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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Birmingham Mil W aukee
Game For Saturday Expect
ed to be Played. Unless Fur
Their Rain Falls


Cold and dreary, the day proka.
and the p1tter-patter OF the rai
drops Tell with the monotohy OF the
sporting editor typewriter e1!Ghs.
Pedestriahs OF ausky nue. as taeS
started about their daily tasks shlV-
IT am Friday de l@th. And leokF
mean at al dls ram, ana iheF Went en-
their way hlam1ng II an On the
blundef OF the calehdaf man IN pas
teflhS /" where ffldaS ought 10 De pc
one ny one those bdEohs aW2ke'
ana stretched thelr l1lhs IN lux
urfous fashioh. likeness the week
through has given to them COM
pie pieased WIN ne %orIa eN-
1stencef and FRIDAY the I@th Weath-
er only added iufther vacation TO
their inactivity
ne Barons haa game scneoGaea
with milwaukee Tor flaay the l"th,
but It was not Played. Billy west
secretary oil the cIup, was up early
friddN-It Wouiu not pe IN the least
appropriate TO say oflsht ana carry
ana one glance al the OUTSIDE wealth
ef sent bhiN searrylhe 10 the tefe-
phone III quest OF anxious sporting
edllofs.
mere ~ De no game TO-DAY, as
phantly, as if he had expected it all
along. What's that? Do l blame 1t
oil 4 lustJ TIC lotll w n.y. nv at
all. It's just plain old Baron luck,
the kind that's chased us all year.
Look back over your files count
the games played and the games
rained out. You will see that per-
centages will favor old Jupiter Plu-
vius every time. No sir, Friday the
18th hasn't anything to do with this
game being rained out. 1t is simply
the weather man holding down his
regular job" And Billy went his
way. leaving the sporting editor to
ponder the situation, and vainly re-
greet the untimely death of a jinx day
story yet unborn.
To make long story short, it
stopped raining along about noon,
but the dirty work-perhaps muddy
work would better express it-had
been done. There could be no game
at Redwood Friday, after the down
pour of Thursday night and Friday
morning. In outright ferocity and
volume, the only thing to equal that
downpour was the breaking of the
8 Edgewood DAM which flooded Shades
Creek valley for miles around. And
that flood would appear as mere
mud puddle in comparison to Rick
wood park after it was all over at
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Huntsville Won't Put
Team In New League
TENNESSEE VALLEY BUREAU I
THE AGE-HERAED +
Huntsville, Ala, April IL !

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, April 13-The
baseball committee 70 which was re-
ferred the question of taking a berth
for Huntsville In the proposed Ala
bama Georgia baseball league has
reported adversely 10 the proposition
and 1t is not likely that the matter
will be talked any further for this
season at least.
1t was shown to the committee
that in the past when Huntsville has
had a place in a league heavy finan-
cal losses have resulted and there
has been a general lack of interest
during the duh part of the summer
while independent baseball has thriv-
ed. The committee believes that the
baseball fans would prefer having
an Independent team of character
like that one of last year and it urges
the fans to back it to the limit this
season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Scheduled Meet Sauda
ROEBUCK'S GOLF
TOURNAMENT WILL
BEGIN SATURDAY
Seventy-TWo Holes of Medal
Play to Decide Presidents
Cup Winner

Roebuck's annual golf tournament
for the presidents trophy will begin
Saturday afternoon, with 4S golfers
entered to compete for the handsome
award Play in the tournament will
consist of 70 holes of medal play,
extending over two weeks.
After the first round at Roebuck
Saturday afternoon. the second round
will follow Wednesday, the third next
Saturday, and the fourth and final
week from Wednesday.
Drawings were made at the Roe
buck club Friday and pa.rings for
the first round announced.
Bob Andrews, Roebuck pro. who
Is in charge of the tournament.
stated that late corners may enter
at the tee Saturday afternoon by re-
porting to him, and he will arrange
pairings. Andrews announced that
all matches should begin between l
o'clock and ESQ o'clock Saturday
afternoon. The pairs will be started
at five minute intervals.
The tourney for the presidents
trophy is a handicap affair, and
everyone has chance to win the
handsome cup. Bob Andrews pre-
diets some great golf before the tour
nament is over two weeks from now,
and states that the large field of en-
tries is expressive of the interest in
the tournament.
Following are first round pairings:
H. G. Seibels and Eugene Flies.
e. f. Stovall and T. F. Randolph.
J. D. kirkpatrick, Sr, and II. S.
Geismer.
Bob Baugh, Jr., and E. L. Brown.
C. T. Fairbairn and H. T. DeBard.-
leben.
Lee McGriff and l. F. Young.
John S. Coke and C. w. STREET.. Jr.
Paul Chalifoux and D. ]. Ryan.
D. V. Edmundson and DR.. Sam
Nabers.
L. G. Brownlee and Victor Prowe1l.
DR.. J. F. Frazier and Pete Marzoni.
J. p. Ross and j. r. Thames.
w. F. Donovan and r. I. Brooke.
DIR. Lloyd holland and Roy Cohen.
G. W. Hopson, Jr., and Percy
Brewer
l. j. Osbun and II. s. Going.
R. C. Munger and L. P. Munger.
DIR. G.. Walsh and Herbert Tutwiler.
Leroy Knight and C. Z. Corwin.
DR.. A. B. Harris and David Rob-
erts, Jr.
J. A. Norman and e. M Ivy.
H. NJ. Woodward and Lee Bradley.
Jr.
I r. H. Baugh, Sr.. and Tom Kidd.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
McGraw Displeased
With Teams Showing

NORFOLK, April 13-The New York
Giants and the Chicago White Sox
were rained out of the local ball park
Friday afternoon and entrained early
for New York, where they play their
last preseason exhibitions Saturday
and Sunday. The White Sox hold the
advantage over the Giants in games
won and lost, seven victories to six.
and John McGraw of the New York
club is not very we'll pleased with his
team. The Giants pitchers are the
least dependable department of the
club but the infield has been doing a
slipshod business for the last few
DAYS,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Slaughters Innocents
As Race Hunch Fails

BOWIE, Nd, April 13-This was
the day of the slaughter of the in
nocents. On the strength of a bunch,
the bettors at the Bowie track bet
heavily on Friday the Thirteenth,
hammering the odds down to the
brief price of to l, although the
horse never had won a race and
gave no indication that he ever
would But this was Friday, the 18th
of April, and all recalled that a
horse named Black Friday won on
Friday the 18th last year.
1t was terrible! Friday the Thir
teenth was never in the money, and
finished going backward.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
ALABAMA TRACK
NJ E E T APRIL q

The dual track and field meet that
was to have been staged Saturday
afternoon on Munger bowl between
Birmingham Southern college and the
University of Alabama has been post
poned until April %. The soaked
field from recent rains and the fact
that the Panthers have baseball
game Saturday afternoon with Mer-
Ger in the bowl caused Otis Kirby
of the track team to postpone the
meet. The Panther runners will give
Alabama return game, according
to agreement, at Denny field, on a
date following the meet here
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Montana Legion Head
Seeks Jacks Contract

GREAT FALLS, Mont, April ID
10y J. Molumby of Great Falls,
state commander of the Montana
American Legion and Aviator Ear
Vance, hoped off this morning for
Salt Lake to meet today with Jack
X earns, manager of Jack Dempsey,
IN an effort to secure world cham
pionship bout at Selby, Mont, July
between Dempsey and Tommy Glib
bons of st. Paul.
Molumby stated that he carried
certified check for $4,000 as a
cash forfeit to be posted for the
S25o,000 purse offered $4,000 of the
forfeit to be handed to Dempsey In
event OF his signing the articles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Can't Agree In Scrap
Over Johnson Battle

NEW YORK, April 13.-The New
York and New Jersey boxing com
missions this afternoon failed to
reach an agreement in the contro-
versy over the Floyd johnson Fred
Fulton heavyweight match, scheduled
in Jersey City next Monday night.
William Muldoon, chairman of the
New York conference, insisted that
the bout be postponed. until after
lard at the Yankee stadium on May
IL, and it was announced that New
ton a. *. Bugbee, New Jersey conn
mission, had taken the suggestion
unaer Consideration.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

the romantic fabric of our swell ideas
about the efficacy of the open air
in the training of the athlete. The
Yanks did more road work on the
tile floors of Metropolitan hotel in
urban New Orleans than they did
upon the turf at the Pelicans' bali
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Twin Cities May Have
New Golf Course Soon
TENNESSEE VALLEY BUREAU
THE AGE-HERAID !

NUTTT ]
Prospects are brighter now for or
ganiZation of the golf club in Albany
and Decatur than at any previous
time, members of the committee hav-
ing the movement in charge declare.
approXimately100 memberships are
needed to assure the club, it was
pointed out, Already a large number
of applications have been received.
The club plans to Incorporate for
$4,000, spend $500 for a tract of
land and $4,000 for improvements.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
BARONS THROW AWAY
BIG CHANCE IN NOT
BLAMING THIRTEENTH
BAIRD WILL HEAD
HIGH SCHOOL.BODY

NUN 1GphEttA I, Ala, ApfiI To-
Announcement that william J. Baird,
principal OF jefferson County High
school of Birmingham, had been
elected president of the Alabama
received here with citation in high
school circles of Montgomery county.
Professor Baird's work in eonnee-
ton with prep school athletics is de-
clared by high school authorities to
have played an important part in
bringing about cleaner sport among
the schools.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
SHORT PEGS

The rookie who bloomed in the
spring, tra-la.
Showed signs of becoming an ace,
He had most competent sling,
tra-la.
That baffled him black in the face.
But when he essayed II along in July
They picked his pitching all over
the sky.
My gosh! what sucker they made
offthat guy.
And this is the usual case.
The duck says "kwak" and the
goose says "houk." and the native
call of the Brooklyn Robins il
"cheep! cheep!"
If the New York Yankees run one
two-three this season, they'll rupture
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

Yankees to win another pennant or
finish anywhere in the money, all
clubs would bid for camp sites next
spring in the Waldorf lobby or the
Ritz or Plaza. New York claims no
semi-tropica1 climate but has more
and better hotel Hobbies than any
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

yard They likewise worked harder
in sedentary attitudes with the knife
and fork-knife then if you insist
than they did at the plate with the
weapon of their trade.
If this sort of training can fit the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Molla Is Downcast

NEW YORK. April 13.-Mrs. Molla
Mallory, returning from her disast-
rous campaign of the tennis courts
of the French Riviera, Friday, seemed
to have taken her defeats very deep
ly to heart. She was anything but
gay or cordial to those who asked
her to discuss her game. She came
back aboard the Mauretania.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

other training resort on earth. And
the potted palms by the elevators
compare well with any that grow at
large down yonder, IL that h'lnS
an athletes condition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

The White Sox of Kid Gleason,
who have been touring with the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
Why Vote at the Primary on April 8?

The voting primary elections hard to
understand And yet great many people intensely interested in
prohibition fail primary day Many
pie habit putting their Christmas shopping until
DAYS before Christmas Then there grand rush
disapponents and almost
clerks Many citizens the
ecng candidates office They be under the
impression they disregard primaries and make grand
rush effort the kind of officials they
represent public Offices Then there
bound be dappontments because the primaries
choice of candidates AT the election it almost
variaby the right kind candidates unless they
previously nominated the primaries At the general
the who polls be conended with the
candidates by others the primaries if they did
part primary election themselves Many who
would choice of Christmas gift book another
houghesy choice of candidates other
primary election day Many who would not leave the
toy for their children others caeessy permit other
candidates the who will later have
influence of that decide the
which children live Between and
April all leaders should help inform remind
the the importance voting the primaries Again and
should be all twentyone
primary will decide the kind of officials
be elected the general election Again and again all should
urged candidates primaries who will help
prohibition Unless help enforce
candidates. they might well be help
the Of placing dry officials office concerned Ii
alive he would add his appeal for loyalty
law words something like these: Let every mother teach her
children let teacher tell her pupils let preacher plead
with his let leader his friends and fol-
lowers primary election days In short, let primary
election voting become the practical political religion of the nation
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
NOT GOOD CITIZENS

To say that the Constitution of the
United States or the laws of Congress
or of the states can not be enforced
is to declare that government is a
failure and that courts are destitute
of power, either to punish the criminal
or to protect the innocent. Wherever
such a situation exists, if any such does
exist, there is,a condition of savagery
and anarchy No organized govern
ment could exist over night except il
had the authority and the power to
make and to enfoce laws.
No man is good citizen who defies
our courts or willfully transgresses the
laws of our country. And this APP
plies to every man who knowingly
violates the prohibition laws, as well
as the man who commits burglary OF
FORCES a name to a check. And the
courts of Vermillion county should
and they will, inhict such punishment
on the bootlegger IS may be necessary
to drive him out OF misunderstanding
Commercial News.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
FICTION VS.. FACTS AND
FIGURES

The fiction that liquor flows in tidal
waves through the country has been
pretty we'll shattered by the report of
the internal revenue bureau for the
year, ending June 80, 1923. Only
one-third of the physicians in the
United States have avaied themselves
of the privilege of writing alcoholic
prescriptions.
This fact is the lest possible indica-.
ton of the position of modern medicine
on alcohol as remedy. At least two
thirds Of our medical men do not be-
lieve in it for medicinal purposes.
The total amount of liquor of all
kinds issued on these prescriptions was
short of a million, five hundred thou
sand gallons. This is very insignificant
figure when compared with the one
hundred and one million gallons of
whisky alone, produced in 1911 and the
fifty-eight million gallons in the last
year before prohibition. The facts
speak for themselves. = Springfield
Journal.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
INSULTS THE SOLDIER

Whatever ones opinion may be OF
prohibition and the present liquor laws,
the proposal to pay a soldiers bonus
by levying tax en- the sale of alco-
holic liquors is paramount to an in
suit to the men who formed the Amer
lean armies in 1917 and 1918. 1t would
be only one little step further to tax
on the sale of opium and all narcotics
to accomplish che same end 1t is in
conceivable that the ideals of the
American people have sunk to that
level where they countenance the rails
ing of sacred funds from public de-
basement and debauchment. If the
bonus is to be paid to the soldier lei
1t be paid from funds derived from
sources that are free from even suspi-
cion. Let's do it fairly and squarely
in such manner as will not humiliate
a single American citizen, much less
its recipient-Springheld Journal.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
Read the Chicago Tribune

During past year great many have told the editor Of the
they stopped reading the Chicago Tribune
prohibition Many preachers have said
Il read the Tribune It's too rotten the prohibit
enforcement question: The American Issue suggests that
read the Chicago Tribune On the
contrary hopes all preachers in communities where
will read the Chicago Tribune regularly although
dagreeable duty This will enable them the wet
propaganda distributed widely by this The
might with the Chicago Journal The
Journal has circulation limited compared the
Tribune that propaganda not SO much OF Further
follows the Tribune quite closely in the character
and subjects of editorials. Accordingly if Tribune wet prop
uganda will apply of the ed
appearing other lesser mediums for the
of anti prohibition arguments If the preachers of
Illinois point keep posted wet editorials and
articles these regularly they will be doing
good than be done by refusing to read this
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
SINCERE ENFORCEMENT

Judges in other jurisdictions might
we'll follow the lead of the New Haven
judge who recently sentenced p boot
leggers to total of 2,240 days in Jail.
That was an average of 100 days each,
not very heavy sentence, it is true,
but a form of punishment that is like
ly to be effective if followed vigorous
ly and consistently. Bootleggers do
not mind fines. In fact, they look
upon the judge WHO imposes fines as
their best friend. The payment of a
fine gives lhem absolution for the
crime they have committed and does
not interfere with their continuing the
most profitable business in the United
States today. But going to jail is an
altogether different matter. 1t is I'M
comfortable and humiliating, and it
puts a temporary stop to the traffic. 1t
is real, sincere, effective enforcement
of the notwithstanding Observer.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND
PROHIBITION
As the Indianapolis News says:

As the Indianapolis News says:
"The thousands of high school boys
and girls could go long way toward
breaking up the booze rings if they
would. There is tradition among
young people that ,tasttle-tale, as they
call him, deserves only condemnation.
In later years these same youths will
realize that it would have been better
to give the authorities such informa-
ton as they possess and thus clean up
a mess that threatens to become ugler
than it is now.
"Thc student body of every high
school should set itself sternly against
the bootleggers. Support of law OBJ
servance is a principle that should ap-
peal to them but there are special
dangers connected with bootlegging
that should stir them to opposition. If
the present practice continues some
boy is going to buy wood alcohol,
thinking his bootlegger can be trusted,
and tragedy will follow. Most of
the illegal booze is nothing less than
poison, as thousands of tests have
shown. In drinking it the boys are
not making themselves manly but they
are taking course that will be most
effectual in preventing them from
ever becoming men,
1t is the boys and girls of today
who must be the leaders of tomorrow
and who must set the moral standards
of the people of the future. They
know what is right, and we of the
older generation have confidence that
they are going to do it. But it is a
good time to begin right now
Springfield Register.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
Cook County Enforcement Campaign

The expressed of the officials who control the
cney government do their the drive enforcing
territory adjacent Chicago encouraging
the other the apparent indifference local citizens and
cpa officials somewhat disheartenng The inacon of local
mayors local police and local conables very hard under
thing breakers choosing location
their illegal operations usually select place where the local
harmony with law order But indifference
the part of citizens particularly those who would naturally be
aggressive support of the law,
excsab Enforcement in Chicago the greatest test that has
crush the evil power of the liquor traffic
Retreang before the attack of Mayor Deve and his
breaking enemy has withdrawn
territory beyond the reach of the Chicago city authorities
that extraordinary duty upon good citizens
present sronghold of the In
territory occupied by the compelled by fear
friendly the invaders So it be in of the terri
tory Chicago houses flourish open defiance
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
POLITICS OR PADLOCKS
christian Science Monitor)

Recourse the paddock law strongly urged by Miss Mabel
Walker Weband of the United States
OF all federal do with prohibition She makes
before simplicity
the federal injunction of closing places which have be-
nuances through violations of the law.
The method pointed extremely The offender
under be left the
entirely that those who would be ready to prosecute
sympathy with him. The remedy, quickly and
effectively applied the where the business carried
The person usually the landlord lessee of the
paddock the saloon door under
of judicial writ the premises remain closed and the
landlord stopped 1t does not matter
the predatory booegger He sudden
himself business with appeal the ympathies of
jury laws delays The penalty falls the
property it's heavy enough, to be felt
habitat proved himself
the saloon the cafe BAR the
secretly openly dispensed and the drug
store which drug of the law have
fragrant 1t against these places
that the paddock injunction should be invoked
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
EDITORIAL COMMENT OF THE DAY

making and selling are rarely fair
enough to recognize the offset to this
expense i'll the way of fines collected
from violators of the prohibition laws.
They point to the large appropria-
tons made for law enforcement but
are silent as to the continual stream
OF money pouring back into the ma
tional and local treasures from sue
cessful prosecution. The national pro-
hibition commissioner, Roy O..
Haynes, has repeatedly stressed this
point, but the wet interests do not
quote him. An example near at home
shows how fines for liquor violations
may greatly exceed the expense OF
prosecution. Lester II. Martin, states
attorney for Mclean county, repo1.s
that his county netted little over
$4,000 in the past year from fines inn
posed under the prohibition act,
while the cost OF enforcement was
only $2,724. The total fines imposed
were $4,000. Sixteen Jail sentences
were also imposed and considerable
property conhscated. The work of
investigating liquor violations, secur-
ing evidence and prosecuting the Of
tenders was all done by the states at
torney and his assistants, showing
what can be done in the way of pro-
hibition enforcement by the right kind.
Gibson City Courier.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-12-14
AMERICAN ISSUE ENFORCEMENT PLATFORM

Heavier fines and Jail sentences Tor volators.
Speedier trials and quicker punishment after conviction
Close blind pigs by injunction process.
Severely punish drunkards who shield violators.
Investigation and dligen prosecution by states attorneys.
Aggressive action against vioators by county shefs
Appropriations for enforcement by county boards.
Cooperation of police directed by mayors
Organization of citizens to support officials
Teaching of loyalty o law in public schools.
Enforcement cooperation by church organizations.