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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
Gow',dy'sO Old
 Chant Given a
 New Meaning
Buns Today Are Heroes Tomorrow. Then Many, ..
 Of Elm Flop

NEW YORK. March s,--"you're . hero today and bum tomorrow says Hank Gowdy, who has been q hero and Is not yet by any means a bum. gyou' hit homer today and strike out in pinch with the game on the bases tomorrow"
 We'll, it works the other way. too,i so the thing seems fair. X boy may be a dub today and hero at the next sun-up. What happens thereafter is up to him. See who have come up overnight. f
 Battling silki, unknown, just a wildly swinging dub, was turned loose in the corral with Carpenter who was to tame him. Silsi connected with one of his swings and started Carpenter to roll- ing. Before Georges could wipe the astonishment and gore off his beautf- full features he was smashed down and out. Ski was a hero.
 Mike McTigue, just card-holder in the brotherhood of ordinary fighters, had the luck to .get@the next decision match with Siki and easily took the title away. McTigue, as drab a show man as Miller Huggins himself. was then hero. Is
 Young stribling of Georgia got Mc- Tigue into. the ring down In Strib-1 ling's own back yard and made ths scrap of his fife, fighting the worlds champion to a draw. Stribling has been ..goihg big1 ever since.
 Jimmy Siattery, dockside fighter, of Buffalo. plugging away in small clubs of upstate New York, got Stribling in the ring in- Buffalo and had him knocked out on his feet at the sixth and final round. That makes him great.
 Jack Sharkey was an obscure ban- tamweight who had to tour the small towns in order to get in on the main events. They presented him tos Jimmy Wilde one night in Milwaukee as- fairly easy opponent for the Welsh mans first fight in America and Shar- key gave Jimmy pounding which made Jack so famous that he after wards collected more than $100,000 in purses.
 Gene Sarazen, too, was by way of being one of the melodies of golf until he won the open championship very unexpectedly. A ' Some of them stili hold heroic pos lures and some arc dubs again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
LISTENIN' IN
 ON ALL SPORTS

Luis Angel -Firpo still is the king bull of stations south of the canal, if that means anything, but he is said to have dropped down the cellar stairs as far as adding any prestige to his crown ii concerned. It took Luis fourteen ses- sions to knock Erminio Spalla, 35 pounds lighter, out and the latter stag gered Luis with a swing from his knees in the eleventh.
 It is reported in dispatches that
 Erminlo hit Firpo as hard as Demp-
 sey did, but that he didn't have : Jack Kearns' prayers to finish 1t
 of. Some 30.0O0 cash customers at-
 tended the exercises and 1t was held
 on a football field. This was prob
 ably done so that neither could fall
 in the arms of scribes in the press box.
 When Firpo hit the champion of Rome the latter lost all interest in the fight. His head rocked and heplunged into his own coroner and still was seeing birdies when the referee helped him up. The Buenos Aires crowd got the idea, as Spaghetti held Firpo off round and after round, that Luis had left his punch with Tex Rickard to keep for him. One report said the first real blow Luis landed did the job.
 Erminio should, have stolen Q
 page from Jack Britt0n's book. Jack never leaves an opening. Sometimes
 he Is so busy thinking up a way to
 block punches that he fOrgets tO
 fight, and that's why Jack doesn't
 please everybody.
 LEADERS OF GAME PLAYED BY MORAN
 The Great umpire has called Pat Moran to his reward for once bringing a national league championship to the Phils. Anyone can understand how the big fellow did what he did with the Reds, but a glance at the Phils out. They are saying nice things about Moran all over the country and the missed pilot deserves 1t.
 Connie Mack, the tall Hogan,
 now in Montgomery with the As,
 pays Moran his due. Connie says:
 "Thc loss to baseball in the death of Pat Moran it tremendous. It's
 & shock to me personally, as we'll
 as to baseball as a whole, for 1t
 looked like great year for him.
 He was one of the great managers
 iu baseball history"
 Art Fletcher, who is leading the Quakers again this year, knew Pat on and off the field. Fletcher states: "The death of Pat Moran is sad blow two baseball as well as to Cincin- nati. He had a. wonderful personality that made men like him. In my ex- perience as manager, I have always found Moran one of the brainest men in baseball"
 Joe Tinker tops 1t off like this:-
 "I have known Pat Moran 19 years.
 He was possessed of wonderful
 character and never had an enemy
 in the world. As sportsman he
 was the eleanest in the game. He
 always wanted to win but win fair
 ly and honestly, or not at all. All
 his players stood with him and
 believed in him. The game has lost
 great player and a great student
 of baseball"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
BULLDOGSLOOK GOOD
 AFTER WEEK OF WORK
Few Weak Places Are Located In Howard Lineup As First
 Week Of Practice Comes To End-Complete Schedule Announced

Although baseball practice has been under way only 6 week at Howard, the men are rounding into shape fast, and 1t is already beginning to look as though the Bulldogs are going to nave a strong team for this season. It Is rather early in the year to say just who is who on the team, but even at that there are several men whose show ing so far not only makes Howard packers sure that they will be on the team, but it is also causing some of the bugs to predict that they will have a good chance to star.
 Among the ones who have distin- guished themselves so far is Alfred Baines, who Is trying to fill the gap Jesse Lackey left school. Baines failed to beat Jesse out of his job last year, but it looks like every one else will fail if they try to beat Ali out this year. He is not only a good hitter, but if his early work speaks for anything, sBaines is one of the best fielding shortstops that ever went ing quite bit when one considers some of the short fielders that the Bulldogs have had in the past.
 ScOkel Good %
 Another man who bids fair to fill one of the gaps in the infieid is Polly Scokel. This boy seems to be in fine shape and is going like house afire. He isn't missing anything in the way of fielding chance these days, and with his ability to hit the ball 1t is fairly certain that the job of taking care of first base will be awarded 10 Polly.
 "Bo" Brindley is also going good on third base, and it seems as though he will succeed in keeping any new man off of his job at present.
 With these men going at top speed, Cope has only one worry in the. in- field, and that is second base. Gene Dawson Is scheduled to hold down this position, but he has been out of the game with flu" thus far, and, it is worrying the Howardltes considerably with a game less than two weeks away. In the event that Dawson is not ready to fill his place when the time comes, it is probable that Coach Cope will use Darden at second. Dar- den was a utility man last year and he did most of his work in the out field. However, this season he is con fining all of his attention to the in- field, and up to date has made a good showing.
 Three Good Pitchers
 Stevens, Baines and Stubbs are rounding into form rapidly, and it Is fairly certain that they will be called upon to do all of the hurling for the Bulldogs. Stevens and Snake Baines are not only rounding into good hurl- ing form, but they have also been hit-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
Prince Hits
 96 In Shoot ..'..AtGun Club
H, C.: Ryding Wins Shoot OffsAnd Has Chance For
 Permanent Trophy

Edmond Prince, Jr., was high man in A field of 26 shooters who took part in the added bird handicap at the Birmingham Gun club Saturday after moon. The program was at 100 tar gets, with each shooter given enough targets to bring him up to the. top notcher provided he shot his average or better. The match is shot once each month for a win on a beautiful watch chain1r and charm.
 When the shoot ended, H. c. Ryding Lee Moody and A. c. Chesney were tied for the trophy, A shoot-off was staged at -25 targets and MT. Rydins the trophy, It also gives him a chance Eto be in the shoot-off at the end. of the year for permanent possession of the trophy. E-'i
 NIT. Prince was high man from scratch by; breaking 96 out of the 100 George Corners was out and had as his guest Mir. Weyman of the Corners Weyman Steel company. They staged a race, which resulted in tie, both breaking SS each out of 100. K. E sLockwood Is Coming along fine, for, a new. shooter, making G> good score of S39 Tom Kidd was out and shot some Mfr. Kidd was a member of the Bir- n1inGham Gun club some years back but sfhas. not shot targets for q long time. FormerU re9ularSIarget smash CT, he now shows lack of practice.
 T., E.. Self was out to try the little cIays and made a nice score. Mir. Self Is a fine rifle and pistol shot and showed that he could use the. scatter gun very 2, effectively also. j.. E Chandler. who has not shot much of late, snuffed out T out of his last 50
 Scores b nAde-Edmond Prince, JT. Ss; H C. 'Ryding, 94;, M. c. Tyler, 9S; r. K. Lee. $S; I, NJ. Crum, 9o; pr. F Nabefs, S9; George w. Corners, ss; MT. Weyman, sS; l.. L. Stephenson, g.; Lee Moody, s4; y. E. Chandler, S4; K E. Lockwood. sS; Basil Clark. S2; Thornton Estes, s1.; T. E. Self, s1; A c. Chesney, ,I6; R. C. Brown. 70; T Kidd, 5s:. pr. Prince t50), 47;. Cliff Alb bolt t60), 4S; B. E. Strader (50), 46; Chandler, IF. tso). sa; A. Matthews (60l, 86.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09

ting the ball with terrible regularity and if any of the fieldeFs falter before the season is over, one Of these men could play the position on his off days
 Hyde is getting into good shape and he Is sure to do the bulk of receiving for the Howard team. Hyde is rather inexperienced for this job, but he is learning fast, and with his hitting abil- ity he should be able to fill the job in capable fashion. In the event that Hyde hits a slump, Dan Gaylord, who was a pitcher in 1922, could be called on to do the catching. Dan has had lot of experience as a catcher, and if his eyes don't go back on him as they did last year he should be able to hit the ball in his oid-time style.
 -.. Outfield O. K.
 The outfield Is not causing Cope much worry these days, as it Is work ing in great style. Garfield Is in right field, with Bob Shelton in center and Mickey White in left. All three of these men have been fielding and hitting in good style. The most noticeable thing about the work of the outfield up to date is the begging of White. This boy has not only been begging them hard, but he Is also throwing them straight, and from the manner In which he is cutting them off at home 1t is ROlnk IO DC a nara matter IOE A DdSo runner to put anything over on him this year.
 The Bulldogs look to have great pros poets for a strong team, and from the looks of their schedule they will need all of the strength that they can mus ter. The schedule is as follows:
 Complete Schedule
 < March, IA and 15-Howard vs. Auburn at Auburn. -.
 March 2I and 22-Philadeiphia 1Ath- letics at Montgomery.
 March 2s-Bifmingham Barons at Redwood
 April and s--Alabama at Denny field. / 7
 Aprih14 and 15-UniveFsity of Florida at Gainesville ,5. '
 April IS and 17-stetson university at Deland.
 April 21 and 22-Universlty of Florida at Berry field.
 Aprii 25--Auburn .at Berry field. E April 30-- Standardization at Munger field.
 May 2 2-Birmingham-southern at Ber-
 May Birmingham; Southern at X May -Birpiusham-southern at Ser. May 1oRirmlnshsm- southern at RickWood. ~
 Aside from the, above, there Is a gane pending with LayoIa university at New Orleans, t ts E..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
 BOBBY JONES IS ENGAGED TO MARRY IN JUNE

ATLANTA, Ga. March s.-En- gaeement of Robert Tyre Jones, better known as Bobby" Jones, United States open golf. champion, to marry Miss Mary Malone was announced today. The wedding will take place in June, the announce ment said,
 MT. Jones, who will have reached his twenty-second birthday on March '17, recently accepted position with a real estate concern here.
 : It Is understood that the ap- preaching marriage will not inter fere with Bobby" appearing in De- troit in June to defend his golf title or keep him out of subsequent championship play.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
GIANTS BLANK
 GATORS, l7-O

SARASOTA. Fla. March s.-rodsy's exhibition game between the Giants and the University of Florida was ia romp for the big leaguers. the final count being IL to o.
 Wayland Dean, Walter Huntzinger and Ernie Maump pitched for the Giants. They allowed five hits and famed 13 men. Dean, in the first three innings, famed four men and threw out four more, Heinie Groh getting the odd man.
 Johnson, Katz and Ned Porter split up the pitching for the Coilegians and were reached for nineteen hits. Only in the ninth inning were the Giants retired in order. Ross Young is suf- fering with a slight infection of cut on his right knee and was not in uni form -.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
ROBERTSON IS
 OLYMPIC COACH

NEW YORK, March S.--Lawson Rob ertson, track coach at the University of Pennsylvania, today was designated as head coach of the American Olympic track and field team. Walter Christie, University of California, was named catch of field events
 Six assistant coaches were named by the committee. They were: A. G. Stagg, University of Chicago; Harry Hillmsn, Dartmouth; Edward l.. Far rell Harvard; John J. Magee, Bowdoin; Thomas F. Keane. Syracuse, and Lieut.. E. L. Vindal, West Point.
 H. M. Webb, Annapolis, was selected as boxing coach, and George Pineo, Gary Y. NJ. c. A., was named as wrest- ling coach. No marathon coach was named at this time, but Mike Ryan, Colby college, was selected as trainer of the distance men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
DEMPSEY TO GO
 IN FOR MOVIES

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March s.-Jack Dempsey is out of the fight business and in the movies instead for the next six months, a telegram from his sec- Fetary divulged Saturday.
 As soon as he recovers from his op- eration in New York, he will come to southern California, and a part in a motion picture will be awaiting him when he arrives, the champions sec retary, Ted Hayes, informed Joe Ben janin.' The message read:
 Dempsey will come home soon and probably will do a movie serial. Will stay in Los Angeles three months. No fights for him this summer"
 Among his intimates here, Dempsey's condition consequent upon his opera ton is regarded more serious than as stunned elsewhere, and precludes any possibility of any serious defense of his title for many months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
DAN CUPID IS
 IN MACK'S CAMP

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March s.--An interesting sidelight on the Philadel- phia Americans club in spring train. ing here brings out two features con corning Alabama.
 The first is that Frank welch, out fielder of the club and one of the most prominent gardeners in the league, according to experts, is a Bir- mingham boy. The second is that French, outfielder, although not a regular player, married a Montgomery girl recently. "
 The romance of French Is said to have started last spring, while the team was in training here. He was a former Army football star, and prominently mentioned for several years for all-American honors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
BOBBY JONES TO
 SHARE IN AWARD

NEW YORK, March s.-Members of the 1922 and 1923 Walker cup golf teams will be recipients of small gold rolf balls, appropriately inscribed, as q nemento of their successful defense of the, international golf trophy, the executive committee of the U. s. G. A. having just voted these awards.
 The members of the 1922 and 1923 teams include F.. G. Fownes, Jr., cap tain; Bob Gardner, Frances Ouimet, Jesse Sweetser, Max Marston, Bobby Jones, Jesse Guilford, Chick Evans, George v. Rolan, Freddy Wright, David S. Heron, pr. O. P. Willing, Jack Neville and Harrison Johnston,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
PACIFIC GIRLS
 FAVOR SPORTS

BEKKELIjY, Cal, March s.-The department of physical education of the University of California reports 1,1S9 women students enrolled in out door sports, an increase of 65T over last year.
 Rifle shooting is the most popular campus sport open to girls, with 292 Tennis comes next, with 249, and then basketball. with 235. Swimming is so popular that 234 girls take a daily dip in the outdoor campus tank and 12s members of the girls riding club are seen on the paths daily.
 Among the tennis players is Helen Wills, national women's champion, who Is completing her freshman year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09

|, intimate glinipses of personalities and events in golf history and points on playing the game ssst F He tells of his golf education ex- tending over f6 years, he gives his opin. ion of the greatest golfer of today he tells of the longest shot he ever saw, the difference between the Ameri- can and English game of golf and numerous other topics that will thrill the thousands of golf enthusiasts who daily read The Age-Herald.
 The Age-Herald will run this exclu- sive series starting next Monday March 10, by Americas outstanding entry 4in- the world. of, golf who prob ably knows more golf than any man in this country.
 The picture above shows Hagen in his early years when he was serving as caddie at the Rochester Country club. at : .-..t V
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09

Now the biggest series of them all. The Age-Herald, in accordance with it's policy to give the readers of It's sport ing section the really big things in the athletic world, has obtained Walter Hagen, king of all American golfers, possibly, who at the age of 30s won every golf championship played for in the world, including the British, French and American open, to write on golf. His series on "The Making of Golf Champion" will be of throbbing inter est to literally millions of American newspaper readers.
 No one sport is participated in by more American players than golf. no one man Is better fitted to write se- ries of golf articles than Waiter Ha- gen. In his series he will give the fans the outline of his career, starting as a caddie at the Rochester Country club to a worlds championship. he will give
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
COLONIES WANT
 MYERS ASCOACH

DANVILLE, Ky. Marc hs.--A peti- tion signed by 32 Centre college foot ball players asking Robert L. Myers. president of the Centre Alumnae as- sociation and former coach, to become head mentor of the Praying Colonels has been sent to Myers in Chicago. Centre is seeking a cGach to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of 9UncIe Charlie" Moran, who went to RucknelI. &
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
BODY REACHEs JAX

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March S. The body of Pat Moran, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, who died in an Orlando hospital last evening after a brief illness, reached Jacksonville at 7:e5 o'clock tonight, accompanied by his widow and two sons and by George Harper and Ivey Wingo. members of the Cincinnati club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
LEE WINS IN
 7 PISTOL SHOOT

As the result of this weeks pistol scores Birmingham stands eleventh place in the senior league. Their total is now 1030, 30 points ahead of Houston, Tex. The Birmingham Pistol club has accepted challenge from Tuacon. Ariz., to shoot for trophy in the last match of the series. Tuscon Is ninth in the league.
 T. K. Lee led shooters this week with 234. Weldon came second at 214.
 Scores of the past week:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
eaALORAFT GOES AHEAD

CHICAGO, March Sired Chal- craft of Buffalo took the lead in the a1Ilevents of the American Bowling congress tournament today with a score of 1.940 He rolled 647 in the singles, SIT in the doubles and 616 in the five man team competition. Joe West, also Of Buffalo, went into second place with a score of 1902.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
WILL COME HERE LATER

PANAMA, March S.-Jose Lombardo, seatherweight champion of Central and south America. Is sailing today for Havana, where he will fight the Cuban army champion, Dlaz, on March 21. From Cuba, Lombardo plans to sail to Spain for a tour of Europe, later proceeding to the United States, where be hopes to be matched with Johnny Fsns.daa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
ARMY ATHLETES sHINE

WEST POINT. N. r., March B. Army won four of five Inter-collegiate athletic contests today. The scores 1: Wrestling: Army, g.; Columbia. 8. Box ing: Army. 5; Washington and Lee. 2. Fencing: Harvard, q Army 6. swim ming; Army, 35; Columbia, 27. Indoor polo: Army, S6; PennsylVania, 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
WANTS EEREoG.s NOTICE

! NEWARK, N J., March s.--Michael lacIigue, president of the Newark Baseball Club. Inc, anno'saced today that he had asked for the resignation ofr Charles (Buok) Herzog. vice p-esi- dent and manager of the clab. McTigue said the action wasstaken flor business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
' NINs. LOsEs5 AND TIES

NEW YORK, March 8.-.-Jos' Cap blanca; Cuban holder of the worlds professional chess title, won 25, lost 1 and drew 4 matches In a simultaneous exhibition with S3 opponents that end ed Saturday at the Brooklyn Chess club, Norman S.. Perkins. former Cor nell champion. was one of those who defeated the champion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
BOY
 CORS TECH RUN

ATLANTA, Ga. March s-J. T. Bar rett of Fort Smith, Ark, a sophomore, won the annual cross-country run at Georgia Tech this afternoon, clipping II seconds off the previous record for this event. Barrett's time was IS min- utes 4 seconds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
"sTKANaLRR" WINS ANOTHER

:. ATCHISON, Kan,,, March S.--Ed ''SCrangler" Lewis, champion wrestler, defeated Herman Gessler of Boston, challenger, in two straight falls. Lewis won the first fall in IS minutes and the second in two minutes. He used his famous headloek on both falls, ,.
 RJS6fntg and Brown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09

sity. footbaH team was made tonight. He was tackle on the University of PennsyIva aniag team from 1916 to 1919. and succeeds John H. Malunev' of Bos- ton. yfN - ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09

LITTLE SIGNS AS COACH
 WASHINGTON, March s.--Appoint- ment of Lou Little of. Philadelphia as head coach of the Georgetown univer-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
CARL WINS IN .
 THREE EVENTS

0. L. Carl scored surprise at the Magic City Rifle and Pistol clubs weekly shoot by winning all three events on the card. In the Prone match Carl scored a perfect score but was hotiy contested by N. l.. Self, who turned in a 9s. In the Offhand match Carl and Smith ran neck and neck until 7 Smith got the "buckfever'' and drop ped 3 points below Garl's excellent score of ss. .- At the weekly meeting new officers vrere elected and plans laid for a big future for. the club. O.. l.. Carl was elected president, Capt. C.. R. Fleming, vice president, and W. D.. smith, Jr., secretary Plans are being made for . new small bore rifle and pistol range a4 Roberts field.
 The pistol match was also taken by Carl who turned in 93, which Is &n excellent score with the pistol. The other contestants turned in good scores considering the amount of practice that they have had.
 The scores made at the shoot were as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
Three Good Pitchers

7 nleVehs, Balnes and Btubbs are rounding into form rapidly, and it Is fairly certain that they will be called
 upon to do all of the hurling for the
 Bulldogs. Stevens and Snake Baines are not only rounding into good hurlz ing form, but they have also been hit-