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Show GROTESQUE ATTEMPT TO CUT Off RACE RESULTS i '-"'. ' CHICAGO, Aug. 9. Some one with the ingenuity of Don Quixote furnished fur-nished a 'wonderful Scheme to put the gambling "boat, the City off Traverse, out of commission yesterday. The idea was to eliminate the wireless communi-: communi-: cation at the craft, depriving it of race results by sounding a huge foghorn, - whose vibrations would "blur " the wireless messages. '. . Like a chapter from Cervantes, the results were grotesquely disastrous. The gamblers laughed at the police in the tug Andv. The life-saving crews if from Jackson park and South t hrngo believing the sounds to be distress signals, sig-nals, hurried to the Hyde park crib; sailboats, launches, motorboats and an armada of small craft rushed z the rescue, while the- shore from Kenwood to South .Chicago was lined with persons per-sons fearing an excursion boat disaster. 11 Chief of Police Collins lenisl knowledge knowl-edge of any plans for a marine raid upon the City of Traverse, and stated that if there "were police in the tug Andv. An-dv. they were from Some outsido station sta-tion and were acting without his knowledge. The Smith-Perry-White syndicate, which operatesthe boat, charged the scheme up to7 "Mont" Tennes, their jealous rivaL No difficulty with the wireless appa-i appa-i ratus wasound on boarding the Trav- Ierse, according to employees of the boat arid patrons on board. The messagesof mes-sagesof the race results came without mishaps and with regularity, they declared. de-clared. The chief inconvenience suffered suf-fered was the blatant noise sounded from the foghorn of the Andy, whior ' hovered close to the side of the larger boat all the afternoon and made the deck of the ship a bedlam. |