Monday, Jul. 30, 1928

Records

Mrs. Frances W. Capper made a hole-in-one at the Chestnut Hill Golf Club in Brookline, Mass. Then, just for practice, she took another shot from the same tee and, after a brisk walk of 150 yards, picked two balls out of the same cup.

As old as spitting on one's hands for efficiency is the trick of stuffing a sponge up a racehorse's nose to make him (or her) inefficient. It was tried last week at Empire City, N. Y., on a five-year-old mare named Alita Allen, a 4 to 5 favorite. But she won the race by four lengths, the sponge having been discovered and removed before the start.

Using a queer,concave-faced, wooden putter, Thomas Armour won the Metropolitan Open Golf Championship last week, at the Shackamaxon Country Club, Westfield, N. J. John Farrell, National Open champion, finished second.

"This cigaret must be a good cigaret because all of my friends use it." That was what a certain cigaret manufacturer wanted Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney to say in an advertisement for a consideration of $10,000. Tunney, no smoker, refused.

In the Metropolitan Pool, the Bronx, Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, 30, widow, kept her 240 Ibs. afloat for 54 hours, 28 minutes. Then she collapsed, sank in three feet of water, and two men grabbed her out of the pool. She had swum for a longer time than any man or woman in the history of the world. Her legs and arms were swollen, her skin very tender.