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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11

NEW YORK, Jan. 1o.--Bought in 1917 for s75o
 Sold in. 1922 for 10 times as much.
 There you have the high spots in the baseball history of Jake May.
 May is southpaw pitcher. He was recently added to the staff of tine New York Americans. He was purchased from the Vernon club of the Pacific Coast league.
 In 1917 May was with San An tcnio of the Texas league. Miller Huggins. then managing the St. Louis Cardinals, saw May work in several spring training games and was im- pressed Before the close of the sea- son, Huggins had purchased him for the Cardinals.
 The next year Huggins went to the American league. May failed to prosper under his new manager, Branch Hickey. A year ago Hickey sti,t May to Beaumont in a trade for Bill Bailey. Vernon bought him from Beaumont
 Last year in the fast Pacific Coast league, May won 35 games and lost games.
 Huggins feels May is the much .ne eded southpaw of the Yankees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
Junior Panther Quint Opens Season Against Jones Valley At Club

With light workout in the after noon, the Simpson Tech cage team will finish off it's practice for the opening game of their schedule with Jones Valley Thursday night at 5 o'clock at the Birmingham Athletic club. The Junior Partners staged a hot practice game with North High lands Metht dist church Tuesday in preparation for the game.
 Vincent, at center, has been one of the highlights of the Tech offen- sive in practice games. and will prob ably be one of the high scorers of the game at the B. A. c. He is one ot the best high school dribblers in the south, and has dribbled through practically every team that Simpson has played since he has been gracine it's lineup. He also has deadly eye for the basket.
 Senn, forward. is another scoring star. His long shots are disastrous tc the "five-man defense," and his close range shots are sure. Full Wesley has been showing up well al guard. Ferguson, Wright. Byrd ano Nash have also been showing III we'll
 The Purple Tornado meets Shades. Cahaba in it's second game of thf season Friday afternoon at the 5 A. C..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
Spitballers Passing From Major League

CLEVELAND. O., Jan. 10.-The sale of Pitcher Allan Sothoron of the Cleveland club to the minors marks the passing of another spitball pitcher.
 At the close of the American league season there were only six spitters in the organization. The re- lease of Sothoron cuts it to five. It is almost a certainty that before the opening of the season, Allan Rus sell of Boston will have drifted back.
 Stanley Coveleskie of Cleveland, Red Faber of Chicago, Urban shocker of St. Louis and Jack Quinn are the four veterans certain to start the 1923 campaign.
 Quinn hasn't a great many more years left Coveleskie, who is a spitball pitcher almost exclusively, seemed to be slipping bit last season.
 Faber of Chicago and Shocker of St. Louis would still be great pitch CTS if they eliminated the spitbali entirely from their assortment As matter of fact, these two great pitchers use the splitter more as a bluff than anything else. They go to it in a pinch when they desire to slip a strike past the batsman. ! It is doubtful if any of these pitch CTS will last more than five years, so that the entire elimination of the sritball is not far distant,
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apart" I suggested, land I will stand at one end of the row and the catcher at the other. I'll bet I can make the ball go on the right hand side of the middle stake and the catcher will catch it on the left hand side of the end one. That would be curve, wouldn't it?'
 "Yes. it would prove it all right" !" the man declared, "and I'm betting s10 that you cant do it" I had a ball and glove in my kit. So. at the next town the conductor held the train while we all got out on a vacant lot near the depot. All the passengers went with us. A man from the train said he would catch the ball for me.
 As cocky as you please I got out there, wound up, and. sure enough. I pitched an outcurve that went inside one stake and outside the other. The ball didn't break more than four inches to do this. I could easily put
 an eight-inoh bend on it in 60 feet. We'll, my packer von the s10 and gave me s1 of it. The other man
 admitted that curve ball could be pitched.
 With Truxton Grays On account of my pitching and hit ting on the school team I was made a member of he Truxton Grays all home boys who played teams within a radius of 25 miles. I was very much younger and very much smaller than the other players. Still, won two or three games, and this reputation caused the East Homer team to of- fer me a job. East Homer was five miles away, and I had to walk there hoC Tttf fnp oO, game that I pitched or played in. stepped right out and won my first game.
 1 "I want you to pitch again Satur- l day" the manager said to me.
 "All right" I agreed, but it'll cost l you s5, and, what's more. you've got to send a hack to take me there and back"
 The manager argued over this. but 1 I was obdurate, and he finally gave in. after trying to make me compro-
 mise by paying the hack fare one
 way.
 His First Job
 A F. Kenney. Truxton man, who
 managed the Clean, N. Y. club of the
 Iron and oil league. had been watch i ing me and giving me advice. Alters
 my success with the East Homer
 team MT. Kenney offered me jot
 with the Clean team at s60 month and my board. That's when I reall,
 started to play ball. I jumped at thu chance.
 My dad tried to persuade me to re
 main at home, but I talked him ou | of it.
 l "Why, dad, I'll be making S3,500 : year before you know it." l said, ant he finally gave in.
 My fondest hope was realized. Th'
 height of my ambition was to be [ professional ball player like those
 had read about. And, sure enough
 here I was, a professional. Gee. how good that word professional sounded .sMuggys" Benched | And, with that job came the begin ming of the end of my career as 1 pitcher. Manager Kenney put me or
 third base. I played six games there
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and we lost every one of them. could field the ball, all right. but on the throw I couldn't hit the first base man or anywhere near him. l was quite a bust in my start as a third baseman. I was benched-and by my friend Truxton, too. I was certainly heartbroken. That benching, though, was the making of me, and often I have thanked MT. Kenney from the bottom of my. heart. l didn't then, though.
 I was getting ready for a jump there was no rule against 1t in those days-but a good laugh caused me to stay over another day or two. Al Smathers' team from Bradford Pa. came over to play Olean and Smath- CTS had $6 bet on the result.
 Dog Stole Batted Ball
 In the fourteenth inning of that game, with the score tie and two out, Egan, Oleans pitcher, singled over third. A stray dog dashed out of the crowd, grabbed the ball and ran away with it. All the players started in pursuit but the harder they chased the faster the dog ran, thinking it fine sport. In the meantime Egan ran around the bases and the umpire allow the run to count.
 To this day Smathers has never got over losing that game and the $6
 Bench warming grew irksome to me. The next night I packed UT quietly and slipped away into new fields
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 North American Newspaper Alliance
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
Huggins Counting On Italians Inuite Net Jake May, Southpaw Teams to Enter Meet


 ROME. Jan. 9.--Itafian tennis circles are awaiting with interest the replies of Allied ennis feder- ations to invitations extended 10 them by the Italian lawn tennis fed eration to send teams to participate in the international Hardcourt tournament to be held in Home next May.
 The reply of Germany already has been received, and is in the affir- ! native. keinroth, who IS playing in his best form just now with cap tain the German team. He is re- | garded by many exports as the. best singles player in Europe at the 1 present time. Count Salm of Austria
 is expected to lead the Austrians
 The feeling here is that Belgium | England and France will abstain, but 1 that Spain will send over it's Davis
 Cup team. the Alonza brothers, Fla quer and Count De Gomar.
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Why Howard Ehmke Hast Lost Control

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 10.-When Boston swapped Pitcher Rip" Col lins to Detroit for Howard Ehmke, it marked the widest trade ever pulled off The American league fig ures show that no two pitchers had 2 tougher time making the ball be- have than Ehmke and Collins.
 Collins has always been cratic. Ehmke, however, until the last two years, has always had fairly good control. It is believed that the changing of Ehmke's style has had much to do with his wildness.
 Ehmke was a successful pitcher when he used a side-arm delivery with an occasional underhand ball. Cobb believed Ehmke would be much more effective if he used the under hand ball entirely and prevailed on the big fellow to use that style.
 In many. games last year Ehmke was so wild that opposing players Insisted that he was purposely using the bean ball" to intimidate them
 In all probability Ehmke will be allowed to work out his own saliva tion by Boston next year. He will be allowed to pitch as he pleases. All the Boston club desires Is results games won.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
Urban Faber One Sox Not Sent To the Wash

CHICAGO, Jan. 10.-Urban Faber, White sox pitcher, still is a big league top notcher, although few sus- pect Kid Gleason's team really has recovered from the attack of black sox that put such a blot upon base ball.
 Faber was one of the players no. tempted by offers of "10 grand" and so forth.
 He did not wake up to find any loose currency under his pillow. He just has been going out there on that lir ole hill and speeding that ball up into the favorable ruling of the umpires.
 That is why that after long and faithful service the figures show this athlete Is the American league S highest ranking hurler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
AUBURN OFFICIALS
 NOT YET READY TO, ANNOUNCE COACH
Prof. c. L. Hare States Appli- cations For Position Being
 Considered

AUBURN. Ala, Jan. 1o.-(Special) No definite action has been taken by the Auburn athletic authorities in the selection of a coach to succeed Coach Nj. J. Donahue. according to statement issued Wednesday by Prof. c. L. Hare, faculty chairman of ath- letics. Professor Hare said, We are in correspondence with men said to be available for positions of this kind We expect to work the field thoroughly before action is taken in the way of employing a coach to succeed MT. Donahue. It may be a couple of weeks before we are able to take definite action.'
 Professor Hare added that the committee had been in receipt of sew eral application for the place, but declined to give the names of any of the applicants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
CUB SCOUT LIKES LITTLE ROCK STAR

CHICAGO, Jan. 1o-New infielders are sought by nearly every club in the ajors. Many will be tried out in the spring with the hope they will make the grade. The Cubs will put many over the hurdles with the ex- pectation of developing players to cover second and third base. They have one, Robert Scnley Barrett, only youngster. who will attempt to keep Zeb Terry on the bench, it be- ing virtually determined to let the veteran infielder play at the far cor ner.
 Barrett is constructed on the lines of Lajoie and Hornsby. being five foot eleven and weighing 175 pounds. To gay that he is or will be as great a player as either one of the men mentioned would pc assuming too much, but according to Scout Doyle he has wonderful big league pos abilities What he lacks Is expe- rience. Little Rock, with which team he played last season. picked him off the lots of Atlanta, Ga. where he was born and learned the rudiments of the national pastime. He started out like a whirlwind. hitting over 300 for the first half of the season, after which he slumped and closed the year with an average of .2S4.
 Throws Like . Shot
 Barrett is an attractive ball player" said Scout Doyle. He has true infielder's arm and snaps a ball around the bases like a shot. He is young, but has such wonderful possibilities that he may develop into the find of the season. He is strong and swings as heavy a bat as does Hack Miller and swings 1t with as much ease. His speed will not startle the fans, but he runs well and will get faster because he has not yet Iaarped how to run"
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No definite announcement was forthcoming after the conference, but it was understood Rickard assured Willard that he was ready to stage a return bout with Dempsey, possibly in July, if the former title-holder can satisfactorily demonstrate his fitness.
 Waiting on Kearns.
 Negotiations, it was said, would re- main practically at standstill until Jack Kearns, Dempsey's manager, ar rives from the Pacific coast. Dan McKetrick, Dempsey's eastern repre- sentative. said tonight that Kearns might not return until next week. Right now, he added, the champ is contemplating a reappearance in the movies and negotiating with London promoters, who have offered purse of s250,ooo for him to box Joe Beck ett, English heavyweight, during derby week in May.
 Willard, meantime, plans to remain l in New York and keep himself in condition. He has expressed a will ingness to box two or three heavy- weights before newspapermen and critics in order to prove his claim that he can get into fighting trim i again.
 Back to the Farm.
 "If can't convince newspapermol that I'm in good shape now and able to train down from my present weight of 260 pounds to about 240. my best fighting poundage I'll quit and go back to the farm," Willard asserted.
 q want to fight Dempsey first and ! think. I've proved my right to an other chance at the title, but if nec- essary, HI go out and fight any other contender he added, mentioning Bill Brennan, Floyd Johnson and Louis ] Firpo as possibilities. The former titieholder,, however. has drawn the color line, so that Harry Wills Is not Included.
 I. In this connection; Tom O'Rourke, Polo Grounds matchmaker. an ! nounced today he had secured Bill l Brennan's signature to articles for a fight ,here with Willard about May II, and was negotiating with Will lards manager.
 Won't Repeat Mistake.
 'Ill fight myself back into shape If I get match with Dempsey" Will lard continued. q won't make the mistake again that I did ta Toledo, before I lost the title, in not training properly"
 1 Willard expressed little concern over the edict of William Muldoon. chairman of the New York State Attn lletfc commi ssion, barring the former champion from fighting in this state, whether he is over or under the age limit of 3s. and branding his attempt ed comeback as ridiculous" He in- sisted that he is only 36. despite rec ords to the contrary, and declared a fight with Dempsey could be staged l easily outside this state if the com mission maintains its barrier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
Oregon Wants Racing

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 1o.-Ad- vocates of state racing commits sion to supervise all horse races held in Oregon will send representatives of state racing associations and the Portland Hunt club to Salem next week to submit and explain to the legislature a proposed new racing bill The bill will be compromise measure embodying the best features of similar laws now effectj~a in Ken lucky and other states
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
Talk of Yank-Wh hite Sox Deal Begins Again

CHICAGO. Jan. 10.-Interest in the proposed transfer of Eddie Collins. second baseman of the Chicago White Sox to the New York Yankees was revived today by the presence in Chicago of Col. Jacob Rupert, part owner of the New York Yankees.
 Colonel Ruppert and Harry Crab iner, secretary of the White Sox. met yesterday, but denied re-opening of the Collins deal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
Dempseyin Training

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.--Jacl< Dempsey, heavyweight boxing cham pion, has begun light training at one of the boxing clubs here. Each day he works out with four or five Los Angeles boxers besides punching the bag. skipping rope and shado~, boxing.
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Paddock Coming Back

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1o.-Charles w. Paddock, worlds champion s..int- CT, will make his first reappearance on the running path al the Southern California Amateur Athletic union re- lays at Occidental college, Febru ary
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Indianapolis Club to Train at Bogalusa

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 1o.--The In- dianapolis baseball club of the Amer ican association will dc it's spring training at Bogalusa. La. it was an
 nouncedS by the management of the team. The members of the team have
 been ordered to report in Indianapo- lis March 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
Jess Willard Willing Fight His Way Return Bout Wit
RICHARD WILL STAGE
 BOUT IF JESS WILL
 GET INTO CONDITION

NEW YORK Jan 1oess Willard declared today he willing
 match with Dempsey the worlds heavyweight boxing e if it do that in order to public he into condition for championship battle Willard made this declaration after he and his Ray Archer with Promoter Rckrd possible match " Dempsey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
Falkuille Is Winner

FALKVILLE. Ala, Jan. 10.-(Spe cial.)-The Falkville schools basket ball team has begun it's 1923 basket ball season. On the Hartselle court last week, Falkville defeated Nor gan County High. 2s to g.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
McGRAW LEARNED TO PLACE HITS N ORDER
 TO SAVE GLASS PANES
ARTICLE VI.-By JOHN J. M'GRAW Manager World's Champion Giants

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TORTONI AS POLO PLAYER
By M'GURK

By M'GURk Here Miss Tortoni will be handsome but un- prncpled Hal Hemingway Chlingsworth just popping in from exciting 18hoe round of polo something.
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Schmidt Doesn't Know

MODESTO, Cal, Jan. 1o.-walter Schmidt. for the past seven years catcher for the Pittsburg Pirates, to- day denied all knowledge of his in- tended sale to any other baseball team. as reported in recent press dispatches.
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The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-09-22

plated, and applied for, are hereby notified that unless their adverse claims are duly filed, as according to law and the regulations hereunder. within the period of publication of this notice in the newspaper designated by the Reg ister of the Land Office for the Juneau Land District, Alaska, or eight months after the completion of such publica- tion, they will be barred by the provi- sions of the statute.
 FRANK A. BOYLE, Register. First publication: A ueust II, 1923. Last publication: October l3, 1923.
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MARVELLOUS MILLSITE

BEGINNING at a point for corner N O. l, identical with location. obliterated, corner not set as it falls in center of Mccarthy Creek, whence U. S.1ocation Monument No. 4, hereinbefore described bears South 80 degrees, 0I minutes. Al seconds West, 837l.OO feet, point for corner No. 3, said Marvellous Lode, bears South 7S degrees, 27 minutes 37 seconds West, 5.799. B feet;
 THENCE, North co degrees, 34 minu- tes from true corner, 617.OO feet East to corner No. }, identical with location, and marked bya fir post inches, stan ding feet above ground, with m ound of earth and stone, marked, IN. w. Cor. Marvellous Millsite'', scribed wv. c. 4-1OS1---B, 2---1082---B';
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 tory of Alaska, in approximately lsti tude 610 34' N., and Longitude 1430 or w., on a mountain called Dono- hoe Peak, and situated between the forks of the Kennecott Glacier; also about four miles in westerly direction from the Town of Kennecott, Alaska and about eight miles north -easterly from Mccarthy, Alaska. The date of the posting of this notice, together with a copy of plat of said survey, in a con- spicuous place upon said claims, is June 4th, 1923.
 REGAL MINES COMPANY,
 corporation. lSEALI By John B. Barrett,
 Its Attorney-in-fact. Any and all persons claiming adver sely the above. mining ground, veins, lodes, premises, or any portion thereof, as described, surveyed,
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tes East, along south line of said God frey Lode, HOO feet to corner No. 2 lden- tical with amended location, obliterated, and with corner No. 3, said Godfrey To- de, corner not set as it falls on top of in- accessible cliff;
 THENCE, South 50 degrees 15minu- tes East, from true corner, 53l.60 feet, 10 point for corner No. 3, identical with amended location. Obliterated, corner
 not set as 1t falls on top of inaccessible cliff:
 THENCE. South 3S degrees 34 min utes West, from true corner, HOO feet to
 point for corner No. i, on line between corners NOS. 2and 3. Keller Lode, Sur vey NO. 6l7. identical with amended To- i cation, obliterated, corner not set as it jeci to obiteration therefrom.
 THENCE, North 59 degrees. I5 minu- teS West, from true corner. along north side line Keller Lode. Survey No GIT. 53l 60. feet to cornerr No. 1, tue place of beginning, containing an area of 13.299 acres, from which area should be eXclu- ded the respective areas in conflict be tween said Marvellous Lode Claim and said Bonanza Lead. Survey No. S14. and said Bonanza Lead NO. 4, Survey No. STA as such conflicts are shown by the field notes and official plat of said Survey No. 10S2-A & B. Variation at all corners 30 degrees, 30 minutes East.
 This claim is bounded upon the north westerly side hy said Godfrey Lode and by Bonanza Lead, Survey No. ST.. both owned by said Mother Lode Coalition Mines Company, and both overlapped by his claim. on the northeasterly end by said BonanZa Lead and said Bonanza Lead NO. 1. U s. Survey No. S'14. said Bonanza Lead and said Bonanza Lead No I, both being overlapped by this claim, and both owned by said Mother Lode Coalition Mines Company. upon the southeasterly side by said BonanZa Lead No. 4. which IS overlapped by this claim, and upon the >Outhwesterly end by said Keller Lode. Survey No. GIT, and by said Bonanza Lead NO. i.
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 MARVELLOUS LODE CLAIM

BEGINNING at corner No. 1, identical with the amended location and with cor ner No. 4, Godfrey Lode, U. s. Mineral Survey 1O92-A&B. hereinbefore descri- bed. whence U. S. Location Monument No. 4, hereinbefore described, bears N. 78 degrees, minutes, 33 seconds West, 1451 "A feet;
 THENCE, North 38 degrees, 34 minu-