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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
To Wills J. Ballineer

EDITORS NOTE: This Is the third of 12 excIusrve NEA Serv- ifce stories on Thomas A. Edison sas told by Major William Joseph Hammer, lifelong friend and sscientific associate of the great linvent0r. In his previous stories, Major Hammer has told of the carly days at Menlo Park Iabora- tory where he went to work for Edison in 1879, which this story lcontinues.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24

In keeping the opposing football team, the Rangers. from making q goal during close game at Cas- gew. Scotland. recently John Thompson, 22. of the Celtics was knocked down by g. player and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24

What was thought to be the s3s- sil of a prehistoric reptile. found near Baguio. P. T.. has been re- ported by the University of the Philippines to be only boulder shaped lige reptiles head.
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OOCA!.

The victory left Houston eight
games in front Of the second place
Dallas Steers.
Manager Happ Morse'S Steers put
another nail in their Second-place
fort, debating San Antonio 3 TO q
The Steers in the ninth on two
hunts and q couple OF errors.
Hansen, elongated Southpaw.
hurled eight innings for the Steers
in an attempt to win his ninth
consecutive game, but gave way TO
Jerry Mallett. a pinch hitter. in
the last OF the eighth with the
score | TO I. Lou Garland hurled
the ninth and received credit for
the victory.
The Wichita Falls Spudders
whipped Beaumont 10 TO 9. The
Spudders scored four runs in the
first inning off Hollerson. Lester
White started for the Spudder-
but had his troubles and was n!
lieved by Florris. who received
credit for the victory. Buck Stanton
or Wichita Falls increased his
doubles record to IS when he hit
two.
The Galveston Buccaneers handed
Shreveport a 9 to 2 defeat az
Shreveport. Harvey Ballew was the
big gun behind Galveston's batting
punch. He tripled in the second
with the bases full and followed
with another triple in the eighth
inning with two runners on. Ballew
drove In six Of GalveSton's 8 runs.
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Twenty Years Pas

n was more than a score OF years
before the winner or one OF the
majors played III the other the same
season. Taylor was British open
champion In 1918. when Vardon and
Ray made their bid for the United
States title and lost 70 Francis
Oulmet in the playoff OF a triple
tie at Brookline.
Then Jock Hutchinson won the
British open at St. Andrews in 1921
and came back TO this country TO
have his big shot at the Columbia
Country club. But jim Barnes was
hot there. He spread-eagled the
field with q 50 in the -irst round
and never was collared. Hutchinson
finished in 18th place. Another
double was passed.
Next year. in 1922. Walter Hagen
wCl the British open az Sandwich
and started at Skokie Nth a So In
the first round OF the United States
championship. But Sarazen came
with a rush IN the .aSt round 70
nose out Jones and Black by a
stroke. and Sr Walter ended IN
fit place.
-Four years later Bobby Jones.
winning the British open at st.
Anne's and the United States open
III days La az Scioto. achieved
the Big Double" for the first time
in history and became the first
worlds champion OF golf.
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FIELD CLUB
Is PLANNED
Conservation of Quail Is
One Object OF
Group

Steps are being taken for the
formation Of a Valley field trial
club, and anyone interested in be-
coming a member She Ald get in
touch with c. r. Wood of Mercedes
OF w. A. Napier OF San Juan.
The following letter relative 10
the club has been received from
Napier:
Where Is the sportsman who had
not rather 20 out with his launch
old friend. the pointer or setter
bird dog. and get his bag limit OF
twelve quail than shoot a bag full
from his car, by what Is commonly
called pot Shooting'?"
Who has never experienced the
thrill Of his own dog, with every
muscle taut. pointing a beyy or
quail? Any man who has enjoyed
this great thrill Is interested in the
conservation OF quail.
The destruction OF the wild
roaming cat. the deadly hawk and
the treacherous coyote must be one
OF our first steps IN quail c~onserva-
ton.
If YOU would ike a day Of real
srcrt. take a we'll bred. well train
cd bird dog ana 60 out for a quail
hunt. The Sportsmen OF the Valley
VIII organize an amateur field trial
club for the purpose or Mrthering
interest in good bird dogs. cor r.
vation of quail and better sports
manship
Those interested in becoming
members OF this club should get IN
touch with c. R. Wood OF Marce-
des or w. A. Napier Of San Juan
The Valley i known for It's soil
and climate. why not as ths
SportSman's Paradise"
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English Net Stars
Here For National

NEW YORK. Aug. s.-tP-Two
Young Englishmen have arrived
IN TINS country to bid for the
national tennis singles CHAMPION
snip now held by John Hope Does
or Newark. N. j.
They are Frederick y Perry ard
George Patrick Hughes. members
OF this years British David Gun
team which eliminated the United
states IN the i~nterzone finals and
went on to lose to France in the
challenge round by the narrow
margin Of three matches to two
Perry shared the singles burden
IN the Davis cup tests with Henry
W. Bunny Austin. while Hughes
PLAYED in doubles both against the
united states and France. teaminr
up with Perry in the first test and
with Charles Kingsley in the sec
ond.
The Britons plan to tune up in
tournaments at New Port. r. L,
Rye. N. Y, Boston and German
town. Pa. before the national
championships which start al
Forest Hills. Sept. s.
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big DOUBLE
HARD TO DO
Jones First To Ca pture
English And u. s.
Opens
By o. r. keller

In the history or international
golf competition there have been
eight occasions in which a player has
had an opportunity to add the open
championship OF one OF the two
great golfing nations TO that OF the
other and thus establish himself as
recognized champion Of the world.
This does not include th- far
more numerous occasions where a
competitor has played In both the
British open and the United States
open the same season, and thus had
the chance TO win both. This usual
~ happens every year, sometimes
with a dozen or more competitors
taking part in both classics.
The real chance is where a golfer
after winning one OF the two major
events OF the world enters the other.
And that. as suggested, has happen
ed eight times.
II happened first in 1900. when
John Henry Taylor. British open
champion. came over with his great
sidekick. Harry Vardon. TO play in
the United States open at the Chi
cag0 Golf club.
The two Englishmcn easily were
the class OF the field. II was the
sixth playing Of our national open
and there were so entries. Vardon
won with a score OF 3l3 with the
old guilty ball. Taylor was runner
up. and the first chance al the
Great Doubles was gone.
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Rio Hondo 2, Pels 0

RIO HONDO. Aug. Rio Hondo
White Sox defeated Port Isabel
Pelicans 2 70 O. here Sunday IN 4
revival Of their feud over the ANA
teur Valley league leadership. The
victory gave the White Sox the lead
by a small percentage.
The contest was on between Ed
Kachtik and Kring. the latter pitch
ing himself out OF frequent and deep
holes.
Jacobs singled through pitchers
box 10 open the first inning. stole
second and scored when z. zach
Tx singled 70 left. The next score
came in the fifth when Cox doubled
TO right field and scored on Halls
double TO center.
Big Ed Kachtik twirled master
full ball as he had the Pelicans at
his command all time. He struck
out Is men and gave only six hits.
The White Sox secured Il hits
off Kring.
Batteries-Port Isabel. Kring and
Weikel; Rio Hondo, Ed Kachtik and
Hall
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PALMS DEFEAT
HAWKS TO z
Third Game Will Be Played
Tonight Under Lights
At McAllen
CBy Staff Correspondent)

McALLEN. Aug. 7.-As many fans
have suspected for a long time, the
McAllen Palms are rapidly proving
themselves the class OF the Valley
league. Under the floodlights here
last night, the Stately Trees banger
out a 90 victory over the La Feria
N~ighthawks in the second game oil
the 7-game series for the Valley
league championship. This was
their second victory in as many
games.
The third game of the series will
be played Friday night at McAllen.
Ladies r TO be admitted free.
Winford. Palm twirler, was In
good form Thursday evening.
limiting the Hawks TO seven safeties
while the Tall Timber Troop hacked
away at Kennedy for an even dozen
Of safe wallopS.
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City League To
Close Schedule
In Sunday Till

With Frank Torres Robins ALREADY
securely perched on the uDpermost
rung OF the City Amateur league per-
centage ladder. the remaining four
clubs will finish the season Sundav
with the Internationals meeting mi,
Bears and the Jovens %tangIing with
the Recalls.
REGARDLESS Of what happens Sun
gay. = Robins and Internationals
VIII clash IN a three-game cham
ploiShlp series afterward. To use
me usual term, it's in the bar
Tonight a meeting will ~ held !.
The Herald office. The Information
ais wish TO sign Robert Champion
ace twiTler Of the Juarez nine bnvs'
league pennant winner.
All teams r urged to have = rem
resentative at the session n vote
on the new player.
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Xanks Beat Athletics 5 to 3;
They re Still II Games Back

letics aren't going TO win the flag
again without a real battle.
The Yanks started what appears
TO be their final challenge yester-
day in the opener Of a three-game
series with the AS. Figuring that
ii they could win all three they
might have a chance to overhaul
the leaders. the Yanks we're out 70
win. and they staggered through
TO a 5 to 3 victory which left them
only IA games behind Philadelphia
and exactly where they started III
relation to the second place wash
ington club.
Homer For Babe.
The Yanks jumped on RUDE Wal
berg in the first inning, punching
three hits with as many walks for
four runs. But they could not score
again until the fifth. when Babe
Ruth dropped his thirtieth homer
OF the year into the right field
bieachers. Vernon Gomez pitched a
fine game until the ninth when the
AS got TO him for two runs with
none out and Henry johnson was
called to the rescue. johnson struck
out two men and forced Eric Nc
Nair to pop up with the bases load
ed.
Washington, meanwhile. had an
easy time defeating the Boston Red
Sox. Is TO /. 10 retain its place three
games ahead OF the Yanks and
eleven behind the Athleti< The
Senators staged a batting spree
against Jack Russell that produced
eight runs in five innings. then fin
ished up with seven more tallies off
Durham in the eighth. They made
20 hits altogether while Fred Mar
berry held the SoX TO four.
The rest Of the American League
teams. which range from % l-2 70
81 10 games behind first place.
continued to fight in a lively man.
ner among themselves. The fourth
place Cleveland Indians came
through to a 4 to 3 triumph over
the tail-end Detroit Tigers when
Vic Sorrell. successor TO Art Herring
walked four men in the ninth inn
ing and forced in the winning run
Chicago took a 7 to s decision from
the St. Louis Browns
Giants Beaten.
With the first two teams in the
National League idle. the New York
Giants lost a good chance 70 gair
when they allowed the Phillies 4
take a s to 4 decision.
Brooklyn's Robins were more sue
cessful. landing on Ben Cantwell fol
four runs in the first inning and
holding that margin TO defeat the
Boston Braves 2 TO 3.
After going seven games without
a win and taking four shutout de-
feats from the Pittsburgh Pirates
in the course OF the losing streak
the Cincinnati Reds finally came
through with three runs off Glenr
Spencer in the eighth inning Of yes.
terday's clash with the Buccaneer'
and won by 3 TO 2 count.
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WITNESS
ARENA OPENING
Wrestling Game Apparently
Makes Big Hit In
First Card

With 5000 wrestling fans-whc
two hours before never remotely
suspected they were fans-yelpinE
with excitement, "Crybaby" Dutch
Leahman pulled a stunning come
back to pin Pat OBrien's shoulders
for the third and deciding fall In
the main event Of the card inaug-
urating the American Legion Sport:
arena here last night.
The sudden climax was . COM
plete surprise. 1t was something
like suddenly realizing YOU put
shaving cream on the tooth brush
after starting work on the bridge
work.
But
O'Brien. the Irish Gargoyle, made
a big hit with the fans. They were
for him all the way. taking time
out cheering him only to boo the
Crying Dutchman." With each
holding one fall, they collided for
the final affair. After ten min
utes Of struggling, O'Brien began
slamming the big boy from st,
Louis. With the crowd yelling for
more, the Irishman threw Leahman
high into the air and brought him
to the canvas with a resoClding
thud time and time again.
Leahman va groggy and appar-
emily ready - slump to the mat
from exhaustion. O'Brien backed
him into the ropes and reached for
his head to slam him again. The
Dutchman claEped on a variation
Of the full Nelson. Slowly he
forced the Irishman 10 the mat,
pinning his shoulders.
That left OrBrien parked COM
pletely behind the eight ball. des-
pite the fact practically every fan
in the arena believed the Irishman
the better wrestler.
Dutch TatSes First
Leahman took the first fall In
20 minutes with a hammer lock.
Pat took the second after a series
OF slams with a body pin in seven
minutes. Leahman made good use
Of the half-hammer lock. but sur
prisingly enough. O'Brien continued
to slam him owe his shoulders
despite the hammer locks. Even
MI. James Londos will tell YOU
that's a good trick-if o do II.
In the semi-final Young Stecher
took two out of three falls from
Tony La Blanc. The unpopular
Greek took the first in % minutes
with a head lock. La Blanc can
tured the second with a body pin.
Stecher came back 10 win the third
IN ii minutes with a flying scissor
after a succession of slams. II was
a fast tussle which bristled with
action.
Lyons Wins
Red Lyons tossed Jack Pierce I'm
Is minutes with a rocking cradle ia
a Commute TIM lmi. affair
Opening the card, Robin BIlle
clamped a flying scissor on Bill
wilkins in two minutes for the
fall. w
To all intentS and purposes. Err
ME Stephens, the Jack Curley Of
the Valley, made a hit with his
wrestling show. The turnstile
clicked over 5000 times n the
fans seemed well pleased as thew
left the arena.
Bouts will be staged regularly
eacn Thursday evening.
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FOREST HILLE, N. Y, Aug. T.
CPi-The ninth annual Wightman
cup matches brought together
ranking women tennis stars OF the
United States and Great Britain az
the West Side stadium today.
Three singles matches were on
the first days program with two
more singles battles and two doubles
matches closing the competition
tomorrow.
The first match Of the series
pitted Mrs. Helen Wills Moody Of
San Francisco against Phyllis Mud
ford. young English player. Helen
Jacobs Of Berkeley. Calf. was
matched with Betty Nuthall. whom
Sle defeated at Wimbledon this
year. in the second test. and Mrs.
l.. A. Harper OF Oakland. Calf. 81.
No. | ranking American player. met
Dorothy Round in the third and
final encounter Of the day.
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Re-Double

In 1923 Sir Walter had another
shot with both barrels. He won the
British open al Sandwich and had
a fine chance into the final round
u the United States open az Olym-
pia Fields. but fini-hC1 Nv strokes
back OF Farrell and Jones In fourth
place. That was Hagen's nearest ap-
proach 10 a worlds title.
In 1929 SIR Walter won brilliantly
IN a gale AZ NuirfIeld. but finished
18th in the United States open at
Winged Foot where Jones won.
I'm 1880. Of course. IN y- Bobby
again. winning the British oDen az
Hoylake and the United States open
al Tnterlachen for his second
worlds championship. and going on
70 the Grand slam" with the ANA
teur championships OF both ma
tons.
This year Tommy Armour. after
q gallant win IN the Briti-h oDen
at Carnoustie. finished in 45th
place az Inverness IN the United
States open. where Burke and Won
Ell, fcuVht IL out in a playon that
lasted 70 holes.
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Benefit Show

HARLINGEN. Aug. IA bene-
fit wrestling show will be staged at
the American Legion Sports arena
here tonight for the La Feria base
ball club.
The ball players will try their
hands at the grunt and groan indus
try.
A nominal entrance fee viii be
charged
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HELD TO
| FOUR BINCLES
Dizzy One Retires Twelve
" Batters BY Strikeout
Route
BIZ BILL PARKER
Associated Press Sports Writer

F hAh
-Four hits, three Of them Of the
scratch variety-that's the CON-
plete story Of Jerome Dizzy
Deans 4 TO 0 triumph last night
over the Fort Worth Cats. There
is no doubt about this Dean-he
is really serious about this business
of winning 30 or more games this
season. When he stopped the Cats
he checked in with his 22nd vic
tory. When he sent II Fort Worth
batters back TO their bench via the
Strikeout route, he clicked with 2ll
strikeouts this season. The win gave
the Buffaloes ten victories in their
eleven road games. That's about
all that occurred for the benefit of
the Buffaloes. For Bill Harris. who
opposed Dean. IL was his 23rd COM
plete game OF the season. Harris
was bombarded for IL hits, one a
home run by Homer Peel. IL was
Harris 18th defeat this season.
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:LEAHMAN SURPRISES PAT, FANS WITH SUDDEN FALL
Dean Wins His 22nd, Beating Panthers 40
TEXAS LEAGUE LEADERS

NIHIUuBII nIgHL games, Aug. OF
by The Associated Press
Runs: Selph. Houston, 95.
Hits: Stanton. Wichita Falls. i6e
Doubles: Stanton, Wichita Falls,
As.
Home runs: Soltsrs. Shreveport,
IA.
Runs batted in: Kmedwick. Hous-
ton. 90
Stolen bases. White. Beaumont. AZ.
Games won: Dean. Houston. %.
Games pitched in: Payne, Houston
81.
Complete games: Harris. Fort
Worth. %.
S~trikeouts: Dean. Houston, 2ii.
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UTE A SHOT

BALTIMORE. Aug. 7.-Gioria F
Roupe, although just a girl Of 9
can put to shame many OF the
country's best sharpshooters. In
competing in a rifle match with So
men. she lost only n event. Al
Raymo-e. Mo. recently, she made
166 consecutive target hits. 96 pei
cent Of them being bulls-eyes.
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Best Stance
For Driving
Is Explained

just how far should a player
stand from the ball2
l. is impossible 10 specify in feet
and inches just how far away from
the ball a player should stand in
the address. Stances will vary just
as personalities differ. Yet there IS
ON way by which those Using the
square stance may get a rough idea
of the distance to be put between
feet and the ball.
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Sun Beau to Try
For Another Is
Grand Saturday

CHICAGO. Aug 7. LPi-Unless II
rains tonight and makes the Haw-
thorne track heavy. sun Beau will
try 70 add from SIS. 900 20 $4,000
TO his winnings in the Hawthorne
handicap tomorrow.
Willis Sharpe Kilmer's record
money-winner. IN spite az a weight
assignment Of i3i pounds. was fav-
ored 10 OutfOOt all opposition no m
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Rizzo, sometimes known as Gal
veston's Mistake. had a bad even
ing at bat. -Four for five was the
best he could DO. Cox belted one
out OF the park for a home run.
Francis, PAIN receiver. caught 4
foul on his Adams apple and had
TO retire, but not until he had
dashed out a ringing double.
The box follows.
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B Yoder. C~ontreras. % hits
Riz7o. benson, Francis. Willis.
Home run-CoX. Struck out-Win-
ford 9. Kennedy S. Bases on balls
-Winford l.. Kennedy 3. Wild
pitches. Kennedy. ?. Passed balls
Phillips 7. Cox 1. Left on base
La Feria 10. McAllen 6 Time-2:O6
Umpire. Ogden.
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BY HUGH =. FULLERTON. JR.,
Associated Press Snorfs Writer

Prospects for development OF an
exciting pennant race look very slim
when a crucial series starts with
the challenging team fifteen games
behind the league leader. But II the
New York Yankees have anything
TO say about it Philadelphia's Ath-
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With the square stance, hold the
club in the left hand and permit
the clubhead TO settle in its natural
position behind the ball Lower the
club 10 the height OF the left knee.
This simple method has often cured
good players of the common fault
of standing too far away from the
ball.
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mile and an eighth I'm the S25.bsh
added feature Of Hawthornes sum
mer meeting.
Mike Hall. who defeated Sun Beau
IN the 100000 Aqua Caliente handi-
cap last March. and Gallant knight.
who has been trying all liz to
beat the Kilmer star. r expected
10 furnish the opposition.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Thursdays Results
Brooklyn Y. Boston 3.
Cincinnati 3. Pittsburgh ?
Philadelphia s, New York 4
Fridays Games
Chicago az St. LOUIS.
Brooklyn at Boston.
New York at Philadelphia
Cincinnati az Pittsburgh
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Back in Vs

Brownsville had a strong
semi-pro baseball squad which
took the measure Of other
mines over South Texas. the
lineup went something like
this. .Rorke, %: McClintock,
3b; Vann, c; Kring. SIS. Kow-
alSki, If; Edison, CT: Cobolini,
p; Raymond. IF; Ferguson, ID;
j. o. Cobolini. rf.. Kring vas
a Beeville product, and he de-
lighted in putting the bug on
his home town boys. there was
a junior team here about that
time with members as follows
IL. Kowalski. c; r. Schmei-
ing, .: N. Kendall. Id; A. Hill,
2b; r. Weller, 3b; B. Hinkley,
IS: j. Starck, RI; o. Kendall,
Of: j. Egly. II. Ed Kendall
was mascot OF the organiZa-
ton. Burt Hinkley vas captain
and Ralph Schmeling manager
Them, the old timer says,
~wuz the days.
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60 THE
TEXAS LEAGUE


Results
Houston 4. #. Worth 0.
Wichita Falls 10. Beaumont 3.
Dallas 3. san Antonio ?.
Galveston 9. Shreveport y
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Ancient WEAPON

NO ONE KNOWS wnen or where
the bow and arrow originated. Its
use has been practically universal.
The early war successes of the
Egyptians were due 70 use OF the
bow and arrow. 1t was a decided
Improvement over the slingShot and
Javelin in use at that time. The
ASsyrians. Greeks and Romans
quickly took up archery, increasing
the size of bows to get added
distance. Later came the cross
bows which were used with dew
astating effect in the Tenth and
Eleventh centuries. The Crusaders
used the croSs-bows.
THE ENGLISH were a bit late in
getting around TO archery, but when
A. arrived it swept the Isles like
w1ldfire. In the Fourteenth century
over half OF the English army was
made UP of mounted archerS. In
fact, archery became compulsory.
King Edward III ordered the
populace TO abandon all other
sports in order that they might
practice archery. Royal edicts were
Issued against golf N Football.
Gmpowder, of course, did away
with archery as an implement OF
war. The English army used 1t
for the last time under Charles the
Bold in 1916. The Chinese con-
t1nued TO use 1t as late as 1860.
And Of course, the American Indian
was using 1t as late as the Nine
tenth century.