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Show think birling yoa If ' tarf game, child? s fa if Scenes and Persons in the Current News yu WHOS play to - ittionahalf-u- b in Regain. Youre dip, stumble, to NEWS s log, chum-- I the water, then L(ei pine THIS go-- ( trip ) WEEK landing face (iin andey pond By LEMUEL F. PARTON L,ome wisecracking 'JEW YORK. The British lion has been taking klcka from allcomers lately, but It stiffened up and began looking a lot more her- - Qator yells WET! labors were finished or the logs had been delivered to the mill, they kps arent flying so fast found a postmans holiday in comC days from the axes of peting with one another to determine who was the best man on the woods lumberjacks, L JOSEPH W. LaBIWE find een strokes youll !'4 a about sport talking to g 'ed birling t) and the world champxon-C- l birling contest to be Mich., j at Escanaba, (log-rollin- to 14. ast 12 easier than kothrng is when Uy K to its half sub- a pond of water a somebody else is on the Cr end, trying to push you bed in a nimble-foote- old d art toe dancing look' ikes mans game. surely, that log Its roll-b- e seasoned lumber-- j boned men with heavy thould be more at home ind than tr.pping the light on a slippery log. Part of the Job. aren't birlers by choice, discovered long ago eep your job in the north got to have a knack jr icks apparently senseless bus!- - when legendary Paul youngster in knee lumberjacks first rolled into the river and nursed to the sawmill, the drive went smoothly, ung waters carrying mil-ee- t of timber down to the of civilization But now t ome obstruction would logs to pile up and it was r's job to skip out under of this men icing jam, find log. Jerk it loose and get dry land before he was Jays I, sa a t to the second round. When the next years tournament opened Marx was again -- present, merely fifteen years old, but now a seasoned athlete instead of an awkward boy. Losing a third round elimination match m the northwest titular tourney steadied him and he won the Wisconsin state title without difficulty. Twenty-siof the most accomplished log cuffers in the game were entered for the world's title and young Marx defeated four of them in swift succession, winning his way through the first, second and third rounds of elimination and the Then he faced little Billy Girard of Gladstone, Mich , in the final match. Too eager, too confident, he made the mistake of thinking himself speedier than Girard and Little Billy raced him off the log fo"r straight falls in the fastest match that has ever been rolled. Feet trod so fast they could hardly be seen, x pretty good life in-- 1 pract.ce log rolling in time When the days Joe rT 3 p Connor, the semi-final- 1937 cmPin birler, shown at the spinning timber as he r this years tournament M ,& Mich. BELOW: A picture of birling feet, must step faster and was in toe dancing if he want to get wet! 1 , p1 n d W lumberjacks soon discov- -' 11 rubber-stam- twenty-six-year-o- collapse of a jam would tself and go thundering If ti e birler was f4nd lucky he would skip Ptheiwaying carpet and get out ianger, if luck or skill failed, he il$ meet a horrible death be-- t crushing, splintering logs. s. slivspiked shoes chewed theogs to white water" splashed the ers; contestants legs and both birlers were almost continually on the verge of a wetting On to Victory. But Marx was a steadier birler the next year and he could not be At sixteen he won the S stopped. worlds championship against a score of veteran log rollers. He held it 10 years. But last year the college boy from Minnesota came along and Marx, whom the old time lumberjacks had at last taken to their hearts, lost his title. To what depths has this sport fa lien K This year Marx says he'll regain the championship and the bearded birlers from the northwoods are logger wishing a real would appear to teach all these Joe young upstarts a lesson. But Connor, the college boy, has been a CCC spending the summer at and camp making his legs tough on all comers. take to preparing defeatMaybe Joe Connor will be the even then ed, but lumberjacks wont be completely At last years Escanaba happy. tournament they rubbed their eyes to W1th amazement and chagrin a see four girl birler engage in old few A own. their of contest showed timers admitted the women or a speed and style that equalled a lot shown skill by the surpassed In the men s s of the g 4i plaid-shirte- J d semi-finalist- X 1 ..111 t Ah. . it. ,k SghU birling match finds veteran river-mestruggling to retain their laurels against lads who never worked on a log drive, who never pulled the key log from a jam. The log." practical side of birling is foreign to younger rollers but Annual Summer Event. they know That was the start of competitive the rules of the game. The Battle Begins. birling, a sport that is at once toeIn a land And modern birling does have deftripping and where the heyday of lumbering has inite rules. A round, smooth and long since disappeared, a few en- perfectly turned white pine log, 13H thusiasts have kept birling aiive, feet long, and measuring all the g gathering annually from the wayfrom 18 to 18 Inches in diam-ete- r, is put in the water. Two men outposts of their primitive north woods to vie for the cham- wearing light calked shoes mount pionship. There are veterans who the log, one at each end. remember the invincible Tom Then comes the battle, a tempesFleming and A1 Hubbard who tuous warfare of churning pine In reached their peak in 1898. They which each man, by spinning and remember Big Joe Madwayosh, snubbing the tricky log, tries to the husky Indian woodsman who throw the other into the water. With won the title in 1924. They still bewildering speed the timber whirls watch Wilbur Marx, the child prod- and stops, then starts the other way. igy of yesteryears who tossed Big From the river bank spectators see Joe into the pond when a boy of an exhibition of perfect balance, 14 cummers. timing and muscular But they cannot believe that birl- But eventually one man topples ing has become a college boys and splashes into the creek. sport So theyll converge at EsBirling has flourished since the canaba from every north woods set- nineties without the aid of a protlement this year to watch some moter. But it was not until the real lumberjack defeat Joe Connor, lumbermen's exposition at Omaha the University in 1898 that it became organized as of Minnesota student who won the an annual national event. That crown last year. was the year Tom Fleming defeated barrel-cheste- d A1 Hubbard in the final match. In its Considering heritage, birling should not be a col- 1900, 1901 and 1902 the tourney was lege boys' sport. But the modem held at Ashland, Wis., after which it was abandoned. In 1914 William P. Hart, Wisconsin sportsman, revived it at Eau Claire. Birllngs Child Prodigy. Big Joe Madwayosh won his first crown in 1924 and on the sidelines Withat year was thirteen-year-ollbur Marx who decided birling looked easy. He came back the next year to provide the tournament sensation by almost defeating Big Joe, racing him off the log after 21tt minutes of breathless birling in death roar like the building the ttat Parliament Showt Spunk teemed to be Inin Army Row frined- - w no p far-flun- fall-to- ff Nor is anything standing on one, a log. let than (V tourney. Their only consolation. It apof Paul peared, was in the memory of all log rollBunyan, patron saint ers. Pauls wife, the story goes, wet him la was the only one able to a birling match! Unto. g WMtera -- J Ll -- a . J 'SFn - f k k par- liament which reacted angrily to the ermys summary action against young Duncan Sandys, conservative member, who had revealed undue knowledge of air defente secrets. The government was embarrassed end backed up considerably. The swift parliamentary kick-bac- k wai an Instance of the latent staying power of the British democratic tradition, a the representative body rattled the bones of its late and great libertarians In telling the executive where It got off. The row overflows into important political ae the d tall, handsome, Mr. Sandye Is both a and political ally of Winston Churchill who Is the government Just bow In a poni litical land. There Is s threat of conservative defection to the side of the still ambitious and powerful Mr. Churchill, with labor and liberal recruits, and, according to close observers of British politics, some Important new alignments may result. Mr. Sandys, thirty years old. Is still just a rookie In this league, like Mrs. and, ws ? ' VI I2I7-- V X 1 German seaplane, the Nordmeer, shown a the wa catapulted from the steamahip Frlescnland in Long Atlantlo crossing to Horta, Asores. I Prime second half of a round-tri- p Island sound to start thn 1,397-mlMinister Bela Imredy of Hungary and Premier Mussolini receive the ealute from an honor guard of Boy Scouts as the Hungarian statesman arrives In Rome for an official visit. 1 Philip Murray, chairman of the 8WOC as ho appeared before the Public Contracts hoard hearing In Washington to determine minimum wage rates In the Iron and steel Industry. le Exciting Moment at UAW Meeting ENVOY TO LATVIA e, loose-geare- son-in-la- w , i OLearys , , (o-ma- cow, may not have Into start tended anything in particular. He Is, however, an energetic and capable young politician and there are those who say he may be another Anthony Eden In a few years. Running for parliament in 1933, he was assailed by the comely young Mrs. John Bailey who was leading the fight for the opposition. She is a daughter of Winston Churchill. He won the election In a battle and then. In the chivalrous Eton and Oxford tradition which is his background, he married Sirs. Bailey. She, rock-and-so- incidentally, is a granddaughter ef the Jennie Jerome of New York who became Mrs. Randolph Churchill snd the mother of Winston ChurchilL Jennie Jeromes father was one of the fighting editor of the New York Time In the 1860s. Mr. Sandys, studious and somewhat ministerial, was with the diplomatic service until 1933. He is a second beutenant in the London force, a son of the late Capt George Sandys. ti ? John C. Wiley of Indiana, new the United States consul general at Vienna, who has been named by the state department as minister to Latvia and Estonia. He will assume his new duties after be winds up his affairs in Vienna. .i o ll fisl fights Interrupted the trial of four suspended officers of the United Automobile Workers st the headquarters st Detroit. Photod swinging fists at aome of the rank and file graph shows a ) members of the union who demanded admission to the trlaL Free-for-a- door-guar- Memorial to Unknown Soldier of China fA i anti-aircra- ft luck In GREECE tonever thehad any marbles Elgin get back from England. Judging from this precedent, American aviators W right rlane Sought by U. S. Flyers lon have ht ahead bring back from h Kensington Science museum in London the Wright brothers airplane of the historical Kitty Hawk of December 17, 1903. Such crow-ho- p will be the endeavor of the newly formed association rwv I V )f men with of O n wings. They will appeal to Orville Wright, who let the plane go to England in 1928, after the Smithsonian institution bad tagged the Samuel P. Langley plane as the first machine capable of fight carrying a man. There is as yet no word from Mr. Wright, who fives and work somewhat aloofly in his office and laboratory at Dayton, Ohio. flight put That twelve-secon- d him in the history hooka, brought him a string of honorary degrees and gathered more medals than his plane could lift, but all this was marred by the misunderstanding about who rr - i s 7 . conflict, Gen. Cben Cheng of the Chinese Commemorating the second anniversary of the Chi Nationalist army breaks ground for a memorial to the Chinese unknown soldier which will be erected at Hankow, China. With the stubborn resistance of Chinese armies marshaled by Generalissimo Chiang the invading Japanese forces have been delayed In achieving the military victory they expected early in the hostilities. In several Instances the Chinese forces hsve Inflicted surprise defeat on the Nipponese. Kai-She- k, Sink Is Cool Place in Summer CHARLIE BROADCASTS flew first. He bad been trained in science at Earlham college when he and bis brother made their plane in a He continued his bicycle shop. studies In aerodynamics and his later contribution was the Mobilizing system which has made modern aviation possible. Wilbur Wright died of typhoid fever in 1912. bard-boile- d Alexander von Falkenhaus-en- , German sparring partner and coach for the Chinese general until recently, stirs e China Will citemcnt in ShangWin, Sayt -- hai br predicting Chinese victory. Strategist 1 feel He says, sure that China is gaming a final will fail in victory and that 'Japan both war and peace. The general and all others of the German military mission to China are homeward bound, suddenly recalled by their government, although their contract, with $12,000 a year for General von Falkenhaus-en- , was to have run until 1940. O Consolidated Nsws Fsstulss. STIFF-NECKE- WNU Ssritco. When summer comes to West Roxbury, Mass., the twin daughters of Mr, and Mrs. James McKinnon climb Into the kitchen lnk snd turn on the water. Carolyn Jean at the left cant be Interested In the camera, but Msrylln Jean has a saucy stars for the photographer. Carolyn Jean seems to derive pleasure from dousing her bend with n rinsing brush. At least It sdds to her coolness. J I Charlie Grimm, until recently manager of the Chicago Cuba, bas taken np new dutiea no n radio announcer nt the ball games la Chicago. Charlie, succeeded as manager by Gabby Hartnett, Is shewn telling the radio audience about a sensational play, Charlie broadcasts hems games til both the Cubs sad -Sox. , r |