Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1926, Page 5

i OPEN-AIR SPORTS d LURING THOUSANDS Golf Courses, Tennis Courts Bridle Paths and Other Places Ready for Rush. 1sands of to the open, and places are ready to o h there has been facilitie public parks of National Capital believe that there mple provision for all, aps on base ball diamonds And ese latter to some extent yes indicates the ¢ tor sports, and deta in public for them. little in. have beer h ' DPeebsure for some Slorts and falling pres Archery, for whict courts, is fast disap 4rille, as are ket little use being made of the facilities. Hockey Grows Popular. popularly known i Washingtonians are he Capital's during the past office of ptblic the except per- nd tennis \ anging | the buildiz2s wid public | e the burormelers which show | of | \ and lacrosse, | the the boys who played it rs from the reasing in den ken it to the modern rul * than in the ol ocking the highways on and even on other days ponsible for the f the Lridle paths, and se in thelr use, carry- 1 they do here through e virgin scenie beautles of the park, iding inviting and restful view at the same time furnishing ex for the riders. To meet this de- additlonal miles of bridle were constructed during the Winter and were opened las <, the principal part of which wa the path connecting Rock Creek with Potomac Park through the Rock Creek and Polomac pariway. and a few additional in Rock Creek Park proper. Between paths past miles 3 and 19 1-3 per cent in horse- n the parks h uflable for horse: of paths over nd not travel ise of ding iders 7 which they may the same path twice i But this ngth average horse-buck day. Tt 1s now possible to ramble through- out Rock Creek Park, down through 1 Creek and Potor and around the entive and West Potomae running afoul of any automobile traffic. is more rider than takes the in a v of Leavy Rock Creek Improvemenis. One of the greatest udditions to the outdoor sport system durl according to A. C. Burton, in ckarge of this work in the Offica of Public Buildings and Public tional Capital, is the holes in ? Rock Creek, r 18-hole golf course. tield house has been reno water showers ins burning furnace p have been placed i both t. tments. hi he men's Aw been prov lor which overlool ire. course This course 15 m Xteenth street, turni derwood street, and at the of this street with the park hard-surface roadwayv heir structed lea directly to e lodg at a cost of $3,000. LT L) be completed making this ment one of the ver The gre: on the nev said to be in good was added that the a little rough. : In E Potomac there Wo cour one of 18 holes, the field house, and one of nh\f- b west of the field house, neare tourist camp. In West Potor nine hole practice cou 3 d north B <& for colored peo- New comfort facfi. fountain sh it are still E ure st of ple, all now ies and d installed ir courses. Anacostia Park Underway Anacostia Par as section of the Anacostia River, betwee Anacostia or Eleve l;‘(fi .e “ri:lk:" and the Pennsylvania avenue bridge, i3 the scene of one of the biggest de. ".‘:-::l:mn S now unde the public B ks o The ew OU S there is being ere H'»:l,‘ d b it will be completed Was sald that it probab! e opened until next bere is to be a larze o 2 done around if ter the stru gral work proper is completed. The and shrubs to he used in the ive scheme around thé house een ordered, and these must be pianted before the house hrow: gl wuse is thrown Or pen. 0wn h bank beeause unt of grad of the attractive features of this <way will be the drive, which will pass alon river's edge between the two bridges o that one may drive across either bridge, tra. verse the and pass out over he other bridge. There are plans for further development there as soon as money is available, and these include ation of a bathing pool for and another pool in which ildren may wade. However, ing constructed now, and will this Summer, two base ball amonds, near the Pennsylvania : idge ?11219‘, I;‘/lld tw tennis courts. sefore Iall there will be & v ball gridirons. e nnis, astde from golf and base ball, seems to take the lead among the sportsmen. To meet the demand, there ire 65 tennis courts located in all parts of thy but there is always waiting list. % In the Monument grounds there are ten clay and five concrete courts; 9 clay courts in Potomac Park: 10 clay courts in Henry Park, between Bixth and Seventh and north and south B streets; 10 clay and two courts in Rock Creek Park at h and Kennedy streets, just the resevoir, clay courts at Plerce Mill in Rock Creek Park, 10 which will be added six new courts this year; two cement and four cla: courts in Anacostia Park; one ¢ court in Garfield Park southeast; four clay courts in the grounds south of the ixecutive Mansion; four cla; courts at Montrose Park, Georgetow * courts on Reservation 19a, Fifth and M streets, southeast, one court in the White House srounds proper for the use of White House attaches. Boat House Opens. The water sports are not forgotte| the beat house in the Tidal Basin being opened today for the season. The boaters here are contined to the Tidal Jasin. as nets prevent them now from_going through the gates. The renta) of hoats averaged about 106_a month last year. Tor the music lovers, there will be band concerts, which will start on May 15 and continue each evening in some of the parks until September 15. The bands which render these concerts are the United States Marine Band, There ish ady United Siates Army /‘Band, the United | getting about $1,500. the year, | old wereas- | HERE ARE SIGNS OF SPRING THAT CAN’T BE OVERLOOKED. | there wasan | | a single trip. | | ] { | { | { cast over the r: { took it up atter the war. | result that games | they T the Comm aturday e National Monument G ¥ Center Band. Every night there is a concert in Sylvan Theater in the inds, which dio. Only the military service bands alternate in these con During the year there will be 1 of 110 erts given, one each evning from until 9 o'clock In addition to the miles of bridle paths provided, there has been established in Rock Creel nd Poto. mac Parkway, just under the Connec. ticut Avenue Bridge, a new ridi field, where the riders may put their horses over the jumps. dition to the military fie reck Park proper. Croquet Becoming Popular. outdoor sport which in popularity is croquet are eight courts for this Meridian Hill Park, one in West I one in Chevy Chase Cir cle, one in Rock Creek Park and one Montrose Georgetown y in charge of the sports keep ed off, and in some the wickets, but the to furnish their mallets, tield hockey grounds are pro- This 1l in se fu Tw | vided in the Ellipse, and one in Roc Creek Park at Sixteentd and Ken: , according to the re reation experts, and the last game that was played here, presented only 25 players and less than 100 pe is on the increa It was stride during the war, un- local assoclation, but disap- peared almost entirely when the field in West Potomac Park was taken over during the war for the landing of awr mail planes, and for the landing of foreign planes for the instruction of American aviators. However, the Army Polo Association Even last increase in with the d regular Polo getting der a year there w the interest o great in this sport Iy every Wednesda. s afternoon, and they draw such crowds that parking space around the field and In its vicinity s at a premium. Picnic Groves Increased. For the little children, in addition to wading pools, the sand boxes are being placed this week, and before April 15, these will all be cleaned and filled with double washed silver sand. For those using the parks just for outings, there have been provided 16 plenic groves in Rock Creek Park, to which will be added two new ones in the northern end of the park. This year nine new stone ovens have been erected for the use of plenickers, so v cook what food they want. In these groves have been placed 15 new rustic tables and 60 benches, in addition to the facilities already there. In addition to all these there are bowling greens, but these are little used now. All of the sport fields are crowded throughout the year, and every ef- fort is made to meet the demand.” Fa- cllities are provided and changed to take care of increasing demands, and the s taken by the dying sports are changed wherever necessary and the grounds are suitable for changes. ENVOY’S DAUGHTER MAY WED JAPANESE PRINCE Setsuki Matsuidara Reported Like- ly Choice as Bride for Young Chichibu. By Cable to The Star and New York World. TOKIO, April 3.—Nichi Nichi to- night reports that the imperial house- hold Is considering the selection of a bride for the Prince Chichibu, second imperial son, with Setsuki Matsuidara, daughter of the Japanése Ambassador to Washington, the most likely choice. Prince Chichibu is now studying in Europe, but will return to Japan next Spring. He is expected to be married shortly after his return. Miss Matsuidara is now in. Wash- ington with her actual parents, though she is the legally registered daughter of Viscount Morio Matsuidara, a younger brother of the Ambassador. The Ambassador headed the old Mat- suidara family, but some time ago re- linquished the title, passed the head- ship of the family to his brother and became a commoner’. (Copyright, 19286.) HOLD-UP NETS $1,500. NEW YORK, April (#)—The prosperous appearance of: four young bandits so impressed the watchman at the Brooklyn plant of the Ward Baking Co. tonight that he let: them enter the building believing they were officlals. When they left, politely bidding him good-bye, they had held ey escaped the United States Navy Band, the|up seven drivers andfihc cashier, States Army Music School Band, andlin an automobile, at own | Lacrosse has practical- | THE is broad- | SUNDAY STAR, POLICEWOMEN " DENY BLUE pause and| Measure Which Would Give Them Wider Authority | OF DISTRIC]] LAW AGITATION | and More Effective Organization Unrelated to New Law 1Y ROBERT SMALL. | The policewomen of the District of | Columbia want it understood far and { wide that they are not a part or a of the movement bring e laws" to the Nationai Cupl They do tie legitimate theat They have no desire to k ball boys, professional off the diamond on on Sur se, police ladies feel that htless coupling of them with measures is burting th chances of getting through Congress i bill which would give them far greater authority than they have at present and fix them as a permanent an more or less independent police insti tution in Washington, It =0 happens that the “blue law” bills have been introduced in Congress at about the same time that the police ymen had their bill introduced. clated in many minds. Fspeelally has this been true since the police women have asked for more than a 200 per cent increase in their per- sonnel. But It is stated now in behalf of the head of the women's bureau that the women police are not interested in the enactment of new laws. Their sole desire is to enforce existing laws with as much consideration as possible to feminine and juventle offenders. Preventive Worlk Their Aim, Thelr desire, furthermore, is to do “preventiveprotective” work. They like to dwell upon this feature 1ost of all. They belleve, with Sir Robert Peacock of Manchester, England, one of the world’s great police experts, that “the purpose of the police is the prevention, rather than the d(»l"('“(?{l of crime after it has been committed.” The TInternational Assoclation of Policewomen has its headquarters here in the Capital and is doing every- thing In its power to further the woman in police work. At the present time policewomen are employed as part of the official police staff in 145 ot want to close the movies | Therefore the. two moves have become | been introduced 1 {of a number of fo Ixtensfon of the police s include women has been a significant | development in soctal work and there been an ir demand for orkers in t covering the Was would require Inted in ti ical training i women | work or taken such recognized school. the duties of the b to be vastly different the policeman. Asleep in Picture Houses. To this end some of the statistics and of the Wom- en’s Bureau in the local Police Depart ment during the past year. Police. women of the Capital came in contact with 321 children under 17 years of age, during the 12 months, in moving nicture theaters and poolrooms, and loitering on streets and vacant lots. The majority of these were truants. Thirty-seven of them, found asleep te at night in motion plcture house: were taken home by the In each instance the child’s school were visited, and where neces- sary the children were referred to agenctes equipped to deul with thelr cases. In the national development of the woman policeman it being insisted | that she shall have relative rank with the men on every force, and absolutely equal pay. The present head of the policewomen in the District of Colum bla ranks as a lieutenant. She wants to be made an assistunt superintend. ent of police and wants her chief of staff to be made a captain. Los Angeles is crewted with veloping the first full-fledged, full- powered policewoman in 1910, when Mrs. Alice S. Wells was commissioned. Tive vears later Mrs. Wells had form. ed the International Association of Policewomen. Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, head of the Washington policewomen, is now the president of the interna- tional assocthtion. in = course in some This because man are held rom those of ul de- HEARING WEDNESDAY ON DOUBLE-DECKERS Large Crowd of Spectators Likely in View of Great Interest in Bus Question. - The double-deck bus question, which has hovered like a nightmare before the Public Utilities Commission ever since it rejected the originai request of the Washington Rapid Transit Company for permission to add six more busses of the two-deck type to its service, will be decided at a pub- lic hearing in the board room of the District Building, Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. The hearing has been called because of the reapplication of the company for authority to buy the additional double-deckers, which was accom- panied by the results of a ballot taken among the bus riders which showed an overwhelming sentiment in favor of the so-called “rubber neck’ busses. The commission also has before it the report of its experts showing that a reduction in bus fare will not be pos- sible unless more of the two-story Dbusses are put into service. The chief complaint against the two-deck busses is that the “peepers” who ride on top of them remove all vestige,of privacy from homes along the route. The superintendent of trees and parkings of the District, Clifford Lanham, also had advised,the commission that the use of double- deckers will require considerable trim- | ming of the shade trees along the various routes. The hearing on the double-deckers is expected to attract a large crowd of spectators and witnesses, in view of the interest that has been aroused in the question, GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS IS CLOSELY GUARDED Pretender to Russian Throne Gets Note Telling of Wreck of His Automobile. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 3.—Grand Duke | Nicholas of Russia, who with Grand Duke Cyril is claiming the throne of Russia, is being more closely guarded than ever by secret service men as a consequence of the receipt of a la- conic mesage telling of the overturn ing of his automobile on the Paris- Bonneuil road tonight. The duke was not in the automobile, but three passengers, as vet not identified, were injured. The pretender is taking no chances. Detectives constantly are watching him and his aides, while in another section of Paris the police are shadowing Russians known to harbor hatred against members of the for- mer Russian nobility, particularly against the late Czar's entourage. The grand duke is to open the con- gress of Russian emigres here tomor row. The automobile ~was overturned after crashing into a motor truck near St. Maures-Fossees, near Paris One woman and two men passengers were injured. The police assert the mishap was due to the motor truck which failed to carry a tail light. In Australia automobiles must carry rear lights so adjusted that they can- not be extinguished from within the Hotel Inn 604-610 9th St. N.W. Daily, $1.00, §1.50, 00 8 st Wower:and Javaery. 8 l!“lmfl. 50% More. Rooms like l"fll!l' WASHINGTON, a | the olicewomen home and |} 1 APRIL 4, 1926—PART 1. 5 B —— S | | Ini | me Nine-Year-0ld George Young- | blood Is Sought by Fran- tic Parents. ha tof M & Leaving a note telling Lis p he was “tired of life” and gol e forever, 9-year-old George Young ; : blood, Jr., taking advantage of u brief | W absence of his moti - his home, 1737 Benni east, yesterday afternoon, and wall awa Into the late George Youngblood of activities in the and his wife, kept vigil. ; ‘About five minutes to I yesterday afternoon Mrs. Youngblood went 1o feq & nearby store. About ¢ o'clock a jco playmate of George's ing off toward the eust. and determined-looking this playmate. diked on out a word. Missing on Return. Shortly after 2 o'clock Mrs. Young blood returned home. She called ¢ for the boy. There W Then she saw a plec able. This was the | ea npped out of | th st night | L divector |y, rgrounds. | honrs W He was aulet | according to Tie with- | T am tired of am going - od-bye forever There was no name signe Mrs. Youngblood got in cation with her hushand, led the police iell turn ur cold and hung 1 y communi- | But George Throughout the Mrs. Youngblood section_trying to find boy. Every boy with knicker: gray cap on caught their e) none was George. At Benning un emplove of a feed and grain establishment said a boy answering the description of George had been playing there. Not at Home. Back to the house they went raised high in the ¥ { possibly returned George had not come As midnight drew n v began to think things over aga A stray question from George came into the mother’s mind. He had asked, a day or so before the ce, how to get to Bowie. - decided that Mr. Youngblood would over to Bowle race track todar. “Why he left 5.4 mystery to me,’ Mrs. Youngblood said. “\We had reprimanded him for coming home late from school, but that was no rea son for him to leave his home.” LT L chims FLOCKNG ly Change for New. f State, With Hair Pulled Out and Forming Halo. hopes e had back. th 0N | HELD LIKE PLANT'S | erican anthropologists have gone ord s to their attitude with re- gard to the evolution of man. A reso- | lution which states in that man | Hs part of the animal world and ix| | subject to the gre ural principle | of evolution has jt :n adopted by | American Anthro. Association, the centra f the anthropologists and ethnologlsts in thi on v Bs Cable to The Star and New Y NAPLES, —Thousands Catholfes in southern Italy are deep! moved on the eve of Easter, resolut Xpress simy ment of the portant su | Hrdlicka illu { that so far concerned |as animal n was framed in order v but firmly the senti- tion on this fm- scording to Dr. Ales siient of the organiza- miracle near here. Elena Ajello, daughter of taflor, on good Frida comatose state. after her fore bloody sweat on her hand: as if an invi her hair around halo. ot wish to show s the anthropologists are evolution, human as well is no more a question of but a natural, well dem- and nd--perhaps the principle and function of said Dr. Hrdlicka yesterday. { Forms Ever Changing. | gorfe text of the resolution reads as ows ‘In view of the dogn raised against the theo council of the American Anthro- | al A ition has thought It pulate the present po- n of sclentitic inquiry. “The plants and animals belo ing to early perfods of the earth’ history show that the forms have not remained the same for any length of time. The changes that have oc- curred are of such character that we are compelled to consider the later forms as dei ints of older forms, No form of living being has remained the same through the ages. The evi- dence of past times is corroborated by the structural and developmental analogies observed in related forms, proofs of a gradual differentiation from common ancestral forms. “The minute structure of all liv- ing matter Is alike and shows that all organisms, from the lowest to the highest, must be considered as a unit. Man has succeeded in producing ariety of forms of domestic ani- s and cultivated plants which dif- fer from their ancestors. Our suc- | cess, accomplished in a very short { period, indicates that in long perlods i nature will produce more fundamen- tal changes. Man in Animal World. “Man is part of the animal world. In all respects his anatomical struc- ture conforms to that of the rest of the animal world. His pre-natal life {closely parallels that of the higher | mamals. The same Influences that |control their development after birth control him, and he responds in a like manner to the environment in which he is placed. Prehistoric archeology has shown that, in the course of the ages, man has undergone great changes in physical type, and that ancient man differed from modern races, the more so the more anclent the remai “Local types of man have developed on every continent, and their existence proves that changes in the heritable characteristics of racial groups are ef- fected in the course of time. “We must conclude that the bodily form of man, as well as that of ani- mals and plants, has hcanged, and is still changing, not in the course of centuries, but in long periods. “The exact cause of changes in the form of organisms and the conditions under which they occur, as well as the causes making for stability, are still imperfectly known. The principle of change has been so well established that it should become the common property of mankind. appeared ible hand had torn out the roots and it lay | head in the form of Pilgrims Kept Back. The girl, thin as a skeleton. lies in her bed in her father's squalid home whilst plous pilgrims fight to enter and see the miracle. Guards are fixed in the sun flooded plazza to protect the house from the zealots and the | pilgrims kneel for hours praying for a revelation of the miracle. Blind, lame und other sufferers, are being brought to the house while the girl | lies unconsclous and moaning. Prelat well as medical men, admit the case is extremely rare, but scoff at the superhuman element as- cribed to it by the devotee: ‘The girl 18 an adorant of St. Rita, and ascribed to her several remarkable recoveries from previous fllnesses. Jaws Locked Every Friday. It is sald that every Friday in Lent | the girl's jaws have become locked, | with a loss of temperature and the ap- pearance of the bloody sweat on her forehead. The sweat was never so pronounced as it was on Good Friday. Physiclans ascribe the girl's condition to religlous exaltation. It has been noticed that her condition is aggra- vated when the statue of St. Rita is taken into her presence. Called a saintly nun, the girl re- cently took vows, but was sent home from a convent by the mother superior. (Covyright. 1926.) | Erandest | nature, atic objections ¢ of evolution, "Wherc I Security April, the fourth month of the year, was the second of the anclent & Frank Bredice 606 F St. N.W., Main 9643 We Call For and Deliver ! * $ 3 $ $00000000000000000 BUY DlSAPPEARS_ |HONOR MRS. WOLVERTON. y !Fel]ow Employes in Education Bu- | Mis | service, luncheon by the employes of her di- vision in terior | emple him walk- | other CHARITY BODY DISSOLVED. POOR WOMEN CAN'T SEW | Lack of Seamstresses Among Those Needing Aid Causes Society to Quit Activities By the Assoctated Prese PHILADELPH] wide scarity of poor women al dissolution te Association Rellef and ployment | Women, char orgar | that had operated 3 For many y employed poor seamstresses to make auilts. 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