Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1935, Page 16

A-16 ports Writers Champs at Throwing Golf Clubs Pocket pillwrds Is Woman’s Game, Anyway, IR[]H[RS, PACERS Insists Pretty Ruth Harvey, New Cmpwn ARE SH.”NG HIGH URL'EM SO FAR STICKS AR L0ST Bcribe Pair Hunts So Long That Eight Foursomes Go Through. BY W. R. McCALLUM, HE boys were sitting around the Chevy Chase golf shop chew- ing the fat about. the funny golf shots they had seen. Of course, they didn’t realize that they badn't seen anything until they famped a flock of sports writers try- ing to perpetrate mayhem on an innocent golf ball. Arthur Thorn talked about that Irrepressible comedian from Atlantic City, Clarence Hackney, who grew up in the wooden shaft days and still regards steel shafts as so much $in. “One day, Clarence and I were playing together in a tournament near Philadelphia,” Abe said, “and he cut loose with one of those wild hooks which wound up over on an- other fairway and left him a 225-yard shot with a big hook to the green Clarence took his No. 1 iron and bent it like a poker and played the prettiest shot you ever saw, a hooked ball around a clump of trees to the green. And later on he needed a Jong slice around some more trees, 80 he took the same club and bent it the other way. so it looked like half & pretzel and played the prettiest alice you ever saw right up to the green.” “These clubs aren't any good until you bend ’'em a little,” Clarence cracked. Not So Good to Throw. OPE, they don't come up to the old wooden club shafts” said ‘N Fred McLeod, “and they don't even | give you that satisfying sound of eracking wood when they break. The old thrill of breaking a wooden shaft & gone and the younger generation will thrill no more to the crashing sound of a good piece of hickory | breaking over a knee. Furthermore, these steel clubs don't throw so well. Why some of my members don't get more than 40 yards out of a good elean throw. And I've seen Olympic hammer throwers with wooden shafts back in the ol¢ days. “Of course, the best test of the good elub-thrower is whether he can throw s controlled hook. The sliced throw 4s fairly easy. I've seen some of our best club-throwers and they always wind up with a little tail-end hook. The sliced throw is the mark of the Beginner. But tops of the lot is the gent who can toss & club 40 yards and have it stick blade down in the turf without breaking the shaft.” Seribes Deserve Title. BUT these fellows are rank ama- teurs. We have in mind a couple of newspapermen who write pieces mbout foot ball and base ball who are masters at the art of club-throwing. 8o good are they at this silly science that they not only lose golf balls on a Wwide-open falrway. also. Two of them were playing at Ken- wood only the other day and after knocking & gross of golf balls all over the road at the fourth hole they got heated up and tossed their clubs around. Eight foursomes went through ‘em and they spent half the after- poon hunting for their lost clubs. Newspapermen are funny that way. There used to be one at Washington ‘who could toss a mean club. One day he flung one into a cedar tree and the caddies had to'turn into monkeys for a half-hour to get that putter down, Considine Now Is Target. BUT Bob Considine, the fellow who used to play pretty good tennis, has the rest of the sports writers ga-ga with his skill at golf. Bob was the foot ball for some of the boys for a year or | two after he first took up the pasture pool game. He paid the bills for an entire eircuit of the West during the | base ball season. One day he went out to see Wiffy ©ox and Wiffy stuck a pack of cig- arettes under his right armpit and #old him to hit the ball without drop- ping the cigarettes. That so helped Bob that nowadays he is tops among the boys who write sports and play golf for fun and club-throwing. The boys who used to give him a stroke a hole are getting a stroke a hole from him now, and getting Mcked. There's lots of business in the offering for the pros, because even ® sports writer has some pride. And #o get licked by a guy like Considine, Wwith only a year or two of golf behind #im, hurts. T N—— YURKEY FOR RING KINGS Ross, Miller, Overweight Bouts, May Eat Fill Today. CHICAGO, November 28 (#).—Bar- pey Ross, welterweight champion, and Preddie Miller, king of the feather- weights, are billed as principals in two @ights tomorrow night, but they can have all the turkey they can eat today. Both are entered in overweight en- @agements that have nothing of great importance at stake except the gate peceipts. Barney meets Ceferino Gar- eia, Filipino puncher, and Miller tan- gles with Jimmy Cristy, recent grad- uate from the amateur ranks. “I'm going to recommend a sirloin #teak as an appetizer for Barney’s big turkey dinner,” said Sam Pian, one ©f Ross’ managers, 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR in 'A RMY'S foot ball team defeated the Navy, 14-0, at New York yesterday before a crowd of 44,000 headed by President Wilson. Army's victory was due mainly to the ef- forts of Elmer Q. Oliphant, the battering halfback. Keegan is captain of the Cath- olic University basket ball team, which has listed a 20-game sched- ule, featuring contests with Navy, Colgate and George Washington. Although Velvet Kind leads the NMational Capital Duckpin League, Gheen of the Casinos is leading individual bowlers with a 105 aver- some They lose rlubs‘ SPORTS. | | | | BY CHARLES DUNKLEY, Associated Press Sports Writer, | HICAGO, November 28.—Curi- osity killed the cat, but it/ made a national pocket bil- liard champion out of pretty 22-year-old Ruth Harvey of Santa | Monica, Calif. ‘While strolling past a billiard room two and a half years ago, Miss Har- vey's eyes flashed on a billboard ad- | | vertising free lessons in playing pocket billiards. “I was curious to see what it was all | about, so I went in.” Miss Harvey said. “The teacher was William King, hus- band of Bertha King. who held the national woman’s championship for about 25 years and retired undefeated. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, | The game looked so pretty that I de- | cided to see what I could do at it. I thought it must be interesting be- cause so many men played it.” Miss Harvey today is the woman champion after defeating Hilda Sto- well of Chicago. She won four out of five games played in the three-day | tournament here. “Really, it's more a woman's game than it is a man’s,” she said. “Why? Because it doesn't take any strength. It requires a delicate touch and is good exercise.” Miss Harvey, only 4 feet 11%2 inches tall, wears her black hair in a bob that nedrly reaches her shoulders. She practices three to four hours daily. “If T miss & day, my game suffers,” | she added. She played her first game in compe- tition 20 months ago. | “And I was scared stiff,” she said. | “I didn't know what it was all about.” The diminutive new champion is successor to the late Gertrude Mc- Elvoy, who died a year ago. | Miss Harvey, a native of Nebraska, | went to California to become a violin- ist, but found that $5 a lesson was more than she could afford and there | were too many violin players, anyway. She decided then upon a career as a feminine billiardist, & profession in which the gals were not so numerous. Only four girls, winners of sectional titles, were invited to compete for | this year's national title, RASSLE KING SIGNS TO MEET DONOVAN | 0'Mahony Replaces Little Wolf, | Makes Feature Next Week ‘ ;‘ All-Trish Affair. ‘ CCEPTANCE of a wrestling match mvolving the so-called world’s heavyweight championship with Irish | Jack Donovan today had been for- warded Promoter Joe Turner by Danno | O'Mahony. They are to oppose in a one-fall finish feature at Turner's Fourteenth and W street arena a week from to- night, December 5. | At first balking at terms of per-| | centage offered and demanding a flat | guarantee in addition to an optional percentage of the receipts, O'Mahony, | after a long-distonce conversation with Turner yesterday, agreed to gamble on the gate. Danno replaces Chief Little ‘Wolf on the card | “This stamps Danno as a real champ,” Turner declared today. “Lots | of high-ranking contenders have been steering clear of Jack Donovan. Yet Danno, the champion of 'em all, takes him on yithout s0 much as demanding a guarantee. “This looks like a great match to me and I'm signing it in a hurry. Boston, you know, would go big for| an all-Irish title bout.” ‘ F ALL things they would choose alcohol. Dave Thom- son, the pro at the Washing- | ton Golf and Country Club, | was puzzled about the ball washers| at his club in these days when golf | balls get dirtier than usual. Water wouldn't do, Dave reasoned, because it would freeze and bust the | containers and then there wouldn't be | anything left, not even a brush. He | thought long and carefully and he | Ainally hit upon automobile radiators. “If alcohol will protect a radiator in | freezing weather, why not use it foy | | our ball washers,” reasoned Davie. So now those golf ball washers out at Washington are filled with alcohol and while it doesn’t work as well as| water it is wet—and not good for | | human tummies. * ’SANDY ARMOUR, the greying Scot who used to be the pro at Con- gressional, whacked the ball around | Burning Tree yesterday in 70 blows, | which happens to be two under par. | Midget Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr.—Kenny Austin, 160, Grand Island, Nebr.. outpointed Bobby Williams, 168, Chicago (8); Al Soukup, 135, Cicero, Ill, stopped Larry Trumble, 136, Lincoln (3); Slim Summerville, 146, Omaha, outpointed Tuffy Langford, 148, Sioux City, Iowa (6); Joe Brown, 135, Wichita, Kans., | knocked out Harry Holden, 137, Lin- coln, Nebr. (4); Henry Knight, 140, Tulsa, Okla., outpointed Bcb Vogel- sang, 144, Lincoln (3). OAKLAND, Calif. —Henry Arm- strong, 1253, Los Angeles, outpointed ‘Wolgast, 126, (10); Sammy Elias, 126, San Jose, Calif., outpointed Abraham Lincoln Jones, 123, Dallas, Tex. SAN FRANCISCO.—Fred Apostoli. 160, San Francisco, outpointed Swede Berglund, 181, San Diego, Calif. (10); Jimmy Thomas, 130, Pittsburgh, out- pointed Abel Vegas, 128, San Fran- cisco (6); Benny Marquez, 133, San Francisco, outpointed Jimmy Garrett, | 139, Boston (6); Henry Huerta, 124, Chicago, knocked out Tony Mannini, | 123, San Francisco (2). . COLLEGE FOOT BALL. Transylvania, 19; Morris Harvey, 6. Arkansas freshmen, 39; Oklahoma Junior College, 6. STRAIGHT OFF THE VEE by W.R.MECALLUM brace of 3s. the trey on the tenth being an eagle. UT at Congressional Roger Peacock played with Roland MacKenzie and got around in 73 whacks, which seems to be his figure these days. Pea- cock has had two 73s in & row. He played the nine in 39 and 34, nearly holing a chip shot on the eighteenth for an eagle deuce. MacKenzie also scored 73, finishing the first nine 5, 4, with a wee one missed on the eighth hole. Both MacKenzie and Dr. H. L. Smith birdied the seventh, one of the tougher two-shotters, MacKenzie's 3 coming from s perfect pitch shot to within four feet of the cup, while Smith canned a chip shot from off the green. And laughed and .laughed, for it meant that he beat the pro. He chuckled even more when he laid a pitch shot stone dead at the eighth, ‘where Roland blew the short one. ‘The MacKenzies plan to shove off for Florida tomorrow, getting away Here are the four men who met in the challenge round for the Cum- mings Cup at Columbia. Left to right—Donald Woodward, Miller B. Stev- inson, Albert R. MacKenzie, and Luther C. Steward, jr. Sandy played the first nine in 37, but came home over that last nine in 33, even though he finished with a brace of 5s. Standing on the seventeenth tee he needed two 4s for a 31, but he knocked his second shot over the green at the seventeenth, and missed a short putt at the eighteenth. “That’s a grand golf course,” Sandy said. “And if they tightened up the tee shots and stuck in a few traps here and these, they would have a course fit for any chompionship. It doesn’t need so much tightening, either ‘when you play it from the back tees.” Sandy started the.jast nine with & bout noon, to remain until March 1. Bob Garnett, Chevy Chase pro, is somewhere in the South today. He left by motor yesterday for Miami Beach. And on Saturday Leo Walper, Be- thesda pro, leaves for the South. There won't be many of our leading pros left around the Capital during the coming Winter. GAME AT ALEXANDRIA. Baggett’s Stadium in Alexandria will be the scene of the game between the Alexandria Yellowjackets and Anacostia A. C. tomorrow afternoon Philadelphia ' Eastern | |EX-RING FAVORITES FILL PRELIM ROLES Burl, Landers in Fistic Show Next Week, Facing Green and | Lancaster. ‘WO of the most popular club fight. ers ever featured locally will fill Silas headline a scheduled 37-round boxing show. Headlined time snd again as main- eventers in the past and today hitting the comeback trail, Eddie Burl and Billy Landers are scheduled to tie up | with Joey Green, Southeast Washing- | ton Hebrew, and Billy Lancaster of ! Wilmington, N. J., respectively. No later than last December Burl approached his feat of upsetting Petey Sarron here when he unceremoniously upset here, winning out on unanimous decision after dropping his highly favored opponent for a nine count in the seventh round. Still the erowd pleaser of old and one of the hardest punching little fel- lows ever to show here, Billy Landers, | conqueror of Burl on a hairline deci- sion their last time out, engages in Lancaster a fast-rising newcomer who has scored a pronounced hit in Balti- more appearances. TO HOLD ICE GYMKHANA Skating Carnival in Baltimore to Draw 100 on Rink. BALTIMORE, November 28.—An ice gymkhana, with more than 100 skaters taking part, will be staged at the Is- | land rink here on Sunday night, De- | cember 15. It is believed that Balti- | more will be the third eity ever to hold & gymkhana in this country. ‘The idea, which originated in Lake Placid, N. Y., and was transplanted to Philadelphia, will include ice curling, hockey, figure skating, speed skating, broom ball, barrel jumping, comedy acts and a tug of war, SRR TR EAGLES ON GRID SLATE A. U. Plays Washington College in Opener Next Season. CHESTERTOWN, Md, November 28.—Seven foot ball games, including a tilt with American University of Washington, D. C., have been sched- uled for the 1936 Washington College eleven. Another game may be added on November 14. The schedule: Oct. 3. American University at Wash- 10. Upsal ‘here: 7. Johns Hop- ington 5 A kins, Baltimore; 34. Susquehanna. here; 31. West Chester Teachers, at West Ches- “Nov. 7, Mount 8t. Mary’s. at Emmits- burg; 14, open; 21, Delalwarle, here. Sell Grid Game Tickets at Park TICKETS for tomorrow’s inter- national schoolboy foot ball ‘battle between the Mexico City All-Stars and the champion Central High School eleven will go on sale tomorrow morning at Griffith Sta- dium for the first time. In sddition to grandstand seats, _which will be 75 cents, a special, table for school children who missed out in ticket purchasing today due to the holiday will be set up at the ball park. In the meantime a brisk rush for tickets was reported started today at various other ticket agencies. plan to go will be the ticket booth at the ball park |ager Mike Goldmian at Alexandria| And please don't let the growns six-round roles at Joe Turner's Four- | teenth and W street arena next Mon- | day night when Phil Purr and Sid | jolted Pete DeGrasse in & whirlwind | D. C., THURSDAY, Prized Yearlings, Proven Racers Make Old Glory Bidding Brisk. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, November 28—TIt was every man for himself today as the David Harums of light harness horse racing swung into the last day of the Old Glory auction of trotters and pacers. Many prized yearlings and préven racers were slated to go under the hammer. ‘When E. J. Baker of St. Charles, I, bid $7,000 Tuesday for Princess Marina, Will Dickerson of Goshen, N. Y., dropped out at $6,900. He learned that the owner of Greyhound was de- termined to get the full sister of the Protector and the Marchioness even if son had planned to stop at $8,000. It was a different story yesterday when Paul Bowser, Boston wrestling promoter, and Walter Cox, tralner of W. H. Cane's Good Time Stable of Goshen, went out after De Sota which, like the Princess, was consigned by the Walnut Hall Farm of Donerail, Ky. Cox, rated one of the shrewdest buyers in the game, finally called quits, and Bowser got the promising yearling for $7,500. It was the highest price paid for a yearling at the Old Glory since Calum=t Dick was knocked down for $13500 five years ago. ' Walnut Hall, owned by Dr. Ogden M. Edwards of Pittsburgh, had another fine group of yearlings.coming up to- day, headed by Southland, a daughter of Volomite and Arbutus Also listed to be sold was Silver King. which, under the silks of E. J Merkle of Columbus, Ohio, trotted a mile in 2:01% this year at Lexington. DOUBLE GETS $1,916; DEAD HORSE BOUG Woman Holds Two Tickets at Big Bowie 0dds—Claimed Racer Breaks Leg, Shot. By the Astoclated Press BOWIE, Md. November 28— Things happened at the race track here yesterday. The daily double combination paid $1.916.90 for $2—second highest pay off in Maryland turf history The second horse in the daily double paid $463.50 to win, $84.60 to place and $43.40 to show. It was the iongest mutuel payoff of the Mary- land season. A man paid $1.500 for a dead horse. ‘The double combination was Howe Stable’s Palamede in the first and Mrs. A. 8. Bowman's Genie Palatine in the third. Palamede won by six lengths to pay $7.60. filly, was making her frst start since October 26 when she came in 20 | lengths ahead and paid $463.50 for $2. Only five persons held tickets on the winning double, but one of them held | two tickets. She gave her name as Mrs. J. L. T. D. Speer of Baltimore and took a check for all but $200 of her winnings. G. G. Waugh and E. Zelle Carvin, Culpeper, Va, held double tickets and two other men who said they | were Leo Miller and Joseph McGinnis held the others. Waugh also bet $4 on Genle Palatine to win and $4 to | place. That made his winnings | $1,094.20 in addition to the $1,916.90 he collected on the double. | The dead horse was Wedge Lad. 2- | year-old bay gelding entered in the third. He r@n away going to the post. threw his rider, broke a leg and had to be killed. L. Haymaker had a claim in for Wedge Lad and had de- posited his check for $1,500. Under the rules of racing, he came out of | the transaction with a dead horse. |PICK FIELD HOCKEY STARS IN TOURNEY | All-America Team to Be Chosen From Women Appearing in National Event. | By the Associated Press. lcu:vxumn, November 28 —Eight teams of women field hockey stars were on hand for the start of a four- day national tournament today. An all-America team will be chosen from the more than 100 players at the end of the round-robin play. The eight teams are as follows: Great Lakes, first team and reserve Midwest, first team and reserv Northeast, first team and reserves; Southeast, first team and reserves. ‘The players, most of them graduates of Eastern colleges, found Laurel School fleld soggy after rains last night. Among leaders here for the tourna- ment were Mrs. E. B. Krumbhaar of Philadelphia, first president of the United States Field Hockey Association and now president of the International Hockey Federation; Anen Townsent of Philadelphia, who also plays lacrosse, tennis, squash and badminton and who has captained every all-American team since 1923; Hilda Burr, instructor at the University of Michigan, and Gertrude Hooper, president of the U.S. W.F. H A Today's schedule was as follows: Great Lakes Reserves vs. Southeast Reserves, Southeast vs. Midwest Re- serves, Midwest vs. Northeast, Great Lakes vs. Northeast Reserves, CLOSE FOR ACACIA. Acacia nosed out Fort Myer in the closest of three Heurich League bas- ket ball games last night, 33 to 31. The Heurich Flashes walloped Little Tavern, 31-19, and Rinaldi whipped Bevello just as badly, 33 to 19, TWO SOUTHEAST VICTORS. Congress Heights and American Stone fives were the victors in South- east Community Center court games, the former doubling the score on G. P. O, 51-25, and the Stone represent- atives trimming O'Donnell’s, 36-29. VIRGINIAS WOULD PLAY. A game with some 150-pound eleven on Sunday is sought by Virginia A. C., which may be booked by calling Man- 2046 after 1. pam., he had to go to five figures. Dicker- | OVEMBER 28, 1935. Bedtime Welcome Robin’s Thanksgiving. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. JE s Yper e o e By ____ Welcome Robin. HERE had been two days of bad weather. The first day it had rained. Then rough Brother North Wind had come whooping down with Jack Frost an-” had changed the rain to snow. It wasn't a heavy snow, but it was a wet clinging snow. It clung to everything. It clung to the tiniest twig. It clung to the trunks of trees. i C.u.._ posts. It was beautiful, but it meant distress for many little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows. It meant hard work to find enough | food. Especially was this true with the smaller feathered folk. Welcome Robin had not gone South. He and his cousin, Winsome Bluebird, WHILE THE STORM LASTED HE SAT HUDDLED IN THE MOST SHELTERED SPOT HE COULD FIND. had remained, and up to the coming of this storm they had been very comfortable. They had had no trou- ble in finding enough to eat. Win- some Bluebird spent his nights in one of the bird houses, & nice warm one that Farmer Brown's Boy had put up early in the Spring. Some of the bird houses he had taken down for the Winter, but some he had left up | for just the use that Winsome Blue- bird had put this one to. Welcome Robin doesn't go into bird houses. He is afraid to go into places of this kind | Furthermore, he couldn't have en- | tered any of the houses of Farmer Brown's Boy, excepting ome. because the entrances were too small. That one Spooky the Screech Owl had | taken possession of. However, Welcome Robin didn't need a house in order to be comfortable. He went down into the swamp where the cedar trees grew, and there, in Nature’s BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. YOU spend your Winters in Mexico you may have the pleasure of seeing this handsome bunting, | ! first cousin to the indigo and non- | | pariel bunting. two more friends whose | endears them to us. | Should this opportunity not present | itself. you still have many chances to see these industrious folks in their homelands after they have returned from their happy vacation. For the lazuli bunting is well known in West- = | ern North Dakota, Southern California and Southeastern Texas. Some mem- bers of the family prefer to raise their | children in the southern part of British | Columbia, others in Southern Alberta, and still others in Southeastern Saskatchewan. | So do not be startled if you happen | | to see a bird about 5'» inches long, in | a glorious turquoise-blue coat, brown | vest and white wing bars, broadcasting from as high a tree loft as he can find. | At first you will think you are see- | ing a gay rover from the tropics—so | many have—but as soon as you hear his rollicking, clear notes you know | he is a cousin to the indigo bunting, | | though he throws in some of his own | | individual notes and inflections. In this latest picture of theirs you | | will notice that lazuli is looking northward, while his mate still has her eyes upon the south. Perhaps she | realizes there is much ahead of her | to do and that her gay. idle days are over, while her spouse is looking for- | ward to concert days, meeting old cronies. Upon their arrival in their home town, there is, of course, much love- | making, beautiful songs, and later hunting for home sites. Mother Lazuli now races back and | forth for building material. Friend husband sits by, lustily cheering her on, and you can tell, by the tilt of her head, his praise and appreciation | are all she craved to spur her on with the sizable nursery. Baby Lazuli Bunting, like all bird | babies, never seems to get enough | tender caterpillars and the small in- sects bent on eonsuming our Crops. later the babies will join their Sonnysayings Stories cedar trees, he found shelter from wind and storm. He didn't enjoy the storm. But then no bird enjoys a storm, and he didn't really mind the rain, and at first he didn’t mind the | snow. While the storm lasted he sat | huddled in the most sheltered spot he | onid find. 1t was the morning after the storm. Welcome Robin was very hungry. You | see, he had fasted a long time for him, uu, waere was he to get anything? Those cedar trees were fairly plastered with that thick, clinging snow. It covered all the berries on the trees, Yes, sir, those berries were completely covered with that thick, wet snow. Welcome Robin found two or three, but that was all. He just didn't know how to go about finding them in that snow. He flew out of the cedar swamp. He flew over to Farmer Brown's door- yard. Almost the first person he saw was his cousin, Winsome Bluebird. Winsome looked cheerful. He didn't look the least bit forlorn. “Isn't this dreadful?” said Welcome | Robin. “I guess we made a mistake in staying. However are we going to get enough food? I'm hungry and | cold.” e “I'm not,” replied Winsome Blue-| bird. “I've had a good breakfast and that means that I'm warm enough.” “A good breakfast!” exclaimed Wel- come Robin. “A good breakfast! Tell me where you got it!” “Come with me” said Winsome Bluebird, and he flew over toward Farmer Brown's house. He flew straight over to a broad | one of the thickest-growing of the | cu}mh@dflm L N shelf outside one of the windows | There were other feathered folk there. Tommy Tit the Chickadee was there. Sammy Jay was just flying away from the shelf. Yank Yank the Nuthatch | was thefe. They were very busy and Welcome Robin saw at once that they were stuffing themselves with some- thing. Winsome Bluebird picked up something from the shelf, turned so that Welcome Robin could see what he held in his bill, and then swal- lowed it. Welcome Robin hesitated only a moment. Then he, too. flew to the shelf. How his eyes glistened at what he saw there. There was no snow on that shelf. It had been cleared away. Instead of being covered with snow it was covered with food. There were broken nutmeats. There were bread crumbs. There was a doughnut and there were raisins. How Welcome Robin's eyes sparkled when he saw those raisins. He stuffed himself. Yes.! sir, he did. But that was quite all right, for this was Thanksgiving day. He didn't know it, but it was, and | when he could eat no more he flew to the top of an apple tree and sang his thanks. (Copyright. 1935 Children [ Lazuli Bunting (Passerina Amoena). | parents in a concerted effort to rid their part of the world of grass- hoppers—long and short horned ones, | high jumpers and low vaulters It is with pleasure we introduce to vou such friends, and if you should Genie Palatine, 2-year-old Bay | love for weed seeds and insect pests See this very handsome bunting with a demure, brownish-clad companion, it is more than likely his mate, who for wise reasons has adopted such an inconspicuous uniform. (Copyright. 1835 'Gg;i}ett;;r BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE. We are fond of our handsome re- triever; He is gentle and friendly and kind. His joy is to race All over the place, | Bringing home all the loot he can | find. He buries the things he discovers When he comes every day to our call, Which is all right with us— We don’t raise any fuss— But the neighbors don't like it at all They complain that he tears down their clothes lines. And chews up their shirts and their frocks: And day after day We're expected to pay For extremely expensive silk socks. | We made no request for these gar- ments, the neighbors sense— Which they plainly do not— They would build, round their lot, A lofty and canine-proof fence. 1t possessed any | Every morning I go forth to gather The clothes our retriever has found, Piled up by the door Or heaped on the floor, Or carelessly tumbled around. The mutt I absolve from all censure, Poor dog, it is no fault of his; He is bound to retrieve From dawn until eve, That's the kind of a dog that he is. (Copyright, 1935.) —e Jolly Polly A Little Chat on English BY JOS. J. FRISCH. PETE HAS COMMENCED HIS CAREER OF JOURNALISM. HE SAYS THAT WHEN A MAN BITES A DOG, IT'S NEWS, BUT WHEN A DOG BITES J A MAN, [T JUST ANOTHER 7~ K DEAD DOG. V. R.—Begin is almost always to be | preferred to commence, although some writers make no distinction between the two words. Commence is not to be found anywhere in the Bible. Shakespeare preferred begin, having used commence but a few times. (Con- tinued tomorrow.) Send a return envelope for the leaf- let, “Business English.” Mat Matches By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J—Ray Steele, 215, Chicago, defeated Ralph Garibaldi, 203, St. Louis, 31:00 (Garibaldi unable to return). BRIDGETON, N. J.—Casey Berger, 215, Kentucky, defeated George God- frey, 263, Leiperville, Pa., two out of three falls. CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Danno O'Ma- honey, 200, Ireland, won over Ernie |ace, and paused to take stock. | reliable. | too many tasks. His chores are very Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Choice of Finesses. UBUALLY 8 player who says he had a choice of finesses to make s certain Yontract is either lying un- consclously or lacks imagination. To illusteate the point simply take the fol- lowing situation: North. South cl AlQl b 8p. 3 H S i 3- Hearts are trumps. South is on lead, and can afford o lose only one trick. He can finesse either spades or clubs, but he should finesse clubs. If the spade finesse loses, he still must take the club finesse. If the club finesse loses, he doesn't need to take the spade finesse, since he gets a dis- card. It wasn't-hard for North and South to reach six spades. The opening lead was noncommittal—the five of hearts. North won in the dummy with the Iv would seem that there are three finesses to take, and that two of them must work. Which one should North | take first, after drawing trumps? To answer my own question smugly, he should take the diamond finesse. If it loses, North gets one discard on the third diamond. 1If it wins, the contract can't be defeated. West. 82 D. K. 10-£-7-8 H Q 8.7-8 CKJ4 West held these cards—all the out- standing strength. He refused to cover the diamond queen and North let it ride. Another diamond was played to the ace and dummy re-entered with a spade, so that the third and last diae mond could be ruffed out. North simply led a club and finessed the 10-spot, West was in and couldn't get out. He must either play back into one of the marked tenaces or lead a diamend. which is ruffed on the board. North discarding a losing heart from his own hand. The same result can be achieved by letting West hold the king of dia- monds when he covers the jack. The point of the whole hand is that the players who try first one finesse and then another will go down on this hand. You should always look for & way to avoid a finesse. | answer any inqui are addressed 10 ihis mews- Inciose & seli-addressed, d-cent Mr. Sims w paper stamped en SRS Ailowances BY ARTHUR DEAN, Sc. D. [DEAR DR DEAN: Can you help me with this problem? We have a son, a big, husky boy of 13. He is allowed 50 cents a week spending money, 25 of which he is supposed to earn by keeping our car clean. He usually just doesn't get around to doing the car or else he has to be prodded. I hold out his spending money, and it is accumulating fast. Should he be given 50 or 25 cents & week without any strings, or am I right in trying to develop a little re- sponsibility and give him the oppor- tunity to earn his money? He does other chores for which he is not paid and for which he is equally irrespon- sible. He is a good boy. but just un- Please don't think he has light and he has plenty of playtime. “A WORRIED PARENT.” Personally, I am absolutely com- mitted to the idea of a regular allo ance, because it is only in this way that a child can learn to keep within his income, and I do not know of any | more important financial training for the average citizen than to train him to spend a little less than he earns Furthermore, I believe in having children earn money through home | chores, and perhaps simple tasks out- | side of the home, as a part of their allowance, because I know of no other way for children to learn how to earn money. The schools do not teach one to earn money, rather they teach one how to handle the figures in spend- ing it. Nothing irritates me more than to visit & home and hear the children tease for a penny, a nickel, a dime or a quarter. First it is a stick of gum, then an ice cream cone, then a ticket to the movies, then some toy. and finally it all ends up in tears and a general family rumpus. It may be that I am radical in my recommendation. There are those who would disagree with me on the fol- lowing point. I would go so far as to pay children practically for about everything they did in the home in the way of shoveling snow. cutting grass, washing dishes, making beds, getting breakfast. running errands, etc. Of course you say, and rightly, “Are the children to get the idea that they do nothing unless they get paid for it?” Nevertheless, how can children earn money? They must earn money in some way in order to learn how to earn it, and then learn how to spend their money, not your money. A lit- tle girl who dries dishes twice a day for seven days in the week and gets 10 cents for it is going to think twice before she spends half of it for a pack- age of chewing gum. Or again, how pleased you would be at Christmas if your little boy surprised you with a Christmas present costing, say, 50 cents—money he had saved up in- stead of getting a couple of dollars from you to buy you a Christmas present. I cannot state definitely how much of an allowance children should have. I can tell definitely when the exact conditions are outlined to me. For a little boy and girl I think a quarter a week earned by simple home duties, and which they can spend rather freely, is sufficient. For school chil- dren, between the ages of 10 and 14, the allowance should be greater and the home duties more strenuous. Of course, keep in mind that when you pay them more, they are expected to buy such things as Scout equipment, bathing suits, base ball bats, etc. For the high school boy and girl one must think of the amount neces- sary for car fare, school lunches, school supplies, dues to school clubs, admission to athletic games and, of course, the extras in the way of meet- ing some of the social demands. e Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. ‘Todey & year ago—Don Lash of Indiana won senior A. A. U. cross- country title; team championship won by Millrose A. A. Three years ago—Michigan, South~ ern California, Auburn and Colgate among six undefeated and untied foot ball elevens. PBive years mgo—Mickey Walker knocked out Kayo Christner in 38 seconds of first round, .