Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1931, Page 95

STORIES SPORTS' GAMES PUZZLES - ‘There are five words, instead of the usual four, in this picture word square. PICTURE WORD SQUARE RUETITTROREU [ —2— Here we have four words that end in the same three letters. Can you fill in the blanks end find out what the words are? 1. -VERT. 2. C-L-ERT. 8. I--ERT. 4. C--CERT. T Remove the middle letter from a food and get to stuff. Remove the middle letter from a fragment and get a small building. . ‘Take a four-letter word for a flower. Add H, pearrange the letters, and get an animal. Take a four-letter word for rip, add G, re- srrange the letters and form large. —5— CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. . Mathematical quantity. . Consume. 22. Proceed. . Frozen water. L "Taet. . A city in Belgium. . Not hard. . Endure. VERTICAL. . To heave up, raise. Ask for alms. . Beast of burden. . Senior (abr.). . Part of “to be.” . Purchases. . A marble. . A style of type. . A Spanish dance. . To be in debt. . Piece of real estate. . Legs (slang). . An era, . Smell. . A fairy. . Observe. . Neuter pronoun. . Great Britain (abr.). - Curtail a woman and get a boy. Body of students and get a girl. Good Driver. “Hey!” yelled the traffic officer, “you ecan’t turn around in the middle of the street!” “I can t0o,” smiled the girl, “I'm a much better driver than you think.” Small Gift, “Thank you for the balloon, uncle” “Oh, it was a very small gift.” “That is what I said, but mother said 1 must thank you all the same.” Behead a -showing at forward. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 18 1931 he BOYS and GIRLS PAGE The Harrison Trophy. A Basket Ball Serial in Five Installments. AT <, MDD i I o) “Thas’s enough from bosh of you,” he said sternly. BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. P. J. Harrison, a wealthy basket ball enthusiast, donates a trophy to be presented to the player on the Torrance High School basket ball team who is most valuable to his team during the year. Joe Davis, captain and veteran forward, is expected to win the cup, but Jacobson, the other forward, gets the idea that he can win it, and rivalry develops on the team. Parks., veteran center, begins to consider his chances also. Tommy Norris, veteran guard, 18 worried over the dissension on_ the squad. Torrance, with the best team in years, is ficured a sure winner of the Three Counties League champion- ship, but Tommy fears disaster will result from the rivailry within the team for the Harrison Trophy. However, Torrance wins its first five games without trouble, while Jacobson makes more and more of & In the Thurston game Capt. Joe Davis orders Tommy to ‘“‘feed’ him constantly instead of Jacobson, but Tommy tries to show Joe that this s poor teamwork. INSTALLMENT IL of the Thurston game printed in the two Torrance news- papers did not make for better feeling on the high school team. Both sports writers praised the work of Jacobson, while Parks and Joe Davis received les$ men- tion. In fact, Jacobson’s fast, flashy playing and his accurate shooting became quite the talk of the town, and the new forward was very much in the limelight. It looked as though his hope of winning the Harrison Trophy was well Nor was Jacobson backward about showing his elation. He thrived on praise, and his work in practice during the following week was ex- ceptional. Even Tommy, whose sympathies well have been with Joe Davis, his more, and he tried to keep harmony on the squad. Nevertheless, it was easy to see that relish the popularity of Jacobson, did his best to show his own ability during practice. The result of all this, ac- 3 to Tommy, was that the Torrance team better than it ever had before, and the scrubs took some terrible lickings during practice sessions. Tommy had to admit the rivalry on the team seemed to be oducing only good results, but he was obsti- in his contention that it was what he came the blow—a blow which seemed a terrible misfortune to Joe Davis, but which later reacted in his favor. On Wednesday Joe had a hard cold, and by Thursday he was i bed with a light touch of influenza. A sub- But nobody in Torrence took the situation seriously. True, Hartstown had beaten Tor- rance out of the Three Counties League title last year, but this year it had a green team and had already lost two games. Torrance was & heavy favorite to win without trouble, and everybody expected Jacobson to shine as brightly as ever. The game was played at Hartsdown, and, as 1t was only an hour’s drive away, I attended, along with hundreds of other Torrance sup- porters. We were out to get revenge for last year's defeat, and the team was keyed up to its “Righest pitch. We jumped into the lead with the opening tip-off and soon were ahead of Hartstown by a score of 9 to 3. HOWI’VER, I knew just how things had been going on the squad, thanks to Tommy, and so I probably saw things during that first quarter that the other spectators missed. In the first place, Jacobson was playing to the gallery. Time after time he would take the ball near the middle of the floor and, with a couple of his teammates uncovered, ignore them and go in alone toward the basket. But he was getting away with it, and his name was a constant roar on the lips of the Tor- rance supporters. Coach Lorimer had appointed Tommy acting captain in Joe Davis' absence, and between quarters I saw Tommy talking to Jacobson. Later I learned what was said. “Better not dribble quite so much, Jake,” said Tommy mildly. “Theyll be laying for you.” “They won't stop me,” said Jacobson confi- dently. “Well, try passing more, anyway,” insisted Tommy. “Yes,” broke in Parks. “Don’t hog every- thing, Jake.” Jake turned to the center with angry face. “Shut up, Parks,” he barked. “I don’t need your advice.” Parks was about to make a hot retort when Tommy interfered. “That’s enough from both of you,” he said sternly. “Forget yourselves for a while and play basket ball.” BUT Tommy's words were not enough to pre- vent the tragedy of the second quarter, and of the third and fourth. Jacobson and Parks practically ignored each other, except for very personal comments spoken in angry but low-pitched voices. Torrance wasn't a basket ball team at all now. It was just a collection of five players, with two of them completely breaking up the efforts of the others to operate a smooth offense. Moreover, Torrance had been a little over- confident. - Hartstown had a green team, but the coach: knew basket ball, and these boys were quick to see that Torrance was below form. They took advantage of every break. Their guards smothered Jacobson. Their center, a big, rangy youth with a lot of speed, began running rings around Parks, who was too angry to look after his job. As a result, the burden of the Torrance defense fell on Tommy and Grenier, the other guard, who was the weak spot in the Torrance line-up, anyway. ’I‘Hx early Torrance lead began to dwindle. Just before the first half ended the Harts- town center dropped in a beautiful shot from past the center of the floor, which put his team in the lead, 15-14. It's surprising what a bunch of inexperienced players can do when they once get inspired with the belief that they may win an un- expected victory. During that second half Hartstown played better than it knew how, and Torrance, fight as it would, couldn't stop its opponents. Tommy fought lke a “tiger, and turned in the prettiest guarding game I have ever seen, but he couldn’t do it all alone. Parks seemed to recover his lost head near the end of the game and stopped his childish bickering with Jacobson, but it was too late. When the final whistle blew Hartstown had won, 31-27. And what did the Torrance papers say about the game? They attributed the defeat to the fact that Joe Davis had been ill, and the captain’s stock rose above Jacobson’s once more! (To Be Oontinued Next Sunday.) Water Wanted, Cooper had been standing in the coal cellar with his fingers glued firmly over a leak in the water main. Suddenly he heard his wife’s voice. “George,” she cried, “you can take your hands off that leak now.” “Thank heaven!” replied her husband. “Has the plumber come?” “No, but the house is on fire.” POSERS These posers may seem awfully hard at first glance, but you shouldn't have much trouble getting the correct answers if you persevere, And they are really fun to solve. 1. What are the four suits in a deck of cards called? 2. In what Canadian province is Lake Louise located? 3. What kind of power is generated by wgpter- falls? 4. What city is partly located on Manhattan Island? 5. Who was Sir Francis Drake? 6. For what airplane flight are the French. men Coste and Bellonte famous? 7. Which State is known as the Hoosier State? ANSWERS. 1. Spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs. 2. Alberta, 3. Electric. 4. New York City. 5. English navigator and admiral of the sixteenth cen- tury. 6. The first successful non-stop Paris- to-New York flight. 7. Indiana. - Making Lamp Shades. “I QOKS like a fairy lamp,” remarked one 5 of the members at the weekly gathering of the Hobby Club as they saw the dainty article displayed by Miss Brown. “I had been wrestling with an idea for an artistic lamp shade for a long time, when I solved it quite suddenly one afternoon,” said Miss Brown. “It was raining cats and dogs. The roseate glow from the windows of a rest- aurant drew me like a needle to a magnet. In a moment or two I was seated in a cosy booth enjoying a cup of tea in the cheerful atmos- phere. I racked my brain to rememberg vhat the place reminded me of. Ah, yes, it was of a glorious vacation I had spent just after grad- uating from college. Something here reminded me of this particular camp amidst the glories of the pines. “At night we had danced on an outdoor floor under myriads of tiny colored electric lights which glowed Hke rubies, diamonds, emeralds, SrooooocoD il sapphires and all the precious gems you could think of. The lamps in the restaurant were like those at the camp, only they were far more beautiful for suspended round the hem of the silk on the shades were beads of all colors. I saw, however, that they could be very easily made. “Just get a small wire frame the size desired, cut and shape some orange or pink colored silk and sew it on the frame. Then get beads of all colors and sizes and string them about twe inches long. The more colors you have the better the effect. Just sew the strings of beads carefully around the edge of the frame. “While we're on the subject of lamp shadem, you can get for trifling cost a parchment shads, and paste on to this very neatly some pressed asparagus, maiden hair or any fine ferns. This will give an effect of sunlight filtering through tree tops on a sunny day. These very artistic lamp shades can be made at & minimum cost,” concluded the teaches, b ANSWERS. 1. The words in the square are elbow, slope and towel. — 3. Avert, culvert, insert and concert. 3. Cream. Sh-r-ed. 4. Rose; add H and form horse. Tear, add G and form great. 8. Cross-word puzzle solution.