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Evening star., 1940-12-25
Ladder on problem No. 300, 70

Ladder on problem No. 29o, 70
date:
w. B. Boger, Edmund Nash. Eugene N.
Ramsey. Fred L. Arends. George II.
Hex5 correeon aaF9a Neyer Mse Schulz pu
in the Washington Chess Divan's raoid
transit tourney. has been a member of
the club since December 1. He is an
Kussman Challenges All.
Winfred Horn announces that A.
S. Kussman, sometime captain of
the chess team of City College of
New York, past participant in a
number of European tournaments,
will engage all comers in a public
simultaneous exhibition Friday, 8
pm, Hotel Portland, under aus
pices of Federal Security Chess
Club.
No coverage to tilt with the
kleiner meister, but each player
is requested to bring board and
men so as to facilitate play. Games
will begin promptly and women as
we'll as men combatants are vel
coined. Tournament Director Har-
ry Siller is master of arrangements.
Center Club Organizes.
Headed by Joseph Benjamin and
Charles Pustilnik, the Jewish Com
munity Center Chess Club will con-
duct an organization meeting
Thursday. pm, at the center.
Ed Bernstein. at the center, will
supply any data on the new club
which is non-sectarian and open
to all.
December Is, 1940)
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Eagles Seek Second
Trophy in Series
Opening Friday
Tilt With Rovers Begins
Boardwalk Cup Scrap;
Burns in Spotlight

Washington's Hockey Eagles, with
the Hershey Cup, emblematic of the
first third championship, in thei.
possession, start after a second prize
Friday when they entertain the New
York Rovers at Riverside in the first
game of the Boardwalk Cup Series
Spectators Friday night will salute
the Eastern Leagues undisputed, in
dividual scoring leader in Norm
Burns, brilliant center, who fired
q goals and assists for 36-point
total in matches extending through
December %.
The sensational Burns, released
by Atlantic City in midseason a
year ago and later claimed by River
Vale, set something of record
against his old River Vale mates
recently by firing three goals and
an assist in each of two consecutive
matches.
Little less spectacular has been
the rise of Hal Dewey, veteran wing
man. from obscurity into tie for
eighth place among the pointmakers
with 20 points. Dewey was fourth
ranking among the Eastern League S
scorers a year ago.
Evening star., 1940-12-25

with the giant event to close
January 3.
Approximately $4,000 men and
women fired the preliminary and
Is per cent of these are eligible for
the roll-off. A handicap system
leaves the gate to the coin wide open
to all. The prize list is long with
top gross sets of each sex. in the
final worth $100 and a gold medal.
Handicaps Remain Same.
Most of the maple plants pub
lished lists of their qualiflers and
some further notified them. Alley
managers who have not done so
are urged to send in their lists for
publication.
Those who shoot the final will
pay only the usual price of games,
five for men and three for women.
Handicaps allotted in the prelim-
mary will be given on the same scale
in the roll-off with limit of 18
pins game.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Keiser, Former Fistic
Star, Now Fighting
.ToSave Foot
By the Associated Press.

b5 tne Associated PreSS.
CUMBERLAND Md, Dec. 25.-
One of the prize rings gamest war
riors. who fought the best of them
from 1915 to 1927 is making a
courageous fight at his home here
to keep from losing a foot.
Fay Walton Keiser, 46, member
of the Celanese Police force, was
badly hurt when a 14-foot board he
was putting up in the basement of
his home fell on his right foot.
Relatives reported the foot may
have to be amputated.
Keiser was one of the busiest
middleweight boxers in the country
prior 10 his retirement from the
arena 13 years ago.
Perhaps his most notable achieve
ment was scoring nine-count
knockdown over Gene Tunney
when he fought him in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Keiser fought the late Harry
Greb, one time king of the middle
weights, eight times; Young Strib-
bling, Billy Shade, Young Bob
Fitzsinlmons, Jimmy Slattery, Hap
py Littleton, jeff Smith, Jimmy
Darcy and many other topnotchers.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Mississippi State Has Best Grid Team History Toss Against Hyas
Bowling Operators Generous
To Christmas Fund as Star
Tourney RoN-OH Opens

Money minded duckpin shooters
who think The Star Yuletide Handi-
cap, the, roll-off of which will open
tomorrow, is gold mine" for alley
owners might have figured different
ly had they seen Ed Schlegel. secre-
tary of the Metropolitan Washington
Bowling Operators Association, turn
in a check today to The Stars
Christmas House Fund.
The bit of paper represented $186
and contribution from every estab-
lishment embraced by the tourna-
ment. But the $186 wasn't all con-
tributed by the bowling industry
Sunday other offerings from alley
men boosted the total well beyond
the 5000 mark.
Crawleys, Furman Big Hearted.
Conspicuous as usual in the Christ
mas fund effort were the Crawley
family of Mount Rainier, who not
only kicked in generously from their
alleys till but gathered a sizable
crop of spinach from their patrons
Another to make a special try for
the fund was Frank Furman of
Petworth, who turned over last
Saturday nights receipts from his
top floor.
Competition for the bulk of a
$1,l40 prize fund in The Star tour
nament, a kitty that was sweetened
handsomely by alley owners, will
| begin tomorrow throughout the city
Evening star., 1940-12-25

A lot of feminine golfers with
tournament ambitions are due for
rude shock when the winter tour
nament season starts next month
around the swanky precincts of Au-
gusta, Orn4ond, Palm Beach and
Miami.
A tiny chunk of femininity named
Elizabeth Hicks, who halls from far
off California, is getting ready to
cut a wide swath in the ranks of
the girls who annually go south
seeking the little trinkets they hand
out to the winners along the winter
tournament trail.
Betty will do all right, too. Here
for a Christmas visit with Helen
Dettweiler, Elizabeth played her first
round of golf at Congressional yes
terday. The 5-foot 1-inch young
ster from Long Beach, Calf, hit
that ball so far and so straight
on a slow course that Billy Dett-
weller and Billy Shea, who happen
to be two of the better hitters
around town, had to bear down
Evening star., 1940-12-25
From the
Press Box
Good Pro Plain Poison
To Mysterious Golfer
By JOHN LARDNER.

special correspondent OF The star.
NEW YORK, Dec. Is (N.AN.A.).
"A dose OF Sam Snead, OF course,
is a pretty good cure for any mys-
terious Montague, be he Cuban,
Californian or Balinese. The mys-
terious Montague has come to be
special breed of golfer, named for
the original Montague. but exist
ing, probably. in every country,
state, duchy and stadthold where
golf is played
7 don't doubt for a minute that
on the windy plateau of Kurdistan
(watered by the greater and the
lesser Zab Rivers there is some
golfer who can shoot Cos over those
Kurdish fairWays, a man whom his
fellow Kurds will back to the limit
against all comers Golf is a game
which stirs up patriotism, both local
and national
Take the case of the mysterious
Montague of Cuba. one Rufino Con-
zalez. AS you probably read, he
played special betting match with
Snead the other day over the Ha-
vana Country Club course, which
is Senor Gonzalez's private pre-
serve. Over that course he is said
to be hot as the sun and sure as
death.
When Snead found an American
to back him for $4,000, the flower
and chivalry of Cuba sWarmed for
ward as one man to fade him.
Originally, Senor Thor~ald Sanchez
covered the bet, but the pressure
brought by his compadres was so
great that he would up giving away
many pieces.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Refusal to Lend Stadium
To Pros Declared Joke

In the next day or two these eight
bowl platoons will be established in
the four big bowl cities, putting on
: the so-called final touches.
I believe by now that each of these
eight teams realizes the big job
ahead against a high-class oppo-
nent. with no walkover in sight.
ANY coach or any team that might
be thinking of an easy afternoon
should be examined for serious head
trouble. For the headache, next
day, will be terrific.
In the meanwhile, the now ia
NOUS Chicago Bears will display
their 73-to-0 wares against the pick
of the pro league at Los Angeles
on Sunday.
They won't let the pros use the
sacred turf of the 10000 admission
Los Angeles Municipal Stadium,
even for charity, which is at least
the greatest sporting joke of 1910.
But for all that. it still will be,
or still should be, one of the best
football games of great football
year.
OF course, all the backs they can
show will be Baugh, Luckman, Os-
manski McAfee, Drake and some
10 or IL others.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
The
SPoRTLIeH7
Every Team With Bowl
Dote Up Against 1t
BY GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25 (N.A.
NAD-The bowl boys now are look
ing into their Christmas stockings,
using a crystal gazer. For I can
tell you, directly and conf dentially,
they all are puzzled.
I have an idea that each one has
vague feeling that it is going to
be tougher thany any one expected.
This applies to all eight teams.
Stanford now is looking for a
hard game than Stanford expected
to draw against Nebraska. For Ne
braska is coming along to prove that
the Big Six or the Missouri Valley
can play its share of football
I know Texas A. and M. at first
felt certain that it could take good
care of Fordham. Lately Texas A.
and M. has heard more about the
running and passing strength of the
Fordham backfeld, one of the best
in the game. Texas A. and M. with
all its big line and its powerful
backfield drive, isn't quite so sure
today.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Parks Signs Contract
While in Hospital

Mickey Parks, veteran Redskin
lineman, is in Emergency Hospital
recovering from a knee operation
but all isn't as dull as holidays in
hospitals usually are.
Mickey was visited by General
Manager Jack Espey yesterday and
they exchanged signatures on a
contract for 1941. With the knee
repaired, Parks expects to be in
shape for another tough season.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Little Betty Hicks WolIops
Golf Ball, Extending Male
Stars to Outdrive Her

to get their tee shots out in front
of her. She scored a 70.
We'd heard that Diminutive Betty
Hicks was quite a hitter; that she
put a lot o. "oomph" into her shots.
So we found out. She has all they
said she had and in addition she
is very good putter. She's going
to make life drab affair for a lot
of gals with tournament winning
ambitions around the Florida circuit
this winter.
But Betty isn't satisfied with her
game. Its very ragged" she says.
Il need lot of practice and some
hard matches. 1t takes those to
get you in shape for a tough CAM
paign." Last year she won the Palm
Beach and Ormond tournaments.
Patty Berg, according to the
Hicks girl, is the best. OF course,
Patty has turned pro, and won't get
in the hair of the feminine anna
teurs, for while, at least.
Betty Hicks fond hope is that
Santa Claus will bring her the in
fallible putting stroke.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Lilo to Get Ace Award
At Touchdown Fete

Augie Lilo, Georgetown's 300
pound guard, continues to receive
football honors.
1t was announced today that he
will receive the Arch Mcdonald
Award at the Touchdown Clubs
annual banquet on January 6 at
the Willard Hotel. This award goes
annually to the outstanding COL
legiate football player in Washing
ton.
Lilo also has been named to Lib
erty Magazines third all-America
team. He was named on the maga-
zines first all-Eastern eleven.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Bruins, New CoIored Quintet
Here, to Play Renaissance

A newly organized colored pro-
fessional basket ball team, the
Washington Bruins, makes its debut
Sunday at Turner's Arena to start
a career which they hope will reach
the heights of other great Negro
quints, such as the New York
Renaissance and Harlem Globe
Trotters
Both those outfits will be played
later in the season, the Rens in
January and the Globe Trotters in
February, but the immediate busi-
ness is the Philadelphia Crescents,
Sundays opposition, and the Pitts
burgh Beacons on January 5. Home
games will be played every Sunday
at the arena at pm. Public work.
Evening star., 1940-12-25

outs in preparation for the first
game will be held Saturday at $3.50
and $50 at the arena.
Among the well-known colored
basket ball stars who will play with
the Bruins are Fats Jenkins, for
merly of the Rens; Tarzen Cooper,
former Harlem player; Soupy
Campbell, three times all-C. I. A. A.
forward and captain of the Union
University cage team; Wilbur Clark,
forward at Morfan College; Bill
Lampkin, another all-C. 1. A. A
player at Morgan; Ezra Murdock,
Morris Brown; Jimmy (Shootmore)
Brown, Miner Teachers, and Buck
Covington, another former Miner
star.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Michigan Gridder Hero
Is Rescuer of Child

y BY the Associated Press.
ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dec. 25.-
Robert Bullet Bob Westfall, Mlchl-
gan football captain-elect and one
of the Nations leading ground
gamers last season, played a hero's
role yesterday.
He rescued 8-year-old Nelson Tur-
ner, who fell through ice on the
Huron River, by pushing him to
safety.
Two policemen attempting to
rescue Turner also crashed through.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Mysterious Golf Can Poy
Handsome liyino

There is no substitute for long, hot
seasons of tournament play, sum-
mer and winter, all over the con-
tinent, where even the best pros,
the Nelson's. Guldahls and Sneads,
sometimes falter. And even then.
the testing, tempering process must
be based on great natural talent and
the proper traits of character.
Worked in the right vein, "mysteri-
GUS" golf can provide handsome
living. The original Montague" did
we'll in betting way as long as he
resisted the advice of his friends to
come out in the open and meet the
tournament players. When he made
the mistake of doing so. he revealed
the unsoundness of his game, and
mysterious golf suffered all over
the world
A mysterious golfer doesn't need
a sound game when he sticks to his
own racket and works it carefully
and skillfully. What he needs is
build-up, a quick gambling head and
the right sort of opposition.
Titonic Thompson Snort
In Not Playing Pros
The smartest mysterious golfer
known to history was, and still may
be. character named Titanic
Thompson, who once played cards
with the Rothstein mob. Thompson
always remained under cover, and
always prospered, except on the rare
occasions when the police of Hot
Springs and other rich mines of
sucker. money asked him to move
along.
He was a left-handed golfer with
a change of pace He could step
his game up or down. scaling it
to the abilities of the sucker in ques-
tion At his best, he could shoot
in the high Cos. but you never would
suspect that from watching him
shoot a 80 to beat the other mans
SO.
Titanic also relied strongly on
a bag of tricks and psychological
ruses, such as the one where he
offered the other guy five drives a.
hole. the best one to count, against
his own single tee shot. At the end
of 10 or II holes, the eager sucker
barely could raise his arms.
Titanic was not the best or sound
est golfer in the country, but he
didn't have to be. He never went
about challenging the Samuel Jack
son Sneads of this world.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Delaware Coach Sought
For Berth at Tumpu

TAMPA, Fla, Dec 25 P.-Dr.
James E. Mooney, president of the
University of Tampa has announced
that he would recommend to trustees
the appointment of Flucie L. Stew
art, now head coach at Delaware, to
be athletic director here.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Rock OutfieIder Amono
Two Chisox to Sion

CHICAGO. Dec. 25 (P.-Signed
contracts of Outfelder Taft Wright
and Rookie Dave Short have arrived
at the offices of the Chicago White
Sox.
Short is a youthful outfielder pur-
chased from Oklahoma City.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Mosterson Turns Coach

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25 (F).-Ber-
ME Masterson, Chicago Bears back
field ace and one-time Nebraska
star, has signed a contract as back
field coach at University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
# [HE: E 8 #
BY PAUL J. MILLER.

battling at the Marshall Chess Club of New
larels uadioncovered
Dartmouth absent from the play due to nonuaby of the
chosen for the matches Play is the Manhattan
American chess champion Marshall
aumnus serves as orna-
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Yale Victor at Hockey

s COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. Is
P.-Yale defeated Colorado Col
lege 5 to l in a hockey game last
night.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Tennessee-B B. c. Probably
Hordest Come to Pick

The Tennessee Boston College
game remains one of the main
CANDLES.
Tennessee undoubtedly has more
all-around line and backfeld speed,
Tennessee wasn't pressed all year.
Volunteer supporters recall that
year ago Clemson defeated this same
B. C. outfit at Dallas. I still say
that the Boston College team I saw
is a match for any team in the
country-if it goes South in condi-
ton and then goes out to win.
This game probably is the tough
est pick of the lot-and it should
be one of the great games of the
year. The talent-and the records
Acertainly are there.
The Georgetown Mississippi State
game is almost as tough for any
rambling soothsayer.
Harry Mehre of Mississippi. one
of the best of all the calm and sane
Judges, rates Mississippi State at
least one Of two touchdowns better.
Rotes Georgetown on Por
With Boston COLLEGE,
But after watching Georgetown
against Boston College. I rate
Georgetown on a par with Boston
College, although Georgetown was
beaten by single point.
know Georgetown has quite
football team, even with Kopcik,
or Ii ice
! also know any team that can run
over Ole Miss and Alabama as Miss
issippi State did must have plenty.
All this is what makes crystal
gazing tough in these next bowl
shows. So much depends on spirit
and condition. And this is one fea-
. ture to which the South usually re-
spends. With few exceptions it takes
these intersectional games as grim
challenges. not as holiday jaunts.
Southern teams. as rule. are more
keyed up-and they also are in bet
ter physical shape, due to climate
aid.
In this respect. Nebraska, Ford
ham, Boston College and George
town face certain climatic handi-
caps, due to snow, rain and cold
But each still has several days for
conditioning.
The big trek now is under way.
Nebraska is moving to Phoenix
Stanford to Pasadena. Fordham is
showing off for Dallas, Boston Col
lege already is in the vicinity OF
New Orleans. Georgetown is ready
for the Miami invasion In the
meanwhile, Tennessee. Mississippl
State, Texas A. and NJ. and STAN
ford have been able to work under
SUMMER skies.
But back in 1901 Yost's Michigan
team left zero weather and the deep
SHOWS of Ann Arbor to beat STAN
ford. 40 to 0, in a game in which
Michigan used II men in a 90
degree heat.
Evening star., 1940-12-25

W gam CUSTODY OF tne coveted
eldenStephens Trophy.
Washington fans who commute
to New York for the Christmas holi-
days would find both of these college
tournaments entertaining.
Merry Christmas"
Even chess columnist is entitled
once year to pause in the midst
of his drivel and to his readers say,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year"
Federal Security Progresses.
Moving rapidly to its final round
the Federal Security Chess Clubs
our-section premiere already in
dicates the championship caliber of
A. S. Kussman and Edmund Nash
in Section No. 3 and c. Karson and
Jacob Perla in Section No 4. These
topnotchers will be seeded into the
club championship parley that be-
gins shortly after the New Year.
Recent scoring in the general
tourney, which is the salient attrac-
ton every Friday evening at 8 at
Hotel Portland:
sts3s5sep ssS,ep !R Pogs;sn y soiot 81 Pr. a 4
Carl H. Farman, % Gust returned from
ahs ssSGu15ss Iu1e sh o. asafa9s and
Section :. NJ. Paul, sls-,a: W. Lurie,
81; M. L. Levy. % M l. Libman,
d6 dlo- f. s ,oI[o, HoTdsS IL. and A l. Phillips
mund Nash. 81: David Kandel, 81: H
Bronfin.9 %; j L. Rubin. A. and Mrs
N. Il. Phillips, 05 both Rubin and Mrs.
Phillips forfeited
Section a. c. Karson, 4h-la:: j; Perls.
Mrs. S. Siller, 1-3. and Wenzen. 0-5 Gor-
feite6.
The club championship tourna-
ment will include the two highest
ranking players in each of the given
sections; remaining players will be
pooled in a consolation.
Star Brilliants.
Miniature games that reflect gen.
ius in combinative motifs Star
Brilliants" Here is one played by
Dr. Emanuel Lasker when he was
world champion. J. E. Randell de-
fends with Black, and how!
Evening star., 1940-12-25

The Georgetown Mississippi State
game is almost as tough for any
rambling soothsayer.
Harry Mehre of Mississippi. one
of the best of all the calm and sane
judges, rates Mississippi State at
least one Of two touchdowns better
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deaths annually in Great Britain.
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.Sawmill Strike
Now Spreading

The saWmili strike which ~ par
alyzing the lumber industry Of the
Northwest spread 10 Everett
Thursday night when the first Of
its operations voted unanimously
by secret ballot 70 stuk. u Dc
nands for a ! = cents per hour in
crease IN wages and a ons-wesk
vacation with pay per year Wsr.
not met. according 20 Earl Hartley
business agent for the Lumber A
saWnill Workers union.
Several logging operations in
Morton nave also voted b. secret
bsllot To cease work Monday. pend
ing scesptsne. 81 their demands.
and this move would seriously AZ
feet mills in seattle which are nos
operating.
ssxmills IN Mineral. Estonviiis
ard other points east 81 Tacoma
are expected 20 follow slit In
weekend voting Eysrstts 70
naming unions Will al have voted
Dy Saturday night. Hartley ssid
A joinf session u delegates from
F 10Th All. ard CIO viii meet IN
I CentrsHs Sunday afternoon.
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Ten electric welding machines
recently set W At the scheol ~iii
rGn continuously. tn msn ffom
the yard taking their Instruction
a. cff shift hour. whether they
occur night or dsy.
Contract LIT
Al Thursday afternoon meet
inK - the school eeard = contract
wss lot to the Lincoln Electric
Go 20 supply 10 600 pounds II
welding rods for use IN the classes
as needed. The oost ~ 81 400. a..
vsnoed by the school eosnd. wi
be reimbursed completely iron,
government nsttenal defense
training funds.
Inc hoard also approved sp.
polntmsnt of a number u lnstule-
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Nest ever bsy vents 10 be
pohssmsr o. thrsmsr. Some rs'si-
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figures, herold Keller s,dirs IN
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