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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06

Of
Actual Experiences American Woman Buying Her Way
English NobIThe Were Written Shortly Before the War Broke and
Probable That Under the Stress of Circumstance Predatory Conditions Have
Removed From Aocacy That Has Fight
When Miss Brush Sought Advertisement Requesting Professional
Aocy Following
First Pag "Aacy Beware Young Journalist
for Professional Poeshs Advertisement Evidently Was
Miss Brsh Mission
Miss Brush Would
in New York Arrange Titled Manage-But Not Garry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06

TO London to get an advertisement
into the leading papers. The Times
and the Post printed a few lines on
the first page among their personal
announcements, stating that an Ameri-
can would like to be introduced into
titled circles for a consideration. 1t
brought sixteen replies and a page of
editorial comment in a British periodi-
cal.
Two of the replies looked much bet
ter than the others. This is the way
my favorite ran:
II am a peerless of the realm. I can
introduce you to society if we can
make satisfactory arrangements. give
a great many parties, and am going to
give one June 16. of which you will
doubtless read in the papers Last sea-
Solesworthy. I should be glad to have
a personal interview with you.
"ELIZABETH BALMORAL,
Countess of Balmoral."
The stationery was marked with
coronet.
the peeress of the realm. My idea was
to say I was inQurng about her terms
for a friend. and that l wished a state
ment of what she could do and how she
could do it. Her reply would constitute
demonstration enough for me. I expect
ed then to let the matter drop. One thing
that seemed certain was that she would
be particular about references and sus-
was to tell my name, but not my address.
and to use the stationery of the bank
with which / did business. 1t took half
a day to go after the paper, and when
I made the request. the bank. which is
English, and, therefore. has not departed
from custom during its four hundred years
of existence. seemed little startled A
vice president looked me over thought
fully, and said they did not usually give
out their private. engraved paper. al
though there was plenty of the other kind
in the ladies' waiting room. Then he
handed me some of their own. ! wrote
the countess, and in few hours received
a note asking me to telephone
When ! called her up the next morning
| felt pulled into the social maestrom at
once. THE. countess is not up. / am
her mother. She goes all the time There's
a wedding at O'Clock and a breakfast at
II 80 o'clock at the Ritz. and a garden
party at o'clock and a dance this even
ing. It's that way every day. Are you
some one who wishes to be introduced?
If so my daughters the person to do it"
| gave up the idea of negotiating for
friends, and said that | myself should
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The countess, after a diligent thirty
minutes. accomplished her purpose OF
seating me beside Lady Alice Some
thing or Other on an old tapestried
couch. Lady Alice looked like the china
doll at the charity bazaar. with cheeks
just as pink and full. Her blue gaze,
like searchlight. kept scanning the
wall spaces and the Thames beyond the
long windows. When the countess in
troduced us she drew in her wide eyes
for a moment and bobbed little bow
Then she called to her brother. Lord
Edgerton: Arthur. will you bring me
some milk" My tea is too hawt." She
gave succession of those little. mirth-
less "Hohos'' for which English people
are celebrated. and presently repeated
il with another question: Arthur. will
YOU bring me some hawt water? My tea
is now too cold" The business accom-
plshed of consuming her three cups
and large number of seed cakes, Lady
Alice departed without the formality
Of wishing me goodbye.
We were approaching smart society by
gradual stages. and We advanced a
league the next evening when We attend
ed musical at Carleton Terrace. An
intense excitement pervaded the residence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06

The program as rendered consisted Of
by a woman who kept her eyes strictly
on her notes. These were followed by an
informal number. OF which the singer
played her own accompaniment. and sang
intimately to the audience about a
bumblebee that married in the shade
something from King Dodo' ! am told
There was heavy tragic selection after
ms. and then an oratorio rendered by a
man and woman. that was very amusing.
Great, and ! should say unnecessary. care
was displayed in balancing the program
with lightness and depth The audience
regarded all Of the numbers judiciallv
without change Of expression. and with
the fortified look Of listening to argument.
say. on penal servitude, which they did
not oppose. yet did not quite accept.
was eager to see the program
through, but no persuasiveness couId
keep Lady Balmoral there with the
image in her mind of the excellent
supper spread below. About half of
the guest list packed the dining room.
They stood singly and in small, uncom-
municative groups. intently eating. NV
sponsor elbowed her way to the long
.dpie laoen with rlch food. When she
had eaten her way through a plateful
each of terrapin. ham, bird. salad, ice
and strawberries she drifted out among
the groups and discovered some one
drinking bouillon. Turning to Lord
Balmoral, who was always hanging
around on duty. she said Fetch me
some of that She might as well
have sent him to the wars as to that
table, but she was unwilling to omit
a course. There was little conversa-
ton and almost no introducing
Well" she said with her thick Brit
ish accent and pumping a little arch
ness into her information. how does
this compare with your parties in
America? ?"
1 thought of our Newport functions,
where an artist is delegated to get
up a costume entertainment and the
guests themselves impersonate charac-
tiers from legend, song and history.
Ours at home" I said, ARE a little
gayer.'
She looked dubious. ct don't know.
This is much less formal and jollier
than most of our functions"
tTo be continued in next Sundays
Starr
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ton for me. lost out. but said she would
get II yet. They provided me with
three kinds of sandwich. four kinds of
cake. two cups of tea and introduced
me to everybody present who bore a
title.
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AN autopsy was then made by the
assistants of Gen. Barnes. which proved
that the bullet which killed him had
passed between two of the vertebrae Of
the neck. causing their fracture and
lesion of the spinal cord. The body
was secretly and at night buried in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06

people. He was once lord mayor Of LON
dom The countess had taken her dim
ner in her room. The son OF the earl by
former wife consented to come. He
was Lord DIFFERING. and his mother had
been music hall singer. The earls fam
lily repudiated him for his first marriage.
They were all dead before his second took
place. Lord DIFFERING was just home from
Canada Lady Balmoral had been prom
Using that he would appear a the previous
functions. | later learned that his alb
sence denoted his disapproval OF her en-
terprise and my ambitions
The entertainment, I think. called out
every diamond headdress in the city of
London. My sponsor produced a blazing
coronet. which WAS like startling red
headline over three-inch commonplace
story. Women in dowdy costumes but
bedizened with gems. claiming by their
every emblem-badge, tiara and coronet
the full recognition of their rank and
thick necked. low set. red faced apoplectio
looking Englishmen. damp with perspira-
ton. pressed up to the archway OF the
drawing room. Titles rolled from the
tongue OF the British hunky like thunder
to the remotest distances OF that vast
first floor. Guests poured into. the crowd
ed room and packed the gold straight
back chairs. tanning with increased vigor
as they went
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cient The whole equipment-the plant.
so to speak-for the illumination and
the display of the ancient high title
was barely adequate. But without her
was sure the relic would be buried
in darkness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06

Arriving for the first time in the land
which produced Shakespeare and Glad
stone and Elizabeth and Bernard Shaw,
1 took one flying leap from Liverpool
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Vollmer Retains
Swimming Title
At 40 Yards
Defeats Ted Cam by Two
Yards at Rye Beach-MisS
Galligan Wins.

Herbert f. Vollmer, of the New York
Athletic Club, successfully defended
his title by winning the quarter-mile
outdoor Metropolitan Association swim
ming championship, held under the au-
spices of the Rye Beach Swimming
Club, at Rye Beach yesterday. He COW
cred the distance over 11O-yard
course in minutes 81 seconds,
which the officials declare is four
ffths of second faster than the best
time made over similar course. Voll-
mer won the title over the same course
last year in minutes 81 2-5 seconds.
Pitted against the champion were
three Of his club mates-Ted Cam, Joe
Wheatley and John A. Zimnoch. They
finished in the order named. The
weather and water conditions were
slightly unfavorable. the athletes being
forced to struggle against an incoming
current which was strengthened by a
strong easterly wind.
The men splashed into the water al
most as q unit, Vollmer being. the hrst
10 arrive upon the surface and get into
action. He was half yard in the lead
by the time Ted Cam gave chase. At
the end of the first l10 yards Vollmer
was leading his nearest rival by inches,
with Wheatley a close third. In taxing
the 22O-yard turn Vollmer increased
his advantage by about half yard. As
thew turned back for the dash 10 the
finishing float Cam gained little, but
in the last fifty yards he fell back
again. He was beaten by two yards
Wheatley finished four yards behind
Cam. Zimnoch was n close fourth.
Claire Galligan, Of New Rochelle, the
22O and 500 yard national indoor cham,
pion. was the winner Of the lOO-yard
handicap swim for women. She started
at scratch and gave liberal allowances
to her rivals. After some fast work IN
the first seyenty-fve yards she over,
took the leader, Josephine Bartlett, or
Brooklyn, and won by two yards.
There were only two contestants IN
the fancy diving contest from twenty
five-foot tower. A. L. Downes, OF the
New York A. c., captured hrst prize
The summaries follow:
i,o-yard swim metropolitan chsmpioushipl Won
BY Herbert T. Vollmer, New York A C. leo II
New York A G. third Tine. SIS, 3-5.
l0o-yArd swim (handicsp; for vomonl-"1 W
Claire Gaingan. New Rochelle (scratch) Ja.sphino
Bartlett Brooklyn Qi secondsl. seoond hss Green
teld' Bs,h Beach "a seconds) third Time. ia
Fancy hish dive from 23-fo0t to~er-Neu oJ
Z. Dosnes. New York A c. E. A sp0n'ers H'7
so-ysrd swim Cuniop closed to Rys Beach alus club
-Woa BY Walter Muller Arthur Herman. second
Albert Thompson. third Time. o;5o 10.
Ieitsch V. Turner. second; J. II. Hopkins. third
Tine. ! 20.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Empire City Entries.

Firt race u-o-yer. old. no, winning At this
meeting: five furlonr l-Dunss Din ia: foxn Hall,
iips: i9s: s C.o,ss iT,. 70; Marie odls. III: Baily
seeond rare tthrse yeu-o -o.ds and upward selling
Gns Es, mis .q ~,.nv yMdsl-G.riton O.. los
,.sy 100: ,jssse Ir. Ill. s,alwar Helen. 1913
Third rlee lahrve year ods and upward: selling
about ,iI furlouC l-'EdnG KennA 100. Plumose
100. EIcekior 100. Mr. sp>cs. rs: Salon. 40
buy Jo., ioS; Grisells, as Ash Can, rs. Spring
mass Us: True a Steel i25; Woodfair, 10,
'Mesneks llo. 's,r Gift. l05 LILY Hea,sns iio,
eal Vanity. los. 'Dervfsh us
Fourth raee tthree-yesr-o!ds and up~ ard; the
nekshoe Hsndiesf; ono rnilel-Piddy Nh.es. i?i
AldseT.n IL; Holiday. III; Harp SHAW. i32
Hank 0'Dy 10
Fif,h race lthr,e-y.ar-old, and upward selling.
one mil. l-MonocaeJ. lie. Ahsra ia: Roysi
n..s" lls; 'fu.y Wuiy. III 'Nsmr. IS.
'sir Denrsh. loi. rrosato. ll? Jacket. III.
'Gcod Counsel. % RE, o.wcod loi. Tameri.ne.
lis. Charnneuss. III. Uncle Will i01
sim race ltwo-yen- oids. selling ave furlonEsl-
Gloomy Gus, il:. George C. Lon. liz Mae Murry
100. Lady Rowenl l0i. Aimee T l04: 'Flsr.
io7 Moonngh,sr io' 'Msftlehe.d. lo9; 'Ka,h5n
Gray iel Doc Meals. III. Bird Lore. loi. roo.Aie.
i~; 'Rposta. ioA
sApprsrstos aIlouanns -,sirn~d
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Youthful Star of Baltimore
Country Club Defeats
Gardner at Shawnee.
BROTHER A VICTOR
IN 1915 TOURNEY
Largest Gallery of Week Fol-
lows Players-Women Take
Knitting with Them.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.

Shawnee-on-the-D Delaware. Penn, July
22-Playing par golf for the entire
eighteen holes. d. Clarke Corkran, the
youthful star Of the Baltimore Country
Club, won his first leg on the famous
Buckwood trophy this afternoon by de-
feating W. Hamilton Gardner. Sd, OF
Buffalo. up and TO play. ms
marked the first time in the memory OF
golfers in general that the winner OF
the medal in the qualifying round came
through and won the tournament.
Gardner was helpless against the
rush of his young opponent, and .
down at the turn continued TO SIP
further toward the rear. He was hve
holes behind at the thirteenth, and
half on the long fourteenth IN par os
left Corkran the winner. Because Oh
the excellent scoring of the Baltimore
plsver IL was decided TO play out Dye
holes. and the youth from Maryland
nv Maryland" holed out his last putt
for a 73 70 Gnrdner's 81.
To-day marked the first time tha'
this narticular member Of the CorKran
family had ever figured as nnaiisI,
Although he has been pegging away
with driver and niblick for seVerai
years. Fill,
Last summer it was B. Warren CORK,
ran. brother of the present wesrer oi
The laurel wreath, who won the coVeteu
silver trophy. Perhaps next year, ".en
brother Warren comes back from tne
wars. he will do battle with CiarAe IL
the same cup, in which case Ira.IIfIIue
will be the only solution oil the pIooiSSa". IN.
rnder silent, motionless gray SKY
tbat threatened but did not bring ram
until inst after the ending Of the hnai
hattie Not a ripple stirred the piaelu
bosom of the nearby Delaware, except
for the occasional wavelets sent out Dy
Wild deer from the Buckwod forest as
thev came 10 the river bank 70 siaAe
their thirst. These slender children OF
the woods have become accustomed 10
MANS golfng eccentricities, and oiteh
rause AT the Delaware's brink 10 gaze
With calm and tranquil eyes as the
duffer gives the green turf its death
wound with the murderous nibllck.
Quite the largest gallery Of the week
turned out this afternoon for the meet
ing between Corkran and Gardner.
Golf. on the part of the women here, Is
= very peaceful thing. The fair fol
lowers of the game take their knitting
with them, fashioning rainbow lined
sweater coats and muffiers as they 1oi-
low the matches. We kept tabs on one
Young woman, and she knitted one
sleeve in eighteen holes, which is slight
iy above par for the Shawnee course.
II was really the effort put forth
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Chance of Knockout
Lures Boxing Fans

The ten-round no-deeision game has
reduced boxing TO a profitable exercise.
There probably will never be another
boxer of the Battling Nelson type. The
Durable Dane, if he were just break
ing into the game at this time, would
never be heard of. Any Of the second
raters could outpoint him in a ten
round bout The Battler could not get
warmed up TO the point Of mild per-
spiration in ten rounds. His type be-
longs to the past, when champions and
near-champions risked their all every
time they signed for bout.
In these days a champion could box
every week under the rules and not
risk his title to any perceptible extent.
That is why the fact that title holder
is engaged in a bout exctes no ex-
traordinary interest
II often starts us TO wondering what
q ten-round fighter would do II he were
engaged In a forty-five round bout,
which Is practically fight to finish.
We wonder how Welsh or Leonard
would map their campaigns if each
knew that either he or the other man
had TO take the count. 1t is a specula-
tion which will never be decided for US.
Leonard's chances to annex the light
weight championship at Washington
Park Friday night will depend entirely
upon his condition. When he fought
Welsh at Madison Square Garden
Leonard was as trim a young athlete
as ever crawled through the ropes.
Welsh, too, was at his best and deter
mined to "show up the pretender"
But with Welsh trained 70 the min
ute and using every ring trick he had
acquired in his long experience, Leon
ard just walked away with him. He
made the champion look like a novice,
and once or twice IL seemed as though
the younger man would win tho title
before the ten rounds were over.
Welsh was sore in mind and body
when il was over.
But shortly after this fight Leonard
engaged in q bout with Johnny Dundee
and fought as though his shoes were
filed with lead. He was over weight,
pasty-faced and out Of condtion. II
he is in that condition when he faces
Welsh Friday night the champion will
make him pay dearly for il, for Welsh
dislikes Leonard intensely. 1t is the
hatred of the elder gladiator for the
younger man who is beginning to force
the pace.
Leonard's friends claim that he has
worked himself out Of his slump. But
a boxer and his friends are the poorest
judges of his condition. Frank Moran
and his trainers were confident that
Francis Charles was in shape for the
Dillon fight. II Leonard is not at his
best when he faces Welsh Friday night
he will be given a decided lesson on
the tragedy OF unprepsredness.
Frank Moran is preparing TO hit 20
Tulsa, Oklahoma, with Ike Dorgan and
staff. about the first of the monuth.
He believes that the trip and the mild
exercise which he will receive In box
ing Carl Morris, the Sapulpa Giant,
will put him back in shape for a return
match with Dillon.
That last affair with Ernest Cutler
Price cost Moran thousands in pres
tige. and he will not hold the sorrel-
topped head erect again until he has
made the Giant Killer suffer for it,.
When Moran trains TO the condition he
showed when he stepped into the ring
with Jess Willard, Ernest Cutler Price
will spend an anxious and interesting
evening.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Ringsiders Always Anx-
ious to See Title
Change Hands.
Nv w. o. MCCLELLAN.

The desire to be ain at the death Is
not q highly lsudible one, but II Is d
very human one. The habitual boxing
fan is possessed of this desire to the
nth mower. That is why those three
eminent psychologists, Chevalier Dan
iel McKetrick, J. B. Curley and Harry
Pollok, are figuring on fabulous hocks
Of dollars for the Welsh-Leonaro
fght.
There Is q trihe more than . faint
possibility that Leonard might land
hve-ounce glove on some vital spot ana
that Freddie Welsh might recline
while the referee counts up to ten.
Frederick will be counted out some day,
and the optimistic New York fans are
inclined TO believe that this might be
the time. Some of them would never
again feel life worth living II they were
not at the ringside when il happened.
Many Of the Weather fans have paid
ND into the thousands for ringside
seats TO see Freddie Welsh drop and
the lightweight title change hands. But
Frederick fit gracefully through the
ten rounds. They ought 20 be discour-
aged by this time. but they are not
Welsh is one of those fighters who
capitalize unpopularity. Most of the
neat little fortune which he has ac-
eumulated by this time has been gath
cred because lot of people were de-
sirous of seeing him whipped. Jimmie
Britt, Of California. built fats and
apartment houses for the same reason.
James was unpopular in his home town,
San Francisco, and the natives turned
out to see James Aattened. Long be-
fore that happened. Britt had enough
money TO retire on.
Leach Cross. one of the gamest and
best of the New York boxers, had the
same experience. His fellow towns
men turned out in droves to see Lea, IN
beaten. As they turned out at so much
. head each did not mind il very much.
BY stroke OF irony, when Leach final
ly was put out of the game for keeps,
II happened many miles from New
York. Leach had the money of those
who disliked him without giving them
the satisfaction of seeing him knocked
out. This was one brand Of poetic jus
tice.
Another person who is making un-
popularity pay in bales of dollar bills
is the fromagenous middleweight
champion, AL Mccoy. Of Brooklyn
Every time Albert fights. all Brooklyn
is at the ringside imploring the visit
ing boxer 20 slay him as quickly as
possible. But Al comes out Of il al
ways with a battered and foolish smile
and, rushing down 20 the savings bank
puts in another couple of thousand dol
lars.
Some good statistician may tell you
lust how much money was spent in the
vain hope of seeing these boxers
knocked out We haven't the figures a,
hand, but 1t should total right smart
sum.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Point Judith
P0I0iStS Lose
To Great Neck
Senior Championship Is Post.
poned Because Of Foggy
Weather.
tBy TelsgrspA 10 rhs Tribunal

Narrsgansstt Pier. R. l., July "a
Foggy weather, succeeding overnight
rain, made II so doubtful that the sem
ior championship Of the Polo Associa-
tion would be played that Aessrs. Van
Stade, D. Milburn, Malcolm Stevenson
and C. C. Rumsey did not como to tho
Pier. Hence that important contest
Of the Point Judith Polo Club season
was deferred until next Saturday.
There was a largo attendance despite
the threatening weather. and a special
match was arranged. in which Great
Neck. captained by L. +. Stoddard, de-
feated the Point Judith Wanderers.
with II. P. Whitney .as captain. by io%
goals TO 6.
Il was "fun in q fog for two periods,
but after that the weather cleared, and
the sport was exciting and spectacular.
Ii. P. Whitney scored the only goa! Tor
his side to half time, when the Great
Necks had earned 5 goals but lost .
quarter by q safety.
W. Bslding. the English player, took
Whtney's place for the last four chuk-
last st period, when he msds a trio Of
goals, Hopping and P. S. P. Randolph,
jr., accounting for the other three
gained for the Wanderers.
Webb and Stoddard were the heaviest
scorers for Great Neck, with Cooley
and Thomas Hitchcock. jr.. effective
supports. The game was without mis-
haps and very fast for . soft field.
Special match Grcs, Neck ~. POin. Judith.
Great Sect-l. J. c. Cooley: 4 J. wabon Webb;
r.: l. Ear W. Hoping; . Y. p. Whitney and
W Badins; back, MAJ G. fleisehmann.
total Iss Point Judith wanderrs, 8. Indlrduil
Soss-Grssi Neck. wsoo 90. stoddTd a. Cooley
l2), Hitchcock "a. Point Judith. BLding (7).
Hopping t7). Whitney, Randolph. u. PenL+-
SAFETY By s,odd,rd hsfsre-Frdeaei X Pos.