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Evening star., 1941-03-25

Protest against cutting into the
links facilities at East Potomac Park
BY construction Of tennis courts and
baseball diamonds on Course G to-
CAV resulted in presentation to the
director of National Capital parks
of a petition signed by more than
200 public links golfers.
The petition. signed by Robert L.
Morris. president Of the East Po-
tomac Golf Club, declares use of
the golf course for tennis courts
Seems unfair" to hundreds of golf
ers who play the course daily.
The petition follows:
1--WE, the undersigned, wish to pc
tition your Office regarding the Sc
lection of portion of the now over
crowded East Potomac Golf Course
for the purpose of establishing a
few baseball diamonds and tennis
courts.
1T is a known fact that tennis
is a growing sport and needs room
for expansion, but to select this
course as a place for expansion
seems unfair to the hundreds of
golfers who daily play this course
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Champion Baker Still
Is Favorite in D. T..
Title Badminton
Women's Section Is Seen
As Tossup; SemifinoIs
Are Slated onieht

SemiflnalS in all five divisions for
District badmlnton championships
will be staged tonight at Kensing-
ton Armory, with the defending
title holder still the favorite in
mems singles, but with the Women's
crown a toSsup among four.
Visions of a replay of 1855
mems final between Waldron
Faulkner, champion that year, and
Shep Holt, runnerup, we're dissi-
pated last night when the former
was eliminated by Scott Pollock,
15-7, 6-15, 15-10. AS a result,
Pollock will meet Holt at $50
o'clock. Holt having come through
to upset Bill Dooley in the quarter
finals, Isl, 15-5.
Tonights other mems semifnal
will be between defending cham
plon, Joe Baker, who routed Jack
Green, 15-1, 15-2. and Bill Rainey,
who outlasted Mac Whitcomb,
15-8, 10-15, 15-9.
Women's pairings call for top
seeded Charlotte Decker to meet
Frances Rowan and second-seeded
Margaret Graham to face Polly
Thompson. Last night Miss Decker
defeated Dorothy Catlett, lilo,
11-3; Mrs. Rowan walloped Edith
McCulloCh, 10, 11-0; Mrs. Gra-
ham outclassed Virginia Ryan,
Ill, Ill. and Miss Thompson
won by default from Thelma Rum
bold.
Wilkinson and Sparrow are ready
to meet Edwards and Whitcomb
in one Of tonight's mems doubles
semifnals, but Baker and Mackall
must await the winner of the match
between Faulkner-Purinton and
Briggs Thompson. In women's
doubles. Misses Decker and Thomp-
son will meet the Catlett-Ryan
combination, while the Norment-
Willoughby and Rowan Wilson
teams clash in the other
The mixed doubles semifinal Setup
calls for 8aker-Thompson to meet
Graham Faulkner and Mackall-
Decker to face Edwards Edwards
Women's consolation singles will
open the program at 7:30 o'clock
with the women's semifnal matches
going on at 8.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
De Glone to Go on Mat
Against BockwinkIe

Pierre De Glane, the grappler
whose classic handle is equaled by
his classic holds, is on the program
Thursday night at Turner's Arena.
M. De Glane meets plain Warren
BockWlnkle, a citizen of st. Louis
in the last census, in a 45-minute
semif1nal on the wrestling card
being assembled by Promoter Joe
Turner. 1t will be their 1,5s6th
meeting and De Glane will be trying
to cut into the 125 match lead
Bockwinkle boasts.
Mildred Burke and Patsy Miller
also are on the card. sharing the
spotlight with Lou Plummer and
Joe Cox. Fred Grobmier is down for
Commute struggle with Joe De
Valteau, another Canuck.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Muny Golfers Protest SIicing
Course for Tennis Courts

With such space available as the
West Potomac Park, the Monument
grounds, or even the polo field to be
used for this purpose, it seems as
though some thought should be
given by your architects as to the
selection of one of these sites for
your recreational expansion.
"A copy of this communication
will be forwarded to the local pa
pers as a news event, and also as a
means of informing the golfers who
daily play the East Potomac Golf
Course relative thereto.
I'VE hope that favorable action
may be taken in this matter.
Respectfully.
ROBERT L. MORRIS,
president, East Potomac Golf Club
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Few Understand Grovity
OF Country's Position

7 believe the fact that We are
not vet quite at actual war and
that the Army has been told it
won't be sent to any foreign soil
has been responsible partly for this
feeling toward the draft.
Few understand the gravity of the
situation. To most of these Europe
and Asia are a long way off-the At
lantic and the Pacific are deep and
wide And We are not sending
troops to the Meuse and the Marine,
to Cantigny or Belleau Wood.
Where many leading athletes are
likely to make big mistake is in
this direction:
Whether fairly or unfairly,
whether correctly or incorrectly, not
only the Army men but their fam
lilies now are wide awake to this
deferment matter where crack ath-
letes are concerned.
know many club owners are
worried deeply over the Greenberg
case. And other possible cases. They
don't want their ballplayers booed
and jeered for ducking the big
issue.
I talked with one of the leading
owners in the National Football
League.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
ST. Johns S Marksmen
Capture Place in
National Test

st Johns School rifle team will
receive the Hearst Trophy as the
winning team in the Sd Corps Area
and is eligible to compete in the
national matches.
The Johnnie marksmen will fire
on their own range and compare
scores with leaders in other areas.
They won their sectional champion
ship with a score of GOT, topping
the Washington High School team
by II points.
St. Johns team No. was third
with 364. High for the winners was
Thomas Hughes with 1856.
ST JOUStS COIJFGE
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Would Battle Any One
In Around Scrap,
Ex.Champ Says
Autograph Hunters Paw
Jim at Turner Bouts,
Fair Entertainment
By LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

interviewing Jimmy BraddOCk
during the 10-minute intermission
at the little shoeboX labeled Turner's
Arena is no mean feat A guys got
to have stamina to hold his own with
the crowd of autograph seekers mob
bing the former heavyweight cham
pion, a couple of keen ears and an
ample supply of pencils. A smatter-
ing of persistency doesn't hurt.
We grabbed Braddock before the
first sign here" gent arrived. We
wanted to know what, if any, sig
nificance could be attached to Abe
Simons 13-round stand against Joe
Louis-if Simon was whole lot bet
ter than everybody suspected, or if
Louis had slipped notch.
1T surprised me" he admitted. y
didn't expect him to last more than
three rounds. /"
Sign here, champ" interrupted
the first big-name hunter on the
scene and a dozen white cards were
thrust into his friendly paw for the
Sincerely, James j. Braddock." One
moppet arrived without pencil, bor-
roWed mine and made off with it
when the second surge of fans hit
the former champ.
Serious About Comeback.
Are you really serious about a
comeback" we yelled above the noise
Of the pack.
Ill fight anybody-and that in
cludes the topnotchers-four rounds
right now" he yelled back But I'll
need about IS of EN- to get in real
good condition. I'd like to have
about 25 short fights under my belt
before thinking seriously of come
back"
The wave Of signature seekers in
creased in volume. We found our
selves ducking more rights and lefts
than any two fighters on the card
and the fighters weren't carrying
sharp pointed weapons. Repre-
sentative Fred Hartley, sitting beside
Braddock, grabbed his hat and shook
two fans off his lap in the same
motion.
Il lost hat out here last week"
he grinned, land can't afford to have
that happen again"
Funny thing about Steve Bel
loise's knockout by Tami Mauriello,
wasn't ito" we asked.
Say, that was a surprise" Brad
dock agreed. And you know they
don't think Belloise can fight any
more. Something seems to have
gone out of him. He hasn't got that
old zip he had and they can't figure
| what's wrong wit hhim."
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Grid Owner Doesn't Won't
His Players Deferred

Il don't want any of my men to
ask for deferment," he said. "If a
football player can't make a good
soldier. who can?"
IF Greenberg, Feller and others are
drafted soon. there still will be two
good pennant races which millions
can use for their relaxation. It may
scramble up all the so-called dope,
but this is unimpOrtant.
On the other hand, ballplayers,
golfers, boxers, football players and
experts in other fields Of sport won't
have to worry about giving up their
training and their professions. The
Army will need them and keep
them busy.
I believe this 1941 Army will carry
manv more sporting events on its
calendar than any Army in his
tory. Sport is something the men
must have.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Another Case in Point.
Two B. c. Aides Named

NEWTON, Mass, March 25 P,-
Two assistant football coaching
berths at Boston College remained
to be filled after Head Coach Denny
Myers named Harry Mari, Notre
Dame graduate, as end coach. and
reappointed Tom Powers. former
Boston College Back. as freshman
tutor.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Pair Of Y. M. |. Sturs
Are Reported Lost
Rx the Assnclated Press

By the AssoClated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, March 25.-The
News Leader said that the scholastic
bugaboo had robbed v M, L of two
varsity players for next season.
They are, the paper said, Jimmy
Matthews, blocking back, and Jimmy
Nugent, end. Both would have been
SenlOrs next wear.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Softies Seek Opposition

Softball players are wanted by the
Standard Linen Supply ten, runner
up in the Metro Night League last
year. Call Archie or Ted Zimmer-
man at Chestnut 4444.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Browns Plan New Comp

SAN ANTONIO, Textile st.
Louis Browns are far from satisfied
with their spring training site here.
President Don Barnes is looking
down Florida way for a new SPOT.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Would LeouIize BETTING

HARRISBURG, Pa. March 25
(Pl-Pennsvlvania State Senator
John H. Dent said today he will in
troduce measure to legalize pari-
mutuel wagering at harness and
hunt races in Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Feels Conn Has Chance.

Another squad of fans, headed by
boxing commission inspector. cut US
off from the champ and by the time
We fought our way back to the front
row he had been collared by couple
of photographers.
What do YOU think about Tony
! Galento fighting Buddy Baer?"
It's question of who quits first
in that one"
Has Conn really got a chance
against Louise"
You bet. The more see of that
1riShman the better I like him, and
Louis isn't getting any better. At
least that's one thing he showed in
that Simon fight"
Another batch of fans stormed the
scene. We had lost two additional
pencils-making total of three
so we beat hasty retreat, but in
good order. The next time we want
statement from Braddock it'll have
TO come over the telephone If the
receiver cracks you on the head or
the dial drops on your feet, we can
sue Mr.. Bell
The fights were only fair, al
though the crowd applauded whole
heartedly after each round as Harry
Hurst 134) beat out a clear-cut de-
clslon over Tommy Cross 139p in the
semifinal. They didn't approve of
the main go, in which Luther White
Q36) won from Tommy Spiegel
U29).
Foe Sought for Cocoa.
Next week brings Louis Kid Cocoa
back to Turner's, but his opponent
has yet to be announced. The man
| agement said Cocoa would like to
meet George Abrams, to whom he
lost a close decision last summer at
Griffith Stadium. and Senor Gabe
Menendez undoubtedly would take
great pleasure in booking the match.
But you can bet George isn't going
to risk his middleweight title hopes
in two-bit scrap with Cocoa in
Washington. He'd have too much
to lose and nothing to gain.
Preliminary results last night were
as follows: Roy Dunn Q6O) out
pointed Floyd Grayson Q59a4) and
Tommy Hoover G43) scored a tech
nical knockout over frankie Martin
040A) at the end of the second
| round.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Worth Of Experience
Is Shown asL. |. u.
Quint Triumph5
Big Second-Holf Rolly
Routs Ohio in Final
OF Garden Tourney
By III. Associated Press.

By TIE Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 25.-When
you consider Long Island Uni
versity's regular-seaSon record. you
aren't surprised that the Blackbirds
won the national intercollegiate in
vitation basket ball tournament at
Madison Square Garden for the sec
ond time in three years.
In the course of winning % of 25
games, the Blackbirds faced varied
opposition, such as Oregon, Rice,
Michigan State, Duquesne, De Paul.
Butler and Toledo, as we'll as local
rivals. BY the time they had gone
through that, they had experienced
practically everything they would
come up against in an eight-team
tournament.
Used to Big Crowds.
Besides, they were quite accus-
toned to those big Garden crowds,
could be very disturbed by the 70826
fans who watched the four nights
of tournament play and broke the
Garden record at three successive
sessions.
Long Island had to whip a fine
team in the final round, Ohio Uni
verSity, 56 to AZ. with a second
half rally Before that the Black
birds had disposed of little West
minister and Seton Hall, which had
won 43 games in row before bump
ing into l.. I. U. They stopped two
outstanding individual stars. Seton
Halls Bob Davies and Ohio Uni
versity's Frankie BaumholtZ, who
was voted the Journeys most val
liable player.
Long Islands players are big fell
lows. They can shoot accurately
and pass well. Their long shots kept
them in the game last night until
the Bobcats, who led. 1921. at the
half, tired from the fast pace. They
were we'll coached and played a
sound defensive game. too, but most
Of the other teams that earned tour
nament invitations couldn't claim
those advantages.
Another Case in Point.
The difference appeared to be that
the varied experience metropoli-
tan teams get during the regular
season helps them play smarter
basket ball. They know what to dc
in any situation.
City College of New York helped
drive home that point last night by
Walloping Seton Hall, 1927, in the
third-place game Davies kept the
New Jersey team in the running for
the first half. but City College came
back to hold his teammates scoreless
the first six minutes of the second
frame.
Evening star., 1941-03-25
Baddoc Eager Try Comeback Wants 25 Short Fights Get Condition
Tho
SPORTLIGHT
Long Shadow of Draft
Is Athwort Diamond
BY GRANTLAND RICE.
Special Correspondent Of The Star.

TAMPA, Fla, March Is CN.ANA)
The shadow of the draft is extend
ing farther and deeper than you
might think over the ball camps
Of spring. The young and unmar-
ried especially are wondering more
and more just when they will be
tapped.
A great many more ballplayers
are going to be called by midsummer
than most managers ever thought
possible.
Many players suddenly have dis
covered that what they thought
were high numbers last fall now are
low numbers and getting lower every
day. l was sitting on the beach
with one of the well-known entries.
I wanted to get his angle on the
draft matter.
Its pretty tough on a lot of
fellows like myself" he said L
have been huStling and working
five years to get my shot at good
money. Through those five years
I was. able to save little. Now I
have my first good contract and it
looks as if III have to give it up.
More Prominent the Athlete
Louder Would Be Howl
in addition to this I have
mother who is dependent on me.
BY the time I get out of the Army
I can't expect to get near the money
I can earn this spring and summer.
And there won't be much time left
IN my profession. l think this hits
ballplayers harder than any one
else"
] tried to explain that ballplayers.
football players and all other ath-
letes were supposed to make the
best soldiers. They were supposed
to be in better physical shape If
many of these were passed by or
given dpferment there would be a
howl ~ high heaven from every
camp in the country. The more
prominent the athlete. the surer he
was to get called when his number
arrived.
Suppose I asked. that you we're
In the Army, possibly as a clerk
or some one physically unframed
and you kept reading this summer
that Joe Louis. ranked as the best
fighting man in the world. had just
cleaned up another 100000 gate.
Or that Bob Feller, getting $4,000
a year, was out to win his tenth
game. Or that Tom Harmon of
Michigan, footballs leading star,
was picking up $4,000 for a few
weeks or months in HOLLYWOOD"
Evening star., 1941-08-17
Continued from poge twelve

the storage of stretchers, cots and
blankets in every police precinct and
traffic patrol station in the city.
Catastrophe units previously estab-
lished in twelve hospitals, are reor-
ganizing. reassembling their equip
ment and providing for additional
units in other hospitals if required.
Each such unit will consist of four
physicians and four nurses in an am
bulance.
To augment the regular hospital
ambulances, special racks will be pro-
Evening star., 1941-08-17
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
IF ENEMY BOMBERS COME
Coninv dEompo etweve

quantities. England purchased more
than 100000 feet of fire hose
here early in the war; distributed
10000 stirrup pumps to house
holders; sent hundreds of firemen
around to teach civilians on every
block how to handle thermite bombs
effectively
We have not been entirely asleep.
The matter of equipment has not been
overlooked Standard specifications
have been prepared and several fac
tories are ready to turn out portable
pumps and other necessary emergency
equipment.
But there are other angles to con-
slider. To avoid the turmoil of hun
dreds of separate cities bidding against
each other for a multitude of individ-
ual equipment designs, the United
States Civilian Defense has requested
all communities to wait for:
l. The adoption of standard
lied specifications.
2. A national plan for the ac-
QUESTION of such equipment.
1t will cost plenty to equip just
our seaboard cities - including all
strategic centers several hundred miles
inland from the Pacific, the Gulf and
the Atlantic. And even if the cities
or states had the money - which
none have - the equipment does not
exist today
Therefore, it is my plan to present
the matter to Congress, as soon as an
inventory of needed emergency equip
ment is completed, so that one order
can be placed at one time in all fac
tories. Then the equipment can be
allocated by the Federal Government
where it is needed most. Granted there
is no delay, estimate that it will take
from one year to eighteen months
before all of the cities in need of this
emergency apparatus can be supplied.
Msdicoi Emergency FoeiIifiss
1HESE comprise not only First Aid
Parties but Ambulance Service, Cas-
ualty Clearing Stations and Hospital
Facilities. In New York City the
Police Department is providing for
Evening star., 1941-08-17

and bedding for the homeless and to
rehouse these people with relatives.
friends, or, as last resort, in public
refugees; to disperse school children
to their homes lin which New York
City schools held practice drills be-
fore the end of the recent term).
There also is the study and plan
ming of air raid shelters if found neces-
sary; the control OF traffic; super
vision of the lighting problem during
blackouts plus numerous other
projects not so spectacular but just
as vital to the maintenance of morale.
Evening star., 1941-08-17

vided by which private ambulances
and trucks can be equipped to carry
four or more stretcher patients at a
time. Hospitals are drilling their emer-
gency personnel once month, with
Field Drills called Unexpectedly by
the police authorities at least four
times year, in which Police Rescue
Squads participate.
The training of volunteer nurses
aids is being extended and, in collabo-
ration with the American Red Cross,
an advanced course in first aid is
being provided for not less than three
per cent of all municipal employees.
AS rapidly as these employees qualify
as instructors, they will be utilized
outside of regular employment hours
to extend this short course of first
aid to all municipal employees. The
local chapters of the Red Cross are
also concentrating on training first
aid instructors in factories and busi-
ness establishments.
One indication of our progress is
the Police Department inventory of
more than 1000. 900 private automo-
biles in New York City that will be
available for emergency service.
First aid. obviously, is big prob
lem in air raids Yet it is vital in this,
as in everything else, that there be no
duplication or waste motion. Air Raid
Wardens, for example. render first
aid when feasible Yet Wardens must
have sufficient judgment to see that
giving succor to a single casualty
might, in some situations, allow un-
attended traffic to become so snarled
that fire apparatus, rescue squads or
ambulances could not get through to
handle subsequent calls.
Rssevs Sqvods
These consist of six squads of ten
or twenty men each for each 100000
population. Organized mainly among
men in the building trades. these
squads are trained in extricating cas-
ualties from damaged structures.
Some of them, headed by foremen ex-
perienced in razing hazardous walls.
are called Demolition Squads. There
are also Decontamination Squads to
detect and chemically neutralize poi
son gas, and Repair Squads to work
on damaged buildings Rescue Squads.
of course, will have to be reinforced
by large Labor Squads. which would
be held in reserve at designated places;
ready to serve where needed.
Other squads must be ready to clear
debris from streets and highways;
to repair water and gas mains and
wire conduits; to reestablish tele-
phone communications. fire alarm
service, ETC.; to distribute food via
mobile kitchens to Wardens and other
emergency workers during long peri
DDS of service; to procure food, clothes
Evening star., 1941-08-17
Want others to ike YOU?

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US, there is such pleasant, refresh
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Purer-tbe Li5terine Anfisebte way!
For, while some cases of bad
breath are caused by systemic con-
ditions, usually, say some author
titles, il is due TO the fermentation of
tiny food particles on mouth, teeth
Evening star., 1941-08-17

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plates are particularly susceptible
because food is apt TO cling to them
and ferment, LHterne Antixbhe bakb
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Odo,s 1t causes. That's why, when you
rinseyour mouth morning and night
with full strength Listerine, your
breath is fresher, sweeter, less likely
to offend.
If you want Others to like you, if
you want to put your best foot for
ward, use Isterine-it pays!
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-13
WITHOUT AMERICAN SOLDIERS

We are among the people of the United
States who hope that the regime OF Adolf
Hitler, which threatens the world. can be
toppIed without the intervention of Amer
lean armed forces.
z The foreign policy of President Roose-
welt has been predicated upon the hope that
the prompt dispatch and safe delivery OF
supplies might make sure the defeat Of Hit
Ter and thus make it unnecessary for the
United States TO consider the use of Amer
lean soldiers
When France collapsed, the British
faced a tremendous struggle. They were
without assurance of supplies with which
to fight and without the manpower neces-
sary to defeat Germany even If supplies be-
came available.
The Lease-Lend Act made up the first
deficiency and the attack on Russia an
swered the second need. Today the hope
of defeating Germany, without American
soldiers depends upon continued supplies
from this country and continued resistance
Of the Red army.
This ought to make { apparent that t
5 to the interest Of the United States TO see
that not only the British but the Russians
get what they need 70 maintain the fight
against Germany.