Monday, Oct. 08, 1928

Records

Vincent Richards, famed professional tennis player, in the finals of the U. S. Professional Championship, beat Karel Kozeluh, probably the greatest tennis player in the world, who has not lost a match for eight years. The score was 8-6, 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Kozeluh took his shoes off after the second set and played in his stocking feet.

Lucky, socalled, a greasy and peculiar police-bitch, swam from Albany to Manhattan down the Hudson River in 44 hr., 52 min. Such human beings as have also swum from Albany to New York, though enraged to discover that the bitch had done it in five hours less than the best of them, were comforted to discover that she swam only two hours at a stretch, while their intervals of paddling had been longer.

Reigh Count, a speedy racehorse belonging to Mrs. John D. Hertz, was ridden from New York to Chicago in 20 hr. and 50 min.--in a private car attached to the Panhandle Express of the Pennsylvania Railroad.