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Evening star., 1947-12-25

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Evening star., 1947-05-02
Newsprinf Distribution
Is Blamed for Shortage
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

Senator Capehart, Republican, OF
Indiana said yesterday poor distri-
1. button of large stocks of newsprint
brought on the difficulties OF small
newspapers and other publications
In preliminary report on an In
! quiry into the newsprint and paper
shortage by the Senate Small Busi-
ness Subcommittee which he heads,
/ Senator Capehart said:
while it is true that there is a
world shortage of newsprint due to
war conditions, we in this country
: are getting by far the greater pro-
! portion of the worlds supply.
''It is not shortage of newsprint
In this country that is causing the
! difficulties of smaller newspapers
and publications, so much as NAL
" distribution of unusually large sup
plies coming into this country"
The subcommittee recommended
establishment of an overall indus
! try committee which would act to
/ relieve hardship cases among all
types Of publications and arrange
voluntary newsprint contributions
from within the industry.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Northeast Citizens
Plan Hoidog Stands
For Soap Box Derby

The Northeast Council OF Citizens
Associations is arranging to make
the forthcoming Soap Box Derby q
gala event and has appealed to all
citizens associations to bring out
the crowd"
The council, at a meeting last
night, also requested that the asso-
Citations make some contribution for
the celebration Plans are being
made for a hot dog stand and other
stands where the youngsters may get
refreshments. There win be an
elaborate parade, consisting of floats
to be contributed by various asso-
Citations, to launch the Derby which
is sponsored by The Star.
The council also discussed the
question whether ambulances could
answer emergency calls more quickly.
It charged that some anbulances
answering emergency calls are not
stated by physician or an inferno.
A motion was adapted requesting
the Commissioners to require that
each ambulance responding to an
emergency call be accompanied by
q doctor or an inferno, and that
such action as is necessary be taken
to eliminate delays.
Alfred Calvert Of the Lincoln Park
Association spoke briefly on the de-
velopment OF Northeast Washington
Of1cers for next year were NOM
mated. They were jerome P. Lynch
of Brentwood terrace for president,
George B.. 'Clum of River terrace,
vice president; Tracy T. Madden OF
Stanton Park, corresponding secre-
tary, and Mrs. Mary 4. Kane OF
Michigan Park, recording secretary
The election will be held next month.
The meeting was held at the 18th
police precinct station, 170o Rhode
Island avenue NE. and conducted
by Jerome P. Lynch, president.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. wage In

A 15-cents-an-l1our wage i'm
crease was given nearly 1000
members OF the Washington
Laborers' District Council tAFL1
under an agreement signed
shortly after midnight, Randall
C. Wyant, executive secretary Of
the Master Builders Associa-
| ton announced today.
The contract win give the laborers
$1.20 an hour, compared with the
previous $1.05. The agreement will
run to April 80, 1948.
The contract follows lengthy ne
gotiations in which James A. Hol-
den, Labor Department conciliator
participated. The association had
offered $112A after bargaining be-
gan, but the laborers wanted $1.421s
an hour. Mr.. Wyant was spokes-
man for the builders, while Leo
Nazdin, council president, repre-
| Sented the union. The association
Evening star., 1947-05-02

5-cent increase would start August
Il. he said. II the union should
reject this oner OF the Employing
Plasterers' Association. Mr.. Holden
added. another meeting is planned
for II am. Tuesday at the Hamilton
Hotel to continue negotiations. II
the union accepts, the contract
would be closed at that time Charles
O'Brien is chairman of the ern-
ployers' Negotiating Committee.
The plasterers wanted q 371s-
cents-an-hour increase originally,
Mr.. Holden recalled, raising 1t from
$1.37h to SITS. The plasterers have
filed a 30-day strike notice, due to
expire tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Loborers Get 15-Cent Increase
IN Contract With D. c. Builders

represents 50 member building con-
tractors.
Conciliator Holden recalled today
that the laborers had fled 30-day
strike notice on March s but de-
ferred action until now. Last nights
meeting, which resulted In the con-
tract, was held In Laborers' Hall,
SIS New Jersey avenue NV.
In anohter union labor wage
dispute, Mr.. Holden said, about 800
plasterer tenders will meet at 10
am. tomorrow in Laborers' Hall to
consider an offer of 125z cents an
hour wage increase. This would be
effective June Is and an additional
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Hutchinqs, PROXY to speuk

Howard Hutchings and Robert
PROXY, both from the Once En-
|ployes international Union. win
speak at the regular monthly meet
ing OF the District OF Columbia
Shorthand Reporters Federation ia
the Raleigh Hotel at 1890 am. to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1947-05-02
Mothers Day Founder Is 50

WEST CHESTER, Pa, May 2 P.-
Anna M. Jarvis, the founder of
Mothers Day, observed her 83d
birthday quietly yesterday. Blind,
deaf and bedridden, Miss Jarvis has
been at the Marshall Square Sani-
torium for four years.
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Ruth, III but Game, Still Holds
Fans Hearts, Tribute Shows

Yankee Stadium not a person re-
manned seated.
Those fans were shouting, ap-
piauding and whistling. Some
wept, and unashamedly. The
overall picture was a spectacle of
heartfelt appreciation known to
few men and it will live as
tremendous tribute to the most
dynamic figure in baseball his
tory.
Thank God for baseball"
whispered Babe after explaining
a wheezy voice that came from
a tortured throat. He cited the
opportunity for youngsters to
rise from the lowliest level to
lofty heights in baseball and no
better symbol of his statement
exists than in Ruth.
There have been so many
lovely things said about me-"
concluded Babe, That I am glad
to have the opportunity to thank
YOU" 1t was gracious finish for
fabulous man who never again
may appear at Yankee Stadium.
There was much said in praise
of Ruth by Albert B. Chandler,
Commissioner Of baseball; Ford
Frick, president of the National
League; William Harridge, pres
ident of the American League,
and others, but a bronze plaque
with signatures of American
League club owners which will
be presented to Ruth seemed to
say it all.
In honor and sincere apprecia-
ton to Babe Ruth, whose contri-
button to baseball will live for
ever" reads the inscription.
Evening star., 1947-04-28
BY Staff Correspondent OF The stor

by Sf0ff SoFreSPcndenf OF Inc Sfot
CHICAGO, April 28.-On a few
occasions in the course of a life
time sports fans will experience
intense emotional upheavals. One
of those moments materialized
yesterday at Yankee Stadium
when Babe Ruth, not fully recov-
cred from an illness that hos
pitalized him for months, stepped
to a microphone before an admir-
ing throng of 58,339 and spoke in
a hoarse, faltering whisper.
Two of the most memorable,
heart -wrenching scenes in Yam
kee Stadium history will be
etched indelibly in the minds of
those who saw and heard Lou
Gehrig under similar circum-
stances in 1912 and those who
sat, shocked and silent, while
Ruth ravaged by illness rasped
ominously.
IT am the luckiest man in the
world" said Gehrig, who had
wavered so badly from the effects
of paralysis that Manager Joe
Mccarthy stepped to his side and
placed a supporting arm about
him. 1t was a sad spectacle, but
when Lou had finished his per-
feet little speech there was a
conviction he felt he was the
worlds luckiest man, after all.
Ruth's speech was equally sin
cere.
Those who listened to the Ma
tion-wide broadcast of Ruth's
speech or were present at Yankee
Stadium can have no lingering
doubts that Babes illness and re-
cent operation have left him a
mere shell of the mighty man who
wrote slugging story which will
live forever.
Ruth.s hold on the sports world
never was illustrated so graph
ically when the slouched, wan
figure in the familiar camel's
hair coat and cap walked slowly
from the Yankees dugout. A
throaty roar rose from the triple
terraces of humanity. and in vast
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Rodeo Invades Saturday
For Nine-Day Showing

The rodeo - Col. Jim E,skew's
show-comes to Washington on Sat-
urday and Advance Man Foghorn
Clancy is telling all who will listen
that it's back to its prewar form.
The show is billed at Uline Arena
for nine-day stand.
Seventy-flve per cent of the COM
peting cowboys are veterans, in
Guiding most of the Shows head
liners. Among the featured riders
are Bob Matthews, wounded while
in the Obi theater. and Jack Ken
nedy, wounded in Europe. Matthews
particularly was in bad shape with
wounds received in two battles and
was told he'd never walk again. He
not only walks now but turns in
some of the shows best trick riding.
Among the other veterans are
Junior Eskew, the colonel's son; Ken
Roberts, wild bull riding champion,
and Jack Favor, a bronc rider.
Cowboys aren't the only featured
actors with this rodeo. There1l be
$50 head of livestock on hand,
headed by Doodler, a 1,5oo-pound
bull which has been given a quail
fled ride only once.
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Six-Fur|ong Handicap
Feature al PimIico
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, April 28.-Pimlico's s
12-day meeting opens today with
the $7,500-added Baltimore Spring
Handicap as the main feature.
Nine entries were attracted to the
6-furlong dash, the first of IA stakes
to be offered
The 57th running of the Freak
ness will highlight the Pimlico
spring offering May 10, with the
cream of the Kentucky field sched-
uled to compete.
The Maryland Jockey Club Is dis
tributing more than $4,000 per day
in purses, and 1000 entries have
been made for the stake events alone.
Barns are jammed with racers,
and the overflow is sheltered at
Laurel, Havre de Grace and Timon-
ium.
Calumet Farms Pepwell who has
won two out of four starts this year;
Alfred Vanderbilt's Kitchen Police
and Lord Grillo were expected to top
the field in today's Pimlico head
liner.
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Cards Are Suffering
Natural Lefdown,
Pilot Dyer Says
By ChorIes Chamberlain
Associated Press Sports Writer

CHICAGO, April 28.-Now that
the World Champion st. Louis
Cardinals have lost five games in a
row and are Summing in the Ma
tional League cellar, what does
Manager Eddie Dyer have to say?
Nothing is wrong with us that
a few base hits and good pitching
won't cure"
We've heard that somewhere be-
fore, Mr.. Dyer, at least a million
times. Can't you say something
that will give the fans more gen.
eral idea?
II think that sums it up pretty
neatly"
Not Worried About Stan.
Well, perhaps-especially when
you figure that Stan Musial, who
belted 1865 last year as the National
League batting champion, has only
5 hits in 81 trips so far. ~.
yeah, but Stan will snap out of
it-he's a natural. Do you realize
that in the six times we've been
beaten to date, those Cubs have
tagged us for four of them? Four
straight, mind you. We only got
four hits Sunday-and didn't get
past second base-and six Satur-
day and the only ones for extra
bases were Del Rice's homer and
doubles by Marty Marion and
Whitley Kurowski. We've had some
scratches and beaten them out.
We're still running, all right, and
We'll start hitting, too"
Why the lack of punch?
Natural Letdown.
Frankly, I think maybe we were
too good in spring training and it's
just a natural letdown now. We
won 18 and lost 9 and our pre-
season record against major league
clubs was AT. Before the season
is over every club will hit slump.
Maybe we are getting ours now"
That's encouraging, Mr.. Dyer.
Now if you would give the great
horde OF Cardinal fans just a little
more assurance we know it would
be appreciated.
Sure, I'll oblige. The Cardinals
are still tops. So are Brooklyn, the
Cubs and Boston Braves. They'll
give us plenty of trouble. Pitts
burgh? I don't think the Pirates
can stay up. They haven't got
enough balance"
Evening star., 1947-04-28
By MerrelI WhittIesey

Lew Worsham started his back
swing on a long iron shot on the
18th hole of the last round in the
Middle Atlantic PGA champion
ship at Hampton Country Club yes
terday when the wind caught a
spectators hat and sent it spin
ming over Lewis ball.
Worsham checked his swing,
picked up the hat and handed it
to the owner. The galleryite was
terribly disturbed, fearing he had
upset Worsham, and further de-
layed Lewis shot with a profuse
apology. Worsham proceeded to
smack the long iron shot on the
green and two-putt for birdie 4.
That was an example of the new
Worsham's concentration. Al
though this tournament on the Vir-
ginia course was a comparatively
minor one, Lew wanted that 81 900
top prize and nothing upset him.
In the manner of true golfing
champion, Lew shook off two dou-
BILE bogeys without a display of
temperament, he didn't get mad at
the bumpy greens and when he
heard somebody tied or passed him,
he simply went out and shared
birdie or two.
WorSham Is Hampton Native.
In winning this third Middle At
lantic PGA championship with a
285 total, three under par for 70
holes, over the Hampton course. the
28-year-old Washington pro made
it sort of a homecoming. Worsham
was born in Hampton and played
high school golf matches over the
Hampton course before his family
moved to Washington when Lew
was ID.
The $1,000 Worsham won will not
count toward his eighth-place
standing among the Nations lead
ing money winners, but it earned
him lot of self-satisfaction as he
gave Sam Snead a sound trouncing
Snead didn't come out and say it,
but his manner in this tournament
was that he stopped over to pick up
an easy thousand for two days work.
He was the leader at the halfway
mark. Sam and Lew were playing
partners yesterday. Worsham passed
him on the sixth hole of the morn
Evening star., 1947-04-28
.CYO Baseball Loop Play
Marked by Close Scores

Most of the CYO League baseball
games played yesterday were won
by close margins. st. Francis Xavier
and st. Teresa's, however, walked
away from their respective oppo-
nents, st. Aloysius and Mount CAL
vary, by 21-4 counts.
In other league contests, St.
Anne's nosed out Nativity, 7-6: Holy
Trinity thumped st. Stephens, 16-
IL: Blessed Sacrament edged st.
Michael's, 8-6; st. Peters won over
Holy Name, Us, and Our Lady of
Lourdes dropped So decision to
ST. Michael's
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Steudiness Tells as Worshum
Tops Snead for Hampton Win
Iron Play Is Excellent.

ing rouno and Snead never caught
up.
Iron Play Is Excellent.
Snead and Worsham were about
even off the tee as they took turns
outhitting each other. Their iron
play was excellent with one or two
exceptions, but the difference in
Worsham's two par rounds of 72 and
Snead's 1914 was that Worsham
was consistent on the green and
Snead retained his poor mental out
look and addressed each putt in the
manner of man who knew he was
going to miss-and did.
Worsham won the title by three
strokes over Portsmouth's Chandler
Harper and Jack Isaacs of Langley
Field, who tied for second with 288,
one stroke ahead of Snead Isaacs
and WorSham were tied with 18 to
play and Harper was only one stroke
back.
Worsham had only one real lapse
yesterday, Dut mere again MS con-
centration paid off. Lew took nice
lead into the 18th hole of the morn
ing round, an easy 2s6-yard par 4
that Snead drove on Saturday. Lew
was 2 under par, five strokes ahead
Of Snead on the round, but instead
of a smooth swing he tried to bend
one onto the green and bent tout
of bounds.
His second tee shot was almost
out. virtually unplayable, and after
sacrificing out into the fairway he
fubbed an approach short of the
green, even with Snead's drive. He
was where Snead was l.
But instead of pounding his club
g. IIrGAa cSII A NJ n.ezH a o 3 -
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Times in Drake Relay,
Better Than Marks
Made in Penn Meet
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, April %. - A
comparison of times and distances
set in the Penn and Drake Relays
over the week end found the ath-
letes performing in the Midwest
winning hands down.
Illinois feat of winning three
major relay titles equalled the Ohio
State Drake total, but the Illini
time in the quarter mile, distance
medley and 880-yard relays didn't
come up to the performances turned
in by Indiana and Texas in the
Drake carnival. .-. .~a. %
The Drake times were faster in
every team event.
Ohio State won the two-mile relay
in 7:46 as against Fordham's 7:50.I
in the same event at Penn. The
Buckeyes won the mile relay in the
fast time of 3:14.3 as compared tc
N. Y. us 3:18.8 here ano took the
480-yard shuttle event in meet rec
ord time of 594 seconds. Indiana
turned in lola in the shuttle on
the Franklin Field turf.
Texas was clocked in 41.2 for the
quarter and 1883 for the half to
tie the meet record while Indiana
only school to run at both meets
covered the distance race in 10:09.2
Illonois won the three In Ait, 1851
and 10:1o.8.
] Drake took the four mile relay in
1921, as compared to Penn States
1926 here. N. Y. U. won the Penn
sprint medley in 1852, but Michi-
gan State did it at Drake in 3:25.6
Harrison billiard, Baldwin Wal
lace ace, hung up new Drake rec
ord of AL seconds in the 120-yard
high hurdles. The Drake perform
ers in the discus, broad jump, high
jump and 100-yard dash all turned
in better times than their Penn
counterparts.
The only Penn competitors to bet
ter Drake records were A. Richmond
(Boo) Morcom, New Hampshire
who scared IA feet, three inches for
new carnival pole vault mark
nine inches higher than the Drake
winner; Jeffrey Kirk, Penn's 400
meter hurdle speedster, and winners
of the shot put, javelin and two
mile.
N. Y. us Bernie Mayer was the
only double winner among indi-
vidual performers winning the shot
and discus at Penn.
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Experts Are. Puzzled
Over Collapse Of
Cards and Red Sox
By Joe ReichIer
>'''-
Associated Press Sports Writer

ASSoctdfe0 PFeSS oPofb Wfhsf
What has happened to the Cards
and Red Sox?
1t still is a bit early for too much
concern, but already calamity how'll
ers are pointing at the lowly position
occupied by the defending cham
pions in the current major league
pennant races.
Instead of at least duplicating
last years early showing when they
won 8 of their first IL games at this
corresponding date, the Redbirds, in
a complete about face, have dropped
seven of their first nine starts
against their Western rivals to find
themselves sharing a cellar berth
with the New York Giants, five full
games behind the first-place Brook
lyn Dodgers.
None Hitting 800.
The Cardinals, from spark plug
Stan Musial down, are not hitting
their weight. In addition, the
pitchers are not doing the kind of
hurting of which they are capable
For instance, in absorbing a 80
shutout at the hands of the Cubs
in Chicago yesterday, the Redbirds
climaxed a nine-game stretch during
which they made only SO hits in
290 times at bat for a meager 200
batting average. Not a single st.
Louis player is hitting 300.
The Cubs moved into second place,
one game behind the Dodgers.
Although not as disappointing as
the Cards, Boston's Red Sox have
not looked at all like the club
which swept aside all opposition in
easy fashion last year. Playing a
majority of their II games against
the lowly Philadelphia Athletics,
the Sox have won s., lost S and
tied /.
AS they head West for their first
extended road trip, they are only
a game and half behind the first
place New York Yankees, but, on
the gloomier side, are the same dis
tance away from last place.
Red Sox Tie AS, SIS.
A year ago today the Sox were
rolling along, having won 10 of Is
games and were riding the crest of
a 15-game winning streak.
The Sox had to come from behind
to earn standoff yesterday as rain
halted the first game Of sched-
uled double-header with the Red
Sox and AS deadlocked, 6-6, at the
end of nine innings. The second
game was washed out. Trailing 6-5.
the Sox tied the score in the last
of the eighth on two hits and as
many walks.
Although they lost to the Wash
ington Senators, the Yankees had
the satisfaction of taking over first
place from the Chicago White Sox,
who dropped both ends of double
headr to the Browns at st. Louis,
AZ and 4-3.
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Clemson S Nine Backs
Into Conference Lead
BY the Assoeiofed Press

The University of Richmond prob
ably will need a clean sweep OF its
three Southern Conference games
this week to oust Clemson College,
which backed into top spot last week.
Clemson, with six victories, and
one loss to date, has only one con-
ference game on Wednesday with
The Citadel, which toppled before
the Clemson nine earlier in the sea-
son, 14-4.
Richmond, now trailing Clemson
by half game, takes to the road to
meet three other Virginia members
Washington and Lee, Virginia
Tech and Virginia Military-on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The
Richmond team lost sole possession
of the conference lead by reason
of 10 shutout at the hands of
William and Mary Saturday, its first
defeat of the year. Clemson was idle
in the conference last week, but its
previous record moved it to the fore.
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Ruth Holds Reunion
with Lad Whose Life
He Saved in 1926
BY The Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 2s-Babe
Ruth had weekend reunion with
the hero-worshipping kid-now
grown up-whose life he was cred
tied with saving 81 years ago by
hitting three home runs in the
fourth game of the 1926 World
Series.
Johnny Sylvester, then II and
suffering from a spinal infection
that caused specialists to give up
hope, asked for a baseball auto
graphed by the Babe and said he'd
like to see him hit a homer.
Ruth sent two balls autographed
by baseball stars and a promise
of a homer and made good in triple
fashion.
Johnny recovered rapidly in Es-
sex Fells, N. j., and the physicians
said Ruth was responsible.
Later, the New York Daily News
arranged to have the Babe call on
the boy and Johnny's recovery was
accelerated.
Vii odhC ItuCil LAY ItlC pail llCt
again, through the auspices of the
Sunday News.
John Sylvester. now 80, married,
Princeton graduate, former naval
officer, a business executive and res
ident of Garden City, N. Y, called
with his wife at Ruth's apartment.
Hello, Babe" he said. I'm grown
up now, thanks to you"
They talked over old times and
Of Johnnys illness, and the Babe
told of his own recent long hospital
siege.
Taking out the baseballs Ruth
sent him two decades ago, Sylvester
said IT thought you'd like to see
these, SIR
"Those were great days." Ruth
said, lingering the baseballs. 1--WE
gotten a great kick out of having
you come to see me, son."
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Chandler Delays MacPhai|
Hearing Until Thursday
BY the Associated Press

CINCINNATI, April 28.-Baseball
commissioner A. B. Chandler today
postponed until II am. Thursday
his meeting here with Larry Mac
Phail. general manager of the New
York Yankees.
Chandler originally set the con-
ference for tomorrow, but changed
the date after MacPhail said he had
prior engagement. He purported-
ly wants to talk with MacPhail be-
cause he has not observed his order
for silence among baseball men
regarding the suspension for the
season of Leo Durocher, manager of
the Brooklyn Dodgers,
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Seek Diamond Dates

The st. Francis Xavier Troop IS
baseball team is seeking games on
la home-and-home basis with teams
in the IL to 16 year old group. Call
Fred P. Amthor at Trinidad 1855
after 6 pm. or write to 172o Twenty
eighth place Sc.
Evening star., 1947-04-28
Honors ire Ruth,
Don't Cut Appetite
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 28.-Mrs.
Babe Ruth said today the former
home-run king enjoyed the lux
ury Of sleeping until mid-morn-
ing and then ate a leisurely
breakfast.
He was a bit tired after yes
terday's big affair cat Yankee
Stadium and completely over
come with it ALL" Mrs. Ruth
said, "but after a good nights
s,eep he was ready for break
fast ="