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Evening star., 1940-02-16
Brisk Competition Due at c. u.
Games Lone Finnish Benefit
On D. C.. S ports Program

Professional boxing's sudden but
temporary collapse places Catholic
University's seventh annual indoor
games March in a peculiar and
singularly attractive position, for
now the big affair is the lone sports
event on the District calendar for
the benefit of Finnish relief.
A pro ring show was scheduled
February 26 for the Firms, but that
engagement has been erased with
Herr Ahearn's temporary retirement.
Joe Turner, returning to the fistic
arena to help fill the void, can't
begin operations with a Finnish
relief show. He is in precarious
position financially, for boxing
hasn't shown q profit in this pre-
cinct in two years and Joe must
count the pennies.
All Profit to Firms.
But the colorful three ring circus
Dorsey Griffith is connecting for
March should show a handsome
profit If supported at the box-office
as it should be and every dime goes
for the game little nation whose
stalwarts have played prominent
roles in maintaining interest in
track
Griffith can't put his finger on
every event and say, "Now this
should be great race" because the
entries are not yet in. He knows
that Navy, Maryland, American u,
Villanova, Washington College,
Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Washing
ton and Lee, Temple, Richmond, st.
Peters and West Chester Teachers
will be well represented, but until
the individual entry blanks are filed,
he'll have to let the rivalries rest.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Basket Ball Games

GeorGetown. AZ: American u. 80.
Western Maryland 33: CATHOLIC q, 81.
anSo Shariotte i Hail, a g: w WoodSsrd' Ssnio IS. s.
Bethesda Chevy Chase Jayvees, 46;
Landon Jayvees. Is.
9nkshGna e. s. e.. a. 4 and Palaae. M Fl ai Kansas a.
Long Island. ~: Westminster tPao. 42.
West virginia. A; washington and JEFF
oensvs. Al; Pittsburgh, As.
California Ageies, 40; College Of Pa
San Francisco, As; San Jose State, "a.
Emory and Henry. 30: Millisan, 81.
w,shinEten and Lee 40; William ard
Montana o. Normal. ss; North Mon
Arkansas State, 80: Hendrix s6.
Philips; u @s;v.;,3m. 90; Northwestern 'osia'''
Delta State. SO: Murray CKy) Teach-
spTsas i - iasg. SO: Ie,ol. Nsv Or
Montsns Mines. 81: Billings Poly
s0SshTssteFn NaTms, e Louisiana 4b; louisi'n.
MePherson, oss %: College Of Empori., 81.
ouschita. A.: Magnolia Assies 20.
Baker, so; Kansas wesleyan. "A:
Arkansas Teachers. 53; Henderson
Nilxaukee Teachers. SO; Oshkosh
Adams State AZ: Regis, 80.
Dakota Wesleyan, 49: Sioux Falls. 80.
Glendale Normal, 5S; Dickinson IN. ID
Teachers, So.
Davis and Elkins, So: Fairmont. 81.
Daniel Baker. 35: Hardin Simmons. ~.
: Austin. A.; McMurry. 2S.~
Macalester. AZ; Augsburg, Al.
Transylvania. A.; Kentucky wesleyan,
81.
wittenberg. 40. Heidelberg, "a.
Denison. 36; Kenyon. "a.
Anderson Broaddus, IS; Potomac state,
~.
Iowa wesleyan, 43; Penn uowa), 81.
Culver-Stockton, 46; Carthage (ul), 81.
Northern Mich Teachers. 81; Grand
Rapids u, 35.
Oakland City 1nd). As: Normal Col
lese Of American oymnastic Union.
"a.
Valparaiso So: Central Normal, IL.
Calvin. b: St. Mary's (Mlch.), 81.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


TAMPA, Fla, Feb. 16.-Up to q
late point yesterday afternoon some
fear had been felt that the baseball
players golf tournament, in prog
ress here, was going to turn sissy on
us and not be worth walking around
the corner to see.
But at the last moment Wes Fer
rell and Joe Medwick got themselves
embroiled in a playoff for qualifying
honors that was about as funny as
anything produced by the tourna-
ment in recent years. so it looks to-
day as though everything is going to
be all right.
The l6 who qualified in the cham
pionship flight were out today bat
ting away in the opening round of
match play.
Stars Face Easy Going.
Medwick, who finally won medal
honors from Ferrell, the defending
champ, on the third extra hole after
each had shot 152 for the regula-
ton &c. had a medium -easy first
round rival in Denny Galehouse of
the Boston Red Sox. Ferrell was
expected to trim the veteran Heinie
Manush.
Lloyd Brown, the veteran Newark
pitcher, who scored a fine 50 in the
afternoon for a total of 153 and
third medal honors, met Jack Rus
sell in what promised to be one of
the days hottest bouts.
Little Lloyd Waner, who was
beaten by Ferrell in last years hi
larious final, had formidable Open
ing opponent In Mervin Shea, De-
troit coach.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Y Has Strong Swimming
Group in Title Meet

Central Young Mems Christian
Association will enter % boys in the
second annual boys city-wide SWIM
ming championship matches to be
held at 2 o'clock tomorrow In the
Southeast Boys Club pool.
he team will have entries in
every event. Included will be the
"Ys" famous -four horsemen," who
are undefeated in events this year
and who have been winners in many
swim meets. The quartet consists of
George Clark, Don Wyvell, Robert
Means and John Bender.
There will be events for four diff
ferent age groups. including boys un-
der II, those from II to 13, 13 to Is
and from the latter age through II.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
tumble Of Upse Peases Grand FreeorA in Stars Basket Tourney
Up.and- Down Career
OF Cadets Typical
Of Many 0uints
High School Chieftoins'
Interest Perks With
Gate to Be Split
BY ROD THOMAS.

Gone Is the day when the winner
Of The Evening Star Metropolitan
interscholastic basket ball tourna-
ment may be predicted with any
assurance. Time was when the title
virtually was conceded when the
champion of the District public
high series moved into battle.
For five straight years the met
ropolitan title fell to the District Of
Columbia champion. Then st. Johns
broke the reign by whipping Eastern
IN a wild finale only to lose the same
way to the same school last year.
This far away-the eighth an
nual tournament will be held at
Tech March 6, and 8-the prophets
are silent. A while back some
thought Roosevelt, undefeated in
the D. c. series, might be invinci-
BILE. come tournament time, but up
jumped st. Johns to ground the
Rough Riders.
Upset Victory Fires Cadets.
This was strychnine to the popu-
lar cadets, who entered upon the
campaign with team that ap-
peared below par but with the
promise of steadily improving. AZ
ter its wholly unexpected victory
over Roosevelt st. Johns began to
look again with ambition toward its
favorite tournament-the Metropoli-
tan. Then it ran afoul of Wilson,
a team smarting from it's first beat
ing in the interhigh scrap, a defeat
dealt by Roosevelt. The thought of
whipping a Roosevelt conqueror
probably stirred the Presidents, for
they whacked the Cadets savagely.
But the st. Johns Roosevelt Will
son tumble is only one of a number
Of interlocking, topsy-turvy rivalries
that will culminate in grand free
for-all in The Star tournament
which will bring together the eight
best teams, judged on their records,
IN the metropolitan area.
The prospect of an almost per-
fectly balanced field in the tourna-
ment is a mark of advancement in
the class of suburban scholastic
basket ball. Heretofore a suburban
team rarely has been rated a better
than outside chance of winning the
Metropolitan title. But this is far
from true as the boys turn on all
their pressure in efforts to win
places in the 1910 tournament.
Will Freshen Athletic Funds.
The Metropolitan title fever is
noticeable even among the staid
high school principals, who, by the
way, have peculiar interest in
The Stars dribbling party aside
from a sporting one. All the Dis
trict public high schools and those
OF the suburbs which participate
share in the receipts. They share
individually to the extent of their
own enterprise, for theirs is the
privilege of retaining the money
from all the tickets they sell-at two
bits pasteboard.
Tickets will be distributed earlv
this time, and it is suggested that
each school eligible to sell them or
ganize a sales campaign. With an
opportunity last year to sweeten i'm
poverished athletic funds, the Dis
trict schools strangely lacked initia-
tive. A peck of coin passed through
the gate which was forked out by
students or patrons of schools that
easily might have diverted it to their
athletic funds. st. Johns and sew
eral Of the suburban schools mopped
I'D.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Shouts 'Bosemun':: /:
Three Answer
By the Associated Press.

oy tlle hSSUClHlcu FItSS.
"Bosemans" galore: eyes sirs"
come from three corners when
Coach Harry Rabenhorst yells
"Boseman" at his Louisiana State
basketball practice.
There are the Bozeman twins.
Talmade and Asbury
and Cousin Charley, who as a
center was leading Southeastern
Conference scorer last season.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
All of Buc Buckstops
Are Under Contract

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 16.-Arrival
Of the signed contract of Ray Berres
from his home in Kenosha, Wis,
brought all five members of the
Pirates catching staff In line today
tor the 1910 season.
Only four Bucs now are unsigned
Evening star., 1940-02-16

WaSh1ngtonS. smallest squad Of
bowlers ever to compete in the East
ern Sweepstakes, New Englands an
nual big money attraction, was in
prospect today. Only Astor Clarke,
Hokie Smith, Joe Harrison, Ed
Blakeney, Tony Santini and Harry
Hilliard are certain entries in the
81 500 classic to be staged tomorrow
at Willimantic, Conn.
Even George L. Isemann, executive
secretary of the National Duckpin
Bowling Congress and director of the
15-game tournament, may have to
forego the trip because Of illness.
Unless they have a change Of
heart, Perce Wolfe, the 1898 winner,
and Bill Krauss, who has collected
regularly'in the event, will be missing
from the Capital entry list when
more than 60 crack duckpinners of
the East and South 60 to post in
quest Of the $500 top prize. Blakeney
and Smith were winners In 1896 and
1887, respectively.
Several others who will pass up the
big northern affair for the first time
will be Howard Parsons, Joe Freschi
and Milton (Monk Walker.
Clarke in Poor Shape.
For while it appeared that
Clarke would be unable to make the
trip. An ear operation and an ailing
arm lately have cramped the style of
the Nations No. duckpinner.
Whether the annual singles, dou-
bles and team matches between
Washington combinations and the
famous Connecticut Blue Ribbons
will be rolled tonight depended on
whether there would be five District
rollers in Willimantic in time. San
TIM, Blakeney and possibly Hilliard
won't arrive there until some time
tomorrow morning. Dave Burrows,
N. D. B. G. statistician, will handle
the scores.
With Columbia defeating it for the
second time the spell the leading
Rosslyn team had held over the
seven other District League clubs ap-
pears to be broken. Lou Pantos'
l39-404 and Hokie Smiths 154-377
paced 2-l verdict for the runners
up, who counted 658-1,874. Karl
Gochenours $50 led Rosslyn's win
ming charge in the middle tilt.
Brookland Recreation last week
snapped a 13-week winning streak
which had given the Gait Davis en-
try a commanding lead in the all
star circuit.
Ernie Hauser Shoots IA.
Youthful Ernie Hauser fired ton
set of 424 to give the leading Shat
fer's Flower Shop the odd game from
Master BARRIERS and the weeks high
team counts of 639-1 1865 in the Ma
tional Capital League. Fireman Jack
Mooney shot 1881 for the losers,
Eddie Keith's 145-421 were the
heaviest walops as Diamond Cab
swept the Benmacks. Bill Dietrich
made it close with top single of 1853
and a 399 set. Wayne Oil tripped
Chaconas Market twice with Joe
Marceys 1888 high.
The flag chase in the George
town Commercial League was in
tensifled as Georgetown Recreation.
last years pennant winner, moved
into first-place tie with jefferson
Spring and Columbia Grill. While
the titleholders swept Reids Mar
ket, Jefferson and Columbia took
odd games from Sans Shop and
Barnes Heating, respectively.
Joe Callan Of Columbia was tops
with 40. Ed Wolfe marked nine
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Bethesda Joyvee Quint
Scores Over London

An older and more experienced
Bethesda Chevy Chase Junior Var
sity basket ball team defeated a
Landon Jayvee quint on the losers
court yesterday, 46 to Is.
Bob Cremins of Bethesda was
high scorer with 13 points.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Duke STRENGTHENS Lead

WAKE FOREST, N. c., Feb. 16
R.-Duke's basket ball team last
night strengthened its position atop
the Southern Conference with
dazzling attack that defeated Wake
Forest, A to IS.
Evening star., 1940-02-16

Totals----13 5 81 Totals----15 3 33
Free throws missed-Faw, Stropp t2),
Carrie. Sachon, Pirro a.. DAILY
Referee-J. Mention and J. Neun (Balti-
more).
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Peppers Upset Leaders.

The lowly DR.. Pepper pinmen had
a merry time drubbing the leading
Johns Restaurant In the Mount
Rainier League. c. Graeff's top 159
and . 395 set supplied the heaviest
wallops for the winners while Elvin
Shank, still on a bowling rampage,
shot top set of AL and 157 string
for the losers. With top team game
OF 639 giving them 81 edge over
Sauer's Super Service, Russell
Motors, led by Hugh Crawley's 153-
397, moved only game out OF first
place. While the third-place Smiths
were dropping the odd one to Fire
Department despite Chet Lilley's
157-39l, the fourth-place White
House nicked Klein's twice as AL
Michaud shot 146-402.
Lee Shapiro had a big night as he
banged out 15O-402 to feature
Worcester-Peter Pans victory over
Bamby Bread in the D. G. S. League.
The leading Wardman Park Market
was given a three-game Jolt as
Rice's Bread quint counted 61e-
1,7S7.
The champion Pinettes counted
high scores Of 514-1,503 to trounce
the erstwhile leading Demons and
take over first place in the Women's
Procurement League. Sydney SUIT
tons l25-325 featured. Bess Ack-
man, one of Washington's pioneer
woman rollers, with top game and
set OF 131 and 329, prevented the
Eagles from being swamped by the
Maullers who moved to a second
place tie.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Hockey Results

National League.
Chicago. 1: Montreal. 1 Overtime tie).
New York Rangers. 3: Detroit. J..
American Association.
Minneapolis, Q; st. Paul, o.
International-Am League,
Providence, 4; indianapolis, 2.
Eastern Amateur Leagus.
Baltimore, 6; River Vale, B.
Evening star., 1940-02-16

TOPNOTCH CANNESThese dogs the pace respec-
tive in the famous show that
closed in New York Wednesday night:
Hound group (center)-Ch. Marian Ill., tan Saluk, and
owner Mrs Anna Marie Palermo of Hudson Y
Working dog group Qeft)-Ch. Utz Dom Mazelaine
boxer, owned by John Phelps Wagner OF Milwaukee.
transporting group right)-Ch. Lie VOL Son. chow
chow, owned by Mrs A. " HalowelI of Philadelphia.
Associated Press Photos
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Capital Entering Small Squad
In Rich Eastern Pin Stakes;
RossIyn Team Is Curbed

times to post top string Of l73. His
406 also paced Table Supply Stores
81 win over Hollows Cafe.
w. & L. Ties for Lead.
Making a strong bid for their
third straight Department Store
League championship, Woodward g.
Lothrop bowlers deadlocked first
place with Kann's by winning, 81,
in crucial battle. Ray Utterback's s
370 paced the victory. Raleigh Ha-
berdasher drew up on even terms
with Hecht Co. for third place by
taking the odd skirmish from the
latter. Lansburgh's chalked up a
new season set mark of 1,772 as AL
Mcdonald, with 1893, Frank Hissey
with 373 and Billy Kingsolver with
371, featured a 81 win over Gar
finckel. Donald Deane shot $50 for
the losers. Guy-Curran moved to
nth place with q sweep over Jel-
leff's.
Charley Guyther made his 373
count double in the Southeast
League as he featured Shaffer's
Flower Shop 81 victory over the
leading Bacas Bros. His count also
won him an entry in the Charley
Olive Super-Dub Sweepstakes card
ed at the Queen Pin tomorrow.
Skippy Reid banged out top set
OF 1888 to feature Brinkley's 81 de-
cision over City Baking. Herb
Young, the one-time mascot of the
Grif1men, was high with 367. as
Maryland Market swept the Red.
men.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Give It Second Thought

In arguing for his CONSUMPTION bill amend
ment which provides that if 400, 900 volunteers
fail to enlist in two months the draft system
will be invoked, and which the house adopted
and will stand by unless a later record vote
sets it aside, Rep. Hamilton Fish declared the
arrangement would in no way delay the rails
ing of an army as the draft hackers acknow-
ledge no men would be called UP under the
Burke Wadsworth bill before the second week
in November.
It is an insidious argument. 1t sounds well
but will not bear analysis. For if the conscrip-
ton of soldiers is put off two months the
same preliminaries which now prevent their
being mustered in before November have to
be gone through and another two months con-
suned in the operation. Mr.. Fish cannot be
unmindful Of this. He went ahead with his
plan in full knowledge that by adoption of his
amendment CONSUMPTION inevitably would be
delayed.
In their determination to thwart the admin
~istration at every possible point in their game
Of petty politics, the Republicans and rebel
lious Democrats in congress are wasting pre-
cious time. They stake the possibility Of a
political victory in the November election
against the urgency for national defense.
The only consolation to be gathered from the
house vote on the Fish amendment is that it
need not represent final action. There is still
to be taken a record vote on the amendment,
and adherents of the draft believe that by the
time for it rolls around they will have mus
tered sufficient strength to turn the tide and
smother it in the backwash.
It is inconceivable that a majority of house
members do actually favor delay in recruiting
a great army but it is obvious that some have
been misled by the specious eloquence of Mr..
Fish. These must be realigned for the Burke
Wadsworth bill if the United States is to take
full advantage of the time available for defense
preparations.
There is nothing in the record to indicate
that 400, 900 volunteers will pass through re-
cruiting offices in 60 days. Most certainly the
draft will have to be resorted to in the end.
To delay it's start is to bring the nation nearer
it's war crisis with inadequate armed forces.
Surely a house of representatives which is
quick to appropriate money for defense by the
billion cannot be Indifferent to the need for
troops to operate the augmentation so la
vishly provided. Second thought ought to kill
the Fish amendment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
JOINT SERVICE
PLANNED SUNDAY
Local Ministers Act In Re-
Spouse To Roosevelt
Proclamation

Ministers of Wilmington churches
meeting in an informal conference
at the Y. M. C. A. yesterday, decid-
ed to observe a DAY of Prayer on
Sunday as was asked in a recent
proclamation Issued by Presi INT
Roosevelt.
The meeting, called by DR.. Ar
thur ]. Barton, pastor of Temple
Baptist church., also decided
that a joint service will be held
Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock at
the Church of the Covenant pres
byterian.)
The Rev. Sankey Lee Blanton,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
will conduct this service. President
Ro~osevelt's proclamation will be read
by the Rev. DIR. A. D. P. Gilmour,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, and the hymns will be Sc
lected and the musical program ar
ranged by the Rev. Robert L. Je-
rome, pastor of Trinity Methodist
church. The service will last 80
minutes.
All ministers are expected to
preach special sermons at their
morning services and all who can
possibly do SO will attend the joint
service at the Church of the Cove
nant Sunday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07

train. and the bridge was still half pen Oh,
how he cranked then; how he strained and
sweat and cursed and prayed! But the engine
plunged through the open draw, coaches sank in
the stream and human lives were ended in one
of the great disasters of half a century ago.
A little later a man was led to a cell in the
PENNSYLVANIA asylum for the insane, where he
sat for years moaning over and over, until it
racked the souls of attendants: would to God
IA only done i'll" All but the scene of that
catastrophe had been blotted from his shatter-
ed mind. Only his responsibility for the wreck
fingered to harass him until death. finally
brought release.
We seem to have, particularly in congress,
men as unmindful of approaching calamity
today as was the Erie bridgetender of a for
mer era; men who know the schedule but for
get the absolute Importance of closing the draw
in time and spend their days sweating and
hopping and arguing when they should be
turning the crank for defense.
The best we can hope for them is that they
may not have occasion later on to cry in
anguish, as did the bridge-tender: would to
Goo 1 had only done it."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Wars Shifting Scene

Rumania, both in the capital and in occupied
Pennsylvania, is already getting its baptism
of blood which may be the forerunner of ma
tional humiliation. The f%actional rioting in
Bucharest and the skirmishing in Pennsylvania
are unmistakable signs of strife that can lead
only to war. And war of any magnitude in Ru
mania inevitable will suck in Russia with the
whole of the Balkan area the theater of COM
bat. If European conditions are what they seem
to be, it is not improbable that the second
World war will end in the region that saw the
start of the first one. The shot that launched
that war in 1914 was fired in Serbia.
The situation in Bucharest is a little con-
fused, but it is apparent the issue there is
between Nazis and a rabble. Should these ire
concilables gain ~ascendency, Hitler will have
to step in to protect his minority If the
Nazis triumph, Hitler will occupy the country
and take over all its industries and production.
Carols abdication and the succession of his
young son Mihai indicates the setting up of a
puppet government under the new premier,
Ion Antonescu, whose orders will originate in
Berlin.
None of this, we may be sure, will meet
with approval in Moscow, where Stain waits
for a propitious moment to hurl his reorgani-
zed and revitalized armies into the fray.
He sees German soldiers lining his frontier
opposite Rumania and Hungarians moving up
to the edge Of the Ukraine. AM as he watches
he puts his troops through their PAGES and
his navy into secret m%aneuvers, and, we may
assume. ticks his chops like any other beast
anticipating a bone. The time must be near
when Red and Nazi soldiers will clash, and
their contact will signal the beginning of the
end.
At this time the major engagement Of the
European war is between Germany and Brit
ain. As the scene changes, it is not at all i'm
possible the next battle-the final battle of the
war-will be between Germany and Russia.
The worlds best hope then will be that each
will externinate the other and SO end the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Loans Abroad

Legislative progress with the $500, 600, 600
lending bill already is tempting the flies to
gather round the honey pot. All the indica-
tons are that a number of Latin-American
countries want to get slices of that huge sum,
which the Export-Import bank would have to
administer under the proposal.
Dominica is reported to have received one
loan in recent days and to desire another,
which may be one reason for the arrival in
New York of Gen. Rafael Trujillo, the Domini-
can dictator. Brazil reports difficulty in meet
ing the extremely modest sums currently being
made available on foreign debt service, and
the inference is obvious. Many European re-
fugees have recently transferred large
amounts of dollars from the United States to
Brazil, increasing sharply the latter country's
foreign exchange resources, but nothing is
said in Rio about that phase of International
finance.
Cuba, after years of delay, finally is hasten
ing a settlement of the obligations owed to
contractors. It is fairly well established that
Cuba has been told no loans will be granted
by Washington until the foreign debt muddle
has been cleared up. Some private reports
from Havana now indicate that the Cuban gov
ernrnen is far from a piker when it comes
to expecting largess from the money bags Of
Uncle Sam. A mere 500, 900, 900 is mentioned
in the private accounts as the sum that Ha-
vana hopes to receive.