Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1926, Page 7

CAPITAL FIGHT FANS RETURN SOAKED AND TRAVEL-WORN Battle For Taxis and Berths Rivals Fistic Epic as Thousands Pour From Sta- dium—Marines Celebrate. With drooping spirits and looking like the proverbial wet hen, Washing- | ton's fight fans, who departed this| city yesterday for Phiiadelphia in | booming spirits, returned to the fold today, wrung the water out of thelr clothes, put their shoes in the oven, raided the medicine cabinet, gave short, jerky answers to the questions piled at them and wondered how long it would be before they are all right again. 1¢ it hadn't been for the rain, well, but it rained and this is no time to talk about what might have been. Upon the minds of those fortunate people who held tickets (unfortunate to those who stayed at home) is in- delibly stamped two facts; viz., that Gene beat Jack, and that after it wr all over they walked for miles in th downpour and waited hours for the trains to depart. Of these two out- standing points, the latter today was destined to live the longer in the minds of those fight fans. If Washingtonians in Washington got wet last night, it was because they elected to do so and thereby they willingly made a great personal sacri- | fice at the altar of the great god | “prize fight.” But most of them stay- | ed indoors, tried to separate the rapld- | fire description of the announcer from the static, while the storm raged over- head, and confirmed what we thought we heard as to detail by buying the | night extras Oh! What a Sad Sight. But in Philadelphia, oh, it was a sad sight. Picture more than 130,000 people being turned loose at the foot of Broad street, a tidal wave of hu- manity sweeping down everything that came before it. The rain, which hegan to play its part as the gauze was being wound around the paws of | Jack and Gene, did very well by the and of the tenth round. At that time it had penetrated almost to the skin. “Fhen out into the every-day world the Washington delegation, along with other thousands, rushed. Taxi? Street car? Bus? They existed in name only for where a week ago there seemed to have been plenty of them, last night there was none. Now and then one of Mr. Mitten's taxicabs, busses or street cars would etart for town, with humans clinging to it like barnacles to a ship. What else was there to do but walk? Tt was only about four miles to City Hall down Broad street. One couldn’t ge any wetter by this time as the body was now in a perpetual shower bath, So they trudged along, like refugecs. And when they finally reached the sailrond stations, they found raelter and lots of waiting. Those who held tions followed a star of hope that eventually they would be snug be- tween the blankets and above all they would be dry. But it never rains without pouring and when man) of these f: to board their aleepers at 11:30 p.m. there were none to board. F attaches did their | hest to prevent a mutiny and a raid on anything that looked Tike a sleeper. Finally about a quarter of 2 the Pullmans ap| 1. Others patted themselves on the back during the trek down Broad street in expectation that a day coach special would leave at 12:15 a.m. and even though they would have no com- fortable beds, they would soon be | homeward hound. Two hours later this train pulled out, they rcported. A Long, Long Wait. e number had jons due to depart The cars were read about 11:30, the told, but they were ¥ an hour—not bad luck of the others. hoard at Pullman reserva- berths it A s were aiting onl: ing the However, e who 12:30 went to ed not what happened from ‘then on. This gection got out of Philadelphia about two hours late, landing the gers here during the hour beginning cluded Hanford Trubee Davison, af War, was fortunate In being vhisked by private automobile from the stadium downtown. He, how aver, was forced to wait for an hour sefore he boarded his train. After % me of the dripping humanity 10 had walked the entire distance Gen. Fechet didn't have much of kick coming. However, there was nothing to prevent his being rained the stadium_during the big he join the ranks of the sports a frog-like voice Dr. Guy W. Leadbetter and Roger J. Whiteford were typical examples of what hundreds of Washingtonians who depended -upon Philadelphia’s public utilities for transportation ex- perienced. Dr. Leadbetter summed up his adventure in these words: “I walked ahout three mil street, caught a ride for another mile on a taxi, then got into a street car and waited an hour at the station for the train. After I got on I didn't care what happened.” His train, due to de- part at 3:44, pulled out of the sheds about 5 a.m. Mr. Whiteford managed ride to the Penn Athletic Club and from there had to walk to Broad reet Station, as taxis were not to had. At the station he found his at another terminal, so he 30 minutes for the elusive | One finally appeared, carrying a passenger, and the driver demanded £3 for a 10-block ride im he knew where to go ning. and he went on d AMr. Whiteford. Then the attorney decided to walk and after trudging along for eight blocks the | rain stopped | Great difficulty w to get a 1s experienced hy | all the passengers this morning in putting on their shoes. Mr. Whiteford sald that Dr. and Mrs. Charles Stan- ley White, who, like the attorney, had gone to the fight on the Lions Club apecial, were forced to walk the entire | nce from the stadium to the sta-) in Quantico Marines Go Wild. The biggest celebration in this area | after the decision was announced, oc-| curred at Quantico, Va., where Gene | Tunney learned to parry with a bavo. ted Sta Three mnasium at the base to hear ns via radio. Capt. A. G.| athletic r, had rigged up i speakers and a public) but the electrical storm. with | 1 dquarters directly over the| camp, made it impossible to under-| «iand what the ringside announcer was saying. So all but one loud speal er were cut, and from the remain- ing one Capt. Rome attempted to copy | ihe blow-by-blows. The eighth and | ninth rounds were lost almost entirely | in the static and overhead thunder, | but encugh was gleaned from the an- nouncer to declare safely that the former marine was the new world's | champion. i Then the 3,000 marines broke loose. | They velled and cheered and tossed chairs around at random. They plunged out into the downpour, their pirits undampened by the rain, and it was not until 10:30 o'clock, an hour after the end of the fight and a hall 0|00 [t |o 08| ————[o| ——=[q hour after taps that peace and quiet settled over the camp. Although there are only a few of the present complement of the Quanti- co marines who were at the post when Tunney swore the globe, anchor and eagle, the majority of the men hav. ing been recruited since the war, that fact had no more effect on the enthu- siasm than if each man was a per- sonal friend of the champion. The 11th Regiment, Tunney's old organization, with which he went over- seas, today sports bigger chests and bigger heads than the other outfits, just because Gene and the 11th were 50 closely attached to each other for a long time. Hopes that Tunney will visit the Quantico post soon and plans for a big reception for him, if he does, were | discussed by those who took part in the demonstration last night. A num- ber of the marines went to Philadel- phia “on their own. WAL S. DAUGHERTY TESTIFIES BROTHER BURNED RECORDS (Continued from First Page.) of the Department of Justice, testified that he examined the accounts of the Midland National Bank April 8 of this year and learned that the ledger sheets, the day book, entries and de- posit slips were missing Buckner asked him if Mal 8. Daugherty had told him where they were. “I asked him and he said he didn't know,” Geneau replied. “Did Miller have an account in the Midland National Bank?”" Buckner ed. Not a personal account, but he had an account there as alien prop- erty custodian.” Under cross examination, Geneau was asked by Max D. Steuer, counsel for Daugherty, if he didn’t know it to be a fact that Miller, as alien prop- erty custodian, had “hundreds of ac- counts in hundreds of banks." “I do not know that,” Geneau re. plied.” Four $10,000 Bonds Traced. Yesterday Mr. Buckner traced four other $10,000 Liberty bonds from Merton through King and various brokerage firms to Miller. Then an array of witnesses, chiefly bank and brokerage clerks, testified that on Oc- tober 5, 1921, four days after Merton paid King his fee in full, King or- dered sold $24,000 of the Liberty bonds with which he had been paid. The bonds brought $22,163 and when King received a check for the amount ke promptly exchanged it for a cash- ier's check. The cashier's check, witneses said, was deposited in the Midland National Bank, of which Mal S. Daugherty is president. Miss Vera Veail, assistant ashier of the bank, testified that there was no record to show to whom the account was deposited. The by HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1926. Daugherty brothers and Jesse Smith, who was Harry Daugherty's right- hand man, had accounts in the bank. Miss Veail testified that all records of their accounts for the day of the check's deposit were missing, but records showed that the check was not deposited to the credit of any of the 1,897 other depositors with ac- counts at that time, she &ostified. NORTHWEST FEELS WINTRY WEATHER AS SNOW APPEARS __ (Continued from First Page.) points in Nerth Dakota reported six inches of snow. The provinces of | saskatchewan and Alberta and parts | of Manitoba also had snowstorms. Warmer weather was predicted. Cool Breezes Coming East. KANSAS CITY, September 24 (#) —Sharp drops in temperatures were forecast for Midwest States today as cool breezes swept eastward from the snow-blanketed Northwest territory. The advent of Fall yesterday was marked with rain and snow in Wash- ington, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and Canada. 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