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Evening star., 1946-12-11
Hoppe Leeds Schueffer
In Six City Cue Match
BY The Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Willie
Hoppe Of New York leads Jake
schaefer Of Chicago 757 points to
7O8 at the conclusion OF 16 blocks Of
their six-city. 1,350-point three
cusion pocket billiard match.
The veteran cuemasters play the
second in q three-day series here
today. They split the opening days
play here yesterday, Hoppe defeat
ing Schaefer, SO to 81 In 56 innings.
Schaefer came back to take Hoppe,
50 to 43 In SO innings. -
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plant, but that was the way he
took everything. Some other player
might have baked, especially one
IS big as Walter, but not he"
As another illustration Of the big
Trains" even temper Grill related
an incident In Boston when WASH
ington and the Red Sox were locked
In q 90 duel In the 18th inning.
With two out q batter knocked what
should have been a single toward
Milan in centerfield, but the ball
went through his legs and rolled to
the fence for a home run, winning
the game.
One Of the players came over to
johnson in the dressing room and
made some remark about how tough
1t was to lose q game on such an
error. johnson looked up and quietly
said, well, you know zeb doesn't
do that very often," and went on
tying his shoelaces.
Differed as to Greatest Feat.
Grin and johnson differed on
which was the stars greatest pitch
ing performance. Griff delights In
recalling the windup Of the 1912
pennant race when the Nationals
invaded Philadelphia for double
headers on successive days with the
Mackmen only q game behind
Washington and battling desperately
for second place. The series ended
the season.
Washington took a so lead early
In the first game, but the AS tied 1t
up in the seventh and Grih sent
johnson t6 the mound. He pitched
shutout ball until the l7th inning,
when darkness halted the game. The
next day the same situation de-
veloped and again Griff called on
johnson. He blanked Philadelphia
until the 18th inning, when Wash
ington scored q run and won the
game. johnson saw nothing un-
usual in the % scoreless innings, but
Grif1lth did.
There he was facing the great
est array Of hitting power of that
time, McInnis, Collins, Baker and
all the rest" he said, "and they
couldn't touch him. don't think
any other pitcher could have
done It,"
But the day before this years
opening game at Griffith Stadium
the Old Fox visited johnson al
Georgetown Hospital and they were
reminiscing about old times, when
johnson suddenly said:
You remember what did &C
years ago tomorrow, don't your"
IT sure do" Griff replied. "Thai
was the day you beat Eddie Rom.
nell in Is innings"
There was q pleased glow in tn,
old masters eye. To him that wa
his masterpiece.
Back In those days there were NJ
newspaper yarns coming out ol
training camp about the managers
indecision concerning his opening
day pitcher. The nominee auto
matically was johnson.
"It would have broken his heart
II he didn't pitch that game" Grit
said. ''He looked forward to II
and prepped for it. He was as much
Evening star., 1946-12-11

Baseball may have produced q
greater pitcher than Walter john
son, the Big Train from Coffeyville,
Kans., but I doubt 1t. I am not
speaking in terms of craft and cum
ming or what might be called mound
smartness, such as Christy Mathew
son and Grover Alexander had to
a superlative degree. But no pitcher
that ever lived could whip q ball by
countless batsmen with the same
terrific speed, and no other pitcher
was quite as effective over q period
Of years.
Working with a weak-hitting ball
club when he pitched for Washing
ton, johnson pitched 113 shutouts
and struck out nearly $500 batsmen
before he retired. He was better
than q 30-game winner twice with
q club that too often demanded
shutouts from his long, flashing
right arm.
Ruth Recalls 10 Games.
Babe Ruth, for example, tells me
that he beat johnson six times. But
he had to win each game 1-to-0.
With q harder hitting club, the Big
Train might easily have won 40
games season more than once.
When johnson came to the Sena-
tors in 1907, he was q big, awkward
country boy with q fast ball. Cobb
and the Tigers beat him by bunting
in one Of his first starts. But after
1907 he had the magic Of the gale,
where the common expression was
"how can you hit what you can't
seer"
It took the Big Train little time
to develop the finest pitching mo-
tion IN the game, q full, smooth
half side-arm sweep that sent the
ball on It's way like q bullet. There
was the time he came to New York
and shut out the Highlanders, now
the Yankees, on Friday. He shut
them out again on Saturday. With
no other pitcher around, he went
back In Monday and shut them put
Evening star., 1946-12-11
Win, Lose or Draw
Johnson Fought the Good FIGHT
By FRANCIS (. sTANN

wasted Of body Walter Johnson finally has lost the
fight pitcher baseball dead
Most people say he also was the greatest pitcher.
big gangling Hmho County Kans weighed
Evening star., 1946-12-11
Johnson's Records
For Major Career
Most years pitching for one club
4 (WaShingtnn A l. 1QQ7-2I

Most years pitching for one club
q washington A. L., 1907-2D.'
Most games pitched, league-802.'
Most years leading in complete
games-6 t1s11, Is, Il, Is, 16, 49,
Tied with Grover Alexander IN. L..
Pitching most complete games
played by club, In succession-3
(September 4, S, first game Z, 1908,
against New York;. Tied with Ed
Walsh, Chicago A. L.
Pitcher leading in percentage won
and lost and earned runs, Is or more
decisions, same year-1913 (.837 W.
and l., ZOE er); 1914 (.683 W. and l..
LII err; 1918 (.639 W. and l., 1.28
er.); 1924 (.767 ". and l., 2.72 er9.
Most games won. league-414.'
Most years leading league. games.
won-6 (1913, IL, is, 16, 18, 24).' Tied
with Grover Alexander IN. L).
Most consecutive games won, sea-
son-16 .July 3-August 23. 1870.
Most shutout games, league-113.s
Most consecutive shutout innings
So (April 10, I'd inning, to May IA,
4th inning, 1913).s
Most strikeouts. lifetime and league
-3,497.s
Most years leading league in
strikeouts-12 u9l0-24; 1s12-ls19. 8
years in succession) =
Most consecutive strikeouts, game
-6 tMay q, 1924, in second in
ming, 8 in third. in fourth. Amer
ican League record tied by four
others.
Most wild pitches, inning (4th
inning, Sept. q, 1914).'
Highest won and lost percentage,
Is or more DECISIONS years {1913,
36-7, .837; 1924, 23-7, .76D.
Lowest average of earned runs
5 years (1913, 100; 1915, 1.55; 1918,
1.28; 1919, 1.49; 1924, 2.72).
Seasons winning IL or more con-
secutive games 1s12, 1913, 1920 !.
No-hit game, innings-July l.,
1920 Cat Boston, LOO.
Listed among 12 major league
pitchers winning 800 or more games
in lifetime. tWon 414, lost 276).
Most valuable player award-2i
(1913, Chalmers award; 1924, Amer
lean League 9ward).
World Series Record.
In 1924 series against New York
Giants, 1925 series against Pitts
burgh Pirates-Won, 8; lost, 8.
denotes major league record; !;
others are American League records,
Evening star., 1946-12-11
Pro Basket Ball
By the Assoeiatsd Press

Last Nisht's Scores.
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
st. Louis, 90; Cleveland. 81.
Philadelphia. So; Toronto. 70.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Toledo, IL; Oshkosh, 48.
Indianapolis. Ss; Fort s.t, WayH1ee 1e Ss.
Rochester, IS: Detroit, 81.
Exhibitions.
Syracuse. "A: Washington. 46.
Brooklyn, 55; Atlantic City. 48.
Evening star., 1946-12-11

Georgetown Hospital. For months he had been
more often In coma than conscious. But many
times during the terrible struggle he was made
happy when his old manager and boss. Clark
Grifnth, visited him.
They relived the happy days together In
Walters hospital room. Grifith would sit on .
chair next to the bed and hold Johnsons hand
because the great pitcher rarely could speak, but
the two old friends had a signal system and when
Walter recalled an anecdote he would squeeze
Grifnth's hand ever SO lightly.
So it was a monologue, Grifnth drawing upon
the great wealth Of background they shared and
johnson squeezing his hand and lying motionless,
with faint smile on his face, although once or
twice he wept and Grifdth. alarmed, told the
Evening star., 1946-12-11

(See JOHNSON, Page ca.
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ADJUSTMENTS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13

The happier Of her theatrical ex-
periences have been the ones she
has had in the East, as leading
figure in Broadway musicals.
It took Broadway, as almost
every one must know, to introduce
her to Hollywood in the first place.
Not only the first place, but the
second, too. After sensationally
singing my Heart Belongs to
Daddy" in Leave It to Me-" Miss
Martin was hauled of to the movie
mills to be put through the process
of being made into a film star.
She played leading roles in 1.-THE
Great Victor Herbert" Rhythm
on the River" kiss the Boys Good
by" and some lesser pictures. Her
great trouble was that too many in
Hollywood seemed to think of her
as that girl who looks like Clau-
dette Colbert" resemblance to an
star being the kiss of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13
death when it is attributed to an
aspiring star.

death when it is attributed to an
aspiring star.
X II X
Miss Martin became fed UP with
the whole thing, left the cinema
to Its own devices and came East
to score considerable success in
Zone Touch of Venus" As In other
like instances before and since, this
was the cue for Hollywood to won
der where this girl had been all its
life. Miss Martin was called back
for more photoplay chores, none
OF which seems to have made her
happier with life on the Pacific
coast.
So again she departed those
shores, repeatedly with the vow
never to return Back in the East
she assumed the leading feminine
role in Lutte Song" on Broadway
and, to no ones surprise, was quite
a success at it. At this point, which
was just a short time back, all in
dications were that the remainder
Of Miss Martins career would run
its course on stage rather than
screen and that this was the way
she wanted 1t to be.
This was only a few weeks ago.
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railroad an authentic wreck Of Its
own the day shooting was to start
on the cinematic disaster. Delayed
the production two days.
Another piece of news from Holly
wood today should have you looking
to the future with the greatest Of
eagerness. When George Raft COM
pletes his starring role in the Bene-
dict Bogeaus production, "Mr. Ace
and the Queen" says this report, he
will go to New York to formulate
plans for production of THE
Crutch," a play he has written in
collaboration with his companion
bodyguard, Mack Gray. Then, after
two more pictures, Raft plans to
return to New York to star in the
play.
Mr.. Raft, incidentally, had better
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13

The word today is that Paramount
will star Mary Martin In q photo
play version Of Sir James M. Bar
rie's "Alice Sit BY the Fire" to be
produced by Charles Bracket,
whose most recent fame was made
with 1.-THE Lost Weekend" Miss
Martin is expected to finish her
Lutte Song" chore by June /.
X y y \
One Of the things that helped
make David o. Selznick,S Duel in
the Sun" (budgeted at 5000, 00O)
the most expensive motion picture
yet made was a whimsicality on the
part of fate. For a train wreck
sequence Mr.. Selznick, who does
not do things on a small scale, rent
ed a lengthy section of one of the
western railroads. That is when
fate grew whimsical, dealing the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National HE Who Gets
Slapped: 2::30 and $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Black Market Babies:
II am, LAS, 4:30, tbs and 9:55 pm
Stage shows: 1850, 1886, $40 and
sos pm.
Columbia - Cup Goes Maisie":
11:40 am, lao, 1886, $50, 7:30 and
$50 pm. IL
Keith's-"Tomorrow' Is Forever:
IL, 2:25, ASS, 7:20 and Gas pm.
Earle-"The Stork Club: II am,
1:10. 3:15, 5:25, 7:35 and $40 pm
Observation-Disclosures Bridge:
2:15, 5:45 and 800 pm.
Little-"The Last Chance: ILLS
am, Ills, 800, $40, TBS and 9:35
pm.
Metropolitan-"Three Strangers:
1880 am, 1:35, 3:35, $40, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Palace-"Adventure": 10:15 am,
1880, ESQ, sos, TBS and 9:45 pm.
Pix-"Carnival in Venice: 2:20
$40, 7:45 and 10:15 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts.
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13
And They Mean Never Again
At the Time of Saying It
By Harry Macarthur

isn't that those who leave Hollywood forever to daken its
that
that he will set foot that place again what
when he 1t.
Whether Mary Martin thunderer about don't
rather generally held notion that
ueYe Ene
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speak to Mr.. Bogeaus' publicity de-
partment. The boys do not seem
to have much respect for movie
(See MACARTHUR, Page B-l3.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18
B URGAW


BURGAW Aug. 17.-Mrs. Leila
Collins, Misses Jean Humphrey
and Dorothy Nicholson motared to
Wilmington Thursday.
DR.. and Mrs. Midas Moore OF
Norfolk, Va, visited Mrs. Tommie
Moore here this week and re-
turned home the latter part OF
week.
Kemp Nj 0 OF L%incolnton,
spent this week in BurgaW, guest
Of George L. Paddison.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Herring of
Gatfney, S. C.. r visiting Mrs.
Katie B. Herring. They are return
ing from Peabody conservatory,
Nashville, Tenn, where they at
tended several weeks of study.
Mrs. F. L. Hough and children
who have been residing in Bur-
gaw for several months have re-
turned to Polkton their old home
for the winter.
Mrs. jeanette Faison spent sew
eral days at the Ocean Terrace
hotel this past week, guest Of Mrs.
Carl Turnage. .
Mr.. and MH C. M. johnson,
Mrs. Mary Groom of Raleigh,
were weekend guests of Mrs.
Tommie Moore.
DR.. and Mrs. W. l. Taylor, have
returned from Wrightsville Beach
where they have been spending
several weeks at the Chandler cot
tage,
Eugene Humphrey a d family
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18
LAKE

LAKE WACCAMAW, Aug. H.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Morton and
two boys, Bonnie and Bobbie
Wayne Morton of Raleigh, are Wis
iting Mrs. Morton's mother,
Mrs. Nora Wayne and Family.
H. E. Goodwin of Jacksonville,
Fla, is spending sometime here
with his daughter. Mrs. James N.
Dawson and DR.. Dawson.
Mrs. J. D.. Rose OF Morehead
City, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
L. L. Dempsey at her home here.
Misses Doris and Lillian Jones
have returned home after spending
several weeks in Portsmouth, Va,
with relatives.
Dallas Cameron spent the week
end at Cofield with relatives.
Mrs. Mamie Kendall of Char
lotte, is visiting her son, Paul Ken
dali, in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charlie Wilson.
Miss Dixie Wilson of Whiteville,
spent the weekend with Miss Am
Wilson at her home near Lake
Wacamaw.
Mrs. Ted Nicksick Of Fort
Worth, Texas, is here for a few
weeks visit with her mother, Mrs.
w. E. Stone and Mr.. Stone.
Mrs. W. H. Pittman of Aulander,
visited friends here Friday. She
was accompanied by her grandson,
NJ. A. Pittman of Wilson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18

Of Tampa, Fla, are spending a
few days in BurgaW guests of his
brothers R. F. and j. S Hum
phrey.
Mrs. j. S. Humphrey and son,
Frank, have returned from west
ern North Carolina where they
have been visiting for the past six
weeks.
Mrs, G. c. Bordeaux of Viii
mlngton, spent Wednesday in Bur-
gaw visiting her daughter Mrs.
Milton Humphrey.
Mrs. W. L. Aldridge and daugh-
ter, sandra, of Raleigh, are visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. James Brad
shaw.
Rev. W. Ha,llee Bordeaux, gen
eral secretary of the american
Council of Christian churches ane
family Of New York were dime.
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Milton
Humphrey Wednesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18

no check and 60 right ahead grow
This is possible only where
you are replanting your own
bulbs. If purchasing bulbs get
them as early as possible and
plant as soon as received.
Take time to prepare the beds
thoroughly by digging deep N0
inches) and supplying plenty Of
plant food, because you will want
to leave the bulbs in the same
spot to make large clumps with
many blooms, digging and replant-
ing only every 4 or 5 Cor more
years. Roots will go down u
inches or more from the bulbs in
well prepared soil and give cor
respondingly fine plants and
blooms. The soil must be made
porous so that moisture will go
down easily and so no water will
stand about the tips of the roots.
Dig in old Well-rotted manure or
compost and acid phosphate below
the bulbs where the roots will get
1t but where it will not touch the
bulbs. Pulverize the upper 4 inch
es of soil and mix in a large
amont of bonemeal. Set the bulbs
4 inches deep and 6 10 8 inches
All questions pertaining to your
garden problems will be answered
through these columns if ad-
dressed to the editor of the garden
calendar in care Of society
editor of the Wilmington News.
REPLANT NARCISSuS NOW
Replanting all aarcissus should
begin al early in August as pos
sible. Under this name is included
the bulbs commonly called mar
%cissus, and all the daffodils and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18
Garden Calendar

jonquils. Tulips and hyacinths are
best planted after cool weather
November here in order to dis
courage early top growth. Their
roots are completely dead il sum-
mer, but it is not so with mar
cissus. If you dig narcissus now
you will find tAeir roots have
started.
Apparently roots are formed
through the summer and by Au-
gust are getting quite long. This
means the bulb is already seeking
food, and for this reason early
planting is advisable. The ideal
way is TO wreplant the bulbs as
soon as dug if the new beds can
possibly be made ready for them.
If this is done they seem to get
apart.
IN order to have all bulbs bloom
at once in a planting for mass
color, be sure to plant all bulbs
at exactly the same depth and
plant bulDs OF as nearly the same
size as possible. In order to be
sure of a uniform depth. it is
easiest to remove 8 or 4 inches
Of soil over the area to be plant
ed, then set the bulbs at the
proper depth and distance apart
and cover after ali are set and
pressed in firmly.
The bulbs need NO further feed
ing the first year. The second year
an application of old manure put
over the bed after the ground is
cold in winter is good. Do not
put it SO heavy that the warmth
will induce the tops to come UP
too early, nor should it be put
on before the ground has frozen
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18

by Percy Lewis Rhodes. Mrs.
Trippleton was given in marriage
bv n. E. Eldy of Wilmington, and
Miss Daisy Mae Allen and George
Hinson attended the couple.
They are for the present max
ing their nome at SOC Market
street.
Mrs. Trippleton is the daughter
of the late Mrs. Allie Morris Whit
fielo of Wilmington.
! For Newspaper service Dial 2-331,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18
Hostess Dance
On Tuesday AT
Jacksonville

The regular bi-monthly USO in
formal dance at Jacksonville will
take place Tuesday evening, Au-
gust 20.
The USO staff states the excel
lent attendance OF these dances by
the Marines from LeJeune and
urges a full Attendance of the
City's junior hostesses.
The bus leaves the Third and
Grace YWCA at $50 o'clock Tues
day evening. All girls wishing to
will kindly telephone Miss
Dorothy Price, 1884, for reserva-
by 8 p nj. Monday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18
Trippleton- Jones
Vows Are Announced

The marriage of Mrs. Allie Nor
ris Jones and Robert L. Triple
ton OF Nashua, N. H., took place
i'll Wilmington at the Sunset Park
Missionary Baptist church on June
G with@the Rev. G. Carl Lewis
performing the ceremony.
The wedding music was played
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18
DOUBLE WINNrD

SHAKAMAK STATE ptnu
1 Francisco, turned back Gp's @s. San
time annsr rival, Brenda Hels ssF long,
Angeles, in the 4OO-metar S t 10,
today to become the thru nee style
winner in the National AU1r double 10
ems Outdoor Swim Chamnio1won -
Since the introduction :,
steam model tc EARNS in 1879 81 j.. l
I 1Taclor has been an influ lepP he
turning. "'dnua:.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-18

A good garden fertilizer high in
phosphorus ear be given after
tops IRE up in spring.-August 10,
1916.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-28
CAPTIVE DUTCH AT LAST FREED
 AFTER 4 YEARS

BATAVIA, Sept 28.-The long wait for freedom ended on a sun baked Batavia railroad siding to- day for 549 Dutch men, women and children who were herded into a mid-Java internment camp at the point of Japanese bayonets four years ago.
 These internees were the first to arrive here since a political dis agreement between Indonesian and Dutch representatives halted evac- uation July 24.
 Their arrival constituted one more preliminary to the resump- tion of negotiations in which h. delegates have sought in- from the Netherlands
 Among those stubble-faced men and weary women there was none of the wild excitement which char the liberation of their British and French allies from Japanese and German prisons last year.
 They had been reinterned by the "Indonesian Republicans few hours after receiving the news of Japan's equalization.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-28
Former WAC Ends Defense Testimony
 In Jewel Robbery

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 28 Former WAC Captain Kathleen Nash Durant rested her defense to- day in her trial on military charges of complicity in the theft of $1,500,000 worth of Hesse family jewels from the Kronberg Castle.
 Mrs. Durant declined to be ques- toned on the theft charges and took the stand only briefly to tes- tify on a companion count of be- ing absent without leave from her army post. Her defense was com pleted in a day and a half, and her attorneys asked a recess until Monday to prepare final arguments.
 A defense witness testified that the Hesse jewels were not the only valuables to disappear from the castle after it became a U. s. army officers club.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-28
Communists Active,
 College Laboratory

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. = Communists have been active in union organization efforts among employees of the University of Cal ifornia Radiation Laboratories birthplace of the atom bomb-the attorney for a state legislative in vestigating committee said today
 The attorney, R. E. Combs, in summarizing testimony taken at hearings in Oakland this week, as- serted Communists and sympathiz- CTS were busy at the scene of atom research as early as 1943.
 The University of Californias radiation laboratory at Berkeley, contains the atom-smashing cyclo- tron and new synchroton.
 Combs said he was not accusing any employees of the laboratory of being spies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-28

 CRASHED NAVY
 PLANE I5 FOUND

LEBANON, Oregon, Sept. 2s--The Wreckage of a U. s. Navy fighter plane containing the body of pilot has been discovered on snow peak-22 miles east of Lebanon. It is believed the plane was a Grum- man Wildcat. Indications are that it crashed two years ago.
 Frank Merritt of CraWfordville found the wreckage while hunting Cougars He notified Fire Warden Melvin Crawford, who brought the report to Lebanon.
 Merritt said the ship hit at terrific speed. A machine gun was found buried deep in a tree trunk 20 feet from the plane. The pilots body was pinned in the wreckage.