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Here we have irrefutable evidence
that this stroke enables men and
women to gain a maximum of speed,
or combined speed and endurance. as
circumstances may require, from
their respective physical resources.
And it will be obvious that the
crawl could not thus increase all
around efficiency unless it minimized
the effort, as certainly there has been
no perceptible increase in human
strength and stamina since it came
to be generally adopted little more
than a decade ago.
This makes short shrift Of the claim
Of natatorial experts of the old school
that the crawl is too firing method
Of swimming to use adequately for
other than racing purposes. Actually
1t Is the easiest and least Furnishing of
all strokes when it's action is executed
without undue haste.
Nor Is there any foundation for the
other claim SO often raised by old
timers that. though the crawl may be
the last word in so far as the con-
testant is concerned. it lacks practi-
cal value because 1t does not lend 1t.
self properly to life-saving
In matter Of fact, its speed makes
it valuable in going to the assistance
of a drowning person. when every sec
ond is Of vital Importance. and extern
sive tests, too. have demonstrated that
the best means of propulsion In per-
forming a. rescue-supportinG the
drowning person to safety-are af-
forded by the scissor kick, which is
the basic unit Of the crawl leg drive,
and a one.arm stroke very similar to
the underwater pull Of this stroke.
It will be seen. therefore. that far
from being ineffective in life. saving,
the crawl serves better than any
other stroke in this outstanding
branch of natatorial activities
1t may be added. for those who
would take advantage of swimming to
keep fit and improve themselves
physically. that the crawl exercises
the entire muscular system more thor
oughly than other styles of swimming,
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thereby conditioning in quicker order
and developing the body more thor
oughly and symmetrically.
Whatever ones aim in taking up
swimming, then, 1t is advisable to
adopt the crawl. There are exceptions
to every rule, of course. and among
Older people who have long used other
styles there may be some unable to
master this stroke, but the vast ma
jority will find it the easiest to learn
and the best for all purposes.
(COpNrlghf IN2R
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match was closed for Toledo. 1t was
a central location, there would be no
| bitches, and we plunged into the bally-
hoo Of the match that was to bring
| Dempsey the title.
! We went on with another road
show and played as far as Kansas
City. Dempsey and ! went over to the
| springs outside of Kansas City for a
couple Of weeks. and then we motored
back from there to Toledo to pitch
our training camp.
coming Of the big match. We were
| given training quarters at the country
club operated by the Overland Motor
| Co. on the Maumee River.
It was my purpose to get all the
heavyweights possible, for Jack and
| his workouts. He needed big men.
| for there was no hope Of middle
weights or light heavyweights stand
ing the humping he always gave men
| In training. He couldn't pull his
punches. and he spared no one.
! I had Jimmy De Forest bring down
our gymnasium stuff from Long
| Branch.
Kearns Boss of Camp.
I put Jimmy De Forest in charge
| Of the camp. but there never was a
moment that l wasn't the boss. De
Forest took my orders and saw that
| they were carried out. That went for
every man in the camp. They worked
| the way I wanted them to- I knew
Dempsey like book, and there wasn't
| a time when I couldn't tell Just what
| condition Dempsey was in. I knew
him and they didn't. was the boss,
and the others were working for me.
hope that is clear!
had different schedules. Some
days I would keep him on the bags.
big and little ones, with his road work
bag would be for speed. the heavy
one for hitting. Some days 1t would
be road work all one. Then again,
all boxing. BY switching around in
this manner / kept him interested,
and he didn't weary of the grind. II
was a keen job to keep him right on
edge. Dempsey always was a high.
strung fellow when in condition. and
there was only one system that
brought the best results. That was
10 keep him right on razor edge all
the time.
Jack Is Willing Worker.
The great difficulty was to keep
him from overriding IT, Always a
hard worker and a fast one. he want
ed to make every day fight day.
I've had him plead TO be allowed to
continue with his work. Just when
I caught him bearing down in earnest
I'd chop off the days work In that
way he never was allowed to really
cut loose, and It was then that he
begged to be allowed to 60 a little
further. He wouldn't kick over IT,
He never did. He was ambitious.
and when you checked him he only
wanted to 90 on. repeat that he
was the easiest fellow ] ever had to
handle.
tCcryright. 1920
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National Tourney Today With Elizabeth Ryan Faore
FIGHT CARD TOPPED
BY FEATHERWEIGHTS

With the Ahearn- Foreman bout
postponed until August 81 because OF
an injry to Foreman's hands. two
other fast featherweights have been
booked to meet tomorrow night In
the main event of IL rounds at kenil-
worth arena.
frankie Fink, latest New York SEN
sation and an entry in the tourna-
ment being held to determine a. sue
cessor to Champion Kid kaplan. Will
take on Babe Ruth, Philadelphia top
liner.
On the West coast Fink showed his
wares against such fighters as Ace
Hudkins, Billy Petrolle, Phil Saliva
dore and frankie Garcia He was
sent to New York to Manager Johnny
Reyes on the personal recommends
ton of Jack Dempsey. and In very
short while became a main eventer
Two weeks ago he fiattened Harry
Landon at Coney Island.
The supporting card remains the
same as announced. Jack Turner
meets Willy Curry. Tex Stovall goes
on with Bud Nolan and Phil Ray
mond meets George Leslie in trio of
eight-rounders. Pepco Barry and
Paul Healy battle for four rounds,
and two youngsters. Toby and Mitch
ell, open the show with three
rOunder.
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SWIMMING RECORDS
FOR WOMEN BROKEN
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
DETROIT. August 16.-Ethel Nc
Gary Of the New York Women's
Swimming Association, cracked her
own world record for the 500-meter
swim when she covered the distance
in TAI is in the national junior A..
a. U. meet here. Her former mark
was sos.
Agnes Geraghty. a. clubmate Of
Miss McGary. set a new world mark
for the 200meter breast stroke when
she beat her own time of 1893 o-5 by
As Of a second
Mathilda Sheurich Of the same club
set new national record of 1:31 is
for the 100-meter breast stroke.
The Library Club of Homestead.
Pa, won the national junior A. A. U.
title for the S80-yard relay and Rose
Boczek of Cleveland took the national
junior A. A. U. diving championship.
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CHERRYDALE HOLDS
ITS LEAD IN SERIES

Cherrydale and Addison mines cap
tured twin bills yesterday in the
Northern Virginia Base Ball League
series. while the Hartfords and Ball.
ston Eagles we're splitting a double
header and Fort Myer was defeating
the Virginia White Sox in a single
game.
The Cherries. with Wesley McDon-
aid and Buck Clatterbuck hurting
took Glen Carlyn over the bumps
twice and thereby kept their place at
the head of the race with six straight
wins. The scores were 10 to 8 and
10 to 4.
Addison went into a tie for third
place with the Hartfords by trimming
Hume Spring, 6 to and to ,. Fort
Myer maintained its hold on the run
ner-up position by swapping the
White SoX. IL to |.
AT Ballston the HartfordS took the
first game with the aid of triple
play. s to 3. but dropped the second.
I to 3.
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WASHINGTON NETMEN
TAKE LEAGUE TITLE.

The home town boys walked away
with the first title in the Intercity
Public Courts Tennis League yester
day when they closed their schedule
by scoring a clean sweep in 9 matches
with Wilmington at Potomac Park.
It was a one-sided victory for Man
ager Mortimer Rathgeber's combina
ton Of netmen. who were playing
without the services of their cham
pion, Dooly Mitchell. and Gwynn
King, their No. man. Each of the
six singles and three doubles tits
was taken in straight sets. Hugh
Trigg won from Ryan without the
loss of a game.
Washington, Chester and Philadel
phia have competed their matches in
the league series. leaving Baltimore
and Wilmington to stage the final en-
counter next Sunday at Baltimore.
The teams stand as follows:
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Question-What sort of fellow makes
the best second baseman?.
Answer-Usually a medium sized
we'll built lad
Question-What is the proper way
to run to first on an outfield ball?
Answer-Touch first at full speed
rounding toward second. with eyes or
ball at that point. If ball is intercept
ed turn quickly back If you see il
is going on keep ahead at full speed
If you have gone far past first anG
the ball Is thrown back there streak
for second. for another perfect throw
must be made to catch you there.
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BUY LEADING
SALLY LEAGUE HURLER

GREENVILLE. S. c.. August l6.-
Wilcey Moore Of the Greenville Spin.
ners. leading pitcher Of the South At.
iantic Association. has been sold to the
New York Americans.
Moore will join the Yankees next
Spring.
He has lost but two games. these
BY errors Of his teaqarates. and holds
the league record, winning u etraiSht.
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WcllI " (IOSC Will .JCSo'
The ballyhoo came off at the Bit
more. We had all the newspaper
boys there and much ado was made
about the big match. Tex announced
that he had secured Wizards sigma
ture and was going to guarantee Jess
500, 900
What are you going to give Demp-
sey?" a we'll known sports writer IN
quired. Up to this time the subject
had never been brought up. not even
by Richard. He made no mention
of what he was going to pay the
challenger.
"Oh. III take care of Dempsey, :"
said Tex. 'kearnS knows that.
Dempsey Gets 27,5O0.
We'll. it's time we'd get down to
some concrete agreement on that
score" | said we want ours as
we'll as the champion. You're paying
Willard 100000. We want at least
half Of that We want $4,000 for our
end" l expected to see Richard put
on his hat and walk out.
Too much money. All too much
money" said Bat Masterson, the
writer playing the straight for his
friend Tex.
1T doesn't make any difference
about it being too much. We want
it," I told them.
Tex began to decker. ! cut 1t to
$4,000. After a long wrangle cut
il 70 $50. 900, and decided not to bulge
from that point. Tex was just as de-
termined to make me go to $4,000.
Finally, I hit on a way TO COM
promise with the hope OF getting what
wanted.
Here's all the newspaper men,"
began. Let them decide what III get.
Let them decide by a man.tonlan vote
whether youll pay me S27.50o or
10000. ri stand by their vote in
the matter"
That was agreeable to Tex and then
each newspaper writer wrote either
$4,000 or $40 900 and dropped it into
q hat. I lost. They voted . TO !
that was to be paid s27.5o0. which,
Of course. was more than either
Dempsey and / had ever dreamed of
setting when we started on our ca
reer.
| took the verdict in good part and
started off on another tour with
Dempsey. It was important to build
him I'D wherever I could. l landed
in Toledo and found ii a pretty good
fight town.
Toledo Is Selected.
Ad Thatcher and the mayor were
friends. Thatcher having a license to
conduct boxing. \ told Thatcher
about the possibility of bringing the
match there. Tex had no notion of
" here he would pull it of. He had
never made any announcement OF To-
cation for the simple reason that he
had none.
I advised Thatcher to wire Rickard
and have him come on and talk mat
tiers over ! knew that Tex was q
close personal friend Of Gov. James
Cox and would get fair hearing. Tex
came on, got an earful and was quite
enthused over the prospect. He saw
yhaschas and than Coy. C0x-' and thA
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PIRATES PAY BIG PRICE
FOR A NEW OUTFIELDER

BY the Associated Press.
TORONTO. Ontario, August Is.
Officials OF the Toronto Inter
national Base Ball Club have an.
nounced that Outf1elder Herman
Layne had been sold to the Pitts.
burgh Nationals for $4,000 and
two players, both to be accepted
by the locals before Layne reports
to the present world champions
next Spring.
Layne. who came to Toronto
from the Detroit Tigers, is batting
.354 this year and is considered
one of Tor0nto's fastest men on
bases and in the field.
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D. C. PROS TO DECIDE
ON TOURNEY COURSE

Professional golfers of clubs about
Washington met this afternoon at the
Indian Spring Club to decide on
course for the playing Of the qualify.
ing round of the Professional Golfers
Association championship later In the
month.
The course of the Congressional
Club was decided upon several weeks
ago. but the claim is now made by
some Of the pros that 1t Is not In the
best Of condition and that another
should be selected.
After the meeting the pros will play
in handicap sweepstakes event
with Fred Mcleod of Columbia.
Tommy Armour Of Congressional and
Robert r. Barnett of Chevy Chase
playing from scratch.
Dave Thomson. pro at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club. plans
to play in the Virginia State open
championship to be held at the
Hermitage Country Club course in
Richmond on September 3 and T.
Indian Spring and Manor clubs
played host yesterday to Beaver Dam
in team matches. Indian Spring
closed a chapter Of defeats by over
whelming the Beaver Dam players,
IL points to 6, while Manor defeated
the Argyle team, 1917 points to 712
DIR. f. r. Tilley furnished the fire
works of the afternoon at Indian
Spring, holing a putt from the edge
of the eighteenth green for birdie
3, while II. S. Pope of Indian Spring
secured par 4 on the difficult eigh-
teenth to win by | up from Byrne
Curtiss of Beaver Dam.
W. P. di Este, the cross-handed
star of the, Argyle Club. shot the best
round of the day in the Manor-Argyle
to beat A. l.. Houghton by and T..
Earl McAleer. the Manor champion,
came back in 81 to nose out L. D.
Sasscer Of Argyle.
Summaries of the Indian Spring
Beaver Dam match:
Il M snd D D Mo assaf d s. aeI E+Ss.
rd 6f p Tis ND d If Ssx. LY'4sr
~ SS : y ns Gs1'f & - sS'? Best ball.,
ae!Ss RAY p seH Fed Be- aw anal Best
G. Knox " is 5, defeated popald yone.
b by' Fsai caFt Sp+ins R 10 f. Best
c Or; b G; Davis; p. 5. defeated 6; w Nc
defeated G. il. stoddaTd. p. B.. and 3; Best
bali !, .o BY Indian Spring 81 i to SO;
!. s., i and :; Col. H. a. Knox. / S. de:
bail-Won by Indian Spring, II to 90.
Results of the Manor.Argyle match:
uo"4n1on dI Nl Este ArSyde defeated S,c, l.
SON Manor. defeated George Geo Gist Argyle !.
an4 Earl M Ma sa Mano ever" defeated I! D.
Arf r spee ma Arsye ap Best
0a W. Gal ny Manor Manor defeated Hn Money
Defeated JACK oco1nor. Arsyie; 5 and l.
Best E,,i ballS won. by Manor. and vu,,
S1rEyis dsfss,ed y See Manor! hei'% and
vos 1hn M Grs A5Fy and deea ~ hand
Manor. defeated L. d Este, Argyle. 5 and 4.
Best ball-Won by. Manor: | up.
!; Pattison. Manor DETECTED Harry Pea
defeated F. c. stalcy. Manor, 5 and 5. Best
ball-Won by Argyle, . and /
Mrs. X. c. Dunbar was the winner
of the qualifying round in the Mid
summer tournament for women now
/ being played over the course of the
Bannockburn Golf Club. Mrs. Dun
bar had a score of so over the first
nine. the most difficult part of the
course. Pairings for match:
Mrs. G.. T. Cunningham VS.. Mrs. R. S.
Beaman; Miss FLORENCE E. Parks. vs.. Mrs
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PLAYGROUND ATHLETES
HOLD MEET TOMORROW

Track and field athletes Of the pub.
lie Fairgrounds gather tomorrow at
Plaza to compete. for the Washington
Post Cup and medals in the annual
city championship meet.
Over 1000 boys. representing 80
play centers. are expected to try for
the title now held by Corcoran play
ground. The meet opens at 10 o'clock
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RUTH SHOWS SIGNS
OF HOME-RUN Squirt

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 16.-Four home
run drives by Babe Ruth In the last
seven days set the pace for his fol-
lowers in both leagues. They brought
Ruth's season string to 80 and indi-
Gated a squirt which II followed In
succeeding weeks will land the Bam'
bino in record breaking regions.
Goose Goslin. with three homers.
duplicated his performance of a week
ago, but failed to overtake Williams
of the Browns. who bagged two to
gain a clean second-place position.
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The ShamroCks gained their place
close on the heels of the Knicker.
lockers by downing Chevy Chase.
to 6, after the Rearcats had put up a
great defense and turned in triple
play as well as a trio of two-pll Kill
ings. The hurting Of Lefty Kuhnert
who relieved Nickv Mcconnell, and
the hitting of Tom Sweeney and
, Dutch Smlthson brought home the
bacon.
Both OF the double headers in the
| section a series ended at l-all. Big
Jim Sullivan pitched a seven-inninS
no-hit game for Mount Rainier
against Arlington for 6-to-2 victory
in the opener of the twin bill on tho
NirGiniauS' field The second en-
counter, which went / innings. went
to Arlington. to :. LayCock and
Corkins were the opposing mounds
men.
/ Marlboro and Maryland Athletic
Club divided their double attraction
at the Maryland diamond. the home
team getting q lO.to-3 win in the
opener and the visitors winning the
second match, to 4 Naverlv
Roberts was Maryland's winning
hurler and Burton the victor for
Marlboro.
The Knickerhockers got their sixth
straight win by forfeit from the 81.
Joseph's nine The knicks were
players objected to n decision handed
out by Umpire George Watt.
DOnohoe and RialtO mines continue
neck and neck in the race for section
3 honors. The DOnohoeS. with Joe Nc
Carthy pitching, took the Capitals TO
camp al BenninG yesterday. { To I.
while the Rialtos banked Wentworth.
to 0. Chilly Gutenberg tWirled for the
Rialtos, granting hut four hits Tho
AnacoStia Eagles forfeited to Bladens.
burg in the third scheduled game
Auth base ballers completed their
second round of games i'll the Section
G series and earned their sixth
straight win by trimming the stephen
nine of Rivcrdalc. tn =. MCGowan
was the winning hurler The MoGocs
pounded out 10 hits while defeating
the ConcordIians. II to b. Schneider
held the mound for the victorS.
COrinthian FASTENERS. winners Of
the section y junior race i'm the cap
ital City League. pulled up even with
the Freers. section Il winners. YES
IeIudN III tine ScCtIu tIIt 81 'u' 'IitcW
game series for the city ChamI lon-
ship. The count was / To Q in ~
innings The rubber game Will he
played next Sunday
The Auth Midgets won the title in
their division of the capital City
League in 10-inning tussle with the
New Ravens of Georgetown. Johnny
Wiles hurled the Auths to 7-to-1
victory. opposing Ralph Young on the
mound. The hits stood Is TO : for the
Victors.
Probably the shortest boxing con-
test on record was that between Bat
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IcSt OH tIde punt "
showing him Dempsey's quick knockout record over
big
The telegram hooked Willard He sent reply to
Tex telling Richard that he would meet him in Chicago
to talk over Tex hoped the next train, and that
the last heard of him for few days Then he
came back with Wizards signature for the fight.
1--WE got his signature all right, but l can't pay
him the kind of dough he wants.
What does he want?" / asked
Zone hundred thousand dollars Tex answered.
Give it to him.
Tex looked me over as though he thought was
loco, and said:
why ! can't raise it. 1t won't draw that much to
egin with.
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HELEN WILLS TO RETURN
TO CALIFORNIA AT ONCE
Champion Plans to Come East Early Next Season.
Tilden Shows Old Mastery in Defeating
Richards in Four Sets.
BY the Associated Press.


EW YORK August l6Tenn interest aroused by the de-
Richards by William TIden Rye n " IS
" championship
a Hills
champion participate
ship will last throughout the week with than half hundred players
Elizabeth regarded the
Miss Wills will her California Immediately but plans
the title
(which this another the youthful
able fully appendicitis Paris which
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KAPLAN HURTS THUMB:
GOODRICH BOUT IS OFF

MERIDEN, Conn, August 16 R.-
Luis (kid, kaplans scheduled 8-round
bout with Jimmy Goodrich, at Ebbetts
Field Brooklyn, next Wednesday
night, has been cancelled
splintered bone in kaplan's left
thumb, received in his bout with
Tommy Cello two weeks ago, will pre-.
vent him from going through with
the match
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TIGERS BUY sHORTSTOP.

BEAUMONT. Tex. August Is R),
Beaumont of the Texas League has
sold Bernie Deviveros, shortstop, to
the Detroit Americans for an UNI
named cash consideration and two
players. Deviveros is TO report to
Detroit at the end of the season. He
is hitting for an average of 1907 and
has bagged 10 home runs.
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Question: ball is hit to an infield-
err who fumles momentarily and then
throws to first. The batter barely
beats it, Does he get a hit?
Answer-No. II the infielder had
handled the ball clearly he would have
had time to throw the runner out
tCopyright. 1920
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DOEG NOW LEADER
OF JUNIOR NETMEN

CHICAGO. August lS.-Following
the footsteps OF Vincent Richards.
George Lott. Cranston Holman and
other world famous tennis players,
John Doeg of Santa Monica, Calf.
now wears the crown formerly held
bv them-the national Junior tennis
championship.
Young Doeg. who comes from a ten
nisplaying family. being the family
~ Violet Sutton of the famous Sutton
sisters. assembled to the junior throne
Yesterday by defeating Julius Seligson
Of New York. "a. Is, SIS. 6--3.
Berkeley Bell of Austin. Tex. and
James Quick. Dallas. Tex. won the
tunior doubles title over Emmett Pare
Of Chicago and Robert Seller. San
Francisco, 6-3, s.. 6--4. SIS, b-l'
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Tbe Gbeni;1g Star
BOYS CLUB
BY JACK HENDRICKS,
Manager of the Cincinnati Reds.

HESE QUESTIONS following commonly by
| of The Star Boys - '
| QuestonIiow can become outheder?
Answer-Most outhelders
they put all their time paccing flies the ball to
come to them Don't do that Advance rapidly
well front of when making ground balls and
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ONLY ONE CHANGE OCCURS
IN CAPITAL CITY LEAGUE

tai City unlimited base ball yesterday only change
~ standings the Shamrock taking undSpued
OF second place A. while the St oephs
backt hrdpo
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By the Associated Press.
STRASSBORG. August l6.-Jean
I.inder, a 50-year-old Swiss athlete,
has won the go-as-you.please walk
between Paris and Strassborg, cover.
ing the 3l3 miles al an average speed
OF 4 miles an hour.
Linder started walking only years
arc He is g. milk carrier In the
suburbs Of Zurich and walks from IL
TO 20 miles before dinner each day.
Ee Is the father Of u ohtldraN-
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GERTRUDE Crawl
EDERLE'S Stroke
By L. De B. Handley !n.!.gs!e. Of Olympic Team:

ARTICLE
THE SUPERIORITY OF THE CRAWL SWIMMING STROKE.
TINE ceancu superiority of the crawl all other swimming
| strokes known at longer to argument
is fully proved by the fact that the world records for all
the 50 yards stand to
credit and that consistently and concuvy have
other styles