The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-16
SENIORS, COATLESS,' DEFY WEATHER AND. | COLLIE [ I S4,OOO.
Two Student Teams Go Back to University, But Others Go On With thte
 Campaign

In spite of the handicap of the dis agreeable weather, the students of the University of Alabama added has been raised in Jefferson county in the university's million dollar campaign. of the quota of ss50,o0o the campaign here has raised s27s,- 517,25, and every effort will be made to obtain the deficit of about s71,000.
 The delegation of seniors from the university who were brought to Bir- mingham to make the clean-up drive for the university was expected to return to the university Wednesday, but the men were kept over Thurs day and probably Friday. At the in- vitation of Judge J. c. B. Gwin, Bessemer chairman, 10 of the stu dents win go to that city Thursday to assist in raising the remainder of Bessemer's quota.
 Two of the team captains. Berney Perry of Birmingham and Willard Mccall, Montgomery, were forced to return to the university Wednesday night to attend to duties in connec- tion with the trip of the Alabama football team to Lexington. Ky, for the game Saturday with the Uni- versity of Kentucky. John Spark man, Hartselle. was appointed cap tain in the place of MT. Mccall and Charles Curtis. Greensboro, in the place of MT. Perry.
 More Lawyers Working
 Mir. McCall's team of lawyers was again in the lead Wednesday with new subscriptions of sl,43s. How ever, MT. Mccall made statement at the luncheon Wednesday explain ing that his team was larger than any of the others and therefore had an advantage over the others. Of the other teams, Mir. Perry was lead- ing with new subscriptions. of ss46.
 The spirit of the students caused citizens Wednesday,. Few of them brought raincoats when they came to Birmingham Monday and they were not prepared for the downpour of rain which continued through most of the day. In spite of this, they spent the entire time canvass ing the territories assigned them. indifferent to the Train and cold weather.
 The group is representative of the student body at the university in that it includes men from all the col leges and from all parts of the state.
  fraternity men in the delegation and practically every form of student activity has one or more representa- tives here. Many of the students who are in Birmingham this week are working their way through the university paying all their expenses by various kinds of employment out side of school hours.
 Burr Returns
 Borden Burr, state chairman, re- turned to Birmingham Wednesday from a business trip and was present at the luncheon at the Tutwiler hotel. He complimented the students upon their excellent work and expressed his qualification that they had been permitted to come to Birmingham to assist in completing the campaign here.
 The students obtained approxi- mately S6.50O in the first day and a half of their work here and were ex- pected to add several thousand dol- lars to the total before the end of the week.
 Amounts reported by the teams Wednesday and the totals obtained by them so far are as follows:
 Team No l. Willard Mccall, cap tain, SLABS; total s2,567.
 Team No. 2. James W. MacQueen IT,. captain. s205; total s469.
 Team No. 8. Walter F. Ernst, captain, s110; total s294.
 Team No. 4. Berney Perry, cap tain, $846; total S1,410.25.
 Team No. 5. Edward Laslie. cap tain, $5s0; total s1.1S4.
 Team No. 6. Sidney J. Mohr, Jr, captain, s522; total $730.
 Birmingham alumni. Hill Fergu- son, captain, $500; total $3,615.
 Wednesdays total, s4,011. Grand total, $278,517.25.