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—— ! ! cca es a a et Dempse' Would Be a Popular w», Champion—He Has Personal- ity, Something Most Fight- ers Lack. HIS bere Jack Dempsey fellow 1s} ‘prortding, of course, he can pin the | K. O. on Jess Willard, And a lot ple think he can. bas everything @ fighter “needs, height, weight, reach and the WAIZAP, and then something else. ‘The something cise is personality. ah has none, Jeffries had none, Fits ‘had «little but of the . we variety. Dempsey is just over with it. _ Raised in New York, Jack mignt have beon a political leader, He ¢etiews how sto meet and greet men, ean become interesfed in any sub- Uhder discussion, and he Iughs or so ne ee ee ore “OT iT Was Ae AT Seen sion "Sy ee Going to be a popular champion, wey THe Qui Coach Arthur Devlin THAN & Ho} TREAT — . mee moor wubRe BICKAND CC Twenty-Five Candidates for] Herder of the Nationals. Maybe the t bout things which are Re takadiees sc Ih THE ROOM WHERE RICKARD CONCLUDED foreign to the interests of SSihe ordinary ring fighter. in short, WIS NEGOTIATIONS FoR THE FIGHT ” fs intelligent. bes language ts not of the collegt- i, ‘Yariety, but he makes fow gram- te rey in eeeyesey ne aon | Leche Wins 10 of First 15 Gaines SHEE ce etsy cenetee |_ 2 30-Game Match With Lindsey at the Claridge was his ‘habie memory. He knew th of man that he had met bu sc peeiate fea ier Sth afEheery Tria the-mement re, | Brooklyn Bowler Leads by 270 at pleasing to those with wom ke} Pins in Big Interstate ee ’ Contest. F cétrée his mind was centred on bis coming fight with Wil- HE first half of the home and Ho acted as if he didn't be- home series of games rolled the thing was true, “Geet” ho .by Leo Lucke and Mort Lind- said atjone point “July 4! T's a) sey at the Grand Central alleys, No. tong way off, fen't 1t? And those ar-|503 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, gave woles of agreement! They say thave|Lucke, the hame bowler, a lead of be ee ge ge ay tg 270 over the New Haven pta toppler. 4 ire that moch training, db 17 |LAicke totaled 2,969 against 2,689 for get in shape for Willard or any- |Lindsey. The Brooklynite's averago else in ten days. I know what|wes 1974-165, Lindsey average! VIEo. Til go Ashing and hunting, oF |479 4.15, Lucke had the best work- thing fie ‘nt for bont MEY | sng bail and managed to bunch his hen wo remember that Willard |strikes, which enabled him to snow conscientiously a year for his| his opponent under, and incidentally it with Johnson, Dempsey’s idea “i pes A win ten out of the fifteen games is he toe ee ave. rolled. Laicke's ball seemed to be hi at de you think of me getting|backing up, which caused him to get $21,500 out of this fhe?” Dempsey] one strike split after the other, He ‘hat's more t) some of t got for prinllines fen't he {on the other hand, iniSsed four or five -- “Guess I'm not a lucky guy,|single pin spares, While rolling the ° . third game au unusual) incident oc- k was reminded of the fact that in the old days the fighters them-|cygred which luckily did no harm, selves each put up a aide bet some-| Liltke hud delivered bis bail and Uke $10,000 made a strike, the sphere being re- it en. iy ibay arabs turned by the pin boy, when it ings have changed a lot, haven't |Jumped the track and collided with they?” was hia comment on th ane Bait | Lindsey had speeded on its! ——- way for the one and three pin, The COMPARATIVE old timer’ at-| balls went up in the air ang, landed tended tho signing of the Demp-|2Us among the spectators, | The ball eefsWitlard ‘articles of agreement | WO! jeclared ® dead f joilowed it up with @ strike, | and was amazed. Comment-|which brought forth cheers from thi . “ ot | Were Present, wasn't even a sandwich. Not)" 719 jundred and thirty-seven by Nk@ the old days at ail, when match-|iycke in the tenth game was the wd a big event, a party high total of the evening. In only everybody mot tull of wine and|ong instance did Lindsey pass the ca This dis We didnt look on the double contury mark. This was in lew to me without any of tho old- | doube ain 0 the evening when Wade trimmings ‘Rickasd? | Why, 1] 82° danagsd 1° Ofe'up s iotal of 210, ee en cet, HO sives |” ng seaond, halt of the contest will |% eumy thousands o Ae ie ene | be rolled at Al, Johnson's alleys, No. rs and doesn't spend a nickel on George Street, New Haven, Conn, ing else, I can't understand |47! the firat part of Maren. John- old-timer referred to doesn't soe alleys are Lindsey's homo Baamenof t x drives and the Connecticut bowlers eaten inet enn t, take intel Nope that Lindsey will bo able to when they meet in the second series. ogee ae vy ha|This will be herd for Lindsey to ac- out of it, He is hot an oaten. |complish, however, as the alleys wers . yet when it comes to |recently damaged by fire, which will ver plays second|mean that they will be practically He will hold b ‘ 5 taking from Lindsey any edge that ttraeting attention, Tex|he might have had through being newer secks the limelight. His man-|famillar with the drives. lReserva- ia quiet and so Is action, In| tions for the match have already been * up of sporting men he is always|made by New York and Brooklyn th@ least conspicuous. fans who are going along to see the remature, to be sure, but as long as the subject of r for the big fight has come up wi tht just as well get in line with a eaNGidate for the job, We can't see | ang reason why Jim Jeffries should be unearthed in connection with the n » and Jim Corbett? Nothing dol He's an actor and a syndicate | too, and that should help some. Jack wi in no need of additional hon. | writes about sports in the Yonkers o Bill Brown? Yes, but not neses-| News. His stories are always inter: i ‘Tho * important role. | well posted on things pugilistic, and Qur candidate ts Jack Skelly. Welso cannut be charged with any lack WAAL nome One to stand up and point! of qualifications for the job. He wax out WHY NOT. Jack, a feather-jalternate referee for the Willard t of the old times, a cloze atu-| Moran fight. I\'s about time he woe of boxing to the prevent day, is|honored with the real thing. We are , honorable and respected by all for Jack, now and forever, And we know him, Ho's a New Yorker | ss ve Jack Keayns's word for it that Ss would be agfeeable to him and his ish Influenza can | the ring be prevented easier than |-IVEX RICKARD Is a high roiler|?> Ps and all that when it comes to} it can be cured. dealing with championahip fights, but a Jess Willare 000 to fight Jack | husk At the first sign of a Deinpsey when ho started for Chi: | ush¥ p A : cago to feel the bir fellow out on the shiver or snecze, take = }iSponiuion, “hand mage ups ms | mind,” ,» “to give him | ¢ LLL yas my top figure. |! * no y out I taiked to men on | mm majority of them regarde a » X re sala, Fonk Devlin, the former star third base- man of the Giants, had the Fordiam| With euch men "%|boys, whom he !s coaching this sea- dore to represent them on the mound son, in the open yesterday, twenty-| this season, the Brooklyn Club ought five strong. i enoet salt eat oy He ba wo [tt roster and, barring accidents, he Nel thinks that they'll maké the dust fy came through this risky work ui on the diamond. scathed. ecTo:nigtt will be ia ie i idea Baty amect a tie “Jeran twirlers, have been working ‘O/on the’ steamer Regina. Manager the gym for some time, so they wel-| Robinson went down the harbor in comed the chance to work outdoors. it police boat to welcome him. Leon ity “a syed Sale “ “aie Park pte Tan yy met tet | McNamara, a lad from Milford, took never felt better in his life. Vowhns from the y oy Boparaven Herman J Beuside| sare @ toom of tenpie artist his turn in the box along with the! better, vets. ‘ie fool vee 0 we the ins de bo ia fats cary when Lefovre, who covered third base|ricely to accept a’ hattering offer last season, reported, Hé™had Mo-| made by a group of Havana business Loughlin on first, Howe at second| Men to play several exhibition games and McCarthy at short. They formed nm cia | blew but one spare, while Lindsey, | de q is leas | TatHer smart infield. The University of Havana nine !s stad look to be the best of the candl- dates for the ouifield. jS match game of unusual interoat will be rolied this evening between & team of bowler has bee feusively sto0ng the eaiplortes Of the it is an aomused fact th wi crowd of bowling tabs pr big league circles, who have their ears pinned clo: the ground. Barney Dreyfuss of th» the Eddie Grant Memorial Associa- Pirates, William F. Baker, President| tion, so that a fitting tabiet may be of the Phillies, und Charlie Dbbets,| erected fn his’ honor. Eddie died Chief of the Dodgers, held a secret rart|conference at the Waldorf. It Is|ever trod the diamond, thought a trade of pli nd to Ay consummated. friends while playing for the Phililes ‘of March, it Brae ‘Dany ntetes Teoma ths, at c cours, 1 x ou it afterward, he sald: “Why,|very large guthering of bowlérs that | cor to mot American League, drifted into town,|, The $300,000 a He refused to say what he was up to, captain of the, New York st the’ indies Nitqa thie section et the crantey Sox, 10. The action is brought Under the rat water, but first of all a busi. }overcome the big lead Lucke holds | P npn, rales ay be Fine ties i rae eo ihe lexpease th Wester Golf Association announced that the Western amateur champion- rebuilt, making them neutral, and| {2 leapite the tact 1 a ly the wil content sich fae in ita ‘tan’ N kind ¢ ‘The games scestvled in the American National | players from all sections, incl East. The last championship wa3|oideq thie year on played at the Midlothian Country Club V4 May 30 and will here in 1917 and was won by Francis Oulmet of Boston, who entered by in- Ld Strrgen 4 race tracks in Louisville, Latonia and amen lant fiture date the requoat of the, El oh Intel — m Pop Schulte te to stage bis sonnel twenty.tom ur endumanice conturt at hia wleys South 1 pated J. the only man competent to Mii /esting and up to the minute. ‘He Is]; a of hs at the turns He won, Sand |¥, and-that the spring racing tics igned to Douglas Pars} 2,000 WOUNDED ENJOY SHOW AT _ PLAINS 3, of 67 for the Art comivalent to a 69, bye holes, which were not treated {oe real holiday fes ter, Dempsey, as the third man in| q show was held at sive New York lightweight, crossed arms w vr in the second event Young Ai Warner and Jimmy Thayers mixed it evoning Jack the trein and waa surprised to find | SCARA: NINE ‘the fight sentiment of every one A . All thought such a matoh doushy pocceuaas entered for the Weetmine we sow, theltnat the number wa: largest pumber of “wlte uns” in six | eh There wae we ‘ee there w only seventy: ween friends, on he: 4 bad NE aah 804 . Dempsey ss a eure ¥ nel Then I began to think: 1f Willard ts worth |! call. rhs tania ee GG ‘ie “a Wor jot O00, 2 p epilever there hsvuds ia that fi: aus wounded boys Livere #9 pleased favor wit! enother show. tl companion or @ chiidven's THE RVANING WORDD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1i....+| BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Alton ioToR 7 - By Thornton Fisher -HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED - - - =- - Copyright, 1919, By The Prene Povitehing Co. (The New York Dvening World) Ps THE OLD DANS THE HARING OF OM SHIP MATCH ues THE A HUCILAGE PRATY He PaoworEe. (MN THOSE Cans EVERYBODY AND LISTENED Im “AS THE Teams wena oScvstao Gives Fordham Squad Early Outdoor Practice + " upshot of all the meetings will be Team Enjoy First Work- | that & new Chairman will be named out in the Open tor the National Commission. The Giants have arranged twe ’ gameqg with Washington at Norfolk By Alex. Sullivan. on April 16 and 17, ‘The Yale team, ROBABLY never before has ®|for the first time since 1913, will prob- Northern baseball squad started) ably visit the Polo Grounds April 22, outdoor practice as early &#/ the day before the major leagues open Lieut. Leon Ca- to cut @ wide swath in the National League pennant race. Cadore has) expects to develop a nine that) (1 oointored all sorts of angers while Artl bye but, Tuekliy for him, It failed | pet deer vane Srp ating R explode.. He has been on night patrol duty countless times, and Re - dore is an officer in the 869th Finn, Halloran and Martin, the vet; tafantey, Whisk bes suet miaraed tt is a cinch that he never looked The Red Sox are going to train at Devlin'’s face wore a wide smile Tampa and for that reason they are there thii pring. Keough, Rooney, Fermison and Bu- going to tour the Eust and Middle Ws from April 16 to May 29, and rgd Roy play its opening game rankiin = Field, Philadelphia, Seainst tho Penn team, Something big is about to break in paeneidatan cording to thoas| A meeting will be hold this after- to| noon at the headquarters of the Glants for the purpose of organizing while in action in the Argonne Forest, He was one of the best liked lads that is about and Giants, Ban Johnson, resident of th ge suit which war fainst Organized baseball sons ago by the Baltimo ind President John A. Heyd)-r that the case will be heard on March Ban had a talk with President | Shetman anti-trust law, | . Fors: AROUND THE TAGLS 91 The receipts of the Champion Berny Leovent- Joo Benjamin tout in San Francisco, it is ro- ported 1a a letter trom Frisco, amounted to over $11,000, As Leonard was fighting for @ bie wie of the receiote the tadications aro that Beony must hare pulled down a: leact & hie end, The ‘writer mys thet Tom Githone received #600 for hia ead for | made boxing Lary Williams, the Bridgeport heary- down $400 for bie trouble and the gross receipts 8 with two fractaréd ritm, ‘The boxing exme fe efill in a flourishing con- dition im Syracuse, for at the show staged by the Olympian A, C., of tbat city in the arena thers Wilh Lafioenna, on Monday night the grom receipts figured up ‘eecbirous malady a few da: $2,013, whieh is « good gate, Bill Brennan met velied bis manager, Harry Greb in the star bout of ten rounde, eacl bouts which he bad him sumed up for in a fow Man dmwing down §706 for his end, they re- ceiving 25 per cent, of the receipts, Ryan, matchmaker of the Onondaga A. ©, of Syracuse, which recently went out of fought at hie club @ few wees ago Ryan did not pay at the tims, 71 fighters $180, which was agresable to them, As Frankl Ruma tnjored hiy bend doxing a)” sancbag on Monday be was compelled to cance! bis | dout with Jogy Fox, tho knglish featherweigit sbappion, at the Olywplan A, ©, of Syracuse on | 9:+ [BOTH BIG RACES WILL BE RUN AT CHURCHILL DOWNS T® important announcements came from Loulaville, Ky., to-day concern- ing thoroughbred racing. CHIGAGO, Feb. 13.—Officials of the ship tournament set for June 16 at the Sunset Club, St. Louis, would be open} The Kentucky Derby for three- to all pla ‘by Invitation, Tliy te cn | year-olds at one mile and a quar: pected to bring out some of tho best) which has been run each year with- ‘ng he lout @ break since 1873, will be de- carry an added money value of $20,000, Also the much jalked of merger of om Lexington has finall om PALM BEACH, Ma, Feb. 13.—The ae ly been accom wcond round of match play in the} ja Holt chi Van Buren, A for the medel with norwood, who|!¥ of Kentucky sportsmen, Fanaa ts J.| Charles F, Grainger, F lent of Baxter, Oakland, and produced a twen- {the Loutsville Jockey ©! was au ty-hole match in which Quintin Pett=] yo. her of the South Shore Field Club of |tority for these statem and ae Long Island was eliminated after being |aiso announced that no more mevt- eerste a farn’ or a aheet [ines would be held at Dousian Vrs, amis, who thoi the third}one of the oldest tracks in the coun r . from H, L. Hankinson with @ card] of nine days feafina par for ‘tha | Would be added to the spring meet- fy Downs, the other luren was beaten by C. r, of Englewood, 2 up and | to track in Loulavilio. h that produced golf] This means that both the Kentucky eee liven’ tees | Derby, which, aa said before, will d 7 hole velng played. have an added money value of $20,000, PINEHURST, NOG. Feb. 13, Mt, and the Kentucky Handicap, with Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Pittsburgh, | $10,000 added, will be dect t Petn and Benth. ane cuataneen ana |e 1 be decided this year former holder of the tational i ish’ titles, Won the modal in the quall-| meeting, whic : fying Fotind of the 8t be h will begin on May 10, rament. {or women, Si No. 1 course in 45, 45—1 field by # margin of three strokes, ‘al and Brit-|@t Churchill Downs, and that ‘the wlontineg tour | will run for nineteen days. . and led the a is Swamp N.Y. A. ©. Pra @ first time tn tts trap shooting history the New York Athletic Chib was een | completély swamped with gunners, Not exceptional, as have This number of dogs omen the firing ling, and ¢ exceeded by the Bull times when more than 2 spooialt show in Badigen Bau relshot over the Travers L het next Tueaiay, Feb. Dy: the organization, However.” the fleld urely too i to "handle on pd 2 Fouls result about tue equa ie 8. WhO O' o is va @ full presramine. of 200 tare oncom gap apy tee plished and has passed under the} onrhip climi« |°oMtrol of a syndicate made up largo: | One of the biggest entries in the history of the fixture has been re- Celved for the national junior indoor championships, which will be held under the auspices of the 1Jth Coast Artillery Corps, N. Y. G., in the ar- mory at Sumner and Jefferson Ave- ues, in Brookiyn, on Saturday night. Yourteen events are down for com- petition, each of these championships being open to all registered amatour athletes who have not won a first place at any track and field or cross- country championship meeting. The Princeton ketball team di feated Columbia in the latter's gym- jMasium last night by @ score of 16 to il, The Blue and White players took the lead at the start, and held it until two minutes before the close of the basket for the Tigers and tted the Tl catch-can two out of three fi Archie Charl Walke: city amateur boxing tournkment to be Saturday evening, Feb, 22. Bob Canuefax, former thres-cushion dded Jim Lawler to fetims in his travel on the billiard champion, list of road to @ return match for the tit Lawler is_o et Brooklyn Bill them and w. own tabl y Cal @ score o: rr to 19, FAMILSOW, Ont, Feb. thon, died from influenza. Rta Todd Bield, peeeetnrosesesieas -ENABLESDEPALMA (Mile and Kilometre Marks Lows HIZZING over the beach course | aA Daytona yesterday Raiph jwerl id's pret record for a mile |to 24.02 seconds. Ho new, world mark of 15. metre. De Palma plane to continue’ his Southern tes! ail records up to 10 miles. if Timse Cons ie) twelve-cylinder aviation motor per- form in secret trials are confident |De Palma will accomplish his pur- | pose, for none care to predict whem |epeed records will stand up against imodern ingenuity. Autos capable ef |shooting tifrough space at the rate ‘ot two and @ half miles @ minute. This speed@was merely a wild faney back in the old Vanderbilt Cup daya j when the fastest care of that period did well to get up to the seventy- mile-an-hour gait. Matchmaker Dunfeo bas the former middiowelzit Willie Jackson, the crack loval sett Lincoln's Birthday. However, Artio| their season. lightweight, dccompanied by his mice! | _ manager, Frank Bagley, will leave for San Francisco Sunday night, whore Willle is booked up for four four-round decision bouts at the Parkside A. C, In the next fivo weeks. His first go will be with “Spider” will give all the leading universities| ggnting in Franoe, He had a hand , Reach on Feb, 28, his second with a hard tussle for the championship.| grenade drop beside him in the Frankie Farren on March 7, his th'rd with Joo-Benjamin on March 14 and his fourth with Jimmy Duffy on March 21. Willie's friends wil! tender him a banquet at the Ritz restaurant in Harlem on Sunday evening before ho starts West, f . 1 meet Young Fisher, the Syracue fighter, for ten rounds in the etar bout 4nd Fox will box tm about three weeks, Crarnpion Pete He: haider of the ban- who fighta Joe Burman of A & @Xround Lout at the Olympia A. of Phuadelphia on Mor Was slgued up for anott exponent In thie serap will be Jack “Kid” Ww the Cleveland featberweight, ten rounds at @ boxing show to be brought uff in Cleveland on March 8, Dominick Tortorich, the fight promoter of New clinched « match to de fougit blg open air arena there, on the night of eb, 24 ers who will’ evap punches are Pete Harticy, tuo ad Frankie Russoll, ing lightwelgat of New Orleans, They will come together iu « fAftepn round bout to a decision, After mush trobbie, maker of the American A. A, finally euseeeded in arranging the main bout fur 500 tor’ lie boxing show on Fob, coming , Frankie * Leward-Willie Ritcbie bout there on Fety 21) Baftalo, | teen-round decision bout. | Bloom at the same elud a few weeks ago sud big bit with the fight fans there, ay evening, Feb, 24, Orleans, has jos of Baltimore, nas 20. He has #igne foung’ Wine, the good lightweigut of ¥., t© meet Vote Hartiey in a tif- Hartiey defeated As predicted exclusively in {hie columa eer the crack weet side ban - it, 9 to get the next Learn with bog Wilde, of the aow amounted to 82,000, Willem toe 26 Baatiah fiyneight the place of Clay Turer, the Indian, who ts laid = Clup * Loaton oa ain m al 'y over Tommy Novie, the kn’ |~ de him the logical ovoce eut of Wide, the Velodrome A. \ - C. of Buffalo on Monday night, Williama drew “#74 €0, Joe Lonci Baer Adair te the lateat fighter to be selaed Barney was etricken with the Fiyeu sya Barney is now oa the road to recovery and may ten days oF two wi John Jeunings, matchma business, has settled with Lee Jobmaon, the ool 4: ored fighter, and Pill Bloom of Brooklyn, who bouts for his club's boxing abows on next Monday 4 whom Might and the fo) figiters Monday night, brought sult for their money and in court there ot Jemey City wil but it is believed that he is endeav-| Federal League Club has come up| ‘t Monday Myan agreed to givo each of the &t oring to open up the Jack Quinn case | again, for Charlie Comiskey of the White|0f the National League announces of the Armory A. of Jomey Oly Leight, bas booked bis etar Monday evenmg, neil apd Jobnny Buit cey th Jotmny Drummie of rer It wae learned (onlay Wat Matchmaker Dave Mackey of the Sportamen’s Cinb of Newark, 9 azaln decided to put \ ot Chicago and Lew ‘Tendler of Philadelstis, ta | the star bout of eigut rounde at the club's pes show In the First Reximent Armory in tha city on Feb, 28, on Mondey anlght Yen: } got @ nice bunch of money fur this wid, no decision bout flaving peed up « bo Larablin of South Ie protaising balticr of the Summit Gymoasl | Red McMaboo ef Bayonne will » intercity amateur boxing Lourngaiet | held au the New York A representative } meet one from Pittsbagh, first half, when Opie dropped in a Dick Curley, the . has matched hin cra Doyle, to moet Freddie Yelle at the Armory | A, A, of Boston next Tuesday night, Lilly to meet Joo Welling ta Providance west © | Wednesday night, ea promoter, formerly score at ‘¢ 7 Louis Nelson, welterwolght chaspion and Carl Johnson, instructor at the New York Athletic’ Clup, will Dattani LEVINSKY WINS AWARD OVER JIM COFFEY IN HUB BOSTON, Feb. was awarded tyle and will be for the best unattached, and Settlement ea by I. Levine Battling Levineky ork City at an Inter- referee's decision over Jim Coffey in # twelve-round bout here | held at the New York Athletic Club on Bloom Bout ¢ . Feb. 18.—Joe Welling, the clever Chicago boxer, Bloom, the aggreasive Brooklyn twelve furious last night, the referee calling the bout @ drqw, although most o i thought {that ‘the former was en- the brothers of the on one of his fax last night by 13. — Jack paar in his younger days a noted ince runner who twice won the 1e. Boston Athletic Association Mara- FB spate Caneciag feath: ar ten-round bout he TOBREAK RECORDS ered by Famous Driver at Daytona. . By William Abbott. Palma lowered = the io made for a kilo: until he's broken Those who have seen the veteran's De Palma's feat was made jbie by aviation development, the opinion of Nd speed in the air’ is unlimited, can aeros able to maintain a ay of miles an hour. English de-| signers expect to work their model ‘up to 260 miles. Apparently there teh to be any such thing as @ speed mit. here come Ameri- De Paima, like other pro; |racing drivers, quickly realized the importance of aviation and lost Ittle time borrowing some of Ita features ‘for his land machines. Ralph was in Germany as late as June, 1914, learning German secrets of putting! aviation motors into automobiles, Returning to this country j fore the outbreak of the war, De Palma got on the job overhauling his racing machin Ever since, the speed champion has been tinkering with @is motor, con- stantly adding new aviation features. In speedway competitions last season the veteran's huga tweive ‘ cylinder machine was never fully tested, Anxious to see just what { really could do after minor changes last ‘determined to make @ thorough trial on the sandy course at Daytona where many speed recorda have been mad So eager was De Palma to make this trial that he passed up the Rick- enbacker dinner at the Waldorf, Feb. 3, in order to accompany hly machine gown to Florida. Arriving on the , he immediately wired for i veteran starter of aut races, and Richard Kennerdell to come down to Daytona to time his tests so that everything would be regular and there could be no ques- tioning the now records he felt con- fident would topple his way. Wagner and Kennerdell left. this city las week for orida, and De Pi ew beeedird yesterday Perhaps another reason why De Palma seleated this time for his time- smashing exploits was a desire to serve notice on foreign designers who expect to race their models over here this year that American manu- fncturerg were not exactly asleep on the job. Whoever beats out the fleet De Palma this season must travel! faster than the wind, judging fron performances down on the Daytona Be: h. Compared to the latest records made by automobiles and aeroplane: the best time scored by thoroughbred horses is almost laughable. Roamer’s wonderful 1.344-5 for the mile last year, which boke 1 that stood twenty-eight ye but @ craw! ‘compared to De ‘palma gasoline time. RACING SELECTIONS. NEW ORLEANS, pry, Re Race—Miss Minks, Bone uford. Queen Apple, O18 Ben, trregular, Sixth Teese A. 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