"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Wrote Secretary of State Stimson to Richard Louis Sprague, U. S. Consul at Gibraltar: "Hearty felicitations on the occasion of the completion of 100 years' service of the Sprague family as American Consul at Gibraltar. . . . There is no other such record. . . ." Other Gibraltar Spragues: Horatio, Boston shipping merchant, who served 16 years; Horatio Jones, 53 years. The present Sprague has been Consul since 1901.

Six months ago Jerome Dunstan ("Jerry") Travers, U. S. amateur golf champion in 1907, 1908, 1912, 1913, U. S. open champion in 1915, sold his seat on the New York Cotton Exchange. With more time for golf, he found his game almost as good as of old, when he was famed for his putting and for playing a rusty old iron off the tee. Last week, like Bobby Jones and George Von Elm, Golfer Travers turned businessman golfer, announced himself willing to play exhibition matches for money but not to hire out as a professional teacher. His first exhibition, and first important match since his elimination in the first round of the 1919 amateur, is scheduled for next month at Upper Montclair, N. J. where he lives. His opponent will be U. S. Open Champion Billy Burke.

Rehearsing a fight scene last week, a professional pugilist forgot to pull his punches, knocked out Film Actor James Dunn, suspended work on the picture for two weeks.

In Tyler, Tex., Alvin C. ("Titanic") Thompson, notorious gambler, alleged participant in the poker game which led to the murder of Arnold Rothstein, shot and killed one Jimmy Frederick, 16-year-old golf caddy who had attempted to hold him up.

Plans were announced to undertake what Sir Ernest Shackleton once described as "the last great adventure in the history of South Polar exploration," the exploration of the 5,000,000 sq. mi. in the Antarctic Continent between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, three-quarters of which has never been seen by man. Principals will be Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, inactive in Arctic or Antarctic exploration since his friend Roald Amundsen lost his life seeking General Umberto Nobile in May 1928, and Pilot Bernt Balchen (Byrd transatlantic and South Pole nights). The expedition plans to leave New York in September 1933, sail to a base at Framheim on the Bay of Whales, from there fly east without stop over a 1,450-mi. route, then back again, bisecting the Antarctic Continent. Purposes: 1) to determine topography and weather conditions; 2) to find out whether oceanic indentations continue troughlike, dividing the continent in two parts.

White-haired Captain George Black, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, looked out of his office window on Parliament Hill and saw some rabbits gnawing the tender bark of young evergreens recently planted. Captain Black is a man of action. He went into the Yukon in the gold rush of 1898, led a company of sourdoughs to France in the War, has represented the north country in the House since 1921. His constituency embraces 207,000 sq. mi., has 4,000 residents. Two of his ribs were broken when he rolled down a mountainside in the Rockies under a gasoline flatcar. He once traveled 2,000 miles to defend Mark Zarkovitch, former private in his company, accused of killing a man in a knife fight in Jasper National Park. The Speaker of Canada's House looked at the rabbits, pulled a .22 calibre target pistol from his desk, stalked them cannily 'round the Houses of Parliament, killed six, returned to preside at a session.

To celebrate the 25th year of his accession to the throne the Maharaja Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes and champion cricketer of India, gave his weight in silver to the poor of his realm. Dressed in full ancestral armor and anointed with sacred water from the Himalayas, the Jamsaheb weighed in at 174 Ib. After the silver distribution, 20,000 poor were fed.

To celebrate the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Concord, Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts went to Schenectady, impersonated an embattled farmer, fired a "shot heard round the world." In a broadcasting studio radio technicians wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef 1/8fectively--an official fired a revolver. In 1/8 of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady.

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