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The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-10-14
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
AS a man ia. so he thlnketh.

As man is. so he thinketh.
 The token Of sincere prayer Is the absence of noise.
 Nature separates many couples that the courts won't.
 The sahara desert seems to be the only solution left for the parking problem.
 Earning bis own living Is just about the best part of any education boy ran get.
 No man can show what's in him un. til heavy responsibilities are placed upon his shoulders.
 Instead of trying to do bigger things than your neighbor. why not try doing better things2
 The man who can do one useful thing exceptionally well has Just about all the education he needs.
 Hez Heck says. T don't know of any rule that works better all round than keepiu down to simple vittles."
 Some Of 0pportunity's best knocks are so faint that you have to hold the hand back of the ear to hear them.
 You don't know how many relatives you have on your wifes side until you begin to accumulate money. - Bert Moses in Detroit Free Press.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-10-14
WORLDS SEVEN FEARS

AS classified by Glenn Frank in the Century they are:
 The fear of being dominated by crowd thinking.
 The fear of the industrial civiliza. ton destroying itself.
 The fear the white race Is reproduc in9 It's worst clements fastest.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-10-14
PROVERBIAL BITS

In union there is divorce.
 Bushes are only skin deep.
 A penny saved is a penny taxed. There is no arrest for the wary. If wishes were autos. leggers might ride.
 A bird in the hand is bad table man. ners.
 The road to success is paved with good inventions.
 One touch of winter makes the coal man grin.
 A friend In need Is a friend who is generally lodged.
 It's a long lane that has no. parked cars.
 Where's there's smoke there is prob ably a skywrlter.-Boston Transcript.
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Around the World In Submarine

sub. It Is then possible to plot the
mid-ocean station accurately on a
chart covering the region where the
observation was made. Latitude is
determined by observations from the
stars in exactly the same manner as
that used for centuries by sailing
vessels. The longitude is secured by
comparing the time, as recorded by
the submarines chronometer with
the wireless time signals sent out by
station within range of the under.
sea boat.
In the gravity observations the
chronometer at the gravity station is
compared with the radio time signals
in order to learn the exact rate Of the
chronometer. A comparison of the
swinging pendulum with the chronom-
eter then gives exactly the time of
oscillation of the pendulum and con.
sequently the gravity readings.
The difference in the value Of gray.
ity at two stations can be easily deter.
mined when the time of oscillation of
the pendulum is known at each sta
ton. In making gravity determine
tions. whether on land or water. the
pendulum Is first swung at base sta
ton where the value of gravity is
known and the period of oscillation of
the pendulum Is observed, This pc
Rod is then compared with the period
of the outside stations, and thus the
difference In gravity becomes estabr
lished.
Several other scientific observations
are being taken by Dr., Meinesz and
his party. Oficials of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey are greatly interested
in the data to be made known on the
return % the Dutch party.
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He has made one previous trip from
Holland to Java and another from
Holland to Port Said. The K-X1II,
his present craft. is completely
equipped with apparatus and ma
chinery developed on previous voy-
ages. The apparatus is the only
equipment which has been success
fully used in the determination of
GRANTEES at sea with an accuracy
comparable to the results achieved
with the pendulum apparatus on
land.
While the gravity observations are
being made the submarine is sub
merged to such depth that surface
waves and surface connections have
no effect on the gravity apparatus.
While the surface of the ocean may
be turbulent, with giant waves sweep
ing across 1t to all points of the COM
pass, so and IS feet deep in the
green depths the water Is calm and
untroubled. These depths the sub
marine has reached and will reach
In the gravity observations. 1t is
impossible to make accurate observa-
tions while the submarine Is at the
surface and subject to the twin in
fiuence of wind and waves. When
under water, with the scientific staff
taking observations, she proceeds at
very slow speed.
Scientific apparatus developed in
Washington is playing a large part
in the epochal journey two-thirds of
the way around the perimeter of the
globe. A radio receiving set with
an automatic recording device. de-
signed at the Commerce Department.
Bureau of Standards for the Coast
and Geodetic Survey, has been
loaned to DIR. Meinesz.. A similar set
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has been successfully used by the
Coast Survey in the determination OF
differences in longitude and of the
value of gravity.
The Navy Departments powerful
high-frequency radio station at An
napolis is one of the radio stations
whose time signals will be checked
against the observations of the ex-
petition while the submarine Is
within its transmitting range. But
after DIR. Meinesz gets out Of range
of Annapolis, he will be able to pick
up the high power signals sent from
other places on the globe. From mid
Atlantic to San Francisco he will use
the Annapolis signals.
Explaining the method by which
the effect Of gravity in mid.ocean
is computed, experts of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey say that as gravity
is the downward pull on any object.
the gravity observations are made
by timing the dead pendulum swings
and comparing them with data OBJ
tanned at various other points. This
will show the gravity difference be-
tween points, and, indirectly, the diff
ferences in the density of the earth's
crust. aiding science materially in a
study of the interior of the earth.
Some valuable data may be obtained
as to whether the crust of the earth
is, as popularity supposed, quite thin
at great depths in the oceans of the
world.
Because it is impossible to leave a
permanent mark to indicate the posi-
ton of marine gravity station as
Is done with similar stations on land
the latitude and longitude are care
fully observed at each point where
gravity readings are made on the
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Modern prototypes of the char

MODERN prototypes of the char
acters in Jules Nerne's novel
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
Sea-" Dutch argonauts are travelling
more than two-thirds of the way
around the globe in scientifically
equipped submarine. with the view of
determining the relative effect Of
gravity at varying depths of all the
oceans and in widely scattered sec
lions of the globe. Headed by DIR. F.
A. Vening Meinesz. engineer of the
Dutch Geodetic Commission, the crew
Of the undersea boat Is now en- route
to Java via the Panama Canal.
Eleven gravity observations have
been made to date in the journey
across the spaces of the Atlantic, and
before the sub goes through the canal
she will make stop at Curacao.
Dutch West Indies. From Curacao
the party will proceed through the
canal, visiting Colon and Panama.
thence via Mazatlan, on the west
coast of Mexico, to San Francisco.
where nearly two weeks will be spent
in preparing for the trip across the
rolling reaches of the Pacific ocean.
DR.. Meinesz and his scientific as
sociates expect to leave San Fran
cisco some time this month, visiting
Honolulu and the island of Guam on
their journey across the western
ocean. The submarine, with its pre-.
cious cargo of invaluable scientific
documents, Is expected to reach Sura.
baya, Java, in the Dutch East In
dies, about the middle of December.
The present trip is not the first Dr.
Meinesz has made in a submarine
more than nalf way around the globe
in search of scientific information.
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much from their fights. They had
side bets-each man put up $4,000 at
one time-but the probability Is that
most of this money was made up by
their respective favorite saloonkeepers
and the bruisers themselves got little
of the proceeds. They didn't expect
1t and didn't need 1t. There wasn't a
saloonkeeper in town who would have
thought of refusing either of them all
he wanted to drink, generous free
lunches and a place behind the bar
to sleep off his DRINKS. What more
could any honest pugilist have asked
in the good old days when Gen. Santa
Ana was the object of the Nation S
curses and the boys just back from
Mexico were complaining because
slackers had got their jobs while
they were at war.
Hyer and Sullivan would turn over
in their graves if the enormous purses
paid Dempsey and Tunney were com.
municated to them. They hated each
other. There were no long extended
formalities before one of their matches
and no exchange Of courtesies. There
were few rules, and what there were
were not observed. Biting. kicking
and gouging, of course, were pro
hibited, but the referee wasn't apt to
see 1t, and he never called fouls.
X X X \
HERE is the challenge issued by
Yankee Sullivan to Hyer for their
greatest fght-that of June. 1s4s.
There is some question, as III. G. Wells
would say. whether Sullivan could
write or Hyer read. but in those days
there were certain formalities.
About six weeks ago." reads the
challenge, II was in a saloon at Park
place and Broadway, in a condition
rendering me unable to defend myself
from any attack. While thus inca
FACILITATED I was assailed in the most
cowardly manner by a man by the
name of Hyer. If I had been worsted
in a fair fight by a man who knew
anything about fighting or had the
courage to enter a fair fight, like a
man, would have taken no further
notice of this event.
II want to serve notice that I am
no Irish braggart, as Hyer says. AS
for Hyer. I don't think there is any
question but that I can fax him out
without any exertion.
JAMES SULLIVAN"
On this particular occasion he did
flax out" Hyer. but few months
later he was himself faxed out" and
drops from the history of American
pugiksm."
One of Yankee Sullivan's greatest
fights was staged near Harpers Ferry
in 1912. The bruiser was in bad graces
in New York just at that time. and
there was nationwide interest in his
bout with Robert Cault for the UNI
heardof side bet. at that time. OF
81 900. The Virginia town was Sc
lected because the hackers considered
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No Crowds So Democratic as Those Drawn by Sc Battle

ford fed when the officers broke into
the ring. leaving Hammond, who had
been getting the worst or 1t up TO
that time, the complete victory at
the price of being arrested.
This same Sanford defended his
claim to the title against Bill Hat
field at a dive known as Brandy
Muley" on the Hudson in 1925. The
battle went for 81 rounds and the
veteran won despite the years that
had elapsed since he was beaten by
the timely arrival sf the sherin.
Ned Hammond was still active in
the ring until 1926. In that year he
fought George Kensett in 40-round
bout at Coney Island. Hammond
was knocked out.
There was one famous fight near
Newark, n. j., in 1882. between Pat
O'Donnell and Jim O'Hagan. 1t con-
tinued without much advantage for
either side through 100 rounds, when
the factions among the spectators
began fighting. sureed over the ring
in the general melee. and rendered
both contestants unable to continue
the battle.
In the same year. William HaSr
and Andy McLane fought just out
side Baltimore for a side bet of $500.
The fight was broken up by the
police. Both claimed they were
ahead when the interruption came
and fought the match over again
for the fun of 1t at Hoboken the
next year. Harr won.
Andy McLane fought Jim Reed at
Elizabethtown. n. j., in 1884. There
was heavy betting on the match and
1t went only 80 rounds, when McLana
was knocked out. He laid down.
according to the chronicler OF the
time, and from then on was out OF
the fight game. Reeds victory was
clouded. He enlisted in the Army.
was sent to Mexico. deserted. was
sentenced to be shot when captured.
but escaped and disappeared from
the history of pugilism. The next
real fighter to appear on the hort-
ION is Yankee Sullivan.
Fighting was at low ebb between
the decline of Sullivan and Hyer
and the appearance out of the West
of John c. Heenan. Heenan. the
Benicia boy, was California black
smith who built up a big reputa-
ton as a bully on the Pacific Coast
and w6s induced to come East. His
great enemy was John Morrissey.
These two kept fighting interest in
the On1leQ states awe up 10 IIlc
time of the Civil War.
Heenan was the first American
world champion. The others had
confined their activities to this side
of the Atlantic. After a Ions string
of victories the Benicia boy fought
the heavyweight champion of Eng
land, Tom Sayre, for AZ rounds. at
Farnsboro. At the end of hours
and % minutes of fighting the Eng
lishman, in his sos, while Heenan
was only %. was unable to rise from
| the canvas.
The blacksmith returned to Amer
lea after this fight, staged in 1850.
a national hero and continued his
battles with Morrissey and other
aspirants. In 1863 he again invaded
England and lost the title to Tom
King in 19 rounds. The American
was so badly battered that his sec
onds threw In the sponge. He after
ward claimed that he was doped.
Then came the Civil War when
| there was no time for prize fighting.
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are so veneered-even the worst of
us-with culture that the impulse
may be subconscious. In most cases
we never know we have it. 1t is
part Of the dead time. In the case of
Pithecanthropu Erectus there was no
blanket Of culture to smother the Inn
pulse. We can't express the thing In
words. Our ancient ancestors were
wordless. Their only mediums of ex-
preston were their fists. their claws
and their teeth. These remain today
the only medium for expressing such
passions.
The District of Columbia, probably
wisely, prohibits the practice Of this
art within its borders. Most of the
States have so entangled it in regula-
lions that no great work OF art Is
likely in this notwithstanding like
the 120-round fight between Chris
Lilly and Tom Mccoy in the days Of
our grandfathers, when the two men
battled under a blazing sun for 120
rounds, the affair ending only when
Mccoy dropped dead in the ring.
A FTER all, pugilism Is the art of
n the uncivilized. We are getting
more and more civilized every day.
Prize fights attract rough crowds, the
lower fringe of society. who haven't
fully absorbed the civilization and
aren't as far advanced from Pithe.
canthropus Erectus as most of us.
Whatever can be said about this
art, it is essentially a clean medium
of expression. Fundamentally it Is
direct, sincere and decent. The
things it is fitted to express are direct,
sincere and decent. There can never
be any honest protest over the moral
decadence of the prize ring, as there
Is over the stage or current notion or
jazz music.
OF course. fights often are crooked.
There is betting-not at Kenilworth
and there is irritability. Doubtless
the animal passions are aroused IN
man after all the long efforts of
churches and schools to subdue them
But, after all, these things are only
superficial indecencies. They don't
filter down to contaminate the funda-
mental decencies involved in an in
dividual, selfreliant. clash of fists.
At Kenilworth. insignificant as 1t may
be in the whole field of pugilism, you
meet raw men.
Some say you meet them in war.
Nonsense. Nowhere else in the world
is man so dependent, SO individually
a coward as in the battle line. Ger
tainly you don't meet them In base
ball or foot ball, where the individual
must absorb himself in the mixture
Of the team. Man is elementally self
ish, impulsive. full of hate, full of
egotism. Perhaps the one elemental
man left in our civilization is the
prize fighter.
A RTISTS long have sought express
"A sions of primitive emotion in
various dances. The prize fight is
the highest form of dance-a million
times nearer reality than your
Charleston or your Valencia.
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Undeserving as / am, beseech-
since eternity is so long and time so
short-that I be granted several in
carnations. I want one incarnation
as a prize fighter. I would try to re-
store prize fighting to it's truly classic
age before governments stepped in
with their restrictions, which prevent
the highest type of manliness in the
ring. l would go back to the days OF
Yankee Sullivan.
IT'S a long call from Yankee Sullivan
l. to Jack Dempsey. Eighty years OF
bruisers and maulers have interviewed
between these two heavyweight cham
pions of the world, and prize fighting
has evolved into polite pastime, not
to mention the frequently stressed re
munerative advances.
This Yankee Sullivan Is the first
real all-American fighter to emerge
out Of the mists of pugilism's infancy.
He was king of the New York saloons
in that nondescript period Immediately
after the Mexican war. Before his ad
vent there had been plenty Of local
talent, but no single individual to
whom the entire Nation could point as
its champion. He found boxing the
sport Of drunken ruffians. with pifHine
side bets of $50 or so on the outcome
Of encounters behind the barroom. He
left it the sport of business men.
Not that poor old Yankee Sullivan
made much money out of his fights
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When he is about 80 he disappears
from HISTORIAN impoverished, broken
old man. The role he played was that
of such an outstanding, colorful per-
former that the showmen realized that
they were passing up a good bet by
not capitalizing on these whisky-fumed
battles.
Yankee Sullivan was not only the
champion bruiser, but one of the
champion whisky drinkers in New
York. His life was divided between
three DEMONSTRATING drinking and
sleeping. He slept only when he was
too drunk to stand at the bar any
longer, and there were plenty of swigs
between rounds in his fights to keep
him cheerful. Compared to the Yankee.
from all accounts. his illustrious
namesake of late years, the great
John L.. was a rather mild, meek gen
tleman. This first of the great fistic
masters of America fought as a violin
player fiddles--with some primal, in
spring urge for expression within
him.
His great rival. Tom Hyer. was
much the same sort of character. A
scrap between these men In a back
lot-there was no admission charged
sometimes would draw as many as
1000 fana teal spectators. Hyer was
the younger man. He energies from
obscurity as Yankee Sullivan drops
out of Standardization of his veteran
enemy's crown.
Neither Hyer nor Sullivan made
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One Of the headliners for the next
preliminary hasn't shown up. Fight
ers have most disconcerting habit
OF not showing up. The life of
matchmaker is one long series OF
worries. A substitute is introduced.
He is ambitious. He dances about
the ring. swinging his gloves wildly.
TT, other fellow is mad at being
matched with such an obvious anna
teur. 1t hurts his feelings. Just be-
fore the bell rings which would have
ended the first round he places a neat
punch against the strangers chin
and the boy goes down for the count.
After all, a knockout is what the
crowd wants. They haven't seen a
fight. but they have got their moneys
worth. The boy RECEIVERS from the
punch and staggers out of the ring.
THEN comes the semi-final-a fast
little Filipino for all the world
like a gamecock, matched against
a white headed, peaceable- looking
Scotchman. The Oriental can hit two
blows to the Scotchman's one. but
there isn't much force in his brown
arms. The Scctchman Is playing for
a knockout as his only chance of win
ming the decision. But he can't land
hard enough blow in the right place.
Once or twice he hurts the Oriental,
but not badly enough.
There is no question about the de-
cision for the Manila boy. Both
fighters seem to think it is fair enough
and they shake hands like the best Of
friends when 1t is all over. Fighting
brings strange bedmates-the High
lands and the South Seas, the son of
CT Co1x-Ae.
tons black stevedore, Algeria and Ire
land. A mans color or his race
doesn't count much. Here is the art
of individualism, not a matter Of So
cial proprieties.
EVERYBODY has come to see the
II last fight. The lightweight cham
pion of Germany is to fight Buzz Saw
Sweeney of Fort Myer for II rounds.
But the lightweight champion of Ger
many is unavoidably detained
The crowd senses that he will not
appear. The announcer, in evening
clothes appears in the ring, shame
faced smile on his face, like bad
little boy caught stealing the jam.
Doubtless he'd far rather fight Young
Drake himself than tell this crowd
that the German will not appear It's
unfair. Young Drake should be
forced to do his own announcing.
We're sorry for you, Muggsy."
Lets get Muggsy."
All over the arena the cries arise.
Muggsy in vain appeals for silence.
But when the news is finally out
and the substitute in the ring, it ism t
so bad after ALL and Buzz Saw
Sweeney. the Fort Myer soldier. with
his hair cut like Hindenburg' has all
he can do to hold his own. He finally
fights his way to a victory, however,
and the bouts are over until next
week
Now for the philosophy of the scrap.
In my own peculiar unholy philos-
ophy, I have long ranked prize
fighting as one of the fine arts.
II l could establish an order Of
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Switch Controls Lights.

ELECTRIC lights in a show window
or outside a store can be turned
on or off automatically at any time
desired by means of a time-switch
clock recently put on the market. This
clock has a standard eight day move
ment with 12-inch dial for time
keeping purposes and Is provided with
a special switch attachment by which
night lights are controlled without re-
quiring the services of an attendant.
To operate, the indicators Of a small
dial on the face of the clock are set at
the respective hours at which the
lights are to be turned on and off
each night The switch then works
automatically. operating at the same
hours each night until the indicators
are changed
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precedence. l would set it just be-
low music. poetry and painting. and
well above acting, dancing and ora
tory. 1t is the one means Of adequate
expression afforded man for some of
the most dominant passions of his ma
ture 1t enables the artist to probe
in the colorful romantic days of the
race when it was furry and tailed,
The true master of this art can inter
pref the soul of Pithecanthropus
Erectus. just as the composer can in
terpret the soul of Shelley.
Since there is more of Pithecan-
thropus Erectus than of Shelley in
most of US. it follows naturally that
pugilism is the more popular art.
Even to watch two truly inspired
maulers gives us an outlet for the
hates that are burning our lives out.
1t is an expression of the return to the
primitive. to the intense individualisn1
of the Neanderthaler and the lion,
and away from the unnatural social
organism into which human society
has been made.
Other athletic contests are just
sports-not arts. War is just a nasty
mess-not an art. They demand
teamwork. which is the negative OF
individualism. Compared to pugilism
base ball, foot ball. basket ball and
the rest are like penmanship com
pared to verse. The great trouble is
that we are now In a classical age
of prize fighting-an age when more
attention is given to the form than
the spirit of the production. We
have passed out of the days OF the
Shake speare of the ring and into the
decadent times of the poetasters.
There are certain human emotions
that can't be expressed other than by
blows and blood. l venture to say
every normal man living has just such
emotions once or twice every day
burning desires to maui somebody
They are inheritances, DR.. Hrdlicka
would say. .
Every time you and are snubbed
hurt, bested in an argument or other
wise reused to wrath I think we
must all admit this primal urge. We