San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25
'PR|zE Of So
IS AWARDED
TO SOLDIER
Corporal Smiths Tongue
Twister" Is Judged Best
of Many Submitted.
TEN OTHER PRIZES
Judges Have Difficult
Time Deciding Because
They Have to Repeat All.

"Shimmering silken shirts seldom
shield soldiers shoulders"
That is the winning "tongue twist
er" az decided by the judges after
much tongue twisting argument. 1t
was sent in by Corporal George Smith,
ssx.E. 23rd Infantry, at Fort Sam
Houston, who receives the prize Of
So.
The winners Of one dollar prizes
and the tongue twisters" they sent
in follow:
"A blue brew brewer of Blue Brew
cry brew blew and brewed while
brewing Blue Brewery BREW" by
A. Haubold, Boerne. Tex.
"San Antonio's sunshine serenely
securing sunshine seekers" BIZ Viii
liam Il. Lee. 124 Panama avenue.
Say should such shapely sash
shabby stitches show" by Miss Eveliza
Ruth Baker. 221 Cliff avenue.
six silent shaved sentinels showed
the stumbling shrew the sheik's
shack" by Mrs. Dick Henry.
"Strict. strong Stephen Stringer
shared Sticky six sickly, silly
snakes" by o. A. Stautzenbcrger,
1212 W. Mistletoe avenue.
Try Saying This One Rapidly.
1.-The wholesale half sole shoe sole
salesman sold the retail half sole
merchant soles that sold at wholesale
shoe sole prices" by Emma Mae Bese-
Ter, 321 f.. Lachappelle street.
-Whew. How hale-hued huge Hugh
Hewitt huge hickory hewed." by
Anne Louise Bosshardt, 126 Claudia
street.
"Slim Saw saw Sally SOW seed in
the sod but the seed Slim Sam saw
Sally SOW were seed slow to SOW so
Sally said" by Hazel c. Gibbon, 1908
Essex street.
"Slim Sam slung Shiny sling
nround sickly snake suddenly Sun
day: the sickly snake slipped the
Shiny sling around Slim Sans shin, :"
by NJ. G. Alderman, Fort Sam Hous-
ton station.
Hairy Harry harries harmless hair
less hounds" by Mrs. Harry Lyman,
Ut Hammond avenue.
1t was a sorry set OF judges that
FINISHED repeating all the "tongue
twistersr sent in for they had to be
repeated aloud to ascertain if they
met with the condition Of being diff
.ult to say rapidly. There were sew
fti71undred contestants and each
pne sent in from two I'D to eighty one
tongue twisters."
Old Ones Submitted.
The first process was to throw out
AL those that were Alternative but
which were not difficult to say and
hll those which had been published
before. Despite the announcement
hat old ones would not be considered
many of the contestants sent in the
pnes about "Theophilus Thistle. the
thistle SITTER" and "slick sycamore
Faplings" and "the flea and the fly
and flue" and even the one about
the woodchuck chucking wood. One
woman contestant sent in eight-one
Alternative phrases but not any of
hem met the condition Of being diff
tnlt to repeat rapidly.
The "poets are irrepressible
also got into the contest and some
Pf their efforts were clever but they
acked the necessary brevity to be
considered for prizes. A number Of
he prose "tongue twisters" also were
90 long.
The city administration, the politi-
bf the arms conference.
FOL campaign. women, Fords and
'ther topics of the day figured in
ome Of the "tongue twisters."
Hit at Many Topics.
"Womens wiles will win when wo-
mems ways will waiver" is the
sarcastic comment made by one con-
estant who also sent in one that
night be interpreted in various ways.
t was: "A few fine Fords frequent
v find fine friends" One wonders
What kind of an experience caused
hat one.
A contestant whose name indicated
Mexican descent "tongue twisted" the