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JOURNAL, PORTLAND,
THE OREGON SUNDAY
SUNDAY" MORNING, FEBRUARY 21. . 1909.
LOCAL, NATIONAL AND
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er with th first pictures printed in
j- nnwnm yi iiw lamous, neavywelprtit
iL. battle between Champion Jack Johnsou
; fnd Tommy Burns at Sydney, Austral-
iJecemlw 26, last. These In thorn-
selvesrplterato the familiar story of
the. white man's loss of puglllstta su
premacy tv the negro raoe. . More vlv-Mly-than
words can ptct . thy por
tray the oouraKeoiis though, tutile strutr
le of a wflll meaning;, strona; and clever
little man against the overwhelming
olc1 of , ftia-antla, stature, phenomenal
peed, cleverness, stamina, and taruta
force, '.'-..v.-.:,... v
. The bttlsln the Wmingr Christmas
history of the Antipodes will ko down
In history ; one of the grandest In
thp annals of xthe rowed arena. It
proved In many ways the most remark-
aoje ever wajred. On It hinged the
portal of alien, entrance to the.whtte
man's pufflHatlc aradiae. Hung in the
balance, in addition to the greatest pu
gilistic laurels, was one of the largest
purses ior wmcn giaaiajors ever strove.
The greatest crowd tttat i ever looked
upon a comnat or the manly art cheersd
their choices to the fray. There were
actually. 18,000 fans crowded about the
arena, in all. probability more than
Wlce as many, as ever before, .watched
pugilistic contest. .
- Kolidajr In Anetreiiiu
This Dhenorhenal crowd wbm Antt in
me race tnat Australia made, a grand
holiday of the occasion. From every
corner of .the big inland sportsmen
poured Into Sydney for the battle. The
governor-general and his staff were
mere, no were the mayors of Svdnev
and Melbourne. The attorney areneral
and cabinet ministers mingled with the
memoeri or parliament in trie most
promlr.ent boxes.. Every prcfenslon and
trade was represented. In brief, the
best of Australia's sport loving publio
was mere to see ana to bet.
Johnson from the outset w cotifi
dence personified. Throusrh the sriiell
Ing 14 rounds of milling the smile of
victory was never obliterated from his
ebony mask. A row of gold and: ivory
ever tauntea me desperately mart
Tommy. He. too, began, his task with
an the confidence worthy a champion.
But the light went out early. The die
was cast In the first fatal round.
Thereafter Burns never dualled, it la
true. But his courage was that of des
peration. ,
Towering head and shoulders over his
rquat adversary, Johnson looked the
part of an avenging demon. When he
met uurns wild rush with & well dl
reeled right swing to the jaw, that put
the champion down for the count early
In -the opening of the round, the Smile
of victory, never to vanquish, mantled
hie countenance. If there had ever
been such a thing' as fear In Johnsons
heart. It fled when he first saw Burns
stretched full length on . the canvas.
That blow gave Johnson the champion
ship, ; - ..... .-
Verro Had With Joy. . ' -
And then began the most cruel pro
cess or retribution to wmcn an exact'
Ing champion was ever put. In his first
frensted joy the negro rushed his fallen
adversary almost before ha could stair
ger to -his knees and again felled him
wltn a wicked left awlnar to the ear.
But the flash of hatred gave way to a
cruet, savage jeer ot trtumpn, and Tom
my Burns was spared for future agony.
The jibes, the jeers, the Insults, the
corn heaped upon him by his dazed
adversary- flashed before the mind of
I tne
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me joy maQ Johnson. ' .While his sec
onds wildly cheered htm on to go in
and finish his rival, the big black shook
us neaa and smiled. Then he began a
Ine 'of V-ampaigrn that for 14 rounds.
before the police mercifully Interfered
gave Burns a taste of tne tortures of
the damned. It was Johnson's plan to
niHKB inn pmo 'jncea adversary recHii
every slight and epithet. Of Burns he
. maae a cnopping diock. -
With solid lefts and - risrhts. ! now
swinging, now chopping and again up-
percutting, Johnson belabored the face
ana uoay or rurns. -every jeaa was ac
companied by some bantering quip such
as "Com on.- Tommy." "Where's - the
. yellow streakf ; and "I thought you
could fight." With tantalizing regu
- larlty the four, ounce gloves of the ne-
- gro rained upon the battered face and
pruisea Doay or ?ne' plucky Canadian,
v Poon the Matter's eyes were swollen al
most shut. His body, from the neck
to belt line, was red as a cherry, with
much of the skin hammered away. : The
blows were- all clean cut and solid. But
'. they came lighter and lighter as the
- white man's strength waned. .
Mads Toy ef .'Btas.;X :V;
' All this time Burns was gamely try.
; Ing. - He would rush in, with head low.
.. ered, trying for one lucky punch. But
on such . occasions Johnson showed his
; superior agility and footwork. He in--
variably sidestepped or ducked the- on
. an
slaughts, always countering -m sucn
anner as to bring Tommy to a Sud
den halt. Bat when he had Worn his
man almost to me -point or BUDmission
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Johnson amused himself by batting hisi
. antagonist. - r-ron w seven tn to tne
eleventh round the black did little fight
v ing. -- He stood at times with guard low
' ered and weathered the shower of weak
blows aimed at him by Burns. A laugh
.whenever one landed was all "the en
couragement Burns got. - -. ? ' ;
. And then in the fourteenth it all
fame to an unexpected end. For three
rounds the crowd had interceded with
the police to save Burns. Twce in the
first rrfund and in the fifth snd In the
eleventh- rounds the nero had floored
the white for the count. A light rlglit
to the jaw at the close of the thirteenth
again turned the trick, - and Tommy
Bums was practically exhausted and
. - out.
But the rame' little French-Canadian
had implored the referee to let hitn go
on. . Johnson ' had to hold his adver
sary up in-ithe fourteenth as he ham
mered away with both hands lo body
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Crpwd Around Ringside
It Is the
The Picture Shows
BATTLE BETWEEN
II
Eeagan and Monte Attellto
Furnish Sport ? for the
' Frisco Fight Fans.
By W. W. NauRhton.
(Beant Ktw by Loosest Leased Wire.)
Bah, Francisco. Feb. 20. On Mondav
at Ceffroth's arena, immy Reagan, San
Francisco's new pugilistio sensation,' will
be seen in action with Monte Atteli. the
member of the fighting family who, in
the writer's opinion, gavs Reagan the
best battle ot -Reagan short and bril
liant career. - .
The last . contest 'between Atteli and
Reagan was certainly a "bummer" and
with the Increased rivalry which natur
ally follows a draw decision, the com-
ng afrair snouid.t more thrilling still.
'He caught me napping last "time. I
will be. in better shape when We meet
again," says Monte, and to make use of
popular pnraae, "tnars what they s,ll
saxy especially alter one experience
withe Reagan, - - --.
. It is s great tribute to Reagan's fight-ins-
qualities to have his best opponent
? 'leading short condition ami promising
o be fitter and put up a better firht if
given another chance.
- . In this connection there is some sur
prise that Jimmy Walsh did not strain
point to secure another go-witn Kea-
a-an. Walsh lost to the wiry San Frn-
cIhcm), and pleaded Insufttclent training
as an extenuating circumstance, as a
rura a defeated champion moves heaven
and earth in efforts to get a return
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and head. A right lead caught Kim li.
rectiy on the jew. and Burns went don
for the last time, .He was up on the
count of nine and staggered Into a
clinch, but before Johnson was able to
hit-hi helpless antagonist again the po
lice nauea luruer Hostilities.
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First Round, and Burns Has 'Just Been' Knocked Dowjn.
How the Big Black, Johnson, Towered Over .Tommy Burps.
match, -hut Walsh seemed content to let
it go at that.
' HIS manager refused a chance to send
his4 boy against Reagan a second time
because he didn't consider the financial
Inducements sufficient, and this has
caused s deal of discussion. A defeated
champion who pleads for a chance to
regain his crown doesn't go Into the
question of emoluments to any extent,
and the fact that Walsh set up s money
bar is taken to mean that he . regards
Reagan as "a tough proposition." and
Is content to let things stand as they
are. v .
Reagan Is certainly a grand little
fighter. He has endurance akin to that
of Battling Kelson and he Is as persist
ant as the Durable Pane. In Atteli he
will find a capable trial horse,- and the
spat between the bantams should be well
worth watching. - ,.
IGRO METHODISTS
FROVn OH JOHHSOn
'). Calted Press Leased Wlr. . ?.
London, Feb. SO. Jack Johnson, the
husky negro pugilist, champion of the
world, has a grievance against tbe
Methodists of Sydney, Australia, where
he fought "his title winning battle with
Tommy Burns, according to the story
in the Straits Settlements "Finger
Board " cabled here today. Johnson is
quoted as saying:
"Though I walicped Burns, he Is far
more . popular than I, and all because
of tbe color line. I am a member of the
AfricAA Methodist church and In my
fights In America I could always count
on the support of the colored members
of this denomination. When I got to
Sydney no Methodists welcomed me and
I was- unnoticed by-members of the
chnrch' when thrown Into their com-
Fany. ' I shall report to America how
- was treated by my own denomina
tion." - - , , ' . ,
. The Rev. Mr. Taylor, of the Method
ist mission In Singapore, was ques
tioned conrerning .Johnson's statement
and replied: i" ."
Tne Metnodisi cnurcn oraws no comr
line, but It natnrallv does not -counte
nance prue lighting " ,
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LANGFORD EAGER FOR
WHACK. AT KETCHEL
(Hearst Kews by Longest Leased Wire.) '
Chicago, Feb. 10. Sam Langford Is
!n the lty. The dreadful black wal
loper Is accompanied, by - Joe Wood
man, his manager, and Jimmy Walsh,
claimant of the -114 pound champion
ship., and his manager. ddle Keevln
of Boston. .
With the claim that he can dq 158
pounds at any timo of day and fight
strong, Sam la a candidate for the mid
dleweight title, but just at the pres
ent time Willis Brltt. Stanley Ketchel's
manager, has 1 entirely different plans
for his man. Willie Is in the cttv ar
ranging for the meeting between lie ten -
Si ana jsck ujsnen. - 4
"Thers isn't m doubt In the world
that Sam can make the weight limit
for middleweight as set by Ketchcl
himself," Woodman said today. "We
.waited quite a time out on the coast
in the hope that Ketcliel and Brltt
would change theif minds and makei a
match, -but finally we wer forced to
give up nope. ,
"Sam will fight -Johnson on Derby
night. May 24. 20 rounds at the Nation
al Pnor tin r club tn London.
- "They fought once before sad John
son got tne closest sort of s decision
In IB round. That waa in Boston. Had
the battle gone for four or five rounds
more Sam would have beaten him then.
Just as he will In England. And after
wo get the heavyweight title we will
return hers and ee-tt we cannot clean
up whoever happens to be the middleweight-
champion then.
"Wt will sail for Kngland March J
and - will have plenty of time to get
into shape. Sam is never very far out
of rendition." - . -
Keevln is just as earnest a supporter
of Walsh as evsr and never tires of
singing the praises of the bright little
Boton boyi- . ' . ... '
Walsh is matched to fight Digger
Stanley, the best boy in England Sit this
weight, a week f previous to the meet
ing 1 of the blacks. -. . - -.- -- ; - .
"Goat" Anderson of the Rochester
team has annlieri.fnr k mim) m nllf.
ing pud to. bf" used by basstealers. I
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SCHOOL TEAMS III
0. A. C. Tl
Best Teams in Each Section
of the State Play at
Corvallis.
(Special fJIspitch t Ttia Joursal.)
Oregon Agricultural College, Corval
lis, FVb. 20. Professor E. I). Aagell.
director of athletics at O. A. C has
nearly completed arrangements for an
intArnrhnlmitlc basketball tournament to
be held at O. A. C. on April 2 and 3.
Cards are being sent to the various
high schools of the state having basket
ball teams, requesting them to keep a
correct aoere of all games played by
their teams. At the close of the season
these cards are to be returned and a
committee of unbiased men will choose
the teams with the best records from
each section. These teams will be in
vited, to come to O. A. C. and play a
series of games for the championship of
the state.
A magnificent oak shield with the
names of the members of the team and
the scores of its games in "gold letters
will be presented to the team that is
ultimately successful. Also each mem
ber of this championship team Is to
receive afgold medal suitably engraved.
All necessary expenses -will be looked
after by the local athletic management.
Basketball has always received excel
lent -support at O. A. O. and as these
interscholastlc contests will be unuau
ally Interesting, good crowds will at
tend and expenses will therefore be
easily met.
Between four and eight teams are ex
pected, which means that two days will
be required to settle the championship.
Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 1.
are the dates decided upon.
It is expected that this basketball
tournament will give an impetus to the
great indoor sport throughout the state.
With the Horses
When trying for high action, re
member that too heavy shoes on a
young horse will make him awkward.
C. K. O. Billings has purchased W.
3. Lewis, 2:0 4. and will use him under
saddle.
The handicap horses in Lexington
this year will have to go a mile and
otie half.-
Hartford will have on Its program
thts season two attractive events, the
$10,000 Charter Oak and the Jbooo Nut
meg stakes.
Dorrls B. (I:08H) next to The Kel
dlan ice track. The Eel holds the rec
ord, 2:1 1 H with Dorrls -next.
Hessian, . the 4-year-old colt by
Watercress Colonial, sailed for Eng
land Saturday to race In the colors of
James B. Haggin. He has been spend
ing: the winter at Sheepshead Bay and
will go direct to Jack Joyner at New-,J
market. neasian. alter beating r.
Keene's Superman In a handicap at
Jamaica last summer, looked as If he
would develop into a star 3-year-old,
but he was a disappointment later In
the season. The Watercress colt Is one
of the biggest horses In training. He la
at his best over distances from six fur
longs to n mile aftd can pack weight.
Joyner probably will -race him in over
night events. as he has no stake en
gagements on the other side.
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A new pacing wonder la rumored to
hare been found In Canada which cost
his present owner $55. He is a grand
son of old Direct
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In th trotting world It Is reported
that matinee managers are considering
handicaps for the season, so popular
has this form of races become,
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James E. Kneer of Kredersville. Pa.,
has purchased from C E. Brown of
Watertown the - chestnut . pacer f Sandy
B. by Jacob. Walks. - ,
Cresceun. 2:024. the Champion trot
ting stallion, started In the Interna
tional race at Moscow a few days ago
and finished fourth, trotting the mile
In 2:1. He Is now 16 years old. "
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: Lucien 'Lyne the jockey," sails for
Eurone today to rid for M.- Ri ban-
court In Belgium this year. H has been
1URUEY
wintering in Lmgion, Ky.
For Spring 1909
First Showing
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Fine Clothes
Suits, Raincoats
Overcoats
Rosenblatt
Corner Third and Morrison
MOTOR BOATING IS
BECOMING POPULAR
LITTLE CRAFT DOTS WATERS EVERYWHERE
New York, Feb. 20 Tli National
Motor Boat show. opened at Madison
Square Garden In New York City last
Monday under the patronage of the
National Association of Engine and
Boat manufacturers. It will close on
the evening of February 11. Motor
boat enthusiasts in the United States
are displaying their entries for blue
ribbons with the satisfaction of know
ing that during the year Just passed
this country forged ahead of European
rivals In the matter of speed. At the
head of the Madison Square Garden
show Is J. A. H. Dressel, manager, his
assistant in the preparation havlnar
been H. 8. Gamble, secretary of the as
sociation.
To a degree greater than ever before.
the show this year demonstrates that
the motor boat is no longer a thins for
sport, a toy of millionaires that- la
used solely for pleasuse riding. As the
automobile was onoe within reach only
of the man of wealth, but now Is used
as an American firm vehicle, as a sub
stitute for the oldtlme dray and express
wagon, and even as a snpplanter of
streetcars, so the motor boat has come
from the exclusive possession of the
rich to take ita place aa one of the
necessities of social Intercourse, and la
multiplying In numbers as well as In
practical utilisation. Five years ago,
the motor boat was scorned by nautical
men. It was looked upon as a mere
plaything, and master of steam craft
and aall vessels indulged in quite as
determined opposition to It as horsemen
once did to the motor car.
( Power Dory Holds Sway.
So high a degree of perfection has
been attained in the development of
motor boats, that even those devotees
of the historic sailing craft who made
l'rovlnoetown. Gloucester and other
Massachusetts ports possessors of un
rivalled clipper fleets of fishing boats,
have today abandoned the Hail for the
power dory. Fishing vessels propelled
by gasoline engines, dependable in storm
and calm, now get the fish catch from
the Highlands off Cape Cod to the Bos
ton market on schedule time. Of the
Provlncetown clipper sailing fleet which
once numbered more than 100 swift
fishing schooners, less than S0 remain.
The gasoline engine has supplanted the
sail among a class which naturally
would be expected to be most tenacious
of the sailor's traditions and slowest to
adopt any device calculated to Invade
that romantic realm which from time
immemorial was ruled by the masters
of sails and spars.
The Madison Square Garden show this
vear exhibits motor, boats ranging froim
the converted rowboat with half a horse
power developed by the tiny engine, to
the superb racing craft having two en
gines of S00 horse power each, and cap- i
able of running a mile In less than two
minute. There are boats so cheaoly
built that a clerk on a salary of $7t a;
month may Indulre tn one as his recre
ation, and boats like the gorgeous pro
duct for the millionaire, finished in ma-i
hogany and silk plush, the wheelhouse
upholstered In richest velvet.
Heretofore, the motor boat has been
looked on as useful only for light coast
wise '"cruising and for inland waters.
Yet a motor boat the Gregory was
built In this country and sent across the
Atlantic In January. s"-craft 0 feet 1
overall, 12 foot beam, four foot draft,
carrying 4000 gallons of gasoline and
canable of running on that sunnly 50S0
miles at (4 miles an hour, or S300 mile
at 13 miles an hour. It has a potential
speed of 23.15 miles an hour, at which
it can run 1400 miles on the 4900' gal
lons of gasoline. , .
A Dlxl Koldg lped atMerd."
Hempstead. Long Island, holds th
world's record for 190S mile nrm n
motor boats.. Th Dixie ther estab
lished the record ot 85. miles In on
hour, or faster than mile In two min
utes. Europ holds its greatest motor
boat meets- at Monaco. France, and last
year me recoro estaoiisnea was 33 14
miles an hour: althoush at Mnnim th.
preceding year the Panhard-Telller ran
ii nines on a -sea coarse at the rat
of 35 milm an hour. Paint Beach,
Florida, fallowed Hemostesd In 10S
with the record of 29.1. Th world's
record for cabin motor boats is 25 miles
an hour. . 4 -
- The three most Important motor boat
race meets of America are 11.,.
stead. Long Island; Palm Beach, FUr-
ino on tne m. iawrence t Thou
sand Islands. The last named .1.
tracts boats from Toronto, Ontario, and
an pans wn tiw iirmi uaKe on tnts
side of the line, with from 50 to 100
k
S-r" ".flL By ntor boat club of Kw
1 ork city.
M'or. bota attaining these high
speeds, however, are not of the most
useful type; the craft of eight to ten
miles an hour speed Is th more eco
nomical snd none faster seems yet to he
aouarht hv iknu .k. . 1
medium, of commerce. These craft dot
?J,e.rJa,t n1 rr nd bay of the
United fctates; they carry a very large
Iart Of the hlirrian nt th 1lk..
merclal world, actinr as maf.r
boats, pleasure launches and tenders for
larger vessels. In some places thev -'
serve 1 1 aria e . . 'n-i 1
cost from $169 to $50,000. , : ,
.Traveled Bame Bonte. ,
The nnntilarlvlna. .. 1 ,
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came about exactly as did that-of , the
" anionraoiif. Men ot
wealth encouraged the building of such
- uruuu i lira rvjncn ot
persons of ordinary means They bought
... "-" (iruuuuis 01. tns earner
stages, of development of the industrv.
a n A h li n or tlia Kii111m a -I . . . , .
w luioill. wf 1 Hi
new Ideas and maintaining the Industrv
until Its output could be brought to a
y""-' i ol . COa(. .n vanaerbllt
a ' tnauvca iu niuiur
boat sport George Gould has had sev-'
eral high speed craft built. Nowadays
oractlcallv mft Mithw i. . .
country maintains at some place one or
more motor boats for summer us.
euner on Long Island sound or the St.
Lawrence river, or on th Great Lake.
Tn nuntlnii tha tMitiM-iKA. -a '
. w... ...v.u. fc.. v . uiuub ui
the country would he to catalogue prar-
ciianjr ucwn ana ureal Lakea
nirt aa waif - .
' . . - . . a aciwaiii UI inv
KfinHlil.rahl. ah. n..i j . m.
ico to Portland. Maine; from San Diego
r . . . usJi. wunu; irom tnousand :
lsianas.in tne m. Lawrence river west
ward to Duluth. Minn., with a score or v
more between St. Paul and New - Or
leans. ' .. .; j "
- The Daimler gasoline motor Installed
In a small boat led th wav to the tn-
verttlnn nf mAtnp )uu. . 1 i
Ple-yed in 1889 at the Paris exposition.
Then th naphtha launch quickly cam
Into common use. The cheapening of
gaaolln made possible the development
of the motor boat. Smaller steam craft
had been too expensive for ordinary use.
The wealthy class in all countries' had
maintained prlvat yachts, but It was
only after the pries of gasollns had heen
reduced to less than 25 cents a gallon,
for common grades, and the heavy de
mand cam for cheaper gasoline engine',
that people of lesser means could afford
tn imiSm anil mat..!.. it
now numbering thousands the country
Th conquest of th gasoline engln
has not been along; th smaller typo of
power boat, for th census figures show
that of the IT vessels of over five
tons burden registered In this country.
XI no. OP XI ft ni rant a .. nM..ll.j ...
gasoline. - Motor .boat devotees are
looking rorward. as r sutomobillats,
to the time when denatured alcohol
shall have become a ataple motive fuel.
when If im tl,n.. tk. . . -
of propelling th craft will be reduced
. a.. mM,al4aHkl.. .
- - r avuaiutl auij. - ,
- Tlli MWaif t 1 . - .
boat is the utilisation of the turMne
"'"" ni envine wmcn naa enaMed
the Transatlantic liners to establish '
their rMtirrl fnt tKa
at speed approximating "5 statuton-
imira an nour. ana Ootng away with
t ha Vlhrattn l,llha,rtA a.1,.... . .
. ......... . . aa.wa.a MTUfUirV 1
bV the revctltlttnn ne tha nl.tn. . .
enstnes.
Slowly hut surely the motor boat Me.
Seems tn tve anrrnni-hti, aa Ik, .,..-. .
yacht for pleasuring. Perhans the dm,
yacht club in the countrv which mati -
ytina uncnanitea tne sainnr Tlct t-'
pleasure craft Is the New York Yr t
Clllh .- Ita aaiaialanaa I a .
has been larrely the result of the ter" x
(ip'jw-u vxi n.a tnjstooianfriif t t-,.,
temationst cup. to cuntxire wh!'-i k -Thomas
Lintnn nf l'i,il,lia k.. r.,.. ... ..
eral gallant trials. Wherever ,,
eiuos sre maintained thrm t.,v i .
found the auxiliary cruft the
nation aall and rt u-a r f a:,
complement of ssll rlgelnn: a'rd ,
inn -ntiiw jeaay at lin.l r r .
Calms. 1
The time Is not. vet w n
Will Willing) V llirtpVliaa -
turn to tli noitii iir;n ;
Ins life of th ar ,
httherio 1avr,l .f ;
forced him tn lr,t 1 t - ,
rr craft tn or-,- i. .
If nPi-naur',-. f :ri i
tin hin ar. ar ' i f ... -
eaV.a,