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rotary vacant, but 1t is presumed
that it win be filled by Dick O'Brien
sports writer, who was appointed
acting secretary in 1910.
The new chairman, who resides at
AIT Brandywine street NV, held
the interservice bantamweight cham
pionship and also the featherweight
and lightweight titles of the Far
East while on duty with the Pacific
Fleet more than three decades ago.
Later he trained and managed serv-
ice fighters, served as referee in pro-
fessional, collegiate and amateur
bouts and promoted shows.
Col. Miller has written numerous
articles on boxing for several ma
tional magazines and at one time
was sports editor of the Washington
Herald. He founded and served as
managing editor of the Coast Guard
Magazine and wrote for other serv-
ice publications.
Col. Miller is a veteran of both
World Wars and prior to that had
served in Cuba, China, the Philip
pines, Nicaragua and Mexico. He
first entered service in 1906 and has
a combined total of IS years of duty
Born in Milwaukee 81 years ago, he
has resided in Washington since
1921,
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FIam, MouIedous Top
Juvenile Racketers

B, the Associated Press.
Il NEW YORK, Dec, 20.-Herb
Flam, Beverly Hills, Calf, has been
ranked first among the Junior tennis
players Of the Nation for 1945.
Richard Mouledous, New Orleans,
La, topped the list in the boys di-
vision and Shirley Fry, Akron, Ohio,
headed the girls group.
Other leaders: ~
Juniors-Bernsrd Bartzen, San Angelo,
Tex: Herbert Behrens, Fort Lauderdale,
Fla; Richard Savitt, Bayonne, N. j.. Sid
Boys-George Gentry, La Jolla, Calf.
Tony Trabert, Cincinnati Ohio: Jack Tur-
pin, Dallas: Tex; Keston Diemlins. jr.,
Girls-Jean Doyle, San Diego, Calf;
Nancy Chsnee. Ventura, Calf; Margaret
Warner. 81 Paso, Tex; Sylvia Knowles,
PHILADELPHIA
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ZeIIer Retires;

DETROIT, Dec. 21-Jack Zeller,
a baseball figure for AZ years, yes
terday babe farewell to the serious
end of the game and took with him
gold watch to remember the old
days.
Owner w. o. Briggs and employees
of the Detroit Tigers, club he
served seven years as general man
ager, Clipped in to buy the watch
Zeller is going to retire to Fort
Worth.
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Ex-Tigers Help Bulls
To Rout Wilson Five

Three former Wilson High cagers
were in the lineup of the Bulls
School quintet that blasted Wilson,
1917, yesterday on the Green Tigers
hardwood. Bill Tanney, Stu Brown
and Josh Dorsey played big part
in defeating their old school, with
Tanney and Brown chipping in six
points each and Dorsey playing a
bangup game on defense.
High scorer for the Silver Spring
school, however, was Jack Dona-
hue, ex-AH-State player from New
York, who ran up 10 points, while
Arnold Ferrin, highly touted ALI
America from the University of
Utah, played but a few minutes to
score six points.
Bulls took at Alt lead at the half
way mark and was never threat
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Films Show Army
Indiunu' S Superior

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Army,
%, Indiana, 0. That about rep
resents the consensus of a large
group of football writers who at
tended the coach of the year
dinner for 30 McMillin at Bear
Mountain the other night, where
they were shown movies of the
Army-Navy and Indiana-Minne-
sofa games.
Some thought the Cadets might
have run up an even higher
score against the Big Ten
champs, but most of them settled
for four touchdowns.
Army's blocking, as revealed
on the screen, was vastly superior
to that of McMillin'S bows.
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Chisox, Cubs Will Stick
To War Stortinq Time

CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Tne wartime
arrangement of early matinees for
major league games in Chicago will
be adhered to in peacetime, too.
Ofiicials of the Cubs and White
Sox said they have decided to start
all games next season at 1880 pm,
because of the success Of last years
test. They said the fans appeared
to favor the earlier opening over
the former 8 pm. starting time.
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Alexander Has Record 81
To Pace Philippine Golf

MANILA, Dec. 21.-Stewart (Skip)
Alexander of Durham, N. c., 1941
national amateur medalist, led the
Philippine Army Olympic golf tour
nament at the halfway point today
with a par-shattering 81, which
set a tournament record for the
billy Baguio course.
Johnny Harden, Ell Paso, Tex, was
second with SO and Joel Klar, Fort
Worth, Tex, third with 81.
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Hot Bouts Reached
In Golden Gloves

Third round of the Golden
Gloves amateur boxing show be-
gins at $3.50 tonight in Turner's
Arena with IA bouts-six senior
and eight novice-on the sched-
ule.
Top performances of the eve
ming are expected in the 1856
pound senior division, where Gilly
Smithson of Apollo A. G. meets
Sailor Eddie Moran of Bainbridge
and Boyd Sondheimer, D. c, AAU
champ Of Pete's AC, faces George
Fuller of MerTick, last years 118-
pound novice class winner.
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Annual Come Is Planned
For Gutor Grid Bowl

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 2l.-
A permanent organization to put on
an annual New Year Day football
game here has been formed.
w. E. Arnold, Southern grid off,
cial for many years, was elected
president.
The New Year game here between
Wake Forest and South Carolina
has been labeled the Gator Bowl.
However, it was said that neces-
sarily won't be the name for the per-
manent organization.
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Golf Pro Files Frisco Open
Entry From Heidelberg
Ey the Associated sress.

~ the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.-The
San Francisco Open golf tournament,
to be held January 1913, with s15,-
600 in Victory Bonds going to the
contestants, received an entry today
from Heidelberg, Germany.
S/Sgt. Rod Munday of the $500
Infantry Regiment, former profess
sional at White Plains, N. Y, wrote
that he was on his way home and
he had a pretty good chance of
making the tournament, 80 I hope
you will accept my entry from this
letter as may arrive only a day
or two before the tournament or
maybe just in time for the tee-off. "
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WI. Beats Front RoyoI
To Make 1t Six in Row

FRONT ROYAL, Va, Dec. 21.-
Washington-Lee's basket ball team
made it six in a row as it defeated
Front Royal High School yesterday,
1928.
George Binstead, Perry Currin and
Dave CARRIER with Is, IL and 10
points, respectively, engineered the
Little Generals march and were re-
sponsible for the Arlingtonians' 22-9
l, Ii
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Maryland Five, Victim
OF Marshall, Faces
.Quantico Tonight

Maryland's basket ball team viii
strive to make 1t two wins in three
starts against the Quantico Marines
tonight following a 50-43 setback at
the hands Of Marshall College last
night. The Terps opened their CAM
paign Tuesday by routing Marine
Corps Institute, 61-46.
The Old Liners passing and team
work may have to be better tonight
than 1t was against Marshall II they
are to lick the Devil Dogs. They
were ragged in these two phases,
faults along these lines enabling
Marshall to end the first half trail
ing only 1924 after the Terps once
had held 10-point lead. It was
nip-and-tuck for most of the second
half but Marshall got hot in the last
five minutes to gain the verdict.
Andy Tonkovich was a thorn in
Maryland's side all evening and his
20 points, far above all others, really
decided the issue.
It was Marshall's seventh win in
nine games and as a natural result
Of its siege Of contests, the general
play was more advanced
than Maryland's and this told the
tale.
The Quantico tossers have won
only 6 of IL games but have been
strengthened materially by the ad-
dition of five capable newcomers.
Bill (Moose) Vandenburgh, 6-foot-
4-inch former U. of Washington
tosser who has scored 152 points in
the II games, is the ace of the out
fit. Another outstanding basketer
on a tall and husky quint is Ted
Wright who used to play for Rhode
Island State, and 1t. Del Maddox,
player-coach, performed two years
for Colorado College. He's a fine
leader and ball handler. Maddox
prefers to run the team from the
bench but has played in most of the
contests.
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Totals ~ z 43 Totals - 6 517
N. |. Troupe Splits Even
lin Two Huwuii Games
,y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, Dec. 21.AThe USO-
National League baseball troupe de-
feated the Mid-Pacific Army Olym-
pic squad, los last night before
1900 fans at Schofield Barracks.
The touring stars lost, 7-3, to the
Pearl Harbor Navy All-Stars
Wednesday night.
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Coaches Pick AII-Stors
From College Ranks

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Yank mag
azine polled Is of the country's most
widely known football coaches and
came up with the following all-star
college team:
Ends--Richard Duden, Navy, and MAJ
Morris Northwestern.
TackIes-Tom Dean. Southern Meth
odist, and Albert Nemetz, Army.
Guards---Jack Green Army, and John
Center-Vaughan Mancha, Alabama.
Backs-Pete Pihos, Indiana; Jake Leicht,
oregon; Glenn Davis, Army, and Felix
Blanchard, Army
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Fort Myer Wins Uphill

Norm Daniels and Bus Levick led
the Fort Myer basket ball team in
its second-half drive that saw the
Soldiers come from behind to defeat
Naval Air Station, 1881, in a Metro
Military League game at Anacostia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21

IN 1916.
National League club owners are too smart to
laugh Oft the fact that many of their players will
switch to the Al-American Conference although
the National League has a rule which bars player
for five years in the event he jumps the circuit.
"But that won't stop some of the players"
admitted George Marshall the other day in Cleve-
land. following the Rams Redskins title game
"Take veteran who's not quite a star-or let's
say he even is starand put yourself in his place.
He's got year or two more years to play football,
and he knows it. =
Lets say he's playing for the Redskins A
fellow from the other league offers him good deal
more money than we pay him, because he isn't
worth that much to us. Why, that player would
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HyottsviIle Busketers
Win Seventh STRAIGHT

Hyattsville High School piled up
1874 victory over Maryland Park
last night on the latter's floor for
its seventh consecutive triumph.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21

Ten years ago-Jock McAvoy
knocked out Babe Risko, world
middleweight champion, in first
round of nontitle scrap.
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be to refuse He's only
the Conference folds he'll still the biggest
salary he
won't affect him at all because he that
old to play football
?is decision tougher younger players
gamble them,
from league during the their
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Conference People Find Going Eosy-so Far

AS matter of fact most neutral observers feel little
chance of the Amcan Conference failing Arch Ward the
the shewdest
has lined hackers with plenty money while
ceivab that Buffalo and Miami money that
necessarily fatal a league
National Leaguers constantly harp Buffalo and Miami
being weak cities Buffalo because small evidenced
pro football population transient
Pittsburgh Philadelphia the
Pittsburgh still do-bu the
league remains solvent
AAmercan Conference people finding comparatively
simple rival business The could not be in base
shortage of big talent football bounds with
suitable the National had talent
available than could though college stars Stunned
pro ball because salaries low particularly lnemen
There enough college players well established to
with bidding against each other salaries
will reluctant will at the bait
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Vet Detroit Shortstop Dies

GLOUCESTER, N. j., Dec. 81 tP
John Dinsmore, who played short
stop with Detroit in the old Ma
tional League in 1880. died yester-
day. He was 81.
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Nelson Shades Blanchard.

ANCAoUAA oAA6ACS 4SA&AACAaAus
Nelson became the second man In
the polls 15-year history to win the
honor twice. Don Bulge, former
tennis champ, was named in 1887
and 1898.
Second place was awarded Doc
Blanchard, Army's All-America full
back, who polled 80 first-place votes
to Nelson's SO. On the basis of three
points for first-place vote. two for
second and one for third, Nelson
scored 161 points to Blanchards $50.
It was strictly a two-man affair.
Hal Newhouser, pitching hero Of the
World Champion Detroit Tigers,
who won Is games and was named
the American Leagues most valu-
able player, received seven first
place votes and finished third with
70 points. Blanchard's teammate,
Glenn Davis, polled two No. / votes
and a total of 10 points for fourth,
while Phil Cavarretta, Chicago Cubs
first sacker and the National
Leagues most valuable player, won
a single No. vote and IA points for
fifth.
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Griffith Got No Thinks for His Wartime Work

Clark Griffith who has been president the
League for 10 these isn't longer The succession
Connie Mack Grlth longhed pubczed
extent during the joint meeting leagues
according eye witness the clipped
good. And nobody called the
Seems happened out OF clear sky clubowner
with baseball background alleged to nominated
of G best friends to the surprise nearly except
Eastern who has habit of stirring trouble
who seconded the notion stunned Grh
Prestige only involved Grif for held the position
which virtually meaningless and packs authority Oentmes
though enaed extra work. which Gf did gladly the
creest blow of all that dumping the Old Fox
the American cubownes had the
thanks the who kept baseball alive and running during
wars! All he got the backs of several necks.
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.ertz to Reioin TIGERS

Totals % 0 90 Totals Is 90
Score at haIf-W.- Il, 20; front Royal,
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Win, Lose or Draw
BY FRANCIS E. STANk
New Grid League Conducting Successful Foroys

As you must know by the between professional
football leagues in earnest In their initial forays into the
National talent
people have done well 1t safe will be
respects the !. I
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Totals 90 242 Totals IA 80
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Mermaid Curtis Runs
Second 10 Golf Ace;
Nelson Leads Men
By JACK HAND,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2l.--Mildred
tBabe) Didrickson Zaharias, who has
been winning assorted champion
ships for the last IS years, today was
named the outstanding woman ath-
lete of 1945 by an Associated Press
poll Of TO sports editors.
Mrs. zaharias dethroned the 1914
champion, Ann Curtis of San Fran
cisco. to reign beside Byron Nelson
the native Texan, who was elected
male athlete Of the year for the
second straight time. Mrs. Zaharias
had 1875 poinss TO 104 for Miss Curtis
Although Mrs. Zaharias first won
fame as a track star and later com.
peted in most sports as an amateur
and professional. she now concen-
trates on golf. 1t was in that field
that she was outstanding during
the As campaign.
Wins Three Western Opens.
In addition to defeating Betty
Jameson in a 72-hole challenge
match at Los Angeles and San An
tonic, Mrs. Zaharias became the first
woman to capture three Western
Open golf titles. Although she was
upset by Phyllis Otto in the West
ern Amateur, she bounced back to
cop the Texas Open.
Miss Curtis swept the field at the
National AAU swimming champion
ships in Chicago and Los Angeles,
but the 19-year-old beauty was de-
feated by Brenda Helser in the
Western AAU championships at San
Francisco when the Portland, Oreg.,
ace established new American rec
ords in the 100-meter, 100-yard and
free style events.
Sarah Palfrey Cooke, who re-
turned to. tennis competition and
wrested the national singles title
from Pauline Betz at Forest Hills,
was third with 10 points.
Brenda Helser Weak Fourth.
In fourth place, completely out
distanced by the top trio, came
Brenda Helser with Is points, fol-
lowed by Patty Berg and Pauline
Betz, tied for fifth place at IA points.
The leading woman athletes on
the basis of three points for a first
place vote, two for second and one
for third first place votes in pa
renthesis).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21

1HE Sophistocrat" Is still the
cigar of good taste in looks rs well
~ delicious taste In smoking. Like
before the war. the Panatela deluxe
10 today the correct cigar for young
men and men with young ideas.
Unchanged is Its trina shapeliness
and pre-war ultra-mildness - and
ito 1895 choice ALI Havana filler.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASS0Clkte0 FIeSB.
.ANKARA, July ~ Delayed --"I
will be in Japan before YOU
with this message to his imme-
diate superior, the interned Japa-
nese minister killed himself Wednes-
day after mortally wounding his
wife.
Details which have become avail
able indicate that the minister, Shin
lei Shiba, so, arose at 5 am. and
fired two shots at his sleeping wife.
Miyako. One bullet passed through
her body and the other lodged near
her heart. Shiba then fired . shot
from the heavy-caliber German pis-
tol through his mouth. He died
instantly and his wife died six hours
later in an Ankara hospital.
He left the message In a note ad-
dressed to the interned Japanese
Ambassador, Sho Kurihara. He also
left will bequeathing his property
to his three sons in Japan "proyid-
ing they are still alive" Two OF his
sons In the Japanese Army are be-
lieved dead, and third son recently
entered the Japanese forces.
Formerly the Japanese minister
to Lisbon, Shiba was recalled to
Japan, arriving in Turkey In the
summer of 1914. He was refused q
transit visa by the Russian govern
ment and became the second rank
ing japanese envoy here. He was
among those interned when Turkey
broke diplomatic relations with
Japan In January. 1945. Chinese
Evening star., 1945-07-29
Eliot Depicts Plight Of Jops,
BY Comparison With u. S. Map

Now begins the test, while the
long range bombing continues, a
huge enemy feet appears off our
coast. 1t attacks Brooklyn and
Long Island City with carrier
based aircraft. striking especially
at airfields and industrial centers.
Then it moves north and hits at
Boston.
All Resistance Gone.
Suddenly strong force OF enemy
battleships moves in close to shore
and wipes out the city of New Bed
ford. Another group OF enemy bat
tleships blasts Portland. Me-, from
the map. The carrier-based planes
go back and mop up what is left
of the airf1elds and military install
lations around New York. A group
of enemy cruisers and destroyers
lombard the defenses of Sandy
Hook at close range.
During all these operations, there
is no counteraction of any kind by
our air and naval forces. What is
left of our Navy Is hiding in Ches-
apeake Bay, and does not move
from its anchorage. Our air force
is not in evidence. No one knows
what has become of our planes,
or even whether we have any left.
Then. suddenly, we hear that the
enemy carrier-based planes have
struck our naval vessels at their
hidden refuge, have damaged
everyone of them, despite some
sporadic resistance from our air.
craft.
All this time, the enemy heavy
bombers keep coming over; and all
this time the enemy keeps broad
casting to us, telling us that We are
beaten, that we must surrender or
face utter destruction. Many of
us would like to find place of
safety for our families, but there
is no place to go out of reach Of the
enemy planes. And there is no
way to strike back at them. No way
to reach the bases from which they
come. We can only wait helplessly.
and hope that we will not be in the
next target area that their pitiless
strategists select for attack. Our
own radio keeps feeding us a lot
of fiap-doodle about resistance to
the bitter end" We say: With
what?"
Shower Of Leaflets.
Then comes a sudden shower of
leaflets-millions of leaflets-which
inform lis lust where those target
Evening star., 1945-07-29

areas will be. We are told that dur
ing the next few days, at least
4 cities out of IL that are named in
the leafiet will be wiped out by fire
and high explosive. BY the end OF
that day. there is not a single in
habitant and Manchester, N. H.;
Albany, Worcester, Trenton, Water
bury, Harrisburg, Richmond, Savan-
lah, Winston Salem, Columbia, S.
c., and Wilmington. Del. who does
not know that his city is on the list,
that his city, his home, his family Is
marked for early destruction.
Can you imagine what would hap
pen in the cities thus calmly selected
for devastation? Remember, there
is no hope of effective resistance.
There is no defense. There is no
place to hide. There is a chance OF
life only in fiight-to some other
place which later on may be in
receipt of similar death notice.
And can you imagine the effect on
the people of this country as the air
force coolly proceeds to carry out It's
announced program-as the cities
named are stricken by fire-bomb and
explosive, one after the other, and
left flaming ruin?
Churchill Prophetic.
That is what the Japanese people
are up against That is what they
face now, today. They may we'll
ask of the leaders who have brought
Them to this sorry pass, how are
you going to protect us? How are
you, the Lords Of the Imperial Army
and Navy, going to save us from
this fate?" But the only answer
they are likely to get will come from
the drone of high-fiying B-29s from
Saipan and Okinawa, the whistle of
falling bombs. the roar of explosions,
the crackle of flames and the shrieks
of their fleeing neighbors.
Winston Churchill has. among
other great qualities. that of highly
developed Imagination. Perhaps it
was because he can imagine what is
happening in Japan that he was able
to say, as he laid down the burdens
of his office, that it may be that
he japanese war will end earlier
than we have hitherto been entitled
to expect"
tCopyriEht. Ia45, New York Tribune, Inc,
Evening star., 1945-07-29
BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

The successive series of challenges
which have been offered to the
War Lords of Japan during the
past two weeks are almost without
precedent in military history. Taken
together, they add up to a warsa-
ing of utter disaster to the Japa-
nese leaders and to the japanese
people as WELL if resistance Is con-
tinued.
1t is very hard for us to under
stand, here in the complete safety
of the North American continent,
just what the effect OF these events
must be upon the Japanese mind.
We can, perhaps. form some faint
idea by trying little Imagination
Let us suppose the United States
consisted just of the territory be-
tween the Atlantic Ocean and the
Allegheny Mountains: the 13 orig
inal States, without their western
territorial areas. That would be an
area more than twice as large as
the islands of Japan proper, so the
comparison is more than fair. Be-
yond the western edge of this
territory lies not the mountains,
we will say, but the Pacific Ocean.
In our imaginary exercise, the area
we are considering Is an island, or a
group of islands, If you like.
Defeat Applied to United States.
We have been defeated in war,
let us imagine. Our Army is cut
off, for the most part. somewhere
in South America. We have no
iron, no oil. no tin, no rubber, and
very little of anything else to feed
our factories. We have lost the
command of the sea- The enemy is
strongly established In Cuba and
in Bermuda, as well as in New
foundland.
Our major industrial centers and
our bigger cities have been heavily
bombed. The island of Manhattan
is in ruins. Pittsburgh is a sham
bles. The aircraft plants of New
England and Long Island have been
destroyed.