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Evening star., 1940-02-29
Runnerup Tie Looms
Between Cornell
And Princeton
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-The East
ern League basket ball race may
wind up with a tie for second place,
even though Cornell's big Reds
showed plenty of strength in wal
loping Harvard, 41-34, last night.
This triumph gave the Ithacans
exclusive possession of second place
again, but they have only two more
games to play and the rival Prince
ton Tigers have three.
Each team must meet Dartmouth
and Columbia, and in addition the
Tigers have a tilt with last-place
Penn.
Princeton will face Dartmouth
Saturday night. # the Indians win,
as expected, they will have clinched
their third consecutive champion
ship.
In a second league clash Yale
thumped Columbia, 1898.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Nine Aides for Dobson
At Newport News
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Feb. 29.-
Looking to reorganization for de-
velopment Of its athletic program
the Apprentice School OF Newport
News Shipyard has announced q
nine-man coaching staff to assist
Frank M. Dobson, new athletic di-
rector and head coach.
Dobson was Maryland's football
mentor for several years.
They are: Freddy York, formerly
Of Duke; James Marion, Duke; Red
Simpson, Kentucky; Joe jenkins,
Flrman; Edwin Almond, Rich
mond; Lynn Sweet, Bucknell; Russ
Boone, Randolph Macon, and AL
Degutis and Ray Stephens, William
and Mary.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Demaret, Snead Push
Harrison in Golf al
ST. Petersburg
Heofner, Nelson, Burke
Also in Running for
Open Meet Victory
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Feb. 20.
Holding one-stroke advantage,
E. ]. Dutch) Harrison of Little
Rock, Ark, headed a field of golf's
best shotmakers today into the
final SO holes of the 54-hole st.
Petersburg Open Tournament.
Harrison shot a 3 under par 68
yesterday, a stroke less than Jimmy
Demaret of Houston, Tex, leading
money winner of the winter cam
paign. Sammy Snead of Shawnee,
Pa, the defending champion, trailed
with a 10.
Bracketed at II were Clayton
Heafner of Linville, N. c.; Byron
Nelson of Toledo, Ohio, United
States open champion, and Billy
Burke of Belleair, Fla, former open
champion.
Johnny Revolta of Evanston,
ILL.,; Paul Runyan and Ben Hogan
of White Plains, N. Y, held threat
ening positions at the start of the
final SO holes. They had 72's on
the first 18.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Crosetti ond Gordon Give
.Yonks Greet Combination

Frankie's main value to the
Yankees lies, naturally, in his superb
defensive play. He and Joe Gordon
provide the Yanks with the best
second-base combination in the
game today and one of the best ever.
Certainly it is the best the Yankees
ever had, going away back to the
days when they had Roger Peckin-
paugh and Everett Scott at short
stop and Derrill Pratt and Aaron
Ward at second and coming up
through the combination of Mark
Koenig at short and Tony Lazzeri at
second and, later, that of Crosetti
and Lazzeri.
OF these latter day hookups pre-
ceding that Of Crosetti and Gordon,
a balance was lacking. Lazzeri, one
of the great second basemen through
his first seven years with the
Yankees didn't have, in Koenig, a
shortstop to match Him. Koenig was
good ballplayer, but an erratic one,
a much better hitter than Crosetti,
but nowhere near Crosetti in the
matter of fielding skill. so that Laz-
zeri had to carry him much Of the
time.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Tech Five Elects Walsh,
Selects Letter Men

Jackie Walsh, who has helped
Tech. High courtmen win several
games this winter, yesterday was
elected to captain the team next
season.
1t also was announced by Coach
Bruce Kessler that the following
boys will receive letters: Bob
Teeple, James Webb, Walsh, Bob
Kelly, Dellinger. Ellis Mailman, man
ager; Charley Ellis and Joe Brewer.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
The
SPoRTLIGHT
Whether He Hits or Not,
Crosetti Is Valuable
BY GRANTLAND RICE

special correspondent OF Tne star.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. 20
NAN.A).-Base hits, pieced to-
gether, make ballplayer's meal
ticket. AS result, when the average
player isn't hitting, his head goes
down and he frets and worries so
much he can't field, either.
Frank Crosetti is an exception.
The Yankee shortstop, in the COM
pany of a bombing crew, doesn't hit
much more than his weight, yet
every day he is out there hustling
and playing a great game of ball.
No player in either major league
gives a smoother performance from
one end of season to the other.
Every day is just like ever other
day. where he is concerned. And
they're all good
CroSetti, of course, has spurts in
which he will average 300 or better
and when he hits a ball solidly, he
can drive it long way, having
fine wrist action that makes up for
the size and weight that most power
hitters have. 1t was, you may recall
home run by Crosetti with Myril
Hoag on base in the eighth inning
that broke the resistance offered by
Dizzy Dean to the Yankees in the
second game of the 1898 world
series-a smash that wrecked a
classic stand by Diz when the odds
.loomed high against him.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Potomac Association
Makes Edrington
Sail Commodore
Marsh Is Voted Thonks
For Job as Choirmon
Of Race Committee
>T~bses>MN-

Potomac River Sailing Associa-
ton members honored one Of its
most popular figures last night
when 1t elected Judge Prentice E.
Burlington commodore for the COM
ing year at its annual meeting at
Capital Yacht Club.
Edrington. former international
starboat champion and local 2O-foot
class leader, was elevated to the post
held during the last year by Paul
G. Tomalin.
The large gathering assembled at
the Maine avenue club then unani-
mously elected George bankers,
hard-working member of the groups
Race Committee, as vice commodore.
Unanimously reelected were
Arthur Clephane as secretary
treasurer. which post the local
yachtsman has held for the last six
years, and H. C. Bush as recording
secretary.
Oollll v" &vAd1 olly SAldh llAdll Va GAlC
Race Committee, reported that "a
per cent of the associations fleet
competed in the spring series last
year, while GA per cent engaged in
last falls series. Marsh, who has
served as chairman of that commit
tee since its formation six years ago,
was given a rising vote of thanks.
A total of 1856 members in all
classes was reported by Secretary
Clephane in his annual report.
Vice Commodore bankers made
announcement of the groups annual
series of lectures on sailing. Men,
bers, he stated, were planning to
make a tour of the small boat shops
of the Curtis Bay Coast Guard
depot near Baltimore within several
weeks.
The associations spring series is
slated to begin the middle Of April.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
SchooIboy Newhouser
Impresses Tigers

By the Associated Press.
LAKELAND, Fla, Feb. 29.-Young
Harold Newhauser, Detroit school,
boy pitcher who was something of a
sensation in the American Legion
junior tournaments, is winning him.
self plenty of attention at the
Tigers camp.
THAT kid" said no less an au-
thority than Hank Greenberg, "is
going to make great pitcher"
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Howard Quint Ahead
After Staging Hot
Scoring Battle

Howard University's gym floor
still was smoking today, following
red-hot scoring game last night in
which the Bisons out-pointed the
Winston-Salem Teachers Of North
Carolina, 1856. 1t was Howard's
seventh victory in IA starts.
Capt. Jimmy Parker led the hosts
to victory with % points, all but one
of them on field goals, while Bill
Giles scored 18 and Maurice Jackson
is. Three Carolina players-Led-
better, Hairston and Taylor-each
scored IA
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Fenske in Hottest Streak Of Any Miller in History
Gudoh W Since He Wrote Golf Book

being farmed out to apartment
houses. Watch Louisiana Stat&
bounce back on the football map
in capital letters next fall.
Sounds like 'em-During the g.
year period from 1916-1922, Carle-
ton College won f1ve basket ball
titles, each time with a different
coach. Who were the athletic
directors-Rickey and Breadon?
Today's guest star: Charles
Burton, Dallas News: "And 1t
was only a couple Of years ago
that they were referring to
'Jarrin' John Kimbrough as the
brother of Frank Kimbrough, the
Hardin Simmons coach"
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Yankees Kept Laughing
By Gomez, Grissom
BY the Associated Press.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Feb. 20.
That famous comedy team of
Lefty Gomez and Lefty, Grissom is
putting on never-ending act for
the New York Yankees. In their
constant bantering Gomez Is "Goof"
and Grissom "Screwbox."
And Gomezs comment on the new
rule which allows a pitcher to take
a backward and forward step in the
box was, "You can't fool em with
your feet"
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Four Cuban Prospects
Due at Reds Comp
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TAMPA, Fla, Feb. 29.-The Gin
cinnati Reds experiment in inter-
national relations was set to begin
today with the scheduled arrival of
four players being sent here by the
Cuban government for tryouts.
The players, pick Of the Pearl Of
the Antilles, were to arrive on q
Cuban gunboat.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Fights Last Night

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY.-Tony Novak, .213.
Kansas City knocked out Johnny
SAN FRANCIsco.-Harry Cahill.
1872. San Francisco, knocked out Nat
Bor 1all River. Mass. (2).
OAKLAND. Calif.-Tony Oltvera.
l1SX, Manila, drew 1O).
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Swarm at Bees Camp

BRADENTON, Fla, Feb. 20 (R.
Casey Stengel, who always has
worked with small squads In spring
training before this year, will have
about so players, most Of them
farmhands, at the Boston Bees
camp.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
lozzeri Had to Teach Fronk
Bio Leooue StyIe Of PIoy

Lazzeri also had to carry Crosetti
when frankie joined the Yankees,
schooling him to the majors and
working out, between them, some
semblance of smoothness. And then,
just as Crosetti had learned his way
around and learned how to work
with Lazzeri, Tony slowed up.
At last Joe Mccarthy, striving
desperately for a combination that
could make double plays, put Cro-
setti and Gordon together. They are
perfectly matched and play together
with confidence, speed and rhythm
The plays they made in the world
series last fall-the plays they made
during the championship season
satisfied even Mccarthy, hard man
to satisfy-a man whose fetish is the
double play.
Winning berth with the Yankees
wasn't an easy one for Crosetti-or,
rather, holding it after he had won
it wasn't easy. Because of his light
hitting, his job was in danger in the
spring of 1888, after he had been
the regular shortstop through 1882,
his first year.
Also at the Yankee camp in the
spring Of 1888 at st. Petersburg was
Bill Werber, now third baseman of
the Reds. Werber was faster-Cro-
setti never has been exactly speed
merchant, for all the agility with
which he bounces around the short
field, spearing line drives, scooping
up grounders, starting or pivoting on
double plays-and another of Nc
Carthy's demands is for speed-and
more speed. Werber was fiery. color
full and aggressive-and Crosetti
then, as now, was so quiet as to be
almost backward, even on the field.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Personnel Still Dominant.

The leading Personnel rollers con-
tinued to dominate the Commission
ers and Miscellaneous Ladies'
League as Maude Cunningham
rolled 127 and Virginia Rhoades, 3O1
in team scores of 501-1,399. A
highlight was A. g. c. No. 2's sweep
over Stenographic.
Despite Martha Kaufmann's lusty
129-33O the third-place Bethany
quint dropped two games to the
leading Washington Centennials.
Edna Johnson's 1898 paced the
winners. Kitty Doves 124-319 fea-
tured Lebanon's 80 win from Miz-
pah.
While AIS Motors team was whip
ping the leading Emerson g.
Orme Service 2-1 in the Washing
ton Automotive League Johnny An
derson was showing Arcade-Pontiac
the way to 2-1 decision over Paul
Bros. with 1886 at Chevy Chase.
Office Service No. 2 pinmen mo-
nopolized the scoring in the Civil
Aeronautics League as Mosberg
banged out 142-368 in team counts
of 619-1,625.
Season records of 1890 were
rolled by Viola Bechtold in the c.
& P. Telephone Ladies League at
the Arcadia,
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Pineffes From. South
Will Swell Field
Al Ice Palace
Lucky Strikers Swamp
Mount Rainier; Carl
Rittenhouse Sturs

With more than 20 rollers In line,
Baltimore women for the second
straight week will play q prominent
part in a Washington duckpin at
traction when maple spillers of the
South compete Saturday in the
Lucille Young Near-Star Sweep
stakes at the Chevy Chase Ice
Palace.
Beauty on the maple lanes will
be on display when the Jimmie
Marks B team. composed Of Frances
Goetzel, Emma Lidard, Sue Wedra,
Dorothy Morrissay and Annabelle
Harding pay honor to one of the
Capitals leading woman bowlers
and winner of the recent Lorraine
Gull classic, which lured 81 ORR
oleS.
Franklin alleys in the Monument
tai City also will send a bevy of
representatives, including, Ida Stall
lings, Mary Galloway, Jane Street,
Alberta Ehrman, Mary Smith and
Ruth Hampel.
With Norfolk, Richmond and sew
eral Virginia towns supplementing
a heavy District entry, a record
field is in prospect. Only woman
rollers with averages of 104 and
under are eligible. The entrance fee
is 81. The six-game tournament will
be rolled in shifts at 3 and pm.
Mount Rainier Trounced.
Lucky Strike bowlers climaxed a
1914 set with 685 game to swamp
Mount Rainier in District League
match at Mount Rainier. The
Luckies were off to victory with
606 and 623 as the home team posted
571, 604 and 6l9.
The two lead-off shooters, John
Chaney and Capt. Hugh Crawley,
staged an exciting battle for scoring
honors with the latter winning out
with 122, Isl, l59-432 against l21,
140, 154-4l5.
In one of the seasons most bril-
liant performances Carl Ritten-
house went on rampage in the new
Electrical Utility Employees League
at Silver Spring with record counts
of 1885.
His IA straight marks were about
the top streak Of the season. After
three spares to wind up his first
game of lis, Rittenhouse marked out
in his whopper string with seven
spires and three strikes. He started
his final game of 1872 with a spare.
His local Al B team was 2-1 WIN
ner over Local 80.
Cheerful News for Mrs. Limerick.
Capt. Ella Limerick, who missed
her first match this season through
illness, was cheered today by Red
Circle Food Shops third straight
victory in the Ladies District
League. A 81 win last night from
the champion Lucky Strikes fol-
lowed sweeps over the strong Ar
cade-Pontiac and Chevy Chase
| teams. Julia Young's 119 and Vivian
tNQlan's 125 were deciding factors.
Rosslyn moved six games in the
lead with 81 victory over the
runnerup Chevy Chase quint as
| Blanche Wootton shone with 135-
349. Lucille Young was high for
the losers with 137-349.
Ruth Rothgeb's top 356 gave Ar
cadia the odd one from Arcade
Pontiac. Annetta Matthews 131-
346 led the vanquished.
Paced by Gene Smiths 148-37s,
New Deal Mems Wear won the rub
der from Kavakos Grill with top
team scores of 614-1,738 in the
Northeast Temple Minor League.
In other matches the leading Nc
Kee Pontiac swept Lord Baltimore,
the runner-up Franks Tavern took
two games from Eastern Pharmacy
and Norman Electric and VOLTS
Market whiteWashed Benning Sta
tion and Miller Furniture Co., re-
spectively.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Crosetti Held His Job Over
Strong Bid by Werber

Werber, just up from Buffalo,
started with a rush that spring.
Before the stay at st. Petersburg
ended, 1t looked as though the Job
was his, and other managers, believ-
ing Mccarthy had made his choice,
made offers for Crosetti. Then Nc
Carthy gave Crosetti fling at the
job again and the fine play he turned
in as the team swung North decided
the tussle. He held on-and Werber
went to the Red Sox.
Now Crosetti is threatened again,
however remotely. In Kansas City
the Yankees have a kid by the name
of Rizzuto-a lusty italian kid who,
starting from practically nowhere,
made the American Association in
two years and is almost ready for
the majors.
Crosetti isn't in danger-yet. But
playing with the Yankees has its
perils as well as its advantages. A
player, no matter how good he is,
knows all the time that once he
slips-even a little-his number is
up. For somewhere, close behind
him, is youngster who has been
trained carefully to take his place.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Bowling Gossip

In a crucial flrst-place battle M
I. N. Pinettes were 81 winners over
Up-N-At-M to take over the top
rung in the Lucky Strike Ladies
League. Capt. Ferne Gooch spar
killed. with 1877 to prevent a shutout
as F. A. A. No. 2 dropped two games
to the last-place Strikerettes. Ger
trude Rasch's 1874 set saved Social
Security from being swamped by
Federal Security.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Trick Snare Decides Game


Jim Larkin made the 5-1O break
clean as whistle and counted six
pins to give the Farmers a 81 VIC
tory over Power Administrators in
the Interdepartmental Mixed
League Herb Pendleton's ninth
frame strike also was big help.
The champion Judd & Detweiler
crew with Bill Beattys 399 the heav-
lest wallop in team counts Of 656-
1926. trimmed Progressive Printing
in the odd game, to regain first place
in the Graphic Arts League. Bill
Cookies 1853 was the damaging blow
as the erstwhile leading Big Print
Shop dropped two games to STAN
ford Paper The two potent pen
nant contenders clash Monday
night at the Lucky Strike in match
that may decide the flag.
Arthur Crowns 1888 and Jack
Gooding's 384 were the deciding
blows In a 1,769 team score as
Brookland Hardware swept to first
place in the Brookland Merchants
League over Baldwin's Bakery.
Four and two sticks decided the
first two tilts. Frank Orletsky, high
with 1914, watched his Nick's Shoe
quint drop the odd one to Hamilton
Decorating. Walter Mason's 1866
top poke gave Brookland Garage a
81 edge over Brookland Bakery.
Tom Rook shot 387 for the losing
Bronkland Hardware.
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Mat Matches
By the Associated Pr

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH.-Danno oMahoney.
22!,. Ireland. threw Leo Numa, 225,
California (34:44).
WILMINGTON, Del.-Bob Wagner,
230. Memphis. defeated Cliff Olsen.
2l5. Minnesota. who forfeited third
fall because of back injury after each
had won one
Evening star., 1940-02-29
Hockey Results

BY the Associated Press.
INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Syracuse, 5; Indianapolis, 8.
Cleveland, 2; Philadelphia, l.
Pittsburgh, Z: Hershey 8.
Providence, 3; New Haven. 3 (over-
time tie).
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Minneapolis. 5; ct. Louis, 3.
EASTERN AMATEUR.
Baltimore Orioles, u: Valleyneld, 2.
COLLEGE.
Princeton. 2: Harvard. i.
Evening star., 1940-02-29

Bill Trone Rolls 153 Come
Bill Trone's 153 gave Contracts
high team game of 558 in the Farm
Credit Administration League.
Evening star., 1940-02-29

COACH or THE FAST-fLyiNG FIVE OF
ST.JOANS UNIVERSITY OF BROOkLHN...
TIE Not NEW YORK QulNT WILL MEET
ITS OLD RIVAL .6.W.u --OUR OWN Local
TOP TEAM At EASTERN HIGH GYM THIS
COMING SATURDAY NIGHT.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Oscar the 'Eye-Bug' Stands
Revealed as a Stone
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PALO ALTO, Calf, April 13.-
Oscar the "eye-bug" met an ento-
mologist today and Immediately
moved from the spotlight into the
limelght. He is a piece of lime, an
ear stone.
Oscar was jerked out of the animal
Kingdom into the mineral kingdom
after undergoing a physical ex-
animation by Prof. Gordon Ferris,
Stanford University entomologist,
and Prof. c. v. Taylor, head of the
Stanford biology department.
They watched Oscars antics when
he was removed from his sugar bed
and brought to life with few drops
of vinegar. The vinegar, acting on
the lime formation, generated
bubbles which propelled Oscar
around like a drop of water bounc-
ing over hot stove.
Oscar first broke into the news
during a San Jose divorce hearing
in which his custody was point of
issue. Mrs. Clifford Hayes got the
divorce, but Mr.. Hayes got Oscar.
The scientists agreed that Oscar
was an otolith, a lime-like foreign
growth which occurs in the ear of
certain animals.
Prof. Ferris said he was not certain
about Oscars ability to wash foreign
particles from the human eye, as
related by Arnold Rumwell, Palo
Alto city attorney, during the divorce
hearing.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
WASHINGTON, c. APRIL H. 1e4o-PARr ONE

Edwin F. Jackie Of Buffalo, a
Dewey campaign leader, to the
State committees leadership, con-
fronted the party chiefs with fears
that:
l. The New York party split over
the national committeeman may
cast . doubt" on the advisability Of
Mr.. Dewey's candidacy in. other
States.
2. Mr.. Simpson, also New York
County chairman, may drag his %
home delegates into a national con-
vention battle against Mr.. Dewey.
3. A planned selection Of a. Simp-
son successor prior to the June
nominating session contrary to prec-
edent, could raise an embarrassing
question of validity from the pro-
testing Republican group which in
cludes supporters of Frank Gam
nett, Rochester publisher, for the
nomination.
While Mr.. Dewey carried Wiscon-
sin and Nebraska primaries over
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
and disclosed a large following in
Illinois, where he was unopposed
the New York leaders saw possibility
OF at least a slight drop in their
candidates stock unless the party
breach is satisfactorily explained.
Consequently, they argued that
what Mr.. Simpson termed "a mani
fest attempt to repudiate" him
merely constituted an effort to erase
Evening star., 1940-04-14


the council. and Mrs w. A. Roberts,
executive secretary.
The Nominating Committee, COM
posed of John Ihlder, chairman:
Mrs. Albert Atwood and Judge Fay
L. Bentley, will present for consid-
Grafton of the delegates the names
of Is persons for election as men,
bers at large. They are James V.
Bennett, Mrs. Whitman Cross, DR..
Ernest S. Griffith, Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, Owen Lovejoy, Mrs. William
Kittle, Mrs. E. C. Nourse, Vincent
Saccardi, Elisabeth Christman, DR..
BENJAMIN E. Mays, Arthur Schoen-
thai, Walter S. Ufford, Mrs. Walter
S. Ufford, Mrs. Prentiss Wilson and
Or. Carl Wells.
For the Board of Directors OF the
council the Nominating Committee
will present these for election or re-
election: Mr.. Bennett, Leifur Mag
nusson, Mrs. John Jay OConnor,
Mrs. William Kittle and DR.. Ben
jamin E. Mays.
Col. Allan, the son of pioneer Of
ficers of the Salvation Army, has
been a Salvation Army officer for 33
years, serving in many parts of the
country. For nine years he was in
charge of Salvation Army work in
the Bowery and lower East Side in
New York City.
He is a member of the National
Conference of Social Work and the
American Association of Social
Workers. In New York he is a di-
rector of the Welfare Council and is
on the board of the Greater New
York Federation of Churches. He
is a member of the Social Service
Exchange Committee and of the sec
ton on the care of unattached and
homeless of the New York Welfare
Council.
Evening star., 1940-04-14

the "anti-Dewey taste" left by the
committeeman during his appear
ances In other States.
Mr.. Dewey, EN- route from New
York City to Washington for the
annual Gridiron Club dinner be-
fore swinging into another Western
tour. refused to comment on the
State committees action.
Symptoms that Mr.. Simpson will
wage stubborn battle to prevent a
good share Of New York's 90 con-
vention votes from going to Mr..
Dewey were seen by leaders In his
reaction to the State committees
move.
Declaring that now he is relieved