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Using his derby hat in lieu of a tripod 

 in order to get a coveted photograph 



A Derby Hat Used in Place of 

 Camera Tripod 



A PHOTOGRAPHER desiring to 

 make photographic copies of certain 

 paintings in the Corcoran Art Gallery, 

 wrote to the superintendent of the insti- 

 tution and received the necessary per- 

 mission, but upon ar- 

 riving at the gallery he 

 found that they did not 

 permit tripods to be 

 erected upon the marble 

 floors. 



Not to be outdone, he 

 used his derby hat, 

 which, inverted and 

 crushed in a little, bal- 

 anced very nicely on 

 the large mahogany rails 

 in front of the pictures. 

 Upon this he balanced 

 his camera and, with a 

 little care, in focusing, 

 using the rising front 

 to give the proper per- 

 spective, managed to get 

 the long-time exposures 

 required by the soft 

 lighting. The scheme I'l-'-fy)"" """^ 

 worked perfectly and the copies de- 

 sired were obtained. This method 

 may be used for exteriors as well ; but 

 the photographer should be close at 

 hand to look out for his camera in case 

 it should overbalance. 



ropidar Science Monthly 



^ Handless — And Yet He Is a Cham- 

 pion Billiard-Player 



GEORGE H. SUTTON, the veteran 

 billiard-rplayer, has demonstrated 

 to the world that a man may become 

 an excellent billiard-player without hands. 

 Sutton lost both hands when a boy by 

 coming in contact with a circular saw. 

 This did not prevent him, however, from 

 taking up billiards, first as an amusement 

 and later, when he had acquired remark- 

 able skill in the manipulation of the balls, 

 to enter the class of professional "short- 

 stops." In a match game during the past 

 season he made a high run of 113 in 18.2 

 balkline billiards. 



Sutton uses no attachment to hold his 

 cue. By patient practice he has acquired 

 such marvelous skill in the use of the 

 flexible muscles on the stumps of his 

 arms, that, they supply him with a good 

 substitute of the "wrist-movement" so 

 essential to good playing. 



Many armless men and women have 



learned by painstaking practice to make 



use of their feet for writing, piano-playing, 



etc., but there are probably no parallel 



instances on record where a man deprived 



of both arms has become 



an expert billard-player 



by the use of his arm 



stumps. 



A seemingly impossible 

 feat — making a masse 

 shot, holding the cue 

 between his arm stumps 



Handless billiard-player 

 George H. Sutton making 

 a carom shot with bridge 



