New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-07-28
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RACQUET WIELDERS
Play FOR TROPHIES
Tennis Club ArranSes Schedule
for Annual Tournament Games
KANSAN SURVIVOR IS HOME
Trumbull and Wheeler Offer Cups for
Manifestation Rescued When
steamer Was Torpedoed Gets Fur.
lough-F1ght Potato Lice Cheanly


Plans for the annual tennis tourna-
ment of the Plainville Lawn club<h have
been completed and the schedule for
matches between the members who
are to contest fer the championshin
cup oHered by j. H. Trumbul and T.
| t. Wheeler's runner-up trophv has
been arranged. The players have been
practicing on the clubs courts for the
| past few weeks and they await the
! opening of the tournament with con-
! siderable enthusiasm
The cup contributed by Mr.. Trum-
| bull must be won by a player for three
| consecutive years to get permanent
| ownership, the defeated player in the
! final match gaining the trophy do
mated by Mr.. Wheeler.
According to the schedule the time
for playing the first series expires on
! August s; the second on August 20,
| third, September 8, fourth, September
II.
The contestants are to play in the
Following order First, Georgiana
Booth and Ruth Ryder; second, Ruby
Gladwin and 1nez Gladwin third, c.
F. Riecker and e. Judson; fourth, j.
Crowley and Eugene Forest; fifth, A.
A. Macleod and W. FIird; sixth. r.
Hird and P. Clark; seventh, G. Phelps
and A. Sullivan; eighth, Roger Castle
and Walter Lathrop; ninth, Allen
Bailey and Gage Kent: tenth j. Regain
and f. McCastland: eleventh, C. Jones
and W. Kavanaugh; twelfth, F. T.
Wheeler and S. S. Gwillim; thirteenth,
J. H. Trumbull and Cecil Bedford;
fourteenth, Henry Trumbull and F. l..
Benzon; fifteenth, Harold Cornin and
Dwight Clark; sixteenth, Ralph Newell
and Edwin H. Hills: seventeenth,
Roger Freeman and r. Kellogg: eigh-
tenth, Charles r. Sherman and Ralph
Seymour.
Howard Had Thrilling Trip
Elmer Howard, one of the gun crew
rescued when the steamer Kansan was
sent to the bottom by a German sub
marine a few weeks ago, is spending
a ten days furlough at the home of
his mother Mrs. John Gibson of Bank
street. Young Howard had a thrilling
trip and bis experience he will re-
mem Der for years.
Transferred from battleship on
which he was serving as a seaman, the
young man was assigned to the naval
crew placed on board the Kansan to
protect the great ship and her $4,000
900 cargo in the voyage across the At
lantic. The ship was but a short dis
lance from a French port when she
was attacked, the submarine firing the
death dea ling torpedo as the vessel was
within a few miles of the coast. The
attack was made at midnight and
while the ship went to the bottom in
a short time most Of those on board
were saved. Young Howard reports
that he was in the water for several
minutes, although ii seemed to him
like hours before he rescued
The gun crew and the steamers
workers we're taken to a French port
where they were cared for in hos
pitable maner for several days. Aft
er their return to this country all
were given we'll earned furlough
The Plainville sailor has not lost
heart as result of his experience
and he is ready to take q similar as
Segment if necessary when he re-
turns to duty.
Fight Potato Lice Oheaply.
Joseph A. Pagan, Connecticut's po-
tato king, has discovered a cheap and
effective way of fighting the potato
lice and he believes that if farmers
and amateur gardeners use it fire.
quently they will be able to defy the
pest and harvest good crop in the
fall.
Instead of buying nicotine which
makes the cost of the spray used over
50 barrel Mr.. Pagan offers a recipe
in which the juice of tobacco stems
figures prominently. Ten cents worth
of old tobacco stems, such as is used
for fertilizer on lawns, will be suffi-
cient to make over fifty gallons of
spray. Mr.. Pagan suggests that the
stems be placed in a cloth bag and
boiled with water to bring out the
juice. Some soap should be mixed
with the liquid obtained in this