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Evening star., 1940-08-06
Title Event Too Far
Away for D. {.
Linkswomen
Mrs. Dovy Is Only One
Here to Plan Possible
Trip to California

With the feminine national cham
pionship due to be played this year
at Pebble Beach, Del Monte, Calf,
you can't find much enthusiasm
among the woman golfers around
Washington for the tourney. In
fact, only one woman golfer here has
had her handicap cleared for the
affair. This Is Mrs. Myron Davy of
Congressional, wife of the president
OF that club, who Is one of the best
of the Capitals fair sex golfers.
A trip of 5000 miles to play in a
tournament where the local entries
are outclassed before they start
leaves most of them cold. Such a
trip, too, would cost several hun
dred dollars.
Entries for players whose handi-
caps have not been cleared by the
sectional golf associations will close
August 30. For those whose handi-
caps have been cleared entries will
close September 6.
The championship will be PLAYED
September 1928, and for the second
time in half dozen years there
won't be any Patty Berg around.
Red-headed Patty has turned pro.
A good many of the top linkswomen
of the land would like to get the
$500 a year Patty is getting for
boosting golfing equipment.
1t will be a queer tourney. Patty
Berg, Helen DettWeiler. Helen
Hicks, Mrs. Opal Hill, Babe Did
rickson and few other of the top
feminine golfers will be on the side
lines. Probably one of them could
win it if allowed TO play. But at the
same time these stars have only one
big affair. This is the woman's West
ern Open, won in June by Babe
Didrickscn.
The time surely must come when
open tournaments will be staged in
profusion for the feminine golfers.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
6. w. u. to Sturt Grid
Drills Sept. 9

Bill Reinhart. chief of George
Washington University's football
coaching staff, headed West today
for three weeks of loafing and fish
Ing before taking up the reins for
what shapes up as the toughest
grid campaign in the downtown
schools history.
Reinhart will return early in
September to get machinery in mo-
ton for the Colonials' start, Sep
tember 9, when problems of replace
ments and strategy will take on a
more ominous meaning But in the
interval he'll forget football and
enjoy well-earned vacation.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY nightfall today 13 printer
golfers will qualify themselves for
the championship flight and con-
tinuance in the chase for the crown
Of top golfer of the Union Printcraft
International Golf Association. OF
these nearly half are sure to be
Washingtonians.
Lest there be pronounced home
town tinge to any yarn about the
tourney of the union printers at
Beaver Dam, in its second round
phase today, we hasten to relate
that two printing tradesmen from
the Capital are at the top of the list
today. there by reason of their skill
and not by twisting the home town
angle.
They are skinned Charlie
Ficco, a compositor on The Star,
who works at night and by day
when time permits-keeps his golf
swing in gear at East Potomac Park.
Carrying the dark-skinned motif
further, swarthy Joe Balestri, Beaver
Dam champion, and tournament
favorite, is bracketed at the top
with Ficco. Both scored 70 over
the par II course in the opening
round Of the printers tourney yes
terday. Normally Beaver Dam is a
par 72 course, but for this tourney
they've shortened the twelfth hole,
making it lengthy par 4 affair
instead of 5.
Today. with the field of 127 start
ers back in harness for another
superheated round-the second of
the 72-hole tourney-the 13 low men
for So holes will be placed in a
separate division to play the re-
mainder of the distance tomorrow
and Thursday for the title. Balestri
Ficco, Edgar Merkle, Columbia
champ: G. Fred Stringer and E. B
Chick Heimer, are sure to be
among the low 13 who will qualify
to compete for the title.
Ficco Late Entrant.
Charlie Ficco has been good
golfer for years. But up to a few
hours before starting time he hadn't
entered the tourney. and few people
gave the good-looking youngster a
tumble. They sent him out in a
foursome with Balestri, and where
Joe was taking Al TO turn, Charlie
rounded the first nine in 3S.
That gave Joe an idea. They
can't do that to me- said the Beaver
Dam champ, and proceeded to burn
up the back nine. He played it in
80 strokes, bagging two brides. and
never going over par. while Ficco
stuck around par for 35. That put
them in tie for the top spot
Eddie Rack, champion in 1888 and
1899, can't be counted out of the
tourney. Eddie shot a II yesterday
and was only four shots back with
three rounds to go. The McKees-
port, Pa, entrant is a good golfer,
and may repeat. He won last year
at Cincinnati with a score of 30l, a
shot ahead of the 302 with which
Balestri won the Allied Trades cham
pionShip. Merkle opened with 79;
Stringer had 78, and Heimer had 80
Today the feminine golfers-wives
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Willard Hershberger's No. s.
Is Discontinued by Reds

less of who might be wearing 1t.
We're shelving it at least for the
season."
Other club sources, recalling ball
players superstitions, indicated the
number might be retired perma-
nently.
Hershberger's body is due in
Visalia, Calf, a few miles from
Three Rivers, tomorrow. Prof
Charles Chapman, West Coast
scout, and Mickey Shader, manager
OF the Tucson, Ariz,, club, have been
instructed to represent the Reds
at funeral services, probably Thurs-
day.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Holmes Will Manage
Dodger Farm Team
AtGrand Rapids
D. the Associated Press.

B3 the Associated Press.
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, Aug. g.
Howard Ducky) Holmes. member
Of the Brooklyn Dodger organization
for many years. has been named
acting manager of the Grand Rapids
club of the Michigan State Baseball
League, a Brooklyn farm.
Holmes said he would remain in
charge of the team until the status
of Burleigh Grimes. former Brooklyn
manager. is settled. Baseball Com
missioner Kenesaw NJ. Lands has
called meeting Thursday Of Michi-
gan State League club heads in Chi
cago to air the suspension of Grimes
as Grand RAPIDS manager following
a dispute with an umpire.
Judge William Bramham. presi-
dent of the National Association of
Minor Leagues ordered Grimes sus-
pended for an indefinite period. The
umpire since has been fired by the
Michigan League, which asked fur
ther consideration of Grimes case.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Tulsa 2: Houston. :"
San Antonio. .; Dallas. 0 90 nnines).
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Fy the Associated Press.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 6.-The Gin
cinnati Reds have retired playing
No. 5 in tribute to a grand little
guy and teammate who called life's
third strike on himself last Satur-
day-Willard Hershberger.
ITS probably the best thing we
could do," explained General Man
ager Warren C. Giles, who said he
was still in daze" from the shock
of Hershberger's suicide in a Boston
hotel room. Giles said:
mo. S was Hershy's, and there
isn't a man on the team who would
think of any one but Bill, regard
Evening star., 1940-08-06
One Big Inning Enough

Disney. second baseman for
Springfield, collected two hits and
batted in two runs as his team
downed Arcade-Pontiac, 8-4. A
f1ve-run rally in the second inning
got Springfield off to a good start.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Big League Roeketers Go
TO Extremes in Conduct.

The hysterical player may not he
completely responsible for what lie
is doing, but all his actions tend in
one direction-to beat the enemy by
some means other than the honest
use of the racket. and 10 louise Up
the game generally.
AS a rule. big league tennis is
either eXcruciatingly sportsmanllke
or eXcruciatinglv the opposite. Both
these conditions seem 10 me to have
something rotten about them. In
the ordinary game sportsranship is
taken for granted The athletes do
not make a spectacle Of themselves
being sportsmaIilike. Only in ten
mis-. for instance. do you encounter
that phoney- -chivalrous gesture of
throwing away point deliberately
it is ostentatious. it gets applause.
and it makes q fool OF the official,
which satisfies the tennis player on
three counts.
Many honest players, like Don
Bulge, have come to perform this
gesture automatically, because it is
expected of them nowadays, forced
on them by precedent. To do them
Justice, I don't think they like 1t.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Fights Last Night
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Jimmy Bivins, 15s,
Cleveland. Knocked out Johnny Bar
hara 1873. Chicago 90: All Tibbetts,
$50. Danville. III. and Settino Terra
Gina. 1859. italy, drew (5l
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Jack Buddy
Walker. 19l. Columbus. outuointed
Johnny Whithers, 200. Pontiac, Mich.
U@l.
NEWARK, N. Eddie Blunt. e14,
Corona. N. Y, stopped Tony Music.
ST. PAUL.--Lee savold. 1911, Des
Moines, Iowa. stopped Domingo valin.
1921. Oakland. Calf. t2).
P1TTSBURGH.y-Frit zivic. 147I7,
PITTSBURGH. outpointed Kenny La Sale,
Isl, Houston. Tex. 10).
SAN FRANC1SCO.-Pat Valentino.
l16, San Francisco, stopped Jack Dali
las 16, Dollas, Tex. O..
NEW YORK.-Petey Scalzo, 1881,
New. York, outpointed Ginger Forari,
12s&. Liverpool. England (S).
NEW ORLEANS. - Erwin Berlier,
1862. New Orleans. outpointed Nick
Camarata, 134l2, New Orleans 1O).
VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Salem II: Harrisonburg. 4,
1vDChbure 81: Staunton 26
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Boy and Girl n May Be Rivals for Spotlight Horseshoe Tourney
Ficco, BoIestni Top Districts
Formidable Group Seeking
PHntcroft GoIfing Title

OF the printers-were TO start play
for their title, won last year by Mrs
Clarence E. Purdy. They were to
play in two separate Journeys, at
18 and 9 holes, and Mrs. Purdy, one
of Beaver Dams best women golfers,
is favorite to repeat.
International officers of the
printers group remain the same as
last year. Reelected at the annual
meeting were the following: Harold
w. Hough, Baltimore. president;
Edgaf A. Merkle, Washington, fist
vice president; Harry N. Heskamp,
Cincinnati, second vice president;
Walter Faulhauber, Pittsburgh, third
vice president; Ezra B. Kraft,
Detroit. secretary-treasurer.
Bob Barnett, Chevy Chase pro,
will join Beaver Dam pro Al Hough-
ton in ali attempt to lift the Cana
dian open golf championship. Bob
and Al will leave Washington Mon
day for Toronto. where the title
tourney will be played. starting Au-
gust Is.
Brandon Wins Junior Crown.
Tom o. Brandon, jr., 16-year-o
son of 1t. Comdr. and Mrs. T. o.
Brandon, is the new junior links
champion of the Washington Golf
and Country Club Tom won the
title yesterday, playing the WASH
lngton course in 81 strokes. Second
was r. D. Young, jr.
A few Of Washington's star anna
teurs and a smattering of pros will
move over to the Five Farms course
of the Baltimore Country Club to-
morrow for a sweepstakes, pro-ama-
teur, and handicap tournament to
be staged by the Maryland State
Golf Association.
Among the pros much of the con-
versation about future tournaments
centers around the Middle Atlantic
P. G. A. championship. Bobby
Cruickshank wants it for his James
River course of the Country Club of
Virginia, and has started negotia-
tions with Sid Banks of Old Point
Comfort looking toward a donation
of $500 by Sid for the affair sched-
uled at Old Point last April. The
pros themselves-or most of them
would like to see it go to Rich
mord. But nothing has been done
about it yet.
L think it will be announced in
Richmond" said Prexy Ralph Beach
of the Middle Atlantic P. G.. A. But
the pros want something done about
1t and that soon.
They are yearning for some
tournaments bigger than the ones
in which thev play for their own
entry fees. The national P. G. A..
sectional rounds are over, the Glens
Falls affair, usually an early Sep
tember fixture, is off for this year.
and all in all there aren't any big
events scheduled close to Washing
ton for quite while.
The only affair listed is the Lam
caster, Pa. pro-amateur. scheduled
for August 10. please tell the Wash
ington gang We want them to come
up" pleads Lancaster Pro Arthur
B. Thorn.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
SperIinq Pitches Shutout

Sperling allowed only five hits and
famed three as he hurled shut
out victory for Johnson-Powell over
Hine Yankees, 40, in the feature
of yesterdays District Recreation
Softball League. The Yankees came
back to win the other game, de-
feating Jefferson, So.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Memphis, s; Knoxville, f.
Only game
Evening star., 1940-08-06

A few of Washington's star anna
teurs and a smattering of pros will
move over TO the Five Farms course
of the Baltimore Country Club to-
morrow for sweepstakes, pro-ama-
teur, and handicap tournament to
be staged by the Maryland State
Golf Association.
Evening star., 1940-08-06

VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Salem, II: Harrisonburg. 4,
Iynchbure 81; Staunton 3-6.
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Rod and Stream

Gus big spot. Some channel bass
also are being taken there, with the
season lasting, with favorable
weather, until October.
The report from Wachapreague
also mentions that the marsh hen
season is open. with 10 persons
bagging $50 the first day.
The marlin season at Ocean City
is lasting longer than it did last
year, probably because of the late
start. In 1899 the last big fish was
taken on August 26, while there have
been caught this week, 3 of which
were released. One of the released
fish was caught by Mrs. G. L. Par
ker of Washington.
This was the first marlin released
by a woman at Ocean City this
year, but unfortunately Mrs. Parker
is not eligible for the 500 fishing
rod going to the woman releasing
the most fish this year. She was
fishing from her private cruiser,
while the contest is open only to
those using the public charter fleet.
In addition to marlin, sizeable
catches of bonito are being made
along with some dolphin.
Savage Leads in Contest.
Present indications are that Capt.
Crawford Savage, one of the pioneer
shippers there, will receive the 500
cash prize offered by Paul and Jack
Townsend for the captain whose
guests release the most marlin.
Crawford's boats have put four back
into the water. Right behind him is
Capt. Jack Stevens, who has re-
leased three.
The big tuna fishing season is on
up North, and Nova Scotia is back
in the running. A few days ago
Mrs. L. G. Bloomingdale of New
York caught 792-pounder, setting a
woman's world record. She turned
the trick at Wedgeport, where is a
world-famous tide rip in which the
big ones feed.
1t was only a little over a week
ago that a world record tuna was
caught in Massachusetts, waters,
taking the title from Nova Scotia.
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Hramika lakes Militia
Batting Crown With
Average Of .4O5
Becomes Third Aviuto-
To Win Championship;
McFudden Ace HurIer
McFodden Ace HurIer

For the third consecutive year a
Boiling Field aviator captured the
Militia League batting crown in the
campaign just ended. according to
figures compiled by Staff Sergt. w.
P. Griffith, statistician and league
publicity officer.
The mantle fell on the broad
shoulders of George Hramika,
Boiling first sacker, who banged out
a .405 average in 81 games. Oddly
enough all but three of Hrarnika S
At hits were singles, the others were
doubles.
Pitching honors went to Joe Nc
Fadden, ace of the champion ST.
Elizabeth's nine, who has attracted
the eye Of Clark Griffith. Nc
Fadden allegedly is under contract
to Washington and will go South
with the Mats next spring.
In % games McFadden pitched
1562s innings, struck out 208 batters,
gave up 129 hits, walked 81 and COM
piled the impressive record of 10
victories and one defeat.
Batting and pitching averages:
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ecord Field Prospect Comet Sailors Compete for National
Jacoby 10 Seek New
Cupboard Honors
In Races Here
Pioneer of Little Croft
Is Ahead in Contest
For Townsend Medal

Fred Jacoby, looked upon as the
pioneer of cupboard motorboat rae
ing, will be down for the Presidents
Cup Regatta for the 14th consecu-
tive season seeking new honors, r.
Aubrey Bogley, race chairman, said
today.
Jacoby, who halls from North
Bergen, N. j., has informed the local
committee he will compete in all the
professional classes of the event
scheduled September 27-28-29.
Chairman Bogley revealed today
that Jacoby is the leading point
scorer in the race for the George H.
Townsend Medal Townsend is a
former Gold Cup and Presidents
Cup racer.
Jacoby thus far has piled up 1885
points in the professional and anna
teur competition. In second place
is Les Buchanan of New York, who
has 4,851 points.
Andy Duffy, vice chairman of the
cupboard division of the Presidents
Cup Regatta, states that a record
feet is expected in the outboaru
races. Duffy leaves tomorrow for
Philadelphia, where he will watch
the Eastern cupboard champion
ships. There he will gather addi-
tional entries for the Presidents
Cup Regatta.
During the last week end Eric
Greenleaf, vice chairman of the
inboard division, rounded up lots Of
entries while attending the regattas
at Station Harbor, N. j.; Atlantic
City and Ocean City.
Thus far there have been no
negative replies from the leading
drivers in the browning event Of
the regatta-the Presidents Cup
race. Although the entry of Harold
Wilson, defending champion, still IS
matter of doubt, Chairman Bogley
is anticipating all the satellites VINO
competed at Northport, plus sew
eral others who did not enter the
Gold Cup races.
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Moth Laure|s Sought
By TarheeI Sailors
In Regatta Here
Presidents Cup Event
Draws Five-Mon Squad
From Elizabeth City

A 43-year-old yacht captain and
an 18-year-old schoolboy will vie
for honors in the smallest class
scheduled in the sailing races of
the Presidents Cup Regatta Sep
TENDER IA and Is, Race Chairman
Arthur H. Clephane reported yes
terday.
1t is the 11-foot moth division,
one of IL classes that will give the
three-week-end regatta its opening
in burst of white canvas and gaily
painted hulls.
Rivals are Capt. Ed Charming,
twice winner of the moth class races
here, and young Roscoe Stevenson,
who took the series in 1886. They
are among five Elizabeth City
On. c. moth sailors entered in the
three-race series.
The Carolina shippers, Clephane
pointed out. have swept the moth
class in each regatta since sail be-
came a part of the Presidents Cup
contests. Others entered are Dorr
Wiley, who won here last year;
Charles Higgins and Harry Hen
derson.
Norfolk Squad to Compete.
Another hotbed of moth activity,
Norfolk. Va, will be represented by
three sailors, according to Clephane
They are young Dave Pritchard,
Jack Vail and Clay Gatewood.
Only one other class-the little
penguin dinghies-will come close
to the moths in size. Rules, how
ever, call for two men in the per-
gums, while a moth carries but one,
the race chairman explained.
Other classes are 20-footers in
Divisions I and II, Hampton one
designs, comets, snipes, Glass B
canoes, Handicap A, Handicap B
and lightnings, the last a new one
design sloop.
Record turnouts are anticipated
in both the penguin and comet
classes. Clephane said, as the for
mer class will hold its first open
regatta off Alexandria two days be-
fore the sailing races while the
comet class nationals, opening to-
day in Huntington, Long Island,
will bring a number of top-ranking
shippers here next week.
Star Trophies at Stake.
Sterling silver cups donated by
The Star will be awarded winners
of the series and, for the first time,
additional prizes will be given for
shippers taking Individual races
Trophy presentation will conclude
the sailing side of the regatta Sep
TENDER Is at Capital Yacht Club.
Herbert l.. Stone, editor of Yacht
ing Magazine and known as a lead
er in national yachting, will be on
hand to present the trophies.
A single race is planned for Sat-
urday, September IA, while seconc
and third races are Sunday. Sep
TENDER Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-06
Successful Hatching
Of Ptarmigan, Rare
Feat, Effected

One of the few instances of the
successful Matching of willow
ptarmigan in this country has been
reported by the Conservation De-
partment of the State of New York
Imported from Oslo, Norway, eight
ptarmigan, a species of game bird
very similar to the native grouse in
this country, have been under con-
slant study at the department S
wildlife research center.
About IS ptarmigan eggs have
been produced so far and the first
batch has been Matched.
Similar studies also are being
made of six blackjack brought here
from Norway early in the year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-06
zaharias Boys Ready
To Challenge for
Mat Team Title

Any day now. say next Thursday
for instance, you can expect Chris
and Babe Zaharias to ,tangle with
Lou Plummer and Ed Newman for
the two-man team pro wrestling
championship of the District.
They qualified for the title shot
last night at Arnica Hall, where
Plummer and Newman tossed Sheriff
Tom Hanley and Herb Freeman in
a doubles engagement and Mrs. Ia
harias' boys won couple of single
tons. Babe pinned Abe Tourist and
Chris subdued Maurice La Chap
pelle.
In the only other match, daring
Danno O'Mahoney made trium-
plant return to this bailiwick by
planting Emil Dusek fiat on his back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-06

With the arrival of choice fall
weather, rockfish catches are in
creasing in Chesapeake Bay. Most
of the fish are smaller than we had
hoped for this year, but they are
plentiful from Bloody Point and
Eastern Bay on down to Cedar
Point at Solomons.
With the exception of Solomons
most of the good catches are being
made on the other side. Some
stripers also are in the lower Po-
tomac around Tall Timbers and
Piney Point. Hardhead are falling
off and have been replaced with an
abundance of spot and some trout.
There are no bluefish in the bay,
it appears.
Wachapreague reports big croak-
ers and medium trout, with. numer-
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National Title Races
High Light Months
Cupboard Tests
Regatta Will Be Staged
September l4-l6 at
Worcester, Mass.

September rings down the curtain
on the 1910 motor boat season as the
remainder of the national cham
pionships are decided AND compe-
tition comes to a close in practical
every section of the country except
on the Pacific Coast.
The titular contests that started
in August continue to a grand CHI
max this month, and the final event
of the season in the East will be run
in the Presidents Cup at Washing
ton on September 27-29. On the
Pacific, the coast championships at
Newport-Balboa, October 9-10, wind
up the years activities.
High spots, aside from the Presi-
dents Cup. are the national out
board championships at Worcester,
Mass: the Eastern cupboard divis-
ionals at Philadelphia, the Cana
dian National Exposition races at
Toronto, the Ohio Valley Racing As
sociation's final meet at Cincinnati
and the Maryland Yacht Clubs an
nual Star-Spangled Banner regat-
ia at Baltimore.
The cupboard championships on
Lake Quinsigamond at Worcester
should prove the largest in years.
Pacific Coast, Southwestern, South
ern, Eastern and Central divisional
title winners will compete for the
coveted national crowns in the vari-
GUS amateur and professional out
board hydroplane classes.
The remainder of the September
motor boat regatta schedule follows:
rs, Eastern Cupboard Championships,
Philadelphia
8. Columbus. Ohio Menasha. Wis.
Vt, l4-l6 National Cupboard CHAMPIONSHIPS,
14-15. Maryland Yacht Club Baltimore.
| p, Fremont; Ohio, Bonneville, Mo-
| Lodi, Calf; Ohio Valley Racing Associ-
alton, Cincinnati.
1928, Presidents Cup. Washington,
D. C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-06
Plant Cells on ellis Suffocote
Fish i'm Maryland Stream

it's unusual prolific growth was
due to "a combination of circum-
stances tending to promote growth. "
He explained that the plant re-
quires sunlight, clear water and an
abundance of dissolved carbon dioX-
ide for growth. Last months hot
spell promoted the plant growth, it
was pointed out.
The plant. Hall continued, pro-
duces oxygen and it is not uncom-
mon to find waters they inhabit
Supersaturated with oxygen. The
death of perch and catfish in Back
River was not due to oxygen de-
pletion, Hall asserted, but to suffo-
cation caused by the accumulation
of the plant cells on the fish.
He said the recent cloudy weather
may result in improvement of con-
ditions in Back River.