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Evening star., 1943-07-04
BY AL DOPKING,
SSociot ad preSs Cporfs Writ o


KANSAS CITY, July 3.-Uncle
Sans working up a baseball
game for the Berlin Sportspalast.
And it's no military secret that
Adolf won't be there to see it.
What Uncle Sam has in mind
is a game between his soldiers of
occupation, to keep things from
getting too dull for them around
Berlin once the Nazis are crushed.
The date hasn't been set yet,
but Uncle Sam is so sure that
games coming of that he already
has bought the equipment for it.
1t is part of the athletic para
phernalia the Quartermaster
Corps of the Army has 22-year-
old L. w. lie Feve, a recent Cor
nell University graduate, busy
buying for the day soldiers will
have a lot of time on their hands
while policing occupied countries.
They won't want to drill when
the fighting's DONE" says broad
shouldered. friendly lie Feve,
and it will be up to the Army to
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Coast lac Travel Ban
Praised by 0DT Head

BY the Associated Press
Transportation Director Joseph B.
Eastman has commended the Pacific
Coast intercollegiate Athletic Con-
ference for curtailing travel by foot
pall and other athletic teams and
said all colleges and schools should
make plans now to restrict travel Of
teams next season.
The Pacific Coast Conference re-
arranged football schedules and took
other steps to effect substantial saw
ings in travel.
The thorough-goinga action of the
Pacific Coast Conference presents
an example that hope will be emu
lated by other colleges and universi-
ties and secondary schools engaging
in athletic competition involving
travel" Eastman said.
Evening star., 1943-07-04

keep them from becoming too
restless
lie Feve is the Army's main
buyer of athletic equipment. In
the last year and a half he has
bought nearly SIS 100000 worth of
it for the Quartermaster Corps
and he has shipped it all over
the world.
While the Army has bought all
sorts Of equipment, ranging from
pocket checkerboards to under
water fish spears, 1t. LIE Feve
finds that baseball still heads
the list.
LIE Feve must be sharp stu
dent of values. That $15,000,0 900
Evening star., 1943-07-04

ington and Macy, and in the East
ern division, Eastern Branch. Mich
igan Park A. c., Manor Park and
Central Branch. All-Star teams all
ready selected are:
MIDGET AM-Stars
First base-M. Binns (Bluesl, T. Crow
ley tCh. CHI, r. Carter tHearstD
second base. Shaffer Il. H. S.. T.
Fielder tCh. CHI
shortstop-T. Callahan lHearst, Papa
fotis Central BrD.
,.1. L1.eftfield-Perry tch. CHI. Malarkey
1.cente nterheld-Kushner e. H. s.. Kline
cRightneld-Beach tGrayo. Hawkins
,Pitchers-collns- tBlues,. whitcomb
tHearsD. Sanford II. H 81.
Catchers-Gentie tBlues), Pantos (cen-
Peewee All stars.
SON PiTst TGed baIns17withers s. (wash, Flo Ander-
soas ssc9pd Fl Pase7Tanney s cHutehison', Gala
Third base-Manas Central BrJ, Masei
Trinity.
Short ortstop-Miller Eastern BIZ. Pol
hamus lCh CHI oMahoney Berwyn,.
r, LeftfieldEWacker rida tI-;, Wash. FD, Fitz-
. .CenterfieldLLawyer (Hutchison), Os-
Rightfield-Hines tGeo) Pome,to (Mer-
rick. :Stibers Il. H. s..
Fitchers-Schaffer Eastern Br), ONeill
Catchers-De Georei eastern Br.o. Mel
son Falls church,, Bowman Central Br J,
Lare Berwyn)
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Davis Again Gets Two
College AI|-America
Sprint Awards
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EVANSTON, ILL.,, July 3.-Hal
Davis. CALIFORNIA; great sprinter,
retains his two places on the all
America college track and field team,
the only one of last years double
event performers to do so on the
1943 team, announced today by the
National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
citation Track Rules Committee.
Davis rated a spot in the 100 and
220 yard dashes. while three other
athletes also were doubly honored
for the first time.
William Cummins of Rice, listed
in the l20-yard high hurdles in
1912, repeated there and also saw
his name added in the 220-low hur-
dies. Howard Debus of Nebraska
was cited in the discus and javelin
and Ralph Tate of Oklahoma Aggies
was listed in the high hurdles and
broad jump. Neither Debus nor
Tate were on last years honor roll
The all-America team included AZ
men from q schools, with the Big
Ten and Pacific Coast Conference
each having seven athletes honored
Here is the 1943 team
1Oo.yard dash--Hal DAVIS, California
Jack Trout; Southern California; James
220-yard dash Davis: California Har-
12O-yard high hurdes-William Cum
Minis, Rice; Ralph Tate. Oklahoma Aggies;
Douglas jacques, Texas.
?2O-yard low Notwithstanding. Rice
James Fieweser. Lawrence; Maurice Alex
- 44O-yard dash-chr Bourland, Southern
Fulton. Stanford.
, sso;ysSd rH9-Jo,eph Nowlski; Ee5d- sd
ban; ban R;Sess RG6ert ufer' Michigan; Ralph Poh
Mile run-Donald Burnham, Dartmouth
Fred Dixon, New York u; Ralph Dewey,
California.
Two-mile run-Jerry Thompson, Texas;
Ollie Hunter, Notre Dame; Clarence Dunn
Shotput-Elmer Aussieker Missouri;
Bernard Mayer, New York: James Delaney,
Discus-Howard Debus, Nebraska. For
tune Gordien' Minnesota; Richard Yantis
Javelin-George CAST. Iowa State:
Debus, Nebraska; John Henderson, Texas
AeeieS
Hammer throw-william Fisher, Har-
ward; Robert Dodge Maine; Duke Kent
High jump-Pete Watkins. Texas Aggies;
Fred Sheffield. Utah; Willard Fulton, Stan
ford
Pole vault-Richmond Marcum. New
Hampshire, Jack de Field, Minnesota Billy
Moore. Drake.
Broad Jump-Billy Christopher. Rice
Tete. Oklahoma Agsies; Dallas Dupre, Ohio
State.
Evening star., 1943-07-04

Army into the boxing business,
has been shipped off to St.
Johns. Quebec. to begin his basic
training and doesn't expect to do
any more punching until after
the war. Pvt. Adam Kmak, former
White Sox bat boy who is train
ing at Keesler Field. Miss. to be-
come an aerial gunner. says he
hopes to shoot for a pro baseball
career after the war.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Auburn Quits Football
Is 7th in Southeast
By the Associated Press

BY me ASSoC1dled PTeSS
AUBURN. Ala. July 3.-Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, long a foot
ball power of the deep South, absn-
doned intercollegiate athletics today
for the duration.
Withdrawal of the school-knoWn
ethletically as Auburn-from further
competition was announced by Pres
ident L. N. Duncan after a confer
ence Of the Faculty Committee on
Athletics.
Auburn thus became the list
southern college, and the seventh of
the 12-member Southeastern Con-
ference, to drop out of the football
picture since the start of the war.
Auburn. which always fielded a
powerful football team, last autumn
was the only one to defeat Georgia's S
Rose Bowl champions.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Anderson Will Seek
1,500-Meter Mark

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM. July 3-Arne An
dersson, who lowered the world rec
ord for a mile to 4:026 Thursday
announced today he would attempt
to break another of Gunder Haegg
international marks July 8 when
he run 500 meters.
Haegg, now in the United States
established the l.500-meter mark OF
3:45.8 last summer during a cam
paign that saw him hang up seven
new world records. Anderson. who
consistently trailed his fellow coun-
tryman, has run $500 meters in
3:48.6.
Anderson also said he may &c
after Haegg's 3000-meter, 5000
meter and tWo-mile marks this fall
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Penn Is Pin Mecca Today,
Staqinq Three Affairs

With the regular weekly Red Cross
handicap scheduled at Hi-Skor to-
day postponed. Penn Recreation will
be the mecca this afternoon and
tonight for Capital bowlers seeking
special competition. Manager julius
Himmelfarb will stage a handicap
starting at o'clock. a mixed dou-
bles at with the Madge Lewis Al
Wright combination meeting Frances
Wilson and Perce Wolfe and at
the Bratburd Pigettes will engage
a Penn male team.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Decath|on al Georgetown
PIayqround Tomorrow

A decathlon competition opens at
Georgetown Playground at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning with the events
likely to last a week. Entries will
be accepted until starting time.
Thirty contestants already have
signed and will be divided into six
classes.
Events are 5O-yard dash, 20-yard
swim cor running broad Jump If
not a swimmer. baseball distance
throw. football passing for distance
basket ball shots. Jump and reach.
standing broad Jump, push ups,
chinning and shotput.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Navy Gridders Picked
To Sink Co||egians
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
College elevens that sail out next
Fall against the Navy's service clubs
will be sunk pronto, says Coach
Dewey Luster of Oklahoma,
To be sure. college footballers held
up fairly we'll last year against the
sailors. despite such gridiron dread
naughts as the Seahawks of Iowa
and the Cloud Busters of North
Carolina.
But the service clubs are going
to be stronger this year" the little
coach sighed. They'll have most of
the college boys and pros"
And all that college teams have
left to meet such opposition-taking
Oklahoma as an example-are IT,
year-olds and AIS in the draft.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Awards Galore Total
$500 for Record
Unique in Game
By ROD THOMAS.
alling all bowlers!

Calling all boWlers!
Hear ye: 1t may be difficult NOT
to win a prize in Silver Spring.
great War bond bowling tourna-
ment. to run from July 18 through
July 81, deadline by which the hus-
tling Maryland hamlet must raise
100000 in bonds or fail in its effort
to buy Flying Fortress.
Latest communique from the
maple front reveals a prize list to-
falling in excess of $500, bond ma
turity value, and this, according to
Arville Ebersole, executive secretary
of the National Duckpin Bowling
Congress, in an official statement
last night, is the largest prize fund
in the history of bowling for a tour
nament with no entry fee. To shoot
in the Silver Spring event you buy
a bond.
There isn't even an alley fee, for
Hugh w. Arbaugh, president of the
Metropolitan Washington Bowling
Alley Operators Association, is do
mating his popular Silver Spring
plant to the cause. plus paying the
pin boys, quite an item.
Everybody Is Altruistic.
Nobody makes a dime out of this
one. and Silver Spring is goggle-
eyed with civic spirit over its ven-
ture 1t needs 100000 to buy the
Fortress; is shooting at half mil
lion. The betting is that it wins.
Bowlers throughout the Metro
politan Area are invited to fire for
prizes donated in the main by. Silver
Spring businessmen, and goOdly
percentage of those who enter are
bound to win something worth while.
For instance. the main part of the
mems prize list starts with a 5000
bond. Second is one of Sl00; third,
$75: fifth and sixth, $50 each: then
four $25s. and from there down
for a total of 81 prizes they grad
ually slide to a low of ST.
In the womenS division the list
opens with $l00, with a $l00 dla-
mond ring for second place, $75 for
third. $50 for fifth, then couple
of S25's, trailed by nearly 40 other
awards, including, at the bottom,
five hats priced at $50 apiece.
And Still They Come.
But that isn't all The principal
competition will be with full handi-
caps, based on scratch of 1913 for
men and 118 for women, ut to
lure the expert who argues What
chance have I against those heavy
handicaps?" there are number of
scratch awards. High scratch games
for men and women will be worth
SlOO, $50 and S25. in order. and the
same scale prevails for big sets.
Still more. there will be special
prizes for the oldest and youngest
contestants. for the radio announcer
or sports writer with top count in
this group, for high score each day,
for the best rolled before 6 pm.
each day A S25 bond. subscribed
by the Silver Spring police, will 60
to the high scorer among residents
In their jurisdiction. Rewarded
will be the entrant travelling
the greatest distance to the tourna-
ment without use of an auto, and so
on. and all the spoils will be worth
while. Somebody even kicked in
with a S25 evergreen tree for a
special, and, although the drive for
prizes is over, they're still trickllng
in.
No foolin', it may be tough to miss
a prize in this delightfully."- screwy
maple party.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Sea Scouts Off for 2-Week
Cruise Down Potomac

Freddy Tips Sea Scouts have left
Corinthian Yacht Club for a two
week cruise on their famed cat
boats. Bobcat and Wildcat, down
the Potomac. Each boat has crew
of five, with Joe Tryon skipper of
Bobcat and Tom Harton skipper of
Wildcat.
They have no worries of gasoline.
depending on the wind and their
own strong backs when the breeze
fails.
During the two weeks, the scouts
will visit historic landings along
the way as we'll as acquire new
arts in seamanship.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Sailors to Fete Leading NRAB
Nine, Disbonded by War Calls

sented by Comdr. D. B. Overf1eld
commanding officer of the Anacostia
Naval Reserve Aviation Base.
The team was coached by 1t. V. c.
Holochwost, who also had time to
pitch four winning games. The
other eight pitching victories were
credited to Jack Lyons, a Washing
ton boy who used to hurl for Pet
worth A. c.
AS for good hitters. NRAB had
them in droves. Here're the aver
ages of the top six men: Ardrus,
centerfeld, .738: Buschling. first
base, AGO. Sole, rightfield. 407 Hof-
berg, second base, 1888; Radios, short
stop, .375; Homan, third base, 1926.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
By MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.


With a two-week breather, Wash
ington sailors will start all over
again next Sunday, when the Po-
tomac River Sailing Association S
summer series gets under way of
Hains Point.
Races will be held each Sunday
through August % The PRSA
spring series ended June 80 after
one of the largest fleets ever to
compete in a spring series partici-
pated. An average of better than
80 boats raced, and officials were
looking for this to be increased
during the coming series
Halfway through the summer
races-on August Ia novelty race
of some sort will be held. Accord
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Touchdown Baseball Day
Group Meets Tuesduy

A dinner meeting of the Touch
down Clubs Baseball Day Commit
tee will be held Tuesday at o'clock
to round out final details of the
benefit game scheduled on the night
of July %.
Tentative plans for the game call
for a combined team of Washing
ton and Chicago players to meet
the Norfolk Naval Training Sta
ton lime. This is to be followed
by the regularly scheduled tilt be-
tween the Mats and White Sox.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Army Looking to Big Baseball Game in Berlin

allows only 81 year for each
soldier.
Billy Southworth, manager of
the world champion st. Louis
Cardinals, dropped in the other
day to take a look. He picked
up a catcher's mitt and began
pounding it in the pocket, sand
lot fashion.
That" said Billy with the air
Of an expert, "is good mitt. We
pay about $13 wholesale for 1t"
lie Feve smiled.
The Army had paid $3.75.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
BY HUGH FULLERTON. Jr..
Ae.ac;.t,d praes sDorts UriIer


NEW YORK, July 3.-George
Strickler, the National Football
League drumbeater, reports that
during the recent meeting at Chi
cago a gent who frequently had
put the touch on Buffalo's Char
ley Murray for meal money
turned up for the first time in
two years. He had heard the
league had awarded Murray the
Buffalo franchise and he wanted
to bargain for a piece of it. He
had $4,000 in his pocket and
the unconscious body of Murray
on his hands," says George, land
when Murray recovered from the
Evening star., 1943-07-04
StonewoII Club Is Easy
For Navy Truckmen

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, July 3.-Navy's
track squad opened the academy's
summer sports season by swampinp
the Stonewall Democratic Club OF
Baltimore 1924 to 34ls.
Jim Wisner Of Stonewall. who
placed second in the national
steeplechase run last week, topped
the l and 2 mile events to tie in
points with Navy's Hal Boswell
winner of the century and 220-yard
daSheS.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Shouehnessy Is Athlete
Like His Coaching Dad

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 3-Clark Shaugh-
messy, jr., a Chicago sports writer
and son of the University of Pitts
burgh football coach, is an athlete,
too.
He won yesterdays javelin event
in the Central Amateur Athletic
Union track meet with a toss of 1873
feet q. inches.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
TuIso Has Four Games,
Same TotoI of Gridmen
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, July 3-Tulsa
1912 Missouri Valley Conference
grid champion, has four games-and
four players-left for the 1943 cam
paign.
Coach Henry Frnka released that
estimate of the football fortunes of
the Golden Hurricane after receiv-
ing formal notice from Washington
University of st. Louis that the
Bears were dropping football for the
duration.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
PIC Mines Schedule Six
Loop Games This Week

Six games are scheduled this week
in the Police Boys Club Baseball
League two each in the midget,
junior and senior classes. The pro-
gram:
Midg gets-Today, II am. No vs.
Merrick, Fairlawn: No. 10 VS.. No. II.
Monument Lot.
Junior-Saturday, II m, No : VS..
NO: 10. Monument Lot; No. IL VS.. Merrick,
Fairlawn.
Senlors-Thursday. $40 pm. No. 5 VS.
No. 10. Monument Lot No. IL VS.. Merrick,
Eai
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Only Gridders Needed
For North-South Tilt

BY the Associated Press.
Montgomery (Ala) reports that
the annual North-South all-Star
football game definitely will be
played in Cramton Bowl next
Christmas Day, as usual.
The intriguing question, left un-
answered, is: With what?
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Champion Kentuckions
Nav Not Have Quint

BY the Associated Press.
Kentucky, basket ball champion
of the Southeastern Conference,
NAV have sent its last team on the
court for the duration.
Only in the event the Army de-
cides to Jet the Wildcast use some
of the soldier r-trainees Is team
held possible.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Reminds Soldiers to Fish

Fort Wood (Mo) News sees that
soldiers there have their morale kept
high. 1t reminds them: The Gas
conade River, only couple of miles
north and west of the fort, is con-
sidered one of Missouris best fish,
ing streams"
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Chesapeake Yochtsmen
Cancel Rendezvous

Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing As
sociation announces cancellation of
it's annual rendezvous, which was
scheduled for July 10 at Annapolis
in conjunction with the Annapolis
Yacht Club regatta. The latter
event was cancelled last week.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
VoyIes Taking No Chances

Carl VoyleS, William and Mary
coach, appears ready to try any
thing to keep football going except
to play scholastic teams He re-
members one Virginia college, which
still is trying to live down a licking
by a prep outfit in the last war.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Air Cadets Like Angling

Fishing is so popular with naval
air cadets at Banana River, Fla,
that the flyers station paper carries
lively Anglers Column" written
BY Paul Gonzales.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Anocostiu Nine Is Victor

Anacostia baseball team defeated
Magruder Park nine, 5-4. Charles
Keiesgen. first baseman. took batting
honors with single. double and
a homer with two mates aboard.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
WAACS Get Dudley Aide

CHICAGO, July 3 (P).-Geraldine
Meyer. known to golfers throughout
the country as secretary to Ed Dud-
ley. president of the PGA, joined
the WAACS TODAY.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
TobIe Tennis Is Popular

Table tennis is one of the most
popular sports at Army and Navy
stations,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
FIRST DIMOUT


Tonight's alert will be the first
in which the dimout. or standby
signal, at the beginning and end
/ of the test. Will be used During
this period, referred 10 as the
blue $4,000 air raid wardens
will be modified and sent 10 their
posts throughout the district They
Will see that lights in all buildings
and houses are BACKED out.
The blue" alarm will he the
signal for the beginning of the
blackout. Street lights will he
dimmed and all other lights ex-
tinguished. Pedestrians may re-
main on the streets and traffic
Will continue; automobiles and
trucks with dimmed lights, and
not exceeding a speed Of 20 miles
an hour.
When the red signal comes.
pedestrians must seek shelter
traffic must pull 10 the curb and
extinguish all lights. and occu-
pants must remain quiet.
During the blackout. Mayor
/ JeffrieS. chairman of the NUM-
/ Cipals defense council. will fly over
the city in CAP plane, piloted
by Louis Huck.
| Other planes bearing civilian de-
tense officials will fly over a terri
/ tory 80 10 so miles from the city
10 observe the sky glow during
/ the test.
/ McLaurv and Earl J. Hudson
warden Of Area q. will watch
the blackout from atop the Pen.
obScot Building and army officers
will be stationed at other points
OTHER OBSERVERS
Col A. NJ. Krech. district com.
mander Of Headquarters District
No !, Sixth Service Command
will be on the General Motors
Building; 1t Col. c. T. Quinn. or
the Penobscot Building; Mai. Aller
Clark, Bell Telephone Building
Oakman and Tewlfth; Capt. T. r
Ryan. Detroit control center
Capt r. f. Brennan. metropolitan
district control center. and Capt
Selden Smith. at the WaynC
County control center in WAYNE
/ NCLaury announced that hos
pitfalls would be permitted 10 use
lights during the blue" perioc
hut would have 10 eXtinguiSh Their
during the RED. The same ap.
plies 10 box offices of theatcrs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Calls ConstdbIes
Syndicate in
Answer 10 Suit

A picture of county conStables
lurking in the first floor corridors
Of the county building and caus-
ing confusion as they Swoop down
on prospective customers leaving
the rooms Of the circuit court
commissioners was painted today
by Samuel Bremen, assistant
prosecutor.
Answering a suit filed by seven
.constabes who complained that
the commissioners were "infring-
ing on their business" Bremen
also accused them of impeFsonat-
ing court employees in order TO
solicit business from unsuspecting
.litigants.
Previously a temporary injunc-
Ition was issued restraining the
circuit court commissioners from
-effeettng a plan which would ro-
tate the serving Of papers equally
among all the officers.
Today. Bremen also accused the
constables of operating a syndi-
cate for the mutual benefit of the
seven.
When there was an unusual rush
of business, Bremen charged, one
or more of the seven guarded the
Railways and solicited business
while the others served papers.
These men have been lOiter-
ing in the Railways" BreZner's
answer stated, with their hats
and coats removed. As a result
OF impersonating court employees,
they are able to prevail upon
the public to commence I'M
founded actions so they might
profit financially"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Barron S Story
Basis Of Plea
DO Dismiss Case

With a defense motion for dis
missal under consideration, S.
Brooks Barron will take the stand
for the sixth time today in the
Herman Gardens conspiracy trial
before Recorders Judge Skillman.
The motion for dismissal of the
case came yesterday from defense
attorneys Walter Nelson and Hal
Smith on the grounds that grand
jury testimony involved in ques-
tioning of Barron had been
Illegally procured"
Barron. an attorney accused OF
bribery in the award of the prof.
ect contract. has been questioned
repeatedly during past weeks on
hi allegations that testimony OBJ
tanned from him by the grand
jury had been secured under
duress."
Barron has reiterated his asser-
tinn that testimony lac gave ia the
presence OF former prosecutor
Paul w. VOORHEES, was given vol
unfairly and without induce
ment.'