The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-19
POLICE GAMES WILL
Be FULL OF THRILLS
Air Stunts Will Eclipse Any
Ever Given on Exhibition
Field, 1t Is Said.
EVERYTHING Is READY
Eight Brass Bands, FrankO's
Orchestra and Glee Club
to Furnish Music,

From the big bulls OF the traffic
squads to the fly cop plckers Of pick
pockets, The Finest Is ready for its
FIRST big play day Of the year. the FIRST
OF the two days OF police games at the
sheepshead Bay Speedway this after
noon. It's not 30 much a question Of
who's going to sheepshead as 1t Is Of
who's going to stay In New York. For
| everyone on the force. whether in the
games or not, wants to see them and
everyone else has bought a ticket. or a
couple thousand tickets.
The response to the sale Of tickets
has been tremendous, for the proceeds
are to 60 to the Police Pension Fund,
and almost everyone 10 glad to help that
organization In view of the difficulties
| which most coppers are experiencing
these days on the same old salary with
anything but the same old cost Of living.
Officially, activities will begin at II 80
this morning when the Mayor and other
nabobs OF the town will check their plug
hats at the Waldorf and lunch as the
guests OF the games committee. They
the field.
Wounded Men to Have Treat.
The other big delegation to ride in
chaises will be wounded soldiers from
Mitchell Field. Fox Hills, Colonia, Gun
Hill Road and Messiah Home hospitals.
They will be gathered UP by ambulances
OF the Motor Division OF the women's
League for National Service. President
Kaufman Of the Chatham Phoenix Ma
tional Bank is their host. He has bought
s,ooo tickets for the games and has given
| them to the wounded men.
Another man, who asks that his name
be withheld, has bought and sent to the
New York Navy Yard another 1000
tickets. third has distributed n like
number to the sailors on the training
ship at Bay Ridge.
Col. Archie Miller. officer In charge of
| the army flying fields on Long Island,
said yesterday that everything was In
readiness to carry out the programme
OF air stunts. That programme will be
the equal OF any exhibition Of flying ever
| put on, II is declared. 1t will be more
| comprehensive than any one event that
ever occurred over the lines in France
The first event on the flying pro-
gramme will be the arrival by airplane
from Lake George of Commander Tow
ers and Lieut. Commanders Read and
Bellinger. the NC pilots OF whom Read
was the first man to fly the Atlantic.
They are scheduled to land at Sleeps
head Bay at o'clock
Mock Combats to He Given.
Then will come drills in battle for
nation flying, mock combats between
| American aces. examples of combat OBJ
| servation flying acrobatics by enlisted
pilots. an exhibition by a great Handley
| Page bomber and a contest for accuracy
| in landing nearest to the mark. Not
| only will the latest type OF American
planes be used in these stunts but there
will be In flight a captured German
fokker and an albatross, the latter the
| only one II its type in the United States.
Eight brass bands, Nathan Frankos
orchestra and the Police Glee Club will
| furnish music. Massed under Frankos
baton, 1,14s pieces, they will accom-
| pany Carmela and Rosa Ponselle in
their singing of The Star Spangled
| Banner"
An ANNOUNCEMENT that will tickle the
mounted cops was made yesterday. Here
| after on their days OF they can look
| like bookmakers II they so choose Col
Borge de Mossin and Michael Dreicer
the Fifth avenue jeweller, both ardent
admirers of the police horsemen, have
had made by Louis Markowitz OF Lib
| erty street 10 scarfpins-horseshoes set
, with rubies-at a cost of $4,000. These
/ will be presented to the mounted men
who participate in the games
! An added feature OF the games Will
be the effort OF Col. ]. L. Constant
| Of the Police Reserves TO lower the
worlds record on a motorcycle. He has
an Indian machine specially built for
| the occasion. which he believes to be
the fastest thing on two wheels.