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me through a fearful pace, and I re-
tanned my full power.
Right on top of him." whispered
Fitzpatrick, as / started I'D for the
twenty-third round.
l rushed. Everhardt fell into a
clinch. / threw him off and ripped
In a couple Of solid body smaahes
mat sent him staggering to the ropes
was covered with blood and almost
blind, but I could still hit plenty.
l dlmly saw Everhardt's body bounce
on the ropes. l shot out a terrific
straight right with all my weight be-
hlnd 1t. 1t caught him in the mouth
and he fell forward. I hooked a left
uppercut and a right to the head.
Everhardt lurched drunkenly. He
was out on his feet.
The referee stopped the slaughter.
Everhardt's seconds carried their man
to his corner.
Another philadelphia lightweight
was Owen Ziegler. That was a joke
expression of those DAYS. A "Phila.
delphia lightweight" differed from
those of other cities in that they were
really welterweights or middleweights,
who fought at catchweights, but called
themselves lghtweights.
Ziegler was chunky Dutchman
with the head and shoulders of a
heavyweight.
We met at the old Arena Gardens.
in Philly, and went six rounds. No
decisions were permitted In the
opening round I broke Ziegler's nose.
In the second he was down on all
fours for a count. l beat him in
every round.
kid" Mcfarland stayed with me
for % rounds. thanks to his fieetness
of foot. We met at the Broadway
Athletic Club in February, 1896. Nc
Partland had a long reach and he
was clever. l chased him round after
roundt and got the referees decision.
One of the New York papers pub.
lished a half-page cartoon showing
Mcfarland riding a bicycle around
the ring, with me chasing him.
Sam Fitzpatrick was dissatisfied
with decision victory, and was for
arranging another match.
But l said, What for? To give
him another chance to run a foot
race with me?"
NeXt-The second battle with Wal
cott.)
tCopyright. 1927. by the North American
NeWsDaDer Alliance /
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BENNETT new HEAD
OF CORINTHIAN CLUB

Corinthian Yacht Clubs new board
Of directors held it's first meeting last
night at the home of DR.. A. B. Ben
nett, recently elected commodore, at
33 Kalorama circle.
Other new officers are:
Arthur. Middleton, vice commodore;
J. H. Galliher, rear commodore; Rob-
ert w. Wilson, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES;
Charles w. West, recording secretary;
Sewell Shreve. trea surer, and Ross L.
Fryer, Levin w. Walker and Chester
A. Snow. jr., trustees.
1t is the purpose of the new officers
to provide for conservative expansion
of the club. The annual Presidents
Cup regatta will again be sponsored
by the organization next year. Sew
eral of the new officers have formally
served as club officials.
The clubs next meeting will be
January 5.
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FORT WAYNE TAKES
PRIDE IN ITS QUINT

A message of good will from the
Fort Wayne Gnd) Chamber Of Com
merce to the Washington Chamber of
Commerce will be borne by the Hoosier
basket ball quint, which makes its
first appearance of the season in the
Capital Sunday night, meeting the
Washington tossers at the Arcadia in
the first of two-game series.
In letter to George Marshall, own
err of the local pro five. the Fort
Wayne Chamber of Commerce indi-
Gates a desire to add to the under
standing and friendly cooperation of
its city with the Nations Capital.
An excerpt from the letter follows:
1--WE desire to make the occasion of
Fort Wayne's first American Basket
Ball League game of the season in
your city the opportunity for message
of more color and spirit than those
usually exchanged incident to the bust.
ness of two industrial centers.
When the 'HooSiers,' carrying the
banner of Fort Wayne, meet the team
representing your city on Sunday, De-
cember 18th, may we employ them as
messengers of good will to express the
best wishes of the Chamber of Com
mere of Fort Wayne to the Chamber
Of Commerce of the City of Washing
ton and hope that this contact in the
world of sports may add it's measure
to the understanding and friendly CO.
operation of one Amercain community
with another"
1t is evident from the tone of the
message that basket ball is held to be
one of Fort Wayne's prides. Incl
dentally Fort Wayne's team is spon-
sored by the local chamber of COM
merce, and naturally, therefore, the
fans of the Indiana town look upon
the Hoosier tossers as part Of their
personal possessions.
Although the invading players will
bear a message of good will they very
probably will forget a lot about this
sort of thing when the referee blows
his whistle, for they will be out to win
their first game from Washington on
the Arcadia floor, having been turned
back upon every other occasion Of
their visits here in the past.
The Hoosiers still carry memories of
two heart breaking defeats suffered at
the hands of the Washington quint
last year here. At that time they were
in the thick Of the pennant hunt, and
the defeats abruptly halted their
march upon the New York Celtics, who
were leading the race.
In the coming series, which extends
over to Monday night, Fort Wayne
will be striving to maintain it's close
position behind Cleveland, which leads
the Western division of the league at
present.
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WITH THE BOWLERS

daily-must have been pretty close to
a record.
IAN of which leads us to query why
records are not compiled in duckpins
as in every other sport. Keeping
records would assuredly give the
duckpin sport new blood.
1T appears that the work of keep
ing records would naturally lie within
the jurisdiction of the newly organ
lied National Duckpin Bowling Con-
gress.
High scores, duly certified by the
alley managers, could be turned in to
the Congress for the consideration of
a commission holding the powers Of
acceptance and rejection.
THUS, it would be official. How
about it. Congress leaders? Let's give
credit where credit is due and inject
into the sport something new-a true
and official list of city and National
records. giving the fellows and girls
established marks to try to surpass."
Paul Harrison did a nifty piece of
bowling for Curb Cafe last night in a
District League match on the Conven-
ton Hall drives. This youngster shot
a set of only 40. That's just about
the best maple smacking the circuit
Has SeeH lflS season.. II might he
added that Curb Cafe took all three
games from Temple.
DOnaldsOns and Viehmeyers will
clash tomorrow night at Convention
Hall in the final block of their nine
game brotherly duckpin match. At
the end of six games, the Viehmeyers
hold an advantage of 76 pins over the
Donaldson crew, having hit 1.544
against total of ,46S for their oppo-
nentS.
Midnite Five bOwlers of southeast
Washington are seeking contests with
all teams. Challenges may be tele-
phoned by n. V. Hepner, Lincoln 9l79.
Dates for the Howard Campbell
sweepstakes were not set yesterday as
planned as some of the members of
the committee in charge failed to at
tend a called meeting. However, the
committee was expected to complete
details today.
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FIRST Stacker ON MARKET
is FORECONE CONCLUSION
Deal With Cleveland Still Is Seen as Possibility nv
Washington Officials-New York Critics
Comment Freely on Sisler Change.

price for one of the former great men
of the game" and another scribe in
the same paper types this: "The sale
of George Sisler for cash came as a
decided shock to many of his friends
and admirers. Washington gave up
something like $4,000 for his release.
And only a few years ago Sisler was
at the very top of his profession and
the man picked as the logical sue
cessor to Cobb. He had his greatest
year in 1892, when he hit for APO,
drove out 246 hits, scored 1874 runs
and stole 81 bases. Then he was
S150.000 ball player, recalling that in
that year the Giants gave 100000
for OConnell and the White Sox part
ed with the same sum for Kamm.
Not Trading Material.
To-day Sisler is not considered a
strong enough trading asset for the
st. Louis club to get any real value
for him in players. So the Browns
preferred to take cash, which they
can spend for minor league talent"
From these comments in the metro
politan press all Washington fans can
find something with which to agree,
but the canny ones will be willing to
wait and gauge Sisters value on the
extent to which he produces for the
Nationals next season.
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Base Ball Briefs

By the Associated Press.
The comedy team of Nick Altrock
and Al Schacht isn't to be broken up
after all. There were reports that
Schacht would be handed his release
by the Nationals, but "Bucky" Harris,
Washington manager, declares they
are still under contract and will per-
form on the coaching lines next sea-
son. The 'act" is now in vaudeville.
Johnny Mostil, who is conditioning
himself at his Whiting, Ind, home by
shoveling coal and bowling, is conf
dent of comeback in 1928, according
to Manager Ray Schalk of the White
Sox. The outfelder was in the game
few times last season, after attempt
ing suicide in the Spring, during a
Respondent spell, but aspires to win
back his regular berth next year.
The last of the trio of st. Louis
Brown outfielders, who rated among
the best in the game five years ago.
has departed with the sale of Ken Viii
liams, home run slugger, to Boston.
Johnny Tobin and Baby Doll" Jacob
son were the others. It is a coinci-
dence that all three went to the Red
Sox. Tobin had a short stay with
washington before going to the Hub.
Jacobson is now with the Athletics.
Four players cut loose by the Browns
have been with the club a total of SO
years. George Sisler was there IL sea.
sons, Williams. IL; Van Glider, 8, and
Harry Rice, 4.
Hughie Mcmillan, whom the Braves
sold to the Giants for 100000 five
years ago, joins the parade Of ex-big
leaguers with Walter Johnson
Newark Inter nationals. McQuilIan
goes under an optional agreement
from the Boston club, where he was
returned by the Giants last season.
McQuillan pitched for 10 years in the
majors
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MOVE TO BAN CUT-EARED
DOGS BEATEN, al TO 35

NEW YORK, December Is @.-A
resolution which would prohibit the
showing Of dogs whelped after July
l, 1923. whose ears had been cut in
any way. was defeated by a vote OF
Al to 35 at the quarterly meeting last
night of the America Kennel Club.
DR. John f. De Mund, president of
the Club. said that the matter of cut
ting dogs ears should be left with
the individual clubs concerned.
1t also was agreed that Springer
spaniels shall become eligible for the
title of champion of record by win.
ming two open all-age stakes, recog-
nized by the clubs field trial, where
no less than six dogs competed. The
same ruling was made to apply to
Cocker spaniels.
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HARVARD NO D00RMAT
FOR YALE, 1T IS SHOWN

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, December 16
R).-John A. Blanchard, Harvard, 81.
today came forward with an article
in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, seek
ing to refute "a feeling which seems
to have arisen that Harvard has for
long time more or less filled the
role of an athletic doormat for Yale
teams in all forms of sport"
Taking as basis for his review
Harvard-Yale athletic relations from
1908 to 1927, Blanchard discovered
that of Harvard-Yale championships
in the five major sports during this
period, Harvard has won Al and
Yale 40.
Harvard has slight lead in minor
sports.
In contests since 1875, when athletic
relations began, Yale leads in every
major sport except hockey.
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ALL-LIGHTWEIGHT LIST
is ARRANGED FOR SHOW

NEW YORK, December Is R.-
Filling out an all-lightweight boxing
show for Madison Square Garden on
December %. Matchmaker Jess Nc
Mahon announced today he had signed
Lew Paluso of Salt Lake City to op-
pose Bruce Flowers of New Rochelle,
N. Y, in an eight-round .semi-final.
Phil McGrant of Detroit meets Sid
ferris of New York in a feature TO-
round bout on the card.
In two other eight-rounders on the
same bill Jack Duffy of Toledo will
face Matty Mario of New York, while
frankie Fink, Texas cowboy. stacks
10 against Bobby Burns of Brooklyn.
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HHERE still is a foul line on the
bowling alleys. Managers of
drives continue to call the at
fnnfinIn nf da11,Iy I'M a III is

bowling alleys. Managers of
drives continue to call the at
Il tention of duckpinners to this
fact. Fortunately, however
they do not have to inform so many of
Washingtons maple smashers of this
as they did in other seasons. A care
full survey of the many leagues active
in this city reveals that most of them
have foul liner ule, that they respect
the black line drawn across the front
of the drive and penalize the bowler
who infringes upon territory beyond
1t. And that's how it should be.
Virtually all of the bowling fratern-
ity came to the conclusion last season
that If they were to have their achieve
ments recognized as records they must
pay strict attention to this foul line
A great stride toward inducing the
duckpinners to consider the black
stripe carefully was made when the
Washington City Duckpin Association
at it's meeting last Winter stated EN-.
phatically that it's compilation of
records would be based only on scores
from those leagues that had foul line
rule. That awakened the boys Of the
bowling fraternity and the girls Of the
duckpin sorority. too.
1t is pleasing to note that practical
~ every lSdS VI dlly COHScque
this Winter has a judge on the line
And it Is more pleasing to note that
the judge has few occasions to toot
his whistle. All of this makes for
better bowling in the Capital.
Speaking of records in duckpins,
there does not seem to he any such
thing in Baltimore. A paper devoted
to the game in that town, however, is
eager to have the Baltimoreans do
something about this matter. 1t
would have the newly organized Ma
tional Dckpin Bowling Congress list
a lot of recognized marks for the
game. In part, this paper says:
did you hear about the score So
andso rolled the other night? He
dropped 1873 pins. Some score, Ell?
Must have been pretty close to a rec
ord for this neck of the woods.
These or similar phrases are heard
throughout the bowling world almost
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MONACO STRIKES A SNAG )
IN TENTS ASPIRATIONS

By the Associated Press /
PARIS. December 16.-The applica.
ton of tennis enthusiasts of Monte
Carlo, Principally of Monaco. to be
admitted to the 1923 Davis Cup com.
petition has struck a snag.
The hitch apparently arises from
the rule:
"A player must be a citizen by birth
or naturalization of the nation he rep
resents"
The Monte Carlo committee has been
unable to gather together team of
four men born there.
mo one was ever born in Monte
Carlo" one official said jokingly.
The International Tennis Federation
in charge of the competition has re-
ceived entries from Rumania and Pc.
land, bringing the total number of ma
tions entered to date up to nine.
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DEAN FORSAkES SPORTS
FOR BUSINESS REASONS

CHICAGO. December 16 @.-
Charles A. Dean, for more than 90
years prominent figure in national
amateur athletics, today announced
his retirement to devote his time to
business.
In 1924 he was manager of the
American track and field team in the
Olympic games. and for many years
has refereed the Western Conference
track and field meets, both indoor ana
outdoor.
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GUESTS PLAY TONIGHT.

Ed Tindell meets George Bray to.
night at 5 o'clock in the District
pocket billiard championship tourna.
ment at the Arcadia. Talbutt defeat.
ed Campbell, 100 to SO. last night. Tai.
blst with Kelly. Reynolds and Tindell
are tied for the lead. L. Fl. Lambert
meets A. ]. Swinburne tonight at s
O'Clock in the three-cushion handicap
tournament at Elmer's Academy. J. r
Leonard won over N. B. Hobskin, 100
to rs, last night.
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nous champion. Dick Burge
(AS TOLD TO f. p. RUCKER.)
YACK EVERHARDT and 1 fought
our return match in 1896 at the
Bohemian Athletic Club, New
~ York. The promoters of the
club had the idea of patterning
it after the National Sporting Club
of London, but this didn't succeed.
The plan originated with Charles
Fl. Genslinger. Membership was linn
tied to 500. Each member paid $50 to
see Everhardt and me fight. More
than 5000 fight fans stood outside,
ing the result.
Everhardt was a native of New Or
leans, but had adopted Philadelphia
as his home. He was one of the
philadelphia lightweights. He was
feet 6 inches tall. powerfully built
and fast boxer who could hit. Jack
had championship stuff.
Everhardt was shifty on his feet
and fought me at long range. He
gave me a lacing for 20 rounds. AS
the twenty-first round began, both my
eyes were nearly closed. My nose
was bleeding, and my mouth was ter
ribly swollen. The ear Walcott had
damaged was bleeding.
Real Fighting.
Sam Fitzpatrick had to use leeches
on my eyes between rounds, and he
put a strip of adhesive plaster across
the bridge of my nose. Those GER
tainly were the good old days of hon.
est-to-goodness fighting.
l hadn't neglected to sock Ever
hardt. but most of my work had been
directed at his body, and didn't show
so much.
Everhart was full of confidence. He
looked like a sure winner on points.
The championship was not involved,
as We were fighting at 1873 ringside,
the lowest Everhardt could do. But
it would have meant a loss of pres
tige for me to have a decision
against me.
Once more l had the satisfaction of
noting an ebbing of my foes strength.
| felt this distinctly in the cilnches.
There were four more rounds to 60
/ was satisfied. Once more my own
endurance and strength had carried
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HARRIS GIVES CUP.

A silver loving cup will be present
ed by Bucky Harris to the winner of
a charity basket ball game between
National CirclesAand National Capital
Athletic Club to be played Sunday at
3 pm. at the Congress Heights gym.
Proceeds will go to buy Christmas
baskets for the poor of Washington
who are not on the lists of local char.
ity organizations.
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Fights Last Night

By the Associated Press.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. w. L..
Voung) Stribling, Atlanta, Ga, de-
feated Tom Kirby, Boston Q0).
DANVILLE, Ill-Jimmie Sayers,
Lafayette. Ind, and Sonny Lloyd,
Chicago drew Q0). Red. Rodman,
Fort Wayne, Ind, won from Billy
Long, Terre Haute, Ind. (S).
ABERDEEN, S. Dak.-Tommy Nc
CURE, Sioux Falls, defeated Joe
Young, st. Paul, MINI. Q0).
LOS ANGELES.-Joe Woods, Los
Angeles, defeated Duke Horn, Mime
apolis, MINI. Q0).
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WILL HEAT CUE TABLE.

NEW YORK. December is R.-
When Welker Cochran defends his
1872 balkline title against Jake
Schaefer at the Hotel PENNSYLVANIA
in a 1,500-point match starting next
Monday night, a heated table will be
used to prevent the balls from being
chilled.
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RETAINS BILLIARD TITLE

PHILADELPHIA. December 16 up.
Otto Reiselt. worlds three-cushion
billiard champion. retained his title
by defeating Allen Hall, st. Louis
challenger, 300 to PSI. The match
was played in blocks Of 60 points.
Last nights score was Hall 76, Refs.
cit 60.
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GALLAGHER IN FIGHT.

Marty Gallagher, local heavyweight
protege of John Blick, makes his New
York debut tonight against Pete
Hackett of Brooklyn in a four-round
preliminary to the Ted Morgan-Joe
Click junior lightweight title scrap at
Madison Square Garden.
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CANADIENS NOW LEAD.

NEW YORK, December 16 R.-
The Montreal Canadiens We're setting
the pace in the National Hockey
League today with three-point ad-
vantage over the New York Rangers,
who top the standing of the American
group with Is.
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DE PALMA IN AUTO RACE.

los ANGELES, December IS P).-
Ralph De Palma. famous automobile
racing driver. is listed as one Of the
starters in the A. A. A. sanctioned
Ascot Speedway race here next Sun.
day.
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PRO COURT FIGURES,

GAME TONIGHT.
Chicago at Rochester.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Chicago at Rochester.
Cleveland at Detroit.
RESULTS LAST NIGHT.
Philadelphia, 80; Fort Wayne, "a.
Cleveland, 81; Rochester, 20.
New York, %; Chicago, IL.
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WAKE FOREST ELECTS.

WAKE FOREST. N. c., December
16 (P1.-Hal A. Weir of Asheville was
elected captain of the 1928 Wake
Forest College foot ball team.
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PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY.

Detroit Cougars. 2; New York
Rangers, 1.
Ottawa Senator'S, a., New York
Americans, 1.
Montreal Canadiens, 2; Montreal
MarOOns, 1.
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at Hand Disposition of Judge Still Problem for Nationals
When Fights We're Fights!

The Battle With Jack Everhardt, Who Was
One of Those philadelphia Lightweights."
Kid Takes Lacing for Twenty Rounds,
With Leeches Being Used on His Eyes.
X X X
Then Tears in, Half Blind, and Cuts Way to
Victory, Referee Stopping Slaughter.
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he Fan, Gus
Kid Lauigne's
Memoirs of
a Sdrage
Ring
BY GEORGE KID) LAyIGNE.

Former lightweight champion of the world
whose many victories included two over
Joe Walcott and one over England's IA
nous champion. Dick Burge.
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Records Are Good.

"stiIl. the records seem to indicate
Sisler is a fine ball player. He hit Wen
over 800, led the league In stolen
bases and was we'll up with the lead
ers in assists. In spite Oh these
figures, base ball men tell you SISTER Is
no longer a star. There's mystery
here. INV dear. Watson, and scads OF
it."
An Evening Post writer asserts:
"The Browns sold George up the
Potomac for the somewhat misery
sum OF something like $4,000. a poor
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IAS TUflD To II. II. KTCkEK.1
TACK EVERHARDT and 1 fought
our return match in 1896 at the
Bohemian Athletic Club, New
y York. The promoters of the
club had the idea of patterning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-13
CITY BOWLING GOSSIP
BY Lefty Lee

The boys were ION" again in the
Capitol No. League and, as a re-
suit, plenty of excitement was on
tap Thursday night. The Marott
Shoe Shop team was the only outfit
to win three games, dropping the
3-F Coffee boys over this route. EN-
Roe, Coca Cola and II. L. Schmitt
won two out of three from the Rob
bins Body, Werbe-Meissen and Sill
yer Flash. Ten games passed the
1000 mark, the 1,066 Of Marotts be-
ing high.
MarOtts again led in the three
game total. having 1923 on games of
900, 1906 and 1887. III. Il. Schmitt
shooters were close behind, With
3,O14, on games of 1000, 1908 and
981. The final game between the Sill
yer Flash and Schmitt teams was
hard fought, the Sclmitt boys nos
ing out the Flash by one pin.
In the individual event the going
was plenty hot, Walter Wheeler
finally winning high honors from
Man" Schott by ten pins. Wheeler
had a total of G93 on games of 224,
269 and 200, which Schott had 236,
266-aad 1871. Other 500 shooters were:
Haislup, 612; A. Friebeck, COG; Foley,
625; Stritt, SOB; Wrench, 610; Cheney,
CPS; Henry, 6$2; Brady. 62S; Rabe,
663; e. Schott, 6O4; Rasmussen, GIG;
Cobler, GIG; Cray, 603, and f. Fox,
CPS. This makes a total of Is out OF
40 shooting to pass the coveted 600
mark.
FOrty-eight games passed the 200
mark, the 269 of Walter Wheeler's
being the one to win the 3-F coffee
prize. Nan" SchOtt again placed
second with his 266 game.
After about six weeks of hard
work Frank Fox and Larry Cobler
two Of the veterans Of the pin game
finally have induced Larry Fox anC
Johnny Fehr to roll them a ten
oa mo match Tho first block of five