The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-31
bESSEMER NEWS

| Bessemer, July 90.-(Special.) )-Last night | large number of tennis enthusiasts met | in the club rooms of the Young Men
 Athletic association for the purpose of organizing the Bessemer Tennis club. The officers Were elected as follows: George
 Houston, president; James Fitzpatrick,
 secretary and treasurer. committee | composed of Roy Cohen, Hendon Cockrell,
 John Mcconnell and N. B. Parker was
 named to arrange for the handicap tournament" which the club decided to begin next week, and the drawing will | take place Wednesday morning at 10 | o'clock.
 Fifteen teams entered last night and it Is expected that many more will enter
 before the drawing takes place.
 | James B. Morton of the Morton Hard ware company has given a handsome ! iaquet and a number of handsome prizes will also be given to the winners by the club. There will be a consolation prize
 for those who are eliminated in the first
 round and a feature of the tournament
 will be the handicap" which gives every team chance to win, and also equalizes the teams and given the weaker a good
 chance to break even or win. Among the teams and gives the weaker a good Mcconnell, w. Hugh McEnry, Fred
 Bailey, Berney Clay Peyton McEniry, Edwin Brannon, John Donaldson, H. D. Cocltrell, Adams and Salmon of Fossil, Howard McEniry, and David Trotter, Harold Rush and James Fitzpatrick G. G. Houston, Foster Bradley. Octavus Roy
 Cohen owen Williams, Smith Byers, Dr.
 F. E. Gwin and partner, Mir. Sleeves and
 partner and N. B. Parker and partner.
 Phillip Ferguson and Eugene Hinton,
 both negroes, were arrested today by De- tectves Maddox and Ross charge of larceny. It is alleged that the men stole
 a large number of razors from the Sub way Barber shop, and a number of things frornfthe Stag poolsroori1 and the Young Mems Athletic association club rooms. John T. Hagerty, Sr., entertained the baseball team of the Bessemer Rolling mill at a banquet last night at the Bright
 Star cafe, to show his appreciation of the local nine. The mill boys defeated the By Products team in an exhibition game
 at the Orphans picnic at the fairgrounds yesterday. The ground was rough, the weeds high and although the game was | slow 1t was very interesting, IS the re- suit was in doubt until the ninth in- ming. At the end of the eighth inning | the score stood to in favor of By | 1 ing loosely when Mir. Hagerty got the l team together and told them if they would so in and win the game in the ninth l inning he would give them banquet | and this they did, the score being F to 1 9 in favor of Bessemer
 The rolling mill team will meet the team l from Edgewater Saturday afternoon at
 3:3e O clock on the rolling mill diamond. The baseball team of the Bessemer Soil | Pipe company will meet the team of the
 United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry | company Saturday afternoon at 3:5o | o clock on the Pipe shop diamond. These l teams are well matched and are in splen- l did condition. The batteries will be- Bes- semer Soil Pipe company, Ross and Hous- ton; United States Cast Iron Pipe and
 Foundry company, Jones and Morrison. | Miss Myrtle Miller of Cullman, who is
 the guest of Miss Bessie Mae Lovett for the week. will sing at the First Methodist church Sunday morning at the II o'clock
 services Miss Miller Is an accomplished musician. havingS studied at the Cincn-
 natl Conservatory of Music
 The home of Mrs. c. F. Hawkins was
 the scene of a pretty hospitality yes
 terday afternoon when she entertained a number of little folk in celebration of the sixth birthday of her little daughter, Elizabeth, the affair being in the nature of lawn party. Mrs. P. r.. lDiffley and Mrs. Peyton Mims presided
 at the punch bowl, while the hostess
 was assisted in entertaining the guests s by Mrs L. s. Moorer, Mrs. H, D. Cock rell, Mrs. Jack Roll. Mrs. Alden, Miss
 persena Smith, Miss Rosa Smith and Miss Daniels of Chicago Various games ,and contests were enjoyed by the 3 guests, after which tempting refresh < ments were served. The table was decor ? ated in cut flowers and ferns while the 2 birthday cake, on which tix tapers f burned, formed the centerpiece. Those D rresent were Paul and Earl Bradley, 7 Helen upshaw, David McCampbell e Myra Lee Moorer. Bessie Moorer, l.,
 S Moorer, Jr., Ellis Terry, Jr, Margaret
 Waller Christine Hammond, Peyton
 Mims. Jr., George Woodrow. Jack Por- n ter, Lucy Terry. Helen Roll, Sadie . Ling, Edward Ling, James and Johr | White and others. The little hostess n was the recipient of many beautiful lott