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Where Golfers Make or Break
Jack Returning to Ring
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929.
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The tough tricky course at Olympia Fields, Chicago, where the National Open Golf championship was held in 1928 has been this year the scene of the qualifying round. At the top is shown the 16th green just beyond the bridge which is a tough par three of only 114 yards and below is the eighteenth green beside the clubhouse where the Jones, Hagens, Farrells and Smiths knew their fate when they turned in their card. The big event was held on the Wing Foot course of the New York Athletic Club near New York.
Jack Dempsey's return to the ring is assuming serious proportions. The former heavyweight champion made a proposition to the interests in control of Agua Caliente at Tia Juana, Mexico, in fight either Schmeling, right, or Godfrey, left, in which he demanded a half million guarantee January, 1930 Gene Normile, the man who handled Dempsey in the first Tunney fight, is handling Dempsey's negotiations, but refused to discuss terms or disclose any of the preliminary steps have been taken. Dempsey prefers Schmeling for his slami-bang style, but will fight Uzcudun, Shar- key or Godfrey.
Three Sides to This Story
Endurance Record
Intérest in the action of the Federal Reserve Board in its efforts to suppress speculation in Wall Street is bringing to light a three-
cornered fight between Senator Glass of Virginia, upper left; Sanator Couzens of Michigan, upper right, and William C. Durant, below.
Durant,
tremendously Interested in Wall Street financially, protesta
against the action of the Reserve Board in tightening the credit sitas- tion to curb speculation, while Glass and Cousens believe the Board are right in taking whatever action they see fit and should not be
bound by the selfish reasons of financiers and gamblers.
Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy, chief test
pilot of the Lockheed Aircraft Co. of Los Angeles, is holder of a new official
record for solo non-refuelling endur ance flights. He landed at Metropolitan
Airport, Lost Angeles, after being in the air for 36 hours, 6 minutes and
36 seconds,
"Barbaric" Hair Styles
that
Left above, Lillian Band, London debutants, in fantastio wig the wors at costume ball to suggest Zulu style rather than the prim con- servatism of her native land. Right, an American girl, rapresentative of thousands, who don't mind suffering for hours getting a permanent wave, while they criticize painful methods employed for beautification surront among aavage tribes. Below, two African belles in coiffures which Anglo-Saxans consider grotesque. But are they se diffarurik from those of their sivilized sistere across the sea? WOMEN OF SAVAGE TRIBE APT TO ACCUSE MODERN
GIRL OF SAME THING
The modern woman is wont to refer to the style of hair-dressing of the savage tribes as "barbarous." Is this really sur What is there about current styles of hair-dressing which entitles it to be called "civilised."
similar to that of the well-known Atlantic Ocean.
Superstitions relating to the cutting and dressing of the hair are cherished by nearly all savage tribes. Tradition prescribes that all Japanese Geisha girls hired dancers and entertainers have special experts in attendance on them.
This
Korean women are noteworthy for their hairpins, the largest known. Even before the "Florodora" era, the Interest in feminine hair dressing uval-faced, pale, delicate Siamese goes back to the Bible, where some per- LAVE
maidens sported pompadours tinent remarks are made about it. Since the daybreak of our civilisation country, decadent and fascinating, at all women have been willing to under taches the atmost importance to the go much discomfort so that their ceremonies attendant upon hair cutting. And American women? Prominent tresses might attract. Certain African barbers report that they are such en- tribes bind the skulls of female in thasiastic frequenters of tonsorial par fants with tough cord, thus elongating lours that the poor men hardly have a the skull, and, in later years, drawing look-in any more. That a woman now attention to the hair. med.
In similar vein, but less painlessly, Miss America will sit rigid in a chair for hours while the beauty specialist ties up her tresses in metal gadgets to achieve an effect in the matter of waves
adays will spend a whole danny day indoors getting beautiful via the hair route, instead of getting the benefit of the fresh air and sunshine outside, which will do more for her beauty than any expensive artificial aid.
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