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Evening star., 1941-07-18
Nova Is Keen, Confident
He Con Beot Louis

One of those high in the Nova
council told me this: Louis has been
slipping for several months. Louis
admits this. He has lost at least
part of the stunning power his
punch once carried. If you'll check
back you'll find that few slipping
fighters ever got going at the old
speed again. Louis is only 81, but
he has been workhorse for long
time.
Don't figure that We rate Louis as
any easy target He still is dangerous
and always will be as long as he
lights. He is too hard a hitter to
be taken lightly. No one knows that
better than Nova.
But Nova will be in perfect condi-
ton. keen and confident, and I know
1t will take a much better fighter
than Louis has been for the last year
to beat him"
It is Just as we'll that Nova re-
spects the Louis punch, Joe has
slipped, but he still is harder hitter
than any heavyweight now In ac-
ton.
released by North American Newspaper
Alliance, 1ncb
Evening star., 1941-07-18

around his university, is likely to
shoe Ohio-reared Frank Sink
wich back home on the ground
that there are plenty of worthy
native halfbscks who could use
that scholarship?
And did the Macon club in
hosting the South Atlantic all
star game make six visiting
sports writers buy tickets to COW
er the tilt? FELTON, Gordon re-
ports in the Columbus GA
Ledger that this happened and
wonders how come.
OldsterS among Southern base
ball fans should get a kick out
of the current magazine piece on
Climax Blethen. hardy peren-
nial of the diamond who's still in
action at 48 wears.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
Maryland State Golf
List 10 Be Closed
Tomorrow Night

Entries will close Al noon tomOr-
row with the Maryland State Golf
Association for the Old Line State
open championship 10 be PLAYED
Tuesday. Amateurs are welcomed
in the tourney, although they
haven't been able to give the pros
much competition since George
Voigt came close TO winning the
1927 open title at Indian Spring
with score a couple of strokes be
hind the winner of that year-Leo
Diegel. Entries are being taken at
Is Mcclellan place. Baltimore.
Mrs. Walter L. Weible, prexv Of
the Women's District Golf Associa-
ton, announces a lady-pro handicap
tourney TO be played at Congress
sional August 18 Each pro will
have three feminine partners. with
a 81 entry fee for each woman. The
feminine entrants will be chosen
by handicap and their partners will
be drawn from the hat. Entries
will close August Is.
The latter date is that Of the
British War Relief tourney for
women at the Army Navy Country
Club.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
Dusek Wins, Steinborn Draws
With ToIun; Referee Suffers

two rough boys, Ernie Dusek and
Hans Kampfer. Dusek managed to
win with Berger's aid with a body
press in 40 minutes
The Milo Steinborn Wladislaw
Talun match went to a draw, and
Berger, too, was busy in this one,
frequently finding himself tangled
with the tall Talun.
In other matches, the two-man
team of Ace Freeman and Maurice
La Chappele won from Jim Austeri
and Ed Newman, and Rommy Rae
came from behind to spill Angelo
Leone.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
GuIdahI Seen Ready
To Emerge From
Worst Slump
Former Open Champion
Among Strong Field
In Chicago Open
BY the Associated Press.

BY Lne HSSoCIdleu flesS.
CHICAGO, July 18.-Big. slope
shouldered Ralph Guldahl, walloW-
ing in the worst slump of his golf
ing career, is about ready for an
other comeback.
The 30-year-old Madison IN. j.
pro hasn't won golf tournament
since the Milwaukee open last Aug
uSt, and his prize money has dwin-
died to peanuts. But his compan-
ions on The gold trail say he has
shown indications recently that he's
about set TO regain the form that
made him Open champion in 1878
Faces Formidable Task.
He has good chance to pick up
81 200 in the Chicago open which
started today over the difficult Elm
hurst Country Club course, but it'll
take Guldahl at his best to win the
top honors from an all-star field.
Not only has Guldahl failed to
win title of any sort in a year but
he even hasn't been finishing in the
money in recent starts. His tour
ney prize earnings will not exceed
81 500 for this year: contrast this
to the $29,83073 he collected in
prizes from 1937-1940 and you easily
can see how far the transplarted
Texan has slipped.
Rated Above Guldahl.
Rated above Guldahl as potential
winners of this meet are Craig
Wood National Open champion;
Ben Hogan. leading money winner,
and Vic Ghezzi, new P. G. A. title
holder. Dick Metz also is back to
try for a second straight Chicago
open title. The field includes Hor-
ton Smith, Johnny Revolta, Gene
Sarazen. Lloyd Mangrum. Jimmy
Thomson, Johnny Bulla, Sam Snead
and Denny Shute.
The 200 golfers play 1s holes to-
day, 18 Saturday and wind up with
36 Sunday.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
Potomac Oursmen Race
Sunday in Richmond

Potomac Boat Club will send II
earsmen to Richmond on Sunday to
compete in the Southern Rowing
Association Regatta there. Events
on the program are four -oared gig
auadruple sculls and eight-oared
race.
Representing the Washington club
will be Jack Sweeney. Paul Lanigan,
Allen Ha1eltine, Ernie Millar, Will
liam Duffy, John Stillman, Max
Millard, Mike Polohoff, Grove Seely
James Birch, jr., Ross Woodward
and John FAINT.
Evening star., 1941-07-18

tered individually and az defending
doubles champions
Other entries include Frank
Kovacs, third-ranked nationally and
runner-up to Riggs here last wear.
Gsrdnar Mulloy. seventh-ranked.
and Sarah Palfrey Cooke. Virginia
Wolfenden and Helen Bernard,
ranked sixth, seventh and eighth.
respectively, among the Nations
women players.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
BY LEWIS HAWKINS,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

ATLANTA, July 18-Auburn-
ties are mighty proud of Foot
baller Max Morris. who was Sc
verely burned while trying to
rescue a fellow student caught
on a live wire at the r. o. T. c.
training camp at Fort Benning.
The husky guard tried once to
pull his pal away and was
knocked down. He came back
fighting and was knocked out
again, being revived by his
teammate, End Jim Lenoir. Both
Morris and Lenoir were burned
so badly that they had to be
confined to a hospital, but they
won the praise of their officers.
Is it true that West Point has
gained Virginius Steel, 300
Evening star., 1941-07-18
Golf Party Didn't
Await 4th Wilson

KANSAS CITY LP-Olney
Wilson wanted a game of golf.
The man he approached at the
No. l tee was agreeable and in
tr0duced himself as Bill Wilson.
Before they could get their
game under way, third man
Sauntered up. The two Wilson's
were only too glad 10 make it a
threeSome.
Golfer No. said he was Paul
Wilson.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
Mary Wall Is Defeated
By buffers Mistake
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July ia buffers
mistake-failure to keep eyes on
the ball-caused the downfall of
Medalist Mary Agness Wall of Me-
nominee in the Michigan women's
golf championships.
Miss Wall was defeated by Mar
garet Russell, Detroit district cham
pion. / up, in 19-hole semifinal
match when she looked up on chip
shot on the extra hole.
The ball trickled into trap, and
Miss Russell, on the edge of the
green in 2, sank the putt to win
the match and enter the Anal with
Mrs. Don Weiss of Flint, the de-
Tending champion.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
District Public Links Championship Be Decided September IS Is and II
Job as Wutchmun
Open to NeyIond
b. the Associated Press.

bs Ute hsSUCIHItu PTeSS,
Maj. Bob Neyland, ex-coach
of Tennessee's Vols and now in
charge of the Army Engineers
at Norfolk, hurried out to the
naval base to get his special auto
license, relates Bill Cox, Vir-
ginian-pilot sports chief.
Taking his turn in line, the
major stated his business and was
handed a form to the tune of
please fill this out"
1t was an application for
position as night watchman at
the naval base, salary 1900 a
year.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
The
SPoRTLIGHT
Domestic, Money Woes
Hit at Louis Title
Ry GRANTLAND RICE.
Special Correspondent of The Star.

They are asking around the
ieather-throwing groups just what
effect his matrimonial troubles
might have on Joe Lewis next start
against Lou Nova. They might also
have asked just what effect Joe's
domestic and general financial situ-
alton might have had on several of
his recent starts.
I asked one man extremely close
to the Louis situation why it was
that Louis fought so many fights
and ran the risk of StaleneSs through
so many continued months of train
ing.
Maybe Joes friend said slowly.
Joe had to. Maybe certain things
have cost him more than you or
others know about. l could let you
guess on that figure and then add
$4,000 to it-and not be wrong.
Louis undoubtedly has made manv
good investments. But he has also
used up some important cash in en-
terprises in which the upkeep won't
be any too light Certainly his
domestic situation, in the way of
harmony and finances, hasn't been
any too cheerful.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
Rucino Roid Ie Made

KANSAS CITY, Kans., July 1s
(Pl.-County officers raided three
rooms in a downtown hotel here
and said they probably uncovered
headquarters of a Middle Western
racing wire service supplying in
formation to bookies in six States.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
Strong Rivol Is Sought

A fast unlimited baseball rival Is
wanted by Chevy Chase Dodgers
for tomorrow. Contact Joe Marshall
at Emerson 1871.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
Youngsters Seeking Foes

Northeast Cubs are after games
with mines whose PLAYERS are II
years old or under Call Michigan
1891.
Evening star., 1941-07-18
How Troubles vii! Affect
Joe Still Big Guess

How this situation in general will
affect Louis in the Lou Nova enter
prise still is guess.
Louis knows that if he can get by
Nova that another Billy Conn en-
terprise will draw close to million
dollars. His own share from this
gate should be close to 100000
If he needs the money I under
stand he will need. his start against
California Lou will be one of the
most desperate of his career. espe-
cially with that Conn glitter of
gold shining on ahead Just how
much brooding or fretting or wor-
rying he will do in the next two
months is something no one can
guess at this date.
'Joe's expenses" my informant
from the Louis camp tell me, are
much heavier than most people
know. They forget what a big slice
the Government and the State take
away.
Hes up in brackets now high
enough to make even cat or
squirrel dizzy"
Evening star., 1941-07-18
Joe's Camp Fears Conn
More Thon Nova

What about the Louis chance of
getting safely by Navo for another
scrap with Conn?
Nova is big heavyweight-rugged,
intelligent and game. He also is
supremely confident in his own
destiny. He is good boxer, but not
q great one. He can take a good
punch and he can hurt you But he
Is slower than Conn and, therefore,
easier to hit.
L know the Louis camp, including
Joe, feels that the champion has a
better chance against Nova than he
will in a return match with a Conn
who will be a year older.
The Louis camp doesn't consider
Nova any part of a push-over. But
the camp figures that with a good
rest, relief from staleness, plus the
incentive of another Conn entangle-
nent, Louis will be a much better
fighter in his next start than he has
been for the last 18 months-or at
least the last year.
The Phoenix index., 1941-01-04
Between TheLines + + +

Quarters of the World?" Assyria's s
glory is bound up forever with the
names of Sargon and Sennacherib
who drew the blueprint for the
vauntted glory of Nineveh.
Where is the Far-famed Egypt
cradle of Thebes and Memphis and
home of the mighty pyramids those
mute testimonials and architecture
Of mass and magnitude? Egypt boast
ed of a fame-filled history when
Rome and Greece were wrapped IN
swadling clothes lying in the mail
ger of time. And where is Persia
with her Cambyses Persians altered
not. Where is Greece, the land Of
immortals and brightest gem in the
diadem of time? Where is Rome
whose name IS a synonym of power
and pomp and splendor and con-
quest? The genius of the Caesars
could not save the Eternal City
from the wrecks of time.
REST IN TOMBS OF TINE
The once mighty nations one by
one left the summit of their gran
deur and glory to rest side by side
in the tombs of time. Whatever that
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Facing A Year Of War Weeping, Highway
Fatalities And Possible Lynchinrs

We nearing the threshold or New Year, out from
the records of the past have nothing to expect out
continuation of the woes experienced in the past
This due largely to the fact that nothing has been done
in remedial way short this expectation To look for
better under this condition would be like hunting pie IN
the sky.
The coming year will beyond all doubt shape the des-
tiny of the world In will probably be decided the turning
point the great catastrophe raging in Europe 1t w
be Brans stand not to tandt will be ours to light
or not to fight and it will be Hers to win not to win
We sha see what we
The past year has been reel of highway fatalities and
homicides 1t without these crying incidents
for a single week. While patrol on the highway has
Gone fine work. nevertheless the highways have not
from those groggy and heartbreakg scenes
the weeping the broken and the dying The speed and
drunken ends have been cleared The roads many
places are broken paved and hand there IS
the of the ways, the death trap and the
deadly These will make their usual contribution to
cur menacing problems.
The record for the year is terrible when it comes to
the homcdes In large cities the eXcuseess method OF
pumping bullets into the body of the offender welding the
knife and ice pick still at all high The pardon records
which dangerous criminals turned loose to ply their
trade better and bigger SCALE is encouragement to
those who have gdge of the least Sort to forth and
kill again.
We can therefore expect the newspapers to inform
periodically of the Saturday night and Sunday hOmcldes
The church. the newspapers and the civic forums have done
little curbing this evil The pardoning records would not
in anywise conform to principle OF helping the courts
Therefore will beyond doubt have for 941 open
for killings.
The records kept at Tuskegee by organization form
ed years ago by Dr. Monroe N. Work, while showing de-
cline in ynchngs does not give that encouragement that
it will disappear from the earth.
Georgia closes the year with her record spotted and
while we must admit that she has had as many lynch
ngs as in the past, she has had too many
AS the year closes everyone should resolve that the
coming year made better The world should be made bet
ter those living in it. and there why
we should not better people, closer to God ard exhibit
ing a finer sentiment of brotherly kindness.
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FAIR WARMING

'Tis CHRISTMAS day and the
joys thereof are spreading like a
wild deluge. How curious are the
ways of life; how filled with mys-
terry are the ways of God with
mani While we here in America are
celebrating the Yuletide with glad
some hearts and joys galore, Eu-
rope is bowed beneath its load Of
cares and sorrows. Bombs-Smitten
cities are writlling in miSerieS while
disaster stalks forth like some hob
goblin by night to kew the unhappy
sons of men.
Burns was right when he averred
that Mans inhumanity to man
makes countless thousands mourn" D."
What is transpiring in Europe to-
day is merely the repetition OF an
old ana sordid act in the great
drama of national growth and de-
cay. Nations like men come and go
as with the breath of the morning.
Nations like men are born in
weakness, wax mighty and perish
from the earth in one solemn pro-
cessicn that never ends. AS we
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glance in retrospect at history we
get faint glimpses Of the hearts to
think of what they once were and
how they came into their mighty
estates and today are gone to come
no more.
MERELY DREAM STUFF
How like the mighty empires of
today were those of ages past which
rose in glory and grandeur and
filled the earth with their glamour
,ut now are merely dream stuff,
the casual note of historian passers
by. The myriads tongues of history
tell a story that is at once ominous
and tragic. The highway of the
ages IS wreck-strewn and flanked
with the dry bones of a thousand
empires that came and went of
old
Where are Anau and Susa of pre-
history where first were kindled
the fires of civilization which have
Waxed and waned ten thousand
years? Where is Assyria with it's
quadrangular palaces and colossal
sculpture whose monarch took the
pretentious title King Of the -Four
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moderately successful buSineSs-lt
calls for periodic stock taking. So
since beginning of the New Year is
the beginning of a new business
year in the business Of life it Is
time for individuals, families, races
and nationalities to take time out
for analytic reflection. Because OF
limited space the attention here
will be to a racial group-our own.
EASY TO SINGLE OUT
Being a member of a minority
group whether a race or group
forced by pressure from the mo-
mentarily dominant racial group to
act with the solidarity of a race, has
historically been precarious and
inconvenient state of existence.
The distinguishing mark of color
mas made Negroes easy to single
out for whatever treatment the
majority racial group would accord
minority people. Close and analy-
tical study of the ways of life" of
the society in which minority
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something was, which might have
been done to save them, was not
done and so they perished from the
earth. The signs of our own times
suggest that the nations of our day
are marked fer destruction; for the
cry is going up from the utter
most parts of the earth WHAT mnst
we do to be saved?" There is only
one answer and that is, believe and
live the Christ of Christmas. There
is no other name under Heaven
whereby men and nations can be
saved.
Just whether men and nation
shall spend all the years of tnei
time trying to climb up some otli-
err, we have no way at present of
knowing; but the solemn truth
stands astride the pathway of time
and warns mankind that it is Je-
sus or death for the world! And so
in this Christmas time it is good for
us that we should think on these
eternal veritieS to the end that we
may be saved. Men and nations
and races and minority groups may
as we'll be warned, that a ChristleSs
future is dark and treacherous and
without hope.
The formula for the preservation
and advancement of mankind was
not written by Plato in his New
Republic, nor by Bacon in his New
Atlatis, nor by Moore in his
Utopia, nor by Camparella IN his
City of the Sun, ntr yet by Karl
Marx in the Communist Manifesto
and Das Kapital. 1t was written by
Jesus Christ-the Christ of Christ
mas!
-
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I Washington throughout the states.
The WPA has become so sensitive
to the good of Negroes that it now
has Race Relations officer. Many
southern states have worked at
ways and means of improving and
and extending educational oppor-
tunities for Negroes. The CIO has
aimed some advantages for its Ne
gro members in such racially back
ward communities as Jefferson
County, Alabama.
Special mention should be made
of the growing distinction which
! Negro women are getting. A Negro
woman was appointed Judge of the
Domestic Relations Court in New
York, another is special assistant
to a State Attorney General and
| Mrs. Bethune's work with the
NYA still adds statue to Negro
women.
SOME DISAPPOINTMENTS
On the other hand they have
heen disarpointments. The NAACP
failed to get the anti-lynching bill
enacted into law; there is still dis
elimination in the National De-
fense Program; the Methodist de-
nomination made its organization
more indisputablv bi-racial; Joe
Louis canvassed for the Republican
Party; the unemployed groups OF
. Negroes are still dangerously large;
Negro musicians and actors are
losing the places they had in the
national amusement world
In fact the majority racial group
has continued to put pressure upon
Negroes wherever the activity of
Negroes tended to injure their
welfare. Negroes were definitely a
threat to their economic security
in so far as unemployment of un-
employed Negroes and white was
concerned.
This chronicle could go on far,
far into the night without ending.
Just enough has been written to
support the firm conviction that
Negroes must stop periodically to
take stock of themselves and their
relation to the society in which
they live.
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FROM MY STUDY
WINDOW

ceased to ring, the flaming Yule
Log reduced to ashes, the gifts
stored away and forgotten, the
spirit of Christmas will live on TO
deepen the sympathies and to make
warmer the hearts of men.
This is the thing we must not
miss in Christmas; it is the thing
we must not lose in the after mas.
We must not burn it with the
boxes, the gilded string, and the
flaming wrappings. We must not
discard it with the withered holly
wreaths, the crumbling> mistletoe
and the dis1nantled tree. 1t IS the
lasting message of Christmas.
After mas, too, calls us back to
reality. The way in which we re-
spond will be the measure of the
blessing of Christmas for us. 1t
would be good for the world if the
spirit of love and goodwill and
Joyous sharing which characterize
lI16 L ulCblIC SCdSO41 COttAOA ESAoASo
throughout all the year. But frolic.
and JOY and the delights of fam
tasy must give way to the sterner
demands of the after mas.
THE DAYS AFTER
That man has derived little last
ing benefit from Christmas, who
goes back to his work in the days
immediately following it, like
quarry slave scourged" to his
task. How much you really enjoyed
Christmas is gauged not SO much
by your shouts of delight with the
Joys of Christmas day, as by how
YOU return to the duties and re-.
sponsibilitles of the twenty sixth
the twenty seventh and the twenty
eighth.
Nay not only by this Is your
/ real enjoyment of Christmas mea-
sured. but also your cultural and
spiritual maturity. You have had
YOUR holiday. It is over. Refreshed
and rejuvenated not jaded and
heavy we should learn to go on IN
these days after Christmas. TO
FACE life fairly.
For the Christmas things VIII
pass away but the love that gave
them will never die. Things pass
away. your things. You! But OF
His kingdom there shall be no
end"
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LIVE ADEQUATELY TODAY

Preachers, who can $ read no gospel about how
to live adequately N this Ii e as well as to str SIS
preparation for the "oher life, would have to go"
under my acqraint noes system.
What would go for teachers and preachers would
go for every other type of l ader
There would be no protect on 1or the immoral
hVers, the murderer7 the hatitual drunks and
gamblers There would lie in ist nee that Neoroas
I'VE according to The Letter the law and more since
'hey are farthest behind, if the figures ON crime are
70 oe oeheVed. Murder of N goes by would would
lie ueated as murder not mans'aughter Cheatino
ana sWlnd1ng, high and low would have ~ oo
t such moven1e mt in. ttut d. There would
re no selling ou" by those in positions of influ-
ence under pain 0f heing exte minat d through the
purge thought up ty ny friend.
The total aim Ct such Trogram would be to
make Negroes measure up into being men, in every
sense of the word usei in western civilization
Under this n7ovem mt Negroes WOULD become
registered vo nd becone part of high pres
sured American political and civil government
There would be understanding and appreciation by
other groups, since there would be involved no goal
of opposition t. ther-merely cooperation in max.
irg this REAL derocracy
Upm presentation Of this almost fanciful plan
for such Improvement amorg the group. the ques-
ton was a. ke1 We'll, who is going to do all this?
The answer my friend gave Those among the
Group who are really interested in the self-improve
ment subject.
Urged ty my friend and my own conscience. I've
heen irving tn find them.