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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-18

Beaver, from where he was hidden in the grass,
hailed in the dark.
Two shotguns roared out the answer. The
officers opened fire The fight was short. Beaver
was soon dying and Evans and Sontag headed
once for the hills.
Suddenly news flashed of the outlaws visit to
a foothill ranch. Excitement famed again.
Once more armed men leaped to saddle. Vern
Wilson, former Texas ranger, worked his way
with 10 seasoned gunfghters toward Simpsons
Flat in the mountains. Two Indian trackers
from Arizona did the scouting.
On a crest above little valley the weary
horsemen sighted Jim Young's cabin They de-
cided to rest there and supplies. Leading
their horses, the little band single file, with
Wilson in the lead, marched up the trail.
Suddenly the door flew open. Jim Sontag
stepped out. Chris Evans aimed from Win
dow. Two shotguns blazed. The carnage was
terrible Wilson fell dead at the first blast.
The horses, screaming with fright, plunged and
broke. Men still their feet scrambled for
logs and rocks to return the fire.
The desperadoes, dropping shotguns for
rifles, stepped out into the clear and swept their
foes with lead. Leaving their dead where they
dropped the possemen, some afoot, some on
horseback fled in panic The survivors of a rout
fled into ViSalia.
All California was stunned by the disaster
at Youngs cabin.
When spring officer, camping near
SIMPSONS Flat, was laid low by the bullet of
an unknown gunman. The deputies and the
sleuths and gunfighters rode again. They
scanned the thawing ridges and searched the
melting defiles They skirmished at long range
with the dangerous outlaws. But the desper-
ADDE'S still roamed the wide open spaces.
"A IIIEN the shambles of the great posse had
wv arrived in Visalia in the fall and told of
the days disaster, it became quite clear to the
rail and express chiefs that Chris Evans and
John Sontag were not a couple to be taken
without a fierce battle.
The high command of Californa's great hunt
was shared by several sheriffs, corporation de-
tectives, township constabes and town marshals.
In the posse rode many OF the bravest and the
ablest men of the day. But the legion of i'm
ported gun-toters was as valueess to the chase
as their own frothy gable over the bars of
Fresno and Visalia
The next plan was wire to u S. Marshal
George Gard at his Los Angeles headquarters,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-18

asking him to come up and help hunt Evans and
Sontag.
The marshal was a manhunter of proven
worth. His uncanny success in tracking down
bad men on the Mexican border had given him
a name to conjure with. In 1893 Gard was the
terror of the Western desperate.
One day the marshal, tall, dapper, and smil
ing, registered without any trumpet blowing at
the Palace Hotel in Visalia. Other quiet men
dropped in quite casually to sign the blotter.
OF sudden, overnight, they all vanished!
These men who had come and gone so easily
were a group of the greatest gunfghters in
the West.
Saturday afternoon, few days later, Gard
and his squad entered deserted cabin, owned
by Widow Baker, high in the mountains.
This house at Stone Corral stood alone in
clearing - once a wheatield - fringed with
forest of pines.
The marshal and his gunmen ate and smoked,
spun yarns and slept watched and waited.
Sunday at sundown two men on foot, ragged,
bearded, tough and heavily armed emerged
from the dark woods Chris Evans and John
Sontag. They plodded slowly toward the cabin.
Gard and his secret agent had turned the tables.
This time the bandits out in the open
unaware of danger. The manhunters in ambush.
At rs yards Fred Jackson, Nevada officer,
let go with his rifle-a bit prematurely But
that shot opened the Battle of Stone Corral.
Evans fell with shattered left arm. Sontag,
who had instantly ducked behind a low pile of
old hay, blasted the cabin with slugs The
wounded Chris creeping up behind the stack,
joined the fighting.
For an hour the distant ridges echoed
the rattle of Winchesters and the roar of shot
guns The air whined with flying lead. Gun
powder smoke drifted lazy in the summer
breeze. Bullets from the hay screamed through
the cabin walls. Bullets from the possee whipped
the haystack in the field.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-18

Suddenly Jackson, to make a flank attack,
began to squirm stealthily through the tall
weeds. Far to side of the straw pile the
stubble quivered as Jackson crawled A shot
gun roared again. A bullet ripped open Jack
sons foot. The wounded officer, with the heart
of a lion, pushed onward and answered the
outlaws deadly aim with blast of gunfire.
A bullet crashed into John Sontag's right
The bandit collapsed on the withered hay
my arms a total loss, Chris" he groaned
But I'll shoot with my left. Look"
John fired again. Then Hi Rapalje, swarthy
fighting man of Fresno, swiftly slid through
the weeds after jackson. He knocked the
wounded Sontag over with a slug in his side
A rifle bullet grooved Evans back. Rapalje from
the grass smashed Chris right arm with
a Winchester and second later slugs from his
shotgun hit the bandit in the head
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-18

(C0niinHed tf0m tr0W eoperJ
IT WAS a strange and furious episode Before
| it ended the farmer and the brakeman were
to turn into ragged, bearded Tarzans of the
mountain gulches, to redden the wheat
fields and the trails with their infamies, and
at last to draw to the firing line u. S. Marshal
George E. Gard-one of the coolest headiest
and bravest in the long line of western man.
hunters.
Within an hour armed posses were galloping
out of Visalia on the trail of Evans and Sontag.
The army of seuths and deputies had been
augmented by scores of citizens. The valley
seethed with excitement.
The slopes of the High Sierras were the fugl-
tves goal. To get supplies they back-tracked
that night under cover of darkness to the Evans
farm. Three officers, on an off chance, crept
up on three sides of the barn. Deputy Sheriff
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-18

(Above) John d. Morgan, Fresnos Chief
of Police at the Time of Evans Escape
From the County Jail. (Righ) Chris
Evans, Partner-in- Crime of Sontag, Who
Spent II Years in Folsom Prison.
Another burst of fire crashed into his right
shoulder
The dark and chill of mountain night closed
down. Chris Evans piled straw over his dying
comrade with his wounded arms. E.
THE firing had ceased. form rose up from
the field, slogged unsteadily across the clear
ing toward the woods. Rapaje fired once again
in the gloom of waning day. A shotgun slid
down from the figure out in the dusk. Chris
Evans, wounded, tattered. dragged on; to be
swallowed in the ebony of the forest
And the outlaws trail across the mountains
that night painted one of the grimmest strug-
giles for life that history records. Branches bat
Evening star., 1937-09-16
WESTBURY RIDERS
AWAIT FINAL FOES
Greentree Plays San Jose
for Place in National
> Title Struggle.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, September 49,
Greentree, the defending
champion, and the San Jose
quartet of Argentina meet
late today to decide the opponent of
the awesome Old Westbury team,
which has scored 55 goals in two
matches, in the final of the national
open polo championship Saturday.
Both San Jose and Greentree loom
as formidable teams, and the winner
OF today's match should give Old West
bury the stiffest kind of match. San
Jose has the same smoothly co-ordi-
mated game that Old Westbury dis
played yesterday in trimming Tenn
pleton. 1875, and Greentree, with
Tommy Hitchcock in the van, has q
strong combination with plenty OF ex-
perience and teamwork.
Hitchcock will ride 1T No. 3 against
San Jose, with Pete Bostwick and
Gerry Baldwin at No. l and No. 2.
Jock Whitney is at back. San Jose
sticks to. the lineup that ran rough
shod over Aurora, with the two Dug
gans, Luis and Heriberto. up front;
Andres Gazzotti at No. 3. and An
drada at back
Stew Iglehart, Old Westbury's No.
3, headlined his teams smashing tri-
umph.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
DAYTON UNDEFEATED
IN BASE BALL J0UST
Enters Ranks Of Favorites in Ma
tional Amateur Ranks by
Beating Waterbury.

BY the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio, September 1e.-
Dayton stood out as the only un-
defeated team in the national amateur
base ball tournament today as the
contests swung into the sixth round.
Dayton went into the favorite ranks
by defeating Waterbury, Conn, 7 to 4,
in q night contest. Waterbury WAS
held to six hits and eight errors
proved costly.
Cleveland, the defending titlist, was
eliminated by a 9-to-7 defeat by To-
ledo yesterday. Toledo punched five
runs in the first two innings and never
was headed.
Detroit eeked out 7-to-e victory
over its State rival, Pontiac, to remain
in the running. Weirton, W. Va,
trampled on four New York City
pitchers for 16 hits and q 13-to-2 VIC
tory. Six errors we're chalked UP
against the New Workers.
Today's schedule: Detroit VS.. To-
ledo, Waterbury vs.. Weirton and
Edenborn vs. Dayton (nighD.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
SALISBURY SCORES
AS QUIMBY CLOUTS
Downs Centreville, 6-3, for It's
First Win in Eastern Shore
League Play-off,

Ey the Associated Press.
SALIsBuRY's Indians found them
selves faced with another Of those
Crucial games today.
The Indians, chastened roundly by
the underdog Centreville Colts in the
first two play-o1 games for the East
ern Shore League title, reversed things
yesterday by 6-3 margin.
But they still must win two straight
games actually to take the title every
one felt they would win with little or
no trouble.
Only three runs in the first three
innings yesterday kept the Indians
out Of trouble again. Quimby, Sails
bury left fielder, manufactured those
runs with single and double which
drove the markers across the plate.
Centreville goes to Salisbury tonight
for the fourth game Of the series.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Flag, Not Auto,
Hartnett's Aim
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 16.-There
will be no Gabby Hartnett
"day" as long as Chicago is in
the Natinoal League pennant bat
tle-not even for a shiny, new
automobile-if the Cubs great
catcher has his way.
A group Of Hartnett admirers had
planned to honor Gabby on Sep
tember %. date OF the Anal game
Of the Cubs last series this season
with the league-leading New York
Giants. A new automobile was to
have been presented to him. But,
said Hartnett.
Il am deeply appreciative Of the
desires Of my friends, but the
Cubs are In the thick of the pen
nant fight and ] would rather not
be distracted from the business at
hand-helping the Cubs win the
National League pennant and the
world series"
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Hero in Ship Fire
Races Boat Here

= MERRITT TWILLEY. one Of
the unsung heroes Of the re-
cent City of Baltimore disaster on
the Chesapeake Bay, will be COM
peting In his speedy little craft,
Miss st. Paul, In the Presidents
Cup races here next week.
Twilley was lounging on the lawn
Of his Summer home at Pinehurst,
Md, when the first sudden burst
Of fame appeared. He jumped in
his speedboat and dashed directly
to the side of the white hot burn
ing hulk. Twilley was responsible
for saving the lives Of Capt. Charles
o. Brooks and the last two pas
sengers.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Minor Results

BY the Associated Press.
International League (Playoffs).
Newark, Z; Syracuse, 2.
Baltimore at Montreal, rain.
American Association lPlayoffs).
Minneapolis, 4; Columbus, 3.
Toledo, 9; Milwaukee, S 90
Innings.
Texas League tPlayoffs).
Tulsa, T. Forth Worth, 3.
San Antonio, 6; Oklahoma City, 2.
Southern Association (Playoffs).
Atlanta, s.. Memphis, l.
New Orleans, 8; Little Rock, 2.
New York-Pen League tPlayoffsl.
Wilkes-Barre at Elmira, rain.
Pacific Coast League.
Missions, 6; San Diego, 3.
Portland, 8; Oakland, s.
San Francisco. Z: Los Angeles, 2.
Seattle, 6; Sacramento, 4 O6
Innings.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Tiny Squaregger in Sail Race Dannn for Giants
Sports Program
For rLOcal Fans

TODAY
Base Ball.
Washington VS.. Detroit, Griffith
Stadium, 3;l5.
Foot Ball.
Washington Redskins VS.. New
York Giants National League
game), Griffith Stadium, $50.
Tennis.
Playground Department open
tournament, Potomac Park Courts,
TOMORROW
Base Ball.
Washington VS.. st. Louis, Grifith
Stadium, 3:l5.
Tennis.
Playground Department open
tournament, Potomac Park Courts,
4.
SATURDAY.
Base Ball.
Washington VS.. st. Louis, Griffith
Stadium, 3:l5.
Tennis.
Playground Department open
tournament, Potomac Park Courts,
2.
Boating
Sailing Events, Presidents CUP Re
gatta. of Hams Point, 1870.
Evening star., 1937-09-16

Feller was belted to the showers. The
Tigers won their single game with the
Nationals, 4-3, on the strength of a
three-run rally in the ninth.
The White Sox got to Lefty Grove
and topped the Red Sox, 5-3. The
Athletics took their opener, 80, from
st. Louis, but dropped the nightcap,
81, as Bill Trotter scored his first
victory of the year.
The Cincinnati Reds routed the
Dodgers. 60, in their opener, and then
dropped the afterpiece. as. The Phil
lies and Cardinals went 13 innings to
Sail draw before darkness halted
the proceedings.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
FIRST Of ITS KIND
TO COMPETE HERE
SeVenteen-Footer Modelled
After Old Ships-175 on
Windiammers' List.
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, JR.


COMPLETELY rigged minia-
n ture of one of the old square
~ riggers, the brig Isobel III, of
4 4 Carl Won Zielinski, from Staten
Island, N. Y, will be the first craft
Of its kind ever to compete in a Po-
tomac River regatta as an entry in the
sailing events of the Presidents Cup
regatta scheduled for Saturday and
Sunday off Hains Point and under
supervision Of the Potomac River
Sailing Association.
The brig Isobel III, only II feet
on deck, but carrying 13 handmade
sails, is but one of an estimated ITS
sailing craft in IL classes that will
gather in Georgetown Channel off the
point Saturday afternoon to compete
in series of three races for The
Evening Star trophies.
Built last year and sailed extensively
by its owner on Chesapeake Bay
this Summer, the baby brig has en-
tered the class B handicap for boats
under 20 feet Zielinski, a foreign trade
adviser in New York, constructed this,
his third replica of the historic wind
TANNERS, to be handled by one man.
In the races she will carry crew of
one, Charles Trammell, jr., Of this
city.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Great Help to Pitchers.

THERE he was, season after season,
catching few innings here, tax
ing cut as q pinch hitter there and
wearing out the dugout bench and the
seat of his pants the rest of the time.
Last season there was even talk that
he might be let out But when Man.
cuso went on the shelf, Danning had
to take over. 1t was either him or
the bat boy. And from the moment
he put on his mask and pad, the
pitching began to look up.
For instance, there was Prince Hal
schumacher and Harry Gumbert,
who had been about as much use as
couple Of bats with holes in them.
Since Harry began handling them
Schumacher has started nine games,
completed seven and won six, while
Gumbert has taken half q dozen deci-
sions.
Schumacher did it again with Dam
ming yesterday. He turned in a neat
nine-hit effort, while his mates club
bed the Pirates, 7-2. Since the Cubs
also won their game. taking a So de-
cision from the Bees behind Curt
Davis six-hitter, the pennant situa-
ton remained as it was, in this form:
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Won Cramm Is Victor.

rERMANY'S top-ranking star, Baron
Gottfried Won Cramm, made It
two for the day for his country by de-
feating young Bobby Riggs Of Los An
geles, 2-6, 8-6, 6-4. The feminine
member OF the German delegation
Fraulein Marie Louise Horn, dropped
her match, bowling to Jadwiga Jedrze-
1owska, husky Polish star, 60. s-e.
Senorita Anita Lizana of Chile, who
won the national women's title last
week, rallied to defeat Gracyn Wheeler
OF Santa Monica, Calf, 10-8, IS.
and Riggs, paired with Wayne Sabin
OF Los Angeles, whipped Charles Hare
and Pat Hughest, the British Davis
Cup doubles team, 60, s-4.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
.BUDCE, Off FORM,
BOWS TO HENKEL
German Racketer Beats
u. S. Ace in Straight Sets.
Polish Girl Scores.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
~HICAGO. September 16.-He
I may never do it again, but
Y 4 Henner Henkel. Germany's
second ranking tennis star.
has achieved victory over America S
great redhead, Donald Bulge.
Catching the Wimbledon and ma
tional champion off form yesterday in
an exhibition at the Onwentsia Club
and taking advantage of everything
Bulge did wrong, Henkel handed the
Californian a 6-4, 10-8 beating.
While the German played steady
game, Bulge was erratic, except for
flashes in each set, and his own errors
contributed heavily to his defeat.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
NAVY TICKETS HERE.

Tickets for the Navy William and
Mary foot ball game, opening the
Middies schedule at Annapolis on
September rs, now are available at
the Keystone Automobile Club, 1643
Connecticut avenue. A season ticket
for all five Of Nays home games may
b purchased.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
BACK ON RING BOARD
Brown and Miller Reelected To
National Boxing Offices.

Maj. Ernest w. Brown, chairman
OF the District Boxing Commission,
and Maj. Harvey L. Miller. secretary.
we're reelected to the Board Of Gov
ernors of the National Boxing Asso-
citation yesterday.
Maj. Miller was elected vice presi-
dent of the association and was also
reappointed chairman of the Cham
pionship Ratings Committee.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Yanks' Lead Shaved.

THE Yankees had their American
League lead shaved to nine and a
half games over the Tigers. They
split a twin bill with the Cleveland
Indians, taking the nightcap, 81, with
Monte Pearson pitching four -hitter,
while the Tribe came through, 5-4, in
the l0-inning opener, although Bob
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Mat Matches
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK-Steve Casey, 225, Ire
land, threw Benny Feldman, 200
Georgia, 1886.
LOS ANGELES-Dean Detton. 205
Salt Lake City, defeated Vincent Lopez
220, Los Angeles, two out OF three falls
PORTLAND, Oreg.-Sandor Sxabo
2l5, Glendale, Calf, defeated Bob
Kruse. 2o5. Oswego. Calf, straight
falls.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
MANY WOULD LEAD REDS
Even 18-Year-Old Boy Seeks Job
as Cincinnati Manager,

CINCINNATI, September 10 R.-
General Manager Warren O. Giles
problems over candidates for the Cin-
cinnati Reds managerial post left
vacant by the release of Charley
Dresser were complicated today by .
pile Of applications ranging from an
l8-year-old boy to man IN Canada,
who was confident he could pull the
Rhinelanders out of the coal hole.
Giles said youth from New York
had written that from . business
standpoint 1t would be ten-strike to
have an 18-year-old youngster to head
the team"
Evening star., 1937-09-16
SADDLE FIELD STRONG
Five Hundred Star Horses Will
Compete in Orange Show.

ORANGE, Va, September Is (P).-
officials of the Orange Horsemen's
Association said today that 500 OF the
country's best horses were entered in
the thirty-eighth annual show here
tomorrow and Saturday, representing
the largest field Of entries in the asso-
cations history.
Foremost among the entries will be
the colors of Mrs. John Hay Whitney.
Prominent among local exhibitors
will be N W. Carter, whose Decanter
has won prizes in shows in Virginia
and other States.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
JOCKEY BALTIMORE QUITS.

COLLINSVILLE. III, September l6
N1.-Jockey c. Baltimore, who has
been riding for 10 years. has an
nounced his retirement He said he
found it difficult to make a riding
weight.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Fights Last Night
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YoRK.-Augustin Arellano.
l50A, Houston, Tex, outpointed
Grover Barnes, 156, New York (5).
GLASGOW.-Lcn Harvey. England,
technically knocked out Manuel Abrew,
SCOTLAND uA; eight heavyweishtS.
Woods, 161s4, New York. technically
knocked out Jose Rodriguez. 154s4,
Neg g,cnsionn. Y9rk ~. ". r. ..,..,
134h. Uniontown, Pa. outpointed
Norment Ouarles. 1884 Henderson,
vile. N. c. G0); Woody Boord, 143h,
spangler. 145s4. Richmond lel.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
ARMSTRONG FAVORITE
Picked to Beat Defoe as Two Face
in Ring Third Time.

III @S1f2S
NEW YORK, September 16 LHo).-
Henry Armstrong, the brown buzz-saw
from Los Angeles, gets his third shot
at an old rival tonight in Madison
Square Garden, when ne meets john
ny Defoe Of New York In 10-round
bout
Defoe and Henry have met in two
other bouts, with Armstrong winning
both times. Defoe was leading in the
second bout at Butte, Mont, when
Armstrong opened cut over an eye
late in the bout
The Los Angeles Negro is favored to
make it three in row.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
LOOP LEAD GAINED
BY PINCH CATCHER
Harry Aids New York Right
Hand HurIerS-Yankees
Divide With Tribe.
BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

A ROUND and about in the base
~ ball business today they're
~ saying the luckiest thing that
4 = happened to the Giants this
year was the injury that put their
flrst-string catcher, Gus Mancuso, in
the hospital back in July.
It's funny they should be glad
handing Old Man Jinx as though he
was Santa Claus, but If Gus hadn't
been laid up with broken finger the
Giants never would have found"
Harry (the Hawk Danning-who
had been warming the Giant bench for
only six years.
And If they hadn't come across
Harry, sitting there minding his own
business day after day, it is extremely
doubtful that the Giants would be up
there sporting two and a half game
lead for the National League pennant
at this writing.
Harry is the hero of the piece be-
cause OF the way he has brought the
right-handed department of the
Giants pitching staff out of the dol
drums, and because he's been waving
that big bat Of his in rival hurlers'
faces until they're scared to death of
him.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
.RACKETERS PLAY
ADVANCED T|LTS
Quarter-Finals in Singles,
Doubles Semi.FinaIs on
Playground Program.

=: s::;' ::.::: e. q -::: c: .: =: !:
morrow are the program for
the third annual Playground Depart
ment's open Fall tennis tournament.
1t also may be possible to play semi
final singles matches tomorrow, set.
ting the stage for finals In both sim
giles and doubles on Saturday.
Barney Welsh, Hugh Lynch, Tony
Latona and Bill Breese-seeded in
that order-were favored to win this
afternoon. Welsh faced David John
sen, Lynch met Hy Ritzenberg, La
tona opposed Ed Mather and Breese
encountered Jimmy Farrin.
Seedlings True to Form.
DOUBLES seedlings ran true 10
form yesterday, with the four
ranked teams winning and setting
themselves up for tomorrow's inter-
seeded competition. Only one tan
dem, the fourth-seeded pair of Lynch
and johnson, was extended the limit
of three sets, Ed Mather and Stan
Robinson snatching the first set be-
fore bowing, 3-6, 6-4, 60.
Welsh and Ralph McElvenny, the
defending champions, set the pace
for the other two survivors when they
breezed through Hoy Ritzenberg and
Stan Haney, 6-3, 81, while Farrin
and Bill Howard defeated Erwin ME-
meyer and Art Simmons. rs. e2,
and Breese and Latona eliminated Bob
Bradley and Don CARRIER by the same
score.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
Comets Lead in Entries.

7 ARGEST single class was the
popular comet with 20 entries.
While the local feet of these 16-
footers was dominating the lists, ma
tionally recognized sailors of the class
were looked for at small boat head
quarters, the Capital Yacht Club.
Alton O'Brien from Perth Arnboy, N.
j., national champ last year. and
Roger Wilcox, young skipper from
Staten Island, who defeated O'Brien
last week in the national champion
ships in Raritan Bay in his home
made Scud, were expected to add
class to the group.
The B handicap class came next in
number Of entrants, % In all. and
ranging from the brig Isobel III to the
crimson-sail dinghy Sizzle of Fred
Tip, which will be sailed by Miss Fay
Bodecker. Next was the snipe class
that had Is enrolled. including six
Long Island Sound shippers rom Sea
Cliff, Glen Cove, Forest Hills and New
Rochelle, N. Y, and one from Charles
ton, S. c., that Of John B. Day.
Eleven-foot moths were coming all
the way from Elizabeth City, N. c.,
and Danville, Pa. Leading the South
ern group Of six moths will be cham
pion Selby Stokes in his Rippling
Rhythm.