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Daily News from New York, New York • 43

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43 SUNDAY NEWS, DECEMBER 11, 1921'. FURIOUS SPRINTS MARK CLOSING HOUR OF SIX-DAY RACE Wake of the News. By VPPERCUT. Chicago 3, Wisconsin 0. Ohio State 7, Chicago 0.

Oberlin 7, Ohio State 0. Case 7, Oberlin 7. Western Reserve 0, Case 0. Cornell 110. Western Reserve 0.

So Cornell is 135 points better than Iowa, champions of the Mid Pace Grows Warm and Three Foreign Teams Quit Track (Pictures on pace 28.) By AL COPLAND. Amateur Sport. 1 The Yale Bowl wasn't big enough to accommodate those who wished to see the Yale-Princeton football dle West. Yea-ho, for the supremacy of the West! wiin th riders in the six-dav race in Madison Square Garden went into the home stretch of their week's grind Mc-Namara and Madden, the team which had led from the be-ginning, showed to the good of all others in the matter of riL AK7 the attraction in football, but in the other major sports the folks want to see the pros. In golf the amateur champion is about as great a card as the pro champ.

In tennis the amateur is everything. In track athletics the amateurs, college teams and A. A. U. performers command 90 per cent of the attention.

All told, amateurs and professionals are about equal in commanding public attention. But we never heard of a football game or any other amateur test being faked. UUKIMI.1.1J Our Own Daily Kiddle. After what man was "Potatoes O'Brien" named! (This will be answered tomorrow.) game. The Polo Grounds couldn take care of one quarter the people who applied for seats for the Army-Navy contest.

A week after the latter game Charley Brickley's professional grid team played Jim Thorpe's professionals at the Polo Grounds on a beautiful day and only about 4,000 persons attended. The Polo Grounds wasn't big enough to take care of the jam of baseball fans who assembled at various times in the last two years 135th Hour Score. Miles. Lai. K.

SOLID GOLD RING BLACK ONYX Set With Full Cut 7 -r-i. to see tne xanKees ana Lieveiana l.anniiln uu 1 ninuuo Brooco and Goullet 2293 Koot ami Cobum McNamars and Madden Ji93 Buysse and Van Hovel 'J2i! De Kuyter and Van Kempni. Lands and I.ans Drobach and Kaiser and Smith .....3293 points, wiui a luiai ui ti- Buysse and Van Hevel, the Pelgian pair, had tallied 315 to that time, while De Ruyter and Van Kempen were credited with 270. But six teams, the half dozen leaders who were tied in mileage, were permitted to spin for the getaway stakes during the last hour. To the Sticks.

When the afternoon sprints started there were just ten teams A Thp earlv Dart play or to see the Giants and Pittsburgh perform, or to see the Yanks DIAMOND Specially l'rired at $9.50 and Giants battle in the world's Bello and Gaffney leader adden Record 2.629 miles and 2 laiia. made by Moran and Mc-Kamara in 1914. However, one musn't forget'that an amateur is still an amateur until caught playing professionally. A Maiden's Lament. Behold dear Wakers and you shall greet The kind of a man Id like to meet: Tall oi stature, heavy set.

With pansy eyes and hair like jet: Two rows ot ehstemnir pearly teeth. With that wondrous eoaxms smile beneath nl.l nn. vt (nil Viiling. Diamonds, Wrist Walrhes. Cold Jewelry.

series. But if an amateur game of baseball were staged there, even between the best college teams, the stands might be no more than half filled and perhaps there wouldn't be as many as 10,000 persons present. Our Own- Ivory ryralm OhidK at Wholesale Priees. Send for Big Illustrated Catalogue. H.

M. MANHEIM 87 haKuu hlreet. N. Y. Third Moor.

With a dash iI temper and "comeback" tongrue. In all. a nonchalant boyish lad MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE Who 1M not too (food and ntrt loo oaa Tex Rickard staged the Demp-sey-Carpentier -fight in his Jersey arena and 91,000 persons paid something like $1,500,000 to see it. I He could choose the best amateur of the day witnessed a great scurrying to cover when three of the teams took to the high brush and their respective downy couches. At 2:50 A.

M. Billard and Ala-voine, the French team, flew the coop. They had made a good fight, but couldn't see any chance of ever corralling theri lost mileage. Each expressed the hope that they might get a chance to try again in the Marchrace. i.

Ten minutes later followed the Professional Football Charlie Brickley's Brooklyn Giants vs. Harway A. A. of Brooklyn Kbbrts Held Today, lec. llth.

P. M. Coal kieking exhibition by Brirkley. AilmisHion fl.lo. Itov seals l.i5 lm-luiiing War Tax.

But still the men 1 usually rreet Are not the kind that 1 want to meet Here. A re the Figures: Just to show what figures can do, I present the following scores: Wisconsin 28, Northwestern 0. Iowa 14, Northwestern 0. boxer of America and put him on against the best amateur of France and probably not 5,000 persons would pay $2 apiece to look at it. Looks like the amateurs are By MARSHALL A.

HUNT. Dear friend Hunt What ever became of Elmer Elbow, the Canadian, the greatest wrestler that ever lived? He set the grappling world afire in this day. What a grappler! Would the present-day group of flounderers have a chance against that giant? Not by a dialled jugful! Yours for Elbow. JerseCity. WILLIS MARSH.

defection of Grenda and Belloni. The big Tasmanian failed to see much financial nutriment in continuing with Belloni as partner. The afternoon session had barely got under way when Girardengo and Verri announced that they were through. Sounds Suspicious. Girardengo, concededly a great rider in that he had won the -tour of Italy race a half dozen times o.im.ttPfl that; there were some 1 1 Lessons Teactt iou jl essons Elmer Elbow was more than a wrestler a distinguished one-handed flute player, world's: cham-.

oion 435-pound 'Course on things in connection with the present day type of six-day riding that Vio ifTiPW nothinEr of and he 'and ve ntriloquist the greatest juggler that ever toved with vour Favorite Mstrtiment Verri blew. When the teams entered upon their second last series of point flashes during the mid-afternoon, Madden showed a i 1 a well to the fore with a total of 405. i MA.NDOUM 'hyf pianos. But Elbow devoted most of his time to w. 1 1 i g.

Shade Zbyszko! Elbow naturally was a great grappler. He was born in the-fall. He slept for years in a downy Buysse and Van Hevel held down second place on the scoring ladder with'275, while De Ruyter nad Van. Kempen had totalled 260. Brocco and' Goullet were 'fourth with 222, Rutt" and Coburn fifth with 178, while Lawrence and Thomas, the last of the leading half dozen, had accounted for 72.

Van Hevel nad De Ruyter, representing, two of the strnogest of the foreign teams, had an eyelash finish for the opening afternoon sprint, a twelve point winner. 1 Brocco Fails Fans. CORNET Elmer1 Elbow SAXOPHONe Strone? Elmer SPECIAL CHRISTMAS OFFER UKytei.E.r TROrnBONE ate nothing but mussels. Seven carts were kept Dusy aany Dnnging fresh supplies oi Divaives io lae home of the doughty matman. YOUR FAVORITE INSTRUMENT GIVEN FREE (Except the Saxophone) TtA 4---4- X7 I r.

ir loom xr irnnr fatmrira inctrnmpn ie flip For thirty years kxk. The speed kings of the race, Mc-Namara and Coburn, annexed the t.htv second snrint when them all as they He ploughed through the wrestlers week after week, leaving in his they finished one-two. Madden and Van Hevel split up the first and nlaces in the third, and happy way no "scales to learn, no tiring exercises, but you start right into entrancing melodies. It is the surest way. Remember our policy 5 easy lessons (there aren't any more except for Violin) or no money accepted.

Even your dollar is refunded. PIANO AND VIOLIN IN 10 EASY LESSONS wake a mass ot maimea ana crip- nla1 trrannlPTS. rimiUof rlisnlaved one of his bristling charges from the rear of th fiid to earner tne iweive op I a a time a ta fnr th fourth snrint. Lessons What became of Elbow More than forty years ago he met in Berlin that South African mammoth, Obar the Rent Taker. The two Hercules had wrestled for thirty-seven days without a fall.

WThat a bout! Elmer had rinnllof pame rip-lit back with a Think of it! At the end of vour first Stratton Lesson you can victory in the fifth after it became annarpnt that Brocco wasn't "thvre." when it came to sprinting. actually read sheet music. At the end of your third you are playing popular ragtime. At the end of your fifth and last lesson you ar really proficient on the instrument you choose (violin and piano excepted, 10 lessons there). Complete Course in onlu 5 lessont consumed more than three tons of mussels during the mad matin.

The miieaol siinnlv became exhausted on the thirty-eighth day and Elmer be Van Hevel took down the sixth, but it was. quite apparent that none of the others displayed any great inclination to go after him when Madden, Coburn and Thomas just coasted in behind his pace. McNamara took care of the sprinting pretensions of Rutt In came weak and ms giant frame dwindled to a mere shadow. His -handlers telegraphed to all cities for more sea food but in vain. Thousands of New Yorkers have proved The Join-The, Gleeful Procession.

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f. You are cordially invited to inspect. mage sale. He had shrunk, to the size' of a Childs' steak. Obar scooped Elmer up his two hands and deposited him in his own water bucket.

A tragic end for such an athlete! the next oasn, ana iurvner safeguarded the lead of his team. Van Hevel of the Belgian team pedalled off with the eighth heat, the others contenting themselves with trailing him home when Madden, Co-burn and. Thomas filled the other places in that order. The Grand Old Man. Willie Coburn, last year's winner KQTH ST at 9 Fast 59th St.

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RIDGEWOOD, 1808 Myrtle Ave ALLslNSTftUMENTB TAU6HT irnc rrv n-rv Ann i a 5 i vi i if jacKson Ave. NOW of the race, slid home a rather easy winner of the ninth Sprint when he showed the way to Goullet. The final sprint of the afternoon showed the oldest rider in the race, w.its, Rntf in front of Madden at mm Atlantic Aw. an 4 Time Suar STUDIO OPCM SUNDAYS mr Bo mm mm at rw 'A Zl ir the end with van nempen, ana Tl tViirrl onrl fourth. "I iiiuiiwia.wi.

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