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Evening star., 1947-09-16
By Burton Hawkins

More than five years ago chesty
Eddie Lyons figured the shortest
route to a major league berth was
to eliminate everybody in sight, and
so the Mats spring training camp
was enlivened by the spectacle Of a
brash 1s-year-old infielder attempt
ing to carve his initials on the
anatomy of the industry's high
salaried stars. He was willing to
employ his spikes as tool to further
his ambition.
1T didn't work, but Eddie somehow
contrived to keep his name in big
print. When he wasn't flashing his
spikes in the direction of Detroit's
Charley Gehringer and Rudy York
he was beating the New York Giants
at Orlando with a ninth-inning
single and whipping 'em again at
Miami with a ninth-inning double.
He was a colorful kid. so full of
ambition it oozed from his ears, but
he needed experience and so he was
shipped to Charlotte, N. c., where
he led the Hornets with a .291
average in year when only three
Piedmont League batters hit over
300. Then came the war and Second
Baseman Lyons became Boatswain's
Mate &c Lyons.
~a Batted 800 In 1914. s-.'.9
Stationed at Jacksonville Naval
Air Station, Lyons learned some
thing Of the niceties of infield play
from ALI Anderson of the Pittsburgh
Pirates. He batted 1865 there in 1943
and boosted his average to 800 in
1914. Shifted to an air-sea rescue
outfit in Cuba in 1945, Eddie played
little baseball, but returned to
Orlando in 1916 determined to win
the Mats second base job.
He watched Jerry Priddy turn in
a couple of fancy plays at second
base and commented wryly, IF that's
the guy have to beat out for second
base I'm gonna ask 'em to test me
at third" He didn't get Priddy's
job, but he moved up to Chattanooga
and was batting .404 with the Look
outs early in the year when a torn
cartilage shelved him for the season.
Eddie was back at Orlando last
spring and seemingly was set to
stick with the squad. He came
North with the Mats as far as Char
lotte, where Washington announced
1t had acquired Shortstop Mark
Christman from the st. Louis
Brown, necessitating the release Of
Evening star., 1947-09-16
II WrestIers Entered
In Tourney at Turner's

Eleven wrestlers have entered the
championship elimination tourna-
ment which will be staged tomorrow
night at Turner'S Arena toName an
opponent for a title match with
Frank Sexton.
Filing entries today were Stu
Hart of Canada, Big Ben Morgan,
6-foot-6 Texan, and Russian Joe
Komaroff.
Evening star., 1947-09-16
Major League Standings and Schedules
SEPTEMBER Is.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.

Results 1eStcIudy'
Detroit, 7; Wash, 2.
Chicago, 6-5; Bost., 81
Cleveland, 2; Phila., l.
st. L. at New Yorkrrain
Games Today.
Detroit at Wash, $50.
st. Louis at New York co
Chicago at Boston (2).
Cleveland at Phila. (2).
Games Tomorrow.
Cleveland at Wash, $50.
Detroit at Phila. (2).
Chicago at New York.
st. Louis at Boston ca.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
New York, 10; st. Louis, 5
Chicago, 8; Boston, 2.
Pittsburgh, IL; Phila., 2.
Only games.
Games Today.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
New York at ST. Louis.
Phila. at Pittsburgh.
Only games.
Games Tomorrow.
Brooklyn at Pittsh'gh (n)
Phila. at Cincinnati.
New York at Chicago 90
Boston at st. Louis (n).
Evening star., 1947-09-16
Bitten by Racing Bug
Again, Keane Plans
To Enter Regatta
By MaIcoIm Lomborne, Jr.

Tommy Keane, well-known Wash
ington area yachtsman. has the
racing bug again-just in time to
race his newly acquired 135-cubic-
inch hydroplane in power events OF
the Presidents Cup Regatta Satur-
day and Sunday.
The 46-year-old businessman has
bought Joe Palmer's fast-moving
Tommy Boy, which is high-scoring
135 of the season in the East. It's
new name is Tee Tee.
Keane plans to enter Tee Tee in
the two heats for 1855, one to be
held Saturday and the second Sun
day; the All Washington Sweep
stakes, slated for Sunday, and the
American Speedboat Champion
ships, also on Sunday.
He's no newcomer to this sporty
little class, having placed well in
regattas during the late 1930s In
his old Diane XIII. Keane is fleet
captain of Capital Yacht Club.
IS Entries Received.
Meanwhile. Eric Greenleaf has
announced receipt Of As entries for
power races. Little different from
sailing shippers who wait until the
last minute to enter, speedsters are
slow in sending in their forms. At
that, more entries have been re-
ceived at regatta headquarters in
the Willard Hotel than at the same
time last year.
Already 10 drivers OF the fast
225-cubic-inch hydroplane class
have signed up, promising keen
racing for the John Charles Thomas
Trophy and the American Speed
boat Championships.
The boats are Gibson Bradfield,s
Buckeye Baby, Barnsville, Ohio; Joe
Van Blerck's Aljo v, New York;
P. j. Henn's Goo Goo, Murphy, N.
c.. Ralph Miller's Warrior, Chat
tanooga, Tenn; Henry Seick,s Pearl
Nv, Ocean Side, Long Island; Fred
Sutton's Helen NJ, Kinston, N. c.;
Forrest Safford's Miss Manteo II,
Norfolk; Floyd Thompson's Holsom,
Lakewood, N. j.; Vincent Schwing's
Betty v, and c. Merritt Twilley's
Shorty Pants, both of Baltimore.
Van Blerck and Schwing stand
out among theae25 drivers signed
up so far.
Committee Hears Report.
Regatta officials heard last-minute
reports from committee heads at a
luncheon in the Willard yesterday.
Carlton Skinner, chairman of sail,
and Don Bishoff, chairman of
aquatic sports, reported on the sue
cess of their events the last two
week ends.
ALI power events will be held on
the Potomac off East Potomac Park,
just above Hains Point. Seats for
both days are now on sale at the
Willard.
Saturdays racing, starting with
outboards, begins at 1880 am. It
concludes that day with the running
of the first heat of the feature
Presidents Cup race-at 4:40 pm.
Competition the next day starts
at pm. with class E racing and
service runabouts. Second and third
heats of the Presidents Cup are at
2:30 and 4:05 pm.
Evening star., 1947-09-16
Hockey Coach Named

ST. CATHARINES, Ontario, Sept.
16 (P.-Tommy Anderson, veteran
defense player of the Toronto Maple
Leafs hockey organization, has been
appointed coach of the Oshawa
Generals farm team in the Ontario
Junior Hockey Association.
Evening star., 1947-09-16
Kovokos Grill Opposes
Puerto Rico in Tourney
By the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Sept. 16.-Kavakos
Grill softball team from Washing
ton meets Puerto Rico in one of the
six games scheduled today in the
mems division of the national anna
teur softball tourney here. The
loser must play night game against
Stratford, Conn.
Garvin's Grill girls team re-
manned in the running for the
women's crown by eliminating the
Nashville CTenn.) Ramblers, 6-5,
yesterday. All Garvin's runs came
in the second inning.
Evening star., 1947-09-16


recent nationals at Forest Hills that when he
returns to his country he never intends to leave
again.
Some of the inmates of the press box hear
ing Of Bromwichs announcement, attempted to
read into it sign of Australian dispeasure over
the officiating and general conduct of competition
in the United States this year. They didn't get
far On this tack, but possibly only because the
Australians weren't talking for publication.
IF some things have happened that we didn't
like, admonished the Aussies nonplaying captain
Norman Cowling, in a nice way, 'it is for us to
report to our national tennis group not to
the
Evening star., 1947-09-16
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT
by the Associoted Press

BY The AsSoeIoted PFess
BOSTON.-Johnny Cesario, 145L.
Boston, and Charlie Fusari 1861,
Irvington, N. j., drew G0).
BALTIMORE.-Kid Gavilan. 142.
Cuba, stopped Charles MILAN, 145,
Baltimore. %.
MIAMI. Fla-Ernie Pelaia, 143A,
Beaver Falls, Pa, outpointed Ben
Montabano, 1904, Birmingham, Ala.
Qm.
SCRANTON, Pa.-Santa Bucco. IS.
Philadelphia. stopped Jimmy Sonny
Hampton. 14o, Buffalo N Y (1)
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inclined grmbe they certainly notably
decision Bolton they
There Americans the the
best of the breaks
In on Rain Check
Had not ineman called "in" against Bolton it is
probable that United singles title would
fallen the champion of Australia happened the semipa
when Mrs Bolton playing Miss Louise Brough Here the
picture:
Bolton leading So held point when
drive by Miss Brough apparently sailed foot the basene
where Mrs Bolton stopped 1t with her racket
ruled nesnan Bolton, recovered
shock Kennedy
the movie comedies Then burn She turned pink red
finally blew the game this with
Mrs Bolton leading 5 play stopped of darkness and
the incompleted thrown out
Brough final set
defeat Margaret Osborne who badly off FORM for
the title champion got in rain check it Louise
Chairs Are for Sitting In, Wot?
the afternoon another rhubarb stirred
his match with frankie Parkera match
destined to last nearly all aernoonwh limp that more
time went The tip out that services OF
the
against the rules player helped by rubber
proved untrue all right the nationals
but not in the Davis Cup
Immediately countertip that Bromwich
service the who unethica
worked on Ted Schroeder in the Davis Cup.
precisely the point Mr. Cowng said he
going the press
Bromwich asked he wanted the masseur? Nothat
well hadyor Jack would have mentioned to after the
matches, don't you think replied Mr. cowlng reluctantly
definitely dud rhubarb UNTIL at the last
moment, Australas captain volunteered:
THE only definite thing will that didn't unk it was
sporting the umpire to tell Jack Bromw that he couldn't
between the fourth fifth bit shock
you country
chairs benches players Why
the sitting down."
So there might have been little smoke, after all.
Evening star., 1947-09-16
Win, Lose, or Draw
Red Herrines Along the Trail
By FRANCIS {. STANk

To dependent few individuals to
create and sustain interest tennis is going to miss Jack Bowc
the Australian who hits ehand foeand swings with both
fists his right side him. that
Evening star., 1947-09-16
Hubert Fights Yorosz

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 16 (P.-The
fight between Tee Hubert of Wash
ington and Tommy Yarosz was post
poned to tonight from last night.
Evening star., 1947-09-16
Utah State Grid Team
Is Big Seven Threat
BY The Associated Press

DENVER, Sept. 16.-The Utah
State football team that put on a
cyclonic finish last year to take a
half interest in the Big Seven title
Is back almost intact-bigger, more
experienced and sure of its ability
to win an undisputed championship
this season.
A majority of the experts feel
that the Farmers will be the big
team in the Big Seven. In the mi
nority is their veteran coach, Dick
Romney, who went to Utah State
20 years ago and distinguished him.
self by keeping the T formation
when virtually all other coaches
were ditching it.
We'll have better team" Rom
ney admits, "but wait until you see
what Ike Armstrong has at Utah.
He's loaded"
There's no doubt that both Utah
and Utah State are loaded" that
Denver will be much tougher, that
Wyoming and Brigham Young are
improved and fully capable of
knocking off a favorite or two dur
ing the league campaign.
Evening star., 1947-09-16
Net Tourney Resumes Today

All matches scheduled yesterday
in the Northern Virginia tennis
tournament at Buckingham were
rained out and were reset for today.
Evening star., 1947-09-16
Sunday BowIers Needed

Brookland Recreation Sunday
Night Mixed Handicap League
needs three more bowling teams
with 525 average limits. Those
interested call Dupont 1923. The
league starts next Sunday.
Evening star., 1947-09-16

members Of the Australian other welwishers
inclined grmb certainly notably questionable
decision against Mrs Nancye Bolton, they had
There Americans the
best of
Evening star., 1947-09-16

(See YANKS, Page A-15.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
StraWs
Donkey Serenode

GO'iNC/ SCISlO0S
Democrats from coast to coast took
heart at the smashing victory of Mar
tin H. Kennedy, 5~9-year-old political
newcomer, elected mayor of Chicago
last Tuesday in the nations first major
1947 test of political trends.
Kennedy, who ran as an "independ-
cit" Democrat, piled up the greatest
margin in a Chicago mayoral contest
in II years and continues for another
four years the control Democrats have
held unbroken in the city since 1880.
Heavy Democratic majorities in Chi
cago helped put Illinois % electoral
votes in the Democratic column in the
last four presidential elections.
Kennedy defeated Russell w. Root,
who as Cook County COP chairman.
directed his party to a lopsided victory
over retiring Mayor Edward ]. Kelly's
Democratic machine in last Novem-
bcr's election, winning IA of the II
county Offices at stake.
The Democratic triumph dealt Re-
publican aspirations a stunning blow.
Carroll Reece, Republican national
chairman, had termed the contest an
important preliminary engagement"
in the 1913 presidential battle. Gov.
Dwight H. Green's Republican state
organization gave Root its active sup
port.
The campaign was a stormy one.
Root injected international issues and
charged that a vote for his Democratic
opponent was a vote for war"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
Hot Shots

. In Philadelphia, the Metropolitan
Society school for Crippled Children
teaches pupils to talk by having them
blow bubble gum, Teachers say speech
is a matter of exhaling and blowing
gum blisters is one way of learning the
first step.
. In Pittsburgh, a mysterious spirit
of Easter Samaritan who gave away
three-pound Easter eggs, ST n 20
bills was revealed as a nlne-year-olo
boy who appropriated $43 OF his par
ents' money.
9 In Newark. N. j., an imbiber looked
the Judge straight in the eye, quoteo
the Bible, Timothy 5, 10: Drink nc
longer water, but use a little VIM ior
Thy stomach's sake and thine own IN
frmities," won a suspended sentence.
Q In Aurora, ILL.,, a l6~-year-olo ooy
was quoted by the prosecutor as Saylils
he shot a telegraph repalrman o
ambush because Il just wanted 10
shoot somebody to see him die.
. In Columbus, Ohio, a 2~9-year-olo
blind woman and a sishtless Clnalnhall
man-who struck up a romance
through correspondence in Bralile-
eloped to indianapolis to be marrleo.
. In North Chicago, ILL.,, the city hre-
mems dinner was a casualty of the cal
endar. On Tuesday, while smoAe-eat-
er5 .lolled outside the station, a repoft-
er told them: "Your stew's burning
back in the kitchen" "Ha, ha," Jloeu
the fremen, "bet you thought we dion !
know what day it is" The stew was a
total loss!
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
Medicine
Tb and VD

At the close Of World War 1, in
fuenza ragged through Europe. Mod
ern medicine, using penicillin, vac
cines, sulfa drugs and DOT, has been
able to prevent serious postwar cpl
denies and hold influenza in check.
Europe's health, however, is far
below prewar standards. The white
plague of tuberculosis, fourishing
among millions of ill-fed and ILL
housed, has reversed the downward
trend of a century and now is the
continents chief scourge. Venereal
disease is the No. 2 problem.
An APP survey of Is countries
showed that only Sweden escaped a
wartime increase in tuberculosis. Ger
many, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia,
Austria and Greece are the continents
blacklist plague spots with Moldavia,
perhaps, the blacklist of all. Germany,
which before the war had one of the
worlds lowest TB rates, now has n
of the highest.
Britain, Italy and Spain apparently
are recovering from wartime health
slumps. In Britain, TB spurted briefly
early in the war but again is on the
decline. Despite cold, hunger and
medical supply shortages, Italy's birth
rate is up and its death rate down.
Spain, almost isolated from the rest
of Europe, is recovering steadily from
the effects Of it's civil war. The 1916
death rate probably was, the lowest
in Spanish history.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06

baby Joe, so you will have a Joe. Love
all, Dad"
Long before he read the messages,
John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers
head, bitterly proclaimed a weeks
shutdown for the soft coal industry as
a memorial to the victims and a protest
against conditions which make such
catastrophes an old story in the mines.
The 400, 900 soft coal miners walked
out Monday at midnight in obedience
to the Lewis order while probes were
started by a special Senate committee,
state and federal bureaus.
Industry, in general, bridged the gap
without serious shutdowns. Explained
the Tri-State Industrial Association,
composed of 1S5 steel plants in Ohio,
West Virginia and Pennsylvania: "We
learned a lesson in the past and now
have adequate coal stockpiles."
Called a Strike
Walter Thurmond, secretary of the
Southern Coal Producers Association,
called the mourning period a strike"
and said forcing miners to lose S28, 000,-
900 in wages was a peculiar method of
paying respect to the dead"
But Lewis had an answer for that. In
his proclamation calling for the shut
down, he said:
Coal is saturated with the blood of
too many brave men and drenched
with the tears of too many widows and
orphans. j,
There is public sorrow at the mo-
0oant hut wa 1ynnry fro,, horch avpo
rience that it is only a ~momentary feel
ing of pity On the part of the public,
and this sacrifice soon will be forgot
ten"
Federal Safety Code
Lewis accused Interior Secretary
J. A. Krug, government mines opera
tor, of criminal negligence" in not en-
forcing the federal safety code. Bureau
of Mines statistics show, he said, that
of 3,345 federal inspections in 1916,
only two mines we're found complying
completely" with regulations.
One official in the Coal Mines Adj
ministration, which Krug heads, said
the safety record had shown steady
Improvement" since May 20, 1916,
when the government took over the
mines. Fatalities, he said, had declined
to an average of 70 a month compared
with an average of SO a month before
then.
The coal stoppage might prove an
extended one. Union officials in a
number of local districts declared
miners would not go back to pits con-
sidered dangerous.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
Holy Lands Easter

WI HN''NS HNSiS'
1t was an uneasy Eastertide in
Palestine. While pilgrims gathered for
their annual devotions at the stations
of the Cross, the Jewish underground
continued it's terrorist activities.
Ten days ago England's highest
court, the Privy Council in London,
refused to lift the death sentence
imposed on Dow Bella Gruner of Irgun
Zvai Leumi for participating in a raid
in which two policemen were killed.
Jewish terrorists struck back by firing
the Haifa Oil docks which blazed 80
hours before they were brought under
control.
Damage was estimated at 100000
and a British spokesman said the
community would have to pay for
the damages" Haifa's 10000 Jews
were placed under house arrest but
the curfew was lifted shortly after.
India's Holy War
Meanwhile in India, Hlndu-Moslem
disorders in. Bombay, Calcutta and
Cawnpore killed 40 persons and IN
iured 1877. The Bombay riots were
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
ABROAD: Three Trouble Spots
ufsM, Hartford lines
WRITER'S CRAMP

broken up only after police hreo re-
peatedly into the mobs.
In New Delhi, Mohandas K. Gandnl,
spiritual leader of the predomlnantly
Hindu Congress party, conferred with
Viceroy Viscount Mountbatten on
problems relating to Britaln's plans
for relinquishing sovereignty over
India. Gandhi had just returned from
a several weeks tour on foot OF the
Bengal and Bihar provinces where
communal rioting had accounted Tor
hundreds OF deaths.
Troubled Ruhr
Ten days ago a crowd of $4,000,
biggest gathering of Germans since
the palmy days of the swastlka,
massed in Dusseldorf to protest IN
adequate food rations.
British administrators conceded that
full food rations had not been met II
bie Ruhr towns "for some time" but
blamed the failure on tieup Of water
transport on the frozen Rhine and
stupidity of German administrators n
not allowing industry less and rah-
roads more coal to meet the emer-
gency.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
In Short

Sworn: Prince Paul, As, as new
Greek king, succeeding his brother,
George II, who died of a heart attack.
Proposed. By Mayor William
O'Dwyer of New York City, a munich
pal budget for the next fiscal year of
over a billion dollars, largest ever SUBJ
mitted in the U. S. except by the fed
eral government.
Nominated: BY the President, seven
new ambassadors: Cavendish w. Can
non to Yugoslavia, Stanton Grifis
to Poland, John C. Wiley to Portugal,
Walter j. Donnelly to Costa RIGA, Will
Hanson S. Howell, Jr., to Uruguay,
Albert F. Nufer to Ell Salvador and
Fletcher Warren to Paraguay.
Set: By the Wisconsin Employment
Relations Board, a new bargaining
election for employees of the Allis-
Chalmers Manufacturing Co., back to
work after a 328-day strike.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
Maps
Aerial C%ortogrophers


The Philippines Republic comprises
l14,830 square miles on 1903 islands,
Of which only 2,441 are named. The
archipelago has a 14,407-mile coast
line, with 81 good harbors, including
Manila, with its 770-square-mile road
stead, finest in the far east.
us. Army engineers are we'll into
a project to map the entire Philip
pines, something never before at
tempted.
Planes of the 18th Air Force are
taking bombsight readings and MAX
ing photographs of hitherto unknown
mountain and jungle areas, some of
them within 40 miles of Manila. The
Army also is training two companies
of Philippine Scouts for battle-ground
surveys.
The late Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita,
Japanese commander in the Philip
pines, remark1 last year during the
trial which led to his death that any
one who fought on Leyte in the future
deserved better maps. Both MacAr-
thur and l." he said, used the same
American maps and thus lost a good
deal of time"
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a few aides in place of the big. I'm.
Wleldy delegations. 1t was a tactic thai
at times had proved successful in Pari,
and New York in bringing about real
bargaining on points that must be com.
promised.
The restricted sessions followed 6
blunt speech by American Secretary o.
State George c. Marshall fatty reject.
ing Russla'S ultlmatum that repara.
tons from current German production
must be a condition of Germany's eco.
nomlc unity. The United States op.
posed, said Marshall, policies which
would make Germany IAN economic
p%oorhouse in the center of Europe"
Marshall used some of his sharpest
language informing the Russians il
would be impossible to reach agree
ments on the basis of an "ultimatum.'
Long-Range View
I'VE are here to resolve not accen.
tuate u differences" he declared,
but We should not seek agreement
merely for the sake of agreement. The
United States recognizes that its re-
sponSibilities in Europe will continue
and it is more concerned in building
solidly than in building fast.
UNLESS we have a real meeting of
minds and a real desire to carry out
both the spirit and letter of our agree
ment, itWould be better if none were
reached"
In referring to the Potsdam agree
ment and the Russian claim for cur
rent PREPARATIONS, Marshall said:
ut looks very much to us as though
the Soviet Union is trying to sell the
same horse twice"
sWe do not approach this problem as
merchants" retorted Vyacheslav M.
Molotov, Russian foreign minister,
but we do not want other merchants
selling u horse at a low price with
out u consent"
Crux Is Preparations
The Soviet diplomat said he could
not understand u. S. concern about
%reparations since it had neither been
occupied during the war MOI suffered
any war damage. German economy
managed to sustain a tremendous war
effort, he said, and the 10 billion dol
lars IN PREPARATIONS which the Russians
demand could be paid if German in
dustry were revived and the German
people carried out their duties hon
estly.
Marshall said that Russia's import
plan for Germany, if adopted, would
reduce German rations to a starvation
level. He also referred to former Ger
man provinces now taken over by Po-
land, which Russia has insisted are
now permanently Polish.
Former Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes in his speech in Stuttgart, Ger
many, last September, said this coun-
try did not consider final the assign
ment of this territory to Poland. Mar
shalTs reiteration of the subject fore
shadows another American-Russian
dispute over German boundaries.