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Chase's.

For the present week, commencing at
1 pm. tomorrow, the most extensive
and diverting series OF talking movies
yet offered will be presented at Chases
the foremost being the sociological
drama Her Redemption" with cast
of selected dramatic stars. The play
has thrilling climaxes and laughable
comedy. Planchette's famous opera,
The Chimes of Normandy with it's
masterpieces Of melody, sung by grand
opera stars. with every stage and scenic
accessory, will be presented. These pro-
ductions will dominate every perform
ance, but there will be daily change
in the kinemacolor plays and the varied
photo-dramas. The kinemacolor subjects
| will be 1.-The price of Success THE
River Avon and Stratford.' AN Amer
lean Invasion" Improved Methods of
Agriculture" "Aeroplanes and Birdmen."
"A Scrap of Paper" "Anurad hapura."
Beauties in Waists" "Elsie's Dream
"A Family Affair." "Trip Up Eiger
| Glacier" "Dieppe Motor Races. when
a Woman Wills" United States Ar
tiilery." Views of Algiers." Natives Of
Egypt" and "A Girl Worth Having"
The performances run daily from l pm.
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Motet Choir Tuesday.

The Motet Choral Society. directed by
Otto 7. Simon, with Mrs. Simon at the
piano. will give the final concert Of its
fourth season Wednesday afternoon. April
o3 at 4:3O O'CLOCK, at the Columbia Tie
afer. The work to be sung will be The
Crusaders, by Hicks Gade. a. cotemporary
of Mendelssohn. 1t Is a work for chorus
and soloists. feature being the varied
choral treatment. Some of the best cho-
raj effects are for female voices alone.
and others for the male choir. The oari-
tone part of Peter the Hermit. the lead
er and exhorter of the pilgrim band, Is
one of sustained dignity. while the duets
between Armida, the spirit of darkness
and Rnaldo, the typical crusader knlgh''
are usually dramatic.
The solo parts will be taken by Miss
Marion McFall. soprano: Joseph White
more, tenor, and John Waters, baritone
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

"a Mans Friends will go on tour next
season.
"Excuse Me- is to have a Paris pro-
duction.
David Bispham is to star in the jolly
Pea SAINT
Adeline Genee is to make tour VI
Australia.
Lillian Russell will return 10 Vauoe'ii'e
in Pittsburgh.
Olive Briscoe is to appear In Lohoon III
a musical revue.
.Tbe blindness of Virtue is to go to
Boston for a run.
"Du Barry" is to reappear next season
as a musical production.
Walker Whiteside will appear again
next season in "The Typhoon."
The tour of ."rhe Man With Three
Wives" closed in Boston last week
Bessie Wynn may head a company Oh
star specialists for the spring season.
Little Helen Hayes Brown will be seen
this week in Edith Taliaferro original
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Cosmos Concerts Today.

The Cosmos Theater full orchestra.
under the direction of Prof. Arthur
Marvel will feature in its orchestral
program today. beginning at o'clock
and running continuously until 1890
o'clock tonight. SchelepegrelPs Gro
tesque" overture, a piccolo solo, by
Antonio Cello. Sunrise in the Forest"
his own composition; Foss' pilgrim
Commandery March," selections from
Massenets "Herodias. Raff's march
from the "I.enore' symphony. Luigini's
Voice of the Chimes" with chime solo
by Jack Gresset; Elgar's ''Pomp and
Circumstance" selections from Doni-
zetti's 'Lucretia Borgia," Liszts Con
ISOLATION" reverie, Ayers twilight
novelette, and waltzes from the new
comic opera, Eva by Lehar. Be-
sides the orchestral program the
Cosmos concerts today will offer q
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Polls.

.Pomander walk lies out Cheswick way.
halfway to fairyland," according to the
heroine of Louis n. Parker's play, who
recites a prologue. This predatory line
is suggestive of the character of the en-
tertainment, which is an idyll of five odd
families living in five little red brick cot
tages facing the placid waters of the
Thames. 1t is a love story, for every man
and woman in the play finds mate be-
fore the final curtain, but these romances
are revealed in such a novel and ingen-
uous way that they afford new expe-
rience in the theater. "Pomander Walk
is by the author of "Disraeli," Drake"
and Rosemary"
1t will be presented tomorrow night
with the original New York scenic pro-
duction, showing the cottages bordering
the Thames and facing a gigantic elm
tree, beneath whose shade the romances in
ten lives grow and blossom. There are
numerous striking character studies in
the piece. The period of the play is 1885,
The costumes will be an attractive element
of the entertainment.
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The trip made by Emery and Ellsworth
Kolb, who have been the official photog-
raphers Of the famous Bright Angel Trail
of the Grand Canyon OF Arizona for the
past twelve years. was very successful
from q picture standpoint. The Messrs.
Kolb have secured the only motion pic
lures ever made of the scenes made ia
nous by Maj Powell in his journey down
the Colorado river canyons. Their jour
ney began at Green river. Wyoming,
September 8, 1911, and ended at Needles
cal January 10. 1912 In open boats they
travelled a distance of nearly 1,4OO miles
through six states. descending 5000 feet
in over 300 rapids. Their pictures show
the dangers involved and the hardships
with Intensely interesting and sensational
q +,ils. These pictures will be shown
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times in England: Wedgwood NOVEL;.
who is the Messala; Ben F.. Moore. the
Simonedes, and Leslie Stowe, the Ilder1m
Others are Walter NJ. Sherwin, Willard
Blackmore, George Sydenham, Muriel
Godfrey-TLrner, Florence Auer, Mary
Condor, Louise Huff and Alice Haynes.
The curtain rises on the evening per-
fornances promptly at s O'Clock, and at
. o'clock on the matinees. No one will be
seated during the prelude, which shows
the appearance Of the Star Of Bethlehem
to the Three Wise Men, and which should
be seen by all who would thoroughly en-
joy the performance of "Ben- Hur.
There will be matinees Wednesday and
Saturday.
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girls In vaudeville. and her teammate,
Margaret Krause. who impersonate Gaby
Others are Dottie Claire. Amanda Gill
bert, Emma Krause. Claire PERI, Helen
Mayer and Bertha Wood. The COM
pany has an offering Of new songs,
graceful and eccentric dances. good sto-
ries and impersonations, we'll as bur-
lesaue, grand opera and laughable comedy
sketches, together with a quartet that
sings ..Rigoletto," the "Village Black
smith" and dozen other selections. 1t
appeared in New York for twenty weeks
Continuously, Philadelphia for sixteen
weeks and Boston for five weeks. The
requisite number of additional class
vaudeville offerings will be added to
lengthen the program to the Casino
standard, which also includes three first
run. highest class photoplays with each
performance.
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role of Susie in THE Girl With the Green
Eyes"
At the Belasco soon Valeska Suratt and
company will be heard in THE Kiss
Waltz
Miriam Clements, an English actress.
has been engaged for the revival of The
Anna ZonS.'
Lily Langtry is the latest star to be
secured by Daniel Frohman for his NOV
ing pictures.
Constance Collier will appear shortly
in a new play with Ian Maclaren as her
leading man.
When 1.-The Garden of Allah" is pre-
sented in London Lawson Butt will play
the role of Boris.
Elita Proctor Otis has been engaged for
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but he makes no pretense at exposing
any particular faith or fad. This year
he brings an entirely new program of
mysteries, including The Bangkok Bun
galow," lama's dream Of astral power;
"The Haunted Window" new and
startling creation, followed by THE Cair
Of ASIA reclining Juno defying human
endurance, THE Siamese Cabinet. The
Vanishing Dervishes," an Arabian mys-
terry; THE Spirit Paintings" and a score
of others.
Mr. Thurston will present to every lady
attending the Tuesday and Thursday
matinees a complete horoscope of her
life.
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Frank N. Jones' Recital Tuesday.

Frank Norris Jones. pianist, will give
his annual recital Tuesday afternoon at
the Columbia Theater. under the manage
ment Of T. Arthur Smith. Mr.. Jones IS
regarded as an artist of unusual versatu-
ity, as shown in his former recitals here,
when his work won generous and en-
thusiastic approval. He is regarded as
in the forerank of young American pian-
lists The program for Tuesdays re-
cital is as follows: Mendelssohn. Prelude
and Fuge, E minor: Liszt. Sonata, B
minor Gn one movement); Chopin, Pre-
lude, G minor, Op. 2S. No. %; Nocturne.
G major, Op. 81. No. 2; Etude, G minor.
On. 10 No. II; Ballade, G minor, Op. %;
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Belasco.

Shubert's Winter Garden Company in
''The Passing Show of 1912 will be the
offering at the Belasco this week. The
company boasts a remarkable array of
names that the public has long associ-
ated with musical fun. including Trixie
Friganza Charles J. Ross, Adelaide and
j. j. Hughes Texas Guinan, Clarence
Harvey, Howard and Howard. Moon and
Morris. Albert Howson, Louise BrunneH
and others.
"The Passing Show of 1912 presents
burlesques on many of the plays of this
and last season. The scenery in which
the action is set is gorgeous enough TO
satisfy the most eXacting demand for
spectacle. The costumes are varied.
beautiful, entirely new and therefore
fresh and attractive The entire exhibi-
ton has the quality of novelty
Popular-priced matinees will be given
Tuesday Wednesday and Friday.
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Grove of Daphne, with it's dancing nymphs
and enhancing. choruses; the Orchard of
ment to the attractions of the wondrous
garden: the terrible storm which sewers
the galley and gives Ben-Hur his oppor
tunity to escape from the thralldom OF
slavery; the beautiful panorama of Jeru-
salem seen from the roof terrace Of the
Palace of Hur. and, lastly. the sacred
beauty of the final scene on the slopes of
the Mount of Olives, when the Savior is
about to enter the holy city and the peo-
pie have flocked forth singing hosannas.
Among the members of the company
are Thomas Holding. who has the title
role, a part which he has played many
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Cosmos.

A fairy fantasy of childhood. "Doro-
thys Playmates." an attraction from the
big vaudeville circuit, will be presented
at the Cosmos Theater this week by nine
clever youngsters who understand the
art of entertaining grown-ups as well as
children. Their production is an allie
gorical spectacle and among its features
are THE Cats Chorus 1.-THE Tale OF
Jack-o'- Lantern" and 1.-The Little Devils.
Five notable supplemental features are
promised in Frank Wolf and Mae Taylor,
English water manipulators in the only act
of it's kind In the world; a comical concert
Of an eccentric kind, by Graham and
Brendel; a delightful Offering Of songs
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Garden.

At the Garden Theater Monday and
Tuesday the photoplay "Trilby." ia
nous in novel and play, will be the
feature. Wednesday. for that day only,
and in order to enable those who could
not see it when first shown, The
Miracle" the wonder mystery play,
with the famous demonstrative musf-
cal accompaniment by the Garden Or
chestra of ten, will be the days fea-
ture. Thursday, Friday and Saturday
.Hiawatha," a dramatization Of Long
fellows famous poem. acted by COM
pany of Indian players. will be shown.
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Howard.

Corwell and Nye will present the Mis-
sissippi Minstrels and Musical Maids al
the Howard Theeater this week with
matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day. In addition to first part features,
the olio will present the Pagan Trio,
Happy Sam Gardner and Al Strander.
with thirty people in ALL
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and dances of the better kind, by Will
liams and Watkins; rare juggling with
comedy, by Lew Palmore. and come
dienne who can both whistle and sing
her melodies in Georgia Fitzgerald. The
Pathe Weekly Review will head a series
of first-run highest class photoplays.
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Casino.

The Casino Theater promises excep-
tional entertainment this week in one
hour of gems Of minstrelsy by Perry's 8
All-Star Company Of Girl Minstrels, each
of whom has accomplished something
good in vaudeville or musical comedy.
There are eleven performers in ALL. in
Guiding Josie Flynn. one of the funniest
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Schumann Aria from the Sonata. +
sharp minor. Op. IL; Brahms, Rhapsodie.
Minor, Op. 20. No. 1: Leschetizky.
Arabesque en- forme d Etude: Tausig,
Marche Militaire concert ARRANGEMENT of
the original composition of Franz Schu-
bert)
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Since Kellar retired, full Of honors and
wealth. Thurston, a pleasant. graceful
young fellow, with thoughtful face and
slim. capable hands in the art of magic,
has dropped into his place, and will ap-
pear at the Academy this week. start
ing tomorrow night. with matinees Tues
day. Thursday and Saturday.
Every trick of every magician who ever
lived is said to be known to Thurston,
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New York on New Year eve is another
effective stage picture The costumes
are on the same elaborate scale as the
stage settings.
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Performances are from II am. to IL
pm, with orchestral selections by the
Garden Orchestra.
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Colorado Canyon Pictures.

large and varied number of igh-grade
vocal and instrumental selections.
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and the story of the trip told by Emery
c. Kolb at the New National Theater To-
night.
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Margaret Ellington viii close her SEASON
in kindling about the middle af Ma
and will probably go abroad for the SUM
mer months.
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Academy.

to II pm, and Sundays from pm. te
1890 pm.
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r. Arthur Smiths son. whose staEe
name is Arthur Leslie. viii appear A. IS
member Of the Columbia PLAYERS this
week.
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The dramatization or The Inner
Shrine. by Claiming Pollock. is 20 haN -
spring production under the directioa
of A q. Delamater
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Helen Lowell has finished her tour IN
The Red Petticoat' and will spend her
vacation in Northport. l.. !.
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The Columbia Players will soon present
Annie Russell's beautiful costume PLAY.
"A Royal Family
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a leading role in Are You Crook 20
open next week
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Catherine Countiss has made a big sue
cess in vaudeville I'm a playlet called
The birthday Present" and is making
a tour of the country in II
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Once

Representative Carter spent his boy
hood on the western frontier of the
Chickasaw Nation. and since he entered
with the framing OF Indian legislation
under the dome Of the Capitol.
When the lumber schedule Of the new
tariff bill was discussed a while ago
Carter. who Is straight as an arrow and
swarthy Of complexion, told tine follow
ing story to illustrate the possibilities OF
debate on that important schedule:
I'm the early days OF Oklahoma poll
tics there was joint political discussion
there between a republican and a pop
ulist. Both played checkers with their
past political records. the republican
having been 'greenbacker' and the BOD
ulist a republican. After the former had
finished a scathing attack on the va
carries of populism the latter read q
.greenback' speech made years before by
his antagonist and rested his case
THE evidence was conclusive and the
case looked bad for the republican when
the accused dramatically demanded:
Mr.. Populist. did you never make a
political utterance OF which you were
ashamed and for which you would apol-
ogi3er
Eyes replied the populist with alb
solute frankness. I was living once In
q dugout in southwest Kansas, dirt for
the bottom, dirt for the top and dirt for
the sides. and II was q bitter winter.
had nothing hit a fiimsy. worn-out quilt
hung In the doorway to keep the chilling
blasts Of winter from freezing my shak-
ing frame. l stood shaking, shiverIng
and chattering. and raised my hands
to heaven and prayed for q high tari6
on lumber"
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When an aspirant for championship honors
and the right to wear the championship for
one stormy year longs to wrest the hon.
ors for his ship his challenge goes d.
ract TO the commandments. From
tha commander-in-chief IL Is issued with
due formality to the feet. and then comes
a convenient smoker. Stripped to the
battle for six two-minute rounds. with
an interval of a minute between rounds
Tom Sharkey and La Blanche. the ma
rine were brought UP in this strenuous
school of the navy.
The classes are divided into the feath-
er, light. weller. middle and heavy
weight and from start to finish they bat.
tie for the honor of their respective ships.
taking blows that would seemingly dent
the turret just aft OF their ring.
The next day you will probably see d
battered individual rolling around the
deck playing with one OIL the innumerabie
mascots and you recognize him as the
fercely fighting individual you had cheer
ed on the night before The list Of mas
cots is as long as the anchor chain aud
almost as varied as the denizens of n
first-class zoo. They range i'm size from
the tiny English bull "Gabby on me
South Carolina to the brown bear on the
San Francisco. Between them are goats
galore. pigs and parrots, monkeys and
kangaroos. There was squadron of
brown bears in the fleet that steamed
around the world and every bear was
christened Teddy.
1t sounds attractive enough to the
landsmen, this schedule OF sports and
pets. but don't forget the .'unremitting
night and day drilling, month after
month" The navy Is working out its
latest problem, and it will work 1t OUT
sanely and Thoroughly.
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Puget Sound to the aggregate or I,OUO
miles: and the job of macing lighthouses.
revenue cutters and 80 on out OF Con-
gress for that tubful OF drink 10 some
job. believe johnson.
Other natural wonders in the johnson
district include two forest reserves. the
Olympia and the Rainier. the latter flock
Of segregated lumber coming in only in
part. In the heart Of the Olympia re-
serve is a national monument created for
the protection of the Roosevelt elk, or
as the ihighbrows put 1T. the cervus
Rooseveltus. Yes. OF course. they're
named after T. r. You have to whisper
this though. when Johnson's around. be-
cause he's very standpat.
Taking a header into statistics john
sons district comprises more than LOCO
square miles, an area as big as that Of
half Ohio and equaling the territory Of
three or four New England states It
includes the Olympic peninsula, which
takes in the big city Of Tacoma and a
good part Of southwest Washington.
However, out of all the territory that
Johnson embellishes here In Washington.
onc-third Is in forest reserve; and the
lands held by the government cut up the
country so that at the last election 1t
took a week to get all the returns as
sembIed, as against an average Of around
fhirty-six hours for the run OF the con-
rressional districts the country over.
Likewise, owing to the ubiQutt0usness
of forest reserves. johnson had to make
his campaign by nearly every form of
land or water transportation there was.
He stumped from trolley, auto. canoe,
"a i,road train, horseback. wagon. steamer
aud ship. Hence. all the foregoing con-
sidered. 1t may be assumed that John
son Is some unique congressman.
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alone invites dancing, and the life in the
open, with it's driving periods Of work.
seeks such outlets when work is over. The
band plays three times day and then
the forecastle and the open spaces on
the midship decks reproduce the glories
OF the dancing pavilions ashore. @Sss
OF all the shipboard diversions the
smoker, with its countless ramifcations.
easily ranks first. The time-honored min
strel show flourishes here. and boxing
matches are the star acts. A platform is
rugged on the forecastle or quarterback.
and Invitations are sent to the fleet by
the signal boys. In q crescent Of chairs
the officers face the stage, and back Of
them. massed on the roomy turrets and
back up into the superstructure rails
and the mast that towers above. range
the crew.
The smokers are often impromptp, but
last winter the crew Of the Utah pat on
a smoker that was the hit Of the cruise.
For three months the cast Of frnmen,
yeomen. sailors and marines worked at
rehearsals. Sandwiched in between two
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When he was an undergraduate at
Princeton his tastes were decidedly lit
erary. He was the managing editor Of
the college daily and an editor Of the
Nassau Literary Magazine. His chums,
however. were more identified with the
athletic side Of the campus life, and their
literary tastes conferred about the sport
ing pages Of the big daiiies
McCombs. when 1t came TO the club
elections. took an election to the foot
ball club" as one OF the leading clubs
there Is accurately described, and among
his intimates In his class were such old
foot ball stars as Garry" Cochran. ADJ
Kelly. "Bnr' Barnard and Sport Arm
strong. When McCombs left Princeton
to enter the Harvard Law School none
OF his athletic friends went up to Cam
bridge with him. He solved the prob
lem by living through his three years
course with the man who had broken all
the strength records Of Harvard.
His new chum was Henry F. Cochems
who had come to Harvard with the repu-
tation OF being one Of the best foot ball
stars In the west. Cochehls had played
four years in the University OF Wiscon-
would have proved tower Of strength
to the Crimson. He Ia now one OF the
bull moose leaders Of Wisconsin ana In
1858 placed La Follette's name before the
republican national convention for the
After McCombs came to New YORK to
establish himself in law he naturalIv
looked around for another strong man to
snare n, MS apartment He found him Il
missioner OF New York. who was fresh
man at Princeton when McMCombs wa.
junior. According to Tom Rsed's def.
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long exclusively 70 the feminine SEX
Intuition.
He tells himself of many remarkable
events in which he has on several oc-
casions had narrow escapes from fatal
accidents. Once, when travelling with
his family, he was detained in a small
town which boasted OF frame hotel
Mr. Thompson felt that such a building
was unsafe. hired an auto. drove his fam
lily forty miles home-and that very night
the hotel was burned to the ground.
Another time he was boating with his
wife on Yellowstone lake. when the boat
caught in the strong current and was
rapidly floating toward the famous falls.
which have q drop Of several hundred
feet-in fact. are higher than Niagara
BY chance log. which was drifting
ahead Of them. snagged In the piles OF q
bridge and the boat jammed against 1t.
holdink them secure till persons on the
bridge above dropped a rope by which
they were rescued. So Senator Thomp-
SON Is arm believer in he, ~star.' Of
tate. being . lucky en-. 6
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lively boxing matches they gave q comic
operetta, ''The King of the Hoo Hoos.
written by a midshipman Of the Utah.
Pirates. Spanish ssnoritas: q New York
fantastic persons trod the boards.
The present itinerary Of the fleet Get calls ans
new regime may provide a month. Guam
tanamo's splendid land.locked harbor.
with the great level stretches OF beach.
is an ideal place for play. Its waters al
most automatically swing out the boat
fields are ideal for base ball. its bay
teens with fish.
Foremost Of the sports INDUCED in
there are the crew races. King of them
all is the Battenberg cup. put up Tor an
nual competition to twelve-oared cutters
In a stra.ghtaway three-mile race. The
Florida won 1t this year. In all there are
ten big races. some for cutters, others
for gigs. whaleboats or dinghtes. and
some closed to engineer crews, as the
Drexel challenge cup. or to marines. as
the Dunlap challenge cup.
There are cups for sailing races. and
at the wind-up of this lively regatta are