The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-08
PUZZLE EXPERTS
FAIL TO SOLVE
N. Y. MYSTERY
National Leagues Swear Off
Holding Convention In City
of Subways and Traffic.
TWO ARE FOUND STARVING
Told to Follow the Green Line
They Are Lost for Two
DAYS in Maze.
By WESTBROOK PEGLER,
United News STAFF Correspondent.

United News Stan Correspondent.
NEW. YORK, July S.-The ordinary
puzzles Of the average New Workers
daily life were too much for the mem
bers of the national puzzlers' league.
They are returning home with a re-
solve to hold their next convention far
from the city Of interesting subway
stations and modern traffic signals.
Not only were some of the out-of-town
puzzlers stumped time and again In
their efforts to get about town. but the
Yanquishment of two Western puzzle
experts is said TO have brought them
close TO tragic consequences.
Lost in Subway
The two Westerners arrived at the
Grand Central station and confidently
plunged into the mazes OF the subway
station there for the five-minute ride
to the hotel AIcAlpln, where the con-
vention was in session on the missing
word phase of this subtle science.
They were found in a starving condi-
ton by a party OF guides just in time
to be put on the train for home.
There's some trick in it." one OF
them gasped. The sign said: Follow
the green line and we walked two
days and nights without finding our
way out. Then everything went dark
before my eyes. Where am I?''
''WhyS didn't you ask somebody"
the guide inquired gently.
Don't Speak Yiddish
I'VE did" the exhausted puzzle ex-
4 IL Frre
no use. We don't speak Yiddish."
Joshua Price Of Bangor. Pa. tax
collector Of his own home town and
a wizard with numeral puzzles, re.
puted inventor OF the Government
income tax questionable, is said to
have missed the leagues luncheon be-
cause he couldn't make out when the
traffic policeman on Fifth Ave. meant
stop" and when he meant come
ahead" Mr.. Price finally took taxi.
There IS no known key TO these traffic
signals and that is where Mr.. Price
fell down. AS a matter OF fact they
aren't so much a puzzle as a game.
You just rush across the street and if
you're caught you are sent back; If
you're hit you're sent to Bellevue and
If you get across you win.
Labors on F1atbush Map
It was during a business session
of the league that DR.. A. T. KEY
kamp OF St. Louis was stumped, for
the first time in his long career. AS
TO his expertness in solving puzzles
It need only be said OF DR.. Kleykamp
he long since discovered who struck
Billy Patterson and what is so rare
as a day In June. Finding a sort Of
chart on the table before him he
thought he had happened on an in
tricate elaboration Of the famous pigs
in clover puzzle. He withdrew to his
quite and was still working on It late
at night when William Delaney, treas
urer OF the PuzZlers' League, burst
into the room greatly upset.
Il shall have to stay in town over.
night; can't get home to Brooklyn. -
he cried. Some one has stolen my
map Of F'1atbush."
Trys Hash Enigma
z. z. St. German of New York,
president Of a chain Of popular priced
lunchrooms, mixed business with
pleasure by inviting his colleagues
of the Puzzlers' League to try their
wits on the missing word in his alpha
betical soup and IL that was too easy,
TO undertake a solution of the hash
mystery. New Workers. have long
known the missing word Soup" but
the hash matter is regarded as one
Of those tnsolubles like Lewis Carols
famous poser OF the monkey. the pull
ley and the horse-weight.
Most Of the puzzle-mal5ers have en-
trained for home, but not a few were
reported to be still in their rooms at
the hotel trying to make sense out
Of tbs railroad timetables.