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“PAGE FOUR FRENCH STAR HOPES TILDEN TO MEET FOR MORE DECISIVE JEANBOROTRA VICTORYINMATCH —INTENNIS MATCH SUZANNE NOT SATISFIED WITH xinG OF AMERICAN OUTDOOR SCORE MADE. IN CONTEST pLAYERS TO LINE UP AGAINST WITH HELEN WILLS, AMERI-| INDOOR CHAMPION AT NEW CAN CHAMPION YORK TODAY ' 4 a J i ‘ (By Associated Press) i es BEAULIEU, France, Feb. 19— ew YORK, Feb. 19. William T. Suzanne Lenglen is intent upon Tilden, king of American outdoor showing that the score of 6-3, 8-6, tennis playdre, ipday mmects Gin-pres- by which she defeated Helen Wills ent indoor champion, Jean Borotra, the other day was not a correct 1- 4¢ France, in the feature match of dication of her superiority. She the national indoor title play at the hopes for a more decisive victory seventh regiment armory. ‘when she plays Helen again. Borotra, the “bounding basque,” As Papa Lenglen puts it: “Suzanne won his title a year ago, but Tilden is not satisfied with the epore she did not play in the tournament. Dur- made against your champion Tues-\ ing the summer the two met in the day. She feels that she can do bet- Davis Cup matches at Philadelphia, ter, and asserts that she played be- anq Borotra carried on the bill to Jow form. Her most intense desire fye sets, # times threatening defeat is to meet Miss Wills again and show ¢), the player-writer-actor. that the score of 6-3, 8-6 was wrong.” Tilden and Borotra progressed to In the anticipated match at Nice the round before the semi-final, only next month, the girls will play with wednesday doubles contests being the American made ball to which played yesterday, and in this depart- Miss Wills is accustomed. | ment Tilden will also be called upon Papa Lenglen, who is general sec- ¢) defend American: honors wher, retary of the Nice Club, has so or- paired with the giaht, Fred Anderson, dained, and he has ordered a num- he meets Borotra and Rene Lacoste, ber of these balls purchased. another member of the French Davis “You may rest assured” declared cup team. the elder Lenglen, “that Miss Wills, Lacoste faces Vincent Richard, ‘will get at Nice a square deal and number three in American ranking the -best welcome of her riviera s0- today, and Jacques Brugnon, third journ. I will go-out of my way to French invader, clashes with Francis make it pleasant for her. I would 7. Hunter, former indoor title hold- mot want any one to believe that I ers, “would take advantage. of my position with the Nice daughter.” GENE SARAZEN TO : Both of the champions appear.de- | MEET LEO DIEGEL termined to face one another again i ior to going to St. Cloud and the , (By Associated Press) Wimbledon sessing in June. ; ORLANDO, Feb. 19.—Gene Sara- id |zen, present Metropolitan champion oes e425 6%88¢ 8% © and former national open champion, | = * will meet Leo~ Diegel, Canadian | * * champion, in a 36 ho match play| - #* on golf course of the Country ee) e424 4 4 + * * ¢ ¢ + » * ¢ * here Sunday, February 21, accord-' ia: igtebencih Pikiobhine: tadee than {ine to an announcement made at the | e 0 io 01 Sok 100009: acres: of -game- preserves. ic [ee Oe AES 0 6a ee ose o:0' | A new bowling academy just open- ¢ * ed in New York city has forty-two « alleys. le | | i i Club to favor my) NOTES OF SPORT . «i |e se rereenesesesesernl Yale- Racing—Meeting at Jefferson Park, race New Orleans. Meeting of Miami | Jockey Club, at Miami, Fla. Meeting |of West Coast Jockey Club, at Tam- W.*G.. George’s professional mile pa, Fla. Meéting of Tia Juana record of 4 utes 12 3-4 seconds Jockey Club, at Tia Juana. Meeting thas stood for 40 years. of Havana-American Jockey Club, at CALENDAR OF SPORTS Harvard has not won the Harvard varsity eight-oared since 1920. i | * |which has become 2. of the many properties visited NEW RULING IN MARRIAGE LAW ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKES DECISION IN GEORGIA YESTERDAY (By Associated Press) FLASHES OF LIFE (By Associated Press) Cette ees eseesreses NEW YORK—The most ignomi ous treatment that a woman can in-— flict upon a man, in the opinion of | Vice Chancellor Backsu. is to ignore’ * Colonel Gilbert A. Youngberg, United | JACKSONVILLE, Fia., Feb. 19.—| — States district engineer for Florida | has announced that the Peninsula Terminal Company of Miami Beach | has made application to the war de- partment for permission to construct ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 19.—Hun- him at meals while serving the rest a solid fill pier upon the_ existing dreds of couples in Georgia are af- fected by a decision rendered yester-! r j day by Attorney General George M./ disciplined for eight weeks because end of the causeway and south Napier to the effect that marriages’ his wife objected to his participation | the viaduct which connects the cause- performed in other states in avoid- ance of Georgia’s marriage laws are voidable. % A law passed by the Georgia As-| sembly in 1924 provides that notice of five days, except in certain cases, shall be given by couples intending to marry, before a marriage license ean be issued. The purposes of the law, as stated on the flocrs of the legislature by its proponents, was to reduce the number of marriages by minors. . Following passage of the act, counties in South Carolina, Tennes- see, Florida and Alabama have reap- ed a harvest from couples eloping to get away from the five day notice law. Mr. Napier ruled that couples leave the state to wed with the express intention of avoiding the Georgia law,,the marriage is void- able.— He pointed out that the su- preme court of Georgia has refused to recognize the laws of other. states in regard to marriages where they conflict with Georgia laws. The ruling by the attorney general was made at the request of the or- dinary of Chatham county, the officer issuing marriage licenses. The re- cent elopement of a minor couple is said to have been the cause of tle request for the ruling. ~ KING AND QUEEN OF. - ENGLAND MOVE INTO SANDRINGHAM HOUSE (By Asseciated Press)- LONDON, Feb. 19.—King George and Queen Mary ‘have just moved | into Sandringham House, the Nor- folk estate of the Windsot family, the personal preperty of the sovereign by the will of Queen Alexandra. Sandringham is now the only one each year by their Majesties, which is jowned by the King and not by the; wig Salm Von Hoogstraeten state. King Edward bought the i where of the family. Alexander M. Mac-' Leod, of Paterson, a lawyer was so| as won a divorce. | lin polities. H { : * e hi j * CHEYENNE, Wyo.—If anybody is in doubt as to what a prizefight is, Governor Nellie Ross can explain. It’s a prize and a fight, she has in- |formed the Elks who have been ‘thinking of conducting some amateur !boxing. Prizefighting is forbidden ‘by statute. ee NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.—Lee {Parsons Davis, Jr., who heard his; father cross examine Kip Rhine-’ lander, has eloped with dad’s stenographer Miss Theresa Murphy. says dad: “He will now have to go to work.” * * NORRISTOWN, Pa—An angry husband has complained to the dis- | trict attorney that his wife and two other women who served on a jury ‘in a bootlegging case against a wo- man were smoked into voting an ac- *quittal. The men puffed so much’ in the jury room that the women be-: jeame ill. ! e e+ WASHINGTON—In order to set-| tle the farm relief problem, congress | sheuld send for Colonel House, in the opinion of Representative How-. ard, of Nebraska, since the colonel’s}| memoirs show no great step was! ever taken by our nation without his advice. i + * # « NEW YORK—Some theatre-goers -have been scared. by a real shooting jin the right to kill, a blank cartridge jfired by the heroine at close range 'set the villains coatsleeve on fire. * * ¢ NEW YORK—Channing Pollock,. ; American dramatist, thinks no na- tion with a sense of humor would have excluded Countess of Cathcart! ,also that outside of office 90 per jeent of our population are morons. | * * PALM BEACH, Fla.—A_ chorus girl who sought to meet Count Lud- 4 was sorely, disappointed ‘when the tall icountry mansion when he was Prince | count brushed by her in a hallway ,0f Wales and willed it to his queen, | without so much as a, glance. He |pier would be 200 feet wide, 800 berg, should do so in writing to the = | ' The right name.of Johnny Dun- l dee, the former junior lightweight ” champion, is Guiseppe Carrora. > | The Eastern intercollegiate ath- etic championships were originally known as the Mott Haven gathes. | Of the fifty meets held by the In- “tercollegiate A. A. A. A. Harvard jhas won the most victories of any of the colleges. Kansas City and Peoria will be prominent applicants for the 1927 championship. tournament of the Americar’ Bowling Congress. j ‘ The first women’s collegiate fenc- ing team in the United States was organized at the University of Penn-' sylvania six years ago. 4 Great Britain has not developed a world’s heavyweight champion since ‘the late Bob Fitzsimmons left Corn- wall nearly 35 years ago. | Nearly twelve miles of pipe are embedded in the arena of Madison Square Garden. to furnish the ice surface for hockey and skating. Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Jesse Burkett, and numerous other base- ball players famous for their hitting broke into the majors as pitchers. Jimmy McLarnin, one of the most prominent of the little fighters per- forming in the Pacific coast section, is 18 years old and a native of Ire- Jand. Lafayette, La., has been awarded the Southern A. A. U. track and field championships for this year. ‘The meet will be held about the middle of May. Although Leo Flynn has directed the affairs of more than four hun- dred boxers during his twenty-five years as a fight manager, it never has been his good fortune to manage a world’s champion. Miss Mary K. Browne, the former Californian, one of the few women } who have reached stellar rank in two major sports, has accepted in- -vitations to compete in several golf and tennis tournaments to be held at St. Augustine and other Florida re- sorts during the late winter. F. H. SOLOMON Pies Dealer tn Plumters’ Sanetice and Sheet Metal Work Vv. & K. AUTOMATIC PUMPING OUTFITS 722 CAROLINE ST. te Peacon’s Hardware Stere PHONE aw { Next $$$ OS Sandringham was the favorite resi- announced he is not attending” any dence of King Edward and Queen | social functions. Alexandra, as it is with the present} Havana. Cycling—Fifth day of interna- aceon island and shoal lying east of the refrigerating plant and the southeast of of Monree Countr writing and swern te. at Monroe County. Ficriga with ome year from date bereot way with Miami Beach. The proposed, #**¢ January LE ___ feet long and with a 300 foot slip. The plans may be seen at the U. S. engineer’s office in Jacksonville; sub-office Miami Beach or the com- pany’s office Miami Beach. Anyone desiring to protest the proposed work from a_ standpoint of imterfering with navigation, says Colonel Young- Reference: First “Nations! Rexk. Chamber ef (emer engineer's office in Jacksonville. Tonight and All Week | ‘Key West Fire Dept. Mid-Winter Festival Presenting Leet Barracks Feb. 15th te 27h sovereigns. At Buckingham Palace, | Hollyrood Palace, Balmoral and, Windsor Castles, the Royal “family |, ‘must hoist their standard above the | jroof and live in the luxury which, the state provides, but at Sandring- |. ham they live like the family of a! {country gentleman, with only the} jeares and freedom of country folk.| | Yerk cottage, also on the Sand-| ‘ringham estate, now has been left | | vacant by the King, but probably will »_, not be allotted to the Duke and/ {Duchess of York, as at first sup- posed, because of the possible mar- aes cf the Prince of Wales, who! eae nat tional six-day race in Chicago. of at Bench Show—Annual Westmoreland Kennel Greensburg, Pa. show Club, Skis—International intercollegiate championships at Hanover, N. H. Dog Race—Second day of Eastern International Dog Derby, at Quebec. Basketball—Cotton States inter- scholastic tournament, at Auburn, Ala. by precedent becomes the household- the cottage. Golf—Ormond Beach champion-' Sheffield turns out the finest steel ship tournament, at Ormond Beach,’ in the world. Yet even Sheffield, Fia. Annual Spring tournament at-With all her science, has never St. Augustine, Fla. Washington’s' matched the steel of the sword blades | Birthday tournament. at Belleair, Made by the Saracens a thousand : Fla. | years ago, and the Saracens never | had such machinery as the modern — Wrestling—South Atlantic A. A./makers possess. U. championships, at Baltimore. Bowling — International Association tournament, at St. Pau! ee NOTICE! Mr. F. E. Hatwood, an ex- |] Pert watch-maker, jeweler and {| engraver, has assumed charge of the repair department of An interesting exhibit at a recent | Gaede ciiees cae ne ae radio show in London was a small | ‘. rt servi: ndered, volume that carries between its} ei a a . <i Soe covers a complete wireless receiving set. Its maker bound the book in | FRANK JOHNSON JEWELRY tortoiseshell and called it “The ! STORE Listener.” | Boxing—Middle States amateur championships, at Gary, Ind. Chick | Suggs vs. Jimmy Mendo, 10 rounds, at Manchester, N. H. Roland Toda vs. Tiger Flowers, 10 rounds, at Bos- 5 Disc A. LUCIGNANI Pioneer Ice Cream Manufacturer * S22 DUVAL STREET Seecoceccecoccoscesees SPECIAL SIX ADVANCED The New 4-Door SEDAN, $1315 4-Door SIX SEDAN, $1525 £.0.B.F. 4-wheel Brakes Full Balloon Tires Wheels Oil Purifier Velvet Seat Upholstery MELTZER & NAVARRO AUTO CO DISTRIBUTORS FOR MONROE COUNTY ——