New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1924, Page 16

BRITISHER WINNER OF SCULLING CUP Bereslord Deleats Gilmore--Other Olympic Rowing Matches L ated P France, The Ame . Argenteuil, single seulls race in the ing championship was won today Jack Beresford, Jr, of Great Britain, defeating W, E, Garrett Gilmore of Philadelphia, his American rival July If Olympic row Gets Gold Cop Philadelphia, July 17,-The victory of Jack Deresford, of Gireat Rritain, in the Olympic singles rowing event earried with it possession of the Phila delphia gold ehallenge cup emblema tie of the amateur sculling ehamplion. ahip of the world, It was held by Paul Costello, Philadelphia, who won 1 from W, E. Garrett Glimore, Phila- delphia, on the Sehuylkill river here on May 26, In the Olymple tryouts here on June 14, Gilmore defeated atello for the henor of representing the United States in the singles event at Argentenil The gold challenge cup scribed for by Philadelphia rowing enthusiasts and presented to Jack Kelly, Philadelphia, when he won the Olympie singles event in 1920, He retired from singleas competitign and the cup wa won by Walter M, Hoover, Duluth, who was challenged and defeated by Gilmore last year, The rules for the cup are that it must g0 to the winner of the Olymple event hut the possessor ean he challenged for it by any amateur In the world on #ix months' notice, was sub- By The Associated Pross, Argenteull, France, July Bwitzerland won the four-oared race, with eoxswain, in the Olympic rowing champlionship, contested here today. Four oared, with coxswain: Switzer- land, first; [France, second; United States, third; Italy, fourth; Holland, fifth, Time 7 minutes 18 2.5 seconds. Patr-oared, without coxswain, Hol- land, first; France, second, Time 8§ minutes 19 2-5 seconds, - The British entry was scratched. Americans Defeated The American four-oared crew, with coxswain, met defeat in the final, which was won by Switzerland. The Bwiss combination, after trailing last in a fleld of five, rallied at the half- way mark and proceeded to win by a length from Krance with a final spurt, the Americans just failing to land better than third. Holland won the championship in the pair-oared event without cox- swain, outlasting the French for vie- tory by half a length. The Rritish pair withdrew at the last minute, U, 8. Comes in Behind In the four-oared event, with cox- 17, = swain, the Americans led for the first | 500 yards, but Holland shot out in front at the halfway mark, with the United tSates holding second place and Ttaly, France and Switzerland trailing in the order named. The Swiss spurted and took lead at 1,600 yards, while the French 1ssed the Amerjean combination, the crews flashing over the finish line in this order, Holland made it a four-cornered | battle until’ the erews were within a hundred yards of the finish when one of the Hollanders caught a cramp, enabling the Italians to take fourth place, Under the Olympic scoring system, Switzerland and Great Britain were in the lead for the regatta honors at the end of three events with 14 points each, while Holland had 12, France 10, and the United States was in fifth place with nine, E The United States met its .second straight setback-—a stunning upset-— when Jack Beresford, Jr,, the British champion, defeated W. Garrett- Gilmore, the American crack, by two lengths In the single sculls event. Beresford, who had been decisively beaten by the American star in the trials, took the lead at the halfway mark and pulled away from his rival, who appeared to be rapidly tiring and lacking the go for a finishing spurt. Bull of Australia, who led at 500 vards, dropped far back at the three- nuarter mark and Schnelder of Swit- | zerland finished third, several lengths behind Giimore, The United States won the doubles sculls event. Double sculls: United . States (Jack Kelly and Paul Costel- 10); France, second; Switzerland, third; Brazil, fourth. Time 7 minutes 45 reconds, Switzerland won race, with coxswain PROPOSED R. R. MERGER Head of Southern the pair-cared Pacific Reason for Proposed Grouping of Two Other Lnesi. Tucson, Ariz, p 17 here last night, President Willlam Bproule, of the Southern Pacific Ra#il- way, gave a resume of the proposed merger of the rn Pacific and FiPaso and Southweatern Railroads. The reason is being pushed through by 1 v Pa- Mr ned, was that ies of tentative railroads through 5 made the in- commmission and ific, the FlPaso thweatern and the Rock Is . placed in one of Confident these Speaking Sonthe the merger bl cific, Sproule ex of larg Juntry by 1mer grou that 1pings day legislation, be en- the said ement and in mpii merger in a ike and satiefactors A 1 into negti Bonthwestern ente veluntar with the ElPaso any te do t wuthern | through with this merger is an as | ta the Great cities 1o roast. We tos want to be that our lines extend to | Chicago from San Francisco, and this | merger and a posible merger with | the Roeck Tsland system will make it Possible for us to say that"” g with railr line ahle to sas the | Discloses { | the Purchase of High Grade Wall Paper FIREMEN FATALLY HURT Two Kansas Clty Smoke-Eaters Dying | and Phve Negroes Bumed Today i Apartment House Rlaze Twe firemen others an to san Qity, July 17 fatally injured eral Jurt and five negroes kno been burned to death in an ex early today Kar \ w plesion and ftire which 1 a store and apartment build iy distriel Karl Harvey and pluned beneath a Ry firemen wal taken to it is said they will the me Nine & in & new The firemen John Hayden, falling wal caught under the a hospitatl where er. The bodies roes have been recovered others are missing The fire, it I8 belleved, was started by a gas explosion In a confertionery on the first Aoor CHANGE IN RULES NOW SEEMS LIKELY Democrats Want to Avoid Further \ Convention Troubls wWere other were rece of " By The Amsociated Press Chicago, July 17,~Concerted action by members of the demoeratic nation- | al convention from agiumber of west. | |ern and southern states in an attempt to make both the unit rule and two thirds majority inoperative in futurd [national conventions has advanced to- | day to the stage of formal interchange {of views on the supject, a member of |the committee revealed, A commitee member from one west- ern state has prepared a declaration for submission to the proposed meet- ing of the national committee at Clarksburg, W, Va,, early in August, Under this resolution, the commit. |tee would declare both rules contrary to democratic principles and recom- mend to the various state bodles that all plans for the convention of 1928 |and thereafter be calculated on the | basis of majority rule on the nomina- |tions and with every dclegate free, so far as binding party rules are con- jcerned, to vote his own preference. More than a fourth of the com- mittee members have assented to the ‘[nropoalllon since the national conven- ‘llon adjourned a week ago, a leader {in the move said today. Additional |members have been sounded op the question and have promised to ass\t |in bringing the proposed resolution | before the full committee, | Thomas B. Love, national commit- |teeman from Texas, W. W. Howes of South Dakota and Ciyde Herring of |Towa, are understood to have taken the lead in the move with a primary |view of making a recurrence of the situation which developed in the re- cent convention unlikely, | Advertising Convention Will Next Meet in Texas ¥ The Assoclated Press. London, July 17.—The general ses- |sion of the International Advertising |convention today adopted a resolution |approving the choice of Houston, Tex- |as, as the site of the 1925 convention. The general sesslon also confirmed {the nominations made by the board |of club presidents of Touy E. Holland |as president and Jesse H. 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Raleigh, N. €, July 17.—Mortimer H, King, who has signed a confession Prosecution Denies New Story of Loeh-Leopold Chicago, July 7.—8tories that Na. than Leopold and Richard Loeb, con. fessed kidnapper-slayers of Robert | Franks, first (planned to make their tathers' or Lodb's 10 year old brother the victim, have been characterized by the prosecution as propaganda de signed to further the insanity theory of the defense, The prosecution contends that the hoys were normal, healthy ,and well educated and expeets to introduce evi. denee in support of that contention at their trial, scheduled to start August that he and another man killed Major Meleary of the coast | was taken teday’ to | B O, te end, | samuel H artillery corps, the vielnity of Cheraw with recovery of the b the mys tery that has absorbed federal, mil ary and chvilian anthopities for more than a week in North and South Carolina The confession, made last night at Canton, N King and his companion, name was not divulged ponding search for himy had killed Major MeLeary July 2, and hidden his body | near Cheraw, where the officer had given them a Nft in his auton ile. 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