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Evening star., 1923-10-21
EXPERT, REVIEWS FIGHT
Ring Recalls Experience of Macaulay With Big Pillar

theys another rule in N. Y. state
that says when you have knocked
your man down you must retire to
a neutral corner and stay there till
he gets up. This rule proved just as
effective as the Volstead act.
After Firpo had laid down and
tried to go asleep times, he decid-
ed 1t was no use and maybe he would
bettr stay up and make night of it.
The pictures show that he then give
Dempsey slaps without a return.
No. 9 knocked the champ through the
ropes and give fight fans something
to disgust back and forth for the
next 20 yrs.
A good many of them claims that
a certain newspaper man who we
will call Jack Lawrence showed par
tiality by first throwing up his hands
to break Dempsey's fall and then
pushing the champion back in the
ring.
WELL, friends, suppose you was
w setting just outside of a prize
ring and all of sudden without
no warning you was to see 1913
pounds of bone and muscle coming
towards you from above with ap-
parently nobody at the steering
wheel Would you set ther neutral
and let it crack you on the head
saying to yourself must be fair, or
would you try and ward 1t Off with
your hands and arms?
AS for pushing Dempsey back in
the ring when Dempsey was laying
Evening star., 1923-10-21

four continents and render Paris to
Pernambuco" as famous as the Cape
to Cairo" or Berlin to Bagdad"
routes, and Of infinitely greater i'm
portance to France!
Just think-Paris to Gibraltar. and
Gibraltar to say. Dakar. on the coast
Of French West Africa-say, three
days in a through train, with the
strait crossed in twenty-five min
utes II the nine-mile route be taken,
Five days more to cross the south
Atlanticl It makes eight days. in
all, from the capital of France to
the capital of Brazil!
F.. Spain has equal interest in this
tapping Of South America; and Eu-
rope in general That vast. un-
touched storehouse, bursting with the
food, clothing and minerals which
Europe needs, Is bought to her front
doori
Great commercial prosperity is
promised for every country along the
route-Senegal, Morocco, Spain and
France. Spain, If only to obtain
swift touch with South America. Is
going to enlarge her railway gauge
to that of France. That is to say,
, here is a tantalizing glimpse of the
great enterprise where governments
have made a gentlemen's agreement,
but where a stray detail slips out, of
necessity, from time to time. The
Spanish government has decided the
construction of a direct line, Irun-
Algeciras. Of normal gauge, 1 m. A.
and modern electric traction-from
the frontier of France to, practically.
Gibraltar!
With this acquired, the building of
the line from Gibraltar to Dakar will
present only minor construction diff
fculties. for the country traversed
is low. fiat desert.
Here. again, is a brief, tantalizing
glimpse. 1t flashed out as by the
forgetfulness of those who ought to
keep 1t dark. An "additionar S2o,-
100000 Is to be spent In organizing
and equipping the port of Dakar for
heavy traffic. Additional to what ?
Why. evidently
COUNDS big, all that? Yet how
- much more sensational are the
railroad advantages foreseen by Eng
Iand-enough to make her honestly
give up a schemed-for control of en-
trance to the strait!
London to Bombay, by rail, with
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referee was behind a pillar part of
the time.
One or two of the experts had pre-
give the Bull a boxing lesson for a
couple rounds. but 1t become appar-
ent right at the start that the champ
had left his boxing skill in the check
rm. and his plan of battle was to
knock this guy off as quick as he
had finished Fulton and. could of
finished Carpenter II he had felt
like it
Therefore Firpo could not learn
nothing about the manly art OF self
defense, but he learned something
else in the 1st. 10 or 15 seconds name
ly that 1t amt safe for a man who is
fighting Dempsey to lose interest in
the fight The boys went into a
clinch and the referee, who later
proved himself very reticent, said
the word break right out loud. Firpo,
Immediately begin to wonder what
that meant in Spanish and looked
around for his interpreter. Right
afterwards he found himself setting
on the floor listening to English
numerals.
The champion was criticized by
some for hitting Firpo when he was
not looking. Personally II I had to
hit him at all that Is the only time
1 would hit him and besides 1t is
well known rule of fighting that
you are supposed to protect yourself
at all times even when you cant.
, Speaking about the -ules however.
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with my own typewriter 1 have
spelled out five (5) Reasons why Hon.
Geo could come here any time, thank
you, & welcome also. I shall read
them"
Miss Furioki would look quite
pretty reading If she were more beau
tiful which she are not. But her
words seem to wiring out strongly for
following five (5) Reasons:
ITO Teach Poker to Americans.
He could do this from experience he
obtained in Versail, France, in Game
He Did Not Understand-quotati
from Chinese.
"2-To Settle the Irish Question IN
Oklahoma. Maybe this could not be
done so easily like in Dublin where
patriots are tanner.
"3-To Be Decorated by the Sue In
dian Tribes-Good Indian name for
this would be Little Welch-Chief-
-Crimp- in the-League.
"4-To Meet Hon. Judge Mt. Lands
-objeck of this meeting, To make
N Y. stop playing World Champeen-
ship with itself.
"5-To Lay Cornerstones for fol-
lowing institutions:
"A Alkoholick Hospital for Pro
hibition Enforcement Officers.
Evening star., 1923-10-21

Arthur Kickahajama, Japanese un-
dertaker. report with Harvard ex-
preston on his eyebrows
TT are plainly vizzible what Eng
land are now attempting to do with
America. She feel too sweet to beat
her by warfare; therefore she shall
win her by kindness. For first part
of that great Poppa Gander Program
she have sent over her three (3) larg-
est national Heroes, by following list:
Prince Renfrew of Wales.
2-Papyrus.
3-Lloyd Geo.
When that wisedom were spoken
Sydney Katsu, Jr, who think deeply
every Wedsdy night, upstood with
bright expression to say:
ITO get even for this polite be-
havior 1 snuggest that America send
also her three (3) National Heroes to
London by return mail"
"Umpossible!" dib S. Kurio. Jap
anese insurance, with peev of tone.
Hon. Hiram Johnson have already
been there, and what did he accum-
plish? Nothing or less"
Question before meeting" holla
Cousin Nogi, who were Chairman pre-
tum. are Why Are He Here. If any
thing? Ali Englishmen come here
for something, do not? Some fol
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had few before the war: but on the
long, continuous trip across three
continents to India, proper parlor
cars are a necessity to afford elbow
room.
Suez! Ten minutes to jump from
the train and buy postal cards to
mail in Asia! VIII write you, to-
morrow, from the Euphrates!
or course. they must have the tunnel.
The Society of Civil Engineers of
France, by studying the four prin-
cipal tunnels through the Alps (Arl-
berg. Mont-Cenis. Gothard and Sim
plon) found that the average cost
was $500 francs per linear yard.
Technique and machinery have i'm
proved since the Simplon got under
way, reducing time and cost, on the
one hand. On the other, the value
Of money has singularly lessened. so
that they place the cost of a sub
marine bore, today. at Gibraltar. at
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with his head a yard lower than
his #. why if Mr.. Lawrence or any
body else was strong enough to do
that they would be in there getting
the 100000 themselfs instead of
writing about it.
The incidence of Dempsey hitting
Firpo 8 times after the bell rung
occurred right over in my corner
and will testify that Jack was still
out himself and none of the 8 blows
would of upset my 4 yr. old kid.
It is my personal opinion that dur
ing the last minute of the first round
and the minute between the first and
the second rounds neither the champ
or the challenger knowed any more
what was going on than the boys
who paid $3.50 to set behind pill
lar.
When Jack had finely staggered to
his corner, Jack Kearns and Joe Ben
jamin could be seen poring words of
advice into both his ears, but he
thought they was reciting the
Raven.
The most remarkable incidence in
cOnneCIlOn WIN Ine "HOle HBHI WIS
how quick Firpo recovered from the
pasting he had reed. Why they tell
me that lest than a II hr. after tho
final knock down, his own story OF
the battle was appearing in news
papers as far away as New Orleans
and San Francisco.
This must be a worlds record when
you stop to think that he had TO
write it out in Spanish first and then
have 1t translated and put on tho
telegraph wires and tn only expla-
nation is that he must have mapped
the story out in his mind vile he was
laying on the floor them last 10 SEQ
onds and then done the actual writ
ing at the same time he was taking
his bath.
In conclusion I might state that In
case the gent who Rube Goldberg
and 1 bet with and who we give hAul
odds of 21a to 1, why in case he has
lose our address. why just Great
Neck will reach US.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
Power From Peanuts.

TT appears that one Of the advan.
tages Of the Diesel oil engine lies
IN its ability to produce power by
burning not only the cheapest grades
of natural mineral oils and the by
products of coal distillation and coke
plants, tar and creosote oils, but also
vegetable and animal oils. Indeed, Il
can use peanut oil almost as effect
lively as mineral oil.
The use of fat oils from vegetable
sources for fuel will. it is predicted
promote industrial development In
regions where the cost of coal is
prohibitive-in northern Africa, for
example, and in many parts of our
own country. It has been declared
that those oils make 1t certain that
motive power can still be produced
from the heat of the sun, even when
all our natural sources of solid and
liquid fuels are exhausted.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
OPEN EPISTLE TO LLOYD GEORGE
Wallace Irwin $ Letters of Japanese Schooboy
To Hon. X Prim Minister of England
who are in our admidst

To Hon. x Prim Minister of England
who are in our admidst
~ EAREsT SIR: Do you still
clutch in your memory one
important accession in Lon
49, don (England) when you &
me handshook each other together,
thusly gluing Unity Of Nations? I'm
doubtlessly you do not forget any
person you met. If so, one of them
was me. / shall tell you how.
1t were the time of noon, July, 1922.
In refined dining room of Hotel Victo-.
ria you were speaking your lunch
with 200 Westlaying Ministers. You
recolleck that? On right side of me
set Hon. JEFF Shakespeare, who was
then 10 Tumulty Of your administra-
tion. hoping you would not forget
your speech: Subjeck, John Westlay.
You remember that happy date?
Well. when you said all you could
think up, telling about Hon. John,
who were greatest Minister up to time
you came to No. 10 Downing St.. then
Hon. JEFF Shakespeare look very pho
tographic, because time had come
when Hon. Lloyd Geo would be pleas
ed to meet Hashimura Togo. by golly.
I walk 4th, feeling kind Of Wood
row Wilson, thinking how Hon. Prim
Minister of England get a chance to
meet some darnly Janus people. don't
he. Then up to speaking table where
you were lost among SO mang legs
of tall Scotch Clergy. Can you forgot
that?
Then what happens? OF suddenly a
Handshake come right at me! And
behind 1t you come rushing with your
celebrated hair and everything. I
got my tonsils ready for the 4th of
July & other oratory. but how could
I? You spoke long before / could
think a paragraf
''Hashimura Togo" you explain to
me, ''you are a sort OF writer or some
thing from U. S. A. a country that I
remember very well. II convenient,
will you please go back to America
with following Message which you
will deliver to American People with
my signature: Kindly to inform them
that Europe need them with imme-
date suddenness. II America do not
set down with US, what will happen?
I ask to know"
There are no reply, Hon. Prim Min
ister." narrate AUTOMATICALLY.
"Ezackly" you renig with Roose-
Welt mustash. And while you are
going back by boat to deliver my
Message to America ! will say good
bye. l must go to Geneva before II
are too late. as usual"
You remember that time very dis
tinctually, do you not, Hon. Lloyd? ?
And that Japanese Schoolboy to who
you spoke so rapidly are me! Think
that,
4 ND now, High Sir, I must tell you
"A something very much ashamed.
4 yrs. has collapsed since then, &
did not deliver your Message. Please
accuse! II you think 1t are easy to
be a Peace Messenger Boy in America
maybe you better try it yourself.
Over 622 times 1 have opened my
teeth to say in publick, Hon. Lloyd
Geo say that America should recog
nize Europe as we'll as Mexico" But
before can get my words in sidewise
Senator Lodge knock both sides of his
brain together with a narrow report
while exclamming that 1 should be
shipped to Atlanta Prison under sis
picion of being a Democrat.
Yes indeedly, Mr.. Geo, are so glad
Evening star., 1923-10-21

10000 francs per linear yard-say,
s50, 100000 for nine miles.
y X X
OUCH Is the shortest tunne' route
~ under the strait; bit 1t is not
certain to be chosen. A more favor
able one. having regard to sea-bot-
tom, may measure up to twenty-four
miles. Here. the up-to-date work of
the "Giralda" is awaited, to check
up older data OF H. NJ. S. Challenger
and more recent observations of Sir
John Murray.
These are complicated details.
Length of tunnel may determine
double tube or single tube OF twenty
two feet diameter, with three stations
where the line would be doubled for
trains to pass in opposite directions.
The slope is estimated at one In
forty, maximum. The weight of
water on the tunnel will be great-a
channel five miles wide. through the
straits center. has a depth of 1000
feet. But congealment of the soil,
injections of cement, use of protect
ing plates, etc, are methods now
perfected by engineering science; and
certain procedure adopted for tunnels
under American rivers will be profit
ably follow ed.
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mel stratum in the short nine-mile
direction.
4 LONG dig and bore, you say?
L 1t Is curious that. in comparing
the two tunnels, people instinctively
refer to the Dover job as "a COM
parativeIy trivial operation" Yet. as
fact. it's definite route is a full
twenty-four miles!
The Gibraltar tunnel will, in
human probability. be considerably
shorter. And yet, grouped up among
a dozen international associates, each
perhaps as great. for the great en-
terprise, the engineering firm of Sir
Francis Fox and partners (Which it
self has bored eighty miles of tun-
nels) claims that the pilot-heading
for the twenty-four miles of the
Dover job can be completed in four
years!
OF course, the chalk bottom a
Dover is good. On the other hand
the estimate includes two circular
tubes, each eighteen feet diameter
connected by cross passage So. no
surprise here.
Now, the Dover calculation works
three shifts of men, working twenty
four hours per day, six days in the
Evening star., 1923-10-21

TO the editor: Just about
month has lapsed since Jack
Dempsey and the Wild Bull
had there petting party at
the polo grounds but people is still
talking about II wherever II and II
~ water and II scotch) is still
sold so 1 trust that writer who has
run shy of subjects will be excused
If I set down a few 100 wds. In
regards to this history making brawl
in spite of the lateness Of the hour.
Will start out with a little incl
dence In regards to fellow towns
man of mine named Mr.. Macaulay
from Great Neck who had give up
$3.50 for a seat and when he got
seated in the same they was nothing
right in front of him except large
steel pillar which is one of many
large steel pillars that keeps the
upper tier OF the grand stand from
beaning occupants of the lower tier
Mr.. Macaulay couldent see nothing
but the pillar and was kind of sore
though anybody that even got into
the polo grounds that night without
being bIackjacked by a policeman
should of considered themself lucky.
Well, seats to the left OF Mr.
Macaulay was a vacant seat with
out nobody in it and no pillar In
front of 1t and Mr.. Macaulay was
wishing that was his seat when In
come a big stew who had been give
UP for lost by the ushers and he
showed Mr.. Macaulay his seat check
and asked him to find the seat 1t
called for. Well, my townsman looked
at the seat check and seen at a
glance that 1t called for the vacant
seat seats to the left without no
pillar in front of it.
THAT is funny" says Mr.. Macau-
lay, who is a quick thinker, I am
setting in your seat myself and that
is my seat seats over"
So Mr.. Macaulay got up and moved
2 seats over and the stew set down
behind the pillar and pretty soon he
leaned over and asked MT. M-caulay
If the 2 principals was In the ring
yet was told that they were.
Then the stew wanted to know
who was that big fella. What big
fe1Ia says Mr.. Macau1ay. Why the
big fella that is right in front of
me says the stew.
Then Mr.. Macaulay seon that he
was referring to the pillar and he
told him 1t was Firpo, and the stew.
after making the remark that Demp-
sey would never knock that guy
down, fell asleep and slept through
the rest OF the evening which a
whole lot of other high-price ticket
holders might as we'll of did the
same for all they could see.
Il r. r. r.
TN fact a friend Of mine that set
i in a s27.50 seat which was sup
pose to be the best told me he was
under the impression all through the
fight that the promoters had changed
there mind at the last minute and
was holding 1t in Buenos Aires. But
by way of comfort to those that
paid big money and seen nothing,
will state that we boys that was
right UP at the ringside missed some
OF 1t and they was q impression
amongst some of US that even the
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cement her interests with those of
France and Spain. All Africa is
there to drain from. AS for the
French, their independent Trans
saharan line to Timbuctoo is already
built to Colomb-Bechar and kenadsa.
1t taps a virgin reservoir, not only
of natural riches, but of man power.
which already justified its building
before an all-rail connection with
Europe was even hoped for!
If these things be true, what shall
be said of India, Persia, Arabia,
Egypt and the whole stretch of cul-
tivated North Africa!
See the rajahs travel back and
forth by sleeping car and dining car
and parlor car! The girls will get
acquainted with the rajah and his
heir. You cannot keep folks apart
in parlor cars. France and England
Evening star., 1923-10-21
Tunnel at Gibraltar to Be Pierced
AS Connecting Link for Continents
BY STERLING HEILIG.

PARIS, October II.
- HE Spanish navy's oceanographic
ship Giralde has Just finished
two years exploration Of the
sea bottom of the Strait of
Gibraltar, in accordance with an inter-
all Africa, the near east and distant In
national agreement of vast import. 1t
took two years to reach this agree
ment after the armistice: and 1t is
the hidden asset which saves France
and England from final falling out
while Joining to them Spain and Italy
in a new and vast quadruple enter
prise which admits South America,
all Africa. the Near East and the
dia to its benefits.
1t Is the Joining up to make the
Gibraltar tunnel. Without it, the
question of Tangiers. whose details
are still under discussie n. would be
explosive. This one thing saves, at
the last moment, always, the sus-
picions of France, Spain and Italy,
that England might be seeking to
''bottle up the Mediterranean" by
obtaining a control of Tangiers like
her hold on Gibraltar. 1t is their
England-which set the Spanish ship
Giradle exploring Gibraltar Straits
sea bottom, to make the tunnel which
is to connect Europe and Africa by
rail-
One month after the armistice, the
modern plans had been outlined and
a vote in the house of commons OBJ
tained for tunneling the Strait of
Dover, thereby providing direct all
rail connection with Gibraltar.
About the same time the powerful
Orleans Railway Company of France
submitted to the minister of public
works a petition for a French con-
cession to make the Gibraltar tunnel.
This followed on the favorable re-
port of the Society of Civil Engineers
of France. itself motived by ex-
haustive calculations fathered by the
distinguished Henri Bressler.
In 1919 the Spanish concession was
obtained, under the auspices OF
Rubio y Bellue, millionaire engineer
engineering and port works in South
America and Africa.
THESE are just glimpses of a
l. grandiose affair which has been
internationally under way since 1921
Built by all and open to all. the Glib
raltar tunnel offers more than self
ishness Of any power could hope for
Truly. for Italy, its prime attraction
is the guarantee of the Mediterra-
mean. All breathe relief in view OF
England's compensation for that
bugbear-through trains from Man
chester to Capetown. London to Bonn
bay! All find profit. 1t will link
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appear with new, strange adult mon
keys of similar breed-they are Of
the family of Barbary apes. All
agree that there is not a square yard
on the rock where they could have
been hidden. "They have been
through the tunnel" says the gar
rison. offhandedly. "to do old home
week stuff in Africa"
Now, OF course, the curious point
is herein the suggestion, almost
unavoidable, of a tunnel-fissure dry
enough and short enough to be used
by the apes! And If such dry fis-
sure exists. the sea-bottom in that
direction must be as strongly homo
geneous as the boasted gray chalk
stratum at Dover. That Gibraltar Is
so honeycombed with passages, both
deep and old. that many parts are
condemned or unknown. is a COM
monplace. 1t only encourages the
engineers to seek for reliable tun-
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that you have got tired waiting for
me and came yourself with Hon. Mes
sage.
But now you have arrived up. Mr..
Sir. what will you do about It? BY
newsprint information you say that
you do not come neither as a MissioR-
airy or a Bootleg. This make pretty
excited situation, by Hack! What
you here for, unless fresh air, which
have gave out since Jno D. Rockefeller
invented gasolene?
At meeting OF the Japanese Think
ing Society, of which l are a mem
bership, following Question were de-
batted back & forth: "Hon. Lloyd Geo
Are Here: If So, Why?"
Evening star., 1923-10-21

B-A Home for the Upliftment of
Feeble Minded Congressman"
Mr.. Lloyd, 1 write you these slight
reports of the Japanese Thinking So
ciety so you will know that your ar
rival in our midst has kicked up con-
siderable intellectually everywhere.
Also l like warn you. Great things
are expected Of you. & what If you
do not deliver the gods? Would not
that be embarrassing? Answer is
Yes.
I am filled with serious fright, Mr.
Prim Minister, that U. S. & Canada
has planned to make your tripp one
Q) Continuous round of Pleasure.
Evening star., 1923-10-21

Against the infiltration of water,
there are today enormous pumps
quite up to the job in a tunnel once
pierced. In this connection, there is
curious belief at Gibraltar, shared
generally by officers and men of the
garrison, that a natural tunnel ex-
lists, connecting the rock with the
mainland of Africa-which is known
and used by the Gibraltar apes, the
only wild monkeys in Europe!
AS the apes have been fed and po-
liced ESQ to speak) by the British
empire. certainly since 1856, the ac-
tual number of these animals is
recorded, from time to time, at the
signal station; and the older mon
keys have even been given pet
names. Now, their number changes
unaccountably. Well known apes are
absent for months. then suddenly re-
Evening star., 1923-10-21

scenery. some for scenarios. Now it
are gently acknowledged that Hon.
Lloyd Geo are pretty busy man"
Not so busy like he was report
Jumbo Fatomato, Japanese prize
fight, while awaking from his seat
'Howeverly," narrate Cousin Nogi,
II wish hear some brite suggestion so
that we shall not go away from this
Conference with our minds empty
handed"
X Il X n
~ TR. SPEAK" This word arrive
1Nl from Miss Mamie Furioki, Japa-
nese Suffrajet, who stood in her boot
ware with firm-toothed purpose.
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PARIS, October II.
- HE Spanish navy's oceanographic
ship Giralde has Just finished
two years exploration Of the
sea bottom of the Strait of
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mel stratum in the short nine-mile
directioni
Seward daily gateway., 1923-09-22

POWER SHUT OFF TUESDAY On Tuesday from 10 a. m. to 3 D.. nn., the power will be shut off.
 kWed s. M. CRAFT, Mar.