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'family to win the title, his broth ers, William and Alex having" won the event in the past Smith, de feated National Open Champion Jack McDermott by tnestroke. Although the bairn of the golfing Smiths, Macdonald is a high-classi to Albright; but it is supposed golfer. He tied for first in the national open event in 1910 and took third in the play-off. o o SEVEN KILLED AT RACES Newark, N. J., Sept 9. The death toll of the accident at the races' in the motordrome yester day Was increased to seven today when Chas. 'Williams died in the City Hospital. There are others who cannot recover. The identified dead aYe: Wil liams Eddie Hasha, motorcycle champion of the world; John Al bright, Denver champion; Ed Fisher, 17, and Thmoas Fbehner, 14. The unidentified are a man and boy. There were' 10,000 people in the motordrome when the acci dent occurred. It happened so quickly that none can tell what happened. Hasha had lost his lead in his race against Ray Seymour. He was trying desperately to regain it. The speed went up and up un til Hasha was doing '90 miles an hour. Then he lost control of his machine. . What followed was sickening. The motorcycle hurtled1 over the wire netting at the top of the speedway and rode straight over the faces and cnests of spectators into a light pole and was smashed to pieces. Hasha's body was flung into a seat near the one in which his wife had been sitting a few minutes before. No one knows what happened that his machine struck some of the wreckage of Hasha's. The authorities are making an investigation, which probably, will result in the curbing of mo torcycle racing. o b . TO SAVE YOTJR HAT. A happy thought created thisJ device for women a waterproof cap that costs little and folds up in the ptfcketbookrand yet can be ' taken oiit and put over one's hat-r the moment the heavens begin to sprinkle. o o il Stranger You are an astrono-T mer, are, you? T'other Yes, -Stranger I'm a theatrical mana ger. I wonder if you have as hard a time finding new stars as I do3? o o A dash of lemon juice added toi the water in which rice Is boiled1 will keep the grains separate and The end rams when itjrashedigyijl .whiten .thejcereaj 3 air