The day book. [volume], April 12, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 12

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CHINAMAN TO TEACH BOXING
IN THE ORIENT
Purses such as Jess Willard and
Frank Moran commanded for ten
rounds of lofty tumbling in Madison
Square Garden a few- nights back
hold no attraction for Don G. Lew,
the 135-pound boxing Chinaman of
the University of Pennsylvania.
Lew's father is a millionaire real
estate owner in Canton, China,
which accounts for his son's disin
clination to pad his bankroll as a
ring performer.
"Your sports have made your
country and your men," said Lew,
after a workout "Give the Chinese
a century under your athletic system
and they would not be jokes in the
Olympic games. When I go home
to practice medicine I shall see that
the schools in my district have a
gymnasium and that the young fel
lows learn to spar, wrestle, jump and
run. You can thank your great love
for athletics for the standard of
American life."
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ATTY. GEN LUCEY TO FIND HOW
FAR JUDGES CAN GO.
Att'y Gen. Patrick Lucey Is going
to find out if Cook county criminal
court judges can, with what often
seems like" wholesale immunity, va
cate sentences of persons who have
been convicted and may even be
serving sentences.
The attorney general will ask leave
of the supreme court to file a writ of
mandamus against Judge Rob't E.
Turney of the superior court of Cook
county. A test is planned on the case
Of Chas. Letukas, who was convicted
of robbery by a jury in Judge Tur
ners court and sent to Pontiac, al
though he is 22 years old. He was
later released on a writ of habeas
corpus obtained in Judge Turney's
court that he might return to testify
in his own behalf on a motion to set
aside and vacate judgment
Ass't Atf y Gen. O'Hara, in charge
-5 tfe action which is directed
again Judge Turney, says Judge
Turney should not be unduly criti
cised as he merely followed a pre
cedent established years ago.
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REFORMERS LOOSE AGAIN IN
KENNA'S FIRST WARD
The reformers are loose in the First
ward again. And they and the Trib
une, as usual, lay the blame for all
evil there upon the shoulders of Aids.
John Coughlin and Michael Kenna,
whom they are pleased to term "The
Bath" and "Hinky Dink."
One may perhaps get an idea of
how well First warders like to be re
formed and uplifted by glancing at
the way the election for ward com
mitteemen went in yesterday's elec
tions. While the fight was bitter in
nearly every ward, in the First ward
no one attempted to contest with
Michael Kenna for the place. And
though Aid. Kenna had not an op
ponent and the casting of a single
vote would have elected him only two
of the 35 wards returned more votes
for the winning candidate than were
cast to give Michael Kenha a vote of
honor.
But this story has gotten away
from the fact that a committee of 30
from the University- of Chicago has
spent months in investigating the
First ward and, as usual, is about to
report that "conditions are bad."
TBey say the dancers, in the S. State
st theaters have ceased hootchying,
but are now doing living picture
stunts which are naughty.
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WAR AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
Philadelphia, April 11. Entire body
of senior professors at Bryn Mawr
college reported to be in revolt
against 'President M. Carey Thomas.
They charge her with arbitrary and
autocratic conduct in her administra
tion, and, it is said, are considering
ways and means of at least limiting
her authority.
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