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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
First Place in Balance
As Caps and Bullets
Clash Wednesday

Wednesday night is revenge night
at Uline Arena, where the Wash
| ington Caps will get a chance to
make up for the 24-point spanking
administered last Friday by the
Bullets of Baltimore The intercity
rivalry flares up for the fourth
time Wednesday and for Washing
ton, first place is hanging in the
balance.
The combination of losses for
the Chicago Stays and st. Louis
Bombers and victories for the Caps,
which would have put Washington
in first place over the week end,
all unfolded in dream-like fashion,
except for the Caps humiliating
defeat in Baltimore.
The Bombers tripped the Stays
on Thursday and lost to the Phil
adelphia Warriors on Saturday,
while the Stays lost to the Caps
here Saturday night and to Phil
adelphia last night. The Warriors
dumped an 1918 trouncing on the
Stays last night in Chicago as Joe
FulkS dropped In ii neld goals auo
9 free throws for 81 points, a
new record for a pro game in the
Windy City.
In order to win Wednesday, how
ever, the Caps will have to shake
their present streak of sluggishness.
Their win over Chicago Saturday
was matter of bad team scoring
over a worse one. 1t was the first
time since the Caps began operating
that all the top performers were
having off nights at the same time.
Even Bob Feerick, who finally
snapped to life in the third quar-
ter, was woefully inaccurate in his
shooting, while Bones Mckinney
and Freddie Scolari couldn't buy
basket.
The Bullets, headed by Buddy
Jeanette, Cleggie Hermsen, Chick
Reiser, Herman Feutsch and Paul
Hoffman, will be out to cop Weones-
days game, Baltimore is only one
half game behind Washington and
has won only one of four encounters
which the local club.
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team. I hadn't even seen a rifle
range, but the first shot I fired
was enough for me to know I'd
like it," she said. II think I've
improved some since that first
day, but I still need another year
to really get acclimated."
"She was pretty lousy that first
day." agreed Master Sergt. Fay
Norris, the Army top-kick who
tutors the team, ''but she stuck
it out. Seventy-five girls reported
for the first practice, but we
only had about 40 after two
weeks, and pretty soon there
were only three left. This year
the other two went into the
nursing school at Baltimore, leav-
ing Sharon all by herself, so I
told the colonel that as long as
she kept coming out for practice
we might as well let her try for
q place on the varsity. He
couldn't find any rule against 1t,
so here she Is"
Riflemen earn their places In
team matches by competitive fir
ing during the week, the five
highest scorers representing the
university. Sharon won place
in the Western Maryland match
and scored a creditable 258 as
the Terps won. =
"She began the standing round
by missing Is points and still
finished with a &c." said the SER
geant. That's real shooting"
Maryland has won los consec-
utive matches, which gives you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
10 New Speed Skating
Champions Crowned
|At National Finals
BY the Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 1.-THE
royal family of United States speed
skating had 10 new rulers today,
six of them wearing the double
crowns of the National champion
ships and the North American event.
George Fischer, 21-year-old Uni
versity of Illinois junior from Chi
cago, and Lorraine Sable, Detroit,
headed the list of winners in yester-
days final events of the National
championships, held as part Of St.
Pauls annual winter carnival.
Fischer's powerful legs gave him
q sprint-finish in the distance
events yesterday to roll up $50
points over his nearest competitor,
Don L. johnson, Minneapolis, who
garnered only TO. Fischer succeeds
Ken Bartholomew, Minneapolis,
now in Europe with the United
States Olympic team as National
champion.
Miss Sabe replaced the retired
Garry Scott. Minneapolis, as the
women's senior titlist by sprawling
across the finish line in the 8S0-yard
event, nosing out Bernice Melewski,
West Allies, Wis. Miss Melewski
was 100 points behind Miss Sabe.
Two OF the five other North
American winners who added the
national championships to their
laurels were from Minneapolis. Don
Hamer outclassed the intermediate
boys division, getting ITO points,
while Jim Dardis counted $50 points
for the junior boys group. Another
Minneapolitan, Dona Wang, North
American intermediate girls win:
ner, grabbed a share in the national
championship by getting so points,
the same as Aldrina Label, Lake
Placid, N. Y.
Karen Mattson, st. Paul, in the
juvenile girls group, and little Nam
cy Ann Viner, Pittsfield, Mass, in
the midget girls, outdistanced their
competitors to capture crowns COM
pleting the list of North American
winners who swept to victories yes
terday.
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Greenberg Won 'tSign
In Hurry, He Says
Al Writer'S Fete

NEW YORK, Feb. Hank
Greenberg, the long-hitting veteran
first sacker, says he plans to adopt
waiting" attitude on aligning
himself for 1948 baseball play.
The big home run hitter spiked
rumors at the annual New York
baseball writer's dinner last night
that he already had signed to play
with the Cleveland Indians. The
slugger has been given his release
by Pittsburgh.
1--WE talked with Veeck Chill
Veeck, head man of the Indians, /"
Greenberg said, but I haven't
signed. I intend to talk to him
again, but. honestly, I don't know
how I stand"
Hank disclosed his talks with the
Philadelphia Athletics have def
initely ended. IF my terms are not
met" he declared. "I'll just sit it
out. I think I can afford to wait"
The silver anniversary dinner Of
the New York Chapter of the Base
ball Writers Association last night
attracted 1,400 writers and diamond
dignitaries, including Commissioner
A. B. Chandler and the presidents
of both major leagues, the Ma
tional's Ford Prick and the Ameri-
cans Will Harridge.
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an idea of the competition the
19-year-old miss faces.
"only won seven so far this
year." added the sergeant.
That's all we've fired"
Sharon's so wrapped up in tar
get shooting she persuaded her
folks to give her Winchester rs
rifle for Christmas. She fired a
12-gauge shotgun just once and
prefers not to think about that
experience, but still she'd like to
go on an honest-to-goodness
hunting trip.
Being a girl doesn't mean
Sharon gets special privileges.
She follows the usual routine of
firing so rounds about four times
a week and spending the rest of
the time perfecting her trigger
form without live ammunition.
Rifles weigh between 7 and 8
pounds but to a 5-foot-71z, 1875
pound girl they sometimes "feel
like 1000 pounds" after several
days of intensive practice.
Sharon's younger brother,
John, has fired a couple of times
with the Boy Scouts, but she
doesn't think he'll have enough
patience to develop into a top
fight marksman.
A sophomore in the school of
education, the Terps' fair sharp
shooter thinks she'd like to do
nursery school work after grad
uation. AS one of her team
mates suggested,
IF the kids don't behave you
can hit 'em over the head with q
rifle or shoot EN-" ..~ .....-
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Win, Lose, or Draw

By FRANCIS {. STANN


For man accustomed to winning football
George letdown 1913 George
Nays COACH first civilian In IA to head the
grid forces o Annapolis
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take the leadership in the world
of morality. A great many persons
do not fully appreciate the priv
ileges or responsibilities OF
citizenship in this country, he
sal. asserting that we must be-
gin training our youth at IA
years of age to assume duties and
shoulder responsibilities of life.
Tunney called Jack Dempsey,
whom he defeated for the world
title, the greatest sportsman of
ALL He drew laugh from his
audience in Illustrating spor.s-
manship, recalling that in their
second meeting at Chicago
Dempsey tired in the seventh
round, so I rested on the floor
until he got his wind back"
In the audience were 1t. Col.
John L. Sullivan and a 1t. Will
liam j. (Jack) Dempsey. Sulli-
van had been photographed when
a small boy with Tunney at East
Stroudsburg, Pa, when the late
Maj. Gen. John Lejeune. then
commandant of the Marine
Corps, had presented Tunney,
a former Leatherneck, with a
bathrobe.
Tunney said motion pictures
of the ice Louis-Joe Walcott
tight were proof that the reign
ing champion was one of the
rings all-time Greats. He said
Louis handled himself in mas
terful fashion even though he
hadn't had a real fight in seven
years
The retired, undefeated cham
pion, who once lectured Yale
University class on Shakespeare,
would not venture a forecast on
the outcome of q second Louis
Walcott bout. L. +. A.
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|MoriIyn jarvis Sparks
ISt. Martins to Win

Marilyn Jarvis, Chuckie Perry
and Joan Dreamer pace cir re-
spective teams to victcl ester
day in the st. Martins { ) Bas-
ket Ball League.
Miss Jarvis got 20 points to lead
st. Martins Blue five to 32-11
victory over st. Francis de Sales
Miss Perry garnered II points a.
the White team trimmed st. An.
thongs Blues, 1924, and Mis-
Dreamer collected II points to leae
Holy Comforter to a 22-21 victory
over st. Apthony's Gold team.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
By Lewis F. Atehison

"It's fun" said Sharon Mac
Bride, summing up her expert
ences as the only coed on Mary
lands rife team and possibly the
only girl on any varsity college
team in the country.
THE boys tease me some" she
continued. "They hide my shoes
and have locked me in the equip
ment room, but I don't mind and,
by next year I hope to be as
good as they are"
The tall, slender, modern Annie
Oakley flashed a winning smile
as Arthur Cook, 19-year-old
holder of % world records, muir
INJURED a wisecrack.
1--WE got one record he can't
get, being the only girl on the
team" she retorted as Master
Cook concentrated on blasting
bullseyes. y
Sharon, whose dad was basket
ball coach at Eastern High School
several years ago, was born in
Gary, Ind, and pleads guilty to
being a tom-boy all her life. At
Eastern she played girls basket
ball. soccer, volley ball and base
ball. After such feverisl activity
she found it rather difficult to
calm down at Maryland and last
year, when notices were posted
that a girls rifle team would be
organized Sharon decided to
have try at it.
I'D never had a rifle in my
hands before reporting for the
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Grotto Grill Five Clips
Toms in League PIoy

An overtime basket by Gene
Taylor gave Grotto Grill a 1854
victory over Toms Auto yesterday
in the feature game of the Silver
Spring Basket Ball League at Mont
gomery Blair High School.
In other league tits VIEW downed
Sandy Springs. 42-22; Silver Spring
Elks trounced Myron-Cowell, g.
a., and Hubbard Cleaners won a
forfeit over Bee and Dee Cleaners.
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that Sauers decision TO accept the
inspired by the glitter and glamour OF the
Academy wealth physical equipment the prestige that
goes head Of Of the service schools whether ne
be Certainly Kansas oas made no
attempt to disappointment losing sauer to
whom they had just four-year contract
Some Coaches Steered Shy Of Navy
Probably no coach country will be watched closely by
other coaches as suer follow accord
coaches Annapolis oca but from the general
local coaches plus Few passeoy navy oioh souo
them hot post.
oh Annapolis big and clean and important one coacn was
saying Club 1.-THE equipment and
physical layout probably matched only by West Point
Dame and few other places. But
don't football with good equipment and facil-
tiles You still with guys who play football Inose
Navy kids win but they don't win whole lou OF oo1oa
brought Annapolis specifically to play football and
coypayers brought to civilian
just for that purpose
Another thing Regardless whether you Naval Re-
seryist during whether in Tom
Hamtons prehght program served aboard the u enter
civilian Annapolis where Navy men run the
show that terrific schedule and one OF the best OF
Nays looking shoulder meaning Tom Ham,
ilton"
BIoik of Army Is Sitting Pretty
Well there are defense against Not decisive
neraps but the best the parallel at West
Army used ofcercoach policy but abandoned it
ossbv for keps-when ed Bak AS in the case OF
Sauer Bak Dartmouth Sticking to the
parallel Bak former Army ofncer-lnoeeo "es ro.e VINO
resigned served Naval Reserve one curing te s'
war and in fact shipmae Capt Hamions aboard the
big E." as Navy call the Enterprise
who are there to say anything except an
abundant life? He specially built for him on
coveted point plains West Point For my money It's oe
Gen. Maxwell Taylor s'"no Is oniS " "
Military Academy
other respects too He more or less die
policy at least concerns football and there is
coaching job in the country only Frank Leahy hoo az
Notre And that's doubtful
that ranks with Baks and Leahys
there likely will be few bigme coaches kicking them
for not bearing down harder when Navy hung out that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02

Participation of all nations in
the Olympic games will not fos-
ter better understanding in the
world. former Heavyweight
Champion Gene Tunney declared
last night in an address at Boil
ing Field Army Air Base.
Look what's happening in
Switzerland" he pointed out.
Certain persons sa ,aSoged our
bobsleds, removing the belts so
that they would be wrecked II
the mischief was not discovered
and some of our athletes were
booed. If another nation sent a
team to this country and de-
feated one of our teams we would
have applauded the victor, not
booed him.
IT think one way to create
another about world conflict
would be to invite all nations to
compete in the Olympics," he
said.
Addressing capacity audience
In the post chapel as guest
speaker on the third of series
of four University Of Life pro-
grams, Turney delivered a two
fssted blest at communism. He
src,..e en- spc-tinarsaip and life
a-S S>oI~-.e, il was impossible
Tor the U:,ited States to get
along with those people rs allies
or friendc." Ee sdGed that Russia
was TIE complete opposite of
everything embraced by sports
manship.
Describing the conflict between
MARKHAM materialistic philosophy
and Christian morality. the for
mer champion said this country
has assumed leadership In the
world of war, but has yet to
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Wedge Nips Scores
In GoIf-Suruzen

I NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The
UsGA, Gene Sarazen insists, is
all wet in its theory that the
scoring of the faces of golf clubs
gives a player an advantage.
The erstwhile Connecticut
squire, now a New York squire
with a farm near Germantown,
has definite ideas on the causes
of the sensational low scoring Of
today, and he eliminates the
clubs as a factor.
Take the sand wedge out OF
the bags and you'll see scoring
such as it was back before 1882, !"
he says. 1.-THE sand wedge and
the watered greens are respons-
ible for the lower scores"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02

Probably never In the modern history OF 1oot-
ball on the Severn has Nays stock been so low as
now, when Sauer takes command after sharing the,
Big Six titles in 1916 and s47 for the University of
Kansas. Some of the brightest stars Of Nays
squad which won only two games in the last couple
of seasons will be gone, including Dick Scott. And
the schedule, if possible, is tougher than ever.
Navy dropped from its schedule two power
house elevens in Penn State and Georgia Tech,
but probably replaced them with two teams po-
tentially even stronger-Michigan and Missouri.
These in addition to Notre Dame, Columbia, Cor
NELL Duke Penn. California and Army sauer
may be yearning for the Kansas material he left
behind by next November.
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N. W. McCaw, 81, Dies;
Gun Factory Emp|oye

Matthew Wilson McCaw, 81, Nava
Gun Factory employe for the last 81
years, died unexpectedly yesterda,
at his home, los Thirteenth stree
Sc.
Mr.. McCaw was born in Hunting
ton, w. Va, and came to Washington
as small boy with his parents, the
late Matthew H. and Gertrude vii.
son McCaw. His father was super.
visor Of maintenance for the Chesa-
peake g. Ohio Railroad.
Mr.. McCaw attended Eastern High
School and George Washington
University. He was a statistical
craftsman in the Ordnance Branch
of the War Department before he
transferred to the Naval Gun Fac
tory as craftsman. At the time
of his death, he was ordnance en-
gineer and supervisor of the stand
ard section at the factory.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs
Lorena McCaw; daughter, Mrs
Lorena May Hampton. both of the
Southeast address; brother, Will
liam Jewett McCaw, $685. Nebraska
avenue NV. buyer of mems cloth
ing for Hecht's department store
and a granddaughter.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. Friday in the Lee funeral
home. Fourth and Massachusetts
avenue NE. Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
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Mrs. Louis W. wins Rites
10 Be Held tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth
B. WINS, At, wife of Louis w. WINS
3l0s Lyndale place Sc, who died
Monday in New Georgetown Hos
pital will be held at 2 pm, tomorrow
in Grace Baptist. Church, Ninth
street and South Carolina avenue
Sc, Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
A District native, Mrs. wins. re-
tired: in 1912 after being employed
for Is years as a clerk and account
ant in the Navy Departments Blu
reau of Supplies and Accounts.
During World War I, she served
as yeoman. So
Survivors, besides her husband, in
clude three sisters, Mrs. Thelma
Barthelmess, Of the Lyndale street
address; Mrs. Bernadine Humphrey,
Mount Vernon, Ohio, and Mrs. Trina
Trumbull, Arlington, and three
brothers, Ernest e. Boyden, sl6 E
street NE; Addison Steele, of the
Lyndale street address, and Richard
Steele, 3is Seventeenth place NE.
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Dr.. Macaiee Says Apathy
Threatens Home Rule

A Washington physician departed
from his prepared speech before a
citizens association meeting last
night, when only a few members
appeared, to deplore the apparent
public apathy in civic affairs.
Speaking before the Progressive
Citizens Association of Congress
Heights, DR.. Henry C. Macatee de-
clared that members who consistent
ly do not attend meetings of various
civic organizations sabotage home
rule for the District.
Low attendance at meetings" he
continued, Lends strength to the
argument that most Washingtonians
are Indifferent to local civic affairs,
and, If granted independence.
would carry their attitude over into
responsibility as voters"
DR.. Macatee;s comments preceded
a discussion of District medical
problems which he had been invited
to lead. In this talk he urged
greater contributions to organiza-
lions which help pay hospital costs
for patients who cannot pay for
prolonged care.
Blake Loring, president. conducted
the meeting. held in the Congress
Heights School, Nichols avenue and
Fifth street Sc.
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Woman Is Found Dead
In Bafhtub al Apartment

Mrs. Floretta May Clarke, SO, was
found dead early today in the bath.
tub of her apartment 1440 Meridian
place NV. after other residents OF
the building reported water leaking
through the floor,
The body was taken to Gallinger
Hospital, where detectives estimated
she had been dead for about four
hours. An autopsy was scheduled
for later today. ...
Police. who responded to a call by
Ralph Jefferson, colored janitor,
shortly after 3 am. found Mrs.
Clarke with her head under water.
Hot water was overflowing the tub,
they said,
Police removed the hinges from
the door in order to gain entrance
to the apartment. Mrs. Clarke was
last seen about, $50 o'clock last
night when she made a telephone
call, 1t was reported. Her body was
taken to the morgue.
Widow of Morrison w. Clarke,
Mrs. Clarke was former Govern
ment clerk and had lived at the
Meridian place address for more
than Is years, acquaintance said.
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Inquiry Hears Reds Sent
Fund to Gust UNIV Chief
BY the Associated Press

SEATTLE, Feb "A former high
Communist Party official told the
Washington Legislatures Un-Amer-
lean Activities Committee yesterday
that the Communist International
once sent $4,000 to the United
States in the hope OF BUSTING John
L. Lewis from the presidency Of the
United Mine Workers.
The witness was Joseph Kornfeder
of Detroit, who said he became a
charter member of the Communist
Party in the United States in 1919
and left 1t in 1884 after serving
from 1927-30 with the Comintern in
Moscow.
He said the $25, 600 was sent from
Moscow in 1928, when the UNIV was
torn by factional strife land Lewis
was considered an enemy by the
Communist Party
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had been suffering from a. nervous
condition for several months.
Mr.. Leighton retired last July
from the Bureau of Dairy Industry
after q years service with the Agri-
culture Department. He was asso-
ciated with the Bureau Of Mines in
Denver and Pittsburgh: before COM
ing to Washington In 1920.
As one Of the early residents Of
the Cottage City community, Mr.
Leighton was active in the citizens
association, was one of the 1irst
town commissioners and an organi-
Ter and fire marshal of the Cottage
City Volunteer Fire Department.
He attracted wide attention sev-
eral wears ago for his custom OF
bicycling to work in the District.
Born in Concord, N. H., March
Is, 1890, he was the son of Fred
and Mrs. Irene Leighton. He gradu-
ated from the University of New
Hampshire and took graduate studies
at Cornell University. He was a
member of the American Chemical
Society and other professional
scientific associations.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs,
Rachel G. Leighton; son, John
Leighton, Dover, N. j., and a daugh-
ter, Miss Constance Leighton, Brad
ford, Mass
No funeral services will be held
here. Burial will be in New Hamp-
shire.
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Georgetown U. Gymnasium
Drive Workers 10 Be Feted

A reception for the more than 200
alumni workers who will take part
in the forthcoming Georgetown
University gymnasium campaign for
$500, 900 was to be held at 4:30 pm
today in the Mayflower Hotel.
Rear Admiral William Brent
Young, retired, chairman for the
Greater Washington area for next
weeks campaign, will be host at the
reception. Special guests are to in
clude John A. Reilly, national treas
urer; DR.. John F. Keaveny, DR..
William F.. O'Donnell, John J.
Beatty, jr., Raymond T. Cahill and
Edmund l.. Jones.
The alumni drive is for the pur-
pose of building the proposed Nc
Donough memorial gymnasium
Sixty prominent alumni from g
sections of the country will meet E
the university Saturday and Sunds
to inaugurate the Embarrassing cam
caign.
During the ice ages, the North
Sea was all but emptied and when
the ice retreated. the Baltic. for a
time, became fresh water lake.