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New Britain herald., 1922-02-24

in three hours Mike Burke took sec ond money,
 After displaying much speed and endurance In a three hour race, Weloh decided to compete m 10 hour race which was also run at Han mas armory, After running 2b miles Welch withdrew from the race, and Mike" Sheehan of this city was the winner, Frankie Kane took second prize In this event, Sheehan covered bn miles In the winning event,
 Won For Nothing
 The youthful Welch got his first taste of winning n race but getting no money, when he competed at Springfield, Mass, One of his greatest trinmphs was scored In a Decoration Day handicap over the lab yard distance, when he defeated ono of the cnssicst fields Of competitors ever as- semhled in this city for race. Welch next competed in a handicap at Windsor Locks. and was beaten by a runner named Johnson. Jack" Walsh of this city. won third money in the same event
 Plainyillc Pride Beaten.
 Plainville about this time boasted Of runner named cancriy. who was considered among the neotost at the
New Britain herald., 1922-02-24
Many Local Sporting Men Often Meet and Discuss the Deeds of Frankie Kane, Mickey Welch, Eddie Fan ming and Others On the Cinder Path Back in the sos and 90's.

Many of the "old time sportsmon" in this city. when they assemble at various times nowadays. after the usual talk of current sporting events nave been delved into for time, turn their thoughts and talk, to back in the sos when New Britain was con sidered one of the foot racing centers of the United States. This particular racing applies to the old time profes- sional handicap foot races which were held first at Traut park and later at Rcntschlers park Famed runners from all parts of the country came here to compete. and the betting gen. try was very much in evidence.
 Small Sums the Prize.
 In these times of fabulous prices for sporting events, a race for Sl00 would not sound very great, but in the sos 1t was considered great enough to provide inviting to some of the best runners that the game pro- duced. For days preceding the event, whether it was q match event or a plain handicap, the sportsmen would begin to arrive in town, and around
 
 the Rice brothers on Main street, bet tors. runners, trainers. and others would assemble, In the present day of horse racing, much is heard of bookmaking The same method for placing bet on favorite in those days was in vogue. Many of our prominent men can recall today step ping up to make a play on their choice.
 Kane a Fast Man.
 Opinions will always differ as 10 who was the greatest runner of his day "a quarter of century and more ago. The friends of Frankie Kane, n product of "Nigger Hill" swear to this day that he could beat any man that ever wore spiked shoe. Be that as it may, there is no one who denies the fact that Kane was indeed a speedy boy on the cinder path
 Frank Kane. who today lives at i 55 Washington street, and is employed at the Landers, Frary and Clark com pany, commenced his running career when IS years old. His first attempt was made at Meriden, and it was against namesake residing in the Silver City that he was pitted.
 The Meriden Kane was, by the sporting folks of that hamlet. looked upon as unbeatab ble. However, when the first 100-yard race that Frank Kane engaged in was over, there was quite a different opinion.
 The opening of the Traut park was considered big day in New Britain, and it was decided that big handi- cap would be just the sporting affair to usher it in. Accordingly, it was arranged by James M. Finnegan, Ed die Fahy and Jim O'Donnell. Among the entrants in that cap was 'Ed King, runner named Pratt and Frank Kane. The purse for the win ner was S75, resulting in an addition to kane's purse to that extent. The defeat of King by Kane opened the eyes of the local handicap followers who began to look upon him as coming champion. Kane went along winning regularly.
 Famous "Wagner" Race.
 Then came an event that lV,, caused many of the sporting men tc mill over" on many occasions. u
New Britain herald., 1922-02-24
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one mile distance, Welch was match ed with taltcriy for side bel of sl0o. The race was run on the old Ryder park course, with the local man showing his heels to his rival for practically the entire distance.
 Mickey" Welch's fame was reach ing far away from New Britain, and on entering a handicap at Holyokc,
New Britain herald., 1922-02-24

Mass, he found that his mark was 2s yards behind Dan Scully. Seully. who was no slouch. won the event, but his time in SO doing established . new record in the Paper Town.
 With Worlds Champs.
 Like Frank Kane, Welch tried his (Coptinued on Thirteenth Page).
New Britain herald., 1922-02-24

Then came an event that lV3 caused many of the sporting men to mill over" on many occasions. lt
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
y Irlbunes News and Reviews of Books and Authors
Delicate Light Comedy
By A. Donald Douglas

ers alone And Trollcpe deadly and
auii. The author OF "The White Kams"
may have written about deadly opium,
be dull. - $50 "
Except for the accident Of time and
spaces the long-drawn hesitations of
tne moth, Louise Needham, between
various equally nice young men fingers
as an inescapable reminder Of tina fvns
ical Troiicpe heroine, usually named
Eleanor, in her indecisive and vague
giTiish charm, her nebulous emotions
tae generous largess of her free sreried
kisses, and the sanity OF her eventual
choice. Louise's father, the troubled
and stufy Reverend Needham, and her
suRt, lady OF too conscious jollitv.
eonlure UP. Trollope's minor clergy and
ms ioquac.ous maiden aunts. Instead
= minute cathedral town the scene
OF the moths decision lies in and about
northern. Michigan summer resort:
oat the clergy (of course, without
gaatersj are there, the picnics, the do
mestic difficulties with the delivery
boy, the luncheons with hardly enough
OF anything but tea to 20 around. tSe
smaii-taik sr bubhling like limpid brook.
II the Irollope heroine is kissed, she
goes not tell the reader; and so, per-
Npss "a ner 1dciie surrender to the
power OF kisses Louise is more modern,
though hardly less attractive than
Eleanor.
Jilted in one engagement, Louise en-
ters upon another with serious youno
/ man come all the way from distant
ARIZONA to claim his blushful betrothed
! with that peryerse indecision and sweet
| Iememprance of old kisses so parcel Of
I T.
| mooest ardor, envying her younger sis
ser Eilda, who is now enjoying a legacy
In the person Of Leslie, q nice young
man with lots of nonsense about him
! 4 voclferous aunt who has managed a
| dry goods business in Tahulamaii
Wherever that is) smooths the course
| OF true love and herself accepts trav-
| eNng salesman smitten these twenty
wears with her frank vivacity. HiIda
and Leslie dirt in engaging innocence
the while Louise pales before khe press
Of dead loves thronging her heart like
sinister goblins. In that darkest hour
Which always comes before dawn lin
tnese days daylight saving has changed
that poetic tiction) Louise comes to
perceive the. serious young man from
Inl.zona Iasa as her true love-. and at the
to belong to any one else.
Recently some one has Iamented
the absence of Gilbert and Sullivan
novels. in these states. We have SO
very few ifictions rich in satire and
humor and STEPPED in that delicious
irony which informs even the very
most exquisite lyrics i'm "The Pirates
OF Penzance' and "Iolanthe. into
! Gilbert and Sullivan atmosphere "The
Moth, Decides" is most agreeable in
enrslon, especially when Aunt Marie
tells how the imnressiva h;rb,r siS,4
on two mattresses in his lower berth
and let his golf clubs repose in the
upper berth all the night long. At its
best "The Moth Decides" is early and
delightful Gilbert and Sullivan, as
rendering of love-sick maidens and
portly clergymen. We may, there
fore, devoutely hope that Mr.. Jewell
viii some day give us a "Gondoliers"
and "Ruddigore" as now he has given
US undoubted promise of more mature
delight.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
The Great E1,1ancipator
BY Isabel Paterson

nave grown q beard upon mare pass
ing suggestion that II would enhance
his looks Being without conceit he
accepted the verdict Of his contem.
poraries, which lis mainly to the effect
that ne was "gawky,s plain or down
right ugly. They were mistaken, but
naturally SO. He did not answer in
any respect to the prevailing standards
of elegance. He was nobly framed
put the ,monotonous and probably i'll
cooked diet Of His growing years was
inadequate to fill out his rugged out
iines. lie remained, as il were, an un-
finished masterpiece, but master
piece none the less--a subject FOR art
lsts There Is q striking photograph
Of Lincoln, not reproduced In this
book but inevitably recalled by it,
showing Lincoln in company Of his two
secretaries, Nicolay and Hay. They
We're both good-looking young men
Contrasted with HIS large ease they
appear merely. dapper
Herndon is quoted here as saying
that Lineoln's health was never good
He was therefore robbed OF the merely
physical zest of living. His domestic
life was far from fdeal, though it is
possible he found more satisfaction in
It than his neighbors knew Of Mrs.
Lincoln was a shrew, but an intelli-
gent and accomplished woman. The
latter two qualities must have been
what attracted Lincoln to her in the
first instance, and no doubt he appre-
clated them to the last. He liked the
society of women; had ga ssrong pas
SION for them, Herndon said. But he
kept it on an intellectual plane always
y
Being thus cheated in the main of
beauty and romance, and even of mere
sensuous comfort, he turned to anlbi-
ton. and, as an emollient, to humor
Hur7or is most often the solace of the
sorrowful, rather than the spontaneous
expression of joy. He did not become
President by accident; there is evi-
dence enough in Mr., Weik's book alone
TO lead one to believe it was his set aim
IN life. He may not have expected, it
but he worked and planned for it, he
fitted himself for it to the best of his
ability. 1t seemed as if destiny aided
him, fitted him better for the post at
that particular time--better than any
human help could have. 1t made him
patient, brosdminded, tenacious OF
purpose, charitable in word and deed
as a more obviously fortunate man
might not have been. 1t made him, as
Francis Grierson says, the representa-.
tive Of the under man. But it is un.
likely that either he or his neighbors
ever thought of him in any such gen.
eral terms. They saw him as an indi.
vidual, man like themselves, with all
his faults upon his head, and so Mr.
Weik has set him down. It is a book
which should furnish true test of Lin.
coins admirers, for if they do not care
for it they do not care greatly either
for the real Lincoln, but only for his
legendary mask.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29

weakness and softness, the mystic
glamour of oida-fashioned feminimity
Art and man ought to be one as mind
and body are one, but with Gsmbaroy
his. mind Is of the twentieth century
and his body of the middle ages. The
artist in him sees deep down into the
fundamentals of life, but the man can
not see below the surface.
The artist in him sees in this msined
factory wreck beauty that transc ends
perfection. Her ugliness and distor-
tion become to the artist the strength
to resist the blows of life. But the
man in Gombarov recoils against the
woman's defor1nity because Gombatov
the man sees only the surface. If he
were as big man as he was an artist
he would have seen this factory Grip
pie whole, as Christ saw Magdalen,
the moral cripple, whole. And because se
he sees only the outside of her all he
can give her is pity, kindness, and he
| even thinks himself great philan-
thropist for plying and being Kind to
her. If he were as big man as he
was an artist his heart would have
rushed out to her in friendship ard
understanding.
Gombarov Is the tragedy of man
wandering between two worlds-one
dead, the other powerless to be born. .
He has broken away from his past and
sees no future. He is Sienkiewich's i
Man Without Dogran." He is Ham
let. He is great diagnostician of our
civilization. He sees the world turned
into Babel--broken up into myriad
conflicting forces, but he lacks the
synthetic gift of understanding. With
all his unceasing introspection he
hasn't gone down deep enough is the
roots of life. Because he has never
known real love. His pursuit Of Wini-
fred is not love. It's the Oriental
male pursuing the female. The reve-
lation Of great spiritual love has
come to. him through Judith--a great
mental love through Lucy, and both
times he failed TO understand. Com
barov is Christlike in his suffering, In
his sensitiveness, in his passionate
pity for all hurt things, but ne lacks
the understanding, the conviction Of
| Christ.
Babel" is the most vivid analysis
OF modern times. Cournos has attemp pied
to write the history of our whole civil
lization through the stories of Com
barov. 1t is necessary to read the
Mask" and the "Wall," his first two
novels, to comprehend "Babel" fully.
In his next novel he will deal with the
dawn of faith in Gombarov.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29

~ VERY artist is in degree
I'D Christ who grows strong
through being constantly hurt.
The artist is born sensitive
And his very sensitiveness
draws to him people who have the
power to hurt him. Moreover, the
artist is the only man who lives by the
power Of the spirit in world where
all are driven by material gain. And
this power of the spirit rouses the
hate-the envy of the masses trapped
in the yoke of commercialism.
In Babel" John Cournos has ere
ated this artist. this modern man of
sorrows, in the character of Gombarov.
He is the eternal wandering Jew in
search of the ideal. The very nature
Of his quest dooms him to failure.
Trotter, in his book "The Herd In
stinct," tells of the pack who follow
leader provided he is just little
ahead of them but not too far ahead.
Once he goes beyond their power to
follow they kill him. That is precisely
the position of the artist whose vision
is in advance Of his time.
The world tries to crush Gombarov
by poverty and starvation. The woman
he loves plays fast and loose with him
because he cannot assure her of safe
meal ticket for life. Every where he
must battle with hostile forces that
kill the youth, the joy of the man in
him. But all these killing things are
the making of the artist in him. He
rises up from each defeat, his head
"bloody but unbowed."
Cournos has been accused of having
written an autobiographical novel. but
as far as can see he has used an auto
biographical thread ON which to weave
the colorful fire of his Imagination.
The most vivid, the most inspired part
of Babel" accepted by the rejected, is
pure imagination.
Cournos reaches the height of his
genius with the<ereation of Judith and
Lucy two ideal types Of women. judith,
the prostitute, and Lucy the suffra-
gette, have the same power OF pouring
themselves out in love as the artist in
his art. And they have the same in
spired urge to give themselves so
wholly in love because they have beer
hurt by life, their gifts scorned and
rejected.
GomDaroVS s attitude CoWaru JuulLH
and Lucy seems to me the symbol of
man searching for truth, hungering fol
love, yet rejecting it when it comes to
him. Gombarov, consumed with his
Loneliness, yearning for the woman who
would unbind him and free him from
himself, meets first Lucy and then
Judith. Each Of these women offers
herself to him in the naked fullness of
the spirit. But he cannot respond. He
is stirred intellectually, but not pas
sionately Is 1t because the naked
truth of love is SO dazzling that he
cannot touch it? Is it because he is
SO wrapped in his dreams that he can
not see the things he is always dream
ing about even when he hits up against
them? Or is it because Gorbarov is a
modern intellectually but instinctively
he is the old-fashioned Oriental who
cannot love woman unless he does the
pursuing?
1t seems to me that Gombarov is one
Of those ver-intellectual Jews who
seek the spirit with their minds but
their bodies follow the lure of the
flesh. He turns from the strong, vir-
lie Lucy, the beautiful, passionate
Judith to run after pink and white,
brainless Winifred merely because she
can throw around him the wells of
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29

point out that Olympus" and sim
passe,v Stellar" and "umhreiia1 arsf
not necessarily funny rhymes Srst bexs
cause they are bad ones; they would
call attention TO Miss Lowelps friendly
emphasis on Grace and Hilda Conkiing,
and they would note the unfriendly
omission or sighting Of equally or
more important poets. e,
Defenders of Aiken would have
something to say to Miss Lowell. and.
admirers of Miss MiIiay would regret
that the older woman can find so little
to understand or TO praise In the work
of the younger. The critics probably
you'd agree that casting doggeref
form adds little to Miss Loweii's aI-s
ready expressed opinions regarding
Frost, Robinson, Sandburg, Masters.
Lindsay, H. D., Fletcher, Sarah Teas
dale, the Untermeyers and the other
poets presented In this volume. They
might even quote Miss Loweli's defense
OF herself, disapprovinglys or approp-
ingly: -
Although I'm no prophet Til hazard az
She'll be rated by time as moro rather.
Once accuston yourself to her strange
And milder verse seems by consras. rsers5 :
dilution.
Then again Gfor rye kaot back very
Despite her traducers. there's always g
Hid away ia In .,h her poems for the seeking:
Beneath silver surfaces cunningiy fash.
To bafae coarse prytngs ft waits for the
touch y {
OF a man who takes surfaces only as,
Her works not. II you will for the glib
amateur,
But wonder. would IT be improved If ie.
A., .,, H.
TO admit that Miss Lowelps "Fsbien IS
if no great work of poetry or criticism :.
clever IN spots and frequently aEausinr
But the volume does not bear Amy
LowelPs name, so 1t is our task 60
search for the author. The critical
finger has pointed at various writers
as the guilty ones; its most ridiculous
movement has been toward Louis un,
termeyer. For whatever Maxwell Bod
enheia may think of Untermeyers arfsl
apart from this poets poetical gifts he
IS the most skiilful versifer in the
country, and he could never, even III
the hours between waking and slcep.
commit the technical crimes that dis
tinguish "a Critical Fable" As well,
or better, suggest Bodenheim as che
author; surely he has trouble enough
with meter and rhyme when he tries
them. However, I hasten to state that
he is not my choice. My favorite cryp-
tographic expert assures me that IA
POKER OF FUN, WITT D., o. s., A. T.,n
is equivalent to "A POKER OF FUN,
AMY LOWELL" He assures me- that
WITT D., o. s., A. l." resolves itself
by simple code into "WEL Y MoAL,o
an anagram of Amy Lowell, and I psl1
my faith to my cryptographic expert.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29


" times awaken public interest
n solely by reason of their an
4 VA. onymity They stimulate an
adventitious interest, an In
terest supervenient to the merits of de-
ficiensies to be found within their COW
ers. mediocre book signed by John
Smith is unexciting; q mediocre book
by John Smith, innocent of its authors
name, is exciting as q puzzle at least.
no wrote IL? If the public can be
sufficiently stirred by that question, the
not at all; it will enjoy the same sort
OF popularity as "The Masked Lady,
for the discovery of whose identity a
circulation building newspaper offers
substantial rewards Few human be-
iigs can resist guessing as sport.
Witness the labor expended by r. p. A.
In collecting dictionaries, cncyclope-
dias, le2icons, aliases, scientific vol
tines of all sorts, to the end that he
may possess the best crossword puzzle
library in New York. Who wrote 1t?
It is provoking question; it is this
question that the publishers Of "A Crit.
ical Fable" are asking the reading
public.
! do not imply that the Fables"
only claim to attention is that it is q
founding; but this is, think, its chief
claim. The critical attitude toward the
book must be affected by the fact of
anonymity. Reviewing it is a sporting
proposition; the business lacks SOL
cmnity. The identity of the author su-
persedes as matter Of interest the
nature and quality of the book. If this
hodge podge" in verse came to US as
the admitted work of Amy Lowell (let
me use her name, for exampfe) the re-
viewers would occupy themselves by
rhymes, mentioning her metrical Iapses,
and praising the judgment of her own
talents which has led her to write most
frequently in the mediums of free verse
and polyphonic prose. They would
point out that the most original and
most amusing portion Of the book is
that in which Eliot ia balanced against
Pound; they would quote:
Pound believes he's a thinker, but he's
Eliot's sure he's q poet. when he's only
pedantic.
But Eliot has raised pedantry to a pitch.
While Pound has upset romance into a
Eliot fears to abandon an old rnasque-
rade;
Pounds one perfect happiness is TO pa
Eliota learning was won at very great
price;
What Pound calls mis- learning he got
In a trice.
Eliot knows what he knows though he
cannot digest it:
Pound knows nothing at all. but has
frequently guessed it.
II Miss Lowell had signed the
"Fable" (let me continue to use her
name, for example), the critics would
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
r,sg MOTH DECIDES. By Edward Alden
fnsrett Knopf

Jewell. Knopf.
COMPARISONS may be odious.
and yet it is on comparison :
ii that so many critics thr;ve and
A batten. Whenever a new book
appears the learned critic com
pares it TO an old one, generally in the
syurcuiar tone OF one who wants the
Fhild taken away. Even publishers pro-
sIai,n new novel written Sin the risn.
ser Of" or reminiscent" of sad and
strange author who is no more. New
torn and aedgling authors must drive
sn Infinite satisfaction from having
teeir very own inventions sent to limbo
81 the charge of diluted ancestry
sherein the wise literary child does
rot adnsit his own parent, but fancies
aimself an orphan and alone.
II is, therefore, with a discreet hesi-
fancy that in Mr.. JeweiPs "The Moth
Decides" one discovers reconstitution
at the Trollope formula lost these
many years amid the din of the most
modern novels. In making so appar-
aatiy invidious comparison | do not
sor an instant suggest Mr.. Jewell's
esp connivance at quickening the Trol-
loss formula TO life; nor do / wish to
drag Trollopa from the mortuary ouie-
tude Of his gentle slumber. Mr.. lowell
sssy never have read "The Warden OF
thefsteen Tor is it forty?) other Troll
lore cerebrations. Nevertheless, 'sThe
Moth Decides" renews the Trollope
revelation in just that manner peculiar
and consecrate to the Trollope tech
niaue. do not mean that Mr.. Jewell
is podgy or unreadable, for only per-
sons acquainted with "Barchester Tow