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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
SPORTS
 LOCALLY WIRE

day or not at all so watch for him in the box in tomorrow's game.
 The Southern league rules specify
 fine of $500 for loaning a player and also $500 for tampering with a player on another team. Now President Logan of the Mobile club announces that he will make Cholly Frank pay $500 for loaning Nasty to Mobile and $500 more for tampering with Damrau while he was the property of me Bruins Logan states further that he will appear be- fore the directors and demand that either ChoIly Frank or himself be kicked out of the league. Fat chance. Logan You don't know Choliys inson lost.
 So high was the feeling in Little Rock over that recent Pelcan-Trav- eler series that 5000 was bet on the third game of the series, which Rob- inso lost.
 How the mighty have fallen. Dickey Robertson. for while star pitcher of the Pe1icans and later on bought by the Washington Senators. is now pas timing in the Texas league. And we notice that somebody is being sent in
 to bat for Danny Clark every once in a while. Danny is playing the out field. Carlo Black shut out a Texas league opponent and Tommy Long kal- somined an American association team
 last week. Verify things do change. Max Carey, once considered the best outfielder in the National league is being kept on the bench because Stem gel. Southworth and Bisbee are nit ting so well that Bezdek is afraid to bench any of them. And Carey Is cap tain of the team. too; also the best base-runner in the circuit.
 Both New York and Chicago profited I by the Dave Robertson-Phil Douglas
 trade. Robertson, though in our opin- | ion is a more valuable man than Doug | las. was of no use to McGraw because | he wouldn't play with the Giants. On
 other hand. Robertson will add lots of
 punch to the Cubs and may yet pus | em in the pennant races Cincinnati
 is the team that lost by the deal. | A---
 l Kid Caton has been of little use to
 the Pirates all season Terry is now 1 holding down short regularly. Nine of the Atlanta players are col ] lege men. Styles and Boone are from the University of Alabama, Suggs aud l Griffin from Auburn, Milton Reed from the University of Georgia. Sammy | Mayer from Georgia Tech, Galloway | from the Presbyterian college of Caro- | lima, Roberts from Mississippi A. X NJ and Dykes from Holy Cross. Another | unusual thing about the Crackers Ia
 that only two of them are married,
 Higgins and Damrau. Four of the l team, Suggs. Styles, Boone and Grif- fin. are native Alabamians.
 From where we sit. it looks as if | the worlds series will be played n New York and Chicago.
 The Barons return homo Tuesday for an 11-game stay, taking on Mem phis for one game, Little Rock for
 two. Memphis for two, Nashville for three and Chattanooga for three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
NEW MEMBERS ARE BEING BROUGHT IN BY B. A. [. COMMITTEE
Only Ten More Members Are Needed to Fill Out the Quota
 for July

The last report turned in by the mem
 bership committee of the Birmingham
 Athletic shows the acquisition of 120
 new members for the month of July.
 90 of these 120 are regular members,
 10 short of the mark set by the offi-
 cers of the club, for the July's work.
 There are five more days in which the
 membership committee of the Athletic
 club can get 10 more regular mem bers. Judging by the way things have
 been going recently this ought to be
 an easy job for the committee.
 The membership of the Athletic club is now about 360 regular members. The mark set by the officers of the club for the membership drive is 500 regular, inclusive of the old members. When this mark is reached, the doors lNof the club will be closed. and no more new members will be received, until | the regular membership of 500 falls | below par. Even then, an initiation | fee of $25, besides the regular mem bership fee of s44, will be charged l This initiation fee used to be in ef- | feet, but when the war took so many | members away from the list of the club, it was abandoned. l will be a 1 Birmingham Athletic club after this
 memb bership drive is over.
 | When the club was first formed, life l memberships were issued. There were a | fairly large number of these member | ships taken up. In behalf of the
 club w. c. Woodruff, secretary
 wis/cs to urge all life members who have fallen out of the habit of coming
 to the club regularly, to get new
 start, and get back into the habit of visiting the club regularly, and en- 1 joy the privileges which have been
 paid for.
 | The new spring board has been in- 1 stalled in the swimming room of the Athletic club, and it is as fine a spring | board as is to be found in the city
 Many other improvements have been | made to the club. including the re-
 modelling and repainting of the locker I and shaving room. Many other i'm 1 provernents are also being made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
RTJSINESS MAN MAY
 REPRESENT LAPS
RX Associated Press

1fxr Tokio. July 25.-The opinion senerahS prevailing that Viscount Ishii will not return to Washington as Japanese am. bassador public attention is centereo on the question of his successor Ihe Washington diplomatic post is consloerea by Japanese to be the most important of all.
 In this connection the Herald or Asia, leading Japanese weekly, which is printed in English, suggests that Japan aoop. the American method and send grea. Japanese citizen rather than proles- sional diplomat. It suggests the name or T No,lve. the president of the Bank or Japan. Baron Mitsui, Baron lwasakl' o' Baron Shibusava and adds;
 By any one of these men the real Japan would be better represented than by some champions of her strictly traihed oipio ,.,a+ic corns The Americans do not much believe in or appreciate those versed In the wiles of diplomacy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
 DECADENCE IN
 FAMOUS FIESTA
Bv Associated Press

Mexico City July 25.-With St. John s Day come and gone again for another year, the newspapers of the capital are unanimous in asking why this one-time prominent fiesta is waning in popularity. The holiday occurs on June "A and was early written into the customs of the Mexicans as a day for bath and for a feast celebrating the activity of St. John the Baptist.
 This year. according to the newspape- there was marked decrease in the ob- servance of the day. The bath houses which in former years did capacity bus'- ness from early dawn until noon were not busy. The holiday spirit was lacking. In the Zocalo, the principal place of the city, where on holidays booths are erect ed for the sale of food, drinks and trinkets. only thin line of stalls marked the line for promenaders. The decadenc- of the fiesta was everywhere apparent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
Breaking Faith With Minors Is Charged to
 the National League

Chicago, July 26.-A. R. Tearney. president of the, Western and Three | leagues, and chairman of a special committee representing the National association of Minor leagues. tonight charged the National League with breaking faith with the minors In regard to drawing up a new agree meut to take the place of the so- called agreement. which the minors abrOGated.
 John A. Heydler, president or the National League, advised Chairman Tearney that the National League would not enter any formal ngree- ment with the minors unless the right of the major leagues 70 draIt players from the minors was fn- cluded so "ns to enable ball players to advance in their profersion. as provided by the national aEreement.'
 The minor leagues are demanding that the majors buy promising players outright instead of draft- ing them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
MORRIS AVENUE IS
 WINNER OVER T. c. I.

Yesterday afternon at Smiths field, the Morris avenue team defeated the T. C. I. office team, in the class B, amateur league, by score of to 4. The game was fast and snappy, both teams showing a brand of ball, equal to that of the class A leaguers.
 Neither side exhibited much hard hitting tendencies. The Morris avenue team made onlY7 hits. while their op- ponents connected safely only times Travis pitched the entire contest for the T. C. I. team. but Spray was re- lieved by Milton for the Morris avenue nine.
 There were three Morris avenue boys to hit twice Boggen, Hall and Rullis by name They were the only ones who exhibited any desire to get more than their share of the hits of the game. Score:
 IT. c. I. Offices 001 800 0O0--4 Morris Avenue 900 023 00x-5 Batteries Travis and Galbaugh Spray, Milton and Caldwell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
PROGRESS MADE IN
 RESTORING LENS
Former Inhabitants Are Gradually Building Houses From Debris
 Left by Germans
By Associated Press

Paris, June 16.-Lens, the most thor oUghly devastated town of the war, is slowing signs of revival. When the As sociated Press correspondent visited this erstwhile busy coal mining center of the department of the Pas de Calais early this year. it still looked as though set of giant sledge hammers had pounded the whole place to atoms. To the west of it lies the grim battlefield of Loos, which has the curious appearance of petrified sea. The soil has meen plowed up in an extraordinary manner by thousands of poisonous gas bombs, which have tinged the sparse vegetation unhealthy gray.
 Before the war Lens had 30,000 inhab- itants When the correspondent visited the locality in it's state of hopeless deso- lation. there were only three sturdy op- timists left. who led a cave mans ex- istence among the ruins. Their nearest point to get food was Burly-Grenay, 10 miles away, and there was no transpor- tation.
 Things have been mending since. To- day about 3o00 of the exiled inhabitants have returned. They are housed in cor rugated iron hutments formerly used by the British army. The cleaning up of the place, began by Chinese and German pris- oner work squads. is taking on more speed The approaches have been laid bare to cellers and underground shelters which have been occupied by homeless house hunters" Even building of a sort is going on the material used being such odd bits of wood. stone and iron as were still serviceable in the huge rubbish heap that once was Lens
 t, In the Pas de Calais department alone | 15O townships and villages are in the same plight as Lens, or nearly SO The task of making these places fit to live m | again is a herculean one. Labor is avail 1 able in adequate numbers, but to Iodse and feed the men is great problem. The latest suggestion is to use covered army hot.or trucks as temporary shelters for
 the workers by whose effort Lens is to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
ONE OF STRANGEST
 FLAGS IN HISTORY.

Archangel, Juno 1-(Correspondence Of the Associated Press )-One of the strang- est flags ever designed was adopted while ago by a regiment of Karelian Films serving with the allied forces on the Murman railway line near Kan. Prussian I.apland.
 The flag. designed, fl is said, by rs- quest of the Karelians, who have ambi- ticns to form an independent state, tn- cluded the national color of the Kare-
 Hans, bright orange and their national flower, the Karelian clover.
 The result was a startling resemblance to green shamrocks upon an orange back ground. The Russian government caused the flag to be hauled down as it did not. at that time, approve Karelian independ- ence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
Best Talent Of City to Meet
 mEastLake SWimr1ing Meet
Six Clubs and Associations Enter Teams-Many Indvid ual Stars Listed Among Entries-Winners to Be Sent
 to New Orleans-B. A. (. in Charge of Meet

fellow who came out second in the A. A. U. southern championship races last year. Hulette Parker made extra goo time in trial swim of 50 yards He swam 50 yards. four turns, in exactly 25 seconds. timed by Prof Ed. Spen- cer. trainer for the Athletic club swim mers.
 East Lake also has an especially good team. This team is composed of Francis Levvy, Louis Elliott. Louis Pierce and Freddie Levvy. All are fast swimmers and are well known in ath- letic circles of the city. Louis Pierce is especially a fine swimmer and ran Joyce Levvy close race in last years meet. He came out exactly one stroke behind Joyce. All four boys are good divers and claim that they are going to win the pennant for the East Lahe association.
 The B. R.. L. & P. has by far the fullest list of entries. Billy Morgan is entered in the events for the boys under 12 years of age. while Tom An derson, Coleman Gillian, Douglas Me. Laren and Leon Brown compose the team for the boys Is years of age and under The senior team is composed of J. F. Muller, Jr., Gillie Chisolnl, Fred Binkselle, Felix Mitchell. E. H. Buechner and Ed Jennings. The ladies team is to be composed of Miss AL DcT ld JOncS MISS Mdiy by hc PtIllp- son, Miss Garnett Launey, Miss Chris tine Tobin and Miss Mary Launey. All five of these swimmers are extra good and promise to give the other women entries hard fight. The fancy div ing team is composed of J. F. Muller, Jr., Gillie Chisolm. Fred Brinkseile, Felix Mitchell Miss Alberta Jones and Miss Mary Byrne Simpson.
 The other clubs who have entered teams have not fully decided upon the individual entrants, but all claim to have "crackerjack" teams which will do justice to themselves and to their clubs.
 It is thought that the winners of the meet will be sent to New Orleans by the Birmingham Athletic club These lucky ones, if the plan carries through, are to compete in the southern cham pionship meet. and ought to carry off all honors for Birmingham. There are several fine swimmers in this city and if sent to New Orleans they have splendid chance to win honors. Tins years meet promises to be the best of its kind in many years, both in the number of entrants and the talent of those entered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
ENTRIES ID RACES AT STATE FAIR ARE
 ID CLOSE FRIDAY Entrance List of Late Clos
 ing Events Will Close on the First of s October

Friday, August 1, the entries for the early closing races to be run during the 1919 session of the Alabama State Fair will be closed. All horses to be enteed in any of the following events must be gertered and registered by Friday: 2:24 trot, purse $1O00
 PIP trot, purse 5000. S-2:14 pace, purse $1000
 2:20 pace, purse 5000.
 The races will be run on the three-heat plan, every heat race. Enough good horses have been entered to promise some close and exciting races. The late-closing events will close on October 1. The following events will be held in the late-closing events:
 2:1S trot, purse $500.
 2:20 trot, purse $500.
 2:14 trot, purse $500.
 2:16 trot, purse $500. X Free-for- all trot, purse $500
 2:10 pace, purse $5000
 2:25 pace. purse $500. ls 2:17 pace, purse $500.
 POT pace, purse $500.
 Free-for-all pace, purse $500.
 In these latter events $50 will be dis tributed to the winners of each heat, and the winner of the race getting $50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
OPEN HOSPITAL
 IN SIBERIA

onsk June o-To meet an emergency in hospital work for wounded Russians of the army fighting the bolsheviki, the American Red Cross has opened one or it's biggest hospitals at Cheliabinsk.
 The opening of heavy fighting on the JJfa front brought many wounded sol diers to the already burdened RvSsian military hospitals. The Red cross sent tn Cheiiabinsk pr. Henry w. Newman.
 C.heliabinsk promises to be an impor- portant station for American Red Cross work this summer as it is expected that the fighting will be particularly heavy in the district fronting 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
SPORTS
 RY non McDAvTD

Tuesday afternoon at East Lake the best swimming talent of the city is to meet in the city championship swim ming events, to be staged under the auspices of the Birmingham Athletic club. The meet is free for all. Any one may enter and take part in any of the individual events.
 There will also be team events. To take part in these team events several associations and clubs have entered teams to compete for them. The as- sociations entering teams are the Bir- mingham Railway, Light and Power Athletic association. the Y. M. c. A, the Y. W. c. A., East Lake Swimming as- -sociation, West Lake Swimming asso- eciation and the Birmingham Athletic club. Some of the states best swim smers are entered among these six teams.
 There are junior events, swimming and diving; senior events, swimming and diving. and events for ladies. swimming and diving. The ladies' events are open to both girls and wo- men, but the mems events are divided faccording to ages; an event for boys
 
 eboys Is years and under, and the mems events, for men 16 years of age and over
 There will be a gold medal for each senior and fancy diving event, a trophy for the relays and for the ladies events. the winner will receive gold medal and second and third places prizes In each junior event the win sner will be awarded prize. The club sor association making the best show ing will be presented with a pennant
 TEAM ENTRIES
 The entries for the events have been training for some time for the meet and their trainers announce that they are in ttptop condition. The entries for the Birmingham Athletic club are considered among the best They in sclude Bill Moughon, Monk Armstead, Coleman Moughon and Joyce Levvy in the senior events, and Hulette Parker, the two Seigal twins and several others in the junior events These boys are all fast swimmers and prom ise to give the others a tough tus5el for the leadership. Joyce Levvy is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
Miners Buy Brewery

By Associated Press
 London. June 20.-Because the coal min- CTS of Wales cannot buy enough peer owing to the shortage, they are buying a brewery company has been formed to purchase and operate it and the cap ital of $l00,O0O is being subscribed py various miners clubs, which are tax ing out shares in the concern in pro- portion to membership.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
Mexicans Are Migrating
 nu Aeso<iated Prexe

Mexico City, July 2-Newspaper ad- vices here are that there is a lively exodus of Mexicans from the United States their destination being Lower California, where agricultural colonies are being formed. Three thousand such persons are said to have entered Mexi- co during the last week in June.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
Ban on Sunday Game
 at Little Rock Lifted

Little Rock, Ark. July 2Gl-The ban on Sunday baseball at Camp Pike has been lifted at least tenn pOrarily. A telegram from the war department to officials at the camp today authorized the playing of q game tomorrow between the Little Rock and Atlanta Southern associa- ton teams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
Eat Candy Reduce Weight

, If you wish to reduce steadily. yet
 eat candy, ice cream, etc. get small box of oil of korein at the druggists
 Follow the directions. Absolutely safe. guaranteed method of becoming. thin gracefully, vivacious, mentally and physically alert-glad you're alive!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
Dempsey Leaves to Sign
 a Contract in Chicago

Cincinnati, July 26.-Jack Demp- sey, puEiiistic champion, left today for Chicago where he expects to sign n theatrical contract for a pe- riod of seven weeks. He was ac- companied by his manager, Jack Kearnes. Dempsey has been visiting his mother since Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
Saloons in Mexico City

Mexico City, July 2.-El Heraldo de Mexico in the course of a protest against social conditions in the capital. states that there are now more than 2000 saloons in the city with scores of others oper- ating in secret under the guise of rest rooms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27

Benny Karr and Rube Robinson of Little Rock and Rube Marshall of Chattanooga are the only hurlers who have pitched in 200 innings or more this season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27

Mobile must pitch Hasty tomorrow. According to the court decree, the lanky hurler must pitch every fourth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27

Lester Sheehan. who beat. the Trav- elers yesterday. is the leading pitcher of the Southern league, having won seven auI lost but one game this sea son. Torkelson of New Orleans has won 15 and lost but five.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27

The Barons are fighting hard. but they just simply "ain't, there this season. boys. We hate to admit it. The pitchers looked mighty promising when the cur tain went up and the team looked well balanced all around, which it still does outside of the box, but pitching is about half of the defensive strength and when it cracks. there can be but one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27

So high was the feeling in Little Rock over that recent Pelican-Trav- eler series that s5000 was bet on the third game of the series, which Rob- inso lost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27

day or not at all. so watch for him in the box in tomorrow's game.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-10

On another occasion the discharged
torpedo hit the water at an awkward
angle and, richocheting from the wa
ter, rose and demolished the airplane.
The difficulties, however, were over
come with such success that one Brit
ish airplane discharged torpedoes
which sank Turkish transport carry
ing 5000 troops.
The efficacy Of the weapon may be
realized from the following brief de-
tails Of its operation:
Espying an enemy craft, the flying
torpedoboat makes a sudden dive from
the clouds at a speed Of $50 miles an
hour till 1t is within fifty feet of the
surface, when it discharges the torpe-
do direct at the enemy ship, then rap
idly rises and disappears in the clouds.
This operation Is so swift that the en-
emy is unable to train his guns. The
machines can be launched from land
or sea or from the deck of q ship.
When the German feet surrendered
an airplane mother ship, carrying
twenty Of the new type machines, met
the Hun fleet at sea in readiness to
sink the German ships II any treachery
should be attempted.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-10

War Risk Insurance.-Uncle Sam
has the biggest insurance business in
the world-as much, in fact, as the
rest of the world together.
When the armistice was signed he
had insured his soldiers for total OF
between $4,000, and s3S,000,-
100000, fully two-thirds Of the cost OF
the war to the United States. This was
written on the lives Of 100000 SOL
diers, 95 per cent of whom now carry
insurance. The average policy is
about $3.50.
The war risk insurance bureau is
now at work cancelling allotments to
dependents of soldiers as they are dis
charged from the army. About 1,300,-
900 men made allotments.
On December 9, 1918, the war risk
insurance bureau had made compen-
sation awards on 4,023 death claims
and 4,699 disability claims, and had
received q total of 51,S45 claims. A
large number of the men insured are
expected to keep their insurance In
force. And the war risk insurance bu-
reau is expected to be in operation fol
many years.
If the death claims were paid in one
sum, instead of by installments, they
would amount to about $500, 900, 900
Premiums to date amount to s170,000,-
900. as an offset to these claims, OF
leaving a deficit Of $500, 100000. This
figure may be greatly increased when
final reports have been received. The
deaths from influenza amounted to IT,.
900.