Sixth Wins Polo Cup At Potomac Park Fort Riley Tops Fort Sill 7 2
Fort Riley Sixth Field Artillery defeated Fort Sill Fifth Field Artillery 7 to 2 at Potomac Park in a high tempo polo final. Lieut Parker and Lieut Sands led Kansas as crowd watched thunder clouds roll in and generals and officers including Gen Leonard Wood and Mrs Wood witnessed the victory and trophy presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth
Field Artillery
Fort Riley
Kang
Feld Artilery
Fort Sil
Okla
Potomac Park
Feild Artilery
Fifth Field Artillery
Hugh Legare Cup
Oklahomans
Fort Aill Mounts Litt Sands
Carl Browne
Aemidarkness
Kangaw
Port III
Churchill
Honere
Arthoiers
Kansas
Mies
Fort SU
Treut Parker
Field Artillars Mit
Artillerymen
Wmore
Oklahoma
Sixth Field Artilers
Fifth Bield Artillery
Lieut Sands
Sands
Parker
Trent Sands
Sixth Field Artillery
Artillery
Fort Sill
Lieut Honescutt
Lieut Beard
Artilery
Leonard Wood
Mra Wood
Milla
The
War College
Mra
Mills Adit
McCain
Carter
Aleshire
Young
Tome
Bates
Social leader seeks absolute divorce Hugh Legare cup match lineup
A coverage of military officers and teams at Fort Myer outlines a divorce case involving a social leader. The article lists officers from the Eleventh Cavalry and engineers band detailing players for the consolation tournament matchups, including Fifth Artillery and Sixth Field Artillery units and West Point cadets. The winner faces the Eleventh Cavalry to decide the Hugh Legare consolation cup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muals
Fala Artifery
F. W
R. E D Hoyle
Louis A. Beard
Wis
West Point
Wiliam H Dodds
Fifth Field Artillery
Zell
Seventh Cavalry
George R. Allin
Fourth Field Artillery
Back
Darrah
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Fort Myer
Alexander Surlesse
Julian R. Lindsey
Stanley M Rumbough
Victor S Foster
Fifteenth Cavalry
Eleventh Cavalry
Hugh Legare
Army Team Debuts at Open Championship Run
The event marks the first appearance of an army Western or Canadian team. Player names will not be known until after the elimination tournament in progress at Washington Bryn Mawr. Meadow Brook holds the senior honors. the open championship remains unsettled this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Washington
Bryn Mewr
Meadow Brook
Entries for Polo Contests National Championships 1912
The Polo Association released entries for three national championships to be played at the Point Judith Polo Club Narragansett Pier starting July 2. The junior championship features teams from US Army Polo Club Kansas City Club Myopia Hunt Club and more. Senior championship includes Bryn Mawr Piping Rock Cooperstown and others. Record entry lists ten teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
The
Polo Association
Point Judith
Narragansett Pier
United States Army
Kansas City
Myopia Hunt Club
Massachusetts
Grant Meck
Long Island
Cooperstown
N. Y
Dedham
Maas
Palledelphia
Br. Mawr
Piping Rock
Long Stand
Back River
Montreal
Canada
Bryn Mawr
Fiping Rock
Esdow Brook
Myopt
Shampionship
Bryn , Mawr
Heateeater Perrequets
Social Leader Sues Over Summer Home Ties to Taft Circle
The report outlines socialite Ella Ellis and her family connections to President Taft. It notes Ellis as a frequent White House guest, a close confidant of Mrs Taft, and friend of Senatorial and diplomatic circles. Dern nearby summers feature events at Bar Harbor and Sheridan cottages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Harbor
Ellis
Misa Dorothy Lawson
Nathan Wyeth
Washington
Franklin H Ellis
Harvard
Mr. Ellis
Mra
Taft
Ella
Lawson
Cincinnati
Food "Greening" ban ends copper salt use in veggies
The secretaries decision bans copper salts in food greens for canned peas and beans starting January 1. After a three year Remsen study the board found copper salts may conceal inferior quality and even small amounts are injurious to health, making copper salted vegetables adulterated under the pure food law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Remsen Board
Regulations Hit Naval Prep Schools For Candidate Admissions
The Navy Department released rules on admission to the Naval Academy recommending home study near candidates. The shift hits naval preparatory schools, urging study at local home schools rather than cramming programs. A separate note mentions a novena to St Ann at St Anna Church July 17 with masses at 7 o clock and an evening benediction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval Academy
Navy Department
Naval Preparatory School
Homer
St. Ann
St Anna Church
Beuore
Canada
Family of four rescued after Sunday storm exposure
A bedraggled mother Mrs Nona Mason and three children were found soaked and shivering in a swampy area near Mount Rainier Maryland. They traveled to Washington and were examined at Emergency Hospital then sent to the juvenile court’s house of detention for the night amid an inquiry into their circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thirty-fourth Street
Bunker Hill Road
Mount Rainier
Nona Mason
Washington
R. H Payne
Thomas Walsh
Fourteenth
Streets
F Street
Harrison
Mason
Charlies
Navy Yard
Seventh Street
I Street
Hyattaville
Marshal Paynes
Joseph Orndorff
Lieut Hartley
Ruffin Widow Sues DC Over Husband Death at Sand Wharf
Rosetta W Ruffin as administratrix of John B Ruffin sues the District of Columbia in District supreme court for $10000 alleging her husband was crushed beneath a hoisting engine at the sand wharf foot of Ninth Street on July 29 1911. She claims burns from escaping steam and boiling water caused his death while he operated the engine. Attorneys Irving Wilson and Thomas Walker represent the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosetta W
Central Labor Union Endorses Judge DeLacy for Reappointment
The Central Labor Union meeting at Typographical Temple unanimously endorsed Judge William DeLacy for a second term on the juvenile court bench. Secretary John Colpoys was told to mail President Taft describing the union’s action. Herbert B Andrews of the Stenographers’ union introduced the resolution and praised DeLacy’s work on the juvenile bench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Labor Union
William DeLacy
John Colpoys
Milton Snellings
Taft
DeLacy
Herbert B Andrews
Stenographers’ Union
Pretty Peggy and The Third Degree At Poli Theater
Columbia presents Pretty Peggy at the F Street Playhouse with Frances Neilson Violet Heming and Willard Robertson in a Garrick era tale dramatizing Peg Woffington and a wine merchant actor. Belasco Kinemacolor films screen at Poli with The Third Degree police drama stars Izetta Jewell and Louise Kent in tense courtroom like scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Pretty Peggy
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Columbia Players
F Street Playhouse
Reg Woffington
London
Washington
Ellen Terry
Pex
David Garrick
Garricks
Darsimony
Peg
Mrs Siddons
Nell Gwynne
Frances Neilson
Ness Edward H Robins
Garrick
Thespian
Wright
Violet Heming
Primrose
Polly Woffington
Julia Blancs
Mra Woffington
Willard Robertson
Cavendish
Arthur Ritchies
Thetage
Becky
Lookout for the Cop and lively vaudeville at Cosmos and Glen Echo
A review notes a strong acting turn in Look Out for the Cop with A H Van Buren and Duntan Pen in contrast to a distraught Underwood. Cosmos vaudeville features Dick Cavill's swimming act with family, The Four Harmonie Maida, Darling I Am Growing Old sung by Baby Sobynson, and Spencer and Spencer clog duet. Glen Echo Park reports crowded crowds, dancing, rides, and an upcoming spotlight dance and fireworks show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Jewell
H van Buren
Duntan Penwarden
John Fee
Underwood
Cosmos
Dick Cavill
Dick, Jr
Thea
Cavill
Harmonie Maida
Baby Sobynson
Spencer
Glen Echo Parks
T& Glen Echo
All Coons Look Alike to Me Ends Boy's Acquittal
In juvenile court Judge William DeLacy freed Edward Taylor after defense attorney Thomas Le Jonpy cited the song All Coons Look Alike to Me to argue mistaken identity in an assault on Officer Dulin. Three witnesses swore Edward struck the officer, but the judge, noting the lyric, discharged the colored boy amid laughter from the courtroom. Edward’s face was later noted as easily distinguishable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Httle Edward Taylor
William DeLacy
Edward
Little Buidie
Thomas le Jonpy
DeLacy
Atgonmey Jones
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Ft. Riley Artillery
Lieuts Parker
Santa
Fort Myer Mest
Capt. Brown
Lietoyle
Fieth Artillery
Harris
Ewwine
Laura Lawson Ellis
Galt & Bro
Ellers
Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, D.C
Sues
Naval Prep
Brady
U. & War Department
Elson
Post
Patriot
Iam
Henry W. Elson
Ohio University
SAVE
Babe
Fourteenth and Fatreeta
Walsh
Indorse
Boston
Mas
Shawn
Belasco
Kinemacolor Pictures
Kinemacolor
Denmark
Assouan Dam
Egypt
Wales
George
Hichmond
England
Poli
Poli'a
Robert Underwood
Charles Klein
Howard Jeffries
RTE
Chambray
Gingham
Heatherbloom
Halcyon
Washington Schools
Emerson Institute
P Street
Winslow HB. Handolph
Tay
Maryland
Bost
Thomas Stockham Baker
Port 'Lepont, Md
Maine
Mauliffe
Casco, ME
F. J. Mauliffe
Sherman St. Passaic, N. J
Broadway Messenger Service
St. A
Miss Fox
Colorado
le Shoemaker Co
Varamore
Bank of Mutual Advanage
American National Bank
Michigan
Probey Carriage CO. Tel
Wisconsin Ave
Glen Echo Park
Lad
Jones
Taylor
Eddie
Graceland Cemetery Association
Washington, D. C
District of Columbia
Ite
Gald Association
Mary
OLD Dutch Market, Inc
St. of
H St
North Capitol St
Ga. Ave
N. W
le Ave. N. W
14Th
F. G. Smith Piano CO
Bradbury Building
Duffy's
Christian Xander
Steinway
Steinway Piano
Victor Victrolas
Music—Music
E, F,droop & Sons CO
1300 @ Street
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