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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-11
ADMISSION

Admission, November 10(Special.)
Plans for the Forthcoming convention of
the State Older Boys in this city on No
vember H. IS and 10 were practically
completed at a meeting of the chairmen
of committees at the First Methodist
church Friday evening, at which Miss
Freda Bose, state secretary of the Teen
age department, discussed in detail the
work of each committee.
A partial canvass of Admission and Ok
ford has been made by the entertainment
committee with the result of procuring
homes for practically half of the dele
gates.
Reports are coming in from various
sections of the state which indicate full
attendance. Fully 400 boys are expected
to register before Thursday of next week.
The committees are as follows: Place
and decoration committee-Lowery NAL
lory, chairman; Rev. Carlton Barnwell,
adult adviser. Registration committee
Frank Pearce, chairman; Lloyd Rivers,
adult advisor. Banquet committe-Hugh
Pace, chairman; John Stillwell, adult adj
visor.
A big Homecoming celebration is being
planned by the Grace Episcopal church,
which has just elected Rev. Carlton
Barnwell rector, with December 4 as the
date for the proposed gathering. The en-
terprise was discussed at length at din
ner prepared by the ladies of Grace Epis-
copal church and served at Noble apart
ments yesterday evening.
Felctous speeches were made by Rev.
Carlton Barnwell, rector of the church;
A p. Agee, A. N. Stanley, John Bibb,
James Keith, Judge John Pelham, Louis
Kidd Senator Kline and Samuel Robin
son. Louis Kline discoursed on this sub
ject and Walker Stickney made valua bic
suggestions. 1t is intended to have every
member of the church attend one of the
services on homecoming Sunday.
Ii. g. Sparks, farmer who lives near
| the city, sold a bale of cotton and it's
seed here yesterday for 1924, the highest
price ever recorded here. The cotton was
of long staple variety and brought q
cents pound and the seed sold at $62 a
ton. Mr.. Sparks had one of the few
patches of long staple cotton in the coun-
ty. Judge Hugh D. Merrill also has q
fine crop of long staple cotton on his
farm near here
Calhoun county came nearer feeding
itself during the past year than ever
| before in it's history, according to
the report of her first years work
| by Mrs. Ilah Williams Polhill, county
home demonstration agent in which it
| has been demonstrated that tomatoes
| Pay. Despite the floods and other
| drawbacks. numbers Of the canning
| club girls are now selling cuttings in
| Admission for so cents per dozen.
According to Mrs. Polhills report,
lee girls tried the work this year. The
average cost of production per one
| tenth acre was $432 The average cost
| OF canning per One-tenth acre was
tenth acre was $51.17, a business that
will bring in that amount on one-tenth
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OFFICIAL AVERAGES
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
BARONS JARED WELL.
Jacobson Led Batters-Bar-
ons Averaged .248 in Bat
ting, 1862 in Fielding

Baby Doll' Jacobson led the South
ern league in hitting during the past
season with an average of .346, while
Frank Thrasher, his nearest rival fin
ished with an average of $751; according
to official averages given out by the
league. Rumler of Little Rock and YerAcs
of Atlanta, finished in the next order with
the percentage of 1897 and .329, respec
tivefully.
Emil Meusel led the Barons hitters
with an average of .912, while Danny
Clark was next with .29s.
Dick Kerr was tied for the leadership
In pitching with an average of .666, Win
ming "a and losing II. Tom Rogers of
Nashville was the tie man with 1856, win
ming and losing the same number. Eur
leigh Crimes the Baron finger, was
third with .645, winning 20 and losing H.
Herbert of Nashville, Ponder of Birmirg-
ham and Wells of Nashville followed.
Red" Smith of Birmingham led the
catchers in fielding with 1872. Muddy
Ruel of Memphis was second with 1888.
Dick Robertson of Birmingham, Fins
Wilson of Atlanta, Bob Couchman or
Little Rock and Mack Allison of Mobile
were the pitchers in fielding, none OF
the four making a bobble. Cy Barger
of Memphis was next with 1871, only one
error being chalked against him.
| Ham Hyatt and Bob Messenger OF Chat
tanooga are tied for the leading out
! fielder honors. Both have averages Of
| $50. Edmondson of New Orleans and
Chadbourne of Memphis followed with
! .977 each.
| Walter Barbara of Little Rock was the
| leading shortstop with $50 while Kores
of Nashville led the third sackers With
| 1854 Jake Pitler of Chattanooga led the
second hasemen with $50, while DICK
Kaufman led the first sackers with $3.50.
nI,a Dor Sta o. follows.
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ALABAMA ELEVEN
HOLDS PRACTICE
The Crimson Eleven Stops in
Birmingham; Signal Drill
q at Redwood Field

The University of Alabama football
eleven was in Birmingham yesterday
Ell route to Atlanta where they bat
tie the strong Georgia Tech eleven to-
day. The squad, % strong, was in
charge of Coach Kelley and Faculty
Director Lonnie Noojin. The squad left
for Atlanta at o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon.
A brief workout was held at Rick
wood shortly after noon. Coach Kelley
took his Crimson warriors out and sig
nails were run. Gage also practiced on
his placement kicking. The entire
squad was in excellent condition and
were confident of giving the Yellow
Jackets a hard game,
The team arrived at o'clock yes
terday morning and remained at the
Tutwiler until noon The Alabama team
will pass through Birmingham on re-
turn Sunday afternoon.
Although Coach Kelley would not be
quoted as to the probable outcome, he
was confident that his team would
make a favorable impression against
the strong Heisman crew.
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give a true line on the ability of
the Blue.
Brown is one of the smoothest
football machines in the east this
season, and Yale must bring the
full power of it's attack to bear II
the Providence players are to be
defeated.
Cornell and Michigan figure in the
one intersectional games of the day
and the clash should produce sensa-
tional football.
Cornell, with fine football material
has been slow to find itself this sea
son, but there are signs that the Red
and White is now rounding into form.
Another royal battle should mark the
meeting of Pennsylvania and Dart
mouth. The Hanover team has demon
strated it's power even in the two de-
feats administered by Georgetown and
Princeton. 1t was not until the SYRIA
cuse game last week that the New
Hampshire eleven swung it's full
strength into the attack. The Quakers
also have shown signs of improvem ent
since the Pittsburg contest, but it is
a question whether Coach Fo1well' S
pupils have the offensive power to
overcome the Cavanaugh gridron ma
chine
Both the Army and Navy teams
should come through the days play
without defeat. The soldiers should
have little difficulty defeating Maine,
but last season the sailors were de-
feated by the North Carolina Aggies
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Tennessee has won all OF it's battles
in handy style, with the exception Of
the Chattanooga contest last Saturday.
The Volunteers did not use A. Hatcher
and several others of their first string
men and won by a single touchdown
scored in the final minutes of play. Van
derbilt, on the other hand, has not been
really extended this season, and defeated
Virginia, Kentucky State, Mississippi and
all of it's other opponents by large scores.
Reports from Nashville have been that
an epidemic of malaria has hit the Com
modores' camp and that several players
are not in the best of condition
Alabama's performance against Sewanee
did little to raise the Crimson stock.
Coach Kelley, however, is said to have
sprung a new formation in this battle
which was particularly effective as a
ground gamer, and reports from Tusca-
loosa this week said he was perfecting
other new ways of lining up his men,
which would be used against Georgia
Tech. In Quarterback Green Alabama
has a player who is likely to get away
for a touchdown at any time. Reports
from Georgia Tech say all of the players
came out of the Tulane battle in fairly
good shape.
Auburn, which defeated Georgia last
week. is expected to have little trouble
disposing of Florida at Jacksonville. Flor
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Central Battles PredS AT
RickWood Field; Pritchard
Arranged Game Yesterday

mingham composed of strictly Biz
mingham boys. All of the games OF
the rival high schools have been well
attended here this season and another
large crowd is expected out to the
battle this afternoon
Central is in the midst of a free
for-all battle for the state high school
championship and followers of the
Crimson are backing their eleven 10y
ally. Not in recent years has the stu
dent body given the team such a
strong backing as is the case at Cen
trail this year. An average of 400 stu
dents attend the game, whila the av-
erage formerly was about 90 or less.
The Preds were defeated by How
ARD college last Saturday by a large
score and thus the Central and Pred
teams are about evenly matched. Cen
trails work on the open play has been
sensational, being much on the order
of Alabama's performance against Sc
vance last Saturday. Centrafs eleven
is light and thus the open play must
be used against the heavier elevens.
Neither eleven will win by largo
score The game promises TO be hard
fought throughout rs Coach Pritch-
ard has a scrappy bunch of youngsters.
Officials will be selected today. The
Preds will arrive this morning.
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Tennessee In Fine Shape
For Battle With VQndU

Knoxville, Tenn, November 10.-(Spe-
cial. with Shelby and A. Hatcher back
in the game Saturday Tennessee will
show much stronger front than on last
Saturday With an opponent admittedly
strong, referring to Vanderbilt, as against
a team which was considered weak, the
Volunteers will go into the game with
determination that was not apparent
last week. The effect of Shelby and
HatcEers presence in the game was
shown in the first few moments of play
after they entered
Coach Bender assures all those prog
nosticators who are judging the Tennes-
see team by the play last Saturday that
they will have a surprise coming. DID
they play that way against South Caro-
lima or Florida? he asks. They went into
these two games with all they had, but
most of those persons who saw those
games declare that Tennessee did not put
forth all they had after they had the
games sewed up. In other words, many
contend that the score could have been
made much larger in either OF these
games. What is the answer" ask Ten
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EYES OF WEST ARE
ON TWO ELEVENS

Chicago, November 1Q-Only two west
ern conference football games are to be
decided tomorrow. Scarcely recovered
from the shock of seeing both Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota beaten week ago,
followers of the sport will turn their eyes
toward Evanston, ILL.,, and Columbus, O.,
where Northwestern and Ohio State, the
only unbeaten teams in the conference,
are to continue their struggles to finish
at the top of the conference ladder.
Northwestern is to tackle the University
of Iowa and Ohio is to play Indiana, but
critics who had agreed earlier that Min
nesota and Wisconsin were certain to
fight it out for the championship would
venture no positive predictions as to the
outcomes.
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ida has not won a game this season. Re
ports from Auburn have been that none
of the Plainsmen players with the ex-
ception of Tackle Wynne suffered any
thing more serious than bruises in the
Georgia game.
Tulane invades the southwest, playing
Rice at Houston, Tex. while Washington
and Lee, conquerors of the Navy, meets
Bucknell, the fourth eastern eleven on
its schedule, at Lexington, Va. South
Carolina goes to Charlottesville to play
Virginia and Georgia battles with Fur
man at Athens.
Sewanee and Chattanooga, meeting at
Chattanooga, is expected to give basis
for comparison between Sewanee and
Tennessee, which meet next week in the
fourth of the series of contests between
the four leading Tennessee universities
Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Sewanee and Chat
tanooga.
Other games on the schedule include:
Louisiana State vs. Mississippi A. and
M, at Starkville.
North Carolina A. and NJ. VS.. David
son at Winston-Salem.
Clemson VS.. Virginia Military institute
at Richmond.
Virginia Polytechnic VS.. Wake-Forest at
Blacksburg.
Howard vs.. Hamilton, at Hamilton, Ala.
Gallaudet VS.. Roanoke at Roanoke.
Eampden-Sydney vs. Richmond at
Hampden-Sydney, Va.
William and Mary VS.. Randolph-Macor
at Ashland Va
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Princeton goes to Cambridge conf
dent that the Orange and Black will tri-
umph, Notwithstanding that the wager
ing slightly favors Harvard. Tho
Tigers are admitted to have strong
veteran eleven and inner gridiron cir
cles are agog with tales of some re-
marka BILE new plays the Nassau eleven
has in reserve. If such is the case the
spectators tomorrow probably will get
more than a glimpse of these plays as
Harvard is regarded as too well versed
in defensive tactics to be defeated by
ordinary defense.
The punting game is likely to be a
big factor. briggs and Tibbott will punt
for Princeton, while Harvard will rely
on Horween, and it would appear that
Princeton has a slight advantage in
this department. In other respects
there does not appear to be much diff
ference in the ability of the teams.
To date Princeton has shown bet
ter defense than offense and it is prob
able the contest will be low score
triumph for the team which takes ad-
vantage of the breaks of the game and
holds firm under fire when once in the
lead.
YALE HAS TOUGH JOB
Yale also will face hard test
in meeting Brown, which is still to
be defeated, and the outcome will
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A game for this afternoon at Rick
wood Field was arranged yesterday
morning by Coach E. A. Pritchard be-
tween Central High school and the
Alabama Presbyterian college from An
niston. The game was billed about 10
o'clock yesterday morning over long
distance telephone. The game this aft
ernoon will start at 8 o'clock.
The game promises to be one of the
best small games in Birmingham this
season. The Preds are not as strong
as in recent years, while Centrafs
showing of late has been very encour-
aging.
Although Central defeated Ensley
High school on Thursday, the game
was little more than a regular scrim-
mage for Central and thus Coach
Pritchard had to give his eleven but
little practice yesterday in preparation
for the game.
Central is the only eleven in Bir-
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and the record of these visitors to Ann
apolis tomorrow indicates that the
Navy will have to play better foot
ball than it has shown in the last few
weeks in order to win decisively.
PITTSBURG PLAYS w. 81.
Pittsburg will face Washington and
] Jefferson and the meeting should de-
velop some of the best football of the
day, although the all-round ability of
the Pittsburg eleven is likely to win
over the aerial attack SO prominent in
the Washington and Jefferson cam
paign.
The principal games of the day in
the east, with the 1915 scores, where
the same teams met, are as follows:
Harvard VS.. Princeton 10 to 6.
Cornell VS.. Michigan, "a to Z.
Dartmouth VS.. Pennsylvania, to 8.
Yale VS.. Brown 0 to g.
Army VS.. Maine, did not meet.
Navy vs. North Carolina Aggies, u
to IA.
Pittsburg VS.. Washington and JEFF
ferson, 10 to 0.
Columbia VS.. Swarthmore, did not
meet.
Georgetown VS.. West Virginia Wes-
leyan, did not meet.
Lehigh vs. Penn, to Z.
Rutgers VS.. Virginia, did not meet
meet.
Washington and Lee VS.. Bucknell,
did not meet
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nessee supporters. 1t is that Tennessee
was at her worst last Saturday while
Chattanooga not only played in luck, but
put up its best game.
In Vowel and Wolfe Tennessee has two
ends that can hold their own with any
of them. They are as good as Hayes and
Cohen.
Contrary to the idea of many Southern
dopesters, Coach Bender does not look
upon Vanderbilt as invincible. Consider
ing that Alabama played Florida to a
16-to-0 score playing her best, and Ten
Tessee made eight more than this and
could have made more, it is thus doped
out that Tennessee is Stronger than Ala
bama, probably as much stronger as Van
derbilt.
There is nobody in this section who
comedies Vanderbilt better than two
touchdowns superior to Tennessee. This
is narrower margin, one that might be
spilled by any turn of luck.
Wiseacres contend that Bender has not
uncorked his best bet and has been saw
ing it for Vanderbilt. Bender is admit
tedly wise guy. He must be watched.
Therefore do not be surprised if Vandy
meets much more than she has been
counting on. This is not bunk. It is
facts.
But few more days will tell.
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GENERALS READY
TO MEET BUCKNELL

Lexington, Va, November 10.-(Special)
Hoping by its showing next Saturday to
compare favorably with big elevens of
the east, the Washington and Lee foot
ball team is ready to meet Bucknell. Only
signal practice was engaged in today and
a short workout is scheduled for to-
morrow, the scrimmage of the week be-
ing held on Wednesday, when Head
Coach logger Elcock had the varsity
perfecting defense for punting and for
blocking punts. Some of Captain
Youngs boots were hurried in the first
half of the Navy game, which the Gen
erals Won 10 to 0, but in the second half,
after the line had begun to shift for him,
his kicks greatly outdstanced those of
the Navy punters, one of them going 50
yards.
The whole team with the exception of
Right Halfback Grille is in good shape
and Elcock is planning to turn his men
loose against the Pennsylvariians The
Generals, however, have shown a dspo-
sition to be over-condent and Elcoclz has
worked to dispel this feeling, not looking
upon Bucknell as weak eleven, but one
that has not yet been able to hit it's
stride. Grille injured his ankle at An
napolis, and since he is the best line
plunger the team has, will be saved for
the game week later with Washington
and Jefferson at Richmond. The right
halfback problem has been difficult
one for Elcock and he will start either
Cromwell or Adams against Bucknell
From work during the past 10 days it is
beginning to look as if Paxton has beaten
out Sorrells, the regular, for the full
back position and the 153-pound lad will
probably start on Saturday. Two years
ago Elcock picked him from a crowd of
assistant managers on the sidelines and
made him don q uniform
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Prnceton's unbeaten team, which came
here today, will meet the Crimson in the
biggest game of Harvard's home sched-
ule. Applications for seats have ex-
ceeded the capacity of the great amphi-
theatre, although this has been enlarged
by extra stands. Weather conditions for
the game were doubtful tonight, over
asst skies being forecast.
The Princeton lineup was regarded as
uncertain. Funk, a second string end,
may be used as halfback, displacing
either Brown or Tibbot The effect, in
the opinion of the Princeton coaches, will
be to strengthen the team defensvely at
least.
The Harvard team will take the field
at top form. Murray will be at quarter
back, Robinson being i'll, but this fact
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acre being assuredly paying bust
ness
There were 120.2S2 pounds of toma
toes raised by club girls and 36,546
pounds of beans. There were 1880
containers of tomatoes put up in CAL
houn county by 100 club girls this
year; 1892 containers of beans and
many from farm and orchards. the to-
tai value Of which was $11,767.03.
Alice Chandler of Weaver proved
the queen of canning club for 1916.
Next in honor was Lena Clara Scar
brough of Alexandria. These two girls
will receive as prize for their work
scholarship to a short course at the
Alabama Polytechnic institute. Monte
vallo. the date to be named later.
The next best 10 records were as fol-
lows: Ada Buse, Lois Kirby, Ethel
Keller. Mamie Massey, Lois Cappocl,
Annie Bell Sparks. Bessie Armstrong,
Alma Cappock, Lillian Browning, Leila
Donia Seaman, Evelyn Conkle. Emma
Lett. Iowa Allsup, Ethel Taylor, Nancy
Armstrong. These girls will receive five
days short course to the Jacksonville
State Normal school, the date to be an
nounced later.
The Woman's club offered SIS in gold
for the neatest record book. This honor
fell to Alma Cappock. Jacksonville,
route 5. Col William H. linn offered
a prize for every record book sent in.
which brought a response from every
member of the cluo.
At the meeting of the city council
last night Leo Pruett was elected al
derman from the Second ward to sue
coed C. A. Hamilton. who resigned OH
account of his having moved from the
Second ward. Mr.. Pruett was elected
at an executive session.
1t was understood that friends OF
M. r. Snider would petition the coun-
ell to have him elected to fill the va
cancy caused by Mr.. Hamilton's res
| ignation. but this was not done.
| Mr.. Pruett has previously served on
| the council and 1t is believed tnat ms
election for the vacancy VIII meet WIZ
| the general approval not only by his
| constituents In the Second ward but
| throughout the city generally
| Emmett Powers, a 12-year-old sor
| of Lon Powers. who lives near DR.. IL
D. Bars place near Alexandria. was
| shot and instantly killed by play
mate named Gober shortly after
| O'Clock Friday afternoon. The shooting
was accidental and the Gober boy Is
! said to be Frustrated with grief ovei
| the tragedy. They had been out hunt
| ing with a single barrel shotgun and
| the accident occurred when the Gobel
! hoy pointed the gun at Powers, saying
| jokingly that he believed he woule
make a double barrel gun out OF thf
| two single barrel guns Young Powers
| was instantly killed, despite the fac
that Gober came instantly home ane
| summoned aid. The body was brought
@a1' g aents for thu
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BESSEMER ELEVEN
DOWNS TUSCALOOSA

Tuscaloosa. November 1O-(Special)
Bessemer High school had no trouble in
defeating Tuscaloosa High school here
this afternoon. The Magic City boys
ran up total of 80 points and held their
opponents without a score. Scott Of
Bessemer was almost team in himself
Time and again he plunged over Tusca-
loosa's line and skirted the ends for
substantial gains. Thomas played a great
game for Tuscaloosa. About 700 people
witnessed the battle.
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TIGERS GIVEN SENDOFF

Princeton, N. J., November 1O.-The
Princeton football squad was given a
rousing sendoff by the undergraduates
before leaving for Cambridge today and
nearly the entire student body left later
for the scene of tomorrows contest.
Coach Rush declined to give out the
Tigers lineup, but it was regarded here
as almost certain, that with one or two
exceptions the same that started against
Bucknell last Saturday would open the
struggle with Harvard. Mclean prob.
ably will be used as tackle instead of
LaTrobe, and Moore may replace Tibbot
as halfback.
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SPORTS
SOUTHERN BIG THREE
EXPECT NO SETBACK
Tech Favorite Over Automatically Expects to Trim Ten
nessee-Auburn Meets Florida-Lucky Break May
Defeat the Favorites

south to
Georgia Tech
Alabama
Is
recognized
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Bodeker Follows Alabama Eleven

Should Alabama Tech Atlanta
this gidiron will
yesterday
I'M W o the
promised gripping
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BIG ELEVENS BATTLE
ON EASTERN GRIDIRON
Harvard Open Triangular Cambridge With Odds
the RedYae Meets While Cornell and Michigan
CashPennsyana and Washington and Jefferson Clash Should
Prove Interesting Many Big Games

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