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Evening star., 1947-05-04
'Degeneratiye Illness
Us Not Inevitable, D. c.
Medical Forum Holds

An inter-racial medical forum on
the health problems of the aged,
held yesterday at the Willard Hotel,
concluded that "degenerative dis
eases" are not the inevitable fate Of
the old.
The day-long session was the first
annual scientific meeting of the
District division of the Physicians
Forum, an organization of doctors
interested in the social aspects Of
medicine.
DR.. Ernst F. Boas, national chair
man of the Physicians Forum and
professor of medicine at Columbia
University. told the group that the
changes in bodily structure which
normally accompany old age do not
in themselves produce disease.
Diseases Of Aged Often Durable.
The so-called degenerative dis
eases, he said, are specific ailments
which are amenable to treatment
and can often be cured.
He called arteriosclerosis, or hard
ening Of the arteries, primarily q
meteabolic disease which will some
day be treated as we now treat
diabetes"
DR.. Boas' contentious were sup
ported by DR.. Frederick Zeman
director Of the Home for Aged and
Infirm Hebrews in New York, and
by DR.. w. Montague Cobb, president
OF the District Medico- Chirurgical
Society and professor of anatom,
at Howard University Medica
School.
Addressing an audience which in.
cluded both white and Negro physi.
clans as well as many women doc.
tors, interns and medical students
DR.. Cobb traced the rise in tn,
average age of the population II
modern times, and discussed tn,
effect of this trend on the disease.
/ to which the modern man is sus.
ceptible.
/ He said life expectancy had riser
in this country from IS years il
1888 to "a years today, but pointed
out that there are significant differ.
ences In the life span OF various
elements Of the population.
+ Whereas the average white mar
reaches 628 years, and the whit,
woman 673, the corresponding fig.
ures for Negroes are 52.2 and S.,
years, he asserted.
tuberculosis Hits Poor.
Such diseases as tuberculosis tax,
Ia relatively heavy toll amone
Negroes and lower income groups
of the white race due to poverty
malnutrition, poor working condi.
! tions and other factors in theil
environment, DR.. Cobb declared.
Not all sections of. the people
are yet able to enjoy the luxury o1
growing old enough to die of the
"degenerative" Diseases" he con.
cluded
DR.. Benjamin I. Weininger, presi.
dent OF the Washing ton Baltimore
Psychoanalytic Society, discussed
emotional problems of middle-aeec
persons, who, he said, are particu.
larly subject to anxieties resulting
from loneliness, decrease in physi.
cal ability and fear Of approaching
death.
He advocated partial retirement
at moderate age from the rou-
tine occupation in which a mar
must engage to make a living
This, he said, would enable people
to devote more time to the con-
temptation Of the purpose Of their
lives.
Other speakers yesterday were
DR.. Charles Drew, professor OF
surgery at Howard University Medi-
cal School. and DR.. Charles Ges-
chikter, professor Of pathology at
Georgetown University Medical
School.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

udtlOAdt HiCct"
ing.
A m o n 6 t h e
ministers of the
Baptist churches
in the nietropol-
itan area, repre-
senting a mem
bership of 26, $50
persons, to at
tend the gather
ing will be DR..
K. Owen White.
president of the
District Baptist
Ministers Con-
ference and pas
TOR Of Mefrnnnli-
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Upshuw SIoted for Tulk

william D. upshaw, former repre-
sentative from Georgia, viii speak on
'rThe ;fAmericanism That VIII Save
America" at q meeting at 7:45 o'clock
tonight at the First Baptist Church,
Alexandria.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

ULIfef pTOml- g. II. Cooke.
nent laymen at the meeting will be
George B. Fraser, a member of the
national body's Executive Committee
and former president of the District
Baptist Convention and Herbert w.
Ludwig, Brotherhood Council head
|of the District Convention.
Mrs. Carleton M Long, Women's S
Baptist Missionary Association head,
District Convention, will lead the
Gistaff delegation to the annual
Evening star., 1947-05-04


tion openi in 6
Wednesday a I
st. Louis.
C h arle H
Cooke, president
of the District
Baptist conven-
ton and a men,
ber of Calvary
Baptist Church
will head the
large delegation
Of laymen going
to st. Louis from
the Washington
area.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
200 D. {. CIergymen,
Laymen 10 Attend
Baptist Convention
By Cospor Names

| More than 200 .c1ergymen and
laymen from IS Baptist churches
in Washington will attend the 102nd
annual meeting of the Southern
Evening star., 1947-05-04


Area Water Office Urged.
The subcommittee on sanitation
consisted Of DR.. Paul B. Cornely and
Vernon G.. Mackenzie. Like the
tuberculosis committee, it approved
most of the recommendations OF last
years health survey.
On the water question, however. it
went further than the 1916 report.
which urged that the War Depart
ment, the District Health Depart.
ment and the District Department
of Sanitary Engineering Cooperate
effectively" in the distribution sys-
tenn.
The committee recommended that
the cooperation could best be in
stred By certain Of Metropolitan
Water Authority, with fun powers
over water distribution.
1t held that the 1946 report "nulli-
fed" much Of its proposed program
for improved sanitation through
slIm clearance by the qualification
that mo program for the sanitation
of dwellings can be successful With
out parallel machinery for the pro-
vision Of decent housing at rentals
which the slum tenant can pay.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
Three Mats Poll Good
Vote in AN-Star
Game banoting

Outfielders Buddy Lewis and Stan
Spence of Washington were well up
in the major league All-Star game
balloting today and apparently had
a good chance of being selected on
the American League squad that
will tangle with the pick OF the
National League at Wrigley Field,
Chicago, July g.
Lewis, with 368, ,294 votes, was sec
ond to Detroit's Pat Mullin, who
held the rightfield balloting lead
with 382,643. Spence polled 2s9, lot
votes in centerfield, and while far
behind Joe Di Maggie held COM
manding lead over Mike Metkovich
of Cleveland.
First Baseman Mickey Vernon OF
the Mats was third among the f1rst
basemen, but giving Rudy York a
fight for runner-up honors. The
big Indian had pofled 261 ,437 votes
to Vernon's 257,826, but George
McQuinn of the Yanks topped both
with 478,218.
Washington's Gerry Priddy had
received 179,837 ballots for second
base, running fourth in field paced
by Boston's Bobby Doerr.
Latest tabulation showed a total
of 1,274,694 ballots, according to
the Associated Press, with Joe Di
Maggios 537,244 topping the list.
Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis
Cardinals was the second heaviest
vote-getter with 526,412. Other lead
ers were Ted williams, 514,826; Lou
Boudreau, $685. ,4s8, and Johnny Mize,
49l 528, .-
Evening star., 1947-06-25
Hawkins
Continued From Page Ais

from second base with the winning
run on an innocent infleld tap. 1t
was. an embarrassing moment Tor
Mickey, but apparently didn't serve
its purpose.
In the seventh inning last night,
with Wallaesa on second base, Rudy
York on first and one out, Second
Baseman Jerry Priddy scooted in
rapidly for Cass Michaels' grounder.
Jerry did some brainy maneuvering.
He chased York back toward first,
but couldn't tag him in time, so he
tipped the ball to Vernon, retiring
Michaels.
Fans Didn't Like 1t.
York still was trapped between
first and second, so Vernon took out
in pursuit of numbering Rudy. Too
late did Mickey detect that Wallaesa
hadn't stopped at third to permit
Mickey the courtesy of chasing York.
BY the time the fog cleared in Ver-
mons head, Wallasea was crossing
the plate ahead of Mickey's throw,
and York wound up on second base.
The customers didn't like it.
Eddie Yost and Tom Mcbride each
contributed two of the Mats six hits
off Lopat, while Baker collected
three of Chicago's eight hits off Mas
terson, who walked none for the
second time in his last three starts.
Idle today. the Mats will battle the
Boston Red Sox in the opener of a
three-game series tomorrow night at
Griffith Stadium. The Mats and Red
Sox will play day games Friday and
Saturday.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
Sexton and Camera
Battle Here Toniqht

Big-time wrestling will be ushered
into Griffith Stadium tonight after
a lapse of some Is years, with
Champion Frank Sexton and Primo
Carnera providing~the magnet for
an expected throng of 10000 persons.
The Turner box office reported an
unprecedented demand for tickets.
The Damon Runyon Cancer Fund
will benefit from the gate, getting
10 per cent of the proceeds.
The Sexton -Carnera bout will be
two out of three falls, and the win
ner will meet Two Ton" Tony
Galento here in August or Septem-
ber
In the secondary feature June
Beyers of Dallas, Tex. feminine star
will meet Elvira Snodgrass of Hol-
lywood,
Maurice La Chappelle, the French
Canadian, and Jan Blears, the Brit
Usher, will battle for the Junior
heavyweight title; Gino Garibaldi
will oppose Sheik Badui and Chick
Garibaldi and Jesse James will op-
pose Sander Kovacs and Faro
Rinaldo. First bout is at 8:45.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
Col. Sehriever Takes
Federal Golf Title
As Rivals FaIter

Col. Bernard A. Schriever of the
War Department, who kept his
shots straight down the middle
while some of his rivals were de-
touring through the rough or
sightseeing on the putting green,
is the Federal Golf Associations
new champion. He added 73 yes
terday at Prince Georges to his
first round 76 for a 149 total, one
stroke better than his closest COM
petititor.
The others in the field probably
are trying to explain what hap
pened on that bad hole. Leroy
Smith of the Capitol had chance
to tie but missed long putt on
the final green and tied with Joe
LaSalle of War Department at
$50. LaSalle also had a chance to
tie but three-putted on No. 7.
George Voigt's 40 on the final
nine landed him in fourth place
and a shaky tenth hole cost 1t.
Jim Kinder of the Naval Gun Fac
tory a higher ranking than the
sixth place tie he earned with Col
Robert Allen of the War Depart
ment at 1874.
Evening star., 1947-06-25

their coordination sadly unco-
ordinated. The colonel hasn't
had to use the pairing knife yet.
A rife coach has as much
trouble as his football counter
part digging up material. One
New York State high school
coach wrote the colonel after
Maryland's national triumph,
stating he had three sharpshoot-
ers desirous of matriculating at
College Park. But only one mea-
sured up to the scholastic re-
quirements and he doesn't want
to come without the others, so
the Terps miss out on three fine
prospects.
The colonel smuggled his first
20 into the barn on the family
homestead back in Yorkville, ILL.,,
at the tender age of 10 and sent
two of the neighbor's fattest hens
to wherever fat and thoroughly
. dead hens go before the rifle
quietly disappeared. He wasn't
much bigger then, he recalls,
than Freshman Arthur Cook
when he first saw him few
years ago. Cook, the Terps' No.
/ man, fired two matches against
Maryland with the Pinwheel
Juniors when Artie wasn't much
taller than his rifle. And he
doesn't look a whole lot bigger
now" the colonel added
Cook was the Terps sparkplug,
although all the boys stood up
well in tight competition. The
coach still doesn't know how he
fired a standing position score
of 98x100 and marked up 296x
300, not once but twice, confess
ing "I wouldn't believe it pos
sible If I hadn't seen it,"
Evening star., 1947-06-25
KopiIow Is Due Here Tonight
To End Workouts for Hursey

Danny Kapilow. 26-year-old Jew
ish welterweight. reports here to-
night to complete preparations for
his scheduled 10-round boxing bout
with Smuggy Hursey at Griffith
Stadium Tuesday night.
- Kapilow, who has been working
out at New York's Catholic Youth
Organization with former World
Welterweight Champion Marty Ser
vo. terminates training in the big
town this afternoon.
Danny outpointed Hursey in an
eight-round bout at Griffith Sta
dium two years ago, and scored a
three-round knockout over Aaron
Perry last summer He was being
quoted a 7-5 favorite over Hursey
today, but Hursey is assured of
strong support that might we'll
swing the odds his way overnight.
HTsey, who enjoyed a day of
complete rest yesterday, resumes
workouts at the Liberty A c. gym
nasium today.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
THE EVENING STAR Washington D. C.s@sA-17
rs, a.
Fons Turn to Song
For Dempsey, 81
By ths Assoeiosed Pres

sls549 VI W. SSsuSt1tc9 FtesS
LOS ANGELES, June 25.Ten
thousand fight fans sang Happy
Birthday to You" to ex-Heavy-
weight Champion Jack Dempsey
at the olympic Auditorium last
night.
Dempsey, blushing and obvi-
ously flustered at the booming
chorus, was presented by AL
Jolson.
Jolson announced that it was
Jacks 37th birthday. Dempsey
retorted that he was only 80.
In reality, 1t was the old
champs SID birthday. and cake
with lighted candles was pre-
sented in the ring.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
2-Hit Job for Giants
Tags Casfoff Hurler
As Find Of Year
BY III. Asseeiatsd prs.s

CHICAGO, June 25.-Baseball's
bargain basement find of the season
may be Clarence Hooks" lott, a
husky lefthander who was cast of
by the st. Louis Browns and picked
I'D by the New York Giants for the
$4,000 waiver tag.
Three hours after the 28-year
Ozark lad from Mountain Grove,
Mo, joined the Giants yesterday
Manager Mel OFT gave him his first
major league starting assignment.
He shook curves and fast balls out
of his arm in limiting the Chicago
Cubs to two hits as the Giants
backed him with a 13-hit lombard
ment for an 1I-0 shutout victory.
He famed eight batsmen and
walked five.
"All we knew about Hooks was
that he had wild spells on the
mound" beamed OFT. That two
hitter was big lift for the whole
club. We had to have another
southpaw while Monte Kennedy is
recovering from a fractured skull.
That's why we picked up lott. I
was pleasantly surprised"
Just Wanted Chance.
lott, who has had the Hooks"
nickname ever since grammar school
days for reasons he doesn't know,
said all he wanted all along was
"just chance"
'I no sooner get through meeting
Mr.. OFT than he tells me I'm going
to start" drawled lott. Il thought
he was kidding"
OFT showed the newcomer on the
mound because he didn't want to
overwork Dave Koslo, his only avail
able starter who had hurled four re-
lief innings Sunday. The decision
was most fortunate, for it boosted
lofts morale no end. When the
Browns sent him to Toledo OF the
American Association in 1945, he
became discontented because he was
not given enough starting assign
ments. Eventually he was shipped
back TO San Antonio, Tex, where
last season he won 10 while losing g
and registered 146 strikeouts in 1876
innings.
Wears Voiselle's Uniform.
This record brought him back to
the Browns this spring, but he ap-
peared in ,only four games for a
total of 8Is innings. Brownie Man
ager Muddy Ruel, one of the games
greatest judges of pitching talent,
didn't figure he was worth keeping.
Neither did any other American
League club.
Now Hooks" is happy with the
Giants and is wearing Bill Voiselle's
old No. 80 uniform that he left when
he was traded to the Boston Braves
for Mort Cooper.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
By Lewis r. Atchison

rifle shooting doesn't get
nearly as much publicity as it
should said the colonel. ITS
really a great sport, although 1t
doesn't have much spectator ap-
peal and a good rifieman trains
as diligently as an all-America
halfback and completes under
terrific pressure. Physical relax
alton and mental concentration
a very fine coordination between
the eve and trigger finger, makes
a good rifleman, and it isn't easy.
Yet you don't see much about 1t
in the papers"
The speaker was Col. Harland
C. Griswold, coach of the Unlver-
sity of Maryland's national cham
pion rifle team, and an old hand
in the trigger squeezing business.
We always thought the requisites
for a winning gun team were:
(A) A range to practice on; eB)
five rifles and plenty OF ammunl-
ton, and (C) five men to use the
rifles and ammunition. But 1t
didn't take the colonel long to get
us UNFINISHED. Competition with
a shootin' iron is a tough ana
highly skilled pastime.
First call for candidates usually
brings out some $50 Deadeye
Richards who have an idea Its ike
pinking pie plates at Glen Echo
for free. The colonel issues in
structions for three weeks train
ing at the end of which, he tells
them, the squad will be cut. But
long before the deadline trigger
happy boys find their patience
too short, the hours too long and
Evening star., 1947-06-25
Queen Mary Watches
As Mrs. Todd Wins
Wimbledon Match
BY The Associated Press

WIMBLEDON, June Is. - Mrs.
Patricia Canning Todd OF Hidden
Valley. Calf, led the seeded Amer
ican contingent into the third round
of the women's singles in the
Wimbledon Tennis Championships
today while Queen Mary watched
from the center court galleries.
Mrs. Todd, seeded fourth in the
draw, eliminated Mrs. r. T. Ellis Of
Britain in straight sets, 6--3, 60, in
a match that opened the third day
of the tournament under a blazing
sun. Mrs Ellis is the former Anita
Lizana of Chile, who won the United
States women's title in 1887.
Mems action was confined to the
opening doubles matches that in
cluded an easy straight set win for
CzechoSlovakia S two-man Davis
Cup team of Jaroslav Drobny and
Bohous Cernik over Britain's Don
Butler and F. H. D. Wilde, 6-l, 6-2,
6-3.
Americas top-seeded team of Jack
Kramer and Bob Falkenburg of Los
Angeles smashed into the second
round by overwhelming England's
M. D. Deleford and N. r. Lewis,
81, 6-4, 6-3. -
Jack Bromwich and Dihny Pals
of Australia, seeded second to the
Americans, required only As minutes
to rack up an easy win over a
British pair. B. E. Whiteman and
s. B. Clark, 60, 60, Go.
The Australian pair of Colin Long
and Geoff Brown smashed past
Bob Mckenzie and j. E. Robson of
New Zealand, 81, 81, rs. Den
marks e. Bjerre and E. -Frigysesy
knocked out F. J. Piercy of Britain
and Bill Robertson of Los Angeles,
.6-4, rs, Is, 6-3.
Another Australian combination,
including the veteran Jack Craw-
ford, French and Wimbledon cham
pion in 1888, and Jack Harper were
knocked out of the competition by
Pancho Segura of Ecuador and En-
rique Morea of Argentina. The
scores were 60, 6-4. 7-9, IS.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
L. s. u. Team Leading
Big Field in College
Golf Tournament
BY ihe A.socioted Press

ANN ARBoR. Mich, June 25.-
The Nations top college golfers bore
down today, hoping not only to
reach the match play bracket, but
also to grab the team champion
ship in the National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association tournament.
BY tonight both issues are ex-
pected to be settled.
Best guess is that individual quail
fiers will have to post 158 or less
to rate among the ga names written
in the match play bracket.
The team title viii be determined
on the basis of the best four-man
aggregate score in the three-day,
36-hole qualifying marathon that
probably will not end until SUM-
down.
Yesterday after approximately 280
ambitious collegians had checked in
their first-round scores, Louisiana
State University's sparkling quintet,
composed of Capt. Jim Wittenberg,
Joe Moore, jr.; Gardner Dickinson,
Jack Coyle and Junius Herbert, had
the inside track.
The first four had carded 30l
strokes, one better than Stanford,
the defending champion.
Under NCAA statutes, the best
four man total will count, thus leav-
ing the Tigers a little more leeway
than their opponents-if their games
hold up.
Virtually all other ,contending
teams-Ohio State (303). Michigan
900, Duke (3o4, University OF
Miami (309), San Jose State Gid,
Oklahoma A. g. M Gid, Oregon
Gid, Oklahoma 1922 and North
western (313t-displayed nothing
that so closely matched the bal
anced consistency of the Southeast
ern Conference champion.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
Stokes-Ives Clash Headlines
Women's Golf; Fovorites Out

Eleanor Finckel of Columbia, dark
horse of the title flight, displayed
keen form in ousting Mrs. w. E.
WEIGH. and s, and was a slight
favorite over Mrs. Marie Walker of
Prince Georges, who defeated Mrs.
Bunker Hill, and 3.
Mrs. Meckley, medalist of the
tourney, bowed out at the hands of
Mrs. D. H Henderson of Congress
sional. up, when the latter dropped
an 8-foot putt A successful putt by
Mrs. S. F. Little of Army Navy also
resulted in Mrs. Pray's elimination.
In other matches Mrs. Richard
Kreuzburg of Kenwood downed Mrs.
Webb Hayes of Columbia, S and 4,
while Mrs. j. r. Daily of Manor
scored over Mrs Rex Howard of
KenWood, 3 and 2.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
By MoIcoIm Lomborne, Jr,


ANNAPOLIS, Md. June as
Repeating her performance of a
year ago when she led the feet to
Bermuda, Henry Taylor's 72-foot
yawl Baruna crossed the finish line
off Tolly Point Buoy rear here to-
day ahead of IS racers in the 1866
mile ocean race from Newport, r. I.
Boiling up the bay before a fresh
southerly, at a speed Of 10 knots,
Baruna, skippered by John Hal
lowell, crossed the finish line at
STA am, 88 hours and IA minutes
out of Newport. Her corrected time
was 87.35:01, an average speed for
the 466 miles was 5.3 knots.
Before o'clock this morning
three boats had finished, with the
Ticonderoga, a ketch owned by
Allen P. Carlisle of New York, being
tagged in at 7:32 in second place
and the Nina, schooner owned by
Decoursey Fales of New York,
finishing at 1855.
AS they turned from the Atlantic
into the last leg yesterday, the Nina
was second but the fresh wind that
came up apparently helped the
Ticonderoga slip ahead and trail
only the Baruna. Carlisle's ketch
was tRe scratch boat for the race.
The Highland Light, 81 : foot
cutter entered by the Naval
Academy, was fourth across the
finish line at 1886 am.
The Vamarie, Nays famed To-
foot ketch, followed the Highland
Light at 1858 and was the first of
the Glass B" craft across the line.
officials did some unofficial cal
culating ON corrected times and
figured the Alar, 45-foot sloop
owned by David z. Bailey of Green
Evening star., 1947-06-25
Motor Porode Arranged
As Honor to Worshum

A motor parade will escort Ma
tional Open Golf Champion Lew
Worsham from Union Station to the,
District Building tomorrow morning
when the city extends an official
welcome to the linksman. Wor-
sham's reception will reach its cli-
max in testimonial dinner tomor-
row night at Congressional Country
Club.
Plates are available for the dinner
at $3.50 each.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
Colleges Find Even Rifle Prospects Hard to Get
Col Gsod Of Maryland Loses Three Scholastic Rules

In the national title shoot. in
which Maryland's /, 1,408 shattered
Iowa's mark Of 1.4o3. Cook. who
averaged 29l during the season.
finished point below teammate
Walter Bowling's 287, which won
the individual crown. Artie,s
only comment was that he was
glad his team score helped set
the record. A similar spirit
helped Cook capture the national
Junior crown two years ago.
But Col. Griswold gives other
members Of the squad their fair
share of credit for winning the
championship. Cook, Bowling
and Emanuel Briguglio were
named on the National Rifle
Associations Golden Bullet
team, the all-America of rifle
shooting, and Joe Decker, Jack
Wasson and Hilton Carter were
picked on the second team. It
was another record d-smashing
performance.
The Terps fired approximately
100000 rounds last year, winning
20 shoulder r-to-shoulder matches
plus the majority of their postal
contests. There's no such thing
as practice round-every target
counts, so they were on the bulls
eye everytime they pulled the
trigger And If you want to know
one Of the reasons for Mary
lands success the colonel says
1t was abstinence from cigars.
A puff or two on cigarette
before match will do no harm,
but the stogies make the little
black spot bounce like a bad
check
Evening star., 1947-06-25

Fireworks were popping pre-
maturely in the women's District
Golf Association championship to-
day at Manor Club with two pre-
tourney favorites, Mrs. Betty Meek
ley of Kenwood and Mrs L. G. Pray
of Columbia. on the sidelines.
Mrs. Walter Stokes of Manor, who
automatically advances to the role
of No. l choice with the above con-
testants out of the way. was to meet
Mrs. John Ives of Columbia today
in a match that had all the ear
marks of si2zler. Mrs. Stokes
eliminated Mrs. E. P. Moore of
Army Navy by a decisive and 3
margin, while Mrs. Ives was forced
to the 18th green to gain 2 and l
verdict over Mrs. Roderick Watson
of Manor.