New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press WATERBURY’S NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 PRICE THREE CENTS W FINANCES IN SERIOUS MUDDLE, DECLARES STATE TAX Blodgett Says That Statements Given Out Were More for “Win- dow Dressing” Than to Give Accurate Facts. Rebukes Mayor and Comp- | troller — Asserts Alder- men Have Illegally Add- ed Amounts to the Grand List. Hartford, July 27 (A—That finan- cial reports of the city of Waterbury are published for “window dressing rather than to be an accurate guide to taxpayers” and that the finances of the city could not “he more thor- oughly debauched” than they are at present by the board of aldermen in illegally adding amounts to the grand list and rate book are further charges made today by State Tax Commissioner William H. Blodget against the financial administration of the Brass City in a letter to the Waterbury Democrat, Rebukes Mayor The commissioner rebukes Mayor Francis P. Guilfoyle and Comptroller Peter zHenry for their *evasive answers” to his charges of violating the city charter, made by the com- missioner in a letter ‘Wedunesday. Declaring it “does not help the city for any official there to respond in such fashion to my letter presenting figures obtained from the official r ports of Waterbury,” the commi sioner says “evasive statements and alibis are no longer to be employed to befuddle and confuse those who ascertain the facts in rela- terbury's financial affairs. T in tax commissioner of the state that the assessors and collect- ers, and others dealing with tax money in the city comply with the terms of the charter and with the letter of the charter relating to those suhjects in every point where it is possible to do s “Lincd With Red” Mayor Guiifoyle in answer to Mr. Blodgett's charges published Wed- nesday. when the state official de- clared Waterbury was taking a “fi- nanclal joy ride’ 'said the “commis- sioner's remarks are rather lined with red.” The comptroller is quot- ed as saying that he had been given &tatements from the auditors stating that his accounts have been examin- ed and found correct and in proper shape. But, says Mr. Blodgett to the Waterbury Democrat, *in neither the lquotation from the mayor nor in the statement made by Mr. FitzHenry is it observed that th officials claim the charter has been adhered to.” Can't Get Figures The tax commissioner says he has ad difficulty in securing reports nd flgures from Waterbury. Even he Waterbury press has had to get hem occasionally from the state de- | partment, Waterbu: city hall not lways desiring to release the figures pon publication, Mr. Blodgett laims. Mr. Blodgett has had ex pert accountants go over the reports | e has gathered and they have been ound to be incomplete and inac- urate. “Next more censurable than publishing no report in violation of he law is the publication of inac- urate and misleading reports,” says r. Blodgett in his letter. The com- | issioner’s own agent was sccuring | igures through a certain channel in | he office of the comptroller but | oon found that closed and figures | vere obtained thereafter from the ayor's own secretary. The charges in the commissioner's 08t recent letter involve the mayor, poard of aldermen, hoard of relief nd board of tax commissioners of aterbury. It has been discovered hat the board of relief, in accord. nce with the authority vested in it y an act of the 1923 general assem- ly has never made additions to the | rand list and rate book when prop- rty has been discovered on which pxes are due after the board has' ompleted its regular work. | No Authority ! The board of aldermen, without Iny authority, according to the city's orporation counsel, has taken over jhis duty, and has, therefore, il- bgally added property to the grand st and illegal taxes to the rate book (Continued on page 21.) 00,000 Affected by Lockout in England Manchester, England, July 27 (® A lockout that will affect about P0,000 workers was decided upon re today by the Master Spinners deration as a means of alleviating pnditions in the industry. The kout will he effective August 11. ‘The situation came to a head rough a strike in the Ramsey miil ar Oldham. The strike there ew out of the dispute with the fades union, the mill having retain- an employe whose union mem- rship was sald to have lapsed. A meeting of the master spinners d been called for today to con- der this question. No statement was rthcoming from the er y published on | COMMISSIONER HODVER RECEIVES TRIBUTE OF STATE Homecoming Reception Takes Place After Being Postponed GOES TO SAN FRANCISCO Will Be Last Public Appearance of Nominee Until He Recelves the Official Notification of His Nomi- nation in August. Stanford University, Cal., July 27 (P—With his fellow Californians eager to pay tribute to him as the foremost citizen of the state, Her- bert Hoover today assumed the role |of one just returned from afar for l‘the occasion of his homecoming re- ception, postponed at the time of his {arrival because of the death of Mrs. | Hoover’s father. | The program called for receptions in San Francisco and in the towns that crowd upon one another's heels along the 30 miles and more |of the peninsula stretching south- |ward from the Golden Gate. The |republican presidential nominee ar- ranged to leave the quiet of his San Kan Hill home, where he has [spent a week in work and recrea- |tion since he came from Washing- ton, and journey by train to Cali- fornia’s great seaport to be wel- comed in the city hall there by | Mayor James Rolph, jr, and to make in response by far the longest |speech he has made since the re- publican convention at Kansas City. March Through City From the city hall the line of march extended through the main business sections of the city and then through the suburbs to South (Continued on Page Four) HUSBAND NOT GUILTY OF RING THEFT, SUED |Wife Has Papers Served by Sheriff in $3,000 Action Found not guilty of the charge of theft of a diamond ring valued at $300, and discharged by Judge M. D. Saxe in police court today, George L. Bogue, aged 69, of Mid- dletown, found himself in more trouble immediately after court, when papers were served on him in | a suit for $3,000 brought by his wite, Mrs. Cora Bogue of 44 Walnut street, this city. Deputy Sherift Martin H. Horwitz serving a writ | issued by Attoriey Arthur W. Upson, | attached the ring which was in pos- | | session of Detective Sergeant George C. Fllinger and also attached money in a bank in Bogue's name. The writ is returnable in the city court ' of New Britain the fifth Monday of ugust. | Mrs. Bogue sets forth in the suit | that her husband has ‘“contributed only small amounts toward support | of the plaintiff and several de- | | pendent children for whose support | the defendant is liable.” 1t was| learned that the writ was issued several wecks ago but Sherift Hor- witz was unable to locate Bogue un- til he was brought here for trial on the theft charge. Judge Saxe said he had given the | ase considerable t ught since the | | hearing yesterday and had come to| Proken down. the conclusion that Bogue's action in taking the ring from his. wife on July 3 did not constitute theft un- der the statute. The court was not | called upon to pass on a breach. of | My the peace, he remarked, and the | question of ownership of the ring | could be settled in the civil court. | Attorney David L. Dunn appeared for Bogue. The police court records have the name “Bouge” but in the 3,000 lawsuit complaint the spelling is “Bogue,” which is said to be cor- rect. RADIO COMMISSION ACTS Revokes Licenses of 36 Stations and | Grants Reprieves to 126 Others Until September. Washington, July 27CP—The fed- eral radio commission today extend- ed until September 1 the licenses of 126 broadcasting stations whose cases are pending under an order which cited 162 stations to show cause why their licenses should not be revoked August 1. The licenses of the remaining 36 stations were revoked by the com- mission or voluntarily surrendered by the boardcasters. Judge Ira E. Robinson, chairman | of the commission, said the exten- sion order should not be construed as a decision by the commission that the continued operation of these stations will serve public interest. The extension was granted to en- able the commission to give further study to the merits of these cases. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1928 —TWENTY-FOUR PAGES " The Beginning of Heeney’s End As Menace To Tunney Although the Tunney-Heeney Tunney sent his opponent to lenger was lying prone, HISSES SEND CREW OF ITALIA HOME | Survivors Greeted With Hostile Cries When They Appear 'NOBILE IS ‘A BROKEN MAN Zappi Comes on Deck of Base Ship Intending to Leave to Buy Clothes —Stays Aboard When Booed by Spectators. Narvik, Norway, July 27 (#—The | north’s farewell to the survivors of the italia when they started for [home was hisses. Today the sur- vivers wore rushing southward in a special car to Italy, where they will face an inquiry into their fatal trip to the pole. Cheers sped the airship on its way when it departed from Vadsoe on May § for ‘he arctic and the town ! was d {in their honor. 1 Hostility kept them aboard their base ship the Citta Di Milano yesterday until the train was ready to take them home. General Umberto Nobile, com- | mander of the ill-fated dirigible, "looked like a man broken physically 'and mentally, He was pale, thin nd stooped and his haggard face showed .plainly the strain of worry and fliness. | When the Citta L{ Milano arrived at the little place of Fagernes, about { two miles from Narvik, the crowd waiting on the quay ignored the ap- peals of the Ifalian crew to take the mooring rope cast ashore, a sailor was forced to jump to the quay to tie the ship and finally a boy of eleven pitied them and helped in the mooring. Appears on Deck Captain Filippo Zappi, navigator of the airship, appeared on deck in- tending to go to buy some clothes, There were hostile cries from the crowd on the quay and he decided to remain aboard the ship. There was a military air about the vessel. Marines with bayonets fixed stood guard over the gang- plank. Nobile did not appear for some- time after the ship had been moor- ed. He was working in the cabin and it was ed he had been spending much time compiling a re- port of the expedition. He was now recovered sufficiently to stand without a stick, but is still much Dog Barks The barking of his dog Titina was heard ahoard. The dog has grown fat and wagged her tail mer—l During the afternoon the Italians appeared on the deck of the vessel. Natale Ceccioni, motor chief, whose leg, broken in the crash of the air- ship, was bandaged, appeared to be | the merriest. He jumped around on BREAKS LEG IN FALL FROM CURB T0 STREET Thomas O'Brien, Barber, in Hospital With Compound Fracture of Right Ankle Thomas O'Brien, aged 57, of %0 Arch street, suffcred a compound fracture of the right leg, at the ankle, in a fall off the curbstone in front of 87 Arch street about 12:15 o'clock last night, and was taken to New Britain General hospital, where he will be under treatment for sev- eral weeks, it is expected. For a number of vears O'Brien has been a barber and is well known. According to the report of Su- pernumerary Lovines Johnson, he and L. H. Esau carried O'Brien to! his room and sent J. J. Martin for a | physician. Dr. Aronson, who hap- pened to be passing, was called and ordered the injured man taken to ed with bunting and flags | formed, {of Eddy Bros. & Co., brokers, of this A hint that unless “readily tn- { telligible answers” are forthcoming from the office of the corporafion counsel, the mayor will go elsewhere for his legal opinions in salary mat- ters was cntained in a letter sent today by Mayon Paonessa to Judge | John H. Kirkham, The mayor for & secopd time asked enlightenment on the ordi- nances relating ts. the salary of chairman of the water board and | of other city officials. It is claimed {by the mayor that conflicting rul- ings are being made by the corpora- tion counsel, and he remarked in his | letter: | "It is imperative that I be fn- without further delay oe useless correspondence, what the | ordinances provide, and I believe you will agree that it is better that I obtain this information from your office than be required to go else- | where for it, & move which now | seems to be not improbable.” | The mayor's letter to Judge' Kirkham reads: “Judge John H. Kirkham, City Hall, City, “Dear SBir: “Your reply to my letter asking that you define the law with refer- contest went 2 minutes and 52 sec onds after this picture was taken, the canvas in the tenth round. The camera here records Heeney's fall. counting the stars, the gong rang and saved him for a couple of more mini Threat to Ignore Judge Kirkham In Seeking Advice on Ordinances Made In Letter Sent by Mayor “It Is Imperative That I Be Informed, Without Further Delay or Useless Correspondence, What the Or- dinances Provide,” Paonessa Declares, In Note to Corporation Counsel. ence to the salaries of chairmen and commissioners, particularly that of water board chairmen, does not give me the information I sought, in fact, it has added complications to a situation which, it appears to me, could be cleared up with one straightforward and unequivocal statement of law. “L have tried te present to you clear-cut questions in the hope that I might obtain readily intelligible answers. It is imperative that 1 be informed, without further delay or useless correspondence, what the ordinances provide, and I belleve vou will agree that it is better that I obtain this information from your oftice than be required to go else- where for it, a move which now| seems to be not improbable. are the questions: 5 “Is it necessary, as you stated in your letter to Mr. Watson, that the common council again fix the salary of chairman of the water board, or is it unnecessary to do so, as you stated in your letter to me? “What is the present status of the chairman of the fire board, chairman of the police hoard, chair- man of the board of public works, (Continued on Page Four) MRS. EDDY GETS §7,484 FROM NEW YORK ESTATE Newington Woman Shares in $149,- 824 Property Left By Her Grandmother (Special to the Herald) New York, July 27—Mrs.. Clara W. Eddy of Newington, Conn., is the recipient of a share in.the es- tate of her grandmother, the late Frances 8. Mathews, according to the terms of her will. She will re- ceive the sum of $7,454. Mrs. Mathews died May 19, 1928 leaving an estate which was ap-| praised by the state transfer tax | department at $158,627 gross, $149,- 824 net. The bulk of the estate goes to Mrs. Mary Bowns, a daughter, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Howard 8. Bowns of Brooklyn is named executor. Mrs. Eddy is the wife of E. Weljes Eddy, whose home is in Newington and who is a member of the firm city. Mayflower in New London Over the Week-End New London. July 27 (P—The | presidential yacht Mayflower arrived in the local harbor at 10 o’cloek this | morning. The yacht is on a trial ; cruise after having her annual over- haul completed at Boston. The May- flower will remain here over the week-end. Wrench Believed From Plane Found Imbedded In East Berlin Ground A wrench believed to have dropped from an airplane was found this morning on the main road below Morse's corner, East Berlin. Part of the wrench was imbedded in the ground about four inches and two broken parts of the handle were found about 10 feet away. The fact that the wrench was imbedded in hard ground gave rise to the belief that it had fallen from a the congressional campaign In cer- MOSES OPPOSED 10 AN INVASION OF SOUTH —_— Does Not Believe Republicans Can Break Through Democratic Stronghold in Dixie. New York, July 27 UP—Senator George H. Moses, vice chairman of the eastern republican advisory committee, is ‘opposed to an inva- sion of the solid south for the pur- pose of securing electoral votes for | Herbert Hoover, because, lieves, it would be useless. | “It is & long time before election, | time enough for fervid passions to | cool off,” he said. “I have no great | illusion of our ability to break up | the solid south, much as I would desire to see it done.” The senator said his advice to the republicans was to concentrate on tain sections of the south. “Then if | we find ground for optimism we may expand and go after bigger game.” Commenting on the enrollment of former Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma in the Hoover ranks Benator Moses said that the Okla- homan’s deflection to the republican party might have been due to the persuasive powers of his wife. “Mrs. Owen has been strong for Mr. Hoover for a long time,” Sen- ator Moses said,” but Senator Owen himself is a more recent convert. It is merely a suggestion on my part that the persuasive powers of Mrs. Owen may have had something to do with it.” The ten congressional districts in the south where Senator Moses sees hope of republican success are in south Florida, Georgla, North Caro- lina and Alabama. * HIGH TIDE — JULY 28 New Haven 9:10 a.m.9:33 p.m. New London 7:22a.m., THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Showers tonight and probably passing plane, many of which the hospital on account of the seri- ousness of he injury. pass daily. Saturday morning; not much change in temperature, t NEA New York Bureau the battle was over when While the defeated chal- utes of hopeless combat. FRENZIED FARMERS FIGHT GRAIN FIRE, Walla Wall Blaze Burns 25,000 Acres of Wheat STILL 0UT OF GONTROL 50,000 Acres of Sheep Pasture Land ’ and 70,000 Sacks of Grain Burned | Telephone Wires Down and Roads | Blocked. Walia Walla, Wash, July 27 (P—Fire that burned for some twelve hours in the rich wheat landg on Eureka flats, 30 miles northwest of here, apparently was halted today after having ravaged 500 to 600 sections of farming country, 8 1 b m | | | t | Walla Walla, Wash., July 27 (@— More than 300 frenzled farmers and volunteer fire fighters were battling | a grain fire early today in the vi- | cinity of Eureka Flats, about 30 miles from here, in an attempt to |save their homes and crops. I was estimated the fire, which started late last night, had destroyed 50,000 ! to 75,000 sacks of grain and burned | over 10,000 to 25,000 acres of wheat. Tn addition, more than 50,000 acres of spring sheep pasture had been burned Many sheep camps and buildings were burned. Farmers said that the fire had ad- vanced into the best part of the wheat land on the flat and they felt it was impossible to head the onrushing flames. Telephone wires were down and roads blocked in the section and it | was impossible to get accurate es- | timates of the destruction. Reports here said at least 10 farm homes had been burned. Many farmers packed their be- longings and turning their livestock loose on plowed ground fled the | area Several ranchers sald they bare- Iy escaped with their lives while at- | tempting to save their ranch homes. | Two warchouses are known to be. | Pve been deatroyed, but the amount e De- o grain lost was not known. | The conflagration was reported to | have started along the Here | over. t t and the flames quickl down the right-of-way B with hastily-harnessed | teams work turning furrows in vain attempts to | stop the flames, which jumped over | ¥ the newly-plowed ble and pastures. , Sweltering heat, which has held | over this district for five days, had burned brown large grazing sec- tions, providing perfect fuel. gees from the endangered areas. 'NO RELIF FRON HEAT SEEN IN NORTHWEST Temperatures in Washington, Ydaho and Oregon Soar Up to 117 Degrees Seattle, Wash., July 27 (P—After five days of record breaking heat, no relief was in prospect today for the sweltering Pacific northwest. Temperatures continued to rise yesterday. but few prostrations were reported and no fatalities were ad- ded to the one death credited to the unprecedented hot spell. Riparia, in southeastern Washing- ton, felt the most intense heat, with 117 degrees. Among other new rec- ords set were: Lewiston, Idaho, 113; and Ellensburg, Wash, 110, The mercury at Spokane climbed to 108 at Walla Walla, Wash,, to 111, and 94 degrees at Portland, Oregon. The reading here was 388. 3 grounds. drizzling rain caused men and women to shiver as they stood in their night clothes. In all some 350 patients escaped | for a time from the control of the guards but within a few hours a check showed that all except fifteen { had been rounded up. at large maniacs, Nashville of his neighbor. t brought Daily Circulation Foy N 14,734 ~ DEN BEATS LACOSTE AS HENNESSEY LOSES TO HENRI Check-Up in Tenn. LEAVE IN NIGHT CLOTHES Majority of Patients Stand By and Watch Flames Destroy Building— Others Flee Into Woods, Scream- ing With Terror, Nashville, Tenn., July 27 (P —Fire hat destroyed the ent the 1,272 occupants Guards Chase Patients Guards who first drove the mates from the dormitories to pre- vent their being burned to death, s00n were dashing through the near- by woods and fields in a frantic ef- fort to round up the more danger- ous patients and quiet those terror- Messengers | were sent by police to warn residents tricken by the flames. or miles around. Torches in the hands of guards in- and tried to form a cordon around the Most of the inmates stood quietly at a distance watching the destruction of the two upper floors of the building which was practically a total loss, but others screaming in terror fled down the road and into nearby fields. leap into automobiles as the glare of lazed as they sought out the nates known to be dangerous Some attempted he blaze attracted spectators. soaked them Those Included two Joseph McPherson (Continued on page 21.) POLLIWOGS IN COURT, | OFFERED AS EVIDENCE Plaintiff Claims Neighbor Turned His Land Into Swamp For the first time in the history of city court, polliwogs made their ap- pearance as mute witnesses in the $2,000 action of Wincentry and So- phie Skarzynski against John Pie- karski, which was heard yesterduy | afternoon before Judge Henr Roche. evidence to support the claims of de- fendan't raising of his land, water flowed onto their land forming a swamp, wherein the aquatic crea- The land is y They were brought in he plaintiffs that through the ures made their home. on Hayes street. Piekarski bought the lope slightly onto days, the water forming between the two properties, 4 through the might |SUPPOrt this claim, Attorney Thomas 2 the photographs of ground and ate | {NI€ section of the land, taken from |all angles, showing the swam o t to the 2 tub- | ? py T further into the waving grain S g McDonough, counsel ntifts presented for hat grew thereon. One witness for the plaintiff testi- h bl fied that the property of Piekarski hurried the ripening of wheat, and | ° Boorly JOGHIM t the AlFe bought it. the l1and about the house & ns recoived regu. | P*INE S¥ampy and unfit to cultivate, Beveral small towns received, regu- | [° ¢ every rainfall, the water would street and de- Posit itself on the land. This neces. sitated some action on the part of the owner. who began to grade the land. making it level accarding to An- other witness testified that he was land now owned by Piekarski about 12 years 2go. but after seeing the swampy condition.he didn’t purchase it. cross-examination by Attorney L. J. Golon, for the defense, the witness testified that he saw water on the land of the plaintifts, but could not determine where it came from. Merton Hodge, an engineer, who testified in behalf of the defendant, stated that he sruveyed the prop- erty on June 18 and found a fence built by Piekarski place. the fence was built on their land. He also testified that there was no trace of the fence ever being on the Skarzynskl could find no evidence that water the Plekarski property and deposited it on the rome from Burritt he testimony of the witness, n the market for the in The plaintiffs claimed property and dirt from (Continued on Page 21) administration bullding of the Central State hospital for the Insane near here early today | scantily clad scurrying from the building. and still homicidal and Samuel Kemper of Wilson county and another man list- ed as criminally insane but whose property adjoining that of his neighbor Skar- 'nski about six years ago and find- ing the land about his home swampy he began to grade it, causing it to the property | This,the plaintifes | Northern | (1aimed, caused water to flow from Pacific tracks near Attalla, Wash., |"is 1and onto their property during iny '+ | rainy Tacell g BRY Y itd1sbon Mhia drimadiate boundary its proper that that he ~ COCHET IN FURIOUS TENNIS I REDAS ASTLUM BURNS UP Filteen Still Missing Alter! \American Captain Plays Greatest Match of Career in Defeating French Ace in Gruel- ling Five Set Encoun- ter. Teams Contending for Davis Cup Are Now Locked at One Each— U. S. Hopes Depend on Doubles. Roland Garros Stadium, Auteuil, | I'rance, July 27 UP—The United |States and France stood even up with one match each today at the end of the first day's play in the Davis Cup challenge round in which France is defending the famous ten- nis trophy, Big Bill Tilden having beaten Rene Lacoste while John Hennessey went down to defeat be- fore Henri Cochet. Cochet Comes Back After William T. Tilden had de- feated Rene Lacoste in the first match by scores ot 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in the first match the little French star from Lyons came back te give his country an even break in the first day’'s play against America in defense of the Davis Cup. After a characteristically poor start he swept aside the Indianapolis youth in a closing burst of speed which swept the last set at love. In the first three sets the Cochet- Hennessey match was almost as hard fought as that which preceded it but after the intermission the Frenchman had things all his way. The victory which left the American and French teams deadlocked em- abled Cochet to even matters with Hennessey for a beating he had in- flicted in the United States last summer, Played Well Tilden played much the best ten- nis of the day in taking the measure of his old rival in the opening match by =cores of 1-8, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 and i3 now a favorite to defeat Cochet on Sunday. The American chance of winning back the Davis Cup ap- peared somewhat brighter as a re- sult of today's matches. If the United States team can win tomor- row's doubles and Tilden can come through against Cochet the next day the campaign led by Big Bill will be successful and the cup will g0 back to its home shores, Although Hennessey put up a great battle against Cochet who won by ecores of 7.9, 9-7, 6-3, 6-0.he is conceded only an outside chance to beat Lacoste when they meet Sunday. Thus American hopes are | built most heavily upon the doubles and Big Bill's remaining singles. “Big Bill"” Tilden came from be- hind after dropping the first set and outlasted the French master of ma- chine-like strokes in one of the most gruelling five set struggles these tennis giants have ever w L By winning Tilden gave his team a flying start in its drive to regain the Davis Cup from the French whe vaptured it a year ago in the United States. in- to A of P.! as | First in 5 Times Tilden's victory was his first over Lacoste in the last five times they have met and it can be set down as an upset. Big Bill won in a manner as dra- matic as were the events of the past week in which he was dropped from the team for alleged violation of the amateur rule and then reinstated at the 11th hour at the urgent request of the French people. Individual Duel From the start the match was a duel for individual supremacy as it always has been when Lacoste has met Tilden and this time both had a great added incentive in the Da. vis Cup. Instead of making a great fight for the opening set as he usually does the lanky American today lost it at 6-1 and started his spurt ia the next two sets. He carried them both at 6-4 and after the intermise sion was able to hold his own, win- ning the last of the two remaining sets and the match. In the face of Tilden's last furious assault the mechanical precision of Lacoste was as nothing and Tilden ran out the set with three straight games, Tilden played one of the magnificent matches of his tennis career in proving decisively that they do come back. His trlumph at least in part atoned for the re. reverses suffered at the Frenchman's hands in the United States last year when Lacoste beat him in Davis Cup play and also in winning the Amep- ican championship. Lacoste earlier this season handed Big Bill a beat- ing in a five set duel in the British championship which he won but this proved to be Tilden's day, Best of Career “It was the best tennis mateh I ever played in my life,” said Tildem after his victory over Lacoste. “Tilden was unbeatable today-— by me at any rate,” declared Rene, “This keeping the Davis Cup wint be harder than our admirers ap- peared to think.” he added, “dut we players were never under any filu- sion, as to the task ahead of wa. (Continued on Poge 91 - To he most On