Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06

To ]. II. Bath, Paul Calnon, r. w. Moore
and Clifford Hampton the judges of The
Fees BookloveTs' contest awarded the
four grand prizes. These four men had the
largest number of correct answers to the
seventy-five pictures which appeared in
the Booklovers' contest between April
and June 49, There were no ties for these
leading prizes, and the judges made the
awards entirely on the merits of the con
testants work
Mr. Bath. who is florist in the Boyd
theater building at Sixteenth and Harvey
streets, won the big Apperson touring car
with a total of seventy-two correct puzzles
He answered all the puzzles except two
with the correct titles, but had an error
in his spelling of the name of one author
This error counted against him just
errors in spelling were counted against all.
Lyons BOY winner,
Paul Calnon. young man of Lyons, Neb
came second and pulled down the Kimball
player-piano with total of seventy-one
puzzles answered correctly. He used a
total Of 1866 coupons. The winner of the
first prize used 222. The third prize was
won by r. w. Moore, 100 North Twenty
sixth street, with all but six Of the pictures
answered correctly Mr. Moore used 1872
coupont and captured the 800 lot.
Clifford Hampton of Western, Neb., won
the fourth grand prize by having only
seven answers wrong and through the use
of 19s coupons, J. ]. Hayden of Lyons.
Neb., lost out for fourth prize because he
used more coupons than were employed by
Mr.. Hampton. He had a total Of 14S an
Bwers and had all the puzzles correctly
solved with the exception of seven, the
same number that Mr.. Hampton missed.
six Had Seven Wrong,
Including the fourth prize winner there
were six OF the contestants who had seven
of the puzzles wrong. The fact that all but
Mr.. Hampton used more than 143 coupons
lost them the Grafonola Regent. Bach of
the winners of the $40 cash prizes solved
the same number of puzzles, for they COM
posed the ones who had the seven wrong
The cash prizes OF IS each went to five
contestants who had all the puzzles solved
but eight. and to five who had all solved
but nine. There were eight OF the par
Elephants who failed to answer correctly
nine of the puzzles. Twelve of the prize
winners had ten OF the puzzles wrong. Five
OF the winners had eleven of the puzzles
wrong. There were six other contestants
who failed to win prizes who also had
eleven of the puzzles wrong. There were
few that answered all but thirteen, some
who answered all but fifteen, but vast
majority has more than fifteen of the pug
zles wrong.
Careful About Checking.
The judges were very careful about the
work OF checking and took pains TO see
that no mistakes were made. They ex-
amined all the high numbers and saw that
no error had crept into the work. The
prize winners were named because they
had done the best work. and no awards
were made for neatness because there were
no ties. and this was not necessary.
The winner of the first prize used more
coupons than were employed by any other
:. grand prize winner. His total was 222 The
winner of second prize used 16s, winner OF
third 1872 and winner of fourth 14S.
In the rechecking OF the coupons some OF
those sets which would have been among
the grand prize winners had they not been
looked over more than once, were taken
down several notches and fell among those
that captured $40 and S. prizes. Many con-
testants made mistakes I'm spelling. The
titles OF some of the books published in
The Bees catalogue OF 5000 titles weSe in
correct. but IL these were used by the con-
testants they were not counted as wrong.
No mistakes in the catalogue went against
the contestants
The total number OF answers was more
than 5000. and kept large force OF clerks
at work for more than three weeks. All
the coupons were gone over more than
onca