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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
MRS. FANNIE DEVAUN

Mrs. Fannie DeVaun, "a, wife
of the late D. E. DeVaun dice
early yesterday at her residence.
TIT S. Sixth street after a short
illness.
Funeral services will be held al
the Lebanon Baptist church.
Wednesday afternoon at three
o'clock. The Rev. Woodrow Rob-
bins and the Rev. P. H. McCarn
will officiate and interment will
follow in the church cemetery.
The funeral cortege is scheduled
to leave the Harrell-Coble funeral
home this afternoon at two O'Clock.
Pallbearers will be 1. S. Winetts,
Erkin Swain, George Swain, Ear
carp, Floyd Hickman and M. B.
Robbins.
Mrs. DeVaun is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. D. F. Murray, III
S. Sixth street; and five sons,
L. L., r. G., z. T., w. l.. and
D. S. DeVaun.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
M. I. JACKSON

Funeral services Tor M. j. Jack.
son, 81, who died early Sunday
morning we're held yesterday aft
ernoon at 3 O'Clock from the Yopp
Funeral home. The Rev. Eugene
D. Witherspoon officiated and
burial followed in Bellevue Gem
etery.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26

..u The Duke Foundation has grant
ed the James Walker Memorial
hospital an appropriation of $7,504
according to an announcement
made by a Spokesman for the Or
Plantation in Charlotte last night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
OBITUARIES

Mary E. Sutton. Three daughters;
Mrs. Margaret Carlotti of Better
via. California. Misses Mary Lynn
and Elizabeth Sutton of the home.
Three sons; Ernest Vann, Jr., OF
the home. Robert Clyde Sutton
of Wilmington and Pvt. Richard
Donald Sutton, stationed with the
w. S. Army in Germany. One
brother; Robert Sutton of Eliza
BEETHOVEN.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
MRS. ALICE y. CHEsTNUT


TABOR CITY, March 25-Mrs.
Alice Lenore Chestnut, 10, Of Con-
way, S. c, died at her home yes
terday.
Surviving are her husband, A.
Chestnut, two brothers; Hamp and
Wilson Edge, one sister. Mrs. En-
ma HARRISON; three half broth.
ers, Liston, Hob and Hubert Edge
and four half sisters, Mrs. Ruth
Johnson, Mrs. Grace Skipper, Mrs.
Bell Holt and Mrs. Carrie Holt,
all of Conway.
Funeral services were held Tues.
day at II am. from the Bethlehem
Baptist church with the Rev. Berry
Williams officiating. Interment fol
lowed in the Bethlehem cemetery.
ERNEST VANN SUTTON
TOMAHAWK, March 25-Funeral
services for Ernest Vann Sutton,
SO year-old prominent farmer and
civic leader of Tomahawk, died
in a Durham hospital Monday
night after a brief illness.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock
from the Riverside Baptist church.
1nterment will follow in the church
cemetery.
He was the son of the late Archie
Corbett Sutton of Bladen county.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
City Items

The present local re%creatlonal
facilities for service lei will be
transferred over to city recrea'
ton department and the program
will be financially assisted by the
United Service Organization for the
next three months, Ralph Richards,
.USO director, said yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26

Coach Leon Brodgen and his
State Championship Basketball
squad of New Hanover High schoo.
will be the guests Of the Civitan
club today at their regular lunch
con meeting in the Crystal res
taurant. John Fox is in charge
of the program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26

Data and information on docking
and boating facilities in the South
eastern North Carolina Beach as
sociation area is being compiled
for the benefit of out-of-town boat
owners who are to come into this
area for the Fishing Rodeo on
September IS, according to Ken
Noble, SENCBA publicity director.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26

George Washington, S &c, yes
terday enlisted in Class VS. OF
the inactive Naval Reserve, local
officials reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26

The first quarterly meeting OF
the board of directors Of the
Community Chest will be held at
4 o. m. in the Chest conference
room in the Tide Water building,
according to H. A. Marks, presi-
dent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26

Delegations from the Whining
ton Post of the American Legion
and the local auxiliary will attend
the area and district meeting OF
the Legion and Auxiliary in Kin
ston this afternoon and tonight.
Smyrna times., 1947-12-11

ian Price, Lavina Smith, Betty
Starkey, Doris Virden.
Grade 9-3, Miss Walker, teacher
Lorraine Stats, Mary Vaughn,
Verna Smith, Maxine O'Neal, Anna
Knots, Beverly Herbert, Betty
Jean Foxwell, Shirley David, De-
lores David, Nellie Daniels.
Grade 81, Mrs. Smack, teacher
Patsy Dignan, Shirley Reynolds,
Robert bigger, Charles Brown, Will
liam Brown, William Doughten,
Rodney Fox, James Foxwell. John
Isaacs, William Kellums, James
Mood, Allen Pratt, Charles Mood,
Allen Pratt, Charles Reynolds.
James Reynolds.
Grade 80, Miss Gazan, teacher
Floyd Croll, David Jacobs, jam
es Leager, George Luff, William
Warner, Doris Dukes, Evelyn Helm
old, Joan McNatt, Patricia Middle
ton, Joanne Oechsler, Charlotte
O'Neal, Janet Rash, Clara Robin
son.
Grade I'll, Mr.. Williams, teacher
Patricia A. Beck, Bernice Burris,
Arleen Cole, Virginia NJ Ennis,
Nancy A. Knotts, Bertha M. Lane,
Allene H. Nowland, Jane I. Postle-
wait, Nancy A. Scott, Elsie M.
Shockley, Pauline L. Shockley,
Beverly A. Short, Marie Steller,
Raymond E. Dyer, Karl E. Francis
Kenneth Marsh.
Grade 7-2, Miss Cornelius, teach
er-Kenneth Attix, Brooks Banta,
Edward Caldwell, Donald David,
John Doughten, Walter Eierman,
Roger Hudson, Gilbert Johnson,
Walter Ramsey, Aaron Reynolds,
Richard Scott, Earl Shane, Frank
lin Shane, Shirley Crossley, Betty
Hess, Jane Hugh, Virginia Rash,
Patricia Ryan, Janet Wolford.
Grade 7-3, Miss Rupert, teacher
-Marlyn Attix, Josephine Brown,
Doris Dignan, Peggy Everett, Ann
Graham, Robert Jones, John Mar
shall, Nelson Messick, Doris Nabb,
Catherine Pearce, Esther Ann
Poore, Raymond Pusey, James
Snow, Ronald Stanley, William
Steller, William Vaughn, Barbara
Wallace.
Grade 6-1, Miss B. Matthews,
teacher-Joan Baggs, Janice Car
row, Christine Chopper, Doris Gard
ner, Gloria Pearce, Helen Scott,
Barry Attix, James Brown, Roland
Burris, Edgar Cox, William Dig
nan, William Fleming, Harry JAR
man, Robert Lofland, Alvin Low
man, Stephen McNatt, John Pearce,
Samuel Seward, Walter Truax,
Harry Virdin.
Grade 6-2, Mrs. D. Smith, teach
Barmas, James Burris,
Jerry Dilks, Elaine Harris, Lester
Horsey, Ruth Kinsey, William
Frank Marshall, Claonia
Smyrna times., 1947-12-11
ATTENDANCE AT
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Teachers of Smyrna Schools
Submit Their Honor List
to the Superintendent
HONOR ROLL FOR MONTH

Smyrna Special School District.
George w. Wright, superintendent,
submits the following list of pu-
pills reported by the teachers of the
twelve grades who are entitled to
go on the perfect attendance honor
roll for November:
Grade IL, Mr.. King, teacher: AL
fred Buck, Frances Burris, Laura
Belle Downs, Marie FAIRIES, Naomi
Naclary, Alice Jane Matthews,
Charlotte Mitchell, Betty Regener,
Grace Shorts, Lorraine Smith.
Grade Ill, Mrs. O'Neill, teach
er-James Buckson, Bobby Collins,
Earl Harris, Ray Mabrey, Albert
Regener, Mary Alice Blendt, Jean
Brown, Dot Burge, Helen Burge,
Jane Dukes, Thelma Foxwell, Mary
Rogers.
Grade 11-2, Miss E. Smith, teach
er-Virginia Johnson, D n a d
Knots, Edna Leiby, Ruth Mitchell,
Martin Mofitt, Virginia Newcomb,
Ronald Nowland, Louis Oliphant,
Suzanne Pratt, Helen Sawyer, John
Shetzler, Robert Warner, Elizabeth
Wagner, Martin Williams, Russell
Woolston.
Grade 10-1, Miss Brown, teacher
Jeanne Ballard, Josephine Budd,
Betty Lou Carrow, Ellen Gosch,
Blanche Kemp, Albert Lane, Ralph
Peters, Paul Mullins, Charles Reed,
Carolyn Dudasik.
Grade 1912, Mrs. McGill, teacher
Neal Tilghman, Ethel Lane, Mary
E. Moor, Emma Rosengren, Mary
Sue Ross, Betty Schweitzer, Vir-
ginia Shockley, Jane Virdin, Edith
Zippe.
Grade 81, Miss Johnson, teacher
William E. Bartlett, Paul r.
Brommer, Philip Denney, Linden S.
Doughten, Richard E. Ennis, Or
vile R. Halliday, Charles E. Nabb.
Richard G. Rogers, Sarita Peter
son, Betty l.. Conner, Joan D.
Davis, Evelyn Eckard, Marion Har-
ris, Mary Jane McClain, Joyce A.
McNatt, Sara J. Sparks, Margaret
Truax.
Grade 9--2, Miss Webb, teacher
Howard Everett, William Marsh,
Marvin Redmond, Harold Roden-
hiser, Gene Short, Kenneth Thorpe,
Deborah Ballard, June Cook, Mar
tina Hurd, Betty Sue Jarman, ,Kath-
crime Jones, Myrtle Jarman, Mar
Smyrna times., 1947-12-11

McNatt, Alice Mood, James Ross.
Carlton Seward, William Seward,
Edgar Smith, Barbara Stats, Hell
en- Truax.
Grade 81, Miss Scout, teacher
Danford Bailey, Howard Brown,
Clark David, Philip Deamer, Roy
Donovan, John Everett, Earl Fran
els, Kendall Hudson, Wayne Hutch
ins, Edwin Robinson, Charlotte
Boyer, Ella Jane Dignan, Carolee
Green, Mary Lowe Herbert, Mary
Ann Jarman, Violet Marshall,
Louise Mayberrie, Frances Savins,
Barbara Shortt.
Grade 5-2, Mrs. Jarman, teacher
Charles Fortner, James Gray,
James Haas, Samuel Jacobs, Ger
aid Mood, Nathan Porter, Robert
Reed, Bonnie Gay Scott, Joan
Shorts, Doris May Smith, Ronald
Stevens, Jennie Still, Betty Travis.
Grade Al, Mrs. Piper, teacher
Barbara Baggs, Ann Barbas, Pa
tricia Barnes, Mary Lettie Brown,
Christine Clough, Mary Frances
Clough, Beronica Dixon, Larry
Bailey, Dickie Blevins, Donald
Brown, Bobby Burge, Billy Cole,
Louis Daniels, Robert Ennis, Karl
Gebhart, Geroge Hyatt, Walter
Luckowski, Tommy Price, Dick
Price, Jack Todd.
Grade Az, Mrs. Slaughter, teach
er-Edwin Alfree, Freddy Allen,
Janice Burris, Betty Lee Dulin,
Melvin Gardner, Betty Lou Hurd,
Robert Kellums, Joan Loose, Pa
tricia Lowman, Kenneth Maynard,
Barbara McVey, Ellen Peters, Shir-
ley Porter, Rodney Reynolds, Henry
Steller, Betty Vessel.
Grade 81, Mrs. P. Matthews,
teacher - Robert Alfree, James
Bailey, Dewey Burris, Robert Bur-
ris. Ronald Burris, William Carter,
Frank Daniels, Larry Dignan, Clar-
ence M. Emerson, Charles Gray,
Wayne Hurd, Freddy McNatt, DON
aid O'Neal, Ander Pearce, Eugene
Robinson, Freddy Savin, Beverly
David, Betty Ann Foraker, jean
cite Fortner, Kathryn O'Connor,
Patsy Pappas.
Grade 80, Mrs. Powell, teacher
Margaret Biddle, Betty Brown,
Barbara Deamer, Nancy Everett,
Elizabeth Faulkner, Elaine Helm
old, Rose Knotts, Louise Mills,
Shirley Morris, Marian Pearce, Pa
tricia Ramsey, Marjorie Seward,
Gertrude Steller, Donna Uhlendorff,
Frances Williams, John Barnes,
Kenneth Boyer, William Bullock,
David Deakyne, Bruce Ennis,
Wayne Gardner, Richard Nelson
Clifton Shane, William Wetter, Will
liam Croll.
Grade 2-1, Mrs. Ricards, teacher
Roger D. Kelsey, Richard Reed,
Continued on Page Eight
The frontiersman., 1947-08-09
! OenAl,t|o~DUe
  ICNDAY

Tho ssch odul cd ar- rival :. timo of tho ,stoamer Denalt, at f fir st duo today, was pos tponed until Mon- day, tho < ,,Aud orson Dock agents of, A1esko St5cmship Co.,, wero inf ormed in :. a wiro yestorday..
 Tho DonG1i is now dua to arrivc in So1- .dovia ct 2 am. on Monday morning. Sho will dischargo ,nearly 200 tons of local fir tight end will load. 10, 900. ccsos of. out- bound salmon-
The frontiersman., 1947-08-09
= UTilITY HCARC
  MEETs MONO AZ

Tho regu1 ar moot ing of tho Publ ic Ut- ility Board is schod- u1 ed for 8 o'c lock noxt Monday evoning, chairman Jack English r 3mi nd ad mmbers to- day. Meeting place is in tho council ch Cmbers.
The frontiersman., 1947-08-09
CASH AND GARRYAfARKETTC"CpEN pEN

fJk / fO NOS
 fOR STREETS
 Ways and mecns of raising money to gre- vel Scldov ia's s tr . cts and to robui1d tho sagging Boardwalk wore discussed ct last nights council meoting. Since tho rovcnue dcrived from the Boardwalk tax doos not :; ct present. cover repair cos ts, much timo .wcs given to a cons ider ction of methods for rGis ing additional money.
 It was suggc stod that pr obably pil ing could b. luagcd by fish ermen Whcn local fishtr aps aro lifted this fall, thus sev- ing tho cost of the purchase Of now tim bers.
 One counc il mcmbor suggested asking 9 voluntary assos smcnt of Sl fr on each local resident to covor a part of tho cost of the now cons truct i on planned. Counc ilman Kennoth Patton agreod to proscnt the mattor
 Cont. Pagc A
The frontiersman., 1947-08-09
Mo-. "A

-U<s:CpEN 6 :. PAlTAzC R'S ToRf |SfRvf"rCURsftf = [cRCcfxY
 Seldovio's z first str ictly cash and carry merkot will bo- gin doing bus moss hero on Sept. :, whom Mr.. and Mrs. ~ lloyd Bond assume tho, man. ag om ent of Baltazor's Variety, Notio and .Ncws Storo.
 Tho transfer of menago oment was announ- cod yesterday by Georga Baftazor, pro- sont oynor. MT. Balt~, azor plans: to go Out s ide; this winto CT to mako his homo at Cald- woll. Idaho. Hc said, ,' how avor, that ho= pl an~ ned to r eturn to" Al : askc, which has boon hts. homo for tho past 20 yoars. = ;. Mr. Bond said last night that it was his plan to clear the sholvos of all no- tions and novelties and to convert tho store to tho handl ing of groc cries only. Ho pla ans to mako of it a solf-s sorvico storo.
 His plans for tho
 (Cont. Pago 6)
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Heurich Nine Heading
For. AAbA Third D. T..
Outfit in u. ). Meets
.AP Wirephoto.

Washington has been represented
by a winner and runnerup in Ma
ton wide amateur baseball COM
petition this year and will send a
third team after national laurels
today when the city champion Heu-
rich Brewers leave for Harrisburg
Pa, and the All-America Amateur
Baseball Association unlimited
championship starting Wednesday
Marx Jewellery won the junior
national title last week and the
Union Printers nine advanced to
the title round of the Printers
championship.
Heurich, Industrial League cham
pions and undefeated winner of the
city series between champions of the
major sandlot leagues, reached the
AABA semifinals in 1914 in Balti-
more in their only previous appear
ance in the tournament.
The Brewers have been strength
ened by the drafting of three players
from rival clubs, per regulations
Manager George Pepco) Barry Sc
lected Pitcher Boots PAMELA, Mary
land University ace. and Harry
Crauthamel from Cameo and
Catcher Sonny Moreland from Sun
nybrook.
Players who will make the trip In
addition to Barry and the draftees
are: Pitchers Otis Printz, Jack Ly-
ons, Ernie Utz and Frank Mahon;
Catchers Knocky Thomas and Fee
Colliere; Infielders Bernie Good
William Kaufman, Frank Brewer
and Max Coe and Outfielders Archie
Via, Jack Castro, Joe Valenti, Bobby
Horan and Red Giegerich.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
New D. {. Softly Champions
Jump Into Regional Play

The District softban champions
were scheduled to jump from the
city series right into tomorrow
nights regional tournament in
Philadelphia, where the mems
champion Thrifty Beverages team
meets the Philadelphia winners and
Garvin's Grill, girls champs, play
the Maryland winners.
Thrifty Beverages was forced to
play two games to eliminate Mount
Rainier yesterday as the Mounts
eyened the series with 5-1 triumph
in the first game. Fred Cramer
pitched two-hit ball in the night
cap, however, to win for Thrifty. 20.
Garvin's Grill girls had little
trouble with F'BI in the TO title
game as Maroon Burke pitched one
hit ball.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Legion Final Struggle
Goes 10 Cincinnati
By the Associoted Press

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1.-The kids
from the Robert Bentley Post so of
Cincinnati, Ohio, playing the brand
of ball that has carried them to 81
victories in 3S games this season,
won the American Legion National
Junior baseball championship yes
terday by edging out Ebert Post l
Of Little Rock, Ark, 3 to 2, in the
series final.
The boys from the Buckeye State
broke % deadlock in the eighth
inning to grab the 1947 title. 1t was
the second time the Bentley Post
of Cincinnati had entered e cham
pionship team in the annual series,
having won the title in 1914
Bob Andres, 17-year-old right
handler, had his curve ball working
right. He famed 10 while his Gin
cinnati teammates were collecting
10 hits. Stewart Helm sprinted all
the way from second with the win
ming run when Jimmy Frey singled
to center in the eighth.
1t was a tight pitching duel with
Little Rocks Ernie Funk the loser.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Precedent Is Against Mize
In Quest of Ruth's Record

46th until September 6, with %
games to 60.
Greenberg. in fact, kept we'll ahead
of Ruth's pace up until his final
58th homer in his teams $50 game.
The Tigers that year played 155
games as did the Yankees of 1927,
so Greenberg had five games left in
which to clout three circuit blows
which would have enabled him to
shatter Ruth's record. But Hank,
in his two final games on home
grounds and three in Cleveland,
failed to get any hit longer than a
two bagger in 81 times at bat. He
made five singles, double and
walked three times.
FoXX, the Philadelphia Athletics
great slugger, had 48 home runs
going into September of 1882, but
had already played 121 of his team S
154 games. On September 13, he
was four games in front of Ruth
with his SD home run, but failed to
hit his SD until the 18th and fell
out of the running. Foxx closed fast,
hitting five home runs in his last
five games, including one in his last
time at bat during the regular sea-
son, but fell two short.
Wilson, whose 56 round-trippers
for the Chicago Cubs stands as the
National League record, started
September with 46 homers, three
more than Ruth started that month
with. In his final rs games, how
ever, the stock outfielder slammed
only 10 four-baggers to fall short by
four. Wilson had Sc with two games
to go, but failed to knock one out of
the park
And now comes Mize, the first
Ileft-handed batter since Gehrig to
threaten Ruth He is two games
ahead of the Babes pace, needing
16 home runs in the Giants final
% games for tie. The Bambino
belted his final 16 homers in the
Yankees last 26 games.
Few Games Left at Home.
The moon-faced fence buster OF
the Giants faces a difficult task
! (See MIzE, Page abb
Evening star., 1947-09-01
.Coors Garry On Fight
For Semipro Laure|s
BY the Associofed Press

WICHITA, Kans., Sept. 1.-THE
undefeated Fort Wayne Gnd)
Electrics and the once beaten
Golden (Colo) Coors will meet
tonight in what may be the cham
pionship game of the national semi
pro baseball tournament.
Under the double elimination rule
victory by the Indianans would
make them the 1947 titleholders
but a win by the Coloradoans would
necessitate playoff game tomorrow
night.
The Coors' only defeat was a 4-e
loss to Fort Wayne last Friday.
Last night the Coors trounced
the Jacksonville (Fla.) Terminals
9-3, to earn their way into the finals
Fort Wayne advanced into the final
round with To victory Saturday
night over the Carmichael Calf }
Firemen, the 1916 runnerup. It was
Fort Wayne's sixth victory.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Stor Stoff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. There's
a comfortable cushion separating
the Mats from the American League
basement and Washington's perch
this season doubtless will be seventh
place, but there haven't been any
recent developments on the club to
indicate more proficiency in 1948.
Before squirting into the crystal
ball, peek at the past is impera-
tive. The Mats played their most
wretched baseball of the season dur
ing August, being defeated in "a
of "a games, averaging only 27 runs
per game and performing at a
294 clip.
Soon the Mats will be importing q
small contingent of hopefuls from
their Chattanooga farm, but with
the exception of Outfielder Gil Coan
none is calculated to supply ad-
ditional punch for Washington s
batting order. AS currently consti-
tuted. the Mats fail to kindle GUS
toners interest for the future.
When the Mats dropped a double
header to the Yankees, 6-5 and ST.,
yesterday at New York before A.
SAL fans they extended their latest
losing streak to four games. In
competition against New York this
year, the Mats have lost IL of 16
games. incidentally, the Mats auto
matically passed out of the flag race
yesterday in the first game loss BY
winning all thereafter they couldn t
reach the top.
Invading Philadelphia for a dou-
ble-header today and single games
tomorrow night and Wednesday
afternoon, the Mats display IL de-
-feats in 18 games on their road trip,
with Cleveland and the Yankees
making sweeps of 4-game series.
Outlook for Mats Black.
It's bleak outlook for the Mats
unless Prexy Clark Griffith can
fortify them with more terrifying
hitters over the winter, for his pres
ent crop of athletes have demon
strated an allergy toward the leagues
pitching. It's colorless collection
of employees sadly in need of a
spark plug.
Sid Hudson supplied the only run
the Mats scored in the second game
yesterday when he singled across
Mark Christman, who had doubled,
in the third Charley Wensloff then
braced to hold the Mats and stopped
them on five hits, remaining the
route for the first time this season.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Kensingion Racer Third
In 100-MjIe Nationals
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. Ed
GULL, 27-year-old Danville, Va,
veteran racer grabbed the first title
of his career yesterday by beating
Jack Kulan of Detroit in the 100
mile national motorcycle champion
ship before 38,557 at Langhorne
Speedway.
His time was l hour, 18 minutes,
4578 seconds.
Charles Smith, Kensington, Md,
was third, followed by Raymond
Andstadt, Reading; Ted Edwards,
Atlanta; Lew Decosta, Taunton,
Mass; Rod Coates, Pluckemin, N. j.,
Johnny Spiegelhoff, Muskego, Wis,
Herb Reiber, Washington, D. c.,
John Butterfield, Jacksonville, Fla,
Connie Kenner, Laumrel Springs,
N. j., and Hank Smith, Reading.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Rx the Assncintad Press

NEW YORK, Sept 1.-Precedent
Is against Johnny Mize in his fight
against time to break baseballs
most coveted slugging record
Babe Ruth's 60 home runs in single
season.
The long distance clubbing first
baseman of the New York Giants.
who is entering the heretofore fatal
September month with A home runs
one more than the Babe had at
corresponding time in his record
setting season of 1927-is not the
first to be ahead of the all-time
home run kings pace.
Three Notable Failures.
Three others-Hank Greenberg,
Jimmy Foxx and Hack Wilson
swatted their way into September
we'll ahead of the Babe. but each
failed to match his final figure.
Greenberg and FoxX finished this
season with So home runs, two short
of Ruth's record total, while Wilson
was stopped at Sc. No other player
has reached so. Lou Gehrig, who
Illt TO Ill CdS11 VI I1lC 1OO1 dllo LOU
seasons, was closest. Mize, himself,
mildly threatened Ruth's mark once
before. That was in 1910, when the
Georgia giant hit 43.
Each was stymied by the Septem-
Der bugaboo, the month when Ruth
shone at his greatest. It was that
month when Ruth slammed II home
runs, one short of the record for one
month, to attain his 60. Greenberg
hit IL, Foxx and Wilson hit 10, Mize
hit seven and Gehrig hit six and
five, respectively.
Greenberg, sluggings first baseman
of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who back
in 1888 was hammering home runs
for the Detroit Tigers, offered the
most serious threat to Ruth. On
August / of 1898, Hank had 46 home
runs, three more than Ruth had at
the same date II years before.
Actually, Greenberga was much fur
ther ahead of Babes pace. nine
games to be exact. Hank had belted
his 46th home run with 81 games
left to play. Ruth did not hit his
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Four Midget Car Cards
Finish Lunhum Season

Announcement that four more
midget automobile racing dates have
been definitely approved for the
West Lanham. Md, Speedway this
season was made today by General
Manager Howard Livingston. The
little car competition goes into its
18th week there Friday night.
Well over 100000 persons are ex-
pected to set new attendance rec
ord at Lanham this season. An ag-
gregate of approximately $4,000 per-
sons-an average of 1900 per pro-
gram-have turned out to date.