SPORT NEWS.— By 1st Lt. WY R. 'Waster.
MADISON SQUAR 1C GARDEN, Jan. V. -Pavo Nurmi, phantom Finn, wrote a new
epic in indoor track and field history last night, opening his American cenpa;-.: • ?
in two spectacular victories in which he shattered three worlds records. He o.<
feated the pick of American finished rivals* He won the first race, defeating
Joie Ray by a narrow margin and t,,fo hours later he won the 5,000 meter race from
Willie Ritola, another Finn.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 9.— Wayne Begnunn, former University of Nebraska at IT ei
won the heavy weight wrestling championship of the world last night when he de
feated Ed ” StranglerT* Lewis in two falls out of three.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich , Jan.*— Tommy Gibbons defeated Jack Burke, of Pitts
burg, last right. The referee stoppdd the bout in the sixth of a scheduled j o
round go as Burke was thoroughly outclassed.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan.-9.— T he University of Pennsylvania thack team
race a combined relay team representing Oxford and Cambridge Universities on
hieh school champion tra.ck in London on April 11.
NOTES FROM THE PO ST SU7S EON—
The number of officers and enlisted men who died as the result of all cr
es during 1923 was 511. Of these 253 were caused by disease and 243 by externa'
c?uscs. The annual rate per 1000 was 3.91 which was the first time in the his
tory of the Amy that the t~tol death rate has been below 4 per 1000. In tne
three preceeding years it was 4.56, 4.26 and 5.50 respectively. For cisease ?
a.lore the death ra.te was the lowest recorded in the Army 2.01. The lowest race
previously recorded was 2.24 in 1921.
Suicide was the leading cause o* death being 35. Tuberculosis 3 5 was sec
ond. Frowning 33, bsloon and airplane 33, lobar-*pneumonia 28, firearms 28, Cc..
ce~ lfi, automobiles 16, homicide 13.
NE'VS OR THE WEEK, (continued from cage l)
Governor Bone sailed from Seattle for Juncru on January 10th an the steam
er Alerted?.
Several army flights are alarmed far next year* There will be a rmn-stoi'
flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. Lt Charles H Doolittle, noted aviator
applicant for another air voyage around Cape Horn starting at Balboa and cndin-_,
at Christflbpl.
Placer mining by a sourdough miner recovered over two tons of lead shot
into the earth eta trapshooting range near tfannuys, Cal.
After a tw®»ty mimuto battle with a six foot shark?*' 100 feet bcl-w the
surface water of V ancouver Harbor, Jack Bruce, adiver, killed the nrnster witi
?n iron bar*
Leo Koretz, Bayano oil bubble promoter, died at the Stateville cell peni
tentiary January 9th*
Some wonderful samples of rose quartz with free gold have been taken
near Gold Pan Creek in the Cassiar when the glacier gold dis^very was nace
September according to a news dispatch from Wrangell* The Cassiar distric
Canada up the Stickine River from Wrangell*
K. N. Jens-n was found floating asleep in natural warm sulpher water in
cave near Salt Lake* He told the police he had tased for months this means for
keeping warm. He had constructed a wooden pillow to keep his head out of the
f r
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water* .. , .
Joe Weber and Lew fields, famous old comedians, have been reunitea agax/
Los Angeles where they are working on film adaptations of theri old tine ste.ge
su ccg see s*
Experiments conducted by the Michigan State Rent* of Conservation demon
strated that reindeer will not thrive in the northen neninsula of Michigan, A
herd of 60 were imported and now only seven are left* Scientist have attribu:^
the high mortality rate is a snecies of nnnumonia brought on by the climate an^
by a lack of lime in the food*