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Evening star., 1940-02-20
Cunningham and Venzke Still
Great Runners Judged on
Performance of Past

| boys lower the old standards, but
what it did to the sport hasn't been
fully determined.
Recent years have seen the mile
elevated to the feature spot on all
indoor programs by smart promoters
The race is staged in theatrical
style with all the trimmings. Lights
are dimmed, the runners are spot
ted as they jog onto the boards. and
before the starting gun is fired the
band strikes up the national anthem
It's stirring sight but not stirring
enough to satisfy the customers
appetite for good running and a
couple of thrills. The race takes
care Of that.
A mile is long enough (about 10
or IL laps on the average track to
test a mans stamina. It is fast
enough to keep the spectators in
terested and short enough to have
finishing sprint that brings the
intense excitement to the boiling
point. 1t has everything a good race
needs.
Yanks Learn From Nurmi.
It was not until Paavo Nurmi
came to this country that Ameri-
can trackmen really discovered how
to run the race. Fields usually
were strung out at the finish, there
was no neck-and-neck duel down
the stretch, but rather one spent
legman loping home far ahead of
his nearest competitor. Nurmi and
his alarm clock" changed all that
by teaching our men the value of
pace. Now we have the greatest
group of milers in our history, Chuck
Fenske, Archie San Romani, Luigi
BeccaI, Lou zamperini, Blaine
Rideout and host of lesser lights.
Good men come in cycles. It
isn't often you see so many top
notchers elbowing one another on
the same track. With Cunningham
out of the picture Venzke would
have been in the No. l spot years
ago, and Glenn has cramped the
style of other good runners. The
tip is out that Zamperini will be
outrunning the pack next year.
They say he's the best of the young
er men and will be the next king
of the milers.
But If you think Venzke or Cum
ningham are slipping, run, don't
walk, to the nearest psychiatrist,
you're utsnay.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
FeIIer Is Games Top
Hurler, Will Be For
Years, Says Wifi
Loves to Foce Yankees,
Pilot Asserts, Denying
Spots Picked for Him
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2o.-Oscar
(Witty) Witt, manager of the Cleve-
land Indians, speaking on his IA
vorite subject-baseball:
Bobby Feller is the best pitcher
IN the game today. Barring acci-
dents, he'll continue to be for years
Il think he will have at least as
good a record this year as last
Feller won "a and lost 9 for the
1ndians0
Had Some Sad Defeats.
"Ihe kid lost four or five games
last season that were so heart-break-
ing they'd bring tears to a rocking
horse.
"Feller isn't afraid of the Yankees
and never has been. He'd like to
pitch against them every day.
Il read where I've been accused
OF holding out my best pitchers
when we played the Yankees last
season and using them against the
Red Sox instead. I suspect my old
pal, Joe Cronin, started that story
That's why I've nicknamed him
'Crybaby.' If he looks up the records
he'll find Feller worked the same
number of games against the
Yankees and the Red Sox. He won
3 and lost 2 with each club.
Disagrees With Cronin.
What Cronin doesn't know is
that Joe Mccarthy of the Yanks
said to me during one series: You
so and so, you always work your best
pitchers against us. Go to it. Well
bat their ears off.
"Once in q while I've given Feller
a four-day rest-remember, he's
only a boy-21 last November. But
I'll never pick any spots for him.
He'll take his regular turn. He's
the best pitcher in baseball. Does
anybody want to make something
Of it?"
Evening star., 1940-02-20
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,

NEW YORK, Feb. 2O.-Short
cuts: The list of applicants for
the Kansas State coaching job
has been cut from 200 to 13, if
you're superstitious. Prexy Will
bur Tuttle has given Coast
League umpires more authority,
and they'll be tougher than
ever this year. Paavo Nurmi and
Taisto Maxi fly to California to-
day-by air, we mean.
Cincinnati players doubt If
Lee Grissom will be with the
Yanks by July 4. Promoter Her
man Taylor Of Philly pulled what
the boys call a fox paw by ad-
vertising Milt Aron as "the great
est Jewish fighter in 20 years."
What does Herman think Barney
Ross is, an Irishman?
Jack Dempsey got In from
Evening star., 1940-02-20

autographed by 10 outstanding
guests, to her souvenirs. Paul
Bowser's latest foreign wrestling
importation, Maurice Tillet (bet-
ter known as the Angel was q
part in the French film, "The
Harvest" now showing.
Go on, Doc. Fred L. Mandel,
jr., who recently bought the De-
troit Lions, is a friend Of DR..
Robert Hutchins Of the University
Of Chicago. The day after the
Lions were sold, Hutchins wired
Mandel: why didn't you buy
them q month earlier and give
them to me?"
He won't do. Dizzy Dean, who
swears he'll starve before he'll
sign for $4,000, was all set to
sign Mahatma Ghandi as coach
until somebody told him the
Mahatma also ID . Thinning
pitcher.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Dodgers, With SIuggers Added,
Deemed Most Improved Club
In Senior Loop by MocPhoI

about the former Red Sox outfielder.
And he points out that Chapman
hit .346 and smote 18 home runs
last year.
10 New Dodgers at Camp.
MacPhail, checking over last years
pitching records, hopes his mound
staff will get a few breaks this
season.
Manager Leo Durocher and Mac
Phail have 10 players at camp here
who weren't with the club last year.
"Some of them are going to help
u.s." prophesied MacPhail. "The law
of averages should take care of that.
If they help us, enough, well. :"
Evening star., 1940-02-20
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

Glenn Cunningham and Gene
Venzke rammed some harsh criti-
cism down a lot of grandstand
coaches gullets last Saturday night
in the New York Athletic Club games
mile run, even though neither won.
Cunningham, as a matter of fact,
clattered home in the wake of
Venzke, who was third in the star
spangled field of four.
On the face of it it would seem
to bear out the theory that they're
going downhill. Maybe so. Ger
tainly they are getting no younger.
But second guessers are prone to
forget the entire group bettered four
minutes and nine seconds for the
distance for the second time this
winter. Ten years ago that would
have been hanner-line news on page
l. Today the fans take it in stride
and scream: What, no record?"
Venzke Amazes Track World.
Venzke, incidentally, startled the
track world eight years ago with a
record performance of minutes 1111s
seconds. 1t shattered Joie Rays
mark of 4:12 fiat, which stood seven
years, and Venzke was supposed to
be making comeback after a dis
NAL 1881 campaign. That was eight
years ago, and here he is running
better than ever and finishing third
and fourth.
It simply doesn't add up that a
man who can run a mile as fast as
Venzke is physical wreck. Rather
it seems that he has just about
reached his peak-after all these
years of following the pack. Genes
luster was dimmed by Cunning
hams appearance on the scene. He
came to be hardly more than a
stooge in the act of the great Glenn.
Well, what about Cunningham?
Is he through, too? Hardly does this
seem to be the case. The trouble
is, as Dorsey Griffith has pointed
out before, the public is so accus-
toned to seeing Glenn shatter rec
ords 1t feels he's slipping when he
fails to set new mark every time
he goes to the post. It isn't enough
to run and win a good race any
more, the public is record crazy.
It became so the officials changed
over their stop watches from f1fths
of seconds to tenths. 1t helped the
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Great Field 0utrun
In Seton Hall $50
By 1erps' Kehoe
Hoyo ReIoy Also Shines
In Special Contest
With New York U.
BY the Associated Press,

NEWARK, N. j., Feb. 20.-There's
lot to be said for experience in
indoor track competition, and a
dozen or so beaten favorites in last
nights Seton Hall College meet
here probably are saying it today.
1t isn't that such runners as
Chuck Fenske of Wisconsin, winner
Of five straight major mile races;
Gene Venzke, Glenn Cunningham,
John Woodruff, John Borican and
Don Lash lack experience, but a lot
Of the knowledge they have picked
up in their years of running doesn' t
count when they get into the New
ark Armory. It's fiat board floor and
sharp turns are far different from
the banked curves of Madison
Square Garden, where the stars are
used to running.
Kehoe Whips Star Field.
That's the main reason WHY the
big names Of the track world were
listed in the also-rans while the
boys who have had to do most of
their campaigning in armories came
out ahead. They were aided, in most
cases, by handicaps, but still they
won.
The University of Maryland's Jim
Kehoe, for instance, had a 1O-yard
handicap in the 88O-yard handicap
special, but Kehoe hasn't any
apologies to make today. He whipped
a crack field, including Borican and
Woodruff, by 10 yards and his time
of 1:54.4 was considered excellent
on such track.
Kehoe, rated one of the Nations
finest collegiate half -milers, romped
to the tape ahead of Frank Slater,
former Fordham luminary now COM
peting for the New York A. c., who
had 17-yard handicap, and Camp
bell Kane of Indiana University, an
other 10-yard starter, who finished
third. Borican and Woodruff, scratch
starters, finished fourth and fifth,
respectively.
Kehoe is regarded a certainty to
(See TRACK. Page A.14)
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Mats, As and Giants All Wanted Him

hat?" asked the other thought Wtse took
you Washington"
He did, Bucky answered. land that's what cost him. When W
Wil McCraw.
Mraw promising
Grf watch play broken finger
Still hits times bat double
walked and hit pitched ball That night
o said:
Athletics
o. the
I think ove' said, and took shower Later to
Wltse said I'D like Washington sold GrH.
players
Except of his with Giants
from McGraw."
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Mumukos Takes Another
Bout From Luftsprinq
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TORONTO, Feb. 20.-Because of
his willingness to take the offensive
and his staying power, Steve
Mamakos OSLO Of Washington,
D. c., had another decision over
Sammy Luftspring today.
Luftspring (151) rallied in the
closing rounds and had Mamakos
staggering in the 10th, but couldn't
offset the lead amassed by the Greek
In the first half Of the bout. It was
Mamakos' second victory over the
Canadian,
Evening star., 1940-02-20
McGruw Said WiItse Cost Him $50,00O

"Why did pick Washington" asked the other fellow
Frankie
Frsch and figured my with Washington"
You said heard from Jennings twice after the Tigers let
co. said the who listening when the second me?"
During the 1924 World Jennings Detroit
Giants where coaching Mcraw He said that Mcraw
with Wilt He broke off all relations with Buffalo
base
Harris finished dressing stood up.
In that "a World Series. Those fun"
Bucky walked out and the shook his head and said:
There who didn't have ability
OF hit nfe-his with
didn't last long taking all those kicks
kid
major league all
a basket ball
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Serqt. Gevinson Now

It's Sergt. Lou Gevinson now. Tho
southpaw ringman who is in tenn
porary retirement, has been pro-
NOTED from first-class private IN
the Medical Department Detach.
ment, 121st Engineers, District Ma.
tional Guard.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
AlIun's S ID Leads Dixie
Amateur Golf Event
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 2O-Frank Al
Ian of Pittston, Pa, found two
over-par "a good enough to pace
the field in the qualifying round of
the Dixie amateur golf tournament
yesterday.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Some of the Kids Shake With Friqht

HE baseball AS matter of fact all the ball
I'd church league and pickup and
Pttston liked the
played basket ball. Anyway he told to at Dets train
ing camp that spring Waxahache Tex"
after practice some of those kids he said
shaking fright through kids
reports training All of sudden he begins to
ball player.
al
weeks of training and ready play their first
there peeled off trying to show
slide infection Jim ORourke
ming put third base in the first
Evening star., 1940-02-20
And Then Jennings Picked Him Up Again

third life I'D played nheld
like shots hit pretty we'll that spring against
but later Jennings told home.
Youre not ready for the Minors he said III wire you
when I find place for you
months later Jennings wired I went to
tough league in those
after month"; only hitting 100 and wired
Jennings for orders.
didn't have stayed in Mus
Finally something happened Mukegon nfed and the
hired back stayed two months and got release
again really down. ready to believe wouldn't do
the fellow him.
Twice said Harris ughey picked by landing job
Norfolk 1917 After months the broke the
still
not only job but Then in July landed place
the old York State Wie the
pitcher it Later Witse his
base
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Major Minor Problems Just About Solved Beea Confab Fck Think
Win, Lose or Draw
One Night Huehey Went to Basket Boil Come
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
Star Stan Correspondent.

One Night Hughey Went to Basket Boil Come
ORLANDO Fla Feb 2oBuky Harris filling question
nare for the Baseball Register
question Bucky weted the promptly
wrote, "Hughey Jennings"
Jnning?" asked who watching I
brother started and Joe Enge found Buffalo
Griffith bought you"
NO. said Bucky 1T Jennings Whatever amounted
baseball owed it Hughey
down later he picked fresh
Here's the it happened he II kid
baseball basket ball Pion 1916
lived 80 miles he used Ptson
of friends They'd play handba
and watch Friday night basket ball Hughey
managing the Tigers then.
Evening star., 1940-02-20

Today a year ago-Ossie Solem
signed new 3-year contract as
head football coach at Syracuse,
Evening star., 1940-02-20

(See TRACK, Page A-14.)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-01
New York Candy Makers In
Compliance With Pay Rule

New York City (ILNS). - With
nothing but the danger of publicity as
punishment for failure to pay the
minimum wage in the confectionery
industry, more than three-fourths of
the candy manufacturers in New York
state are in complete compliance with
the Directory Minimum Wage Order,
Industrial Commissioner Frieda S.
Miller. reports. A report from the
Division of Women in Industry and
Minimum Wage reveals that only so
plants in the state are on the "black
list" Miss Miller described the Di-
rectory Order as the educational pc
riod of minimum wage during which
employers have chance to adjust
themselves to the new regulations.
All but sos of the 6,555 women and
male minors working in candy fac
tories in the metropolitan area are
being paid at least the guaranteed
minimum wage-which differs at peak
and slack periods of the year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-01

Knew that Adolph was gleefully
preparing the double-cross-
TO be later pinned on the b.
hemians-
And on Sir Neville
But that particular Briton-
Thinking that he was willy
Thought that Hitler had something
IN common with him
Which would make his word good
As between two rulers
Of simple-minded folk
Chamberlain represents British
clique
Ruling the British Empire at pres
ent-
Which the majority of the British
people
Suffer to remain in the saddle
Rather than trade horses
While crossing the uncertain pud-
dies of war
How far British people will con-
tinue--
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-01
HALIFAX LABOR
IN DEFENSE MOVE

Halifax, N. S. (ILNS) THE Hall
fax Trades and Labor Council has
taken up the cudgels in behalf of the
industrial standards act of Nova
Scotia, passed a year ago. The coun-
Gil points out that certain elements
are trying to sabotage the legislation.
Court prosecutions have been initi
ated by the council against individuals
and firms, for violations of the act. In
this drive number of convictions
have been entered in the district court,
and fines imposed. The chief charge
has been of paying and accepting
wages less than those stipulated for
various grades of work. The viola
tions have been mainly in the con-
struction industry with half-dozen
contracting firms and about dozen
journeymen carpenters, masons, brick
layers and plumbers prosecuted.
The Halifax Trades and Labor
Council is pointing out that the act,
admittedly has its imperfections, but
that the council is preparing a brief
on these for submission to the coming
session of the provincial assembly,
with view to corrections of the de-
fects. Basically, the council is salts
fled with the legislation, for which it
had fought for many years. The prin-
ciple of union recognition is provided
for in the act, the workers being le
gally entitled to express their pref
erence, and the majority prevails. The
employers must give recognition to
this preference.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-01
Ornburn On Radio On
Union Label Action

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - Sec
retary- Treasurer |. M. Ornburn of the
American Federation of Labor Union
Label Trades Department will speak
on radio station WAPI in Birming-
ham, Ala, on March 8, from LAS to
200 p. m. His subject will be "Union
Label Action"
1t is requested that all American
Federation of Labor unionists in the
South tune in on this address as it
will be of interest to all workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-01

From the slavering NAV of the Rus
sian Soviet
This is the Tory group of families
Which repudiated it's debt to Amer
ica-
While balancing it's own budget
Quieted it's own unemployed, with
snivelling doles-
Smashed the German Republic
Coddled the Hitlerian ambitions
Suppressed French urgings for
democratic fairness
Unseated king who showed signs
of mental activity
Finds no way to unchain India
Fumbles European map like a
checkerboard-
But follows a pattern consistent in
itself
AS Hitler's "Mein Kampf''
Has the British pattern
Turned on itself, rounding out to
close? p
1t is part of the great Web of
World History
From which America cannot es-
cape
Sure to be thrown among the other
shuttles-
Carrying. perchance, its own self
determined cord.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-01

spearmen with bombs
Consistently controlled" totalitari-
ans in Spain
Overlooked Germany's march on the
Rhine lands
Ignored the brutal snatching of
Austria
Winked at the bestial betrayal of
the Czechs-
Made futile gestures while Hitler
raped Poland
And now: is "either too early or
too late"--
To save the finest sample of Euro
pean democracy
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-01


Following the iron-monger's pat
tern
For saving British power and pres
tige-
At the expense of the rest of civ
ilization-
Is put seriously in question
By H. G. Welles, and others
Pattern of the British Tory mind
Emerged first in accepting Jap
anese grab of Manchuria-
Following in furnishing oil for
Mussolini's planes
lowering over Abyssinia, hunting
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-01
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
"Then gently scan
your brother man
BY MIR. MOdestus-

The frame of mind
Which enabled Neville Chamber
lain
To accept the word of Hitler at
Munich
Is still controlling main lines of
British policy
Anthony Eden, and the rest of the
world
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
Concert Sunday
To Mark Start
OF Music Week
Program To Be Given At $3.50
O'Clock At Trinity Metho-
dist Church

The public is invited to attend
the opening program of music week
tomorrow at $3.50 o'clock when a
recital will be given at Trinity Meth
odist church, with many of the city's
church musicians taking part. A
varied and balanced program has
been arranged and an hour of splen-
did music is assured. No offering
will be taken.
Mrs. Eric Norden is general chair
man for music week, and the sacred
canecrt has been arranged by Mrs.
William G.. Robertson. Music week
programs have been n of the
highlights of the musical year in
Wilmington for many years, and un.
der the sponsorship of the Thurs.
day Morning music club the city
has one of the most general obser'
vances of the week to be found any.
where in the south.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
Elizabethtown

ELIZABETHTOWN, May B.
Miss Sue Fisher spent the past week.
end in Wake Forest with her sister,
Miss Lucille Fisher. She attended
the textile dance at State college on
Saturday night. Mrs. H. P. Green,
Miss Sarah Clark and Miss Louise
Young were Fayetteville visitors
Monday. Miss Mary Louise Harris,
a student at East Carolina Teachers
college, Greenville, spent the week.
end with her parents. She had as her
guest, Miss Ruth Chandler, who is
also a student there. Mr.. and Mrs.
C. T. Fisher, of st. Pauls, spent last
Friday with Mr.. and Mrs. G. W.
Fisher. Mrs. E. F. McCulloch spent
last Friday night with her daugh.
ter, Mrs. A. E. Strand, in Green's
boro. She attended a press meeting
there or Saturday. Miss Anne Gro.
martie, a student at Queens-C hicora
college in Charlotte, was a visitor in
town last week, while visiting her
parents, DR.. and Mrs. R.. S. Gro.
martie, in Garland.
DR.. and Mrs. C. ]. Goodwin and
daughter, Judith, of Brevard, are
visiting Mrs. Goodwin's mother, Mrs
w. A. Fisher, for several days. Miss
Jane McCulloch of W. c. U. N. c..
Greensboro spent the weekend at
her home here. Mrs. ]. r. Cole was
in Fayetteville Friday to visit her
son, r. E. Cole, who is a patient at
Highsmith hospital. Miss Ruby Byrd
of Blackstone, Va, spent a few days
at her home here last week. Mr.. and
Mrs. P. c. Farlowe, of Fairmont,
and Mr.. and Mrs. I. M. Scott, OF
Fair Bluff, were guests of Mrs. J.
r. Cole Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. D. A
Hutchinson and children spent last
Sunday in Laurinburg with Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. G.. Hutchinson. Mrs. W. A.
Fisher, Mrs. M. l.. Fisher and Miss
%etteville.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. c.. Parker and
children, of Albemarle, and DIR. and
Mrs. J. H. Williams, of Clinton, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Blair
during the weekend, to attend the
graduating exercises. Their nephew,
Mott Blair, was a member of the
class. Mrs. Roy Stevenson and
daughter, Rose Mary, of Atlanta,
Ga, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. C
w. Greene. Mrs. Stevenson attended
the graduating exercises to see he1
nephew, Ben Greene. graduate. Mrs
Jas. H. Clark and son, Tommy, spent
Tuesday in Raleigh. Mrs. Joel Ell
kins is a patient at Thompson hos
pital at the present time. Mr.. an6
Mrs. D. M. Calhoun had as thei,
dinner guests on Tuesday night: DR.
J. Henry Highsmith, Supt., and Mrs
J.. S. Blair and Mrs. E. F. McCul
loch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
Bridge Party
Is Given For
Miss Russell
Miss Helen Nichols En~tertains
At Lovely Party At
Home Here

Miss Helen Nichols entertained at
a lovely bridge party on THURSDAY
evening at her home on North 10Th
street, honoring Miss Elizabeth Fus-
sell, who marriage to W. A. Cor
bett, Jr.. will take place on May IL.
The color note Of green and white
was used for decorations and spring
flowers were ~attractively arranged
in the living room of the nome.
Upon the arrival of the honoree she
was presented with a lovely corsage
of sweetheart roses.
At the conclusion of the game an
ice course was served. and the hon
Gree was presented two silver COM
potes. High scorer in the bridge
game was Miss Anne Woodbury. and
Miss Dorothy Clendenin won the
consolation prize.
Guests included Miss russell, hon
Gree, Miss Gerda Quelch, Miss Gladys
Ahrens, Miss Sara Bradshaw, Mrs.
A. B. Love, Jr., Miss Elizabeth
Hancock, Miss Rachel Carroll, Miss
Vivian Hers, Miss Anne Wood
bury, Miss Dorothy Forbes, Miss
Ann Hers, Miss Dorothy Clendenin,
Miss Hattie Schaefer, Mrs. H. w.
Wells, Jr., Miss Hazel Kinney, Miss
Eugenia Switzerland, Mrs. z. I.
Hancock, of Raleigh, Mrs. J. H. Fus-
sell, Mrs. w. A. Corbett, and Mrs.
W. C.. Nichols.