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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-04

County Road leading down the Neck,
in the 10th Elec. Dist. Considera-
ton $40 &c.
John w. Burbage and Anna A., his
wife, from Geo. w. Cathell, Jr., and
wife, the Geo. w. Cathell, Jr., Farm"
containing 35 acres, more or less, in
the Bird Elec. Dist. Consideration SO
&c.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-07-04

One tablespoon of granulated gela-
tin will jell to the right consistency
in 1 pint of liquid. If your founda-
ton is thicker, you need less gelatin.
If you use too much, the jelly will
be like rubber. It is better to use
too little than too much.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Dew Pondering Offer
To Ride for Owner
OF Whir|away
Chance for Leg on Derby
Choice Awaits Decision
On Other Opportunities
BY the Associated Press.

.
SAC CITY, Iowa, Jan. Earl
Dew, the Iowa farm boy who saddled
287 winners to take the 1910 ma
tional jockey title, is near the
realization of a lifelong dream-to
ride in the Kentucky Derby.
Home for a weeks rest after a
dramatic race with Walter Lee
Taylor of Houston, Tex, for the
national jockey crown, Dew dis
closed today that he has been offered
a contract by Warren Wright's
Calumet Farms.
Wright owns Whirlaway, the lead
ing 2-year-old Of 1910 and a winter
book favorite to win the Kentucky
Derby next May. Dew said he had
other offers and would not make q
decision for several weeks.
The young Iowan, son of q former
jockey, has set goal of 300 winners
for 1941, just one shy Of the all
time mark set in 1888 by Jackie
Westrope.
During his stay at home Dew has
been feted at various functions.
Tuesday he appeared at a public
reception in Des Moines with Bobby
Feller, the Iowa farm kid who made
good with the Cleveland Indians.
Dew, who is 10, already is plan
ming his retirement.
Il want to ride about three more
seasons" he said. by that time
I'll have enough money to buy a
farm and I'll come back here and
settle down with my folks"
Il knew Earl was good all the
time and would have been more
surprised if he hadn't won the
Jockey title" said the elder Dew.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Nebraska Writer Travelled to Rose Bowl on Hog Train
Red sox Led American League Longer Ihon Any Other Club

On the flSti-cuff-Pat Comiskey
is ST over Lou Nova Friday night.
Joe Louis is due Thursday to see
Henry Armstrong receive the Ed
ward j. Neil Trophy for doing the
most for boxing last year. The
New York boxing writer's also will
honor former Mayor Jimmy
Walker, who fathered the States
boxing law 20 years ago. Lou
Ambers makes his debut as a
welterweight in the Garden next
month. And a February 7 Ken
Overlin-Billy Soose middleweight
match for Overlin's piece of the
crown may be closed when Chris
Dungee, Overlin's pilot, blows in
tomorrow. Gen. John J. Phelan
is to receive a new appointment as
head of the State Boxing Com
mission.
Today's guest star - Ernest
Tyner, Fort Pierce Fla) News
Tribune: In three years with
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Ti|den Steals Tennis
Show atPro Debut
OF Alice Marble
Big Bill Arouses Large
Crowd After Net Queen
Wins Ragged Match
By tie Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-Alice Marble
has embarked upon her career as
a tennis professional. with the
launching of financial as well as
an artistic success, but for your
"buck-ten" fan, 47-year-old Big Bill
Tilden still is the player who draws
'em through the turnstiles.
Queen Alice" entered the play
for-pay game last night in Madison
Square Garden by downing Mary
Hardwick, England's best, 8-6, 8-6,
despite ragged control. A surpris-
ingly good crowd of 1871 contrib
uted a gross gate of $25,614.50.
But, while the customers applauded
politely and cheered virtually none
at all for Miss Marble and Miss
Hardwick, they went "all out" as
Big Bill took the court and blew a
Ga, 6-3 decision to Red-head Don
Bulge in the champion feature.
They kept right on roaring as Bill
and Alice came through, 90, ST,
6-3, in the mixed doubles.
They whistled and cheered and
stomped when the "old man" of the
net game made a good shot. They
sympathized with loud "tsk-tsks" or
TOO bad, Bill" when he missed.
They loved his antics-for instance,
when he was way out of position
for a Bulge placement and threw his
racquet at the ball, or when he was
far too slow going after a deep
lob and retraced his steps with an
exaggerated limp, leaning on his
racquet as cane.
Last nights stand was the first
Of . tour scheduled through more
than so cities.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Touchdowners Had q BuckfieId Handy, Anyway

Redskins will signed Forest Evashvski Is
Sudge himself drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers
Cfers claimed by the
Redskins
Washington drawed they'll the best de-
I saw
Michg captain Hamons blocker made big
another Washington he
Redskins. 1t hard paint prett
73to0 with Evahevsk in uniform to block for
The Wolverine leader remindu Of
a which, if suffice.
which along without Harmon Reagan
bowling don't think the
whed backfd from the gathering There's
Evashevski Tuy Pete Sachon and Jim
a others
Evening star., 1941-01-07
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
4 a....t.L nr.-r c~Nrte yry-sx>r

.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7-Bowling
along: Georgia Tech, which won
only two scheduled games last
year, dug up pictures of its 1910
Orange Bowl win over Missouri
to show around the banquet cir
cult. The sports editor of one
small Nebraska paper was so
dead set on seeing the Corn
huskers in the Rose Bowl, he
rode out there on a hog train.
Railroad officials told him to be
sure to wear his hat so they
would unload him at the right.
place. And Ed Bales of the
Chattanooga News-Free Press,
sent an ambulance to the station
to meet mourners returning from
the Sugar Bowl.
Hot Stove. .League-When Gabby
Hartnett goes to Miami with the
Giants, 1t will be the drst time
Evening star., 1941-01-07

the Fort Pierce highs, Fullback
William Beebe has gained 5000
yards from scrimmage, south
paved passes for more than 1,500
yards and has scored 80 touch
downs, not to mention about 20
extra points. In other words, a
Beebe-gun."
$-1941 version -$-And so
Alice has gone on another WON
derful journey, this time to dol
larland.
Got the Misery.
The Vols a great record were
making:
A cream puff each week they
taking,
But in old New Orleans
They tried Boston beans
And oh, how they're tummies
are aching.
FIERCE WYCHE.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
WI. High With First Fair Five
In Years Is Hopeful of 500
Rating Over Rough Road

this year, but there's still another
on the schedule along with two
games against Central. Next to
George Washington, Clements and
his team would like to beat those
two schools.
Clements must have suspected
that he was going to have some
thing better than usual at the
Ballston School this time because
instead of the usual 20 games he
has scheduled 81 and there's the
possibility that several more may be
added.
Conference List Heavy.
Most of them are not soft either,
as would be expected on the sched-
ule of a school whose teams gener-
ally go no place in particular.
After playing Bethesda Chevy Chase
tonight they face Central on Thurs
day and then over the week end
they enter conference competition
with Hopewell and Thomas Jeffer-
son arriving for a pair of games.
Almost every week end until
March will see a pair of conference
games. Either two teams will come
up from the South to play George
Washington and Washington Lee
on alternate nights or the Presi-
dents and Little Generals will band
for an invasion of conference
strongholds.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Suffridqe Says Tennessee Was Bowl Weary

the TouchdoWne
Charley ORoWke
supposed fly off the
happened Francis
Sufridge
Trophy job
selection the Volunteers history
football He to be Government
undoubtedly having heard about the hours
thing bowled explained talking
Colleges 19to3 defeat
when the thought
We right field without
at all Our backs ripping Bostons line Then all let
thing
honestly Think
rowte Orange Bowl Sugar
Bowl this year"
Mississippi
Bowl almost rating
Sufridge.
Boston if played he
thing lineup they
haven't got much Mississippi Statenow you're talking about
football
Evening star., 1941-01-07

in his 20 years of big league
baseballing he has trained in
Florida. The Red Sox were in
first place 81 days last year, 20
more than the Tigers and more
than the Indians. Pitcher Johnny
Rigney's salary talks with the
White Sox should make good
listening since his flance, Miss
Dorothy Comiskey, happens to be
treasurer of the club. The
bulletin board at U. G. L. A. an
hounces that spring baseball
practice gets underway January
9. And our old pal, AL Schacht,
plans to clown in a number of
Army camps this Spring-free,
gratis. And that's news!
Voice of the people-Last We'd
nesday was January /, 1941, AID,
to most of us, writes G. H. Peter
son of Bismark, N. OAK, but in
New Orleans and Boston 1t was
January l, 1941, BIC.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Harmon Will Shun Pro Football,
Touchdown Club Diners Hear
As Evoshevski Praises Pal

sidered any line Of work at all. I'll
play pro football if the price is right
and I'm coming back to Washington
in February to talk things over with
the Redskins"
Despite the applause given the
principal speaker. Maj. John Crit
fifth, athletic commissioner Of the
Big Ten Conference, and the laugh
ter aroused by the droll and tall tales
of Gus WEIGH, the old Carlisle In
dian, it remained for statesman to
draw the biggest hand of the night.
That came when Toastmaster Max
harrington introduced 83-year-
Senator Carter Glass, who accepted
the rising acclamation with visible
emotion.
Griffith used the reaffirmation of
his faith in college football as the
theme of his remarks. while Welch
regaled the crowd with stories ex-
tending back to the old Carlisle In
dian days. One of his biggest
laugh -provokers was the story on
himself as a fast" quarterback who
ran his plays off as rapidly as he
could.
Own Job Kept Welch Busy.
Asked by his coach what kind Of
defense the opposition was using,
WEIGH replied seriously: Il don't
know, coach. I haven't had a
chance to find out"
WEIGH also told the one about the
guard who was sent in the game to
give his passer protection from the
savage rushes of the opposing tackle.
Removed three plays later without
once having stopped the enemy
ineman, the guard defended his ac-
tons with: Protect our passer? I
had all I could do to protect myself"
Bob Suffridge, Tennessee's drawl-
ing guard, modestly accepted the
Knute Rockne Memorial as the
years outstanding line man, after
paying tribute to Coach Maj. Ney-
land for the Volunteers undefeated
record during the regular season.
Augie Lilo, Georgetown's all
American nominee, received the
Arch decentralization WJSV Tro-
ply from the Old Pine Tree as the
outstanding player of the Washing
ton metropolitan area while Jules
Koshlap of Georgetown, Sam Babich
of George Washington. Pete Sachon
of Catholic University, Bob Smith
of Maryland and Hugo Schulze of
American U. received individual
trophies as the most valuable play
ers to their teams in 1910.
Surprise for Hagerty.
Coach Jack Hagerty of George
town came in for a surprise when
he was presented a combination
radio-phonograph by DR.. David ].
Fitzgibbons on behalf of the Hoya
alumni. F. P. Adams, one of the
stars of the radio program, In
formation, Please" was introduced
at the start of the evening, but left
shortly thereafter.
High lights of the recent season,
including the bowl games, were
screened at the end of the evening
and several acts from downtown
theaters were presented.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
By GEORGE HUBER.

Washington-Lee High of Ballston,
whose consistently good football
teams have been balanced by con-
sistently poor basket ball squads,
suddenly finds itself with a quint
that promises to win possibly as
high as so per cent of its games.
That would be remarkable record
for a team which won only two OF
10 games in 1889 and did only slightly
better last year.
So futile have been the Little
Generals recent efforts that Coach
Elwood Clements, now handling the
main team after three years with
the junior squad, can't recall con-
ference virginia Glass Al victory in
the time he has been at Washington
Lee
The outlook at the beginning of
this season was no better than usual.
There was only one letter man
Capt. Rube McNab-on the team
along with the usual number of
prospects up from last years re-
serves. Since almost the first day
of practice. however, the boys have
played we'll together and developed
into a good little team that may
bring back the good old days for
Washington-Lee.
Hope to Beat G. w. High.
Already the Little Generals have
won two of their four games and
Coach Clements is more than pleased
with the possibility of continuing
that persentage. He even is enter
tanning hope of spilling George
Washington High, strong rival in
Alexandria, in one of the two games
they play this year. Last season his
junior team downed the Presidents
in one of their two games and this
year many of these players have
worked their way up to the repre-
sentative teams at both schools.
This hope is further enhanced by
the fact that George Washington is
not as strong as usual.
Perhaps the last really good
Washington-Lee basket ball team
was back in 1880 and 81 and Glenn
ents, now coach, played on that
team. In those days the Little
Generals defeated Central and East
ern-perennial leaders in Washing
ton-but 1t hasn't happened since.
Already Eastern has won one game
Evening star., 1941-01-07
By BILL DISMER, Jr.


Tommy Harmon still is the same
unassuming lad he was as a fresh
man at Michigan three years ago
and old No. SO definitely has de-
cided to give pro football the cold
shoulder.
Despite his enforced absence, due
to poor flying conditions in the Mid
west, nearly 500 Washington football
enthusiasts were convinced of the
first of those opinions at the Touch
down Clubs fifth annual banquet at
the Willard Hotel last night and the
latter belief is only slightly less
established.
That nice big cup (the Walter
Camp Memorial Trophy Coach
Crisler's going to carry back to
Tommy won't turn his head the
slightest" his college blocker, Forest
Evashevski, told the gathering.
Tommy will appreciate it and re-
gret having missed this affair, for
he's a typical American boy and
loves applause like any one. But I
know he won't be any different than
he was when we both played on the
freshman team, cause he just hasn't
changed"
After citing Evashevski, whose
nickname is Mike, as one of the
reasons why Harmon was able to
compile his remarkable record.
Michigans Fritz Crisler facetiously
claimed credit for making Tom the
all-America he became.
Radio Work Lures Harmon.
After ALL" began Crisler, Tom
my needed plenty of help, and I'm
not sc sure he could have got along
without me- In the first place, I
had to see that the footballs were
properly inflated before each game;
Harmon would have looked foolish
carrying a fiat piece of cowhide
under his arm. And in the second
place, only Tommy's ability to fol-
low instructions implicitly brought
him success.
For instance, our tackle was sup
posed to get the opposing end, and
our end the defensive halfback on
one play in which Harmon carried
the ball. But one day I had mis-
givings that both would succeed
every time, so I called Tommy aside
and told him that if they failed it
would be up to him to dodge the
inrushing end and feint the half
back out of position Well, as I had
feared, both of Harmon's mates fell
down on a couple of occasions, but
he carried out my orders to the
letter and we gained Just as much
ground as I had figured"
But that Harmon will accept the
champion Chicago Bears offer to
play in the National League in 1941
is doubted by those processing to be
"in the know" According to them,
Tommy already has arranged a busi-
ness deal with Bing Crosby to work
as sportscaster next fall and no
bid that George Halas can make
will deter his decision to enter
radio.
Evashevski Likes Pro Game.
Evashevski, the Redskins No.
choice in the draft last month, was
to leave town today without sign
ing a contract to. play under Coach
Ray Flaherty next fall, but he ap-
parently is leaning toward the pro
game.
I'm due to graduate next month, u
| Envy said, but I really haven't con-
Evening star., 1941-01-07
G.W..G.U. Clash
Rated 'Tossup'
By Reinhart
Colonial Coach Puys
No Heed to Walls
Of Hoyo Mentor
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

Forgetting form and stufflng sta
tistics into the wastepaper basket,
Coach Bill Reinhart Of George
Washington candidly summed up his
outlook on tomorrow nights court
battle with Georgetown in six words,
Whichever team is hottest will win !"
On paper the Colonials appear to
be at least few points better than
their neighbors and most of the
$500 fans expected to crowd River
dale Stadium for the fray will go
with the expectation of seeing the
Hoyas humbled. But Reinhart
shares no such confidence. He has
seen too many favorites fall by the
wayside to send his boys into action
with the placid assurance that it's
in the bag. Too many things can
happen to upset the dope.
Ripley "Views With Alarm"
Over Georgetown way, Elmer Rip
ley, the Hoya coach, is viewing the
start Of the annual two-game series
with downright alarm, loudly calling
attention to George Washington S
strength, its balance. scoring power
and slick strategy. He doesn't see
how Georgetown can win. But Rip
ley's tale of woe sounds like bear
story to Reinhart and he doesn't
mean to be misled by same.
Georgetown can play only five
men at a time" he points out,
land look at the five they have.
There's Bill Bornheim, their sopho-
more center. I saw him in the
American U. game and he was
great. He's a real basket ball
player and any time a team thinks
it has him bottled up it has another
thought coming. They have Irving
Rizzi-we remember him from the
second game last year; Pajack-he
gave us fits in the first: Buddy
O'Grady. an excellent floor man,
and Jim Herman. If they are
right we'll have busy evening and
If they're hot, well, heaven help us. y
Ailing Colonials Mend.
George Washington's squad has
been hit hard by the siege of cold"
but the ailing have responded to
treatment nicely and are expected
to be ready. Matt zunic and Eddie
Amendola were the most seriously
affected, but have been pronounced
fit and ready.
Whether the same team that
opened against Minnesota will take
the floor for the opening tossup
tomorrow night is problematical.
It will be almost carbon copy, but
Reinhart hasn't made up his mind
about Jones, Amendola and Mcneil.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
All Eleven Men
Now Available
For 0ffense
Held Boon to Hidden
Boil Tricks, Double
Wingbuck System
BY the Associated Press.

ATLANTA, Jan. $50 you think
you have trouble following the ball
in modern football? Brother. take
it from Georgia Techs veteran Bill
Alexander, you're about to swap
kindergarten for a three-ring circus.
Instead of only backs and ends
toting the pigskin, as in the past,
there1l be II potential ball-car-
riers every time those young COL
legians line up for a play.
It's that new rule, adopted by the
National Collegiate Rules Commit
tee, allowing the ball to be handed
forward to any player behind the
line of scrimmage.
Coach Alex, whose Yellowjackets
have gained some measure of fame
by befuddling opponents-and fans
with pigskin prestidigitation, OBJ
served today the change "opens up
some possibilities" for fresh grid
iron bamboozling by permitting
centers, guards and tackles to carry
the ball, as we'll as backs and ends.
Under the old rules" he ex-
planned, sit wasn't specifically pro-
hibited for a guard or tackle to
carry the ball. But to do so he
would have to pull out of the line
and take it from behind the spin
ming back in backward pass. That
made it pretty impractical.
Nov the new rule permits the
quarterback, for instance, to take the
pass from center and poke it be-
tween the legs of the guard who, in
turn, might double up and run with
1t. or sit on it, or do anything else
he wanted to. Or the quarterback
might use the trick Tennessee tried
few years ago, which then was
called illegal. of taking the ball on
the snap and passing it right back
to the center, who would run with
it,"
Alexander, a member of the Rules
Committee. said the change also
would cover the disputed hidden
ball" play which Vanderbilt used in
1887 to beat Louisiana State. In this,
Tackle Greer Ricketson concealed
the ball behind his knees while the
backfield faxed wide end run, then
dashed unmolested so yards to score.
Generally, explained Alex, the new
rule will permit a back to take the
ball, turn halfway and fake to a
man crossing behind him, then COM
plete the spin and hand it to another
player coming in the opposite direc-
ton.
"Exponents of the double wing
back formation always have wanted
that" he observed, 'contending it
would add cleverness to the attack. "
Alex, who knows a thing or two
about making footballs disappear,
thinks the rule change has possibili-
ties of new gridiron deception but
warns: you've got to have fast
men for that sort of thing"
Evening star., 1941-01-07
By BURTON HAWKINS.

Their Eastern Amateur Hockey
League lead shaved to its thinnest
proportions in six weeks Of cam
paigning, the Washington Eagles
tonight will attempt to bolster their
advantage when they face the now
lowly but ever threatening New York
Rovers at Riverside Stadium.
In the midst of the semislump
which has enabled the Baltimore
Orioles to climb within two points
of them, the Eagles won't be
hampered by suspensions or injuries.
And in meeting the Rovers they will
be colliding with a club which has
dropped five decisions in six games
with Washington.
The Eagles aren't inclined to
regard the Rovers lightly, however,
for New York has been dangerous
in defeat, three times dropping
matches to Washington by one goal.
Then, too, Washington displayed
its worst form of the season in losing
to Atlantic City, 7-3, in its last
game
Johnny McTeer, burly defense
man, and Paul Courteau, explosive
tempered wingmen, won't be under
suspension as feared at first. Off
cials did not report McTeer for
being involved in a fracas Satur-
day night at Atlantic City, while
Courteaus scrap with Hughie Bell
here last Friday night was ignored
due to the fact the battle
materialized after the match had
ended.
Brawling, which has marked the
Eagles recent games, is expected to
take a holiday tonight, for New
York seemingly is the one club with
which Washington doesn't conduct
a perpetual feud. Usually the
Rovers are content to play hockey,
and their polished performances
have made them a favorite with
local fans.
Always a title contender until this
season. the Rovers vacated the eel
lar over the week end and will be
aiming to enter a fourth-place tie
with the Boston Olympics by beat
ing Washington. The Eagles have
Evening star., 1941-01-07
M'Nei||, Riggs Start
Race for National
Tennis LaureIs
q, the Associated Press.

BY the hSSOCldteu TaoSo'
TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 7-Weather
permitting, Don McNeill of Okla
homa City and Bobby Riggs Of Chi
cago will start their 194l rivalry to-
day for top national tennis honors.
The start of the Dixie Tennis
Tournament, in which both are par
ticipating, was delayed yesterday by
rain.
Nc NeilI, national singles cham
pion, is seeded first in the tourna-
ment. Riggs, 1899 champion, is
seeded second.
Bryan M. (Bitsy) Grant of At
lanta, defending champion; Frank
Kovacs of Seattle and Jack Kramer
of Los Angeles. the latter seeded
third and fourth, respectively, are
expected to give McNeill and Riggs
plenty Of competition.
Evening star., 1941-01-07
Clusswork Above
Grid to O'Rourke

Those who imagine that aca-
demic regulations mean nothing
to college football players would
have received a rude surprise at
The Touchdown Clubs annual
banquet last night at The Willard
Hotel.
After stating that he had talked
with Boston Colleges president,
director of athletics, dean and
football coach during the day,
General Chairman George Bro
beck read the following telegram
to the assemblage:
Sorry can't accept your kind
invitation. Glass resumed today"
1t was signed by Charley o.
Rourke, the Eagles great little
backfield star.