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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-30
KEN C. SCOTT
ROY LESLIE DEATH
 SHORT FENCE

Houston, Tex, November 29.--If there are many short left fields in the South ern association the New Orleans club may consider itself fortunate in placin g Roy Leslie on the payroll, for this straw thatched first baseman hits 'em high and far away, something like Bob Staff ford used to do years and years ago.
 While with the Waco. Texas league club, before coming to Houston by way of the Cardinals. Leslie used to Babe Ruth many a ball high over the palings in left. With Waco he made it point to stick around the 300 mark, but after entering into Houstons service his average slightly shrunk because of the long left field here. Toward the close of the 1920 campaign, however, Leslie was picking up with the stick. for he had mastered new style of swinging the club. At Waco it was his cue to take q chance and swing that would propel the ball high in the air Here, with q roomy outfield. the gardeners had time to go back for the ball.
 About midseason, Leslie realized that Tit was up to him to alter bis swing and he began punching straight from the shoulder with hefty follow through n- stead of trying to get beneath the ball to loft it. Naturally it took him some time to break away from an old practice and to install new one but he stuck at the task until 1t was finished.
 In addition to being a valuable man on the offensive end of the game. Roy Les lie is capable performer around first base And in a pinch he can easily pass muster at second or in the outfield. He has been used in all three positions by Houston.
 First base is really his natural posi- ton and where he shows best. While not towering individual like the Jim Fox who used to do chores at first base for Billy Smiths Atlanta club, Leslie knows how to extend his six feet into considerably more when there is a wide or a high throw to handle He is also adept at digging 'em out of the dirt when the shortstop fails to have the range down exactly right.
 Leslie has had sufficient experience in professional baseball to be as much at home in New Orleans as he was in Hous- ton. Summer before last Branch Hickey bought him conditionally from the Waco club and used him as an understudy to Miller. After some experimenting with his new purchase Hickey decided Leslie was not quite competent enough for the majors, and let Houston have him.
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NO FRAT POLITICS HERE. |
 COACH SELECTS CAPTAIN

Marietta. November 2s.-<Special>-Joh Robinson, 15o-pound fullhack of Marietta college, was appointed captain to lead the eleven in 1921 Coach Greasy NealA will make that position appointiyo as long as he is head coach of MArseffa college, he announced
 If is the first time in tho history or the school that a football captain nas been selected by 8 coach. Neale says his appointment will do away with Ira ternity politics in football ana that ne rr;,I hava a man as captain who knows ana understands football to run the team on the field.
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Littleton Unable To Meet Greb On Account Of Injury

New Orleans, November 29.- (Special.)-The Happy LittIetOn- Harry Greb 15-rOund bout will not come off as per schedule on De- cember 6. Manager Sehrt an- nOunced that Littleton developed n badly sprained hand in the Krohn fight and that he has requested Promoter TOrtOrich to set the late back to the first or second week in January.
 LittletOn's physician said that The hand is not broken, but is sevcrly sprained, according to Sehrt, and he felt that he did not care 10 take any chances in a fight with Greb while his mitt was in this condition. Promoter Tortorich was non-cOmmftaI on the postpOnement, and probably will send in the win- ner of the Burke Carbonne scrup against Greb on December c.
 Sehrt claims thnt Littleton hurt his hand on Krohn's head. He also injured his elbow slightly by com ing in contact with KrOhn's elbow, he said. Whether Greb can De obtained for January to meet Lit tleton is not known and probably will be determined when Harry comes here on December for q probable bout with Monday nights winner.
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Landis Has Hard
 Job As Leader of National Pastir7ae
By JAMES J. CoRBETr

Kenesaw Mountain Landis has no easy assignment in the new job as high com missioner of baseball. Landis has accepted the grave respon- sibility amid plaudits from fandom and the promise of unswerving support from the magnates. If the latter was to be his portion throughout his entire off cial connection with baseball, then it is certainty that Landis will be a won- derful success
 But the trouble with baseball is now and has been ever since it's organization was started, that club owners sooner or later begin to find fault with the very man they have named as leader. Per haps this will not be true in the case Of Landis. It is possible that Landis represents a higher type than any of the many who have held positions in the national game But if he isn't he prob- ably will suffer much the same fate as the men who have gone before.
 The National league has been espe- cially rough in it's treatment of it's lead CTS. Many men have assumed the presi- dency of the organization hlrrahed and lauded to the skies The ovations ten dered to them have made them feel that their new connection was to be very harmonious. But as time went on, each and everyone of those leaders fell ou, of favor with one or another of the mag mates and from then cn- his career was turbulent
 TENER LOSES OUT
 Beyond Landis there has been no man identified in an executive way with baseball who has gone into the game with greater heralding than John K Tener. At the time he was governor of Pennsylvania, and one of the big figures in the political history of the nation He had served efficiently as a congressman and was doing splendid work as the chief executive of the second largest commonwealth in America. He was a man who was felt to be big enough for the job.
 But Tener soon found that bossing a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-30
City Basketball League to Meet
 At "Y' Tonight

The initial meeting of the City Basketball league will be held to- night nt o'clock in the gym of the Y. M. c. 4. under the direction of ". W. AbeII, physical instruc- tor.s
 The teams which will be included in the league this year are: Vest field, North Birmingham By Product plant, North Birmingham Community. Bessemer Y. M. c. A., Birmingham-southern college and Central Y. NJ. c. A.
 The meeting for tonight has been called for the purpose of organ ixing the league and for talking over plans. A schedule will also be arranged.
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MANY SKATERS ENTER :.
 IN NATIONAL TOURNEY

New York, November 2s.-Skaters are getting ready for the national outdoor skating championship tournament to be held at Newburgh on New Years Day. Scores of entries from this city have been made, among the most prominent being Joe Moore, winner of many na- tional and international laurels hst year. The principal entrant rom tne wast is McGowan. of St. Paul, who was the principal point getter in these events last year.
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test and the Maroons' defense was practically impenetrable.
 The conference championship was won by the same means against H. inois. But back of all these plays was the football brains of Pete Stinchco'nb, the smartest player of the year in western football. In this contest Ohio secured possession of the oval in hid field. Stinchcomb realized there was scarcely minute to play and, although Workman called signals to advance the ball by running tactics. Stincn- comb changed the command and di- rected Workman to cut loose with for ward passes.
 Although the first two failed, Stinch- comb did not alter his command. He instructed Workman to fake the for ward pass to him (Stinchc comb) and then wheel and shoot it to Meyers, the end. Time was up when the ball as in the air, but a game does not termi+ nate until the oval is next declared dead. Meyers gathered in the ball and trotted ten yards across the cherished goal line. Walquist, the only Illinois player near the Buckeye end, slipped and lost a golden opportunity to bat the ball to the ground for an inco.n- pleted forward pass.
 It was great climax to a success full season. Had Illinois been the v,c- tor there would have been triple tie for conference honors, but it is a cer tainty that Ohio, Illinois and Wiscon- sin would have laid strong claims to the title, which would have resulted in no end of arguments.
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DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS
 AGAINST HIPPO VAUGHN
 DISMISSED BY COURT

Kenosha, Wis., November 29.--Di- vorce proceedings brought against James Hippo" Vaughn. pitcher in the Chicago National league club, by his wife. Edna were dismissed today by the circuit court.
 Vaughn. who recently was stabbed by his father-in- law, Harry DeBold., is still in the hospital. Physicians today stated that his condition is satisfactory.
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ST. LOUIS CARDS TO
 TRAIN AT ORANGE, TEX.

St Louis, November 2o-The St. Louis Nationals will train at Orange. Tex, 1t was announced today. Pre- season games will be arranged with the Philadelphia Americans, who will train at Lake Charles, La-, it was said.
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CADET GREENE TO LEAD
 1921 ARMY GRID TEAM

West Point. N. Y, November 29.- Cadet Francis M. Greene of Pough- keepsie, N. Y., for two years the Army's football center, today was elected captain of next year's team. He is 20 years of age.
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PIERRE MAUPOME IS 1. STILL IN RUNNING
 FOR BILLIARD TITLE

Chicago, November 29.-Pierre Mau- pome of Milwaukee, kept himself in the running in the prelimfnaries for the na- tional three-cushion billiard cnampioh- ship by defeating John Daly of New YorK today, 50 to 45 in 6i innings. Maupome has three more games, one each with
 Eieckhefer. De Orc and Layton, the leaders. The three high men will meet Robert ,Cannefex in tn finSlls. Mau- ponl's high run today was three, while De Orc made a four. 2.
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WIFE WAS TOO CRUEL
 FOR BOBBY" WALTH0UR

Atlanta, November 29.-"Bobby'' Wal thour of Atlanta, holder of many world records in the bicycle racing game. to- day was granted a divorce from Mrs. Blanche Walthour on grounds of cruel treatment. and announced that he would soon re-enter the racing game in France. Walthough is Il years of age and has been engaged in business for the past two years.
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FELL CITY BASKETBALL
 SEASON OPENS FRIDAY

Pell City, November 29.-(Special.)- Fell City High school will open her 1920-21 basketball season here Friday when the locals meet the fast Moody High outfit. Professor Adams has a fast clean team at Moody and close battle is expected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-30
FUNERAL OF JOHN CLICK
 HELD AT PHILADEL PHlA

Philadelphia, November 2s.-The fu-
 neral of John A Click. noted six-day pedestrian champion and six-day bicycle
 racer. was held here today. Click. who
 vas S5 years old was widely known in the athletic world until his retirement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-30
 PARRISH IS ELECTED CAPT. OF V. P.I. TEAM

Blacksburg. Va, November 2s.-(Spe- caLl-George Parrish of Bristol. Va, star left end of the Virginia Poly foot ball team, was today elected captain ot the 1921 eleven. Robert Shultz o1 Lynchburg. Va. was elected manager.
 The following men were awarded the coveted Tech monograms: Parrish, Til- son. Resh. Hardwick, Saunders. Yerertz, Crisp. Carpenter, Lybrook. Sutton Shaefer. Wallace, Martin. Rice and Manager Eppa Wimbish
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Army Scores Most Points
 In the East

New York, November 29.- West Point, although defeated by Navy and Notre Dame, man. aged to roll up the largest ag- gregate score of any eastern football team during the season just closed-314 points-and Williams, with Benny Will lams, the star individual scorer of the east, was next in line with a total of SIP points.
 Boston college holds the palm from a defensive standpoint, with only i6 points scored by it's opponents against 27 for Syracuse. Boston also is the only large eastern school with a clear string of victories, most of the other teams having had their records marred with one or more tie games.
 Harvard, Princeton, Pittsburg. Penn sylvania State and Stevens all closed their schedules undefeated. but the tie contest between Princeton and liar ward left the question of supremacy unsolved. Pennsylvania State played ties with Pittsburg and Lehigh; Pitts- burg was tied by Syracuse and Penn sylvania State, while Middleburry held Stevens to a tie.
 Thus the close of the season of find ing a leading team more complicated than usual, because in contrast to past years no one varsity team stands prominently forth with sufficiently remarkable record at it's back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-30
BATTLING NELSON HAS
 FORTUNE AT STAKE

Chicago November 29.--(Special.) )-Prop- erty valued at $150,GO, which Oscar Bat ting" Nelson says he earned in the ring from 1900 to 1912 is at stake in a suit on file in superior court by the former lightweight boxer to restrain his broth CTS and sisters from interfering with his control of the property.
 Nelson's suit declares that the estate left to him by his father was entirely his own, and that he turned it over to his father during the later's lifetime to be managed for him. The fathers will left it all to Bat and he states that brothers and sisters are seeking a share in the estate. Robert E. Y Woods, who was named administrator, is also named as defendant.
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LANDS A DIFFERENT TYPE

Landis is of different mould than Tener. The latter was rather easy-going and did not attempt to impress his real power upon the men who had hired him. Tener was not the type who courted trouble. He did not like fighting. Landis appeals as an individual who is a dis ciplinaran, who knows he's right when he is right and will stand for none of the so-called monkey business.
 But in baseball nothing is certain" The magnates who are so enthusiastic cally in favor of Landis may continue so throughout the tenure of his office. If they do, Iandis is going to lead a happy life as baseballs high commits sioner. But if they do turn upon him in a moment of pique, as they have turned on all their leaders, then Landis is going to find that it is worth all of the S42,500 to continue as baseball s supreme ruler
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state was entirely different from ruling basebalfs affairs. He found a lot of temperamental magnates; he encountered some chronic fault finders; he learned early that the thing he did for the best interests of baseball were not so con- strued by the baseball owners who had hired him. Tener soon became disgusted with his job--and for q good reason For, after all is said and done, when it comes to temperament, a baseball mag nate can shade prina donna five days in eUarv Wealy
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But Tener soon found that bossing 3
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1920-07-08
UNITED STATES FACES
FOREST DEPLETION

The high cost Of lumber and news
print il due in no small measure to
the using up of the forests east of
the Great Plains, declared E. I. Mere
dith. secretary Of agriculture, in
forwarding to the Senate a report
bv the Forest Service on timber de-
pletion. called for by a resolution OF
Senator Capper.
Scarcity Of timber in the Eastern
States is bv no means the only cause
Of high prices" said Secretary Mere
dith. Forest products have shared
In the wave Of inflated values. Ar
auction lumber market would have
resulted in any event from the sud
den release of pentup demands fol
housing in industrial material at Z
time when lnroher stocks were shori
and the saw mills unable to respond
rapidly with increased production
But the facts remain that three-fifth'
of the original timber of the United
States is gone; that we are using
timber four times as fast as we arr
growing it; and that nearly two
thirds Of the timber left is west o.
.h7 Great Plains, where its avail
ability to the average user is greatly
lessened.
The Forest Service estimates tina
2.215.000,000 feet of timber is leff
in the United States Nevertheless
the bulk of it's population and indus
tries are handicapped by the exhaus
ton of the forest regions which
formerly supplied them. New Eng
land has one-eighth Of her origina
timber. New York manufacturer
about one-tenth Of the lumber re
auired by her own population. TIT
present lumber cut Of Pennsylvania
is less than the amount consumed il
the Pittsburg district alone. TIL
States on the Great Lakes, which TO
80 years supplied most of the east
~ and central regions with soft
wood lumber, now cut less than one
eighth Of their former production
and are themselves importing soft
woods from the Pacific coast. Tn
| cut of Southern pine, the standar
| lumber of the East for the last l
years, is now falling off. Within
decade it will not exceed the re
cuirements of the South itself.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1920-07-08
DISSATISFIED FARMERS

AT the meeting Of railroad men,
bankers, millers business men and
farmers held in the office Of the Kan
sas, Secretary Of Agriculture, one re-
mark was made, the significance of
which was not realized, in the discus
sion of the vital problem of moving
the crop. This was a statement by
the farm labor director, +. E. Erizell,
that the farmers were not satisfied
with their present return.
Farmers dissatisfied Why should
they be? Labor, transportation diff
fieulties, credit restrictions and prices
of manufactured goods beyond the
war level, seriously affect the farmer.
There is a wide difference between
retail prices of food and what the
farmer gets for them. The secretary
of agriculture of Kansas made a
careful survey Of the what crop Of
1919 and arrived to the conclusion
that it was produced at a loss.
Cattle and hogs have streamed into
the stock yards representing war
time cost Of production, but which
were not sold at such prices. Hogs
have sold for approximately one-half
their wartime value and responsible
bankers have told the Wall Street
Journal on their personal knowledge,
of losses to cattle feeders running as
high as S120 a head. But no one has
ever heard Of any reduction in de-
mands Of farm labor, or a lowering
of prices of what the farmer must
4 purchase. Strikes and transportation
tie-ups also have barred him from
marketing his produce. and he is
obliged to hold in on borrowed money,
and credit is constantly growing
tighter.
The very nature Of his business
gives a farmer little control over the
costs of production. Thus far he has
had practically nothing to say about
the market prices. But farmers can
not be expected to continue Droduct7
ion if dissatisfied. 1t is no secret
\ that an undesirable element have
been attempting to draw the farm
ers into an organization to control
prices, but thus far without success
But if they incur financial loss the
natural alternative would be such an
organization or a cessation of pro
duction of bread and meat. Here is
something for consideration Of
thoughtful people. - Wall Street
Journal.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1920-07-08
HOT WEATHER RULES

/. Load lightly and drive slowly.
2. Stop in the shade if possible.
8. A sponge on the top Of the head,
or even a cloth, is good if kept wet.
If dry. it is worse than nothing.
4. Water your horse as often as pos
sible. So long as the horse is working,
water in small quantities will not
hurt him. But let him drink only
faw swallows if he is going to stand
still.
5. When he comes in after work
sponge off the harness marks and
sweat, his eyes, his nose and mouth
and the dock. Wash his feet, but moi
his legs.
6. If the thermometer is % de-
grees or higher wipe him all over
with a damp sponge, using vinegar
water il possible Do not wash the
horse at night.
Z. Saturday night, give a brar
mash, lukewarm, and add a table
spoonful of saltpetre.
s. Watch your horse. If he stops
sweating suddenly, or if he breathe'
short and quick, or if his ears droop
if he stands with his legs braced side
ways, he is in danger Of heat OF
sun stroke and needs attention a
once.
9. If the horse is overcome bv heat
get him into the shade, remove har
ness and bride. wash out his mouth
sponge him all over, shower his leg'
and give him two ounces or aromatic
spirits Of ammonia, or two ounces o.
sweet spirits of nitre, in a pint O
water. or give him pint of coff'
warm. Cool his head at once. uslnf
cold water, or, if necessary, CHOPPED
ice, wrapped in cloth.
10. If the horse is off his feed, tt!
him with two quarts Of oats miXeC
with bran and little water, and adj
little salt or sugar. Or give hin
oatmeal Cruel or barley water t
drink.
II. Clean your horse at night, s.
that he can rest well, and clean hun
thoroughly. The salt dandruff dry
ing on his skin makes him uncom
fortable,, and often produces sore
under the harness.
70. Do not fail to water him "a
night after he has eaten his hay. |
you don't he will be thirsty all nighf
10. If it is so hot that the hors
sweats in the stable at night, tie hir
outside with bedding under him. Ur
less he cools off during the night, b
can not well stand the next day
heat.
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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1920-07-08
Wouldn't Go Camping Without

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THINKING

If YOU think Won are beaten. Won are:
If Won think you dare not. you
don't;
If you'd like to win. but you think
you can't,
It's almost cincb you won't
If YOU think you'll lose. you're lost,
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellows will,
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself
before
You can ever win a prize.
Lies battles don't always 90
To the stronger or faster man;
Bue soon or late the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.
w. D. w.
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1T Looked Like a Battlefield in Eu'
rnne Said Mr.. C. Dnnster

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Your Nerves
Are Exhausted
PEPSINOL Overcomes Nervous
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Normal Way

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