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Evening star., 1925-01-16
INDOOR POLO PLAY
BECOMING POPULAR

Indoor polo teams representing not
clubs, but the cities of Chicago.
Cleveland. Cincinnati. Detroit, New
York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and
Newark, are now involved in four
day tournament at the new Chicago
Riding Club. Teams were formed
only after a thorough tryout of the
candidates for places.
In New York 16 high handicap
players were candidates for Gotham's S
team. Cincinnati Is represented by
two Regular Army officers and one
civilian, while Chicago's outfit Is
made UP of Army officers. But on
form New York or Brooklyn should
win the tourney.
Indoor polo continues to grow.
There is no doubt that in time 1t will
be played in every city in the coun-
try that has a riding ring OF any
size. or a cavalry armory.
1t serves with the game of squash
to provide a sport that can be played
indoors in the closed season; 1t is
better than squash, because 1t Is a
team game.
1t is always possible to get up
a scratch match at any club that goes
in for the game, and because of the
fewer and shorter periods several
matches may be played in the course
of an evening or afternoon.
Moreover, the game is not a dan
gerous one, nor in any remote way as
hazardous as the outdoor game. The
footing of tanbark never becomes
cuppy or otherwise precarious and
thus falls are minimized. The ball.
which is inches in diameter and
bears some resemblance to a soccer
foot ball, is not at all a perilous
missile as 1t flies through the air.
Great skill may be developed in
the short turns that are necessary y
and in the quick, sharp passing and
playing of angles. In fact. indoor
polo is so definitely sport with
qualities and characteristics all it's
own that the great outdoor players
do not show up very well in COM
parison with the leading indoor experts.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
MY GREATEST THRILL IN SPORT
BY WILLIE HOPPE
Champion Bane and Billiard Player Of All Time

THERE various thrills in sport. There is
the keenly pleasant sort that comes when you
snatch victory from the slavering jaws of de-
feat and there the -numbing kind that stabs
when your opponent unexpectedly turns the trick
you.
l have been rather fortunate in that most of my
thrills have been pleasant. In 20 years of compet-
tive playing have defeated brilliant men and
set quite few new records and ali of them brought
the warm glow that victory always does.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
WILLS INJURED HANDS
PREVENT HIS FIGHTING

NEW YORK, January 16.--Harry
Wills brittle hands, which handicap
ped a good share of his fistic program
last year, again stand in the way of
the big negros ring activity.
He has turned down an offer to
fight Quintin Romero, Chilean heavy
weight, at Madison Square Garden
because of the damage to his hands
suffered in his bout with Luis F'irpo
at Boyle's Thirty Acres last Septem-
Der.
It will be three months before Wills
Is able to resume ring work, accord
ing to his doctor.
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and there is little left for the elk.
The Biological Survey has reserved
certain portion of these hay mead
ows. and each year II cuts the hay
and stores 1t until the elk come down.
Then the Government men feed the
elk. But the amount of hay they
have is not nearly enough for all Of
the elk The result is that by Sprina
the herds have been cut down ter
ribiy by starvation.
It is the plan of the Izaak Walton
League to purchase from the ranch
ers additional hay grounds to be
added to those now used by the Gov
ernment, so that the entire herd of
elk can be kept from starvation each
Winter
The result of the campaign, which
has been running less than q month,
indicates that public subscription
soon will save the elk Of jackson
HelA
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Jackson Hole Is simply a river VAL
ley lying between mountain ranges
south Of Yellowstone Park. On either
side Of the river itself, or rather of
the immediate valley of the river,
foothills and ridges rise in succeed
ing layers" until they develop into
real mountains. These ridges, usual
ly swept bare OF snow in the early
Winter by the winds, provide good
feed
But these are used by cattle, and
heavy SHOWS bury them, and the elk,
along in February and March, have
to go down IN the valley Of the Snake
River. Now this river Is f1anked by
meadows, where the wild hay grows
in rank profusion.
For centuries the elk have gone
down out of the hills In Midwinter to
feed there. But the ranchers have
fenced of and cut most Of this hay,
Evening star., 1925-01-16

There was a btg one when
won my hrst championshtp- There
was another Ane thrill when 1 re-
gained 1T by defeating Jake
schaefer. It's hard to pick the
best. but 1t might not be amias to
mention the kick 1 gained oat CT
setting a new record at the ISL
baIkline game.
1t was IA years ago-in November,
1910, to be exact-that I made the
first high mark of 155. I was a
youngster then and 1t was wonder
full feeling to know that I had done
something that no one else in the
world ever had equaled.
Probably the qualification was even
keener because the 1872 game Is the
one / have specialized In during most
of my career. and there is real diff
ference between that and the ISL
game, as any one who has played bH-
lizards will readily understand.
HUT even that did net quite match
the thrill 1 had IL years later
when / ran 3OS at 14.1. i had been
champion for a long time and
had gained many successes, bat
still had the capacity OF eatoy-
ment at any unusual feat that
was able to accomplish.
Probably these things stand out
most keenly In my memory as hav-
ing given me the greatest thrills Of
my career, because they were the
rarest things in that career.
Championships are nothing new,
have won 80 many Of them, but
setting these records were things
apart. Other men had beaten
those whom i hAd outzcoreA 50
win by championship, bat NO other
men had equaled these records
set
Perhaps that IL why they gave me
tho greatest satisfaction and the
keenest thrill of my life.
SunAay-Earl McNeely.
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TRIED OUT By TIGERS.
BUT FAILED TO STICK
Bucky, Released by Manager Jen-
nings as "Too SmaI," Went
Home With Heavy Heart.
Chapter XII-A Big League Call.
BY STANLEY (BUCKY) HARRIS.

a with
club Attorney A T. Walsh relation Tony Dr.
BuTk OF Puton friends OF the Detroit
When
had informed him in
shortsop. o
He a o
Sunday early March with the good that
Tigers Waxahach to
the telegram
he would ARA n1vtr
Evening star., 1925-01-16
FLOWERS AND DELANEY
TRADE BLOWS TONIGHT

NEW YORK, January 16.-Jack
Delaney of Bridgeport. Conn. con-
queror of Paul Berlenbach. and Tiger
Flowers. negro frem Atlanta, who re-
Gently defeated the former middle
weight champion. Johnny Wilson,
meet tonight in a 12-round bout In
Madison Square Garden.
The match will present two far
different styles of boxing. Delaney, a
sharp shooter" will face one of the
most aggressive men in the ring.
Flowers possesses speed and wields a
terrific punch.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
MANAGER IRIS SPEAKER
MARRlES IN CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND. January Is. - iris
Speaker, manager of the Cleveland
indians, and Miss Mary Frances
Cudahy were married here late yes
terday. The marriage was the cul-
mtnation of a romance which had it's
inception in the Fall of 1919.
The couple left Immediately after
the ceremony for Washington, from
where they will go to Lakeland, Fla,
the Indians training camp. for a
brief stay.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
OLD RIVALS TO CLASH,

LEXINGTON. Va, January 16.-
With two preliminary games out of
the way ". M. I. basket ball team Is
prepared to meet its first conference
opponent here Saturday night, when
the Cadets will entertain Virginia
Poly. Last year ". u. I. took both
games from their old rivals. but Tech
is reported to have q much stronger
quint this season.
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PERRY COMING BACK2

CHICAGO. January 16.-Scott Perry.
former pitcher of the Philadelphia
Americans, has filed application with
Commi ssioner Landis for reinstate-
rnent in organized base ball. Perry.
who came to the Athletics in June
1913, was suspended in June. 1921,
BECAUSE he left the club without per-
mission and played outlaw ball. The
old National Commission reinstated
Perry when he Jumped" the Ath-
1etics in 1919.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
u. OF M. RIFLE TEAM
EASILY WINS MATCH

COLLEGE PARK, Nd, January
l6.-Rifemen of the Reserve Oficers
Training Corps of the University or
Maryland scored an easy victory over
the r. o. T. c. of Northwestern, 3,446
to 3,257, in a telegraphic match.
Topping the old Line shots was
Ninas, former Washington Central
High star, who got 367.
Sergt. William H, McManus, war
rant officer, u. S. A, is tutoring the
College Park rifemen.
Scores made by the Marylanders
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WESTERN POLOISTS
TO CLASH IN FINAL

CHICAGO, January l6.-Western
teams will decide the national indoor
polo championship.
The last Eastern teams were elimi-
mated yesterday. when Chicago and
Cincinnati. respectively, overcame
New York. IAN to 10. and Brooklyn.
II to 10h.
The players rested today for the
final tomorrow night at the Chicago
Riding Club.
Consolation matches tomorrow will
bring together Philadelphia and New
ark, Detroit and Cleveland and New
York and Brooklyn.
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HAINES IS REINSTATED.

CHICAGO, January 16.-H. L.
Haines, former outfielder of the New
York Americans. has been reinstated
by Base Ball Commissioner Landis
and placed on the roster Of the
Yankees. Haines had been sent to
the Louisville American Association
club last year, but was placed on the
ineligible list when he refused to re-
main with the club, the deal falling
through
Evening star., 1925-01-16
McTIGUE WILL UNDERGO
AN OPERATION ON HAND

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 16.-Mike
McTigue, world light heavyweight
champion, will undergo an operation
today for the removal of small bone
from his right hand. AS result he
will be on the fistic shelf for three
months.
Then he will be ready to meet Paul
Eerlenbach, Tom Gibbons or Gene
Tunney, he says.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
GIVES UP LIGHTWEIGHT
LAURELS EARNED In 1917
Benny, After Long Reign as Champion, Quits Game
to Please His Mother-Beat Formidable Boxers
After Capturing Title From Welsh.
By the Associat ted Press.

EW YORK January 16A dozen lad named Benjamin
Leiner volunteered the place of deung
old Farmont Athletic Club the Bronx retired
the he is known Benny Leonard lightweight
of the world
solely by the wishes OF his mother Always opposed his
fighting Leonard said his mother had renewed her pleading that he
the and that the condition OF her health made imperative that he
wishes After family council the
decided that he
Leonard, who 1928 has held his
Evening star., 1925-01-16
MUNN'S WIFE MADE HIM
USE PLAY AS A BUSINESS
By the Associa ted Press.

@H1CAGO January 6An
business and the sanctoning of his
Wayne cBig) Mum thrust his of
world champion
ship after 80 con
The of Ed CStrangeD Lewis of
morphos Sioux City, professional pugis
andt thench champ
Evening star., 1925-01-16
SHOOT AT BENNING.

A trapshooting tournament regis
tered with the American Trapshoot-
ing Association will be held on the
Benning range tomorrow by Wash
ington Gun Club. Four events will
be contested, the first starting at
1890 o'clock.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
GIBBONS ASKS $4,000
FOR BATTLE IN LONDON

NEW YORK, January 16.-Tom
Gibbons, St, Paul heavyweight, has
demanded fat guarantee of not less
than $4,000, with an additional 50. 200
for expenses. to box Luis Angel Firpo
under the auspices of the National
Sporting Club in London.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS
BY WILL FL. DIG,
President, Izaak Walton League Of Amsyice.

elk Hole Wyo saving? sportsmen
of America evidently think
purchase additional hay lands the famous valley
Outdoor direction has
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WINS DOG CLASSIC.

GRAND JUNCTION, Tenn. January
18-Seaview Rex. sterling young
pointer owned by DR.. o. D. Stickney
of Atlantic City, N. j.. won the all-age
stake Of the United States field trials.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
ROPER TO FIGHT RENAULT.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, January
l6.-Capt. Bob Roper, heavyweight.
has announced he has signed to meet
Jack Renault at Omaha January 20.
Evening star., 1925-01-16
On ntheSideLines
With the Sporting Editor
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

JAYNE MUM recently crowned king of wreers,
wv real champion after all This indicated by
Lewis OF rim
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
FORMER SOUTHERN BEAUTY AND SPY
 FOR CONFEDERATES DIES IN GOTHAM
Twice Carried Dispatches Through Union Lines-Was
 Commended By Jefferson Davis For Bravery

New York, Sept. IS P--A dare devil confederate spy when a loN fly girl in her teens. Miss Virginia B. Moon. S1, died here. friondless and alone in her dark Greenwich Village apartment.
 Her death was brought to light yesterday by W. B. Baer, an elderly artist friend of hers who read a death notice describing her as a vet eran actress. His investigation re- vealed that Miss Moon was found dead last Friday by Miss Martha Sawyers,a Texas stained glass design CT, who lived on the first floor. The body was cremated Sunday and friends will send the ashes to her home in Memphis, Tenn.
 Miss Sawyers said she knew the woman who was known to half the southland as Miss Ginger" only as an agnostic who had no fear of death, smoked innumerable cigar cites and boasted of the fourteen bona fide proposals she had spurned when southern belle and confed- crate spy.
 Baer produced a sheaf of letters from Miss Moon 10 him dating back to 1902. She told of carrying nor phine and dispatches through the unien lines and txisa xhssalsa her
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
GETS COMPENSATION
Mrs, Pickhardt, Widow Of Meriden Policeman, Is Granted Money By State Commissioner.

New Haven. Sept. Is E0 - An award under the workmen's com pensation law has been made by Commissioner Kleiner to Mrs. Mary Pickhardt, widow of Frank Pick hardt, who was a policeman in Meri- den. It grants her SIS week for SIP weeks, Her husband died May Is. from chronic nephritis and myo- carditiS The claim was against the city of Meriden.
 Testimony was given showing that the officer was assigned to investi- gate the case of a man whose body was found on a roadside Sept. g, 1924. The man had. been dead sev- eral days and flies and insects were on the body. It was claimed that In handling the body the officer was bitten by the insects, his face be- came swollen from infection and death was indirectly caused by it.
 Medical experts supported the tes- timony given, the widow having al- legged that nephritis was induced by the infection.
 The commissioner held that the evidence showed the policeman be- came i'll in court of duty and his death was one covered by the com psnsatioa lAa
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
RECLAMATION DELAY
 BLAMED ON CONGRESS
President Coolidge Ex' Onerates Interior
 Department

Washington, Sept. IS Py-Con- gress and not the interior depart. |. ment, is to blame in the opinion of President Coolidge, because relief has not been afforded settlers on some reclamation projects in the VI est.
 Secretary Work, whose admini- stration has been attacked in some quarters, is held by the president to be merely carrying out the law as he sees fit.
 Thus far. it was said today at the White House, no protest aimed at the interior secretary has been re- ceiyed by the president. The latter holds that If congress, at It's last session, had passed a bill favored by the administration for relief of set tiers there would now be no ground for complaint.
 The governments reclamation project is clearly defined by law, in President Coolidge's view. and while there is no desire on the part of the administration to change this policy as 8. general proposition, it has been the governments conten. ton, that relief should be afforded to some localities. .-
 The administration plan is fo, work In the west to go on as needed l hut off 1rt yt,iI hn o1 tn Antpr- mine before New York is initiated on large scale whether 1t will be a paying proposition and whether set tiers can be secured.
 During the last few years as Presi- dent Coolidge sees it. there has been noticeable decrease in the demand for irrigated land, due in large measure to prices for farm products but he expects that as conditions improve there will be a sufficient number of settlers in prospect for the government to speed up Its reclamation work.
 Published reports from Boise Idaho, recently have said that a | liuiilDeT Ol WtSlelll ncilhloio D, ulSShtiS 1 fled with reclamation policies would urge the president to remove Secre' tary Work. Senator Borah has ar engagement with the president at which the general policy of the in- terior department is expected to pro- vide a subject for discussion but the senator has declined to discuss these reports.
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
CLAIMS RECKLESSNESS IN
 SUIT FOR S15,Ooo DAMAGE
Aimic M. Roberts, Knocked Down By Truck, Brings Action Against
 Royal Typewriter Co.

Claiming she was seriously and permanently injured because of the negligence of Frank R. Tillman, driving truck owned by the Royal Typewriter Co. of Hartford. Annie NJ. Roberts of Newington. today brought an action for s15,oo0 dam ages against that company.
 Allegations in the writ which was prepared by Attorney S. Gerard Casale. declare the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care In crossing Asylum street, In Hartford, July 2, when the company's truck knocked her to the street, causing fractures, cuts. bruises and other injuries, re- quiring the expenditure of sums of money for hurgical and medical services and loss of time from work. Recklessness on the part of the dri- yer In that he was speeding, and failed to sound a warning signal, are alleged.
 The action Is returnable In super for court in Hartford netx month.
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
CHAPMAN DEFENDANT
 IN LAWSUIT BY GOVT,
His Case Heads Docket in Federal Court $1,200,-
 900 Loot Sought

New Haven, Sept. Is R-Gerald Chapman, bandit, now In state pris- on under reprieve from a death sen tence for murder of New Britain po- lice officer, will be a defendant in U. s, district court next week in a suit of the government against him.
 The government seek to recover damages for the reversion of bonds valued at s1,2O0,o 900 stolen by Chap man and confederates in a mail rob- bery in New York two years ago.
 The court docket completed today places the Chapman case at the head of the list.
 John A. Danaher, assistant district attorney, today said that while the government was not certain that Chapman possesses any money the suit will be tried out for purpose of obtaining a judgment in case the de- fcndant should have any hidden estate"
 Some weeks ago Federal Judge F. S. Thomas found in Chapman's favor In a suit to recover $4,500 which postal officers had taken from him at the time of arrest and which sum Chapman had assigned to his coun- sel in the murder case, Judge Griehl of New York.
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
GRANTED DIVORCE
Rockville Man Claims Tint Nc Was Cheated Into Marrying Feeble Minded Young Woman,

, Rockville, Sept. Is R-on the
 ground that there had been fraudu-
 Int contract Edward L. Palmer
 was given a divorce from Cordena
 Rebecca Palmer hy Judge Isaac Wolfe in Holland county superior civil court today.
 On Nov. 29 last Palmer, driving over the Munson- Stafford road in his automobile, stopped to answer in
 quiries from two women who were
 on the roadside as to the where
 abouts of man named Williams.
 He says that not knowing Williams, the women asked him 10 take them to town and he did so and kept them at his home overnight. N Next day he married one of them. Cordelia. and the day after the head of an institution for the feeble minded in. Massachusetts came and took away the bride. Both women had escaped from the place. The bride was said to have had the in- tsllect of an s-year-old child, N Palmer brought action for divorce end Dr. McPherson of the institu- ton, as a witness. told of the escape of the women. He also said Mrs.
 Palmer would be sent to an insane
 asylum.
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
GEORGE M. PARSONS, S3,
 RETIRED MERCHANT, DIES
Retired Stationer Was Well Known in Business World Here Few
 Years Ago

George NJ. Parsons. S3. one of New Britain's oldest retired mer- chants, died this morning at the home Of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Swain Of 66 Vine street. Mir. Par sons was well known among the business men of New Britain, hav- ing conducted a stationery store at various places in the downtown section, including the present site of the city hall. He retired some years ago.
 He was born at Warehouse Point, July 10, 1S42, and came to New Britain 56 years ago. He was a member of St. Marks Episcopal church where he has been an usher for 56 years and a vestryman for S5 years. He was also charter member of St. Elmo lodge, Knights of Pythias. Besides his wife, he leaves one daughter, Mrs. Swain.
 The funeral will be held Thurs day afternoon at o'clock at st. Marks church, Rev. Samuel Sut- cliffe officiating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15

captors into releasing her with mere ly a warning She wrote that she was first arrested In Cincinnati in 1863 by C. Kemper, one time General Grants chief of staff. The letter is replete with the names of federal of ficers who yielded to her charms and let her go.
 She died as much 4 rebel as ever," said Oliver Jones, husband of Miss Moons niece, who was Virginia Warner an actress, He showed let ters from Jefferson Davis commend ing Miss Moon the Ginger GlrT' for extraordinary heroism in behalf of the confederate cause.
 Until six years ago Miss Moon lived in Memphis. Then she was in the movies in Hollywood in char acter parts. She came to New York to live a year ago.
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
WARRANTS ISSUED IN
 NEW HAVEN MYSTERY
Macri and De Milo to Be Brought Back for
 Homicide Hearing

New Haven, Sept. Is R-War- rants for Joseph Macri and Nick De Millio, now under arrest In New York, charging them with being fu- gitives in connection with the death of Henry B. Johnson, late of Hart ford, whose body was found in AL lingtown last Wednesday,. have been taken to New York by West Haven officer
 The warrants were issued by the states attorney office today and it is expected that they will be changed to ones charging homicide.
 The inquiry into Johnson's death was advanced today when a witness came forward and said that an as- sault upon Johnson wasi for the pur- pose of rohbing him. The witness said that Johnson usually carried $2oO in his pockets, and that he was not drinking man. On the con- trary the witness, Arthur Yoemans, said that Johnson was religious, had a cultured mind and had a good ed ucation. He carried lot of papers with him which he valued.
 A loaded cue stick with blood stains on it has been found by the Howard avenue police. In car which Edward J. Buckley is said to own and which was used to carry the body from the city to Allingtown.
 Buckley Is held on charge of idleness. Buckley has claimed that he did not know who used his car on the night of the assault upon John son.
 Buckley's bond on the charge was raised from s3,o0o to s5,0oo in city court by request of the city attorneys office,
 Johnson's relatives today claimed the body and it will be sent to Hart for interment.
New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
LIKE BAKERS BREAD
This Has Supplanted The Home Made Variety In Sixty Ped Cent of The American Homes.

Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. IS (PN-B Bak- CTS bread has supplanted the home made variety in 60 per cent of the homes of the United States, Lewis F. Bolser of Minneapolis, president of the American Bakers association, told the assembled delegates to that organization convention today.
 When the association was formed 2S years ago, he said, there were l2,000 bakeries employing 55,000 persons, Today there are 1S,572 bakeries employing 127,49S persons and there is $417,ooo,Ooo invested in the industry.
 Twenty eight years ago so per cent of the bread consumed was home baked and now research has shown only 4o per cent Is home made,