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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
BASEBALL MEET
ON TAP TONIGHT

Chickasha baseball fans are re-
quested to meet this evening at s
O'Clock in the Elks club room to
select officials of the local Okla
homa State League club, it was an
nounced this morning.
An accounting of the money rails
ed to support the club will be made
at this meeting and definite plan
of operating the club in the future
will be made, it was announced.
Every baseball fan in the city
should attend" said G. e. Plott,
president of the Oklahoma State
League. who has been guiding the
destinies of the local club for sew
eral weeks. Mr.. Plott retires as
head of the club here to devote all
his spare time to the League presi-
dency,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
HARD|NCs PLAN
To VISIT HOME
(By The United Press.)

Washington, June 26. president
and Mrs. Harding are going back
home to spend the Fourth of July.
Preparations are going forward at
the white house for the return to
Marion, the first visit since the
president entered the white house.
The occasion is the Tooth anniver'
sary of the founding of Marion.
A mammoth Independence Day
celebration will be held. In addi.
ton to an address by the president,
there will be speeches by General
Pershing and General Dawes.
The following day the president
and Mrs. Harding will review a
parade by the $50 American Legion
posts of Ohio. They will also be
the guests at a colorful pageant por'
traying Marion history.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
RADIO FANS GET
SET FOR SPEECH

An address by J. Il. German pres
ident of the Rock Island railroad,
endorsing the Careful Crossing
Campaign" will be broadcasted by
radio tonight, beginning at 9:O5
o'clock, J. r. Nugent, local Rock
Island agent, announced today.
The message will be delivered in
Chicago. "This message will be
both interesting and instructive and
no doubt, through the advice given
the movement to conserve life and
limb of the travellers on the high
way will be materially advanced
Mr.. Nugent said.
"All radio sets, as far as possible
and consistent should tune In and
receive the message" Mr.. Nugent
said.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
EFFORT IS MADE
END COAL STRIKE
Secretary Of Labor Tries Bring
About Conference; Senate Plans
Drastic Measure; Trouble
Seen Ahead.
(Ry The United Press.l

Washington, June 26.-Two move
ments looking toward the ending of
the nationwide coal strike, now in it's
thirteenth week, were under way
here today.
Secretary of Labor Davis, acting
under the direction of President
Harding is making another effort
to bring about conference of the
coal operators and the miners by
which the walk-out can be ended.
President John l.. Lewis OF the
United Mine Workers, is here for
conference on the matter.
In the senate, a new and drastic
plan for federal and state interven-
ton. to halt the strike was under
consideration.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
BURNS PROVE FATAL.

Oklahoma City, June 26.-Mack e.
Stewart, manager of Wolf and com
pany, expert accountants, died here
today as a result of burns received
when gasoline stove exploded in
the basement of his home where he
and his wife were cleaning clothes
Sunday night.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
DRYS Of NATION
R0MP ON WEEKS
(By The United Press.l

Oklahoma City, June 26.-Bitter
assertions that Secretary of War
Weeks had forfeited right to cabi-
net position by favoring light wines
and beer were voiced by nationally
known dry" leaders here for the
Anti-Saloon League regional confer.
ence beginning today.
Traitors" shouted Howard H. Rus
sell, founder of the league at mention
of anti-Volstead officials.
Dry workers spoke here in leading
churches Sunday. H. T. Laughbaum
director of the league in Oklahoma
called the meetings to order today.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
MEMBER FEDERAL FARM
LOAN BOARD SUGGESTED

Gcttyaburg. Pa. June 2G,--captaIn
George D. Hamilton and Sergeant
Martin. both Of Washington. ID. e.
and both members OF the United
States marine corps were killed here
this afternoon when their airplane
crashed TO the ground from u
height OF 1900 feet. Tho avlatorH
were flying IN advance OF march.
Ing column OF 5000 marines who are
scheduled TO participate In dupli.
cation Of riekettr charge on the
Gettysburg battlefield this week.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
REVIVAL INTEREST INCREASES.

Interest in the Nazarene revival
which is being conducted in the
tabernacle at the corner of Sixth
street and Chickasha avenue. is in
ereasing daily. ii was reported this
morning. Large crowds. it was am
nounced. are attending every service.
Rev. Mr.. Damron is doing the
preaching and Miss Brewer is the
song leader.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
SMALL 8 WIFE IS
VICTIM OF TRIAL
Stroke Proves Fatal After Reception
as Friends Congratulate Illinois
Governor On Acquittai OF
Charge.

Kankakee, Ill. June 26.-Mrs. Len
Small, wife OF the Illinois governor,
died today of over joy as result of
her husbands acquittal.
Mrs. Small was stricken with par
alysis when a blood vessel burst in
her brain Saturday night.
No hope was held out for her re-
covery after the stroke.
Specialists rushed to her bedside
declared the nerve strain of the trial,
coupled with the great JOY of her hus'
bands victory caused her death.
She was stricken just after rous-
ing home coming celebration by
thousands of friends of the COVER
nor and family had been concluded
on the lawn of the Small mansion
Turning to her husband, she said:
Il believe | am going to be ILL.,"
Those were her last words.
She collapsed in his arms.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
Want Formal Demand.

New York, June 26.-Richmond
lowering and company, oil engineers
announced today they would request
the state department at Washington
to make a formal demand on the
Mexican government for the release
of A. Bruce Bielaski who is reported
kidnapped near Cuernavaca.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
WILFUL MURDER, VERDICT,
(By The United Press.

London, June ga verdict OF
wilful murder was returned today
by coroners jury against James
O'Brien and James O'Connelly, as
sassins of Field Marshal Sir Hnery
Wilson.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
ASK REQp4SiTiON PAPERS.
(By The United Press.)

Topeka, Kan, June 26.-Governor
Henry j. Allen today issued a requi-
sition on the governor of Oklahoma
for the return to Labette county of
S. L. Pierceall. said to be wanted
on a child desertion charge.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
RAIL STRIKE ON
JULY FIRST NOW
CERTAIN, BELIEF
Officials Of Eleven Rail Unions Meet
10 Canvass Strike Ballots, Known
to BE Overwhelmingly
For Walkout.
BELIEVE ROADS COULD
NOT CONTINUE TRAINS
General Chairman Needed at Home
Posts on Thursday" Say Union
Officials; Labor Board 10
Handling New Cases.
ny c. II. LYNCH.

- - - - sNAAts
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent.
Chicago. June 60 Strike OF 1909.
600 union railroad employees July
appeared certain today an the policy
committee Of the shop crafts met
here to canvass the strike vote.
The strike call viii be sent out
Thursday ordering the men to walk
out Saturday. according TO best
available information.
The vote of tho eleven railroad
unions affiliated with the railroad
department OF the American FEEDER.
alton OF Labor has been overwhelm.
ingly In favor OF a walkout In pref.
erence TO acceptance OF wage cuts
and working rule revision ordered
by the United States railroad labor
board.
More Cases Considered.
Moves by the board to avert one
of the causes for a strike by order.
Ing railroads TO cease letting out
work under contract. will not pre-.
vent walkout. union leaders indi.
Gated
They doubted that the roads
would obey the orders. pointing to
past opposition by the carriers to
similar orders.
Thirty additional cases of protests
by the unions against letting out of
contract work by railroads were be.
fore the labor board today.
Heads of the shop crafts unions
are convinced that strike Of the
eleven unions Which have taken n
vote will tie up all lines just a.
effectively as IL engineers and fire
men should walk out.
Believe Tie-up Complete.
The roads might be able TO koop
up some sort of service for a few
days, union leaders admit. but they
claim they will be unable to operate
for longer than a week because of
repairs which will be needed by en-.
gines and other rolling stock at the
end of that time.
While the total strike vote has
favored walk out, II was learned
that the ballot was "spotty." Shop
men in a few large centers have
voted against a walkout but this
will not affect the final result,
Union officials were reticent today
to discuss their plans.
Only members of the policy com
mittee met, contrary to the usual
custom. Ordinarily, the general
chairmen are called In to help can
vass a strike vote.
"Workers Have Spoken"
"They will be needed at their
home posts on Thursday to take
care of orders" one union official
said, indicating that the orders
would be to strike.
"The workers have spoken and we
will comply with their judgment"
it was stated by another high union
official
I'VE have been forced into this
position by the railroads and we
are ready for the test"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
BROTHERS BREAK JAIL.

Alva, June 26-Bert and Leo
Hawk, brothers charged with trans
porting liquor, broke jail here after
midnight last night by saving two
bars of their cell.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
ARMY AIRPLANES LEAVE
ON SECOND LAP FLIGHT

Dallas. Texas. June 26.-Twenty
army airplanca left today on the
second lap OF their flight from Elling.
ton Field. near Galveston. 10 Self.
ridge Field. Mount Clemens. near DE.
troit. Mich.
The planes made the flight from
Ellington Field 10 Dallas without Incl.
dent. They expect TO arrive at Self
ridge Field on Thursday.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
ROBBERS SWlPE STILL.

Temple, Texas, June 26.-Robbers
broke into the office of Justice of
the Peace Bob Williamson and stole
a complete illicit whisky stu that
police had taken in a raid.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
Sees industrial Paralysis" "

Providence, R. l., June 26.-"Par-
alysis of industry and transportation
on countrywide SCALE is not many
weeks distant if the coal strike
continues, George Otis Smith, direc-
tor of the United States Geological
Survey-the man who "keeps his
fingers" on the nations reserve coal
supply-stated in a speech before
the national conference on social
work here today.
Basic reforms in the coal industry
are necessary before permanent
peace can come, he said.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
TAKE UP GRAIN BILL.

washington, June 26.-The house
today took up the Capper-Tincher
grain futures bill, providing govern
mental regulation over the big grain
exchanges.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
lHY The United Press. J

Kankakee, ILL.,, June 26.-Mrs Len
Small, wife of the governor of llli-
nois, was dying today. The end was
expected momentarily.
Overcome by the long strain of her
husbands trial and the reaction which
followed when the verdict of acquittal
was returned, Mrs Small was stricken
with apoplexy and paralysis.
MRS. Small is quietly slipping
away. The end may come any time, "
physicians at the Small residence
declared early today.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26
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CONGRESS TODAY.
tny The United pfea)
Senate.

senate,
, Discussion on tariff.
, Meeting OF commerce com.
} mittec ON rivers aud harbors
bill.
Closed session agriculture
} committee ON Muscle Shoals
} offer.
Meeting OF republican mem.
! bers OF finance committee.
Report OF Haiti Investigating
committee.
House.
Representative 'Vulght con.
tlnnes his zone man" fllibus.
ter during consideration of
army appropriation bill.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26

All the local news In tho Daily Ex.
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Wire from the United Press Asso.
ciation.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26

Local Temperature
Saturday: Maximum %. Minimum Gs.
Sunday: Maximum 90. Minimum n,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-26

Tonight and Tuesday partly eIot
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

Conan Doyle's Rodney Stone" is
a reflection of that heroic age, and
is, without question, the very best
story of the prize ring ever written.
It's two great fights, that between
young Jim Harrison and Joe Berks
in the coach house, and that between
the old smith. Jim's supposed uncle.
and Crab Wilson on the Surrey
Downs, are magnificent. The first
comes about thus: Sir Charles Ire
gellis, a manlier Brummell, gives a
sporting dinner in a famous London
tavern. Noblemen and bruisers sit
shoulder to shoulder, and the Prince
of Wales. afterward the Regent and
George ". of sinister memory, is
present as the Earl of Chester. Joe
Berks, an actual character of the
ring, who retrieved a brutal life by
dying greatly in battle in the PENN
sula, is noisy and spelling for fight.
The excitement is at its height whea
the landlord enters and whispers to
the host. Tregellis makes the an
nouncement: "A stranger is without
who wishes fight to finish with
the best man in the ROOM" OF course
the stranger proves to be young Jim
Harrison, the hero of the tale.
Even better is the Down fight. 1t
is not merely a battle between two
bruisers for a money stake. Bound
up with TIE issue are greater stakes,
the fortunes of Sir Charles Tregellis.
of jim, and of Jim's real father. the
long missing Lord Avon. As a re-
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suit of his victory over Berks yohn
Jim is trained for a meeting with
the formidable CRAB Wilson, Sir
Lothian Hume's candidate. But he
is not specifically named. The con-
ditions OF the wager are that Tre-
gellis shall produce in the ring at a
certain stipulated time a man under
90 or over 35, 10 exclude Belcher
and one or Two others, TO fight
Wilson. Hume plots to kidnap Jim,
and on the eve of the battle the
latter disappears. Betting odds
against Trc.ellis's man rise and then
mysteriously fall There are har-
rowing minutes at tie ringSide as
the time stipulated draws near and
no Tregellis champion is in sight.
Then, as the timelSeeper is scanning
the second hand of his watch bat
tered black hat is tossed over the
heads of tie crowd. and down the
parting lane TO the ropes comes the
old smith, champion of former
times. TO take his nephew's place.
Then the splendid battle.
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snhcthef. or not he was a spectator
at the ueenan-Sayers fight, certainly
wrote about it with authority in his
Roundabout Paper" "On Some Late
Great Victories" and all through his
early works there are knowing allu-
sions to the Tutbury Pet. Dutch Sam
and similar gentry of the caulifiower
ear. But Hugo, describing a prize
fight, had To draw upon his imagina-
ton. That imagination was enough
to cause the most hardened reader
to vince ard shudder. Recall the
battle in the chapter of The Man
Who Laughs" entitled England,
Ireland and Scotland" A founder
ing Irish giant is pitted against a
little Ssotchman with muscles OF
steel and master of his craft. Round
after round the Irislman takes the
most dreadful punishment. The
Scotehman accidentally strikes a
foul blow. The Irishman consents
to continue on the condition that he
too shall have the privilege of strik-
ing a similar blow. The Scotchman
gets the lrishman's head in chan
Gerry When the latter is released he
no longer has a face. What had
once been a face is a huge sponge.
soaked in blood. Yet at that mo-
ment the apparently victorious
Scotchmar falls on his back with a
rattle in his throat. The Irishman.
while taking his terrible punishment.
has struck his stipulated blow
There is spirited ring battle in
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What Are the Great Prize Ring Stories and Why

professional ring, fought for the
money stake and for the honor OF
the coal pits in which he worked.
But Montgomery. the medical stu
dent, having knocked out the Mas
ter's original opponent in chance
encounter and forced to take Bar
toms place, saw in the battle thrust
upon him the opportunity to COM
plete his university education.
Saved from certain defeat by the
bell in an early round. he applied
successfully the ring craft learned
from his more experienced foe.
There is third prize ring story by
Conan Doyle that is comparatively
little known. That is THE Lord of
F'alconbridge." in tie collection of
tales called THE Lost Galley" The
Tom Spring, whose real name was
Winter and who was once the cham
pion of England. is the hero, al
though his motives are sordid at best.
Depressed by the one defeat which
marked his professional career he
accepts a retainer from woman
to fight a stranger who is to be
pointed out TO him when the time
comes. The adventure leads to a
bs tile in a garden which proves as
trying and hard fought as any of his
bouts in the conventional ring.
V.
The France of the time of Victor
Hugo was a France without a Car
pentier and a Criqui. Thackeray,
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been kidnapped by the King of Prus-
sia and conscripted into his service,
expressed the wish to fight them all
i'm turn, beginning with the Hank
man. asking only that he be given
breakfast between each bout. Figg
was the next great figure in ring
annals. and then came Mendoza, the
Houndsditch Jew, VINO held the
championship. to relinauish 1t to
Gentleman" jackson. Mendoza and
Jackson ushered in the golden age
of British pugilism. The game was
held to be necessary for national
hardihood. 1t was the fashion for
the bloods, or Corinthians, as they
were called about the year 1900, to
take a course from Mendoza, and
many of them were very fine boxers,
who delighted in jumping down from
coaches for bout with an insolent
yokel or "chaw-bacon." From the
West OF England to London went
Jem Belcher perhaps the most pic
turesque figure in all rsng history.
With style of his o~r he van
quished all contendcrs. becs2me a ma
tional idol, and gave his name to !.
form of neckgear which endured for
many years after his death. A ter
rible bow from a racquet ball shat
tered one of his eyes, and. thus ham
dicapped, it was thought that his ring
days were over Yet his pride urged
him to losing but glorious encounters
with Hen. Pearee, the Game Chick
en- and Tom Crib.
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every sentence Even those stern
and desperate encounters, fit sports
for the men of Albuera and Water
loo. become dull and vulgar in that
dreadful jargon. You have to turn
to Hazlitt's account of the encounter
between the Gasman and the Bristol
Bull to feel the savage strength of
it ALL 1t is a hardened reader who
does not vince even in print before
that frightful right handler which
felled the giant and left him in red
ruin from eyebrow to jaw"
''Red ruin" In that lies the effect.
1t was the fashion Of the old time
descriptive writing of the fighting
men. Those long drawn out battles
under the London prize ring rules,
when a round terminated with a
knockdown. and men fighting for
hours collapsed less from punish
ment than from exhaustion and loss
of blood. were best described in
words that made the reader vince
and shudder. George Borrow was
a master at it. His picture Of the
fight with the Flaming Tinman in
"Lavengro" is epic, and to-day JEFF
frey Farnol seems to be following in
Borrow's literary footsteps.
III
Just what was that old British
prize ring which stirred men of let
ters to tall writing? 1t dated back
to Broughton, who. when shown a
company of seven foot men who had
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tereT
of
certainly woke there about the
goias much discussed there
Thomas oner
fight also shows Thry the
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II was in 4 worthy cause that Jack
Harrison took the punishment in
fiicted by the bony fists of the swift
hitting Wilson until the falling rain
turned the tide OF conflict in his
favor In worthy cause fought
Robert Montgomery OF Doyle's The
croxley Master" The Master, hard
ened product OF long years in TIE
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forms sake and. incidentally.
for the professional reformer's
sake, which now seems to be brood
ing over the republic. should take a
new twist and call for the deletion
from fiction in public libraries OF
everything tending to glorify the
prize ring and the bruiser, begin
ming might be made with book that
for forty years has had the strong
est sanction and Endorsement of the
churches-Gen. Lew Wallace's Ben
Hur: a Tale of the Christ" The
hero of that tale was not merely ex-
pert in driving chariot and in the
use of the short Roman sword.
Thord the Norseman had taught him
all the tricks of the boxers profess
sion as they were known when a
setto was far more sanguinary and
serious than it is to-day. Put to the
test after his race with MESSIAH in
Antioch, Ben-Hur struck once with
his naked fist His foe fell dead.
Had the Lew Wallace book been
written when Mark Twain made his
famous discovery in the Roman Coli
scum, related in THE Innocents
Abroad" the humorist would prob
ably have dug up the sporting page
of an ancient Roman newspaper con-
tanning allusion to lone punch Hur.'
The fist to fist encounter runs
through the great fiction of the past.
In "Vanity Fair" there is notable
schoolboy fight. that between Gun
and Dobbin. from which, of course,
the ungainly hero. badly punished at
the beginning. emerges victorious.
Athos, Porthos. Aramis and D'Ar-
tagnan of Dumas's THE Three Mus
keteers." Twenty Years Later" and
'The yicomte de Bragelonne" were
essentially men of the sword. But
the gigantic Porthos had the ability
to deliver a furnishing blow with the
fist and on occasion did so. In re-
calling Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"
we think of the joust in the lists of
Ashby de la Zouche and the storm
ing of the Castle of Torquilstone.
But let us not forget the fistic battle
between the Black Knight and Friar
Tuck. in which the former, having
stood the full force of his opponents
blow, repaid it so sturdily that the
fat ecclesiast was sent rolling over
and over on the turf.
These were what might be called
casual encounters. hardly attaining
the cruel. sanguinary dignity of the
battles of the prize ring. 1t is the
ring test of which we think first
in considering the question: What
are the great fight stories and why?
II the writer were asked what in his
opinion are the dramatic struggles of
fiction his list would run somewhat
as follows:
Jack Harrison VS.. Crab Wilson.
Doyle's Rodney Stone
Jim Harrison VS.. Joe Berks,
Doyles Rodney Stone"
Scotland Va. Ireland, Hugo's The
Man Who Laughs"
Joe VS.. Ponta, Londons "The
Came
The Croxley Master vs. Robert
Montgomery, Doyle's The Croxley
Master"
Cashel Byron VS.. Billy Paradise,
Shaw's "Cashel Bryon's Profession"
Japhra's Gentleman VS.. Foxy Pin
sent. Hutchinson's The Happy War
rior"
Riviera VS.. Ward, London's THE
Mexican.
Brant VS.. the Man with the Shin
ing Chest. Walpole's "Fortitude.'
Carpenter VS. Moran, Merwin's
"The Honey Bee
Richard Harding Davis's Gale
CHER" deserves a place in the list,
but the spirited fist battle in barn
of that story gives no names. desig-
mating the fighters as the champion
and the challenger.
In the above list the name of Sir