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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-03-28
Sermon Subject

The sermon subject of Rev.
Jesse L. Luthi, Methodist pas
tor, next Sunday morning palm
Sunday will be 1.-The Meaning
of the Cross"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-03-28
Honor Court Planned

F. x. Guardipee attended a
meeting at Cut Bank Monday
night at which plans were begun
for court of honor to be con-
Quoted there April IL, wit h
Browning, Boarding School and
Cut Bank Boy Scout Troops to
participate.
Evening star., 1947-03-24

The early birds OF l5O SerVlcenleIl
fighters already are on hand at Fort
Myer for the Middle Eastern Service
Conference boxing tournament
opening tomorrow and running
through Saturday. Weighing in is
scheduled for 10 am. tomorrow and
after that the boys will settle down
to five nights of scrapping.
The cream of leather singers
from 20 Army, Navy, Marine and
Coast Guard stations in Maryland,
Virginia and the District are pre-
pared to show just what kind of
fighting men the services are pro-
ducing now. Civilian fight fans
particularly have been invited, and
attractive arrangements have been
made for them. Therell be no
guards to stop civilians at the gates
as it was during wartime, and MP
traffic directors will be on hand to
direct them to the big Riding Hall,
scene of the battling.
Navy installations are planning a
strong bid to take team and indi-
vidua1 titles right from under the
Army's nose The PatuXent River
Naval Base is entering squad OF
18, Bainbridge has II and Barracks
4 has a. The Marines have only
one team. but it's strong one, COM
ing from the Quantico Base under
guidance of Maj. Mike Lombardo
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Caps Eye Stag 1ussle
AS Test for Playoff

Their home court record snapped
at 27 straight wins, the Capitols will
be out to recover some of their
prestige when they take on the
Western Division leading Chicago
Stays Wednesday night in the bas-
ket ball game at Uline Arena.
The Caps dropped their first home
game last Saturday to the New York
Knickerbockers.
The Stays probably will furnish
the Eastern Division champs their
opposition in the post-season play
offs. Chicago now leads the Western
group by 21s games.
The invaders will present one of
the greatest shots in pro basket ball
in Max zaslofsky, former st. Johns
of Brooklyn ace, and also will in
troduce high-scoring players in
Chick Halbert, 6-foot 9-inch center,
and Don Carlson, former Minnesota
forward.
1t will be next to the last game
of the regular season for the Caps.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Harris Fight Tonight
Stepping Stone for
Bigger Jones Bouts

Arrival of spring brings talk of
some of the big fights expected here
this summer, and almost sure to
head one of the early cards in Grit
fifth Stadium is Featherweight Her.
bic (Bif) Jones. Herbie has left
hand that's brought a sudden end
to number of his fights this winter,
during which he's collected a large
enough following to warrant main
event outdoors against a big-name
opponent.
Matchmaker Gabe Menedez says
he's after Willie Pep as an opponent
for Jones, but whether Jones fights
Pep or any other big shot outdoors
depends on how he comes through
the rest of the winter campaign.
One of those tests comes up tonight
at Turner's Arena when he meets
Leslie Harris of Baltimore for 10
rounds. This is payoff bout for
both, being the fourth time they've
met. Each has won one and the
last was draw.
Jones is having good winning
streak now, with five victories un-
der his belt since the first of the
year. He opened in January with a
decision over Pedro Firpo, and then
in succession knocked out Babe
Kelly, Billy Reed, John johnson and
Jackie Floyd. Firpo was the best of
that lot, although Floyd put up a
good scrap in the early rounds be-
fore going down in the fifth round
two weeks ago.
Frank Sweeney, District middle
weight who was supposed to fight
for the last two weeks but who didn't
because of illness, is back in the six
round semifinal. He takes on
George Brooks and is favored to
make it seven wins in a roy. An
other six is between Jim Davis and
Walter Lanahan. Charley Toler,
who made successful pro debut
earlier this month with win over
Jim Simms, takes on Bobby Suma
for five, and the opening four is be-
tween Tex Kilroy and Sammy
Thompson.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Junior Golden Gloves
Tourney Will Open al
Merrick Wednesday

The Boys Club of Washington s
tenth annual Junior Golden Gloves
tournament gets under way We'd
nesday with Is bouts in as many
weight classes on tap at the Merrick
Boys Club gym.
Altogether 222 boys have entered
the event, which is expected to last
eight evenings. Fighters range from
80 pounds to the light-heavy class.
Wednesdays schedule:
50-pound class-Jimmy Richards (Bar-
ney .Na1 NIL, Us; :, John 6 Guiee u tPBc No: 4lc>
e0-pound class~Joe Piumer (Merrick
BC) VS.. Ccyd Redman {PBC No, III.
ss Sa class vs rA aw vaPssrs5ift
BcW) VS.. Ronald Simpson CPBc No. 81.
75.pound elass--Stanley Hornig (Mer-
rick Be) VS.. Carl Beatty (PBc No. 5.
ncD csG7Dound classIBilI ass Grindsr Geo. 81,
oSo-popnd class-Jack Martin tPBC No.
12) vs.. Stan beware Geo. Br., BCW).
=, 9o.pound elass-charles Guice (PBC
Nc - VS.. Mickey Van Horn EAST Br.,
95-pound class-Bobby Jorden (Merrick
BC) VS.. Alton Davis (PBC No A..
105-pound class-Bill McQuade. Geo.
Br.,BCW) VS.. Art Eustace( Barney NH
110-pound class-Frank Nicastri (Mer-
rick BC) VS. Bill Bartrell Barney NH).
115-pound class-Paul Kelly Geo. Br.,
BCW) VS.. AL Groomes Geo. Br., BOW.
120-pound class-Eddie Smith funat.
tached) VS., John Tucker (PBC No. 12).
125-pound class-Van Smith (unat-
tached VS.. Jerry Murphy (PBC No, lO)
Evening star., 1947-03-24
|Schriever, Fisher Win
Places on Team for
Service Golf Tourney
By MerreH WhittIesey

Belle Haven Club Champion
Col. Bernard A. Schriever and Col
William P. Fisher of the Army
Navy Club won the two places al
loted to AAF headquarters for the
Interservice Invitational to be held
next week end at the Oliver Cen
eral Hospital golf course at Au-
gusta, Ga.
The air force officers will team
with two master sergeants from
Boiling Field, Thomas E. Burch, a
former Columbia Country Club golf
shop employe, and Thomas Caid-
well as the four man team repre-
senting the AAF and Boiling Field
Command.
Burch and Caldwell previously
won places with respective rounds
of 76 and 80 at Army Navy.
Schriever came back with a one
over-par 72 yesterday and added it
to Saturday 78 for $50 for the SO
holes, while Fisher had a 32-41-73
yesterday and II the previous
round for $50. Col. Robert Alan of
the host club was third with a 155
total.
The winner of the .36-hole medal
play inter-service invitational will
compete in the annual Augusta mas
ters starting April 8. Another local
entry will be Maj. Charles Webb of
Washington, representing Maxwell
Field.
DIVOT DATA-Lew Worsham still
is capitalizing on the incident at
Jacksonville where he called stroke
on himself on the 72d hole for NOV
ing his ball fraction of an inch, an
act that cost him the tournament.
A number of sports columnists in
the South have devoted columns to
Lew, all in highest praise of his
sportsmanship. AS it turned out,
Lew had to insist on the penalty, as
the official scorer at first refused to
accept Lewis word that he moved the
ball.
Ben Hogan is being criticized by
the Carolina golf writers for not
competing in the Greensboro and
Charlotte Open tournaments, al
though he is spending his time in
the territory participating in ex-
hibition matches. Dutch Harri-
son has quit the tour for the year,
and Lawson Little said he is through
with the winter tour for all time
after the Masters.
Byron Nelson has signed for an
exhibition match in Richmond April
13 at the Hermitage Club, with
Sammy Snead and Walter Hagen,
jr., and a player to be named. Young
Hagen is working out of Richmond
and will be eligible to compete in
the Middle Atlantic amateur. .
Belle Haven has dropped out of the
Bi-State League, effective with yes
terday's meeting, and will concen-
trate on local club matches. .
Fred Bolton writes from Pendleton,
Oreg., that he smashed the course
record at his club with a IS. He is
former local pro.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Yacht Club 10 Pay Tribute
To townsend al Dinner

George H. Townsend, former
president of the American Power
Boat Association, will be given a
testimonial dinner by members OF
the Solomons Island Yacht Club
Wednesday night at Solomons, Md.
Several Washington yachtsmen
are expected to attend the affair
which marks Townsend's retire
ment from the clubs board OF dl-
rectorS.
Guests will include Representa-
tive Sasscer, Democrat, of Mary
land; State Senator Louis Goldstein
of Calvert County, Capt. H. G. Will
liams of the Naval Mine Warfare
Test Station and Capts. A. B. Vas
seller and F. N. Trapnell of Patuxent
Naval Air Station.
Toastmaster for the dinner will be
Frederick P. Stieff, author OF Eat,
Drink and Be Merry in Maryland" :"
Townsend raced in the 1926 and
1927 Gold Cup classics and has do
mated numerous cups to speedboat-
ing. He owns shipyard at Solo
mons
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Lions Practically Out
OF Hockey PIayoffs

About the only thing left for the
Washington hockey Lions now is
their chance for revenge against
Boston Olympics for the 1877 past
ing handed them yesterday in Bos-
ton. That smearing practically
eliminated the Lions from the post
season playoffs, leaving them with
record of four defeats and two
wins, with three games to go.
The Lions play Boston here to-
morrow night at Uline Arena. After
that comes the final two games
against Baltimore.
Don Mann, previously defense
man, moved into a center position
for Boston yesterday and almost
single-handedly ruined the Lions.
He scored four goals and assisted a
fifth. Almost as valuable was Mar
eel Fillion, who got three and one
assist.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Hospital to Release
Di Mag Wednesday
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. "a. Joe
Di Maggie, New York Yankees
centerfielder who has been re-
cuperating from a skin graft at
the John Hopkins Hospital, was
allowed today to try his weight
on the ailing left foot for the first
time, and physicians said he
probably would be discharged
Wednesday.
DR.. Edward M. Hanranhan,
Hopkins plastic surgeon who per-
formed the graft in an effort to
heal the wound left by removal of
bone spur from the heel, said
the bailplayer would be returned
to the care of DR.. Nal Stevens,
Club physician, who will make
the final decision on when he
will be fit for action.
Hopkins attaches added that
Rube Melton, Brooklyn &c, =
pitcher, is recovering RAPIDLY
from surgical removal of a bone
chip from his elbow and will be
discharged from the hospital in
about 10 days.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Wolfe Is Sensational
In Capturing N. {.
0pen Pin Event

Perce Wolfe of Hyattsville today
was 5000 richer for having won the
National Capital Open bowling
tournament last night at the Brook
land Recreation, but the District
League veteran was more delighted
by the way in which he triumphed.
He set a record for the all-star
event with 10-game total of 1,444
the sets being 709 and 735. 1t was
one of the few times in duckpin
history here that maple shooter
put together two 700s. His 10-game
tally was SO sticks under the ma
tional record.
But this wasn't all. Wolfe prob
ably set an alltime mark for five
games rolled in succession. For the
last two games of the first set and
the first three of the second he
totaled 100, five pins over the ma
tional record for a set. His top
string was 167.
Lee Seim of Annapolis, rs sticks
behind with 1859, was second, col
lecting $100. Other prize winners
were:
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Aansp0sss i.5x {sso,; i'' Oscar s2epheTd. ROANOKE.
Va. mo. 1 ranking duckplnner OF the
tef bost state Jos Hs44son Hs42 s1Ss Ss REhs ss
PAU Paul Perkins, i54 tie ss35 .saeh}; high
s ss9 4e ova Fish Hams sssdnd ss
tiik BLOCK, Hokie Smith, i66 (S12.50J.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Kramer Takes Miami Title
With Victory Over TaIbert
By the Associated Press

MIAMI, Fla, Mar. 24.-Jack
Kramer, national singles champion
from Los Angeles, today added the
University of Miami invitational
tennis championship to his laurels.
Kramer smashed out "a, 60
triumph over Billy Talbert of Will
mington, Del, in the final at the
Hurricane Stadium here yesterday
before a crowd of 1864.
The Californian then teamed
with Pancho Segura of Ecuador
to upset national doubles cham
pions Gardnar Mulloy of Miami
and Talbert, 6-3, 2-6, 60, for
the mems doubles title.
Doris Hart, Miami's Wightman
Cup player, defeated Shirley Fry,
Rollins College student from Akron,
Ohio, Ga, 81, to win the wom-
ems singles crown.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Five Cage TiIts Tonight
In D. G.. AAU Tourney

Five games in five different weight
classes are on tap tonight in the
District AAU basket ball tourna-
ment at the Eastern Branch Boys
Club. Alexandria Boys Club faces
Raymond Playground in the first
game, a 97-pound clash, at 5 o'clock
500 p.m.-(97 pounds)-Alex B. C. vs..
Raymond Playground B. c.
600 pm.-112 pounds)-Alex. B. c.
VS.. George Br. Blues.
ZOO pm-G27 pounds)-Alex. B. C.
VS.. George Br. Grays.
500 p.m.-q35 pounds)-George Br.
900 p.m.-G5o pounds)-East Branch
vs. Taft A. c.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Winning 6. W. Sailors Plan
Annual Princeton Meet

George Washington University
shippers said today they hoped to
make an annual affair of their two
day sailing regatta with Princeton
University sailors.
The local team won, 81 to SIS, in
racing off Corinthian Yacht Club
yesterday. The winners took a cop
per beer mug donated by Eric Nord-
holm, commodore of G. WIS sailing
association.
Bill Hastings of G. w. and Jack
Blodgett of Princeton tied for indi-
vidual high score, taking 18 points
each. Tony Widmann of Princeton
was runnerup with Is points.
G. w. travels to Annapolis April
5 for a match with the Naval Acad-
emy and DreXel.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Baxter and Ryon Head
Wednesdays Mat Cord

La Verne Baxter of Texas
faces Red Ryan of Philadelphia in
Wednesday nights feature wrestling
bout at Turner's Arena. Baxter re-
turns after a five-month absence
after a tour of the Coast and the
Midwest. Ryan established himself as
a solid headliner by upsetting Dave
Levin, former National Wrestling
Association title-holder, recently.
"Rough-house Jack" OBrien OF
Texas and Tony Milano will clash in
the semi Wind-up.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Rec League to Settle
Three Titles This Week

The District Recreation Depart
ment brings down the curtain on the
basket ball season this week with
three championship playoffs sched-
uled in the Roosevelt High School
gym.
Transportation Corps meets Gar
wins on Wednesday at pm. for
the womens class A honors, and the
North Washington Recreation Coun-
Gil faces the WAVES at 9 o'clock for
the B title.
The mems final is scheduled for
Thursday between the two winners
of Tuesdays semif1nal.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Dinner Tonight Honors
Hiqh and Prep EIevens

The 1916 all-high and all-prep
football teams will be the guests of
honor tonight at their annual dinner
at the Touchdown Club at $50.
George Washington University's
head coach, Neil (Skip) Stanley,
Maryland's Jim Tatum, and George
towns line coach, Maurice (Mush0
Dubofsky, will be among those
present.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Greensboro Triumph
Puts Golfer Ghezzi
Back in LimeIight
By the Associofed Press

GREENSBORO, N. c., Mar. "a
Vic Ghezzi, more or less in the back
ground since his losing part in the
three-way National Open playof
last year in which he and Byron
Nelson eventually were beaten by
Lloyd Mangrum. again was a big
winner as golf's winter tour nearec
the last lap today.
With the caravan moving tc
Charlotte for the $4,000 Open start.
ing Thursday, Ghezzi pocketec
So 900 top money for his winning
286 in the $4,000 Greensboro Op IN
here yesterday.
The score, highest since Ben Ho-
gan's 289 at Richmond, Va, in the
fall of 1945, was two over par fo1
the 6,700-yard Starmount Country
Club course.
Stranahan Second.
Walker Cupper Frank Stranahan
who scared to rs and 73. finished
second with 288 and had the dis
tinction of shooting the tourna.
ment's lowest round-a secondary
81.
Two of the games newer stars
staged strong finishes to gain q
third-place tie, actually second
place deadlock as far as winnings
were concerned, with amateur
Stranahan not breaking into the
kitty.
Johnny Palmer, Badin, N. c., put
together closing scores Of 70 and So
while ex-sailor Bill Nary of Long
Beach, Calf, closed with 73-7O for
identical 289 totals and $1,000 apiece
Jim Turnesa, White Plains, N. Y.
and Ed Furgol, Detroit, each picked
up $3.50 on 291s, and the years top
money maker, Jimmy Demaret, Ojai
Calf, added $500 with sixth place
292, raising his earnings to $9,909.33
Chapman Second Amateur.
Four 293s rounded out the top II,
Professionals Herman Barron, White
Plains; Chick Harbert, Detroit, and
al A11llUlI, Do1lNAhS, o. CdS1l GclhAllS
down $3.50, while the other 29a
shooter, Amateur Dick Chapman OF
Pinehurst, N. c., won the second
place amateur trophy. Atlanta S
Gene Dahlbender was third amateur
with 301.
Washington's Lew Worsham played
some of the best golf of the day to
squeeze into the prize list with a
296 total. Worsham was even par
in the morning with a II and was
2 over in the afternoon for a 73 and
IA, which was better golf than
Ghezzi shot for the last two rounds.
Worsham won $40.
The other Washington contestants
were not around for the last two
rounds. Pro AL Houghton withdrew
after an opening 30 and Keith
Kallio, a District policeman, with
drew after an 81.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
D. G. Youth Receives
Mercersburq Awards
Special Dispatch 10 The Stor

MERCERSBURG, Pa, Mar. "a
John R. Preston, son of DR.. and
Mrs. John F. Preston of Washington,
was awarded the varsity m" for
swimming at Mercersburg Academy
today
Young Preston, who captained the
team, also was awarded the Wander
veer Trophy for exerting the best
influence on the team. Another
athlete receiving his IN" this morn
ing was Walter G. Ramsay, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion L. Ramsay of
Arlington, Va, for wrestling.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Bears, Renaissance
Meet Here Thursday

Washington's Bears, Negro pro-
fessional basket ball team, will get
another chance to upset the famous
New York Renaissance quint on
Thursday night at Turner's Arena
The New Yorkers downed the Bears
in two previous contests, nosing out
a last-second victory in their Sec
ond game in New York.
Yesterday the Bears took their
third defeat at the hands of the
Atlantic City pros at Turner Arena.
Paced by Howie Snyder, who
topped the scoring with "a points
the invaders led all the way and
came out on top of a 63-52 count.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Stormy Weather First

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Mar.
"a [P.-The yawl Stormy Weather,
owned and skippered by Fred Tenn
pie, Toledo, Ohio, was the first boat
to cross the finish line of the 14th
annual st. Petersburg Havana yacht
race today, reaching the Cuban
capital at 10:46 am, according to
Coast Guard reports received here.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Sports Mirror
By the Associated Press

Today a year ago-Sam Snead
shot 270 for 70 holes to win the
$500 Greensboro Open golf
tournament.
Five years ago-The pennant-
winning New York Rangers
scored their first National Hockey
League playoff victory in three
starts by blanking the Toronto
Maple Leafs, 30.
Ten years ago-Oxford ended a
13-year losing streak by defeat
ing Cambridge by three lengths
in the annual 4-mile crew race
on the Thames River.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
G. W. Places Two Men
On Stute AII-Hiqh Five

George Washington High of Alex
andria, runnerup for the Virginia
State class A basket ball champion
ship, has placed two men on the
Northern Virginia all-high team SCI
lected by coaches. Other three
schools have one player each.
These players will be considered
for positions on the all-State quint
selected from all four divisions. On
the Northern Virginia honor list are
Buzz Brown and Marshall Boaz of
G. w., Dave CARRIER of Washington
Lee, Charles Cash of Charlottesville
and Lefty Fones of Fairfax.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
D. & w. Quint Annexes
League Championship

The D. & w. Market basket ball
team won the Boys Club Sunday
Unlimited Basket Ball League cham
pionship yesterday.
Paced by Bob Lamon, the Mar
keters doWned I. B. NJ, 58-40, at the
Evening star., 1947-03-24
McAIwee in Hospital

Ben McAlwee, bowling writer of
The Star, is in Suburban Hospital at
Bethesda where he shortly is to-
undergo an abdominal operation for
a complication of ailments.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Union Printers to Meet

Candidates for the Union Printers
baseball team are asked to report
to the Taft Junior High School field,
Twentieth and Perry street NE,
tomorrow at 5 pm.
Evening star., 1947-03-24
Early Birds Arriving for Start
OfSevice Rinq Meet tomorrow

former University of Maryland
fighter. Camp Lee and Fort Belvoir
have the largest Army teams.
Evening star., 1947-03-24

Three years ago-Mort Cooper,
st. Louis Cardinal righthander,
signed his 1914 contract.
Evening star., 1947-03-24

Totals 20 Is 5s Totals - 16 4o
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Navy
Shrinking Fleet

Two years after the end of World
War II, the US. Navy reported this
week that its fleet of combatant ships
had shrunk to 285 in full operation
and 81 in reduced status.
On VI Day, the fleet included not
only 1900 combatant ships but enough
auxiliaries, not counting small land
ing craft, to total 1900 vessels. The
Navy lineup now, besides the 306 COM
bat ships in full and reduced status,
consists of 293 auxiliaries, SIS mine
vessels, "a patrol boats and 152 land
ing craft.
The Navy air arm is down from
41,272 planes at the end of the war to
1899. of all types, with $500 of them
fleet combatant aircraft.
In manpower, the Navy has gone
from 3,966,758 men and 325, ,074 officers
to 425,O00 men and $4,000 officers. II
will shrink bit more during the cur
rent fiscal year.
While the Navy is dwindling ir
numerical strength, it is pushing re-
search on new planes, ships anc
weapons. Many innovations, some pas
the experimental stage, are being
readied for service with the fleet.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Gambling
Cookie Cleanup

New York was in the middle of
a periodic drive against gambling.
While the heat was on, most of the
towns big bookmakers either closed
up shop or took busman's holiday by
going to Saratoga themselves.
The gambling cleanup started as
two grand juries, in the Bronx and
Queens, probed charges that horse
racing bookmakers had to pay protec-
tion money to police in order to oper-
ate. The drive was accompanied by
more than 100 shifts in police, trans
fers, demotions and designations
The first weeks arrests totaled 700
on gambling charges. These included
rs for bookmaking, III for card play
ing, 29O for dice, 134 for policy or
lottery and SO miscellaneous cases. &.
The number of arrests was ia
fewer than the average arrested week.
ly last year. but police officials said
this reflected an exodus of gamblers
from the city.
Police Commissioner Wallander
opened a special detective school for
some 200 young patrolmen, most Of
them war veterans, who ultimately
will replace most of the present force
of 300 plainclothesmen.
Milford chronicle., 1947-08-22
Tourists
Hemisphere Viscs

While Pan American diplomats con-
ferred on hemisphere defense in Rio
de Janeiro this week the lnter-Ameri-
can Tourist Congress wound up its
first convention in Panama All Amer
lean republics except Paraguay and
Uruguay were represented.
Biggest fruit of the conference wa1
recommendation of continental tour
lists card, and standard tourist and
immigration practices throughout the
western hemisphere.
The continental tourist card, valid
for six months, would eliminate pass
ports and departure permits for inter"
American travel The various govern
ments would require certificates OF
good behavior, health, financial sol-
vency and citizenship before issuing
these cards, obtainable directly from
the governments or their consulates.
The Pan-American Union has been
asked to prepare model card for dis
tribution among member governments
and Canada.