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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

FOR SALE. COAL NINE AT A SAC
RIFICE. OWNER LEAVING ALA
BAMA ON ACCOUNT OF HIS
HEALTH.
A jaggers seam of coal averaging 4
feet and 2 inches depth; $50 acres
of coal land. new hoisting engine.
pumps, pipe and trackage; this mine
Is In operation and has a daily ca
pacity of $50 tons which can be in
creased to 800 tons. Located two
miles south of Nauvoo and five miles
east of Carbon Hill on the North
Alabama railroad; price $4,000; terms
one-half cash. balance 1. and Q
years If owner were not obliged To
leave Alabama would not sell for
less than $4,000.
MESSER REAL EST. & ms. CO,
Phone $40.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

FOR SALE. WEST END, s21o0.
Beautiful bungalow In West End,
new, solid brick foundation, COM
position fireproof roof; extra we'll
built, facing south, lot 50x170: best
value today. Price. s2100. Terms.
$500 cash, balance $3.50 per month,
per cent interest. I'd mortgage for
$3.50 with per cent interest.
BETHEA r. e. & ms. CO,
2O27 Sd ave. Phone 116.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14
a..HisAMkl
LET'S SWAP,

a...lsA ~ i
LET'S SWAP.
Have good Groom home on Southside to
exchange for attractive Norwood or
West End home. This property Is on
Ave. II and is splendid rental property.
Ny price is right: so must yours be.
See
McLIN j. CARTER
TALK WITH ALAN JEMISON.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

LADIES-DON'T MISS THIS OPPOR-
TJJNITY TO BUY A $35 SUIT FOR 80. .05.
NEVER BEFORE WAS SUCH RE-
MARKABLE BARGAINS IN LADIES
SUITS. WE HAD THEM ON SALE
SATURDAY, AND WE DECIDED TO
GIVE YOU ANOTHER CHANCE NON
DAY. ANY SUIT IN THE HOUSE
CHEAP. $35 FOR 1896. HURRY SOON
MONDAY TO THE REMNANT STORE,
2o17 I'D AVE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14
ONE CENT A WORD
FOR SALE

KATEs---One cent y word n days no aa-
taken for less than 25c Tor first inser-
tIen. cn.h mn.t scc0mpsny order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14
ONE CENT A WORD
FOR SALE

RATES-One cent n word day, no adl.
taken for less than 25c for first inscr-
tIon. -Cnsh must accompany order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14
FOR EXCHANGE.

FOR EXCHANGE.
$2000-Good farm. located so
miles from Birmingham, well
improved, with so acres in cul-
tivation. good, Groom house,
good barn. good spring, creek
runs through place. close to
church and schools.
This farm Is located on pub
lie road
This party wants residence
in Birmingham.
This farm Is located two.
miles from railroad station.
J. c. C. WATSON,
With
GUS A POPE. JR..
219 N. 21st street.
Residence phone 459-W
Woodlawn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

FOR SALE--10 acres. nearly all In cul-
tivation, fee simple, 5-room house and
barn. well, spring, creek. on pike Price
reasonable. near Birmingham. l.. p.
Hill, 1924 4th ave. Phone 4722.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-6-room house, corner lot, look
200 feet, well, cistern, abundance of fruit,
flowers of all kind; $500 cash, 2 blocks
of car line. l.. p Hill, 1924 4th ave.
Main 4T22
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

AUTO COVERS, STEAMER SHAWLS,
LAP ROBES, HORSE BLANKETS,
HORSE COVERS AND BLANKETS.
TARPOLIANS, OIL SUITS, SADDLES
AND HARNESS MANUFACTURED
AT THE SAME PLACE BY WILLIAM
RECKLING. 1871 I'D AVE-, AT RE-
DUCED PRICE.
FOR SALE-We know we are in position
to give better prices and terms on good
farms and choice resort properties than
any firm in northwest Alabama. Tell us
what you want and we will prove the
above assertion to be true. Address
Mentone Land Co., Mentone, Ala.
FOR SALE-2H acres on A. G. 8. r. r.
at Elyton; front 745 feet on railroad;
very cheap; will exchange. L. G. Petty
1oh1, 1702 6th ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

TWO SPECIALS.
A few nice, elevated Norwood lots
Just off the boulevard, covered with
shade trees; only $500 each while
they last.
Also splendid site for small manu-
featuring plant.
j. w. FAIN
With
MALONE-M' 'CONNELL CO.,
20A Third Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

TRUNKS, traleving bags. suit and SAM
pie cases, made and sold by w. M.
Lawrence & Bro. Trunk Works. Fine
repairing. Third ave-, opposite court
house. Main E38.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

FOR RENT-Modern broom apartment.
heat. L. G. Pettyjohn, 1902 5th
ave-, N. 12-11-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

FCn l.ENT-Furnished rooms for gentle
men: convenient to two car lines. Apply
1l13 North 25th st. 12-12-3e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-14

10 ACRES
On pike near Powderly; cultivated; will
take good $500 or $3.50 piece of property
as part payment.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18
COLOGNE Is Annihiated in a Garlic Car Battle

of South Deering car by another
sense than that of sight. Ways living
along the line like to say: Il smell
car coming"
When these cars were put on the
Windsor Park line and the cars Of the
latter line sent to the garlic line, there
arose a howl of protest in Windsor
Park. Business men who reside there
vowed that their wives and daughters
should not be compelled to ride all
the way to the Sixty-third street
Il" station in the garlic cars"
The other night meeting of pro-
test was held and Miss Jane Hin
man, prominent in social uplift work
Mrs. John c. Corners and Mrs. Frank
Edwards were appointed a commit
tee to see President Busby of the
south.s side lines and enter a protest.
Meantime, the women are trying to
counterfeit the smell of garlic by the
profuse use of cologne. Experience
has not given them encouragement
It's no USE" said one of them.
"Delicately scented eau de cologne en-
tiers the battle terribly handicapped.
Our only chance would be to buy
some of that loud-smeIling stuff"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18

who can throw baseball $50 feet on
the Polo grounds, New York, on a
dead calm day, can throw the same
ball almost 400 feet on the Denver
ball park?
In studying the physics of baseball
let us commence with the chief nipple
ments Of the game-the bat and ball.
The ball is composed of small core,
with heavy layer of highly treated
Para rubber, then wound with two
kinds OF wooden yarn, over which Is a
glue substance, upon which is horse
hide cover. The ball is semi-pneumat.
ic both the rubber and the glue. upon
which the cover is pasted tending to
hold air. The difference even of
sixteenth Of an incL In the thickness
of the rubber makes the ball SO fast
that it scarcely can be handled. The
makers experimental for years to get
the ball tuned to the proper pitch of
elasticity and appeai finally to have
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18
Pites Bachelors; Establishes a Mending Bureau

CLEVELAND, GA motherly little
" woman has taken pity on the but
tonless, undarned and proverbiaily
"holey," helpless bachelors of Cleve-
land She has established Bache-
lor's Mending Bureau.
Bachelors, because they are com
monty supposed to be in need of the
kind of aid which she is prepared to
give, and married men whose wives
are away, or who like to shop and
"gad" better than sew. are eligible
for assistance from this seamstress
extraordinary.
The woman is Mrs. E. T. Benson,
formerly of New York. where she es-
tablished a reputation for bachelor
mending." She has patched" and
darned for some of the best known
bachelors in the East. There Is one
condition that she insists on in taking
mending of unmarried men to do. That
Is a guarantee from them that If they
marry they will not faunt her mend
ing In the faces OF their wives and
speak regretfully Of "the way Mrs.
Benson darned."
why get married." inquired a
young "blade" who had just had a rent
in his trousers (the extra pair, not
those he was wearing) mended so that
no one could see where his girls
fathers bulldog had embraced him.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18
Hqh School Students "Ponies" Kick Up a Real Riot

PHILADELPHIA, PA miniature
/ riot was caused at the Central
high school here the other day when
hundreds Of negro boys appeared IN
answer to the following advertisement
which had been inserted in several
papers:
Manufactured boy to care for
pony; good wages. Apply Professors
Language Department. Central high
school"
The school had hardly opened its
morning session before the pavements
we're crowded with colored boys of all
sizes, and at least score of tistic
combats ensued during the rush to the
main doorway. The professors and
the student body added to the excite
ment by attempting to repel the in
Taeion without success.
The boys fought their way TO the
Language department, and after the
noise had been partially subdued the
bhocked professors were compelled to
Tread the "ad' from dozen papers
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18
Courts Unique Mascot Lights on Judges Nose

has been right here in the courtroom
with us all winter, and he doesn't
appear any nearer his end today than
he did at the beginning Of last fall,
when first began to notice him. He's
bit lazier, believe, but that's all
Il don't know how old he is now,
but he looks as though he would live
to ripe old age.
Recorder Pro TEN. Preston sug-
gested that Pete's age might be de-
termined if the recorder would make
an examination and ascertain II Pete
had whiskers. and, If so, their color
Judge Broyles, however, promptly as
sured Judge Preston he was satisfied
a fly's age would not show in Its
whiskers.
Pete lived in the warmth of the po-
lice courtroom throughout the win
ter. If any other flies were there
they kept we'll within cracks and
other places. Pete alone venture
forth. 1t was this daring of lone fly
that first attracted the recorders no
tice, and he began TO Watcn ana study
it. He called the attention OF other
court attaches to the fly, and then
they all watched it.
When Judge Broyles would ascend
the bench for the morning or after
noon sessions, the affectionate fly was
right on the job, taking its place on
the judges desk or on the judges
head 1t also became very friendly
with Judge Preston, frequently repos'
ing on his nose-as it did also with
Court Investigator Ed Arthur and
Court officer George Cornett.
When Judge Broyles became con-
WINGED that this daily fly visitor was
one and the same fly, he christened it.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18

We experimental once with pneu-
matte gun the rifling in the barrel of
which gave 1t heavy rotation in any
desired direction. II was merely an
exaggeration of the curve. We shot
balls under 80 pounds of pressure, max
ing them curve sometimes a hundred
feet. Putting the up curve motion on
the ball (Which always tends to curve
in the direction of its rotation), we
aimed the gun at a target exactly on
straight line, and the ball. going
straight for perhaps hundred feet,
suddenly seemed to slacken speed,
then 1t leaped upward and rose at
terrific rate until it passed over the
cross bar of the fiag-pole in the cen
ter field, 20 feet above the ground.
Yet the ball was not disobeying the
laws of physics, rather proving them.
In its terrific speed 1t had encounter
ed an air billow which it could not
penetrate, and it had bounced off this
denser bunch of air and rolled up
ward.
INV Woulu tnlHh AldJ III IL DdSeDdii
Is hit into the air Is will follow a ball
istic curve in ratio to the angle of
ascension reduced by the amount of
air pressure Physics says it should,
1t will not, and no man can draw the
ballistic curve that any fly ball will
follow. The greatest range of any
projectile in theory, is gained by an
angle of 40 degrees. Military authori-
ties know that, owing to air resist
ance. the greatest distance is attain
ed at an angle just under 40 degrees.
Having both the theory and the prac-
tice. therefore, ball players TO make
home runs should hit the ball at an
angle of 40 degrees minus One of
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18
The Physics Of Baseball
Copyright, l9l8, by W. G. Chapman
BY Hugh S. Fullerton

The first law of physics is that all
that goes up must come down. al
ways excepting the cost of living. The
first law of baseball is not to let It
come down.
The difference between the physics
of the classroom and Of the diamond Is
that the student learns the laws gov
erning inertia, velocity, dynamics, the
curvilinear trajectory of projectiles,
resisting power of air, attractive pow
er of masses; and the ball,player, by
experiment, deals only with the freak
variants of these laws. Many times
the student who makes his college
team is apt to think that the prof was
stringing him when he laid down
the laws of motion, mass and We
locity. For a baseball under skilled
manipulation and control seems. like
trust, to come as near violating all the
laws as possible. The ball always is
striving to do exactly what the laws
of Physics say it should do, with half
a dozen other forces striving TO COM
pei it to do something else, and with
the bad boys In uniform trying to in
vent new methods of making 1t violate
the law.
If the supreme court should find the
law Of gravitation unconstitutional,
or If the ball player could breathe in
an absolute vacuum. baseball would be
a simple proposition. The ball would
keep on going in straight line until
some one stopped it. Line hits would
continue to travel in straight line
until some fielder, standing on the
needle point of infinity jumped and
pulled 1t down with one hand
There is a professor Of physics in
a great eastern university who wrote
me inquiring as to the physics of the
spit ball, and who later lectured to his
classes upon the subject | asked sew
eral great pitchers to demonstrate for
the benefit of the professor how they
held the ball, swung their arms, re-
leased it with their fingers, and how
much power they applied and to what
point on the surface of the sphere.
Among them was Clark Griffith, a mas
ter in theory, who u ,ed to be past-mas-
ter in practice. asked him to take
the professor to the grounds and show
him things. The result was a note
from Griffith, in which he said:
Don't send any more bugs to see
me-"
The point is that the players do not
care what scientific phenomena they
develop so long as the opposing bats
men take their healthies Il. e., swings)
at the ball and miss. The college pro-
lessor does not care much whether
Walsh strikes Collins out three times
with runners on bases so long as he
can demonstrate that the laws gov
erning rotation, air pressure. fric-
ton, retard and accelerated motion,
etc, etc, are proved by the actions of |
the ball. So physics and baseball as
studies have kept aloof from each |
other.
Yet every move in ball game af-
fords a problem. There are basic con-
ditions which, in themselves, are |
worthy of study. Consider atmospheric
pressure. Did you know that a man
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18

BALTIMORE, Md.-The Broyles has
- unique pet.
Dogs, cats, birds, ROSTERS and other
such commonplace pets are wholly
outclassed.
You'll never guess, SO here goes
for the answer
The Recorders world-beating, prize
pet is a fy-just an ordinary germ
carrying, disease spreading pestifer-
GUS house fiy-and his name is Pete"
The fly it might be added, didn't pos
sess this classy monicker until 1t be-
came acquainted with the recorder.
1t might also be added further that
Pete" is not only a prime favorite
with Judge Broyles, but with all of
the police court attaches. Pete Is
"the court fly"
And through the medium Of Pete's
characteristic fly affection for the
courtroom and it's attaches, Judge
Broyles insists that he has disproved
the time honored theory that flies are
short-lived
AS Pete" lazily lounged on the
judges left ear at the close Of police
court, he remarked-the judge did:
"All of this talk about flies living
but a short time is all bosh. Pete
here has punctured that theory. Pete
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18

There is really no longer excuse for
any bachelor having a hole in his
otherwise lovely silk sox. To be one
button short in any portion OF ones
wearing apparel with Mrs. Benson in
the city, is nothing short of the un'
pardonable sin, while to have ones
shirt cuff frayed, or a rip in ones
new Bulgarian tie, are inexcusabls
social crimes.
81 have always been something Of
an expert with the needle and decided
to turn my experience to good advan-
tage," said Mrs. Benson. Il think |
have devised some new ways and
means for mending and darning 80
that the repair is actually invisible
except with a microscope.
81 know young men, particularly
bachelors, are particular and that
some of them do not like the idea of
having anything mended."
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18

NHICAGO.-Women resident of fash
- ionable Windsor Park on the
south side began a unique battle the
other day. 1t is a battle of Garlic
vs. Cologne. And because the women
from a few days experience, fear gar
lie is going to win, they organized to
have the odoriferous enemy removed
from their midst by outside means.
Several days ago the antiquated
cars of the South Deering line were
transferred to the Windsor Park
South Chicago line. The South Deer
ing line, because of garlic eaters who
comprise most Of its patronage, long
ago won the sobriquet of the gar
lie line"
Persons not stepped in garlic, it is
declared, are appraised of the approach
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18

thrust at them. Then it suddenly
dawned on the instructors in ancient
languages that the work was that of
some mischievous students who had
plotted to ruffle the dignity of the pro-
fessors after their confiscation of all
ponies" or translations, used in the
Latin classes.
In vain the professors tried to ex-
plain the situation to the angry boys
who only desired to use a currycomb
Glasses in progress were dismissed
and police were asked to eject the ell.
hrvo hostlers
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18

Frank Bakers worlds series home
runs was near that angle. the other
scarcely 30 degrees, it went farther.
AS matter of fact, even, II ball
player could hit ball at any desired
angle, he could not be certain where
it would go. 1t would depend too much
upon the rotary motion OF the ball
Last summer | saw a hard line hit
driven straight at Charlie Herzog Of
the Giants. He put up his hands to
catch the ball, then suddenly threw
his head aside just in time to avoid
being hit in the face, the ball missing
his hands by two feet. The ball had
shot" suddenly from it's true path.
In a game between Washington and
Chicago late last fall, Walter Johnson
hit a ball at an angle Of close to 40
degrees, and with terrific force.
should estimate that 1t was nearly 80
feet high, at its greatest elevation.
Had it followed the true ballistic
center field fence. The ball sudden
ly stopped, started to drop straight
downward then caught in another
current of air. and Bodie, who was
running after the ball, overlook it com
ing toward him, as if the batter had
hit it from center field. Under condi-
tons such as these a study of aero
nautics would help players more than
physics would.
The outiielder who gets the jump"
on the ball at the crack Of the bat
figures its trajectory at glance
spirits desperately outward and turns
exactly upon the spot where the ball
will alight, then catches 1t, has all
the calculations ever devised beaten
Physics assumes that balls, thrown
with equal force, following the same
angle of projection over the same
range. will be alike. | never doubted
it until practiced at second base with
Malachi Kittridge and the lamented
Tim Donohue throwing the ball down
to me. DCnohue threw faster, and
seemed harder, yet the ball came into
the hands as lightly as if tossed Kilt
ridges thrown ball came more slowly,
but it Jared and bruised the hands.
This popularity of throwers is un-
derstood well by players, and one of
the first inquiries concerning new
player is whether he throws a light
or heavy ball, which refers to the
striking force of the ball, and not its
weight. A ball revolving naturally.
and thrown over the finger tips, as a
fast ball is thrown, has a tendency to
lift, is light. One that loses its ro-
tary motion, and oscillates rather than
rotates, is dead" and heavy. Every
player throws different kind of ball.
the variations depending upon the size
of the hands, the length of the fingers
and the manner of holding the ball
The man who knew enough about
and also about baseball, could
fill book on the physics of pitching.
1t is simple, while seeming complex.
1t was not so very long ago that
Tying, the Harvard pitcher, developed
O curve ball that started protract- |
ed argument which finally resulted in /
a group Of learned professors gath !
ering to decide whether ball actual /
ly could be made to curve in the air. /
The professors who doubted the pos
sibility of ball curving based their
doubts upon the alleged insuih cheney
OF air resistance. They admitted the
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-18

rate Of rotation and the weight OF air.
The entire science Of pitching con
sists in the def application of fric-
ton upon some poin. of the bali which
makes it rotate in a certain direction,
or, which counteracts its natural ro-
tation and cause it to "wabble" or
float with little revolving motion. The
slow balls, tadeaways, knuckle balls,
all have as their object the proven
ton of rotary molten, or to give false
rotary motion of reverse English
The ball that Ireseits the most air
surface to the resistance Of the at
mosphere slows up quickest aud yiaids
more rapidly to erayiiation The .fne
that spins oftenest mot necessarily
fastcst) curves most.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-01-18
HIBERNIANS.
What They Have Been Doing
the Past Week-0eneral
News Notes.

Division 1 meets Tuesday night,
when work for the next few months
will be outlined.
Our endowment fund for the
Catholic Church Extension Society
now amounts to $4,000.
Many divisions and auxiliaries in
the Eastern cities are holding joint
installations. They have been most
beneficial.
Division meets next Monday
night, and as the business will be of
interest to every member it is hoped
their will be full attendance.
The division and auxiliary at
Clinton, n. Y, presented the new
st. Mary's church one of its most
beautiful stained glass windows.
The time has arrived when can
vass should be made for candidates.
With a united effort the membership
in Louisville could easily be doubled.
The hall was crowded to the doors
to hear the forcible address of Ma
tional President Regan at the Joint
Installation of the divisions in Min
Ineapolis.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of South
Omaha will be entertained Monday
night in st. Mary's Hall, three prom
inent women of the city being the
hostesses.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of New
Orleans installed it's officers last
week in Mcmahon Hall, for which a
very interesting programme had
been arranged.
President Tom .Tarpey will an
nounce the standing committees for
Division / at the meeting Tuesday
night. He requests that all members
try to be present.
The Hibernian Knights of New
York City, under comamnd of Capt.
James Mcclure, promise to become
one of the leading military organiza-
,ions of the metropolis.
The Ladies' Auxiliary at st. Cloud,
Mimi, presented Miss Anna Ken
nedy. who had been President eleven
years. a beautiful mirror in remem-
brance of her splendid work.
The divisions and auxiliaries of
Columbus, Ohio, will publicly install
their officers. County President
DUNCAN has arranged for the great
est turnout yet made there.
Division will have gala night
February G. Following the installa-
ton of officers there will be a
spread and social session in honor OF
the county officers and visitors that
all will enjoy
The year 1918 promises to be a
banner one for the Ancient Order in
Portland, Ore. The divisions there
have acquired a we'll located lot, on
which they will erect building that
will accommodate their future
growth.