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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Tony Sylvester, the rotund little
gent who doubles in brass as pro-
fessional at the Capital Golf and
Country Club and successful college
links coach, isn't exactly happy
about the prospects Of Georgetown
University's golfers to defend their
Eastern intercollegiate league cham
pionship in 1941, but he isn't down.
cast about 1t. And q miracle may
happen, according to Tony. which
would mean that Georgetown might
come up with another strong golf
team.
On the threshold Of another col
lege year Tony took stock of his
prospects for 1941. Golf happens to
be a pretty important sport at the
Hilltop. The Georgetown boys have
had good football team for the past
two seasons, and their baseball team
hasn't been any part Of pushover.
But golf is one Of the big ones. The
Hoyas won their first college links
title in many years with the 1910
outfit captained by Johnny Burke,
the Providence redhead.
But Johnny, and Billy Shea, Ray
Higgins and some other stalwarts
of that championship 1910 team
have graduated and Tony Syl-
vester now Is trying to fill the gaps
It's going to be a tough job, so Tony
thinks, but he is hopeful 1t can be
done.
Tony Is Philosopher.
Philosophy being one of the items
which make up the Sylvester dis
position Tony views it this way:
Those other schools lost q lot OF
their best boys by graduation. Now
I've had the finest backing In the
world from the powers-that-be at
the Hilltop. and I'm sure I'll put
out a pretty good team when the
college matches start next spring.
I'm going to miss boys like Shea,
and Burke and Calvin and Higgins,
but well be in there trying. And
I think we'll do all right.
I'VE have q youngster coming up
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Graceful Isais Falls
As Allen Retains
Ringer Crown
n. WoodfieId Declines
National Presidency;
Henson Makes Hit
Special Dispatch to The Star.

DIES MONIES, Iowa. Aug. z9.-
Ted Allen still is the world cham
pion horseshoe pitcher by virtue OF
two consecutive victories over Isais
Fernando of Mexico, but folks who
witnessed the big barnyard tourney
playof yesterday agree that the
colorful gaucho from beyond the Rio
Grande has better pitching form
than the titleholder.
Fernando losses his ringers With
the greatest Of ease and grace
slapping irons on the stakes as deli
cately as q ballet dancer turning .
pirouette.
Allen Wins All Way.
Fernando proved his accuracy by
tieing Allen and Guy Zimmerman In
the regular matches with % victories
and only two defeats.
But If Aliens form wasn't as good
as the Mexican's his pitching eye
was trifie keener. Tuesday he dis
posed of Zimmerman In two straight
games and his performance yester-
day was equally consistent. Most
fans thought Fernando would make
it more interesting for the champ
and a few thought Isais would win,
but he was a dead duck almost from
the first pitch.
Fans Take to Henson.
Clayton (Boo) Henson from
Washington, D. c., made q favorable
impression on the spectators and
probably would have made a much
better showing in the tournament
with more training. Henson sur
prised by grabbing sixth place on q
list Of 81 qualifers. He finished
22d in match play.
Harry Woodfield, also Of Washing
ton, declined the presidency Of the
National Horseshoe Pitchers Asso-
citation but accepted the chairman
ship Of the Publicity Committee.
Oficers elected were Leroy Page
Des Moines, president: Jack Clares,
st. Louis, first vice president; Robert
Tompkin. Ames, Iowa, second vice
president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Ernie and Emil Dusek
Pair on Mat Against
Newman, PIumman
Two-Mun Bout Features
Arena Show Tonight;
Girl Champ Billed

Turner's Arena should hum to-
night merrily for the feature attrac-
ton Is a two-man team match.
In this corner are Eddie Newman
and Lou Plumman and those gents
over there are pair OF Dusek
brothers, Ernie and Emil.
The Newman-Plummer combina-
ton has won three matches locally
and on the strength of that record
are claiming the world two-man
championship.
AS special attraction, the
women's world lightweight title
holder, Mildred Burke, exchanges
grips with Betty Foster, Florida
champion.
On the program, also are, Sheriff
Tom Hanley, 300-pounder, who
faces Tommy Mahoney, former
prize fighter, and Tommy O'Toole
who will oppose Herb Freeman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Women's Corby Cup Golf
DeudIine Wednesday

A reminder to the feminine golf
ers: Entries for the Corby Cup
tourney at Columbia will close Sep
TENDER 4 for the affair scheduled
September 6. This tournament is for
class A golfers.
At least a dozen Washington
women will leave town today or to-
morrow for White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va, where the Mason and Dixon
tourney will be held over the Labor
Day week end. Betty p. Meckley,
Kenwood's dependable star, Is an
entrant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Heurich, St. Elizabeth
Game Slated Today

Postponed three days, the Heurich
Brewers-St. Elizabeth's game was
rescheduled today for 4:30 o'clock on
the South Ellipse.
1t will be the opening game Of
the annual championship series to
determine the Districts representa-
tive in the national tournament at
Birmingham. Ala.
Pepco, United States Government
League winner, is the third team.
Eddie Colliflower and Joe McFad-
den were to toe the mound for
Heurich and the Saints, respectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Dodqers' Pilot Still Punchinq,
Comedies NOTHING to Reds

The wonder man Of Brooklyn
conceded only one point-that the
quick work which brought Jimmy
Ripple to the Reds on waivers was
"just one of those things" Jimmy
helped spark the Dodgers to third
place last year, but the Reds
snatched him off Brooklyn's Mont
real farm last week.
II wish we could have kept him,
but we just had too many outfield-
srs. Hes q great guy and a swell
ball player, and he'll help you a
lot"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
'Do-or-Die' Battles
Faced by Semipro
Leaders Of 1899
Duncan, Mount Pleasant
Mines Out Of Tourney
If Beaten Tonight
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WICHITA, Kans.. Aug. 2s.-It's
"do-or-die" for the 1889 champion
and runnerup in the national semi
pro tournament tonight.
Duncan. Okla. last years titlist,
puts Its crown on the block In q
fourth-round clash with Natrona,
Pa, while Mount Pleasant, Tex,
which finished No. 2 a year ago,
meets Chicago in q quarter-fnal
game.
The four teams each have lost one
game. so the losers will drop out of
the tournament.
Mount Pleasant pared the field to
seven teams last night by eliminat-
ing Worcester, Mass, 6-5, after
Enid. Okla, 1887 champion, handed
Sanford, N. c., its first defeat, IL
10.
Standings Of the seven survivors:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Small Nine on Rood

Frank Small Motors nine will
meet the Locust Grove CVa0 team in
twin bill Monday. Players are
requested to report to the managers
home not later than 10 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Tokomo Tigers Are Busy

Takoma Tigers will be busy over
the week end, meeting Kensington
In a twin-bill Sunday at Four
Corners and Rockville In a single
game Monday on the same diamond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Duckpin League Meets

Prince Georges County Duckpin
League will reorganize tomorrow
night at meeting at o'clock at
Hyattsville Arcade Alleys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Bethesdon Gridmen Drill

Bethesda Chevy Chase A. A. grid
men have listed their first practice
Tuesday on the recreational center
grounds. They will compete In 150-
pound ranks,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Net BIunks Available

Entry blanks for the Government
tennis tournament, opening Septem-
bert, are available at the Tennis
Shop, 1919 Fifteenth street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Black Sox Of 'l9 Would Make
Tribe Seem Happy Family

Mr.. James Dykes believes it Is next
TO impossible to win without team
cooperation and the old Frank
Merriwell oomph. Manager Of the
White Sox himself, Mr.. Dykes has
forgotten the White Cor Black Sox
of 1919.
I have = on the authority of
Edward Trowbridge Collins, second
baseman of the 1919 Chicago team,
that no ball club in history was so
pockmarked with feuds and riddled
with good, -elean internecine hatred.
The cold Silence that prevailed on
the bench between teammate and
teammate was interrupted from
time to time when some one thought
of a new and dirtier crack to make
about some one else. Otherwise, the
boys did not speak at all.
Mr.. Chick Gandil, the first base
man, did not speak to Mr. Collins,
the second baseman, though they
played side by side all year and
performed with great brillance and
technical harmony. Mr.. Buck
Weaver, the third baseman. did not
speak to Mr.. Ray Schalk, the catch
er; and Mr.. Schalk did not speak
to any of the pitchers except Mr..
Dick Kerr and Mr.. Red Faber.
Three infielders, two outfielders and
a couple of pitchers pretended at
all times not to notice Mr.. Kid
Gleason, the manager, and Mr..
Gleason had no use at all, person.
ally, for some of his finest athletes.
Tinker and Evers Another
Pair of Classic Hoters
Yet the White Sox won the pen
nant all by themselves that year,
and would have won the World Series
in a single gulp if they had not
decided to dicker with the gamblers.
Another minor instance of friction
which did not interfere with results
was the fine Corsican loathing Joe
Tinker had for Johnny Evers, and
vice versa, when these two gentle
men constituted one Of the great
second-base combinations of all
time with the Chicago Cubs. They
hated each other, and their rivalry
on the field led to one tremendous
play after another.
The Indians of 1910, therefore,
may still get away with 1t. They
have a couple Of classic precedents
in their favor. But if they do, James
Dykes will swear there Is no justice
in the world, and very likely will
decide to start hating his own play
ers from the sound Of the bell next
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Trosky and Hemsley Ignore
Witt and Oss Reciprocotes

Mr.. Harold Trosky, the large first
seseman, and MIR. Ralston Hemsley,
the temperance crusader, do not
speak to Mr.. Witt, and Mr.. Witt does
not speak to them. Mr.. Robin
Feller, the Mad Dog Of the Highway,
frankly views Mr.. Witt as an i'm
pediment to his progress, and Mr..
Witt no longer bangles Robin on
his knee.
Some Of the younger players
think Mr.. Trosky and Mr.. Teller
are full of hop, and they take no
pains to conceal it. AL in all, it
is quite the reverse of a rotary
picnic. A neutral observer cannot
pass the Cleveland bench without
suffering flesh wounds from the
dirty looks flying back and forth.
This makes it hard to understand
why Cleveland has played better
ball than ever since the bad feeling
broke loose, but the case is by no
means unique in baseball history.
Another team-a great team-won
the American League pennant once
in an atmosphere of pure and I'M
stifled ill-wil that makes the
Cleveland team resemble q reunion
of the class of '05.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
From the
Press Box
indians Lead League
Despite Dirty Looks
BY JOHN LARDNER,
,e~i.l Cnrra<nondart ~ ThA ASa y

NEW YORK, Aug. % (NANA).-
The Cleveland ball club goes its way,
with everybody hating everybody
else and nobody speaking to the
manager except mis- relatives, and
still the Indians lead the American
League, with as good chance to
win the pennant as any other team.
OF course, there are certain philos-
ophers, including James Dykes Of
Chicago. who hold that the cancer
will take its toll before the end
Of the season.
when they come down the
stretch and play those final games
with Detroit and the other Western
clubs" predicts Mr.. Dykes, "the
heat will be on, and there's no sub
stitute under pressure for team play
and hustle. There's trouble on that
club, and the rest of us will pick
away at it. After all, it's our
business to win. and if Cleveland
has a weakness, we'll play to it."
Cleveland has trouble, all right.
Ever since the majority Of Its regu-
lar players went to their employer,
Alva Bradley, and asked him to fire
Manager Oscar Witt, interlocking
feuds and hatreds have bloomed like
skunk cabbage. Bradley's lukewsrm,
let's pretend-not- to-notice-i atti-
tude has done nothing to mend the
breach.
Evening star., 1940-06-02
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Evening star., 1940-01-14
Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

THE CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART. Seventeenth
New York NWWae drawings drypoints
Hobart Nichols Sculpture
Barnes through January 81 Memorial exhibition paintings by
Eugene Vail through January
THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON 2o17 street NV
by Margaret S. zmmee, January 26.
w PHILIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY 1900 Twenty street
NATIONAL MUSEUM Natural History Building Tenth street
and Constitution avenue NWIbby eengs by Plat Hubbard
OF Richmond Va and woodtuning James L. Prestni
NATIONAL MUSEUM Arts and Industries Building south side
Of the Mall at Ninth street Camera Club Council
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth N.W-Tahtian
ings by Hester M. Handley, January 2
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GA1LERY-Exhibiton
man drawings ehig autographs and woodcus by Lu Kohn
of Munich, January to 81
FREER GALLERY OF ART the Mall at Twelfth street NV
by James Mcneil Whistler the Peacock Room paintings
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, DIVISION OF FINE ARTs-prints
whistler and related from the Oaks
the Pennel Fund Exhibition Early Architecture of the Deep
acquisitions prints by leading contemporary American foreign
printmakers.
textiles of Near and Far East Mondays Wednesday
Myers $50 Fifteenth street NV
CHALET NoNPARE11 Georgetown road, Bethesda
William Sanford jr. to January 2s
Memorial Continental Hail. and
Friday at 3:45 pm.
Allegations GALLERY, District Works Admins
traton BIG Independence avenue paintings and ulp
lures for loan to ax-supported institutions.
cH1IDRENs GALLERY, District Works Projects Admnistra-
Danish ehdreps ar A'e'0' <"'iaf showing
THE STUDIO GALLERY, w. N.w.-Paint-
and drawings by Myrta Williams Spence January
BooKsHoP GALLERY, GIG Seventeenth Nw-Ltho-
graphs drawings and paintings Phyllis
STUDIO, District of Columbia Branch League American
Women 1139 Connecticut avenue NWPantng by DR. Florence
Everhait, January to 80.
JUNIOR LEAGUE GALLERY. 2oo1 Massachusetts, NV
Hallowen, January IA through 81.
HALL. Naturalization paintings by
Orren Loudon, January IA to February s.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Masterpieces of Italian

OF utmost interest and Importance
is the announcement that from Jan.
uary 26 to some time in March the
paintings and sculpture lent by the
italian government to the San Fran.
cisco Exposition will be exhibited in
the Museum Of Modern Art, New
York. These are all world MASTER
pieces-Such as Botticelli's Birth of
Venus" and Raphael's Madonna of
the Chair"-and not only are price,
less, but even under normal condi-
tions cannot be seen under one roof,
coming from the national museums
in Florence, Venice, Naples, Turin,
Rome, Modena and elsewhere.
The collection, which comprises 21
paintings and 7 works in sculpture,
is given sanctuary by the Museum
of Modern Art hecause war in Eu-
rope has made their return by sea
too perilous. o.. account of this oc-
currence. however, Italy has passed
a new law which will henceforth
prevent them, and other works of
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Lyon Elected President

At a meeting of the Society Of
Washington Artists held at the Arts
Club on January Rowland Lyon
was elected president to succeed
Charles Bittinger, who, on account
of frequent absences from the city,
resigned. Mr. Lyon had previously
been vice president and in his place
A. H. o. Role was elected. Both
elections were to fill uneXpired terms
but with the probability of re-elec-
ton. Mr.. Lyon has in recent years
won an enviable place for himself
in art circles by the merit of his
work and the confidence and esteem
of his fellow workers. Mr.. Role has
long been prominent in both the
Society Of Washington Artists and
the Landscape Club and is a painter
of gift and sincerity.
The Society Of Washington Artists
will hold its 49th annual exhibition
in the Corcoran Gallery of Art Feb
ruary 10 to March 3, at which medals
will be given for the most meritori-
Evening star., 1940-01-14

precisely what the artist endeavc
to do, but does not always succec
Mrs. Handley is apparently al,
to adjust herself to startling cl,-
matte extremes, for in 1887 sh i,
spent four months drawing tt .
Reindeer Lapps in Swedish Lap
land, the following year she win
tered in Jamaica, and last year she
spent five months in Tahiti and
other places in the Society Islands,
making the collection of drawings
now on view at the Public Library.
Showed Grave Faces
Most of these drawings depict
children of Tahiti, Moorea, Mataiea
district, and Borabora on the Lee
ward Isles. Done with black and
brown crayons in clear, firm line
for the most part, the portraits
dlfferentiate subtly between the
personalities of the youthful sub
jects-some shy or contemplative.
some wistful, one or two with a
vague air of defiance about them.
In no instance, however, did they
turn merry faces to the artist:
their expressions are uniformly
grave If not sad. This is at va
rance with the majority of written
accounts, which describe the Ia
hltians as gay, light-hearted, friv-
olous people. Perhaps they were
thus before the white man invaded
their island paradise.
But there is no doubt that the
Tahitians are handsome. Their
golden brown skin, wavy hair, beau
tlful eyes and pointed chins, inter-
eStingly combined with rather thick
lips and broad noses, are discerni-
Bile in Mrs. Handleys drawings,
Just as they are in Gauguin's
paintings, although it would be diff
f1cult to find greater contrast in
artistic approach. Mrs. Handleys
work is good, straightforward
craftsmanship, with only an oc-
casional indecisive passage, as in
her portrait of a girl of the Ma
talea district. One of the best
drawings is that of a woman of
Borabora with beautifully mod.
eled face. People interested in eth.
nology or good drawing, or both.
Will f1nd this exhibition rewarding.
Evening star., 1940-01-14

light to which reference has already
been made, is charming transcript
ton of the entrance to the Casa
Petrarca"-on the Grand Canal
near the Rialto-well known to
many American tourists as place
of temporary residence.
Do Times Change?
The least interesting works in
this comprehensive collection are
the portraits, some of which seem
to have unduly darkened, possibly
because of inferiority of medium or
misuse of chemically antagonistic
colors, while others lack the
strength of modelling seen in such
compositions as Ready About" :"
The most interesting from our
present-day viewpoint are the
flower and still-life studies, which
are delightful in color and pattern,
fresh and altogether lovely sub
jectively, but, above ALL artistically.
This brings us back to our start
ing point-memories, and memories
in the making, the past and the
present. Do times really change?
In the much-derided 18th century
were there not good paintings as
we'll as bad? We see that there
were. And in this enlightened Goth
century is not the case the same?
Certainly, but with this difference
the volume is greater, the founda-
ton less substantially laid, and the
quest for sheer beauty by no means
so ardent. But beauty is eternal,
and that which is without founda-
ton will not long stand, So for the
future of art, we need not fear.
Of the painter Eugene Vail a few
words in conclusion may be said.
He must have been charming
person. At Stevens he is remem-
bered for his gayety and initiative;
among the fisherfolk of France he
was very popular; he was keenly
interested in sports of all kinds, but
especially the winter sports which
he enjoyed in Switzerland; the
artists with whom he was thrown in
contact found him boon COM
panion. The greater part of his life
was spent in Europe-but he was
thoroughly American at heart, as
we'll as by education and marriage.
1t is hard to think of him as seces-
sionist, but he was one of a group
which seeded from the Societe In
ternationale de Peinture ct Sculp-
ture and formed the Societe No.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Art Information, Please

Patterned after the popular radio
feature, Information Please" the
Corcoran School of Art held, in De-
cember, an art Information Please"
evening in the auditorium, which
proved SO successful that another
OF the same order is announced for
Wednesday, January II. at pm.
A jury of five experts will endeavor
to answer all questions asked con-
corning paintings and sculpture, and
if, or when, they fail, crisp 81 bill
will be handed to the questioner.
To all who are interested a cordial
invitation not only to attend but
participate is extended. 1t should
be borne in mind. however, that
questions must be written and
handed in
Evening star., 1940-01-14

distant hills are purple, and only
over the shoulder of these appear
the covered peaks. The char
acter of the view is utterly differ
ent from that, for instance, of the
Swiss Caster and Pollux" and "Un-
der the Mittigshorn" But even in
summer dress they would not be
| the same.
Only part of Mr. Shepler's ex-
hibition is made up of snow scenes.
1t was in doing these that he dis
covered his facility, but he has
lately stepped into a broader field.
His painting entitled After Mass,
st. Adele, Laurentians" is an excel
lent piece of work, the little church
facing the observer across a square,
sleighs moving from it, people filling
the sidewalk, while a skier makes
his way along the street London
Umbrellas" is also very clever and
successful transcription of wet
street in that great city, and Camp
at Bow Lake" has much to commend
it. But less can be said in praise
of his West College, Williams" or,
for that matter, of his rendition
of buildings generally. inasmuch as
they seem to have only two dimen-
sions-to be walls with nothing in
side-and rather papery at that. One
wonders why, when this artist can
so we'll paint mountain, he ap-
parently cannot paint a house. Not
especially successful. either, is he
in life-size portrait in water color
of Girl in Blue Sweater" But por-
traiture in water color demands a
technique of its own.
Included in this exhibition are
two reproductions in color of two
of Mr.. Shepler's Skiing pictures
"On the Glacier" and Powder
Snow"-both of which have been
signed by the artist. So perfect
are they, and like the paintings,