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was, And what a hustling spirit
there was in that OUTFIT
According to the veteran fan, the
duckpin game was started here for
the young bowlers of some years ago.
"Glenn Wolsterholme got his start
about the time these old fellows were
knocking 'em dead the old timer de
clares. "He started early and in some
quarters the birth of the duckpin
game in this city is attributed to him.
AS l say, he started young. probably
around Z or years old, and the tenpin
balls were too heavy for him so Harry
Krause got a few sets of the ducks
for him TO practice with. The other
bowlers got to trying them out, and
so the game was born"
Naturally the passing of these former
greats grieves the old timer. This is
revealed in the following: "And Harry
HALEY, greatest of inspirational bowl
ing leaders! I've just had to stop
going around to the Recreation and
looking at him there, walking around
with his coat on. 1t isn't natural.
For 20 years, boy and man, 7 watched
Harry Haley and never did I see
him on an alley floor except that he
was in his shirtsleeves and bowling.
They called him Pop HALEY then.
And now, here he is, looking not a
day over %. and walking around a
bowling alley-with his coat on. 1t
amt natural, thassall, it amt nat
ural."
Special matches for the men prob
ably have ended for the season. The
only important number left on the
iC n IaI Of ha
all-star women's team engagement
with the Philadelphia girls. This will
be bowled in the Quaker City next
Saturday night.
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HELEN WILLS WINNER
IN MENTONE TOURNEY

MENTONE, France, March 2 CFO.-
Making her first appearance in the
Mentone tennis tournament. in which
she is seeded at the top of the draw,
Helen Wills, the American champion.
today overwhelmed Miss Daisy Ham
erton of England, Go. Go.
Miss Wills thus advances to the
third round, having drawn a first
round bye
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With the BOwlers

deal of kick the high being
rolled these days but those who have followed the
duckpnners better
That GA toed by Arthur Urban
fvgame the Joseph Phillips team
caused the that the 700
reached bowlers getting better and better all
the But a fan comes back at them.
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WELL, PLANNED ROUTINE
KEEPS ALL CREFS BUSY
Judge Heads Lot of Athletes i'm Initial Batting Drill.
Infield Practice Started-Hurlers Given
More Strenuous Work.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON,
Sports Editor. The Star.

AMPA with three dozen athletes
ability, the only direc
could produce the orderly and effective training
by the Nationals defense OF the title they have held
the last
Field numbers the
regulars have reported for duty marvel at the manner in which the per
tasks To wou
almost impossible keep such large number OF PLAYERS busy dong Just
individual
be the field
garden
spectators remark with which the uniformed fig
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day just as johnson entered the box
to pitch to batters and reminisced a
bit as he watched Barney Tipping the
ball over the plate. "It doesn't seem
possible that it was 20 years ago
sent Cliff Blankenship out to Idaho to
get that fellow" said Cantillon, who
was manager of the Washington Club
when Barney made his big league bow
in the Capital. II have seen many a
fine pitcher come and go since then.
but judging from the way Walter
looks he isn't anywhere near the end
of his string yet
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YANKEE RUNNER BEATEN.

CHRIST CHURCH, New Zealand.
March CP.-The third of a series of
mile races between the New Zealand
champion, Rose, and Boston Athletic
Association miller, Lloyd Hahn, was
won by Rose by two yards in minutes
10 Is seconds. Rose won the two pre-
ViOuS contests.
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TWO WOULD MEET HOPPE.

Edouard Horemans of Belgium, 1872
balkline billiard champion, has Joined
with Jake Schaefer in the attack on
Willie Hopes 1S.1 title. The winner
of the coming challenge match be-
tween Horemans and Schaefer for 1872
honors is likely to be Hopes op-
ponent.
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TO REVIVE BIG RACE.

CHICAGO, March R.-The re-
vival of the historic American Derby,
last run in 1904, has been announced
for July 10 at the new Washington
Park racing plant, at Homewood, H.,
with a value of 100000.
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TROTTER BRINGS $4,000.

LEXINGTON, Ky, March CP.
Hot Toddy, 4-year-old bay trotting
mare by Guy Axworthy-Nancy Todd,
out of Nancy Hanks, has been sold by
John E. Madden to Tommy Murphy
of Syracuse. n. Y, Grand Circuit
driver, for $4,000.
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Training of Nationals Anaes Visitors to Plant Field at Tampa
WITH MAJOR LEACUERS

Pres
T. LOUIS Mo, March 2-Wale Schang
purchased from the Yankees this Winter disabled
at the Browns training Tarpon Springs Fa yesterday
when he was struck quare the back of the
slipped out OF Marty McAanus hands during practice
knocked cod but quickly probably
will efec
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WOMEN In SPORT
by CORINNE FRAZIER

addition the municipal Fairgrounds which opened yesterday
school Fairgrounds opened their the afternoon and will be
children the
3 o o'clock and Saturday from 9 to
Directors will all while the
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CALVARY WINS ON COURT.

Calvary Methodists outclassed the
De Molay basket ball quint last night.
"a to 16. Scrivener, with five goals.
and Croson, with four, were high
scorers.
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WILL FIGHT APRIL 8.

BUENOS AIRES. March . LP).-
Erminio Spalla. European heavy
weight champion, who has arrived
here, will fight Luis Angel Firpo, Ar
gentine heavyweight, April 8.
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SUZANNE WILL REST.

MILAN. Italy, March CP)-
Suzanne Lenglen, French lawn tennis
champion. is expected to arrive here
on Thursday. proceeding to an
Italian Anime resort for, q rest
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ROUNDING THIRD
~By Hugh A. Jennings
CHAPTER LXXIII.

field Chicago years
Gesse pulled what generally referred "pay for
- book" leading, o 4, ninth The
hit Ge caught the ball and
the ball in his hip pocket Before Ger could
reached dragged back the field three had scored what
failed the
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LEWIS WINS MAT BOUT.

CHICAGO, March (P).-Ed (Strang-
ler) Lewis, heavyweight wrestler, took
two out of three falls in a return
match here against Stanislaus Sta
shark.
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Drama in History in the Movies and Also in Ones Own
Perfect Fool Encounters New Queries
Which Tax Ingenuity and Knowledgt
BY ED WYNN.

BY ED WYNN.
~ EAR MIR. WYNN: Can you
please tell me whether or not
there is anything good for a
~ snake bite besides whisky?
Yours truly.
Answer-Who cares if there is?
Dear Mr.. Wynn: A friend of mine
was invited to a party at young
lady's apartment, and he went. Dur.
ing the evening he told the young
lady, quite frankly, that he did not
like her apartment. The young lady
had my friend arrested and he was
charged with hitting her. How did
the Judge figure out such charge?
y. sHooDHE.
Answer-The judge probably fig;
ured. as long as your, friend had said
things about the young lady's apart
ment, he was guilty of knocking her
fiat"
Dear Mr. Wynn: During an English
lesson at a night school 1 attended
the teacher said that the two words.
"recollect" and remember" can be
used in the same sentence and mean
different things. If this is true, will
you give me an example? Sincerely,
HANS n. FEET.
Answer-The teacher Is right. I
"recollect" lending a friend of mine
$25, yet don't remember" ever get
ting 1t back.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: / stopped to look
in the window of a drug store today.
and saw the windoW filed with red
| rubber gloves. l suppose you'll think
| I'm dumb, but l just must ask you:
What in the world are rubber gloves
used for?" Yours truly,
JIMMY NEEWfSKERS.
Answer-Rubber gloves, my boy,
are worn by people who want to wash
their hands without getting them wet.
Dear Mr.: Wynn: A friend of mine
always tells me he can't afford to run
Evening star., 1926-08-22

else, and this story was real bright.
There was this young sailor, see.
and he was in love with this girl.
But he meets up with a mermaid,
she's awfully pretty, and for a while
she seems all right. but it turns out
she ia just a poor fish. after all. and
luckily they find it out in time to
prevent him marrying her and hav
ing to eat shore dinners for the rest
of his life. So he marries the other
girl. the one he has really loved all
along. 1t was one grand picture
I'm telling you, with the Holsters,
crabs, CLAIMS and other actors doing
their parts almost human. The ocean
especially one scene. in the steam
room of the clans Turkish Baths.
\ X X
THE next picture took in on my
line of study was a costume pic
ture. taken way back in the time of
the French Revolution. when they
wore them white wigs and all short
pants was not plus fours. 1t was a
lovely, lovely picture: it cost three
million dollars to make, and the story
was just positively sweet.
1t was about a feller, see. and this
feller was in love with this girl. But
there come along another feller. and
this other feller was no good. really.
only he seemed to be all right, while
all he was after was this girls money
But before it was too late they found
out where this other feller was a
bum and a crook. and they got him in
the neck by leading him to the guillo.
tine. and the nice feller got the girl,
after all. Gee! 1t was certainly a
grand picture. so sad. with all the best
families getting their heads cut off
but taking it like good sports. cried
all the ways through it, and had a
perfectly wonderful time.
Then I made up my mind I had
ought to see a coupla these historical
pictures about America. So I went
to one. which 1t was all about how
the railroads was built. Oh! II was a
great picture: 1t cost four million dol
lars. And 1t was about two fellers and
they both loved the same girl, but one
was a bad actor, see, and he was the
one the pretty girl near fell for. But in
the end, by the time the railroad. was
all built, why, she got on to him, and
married the nice boy. instead.
felt. when seen this picture. that
had certainly learned lot about my
country. and lot about motion pic
ture plots. as. well. In fact. I realized
that might keep on going to the pic
lures for yrs. and yrs. and not know
any more then I did right that very
minute. I fully understood Just what
the producers wanted; there was no
mistaking It, in fact.
II X \
60 1 got me a copy book and a
pencil. and I wrote a peach of a
original story. wanted to write
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A ADELINE OF RokeWoOd. the
M Ethereal Heroine. and Mark
w ham, the Long -Winded I'M
i maculate Hero, after a sue
cessful appearance in the
fiction of the Romantic Era, finally
passed off the scene.
Where they went to, l do not know.
Perhaps Markham got elected to the
Legislature of Massachusetts. At any
rate, they disappeared from fiction.
There followed in place of Madeline,
the athletic sunburned heroine with
the tennis racket. She was generally
called Kate Middleton, or some such
plain, straightforward designation.
She wore strong walking boots and
leather leggings. She ate beefsteak.
She shot with a rife.
For a while this Boots and Beef
Heroine (of the middle nineties) made
tremendous hit. She climbed crags
in the Rockies. She threw steers in
Colorado with a lariat. She came out
strong in sea scenes and shipwrecks
and on sinking steamers, where she
"cowed" the trembling stewards and
''dogged" the mutinous sailors in the
same fashion that Madeline used to
"cow" and dog Lord Rip de
Viperous
With the Boots and Beef Heroine
went as her running mate the OUT
of f-doors man, whose fact had been
tanned and whose muscles had been
hardened into tempered steel in wild
rides over the Pampas Of Patagonia.
and who had learned every art and
bcraft Of savage life by living among
the wild Hoodoos Of the Himalayas.
This Air.and Grass man, as he may
be called. is generally supposed to
write the story. he was II
all through And he had an irritating
modesty in speaking of his own Prov
ess. Instead of saying straight out
that he was the strongest and bravest
man in the world. he implied it indi-
rectly on every page.
Here. for example, is a typical scene
in which "I' and Kate figure in
desperate adventure in the Rocky
Mountains, pursued by Indians.
I'VE are about to descend on a
single cord from the summit Of lofty
crag, our sole chance of escape land
a frightfully small chance at that
from the rowing band of Apaches.
with my eye I measured the fear
SOME descent below us.
Hold fast to the line. Miss Middle
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It was what they call amateur night
and they have two such nights a
week l had just started the second
verse of the poem last night when
some one in the audience threw
shoe at me. Should I give up my
or should try again:
Sincerely,
wONSA PONOTIME.
Answer--By all means try again.
In fact, keep on trying till some one
throws the other shoe. so you'll have
a pair.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: work in an once
ON lower Broadway and eat my lunch
at a little cafe on a side street. The
proprietor of the cafe is a nice chap
and his food is good. but don't like
all the flies he has in the place. What
can I do about It?
Yours truly,
B. LOONEY.
Answer-If you don't like all ths
flies in the place. just point out to the
the ones you don't like,
and he'll chase them away.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: A poor looking
man asked me for SOC so he could Join
his family. l felt sorry for him and
gave him the money. As he walked
away. I asked him where his family
was and he said: "In moving pic
ture theater." What do you think OF
that? Sincerely,
o. WATTASAP.
Answer next week.
THE PERFECT FOOL.
(CopyriEht la26l
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account. instead Of having to beg him
for a dollar and a quarter for the
laundry and feeling like criminal
while 1 done so, well, / got big
kick out of the idea Of telling that to
George and watching his face while
I told him. Any normal married
lady which her husband supports her
in the typical way will readily under.
stand what l mean.
WELL. when I decided to be cruel
w to my family by neglecting them
for art and for their future good. why
naturally l couldn't do so evenings
on account Geo. was generally home
then. And mornings I had the house
work, so l give up the afternoons to
1t, and commenced a regular campaign
to see every. movie made and study
1t careful. The first l seen was a
Western, and naturally the thing I
took most notice Of was the plot.
Well. the plot was about this fell
ler and this girl see, and this other
feller which he was really a crook
see. but that didn't come out at
first, and so the girl pretty near fell
for the crook. 1t was real bright,
original plot. They all lived out in
the far west among the Mesas and
the mosquitoes and other native in
sects. in the great open spaces where
men are men. And 1t had happy
ending after all, on account they
found out about the crook in time.
and the girl married this feller that
really loved her, see?
Then seen another picture, a real
good idea there was in it, too. 1t was
about this girl and this feller. and
81 vty-1
Chinese picture made out in China
at cost OF million dollars. and, as
I was saying. there was this girl
in it. and this feller. and there was
another girl see. but this other girl
turns out to be a crook. a regular
vamp. And the Teller pretty near
falls for her. but. luckily for all.
they found out about this girl being
a crook and a vamp just in time. so
the feller marries the girl which had
really loved him all the time.
Honest. it was the most original
idea. with the orchestra playing
chinatown" to help the atmosphere
along, and lovely Chop Suey decora-
was the Chinese girl. She was Won
derful. especially in her bathing suit
Well anyways. I was awful inter
ested in my study of movie plots
and how to make them. by now. So
the next day. when l seen the great
new superfeature Under Sea" advt.
at the Bijou. why could hardly wait
to get my dishes done before rushing
down to see 1t. And. Hot Bozo! 1t
sure was some photoplay. costing
two million dollars. and every bit Of
1t taken at the bottom of the ocean
Naturally. however, I was more inter
ested in the plot than in anything
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ton.' said as I set my foot against a
projecting rock. please note that the
Air-and-Grass Hero in these stories
always calls the Heroine Miss Middle
ton right up to the very end)
The noble girl seized the knotted
end of the buckskin line. All right,
Mr.. Smith, she said with quiet con-
fidence.
II braced myself for the effort. My
muscles like tempered steel responded
to the strain. l lowered a hundred
fathoms Of the line. I could already
hear the voice of Kate far down the
cliff.
Don't let go the line. Miss Mid
dleton,' I called. Here was an ex-
cellent piece Of advice.)
'The girls clear voice floated up
to me -. All right, Mr.. Smith,
she called. + won't"
OF course. they landed safely at the
foot of the cliff, after the manner of
all heroes AMI heroines.
And here ii is that Kate in her
turn comes out strong, at the evening
encampment. frying bacon over a
blazing fire Of pine branches, while
the freight illuminates her leather
leggings and her rough but pic
turesQue costume.
The circumstances might seem a
little daring and improper. But the
reader knows that 1t is all right. be-
cause the hero and heroine always
call one another Miss Middleton and
Mr.. Smith.
Not till right at the end. when they
are just getting back again to the
confines of civilization. do they de-
part from this.
Here is the scene that happens:
The hero and heroine are on the plat
form Of the wayside depot where they
are to part Kate TO return to
the luxurious home Of her aunt, Mrs.
YanAaE KypG q Nav; ;Xogk<Apd tha
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something entirely new and different.
so I wrote a Eskimo picture. see, laid
up at the North Pole. l figured 1t
would be cheap to make on account
the scenery was so simple. But the
Company could release it as a five
million dollar production and give me
the difference-say, a fifty-fifty split
on the saving. or two hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars for the
idea
Well, anyways. I laid the story up
to the Pole. I felt it would help to
advertise the Pole. and we recently
bought a lot in a development up
there from a feller with a blue print
map. SO I had it up there, and it
was the story of a feller. see. and he
was in love with this girl, see. But a
phoney aviator come along. only he
looked to be all right at first. They
wasn't on to him, but he was really
phoney. But the girl pretty near fell
for him In her cute little Eskimo way.
Then one night they got onto how
he was a crook. It took them all
night before they fully realized 1t. or
six months. Then when they realized
he was really this crook, see. the Judge
was new up there. and didn't know
whether to sentence them to one day,
or six months. He was all confused
by their daylight savings. So the girl
married the right feller in the end.
So sent this story off to a motion
picture company, and then I begun
to worry. I had heard a lot about how
them companies will steal a persons
story. They will read 1t, and pinch
the idea, see. and send you back the
story after they have made a note of
1t, and say they don't want it. Then
they make the story up into picture
and you never get a cent, but they
make their millions, or so / have
heard about this happening. So, Of
course. I was aWfully worried after I
had sent my story in.
Then, Of all things, II the company
didn't send 1t back and say. No,
thanks. they couldn't use 1t, and nat
urally that made me more suspicious
then ever, on account I knew it was
exactly what they did want and I
could prove 1t by a dozen examples.
And then, to fit caps onto climaxes,
1 went to the pictures about a week
later. and darned II they hadn't stole
my plot. sure enough. 1t was In a
cartoon. and ! got to admit the scene
was laid in South Africa, and the
characters wasn't human; they was
cats. But otherwise the story was
exactly the same as mine, and when
I come home l was so mad I burst
right into tears.
What's the matter now? says Geo.
Whatter you bawling about this time?
And I says. Oh! don't bother; you
wouldn't understand a artists feel
ings, or what it means to me to real.
ize I better give up creating movies.
and take up beaten biscuit, instead!
(Conyrirht 1926
Evening star., 1926-08-22
Boots and Beef Heroines of the '90's
And Likewise Some Victorian Heroes

has always wanted in its books is
wickedness. Fiction was recognized
In it's infancy as being a work Of the
devil.
So the popular novel, despairing of
real wickedness among the cannibals.
and in the ruined tower at midnight.
and on the open air of the prairies,
shifted its scenes again. 1t came in
doors. 1t came back to the city. And
it gave us the new crop Of heroes and
heroines and the scenes and settings
with which the fiction of today has
replaced the heroes and heroines of
yesterday.
The Lure OF the City is it's theme
1t pursues its course to the music
Of the ukulele. in the strident racket
of the midnight cabaret.
Here moves the Harvard graduate
in his dinner coat drunk at 3 in
the morning. Here is the hard face
of big business scowling at it's desk
and here the glittering heroine of
the hour charlestoning in her dress
Of shimmering sequins. making such
tepid creatures as Madeline and Kate
look like the small change out OF a
twenty-five cent shin plaster.
fCopyriRht 1p26D
Evening star., 1926-08-22
CHAPTER 8.
RING LARDNER'S AUTOBIOG-
RAPHY.

A LII this happened in the Sum-
~ mer Of my seventeenth year.
IN and in the Fall I made up my
4 \ mind to go to college. AS told
in a previous chapter. I had
decided to start in at the University
Of Michigan. but at the last moment
I received a better offer from Yale,
and the first day Of September found
me in Lancaster. where Yale was
then located ready to take my en-
trance examinations.
Entrance requirements at that time
were a great deal more exacting than
st the present day. One had to pass
with a grade Of so in at least three
major studies. I selected spelling.
arithmetic and English literature.
can still recall the five words we were
asked to spell. namely, Scott Fltz-
gerald. Zelda Fitzgerald. .Scotty Fitz-
gerald uheir daughterl, Rube Gold
berg lone of their friends}. and st.
Paul (where Mr.. Fitzgerald came
from). spelled Two and half Of the
words right, giving me the required
mark of 80.
The arithmetic test consisted of two
questions, the first of which was: II
four sailors go into corner grocery
and buy three cakes Of soap at 5 cents
a cake, what is IT? The answer was
tar soap. The other question was:
Give the telephone numbers. residence
and business of five successful steve.
dores. In this test / scored 100, or as
the examiners called II. sweep.
In English literature we were re-
ouired to name the criminal in the
three followjH stories from The Ad-
ventures - sherlock Holmes: The
Speckled Band." The Engineers
Thumb and The Copper Beeches."
I got the first two all right. but by
the time came to the third the gin.
which was then passed around be-
tween every two questions. began to
make me sleepy. and l wrote down.
Never mind" However. ] had won
low medal score. and the next thing
on the programme was foot ball.
7 shall never forget the frst day I
reported for foot ball practice. Now.
at New Haven. they have a field so
big that they call II the Bowl. Our
field at Lancaster was SO small that
thev called IL the Ash Tray. The Yale
team was then being coached nY John
Paul Jnnc- a -. ndr..tha" vS TAD
Jones Ted Coy was the captain. out
there was a rule that if. on the first
day Of practice. any candidate ap-
peared who was more beautiful than
the eaptaius~ ha sRpUlanted &he- III