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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26
Colt Singers

In golf Jimmy Thomson remains
the long-distance ruler with some
thing to spare.
AS l recall the figures Thomson
has won the last six driving contests
arranged by the PEA.
II must be remembered that the
only true measure in golf is from a
fiat surface, with no helping wind.
Roll doesn't count. You can drive
a golf ball mile on the ice. And
few of the long hitters can stand
on an elevated tee and pass 800
yards on the carry with a helping
gale.
One earnest seeker for records
once drove golf ball well over a
understanding at the top of the
Grand Canyon.
Driving from level surface, I'M
helped by wind, ThOmson's best
blows usually range from 27O to 275
yards. This is big blasting. A carry
of $50 yards under these conditions
is big hitting. i doubt that any golf
er ever carried 300 yards on fiat
ground, minus a keen breeze.
I know that few good hitters care
to risk carry beyond 225 yards
when there is trouble to face.
A helping or headwind makes a
much greater difference than many
know. A headwind is also mental
handicap since it usually brings on
pressing and overeffort, which is al
ways a mistake.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26
Speaking Of
SPORTS
BY ROBERT MesHANE
Releo,ed BY Western Newspaper Union

GOLFDOM'S most popular cham
- pion, with no exceptions in the
present-day field, is blond Craig
Wood, winner of the games tough
est trial-the National Open tourna-
ment.
The locker rooms are usually
packed after the Open - full Of
might-have-beens who have a logi-
cal, well-thought-out excuse for not
winning. 1t was different after this
battle, fought at Fort Worth, Texas.
Woods victory, unlikely as it seems,
was the occasion for general jubi-
lation. Every player felt it was tru-
ly a case of long-delayed, justice.
Wood finally had reached his place
in the sun.
When Wood canned his birdie 3
on the last hole of the tournament
he not only captured the title, but
he ended the perennial Illustration
which saw him tie Byron Nelson
for the 1899 crown, losing in a dOu-
BILE play-Off, and then, in 1910, come
in fourth in a strong finish. This
year he completed a string Of IA
consecutive rounds in the Open in
which he has been 10 strokes under
even AS. Craig never went over
70 in the IA rOunds-the best COM
petitive finishing mark in the As
years of the tournament.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26

Wood for the championship. Nor
will they forget the resulting play
off, which Sarazen won.
Then, too, there was Byron Mel
son who whipped Wood in the Cruel
ing 36-hole playoff for Open honors
in 1889. That playoff caused the ma
tons blood pressure to climb fast
er than a monkey after cocOnuts.
Each of these men had a good
chance to duplicate previous victo-
ries over Wood when they went into
the last-day stretch on the Colonial
clubs soggy fairways. Shute had a
144 for the three rounds, even with
Wood. Runyan was close behind
with a las. Sarazen had lat and
Nelson was only two strokes be-
hind at lac.
To make long story short, Wood
didn't let up. His gutter was just
as hot as it was when he won the
Masters this spring at Augusta. He
dropped two 25-fOot puts and sew
eral 10 and 12-foot shots. His woods
were functioning as perfectly as ev-
err, and his short game left little to
he desired.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26
Sweet Reuenge

-Four strong finishers in this years
battle were the cause of untold grief
to Wood during past golfing wars.
Denny Shute, who had more than
his share of hackers at Fort Worth,
defeated Craig eight years ago in a
playoff for the British Open. Shute
finished second in the Open, three
strokes behind Woods 72-hole score
of 284.
Paul Runyan, who conquered
Wood in 3S-hOle fight for the Ma
tiOnal p. G. A. title in 1894, looked
like he would repeat the conquest
this year at the Open. The diminu-
tive Runyan took the 54-hole lead
away from Gene Sarazen, to. be
tied later by Shute.
No golf fan who saw the 1885 Mas
ters' tournament will forget the his
tory-making double eagle which
Gene Sarazen chalked up to tie
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26
GERMANTOWN

Following their graduation at
the Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School last Thursday evening,
Miss Ruth Waters entertained a
number of her classmates at her
home here. Her guests, who in
cluded former Rockville students
who were transferred to Bethesda
after the Rockville fire, were the
following: Misses Laura Miles,
Barbara Walcott, Jeanne Wright,
Mary Elizabeth Fresch, Bette
Malone, Ella Mae Benson and
Messrs. Harry Sequin, Kenneth
Waters, John Waits, Ernest
Davis, Ashton Garrett, Frank
Higgins, Norman Douglas, Irving
Fresch, Douglas Rosenberger,
Walter Swift, Norman LaRue,
and Hilton Carter.
Mrs. Frank Allnutt was host
ess last week to the Tuesday
afternoon bridge club.
The Rev. Ralph Hersberger of
Redland was the weekend guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Smith.
Mrs. Eugene Waters, Miss
Mollie Waters and Miss Ruth
Waters spent last Tuesday in
Williamsburg.
Children's Day exercises will
be held at the Neelsville Presby-
terrain Sunday School at 10 a. m.
next Sunday morning.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26

is a wide diver
gence of opinion as
to how far the
mightiest of the hit
tiers can drive a
baseball, golf ball
or polo ball, to take
up three examples.
Few have ever
smacked a baseball
beyond 500 feet. I
mean on the carry.
A good many years
ago one of Babe
Ruth'S Florida wal
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26
National Symphony
Opens Concert Season
Sunday Evening, June 20

Complete plans for what prom
Uses to be the most interesting
series of "Sunset Symphonies" yet
given by the National Symphony
Orchestra at its summer home at
the Potomac Water Gate have
been announced by Hans Kinder,
conductor of the orchestra and
musical director of the summer
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26

Tops that dropped into plowed field
was measured around 500 feet. Any
thing over 430 feet is no part of soft
hitting.
Ruth remains the lOng-distance
champion, both as record hitter
and as the most consistent one. The
Babe not only had bulk and power
back of his punches, but he also had
one of the finest swings that baseball
has ever known in the way of timing
and smOOthness.
But the Babe rarely reached full
range Of 500 feet. There is no way
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26

play in a floating accoustical
some go feet from the shore at
shell, moored in the Potomac
some 60 feet from the shore at
the Water Gate approach to the
Lincoln Memorial. More than
1000 people can be accommodated
at popular prices in the Water
Gate site, while many thousands
more will hear the concerts free
of charge from canoes and from
the two bridges over the French
which frame the site.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26

concerts.
Opening Sunday evening, June
20, two concerts will be given
each week over a period of five
weeks. Except for the first week
- when Sunday (June 29) and
Wednesday (July p have been
scheduled as the concert nights
all concerts will be given on Mon
day and Thursday evenings, the
final one on July 81. Concerts
will begin promptly at 500 p. m.
AS in former years the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra will
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26
Three-Year Scores

In 1899 at Philadelphia Wood shot
70-7l-7l-72-284 and then added g.
70 to lose to Nelson in heart-break-
ing playoff. Last year he shot r.
73-72-72-289, finishing pair Of
strokes behind Lawson Little, the
winner, and Gene Sarazen. This
year his rounds were 73-71-70-7O-
284.
Craig Wood is popular cham
pion. The crowd is always with a
hard luck player-particularly when
he does the seemingly impossible
and comes out on top.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26

10 make any exact
measurement when
the BAH sails out of
the park or crashes
into the upper
stands.
There is a center
field fence in the st.
Petersburg park
around 500 fe ct
away, and no one
has ever hit this
palisade on the fly
yet, acc ordin g to
the best knowledge
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26
Sport Shorts

q Net receipts of the ninth annual
Al-Star baseball game, to be played
July 8 in Briggs stadium, Detroit
will 60 to the army and navy rec
reational programs.
"a street on the Stanford uni
versity campus has been named aft
er Sam Mcdonald. Negro superin-
tendent of the Institutions athletic
plant.
q Both the National Open and the
P. G. A. tournaments are worth 100
points to the winners for the Var
don trophy award.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-26

IN AN age of prodigious hitting,
no matter what the game, there
is still wide sweep of argument in
regard to record distances. There
Evening star., 1941-09-16

and Journalistic articles and making
speeches to the English about their
cause Then he thought of coming
to America. but not as a propa-
gandiSt He doesn't intend, for in
stance, to try to win that iSolationist
Welshman, John L. Lewis, to an all
out sympathy for England.
Il think the great thing" he said,
'is to state to the limit of my ca
pacity the justice of our cause"
Also to Visit Canada.
He likes best to state it at
Gymanfa Ganu-Welsh singfeSts-
which differs from an Eistedfodd.
An Eistedfodd is a Welsh singing
competition. while in a Gymanfa
Ganu you just sing with the crowd.
At Eistedfodds during the past 80
years Mr.. Jones has met many
Welsh h-Americans. With them he
corresponded before he undertook
his journey to the New World.
He has been here two weeks, and
now, after Indianapolis, he is going
to Detroit, Chicago, Scranton, Niles,
Ohio; Beaver Falls, Pa; Conner,
Ohio: Minneapolis, and then to
Canada.
Mr. Jones is a slight man, mus
tached and neat. His father,
miner 55 years. took him to work in
the pits the day before his 18th
birthday anniversary in 1896. He
saw four years of military service
in South Africa and India, then
back to the mines, then into the
World War, where he was twice
wounded.
Came 1928 and depression in the
mines. In the years gone by Mr.,
Jones had begun to read books and
he noticed that no authors por-
trayed the life of my own people"
the miners.
II felt that there was the need
for giving to the world picture of
life in a mining community
So he wrote the novel "Rhondda
Roundabout. (Rhondda is a ia
NOUS mining Valley Next he wrote
"Black Parade" another novel of
mining life.
Basic People"
MY purpose" he says, was to
make the reading people conscious
Of the existence and the Importance
of the people of the British mining
communities, and I presented them
as the basic people, the sure founda-
tion of Britain's industrial system"
He dramatized these people in
play form in the play Land of My
Fathers" a play that won a con-
test whose prize was sought by l68
authors. He wrote novel, "Bidden
to the Feast" about the industrial
development of Wales and the flow
of Welsh people into the industrial
regions of America. Then came his
autobiography, Unfinished Jour-
ney," and the decision to do the
life of David Lloyd George.
Evening star., 1941-09-16
Literary Apostle
OF Welsh Miners
Comes TO Sing
Jack Jones to Tour -
Part of U. S. us Envoy
To Gymunfu Gonu

Mrs. Jack Jones is overseas in Car
diff, Wales, holding down the Jones
fort" four-room bungalow, while
Jack Jones visits the United States.
Mr.. Jones is a literary man who be-
gan his working life in the coal mines,
fought in the Boer War and the
World War and now has four sons in
the English military service. He
same to Washington today for a
brief stop preparatory to making a
tourney into the Midwest to talk
to Welsh American groups and to
lead them in singing the old Welsh
songs.
Abide With Me- Mr.. Jones
sang softly while he was being
interviewed. He is stopping at the
Wardman Park Hotel, and the next
stop is Indianapolis. He will be in
the United States two months, ac-
cording to plans, and then back to
the blackout.'
He has boundleSS talth IN the
hard-working Englishmen he comes
from. the workers. and he IS sure
that with them the future of the
British Empire rests.
Quits Literary Work.
Jack JoneS-born John Jones, but
called Jack as long as he remembers
and he is almost 81 noW-gave up
literature when the war came along.
He was writing life of David Lloyd
George, another WelShman, and his
publishers urged him to go ahead.
But I can't think about writing
In these times for regulations sake. "
He threw aside the biography and
took to writing radio broadcasts
Evening star., 1941-09-16
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Evening star., 1941-01-16

the United Kingdoms position In
these words:
I'm satisfied they can pay this
year for what they have already
ordered, but when it comes to find
ing dollars for anything like what
they need, they just haven't got ii"
Il am astounded to find that Brit
ish assets in this country are only
about billion, when we have
been reading that they are 7 bill
lion or IA billion" observed Rep
resentative Vorys, Republican, OF
Ohio.
Mr.. Morgenthau said he thought
people have confused assets that
are sterling with dollar assets. In
this connection the Secretary also
filed a statement of long-term for
eign investments of the United
Kingdom elsewhere than in the
United ei'tes, most of which are In
pounds sve. ing securities.
Under questioning by Chairman
Bloom late yesterday, Secretary
Morgenthau estimated Great Brit
tins present stand against the axis
powers is costing the kingdom
10000 000-about 5000, ,000Aa day.
England, he said, is raising 40 per
cent of that in taxes and borrow
ing so per cent.
Compares Taxes in England.
How do the taxes in England
and the United States compare?"
Mr.. Bloom inquired.
This will surprise some people. 4"
the Secretary observed softly, as he
reached for the figures.
Then he read some comparisons,
showing that the head of a family
with two children, receiving $4,000
year-such as member of Con-
gress-would pay S3,45l in income
Evening star., 1941-01-16
Leuse-Lend
Continued From First Page)

sress without believing it would be
used to further our own defense?"
Mr.. Fish said he voted for the
previous act because it was IN line
with the Monroe Doctrine.
Mr.. Fish started the questioning
OF Mr.. Stimson by asking whether
the Secretary thought that, with
this country's naval strength, any
foreign nation could invade our
shores.
Not now, probably not" Mr.. Slim
son replied slowly.
ANY time this year," Mr.. Fish
pressed.
Il wouldn't dare say any time
this year"
Could Repel Land Invasion.
Mr.. Fish then raised the question
whether the United States Army
could repel a force of $4,000 troops
should they be landed.
"I think they probably could, if
the gentlemen means a land in
vasion," Mr.. Stimson responded,
adding that he thought that air.
forces would accompany an at
tempted invasion by infantry.
''Is there any airplane built which
could span the Atlantic, drop bombs
here and return across the Allan
tic?" Mr.. Fish inquired.
Probably not the width of the
Atlantic" Mr.. Stimson said, "but
they are rapidly developing in the
direction and there are many bases
short of the full width of the At
lantic'
Asked by Mr.. Fish what bases he
had in mind, Mr. Stimson said:
Newfoundland would be a base
within easy range of all of our New
England Coast. North Canada would
be within easy range of the New
England Coast"
Does the Secretary believe" Mr..
Fish continued, that our Navy
would remain locked up in our
harbors if any such invasion were
attempted"
Danger If British Lose Fleet.
mo" said Mr.. Stimson, "but where
Is our Navy now?" CMost of the big
ships of the Navy are at present
based in the Pacif1c)
Mr.. Fish then inquired whether
there was "fear of invasion" and the
Secretary replied that there was
danger of an air invasion If the
British fleet were destroyed or other
wise rendered ineffective for this
country's protection.
When Mr.. Fish sought to obtain
from the Secretary a statement that
the President could, under this bill,
give away any part or all of the
Navy, Mr.. Stimson said it permits
him to transfer naval vessels under
such conditions as he believes would
be in the interest of our defense"
The Secretary of War told Mr.
Fish it is possible to make "just as
many violent interpretations of our
Federal Constitution as you make
about this BILL but, ne added, every
one knows no President would go
that far.
"If we can bring 1t within the pro-
visions of the Constitution, I'll sup
port it." Mr.. Fish replied.
Stimson Outlines Advantages.
In his prepared statement Sec
retary stimson outlined the advan-
Evening star., 1941-01-16
Weather Bureaus S
| Rain Yortistick'
damned by Ice

The Wea tner Bureaus rain
measuring instrument jammed
during the freezing weather to-
day and had 10 be thawed out.
The bureau al first reported
.16 of an inch OF rain from
about 7:30 pm. yesterday to
about 8 am. today. A little
later, the bureau reported the
figure should have been 20 OF
an inch.-
After still another check, 1t
was suggested the check be done
all over again and the latest
revised figure was set at Sc Of
an inch up until noon.
Evening star., 1941-01-16
'Leuse-Lend' Bill Defect
Urqed by Unions Chiefs
BS the Associated Press.

Bs the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Six ma
tional officers of the National Mari
time Union &C. I. o. today de-
scribed the pending "lend-lease"
bill as a measure which would
plunge this country into war and
establish q Fascist state here far
worse than that which exists in any
European country today"
In kilograms TO the Senate For
eign Relations Committee and the
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
they asked that the bill be defeated.
Signing the kilograms were
Joseph Curran, president; Ferdi-
nand Smith, secretary; M. Hedley
Stone, treasurer, and three field
organizers, Jack Lawrence, Howard
Mckenzie and Frederick Myers.
Evening star., 1941-01-16
Hoover Urges House
To Define Powers in
Lease-Lend Bill
Believes CIurificution
Would Help Eliminate
Bitterness of Debute
- the Associated Press.

- the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Formel
President Herbert Hoover called to-
day on the House Foreign Affairs
Committee to draft Immediately into
the proposed lease-lend bill for aid
to Britain positive definitions of the
powers to be given President Roose-
welt.
In a letter to Chairman Bloom
who said Tuesday the committee
would be glad to hear all opponents
and supporters of the measure, Mr.
Hoover said:
There is unfortunately growing
up in the country a bitterness of
discussion which it seems to me in
the interest of national unity could
be allayed by the committee This
division lies largely in the interpre-
tations and implications in respect
to the powers proposed to be con-
ferred in this bill and its meaning. ,
Mr.. Hoover, asserting that he IA
vored extending every practicable
aid, short of war, to Britain" but
that he did mot approve of our
joining in the war" listed several
points on which the controversy
centered.
Cites Possible Actions.
"For example" he wrote, "citizens
Of high patriotic thought and ex-
perience, who desire to support the
President, believe that under the
bill and even without any supple
mental action by the Congress:
THAT battleships and other naval
vessels could be given away;
THAT our defense could be vitally
impaired by giving away Army
equipment;
THAT equipment and materials
provided in the bill could be trans
ferred through the war zone in
American ships conveyed by the
American Navy;
'That commodities and articles
could be purchased in other coun-
tries with our money;
THAT alien ships now in sanctuary
In our harbors could be seized:
That it opens American ports to
repair of belligerent vessels and
make such ports bases for belligerent
operations and may become the OBJ
jective of them;
THAT the program of gifts to
Britain could begin before the very
considerable resources now available
to the British government in the
United States had been first called
upon as payment or collateral,
That the bill could cancel parts
Of the labor laws, the johnson Act
the Neutrality Acts, The Hague Con-
ventions and possibly other laws;
That it empowers involvement in
war as distinguished from decla-
ration of war by the Congress"
Calls for Qualification.
Mr.. Hoover said there were many
other questions which have been
raised, among them time and ex-
penditures limits. and added:
1T seems to me urgent that these
matters should be at once clarified
because the public mind is appre.
hensive and confused.
"If the committee would at once
draft into the bill positive definitions
Of what these powers are and specif1-
cally exclude what they are not.
am sure such an early action would
enable concrete debate and eliminate
much controversy and bitterness. As
I said, it would greatly contribute
TO national unity"
Evening star., 1941-01-16
ToIond Reps N. L. R. B.
In Rotary Club Talk

Evidence Of subversive activities
by board member and instances of
outright corruption" are contained
in a report on an investigation of
the National Labor Relations Board,
Edmund M. Toland, general counsel
for a House investigating committee,
Evening star., 1941-01-16

taxes in England, compared with
$440 in this country.
On a $4,000 salary, the English
tax would be 39.400, the American
$2,l43. On 100000 of income, the
British tax would be $4,000, the
American $4,000.
Evening star., 1941-01-16
Sir Hugh Dowdme Louds
New Martin Bomber
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. l6.-The
quality of the new high-speed
Martin B-26 medium bomber was
praised yesterday by Sir Hugh
Dowding, former head Of the British
fighter command, who is making a
survey of American aircraft plants.
"I was very much impressed" he
said after inspecting the heavily
armed B-26 at the Glenn L. Martin
plant.
The plane has a speed of about
$50 miles an hour and contracts
totaling more than 500, 900 900 have
been placed by the United States
Army for the bombers.
Sir Hugh described the bomber
as lust about all right from q
standpoint Of speed, load and power"
for European combat duty.
Evening star., 1941-01-16

Great Britain's barrage balloons
have more than 1000 parts and cost
about $2,225. Their average Life Is
three or four months.
Evening star., 1941-01-16
old the Washington Rotary Club

told the washington Rotary Club
yesterday.
The report constitutes the most
shocking indictment of public Of
ficials in the history of the United
States" Mr.. Toland declared. He
spoke to about 300 club members at
the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1941-01-16

Iraq has stored over S30o.000 worth
of medicines and drugs for emer-
gencies.
Evening star., 1941-01-16

Tahiti cannot sell its vanilla crop
and has nearly so tons in storage.
Evening star., 1941-01-16
Men Not in Army.

The New York Representative said
that Mr.. Stimson and Secretary of
State Hull had undertaken to COM
pare the little countries of Europe,
including the Netherlands and Bel
gium, which are right on the border
line of Germany, with the situation
of this country. Mr.. Fish said he