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...Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office boy, a reckless and brilliant player who won last year; and tall, slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, the handsomest indoor athlete in the U.S., who started to play billiards in Monmouth, Ill., when he was seven, became city champion at twelve, finished fourth in his first world's championship four years later...
...with his brother, the late Albert G. Spalding, then a famed baseball pitcher, of the sporting goods firm of A. G. Spalding & Bros.; its board chairman and onetime president; father of Violinist Albert Spalding and Vice President H. Boardman Spalding of the Spalding company; of heart disease; at Monmouth Beach, N. J. For 30 years he spent his winters in Florence, Italy, where he guaranteed the symphony orchestra. Last year he was awarded the cross of St. Maurice & St. Lazarus by the Italian Government. In 1905 he lost his left eye in an automobile accident in France...
Except for the first three weeks, which he spent in Monmouth, Ill., George Gugle has lived all his 57 years in Columbus. His law degree is from Ohio State University (1896); he married a Columbus girl (Zoa B. Baldwin) in 1904. Lawyer, banker and retired man of affairs in 1926, he had fought successfully to have the State constitution amended to provide a new method of property classification for taxation. The State Supreme Court ruled the amendment out on technicalities, but the reason for the ruling is a story still untold. When he sold out his Columbus Guarantee Title & Trust...
Wherever Thomas Ross, famed carrier-pigeon expert (TIME. Aug. 11), went, his old brown bird Arthur was indisputably king of the roost, for Arthur had a didactic turn of mind. Expert Ross joined the Army to train its Signal Corps pigeons. When he was transferred from Philadelphia to Fort Monmouth, N. J., it took Arthur some two years to get used to the change. But when he did consent to rule the Fort Monmouth roost, Arthur astounded the signalmen. He would help them teach a flock of young "squeakers" to home, by swooping down and herding the novices...
...thin, weary bird fluttered into the pigeon cote at Fort Monmouth, N. J. last week. The evening before it had been released with another bird from S. S. Leviathan, 100 mi. at sea. It had flown for nine hours to make the first long-distance pigeon flight over water. Its trainer, Thomas Ross, U. S. Army pigeon expert (TIME, Aug. 16), was so proud when he heard of its successful return that he christened it DO-X. The other pigeon was missing. DO-X lost six and one-half ounces on its journey-one-third of its normal weight. Pigeon...