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ENGLISH CREWS MISS
AMERICAN OARSMEN
IN THIS YEAR’S RACE
OXFORD, Eng., Apr. 2.—For the
first time in several years the Ox
ford crew is without an American
oarsman, and the cartoonists who
have annually portrayed a crew in
horn spectacles with the coxswain
smoking a cigar and bawling “atta
boy,” must now seek other employ
ment.
The loss of Mellen. the JBraseuose
American who stroked Oxford so
well in 1923, though unsuccessfully
last year, is very apparent in this
year’s boat. Campbell, the Etonian,
who is stroking, is a less finished
oarsman and lacks both Mellen's
timing and his hard, quick drive,
off the stretcher.
With four Etonians in the boat i
and a coach who captained that j
school, the work is much aft^r the
traditional Eton style, save that the
swing, swing together oi the ooat
iug song is still a rare achievement.
Shrewsbury, Radley and Westmin
ster, all noted rowing schools, have
each one representative, while Mow
er-White, the heavyweight of the
crew, crimes from Rugby.
In the Cambridge crew Etpn has
three representatives. The Cambridge j
captain recently* resigned because of
ill health, and this misfortune, with
the resulting uncertainty in the final |
choice of a crew, has slowed the j
Cambridge start and made* Oxford
the present favorites.
Oxford’s supposed superiority rests j
largely upon their neatness and style
in paddling a very slow stroke. Tho
the actual university race is rowed
w'ell up in the thirties, both crews
have been training at a stroke be
low 25. Last year Mellen set the
stroke too high for the heavy men
behind him and they splashed and
floundered thru, nearly five lengths
astern of a light Cambridge crew~
vowing a slower but long anu ryth
mic stroke. With this lesson large
before them, the Oxford coaches
have attempted to give to the light
er candidates of this year the win
ning Cambridge style. The result
5s polished rowing at 20 strokes to
the minute, and ragged rowing at
32.
Oxford's coaching this year has
again been in charge of the aged Dr.
J. C. Bourne, a Fellow of Merton
College, and the Linacre Professor
of Anatomy, who rowed for Oxford
in 1S82-1883.
With the increasing interest and
participation in other sports, espec
ially rugby football and tennis, uni
versity enthusiasm for rowing has
declined. It is still a popular sport,
but no longer the one popular sport.
Of past races, Oxford has won 40
and Cambridge 35. In 1877 the crews
rowed a dead heat. In 1912 both
boats sank at the first attempt, and
the race was rowed over. The date
for this year’s event w^as March 28.
The weights of the two crews are
nearly equal, Cambridge averaging
a little over 169 pounds a man, and
Oxford 166 pounds.
In France taxes are imposed on
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married couples.
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RARE BEASTS OF ASIA
ARE OBJECTIVES OF
ROOSEVELT HUNTERS
CHICAGO, 111., April 2.—Animals
to be sought for the Field Museum
by Colonel Theodore and Kermit
Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie dur
ing the James Simpson-Roosevelt ex
pedition to Central Asia this year
are among the strangest and most
beautiful in the world, according to
zoologists at the museum here.
The expedition, financed by James
Simpson, president of the Marshal,
Field & Co., will sail from New
York in April. It probably will en
ter India via Bombay, and travel
northward by rail to the foot of the
Himalayan outer range and go by
automobile to Serinogur. From then
on into the Pamir region plateaus
it will use pack horses, yaks, camels
and coolies.
In addition to seeking specimens
of the rare Ovis Poli, or Marco Polo
sheep, the three white men will also
hunt the Markhor, ihe finest of goats,
the Yarkand stag, the Himalayan
ibex, the goitered gazelle, the long
haired tiger, the ounce or snow leop
ard, the Tibetan Argali, a wild sheep;
the Tibetan antelope* the Kashmir
stag, the big Asiatic brown bear,
and other mammals as well as birds
of the region, according to D. 0. Da
vies, director of the museum.
"Ovis Poli is probably the most in
teresting of these animals, owing to
the romance attached with it in
connection with Marco Polo’s trav
els,” said \\\ H. Osgood, curator
of zoology at the museum. When
that explorer returned to Europe af
ter his trip into Cathay in the thir
teenth century, his description of
the huge animal caused many learn
ed men to brand him as a fakir.
The sheep is bigger than the Am
erican Rocky Mountain bighorn
sheep, and has huge spiral horns.
Although the spread of the horns
is usually about 55 inches, each horn
sometime^ measures from 60 to 75
inches from tip to base, the spirals
lessening the spread.
“Perhaps the most beautiful of the
animals sought is the ounce or snow
leopard. The snow leopard is so
called because it lives in the snow
above the timber line, or close to
the edge of the timber. It is white
with black spots, and possesses a
beautiful, long heavy tail. It is
about the size of an American moun
tain lion or leopard.
“The Kashmir stag is a big deer
related somewhat to the European
red deer and American elk. The
Thian Shan stag, another possible
trophy, is a similar animal and one
of the most magnificent of the deer
tribe. Attempts also will be made
to obtain specimens of the Tibetan
Argali, a wild sheep weighing ordi
narily 200 pounds, found in northern
India and Tibet, a majestic animal,
remarkable for its horns, which are
heavy with the curve down and
forward. Sometimes these horns
are 20 inches in circumference at the
base.
“The big Asiatic brown bear, of
the type of the American Kodiak
bear, but not quite so large, is also
an inhabitant of the Himalayan pla
teaus and mountains. It resembles
the European brown bear and is
bigger than the American grizzly.
“Himalayan goats are expected to
furnish some of the most attractive
trophies. These include the Himalay
an ibex and Markhor, the latter pos
sessing horns that look like cork
screws. More like the American
domestic ram is the Himalayan Tahr,
another member of the goat groups
of the region.”
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ASSOCIATION TO FIGHT
OUTLAW BUS OPERATORS
SEATTLE, April 2.—The Washin
gon Auto Transportation association
announced today that it would resist
by legal proceedings any attempt of
bus or truck operators not licensed J
by the state to do business entirely
within the state. The United States
Supreme court Monday held that the
state exceeded its powers when it re
fused a license to A. J. Ruck for oper
ating an automobile stage between Se
attle and Portland.
Hance H. Cleland of Olympia,' for
mer member of the state department,
of public works, opined that the de
cision applied only to the interstate
business of auto stage and freight bus
iness. It affects twenty-four states
that have passed laws regulating auto
stages and freight lines, he said.
Los Angeles Man Goes
To Hospital Carrying
Slice of Chin In Hand
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LOS ANGELES, April 2.—It was an
odd night at the receiving hospital
here last night. First Louis Garcia
came in carrying in his hand a por
tion of his chin, which had been
sliced off by an opponent in a knifing
affray. Surgeons sewed the piece of
chin back into Garcia’s jaw and told
him they thought it would stick, then
turned to take care of Homer Land,
25, who walked in with a bullet hole
through his head. Despite the fact
that Land appeared only slightly
worried by the bullet, which entered
his throat and had come out at the
top of his head, surgeons said his con
dition was critical. He had been shot
in a street fight.
: EDINBURGH BISHOP ASKS
BIRTH RESTRICTION BAN
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EDINBURGH, April 2.—Speaking on
birth restriction at a meeting of the
Edinburgh diocese of the Episcopal
church, Bishop Walpole said, “that
j it is quite clear to my mind that Great
j Britain should follow America and
j France and prohibit the use of con
j traceptives in order that our place
among the nations may be preserved.”
The bishop had previously pointed
out that conditions now are not what
they were fifty years ago. Forty per
cent of divorces occurred in those
families where there were no children,
he said, adding that he believed that
in only a small proportion of these
cases were children impossible. Di
vorce, he said, hardly ever occurred
where there was a “reasonable fam
ily.”
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SWISH OF CAT’S TAIL
DEPRIVES FOUR CITIES
OF ELECTRIC POWER
KNOXVILLE, la., April 2.—The
light and power service of four Ma
rion county cities was cut off, a big
coal mine was forced to shut down
and thousands of electric washing
machines, percolators, toasters, curl
ing irons and stoves were rendered
usless for three hours as a result of
a misguided swich of a curious cat’s
tail.
Not being satisfied with the view
from back fences, the old cat climbed
a telephone pole six miles north of
Knoxville. While standing w'ith its
forefeet on a copper wire carrying
44,000 volts, it carelessly moved its j
tail, which came in contact with the j
ground wire. Thomas’ nine lives went
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up in smoke. The wire was melte
by the intense heat and the entir -
transmission system of the Marios
County Electric company was cut ot
While a repair crew worked fo
three hours to fix the damage, the cit
ies of Knoxville, Pleasantville, Me
cher and Dallas were without electri
power and the Consolidated Indians
Coal Company’s big mine was shu
down.
Beer pills, which produce res’
beer when allowed to ferment in
water, are being manufactured ir
Germany and the inventors expect to
make a fortune by smuggling th
product into dry countries. ^
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