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All grocers supply it. a *Where poor condition is due to lack of Vitamin B IN VITAMIN B FOR KEEPING FIT . . . i 1c worth of a] Quaker Oats equals 3 cakes of Fresh Yeast S=) i : Quaker and Mother's Oats are the same But That'll Change A man can start life with a shoe- ITT ES OF WOMEN t Have Discovered | | KLE tonomyy. BIG CAN ounces 10¢ Esperanto Taught Esperanto is being taught at Liver pool university in England. THE DOCTORS ARE RIGHT Women should take only a liquid laxatives Many believe any laxative they might take only makes constipation worse. And that isn’t true. Do what doctors do to relieve this condition. They use a liquid y THREE STEPS : T0 RELIEVING I CONSTIPATION = h 2 PE) EE mn d A cleansing dose today; a smaller quantity tomorrow; less each time, until bowels need no help at all. laxative, and keep reducing the dose until the bowels need no help at all. Reduced dosage is the secret of aiding Nature in restoring regularity. You must use a little less laxative each time, and that’s why your laxa- tive should be in liquid form. A liquid dose can be regulated to the drop. The liquid laxative generally used is Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. It contains senna and cascara— both natural laxatives that form no habit even ‘with children. Syrup Pepsin is the nicest tasting, nicest acting laxa- tive you ever tried. “The Daily Use of ; ~ CUTICURA SOAP {| Helps Relieve Irritation And assists in keeping your skin in good condition. Con- taining super-creamy emol- lient and medicinal properties, Cuticura Soap, used regu- L/ larly, soothes and protects the skin, Price 25 cents string and now not have even that. {s AX i \ THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935 FLOYD GIBBONS Adventurers’ Club -\, “Big Gun Roars” ~ By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. IG yourselves in, boys and girls. Crawl into your bombproof shelters and lay low, while I tell you the story of the big artillery maneuvers that took place five years ago in Andy Dana’s back yard. It was just a little one-shot war that Andy started, but like all wars, it brought tragedy in its wake—like all wars it started with a bit of sheer, doggone foolishness, But before we go into the story of that, let's introduce Webster Goodwin, the lad who sent the yarn to me. Web Goodwin is off firearms for life now. Once before he nearly cashed in his check when a shotgun went off behind him and took a few hairs off the crown of his head. Guns Are Nasty Things to Monkey With. He should have quit playing with guns then and there, he admits, but it tnok an even closer shave to convince him, finally, that a mixture of powder and shot is a sort of bad combination to be fooling with. It is that last narrow squeak that we're going to hear about now. It was a beautiful day in July, and over in Andy Dana’s yard was an outboard motor racing boat that some of the boys in the neighbor- hood were putting in shape. Web strolled over there and met Andy coming around the corner of his garage with a small, old-fashioned, cast-iron cannon in his arms. “Want to hear some noise?’ Andy asked him. And Web said, “Sure. have it.” Let’s About that time Frank Stacy came over from next door, and the three of them set about loading the cannon. Andy had shot the cannon off once before, he told them, using the powder from three shotgun shells, powder from five shells. It was a small cannon, about a foot and a half long. Now he was going to try it with Andy broke open five shotgun shells and tamped the powder into the muzzle. Necessity Again Proves to Be Mother of Invention. He didn’t have any fuse, but then he hadn’t had any when he set the cannon off the first time, either. Andy had an inventive turn of mind, and he had figured out a way to get along without fuses altogether. Andy’s scheme was a pretty simple one, at that. In place of a fuse he \ | Na = se ,, Se J 9h = A ' The Cannon Went Off with a Roar That Rocked the Ground. used a match—one of those big, old-fashioned matches of the sort that you can strike ‘anywhere, He put that match, head-downward in the hole of the cannon, so that its business end rested on the bottom inside part of the piece. The idea was to tap the match with a stick, causing it to ignite and set fire to the powder inside. When he got everything all set, Andy asked for a stick. o: Web started to go over to the woodpile to get a long one, but Andy picked up a piece of board about two feet long and said that would do. Some- how, Weh didn’t like the idea of Andy’s standing that close to the cannon. He himself stood back a ways, as Andy got ready to strike the match, and Frank Stacy was even more cautious. He went over and crawled behind the woodpile. And, as things turned out, Frank was the one who had the right idea. All Ready for the Big Noise. Andy raised his stick to tap the match, and Web, standing 25 feet or so behind the cannon, shut his eyes, held his hands over his ears, and opened his mouth to equalize the pressure on his ear drums. . The cannon went off with a roar that rocked the ground Web was standing on. And, at the same time, something brushed his cheek and wrist at about the spot where, with his palms covering his ears, they came together. Web opened his eyes, then, and turned around. As he turned he saw some- thing that looked like a baseball, going through the air like a Texas leaguer, and moving away from him, and dirt clods. Then he looked up and saw the air full of grass Death Will Never Come Closer to Web. . “It dawned on me then,” says Web, “that the cannon had blown up and that the thing that looked like a baseball was the round knob on the back end. It had gone through between my shoulder, wrist and cheek—a space of about two and one-half inches, without even drawing blood. We found and weighed that chunk of iron later. “It weighed just a few ounces over three pounds. 1 still get a creepy feeling every time | think of what would have happened if that three-pound piece of iron had moved over, just a fraction of an inch in its course, and hit me in the face. “While all this was going through my mind, I heard a yell from Frank Stacy, over by the woodpile. “‘He’s hit,” ” Frank shouted, “and I turned to look for Andy. He was lying on his back, blood gushing from his right side, and I ran over to him and made him lie still where he was while Frank ran up to his house and sent for a doec- tor. two big pieces of iron out of him. Fifteen minutes later they took Andy off to the hospital, where they took “] had about as narrow an escape as anybody could have without getting hurt, but Andy had a narrower one died.” than I did. He darned near Well, sir, I don’t want to get into any argument about who had the nar- rowest escape. I got into an argument once about who caught the biggest fish, and it doggone near ruined me socially. But I'll print all the narrow escapes I can get hold of, ©—WNU Service London Bridge Situated at Head of Navigation London bridge is the first or farth- est down of the bridges across the Thames at London. It is situated at the head of navigation, about a half mile above the Tower of London. But the present London bridge is not the one celebrated in the nursery song, nor in the proverb to the effect that “London bridge was made for wise men to pass over and fools to pass under.” That famous old bridge, which stood for more than 600 years, was finally demolished more than a century ago. The site has probably been the lo- cation of a bridge Trom very early times in London’s history, notes a writ- er in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. But the earliest bridge in this location is not mentioned until the Eleventh cen- tury. It was a wooden structure which was destroyed by a storm and high tide November 16, 1091. The first stone bridge, the famous bridge spoken of above, was built be- tween 1176 and 1209 on a wooden foun- dation. It consisted of 20 arches. The roadway was 926 feet long, 60 feet above the water and 40 feet wide. Houses were built upon the bridge, and in the course of time it became a con- tinuous street with three openings on each side of the river. The buildings on the bridge were repeatedly devastated by fire, most notably in the great fire of 1666. The eleventh span from the Southwark end formed a drawbridge flanked by a tow- er built in 1426, and on top of which were stuck the heads of persons exe- cuted for treason. All the superstrue- tures were removed in 1757. In 1832 the old bridge itself was torn down, the new London bridge having been opened the year before. The Irish Terrier In appearance the Irish terrier is quite similar in outline to the wire hair fox terrier, but is larger and heavier and red in color. His head should be long and lean, his eyes small, his ears V-shaped, buttoned over and set on top of his head. - \ | favorite couch at the Press club. \ © New York Post—WNU Service. Let Guest Tell of Tribulations as Sports Ed . Ernest L. Meyer, who writes the column “As the Crow Flies,” takes over Hugh Bradley’s assignment today to discuss his trials and tribulations while acting as sports editor of a family journal a few— quite a few—years back. By ERNEST L. MEYER Eyeny time | read Hugh Bradley's | sparkling department | recall my own and not very scintillating career as sports editor. 1 recall it without difficulty, but not without pain. It happened about 18 years ago when 1 was doing general assignments for the defunct Milwaukee Daily News and could be found most any hour of the day peacefully sleeping on a davenport at the Press club. It seems that our regular sports editor, after ruminating about life all evening at the Schlitz Palm Garden, was seized by a hanker- ing for travel. He left immediately, on the midnight freight with a quart of gin, and never came back. We never heard from him again. When I drifted into the office the fol- | lowimg day with a yarn about the em- balmers’ convention, the city editor, a ruthless person named Dean Kirk, grabbed me. : “You're sports editor,” he said. “I’m not,” | objected. “I don’t know a boxing glove from a pneumatic bi- ‘cycle seat.” “Can’t help it. &ou’ve got to fill in | till we make other arrangements. Dust out to the ball grounds now and phone in the dope for the sports pink.” I dusted, yearning for a nap on my The wooden seats in the press box on top of the grand stand were devilishly hard. I asked Art Schinners, who covered sports for the Evening Wisconsin, how the deuce one writes up a ball game. “Easy,” he said. ‘Never call a ball a ball or a home run a home run.” I got the idea. A good sports writer in those days would call a baseball a pellet, a horsehide, a globule, a pill or | a spheroid. If he called it a baseball his readers wouldn’t know what he was talking about. Somehow, I struggled through a whole month without calling a home run a home run, so my stories were always lucid and readily comprehend- ed. On one occasion, however, Dean Kirk “called” me. “What,” he said, “does this mean?” He pointed to a sentence in my yarn which read: “Southpaw Master spat into his upholstery, wound his hefty left up like a windmill in a Missouri tornado, and then shot over a redhot Smith Brothers.” “Why that,” 1 explained patiently, “means he threw a drop.” | I hed never in my life seen a boxing match. But the managers and fighters used to drop in, ask for the sports edi- tor, and hand me large, fat cigars. 0D “What chance has my man Wildcat Levinsky got against Kid Cuckoo?” the manager would ask me, as man to man, And I would lean over and say con- fidently : «Listen, Mr. Molloy. The kid won't have a chance once he runs into that right ham of your fighting windmill. The Kid's good at dancing, you under- stand, but his ballet bouncing won't help him once Wildcat connects with his triphammer.” “Sure, that’s just how | got it sized up. It'll be a cinch,” the manager would say, and hand me a couple more cigars, greatly pleased at my expert opinion. Then the manager for Kid Cuckoo would breeze in and say: “Now about this match Friday night. D’ye think Wildcat Levinsky has a look-in with my bird?” “Listen, Mr. Solomons,” I would re- ply seriously, “here’s what I think. wildcat won't have a chance once he runs into that right ham of your fight- ing windmill. Wildecat’s good at toe dancing, you understand, but his ballet bouncing won’t help him once Kid Cuckoo connects with his triphammer.” “Now you're talking!” Mr. Solomons would shout. Then he'd give me three or four rich, ripe stogies. It was fun being sports editor. : Everything was rosy till the big match came off. I've forgotten the de- tails. All that I remember is that in the third round one of the fighters did make a connection with the tripham- mer. 1 fainted. Next day one of the fellows on an- other sheet had a funny feature story with the headline: “Sports Editor Knocked Out in Third.” Ballet Bouncing Vs. Triphammers ~ HINGS the box score never told me: : * x * Persons. interested in keeping the Olympics out of Germany should in- vestigate the case of Baron Gottfried von Cramm, the Davis Cup star. Orig- inally it had been arranged that Don- ald Budge and Gene Mako were to play in the German tennis championships and in return the baron was to come to the United States for the nationals. Then the trade fell through and now it seems that not only will the Ger- man star be prevented from coming to this country but also he will be barred from the 1936 trophy team as Dr. Dan- iel Prenn was this year. The reason? Could it be that Hitler discovered that the baroness was Jew- ish and that therefore the baron must be anti-Nazi and unfit to represent his native country in a sports event? Lester Doctor, betting commissioner for the Whitneys, has handled more money than any man on the racetracks. Payne Whitney was the biggest plunger of the tribe, . .. To make sure that Art Lasky would work himself back into condition Brother-Manager Maurice put the heavy- weight on the Los An- geles water works pay roll at $4 a day. . .. In spite of Bill Terry’s rule against Giants’ talking to Dizzy Dean, Hughie Critz and Allyn Stout still bandy words with the pitcher. Stout once was a team- mate of the elder Dean and so natural- ly cannot be prevented from saying “Howdy” now and then. Critz hits Dizzy so hard, so well and so often that it would be a crime to prevent him from crowing a bit about it. Certainly the dizzy one does more than his share of crowing. Forty-seven baseballs, with a whole- sale value of $58.75, were lost in the crowd during a St. Louis-Cincinnati night game this summer, . . . The Yankees, because the stands are so convenient that 60 balls often have dis- appeared during one game, spend from $10,000 to $11,000 for baseballs each season. . . . This is the biggest bill in the American league, the other clubs averaging about $7,000. . . . George Moriarty says that he throws out more baseballs during a season than any other umpire. That is largely because he figures, quite correctly, that when an overhand pitcher sails the ball there must be something wrong with it. . . . He recalls one Boston game where he had to throw out only four balls, though, and Nick Altrock will tell you that he used only one ball while pitch- ing a game for the White Sox back in 1906 or 1907. Could it be that the Hearst charities Dizzy Dean. George Throws Out Ball Players, Too moter, are planning to go in for pro- fessional tennis? Or could it be those youthful reporters who have been left out in the cold on the prize fight pro- moting end of the newspaper business were merely kidding when they spoke of big dough while tempting Fred Perry to perform at Yankee stadium after the national championships? The tip-off on U. S. C.’s football pros- spects may be found in the fact that the Trojans have booked a game with Hawaii university at Honolulu for New Year’s day. ... Although he breeds sad- dle horses that win blue ribbons at na- tional shows and although he is a trot- ting race devotee, Bill Brown, the box- ing commissioner, never has been in- side any park where the thoroughbreds run for money. Are the Yankees sure that Joe Di Maggio, the outfielder who will come from San Francisco Seals in the spring, is not another of those athletes with trick knees a la Steve Hamas? . .. The daughter of Steve O’Neill, Cleveland manager, won a prize this year for be- ing the best all-around athlete at a girls’ school. . . .. The most reckless of all fighters when driving an auto- mobile ig Paulino Uzcudun. He doesn’t THEY OUGHTA MAKE TNESE ROADS WIDER --Z CAT EVEN — MTA [00 Pa = think he is moving unless he is doing 75 miles per hour. . , . Danno O’Ma- "honey, the wrestling champion, has a brother named, of all names, Florence. Signs posted over the Saratoga race- track call attention to section 968 of the New York penal code concerning bookmaking and pool selling. This is the first time that the signs have ap- peared and it is a reminder that the game still is not quite legal here. . . . Also it may be that there is consider- able tension between the Jockey club and the Racing commission, the latter group taking too much for granted by building betting booths, forbidden in the law. K. O. Christner now operates one of Akron’s most prosperous tobacco shops. . « . Shufflin’ Phil Douglas is pitching semi-pro ball around Chicago. 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