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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
REFORM SITE OF
 DISTRICT MEET

REFORM, Ala, Feb. 13.-(Special)- The approaching basketball tourna- ment for the secondary schools of the trict of the State High School Athletic association Is awaking much interest among teams of Pickens county. More enthusiasm was created by the plac- ing on display of two large silver low ing cups, IA and 12 inches high, in the window of the City Drug company. The cups will go to the winner and runner up, respectively, in the coming tour nament. The cups are given by the First National bank and the State Bank of Reform.
 The following teams will likely take part in the tourney: Aliceville, Carroll ton, Gordo, Liberty, Palmetto and Re- form, of this county. Teams from Yer non. Sulligent and Millport, of Lamar county. and Marion County High, of Guin, and Winfield will complete the entries for this half of the district.
 Northern Tourney
 It is understood that teams of the northern half of the district are to hold a tournament at Tuscumbia on the same date. The winner of the tour nament in each half of the district will go to Montgomery to represent the northwestern district in the state tour nament on March 6, and 8.
 The twelve teams expected to play here will stage three games on the afternoon of Friday, February 29, three games Friday night, beginning at ' o'clock, and three games Saturday morning and two Saturday afternoon.
 The new inclosed court of the Pick ems County High school will be used for the games. The gate receipts of the games will be divided among the par ticipating teams in proportion to the distance come and the time remaining in the tournament. Any teams wishing to enter the tourney are requested to communicate with Prof. F. s. Ward of Reform.
 The drawings will be held on Mon day, February 25, by B. J. Bailey, cashier of the First National bank and E. A. Neal, cashier of the State Bank of Reform. Teams will be notified i'm mediately as to their opponent and time of game.
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WILL
 STAY AT POST

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.--While the state athletic commission maintains policies which he approves, William Muldoon will remain a member of it, he says, but when 1t does something of which he disapproves he will quit. :. He announced last night he felt compelled to continue as member of the commission because of many re- guests that he remain, even though, as he publicly admitted. he felt piqued because George P. Brewer was elected chairman instead of himself.
 The first thing MT. Muldoon will try to do is to stop "booing" of boxers, he announced. That has got to stop" he said. Tt is responsible for the hue and cry over decisions"
 Policemen will be stationed among the fight fans by MT. Muldoon and escort to the street those who jeer.
 There wasn't as much booing in the rare, raw, old bare-knuckle days as there now is," said Mir. ,Muldoon, "and boxing in those days was not on the high plane it Is now. Booing has .got to end"
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CLARK WINS PRIZE.

BOSTON, Feb. 13.-Ellery Clark of Boston, a famous ail-round athlete fif- E cen years ago, submitted the essay Hthat won fourth prize in the contest EDelcavare King is conducting for the purpose of popularizing the term "scof- Efiaw," recently selected as the most Devastating epithet that could be ap- billed to the man who insists on having |his little drink.
 "Scofflaw doesn't play the game, [doesn't obey the rules, and snarles to |hell with the umpire's decision! I've 7got to have my drink'!" Clark wrote
 in his essay. For this he was awarded Fifteen dollars in American money. King first offered $200 in prizes for fScofflaw essays, but raised the ante <S50 when he learned that noted New York actor had offered $2O1 for the best <word describing "A good drinking man." fThe winners of this extra money were sannounced Monday.
 Thursday, A. Quincy, Mass, Banker, 2will announce the winner of third money, Friday the winner of second prize and Saturday as a grand final Fhe name of the man whosswrote the .essay that won prize number one.
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Prep Schools Prepare For
 State Meet
Simpson, Alliance, Green vile And Others Will
 Make Strong Bid

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Feb. 13.-With less than a month to play before Ala bama's choice high school basketball combines gather here to battle for superiority. things are tuned and in full blast among the prepsters in every section of the state, according to re- ports emenating from the various cen ters.
 To the northward, Simpson school of Birmingham is blowing with all the fierceness of old, the Purple cham pions being declared by many to be better than ever in the history of the institution. Nightly. almost, reports of an overwhelming victory come out of Birmingham.
 In the same center looms another in- stitution of small numbers but consid- erabie basket-tossing skill-Alliance High school is the mentioned school, with Melvin Vines at center who has penetrated all opposition, with the only defeat of the season being inflicted by Simpson by small margin.
 One or two other institutions of the northern sector has shown considerable class, with St. Bernard at Cullman among them.
 Barton Strong
 To the south of Montgomery, Barton of Mobile and Butler County of Green vile has shown much ability, the Greenvillians having doubled the score on Lanier of Montgomery at Green Vile earlier in the season, although of late they have received numerous set. backs by strong teams.
 Barton of Mobile has shown ability, defeating Lanier early in the season in the Gulf City, although the margin was small.
 Tuscaloosa High school team that defeated Greenville, is considered a fac tor that must be reckoned with in tho tournament-the Bears said to have their best team in years. Auburn High school, winner of fourth place in the tournament last winter. is said to be stronger than usual also this sea son.
 Montgomery will again present strong entry in Lanier, the Poets hay- ing shown class all season. with A de- rest over Simpson school-the only one suffered by the Purple Tornado this season-while the victory was later avenged by the Birminghammers.
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DISTRICT TOURNEY PLAY
 STARTS THURSDAY lP. M.
Everything In Readiness For Opening Of Race For Honor Of Representing North Central District At State
 Tournament In March At Montgomery +}

With all preliminaries taken care of, nothing now is holding up the start of play of north-central district of the Alabama High School Athletic asso- citation basketball tournament Thurs day but the clock. The hour set for the initial whistle is l o'clock; and, when the hand crawls round to the unit mark, University High, Birming- hams youngest prep school, will open tournament play with Munford High. The coincidence that gave the Game cocks of University High the honor of opening play was rather a curious one, for not only do the 9Gamecocks make their bow in this tournament, but will make their bow ito the Birmingham public for the first time in tourney competition. The universities have stepped out boldly this season under Coach George Reynolds, and, although the man who led the Simpson Tornado to two state championships and places in the Cotton States tournaments, as prep tournament at Chicago, may not be so fortunate in the coming title race, it cane be safely said that the Gamecocks will not fall below expec- tations.
 simpson vs. QuintOn
 Simpson, two times state champions, will occupy the floor in the third con test ot 1nursuay afternoons play. The Purple Tornado is due to get started at about 2:40 o'clock. Quinton High was the luckless team to draw the Tornado. Although Quinton is in the vicinity of the headquarters of the strong Alliance High team, they will not match up with their neighbors. Simpson will probably be minus the services of their greatest star, Slick" Vincent, due to infected knee
 Alliance. another outstanding con- tender, will battle Bessemer in the open ing game. The Vines combination will have a slight edge on the Bessemer five, but the contest is expected to be the first-round thriller. The two teams are scheduled to meet at about 4:40 o'clock Thursday afternoon.
 Tuscaloosa High, a strong contender,
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TO DEDICATE sTADIUM.

FORT JENNINGS, Ga, Feb. 1G.- frhe Alabama Polytechnic institute .tAuburn) will dedicate the memorial
 Etadium at the infantry school on De- Icember 6. as postseason football game, |according to the 1924 gridiron schedule announced by athletic headquarters to- )day. ,,4
 Final official sanction foF the pro- posed $125,000 athletic center%s at Fort lBenning. which has for it's main struc- Iture concrete stadium capable of fseating 11,OO0, was given today by
 Major General Charles S. Farnsworth, lchtef Of infantry. Work on the stadium
 lis expected to start at an early date
 land be completed by the end of the i1S24 football season
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WILL CONTROL
 NEW CONTRACTS

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Uncle Charlie [Ebbets. the philanthropic owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and inventor of the rick contract for ball players, will not De allowed to impose unusual condi- &ions on his men hereafter. The magnates of the National League
 ht their final winter meeting adopted h suggestion by Christy Mathewson. president of the Boston Braves, that bonus agreements be eliminated from players contracts. Ebbets had been
 he most conspicuous user of this form lof contract.
 Mathewson objected to-, the system lon the ground that it was an evil 'fhing for the interests of the magnates land when 1t was presented in this light they adopted his resolution The good
 eonduet bonus clause is~ss still legal
 however. N The National League also fell into Zine with the American League by de- Iciding to offer a prize of $1 900 and a sdiploma every year to the one player lin all the league who shall be adjudged the most valuable to any team. The magnates' adopted the schedule |for 1923, and Heydler appointed two lnew umpires, Jack Cowell of the On- stario league and Jim Sweeney of the Texas league. Umpire Fineran was 'released.
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TrackTean ]. Of Kentucky
 Enters Meet
Wildcat Team To Run In s. l. C. Meet At
 Montgomery

LEXINGTON, ky, Feb. 12.-(Spe- cfal)--The completed schedule for the University of Kentucky track team has been announced, and includes seven
 meets, the final one consisting of a journey to Montgomery, Ala, May 10,
 where the team will enter the annual conference traoA meet of all S. I. c. | institutions.
 The Wildcats have an excellent group of men around which to build a track team this season. number of them
 are veterans of several seasons stand from the freshman squad of last sea- | son.
 Among the veterans are Captain Dave Nantz, dashes; Dewhurst, hurdles;
 Wolfe, pole vault and javelin; Anglin, weights, and Mays, Caldwell, ogden and Butler, middle distances. To this
 list may be added the names of those freshmen who last season made their | mark and seem ready to take their places as representatives of the Blue
 and White in the field events this
 spring. Some Of the most outstanding | of these freshmen are Miller, 100, 22O 440 and relay runner; Hall of Louis- vile, star of the cross-country team and mile and two-mile runner of
 no mean ability; Tracy, 100, 22o, 40 and relay runner; Turkey" Hughes, holder | of the unofficial state record in the
 high jump and winner of a number of points for the Blue and White freshies in the broad jump last season. Green,
 hurdler, and Brady, pole vaulter, are expected to add points to the Wildcat scores before the close of the season.
 Coach Buchheit, who handles the track men in addition to his duties as basketball coach, has issued orders for men who desire to enter the first meet
 of the year, scheduled for March 1 at the Cincinnati Y. M. c. A. athletic car
 nfval, to report for preliminary train ing Monday afternoon. The schedule:
 March 1-Cincinnati Y. M. c. A. ath- lectic meet.
 March 29-Louisville indoor meet. | April Equal meet with University of Tennessee at Knoxville. April 19-Dual meet with Vanderbilt at Nashville.
 April 26-Open. Dual meet to be
 scheduled.
 May Estate intercollegiate meet at
 Danyille, ky.
 May 1O-Conference meeting at Mont. gOmery. Ala
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will meet Oak Grove in their first game, which will be played at about o'clock Thursday afternoon. This game should be rather evenly matched, as the Oak Grove delegation is general ly a strong one. |
 Second Round Friday
 After the first round has been played off, eight teams will meet Friday morn ing and afternoon in the second round The third round is to be played Friday night and the semi-finals and finals Saturday
 The tournament will be staged in the Central Y. M. c. "A, gymnasium. and staff of officials has been obtained Tor the meet. Coach Abell of the Y experienced referees, will handle the larger part of the games.
 twenty-five teams placed their names on the entry list and with seven eyes the number was swelled to make out l6 pairs. The complete lineup and byes follow:
 Thursday.
 One D. m., University High vs. Nun ford; 1:3O, Dora vs. Talledega County; S;4o, Quinton vs. simpson; 8, St. Clair County vs. Lineville; 4:20, Alliance vs. Bessemer; 4:40, Bibb County vs. War rior; 6. Tuscaloosa vs. Oak Grove; 6:2O, walker County vs. Sayre; 7:44O. Leeds vs. Mortimer Jordan
 The following teams drew byes for the first round, and will play their first game of the tourney on Friday: Eldrfdge, Goodwater, Jefferson, Parish, Pell City, Corner, and Jones Valley.
 Friday Morning.
 Winner of University Munford meets Eldr1dge; winner of Dora-Talladega County meets Goodwater; winner of Simpson-Q -Quinton meets Jefferson: win ner of St. Clair County-LinevilIe meets Parish.
 . Friday Afternoon.
 Winner of Alliance Bessemer meets Pell City; winner of Bibb County War rior meets winner of Tuscaloosa Oak Grove; winner of Walker County Sayre meets Corner; winner of Leeds -Morti- Inrda
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WALKER HIGH WINS

JASPER, Ala. Feb. 13.--(Special)- The mighty Vikings proved to be q stronger combination than the Black and Gold of Curry on the local court this afternoon, and won by the score of 16 to 5. This was one of the hard est cage tllts played on Walkers court this season. The game was hard fought throughout, Walker taking the lead the first quarter and holding it until the final whistle blew. Hudson, at for ward, and Key at center were the stars for Walker. Ashley at guard was the outstanding star for Curry.
 The lineup:
 Walker Q6-Hudson and L. Brown forwards; Key, center; c. Brown and Gallagher, guards.
 Curry (5)-James and Abbott, for wards; Hinton, center; Ashley and
 No '9, substitutions. W
 Referee, Legg; official scorekeeper, Dr. Poe.
 The Filkiness leave Monday fol mingham, where they will take part in the tournament at the Y. M. C. A.
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ogy of folks. You must give them their entertainment THEIR way, not yours.
 "2. You. have to spend money to make money, though you may not al- ways nave 1t to spend. But you can establish credit. Folks can get credit on big ideas-if they're honest ideas and the man is honest
 3' When you put one thing across pig the rest is easy-if you don't let down in the class of stuff you give the public. es
 A. You have to be something of a mlnd reader, visionary, but not a dreamer. You have to put your stuff Tn concrete Worm and make it stick.
 b. If you see you are going to lose you nave to take your loss, that's all. fou must never welch. Many a show has cost me big money that could nave been saved by calling the show lie peevish and in the end I would nave lost a dozen times as much in tuture confidence as on that one ven-
 "6. There is no monoply on brains Tn the world. Everyone with good common sense, honesty, a will 10 go through with things. imagination. a sense of humor and the abnity to take rough turn with a smile, can make lot of money. Maybe not a million That lot of money. But making A hiiiiion or Just making money is all
 Luck plays big part in any ven- ture. To my way of thinking luck about breaks even. was never afraid or taking a chance, and as long as was taking one l decided it was just as well to take a big one Anywav l always made up my mind I'd make good, and that if didn't I would he the only one to lose. The thing that hurts most is to have others lose money that they have risxed on vouT etforts. It never hurt me much fo lose my own money. That's why I ike to take my big chance alone. tomorrow: Why women make inc best judges of a fight.
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Blues Play
 Auburn Five
 On Saturday
Tigers Of Plains E Elected To Give B. A. e.
 Tough Scrap <.

The Birmingham Athletic club quin- l ct win meet the Auburn five at the |B. A. c. Saturday night at s:3o o'clock.
 The Plainsmen have recently won from
 he Columbus. Ga. Y. M. c. A. team
 and the Camp Benning five by large
 scores and in spite of the fact that they lhave lost some of their games to the lstronger teams of the south, they ought 1to be able to give the Clubbers g9od
 Fight as the proteges of Coach Erwin
 hre crippled up considerably since their
 game with the Trinity college aggrega- Etion, which the Blues won by . much fmaller margin than was expected of
 hem, there being a difference of only
 fhree points in the score at the close |bf the game. The Auburn team has lost two games fo Georgia, one on their own floor and |pne on the Georgia floor, both being nost by about fifteen points. The At llanta Athletic club, also won from he Tigers by about nine points and Georgia Tech defeated the Plainsmen by a small margin. , The B. A. c. team wifli.go against
 Auburn as they did against Alabama n the respect that they have fwo play |ers who formerly worked with the Friger aggregation just as they had two Fwho formerly played with Alabama. Hub Hahn and Norman Mandy were 3at one time with the Orange and Blue. Hub Hahn has a brother with the Auburn squad now. who is captain of fhe Plainsmen and when the two teams hmeet here Saturday night the specta- Aors will have an opportunity to see two brothers lineup as opponents and Vmay judge for themselves. which of k khese boys is the most clever man with D basketball. ss.4
 Coach Erwin hopes to get his men n good shape again by Saturday, and ef they are going as they did last Sat- birday night, one will have fairly
 Eood opportunity for comparing the Ftrength of the Plainsmen with that pf the team from the Capstone insti- fution. which defeated the Clubbers by no great score and were put eto it to fnaintain their lead. in the last few
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INTERNATIONAL MEETS

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-For at least one more year the big leagues will have to pay the market price for the stars of the International league or get along without them.
 The International league club owners concluded three-day talk-version Wednesday, adopted a schedule for 1924 and made no change in their an- nounced attitude toward the draft. That meant that informal proposals for adoption of a modified draft agreement were rejected. Inasmuch as some of the other large minor leagues had wob- bled in their opposition to the draft, it had been thought that the Interna- tional might also permit the ma jors to raid their ranks for players once year.
 Owing to a disagreement on the schedule, the meeting, which was to have been one-day affair, lasted three days. The schedule as adopted calls for schedule of 168 games, beginning April 16 and ending September 2s.
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GAnSnEN INvIrEn

SELMA, Ala, Feb. 1S-(Special Leased Wire0-W. F. Ormond, presi- ldent of the Selma Baseball association, has invited Gadsden to become a mem- Iber of league to be composed by Montgomery, Rome, Ga.; Anniston, tSelma, Gadsden and one other city. In
 the event 1t is decided to have an eight lclub circuit, he suggests a north and south Alabama division. Anniston is urging the formation of a more com lpact lease of nearby cities. Both prop lositions are being considered, and 1t is expected that if Gadsden takes a berth
 lit will be Anniston and Rome.
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IN
 WAKE OF FIGHT

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-Madison Square Garden, largest metropolitan indoor arena, was suspended today from staging boxing bouts for one week by the state athletic commission as & result of the match last Friday night between Rancho Villa, worlds fly weight champion, and Georgia Marks of California, which was robbed of it's title aspect when Marks entered the ring four and half pounds over- weight.
 At the same time the commission suspended for sixty days, Marks, his manager; Charley Cook and Frank Churchill, manager of Villa. Marks and Cook were set down for failure of the boxer to make the flyweight limit of 112 pounds, while Churchill was banned for refusing to claim the weight for felt of $1 ,250 required of Marks.
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K ED TO JUMP

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Irving Reid of Brown university, four times Ma tional A. A. U. broad jump champion, is the first entrant in the National A. A. U. indoor championship meet to be held here March 5. He has entered the broad jump to try for the title for the fifth consecutive season, and also the standing high jump.
 Verne Booth, the great middle dis tance runner of Johns Hopkins univer- sity, has entered the 3,000-meter race, in which Joie Ray will challenge a strong field at the Wilco games Satur- day night. The Wilco A. A. announced that Booth had run a trial two miles in almost record time in Baltimore. Johnny Romig of Penn State; Abel Kiviat. the rejuvenated old-timer; Walter Higgins, the former star of the Columbia team, and Pat Kennedy, the 26-mile plodder. will help Booth to crowd Ray. It is 10 years since Kiviat was in his first youth on the track. Al though he is now 35 yearssold, he is out for place on the American Olympic team, and has an excellent chance of displacing some younger mon who are rated among the best middle distance runners in all the world.
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DEMOPOLIs BUSY

DEMOPOLIS, Ala, Feb. 13-(Spe- cial)-Demopolis High has three of the hardest teams scheduled this week. The first game was with the Perry County High in Marion. The second game will be played Thursday night with Marion institute on their court
 Marion institute has an exceptionally strong team this year and will give Coach Whites basketeers the hardest game of his schedule. The third game will be played Friday afternoon, when Demopolis High meets the Sumter County High school on their own court.
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Crimsons defeated Woodlawn and tied Ensley. The team was one of the best ever put out at Phillips. Reading from left to right in the picture are: Top row, j. Smith, center; M. Smith, guard; Bowden, tackle; Fulbright. halfback; Stillwell, coach. Second row: Hoster, quarterback; Sanford (captain-elect), |, end; Bostick, guard; Williamson, guard. Bottom row: Grill, halfback; Strickland, end; Captain Holder, quar- terback; Bartlett, tackle; Anderson, end. Letter men who are not in the picture are: Gravlee, fullback; McAr- thur. halfback; Dye, guard: Bagley, assistant coach, and Mat Heard, man. ager. The team was given sweaters and footballs, both furnished by J. Blach & Sons
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TEX RICHARD PLANS Loop

NEW fORK, Feb. 13.-Professional Fport promoters from Pittsburg, Cleve- and, Milwaukee, Boston and St. Paul will be invited to have a cigar and a |chair with Tex Rickard in New York |some time soon, and offer their bids
 For places in the proposed international professional ice hockey league, which Ps to embrace cities in the United States |and Canada.
 The leasue will be an eight-club cir fcuit and New York. Toronto and Mon- Etreal are pretty sure to be members. Boston and Pittsburg also are likely to bid into the loop,/ ice hockey is we'll established as popular athletic show