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Show if ! I tit THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH Tiger Wrestlers Beat Penn Another Barry Aims to Win Scull Title -- n ill li i ft I V 1 ) js J hs - f-- -r f .i Luggage is Just a : Trifle to Hurst I Tim Hurst, li IK... ..,.(. ... ,ffm old-tim- e i t 1 J J worked hi'Iiitlil if. the plate wearing his street g f hoes and no" guard except a Task. Which recalls the story f,f the day Tim walked up t' 4 'the hotel clerk in Pittsburgh find asked him if his uniform had arrived. "To, sir, h.it I'll keep my eyes ? uiiijipiuj". i open for it." After the game Tim again In- Quired about his uniform. "No, not a thing has come except this cap," said the clerk, exhihitlns a hlue cap with a small peak. ' "That's it." said Hurst. ; Roy Clark, heavyweight boxer of Minneapolis, wears shoes size loa- A stadium la" to be constructed at Rologna, Italy, to seat 50,000 specta- tors. Connie Mack Pins Hope for m mum Pennant in Star. nu rr T'n - i championship days, carries the pennant hopes of Con season nie Mack in his twenty-fourtas manager of the Philadelphia Ath letics. Returning to the same post he OC' cupied in Mack's famous $100,000 infield combination 1G years ago, Col llus, deposed leader of the White Sox, will have new Philadelphia ers on both right and left, Connie has indicated. Replacing Galloway at short stop will be Joe Boley, acquired from the Baltimore Internationals, while at first base will be Dudley star from. the Branom, Kansas City club of the American rssoclatlon. Jimmy Dykes again Is slated for .third base. With this combination as a starter, Mack will have probably the best- equipped reserve infield in organized baseball, with Poole for first base, Bishop, second; Galloway, short, and Hale, third. The changes have been made primarily to bolster one of the weakest-hittin- g clubs of the 1926 American league campaign. In Collins and Branom he has obtained two players who hit well over .300 last year. Boley also climbed Into the select group of the International. One more heavy artilleryman for the lineup was obtained In the signing of the veteran Zach Wheat, former Brooklyn " outfielder, who for years finished among the National league batting leaders. Zach appears slated to patrol left field, with Al Slm-moin center and Walter French In right. West and Wilson from Waco, Texas, and Metzler of WrIchita Falls will seek to displace the veterans, while Mack also may find room for 5 30 doubles. The game of billiards has more actual participants than auy other sport States. in the United J The first golf balls were .made of wood. Later leather balls stuffed with feathers were introduced. Blind for 17 years, Ferd Fabler of Baltimore, Md., has become a better-- t Headed for Records ban-averag- e duckpln bowler. club. Introduced In .Germany show that there are now 1,450,-57- 2 registered soccer players in the country. in 1900 rec- ords Bill Coles of Drantford, Ontario, Is the first foreigner to hold the amateur bicycle racing United States. championship of the hard-hittin- sensitive nature is said to the reason why Manager John of the Giants weakened Frankle Frisch. be Mc-Gra- on tion last season. season. Piyot Men Popular in Great College Pastime The boys who snap the ball Into d ploy fharc popularity with the stars when It comes down to voting a new captain for the football Rob Reltsch of Illinois and team. hack-fiel- Ken Rouse of Chicago, playing center for their teams, were voted Into leadership of the 1927 elevens hy their team mates this fall. The tackles usually are represented on the captaincy list, and the players at the The ends are honored frequently. guards, bulwarks of the line, seldom get the call to lead the team, football history shows. In 1925 three great centers wero captains. Rob Rrown of Michigan led bis team to a championship; Tim Lowry pf Northwestern received the trophy ns the most valuable player, and Gi'inVn of Iowa, the largest man playing the position In the Rig Ten, Inspired his fellows to victories over Illinois and Ohio Sta'.e, ' Heavy Champions Should Box Four Times Yearly . Heavyweight champions should light at least four tlirs a year If they expect. to defend successfully their crowns against outstanding rivals, In the opinion of William Muldoon, member of the New York state athletic commission and former trainer for John L. Sullivan. k "Lack of work rather than lias been the downfall of every heavyweight champion In the past T.0 years," said the veteran expert. "It looks to tne as If fJene Tunney was 'licking himself the snrne as Jack did through InacHempsey tivity, righting once a year for a heavyweight champion Is not enough." Muldoon expressed ' the view that the present crop of heavyweight challengers Is the best In the history of the ffkcue. elghty-one-yenr-o- ld over-Wor- 1 tV . V- lorn - YELL0W 1 yj "ifeng fS rikiMte1 " ' SiangyangVQ Yanga Above Is au exclusive portrait of Owen O'Malley, counsellor of the env baasy of the British legation In Peking, who has been conducting negotiations with Foreign Minister Chen of the Jf d-z- Wuca f Cantonese government fM J HanKow . 11 s 6Ningp0 - c'rV .Nanchang FOUNDS LABORATORY - right-hander- .This map of the part of China involved In the warfare between the Cantonese and the northern Chinese will be useful for reference when reading the news dispatches from the Orient Terrific Storm Sweeps California Michigan Stars a Myth The sport of curling Is popular in Figures compiled by the University every part of Canada, and the city of of Michigan Indicate- - that the supWinnipeg Is generally regarded as the posed stress and strain Incident to world center In this winter sport. football training Is a myth. Loss of weight throughout the seaOtto Rorchert, president of the Milson Is not so serious as has been picwaukee club of the American associtured by some critics of ttie game, the ation, sold peanuts in the grandstands figures show. when a boy. He later was assigned to Only one ran out of more than forcaring for the bats. ty on the Wolverine grid squad suffered loss of weight last season. He Thllly was Walter Weber, a fullback, who Cy Williams, .hardhitting years lost regularly a day before each. game fielder, who Is now thirty-eigh- t old, faces his sixteenth season in the and as regularly picked up his weight big leagues without ever having been by the following Tuesday. team. on a pennant-winnin- g Four of Michigan's regulars gained weight during the season while the Cavalry officers of the French army weight of the other members of the captured 24S cups In various horse squad was fairly constant throughout. shows 1n Canada, Iielglum, F.ngland, France, Holland, Italy, Switzerland Wins Athletic Honors and the United States In 1920. James Ward Puckard, founder of tne Packard Motor company, who has given rt million dollars for the erection of a model electrical and mechanical laboratory at Lehigh university, from which he gradunted In 1884 as a mechanical engineer. ASSISTANT Q. M. seventy-si- a -- world champions lost their crowns during titles were the last year. Seventy-onIn 30 branches defended successfully of amateur and nrofesslonal sports find JjiHl Scale of Miles s?. ri) and Grove, WilQulnn, lis, Walberg and Pate, southpaws. The Intercollegiate Raseball league Darrah and Hunter from Dallas, of Tokyo Is the largest of Its kind in Texas, Shores from Wichita Falls and Japan. As nvany as 35,000 fans are Yerkes, a" Philadelphia product, also seen at a single " game. are possibilities. "We've done everything possible to Sir Arthur Balfour Is one of the few strengthen the team," Mack said. "I golfers known who can play a round figure It will be a tough race, but I of golf In less than his age. ne often have a hunch we will be leading the turns in a card under SO. procession next October. If not, Tm still ready to try again the following For the first time in many years a year." perfect game was recently bowled In Seattle by Glenn YVllkins, who de- Football Strain Among livered 12 consecutive "strikes." One hundred ' j Lamar. The pitching staff holding over from last year includes Howard Ehmke, Sam Gray, Ed Rommel and Jack Bill Football, hockey and rifle shooting are the only sports which developed a profit for the Yale Athletic associa- Frank Ilussey, Boston college star, to Coach Jack Ryder, beaded for some new sprinting records. His starting has Improved, and great things are expected of him this Where the Chinese Are Fighting ACTIVE IN CHINA g ni A too iB,' according W5 rk Xast season Ruth niade only triples against 47 home runs and A new element has asserted Itself fn baseball. The latest group of players Is being, referred to as the Anaiilns - J AROUND COLLINS h umpire of - . ' n A" new infield built around Eddie Collins, his star second baseman of f L i U7 3$' oTt-.- l BUILDING TEAM I Photograph shows members of the Princeton wrestling team who defeated the University of Pennsylvania niatnien in .their annual wrestling meet. Left toVight are George Good, 115 pounds; Holmes Alexander, 125 pounds; Allen Tekerian, 135 pounds; Harold Rayster, 145 pounds; William Graham, 158 pojinds ; 'Richard Sunnney, 175 pounds, End C'apt. Harry Melslahn, T imm 1 i 13. February r -- ron sin sell H. Conwell, whose memory wa honored at special services in all the churches of the country on "Russell n. Conwell Memorial Sunday." Here Is the sketch plan of the proposed skyscrnper university to be erected in Philadelphia as a new home for Temple university and a lasting monument to its founder, Rus- II. A. Berry, son of W. A. Barry, who was champion scull- - 9 er of England In 1SDS, and a S nephew of Ernest Barry, ex- - x champion sculler of fhe world, o has challenged Major GoodseU S of Australia, holder of the S world's sculling championship, S to a match for the title. It is suggested that the match be "staged at Farramatta, New South, Wales, In June. Barry, who is not yet twenty-fiv- e years old, has never been beaten in a scratch sculling event, and la 1920 won the Putney coat and badge, in 1021 the Kingston (London) coat and badge, and In 1925 Doggetfs coat and badge. The three events are famous races rowed annually on the Thames. Y I Plan of Conwell Memorial "Temple of Learning" x :ts. e Fred Rrninnrd, . mil fielder of the Hallas Steers in the Texas league, Is oil magnate, a now a gusher having been brought In on land owned by Mm. Qm 300-imrr- ' i I ' - ' - 'L - f' . 'fy : li Mil 'til I ' mammoth arena Is planned In Brooklyn. N. Y.. to cost between Hiid ?0.H0,non, and will have a seating capacity of between 20,000 and ::o,0()0. The building will be dedicated to all surfs of sports. A Gehrig, teammate of Rnbe Ruth, was Ham's greatest rival for total bases in the American league. Ruth led with 3iV. including 47 home runs, 5 trlples30 doubles and 102 singles. base Gehrig whs second with a total aw recwrd of 3M- - Photograph rIiows Miss Violet Son senior at the dcr, seventecn-year-o'Oakland Technical high school, Oakland, Calif., winner of the highest athletic honors In bT school out of an enrollment of 1,100 girls, who has been named the first "100 per cqil utlUwe." Brig, (it'll. K. II. Pope at desk In the War department Just after be was sworn In as assistant quartermaster general of the army. "An -- In Experienced Guide Wonder If that's n man the thicket yonder?" or a deer "I gtifcss It's safe to call tt a deer.' Hnswered lhe guide; "a man would have taken a shot ut us by this lima" : ... , . ? s ,w" ...... .... California, especially the southern part, was devastated by u morm of extreme violence that lusted several days and resulted In severe nwK A score or more of lives were lost and the property damage very heavy. The photograph shows the streets of Los Angeles converted lnii from their homes thfre livers. Hundreds of persons were drU-eul In other cities. San Diego was virtually Isolated and tunny refuge s were f i ki-from there by steamef f |