The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 8, 1926, Page 3

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1926. - FIGHT CARD AT ATHLETIC CLUB ON FRIDAY NIGHT KID INDIO WILL BE SEEN IN MALN ROUT. WITH FIGHTING DELGADO; PRELIMINARIES ALSO Sa hese In the Key West Athletic Club{ ring tomorrow night will be staged one ofthe most ‘thrilling aid meritorious fistic demonstrations ever witnessed in this city. In the main bout of the ‘fight eard for the evening. Kid Indio will meet Filipino Delgado in an encounter ‘that the fans will -talk about for weeks to come. Holmes Allen, Kid Indio’s’man- ager, arrived in the city yesterday from VMilami, and is putting his idol through a training program in arder to have him in perfect tune and condition for the combat to- morrow night. Willard Russell, of this city, manager for Delgado, says the little Pilipino was never in better shape, and expects him to rake in the laurels at the fight tomorrow night. ‘ Both these fighters sting a mean mit,. ard they will both fight furiously to win. Their bout is @xpected to be the most . hotly contested encounter ever seen, in the Island City, and it is con- fidently expected that the arena will be filled with fight fans to- -taerren night to witness this. won-. derful demonstration of fistic skill. RAIN HINDERS WORK OF MANY BALL PLAYERS UNSETTLED WEATHER FAILS TO DAMPEN SPIRITS OF ‘MEMBERS MAKING UP VARIOUS TEAMS BATTING ORDER CHANGES ARE ~ MADE BY CLUBS | BASEBALL ACTIVITIES ARE) NOW CENTERED PRINCIPAL. LY ON POSITIONS IN LINE-, ‘UPS : (By Associated Press) : NEW YORK, April 8.—Batting | ogpder ebanges have been decided} jon by virtually every club in the major leagues for the opening) games next Tuesday, if line-ups} during exhibition play are final! judgments. Harry Riconda, third| baseman of the Braves, has been hitting fifth, a position filled last | season by Gus Felix. Manager| Bancroft moves from second place to seventh. | Johnston is clean up hitter in| place of Burris, while Brown has} succeeded Welsh as number three | hitter, the latter moving up to} second. | With the exception of Todt at} number ‘four and Lee at number, seven, the Red Sox show a new! batting order. Langford, an out-| fielder obtained from Des Moines| last. year follows at number two} and Si Rosenthal, formerly in the Eastern and ‘Texas league at num- p> <MHE. KEY WEST. CITIZEN ‘REPORT FLOODS. IN MIDDLE WEST ARE AUG: | | ; t SEVERE . RAINS MENTED BY MEL®- ‘ING SNOW CHICAGO, stage’ Apl- .7.-(AP) I feet | ver] mddle. West leealities as} n result of ‘the ‘Severe raim aug- | men.ed by melting. snow from the | heavy fal of late March. | The industrial districtof Fort | Wayne, Ind.z was threatened by | rising waters of the Maumee Riv- | er, Swollen by rains which fell for hours. — The Springtime . flood —stage was reached late yesterday with | a 17-foot stage in prospect. to-) day, sufficient-to flood mapy | | blocks in the eastern part of the | city. The water in Lake Decatur, at | Decatur, Ills., “was- 18 inches; following ‘a severe storm last) n’ght. Water gathering in low} streets blocked: traffi¢. for several | hours, although no. damage to} property was reported. | At Jacksonville, It's. Lake Mau-} viasterre reached’ a. new: height, the water from, thespillway run-| ning over the Springfield | Jack-| sonville highway toa depth. of} Drives Sedan. bys—his famous set National Open Golf Champion’ Nash Advanced Six Séclan a 7 ~ Willie Macfarlane, the National Open Golf is sown leaning on two of his faithful stand . Champion, resting after a stramuous round on: the Hollywood, Fla., Golf and Country Club course, of sticks and his age three feet, ‘halting traffic. Strand- | ber three. The revamped: Yankee line-up shows Renig and Tony Lazserri, newcomers, the former replacing lead-off hitter and the latter bringing up at number six. Babe| Ruth who hit number three last year, has heen given the clean up| post, with Gehrig insthe niche for- merly occupied by the home run king. Bob Meusel goes to bat fifth, instead of fourth. Everett Scott has Davis’ place as number two batter in the White Sox ar- ray, while Rice is opening gun- mer in the Washington attack, the position he filled last season. eosce FIGHT RESULTS S2RGenesaganeasesaaras | (By Annoctated Presa) © | PEORIA, Iils.—Charles Tarsan, | ed motorists were rescued by | horse-drawn! ~ vehicles. Many basements in Jacksonville were flooded when 2.2 inehes of rain | fell. | The pewer pant ofthe Mississ- poration at Hatfield, ‘Wis., was partly flooded « yesterday when the flume leading into the plant broke, one of the huge turbi | being wa:hed from’ its foundation jand some of the equipment rein- ed. * a by 4 Continued rain. was predicted for today in, most of the Great Lakes region and the middle Mississippi. and. lower QOhie Val- leys with’ precipitation alse pre- dicted for the southern area for | Thursday. LITTLE DAMAGE RESULT OFS Ceccccoocecces (By Ansoeiated Perens) ASSOCIATED PR: EAD- QUARTERS, April 8.—Rain has scored one more victory éver ihany of the homeward bound big league unsettled weather has not damp- ened the spirits ofthe players. ‘The club owners and members ate looking forward to the most promising season in years and their | * enthusiaem was expressed yester- day by baseball’s “master mind,” dobn WwW, Manager of the New York Giants, It was: the veteran ‘Jeader’s fifty-third .birth- day anniversary. He predicted the 1926 world sepies would be played by his team and the Washington Sena- tors, who defeated the Giants in the 1924 series. In predicting suecess for the Nats in the junior circuit this year. MeGraw did not overlook the Philadelphia Ath- leties whom he classed as not quite “ap smart” as the Washington elyb. ; egeccce oo oo CALENDAR OF SPORT: SGeeccccccesesococcsocos Racing: Méeting of Southern Maryland Association, at Bowie. Meeting of Tia Juana’ Jockey Club, at Tia Juana, Lacrosse: Oxford - Cambridge va, Swarthmore College, at! Swarthmore, Pa. Baseball: Cotton States League! opens its session. THROUGH STATE (By Ansociated Prem) JACKSONVILLE, Fig.,. April | 8.—Reports. here today indicated that the electrical and wind storm _._ |in the southeastern-section~ ofthe sv SAN..ERANCISCO, .Cal.-cBuly.; statewearly-titis- Adams, New Orleans, beat Freddie | damage. Hoppe, San Francisco, 10 rounds. | Derseg company officials re- ported that a.large tree was blow: CAT PUTS. NINE CITIES oe a main cable south of Fort | s IN GLOOM AND DIES: Pierce, severing long distaee eom- "SALEM, Mass, April—A stray | Municstion south 9f that polit for eat crawled intd a huge main-line| Th, ge en 4 switch of the Tenney Power Com-| ‘be estern-Uniow ; reported pany here and lost its nine lives [Almost normal Operation with all at once., During the interval | Southeast points ato synthe with of transmigration, the lights van-|!inemen having difficulty -in lo- ished in Salem, Medford, Malden}cating the trouble. Two trees asee oa the Non Chace, yith| allo attics. rer oston on e 01 Shore, with) Aron Officials ye, population of several hun-|trains in: the storm area arriving d thousands. ‘ jon time, and said that trainmen The current that extinguished| reported only high winds and the eat carried 23,000 veits. heavy rains, with no conditions | Necessitating the slow operation of trains. Columbus, Ohio, won on afoul over “Babe” McCorgary, St. Lou's 6 rounds. Sailor Deshon, Niles, Mich., beat Jimmy Ryan, Des Moines, Towa, 8 rounds. se * POLL’ TAX NOTICE ippi Valley Public Service Cor-! ‘morning: dic ditties reported | | THE TELEPHONE | AND ELECTRICAL .. SUPPLY GROWTH JA.‘L. Salt Tells of Develop- ment of Distributing Business Hi “Great as was the ambition. of Alexander Graham Beil, the resylts ef his, patient and skillful study. have far. exceeded his ‘fondest dreams.” of. the Graybar Electric Company, eulogizes. the man and the industry whose fiftieth anniversary the world is celebrating this month in, a: state- ment.to appear in the current issue of ‘elephone ig pana | “Hew well I remember’ the ridicule te which Bell and Watson were sub- jected during the period of experi- mentation, and bow difficult it was to obtain. money with which to exploit the business,” Mr. Salt said... “But most valuable asset. What would we do without it? - And yet,-we have | hatdly scratched the surface of the Possibilities of telephonic communica- ; ee : » There, is going, on at the present time, for example, a phase of devel- opment’. work that is playing a vital ‘role in making. the telephone of ever Greater importance to modern civiliza~ | tion. I refer to the splendid dis- | tributing organizations that have been ult “up to supply not only: telephone instruments, but that vast group of actessories so necessary to the com- panies furnishing telephone service to pthis-country, . “Telephone transmitters, receivers sand induction coils are vitally im- | portant in themselves, yet a transmit- ter in itself could never pick up a ‘sound wave without a battery, and without wire and cable, the sound “wave could never be transmitted to some other point. Without switch- boards it would be impossible for one -station to talk to anyone of the mil- lions of other stations. u ‘poles, cross-arms and instlators, it “The Poll Tax Books are now| se open, they will close on May &8th,; } 1926. The Prerequisite Polls to) | Vote.in the June Primary will be} the 1924 and 1925 Poll Taxes, all those Electors that Voted or paid their Poll Taxes in the last City Election of 1925 and did not own any Real Estate, whereby they had | to pay a Poll Tax with their 1924 Taxes will have this 1924 Poll Tax ‘to pay before they will be qualified | to Vote in the June Primary, all’ Tax payers who paid this 1924 Poll Tax and paid their Poll Tax to Vote in the last City Election will be qualified to Vote, provided Polo: Annual Spring tourna-| ment at Pinehurst, N. C. j Swimming: National A, A. U.| they are duly Registered. WM. F. MALONEY, Tax Collector Monroe County, Fla. apr6-5t Thus Albert Lincoln Salt, president }.|” that little toy has become the nation’s | ! 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