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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-28

"The purpose of Hitlers attack to frighten the
American people off the high seasto force to make
trembling retreat This is not the first time he has mis-
Judged the American spirit"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-28
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-28

The Nazis have made up their list of mod
American heroes. 1t is, fortunately, a short list 1
glad that it does not contain my name."
Evening star., 1941-05-19
BY MALCOM LAMBORNE. JR.

A new comet fleet champion was
made on the choppy Potomac River
Yesterday when Ernest Covert and
his blue-hulled Scandal nosed out
Clarke Daniels Robert E. Lee by
| 40 seconds to gain the right to rep
resent Washington at the comet
class national championships next
September.
Coverts close finish over Daniel
climaxed day of racing for five
classes competing under Potomac
River Sailing Association sponsor
ship off the new National Airport
A double-header was sailed by all
divisions.
1t was the sort of day Potomac
shippers have become resigned to
this spring series-fresh northerly
winds, plenty of chop and a few
disasters.
Harbor police hauled Everette
Howse. skipper Of the snipe Willet,
and his crew from the still-chilled
Potomac after their boat capsized
in the morning race. In the after
noon police towed Mac Lamborne's s
comet Arcoiris, which wrapped
itself around a spar turning mark
and broke its mast, to Hams Point
seawall. Arcoiris was reported lead
ing the fleet of comets at the time.
Charles Runyon. skipper of the
penguin dinghy Murgaes, took credit
for the best seamanship of the day.
Losing his rudder soon after the
start, he brought out a paddle and
steered with it to the finish. At
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Covert Sails Scandal to River
Crown and Right to Try for
National Comet Honors

| that Murgaes was fourth out of a
fleet Of five penguins.
With the Robert E. Lee beating
Scandal badly in the forenoon event,
the two were tied in points and a
District representative at the ma
tionals remained up in the air Scan
dial, in the next race, however. got
the jump on the Lee at the start
and remained ahead to the finish.
Charles Trammell. leading point
sailor in the 20-foot class, had a
narrow lead whitfield down in the
first event when he finished fourth
as a result of carrying a small sized
mainsail Barbara Myers and her
Mink II won this event. With his
regular sail in the afternoon. Tram
nell was able to lead the way and
return to top position. Mink was
second this time.
The five little penguins were led
in by Don Kanode's Anneke Jan in
the first race, and Potlatch, sailed
by Walter Lawson, won the next.
Kanode was second.
DR.. Evart Warren. the snipe class
most enthusiastic skipper, won both
races in that division, and then
announced he was planning to pur-
chase a comet and try his hand
in that fast class.
In handicap B class Bud Weiser,
in his sloop Gypsy, also cleaned up.
The fleet will hold the final race
in its spring series next Sunday,
and then prepare for the annual
Memorial Day weekend regatta
and rendezvous to Gunston Cove, Va.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
ROD and STREAMiss&t ists9tAAu x s'55
Florida Deer Herds Still Threatened
Care Needed in Choice of Powder

way in Maine. alsol is springing a
new one this season in the way of
contests. Any salmon over 7
pounds or trout over 5 rates hav-
ing one of the mose than 300 un-
named islands that dot the lake
named after the angler catching it
the larger the fish the larger the
island.
Organized ive-stoc1s interests in
Southern Florida we're able to have
all the deer in that part of the
State, with the exception of those
on the Seminole reservation, killed
to eradicate the fever tick.
The bucks, does and fawns. about
200 in number, on the reservation
were saved by the, intervention of
Secretary Ickes Now there is a
bill just introduced in Congress to
permit the slaughtsroQf these. We
hope the Secretary of Interior will
be able to hold out against it, for
there is no guarantee the Oklahoma
species. which is to be introduced
after the ticks are eradicated, will
not become infested and also killed
off. Yet it never has been definitely
proven that the deer are the car
riers of the infestation.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Macdonald Me Feature of A. u Title Meet Attracts an Array of Stars
Tournaments at All Private
And Public Courses Bring
Out Host of Links Folk

Lou Harris won the net award
with 79-12-67. Youthful Charles
Goldsmith holed his tee shot on the
150-yard eighth hole. Other win
ners included Ellis Edlowitz, Victor
Zeve, Jules Winkelman, Morris
GeWirz, Sam Samuels, Allen Blau-
stein, Ed Ehrelich, All Piegen, Jo-
seph Carroll, Martin Waxman and
Dave Frank.
Four Bradley Hills members scored
net cards of rs to tie in a blind
bogey tourney They we're Russ
Adams, Eddie Frost, R. C. Gilmore
and Al Gordon.
Gipe Scores IS.
Jim Gipe, the slow sWinger, shot
a IS at Beaver Dam to win the
gross award in a sweepstakes tour
ney. Net winners were: C. B.
Hartman, 90-20-70; DR.. M. M.
Mclean. 90-18-72; Jess Baggett,
77-4-73; Forest Thompson. TO
3-73; Dick Melbourne, 79-6-73,
and C. E. Purdy, 84-1l-73.
Next Sundays pairings in the
Marmion Trophy tourney are: Mrs.
c. E. Purdy and Mrs. H. A. Shahan,
who finished even yesterday, the
winner to play Mrs Lou Libby;
Mrs. J. r. Palmer, and Mrs. Calvin
Hartman Consolation pairings-
Mrs. Albert Haas will meet the
winner of the Mrs. Ora Emge- Mrs.
Charles Griffin match, which fin
ished even.
A dozen Washington golf pros. &C
companied by as many amateurs,
were playing today over Baltimore s
fine Mount Pleasant municipal lay
out in an amateur professional tour
ney staged by the Atlantic
P. G.. A.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Redskin SoftbaIIers
Will Garry on as
Glenn StraIkas
Showing Against Stor
Encourages Team to
Enter Night LeoeAe

AS a result of Their holding the
crack Evening Star Clubs ten to a
80 win at WashinUons softball
stadium yesterday, members of the
Washington Redskins now living in
washington have decided to take
their softball seriously and will con-
tinue to play as the Clem Stralka
Service Station team.
Despite the fact that they have
been organized less than a week, the
Skins came within tWn4 runs of beat
ing The Star team which is rated
good chance to win its league S
championship.
Curly White. local basket ball
official employed in the Redskin
business office. will manage and
direct the team and was. to present
a formal application today for men,
bership in the National Night League.
which plays at the new softball
stadium. The league already has
10 teams, but Promoter Morris
Bealle declared that the Stralkas
would be welcome. Bealle added
that if another team could be found,
the league would be divided into two
sections of six teams each with
the winners meeting in a play
off at the end of the season.
In other games at the stadium
yesterday Lansburghsl defeated
Giant Food Stores, e-3. jim a Sport
Center Sunday I,ea2vEH elash and
Fat Boy nosed outs Civil Service,
81, in an interleague tilt. Larry
Mills won the game for the Fat
Boys with a home nun in the last
inning.
Another pair of games is sched-
uled at the same place tonight,
Giant Food returning to the wars
against Census Bureau at 8 o'clock
and Lansburgh's meIscfng the Mount
Rainier Community Business Men
at 9:15.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Retiring as Player,
Chiozza Hopes 10
Become Pilot

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 19.-Giv-
ing in at last to the weak leg
which had bothered him for al
most two years, Lou Chiozza has
turned in his uniform and asked
the New York Giants to put him
on the voluntary retired list.
The former star third baseman
of the Giants. unsuccessful in a
comeback attempt and hampered
constantly this season in his play
with Memphis of the Southern As
sociation, says he is through play
ing baseball.
But. he added when he announced
his decision yesterday. he hopes to
make a connection as a manager
next year.
Chiozza broke his leg in three
places when he collided with Jo-Jo
Moore during a game with st. Louis
in 1889 He was optioned to Mem
phis this season.
Evening star., 1941-05-19

Again every private and public
course around town was thronged
with weekend golfers. Ali the
private clubs held Journeys, while
members of the East Potomac Golf
Club played in a sweepstakes affair,
with President Earl Marcy the
winner at 77-7-7O. Mrs. Jessie
Cook won the women's division with
99-27-72.
Congressional members wound
up two rounds of match play in
the spring handicap tourney. Pair
ings for next Saturday are:
First hight-H. s. Mcdonald VS.; Q. T.
w,sneP sfe9nd o, hishtM MeMiIan vs.
seay match. C. H. Mcclain VS.. G. F.
Mikkeison.
Third nisht-T. E. Hughes vs.. J. A.
Fourth fight-H. I. Quinn VS.. w. w
bayfield,. DR.. H. D. Adams VS.. j. P.
Strong.
Stokes VictOrs at Manor.
At Manor the husband-and-w wife
combination of Dr. and Mrs. Walter
r. Stokes won the gross award in
a mixed Scotch foursome with a
card of 80 Two pairs tied for the
net prize They were Mr.. and Mrs
Walter McCreary, 84-18-66, and
Madeline Bast and Ralph P. Glib
son, 82-16-66 Former Assistant
Pro Eddie Stevens took a day off
from his duties at Edgewood Arsenal
and played golf with Supreme Court
Justice w. o. Douglas, Charles S,
Guthrie and Samuel o. Clark.
J. J. Durnan won the medal in
the below so age class in an Empire
Day tourney at the Washington
Golf and Country Club, scoring So
$50. Second place and another
medal went to H. E. Radcliffe with
8l-17-64. while Fred Bradbury
won third place with 87-22-65.
Arthur Harnett won the main prize
for golfers 50 years of age and over
with 89-22-77. Other awards
went to Felix Early, 75-7-68, and
Frank M. Williams. 77-9-68,
Victors in mixed Scotch four
some affair at Army Navy were DR..
and Mrs M. Maxwell. with 84-14-
10. Other winners were Mrs G..
x Heiss and Capt. E. Mcintosh.
Col. and Mrs. E. Lyons and Comdr.
and Mrs. A. C. Olney.
Survivors in the first fight of the
Chamberlain Cup tourney at Ken
wood are Kern Mclaughlin. C.
Henry Cohen, r. G. PEBBLES and Cy
Anderson Pairings for next Sat-
urday in the other flights are:
Second hight--Earry Langley vs.; F.
N MurraE. +. T Morse vs. \ G Thiei-
Marvin VIE. o. o, c Posee vs.. Dr.. l. L.
Lanier Fourth hight-E. S Pierce vs..
3. Barry. A. E johnson vs.. n. D. Larnerr
Cooper Sixth flGht-R E Reed vs. r
A. Dis c. D. Wright vs. W. F Delaney
Laing- Durham Finish on Top.
A Scotch foursome tourney at
Bannockburn found Allen Laing
and Frank Durham the gross vic
tors with rs. Net prizes went to
Ancil Learv and Frank j. Hanra-
han, and T. P. Hayden and Harry
Gray. Mrs. Laing and Betty King
won the gross award in the women's
division with los. Net victors were
Mrs. T. A. Robertson and Mrs. R.
Herbert, and Mrs. Frank Anderson
and Grace King.
BY now Howard Nordlinger, peren-
nial Woodmont champ must have a
roomful of trophies won at that
club. Yep, Howard won another
gross prize Yesterday with a II, top
ping Ralph Goldsmith by four
strokes and Ed Workman by six.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Government Golfers
Red Hot as Tourney
Enters Third Week
Surprises Bob Up in All
Sections; Sweep Made
By Patent Office

Government golfers enter the
third week of their match play
tourney for The Evening Star
Trophies with little conclusive evl-
dence as to the eventual outcome
of the two-month long affair and
with surprise leaders in several Sec
tions of the team event.
War and Treasury teams, one
match behind the others in class
A, section /, will meet tomorrow,
while in section 3 Justice and Soil
Conservation are one match behind
and will catch up this week.
Standing of Teams.
There are the standings of the
teams as they enter the third week;
Glass A, section Treasury De-
fense. 10; Farm Credit. Sig: Fed
eral Housing, s; Treasury, 412; So
cial Security Board, 3l2; War. Ia.
Section 2-Labor, 1915; R.. c.,
8l2; Interior. 7; w. P, A. AZ:
Agriculture, g.. Executive Offices. 2.
Section 3-Government Printing
Office, liz; G. a. O.. 1912; F. B. l.,
4; Commerce, 3l2; Justice, Il; Soil
Conservation, 0.
Glass B, section Rural Electri-
fication. 111z; Patent Office, 1012
I. c. c.. 9; Army Band AZ; War
College. p.
Ssection 2-Post Office. 10; Agrl-
culture. 7; Mount Alto. 6; F. B. l..
51z S E c.. 4; Quartermaster
Detachment. 3l2.
Section 3-Treasury, 9; Maritime
Commission, 6i2; City Post Off1ce,
612; Federal National Mortgage.
Sig; Public Buildings, 5 r F. c., 3i2.
Tourney Golf Red Hot.
A postponed match between Jus
tice and Soil Conservation was TO Re
played today while the standing
IN section l, class A. may be shifted
following the War Treasury meet
ing tomorrow.
Patent Office took all 8 points
from War College at Kenwood while
Treasury Defense licked Social Sc
curity Board, 51a to u. at Belle
Haven. Hallock and Shafer of
Treasury Defense had a best ball
of 10, while Carey and Maury had
best ball of II. with Hallock and
Carey scoring 73 and Is individually.
The golf is red hot in these Govern
ment matches.
Agriculture licked Ouartermasters
Detachment, 3l2 to 2i2.
Matches scheduled Friday are:
Farm Credit VS.. War at Beaver
Dam Interior VS.. Executive Offices
at Belle Haven. Justice vs.. G. A. o.
at Kenwood. Patent Office VS.. I.
C. c. at Bannockburn. Post Office vs..
S. E c. at Woodmont, Treasury vs.
R. F. c. at Belle Haven.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Baseball.

Chicago VS.. Washington, Grill
fifth Stadium, 3:15.
Tech at Washington-Lee, Balls
ton. $50.
Richard Montgomery at Roose-
welt, $3.50.
Gonzaga at George Washing
ton High, Alexandria. $50.
Charlotte Hall at Montgomery
Blair, $50.
Baltimore City College at
Maryland Frosh. 4.
Tennis.
Washington Prep School
Tournament, at Georgetown
Prep, $3.50.
Roosevelt at Maryland Fresh
men, 400.
Golf.
Star Cup Tournament for
Women, Washington Golf and
Country Club, 9 am.
Middle Atlantic P. G. A. ANA
teur-Pro Tournament. Mount
Pleasant Club, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Linens After Lead Tie
At BuIIston TONIGHT

Standard Linens softball team
gets a chance to tie Senate Beer
for the lead of the Merchants
League at Ballston Stadium tonight
when it meets Manhattan Auto and
Radio in the opening half of a
double-header at 8. Selectee Fred
(Bunker) Hill will come up from
Fort Belvoir to hurl for Standard
Linen while Bobby Poston, the for
mer Eastern High basket ball star,
will pitch for Manhattan.
In the second game, Plaza will
face Adam Hats. Neither team has
scored q loop victory.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Musons Yeurn to Avenoe
Defeat by Elk Skeeters

Washington Elks and Masons will
meet on the skeet field again next
Sunday with the Masons attempting
to reverse yesterdays decision which
had the Elks winning, 222-220, at
Griffith Farms.
Claybourne Wood of the Elks was
high gun with 49x50, followed by
George Deyoe's 48 for the Masons.
Next Sundays match will be fired
at the National Capital Skeet Club.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Woodmont Tourney
Chairman Brands
Default al Crime
Cracks Whip as Event
Opens; Peacock and
Rippy Keen Pair
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Woodmont Country Club links
men will qualify over the coming
week end in the first big match
play tourney for the Bethesda club
1t will be the handicap champion
ship of the Woodmont Club, and
while the men are qualifying they'll
also play in one of the Empire
Day tournaments, with entry fees
to 60 to British war relief.
Golf Chairman Leopold Freud
berg, who several years ago started
a move in the District Golf Associa-
ton to outlaw tournament players
who default in match play, has
cracked the whip over his golfers
at Woodmont. Please do not let
your score go in unless you can
play through the tournament" he
says. ITO default without an
adequate excuse is capital crime
Leo has something there. The
man who defaults in match play
will keep some one out of the tourna-
ment. probably a man who wants
to play.
Peacock-Rippy Like Golf.
Roger Peacock and Claude Rippy
the Maryland four-ball champions
are eluttons for punishment. Wind
ing up their third-round match al
Baltimore in their usual brilliant
style. with a s and 5 victory over
Nate kaufman, jr., and Arnold
Litman, they jumped back to
Indian Spring, where they took a
whirl at nine holes against Leo
Walper and Charlie Malone. Again
they won.
Roger and Claude had better
ball of s under par against Kauf-
man and Litman over the Suburban
Club course and will meet John
Farrell and John NJ Mackenzie of
Hillendale in the fourth round of
the tourney at Congressional next
Sunday.
They happen to be the only
Washington pair left in the Mary
land affair, but they loom as the
best In fact, it's hard to see where
they'll be licked. For the three
matches played so far they're Ia
strokes under par.
Meanwhile, Indian Springs team.
without their two top performers,
took a 14l2 to 1912 licking in a
match at Staunton. Va.
Women Play for Star Cups.
Leading feminine golfers of the
city. topped by Defending Champion
Barbara Simons. were playing today
over the tricky Washington Golf and
Country Club course in the class A
division of the tourney for The
Evening Star trophies. The class B
tourney will be played over the same
course Friday Entries will close
Wednesday at l pm. with Mrs
R. E. Hotze, Chestnut 8755.
Evening star., 1941-05-19

The new WeedlesS river runt is a
honey for plymouth bass in the
creeks below Washington, where
they always are found close to the
heavy growth and sometimes in it.
This plug has been a consistent
producer of strikes. In most ma
tional fishing contests it is near
the top. In the western auto con-
test last season the river runts were
first with "a, while the SecOnd-place
Jitterbugs caught but II of the
winning bass. Crazy crawlers, which
at first appeared to be the best lure
We had run across in many day,
accounted for but three.
Trout appeared in the inlets along
the Maryland coast two weeks ago.
Some nice ones have been caught
at Wachapreague and Chincoteague,
but the best fishing has been down
around Cape Charles. Anywhere it
could not be counted more than
spotty. Another 10 days and it
should be different story. June
always is the best month for the
offshore wreck fishing.
In the meantime porgies and sea
bass are being picked up here and
there and mackerel should be strik-
ing soon.
We often have wondered about
the awards of tackle In fishing
contests, because it seems as though
no one ever gets just what he wants
Now there seems to be a new wrinkle
In giving the prizes, which will
give at least a majority of the win
ners a choice of some item they
can use.
The Rod and Reel Club dumps
the entire collection of prizes. rang
ing from custom built tycoons to
tackle bags. on the table and calls
the winners up in order, Each
man gets the pick of what he wants
Of what is left after the preceding
man has made his choice. There is
some choice down to the next to the
last man. That last angler didn't
do 10 we'll in his fishing as the
others. so it is right that he should
be the only one to lose.
Jack williams, up Nicatous Lake
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Printers Boundford
is Pacing Batters
In u. ). 6. Loop

Naval Air Station holds a half
game lead over Union Printers in
the United States Government
League as a result of its 1l-2 rout
of F. B. I. Friday, but four bat
ters of the Printers and F. B. I.
are outhitting the league leaders
leading sWatsmith.
Statistics released last night show
the Printers Phil Boundford to
be setting the stick pace with an
average of .727, while Smitty Nau
and George johnson OF the G-Men
are hitting .636 each. Sole Of the
Printers is third with $40, while
Naval Airs Shepherd is credited
with an even 500.
Horse Myers Of the Airmen has
pitched two of his teams three VIC
tories.
The standings, leading hitters
and this weeks schedule:
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Oliver in Goodo|I, but
Army Bors Open Golf
BY the Associated Press.

CAMDEN, N. j., May 18-Corporal
Ed "Porky" Oliver, whose disquali-
fication in last years National Open
cost him a tie for the title, said
today he will be unable to compete
In the National Golf Open in Texas
next month.
THE Army figures that I'd be
away too long," Oliver, now an
Army selectee stationed at Fort
Dix, N. j., said during a best-ball
exhibition here.
He added, however, that he has
been granted permission to COM
pete in the Goodall Round Robin
Tourney at New York next week
end.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Western, Roosevelt Snop
Series Tie Tomorrow

Something must snap tomorrow
as Western and Roosevelt meet in
the feature of two interhigh base
ball series games with both facing
the necessity of winning to ramain
in the race. The game will be
played at Roosevelt, starting at $50.
Each has won 2 and lost so far.
In the other game tomorrow. Ana
costa plays at Eastern with the
Ramblers favored to triumph and
finish atop the standings. They
have dropped only one of five games.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Dusek, MucuIuso Share
Mat Cord With Gals

A doublefeature rassling program
Is planned by Promoter Joe Turner
for thursdays show at the Arena
A match between Rudy Dusek and
Len Macaluso will share top billing
with the women's title go between
Elvira Snodgrass and Mildred Burke.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Sports Mirror
3y the Associated Press

BY the ASsOClated PresS,
Five years ago.Lawn Tennis
Association named Wilmer Ali
son, Don Bulge, Bryan Grant
and Gene Mako as United States
team for Davis Cup matches
against Australia.
Evening star., 1941-05-19

Today-Printers VS.. Treasury. West
EllIpse
Wednesday-Tressury vs.. Naval Air,
East Ellipse
Friday. B. I. VS.. Printers, South
Ellipse
All games start at B o'clock
Evening star., 1941-05-19

Houston, ILL; Oklahoma City, as
Dallas Z. Shreveport. g.
Tulsa. IL: San Antonio, 3.
Beaumont, s, Fort Worth, 4,
EASTERN LEAGUE.
Elmira 4-3: Albany, 3-5
SPRINGFIELD 13-3. Scranton. as.
Binghamton, So: Willlamsport 40.
WllkesBarre, 6-3; Hartford. 5-6
Evening star., 1941-05-19
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.

w. L. Pct. w. L. Pct
Montrel 1s II 81 81 Jer City 1S = .433 .ass
Roch'ter 16 13 .552 Toronto s 20 .2s6
Rochester. So: Montreal, II.
Buffalo. 11-5; Toronto. "a.
Jersey City, A.; Newark, SO (frst in
IL innings).
Syracuse, 81: Baltimore. 2-6.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-12-25
Eney Unusually Lovely
Christmas Party

The members OF the Bridge Work
ers Club enjoyed one Of de, out
standing parties Of the Chrisunas
season Last Thursday when they
were guests OF Mrs. J. A. Krall ii
q O'Clock luncheon
A two course luncheon was served
with the guests seated at m IN
usually lovely table. A unique cen
terpiece intrigued the guests. l
tiny Santa Claus. sleigh and rein
deers, work of carving done bv
Mrs. Kralrs father. A touch q
reality was given this setting ~
mounting it on a mirror which was
covered with salt to represent snow.
AT each plate there was tiny
Christmas tree.
Another decoration that was much
admired was little village placed
on the buffet. 4 This consisted OF !
group OF tiny houses, stores, school
house and church, with a cheerful
light shining in a window of each.
The decorations were made COM
plete with beautifully decorated
tree shining out its welcome from !
place before large studio window.
The afternoon was given over to
contract, with Mrs. M. ID. Rowland
winning high score prize. Gifts
were also exchanged at this time ID
keeping with the Christmas spirit.