Briefs

P:.Joseph Pulden in Manhattan, exhibited a rat which could stand on its head.

P: To Mayor James J. Walker, of Manhattan, was presented a bat by certain denizens of the Panama Canal Zone with the request that he give the bat to famed baseball player Babe Ruth. The bat, made out of a lignum-vitae railroad tie, was four ounces over weight. Babe Ruth last week in a Manhattan gymnasium boxed famed musician Paul Whiteman.

P: Arriving home in Atlanta, the Georgia Tech football team which last fortnight defeated the University of California received an ovation described as greater than that tendered to the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding or famed Golfer Robert Tyre Jones.

P: There have been colored golf balls recently (TIME, Dec. 31). White boxing gloves were planned for Illinois. Last week, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association announced trials of a red tennis ball, said 10 possess increased visibility.

P: Sixteen Yale alumni were prohibited from buying tickets for Yale football games because they did not use the seats which they had contracted to occupy at Yale-Harvard game last fall.