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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21
WASHINGTON TIMES SPORTS !,
Basketball Tourney

TONIGHT
1O0ePound Class-Arcadian Frenchys
vs.. Clark Griffiths O'Clock.
145-Pound Class--Brentwood Hawks
vs. Kendalls, o'clock.
l30-Pound Class--Kanawhas VS.. Grit
fith-Perry Cardinals, 2 o'clock.
Girls Junior Class--Columbia vs..
HyattsvllTe High, o'clock.
Unlimited Class-St. Mary's Celtics
vs. Kennedy Red Stars. 3 o'clock.
145-Pound Class-French Co. VS.. Peer
less A. c.. 10 o'clock,
TOMORROW NIGHT
1fS-Pound Class--( Semifinal Boys,
Club optimists VS.. X. of G. Flashes, 5
O'Clock.
I39-Pound class-- (Quarterfinals)--Az-
tees vs.. Noel House-st Thomas winner,
6 o'clock.
145-Pound Glass (ouarterfina1)--Y.
NJ. c. A, Junior VS.. French Co. Peer.
less winner. o'clock.
Girls Senior Class Semifinal) Cal
vary Basketeers vs. Eagles. o'clock.
Unlimited Class QuarterfinaD Gal
vary NJ. e. VS.. Mt. Vernon. . o'clock
150-Pound Class-(Semifina)-C
Wonders vs. Kanawhas-GriffithP Perry
winners 10 O'Clock
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21
Irish Fighters Rule ROOst
Ii Lightheavy Glass

Who said the Irish have ceased to be fighting men3
Maybe the of Old Erin outdone In many most
the boxing classes but there in which all but the
Irish negligible quantities That division is the light
ranks Look and judge for yourself
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21
DIFFERENT NOW

Cy Young and Kid Nichols. who
were each credited with pitching 40
games in one season, were satisfied
with salaries of $4,000 a year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21
BEARCAT IN SOUTH

Jack Dillon. the "Hoosier Bear
cat" of former days in pugilism.
now runs a restaurant on the road
between Miami and Hialeah.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21

Nobody squawked to referee
II a swisher landed below the
belt. Then as now, we were
wearing protectors and 1t takes
a terrific wallOp to hurt through
them!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21
.FANC|ES
C0LLEG|AN

Kid Gleason is keen student of
pitching. There is no job on the
ball field he likes as well as he does
watching the young hurlers display
their stuff. The Kid, one of Connie
Mack's lieutenants, does not bother
much about names and addresses.
He looks their delivery over as it
heads for the plate. studies the
pitching style and then either o.
K, or ignores the rookie.
For several days Gleason had
been watching a big youngster
among a group of eleven juvenile
pitchers gathered at the camp of
the AS at Fort Myers. The more
the big fellow pitched the better
Gleason liked it.
One day the youth got in the way
of a drive from AL Simmons's bat
and 1t knocked him off his pins.
Down he went in heap. The
players rushed to his side and
found his leg was bruised.
Someone asked Gleason who
the youth was and Gleason re-
piled:
II don't know what his name Is,
but he certainly has a lot of stuff
for youngster breaking in.
ST have been watching his de.
livery and / think he looks to be
the best OF the lot. His motion is
easy. He tolls quietly and no one
seems to know much about him.
but when you see that hopping de-
livery you'll naturally get curious.
Gleason rushed over and cross.
questioned the big fellow and found
out that he was Bill Breckenridge
of Dartmouth. who won fame last
year by blanking Harvard. Bill is
from Oklahoma, where his dad Is
a judge. The proud father wanted
him to become a lawyer, but would
prefer to see him hurting on a ball
team. for dad is fan first and a
Judge afterward.
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fellow who landed it wasn't blamed.
The guy that got in the way of a
low one was considered at fault be.
cause it was his business to duck
all kinds of punches.
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the above petitions possible mail
the list to the Income Editor,
materially the fight of the Hearst
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21

If a guy couldn't stand up under
punches that landed almost any
where, he was regarded as too soft"
for the racket and was given the
gate by his manager.
I've been hit at least 200 low
punches in my day but no one every
heard me complain to a referee.
wasn't brought up in the complain
ing school. When / was busting
around in the mining camps, fight.
ers who had to take low one never
stopped to protest, because they
knew that the minute they stopped
punching, turned their heads, and
made a protest, they would get
belted on the chin by the other mug.
Those were fighting days!
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And don't see any reason
why they should be ended by a
lot of fistic lawmakers who
seem so tender.hearted that it
won't be long before they may
order the disqualification of one
! man who blOOdies the other
fellows nose!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21

State Below Profession
Or Other Occupation
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21

The people want action and they
want fight. That's what they pay
to see. But they don't get it. be-
cause all these new rules have
made the game so gentle that even
il the fighters want to fight in
the good old way, they can't do II
without penalty.
I'm not advocating the barroom.
brawl style for Kingdom of today:
but certainly am opposed to this
refinement of pugilism which has
been carried to such an extreme
that the fight game has been
changed into a glove twirling duel
with the most graceful twirler
gaining the championship!
Am / right. boys-or wrong?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-03-21

Someone asked Gleason who
the youth was and Gleason re-
piled:
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
.HOYLE CHOSEN TO
BE PRINCIPAL OF
THE SCHOOL HERE
He Will Direct Educational Af-
fairs in both Chapel Hill
and CarrbOrO
MAN WITH A GOOD RECORD

c. A. Hoyle, who has been the
principal of the Carrboro
school for several years, is to be
henceforth the supervising
principal of both the Chapel Hill
and the Carrboro schools. He
will be relieved of the teaching
duties which he has hitherto per-
formed and will devote, approx
mately, two thirds of his time
to Chapel Hill and one third to
Carrboro.
Mr.. Hoyle was graduated
from the University in 1920. Be-
fore he took charge of the Carr
boro school he taught at Gray's
Creek and at Red Springs. His
graduate work in the University
has brought him into frequent
contact with the people here, and
those who have become acquaint-
ed with him have BEEN Impress
ed by his intelligence and quiet
forcefulness as well as by his
zeal as a teacher and student.
When Mr.. Stevens resigned as
superintendent recently men,
bers of the school board and
other citizens of Chapel Hill be-
gan to consider Mr.. Hoyle as a
possible successor, and the in
quiries they made about his rec
ord in Carrboro convinced them
that he was a school administra-
tor of high competence.
The school boards of both the
towns are in agreement that a
supervising principal, without
teaching duties, can direct both
schools successfully. The two
school buildings are connected
by a paved highway and are only
two or three minutes apart by
automobile.
One of the features of the
new arrangement is that Carr
boro children may attend the
CLa.AaI IIill h;nh nahanlI not tha
CHdPSi AEiII HIbII oOFFN'VT Tf0e ezfO
elementary school) without the
payment of extra tuition.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Rooms for Second Term

Application for rooms for the
second term of the Summer
School are being filed daily
Preference will be given, until
July 10, to those who are in
dormitories for the first term.
After July 10 assignments
will be made as applications are
received. ! 1t is probable that
Old Vest, Old East, Steele,
Grimes and Ruffin will be open
for women, Battle -Vance-P Petit
grew and the Graduate Club for
men, and Carr for married
couples.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
The Summer School Schedule

Monday, July 8
Concert in Memorial Hail. $3.50 p NJ by the Hampton Inst
ute Quartette. Admission free Public invited.
Tuesday, July
Concert Memorial Hail. $3.50 P NJ by the South Sea Island
popular American Orchestra widely known to radio audi
their programs put through the National Broadcast
ing Company Single admission rs Children under L.
40 Holders of tickets admitted without additional
charge
Thursday, July IL
Conference Elementary Education Get details from Dr.
Mark Nobe)
Friday July II
Conference Elementary Education Get details from Dr.
Mark Noble)
In the Paymakers Theatre at $3.50 P NJ the Carolina Play
makers will present A. A. Mines quaint fantastic comedy The
Dover Road Single admission $100 Children under r. so
cents Holders of tickets admitted without additional
charge
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
NEW CONCERN IS
TOTAKE CHARGE
AT THE AIRPORT
Southern Airways, Incorporated,
Announces Program of
Greater Activity
4-PASSENGER PLANE SOON

Southern Airways, Incorpo-
rated, has been formed by J. E.
Burroughs, Charles H. Martin
dale, and Y. Pickell to succeed
the North State Aircraft Com
pany as operator of the Chapel
Hill airport. Mr.. Burroughs is
president of the new concern,
Mr.. Pickell is yice-president, and
Mr.. Martindale is secretary and
treasurer. Charles G. Lore,
former army pilot, will remain
at the airport as general mana
ger.
More equipment and an ex-
panded program of activity are
in prospect.
eve expect to have a Mono
Coach here in two or three
weeks" said Mr.. Burroughs
yesterday. 1T seats four pas
sengers besides the pilot. 1t will
be available for weekend hOli-
days at the beaches and for
other expeditions.
eve are now negotiating with
the University Consolidated
Service Plants to see if we can
get an electric line out to the
field. We want beacons for
night fliers and illumination for
night take-offs and landings"
The Chapel Hill airport is be-
coming better known all the
time. Every day visiting planes
land there. They use the field
for re-fueling, and often they
call for the services of the
licensed mechanics who are part
of the airport's regular person.
mel.
Five students are now being
trained by Mr.. Lore and the
other pilots, and instruction will
continue to- be one of the i'm
portant functions of the operat-
ing company. Three planes are
in use for instruction and for
passenger service.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05

A reckless young man, zig
tagging from one side of the
road to the other in a Ford, ran
into the E. G.. Branson Stude-
baker sedan near Roxboro Sum-
day evening; severely injured
Mrs. H. M. Wagstaff, who was
driving; and pretty nearly de-
molished the sedan. Instead of
staying by to help his victims
out of the wreckage, he ran off
into the woods.
Mrs. Branson; her daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Branson; her
grandson, Branson Smith; and
Mrs. Wagstaff were coming back
from Harrisonburg, Virginia,
where they had gone to take
Mrs. Young Smith to meet her
husband. They had stopped at
Roxboro for supper and had then
started out on the Prospect Hill
road for Chapel Hill.
Mrs. Wagstaff, when she first
saw the Ford coming, noticed its
uncertain course. She kept close
to the right edge of the road,
and, when the approaching car
kept on toward her, she steered
still nearer to the ditch. The
Ford struck the left side of the
Branson car, knocking it into the
ditch, smashing the wheels,
axles, and tenders, shattering
the glass, and bending in the
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Zone Map Is Changed

At meeting Monday evening
the aldermen voted to amend the
zone map of the town by plac-
ing the property on the east side
of Mallett street Except the
corner lots on Cameron avenue
and Franklin street, in the resi-
dence zone. This property had
been in the business zone. It's
being in the residence zone
means that no business or manu-
featuring structure, fraternity
house, or large apartment house
may be erected upon it.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
"ROOk Club"
New. lr9anizalian Gos.arasad of Xa.4EA11
Women Who Break Dates

There is a new organization
in the Summer School. 1t is
called the Rook Club.
The membership of this club
is not determined by the men,
bers themselves. In fact, they
may not find out that they be-
long until some time after their
election has taken place.
W hen a y0ung woman fats fails to 10
keep a date with a young man
this is described, in the prevail
ing summer language of Chapel
Hill, as rocking him." Rock
ing is looked upon with great
disfavor, of course, by the vic
tins thereof. The victims have
become so numerous that they
have agreed to consign to the
Rook Club the young women who
break dates. In short, it is a
blacklist. A young man with a
proper loyalty to his sex is sup
posed to punish by non-attention
the young woman who has been
elected to membership in the
Rook Club.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Bare Legs Discussed
Much Talk in the Village about the
Omission of Stockings

There is much talk in the viii
lage about women's displaying
their bare legs upon the street
and at public gatherings. This
fashion, inaugurated some time
ago in more sophisticated parts
of the world, is just beginning
to get. a good hold upon the for
ward-looking females in Chapel
Hill.
AS always with a new fashion,
this one divides the population
into Progressives and Reac-
tionaries. Since several young
women who appeared barelegged
at a Summer School dance the
other night were told by the
chaperones to go home and get
their stockings, and had to obey
or stay away from the dance, the
Reactionaries seem to have the
upper hand for the moment.
How long their dominance will
continue is a question.
In the latest issue of E. W.
HoVe's Monthly appears this
passage;
There lately called on me a
girl of nineteen, fully dressed,
as she believed, for company.
Yet her great hairy legs were
bare and dirty. j.. Progress? In
my youth it was improper to
mention woman's legs, much
less to show them. Indeed, in
my public attitude, | was not
supposed to know women had
legs, and to deny that they had. -
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05

S. w. Andrews, who was
violently i'll with inflammatory
rheumatism from last Saturday
to Tuesday and is now slowly
recovering, attributes his illness
to the spray which was put on
the bean vines in his garden to
kill the beetles.
"Some of my children and
friends don't agree with me
about this" he says, "but / am
dead sure of it myself. / don't
believe there's anything else
that can explain why so many
members of my family have been
taken i'll.
"My daughters, Ola and Agnes
and Nell and Mrs. Brown and
Mrs. Hill, and my son-in-law,
Roy Brown, have all been i'll af-
ter eating beans from the
sprayed vines. My son-in-law,
G.. M. Hill, eats hardly any
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Mrs. Wagstaff Injured in Automobile Collision

body; but the sedan did not turn
over.
Miss Elizabeth Branson and
the boy were thrown out, but
Mrs. Branson and Mrs. Wagstaff
were pinned inside. A farmer
who heard the crash came to the
rescue. This man happened to
be an old acquaintance of the
Wagstaff family. He gave all
possible aid and had the four
Chapel Hill travellers taken into
Roxboro to the hotel. A physi-
clan was summoned.
Mr.. Wagstaff, here at his
home, was notified of the acci-
dent by telephone, and he and
Mr.. Branson drove at once to
Roxhoro. Mrs. Wagstaff was
taken TO watts Hospital IN Dur
ham, where it was found that
she had one bone in her wrist
and another in her hand broken.
She had also received a bad cut
near the ear. After a thorough
examination the doctors said
that her injuries were not per-
manent.
Mrs. Branson and her daugh-
ter were badly bruised and
shaken up. The boy came out
of the accident the least injured
of all. He was the first on his
feet after the crash and was i'm
mediately active in giving help
to the others.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
DIR. Abernethy's Operation

DR.. Eric Abernethy came back
from Watts Hospital the other
day after undergoing a fourth
operation within four months,
He is cheerful, and moves about
in a lively manner, but he is
still under treatment by the doc
tors. His first operation was for
appendicitis; the others were
due to complications following
that.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Andrews Attributes Illness to Beetle Poison

beans, and he has not been
troubled.
my theory is that the very
wet weather, softening the
beans, caused them to absorb
the poison which was meant for
the beetles. We have canned
some of the beans, and l would
be glad if these could be ana
lyzed.'
Mr.. Andrews illness began
Sunday before last, but he re-
fused to go to bed at first, be-
ing determined to fight it
through" He had to give up,
however, Saturday night. The
poison, whatever it's source, had
got into his blood and he suf-
fered agonies from inflamma-
tory rheumatism. The pain be-
gan to decline Tuesday night.
Mr.. Andrews daughters were
not so severely i'll and all of them
are about again.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Chapel Hill Chaf

On his trip to the Vernon
Howell estuary on the North
Carolina coast last week Oscar
Coffin had his finger bitten by
a jackfsh. 1t was either be-
cause he put his finger in the
wrong place when taking the
beast off the hook or because he
failed to precede this releasing
operation by stunning blow on
the jacks head. 1t was a pain
full hurt, but an article in the
New York Times about fishes of
long ago, Mosasaurs in particu-
lar, makes me realize how much
worse it might have been. The
ancient Mosasaur was from 25
to 40 feet long. "Its sharp teeth
helped capture slippery prey,
and the structure of the lower
jaw shows that it bolted its food
in great chunks. Each half of
the lower jaw was Joined so as
to bow outward when opened
and to add greatly to the swal-
lowing capacity" Since the
Howell fishing party got back
home the jack that bit Mr..
Coffin is historic. It's lucky for
him and his friends, and for the
University's department of
journalism, that it wasn't pre-
historic.
When we were admiring Mrs.
Brockwells hydrangeas the 9TH
er evening S. J. BrOckwelI and |
stood in the background and let
the women do most of the ex-
claiming We were appreciative
of the hydrangeas, but rather in
articulate. | discovered that he
had the same weakness as mine
about flowers. That is, he learns
the names of a good many of
them in the spring and summer,
begins to forget them when the
blooms disappear in the fall, and
then, the next spring, sets out
to re-educate himself on floral
nomenclature. AS / go about
my garden with a visitor in sum-
mer | find myself talking with a
fair degree of glibness about
hollyhocks and primroses and
asters and this, that, and the
other flower; but around the
first of March | cannot do much
better than tell the difference
between a white oak and peri
winkle.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
"AgamemnOn" of AeSchylus to Be
Given in Kenan Stadium July II

An adaptation Of the Aga
mtemnOn of Aeschylus is to be
presented Wednesday, July II
(week after next), in the Kenan
stadium. This will be the first
use of the stadium for drama !;
that is, unless football be con-
sidered drama. The performance
will be one of the events in the
Summer School entertainment
program.
The group presenting the
play, somewhat misleadingly
called The Wellesley Players on
the season ticket, is composed of
Chapel Hill people; several
young women from Wellesley
College; and Harold King, a pro-
fessor in Wheaton College. The
visiting young women have
worked together two years on
productions at Wellesley.
The production is an expert
ment growing out of an attempt
to bring together here people in
terested in producing and acting
great drama for the fun of it. A
Greek play, and particularly
Aeschylus, is a good choice for
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Cut in School Tax Rate
tt Witt Viii BE at Least 6 Cents BBellea"Ht BBellea"Ht
That of Last Year

The school budget for the
coming year indicates decrease
of 6 cents in the tax rate for
maintenance. 1t appears that
the rate will be "A cents as COM
pared with so cents last year
The rate for debt service-that
is, for interest and for install
ments on principal-will remain
at II cents Thus the total
school rate will be 81 cents as
compared with 81 cents last
year.
The new budget upon which
the lower rate is based was
adopted at the last meeting OF
the old board; that is, before
Messrs. Hogan and Coker were
elected to succeed Messrs. Walk
er and Eubanks.
1t is possible that the reduc-
ton may be more than 6 cents,
1t will be if this district re-
ceives a part of the fund appro-
priated by the last legislature
for the aid of schools with ex-
tended terms.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05

the first production of a group
thus assembled, requiring as it
does only three or four main
actors. Each actor, generally,
has his own well defined portion
of the play, his thought and
emotion being concentrated into
one or two long speeches, not in
tricately intertwined with
speeches of other characters.
The action is not complex.
Hence, private rehearsals, be-
fore the group was assembled,
was possible and valuable.
The dance and chant of a
long trained chorus was, of
course, out Of the question, and
no attempt is being made at
imitation. The play is being
produced simply, the intention
being to present the essential
drama of the Agamemnon, ina
ginatively, vividly, and, it is
hoped, with honesty to the spirit
of the original.
Urban T. Holmes is coming
back from Chicago next week, a
little earlier than he expected, to
assist in the rehearsals.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Alexander Wins Prize of $50

Marion Alexander of Ashe-
vile, who is to be graduated
from the University this sum-
mer, is announced as the winner
of the prize of $50 given every
year by Josiah w. Bailey for the
l1e4 .AaaAa.. a.aaI kafasa lLa No..4 L,
Carolina Club. His topic was
Rural Education in North Caro-
lima"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Ralph w. Tyler Resigns

Ralph w. Tyler has resigned
from the University faculty to
become associate professor in
the bureau of educational re-
search at Ohio State University.
Mr.. Tyler is at the University
of Chicago this summer as head
of the department of elementary
education.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
Dancing and Music in Stadium

A group of Wellesley dancers
and Nelson 0. Kennedy of the
University's music department
will give a joint program in the
Kenan stadium Monday eve
ming, July Is.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05
MurchisOns Kill COpperheads

Mr.. and Mrs. C. T. Murchison
killed two copperheads this
week when they were clearing
the underbrush off their lot on
Senlac road.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-07-05

The Knight family has re-
turned from a weekend at
Wrightsville. Mr.. Knight leaves
today for six weeks at Columbia
University.