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The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 9

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The Town Talki
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Alexandria, Louisiana
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PAGE NINE ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928 VcGraw Will Have Strong TRY THIS EVERY MORNING Gilda Gray's Closest Rival Will Be Seen Here Jan. 10 Grange Will Play in New Orleans Reserves ror iyo campaign Boffon IVms From Tioga Team, 13-12 Yesterday afternoon the Bolton quintet and the Tioga Five Horse 0 I Kellyf Frisch, Jar KETW ORLEANS, Jan. The mighty "Rod" Grange, most famous Groh intieia. unrl Oik I Mr, men met in a fast and hard fought game at the college gym.

Both teams IttJ, Outfielder Tyson Will Be Given Trial. played class ball, but the Bruins 3 6. (By A. iT VfYRK. York Giants will open finally nosed the Equestrians out by one point in a score of 13-12.

Brilliant team work was displayed by both teams and considering that the Bears are playing five first -vear men 19-6 drive to depose the world Pr" Pittsburgh Pirates with Golfers Prepare for California Tourney LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. (By A. The greatest field of golfers, professionals and amateurs ever gathered on the Pacifio coast Is swinging mashies over sixty golf courses of Southern California In preparation for the open tournament Friday and Saturday at the Los Angeles Country Club." Th largest prize ever offered in the West Is the goal for the 72 hole's ot flight over two days. Entries, the list of which closes tomorrow night, are expected to be somewhere between 200 and 300 and 65 finalists for the championship flight Sunday will be selected In 38 holes of qualifying play.

Eighteen holes will be played Fri day and 18 Saturday. Every section of the country is represented, as well as Canada, by the host of professionals and am, tures already listed. L.mnlon nusyuB an improved pitching flv J'. they eeepied to have championship veteran Infield restored to strength, and a re-organized Lav I i I i ttW j. material.

This was tho third game for the Bruins and so far they have suffered no defeats, while it was IToga'a first defeat out of eeven games with the best teams. Although Ji' Pittsburgh's youth and Cr out-striPPed his club last sea-Pw that the Giants athlete of the age, la to lead his famed Chicago Bears football team against an all-South eleven composed of former Tulans stars and gridiron heroes from other southern colleges, at Heinemann Ball Park. New Orleans, on Sunday, January 10. The all-South aggregation win be captained by tho redoubtabla Les Lautenschlaeger, Tulane captain ta 1925, and will also have on Its roster "Brother" Brown, "Irish" Levy, Bennlo Wight Bill Besseiman. Gene Bergeret, Tulane Stars, and Walter Bentz, former Loyola player.

Gus King, sensational halfback of the Center College team, which stopped Harvard a few seasons ago, is another of Lautenschlaeger's hopes. Backing the amazing Grange Is the Chicago Bears, most spectacular set of professional football players In the history of the sport. There are twenty-two players and. substitutes on the team; the entire number travelling with Grange from Florida to California and will be in Rb -rP beaten as much because Urles as by the Pirate offensive. For this reason ho has decided to on his veterans.

Of aeppna "a The high point men were Smith of Bolton and McCorm'Ick of Tioga McCormick nosing Smith out for honors of the evening by one field and one foul goal, he having three field and two foul goals to Smith's two field and one foul goals. From the nlde lines the game appeared pretty rough, but it seemed that neither 6ido suffered the bad end of bin few deals he has made, the most nti-lipr Plu'c nhiniu In Br ing here imm mo Use for Wayland Dean and Jack lentley. READ th Hpinla Groh, Franiue j-uslu uu mm Uyis Jackson who suffered leg In JOHX J. McGRAW Veteran Manager of the New York Giants dies in the last campaign mim and McGraw Intends to start lera at third base, second and the bargain. Next Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock in the college gym the Bruins will meet Lecompte's Tigers.

DoKon Fe. FI; flmith. rf 3 Blanchard, if 1 0 Harper (c.) 1 Panders, rg 0 0 Barber, I- 1 1 Road, 13 Miles, Kept Open uniform In New Orleans. Madalynne Bent Is one of Boston's oeautiful daughters, appearing: here George White's Scandal. Dno nrtstno.

respectively, no nas uo- to Col. Looudge Homo PLYMOUTH. Jan. 6. fB 4ed to return versatile George Kel- would never think that a product tn firpt base alter naving Decn A.

County authorities are tak impelled to use him at sec6nd and ing no chances of having President 10 the outfield last year. conservative isew England stock would rival the shimmying; prow-Jss of Gilda Grav. Miss Bent is Massed as one of the greatest South Coolldge stuck in a snow drift should it be necessary for him to come hera T'nless Groh fails to exhibit old Total 13 irm at tlie'training camp tho Giants Tioga Tg. Flit. In an emergency In case of hia fath Bowen.

rf rr 0 LEFT TO RIGHT: FRANKIE GENARO, HANS STEINKE Offering: the two extremes in pugilism, Frankie Genaro, former fly er's Illness. The thirteen mils stretch of road from here to Ludlow has been plowed clear of snow. This Waters, rf 0 MeCormirk If 3 McManemin, I Brown, rg-lfc 0 Anders (c.) lg 1 will hold Fred Llndstrom, Eddie Far-rell, former Pennsylvania captain, and Pill Terry, hard-Klttlngr first baseman, in reserve. As a result of the failure of Bill Southworth and Hack Wilson to measure up to expectations in the outfield last year, Al Tyson, formerly of Louisville, will be given a chance as an outfield regular with Ross Young and Emil Meusel remaining In the positions they filled last summer. The Giant chieftain has high hopes for his two young pitching stars, Fred Fitzsimmons and Kent Greenfield.

Hugh McQuillan, suspended last season by McGraw for infractions of the rules Is expected to return. Ring, and Arthur Neff, veteran southpaw, are considered particu Is believed the first time the auto 2 0 3 12 weight champion, and Hans Steinke, German wrestler, now a heavyweight, who for a time has quit the mat game for a whirl at the ring sport Here we have Steinke, who is 6 feet 4 inches and weighs 247 pounds, twice that of Genaro, permitting the ex-champ to use his sturdy right rm as a' chinning bar for training purposes. Steinke in his first isiana dancers America. She ecently returned from a two nonths' stay on the island of Pan-joa, where she made a close tudy if the native dancss. Teck An 0 pi I mist.

Despite his sad experience In the 1D25 world series, Roger rcckin-nauch. star shortstop of Washing mobile has been given preference 10 over the sleigh. vr 7 -y. vox The appearance In New Orleans of Red Grange and his Chicago Bears will be the only game played between Jacksonville and Los Angeles. The Crescent City secured the only Grange game In the South outside of Florida, only after spirited bidding against Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas, Houston and Memphis.

May Attend "Grange Handicap." NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6. (By A. "Red" Grange of football fame will have an opportunity to enjoy an unusual experience here Friday. It the training program of his professional football team, the Chicago Bears, does not Interfere, the former Wheaton Ice man can witness the running of a horse race named the "Red Grange handicap" at the Fair Grounds track.

The all-Amerlcan etar will play with the Bears against a picked eleven of Lousiiana players In New Orleans Sunday. 'ft Totala Referee, Chandler, L. 0. Col, John C. Coolidge's condition has continued unchanged since' hs recently lest the use of his legs.

appearance in the ring ran into so many tantalizing left jabs that he reverted to type and tossed his opponent out of the ring. Steinke lost the decision and his victim about everything else. a. ton, feels he Is capable of three more big yeaxs in tne majors. Vn to Veterans.

Miss College 1926 SOT tuaiM Unless Rav Schalk and Eddie Protest Bad Language by Women Players LONDON, Jan. 6. (By A. A protest again the use of bad language by women hockey players Is made by the Hockey Field, the organ of the All-England Women's Hockey Association. Supplementing the editorial protest the editress of the paper says Schedule Announced rolllns are able to nlav regularly Baton IVill Be in C.

S. league BATON ROUGE, Jan. 6. The city of Baton Rouge will positively be represented In the Cotton States things won't be so pleasant for the '4 fS: Chicago White Sox next season. Af.JT.

I sn larly effective against the Pirates. Jack Scott, Virgil Barnes and Jack Wlsner also will be available. For catchers the club will depend upon veterans, Frank Snyder and Grover Hartley, tho Omaha recruit CLINTON, Jan. 6. Mlssls-ippi College's Choctaws have ar ranged one of their best football that "at present the habit is confined to an occasional 'damn' when schedules In history.

The complete FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Hemenway Furniture To. Invites SERVICE CAR P. Jarreau, Rapides Hotel PliONE 645 list of games Is as follows: you to see the Whittall Exhibition Rug Loom, working all week at their Starkvillo. Ortohnr 0 Tjonisiftnit Pnlvtprinlft Tn. store.

Mr. Coley, In charge, will make appointments for school stif ute at Rutton. Special Dishes Chas. Hop Woo, Chef Chicken Chop Suey and Mushrooms Chicken Chop Suey Plain Chop Suey Beef Chop Suey Chow Mang and Ch'cken Yack Mang Fo Young Wo Mang and Other Chinese Dishes Leonard's Grill Roy Rodeillat, Mgr. 1801-3 Third St Phone 539 Open All Night League, according to a story printed in a morning newspaper here.

It la said that the franchise of the Brook-haven team will be transferred to Baton Rouge. The grandstand and diamond have already been begun. Of the $10,000 which will bo necessary to put the franchise In Baton Kourje the Cotton States League has advanced $5,000 and the local back NEW YORK. Stanislaus Loayza, Chilean lightweight, outpointed Charley Rosen, New York, (10). Willie Dillon.

Cuban lightweight, outpointed Bobby Robldeau, Allen-town, (10), Shreveport. classes. Phone 92. l-2-6td October 22 Millsapi Collcga it Jack- vy wj son she gets a nasty knock." The editress asserted that In a recent match one of the captains was charged with "swearing several times" during a game. AMUSEMENTS SAENGER THEATER "The Rose of the World," a classic from the studios of Warner will be presented at the Saenger Theater tomorrow by what is said to be one of the strongest casts ever assembled for a picture of this character.

Octoher 80 Howsrd Collars at Sir- min NnvpmhAT Rirminp-Tinm RniifJiarn Clinton. NovpmbPr 13 -TTninn FntrArnitv at ers will put up the other Jackson, Tenn. November 22 Louisiana Collfra at Clinton. SIOUX FALLS, S. D.

Dave At-ler, Sioux Falls, bantamweight, defeated Oliie Bartlett, Minneapolis, (10). Frankie Soils, St. Paul, knocked out Earle Lillydahl, Des Moines, (3). Paul Wangle, St. Paul, won a decision over Nate Ripon, Milwaukee, (6).

Schafer Takes lead. CHICAGO, Jan. 6. (By A. The world's 18.2 balk-line billiards championship that flitted out of American hands when young Jake Scliaefer lost It a month ago Kdouard Horemans, Belgian, peems destined to return.

Young Jake, unruffled and masterly, has taken a lead of 1,000 to 572 over Horemans in their match, which ends today. TYPEWRITERS Sold Rented Repaired With the dawn of every business day, nearly 3,000,000 Underwood Typewriters go into action, weeding the world's business. Underwood Typewriter Co. 317 DeSoto St. Phone 281 Alexandria, La.

western Institute at Lafnyette, L. Helen Wills, Carpentier To Pass Each Other at Sea NEW YORK, Jan. 6. (By A. P-) Somewhere out on the Atlantic 8T.

PETERSBURG, Fla. Midget Mike O'Dowd, Columbus, Ohio, beat Pinkie May, (10). Wants Son's Fiancee To Be Good Housewife BOSTON. Jan. G.

(By A. Helen Wilis, America's woman tennis champion, who left today to Invade European courts, will pass the great pole vaulter of Norway, Charlie Huff, Hubert Houben, Germany's Meyers Wrestles Waters Tonight Lee Meyers, of Opelousas, who claims the American middleweight wrestling championship, will meet Teddy Waters, of Kansas City, on the mat at Mike Mule's Alexandria Auditorium tonight. They are matched for the best two out of three falls to a finish. Meyers, originally from Opelousas, has been out of Louisiana ten years. He has wrestled on the Pacific Coast, in the East and Canada.

He said he captured the middleweight title from Pinkey Gordon, of Atlantic City, N. in two straight falls in an hour and fifty-two 8 Investment 8b Investment Glover's Mange Cure sprinter, and Georges Carpentier, Col. Lyford A. Morrow, Boston and Osplppee, N. millionaire, thought French boxer, on their way to invade the United States.

20c Hemenway Furniture Co. Invites knowledge of domestic science so necessary for a prospective bride that (when he died he left $1,000 to his son's fiancee to be used in educating you to see the Whittall Exhibition RAPIDES THEATER Any president of the United States, or any other celebrity of this or any other country from now on can be seen and heard a thousand years from now by means of the Phonofilm, known as the "talking pictures," invented and perfected by Dr. Lee De Forest, the "father of the Radio." President Coolldge will be seen and heard here today and tomorrow on the Phonofilm when it Is shown at tho Rapides Theater. It is well-nigh unbelievable, but future generations will be able to turn back the pages of time and sense the personalities of famous characters who have figured In world affairs; likewise future theater audiences can look back and see and hear the stars of yesterday in their greatest hits and In tho styles of costume popular in our day. It is said that after the first sensation created by the human voice of the actors coming from the screen has subsided, audiences settle back and feel much as If the artists before them were there in flesh and blood, bo human and per Rug Loom, working all week at their Sky Roof Garden Ham Crawford, Manager Regular Dance Every Saturday Night Start the New Year THRIFTY SAVING GARNERING Now! Now! Now! Now! Get in Now on the 8 Savings Stock of her to be a good housewife.

store. Mr. Coley, in charge, will make appointments for school classes. Phone 92. l-2-6td ALEXANDRIA BARBER COLLEGE Third and Lee Streets To carry out the letter of the legacy the $1,000 must be used "for her education in domestic science London Society Women iand In developing skill as a home I maker and companion." Play Squash Racquets LONDON, Jan.

6. (By A. Kotlce of Klectlen. Tho annual meeting of the stock holders of the Guaranty Bank end Trust Company of Alexandria, will be held at Its banking house on Tuesday, Jan. 12th, 1028, hotween the hours of 10 a.

m. and 3 p. for the purpose of electing fifteen directors to serve for the ensuing year. T. P.

WHEADON, 12-12-26td Athletic society women have taken a leaf out of the Prince of Wales' "keep fit book." They have gone In The Rapides Building for squ.nsh racquets. So proficient nave many women Decome that a or fect is the reproduction of the woman's squash racquets champion ship has been Instituted. Loan Association Only 65c a Month on Each $100 Share Call on Our Secretary, "photographed" voice. COMING! Old-time Barn Dance Frolic and Fiddlers' Contest, in keeping with the fad that ia sweeping the country and advocated by Mr. Henry Ford.

Watch for date. Paid to any person who finds a phonograph similar device used in the phonofilras. RAPIDES THEATRE Tonight and Tomorrow Matinee Thursday at 3:30 La Deforest BOLLMAN'S TAXI SERVICE PHONE 46 Mr. D. S.

Flower Third Floor Commercial Bank Building 6 Investment 8 Investment Here I. a Program Today That You'll Lik THOMAS MEIGHAN AND LILA LEE IN "COMING THROUGH" Here is a story that measures up to Thomas Meighan's broad shoulders. Filmed in the picturesque coal field of Alabama. "Comedy" and "Pathe Weekly-Program for Tomorrow Special Feature I 1 TV III RAPIDES Present SUN. JAN.

PtWINHinS 'T THEATRE iisun Ml The Greatest All-Star Cast Ever Seen in Any Picture PaUy Ruth Miller, Alan Foireat, Pauline Garon, Rockliffe Fel-lowea, Alec Francis, Helen Dunbar and Lydia Knott "ROSE OF THE WORLD" i never-to-be-fbfvnt- 1HF SENSATION OF THf GENTUM drama of tnio Irani 'J I thwarted for a time by cial intrigue and lust gold iith Pate tslrm 3:601 i 9:09, I Fd at the last and 1451 'Eft peeping aside all pman-made barriera lM. MBi 1:00 ,13:30 Path of lore's ywy-iw syy- -')Vye's-Ef wswiijprytuwf "ijrrp sf' fShK A iVt- ST Ft jt 5 If. A'Ot P. It -sru p'U be thrilled- 17 inrarittirA A itns. Sinot, Talk fiNO RepisoDuee Musq Without the aid of a Phoko graph WITH THS HOST PfiZZLIHCr OAST OF STAZ3 EVER IHCLtOtMG- FIELDS ft EDDIE CANTOR it DEN BERNIE5 ORCHESTRA PUCK 6 A SISSir 6 blAKt EVA LEON I DP 110LF HOPPEfl GONCHITA atio Iflon of this great I Pr.

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