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will bring together great field, in 1 clu6ing McClesky. Georgia Tech; Cow ington. Louisiana Stare: Montgomery, | Tulane; Spencer and Cochran, Missis- ] sippi A. and M. Gentry and Howell, Vanderbilt; Porter Georgetown; Wool vine, Sewanee. and Knight Kentucky
 DISCUS RECORD SHAKY | In the field events the record for ! the discus is the oniy one in danger l Williford. track captain of the Missis- | sippi Aggies, looks like the man who may lower Rices mark. The record 1 is 127 feet. s inches and Williford
 in dual meet with Louisiana State | was credited with 12T feet inches | Williford is good all-around man. I He and Ellis are the stars on the A. | and M. team this year
 1 The javelin is a new event added to the program and the winner will establish the record.
 l Vanderbilt. who fo- years has fur nished great relay teams. will prob l ably send anotherSto the championship | In the meet with Kentucky this sea- | son the Comm odores' team. comprised 1 of Thomas Hendricks. Early and l Nance, beat their own record of last | year by negotiatihG the mile in 8
 minutes. 19 3-5 seconds. The record | last year was SPA
 | The championship, from present in- dications will get back to the high standard held before the war A meet was held in 1919. but few coaches l had sufficient time to bring out real 1 championship teams. Already there 1 are ten members of the & l. A A. l that can be counted on to be repre- 1 sented. Those who have shown ac- | tiyity in track athletics this season 1 include Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech. ! Georgia, Auburn. Scwanee. Tulane, Louisiana State, Mississippi A. and M, l Georgetown College. of Kentucky, and University of Kentucky
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ELKS' ANNUAL RACES FEATURED BY DARINC,- OF SPEED MERCHANTS
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time was 6;S2 for two miles and chang ing the tire The S1-Tire Company finished second. while Y, Johnston Tire Company came in third.
 Charlie Armstrong won out over J. w. Howard in the amateur Elks' race, Me first event of the day Howard led ArrA- strong for two miles but had engine trouble The time was :35 minutes.
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HICKS HOSIERY MILL
 AT TALLADEGA SOLD

TalIadega. May 1-tSpecial)-Sale of the Hicks Hosiery Mill here to the Tal- ladega Knitting Mills, a new corpora tion composed of local capital, was con summated today. The new corporation is capitalized at s40,oO0, with c. N. La njer. president: J. G. Chapman. vice pr esident Miss Grace Jemson, secre- tary, and A. w. Hardin, treasurer and manager The mill was part of the es- tate of the late John H. Hicks.
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A demonstration held in London by the Knox Guild of Design and Crafts showed the beautiful results produced by ordinary methods of dyeing. Some wooden stuffs woven by members of the guild with primitive apparatus were dyed with the privet, bracken, gorse and other well known plants, and even with soot from the chimney, the last producing a beautiful old gold
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TOM HUGHES GOES
 TO SHREVEPORT CLUB

Shreveport. May 1.-Tom Hughes, former Atlanta Southern Associa- tion) pitcher has been secured by the Shreveport (Texas League) club from the Boston Nationals. it was announced today.
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 the long standing mark in the 220 yards low hurdles. held jointly by Anderson, of Vanderbilt (now coach of the Commodores). and Winfro of Mississippi A. and M College, of Starksvilie. The record is 26 seconds flat
 MARK EQUALED
 Already this season this time has beer equalled by Ell;s. of Missis sipp A. and M.. and with Hammond, of Se- vance. as his competitor, he should easily better this time when the Championship is held, Hammond is & great hurdler and is competing in his fourth year. He is handled by vet eran western hurdler Nicholson.
 Further evidence that the low hurdles record is in danger is found m the performance of Clare of Ken- lucky. He is reported to have run the race in 25 1-5 seconds when he bea: Nance, of Vanderbilt in a dual meet between the two teams at Lex ingion, Ky, this spring. A good field will start in this event. including Reed, Of Auburn. who has. done 26 1-5 and Hague. of Louisiana State, who was second to Ellis when he equailed the record
 All the dash records are exception ally low and if any coach develops a star who is able 60 lower these marks he will certainly be of Olympic material. The same goes for the half mile. Don Scott. Mississippi A. and VI. s great middle distance runner, is holder of the record in the $50 at minute. 55 S-5 seconds Scott is one of the few southern athletes to become national A. A. '. enampion.
 There is also a Possibility of the record of minutes. " 2-5 seconds In the mile. held by Gamer, of Wander bilt falling by the wcvside The mile
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LOokoutS Lose Poorly Played Game toChicks

Memphis. Tenn, May 1-Memphis de-
 feated Chattanooga, to 3. in a poorly played game today. Only one of the
 Memphis runs was earned. errors and
 Yorks two wild pitches accounting for the others. Canavan scored the win
 ming run in the ninth on Lewis single.
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Bunched Hits Win Game For Little Rock

Little Rock, May 1.--Bunched hits off Tomun in three innings enabled Little Rock to defeat Nashville today 9 to B.
 Statham relieved Tomlin in the fifth after three runs had scored, with none out and stopped the scoring, out Yel- lowhorse was effective throughout, and at no time was the home team early
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SOUTH'.S BEST COLLEGE ATHLETES TO MEET AT ATLANTA N BIG NEE 7
s. A. A. Track and Field Championships Scheduled for May IA and 15-22O Yards Low Hurdles Record Is
 in Danger-Dash Records Are Low
Rr CoLoNEL CLIkE

When the teams of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic As socaon assemble Atlanta for the annual track field championship May hard task will confront the athletes shatterng the established by spike shoe in previous The records of the greatest performances of college athletes the south which will be hard to duplicate.
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Summary-Two-base hits Mullen, Allen, Tutweiler Sacrifice hits. Tutweiler, Dam irau. Stolen bases, Mulvey, Golvin. Dou- ,ble plays, McMifian to Mullen to Golvm. Struck out, by Hafd ?, Thorbnrn g. Base on balls, off lIaid 3, Thorburn ,. Left on bases, Mobile 13, Atlanta 6. Time, ] hour 45 minutes Empires Roth and Brennan
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ONLY Y TWO BARONS ARE BA TYING ABOVE 1900
Al Ellis Is Second Highest Batter in League With Mark of .422-Barons Sixth in Team Hitting and
 Second in Fielding

According to released yesterday there but Barons batting above the coveted 300 mark Al Ellis, left gardener runnerup for leadership of the league playing ond fiddle to Rpperton of New Orleans with average .422.
 stuffy Stewart batting 325 Cro third highest Baron,
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The Barons have dropped in team hitting, and are now third from bot tom, with a mark of .233. Birming- ham is second in team fielding, how ever, with percentage of .954. The Barons have made less errors than any other team in the league.
 TWO BARON TWIRLERS HIGH
 Coffindaffer and Gallagher have each won one game, and losing none have percentage of 1000. Morrison has won two and lost two, averaging 800. None of the other Baronial twirl- CTS have won a game. Averages fol- low
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Doctrine of Less Work

Samuel Crowther in The Worlds Work. Until a few decades ago the average
 human being spent his time in inves- tigating formulas that would prevent 1 him from going to he'll. It had not occurred to him that he might get on without work. All, of the newer move
 ents-that is. the movements of the past half century that have gained 1 force or popRarity-have to do with getting rid oDwork Hell is less im- rortant than once it was The dispo- fstion is to arrange things for today and possibly to let the hereafter care for itself.
 Twenty commodities manufactured
 from near-silk made from the pulp oi
 fir. spruce and hemlock are now being
 exhibited by the West Coast Lumber
 mems Association in Portland, Ore
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Totals ..........a ~26 15 sTwo out when winning run scored.

Summary: Two-base nus, bTdIVIII' High. Stolen bases, Carroll, Blades, De- moe Double play, Lewis to McLarry. Left on bases, Memphis :, Chattanooga ?. Wild pitches, York ?. Base on balls off Canavan ?, off York 2 Struck out, by Canavan 2, by York 6. Time, l:oo umpires, Pfirman and Johnson.
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cular opponent down after short

round.
 Albright won the third and last fall by the toe hold route, 'Demetral being forced to surrender after the round had gone for about 30 minutes The fast. clean work of the two grapplers kept the large audience at a high pitch of excitement and interest during the en- tire course of the game and with the established popularity of Demetral came a growing admiration for the Carolina grappler. who won the match.
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Totals .......S4 8 8 24
 TBatted for Statham in ninth.

Score by innings:
 Nashville .............. 100 900 900-3 Little Rock ............ 300 $50 00"--9
 Summary: Two-base hits. Adams, Harper, Miller, Ballinger, Three base kits Burke. Sacrifice hits, Farmer, Miller, Frierson Yellowhorse, McGin- his. Stolen bases, Harper. Double play, Yellow horse to McGinnis to Adams. Left on bases, Little Rock [. Nashville s. Hits off Tomlin 10, with runs in four innings (none out when relieved), Struck out, by Yellowhorse r. by Statham 1. Bases on balls. off Yellowhorse 3, off Tomlin 2, off Stath- am 1. Time. hours. Empires, Gif- fcrd and Kerin.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
Enormous Waste of Time AMI
Money Accrues From Delays
Due to Poor Dock Facilities

at the zone freight stations and
outgoing freight would be lightered
to Jersey in 100 per cent lighter
loads, there to be distributed to the
various railroads through the union
clearing house. Outgoing steamer
freight would be drayed or lightered
to the steamers from the local sta
tions in drays or lighters loaded 100
per cent.
The projected vehicular tunnel un-
der the Hudson will ultimately han
die the major part Of the freight for
local consumption, and when that
tunnel comes into service the zone
freight stations established for the
belt lighter service would be used
for the tunnel service and thus save
the congestion of the tunnel by 10
per cent loaded trucks.
A belt line railway on the Jersey
meadows is necessary integral part
Of such a system, but it is not nee
essary to wait for it to install the
belt lighterage service, with 100 per
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But Efficiency of Handling L
Necessary if Biggest Results
Are To Be Achieved

New York is given by Harwood
Frost in his pamphlet American
Terminal Conditions" Mr.. Frost
cites the terminal costs in New York
of 1925 a ton on package freight
from Philadelphia, while the ninety
mile rail haul from Philadelphia
costs only 27 cents a ton.
New York is great terminal.
Nothing originates here. Every
thing that is consumed here pays
freight and terminal charges, and
it has been further estimated that
by the time an article reaches the
consumer, by way of the ,niddleman
and retailer, the terminal charge has
been trebled. Thus, every resident
of New York is directly interested
in the reduction of terminal charges
by the efficient operation of the port.
1t is question that directly affects
the cost Of living.
The inefficiency Of the Port of New
York, from the special point of view
Of terminal charges-and from most
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service to the government ships and
deliver only full lighters to those
ships A belt lighterage system
would mean the same rule applied
all over the harbor, but it would
mean, as well, an economical and
efficient system Of delivering local
freight, for belt lighterage system
would handle not only through
steamer freight but all freight COM
ing into the port.
There are several parts to belt
lighterage system for relieving the
congestion at this port. Beginning
on the Jersey side, there would have
to be first q concentration and classi-
fcation Of freight. The railroads
would have to consent, or be forced,
to adopt a union terminal system,
and this would mean, ultimately if
not Immediately, q union belt line
railway on the New Jersey meadows
connecting all the railways on that
side. Whenever such q project is
Put into effect the New York Cen
tral stands ready to bring all it's
Western freight down the west
shore from Albany to Weehawken,
while the New Haven would take
the majority Of its freight across
the Poughkeepsie bridge and SO to
Weehawken.
On the Jersey side steamer
freight would be separated from
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other points Of view, as WELLS due
to water front congestion, and the
main point of attack Of the problem
is the North River, as that is the
most important section Of the water
front, and the solution Of that prob
lem would carry with it, at least, a
partial solution of the problems of
most Of the other sections.
North River water front conpes-
tion is of both water borne and land
traffic--lighters and drays. The
spectacle is presented six days a
week Of the North River slips
crowded with lighters of from 800
to 700 tons capacity but rarely
loaded 100 per cent and frequently
carrying only twenty or thirty tons,
trying to push their way In to pier
or vessel to deliver one or two
packages, while other lighters,
loaded with equally conspicuous dis
regard of business principles, are
waiting in the stream for their turn
to crowd into the congested pockets.
Lighters sometimes lose several days
trying to get where they are wanted.
In recent case a lighter missed
delivery to a steamer and had to
hold the freight for five days, with
resulting demurrage charges OF $7b
day. This Is only one Of hum
dreds Of such instances. The waste
OF lighter service, by this inehiciency
OF the port, is as though more than
half the dghtera of the harbor were
constantly tied up by strikes of their
crews.
On shore the same conditions are
to be seen with regard to trucks
and drays. Long lines Of trucks
wait for hours to reach the piers.
A two-ton truck, carrying, perhaps,
two packages weighing 400 pounds
each, will wait four hours to. de-
liver one Of the packages at one pier
and then have to wait another four
hours to deliver the second package
at another pier two blocks away. On
recent freight shipment from the
West for en- outgoing steamer, the
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to a steamer. This waste motion is
not all. The many lighters clutter
the slip, interfere with each other,
and the entire time and effort Of
removing one lighter and setting
another must be repeated for every
few tons Of cargo loaded.
The principle involved is that of
useless duplication of service with
increasing cost ton, increasing con-
gestion and the uneconomical en-
ployment Of a fleet of lighters many
times that which is otherwise neces-
sary."
The same description will apply
to the trucking situation. A truck
serving several different customers
must go to half dozen different
railroad piers, with long waits at
each, collecting one or two parcels
at each, with the result that at the
end Of the day it has accomplished
perhaps one-fourth Of its allotted
task and is considerably less than
so per cent loaded, while each Gus
toner has experienced long and un-
necessary delays in the receipt of
goods, which may mean a loss of
anything from few hundreds to
many thN1sands Of dollars. If the
truck is delivering to the railroads,
knowing the intermlnable delays, it
will carry goods for one line only
and will be seen standing for hours
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Must Simplify Coaling

Coaling should be simplifed a'
expedited for ships in this port. rev
vessels will give up the time nees''
sary to leave their berths, 90 10
particular point in the harbof y
take on bunker coal and return J.
their loading berths. Coaling ar'
loading cargo must go on al W
same time. That means that snp
must be coaled from lighters, ~
there is no reason why dictator
stevedores and rival coal compaaf
should be allowed to combine =
force the Port Of New York to ssS, !,
to obsolete hand coaling instead
adopting modern mechanical y
pliances by which ships could e~
at night when the loading OF esD
stops.
The problems Of the Port Of -.
York are many and various r
those that deserve the first copss
Grafton are the ones relating 70 E
congestion Of the North River wss'
front. If that problem were so.'.
ono would be tempted to ssy W.
the future Of tie port was ase',s'
while If it is not solved the expenS
ture Of hundreds Of millions N os''s'
directions would be money tn'0v'
into the ocean.
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IN West Street, carrying no more
enan 10 per cent Of Ito normal load
while thousands Of other trucks In
the same case stretch out before and
behind 1t.
lt Is this railroad situation that is
the chief factor in the congestion
at the Port OF New York, but it is
by no means the only factor. In
the same space on the North River
IN which the railroads take 47.9 per
cent OF the water front, tho Sound
steamers occupy 10 per cent and
coastw1se steamers 1876 per cent Of
the froIat. II Is estimated that the
Sound steamers make 10000 extra
miles year by rounding the Bat
terry to tho North River, instead Of
having their piers on the East River.
Another cause for congestion is
narrow piers, unequipped mechani-
cally for the rapid and efficient han
ding Of freight and lacking room
for handling and sorting freirbt
This is condition that makes in
evitably for congestion. Freiqht IA
necessarily dumped indiscrtmtnatelv
on Che piers, and it may be necessary
to move two or three carloads Of
packages to get one or two parcels
for a waiting truck. OF course. tho
truck waits and waits and waits.
Added to the inability Of the piers
to function in the manner of COM
ponent parts Of an adult port is tho
Jack Of warehouse facilities New
York can never become a great con-
signment port, fivaling London and
contesting with it for the COM
mercial supremacy Of the world. un-
til it has the facilities Tor handling
consignment freight cheaply and
swiftly. At the present time it has
1ot warehouses even for such fre;nhk
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cent loaded lighters, and tho zon.
distribution of freight on the New
York side Of the port. The belt
i1ghterage and freight zone distri.
button parts Of the scheme could
be put into effect Immediately and
linked up with the belt railway
when it is built.
In the same way, modern piers
with up-to-dats Installations for
handling freight are q dire need
here, but it is not required to wait
for long and tedious building opera
tlons to use to the best advantage
what wa have under our hands.
There always will be = considera-
bic amount Of congestion in the
small and restricted piers that now
obstruct this port, but a largo
amount Of that congestion can be
relieved by q proper distribution Of
the traffic.
Pier construction, - known IN
New York, is the most economical
water front, but there is no reason
Tor continuing to bs hampered By
the historical origin Of the marrow
piers. A modern pier requires a
transit shed where the cargo Of =
ship unloading can be spread ont
and assorted according to marks and
consignees. Thero must be space
enough to accommodate the cargo
without piling It more than shout
der high, as piling and tierine to a
greater height Is very expensive and
time consuming. Tho shed must ba
large enough in area to hold the
cargo OF the largest ship using the
pier. The shed must accommodates
at the same time, the outgoing carro
OF the ship, ~ when a ship arrives
IN port It cannot wait until itx dis.
Charged cargo 10 cartsd aw.v Ia he
gin loading.
The loss on q ship lying Idle in
port runs into thousands Of dollar.
day. Hence, there must be room
IN the transit shed for the ont
gong cargo to be assembled be-
forehand and sorted according n |
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nope OF relief from duplication Of

nope OF relief from duplication Of
facilities and equipment and con-
gest1on on the water front Of both
sides OF the river until some differ
ent arrangement has been made. The
present competition at the terminals
ana the present absorption Of all
cost above an arbitrary amount for
llghterage service must be changed
Ihe solution must be union lirhtar-
ago service and a union switching
service under one port authority and
connecting al parts Of the port on
equal terms. At New York, owing
to 1ts peculiar conditions, the belt
railroad and tho belt lighteraee
must be one organization. The move
mene Of carload and less than oar
load lots at the port would begin
at the New Jersey meadows For
tho service the belt line company
would receive q certain rate. This
would be more than the present three
cents (allowed by the Interstate Com
nserce Commisyion a. the lighter
age charge at New York on through
freight), but the railroads could we'll
AFFORD TO pay more to the belt line
because they would save all their
equivalent present terminal expenses.
which are unnecessarily heavy. The
belt line could perform the service
at a lower rate than the present
costs to the individual railroads
and to the public."
The army transport service in
the Nsw York district during the
war indicated what a belt tighter
age system would do for the port
A ruling was 1nads-1iot to SAW
lighter equipment but to avoid con-
gestfon and save time-that the rail.
reaAs lAesld pool their lighterare.
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Hauling and Handling

Emciency Is what the Port Of New
York is badly in need of at the
present time. Size can come with
t'me, and the time needed can ha
taken for the development Of the
great policy, provided the port al II
exists is made to function 100 per
cent. Moreover, the bringing Of or
Ger out OF the existing chaos would
not interfere with any future plans
for general development, but would
simplify the execution of such plans.
and the efficient operation of the
Port of New York Is Of vital I'M
portance to every one of the 7,O0O.-
600 residents Of the metropolitan
district.
From the purely local viewpoint
each consumer is concerned with
this question. It has been estimated
that the average cost Of hauling a
ton Of freight 24O miles il, the
United States is "a cents, while the
;ost of handling the same toa of
'reight at the terminals is rs onts.
But this is an average cost for the
whole country. A concrete exar,pte I
4 the enormity of terminal costs IN
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as comes here for the most tempo
rary storage in transit, storage for
q few days only, and this adds an
other great element to the water
front congestion. Both the piers
and the marginal way have to be
used for storage purposes. Freight
that should be spread and sorted on
the piers for easy access is piled
high, with utter lack Of system,
while packages wanted for imme-
date delivery are buried deep un-
der tons Of freight that is practi-
cally held in storage, and the huge
mass overfows into the marginal
way and blocks the road for the
drays.
Belt Line Needed
Then, there is the lack Of belt line
facilities for the rapid and efficient
movement of freight from point to
point. And this suggests at once
the first remedy to be applied to the
situation at the Port Of New York.
The objections to belt line rail-
way for Manhattan are many and
obvious, and this leaves lighter belt
line to take its place.
Professor MacElwee says, Cali
hope Of Improvement is inseparable
from the question Of competitive
versus union marine terminals"
And further along: "There is no