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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-04-19
HOWELL NEARLY ROBBED
Missed CatastropAs By Being Late
to His Train.

E. v. Howell just missed be-
ing caught in the same Pullman
car robbery that cost Parker
Daggett's guest, the Providence
banker, all the money he had in
his purse. i.
Mr.. Howell went to New
York for the Easter holidays.
Unhappily the holidays came to
an end, and so he had to come
back to take ~up his duties
among the students and pills
and mysterious fluids of the
school of pharmacy. But he
fingered, on that last evening,
in the home of some friends in
northern Manhattan, and did
not take the downtown subway
express as soon as he should
have-not by three minutes.
Sorry, just pulled out" was
the unfeeling response of the
gateman when Mr.. Howell,
breathless, dashed up to the
iron fence in the Pennsylvania
station and inquired if the mid
night Seaboard train had left.
The car upon which he had
reserved a berth was the very
one in which the robbery was
to occur in the next few hours.
The Chapel lillian, much peev-
ed, not knowing how lucky he
was to have been late, jumped
on a B. & O. train for Washing
ton and got there at just about
the same time as the Inflated
Pullman car on the Seaboard.
In the Washington station he
came upon the group of angry
and protesting victims of the
Pullman eas. thief thief, and and he he join join
ed them for the rest of the
journey to Raleigh. Joseph B.
Cheshire, Jr., a lawyer of that
city, had been prudent enough
to conceal under the mattress
his waistcoat, containing his
money, but the thief had TAX
en- all the buttons from his
shirt. A woman told of losing
two necklaces. None of the rob-
bed ones expressed any deep af-
fection for the Pullman com
pany.
Mr.. Howell listened to their
storis with sympathy. But, as
for himself and his delay in
leaving the jolly company in
New York, he reflected that
here was a time when procrasti-
nation, instead of playing the
thief itself, kept thief from
cleaning out a pharmacy dean.
But then\he had pust spent the
holidays in New York, and may
be there wasn't much to steal
anyway.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-04-19
MOVE TO BETTER
ROADS OF COUNTY
State Highways Are Good, But
COunty's Are Rough Always
and Impossible in Winter
COMMITTEE is APPOINTED

' People in Chapel Hill town
ship, both those in the town it.
self and those in the county
roundabout; are going to try to
get better county roads for this
part. of Orange. There was a
meeting of the citizens in the
directors room of the Peoples 8
Bank the other night, and out
of it came the appointment of
"a citizens committee to appear
before the county commission
ers, inquire into the road finan-
ces and management, and see
if something can2be done to put
the roads in decent shape.
The State highways are good,
but the roads, for which the
county is responsible have well
justified the adjective frequent
ly applied to them-fotten.
Their condition is cutting off
from Chapel Hill county folk
who want to come here to do
business and who are being COM
PEELED to go to Durham and
other towns instead. This last
winter the farmers in the Black
wood neighborhood, for exam
pie, and those out on the Ra-
leigh road, were unable to come
to town, for weeks at a time,
because because they could not get
through the mud.
Asa whole the people of the
county have paid little atten-
tion to the construction and up
keep of the roads. Probably
not one voter out of twenty
~kHews-huw much money is
available for the roads or how
it is spent. The commissions
ers put out gang of Workmen
under a road supervisor, first
here and then there, but when
the bad weather of winter comes
the same old mud and ruts are
in evidence. There is no gen.
eral effective scheme of con-
struction and upkeep.
The purpose of the present
movement is not to roast" the
county commissioners or any
body else. 1t is first to get
some light on the subject, and
then try to put the whole force
Of the Chapel Hill section, far
mers and townspeople together,
behind some practical plan of
Improvement. Above all it is
to help put an end to piecemeal
repair work = the patching up
of scattered little stretches OF
road - and to substitute for it
a system whereby the roads in
general may be regularly main
tanned.
Members of the citizens COM
mittee organized at the meeting
tne 0ther nlgnC are:
From south of Chapel Hill:
w. F. Cole, Walter Womble, and
James A. Sparrow.
From out on the Raleigh road,
J. Duke.
From west of Chapel Hill:
Paul LLOYD
From the Orange Church sec
ton: J. r. Whitfield.
From the Blackw0od section:
M. C. Blackwood.
From Chapel Hill itself: R. P.
Harris. w. C. Coker, II. F. Hick-
erson, s. W. Andrews, R. P.
Andrews, W. s. Robertson, Louis
Graves and M. E. Hogan.
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UULU|M MD T[UrL[.
IN A BIG SING
Well Trained Congregations
from Five Counties Will
ss l% Gather for Event
HUNDREDS ARE EXPECTED

The colored folk of this re-
gion are going to have a big
Sing" next Saturday and Sun
day at the Barbee chapel about
four miles out on the Raleigh
road, They are going to gath
er there from five counties -
Orange and parts of Chatham,
Durham, Alamance, and Wake.
It is the annual New Hope
musical Convention. Anthony
johnson, guardian of the medi-
cal building on the campus and
known to the medical students
as Dean Anthony, is president
of the body and leads the sing
ing. He says that there were
a thousand singers present last
year and he expects fully that
many this time.
The convention is 26 years old
and has become one of the great
events of the year for the ne
groes. The New Hope associa-
tion is Baptist, but Dean An
thony says the constitution is
going to be amended so that the
musical convention will belong
to all denominations alike.
For weeks ahead of the sing
the congregations of Baptist
churches within a radius of Is
or 20 miles of Chapel Hill prac-
tice on the songs that make up
the program. So, when they
come together they are well
trained. The president of the
convention extends a welcome
to all white people who want to
come and hear the singing.
Those participants who come
from far off are entertained o.
yer Saturday night in the homes
of those who live nearby. With
Barbee's chapel such a short
distance from here, many of
the colored people of Chapel
Hill will have guests.
The midday meal Sunday
will be eaten picnic fashion.
The singers will bring dinner
baskets with them, and if the
weather is good they will eat
under the trees around the
church.
Reverend l.. II. Hackney, who
has been a clergyman in Chapel
Hill for close on to half a CEN
tury, will preach a sermon. The
Rev. Harrington of Durham will
also make an address.
The main trouble the officers
of the convention have is find
ing room for the crowd. They
have never yet had a church
that would meet the demand.
Part of the assemblage has to
stay outside while the other
part is<inside. Only Baptist
chlIrchesMhaYe been used 50
far, but when the proposed
change is made in the cOnstitu-
ton it is hoped that some lar
ger auditorium may be made
available.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-04-19

Leslie We'll of Goldsboro was here
to see his son Abram,
student in the University, and to
hear Mr.. Feidelson's address.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-04-19
THE Blue LAWS
HAVE HIT TOWN
But Not Very Violently, for
One May Stil Buy at Ger
tain Hours on Sunday.
SPARROW FORCED ISSUE

AA4NASO
The Blue Laws have struck
Chapel Hill. The lid was clamp
ed down last Sunday. Citizens
who went into Gooch's or the
White House or Jack Sparrow's
and asked for drinks or cigar
cites got q flat rundown
that is, unless they made the
request within. certain specif-
ed hours.
AS q matter of fact, the
anti-Sunday-selling ordinance
passed by the aldermen is not
terribly severe one. Between
8 and 1O:45 o'clock in the morn
ing and between A and %
clock in the afternoon, one may
buy a coca cola or a smoke just
as he did a month ago. And at
no time during Sunday does the
prohibition apply to restaurants
or to the sale of drugs, ice, milk
newspapers and garage sup
plies.
Behind the enactment of the
new law there is a story of a
scrap, friendly enoug yet spirit
ed, between the town authorities
and Jack Sparrow. Mr.. Spar
row started up his Carolina
Smoke Shop in the new Strowd
building two or three months
ago for the sale Of tobacco, soft
drinks and newspapers, later
installing a shoeshining throne
as an euxiliary. And he kept
open for business on Sunday.
There were complaints. Ac-
cording to City Manager Knox,
these complaints did not come
from an outraged citizenry, but
from the police force, Chief
Lonfi and Assistant Chief Will
liams. So a warrant was sworn
out against the proprietor of the
offending store. \
"Well, why shouldn't l keep
open if all these other stores sell
tobacco and drinks just as they
please?" asked Mr.. Sparrow.
The officers of the law were
not impressed by this query
and they said they would go on
with the prosecution.
"Oh, WE'LL. said Nh Sparrow
this time, "I'll just pay the five
dollar fine every Sunday and
keep open anyway"
w. S. Robertson, mayor and
attorney-at-law, was appealed
to for counsel. He dived into the
statutes and emerged with this
decision:
"IIe can't get out by paying
five dollars for the day. Each
coca cola sold is a separate Of
tense, so he'll have to pay the
fine for each one.
Now, the price Of a coca cola
DeIHY UHIy I'VE CeIITS, one OTIe-
hundreth of the penalty, there
was obviously no profit in sight
from Sunday business. So Mr..
Sparrow had to fall back on his
original contention, namely,
that there was no sense in pick
ing him out fo4. . speeia vic ie tiEsa hi
when other merchants were go
ing ahead with their Sunday
sales.
The town Solons-nfayyeff. and and
aldermen-took the matter un-
der consideration. Meanwhile,
serving of the warrant sworn
out against Mr.. Sparrow was
held up. A study of the situa-
ton was made by Messrs. Odum,
Braune, Cheek. Andrews, and
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-04-19
MISS KNOX PLAYS TOMORROW

Miss Emily Rose Knox, violin
ist, will play in Memorial Hall
tomorrow (Friday) evening.
Miss Knox is q distinguished
musician of Raleigh and has de-
lighted Chapel Hill audiences
several times before She an
pears this time under the aus
pices of the Wigue and Masque.
TT---------v-- --
The Trinity baseball team
beat Carolina 4 to 2 yesterday
"wednesday afternoon on En-
erson field. The visitors hit
Bryson freely, driving him
from the box in the second in
ming.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-04-19

Bruce Strowd spent the weekend
n H1CpmOnu, WIN MS WlIe, VINO lS
there for medical treatment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
VIRGINIA A. C. PLAYS
HUSKY MARINE ELEVEN

One of the best games on the
card for tomorrow should be that
between the speedy Virginia A. e.
team and the husky Marine eleven
from the Marine Barracks. Both
teams have made impressive show
ings to date. Each has suffered de-
feat at the hands of the champion
Mercury team, but has gained vic
tories over strong teams.
The Marines are to be considered
as a hard team to beat as a result
of their showing against the MGR
curry Club when the latter was
lucky to win by a To score on the
extra point awarded by the referee
because of an off-side play on the
try for point.
The Virginia A. C. always has
been considered one of the strong
est teams in the vicinity. Though
defeated by Mercury. they showed
great strength in their win over
Georgetown A. G. The game will
be played, on the Virginia teams
grounds in Alexandria.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
HUNDRED HOLES WORTH
SOLID GOLD GOLF CUP

Any golfer who has to play over
hundred holes in one match OF a
tournament to win cup certainly
deserves to have that trophy Worth
its weight in gold
AT the Norfolk Golf anu Country
club at Ontario Douglas Nelles and
Jack Mckee reached the final
round for the Adams Cup. AT the
end OF the first thirty six holes the
pair finished all even.
After eighteen holes of the second
thirty-siX had been played Nclles
got away to good lead, finishing
seven up on his opponent. Mckee,
however, starting out seven down,
turned the score upside down up
and finished that round all square
again.
r The contestants played eighteen
holes more II week later, Mckiee at
that stage being one up on Nelles.
In the final eighteen holes Nelles
with 80 for the last nine holes
won from this plucky opponent or
the 1O6th hole Of the match.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
WOULD CHANGE
CONTROL Of
BILLIARDS
Increased Competition Brings
Demand for Disinterested
Promotion.

NEW YORK, Nov. depending
his play-Off match with Walker
Cochran, the only non-movie star OF
Hollywood, Willie Hoppe stiIl holds
the championship, but he made it
clear today that he has definitely
abandoned his former title as the
undisputed master of billiards.
''Tk-re is no such thing as an
easy match any more" said the
modest New York player.
Beaten by Cochran, he had to play
the game of his life to defeat Jacob
Schaefer, of Chicago to retain a tie
for the championship. These three
players were tied for first place on
the day before the final games Of
the tournament, and Horemans
seriously threatened Cochran in the
seml-final game.
Hagenlacher, who finished next to
last, was the only man to defeat
Cochran. He had the satisfaction
OF beating the man who defeated
noth the champion and the forIner
champion.
This increase of competition is
increasing the popular interest in
general demand for a disinterested
- NAAC SPOIL SuNAl dE5 40
Joyed by other sports.
The players received their prize
money Yesterday. There were prizes
Tor the first five, but none for the
sixth also last, Roger Cont, the
rrench champion. Hoppe received
Sl'50O; a check for the same amount
was mailed to Cochran, who is on
MS way to California; Schaefer was
given 81 200 for third place; Hore-
mans champion of Belgium, who
finished fourth, received $3.50, and
EFlch Hagenlacher, the German
champion, fifth, got $3.50, the
amount OF his entrance fee. Cont
lost MS entrance fee. He is return
ing 10 France. Horemans and
1agenlacher remain here.
The first five PLAYERS also shared
IN the net profits of the tourney.
winch We're over 1000
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
LEADING LIGHTS
Of GOLF WORLD
To MEL.
NNNM
Jones and Sweetser Paired
With Marston and corIran
Tomorrow.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10.- One
Of the best exhibition matches Of
the golfing year in this section has
been arranged for the Huntingdon
Valley Country Club tomorrow.
Bobby Jones, the national open
champion, paired with Jess Sweet
ser, former national amatelir king,
viii meet Max Marsten, present
holder of the national amateur
crown. and d Clarke Corlran, win.
ner of the ynnwood Hall Cup last
summer and one Of the ranking
players of the East.
When he was here i'm September,
Jones set new record Of Sc for
the Tredyffrfn course. when he
and Marston. trounced Gene Sarazen
and Johnny Farrell, two of the
leading pros Of the country, by q
IS and count.
Bobby will find Huntingdon Val
ley q bit sportier than the Paoli
links, however, and is hardly likely
to crack 10 under present condi.
tons OF turf and weather.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
British Decide Far
Ahead On Golf
Scenes

In England the championship
golf rota is so arranged that
clubs know several years in adj
vance when a championship is
to be played over a course. con-
siderably different than in this
country, where to this day moth
ing definite has been decided
concerning the 1924 open cham
pionship venue.
The British amateur event for
1924 will be at ST. Andrews and
in 1925 at Sandwich. Muirfield
will stage the meeting in 1926
and Noylake in 1927. The rota
for the British open is as fol-
lows: 1924, Hoylake; 1926,
Prestwick; 1926, Deal, and 1927,
st. Andrews.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
Yale Men Worry Lest
"Duckie" Pond Be
Injured

Yale men will watch "Duckie"s
Pond with much uneasiness
these days. 1t is hard for them
to forget that old Eli will need
him next spring when the Har-
ward and Princeton baseball
games come around. Last year
it was his pitching which beat
one of the best Princeton teams
in the Tigers history. The
baseball authorities tried hard
to keep him away from foot
ball this fall, but he is too good
back to be sitting in the
stands. While at Hotchkiss he
had a great preparatory school
record for himself ON the foot
ball field. /
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10

There's Mr.. Devol going to the
SEVENTH said one, 81 could tell
that swing a mile off,"
\ They're playing a threesome, -
said the other boy; that's Mr..
Wood who just played his second,
and Mr. LeDuc over in the rough
taking one of his million practice
swings. / like to caddie for good
players-don't you, Jimmie? There
old man Smith putting on the
fourth green, and there's Mr..
Strawn driving from the fifth tee. y
What this conversation of the
,nddies shows is that every golfer
has a different and easily recogniz.
able swing. I am sure that if by
some means a player could be made
invisible and l could only see the
club, / would know who was re-
sponsible for the swing. Your pro-
fessional teaches you his swing or
the swing of some successful golfer,
but the result of that teaching will
be something different, owing to
individual details.
The swings of the successful
golfers are i'm the main the same,
but they all have these little indi-
vSduaI adjustments. No two play
ers have the same preliminary
motions of address, and when the
stroke is finished the watching
of the ball has individual charac-
teristics, With a little more use
of thes wrist or of the arms, or
of the trunk, Smith, Brown and
Robinson have managed to acquire
n stroke that is all their own.
This leads me to a point that /
think important in the teaching of
y pIayer. The fault of present-day
instruction is too great attention
to detail. Detail is largely asso-
ciated with individual characters
tics and must be adjusted to them.
NV belief is that one should get the
general ideas and see that they are
rigidly adhered 20, but should let
the distinguishing marks take care
of themselves.
The big argument to be advanced
in support of this is that player
cannot think of che hundred ard
one rules and make a good golf
shot at the same time. From his
professional, or from his friends
who happen to be good golfers, a
man may learn the underlying
principles of . a good swing, but
upon his own physique Will rest
the individual characteristics.
Golf swings vary just as much
as the persons who make them. In
the main we are all alike, but in
small details we are all different.
Copyright, 1923, John +. Dille')
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
Dartmouth Will Clash
with Yale Eleven
Next Season

Dartmouth will appear at
New Haven on the third game
of YaIe's 1924 football schedule.
Arrangements are not yet
concluded, but official an
nouncement is expected with
in a week. The Hanoverians
will replace Bucknell on the
Eli list, making the fourth
first-class eleven battling Yale.
West Point, Princeton and
Harvard are the others.
Dartmouth's 1924 schedule
will be difficult, the Big Green
facing Yale, Harvard and
Cornell on successive Satur-
days.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
Richeson Is Student
Of Grid Theory and
Star as Wen

Richeson, Of Yale, now joins
Stuhldreher, Pfann and DcoIey
as one Of the star quarters Of
the year. If Yale should beat
Harvard and Princeton Richie
son will deserve much Of the
credit. Those who know the
youngster best say that he
studies football theory all the
time. The formality Of prac-
tice on the field isn't enough to
satisfy his love for the game.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
Walter Camp To See
Big Service Game
In Capital

Walter Camp, dean of foot
ball authorities, will be present
at the game between the Third
Corps Area and the Quantico
Marines at Washington De-
cember 1, he has notified Of
ficers of the Third Corps. Camp
attended last years game at
the Stadium in Baltimore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10

Many others could be named, out
these suffice to show the spirit 'of
the school,
I'VE. love our alma mater-and
Rockne," said lCofall. And the
best way to help 10th at the same
time is to find football material, SO
we do just that little thing"
Notre Dame is a Catholic inst1-
tuition under the direction of the
Congregation of the Holy Cross
Fathers, but 80 per cent OF the
students are Protestants.
Coach Rockne is a Protestant.
So is Stanley Cofall and Cy Will
liams, of the Philhes, who Tied Babe
Ruth this year for home. run
honors, and, like the others, an
alumnus of Notre Dame.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
WAVERLY CLUB HOLDS
BASKETBALL MEETING

The Waverly A. c. will hold a
oasketball meeting at its clubhouse
Monday at p. m.
ANY team wishing to book games
In and out of town should com
municate with Bob O'Brien at the
Waverly Club. Eighth and I streets
northeast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
DEAD WOOD IS REMOVED
FROM GLOVE ARENA

this than during
other twelve months in the history Of glove fighting Most Of the
is a stronger lot than have had in time
himself to be real
fighter in his sensational battle with Luis Frpo Dempsey s not
nvincible hit
the heavyweight great ocker and ne can take " h
dead Thpse three qualities are about az that neaygn
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
BriIIheart Weds.

Lefty" Brillheart, the Griffs
young twirler, has Joined the mar
ried mems team. Miss Gert1e Lake
Lester, of Pulaski, Va, has become
Mrs. Brillheart and the happy
counle is now in Dublin, Ca, Brill
hearts home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
ST. LOUIS BROWNS WILL
TRAIN AT MOBILE AGAIN

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10.-The st.
I,ox1is Americans will train at Mobile,
Ala. again next season. it was an
nounced today. It is the third sue
cessive time the Browns have
selected this city.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
ROCKNE VACCINE PUTS
NOTRE DAME ABOVE
OTHER ELEVENS

Nore Danes football system all bunk according to
Stanley captain of the HoOsers athletic
director the High in PHILADELPHIA
it's
Cofal.
"nere sort of plan used beyond but without
Rockne it would
football at Notre years. and for
three years assistant coach under Jess Harper
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10
CADDIES KNOW SWINGS
OF FAVORITE GOLFERS
INTERNAToNAL. NEWs REEL
BY CHARLES CHICK EVANS.

CK7<ANAE0 >
upper of the golf links after
from school, From their position they could every player on the
ndistnguhabe
links merely golfers to these
boys pausng what good jobs
fhovvv indy
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-10

needs 10 be SucceSSIul these days
Mike McTigue, one Of the new
champions, has not strengthened
the light heavyweight division to
any great extent. Carpenter was
more colorful and probably q better
fighter. Battling Sikh probably IS
a better fighter than McTigue, even
If Mike was awarded decision
over the semi-savage from Senegal.
Harry Greb, who won the middle
weight title from Joku11y Wilson, is
an Improvement over the last few
champions in that division. Ever
since the death Of Stanley Ketchel
in 1910 the niddleweights have
been poor lot.
Mike Gibbons WAS the nearest
to q real fighter the class has
had ainee KetcheI passed on, ard
Mike, waited until he was far on
the 90wugrAde before lie attenxgted
to wiz the title.
Gibbons was dttse too fret and
he lacked the heart -sf a-reaI fighter
or he would have made great
champion. He was better than
Chip, Mccoy, O'Dowd and Wilson.
all Of whom have held the title.