Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1937, Page 50

K VENING NTAK, THE WANHINGTON, D, €, THURKDAY 1047, BPORTH MAY L1 Yanks Swing Into Full Gallop : Columbia Picked as Track Champ REPETTION OF % RBERISINO0ES * POPPINGS- . ELECTRIFYING THE BIG LEAGUES. —RBy JIM BERRYMAN, q WHY e el GOSH ! TH 5 15 GREAT - NAW -1 DON T THINK { TALLUS WANTRD T'8E T ~———r YURR BLIND- [ TN, WAMKETY WL ANK ‘*\{‘Q’:fy“-amggh LAY-DEEZ AN’ C}HMPS- JoMRoR LY tY10 101 4 g i ] --ER-£R- 1 MEAN GENTMUMS,) | mwus'ik Iy 1 SEEN FIT T'CALL THAT Ty S THERE LAS' ONE A STRIKE -- -~ AW SHUT UF. Y4 POLECAT/- (4 Champs Shake Off Biggest ! Slump in Two Years to WA Ak wWill QIA dtidiyiile BY SID FEDER, Associated Press 8poris Writer, T SEEMS the American League was only fooling, after all For a while there, the junior circuit looked as though it was going to steal the National League's stuff and put on a race as close as one and two. But the untimely and unfortunate accident to Mickey Cochrane, and the big stick as now wielded by the New York Yankees' murderers row make it appear that things are pointing to- ward somewhat of a repetition of last Summer's waltz for Gehrig and com- pany. Certainly Detroit's pennant possi- bilities, as good as any team’'s a week 8ago, have come close to being as washed up as the week's laundry since Cochrane stopped that acci- dental bean ball of Bump Hadley two days ago. Yanks Emerge From Slump. 'AND now, with the Yankees defi- nitely over their worst slump in two years, and widening their Amer- ican League lead only in recent days, the rest of the circuit probably will have to call out the National Guard to stop the swat squad from repeating the slaughter. Just as suddenly as they landed in their slump at the start of the season, after a socking Spring exhibition trip, the Yanks have snapped out of it in the last week. They now boast a winning streak of six straight, which they stretched to that size yesterday in blanking the Cochrane-less Tigers, 7-0 In their last six games. which marked the beginning of their return to belting power, they have banged out 81 hits for 50 runs. At the same time, their own “big five’ fingers have allowed less than two runs per game to the opposition. Lefty Gomez was the lad who ap- plied the whitewash brush yesterday, as George Selkirk socked his eighth homer. The victory boosted the Yanks' American League lead to three full games and dropped the Tigers to fourth place., Tribe Climbs, A’s Fall. CLEVELANDS Indians rallied with & four-run spree in the ninth to top the mystifying Philadelphia Ath- letics, 8-6, a victory which shot the Tribe from fourth to second and lowered the A's to third. the battle were pinch homers by Bruce Campbell and Billy Sullivan. On a Western rampage, New York's Giants ganged up on Al Hollings- worth in the first five innings to beat the Reds, 6-3, and pull up to a game and a half off the National League pace set by the Pittsburgh Pirates, whose tilt with the Dodgers was rained out. The Cardinals held onto third place with a 6-4 win over the Boston Bees on the strength of Johnny Mize's three-run homer in the ninth. Lefty Lamaster, the Phillies’ pitch- ing find, fanned 10 and handcuffed the Chicago Cubs with three hits for & 6-1 win, his fourth of the year. The Chicago White Sox rallied for three runs in the ninth and nosed out the Senators, 6-5. The Boston Red Box finished on top, 11-9, in a knock- down, drag-out brawl with the Browns. Homer Standings By the Associated Press. Yesterday's homers Bell, Browns, 2; Clift, Browns, 1; Foxx, Red Sox, 1; Gaffke, Red Sox, 1; Belkirk, Yankees, 1; Lazzeri, Yank- ees, 1; Campbell, Indians, 1; Sul- Yvan, Indians, 1; Werber, Ath- Jetics, 1; Di Maggio, Bees, 1; Lopez, Bees, 1; Medwick, Cardinals, 13 Wise, Cardinals, 1; Martin, Phillies, 2 Demaree, Cubs, 1; Bergen, White Box, 1, The Jeaders—Bartell, Giants, 10; Medwick, Cardinals, 8; Selkirk, Yarnkees, 8; Foxx, Red Sox, 7; Ott, Giants, 6; Greenberg, Tigers, 6; Bonura, White Sox, 6; Kampouris, Reds, 6; Johnson, Athletics, 6. League totals—National, 1233 American, 112; total, 234. Peamnng: SHORT-CIRCUITS COULD BE ACCIDENTAL--OR OTHERWISE! .. FANS THIS BROADCAST 1S, BROUGHT TO YOU THROUGH THE COURTESY OP “TWEETIES , THE MIDNIGHT SNACK0F STUMBLE BUMS * T'LL NOW TURN YOU OVER To UM- PIRE KOLLS WHO WiLL LET you HEAR A CURSE -BY-CURSE DES CRIPTION OF A STRIKEOUT! Foulis (Continued from Page D-1.) of a youngster who was checking | freight cars in a railroad yard when Farrell won the national open nine | years ago. ¢ His opponent was the sensational Pa. !a month ago, copped medal round honors here Tuesday and polished off a pair of stout rivals yesterday. Johnny likely was the only one at Pittsburgh's field club today who thought he had a chance. “If I just don't let Byron's distance off the tee worry me, I might win,” he said. Tee Shots Worry Farrell. FARRELL the nice looking Short Hills, N. J, pro who always has | been about tops in sartorial get-up, | has been to the finals once and the semi-finals several times in this tour- nament. He hasn't done much in the last four years. “I think I'm hitting my shots better now than at any time since I won the open,” Johnny explained. “The irons and the putts are all right, and if I can just keep from pressing on the tee and line my drives out straight, I'll be ready for Byron.” There were several among today's matches. Champion Denny Shute, Boston, tackled one of golf's smoothest stylists, Ed Dudley, Philadelphia. Paul Run- yan, the rocking chair swinger, from ‘White Plains, N. Y., met Jimmy Hines, Garden City, N. Y., who played with a wad of tape around his sprained wrist. Horton Smith, Chicago, matched strokes with willowy Henry Picard, Hershey, Pa. Other contests brought together Vic Ghezzi, Deal, N. J,, and Open Cham- plon Tony Manero, Peabody, Mass. Jimmy Thomson, Shawnee-on-Dela- ware, Pa, and Harold McSpaden, Winchester, Mass. “naturals” ARCH CAN GET REAL "COLOR” Yo Wis " FINE TREE PALAVERS® YEAH! YUM FERGOT TCLICK THAT youngster, Byron Nelson of Reading, | Nelson won the Augusta Masters’ | BOY! IF.you DON'T LOOK LIKE FRANKENSTEIN ! - BUT ITS OKAY BY ME!-ANY THIN'S BETTER'N YUR REAL PAN'! ADGET OFF! ..BUT THERE CAN BE SOME RED-FACKD PREDICAMENTS 1F VTHE BOYS BEHIND THE BOYS BEHIND THE BAT* GETABIT ABSENT-MINDED / Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Chicago vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. Wilson vs. Western, Western | Stadium (public high title series), 3:30. Tennis. City of Washington women's tournament, Edgemoor courts, 3. Wrestling. George Koverly vs. Willie Davis, feature match, Turner’s Arena, 8:30. TOMORROW., Base Ball. Waahington at Boston, 2. Roosevelt vs. Washington-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 3:30. Bethesda-Chevy Ohase vs. Mont- gomery-Blair, Silver Spring, Md., 3:30. Tennis. City of Washington women's tournament, Reservoir courts, 4-7. Track. Georgetown in intercollegiate championships, New York. SATURDAY. Base Ball. Washington at Boston, 2. Lacrosse. Maryland vs. Penn State, Byrd Stadium, College Park, Md., 3. Maryland Frosh vs. Penn State Frosh, Byrd Stadium, College Park, Md, 1, ‘Tennis. City of Washington men's tournament, Edgemoor courts, 2. Track. Georgetown in intercollegiate championships, New York. HOWARD HURLS SHUTOUT. Howard kept Coffey Screen’s nine hits well scattered yesterday and shut them out for O'Donnell’s, the latter winning the Industrial League con- test, 5-0. Komonen Only Favorite to Win Marathon ¢ Two-Time Victor in Star’s Race a Newspaper Man—De Mar Is Harvard Grad. HE EVENING STAR'S na- tional championship mara- thon isn't far off. ... June 12. . .. All the best will be n it, but here's predicting an out- sider will win. . . . Dave Komonen, in ’33 and '34, was the only fa- vorite ever to cop. . . . Station WMAL of the N. B. C. will turn Joose its staff on the race on a na- tional hook-up. . . . Last year's winner, Bill McMahon of Worcester, Mass,, has quit . . . got married. Dr. Ben Chitwood, biologist, is ‘Washington's leading hope . . . was the first D. C. man to finish last year to become official champion of the city at 26 miles 385 yards. Something we didn’t know about Clarance De Mar . . . he's a Har- vard grad. . In PFinland, Dave Komonen was & newspaper re- porter. . . . Now he's a carpenter at & nickel mine. . . . Mike Lynch took wp marathoning to shed typhoid fat . . . Pat Dengis to cure & nervous preakdown. ‘We thought it nearly incredible Wwhen Tarzan Brown won two full marathons on successive days .. « until reading of Ballington, South African, who won the S5l-mile London-to-Brighton race in Eng- land . .. the equivalent of running two marathons with no rest betwixt and his time of 5:43:42 was @ fairish marathon pace. Mel Porter, New York star, an engineer, works much of the time in compressed air underground. . . . Have a hunch this is his year at AUTO SEAT COVERS L.S.JULLIEN.Inc 1443 P SL.N.W. N0.8076 ‘Washington . . . skip it .. . had the same hunch last year. Bernie Cassell, who directs first aid on the Star gallop, used to be & successful runner . . . He super- vised the final conditioning of Mc- Mahon, who to this day will tell you Bernie won the '36 race for him. Believe 50, too. The Star's is the only big mara- thon in the country in which the U. 8. Pat. 2082108 don't A new way of burning tobacco, which burng iit better, cooler, and cleaner. Most pipes finishing times of all runners are taken. . . . Not until they ran here did some of the boys ever know their exact time for the punishing test . . . and are they grateful to patient Jim Sprigman, chief timer, «+ . “To give 'im his time is the least you can do for a bird who runs that distance,” is Jim's thought. ROD THOMAS. T0 CARBURE have a bottom draft, but this one has—producing a new kind of smoke. 1 —UPDRAFT keeps bottom of bowl abe solutely dry. 2 —PERFECT MIXTURE (of air and smoke) takes the rawness out of any toe bacco, makes it mild. 3—CARBURETOR ACTION burns tobacco evenly and completely, producing better flavor. 4 — CARBURETOR ACTION keeps smoke cool at all times, seal honey, like all Yello-Bole Pipes. Get one todaye --PARDON ME PEGPLE, I DIDN'T MEAN YOU. T WAS L SPEAKIN' T'THIS DIRTY T --ER-THIS NICE Now at your dealer’s. Even & cigarette-smoker can smoke it, and like it. No “‘breaking-" in" — bowl is caked with = O o Prceyiade. THIS STUFP WOULD RE GOOD OVER THE LOUD - SPEAKERS /aa ( OH, YU r N P kz“- CAN'T GET AWT-Toa ) LA - Wit TN STICK b ON YUR ) Y \ A \" —=— WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A PLAY-CALLER LIKE OU BILL BYRON “THE SINGING UMP” OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE AN INVENTIVE GENT HAS COME UP WITH A TRICK ** PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM... IT'S A COMPLICATED AFFAIR. 4 _OPERATED BY THE PLATE - UMPIRE WHO HAS A"MIKE" IN HIS MASK , MAKES THE CONTACT THROUGH SPIKES, --AN THINGS AN STUFF! !} Koverly So Mean He Makes ‘ H 7EE WILLIE DAVIS. the tougher than grappling and | flict damage on the rugged frame of Turner’s Arena | every pachyderm because Koverly has | that his foes have the happy experi- Heroes of Ordinarily Rough Rasslers. towering country boy who found refereeing a bit| therefore now is concentrating on| twisting, obtains his opportunity to in-| George Koverly tonight in the feature match of the weekly squirm session at Launching elbows at Koverly's head | suddenly has become the ambition of | that happy knack of appearing so vicious, even against veteran villains, ence of being a hero for at least one evening. Davis Isn't Gentle. DAVIs is versed fairly well in un- orthodox tactics himself, but his application is a bit rough around the edges in comparison with Koverly's smooth emoting. Koverly, the self- styled wild man, actually has many cauliflower customers wondering about his machinery batween the ears. They | believe he's crazy and can back up their argument with illustrative and convincing instances of George's mad- ness. Willie, it seems, has a score to settle with Koverly. When Benny Bortnick was unable to appear in his usual role of arbiter several weeks ago, Davis served as the third man in the ring. After raising the hand of Laverne Baxter in victory, Davis started to climb out of the ring and was helped on his way by a smack authored by Koverly, dumping Willie on the con- crete floor. Baxter Is Demoted. AXTER, incidentally, for the first time in many months is suffering the ignominy of being relegated to a preliminary role. He has been dropped down a peg by Promoter Joe Turner, and will meet Bill Sledge, a Texas product, in the semi-final fuss. In other preliminaries, the first of which will get under way at 8:30 o'clock, Hank Barber will meet Jim Coffield, Jack Hader will face Al Billings and Joe Cox will toil with Reb Russell. = - CHESTNUT FARMS WINS. Although outhit, Chestnut Farms outscored Pepco, 5-3, yesterday in a National Capital League game. Pepco got 11 hits to the winners’ 8. Hartmann Trunks and Tourobes, Luggage, Leather Goods, Traveling Requisites, Women'’s Umbrellas and Gloves, Riding Apparel, Giftware. 1314 F Strest NW, * By BURTON HAWKINS OE GREEN, local feather- weight fighter, never again will toss & fist here and be paid for it as long as Goldie Ahearn is matchmaker . . . his last bout, with Frankie De Angelo, looked too much like *“business” to the rotund squarer-offer . . if De Angelo fights again it will be against more polished punchers. Bobby Goldstein, three-time Southern Conference boxing cham- pion, will work out with Norment Quarles in a mild revival of their collegiate feud . . . Bobby then will spar with Cowboy Howard Scott and give his opinion as to who will win the Scott-Quarles 10-round argument on the police benefit card at Griffith Stadium Wednesday. Ahearn can look you straight in the eye and say he knows nothing of the origin of the $3,000 “bribe” offered Lou Gevinson to take a tanker against Johnny Pena in the same show . .. Cornell is a crack distance man on Cornell track team. The long-distance record for twanging an arrow from here to there is 518 yards . . . which is three times farther than Babe Ruth's longest home run and a trifle farther than an ordinary re- volver bullet will carry . . . It was accomplished by lying on the ground. holding the bow with the feet and using both hands for the pull ... The game of badminton was imported from England 45 years ago, but interest has been dormant until recently. Maj. Frank Ward, who produced the best rifle team ever to aqueeze a trigger for Maryland, has been ordered from the military depart- ment at College Park to the Stafl School at Fort Leavenworth . . « This year he coached the marks- men to their first victory over Navy « . « The oldest foot ball rivavry be- longs to Princeton and Rutgers ... Rutgers won the first in 1869, but the Tigers since have captured 32 decisions in as many games. Mayes McLain, the grappler, who has appeared here several times, is credit'd with scoring 253 of Has- kell's 758 points in the 1926 grid- iron season . .. which makes him the all-time greatest single season scorer . .. The Yale golf course is so laid out that by slicing around 18 holes you perform in three cities and one town. T2 OZ. BOTTLES ADAM SCHEIDT BREWING CO Norriew i If your dealer can’t supply you, phone Valley Forge Distributing Co., 901-905 Tth $t. S.W Phont Natlenal Som1 2SPARKS) Sees Stiff Struggle Among Lions, Pitt, Eli, Cornell and Dartmouth, BY LAWKRON ROBRTSON " EW YORK May of Oalitern seength leave of clms off the 1O4A cham - | plonahips opening on Randalis Tiand here tomorrow. but (he resultant Hght AllEastern title Aght s ideal, oom- petitively The meet has class and the bliatering competition may mean records Abriie As T ave it, these tenma. with esti- mated totals indicated will fght it out Columbia (26'5), Pitt (231,), Yale | (22), Cornell (21), Dartmouth (i9%4) Thia ia based on two “ifa " It Columbia's Ben Johnson regaina his best form-—and Pitt's Olymple champion, John Woodruff, the meet'a headliner, runs the 880 and mile, not the 880 and 440 Selecting Columbia, the indoor champion, may sound odd, after \ta nosedive in the heptagonal games Yale won., Thinks Yale Inspired. BU’I‘ 1 believe Yale's excellently coached team was inspired and that Columbia's well-handled squad Just had an off day. The wider aspread of points here alds Columbia and Pitt. But if John- son is off again, Pitt and Yale will battle it out. Columbia's hopes sway on one man. Unbeatable last year, Woodruff hasn't hit peak even now. In Jan- uary I picked him as the man who could do the “impossible” 4-minute mile. Without concentrating the mile he did 4:20.9, while also doing a 48.2 quarter and 1:57 half against Penn State. He seems sure to double the 880 and mile here, giving Pitt a flying start, The Midwest's newcomer, Mar- quette, figures mostly in the high jump (Burke) and the javelin (Cufr), both likely winners. Guesses Are Dangerous, HESITANTLY, I offer these danger- = ou; ,;(uesus on the first five: 0—Johnson. Columbia: _Burlingame. Yale: Glickman, T Y:]{mn Syracuse; Mason. Pitt; 220°_Millett, - man; Lung:l. ik 0—0 Bri Coflege: Hoftat Williams: RB0- Johnson. Mason, Manhattan yracuse: Gill. Boston Hoflstetter. ~ Dartmouth; 4, DAt Cook. Stripling. 5 ' 00druff. Plit: " Borck. Manhat- . Gorman. Dartmouth: Meaden, Cor- ) Bradley. Princeton e— Woodruff: = Burns Manhattan: Cornell: Bradley; Meaden: Mile—Cornell, Cornell: Rutgers; Perry Cornell \Vr}.r‘\dignd ig] hurdies—Donovan. Dartmouth: Bauer. Penn State. Watton. Dartmouth Ryden. Pitt: Schmidt. Harvard s Low hurdles—Irwin. Princeton: Hucker. Cornell: Donovan. Bauer: Steele. Penn Hammer—] worthy. R. 1. State: Rowe. R. I State: Castle. Yale: Young. Harvard: Lynch. Princet Shotput—2zaitz. Boston College: Columbia; N.Y. U Columbia: S, '},Jl]:rquehlr: 0, o Brooks. Yale i Discus—Tenchert. Rutgers: Rowe, Mardielte; Herrick, " Harvard: - Oraemer. Barrett, Ryan, eniawicz, Priolo, Penn roell; H:’ih Jump—Burke. Marquette: Red- mon Penn State-Bennett. Pitt (tle for second), Haydock. Harvard-Dillingham, Columbia (tie). Broad jump—Johnson: Sharpley, Penn: Bernstein. Brown: Ethridge. Yale: Scheune- man. P : Ganslen. Co- and Wharton Fenn Blate; Mason and ng. : Medina. Princeton Dartmouth: Clark Beltnzer. Penn. tie Back of the five leaders I fiure Penn State. Marquetie. Princeton. Syracuse, | Manhattan, Boston College. R. 1. State Harvard Penn. Rutgers. Brown. N. Y. U and Willlams in that order. (Copyright, 1937.) GRIDMEN SWIM GUARDS 8Six From George Washington Are at Glen Echo Pool. Bix George Washington University foot ball players were found on duty s life guards as Glen Echo’s Crystal Pool opened for the season today. They are Howard Tehila, Bruce Ma- han, Ted Cottingham, Louis Carroll, Glen Carroll and Hank Vonderbrugge. Boyd Hickman, a former G. W. grid star, again is the pool supervisor. 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ATLAS SPORT SHOP Wl these W Piied wmeshens 6 e WAl e vl i L U of Mot W o e how | ) e plana N - - AR et e o . e . . aale wl Aot e Mare I ean e e b In the enne mask T ump wo Wy et A make contact itk e The Inventon ar sghted, for inatance walt 10 or 15 aeecon detalln ar Migh an Added when & ball s ¢ supposed Lo be & simple matier fog the base umpires 1o 1ace to & wone stand on It aRd speak their preces Mr. Grifih penh pashed (he fdea, but he falled (o crush the inventer, whe says the Fiedment League will try . Nemebody pooh-peeh Morse and Mar ceni, tes, %0 you can't tell, after all. Mr. McClung may be In aguin. In the meantime, now that some- body 1 willing to open such an avenue it might be recorded that with Mr McClung's invention (working), base ball entertainment would begin with the microphone. Would Air All Details. Wl ‘WOULD like to know, {'rinstance, what Oral Hildebrand of the Browns said the other day to Umpire Jack Quinn when he pressed his nose LS against the schnoz of Jack and whis- pered a few words. They must have | been choice, for Mr. Quinn made a | motion with his thumb and it gen- | erally was agreed that Hildy was| through for the day. It would have been more enlightening to have heard all the details, although, in the end, it might necessitate restricting the park’'s customers to adults only. Mr. Burleigh Grimes of the Brook- lyns i1s & nose-to-nose cusser from 'way back. Mr. Grimes set an Ameri- can Association record for being thrown out of ball games last year and was on his way to a National League | mark this season until President Ford | Frick decided to fine him $25 every time he opened his yap to say unkind things of the umpires. Then, too, there are fellows like Earl Whitehill and Johnny Allen and Wes Ferrell, who like to speak their pieces in full and uncensored tone. Over the mic- rophone this could be quite edu- cational to sailors and parrots. The more genteel type of umpire- baiter is Bucky Harris, who manages the Washingtons. Mr. Harris was thumbed out of the park a few times So he reformed, but despite only so-so success at being permitted to stick around, he still chooses his words carefully, or was at press time. Put the Punches on the Mike. THERE was that time in Chicago last year when Ossie Bluege was called out at the plate by Brick Owens, who was umpiring behind the bat. The usually placid Oswald pro- tested so vehemently to Owens that he was tossed out on his ear for the first time in his long major-league career. That spurred Harris into ac- tion, but did not deter him from his resolution to be genteel. So he walked up to Owens, squared off at nose-to- nose, and said: last year and finally decided that | maybe he was speaking too harshly. | ol fonr Sonandd bomse vaud Ay Comisher Park bk Vou definitety A0t 8 leuser haming pieeen [N Alas wnd ala the apeech b . and out went B . Othe mikht nleresing » 1 Wiien Bob Bhawkey was | ¥t the Yankees he became so peeved Oeorge Hildebrand one day in Bo n that he walked up and punched Mr Hildebrand squarely in the nose. With | George'’s mask in his hand this blow could have been heard around the ball park ... if Mr. McClungs mi- crophone had been installed. Instead of mercly watching the punch draw blood & bona fide “plunk.” like the sound of an overripe canteloupe drope ping on the pavement, would have embellished the affair. The “mike” also would have nicely picked up and amplified all over Back Bay the “kerpluhk” that followed when Hildebrand recovered from his astonishment and whacked Mr. Shawkey over the head with his mask. That, indeed, would be base ball with | sound effects. McGraw Was Word Master. EVEN if Mr. McClung's invention were adopted immediately the cus- tomers never would be able to hear base ball's master at repartee. He was the late John McGraw, whose schnoz- to-schnoz arguments with Bill Klem will live forever in the memories of Giant fans. McGraw's words not only were barbed but they were clever, although Klem never publicly appre=- ciated them and frequently waved Mr. McGraw and his Giants off the premises. There was that famous incident at the Polo Grounds, too, when Klem, who is called Catfish, chased a bench- ful of Giants and ordered play resumed. A few innings later he looked up and directly in center field, where the Giants' dressing room is located, was a huge banner with “Cat- fish” written in red. Heigh-ho and flub dub. What Mr. Klem was saying under his mask would have made for interesting listening over the public address system. Of all the umps, Bill Byron of the National League would have been the most popular over the mike. Bill, who isn't umpiring any more, was called the singing umpire. He didn't have much of a voice but he has a sense of humor and when the hitter squawked ]r\\'er a called strike Bill would aing him a ditty, as follows: “Oh, you can's get a hit with the bat on your shoul- der, ta, ta, de, dum.” Anyway, they laughed at Edison, too. WIN STREAK DOOMED. A winning streak of either 11 or 12 straight will be broken Sunday when the Vienna Aces and Gibson Grays, Tespective possessors of such records, clash in a double-header at Vienna, Va. Sherwood and Butcher of the ‘Owens, if you were ever out TIRE AS LOW AS 48 PER WEEK SUPER SERVI DRIVE-IN 12th & K N.W. ABE ATLAS, Mgr. Open Evenings end Sundays AM. 2918 14th St. N.W. Col. 9401 VAPOR CURE » MEMORIAL DAY SPECIAL "® Dont “spoll your Me" morial Day trip with smooth dangerous tires— equip your car now with ‘SPECIAL!... 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