The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-29

They were led by T. D. Moor, sup perintendent of the city playgrounds, who had but one thing to say;
 Everybody had gorgeous trip.'
 While some of the champions and visitors returned by automobile, most of them came in on the early Sea- board Airline railway, and were i'm medately copped by Birmingham newspaper photographers who wanted the pictures of the champions before the party could break up
 Almost the first words from every body were:
 We played eight games-and won five of them! That's how we stood.21
 Upheld Her Banners
 And admiring relatives and friends had everything to Say from "Yor wonderful things!" down to That's fine. boysw It made old Birming- you had upheld her banners away from home"
 And even outsiders clustered around to smile and look like they'd like to say something if they dared to butt in.
 Out of the eight things" that the local girls and boys played in, these were the events they won:
 Boys tennis.
 Girls' dodgeball.
 Girls volleybaIl.
 Boys volleyball. T
 The things they lost to Atlanta were:
 Girls tennis
 Junior baseball.
 Senior baseball
 we haven't got any excuses to| make" said T. D. Moor, "but wa think we can explain how we lost
 
 he started to explain, he broke out with
 Return Contest
 But I just cant wait to tell you that the Atlanta playground chI.- dren--some of them-couldn't be pa tient until next year to play us again-and a bunch of them are coin- ing over Labor Day. and we are toI contest at Vivian playgrounds. Those coming are the Atlanta vol leyball team of seven boys and the Atlanta senior baseball boys.
 Along with them will come al bunch of rooters and Atlanta people and we surely want to make them feel at home. and give them just as good a time as they gave us over there.
 "For they certainly did themselves proud Why, they even took the
  every night the three nights we were there.
 'Now--.' the superintendent broke off. "Ill give our reasons why we didn't win 'em all--though maybe that wouldn't have been very polite.
 we didn't take our regular tennis girls along, and picked some of the girls we had with us to contest with Atlanta's champions We lost--butl thnxy 1x,tt of hnt two games out of three. We won one game. Now when it came to junior and senior baseball: Atlanta had no junior baseball team, and our juniors had to meet their sen iors. But we got one game out of three there and won 1t, 9-4. Then our senior boys had to meet a tean Atlanta got together. and they won from us two games out of three, our winning game being 142
 Won First Game
 Other things we actually won, though. seemed like walk away. Now, for instance" MT. Moor illus trated-in the girls voHeyball games our girls won the first game, 15-0, and the second one, 1855
 They're the champions from Woodlawn. under Miss Annie Palmer, and they haven't lost a game out of the IS they have played this season., The North Birmingham vol leyball boys team is neck and neck with the girls team, for neither have they lost game-and in At lanta the boys put across their twoI championship victories. 15-6 and 15-s. Miss Pauline Spier is captain of the girls volleyball team-and is q the comment of Atlantians-and hundreds of them yelled for Birming- ham when we'd make good plays what dandy pass work and team work our children exhibited.
 Atlanta's Parks
 Mir. Moor said that the parks oil Atlanta were ma agnificent, and splen- cidly equipped.
 However. our playgrounds are ize more on athletics than they do. At their field day, which we at-1 tended. She most beautiful folk danc- ing and characteristic dances of many kinds were put on; and thew have been leaning more toward things of this kind than to inten- sive athletic training. The Junior Chamber of Commerce. was the official host to the Birming- dren, and Mir. Moor declared that when their train pulled into Atlanta, it seemed as though the whole city had turned out to welcome them.
 "We weren't expecting such a crowd as that. We were immediate ly engulfed in Atlanta pep" and en- thusiasm that won our hearts right now-and that we 1iked--and which never Jagged. The superintendent of Atlanta's playgrounda. Mrs. Hattie7 Moore, and her assistant Mrs. Beuiah Edwards, even saw us on to our home coming train. We were taken on swimming parties there and each day we ate our three meals In the Junior Chamber of Commerce's grIlll room as their guests. They wouldn't even let us pay carfare."
 Automobile Tour Besides this, said Mir. Moor, hel