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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Freshmen Classic To Come Off Today At 0pe-
 Iika Fair

AUBURN, Ala, Oct. 19.-(Special) ) With the Tiger varsity away to bat tie the Army at West Point all eyes ell freshmen and the Bulldog fresh men ot the University of Georgia this weekend. The game will be played at the Opelika fair grounds on Saturday-the final day of the Opelika fair, and large crowd Is expected to witness the freshies of the two well-known institutions in battle array. The game was origi- nally planned for Friday afternoon, October 19, but was later changed to the following day.
 The Auburn-Georgia freshmen game is growing to be a rather fla vorite classic in the Lee county capi- tai and last year upwards of three thousands people witnessed the game. The initial game between the two new student aggregations last season resulted in 6 to victory for the Tiger freshmen after Hodges, Orange and Blue quartet, had come from behind his own goal line, after recovering a tumble and raced 104 yards for the touchdown that gave the Auburnites the victory.
 The Georgians have a strong team this year, according to Coach Bill White member of the University of Georgia coaching staff, who was in Auburn Saturday attending the Au- burn Howard football game. The Athens fresh are being coached this season by Coach Bachman. They will go into Saturdays game with out having their goal line crossed, having defeated the Riverside team 20 to and the Clemson freshmen 2S to 0. The Newell clan has played two games. The first with Sidney cry the last resulting in a victory with {. 13 to score over the Mercer freshmen last week.
 Practically the same line will face the Georgians that opposed the Mer- cer Baptists last Friday, with Rob- inson or Cunning, center; Edwards and Lovelace or HoltZclaw or Glass guards; Pruitt and English or Long and Akin, tackles. At end S differ ent combination will be seen. Cap tain Moulton has been transferred from the terminal post to quarter back and Petite will probably take his place on the flank. The Memphis lad has been showing real stuff for the past two weeks and 1t looks as if he might get a clear title to the end job. Stone and Daugette will be playing if any occasion necessitates. The backfield, with Moulton at quar- ter; Gregg and Andrews, halves; Ha- good, Turner and Thigpen at full back, Coach Newell believes that he has combination that may work together on the varsity in the years to come. Thigpen, former Lee Coun- ty High star. has been transferred from quarterback to the fullback poSitiOn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
TIGERS TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE FOR MIGHTY BATTLE TODAY
Southern Band Will Play For Sewanee

Birmingham-S Southern colleges band, with the approval of the University of Alabama athletic authorities, will play for the Se- vance university football team at the game between Sewanee and Alabama. in Birmingham this afternoon.
 The matter came up a week ago when Sewanee alumni, present at the game between Birmingham- Southern and Mississippi college, proposed the playing of the band at the Saturday game to Gordon Erickson, municipal music direc- tor. At that time MT. Erickson said that while it struck him as sporting and graceful thing to do, he could not answer until the proposition had been put to the Birming gham- Southern and Uni versity of Alabama authorities.
 Saturday morning MT. Erickson received letter from G. H. Palmer, executive secretary of the University of Alabama, approving the suggestion and thanking MT. Erickson and the Birmingham Southern officials for consulting the state institution about it.
 Authorities at Birmingham- Southern had already expressed approval, so the 3O-piece band from the Sunshine Slope" decked in the purple and white colors of the University of the South, will musically cheer on the Episcopa- Hans when they breast the Grim son Tide at Redwood field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
MY OWN WILL NOT RACE GREAT ZEV

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-The three year-old championship of the Ameri- can turf for the 1923 season will never be decided by a direct test on the track. Admiral Cary Grayson, owner of My Own, has declined an offer for a s50.000 match race at Laurel, Md, next Thursday with the winner of the international match race, to be run at Belmont park Sat urday.
 Papyrus was eliminated from con- sideration for the Laurel race when Ben Irish. his owner. stated he would not enter the British colt in a fur ther test in America.
 Sam Hildreth, trainer and part owner of Zev, was said to be willing to let Zex race My Own if Zev should win from Papyrus.
 Officials of the Laurel, Md, track informed Hildreth Thursday, how ever, that the negotiations ended when Admiral Grayson refused to consider the proposal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Tuscaloosa Defeats Jefferson High, 23-O

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Oct. 19.-(Spe- cial. al.)-Tuscaloosa High school Black Bears defeated Jefferson county nigh at Denny field here Friday afternoon 23 to O. Tuscaloosa made 12 first downs and Jefferson county high 3. Features for Tuscaloosa were Finnell and Malone, who made two five yard runs for touchdowns. Five of Tus- caloosa's regular men were off and places were filled by reserves.
 Barton's kickoff was the feature of Jefferson county high. The star play CTS for the locals were Shirley, Read. Finnell, Malone, Bowers, Joyce, Sul- livan and Little, and for Jefferson county high were Desmukes and Bar ton. The game was witnessed by 8 srge crowd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
'BAMA RATS PLAY AT JACKSONVILLE
Coach VandeGraaf Takes 18 Men To Meet Normal
 Team Today

UNIVERSITY, Ala, Oct. 19.-Coach Bully" VandeGraff and his fresh men squad of football players will leave the Capstone Friday morning for Jacksonville, Ala, where Satur- cay afternoon they will meet the gridiron' team of the Jacksonville State Normal school.
 This is the only game remaining on the freshmen schedule that is not a clash with a freshmen team of another college, and 1t Is expected to be big test for the Crimson rats" Eighteen are making the trip, great majority of them all-state high school men, while others are prep school stars.
 Hard practice this week on Denny Field annex has given the rats" a bit more polish than was wit messed in their game last Saturday with Marion institute. The cadets were decisively defeated by a 29-O score, due a great deal to the effec- tive work of Rosenfeld and Holmes. The State Normal school gave Bir- mingham- Southern quite battle two W eeks ago, and last week defeated the Camp Mcclellan eleven. Due to this and a defeat given the rats" last year, the eleven of 1927 have firm intentions of copping the strug- gle.
 The freshmen are leaving the Cap stone with their strongest eleven in the field, with Rosenfeld calling signals and doing the passing and bunting. Holmes, star center, is ex- pected to be a tower of strength on the defense and the offense, while Goode and Gonzales are two nifty tackles. Cowley and Caldwell are halfbacks that may get away at any moment, Cowley being one of the best enrolled at the Capstone.
 This team is rather light, but possesses much power in it's work. The backs to start will be Estes, Cowley, Caldwell and Rosenfeld. On the line will be Newton and Kimble, ends; Goode and Gonzales. tackles; Pickart and Chenault, guards; Holmes, center. The rest of the men to make the trip are Dismukes. Geiger. Hargrave, Sparks, Lillian. Wall and Roe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
TANKS WILL NOT TRAIN ON COAST

NEW YORK, Oct l9.-Invitation extended to the New York Tanks to do their spring training in Los An geles next year. has been declined, Ed Barrow, business manager of the champions. announced.
 George A. Putnam, secretary Of the San Francisco Pacific Coast league club, rendered the invitation and in declining the Yankee officials prac- tically admitted that plans have been decided upon tC train again in the south.
 "The coast is too far to go with ball team, the weather is too un- certain and the haul too heavy,' Bar row said. He also said that Miller Huggins, manager of the team, did not care to train in California.
 The officials of the club probably will decide upon New Orleans, Shreveport or St. Petersburg, and it has been reported that the cham pions might be taken to San An tonic, since the Giants are not ex- pected Ito return shsra fer their training.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
WOODLAWN BEATS
 DISQUE 47 TO 0
ColoneIs Make Great Show ing Against
 Visitors

The WCodlawn Colonels swamped Disque High Friday afternoon at Berry Field by the score of AT to O.. In the first few minutes of play Disque looked strong, making first down without great difficulty, but for a loss and from that time on the Woodlawn boys played them off their feet. They made Cnly two more first downs during the entire game and these were the result of forward passes. They held the Woodlawn boys for downs twice.
 The entire Woodlawn team was going strong. both on offense and defense. Billy Bancroft. their cap tain and quarter, ran his team very smoothly, carried the ball himself for gains that totaled 14S yards, his longest run being for 40, completed three forward passes for total dis tance of 55 yards, got away a good punt and did some pretty blocking.
 Levy's end runs were beautiful, his first one being for 30 yards and sev- eral of the others being for good long distances. He intercepted two Of Disque's passes and carried them back well, one of them for 12 yards. He gave the other backs good inter ference on all their runs.
 Larkin showed up well, making gains of 10, IS and 20 yards. He kicked five goals out of seven.
 The Woodlawn backs look very good but it is hard to say whether or net they are as good as their line men, for there is not a weak spot in that line. Jones and Cawthorn at the tackles are tearing the oppo- rents line to pieces on the offense and breaking through to throw the backs for losses when on the de- fense, while Sentell and Moore, a. the ends, spoiled many plays, and received a pretty pass each. Wick English had his red head in the midst If a surprising number of plays, throwing the Disque backs for losses often. Clark did well until removed from the game on account of a gash over his eye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
s. I. (. Cage Tourney
 To Be Held Feb. 29

ATLANTA, Oct 19.-The Southern Intercollegiate conference basket ball tournament will be held in Atlanta, February 29March under the auspices of the Atlanta Athletic club and other conference teams will par ticipate, it was said here today. If the members of the southern inter- collegiate athletic association hold tournament it will be separate and distinct from the conference meet, it was added.
 Last year teams from both the southern conference and the S. l, A. A. participated in the tournament where the s. I. A. A. tournament will be held this year has not been an- nOunced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
! AUBURN RATS" TOJOE LYNCH SAYS1 } BATTLE GEORGIA HE CAN'T FIGHT {

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Joey Lynch, he ups and trips over a dog Thurs day afternoon and so he won't de- fend the bantamweight champion ship against Joe Burman of Chicago at the Garden Friday night.
 Hello, MT. Rickard," said Lynch on the telephone late in the day. T trip over a dog and holt me shoulder. I can't fight"
 "Whoever said you could fght?" MT. Rickard asked with a trace of asperity. Whose dog did you trip over?"
 Me own dog" Joey said.
 Right dog or left doy?" Rickard insisted.
 q dunno; I'll have to ask me man ager," and that closed the conference.
 Lynch claimed that an X-ray showed he had hurt his shoulder too severely to permit his boxing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Troy Plays To Tie

TROY, Ala, Oct. 19. - Special Leased Wire. )-One of the best foot ball games played in Troy this sea son was staged at the fair grounds Friday morning when the State Nor mal school eleven met the team from Enterprise. The game was hard fought throughout, both teams play ing splendidly. It resulted in a tie, ' to T. A feature of the game was a 50-yard dash by Billie Hitchcock of the Troy Normal in the second quarter. He made touchdown and kicked goal, making the Normal seven. Enterprise scored just before the close of the game and it had seemed until the last few minutes that the game was the Normals'.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
CARD FOR MATCH RACE ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Three pre- liminaries and a pair of chasers will entertain the crowd before and after the international match race between Zev and Papyrus on Saturday afternoon. The entries and the pro- gram for the greatest racing day of Americas greatest racing year were announced Thursday.
 The first will be six furlong dash for 2year olds; the second a mile run for Swear -olds and up, both of these to be claiming events. The third will be a siX-furlong handicap event for horses of all ages.
 The match race will be No. on the program.
 The New Rochelle handicap for S-year-olds at one mile and one-six- teenth will be the fifth event. Cherry Pie and Dunlin, regarded as two of the leaders of the class, are entered. A six-furlong race for 2-year-olds will close the show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
No More Boxing In American League Park

CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-Baseba1l and pugilism do not go together, Presi- dent B. B. Johnson of the American league declared here tonight and hereafter fistic encounters will be prohibited in the parks of his circuit. MT Johnson said that the league is opposed to the association of the two sports and has taken a stand against the use of it's parks for prize fights.
 The subject recently was discussed by MT Johnson with. Col. Jacob Rup- pert of the Yorld's champions, New York Yankees, at whose park the Willard Floyd Johnson bout was held and the colonel, who is said to be in accord with the move. asked the league executive to withhold action until certain contracts regarding the use of the Yankee stadium had eX pired In the meantime other clup owners were sounded out on the sub- iect and are understood to favor the prohibition of boxing matches in their parks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Union Springs Wins

Special Leased Wire.)-The high school football squad of Union Springs won the first game of the season on Friday when they defeated the Eu- faula team by score of 12 to O. The game was hard fought throughout. Union Springs made total of IS first downs compared to five made by Eu- faula. Eufaula attempted six for ward passes, one of which was suc- cessful. while Union Springs at tempted three and completed one. Two touchdowns were scored by Union Springs. The local team will meet Clio at Union Springs for the next games.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Showers May Fall For Big Match Race Today

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Showers were forecast for Saturday, day of the international horse race, by the weather bureau here today
 The forecast said:
 Showers tonight and Saturday, cooler Saturday, fresh to strong southerly winds, becoming west to northwest Saturday"
 Admiral Grayson, owner of My Own, which may be called on to race the English horse, has hereto fore stipulated that he will not per init his horse to race on a wet track.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Princeton Scrimmages On Day Before Game

PRINCETON, N. J., Oct 19.-Bill Roper sent the Princeton varsity through a long hard scrimmage in the driving rain yesterday, the ball mak- ing little progress in either direction on the muddy field.
 For almost an hour the regulars tussled with the "omelettes" who ex- ecuted Notre Dame plays as best they could in their soaked condition. The varsity seemed to show little better defense than Wednesday, but this was prehaps due to the weather. Dick Newby made the only score when he broke through near the end and ran toa 25-yard touchdown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Little World Series"
 Teams To Baltimore

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 19.-The Baltimore and Kansas City baseball teams were enroute to Baltimore to- day to complete their minor league worlds series. By winning Thurs days game. 5 tC 2, Kansas City now has lead in games of three to one. The total attendance for the four games here was 62,679 and the total receipts. $77,250.SS, of which S50,213.67 will be divided among the players. The players also will share in receipts of the first game at Bal timore, which will be played Satur- daV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Baylor Vs. Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark, Oct. 19.- Baylor university, last years cham pions of the southwestern conference, will meet a formidable rival for gridiron honors tomorrow in the game with the University of Arkan- sas "Razorbacks." Neither team has been scored against this season. While the Texans apparently are favored to win, the Arkansas ma chine is in excellent shape for the struggle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
English Bookmakers A Taking 2 To1 On Papy

LONDON Oct. 19.-British book makers are betting two to one against Papyrus for tomorrow's race at Bel mont Park despite reports from New York that the odds have shrunk to even money. Thee is little wageing on the race.
 The followers of racing are devour- ing columns of statistics and gossip on the races at British tracks but apparently few of them are excited over the International event.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Football Results

At Jonesboro, iArk.,-West Tennes- see Normal 40, Arkansas Aggies o.
 At Philadelphia, Ark.-Ouachita 27. Little Rock '.
 At Jackson, Mississippi Col lege ', Howard college 3.
 At Columbia, $. C.-University of South Carolina 24, Newberry o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Texas Leaues To Play Vanderbilt At Dallas

AUSTIN. Tex. Oct. 1s.--Thirty- five members of the University of Texas football squad and the Univer- sity band left here for Dallas today, where the eleven from the Texas university will meet Vanderbilt tC- morrow. Four men. Ward. tackle; Allen, end; Captain Tynes, halfback
 and Goreman, guard, are suffering from injuries and may not get into the game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Decatur Plays Morgan
TENNESSEE VALLEY BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD

Coach Duyck of Central High school this afternoon declared his squad on edge and in good condition for the gridiron battle Saturday afternoon which will decide the championship of Morgan county when the county high of Hartselle and Central clash here at 3:30 D. m
 Chelton, Sewell, Johnson and Handy have been on the ailing list, but were pronounced ready to enter the game. The contest has attracted wide interest throughout the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Personnel Of Alabama Squad
Name and Position. Al Clemens (captain) left end

No. Name and Position.
 l Al Clemens (captain), left end. ....
 ? Bill Thomas sub tackle. ........., Pooley Hubert, fullback. ...........
 Clyde Propst, center. r..............., 5 Jimmie Johnson, back. ............ H. A. Martin sub. b................- Elmer Dany, sub. b.................. 9 Graham McClintock, halfback. ..... 10 Jack Langhorne, right guard. Il W. c. Baty halfback. k............... F Mack Brown, halfback. k............. 14 Berpice Compton, left tackle. 15 Seth Oliver, sub. ....,.....,....... Is Hulett Whitaker, halfback ......., IT Ben Ennis, left guard rd............. IS Ben Hudson, right end ..........., 19 Allan McCartee, quarterback. ......, 20 Grant Gillis. quarterback ......... 21 Peter Camp right guard. ........., 22 Lovely Barnes, halfback. .......... 23 Bruce Jones, sub. b.................. 24 Will Buckler, left tackle. .......
 Tow Newton, varsity end last year, W sees fit to use him. Other men who W Brakefield, Murphree, Young, Cohen, 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-20
Preparatory.

ill be ready for the game if Coach Wade i'll be on the sidelines include Paget nderson, Salmon and Hussey.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-21
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU
THO AGE-H EkALb :
Mont gOmery. Ala ApriI %

Protest has been made to the pub
lie service commission against the
granting of the petition of the Ala
bama Power company for a certifi-
cate of convenience and necessity for
the construction of a hydroelectric
unit at Lock II, on the Warrior river,
near Tuscaloosa. The commission to-
day postponed the hearing of the
petition until May 8, in order that
any persons interested may appear.
This action followed the issuance
of an order postponing until May the
consideration of the companys petit
ton for permission to construct a
transmission line from near Hunts
willie to near Sheffield. which would
give the company a circle of trans
mission lines through central and
north Alabama. The order in this
case was issued at the request of the
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and
city of Sheffield. which asked the
commission for time to preare their
case.
Little information was obtained re-
garding the protest about the devel-
opment al Lock II other than that
other interests claim a prior right
on Lock II and have brought their
claim to the attention of the federal
power commission. The public serv-
ice commission was requested to post
pone its hearing until these interests
have had time to prepare their infer-
nation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-21
PLANS MADE F 0 R
BIG INCREASE N
COTTON ACREAGE
Fewer Potatoes And Peanuts
Will Be Grown According
To Gist
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU !
THE AGE-HERALD !
Montgomery, Ala, April 20

In the first report ever made by
the federal crop reporting service
on the plans of the farmers regard
ing the planting of crops. F. w. Gist,
federal and state agricultural statis-
. tician, today estimated that, unless
Alabama farmers change their
minds, the cotton acreage will be
increased this year over last year 10
per cent, corn per cent, oats 1 per
cent, sorghum Ii per cent, sugar
cane per cent, and hay II per cent.
Mr.. Gist further estimated that
the acreage in sweet potatoes will
remain the same and that the acre
age in peanuts Will be reduced per
cent, Irish potatoes 3 per cent and
other crops 10 per cent. showing an
Increase of all agricultural products
of 3 Per cent
ton crop will not be uniform through
the state. according to the report.
North Alabama counties. including
all counties north of Black Belt, ex-
pressed an intention to plant 10 per
cent more cotton this year than last
year, Black Belt counties Is per cent
and counties south of the Black
Belt II per cent
O O O
New Service Inauguratcd.
Mr. Gist's report on estimated ag-
ricultural acreage follows:
The intention of farmers to plant,
expressed in a percentage of the
paintings of last. year. has never
been reported before by the federal
crop reporting service.
This information was primarily
obtained for the emil ghtenment of
the agricultural workers of the de-
partment, but in response to wide
spread demand it has been given to
the public for what it may prove to
be worth. The data was obtained
from an inquiry directed mainly to
the local crop reporters of the serv-
ice who themselves are farmers,
asking them to state. their personal
intention to plant this year and what
they actually grew last year eN-
nresserts inaactuals acres to each crop.
Assuming that these men are typical
nf the sections they represent, the
Aggregate of their statements have
been calculated into intended plant
ing for the present year compared
With that of last year.
After viewing and considering the
reported intention. 1T is altogether
possible, that farmers may change
their minds, and the present flSures
are only offered as representing
present intention.
TO Raise More Cotton.
The indicated increase OF cotton
a6rea gefin Mabama, 13 per cent, for
the state, is not uniformly reported
from ali sections. North Alabama
counties. Including all those north
of the Black Belt section, express
intention to plant 10 per cent more
tLan last year; the Black Belt ex-
meets to Increase its cotton acreage
IL per cent, and those counties south
Of the Black Belt express their In
tentlon to increase u per cent.
In addition to the figures on cotton
reported for Alabama by the WASH