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LIBERAL'S SARCASMS ON HIS Some have thought the failure of the

PARTY

Mr. Frank Gray, Oxford's former Liberal M.P., who has also been a law yer, a traveller, and an amateur tramp, has turned epigrammatist by publishing a book of Epigrams and Aphorizing, which also bears the title of The Book of Wisdom (Cecil, Palmer). "He makes some cynical remarks about his party If only Liberals would not take themselves too seriously," he says they could sweep the country. You sce, no undertaker is a success in a music hall." Another of his epigrams in

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Liberal Party due to the absence of Liberals; some have thought it due to their prezence.?

Here are some examples of Mr. Gray general wisdom:

The most dishonest banker can't run. for with an overdraft. Always have an overdraft. D

I am a Puritan till tempted. So aro

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ANNUAL AQUATICS.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS AT V.R.O.

ENTRIES CLOSE ON THURSDAY.

The annual aquatic sports of the Vie toria Recreation Club are to be held, as previously announced, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th.

The events numbering fifteen, to be decided comprise the following:-

100 yards, free style (open champion

ship).

220 yards, free style (open champion

ship)..

440 yards, free style (open champion

ship),

281.

1926

LOVATION

FOR A GIRL ATHLETE.

FEATS OF A DAUGHTER OF. JAPAN.

FIGHTING GANG RULE.

CHICAGO'S WAR ON GENMEN.

[BY JAMES DUNN. ]

WORLD'S RECORD.

GOTHENBURG, August 20th. The outstanding feature of the athletic

CHICAGO, August, 20th. Stimulated by public opinion, the contests which have just concluded at Chicago poite during the last fortnight Gothenburg has been the wonderful} sportsmanship of Miss Hitomi, Japan's have made things so unpleasant for boot. solitary representative, who came right legging gangsters that notorious gunmen are for the moment either lying low or across the world to join in the events.

This tall, strongly built, but graceful returning to their old occupation of girl, who was a school teacher and is cow a journalist, telegraphed no entry for every event, and arrived at Gothenburgi a month before the games began, to train She received a great ovation at to-day's prize-giving, and was chaired by enthusiastic Swedish officials.

labour intimidation...

Before Frohibition made`· drinking a social virtus and a profitable business in the United States gangs of Chicago gun- men were regularly employed as labour sluggers," which, translated from the violent interference 880 yards, free style (open champion-

She broke the world's long jump re verascular, means ship). 100 yards, back stroke (open champion cord of 5.458 metres, created by Miss with non-unionists. Also it is said they Gunn of Mitcham Athletic Club, with a were employed in eliminating competition. ship).

jump of 35 metres yesterday. She won by big business undertakings, and during 100 yards, breast stroke (open chamthe standing long jump to-day with 2.49 the taxicab war in the city thugs were

pionship).

matres, after tying with Smalova, & regularly employed as drivers. Taxicab 830 yards, free style (confined to Chi- Czech competitor, with 2.47 metres. The drivers literally fought for passengers,

world's record, 30 metres, is held by and none but the brave became the fare. Rice, an American.

nese).

390 yards, breast stroke (confined to

Chinese).

100 yards, free style (Services ohan

pionship).

100 yards, free style (Ladies champion

ship)..

100 yards, free style (Boys' champion

ship).

Throwing the Polo Ball (opea). High Dive (open championship). Long Plunge (open championship).. Team Race, sik men eith 50 yards

(open championship).

The entrance ice is 81 per event, and for team race 83 per team.

Entries close at 6 pm on Thursday, September 30th Notices regarding heats and order of events will be posted in the Club-House, and competitors are ad- rised to keep themselves informed.

Miss Hitomi was second in the discus throwing contest, her threw breaking a world's record, although it was beaten by that of another competitor. She was als third in the 100-metres race and fifth in the final of the 250-metres race.

In a previous-article I hinted that the city's detective department were about to conduct a vigorous crusade against the gangsters, who were to ho driven out of the city The rats. Personally I had my doubts about the "driving out "process, for the gunmen are so well dug in that There is nothing masculine in the ap even the chief of police admits it is a pearance of this girl from the Far East.heart-breaking task seeking to hunt them whose pleasant manners have endeared out of the political trenches. her to all her fellow-competitors. !

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British Triumph

The British team, who leave Gothen burg for London on Wednesday, to-day received, as winners, the cup presented by the King of Sweden...

Before they quarrelled among them- selves over bootlegging privileges the gun. men had the city marked out, each gang respecting each other's preserves.

In additional to organising "hold ups " and raids, they were open to be employ- ed for any mischief at a price, and among their activities was the placing of bombs at the doors of workmen who held oppos

The congress this morning decided tha: in fature the events for the games should be based on metric weights, measures, and distances. Great Britain, ip, aing economic ideas. They were and are effort to simplify the work of the inter- well supplied with funds and as fast as national committee, will therefore sacri the police threw them into cells the law- £20,000, CHANNEL SWIM BET. Ece the 100 yards in favour of the 10 yers got them out.

metres, the Bibs. weight for one of "four kilogrammes, and the half-mile race for a 1,000 metres face.

MRS. CORSON TO GET $3,000.

NEW YORK, August 27th. Chauncl-swimming promises to become increasingly profitable financially,

Miss "Trudy" Ederle, the first woman to swim the Chancel, has been busy over the week-end deciding which of the con- tracts reputed to aggregate £200,000 she will accept, while the backer of Mr Carson, who swam the Channel on Satur- day, is preparing to collect £90,000 From Lloyd's, of which he will wager £5,000, that Mrs. Corson will be able to beat Miss Ederlo in, a 43-miles hattle with the tides around Manhattan Island.

Mr. Walter Lissberger, a tyre mana facturer, posted 1,000 guineas with Lloyd's, which gave him odds of 0 to 1 against the chances of Mrs. Corson's success. He announced that he would give the swimmer 3,000 guineas of his winnings, while he would post an equal amount that she would be able to defeat Miss Ederle in the New York swim.

Mr. Dudley F. Maloze, Miss Ederle's backer, said he wanted to see the cheque as a guarantee of good faith before giving

an answer,

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Some of Miss Ederle'a "friends were alarmed at, her-failure to sign contracts. as soon as she had completed her swim, contending thit. Hra Corson's success materially decreases Trudy's value for exhibition purposes. She is no longer the only woman who succeeded in the Chan ael swim, and many here regard Mrs. Corson's feat as more marvellous because of the absence of a. tug. 2,

While Miss Ederle is outspoken in praise of Mrs. Corson's accomplishment, Fop Ederle, possibly with his mind on the decreased money value of his daugh tér, is reported to have maid charlishly, "Oh, let her swim."'

FEWER BIRTHS AT HOME. 5,000 DECREASE IN" SECOND QUARTER.

A feature of the quarterly return of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales, which was issued in "August, is the low birth-rate recorded.

The birth registered in the second quarter of this year numbered 181,433 and were 5,519 below the number recorded in -the corresponding quarter of 1993. Or these 181,453 births, 92,681 were males and 88,774 females, giving 8 proportion of 1,044 malea to 1,000 females; the aver age proportion in the 10 preceding second. quarters was 1,047.

The births registered in the quarter cor- respond to an annual rate of 18.7 per 1,000 of the estimated mid-year population" for the year 1825. This rate is 0.6 per 1,000 below that recorded in the corresponding quarter of 1928, and was the lowest birth- rate recorded in any second quarter ex- cept during the years 1917-19.

The deaths in the second quarter mim.. bered 113,818, and were 16,763 less than in the preceding quarter, but $31 more than in the corresponding quarter of 1925 Influenza was stated to be either a prim Bry or contributory "cause of deaths in 3,016 cases, or 3,2 per sent. of the total deatha,

Measured by the proportion of deaths of infants under one year of age to births registered, the infant mortality was equal- to 62 per 1,000, this being four per 1,000 below the rate for the second quarter of 1925, and 15 per 1,000 below the average of the 10 preceding second quarters,

The natural increase of population in England and Wales for the quarter under review by excess of births over deaths was 67,637, as against 8,710, 72,850 and 73,707 in the second quarters of 1923, 1924, and 1925.

The greatest penalty of divorce is two for admiring ability in other people.

We English have a unique capacity mothers-in-law.

If a man has no enemice he has Prebendary Gough. nothing.

"There is a greater eagerness for Don't think that lawyers are more dis-study in prison than among college honest than others. It's only opportunity, students-Prof. A. De V Tassin

It was also decided that the 600-gramme javelin should be ased by women instead

of the 500-gramme one.

But despite accusations of graft the police pernsted in their campaign against the gunmen, of whom 60 were killed in the act of committing crime last year. This year up to August 1st 28 armed

the congress is that Great Britain, which have turned on each other detectives are An interesting point in connection with robbers bave been killed in similar cir cumstances. Now that rival gangsters has three votes, is the only country to be finding it easier to locate hiding places entirely represented by women-Mrt and make arrests, and 20 men have been Gould, Misa Birchenough, and rarrested-for disorderly conduct. Elliott-Lyzn.

AMERICAN BASEBALL RESULTS OF LAST WEEK'S GAMES.

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| ARUTER ́S AMERICAN. SERVICE. ]

New York, September 25th. The results of the baseball games

and National Leagues the American played last week were as follow:-

National League.

Saturday:

New York 3, Cincinnati 3. Brooklyn 31, Pittsburg 1. Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 7. Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 2.„, Boston, Chicago 2 Boston 0, Chicago' #: Sunday:-

New York 6, St. Louis 5. Brooklyn 4, Pittsburg 7. Monday:

Philadelphia 0, Pittsburg 4. New York 2, Chiengo 4. New York 1, Chicago 2. Boston 4, Cincinnati a Boston 3, Cincinnati ̧0. ** Tuesday

New York 5, Chicago 2. Brooklyn 4, St. Louis 3. Bestou 4, "Cincinnati o.. Philadelphia 7, Fittsburg 2. Wednesday:

New York 2, Chicago 3. Brooklyn, 4, St. Louis 3. Philadelphia 7, Pittsburg 2. Boston 4, Cincinnati D. Thursday:

Philadelphia 6, Cincinnati 6. Boston S, Pittsburg 1 New York 4, St. Louis 6.- Philadelphia 3, Cincinnati 9. Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati ́8.

American League."

Saturday:→

Cleveland 3, New York L Detroit 6, Washington 5 Chicago 6, Boston 3. St. Louis 4, Philadelphia, & Sunday:-

Clevaland-3, New York 8. St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 4. Detroit 8, Washington 7. Chicago 6, Boston 3. Monday:

Chicago 7, New York 3. Chicago 4, New York a Cleveland 2, Boston 3. Detroit 0, Philadelphia 8. Detroit 5, Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 4, Washington 7. St. Louis Washington 8. Tuesday:

Chicago O New York 14. Cleveland 6, Boston I. Detroit Philadelphia 3" St. Louis 6, Washington 11. Wednesday:

Chicago 0, New York 14. Cleveland 6, Boston 1. Detroit 2, Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 0, Washington 11. Friday

Clevela

1, Philadelphia 34 Winners of National League.

NEW YORK, September est.

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Kurderers. Go 'Free. Unless additional evidence can be ob- tained the charge means nothing and the men will stately be released. And additional evidence will be dimcult to get, for though they may will each other the gammen, even under the ordeal of the third degree, will not give a rival. away. They fear the unwritten law. of and the chief commandment of the gangs the gangs more than the law of the land.

13, Thou shalt not squeal.”

That is why the murderer of Big Louis Smith, killer, robber, and bully, tas not- been caught though he is well known to everybody in the city's underworld.

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Among the men arrested this week are Tony Kissane, who has made a fortune beer "runner; Sammy. Jacobson, known as Sammy the Greener" be- cause he joined the gangs as a greenhorn from Russia; and Săm Kaplan, successor to Jules, the Portuguese gang, leader, whose death, the police say, was avenged by the murder of Smith.

sworn enemies.

Kaplan and Jacobson are regarded as Kissane when arrested said the liquor-running business had be- come "too tough a racket," and de- scribed himself as business agent for the Lumber Material Yards and Labour- ers Union. An ex-policeman dismissed from the force for liquor dealing said he also was a labour business, agent.

Since the murder of a teaming contrac tor by union gunmen the police have been investigating "the return of the boot- legging gangsters to their old-time labour jobs and received their first clue in the whole sale damaging of motor-car tyres with ice-pieks.

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Closely questioned in the office of the State attorney, Kissane, Kaplan, and Jacobson denied all knowledge of recent shootings and refused to atter a word about the gang feuds.

Attacks on Girls,

Gunplay by gangsters is only one ex: citing phase in these lively. Chicago nights. As I reported a week ago, the city is alarmed over an epidemic of at- tacks on young girls, one of whom has died from concussion of the brain after being thrown from a motor-car.

The State attorney and the chief of police have decided to employ all their forces to put an end to the outrages, and arreated men will not be dealt with in the lower courts but will be prosecuted in the municipal courts by a special corps of the attomey's assistants and sect be. fors a grand jury. Such are the vigor Gus efforia now being made to cleanse the evil record of the World's Worst City.

But when offenders are arrested and landed in gaol it is by no means certain they will stop there until their sentences are served. What with the parole sys

on his tem, which allows a convict out.". good behaviour," and the organised sya tern of prison-breaking, a criminal can truthfully say, "While there's politics. there's hope

Seven desperate characters, two under death sentence for murder, are now in solitary confinement on a diet of bread and water following an organised attempt to break out of the county gaol The As the result of to-day's victory over seven were provided with hacksaws and the New York Giants the St. Louis Car rope ladders woven from mops. The dinals have won the pennant of the prisoners had shattered their cells and National League.

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the winner of the American League is

(not yet settled

were making good their escape when they were discovered and turned back by a coloured guard who pretended to be Armed.-Daily Mail.

LATTE. American League pennant and earned the New York Yankees have wor the

right to meet the St. Louis Cardinals in

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