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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1923)
BASEBALL’S GREATEST PLAYER. Tyro* Raymond Cobb pictured recently in Atlanta en route to Augusta. The Georgia Peach states he will manage the Detroits for one more season, playing in the outfield as usual, and make a final supreme effort to win the pennant for the Tigers. He has played major league ball for nineteen years, in which time he has averaged .370 in his batting —a record that probably will never be equaled. Wide World. I_ , THE STONE MOUN TAIN MEMORIAL, neat Atlanta, C.« as a section of it will appear when completed by Gutxon Bor flum, well known New 'ork sculptor, shown in the foreground studying the mountain through field glasses. The outline of the figures (the central one is General Robert E. Lee) was projected by powerful searchlights and traced onto the rock sur face. Power drills are be ing used by the sculptor and his assistants in the actual cutting of this mas sive work. PublUhcre Photo Service. Right — 672 TIMES WITHOUT A MISS is the bag-punching record of Miss Sophia Landau, one qf Brooklyn’s maids with a punch, pictured here practicing her specialty in her outdoor Bushwick gymnasium. Miss Lan dau’s record of punching the bag 672 times without pissing should stand for many a day in the femi nine hall of athletic fame. atlltome. a * - _ —1 HE SPEAKS THEIR LANGUAGE. Gilbert Girard, the well known animal mimic, visits the Central Park ZooN. Y. is snapped discussing the prohibition question with a noted “dry.” Girard, who can twist his face so that he almost looks like the animal he is in terviewing, claims he can converse with and understand the language of every animal and bird in captivity. rtetonai. jv*m. 1 THE GEORGE WASH INGTON MEMORIAL, as viewed from the air dur ing the recent cornerstone laying ceremonies at tended by President Cool idge and thousands of Masons from all over the United States. The me morial, to cost about $4, 000,000, is being erected on Shooter's Hill, near Alexandria, Va. Undericood. A NEW BUST OF ABRAHAM LIN COLN. This striking likeness of “Honest Abe” was unveiled by Lord Curzon at a recent din ner held in the Savoy Hotel, London, in cele bration of T. P. O’Con nor’s seventy-fifth birth day anniversary. TrtbutK Photo. p FIELD HOCKEY the order of the day at Welles ley College. Hare is a bit of spirited action dur ing a recent game between the Juniors and the Sophs. The former, captained by Miss Majory Black, of Montclair, N. J., had little difficulty in defeating the second year girl. Keyatonr, —“LET NOT'MAN PUT ASUNDER” is the title of Basil King’s stir ring arraignment of di vorce now being produced for Vitagraph by J. Stu art Blackton somewhere on Long Island. Here are the two leading players. Pauline Frederick and Lou Tellegen, the “great lover" of stage and screen, who have returned to the silent drama after two years on the stage at the heads of their own companies, rritunr ruaio. ' ■■ ■* ITALY’S FACIST PREMIER, Benito Mussolini, wears the uniform of a “Corporal of Honor,” the highest honorary rank in the National Fascisti Militia—from a picture taken recently at the first ■ anniversary of the Fascisti’s accession to power. He stands beside Due Aquile (the Eagle), the j Black Shirts’ familiar insignia. w*-* WerM. I --- REMOVABLE SLEEVf'S for motoring, one of the latest fashion novelties out Hollywood way. Here ia Olive Boiden demon strating how she adapts her garb to the weather. When driving her closed car she detaches the sleeve on the arm toward the inside, and retains the sleeve on the arm she uses to make her traffic signals, r. 4 a. BROTHERLY LOVE, an demonstrated by Fred Bartell, of Great Neck, L. I. Fred's sister wanted a fur coat, the real thing, but not at pre vailing prices, so obliging brother betakes himself to the Catskills, and. in the vicinity of Rig Indian, does some gunning for gray squirrels. Here is the l,ong Island Nimrod with his first dav's bag three beauties, the one on the left weighing two pounds. rnSa»r r*,./„