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I THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1923. MI A5 WILLIAM WISE SON Established 1634 WRIST WATCHES for Sport Wear TROPHIES and PRIZES for all Occasions 10 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn Novins Street Subway Station at Door Puzzles and ixi. Misery Hypnotism-by-Radio Test Puzzles Witnesses; 'Horse's' Misery Stirs Sympathy om ten Joseph Dunninger, mem- ber of, the Society of American MatHe gicians and. editor of the Magic Everybody columns of Science lect for and.

invention, yesterday professed as himself as delighted with 1 his hypure by radio test. So did "Doo" notism H. Kraus, field editor of the tice Joseph publication, while many of the rem- who witnessed the feat in porters, the. "laboratory" of the magazine, ater at Park Manhattan, were )TOfrankly impressed and puzzled. The subject, or "horse." as such In are known to the magicians, tools, neryous, and anemic Leslie Duncan alty of of: 1690-Brodway, gave one of the "Ish best pictures of "When a feller needs one.

witnessed. He made a ap- protest, but his bloodshot a no uted eyes, strained countenance and pale ing. aspect, were regarded as ample justification for the existence of the SoWAS ring ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The only trouble is that the, lad is several years beyond the to age when the society has the power the to function. There are many curious ways of nan 0085 earning a living in great and fement eities.

That of "horse" to a hypnotist is one of them. Publications in which the "help wanted" vio- ads of the stage appear frequently bed- call for a "horse." The word is well um- applied to a hypnotist's subject. And oto. when the "professor" and the "docpeen tor's got through with Leslie yesterish- day it is easy to see why the subject the should, be A real horse. vio- Leads Sorry Life.

2-8 Leslie earns his living by being sat ef. on- and pricked with needles and rer's pins." Some fellers who need friends his, stand' motionless while people throw ear. knives sat them. Some earn their cer- bread and butter going into cages of dom wild and savage beasts. Lite is often that held, dearly, yet at a price which ma- hardly makes it worth the holding.

such Dunninger, long-haired and dressed all in black, has considerable. are manner.on He pulled his part of the n' la radio hypnotism act from the RidgeThe wood broadcasting station at the 816 Cypress ave. All the talking was 11e. done byshim and none of those lishich tening In, knew what was taking over place at the other end of the direct six wire in the office of Science and In4.1 vention. veins "The announced the and grandiloquent Dunninger, "is In the a 94f Science and Invention, rtice surrounded by physicians and rebee posters.

under the direct care of a From time to time DunIn ringer announced a pause of two rams minutes while the doctor examined have the subject's heart. As a matter of it 18 fact there was not a single medical al' of man in the so-called in- which dis merely the radio room of upon the magazine. of "Gaze into the instrument," commanded, Dunninger, "Place your feet 38tes together. Stand straight. Imagine it you are looking into my eyes.

Do not close your eyes. Get rigid." of They Professor" looked around at el in the newspapermen in Ridgewood and smiled proudly. bility command you to get rigid," he new repeater Get rigid. Get rigid. and command to get rigid!" to The "Professor made no gestures.

He merely smiled in triumph. antly "Dr. Kraus," he called, "strike a ation match and pass it before the eyes of Ident the There was a telephone call from e1 de- the magazine office that instructions vigl- were being followed. Word was also niter received that the experiment was le ef- only partly successful, and request Trac- was made that it be repeated. and "Duncan, the "Professor" Laid.

addressing the subject, "as your comfor With mander command you to become their rigid; You must become rigid." Meanwhile, In the radio room of the ba of the publication. a curious little Te- scene was being enacted, the central figure, the pale and woeful looking lad whose arm, with a dozen or more black and blue pin pricks, had been proudly shown to the porters "bloodless by surgery Dunninger as proof hypnotism that under will soon be the rule." -Miss Duncan Finally Gets Rigid. per of one failure Duncan, after est from Dunninger some commands ant ten miles away, threw his body into a condition of muscular rigidity. In night this state he was laid across two con- chair backs, while Kraus sat Lidge- on him and "shot by the was Instantaneously the Nate cameramen. When ation.

known magician, Hermann, America's best everal he pulled this stunt in In- sometimes even went so far as gram have the chairs removed. There to thpad being n6 one who could certify that the "horse" was uncer. ad- hypnotized; Cahill took the trick editor's word for it. the reporters, perforce, Con- The second test was the widely adio. needle test.

But after anhoralded pre- wAild be yesterday that a needle erm drawn through the subject's James "Prof." and also through his cheek, Harry Dunninger and "Doc" Kraus party better of it. Perhaps the It 000m- to wrefched their horse had voiced an appeal a hit humanity. Who can say? At ve No was announced that as lent fate, We there" were two ladies present the ed by Pneedle test would be omitted. But the gorously protested. being women reporters and not wishing to spoil the "test." "As the subject's arm is already punctured a dozen times by Mr.

Dun- pite one, more puncture more less won't Injure our susceptibilities," or 1 barn Hum- they averred. the But the needle test was not perre formed while the patient lay rigid on Com chairs. No indeed. nxiet? of a minote the end Before he was hustled off the ea chairs 7-the and had to take an entirely spital, position for the needle test different New Stunts for the "Horse." The seemed strange that this was royed, but Professor Dunninger exned pressly ordered it. The' 'horse' in was directed to go to sleep and to alt HURT on a chair with his arm sidewise pressed close across Its back, exbody.

-gut, at right angles from the Deer tended Ing on where Few of the reporters know driven where the secret of a torn quet lies No- the great artery of the arm night runs. Dunninger "Doc" Kraus and "Prof" shield know And so. Heaven and does the "horse." ordered your hoad on vour Drop A car the poor the voice from the radio and tow 15id h'd hie fane, drooped a in chest. This puts on life the chin greatest required position in which the b2 exerted on muscular pressure may be the back of the chair. HYLAN NOW SAYS PLAN FOR LIBRARY IS EXTRAVAGANT Orders Hirshfield to Probe.

Criticises Specifications for 19. Kinds of Marble. Not until the specifications for the general construction of the Brooklyn Central Library Building have been modified will the Board of Estimate make any appropriation for the resumption of work on the structure, it was learned in official quarters today, The trustees of the Brooklyn public Library had hoped the Board of Estimate at its meeting next Fridav would do something for the Central Library Building, 80 that least the first story could be completed and put into shape for publie use. But the Board will not appropriate dollar for this purpose, it was learned today, for the simple reason that the whole matter has been referred to Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfeld, who is to "Investigate the contract and specifications." For a long time it was believed that Mayor Hylan blocked progress on the Brooklyn Central Library because the architect is Raymond F. Almirall, foreman of the Extraordinary Grand Jury that probed the alleged "overshadowing crime" of the Hylan administration.

Recently, however, the Mayor letilt be known that his obdurate refusal to support Boro President Riegelmann'8 repeated efforts to obtain an appropriation for the building was not based on personal grounds. The reason now advanced by the Mayor for continuing to hold up the resumption of work, it is said, is the "extravagance" of the specifications. In other words, he will insist on a reduction in the estimated cost of the Brooklyn Central I rary building on the ground that too much expensive fancy work is contemplated in the outside and interior finish of the structure. It is said the Mayor has had a report to this effect from several city engineers who were directed by him to examine the specifications. A city official who has been in ouch with the matter was asked to mention some of the alleged ertraavagances.

"I can't go into that now." said he, "but as typical of unnecessary expense in the construction of this building are the 19 more or less different kinds of marble called for in the specifications- qualities of marble that must be obtained from nearly as many different parts of the world." The original estimate of the cost of the Central Library, located at Eastern Parkway and Prospect Park Plaza, was $12,000.000 of which thus far only about $300,000 has been appropriated by the Board of Estimate, Two years ago the Legislature exempted the $12,000,000 from the payas-you-go law, so that the city may issue long term bonds for the entire amount. Mayor Hylan has been advised, It is said. that this estimate, made years ago, will not nearly cover. the cost of the building under present conditions of the labor and material markets, unless the specifications are altered so as to cut out everything that is not strictly essential to the public use of the structure. The city authorities cannot alter the specifications, it was pointed out.

This is up to the library trustees who, as the courts have held, have sole jurisdiction in the premises. On the other hand, the Board of Estimate holds the pursestrings and its approval of the specifications also is necessary. GENERAL GILMORE DIES Brig. Gen. Quincy O' Maher Gillmore, retired, son of Maj.

Gen. Quincy M. Gilmore, Union Army general in the Civil War and an Indian fighter, and father of MajGen. Quincy A. Gillmore, in charge of the New Jersey State militia, died last night at New York Hospital after a brief illness.

He 70 years old. "I've Been Robbed Most' Says Johnson, Holdup Man, Calls Pal in Crime a Rat Johnson, a former high Henry and latterly a. "stickschool student up" man, one of the group of four arrested by Acting Captain George detectives, who accuse them Busby's of a long series of holdups, told an today, how he started Eagle reporter, out as 8 bandit. He confessed to participation in six holdups, in only one he acted as the gunman. That was when, according to his own narrative, after he had bound up a taxidriver and thrown him in the cab of hie vehicle, he and others rear drove about town with him and held up a cafe at 4th ave.

and finally lining the bartender and six 48th others against the wall. or seven Johnson was the man behind the gun then and rifled their pockets. He got small pickings, he sald. Bitter Against Rogers. He was bitter against Charles of the two men in Rogers, one New Jersey for the theft of a motorcar, whose arrest led to the capture of the men here.

is a rat," he said. "He "Rogers squealed on us. He has doublecrossed us." Johnson is tall man of 24, with weak, watery blue eyes, an indeterminate and sagging chin and a characterless face. He talks in the dull monotone, which is peculiar to 80 many criminals. Out of the book of his experience, he says, the hold -up game la not worth the candle, that it has given him many restless nights and that nothing is left of the money he wrested from others.

"I wish I was back where I Was before I started." he said. "My wife thinks I am in trouble for bootlegging. That was the stall I gave her and she won't believe the papers. She's a good kid and comes from a good family, When I came home late from these stickups, used to tell her that I had been buying the stuff. I worried a lot.

and she said was sick, but she never guessed the truth." Gassed in World War. had A good education. graduated from Publle School No. 118 and went to Commercial High. I didn't finish there as I wented to get out and work.

When the war came on 1 went to France with the 100th Regiment. was gassed at Flanders and it comes on me now. "My irh is that of chauff ur. was working af thot davs and out on these holdups nt About three months ago I was introduced I to Rogers who asked me how I New York to Bagdad in 15 Days Is Nairn's NORMIRN Norman D. Nairn, head of a transportation company, plans a quick land route from the Mediterranean Sea to Bagdad and India and sailed yesterday, on the Majestic, after negotiating for the purchase of motorcars to be used in the land journey.

Mr. Nairn proposes to start: regular service by Oct. 1. POLICE SURROUND BLOCK AND TRAP FOUR AS YEGGMEN Three Brooklyn Men Among Prisoners in Thrilling Manhattan Roundup. Four prisoners, alleged to have been safe burglars surprised in the act of burglarizing a firm in the Partola Building, which takes in the entire west side of 6th ave.

from 20th to 21st Manhattan, housing about 75 firms, were last night caught in a net formed by uniformed patrolmen and around the entire block. Every available patrolman and detective WAS summoned from station houses south of and including the West 47th st. station. The prisoners are Harry Miller, 40, of 205 Keap Brooklyn; Joseph Dinn, 31. of 71 Montgomery Morris Shapiro, 38.

of 694 Saratoga all of Brooklyn, and Edward Slater, 42, of Mills Hotel No. 2. 7th ave, and 36th Manhattan. They were taken to headquarters charged with burglary. EAGLE STORY I LEADS MAN, 55, TO GIVE BLOOD TO SAVE BOY one had been cured of encephalThe, appeal in The Eagle for some itis to come forward, and donate his blood to aid 12-year-old Theodore Sugarman of 5511 15th was read by Frederick Einfeld of 108 Park and although Mr.

Einfeld, who is a city employee, is 55 years old and had a daughter 21, he came forward Inst night and through his generosity there is now a chance that the boy's life may be saved. Dr. Lester J. Unger of 36 W. 75th Manhattan, the blood transfusion specialist, who performed the same service for Enrico Caruso at the Vanderbilt Hotel during the illness which later caused the tenor's death, was called in by Dr.

William Lintz of 1352 Carroll the family physician, to transfer the blood from the man to the child. One-third of a quart of blood was drawn from the right arm of Unger and injected into the left arm of the child. The operation required exactly four minutes, no opiate being used. Imeadiately after the transfusion Einfeld was taken home in a motorcar, both he and the patient being in good shape. MAJESTIC BIGGER THAN LEVIATHAN, SAYS HOLLWEG (By the Associated Press.) Berlin, July 14- The steamer Leviathan of the United States Lines must concede to the Majestic, the White Star liner, the honor of being the largest vessel in the world, declares former Vice Admiral Carl Hollweg, one of Germany's foremost naval experte.

The Majestic, which was formerly the Fuerst Bismarck, measures 1.83 meters longer than the Leviathan, which was the Vaterland. That was absolutley the only difference in their measurements when obtained from Blohn Voss of Hamburg, who built both steamers. The former's added length gave her an advantage of 2,269.28 gross tonnage. TO AID MISSION "Irish Night," a benefit entertainment for St. Thomas' Missionary Aid Society at Wilmington, N.

was hela last evening at the Knight's of Columbus Hall. 81 Hanson pl. The Rev. Charles Winkler, a native of Brooklyn, has been in charge of the mission of St. Thomas since his ordination in Baltimore in 1915, and has also supervision over the only high school for colored students In Wilmington.

A program of much novelty wat given, nicluding Irish jigs, reels and folk dances children dressed in the Sinn Fein colors of green, orange and white. An interesting number was an exhibition of step dances by Thomas Hill. Irish songs were sung by Teresa O'Mara and Nora Dunn. ARCHITECT'S WIFE SLAIN, NOT SUICIDE, CORONER DECIDES Kepner Wrote Love Notes to Waitress and Rued Marriage, Witnesses Swear. Frederick, Md, July 14-Mrs.

A Circulation being temporarily cut off and the arm held rigid, the rest of the surgical operation could be performed. To the mingled horror and mirth of the spectators, "Doc" Kraus entered the room, in his hand a thick metal veil pin three inches long, such as women use on their hats. It was six times the diameter of a sewing needle, many more times that of the quivering wire used in a hypodermic needle. Needle Sharpened on Floor. None of those knew of the weapon with which the wretched head bowed on his chest, circulation cut off from his arm by a tremendous muscular pressure, was attacked by "Doc" Kraus.

Looking entirely unconscious that he was doing anything strange, the erstwhile medical student at Long Island College Hospital advanced into the room, holding the heavy vell pin by the glass knob on the end. The other end was blunt. "Doc" therefore bent down and sharpened it on the stone composition floor where a moment previous the reporters Phad stood. "Aren't you going to sterilize it?" demanded The Eagle reporter. Casting at her a look of asperity, the "Doc" returned with a bottle of peroxide and swabbed the patient's wrist.

The "Professor" said, impressively. in distant Ridgewood: "This next is a feat that not one in 30 would attempt, particularly under such conditions. I am even afraid myself to attempt it." He strode up and down nervously, but finally turned to the newspapermen and smiled proudly. "Duncan," he began again, "I am going to draw all of your blood from your body into your arm. The Doctor will then stick a needle into the arm.

This will prove my theory of painless and bloodless operations without the necessity of a physician." His voice trembled with pride. The instructions were given. After a brief pause he went to the telephone and talked for a few minutes. It was a success, he announced. His eyes lighted with triumph.

But the eyes of the "horse" were bloodshot. The veil pin was driven through the fleshless, bloodless part of the arm over the wrist. No blood followed when the pin was removed. The "horse" made no sound. Immediately after the pin had been photographed in the flesh it was removed, incision bandaged and the staff of the magazine said they were satisfied.

"Doc" Kraus, erstwhile medical student, was asked why there were no physicians present. He said that most. physicians anal their office hours between 10 11 o'clock and unfortunately could not come. "We hoped to carry out this experiment at the Long Island College Hospital," he said, "but arrangements could not be completed. They use hypnotism to operate under there, you know." "What doctor or doctors use hypnotism at the Long Island?" asked The Eagle reporter.

"Dr. Cardwell," answered "Doc" Kraus. "I don't know whether he is dead now or not, but he used dit for operations when I was there, any. way." Grace, Simmons Kepner, wife of B. Evard Kepner, an architect of Frederick, came to her death on June 18 last at the hands of some persons unknown, the Coroner's jury decided in its verdict rendered this, afternoon.

The jury reached its decision in less than an hour's deliberation after two days spent in ene investigation. Mrs. Kepner was found in a room In her father's home with a bullet wound in the head. The Coroner at that time gave a verdict of suicide, Kepner told his sister-in-law, Miss Elizabeth Houck, after the lifeless body of his wife had been found, that "he was sorry he ever urged her sister Grace to marry said Miss Houck on the witness stand today when the Coroner's Inquest was resumed. After the funeral of her sister, said Miss Houck, she had heard rumors about Kepner.

"I went to him and said, 'Hold up your right He did sO. 'Swear to me that you have been leading a virtuous life in the last two she said she told him. "What did he say to that?" asked State's Attorney Anders. "He would not answer." the witness replied, "My sister never committed sulcide," Miss Houck declared she said to Kepner when he told her that his wife had killed herself. The family had accepted suicide theory for only one day, Miss Houck added.

"When did your family frat think of the murder theory?" asked Attorney Weinberg, of Kepner's counsel. "When some of our friends came and told their suspicion to my brother," she answered. Miss Houck denied there had been friction in the Houck household for the last ten years, as testified by Kepner yesterday, Wrote Love Notes to Waitress. According to the testimony of Miss Lulu Ricketts, the young waitress with whom Kepner admitted in his testimony yesterday he had been friendly, Kepner had written her affectionate letters. State's Attorney Anders asked Miss Ricketts if Kepner had written her letters.

"He she replied. "What kind, mushy asked the State's Attorney, "I guess you'd call them she said with a laugh. "I'd call them affectionate." witness today was Miss Eleanor Houck, a sister of the dead woman, whose bitter attitude toward him, Kepner testifled yesterday, greatly distressed bla wife and caused his only domestic unhappiness. She testified she had heard stories that Kepner was untrue to her sister; that she believed them and had stopped speaking to him, but that she had never told Mrs. Kepner of what she had heard concerning her husband.

She declared Mrs. Kepner lay on her couch crying, night after night, waiting for her husband to come home. URGE RECEIVER FOR STOCK FIRM WITH 80,000 INVESTORS Columbus, Ohio, July -Appointment of a receiver for the R. L. Dollings Company of Ohio, the R.

L. Dollings Company of Indiana and the R. L. Dollings Company of Pennaylvania and the International Note Mortgage Company was asked In a suit fled in local courts today by 13 stockholders. The Dollings companies are dealers in securities.

The Ohio company has its main offices here and maintains branches in most of the principal cities of the State. It has 26 subsidiaries, according to the petition. The generai charge 18 made that officers of the Ohio company are dominating the policies of the subsidiary concerns through nominal directorates, Those who are asking the recelvership declared that the officers of the company had refused to pay them back the amount of their stock subscriptions upon demand as, they said, the ised, agents and of that the the company concern had and prom- Its subsidiaries is being managed for the "purpose of selling stock and not for the benefit of the The petition alleges that the com- pany mold between $60.000.000 and $75,000,000 stock to approximately 80,000 persons. Philadelphia. July 14-William Benham.

president of the R. L. Dollines Companies of Ohio and Pennsylvania, said here today that the recolvership application was a surprise to him. GREENPOINT G. O.

P. MAY GET DEMOCRATS SUPPORT There is a strong possibility that the Democratic nomination for Alderman in Greenpoint may be grabbed off ny the Republican candidate because of the dissension that exists in the Democratic ranks. Richard Wright, Republican leader and executive member of the Alpha Republican Club, It became known last night, has been canvassing among the disgruntled Democrats to hind whether or not they would ald his choice in getting the Democratic nomination provided he put up, a man who is popular in the district. 'According to Information received from the Republican leader's lteutenants he has received much encouragement and has been assured by a number of Democrats that they will support his man if he is the right man. Alderman Peter- J.

McGuinness admitted that he was going to have a tough battle on his hands. Stars See Irene Fenwick Wed Barrymore in Rome (By the Associated Press.) Rome, July 14--Miss Irene Fenwick and Lionel Barrymore, American stage celebrities, were married at the Capitol here today. Shortly after the ceremony they left for Venice for a short honeymoon. Senator Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of the Municipality, had expressed a desire to perform the ceremony, but was detained by a pre. vious ergagement.

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Buy now! CRUIKSHANK TIES BOBBY JONES FOR OPEN GOLF TITLE (Continued from Page 1.) spells victory. Playoff This Afternoon. what by the knowledge that Bobby Jones had again seen the laurels plucked from his outstretched fin gera, A Prayer That Was Answered. We, asked Cruikshank what he thought ahnut while making his famous putt. "Weel." said the chunky Scot.

canna say that I thot about much of but remember saying a anything, God, make this putt drop for me. The Almighty must have been listen ing for he granted my prayer." That astounding 3, the finest bit of "pinch hitting' that an "open" has known since Outmet tied Ray and Vardon at Brookline, enabled Cruikshank to finish in a deadlock with Bobby Jones at 296, The struggle between the 'Twa Bobs," blond-haired Bobby Jones and raven-thatched Bobby Cruikshank, might, begging Tex Rickard'a pardon, aptly be called the "golfing battie of the We never hope to see one like it again. Atlanta is draped in mourning tonight. And well she may be: for If ever a golfer kicked a championship away when he had it in his pocket that man 1s Bobby Jones. Hark to the tragedy of Jones' downfall just when his outstretched fingers were gripping the golden trophy that Tomorrow, Sunday, at 2 o'clock, Jones and Cruikshank will play Of for the title over the gruelling 18- hole route, where every stroke may be measured in terms of dollars.

True Bobby failed to slam the door in Cruikshank's face today, but we have a hunch that it is only hope deferred and that the brilliant Atlantan will come into his own on Sunday. The trend with Bobby in his four open (championships has ever been upward. In 1920 he finIshed eighth. In 1921 he had moved up to fifth position. At Skokle last year Bobby tied with John just one scant shot behihd Sarazen.

There is only one logical place for him this year at Inwood if this progression 1s to be maintained. and that is for Jones to bring home the bacon. Here's hoping that the world's greatest amateur overcomes one of the guttiest professionals that ever gripped a mushie. Both are such splendid sportimen that it's hard to choose between them. Starting the Anal afternoon round, Jones was leading Cruikshank by 3 strokes.

He seemed fairly safe but he wasn't. Indeed, the Scotchman caught Bobby at the eighth hole, where the Edinburgher dropped a long putt for a birdie 3. SIx Holes in 21. At the turn they stood all square, Cruikshank having gone out in 36 to Jones' 39. Now came Bobby's golden opportunity, Coming in hie traveled on the wings of the wind, turning in a score of three under fours for the first six holes.

Look at Jones' card-3 4 3 4 4 3 for a total of 21 shots. For once the bail was rolling for Jones In a malor championship. Never before have we seen the 6-foot putts go down for Bobby as they did during this all too brief spurt. It appeared that nothing could stop the -cut Southerner -who was the idel of the gallery, the beau ideal of every girl in the vast throng. Slipping along smoothly, Bobby came to the 16th tee riding the crest of the wave.

Par for the last three holes is 4 4 They are not easy 4s to get. but Bobby had never previously failed to register thos last three holes in 12 strokes. Twice indeed he had managed to get 33 on the nerve-wracking home hole that proved the graveyard of many hopes. As events proved Jones needed only to make three 59 in a rOw- 8 above par--to win the championwhip. Of course.

Bobby did not know this at the time, since: his deadly rival, little Cruikshank, was an hour behind him. No gambler in the world would have risked money against Jones making the three finishing holes in worse than 15 strokes, but Bobby did the unbelievable. With the title in his vest pocket he blew up with a detonation that must have carried clear across Jamaica Bay. Bobby Jones, in short. took 16 strokes to play those three final holes.

"Stonewall' Jackson must have turned in his Southland crave Bobby turned this ablect somereauit in form. The multitude trailing Jones groaned aloud In anguish as its favorite went from bed to worse. Bobby Breaks Under Strain, Like a bolt from the blue, trouble struck Bobby, a Firpo-like clout R.I he followed a well-hit drive down the 16th fairway, It was his mashie that played him false, a nasty hook to the left of the green carrying his ball out of bounds among the mob of cars parked in the driveway, Jones WAS evidently weary, His condition, betrayed by the undue speed of his. back swing, that rapid fire swing back, 18 a.n unfailing symptom of abproaching exhaustion. Bobby was tired by the remorseless grind, his nerves worn taut by the seething gallery that pressed In upon him from every angle.

The cruel out-of-bound penalty of stroke and distance hit Bobby heavily. He was now playing 4 Instead of but what a comeback he made. Taking a mashie Iron, he laid his fourth shot on the green within 6 feet of the flag. Up he stepped to run down that putt with a nonchalance that was belled by his twitching laclal muscles. Jones had actually holed out in 3 strokes, but the outof-bound penalty boosted his total to 6.

More trouble hit Jones at the 17th. Again that significant hook brought him A deserved penalty. He WES off In the rough on his drive, far to the left. Bobby's second was still in the rough, up near the green. With a niblick he pitched neatly over the intervening mounds.

but not quite near enough to get his par 4, Even with these lapses. a 5 on the home hole would have given Jones the coveted title. Heretofore he had played this par 4 layout beautifully, but now, at. the crucial moment, he wilted completely. Again it was that fiendish hook to the left that settled his hash.

Bobby's mashie Iron veered off the line after carrying the water hazard to land in the rough right underneath the chain that connects two posts to the left of the home green. There WAR wild commotion amid the gallery an President Steiner ordered the chain token off 'he post to permit Jones to swing his club. The Shot That Cost a Title. Now the shot that lost Jones came the championship. If was a soft little mashie niblick chip out of the rough over the shallow trap just ahead to the green beyond.

It 18 interesting to know that that particular trap was dug only recently in order to' "make the home green more interesting." Little did the men who excavated this pit realize they were digging Jones' grave. As Bobby ewunr his club the mob strained in toward him evidently rattling the plucky amateur, Tones looked up at the moment impact. topping the ball Into the send hazard. It was a horrible 4. fatal spot to make it.

As he played out on to the gruen in 4. Jonna peared on the verge of collane. The combined mental and physical strain had rapped his vitality. Jones had a putt of six feet left to win the title outright. A half hour later Orufkshank was to drop one of eight feet on this very green but Jones Just failed to get his ball inside.

Like 80 many of Jonex putts this one shaved the lip of the tin as it brushed by. "I had It In iny power to star the door in Cruikshank's face." sold Jones. "But I left it wide open. durerved to lose the title then and there." Cruikshank Also Falters. If Jones threw the championship away when he had it in his grasp.

it is equally true that Cruikshank Should have profited by Jones' blowup to waltz in with a hollow vietory, Indeed at the 13th tee in the afternoon the little Scot was all eVen with Jones, Par for the tat holes 19 24. A Scout caine ting up with the information that Cruikshank could wins the title by shooting 2 over par IL seemed a good bet that he would win It nanIly, for be had always played the finishing holes in good figures. Once however, the experts failed to allow for the terrible nervous tonsion. Cruikshank in his turn beCAD to falter as the finish line loomed up ahead. Cruikshank hooked his second Into the crowd on the 13th fairway.

"Wee Bob" missed his recovery An firely, topping ten feet. He was on the green in 3 and down in 5, Cruikshank got home with his tee shot on the tricky 15th, despite stiff head wind, but he spolled the good work by taking 3 putts. The 16th threatened to spell Cruikshank's doom. He sliced his second way off the line here, close to the woods on the right. When he did get home on his third he took 2 putto for a snappy 6, which left him in the tight predicament of being compelled to shoot the last two holes in seven strokes in order to tie.

How he did the Impossible has already been told. Carda: Jones. Out. In 1 76 Cry kshankOut. In From Law to Links.

Cruikshank has been a "pro" for only a few years. Born In Scotland The Day's Cards of Jones and Cruikshank MORNING ROUND. JonesOut In 4 Cruikshank Out 4 In 5 5 3--36 -78 AFTERNOON ROUND. Jones Out 4 -80 In 8 5 5 6-37--70 CruikshankOut 4 5 5 5 9 4 In 5 5 4 6 4 3-37-78 would like to make some 'easy I was on my uppers then and desperate. The wife was sick and I had pawned my ring and my watch to pay doctors' billy There was only $2 a day coming in.

thought Rogers wanted me to g0 into bootlegging and I did not know what I was up against until we got to the first place we held up. There were just two of 19 in it. It was a dairy. Rogers went in with the gun and I followed him. We were traveling on foot at the time.

I got the money- about $100 anI we divided. "I was pretty shaky that drst time and I could not sleep when got home. I never handled a gun but once and never fired a shot except in France for a good purpose. If anybody had ever put up a bold front while I was carrying a gun would have dropped it." "You haven't got much courage?" was suggested. for that work," was the dull rejoinder.

Denies He Is "Snowbird." "Are you a snowhird was asked. "Snowbird" is the patois of the street for one who uses cocaine. A great many of the young crooks of today are slaves of "dope" which dulls their sensibilities and rolls them of all moral fibre. "Never touched it." he replicA, the needle either. I do drink." "All the money I got 19 gone," he said.

used it for rent, to pay bills and other things for the house." "Did you buy anything for your wife with it?" Did No Shooting. "There is one thing I want to say and that is that Meyer Block, one of the boys held, had nothing to do with any of these jobs. There's nothing against him. He only had the bad luck to be seen with some of Johnson displayed rancor against Rogers and declared that, he had' beaten him up before the latter's arrest, because he believed Rogers was trying to coax his wife away. He declined to implicate anyone else except Rogers.

was never a shot fired." he sala. "No one ever made a show of a fight and when they saw the gun they wilted. But it's a bad game. "I had a gond bringing up. My parents are both dead but they were good to m.

I guess am weak. Now I am in a cell and it gives me a chance to think. The one who has been robbed most of is me. I have been robbed in all, peace of mind. Goodbye." he attended, Edinburgh where he won fame a8 a long dietance runner.

Coming to Americ as an amateur and former holder off the Scotch title, Wee Bobby turned! "pro" when he failed to find an opening the law firm which had been promised him. Attended by hi diminutiye wife, even smaller he la. Bobby it one of the most color fut links figures that America hat known. Trailing Cruikshank by mix bit strokes came poor Jock Hutchisona dejected figure. Jock, who led the Held for the frat two rounds, wa picked by many as the probable win ner.

He was known to be right a home in the tough wire grass the characterizes Inwood's fairway; Jock has a that is Ides for this kind of going. He learne to "smother" the ball at St. Andrew and was happy at Inwood until stamina gave out. It was a disastrous 82 on the third round that knocked all the "pep" out) of Hutchison. Jock blames the sev enth hole for his demise, as doe Gene Sarazon.

This 224-yard layout, calling for a spoon shot Into ingle with an opening but 41 yard wide in front of the green, proved veritable terror to competitors Hagen and Hutchison were ruined be the barbed wire fence on the right while Jones and Cruikshank suffered, damaging losses in the creek to the left and the barnyard further over It was like shooting for a fly speck totally surrounded by out of bounds. Said Sarazen. "I'll never forget those barbed -wire fences when think of Inwood." As great in defeat as In victory was little Gene, the fallen champion. Although he had to bite his lip savagely at times to keep back the tears Sarazen never offered pit alibi or attempted to excurd his defeat. No on will guess the angu sh that gupped Gene's heart big chor nhed titte was torn from him stroke 1 stroke, We mow him as he traded discon colately off the 18th green beaten but not disgraced.

Vell. couldn't w'n pt least brought In champion. he said wistfully, pointing to Bobby Jones. Gene added. don't seem to have had any luck since left Pittsburg Perhaps Jock Hucentson had Sarazen's failure s'zed up correctly.

"Gene can't win this said Jock. "because he knows too much about championship golf now. The old carefree attitude is gone. Gene will be thinking about his shots this time and when a man gets thinking about his mistakes and how to play each shot, he loses an indefinable. something that co.n never be regained." Of Hagen it can be said that he died with his boots on.

A typical: tally in the third round brought! Walter within five strokes of Jones' leading total. But this time he could not sustain the rally. Walter has not been a well man for some weeks. and flesh and blood, rebelled. With hope sone, he worked manfully to pull Crutkabank through to victory A fast word before closing in grateful tribute to the Inwood Country Club.

This was the best conducted open championship ever held. President A. T. Steiner and hie nble ass'stants are indefatigable. They stopped at nothing to provide for the comfort and convenience 01 players, public and press.

We have been covering golf tournaments for some time but never have we seen such smooth working arrangements to help the "war correspondents" do their stuff. Mr. Rascovar, in charge of the preas tent. labored unceasing. to smooth the path of the scribes.

Although called upon to do four on five things at once he never faltered, or showed impatience. We'll bet ho sleeps the sleep of the just tonight. Well may he rest. content. in the knowledge of a tough job well done.

Of the course it need only be said that Inwood has the finest links that a national open championship has ever been played upon. No better or more exacting test of golf could be magined. To Jack Mackie, whose genius evolved this sunerh layout of what was an Indifferent couras some years ago, a vote of thanks is due. Players. press and public.

will not forget Inwood or the 27th open championship of America in a hurry. For further detulls of play and complete summaries of the field, sou sports section. in the historic Palatine gardens. In accordance with the Italian custom, the bride and groom exchanged rings. Miss Fenwick wore blue crepe de chine gown and a mauve hat decorated with hydrangeas.

She wore a pearl necklace, a brooch and a watch set with crystals, gifts from the bridegroom. N. Delfrate, a French lawyer and American wife. formerly Miss Ramsay, acted as witnesses. Among the guests were Richard Bennett, Adrienne Morrison.

George Fitzmaurice, Mortague Love, Bert Lytell. Barbara La Marr. Blanche Hanson. Alice Lawrence, N. H.

Bruenner and Countess Irene Robilant..

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