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little trouble in defeating their op- ponents.
 Robert Deny missed only few of his shots last night. and succeeded in scoring 24 points for his team. This lanky forward has a good eye for the basket and Is sure to be heard from in today's semi-final game.
 Robert Denny was ably seconded by his teammate, Swann, who tallied 14 points for his team. Swann and Turn ham played a good defensive game, also.
 McNees rang a couple of long dis Lance beauties for Lamar. Lineup:
 Chambers county (46)-Robert Den ny (24) and Rufus Denny CD, for wards; Smith (6), center; Swann (14) and Turnham, guards. Substitutions -Royston for Turnham, Hubert for Rufus Denny.
 Lamar county Ge)-Holloman (4) and McNees CID, forwards; Cole CD, center; Jones and Turner, guards Substitutions-Carm for Jones.
 Referee-Hotchkiss, umpire Chis. holm.
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GreenviIIe Noses Out
 The Barton Quinei

In undoubtedly the most exciting and best played gafte of the tourna- ment, Greenville nesed out Barton academy yesterday afternoon, win- ming by one point, 51 to 80.
 The score was tied, with about a minute to play. A. Stabler, star guard for Greenville, seized the ball in midcourt and lined it through the hoops for two points. giving Green vile it's final score of 31. A Green vile man fouled. and B. Mckinney shot the goal, giving Barton acad- emy 30 points. The gun sounded immediately after the tip-off, and the strong contender from Mobile was eliminated.
 Barton academy was undoubtedly the most scientific of the two teams on the floor yesterday afternoon, out Greenville had the best shooters in the lineup. and this won the game for them. Greenville scored several long distance shots that were beau ties.
 The Barton boys play a splendid game of basketball, and deserved better than elimination in the third round. with three more rounds to go
 Greenville has a corking good lit- tie center in Baby" Stabler, the midget forward. Yesterday this young cdsester scored l9 points Tor his team, and otherwise helped them in their fight for existence in the tourney.
 The Greenville- Barton game was a beauty, and was replete with thrill- ing moments from the start It brought together two teams of ac- curate passers and hard fighters. There were some splendid goal shoot CTS on each team also, and an open shot within the foul line usually
 meant field goal. Lineup:
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Shelby County Downs
 Fighting WaverIy Team

Although fighting hard until the last, the Waverly high school qu;n~ tet was eliminated by Shelby county yesterday afternoon, losing its game to the Columbiana boys, 2s to 12. The game was much closer and harder fought than the score indi- cates.
 Shelby county's cagesters were more accurate in their shooting, which accounted for their victory. The Waverly boys passed well, and displayed good floor work. but missed several shots that should have been made.
 Wharton, as usual played & star game for shelby county, while Kim brough scored four field goals from forward. Lineup:
 Shelby county (25)-Kimbrough h (s) and Fulton (2), forwards; Whar- ton t9), center; Allen (4) and Crumpton. guards. Substitutes Benton for Kimbrough, Perry for Benton, Fancher for Fulton.
 Waverly 12-Lstham CD and F. James CD, forwards; Saxon CD, cen ter; Huffman and c. James (6), guards.
 Referee-chishoim. Umpire-Man- dV
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Fairfax Defeats Jones
 Valley by 56-15 Score

Fairfax eliminated another Jeffer- son county contender yesterday morn ing by defeating Jones Valley High 5e to 15. The game was one-sided and was clearly Fairfax's all the way.
 Jones Valley staged rally along towards the end of the game and scored 12 of their points
 Fairfax was forced to finish the game with only four men. Bradfield was put out of the game on personal fouls, and Buckner was injured too badly to continue play, so Fairfax used four men to finish the game, Lineup:
 Fairfax (56): Buckner (12) and Brown CID, forwards; Bradfield (10), center; Griffin CD and Canady (4). guards Substitute: Deloaeh (12) for Buekner.
 Jones Valley (I5): Sleeves and Ear Iiss (Sl. forwards; Spearman, center; Mims CD and Williams CD, guards. Substitutes: Allgood for Spearman Harkens CD for Sleeves, Gardner for Williams.
 Referee, Chisholm; umpire, Bryan.
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Lamar County Defeats
 The Warrior Quintet

Lamar County's quintet came through with another good game and won in the third round battle. They defeated the Warrior five 40r to zs.
 McNees was again the star of the Lamar team. He rang up 2s points and played a good floor game.
 Creel played a fine game for War rior and did his best to defeat the Lamar boys, but was unable to stem the tide. He scored IS points and played good defensive game. Line up:
 Lamar (40): McNees (2s) and Holli- man (S), forwards; Colo (4), center; Turner and Jones, guards. Substi- ute: Herman for Jones.
 Warrior (2S): Creel (18) and Kaley CD. forwards; Shipp (2), center; At taway and Bramlet. guards. Substi- tutes: Street for Albritton. Albritton for Bramlet.
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Two Alabama Entrants Are Eliminated From Play in At- lanta Meet

Atlanta, February 24. - Georgia Teach's wonderful comeback in the second half. which led to the Yellow Jackets defeat of Mississippi A. and NJ, the state title contest which Ken lucky university won from George town college, and Chattanooga big score over Furman marked the open ing games here today and tonight of the southern college basketball championship meet
 Nine of the 23 entrants were elimi- hated, the results being:
 Vanderbilt S7; The Citadel 22.
 Newberry 22; Auburn 21.
 Tulane Sl Clemson 20.
 North Carolina S5: Howard 22.
 Kentucky 1T; Georgetown 2I
 Chattanooga 57; Furman 80.
 Georgia 43; Oglethorpe 12.
 NJ. 30. Mercer 32; Center IT.
 Alabama Unopposed In addition 10 the nine winners, there are five other entrants still in the tournament who drew byes or went into the second rounds by req son of scheduled opponents deciding not to come at the last moment. They are Alabama, Mississippi college, south Carolina, .Tennesse and Wof- ford.
 In the second round tomorrow. up- per bracket, South Carolina meets Wofford Georgia Tech does not play, as Washington and Lee failed to ap- pear; Chattanooga meets Tulane and Kentucky plays Mercer. The lower bracket. second round, puts North Carolina against Newberry, Georgia l against Vanderbilt, Mississippi Col lege against Tennessee. while Ala bama goes into the third round un- opposed owing to the withdrawal of the Mississippi university The opening games drew a rather slim crowd during the afternoon, but in the evening approximately 3,00O spectators turned out to see the championship contests. They were rewarded by nine clean, hard fought games, in which fine sportsmanship ip predominated and in which the losers fought their contests to the finish, Only one injury resulted. that to Hay den, a star Kentucky forward who hurt his leg, but announced he would i be back in the game tomorrow i The opening games of the tourna- ment, which will run through March l, were played as follows;
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Fairfax-C Chambers and
 Simpson-Walker This
 Afternoons Pairings
Losers Meet at O'Clock Tonight for Third and Fourth Places, While Winners Meet in Finals at O'Clock
 High Scoring Yesterday

Only four teams are left to fight it out for the state high school basketball champ1onship now, and these teams will mix matters this afternoon and tonight to decide the first four places between them now. These four teams, and how they are paired for the semi finals this after noon, with the time of each game. fol- low:
 Fairfax High versus Chambers County (Milltown). at 2:3O D. m. Walker County (Jasper) versus Simpson (Birmingham), at S:So p. m Both of these games are expected to be airtight affairs, as the teams meeting this afternoon seem evenly matched. Both Walker County and simpson were expected to come through to the semi finals, but neither Chambers County nor Fairfax have been heralded as strong contenders.
 Winners Meet Tonight
 Tonight the winners of the games this afternoon will meet for the state championship. This game will De preceded by a battle between the losers of the semi-fnal scrap, to de- termine third and fourth place win- ners.
 Each of thees four teams is sure of
  ishing among the leaders, while the members of these teams will be given gold or silver basketballs, according 10 their final rankings.
 While major interest will center in the game between the winers to- night much attention will be spent on the Walker County Simpson game this afternoon, as the majority Of the fans seem to be considering these two teams the strongest contenders for the championship One or them must be satisfied with third or fourth place. while the other gets chance at the championship.
 The game to decide third and fourth ulaces will begin at 8 o'clock, while the championship affair is scheeuleo for 9 o'clock.
 Here are the results of yesterdays and last nights games:
 Third Round
 walker County 64 Blount County Chambers County 27, Lineviile 2t. Springville 52, Ozark 26'
 Fairfax 56, ,zJones Valley lS.
 Shelby County 2S, Waverly 12. Lamar County 40, Warrior 2S.
 simpson 55. Jefferson County 27. Creenviile 31. Barton Academy 5e-
 Fourth Round
 Walker County 29, Springville zl. Chambers County 46, Lamar County l9
 Fairfax p, Shelby County z4.
 Simpson 29. Greenville 27
 High Scoring Features
 High scoring by the winning teams featured the third round of play in championship tournament, which IS being staged at the Birmingham Attn lctic club this week -end. No winning tcsm yesterday scored less than 70 points. while. in some cases. the los in.- team scored 9 or more points it, self.
 As on Thursday, unusually large
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Kentucky Wins

Atlanta. Ga, February ai.--The University of Kentucky of Lexington. settled an old score with Georgetown university of the same state In ellm : mating them from the tournament by a score of Al 10 22 Ability to hit the basket marked the work of the Lexington players. Atkins, center for Kentucky university, scored nine field goals, most of them long shots, while his opponent, Forword. cen ter for Georgetown, has five to his nredif
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state title, when the town in which the conflicts are staged does not send its high school into the competition.
 Fact k Stranger Than
 The story comes to light that a famous pedigreed mare, used for breeding purposes of thor oughbred racing stock was sold through mistake, drifted down to a farm in Georgia. was hitched to & plough. and a nationwide search for the mare started, which finally wound up on the farm. Grace Darling was the $1o,000 horse which disappeared. She belonged to H. W. Buckbee's stables in Illinois. At a sale of some of the stock from that stable Graca Darling was sold through mistake. The horse was a favorite of the Illinois sports mans and after she disappeared he began spending large sums of money in an effort to locate her. Buckbee died recently. be- fore the horse was found, but he stipulated in his will that if the mare could be found that she be brought back to Illinois 10 live a life of case.
 F. F. oronambie. trainer for the Buckbee stables continued the search, got hot on the trail, and followed clues to the farm of J. w. Tilley near Dawson, Ga. He went out to the farm, saw Grace Darling dragging a plough. walked up and spoke to her, and she recognized him at once. The trainer shipped Grace Darling back home in private car last week and rode in the car with the horse. to see that she was taken care of. It developed the mare had been sold at the sale through mistake. was traced to the Chicago stock yards, from there Coggins Bros. in Atlanta and from those dealers to Til- lery's farm. That's a bit of fairy story from horseland, but every bit of it's true
 No, Geraldine, tfre Howard Bulldogs didn't compete in the Bench show recently held here.
 
 Hope Charlie White makes bet- btA pAOS LOW Lnc NEHp- weight championship than Joe White has towards the heavy weight title.
 The kid of a neighbor made the remark the other day that old man Zbyszko looked more like post than he did a Pole.
 Poetic license gets man through some tight places. Saw where a versifyer the other day rhymed fuel with rule.
 Babe Ruth is thinner than he was last spring, but his wallet is said to be much thicker.
 The seribes are calling Bob McAllister. the New York sprint or who belongs to the police force, the flying cop." Police men are usually referred to as 'fly cops"
 The only road work some box CTS do is on the road to ruin.
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WGl eHOuSn TOT OldSS A COmpan
 Decisions at First
 The layman in baseball doesn't realize how many decisions arc made at first by the coacher. which the umpire unconsciously puts his stamp of approval on- As a matter of fact I've been watching baseball games almost daily since 1913 and I never got the inside of the part the coacher plays and the way he puts it over. Moley and Whitey Glazner the Pittsburg pitcher were dis cussing this phase of baseball yesterday.
 You'd be surprised to knew how often the coacher makes the umps decision for him and gets away with it" said Mcley. "of course the arbiter is ignorant of the added help, and the thing is brought about by eleveFness and the application of psychology. For instance tn ebatter hits a gEpunder and speeds for first. Tie play at the initial sack is close, but the coaeher sQuats and holds his hands down with sweeping wave. quietly saying. ,'Safer The umpire, innocent of the ruse squats with the coaeher initiates his movement and yells Safe! I don't know what it is that makes the umps do that. unless it Is the same thing that makes you yawn when you look at another fellow who is yawn- ing"
 Meley is undoubtedly right about the yawning proposition. ] went to social one night, and the hostess had a real party. Un- fortunately there was guest who had been up late the night before and he couldn't suppress the numerous yawns. Other guests looking at him. also yawn- ed and the extra yawners were in turn e.zled by still others.
 Next day I met the lady and she was in tears. Tt was all q horrible mess" she said sadly. "Eeverybody looked like they were bored to death.'
 As matter of fact. everyone had good time, but the yawn business was contagious
 'Smatter With Central
 It looks rather odd to see Bir- mingham playing host to the state High Shool Basketball teams and tho high school of the Magic City not entered. Rather like staging Hamlet minus Ghost, and the grave diggers. When this was brought to my attention, thought some one was surely spoofing me. But upon investi- gation I found the Centralites missing from the list One man informed me that Central decided not to enter because the 21-year- rule was not in force. He later said there was only one twenty one-year-older in the tourney. If there had been twenty-one twenty-one-year-olders in the competition, however, 1t seems to me that Central should have gone on and played for this once. due to tho fact that the Magic City is host to the squads. It must make the out-of-town boys feel rather foolish to be competing in tourney for the
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Tulane Defeats Clemson

Atlanta, February 24.-Tulane uni- versity of Louisiana eliminated Clemson college of south Carolina a1 to 20 in the third game. The con- test was featured by the long shoot ing by Lantrip and Martin, of the Tulane. and the brilliant running guard work of Dabazies. of the same team. Darn proved the best scorer for the South Carolinans shooting two field goals and five foul goals out of II attempts.
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Simpson Doubles Score
 On Jefferson County

Simpson High led by their flashy forward, Senn, doubled the score on its Magic City rival, Jefferson Coun- ty High. The score was 55 to 27
 Simpson worked well and showed fine pass work throughout. The Junior Partners also showed eagle eyes for the basket. Senn, Vincent and Caldwell were the high scorers for the Purple.
 ''Bo" Self was the best floor man and shot on the Wildcat five He ran the floor well and shot 23 of the team's total of 27 points Lineup:
 Simpson (55): Senn (29) and Cald-
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SpringvilIe Continues
 Its Winninq Record

Sprlngvilie continued it's winning streak yesterday morning by trounc- ing the Ozark aggregation 52 to 26. For the first time in the tournament Herring, last year picked as an all- state forward with Springville, hit his stride and scored over half his team S points. He found the baskets for 2S points, tournament record thus far.
 Herring's unerring shooting and Puckett's floor work, with some good
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Mercer Defeats Centre

Atlanta, February 24-Mercer de- feated Centre college 32 to IT, taking lead of 21 to in the first half and holding it throughout. Smith, who played forward for the Macon team. led in scoring with six field goals and one foul goal out of two tries. Har- mon, Mercer guard, shot nine goals out of ten attempts, and also made a couple of field goals Coyington, one of Centres great football players led in scoring for the Colonels with two field goals and five foul goals out Of lt attempts.
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NEW ORLEANS BOXER
 SIGNS WITH TIGERS

New Orleans, February 24.-Joe Fisse, local prize fighter and base ball player, has been signed by the Detroit Americans and will report to the Tiger training camp in Georgia this season to try out for the short stop position it was announced. Fisse, who has played semi professional baseball around here for many years, batted over 300 in the Delta last year.
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Auburn and Howard Are
 Beaten in S.I.A.A. Meet

Carolina. eliminated Auburn. of Ala bama. 32 to 2i, in contest marked by clean. snappy playing. The South Carolinians functionedf like a piece of well oiled machinery and led throughout the game Violet. of New berry. was the best individual scorer for his team, making four field goals and nine out of 12 at tempts at foul goals, Hahn of Au- burn. scored two field goals and six out of 12 tries at foul goals.
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RARONS SELL FERMENTATION

There slight futter of baseball headquarters Friday afternoon and following that the office force settled down n animation again Between Secretary Billy West announced that Pennington outfeder belonging the had been sold the Grand Rapids club All of which the will not be stood its because of the sale.
 Pennington will be remembered by the rail practices here the 1921 He found the competition spirited and couldn't make the grade Therefore the Baron bosses armed him out to the Columbia club the Sally with
 attached That meant he coming here this spring for another trial but with Harry Harper Doc Silva nothing of number of other hopeful of Pennington would be when
 sale the Grand Rapids club the speed merchant and ball batting
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Howard Loses to N. c.

Atlanta. Ga. February .4.-Nor th Carolina university defeated How ard college of Birmingham 35 to 2s. Inability to shoot four goals ap- peared to be Towards principal drawback, as Shores missed ten in a row and Lsckey made only three out of eight attempts. c. Carmichael, of North Carolina, on the other hand, made is out of 22.
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Tech Rally Wins

Atlanta, February 2i - Georgia Tech eliminated Mississippi A. and NJ
 54 to 30. The Mississippians led 22 to 10 at the end of the first half, in which they clearly outplayed the Yel- low Jackets. Starting the second half Tech launched a drive with per
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crowds greeted the players at each game. The B. A. c. sym was filled both yesterday morning and after noon, and the crowd was an enthus- iastic one, roofing the teams to victory in every setto.
 The feature of yesterdays play was Barton scademy's defeat by GreenYille. This game was ex- pected to be a good one, but it ex- ceeded the expectations of everyone in being won by Greenville by only one point
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vandy Defeats Citadel

Atlanta. February 24.-Vanderbiit university defeated the Citadel of South Carolina, 37 to g. in the open ing game of the 1922 basketball tour nament of the Southern Athletic con Terence and the Southern Intercolle- giate Athletic association here today
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we'll (12), forwards; Vincent (10). center; Tanner (D and Wheeler, guards. Substitutes: Hanna for Tanner, Godbee for Vincent.
 Jefferson County (27): Clay and Mckinney, forwards; Gillespie (4), center; Self (25) and Mayhew, guards. Substitutes: Sharrit for Mayhew, Hall for Clay. Jacks for Hall.
 Referee, Hotchkiss; umpire, Mandy.
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TS--- STATE T7TULAR CAGE MEET CLOSES TODAY -SPORTS

feet passing and accurate shooting that put them in the lead, 21 to 22, before Mississippi scored a point Mississippi tied the score on Hughes
 foul goal but Tech added two more goals and took the lead from then on.
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Newberry Defeats Auburn

Atlanta. February 24.=-In the see- ond game Newberry college, of South eliminating Springville in last nights game, 20 10 27, The game was hotly contested all the way. and the out come was in doubt until the final moments of play
 Sparks continued his great work for Walker county by scoring seven field goals and three field goals His work all during the tournament has been feature, and it has been due to his efforts that Walker has been ablo to score much Of its success.
 Herring of Springville, equaled Sparks scoring last night, by pitch ing Tin IT points for the losers. Line up:
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----e---Tss .-i-=- Georgia Beats 0gIethorpe

Atlanta, February 24.-The Geor- gia university overwhelmed the Ogle- thorpe five composed of freshmen, 43 to 12. in tonights game. Rawson and Paige Bennett piled up the points for Georgia Rawson made seven field goals and Bonnet six.
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Leonard-Moran Bout
 Is Postponed a Day

New Orleans. February 24,-- The Kenny Leonard-Pai Moran 1o-round B0-decision light which was scheduled here tonight, was postponed late today until tomor- row night on account of rain
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Hendnches from sIIwbt Cold.

Laxative PROMO QUININE Tablets relieve the Headache by curing the Cold. A tonic laxative and germ de- stroyer. The genuine bears the sig nature of E. W. Grove. (Be sure you get BRoMo.) s0c.--Adv.
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TENDLER GETS VERDICT
 OVER WESTERN BOXER

New York, February 24.-LeW Tender of Philadelphia won a ref eree's decision over Hyman Gold Of California in the eighth round of their bout here tonight
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Chambers County Easily
 Defeats Lamar County

defeated Lamar county last night. 46
 to IS. The Chambers boys seemed
 superior to their opponents in every Aepar tment of the game. and hed
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Chattanooga Defeats Furman

Atlanta, Ga. February 24.-chatta- neoga university defeated Furman of South Carolina. 57 to 30. in game in which Redd Chattanoogas center was the outstanding scorer.
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OLD DOLLAR BILL SEE.

Tn truth they're writing bout made of cherry bark
 rode slow train that taken through mel as tn what dug it.
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shooting by Draper. were features for Springville. while Brown was Ozark 8 best man, scoring 16 points. Levy. substitute center, scored three field goals. Lineup;
 Springyille (52) Hannah (D and Herring (2S), forwards; Pockett (6), center; Draper (12) and I. Walker guards. Substitutes: Lowell for Han nah. McGinnis for Draper.
 Ozark (26): Brown Qs) and Silvan (4). forwards; Howell, center; Smith and Leonard, guards. Substitute Levy (s) for Howell.
 Referee, Bryan; umpire. Chisholm
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Walker Wins Close
 Game From SpringviIIe

| Walker county continued It's rush towards the state championship by