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BRITISHERS ARE
ZEPPELINS
LONDON, July 17—"Zeppelin drill"
has now taken Its place alongside the
familiar Are drill in some London fac
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tories and business places. In a few
cases respirators have been provided
by employers and weekly or fort
nightly respirator parades accom
pany the Zeppelin drill.
For households, advertisers are fur
nishing neat placards with “Direc
tions” for conduct in case of air raid.
One such card bears the following
brief instructions:
“Don’t go Into the street
“Close all windows and doors on
lower floors.
“Keep buckets of water and sand
upstairs.
^Have respirators handy In bed
rooms.”
A housewife writes to a newspaper
to describe the steps she has taken
to protect her huosehold: “Every
night the bathtub upstairs is left half
full of water. On every landing I have
buckets of water and sand. In every
bedroom there Is a bowl of water
ready for moistening the respirators,
and all my family have been advised
to keep their respirators under the pil
low so as to be within easy reach.”
A school mistress writes advising
parents to accustom their small chil
dren to the use of the respirator: “I
would startle a child considerably,"
she notes, “to be awakened in the
middle of the night and have a res
pirator clapped over Its mouth.”
There Is no unanimity of opinion
even among the police authorities as
to the proper mode of procedure for
house holders in case of Zeppelin at
tack. In most places the police have
' advised people to go into their cel
lars, hut the chief of police at Windsor
Is sure this Is inadvisable. His code
of directions, which reads with a mat
ter of fact common sense almost
Yankee in its directness, is as follows:
“Do not congregate in one room or
In the basement, as has been rreely
recommended. Some of the bombs re
cently used crashed through roof and
floors to basement and then exploded.
Again if gas bombs are used, the cel
lar with doors and windows closed is
not a haven of safety.
“In a few words: In the event of an
air raid, put your trust In Providence;
have something efficacious on the
premises for coping with a Are in its
, earlier stages; clench your teeth and
do your best."
LITE SPORTING
EVENTS OF
Grover Alexander of the Philadel
phia Nationals, twirling staff prom
ises to complete n record this season
equalling in interest Honus Wagner's
hundred home runs. If he maintains
his present strike-out speed Alexander
should round out one thousand whiffs
of opposing batsmen before the cur
tain falls on October 7.
At the beginning of the 1915 cam
paign his record showed that dost' to
790 batters had been turned back to
the bench during Alexander's league
, career, as a result of failing to con
nect with Grover's curves. When the
season opened he needed about 214
strikeouts to complete his 1,000 and
July saw hint well past the hundred
mark, it appears reasonably certain
that Alexander will fan his thousandth
opponent within the next thirteen
weeks.
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Advices received from Austria
Hungary by members of the American
Olympic Committee Indicate that
athletics and sport generally is at a
standstill In those countries. Rifle
| shooting and football, played by
’ youthB too young to bear arms appear
to be the only forms of competition
i indulged in by those not serving at
1 the front.
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Racing, track and held athletics,
swimming, fancy and competitive
skating, skiing, tenuis and cycling
have all been dropped for the time
being at least. Fencing and shooting
have ceased to ba sports and are now
regarded as serious business. The lat
ter has become very popular and ririe
ranges have sprung up everywhere.
Even before the war the government
began to encourage training in rifle
shooting in the schools and the war
J efflee afforded special facilities in this
direction. The fencing school* an
still open but the best Instructors havi
gone to the front although there an
plenty of pupils chiefly young officer*
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New Zealand tennis players hav<
organised a movement to erect i
memorial to the late Capt. Anthony F
Wilding, the International tennis
player killed while serving with ihs
British army in France. The counci
of the New Zealand Tennis Assocla
tion had Instructed the management
committee to inaugurate a shilling
(25 cents- fund among tennis players
part of which Is to be spent on a
memorial to Wilding at his birthplace.
( hristchurch, and the balance on per
petual Wilding trophies for the New
Zealand championship, and the bal
ance on perpetual Wilding trophies
for the New Zealand championship
singles for both men and women.
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Eastern college oarsmen are still
discussing the remarkable showing of
the Eeland Standford crew at the In
tercollegiate regatta. In finishing
within a second and a fifth of Cornell,
the winner, the Palo Alta crew sur
passed jmy previous record made by a
Pacific Coast or middle western
’varsity crew. Wisconsin rowed In
sixteen regattas on the Hudson be
tween 1899 and 1914. In these years
the Badgers finished second four
times; third twice; fourth four times;
fifth three times and sixth three
times. Their closest finish was In
1899 when Wisconsin was but one and
a half seconds behind Pennsylvania,
the winning eight.
Stanford’s first appearance at
Poughkeepsie was in 1912 when, as
winners of the Pacific Coast Cham
pionship. the crew competed and fin
ished last. At that time Frank L.
Ouerena, coach of this year's eight
was the coxswain. In 1913 and 1914
the University of Washington crew
won the Far Western title and repre
sented the Pacific Coast colleges at
Poughkeepsie taking third place the
first year and fifth in 1914. The aver
age position of these western crews
in races on the Hudson are as fol
lows: Wisconsin 3.82; Washington
4.00, and Stanford 4.00.
If Stanford should win the Pacific
Coast championship in 1916 and re
turn for another try at Poughkeepsie
It is certain that the Cardinal eight
will be given greater consideration by
their eastern rivals than was the case
this year. But three out of the eight
oarsmen who forced Cornell to the
limit to win, will be lost by gradua
tion. leaving five of the present giant
combination aH a neucleua upon which
to rebuild a new eight. With this ma
terial and the experience gained by
Guerena during his two trips to the
Hudson, Stanford in form at least
should prove a most formidable op
ponent for Cornell, Columbia, et al.
• • •
Apparently Connie Mack, manager
of the Philadelphia Athletics has at
the age of 53 undertaken the taBk of
building another penant winning team
for Shibe Park. Because of hta
record of six American League pen
nants ami three world's champion
ships, this latest reconstruction work
on the Athletics basebalf machine will
be watched with unusual interest by
fans In all parts of the country.
Following the four straight game
defeat administered to the Mackmen
by the Boston Braves in the World's
Series of 1914 there were many re
ports to the efTect that the Athletic
combination would be broken up and
a new team formed. The sale of Col
Uns to the Chicago White Sox; Pen
nock to Boston and Shawkey to New
York; the release of Coombs, Bender
and Plank; the dropping of Baker
from the payroll and the passing ol
still other players to the minors in
dicate that the work is well under
way.
Now rumor has it that still other
stars of yesteryear are to change their
Athletic Uniform for those of other
American League clubs while Mack
will fill thetr places with promising
recruits from minor and college dia
monds. Grounds for these reports are
found in the signing of Crowell,
Healey, Haas, Sheehan and Johnson
and the statements that Mack has
lines out for some promising material
in southern and western circuits.
The ability of the veteran manager
to develop stars from youthful play
ers recruited from v’arslty and, busli
fields Is well known. Plank, Collins,
Coombs and Barry all Joined the
Athletics without the formality ol
minor league experience while Baker
Mcinnls, Bender, Btrunk and several
others Herved but a Bhort period In
the minors before being gathered lti
by Mack. If he can repeat his prevl
ous record In this respect, In thest
days of close baseball competition anc
fine comb scouting, his position as th<
greatest manager of baseball hlstorj
will be beyond dispute.
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HEALTR
LONDON, July 17.—Many London
shop windows are displaying a new
cartoon-poster drawn for the recruit
ing office of one of th£ Home Defense
regiments. It shows a typical British
father before the war, resigned to
middle age, bent and loose limbed;
and the same father today, upright,
full-chested, and martial in deport
ment.
The cartoon illustrates one of the
great topics of the day among the
thousands of business men who have
taken up military training In the home
defense regiments. They are all men
over 40, who undergo dally a course of
training extending over an hour or
two, and who are in many cases mar
veiling at the transformation thereby
wrought in their figures.
Men who fought nature with mas
! Rage, baths, diets and drugs in vain,
now find that war drill has conquered
the advancing waist line.
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Restoration to Entry of Lands in
National Forest
Lists 6-1496,-1512,-1513,-1541.
Notice Is hereby given that the
lands described below, embracing
469.88 acres, within the Chugach Na-j
tional Forest, Alaska, will be subjeet
to settlement and entry under the pro-1
visions of the homestead laws of the I
United States and the act of June 11,!
1906 (34 Stat., 233), at the United
States land office at Juneau, Alaska,
on August 16, 1915. Any settler who
was actually and In good faith claim
ing any of said lands for agricultural
purposes prior to January 1. 1906, and
has not abandoned game, has a pref
erence right to make a homestead
entry for the lands actually occupied.
Said lands were listed upon the appli
cations of the persons mentioned
below, who have a preference right
subject to the prior right of any such
settler, provided such settler or appli
cant is qualified to make homestead
entry and the preference right is
exercised prior to August 16, 1915, on
which date the lands will be subject
to settlement and entry by any quali
fied person. The lands embrace a
tract of 160 acres, described by metes
and bounds as follows: Beginning at
Comer No. 1, situated on the bench
immediately north of the town of
Nlntlcbic, east shore of Cook Inlet, a
post marked H-l whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1, bears 3. 49 deg., 46 min. Wf
17.88 chs.; extending thence N. 14 de/
E„ 16.15 chs.; thence meandering east
shore of Cook Inlet 60 feet back from
line of ordinary high tide, N. 41 deg.
E., 7.53 chs.; thence N. 28 deg. E..
17.27 chs,, to Corner No. 3; thence E.’
35.17 chs.; thence a. 36.75 chs.;
thence W. 61.82 chs., to the place of
beginning, listed upon application of
Alex Roman, Homer, Alaska; List
6-1496.
A tract of 153.60 acres, described by
metes and bounds as follows: Begin
ning at Corner No. 1 a spruce post set
in ground 60 feet distant from mean
tide line on east bank of Laida Creek,
east shore of Cook Inlet approxi
mately % mile northerly from Apex
of Anchor Point, marked H-l, whence
Forest Service Monument No. 10 at
Oranross Creek east bank Laida
Creek, bears N. 20 deg. E„ 44 chs.;
extending thence along the east bank
of Laida Creek N. 51 deg. E., 7 chs.;
thence N. 21 deg. E., 14 chs.; thence
N. 28 deg. E., 4.44 chs., to Corner No.
2; thence E. 66.81 chs.; thence S.
21.40 chs.; thence W. 79.27 chs., to
the place of beginning, listed upon
application of Jacob Petaja, Homer,
Alaska; List 6-1612.
A tract of 86.78 acres, described
by metes and bounds as follows. Be
ginning at Comer No. 1, Forest Ser
vice Monument (hereinafter de
scribed) bears N. 24 deg. W.. 90 links;
extending thence along the east shore
of Forberg Bay 60 feet back from line
of ordinary high tide S. 64 deg. W.,
2.90 chs.; S. 43 deg. W., 5.16 chs.; S.
34 deg. W., 5.80 chs.; S. 22 deg. W„
3.33 chs.; 8. 50 deg. W„ 6.88 chs.; S.
46 deg. W., 6.33 chs., and R. 40 deg.
W., 9.60 chs.; to Corner No. 2; thence
|S. 24 deg. E. 18.30 chs.; thence N. 68
deg. E., 36.58 chs.; thence N. 24 deg.
W., 29.55 chs., to the place of begin
ning. Forest Service Monument con
sists of a post set In mound of stones
on top of bluff 10 feet above high
tide line on east shore of Forberg Bay,
marked F. 8. M. H. whence Passage
Point bears N. 7 deg. E.. aud Observa
tion Point bears N. 48 deg. E. Listed
upon application of Peter Forberg,
Cordova, Alaska; List 6-1513.
A tract of 69.50 acres, described by
metes and bounds as follows: Begin
ning at Corner No. 1 situated on the
south shore of Boswell Bay a post
marked H-l; extending thence N.
63 deg. 45 min. E., 10.59 chs., to Cor
ner No. 2, identical with Forest Ser
vice Monument, whence Northernmost
point of Boswell Rock, a conspicuous
lone rock 80 feet high on mud flat
near south shore of Boswell Bay,
beurs N. 87 deg. 30 min. IV., 36.43
chs.; thence N. 45 deg. E., 9:41 chs.:
thence E. 24 chs.; thence 8. 26 deg
30 min. E„ 20 chs.; thence 8. 76 deg,
30 min. W. 1.59 chs.; thence W. 49.12
chs.; thence N. 7.15 chs., to fhe place
of beginning listed upon application of
, William Boswell, Cordova, Alaska;
List 6-1541.
C. M. BRUCE,
Assistant Commissioner of the
General Land Office.
Dated April 17, 1916.
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