Born. To Governor and Mrs.

John Gilbert Winant, of New

Hampshire, a son, Rivington Russell Winant; in Manhattan.

Engaged. John Adams Mayer, editor of Town Topics, and Miss Dorothy Quick.

Married. James Thorpe, 39,

famed Sac and Fox Indian, to Miss Freeda Kirkpatrick of West Virginia (see Page 30, SPORT).

Died. A few hours after birth, a second child born to Irene Castle (Mrs. Frederic McLaughlin) ; at a Chicago hospital, whither Mrs. McLaughlin had been taken after a fall from her horse.

Died. General Michael Frunze, 40, ruthless Soviet commander, exterminator of many Tsarists, sometime assistant and since last January successor to Leon Trotzky in the post of Soviet War Commissar (Minister); at Moscow, after two operations for intestinal ulcer. The Soviet Government gave a funeral "second in size and impressiveness only to that of Nikolai Lenin."

Died. Mrs. Edith May Rickard, 41, wife of George L. ("Tex") Rickard, famed boxing promoter, of pneumonia, in Manhattan.

Died. Mrs. Ellsworth M. Statler (nee Manderbach), wife of the famed hotel man, of pneumonia, in Manhattan.

Died. Rev. William J. Leggett, 77, at Nyack, N. Y., of a paralytic stroke. In 1869 he was captain of the Rutgers eleven which played off with Princeton the first recorded game of U. S. collegiate football. At the time of his death he was Vice President of the U. S. Reformed Church.

Died. General Felix Agnus, 86, onetime sculptor, veteran of many wars, sometime publisher of the Baltimore American* and founder-publisher of the Baltimore Star; at Baltimore, after eight months of lingering illness. Before ne was 27 he had served in the army of Napoleon III, had fought under Garibaldi, was a Brigadier General in the (U. S.) Union Army. He saved the life of General Kilpatrick at Big Bethel; was a witness of Sheridan's ride. He was an original member of the Associated Press. His decorations, his clubs were numerous.

*He sold it to Munsey, who sold it to Hearst.