania and Esto-
mia, attacked Finland, now threat
ems Norway, Sweden and Denmark,
perhaps Great Britain and France.
For his adventure he pays whatever
respect the world public had for him.
1t was not much, admittedly; but,
such as it was. it is lost.
Finland, meanwhile, takes an hon.
ored place amongthe little" nations
which may suffer, yet do not die. A
thousand years hence fathers will
tell their sons the story of the valiant
armies of General Mannerheim and
of their heroic defiance of foe fifty
times as strong in every strength
save that of freedom.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
DARLINGTON, Va.

Dear Sir:
"Your This and That is the most
enjoyable feature Of the whole evening
paper to me. Many times I've thought
of writing to you, but never got around
to doing 80; however, q letter. in your
column recently, leap year day, decided
me!
Especially so because it discussed
subject which I was intending to ask you
about, and about one Of my favorite
birds, the cardinal; but don't get me
wrong, may say that they (the birds)
are all my favorites, even, and includ-
ing, the sparrows Enghsh) and the
starlings.
1.-THE lady's letter states that on one
hot morning Of last summer, she was
practically invited by a cardinal to
give him shower bath with her garden
hose while she was watering her lawn.
"I've had a feeding station and bird
bath for fourteen years, and have had
every one of every kind of bird that
is ever around this locality.
II have watched them early and late,
and at all seasons, but I had never
noticed. until year ago, that had never
seen cardinal battle!
MY little granddaughter aged four,
is just as interested in the birds as any
one, and she said to me one morning,
as we watched the birds. breakfasting,
The cardinal must be awfully dirty, he
never takes bath AS the others do.
Did you ever see him take any BATH
grandmom?'
ut was then that I realized that,
truly, had never seen the cardinal
bathe. From then on I've watched care
fully, but have not yet seen them bathe.
II talked with a man who works in
the United States Biological Survey
(bird banding division and he said
you have never seen the chickens take
any bath, either, other than a dust
bath, and it may be that cardinals take
dust baths
But II so, I've never seen them do
so. I've seen English sparrows and
robins do that. as well as chickens. And
I do know. and have seen the robin
red breast enjoy greatly shower from
the garden hose, but he will also bathe
in the bird bath.
Nov don't want to be doubling
Thomas but I've read a lot of things
written in to you that I have found
rather hard to believe and That cardi-
nails shower bath is one Of them.
Il 4
1--WE had cardinals nest in a lilac
bush last spring. The lilac Is about seven
or eight feet high and not more than ten
feet distance from the back porch
"A family Of three babies was Matched.
and we had the joyous experience of
seeing their very first lesson in flying.
which was given by both parents about
the first of last July.
Il hope they will honor us again this
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Russiu's Loss

Russia, it seems, has had its way
with Finland. But the price which
Stain has paid for his victory" is
high, indeed. Let it be granted that
he has asserted himself in the Euro
pean scene. He has counted himself
in" as player in the game of power
politics. 1t perhaps is true that he
has made himself feared. There can
be little question about his having
earned for himself the hatred of the
peoples Of the democratic nations of
the earth.
Yet small matter of less than a
quarter century ago the Bolshevik
revolution was advertised to the uni
verse as an unprecedented step to-
ward justice and peace among men.
Lenin, the architect of the Soviet
system, claimed for his doctrine of
social change an idealistic character.
He invited the workers everywhere
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Guy Victor Collins

Guy Victor Collins gave to The Star
the better part Of his life. He came
to its employ at sixteen and died still
actively engaged in its service at
sixty-eight. During the half century
of his identification with its progress
he found the satisfaction which
derives from consciousness of work
we'll done, duties honorably per-
formed. He was happy as few men
are in world replete with disap-
pointment and Illustration.
His younger contemporaries per-
haps may have wondered at the
serenity of Mr.. Collins bearing.
Some of them, doubtless, guessed
that it derived from a philosophy of
devotion to simple, natural and
unchanging values. He loved flowers,
birds. his home, the comfortable
pleasures of a quiet fireside, unhur-
ried talks with cherished friends,
outdoor games, occasional travel,
leisure for reflective contemplation,
cheerful books. There was no strug-
gle in his career. He refused to be
involved in fruitless controversies,
empty arguments. When others
raved or ranted at the troubles of
their times he smiled at the spectacle.
His optimism kept him free from fear.
Mr.. Collins, for all these many
reasons, was appreciated by strangers
as well as by those with whom he
was associated day by day. People
who never heard his name trusted
him. As chief clerk in The Star
business Office, he met the public
constantly, learned to understand its
problems and discovered solutions
for more than q few of them. He
was generous in praise of the least
of his neighbors, but wanted no fame,
desired no celebrity for his own
attainments. So, still serene, still
hopeful, still useful in the world, he
goes to his rest mourned with graft
tude and q profound affection to
which hts colleagues proudly testify.
Evening star., 1940-03-14

field, and two others were running
unpledged. The top vote-getter for
Roosevelt was the Mayor Of Man
chester-and he had only about
eleven thousand votes. One Of the
Farley delegates had over four thou
sand, and another, supporting Gar
ner, more than three thousand votes.
The eighth man on the list for dele
gates at large, supporting Roosevelt,
had little more than seven thou
sand votes.
1t is clear that the third-term
boosters made a clean sweep in the
Democratic primary-but, neverthe-
less, there were Democratic voters
who did not look with favor on an
other nomination for the President.
In the final analysis. the number of
Democrats who are unfavorable to
such nomination may be taken into
consideration by the party leaders.
Other primaries are to be held soon
IN Wisconsin, Illinois and Nebraska.
In Wisconsin and Illinois the Presi-
dent will be running against the Vice
President, and the Garnerites are
putting on an active campaign in
both States.
Republicans are taking satisfac-
tion from the fact that in their pri-
mary twice as many votes were cast
as in that Of the Democrats. Pre-
sumably the New Dealers, who are
demanding a third-term nomination
OF the President, did all they could
to get out large vote for the Roose-
velt-pledged slate Of delegate candi-
dates, even though only a handful
OF nom Roosevelt delegate candidates
were in the field.
New Hampshire Republicans have
their favorite-son candidate for the
presidential nomination in the per-
son OF Senator Styles Bridges-for-
mer Governor. The leading candi-
dates for the presidential nomina-
ton, Dewey, Vandenberg and Taft,
kept out of the primary, leaving the
field to the favorite son. Senator
Bridges, whose hope probably lies in
the uninstructed delegates sent to
the national convention, had recon-
mended that the New Hampshire
group 60 uninstructed.
New Hampshire in the past two
years has very definitely given evi-
dence OF return to the Republican
column from which it strayed in
1886. Its Governor and its entire del
egation in Congress are Republican.
There was nothing in the primary
to indicate that it would not continue
to be Republican in 1910.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
COmmends Editorial
On DR.. John H. Finley.
To the Editor of Tha atar.
To the Editor


The cloak of anonymity ofttimes
covers the face of mediocrity and some-
times conceals real greatness. I am
moved to bestow few laurels on the
unknown figure of the writer of the
editorial headed "Dr. John H. Finley"
in this evenings issue of The Star.
I thought I knew something about
and understood something of the scope
of the worth and attainments of the
man, John Finley but the writer of the
editorial In question rang the gong for
me.
The transparent honesty of the man
Finley would have banished his nat
urally modest attitude and he would
be the first to admit, were he here,
that much fine writing appears in news
paper editorial bit Of
writing that borders on the field of true
literature; and he would be in perfect
agreement with me, believe, when I
say the editorial Of this evening deserves
to be put in the treasure house of the
newspapernan with the familiar classics
of Dana, Anderson, Church and OBrien
as an inspired example Of editorial
craftsmanship.
do not recall another eulogy couched
in such simple but exquisite phrasing,
meticulously accurate In APPRAISAL
portrait come alive. An eloquent
biographical gem in four lucid para
graphs-a finished piece of reportorial
art and genuine tribute from one
newspapernan to another.
The artistry that was DR.. Finleys
was mirrored perfectly by the artist
who wrote the appreciation:
It was one swell job! E:ongratu-
lations! JOHN w. WARD.
March 8. '-zs ,'a~-.