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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
JACKSON FAILS
TOCOME BACK
Once Feared Fighter,
Dundee's COnqVeror, Is
Now Broke And Out

NEW YORK, April 23.-on q jan
uary night in 1915 a young fighter re-
Gently out OF the preliminary class
belted Johnny Dundee ON the jaw and
knocked him cold for an hour. From
the instant that the new boys right
mitt went spanking against Dundee's
chin to drop the India rubber man for
the only knockout he ever suffered, UNI
til about one year ago, Willie Jacksou's
name on the program meant money
in the box office of a fight club. will
lies gross earnings were almost $780,
900.
Willie Jackson fought them all but
Benny Leonard, who wouldn't fight him
because he didn't dare make the weight
OF 1876 pounds and defend the cham
pionship against the right fshash which
had floored Johnny Dundee. Leonard
never been able to do what Jackson
did.
Last week. jackson, after a years
rest. tried to come back against an OBJ
scure fighter named Johnny Griffin, at
Hartford, Conn He was stopped in
the third round and he cried as he left
the ring.
OF all the money he earned in six
years, Jackson today has mot a dime, -
and his old manager, Frank Bagley, is
trying to arouse interest in a benefit
fight show for while.
In 1915 Willie jackson was an errand
boy. He fought his first bout for Sc.
Two years later he was receiving thou
sands for every bout and he fought so
often as three times a week.
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WILL
BOX D. O'DOWD
Macon Planning Big Bouts For
School Boy On July 4

ATLANTA, Ga, April cav. l..
Young Stribling, the Georgia sensa-
ton, has been matched to meet Dan
O'Dowd Of Boston, in a 12-round bout
here on May 20, 1t was announced here
by the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
promoters of the match.
MACON, Ca, April 23.-Efforts to ar
range a 12-round bout here on July 4,
between w. L. young" Stribling and
Georges Carpenter or Paul Berlenbach,
now are being made by the sports COM
mittee of the local post of the American
Legion, 1t was announced by the pro-
moters.
Stribling already has signed for the
match, according to legion officials,
who say that his opponent will be de-
termined by Carpenters showing
against Tommy Gibbons on May 81 and
Berlenbach's exhibition with Stribling
when they meet in June in the New
York milk fund benefit.
The post also says it is anxious to
obtain a return engagement with Joe
Slattery, who won a decision over
StribliRg a few months ago in Buffalo.
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JAMAICA OPENS
RACING SEASON
United Hunts Club To
Sponsor First Event Of
Twenty-Day Meet =

NEW YORK, April 2S.-For the first
time since the trumpet's note split the
air at Belmont Park last autumn, call
ing Zev and Papyrus to the post for
their famous international swimming
race, a field of horses will go to the
barrier Saturday resuming the metro
politan whirl for the season OF 1924.
The United Hunts club, whose mem
bers are technical gentlemen, as dis
tinguished from professional horse
men, will run a set OF hop-scotch events
over the brushes and gates and puddles
at Belmont Park, Saturday. The
steeplechases are always run off as a
preliminary to the running races.
Aided Races
The honor of opening the season Is
conferred on the United Hunts because
of the work it's members carried on in
favor of the resumption of racing sew
eral years ago when the game was out
lawed in the state and the big pro-
fessional stables were being dispersed.
begins with the opening program of the
20-day spring meet at jamaica track,
one of three big rings on Long Island,
the other two being Aqueduct and Bel
mont. And in the principal hike of
the day. Zev, the three-year- cham
pion and derby winner Of 1923, will
take up his baggage and resume rum
ming as a handicap critter. The Pau
monok is a $1,000 race, only six fur
longs, and IL Zev is in good condition
and not unreasonably laden with
weight, he should win It rather easily.
Zev, since his arrival from the winter
training quarters, has been working
out easily at Belmont, where he car
rled the American colors ahead of the
British, in a race that was in some re-
spects the most important ever run.
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HOWARD PLAYS
AUBURN TIGERS
HERE ON FRIDAY
Bulldogs Are In Good
Shape For Invasion OF
Plainsman Nine

with the Florida series tucked safely
away Coach Cope Is driving his Bull
dogs hard to get ready for the game
that is to be played Friday with the
ceeded In emerging the victor in the
first two games played with the Plains
men but IL reports coming from Auburn
are reliable they are going to have q
much harder time beating the Tigers
than they did in the first meeting OF
the two teams. The Auburn pitchers
are said to be In fine shape now and
with the Improvement that the rest of
the team has made since the visit of
the Copemen to Auburn It IL certain
that the East Lakers will have q much
stronger foe. However, tho Bulldog
team has shown worlds OF improves
ment since the Auburn series. and they
strong team and while there IL ne
over confidence In the calIcamp, the
general feeling IL that they have q
mighty good chance Of walloping the
Auburnites. ~
Stevens On Mound
Ham Stevens, the ace of the Howard
pitching staff. will more than likely,
get the cali to do the pitching in to-
morrow's game. Ham is In fine shape
now, as was shown by his striking out
IA Florida men Monday. Stevens beat
the Tiger one time and with good sup
port from his mates he should make
quite bit Of trouble for the Plains
men.
Fred White, who was not able to
get In the last game with Auburn. Is
also In fine shape now and this IL one
outfielder that will certainly rob the
Tiger batters OF some good hits IL he
plays anything like the brand Of ball
he has shown Of late.
Shelton And Barficld Fit
. Bob Shelton and Hugh Barfield, two
more of Towards hard hitting OUT
'fielders, are also in better shape than
they have been at any other time this
ing has made the fans sit up and take
notice. The hitting of Barfield has been
especially good and II he continues in
his present form he should deal the
Tiger hurlers quite a bit of misery be-
fore they play very many innings.
Preacher Hyde, who is doing the
catching for the Cope team these days,
is making very little noise but he is
certainly doing some good work. Hyde
has been doing the receiving like a
veteran and his work with the bat was
In a large measure responsible for the
five wins that Howard has collected
from the last six games.
InfieId Improves
The infielders showed a slump in
their fielding on Monday but they
showed quite bit of Improvement in
their work Tuesday and with two days
OF practice between the Florida and
Auburn games. they ought to be able
to show some OF their old form in
handling the hot ones.
Regardless of the outcome of the
Howard Auburn struggle the game is
sure to be tough one and the indi-
cations are that there win be a large
crowd on hand to see the game.
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MORSE WINSM
GOLF TOURNEY
BiltmOre Play Opens With Many
Entrants In Spring Meet

ASHEVILLE, N. c., April g.
George r. Morse of Rutland, VT, med
alist, today defeated Raleigh Allen, 4
and 2, in the first round of the annual
spring golf tournament at the BiItmore
Forest Country club. Morse Is the ia
vorite to win the tournament.
Other results today were: w. A.
knight of Asheville defeated H. E.
Bostock of Grand Rapids, Mich, de-
feated N. B. Perkins of williamsburg,
KY, 2 up; Lyman Beecher Of Hillsboro,
o., defeated r. G. Olsen of Clevelandp
8 and Q; F. H. Turber, Wellesley, Mass,
defeated e. o. Olsen Of Detroit, and !;
Henry Westall of Asheville defeated FL
lott Middleton of Montclair, and 4;
Harry Ehler of Asheville defeated E..
s. Wood of Riverton, N. J., and /, and
H. C. McKean of Cleveland won from
East Ware of Asheville by default.
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so. Dan Boone played first base while
his manager was out.
Bears Score
. The Bears scored in the first inning
after Two men were out. Marriott
was thrown out at first by Brausen,
but Cueto doubled to center. Mulvey
was out at first, but Cueto went to
third. Boone hit grounder to Hart
ford, which he temporarily fumbled and
threw too late to get the runner. Cue
to scored. Williams was out at first,
Bremen to Knode.
The Barons went out in order in
their half, although Camp reached third
after walking and Knode singled. He
was caught off the bag, however, on
what looked to be an attempted double
steal. Mcbride made questionable
move on the play which the Barons
protested should be ruled balk.
Barons Score One
In the second the Stewards came
through with a score. Camel walked
but was hit by Brenners grounder
and was out. Hartford forced Bren-
ner at second and followed by stealing
second. Robertson singled and Hart
ford scored. Bates singled, sending
Robertson to third, but Brausen was
thrown out at first by Mcbride.
In the third. Camp fouled out to
Marriott. but Jeanes followed with
single. Knode popped up to DeVormer.
Then Camel came to the plate and
hit his four-ply clopt. Bremen hit a
line drive between short. and third,
which Cueto made a wonderful stab on.
His catch brought applause from the
stands. ~. - -
This ended the scoring for both
teams, though the Bears threatened sew
eral times. Two double plays cut Bear
rallies short while good pitching and
good fielding combined held them in
check throughout the entire game after
the first inning. Bates struck out the
last man to face him, Lowry, pinch hit
ter u
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BOWLS
JOHNSON OVER
Chilean Downs Opponent
In First Training
Session

NEW YORK, April 23.-John Lester
johnson, the dark comptexIoned heavy
weight who splintered two of Jack
Dempsey's ribs in Dempsey's very first
fight, in New York, gave an imitation
OF q falling leaf when Quintin Romero.
the Chilean heavyweight, cuffed him on
the chin in training exhibition. John
Lester explained that ne had been out
all night catching up with his social
obligations in the Harlem black belt,
where he has great reputation as a
ance was impaired.
Meets stoessel First
Tex RickaFd, who paid Romero's
freight to New York, said Quintin's first
tryout match probably would be one
with Joe Stoessel, the former amateur.
Richard doubled his great prize offer
for q picturesque name for Quintin, on
the order OF Luis Angelo Firpo's trade
mark, THE Wild Bull of the Pampas."
The prize is now two psates of Chile
con carne. The names already sub
mitted include the Antelope" "Idon.' %
"Tomcat," "Babboon," Hedgehog and
Great Awk."
Vincentlni Training
Luis vincentini. the Chilean light
weight, who is to fight Pal Moran OF
New Orleans on May 2. has been taking
q special course of exercises to strength
en- his shoulder blades, as Moran has
promised to sit him down ON that To-
cality with audiences and force.
Although neither OF the ChiIeans ever
beat first-class man, each of them
probably will make as much in few
bouts here as the average American
toiler on the cauliflower plantations re-
ceives in a whole year. a'3
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MONTGOMERY TO
SEE 'BAMA PLAY

MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 2s.-(spe-
cial Leased Wire base
ball fans are looking forward with keen
interest to the coming Of the Crimson
Tide and Vanderbilt Commodore base
ball teams to Cramton bowl Saturday
afternoon. This game bids fair to be
a corker, the best, in fact, that is to be
staged here between college aggrega-
lions this season.
Local alumni of Alabama, more than
five hundred strong, are boosting the
approaching tilt. There are a number
Of sons of Vanderbilt here also who are
cooperating in making the affair go
over with a bang. The civic clubs and
other organizations are active in their
efforts to have a record breaking at
tendance at the stadium Saturday.
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Coli and Other Troubles
Bv BARRIE PAYNE

bounds. "This fairway's too narrow.
It's not a fairway, really. It's a rifle
range" Tops his fifth attempt. 81 didn't
have the ball teed high enough" Bras
sizes into bunker. s''That's a helluva
place to put bunker. Even a good
player has no chance" Niblicks out of
the pit and lands in another. "a but
ton on my undershirt snapped off and
disturbed my concentration. Picks up.
NUMBER SIX. Drives into the
creek. "If had used sinker I would
have been dead to the pin. That old
drive It anywhere" Drops a ball and
tries a mashie shot. The ball rolls
across the green and into the rough.
You can't tell what you're doing on
these damned greens. One of ems too
slow and the next ones too fast. You
His mashie shot Is off line. 81 didn't
know that rock was there. It's a won
der didn't break my club" Three
puts. "Caddy, I didn't hire you to
stand around and grin like an idiot.
That's not what you're being paid for.
You get on my nerves. How can a
SEVENTH HOLE. His spoon shot
hooks to the rough. 1.-THE caddy gave
me the wrong club. I should have
made him come back and bring me my
driver" Attempts to come out with q
brassie. The ball goes straight up in
the air. This clubs too long. That
would have been a good shot IL my
club had been half an inch shorter. 50
He takes a midiron and wallops the
ball two hundred yards. It strikes the
green and kicks over on the other side.
"Great sufferin' catfish! That's a fine
green! If that's a green I'm the Prince
OF Wales. About the size of q post
age stamp. With the right sort of q
green that shot would have stayed ON. !"
His opponent holes a long brassie shot.
law, hell, don't feel like playin' to-
day. I've got a headache. I'm gonna
quit. Well get together some other
time" 49,
"'Have you got to cough every time /
L shoOtf'"
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FIRST HOLE. Tops his drive. my
foot slipped" Hooks his brassie. This
sweaters too tight. can't take free
swing" Sclaffs his mashie shot. Don't
stand so blamed close to me, caddy. You
worry me-" After three assaults with
a niblick the ball Is still in the sand.
81 believe the shaft of this club is
warped" On the fourth attempt he
overshoots the green. THE ball was
buried in heel print" Picks up.
NUMBER TWO. Slices his midiron
shot. THAT old ball is lopsided." Tries
a spoon in the rough and misses the
ball altogether. "Fagossake, caddy!
Have you got to cough every time I
shoot?" Hooks into trap with his
mashie-niblick. THE club turned in
my hand. I perspire too freely and the
shaft gets slick" His shot from the
sand reaches the green. but ais short.
That sand is too wet and heavy" His
first three puts are short. This green
is too slow. Whyinell don't they NOW II
once in while?" His fourth putt rims
the cup. This putter's not balanced
right"
THE THIRD. A topped drive.
hooked midiron, a pulled mashie, a nib
lick ten yards over the green, a mashie
off-line and three puts. THE caddy
ratified the clubs" 1.-THE head of this
midlron feels like it's loose on the
grip the club Fight" rr-had a bad iie."
"a fly lit on my nose while 1 was
swinging" "Caddy, wish to the Lord
you'd quit letting your shadow fall on
the green"
FOURTH HOLE. His drive lands in
the creek. THAT creek Is not fair
penalty. The man who designed this
course should be shot every morning at
SUNRISE" His nibliclx shot rolls into the
rough. 1.-The ball rolled into a hole
when dropped It," His mashie-niblick
stroke strikes a tree and drops into a
trap. 1.-THE bark on that tree is too
soft. That ball should have bounced
onto the green" After three attempts
with the niblick he picks UP. at
couldn't get a decent stance"
THE FIFTH. Drives four balls out of
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JASPER NINE is
WINNER, III TO 10

JASPER, Ala, April 28.--(special)-
Before several hundred spectators here
Wednesday afternoon, Coach Jacksons
baseball squad defeated Coach Jack
Hovater's Admission Military institute,
by the score of II to 10. Cush Woods,
Walker pitcher, was the outstanding
star Of the game, winning his own
game by smashing out three hits In
four trips to the bat Baker OF Annis-
ton was hit hard in the third and sixth
innings and was relieved in the seventh,
Carson, catcher, was the star for the
Admission nine, playing a splendid all
around game.
The Score; r. n. T..
Admission .............lO q
WdlACT i g
Batteries: Baker and Carson; Woods
and Hamilton.
The final game Of the series will be
played on Kiro Field Thursday.
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LAUREL STARTS
DIAMOND WORK

LAUREL. Miss. April 23.-(special
Leased Wire.)-Initial practice for the
Laurel club of the Cotton States league
was held on the fair grounds diamond
here Monday afternoon with more than
thirty candidates for berths on the
team reporting to Manager Baxter
Sparks.
Strenuous conditioning exercises will
be the watchword in the Laurel camp
until the opening of the season here
on May with Hattiesburg as an OPP
ponent.
Large numbers of Laurel fans were
present at,the opening practice Monday
and commented on the youthfulness
of the majority of the players assem-
bled by Baxter Sparks for tryouts. No
contracts have been signed as yet, nor
will be, declared Mr.. Sparks, until the
players have made good In the tryouts
and have been awarded a place on the
team.
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PLANS MADE ON
CAPITAL MEET

b MONTGOMERY, Ala, April z3.--Ar-
rangemeits have been completed for the
thirteenth annual invitation golf tour
nament here, to be held at the Country
club, June 5, 8 and Z. J. r. Kinds,
manager, has announced.
The qualifying round and eighteen
holes OF medal play viii be held on
Thursday, the opening day Of the tour.
nament. Team matches, for which four
trophies are offered, viii be held fol-
lowing the qualifying rounds.
Friday forenoon. June 6, the first
round OF all flights-1s holes match play
will be held, followed by the second
round in the afternoon.
Saturday forenoon, semi-finals in all
flights will be held. and the finals viii
be held in the afternoon.
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WALKER MEET
SITE CHOSEN

NEW YORK, April 28.-with the
selection today OF the Garden City Golf
club of Long Island, ag the site for the
1924 walker cup matches between the
United States and Great Britain, on
September IL and 80, plans for the
International anatsur team contest are
rapidly nearing completion.
1t Is expected the British wf1t be LED
by Roger Wethered, present British
champion, and Cyril Tcileys former
titlehoIder.
The British team has been invited by
Cornelius s. Lee, secretary OF the u. s.
G.. A., to participate in an informal
team match at Chicago prior to the
championship contest in the east. Plans
are being made by Robert Gardner OF
Chicago, American Walker cup captain
to assemble a squad of western stars
for such an engagement.
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BILLY SUNDAY
BACK ON FIELD

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 23.-Rev.
BILLY" Sunday, former major league
baseball player, will return to the dia-
mond-but only for a day.
Announcement was made today that
Mr.. Sunday had accepted an invitation
extended by John D. Martin, president
of the Southern association, to act as
umpire in the game here next Monday
between Memphis and Nashville.
He was assigned to the position be-
hind the plate with Dan Pfinninger,
dean of Southern association umpires,
and Bill MCGOWAN on the bases.
Mr.. Sunday is in Memphis conducting
a revival
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WILL
BOX TWO BOUTS
Champion Offers Services To
Raise Money For Games

LOS ANGELES, April 2s.-Jack
Dempsey, worlds heavyweight cham
pion, will box two exhibition bouts Of
two rounds each here May "a at an ath-
letic program to raise Los Angeles
quota Of $4,000 to send American ath-
letes to the Olympic games.
The champion made his offer today
at a meeting of the Los Angeles conn
merciAl board at which a campaign to
raise the Olympic funds was launched
His offer was Immediately accepted.
Two logical heavyweight contenders"
will be picked as opponents, 1t was an
nounced
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MYRICK MUM ON
TILDEN'S CASE

NEW YORK, April 23.-Jullan 8. Ny
rick, chairman OF the Davis cup COM
mittee of the United States Lawn Tennis
association, declined today to comment
upon William T. Tilden's rejection of an
invitation to discuss his amateur status
with the committee here next Friday,
but intimated that no further steps were
contemplated at present in the contro-
versy growing out Of Tilden's player
writer activities.
Unofficlally. denial was made that
there was foundation for Tilden's
charge that the wording OF the amateur
rule committees report on ithe player
writer ineligibility Interpolation was
changed after his recent confluence with
the executive committee Of pc U. S.
L. T. A.
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AID TO
DISTANCE MEN

BOSTON. April 2S.l!The INTRODUCTION
OF sugar into the system before or dur
ing marathon race o. similar Cruel
ling physical tests may increase the
endurance OF the athlete, physicians
who examined contestants In last
weeks American marathon before ana
after. the race, announced tonI~ht
Blood tests disclosed that the surar
content Of the blood decreased Consider
ably during the contest.
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.SHOCKER DENIES
JUMPING CLUB

CLEVELAND, Ohio. April 2S.-Re-
ports that he had jumped the st. Louis
Browns were denied today by Urban
Shocker, star pitcher. Shocker, who is
suffering from tonsilites, which his
physician said just missed being diph-
iberia, came here from Detroit to be
at the bedside Of his father, who is
critically i'll.
Shocker expects to be out In a few
days. He was confined to his sisters
home in Detroit until he received the
message Of his fathers illness, he said.
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PATTERSON is
DOWN IN ONE
ON LINKS HERE

W. C. Patterson, local cigar man,
Joined the select hole-in-one club
with a one-stroke sinker> on "a par
three hole at Woodward Golf club
while playing in a foursome this
week. His drive was 40 yards, and
when the pellet rolled into the cup
Mr.. Patterson attained a distinction
that comparatively very few Ameri-
can and possibly no Birmingham
golfers can boast of.
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SWEDISH STARS ARRIVE

Borge of Sweden, Frank Beaurepaire of
Australia and Norman Ross of Chicago
have arrived here from Honolulu, en-
route to Paris to participate in the
Olympic swimming contests. Ross plans
to train for time at Stanford uni
versity.
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Mildred
Wins a
Hard Battle

Little Mildred was fighting
desperately against all the grim
forces of typhoid fever. She was
& weak, hollow-eyed, pitiful look
ing little creature when she fl
nally came out Of the battle vic
forious.
ne doctor Immediately pre-
scxbed a summer in the country
Is Bring back her strength.
This expense, thrust on, her
father, Lloyd Allen, on top of
SECTOR and nurse bills, seemed
almost too much.
But Trustees System helped
hiia out. Through that friendly
1ncial institution of workers
ban was promptly arranged
ficient for all expenses, and
ferayable in easy monthly in
stailments.
xhe summer in the open
ought Mildred back to bound
iIl& good health, and now, to look
her, you would recognize her
"A one Of the strongest and
hxlthiest children you had ever
Aen
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5sns to the Man Who Works"
2O24 First Avenue
WHAT NATIONAL BANKS
Rave DONE FOR BIG BUsI-
Nfss TRUSTEES SYSTEM IS
0O4NG FOR THE MAN WHO
WORKS"