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Show THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS. LAYTON CfcAH . . that PROOF Florid O guy . can,, return HOW TO TAME A LIOKTAMEB .; .. .. .with something expense account mord thart a big. . and ft bad sunburw. .. The- - doaresfi snfbrtfqrt 'forte of Chicagos nvit r.inlbent racketeer's baseball club- Is to own a the hard hitting CardiMize, Johnny nal, bcllevps he would be Jinxed If he dfd not stejr.eo home plate each time be goes from, first basg td thja bench. JohB,ny Broad is thp cham- . . . . e . Two Liye . V tan-- t -' - - an-pu- - Made Cubsf Cinch in 1935 by Picking the Cards ,: j It. d movlq av . t'roHS who attended workout's likes to. see horses go fast and so young. A! Vanderbilt' gave dally jo.rders to that '. effect J n s t to that they still prove are pals, Charley presented Freddy Llndstrora with six new.' bats wtien the Cubs mpt'-thDodgers the other . day , BUI Terry recently purchased a who are $50,000 annuity now tbelr.hearlhre.aks having might, like to know that Tr(s Speaker once was leTt In Little Rock by the Jled. SJoi as ;pa'rt payment for tlie ball ijark they find been using ,tn the ' ' Grimm e - home-towner- s. Tigers Should Win in American League . rtofltnble for the hosts soy that tlw late-- Kid Gleason wus the 'roughest llghtjng ever to Fnn-don n big time uniform walked off with 1,582 baseballs that were lift Into the Brooklyn stands last year, but the record still ts held by Wrfgley field, where sixty base- balls often are used In a game. Old-timer- , tion (which quite often also Is known as the American league) .the Parson has displayed his versatility as an expert by maintaining a dignified silence. From what he could gather whlle sojourning In the 8outh, It teemed to the Parson that the Tigers 'were, already In. Then he met Colonei Ruppert and heard different The Colonel spends most of bls time dodging In and out from under the grandstand to Inquire hoarsely of total strangers, How we doing?" Do you think we're goooa bold' n lead?" that But even though he may be. all wet the Parson at least Is not going to get burned by statistics. Instead, he merely la laying the two pennant races on the line as follows: - five-ru- NATIONAL AMERICAN St Detroit Cleveland - - . n 1 first-han- fast-movin- . t-- I he. was merely after . Stole bnef tlusbafti If a man. steals, ho matter what It 14. h will live to reIt gret ' Wife ( coyly oi used tA steal kisses frotfi' me before w were mar. " . ried. Jt ' 4 , $ Husband satd. . .' Well. jrout heat'd what ' . . tiete Year Cmotioae . were you. shedding tears At the Movie last night?' Josephine Because It was ft. moving picture. H .1 To tho fitter End .Mr, SnapMy motto-I; "What Is worth doing. Is worth-.doinwell. Mrs. Snap I notlie that when you 'make a fool' of yourself. 'Johft-SY- hy B.akinqkko wderz s ' Tko Very IdeftT Did anyone ever tel you how WNU wonderful you are? Youth-r-N1' do.nt ttjihk anyone . MjsS W . Il 3(S o ' ever1 did. . Miss Then you ' PLATES REPAIRED . - . Id like to know Made. to look Uko hew 11.00 plus postage CHICAGO DEN'TAI, PLATE SAB. 1119 .WUeoii Ave.,. Chicago, 111. (lcpt, ? - . the Idea. get- - . Save Time toungbride (telephoning- gro. t . Big Flee send me two cer) I want .you-.tTeacher .do you know- the. Bobby, pounds of beefsteak. Gfocer-Whakind would you like? population' of .Chicago? Bobby Not aU .of them, Miss Mrs. Youugbrlde Id like It raFe. srdvfe only lived 'here, three Shaw, ' ' . . . please; . Mrs. - It-f- - . t' years. . NO SUCH COURAGE n th - e bare-handed- A 'former New York JudjJe wants .to take iqvthe enuso or. Don ideade, fhe. ace:' Jockey recantTy banned In Florida. like to carry the case to the highest court Jo order to test the constitutionality of rac-lflIn the stauA-I- t Is til lies year at the breefllng farms. Tlue turf (firth notices .re veal that the femmes ire leading tbe c'olts five to oneVjf the New York State Racing commission la too busy It might Investigate those 'loud squawks concerning the type of electric eye to be used at g metropolitan tracks Uris year., Reporters asked $3 major league ball playerd .what Hub waa the beat they hag een 'this year. Fifty-twReplied the darda, lyMil forty. on .fayored the Tigers. , e tavern. , , Eddie Burke, a mighty power among the bookmaker on metropolPittsburgh s In tbe long, long itan Washington Brooklyn Cincinnati 8t Louis ago, now manages Havre de Grace, a mutuel plant Chicago Philadelphia Boston Philadelphia Milton Henry, who ran the AmeriWhen they finish the home stretch can Bar In Paris for several years next September, you'll be able to after starring as a crack rider, la tell whether the Parson la a good back at his first love galloping horses at the Long Island courses. prepbet early'-mort- B refers Harriet Beatty Is the only trainer ever to work a lion, a tiger and ' .. . elephant In the aame cage at the same time. teen in the town of Balnbridge, a few. mlltis away. It waa a big day foe the boy. It was also a big day fpr the circus, although that waa not proven for quite a few years. Clyde Beatty never went back to Balnbridge. He got a Job as a cage-bo- y for the polar bpar get He- was pretty small, but there was something In his eye, and they took - male like Clyde act during ,n oo-- Kol " neeesvery swceti" IT ell, now that you are married, haven't you found that a lion tamer is something of e terrible tyranf around the house?" , Oo-o- o oo ! He ees J'ERY sweet !p So now you know. and Harriet were Mm. he Insisted that she quit married Tames Dam Fortune. working. She did for a while. She Two years later Clyde was work- didn't like to be around when .Clyde ing his own act not with polar was risking Ms life with the eats, boars, but with the great cats who anyway. She was afraid, of them. would kill a man with a single bite But she raised a cub, Io, on a and do It willingly. that cured her of bhbys .bottle,-anOver the years Clyde and Ms cats a great deal of .her fear, Leo' Is a were to reach the heights heights year and .a half old now' and, acfrom which they have not yet de- cording to Harriet, ees very scended. In rapid succession came sweet," but some of tbe Beattys tdp billing In the Big Show, moving house 'guests dont think so.. Inpictures and, finally, ownership Sbe Knows No Fear. circuses. terest in one of the major Cole Lpos teeth are a couple of Inches Clyde Is now part owner of the and about as dull as the busilong and Brothers circus, In which he ness end of an Ice pick. But they Mrs. Beatty perform. cant be very terrifying to .a little To catch up Mrs. Beatty's part of who spends a few minutes bom in Chi lady the story now: She afternoon and evening now in every . cago of Russian parents not too many a cage with a full grown lion, an years ago. Her name uu something tiger and a lumbering Russian but in you have to sneeze in natural enemies. all Harriet pachyderm, English it became fust plain This is the new act which Harriet Evans. In 1930 the circus was in town devised sell candy. to and, with Clyde's guiding hand and advertised for girls she and tutor to her, leorls in the cirrus this Joined a Harriet needed fob, Like Beatty she year. She makes the great cats leap show. with the up through hoops of flame to the elenever left it. back and ride around the ring a of phant's thing, narrlet Is a tiny wisp . When Clyde U Camera. Even eo, Clyde says he Is more afraid 'of Hollywood than Ms cage He has made three pictures, Big Cage.4 "Tlie Lost Africa." The .Jungle" latter Iftft thrilling 'serial which he completed this winter, and It's at. its 'dqfilesL It's frill of Bat Men, Wild hairbreadth Vscats, volcanic' eruptions and. heroic fonts) . In nflaklng the picture; Clyde wag badly bruised by some, of tl;o , did pot succeed in effecting g couple of the halsbtvridth escapes, was eather painfully. 'voVj uq In one of the synthetic volcanoes atld had to rest up fbr a week after the final bnrofe feat. The Ifist tamed Incident ocpurr'ed when. the. 'director cnsprflly .asked Qlyd If he wotild mlxl vr:?s!-ngon the' t tiger It would be su picture stiff Clyde was flgajly Talk inti (t, but only on condition that 'the match take place after the rest of the e , court-ship?- . Oo Ct d Rat-Men- " .bnre-ltande- plea-tha- re-fir- e tas finished, plo-tnr- sot (here would still be a. picture, even if tliere Vas tot any mcn-- Bertity. . , The match, whs long anfi furious and Clyde got pushed areund plenty before winning tbe deciding fan. ' IPretty good, concede the director. pretty good Now lets try w once e more 1th h little more Jt Jftst of the old pop!" t t Clydes reply has been deleted so that this hewspaper can be sen through the United Slates mails, (Vh oooo ! It ees not sweet! C illss Flirt Two strange men spoke to me on the fetceet today. Old Aunt Sarah Huh ? Atrangef never tries to speak to fne, a nice, Juicy bite of lioh nieat on the hoof). Last winter Sammy succeeded In killing, s Cnge boy who carelessly left the "chute" door open while working. .' The two cat have s natural hatred for enclr other, and when this hatred works up to a cerjaln pitch s fight soinetlmes results In the cage, with disastrous resutts. in Muskegon, Michigan, last season a fight almost broke up the show and resulted In the .death pf a cat. Clyde Beatty has 'never seen an African Jmigie, hut rhen Edgar lilce Burrongh's wrote the whole "Ta'r-zaseries of savage Jungle lcre abd he hasnt seen one, either. Clyde bftyfc his cats from zoos and anlninl dealers. He looks for lions'-antigers- with spirit, cat who w ill fight back when he encourage them. That's ope of the reasons that his every appehrance In the cnge Is a ordeal, one that leave him '.soplftg wet with perspiration and with nerves so unstrung that he will talk to no one, even his wjfc, for 20 minutes after the ct.' Baseball Still RctFcnclics, Though Kerri pis Arc Up. ' race-track- used ttefy - " What's Becomfeof: Ned Ha flan, Princetons back of tweuty-fivyears or so ago, practices law at Bel Air, hid. Winnie O'Conoor, who wqn a bike race, flat and steeplechase horse raced and a' prize fight all In a day lu Paris, Is runniug a Jamaica .. ,$ivly by.ftgp'ftftt . ll-ow 1 'fried, . ' - Q.sWbD na n g f takinj powcJqf, O tested and. -' s New York Boston a - , V,- - ' IJe-yveul- nitberto when asked to name the 'winners of this younger organisa- -. Louis Chicago New York customers get na. little 'as S pet cent, such ent;Vtulimieqt Is highly Baseball still is retrenching although tbe gate receipts have vastly during the pasb Mvo seasons. Players will tell you that no more than ten athletes tfraw $3,000 .or- - better In the. Double A (International, American association, Paciflo Coast) leagues. Six years or sa ago Newark alone paid that rduch money to as many men-. In th'e lower loops It Is even worse, with salaries being common in Class D clrcultSr-Va- n Mungo bas a deep yearning la be car driver Ben Geraghty,-thVHIarjova collegian 'who may become the best shortstop ever o perform In Brooklyn, also Is an 'ex. pert checker player 'a.nd ft fair hand at bridge While other athletes are complalning'that the glcryes arjs not big enough, Charley, Grimm "contlrp, uer to h'old hit rating aa the game' best first basemen By practicing Boi ;t curly-heade- d cele- - have-(alien- mnster-mlnd-e- n i IK'--Tn-oiE--a- 1 . metrepolld. . Throwers of tlavlcny rent parties shouk tokg a Up. from 7amp.a. soJSlot inuchln'e" are legal' cialites. Perhaps b dould Disks .500,000 In Florida and the' license fee Is peopls happy by saying that tht comparatively fcmnll. So the boys Giants, Yankees and Dsdgera are go- and , to . Installing gltls ing to. triumph, but he Is Something their- - Jioincs, calling- - up them, Ip mors than Just a crowd pleaser. So their friends and then letting nahe Is going to keep faith with Brookture take Its course. Since the malyn by- - continuing to live there;, chines. rag be regulated $6 that the while his concentrating prophetic powers.upon the other entries. While doing so he Is going, to reveal a few secrets (the tattletale). ODe'of them Concerns Charley Grimm. Most poop Ip think Charley Is a St. Louis boy who ' his owq way to fame In Chicago, but there are those behind the scenes who know . better. He could never have done 1( If it hadn't been for the Parson, When the baldest of the Bradleys hlid- finished Rallying with the .statistics ,12 months ago, he Was convinced that the Cnrds were going to So Just to show what hewin. cared for figures he picked the GI-- . ants. That left only the Pirate's, llodgera and Phils for t.he Cubs to attend to (since the Beds and Bees always can handle, their own los. Ing. So, naturally,' the Cubs wen . the pennant This season the same 'system Is being used at 'the earnest request oi Mr. Horace Stoneham, owper of the Giants. Even though Mr. Sam F.readon, who collects the receipts, (If any) In St Louis, does not tike It the Tarson first must be true to 'So h'e Is selectbis ing the Cards to win and the Cuba to finish second. ' . . . brotei . stre,the Russian-America- - , - e - If anybody should ask llkn what 'Is his way, the 'best he coqlddo In the shape of a snnppy comebnck .would be to nifty that It Is sopie thing he has not been having recently, but that probably is beside the point. What Is right on top of the pblnf is the fact that the venerable Farson la about to pick, some winners and be I not the sort of person to fool around with burning decks piled- high with the figures of- experts. Instead he Is going to hop tight verboard .and name the lucky lads who will participate In the ttftrld So-- ' ties In September or October the. ever changeable magnate's have' decided to hold the gold and glory classic, . Alex (6ld Peg) Rhda. fiSty tfar, ha swn wooden legged ?9 of tlie last 40 year In penltvtatt. arles. Recently Ih TTliIqgo li robbe,? a Jbllnd oman. WitHejses chasxj One of. thuA cried out that h liip. was. the lowekt of thieves. .Dlff pv halted. . Shamefacedly, be surreal dered. He gave polhfe ft revelver hcarkfed In secret efimpartmeet of his wooden leg, 'theft ske) to fo s(it back to prison. . ., - a per-eo- that a the best. of friepJs. Sa adept train IR.LS,- what would .you do if bad ft "close you wofce up one of tfiesfi is the, she" has n y( ' in love treir in thd cage. . spring .mornings and' discovered that you were he with a lion tamer? With a guy whp Such, hick has hot falles In King f as works Clyde eastsright in the eye and make? him sit sulking in a lot f her husband . and Hon $3 .assorted corner like a disciplined schoolboy? Whowres.t!es tnaujr ..frt d dnCe. tigers In the sarfte c&'ge g Witlpa st&ols tiger tfnd wins the decision? Who Walks intp He makes thbra perch dpoa a cage with thirty or forty assorted jungle cats of b'oth Yariefies and assume all kind of positions twice .a day and makes them do his bidding? Who eten keeps-Sad formation. Meoellk, ft lion around the house to take care of the wlfh fhe set this feat, elts h scraps trpm the dining cat. his haunches and waves bit paws .table? around lp the Hr like a prize fightDont laugh. It might happen to , er entering the ring, A tiger rolls YOU. This .Is spring. Spring Is with deep-set- , serious ey?s betrayed ever ahd over add ttien rbases his the open season for romance. And by a smile that curls at the corners. Spring Is the season for the opening Iler soft, delicate, blonde beauty of the Circus. charms all who meet her. it wag too It happened to a flttle good for a candy girl. Combined girl Just three years ago. with her natural flair for dancing SHE fell In love with a lion tamer, Inherited from Russian Ancestors, It a lion tamer, who does all those ungot her Into the circus ballet believable things we were Just talking about And what did she o? . , Harriet Cs Up in World-She harried him, . From tlie ballet It wasnt much' ol . a Jqmp figurattvdly speaking tq Follows Hubbys Footsteps. the flying trapeze, a'ml llatrlet, acShe married Clyde Beatty, the litwth fellow who Is gen- complished It quaintly enough, tle, ' f the ease. of greatest . erally considered the greatest ant And then she fell. Jfo, hot frms mnl trainer Of all time, . : For a of years she peeled fhe trapeze (although she did that; potatoes In their horhft" fct. Roches- .too, opce). She feI for the dapper ter, Ind., where the circus Spends little 'ma-- who looked fhe bold, Nad Hons In the eye and ninde them wilt. the. winter, whlld Clydes sat at her- feet and ' Mr, fleatty looked the petite aerial Yoared for more table scraps. .Rut artist'in the eye and UE wilted. The like kll good- wlvCa, Harriet knew little, giant whose leer could turn a that she .must keep herself interest-- ' jungle roar into petulant 'whimper jtist e9 In the things ttiat appealed tq polled Over on his back end. purred lee, th Beattys lien cub, Is a her husband. And she did will) a like e ki(teh. Fhe daredevil with great pat of. Daffy a dog in the ' vengeance. She became a lion tamer nerves of sieel became putty in A clrcusi.. herself and now appears evOry day hands of e woman TIIE woman. ' .. tall at Clyde's rommaad.' With . And now, girls, If- yohr best boy jn the same circus with her husamid T)drde of wild band. SJie is today the only tyalp-frldnd happens to be a bookkeeper, such goings-oer In tlie world who "works a lion, a farmer, a clerk, a lawyer, a (ruck beasts, it Is not as infrequent hapa tiger and an elephant In the same drived, a doctor or even a newspa- pening for one or two of the cats to per man, here la your chance to find rebel. ... cage' at the same time, . 77i ttory of thit remarkable pair it out what a fhrUl It a to be wooed Clydes closest shave came ta winHod most worlds ter courageous by the one- of thme romantic dramat under quarters ' when he was 'rehearsII You have tamer. stylet Beattys ing hjs act preparatory to opening the big top that endow the circut with ; word for IJ the 1032 season, Samson, one of the rfiuch of the glamor it ttill holds for older and larger lions, attacked CirUI tbs millions,'. young and old, even in Jthis Imagine Thrill, ' Mrs. Beatty- was asked, him and' put him la the hospital,' age, . What. and death for Is' It like, The story really begins, about' sixbe by a Ron hovering between life a tiger theft not Had weeks. sixteen teen years' ago in Chllllcothe, Ohio. tamef.? Its nod diverted attacked the ,Hon o Chilli-cothShe oo In There wa.s a circus playing giggirlishly p ' s have been must attention,' Clyde .and Its fanfare drCw the at- gled. It ehs very swetrt! . does a fearlcsj, dominating goner,' tention of a' stripling youth of flfLioft KilTt Cage Boy, Samson, Incidentally, is one boast you would- not like to he meeting softie nlghf down a dark alley. The M'riter personalty saw him sink hi, teeth . Into the shoulder, of another trainer, Allen King, one night, and King, 'too, would be a dead man today if a tiger hftd not come to his rescue, .fit .thirst not be supposed that' the tiger In either case waS trying to (rave the trainers life . hand-to-han- Ignores Statistics srvma ' . a man-eatin- fa-n- . ' UtLEY .' Parson Tabs Rival . f T 'In-wo- way. leys ' By WILLIAM C. . - nits and Ystches the other, guests Bobby Crnlckshank will tell yon that ha Inarjied to putt by patching Bobby Jones In the pipy off at - to 192S. Previously Crulck-ahan- k 'had been putting In the BritNew Tor Poet. WNO Barrie ish m'snnet, tfftUng the ball fufL . Now he hits onljr jialf.of the ball and gUei It plontf of everspln. . ' Flag-Winner- s, wha hsvs Not to numereus been writing Ift to ask 'whether Hitter has takqn over the National . ths matter of the Jew who league-Intjest'um-pjr- e be the. game to happens ever conducts a poll rust IFtoANYBODY inquire eff.the leagye Why n determine the most mulish the cldb owner whom qr president II. In history or poesy,-mvote yd yoi) s'upportT My pwn Impression Oo to the boy who stood on the bum Id that If these gentlemen so do- -' Ing deck.' He probably' had busisired they oould, easily persuade ness elsewhere and his folks must Stark to rfctucn to the. game have warned him about playing Dolly he loves. , around with Are, bu.t" he persisted Gossip now Is- that there- - was Just the same. In the. case Mven Discovery Thats a fine way to get a reputa- woman, ' was Primmed athot old Parson IS cad tion, but Its San Pa Anita. ' . but ; - . 'fragile fading even more easily than JoL bu newer wholly dead, .tfioqgh seemingly drifed and withered past recognition, yet,If but ene warm breath pass over it fof a moment. It wifi bloom again with Teaewed; freshness. Even In laughter tbe heart. Is sorrowful, and those .whj seem to forgei have- often tlm saddest hearts. Two beings dwell wUhlh us; one aptlve, busy, absorbed In 'the duties qnd pleasures of tMs world; while tha other is sadly and dreamity diving Jn the Bast, treading With tears the fornjer paths, stopping p remember 9 look, to . pursue ft shadow. . blg-tlbi- , pion lobby alttet.srpohg the ' find cannot any he When keen, one to sit andUston to hhn he Just Peg Leg ConvictRol)8 Ctihl Woman; Asks for Cell , ; . , Is a delicate and GRIEF i - : Wetrn Newtw . u.WRIGUEYSk 1 wgmm PERFECT GUM gnciis m Reuses |