davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Boxers and Swimmers
OLA. u. Make Bows

American University's boxing team
opens its season next Friday night
against Western Maryland at West
minister and the swimmers inaug.
urate a 10-meet card Saturday
afternoon as host to Catholic Uni
versity. according to schedules re.
leased by Athletic Director staff
Cassell.
Both the Eagle mittmen and
mermen will be coached by Bert
Courage for the second year.
Courage is pleased with the work
Of his ringmen, except for the fact
that the Eagles are just one deer
at most positions. Most of the
strength is in the lighter weights.
The boxers and basket ball team
will present the schools first cout-
ring double header February IL with
City College of New York visiting
in boxing and Davis and Elkins In
basket ball.
The schedules:
January 14-%sseeEn SSa1nri Maryland a,
stssian sMsSfmins.er so S1Pstusent Nayai Al
l---Slly COl-
lese Of New York at home; 19-East Caro-
lima Teachers at home; 23-Patuxent Ma
val Air at Patuxent. March 5-George-
town at Georgetown
January S-Catholic University al
home 14-Loyola of Baltimore at home;
1S-George Washington at Ambas assador
Hotel; 22-Davis and Elkins at Elkins
W. Va. February 1"-Randolph Macon at
home; 16-Dickirson College at home
23-Csthonc University at Catholic Uni.
versity; -26-Johns Hopkins at Baltimore
March 1-George WASHINGTON at home
b-Roanoke at home; 12-Mascn- Dixon
Conference meet at LoYola
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Catholic High League
Opens With Gonzaga,
St. Johns Favorites

The newly organized Metropolitan
Catholic High School Basket Ball
League will get under way officially
tomorrow night with q twin bill at
American University. Unbeaten st.
Johns, winner Of four straight, will
collide with st. Anthony's, and
Gonzaga will face st. John de
Matha. First game Is scheduled for
Z o'clock.
The league has one other team
Georgetown Prep. The Little
Hoyas are enjoying an extended
Christmas vacation, and will not
see league action until q week from
Friday, when they play st. Johns.
Gonzaga and st. Johns stack up
as preseason favorites. Gonzaga,
also unbeaten, went after victory
No. 4 today in q game against
Mount Vernon on the Eagles court.
Bethesda High, boasting q record
of six victories against no losses,
will be host to Friends in another
top game tomorrow night at 8
O'Clock.
Fourth for G. w. High.
George Washington High, which
won its fourth straight with a 1927
victory over Wilson High in four
starts yesterday at Alexandra, will
be host to Thomas Jefferson Of
Richmond tomorrow night at 7
o'clock.
Other games tomorrow night will
have Bulls playing Gallaudet Jay
wees at Eastern, Blair at Annapolis,
Dewitt at st. Mary's, Woodward at
Priory, Bladensburg at Cambridge,
Lisbon at Poolesville, Damascus at
Clarkville and Laurel at Greenbelt.
Longwood will entertain Honeywell
in an afternoon game at 3.
Wilson was no match for George
Washington yesterday as the
Presidents ran up 21-12 half-time
lead and coasted home behind the
accurate shooting of Billy Smith
and company. Wilson's Jones
scored IL points.
WI Overcomes Western.
st. John de Matha prepared for
us CdtQOllc League opener Dy De.
feating Kendall School, 41-24. for
its seventh victory. Fred Richard
son scored 23 points for the win
ners.
Washington-Lee gave the nearby
Virginia schools q sweep over
Washington public high teams as
the Presidents defeated Western,
1886. with Hook Zimmerman post
ing II points.
Roosevelt coasted to a 1888 VIC
tory over st. Adams after leading,
26-15, at halftime. The Riders had
high scorers in Langnack with 18
points, zamsky with II and Seigel
with IL.
Upper Montgomery County High
school teams scored when Pooles-
vile, led by Jack Rutter with IA
points, defeated Brunswick, 56-26,
and Sherwood scored over Long
wood. 26-23, after trailing by seven
points in the second half.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Eased Sub Rule, Curt
On Bench PiIotinq
Urged for Football
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6.-Foot-
ball rule changes aimed at nberaliz-
ing free substitution, while curbing
bench quarterbacking," were pro-
posed to the National Collegiate
Athletic Association today.
The Advisory Rules Committee
Of the American Football Coaches
Association recommended that free
sibstitutions be permitted between
plays when possession Of the ball
changes from one team to the other,
as well as when time Is called out.
A coach at present may send in
players in patches (the so-called
platoon" system) only when time
has been called.
Also recommended by the Advisory
Committee was elimination of the
Of man after every play while the
present rule permitting substitution
clock is running.
Such a change would help elinai-
nate quarterbacking from the
bench" commented Coach Tuss Nc
Laughry Of Dartmouth, q member
Of the committee.
McLaughry declared the proposed
changes would permit wider laxity
in the free substitution rule, while
curbing such evils as a coach send
ing in a string of quarterbacks or
instructions carriers after every
play"
The change would permit substitu-
ton of player only when time has
been called.
Other rules changes advocated by
the Advisory Committee included:
Reinstatement Of the pre-1942 rule
permitting reverse center"
who faces his own backfield.
To make ineligible to receive a
forward pass a back stationed close
enough to the center to receive
hand-to-hand exchange of the ball.
Declare forward pass grounded
behind the goal line of the offensive
team to be a down instead of
safety, thus encouraging more goal
line passing.
Give the receiving team the op-
ton Of running the ball out of the
end zone on kick from scrimmage,
the same as on a free kick or kick
off.
The present rule provides that
any punt that goes over the goal
line Is an automatic touchback and
the ball is placed in action on the
20-yard line.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
By Ben McAIwee

Ray Watson, silver -thatched bowl
ing ace of Mann's Decorators, with
an average of 1885 for 81 games,
has supplanted Julie Singer, Win
chester Packard's team captain, as
individual pacesetter in the Major
District League.
Also riding the crest today was
Arcade Pontiac after 81 win from
Caruso Grocery which broke a first
place deadlock between the two
teams in the hectic flag scrap.
Watson, in leading Mann's to a
81 win from Toms Auto Service
last night with a 1893 set, moved II
pins ahea dof Singer when the latter
sliced his average to 1924 for 81
games with a 359 set as Winchester
was walloped three games by Hutch
ison's Furniture.
Leon Fleisher's 146, which cli-
NAKED a 387 set, was the edge as
Arcade Pontiac nicked Caruso in the
odd game, 627 to 623. Bill Buckner's
. 1854 was the deciding blow for Ca.
ruso in the middle skirmiSh.
Featured by Billy Stalcup's Sec
ond high season set of 466, made
with games of 1855, 1854 and 1877, while
Bub Guethler and Cletus Pannel
contributed 426 and AL, respective
ly, Hutchisons Furniture showed
under Winchester with 1877 team
count.
Schlitz Beer was 81 victor ovel
II. B. Larry & Bros, winning the
first game on five successive marks
In the last frame and the second
with four spares in the final frame
After losing by 10 and II pin mar
gins, the Leary outfit bagged the
final $50 to 653 when Anchormar
Bob Miciotto struck in the ninth
and tenth boxes.
Standings: Arcade Pontiac, 31-23
Evening star., 1949-01-06
On Champ Central at
Annory Tomorrow
By George Huber

The high school basket ball cham.
pionship series really gets under way
tomorrow with afternoon and night
double-headers at the National
Guard Armory, although the official
opener was last Tuesday when Gen.
tral, the defending champ, won over
Bell and Anacostia topped Cham
berlain.
The losing teams were late added
starters and because of inexperience
hardly figure to make their pres
ence felt this season. But tomorrow
there will be in action several teams
who hope to topple the Vikings
Among them is Coolidge, playing
Central at $3.50 pm. to open the
afternoon double-header. Wilson
and Tech, meeting in the second
afternoon game, also are highly
regarded.
The night twin bill, opening at
7:30 o'clock, puts Western against
Anacostia and Roosevelt against
Eastern. Roosevelt's Rough Riders
were runners-up last year, but almost
everybody Is gone from that fast
little team and rebuilding seems to
be the order this season.
Tomorrow nights action will be
the only night games for the inter-
highs this season at the Armory,
and about the only one at which
adult attendance and consequent
cash money In the box Office can
be expected. Because Of the short
age of night Armory dates the
schools already are reconciled to
the season being a losing one finan-
cially, although good artistically.
The problem seems to be to beat
Central, and that's a large order.
Coach Gabe Ferazzi's charges are
experienced, fast and well drilled.
Jim Pantos, Ivan Sherferman, Barry
Holt, Jack Stringer and Franny
Gleason make q smooth-working
crew that showed plenty of scoring
ability while sinking Bell on Tues
day. That wasn't the severest
test the Vikings will face this year
but they showed enough class then
to make everybody else wary.
Coolidge, which ruled the school
boy roost for two years until Gen.
tral took over last year, went
through its rebuilding throes last
year and may be ready to roll now
A lot Of last years good players
are back, including Byron Anderson
and Bob Cannon, both Of whom 90
well over 6 feet. Bob is the younger
brother Of Bill Cannon, who made
basket ball history for the Colts
several seasons ago, and last year
he showed flashes of his brothers &
playing form.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
CAPS Belle Own Record in Loss
To Bullets Before Biq Crowd

added q free throw to give the
Caps q 80 lead. Chick Reiser
dumped in two fouls and Stan Stutz
added a two-pointer. From there
on until the end of the initial period
it was nip and tuck. The Bullets
came from behind f1ve times to tie
the score with Connie Simmons
making it 17-l7 with a hook shot
as the quarter ended.
But the second period seemed like
another ball game. Simmons, Fred
Lewis and Irv Torgoff all began
hitting and the Caps began to miss
Before the period was four minutes
old, Baltimore led, 1918. At inter-
mission the Bullets owned a 1928
lead.
Make Four Misses in Row.
The third period opened with
Scolari. Mckinney, Hermsen and
McKinney-in that order-missing
-four straight free throws. Last
nights performance at the foul line
was the most miserable ever staged
here by the Caps. The third period
ended with Baltimore leading, $3.50
The Caps came to life in the
final. Schulz, Scolari, Mckinney
and Feerick all began hitting until
the score dwindled to 69-63 with
seven minutes to 60. But then came
the whistle-tooting and one Bullet
after another ambled to the charity
stripe to sew up the game.
Norlander. Schulz and Hermsen
shared scoring honors for the Caps
with 10 points each while Simmons
with 10, Reiser, 16, and Lewis, IA,
led for Baltimore.
The loss was the first of the
season at nome for the Caps in
IS games. 1t was their fifth de-
feat In % games. The Caps will
rest until Saturday night, when they
meet the Indianapolis Jets at Uline.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
WI. Joyvees Score

Washington-Lee Jayvees trimmed
Western Jayvees, 1885, as Buddy
Heath tossed in IS points.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Boost in Big Prize Lis
Is Seen as BowIers
Flock Into Tourney
By Rod Thomos

One thousand prizes, to be paid
IN cash, are guaranteed in The
Stars annual bowling tournament
in progress at 81 maple plants In
the Washington area, but it begins
to appear that the list will be ex-
tended. possibly by several hundred
awards.
The guaranteed list was based on
the reasonable assumption that the
entry would equal the 16,04S total
Of last year. For the 1948 event
1000 prizes were announced at the
beginning but LOTS were awarded.
If the entry this time exceeds
appreciably that of last year the
prize list will be increased in pro-
portion. And the signs are point
ing that way.
Tournament Looking Up.
With the 1949 event two days old,
every report to reach tournament
headquarters from bowling man
ayers has been optimistic. The
Metropolitan Washington Bowling
Operators Association, whose mem
bers are subchairmen of the tour
nament, each in charge of the COM
petition at his plant, set a goal of
10000 entries and the maple i'm
presarios appear determined to
reach it.
Several OF the managers already
have beaten their entire entry of
last year. Fred Murphy at Bethesda
Bowling Center virtually accom-
plished this when the St. AIMS
Church and Bethesda c. and P. Tele-
phone Leagues, each with 20 teams,
voted to enter their memberships
four times. This accounted for 800
entries. The Bethesda Bowling Gen.
ter's total last year was 447. i3
Newman, Mudd Breezing. u
Entries are coming a lot faster
than last year." is a general observa-
ton. At Chevy Chase Ice Palace,
where Harry Newman presides, lis
entries were gathered on opening
night. This was nearly a seventh of
the Ice Palaces total in 48. Paul
Mudd at Arlington Bowling Center,
after an encouraging first night, de-
clared he'd double his 1948 tally If
"this keeps up" And so it goes.
Before passing up the tournament,
In which the entry fee is only dol
lar, the handicaps full and the prize
list remarkably long compared with
other pin events, league bowlers are
urged to take another gander at the
tournament poster. This features a |
cartoon by Glib Crockett poking fun
at bowler who neglected to enter,
then shot a powerful" set.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Battered Lions Meet
indianapolis Here

The Lions, To victims Of the
Eastern Division leading Reds in
Providence. R. l., last night, open a
series of three American Hockey
League matches in as many days
tomorrow night when they enter
tain the Indianapolis Capitals on
Uline ice at $50 o'clock.
The Hornets will be met In Pitts
burgh Saturday and the Bisons in
Buffalo Sunday.
The Lions were in the running
only in the first period last night.
when Jack McGill's early conversion
was matched by Chirp Brenchley.
The Reds were leading at the end
Of the first stanza, 81, and then
proceeded to pour five more goals
into the net before Dan Porteous
added a second score for the Lions
in the final session.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Pro Basket Boil

LAST NIGHTS RESULTS.
Association of America.
Baltimore, 8S: Washington, 68.
Southern League.
Laurel, "a, Nashville, 81.
SCHEDULE TONIGHT.
Association of America.
Philadelphia at Baltimore.
Chicago at Providence.
Rochester at indianapolis.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Win in Y Court Tourney

Hyattsville Methodist defeated
woodwork, 37-14, in the second
round of the boys YMCA senior
basket ball tournament. but other
victors were hard pressed. Capital
Pages nosed out Falls Church, 20-18
and Westminster Presbyterian de-
feated the Y Flashes, 1918.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Mead Winner as Leone
Is Disqualified on Mat

Some days it doesn't pay to get up
and yesterday was one of those for
Michele Leone, who was disqualified
for uncouth conduct in the feature
wrestling match against Wilbur
Mead last night at Turner's Arena.
And If you don't think Mead is
good. that was just his 116th straight
victory, according to the mathema-
ticians in his corner. The team
match went to George Macricostas
and Marvin Mercer over Pat Welsh
and Dapper DiZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05

independence. The attitude of the Popular
Democratic Party and its standard-bearer,
Governor Marin, may best be described as
"pragmatic." Sentimentally, it is inclined
toward independence. But it takes account
Of basic realities. Independence would
logically mean exclusion from our tariff
wall which has done so much to knit
Puerto Rico into our economic life and
gives 1t its chief market Also our present
troubled world is not one in which small
nations find the going too easy.
II majority Of the Puerto Rican people
comes to desire independence, no opposi-
ton from this country need be anticipated.
The tendency here Is to allow the Puerto
Ricans to decide their own political future.
Indeed, this was explicitly stated by the
Democratic Party in its last campaign
platform, which, with the election of a
Democratic administration and q pre-
dominantly Democratic Congress, has
become an effective pledge for policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
The Sound of on Ak

Upon a slope, beyond the citys din.
caught the sound / had not heard for n
long:
The clean, crisp ring OF ar-strokes
echoi1,g in
The dusk filled palley's silence, whole
and strong.
Somewhere a man toiled In the cold blue
light
And Nth the thudding OF each solid
stroke,
I kneD his task held the enduring might
That shields the gnarled, granite heart
OF oak.
For here was more than ,Dood for 1Darnth
and flame
TO cheer the length OF iotnter = laden
days;
Here ,pere the sounds OF toll that Is the
same
As Uhen the colonists began to raise
Their homes, and sounding strokes bring
back the clear
Untadtng imagine OF the pioneer.
REID CROWE1L.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
DIR. Mattingly's Plan Endorsed


To the Editor OF The Star:
Since I have very little economic wealth or
prestige obviously am far from being a capt.
talist. Nevertheless, wish to state that I am
a solid Republicans modus vivendi not due
to past ancestral Affiliations (who, if anything,
were cigar voters, anyway but to mere deduc-
ton. This means that according to my way
of reasoning, the New Deal economic philoso-
ply is jeopardizing my family's and my coun-
try's blessing-the American way Of life. My
studies of history have convinced me that this
is the best way of life yet devised Conse-
quently, am opposed to socialistic legislation
and experimentation.
However this does not mean that don t
smoke cigars, nor am opposed to progressive
betterment of any Of our economic structures.
Take health insurance as an example: Sure,
am opposed to New Deal, utopian, all-encom-
passing, compulsory health insurance, simply
because 1t just doesn't work. 1t has been tried
in various countries and has failed. However
If President Truman should ask Congress for
a practical health plan such as recommended
in recent letter to the editor by DR.. Thomas E.
Mattingly, this elephant will bow to the dom
key: "A dependable floor Of social insurance
under our most costly health risks-a solvent,
noncancellable, self help insurance against the
bankrupting costs of child bearing, catastrophe
illness and malignant disease
EDWARD S. COWAL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
Equal Labor Justice

The effect of the Supreme Court deci-
sions upholding State bans on the closed
shop Is to establish the proposition that
nothing in the Federal Constitution for
bids legislative protection of the rights of
nonunion workers.
North Carolina and Nebraska, the
former by statute and the latter by
amendment of the State constitution, had
forbidden any employment discrimination
against union or nonunion workers.
Arizona, by constitutional amendment,
had banned discrimination against nom
union people, having earlier adopted a
statute safeguarding the rights of union
men.
The attack on these provisions ran
along extraordinary lines, and 1t is aston
ishing that units of the American Federa-
ton of Labor should have been a party
to it. The basic premise of the attack was
that the Federal Constitution guarantees
greater employment rights to union men,
bers than to nonunion members. Having
made this unwarranted assumption, the
compliments then asked the court to
revive that discredited constitutional
philosophy which sanctifed the yellow
dog" contract-a philosophy which, when
turned against themselves, was fought
tooth and nail by union members.
The yellow dog contract required a
worker to agree, as a condition of en-
ployment, that he would not join union
period Of years, the Supreme Court held
that the Constitution protected these con-
tracts from legislative invalidation. Final
ly, after bitter struggle, better thinking
prevailed, this constitutional doctrine was
swept away, and the yellow dog contracts
went out the window. 1t is this back
ground which makes 1t so surprising to
find AFL units, seeking some selfish end
Of their own, now asking that the philoso-
ply OF the yellow dog" era be revived In
effect, the present court was asked to
stultify ITSELF and that no doubt accounts
in part for the sharp tone of the decision
rejecting the appeals.
Justice Black, speaking for a unanimous
court in the North Carolina and Nebraska
cases and for eight of its members in the
Arizona case, summed up the courts view
in this language: Appellants now ask us
to return, at least In part, to the due
process philosophy that has been deliber-
ately discarded. Claiming that the Federal
Constitution itself affords protection for
union members against discrimination,
they nevertheless assert that the same
Constitution forbids State from pro-
viding the same protection for nonunion
members. Just as we have held that the
due process clause erects no obstacle to
block legislative protection of union men,
bers, we now hold that legislative protec-
ton can be afforded nonunion members"
In other words, so far as this issue goes,
organized labor Is told that it enjoys no
privileged status under the Constitution.
The benefits of the doctrine of equal JUS
tice under law are available to nonunion
as well as union workers. It would seem
that this might almost have been taken
for granted. But since it was challenged
by major segment of organized labor, it
is we'll to have the court speak out so en-
phatically and with such virtual unanimity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
Letters to The Star
Inconsistent Attitude in u. N.

1OCOHS1StcHC Att1tuQS III ". Ne
To the Editor Of The star:
We have been accusing the Soviet Union Of
using its votes in the u N. for political pur-
poses, yet the action Of our own delegates shows
that the Truman administration certainly is
not innocent of the same charge
In the first instance, our delegates made loud
attacks on the Netherlands government for
trying to bring order in one Of its own possess
sions. The United States voted to call the
Dutch to task and to bring about a cessation
Of hostilties.
Later in the week we took an entirely differ
ent attitude to another violator, one who was,
as matter Of fact, invading foreign territory.
The Israeli government had instituted hostil-
tiles in the Negeb area which, by U. N. de-
cision, was to 60 to the Arabs. Where, may
one ask, was the righteous voice Of the United
States delegate? We made no official comment,
and the American representative even abstained
from voting when the cease-hre resolution was
presented.
Has our voice in the u N. now been per-
verified to causes which perhaps will make
political capital in 1850? Are we afraid to
speak with impartial1ty and with justice to
any violator of u N. orders, whether he is
Dutch or Jewish?
We claim to be motivated by more righteous
purposes than the Soviets. Let's show it in
fearless impartiality. B. P.