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Killed in Action. Georges André, 54, famed French athlete (Rugby player, swimmer, boxer, fencer, cyclist, and track and field star); at Mateur, North Africa. An Olympic ace before World War I, he recovered from serious ankle wounds to set or break more than 40 national track and field records (100-yd. dash: 9.6 seconds), still held 14 at his death...
Homo Frustratus. In Denver, Cyclist Francis Sargent, nipped by a dog, fired his revolver, slightly wounding the dog and his own ankle, was arrested for cruelty to animals, given a suspended fine, stripped of his commission as volunteer officer of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. In Los Lunas, N.M., a prisoner made a jailbreak, leaped to the back of a horse, which promptly threw him off on his head. Deputies woke him up. In Santa Fe, J. D. Wilkerson wounded himself playing the musical...
Teams. In Washington, a youth snatched a woman's pocketbook, made a lateral pass to a cyclist on the street, and both escaped. In Chinook, Mont., a big and a little dog went visiting back porches. The big dog knocked the milk bottles over, the little dog nipped out the bottle caps, both drank...
...best-known snake man in the U.S.; in Manhattan. Successful popularizer of herpetology, entomology (Snakes of the World, Thrills of a Naturalist's Quest), he was Curator of Reptiles at The Bronx Zoo from 1899 until last January. Died. Joseph Francis Jiranek, 69 ("Joe Jackson, the tramp cyclist"); of a heart attack; in the wings of Manhattan's Roxy Theater...
Methods of ambush are important. A wire cable strung across a road at an angle will slide a motorcycle off into the ditch, where the cyclist can be slugged and searched. "Messages may be glued to the soles of the feet. Comb the hair; look between the toes." All kinds of decoys may be used to stop cyclists and staff cars or to make them swerve and crash: a couple of baby carriages covered with sacking, a pair of old auto headlamps, operated on batteries, set in the middle of the road. "To attract the closest attention of enemy...