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Evening star., 1942-02-27

Win, Lose or Draw
Hoqon's Prowess Recalls Other Mighty Mites
BY GRANTLAND RICE,
In the temporary absence Of Francis E. Stan.

nO9Qn TTOWeSS
The amazing distance pound Benh4ogan gets with either
wood distances that match the of Jimmy Thomson and
him As to IS mind
back could Frank Hinkey the Yale
Walter Camps four in row. Hnkey
weighed pounds
Hmkeys that he fast
v tt n the field He almost would wreck 100 and 100 pound
pond Hnkey who supposed do all the rough
ing and running. --...
was such that he practically exploded
explosion that called into action physical force he had
he dmbodied spirit he dynamite when he ripped
To certain extent this George
coach told Pfann makes every play appear as would be his
last. He gives everything he has
13e-Pound Sternomon Wrecked Grid Giants
Among others meaning
A Booth Cotton Wbuton Davey oBrien Joe snaman Chgger
Bob zuppk once told me that Joe
$50 pound he in rough and
too quick too smart and too rough" zupp said
give you my favortel pound Hunk Anderson, the Nore
the Chicago Bears And defy
line coach When Hunk gets through with line
unbeatable or in some hospital
I've seen Hunk 22O-pound quit him drive
fast $50 pound guard OFF the field in less than minutes Hunk always
strength with flash of spirit that 100
Hunk reported for play
game with stick in his hand?"
MuronvIIe and Evers Tremendously Come
Among big baseball give Rabbit Maran
was at their training camp with the Boston Braves in 1914 They
which they enforced on the rest Of the no man
manwere beaned with
a still had
Later Maranve Maranve lost
And then went back to hunt for his teeth
Which reminds he with the old Cubs stole
bone badly broken that came
fumbed hobbed
definition of what might call in
fortiude"
Maranve and physically small they giants in
ball long way-another of the diamonds big little men,
Great Little Men of Ring Numerous
great fighting under $50
pounds Wilde Cans Kid Lavign Joe
Frank Ene Terry McGovern
Drcol Welsh Attel. Wogas and
could Harry
Creb Stanley Kecheu, Langford or Jack Blackburn
reb murdered such heavyweghts as Gene Tney
200
DEMPSEY that Greb all poison
champion in golf by the name Ezaoeh
Hicks Newell?
champion she is ABOUT
golf in rs and hit
her drives around hands small wrists But
she can golfer might weigh than 0
All proves winning sport than
matter There is the matter of timing, which means CO.
muscles that work together And there
strength that has explosive ERECT
Evening star., 1942-02-27
War Fails to Hit Boys Interest in Baseball, Reds Find
Backs II Sports $4,000 Diamonds Ambassador op Navy

reaching Chicago to prepare for
tonight's scrap with Tony Motisi,
was to visit one of his old rivals,
Milt Aron, who is an invalid.
That fancy humidor on Col. Matt
Winn's desk was supposed to be
presented to him at ball on the
night of the 1912 Santa Anita
Handicap. The Little Rock
Flyers won't defend their ma
tional women's basket ball title
at st. Joseph, Mo-, next month.
The club disbanded because
Coach Bill Dunaway took de-
fense job, they couldn't schedule
regular-season games and tire
shortage cut down travelling.
Today's guest star-L. H. Greg
ory, Portland Oregonian: Cant
say we blame Yale for making
its new athletics program COM
pulsory In fact, there's bound
to be suspicion that the COM
pulsion doesn't go far enough
what Yale needs is a few COM
pulsory athletes"
Sportpourri-Herb Hunter, who
used to be baseball's ambassador
of good will to Japan, has been
accepted by the Navy. He hopes
his next visit viii be baseball's
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Keen School RivaIries
Renewed in I Cage
Scraps tonight
St. Johns -Gonzogo Game,
CIV. High-W. l. TussIe
Promise Thrills

Two of this sections top scho-
lastic basket ball rivalries will be
displayed tonight with Gonzaga
and st. Johns tangling at Tech
gym at $3.50 o'clock.
st. Johns and Washington-Lee
were winners in earlier clashes
against their traditional foes, but
neither is certain of a repeat. Of
season records, the Johnnies prob
ably will be slight favorites, but
the Virginia clash rates as a stand
off.
st. Johns topped the Eagles, 81
26, the first time out, but Gonzaga
is banking heavily on the return
to action of Bill Mckay and Bernie
Nolan, two aces until recently
schoIastically ineligible. Mckay is
due for starting post on Coach
Horse Holbrook's quint tonight with
the others probably being Tony
Tancredi, Joe Murphy, Ray Fan
ming and Al Lauck.
Gene Augusterfer has indicated
he will use his regular starting
group of George Hughes, Sleepy
Thompson, Paddy Mccarthy, Chuck
Dudley and Jack Coke. !
The first WI. VS.. G.. w. game
ended with the Generals in front.
27-23, and they can hope for
repeat tonight aided by the advant-
age of playing on their home court.
This may be more than balanced,
however, by a strengthened team
of Presidents, who have added sew
eral new PLAYERS.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Sports Program
ForLocuI Funs
TO-DAY
Basket BAH.

Basket BAH.
v. M. I. vs.. Maryland, College
Park, 8.
Susquehanna VS.. Columbus,
Tech gym, $3.50.
Bridgewater at Gallaudet, $50.
st. Johns VS.. Gonzaga, Tech
gym, 8.
Hyattsville Gold Cup tourna-
ment, Hyattsville High, Z.
George Washington High at
Westinghouse High, Balls
ton, 8.
st. Albans at Georgetown
Prep, Garrett Park, $3.50.
Coolidge at Bethesda Chevy
Chase, 8.
Boxing.
D. C. A. A. U. tournament, Tur-
ner's Arena, 8:15.
Hockey.
Johnstown VS.. Washington
Eagles, Riverside Stadium, $3.50.
Handball.
District A. A. U. championship
tournament, Y. M. c. A., 8.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
v. M. I. VS.. George Washing
ton, Riverside Stadium, 8:45.
American q. VS.. Catholic o.,
G. U. gym, 8:l5.
st. Benedict VS.. Georgetown
Freshmen, Ryan gym, tbs.
Columbus VS.. Lockhaven Teach
ers, Lockhaven, Pa.
Episcopal VS.. Woodberry For
est, at Alexandria, 8.
Randolph Macon VS.. Gallau-
Diet. Tech gym, $3.50.
Hyattsville Gold Cup tourna-
ment, Hyattsville High, 8.
st. Andrews at Landon, 8.
Hockey.
Washington Eagles VS.. Jersey
Skeeters, River Vale, N. j.
Swimming.
District A. A. U. lowboard div
ing championship for men and
women and other events, Ambas-
sador Pool, 8.
Catholic U. VS.. Seton Hall,
South Orange, N. j. =.
Wrestling.
Maryland VS.. Rutgers, New
Brunswick, N. j.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
BY HUGH FULLERTON, Jr-
Wide World Sports Writer.

Wide World Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Frank
Lane, the Cincy Reds assistant
general manager, is convinced
that the war hasn't lessened the
interest of American kids in
baseball. Lane is setting up 80
tryout camps in various places
and reports he gets about as
many letters as ever from boys
who want a chance to play.
When Les MacMitchell and Earl
Mitchell tangle in the mile at
tomorrow's indoor track cham
pionship the confusion among
listeners may be as bad as in
the old Fenske-Venzke days un-
less Gil Dodds or Jim Rafferty,
can do something about it. Cor
rection: Latest word is that
Chicago, not Cleveland, is first
in line for next summers Louis
Pastor fight. Local writer's do
ing obituaries on N. Y. u. foot
ball have learned that City Col
lege supports II sports teams on
a $4,000 budget and football
gets only $1,000. The coaches
salaries aren't included in those
Evening star., 1942-02-27
| StoIz-Ruffin Winner
Seen as Challenger
For Ring Crown
Pv the Associated Press.

Rv the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-The next
challenger for the lightweight box
ing championship of the world may
come out of tonight's scrap between
Allie Stolz of Newark and Bobby
Ruffin of New York, scheduled for
a dozen rounds at Madison Square
Garden.
1t will be their third meeting, but
their first in the 135-pound division.
They met twice as featherweights
three years ago, with Ruffin scoring
decision the first time and Stolz
turning the tables later.
On the basis of their recent per-
formances, both rank along with
Bob Montgomery of Philadelphia
as contenders for the lightweight
crown worn by Sammy Angott.
Rufin is a slight favorite.
Evening star., 1942-02-27

ambassador. period. Jug Nc
Spaden has abandoned the win
ter golf tour and come north to
Philadelphia, where he hopes to
get his new job and his ailing
shoulder both in good shape by
spring. Wisconsin's crew, which
has come east before only to row
at Poughkeepsie, will take on
Harvard, Navy, Penn and M. I.
T. as an invited guest In the
Adams Cup race at Boston, May
l6. Bob Pastor says he. wants
his next fight with Joe Louis to
be in the afternoon. Wonder
why-most guys who fight Joe
don't have to worry about getting
to bed early.
Professional note-Sports Eds:
If you're looking for q good re-
porter who won't be drafted soon,
how about Dolph Camilli, jr.?
While the regular scribes were
trying in vain to get the Dodger
first sacker to discuss his con-
tract this spring, Young Dolph
scooped them all with a piece in
his school paper saying his dad
practically had agreed to terms
and was heading east.
Evening star., 1942-02-27

figures because they're teachers,
too.
Names make news: Jesse Linthi-
cum notes in the Baltimore Sun
that the Orioles vice president is
Charley Knapp and the club has
a third baseman named Lemon
and Pitcher Miller. It's q, good
thing, he says, that they lack
guys named Bust or Bottom.
Well, Scranton has just bought
First Baseman Van Binges. They
say he's no relation to Mungo.
And for a tongue twister, the
Southern Conference track meet,
which is run in the "tin can"
: and woolen gym at North Caro-
lima u, will be featured by the
Well Mile.
Odds-and some ends-Presi-
dent Roger Langley of the Ma
tional Ski Association and c. M.
Dole, chairman of the national
ski patrol system, are off on
a nationwide tour to see what
the ski patrol can do about ma
tional defense and also to look
over the Army's only Xxi regi-
ment at Fort Lewis, Wash. First
thing Fritzie zivic did after
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Clipper After Losing
15Pounds, Foxx Still
Intends 10 Hustle

BY the Associated Press.
SARASOTA, Fla, Feb. 27.-Jimmy
Foxx, who doesn't appear to be
worrying about his first-base job
with the Boston Red Sox, starts his
18th season today.
st have taken off Is pounds this
winter and now am down to 100" ne
said. "I never felt better, but I guess
it will be a good idea to get a weeks
start on the kids after my job and
work myself into playing shape by
easy strides"
LAKELAND, Fla.-Charley Gehr-
inger is listed by the Detroit Tigers
as a coach, but don't count him
wholly out of active competition.
The 38-year-old mechanical
man" second baseman is looking
spry in workouts, and his restora-
ton to the active list would be q
mere formality if Jimmy Blood
worth or Dutch Meyer failed to come
through at the keystone sack.
AVALON, Calf if-General Man
ager Jim Gallagher of the Chicago
Cubs predicts that the Cubs and the
Cincinnati Reds will fight it out for
the 1912 National League pennant
unless the armed services draw or
the Cubs key men.
Ell CENTRIC, Calif.-The Pitts
burgh Pirates believe they have the
best all-around catching duo in the
National League this season in AL
Lopez and Babe Phelps.
ANAHEIM, Calif-Connie Mack
has imposed an 1880 pm. curfew
on his Philadelphia Athletics and
ordered mo smoking in uniform" )"
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Field Declared
Best Balanced
YET etArranged
Seven Quints in Line,
One to Be Selected;
Poirings Due Soon
BY GEORGE HUBER.

The most evenly matched group
of high-ranking schoolboy quints
ever assembled in a tourney here
was lined up today with announce
ment of plans for The Evening
Stars 10th annual Metropolitan
Washington interscholastic tourna-
ment opening next Thursday at
Tech gym.
Closing feature of the scholastic
cage season in Washington each
year, The Star tourney, as usual, will
have as competitors eight outstand-
ing high school teams invited from
the District and the nearby metro
politan sections of Maryland and
Virginia. Selected with an eve to
their records in regular season COM
petition, natural rivalries and inter-
sectional interest, the teams to which
invitations have been forwarded
represent the cream of the schoolboy
crop In this section outside the
District public high series.
Couldn't Accept Invitations.
The public high champion and
runner-up have competed in past
tournaments, but could not accept
invitations to this years melting be-
cause Of the policy of the Board of
Education against post games,
Their absence from this years tour
ney only serves to heighten inter.
est, with a promise of more excite
ment and better chance for schools
usually rated as underdogs against
the top public high quint. The race
this time is a wide-open affair with
practically all of the teams invited
having shown strength enough to
rate good chance of winning. Ger
talnly there will be no pronounced
favorite.
seven of the eight teams to COM
pete In the tourney have accepted
invitations. From Washington will
come the defending champion, Con-
zaga, winner of the 1941 Metro crown
IN a hot final game against Roose-
Velt, then public high champion
which later went on to win the
Duke-Durham tournament of cham
plons at Durham, N. c.. and st.
| y, "AAS1A 4Ado al QUIZ
standing record this season against
the toughest opposition it could find.
The Johnnies are former MetropoE-
tan champions and also have been
runners-up in The Star tourney.
Virginia Well Represented.
Nearby Virginia win be represent
ed by the two outstanding quints of
the Northern section of the Virginia
Glass A Conference, Washington-Lee
OF Ballston, tourney competitor
last year, and George Washington of
Alexandria, a fast, scrappy team
coached by Al Doran which has been
hitting fast pace recently.
Leading the list of invited teams
from nearby Maryland Is Georgetown
Prep, which for the first time recent
ly won the Catholic School cham
pionship with one of the best teams
(See BASKET BALL, Page C-30
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Mats Abandon GreenviIIe Farm;
Case, Vernon at Camp Early

BY staff Correspondent Of Ths Star.
ORLANDO, Fla, Feb. 27-The
Mats have severed connections with
their Greenville Is. c. farm team
and nobody Is moaning. Pitchers
Bill Zinser and Phil Mccullough are
the only Greenville graduates Of last
season now with Washington.
Outfielder George Case, nursing
heavy cold, and First Baseman
Mickey Vernon, who has been work.
ing in a Marcus Hook CPa) oil re-
finery, are the first members of the
second squad to appear here. The
Mats second squad, composed of in
fielders and outfielders, will start
toiling Monday.
Catcher Al Evans arrived yester-
day and worked out with the club
before signing his contract. It was
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Frosh on Varsity Teams
Backed by Kits, W.. !.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 27.-Jimmy
kits of Virginia today joined the
expanding ranks of coaches who
believe that freshmen should be de-
clared eligible for varsity athletics.
I'm schools that operate on r.
month basis in order to graduate
students in three years instead Of
the usual four, I am in favor of
permitting freshmen to compete on
varsity teams" he said.
Evening star., 1942-02-27

Coach Benny Bengough is show
ing 'em no mercy. He swatted
fungoes to Pitchers Jack Wilson and
Steve Sundra yesterday until they
begged him to quit. Benny makes
them chase fungoes across half of
Florida.
Evening star., 1942-02-27

here at Joe Strips Baseball School
that Evans gained his start, Presi-
dent Clark Griffith inheriting him
for $15c.
Evening star., 1942-02-27

Still no word from Holdout Dutch
Leonard or Shortstop Jimmy Pofahl,
who has been invited to come here
and talk things over with Griffith
at Pofahl's expense.
Evening star., 1942-02-27

Zinser, whose pitching motion
resembles Schoolboy Rowe's, is for
mer batting practice pitcher for the
Dodgers.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Louis to Train at Dix

FORT DIX, N. j., Feb. 27 R.-
Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis,
now Pvt. Joe Louis Barrow, will train
at Fort Dix for his title defense
against Abe Simon at New York
March n.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-07
Stays in the County, Though

The return of Raymond E. Baldwin to prominence in Republican state politics might seem to make him the most con- spicuous member of his party, but on the basis of what we read and heard dur ing the days preceding and those imme- diately after the election we'd say that MT. Baldwin'S claim has been seriously challenged Offhand we'd say that Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, the new congress woman from the Fourth District, had sole possession of the title of the outstanding figure in Republican ranks in Connecti- cut.
 Of course as time goes on and Mrs. Luce becomes engroSsed in the doings of busy congressional session it may well be that she will become a bit obscured by the tremendous national scene. That's if one can imagine Mrs. Luce being obscured by any scene of which she is part. On the other hand the stage across which Gov ernor-Elect Baldwin will stride is much smaller and his opportunities are greater for individual achievement
 But right now the honorS belong to the lady and the new governor certainly would be the first to grant them to her. As time passes, however, we can't help but feel that efforts to capture the public 4ancy via the front pages of the state press will be forthcoming from Hartford Fairfield County can be excused for its pleased appearance; with governor and 2 congresswoman anybody'd look pleased
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-07
Not a Bad Idea

The recommendation of a Republican Registrar in Hartford that voting hours for the duration be 8 a. m. to 8 D. m. merits passing consideration by the in- coming Legislature. We don't like to keep talking about this voting hour bus mess, but in view of all that went on before election and what actually occur red on election day we think that the 1943 General Assembly ought to do more than reaffirm what the special legislative session recently enacted.
 Regardless of the weather early morn ing voting, particularly between a. m. and a. m., is not heavy. And it is pretty definitely known by now that a 12vhour voting stretch is sufficient for most Con- necticut communities. So when you add up all these factors and analyze the vote of last Tuesday, you arrive at a conclu- sion that better arrangement of voting hours would answer all problems that present working conditions apparently produce. We hope the Hartford sugges- tion falls on fertile ground.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-07

result not of the outside world but of the inside, not of circumstances but of the attitude we take toward them, not of good fortune or of bad but of the moods by which we per- init ourselves to be held. There is probably larger percentage of un- happy people among the healthy and wealthy than among the sick and poor. There is a certain atti- tude of mind which would make one unhappy no matter where he lived or under what circumstances. There is another attitude which turns every cloudy day into one of pleasantness and even. wrings from the misfortunes of life tribute of understanding and power.
 Poor Thomas Hood, doomed to wage a losing fight against tubercu- losis, kept his generation in stitches with his humorous verses and the excruciatingly funny an- swers he wrote to imaginary corre- spondents. One hundred and twen- ty-five years ago this invalid with hacking cough originated the hu- morous column for newspapers. and in addition wrote poetry of surpass- ing bs suty and significance.
 An Rights Reserved Babson Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-07

The path of the Democratic voting ma chine through the Naugatuck Valley last Tuesday is rather easy to follow. How ever, the fact remains that the valley is still predominantly Democratic and de- spite sweeping COP victories most of the communities remained loyal to the Demo- cratic standard. Down in Derby, Ansonia, and Shelton, particularly the latter community, the Democrats won in con- vincing fashion, with only a casualty here and there. In Shelton, moreover, Mayor Ralph c. Booth was returned to office by a majority of over 600, which is quite contrast to the bare 95 votes by which he won in 1940. Naugatuck with local son in the congressional race dropped out ot the Democratic column. Waterbury and Torrington remained Democratic, al- though by greatly reduced majorities. Apparently the valley remains the Demo cratic hope, although the large cities of Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport must also be taken into consideration. Maybe there's solace in all this.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-07
For Sufficient Reasons

We hate taxes, but we aren't afraid of taxes. That i've" is not editorial. It represents, in our (editoriaD opinion, the consensus of the American people. If onerous taxes will help to win this war, and to avert imitation now, and to alle- Viate the pains of postwar rehabilitation, we, the American people, will pay just as long as there is anything with which to pay. The newest tax schedules are the heaviest in history in this country. They are so heavy that they hurt, already, and still they are not heavy enough.
 But our squawk is not against the i'm pact of heavier taxes. It is against their destructive heterogeneity and unscien- tific absence of coordination and CO., hesiveness. Just so, in preceding col umnS we have not been protesting against the drastic taxation of those persons fortu- nate enough to be in the big money; neither were we shedding crocodile tears about the imaginary sufferings of the more-than-$25, ,000-a-year earnerS.
 We protested about the manner in which Congress was defied and the courts straight-armed out of the picture. And now, reverting, we note one other import ant phase of Economic Director Byrnes' salary and wage limitation order: It is not primarily an anti-inflation measure. It is not primarily win-the-War meas ure. It is not at all revenue producing measure. It is, more than anything else, share-the- wealth project.
 Perhaps the United States is ready for sharing the wealth. Possibly in the midst of terrible war, when national unity is most vital, is the ideal time for inaugurating this social experiment that couldn't get foot inside the door until it donned the anti-inflation, help-win- the-war mask We do not believe so. We think redistribution of wealth is some thing that should be done, if at all, on its own merits, if any, and not in time of total war
 Imitation is not going to be cured by withdrawing the $180, 100000 year which this measure will cut off. The war is not going to be financed with that $180,000,- 900 = would not be even if this were tax measure, which it is not, rather than a social interdiction, which it is.
 All that will happen is that relatively few men and women will have to finance current expenses, in excess of $25,000 a year, out of investment returns or by liquidation of capital investments. Don't worry about the few wealthy people who will be affected. Worry, rather, about what is happening to the incentive sys- tenn which has made America great, to .he constitutional government which has made America free.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-07
 Press Comment
POPULATION CHANGES
(Hartford Times)

CHartford TimeS)
 In the two years since the census of 1940 was compiled Connecticut and Rhode Island have been the only New England States to show increases in civilian population, ac- cording to an estimate of the Bureau of the Census.
 Connecticut has gained 3.9 per cent, or 66,535 inhabitants. the Bureau says, passing its estimates mainly on the number of persons registering last May for sugar ra- tioning cards. New York lost sos, ,586, or 3.8 percent. Michigan gained 5.2 percent. Gains in California and Washington were offset by a loss in Oregon.
 The most striking increase has been in the District of Columbia. There a gain of 24.9 percent is re- vealed, while the adjacent states of Virginia and Maryland gained GA and 5.2 percent. respectively.
 Connecticut and Rhode Island have profited at the expense of other New England States. Locally 1t is apparent that our war produc- ton plants have drawn heavily on the populations of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Yer. mont. Possibly some of the half mil- lion persons who left New York