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Evening star., 1940-11-29
Cross-Country King
Again, Lash Runs
For Sheer Joy
Will Compete as Long
As Its Fun, Declares
Surprise Entrunt
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Nov. 29-Don Lash
says that he derives sheer joy from
running and consequently it will not
be surprising if the seven-time Ma
tional Senior A. A. A. cross-country
champion remains in track con1peti-
ton for some time to come.
After Lash had run 50 challengers
into submission and set an all-time
record of 80 minutes 258 seconds for
the 10000 meter A. A. U. Harrier
event at Meadowbrook Country Club
here yesterday the obvious question
concerned Lash's future.
Rice His Only Challenger.
This may or may not have been
my last race" said the former In
diana University star. Frankly, I
didn't plan to enter here today but
l started training and found myself
in the best condition of my career.
like to run and probably will keep
on competing in track and cross
NOullLlS CNSiiIS JuoV 40 AOiiS DO SSI
enjoyment from them"
Only Gregory Rice, the former
Notre Dame runner, was able to
challenge the victor. Rice ran in
time we'll under all previous marks
for the event but still finished al
most beyond hailing distance of
Lash.
Beccali Finishes Third.
Third place went to Luigi Beccali
of the New York Athletic Club. the
organization that won the team
championship with a total of %
points. Next was Tom Quinn of
Michigap Normal. ;s... l.. a5z.
Duane Temper, another Michigan
Normal athlete, was fifth while
James Rafertgzof the New York A.
G. was sixth.
Michigan Normal was second in
the team competition with so points,
20 less than Michigan State scored
Philadelphia's Shanahan Catholic
Club totaled SO points and the Nor
folk Young Mems Association of
Roxbury, Mass, 80.
Best previous time in the event
was the mark of 80 minutes l7.2
seconds set by Lash in winning in
1884.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Washington will be something else
than the hot spot of links competi-
ton in 1941, and the East will not
see single major mems champion
ship.
A roundup of the sectional links
affairs to be staged around WASH
ington next year reveals that unless
some unheralded tournaments come
along the competitive season will be
nearly as bare as Uncle Ben's poll
in the moonlight. From the vantage
point of the waning days of 1910
it seems that only three big affairs
for the male linksmen will be held
around the Capital in l94l. These
will be the Chevy Chase invitation
tourney, topline show of the year;
the District amateur championship,
and the Bannockburn best ball in
vitation affair. That one again will
be staged in 1941. so club officials say.
On the reverse side of the picture
the Middle Atlantic championship
is slated to 60 to Hot Springs, Va.
The sectional rounds for the open
and amateur championship both will
go out of Washington, where both
were played in l941. OF course the
open championship will not be too
attractive to the local pros in 1941,
for the tournament itself will be
played at the Colonial Club of Fort
Worth, Tex, hard by Texas Chris
tian University. on course which
rates as the pride of central Texas,
because it has creeping bent greens.
Being held so far away-a matter
of 1900 miles-the affair probably
will not be overly attractive to the
pros in this sector.
National Journeys Far Away.
Chicago gets the amateur cham
pionship of l94l. and the big show
of amateur golf won't be the magnet
it was this year, when the tourney
was held near New York. 1t costs
money to travel and play in these
affairs and the young men who
Evening star., 1940-11-29
From the
Press Box
Conn-SovoId Go Laden
With implications
BY JOHN LARDNER,

Special Correspondent OF the star.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 NANA).
Michael Strauss Jacobs, the duce
pronounced deuce) of boxing, will
throw out the first two heavyweights
of the winter season at Madison
Square Garden tonight. Two of the
best. in fact: Sweet William Conn,
the artful dodger of Pittsburgh. and
Lee Savold, the abridged assassin of
Des Moines, Iowa.
This is a duello fraught with i'm
plications. The winner, If he wins
strongly, will be the No. Q heavy
weight of the world, the menace in
chief to Joe Louis, the probable op-
ponent of Louis in one OF the big
shows next summer.
Conn is the most graceful and ef-
fective boxer now doing business.
His left hand is all that you hear 1t
is; he Is smooth, smart, elusive, an
noying and dead game. Against him
is the fact that he never yet has
shown the ability to punch hard
enough to knock a man out, or even
very far down.
Savold, on the other hand, is a
hitter. At times he appears to be a
gifted hitter, not mere swinger.
Against him is the fact that there
are grease spots on his record, the
stigmata of inconsistency. And he
has beaten no very good fighters.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

Pardon our tin ear, but we were in
the mob scene in the planked hall
way leading to Riverside's various
Offices after the bouts last night and
it will be couple of days before
we've combed out the last stray
manager and our hearing is restored
to normal.
The hallway is a popular rendez-
cous for the fight mob after every
show. There matches are made,
fighters paid off, managers hustle
their meal tickets for future shows
and gossip of the ring racket ebbs
and flows in a giddy whirlpool of
misplaced superlatives and loose-leaf
teeth.
Ray Avis, the promoter. was cuss-
ing his luck and explaining why
ringside customers sat on thin
strip of tarpaulin, borrowed from the
Washington ball park, instead of a
new, removable floor to cover the
ice rink. The floor arrived in time,
but didn't fit and if part of 1t had
been used the whole couldn't have
been altered in time for the OPEN
ing pro basket ball game scheduled
Sunday night at Riverside.
This doesn't exactly jibe with a
rumor circulated last week that the
Stadium would not be ready for its
first ring show on ice, a rumor which
hinted there would be no show last
night.
Abrams Shines In Victory.
II almost decided to call it of at
o'clock, Avis volunteered, but it
wasn't cold. was it? Don't you think
the fans were comfortable? l
thought it was warm enough and !
was positively sweating"
| He probably was after losing
another sizable wad of dough.
Chris Dundee, who is plotting
George Abrams toward the middle
weight title-one version of which
is held currently by Ken Overlin,
another Dundee stablehand-was
1 jubilant about his sixth-round
/ technical kayo over Henry Chmie-
! leWski.
The, result more than offset a 10
round decision George dropped to
the Pole last September at Mil
waukee, loss which cost him sew
eral notches in the National Boxing
Associations first 10. And the Dis
! trict battler was terrific last night.
Chmielewski didn't lay a glove on
him and George battered Henry
right eye closed before ripping it
open with the blow that caused
Referee Harry Volkman to halt the
proceedings.
II got wire from Nate Druxman
offering us 1712 per cent to box Al
Hostak in Seattle December r." he
said, exhibiting the telegram, "but
I've promised to let Jack Laken have
him in Baltimore that night"
Would Make George Champ.
"Im gonna concentrate on
Abrams from now on" Dundee re-
sumed. Hes got the makings-
Evening star., 1940-11-29
Favored Win He Doesn't Try Step Out and Slug With ssvo
Fans Know Score
If Bookies Don't
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 90
New Orleans bookies, who do
more business on football games
during the season than on horse
races, failed to watch the post
time of the Brown Columbia
tilt yesterday and it cost them
plenty.
The two Eastern teams played
a morning game. 1t was score
less tie.
But many of the local oper-
ators had six points against
Brown" chalked up on their slate
in the afternoon, apparently
never dreaming a football game
would be played in the morning.
BY the time they had learned
their error, the New Orleans
States said. they had been
taken" for $1,000 by bettors who
knew the score.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
Shepherd Coeemen Dote
GuIioudet and Wilson
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SHEPHERDSTOWN,s w. Va, Nov.
29-Games with Gallaudet and
Wilson Teachers on a home-and-
home basis have been arranged for
the Shepherd College basket ball
team, it was announced today by
Coach Cletus Lowe.
Shepherd will face Gallaudet here
on January II and will meet the
Blues at Washington on January "a.
The following night Shepherd will
play Wilson Teachers at Washing
ton, with Wilson slated to tangle
with the Rams here on February 81.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
Title Bout With Louis
Next Summer Due
Victor Tonight
Billy, No Killer, Must
Beware of Mean Left
That Lee Can Swing
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Provided
Sweet William Conn doesn't get the
idea he's a killer, he should walk
out of Madison Square Gar,'en to-
night with win over Lee Savold,
the corn belt better, and match
some time next summer with Joe
Louis.
According to most of the experts
who have been wrong before-the
Pittsburgh pretty boy figures to give
Lee lesson for as much of the IL
rounds as the fight lasts.
But every once in a while Billy
Boy gets the idea he must show the
folks some fancy stuff, so he walks
out and slugs with some fellow who
can hit.
Can't Trifle With Savold.
Savold is one of these He has a
pretty fair country left hand capable
of making the brides sing. So if
Conn doesn't listen to worrying
Johnny Ray, his manager, and goes
out there to fail away with Lee, he
may wind up smack on the seat of
his silk pants and away out of the
heavy sugar" a shot at the heavy
weight championship should mean.
Louis is couple of hundred miles
away, up in Boston beginning train
ing for a little job of his own with
Al Mccoy two weeks from next
Monday. So he won't be among the
14,000 or so expected to sit in on the
fun tonight.
However, you can make a small
wager that Mr.. Deadpan will have
his ears glued to the radio when the
shooting starts about 10 pm, be-
cause this little shindig is going TO
mean some folding money to him.
too, when he meets up with the
winner eventually.
Conn 1-3 Fayorite.
This should be Conn. He's no
super r-dreadnaught yet, but he is
showing signs of growing and will
weight in at ITS or slightly higher.
He definitely is stronger than he has
been since last winter.
A 1-to-3 favorite, Conn is tabbing
himself to settle the whole thing in
eight rounds or less.
The tale of the tape on the
fighters:
Evening star., 1940-11-29
RuruI EIeetries ToppIe
Farm Credit Coeers

Rural Identification was forced
into an extra period before defeat
ing Farm Credit, 24-l9. in
Government League baket ball game
on the Y. M. c. A. court last night.
In other games, Social Security
topped Standard, As to 80 and
Interstate Commerce defeated Civil
Aeronautics, 3l-l6.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
Dewitt Gains Second
Victory in 1910 Win
Over Fairfax

Dewitt School completed its foot
ball season yesterday with 1910
victory over Fairfax High on the
latters' field, for its second victory
in eight games.
Fullback Doc" Boswell paced the
victors scoring with two touchdowns,
first on a 5-yard plunge in the first
period and then on 10-yard end
run in the final stanZa.
George MCGOWAN accounted for
the other tally.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
Boys Hunt Sunday Foe

Georgetown Boys Club is seeking
140-pound foe for a game this
Sunday and can furnish the field.
Call Michigan 2122 after $50.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
Varied Sports

Football.
Dewitt 10; Fairfax. O.
GYeenbriar, 4: H m d. n sydney
rr6sh, 0,
Franklin and Marshall. 2: Wheaton CllO
COLLEGE, i.
Pro Basketball.
Akron. 35; sheboygan wis g..
Evening star., 1940-11-29
Seekino 130-Pound Rival

Industrial Home Schools football
team is seeking game for this Sum
day with a 130-pound opponent.
The schools field is available. Call
Woodley 9527.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
150-Pounders Need Come

Mount Rainier Ramblers, 150-
pound eleven, want game for Sun
day, December /. Call Frank at
Warfield 9420 between 6 and 7.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
Fighter Looked Roughly
Three Laps to Mile

Impossible" said Mr.. George.
why, listen, friend, as you stand
there before me you are roughly
three laps to the mile"
Perhaps I have grown slightly
stouter," admitted Mr.. Savoid. II
am very partial to potatoes. and
now and then, just to settle the
stomach, take a glass Of"
skip til" barked Mr.. George.
"You have taken your last glass Of
that, and you have chewed your
last potato. Underneath that gross
exterior, as happen to know,
there is the framework of future
champion, and friend, I am about
to disinter you"
In a short time, under George
management, Mr.. sSavold was able
to see his feet again, and the sight
was so romantically thrilling that
he took off more weight, and more.
Today our hero is down to 1876.
"I am almost as skinny as Conn, u
says Mr.. Savold contentedly. IF
I need more pounds in the future,
I know where to get 'em. I'll bet
that poor clown Conn wishes he
had my recipe"
Mr.. Savold confidently expects
to knock Conn kicking. If he
does, he's on Beale street. The bet
ting odds, however, are 2 to / on
Conn, and I suspect that the odds
are right.
Evening star., 1940-11-29
SovoId's Vitomin Diet
Considerably Reduced

These boys are not big heavy
weights. Conn is strictly whippet.
Any time he weighs ITS pounds with
out q bag of potatoes on his shoul-
der he shakes hands with himself
and goes out looking for grizzly bears
to bite. Unless he achieves one OF
those late growths peculiar to
Hibernian athletes, like James j.
Tunney and James J. Braddock,
Sweet William seems doomed to
walk through life as a heavy light
heavyweight.
Savold is different. What you see
today is the abridged and expur-
gated edition of Mr.. Savold. The
original edition was an omnibus, in
several volumes. Mr.. Savold has
been carefully pruned by the censors,
until today you can get him in one
handy volume, with morocco bind
ing. at 185 pounds. And nothing in
1t that you wouldn't want your kid
dies to read.
Yes" says the curtailed killer
from Des Moines. there used to
be considerably more Savold than
there is now I was getting more
vitamins few years ago."
Evening star., 1940-11-29
Work on Leeword Side
Of Bor Fottened Lee

The fact is, Mr. Savold was get
ting all the vitamins that the
houses of Pabst, Budweiser, Rup-
pert and the rest could produce,
After a brief fling at fighting. he
accepted employment on the lee
ward, or business side, of bar. He
was good bartender. In fact,
he was two or three good bartenders,
by weight and volume. Mr.. Savold
grew wider every day. He soon
achieved a displacement Of $50
pounds, much of it maltese.
While nibbling the lotus in this
happy fashion and dealing the
suds of the top of the deck, he
encountered his manager, Mr.. Pinky
George. 1t was difficult encounter,
for Mr.. George can barely see over
the top of a bar. However, Mr..
Savold was visible from distance
of several miles at this epoch. and
Mr.. George finally spotted him.
Say" remarked Mr.. George, you
look like a guy I used to know
named Savold. You must be his
three older brothers"
Il am that very same Savold,
said the bartender modestly.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-20
BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANAL YSIS
House and Senate Set 21-35 Age Limit
In Draft Bill, Volunteer Plan Dropped;
Total Air War Blasts London Area;
81 Killed in Munitions Plant Explosion

EDITORS NoTE-whcn opinions
Newspaper
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-20
THE WAR:
London Battered

In the fifty-third week of the war,
Nazi air power began the long-pro-
claimed action which it declared
would end in British surrender or
the destruction of the worlds largest
city.
Previous raids and previous bomb
lngs were as nothing. Reichmarshal
Hermann w. Goering, from a safe
seat in France, personally took
charge Of the LuftwaffA's operations.
Thousands of gigantic bombers were
sent across the channel in waves at
80 minute intervals. All were aimed
at London, seat of the British en-
pire. Alarms continued from dusk
until dawn. Even in daylight, while
air precaution wardens were digging
helpless from the debris left the
night before, new planes arrived.
They dropped incendiary bombs,
which set great fires and led the
night f1iers to their targets through
blackouts.
Gone now was raiding only of de-
tense points and industries. Except
for German propaganda sources,
none challenged the announcement
that purely residential areas were
being subjected to devastating ex-
plosions. In world-famous Fleet
street, home of the greatest British
newspapers, some of the largest
buildings in the city were wrecked.
Hospitals were wrecked, subways
demoralized, gas mains broken and
set afire. In a two-day period the
British admitted 600 killed and $500
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-20
MUNITIONS:
Disaster

In what was declared to be the
worst disaster in the history of the
American munitions industry, 80
persons were known dead, % miss
ing (also believed to have perished)
and 200 persons were injured in q
series of earth-shaking explosions
which destroyed the Hercules Pow
der company's Kenvil, N. j., plant.
While the cause of the blast was
not Immediately determined, feder-
al, state and local authorities began
immediate investigations because
the plant was busy at work on Unit
ed States defense orders.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-20
EGYPT:
Offensive

Italy's long awaited offensive
against English forces in Egypt got
under way as artillery fire rumbled
up and down the Egypt-Libya Dor
der. Fresh Italian troops moved up
near the border as British and Ital-
ian flyers clashed in the first ex-
change of military blows on this
front. Observers were of the opin-
ion that Italy was really beginning
to play her role in the Battle of
Britain" This role consists mainly
in diverting the attention of the Eng
Ish to some other quarter while Hit
ler's attempt at an invasion Of the
British isles is carried out. Egypt
is an ally Of Britain but as yet has
not declared war with the axis pow
ers. AS soon as the italian forces
slash very deeply into Egyptian ter
ritory this declaration is expected.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-20
DRAFT:
In November

Prospects are that no American
youth will be conscripted into army
service until after election. Just be-
fore the house passed the draft bill
by a vote Of 185 to l55, and an
nouncement to this effect was made
by Representative Wadsworth (R.,
N. W co-author of the bill.
To make sure of this, however,
the house inserted an amendment.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-20

Lieut.. Col. Ls.ois B. Hershey. pictured
here. nOso head Of fhe joint army and
saoy committees IN charge Of selecfips
sef6ses plans, sosto more than likely soiii
become -the Po,per behind the drajt,7
eftev the CONSUMPTION machinery gets un.
dertoay. While a civilian may be named
htulor head Of the draft, Col. Hershey
sUiH contribute q major share OF The york
since he has spent four years Developing
draft plans.
sponsored by Representative Fish
(R., N. W to postpone peacetime
draft for go days while the Presi-
dent appealed for volunteers.
The house bill differed in two other
essentials from the measure passed
by the senate. The senate called
for an age limit of 81 to 80, inclu-
sive. The house wanted registra-
ton extended to As years, in order
to get greater number of trained
mechanics. The house also modified
the draft industry" amendment so
that factories where owners refused
defense contracts would be taken
over by the government on lease or
rental. The senate called for seiz-
ure and operation.
Ironing out the differences, house
and senate conferees agreed upon
bill that, % fixed the age limit at
Il to IS years inclusive, (2) modi-
fed the plant seizure amendment,
and (3) eliminated the 60-day volun-
teer plan.
Wendell Willkie, G.. o. P. presi-
dental nominee, added his opposi-
ton to that of President Roosevelt
on the 60-day delay amendment.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-20

Strain OF almost constant air raids on
England are telling on the boyish face
OF Britain's monarch, pictured here as
he chatted soifh workman at aircraft
factory s0hich he visited recently.
manned. Even as they made the
announcement the commandments
grew worse.
Morale
A delayed action bomb struck a
section of Buckingham palace, the
royal residence. No one was in
iured.
Objective of the terror was to I'M
dermine the morale of the ordinary
citizen. Berlin said when this was
accomplished, the Churchill cabinet
would fall and new cabinet will
ing to deal with the Reich would
take its place.
In the battered, shell-torn city,
however, the first day of the raids
showed no loss Of determination to
hold out. The king visited a slun
section where bombs had ripped
great craters in the street, where
homes of hundreds had been torn to
bits. Out of the window of a house
still standing, q woman shouted:
care we downhearted7" And the
crowd gathered around the king
cried, mo" The king smiled.
That night there were worse bomb
ings.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-20

This soundphoto shows Frank
Frenski, right, and Frank Ferna,
plant workers Of the Hercules Pow
der company at Kenvil, N. j., In Q
Dover hospital being treated for in
juries sustained when the powder
plant was destroyed by . series Of
explosions.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-20
Retaliation

British fiiers, reported by the Ger
man air arm to be reduced to in
effective operation, we're still able
to get into the air and fight. More
over they went visiting on their own.
Docks at Hamburg, ports along the
channel coast, in Denmark and Nor
way were given q treatment of
aerial bombardments. The British
air ministry said the retaliation was
so severe that the areas could not
be used by the Germans to launch
a land invasion.
Nightly there we're air raid alarms
in Berlin, too. At least one bomb
was dropped on the Reichstag build
ing, seat Of Hitler's rubber-stamp
parliament.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-10
Totals

Runs bGtted in-Shimer, Cailteaux
q, Stewart, Crandall 2. Quinn 2.
Jewell, McCue 8. Bonetti, Volpi 8,
tanning. Two-base hits - Stewart,
Spiker, O'Banion. Bonetti. Jewell.
Three base hits-Shimer. Quinn, Rat
to. Home run-Volpi. Sacrifices
Cole 2. Double plays-Shimer TO
Caiiteaux to Quinn; Cailteaux to
Sinner to Quinn. Left on bases
Vancouver 16, Wenatchee II. Base
on balls--Off Goldman 7. Daley 8,
Bahr Z, tanning 2 Christopher 2.
Struck out-By Goldman g. by Bahr
8. Lanning /, Christopher g.. Hits
Off Goldman in 2-3 innings, of
Bahr in 2-3 innings, off DALEY
8 in innings, off Lanning in
innings, off Osborne S in 4 l-3 in
nings, off Christopher 8 in ID in
nings. Hit by pitcher-By Bahr.
Passed balls-Volpi, Crandall. Win
ming pitcher-Bahr Losing pitcher
Goldman. Umpires-Weisgerber and
Moran. Time of game-3 20.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-10
Orr Makes Farewell
Appearance Saturday

WASHINGTON STATE COL
LEGE, Pullman Orr. hailed
By most cinder critics as the great
ct runner ever produced In the
Pacific Northwest. win make his
farewell performance before the
home folks here Saturday after
noon and has . terrific assignment
cut out for himself.
The dual track and field
rneet with the University of
washington ranks - = neck
and neck affair with north
west track supremacy In the
balance Ths Huslxics' great
ct strength + n the short
DISHES snd hurdles where KEEL
Kxaxe. lin Todd and Jimmy
1GcGol1rick are undcfeated
fhis year.
Orr VIII enter three events. op'
posing Kysie in the 220-ysrd dash
Todd In the zz0-yard dash and nc
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-10
PORTLAND q WINS

McMINNyHLE, Ore.-Portland
university took a return baseball
game here yesterday from the Lin
field college nine, 1914.
The Pilots crossed the plate four
times in the first, second and fifth
innings and once again in the
seventh. The Baptists scored in
the fourth and seventh innings.