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Show THE LEIH SUN, LEIII, UTAH Cleveland Dedicates Its New Union Terminal THREE OF WORLD'S GREAT SPRINTERS Wright Proves Honus Was Right 5 1 i .1, i I ... , , 1 t K ' Ai5wr'l yrsM ,- '; 1 , ,." ill - 'I !!;;' : f V, 55. El " " s " " i " i t rr :;" ;;;H;:: , vrs " 4 . La Paz Seized by Bolivian Revolutionists - " . 1 yv.v. WKf 7 - o f Eevolutlonlsts of Bolivia recently seized La Paz and took over the government, establishing rule by a military Junta. The picture shows a view In the capital city when a parade was taking place. Four Men Needed WW 55 ; The largest book in England, requiring four men to move It and weighing 200 pounds, which was presented by the United States to the Memorial Thea-s Thea-s ter library at Stratford-on-Avon, England. It contains the names, in most : cases the actual signatures, of about 2,000 American subscribers to the Memo-; Memo-; rial Theater Rebuilding fund. Their First Taste I v. K , 4 , f - , ' ' ' " ' , ' ' I ' . Dora and Dorotha Foy, colored twins at the Womens and Childrens' fiospital in Chicago, enjoy their first taste of watermelon, and from the looks of things they take to it like a duck to water. 81- s ' - j - - vL. to lift This Book of Watermelon jig i .-f?1'-1 ll ! " ft I ESk. 1 : St, y n 4U . .""W; f , V -sit Cleveland' new Union Terminal, on Public square, has Just been dedicated with mucb ceremony. Thta picture shows the Terminal tower as It appears ap-pears to travelers entering the city from the west. The entire project will cost $150,000,000 and Includes the Union station, a hotel. Medical Arts, Midland Bank and Builders' Exchange buildings and a large department store, all being Interconnected. 1 -I fT&X jr'1" , Kb I d " a f JAP CUE ARTIST 1 1 VI life ' Mr. FuJIwara, one of Japan's most brilliant billiard players, Dracticing In Tokyo preparatory to his tour of America, where he will meet the premier cue artists of the continent NEW DRY CHIEF A. W. Woodcock of Salisbury. MtL, new director cf tbe bureau of prohibition pro-hibition la the Department of Justice. 3 If li 1 A At - Paddock, Borah and Wyck-off Wyck-off Attend Trojan School. The campus at the University of Southern California will be blessed this summer with the presence of three of the world's greatest who will be attending at-tending the Trojan school at the same time. Charley Paddock, demon of the cln. der path for a number of years, grown too robust to consider any further breaking of records, will return this summer to U. S. C to study law. After Aft-er receiving- his A. B. degree In 1023 Taddock took up the pastime of writing writ-ing and lecturing and, on the side, served In an executive capacity la a Minneapolis publishing concern. The second famed sprinter Is Char-ley Char-ley Borah, former national intercollegiate intercol-legiate champion, who will re-enter school to pursue courses In medicine. Bounding out the trio is Frank Wyck-off, Wyck-off, who ran the 100 yard dash in 9.4 In the N. C A. A. games. Frank should become the most famous of the three, as he has two years more of col legiate competition and has been Improving Im-proving with each .season. Philadelphia Is going In for night baseball, lu a mild way. The Municipal Munici-pal stadium (formerly the Sesqulcen- tennlal stadium), where the first Demp- sey-Tunney contest was fought, is the scene of the experiment The South Philadelphia league plays there on Saturday Sat-urday nights under the flood lights installed in-stalled before the Dempsey battle. Manager George Orton said the games attract considerable attention, far more than the league could hope for during daylight contests. . ' .. Rene Lacoste's home adjacent to Paris Includes a brick wall which looks as though It m!ght, have been transplanted from Verdun. It was literally knocked to pieces and It held the secret of Lacoste's success as a tennis player. Against that wall he has hammered thousands of balls to pieces In the endeavor to correct this or that little mistake in the production of a stroke to help bring the Davis cup to France. Even when he was proficient he used to play there, day after day, in order to keep himself physically .fit for the great strain which tournaments tourna-ments Impose on players. . A, , . Bay Flaskamper, the shortstop of the Memphis Chicks, Is a pretty fast step per on the bases and he bids fair to lead the Southern league in stolen sacks this season. Last year, when he was down In the Texas league, he was one of a group of players who were bragging about , their speed on the base paths. One fellow, a newcomer to the cir cuit, was particularly sold on himself and his ability to travel on the bases. Flaskamper horned In after the young ster had delivered a glowing oration. featuring himself and his footwork. "That's nothing," said Flash. "One day In San Antonio I bit a line drive to center field and It hit me in the back as I was rounding second base." One hundred thousand dollars will go to the winner of the next Agua Call ente handicap, the richest race for thoroughbred horses in the world, which will run for the second time next March at the Agua Callente race track. James N. Crofton, general manager of the famous Mexican spa, announces that the conditions of the Mexican classic have been altered so that the winner's share has been guaranteed to be not less than that sum. Eddie Roush, last year's center field er of the New Tork Giants, has ap plied to Commissioner Landls for re instatement to good standing in or ganized baseball, uousn remained a holdout , when he refused to sign a contract that called for half the salary sal-ary he had made the previous year. A night baseball game held up by darkness? Yes. It actually happened. At Sacramento recently a player drove a ball against one of the 1,500 watt lights, shattering the bulb. It was the first night game In the coast league. Repairs were made at once and the game went on. Onf a matter of eighteen months Intervenes before another Suzanne Lenglen-lielen "Wills Moody duel may be fought n the tennis courts. That is the length of time intervening before the famous French ace, who turned pro under Charles I'yle, regains her amateur status. At present Suzanne Is designing sport costumes, but plans her comeback as soon as possible. J. II. Stegeman, director of athletics at Georgia, has been appointed dean of men. Although Jerry Travers, former United States amateur gulf champion. has recorded three holes-in-one in his career, none of them was made in a championship tournament. The Boston, Bed Sox announce the release of Pitcher Frank Mulrooney and Outfielder Joe Cicero to the In- dianaiMilis club of the American as sociation. Age may have taken ome of the elasticity out of Big Bill Tilden's legs. but It hasn't curbed his temjwr In the slightest During his triumph over Dr. Daniel Prenn, Cernuin champion. In the city championship he went even further than h's usual glare at erring linesmen by refusing to continue un jess one of tbe officials was changed. i ll W ' Glen Wright Now Playing "A baseball club Is no better than Its Infield." - So said Hans Wagner several years ago, and he was pardoned at the time for the little conceit because as the greatest shortstop In the game he made the saying ring true. The fans of Brooklyn are now prepared to accept ac-cept the pronouncement as a truth. Glen Wright, all but lost to the game a 'yea' ago, has so rounded out the Infield of the Robins by bis depend able and even brilliant play at shortstop short-stop that they have become a National league pennant threat There Is romance in It, particularly In the case of Wright He had been tossed to the scrap heap of baseball by a torn ligament In his throwing New Mib Champion The new national marbles cham pion, Jimmy Lee, of Columbus, Ohio, with the crown he won at the tourney at Ocean City, N. J. Veteran Sam Rice Kids With Ruth on Batting When the Washington Nationals were In New Tork recently, Babe Ruth en- paced the veteran Sam Ulce In a con versation about batting particularly Sam's batting. "Better get 'em while you can, Sam," advised Ruth, "for III be catching up with yuh pretty soon." Rice laughed. "Teh? Say, see this at? That's my sweetheart, and we'll get plenty of hits yet" . , Ruth sprayed tobacco Juice over the well-kept sod of the Yankee stadium. "I hear you're goln' to be divorced from your sweetheart, soon," he ob served, walking away quickly to dis-, courage any comeback that Rice might make. Shamrock V Sails From England About July 15 Shamrock V, Sir Thomas Llpton'a new challenger for the America's cup, will sail from England about July 15 for Long Island sound. The Shamrock Sham-rock will be convoyed by the Erin. Leaving Harwich, the boats will be put In at the Azores, where the Erin will refuel. The Shamrock's deep sea rig will include a trysail, a square-sail square-sail and Jib and a staysail It will be fitted with a Jigger mast for " the Journey. It will have a crew of 22 on board. A month's rations and fresh water will be carried. Erin will never be out of hailing distance. The Shamrock will have a month In which to tune up for the challenge race after crossing the Atlantic. Layton to Coach Clas3 of Junior Cue Players Johnny Layton, world's three cushion billiard champion, has accepted an invitation in-vitation to coach a class of Junior players as part of the preparatory campaljm for the national Junior pocket billiard tournament which will be held In the fall. Ijiyton. who Is now resting at his summer home in northern Wisconsin, had planned to make an exhibition tour In Japan, but thus far the Japanese Jap-anese biiriard officials have not replied to his terms. About a month ago Lay-ton Lay-ton was Invited to accompany KInrey Matsuyama on the tour. frn-y - ,7 r,.,tei Brilliantly for Dodgers. arm which failed to respond to the usual methods of treatment. It looked hopeless, but after being discarded dis-carded by Pittsburgh, Wllbert Robinson, Robin-son, boss of the Robins, agreed to take a gamble, and so did Wright Glen Wright married and his wife' proved to be a stabilizer as well as a stimulant to his naturally high and determined de-termined spirit. His arm was all but dead; anyway, useless for baseball. Roble gambled to the extent of over $5,000 trying to effect a cure, and finally it came down to an operation or nothing. The doctor could give no assurance. In the balance hung a possible pos-sible cure or a ruined, crippled arm. With the encouragement of his wife, Wright gambled and won. jporfmgSQfflbs Jockey Earl Sande has In a short time acquired a small fortune which will enable him to llva In comfort If he refrains from betting on horses. ... Burton Bruckman, catcher for St Joseph, Mo., and muck" Aldrich, catcher for Yale, both wear glasses while performing behind the bat BIngharaton has returned Catcher Dave Miner to the Nashville Vols and obtained Tltcher William Simmons from Montreal of the International league.. ........ '..'. After a cold lunch the other midnight, mid-night, a golf hug turned. In ,and dreamed of watching Jones do a Tom Thumb golf course in IS with a tack-hammer tack-hammer ., - - The heaviest weight ever carried by a thoroughbred was 100 pounds, Imposed Im-posed upon a horse named Ramapo, who won a' race In England despite this handicap. , Albert Mlchelson, veteran runner of the Millrose , Athletic association, has won every marathon of note la the United States with the exception of the Boston classic. : A New York church has sold a strip of land, 6 inches wide by 25 feet long, to a corporation for $50, but when the miniature golf course will be ready is not reported. . Along In the second year of the apprenticeship the earnest young sports writer picks up the word "imbroglio." "im-broglio." There is little that can be done but let It run Its course. Despite the abnormally heavy batting bat-ting of recent years, the record for the season, made by Hugh Duffy of the Boston Nationals in 1894, has withstood with-stood the modern sluggers' efforts. If pugilism Is to enjoy the absolute confidence of the sporting world. It should appeal to science for a device that will register every blow accurately accurate-ly and leave no room for question as to fair or fouL The last England vs. Scotland soccer soc-cer game at Wembley stadium adjacent adja-cent to London netted profits amounting amount-ing to $32,138 compared with $51,130 from the final game for the Englisa cup. Champ Justo Suarez Justo Suarez, the lightweight champion cham-pion of South America, aboard the S. S. Northern Prince on Its arrival at New York. He will fight Joe GlicX July 17. " K .:' : 'W Y I ymiam f ; i A ' r i (' r fev?" J Htm r m teS3, |