The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-01
NORFOLK SEEKS
Varsity GAME:
Sends Committee to Cliarlottcs-
vile and Demands
WILL PUT IN 5000 SEATS.
Mr.. Mabcc Makes Requisition
for Two Children and Is Re
sisted in Court by Mothers.
WILL PUT IN 5000 SEATS "a $
especial q Tho rines.pI.pa,eh.>

Especial to The Times Dlspatch.) M q
NORFOLK, VA, November oO.-Afr. ".
Saunders Taylor and MI Frank McCul-
Tough returned to Norfolk this morning
from Charlottesville. where they went 70
secure the annual game between Virginia
and North Carolina for Norfolk next year.
II tho advisory committee decides 10
play the game in this city the lafayette
Field Association has guaranteed that u
will put In 5000 extra seats, and VIII DC
prepared TO handle q crowd OF from
1900 TO 10000 people.
''ive did not go there begging for the
game said Mr.. Taylor. upon his re-
turn to-uny. I'VE simply demanded It..
Wc soid that wo didn't want the game.
every year. but were willing 10 share
1t every other year with Richmond. inc
Richmond people are thinking OF building
new grounds 30 that they may be apie
to handle a big crowd ns well as they arc
handled on lafayette Field People who
attended the game here between the In
dams and Virginia, and that between
North Carolina and Georg ctown, and also
saw the Virgi MIA Carolina game In Rich
mond, know all about the difference IN the
ways tho big GROVES were handled III
the respective cities.
faculty member OF tho athletic advisory
committee, the fact that Norfolk had the
strongest alumni assOcda ton of tho UNI
versity OF all othea. cities. not only In the
state but In tho country, and also that
Il Norfolk sent annually more students 10
tho University than any other city In.
Virginia. told him Norfolk simply had
10 have the game on next Thanksgiving
Day--tllat there WAS no further ques ton
about IT, 523s. t{8
MIR. Taylor and MIR. Mccullough re-
turned perfectly satisfied with the re-
I suit uf their vlsit. and they are oLldent.
that the big annual game between the
5 rival Southern colleges will hereafter be
divided, alternately, between Norfolk and
Richmond q
MOTHERS RESIST.
Special Agent Ma ybee. OF a Richmond
Home for Infants, was in the Police Court.
y to-day as witness against TWO mothers.
whom he wished ordered to turn their
children over to him.
iS5 The mothers wore Bessie Hebdon, aged
twenty. OF No. 80 Mariner Street, and
Mary Thomas thilty-three years old, Of
Newcastle Street. Mrs. Priscilla Asmus.
mother of tho Hcbdon woman. was with
her dau ghter and carried the latters two
nonths'-old baby. The hearing was dra-I
matte to the point OF tragedy. and the
women became hysterical when Justice
Simmons ordered them tG give up the
children. Some one advised the women TO
take an appeal to tho Corporation Court.
They had no counsel. and did not know
how to go about It, but Court Clerk Dar-
{ den helped them out by 1otinG the appeal
for them. Judge Hanckel put the mothers
under bond to present the chlldrcntsin
court Monday. Mr. Maybee Is making q
Y thorough search OF Norfolk TO get chill
drcn out OF questionable surroundings.
OFFICERS INETROUBIAE.
Information has come to the Common
wealth's attorney OF Primo ess Anne county
which may get Officer McCIanan, OF the
Norfolk police force, WHO was fined so
in tho Princess Anne court last week for!
assault, or some OF his friends, into
further trouble. Not only may 1t mean
trouble for McClanan, but for a party Of
seven or eight men who drove wi tn him
after the trial to Norfolk. The party In
cluded his attorney and several police
officers, who had been witnesses Mt the
trial
From what has come to tho knowledge,
OF tile authorities, several pistol shots
were fired from the wagon. ind there was
n. good deal OF Whooping and yelling all
tho way along the road A county officer
says there is also evidence Of II more
serious offcnsc onsthe part Of one or more
OF the occupants Of the wagon The
worst OF the disorder happened in the
neighborhood OF Salem Church, where a
lot of young school girls We're passed,
and tho Princess Anne Off Gals say they
will leave nothing undone to get all the
evidence. It is possible that5,a number,
OF warran ts may be issued.