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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
IS YOUR SKIN !.
ABLAZE WITH
FIERY TECHNICS?

en- that impurities in the blood
cause millions of tiny disease
germs to set up their attack on
the surface of the skin, and in
the form of pimples, boils, scaly
eruptions and itchy, burning ir-
ritatlons, begin their disfiguring
and destructive work.
Being in the blood, these dis
ease germs can be reached only
through the blood, and local ap-
plications have no effect what-
ever. That is why salves, oint-
ments, lotions, washes and oth-
er remedies applied to the skin
can do no more than give mere
.ly temporary relief. Soon the
fiery itching breaks out again.
for such treatment cannot reach
the source of the trouble.
If you want genuine relief
from the tortures of skin dis
eases, lose no time in discarding
all local remedies, and begin
taking S. S, S. today. You will
be delighted with the results.
and when you are thoroughly
rid of your trouble, you wilt
praise the day you got on the
right treatment. You can get
5. S. S. at any drug store. Be-
gin taking it today, and if you
write to our physician he will
gladly give you full instructions
about your own case. Address
Medical Director, 402 Swift
Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
Murphy and Cox, Leaders of the Grand
Circuit Stack Up as Pair of OppOsites

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-Murphy and
Cox, the two leaders of the Grand cir
cult, this year are a pair Of opposites.
The only thing that they have in COM
mon is that they train horses and drive
races. In and out Of the sulky, either
when working his horses or racing
them, Murphy is a fashion plate. His
bright green tie and smart tweed suit
makes a stranger think that he Is d
visitor helping John Benton out when
the horses are being aired during the
morning hours, while during the races
his red, white and blue colors, with tiny
American flags on the collar and front
Of the cap, look as though the tailor
touched them up with an iron between
heats,
On the other, hand, Cox whirls out in
the morning wearing a shabby pair of
trousers with a leather patch on teh
seat, an old coat, flannel shirt and a
hat with a hundred holes in the crown
and his name cut into the rim with a
harness punch. A half smoked cigar at
an angle of As degrees is usually seen in
the corner of his mouth. ON a dusty
day a little soap and water and an APP
plication of the old razor which he
carried to cut the wire hairs on his
chin, would improve the portion Of his
anatomy that the camera men aim at
when swapping a winner,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
Tom Walsh Claims
He's A Victim Of
The Double Cross

The following self-explanatory let
ter has been received from Tommy
Walsh, n of Pal Moore's man
ayers, regarding the failure of Moore
TO land the bantamweight cham
pionship bout with Herman for
Thanksgiving, which has been Sc
cured by Joe Lynch, of New York.
Here's Tommy's sereed;
Chicago. Oct. II.
Dear Bob-It looks like that Tor
torich, In New orleans, has slipped
me the double cross In that Moore
Herman match, for after | made
that trip to New Orleans last week
and agreed in every way with him,
he now backs out and says If Moore
VIII agree to give Herman the first
$4,000 and then allow the club
$4,000, he can have half over that.
Can you beat such terrible terms?
Trotorich also demanded from
Moore's earnings 10 per cent, mi
thing that any fair-minded pro-
moter should be ashamed of, ad l
very promptly turned them down.
Il am going TO fight this fellow to
a finish, and before he gets through
he will wish he had never double
crossed anyone.
UNLESS | a get a championship
match on some fair terms / don't
want any, for while l know that
Pal can whip Herman, still It Is no
use giving everything away.
Moore and / r leaving for De-
troit, where Pal fights Jabez White
Wednesday night, and then | think
he will come direct to Memphis to
box Hahn.
II think Nate Lewis will come
with him as ! have shows on the
22nd and the card and must be on
the spot, but Nate will give o
some real dope on that London trip
which should prove very interesting.
Best wishes. TOM WALSH,
Manager Pal Moore"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
CAMoUFLEURS ALL.

There are no greater camoufleurs than
football coaches, as Is evident every sea-
son when the same old line Of dope Is
sent out from the different schools and
colleges. To hear the coaches tell 1t,
their teams are barely able to get
around and are n spawned lot OF duhs
who couldn't gain n yard against a
team of dummies. They are all crippled
and far from being In shape.
And then you ought to see them on
the field. They go out and play the
opposing team off Its feet. The camou-
flage has had its effect, The opposing
outfit has figured that the team Is all
In and that they need not work hard
for the game. But they wake up after
watching the supposedly-all-i In team In
action.
Grid coaches are the last word in
camoufleurs. Ask any OF them,
Here's an example,; The University
OF Tennessee was scheduled to mee,
Vandy last Saturday, The news cams
Off the mountain that tho Orange anc
White Quilt was not In shape, severa
good men were crippled and various anc
sundry things were the matter with tn,
eleven.
And what did they do7 They went VI
against the strong Vandy team, hello
them TO a 3.3 tie and looked like
million dollars against the Mcoualr
machine,
Tho first thing a football coach learn,
10 camoufiape,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
I'M BoxING.

No other year has ever produced the
huge purses for which rival pugs have
fought. The Willard Dempsey affair
established a new figure for future
matches to shoot at. Even down as low
as the bantams the wad has been too
great.
For boxing Wilde, Pal Moore received
$15, 1000, an unheard of price. Was this
huge sum made up by promoters from
their end Of the receipts?
Not so that you could notice it. It
was made possible by the gullibility of
the fan, who proved as great a glutton
for punishment as before. He kicked
in without a whimper because his sport
i've soul, long famished during the try
ing days Of the war, was searching for
lighter food,
But don't ever cherish the idea that
athletes are making more money these
days because the promoters are coming
through with greater speed and less
persuasion. They are ~fattening up at
the expense of his honor, the fan.
MOORE T~ORTORICH CASE.
Money is back of the failure Of Nate
Lewis, Tommy Walsh and Pal Moore to
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
COX VICTORIOUS
OVER MURPHY
MacGregor the Great Out
steps Mariondale in Grand
Circuit Meet In Atlanta.

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 15.-Tuesday's
Grand Circuit racing at Lakewood track
here was featured by a spectacular bat
tie between Cox and Murphy, plotting
respectively McGregor the Great. and
Mariondale, for a purse of 81, 500 in the
2:14 class trotting event, the main n
on the card. The honors went to Cox
in straight heats.
Geers started his Mamie Locke in
this race, but his protege broke so badly
near the half-mile post in the first heat
that she was distanced. Mariondale
made the Cox horse fight for every inch
Of ground. The best time of the meet
ing so far was made in the second heat,
when McGregor clipped off the mile
in 2;06k.
Louis Gratten, driven by B. Fleming,
won the 1903 pace in three straight
heats, from a field Of four starters, sec
ond money going to Bette Blackjack,
piloted by Walker.
The other event was a 2:1S class trot
in which only Southern horses started
and was won by Harry s., al Atlanta
owned chestnut horse, driven by Bart
ley.
The track was heavy after a hard rain
during the early part Of the day.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
.MOORES MANAGER SAYS HE WAS DOUBLE-CROSSED
MOIIG BjMrstedt, Recently Married
Discusses Women, LOUe and Tennis

The tennis world in particular and the
country In general were interested in
the recent news that Miss Molla Biurs-
tedt. famous Norwegian net star who
set the United States tennis world on
end for several seasons, had at last
succumbed to Cupid's game and had
married Franklyn Mallory, New York
representative Of a Philadelphia bank
Ing firm. She had apparently spurned
Cupid's efforts for years. Discussing
her marriage, its relations to her ten
mis- playing and tennis in general re-
Gently, she said:
Love is life to women but there
are several kinds Of love, and Zach has
Its proper time and place. when I am
40 hope to have other interests In life
than playing tennis and flirting"
Does the one inevitably lead to the
other?" she was asked.
In this country everything leads to
sentiment was the reply. 1T may be
because there are so many men. In
England and in Norway there are more
girls than men. In consequence, girls
earn from babyhood to depend IN
themselves for their amusements.
IF men and marriage come their way
well and good, II not, they find inter-
est in athletics and work. They cheer
fully make other women's children OBJ
jects for their own maternal love. They
substitute friendship for love and keep
their bodies young and their minds
healthy by exercise in the open, espe-
cially by walking tours.
1.-THE trouble with women tennis play
ers," she added, SIS that it keeps them
dangerously young. Consequently they
seek the companionship Of the young,
which to my mind Is a dangerous mis-
take. There is nothing more pathetic
century mark in a sentimental attach
ment with a man in his twenties or
thirties."
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
Don't Continue to Suffer Be-
cause of Wrong Treat
ment.

If you are one of the thou
sands who are afflicted with any
form of irritating skin disease,
verify you know what real tor
ture is. You know we'll enough
what 1t means to lay awake at
night, rubbing and scratching
your raw and irritated skin, in
a vain endeavor to get relief
from the fiery burning.
OF course, the most serious
phase of skin disease is the al
most unbearable suffering
caused by the fiery itching and
irritation of the skin. In addi-
ton, the disease often causes
unsightly roughness and discol-
orations, disfiguring and spoil
ing the complexion, and leaving
its blighting marks in its wake.
Many a beautiful skin has been
marred by these disorders which
first appeared as tiny red PIN
plies,
At last science has determined
the real source of all skin dis
eases, and with this enlighten-
ment comes the reason why the
prevailing treatment heretofore
used has proven such a com
pletc failure. 1t has been prov
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
SPEAKER SOLID
AS INDIAN PILOT
Great Showing Of Cleveland
Team in Last Few Weeks
of Race Helps Spoke.

No less a critic than Joe Villa gives
all the credit for the fast finish OF the
Cleveland Indians to iris Speakers
work as manager and iris Is highly
praised by the veteran writer, He even
hints strongly that had Speaker been
in there earlier as leader the Indians
and not the White Sox would have
played thu worlds series against the
Reds, but he doesn't voice an opinion as
to whether they would be doing a better
job OF Il. Says Villa, In his praise OF
Speaker as "A manager:
iris Speaker Is the man Responsible
for the Cleveland's phenomenal work,
He succeeded Lee Foil as manager
when the race was half over, but the
change was made a triflo too late,
Speaker took up the reins when the
Cleveland players and fans had grown
disheartened. He soon made several
wise m~oves-the substitution of Joe
Harris tor Doc Johnston at first base
being the most effective, He engaged
Ray Caldwell and induced him to. pitch
Ia flrst-class style. He also decided to
waste no more time over Guy Morton
and proceeded TO make a real boXman
out OF young Uhle, Joe Wood was
benched in order to let Elmer Smith
face all kinds OF enemy strategy.
Before Speaker assumed command
the Clevelands played mechanical ball,
They lacked aggressiveness and conf,
Vtiltts . buN lilt hNN lNtNNi iNNh ibN"
a miracle In these respects and the
Indians at the finish were getting more
successful results than the White Sox,
Naturally Cleveland fans believe that
~ Speaker had managed the team from
the beginning of the race a part of the
worlds series would nave been played
In the Forest city,
Al any rate, the Clevelands put UT
a remarkable fight in the late stages
Of the campaign, and Speaker. VINO Is
receiving the credit, has established o
reputation as n most successful major
league field marshal, or course, he
will again lead the Indians next year,
Stanley Coveleskle was the CleVe'
lands mainstay In the box. He wor
"a games and lost ~, Bagby,. who
recently took q new lease on life, has q
record of Is victories and 10 defeats
JIhle has won SIX and lost five, whilC
MYERS has worked In eight winners ano
six losers. Caldwells surprising come
back is one of the sensations OF th'
year. He has won several games, IN
Guiding a no-hit affair, since Speake'
dug him up, and his work inspired th'
other boxmen with new confidence, Tit
failure Of Morton and Klepter was.
tremendous handicap for the Indians TO
II those pitchers had been In goo'
shane Speaker probably would haV'
landed the pennant.
Cleveland fans are pointing to IN
fact that the Indians, II losing out u
The remnant fight, must blame II "
their games with the White Sox. @
the 20 contests between those teams n
White Sox won IL. Nearly all OF Chi
caro's victories were due to poor ,wor,
IN the Cleveland pitchers, who didn'
hesiu 20 strike their proper gait unit
after Speaker had succeeded Fohl'
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
H WILL IT DRAW?

The bantamwelpht championship bat.
tie In New orleans on Thanksgiving be.
tween Pete Herman and Joe Lynch VIII
have to break all Dixie records for at
that the promoter, D, ], TortorIch, de.
rive anything for his efforts.
Tortorich has already guaranteed
Champion Pete Herman 10000 as his
end Of the purse. The club before which
the mill Will be staged viii receive
$500. After this $t2,5oo has been dis:
%trlbuted, then Lynch VIII receive hat
OF what remains, Thus It may be seen
what chance Lynch has to make any
money out Of the bout,
Bantam bouts Will not draw the bio
houses that other fights attract, and
all records for attendance Will have to
be smashed Into smlthereens for Pro-
moter Tortorlch to come out Of the
proposition without having to dig into
his Jeans to pay Pete Herman his
$40, 1000.
When Pal Moore fought Herman here
some time ago II drew something like
81. 900, and good prices were charged.
Win the championship mill being staged
In New Orleans there Will be a larger
radius to draw from, and very naturally
the prices Will be higher than they were
here, but at that Il e going to require
quite a moi TO net St2,500.
All Lynch has TO Get out Of the bout
will be the championship, which Will be
sufficient, as he Will get his money later
on while he Is champion, which he IN
doubleday will be unIess he breaks
leg.
Morris Rath, Cincinnati second base
man and leadoff man, played a great
game OF ball during the worlds series
There was method In Morris madness
lie had planned to take unto himself
a wife rs o as the series was over
and needed the winners end to start
out on the matrimonial VOYAGE.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
CONNIE MACK SAYS
HE'LL COME BACK
Tall Tutor Confident That His
Athletics Will Be Heard
From.

Connie Mack, manager Of the ono
powerful Philadelphia Athletics, has not
completely ~despaired Of again construct
ing a diamond aggregation which will
rival, in point on power, the
championship nine he once piloted. In
fact, Mr., McGillicuddy is rather OPP
timistic, reports TO the contrary not
w~ithstanding.
For five years they have been say
ing that | can't get together another
good team, said Mack, in discussing
the situation recently, THEY are
u haven't tried very hard yet. For
2 time baseball was sleeping. and dur
ing those years we Just kept going.
saw no use In spending a great deal OF
money IN getting together a higli-class
bail club Just before and during the
war. Things are different now, ana
| don't intend to quit until we have
q club that viii be up there at the
top lighting with the leaders.
1T II means spending money for PLAY
ers, wen spend as much as Is needed
ltight now am ~devoting more time e
looking around Tor the mon ] need thar
anything else. Eve always said that !
takes thrre Years to build up a WIN
min.g team, and II | live III have one
TAX sooGt my getting ready TO rettrf
| Read News Scimitar Wants,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
Has Great Trotters.

Within this makeup there is a MAI
who has been very successful in the
racing world. In Lu Princeton and
Mabel Trask he has the two best trot-
ters in the world, while McGregor the
Great and Mignola are racehorses OF
the highest caliber. McGregor the Great
is a fo~ur-year-old. Me won at Syracuse
in 2:03h. Mignola was lame at Hart
ford, where he was beaten by Marion
dale. 1t was his tenth start in 1919. All
OF the others were victories. while he
cut his win race to 2:04h at Toledo.
Mignola Ia now 10 years old. AT that
age a racehorse Is usually retired OF
being matineed. His fun days came
when he was Z and 5, after he was tried
and considered a fluke. This was also
boosted along by an accident In which
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
GEORGE MOGR|DGE
MADE THE GOAT
Had He Come Through Yam
KEGS Might Have Been
Winners.

George Mogridge of the New York
Yankees, who defeated the Athletics
in the final game Of the season and
landed the Yankees third In the Ameri-
ear league race, began the season by
losing six games In succession and
wound il up by winning four in a row.
During the season he won nine games
and lost 10,
One Of the reasons for the Yankees
poor showing this season was Mog-
ridges failure early in the race. Had
the big southpaw been able to take a
regular turn on the mound through
June and July, when Higgins required
pitching aid desperately, the Yanks
might have been In the worlds series,
writes q New York critic. Mogridge
did not begin to show any kind of form
until early in August, and by that time
the Yanks had abandoned all hopes for
the pennant. The Sox and Indians were
setting too fast a pace, and when Mog-
ridge did come through Thormahlen
and Quinn and Shawkey were beginning
to falter,
However, Huggins is confident that
next season viii give him better breaks
with the pitchers. Shore will devote
much time during the winter to treating
hts right arm IN the hope of restoring
its ancient zip, Higgins is convinced
hat he will be back at his best in 1920.
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
CHARLES SPENCER
SHOOTS HERE IN
EXHIBITIONSOON
SCattergun Wizard Has Long
Record of Merit-For IS
Years He Has Averaged
Better Than .96 Per Cent.

Charles @. Spencer, Of st. Louis. Mo,
n Of the best shots that ever handled
3 scattergun. is one Of the members OF
the Winchester shooting squad that
appears here on oct, IS at the Mem
phis Gun club where the Winchester
squad gives an exhibition OF shooting
with various kinds of firearms,
Spencer is only one OF a team Of star
shooters. The others on the team are:
Ad Topperwein, the greatest Of all rifle
shots: Mrs. Topperwein, n real woman
who is a real shooter; John r, Taylor.
Of Newark, O.; J. Novel Hawkins, OF
Harrisburg, Pa, and Fred g. Bills, OF
Chicago, III. They are all high-class
shots but this little squib is TO tell
you how good Spencer Is.
In 1906 he won the Southern handi-
cap as an amateur with 9S breaks in
100 targets from 20 yards. The average
q may not realize how difficult a
feat this is but every n who shoots
al the traps will know, In 1909 he
compiled a run OF 565 straight breaks
from l6 yards-the worlds record to-
day. In 1912 he broke 312 straight
targets, the longest run of that year,
In 1909 he was the highest average
professional with a marx Of '972O. He
repeated In 1915 with $3.50. Spencer
won the professional championship at
single targets in 1910 with 1870 breaks
out OF 200 targets and in 1915 and 1915
he had high average on doubles targets
with 81 per cent in 1915 and 80 In 1915,
In 1917 Spencer held the Hazard
trophy, emblematic Of the worlds
doubles target championship,
Year in and year out for moro than
Is years, Spencer has averaged better
than ,96 per cent and has shot at more
than 10000 targets each year, Taken
nv and large this is what may be
termed some shooting It win be
worth your while TO take an afternoon
off and see Spencer and the other
cracks smash the clay targets and
Topperwein illustrate the use Of the
rifle and other army guns, This is an
opportunity that isn't often presented.
The gun club welcomes every n to
The exhibition.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
Uncle Sam Enriched
By World Series As
Much As Club OWners

CHICAGO, Oct, 15.-Nearly as much
money was paid to the United States
in var tax as accrued to the club own
ers OF each of the teams that partici-
pated in the recent world series, It
was estimated today. For the eight
games. $73, 23a was paid to the govern
ment as wal tax, while Charles A,
CorNiskey, Of the Chicago White SoX,
Reds. cot approximately sos, 900 each.
But from that amount, II Is stated, 1t
wa necessary to deduct the expenses
OF erecting temporary seats, players
salaries, the cost Of transporting the
players from n city to the other and
their hotel bills. leaving what the clubs
retained Just about the same amount as
went 70 the government
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15

After a layon of many months, the doors of the Southern Athletic
club, at Winchester and Main, will swing open on next Tuesday night
Oct. 81.
Pal Moore, Memphis bantamweight, and one of the cleverest WELD.
es of the padded mitts in the country, will make his appearance in an
etght-round sit with Bernie Hahn, of Atlanta, playing opposite Moore
Both Moore and Hahn need no introduction to Memphis fandom, as
Pal has boxed here on many occasions and Hahn has met and defeated
sufficient headlners among the bantams to we'll establish himself as
an opponent for the Memphis sensation.
Joe Levy, who formerly handled Moore when Pal was just break
tng into the world Of Fistana, and from whom the Memphian hurdled
TO Lewis & Walsh, is now sharing Hahn's ring earnings in the role OF
manager, and will be present with his protege next Tuesday night to
see how he shows against the recognized king of the bantams.
Levy knows all of Pals tricks and ring tactics and will have Hahn
well groomed to make a fine showing against the Memphian. There
is every indication that a full house will greet the gladiators when they
climb through the ropes, for boxing lovers have long been anxious for
the Southern club to reopen, and Will turn out in full force to see the
ever-popular Moore do battle with one of the coming youngsters of
the bantam contingent.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
HAHN COMING l D

Bernie Hahn, Joe Levy's bantam, who
Southern Athletic club next Tuesday
night, will arrive in Memphis Friday
night. lie viii be accompanied BY
Jack LAWYER, n lightweight, who will
probably be matched with Red Herring
or Abe kahakoff the week following
tho Moore Hahn go.
Hahn has been visiting his home in
West Virginia for the past week and
will come to Memphis in time to put on
the finishing touches for Moore.
=
Lefty Williams, Chicago left -hander
should have been awarded a full share
OF the winning clubs money. Williams
was the most valuable man Cincinnati
had,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-15
LEONARD COMING.

Benny Leonard. king Of the Eighties
will make his appearance in Memphis
before the winter 10 over. Leonard's
probable opponent has not been figured
on as yet by Promoter Billy Hack, OF
the Southern Athletic club, who is busy
now trying to get Benny's signature
to a contract to appear here within the
next couple OF months,
Leonard has never appeared in Mem
phls and would undoubtedly show to 9
packed house II matched with some
good boy who is capable Of giving hin
plenty OF action. This is only one OF
the top-notCh attractions that Pro-
moter Hack is planning for the COM
ing winter.