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VANDERBILT STABLE
BRINGS Big PRICES
Thirty-thrcc Head Of Horses
Sell Under Hammer for
Total Of %25.625.
BRADY HEAVY PURCHASER

Thlrty-three head ~ imported and
American bred hackney harness horses.
the property of the late Alfred Wander
bllt. were put under the hammer NJ pub
lie auction yesterday at Durland's and
brought the gratifying total OF f2b.s25.
1t was probably the finest sales offer
ing " aristocratlc bred epuines seen In
this city in a decade and brought to-
gether a great a~ssemblage of prominent
exhibitors and sportsnen.
AZ .Auctioneer Balm said. II was a
horse show I'm itself. and this was true in
n sense. The gallery and boxes were
occupied by many persons prominent In
social life. the financial world and many
NJ the professions.
After II short parade 81 the offerings.
which opened the sale. brisk bidding be-
gan on the second lot and mounted to
four figures on several occasions. The
record price was obtained for Pireno. a
registered brown mare. is hands, by
Mathias-Norah Carton. Starting at
$500 the quest of the animal developed a
three cornered struggle. In which J. c.
Brady was the winner. paying s2.s7b.
This one Is a beautifully gated mare
with all the attributes Of "A champion.
and this fact coupled with her breeding
made her much sought after.
That MIR. Brady was out to get the
pick of the Oakland Farm offerings was
evidenced by his following purchases.
When queen Of Earth and Holyport
Rrunolla. "A pair Of registered brown
mares. also by Matthias, were offered for
sale his bids again became conspicuous
He was carried along a good clip by
other bidders. but vas not to he denied
and he landed the pair for si,o5o. OF
sc.025 apiece.
a hackney pony. Mel-valley Flame
1873 hands. will follow the stable stars
TO the Brady barn. being knocked dowi
TO the new owner for s2.60O.
August \. Busch uf 81. Louis. wei
known In the middle West as an ex
hibi,or OF harness horses. was anothei
enthusiastic bidder. lie secured th'
chestnut mare Lady Marley, by Edemy
nag. for SLIGO. Melbourne Lady Ursula
was knocked down 20 him also for 81.
$50. William Ziegler, Jr,. secured
good looking brown gclding in Monon
for $500. The remaining offerings al
brought good prices and the event a
/, whole far exceeded the expectation
OF veteran exhibitors,
Among the prominent horsemen seei
about the auction ring were j. Camp
bell Thompson. 4. L. Atkinson. Mer
c~hantville. y. J.. T.. II Coke. Malvern
Pa. Reginald Vanderbilt. Preston Glib
son. william Zicgler. Jr. w. u. Grand
Waiter Hanley, J. q. /. fiamsdell. q. l.
Flint, Fan River. Mass James + Hyde
u 4. Lichler, NryN Mawr. Pa, an
many others.
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George Wiley and Georges Sores con-
fess to \ certain amount Of jealousy
toward Leon pidier over the %lnttcr's re-
cent defeat of Clarence tarnau. the
motor paced champion, ia "A thirty mile
race, He will get n chance To obtain
satisfa elton when they compete viii
carman in a ten mile heat event AT the
Sheepshead BAY Nelodromc, Frank
Kramer's 1918 debut In n match race
with Cesar Moretti and in a five mile
open ontes divides attention with the
paced competition.
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GREAT MLOUGHLlN
TO PLAY JOHNSTON
California Comet Forced to
Best Efforts by Strachan in
Five Set Match.
~EASTERNERS IN DOUBLES

SAN July Ib-Maurice
McIouxhlin will meet william Johnston
In the fnal OF the Panama-iaolhc
singles tournamen AS a result OF play
this afternoon at the California Tennis
Club. Mclaughlin worked his way into
the Anal after n tremendous match with
John Strachan. winning In. fve sets,
while Johnston qualified to meet the
California comet by a rather hollow
defeat of Clarence J. Griffin In Tour sets
In addition to the singles semi-finals.
! Church and Mathey. the Eastern doubles
team, qualified to play In the exposition
\ finals by "A rather tame defeat OF AM
brose and Bass Of this city. The scores
OF this match were 60. e.. s-2
The Fasteners will meet Strachan and
Johnston In the doubles finals. the lat
ter team winning to-day from Mel and
Al Rosenberg In straight sets.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. match fur
nished to-day's sensation. TIT auburn
haired luminary had his hands fun viii
Strachan and won only after a Cruel
ling struggle by the sores of S.. e.
"a. IS, GO The men specialize
in back court driving and engaged II
many sensational rallies. Mclaughlin
found IA Weakness In the armor OF hi'
opponent, however. In the deciding set
playing entirely to Strachan's bacI
hand. AZ "A result the loser was thrown
out of position and forced to return
weakly.
William Johnston found rather easy
---t. H. "A -. - 1900 I.Vtf lfY
who put Champion Norris Williams out
Of the runn.n yesterday. The winninf
scores were So. 6-t. 2-6, 6-3
Johnston uncovered some rafting SuoC
service and was master OF the situation
AT all times. Griffin was unable to force
his opponent into an exchange OF bacf
court shots MS was the case IN his mattel
with Williams.
A change of schedule will set the finals
in the singles and doubles for Saturdd!
afternoon. while team play between tn
East and West will reach a conC.us %
on Sunday afternoon. Mclaughlin an
Bundy will NEE, Church and Mathey
while Strachan and Johnston will TT.
conclusions with Washburn and VIII
Jams. The team play singles a.
scheduled for Sunday afternoon. II /
probable tina the matches will he playe,
In the following order: Williams Va
Mclaughlin, Church VS.. Johnston, Wash
burn va. s,rachan, Bundy vs., Mathey.
The
Mems singles. scmi-nnai ~Round-Mauric
Mclaughlin beat John r. Sirichtn u
"a. 80. IS, a. william Johns'"0
l beat Clarence J. Grifin, e., Ct .-t
SIS.
Mems Doubles. seml-nna' Round-pea
Nathey ana George VI church beat Am
hros- and Bass. Is. "a. t--. lohu-'"
and Sirachan beat A. and NJ Roseub'ts
D., 90. e., G..
women's singles, semi-hnal Round-Mis
Anita Myers heat Mrs. II. a. Niemeyei
/, 2-s. "a "a
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RESOLUTE NIPS VANITIE
IN ANOTHER CLOSE RACE
Makes Thirteen Seconds Better Actual Time in Last
Contest of Their Series Off Sandy Hook-Loser
Runs Into Calm Spot on First Leg.

In actual sailing. that In from the
time each yacht crossed the starting line
70 the time each finished, the Resolutc
beat the Nanitic 10 seconds yesterday
In what was Intended to be a leeward
and windward course OF fifteen miles M
Sandy Hook. The start was made from
the Ambrose Light Vessel In "a light
westerly wind and Zach yacht was
Handicapped at the start. the fiesolute
IL seconds and the Vanitie is seconds.
but the Vanitie was in the better posi-
ton and NJ once TOOK the lead.
Instead OF running dead before tho
wind they tried to tack to leeward. and
when half the course had been cove red
the Nanitie led by at least two minutes.
Then she ran into a soft spot and was
becalmed. Resolute, pronting by this,
avoided the calm and reached the turn
Ing mark . minutes % seconds in the
lead. The wind had shifted TO south by
west and II was n reach home. The
Nnnitie steadily o~verhauled the G%esolutc,
and when half way home the wind
| freshened and the yachts finished in n
|~N ~ WIN 80. 'F'Ah
| teAding by 10 seconds. On corrected time
the Resolute won by l minutes a.
seconds.
The race was unsatisfactory. The
wind was very light until near the fin.
ish of the contest and very nukey too
A haze hung over the water. the heat
was intense and mosquitoes and flies
bothered the yachtsmen.
II was So Nat when the fleet reached
tEA ItnAt.hg, tA., th. ,.ASf SNNW
nal was hoisted and for an hour tn,
yachts drifted. Occasionally a little puff
would come and give some encourage.
ment, but then 1t would die out again.
shortly before noon there was "A ligh'
westerly air. and. although Il was no
very promising. the committee set tn,
course signal and sent the tug of to los
the course. The mark was placed M
teen miles cas-, OF the lightship. wnicl
made II about four miles off Jones Inlet
or a point out In the ocean south %
Freeport. l.. |. The Viking with thu
committee on board anchored north %
the light vessel. and ut noon the prepare
tory signal was made. The first LEI
was down the wind. and In a breeze Al
Eight as yesterdays tho experts' advic,
was to start last If possible, because |
the wind freshened II would benefit tn
stern boat.
The man"uNrlhG was nov very hN'is
but Il was pretty. Neither sklppc
dared GO far from the line. and so tn
two yachts circled about to windward q
the line, with the Nanitie generally II
tho better position. They reache,
toward the Viking, wore round an,
reached back. when the starting sigma
sounded nj 12:lO o'cloc the Resolut
bore of and stood for the line. while tn
Vanitie wore round and gained a posi-
49, - h.. ,f,.at I~aah hnl Iat
loon lib topsails In stops ready to breal
out.
Skipper Adams. however. instead @
crossing al once ranged down The lin
toward the light vessel or southern en'
with the Resolut- and thus pulled cloa
OF the Vanitie. The balloon was broker
and the yacht crossed 18th her boon
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cased to port at i2.l2.l2. The Nanltle.
with her boom TO starboard and her bal
loon lib topsail drawing. crossed at the
other end. The wind was 80 light that
neither skipper cared to try a spin
maker. ON the l,esolute II cvldenty had
been figured that the wind might come
southcrly, and ON the Nanitie it had been
figured that " would draw better nearer
the land. The Nanitie at once drew
ahead. and seeing this the experts on
the Resoiute decided to gybe over and go
after Npnitip. This they did and soon
the two were In close heading
about east northeast. with the Nanitio
leading N tn windward.
When passing the bell buoy of East
Rockaway Inlet the Nanltie vac "A lead
of one minute, which she increased to
about Two minutes at | O'Clock. smoke
on the steamers that were holding on the
course straight for the mark Indicated
that the wine wac hauling and soon II
was coming very light from the south.
At / 90 O'Clock the Resulute gybed,
Vauitie followed at once and both stood
about east southeast. the Regoluic ho-
ing off the Weather quarter Of tho
Nanitir. The Nanitie when she was
able tn Law her course for the mark
bore on The balloons had been taken
In aud reaching jlb topsails set. tn
Nanitic increased her lead until I :35.
when she ran into n calm spot and her
sails hung like rags without an ounce
OF wind in them. Those on the Ueso-
lutte were able To profit by his misfor-
tune and holding "A little further to the
southwark SKINNED around the calm
spot. Thus. while the Vanltie was In
the doldums the Resolute sailed into
the lead.
I, was hard work to And the mark
"A, ia, have and the masthead man on
each yacht was straining his eyes to nnd
tho ing The Resplute was less than
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DIONNE PUTS LIE ROY
OUT WITH TWO SETS
Springs Big Surprise in Second
Round When Opponent Tries
Long Driving Game.
PELL DEFEATS +. LARNED

q \ T. nlonne. former captain of the
West Side Tennis club. although not
playing nearly as brilliant tennis as
some OF the others yesterday in the in
vitatlon singles AT the Country Club Of
Westchester. stood out above the other
competitors because of his achievement.
lie defeated Robert lie Roy, a most sur
prising thing. in straight sets at 6-3.
N-6, In the second round. lie Roy made
the great mistake OF playing n long
driving game to Dionne. This liz about.
the only game that Dionne knows, and
he thrivcd on II. "a the outcome attests.
Karl Bchr. Theodore X. pell, Leonard
Beeknan h Edwin l.. Larncd all
played better tcnnis than Dionne. but
while they all won their matches, the re-
suits were not unexpected. Larned put
Alfred =. lWbncy Of Boston out in the
first round at SO. as. 6-2. and In
turn was eliminated by the superior
game Of rell, who beat him in the sec
uud round at i-G. g.. 60. Beekmau
Nanquished the veteran Harold n.
iiackctt In the first round at IS, e,
"a. and liehr beat Walter Merrill Hail
In the second round AT "a. "a. Hugh
T~allant. the only other winner in the
second round, tnyed with :. W. Merri.
hcw, who was out of his class In the
tourney, winning at 60, 6-3. The
summaries.
vitatlun singles, First Round Walter Mcr.
rilI Han won from Frederick g, lnmar
hy d%'t'uit Edwin = I.arned defeated Al.
hickman defeated Harold Il Hackett
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OTTO FROITzHEIM DETAINED.
In British Detention Camp, Wrcnn
Asks for His Release.

The Bcriiner Tdoebidft Of June i5.
copies OF which reached New York yes
terday. asserts that otto Froitzheim. the
noted German tennis champion. while on
his return 10 Germany from the United
states. where he participated In the Davis
cup tournament, was taken from an
italian steamship by the British and
that he is now being held at the Dor
rineton-Hall prison camp in Derby.
X. Il. Wrenn W New York. reslden,
of the United states Lawn Tennis .Assn-
citation, has communicated will the
American stat. Department. according
To- the PAPER. with a view to obtaining
| Froitahcim's dismissal from the British
detention ann
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COOPERSTOWN GETS
LEAD, BUT LOSES IT
Great Neck FrcebOotCrS Wind
Up With Rush and Capture
ROckaway Hunt Cups.
VIM AND DASH ABUNDANT

!crphRurRsr l.. T., July i5.-rlayins
with a dash and vim seldom seen outside
All nternat,ona polo match. the Great
Neck Frecbooters defeated tn" strong
Cooperstown four this afternoon on tho
grounds Of the Rockaway Hunting club
in the INA match for the Rorkaway
Hunt cups. some of the most highly
priced trophies offered for competition
by any club OF tho American Polo Assoc
citation. The score was 49,, goals &" 2.
international players were % both
teams and from the moment Referee
Frederick H.. Prince Of Boston threw mo
ball into play until the gong ended play
In the last chukker there was AN album
dance Of action. keen and daring.
with an sllowed handicap or three
goals Great Neck scored eleven more
and lost t~hree-quarters OF n goal ON
penalties. ON the winning team was w
Russell Grace, handicap. 3 j Watson
webb. & J. NJ Waterbury, Jr, 9, and J.
George Milburn. Jr., 4 Total. =.
cooperstown lined up with Alexander
Brown Of Philadelphia, handicap ,; 9.
Perry Beadlestou. & e. &. RuinHcN, o.
and Malcolm Stevenson. :. Total, 20.
Great Neck appeared tn have soine
W1it inc DtlltT u y rs " Fl'''F
mounts and its direction also was better.
Cooperstown lost several goals by too
hasty work In melees at the goal posts.
Stevenson was brilliant nj times III MS
drives. hut missed several passes AT crit
teal times Runsey was always quick
on the bail and made a number of clever
| pasaea and well placed drives. Brown
did likewise In the third, fourth and last
periods.
Webb, who did probably the most
spectacular work for his team scored
twice I'm the first period and his mates
shut Cuoperstown cut In the second
pcrlod honors were even, with Bc'dle-
eton and Grace both sSprinE Coopors'owh
an cared to do the better work IN me
third chukker. when Brown and Bcadlc-
ston each scored AM Great Neck lost 4
quarter goal on a safety I'm the last
minute Of play. Al half time, after
Stevenson had scored ,w!yc. Bead!os-
ton once. and Waterbury twice, Coop
erstown had a lead Of one goal.
In the last half the work performed
by the Coope'stown ponies IN IN" Pacific
coast tournaments OF tho spring. and
! later at Meadow Brook. told and they
I lacked the speed Of the Long Island
team, which opened the ffth period with
the only goal. hit by webb, and mad"
two in the NEXT chukker To one for
! Cooperstown Great Neck did sotne of
it's best team work IN the seventh
period. when Webb was the only player
scoring coopcrstnwu hrared M again
by fast play In the lis. but failed 10
overcome Great Neck's handicap AMI
lead.
\ match for the blizzard cups FOL
Lowell. with the Meadow Brook M'gpics
against the Aiken Red Birds Howard
Phipps. Thom4s lie Bou'iilicr, David
BOWS and W. -. i.oew played 'or the
Naru!es and Gordon Il l. Whitney,
J. &. Cooley and VI. g flcischm1n for
the Caroliaua team The Magnies won
with "A total score Of - goals 80 So,
goals. T. : Noss refereed lloro.s
were about evenly divided between tho
Long Island players Cooley AVID Cor
don did tho better maIlet work for the.r
team,
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Cup Yacht Contest of Series off Sandy Hook Results tn Another Victory for R&ohte Or Nmh
TIGERS OUTLAY ROvERS.
Final Match at Bryn Mnwr Ends
In score Of y to ..

PHILADELPHIA. July lin one OF the
best polo matches played on the Bryn
Mawr oval this season In the low goal
tournament games. the Tigers defeated
the Rovers this afternoon in the final
match by a score of 5 goals to 3. The
lineup
TIGERS. RovERs,
No. &c. u. Fletcher. No. i--Elmen Wood
No. Thomas Stokes. No. 2-R L Smith. Jr.
No a-E W. Hopping. No S-A NJ. Collins.
Back Herbert Lloyd. lB~ack-Paul ID Mills.
Tigers-Goals earned, :; allowed by handi
cap. o: net score. E. Rovcrs Goals earned. =;
net score. g.. Referees Moves Tmckecper
and scorcr-w A Buckley Time-siS periods
OF ~ minutes.
notwithstanding the treacherous con-
dition Of the field from the steady rain
that fell while the first garne was in
progress. tho Blazers and Wonders. who
were the losers in the first two games
played for the NcFadden cups, engaged
In a four period game In semi-darkness
The Blazers won by n score Of 6 goals
to /. The lineup:
BLAZERS. /. WONDERS.
No Wv. Pritchard. No. stephen Noyes.
Nc. &C. II Fletcher. No. 2-Gilhcrt Mather
No al McFadden No. 3-AlpS G. Yarnall
Back Walter Stokes. Back John Brock.
Mazers- Goals earned. 6: net score. &
Wonders Goal earned. l.. net score, /.
Referee Richard Feeley Tmekecpcr ant
scorer-w A Buckley. Tim -Four periods
Of ~ minutes.
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BETHLEHEM, y. H., July 15-All Beth
lehem turned out to-day on the Country
club links to watch "A q ball foursome
inks and John ]. MCDarinott on one
side play against Tom MacNamara and
the local professional, Ned tonnery,
MacNamara's score was 70, all three of
the others making - each. Mr.. Nell,
waine il a guest for u month of Stuy-
vosant Leroy of Newport. McDormott
will stay some time and play the courses
In the vicinity. hut MacNamara was
here for to-day only.
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Macy flames Entry Large.

\ record breaking list OF entries has
been received for the various events AT
the field day of the Macy Mems Club,
Dongan HIS, Staten Island, Fair
Grounds, Saturday, July ~. The half
mile race and the broad and high jumps
have attracted n number OF well known
amateur athletes. \ baseball game be-
tween the Macy men and the nine of
Brown Bros. Wall street bankers, will
follow the field events.
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Curses on the luck, just when every
body was sitting back to watch Jimmy
Clabhy fight his best tomorrow
he was all bent double with contrition
over his last sad affair here, he goes
and fights some fiubdub out West ana
gets a bad cut over one of his best little
eyes. Jimmy has asked for "A second
pos,ponement of his affair with Soldier
Fairfield.
TIL wire from Clabby threw the Pol
ok-McKetrick company into a I'll. win
but three or four days time they were
a, their wits ends trying to arrange
fought Joe Jeanette, refused point blank
when he was offered a go with Joe.
Young Ahearn. who has sidetracked that
testers ailment, inilammatory rheuna-
tism. will he called upon TO fight some
great big heavyweight. Soldier Bart
field will he pitted against some one
not yet selected.
Clabby took on this Westerner simply
10 helm work himself into shape Tor Bart
field. That's why he asked for the fl 81
postponernent.
Rattling Levinsky fought a big heavy
weigh named Joe Rosen in Philadelphia
Tuesday night at the Douglas club. Lee
whisky had Rosen in n bad way at tho
end of the fourth and as he went on,
for the fifth some one yelled
Hey, Levinsky that poor fellow Is a
refugee from belgium
80 | didn't have the heart to knock
him out said Levinsky. "dee, hasn't
be had trouble enupsh
1.-The towns overrun with fellows who
fght or think they can drawled Dan
Morgan yesterday. They'd better round
about 20, 600 OF them up and send them
ever to the Allies to help pull tle pro-
vision wagons out Of the mud. That
would relieve the situation here"
Joe yelling won't appear at Brighton
Beach tomorrow night either, Joe wa.
} boxed on the ear in training and nov
that useful sound sail is on the hos
pital books,
Jim Stewart. the brooklyn architect
is back in town. Jim has been ava
In the mountains for Two years, III
has recovered his eyesight entirely.
I'm In good condition now sale
stewart yesterday. Welfn itSS tnHi
two hundred and my eyes are In perfec
shape. Everybody remembers my fab
with Gunboat smith at Madison Sunar,
Garden. couldn't see three feet il
from, OF me that night, hSt II you re-
member. the Gunner had tn drop IN
seven or eight times before they stopped
II, My eyes were injured from a puncl
and the doctor said that n long res
was the only cure. SO I took II.
I'm going up to Highland Lake wit
lack Britton to help him get ready 10
Dundee. I'll be back In harness In
few weeks and I'll make some OF thes
big fellows think That a tornado Ia
moped into town"
i, was u gay party that formed tn
reception committee that welcome
Freddie Welsh at Santa Monica, cal
when the champion lightweight stoppe
OF the train to get the first peek n
Freddie Welsh, Jr, prospective Irlm
Minister Of England Bob vernon, Hoo
tor MarKenyie. Jim lerries and baro
Long introduced the two Welshcs.
When Welsh left New YORK he sal
that the heir TO the Welsh health fari
must POSSESS a dimpl~ or overheard he
70. Welsh wired yesterday. Son ha
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JOHNNY Howard bet the Zulu Kid yes
tcrday III Jack Dillon knocks the
Xulu down some time during his fight
with Dillon al Far R~ockaway tonight.
AS Dillon floored Howard four times
Monday night at the same club,
the latter thinks he has a soft bet, des-
uite the rlct that the Zulu has never
been spilled OFF his pins.
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RED BANK, y. j. July l5-Thc Reds
and Whites played 20 q tie at \ goals
each on the Rumsou polo field to-
day. Pretty goals by q Jason Waters
and l.. W. Ross 'ur the Whites and
Hugh Barrett for the Reds, also War
rem w Barhour's an round play for the
Whites. featured
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Night automobile racing will he intro
duced in Newark July - when races will
he held In the afternoon and night at
Olympic Park, The half mile track will
he oiled and rolled FOR the meet and the
big electric lighting plant used AT the
Brighton Beach meet will be installed
for The night events. A score bf the
leading dirt track drivers will compete
In various events.
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nn.sIcr 10 Cntch on Connt.

Los ANGELES. July l5-Iohn Bassler,
recently released by the Cleveland club
If the American League, probably will
he signed soon as catcher for the Los
Angeles club Of the Pacific Coast League
This was the announcement made to-day
by John Powers, president of the club
who said he was negotiating now with
Dassler.
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Knox wins ~ chaII-ns- CUP

Rrn BANK. y. ! July - n. g Knox
won the Rumson Country club challenge
-olf cup to-day, In the 80 hole hual
round he defeated Beruou : Prentice by
\ up AVID ! 20 nlaN-