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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
>O'DowdLOseSH His
 Title To Johnny
 Wilson In Bout

Boston, May 6.-Johnny Wilson of Bos- ton won the middleweight boxing cham pfonshfp of the world when he was awarded a referees decision over Mike O'Dowd of St. Paul here tonight. The fight went twelve rounds
 ~ODowd was the aggressor throughout the contest but Wilson, a left-handed boxer. scored repeatedly wit
 ODowd excelled in inhghting but seemed unable to fathom Wilson's style of box ing. Eight of the rounds went to Will son, two to O'Dowd, and two were even.
 The only knockdown in the bout came .ii the second round, when Wilson caush' 0'Dowd with a straight right to the jaw, O'Dowd going down for the count or four. Wilson surprised the followers or the game by scoring so many times with his right, breaking through ODowds de- fence often.
 The pace was set by the men was fast. and at the end of the twelfth round both were unsteady on their feet. The St. Paul boy was a big favorite before the bout, the general betting being 1Q to 3.
 Wilson has participated in many bouts against second-rate boxers in the las year and has appeared in many cities, principally in New England Tonight } bout was his first against leading boxer.
 O'Dowd won the title from Al Mccoy in 1917. Hector Machines of Boston was referee.
 When the gong sounded for the end of the twelfth round and Referee Machines pointed to Wilson's corner in token of the local boys victory, O'Dowd protested the decision, claiming he was entitled to a draw at least.
 While Machines, who was the choice of ODowd's manager as referee, was ex- plaining why he had awarded the title to Wilson, the packers of the local boy rushed to the ring and carried the new champion away on their shoulders.
 Wilson's victory gave him the honor of being the first New England boxer to hold the middleweight title. II 'q tho first Nime a Bostonian has held a ring cham, lnonship since the days of the late Honey Melody.
 Spectators said after the fight that O'Dowd's chance to retain his title went glimmering when Wilson sent him to the mat in the second round for the count of four.
 The knockdown was 9 complete sur prise to Wilson's packers, as it was adherents of the champion. Thereafter Wilson was never headed in his dash for the title.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Panthers Are WinnersOyer
 Bulldog Nine

The clan of Birmingham Southern Panthers, hitting Mead hard in the pinches in the third of the series or contests with the Howard College Bulldogs yesterday afternoon on Eagles field triumphed over the Sap tists' crew of ball tossers by the count of to 2.
 Eva Speer, the southpaw twirler of Coach Charlie Browns staff, faced the Bulldogs and let the warriors of Coach Dillon down with six hits and no earned runs during the afternoons en- tertainment. The Panther hurler was in the best of form, and for five in- nings did not allow a hit off his de- livery Roberts center gardener, gathered the initial safe blow for the Baptists by doubling to deep center to start the sixth, but was thrown out when he tried to stretch the wallop into a triple.
 The Panther crew. besides fielding in almost faultless style behind Speer hit the sphere on the nose, and knocked Head, who set the Mississippi A. & M. down on two occasions this season, out of the box, King relieving him in the eighth.
 The Birm n g h m -Southerners started the fireworks off when Stuart counted in the third. The Methodist first-sacker singled, took second on Burneys neat sacrifice. and crossed the platter when Norton singled to cen- ter Two each in the fourth and fifth completed the scoring of the warriors of Coach Brown.
 Bob Rowe's clean smash over the dump, two bagger, scored the two counters of the fourth frame. Griffin and Speer has singled in succession but the former wa staged out at third on Johnstons tap to the pitcher. Then the Rowe person esSaYed the star stuff by his double to right.
 Base on balls to Burney and Norton, followed by safe blows from the bludg- cons of Bradford and Griffin ac counted for the two scores of the next engagement.
 The Bulldogs threatened only in the seventh frame. McLane and Walker singled in succession to start the in- ming. but Head hit into a double play Freeman to Burney, leaving Walker on the first station. Acton then dou bled over the dump. The two lone counters of the afternoons play for the Baptists resulted when Freeman erred on O. B. Newman's grounder.
 Besides the hurling of speer. tho clouting of Griffin. Norton and Rowe featured for Birmingham Southern. '"Tanlac" Burney handled the keystone in great style,
 Roberts. centerfielder of the Bull dogs covered himself with glory in the argument. The center gardener handled eleven chances in perfect style in the field, and secured the first safe blow off the Panther moundsman, a terrific double to deep center.
 The next game between the two rivals will be played Saturday on Mungers field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
University Wins FromOglethorpe
 College, 5 To 0

University Alabama, May 6.-(Spe- ciaL)-Playing on a muddy field. Ala bama easily defeated the nine from oglethorpe University here this after noon by score of to O. A pretty pitchers battle ensued between Hin ton for the Crimson warriors and Turk of Coach Lewis pastimers gave Hin ton the best of the argument He only allowed three well-scattered hits, while Crimson sluggers got away with six healthy binglers, half of which were stinging two-baggers.
 Captain Sewell and Riggs Steven son, Alabama's keystone guards were the heroes of the contest. Each an- nexed a two bagger and each brought in two scores In addition. they made several sensational catches that brought the bleachers to their feet. Boone led in the hitting with two sim gles and annexed the other run
 Big Chief" Turk the idol of the stormy petrels, was wild as fox for a while. Two wild pitches in the frs; frame allowed Sewell to make the first score after he had doubled. He walked four Crimson batters. However, his strong arm struck out five men, as compared to only one that was famed by Hinton. Carlyle got two out of the three hits for Coach Anderson
 Wednesdays game with Oglethorpe was called off on account of rain. Ala : bama will take on the fast nine from Louisiana State on the local diamond Friday and Saturday of this Week. Box score.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Athletes To Be
 BanquetedAfter
 Track Carnival

Southern athletes who participate in the B. A. C. track and field meet at the fairgrounds Saturday will be banqueted at the Southern Club Saturday night, ac- cording to an announcement by c. w. Streit, chairman of the athletic com mittee of the B. A. c.
 There are now seventy-two men en- tered in the events representing live southern colleges and the local B. A. C.. After the meet the athletes will be placed under the charge of Bill Streit who. as he declares, intends to show them a little of the fun and enjoyment to be de- rived from Magic City life. Banquets and theatres will be beautifully repre- sented on Streit's programme of enter tainment.
 An extra event has been added to the list a relay race for local high schools Central, Ensley, Bessemer, Jefferson County and irmingham-Southern High Schools have entered four men eacn who will take part in the relay.
 Competition in every event will be kea2 The south's best athletes are entered to participate and records will be in dan ger when the meet begins.
 Ellis, Mississippi A. & M., has already made a splendid mark in the hurdles and he is looked upon as a possible breaker of the southern record. He has made the high hurdles in r flat already this season.
 The dashes are especially well filled out. Two local boys, Pug Sloss and Bill Coughlan, are well known speed mer- chants. Talty OConnor, sterling hat- back on the 1919 football team of the University of Alabama, will also run in the dashes. O'Connor will be a con testant worth watching In the dasnes
 Richter, B. A. C., the lad who walked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
ELEVEN

but for the pride of shop we would not consider such a thing
 We wish to make several things clear before. we enter battle with the so-called baseball players from the News, namely:
 The News players must not sling their bats Such actions endanger the lives of their opponents.
 Our opponents must be able to catch at least every fourth ball knocked to ths field Our players get out of breath when they circle the bases more than ten times each.
 Last we wish to make the game in- teresting to the spectators, so our pitcher has agreed to throw every other ball un- derhanded. News players must do their best to hit these easy balls.
 "If these terms are accepted, we are willing to meet the News team at any time, at any place."
 A committee, headed by John Cor nett, has been appointed to look up Manager Miller of the News team.
 As the result of dwindling of immi- grafton America is more than 4,000, GOO men short in industries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

He's ancient of limb, ancient of arm,
 but slim" Sallee is back again in 1920 flinging a marvellous brand of baseball
 into the diamond brain of the eccentric
 southpaw.
 Few players ever have known more remarkable career than this pitching ace" of Rhineland. Through all his big league years the opposition moundsmen
 have insisted he hasn't a thing and he admitted the accusation. I ct season after season Sailee has batfled blg leaguers and now, as his thirteenth cam paign begins, he still rani,S as one of the greatest pitchers in the game. i The boys are right have nothing tc deceive them," confesses Sallee-'never
 did have anything; oh, yes, l throw a curve and a slow one, and d fast one and a drop once in awhiie-out that $ noth- ing. Every kid on the sapdlots can throw those So I've pitched for twelve full years in the majors without anything but control.'
 CONTROL
 And right there-"but contror'-the story is told. Baseball veterans will l tell you that control is the thing-that without it q great curver and man with Walter Johnson's speed is joke; with <! it a college kid can tie big leaguerS into knots SalTee has control-developed it to an amazing degree.
 | It is doubtful if any moundsman in the entire history of the game has had better | control than Sallee. It's safe bet that | if he was asked to hit a bat held out at shoulder height, he'd do 1t ninety-fiVe in every one hundred tries. He puts the ball i where he wants to put it practically every ! time he lets it loose-and that is why he | is a great pitcher.
 | Sallee is one of baseballs picturesque figures. On the field he $ not an inspir- | ing type. Rather he appeals as tali' ! angular, slovenly athlete. lie slouches on and off the field. But in the boX-theh | he's master of all he surveys.
 l The left-hander. like most of this klnu'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

is bit odd in some of the things he does Once Sallee gets an idea into his head nothing can shake him from it. He was with the Cardinals for many years Sud- denly he decided to quit them. He did. He declared he wouldn't pitch for them again. And he didn't So he was traded to the Giants.
 WENT TO REDS
 Ssllee got along nicely with John Mo Graw for awhile. Then he felt that he
 mt like his New York berth any longer. So he quit the Giants Nothing could coax him back. But he agreed to play with the Reds if trade was made. In that way he became Pat Moran man. and his brilliant work in 1919 aided mar velously in the gaining of a world g championship for Cincinnati.
 Sallees record, as regards stri<eouts is not extremely impressive But Sallee IS one of the few pitchers who has no ann bition to fan a batsman.
 ''I want those birds to hit the ball." de- clares Sallee. Seven men are back ot me and they want exercise. For can they get It If l try to strike out every hitter? Most pitchers try to throw the ball past the batter. don't. I put 1t where he can hit it, but l try my darndest to put 1t in such place that when he does hit it he doesn't get solid smash at it. The re- St'il iS lildl ne uSudlly urlpDleS to the Ill., field"
 My advice to all youngsters who ask me for the pitching secret is this: First, learn control; second, learn the weakness of each batter. When that's accomplished pitching success usually results. For when you know where the batter doesn t like them you can, when you have con trol, send them right to that spot Then you've got him your victim" PoqSB;; ;,-ifilLaftergxata(c chrdlu pupu "A lot of pitchers get worried when a batter gets to first. But it doesn't worry me. It's a long way from first or second to the home plate and it doesn't matter how many get on the sacks. The thina that counts is getting all the way around And only about one man of every four or ] five who get on the sacks ever reaches home. So why fret when an opposition player does get on."
 IRON NERVE Sallee long has been called 'the man with the iron nerve" And rightly does he deserve the title. His whole career is freckled with marvellous pitching feats of instances of courage and coolness ir times of bitterest strife that know few equals. This is just one illustration: i Sallee was pitching for St. Louis against the Pirates in the Smoky City l It was the last half of the ninth and the Pirates needed one run to tie and two to win. The bases were filled and Sal ] lee had given three successive balls tc the batter. He was in a hole-one of the l tightest of his career.
 And then Sallee frightened his belt 1 pulled down his cap little farther, and putting three balls right into the grove struck out the batter
 Get the batters to swinging at tht | ball-thats my slogan" says Sallee ''ll I can get 'em to do that I feel fairly sure I of victory for statistics show that wher a batter connects with the ball it's a : to l bet that he's out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Age-Herald Type Singers Accept Defi From News

After a lengthy deliberation the mem bers of the composing room force of The Age-Herald agreed unanimously to accept the baseball def hurled at them by the compositors of the Birmingham News Their reply to the challenge is as fol- lows:
 Tt is with hesitancy that The Age- Herald printers accept the challenge of the Birmingham News competitors Like all experts, we are aware of the danger ttat professionals run when they con- descend to compete with beginners. an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
WILDCATS EASILY
 SCORE WIN OVER
 BESSEMER TIGERS

Henderson and Weidenbach, twirlers of the Jefferson County Wildcats, held the Bessemer Tigers to nine scattered hits and one run, while their team mates scored five counters, the County High lads chalking up a victory over Bessemer High yesterday afternoon
 Jefefrson High started off strong in the initial frame by counting three times before c. Waller, Bessemer noundsman, got settled. With good fielding behind fair pitching. the Wild cats easily retained their lead.
 The hOx score.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

Summary: Two-base hits, Keith c. Waller. Sacrifice hit Little. Sacrifice fly, Keith. Stolen bases, Helton 4, Rives ?. Struck out Henderson IS, Weidenbach l. Waller 3. Bases on balls, off Henderson ?. off Waller 7. Wild pitch, Waller l. Passed ball, Ben nett l. Time of game. 140. Empires.
 Harper and Thomas. Scorer Watson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
THOMAS R. LEA CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF THE
 CIRCUIT COURT

Where was he born?
 Selma, Alabama. How long has he lived in Jefferson County and where he educated?
 Has lived here since early childhood-educated in Birmingham public schools and Howard College. What is his present position and his record? Judge of the Municipal Court-refers to the princi- pals in 22,000 cases which have been tried before him. Is he of family and what his church afflia- tions?
 He has a wife and four children. Deacon in the Baptist church. Why does he desire this promotion?
 To better for his family and is ambitious to rise in his chosen profession--wants his chance. What does he say to the other asprants for the office?
 'The gentlemen honest and fearless and will make good judges.'' What does he say to himself?
 ''If am elected will do my best'
 Published by Thos. Lea Birmingham. Ala)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

away with the road race here last win ter. is in fine form, and experts are picking him to win the mile run.
 With the Central High School band to furnish music and the athletes thrills in the runs, hurdles and pole vaulters, Saturday afternoon at the fairgrounds promises to be interesting to say the least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

McClosky's best bolt has been shot, the Barons should have no fear whatever as to the outcome of the remaining battle. If Goodbred can't tame the local slug gers, there is hardly Chick mounds man who can.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

Summary: Two-base hits, Sewell Stevenson, Boone. Stolen bases. Ste venson, Hall 2, Nathan. Struck out by Hinton 1, by Turk 5. Base or balls, of Hinton 2. off Turk 4. Hit by pitched ball Sewell. Wild pitches Turk ?. Double plays, Sewell to Ste venson to Boone. Umpire, Buknie Jones. Time of game, ? hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07
Scratch Hits
By MARVIN MCCARTHY

1 M Seven battles, and still the mighty Barons refuse to be humbled! Moley's s men are playing second fiddle to none now.
 It was a fight to thrill the hearts of every true Baron booster to see the way the local wrecking crew tore into Uncle McClosky's Chicks yesterday. Un- waveringly, led by the attack of Captain Rernsen, the Barons waded through all opposition to 4 to victory over the league leading tribesmen.
 "Tiny" Goodbred never lost his nerve or his control, bu tkept on serving his slants in true veteran style. although th ese same benders were being straight ened out against the bats of the Baron- iai aggregation.
 McClosky's best bolt has been shot, the Barons should have no fear whatever as to the outcome of the remaining battle. If Goodbred can't tame the local slug gers, there is hardly a Chick mounds man who can.
 Outlelders Meeks, recently obtained from the Louisville Colonels was in the lineup for the first time yesterday. AL though the youngster failed to make a base hit. he made rather impress sive debut nevertheless.
 Carroll. in centerfeld. latched on to two of Meek's drives that looked like sure doubles. and which could hardly have been stopped by other than Dixie.
 Meeks made a beautiful peg to the rlate of Griffin's drive to right field yesterday nipping Carroll off as the latter was about to score.
 By the way, both Barnhard and Meek jc ined the team in Chattanooga, the former on Monday and the latter on Tuesday.
 Little Ralph Croll at present looks to be about the best shortstop in the league. Croll is hitting up to the aver age and some of the stops of hot grounders and drives are certainly above the average.
 It would seem that Charlie Frank an and Bob Higgins are taking a long chance in entrusting the initial sack to Dick Kaufman, three times desert CT from the Vols. Dick seems to like Southern League baseball, but the call of the semi-pros still turks strong in his veins.
 We watched Memphis rather closely yesterday to detect any sign of that haracteristic of killing time so loudly emphasized by league scribes. Needless to say, we failed to notice anything at all in thls line. the Chicks seeming to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

"Tiny" Goodbred never lost bis nerve or his control, bu tkept on serving his slants in true veteran style. although th ese same benders were being straight ened out against the bats of the Baron- iat aggrega ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

By the way, both Barnhard and Meek jc ined the team in Chattanooga, the former on Monday and the latter on Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

Meeks made a beautiful peg to the rlate of Griffins drive to right field yesterday, nipping Carroll off as the latter was about to score.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

Little Ralph Croll at present looks to be about the best shortstop in the league. Croll is hitting up to the aver age, and some of the stops of hot grounders and drives are certainly above the average.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

be willing to play fast ball as the Rarons Incindentally, yesterdays game was played in the remarkably fast time of one hour and twenty-five minu- tes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

We watched Memphis rather closely yesterday to detect any sign of that characteristic of killing time so loudly emphasized by league scribes. Needless t, say, we failed to notice anything at all in this line. the Chicks seeming to
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-13
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citizens have not been 10 harmless.
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note OF civic pride.
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don't think you will condemn mo
when tell you that the colorcd rpan
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-13
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-13

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-13
STAR THANKED FOR
AID To BONUS PARADE

Editor The Star; The following res
Goutions have been passed:
Be It resolved. BY Elmer J. Noble
POST No. /. American Legion. that
our sincere thanks be extended ia
The Seattle Star for the excellent
publicity given 10 the bonus bill pa
rssde on September 20. 1920. and the
subsequent publicity for the bonus
i.ili theatrical that is 10 be held DC
ober %. 1920.
That we hereby show our apprecia
Inn for their endeavor in behalf o.
The allied veterans OF this city and
state by sending a copy OF these reso
iutions 10 the Seattle Star. and that
. copy be spread on our records.
CHARLES II. PAUL,
Commander.
H c. CUTLER.
Adjutant.