Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23
STUDENTS TO SAIL
Half of Rhodes Scholars Will
See Olympic Games.
AMERICANS IN TRAINING
LANCE and Zeigler May Compete at
Stockholm.
EASTER ISLAND EXPLORATION
Mysteries of Historic Remains Will
Be Subject Of Inves-
legations.

At least half Of the Rhodes scholars at
Oxford will journey to Stockholm for the
Olympic games. 1t was expected that
more would GO but reports of the heavy
admission and hotel charges deferred
most of the students who are dependent
entirely on the Rhodes fund for their
support. LANCE of Oklahoma and Zeigler
of Iowa have been in active training, and
they may appear at Stockholm as men,
bers of the American team. Lange has
been sprinting in good time lately, and
he hopes to regain his old time form in
the high jump. Zeigler is easily the SUI
perior of any of the English college
weight men, and he may prove a valuable
second string man for the American team.
South Sea Expedition.
The Mana motor auxiliary yacht
just launched at Whitstable is to carry
an expedition to the South Seas to in
vestigate the origin of the gigantic pre-
historic remains OF Easter Island. This
island, the most easterly OF the Polyne-
sian group is a lonely dot of land. forty
five miles in area, 1000 miles from the
South American coast.
Facing the sea on the island are enor-
nous platforms made OF uncemented
Some of the sea walls are thirty feet
high and two hundred feet long. On the
land side are broad terraces. also of
stone, bearing pedestals on which for
merly stood huge figures carved from
lava.
Most Of these images have been thrown
down. but there are 555 OF them on the
island One is sixty-eight feet high, with
nose eleven feet long. The figures all
extend from head to hips, with receding
dc broad thin Inns and
powerful chins.
No Metal on Island.
There is no metal on the island, and
the only tool found was a prehistoric
chisel, with which it would seem impossi-
BILE to execute such colossal works. More
over, the island. with it's scanty water
supply. could not have supported enough
people to drag the figures from the
quarry where they were made to the
platforms. Some OF the statues weigh
$50 tons.
There is every evidence that some great
calamity overlook the island and its in
ha bitants. for most of the figures are I'M
finished. some of them never even hav-
ing been removed from the quarry. A
popular theory is that Easter Island is
the sole remains of continent which
was overwhelmed by the sea after a
great seismic disturbance. The designs
of the stone work bear out this theory.
for they are strikingly like some of the
ancient Peruvian ruins.
The Mana expedition. led by w.
Scoresby Routedge and accompanied by
biologists and other scientists from the
British Museum. will make excavations
in an effort to solve the mystery.
Rose Fete for Charity.
A choice pitch on the steps In front of
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the Duchess of Marlborough for the sale
of roses June 26, the date selected by
Queen Alexandra for the rose-fete day
to be held for the benefit of the hospi-
tails and other charities in which the
queen mother and her late husband We're
interested.
The roses will be sold by 5000 London
women representing all classes, and 1t is
said that at least ten million blossoms
will be provided. Prizes have been Of
fered to the women making the largest
sales, and leaders of society are Vying
with each other in securing the best
pitches for this competition. Tho rose
selected by Queen Alexandra for the fete,
which she wishes to become an annual
affair, will be the wild rose which has
already been christened with the queen
mothers name and the day itself will
be known as Alexandra day.
oppose Elton Team.
Polo critics here seem agreed that the
Duke &f Westminster has assembled the
proper stable for horsing team to send
after the America cup. but they do not
agree that the Elton players are the best
four that England can produce for the
attempt to lift the trophy.
The opposition to the sending of the
Elton team as the English representa-
tives gained impetus by the showing the
dukes favorites made against the Wild
horse in the final for the Whitney cup
when the Elton players failed signally
TO carry their handicap.
1t Is now hoped that the duke will give
some other players a chance to show
what they can do on his ponies.
The feature of the present polo season
mas been the success - the Argentine
team. which, mounted on Argentine po-
MES has won both the Whitney and the
Social Clubs cups. 1t has also led to
the discovery of a new genius in the
game In the person of John Trail the
brilliant back of the Argentine four.