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‘THERE'S NOTHING like tennis practice in the sports world. Nothing. 2 Coach Frank (Pop) Hedden didn’t know it, but ¥ had been waiting for him to .call his tennis . players at Butler University for a long time. Ever

pince a tennis ball frightened me in Em- Roe’ s window, I've had questions about tennis,

What do tennis players do when they report a practice? How do they practice” Are they put

---0n a diet? Is there a period of conditioning with

calisthenics, scrimmages, forsaking of tobacco and

Cb strong drink, Butler loyalty tests and. the Hie?

What's the dope, Pop?

So He Reports at the Gym WL

{ POP HEDDEN 3ald to report to the small gym [some people refer to the place as the women’s Sym) any afternoon in the near future. In the distant future it would have to be outside on the tennis courts. Now was for me. ¥ The sight that met me at the entrance to the Bym (she was polite but firmly opposed to telling

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_.Jme_ her name, telephone number and address)

whacked me sharply across the knuckles with her bow and informed me Pop was getting his boys together. Such a display of pique. Was it my fault

_ plea that they have to: win the next set or. else,

the tennis» team was taking over the gym for the rest of the day? Through one of the. doors, the only one that seemed to be open, a motley crew attired in hand-me-down athletic clothes was shoving out-on the floor. One man, a short, dark-haired alumnus who probably has wasted more employer time than the next 10 men you meet on the street, was bouncing a basketball. Each bounce was carefully calculated. The reason was" that it was autographed by Buckshot O'Brien and this character didn’t want the autographed part to touch the. floor. Pop Hedden disclaimed any : association with the group. His boys were coming in now, look. Seven clean-cut, lithe, alert young men dressed in white, T-shirts, white ;shorts, white shoes, socks, and ‘chewing white bubble gum, dashed to one side of

gym. : Immediately they began to strike tennis balls with their racquets. Not over a net. Not at one another but against the wall. With each successive blow the boys increased the intensity of their stroke. Prefty soon I got the impression the obJect was to try to drive the ball through the side! of the Fieldhouse, For all I knew it was a new game, Pop said no, the boys were warming up. One| lad must have been extremely warm hecause a teammate fanned him with his. racquet to the ex-! tent that the black and blue showed through the T-shirt. Roll was taken from a distance. Pop did that mentally. Don’t think it wasn’t tough reading off his cerebellum. Anyway, Pop's boys included: Row-, land Leverenz, Bob LaComp, Harold Smolenski, Charles Raub, Ray Davis, Bruce Laetsch and Jim ‘Catton and-that's just about the way the coach has them seeded at the present time. “Tennis is an individual sport,” said Pop. “You let the boys for the most part do their own training. Of course, we often work on the weak spots like maybe a- serve..or a backhand. Usually, though, tennis players know their own shortcomings and go about correcting them. Tennis practice is mostly playing.” v

I found out, as the boys pounded the ball, that

Players seldom pay any atteiition to the coach's

of of a woods might just as weil be Payne in the You can count the spectators on the aoe of one player's hand. They play for the love of thé game. Headlines and cheers are not for tennis players,

Practice Six Days a Week

POP SAID THE BOYS practice “two "and three hours every day, six days a week. I noticed four began to bat the ball over the net. When the ball hit the floor it skidded: Not good but it can’t be helped. They won’t do too much of that. In a few days they'll be outside. Pop keeps a chart of a player's record. Each day a boy will play at least three sets. His score will determine his standing on the team. If he can beat the other six guys, Raturally he's No.1

For of’ B. U.... Rowland Leverenz serves | one up just for fun. Tennis players don't "fight," they play.

man.

“Tennis players never squawk about anything, They take what's given them and go about their; business. Very different from a football player. It) a piece of equipment doesn’t suit a- footballer He, yells his head off. “And a tennis player is skilled before he comes! out.” Pop beamed. + I left when my neck got sore from moving it back and forth trying to watch the ball, What a practice. No “hit ‘em again harder,” no “let's get|in there and fight.” : Just—ping.

“Duel in Names’

By Andrew Tully,

WASHINGTON, Apr. ashamed of themselves the way they go around _calling one another awful names. If it keeps up dueling will become all the rage again and the government will have to raise taxes to build some suitable fields of honor. Everybody-—even including President Truman —has been getting into the act, and most of em have given pretty good performances. But the top contender for the diamond-studded, namecalling championship belt is a man named Owen Lattimore, who divides his time between experting on the Far East and being accused by Sen. Joseph McCarthy of spying for the Soviet Union, ‘Mr. Lattimore was a little upset when he arrived in New York to answer Mr. McCarthy's charges. He started off by saying the press knew

then went right on and managed to utter some of it. Mr. Lattimore called Mr. McCarthy a “base and miserable creature.” He called him “vicious,” .and a “hit-and-run politician.” He called the Senator a “madman.” Not bad for a man whose opinions were “unutterable.”

Called a ‘Dupe,’ ‘Stooge’

ASIDE FROM calling Mr. Lattimore a spy and

. Communist—which are so commonplace in NV athington conversations these days that they don’t sound bad any more—Mr. McCarthy didn't get really personal with him. But he did do a

~ Job on Dr. Philip Jessup, our -ambassador-at-large.

Dr. Jessup, said Mr. McCarthy, was a “dupe,” a “stooge” and a “tool” of the Communists—and he implied that this was so because Dr. Jessup wasn't very bright. Also, said the Senator, Dr. Jessup “took money from a traitor,” meaning some

. dough the Senator claims Frederick Vanderbilt

Field donated to a magazine run by Dr. Jessi.

3—People should: be

~0f.his. ‘unutterable contempt’. for.the Senator, but...

Carthy as good as the Senator had given Dr. Jessup. Mr. McCarthy, the President said, was the, greatest asset the Kremlin had. He also said that] Mr. McCarthy's charge that Mr. Lattimore was a Red agent was silly on the face of it. : Meanwhile, a man named Joseph Barnes, in Atlanta, Ga., had a few nasty words to say about Mr. McCarthy. The Senator, in his Senate speech, had quoted from a letter he said Mr. Lattimore wrote to Mr. Barnes, who was head of the Office, of War Information during the War. 1

Acheson Chimes In

= MR BARNES told -~reporters — thratus df Nps McCarthy was try to say thta Mr. Lattimore was disloyal to this country, then the Senator was a ‘common, or garden variety, of liar.”

Even Secretary of State Dean Acheson chimed in.. Mr. Acheson, who's always so well-behaved and knows what fork to stab a guy's hapd with when the guy is reaching for a second helping, let go at Sen. McCarthy at still another press conference. “~Mr. Acheson wouldn’t think of using a vulgar, word like “liar,” but when a reporter asked him! about Sen. McCarthy's charge that Dr. Jessup had originated the “smear” campaign against! China's Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Acheson looked real, fierce and said it was “quite untrue.” That's/ known as the diplomatic, or backing-in way, of calling somebody a liar, Maybe the dueling-piktol people had better be alerted after all. Sometimes it seems like the only thing that’ s holding back these name-callers. iz the. fact that duelers always have to go to work at dawn.-

Who's Batty?

By F Frédarick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, ADE, 3—1In Northern Mexico

there is said to be a race of white bats that glow with a phosphorescent light on dark nights. Some people, who may or may not have been out on bats earlier in the evening, have been mistaking these lit-up bats for flying saucers. On’our side of the border bats are blac k, except when they{are dark brown. 1 met a bat (black) face to face the other night in our living room, but if you -think I was scared, you should Have seen him. He scrammed as soon as I opened the window. I say “he” advisedly. And if everybody now is in the mood, we +i consider the sex ratios of hibernating bats. This, as I hope to prove in about half a minute, is an | interesting subject. It presents a mystery which | you, if you should happen to be a speleologist, can {help to solve.

Females Organize Maternity Wards

"THE USUAL bat in these parts, said Prof. | Harold B. Hitchcock of Middlebury (Vt.) College in-an address before the National Speleological Society; is the myotis lu ~luct . Durin the summer the females of this species live in hot, dark attics, preferably, where they organize maternity wards. Dr, Hitchcock, who is one of the leading authorities on bats, said the males do not ordinarily stay with the female during this trying - period, but remain apart, untroubled by family © cares,

In winter the bats of both sexes seek shelter

in caves (and the Othman parlor) where the tem-

perature remains well above freezing. What flabbergasts Prof. Hitchcock is that in all the bat tribes he has Investigated in New England, Ontario and Quebec, the population consists of about _ thre tines as many males as Temles.

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“Where,” <he asked; they found some snug cranny where the batman has not yet discovered them? Have their family cares exhausted them and ‘brought. many to an early death, leaving a surplus of malés by the time of hibernation? Or do the females migrate in greater numbers to another, warmer part of the country? Those are the questions that Prof. Hitchcock propounded to the speleologists, in convention here assembled. He urged that while indulging what he called their passion for speleological adventure, they make -cargful observation of .the bats and report to science what ever has becole of the females. r

What Is a Speleologist?

A SPELEOLOGIST, in case there is anybody | ‘here as ignorant as I was until about an hour &go, isa fellow of whatever sex who is interested in| caves. He doesn’t consider them as refuges from| the hell bomb; neither does he survey them as possible warehouses for surplus eggs. He just likes, caves for their own sake. There are about 200- speleologists in the na-| tional association. They like to slog through caves, ! take photos of caves by flashlight, paint pictures, of caves, make necklaces of rocks taken from! caves, and observe such wild life as bats, salaman-| ders, and blind fish. : They trail subterranean snails in caves, Srite. books about caves, sing songs concerning caves, discover such things as calcite bubbles in caves, and survey caves with illuminated transits, They are nice people. I have yet to meet a speleologist I don't like. Can they help it if they are pale from lack of sunlight? And when: the great bat mystery is solved you will read about it

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By. Ed Sovola

You can’t stir up a tennis player to go out on the; ...court_and._give .his..opponent.the. hip.or.selbow,.. .

* Well sir, the next day the President—who can call names with the best of them—gave Mr. Mc-

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FOREWORD

There are no other sermons like Peter Marshall's, For there was-no other man like Peter Marshall. ~~ The beloved chaplain of the United. States Senate, Peter Marshall passed away recently at the age of 46. He had attained a national reputation at an age when most clergymen are still unknown The Indianapolis Times during the Lenten season is publishing the richest passages from Peter Marshall's most vigorous sermons. They wese preached in Washington's historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. They were addressed to the man he called “Mr Jones,” to the multitude of clerks and taxy drivers, butchers and housewives, motormen and the lonely gurl ih the hospital ward. 3 Taken from the book, “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master,” the sermons ‘preserve the emphasis of his words, by a special tupographical style. The manu-

scripts are presented eel as Peter Marshall prepared them.

Chapter 8—Problem of Falling Rocks

Driving along the Wighwoys that run through the 08 you may have noticed the frequency of signs that read: “BEWARE OF FALLING ROCKS.” | have seen them many times and have often wondered. why they did not say, “Beware of fallen rocks,” for | do not know what one could do about rocks that were in the act of falling as oné drove Hote.

HE i a. F “nor the way you handle your cor = nor the condition of your tires. : It makes no difference whether you are a good driver or a “bad

driver, the hazard is there and th about it. and there is nothing you can do

“The question | ask you “to consider is ; what should be our ottitude toward these troubles, that we can do nothing-to' prevent?

The commonest attitude is one of worry, for this is the most common and widespread of the transgressions that marks our Inconsistency as Christians,

People have never fully realized just how destructive go thing ‘Worry is. ) :

It truly plays havoc with one’s life. It ruins digestion. It causes stomach ulcers. It interferes with sound sleep and forces us fo face another day unrested and irritable.

It shortens our tempers and makes us snap at the members of our family. Anxiety and tension, which are twins, bring on heart disease high blood pressure and nervous disorders.

Jesus had 6 lot to o say about this very thing. In the sixth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, you will find quite a fa quotation on this theme in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus said: . . . “take no thought for the morrow“—that is, no anxious, troubled thought— “Or we ihe well say, “Don’t worry about tomorrow”—for that is precisely the meaning of His words.

Can You, by worrying, keep something unpleasant from happening? Do you soften the blow ease the burden or lessen the pain? Of course not, but you stand a good chance of reducing your ability to take it.

| want to moke a distinction between thoughtful consideration on the one hand, and the useless fretting on the other that destroys peace of mind takes awoy appetite . “and leaves a person sleepless and miserable.

With osm to the eks that may fall upon us, and in those days of the atom bomb, they are heavy and sinister, the only “happy way to deal with them is the way of faith— faith in the purposes of God faith in the presence of God faith in. the promises of God. faith in the power of God to deliver us in any trouble.

.Only..when.we have. faith. can. we.be- free from. fear... If you-are afraid, then we must suspect that you have no faith in God.

We have to earn to co- operate vith the inevitable. We'd better.

There are so many things in life beyond our control that he is

wise who recognizes the fact and who says: “God willing, | will do this or that . This is not mock piety, but clear recognition" of life’s contingencies, and our helplessness in certain situations.

The rocks will-fall. We don’t know when, and we cannot find out for sure.

Worrying about it, fearing -it, does not t help.

ut we can go on without strain,

” 5 ~ * y . Ny One of the things Christ definitely promised us was trouble. " “In the world ye shall have tribulation,” He said. But we must never forget that He added: “But be of good cheer” . . . or in other words, “Cheer up” . .. “lI have overcome the world.”

Now, when trouble comes, when the rocks do fall, it will not help to reject foith altogether, and fling away in revolt-from all that, you once believed.

If Christ is right, then there is a loving purpose in it all . , even though our tear-filled eyes cannot see it.

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ets." Matthew 5:12, 7:12. If Christ has not lied to us, then there is a reason behind even the darkest providence. There must be a reason, for God rules; and the reason must be good, for God is ‘good. +

The promises of the Scriptures are not mere pious hopes or sanctified guesses. o They are more than sentimental words to be printed on “decorated cards for Sunday School children: They are eternal verities. They are true. There is no perhaps about them- Shsepdeds

How does the prophet know that God will neither leave us nor forsake us? How does the psalmist know that the broken- hearted and the afflicted will be comforted?

Because they themselves had dark doys and lonely nights. That's why! Because they themselves had gone. through it. Christ does not leave us comfortless, but we have to be in dire need of comfort to know the truth of his promise. It is in times of bereavement that one begins to understand the meaning of immortality. You think today, as the sun streams in golden shafts through the window and birds sing of spring, you think that you believe it.

But wait until you stand at the edge of an grave . . , Then you will know. what it means to believe it

You will not then be interested in chattering about immortality . or gossiping about the fheories of the hereafter . .. You will know . deep down in your own heart, you will know.

We have such pagan ideas about death—most of us—not at all Christian or in keeping with the revelation we have in the Scriptures.

We are wrong, who haunt the cemetery, as if to feel the presence of loved ones who are not there, if Christ has told us the truth!

We have our eyes wrongly focused. We do not understand. - > ” ” . ”

Qur tears are selfish, for we are self-centered—self-absorbed.

>We keep. thinking of what it means to us.

We reflect how much we miss the departed, and we weep, because we begrudge their going. We wish they had stayed on with us awhile . . . We wish things had gone on as they were. We resent the change, somehow, never thinking what it must mean to them that are gone, . °*

In the New Testament, we hear little of the families with: that aching gap, very few pictures of mourners huddled together sitting silently —in-their-homes-.. weeping on No, but’ you do hear a great "deal about the Father's house of many mansions . . . and the angels.

Let us therefore act like believers, . live like Christians so that we can die like Christians . . . with songs and rejoicing. That is the true Christian attitude.

Those we love are with the Lord, we believe. and the Lord has.promised to be with us, never to leave us nor forsake us: “Behold | am with you always.”

Well, if they are’ with Him, and He is with us . they cannot be far away.

It is not true to sing—aor “even think—of Heaven as Vor or away. It is no distant land - no alien shore but near us——very close. It gets nearer as we grow older, as more and more. of our friends and loved ones go home, our thoughts and expectations turn ahead to the time when we shall all meet again in the new life . . . in the other room :

never again to part. pyright. 1950, by Fleming H. Revell Co.)

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Margaret's Friends Mum On Romance

British Society Writer Insists Peter Ward's the Man

Friends of Princes Margaret declined comment today on ree

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was “unofficially engaged” to § Peter Ward, 24, handsome second son of the Earl of Dudley. The report was ‘published by a society iwriter for the {London Pictorial

can ambassador, give a night club party.

A new mathemayical YNEuaES | may have to be developed to rect POV TE HEW generalized the-

explain the theory in an article for the Scientific American magazine, x The atom bomb BV DAUR Pn came the proof Prof. Einstein of ‘the original Einstein theory that E equals MC2.

~ » ” Princess Elizabeth inspected the Royal Malta Artillery today without the com-

ipany-of-her-hus-—

‘band, the Duke lof Edinburgh. The ceremony

marked the anniversary of {the title of col-onel-in-chief. ; Princess Elizabeth read the {unit a message lof

“thanks for Princess loyalty” from Elizabeth 12 the king. .

” . A Thomas A. Foley, Purdue senioge was one of four forestry sc : ts

* = = Paul Baker, sophomore, 247 N, Randolph St., and Gerald Tarshes, senior, 3617 College Ave. will be |among the 29 student members of ithe TU Finance Club to leave to [night for Chicago to spend two |days observing the operation of large financial institutions. ” » ” Police of Vittoria, B. C., today |called off a search for Mrs. Eliza (beth Eastman. They found the 80. ° year-old woman in the company of Albert Wilbee, 86. The couple - {had eloped and married, she ane | nounced,

3 » . . = Negrman- Makin Australian ame bassador to the U. 8., says Euro. pean Christians are “braving ume’ paralleled danse gers” to preach and teach Chris tainty “in the very centers of enslavement.” Addressing the Chicago Sunday w JoverHng — Clary Mr. Makin, a lay | preacher in the Methodist Church, said

fin Europe that will expand and “give to the darkened places of the earth a new light and life.” a8. 2 Florence Nash, former Broade way actress and sister of Nash, actress, died of a heart ailment yesterday in her Hollywood home. The comedienne had been, ill for three years. She was 61. = - - ’ “It's - simple,” said John @, Hess, 40. L.os- fireman; Ago Robert Magow, 13, Boy Scout, who wanted him to demonstrate the fireman's lift. . Mr. Hess . tossed Robert over his shoulder, As he straightened up his heel became tangled in the fringe of a rug. Hospital attendants said {his leg was broken. » ” . < Dr. E, Mowbry Tate, dean of Hanover College, will speak before ‘the University of Cincinnati YMCA Wednesday. Among new officers is William Smart, son of Mrs. Jeannette Smart, Southport,

Drawn. by John J. Sunley