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PAGE TWO “Spec” Townes Sets High Hurdle Record OWENS FEAT IN BIG TEN MEET GREATEST IN HISTORY * ‘'. .‘ L ¥ " ? GCreat Credit Due Townes - And Weems Baskin For| ~ Victory Yesterday i 2 Bt | " A prediction of a couple of yearsé ago by Track Coach Weems Bas- | ff;;ht,.'came true yesterday afternoon ‘when Forrest “Spec’ Townes, : fanky University of Georgia hurd- | lep, get a new southern record m; ggmf'izo yard high hurdles with a #&rk of 14.8 seconds. i . /‘Spec” had never hurdled in his! ;ue when he came to the unlversityl from Augusta. But Baskin, who | was a champion hurdler himself at | ‘Auburn, took one look at the fresh man, and started patting himself -on the back. He knew he had a ze. gfi’z‘hat boy will be a championl before he graduates from here.”[ Baskin told newspapermen after he had seen Townes go through his paces in practice one afternoon. .1t took a lot of work by Baskin ‘and Townes though, before the freckled-faced Augustan could ever learn the art of hurdler. You see, “Spec” was a high jumper at Aug usta, and that’s what he wanted to be at Georgia. He still partlc!-| pateg.in the high jump, but he had rather hurdle now. A} Moreau, crack L. 8. U, hurdlor‘ was one of Towne's vistims in the high hurdler race held in connec tion with the Sugar Bowl football classic yesterday in New Orleans. His mark of 14.8 seconds was‘ 4-10 of a second better than the gouthern mark, and will probablyl be recognized as the recora. Townes hag run the hurdles in 14.8 seconds several times in duel meets but none of his marks have ever been recognized. When Coach Baskin first started Townes to hurdling, he had a spec=l fal hurdle :ulii for him. It was a regular high hurdle, with a piece of wood nailed on to the top cross ‘bar, and for months that one hurd le wag all he was.allowed to skim. . Last year, as a sophomore, For rest was almost a “cne-man track team,” taking part in the 120 yara high hurdles, the 220 low hurdles, the 100 yard dash, and high jump. ‘He has run the hundred in 10 sec onds, and once with a strong wind ‘behind him, ran the century in 9.9 ‘seconds, 'Five records were set In the Sugar Bowl classic yesterday, with Glenn Cunningham running the mile in 4 minutes and 16 seconds, Jack Torrance tossing the shot &4 feet 1 1-4 inches, last runaing the two mile race in 9 minutes 19.6 seconds, and Charlie Hornsbostel, formerly of Indiana, running the 880 in 1 minute, 654-6 seconds. - Athens High Cage o . Squad Will Hold Long Drill Today With only six weeks rema,inlng] in which to get his Maroon 7ain-| tet in shape for the Tenth District basketball tournament, Coach Sam | Gardner, Athens High cage mentor vesterday afterncon sent his char-g ges through a very Lighat work-out, Two post season =amass played by the foothall squad and a series of banquets which followed kem several members of last year's dis trict champions from getting in any practice before Christmas, and hard work-outs are billed irom now on, Practices will be held every day this week, probably in cluding Saturday, with a hard scrimmage on schedule this after noon. e Few Absent | - Few members of the squad were | absent as the candidates picked up, WMy Jimmy Hudson, w guard before Christmas, ras the only major absentee, al though Leo Costa and John and| ‘A. Y. Wood were not present. ’ . Coach Gardner sent the cagera; ‘through a very biver scrimmage,| 'with his first team.lining up with| Robert Hodgson, center; Roben} Horne and Jack McDonald, for- | wards and Rudv Guest and Ray-' ‘mond Mitchell, guards. . The second team, which held the upper hand in tHe scrimmage, started off with Jack Reid at 'thei pivot post, Harold Chandler and‘ Srover Presnell at the forward! positions, and John D. Storey ano| Marion Wilkes at guards. i WE WISH YOU A VERY ; . HAPPY NEW YEAR! e We Are Ready tc DA N G a: Give You Even Bet ter Service, and We - 1 > o Thank You for Past ; : S Patronage, a 9 D 190 East Clayton Carson’s Barber Shop'™ %are ™" . . Watkinsville and . Bogart Will Play . Three More Times BOGART.—Coach E. N. Anth ony, of the local high school bas ketball teams, has announced that a sgeries of games will be played by the Watkinsville and Bogart high school basketball squads. The griginal understanding with Coach Kenneth Hamilton, of the Watkingville, was that only one game would be played at each of the schools during the.entire year. Other arrangements have just been completed, however, and to tal of four games will be played between the sfchools before the season is completed. The first game of the sgeries was played at Bogart a few weeks ago at which time the Bogart team won by a narrow margin, Since that time both teams have made remarkable records. The Bogart teamm has mnot lost a game since that date while the O, C. H. 8. team has won victories over the strong teams from Tech High and Commercial High of Atlanta. Both schools are in Oconee county and an ancient rivalty exists. When these games are played record crowds are expected. The dates of the games and sight of conflict will be announced by this paper. MUSTANGS, INDIANS MEET TOMORROW [N ROSE BOWL CLASSIC . 1 Crayson and Moscrip Both To Start Came for Stan-! ford Indians Tuesday ' PASADENA, Calif.— (#) —With! rain forecast for tomorrow, foot-| ball teamg of Southern Methodist{ University and Stanford, Rose; Bowl contestants in the Tourna-! ment of Roses New Year's day.f wound up preliminary training with | light workouts today. | The two teams'are ready for | the Rose Bowl classic, and bothl coaches, Madison Bell of 8. M. U.| and Claude “Tiny” Thornhill, otll Stanford, have pronounced their squads in good shape for the| game, | Stanford supporters were cheered by the anrouncement Iyesterday that both Bobby Grayson, All-Am erican fullback, and Monk Moscrip, All-American end, would be in condition to start. Grayson was ordered to bed a few days ago with a cold, but ig sufficiently recovered to play the entire game tomorrow if necessary. Prospects of rain was regarded in Stanford’'s favor, although 8. M. U. was not at all down-heartea over playing on a wet field. The Mustangs have demonstrated their ability to fling passes, and employ their fast ©breaking offense on muddy fields beicre, and were nov particularly worried. Stanford will have a weight.ad vantage of abour 11 pounds to the man over the Mustangs, but the speedy Texans are expected to offset this advantage with their daring style of play. If Stanford thinks “Dixie” Howell and his Alabama teammates showered it's {team with footballs last New Year's i day, ther Bobby Wilson ard com ! pany wil simply rain pigskins all !o.t’ternoon. It is no secret that iCoach bell plans to use plenty of ! passes in an effort to send Stan | ford to its third straight defeat in the bowl B Two All-American backs will compete against one another to morrow, when 1565-pound Bobby Wilson exhibits his skill and speed against big Bobby Grayson, pile driving Stanford fullback.: Both of these two boys were selected on ‘almost every mythical team this year. ' Each team will have an All lAmex-ic&m selection in the line, Truman Spain, S. M. U., tackle, and “Monk’” Moscrip, ‘Stanford end. Another possible duel that will help lure a crowd of around 85,000 tpeople, is the field goal Kkicking of Moscrip, and big Maurice Orr, Fherty tackle of Southern Methodist. Mouerip won three " games for ‘Stanford this past season witn field goals, and Orr was respon sible for two or three long Kkicks for the Mustangs, And tomorrow, either South ern Methodist or Stanford will be gin the New Year right, and the other will be off on the wrong foot. Which will win? The odds are on Southern Methodist, but there is plenty of Stanford money looking for some of the odds. W !Brown’s New Vault Mark Only Other Outstanding 'Accomplishment of Year 1‘ EDITOR'S NOTE: This is j { another in a series of articles { reviewing the sports year of ’ | 1935. Other stories, dealing with golf, boxing, baseball, | ‘ tennis and miscellaneoug sports : will follow i | e | BY JIMMY DONAHUE | (NEA Service Sports Writer) | NEW YORK — An ebony comet flashed across the uack world of 1199:’3 to play havoc with world rec- | ordg for the sprints, hurdles, and 'runnlng broad jump. Regardless of what the Sullivan award committee of the Amateur Athletic Union thought when it eliminated Jess Oweng from con sideration, the Negro sophomore of thio State University was the standout track man of the year. I Indeed, Owens’ performances on a single afternoon in the Western conference championships at Ann Arbor in May have never as much as been approached as long as athletes have run and jumped. Owens started the year by set ting a new A. A, U. indoor broad jump record of 25 feet 9 inches and a 60-meter dash mark of 6.6 sec onds in New York. That was just an indication of what was to come. He followed up that performance 'by blazing over 60 yards indoors in the Big Ten track meet in Chicago in 6.1 seconds for a new world record in March, 4 - Qarrying on outdoors, Jesse took part in the Drake Relays at Des Moines, late in April, and broke the American broad jump record, hurtling his slim, brown body through the air 26 feet 1% inches, three-eights of an inch short of Chuhei Nambu's world record. He followed this with a 9.5-second victory in the 100-yard dash, tying the meet record established by Roland Locke of Nebraska in 1926, The Buckeye's next appearance came in the middle of May, dur ing a quadrangular meet between Ohio State, Wisconsin, Northwest- ern and Chicago. In that meet he| won the 220-yard low hurdles In| the world record time of :22.9; won: the 100-yard das}m in 9.4, equa:ling the world mark; 'won the 220-yard’ dash in :20.7, setting a new meec! record, and annexed the broad jump with a leap of 25 feet 5 1-6 inches, also a new meet record. Full Day's Work el . During the Big Ten outdoor meet at Ann Arbor, Owens astounded the track world when he shatterea ‘three world .marks and equaled ‘another, | Jesse chalked up new standards }ot 26 feet 8 1-4 inches in the! running broad jump, 20.2 seconds in the 220-yard dash, and 22.6 sec ionda in the 220-yard low hurdles, and tied Frank Wykoff's century ldash record of 9.4 seconds. ' Appearing at Berkeley in the N. C. A, A, meet late in June, Jessel | walked off with the 100 and 220- | yard dashes, broad jump, and 220-] |yard Jow hurdles without having to extend himself. \ ‘ With such a hectic season of ‘campaignmg behind him, Owens had cause for an alibi — buat of ‘fered none — when HKEulace Pea cock, Temple Negro, defeated him {in the 100 meterg and running | broad jump during the Naticnal A. A. U. meet at Lincoln and shortly after at Crystal Beach, Ont. Another remarkable feat in the sport was Keith Brown’s world | record pole vault of 14 feet 5 1-8 iinchea during the I. C. 4-A meet at Cambridge. Brown’s vault came after Bill Graber, ex-Southern California vaulter, had chalked up a leap of 14 feet 5 5-8 inches at | Santa Barbara. Garber’'s effort ‘ws.an't recognized as a world rec ord because Bill vaulted from an elevated runway. : Seventh For Trojans Brown gave his Yale team just about all the glory it achijeved in the I. €. 4-A meet — 8 poings. Southern California won the crown for the seventh time, California finished second, and little Bates College of Maine wound up third, chiefly through the efforts of An ton Kishon, who copped the ham mer throw and placed third in the discus, and Larry Johnson, who was runner-up to his teammate in the hammer. Two meet records were cracked in the I. C. 4-A competition. Ham Hucker of Cornell slashed the 200- meter low hurdles mark to 23.2. Foy Draper of Southern Califor nia negotiated 200 meters in 21 flat, Nothing of any consequence in the line of setting new records was done during the Penn Relays. Jack Torrance pushed the 12-pound ball 62 feet 1-4 dinch to erase Leo Sek ton‘'s three-year-old record of 60 feet 5 1-2 inches The milers, who were the stand out track performers of 1934, didn’t do any of the record-smashing they were expected to. Glenn Cunning ham trimmed Bill Bonthron and Gene Venzke in the Baxter and ‘Wanamaker miles, both indoors, and took Venzke's measure in the K. of C. indoor mile. { Lovelock Prevails ] Cunningham didn't fare so well | outdoors. Although he defeatea | Glenn Dawson of Tulsa, his con |queror in the Kansas Relays a | week previously, in the special }three-qua_,rters-mile race of the i Drake Rélays, Cunningham lost the |race he wanted most to win when |Jack Lovelock, the Oxford star ifrom New Zealand, lowered his |eolors in a special race staged at Princeton. Lovelock pulled away at the flx’x-l‘ Ebony Comet of Cinders, And Stratosphere Traveler B R R R TR BRSNS ZEE R REeßites sR o RIS gy, PP s RS s SR *-}4:»'5:»‘:»;}'7?: 2 2 ,%:\ s R R ISS MW R T S S e |SR R RS SR % e L R PRI e S ‘:7:}":**":3‘::"’“}@’s%@%’.%;;‘( % TAR o RS o L g St EER. 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U’s. powerful Tiger machine in the second annual Sugar Bowl/ }tootball classic here * Wednesday | I afternoon. | Bernie Moore, L. 8. U. coach, | preferred to finish out his practice sessions at Baton Rouge, and winl not arrive in New Orleans until a) few hours before game-time to morrow. l L. 8. U. reigned supreme in thel Southeastern conference during the! past season, while the T. C. U.! edition was second only to South-| ern Methodist's Rose Bowl Mus-{ tangs in the fast Southwestern championship chase. In many res pects, experts have ranked the Frogs on even terms with the Methodist team that handed the Owls that lone defeat, 20 to 14, Great Crowd 2 According to officials of tl:mt Midwinter Sports asociation, spon-} sor of thé contest, a packed stad jum js expected to witness the great battle, with a ecrowd of at' least 35,000 expected. . % As far ag betting is concerneg, things appear about even. Betting commissioners were offering 5-6 and take your choice, while indi vidual wagers are being made on | an even basis, with plenty of money ! coming from both sides. Aid to Frogs The unexpected cold weather is seen from the T. C, U. side as great aid to the boys from Texas. The Frogs were jubilant over the clear, crisp weather, and only hop ed that the ground would remain firm and dry. L. B. “Dutch” Meyer, T. C. U. head mentor, said that the hopes of his eleven lay in cold weather, and that he hoped the weather would remain clear with no rain. : “We're looking for a great ball game,” Meyer said, “and we have come prepared to meet whatever opposition L. 8. U. has to offer.” Other members of the Texas Christian coaching staff expressed similar opinions, all holding the powr of the Bayou Tigers in due respect. ish yards ahead of Cunningham, and still farther in front of Bomn thron. Two notable records during the year were set by Charley Horn bostel, late of Indiana University and the University of lowa sprint relay squad. Hornbostel established a new world record for the indoor 600, registering 1:11.83 during the Mill rose Games in New York. It wiped out the record of Alan Helffrich, set 10 years ago, : The Hawkeyes’ during the Kan. sas Relayvs, turned in a new mark of :40.5 in the 440 sprint r,f]}gy.-j and 1:25.2 in the 880. In the for mer they bettered the old record by three seconds; and in the latter im proved the standard by six. - THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA™ E RR A R e ;:?9&:%:‘-&-’:‘-:’&s:s:E'.’;:E:';:':f':l:i:722'll7"‘».’?33:3 2 | s ....\‘;:x:::z@i%a e TR MRS B "55"»:::‘:-.'E-':t%’:;;;:i:i:;:i:':‘?::-.i::-!-‘-' . 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R P e e P s A AN R RA 8 P R " | Skimming over the 220-yard low hurdles in 22.6 seconds, Owens broke the world record in the Big Ten meet staged in Ann_ Arbor, Mich.; - A i el Bulldog Quintet Meets Chattanooga This Weekj Cames Will Be Played ir Woodruff Hall Friday And Saturday Nights The University of Georgia bask etball squad was scheduled to re new work today in preparation for two home games this week-ena against the Chattanooga University five. The 'Nooga quintet will invade Athens for games in Woodrufq Hall Friday and Saturday nights, the two contests opening the home J glate for the Bulldog hoopsters. Although the Georgia five has only one victory in - three pre- Chrigtmas starte to its redit, the invading team will go into this week's tilts as tne under-dog. In earliér gameg the Bulldogs split two games with Tulane, and bowed to L. 8. U. in.a single battle. . Good Material Dispite the none too impressive record made so far, basketball ma terial at the local institution 1s unusually good, and Coach Rex Enright is expected to put the strongest Georgia team in geveray seasons on the floor this year. Harrison Anderson, star perform er last. season, is glated to join the squad some time in the immediate future, but, just whether he will be available for this week’s con tests is not known. e . If Anderson is noat ready for service in the Chattsmooga battles, Enright is expected to start the usual quintet of Jack Farrin, cen ter; Frank Johnson and Dan Bow den, forwards and Harry Harman and Charlie Harrold, guards. REAL SLEUTH, ALL RIGHT CHICAGO — Harry S. Nichols - wanted to be a detective so he paid a'man $l5O sous months agu to get him an investigator’s ‘job at a sanitarium. When neither the job, the man nor the money ap peared after two months, Nichols lté‘ok‘u ) the (rail. By standing al :_;iijzht"‘fix zero weather on a house ‘top to watch a window in another building, he got his man—Valen tine Swan, 35, an ex-convict. FUN KANSAS ClTY—June Kathrens' motor car was blazing away when a little man drove up with a fire extinguisher and put out the fire. ~ “Don’t thank me,” he told Kath rens. “I've been carrying that thing 11 years and this was the first chance I've had to use it. It was fun'” SHOCK ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.—“lt’s an earthquake!” exclaimed Mrs. O. E. Drake when a crash resounded | through her home. i | *“lt's an automobile,” corrected lher son, Eugene, . | "It got out of comtrol,” explain.- !ed Mrs. E. A. Gertig, amid the wreckage of her motor car and the ]Dml:e‘ front porch. 666 COLDS FEVER Liquid-Tablets ]E-{e;;d:lgl:teof THE OMNIBUS A FREE RIDE FOR EVERYBODY Local grocery stores and mar kets were reporting good sales on hog jowl and peas today for those who were “starting the new year right.” The jowl was selling at 25 cents per pound, with the peas selling from 7 to 10 cents per pound. The jowl last year sold around 20 cents per pound with the peas selling for about the same price as thi:s year. Reports come from the Southern Bell T:lephone company that they will have the biggest business of the year for almost an ‘hour to night when thoutands of local and long distance calls will be made. The words “Happy New Year” will ring through practically every wire in the city and the long dis tance lines and hundreds of Ath enjang will be wishing and recelv ing the new year’s greetings. ’ And remember this, When some prankster calls your phone after midnight or tomorrow and inno cently asys, “Is this 1936?” tell: ‘em, “Yes,” ’cause it will be. g Miniature Chair : Placed in Bottle : In the office of Dr. C. O. Mid dlebrooks in the Southern Mutual building, is an exhibit of carving done by the late Mr, I. E. Thorn ton. In a medicine hottle four and sne-half inches high is a small straight chair that was carved wind placed, plece by piece, ané hen all parts were pasted togeth sr making a chair. A papeéer bot ‘om was pasted in the chalr te give it' the last touch of correct appearance. The work was doné by Mr. Thornton while he was a patient at Fairhaven hospital, and was a gift to Dr. Middlebrooks. Men Want Work? : Well, Here’s Chance The Georgia Power comnany made broadcasts through the local radio station yesterday and las’ night for workers. who would - work for them in Atlanta and this cection during the next few days ‘to clear the company lines. Snow and sleet that did damages of many thousand dollars had all linés in Atlanta and other sece tions of the state in ‘a tangled condition’.. The broadcast was ask ing for men who could work and were willing to work. They want ed men ho were willing to clear limbs, climb poles and straighten wires that have been put out of order for the past two days. The men were ordered to report to the nearest Georgia Power company station with' their tools. ¢ ¥ e ——— COMMEMORATIVE CHICAGO-+Because theitr daughs ter was born duriig a midnight taxicab ride to a hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stoné thought sha ought to have something unusual in the way of names. They picked Pauline Reévere Stone—after ano ther midnight rider. = bs ol G S _:'j_::f;,::. %“§ R B e : b“c & e M PR e i e g 3 ; e e Bes gy ey Boome e meanay s g y{_ 3 AT AR R e e .”_: : ‘.-":"A-.;itf"'v 3 P, .'if:"f'\: :g.-: %’ P RR e S SR R MR " ‘ s ;‘ e, -.a FAPRRE T A B g:”‘: & @4 4} # o istep el N& T Y SRR BB Y RRI LWSe, S RRy LEE e TN L B e * NIRRT R O RN B T W LRy , TR AR N SE R BRI N ,&‘h“o\ ;& Wt 8 e e SRenats F S R RIS BRI 5 * e ¢ e i Wel T 5 PR R R R i a “.@\ Jesse Owens ', , . leaped to a new broad jump record of 26 feet 81; inches in Big Ten IN NEW YORK Paul lv':::rison | BY GEORGE ROSS NEW YORK — Imagine, if You can, a public banquet without a single after-dinner speech, without 'a cloud of cigar fumes drifting ’into your demi-tusse and without 'a master of ceremonies; a ban ‘quet that winds up in a loud cheer for the chef instead of the ar ‘rangements committee chairman and in a long round of applause for the green salad. I wasn’'t dreaming for such has just happened at the dinner ten dered by the Wine and Food So ciety in the Savoy-Plaza off Fifth Avenue. The 250 members of the Wine and Food Society abided by the rules. By a stopwatch, Henry W. Taft, Gourmet Extraordinary, bro ther of the late president, used ex actly 80 seconds to introduce the chicken conscmme and to conclude the feast. Not a puff of tobaccuv smoke contaminated the black coffee although a couple of brother epicures, including Jules Glaenzer, cheated with a «whiff or two cat in the corridor, between the Pompano and roast Guinea Hen. Even the cook was forbidden any comment (in_ French, of course) when he was dragged up to the dias. They might have given him a minu’s to expldin, why ©La Creme ' Surette (chicken consorame to you, chicken consomme to all of us) was faintly overdone. .. . / . - Weli, they @dn’t ‘and most "of the -members, mildly soaked -in many mnectars, ‘dincluding a sixteen year old sherry, a White Burgundy, a ‘Red ‘Burgundy, & Veuve Cliquoe Champagne (vintage of 1923) and an extrémely fine and potent Champagne of 1875, were willing to' forget the whole chicken con somme incident, out of natural generusity. After. all, it happens in the Kitchens of the -best fami lies. ‘ Martyrs to Good Taste - } But perhaps I ghould tell you 'more of the aims and purposes and the “reason for existence |of the Wine and Food Society. It is a ‘band devoted to educating mankind 'in the better enjcyment of fooa and wines and to experiment with both. Brave men, all of them, be cause they are willing to make the first sacrifice by tasting everything. Once, they met at a Manhattan ‘hotel room and tasted Americanl cheese from 5 o'clock in the after noon until 7 p. m, and innuraer able samples of sherry have passed their lips for an 0. K. ~ Among the leaders of this hu manitarian club is Crosby Gaige, theatrical producér, tatterfly chas er, inventor, book collector, coun try squire and last but by no meang least, amateur tookobook‘ authority. It was Mr. Gaige, inci dentally, who inducted your frigh tened correspondent into the soc iety. . Yes, frightened. For, although a practising explorer of matters gas tronomical—l distinctly re¢all hav ing written a couple of buoks on New York restaurants—l've never been tossed into a Toray with a menu stich as this before. It was easy sailing through Lée Petits Pols Nouveau, Watch Hill Farm, which turnad ‘out to Be neww peas, ana Le Pompano Grille Maitre du Hotel, which turned out to be fish, but having Le Coeur de Pintadon Larde Roti Sur Candpe turn out to ’ ‘TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935, ~ S ~ ¥ 3 ET '\ i E R R Bt Fng e S B i a g :f.f (“ ‘ ‘ % 3 Tinh ¢ S _ Dorh e S SRR b R B D OB Vo B :5.::5. P2o Beadh A £ Cißai e s P CEE L e i - TN e TR SRR A ' : R TR S Tl R 3 SR R L s O gk e N, EER e N } g .’,:’r,} o S RN N EEE i i N B ARE e . Bl , ;,:’ S ; e ’ SRR R N ’% B S SEApR L 'ai SR 3 : 3 G _ PR : s R R R R R £ e R i S S S B 3 SRR SR St R R S T S e g S R SR g ke B B R GOV, S B ;‘g:\:_: ‘;k"\@_{_ T I R e e A ¥ 5 FR £ SPURE B e R Keith Brown , . . he cleared 14 feet 53 inches in the pole vault to set new world record. be breast of guinea hen caused a moment of distress. Expertness Open to Doubt And, b’ the way, T must remem | ber to tell officers of the Wine and Food Society of certain members in the ranks who aren’t exactly up to snuff. Or sniff? On the way to the Sherry table, one lady turn ed to her escort and asked, “Shall we have another glass?”’ Her es cort looked furtively around the room for a minute and sheepishly }r‘ep]ied. “Why not, 1 guess it's the lthing to do.” That kind of inde cision won’t do in our club . .. ‘Not to mention the other exquisite ly gowned lady who ,remarked as she reached for her cup, “I always thought sherry belonged in the soup.” i Mr. Taft ie president of the so ciety., Andre Simon, who founded the group, is chairman, and Rich ardson Wright is one of the execu tive officers. Lucius Beebe, the journalist, Ph‘lip Merivale, the theatrical ‘star,® Mrs. Julian Street, wife of the wine connojsseur, and Alfred Knopf, the book _publisher, are other practicing gourmets In the eXecutive council. G e, ‘ ‘B’ . ' . 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