Tombstone epitaph., 1916-07-23
SPORTING NEWS

Ohio Is 10 hold state-w de horse shoe picking contest st The annual state fair at Columbus th.s fall.
 The Denver city tennis champion ship tourney will ba held on th" courts at City park conmencins July 2S.
 Matty smith of Racine. Wis, won the decision over "kil Mex" of Pa eblo, al the end of the twenty.round go scheduled for the two men at Pu eblo. Colo.
 Harry Atwood. han;amwe:ght ni Los Angeles, Cal. was given the de cision over Bobby Burns of Dallas, Tex. at the end of a twelye-round i bout at St. Louis.
 Dan Patch. the worlds fas,es; { raccr. died at the fsrm of Nj w Say age. al Savage. Minn- His record of a mile in :5j has never been equaled { by a harness horse.
 R A King. an amateur Of Delta. | Colo, won the state championship at | the trap shooting tournament al Gas | per, Wyo., with a perfect score of 100 | targets. In the professional division | Rush Razee of Curtis. Neb.. was high with Sg out of possible loo. Two new worlds records in auto mobile speed were established at | Omaha on the mile and a quarter board speedway. Dario Resta broke ! the five-mile record by going the dis | g,1 9. GO A , miles an hour, and Eddie Ricken- | bacher broke the twenty-fivemile record by making 1t in li.36.i7, or | 1926 miles an hour.
 GENERAL
 Twenty-one persons died from the heat in the East on Wednesday.
 Justice Hughes will be notified of | his nomination for the Presidency in ! New York on July 3l. Taft anl | Roosevelt have been invited 10 be | present.
 l After conference with NIT. Hughes. Chairman Wilcox announced that Cornelius N. Bliss has been selected as treasurer of the national committee 10 succeed George R. Shel- ton.
 X monster shark, whose stomach contained part of human body. was killed at Newport, x. l.. according 10 information received al the weather bureau from the observer at Long Branch, N. J.
 Capt Paul Koenig and the crew of the submarine Deutschland have been given a token of s1o,0O0 Tor their "gallantry. seamanship and matchless courage" by August He's cher of New York.
 Twenty of the twenty-three troop CTS of the Tenth cavalry, captured at Carrizal and held by Carranzistas :n Chihuahua several days. left Fl Paso for Columbus, N. NJ, on their way to rejoin their command in the field
 "The United States will go to war only in case of unmistakable neces- sity." said President Woodrow Will son in a five-minute talk at the union station at Toledo. Ohio, on his way back to Washington from Detroit.
 Seventy-six cases of infantile par. alysis exist in the state outside of greater New York, according to a list given out by the state health depart ment at Albany. There were thirty two deaths and l95 new cases re. ported in New York Tuesday.
 One hundred and five years old, and believed to be the oldest resi-. dent of New England, Thomas Up ham of Boston died in his summer home in Swampscott
 A case of infantile paralysis was re- ported by the city health department of Lincoln, Neb. It was a 9-year-oll boy. who has been i'll since July 3. One child died on July I.
 Christopher Beutinger. a wealthy New York coal broker. was shot to death at Caldwell. x. ;. Mrs. Mar garet Claire Beutinger. his wife. was arrested and charged with homicids-