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Show I PAGE TWO Why Horse Is Called Dobbin Dobbin Is a general or familiar name for any horse, especially an ordinary draft or farm horse. The name Dobbin was so widely used in England as a pet name for horses thaTlt became a general nickname for the entire equine species. It was a familiar name for a horse in the time of Shakespeare. In the Mer chant of Venice," which was first printed in 1596, Old Gobbo says to Thou hast got more Launcelot: haire on thy chin, than Dobbin my Dob philhorse has on his taile." bin is a diminutive of the proper name Dob," which is a variation of Robin and Rob, which in turn' are variations of Robert Fish Mail Used by Chine A type of fish mail is so well known in China that letters are nicknamed a "brace of carp. The term refers to an old legend of days when intrigue ruled the royal court, and each man'was justly suspicious of his neighbor. A plot was hatched at court and, when a powerful prince got wind of it, the conspirators eluded his traps by sending each other gifts of carp. In each Ash was a note. Because-- of --this Chinese long legend, the story-lovin- g folded their notes roughly into the shape of a carp. They even pictured the messenger carp on some of their early postal stamps. New Job for Coaches of Sports By ROBERT McSHANE T'HE ancient game of tenpins 4s 4 perhaps the simplest of all McMILLIN, Irrepressible Bna football coach, has another plan u plan that can shorten the life of hjj brother football coaches and add many a gray hair to their thatches. already near-whit- e Be propases that the Job f quarterbacking be taken sway from the ceUeg players and placed where the responsibility belong with the coach. "By letting the coach call the plays, It would speed up the game and make it much more Interesting. McMillin said. "And another thing some of these coaches are supposed to be so smart lets aee what they can do running a team on the field. And Ba Is serious about It. Beu going to uee to H that a properly dran ap rule Is presented to the National Football Coaches association at their next meeting. Odds, however, are against fits acceptance of his recommendation. Few coaches are going to lead with their Jaw, and many will not agree with his statement that responsibility rests wRh the coach. They have taught their grldmen to the best of their ability, and from then on the game is in the players' hands. That is as it should be. games in that the beginner, man, woman or child, can perform with a considerable degree of satisfaction the first time on the aDeys. At the same time bowling Is ene af the moat difficult of games because Fear of Punishment Indians of Guiana have a great championship skin requires a strict Alrplant Resemble Dagger fear of supernatural punishment for attention to the scientific niceties The Peruvian airplant resembles a small Spanish dagger. It grows murder. It is there believed that a which distinguish the good bowler without being rooted, or without any spirit brings punishment in the form from the dab. Thousands of alleys throughout roots or anything resembling roots. of sickness or death, a hostile avengthe country are located to accomof with the blows Peruvian over the This plant ing spirit power entering the body of a serpent, jaguar, or in- modate our 10,000,000 bowlers accoastal deserts, growing as it trav-elWithout visible means of sussect, in which form he follows the commodate them with everything the murderer for weeks until the culprit from mineralite balls to advice. tenance, miraculously it absorbs Good bowlers are agreed that is poisoned, has his limbs dislocated intangible, volatile gases of the atskill is dependent on four bowling ruba and killed is or becomes hard, mosphere outright fundamentals, namely, the ball, a bery, spiny plant rhythmic stride to the foul line, deFlying the National Banner United States flag custom says livery, and a system. Meaning of Name Orlando In choosing your ball select one The name Orlando is an Italian that the national banner is not to be that feels good in your hand. Make left on the staff after dusk. Howform of the Teutonic Roland, meanever, the "Calf Ales both day and ing "fame of the land, which might be interpreted as "great hero." Ornight over the Capitol; United States lando Gibbons (d. 1625), whose comforts, during a battle, also fly the INTERCOLLEGIATE sports are positions were among the earliest colors 24 hours a day. It was during definitely out at historic St Johns engraved musical works in England, an attack on Fort McHenry that a This bold night-flyinwas organist of Westminster Abbey. college in Annapolis. flag inspired Francis His anthems (Hosanna to the Son Scott Key to write the Star Spanstride away from the conventional of David, etc.) are popular. pattern of American colleges was gled Banner. made recently when President Made Famous by Cicero Tomb of Rachel Stringfellow Barr criticized what he The tomb of Rachel is to be found On the western slope of the Alban termed a "professional system. on the way to Bethlehem, and when hills, from where so many noted SL Johns, he said, from now on the Je'wish sages puzzled over why artists have painted Rome's outline will give first consideration to stuon the way, they deduced that Jacob And so, after the against the sky, is the town of Frasdent pleasure. placed it there, foreseeing that the cati. The resort holds unusual m- end of the current school year and exiled children of Israel will pass tercst for visitors and contains the Its athletic schedule, the that way, so he buried her here that magnificent villas made historic by college en the banks of the quiet she might ask mercy for them as Cicero and other celebrated RoSevern will concentrste on a greatly mans. they passed. expanded intramural program. From the viewpoint of educators, "Famous Most Peculiar Natural Spring as well as many students, a deThe Great geyser of Iceland was Among the famous men who were em phasized athletic program is left handed were Tiberius, Michelone of the most peculiar natural probably desirable. But crowds of del Piombo, angelo, Sebastian springs of its kind ever known. Alfrom 50,000 upwards will not fill the Nigra, Buhl, Rapael of Monte-lupthough in eruption since remote anstadium of dear old Whoozis to Bertillon, and President GarJU tiquity. it virtually died about 1910. , watch two football teams v r says Collier's Weekly. For several field. Also Leonardo da Vinci on an intramural basis. compete with sketched left his hand. would it when rapidly however, years, erupt y fa Colleges throughout the nation some 40 pounds of soap were thrown have sank millions of dollars In huge into it. Naming of Patron Saints athletic arenas, and a CHAMPION CHARLIE DAW In the old Norman French village athletic program won't fill Fifteenth-centurof Vaucelles the Discovered Sage Grouse sure that the space between the football bowls with thousands of choir of the church named its paThe sage grouse was discovered tron saints very democratically, for thumb and finger holes is not too frensled fans who have laid their by Lewis and Clark above the headnarrow or too wide. money on the line. The beautiful waters of the Missouri river and on here are statues to Monsieur Saint Before rolling your ball take your jingle of the athletic departments MaPaul. Monsieur Saint Pierre. the plains of Columbia. They named stand from 12 to 15 feet behind the cash register has been sweet music it cock of the plains and gave the dame Sainte Anne, and others. foul line. Put your hands together to the ears of many a college and first written account of it, accordas though you were holding a ball football, the most emphasized sport, Bacteria-Destroyln- g Agent ing to American Wildlife Institute. Push both hands forward a trifle as has shouldered more than its finanA bacteriophage is a moves forward and either cial load In filling university coffers. your agent which is normally walk body First I'niversity in World or run slowly. in the body Bacteriophages present In 387 B. C. Plato settled at AthTour arm swings back as yon are found in the intestines and in ens and founded his school of philosapproach the foul line, coming down the blued. They may be-- living viand forward as the opposite foot DECAUSE Sammy Baugh lost ophy known as the academy; which ruses or attracted pupils from all parts of from the perhaps enzymes derived reaches the foul line. As yon are weight playing baseball last sum-me- r, bacteria themselves. the hero of the 1937 All Star Greece, among them Aristotle. This about to release the ball your body school was endowed and became the should be bent forward at the hips, football game will not return to the California's Largest Oak Tree first university known to history. The Hooker oak." nenr Chicd," is' with your shoulders, left foot and diamond in the spring . . . Ben Californias largest oak tree. Its right hand (or vice versa) forward, Johnson, Negro sprinter on the 1936 both knees bent a trifle, your right Olympic track team, will teach at Solar System a Collection height is 110 feet, circumference, foot back, pointed just a trifle to the Bordentown (N. J.) school for The solar system is the assem28 feet; diameter, 9 feet; spread of In spite of all the Negro youth blage of asteroids, comets, meteoric branches, 150 feet. At noon, 7,000 the right. football playgreat material and planets, with their atm can stand its shade. people ers turned out by the tendant satellites, which form a Delivery Important of University of Michifamily objects intimately connectPilates Ghost Pales When your approach becomes meed with the sun and practically isoTourists who climb the slopes of chanical. look to your delivery. As gan, only one has a head lated from the other stars. post Mount Pilatus in Switzerland have you take your place on the ap- in a coaching major school Ek . t hold long forgotten that it was not till the of ball the in palm proach that is Tad Weiman the Sixteenth century your left hand. Place the fingers of Princeton . . . of your bowling hand in the holes The USGAs 1939 and try your grip. As you approach links tournapublic the foul line, with your left foot slid- ment will be held ing slightly up to the line, place the Baltiball on the alley Just beyond the July Md. in A more, foul line. Don't try to throw the tablet to the memball down the alley. of Harry Var-doAt this juncture you can choose ory one of golfdoms greatest, was one of four systems. The first tells unveiled recently at the South Herts you to roll the ball at the pins, fir- club in England. ing away with no respect to imagiC Western Newspaper Union. nary sights on the alley. Once in PINTS FIFTHS a While you'll astonish yourself by CODE NO. 253 CODE NO. 252 totaling a good game, but usually this method leads to low scores. Billiards System two advocates the release By CHARLES C. PETERSON of the ball at the same spot at the President National Billiard Associafoul line, with the purpose of sendtion of America and World's Trick Shot Champion over ball the another spot (your ing sight) which directs the ball to the 1 3 pocket s. 7S- Indi-- O DO BowlingProves Popular Sport For Beginners jflASSlE' Sports De-Empha- sis g Left-Hande- rs Fle-chie- r. o. six-ma- n v Ads - ADVENTURERS CLUB 0FPE0PLELIKEY0URSEIFI Is a story high fellow who had one foot in ric, about a in the grave. The guy Is Lee Burgess of Toms River, N. J., and if any of you fellows think, like I used to, that high heels art no good for anybody but women, and not any to good for them, Lee will give you an argument on the subject. Leo knows at least one good reason for wearing high heels. And for men wearing them, at that. Pocket The Best Svstem Most successful bowlers use method three, selecting a spot at the foul line for release of the ball. They make it a point to release the ball at that spot each time. Just before they deliver the ball they lift their eyes to watch its trip down the four-lengt- h v A v N ' , two-oun- R1 "!i Frankfort Distilleries, Inc LouIsvEIa and Baltimore i three-sixteenth- s, fzttion of gjjj the sides, t SS i Salt Syn jg thousanc flaiymbo (Tenon? of Waant a 0 UfkP 1 a; by a ni 1 jjCollier'i un wisent, Sorcraaoenl a gtvernn 1 jSUtsa In iff r perse epen-beerte- j Origin of 1 i Horse Had Bad Disposition. The horse Lee had chosen to ride was Bill, a big, rangy buckskin, fast on his feet, but not noted for his goad disposition. They rode ovur to the cattle corral and the boys left Lee at the gate ready to swing It open when the animals were bunched up for the drive. Sitting on his a A. tale birite wl Jaot rest j icing a as'r From L. Ba source round, like a dirndl, or fuHne concentrated in front, as thtf ture shows it. Then fasten tt belt around your middle, creati a soft, bloused line abovet T shirred shoulders and sqna neckline are just as flattering n smart as they can bel For tt choose silk crepe, velvet wool. erne rail ILongfello Sj also ci first lin and darl Early Bob ana flu wearii teuton amo Of course that midriff sect, a girdle it just loo a like one, and the way it is t tended into the front skirt paa IAquila i novel, simply makes the pounds nu from your appearance. This a Uftoced to isnt really beautifully slenderizing dress, ti designed vi such good taste! It fits beautif. ly. Gathers above the middli k elegant-lookin- g, i Ltnay, to the bodice front Youll grand, and look so slim, makejthis cloth, satin of velvet, wool or silk crepe. if tern from its socket. horse, he got colder and stiller every minute he waited. Finally thu herd was bunched and headed for the gate big, heavy, Hereford cattle, Hereford lowing, bawling and making wild dashes hither and yon. cattle, says Lee, are peculiar. They will not attack a mounted man, but they are deadly to one afoot I didnt know this, and since the gate waa heavy and 1 was all bound up In excess clothing, I slipped off Bill to swing it open. The next thing Lee knew he heard a yell from the foreman and looked up to see the herd almost su top of him. Someono And Lee yelled, Get on that horse. Tub want ta get killed? moved' plenty fast He put Ms foot in the stirrup and swung himself on his horse, but because be was stiff and cold and hampered by a lot of excess clothing, Ms right foot didnt quit awing rs Instead he gave Bill a rake across the clear. with hi spur, and Bill Jumped. Lee loat his hold. The next mint he was on the ground, hanging by his left foot to the stirrup. His low beet had slipped through and his ankle waa held ta the bow as If be bad bad on a leg Iron. "Bill started to run. says Lee, with the cattle pounding right m behind. My head was dragging at the horses heels and his steel shoe actually stirred my hair. I knew that to put my arms over jny head was to have them smashed. My only hope was to work my foot free and take my chances with the cattle. The horse ran faster and faster as he became more frightened at my weight dragging alongside. Contrary to reports, my sins did not troop before my mind at thii time. All I thought of was to get my foot free, for my leg felt as If it were being dragged from its socket. hind-quarte- says Feel Death Clutching at Him. he could fairly feel Death reach out and clutch was sure to fall under the pounding hoofs of the other. To right and left he could glimpse the legs ef ether horses about him, and knew his friends the were doing their best to save him. But I knew, tee, he soya, that help couldnt possibly come from them. The cattle seemed t have fallen away somewhere, but I stU had to get loose from my horse. I kept tugging sn my Imprisoned foot, and suddenly there was a snap. The lace broke, my shoe came eff and I was lyiag on the ground, quiet, motionless. Believe me, for a moment I was the most comfortable man In the world. The boys were around me, helping me up, FD never forget the foreman, a young man with a fair skin, for the freckles stood out on e his paper-whitface like legal seals on a state document. carried me to the ranch house, and when the reaction aet in I waa They e pretty sick boy for a while. The foreman told me he never expected to see me come out alive. A short time before, a puncher on a neighboring ranch had been dragged by the foot in a like manner, but hla frenzied nanr had literally kicked his body to ahreds. And that brings us around te Leea argument about high heela. You see, when theyre on a puncher boots, theyre not for show, but to keep the foot from sliding through the stirrup and prevent Just tha sort of accident that almost had Lee up before the celestial bar of Justice, cash.ng in his chips for a first payment on a harp. 0u p broa The Patterns. No. 1647 is designed for sixes 14, 16, 18, 20 and 40. Size 14 quires 4V4 yards of Vi isgt along tionand below the shoulder f just the right amount of fullne feel If bis leg were being 1 kiih mom rfii eenturj or th Drat so Felt as Italy, i fctmriou! hair-raisin- hl "jjbarite se? a lov Tut inh: 5 1 r of No. 1634 is designed for sizes 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and S With long sleeves, size 38 requird material WX 5 yards of i Fii 39-in- short sleeves, 44 yards; lVs yard I of trimming. Send your order to The Sewis, Circle Pattern Dept., 1 Montgomery Ave., San Francw Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in corns each. UgAPACliP CetMlitTonsDu to InvltoMtln. freshing. PS5T4KswfiSri ,aESEj!jF5: atwava eauay ISESTPj Faith Dispels Darkn Faith can place aE-candle Sa M. darkest nichft J - rs d VrHV , Learned to Stick on a Horses Back. at him. One fate had him fast by the foot, dragging him to doom; another thundered along behind him. If he wriggled from the grasp of th one, b PlTING the ': T, dnmc , flu first p DmJ This is not only very newest, a real iensi 1 ao easy to make! It is a straight back and biuTHl: that you can wear k es d Lee says theres n finer, more genereas or more class of men than the They gave Mm their friendship, end along with it ell kinds of good advice an the handling of horses. They started him riding en safe docile pontes, sad although be waa qnite awkward at It, he peon learned to stick on a horses back well enough to go riding with the beys, rounding up strays, cutting out calves and doing the thousand end ana add jobs that maa end horse have to de oa a big reach. As I progressed, says Lee, I quits naturally changed from the slower, more patient ponies to faster, more highly organized animals. My seat improved, and with greater ease In the aaddle my confidence In myself grew by leaps and bounds. And quite often it's nothing mors than a little too much confidence g adventures. that leads you Into one of those good One bitterly cold day, says Lee, when the air was ms clear - and shsrp as thin glass; it Was decided la mere" seme 506 head f cattle from the home ranch down to the Old Ranch for winter feeding. 1 asked to he included in the crew and felt mighty pread when I was accepted by the foreman. With the temperature at forty below aero It was a Job to keep warm. I dressed In heavy underwear, mackinaw, blanket pants, hair chaps, wooMlned coat, mittens and cap. It was an I could do to navigate la aB-ihaberdashery. Having put on two palra of heavy woolen socks, my feet were too large for the tight riding boots I nasally wore, so I slipped on some big work shoes and buckled my spurs to them. And that was an error that Lee nearly paid for with his life, fog those shoes had flat heels, and not the high ones with which Western riding boots are generally equipped. Could Luckv Horseshoes fN'OXRUGlCVlEIJr - cht Drape-As-Toa-We- rs eow-poni- Lee alley. Bowlers using system four, or the spot system, keep their eye on a definite spot at the foul line, concentrating on that spot during the approach and even after the ball leaves their hand. old racing adage that an ounce off the hoof is worth a pound off the back" veteran horsemen are now contending that Seabis-cui- t had an eight-pounpull in the weights when he registered his sur victory over War prise Admiral in their recent match race at Pimlico. Charles Howard's seasoned campaigner went to the post shod in light, aluminum horseshoes, which weighed) but eight ounces to the set. Just half the hoof weight toted by War Admiral, who was wearing steel plates. Mathematics-minde- d experts pointed out that one-ha- lf pound saved to the stride, In the approximate 313 strides for the mile and gave Seabls-cu- it a lifting weight saving of 156!4 pounds for the route. gtstue to Budapest di to Anon When Lee waa In his early twenUes and that waa back b tha fall of 1910 he (pent a few months on a ranch near the little town of Weldon, Colo. A city greenhorn, he wea vastly Impressed by the scenery, by the catU business, and by the life he aew coins en around him. "But and the easy way most of ell, he says, did I admire the they handled the spirited they rode. I fairly ached to emulate them. ... n, you save bv heels, and horses, and- - each,. the stirrup and one foot Sport Shorts ... when your own with these tailed sew g 24-2- 9 - your' High Heels Hello everybody:about tw"deign Mason dresses yonnV enjoy wearing tokniL and festive days. Theyre to do that you can Plenty of time. Chooset materials, in color that & happy and flatter HEADLINES FROM THE IFVES y bacteria-de-stroyin- TP3? Lesson No. In diagram you have (or prad tice a cushion break shot This shot is very driving to many players, especially when playing it too hard, as invariably the object ball will jam in the pocket. The ball being frozen to the cush ion, again it is advisable to strike below center and english slightly to the right to prevent the cue ball from jumping the table. Hold your cue level, and hesitate in pulling it away too soon. Copyrleht Kruger National Park Kruger National park In South Africa is the most important wild animal preserve in the world. It covers an area as large as the country of Belgium, numbers among it inhabitants all kinds of African animals, from elephants and giraffes on down to the smallest species of - T A H8l,rrl warts rtsttw f jTglir SESSSSS VW7'1 luitsas body wsebliwiT. Symptoms . aaxtoty sod OUmT VK-SS'E-ftr- It deg waatf gift s coin of orkmi Mink I redu Mvdsoi jj Grty S Grey K redu Jsp M Hyos m our kgkly WNU Bervlcs. Colonists Had e Dog Mart The colonists needed good dogs. Usually the ones they raised werent as good as they wanted, ao they began trading with the Indiana for their dogs. So once a year the colonists and the Indians met end swapped dogs. Tha dog mart was discontinued during the Revolution, and revived only t few years ago. Good fatcoiBBnn? BUY 00 |