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Show NOT IN THE BOX SCORE: fillies and six colts have won Ilambletonlan, tbe rich trotting atake decided at Goshen, N. Y every year. Only one filly. Regret, has won tbe Kentucky Derby, tbe running race to which the Hamble-Ionia- n most closely compares In tbe matter of general Interest . . . Tommy Bilodeau, catcher and captain of the 1931 Harvard baseball team, may sign a Red Sox contract any day now . . . Tbe St. Louis Cards have signed Max Surkout, Pawtucket, R. I., pitcher. The cradle snatchers will send him to Rochester . . . For some reason or other tbe St. Nicholas Palace, probably the best known of smaller fight arenas, has changed Its pame New York Post. WNU Service. to the Royal Windsor. Mike Jacobs, the man who drove Madison Square Garden's 600 millionaires out of the boxing business, is proud of the fact insurance companies rate him as a risk It continues difficult for the average citizen to understand the brainwork of racing (Wilton "Slim Farnsworth, who officials. 30 years to journalism before It pays t referee prize fights. deciding to turn to the traster fields of endeavor, sits in as guest columnist Chicagoans report that the cocktail for Hugh Bradley this week. He was bar of Tommy Thomaa, the fora former New York sports editor and mer featherweight, has improved M is now general manager of the Twenper cent since be handled the tieth Century Sporting club.) Loula Braddock championship By BILL FARNSWORTH changing . . . Jack Dempsey is preBlackburn, a (real dicting thst the son of the late Billy I ASKED InJack bla dap and now box' Mlske may aome day disprove that fighter Inf Instructor and trainer of Joe myth which lays aona never follow fightLouis, just bow he figured the In tbe footsteps of first-claBrown Embalmer would have done ing fathers. against former heavyweight chant plons. His replies are mighty In- Terry Denies Rumors teresting. Here they are: FIVE fifteen-year-o- Let Bill Farnsworth Pass on Blackburns View of Joe Louis ... ss AGAINST JOHN L. SULLIVAN-- "1 never saw John L., but I understand he was a stand-stil- l fighter who relied on one punch to win. I am sure that Joe's speed and punching power would have been too much for Sullivan. "CorAGAINST JIM CORBETT bett was foxy and Loula would have to tag him. They fought 2Vround battles In Corbetts day, and I think Joe would have finally connected in the later rounds. If It went the limit then Joe would have lost the de- rision. "LouAGAINST FITZSIMMONS is would be too strong for Fits just . as Jeffries was and strength would-hav- e decided this one. Fitz wasn't fast, but crafty, and Louis couldnt have eased up for a second. But he could stop an opponent cold with either hand. AGAINST JEFFRIES Jeff was big but slow. He was a powerful puncher, but Joe punches just as hard and he would have speed on his aide. It would be a great Sght until one or the other landed. In this bout Louis speed would be his ace In the bole.1 AGAINST TOMMY BURNS -"Burns was too small. He couldn't punch a lick. I think Louis could lame the round in this light' AGAINST JOHNSON "Jack was I have a great defensive boxer. boxed with both Johnson and Louis Joe throws much more leather and hits much harder. Johnson might stand him off for a while with his great defensive skill but would witter finally under Louis' terrific punching AGAINST WILLARD This would be just another Dempsey-Wil-laraffair. Barring site, Louis has everything to make him the winner. AGAINST DEMPSEY "This would be a FIGHT. How I'd love to see this one. Two men evenly matched in strength plenty of it speed and punching ability. If Joe got the least bit careless it would d be all over And the same would go for Dempsey if he slipped up for a second. Either could win by a kayo. Purely a matter of who landed first If it went the limit I think Louis would get the nod on points. AGAINST TUNNEY "Gene would be tough to tag and might stand off Louis until the final bell. I dont think Tunney could flatten Joe as he did Dempsey. With the bout going, the limit Joes harder punching and boxing ability would give him a slight edge. -AGAINST SCHMELING Joe -to. .offer no alibi for their fight has last summer and I will let their i, ext bout give the answer. AGAINST SHARKEY, CARNERA, s BAER AND BRADDOCK "The speak for themselves. rec-ird- When Lefty Gomes steps out of the dugout to go to the box he always puta one foot In the tray that holds the bats. Does It even if he has to push n bat or two out of the way to make room for his dogs. Also it is his proud boast .that he never has so dared fate as to step on the third base foul line. Ty Cobb is just beginning to show interest in reading about baseball . . . During his playing days he said he was too busy . . . Myril Hoag, Yankee outfielder, has the smallest feet in the major leagues He wears a size four shoe on one and a four and a half on the other . . . The Detroit Tigers are the only team inThe big leagues run entirely by catchers, Mickey Cochrane, Del Baker and Cy Perkins. ... Hell Head Farm System Bill Terry still denies those rumors that he is to become general manager of the Gi- ants' farm system When next year. pressed he ends the conversation by remarking that hit contract as manager runs through 1938 . . Those rumors that Pie Traynor is through at Pittsburgh are becoming stronger . . . Glenn Wright still is hit- Ting home runs with" the bases full while managing the Wenatchee club in the Western International league. Also does some relief pitching when regular hurl-er- s In spite of frantic hot falter weather pleas of the players nearly all American league managers ban swimming in the pool in that swank Washington hotel at which they stay. The theory, also held by various football coaches, is that swimming tires and softens athletes engaged in other sports. Gabby Hartnetts most valuable souvenir Is the catcher's mitt he used in his first major league game . Napoleon Lajoie, one of Uie batters and secgreatest of e ond basemen, took such good care of his eyes that when he rode on trains he refused to look out of the window. Said tbe telegraph poles Sashing past the window were bad for his vision. New York Racing commissioners get sore when dog track operators charge they are being discriminated against The, officials say dog tracks can operate with as much freedom as the race courses if they employ the same bookmaking system of bet The trouble is that it does ting. not work out very well at the dog tracks, which need the certificate form of wagering to or rake in heavy dough from small customers . . . George Lamaze ha new gag at his fancy Ar added rowhead Inn by refusing to have menus printed. Casual question from a gentleman who long has noted how well that nation builds and operates other ships . . . I)o the British really want to win those international yacht races or do they think the favorable and sympathetic advertising which goes lo their perennial losers helps with the national prop- ... r all-tim- pari-mutu- aganda?' Hal Schumacher considers it un lucky to sit on the left side of the bench . . . Johnny Evers, the famous Cubs' inflelder, always wore his stockings inside out when luck was needed to settle a tough scries A heavy woolen sweater, worn in all kinds of weather, seemed to satisfy Hans Wagner that he was wooing fortune properly. For years Walter Johnson used to stand on the same spot each day when he warmed uy in the home park . . . Elephants with trunks turned, up are the good luck charms of athletes as well as of celebrated financiers and eminent publishers. Auto rsce drivers still tell of nughie Hughes, who hsd dosens of ivory elephants and almost always wore one of them suspended from his chain. neck by One day at Inlontown he was standing besldo the track listening to friends congratulating him on winning n race where he had driven superbly and escaped death by Inches at least a dozen times. "Funny part about It, laughed Hughes, turning his back to the track for n moment. "I guess Ive been overplaying this luck thing nil along. Fact Is, I (orgot my elephant this morning and haven't had It on nil day. A car with a driver anxions to finish with seme portion of tbe prize money, came speeding down the track. It hit Hughes and tossed him a hundred feet through tbe air before be landed dead. ld PEEK AT TOMORROWS INVENTIONS National Resources Committee Recommends Careful Planning to Take Fullest Advantage of Scientific Innovations; THIS WEEK... bunt palisaded across the southern hattan Island to F, Parton Dy Dutch colony of New gainst a threatened British, Wan tr Alonxo B. See. the name from the fact NEW YORK.man. has long been the line of this wall. rL this readers favorite epistolarlan. nants of the wall, which His letter to the newspapers caused gates at what are now more people to hit and Pearl street, W(riT See's Letteru the ceiling than about 1699. Ltmutl 1 itjjt' , 5 By WILLIAM C. UTLEY might have OUR countrya vastly different scene if, at the turn of the present century, the government had been able to foresee the development of the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, the motion picture, rayon and radio. & W tlevetora. Make People ... now his A. B. Just i, Hit Veiling Elevator com pany, which he founded fifty-foyears ago, la being dissolved and Its properties sold to Westlnghouse. It is hoped ha now will have time to g. His catch up with his son, Alva B. See, who has managed his business affairs recently, did not s. follow in hia fathers Mr. Sees first big turn in tha headlines came In 1923 with his Insistence that, lor tha good of nil concerned, we ought to burn down aU the womens colleges. Ha was a vehement opponent of feminine educa tion, "beyond knowing their A B Cs forward and backward. In support of this view, he offered tha findings of his own research, which were that womens brains were, on tha average, five ounces lighter than men's brains. "No college woman can be a fit parent, he contended. He assailed pedagogues, and aU techeducational contemporary niques, writing and publishing a book called in 1929, In Schools, which he insisted education should be under the guidance of men who have the intelligence to own and run ur letter-writin- Likewise, If we today can foresee the future development of some inventions we already have and some we probably will have, then we w'd be equipped to build for pen-track- One of the most Important Inventions which wiU be developed In the next few years la the mechanical cotton picker, shown at left. - Another is television; a broadcast is shown above. plan and act in. time, once the spread of this invention is certain? "The influence on negroes may be catastrophic. Farm tenancy will be affected. The political system of the southern states may be greatly altered. "In another field, science has gone far on the road to producing artificial climate in all its aspects, which may have effects on the distribution of population, upon health, upon production and upon the transformation of the night into day. Talking Books for Blind. "Then again television may become widely distributed, placing theaters into millions of homes and increasing even more the already astounding possibilities of propaganda to be imposed on a none too critical human race. Talking books may come as a boon to the blind, but with revoluthe a that our sees fuller "This eye ourselves and everything posterity effects upon libraries and existence. human eye can see and more. It tionary which, together with the talking picis even said to be able to detect ture the federal naThis, according-tand television, may affect raditional resources committee, is the certain types of counterfeit money. schools and the educational cally reason for its recent 450,000-wor- d It will distinguish colors better than process. on can do. "social human the report implications beings "The variety of alloys gives to of new inventions. The report, says "When it is joined with another President Roosevelt, holds out hope form of the electron tube, the vacu- metals amazing adaptabilities to that we can anticipate some of the um tube, it becomes able to act on the purposes of man. "The use of chemistry in the proeffects of major inventions and what it sees Ttius it sees a waitress make plans to meet new situations approaching a door with trays in duction of new objects in contrast to both hands and at once swings the the use of mechanical fabrication on that will arise as these new inventhe basis of power continues to detions come into widespread use. door open for her to pass. with remarkable rapidity, in velop House benedicWith this White "Unlike a human being, it does the production of oil, of woolen-lik- e not suffer from fatigue. For intion, it is expected that the recommendations of the laborious docustance. in a factory it can watch the fibers, of substitutes for wood, and ment will become a guidepost for tin cans go by on a belt, pick out of agencies of destruction. long-tersee the planning the defective ones, letting tinty to prevent or reduce future depresthe application of new scientific disgood ones go by. This monotonous work can be done without strain for coveries that will bring not only ensions with their economic maladjustments and social upheavals, as long hours as the manager ticing prospects but uncertainties and difficulties as well." that characterize the New Deal. wishes. The report continued: "The air- Uses New Find Constantly. Cites Thirteen Inventions. which conditioning will it cause "Tint unemployment lower inside developments To apply its theories, the committemperatures during w ill ob it also is ious, but tee recommends that another comlighten the hot weather may or may not within Indeed, it mittee, to be known as the natural tasks of the workmen. the next generation affect Southern and the automatic factory resources board, be created. This brings cities and stimulate the growth of would be a sort of technological the automatic man one step closer. factories m warmer regions. to automoIt used be may would regulate which constantly telescope," "Or again, tray agriculture, which to bile measure the traffic, density peer into the future and predict a high yWd per plant when what scientific advances would be of smoke, to time horse racing, to produces the roots are suspended in a tray of made. Its qualified observers would read, to perform mathematical calliquid chemicals instead of in the the culations. be commissioned to ' Hardly a month passes without soil, may or may not be used sufwork of the many special planning to be of much social sigboards which exist in 47 states, 400 some new use of the photoelectric ficiently nificance within the readers lifecell will Indeed it being reported counties and 1,100 cities. to learn the many time. decades require This board and the many other this versatile instrument can Technological Unemployment. planning boards throughout the na- things do. The report said that while new tion ought immediately to concern "There are other such new inveninventions oTten save labor and themselves with the study of 13 inwhich will carry therefore cut down the number of ventions, the report declares. These tions inventions are the mechanical cotton picker, the nation on to even greater jobs, their developments often reachievement during the years to quire new industries, equipment, plastics, come creating new c jobs. the cell, artificial cotof artificial fibers "The full effects "The question whether there will fibers made ton and woolen-likbe a large amount of unemployment from cellulose, synthetic rubber, have not yet been felt. The influence of the airplane has just begun. during the next television, houses, period of business prefabricated "Even the familiar telephone will prosperity rests only in part on the automothe facsimile transmission, have many new and profound ef- introduction of new inventions and bile trailer, gasoline produced from aircraft planes and fects, when long distance telephon- more efficient industrial techcoal, steep-fligh- t ing becomes more widespread, upon niques, says the report. tray agriculture. "For instance, even if industrial Dr. William F. Ogburn, director the distribution of population beof research for the report, tells a tween metropolis and smaller city, techniques remained the same, the upon the physical separation of volume of production would have to few of the wavs in which governmanagement control from produc- be greater in the future than in 1929 ments. individuals and iticiustnes tion, upon remote controls in genin order to absorb the increase in suffered because they failed to foreeral. the working population and keep unsee the development of certain industries. Trailer May Alter Living. employment to the level of that "Highways are too narrow." he "The telephone wire may be used date. One of the greatest necessities for contends. The metropolitan area to record messages, bulletins, even in anticipation ofthe decould have been planned better; planning newspapers, in the home and office. of inventions arises m much crime could have been prevelopment "Nor influences of the the are the time lag between the birth of an vented. Industries could have been very common automobile matters of invention and its full located to better advantage. application, The Here he injected a little of the pdst history either. of new social the report declares. It points out and economic unit population of 19 the for that the inventions voted most present called the political philosophy metropolitan area, so en- useful and introduced administration. between 1888 in the is automobile, couraged by and 1913 the following intervals "The growing inadequacies of its mf incy. while the trailer may were an average: Between the small local governments could have be destined time to change the habits of the invention was conceived (which the "and he been foreseen, said, and working of vast numbers living have been may transfer of some of their functions of the centuries before) people. and the first working model or patto a more capable centralized govDr Ogburn points out that there ent, 178 years; from that point to ernment would have been facilitatis little advantage in planning the the first practical use, 24 ed. use or distribution of our natural years; to commercial success, 14 thence Most Invention. Important resources unless we know what uses Century's to important use. 12 and years; "The question that naturally technologists will find for them. We years, making it roughly 50 years arises is: Will the second third of must be able to foresee whether oil from the first real work on the inthe Twentieth century see the rise Will be made from coal, whether vention. of such great Industries based on plastics will take the place of wood, "The time lag between the first new inventions as was seen in the whether alcohol will be used as a and development first third? There may very well be motor fuel, whether more foodstuffs invention is often the full use of an a period of will be inventions great produced chemically. equally significant during social and economic maladjustment of our national the next phase The nation now faces the second as. for example, the delay in the third of the Twentieth century, he growth as in the one just concluded. adoption of workmen's compensa"For instance, all are agreed that says. "What may be expected of tion and the institution of safety one such Invention Is the electron technological development? first campaigns after the introduc"How tube, said to be the greatest invenwill be the eftion of rapidly moving steel mation of the Twentieth century. Its fects oliihe mechanical cotton chines, the report said. This most brilliant form is thephotoi thesurplus labor -- of -- the emphasized the need for planninglag in electric cell, popularly known as the South flood the northern and west- regard to inventions. electric eye. ern cl'ies? Will the governments Wntern S5' lumilllilllllllimU WHOS HEWS j 6 o photo-electri- e pick-erLW.- ll t Ntwapaper Untor a shop. He was a porcupine Individualist, denouncing governmental parasites and and BeteaNoirby hinting that Her- bert Hoover ought Thouganda to be examined Enrage Him for hi fanlty to governing by commission. Cigarettes, high heels, extremes In xtyle, slang and a thousand other betea noir enraged him. He la a benevolent-appearin- g eld derly gentleman, with spectacles and white hair, living in a nice house in Brooklyn, where he has lived all his life, building his elevators and registering dis- Many Desertions la The American Civil rltt ed for the large number evaded the draft and desmJJ armies. Thousands failed w." for service, thousands boqzhu exemption and a total 300,000 deserted from both taul 1865. says Collier WeekW tion grew so widespread fli companies, garrisons and tvn jmenU decamped at cm tin a! .rr; i't Swallows Travel Aksi Ornithologists say iwitk, almost the only birds which fc In migration during the da alone. Most migrating Urf, during the day and travel at a.n but the swallows sleep it cVi is said that they are slow h and do not like to fly over wate encounter a bay, or rivn I they patiently fly around it 3l $ ?.t .or J First President-Csmauad- e During the Battle of Blade, August 24, 1814, Cormnodon h ley, commanding the forces, was shot from hit hi President Madison assumed w command and was the first V dent to exercise his authority commander in chief on the fc battle. b at W re t a n i tax-eate- The Tailor Bird One of the most common andn lest inhabitants of the gardens off dia la the tailor w because it actually a its nest together with thread t' cobwebs, cocoon silk of caterpc or any vegetable fibers or string which may be within well-know- steel-rimme- sent This writer never caught himself agreeing with Mr. See on anything, but hopes he will keep on kicking. Most businessmen,-whe- n They get angry about something, sluice it off in some dessicated chamber of commerce committee which takes all the sap out of it Dissent is too refined these days. I once got all the "Letters to the Editor" contributors together at a picnic and published the first photograph of "Vox Populi ever taken. They were a quarrelsome lot and we almost had to call out the militia, but you couldnt help liking them. SENATOR ELLISON D. (COTTON of South Carolina still follow! the cotton boll aa his political lode star. Like other south- ern senatorl- - h Cotton Ed has been shaken Far Off -- Bate by the rein Party Split Ce? Democratic split, but now he is out for the New Deal subsidy medicine, to keep excesses off the e market r old Senator Smith, in congress 29 years, has a sizable cotton patch which was Presidents Died in Whit W Presidents of the United Su who died In the White House k William Henry Harrison snd Z.1 ary Taylor; the former ApriUk one month after hit intugun and the latter July I, USA sixteen months after ht OfflCi Stripping Cork Trees When the cork oak, an everri species that is cultivated chid? Portugal and Spain, is striped, bark not more than once every e; to ten years, the quality of the a improves with each stripping the tree may thrive for ISO yew more. African Birds Celer Fsfcs Touracos are native of wut Africa. These birds have wisp a reddish mineral quality. L subjected to water the wing lose3 red tint and becomes s gn; white. Bones Decorate Burial Chspk The four burial chapels the Church of Santa Maris (loncezions in Rome art rated with the bone of about departed capuchins. Seventy-three-yea- granted to his family by George III In 1747. In the senate, he has been the leading champion and defender of cotton. With his southern colonels blow-torc- h mustache, and his chivalrous defense of southern womanhood, he Is the most authentic survival of- - the days of "Pitch-for- k Ben Tillman. He walked out on the Democratic convention last year, becausa they had a negro speaker. He remarked, I dont believe in the Fourteenth or Fifteenth amendments. As chairman of the agricultural committee of the senate, he is an important figure in the reshaping of farm legislation, to be taken into account in the new agrarian drive for subsidies. ORMAN EBBUTT, Berlin of the London Times, loses his four-yebattle against Nazi opposition. The Ger- - man foreign office BootofNaztg asked Time, 1$ Applied to to withdraw him Herr Ebbutl and make dear that, If this is not done, he would be expelled. This is the culmination of continuoua disagreement between Mr. Ebbutt and the Reich. The foreign office asked that he be replaced by a correspondent who will "more nearly reflect the official version of the achievements of the regime.' Mr. Ebbutt haa writ-te- n his own and not the official ver-sia- n of events in Germany. In 1933, Mr. Ebbutt was president of the Association of ta Foreign in Berlin. The day before the election which put Hitler in power, he wrote a dispatch In which he aid many citizens were afraid to vote for fear of watermarked paper or invisible ink whlck would reveal them as oppositionists. This angered the Nazis and they demanded retraction. He sent another dispatch, substantiating his tory. Many times threatened with he nas stayed on the job-u-ntil Corre-sponden- fi Consol'd .tH Nsw, rs.turoo. WNU Servlet. Aa Important PartaenMl There is one partnership," s Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, is dangerous to dissolve MW wort brains should never try to dependently. t Use of Australian BsM The use of the Australian taM elections began to V offlw tucky in 1888 for some w state-wid- e in Massachusetts in 1889 to flees. The Merchant Marian mAll the merchant vessel licensed tered, enrolled or a counWn of and law the flag - ititute the merchant marine a country. , Jud T unkins Jud Tunkins says poM Tj have to auffer a lot from of tbei ought to be ashamed but dont realize it. Alaska Rich M' Alaska surpasses sny area a. iww a extent and value variety, j |