The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

mat NOtre Dame is coming BACK mas
caused many thrill to course its way
down the spines of local basketball lovers.
For, in the first place, the return of that
magnificent five means that Birmingham
has another opportunity to trim one of
the finest aggregations in the country,
and in the second place, the return means
another opportunity to see the greatest
opponents of the art of basketball playing
in action.
The game will be played Monday night.
Tickets were placed on sale yesterday
afternoon, and the rapidity with which
they are going indicates a record-brealSing
crowd in attendance. Since the last game
in Birmingham, Notre Dame has trimmed
Montgomery with consummate ease, and
walloped Mobile on two occasions. If the
husky Notre Dame fellows are only
trihe the worse for wear. then Birming
ham will have a brilliant opportunity.
Since the game with Notre Dame the team
Of the Birmingham Athletic club has
done some exceedingly hard work. In the
Athletic club-Y. M. c. A. game of FRI
day night, the club was in perfect form.
Had Columbus been fought as was the
Y M. C. A. Columbus would have been
beaten, and had Atlanta been fought as
was the Y. M. G. A., Atlanta would have
been showed under. And had Notre Dame
been fought as was the Y. NJ c. A.,
Notre Dame might have won all right,
but the boys would have been much
bruised and torn to pieces.
Monday night the club intends going
after the big voters. The club will en-
deavor to win, although such a task
seems hopeless However, the ietermiaa-
ton is strong that Notre Dame will not
win again by as large a score rs that of
the other game.
The basketball team of Notre Dame Is
probably the strongest in the United
States Notre Dame has been beaten but
once this season. and that defeat was
administered by the Central Young Mems
Christian association of Chicago, on rhe
floor of that institution. The score of
the game was % to % when time was
called, but in the play off, the Y. M. c. A.
took the laurels The Central Y. M. c. A.
of Chicago is the champion team Of Amer
lea, having defeated Yale, Columbia, and
other big teams of the north and east.
Notre Dame plays an aggressive, but at
the same time very tactful, skillful and
graceful game. 1t Is a treat to see the
visitors perform.
The sponsors for the game Monday
night:
Birmingham Athletic club: Sponsor.
Miss Ellen Percy; maids, Miss Vera Webb
and Miss Margaret Latady.
Notre Dame: Sponsor, Miss Edith
Thompson; maids, Miss Margaret Howell
and Miss Mary Kinney.
After the game there will be dancing
Refreshments will be served. The event
will be one of the enjoyable social func-
tons of the week.
house. Investigation showed that spirit
ualistic seances were held in an under
ground room, and after some trouble
detective managed to become enrolled as
a member of the society.
At the first meeting he found that Sc
lect number of those present were allowed
to sit in private compartments into which
part of the underground room was d.
vided and to call on the ghosts of the
great ones of history The detective man
aged to secure one of the compartments
and boldly expressed a wish to interview
Cleopatra.
After waiting In darkness few minutes
a hand touched his face. 1t was not a
clammy hand and the sensation was not
altogether unpleasant, but he thought
that matters were getting too amazing
when a spook considerably above the ac-
cepted weight of such things sat on his
knee.
At this delicate juncture he switched on
a powerful electric pocket lamp, and the
sequel was painful. Cleopatra, a portly
lady In flowing robes, fed shrieking, aud
her cries attracted two dead heroes
from adjoining compartments, who stood
revealed in very earthly white wrap
pings and submitted in an unheroic man
ner to the questioning of the police Of
ficer The seance broke up in wild disor-
der.