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Evening star., 1950-06-21
Rx n. As.eeie..d Pres,

ALBANY, Calf. June 2l.-Cita-
ton. who has been conceding
weight to rivals for years. will
accept an advantage in the $50
00o- added Golden Gate Handicap
Saturday. when he will meet his
arch rival. Moor. for the fourth
time.
In the weights released yester-
day for the race. closing feature
at Gold Gate Fields. Citation will
carry l26 pounds. while the Irish
bred Moor. who has beaten Cita-
tion in their three preceding
meetings. viii carry 127.
When Mrs. Charles S. Howard S
Moor beat the Calumet Farm ace
in the $1o.0o0-added 4eers Handi-
cap last Saturday. over a distance
Of a mile and one-eighth, the s.
year-old brown son Of Nasrullah
carried 123 to Citations l2S and
hung up a world record Of l:46%s
They'll be travelling over a mile
and one-quarter Saturday and a
new world clocking is considered
highly possible. Citation set a
world record of 1885 for the
mile in winning here June 8
Moor wasn't in that race.
Saturday will be the first time
Evening star., 1950-06-21
Citation Given Edge in Weight
Over Moor for Their 9TH Race

Citation has had q weight ad-
vantage since he raced as q
3-year-old against older horses.
Even then he conceded weight
on the scales.
Racing Secretary Norris Royden.
in announcing the weights, said.
Moor is the only horse in the
world that I know today who
could be asked to carry as much
or more weight than Citation"
He based his weight differential
on the basis Of Noor'S victories
over the 5-year-old son Of Bull
Lea in the Santa Anita Handi-
cap. over a mile and one-Quarter:
the San Juan Capistrano Handi-
cap at a mile and three-ouarters
and last Saturdays gallop at Q
mile and a furlong when Moor
clipped four-fifths of q second on
the world mark.
In their first meeting during
the Santa Anita season. Citation
carried lS2 pounds to Noor's Ito.
A week later Moor accepted .
lS-pound edge. III to Citation 8
1870. The margins Of victory were
length and a quarter and 4
nose, respectively. Moor won by
neck last week in q thriller.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
| |Rain-Reyised Card
|At Laurel Raceway
Offers $4,000

Rain, which caused postpone
ment of the program at Laurel
Raceway last night set up an
eight-race card for tonight with
more than SIS 900 in purses.
Carrying over from last nights
card will be the $500 divided
Baltimore, for 2-year-old PAGERS,
with two William N. Reynolds
aces installed as favorites. In the
first division. the third race. Del
Miller will drive Direct Rhythm
and he'll come back in the fourth
race with Solicitor, seasons rec
ord holder for 2-year-old PAGERS
on a half-mile track with a
2:0745 mile effort.
Stars Pride, one of the top IA
vorites for the $4,000 Hamble-
tonian at 6-1. heads a field of
eleven 3-year-old trotters, includ-
ing six other Hambletonian hope
fuls, in the $4,000 Silver Spring
Stake, the sixth race.
Second favorftes probably will
be Vic, Song. another Hamble-
tonian nominee, owned by S. A.
Wathen of Fort Fairfield, Me. Vic
Song was a two-time winner at
Rosecroft and has been improv-
ing every time out. Also at So
will be Volo A. c., who was not
nominated for the big trot, but
who has turned in some fine per-
formances for his owner, A. C.
Peterson of Hartford, Conn.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
DIFFERS Cup Golf
Pairings Announced

Class c members of the Wom.
ems District Golf Association
will play for the buffers Cup Fri.
day at Manor Country Club. Pair.
ings and starting times for 4e
players were announced by Mrs
w. E. WEIGH, Class C tournament
chairman.
s:45. Mrs: vern n. Wilson (Col), ant
MIS- Frank McCord (A.N.); $50. Mrs H
e Fisher lceil. and Mrs. T. W. Broust
Mrs. H. o. Porter (CoL).
900. Mrs John C. spearman tcong.)
and Mrs. 9: 3. Rosden (Cong.); 9:05, Mrs
Frank q: Helan (cong.), and Miss Jackie
I.sS. ana Mrs. - j. J. in MccarfhS f wAefssr T.soI
9:15. Mrs. H. ]. Kaufman ds.J. and Mrs
Rsbin.sT r. Z; winston ds9; S9 s;so Mrs: Mortor
Mrs. R. Deviin Reth.J. " >
$50. Mrs: D. J. Ward Ken.,, and Mrs
L n. Hlll tKen;1; s:35. Miss Betty Mutt.
and Mrs. W. A. Hill (Man.); 9:45, Mrs
70 Mtlans tMan), and Mrs Ed Lawson
ana Msn; NJ, s1o; Mrs' NJ II Hn schEenk tPa
MS Bessie Eaton P.o.). and Mrs. Eddi, S
lO:OO, Mrs. Mel Handy A(Wash), anC
Mrs. r L. Hutchison (wash.1, and Mrs
Franz Richey (Wash.): 1910 Mrs. Weldor
Price WASH; and Mrs. H.. M. Nelson
tWdmto. and Mrs. Carl Flocks (Wdmt. )
1920, Mrs. Jules Friedenson (Wdnlt, J, anc
Mrs; Jean Bullard (Cong); 1925 Mrs
e w. Beeler AN), and Mrs. P. M
(B.H), and Mrs. A. Burrowman CHI
iO:35; Mrs; Elizabeth Goodridge CBeth)
ana MIS- n. Redmile (Beth); 10:40, Mrs
| Deinlein (Beth.)
Evening star., 1950-06-21
Sutton 10 Head D. {. Skater,
AT National Event in JuIv

Fifteen-year-old Jimmy Sutton
will head a large delegation of
Washington roller skaters when
the District representatives go to
Denver for the American cham
plonshipS July 11-17.
Sutton, winner in the interme-
diate mems freestyle, represented
Riverside Stadium in the three
day eliminations at the 1850 East
ern regional championships which
ended last night at the Lexington
Roller Palace in Pittsburgh.
Washington dominated the tour
nament. bringing home 13 first
places. 8 seconds and 10 thirds.
Last nights winners were SUIT
ton, Barbara Baum and Gary
Gardner, juvenile dance; Eileen
Bendall. intermediate women's
school figures, and Earle Hutchin-
son. Katherine Palmer, Bruce
Lackey and Mary Mierke. inter-
mediate fours.
Evening star., 1950-06-21

20-77: Mrs. M. H. Dinneen,
Washington, 87-1O-77.
Low puts went to Mrs. John
Burnside. Chevy Chase. 20.
Mrs. w. E. Price Of Washington
won low net with 98-21-77, and
Mrs. K. Kuster of Bethesda took
low gross with 81 in the play at
Washington. Mrs. A. H. Hand OF
Congressional had low puts of 81
and also second low net with
102-24-78.
Other winners were Mrs. Fred
Curley. Washington, 101-22-79;
Mrs. j. v. Wilder, Manor, 1913
80; Mrs. Carl MacCartee, Co.
lumbia, 99-19-80: Mrs. r. E. AL
dred, Washington, 104-24-80;
Mrs. H. Haight, Bethesda, 101-20
81; Mrs. v. D. Deinlein, Bethes-
da, 106-25-S1: Mrs. Tom Beav-
ers, Columbia, 102-19-83; Mrs.
D. r. Monsees. Washington, 101-
17-84: Mrs. G. r. Gillicera. Be-
thesda, 104-20-S4; Mrs. Frank
B. Helan. Congressional. 1os-
24-85.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
DettweiIer and Beru
Western Golf Foes
by the AsSesiotsd Press

DENVER, Colo. June 2l.-The
surviving six professionals and 10
amateurs in the Women's Western
Open golf championship are due
for tougher competition in today's
rounds than they had in yester-
days opening matches when
only one pair went the full route
and 10 of the 16 matches ended
before the 18th.
The list Of six pros is bound to
be trimmed by one in today's
match between Helen Dettweiler,
formerly of Washington, D. c.,
and Patty Berg of Minneapolis.
Both had easy victories yesterday.
Another top attraction sends Mar
jorie Lindsay from Decatur. nj,
against Mrs. Babe Didrikson Ia
Evening star., 1950-06-21
NBA Cuts Player Limit
Alters Jump-BoII Rule
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 21.-The Ma
tional Basketball Association has
cut its team player limit by one
and changed the rule on Jump
balls in the final minutes of play.
Maurice Podoloff, president of
the NBA, said yesterday a club
will be able to carry IL players
until December l and 10 players
thereafter. Last year it was IL
and IL.
In a move designed to speed up
the game, the league decided to
have jump balls after fouls in
the last three minutes instead of
the last five minutes. Podoloff
said the five-minute period was
too long and tended to drag out
the game.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
Sneod Beots Bolton
As Driver by Yard
BY q Staff Correspondent Of Tn. s,or

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June
21.-Big Freddie Bolton put
his 6-feet 6-inches and 220
pounds into one tremendous
drive yesterday and came
within 3 feet of being
crowned champion driver of
the professional golfers.
The former Washington
golfer, now pro at the st.
Louis Country Club, clouted
a tee shot 315 yards in the
pros driving contest. just
one yard short of Sam
Snead's winning 316-yard
clout. Jimmy Thomson, the
former champion of the driv-
ers, was third with a 3l0-
yard effort.
Snead won 500 and Boil
ton $50.
Evening star., 1950-06-21

harias Of Chicago. The long
hitting Babe is shooting to even
a score against Miss Lindsay who
beat her at Fort Worth last year.
Defending Champion Louise
Suggs Of Carrollton. Ca. had the
most trouble yesterday. going 10
the 20th hole before beating Mrs.
Ellamae RoesSler Of Denver and
Miami. l up. Today she goes
against Betty Mackinnon of Dai-
las who won an easy S-and-7 win
yesterday.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
Sprinter Anderson Hurt;
THROUGH for the Year

MADISON. Wis, June 81 (P.-
Don Anderson. California sprinter
is through for the year, his coach
said today. Anderson strained q
leg muscle yesterday while run
ming the 220-yard dash in the
Pacific Coast-Big Ten intercon-
ference meet at Camp Randall.
Anderson's coach, Brutus Ham
tlton, said Anderson had been en-
tered in the national AAU meet
at Washington Saturday, but
would not be able to compete.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
Golf Future Seen for CuIIinone
As His IN Wins Junior Title

Washington has q new young
ster to watch among junior golf
ers. Anthony Perky Cullinane
who yesterday won the District
junior championship with 37-37-
"a at Bethesda Country Club. That
score by a 15-year-old st. Johns
freshman who does most of his
playing at Kenwood is the lowest
in many years for this event.
Right behind Cullinane was Ed
Burnap of Columbia who missed
a 12-foot putt on the 18th that
would have given him a tie. He
holed out with a IS. Another
Kenw wood golfer, long-hitting
Johnny Eisinger, a pre-tourney
favorite, was third with 76.
In the 14-and-under group,
Glenn Mitchell of Kenwood, son
of the director Of the National
Symphony Orchestra, won with a
IS, followed by John Cahill of
Kenwood, 81. and Mike Brown Of
Prince Georges. SO. Winners in
the 1915 group were Rodney Fal-
Ter. Prince Georges, "a; Shelly
Blitz, Woodmont, and Sonny
Blackwell. Belle Haven, IS each,
and Bill O'Brien, Bethesda, 81. In
the 17-18 group, leaders were Bill
Ball, Army Navy. 70; Richard
Foster. Columbia, 80; Lee Ed
wards. Manor. and Leo Cullinane.
Kenwood. tied at SO.
1t. Col. Jimmy Wilson goes into
today's third round of the Head
quarters Command Air Force golf
tournament at Fairfax with a one
stroke lead over T/Sergt. Eugene
Remmell. Col. Wilson carded 73
yesterday to go with an identical
score on Monday for a 146 total.
Sergt. Remmell went UP stroke
yesterday with IA and lat total.
Third is Col. Ben Schriever,
with 76 yesterday for $50. The
tournament ends tomorrow with
the top six golfers qualifying for
the Air Force National champion
ships at Dayton. Ohio.
Ninety boys and girls ranging
from 10 to II registered yester-
day for the first session of the
free Junior golf clinic at East Po-
tomac. Four more Tuesday les
sons will be given at East Poto-
mac. skipping Tuesday, July 4,
and other free clinics for the
youngsters will be organized at
Rock Greek, Fort Dupont and An
acostia.
Field days for the Women's
District Golf Association were
held yesterday, first teams COM
peting at Kenwood, second teams
at Belle Haven, and third teams
at Washington.
Mrs. Betty Meckley of the host
club was tops in all divisions at
Kenwood, electing to take the low
gross prize with n, leaving Mrs.
j. p. Trouchaud of Kenwood the
low net winner with 81-5-76, and
Mrs. W. j. Ely of Army Navy the
low puts winner with %. Other
net leaders were Mrs. G. w. Cal
vert Of Kenwood. 86-10-76; Mrs.
R. Kullman of Army Navy. So
7-79; Mrs. M. Scandiffio Of
Manor. 89-10-79. and Mrs.
Charles Lynch. $3.50.
Betty CARRIER of Argyle had a
78 for gross honors at Belle
Haven. while three players tied
for net honors. They were Mrs.
Roy Jarmon of Kenwood, 86-13-
73; Mrs. Marty Gordon of Indian
Spring. 88-15-73, and Mrs. F.. J..
Murphy. jr., of Congressional, So
1913.
Other leaders were Mrs. F. C..
Lewis. Belle Haven. 87-13-74;
Mrs. j. Swink. Belle Haven. 86-
PA: Mrs. v. Erkenbeck, Army
Navy, 95-19-76; Mrs. Paul Eaton.
Prince Georges, 97-21-76; Mrs.
Jack Smith, Prince Georges, So
1916; Mrs. Richard Foley,
Argyle, S5-8-77; Mrs. r.. E.
Schattman, Indian Spring, 97-
Evening star., 1950-06-21
Home Town to Observe
.'Coon Day Tomorrow
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

BREvARD, N. c., June al
Brevard and the rest of Transyl.
vania County will observe "Gi
Coan Day" tomorrow. The nee,
outf1elder Of the Washington Sen.
ators is at home recuperatine
from a head injury received In .
game June 2.
A Softball double header tornor.
row night will highlight the pro.
gram. Between games Coan will
be presented a gift on behalf OF
his Brevard friends.
Coan expects to rejoin the
Washington club next week.
Fifteen years ago-Chicago
Cubs sold Outfielder Babe Her
man to Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
Track Stars Arriving;
Two Distance Marks
Broken by Gehrmann

DiVNCu Wy VCIIIIIIoiIIl
Contestants are beginning tt
pour into Washington for the
National AAU track and field
championships Friday and Sat
urday at College Park, and among
those most eagerly awaited Il
Wisconsin's Don Gehrmann who
stole the show with two record.
breaking performances in yester-
days Pacific Coast Conference
Big Ten meet at Madison. Three
other record breakers at that
meet also are due here.
BY tomorrow the Capital will
be flooded with the bulk Of en-
trants. E. Joseph Aronof, head.
ing the AAU officials processing
the entries, is increasing his pre-.
dictions to close to 900 contes.
tants. A 28-man entry was re.
ceived yesterday from the Lo.
Angeles A. c., and contestants
also are on their way from the
British isles, Puerto Rico, South
Africa, Finland, Norway anc
Sweden in addition to all Sec
tions Of the United States.
Gehrmann Stars in Meet.
In yesterdays meet at Madison
Gerhmann blazed to victory in
the half-mile in / minute 50.7
seconds, only is seconds of the
world record set by England's Sid
Wooderson in 1888. 1t is the fast
est half mile run anywhere this
season and broke both the meet
and stadium records. Earlier he
had won the mile in the fancy
time of 4:11.1, a new stadium rec
ord. beating Len Truck of Ohio
State and Jim Newcomb of South
ern California. Newcomb's entry
for the AAU here already has been
received. and Truck is expected to
compete also.
Three other meet records were
broken at Madison yesterday
Otis Chandler of Stanford tossed
the shot Sc feet IA inches, Dick
Attlesey of Southern California
did the 120-yard high hurdles in
1873 seconds, and Don McEwen of
Michigan did the 2-mile in 9:09.6.
ALI will compete, in the AAU
meet here.
An American record for the 22O
around turn was bettered by
Charles Peters of Indiana in 21.1
seconds. In team standings the
Pacific Coast trackmen won, 60
So, and q number of them are in
cluded in the Los Angeles A. C.
contingent due to arrive In Wash
inXton today.
Team Well Fortified.
The Los Angeles group appears
well fortified to retain team hon.
ors. National Champion Craig
Dixon will look to his 110 high
hurdles and 200-meter low hurdles
laurels. and he'll have adequate
team support from U. 8. c. stars
Attlesey. Art Barnard and Jack
Barnes. Newcomb and Bob Nc
Millen. both of whom have bet
tered 4:08 in the mile this spring
and Wally Wilson will be a
troublesome trio to anybody in the
1,500-meter run, and Newcomb
and Wilson will be cunning for
Fred Wits crown in the 5000.
Walt McKibben and Bill Parker.
both from Occidental College, are
IN the shorter distances, and
Barnes, Bob Pruitt and Bob
Chambers. and Wilson will run the
800 meters. .@~
L. A. A. c. also has a wealth of
talent in the field events, including
Moose Thompson, Olympic shot
put champion; DR.. Steve Seymour.
American record-holder in the
javelin, and Bobby Smith, NCAA
pole vault champion.
An interesting individual duel
is expected in the sprints between
two schoolboy stars. Henry
Thresher of Mercersburg and
Charlie Thomas of Cleveland
(Tex0 High.
Evening star., 1950-06-21

Five years ago-Walter Boom
Boom Beck. 39-year -old right
handler. was given unconditional
release by Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
SOUTHERN Assoc

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Atlanta, 5; Nashville, /.
birmingham. O.; ChattanoogA. /.
Memphis, l6; Mobile g.
Little Rock, 8; New Orleans. q. sight-
nning tie
Evening star., 1950-06-21
Golf
lContinued From Pace C-1O

NOIltlIlucu TIOLu rage S.1.J
with 1913 qualif1ers swinging into
match play and dispensing with
the qualifying round. But spon-
sors have been leary of this. fear
ing the stars might be knocked
out too early. They want them
around at least for the qualifying
Three years ago. in Detroit, Snead
Ben Hogan, Jimmy Demaret and
Bobby Locke all lost in the first
round. but it was the third day
Of the tournament. Suppose il
had been the first?
Woodmont Pro George Fazio,
who came from nowhere to tie
for the National Open, saw the
course for the first time yesterday
and it cost him money. Fazio and
Charlie Bassler, the District Open
champion from Rolling Road,
played Toney Penna and Dave
Douglas in a practice round.
Douglas unof1cially broke the
course record by three strokes
with a seven-under- par 65, finish
ing with four straight brides.
Bassler, hitting the ball to per-
lection of the tee, far in front of
the others, had a SO.
Fazio's best performance in the
PGA was in 1948 at st. Louis when
Jimmy Demaret beat him in the
quarter finals. George was more
than 80 strokes under par for the
tournament and still lost, because
Demaret shot a 81 on him In the
morning round of their match
Last year, Demaret beat him In
the second round.
Fazio, who is not superstitious
about clubs and changes putters
or any other club when he gets
tired Of the one he is using. was
shopping for a new driver yester-
day and finally found one he
likes.
Evening star., 1950-06-21

PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE,
San Diego, 6; Sacramento, 8.
Hollywood, Q; San Francisco, /.
Seattle. 4; Portland, 2.
Oakland, Is; Los Angeles. 9.
TEXAS. LEAGUE.
Dallas. 4; San Antonio. 8.
Fort Worth, A; Houston, B.
Beaumont, q; Tulsa, Z.
Evening star., 1950-06-21


Par and
is in meets sta
WiephOtO
Evening star., 1950-06-21

Lew Worsham. who went to the
quarter finals the year he won the
National Open-in 1947-begged
out OF the clinic yesterday in Or
DER to treat a boil on his left leg
that bothered him considerably in
the practice round. Worshan
Fazio and Snead were paired in
the qualifying.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
Laurel Rocewuy Entries

For Tnnisht; Post Time. sis.
FIRST RAcE-Purse. S60o, 1-mile trot
Evening star., 1950-06-21

Fred Bolton played a fast nine
noles late yesterday afternoon,
MS f1rst look at the course. Fred's
mother died last Friday at her
home in Bethesda. Md, after a
long illness. The youngster, who
learned his golf in Washington,
led the st. Louis district qualifiers
by six strokes.
Evening star., 1950-06-21
EIGHTH RAcE-Purse, s7oo; mil.

Also elIgible-Prince Walter IF. Jones).
'eeley "a. Dixon)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
The Great Assault
On Normandy Beach

OVERTURE TO OVERLOAD
BY 1t. Gen. Sir Frederick Nor
gan. Doubleday G. Co., me-;
$500
Reviewed by JOHN A. GILES.
Gen. Morgan has made a fine
contribution to the record OF
World War II in Overture to
Overload a story of the plan
ming of Operation Overload, the
great assault on Normandy Beach
on June 6, 1914. He is an au-
thority on the subject for his was
the duty to direct it.
At the Casablanca Conference
Gen. Morgan was selected CHIEF
of staff for, the as yet unspecified
commander to be and was given
the terifically complex job Of
working out the operation in de-
tail. AS all know, the top job
fell to Gen. Eisenhower, whom
Gen. Morgan reveres practically
as saint.
In addition to q fine history OF
that planning operation, Gen
Morgan's book presents a number
of things which both Americans
and British may we'll ponder
Without recriminations, he frank
ly analyses many Of the more OBJ
vious differences between the two
and does so in a manner that is
eminently creditable to one of the
Britishers who helped Gen. Eisen-
hover attain such success as an
Allied commander. Gen. Eisen-
hover has written foreword.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05

A veteran Government speech
writer, who currently puts words
in other mems mouths at ECA
he spoke for himself very efec-
lively at a novel meeting of the
Arts Club, where the stage was
transformed into a Victorian par
lor and the meeting concluded
with the close-harmony singing
of spirituals by the Sunset Har'
monizers. Mr.. Robertson told OF
the futile first draft of his new
book, THAT Old-Tim Religion,
of his sabbatical year of travel
and observation Of American
Protestant Christianity.
He said parentheticaly, too. that
he didn't know whether it was
due to the Hoover Commission OF
not, but that Government jobs
are a lot harder than they used
to be. He has worked for Is years
in nine different agencies. He
once even wrote a book called
THE Government at Your Serv-
ice," a sort of valentine to his
Uncle Sam. He is also the au-
thor of "Slow Train to Yester-
day." about old railroads, and is
now working on a book about
country papers, dozens of which
are delivered to him weekly al
his home in Mclean Gardens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Mr.. TourteIIot Has q New
Book on Politics COMING

Strangely enough, it was not
in the teeming atmosphere OF
Boston, where every man is as
sumed to be a politician until
proved otherwise, that Arthur
Tourtellot's political conscious
ness awoke. A native of Rhode
Island. he spent his 20 years in
the shadow of the Statehouse
dome, happily composing volumi-
nous essays on Shelley on space
rates for the late lamented Bos-
ton Evening Transcript.
1t took a war and Coast Guard
service to wrench young Mr.. Tour
tellot, who was here last week fol
the White House photographers
dinner, away from bellies lettres
and into a consideration of poll
tics. He began with a book
called Woodrow Wilson: Selec-
tons for Today" He has just
completed can Anatomy OF
American Politics." which will
be published on March II
Now a producer for the March
Of Time, Mr.. Tourtellot, who is a
dapper, keen young man, spends
his off-hours In his Connection,
home working on history OF
world governments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
James Streets Dobney Saga Moves On
AdventurousIy Into Cuban Revolution
MINGO DABNEY


BY James Street. (Didh; So
This is another book in Mr..
Streets Dabney saga. Here Mingo,
last Of the clan, leaves his Missis-
sippi home in 1895 to ship aboard
a blockade runner bound for Cuba
with arms and men for the pa
triots who are revolving against
Spain. But it is not sympathy
for the revolutionists alone that
impels the Mississippian to join
them. He is in love with a Gu
ban beauty named Rafaela. known
to the insurrectoS as La En-
torcha.'' the flaming symbol of
the fight against the Spaniards.
She is supposed to be unapproach-
able, but no daring young Ameri-
can ever gives up-in romantic
novel. Arriving in Cuba, Mingo
escapes a Spanish firing squad by
a thin adverb and a couple of
last-minute adjectives. After that
he is in the middle of the forlorn
fight of the Cubans against the
huge Spanish Army, and he cheats
death regularly. The ending?
You guess.
Mr.. Street writes a swift, slick
magazine prose. He says in a
toreword that he has taken a few
liberties with history, since he is,
after all, a story teller, not his
torian. It shouldn't matter. Peo-
pie would much rather believe