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room; talk on What High School Means to the Boys" by Marvin Jones. class '22. Song, May Breezes," stu dents from Miss Richardson'B room: address to the class by Rev. M. Gard ner; school song, My Own United States by class; presentation of cer- tificates of promotion, Prof. P. c Bowman; song, America" by class and audience; benediction.
 Immediately following the pro- gram a reception was held In compn- ment to the class in the parlors of the church.
 Wedding Announcement
 The following invitation which is being issued today will be of much interest to the many friends of the contracting parties in this city Mir. and Mrs. Dudley S. Powell, requests the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Fife Mae, to Mr. William James McCo1- tough. on Thursday evening, June 15. 1922, at o'clock, First Methodist Episcopal church, Ensley."
 Many pre-nuptial affairs have been given in compliment to Miss Powell and on Saturday she will be the guest of honor at miscellaneous shower given by Miss Evelyn Brick son, at the home of her parents at Fairfield. On Tuesday afternoon of next week this popular bride elect will be complimented with a box party at the Lyric theatre, with Mrs Frank Morse, as hostess, and the following Thursday Miss Ellen Du- puy will be hostess at a bridge luncheon at her home on the Bes- semer boulevard. During the latter part of next week, Mrs. D. F. Fair cloth, will entertain with shower.
 Miss Powell, is the attractive young daughter of MT. and Mrs. D. s. Powell, of 2323 Avenue H, and en- joys a large circle of friends, hav- ing been reared in this city.
 Memorial Service
 Steel City Lodge No. 190, Knights of Pythlas will hold memorial ser vices at their Castle hall in Ems ley. Tuesday night, June in honor of the deceased members of the lodge. The meeting will be an open one and all Pythias sisters, members of the subordinate lodges and their friends are cordially invited to be present.
 The Central Park school dedication will be held Friday in connection with a barbecue, on the school grounds. An interesting program including various outdoor sports. will be rendered beginning at 10 o'clock Friday morning, while in the evening a pageant will be staged under the auspices of the Central Park Civic League and School I'm provement association.
 PerxonnIs
 Mrs Joseph Milton Spinks, of New Orleans, is the guest of her sister, Mrs Hattie Matthews, at her home. Ion Harthorne avenue.
 W. T. Dawson, Is resting comfort ably at the Ensley infirmary follow Ing injuries received when he was struck by an automobile Tuesday afternoon.
 Miss Edith Laycock, of Boston, Mass, is the guest of Mir. and Mrs. John Nolen at Wylam.
 Mrs. Joseph DeBardeleben has been called to Florence by the death of her grandmother, Mrs. Sara Kirby.
 Mrs. s. H. Looney has gone to Rome, Ga, where she will be the guest of her sisters, Mrs. Clifford King and Mrs. A. B. Moss.
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SWIMMING A FEATURE
 AT WEST LAKE PARK

West Lake Park Is proving more popular each night with pleasure seeers of the Birmingham district Each night sees many dancers on the floor with many taking advan- tage in daytime of the big natural lake which affords excellent boating. bathing and fishing.
 Every safeguard has been provid- ed for patrons there being thor oughly competent Iifeguard on duty at all hours and their need be no apprehension on the part of parents for the safety of their children when
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in swimming, or to grownups them selves.
 But besides boating, swimming and other recreational sports West Lake has one of the best dancing floors in the district with the jazzi- est aggregation of harmony hounds. furnishing the music.
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WARD TRANSFERRED

Mobile, May 3I--(S )-I3r NJ. E. Ward. of Birmingham will be the federal tick inspector at Mobile when the eradication work is start ed within short time, it is an nounced. He will be in charge of the dipping in the county, doing the work which Dr. O. F. Smith carried on before the county board stopped eradicating last fall and pr. Smith was transferred to Birmingham. stunts in Russia, and much of the fun is in seeing the bewilderment ef a band of Russian bandits who never dreamed human being could think so fast.
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Motor Boating

Motor boat racing received a big boom
last summer chiefly because OF changes
made in the rules governing the gold
cup. Formerly this trophy was for boats
under 40 feet and with unlimited power
Now the boats are 26 feet long and en-
gines are about $50 horsepower. AS a
result Of these changes, thirteen boats
started In the gold cup races and Cris-
craft, owned by Col. J. G.. Vincent. won.
This boat made Ala miles an hour, a
remarkable speed for such n craft
The best time of the year in the run
about class was made by Gar Woods
Baby Gar H.. 32 footer with engines
of 1850 cubic inches displacement. Over
a course of $50 miles she averaged 1895
miles an hour and for O short spin of
u miles she averaged 51.5o miles an
hour. Edsal Fords Wood Fish, how
ever, did little better over short dis
tance. averaging 53.s miles an hour for
Ave miles.
The racing at Detroit, which Is now
regarded az the center of motorboat rae
Ing In this country. was the best ever
Witnessed. No spectacular time was
made because no boats with excessive
high power were racing but In many of
the events seconds only separated the
leaders.
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Rifle Shooting

Rifle shooting enjoyed big year and
as a sport is being adopted by many
girls schools and colleges. Vermont
University has team of female rine
shots. as has Northwestern University.
Mrs. Topperwein is still the woman
champion with the rife and has few
superiors among the men.
Remarkable shooting featured tne
shootoffs for the SO and rs foot gallery
championships of the National Rifle AS
sociation. Five shooters tied with per-
feet score of 1 900 in the rs foot cham
pionship, and six shooters made perfect
scores in the so foot championship. In
the first shootoff for the rs foot title j.
Byerly OF Piqua, Ohio; T. X Lee OF
Birmingham, Ala. j. Spolarich OF Joliet
Ill. and Harry Wolhnger OF stockton
Cal. again tied with perfect scores. The
second shootoff was at a total OF z.ooo'
and this time Byerly was the only one
90 finish with perfect score. All told
he shot 450 bull's-eyes.
r. !. McGrath OF La Mar, Cal, and
Harry Palmer OF Sheridan, Wyo., tied
on the first shootoff for the 90 foot utie
with their second perfect string ano
then shot at $500 points In TINS
neither went out of the bull. both nnish,
ing with $50 bulls. Palmer In the final
shootoff was on the range Tor sever
hours and forty minutes.
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marks for women and earned the dis
tinction of being the first fair natator
10 beat a registered record for men by
covering 440 yards on the back in the
extraordinary time of "a AS.
All around team honors in water
sports for men were garnered by the
Illinois A. c. and in competition for
mermaids by the Women's Swimm, ,ng
Association, each scoring by far the
highest totals in the senior national In
door and outdoor championships The
Individual all around titles went to
Weissmuller and Miss Wainwright re-
spectively.
In water polo there was no classic
test for women, but that for men was
won by the New York A. c. A. White
of the Olympic Club of San Francisco
and Miss Helen Meany Of the Women's
Swimming Association proved the
American leaders in fancy diving, while
Weissmuller and Miss Bauer topped the
ranks of back stroke swimmers. anu
Robert Shelton of the Illinois A. G. and
Miss Ruth Smith of the University OF
Ohio deserve rating as the years best
at the breast stroke.
Among the colleges there was no In
tersectional competition to decide the
question of national supremacy, but the
strongest teams in the field were those
OF Yale and the University of Minne-
sofa, respective winners OF the Eastern
Intercollegiate and Western Conference
swimming championships. Princeton cap
tured the pennant in college water polo.
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and, in the intercollegiate title races,
honors were divided between Syracuse
and Columbia. The Salt City collegi-
ans won the team championship. and
Walter Higgins carried the light blue OF
Columbia across the finish Line In first
place, chalking UP the first victory ever
scored by a Columbia athlete in the big
college championship. His time was but
one and three tenth seconds slower than
the record for the course, which was
established by r. E. Brown of Cornell
In winning the race last year under
much more favorable conditions.
The Finnish-American A. c. captured
the individual and team honors in the
metropolitan junior and senior title
races and the national senior, but were
compelled to dip their colors to the
Meadowbrook Club of Philadelphia In
the national junior race. The Quaker
runners led all others for the team hon
ors In this race, and Jack Phillips OF
the Paulist A. c. furnished surprise
by winning the race which carries with
it the individual championship title.
The senior individual titles in both
the metropolitan and national races
were won by William Ritola of the Fin
ish-American A. c. The time made by
Ritola in winning the senior netropoli-
tan championship established q record
for the course, and he broke 1t fort
night later in the national race. when
hill and dale in the fine time OF 81 min
utes 81 AS seconds.
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Skating

Honors in ice skating for 1922 were
pretty evenly divided among William
Steinmetz of Chicago. Joe Moore of New
York and Roy G. McWhlrter Of Chicago.
Ot the major amateur events held under
the auspices of the International Skating
Union OF America Steinmetz won the in
ternational outdoor at Saranac Lake and
the Diamond Trophy" at Lake Placid
Moore won the international indoor at
Milwaukee. the Canadian outdoor at st.
Johns. ". B.. and the Middle Atlantic
outdoor at Newburgh, and Mcwhirter
captured the national outdoor at Platts-
burg and the Western outdoor at Chi
cago. Art STAFF of Chicago raced to VIC
tory in the professional division In all
three championships-the American and
national outdoor and the international
indoor.
Only four records we're broken, three
by Staff and one by Steinmetz. Staff
set new marks for outdoor competition
at Saranac Lake at the quarter mile
three-quarter mile and two miles Stein.
metz lowered the three-quarter mile
mark.
In addition. Miss Gladys Robinson OF
Toronto created new standards for 100
and 220 yards--11 2-5 and % 1-5 Sec
onds respectively. However, the records
were made in exhibitions in which Miss
Robinson had a pace maker.
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Chess

Jose r. Capablsnca, the worlds chess
champion. added another laurel to his
wreath OF victories by winning first
prize In the great International Con-
gress in London. and this was the out
standing feature in chess for the year
1922. Alexander Aljechin, the Russian
who has challenged Capablanca, was
appropriately placed second, and subse-
quently won first prize in the tourna-
ment at Hastings.
In this country. too. there was held a
tournament. though limited to six COM
petItors, which made history. inasmucf
as II marked the debut OF Samuel
Rzeschewski. the boy prodigy. in tour
nament play. Edward Lasker of Chi
cago was the winner. with G. JsfYc OF
New York second. Rzeschewski divided
the third prize with ID. JanowslSi, j.
Bernstein and II. r. Bgelow. J. Bern
stein Of New York city won the State
championship for the third year in suc-
cession at Buffalo, thereby earning the
right to permanent possession Of the
Rice trophy.
Samuel Factor OF Chicago won the
annual tournament of the Western Chess
Association. held this year NJ i1ouisviiis.
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Kansas as the teams finished the season
in tie. The Pacific Coast and North
western title was won by the Univer-
sity Of Idaho five. No national collegi-
ate championship was awarded during
the past season.
In the professional ranks tho Original
Celtics of New York, after defeating all
independent teams and winning the
championship of the Eastern League
have assumed the title of national bas-
ketball champions. The Celtics. al
though they suffered a defeat here and
there, were easily the best team In the
country. The New Yorkers at first had
a dispute over their right to the title
with the Fort Wayne. Ind. team. who
represented themselves 10 be the mid
die Western title holders. However, the
management Of these two teams ar.
ranged series at Fort Wayne and the
westerners were handed severe trounc-
ing.
In a tournament held at tho Syracuse
University court the Syracuse Central
High School won the title of New York
State public high school champions. In
winning this title Syracuse was forced
to meet the pick of the 210 schools
entered. AS in the collegiate ranks
there was no national title awarded to
high schools, but the marvellous showing
made by the Passaic High team OF
Passaic, N. j., entities them to the
credit of being the best high school
Seam In the country. Passaic overcame
every rival by large scores, and in do
ing SO earned the reputation of being
the Vwonder team" Of basketball. In
New York city the Manual Training
team proved to be the best Of the city
high schools.
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Aviation

American aviation has experienced the
greatest and most significant year in
its history. Machines of American de-
sign, powered with American motors
and piloted by Americans, have accom-
plished as much or more than those of
other aeronautical nations. They have
done as much flying as all Europe COM
bined and to-day hold practically all
of the important worlds records for
speed. distance. endurance. altitude and
actual racing.
The altitude record has remained In
the United States now for several years.
The speed record over straightaway
course came here for the first time in
years when Brig. Gen. William Mitchell
in a Curtiss-Army biplane averaged
22438 miles per hour at Mount Clemens,
Mich. on October IS. Lieut. r. l..
Maughan's sensational victory in the
Pulitzer Trophy race with the same
plane climaxed the world racing events.
He averaged 205.s miles per hour for a
distance of 156 miles during which he
made fifteen turns.
Lieuts Oakley Kelly and John A.
Macready in a Fokker-Liberty (T-2)
plane established a nonstop record of
1900 miles in flying from San Diego to
indianapolis November IA. The same
aviators broke the duration record Octo-
Der s and at San Diego. Cal. in stay
ing aloft 30 hours Is minutes 80 sec-
onds.
Possibly 1880 airplanes were flown
by civilian pilots in the United States
during the year. according TO estimates
compiled by the Aeronautical Chamber
OF Commerce. A score or more Of flying
meets throughout the country contrib
uted to the popularity OF civil fight. The
United States Air Mail Service operated
continuously from coast to coast Army.
Navy and Marine Corps aviators few
millions of miles on coast patrol, over
land training and routine work. The
Forest Fire Patrol on the Pacific coast
saved millions of dollars worth of stand
ing timber. One OF the most important
achievements during the year was plac-
ing before Congress the Wadsworth-
winslow bill. which provides for bu-
reau Of civil aviation in the Department
OF Commerce. The bill passed the Sem
ate last February and Is now In the
Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce OF the House. The measure
provides that the bureau among other
duties shall promulgate and administer
regulations, register and license pilots
and planes and generally supervise
civilian flying. II is considered by al
branches of aviation the big thing neces-
sary to establish commercial flying
firmly and to permit of the greatest
possible development.
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Trap Shooting

In many respects the Grand American
Handicap Trapshootlng Tournament IN
Atlantic City. N. j.. was one or the
greatest sporting spectacles OF the year
More than 100000 targets were thrown
in six days. which is at least 10000 IN
excess of any previous tournament. On
one day 10000 targets were thrown
which Is more than wac ever fred at IN
any one day previously. The Granu
American mustered 5S5 shooters.
Art Kiilam OF ST. Louis won the pro-
fessional championship and Fred Tom
lin Of Glassboro. n. j.. tied for the pro-
fessionai eighteen yards title. both using
winchester ventilated rib trapsuns.
othera who won events were r. A. King
DeIta. col, the national amateur cham
pionship at doubles targets and the
Hazard trophy; G. p. N. Chapman,
C-larksbrirg. w. Va, the Atlantic city
introductory and Glass c championship
II. I. Thompson. Savannah Ga, Class
n championship p. II. Fletcher Class
E championship II. G. Taylor, savan-
nah. Ga. the preliminary handicap.
prank Troeh with his famous 81 tied
Ter the national amateur Championship
and II. II. Simkns Of Camden. N. j..
tied for the Grand American with an
other 97.
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Dogs


Tho caninp champion OF the year wac
unquestionabIy Boxwood Barkentine, the
fine Hredale owned by Frederick Hood
Of Brookline, Mass. Barkentine gets
his title by that precedent which makes
this country. the Westminster, the dogs
title holder. How the championship will
be determined next year. with Judging
cannot be foretold.
Bar9xentine is a magnificent dog and
yet he did not go through the year un-
defeated. When shown at Baltimore
he was In very poor coat and while he
won best Of his breed he was defeated
under n professional judge for best In
the show 1t goes to prove that the
curly ha5Eed dogs can only be kept in
right condition for three or four shows
Barkentine is all that an Airedale
should be- He has q clean head and
strong jaw. capable of doing all kinds
Of work. His gunbarrel legs are
straight and strong and his feet are
not fiat and open. but have strong pads
At the time the expert for THE New
YORK HERALA, declared he was un-
doubtedly one AZ the finest specimens OF
his breed evca' seen. Attention was
called to his i1neness. precluding all
coarseness but not taking away any
strength.
BY the Same l'recedent which gives
Barkentine his tim, the reserve position
goes to Lansdowne\ Sunfower the grey
hound owned by ms. Il. f. Lewis. Jr.
Sunfower Is also a a ne specimen OF her
breed and Justly won her position.
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a thoroughgoing basis. and the cham
pionship matches in the circuit OF eight
cities splendidly supplements the work
Of the United States Football Associa-
ton. with which. of course. It is affili-
ated.
The Philadelphia Football Club wound
UP the first season at the top OF the list.
having won IL games. drawn and lost
8, with a total OF SO points. New York
came next with IA wins. draws and s
losses--a total OF 33. Todd shipyards
Of Brooklyn. runners-up for the National
Cup. had to be content with third place,
the result OF its record OF IL wins. S
draws and losses--a total OF 20.
The scuilin Steel eleven of st. Louis
again won the National Challenge Cup
by defeating Todd Shipyards by s-2 in
the final round at st. Louis. Todd Ship
yards was also finalist In the cup COM
petition Of the Southern New York Foot
ball Association. but In this final the
New York Soccer Club won by SO.
England defeated Scotland by 81 In
the International final, under the aus
pices Of the New York Footballers' Pro-
tective Association.
The Brooklyn Football Club won the
first division OF the New York State
Football League, followed by Steinway.
Yonkers and Carlton Hill. The Some &
Fleming team won tho second division.
with the Bay Ridge Strollcrs second and
the Norwegians third. Brooklyn also
was victorious over Bay Ridge In the
final for the La Sultana Cup. Princeton
won the intercollegiate championship
with clean score of 8 wins--Cornell,
Haverford. Pennsylvania. Harvard and
Yale finishing in the order named.
The season was enlivened by the
presence OF a team of female players
from England. which, though not a
match for the male opponents neverthe-
less made a fair showing and gave att
tractive exhibitions in New York. Pater-
son, Washington, Baltimore and New
England.
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Basketball

Basketball during the last year has
witnessed one Of the most successful
seasons In the history OF the game
When basketball was first devised by
DR.. Naimsmith at the Springfield Y. NJ.
G. A., In 1891, the inventor never
dreamed that his new idea for indoor
recreation would attain such country
wide popularity. To-day basketball Is
played in all Of the colleges and schools
throughout the country. and many teams
play the professional game. Roughly
estimating. there are more than 5000
teams playing basketball.
Basketball has not only secured n
strong hold on the sport loving Amer
lean boy but has reached across TIE
seas. The latest acquisition to the court
game Is France In the last year the
French have taken up the game cn a
large scale. even In the military ranks,
where teams are springing up in surpris-
ing numbers. South America, while not
new addition to basketball. is grad
ually building UP court teams in It's col
leges and schools. and a number OF in
dependent teams have been organized IN
Brazil China, Ruuiania, England and
Japan have also adopted the game.
Princeton University. by virtue OF the
victory over the strong Pennsylvania
team last April. are the champions OF
the intercollegiate Basketball League
This honor was not attained until the
two teams met In a playoff at the end
OF the league season. due TO the stiff
fight which wound up tie.
out Of field of ten colleges Purdue
won the Western intercollegiate Con-
ference title. losing but one game out
Of nine starts for an average OF $50
The Missouri Valley Conference title
was awarded Jointly to Missouri and