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Evening star., 1960-05-25
Teen-Ager Gives
800 Hours Work
St. Cecilia High School Junior
Wins Soroptinist Club Award
BY SUSAN POWERS
Contributing Writer

Take a typical Washing
ton teen-ager with an en-
thusiasm for sports. a yen
for the bongo drum and an
amazing record Of volunteer
charity work. and who have
you got? Sixteen-year-old
Helene M. German.
The daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas E. German has
donated 800 hours Of her
time during the past year to
volunteer service at District
General Hospital.
In recognition of her work.
Helene was to be presented
with the Soroptimist Club Of
Washington Youth Achieve
ment award "for unselfish
service" in ceremonies today
at st. Cecilia's High School.
where she is in her junior
year.
Wants Nurses Career
What prompts a teen-ager
to take time out from the
normal rush Of school life
for work for others?
In Helene's case, it was
the desire to learn more
about the profession Of nurs-
ing, which she was consid-
ering as a career.
To gain experience in the
field, she took the 14-hour
Red Cross Home Nursing
Course offered last spring
under the auspices of the
Catholic Youth Organiza-
ton.
Upon completing the
course she was sent to Dis
trict General and assigned to
the pediatrics department of
the orthopedic ward.
Her patients were all Grip
pied children, most of them
victims of polio, cerebral
palsy or spinal meningitis.
They ranged in age from
infancy to 7 years.
Her volunteer duties in
volved making beds, serving
trays, playing with the chill
dren and transporting them
from recreation room to din
ing room and back to bed for
nap time.
The last duty Helene de-
fines as "a major project.
Like all youngsters. they
don't want to go to bed"
She has learned the per-
sonal satisfaction that comes
from helping others. Especi-
ally children.
Kids Love Attention
There's so much you can
do for kids that you can't
do for adults. Adults can oc-
cupy their time. But chill
dren need someone to read
to them, to play with them.
Give them just the smallest
bit of attention. and the kids
gulp it up" she says. Her
holidays. plus Christmas and
Easter vacations, were spent
with the children.
An avid sports enthusiast
tshe likes ANY kind you can
name,D Helene plays guard
on the schools junior varsity
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basketball team and is also
on the team of st. Matthew's
Teen Club. With talents in
the field Of journalism, too,
she is active on the editorial
and sports staff of the year.
book, THE Cecilian."
And don't tell anybody"
she laughed. But sometimes
I play the bongo drums"
Evening star., 1960-05-25
Club Members In Art Exhibit

Three members Of the fine
arts department Of the Wom-
ans Club of Falls Church
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Annual Breakfast

DR.. Paul A. Siple, explorer
to Antarctica. will be guest
speaker at the annual break
fast of the Political Study
Club to be held at noon
tomorrow in the Grand Ball.
room Of the Mayflower
Hotel.
Evening star., 1960-05-25
New Glasses

Glasses in Latin and Amer
ican ballroom dancing will
be held on the penthouse
roof of the YWCA beginning
tomorrow. Modern dance
classes are slated to begin
June /.
Evening star., 1960-06-08
Willie, the Clown, at Home
Three Special Fans Top q List of Thousands

vira Gebhardt, was born in
Leipzig in the Eastern Zone
of Germany, where her par
ents are still living. She came
to this country in 1854, almost
a year to the day before she
married her clown in April,
1855.
The performers wife had
been an acrobat herself for
several years before joining
Ringing Brothers in this
country and has played in
almost every country in Cen
trail and Northern Europe.
She also made a movie in
Denmark.
Mrs. Kelly was part of a
four-member tumbling act,
and she met Willie while she
was doing her wash in a
bucket on the circus grounds.
The famous c character
passed the pretty blond with
a mere hello" several times
before he asked her out for
dinner, recalls Evie Kelly,
adding that before she ac-
cepted she asked the advice
Of the show producers.
1T was a hot summer day
when I went to meet him at
his wagon and I didn't know
what he looked like out of
makeup, but there was no
trouble recognizing him, and
we walked into town.
He said, You look pretty
Evening star., 1960-06-08

The intimate side of the
Kellys "at home" came as
they relaxed in a nearby
Takoma Park garden during
a short visit to the area. And
for a brief while, 6l-year-old
Emmett Kelly wasn't clown
ing"
AS Stasia and her sister
Monika (who is two-and-a-
half scampered from lap to
lap, Mr.. Kelly gave them
Willie's soulful look and said,
When the kids came into
my life, they helped Willie"
And then the famous circus
personality explained, You
see I had been living alone
for II years and my ap-
proach to children was be-
coming cynical, and that
would have hurt Willie for
he could never disappoint the
children he loves-and that's
all kids"
Willie first came to life in
the early sos from Mr..
Kelly's pen. Mr.. Kelly was
then a cartoonist but soon
left that career for the cir
Gus.
: Then Willie entered the
Big Top and his Character of
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have both been in the same
type of show business.
Il understand Emmett so
well," says his wife, adding:
"And I know that everything
is not always rosy-Emmett
does a sad character, but he's
a pretty happy fellow
although sometimes serious.
He loves to read newspapers
and always takes a walk be-
fore breakfast"
"a Clown Is Human"
Mrs. Kelly feels a clown
"is just as human as anyone
else and when he's been gone
and comes home you should
be there. but most important
is to be sure to always cook
CIle CnlngS ne likes"
There is only one side of
Willie that sometimes both
erS Emmett Kelly, such as
the time when the little girl
gave him a box of donuts be-
cause he looked so poor or
when the little boy cried for
three days because his father
wouldn't buy Willie a new
suit.
Il don't like little children
to cry" says Mr.. Kelly.
And at the end of the
afternoons talk, Emmett
Kelly looked over proudly at
his wife and admitted that
she was very pretty but then
came a twinkle in his eyes as
he said:
I'll put on Willie anytime
and he'll outshine Evie every
time"
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and I said, You're old enough
to be my father and then we
had dinner and he bought me
a box Of candy" laughed
Mrs. Kelly. remembering
their first date.
Several months later they
went from Madison Square
Garden to New Jersey to be
married, but came back for
that evenings performance
and rode around the center
ring as bride and groom to
the circus fanfare.
Career Ends
Mrs. Kelly's career ended
when Stasia was on the way,
and she settled down in a
rented house in circus head
quarters" Sarasota, Fla,
where they plan to build a
house this summer.
Asked if she had any
regrets, Evie simply states,
mo, I want to raise my own
children and so, that's that"
In private life the Kellys
lead a quiet average Ameri-
can existence, with Mrs.
Kelly doing her own Ger
man cooking. Emmett goes
along with all her culinary
art with the exception of
Willie's trade mark - cab
bage.
Since Willie has become a
free lance attraction there
is much travelling in the life
of Mrs. Kelly. His three girls
go along only if the stand
is at least three weeks long.
AS for their married life,
Evie feels it is good that they
Evening star., 1960-06-08
By DAISY CLELAND
Star STAFF Writer

There are three blonds in
the life of Weary Willie"
Emmett Kelly'S beloved clown,
who for almost 80 years has
brought tears and laughter
to circus fans.
To thousands he has been
the sad-faced character
munching on a cabbage leaf
as he wandered through the
crowd. stopping here and
there for a soulful stare at
one of the customers.
To his fair-haired wife
and two tiny daughters he is
a devoted husband and father
who likes to grow onions and
radisheS (never cabbage) in
his vegetable garden.
Emmett is old enough to
be my father, but I couldn't
find a better man." says 27-
year old German-born Evie
Kelly, who is a former circus
tumbler.
Daddy'S q Clown
To 4ia-year-old daughter
Stasia, MY daddy's my dad
dy, but sometimes he's a
clown"
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humility and dignity de-
veloped.
In 1850 Mr.. Kelly was
scheduled to play Willie in
a movie called "The Fat
Man" However, when the
actor read the script and
found that he would be a
murderer doing away with
four persons, he refused to let
Willie have any part in it.
Il was under contract"
recalls Emmett Kelly, "and
things could have been a
mess, but I just couldn't let
Willie do such a thing-think
of all the kids who knew him
and, anyway, Willie wasn't
like that"
The day was saved when
Mr.. Kelly suggested to the
producers that he play a
white face" the normal con-
ception of a clown. And so
the show went on, but with
out Willie.
Nostalgia '
Emmett Kelly recalled with
nostalgia his many openings
in Washington with Ringing
Brothers Circus. 1t would be
spring, the open air and un-
der the big top.
Opening under canvas is
like letting the birds loose
you are born all over again."
he says.
Evie Kelly, the former El-
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titles-the varsity, junior var
sity and freshman races. All OF
the races in the combined
lightweight and heavyweight
championships were over 1000
meters (mile and 427 yards) on
Lake Quinsigamond.
The Harvard 155-pound var
sity racked UP its third straight
Eastern sprint title and its 26th
race in a row by whipping
Navy in the final by 11a lengths
in 7:02.6. Cornell was third
Columbia fourth, Princeton
fifth and Dartmouth sixth.
The Crimson lightweights
were in command all the way
and seemed to revel in the Is
to l8 mile per hour headwind
that blew across the lake.
In addition to winning the
feature before a crowd of about
$4,000, Cornell won the heavy
weight junior varsity title, and
was second behind Navy in
the heavyweight freshman
event. Cornell was clocked in
See CREW, Page F-5
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purposely passed and Clemente
tripled off the leftfield fence.
Pittsburgh unle sh e d a
three-run outburSt in the Sec
ond on a single by Smoky Bur-
CESS, a double by Gino Cimoli,
a walk. singles by Law and
Hoax and Dick Groat's double
play ball. The first of three
errors by Braves Shortstop
Felix Mantilla gave the Pirates
another run in the fifth. Skin
ner singled, stole second, took
third on a wild pitch and scored
when Mantilla fumbled Bur-
CESS grounder.
Milwaukee surged back on
the long ball. Del Crandall
belted a homer in the fifth,
his fifth of the season. Yves
Covington and Mantilla clout-
ed back-to-b back homers in the
seventh and Joe Adcock, side
lined since April q with back
trouble, pounded a pinch homer
over the left-center fence in
the eighth to tie the count at
4-all.
Evening star., 1960-05-15
BUMP BY RIVAL
PROVIDES SCARE
FOR BALLY ACHE

BALTIMORE, May IA.
(SpeciaD. - Bally Ache,
who completely dominated
the news at Pimlico today,
nearly figured in some
more after winning the
Preakness Prep.
The colt, sold only a few
hours before for $1,250,00O,
was bumped hard after the
Prep by Celtic Ash, the
third finisher, who ap-
parently was working out
an extra furlong.
Trainer Jimmy Pitt was
upset at the nearness of a
costly injury. but said later
he thought no damage was
done. Last year Bally Ache
lost five races, crossing
more than 100000 each,
in photo finishes.
Evening star., 1960-05-15
Dodgers Halt
Giants, Il, in
Two-Hitter

SAN FRANCISCO, May IA
(AP).-Stan williams of the
Dodgers pitched a two-hitter
and cut down San Francisco
2-1, today, swapping the Giants
seven-game winning streak ano
narrowing their National
League lead to one game.
The 6-foot-4 Los Angeles
Highlander. winning his first
game of the season, bested
Lefty Billy O'Dell in a duel be.
fore 41,733 fans in Candlestick
Park.
ODell gave up seven hits
the last two in the ninth when
Shortstop Maury Wills led of
with a bloop single, was sacri.
feed to second by Gil Hodges
and scored the winning run
on Don Demeter's single.
Williams walked six and
struck out only one. ODell
losing his third game, famed
seven and didn't walk a man.
The Dodgers posted the first
run on Giant pitching in SO
innings In the seventh. Frank
Howard led off with his second
single and was sacrificed to
second. Shortstop Ed Bressoud
See DODGERS, Page F-a
Evening star., 1960-05-15
HARVARD UPSET, NAVY THIRD
Revomped Cornell
Takes Rowing Title

. WORCESTER. Mass, May
IA (AP). Cornell's varsity
heavyweights, who were pro-
NOTED overnight from the
Junior varsity ranks, upset
Harvard's defending cham
pions and Navy's husky crew
for the Eastern College Sprint
Rowing championship today.
The Cornell eight had only
one oarsman from the old var
sity but they swept through
the water today like they were
the No. / shell all year.
Stroked by Harry MoSeley,
Cornell led all the way in win
ming by Ia lengths over Har-
ward. The Crimson, beaten
for the first time in two years
in the morning heat, nosed out
Navy's high-strokers for Sec
ond by five-tenths of a second.
Syracuse was fourth, Prince
ton fifth and Penn last in the
six-crew final.
Harvard's lightweights sal
vaged some glory for the Grim
son by sweeping all three of its
Evening star., 1960-05-15
PiersaII Stars
As Tribe Nips
Chicago, tO.9

CLEVELAND, May IA (AP)
-Two-run homers by Jim
Piersall and John Romano,
plus other effective slugging
gave Cleveland a 1919 victory
over the White Sox today.
The touted Barry Latman-
Herb Score feud fizzled as
neither lasted two innings.
Each pitcher faced his former
teammates for the first time.
They exchanged uniforms on
the eve of the seasons opener
here, with Score going to the
White Sox in exchange for
Latman.
Reliefer Johnny Klippstein
limited the White Sox to one
run in the last three innings
a homer by Minnie Minoso-
after the winner, Carl Thomas,
was bombarded for five runs in
the sixth.
The Indians scored all of
their runs in the first five
innings against Score, the
loser. Don Ferrarese, Ray
Moore and Mike Garcia.
Thomas followed Latman, the
Indians starter.
Piersall led the Indians at
tack with a home run, double
and single. He knocked in three
runs, as did Romano, who
clouted homer and single.
The Indians scored five runs
of Score. The White Sox
scored three off Latman.
Jim Lands, the Sox CENTER
fielder, suffered a mild concus-
sion and cuts above and below
the right eye when he crashed
into the fence trying to catch
Piersall's home run in the sec
ond inning. Joe Hicks, former
Virginia U. star, replaced him.
ruErArn Uvrr ANN
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Ounce. ridden by Eddie Arcarc
and toting 11s. was $3.50 tc
show.
Eleven started in the race
after Ada L. Rice's Talent Show
was scratched, leaving the other
half of her entry, Rare Rice
to compete.
YcaZa sent Mail Order to the
front at once and he held onto
the lead rounding the top OF
the stretch with a quarter of
a mile to go. Yes You Will
was charging up into conten-
ton, and Sir Salonga had the
third spot.
$3S,2O5 Goes to Victor
At the eighth pole Yes You
Will drew alongside Mail Order
and it was apparent the Chi
.cago-owned horse couldn't hold
the lead. With a sixteenth of
a mile to travel. the Maryland
colt edged into the front and
took down first money of
$38,205.
Nimmer finished fifth, fol-
lowed by Jimmer, Sir Salonga,
Mystic II. Day Court, Rare Rice
and East Indian.
Yes You Will had won four
handicaps at Bowie but was
disqualified in one of them
the Bowie Handicap. His last
big victory at Bowie was in the
100000 Campbell Memorial
Handicap. His purse today gave
him 1860 bankroll of S140,65l.
Evening star., 1960-05-15
TODAY'S SPORTS
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Evening star., 1960-05-15
PROB ABLE
PITCHERS
AMERICAN LEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York at washington-Ditma
u-0t VS.. Clevenger 1-D.
Chicago at Cleveland (2) - Wynn
(0-D and Donovan u-0) VS. Stigman
GID and Perry 1-D.
Kansas City at Detroit (21-Hall
(3-01 and Daley U-2) VS.. Burnside
DO and Mossi Q-2).
Baltimore at Boston (2) - Barber
0-1 and Brown t3-0l VS.. C1sale (2-0)
and Sullivan Old.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Los Angeles at San Francisco-Podres
t2-2) VS.. Antonelli (1-0).
Philadelphia at Cincinnati C2l -
Conley t0-D and Robinson (0-2) VS.,
McLish t2-2) and Newcombe 1-D
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee C2l-Had-
dix DID and Daniels 40 VS.. SPAIN
t2-0) and Pizarro I'D.
St. Ihsls at Chicago C2)-Jackson
1-5) nd Mcdaniel DID VS.. Drott
(0-8 and Cardwen u-2).
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Picture on Poqe F-3

fRiutS oH E09e ~
runs off Vernon Law, who was
lifted for a pinch-hitter in the
10th. Roy Face, who pitched
the last two innings, was cred
tied with his second victory
against three defeats.
A crowd of 1886 saw the
Pirates score their fifth victory
over Milwaukee since the
Braves beat Pittsburgh here
on opening day.
Lew Burdette gave up the
first four Pirate runs in the
eight innings he worked. Don
Mcmahon held the 4-4 tie
through the 9th and 10th in
nings. But in the 18th, Don
Hoax doubled, Bob Skinner was
Evening star., 1960-05-15
CHICAGO

Totals SO 9 Q 8 Totals 81 10 12 8
Walked for Moore in 5th: Struck
out for Garcia in 6th: Ran for Good
man in sth; 4 Called out on strikes
for Lown in 9th.
CHICAGO 30 005 100 q
CLEVELAND 80 322 100 00x-10
Brown. Phillips. Po-A-Chicago.
24-7; Cleveland, 27-9. DP-Kuenn to
Romano. LOB-Chicago IL; Cleveland,
10.
2b - Kluszewski, Power. Piersall
HR-Piersall. Romano, Brown, Minoso.
SB-piersall ., Temple. S-Thomss,
Hicks, Temple, Klippstein. sF-Ro-
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Pirates Defeat Braves
On CIemente Hitin 11th

MILWAUKEE,. May IA (AP)
Clemente's two-out,
two-run triple in the 18th gave
Pittsburgh a ga victory over
Milwaukee today and made it
two victories in a row for the
Pirates in the current series
at County Stadium.
The Braves had wiped out
a 40 deficit with four home
Evening star., 1960-05-15

Fruchtman in "a races prior to
the sale, fell only $1,000 short
of the all-time record estab-
lished when Nashua was sold
to a syndicate headed by Leslie
Combs in a sealed bid Deem
ber Is, 1865.
Bally Ache ran in Frucht-
mans Edgehill Farm colors in
today's Prep, in which he
easily defeated Divine Comedy,
Celtic Ash and T. v. Lark.
In next Saturdays Preakness,
however. he will be competing
in the green and gold silks Of
the newly formed Turfland
Stable, not yet approved by
The Jockey Club.
Bought in 2-HOrse Deal
Bally Ache, an unfaShionably
bred colt by Ballydam and Ce-
lestial Blue; was purchased by
Fruchtman, 39-year-old Toledo
industrialist. in a yearling deal
in which he paid $1,000 for two
horses. The other was Keen
Blade, who has won in claim
ing company, so Fruchtman
considered Bally Ache a $2,500|
purchase.
Arnold, acting as spokesman
for the undetermined group of
buyers, which is under 15,"I
said Bally Ache will be raced
as long as he is sound in hopes
If establishing an all-time earn
ings record for the consistent
3-year-old, who has been out
of the money only once in Is
starts. Retired Round Table
holds the money-winning rec
ord of 81, ,749.869. When Round
Table was at Bally Aches stage
as a 3-year-old he had earned
less than $150,000.
Fruchtman, in announcing
the sale, explained:
i've known for some time
that I would have to sell this
horse. Having a horse like
this simply takes too much
time, as much as four days
a week in the period leading
up to the Triple Crown races.
I've got to get back to my
business and my family. I wish
Mr.. Arnold and his group all
See BALLY ACHE, Page F-s
Evening star., 1960-05-15
Track Coach Injured

GETTYSBURG, Pa, May IA
tAP) Coach John Closkey of
the West Chester State College
track team was injured tonight
along with four team members
when their station wagon and
another auto collided. Closkey
was in critical condition at
Warner Hospital.
Evening star., 1960-05-15
Yes You Will Ties
Aqueduct Record

NEW YORK, May IA (AP)
Yes You viii, an invader
from Maryland, outfought the
favored Mail Order in the final
sixteenth of a mile today and
won the s59,7O0 Carter Handi-
cap by a half-length before an
excited crowd of 46,274 at
Aqueduct.
This was the 60th running
Of the famed seven-furlong
sprint Of triple dead heat fame,
and Yes You Will equaled the
track record of 1:2225, set last
April IA by Derrick. Yes You
Will, owned by Edith L. Price
of Towson. Md, and ridden by
Larry Adams, carried top
weight of 122 pounds. Derrick
had only ia in setting the
record.
Winner Pays $40
The Claiborne Farms Ounce
closed with a rush to get third
place. a length and a half be-
hind Mail Order, who is owned
by the Alamode Farm. Ounce
nosed out the Foxcatcher
Farms Rose Net.
Yes You Will, second choice,
paid $40, $4.10 and 1920.
Mail Order, ridden by Manuel
Ycaza and carrying 118 pounds,
went of as the 2-to-1 favorite
and returned $3.50 and So.
Evening star., 1960-05-15
Pascua| Blanks Yankees Fans IT
BaI|y Ache Sold for $1,25O>OOO.
Price Neurs
Record Paid
For Nashua
BY JOSEPH B. KELLY
Star Racing Editor

BALTIMORE, May IA
Bally Ache, q $2,500 purchase
in 1858, was sold for 81, $50, 900
today-not long before he GAL
loped to a four-length victory
in the Preakness Prep at
Pimlico.
The price paid to Leonard
Fruchtman, Ohio industrialist.
by a Kentucky group headed
by Joseph L. Arnold. Lexington
attorney. was the second high
est ever in q thoroughbred
sale.
The million and a quarter
put up for Bally Ache, who
had earned $54O,277 for