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Casper to Rush Buildi of Casper on Ne’ White Eagle Oil & Refini corporation. This announceme in Casper of E. C. Marshall, su refinerigs, and S. W. Irwin, inspected the site and are already busy on plans for the plan construc. tion as soon as material becomes available. Grading will probably be ander way within a few days. Steel and equipment for the plant has, been ordered, it is understood, Baxter Basin Joint Test In Big Oil Sand, Report WHITE EAGLE PLANT PLANS ARE RUSHED Refinery Superintendent and Construction Chief in immediate erection of its proposed 2,000-barrel refinery east of Casper on a site purchased from the Producers & Refiners construction engineer, who have ing of New Plant East wly Bought Site ing company is preparing for nt was-made with the arrival perintendent of the companies and some shipments are already en route to Casper from the manufac- turers. Early construction will mean completion of the plant on or about the first of the year, it is believed, although it is possible that it will be ready for the first run of crude before t if Che Casper Daily Cribune | New York Stocks | New York Stocks—Last Sale Allied Chemical & Dye American Can... < American Car & Foundry 1.85) American International Corp. —- American Locomotive -...-. 1.34 American Smelting & Refs. 45% American 66 American T, & T. 2. 1.23% American 1.42% American 84 Anaconda Copper - 40 Atchison -... 99 Atl, Gulf & W. 10% Baldwin Locomotive 1.18% Baltimore & Ohio - -- 46% Bethlehem Steel 45u California Petroleum — 21% Canadian Pacific 1.45% Central Leather 20% Cerro de Pasco Copper +39 Chandler Motors - 51 Chesapeake & Oh! - 59% Chicago & Northwestern -... 71 Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul, pfd. 22% Chicago, R. I. & Pac. Chie Copper Chino Copper Consciidated Gas Corn Products Cosden Oi ~ Crucible * Steel Cuba Cane Sugar, pfa. The joint test of the Associated and Montacal companies on section 23-17-104 of the Baxter Basin field Is reported to be in the gas sand at 8,225. feet with production of about 35,000,000 cubic feet a day. In the. same field the Midwest Re- fining company found an 8,000,000 foot flow of gas at 1,778 feet on the northeast of section 2-17-104, being the largest ouput ever encountered in the, first sand in this fleld. Midwest Refining company, N‘ 1X, northeast quarter of section 36-18-104, is drilling at 2,300 feet. No. 29, southeast one-half of section 25-13- 104, im drilling at 2,030 feet. Ohio O11 company, No. 1 Hay, sec- tion 14:17-104, is drilling at 670 feet. No. 1, section 22-16-104, is drilling at 1,180 feet. P. & R. corporation, No. 1, section 1317-104, is drilling at 1,620 feet. P. & R. corporation, No. 1, section $6-17-104, is drilling at 1 et. Lease Consolidation in | Salt Creek Field OKkehed Secretary of Interior Work has ap- proved the readjustment of checker- board holdings of ofl lands in Salt Creek field under application made bythe Midwest, Wyoming Of! fields and Wyoming Associated company’s, ways the Inland Ofl Index. The lan guage used in the approval was follows: ““This approval {= confined solely and exclusively to the approval of the physical readjustment and it approves and incorporates no other apnrov Under this new arrangement bound- aries willbe reduced considerably and it 4s estimated by the* Bureau of re Mines that companies will be able to extract 6 per cent more ofl than under the old allotment. Among other results growing out of approval of applications will be reduction. of number of line wells to the three companys under compromise provi- sions of general leasing law embrac- ing a number of scattered tracts ranging in size from 40 to 120 acre: ent of interior has also ap- Proved sale of Salt Creek Consoli- Oll company of tracts of land Erie Famous Pla: General Asphalt General B'ectric General Motors Great Northern pfd, .. Gult States Steel Tilinots Central ... Inspiration Copper .. International Harvester Int. Mer. Marine pfd. ~ International Paper Invinetble Of Kelty-Springtidld Tire Kennecott Copper - Lima Locomotive Lou'sville & Nashville Mack Truck ~ Marland Oil Maxwe!! Motors B .. Middle States Oil ..... Missour!, Kan. & Tex. (new) — Missouri Pacific, pfd. New York Central ~-........ N. Y. N. H. and Hartford -. Norfolk & Western Northern Pacific 61% Pacific Oil _.. 32% Pan American Petroleum B 55% Pennsylvania( 13% People's Gas - 4 Bid Producers & Refiners - 85% Pure O11 - Bt} Reading -. 1% Republic Iron & Steel Sears Roebuck Cinglair Con, Oil .. Southern Pacific dal ela bs the Midwest Oil company and ‘yomning Associated Of1 corporation FORMER JUSTICE DAY (a. CLAIMED | (Continued trom Page One.) wecretary of. stato\ had ever met a foreign ambassador until he came to ‘Washington in 1897, Sherman could not\ carry many of the burdens of his office. The untrained. diplomat in the second pasition in the department had-.to shouler the responsibility of the department in such a tactful way. as not to offend his superior. How well he filled the office, and a year. later the office that Sherman had occupied as secretary of state was expressed later by McKinley when he said: Day absolutely never made a mistake.” It fell to Secretary of State Day to attempt to avojd the crash with Spain aver Cuba. The shrewd moves to avert war were his. To him, !ater, came the ‘work of restoring peace. President Mc: Kinley selected him as chairman of the! commission of the United States to meet the commissioners of Spain in drafting a treaty to end the war. ‘The treaty of Paris is a monument to him. ‘With this duty over, President Mc- Kinley named him a cireuit judge of the United States for the Sfkth circuit, Here he served until President Roose- velt, appointed him to the bench of the Supreme court of the United States in 1903. A man of slight build with a thin face, Justice Day never enjoyed robust health. Once he had to give up Boils T HERE is a reason for every- thing that happens. Com- smon-sense kills misery. Common- sense also stops boils! S. S. S. is the common- sense remedy for boils, be- cause it is built on rea- son, Scien- tific authori- ties admit its { wer! S.8.8. ds redsblood-cclis. it builds red- -cells. Fightingtblood. destioye. impurts % lestroys id te fights boils. It les! It ski: 8. = lways wins! Mr. V. D. Schaff, wy led f it relief, "I tried for years to get relief from a bad case of boils, Evei thing failed until I took S. S. Z\am now absolutely cured, dt was S. S. S. that did it.” his work for half @ year in order to seek health in the pines of north: ern Michigan. A great student, this Ohio man was extremely reticent. Probably the only intimate man”he al- lowed to share his -inner thoughts, was President McKinley. So reticent was he in public life in Washington ‘before he was elévated to the bench that he became known generally as “The Silent Man. The Day family was not fond of sccial life, Unlike some of his as- sociates in official life, Day, when in the state department did not spend several times his salary in rent for & mansion, but ived in an unpreten- tious residence, trusting to his ability ‘and demeanor to bring the requisite Cignity to the. position he held. Justice Day had one hobby. It was |" daseball. Few games hé missed, when business would permit his attending. ——_|. Sugar NEW YORK, July @—The market for refined sugar was unsettled and Pricea were 25 to 50 points lower with fine granulated now ringing from $8.75 to $9.00. ‘The decline wns due to offering of sugars originally intended for ex- port, Tt was estimated that there were between 1,000 and 2,000 tons of these sugars on the market. Sugar futures closed easy. Approxi- mate sales, 25,000 tons. September, $5.15; December, $4.75; March, $3.65; May, $3.70. Metals NEW YORK, July 9.—Copper— Quiet; electrolytic, spot and futures, 14% @14%c. Tin—Firmer; spot and nearby, $38.50; futures, $38.37. Iron—Steady; No. 1 northern, $28.50 ©30.00; No. 2 southern, $26.00@28.00. Louls spot Farmer’s Grain Company Denied *Change Rights OMAHA, Neb., July 9.—-The grain company organized by the Farmer's Union has been denied membership in the Omaha, Grain exchange by the exchange board of directors, accord Ing to a statement given out by C. J. Osborne, state president of the Union. This, it is alleged, is the second fime membership on the, exchange hax been denied the union. “The reason our application to mem- bership was refused is because the men who constitute the grain ex change do not want farmers to enter Southern Rallway — Standard Oil of N. J. Stucebaker Corporation Texan Co. -.--..... Texas & Pacific - Tcacto Products A Transepntinental Oil Union Pacific -. ‘United: Retail Stores U. 8. Ind. Alcohol -. United States Rubber United States Steet Utan Copper ---- Westinghouse Electric Willys Overland ----. Amer. Zinc, Lead & Sm, Butte & Superior Colorado Fuel & Iron Montana Power 59 National Lead . 113 Shattuck Arizona 6 Bia New York Close 4% 84 Continental - - ST Cumberland .~. — 1,00 Catena = 1.04 Tilinols ~ 1.59 Indiana = 97 Nat. Tran, _ 23% N. Y. Tran, -. = 1.00 Nor. Pipe 98% Ohio Oil - 60 Prairie Otl 1.83 Prairie Pipe -. 96% 1.80 96 Al 86 2.13 37% 2.80 45 1.32 54% | Crude Market | Torchlight - Etk Basin Greybull ~ Rok Salt Creek Hamilton Mule Creek ~ Sunburst Butter and Eggs CHICAGO, July 9.—Butter steady; receipts 15,258 tubs; creamery extra’ 87%; standards .37%; extra fir 35%@.36%; firsts .34@.35; seconds 32@.33%. 15 cases; y firsts .20% Eggs higher; receipts the terminal market,” Mr. Osborne's ement paid. Oil Securities (By Wilson. Cranmer & Company) Buck Creek 5 Burke © _-__., - 28 80 Blackstone Salt Creek .28 30 Chappell 36 Columbine --_ +10 12 Capitol Pete ~ 00% 00% Consolidated Royalty - 1.28 1.30 Cow Gulch 02 Demino ~ 13 Elkhorn. s--..-----.-- 03 04 Frantz --_.. 4.00 5.00 BE, T. Williams: .. 82%, 63% Gates -__. an 08 208 Kinney 20 23 Jupiter eta, ODE has OL Kinney Coastat -.. 26 27 Lance Creek Royalty. .01 02 Lusk. Royalty OL 02 Mike Henry ---...--. .01 02 Monntain & Gulf .-__ 1.80 1.33 New York Cit Picardy Outwest «2. Red Bank new Royalty & Produ Bunset ..032---- Tom Bel! Royalty —— Western Exploration. Wyo-Kan -... Western Oil Fields Western States Y on 4 New York Ourb, Mountain Producers Mammoth ---. Glenrock Oil Salt Creek Prds. Salt Creek Cons. Mutual Cities Service Com, -- 133.00 LIBERTY BONDS. Ath 4%s STOCK PRICES GRAINS GIVEN BREAKIN MART) SETBAGK AGAIN Late Decline on Exchange Charged to Increase in Call Money Rates NEW YORK, July 9.—Stock prices pointed upward with dull trading in the early part of today's market but turned heavy later when the call money rate was marked up to six per cent and operators on the long side showed no disposition to support their favorites at the higher levels. Sales’ approximated 600,000 shares. NEW YORK, July 9.—Prices dis- played a firm tone at the opening of today’s stock market. American Ag rioultural Chemical preferred advance ed 3 points; Youngstown Steel anc Tube two; Delaware and Hudson 1% and Schulte Stores four and Grant: copper ona each. Willys Overland referred and International Harvester each sagged about a point. Industrials continued their rise té higher ground but trading in rails wae sluggish and heavy with Delaware and Hudson cancelling {ts early gain an¢ Canadian Pacific selling a point be low. Saturday's clone. Gaing of point or more were registered by Call fornia Petoleum Common and preferr. ed, Pan American “B" Stewart-War ner, American Can, Owens, Rottle Du Pont and several others. Forlégn exchanges opened steady. Buying of a more ccnfident char acter came into the atock market dur ing the morning and prices continuec thelr upward course. Gains of a point or more were quite common amonp the industrial shares, United State Stee! common being the only. laggard of any consequence. Delaware and Hudson was again sold freely, breaking to 95 after hav ng touched 97%, but it failed to u settle the rest of the raflroad Non-d'vidend paying carriers were {r demand at higher price with the in yestment rails holding firm. Jewe Tea preferred advanced 4%, DuPon: 3%. Tidewater Oll 3% and Goodrict Preferred, Railway Steel Spring Livestock Chicago Prices CHICAGO, July 9. (U. S. Depart- ment of Agrioulture}—Hogs—Receipts 85,000; fairly active ‘on good kinds; slow on others, around 25 to 40 cents tower; bulk desirable 180 to 260 pound averages $7.40@$7.60; top $7.68; tow good and choice weighty butchers around $7.35; packing sows mostly $6.25@$6.40; desirable weighty pigs $6.50@ $7.00; heavyweight hogs $6.65@ $7.55; medium $6.90@$7.65; light $6.75 @ 7.65; light light $6.75@$7.60; pack- ing sows smooth $6.00@86.50; packing sows rough $5.60@$6.10; killing pige $6.26@37.10. Cattle—Recsipts 28,000; fairly ac- tive, outside demand broad; largely a teer run; market genera'ly steady on better grades beef steers and year- lings: kinds of value to sell at $9.50 ini below easter; lower in pots; early top matured kteers $11.50; several ‘cads $11.00@$11.10: bulk beet steers yearlings $9.50@$10.7! eal calves generally active, strong to 15¢ higher; and feeders proportionately scaros, (rm; bull desirable bologna bulls $4.75 00: bulk veal calven to packers @$11.26; upward to: $12.09 to tsiders; bulk desirable beef heifers 50@ $8.50. Sheep—Receipts 21,000; slow, fat lambs 25 to B0c lower; spots more, sorting considered; westerns unsold; good and choice natives around $15.00; culls mostly $8.00@$8.50; sheep very scarce, steady; few odd lots medium and handy weight ewes $5.00@$6.00; heavies downward to $3.50. Omaha Quotations OMAHA, Neb., July 9. (U. 8. De partment of Agriculture}—Hogs—Re- celpts, 15.000; slow; 25@40c lower; bulk 200 to 350 pound butchers $6.335 @36.75; top $6.90; bulk mixed grades carrying packing sows and lights $5.75@$6.25; packing sows largely $5.25 @$5.75. Cattle—Recetpts 9,000; market for better grades beef steers and she stock steady; others 10@15c lower; bulk beet steers $8.50@$10.25; top matured steers $10.80; bulk cows and heifers $5.25@$8.00; best light heifers $8.85; bulls stead: bolognas $4.00@$4.50; veal strong; top $7.00; stockers and feeders steady; fleshy feeders $7.70. Sheep—Receipts 11,500; lambs slow, 25@50c lower; early sales westerns $14.75; natives $14.00@$14.50; sheep steady: bulk handy and light ewes $5.00@$5.90; feeders weak to 25c lower; early sales feeding lambs $12.00@ $12.50. 7 Denver Prices. DENVER, Colo., July 9.—Cattle— Receipts, 1,825; market steady to strong; beef steers, $7.00011.00; cows and heifers, $3.50@8.00; calves, $4.00 @10.00; stockers and feeders, $5.00 @7.50. Hogs—Recelpts, 1,250; market 25 to 65t lower; top, $7.50; bulk, $6.85@7.30. Shgep—Receipts, 6,600; market 50c lower; $12.00@13.5! yom, $4.00@6.50. Potatoes CHICAGO, July 9.—Potatoes strong- er; prices slightly higher; United States shipments 874 Saturday, 38 Sunday; arrivals 103; on track 244. Oklahoma sacked Bliss Triumphs and 25@.25%.|Irish Cobblers $3.00@$33.25; poor, oS" some hoated, as low an $2.40; car lot ss, sales; Virginia cloth toned stave bar- | and lneo:|rels Irish Cobblers $ $7.00; salen leums. Hunter ( 41 Weat! to Jobers Kansas racked early Ohios, ist, Phone 9565, number one, mostly $3.00, Pierce Arrow Preferred and Hart mann corporation 2 Cal money opened at five perce Official expectation that the regular dividend would be declared on Deva ware and Hudson at the forthcoming directors’ meeting caused a dem: for the stock whieh carried tt up to 98%. Business otherwise slowed down and prices ipered off when call money rose to 5% percent. Davison Chemical was sold freely and yielded 2%, while Pierce O11 preferred drop ped four points to 25, a new for the year. bs The closing was heavy. Delaware and Hudson crossed bar and Je; Central jumped nearly 10 points the remainder of the list turned re fotionary in the late dealings with steel, motor and food shares yielding materially to selling pressure. —————_ low Money eeneeepeenmnenmsesnen ss! NEW YORK, July 9—Call money, strong; high, 6; low, 5; ruling rate, 5 closing bid, 6; offered at 6%; last loan, 6; call joans against accept an 4%; time loans, firm; mixed collateral, 60-90 days, 6@5%; 4-6 months, 6@5%; prime commercial Paper, 5. Silver NEW YORK, July 9.—Bar ailver, 635%. Mexician dollars .48%. esoeabdlss Flax Seed. DULUTH, Minn., J flax: July, $2.66%% bid $2.34 asked; October, $2.26. ivy 9.—Closing September, Market Gossip Favorable Weather Condi- tions Have Bearish Effect On Trading CHICAGO, Ju'y 9—Nearly perfect weather in all directions led to lower prices for wheat today during the early dealings. ‘Besides, enlarged re- celpts .of newly harvested wheat in the southwest had same ‘bearish ef- fect. On the other hand, a reduction n the amount of wheat on ocean pas- sage failed to stir up any special de- mand here and so too did an advance in quotations at Liverpool. Tre open- ng. which ranged from % cent de- sling to %se advance, with September 103% to 103%, and December 106% to 106% folowed by a moderate setback all around. Subsequently, black rust complaints Increased, And with the government report due after the close; evening up f accounts brought about some ad- vance in price. For the most part, however, gains failed to last. The closé was unsettled at a range vary- ng from % cent net decline to vent Rdvance, July and September both $1.03% to $1.03% and December, $1.06% mallness of today's arrivals of m here gave strength to the corn After opening un shangea Sc higher September 75% to 75%, the corn market scored 1 decided upturn in the July delivery and ra'lied September and December from an early decline, Buying on the part of commission houses and shorts led to a material upturn in price later. The close was firm, 4% to 2% cents net higher, Sep. tember, 76% to 77 cents. Oats started unchanged to \%o high r, September 35%, and held close to the opening range. in hog values weakened and oats market .to on market. Open High Low Close Wh fuly -1.04 1.94 1.03% 1.08% 123434 634590$ 908908 90n%™%% 9 Sept. ---1.08% §1.03% 1.02% 1.08%. Dec. 1.06% “1 1.051% 1.06% Corn: 83 81 83 17 15% 76% 63% 62% 63% 39% 88% 39M 35% 38 35% 37% 386% 8TH 11.30 11.17 11.35 11.27 9.25 «9.22 9.92 912 Cotton NEW YORK, July 9.—Spot cotton, quiet; middling, $27.55. asi Nib Soca Foreign Exchange LL NEW YORK. July 9.—Foreign ex- in changes irregular. Quotations cents: Great Britain, demand, 4.66 cables, 4.66%; 60-day bills on ban 4.53%. France, demand, 5.85% cables, 5.86. Italy, demand, 4.241%; cables, 4.25. Belgium, demand, 4.84; cables 4.85. Germany, demand, .0003%; cables, .0003%. Holland, de mand, 389.12; cables, 39.16, Norway, demand, 16.10. Sweden, demand, 26.38. Denmark demand, 17.88 Switezralnd, demand, 17.23. Spain, demand, 14.88. Greece, demand, 3.10. Poland, demand, .0007%. Czecho- Slovakia, demand, 3.02. Argentine, demand, 34.50. Brazil, demand, 10.50. Montreal, 97%. and Briefs On Operations in Oil Fields NEW YORK, July 9.—German marks_continued their course toward | the vanishing point today, being! quoted here at .0003%, or 266,667 to) the American dollar. At the nominal} rate of exchange of 23.8 cents each| in effect before the war, this number | of marks would have cost $63,466.50. Today's drop followed publication of | the German bank statement showing | an increase of nearly four trillion, | two hundred billion marks in note circulation last week. July 9.—Another slash was made in the price of ro-| fined sugar in the local market to- | day. Granulated was cut to $8.75 by | one refiner. This is 1% cents below the high price of the season. The drop was due to re-offering of 2,000 tons of refined sugar which had been shipped abroad and returned because no foreign market could be found. The slack domestic demand also was a contributing factor. ‘GHUMPY’ SCORES HIT AT RIALTO. THEATER. Scoring a decided hit at tts firat showing, “Grumpy,” William — de} Mille’s new Paramount picture pro: duction, featuring Theodore Robert May McAvo a Cor Nage | opened at the jalto theater TU Bight. There is a laugh in evory scene of this romantic comedy-drama, although there is suspense through- out the entire production. This is a crook, picture that is different. a scm Ferguson, as the culprit, Jarvis, steals a valuavre diamond that had been intrusted tu Ernest Heron (Con rad Nagel). “Grumpy,” an old crim inal lawyer, takes charge of the in- vestigation and ultimately solves the mystery with a gardenia as a clew. This is Mr. Roberta’ greatest char- acterization and William de Mille's most delightful production. ——___. PEG LEG AGTOR UNABLE TO GET DOWN ON KNEES The instructions were for every person in the cast to slowly and reverently sink to their knees, but one man, Mr. Pi evidently mutineed. Pandemonium ensued and the director raged. Purple grew the face of Mr. Parks as an explanation was. demanded, slowly and hesitating: ly.the truth came out—Parks had a wooden leg! The secret had been held by tho clever actor for a lifetime and be: cause of his cleverness will in no way interfere with his histrionic future. the Ozarks" at the Wyoming theater tomorrow will find it an interesting but futile search to determine whict th casts ig Tilford J Parks, By FOREIGN Dzechoslovak Rep., 8a, ctts Danish Municipal 88, A Dominion of Can: French Republic. Japanese 4s Kingdom of Belgium, 83 -. Kingdom of Norway fs ~ Republic of Chile S#, 1946 - State of Queensland, 68 - U. K. of G. B. and 5., 6% RAILWAY AND MISCELLANEOUS American Smelting 58 American Sugar 6s American Tel. and Tel., American Tel Tel col Anaconda Copper, 1 Anaconda Cpper $s, 1953 . At. T. and San Fe gen., 4s Baltimore and’ Ohio cv., 4% Bethlehem Steel con., Canadian Pacific deb., 48 — Chi. Bhr. und Qunicy ref Chi. Mil. and St. Paul cv chile Copper, 68 -...- Soocyear Tire Ss, i021 — areat Northern 7s A Montana Power 58 A ..--. Northern Pacific ref, 63 B. 78, Northwestern Bell Tel Pacific Gas and Electric 58 — Penn. R. R. gen, bs Sinclair Con. ‘Oil ‘col Southern Pacific ev., Union Pacific first da 3. 8. Rubber 38 Aditional Series A 90 89% 90 102 101% 101% 501158 96% 96% 9684 100 99% 9914 96% 96% 96% 87 861g 87 17% TT NATIONAL GOLF TITLES AT STAKE Open Championship Play Launched at Inwood Links Today. INWOOD, N. J., July 9—~(By The Associated Press)—James R. Thomp- son, of Rye, N. ¥., and Jack Burgess, Lake Geneva, Wis., were called to thelr first tee of Inwool Country Club links today after & o’olotk this morn ing, to open the qualifying play for the 27th national open golf champion- Three hundred and twenty of nations best known’ golfers, 31 of them amateurs, are entered in the play. The qualifying round has been di- vided into four flights, beginning to- day and continuing through Thurs- Out of the 90 who .play each day, the 18 best scores and the tles for elghteenth place will qualify for the championship p!ay over 72 holes Friday and Saturday, The 1922 champion, Gene Sarazen, paired with Leo Diegel, of Washing. ton was to play in today’s round. Other stars in today’s play include. Jock Hutchison, Charles “Chick"’ Evans, Bob MacDonald, Wiliam E. Mehlhorn, Abe Espincsa, Pat O'Hara and M. J. O'Loughlin, the metropoli- tan open champion. <i Seattle Club Sale Blind on Persons seeing “The Bishop of | Wrigley’s Part SAN FRANCISCO, July §.—Wil lam H. McCarthy, president of the Pacific. Coast league, in a statement made public today, denounced the sale of a part interest in the Seattle club to R. O. Harvey, purported owner of the Wichita Falls, Texas club of the Texas league, as an attempt on the part of William Wrigley, Jr., to “cover up" on the recent purchase of the club, The latter, McCarthy sald, is known to be interested finan cially in the Wichita Falls club. TITLEHOLDERS MATCHED FOR BIG BOUTS TONIGHT PHILADELPHIA, July 9.—Two world's champion boxers are to ap pear here tonight at the Philadelphia National league baseball park in eight rounds decision bouts. Benny Leonard, Mghtweight champion, will meet Alex Hart, of Cleveland, and Joe Lynch, bantamweight king, will bex Bobb ‘olgast of Atlantic WILLARD AND FIRPO EASE _ UP TRAINING: NEW YORK, July 9—Nearing the. | finish of their training periods, Lufw* Angel Firpo and Jess Willard, giants of the prize ring who meet at Boyle's Thitty Acres Thursday night to de termine a challenger for Jack Demp- sey's crown, planned only light exer. cites today. Firpo, at his quarters in Longe Branch, N. J., was slated for the hardest workout of the two. Jimmy DeForest, ring mentor of the South American, ¢xpectea to have his sparring partners, Bill Tate and Jack McAuliffe besides a private workout anda few miles on the road. Willard pronounced by Jack his veteran handler, to be in to will have just enough exercise keep him on edge. The big fellow, scaling around 240 pounds, appears fit. Floyd Johnson, who boxes Mc- Auilffe in the semt-finals Thursday, iy, Dey to will put the finishing touches today on his training at Saratoga. ————— = RACING—Meeting of Empire City Racing association, at Yonkers. Meeting of Niagara Racing associa- tion, at Fort Erle, TROTTING—Meeting of Grand Cir- cult opens at Toledo. GOLF—National open champtonship tournament opens at Inwood, L. I. Western junfor championah!p tournament opens at Chicago. Pacific Northwest amateur and women's championship, at Seattle, Towa State championship tourna ment opens at Cedar Rapids. Connecticut State championshir tournament opens at Shenecorsett. TENNIS — National clay court: championship opens at Indianapolis. New England ectional double: championship opens at Providence. Pacific Northwest sectional dotible championship opens at Portland. Utah State championship tourna ment opens ext Logan. Oregon State championship tourns ment opens at Portland. BASEBALL—Meeting af Nations Baseball Federation, at Cleveland, BOWLING—Ontario lawn bowlin championship tournament opens Hamilton. BOXING—Benny Leonard vs. Alc Hart, 8 rounds, at Philadelphia. Joe Lynch ys. Bobby Wolgast, rounds, at Philadelphia. Joe Tiplitz vs. Richie rounds, at Philadelphia. Sammy Mandell vs. Frankie Cal! han, 10 rounds, at Peoria. Mitohetl, Ss } IT’S CLEAR “SOFT AND PURE Order by the case or 5-gallon bottles. HILL CREST WATER WE DELIVER 503 East Second St. Phone 1151 & i

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