The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-13
NOTES OF INTEREST AT ,ASHEVILLE.

tASHEtILLE.
 AsHEvILLE. N. C.. Jan. 13.-sport followers in Dixie are assured of a noteworthy year in the Land of the Sky. Asheville has secured a fran chise in the South Atlantic league and baseball will be an added at- traction here from April to the mid dle of September. Home games will be played at Mccormick Field, re- gently completed and one of the most unique and@ modern athletic arenas2n the country.
 l. Biltmore Forest Country club has been awarded both the Southern ten- his and southern amateur golf cham pionships for this year. The 1s2a racquet tournament, held last Aug ust in Louisville. was won by J. D. Hunt, of Atlanta, who will defend
 his title. Stiff opposition will bs furnished by Allen Ware of Knox vile; William Keeble of Nashville Edward Pfeiffer of Louisville. Frank c. Oven of Atlanta, Boutwell, Lea of Augusta. Ga, and many others. Wo. men from all parts of the southland will compete for their titles at the same time here.
 The Southern Golf Association will hold its championship tournament at the Biltmore Forest Country club some time in May. Among those probably participating will be Bobby Jones. IT,. three times winner of the champion. and Perry Adair, of Att lanta; F. Godchaux of New Orleans. T. W. Palmer of Miami, Fla; Watts Gum of Macon, Ga.; John Cushman of GreenviNe, s. C.; Paul Haddock of Charlotte, N. C.; and others. Club professionals of North and South Carolina will gather in Asheville in May to contest for honors. The pro- fessionnal golf tournament last year was held in Pinehurst.
 Many conventions will assemble in AshevEle during the coming year. Officers of the North Caroline Y. M. c. A. will meet here May 26 and 27. Also in May will be the national convention of American Business clubs, bringing one thousand mem- bers. Photographers from the south ern and middle Atlantic states will hold sessions in Asheville in June, while the National Fertilizers asso- citation will make Wentworth Inn their headquarters from June g to 16. Fifteen hundred members of the North Carolina American Legion will meet here August 27 and 28, and the North Carolina Bankers association will convene at Wentworth Inn during the summer. Ashevillo Is becoming
 
 ton city.
 Miss Margaret Gamble of Jackson. Miss, spent 6 few days this week k with Miss Helen Crawford at Black Mountain. Mrs. R. B. Wasson and son, Richard Wasson, have arrived in Asheville from Birmingham and joined MT. Wasson. They will re- side here permanently on Cumber- land Circle.
 Mir. ana Mrs. Frank Rozeiio and family. who are visiting friends in to their home in Black Mountain. Mrs. P. B. Bomar left Black Noun tain on Tuesday to sojourn . fort night with her daughter, Mrs. John Frazier. in Mobile. Thomas Vernon, of Dozier. Ala, was the guest of honor at a uinner party given We'd nesday evening at Forest City by Miss Roberta Biggerstaff.
 MT. and Mrs. c. NJ Young of Union Springs, Ala, were entertained at din. ner early in the week by MT. and Mrs. Joseph H. Thomas.
 Mrs. Madeline Battle Hancock. wife of Major Mortimer Hancock, of the British army, is the house guest of Mir. and Mrs. Philip Henry at their country homo. "Zealandia.' near Asheville. Mrs. Hancock will S64A hCAI WCCA TUT 4HhE LdhOs
 Miss Nesta du Pont, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Maurice du Pont. who spent the holidays with her parents in Asheville. will leave shortly on an extended cruise to Panama with her uncle and aunt. MT. and Mrs. Alfred l. du Pont.
 o! l.. Stevenson of Birmingham, Is frequent golfer at the Biltmore Forest and. Asheville Country club. J. R. McWane, of Birmingham, is registered at Wentworth Inn for an extended sojourn in the mountains
 Late arrivals in Asheville from Birmingham include James G. Long Arthur Roberts, Joseph D. Jones. R. W. Lane, Edward s.. Shill, Mir. and Mrs. Gordon Erickson, Mir. and Mrs P. P. Burns and MT. and Mrs. Roy Evans.
 Robert L. May of Huntsville, Miss Delean Corley of Dalton, and Ray mond F. Moore and Miss Martha Mo- Intyre of Montgomery are among the recent arrivals from Alabama cities in the Blue Ridge region.
 Visitors of the week include James ". Rogers of Hattiesburg, Miss; Mrs. Douglas Olsen of Aberdeen, Miss; Mrs. Irene Curtis of Shreve- port; Samuel B. Churchill of Pasca- gula. Miss; Mrs. W. c. Holland of Tuscumbia, Ala; Hugh Adams of Tuscaloosa, Ala; Mir. and Mrs. o. B. Thompson of Anniston, Ala; N. Schwartz of Mobile; and Charles c. Sharpe of Montgomery