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Glancing at the picture of the tablet before him his printer's eye vaguely detected the date Oct. 14, 1838, worked into the scrawl. Closer inspection ingenious juggling, deciphered the writing, "BIL STUMPS STONE...
...Price recalled how in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers the famed Club was hoaxed. Samuel Pickwick unearthed a stone, found the inscription,"X BILST U M PSHI S.M. ARK." Much erudite discussion ensued, many translations were given. Tongue-in-cheek Author Dickens was guying scientific men. The translation was simply "Bil Stumps his mark...
...President William R. Dawes of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and second cousin of U. S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes; and one Gordon B. Bilderback of Champaign, 111.; by the elopement of Mr. Bilderback with one Gertrude Sergeant, elocution teacher, ten days before the date of the Dawes-Bil-derback marriage. Said Miss Dawes's family: "A regrettable incident-that...
...championship billiard match is the most trying of all competitions," said Willie Hoppe, world champion bil-Hard player, who again retained his title last week in a match with Walter Cochran. When interviewed yesterday by a Crimson reporter in his suite at the Elks' Hotel...
...From the beginning to the end of a title match", said Hoppe, "I am at a nervous tension. Afterward I am a wreck. Of course, this is partly due to, the necessity of playing in a room kept at 80 degrees temperature because bil-Hard balls are most resilient at this temperature. In fact, the opening of a door, which allows a cold gust of air to enter the room, causes an immediate deadening of the balls. Another thing which shows the peculiarly delicate character of the ivories is their comparative life in high or low ceilinged rooms...