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The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19
AN ORDER PROVIDING FOR THE
ADVERTISEMENT FOR SALE

AN ORDER PROVIDING FOR THE
ADVERTISEMENT FOR SALE
AND SALE OF SAFE, 900 WATER
WORKS EXTENSION BONDS OF
THE TOWN OF FLAGSTAFF,
COCONINO COUNTY, ARIZONA,
THE QUESTION OF AUTHORIZ-
ING MAYOR AND COUNCIL TO
ISSUE SAID BONDS TO BE SUB
MITTED AT A SPECIAL BOND
ELECTION TO BE HELD IN AND
FOR SAID TOWN THE S0TH
DAY OF DECEMBER, A. d. 1924.
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council
have called a special election of the
qualified taxpaying electors of the
Town of Flagstaff, Arizona, to be
held the 30th day of December, A. d.
1924, for the purpose of submitting to
said electors the question of issuing
the Municipal Coupon Bonds of said
Town in the total principal sum of
$475 100000 for the purpose of provid-
ing funds with which to extend and
improve the waterworks system now
owned and operated by said Town,
and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the
preservation of the public peace,
health and safety that said bonds be
issued and funds be available for the
extension and improvement of said
water works system at the earliest
possible time.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE 1T RE-
SOLVED AND ORDERED BY THE
COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

hairbrush. 1t is described as fol-
lows:
"This is combined hair brush and
comb in which pair of comb ele-
ments Independently operable are
normally retained in retracted posi-
tions relative to the brush bristles
with each comb element at one side of
the brush backing and selectively pro-
jected for use at the side of the brush
backing and adjacent the bristles.."
Now you know all about it, do you
not?
Shiprock Joe, a Navajo Indian,
whom modern civilization has infEct-
ed with Ford, has evidently had
some trouble in navigating his gully
jumper, according to letter he has
just written the Highway garage, in
which he put up fearful call for
help.
Dere mister garaje man,
Plese come fix it ford. / drinkem
lots tequilla taken two days get home.
| want you fixen car-now come quick
on Shiprock road twenty two three
mile Gallup. Hittem pine stump yes
terday night in stomick. One spectacle
he broke. Spectacle he broke can't
see good-think one eyeball bad
just winkit blinket all time. Might
hitim rock too-Stearwheel crooked
just wiggle can goatall. Bell color
he slip off lose EN-. Think stomick no
good. Come quick plese lots trouble,
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Pat Moran, doing some amachewer
carpenter work up to his house the
other day got kind of powetikull and
fillosoficle and conjewred this up
outen his thawts:
He held hammer in his hand-and
knocked to beat the band. His knock
ing never took an end-he even knock
ed his closest friend. He kept on
knocking every soul, until his hand
lost its control, and then the strangest
thing took place-his hammer slam
med him in the face, that knock cer-
tainly was no fun, it was hard and
solid one. He may recover-no one
cares. His suffering alone he bears,
so if you have hammer, now, get
rid of it at once somehow, and boost,
that isn't hard to do. All those you
boost, will soon boost you.
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19
CHRISTMAS TREES

There will be a man on Christmas
tree area, north side Eden on Schulz
pass road, December ID and 20. Per-
mits will be issued ON the ground.
E.. H. OLDHAM
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

DR.. E. S. Miller, few years ago,
rode 20 miles into the country one
stormy winter night and saved a
rancher's wife from pneumonia.
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

Jimmie Mitchell says he read some
where that cold baths prolong lives,
but, great gosh, that only means more
cold bathsi
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19
CHEERFUL CHIRPS
(By DELI

those intervals when real idea
along and is grabbed off.
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

Our weekly cross patch riddle: If a
herring and half costs a cent and
half and it takes three sheets of
water to make an overcoat for cod
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

Carter Joy says sometimes he's so
unlucky that he knows we'll enough if
he'd go to work for his board right
away he'd lose his appetite.
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

After a little mistake we made the
other day we decided to take month
off. The November sheet was still
hanging on the boss calendar.
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

Take out a policy. One customer
got her arm broke yesterday and we
paid her $500. You maybe the lucky
one tomorrow.-Adv. in Kansas City
Star.
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

Bucko Sisk sighs that a world of
trouble would have been averted if
Eve had only said, eyes, we have no
apples"
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

Most pathetic epitaph we ever read:
minnie Hinkley, Waitress, Age 27
years, 3 months, days.
Spilled gravy coming in,
Slipped going back"
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

ooh, fadder, it is our keys birth
day. Vat are you goin' to gif him 2"
''Oi, / know. Tell him to be a good
poy until dinner, den We will half de
windows cleaned and he can watch de
folks go BY"
The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

Don't forget, says Herb Hilkins,
that in choosing meat, wienies are
often wurst.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
Z|V|C FIRST TO
CLAIM CRACK =.
At LEONARD
Willing to Meet Any Other
Challenger for Same
Honor

NEW YORK, May 3.-The first
Of the numerous propositions that
may be expected to follow the de-
cisioh OF the boxing commission
to choose a challenger to meet
BENJAMIN Leonard in q battle for
the lightweight championship this
summer has been made by Jimmy
Bronson.
Jimmy has sent a letter to the
commission on behalf Of Jack Zivic
his entry in the race for the title,
or rather for shot at the title.
In his communication Bronson sets
forth that he is willing, nay, even
DESTROYS. of sending in his pro
tege against any or all of the other
recognized contenders to determine
which of them shall get tho op-
portunity to exchange wallops with
Sir Benjamin. Bronson makes no
conditions. He is willing, so he
says, to let Zivic fight any of them
anywhere for any consideration the
commission may deem proper.
If the commission also decides to
name opponents for Johnny Dun
dee and Mickey Walker for titular
contests, Bronson will make SINH
lar propositions on behalf of his
featherweight and welterweiGht
contenders, Bobby Garcia and Ed.
die Burnbrook, respectively
There is bound to he a long
series Of claims and counter claims
by the managers of the rival con.
tenders in the divisions affected be-
fore the matter is Strengthened out.
Already DOC" Hirsch, the urbane
pilot Of Jack Bernstein, is demand.
ing that the Yonkers battler be
given the bout with Leonard.
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was hardly fitting for the occasion
and that finally he cast the one
aspersion that most men resent.
Mails contented himself with a
promise to meet the Los Angeles
player after the game.
AS soon as Walter had retired
the last man in the ninth, and he
had a tough time accomplishing
this, by the way, he walked oven
to Myers and issued the challenge.
Umpire Joe Becker, experienced in
these matters as an instructor in
wrestling and other forms of the
manly art, interfered and pushed
the be-contenders apart.
The crowd was pouring out Of the
stands and clustering around the
combatants to get better view.
Mails was walking toward the
hundred civilian admirers. Myers
broke away through the crowd and
jumped Mails half way between
the clubhouse and the reserved
seats.
"Down they went, and began
rolling over and over. Walter got
in a few side-arm hooks and a
couple of fast ones. Myers was
wild and issued many passes.
"Then a civilian non-admirer of
Walters took a hand. He doesn't
like the way Walter pitches nor
the way he combs his hair, nor
does he favor the Great Ones taste
for neckwear. So he took a crack
at Mails, and was forthwith ar
rested by one Of the gallant defend
ers of law and order who police
the Emeryville lot. So intense
was the excitement that no one
thought to ask the arrested one his
name. 1t is a great loss to history,
and also a loss to Mails, who
doubtless would like to be possessed
of the gentleman's home address
so he could send him a couple Of
passes. n
"The battlers were separated
finally, with no particular damage
bestowed or sustained. Mails
would have received the referees
decision on points--if there had
been a referees it was glo-
,rious day."
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standing Of signals with your man.
ager, your coach and your team
mate at bat. A knowledge, from
experience of how and when every
opposing pitcher in the league de-
livers a ball, in order to get ''the
jump" on him.
And for all around speed as dis
tinguished from stealing alone, the
knack of taking the corners at
each bag, without slowing down or
swinging far out Of the running
path.
Those are the things that great
natural baserunners like Eddie Col
Inns, depend on, more than speed.
Copyright, 1924, the Christy Walsh
SYndfcRte.l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
J|NX HAS MANY
GU|SES FOR
PLAYER
Practically Every Lacquer Is
Victim Of Some
Superstition
By BERT WALKER.

DETROIT, May S-Most every.
one knows that about every ball
player has a pet superstition, but
the player is hardly more supersti.
tious than are the more enthusiastic
Of the baseball fans.
Among the pet fancies of the
players are the theories that any
one Of the following actions Is like
issuing a perfumed and tinted invi.
tation to the jinx to come and do
his stuff: Receiving gift of
| flowers before an important game.
laying your hat on bed, whistling
or singing before breakfast, being
photographed before a game, Sleep
ing in berth thirteen, walking under
ladder, eating watermelon and
drinking milk just before game.
putting on the left shoe first, lend
ing money, breaking a favorjte bat,
attending a hootch party the night
before, winning tn first pot in a
poker game. These are common
superstitions, but each individual
has a list of his own, so that the
activities of a ball player are very
much limited to escape the hoodoos.
On the recent transforming trip
of the Tigers through Dixie berth
thirteen was vacant the whole trip
because all hands were afraid to
sleep in 1t. Men assigned to that
bed would climb into some other
upper rather than take chance
on the lower. On the final night
Of the trip yours respectfully finally
took pity on the athlete assigned to
lower thirteen and traded hunks
with him so the player could, have
a comfortable nights sleep. Said
yours sincerely must admit he had
the incest nights sleep he enjoyed
on the jaunt, but then perhaps
hoodoos don't bother mere reporters
like they do the more tempera.
mental ball chuckers.
One Of the most enthusiastic of
the Detroit fans likes his baseball
better than his eats, but he refuses
! to attend the games because he
thinks he is a jinx. He has heroic
ally remained away from the activ'
! tiles so that he would not shoulder
upon the Tigers any additional
handicap. He is waiting until the
Cobbmen get into a slump and then
1t will be safe for him to take his
JAAA chA 81 " LuC Pdhn AAO soy .
| that If he goes to the park and
finds his favorite seat occupied
they might as well not play the
game, for the Tigers are going to
lose it. He isn't superstitious, how
ever, he says. He Just doesn't like
to fly in the face of Providence,
that's all. There are thousands Of
fans like him. Some are jinxes to
Cobb, others to Euth and some to
other players.
A fan told me the other day he
had never seen Babe Ruth make a
homer. nor Cobb steal a base,
though he sees about, half the
games the Tigers play at home.
However, IL he leaves the stands
In the ninth inning, Cobb steals a
base or Babe makes his four-base
NIT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
English Footbaners
to Standardize
Uniforms

A move is under way in the
English Football Association to
have standard colors adopted by
the clubs in the different d.
visions of championship play.
The passing of such a rule
would mean jerseys of one color
for the home team and those of
another for the visiting eleven.
The scheme is growing through
out England. Such a change, it
is said, would be for the good
of the game, Notwithstanding
that it would necessitate the dis
appearance from the playing
field of the regulation club col
ors. At present it often hap
pens that colors clash several
times during a clubs fulfilIment
of the seasons fixtures and
much confusion has arisen in
distinguishing the players Of the
teams.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
SCHWARTZ PARTS WITH
MANAGER BEN FRANKLIN

BALTIMORE, May Benny
Schwartz, the local flyweight boxer,
and his manager, Benny Franklin,
have reached the parting Of the
ways. Schwartz has been complain
ing that he has not been getting
enough work under Franklin's man.
agement to keep him busy, and has
carried this grievance before the
boxing commission.
Franklin, as a result, has notified
the boxer that he can break off
without buying his contract as soon
as he settles a personal obligation
with him.
Schwartz's match with Nate Carp
at the Gayety Theater next Wednes-
day will be the last to be signed for
him by Franklin.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
Small Percentage d
Columbia Students
Out for Sports.

Contrary to the general inn
preston in collegiate circles,
the number of students at Co
lumbia for. varsity athletics is
limited to a surprisingly small
number. In comparison with
the total enrolment the num-
Der is far lower than in any Of
the prominent universities.
Rigid eligibility rules bring
about this condition in spite of
the fact that from 10000 to
10000 students are registered
ir the various schools of the in
stitution.
The total number of students
at Columbia eligible for all
sports is, according to the
figures compiled by Graduate
Manager Reynolds Benson,
1920. Of these 600 are eligible
for freshman sports. This leaves
only 1900 eligible for varsity
sports; so it can be readily APP
preciated that the limited num-
Der of candidates at times for
various sports is not necessarily
due to lack of spirit, as is gem
orally supposed. Under the cir
cumstances, Columbia is doing
pretty well and will do better.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
STRlBLlNC WINS SCRAP,
BUT FANS HooT VERDICT

TORONTO, May 3.--Young Strib-
ling, Georgia school boy, won the
decision from Tommy Burns. Of
Detroit, in a slashing ten.round
fight here last night. Burns put
up a fine battle, carrying his foe
along on even terms for the first
five rounds. sending the Southern
err to the floor in the fourth round
for count OF. three. Stribling
was stronger in the last five
rounds.
The decision was unpopular, the
crowd kissing the Stribling verdict.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
Coast League Clubs
Have High Average
Attendance.

LOS ANGELES, May s.
Attendance for the first two
weeks of play this season in
the Pacific Coast Baseball
League surpassed that of for
mer years, according to a state
ment made here today by
President Harry A. Williams,
of the league. The attendance,
he said, was approximately
227, 400, compared with 1885,
487 for the first two weeks
of the 1923 season.
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OF course, friends, II I were a..
literate enough to drop my writ.
ing and real baseball, I could UNI.
pire plenty. AS far as that goes,
I never saw a ball player yet that
didn't admit he knew more about
a ball that was strike or strike
that was a ball than all them soft.
shell Klems in this funny side-show
that is sometimes called the world.
1 was walking from the long tan
mis- courts-and not the police courts
as has been so unjustly said-when
a crowd of boys yelled at me, say.
ing:
"Say it amt SO. Nick. Say it
amt So"
For q minute / thought there
had been another baseball scandal,
but as i sleep without q pillow,
/ know there was no jack depOs-
tied in the OstermOer Bank so far
as our house is concerned. Well,
/ have known a lot of ball play
ers who made fine umpires, but
they was usually fellows who got
tired Of being sOciable to their
fellow man and decided not to
be ON speaking terms except in
loud tones with their colleagues.
1 am thinking Of Bill Dineen, who
the last I know about, is calling
them-sometimes right, too, they
say, in speaking of grewsome accl.
dents-in New York. He used to
| play ball. Now he bawls plays.
anybody who can call. anything
right in New York, unless it is call
| ing down your sweetie for paying
too much for that erminie garment
is an ace and a Sultan of Swat New
York is the home of Sultans.
Well, this fellow Dineen was g
youngster that got many a>great tiI
on how to pitch from the writer
Although / was left-handed, some
times gave those crazy right-handers
advice. He was in the, box for the
Red Sox in 1904 and they won g
pennant that year from the Yanks
Chesbro was on the Yanks then anC
made something like a wild pitch.
When Dineen asked me for ad-
vice, ] told him that IL he evar
felt like getting revenge on his
playmates, why he should become
an umpire. / was only joking, as
/ sometimes do, but Dineen thinks
/ am on the level with my advice,
especially as 1t was my tips that
! showed him how to win q world
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03

We were standing in the lobby
of the Hotel Aldine, Philadelphia,
during the recent Penn Relay Car
nival, chatting with Jimmy Multi
gan, a great runner in his day,
and Eddie Eynon, secretary Of the
Washington American League.
"Who is that young man, there Z"
Eynon asked.
"Ascher," replied Mulligan.
"Any good?" queried the base
ball man.
"Good?" replied Mulligan. II
may be a bit optimistic, but he is
quite close to being the best quar-
ter-miler in the world right now"
Ascher is assured of a place on
the American Olympic team. Only
a broken leg can keep him off
after his wonderful indoor season.
He goes into the trials booked to
win.
George Marsters, the George
town track captain, ranks with
Americas leading half-milers, and
may come home an Olympic cham
pion in the 800-meters.
Tony Plansky's favorite event is
the hop, step, and jump, though
he is also a broad jumper of class.
Harry Helme's best distance is
two miles, and he is a formidable
candidate for the foss-country
events in the coming Olympiad.
Bob LeGendre, former intercol-
legiate pentathlon champion, will
represent the Newark A. c., of
Newark, N. j., and so will Jimmy
Connolly, one Of the best milers in
the country.
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Fun Out On Coast. I
president WILLIAMS

nRESIDENT WILLIAMS is
having a hot time running
the Pacific Coast league this
spring. Hardly had the campaign
started when Mulligan, Of San
Francisco, and Kentworthy, of Port
land, staged fist fight on the
field, both being fined and sus-
pended, though the fans said they
did their best to put on good
act.
Browsing through the San Fran
cisco Examiner the other day, we
happened upon the following by
Jack James:
"The Great Walter Mails was
versatile in his greatness today.
winning two clean-cut decisions for
himself. .s
''The first, and more important,
verdict was over Charley Root,
who, up to the time he met Walter
and his gallant Oaks, had pitched
thirty-seven innings without allow
ing a run, or words to the same
effect. Mails won that contest
"~AAS NVWuy W ~ 0Hu UdNVCu Nv
couple of runs himself just to
make it good. The second deci-
sion scored by the Great One was
in one of those boxing matches
that are becoming SO popular as
side attractions to our Coast
League games. Only this wasn't
boxing match exactly. 1t savOred
more Of bout of catch-as-catch-
can, with no kicking and biting in
the clinches. A typical ball play
ers' fight, in shOrt--typical, that
is, until the Mulligan-K enworthy
embrOglio added a bit of fistic
skill to the general run of such
quarreIs.
Mails opponent in the second
contest was Elmer Myers, who
looks like Uncle BIN 'and evidently
fights the same way. Myers, it
seems, was ON Mails throughout
the game, making rude remarks
from the bench and side lines. One
version has 1t that Myers language
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series. So he ups and becomes an
umpire.

series. So he ups and becomes nm
umpire.
So that is how the story gets out
about my being ready to handle an
indicator and a life-preserver on my
chest, because when am moaning
about giving advice to Dineen.
made a crack about being tired OF
life. Anyone who is tired of life does
one Of two things. takes a drop o:
poison on the tonsil after a hearty
meal or becomes an umpire.
But I am not that tired. The
motto of the Altrock family for six
months has been: debt before dis
honor will not be an umpire be-
cause Tsthink that wearing a blue
serge Norfolk jacket makes a man
look effeminate.e
Copyright, 1924. by the ChrIsty-Walsh
Syndicate.l
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" LOUIS A.DOUGHER
HILLTOPPERS TO THE FORE

Uncle Sam sends his athletes away to compete against all
town quite likely to have than ordinary interest in
that collection OF wonders track and field At least four under
graduates at the Hilltop certain the American
team while graduates headed ship sailing
York for France The undergads Archer Mar
e Tony Plany and Harry Helme The of the
Blue and Gray Bob LGende and Jimmy Connolly both of whom
track at =. =.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
GIBBONS WILL TRAIN AT
MICHIGAN CITY, IND,

CHICAGO, May S.---Tom Gibbons,
st. Paul light heavyweight, will
begin training May 10 at Michigan
City, Ind, for his match there May
81 with Georges Carpenter OF
France, Eddie Kane, Gibbons
manager, made this announcement
on his arrival here from France.
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Ing OH IIldiNlItB
the Olympic team
or do l intend
sticking to my
newspaper work,
like Bill Tilden.
Well, / just let
the boys have
their amusement
at my expense.
The fact re.
mains, / heat
T e d Meredith
aroun d 7 h 9.
bases, a dis
lance of 100
yards. The race
was on t II g
level. Meredith
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
Rawlings Rolls

Reggie Rawlings. former Wash.
ington sandlot star, is with the
Martinsburg, West Va, club. He
also is a duckpin bowler of skill,
shooting for Martinsburg against
the Washington All.Stars.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
TURNING BASE CORNERS
SECRET OF MEREDITH
LOSING TO RUTH
By BABE RUTH.

NEW YORK May 3My friends they hear people in
the stands remark How it such big fellow Ruth 50 fast
around the bases? the question when
Gently beat TED Meredith at the Yankee Stadium. IL
knew tacklng fast when took the star Of two
American Olympic teams noticed of the sport writer's
Who noudT osa4;sf;a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
They Were Some Wild

Twenty-Five bases on balls were
checked against six pitchers In a
recent Sally League game between
Macon and Greenville.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
Root Wins on Coast

Charlie Root, the pitcher sent to
Los. Angeles by the St. Louis
Browns, has won his first four
games in the Pacific Coast League
and is proving the sensation of the
circuit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
HandIey vs.. Brightwood

The Handley A. C. and Bright.
wood A. c., rivals for sandlot honors
In Brightwood, will clash tomorrow
at 2:3O p. m, on the Handley field.
Buses will run to the field from
Grant Circle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
MiIan's Legs Weak

Zeb Milan. manager of the New
Haven club In the Eastern Associa.
ton. = has been compelled TO quit
playing canterfield because of weak
legs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
Truxton VS.. BrookIand

The Truxtons and Brooklands will
play tomorrow at 3 p. m. on the
field at Seventh and Monroe streets
northeast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-03
Insects Challenge

Insect teams are challenged by
the Atlas A. G. Manager Waite
Alley can be reached by phone at
Adams 223S between and 8 .. m.