The Alamance Gleaner
VOL. LIV. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 30, 1928. NO. 30.
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HAPPENNINGS OF THE WEEK
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Smith in Acceptance Speech
Is Outspoken for Change
in Prohibition Laws.
^ By EDWARD W. PICKARD
WITH the courage of his convic
tions Gov. A1 Smith in bis speech
of acceptance frankly declared his op
position to the Eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead act as they now ex
ist. This was the dominant note of
his address, which was delivered In
the assembly chamber at Albany be
cause of a persistent rain that pre
vented the outdoor exercises. Neces
sarily Smith, like Hoover, declared
that If elected he would honestly and
vigorously enforce the dry laws. He
also repeated his belief that the sa
loon would not and should not return.
But the vital part of this section of
the speech was a demand for the mod
ification of the Eighteenth amend
ment to permit the sale of alcoholic
beverages by state agencies If ap
proved by popular referendum; and
for amendment of the Volstead act to
allow each state to determine Its own
standard of alcoholic content, the
maximum not to exceed that pro
vided by the amended Eighteenth
amendment. Severely scoring the evil
conditions which be said had resulted
from the present dry laws and the
failure to enforce them, the candidate
declared: "I raise what I profoundly
believe to be a great moral Issue In?
solving the righteousness of our na
tional conduct and the protection of
our children's morals."
Concerning the farm relief problem
Smith went little further than the
Houston platform on which he stands.
He promised to take up the matter
tmmmedlately after election, acting on
the advice of experts. He pledged
himself to the restoration of honesty
tn government and to scientific tariff
making and declared against "sudden
or drastic" changes In the economic
system which might upset business,
tn other matters he followed the plat
form quite closely.
Unbiased and nonpartisan opinion
Is that Smith In his address showed
be Is making his chief play for the
Eastern stated; that he believes the
South will be solid for him, and that
his hopes of winning states In the
Middle West are not excessive. His
prohibition program Is clear enough
and Is* workable, and probably satis
fies all the wets except those who still
Insist the Eighteenth amendment
should be utterly wiped out No one
supposes It will please the wet Demo
crats of the South. But It Is likely
their attitude Is fairly expressed by
the Arkansas Gazette of Little Sock,
which Bays:
"The Gazette Is for the present dry
laws, fully and strictly enforced. It
cannot shift ground an Inch toward
compromise with Governor Smith.
Nevertheless this newspaper can and
will continue to support Governor
Smith for President. The changes
Governor Smith deems necessary and
expedient would be defeated In con
gress by dry legislative votes."
Governor smith took time last
week to reply to the attack od
his record In the New York legisla
ture made by WtUlam Allen White,
which already had been disowned by
the Republican publicity chief. The
governor justified hla votes on liquor
tnd social vice matters by explaining
the circumstances, and though White
made answer from Paris It was gen
erally admitted that Smith bad much
the better of the argument
HERBERT HOOVER In bis progress
from California to Washington
?topped at West Branch, Iowa, the
town of his birth, where he was ac
corded a fine reception by the vil
lagers and took occasion to elaborate
Us views on farm relief. He made
one concrete proposal?that of an
idequate federal revolving fund to be
ilaced at the disposal of the farm In
Instry and Intelligently nsed In financ
ing whatever measure of crop control
? found necessary to stabilize prices.
He also said that. If elected, he would
?sk ex-Governor Lowden to be among
the counselors for a farm solution.
He administered a flnnl blow to the
equalisation plan with the words: 'It
la hot intended to put the government
Into the control of the business of ag
riculture, no.- to subsidize prices of
farm products and pay the losses
thereon, either from the federal treas
ury or by a tax or fee on the farmer."
After a conference with farm lead
ers In Cedar Itapids, Hoover went on
to the national capital.
PRESIDENT COOUDGE named, as
secretary of commerce to succceed
Hoover, a personal friend, William
F. Whiting of Holyoke, Mass., and
the new cabinet member was sworn In
Immediately at Superior, Wis., In Mr.
Coolidge's presence. Mr. Whiting, who
is sixty-four years of age, Is head of
the Whiting l'nper company. He bas
never before held public office but has
been keenly Interested In politics and
was a delegate to the Republican na
tional Conventions of 1020, 1924 and
1928. His selection was a surprise In
Washington, where It had been ex
pected that either Dr. Julius Klein or
Walter F. Brown, both high In the de
partment, would get the appointment
COMMANDER RICHARD E. BTRD'S
antarctic expedition, the most
elaborate of its kind ever organised,
Is on Its way toward the South pole.
The bark City of New York sailed Sat
urday, from New York carrying planes
and equipment to the hopplng-oft
place, and also 31 of the 70 men who
compose the expeditionary force. Com
mander Byrd and the rest of the men
will sail In September on the whaler
Larsen and the Chelsea, taking more
planes and equipment.
The City of New York; Is under the
command of Capt Frederick C. Mel-,
ville, a cousin of the late Herman
Melville, author of sea stories and
creator of "Moby Dick," the great
white whale. He has been going to
sea since he was thirteen years of
age. He Is now forty-four. The
bark Is equipped both with sails and
auxiliary engines, but will use Its sails
whenever possible to conserve the
fuel supply,
BERT HASSELL and Parker Cra
mer, who started to fly from
Rockford to Stockholm with stops In
Ontario, Greenland and ^Iceland,
reached their first stopping place all
right, but on their second hop they
disappeared. When hope for their
safety was fading amateur radio op
erators In Chicago received messages
from them saying they had been
forced to land on a small Island "flfty
mlles off the Newfoundland coast,"
that they were safe but their food
supply was getting low.
ART GOEBEL, the famous winner
of the Dole race from San Fran
cisco to Honolulu last year, estab
lished a new record last week. Ac
companied by Harry Tucker, he made
a non-stop flight across the continent
from Los Angeles to New York In 18
hours and 58 minutes. The distance
was 2,710 miles and the average speed
of their Lockheed-Vega plane was a
little over 142 miles an hour.
BUSINESS of running liquor across
the Detroit river from Canada
went to pot last week when a court
In Ottawa ordered the stocks of the
exporters seized within 20 days. Forty
liquor dealers, most of them In Wind
sor, were reported to be hastily clear
ing their stocks for Vancouver, from
which point they may, If lucky, be
able to get them Into the United
States. The Windsor rnm fleet was
dispersed, and In Detroit and nearby
places the prices of liquor rose rap
Idly. The Detroit river trade was esti
mated by Ontario authorities to have
amounted to a million dollars a month.
First efforts by Chicago and To
ronto Interests to merge all breweries
In western Canada under one holding
company hare been completed with
the merging of all breweries In Sas
katchewan. The scheme outlined Is
to organize breweries In Manitoba,
Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British
Columbia and then to consolidate the
organizations Into one huge holding
compsny. Coupled with the brewery
mergers are plans for a. gigantic ex
port business.
NINE persons were killed and prop
erty damage amounting to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars was
caused by a terrific wind storm that
swept through parts of Minnesota and
Iowa. Many buildings wore wrecked
and crops suffered seriously. The
town of Austin, Minn., sustained the
worst of the blow. In northern lows
hall followed the wind and destroyed
the corn crop In a large district.
American nsrsl forces are render
ing aid to 10,000 Inhabitants of Haiti
who were made homeless by the re
cent tropical storm. The crops, espe
cially coffee, were badly damaged and
the people in the stricken area were
without food and medical supplies un
til the arrival of the United States
naval tug Woodstock.
CHINA has a new trouble, hut It
Isn't likely to arouse great In
terest nt this distance. Western Man
churia has been Invaded by a large
force of Mongolian cavalry that Is
led, according to report by Russians.
The Manchurians were defeated In
two bloody battles and sections of the
railway were destroyed. Japan was
Worried by the prospect of the weak
ening of her influence In Manchuria.
ON THE err of the signing of the
Kellogg anti-war treaty France
has aroused the animosity ol Italy
again by holding extends* attack and
defense maneuvers in the department
of Hante Savote hear the Italian bor
der, ilany of the crack French regi
ments were engaged in the practice
and artillery snd all the elements In
warfare ?fn a mountainous country
were used. Italy gave its reorganised
army a successful test In maneuvers
along the River Po.
Because of the extensive arrange
ments for his visits In Paris and Dub
lin, Secretary of State Kellogg aban
doned his plan to stop in txindon after
the anti-war pact is signed.
PREMIER ELEUTBERIOS VF.NI
S5ELOS won an extraordinary vic
tory in the Greek parliamentary elec
tions. The Venizellst pnrty secured
224 seats out of 250. The Royalists
elected 20 members, the Kufandarlsts
four and the Pangalists only two.
Venlzeios now has a tree hand to put
In operation his program, which In
cludes flnnnclal reform and better re
lations with Yogo-Slavla.
XIFALDEMARAS, premier of Lithu
v V anla, having refused to nego
tiate, llf Geneva his country's dispute
with Poland, the government at War
saw has yielded and agreed to the
Lithuanian suggestion for a confer
ence at Koenlgsberg before the Geneva
meeting In order to bring to an end
the unofficial state of war between the
two countries. The Polish note was
notably friendly.
ONE of America's spectacular fig
ures In politics; diplomacy and
journalism disappears with the death
of Col. George B. Harvey at his sum
mer home In New Hampshire. Nom
inally a Republican, he wns the flrst
to boom Woodrow Wilson for the
Presidency, but later they became
political enemies, to say tbe least, and
In 1920 Harvey had a good deal to do
with the nomination of Harding by
the Republicans. His reward was the
ambassadorship to the court of St.
James. During most of his life he
was actively connected with newspa
pers or magazines and for a time he
was president and managing director
of Harper & Bros.
Another notable who died last week
was Viscount Ualdane of Cloan who.
as secretary of state for war, created
Great Britain's territorial army and
thus contributed largely to the success
of the allies In the- World war. He
was driven from office by popular out
cry because he reiterated his love for
German scholarship, though there was
no question of his loyalty.
IF THE Interstate Commerce com
mission approves the consolidation
of the Great Northern and the North
ern Pacific railways, there Is likely to
be a new railroad grouping which
would bring Into co-operation those
lines, the Southern Pacific and the
Burlington system. This prediction
followed the announcement of Im
portant changes In the personnel of
some of the companies. Hale llolden.
president of the Burlington. Is to he
chairman of the hoard of the Southern
Pacific, of which Paul Shoup will
be made president; and other changes
were In prospect. The new grouping,
with Its rate agreements with Eastern
lines, would offer a service spanning
the continent by three routes.
Wide Variation in
Nation'a Paved Roads
8t?te and local roads, heterogeneous
links In the nation's chain of high
ways, are but 18.S per cent surfaced.
That figure Is reached by the federal
burean of pttbllc roads In summarizing
dau compiled on road Improvement
In each of the 48 states. Taken Indi
vidually. the states reveal a wide vari
ance of per ceo ta gee. Indiana, as the
kdgfcea* in the list, hsa 87J2 par cent
?C h?r 8M* Mri knead reads nsatausi.
North Dakota la lowest, with 1.7 per
cent Indiana Is Drat again In sur
faced local roads, showing 05.3 per
cent.
Some of the Inequalities In percent
ages may be lessened by the 1928
road-building campaign. In Its plana
for the present year, the federal bu
reau of local roads expects more than
20,000 miles to bo surfaced sad about
8,000 miles graded and drained.
Surfacing of highways reoufrsd one
of Ha greatest encourage rues ta ha 1801.
.erfcee Hew juteer. the Or* ??ta t?
depart from the prevailing costom,
passed a law providing for a certain
measare of state participation In road
bnlldlng. Prior to ttiat time fall Jarls
diction over the highways of all states
had been lodged in the counties
The New Kngland state* nnd Middle
Atlantic state*, with California, Dela
ware. Maryland and North Carolina,
were quick to follow New Jersey's
lead. The movement for good roods
was accelerated when. Jnty 11, 1*18,
President WO** signed the federal
?M road org.
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I A BOARDER 1
I WHO CAME FORI
I RESTCURE ?
(? by V. ?. Walsh.)
MRS. BASSETT wu worried.
Her beat room, the front one
with the tiny balcony, wae
vacant after having been oc
cupied three years by one person. Mr.
Patten had gone away and she did not
expect to find his like again. As for
the room, It might stand empty a long
time, and that would be serious at
this juncture, for Mrs. Bassett needed
every penny she could get now that
her jmung son John was undergoing
all that expensive treatment for curva
ture at the Crittenden hospital.
Mrs. Bassett was .small and gray
and tired looking, yet she never ad
mitted feeling fatigue. How could she
with all that she had to do? With
seven boarders and nobody but Annie
Wood to help her a day now and then,
she could not stop to think whether
her bead or her heels ached. She must
keep going, for expenses did, and she
must keep smiling, for nobody would
stay long with a cross-looking land
lady.
Now, however, when the kitchen
door bell rang the smile Into which
she Instantly adjusted her features
was a mere shadow of Joy. That ring
might mean, and probably did, that
somebody with a patent measuring
cup or dusting cloth would pounce
upon her with his woes. Yet she bad
to smile Just the same, for one never
knew, except that prospective board
ers always came to the front door.
A young woman was waiting for
her, quite a young woman. In a dark
blue dress and cape with a gray krim
mer collar and a small grajr bat A
suitcase, presumably heavy, sat at her
feet Her face was tired and sad, but
Mrs. Bassett thought Instantly that
It was the sweetest face she hud ever
seen. And her voice matched the face.
"I saw the card In your window,"
she said. " 'Room to let' I should like
It please."
"Come In," said Mrs. Barrett. She
thought: "Probably she won't want to
pay so much, but that Is my price."
The young woman looked around, up
and down and smiled.
"It is very nice. I will take It
please. And may I have board as
well."
She didn't seem to mind about the
price at all. In fact she didn't seem
to mind anything except that she was
so extremely glad to have a place to
rest In
At dinner she appeared and took
her place quietly. Mrs. Bassett Intro
duced her to the other boarders, who
were all there except Mr. Thayer. He
didtft appear until after the roast was
served.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Bussett," lie laid In
till charming way. "But there waa a
whole dime that had to be accounted
for In order to make the book! bal
ance, and we all had lo itay."
llr. Tbayer sat next to Mlai Jane
Wells and spoke to her once or twice.
Mrs. Bassett thought: "What i nice
looking couple they would mude!" She
was fond of Mr. Thayer, who had been
with hen for two years. She knew that
he was Just what he looked to be?
honest and direct and clean-hearted,
one of those healthy, blond young
fellows whose characters keep them
out of temptation and whose ambition
leads them to success.
It was Miss Willows who tried to
find out something about Jane Wells.
Miss Willows always found out about
everybody. She prided herself on be
ing able to size a person up after a
half hour's acquaintance. But she
could not size up Jane, tier questions
were evaded so skillfully that she
found herself In the predicament of a
person swimming against a strong
current?she made endless effort with
out getting anywhere. Still, It was not
In her nature to give np.
Jane Wells, It appeared, must be
taken or left as they foond her. She
had nothing to say for herself. She
was there and that was all there waa
about It Where she came from or
where she was going and when?no
body could know. And how she could
afford to occupy Mrs. Bassett's best
room was perhaps the greatest mys
tery of all for she did nothing with
her time except read and walk and
eat and sleep. Each day she grew
fairer to behold and each day Boland
Thayer looked at her with growing
love and admiration.
Two weeks bad passed when one
day Mlas Willows foond the clew she
had been looking for. Jane Wella was
going out with a letter to post and
she dropped the letter. Instantly Miss
Willows, who was Just behind her,
snatched It up and before she relin
quished It she had seen the address?
"Mr. Felix Marvel,'' with the street
number and town, a town not a mil
lion miles away. So the fair Jaan had
an admirer I Well, she must teO Ro
land Thayer, and aha did.
Indeed, she went even farther. She
went W Mia. Bsssitt and Med^W*
good woman's mind full of doubt and
perplexity.
"I am sure," Miss Willows said,
"that Jane Wells Isn't her name and
that she Isn't what she pretends to
be. I am sure she Is In hiding. Else
why doesn't she get any mall! Every
body else In this house gets mall ex
cept Jane Wells. Why; she hasn't even
bad an answer to her letter."
"Oh, de'ar, Miss Wllllows, I dont
believe any wrong of her," Mrs. Bas
sett sighed. And then she was afraid
to say more lest she offend her old
boarder. After all, that was the one
thing she must do of all others?keep
on the right side of all the people un
der her roof.
Miss Willows whispered In every
ear. Roland laughed at her. Mrs.
Marcey shook her bead, Julia Lannlng
stared, astonished. it didn't seem pos
sible, but Miss Willows must know
what she was talking aboot.
Gradually there came a change to
ward Jane Wells. A glance, a word,
an act revealed It to her. She with
drew Into herself and from everybody
except Roland Thayer. To him she
seemed to turn as It for protection at
breakfast, at lunch. But when din
nertime came she didn't appear.
She bad gone, Mrs. Bassett said?
paid her bill and gone. She had left
no word. She had simply stepped back
Into the oblivion from which she had
emerged. Mot a single trace was left
behind her.
That evening Roland Thayer sought
Mrs. Bassett where she sat in her tiny
private "den" looking over accounts.
"Do you think Miss Willows bad
anything to do with Miss Wells' go
ing?" he demanded. He looked gray
and haggard and Mrs. Bassett pitied
him. The dear boyi
"Mo, 1 don't," she answered. "1
think she was ready to go anyway.
She said two or three weeks when she
came."
"What Is your Idea of It all?"
pleaded Roland, gazing upon bis land
lady with agonized eyes.
"Why?1 think she came for a rest
cure," Mrs. Bassett replied.
Roland knotted and unknotted his
bands.
"I love her," he said. "I don't know
where she came from or why. 1 only
know I am going to follow ber and
find her and win her If she Is to be
found, unless she Is slready married."
Sweat broke out on his temples. "That
man whom she wrote to?" He sprang
up.
"You are going?" exclaimed Mrs.
Bassett
"Now?to find him. I'll rout him out
of his bed. I'll?"
Mrs. Bassett looked up at him
gently.
"1 know, knowing her, that you will
find everything all right," she said.
Hard to Etcape From
Indian Thief Tracker
In India the great enemy of thieve!
la the khojl, whose name signifies
"searcher" or "tracker" and whose
business Is to track criminals by their
footprints. These trackers are trained
to their calling from youth and be
come exceedingly expert. They are
an especial terror to the cattle steal
ers, who, In the parts of the Punjab
adjoining the Indus and other large
rivers, where much grazing is carried
on, are v*h-y plentiful. These match
their cunning against that of the
tracker but they have to be very clev
er to throw him olf the scent.
One of their tricks Is to catch a
buffalo, drive It Into the river, and,
clinging to Its tall, guide it In the
way they desire to go. By this means
they are quickly carried down the cur
rent and leave no telltale footprints.
But the ruse is not always successful,
for the reason that the tracker thinks
nothing of distance and Is likely to
come upon the tracks farther on, where
the thief was forced to leave the
stream.
A good tracker, It Is asserted, will
follow a thief, yard by yard, for a
hundred miles and come up with blm
In the end.
In one Instance a burglar was once
tracked until the searcher reached the
lock-up of a village 80 miles from the
starting point Inside the building
was the man he had set out to And.
The police of tbst place bad observed
a suspicious-looking character walk
ing about carrying a small bundle snd
had promptly locked him up. An ex
amination of the bundle brought to
"light Jewelry worth several hundred
rupees.
In one Instance the tracker's skill al
most condemned an innocent man.
Two sheep belonging to a government
official had been stolen and the foot
prints were found to be those of a
msn employed to look after the pub
lic gardens
The man was arrested, but when the
track was followed np It was found to
end opposite the police station, where
the skins of the sheep were discovered.
As It seemed anllkely that a thief
would deposit bis booty under the
very eyes of the police, a further In
vestigation was made, and It was even
tually proved that the sheep had beaa
taken by the police, who, to throw the
trackers off the stunt, had atotan
and want the guhsfft dkass.
?Sports Nations 1
Persian Wrestlers.
(Prepared by the National Oeorraphlo
Society. Washington. D. C)
EACH recurrence of the Olympic
games shows a growth of the
play spirit among the nations
and a greater recognition of the
value of guines as a training for life.
Gaines played a big part in main
taining the morale alike of civilians
and soldiers during the World war;'
and from this experience has come a
renewed realisation that the sinews
that win wars are Just as needful for
the vigorous, bloodless battles of
peace.
Hack home, before the war, America
had contributed two new things to
sport: baseball and the city play
ground.
It lias been .noted that sports of a
nation afford an almost Invariable
barometer of Its progress in civilisa
tion. Baseball Is one of the most
compll.ited and highly organised
pastimes known to any people. It is
a veritable Instrument of the most
delicate precision In the world of
sport A South Sea Islander no more
could play It than he could operate a
linotype machine or deftly handle the
paper money in a b; nk teller's cige.
Yet the instincts baseball satisfies?
the sest of racing to f goal alier.d of
the ball, llie deep satisfaction of di
verting a swiftly moving object to
serve his own ends, the mere impact
of the speeding spehere against the
Instrument he controls, bugging the
spheroid as It 1le3 afield, the sus
pense o' nine men as they uwnlt the
hntter's fate?each and all find their
counterpart in play as old as animals
that walk on two feet and h ve
enough gray matter atop their spinal
columns to control nature's laws for
their human purposes.
The foot-race ever was the most
popular of the 24 Olympian events.
The Itomnns batted halls with the
forearm swathed with bandages, and
the Gilbert islanders wrap coconut
shells with cord so they will rebound
to a blow from the open palm; Ho
mer's princess of I'haeacln Is repre
sented in the Odyssey us Jumping to
catch a ball loused by her maids of
honor; and the Chinese hnd a game
lu which a suspended hall was kept
burning to and fro by blows from the
players.
America has been among the lend
ers In her attention to children's play
grounds. In fact, playgrounds for chil
dren may be considered the distinctive
contribution of tlds country to the
world's play. ?
Playground* In Citiaa.
To gather stutistlcs of pluy Is like
couutiug Hie sands of I lie sea or the
children of the notion; but It la sig
nificant of the awakening Interest ID
pluy to note that even by 11)18 more
than 400 cities maintained nearly 4,000
playgrounds, and the children who
found relaxation on 340 of these play
grounds from which reports were had
on any one day would have numbered
scarcely less than the total popula
tion of Boston. Each year since haa
seen an Increase both In the cities
having playgrounds and In the total
of play spaces.
Moreover, this Is but a fraction of
the opportunities for normal play,
for It does not tak- Into account the
thousands of boys' clubs and provi
sions for their special clientele which
churche:, parishes, private schools
and organizations like the T. M. C. A.,
Boy Sctfuts. Knlgbts of Columbus and
numerous others make. One of the
most characteristic adjuncts of the
American school, city, town or coun
try district Is Its playground; and
few are t' city parks where the old
'Keep Off the Grass" signs have sot
been superseded oy Invitations to
play, and special provisions for games.
For one who would study the deriva
tion of games, the average playground,
no matter how crude. Is a veritable
museum of archeology. Tools and
weapon^ of one age frequently become
the playthings of tbe next; and ceo
lories later, when adults have desert
?d the sport, children adopt H.
development In the life of primitive
races. The Indian who stalked deer,
the Semnng black man who tracked
snakes, the naked savage who hunted
the rhinoceros, snared wild birds at
their drinking places, and trapped the
tiger were not out for a summer's
sport
Ingenuity in Hunting.
Methods of hunting were exceeding
ly primitive at first, but gome tribes
early developed an amazing technique.
The Eskimo would wrop himself In
skins and lie by the hour alongside an
Ice-hold to harpoon a seal. The Tarah
mnres of Mexico felled trees hy the
score to get squirrels occasionally
caught as the trees fell.
More Ingenious were the Tasmanl
ans, wh . would clear a forest oasis by
burning, wnl* for the grasses to grow
and attract animals, and they would
set fire to a barricade of brush they
arranged In the meantime, i 1th exits
near whlci they would take their stand
and spear the frightened animals as
they sought to escape.
Some African tribesmen camou
flaged their spear-heads with bird
fenlhe Fuegluns attained , a. low
visibility by daubing themselves with
mud and clay Florida Indians donned
skin nnd horns of deer to enable them
to approach their prey.
Horse-racing Is another sport that
dates back to remote antiquity. Prob
ably the French were the pioneers In
turf sport as practiced In modern
times, but It was natural that the Eng
lish, with their love of outdoors and of
animals, should have cultivated tbe
horse for the race as they did tbe dog
for the hunt. Japies I seems to have
been the first royal patron of racing.
Boxing and Wrestling.
Boxing and wrestling are the more
humanized forme of individual con
tests of strength. Naturally the pro
gram o? iie original Olympic games,
veritable encyclopedias of ancient
sports. Included boxing and wrestling.
Moreover the Greeks had one game,
the pancrace, which combined both.
Wrestling, at least, is much older
than Greece, as Indicated by the bouts
pictured on' tombs along the Nile.
In Greece, boxing fell Into disfa
vor In Sparta for an unusual reason.
The Greeks had developed sportsman
like rules for the game, eliminating
kicking, biting and ear-pulling, and
the bout closed when one boxer at
mltted Ids defeat. Lycurgus held It f
Improper for any Spartan to acknowl
edge defeat, even In a game I
The Japanese have been devoted to
both sports for ages. Sukune, Hack
enschmidt of Nippon, In tbe days when
John was foretelling the coming of
Christ, was deified, and from wres
tling Jul-Jltsu evolved. Boxing today
Is extremely popular throughout the
empire. *
Jack Brougbton, English "father of
boxing" as It la practiced today, la
believed to have Invented the modern
boxing glove and the division Into
rounds, but he scorned to train In or
der to meet a butcher named Slack,
who belied his name with a blow like
a cleaver, and put tbe Idol of British
sportdom In the ex-champlon class.
A writer of the Sixteenth century
called football a "devilish pastime"
nnd charged It with Inciting "envy and
sometimes brawling, murder and homi
cide."
Nevertheless, oj tne time or onariea
II football had become firmly estab
lished at Cambridge. It was ever
held In high ?steem In Ireland.' There,
when all other sports were prohibited
for archery's sake, "onely the great
footballs" was exempt. Women joined
with the meD In playing It on Shrove
Tuesdays. So many participated that
few kne the whereabouts of the balL
Abandoned as a general pastlm be
cause of Its roughness. It was re
tained in colleges until, with the past
half century, it sprang Into renewed
popularity tn greatly modified form.
The British carHed football Me
Jerusalem when they recovered the
sacred city. Mls-dowariaa have taafitt
H te heathea Mm