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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-14
TURFMEN AID DEFENSE

Yonkers, N. Y. - At the sugges- ton of Trainer Norman Taliman d Empire City, track blacksmiths will save old aluminium racing plattea and turn them over to the govern' ment for defense manufacturing purposes.
Evening star., 1941-03-30

Pitchy, was with her. Ptchy was clawing at
the door in his desire to get at Ivan who
qrivering in wet misery, ignored him.
Il was passing by the alley, my pet, and
l thought saw you out here" Susie drawled
Exquisite in tailored gray linen, she pressed
scarlet nail against her scarlet mouth and
amusedly eyed the ragamuffn Isabelle.
Putting down the soap but still keeping
firm grip on Ivan, Isabelle beamed upon her.
knowing full well that Susie would have
given her very soul and shoelaces to be in
Isabelle's place.
why are you washing Ivan?" Susie asked
with an ostentatious lack of interest. rs
he going to pose with you? mean - well,
what are Wally's ideas for the oontest?''
Darling, wait till you hearw Beaming, if
possible, more brightly - heavens! if she had
been in Susie's place wild horses couldn't
have made her admit such curiosity - Isa-
belle proceeded to describe the picture,
Thoroughbreds.
"And if there isn't enough wind to create
the right effect" she concluded, forestalling
Susie's mentioning it, "Wally will connect
an electric fan to that little filling station
not far away, and make his own"
Quite project, must say" Susie mur-
INJURED, as if she found the whole idea abso-
lutely too childish for words Which meant,
Isabelle knew, that Susie found it absolutely
too marvellous for words She found it so mar
velous that she couldn't bear to hear Isabelle
say any more about it. Il must run, my
(Confinvsd on nsxt poge)
Evening star., 1941-03-30

but the sky for a background. And" she
paused dramatically, "Wally is going to call
the picture, Thoroughbred
The winning picture is to be displayed in
Paget's show window for week." Mrs.
Cummings asked, going straight to the reason
for Isabelle's enthusiasm. She added, Are
any of the other girls posing for some of the
other boys?"
Lots of them" Isabelle dragged the tub
onto the grass, Pepper prancing ahead of her.
"A contest within a contest" Spencer
Cummings observed, understanding it all at
last. The boys want the camera; the girls
want to see themselves in Paget's window"
But the boys think the girls are only inter-
ested in the boys chances of winning cam
era" Isabelle smiled at this, to her, typical
masculine lack of perception. She added:
Susie Clayton was going to pose for Chester
Armstrong. But yesterday Chester got
camera for his birthday and he dropped out
of the contest. Everybody else already has a
model" She sighed happily. so Susie is out
of the contest entirely"
Her tone was one that her mother under
stood but did not condone. Susan Clayton
was, as Isabelle phrased it, one of Isabeles
two very dearest friends. But Susie was also
one of Isabelle's closest rivals in popularity.
and Resale Cummings did not like to hear
and see her child's all-too-human satisfaction
at her rivals i'll luck.
You could be less pleased about it, )"
Rosalie said pointedly.
Beneath the red bandana Isabelle's face
Evening star., 1941-03-30

went all round eyes and round mouth with
soundless 'oh" of affronted innocence. Heav-
ems, person couldn't even think a small
thought in her mothers presence and get
away with it! Besides, she wasn't exactly
pleased about Susies being out of the contest.
She was merely - well, at peace. Susie
always furnished stiff competition.
! BETTER get started on Ivan. We're sup
posed to be ready for our picture by three
O'Clock" Isabelle changed the subject, wish
ing her parents would 60 in to their breakfast
and stop making these embarrassing re-
marks. She picked up Peppers eighteen
pounds of squirming excitement and said:
Pepper ought to 60 inside. He'll worry Ivan.
Here!' She held Pepper up to her father,
you take him in, Father"
Her father took the protesting Pepper,
and Mr. and Mrs Cummings went on inside
and left Isabelle alone. Rolling up the sleeves
of the faded old sweat shirt, she went after
the wolfhound, who had flung himself down
by the gate in the fence separating the back
yard from the alley Ivan did not like being
bathed but he was rarely violent about any
thing Passive resistance was his technique.
Showing and heaving, Isabelle finally maneu-
vered his one hundred limp pounds into the tub.
Turning on the hose, she drenched him to
the skin. She had just started soaping him
between the ears, when an automobile horn
sounded behind her and she turned around to
see Susie Clayton slowing the family car to
a stop in the alley. Her Scottish terrier,
Evening star., 1941-03-30
II Short Story Complete in This Issue

r
YT WAS unbelievable - Isabelle downstairs
and finished with her breakfast before nine
. o'clock in the morning!
On their way to the dining room, Mr.. and
Mrs Cummings detoured via the back porch
to stare at their sixteen year old daughter
busily engaged in dragging the garden hose
across the grass while the mongrel dog.
Pepper. cavorted at her heels, and Ivan, the
Russian wolfhound, stalked in aristocratic
boredom about the yard. What" Isabelle's
father inquired. "dynamited you out of
bed?"
And why that get-up?" her mother asked.
eyes going from the pretty head with its
yellow c,uls to the small body encased in
Isabelle's slacks and sweater of Mr.. Cum
mings's
I'm going to wash Ivan" Isabelle said,
as she screwed the hose into faucet by the
porch steps. She ducked under the steps to
get the zinc tub in which Ivan was always
bathed As she backed out, dragging the tub.
she explained:
"Ivan's got to look his best for the contest.
Pagets Art Shoppe is giving away candid
camera for the best snapshot taken by an
amateur. You can enter as many pictures as
you want to, and Miss Serena Paget is going
to enlarge the winning picture and display it
in the show window for a week. All you have
to do is to buy the film from her and let her
develop it."
And you," Mr.. Cummings asked, ARE
going to try to win this contest and this cam
era with picture of Ivan?"
"Oh, nor! Isabelle protested in high amuse-
ment II don't want camera. Waly Bowen
does. And so does practically every other boy
in the younger set except Clifford Reed,
who's already got fine camera. Besides,
Clifford has already entered some of his
nature studies - nature studies are his spe-
You know the ATgns?"
NATURALLY, said her father since it has
the largest circulation of any paper IN the
state and l read it every day; on Sundays
even you look at the rotogravWe and the
comics. But I'm not asking about Clifford,
or the Argus; I'm asking about you and Ivan."
why, Ivan and are going to pose for
Wally. Wally has the most marvellous ideas -
like, for instance, he's going to pose me and
Ivan on that long mound east of the golf
course on the road to the country club. where
the tall grass grows Ivan and will be like
we're walking on top of a hill, with Ivan
straining forward on his leash and my hair
and dress blowing in the wind and nothing
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Bodminton Stars Play Through
Quorter-FinoI Round Today;
Three D. C.. Women Win

Is: Herb Bryant, washington. defeated
qah asry dsft
Chicago, default: Wilbur Lindsey. Phila-
delphia defssatsd 30 Dreiseh, Baltimore,
esed Dean dsfsS
Harrison MONTH: Baltimore. I7-14: Is|I
a rmaa Shnaner BsnfEs eesatfs
Warner, I5-2 15-5: Grant defeated
nas Byan drew bye then defeassd sGe ss saGnders
15-7, lib, 15-5.
Mems Doubles.
Garren and Lindsey, Philadelphia. de-
feated Bryant and Dreisch, .15-5. 15-5:
Quigley and Tracey. Cleveland, defeated
Grant and Snyder, 15-5. 15-5.
Today's Schedule.
Women's singles--Mary Hagan New
Gharlotts Decker (Washingtonl vs.. virginia
more) VS.. Peggy svt GPhiladelphia): Polly
THOMPSON washington VS.. Clare Mitchell
Mems sinsles-Ken ouisley Cleveland,
Ss5sssIsna 5I% psnsass twfsssoss
match; Carl Loveday fMontciair. n. Is vs..
Harry Hackett tPhiladelphia1: Charles
cinnati).
Women's doubles - Fox Roberts vs.
Mitchell-Svit 3 pm: Bergman-Gibson VS..
Cromwell; Brooks-White VS.. Rome
niecki-Graham. pm; Thompson-Decker
VS.. Hagan-Warner.
Mems doubles - Hackett-warner vs.
Koer-Snyder. 3 pm: Loveday -Giblin vs.
Di Leona -Stille. $50 pm; Garren-Lindsey
VS.. Critchheld -Geerke 4 pm.
Mixed doubles (second round)-Loveday-
Bergman VS.. Lindsey-Fox: Quigley Gibson
VS.. Drietsch Brooke: quarter finals, Dana
her and Hagan VS.. Leutkemeyer- Thompson;
Warner-Warner VS.. winner of Loveday-
Bergman apd Lindsey-Fox ma tch: Garren-
Mitchell VS.. Grant-Platt; Hackett-Svit vs..
winner Of QuiHley-Gibson and Drietsch-
Brooke match.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Santa CIoro's Shaw Is Backed
For Irish Grid Cooch Berth
To Be Filled in 48 Hours

John J. Cavanaugh, chairman of
the board and vice president of the
university, from last nights session,
another meeting will be held prob
ably Monday or Tuesday.
Shaw's Record Outstanding.
Father Cavanaugh has been In
California for three weeks on uni
versity business and will return
tomorrow.
There were reports on the campus
that he may have slipped into Santa
Clara for a conference with Shaw,
who has made an outstanding rec
ord since assuming charge there in
1886. Shaw's team lost only one
game last fall, 7-to-6 decision to
all-conquering Stanford
1t seemed probable that Notre
Dame would continue its traditional
policy of having one man hold both
the athletic dictatorship and the
head football coaching position. The
handsome, gray-haired Shaw has
the required qualifications, his ad-
mirers say.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Tough in First Game,
Furman Rated Easy
For 6. ". Tonight
Hurricane Drops Three
Rood Tits; Buff Frosh
Encounter SIeuths

George Washington and Furman
meet tonight on Riverside Stadium
Court in what promises TO be moth
ing more than mild workout for
the Colonials.
A preliminary game between G.
w. freshmen and Federal Bureau of
Investigation will open the program
at o'clock
George Washington had hard
time nosing out the Hurricane by
37-36 margin down South, but the
shoe is on the other foot tonight.
The Colonials were on an arduouS
five-game trip then and tonight
Furman is closing out similar ex-
pedition. The visitors lost to Will
liam and Mary last night for their
third defeat of the trip.
Charley Jones. supplanting Eddie
Amendola. will be the only new
conner in the downtown schools
starting lineup. His mates will be
Joe Conner. Bobby Gilham, Matt
Zunic and Lou Veltri.
G. w. will have its defensive eye
peeled for one Bill Ceccotti, a for
ward who rang up 13 points against
it in the first game Jim Martin,
Buck Wages, Jimmy Powell and
Harold Mann probably will round
out the team.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Roosevelt Cnhes Basket Ball Pyo Spot od Fight With Wilson
Penn State Plays Temple, ILL., u.
Meets Duquesne to Headline
Biq Night in Basket Ball

quesne has dropped only two deci-
sions tOhio State and De Paul.
In the Eastern League, Dart
mouths pacesetters will defend their
unsullied loop record against Prince
ton while Corntll and Penn clash in
a game that may bear on second
place and Harvard and Columbia
settle what is left of the honors.
Yale. the other member of the
league. will have its hands full with
a strong Georgetown team.
The nights program includes a
number of other important inde-
pendent struggles. Once-beaten
Rhode Island State faces Brown and
Westminster, which was upset, 80
81, for its first loss Tuesday night
by Indiana pa Teachers, is billed
against an old and bitter rival,
Waynesburg
Pitt plays Army, Navy battles
Duke. Michigan State meets West
Virginia, Colgate clashes with Syra-
cuse and Furman engages George
Washington in other leading scraps.
Washington and Jefferson toppled
Villanova. 1924, IN the outstanding
skirmish of last night.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Derby Dopesters Warmed
To Remember Nosco

The coming $4,000 Santa Anita
Derby. scheduled for next week,
still is a gamble.
Charley Howard's Porter's Cap
still is the horse TO beat at a mile
ond an eighth But there is a fllv
by the name of Nasca. owned by
Col. Breckenridge Long of Ken
lucky. which can do quite a bit of
stretch running.
Alfred Vanderbilt wasn't sure his
faet-hying Good Turn was even a
miller. But Good Turn was fast
enough and strong enough to beat
big Derby field, including Porter's
Cap, last Saturday, and he had
o0mething left. Bull Reich and
Magnificent never had much of a
ohance. They were shut off and
"~oWded out, They both can do
ouch better.
There is world of difference
'otWeen a mile and mile and a
'Vrlong. That extra 900 Yards can
lake enough difference to topple
o7'nr a tower of strength in a lot
CT horses.
Whether any of these Santa Anita
Derby candidates will be dangerous
in the Kentucky Derby is another
guess A week is long time in
racing form. Six weeks or more
Is another era.
Evening star., 1941-02-08

Quarter finals in the Atlantic Coast
badminton championships were
slated at Kensington Armory at 80
pm. today with the womens singles
leading. The mems singles were
listed at o'clock, women's doubles
at 3, mems doubles at $3.50 and mixed
doubles at to wind up the quarter
finals Semifinals will start at 7:30
tonight and finals in all events will
be staged tomorrow. starting at 2.
Ken Quigley of Cleveland, third
ranking player in the country and
top-seeded in the tourney, advanced
to the third round last night. He
drew a bye in the first and turned
back Bill Warner of Philadelphia,
15-2, 15-5, in the second. Quigley
will be joined by Russ Grant of
Pittsburgh in the third round since
the latter won by default from Harry
Conlen and then defeated Herb
Bryant of Washington. 15-2, 15-2.
In the women's division, Mary
Hagan of Philadelphia, top-seeded
woman, drew bye. Three District
players, Charlotte Decker, Margaret
Graham and Polly Thompson, won
their matches.
Womens Singles.
First round-Margaret Graham, Wash
ington. defeated Mrs. Joseph Fox. Phila-
delphia. lis, 121l0: Charlotte Decker,
more. 6-11. 11-3, 11-3; Fairfax
Brooke. Baltimore, defeated Claudia Rom
eniecki, Philadelphia. If. 11-5: Polly
Thompson. Washington. defeated Anna
Das sctte, Baltimore, lis, I'll, 11-0.
Mems SinE1es.
First round-Ken Quigley. Cleveland,
drew bye: Bill Warner, Philadelphia. de-
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Victory Over Garnet
Is Birthday Gift
To A. j. Coach

Staff Cassell probably will reach
a ripe old age before the current
court campaign is ended if birthdays
affect his American University pu-
pills as much as his did last night
when the boys Clipped in enough
points to present him with a 1892
victory over SWarthmore.
Il guess birthdays aren't so bad
at that" Cassell grinned when it
was all over. They say you grow
old quickly in coaching, but I think
I can stand it if they're like this
one"
He was presented with gift from
the student body between halves.
Stan Cope, SWartnmore center.
led the scoring with 18 points, while
Dutch" Schulze and Carl Byham
were high for A. U. 1t was the
Eagles second consecutive victory
and their fourth win of the season.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Winston-Sa|em Farm
To Be Given Tigers
Beaumont Spares
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
WINSTON-SALEM, N. c.. Feb. 8.
Most of the players on Winston
Salem's Piedmont League club for
the 1941 season will be supplied by
the Detroit Tigers from its farm
club at Beaumont, Tex.
Outright purchase of the Winston
Salem franchise by the Tigers from
the Buffalo club of the Interna-
tional League has been disclosed by
zinn Beck. Detroit representative.
The cash consideration was not dis
closed. Terms of the sale give
Buffalo possession of leading players
on the Twins 1910 roster.
Business management of the club
will be under the personal direction
of Beck. who said jake Atz. former
Texas League skipper, would pilot
the Twins this season.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Heurich Five Second
In Flag Race After
Mailing Clippers
Might Goin Tie for Top
Spot When Same Team
lnvudes Tomorrow

Washington's Brewers today were
installed in second place in Ameri-
can Professional Basket Ball League
standings as the result Of a 4I-29
triumph over the Clippers last night
at Baltimore and they'll be seeking
to improve their position when they
face the same club tomorrow night
at Riverside Stadium.
It's possible for the Brewers to
move into a tie for first place to-
morrow night, for if the undefeated
Kate Smith Celtics are whipped by
the Philadelphia Sphas tonight the
local five would tie for the second
half top spot by beating the Clip
pers. Both the Brewers and Celtics
then would have won three games
in four starts.
Phil Rabin and Nat Frankel were
outstanding for the Brewers last
night. producing II and 10 points,
respectively, but yielded scoring
honors to Mike Bloom, former
Brewer now starring for the Clip
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Penn Stute Coach
Crossed by Vigh

Leo Houck may have changed
his mind since, but yesterday
he thought Billy Soose would
have a tougher time with Ken
Overlin than with Ernie Vigh in
his quest for middleweight
honors.
The Penn State ring coach,
who tutored Billy when he didn't
know a right cross from a wrong
lab. stopped off at Catholic Uni
versity yesterday to give his
team a workout. State boxes
North Carolina tonight at Chapel
Hill.
Houck recognized the fact that
Vigh is a hard hitter and prob
ably would shake Soose up If he
hit him, but he didn't expect
Billy to 60 down for an 8-count
as he did last night at New York.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Columbus Rated Edqe
In Ring Meet With
Arkansas Tech
Long Journey May Take
Pep Out Of Visitors, Who
Tie Strong l.oyoIo

Columbus University's ring team
will be slim favorite over Arkansas
Tech when they clash tonight at
Turner's Arena The first bout is
scheduled at $50.
Fresh from a "A tie with Loyola
OF New Orleans, a perennial leader
in Southern socking circles. Tech
Is regarded highly here BY friend
and foe alike. But that long rail
jump isn't calculated to needle
energy into their limbs and Colum-
bus will be the fresher of the two.
The Explorers may go into action
one point To the good unless the
visitors are able TO scare up a light
heavyweight TO box Red Doherty.
The National Guard grabbed Neal
Kinney, regular occupant of this
berth, and his understudy. too. leav-
ing Tech with two uniforms and
the pleasant memory of Kinneys
kayo punching.
Lou Taub, Columbus ace. and Tom
Fulton, Tech featherweight. are ex-
pected TO manufacture the evenings
hottest joust Taub punches well
and is light on his feet. Fulton
simply pitches and hopes for ths
best.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Rv CHARLES DUNKLFY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

SOUTH BEND. Ind. Feb. 8.-The
successor to Elmer F. Layden as di-
rector of athletics and head football
coach at Notre Dame will be chosen
within 48 hours, if he already hasn't
been picked.
The identity of the new mentor,
however, will not be revealed until
his contract has been signed and
sealed. The Rev. j. Hugh ODonnell,
president of the university, himself
a famed varsity center and team
mate of Knute Rockne, made this
positive today as he studied the
recommendation of the faculty
board in control of athletics, which
met in closed session last night.
The Rev. Mr.. O'Donnell said that
he hoped to sign the new coach be-
fore March l.
Shaw, BOland in Running.
Iayden, whose sudden resignation
last Monday after seven years OF
service burst like a bombshell in the
intercollegiate football world, re-
manned at his home in South Bend.
He took no part in the deliberations,
nor was his opinion sought, al
though he quit Notre Dame with
the esteem of the administration.
He becomes commissioner of the Ma
tional Professional Football League
March l at a salary of $4,000 a
year.
Gossip on the campus and South
Bend opinion narrowed down to two
choices-Lawrence T. (Buck) Shaw,
coach at Santa Clara, Irish tackle
in 1921, and Joe Boland, tackle
In le24-26, and present line coach
Because of the absence OF the Rev.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
lnpound and Cont Woit
Dangerous Contenders

When 7 left California. headed
for Georgia and Florida, the Sl00-
900 race still was in the laps of the
racing gods. The early favorite,
Bill Brann's Maryland Challedon,
had suffered an injured hoof and
a definite setback in his training.
With Kayak II out, that left Char
ley Howard's Midland on top at
short odds.
The thoroughbred is heir to all
the ills in sight He has legs that
are easily hurt and wind that is
easily affected He has many fine
qualities, but the word robust" is
not on the list.
IF Midland and Challedon are in
top form it will be anybodvs $780,
900 grab between these two. If
they are not. YOU can wait for two
horses by the name of Impound
and Can't Wait to crowd in with
an argument. If right they won't
be far away.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-Eastern
basket ball will hit some kind of a
peak tonight with a triple -header
in Philadelphia S big convention hall,
double header at Madison Square
Garden in New York, full schedule
of Ivy League games and lustrous
lot of other competition over wide
front.
The three-cornered show at the
City of Brotherly Love matches
Manhattan against La Sale, Brook
lyn and st. Josephs and Penn State
with Temple.
In New York the big bargain bill
brings together Duquesne and Long
Island U. in one tussle and City Col
lege against Fordham in the other.
1t is affairs like these that make
movie theaters throw in a set of
dishes with their double features.
They have to get business some way
and these shows appear to be fancy
fare, especially the Penn State
Temple and L. I. U.-Duquesne dis
putes. Long Island has been beaten
only once michigan State) and Du-
Evening star., 1941-02-08
The
SPoRTLIGH7
Thorouehbreds Most
Brittle of Champs
BY GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent Of The Star

CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (N.A.N.AD.-
California, around Santa Anita, now
is in something OF o turmoil over
her $5000O Derby and her 100000
Handicap.
The answer is simple. There is
nothing in sport quite as brittle as
thoroughbred race horse Here
we have $150,0O0 riding on the line
with every one wondering how many
Of the favored entries can walk to
the post.
Here is Kayak II, which won the
big race in 1889 and finished second
to Seabiscuit in 1910, already on the
sidelines.
There is AL Vanderbilt's Impound,
which broke down last year, now
back in action.
There is William L. Brann's Chal-
ledon. which came near fading from
the picture with an injured hoof.
And Challedon's handicap condi-
ton still is a guess.
You may recall the time when
Stagehand won the $4,000 Derby
and the 100000 Handicap and then
cracked up a few days before the
Kentucky Derby.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Not Many Exterminotors
Or Seobiscuits Crop Up

There was Johnstown, one OF the
fastest horses that ever lived, pos
sibly the fastest, which beat Chal-
ledon nine lengths in the Kentucky
Derby and then began to break up
rapidly. JohnStoWn had two work.
outs at a mile around 133 *, if you
are asking for speed. But he
couldn't keep on going.
Neither could Man O. War after
his 3-year-old span. With all his
speed and stamina two years OF
racing were all he could handle.
There are not many EXtermina-
tors or Seabiscuits around which
can keep on running year after
year.
The same is true of the $4,000
Widener race at Hialeah and the
kentucky Derby on ahead in early
May. There are Bimelech and
WhirlaWay and others for the $50
600 Widener. Whirlaway and many
others for the Kentucky Derby-but
Who knows how many of these Sc
lect entries will go to the post?