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but he's sure making q name for
himself"
Hope touched on other things,
too. OF the marathon to which
the Secretary of the Army was
subjected: Secretary Stevens
has been in the witness chair
so long there are now two shines
in this case" OF professional pa
triots: There's so much brass
down there that there's nothing
left between us and Russia but
Walter Winchell." OF the as
Sembled brass: "A buck private
went down there the other day
and it took him all afternoon to
salute his way out Of the room. -"
Mr.. Hope did not stop with
his opening monologue. either.
He followed this up with a skit
in which he played a seaman
second class in the Navy who
was given, by mistake, a pay
check for $50 million. Since
the Navy never makes mistakes,
he was forced to keep it.
He managed to have quite a
life of ease thereafter. Pre-
lunch martins were piped to
him, his meals were served to
him with champagne, a chief
petty officer Shined his shoes
and he was administered by q
doll in one Of those French
maids uniforms of old-time
farces.
When the captain protested
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Chairman!" to which other come
dians we've heard have con-
fined themselves.
He came out, said he'd been
to Washington to look at the
telethon going on there. and got
right into things. THAT Nc
Carthy," he said, "is sure making
a name for himself. isn't he?
(Pause) I don't know what it Is,
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159 in Field as Play
Begins in $4,000
Miami Open Golf
BY the Asseeisisd Press

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 9.-The
Sam Snead' golf tournament
starts today with 159 Of the
country's leading pros and anna.
seurs in the field. The pros are
shooting for Q share Of $4,000
prize money.
oficially, it's the s0th annual
Miami Open. but Snead already
has won it five times and Is Q
standout choice to make it six.
Many pros refer to it as the
Sam Snead tournament"
Snead won In 1887. 1889, ls4S,
1850 and 1851. NJ finished sec
,nd last year to Doug Ford Of
Kiamesha Lake. NJ. Y, who had
272 for the 72-hole event.
Snead Tours Course in Sc.
Snead proved he will be the
man to beat when he fired q 66
in the pro-member tournament
at La Gorce Country Club Tues
day and toured the 6.700-yard
par 34-35-70 Miami Springs
course yesterday In .32-34-6s.
That he will face keen compe-
tition is assured. Pete Cooper.
Tampa pro, had q 33-32-65
practice round and Tommy Bolt,
of Houston. Tex. carded q 81 on
his last day of practice. Chick
Harbert. PGA champion from
Worthwhile. Mich. made 1t in par.
as did Dick Mayer of st. Peters,
burg. Fla. Harbert set the course
record of 81 in 1948.
Sam a Late Starter.
Others who may give Snead
competition are Ed Furgol OF st.
Louis. National Open champion:
Shelley Mayfield of Chicopee.
Mass. and Frank Stranahan Of
Toledo, Ohio. who won the tour
nament in 1948 as an amateur,
but now is a professional.
Snead was listed among the
late starters, teeing of in .
threesome with Porky Oliver Of
Lemont. H.. and Stranahan.
Furgol. making his first start
since he injured his right arm
during an Australian tour last
September. tees of half an hour
earlier with Jim Turnesa Of
Briarcliff. N. Y. and Walter Bur-
keno of Franklin, Mich.
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By LEWIS +. kTcAlSon

The International, like Topsy,
lust growed." It has had no
help to speak of from the State.
It could grow a lot faster and
might even provide another Ken
lucky Derby day, with a couple Of
extra races beginning at IL am.
to keep the customers happy
and busy. After all, Laurel
turned over $l.774.000 in taxes
from its two meetings this year,
counting the pari-mutual tax,
breakage and $1,000 daily license
fee. It's an almost painless way
of collecting tax money. but
State officials seem blind to the
golden opportunity presented to
them.
The International is an ex-
pensive proposition, costing the
track between $I75.O00 and
100000. Laurel can't hope to
make up that sum without help.
as Schapiro and his associates
must well know. 1t seems that
a race like this, bringing in
visitors from all over the coun-
try as we'll as abroad, must help
business in both Washington and
Baltimore. Louisville on Derby
Day is a good example of what
such a race can mean to bust
ness.
What it means to Maryland
is reflected in the num-
Der of visiting writer's who come
to Laurel for the race, and by
the pre-race publicity it receives
throughout the world, as well as
the accounts of the running it
self. But how long Laurel will
continue to foot the bill to i'm
port foreign horses and jockeys
without some form of help from
the State remains to be seen.
Other tracks undoubtedly would
seize the chance to take it over
If Laurel threw in the sponge.
1t used to be that a fellow
got "E" for effort when he
knuckled down and tried, but in
this case it seems that Laurel's
getting raped on the knuckles.
That isn't good for racing, Or for
Maryland.
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who received honorable mention

who received honorable mention,
was announced Sunday.
The four All-Americas are End
Frank Mcdonald, Miami: Tackle
Rex Began. Mississippi; Guard
Bud Brooks. Arkansas, and Gen.
ter Kurt Burris, Oklahoma.
In addition to the Rose Bowl,
Senior Bowl squad members will
play in the Sugar. Cotton.
Orange and Gator Bowls, and the
Shrine East-West and North
South and Montgomery Blue
Gray games before coming here
January Q.
The complete North squad Gin
Guiding weights:
Ends Dean nugser. ohio State, 2l3,
Gaskell. George Washington, eos, AND
An1y Naerelli Fcrdham, 1a5.
Bon ols GaerG SeS1ass. M s1s
Joe RAY s'' ueLAss 0i ias collese, $50 and
g2Y. Tom Belts, Purdue, 2I9: Henry
s snlGus f,a m1isais I'm State ao1' and Jan
Ceaters-John Damore Northwestern
2l0, and Bob Thornton, Ohio state, 100
Backs-Florian Helinski, Indiana, / "a;
Dave Legsett: Ohio State I0, Lindor,
Grow. Southern Cal. 1877 Ron
przewieeki,. Marquette. ira: Bob. Nc.
Namara, Minnesota iai; Corky TAylcr
UcLA. lie: Alan Ameche. wisconsin
2ls. Max Rarkett. Iowa State, l95, and
Dice Young. Chattanooga, so4
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| Setback by Virginia
Points Up Navy Need
For New Scoring Aces
special pispaseh 10 vhs ssor

| ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 9.-Ccn-
spicuous by their absence are
| two Navy basketball stars of last
season.
With no Don Lange-Jolan Clune
scoring combination to bail them
out. the Middies must come up
with o reasonable substitute or
take the consequences this sea-
SON.
The Middies got . taste of the
consequences here yesterday as
Virginia. led by its ace, Buzz
Wilkinson, won. 1859. Wilkin-
son scored % points to, bring
his three-game total to 80. The
Cavaliers have won all three.
Outlook Far From Hopeless.
The situation is far from
hopeless for Navy. Coach Ben
Carnevale has a bench loaded
with eager sophomores. including
Dave Smalley. who has scored
Al points in two games. Smalley
led the Middies yesterday with
81
Finding the best combination
appears to be Carnevale's main
job. But even while experiment.
ing, the Middies gave Virginia
run for it. Smalley and Larry
Wigley combined to put Navy in
front in the third quarter. Vir-
ginia regained the lead, but
Smalley tied it at $3.50 with two
free throws. Wilkinson then put
the Cavaliers ahead to stay.
Wins on Foul Line.
In the final analysis. Virginia,
which led. 1888. at halftime,
won on the foul line. Each team
made a goals, but the Cavaliers
scored Is Of SO free throws, while
the Middies made IS in 20 tries.
Navy. winner over Yale last
Saturday. now has a III record
to take against Temple here Sat-
urday.
In a preliminary, the Navy
Plebes. led by Wistar Nelligans
Is points, edged the Virginia
freshman team. 69-68. Kendall
White scored q points for the
1s@x~
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: M<zA Rop 7HoMAS\

weight after major operation
during the summer. Her hands
seem too small to grip a duck
pin ball.
Now and then I catch my
self feeling that the whole thing
was a dream" she says. 81 was
in such a daze after the game
that I didn't realize Immediate
ly it was a world record. I
thought I merely had beaten
the District record.
THAT night I awoke from a
sound sleep and, my sister Des-
sic says, I screamed: I broke
the world record!' bessie told
me to go back to sleep. You're
dreaming she said"
u **
Mrs. Walsh's game was unique
in two respects. It not only was
the highest score ever rolled by
a woman, but the margin by
which she broke the old mark
also was record. This was %
pins. Ruth Zentz of Baltimore
set the old standard of 200 in a
league match in 1851.
Mrs. Walsh spared in the first
three frames and struck in the
next six. In the final box she
drew a single-pin break. She
not only missed it-she doesn't
clearly remember seeing it.
Her most vivid recollection of
the game was the deep silence
of the tense gallery that pre-
coded each shot in the late stages
and the din that followed.
The next evening, Mrs. Walsh
rolled a game of 1866 in another
league and she hasn't accom-
plished anything out of the or
binary since. She's now bowling
with the Tulford's Radio in the
Capital Major League and has an
average of less than 100. In the
Women's Minor League, however,
it's 108.
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Big Ten Heavily Represented
In Senior Bowl; GoskeU Picked
BY the Associated Press

MOBILE. Ala. Dec. "a
North squad headed by Wiscon-
sins bruising ball carrier, Alan
Ameche, and three members of
Ohio States national champions
was named today for the sixth
annual Senior Bowl game at Mo-
bile January 8.
Also prominent on the Yankee
team of seniors was Bob McNa-
mara of Minnesota, fleet half
back who led his team to a To
record In the Big Ten.
Ameche. who set a NCAA rush.
ing record during his four years
at Wisconsin, yesterday was
named to the Associated Press
All-America team. Mcnamara is
a second-team member.
Eight Big Ten are among the
q who will send players to the
sixth annual game which will
mark their professional debut.
Rose Bowl-bound Ohio State
will have Quarterback Dave Leg
gett, Center Bob Thornton and
End Dean Digger. n
Other backs will be Primo VII
laneauva of undefeated UCLA,
Lindon Grow of Southern CAL
ifornia's Rose Bowl team, Florian
Helinski of Indiana. Corky Tay-
lor of Kansas State, Ron Drze-
wiecki of Marquette, Max Bur-
kett OF Iowa State. and Dick
Young Of Chattanooga.
Other than Ohio State. the
only schools with more than one
representative are Wisconsin,
with Ameche and Guard Norm
Amundsen. and UCLA, with VIII
laneuva and. Tackle Joe Ray.
George Washington University is
represented by End Richie
Gaskell.
Most Of the "a members OF
Coach Paul Browns squad have.
been named to their all-confer-
ence teams. and IA received hon.
orable mention on the Associated
Press All-America team.
Brown. coach of the Cleveland
Browns. has won the past three
Senior Bowl games from Steve
Owen, former coach Of the New
York Giants. who viii lead the
South team for the sixth straight
year.
Owens 24-member squad. In
clu1fng four All-Americas, four
sed nd-team members and seven
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They came from the Greater
Washington Duckpin Associa-
ton. the Metropolitan Bowling
Operators Association and II. B.
Leary, jr. 81 Bros. Inc, sponsor
of the team for which Mrs.
Walsh rolled the big game at
the King Pin in the Capital
Women's Major League. She
also received a gold medal from
the National Duckpin Congress.
Officiating at the TV cere-
mony were Mrs. Alma Vierbuch-
en- and Mrs. Lyn Kuczek, officials
Of the duckpin association; JUL
Jus Singer, president of the OPP
orators, and Bill Band, general
manager of Leary's.
They were the first such
trophies given by the two asso-
Citations.
Mrs. Walsh, payroll clerk at
the Naval Receiving Station,
stands about five feet and weighs
95 pounds. Is less than when
she rolled the 232. She lost
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League, with one exception.
That was Ted Williams.
He confined such opinions to
his own league.
Where would you find a Babe
Ruth. a Lou Gehrig, a Harry
Heilmann, a Jimmy Foxx or an
AL Simmons" he asked.
Il saw a lot of wonderful
hitters in my 80 years. That
Simmons was great. He was the
best all-around hitting and de-
fensive outflelder I ever saw for
three seasons when he was
helping the Athletics win pen
nants. And that Heilmann-
Whew! ..
Liked Joe DiMaggio.
"But I'd have to say, Williams
is the greatest hitter to come
along since those other fellows
I mentioned. However, for an
all-around modern ball player,
I'd have to like Joe DiMaggio.
He had a great arm, was q ter
rife base runner, a fine hitter
and one of the all-time great
fielders. A lot of people don't
realize it. but Joe was a great
base Stealer.
"Of course, with the ball clubs
he played on, he didn't have to
steal bases. But when the YAM
KEGS got in a tight spot, Joe
could steal that extra base. I
never saw his equal for instinct
on bases. either. He was rarely
thrown out going from first to
third"
Bill called iris Speaker the
greatest defensive outfielder he'd
seen, commenting: HE used to
play only about so feet back of
second base, for Speaker could
really go back" OF the current
crop. Bill rated Jim Busby of
Washington and Jim Piersall of
the Red Sox as the closest APP
to Speaker in the field.
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CIV Cagers Favored
Over PIT Tomorrow
Ii Steel Bowl Opener

George Washington's basket
ball squad leaves by plane to-
morrow morning for the Steel
Bowl Tournament at Pittsburgh.
The Colonials meet Pitt in to-
morrow nights opening game and
will be favored to get past that
team into Saturday nights final.
The other game tomorrow
matches Duquesne and Fordham.
with Duquesne ranked third ma
tionally In this weeks Associated
Press poll, the choice there.
CIV. loser Of its opener last
week at Wake Forest. looks to
Corky Devlin and Joe Holup to
put 1t In the win column. This
high-scoring pair heads Coach
Bill Remnants fine group Of
holdovers from a team which
won the Southern Conference
title last year and turned in a
1913 record. Workouts this week
have concentrated on Tightening
defenses. plus preparations for
Pitts style Of play.
The Panthers. who had a OLA
record last season. are not look
ing for national honors this
season, but Coach Bob Timmons,
in his second year at the helm.
expects improvement. His lead
ing scorer has graduated, but
he still has two of last years
top players in Joe Fenwick, a
fine scorer from outside. and Ed
Pavlik, a 6-foot-3 center who
works the backboardS we'll.
Among his most promising
new men is John Riser. a
6-foot-5 sophomore who was the
leading scorer on last years
freshman team. @--
The only basketball action in
Washington tonight has Moun&
st. Mary's. winner Of the Mason
Dixon Conference tournament
last season. at American u.
game time $50. The Mounts,
who trimmed Gallaudet in their
league opener earlier this week,
are favored to hand. the Eagles
their fifth straight loss.
In another Mason-Dixon game
last night Washington College
showed enough scoring power to
cause trouble to its conference
opponents in beating Catholic
University, 1910.
In their first game of the sea-
son. the Shoremen we're led by |
Center Chick Haines and Ed
Silverie. Haines scored 20 points, |
"A of them from the floor, while !
Silverie scored nine field goals
and % points.
The Cardinals trailed through
out In losing their second game
HAr,,n - -
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ant to show why it should have
the opening spring dates in
March and the closing dates in
December. DR.. Leo Alpert Is
the gentleman's name and he
built a scale model of the three
plants, with a revolving sun to
Illustrate at today's meeting the
suns position at various hours
on various days of the year at
each track.
Bowie argues that it's track
was built to take advantage of
the suns warm rays in early
spring and late autumn, and
that the grandstand and club
house boxes are SO Internally hot
at other times-except winter,
Of course-a person can't sit in
them. The track wants Mary
lands opening and closing dates,
which it had for 80 years. basing
It's plea on the weather.
Pimlico will try to sell tradition
the Preakness in the spring
the historic old clubhouse with
its famed weathervane always
painted in the Preakness-win-
ming owners colors-supported
by the Pimlico Special and
Futurity in the autumn. The
Special is a changeable race,
with conditions written to suit
the temper of the times, but the
Preakness has to be held in the
spring. like the Kentucky Derby.
That brings us to Laurel, with
its new clubhouse and turf club
and its budding Washington,
D. c., International turf race.
Laurel's approach to the problem
of dates is novel, inasmuch as
it is strictly a business one and,
from our own viewpoint, it seems
to make a lot of sense. Laurel
wants all its eggs in one basket,
all of it's racing days at the end
of the Maryland fall season, for
several good reasons. First, and
most important, it can stage the
international on Veterans Day,
which, it accidentally discovered,
is, the ideal day for this colorful
affair. Secondly, it can bring a
better class of horses to Mary
land for the longer meeting. To-
gether. that should add up to
bigger crowds, heavier wagering
and, subsequently, bigger profit
for everybody, including the
State treasury.
Laurel'S John D. Schapiro and
Joe Cascarella, waging a vigor-
Gus battle for their preferred
dates. have one very strong point
in their favor, it seems, which
Maryland officials in general.
and the Racing Commission in
particular, may have overlooked.
1t was their rebuilding program,
their Inauguration of the Wash
ington, d. c.. international and
introduction of turf racing, that
almost literally brought Mary
land racing back from the
brink OF the grave.
n y y
Laurel, in a real sense, Is
Washington's own track, even
more so than Bowie. The In
is Washington's own
race. The name itself attracted
more worldwide attention than
any other and, with the diplo-
matte corps here, the Interna-
tional in time is bound to be one
Of the highlights of the nation
al sports scene. 1t is another
Kentucky Derby in diapers, but |
a lusty infant, after only three
That Veterans Day is the ap-
propriate date for the race was
proved in 1858, when a snow
storm providentially blew in on
the regularly scheduled day,
forcing postponement until No.
II. Despite competition
from Garden State. the race |
drew a record breaking $1,000 |
fans. BY comparison, Pimlico !
drew only $4,000 fans on the /
same day this year, with no New !
Jersey competition. |
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MCGOWAN
Star Staff Photo.
Continued From Page CID

Fame. They we're the subjects
of many of his stories as a
talented after-dinner speaker.
Born in Wilmington. Del,
January l8. 1896, Bill became a
resident Of the Washington area
in 1885 and was constantly in
demand as an after dinner
speaker because of his wit and
baseball knowledge.
Liked Washington Best.
"Of all the cities in the United
States" he once said, "there is
no place like Washington, D. c."
At the time Bill broke in as
an umpire in the. Virginia
League. promising youngster
with the Petersburg club was
Sam Rice, later to become a
long time star outfielder of the
Senators, though he came to the
majors as a pitcher. 4
With a flair for Snowman
ship. Bill made his decisions with
a flourish that times seemed
to enliven the game, itself, In
1913, he drew a To-day suspension
and was fined about $500 for a
squabble with Washington play
erS. ,ta-a.
Joe Kuhei. then the Senator's
manager. had charged Bill with
improper language and with
throwing a baseball and his ball
and strikes indicator at. players.
But even then Bill was not a
well man, and his temper got
the better Of him. He was a
diabetic for about Is years.
Never Intended to Be Umpire.
Strangely enough, MCGOWAN
never intended to be an UNI
pire. He had hoped to be a
sports writer and started out
as a reporter for a Wilmington
paper. One day in 1914 he went
out to the Wilmington ball park
to cover a Glass B baseball game
and found there was no UNI
pire. The managers of the rival
teams talked the young man
into taking over, and his career
was launched.
His 30-year career in the
American League was among
the longest in baseball history,
rivaling the 35-year span of Bill
KLEIN. the famed National League
arbiter who was active from
1905 to 1910, and that of Tommy
Connolly who. after three sea-
sons in the National League,
served actively in the American
League for 81 years, from 1901
to June, 1881. when he was
named chief of the staff.
Only last week, Bill was retired
by the American League and the
official announcement made
His application for
retirement was before the club
owners Saturday when news
came that Bill had suffered a
heart attack. 1t was reported
that. instead of giving him the
ls,cs $4,000 pension, the league
doubled 1t, acting on a special
resolution proposed by Tom
Of the Red Sox and
seconded by Calvin Griffith, the
Senator'S vice president.
Didn't Plan to Remain Idle.
But Bill didn't intend to re-
main idle. He was thought to
De slated for the presidency of
the Piedmont League. He
planned also to carry on as usual
with his umpires' school at
Cocoa, Fla, which was a flourish
Ing enterprise Of many years
standing. One year he sent out
IS graduates and 43 made good
N organized baseball. The
students paid $85 for five weeks
Of instruction. Bill scrutinized
each not only for umpiring
ability, but integrity, sobriety
and appearance.
Bill was emphatic in his opin-
ion that hitters today didn't
compare with the stars of his
early days in the American
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dates for 1856.
And, to para
phrase a bib
lical q 10 t a.
tion. h ere
may be great
W IL ing and
gn a S hing of
t e e tn, for
m a ny dates
h We be e n
c h o en- but
I e W are ac-
ceptable.
Bowie hired
a meteorolog-