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Yankees Lose—Giants and Dodgers Win
Canadians Victorious in
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Baker to Join Athletics
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yesterday was insipid, and then when
it wasn’t insipid it might as well have
been because hits were choked off by.
the Phillies‘ fancy fielding. Between
one thing and another and All De-
marce the Giants didn't score. They
‘were beaten, 3 to 0. it was the fourth-
consecutive victory for the saucy Phil-'
dies and the third consecutive defeat
_xor the stumbling Giants, who have fal-
len upon deciduous days with the
astick since the bloomed so gayly but
yesterweek.
BAEDWEEE WINS Hi8
HRSE GAME 0E l915
PHILADELPHIA, April ENE—The
hyaukees made it two straight over
K‘onnie Macks‘ American League chamv
pious yesterday afternoon; I‘Ray Cald-
well celebrating his first game of the,
aeasou with a victory. The final score'
was it to 6. Singles and extra base
ctduts were plentiful and, to make
matters worse the Athletics, especially
duck L—app, added to the misery by tos-
sing the ball around the field. it was
by far the most poorly played gameI
" dlie Machined had put .up this season.,
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BUFFALO, April 20«-The Brookfeds
annexed another easyvlctory over the
Illutfeds yesterday byla score of 10-5.
. The Tip Tops hammered Bedlent, for-
rum Red Sox pitcher , in. the first andI
”fourth innings
in the fifth inning the Buil'eds ral‘
lied and drove Blue Jacket front the
‘ 'r
' mound, scoring all their runs in this
session on three doubles. a triple andj
two singles. Finneran replaced Blue‘
Jacket ad held the Buffeds safe, while[
his teammates regaied their lead at
the erpense of two recruit pitchers.
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.—
.President 0' Rourke and the Eastern'
association have won aglin in the bateI
tle waged against them by the men,I
who forfeited the Hirtford, Springfield
anti New Haven“ franchises. The na-
tional commission, the biggest tribunal
.in organized baseball, Sunday turned
down the appeal of the ousted trio
from the national board's ruling.
The word which President O’Rourke
receiv ed yesterday froth Chairman
Garry fierrmann of the national com»
‘missiou was brief and to the point.
The letter stated that Herrmann was
enclosing a copy of a. letter he had
sent to Attorney Danaher, counsel for
the three former club owners... This
_letter to Danaltcr read: “Relative I?)
the appeal filed by you from the na-
tional boards decision in the matter'
pertaining to the Eastern association. minutes 23 ascends behind the record ten for the patrons of
Jbeg to say that the appeal is not sus-Ifor the course set In 1912 by Mike Mine" boxing.
rained. You are informed that the pa
tioual corflmission will not fhe’reafter
consider appeals from findings of theI
national board." .
The decision made President
O'Rourke, as well as the Bridge
and New London magnatea, feel hapopy
foi' some“: that the three men. who
tried to wreck the Eastern Assocla-I
jtion have reached the end of thelrI
rope: “They have been dined by “WI
highest court in Kiabuseba
nothing fifltlierE‘EI bliss
civil lad‘: which his 'Wry l.iker -~ I
' A meeting of the Bag e adhesion
will be called for antic hotel
fl Bridgeport sometime; this w-I:
Weapon O'Rourke stat ‘
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The hitting of the Giants in pinches.
I
Iflii alarm: Minn
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Ilsmnuuu
The base-ball schedule of the Nor-
walk High School nine for the season
, of 1915 has been neatly printed on at-
tractive cards which are now being
circulated. Vincent Ferretti is the
team's manager, and ‘Reginald Smith
is the captain. The schedule follows:
Norwaik High School Idle Bali
Schedule. season 1015.
April l7—Bridgeport at Bridgeport
i April 19—4tamfordrat Norwalk.
I April 21~Danbury. ‘at Danbury.
April 24~Ansonia, at Ansonia.
April Tia-Rye, at Rye,
April ZS—Greenwlch', at Norwalk.
May 1—-New Haven. at New Ha-
ven.
May 5—Port Chester, at Norwalk.
May 6~Bridgep0rt at Norwalk.
May l2—New Haven at Norwalk.
May 17—Stamford, at Stamford.
May 19——Ansonla, at Norrialk.
May filo—Danbury. It Norwalk.
1
I
I
, June 2—Mt. Vernon, at Norw alk.
June 5—Port Chester, at Port Cites-
for.
June 7~Rye, at Not-walk.
Juno 9—New Rochelle, at Norwalk.
June lZ—Greenwiclifl at Greenwich.
BRAVES OWE
BBBRERS EWIR
ll ilk-The Braves took
I
t
“ $srbv‘h
no! the} Batriots'
I gg'atiilnc flint: "ilie Brooklyn Dodgers to.
day by 7 to 2 and ii to It. 'l‘hl‘ afternoon
Igame was won by punching hits- I'off
Itwo Brooklyn pitchers. Gowdy batted
safely in each of four times at bat.
:Magee‘s centre' fielding was note-
‘worth. three of his four catches being
difficult ones.
I
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CLEAN SWEEP
ERR MISS .CRAHS
I Exhibiting three saddle backs in
Ithree classe at the New York Spring
IHorse Show in Durlauds' Riding Acad-
Iemy last night, Miss Clemence Crafts,I
‘Iof |Boston, won 3 blue ribbons with.
Iout a single defeat. Miss Crafts, who
Its a daughter of Professor James Ma-
son Crafts, a scientist of international
prominence, rode her horses with un—
usual skill, and bred one of them, the
5 year old chestnut mare The Minx
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I BOSTON. April 20.——For the second
‘year in succession Canada carried off
the Boston Marathon yesterday after--
Inon when Edouard Fabre of the Rich- -
Imoud A C., of Montreal won the 25
mile race from Ashland to Boston from
,a field of more than seventy runners
Iwhichincluded the best long distance
{men in the United States. His time
Iwns 2 hours 31 minutes 41 1-5 seconds,
the slowest made since 1909 and 10
IIRyan of the Irish American A. C.
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ST. PAULI' leim, Apfll
20. r-Tlle
, Ina. Minnes-
Imnsmamhuetmuut ‘
:Iatatcmategzg late todal'.
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AllllEElBR SIIBREEY
While no official announcement. has
been made to the offset that Home
Run Baker will soon return to the
Athletics and fulfil the obligations-for
which his three-year contract calls, it
was reported yesterday that Mack and
Baker have come to an understanding
and that Baker will soon come out of
retirement. Connie Mack, when asked
last night if the rumor was true, re—
fused to affirm or deny it. Mack is
unwilling to talk about strangke z
unwillingly to talk about the Baker
lcase; but that's nothing strange. When
Imatters of state are involved thereis
no more reticent a man in the world
than the tall leader.
I Though Mack won't clear the mat-
|ter up the rumor is persistent and
seems to have grounds for circulation.
From a person who is in close touch
with the inside that Iliaket‘ will soon
lpuck his traveling bags and get ready
Ifor another baseball season instead of
titling the soil this summer on his
Ifarm at 'l‘rappe, Md. According to the
story Baker will join the Mackmon
when the latter play their first series
in Boston. Mack was asked if this
particular point was true and he said:
I "i think the Yankees have a good
gleam this year.‘ So the interview on
like subject ended. right there. _,
; There is a whole lot behind Ithe
Baker case unknown to the public,
liakers' retirement last-f fall undoubt-
edly has peered Connie“ Mack. “ft ‘fb
very-ovum that «he lubbotldaadilv
Day mattwtfl‘uamtmg Athleuiil" mdfir- There
Ilia some reason fan. Mack's rundown.
.aud this has .the Quaker City fans.
ngeasing Marty of them fall to uh
dersrand Maok'a attitude, but the real
wise ones believe Baker tried to put
one over Mack and this led to the
breach 'Baltera popularity has waned
a bit, for he isn't the hero today he
'wds before his retirement.
I «Persistent rumors have been afloat
Ifrom time to time that Mack had per-
’suaded Baker to change his mind and
play ball. The truth of the matter is
'IMack has at no time since Baker rec
tired asked the third baseman to come
Iback into the fold. When Baker show.
ed up at Shibe Park it was said that
IMack asked him to come over from
ITrappe, and tall things over Those
who know any that Bakers visit was
on his own volition and not the result.
of a request from Mack.
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III on II III
. Jimmy'l‘wyford, who is to conduct
an open air club at Washington Park,
Brooklyn, the home of. 'Tlp Tops, an-
nounces the opening show for early
nex month. He expects to match the
winner of the Coffey. Reich fight with
Champion Willard.
Chas. Goods. “the well-known. sport
ging man of Jersey, is the man behind
the gun in this, the latest venture of
Twyford’s Goods operated on the
tracks for many years and is a repu-
table bookmaker.
Dick Curley wil not in the capaCity
of official matchmaker. With Dick on
I Twyford expects to have an “a
lhli’tlii‘éé ‘hh
the job it goes without saying that
.the best bouts of the year will be got-
“Federal ma.
dishes" with the five managers or
,Willard today, and reach some agree
ment with them anent Jess’ appear-
ance against either Coffey or Reich. ,
"We have $25. 000 to post with any
sporting editor to go to Willard af—
ter the fight: said Twyford yesterday.
”Right now i am willing to deposit 35, -
000 to show that we mean what we
say. The remaining 720, 000 will be glv»
§RLI M: MI Ivhouse bill: bgallahfittbn. round no- he Ion to the as. 9 persons within two
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resort to IclglonMEfilatchml
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'Itllitotbttdohtaltlttlb
didn't hurt him. and they wan rnlghby
blows".
flakes ump-
comm
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NEWS
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W
Ills BRAWI Glilllli UIE.
Says He Will Not Meat Another Negro
Scrappalh-Wili Tackle Any White
Man Worth While—'Haa Had an ln-
bunting Camr.
When asked recently how he hap-
pened to take up boxing Jess Willard,
the new champion and right now the
most talked about man in the world.
said:
“I first got ideas of taking up the
sport when I heard that Jim Jeffries,
the famous fighter, had been knocked
out by Jack Jackson, a colored man.
i got it into my head that on account
of my extraordinary also i would have
a good chance to defeat the negro, pro-
vided] made a careful study of the
game. Up to this time 1 had never
seen a boxing match, let. alone had It
pair of gloves on my hands. 1 moved
to Snpulpu, Okla, and saw Carl Mor-
ris, nu avowed white hope, box, and
as boxing didn‘t look very hard to the
l decided to start teaming at once. I
spurred with Morris, with the‘ idea at»
ways in my mind of some day being
fit to meet Johnson.
“Well, he done it. and l'm pretty
liappv. Johnson is the first negro I
(nor fought, and I'll never fight an~I
other. Yes: I‘m going to draw thal'
color line, and draw it sharp. 1 think
it dangerous for a white man and a
black to meat in any contest causing
,suchilttcl'uess of feeling, Why, when
leftriea was beaten in Reno, in-the!
riots folloudug there were twenty-Ma
people killed in the United States." .
vWiilurIl was never knocked down in
four and a. half years in the ring or in
IruIninc. He hopes to end his career
with the lame record. He's so Well
put together that he doesn't took his
six feet six and .a. half inches Ila
bill. a thlueen taco, la daILlu coin:
plexton bus gray oyes shaded by long
'idslies. m ferohead ifnd wavy
Ivmmltivoemoutb and a wall turned
I “tin.
He doesn't look like a prlchlglitel':
I he doesn't cut one, nor- are his instincts
Ithose of a fighter. In fact, his han-
diers complain it's hard to arouse his
lilghting spirit; that has .too much in-
clined to take things easy. and not hurt
the other fellow. lie has a common
”school education, received in Kansas,
with I nourish schooi Then he
punched cattle for u couple of years.
He was a good man at this and
made enough money do marry and keep
his fomllymbmfortably. He has four
children. titres girls and a boy, Jess-
juuior, four months old The oldestI
is seven years old. His wife and chll- I
dren now lire in Los Angelcs. I
Willan is soft spoken and uses good,
plain English. Ha thinks well and
form his ownoplnlonl. Distinctly he
is of a far higher type than the prize
ling usually produces in mental
equipment only Corbett. to whom he
hears alight resemblance, is his equal.
Those who like "dope" can add this
fact to their stole—Ilka battle in which
the championship passed was the louse.~
est heavyweight champlouship fight
since the ring passed under Marquis of
Queensbeuy rules. it bent twenty-
slx rounds. Corbett beat Sullivan in
twenty-one in 1892, Fltzsim'mons beat:
Corbett in fourteen in 1897, Jetfrles
Ibout Fitzslmmoua in eleven in 1899
and Johnson beat Jeffrics in fifteen in
1910. ,
Sullivan was champion fourteen
years; Corbett lasted fire, I‘ttz only
two. Jeffriee stretched over eleven:
Johnson held the crown ilv'e. That
gives the average champion a seven
your term. I
Willard ought to last as long. He
is young. a clean liver, ambitious,
strong and is daily adding to his fight:-
lng equipment. Willard hasn't any pol-
itics! His father was a Republican, but
he has independent political thought.
which goes with his Kansas breeding
He played some baseball and likes to
see it played. Now his training gives
him all the athletic amusements he
needs, so he doesn't golf, but he is
thinking of taking that up. He likes
to read newspapers and magazines.
That is his chief diversion, dad he
doesn't insist upon reading only arti-
cles about himself.
Altogether he is an unspoiled, Well
behaVed. clean living, upstanding, quiet
mannered young countryman. He isn't
the sort of follow that looks as if
Broadway could get him as it gotJef~
fries on-hts visits to New York and
some of the others. He shows no mark
of the I?“ some out lip and a bruised
car. He said Johnson's hardest blows
qum- I >,I
- ~-- Walnut. Future
Mirna
035d.
_ bill "I‘thherl
. ,I.“ Willi mew-with thl’
lIluelIIllalrspaItedwn tha side.- He has.
l gm“ can."
Jess Willard to Fight Soon-«Charity Horse
Show Winner.--Wrestllng Tonight in
Bordon-ousted Trio Turned Down.
minors.
Barney Dreyfus owner of the Pi.
rates, says Wagner is still good for
two or three years of active service,
and after that he will continue to draw
salary from the Pittsburgh club as
long as he lives. ,
“He will never be released to go to
any minor club," said Dreyfus. “He‘
will remain 9n the pay roll of my team,
and when his active days are over I
will use him as a scout or as a coach
for the younger players on the team."
Next A. B. c. Probably at Toledo.
Toledo will probably be awarded the
1918 American bowling magmas tour-
unment.
RUCKER 'IN GOOD FORM.
Brooklyn's Star Left Hand" ‘EKPOCBS
to Have Big Season on Slab.
(l. Nap Ilucker, Brooklyn‘s star left
handed twirlcl', is showing good form
this your. Rocker. undoubtedly one of
the meanest pitchers the game has ever
known, is by many considered almost
a martyr in his profession.
it has frequently been mentioned
ulth regret thut of all the great stars
Lajole was the only one who never guf
into a world’s series But. if any thln_.
llIII-kcrs case is deserving of even
more sympathy. Though not near us‘
Photo by Americanlf’real Association.
an Bum moon!“ Inn mm
long in the game as Laioie, the Brooka
lyn Nap has never even felt the thrill
of the first division.
While managing Cleveland Lajole
once lost out the pennant by-~ two
points, and by for the greater part of
his career has been spent with first di-
vision teams.
Rucker. faithful servant, has just
teen forced to plod along. your in and
,Jear out. without: eveninbnling the air
nbore,,thc baseball equator, the .500
mark. But, perhaps this is the big year
for the two Naps—~Lnjole and Rocker.
,. .
Two infield Find: of Spring.
The. great infield finds of the spring
are apparently Third Busemnn Schulz
of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Short-
ahp Davy Bancroft of the Phillies.
BERllNIBEABRSMllfl]
EB RRAPPlE SWEEE
Alvab Ventral, the husky Berlin
blacksmith who captured the state
. wrestling championship in the 158 lb.
class at ’New Haven last month; has
accepied a challenge extended to him
by Kid Sweet of the Springfield Y. M.
C. A. and will meet him in a special
tournament at Foresters ‘i-lall. Berlin,
it will be a finish bout and the winner
will be required to win two out of
three falls:
Ventrea, whose prelont weight is
only 148 pounds. defeated sweet in a
.dgciaive bent at the charter-I: Oak fair
The Springfield athlete is
Tout, to redeem hlI‘u3fdb‘L and as
a is determined to at! his
neley-acuulred title the be “I 'qu un-
“69“???" be a very good one. I ,.
1 to Boston or some other point
l. I. SRRND Mtllth
Motor boat. men of the Sound have
organized the Long island Sound Mo
tor Boat Association. it is a new sec—
tion of the American Power Boat As.
socialion and the clubb represented
at the meeting were the New Ro-
chelle Y. C., Huguenot Y. C., Knick-
erbocker Y. C., Harlem Y. C., Stam-
ford Y. C., Port Washington Y. C.
and The Motor Boat Club of Amer-
ica. The officers elected are Thomas
ll. Taylor, chairman: H. L. Stone,
vice-chairman; H. W. Lowerre, sec-
rotary, and ll. Haddock, treasurer.
H. L. Stone, who was instrumental
in bringing about the organiration
said: "There has'“been a crying need
for some motor boat body to take
charge of motor boat affairs on Long
island Sound and the new association
will do a great deal to boom the
sport. The object is to promote the
general welfare of motor boats and
yachts, to formulate 'and record all
data calculated to advance the sport
audio govern all pow/r boat racing.
both short distance and endurance.
There are. twentythree clubs on the
Sound members of the American
Power Boat Association; and as-alt
of these are eligible it is probable
that all of them will join the new
association now that it has become, a
fact. lt is possible that the national
carnival for the cups held by the
National Association of Engine and
Boat Manufacturers will be held
this year under the auspices of the
new association, in addition to which
a long distance race from New York
in
scone of the leading events of the
New England is under contemplation
year."
WOULD OUST oegocam's.
AhBANY, N. Y.. April 20. —chubll
can members of the Thompson legisla
tlve investigation committee, who can
slitute a majority, today reported their
belief that all of the nine Democratic
members of the two New York Public
Service Commissions should be ousted.
Nevertheless, the report said, the
majority would make no positive rec-
omendatlons for the removal of the
four downtown commissioners, Messrs.
_.MoCall Wood, Williams and Cram. lt
is the committee's desire, the report .
continued, to permit the governor to
exercise his own judgment in these
cases. There are the four commie
sloners against whom changes were
brought a month ago on a report is-
sued by the same majority of the com
mittee that. so severely criticised all
the Democratic commissioners today.
W..-
FEDERAL. TRADE COMMISSION
OFFICES.
WASHINGTON. April 20-~All the
members of the Federal Trade Com-
mission have reassembled In Wash-
ington. Their offices, which have
been in. process of dismantling and
rearrangement from the old Butluu
of Corpor‘atlous quarters, have been
put in commission.
Many business men from other
cities are conferring with the com-
missioners, mostly informally, to dis-
cuss affeirs of individual concern and
get the commission’s viewpoint. The
commission yesterday conferred with
n delegation of Indiana coal opera-
tors, a representative of beet sugar
concerns and others. ‘
Edward F.~Gay, dean of the School
of Business Administration, Harvard
College, and A. W. Shaw, a New York
magazine publisher, were among oth-
er callers.
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SUICIDE VERDICT IN DE REUTER
CASE.
LONDON. April 20, 12: 47 p. m.—'—A
verdict of suicide while temporarily
insane was handed down after an
inquest into the circumstances of the
death of Baron Herbert de Router,
managing director of Renter's Tele
gram Conipany. who If lid dead
April 18 at. his (help
THEIPAIIAM’BPerbfl’W
. "It’s so hard to be poor"
IS DR. BIGELOW FOOLHARDY?
Blekaepera Disapprove of One of His
Spectacular Experiments
Because it‘was understood that Dr.
E. F. Bigelow of Sound Beach por-
suadod a number of young seminary
girls in a town in lndtana to stand ,
in a circle with bated heads aid
necks while he shook open hives at
bees over them, to prove how mild
and meek his bees~ were, the Cottage.
ticut Beekeepers' Association. at
its twenty-fourth annual meeting, Sut-
urday, in Hartford, expressed its
strong dislike to demonstrations of , ’
bee culture that might result in injury
to people. It was renlsrked that the
young women were fortunately not
stung by the bees. but that only a
kindly providence saved them, was
the consensus.
in this connection the following
resolution was draw’n up:
“Resolved, That the .Conneoticut '
Beekeepers' Association goes on no
ord as opposed to all spectacular ex:
periments with bees which can in
any way endanger innocent bystand-
ers ,especially children who might be
persuaded to assist in such experi-
ments; that the cause ethos-keeping
is not helped, but is injured by such
experiments; thct any bceltceper'whi
undertakes such experiments is eith-
er lgnorant of the danger: or else' is
foolh'ardy: that a copy of this resolu- I
tion be forwarded to Dr; E. F. Bigo-
low of Sound Beach. "
Officers were re- elected as follows:
Presldent—Shferman E Bunnell,
Winsted.
Vice-President—Rev. D D. Marsh,
West Hartford.
Secretary and ‘-Treasurer-—L.
Wayne Adams, Hartford.
Executive Cominltteeti-Lyma'n 0.
Root, Stamford; Stephen ' J. Cohen.
Bridgeport ,and Henry' ‘W. Cooley.
Westport.
Program Committee—Rev. D. 'D.
Marsh. West Hartfffla W. F. Rook-
well and James Smith
Fair Committee—R: W. Yates,
Richard J. Noble and J.‘ Grant ‘Grls-
wold. "
THE REVISlON GRAB OPPOSED
' BY LEADING LAWER, TEI LS
WHY. ’
HARTFORD, April 20.-—-
“I care not for the stars that
shine," ' .
lonly know that he got ‘
me I!
The foregoing may, be appropri-
ately be chosen as the slogan of the
statute revision plan now before the
General Assembly—the,,reason being
that it is proposed to pass a bill; proI '7
viding for the payment of $42,000 for .
revision work which many believe
can be done for less “3911 cue gear-'v‘ ,
ter of that sum. ,
The pending bill proposes to give
six IaWyers selected by the governor?
and a. clerk “2.000 Ioe‘iuIe revision
work. It is not propoaed to. give the.
state the benefit of competitive hfd‘s’f
for this work or the opportunity Cog,
proceed in a business way to am
the work done by competent men for
a price that might beIa'g‘I-eed upon
by representatives of theistate. 1;.“
One of the leading lawyers of the
state today said: "The plan to divide
$42, 000 between seven men in ..this
way proposes a proceeding utterly at"
variance with business methods.‘
"This plan of wasting public
money for private benefit indicates,
Ipurpose to rule the state insteadlpf
serve the state."
“The Connecticut legislature pr,
poses to pay above $6. 53 per statute
for revision. Some statutes contain
as many as 34 words. Others 111th
upwards or 500 words. , 7
“There are 1102 pages of layers
the,,gene_ral statutes of Connecticut ‘
hence there will be 157 37 pageal‘gf,
lawa in the big book forieach of the
seven revlsors to «colloidar—«t/hat'
about 738.1 a page "Allow Haven
Times-Leader. . [III -
SURE METHBD. '
"The only way for
. all Iabout woman is toI‘
"stud may the
chi” , , ,
"Not notch do w
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