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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
swARTHMoRE BEATS GREEN.

Swarthmore, Pa, Feb. 2S-Swarth-
more outclassed Dartmouth last night
on the home floor by 43 to 16. The
Garnet quintet clearly outplayed it's
opponents in every department of the
game and from the start to the end
the result was never in doubt. The
first half ended with the score 20 to
5 in favor of Swarthmore and the sec
ond half saw the score rapidly piled
up with clocklike regularity.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
PENN DEFEATS
CORNELL FIVE

Philadelphia, Feb. 23-Headed by
the ever elusive and clever Lew
Martin, Penn basketball players de-
feated Cornell last night in Wright
man Hall and scored an easy 27 to
IL victory, thereby virtually clinch-
ing the Intercollegiate League cham
pionship. e
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
PLAY BASEBALL
IN 4 Binding
SNOWSTORM

Newport, R. l., Feb. 23-In blind
ing snowstorm and with the tempera-
ture near the zero point, officers from
the First Naval district defeated Off
GERS from Fort Adams in a full nine
inning baseball game by a score. of
IL to here yesterday. ....-1 g..
The outfielders were blotted from
view of the~home plate by the snow,
but the infielders served as observa-
ton posts for the outer defense and
occasionally directed a successful put
out.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

Chief Meyers is getting ready for
spring planting on his farm at New
Canaan. Despite the fact that the
1918 reserve list of the Braves in
cludes the catcher's name, Meyers is a
free agent, and some club could do
worse than sign the one time Giant
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

The hand of time rests lightly on
Phillies' heavy hitting outfielder. Cliff
is 35 years old, which is considerable
age these days, but he has the young
sters stepping. lively to keep pace with
him
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

The New Haven High School bas-
ketball team defeated the Crosby High
School five yesterday afternoon by a
score of g to Is.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

Ernie Koab, the ST. Louis Browns
big pitcher, has quit Phil Ball and
Fielder Jones and gone into the army.
He has been accepted for aviation
service and is now in camp at Mount
Clemens, Mich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06

is fortunate enough to have corraled, is just another triumph for this master film.
 It comes at moment when the world is beset and overridden with war; it comes at moment when comparisons are upperrnost in the minds of people as to modern warfare and the obstacles which our forebears encountered in the great civil war strife.
 The amazing picture continues to knock the breath out of all preconceived rec ords, and mildewed theories, as day after day it continues to pull it's plank from under laboriously constructed dogmas.
 The picture so fills you with emotion that you are almost speechless: but. of course all really great emotion stills, just as when one would like to have the most to say, one always has the least.
 I remember the first time I saw the picture, duly wondering how on earth anybody could be so trivial as to ap. plaud; I felt I couldn't do so; it was beyond me. But the second or third time saw it, I nearly clapped my hands off. I made just as much noise as l could; I almost shrieked with joy when ''the little colonel' walked up into the very jaws of death and placed our be- loved flag in the cannon's mouth. And then hypnotic silence again, while guns roar, men shriel1 shells burst, the rivers run red, the sun is obscured and a new harvest is gathered into the | '.Death Valley"
 | Old men, little children, helpless women l flee before the advancing army; herds of blowing cattle pour along the roads l driven by plodding dull-eyed women; OK
 carts filled with frightened children con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

Fly DOLLY DALRYMPLE
 ~ AN you beat this record? I mean Il mine? I've seen the dashing,
 thrilling, beautiful, picture, ''T'ne Birth of a Nation for the seventeenth time, and when I sat before the canvas at the packed and crowded Strand yes- terday and saw the eerie ride of the Ku- Klux Klan, with its thousand and one shrouded knights staying on to yen- geance, when heard the Wagnerian call of the Valkyries as they congregate to do their deadly work, when I beheld again the Klan riding against the red horizon like an oriflamme, spectacular, superb; when I witnessed again for the seventh time the marvellous photographic effects employed in the scenes depicting the assassination of President Lincoln, with the audience assembled at the the- atre, the Presidents box, the willy assas. sin creeping up the stairs, the confusion, the fatal shot; when I saw Henry E.. Walthan, ''the little colonel" whom I've met and known personally since I first saw his masterful characterization of the wonderful part, I gripped the arms of the chair in which sat stronger and tighter; the tears came to my eyes faster and quicker; I bit my lips harder and harder to keep from crying when the scenes of desolation were shown in our beloved southland, far more than I did the first time I ever saw MT. Grifrith's masterpiece.
 This popular-priced sweep of "The Birth of a Nation," which the Strand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06


 i voyed by their apprehensive mothers trundle over the fields, and all day long and all night long homesteads go up in wanton flames.
 And behind the armies, what? Scared fields, scattered trees and ruined houses, staring gloomily out through glassless stunted
 as everybody who knows me knows; I love the pictures; love the progress they've made; I love the educational value they possess; have seen nearly all of them that are worth while" and freely say that seeing "The Birth of Nation" for the seventh time, I de- clare it to be the greatest picture ever made
 All my life long I had thought up to the time first saw this photoplay that to grip an audience,' to hold, to melt l it into tear5 with pathos, to thrill it with heroic sentiment, required the spoken word and the magic of the human voice; but "The Birth of a Nation disproves | all of this theory by playing upon the l heart like harp of a thousand strings, working it up into perfect frenzy, by l it's pathos and humor, tragedy and glory, at which people laughed and sobbed, and sobbed and laughed, and yet never a word was spoken.
 ] The merits of this extraordinary screen drama, and it's splendid photography are too we'll known already for more words. 1 Only this: If you happen to be one who | hasn't seen sThe Birth of Nation" I'm ] awfully sorry for you. for it is the
 apotheosis of the movies-the masterpiece of filmland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
RANDOM NOTES

Mrs. Abe Rich and children are spend ing few weeks on the southern coast.
 Mrs Asbury Barnett, who is the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. J. A. Dow ney, on South Twentieth street, will re- turn to her home this week in Ashe- vile, N. c.
 Mrs. George Cruikshank is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Shaler Houser, in Tuscaloosa.
 Miss Kate Belle Harrison, who has spent the past three months in the city, has returned to her home in Tuscaloosa.
 
 Mrs. Richard Prowell has returned to her home in Tuscaloosa, after spending a few days in the city
 Mrs. W. D. Partlowe, after spending a few days in the city with her mother, Mrs. J. T. Nixon, has returned to her home in Tuscaloosa.
 Miss Marian Smyer has returned from a short visit to Miss Mary Rosser Bran- don in Gadsden.
 Mrs. Annie Jones is the guest of her daughter. Mrs. DeVane Jones and MT Jones, in Tuscaloosa.
 Miss Marion Orr Is the guest of Mss Mary Julia Street, in Guntersville, and will be among the out-of-town guests al the wedding of Miss Street and Lieut. Wright Hackett Ross, Jr., this evening Friends of Mrs. J. M. Mason will bt glad to learn that she is recovering from her recent illness. ' Mrs T. II. Motion and Miss Gertrude Motion are spending sometime at Or mond Fla, and will later visit Palm Beach.
 Mrs Walter Scott and children, whc are spending sometime in New York witt Dr. Scott who will sail soon with the l army for the front, will return to Bir' mingham this month. Mrs. Sidham M. Smith is the gues of relatives in Montgomery. Miss Lorena Lawley has returned from Anniston, where she spent the week end During her stay she sang in one of the churches and delighted the sol. diers at Camp Mcclellan with her votes Miss Inez Elliott left yesterday fol Selma, where she will be the guest o1 Mrs. B. B. Rudulph. Mrs. May Smith, who has spent the past few days in the city as the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. M. Mason and Dr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
FOR MISS MARTIN

Miss Esther Kennedy entertained at luncheon yesterday at her home on South Fifteenth avenue, complimenting Miss Lucille Martin, bride-elect. The table was centered with a basket of pink carnations and white narcissi, and she place cards were the handiwork of Mss Mable Kennedy. sister of Miss Kennedy.
 The guests were: Miss Martin. Miss Evelyn Westmoreland. Miss Grace HalL Miss Katie steinhuis. Miss Thelma Ab- ernathy, Miss Marjorie Gilmore. Miss Mabel Kennedy, Mrs. John D. Chiches- ter, Mrs. T. H. Simms. Mrs. D. I. Mar tin. Mrs. A. c. Jenkins and Mrs. J. s. Kennedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
FLORENCE

Florence, February 5.-(Special.) )-Carl Thomason a young white boy. while in a quarrel with Booker T. Moseley, col orded, stabbed him in the left side with long -bladed knife, part of which broke off and remained in his body. The wound is 9 very serious one. and small hope of his recovery is entertained. The difficulty occurred yesterday afternoon between and o'clock Both youths are about 13 years of age, Thomson being one of the Western Union Telegraph mes sengers, while Moseley is the son of a colored preacher.
 Rev. D. w. Hollingsworth of Greenville,. who has been called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church here. preached his first sermon here Sunday morning and has been unanimously elect ed for the ensuing year. MT. Hollings- worth comes very highly recommended, and the members are confident they have secured an able minister. This church has been without a pastor since the res
 gnation of Rev G.. r. Bell several months ago, who was called to North Carolina
 The decision from headquarters of the Northern Alabama Gas company at Phil adelphia to close down their plant in the Rri-Cities. announced few days ago, Aas been descinded and will continue as iias been rescinded and will continue as
 S wei cned here. The gas company had asked Tor a service charge of 30 aanss q iaaAth. The city commission CTS Yer i pairing to appoint receiver for the Int when the above mentioned order ,aA cAanged.
 The k ersnee brass band recently clec' e1 At sharp of the State Normal sch as fs4erltg as librarian of music, and My Tofey Fago as business manager. Of z. A. Henry. who organized the hand sSHd nas since served as its effici- ent uiSe tor. resigned to accept an ap- point1 3es by the United States govern-
 nese auditor, and leaves soon for B r. Tn3nam to take up his duties An
 fs' sl' director will be secured at an earl Ns 10 fill his place It. Is with sincere et that the people gSe him up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Nineteenth Century club will meet this afternoon with Mrs. John Danforth at her home on South Thirteenth avenue. The Birmingham Graded union Will meet this morning at 10:30 o'clock at the First Methodist church.
 
 The board of control of the State Tratn- ing School for Girls will meet this morn- ink at 10 o'clock in the committee room of the public library.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06

Gus Benners, Mrs Louise Woodward Ball, MT. Greene, Miss Clarice Somnsr, Mir Simpson, Miss Loeb, Miss Simpson, Mrs. Stutz, Miss Elizabeth Wyman, Miss Beverly Leake, Miss Catherine Ledbet- ter MT. Harris Miss Susie Green, MT. Hughes, Dr. and Mrs. Ledbetter, MT. and Mrs. Dunlap, Mir. and Mrs. Renalde, MT. M. Sommer, Mr. Sig Steiner, Dr. and Mrs. K. W. Constantine. MT. Fitzsimmons, Mir. and Mrs. Wyatt, and others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
yAGER-TOWERs

The following invitations have been sent to friends in the city who remem- bered MT. and Mrs. Towers and Miss Towers very pleasantly as former res idents of this citys
 MT and Mrs. John Reed Towers re- quest the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their daughter, Laura Mel, to MT George Leslie Yager, on Wednesday, February 20, at o'clock in the evening"; Arleigh, Roekledge, Fla.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
MRS. IRWIN ENTERTAINED MISS MOITGHON

Mrs E. B. Erwin entertained at bridge tea yesterday afternoon at the Country club, experimenting Miss Nal lie Moughon, bride-elect.
 The guest of honor was presented with & piece of lingerie and the score prize was a cut glass perfume bottle. "A salad course was served late in the afternoon. There were three tables of players, which included the members of the wedding party and few tntt- mate friends of the bride-elect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
TITTWILER sIJPPER PARTY

Among those noted at the supper-dan- sant Monday evening were: Dr. Lotter- ham, Miss Margaret Gage, MT. Mason, Mr. Julian Caheen, Miss Violet Semon- MT. and Mrs. Tom Panky. Dr. billiard,
 MT. and Mrs. w. c. Lloyd. MT. and Mrs.
 Dalton Scales, MT. and Mrs. R. D. Bur
 ger, MT. and Mrs. Roy Mccullough, MT. Horace Hammond, MT. Morris Bush, MT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
MRS. HUGH THOMPSON

Mrs. Hugh Blair Thompson, who has been spending sometime at Jackson vile, Fla, is the guest of her parents, MT and Mrs. J. B. McClary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
FOR MRS. HOLMES

Miss Marion Childers will entertain at tea this afternoon, complimenting Mrs. c. M. Holmes, a recent bride, who is visiting in the city as the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. A. L. Brown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
FOR MISS YARBRoUGH

Mrs Richard Scriner entertained at cards yesterday afternoon at her apart ment at Terrace Court, complimenting Miss Clara Yarbrough, a bride-elect.
 The bride was presented with a piece of linen and the score prize was basket of tulips. Later in the after noon a salad course was served and the guests included: Miss Clara Yarbrough, Mrs S. L. Smith, Mrs. Charles Brooks Mrs Frank Gafford, Jr Miss Ina Shepard, Miss Virginia B. Handley, Mrs Henry Hidden, Jr., Mrs. John Coxe, Mrs Roscoe Harris, Mrs. James Moore, Mrs, Wayland Jones, Mrs. Boiling, Mrs. Luke Hunt, Mrs. Edwin Irwin, Miss May Davis, Miss Esther Marlborough. Mrs Sallie Foshee, Miss Ava Lide, Mrs Leroy Holt, Miss Alma Dixon, Mrs. E. T. Rice and Miss Annie Lynch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
CONCERT FOR CAMP
 M'CLELLAN'S SICK SOLDIERS

The Junior Music club will give benefit musicale this afternoon at 3 o'clock at Cable hall, when most in- teresting and varied programme will be given. The proceeds will go to the hospital at Camp Mcclellan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06

request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Angus ta Braune, to Mrs. Frank James lnge. Jr., on Tuesday, February l2 at ( o'clock, p. m, at Christ church, Tusca- loosa."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
MISS LEAKE TO ENTERTAIN

Miss Beverly Leake will entertain on next Tuesday the members of her card club and few other friends, in honor of Mrs. Calvin Satterfield of Richmond. Va. the guest of MT. and Mrs. w. E. Leake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
INGEHARwOOD INVITATIONS

The following invitations have been issued: ~Judge and Mrs. Bernard Harwood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
CoIJNcIL OF woMEN's CLUES

COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S CLUES
 The Council of Womens clubs will have an important meeting this morn ing at 10:30 o'clock in the directors room in the Chamber of Commerce
 The call is made by the Joycrofters, seconded by the Studiosis, and it is to consider the work which is being done for the Alabama boys who are in the cantonments. Mrs. Frank Clark, pres ident of the council, will preside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06

Mason, has returned to her home in Marion.
 Mrs. John F. Evans and sons, Kan dolph and Richard, and little daughter, Frances, who are the guests of MT. and Mrs. w. c. Agee, in Selma, will return home Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. G. A. Boyle announce the birth of daughter. whom they have named Harriett Edna.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06

Mrs. Walter Scott and children, who are spending sometime in New York with Dr. Scott, who will sail soon with the army for the front, will return to Bir- mingham this month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06

Mrs. T. II. Motion and Miss Gertrude Motion are spending sometime at Or mond, Fla, and will later visit Palm Beach.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-13
If KIDNEYS AND
BLADDER BOTHER
Take Salts to flush Kidneys and neu-
trallxe Irritating
AcIde.

Kidney and Bladder weakness re-
suit from uric acid, says noted
authority. The kidneys filter this
acid from the blood and pass it on to
the bladder, where it often remains
to irritate and inflame, causing q
burning, scalding sensation, of the
bladder, obliging you to seek relief
two or three times during the night.
The sufferer is in constant dread.
the water passes sometimes with a
scalding sensation and is very pro-
fuse; again, there Is difficulty in
avoiding it
Bladder weakness, most folks call
1t, because they can't control urina-
ton. While 1t is extremely annoying
and sometimes very painful. this is
really one of the most simple all
ments to overcome. Get about four
ounces of Jad Salts from your phar-
macist and take a tablespoonful in a
glass of water before breakfast, con-
will neutralize the acids in the urine
ton to the bladder and urinary or
gans which then act normally again.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, harmless,
and is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with
lithia, and is used by thousands of
folks who are subject to urinary dis
orders caused by uric acid irritation.
Jad Salts is splendid for kidneys and
causes no bad effects whatever.
Here you have pleasant, efferves-
cent Whitewater drink, which quickly
relieves bladder trouble.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-13
CHAPTER Xxx

Popular belief had dethroned the
mighty John L. Sullivan when Charley
Mitchell went through the famous
thirty-nine rounds with him at Chant
lily. 1t was believed everywhere that
the next good man who met Sullivan
would be the man to stop him and end
his career as worlds champion-for
thus he was considered by most critics.
Sullivan was furnishing himself Sc
verely by his addiction to drink and
utter disregard of training rules. He
had stated when he returned from
France that he meant what he said
when he told friends In France that
he would never fight again, and he I'M
mediately began to get rid OF what
money he had accumulated.
Sullivan was a great spender OF
money, although the popular belief
that 1t all went to bad purposes, is
wrong Many dollar Of Sullivan mon
ey went to charity. Often he stopped
a newsboy in the streets and purchas-
ed his entire stock of papers, pressing
SIS or $40 into the hand Of the boy.
Many a man without money was sud
denly enriched when Sullivan heard
of his circumstances. Many wrote
him for financial help and never were
refused, whether Sullivan knew the
writer or not. That was where most
of his money went He easily earned
100000 during the high tide Of his
popularity as champion, and added an
other similar amount after he had
been defeated.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-13
SPORTS
FROM TOW-BOY TO WORLDS CHAMPION
HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF JOHN L. SULLIVAN
n. C. HAMILTON
Correspondent
Copyright
CHAMPION

When Sullivan finally agreed to
meet Kilrain he went into training
with great vigor. He realized that he
had reached time when only applica-
ton of the hardest sort would save
him from defeat, and he attempted TO
efface some of the results OF his alco-
hol addiction.
This battle with Kilrain came very
near going down in history as a near.
pugtlistic encounter, for the law was
beginning to frown more and more
heavily on a sport 80 brutal as fighting
in the days Of the London prize ring
rules. 1t was with considerable diff
Guilty that the fighters and promoters
of the bout finally found place where
they could slip away and be free from
Interference.
The spot, he-ever, was found, nm
ally, in Mississippi, but the hight 1ol-
lowers who assembled at New Orleans
before the bout didn't know where
they were going even when they clam
bered aboard trains and started for
the scene of the mill. The ride was
tlong and hard, over the Queen and
Crescent railway, between rows OF
state militia who had been turned out
id Louisiana to guard against any pos
sibility of the bouts being staged In
that state.
The spectators, fighters and others
connected with the bout were turned
out at Rickburg, Miss, where the most
famous of all John L. Sullivan's bouts
was fought
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-13
MISKE WANTS
A CHANCE, TOO
Would Like to Know Where He Gets
off In This WiiIard-Fulton-
Dempsey Thing, Any
how.
rBY n. C. HAMILTON


UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, March 13.-Billy
Miske, Of St. Paul, a fighter of tough
ness, wants to know where he gets OF
in this ard-Fulton-Dempsey thing.
In a letter to the United Press sport
ing editor, Pearl Smith, manager of
Bill, wants to know why Bill isn't be-
ing given some consideration.
Although Fulton and Dempsey are
first class men, / can't see why you
overlook Billy Miske, who has defeated
Fulton twice." remarks Smith under
a letter-head which proclaims Billy
the worlds heavyweight champion.
I'm seventy bouts" Smith ambles
en-, "Miske has never been knocked on
his feet, whereas Dempsey and Full
ton have been knocked out. l have
been trying to get Dempsey to meet
Miske but to date have not succeeded.
"BilI may be lighter than these 9TH
er two, but he, like Bob Fitzsimmons,
has the goods. think Miske is sec
ond Bob in both build and fighting
qualities"
Smith is the first man recalled just
at present who has designated Billy
Miske as the worlds heavyweight
champion. He claims it through
Miske's victory" over Fulton in st.
Paul, The bout was ten rounds, went
the limit and no decision was given.
AS q matter Of fact, Fulton and
Miske should settle their troubles, and
Jack Dempsey really should eliminate
Miske before setting himself up as
the equal of Fulton. A Miske-Demp-
sew bout would be worth big gate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-13
S OR TEL T IS

Jim Mccormick. who was a star
pitcher on the White Sox when Billy
Sunday and Cap Arson were playing.
died the other day in Paterson, Ne"
Jersey. He and Silver Flint Meteor
mick were at one time considered
the best battery In baseball.
It would be interesting to know
lust whether Jess Willard really is
going to risk his title in fight with
Fred Fulton on the Fourth. Willard
has been stalling so long that fight
fans are getting tired Of the same
old line.
Coach Maurice Kent of Iowa Uni
versity, has led his baseball aspir
ants outdoors for the first time this
spring. He has seven veterans from
the 1917 squad In addition to seTera
men ON last years freshman team
who showed promising stuff. The
Hawkeyes should lard well up In the
conference pennant race.
CAPTAIN Harrison Cummins Nc
Henry Of Des Moines was one OF the
fifteen Iowa boys killed in action the
other day. Captain McHenry was ar
athlete OF prominence while at Yves
High and later on won honors IL
football and track at Drake university
Calvin Demarest, the former bill
lard champion, who broke doWr
mentally a couple Of years ago, seems
to be making some progress at tht
Elgin hospital He has the use OF
billiard table and seems to be az
handy as ever with the cue.