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“MERMAIDS” FOR
THE ZOO
MANATEES THAT BEGAN LEGEND
BUT WITHOUT BEAUTY
London.
The Zoo is now arranging to receive a pair of manatees which are expected to airive from the West Indies shortly.
It is over 30 years since the Zoo last exhibited specimens of these creatures, which belong to. the family of seacows, believed to be responsible for the legends about mermaids.. They do not however, possess the beauty 128- tally credited to mermaids.
Transformed"
Being vegetarian mammals which have taken to an aquatic life. they have become transform- led to ft. in with their surround- ings As a result their looks are distinctly odd. They are usually about 10ft to 12ft in length and the greater part of their bulk is body
The head is small, the fore-
RED CRO THIOPIA
Different kinds of gathered articles from America, which will be ship Ped to Abyssinia. The man in the picture is the medical counciler in the Abyssinian Committee who has the responsibility for the collection
limbs are just slippers, while the CHAMPION CANNOT
tail is dattened and fishlike. They
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS are a dark bluish grey, with yel-
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low bristles round the mouth.
Upright Attitude
(Continued from Page 41-
EVADE THE ISSUE
Louis opened the fourth fast When suckling her young the But, from then on, it was all crossing two light left to the female holds the infant manatee Louis. The Brown Bomber glided face. Then he went berserk. He and assumes almost to her breast with one slipper about the ring, ever more mens-drove Baer back into a comer!
an upright cingly, working on Baer's nose and with a furious barrage of terrifie attitude in the water. It is this sides till both were a deep red. rights and lefts to the face and attitude that is supposed to be Baer got in some good punches body. mainly responsible for the belief but the Negro was landing twe Maxie didn't have a chance. He
for one and better.
was constantly on the defensive The manatee is gentle and af- Beginning Of End
before the raging Negro, who re fectionate, and former Zoo speci- The third saw the beginning The knockout punch had every sembled a wild beast on the loose. zens have became extremely of the end. Louls bored in with
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2nd Nov. 9th Nov.
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4th Jan
14,500 11th Jan. 6,000 18th Jan.
17,000 25th Jan
Cargo only.
Calls Casablanca.
Masellies. Havre, London, Hamtame. They are not difficult to the bell. He took a right to thee of Louis 190 pounds behind burg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, & keep in captivity. The new ma-face. Then his dynamite-laden Baer's 2124 pounds of avordu natees will be exhibited in a spe- right shot to Baer's face and the pois hit the canvas with a terrific cial tank in the aquarium.
Full
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6th Dec. 1
HUSBAND
Wife Says: "I Don't Want Him Home."
London.
ex-champion measured his length resoundingly.
thud.
Out-Stone Cold
Baer took nine and got up
The crowd went crazy. Done- ed left and the Californias went ease. He could, in the opinion of wobbly. Louis shot out a wick-van tolled off the dismal ten with down again, with a sickening most experts, have counted thud. The end seemed near. The twenty. Baer was out-stone cold bell rang as Donovan counted of
The outcome of the fight pro- fire, saving Baer from a likely pelled Louis so far out in front knockout
as the logical opponent of James |J. Braddock for the world's heavyweight crown that it ap peared doubtful the New Jersey- ite can avoid the Negro's chal lenge.
When a wife was asked at Wim-COURSE RECORD SAILINGS bledon recently whether she could find hail for her husband, her
reply was
“I am not going to bail him 1 Singapore, Penang. Rangoon and don't want him at home.”
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SHATTERED IN
PRO. GOLF EVENT
(Continued from Page 5)
After starting home with a two.
side, to the right of Baer's father- in-law, father of his wife, the former Mary Ellen Sullivan of Washington. D. C.
Neither Baer's wife nor his mother-in-law were in the house. hey had gone to a movie rather Ithan attend the ordeal."
bourer, no fixed address, was niblick shot to within four feet committed for trial for charge of the pin, he was in the rough atļ of breaking into the Royal Wim the 11th and in the trees off a bledon Golf Club.
hooked drive at the 13th. He miss-t Thomas Henry Barron, club ed the green at the long 14th, but steward, said that be heard seven so he was three under fours noise in the night, and, while his at that stage. He lipped the hole wife telephoned for the police, he for a two at the 17th. kept watch. When the premises Out in 30 But Home....! had been surrounded he switched on the lights and found two men erouching in the entrance hail.
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It was the most humiliating de- feat Baer has ever suffered. Not peared likely to break all records Jersey down-and-outer, was as J. E Field (Sunningdale) ap-leven his loss to Braddock, New when he went out in 30, but the bad. In the Braddock bout, both homeward half cost 42.
of Baer's hands were haywire.
Met His Superior
Cotton made only three slips in the heavy rain. He was short
But the former champion had with his first putt to the third hole and missed the next, while at showing. He was in the prover no excuse for to-night's miserable the ninth he sliced his tee-shot
and had no chance of getting up a good fighter going up against a bial pink. It was just a case of in two. His only mistake on the better one. homeward half was at the 13th,
where he took three putts for his feet fighting machine," ignorant,
Louis to-night looked the per-[ second five of the round.
PRETTY CHICAGO TYPIST FALLS FOR JOE LOUIS -
{Continued from Page 4)
yet quick-witted; big, but not too big; strong, but not muscle-bound
and with courage to burn. The fight was to have gone 15 rounds according to the pro gramme But few of the scores of sports writers present thought Miss Trotter declared: "I amit would go over six or seven. not marrying Joe because he is a Louis scored a scoop on sports Consignees of Cargo are hereby great fighter. I love him because writers by marrying Martha just informed that all Goods are being he is a fine man modest and before fight time. He had origin- landed at their risk into the hazard- ous and/or extra hazardons Godown gentlemanly."
ally planned to get married to- of The Hong Kong and Kowloon Louis, has described the girl of morrow after the bout. Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., whence his affections as "fond of home. The Negro arrived in his dress- and/or from the wharves delivery and a good cook." He refused to ing room at 8.15, almost an hour may be obtained. dr.
No claims will be admitted after Dame the date when he hopes to before fight time, in a merry the Goods have left the Godowas, be married, but Joe is a man of mood. He was perfectly at ease and all Goods remaining undeliver few words, and at present has his and seemed to have no doubt as
will be mind fully set on his training..
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PROFESSIONALISM
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to the outcome.
Baer Very Moody
Baer, on the other hand, was moody and silent. He did not "wise-crack" with his händlers' aš was his usual wont.
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George Turner, Baer's 185-pound sparring partner, in a four-round In Auckland its governors were preliminary on the card, won his on hand prior to every important town to root for their idol, the All broken, chafed, and damages shrewd enough to get fine ground bout, decisioning Heinz Knoulaas fight added to the confusion. Goods are to be left in the Godowns, right in the city, and the slower- of Germany, 205
first important coloured berry where they will be examined on the thinking Union has to go several The vicinity around the open- The Big City was fight mad the Jack Johnson
City Fight Mad 2nd October, at 10, 2 by Messrs miles out
"weight" threat since the days of Goddard and Douglas,
-League gained strength some
Yankee Stadium, hours before entire day. All other topics of New York was jammed with vis- Sell clanged for the opening conversation, Including Italofors from nearly every state in years ago when the old boys of around:stresembled a mid-house. Ethiopian tension, and the usual the union Sports writers from Catholic seminary with teams Thousands upon thousands affairs of Manhattan took a back San Francisco to Detroit were through the country,
seat to talk of the ight from Union because of
hand to give their papers. Jay hawkers, pedi soda-pop Harlem was virtually deserted hand coverage on the bout, vendors and the other incidentals Thousands of Negroes came up-lpected to be a ring classle.
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Hong Kong, 28th September 1935.stupid dispute in one centre.
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