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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
CHEST MEETING
 HELD AT LYRIC
Presbyterian Bible Class Holds Big Service
 Sunday Night

The Lyric theater was filled to over flowing and hundreds were turned away Sunday night at the Community Chest meeting given under the auspices of the Mems Bible class of the Indepen- dent Presbyterian church. A. D.. Mitchell. president of the class, pre- sided. Music was furnished by the Six teenth Street Colored Baptist choir and was enthusiastically received.
 The congregational singing was led by Major Storey, head of the Birming- ham Salvation Army, who also spoke on the work being done by the Army Res cue Home. Boy Scouts were represented on the program by Roland E. Shine, Birmingham Boy Scout executive.
 After the collection, several songs were sung by a mixed choir represent ing the Birmingham association for the colored blind. Mrs. c. P. Orr, in discuss ing the work accomplished among the blind through the Community Chest gave specific instances of blind persons who had been made self-supportine through the aid given them, and that several blind persons had jokingly- told her that soon the blind would contrib ute, and not receive, from the chest.
 The final and main speaker on the program was w. Carson Adams, presi dent of the Birmingham Community Chest. who declared that intolerance among various groups of people was one of the greatest evils in our civic life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
1854 BALES GINNED

ATMORE, Ala. Nov. 1G.-The Els eanbia county cotton report as made by H. H. Tippen, special agent, shows that there were 7,954 bales of cotton ginned in the county prior to Novem- Der i. This is more than twice the number ginned to the same date last year, that being 8,633. It is interest ing to note that two-thirds of this amount was raised in the territory of Atmore which includes Canoe and Me Cullough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
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casht D411oeEl many ILlleln 70f Strangers and waS| heavily stung.
 We give more to our guests in New York and Chicago than hotel keepers in small towns do," said he. Because we have to. Yet we charge the same rates.'
 Hotel prices cannot go any higher, he said. because the patron cannot pay. If they do not go lower the hotels will rot be filled. Unless--striking an aver age of good hotels-the ground floor stores are rented the rates cannot be kept where they are. q.
 And this is the fourth largest indus ty in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17

I'm not going to give his name. But 1t he isn't the man who invented the idea of applying the principles of business to bookkeeping, he is so near the man that he burns. He is a figure sharp. He got other hotelkeepers interested in finding out how much money it costs them annually to run hotels and now they're all doing it. But he was the first.
 Ten years ago." he told me, i've didn't know we were alive. We were running the fourth largest business in the United States just like Dago runs a wheelbarrow."
 Then he added this:
 Tt is only the rent of stores that en- ables the big hotels of New York to get by today. The. stores on the ground floor keep the sleeping rooms open.
 Let's see. The Knickerbocker went out of the hotel business and became an office building. The Astor and Bilt- more have turned their Hobbies into store space. The Commodore and the Roosevelt were built that way. The Waldorf and McAplin are to rent their ground floors for store purposes.
 When George Boldt veered away from the Eagle hotel theory of hotel-keeping. in, which a dining room was provided with a fat girl and fly brush, he started something. The Waldorf made a fortune aftersit had lost fortune, but it was all done by rule of thumb. Doldt was the perfect host and in Oscar he had the maitre d'hotel that other inn keepers dreamed about.
 None of us were business men then," said the stepfather of the hotel business: "We didn't know how much things cost When we priced a cut of roast beef at ninety cents it was be- cause we wanted to Ritz a rival, who only charged eighty-five cents. Or else to cut under competitor who charged a dollar"
 In Boldt's days if hotel finished the year with more money than it started with, that money was figured as profit. Now the profit
 'Is in the shavings of the lead pen cils, as the stepfather says.
 The reason why is in the increased cost of things. In one hotel the rental cost per room per day has increased thirty cents in ten years. It costs three dollars day per room in wages to run the hotel. Yet there are rooms in it which sell for only $3.5O. Every item that enters into the cost of hotel-keeping has approximately doubled. The actual cost per room of operating that hotel is $5.35 a day, and that does not in clude the cost of prohibition. Ten years ago the per day per room profit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
INJUNCTION SOUGHT
Mobile Sheriff Moves To Halt Release
 Of Cattle

MOBILE, Ala. Nov. 16.-(Special Leased Wire. )-Sheriff Paul Cazalas announces that he will renew his request to the county solicitor for injunctions against owners of cat tie released by force from the Irvington stock corral in an effort to stop de- predictions in that community and the arms demonstrations against residents # that place. The names. according to Sheriff Cazalas, will be given to the county solicitor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
AUTO BUS BURNS

IIEFLIN. Ala, Nov. 1G.-The lief lint hoccolocco-Anniston bus operated by w. C. Callahan and Son, was de ~troycd by fire about one mile west of here recently, inc bus being on its re- turn trip from Anniston. It is under stood that the driver leapcd from the burning machine and it plunged down steep cmbankment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
PIONEER FINANCIER DIES

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 1G.-Charles J. Smith, 70 years old, pioneer Wash ington and Oregon railroad official and financier, died of heart trouble last night after playing IS holes of golf. Mir. Smith was born. at Nicholasville. Ky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
Manhattan Days And Nights
By Herbert Corey

NTEW YORK, Nov. I6.-Fotel rates may down
 And hotel service may And the hotel traveller = of tomorrow may sleep fifeendola and in a cafeteria tt#
 That's what stepather of the American hotel business of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
MAN DYING AFTER SHOOTING
Negress Hunted After Attack on
 Rrnther in Jaw

Police were hunting Hcssie Cross, ncgress, 4201 Twenty-ninrh avenue, af- ter she is alleged to have shot Henry Arnett, her brother-in-law. three times Htar Vanderbilt, late Sunday night Ar nett is dying in Hillman Hispital, phy- 1 .:ninl,S anid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17

on liquor was neat round dollar.
 Every time I see a man using the telephone I shiver," said the stepfather. He thinks I make q profit when he pays me a dime for that call. But actually lose 9% cents."
 Other hotel-keepers have blamed the increased cost of operating hotel to the American yen for luxury. Step father says that isn't it at all. Our people are not clamoring for gold bath tubs, he says. What they want, and what they are not going to get, is cheap CT rates:
 We cannot cut rates and keep open" :" he said. Not unless we can rent the stores on the ground floor at such a tremendous rate-because they are in n hote!-that they will carry our over head"
 The travelling man of the future must make up his mind to pay twice what he did in 1913 for his room. If his ex- pense account will not permit him to eat in the hotel he must dine in cafeteria. That is what they are do- ing today in large parts, he says.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17

Headaches from Slight Colds! Laxative PROMO QUININE Tablets re- lieve the Headache by curing the Cold. A Safe and Proven Remedy. The box bears the signature of E. W. Grove. 3Oc.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17

Is he right? All I know is that he is conceded to be the sharpest whittier of expense in the hotel business today. It was he who invented plans for test ing the quality of towels and carpets by stimulating actual wear He knows just how many towels are stolen per guest per room per day. He is trying to cut down the banking business his hotel does for nothing. Last year he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
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The Washington times., 1924-09-06
Ne v WRINKLES
ARE DUE: UPON
GR|D|RON
Fielding H. Yost Experiments
With Moving Pictures to
Teach Game

With the coming of September
the virile gridiron game will begin
to crowd the limelight OF the sports
stage. Unlike baseball, the pigskin
pastime is ever changing. This es.
pecially applies to coaching the
players for their work on the field.
Early reports from the ringmas.
tiers show many and varied will be
the innovations this year, both here.
abouts and thereabouts. Fielding
H. Yost says he has been expert.
menting with moving pictures in
coaching his normal students this
summer. He feels that a great deal
may be accomplished in this way.
and although he does not say so
1t would not be surprising If film
demonstrations played an important
part in the ivory drills of the
wolverine foot ballers next month.
Various coaches have been in the
habit of having movies taken Of
games and using the pictures to
point out to the men their errors
In the way Of form and tactics, but
to date the screen has not been
utilized as a supplement to technical
coaching In position play. Perhaps
Yost will be the first to do this.
Knute Rockne is about the only
coach who uses music in connection
with his coaching, wherefore the
light and intricate dance steps his
backs use in their shifts. Knute
said he did not want a backfield
man on his team who could not
shine on the prom floor as a dancer.
Which shows how even the cake
eaters art is not wasted on the
gridiron.
There is a theory at Princeton
that II the eleven could be coached
to coordinate nS deftlv, devious',
ana spontaneously as the chorus In
the annual Triangle musical com.
edy, the team would befuddle any
defense.
Perhaps at some future time the
New Wayburns of this country will
have their places upon all football
coaching stats.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
Three Worlds Title
Bouts Go On
Rocks

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Three
worlds championship boxing
bouts have met disaster during
the last three days, and the
Wills-Firpo battle is under fire.
Abe Goldstein and Tommy
Ryan were prevented from meet
ing for the bantamweight title
Tuesday night by rain. frankie
Genaro was attacked by Iaryn-
gifts and his fight with Pancho
Villa for the flyweight title was
postponed. Benny Leonard's in
jured thumb has not responded
to treatment and his manager
announced that the fight with
Mickey Walker for the welter.
weight championship on Septem-
Der % was probably off.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06

his innermost heart that he was
finished when he made the match
but his love of wealth was such
that he could not bring upon him.
self the effort to turn down such
a big sum of money as was offered
him. But he may find that by so
doing he has done something to-
ward shortening his life.
"An eminent brain specialist
told me recently that Wilde has
clot of blood on his brain which
may prove to be very serious as
time goes on. At any rate, Wilde
has donned the gloves for the last
time, and he may not now even
engage in an exhibition bout for
fear of fatal consequences follow
ing a punch on the head. He took
terrific hiding before going down
to defeat at the hands of Villa.
He will live in the memory as the
gamest little fighter of this or
any other generation; but it is
not too pleasant to think that his
last exhibition of gcmeness was
all SO unnecessary"
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT
KILLED CHARLIE HOLMAN

BALTIMORE, Sept. 6.-Charlie
Holman came to his death through
unavoidable causes, and Lew Mayrs,
his opponent in the fatal bout at
the Folly Theater, Wednesday night,
was in nowise to blame. This
was decided at a coroner's inquest,
conducted last night in eastern
police station by Doctor Otto M.
Rhinehardt. Mayrs, who had been
released on his own cognizance,
was promptly exonerated.
Boxers, promoters and other fis.
tic devotees jammed the station
for the inquest, but only half the
witnesses summoned were called
for testimony. All testified along
the same general line-that the
ill-fated boxer collapsed in the
twelfth round after having ap-
peared very weak from the eighth
session, and that his head neither
came in contact with the floor nor
a ringpost with force enough to
cause great harm.
An intercranium h 9 m orr h 6 g
brought Holman's end, according
to Doctor Howard J. Maldeis, city
post-mortem physician,
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
Marquette To Have
One Of Largest
Stadiurns

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Sept. 6.
CONSTRUCTION work on the new
Marquette University stadium,
which will be among the larg-
est stadia in the country, is be-
ing rushed and contractors state
that 10000 of the 10000 seats
will be ready for the dedication
exercises on October 10, the
date of the game with John
Carroll University, of Cleveland.
The stadium will include two
fields, one for playing and one
for practice, baseball diamonds,
a six lane running track and
many other modern features.
The homecoming game will be
played in the stadium on No
vember l with Creighton Uni
versity, Omaha.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06

defying the lightning, he goes over
big
Here's another thing about Luis,
too. He knows the folks want TO
see that stuff and he caters to
them. He's a great actor. And
he tries to give folks what they
want.
The worry that wrinkled his
brow and corroded his disposition
at Saratoga seems to have departed
suddenly and completely. Canon
Chase, a gaunt and all-consuming
spectre when viewed from the
wilds of White Sulphur Springs.
seems to have shrunk to ordinary
proportions now that Luis is back
among folks again.
Chances are a tailor bill or a
sudden break in the stock market
would cause more worry to him
now than does the noble efforts OF
the good Mr.. Chase to keep Amer
ica's money in America.
AS remarked before, he's a queer
egg.
But he's happy and contented.
And so long as he is satisfied to
pass up the advantages of Sara
toga for the stuffy, hot, dirty air
and veno.N GUS odors Of the Gerden
gymnasium, it seems there should
be no kick from anyone else.
After all, it's his fight. And no
doubt about it, he showed more
stuff in his fOur-rOund exhibition
yesterday than in a month of
Sundays at Mr.. Luther'S justly
celebrated Spa.
| Oh yes, that workout yesterday
was supposed to be private. But
the gym was crowded to capacity
and outside a huge crowd 1ostled
and pushed and showed through
Twenty sixth street waiting for the
South American to make his ap-
pearance. Perhaps the Prince Of
Wales might draw more people If
placed on pedestal as a free at
traction; and perhaps Douglas
Fairbanks or Jack Dempsey might
do as well.
But the President of the Unitod
States or the greatest scientist that
ever lived wouldn't run one, two,
three with Firpo around. They may
have the mentality, but he's the lad
with the dead pan expression and
the magnetic personality.
Think that one over!
The Washington times., 1924-09-06

Football practice starts on many
gridirons this week. A few seasons
ago there was quite an uproar
started among some Of the colleges
because the football players started
to train so early in the fall. Elk
perts in physical developments have
since shown that the earlier that
football player can be whipped
into good physical shape the better
it is for all concerned.
For the next few weeks be pre-.
pared to hear hard luck fiction from
many football camps. 1t is an un.
written law among football coaches
not to admit that they have a
single good player until after their
big game of the season.
The sad plight of some of the
colleges has already come to light.
From New Haven come the It'd.
ings that the Ellis have lost
twenty players by graduation.
Think OF it, almost two whole
elevens. From the early reports
it would appear that there il moth.
ing left at New Haven, but the
Bowl and q couple Of goal posts.
Up at Penn State where Hugo
Bezdek turns out good football
teams, there isn't a football player
on the horizon. All the good ones
have set sail out into the world
and Hugo has been using a tele.
scope and hasn't seen a player yet.
There is also an alarming sit.
uation at Cambridge. Harvard il
seems has a few players available
for the Rack field, but from the
present outlook they say the line
will have all the strength of tissue
paper. They want ends and tackles
and guards, and plenty Of them.
Bob Fisher, the head coach, and
his assistants give the impression
that it will be surprising If Har.
ward wins single game on the
schedule.
At Princeton the situation is
Just as bad. All the good players
have gone and Coach Roper doesn't
hesitate to imply that If the Tigers
are able to gather together eleven
players it will be nothing short
of a miracle.
This wailing from the football
centers may sound discouraging
hut for a statement of real pessi
mism the football followers must
wait until Coach Gil Dobie of Cor.
nell issues his first statement. I'm.
less all signs fail Dobie will advise
that the game be dropped at Ithaca
until some of the boys grow up.
It is difficult to understand why
all football coaches are naturally
pessimistic. They all lose good
players every season. but before
the year is over some one else
is discovered in the big squad;
who go out and win games just
the same, There are more football
players coming along from the
Prep schools and high schools than
ever before. The statements Of
football coaches must be taken
with a cupful of salt.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
DUDLEY LEE ON BENCH
WITH STRANGE INJURY

Dudley Lee, the crack Red Sox
shortstop of the early part of the
season, is out Of the game with a
peculiar ailment to his arm. Lee,
it will be recalled, was one of the
best looking kids Of the year. He
didn't hit much, but he surely could
field and whip the ball around the
lnfield.
Back in June Lee had the thumb
Of his throwing hand split with a
line drive. Lee returned to his
position before his finger had healed
and he was obliged to grip the ball
with his other fingers in throwing.
He got the ball over to first BY
sort of swapping 1t out Of his hand.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
Now, You Tell One.

LOS ANGELES, Calf.
DEAR TAD:
ID Brooklyn evidently is get
ting lucky!
News Item: Insurance man dis
appears in Brooklyn. H. D. C.
Passing through the Cardinals,
a Southern gentleman insisted to
his friend that all darkies down
there spoke INDIAN. His friend
was doubtful, so to prove his point
the first man agreed to get off
the train at the next stop and
prove it. Alighting shortly there
after, he walked up to a colored
gent asleep on a box and, vigor-
ously shaking him, yelled "WHAR-
HE?"
The sleeper opened his eyes and
chirped, "WHAR WHO?"
Meaning: Where is he and
where is who? That's Indian isn't
it," H. d. c.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
May Honor Richards,

Tennis authorities now are consid-
ering the selection of Vincent Rich
ards, Olympic champion, for second
place over Bill Johnston in the
years ranking. Richards record
outshines Johnston's at this time,
they saw,
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
A Baseball Oddly

Although Cleveland and Chicago
each have two players among the
first five batsmen of the American
League, both clubs are in the second
division, which would seem to indi-
cate that pitching and fielding have
lot to do with the winnig of ball
rameS.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
FnpO, Worrying, May
Be More Dangerous
In BIG Battle

They say that Firpo is wor-
ried about the confusing legal
complications in which he has
become involved, Worry in
most cases would hamper a
fighter and throw him out of
his stride. But Firpo is diff
ferent from any other heavy
weight fighter. He is far more
dangerous when he is worried
than when there is nothing on
his mind.
Firpo didn't amount to much
against Dempsey until Jack
started to worry him. Then he
cut loose, and the first thing
Dempsey knew he was cata-
paulting his way out Of the
ring. Worrying isn't going 20
hurt Firpo, and worrying
Firpo isn't going to help Harry
Wills either.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06

The result was a good, snappy,
finished workout with more pep
and enthusiasm than the big fellow
has shown in weeks. 1t wasn't a
long affair. A few minutes of rope
jumping, a round or two Of shadow
boxing and then four rounds of
sparring that was a combination of
elephantine foot work and bearish
rough and tumble wrestling.
That was all, but it was enough,
especially for big Bill Tate, who
twice bumped into a vicious Firpo-
ian right that swung at him like
a descending pile driver and caught
him full abaft the ear, much to
the delight Of the spectators who
were packed In the room like sar-
dimes to watch the big fellow per
form.
He's a queer egg, this Senior
Luis. No other boxer in the world
would have attempted to do his
stuff in that little box of room
where he performed. No other
boxer In the world could have
breathed the foul air and carried
on to q finish.
But Luis did it-and relished the
crowds that pushed and showed to
get inside the narrow confines be
tween wall and ring. He likes
crowds, does Firpo. And he likes
adulation and admiration. When
he's finished with boxing there's
no job in the world would suit him
better than playing wild man in
some three-ring circus.
Put him in a cage. surround hin
with gaping spectators, and let hin
swell his muscles, waggle his torso
and glare ferociously through the
bars at an awed populace, anC
Luis F'irpo would just about work
for nothing.
And that. be it understood. is 8
real concession.
Luis looked good yesterday-nC
doubt about that. Better than ht
has looked in long time. He haC
pep and he had enthusiasm, anC
he had the old Dead Pan stare thai
has been worth a million dollars ii
cool cash. AS a boxer he ism
much. Probably he never will be
But as a combination of Roman
gladiator, raging gorilla, and Ala!
The Washington times., 1924-09-06

VVNHE night up Romero Roas Spanish Roo
Fighter knocked Jack Sharkey the promising light heavy
- in the eighth round
Jack Sharkey is Irhman his moncker would lead
to believe, but Lithuanian.
Rojas knocked Sharkey flat of paint the
of the eighth round the referee counting nine the bell
changed.
Shareys seconds dragged him his corner gave him smelling
salts bit his and finally poured bucket Of him
in EN- to bring him around.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
Challenge Leaders

Jack Mooney, helping out in the
affairs of the Firemen's ball team,
in their behalf issues a challenge
to the Dominican ,Lyceum, Union
Printers, Shamrock and other lead
ing sandlot clubs.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER s. 1924,
FIRPO IS HAPPY TO GET
BACK ON BROADWAY
BY FORD C. FRTCK.

NEW YORK, Sept Angel Firpo happy kid
with q balloon yesterday.
He showed it in his work too
The where little cubby hole back
Of MacLevys office Madison Square hot and uff
with accumulated
The place reeked with the combined oors Of persaon and
arnica.
Frpo happy.
And about with docity of hher
photographers
monkey after pennies his crouch his sunes
disposition.
from the crcet fresh air. the pine
irees- nd ad of
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
MENTAL ANGUISH AMONG
COACHES DISTRESSING

The mental anguish football this period of the
distressing Take from him. all his best players have
graduated and there nothing left for him build football eleven
this fall but few understood The football coach
wall louder and longer than connected with Each
his best players and then he would
make believe that he spends all bOodng the
Sfuof ion
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
Origin OF Polo

Polo Is said to be a thousand
years old, having originated in the
court Of a Persian king, whose
physician invented 1t for physical
exercise of the monarch and his
retinue.
The Washington times., 1924-09-06
AMATEUR ANGLERS PUT
ASIDE TACKLE AS OLD
TIMERS PEER FORTH
By r. A. ANGLER.

The holiday fishing brought to close Labor Day
fishermen
packed away their outfits until the following year, with the idea
angling days for 1924 But such the
the angling before
Saltwater anglers of will tell you that the best fishing
during these golden months that big gray back
bues taken from the deep waters of the Chesapeake