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America's Favorite Sport

An Englishman who had recently returned from a visit to New York City, was sitting in a group of friends one evening and reciting to them many of the incidents and highlights of his trip, and particularly discussing the very unusual habits and peculiarities of these "blawsted h'Americans." Finalln one of the group asked him:

"fs baseball still the most popular pastime over there?"

"No indeed," replied the returned traveler. "The way it looked to me around New York baseball has taken a back seat, and the most popular game they all play is something

Appointed Yard Manager

L. I. Cronkhite of Hughson has been made manager of the United Lumber Yards at Oakdale. He succeeds Glen Karnes, who has gone to Twain Harte to operate a lumber mill. Mr. Cronkhite has been associated rt'ith the compan.v for several years.

new to me that they call-"Aw Nuts,!"

Naturally his listeners all wanted to know how this new game with the very strange name is played, so he told them:

"ft's very simple, old deahs. They crowd into a room where there are a lot of seats at tables, and they sit down and start filling in the blanks on a lot of cards with beans,. or counters of some sort. When one of the blighters fills in all the rows on his card he shouts out-"Bingo !" And everyone else in the room hollers-"Aw-NUTS !"

Oxnard Dormitory Contract Awarded

Oxnard, July 31.-A contract for 61 dormitory conversions here has been awarded by the Federal Public Housing Authority. The contract was given to Jensen & Jepson of Los Angeles at $22,500, according to word from San Francisco.