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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
CITY BOXING TOURNEY
 TO BE STAGED AT THE
 ATHLETIC CLUB TONIGHT

but the other classes have at least four men entered in each
 The first bout tonight begins promptly at 8 o'clock. Biscoe Seals will referee, and Octavus Roy Cohen and Jim Davis will act as judges There will be many bouts, due to the size Of the entry list There will be at least three bouts in each class, and more than that in others.
 Each bout will be for three rounds. with the two judges deciding the winner. The referee will cast the deciding vote, if one is needed. Each bout will have a winner. There will be no draws.
 Popular Prices
 decided feature about the tour nament tonight is the fact that pop ular prices will prevail There is an admission price for every pocket book, prices ranging from 30 cents to $l30. Tickets will be on sale all day at the Athletic club.
 A large crowd is expected to be on hand to witness the bouts. The popular prices will enable anyone to attend the fights, and the B. A c. auditorium is expected to be filled tonight.
 CpiipeNlLlOH SHOuid Dt hStn with 34 scrappers entered.
 Classy Boys Entered
 There are some classy boys to be found among those 34 scrappers who will take part in the tournament to- night.
 In the bantamweight class Claude Wilson and Steve Sarron are about as classy a pair of 112-pounders ss are to be found among DiNie's anna teurs.
 Among the featherweights Danny Stevens and Gene Honeycutt will find lots of competition from the seven other 1tS-pounders entered
 In the 125-pound class Horace Hooper and Johnny Shahid lend class to the large field.
 Speedy Newman, southern amateur champion lightweight, will be on hand to defend his laurels in the 135- pound class.
 Young Allen Is Growing
 Harwell Allen, the game kid' of the B. A. c. boxing team, is growing fast, and will fight in the 145-pound class. He started out as bantam weight a little over a year ago.
 There are several middleweights entered, among them being Bob Bow den, the lanky scrapper who has de- veloped so fast, and Young Moses the kid wonder. who has just re- gently taken up boxing.
 Following is the complete entry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
1 MINORS EXPECT TO
 HOLD PROTECTION AGAINST MAJORS
Draft Question Expected to Be Brought Up Against Joint Meeting in New
 York Next Week

Bufaflo, N. Y, December S.-What the minors have as a measure of pro- tection against the raids of the ma Jors upon players they will hold. That was the freely expressed opinion among the delegates at the close of the twenty first annual meeting of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues here today
 No modification of the selected player rule" was possible at the minors convention here because it I Is part of their agreement with the majors that can be changed only at major minor confab, and the next one opens in New York next week. If the matter was discussed in today's executive session, the minors kept their own counsel about it.
 Want To Keep Bars Up The only reaction from the ad- yances of the majors and the appeal of Commissioner K. NJ. Landis to or ganized baseball to find way out of the woods on the draft question, therefore, can be found in the known attitude of the personnel of the com mittee of minors named to go to the New York joint meeting. Neither President T. J. Hickey of the Amer ican association nor President w. H. Mccarthy of the Pacific Coast league takes kindly to the idea of letting down the bars again to the majors. President J. c. Toole of the Interna- tional is of the same mind, but there is said to be some difference of opin- ion among the members of that organization, and the question will be threshed out at the leagues an- nual meeting, which takes place be- fore the major minor conference.
 Secretary Farrell, the fourth mem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
First Bout Scheduled to Be- gin at 8 O'Clock Tonight. Classy Amateurs Entered to Try For City Titles

City boxing championships will be decided at the local Athletic club to- night, when Birmingham's amateur init wielders meet to decide the Athletic clubs representatives in the junior national boxing tourna- 1aent here during the spring.
 eThe tournament tonight, while to decide the boxers to represent the E. A. c. in the junior national, will take the place of the annual city championship affair. which has been staged in the past by the B. A. .. Those boxers who show up well in the tourney tonight will be taken over by the B. A c. and groomed for the junior national. southern. southeastern, and probably national. affairs, all of which will take place this spring.
 34 Boxers Entered
 There are 34 boxers entered in the tournament, scattered over six classes The featherweight and spe- cial weight classes are best entered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09

llst' announced by Tommy Tompkins boxing instructor of the B. A. C.:
 112-Pound Class Claude Wilson, B. A. c. Steve Sarron. Boys club. Hollis Arnold, Pratt City. Bogi Saab. Boys club.
 11S-Pound Class Danny Stevens, B. A. c. Gene Honeycutt. Bessemer. Jack Gibbons, Boys club. Bud Appleby. Boys club. Weller Kirkpatrick, Bessemer. Robert Lapidus, Ensley. Paul Woods. B. A. c. James Pike, Boys club. Jack Saunders, Boys club.
 125-Pound Class Horace Hooper, Boys club. Bert Raniles, Boys club. Bishop Lay, Boys club. Bill Carlough, Boys club. Howard Smiles, Boys club. Baxter Rotenbury. B. A. c. Johnny Shahid, B. A. c. Harry Meyers, Bessemer.
 135-Pound Class Speedy Newman, B. A C. (southerr champion.) John Saab. Boys club. Charles McElwain, B. A. c. Sam Timberella, Ensley.
 14J-POund Class Harwell Allen, B. A. c. Allen Shaddix, Bessemer. Charles Parks, Boys club. Lawrence Frederick, Y. NJ c. A.
 15S-Pound Class Robert Bowden, B. A. c. Dawson Edwards. Boys club. Young Dixon, Boys club. ,. Robert Moses, B. A. c. Jack McGinty, B. A. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
TROTTING BOARD
 FIXES PENALTIES

New York. December S-Before ad- journment to meet again in May, the board of review of the National Trot- ting association has fixed penalties for the following cases of alleged rules infraction: John Seely of Ash burn, Va, expelled for racing Hallie C, 2:141 If out of her class and un- der the name of Ashburn Belle.
 William Hyde of Buffalo. N. Y., and Paul Bowser of Newark, O., sus- pended until they identify Dexter Di- rect and return money won by him in race at Wheeling, w. Va, Septem- Der 6, 1921"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
OLD DOLLAR BILL SEE:

Hex Tugge allows he feels about in dress suit a awning in the winter time.
 of been typographical What they probably a camels had needle. with A. A. We will have with night the A. A. U And then hence will have with the P A. stands for Southern Interschoac Athletic and better S. A A. u stands for South Amateur Athletic union the abuse heaped it by brainess critics P G. stands Society for the Prevention of Useless Gf and number of violations by it's members In other make break take The former will make laws the middle named will break and the latter will take anything give 'em.
 the things be by the Southern Interhoasic Athletic which today will the rule The doesn't understand all he knows about the rule For his edifcaton will The that kid under of enter football competition
 good Football is for infants and they personal injuries if allowed to
 
 The organization attempt put stop tramp athletes athletes like should he aintern edatH hoken.N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09

The volstead act will also be lauded at the meeting, it being the opinion of the delegates that athletes should join the nation in a ten-year aicoholiday.
 The business sessions will be informal. the delegates being permitted to wear business suits and toothpicks.
 Will the S. I. A. A. put its stamp of approval on the application of the Amalgamated Southern Cor respondence schools for mem bership? That's one of the big questions.
 Branch Bocock of l.. S. U. Baton Rouged his face and is coming in to attend the conclave. Brothers McGugin and Simpson. Nashvill- aims, will be here. Charlie Bernier and his trick hat will represent Alabama. Mike Donahue and Professor Hare will drive their bronchos in from the Plains of Auburn.
 The pennant for the past foot bnlI season will not he awarded. There seems to he some doubt ss to who won it.
 It Is understood the Orgnnixa- tion is thoroughly i'm accord in It's fight for more seats and re- ceipts In the grid games of the future.
 Friday night the Magic City box fighters of the Southeastern Amateur union will mix mitts to see what boys represent Birming ham in the championship tourney of that organization.
 All that is required to show that you are an nmateur is to convince the committee that you haven't n cauliflower ear.
 Pugilism is made up of broken noses and training rules. The old expression has been changed to: '.As snug as a pug with a jug"
 
 Jack Dempsey was invited here to referee the amateur scraps, but sprained his hand this week Juggling a grip packed with re- ceipts from his vaudeville tour. and couldn't attend.
 The rabbit punch and the lid- ney stew are barred in nii anna teur box-fishting contests.
 Plugs are the califlower of our manhood.
 As an amateur, a fighter learns the left cross and the right cross. When he becomes professional, he learns the doubIe-cross.
 Fred Fulton was once an anna teur. Aw, where did I get that was once" stuff?
 Claude Wilson is going to turn professional after the A. A. U. bouts. if he doesn't turn somer- saults before then.
 Claude has q future before him and good manager behind him Tommy Thompl<ins. It Is un- derstood he has already signed on the dotted line.
 Boxing is known as the manly art. When a fellow hands you five 1t takes a man to stand up under it.
  After the S. I. A. A. meet, the boxing meet and the track meet comes basketball. Cage men are to be known as floor walkers this season.
 
 Dutch Bernsen was a 3-year- old. Therefore he was sold to Atlanta. We got the Crackers firstbaseman-Brenner. and they got ours-Bernsen. The B's seem to be buzzing around, eh wot? Carp is coming hack to Amerf- ca. Before the fight with Demp- sey he was known as the rock ribbed Frenchman. After it, as the rib-rocked Frenchman.
 Wonder if the fight picture
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
RECEIVERS NAMED
 FOR TEX RICHARD

New York. December S.-AlIen Lexow and John RingIing were named by Supreme Court Jus. tice Guy late today as receivers for "Texs Rickard, the Madison Square Garden corporation and the Madison Square Sporting club Nnc.) They deposited bond of e1O0.OOO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09

will prove a knockout with the city commissioners at the private showing this morning?
 Tnzer Hood said he failed to mail in his all-American selec- tion, but that it was made up en- tireiy of the players on the Gen. ire team.
 Stanislaus ZbyszkO Is still at- tempting to interpret the little song entitled, "Youth Must Re Served.
 
 stanislaus is fair, fat. forty and famous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
MOBILE MAN KILLED
 IN A BOXING BOUT

Mobile, December -(Special.)- James H. overstreet. 26. an official of the Bell Telephone company. died here tonight from the effect of blow and fall received while engaged in a friendly boxing bout with 12- ounce gloves with his brother7in-law w. E. Nichols. Overstrect, when picked up, was unconscious, and died in a hospital two hours later. Death was declared accidental.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
FISHBURN WINS MATCH

Augusta. Ga., December S.-B. T.. Fishburn former checker champion of the south, defeated G. c. Raymond, the champion, in the eighth game of a 20-game match being staged here. Fishburn's victory today tied the score. which now stands: Raymond 1, Fishburn l, draws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
MIKE 0'D0WD TO
 BATTLE MIKE GIBBONS

New York, December s.-MIIc O'Dowd, St. Paul middIeweight, has been matched with Mike Gibbons for a 1O-rOund nO-de- cision bout In the Twin City De- cember Is, 1t was announced to- night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
MONTEVALLO PLAYERS
 WILL OPEN SEASON AT HOWARD TONIGHT

Sixteen members of the Dramatic club of the Alabama Technical In- stitute and College for Women are in Birmingham today to take part in the three one-act plays which this club is presenting at Howard college this evening under the auspices of the Howard Players" the dramatic club at Howard, in the first program attempted in Birmingham by Monte vallo girls. This program marks the opening of the dramatic season at Howard college, whose students are planning to tour the state in the spring with a program of their own.
 The dramatic club at Montevallo was organized three months ago and consists of S3 members. It Is under the joint direction of Miss Vivian Monk. leading character in the Blackfriars club last year at the Uni Versity of Alabama, and Miss Doro- thy Richey, head of the expression department at Montevallo.
 Howard students are especially in- terested in the presentation of the Montevallo Dramatic club because of warm reception rendered their or. ganization by the Montevallo girls when 1t was touring the state last spring. Besides there exists a pro- verbal friendship between Monte- vallo girls and Howard boys. which has always brought cooperation be- tween the two schools. Local alum nae of Montevallo are expected to be present in large numbers to wit ness the initial program presented here by that college.
 Howard students plan to unite in entertaining the visiting girls today. All the fraternities and sororities will entertain the girls in an open house party between and o'clock this afternoon. After the program, which opens at o'clock, the Sigma Mu fraternity will be host to the visitors in an entertainment at their fraternity house.
 Three one-act plays will form the program, 'The Florist Shop" by Hawkridge; The Rescue" by Rita Smith. and 'Neighbors." by Zona Gale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-09
I. C. U.-CENTRE
 GAME IS CANCELLED

Fort Worth. December S.-The foot ball game between Centre college. Danville. Ky, and Texas Christian university, Fort Worth, scheduled for January 2, was cancelled today by of- ficials of the local school.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-05-26
COMMISSIONERS SALE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in pursuance of the authority and di- rections contained in the. decretal or der of the Chancery Court of Polk County, made and entered on the 4tn day of April, A. D. 1921, in a certain cause (No. 921) then pending therein between P. P. Keith, Complainant, and Hatton Springs Co.,, corporation' Hatton Gap Development O., 2 cor | poration, and Fidelity Trust Co., Corporation, Defendant, the under signed, as Commissioner of said ! Court, will offer for sale at public vendue to the highest bidder, at the SEE door or entrance of the County Courthouse, in which said Court IS held, in the County of Polk within the hours prescribed by law for judicial sales, on Saturday the 11th day of June, A. D. 1921, the following de- scribed real estate, to-wit: Two thirds undivided interest in and to the following lands, NEA NWA, Sec l ETp. 5 s, R. 32 W except what has been heretofore sold to Thomas Longacre; also SWA of NWA of Sec. 1, Tp. 5,S | R 32 West, except 2 acres heretofore ! sold by Mrs. Miller; also SEA SEA- of NWA and WIZ SEA NWA and fractional NEA SWA of NEA Sec. Ii, Tp. 5 s R 32 West; also Bissel lots numbered l, 2, & in Block 2 in Hatton: also lot in Block 15 in Hat ton, Polk County, Arkansas; also NE of Lots 1 & in Block in Hatton, said lots being a part of NEA NWA of See. 1 Tp. R 32 West, and each of said lots being 30 feet by 120 feet; also all of NWA of SWA, Sec 1, Tp. S., R. 32 West, except If acres described as follows: Be- ginning chains and B links East of Northwest corner of said NWA of SWA, thence South 10 chains and 20 links to stake, South from said stake 72 degrees West 40 links to a Whiteoak tree 15 inches in diameter thence South A degrees, East 52 chains; thence South 12 degrees East 43 links, East chains and ii links from said Whiteoak tree; North de- grees w 10 links; thence s to s line |of said NV A SWA, thence k. along s line 6 chains and 42 links, thence N to N line of said NWA SWA thence w along N line to place of beginning, the part conveyed contains 26 acres more or less. Also one undivided one- half interest in the NWA NWA of Sec. i, Tp. s R 32 West, except 1 acres in SEE corner and 3 acres in the center, now belonging to J. c. Johns, containing 20 acres more or less; also the SWA SEA and the SEA- SWA of Sec. l and NEA NWA of Sec. F, all in Township s 32 West; also SEA SEA of Sec. 32 Tp and the N19 of NEA of Sec. Tp. 5, all in S R 32 West, containing 120 acres more Tor less; also SW H NEH, E1a NEA SWA and EA SEA of NWA of Sec. 12, Tp. s, R 32 West; also lots 2 and 3 in block in the town of Hatton, in Polk County, Arkansas.
 TERMS OF SALE: On credit of three months the purchaser being re- quired to execute a bond as required by law and the order and decree of said Court in said cause, with ap- proved security, bearing interest at the rate of 10 per cent per annum from date of sale until paid, and a lien being retained on the premises sold to secure the payment of the pur- chase money.
 Given under my hand this 18th day of May, A. D. 1921.
 W. L. PARKER,
 Commissioner of Chancery. First Pub. May 19.
 Last Pub. June ?.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-05-26
CONFIRMATION OF TITLE.

Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in my office as Clerk of the Polk Chancery Court a petition for the confirmation of the title to the following lands located in Polk Coun- ty, Arkansas towit: A part of the South half of the Northeast quarter described as follows: Commencing at the Northeast corner, thence South, thence South 288 feet, thence South 54 Degrees West 40 feet, thence South 72 Degrees West 600 feet, thence North TT degrees West 280 feet, thence 80 degrees West 250 feet, thence South 88 degrees West 127 feet. thence South 82 degrees West 1S7 feet, thence South 67 degrees West PA feet, thence West 298 feet, thence South 73 degrees West 182 feet, thence South 68 degrees West 315 feet to West line. Thence North on the West line 987 feet to Northwest cor ner, thence East to Northeast corner. all Tn Section IA, Township South of Range 30 West, and the quieting of the title to the same in Richard H. Stockton, the petitioner herein All persons claiming said lands, or any ins terest therein are hereby warned to appear in the Polk Chancery Court on the first day of it's next term and show cause if any there be why the title to said lands should not be confirmed in said Richard H. Stockton.
 WITNESS my hand and seal as Clerk of the Polk Chancery Court on this 1st day of February A. D., 1921.
 W. L. PARKER, Clerk. First Pub May 12.
 Last Pub. June Is.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-05-26
N O TIC E |

Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in my office as Clerk ot the Polk Chancery Court, a petition for the confirmation of the title to the following described lands: The WIZ NWA of Sec 2s, Township 2 South Range 29 West, in Polk County, Ar kansas, and the quieting of the title to the same in Fred c. Embry, peti tioner herein.
 All persons claiming said lands, ol any interest therein, are warned anc called upon to appear in the Poll Chancery Court within six weeks from this date and show cause wh, said title to said lands should not be confirmed in said Fred C. Embry.
 Witness my hand as Clerk of tn, Chancery Court of Polk County, Ar kansas, and the seal thereof, on thi. 18th day of May, 1921.
 W. L. PARKER, Clerk. Minor Pipkin. Atty.
 First Pub. May 19.
 Last Pub June 23.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-05-26

afear'd of gittin' driv' out O tn cabin. If the colonel wus here, he wouldn't'
 He clutched the oars in earnest. A few lusty strokes drove the boat down to where the glare from the campfire of the Boss crew of "clammers" aared out across the water. There he turned in to get the jack light
 A dirtier bunch of men than the five iounging about that campfire couldn't be found anywhere else in the world except in another "clammer's" camp. The practice of the early pearl fishers was to put the clans in vats and al. low them to die there and rot. This muck was afterward carefully ''han. dled'' for whatever pearls It might con- tain.
 The ordinary Jack light is simply an oil burner-ln early days candle. or fire of pine knots--arranged with re- hector--on the bow of The boat in such 8 way as to throw the full brllliancy of the light down upon the water, leaving the fisherman himself Ia dark. ness. Such Q light, If the night be dark and the water quiet and clear renders objects beneath the surface perfectly plain to a considerable depth
 While the Boss was fastening the iaeksiight to the bow of the boat the Pearlhunter stepped ashore to blacken the points of the freshly sharpened spear in the blaze of the campfire, for sil fishermen know it Is never advis able to strike with spear that gilt ters. He knew every man of them around the fire. But toss of his hand, q toss of five hands In response was all that passed between them men that would have carried a com rade for miles at need that would share the last bite with him; that would knife him just as readily at a fanciea grievance. Such were the river men; law unto themselves simple code warped fantastically-- with knife and pistol for judge and Jury; leftover product of other day. when clansmen followed their chle1 and asked DO questions; a bI-producI ef the border who found lt hard tt dlsarm when civilization came in. The Boss slipped an oar into ths water and iaid the boat more towarx the essith shore. over tue deepest par of the bar Hardly had he eane s.
The Mena weekly star., 1921-05-26
NnTICEt


 Notice is hereby given that on the l4th day of June, 1915, the S1s NEA and NWH NEA of Section A, ID. 3 s., R. 29 w., and Frl. NWA NEA of Sec. 2. Tp. 5 S., R. 31 w., was sold to the State of Arkansas by the ColIec- tor of Polk County, Arkansas, for the taxes delinquent thereon for the year 1914; that after two years from the date of said sale, said lands not hay ing been redeemed therefrom, the same were reported to the office of the State Land Commissioner as forfeited lands; that on the 5th day of July. 1917, the Polk County investment Company purchased said lands from the State of Arkansas, and received from the State Land Commissioner deed therefor.
 That on the 10th day of June, 1912, lot 3, block 2l, was sold to the State of Arkansas by the Collector of Polk County, Arkansas for the taxes de- linquent thereon for the year, 1911; that after two years from the date of , said sale, said lands not having been redeemed therefrom, the same were reported to the office of the State Land Commissioner as forfeited lands; that on the 18th day of August, 1914, the Polk County Investment Company purchased said lands from the State of Arkansas, and received from the State Land Commissioner a deed therefor
 That on the 18th day of June, 1916, said Polk County Investment Com pany became the purchaser of the SEA SWA of Sec. 24, Tp. 3 S., R. 29 w., from the Collector of Polk Coun- l ty, Arkansas, at the sale of lands for taxes delinquent thereon for the year 1915, and after two years. said lands not having been redeemed from said sale the same was duly conveyed to said Polk County Investment Com pany by the deed of the County Clerk of Polk County, Arkansas;
 That all said sales were made and said deeds executed by the officers aforesaid by authority in them vested by the statutes of the State of Ar kansas;
 And all persons who can set up any right, title or interest to the lands SO purchased in consequence of any in- formality or irregularity connected with such sales are called upon to show cause in the Chancery Court of Polk County, Arkansas. seven weeks from this date, why the sales so made should not be confirmed and utle to said lands quieted in the un- dersigned.
 Polk County Investment Go. flrst Pub. May 12 Last Pub. June Is.