Evening star., 1940-07-16
Soap Box Derby Prizes
Go 10 141 Boys
Tomorrow Night
Medals, Ribbons and
Sports Equipment Among
Awards to Be Made

Sports Equipment Among
Awards to Be Made
Soap Box Derby awards for 1910
will 60 to 141 boys from Washing
ton and nearby Maryland and vir-
ginia, Derby Director Zeb T. Ham
ilton announced today.
Out of total of 205 young racers
who drove their own homemade
coaster cars in the third Star
American Legion Derby last Satur-
day, only "a failed to win either a
medal or second-place ribbon. The
also rams, however, did not leave
the Pennsylvania avenue course
empty handed, however. Each OF
them, and each of the other en-
trants, was given an all-steel drivers
helmet and a racing jersey bearing
the Soap Box Derby emblem.
Mr.. Hamilton reminded prize
winners that awards will be made
tomorrow night beginning at $50
pm. The presentations will be
made In the auditorium of the Nat
ural History Building of the Ma
tional Museum on Constitution ave-
hue at Tenth street NV. To get
to the auditorium, enter the Con-
stitution avenue door.
In charge of prize presentations
will be the Derby Awards Commit
tee, OF which Thomas Mason, past
department commander of the
American Legion, is chairman.
Members Of the committee include
A. E. Giegengack, public printer
and a member of the G. P. o. Post,
American Legion; Charles Buck,
Fred c. Fraser and Watson B.
Miller.
Biggest Prizes to Jennings.
The lions share of the prizes will
60, OF course, to 15-year-old Bill
Jennings, who drove his streamlined
white car to victory after six elimi-
nation races. Billy will receive a
flrst-heat medal, silver cup, a
piece of sports equipment valued at
$40, the first-place medal for being
class A champion and the M. E.
Coyle Trophy, which goes to the city
champion. In addition, he will 60
to Akron, Ohio, as the guest of The
Star, where he will receive a wrist
watch before he starts to race
against other city champions for
the national and international
titles.
Winner of the national title re-
ceives a four-year college scholar
ship with all expenses paid. To
Akron with the champion will go
either his mother or father as the
guest of The Star.
Mr.. Hamilton urged that all boys
who are to receive prizes be at the
auditorium in the National Museum
at $50 tomorrow in order to receive
their awards.
The Prize List.
The complete prize winning list
follows:
Red ribbons with gold letter
legends for the second place win
ners in the first flight Of elimina-
tions in each class go to Philip
Bacas, Jimmy Cole, Jared G. Benson,
Perry Gilmore Currin, Joseph Blod-
gett, William ]. Glenn, Jack Bow
man, Jack Robertson, Leonard
Brooks, Louis Beaupre, Joseph
Brawner, Fred Brown, Charles
Chapman, Calvin Conliffe, George
Caldwell, jr.; James H. Lee, Maurice
c. Clark, Samuel j. Holiday, jr.:
Roy Cook, Walter Levi, Billy Cul-
pepper, Otis Cutshaw, Raymond
Giovannoni, William Defer, Her.
bert Mead, Jack Eby, Richard
Norair, Raymond Warfield, Howell
Starks, George Geralis, Henry r.
Helmholz. Aubrey Grethe, Calvin
thinner, Charles Harr Bennett
Lyon, David Hildreth, Jack Esin,
Morgan Huff, James Johns, Frank
Laubinger, Sandy L. Ferber, Robert
Mallonee, Robert Pierce, Marshall
P. johnson, Russell D. Maske, Will
liam H. Siegel, Joseph E. Miller,
Owen Nickels, Robert E. Brooks,
John Preston, Alvin G. Oliver, Her
bert Lapkoff, Herman Rollerson,
Kenneth Saxty, Willis Poole, Eu-
gene Sayles, Carl Schoenherr, Louis
Hugh Shoemaker, Jack Sheppard,
William Beverly Steele, Milton
Stevens, Otis Strickland, Claude
Upchurch, Albert Valaer, Lewis Vir-
gil, John Wilkerson, Dave Yaukey,
Amundsen Peed, Tom Horton and
Ralph William Vawters.
Medals for winning their first
heats will be awarded to Maurice
c. Barco, jr.; Robert Eacho, Booker
Brent, Bernard Burnstine, Joseph
Combs, Leo Coratolo, Raymond
Deaner, Sheridan Perry, Joseph M.
Fagins. Robert c. Stacy, Edwin
Walter, Richard Hale, Wilton Terry
johnson, Richard Fielder, Bobby
kleinknecht, Douglas Nagle, Rich
ard Pelicano, Edward Rodill, Mar
celino Rodill, jr.; Gilbert Tilghman,
Robert Yeatman and Charles
Walter.
Medals and Ribbons.
The following boys will receive
heat medals for winning their first
heats and blue ribbons with gold
letter legends for coming in second
IN the second flight: Joseph Bordas,
Eric Mori, Robert Broadhurst, Philip
Cuny, William Chapman, Walter C.
1lgenfritz, II; John Donohoe, Mel
vim Freebairn, Frank G. Frazer, jr.;
George Robert Lyles, jr.; Donald
v. B. Harris. Wayne Smithers, How
ard Hill, Noel r. White, Patrick
Marsden, Wendell Martin, j. Leroy
Poole, jr.; Eugene Pywellx Billy
Scott, Hobart Simons, Alan Quinter
Splitter, Mace Thomas, jr.; John
Younger and Peter Placas.
For winning their first two heats,
the following boys receive heat
medals and a silver cup: Richard
Freebairn, w. Fred Dowell, jr.;
Powell Moore, Buddy Rosenberg,
James Raymond, De Witt Schilling,
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