davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-08
CALIBER MUCH THE SAME

There is little or no difference be-
tween the standard of football as now
played in the various sections Of the
United States" was. his reply to my
query as to where he believes the best
football is played
Thirty years ago the east held a
pronounced edge, Their the west cut in
strongly, followed by the Pacific coast,
and now we have the south bidding
strongly for national honors.
'UnqueStionabl the south has made
the most progress during the last 10
years, perhaps five would be better.
In that time the standard of football
in that section has been raised to such
an extent that the south no longer
needs. to offer apologies to any section
of the country.
"Peruse the scores of the inter-sec-
tional games and you viii be able to
realize how evenly the teams have
been matched in a majority of the
inter-sectional games, with no sector
having any great advantage"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-08

ton, too, has been barred at the same
place.
Percy Athos, manager of the New
Princes cabaret, says the first week
after he did away with jazz and re-
verted to waltz melodies as the basis
of his chorus numbers and dances he
did the best business in years.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-08

to Georgia's victory over Yale, Notre
Dame gets much joy out of it's defeat
of Southern California, while the east
can rejoice in the Armys surprising
victory over Notre Dame.
"a survival of the fittest with the
situation pretty much $3.50 in all in
ter-sectional clashes, is the collegiate
condition in football at present"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-08

Warner, considered the premier
inventor of trick football plays,
says he is having great success this
year, using some moss covered
plays of Is years vintage, labelling
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-08
BILLY
EVANS
PRAISE FOR PITT TEAM


Had the usual interesting chat with
Pop" Warner, famous coach of STAN
ford, during his recent visit to the
east. The reason for said visit was a
desire to scout University of Pitts
burgh, the team that is to play STAN
ford in the annual Tournament of
Roses game at Pasadena, Calf.
After looking Pittsburgh over, and
Pop" admits that he saw. plenty, since
Pitt overwhelmed the sUrong Penn
State team, 800, he journeyed on to
Chicago to take in the Notre Dame
Southern California game.
pitt has one of the greatest teams
I ever saw, and don't forget 1 have
seen a lot of mighty good ones in the
last 80 years, said Warner. TN the
game saw, Pitt against Penn State,
its play was well nigh perfect. In
Welch I saw a marvellous halfback,
perfectly in keeping with the caliber
of the team.
Yet I have no doubt but that
Pop cherishes the hope that his
team at Stanford win be able to
defeat Pittsburgh.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-08

Even they have meet in JAIL Okahomas
investigate administration of
applied injunction
Johnston is
special Representative johnson;
tatve H
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-08
T.lWO TOUGH BREAKs

mo section, and mighty few of the
so-called major teams, are outstanding
in football as was the case years ago. .
continued Warner.
"The open game has revolutionized
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-08

them as new and getting away
with it.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-08
LONDON GIVES HAND
TO JAZZLESS CABARET

LONDON tP-London's first jazzless
cabaret has made q hit. The. Charles.
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and we parted.
Would Like to Know Answer
suppose that somewhere in this
world she is today, most likely q
decent and reasonably happy Chris
tian wife and mGther-she must be
past 25 now. hope so. With such
q natural desire to understand the
true meaning of religion, she had a
chance to beat the percentage.
i If she ever found out the answer
to that question /, who was her
teacher, would now like to be her
pupil. wish she would send to me,
in the lighthouse at Sing Sing, the
answer to that childish inquiry,
which I passed off with a hedging
subterfuge, but to which / am now
burning to get the true solution.
(The word burning" may seem a
trifle premature; it was not intended
to be either irony or comedyD
Many Good Because Lucky
But, as 1 try to think it over
isn't 1t puZZling to be made as we
are and to be told to be as we are
not made?
believe many people who are and
remain good are just lucky, in that
they haven't had the opportunities
thrust upon them to bring out in
them the human fraiIties and weak.
nesseS under which so many of us
let the good IN us be swamped.
This Is not preliminary TO a plea
for myself. The subject of my dis.
cussion today is one OF whom YOU
have heard-Judd Gray.
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whether he was drunk or sober,
whether he was known or strange
people deferred to him. This little
corset salesman had Importance"
He Certainly Had "It"
II he hadn't got caught in 8
CHASTITY and fatal murder, he might
have risen to commanding power
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, in her re
view of me, said lacked TT
Nobody ever said that of Judd. He
was ut" with q capital II" and q
capital 1T" He had more than
'It"-he had Those" because he
held it through 80 many situations
and conditions. The man was q
marvel at getting instant attention
and going through with what he set
out after.
0f this IL q rave" forgive me
he cost me my life and my hus-
bands life. All that couldn't have
been for nOthing9
He went to work for his father
after he had a high school course,
and, believe, a couple of years
at a freshwater college. He left
because athletics were the domi.
nant feature there, and at that he
was a dub. He became a salesman.
And how nature cut him out for
that!
He sold instalment plan homes
for his father. But his father was
one person that Judd couldn't SELL
The father had all the inside angle
on him. So he cut loose for him
self. He told me later that he
had never been turned down for a
job in his life, had never been dis
charged, had never asked for a
raise.
What he was other people made
him, and not for his aslIing-be-
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Man
ANDPL ANE
'G()()D"
By Radio to International News Service

BY Radio to International News Service
ON BOARD u. S. CRUISER
MEMPHIS, June Capt. Charles
A. Lindbergh, homeward bound
upon this warship, displayed UNI
diminished interest today in the
New, York.to-Germany flight Of
clarence D.. Chamberlin.
After breakfast with Vice Admiral
Burrage, with whom he has become
chum,. Lindbergh discussed the
BelIanca, No. 40, airpIano of
Aviator Chamberlin, saying:
II always felt that the Bellanca
could make such flight. am
glad It succeeded"
Asked whether his own expert.
ence in having so much gasoline
left when he reached Paris did not
give the pilot of the No. 140 as
surance that he could make a
longer voyage, Lindbergh replied
with characteristic nnodesty:
1.-THE Bellanca plane could always
have made a long cruise, when 1
landed at lie Bourget I could have
gone from 500 to 1000 miles
farther, but I had intended to stop
at Paris. The Bellanca plane al
READY mas SuoHh ~ OOuAu AoLAS =
long flight
"Chamberlin deserves great credit
for his admirable flight. have sent
him my personal congratulations.
The plane, the motor and the man
were all good"
Gets Plenty Of Rest
Llndbergh did not allow his in
terest in the ChamberIin flight to
interfere with his rest. He slept
| late Monday morning and did not
get on deck until 10 o'clock. He
stroIled about and chatted with
Benjamin Mahoney, builder of 1.-The
Spirit of st. Louis"
Mahoney likewise has shown
keen interest in the transatlantic
flight of Chamberlin.
ct was a. splendid feat" said Ma
honey. "Chamberlin had a fine
plane and good motor. am glad
he made it."
| Captain Fried, of the liner Presi
dent Roosevelt had sent a radio
gram asking the position OF the
Memphis and explaining that the
800 passengers on his ship were
anxious to have him alter his course
to pass close enough to the cruiser
so they could get glimpse of Lind
| bergh.
However, a fog settled down and
the passengers on the President
Roosevelt were disappointed.
Late in the afternoon a freighter
showed up on the horizon and Vice
Admiral Burrage and Lindbergh, be-
Iieving 1t was the Roosevelt, hur-
ried to the bridge.
Gets News Bulletins
About the same time the passen-
ger liner Christobal Colon. which
happened to be in the vicinity. sent
a radio message of greetings to
the glorious aviator.
Wireless dispatches from the Ber-
lin bureau of International News
Service to New York were picked
up by the Memphis and Lindbergh
read with considerable interest de-
tails OF Chamherlin's flight. How
ever. he did not have much COM
| meHt to make.
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wore glasses when he was q kid
the boys teased him and called him
-Four Eyes"
Began to Train His Mind
Never muscular, powerful or vigor,
Gus. he still had certain instinct
for self-protection.t He knew he
couldn't fight the other boys. out.
run them, conquer them by force.
So he began to develop in his high.
strung. sensitive. teTnperamentaI
framework another line Of defnese,
to get him equality and In time win
him superiority.
He had mind. He had amazing
concentration, and, though the term
may sound almost gruesome in view
of what developed. he had what the
world calls character"
That is, he was proud. Pride
cometh before a fsll--true enough.
But it cometh, also, before q sue
cess. 1t Is the dominating, mott
waiting lego" that makes us do
things beyond serving the physical
and animal desires to sleep. eat,
procreate, and cheat death as long
as may be.
Judd was q proud little fellow
from the start. He couldn't fight
off those who kicked him and threw
him, but he didn't like 1t. So he
plotted how to get the best of them.
He had imagination--plen He
had a persuasive ''line"-Oh, how
well ], Of all people, know thst!
So he came to a turning point
where, like the little Napoleon, like
the weak and sickly Woodrow Will
son, he dominated with the mental
and spiritual.
I travelled extensively with Judd.
He wasn't handsome, not even fair
looking. But, wherever 1 went,
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I am getting an audience for my
story. So far as my knowledge goes
no newspaper has asked Judd to tell
his as l am telling mine.
owe him no fayors. But let me
give him an audience through the
audience accorded me. All that the
world knows today of him is what
he told on the witness stand--so 1t
doesn't know much, and much of
what it knows is false, because Judd
lied.
Judd Told Of His Life
But, in those many hours of calm
and restful love, when We told one
another oh, so many things-about
childhood, about what. was in our
minds and our hearts, when we spoke
of flowers you remember how often
he repeated in his tale OF our honey
moon" together; and so we talked
about the scenery-?''(-Judd told
me OF many chapters in his life be-
sides selling corsets and buying boot.
leg booze and window weights.
You have heard of Judd Gray's
wife, child, friend Harry Folsom, girl
friend Ruth Snyder; but you never
heard much about his mother, his
father. I have written about my
childhood-but no one has yet writ
ten about his.
Judd was born in New Jersey. His
father was in the building business
in a small way. They were prosper
GUS. His mother, I believe, was
either a school teacher or a gov
erness-something nice and admir-.
able like that
If he had any brothers or sisters,
he never told me Of them. I think
ne had none.
He was born puny. weak. not well.
He had bad eyes from childhood. He
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JUST the same, KUN Brown, IL
years old, conducted Bible study
Juvenile group in the Methodist
Episcopal Church of the Interces.
sion, Broadway and 157th Street,
New York city, the church which
she had attended since childhood.
| was by far not Biblical scholar
or expert. had a smattering knowl-
edge of the Divine Greed and 1
thought I had a slight instinct into
its spirit.
Pulling Question
But one day a little girl (she wore
glasses and was an unusually in
Quiring little body came to me after
Bible hour, hung around, and when
asked her what she wanted She
scratched nervously with one toe,
blushed and stammered, and then
asked something to this general
effect:
Tiff God is all powerful, and if
God made us, and IL God wants us
TO be good, and if God could make
us any way he wanted to. why didn't
ne make us good in the first place?''
Oh, GOd-why didn't you!
l couldn't answer her. It was
Onbecoming of me in my position
to admit there was anything I could
not answer, so 1 told her she must
be a good girl and read her Bible
1ndustriously and attend Sunday
school regularly and hear Preacher
Young faithfully-and she would get
the answer to her question. I then
gave her a nice red apple that one
OF the youngsters had brought me,
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pay off Che sold me on instalments,
tool and still love him.
The thought that prompted this
whole chapter. to 20 back to the
reason for the start of It, was:
Why should q man have been born
and made SO fascinating, and yet so
fatal?
What q power, what q tower Of
good, of grace, he could have beene
Could Have Been Force for Good
If man could make a c0mpara-
| lively Unconditional woman like ma
turn into what you know am, can
you imagine what he could have
accomplished had he used the power
he controlled toward saving me In.
stead Of wrecking me?
Oh, am not so sef-poEsessed to.
day. fear I am opening vessels
Of my heart that a penitent,
doomed, contrite and finished
woman should not unseal. But,
when 1 think back of how beautiful
il was and how more beautiful iE
might have been, shudder (which
has ceased to be a novelty over
the sOrdid. sorry, and sichening
way that this glorious romance
I'd like to ask my grown-up Sun.
day school pupil If she ever found
| out the answer. 1t might cheer
me. 1t might clear up for me q
great many clouded quandries that
scar into my soul here, in Sing
Sing, hurrying on to cheat the
chair of as much as I may save OF
life, lovely life. living life!
/ wonder il that question In
pulling Judd - somewhere here
under the same roof. within the
same cold. thick walls!
think-yes 1 think, maybe it IL!
Another intensely interest
ing installment of Ruth sny.
der's own story tomorrow.
Watch for it!
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chair and hell, lying like a horse
thief, couldn't help adwiring his
get-up, his poses, his attitudes, and
his choice Of words. He had the
Judge, the jury, and the situation
sized up; and he played on it like
master fiddler on a sviolin of as
many strings.
Yes, you may have guessed It by
now-I loved, him with all my heart
and all my soul and all the rest.
Whether you have or not. guessed
this-I still do. He cost me every
thing and there is still some Ia
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cause he made them do It. know
II was one of them, as the world
will tell you. He told me what
the others made him. He told you
what / made him. You know what
he made of me.
He was the most spontaneously
persuasive human being I ever
met. (The long words / didn't get
out of a book--I always had a
peculiar talent for picking up
vocabulary.
Attractive Even On Stand
He left no asset out. He couldn't
change his face or his figure, but
he was the best dressed man, out
side and underneath, that I ever
met. Even on the stand, when he
was swearing me to the electric
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Ruth Snyder's Final
Appeal for PubIic's
Sympathy and Mercy
Condemned Slayer Relates In
Detail Her Side of Tragic Story
CHAPTER II
By RUTH BROWN SNYDER
Condemned to death lOith Henry Judd Gray for n.ur
her husband
Copyright, 1s27)

0ssINING, N. Y, june IF you will bear with and
not rise in respectable wrath and excam What right
has this condemned and sentenced murderer talk religion
to us would like drift back for few paragraphs to
phase of life which has been the subject of much
and enthusiastic publicity of the other and later
incidents in my the time when was Sunday
school teacher
Seems little hard to imagine doesn' t itf
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GIVES GOLFERS GOOD POINTERS OVPUT7ZVG
Davey Alderman Gets
Place In Ring
Tourney

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Davey
Alderman, flyweight champion
of Pennsylvania, will take the
place Of Newsboy Brown in the
worlds flyweight championship
tournament, which will be held
at the st. Nicholas Arena start
ing Monday.
Alderman, who holds. decision
over Willie Davies and Black
Bill, is rated by the Philadel-
phia fight critics as the best
'slittle man. developed in
Pennsylvania in years. He will
meet Reuter- PARA, champion
Of Chill, in one Of the four
ten-round bouts to be held next
Monday.
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Use blade putter, because Of its
straight lines.
Putt with the ball opposite the
left heel.
Those are few principles
that may help. There are ono
or two other precautions would
advise taking.
The head must be kept still and
the body must not move.
There have been one or two
great putters who allowed their
bodies to move. but they are ex.
ceptions. Any body movement is
fatal to most persons and should
be avoided.
Copyright 1897, by King Feature Syn
dictate. Inc.
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Vas a0CNCA0A p0SCGL SAAS 0W0ys
One thing was in my favor. That
was the fact that ! had straight
uphill putt for the hole.
As I studied the line I said to
myself: Tommy. here's your great
chance. It may never come to you
again if you live to be a hundred
years old. Whatever you do don't
be short on this one.''
And ! wasn't.
/ think II everyone would get
himself into that frame Of mind
there would be better putting. At
least. there would be fewer three.
putt green's.
Here are few maxims that /
have adopted:
The first and most important
principle in my opinion is to keep
the left hand firm and putt against
It. keeping the back Of the hand in
line with the hole.
The stance must be a comfort.
able one and upright.
The eyes should be over the top
Of the ball.
The left elbow should be pointed
toward the hole.
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Keen Competition
Looked for in /. s. IA.

Judging by the performances
turned in during the intercollegiate
Swimming Association dual meet
tournament and championships, the
competition In the /. s. A. round
robin tourney during the coming
swimming season win be even
keener than ever before. New
records for the various meet
events are expected to be Get by
the league natators.
Competition in the breast stroke
was 50 keen last year that the
time for the 200.yard breast stroke
swim was finally lowered by Schott.
Of Williams. to 2:41 in the inter.
collegiate championships at the
G. Q. N. 7. pool. The back stroke
and free style swim marks are
Room and board at the same adj
dress have already proven their adVis-
sbllity. See about the attractive places
offered fer rent In tOdRy's Classified
GSeBAAAAAas
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co0LlDGE KIM DIES

SAN RAFAEL, Cal, Sept. g.
Mrs. Adah Coolidge Kellenberger, 70,
second cousin of President Coolidge,
died in a hospital here yesterday
as a result of injuries received
two weeks ago when she slipped
and fell.
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Today's votes in the Washington
Times Tunney.Dempsey fight con-
test disclosed many who favor Tun-
ney. but they are dwarfed by the
flood Of Dempsey choices. Jack
continues heavy favorite.
Lieut.. Mike Raedy r. . Tun.
ney man. Raedy has seen many
big fights and is q keen Judge
Of boxers. 81 pick Tunney to
win by decision" Lieutenant
Raedy remarked today.
"Hs IS too smart to mix Il with
the nlauling Dempsey. He will
stand fat long range and shoot
singing jabs to Jacks anatomy"
George McGurn, 621 Longfellow
st. N. W.. Is another Tunney
hacker. "Tunney win outpoint
jack" states McGurn. who Is an.
other close observer Of the ring
game. 1.-THE willy Tunney is too
crafty for the smuggling Dempsey.
Dempsey will hardly lay glove on
the titelholder, as Gene Is too
speedy for Dempsey. The latter
could once harpoon a moving tar.
set. but his eyes have since
dimmed."
]. D. Brown. 1908 Georgia Ave. N.
W., thinks Tunney will win on
FOUL" Dempsey will make Tunney
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BY Tommy Armour )

q United States and Canadian Open Golf champion
Before start in set down few helpful pointers the sub
putting, words about the putt
hod the last at OamOnt to tie Harry Cooper for the
national championship. The illustrates point that
made in last article namely the decision be short
putt.
After the green, thought
ball beside the hole and that I'd have do than
tap In Imagine surprise when walked
discovered that it by dead to the hole In fact it
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PICKS GENE T0K. 0. JACK
INELEVEN SECONDS

There's at least ring fan who doesn't give Jack Dempsey
Chnaans chance against Gene Tunney when the two collide Chi
the night September % the heavyweight
He is Dick Hand, 2714 L St N, w. ii.
Hand picks Gene Tnney stop Dempsey in II
doesn't Dempsey with champion Hand is
probably alone in his estimate of this sudden baw Yet
he has plenty company in Tunney supporters.
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7 UNNE Y A
BUSY MAN

LAKE VILLA, ILL.,, Sept. 6.-Gene
Tunney viii continue his assault
Of sparring partners today and to-
morrow, without thought Of rtoting
before Thursday. perhaps not then.
The champion seemed thoroughly
to enjoy his six rounds Of ring
work. yesterday after the long lay.
off. He arose refreshed today
after a good nights sleep and went
through the routine morning exer.
cises with a vim that reflected the
excellence Of his physical con.
dition.
His workout yesterday against
various sDarring mates was the
first boxing he had done since
last Wednesday at Spectator.
N. Y. Just before leaving for
Chicago.
Two thousand Labor Day vaca.
tionists, most of them from Chi.
cago, saw Tunney demonstrate with
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Nick Busch Plays
With Eleven On
Coast

Nick Busch, former George
town University tackle, is play
ing with the powerful Olympic
Club Of the Pacific Coast.
Busch played with the Hill
toppers in 1924.
Glenn Warner, Stanford coach,
expects to lose to the Olympic
Club eleven when teams clash
September "a. He also says
the Olympic Club will beat
California this year.
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Dick Tennyson, who has toiled
laboriously for the best interests
of soccer, is not q candidate for
reelection as president. It is more
than likely. though. that in view
of his splendid work. the officers
of the federation will not accept
his RESIGNATION.
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CHIEFS
GATHER

The second meeting of the Wash
iagton and Southeastern District
Soccer Association will be held to.
morrow night at s o'clock in room
2. District Building.
Officers for the ensuing year will
be appointed, together with other
pressing matters to be settled. The
organization Of new leagues will
also be planned.
The Washington and South.
eastern District Soccer AssOci-
alton controls the soccer game
In Virginia, West Virgins,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and
southern Maryland. Teams. in
any Of these States anxious to
join any of the leagues are
urged to have representatives
at the meeting.
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look sick for about four rounds"
pens Brown. Then Tunney will
win on a foul"