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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-23
BUILT IN 1910
City of Montgomery Former Standby of
 Savannah Line

SAVANNAH, Ga, Nov. 22.--Until recent acquisition in the City of Bir- mingham and City of Chattanooga, the City of Montgomery was the old standby of the Savannah line operated by the Ocean Steamship company of Savannah.
 The City of Montgomery was built in 1910 at Newport News for the Savan- nah line and since that time has been continually in service except several weeks last spring when she was com pletely overhauled and refitted here. She is 371.6 feet long and has a beam of 49.7 feet. Her depth is 15.3 feet and she has a draft of about 20 feet.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-23
BABY SAVES PARENTS
Awakens Deaf Mother When Fire
 Starts in Home

NEW YORK, Nov. 22-The awaken ing of their infant son probably saved the lives of Mir. and Mrs. Irving Gold smith, deaf mutes, whose home was destroyed by fire early today. The baby beat his hands upon his mother who arose to discover the blaze caused by an overheated stove. The couple fled with the child.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-23
CONTRACTOR DIES IN FLORIDA
Body Will Be Shipped To Illinois For
 Burial
NTET,pOTRNE El

MELBOURNE, Fla, Nov. 22.-A. D. Waterbury, contracting plumber of Polo, H., died here this morning. Funeral services will be held here Mon day. The body will be shipped to Polo for burial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-23
FIRE COSTS s1OO,OOO
Fort Worth Blaze Threatens Entire
 RIOck

FORT WORTH, Tex, Nov. 23.- Fire early this morning did $1OO,OOO damage to three furniture stores To- cated in the business district and for a time threatened to destroy the entire block.
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THE WEATHER

Alabama1 Unsettled. Tennessee: Unsettled Georgia: Fair.
 Mississippi: Unsettled. .fOOmpIete weather data is on page
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
I THIRTY-NINE PLAYERS
 RELEASED IN SOUTHERN
Barons Dispose Of Only Two Players In Early Season Trades-Waivers Will Be Necessary In Later
 Disposition Of Men .5

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 19-Thirty- nine players were disposed of by Southern association clubs within the time limit fixed for the trading or sale of players without the necessity of ob- taining waivers, according to an an nouncement made tonight at league headquarters here.
 CTS disposed of, with total of nine. Atlanta disposed of eight, Little Rock seven, New Orleans six, Chattanooga five, Birmingham two, and Memphis and Mobile one each.
 All of the trades and sales were com pleted during the month of December, the time fixed by league rule.
 As result nearly a score of league veterans" will be missing when the 1924 pennant campaign starts. Bern sen, heavy hitting infielder; McQuillan and "Parson" Lankenau, pitchers, and Haley and Eiffert, catchers, are among those clipped off the Nashville ros- ter; Atlanta has disposed of Chester Schmidt Oscar Tuero, Cuban pitcher. formerly with Memphis; Miks Burke absentees will include Dixie" Walker and Harry Daubert. Doe" Nieder- korn, Bogart and McMillan are among the better known players who will shift from Little Rock; Anderson, trad ed to Memphis for Burke; Shay and Clayton are three of last years Chat tanooga regulars" who will be in new berths, and Birmingham will be with cut the services of Jake Miller. The list of players disposed of fol- lows:
 By Nashville
 Haley to Reading, and Players Eng mann and Thomas
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Bernsen to Beaumont. . McQuillan to Columbus for Player Mackey. Matterson to Beaumont < Harris, Field and "Parson" Lanke- nau to London. s Buc!Salew to Portsmouth.
 By Atlanta Chester Schmidt, released outright. George Rhinehardt to Greenville. Norman Lehr to Greenville. Pete Fiebig to Asheville. ~s Judge Francks to Asheville. Oscar Tuero to Reading. Mike Burke to Beaumont. Joe Guyon to Richmond. N
 By New Orleans k Dixie Walker to Milwaukee. Harry Daubert to Dallas. Debbee Foss, Ed Palmer and Bob Bescher to Fort Worth.
 Abe Bailey to Beaumont, on option,
 By ChattanooEa s. W. Anderson to Memphis for Player Burke. M Charles Hindt to Saginaw. Frank Naples to Galveston for Doyle. r w. c. Shay to Waterbury, under op- tion. Joe Clayton to Evansville.
 By Little Rock = Players. Sturdy, Bogart, Jones, Day and McMillan, sold outright. V Dewey Brake, on option. Doe" Niederkorn to. Springfield, Mass. "
 By Birmingham Jake Miller to Fort Worth. -% Singleton to San Antonio. ..ss By Memphis Carlisle to Spartanburg.
 By Mobile .,ss Paul Speraw to Peoria.
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463 Horses Entered

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 LEXINGTON, Ky, Jan. 19.-Harry Payne Whitney of New York, with 19. leads the list of many widely known American turfmen who have made nominations for the breeders futurfty of 1921, according to the list made pub lie today of 463, listed when nomina- tions closed July 1, 1922. Only 257 re- main eligible. ;; , The fifteenth running of the futufity for two-year-olds in 1924 is to be dur ing the autumn meeting at the Lexing- ton track of the Kentucky Association, Inc. The distance is about 170> feet short of six furlongs. With $5,000 added the estimated vals1e of the event Is S20,o00.
 The, money is to be divided 70 per cent to the winner, 20 per cent to the second, 10 per cent goes to the third and the fourth horse is to save it's stake.
 Colts and geldings will carry 122 pounds and filiies 119 pounds; a winner If two stakes worth $2 800 each, or one stake of $5.000 to carry five, pounds extra. Maidens allowed five pounds.
 John E. Madden, Lexington, ranks secoEd to tileA Whitney stable, with 17 entries, and is followed by E. R. -Brad- ley, Lexington, with IA; J. N. Camden, versailles. Ky, Il; Willis Sharpe Kill mer, Binghaniton, N. T., nine; Clifford Hesdley, Lexington; John D. Hertz of Chicago and Montfort and B. B. Jones, Berry sille,N Va. aud. Harry F. Sinclair Cf, New Jersey swith six each:
 Others represented are Mrs. Payne Whitney, New York, five; Walter J. Sa1non, New York; Geo. D. Widener, ri.l4adelpala, three each; J. s. Cosden, W@rrcnton, Va; Marshall Field, New York, two each, and Benjamin Block, New York, owner of Norwich, Ken lucky DerDy wfaner in 1922; John D. sAaip, Nashville, and Willard Wilson, Birmingham, Ala, one each.
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SPRING FOOTBALL STARTS
 AT ALABAMA WEDNESDAY,
Crimson Squad Divided Into Four Teams With Hubert
 Langhorne, Whitaker And Gifis As Leader zssss Of Respective Outfits

UNIVERSITY, Ala, Jan. 19.--(Spe-S cial)--on Wednesday afternoon, all prospective candidates for the 1924 Crimson Tide of Alabama will don their football gear and prepare to "do their stuff" at Denny field for five weeks of extensive spring training.
 Over them will be Coach Wallace Wade and Assistant Coaches Vande- kraaf and Crisp, the latter to spend as much time as he can away from the basketball squad. Helping out in many ways, will be Rubber" Baty, Tom New ton and Al Clemens, all of whom have played their last game. And leading the four teams that will play two games each for five weeks will be Pooley Hu- bert, Hulett Whitaker, Jack Lang horne and Grant Gillis, all experienced grid men. 4v
 So from what one sees. the 'Bama grid 2: candidates are going to have plenty of spring training, and it Is not going to be much fun. Two games week are to be played, and practice the other five is what they will do Every phase of the game is to be , coveredby these Crimson-clad men. and every. fault noticed is to be corrected this year instead of waiting until next year. The one result expected from spring training is that the Crimson ability of his candidates long before September and the first games arrive. F Four pretty sweet teains will furnish excitement for five weekss Take Pooley Hubert's eleYen. He has Country" Oliver and Ben Compton to aid him in coaching the club, for every captain is also coach. Winslett scrub back, and Ennis and Hinton, scrub guard and end, respectively, are also on his team. Gonzales was one of the outstanding men on the freshman line this past , deal of the season. Tingie did some good work at center, while Chenault was another good Hnesman. Barton,
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EPWORTH UNION l
 CAGERS CLASH
Owenton Still Holds Lead By Defeating gSixty-seventh
 Street Quintet

The Epworth league basketeers, play ing the third series of games Saturday night, showed great improvement in their play and the games were very we'll played, although as a whole they were not as close as some of the games of last week.
 Fountain Heights led off by getting a 12-to-0 lead on the Wesley team in the first half, Thomas getting three field goals, Morris two and Eddleman one In the second half, the Wesley .boys managed to break into tn escoring, Giles getting two, McLendon one field goal and foul shot, and Seay getting one; but their guards were unable to stop the Mountain Heights machine and Thomas got four more field goals and Morris three. The final score was 19 to g. . The Sixty-seventh street team and the Owenton team furnished the clos est score of the series, the first half ending to in Owenton's favor and the final score being IT to IS. Steph- enson and shivers of owenton were the high-point men, Stephenson getting four field goals, while Shivers got three from the field and two foul shots. Lovin for Sixty-seventh street got thre, field goals, and his teammate, Perry, made five foul shots. Owenton is lead ing the loop.
 The game between the Twenty first Avenue team and Woodlawn was fast contest and both teams showed flashes of good basketball. At the end of the first half,- Twenty-first Avenue was five points ahead, the score being 13 to 8. In the last half, the Woodlawn team held their opponents to a little closer score and their advantage at the end of the game was only eight points. Price, with six field goals and one foul shot, tied with Echols of the Wood lawn team for the high-point honors of the series. Lackmon piled up total of Il points, getting five field goals and one foul. The final score was 2S to 20.
 Inglenook won their game from Ser flee by forfeit.
 The Shadyside-Fair affair was one-sided one, resulting in 25-to-9 vic tory for the Shadyside boys. Andrews of Shadyside was the next highest SCOT CT of the evening to Price and Echols. Andrews total score was 12 points, 10 of which were made on field goals. Porter played a good game at guard for the Shadyside team,
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Wells and Thomas are other good men to plug holes with. \;
 Now, look at Captain Langhorne's eleven, He has Mack Brown, Bill Buckler, and Boolaes sPaget--all letter men. They are halfback. tackle and smashing fullback and Caldwell was the best back on the freshman team this past year. Rosenfeld called sig nals for the fresh eleven, and the two ends were Kimble and .McQueen. Geiger was .. fresh guard and Harry vavsity team. Norman. H. E. Brown
 and Young are also on his club. M
 Captain Whitaker drew "Red" Barnes, fleet back, and Bruce Jones, the sensational young guard, for his varsity men,. He also got Hussey, Cal houn, Murphree, Brakefield {, and Thomas of this years scrubs. From the freshman eleven, he received Pick hard, Walls, Paul and Dismukes. while he added strength in Monkey, Barnes, who has just returned to school. Whitaker Barnes, Hpssey and Walls will form neat backffeid, while line could be easily nodded from the rest of the men. ~. x
 Grant Gillis has one edge on the other clubs--he. can .outkick them. How ever, he has plenty of assistance from Pete Camp and Elmer Dany in coachs ing his eleven. Then, he has Jimmy Johnston, Cube" Perry Frank Jen- nings and Irwin of this years scrubs, and drew some clever freshman play CTS in Holmes, Cowley, Hardgree, Hem- bree and little Compton. \
 The rules of the game allow each captain to obtain any player in school that he knows of that is not already on some other. team. There are quite a number of prep school players who have never answered a call to football practice for one reason or other, and 1t is hoped that the four captains will be able to persuade these former prep school players to turn out for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
SIMPSON FIVE
 WILL BE STRONG
Purple Tornado Under Coach
 Webb. Is Developing Into 3.s ..3s Fast Team F

The simpson Purple Tornado will leave on a trip during the latter part of the week for the southerh part of the. state and Mississippi, playing | humber of the Heading teams. of the Gulr Sssst disss,ct Mnils Sh sne sDsa '.ss Poets while in Mtntk omsry. :, ' sydney Laniet yill probably prove to- be tho < Techst6rss most important rival for state charnpioliship honors this year. and the two teAnns will try their strength this season for the first territory Sf the Poets, meeting them op fhursday evening. 1T all spfobability., :. The Tornado, under the direction of Coach Dick Webb, b2dl fatf to put out an evea better team than left Sun. shine slopes last year foF .vtctory in ths. state toysh,i,.e I, sne ts ssip as .nss strength @ Of the Puspfe And Gold. M Plans ans for the tip include tsmes with Sydney Eauter, GfeenvilIe, Barton and prob ably Gulf Coast Military academy. four of theastrongests teams of south Ala bsplaS and Miss.ss stppi. If thes Tornado wind 1t. ,wfn mean that simpson. will stand ah excellent chance or Having three championship teams in the thfee years during ' which athletic teams we're ' first organized at the a. s,- N .f \ :.-: :;,. Enia . Star x. , Johnson Eliis is the brig gtitsst pros- poet for. the Tornado to dsseiop, dur ine the eafsy part. of; the se&son.s Ellis came to- Simpson comparayiyeiy un- known, and is deyeioping intS one of the best forwafas In the entire state and better than Any who have occu- pied that berth on any team which has faced, the Tornado thus far. ..sS
 TASiickn Vincent is the strong point of the Techsters' iteaul,, sbeiag a de. pendapl man, Who Is equaling hts rec ord of last seasons sduring. which he school guard in; the south and . su- perior tg' most stars sof coiisetate qutn- tets. Curdy Byrd Is also one of the best men to have ever stepped into the Purple and Gold funiform, usually lead ing the scoring for the entire team, although rcdently out of most of the games on account of Illness. s .. l.
 'Caruso'f Willdng is a, co-worlser of Slick at guard, and bids fair to be an equal of any, of the past. and in the event that Ferguson, aai-state guard of turns, simpson will have one .ot the best all-star quintets known, to brep- dom. Albert Vincent seems to bt the leading candidate for the irernaining forward berth, although Dewey Byrd and Little BoSp Wright are promis- ing men James Harris bids fair to make, regular guard for the team. whiie g. number of other candidates are showing iip we'll
 Coach HDick'' Webb is demonstrat- ing a high class of coaching ability in bringing out the simpson quintet and may be held responsible for much of the showing made. ,e.lA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
Sneads Wins Game

The sneads seminary five defeated Bessemef High at the Birmingham Athletic club Saturday might by the score of 28 to 8. It was game of much wild shooting aid many lost opportunities. The Bsax quintet show sd superior ability at hAtrdlins the ba,i. but missed oftendA than the Bes- semer team. Se.e el X 1g x sag.: j sessd with ii points and was the optstand- ing star. Ray and Lowry starred for 3essemer. Lowry loe ped several pret- ty gcais from ionr distance.
 The lineup follcws:
 Sneads ,2o)--A-iac:'non 'G1) and Holiday, ts), forwards; cilSe-t, center; Cox (4) and V. fibert kt), guards. 5lsbstttutloas-5. si5ert 60 for hol- EdAy. -t4<A
 Es.ssrner 3>-Eey @ and vLo'iY--y (6) forwards; MtNe.ll G}. cen.er; Ed ;nrr dssn ttl anu 3aSsons (46 guards. St,sst:tattous--sea"d for Fay.
 offic.a.s-1ryan tuan2ceh Sidney , rec: ca.
 .,A-s of halves, 9 minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
Plan Big Relay Race

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 1s.-Ohio State university Is entering competition against Drake university of Des Moines, la, and the University of Penn sylvania, with an annual relay carnival at the university, the first of which is to be held on April 19. Invitations are to be sent next week to many of the same schools which now send their athletes to the two old-established car nivals.
 The big events will be open to entrants from all the schools in the land, but, like the Drake and Penn car Eiyals, the Ohio circus will have some special events for restricted entries. Western conference schools, Ohio uni versailles and colleges and Ohio normal and high schools will have some of these letters to themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
Test Golf Balls

BRUNSWICK, Ga, Jan. 19.-Thirty- five amateur golfers today drove, putted. pitched and clipped golf balls ranging in weight from 1.52 ounces to I62 ounces, tLe weight of the pres ent staniardized ball, and varying in size from balls considerably smaller to somewhat larger than the present ball in an effort to determine the standard ball of the future. The golf ball expert ments are being conducted. On Jekyl Island, about eighteen miles from here.
 The experiment has the approval o9 the United States Golf association and British golf authorities. According to Cornelius S. Lee, secretary of the United States Golf association, the se- ries of experiments, which Will last ten days, is to test the action Of Golf ba.la of various weights and sizes under varying conditions.
 Among the thirty-five golfers are players ranging from virtual Deglnnecs to experts. Thirty-six holes will be played each day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
Strib Fights In N. Y.


 NEW YORK, Jan. 19.--Young Strib- ling, Macon, Ga, light-heavyw weight, may make his New York debut at Mai ison. Square Garden within the next month If present negotiations are suc- cessful. He will appear in a six-round contest, to which he is limited because of the age rule or the New York state athletic commission. ft
 An effort was made to sign Strib- ling for match .oh January 28 with Paul Berlenbach, New York middle we-ght, with a string Of twenty con- secutive knockouts to his credit, but tLe sot theiner was unable to accept l. at date. BerlenDach, however, prob, ally will be his opponent some time in Feprua,y. ~.l as. .-
 Irish Johnny Curtin of Jersey City and Jos Ryder of Brooklyn, bantam welghts rivals, have been match for lz-ro,lnd return contest January 2s, at the Harden. Curtin won on foul la their last encounter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
Record Entry List

CLEVELAND, O., Jan i19.-An- nouncement today of the lists of nom nations in the championship stallion stake and fnatron stake, promoted by the American Association of Trqtting Horse Breeders for colts foaled in 1893 shows the largest list of nominations to the events in several years. '..As
 The matron stake received '6s1 nom- nations, an increase of more than 100 over the, 1922 list, and ; in the stallion stake, 86 of the acountry.s most noted sires are. named, making all of. their 1923 get Aeligible to4 the event regard less of ownership. s3 1s Y ( If
 These stakes are raced off when the entrants are three years old, and are recognized as among the most impor- ant events contested over Grand Cir cult tracks The championship stallion stake is worth annually from 5000 to $12. .0t0, andS' the matron stake from $7,o0o to 5000: Y X -t..tc
 Nearly every stock farm in the United States and Canada Is repre- sented this year in both stakes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
Prince Is High Man


 Edmond Prince, Jr., was high man in the distance handicap, breaking 46 out of his 50 from the 2o-yard mark at the gun club Saturday. I. M. Crum was second, with a A, shooting from the same yardage. B. E. Strader and Prince, Jr., tied for high on the 50 shot from the 16-yard mark with 49 each. Crunt came second in. this race, with 47 dead birds. The studebaker trophy, was shot for, and the high man in the handicap was winner, or will get his name engraved on the cup and will have chance to compete in the shoot off. when it ,is com 2eted for 20 times. The ones that have a win on this hand some, cup so far are O. L. Carl, who coppad the frat win; M. c. Tyler, T. K. Lee and Prince, Jr. lM, C.9 Tyier5 was high man on the doubles, ,brealiing- go out of the 24 shot at. Dr: Prince came second, with 19. Next Saturday, January 26, will be the Ford Cola shoot,
 Scores made in tss distance handi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
Joie Ray Wins Race

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-Joie Ray, Illinois A. c. star, tonight won the spe- cial invitation mile run at the Fordham university track meet. His time was 4:26 1-5.
 William Goodwin, New York A. C., finished second, and Walter Higgins of the same club was third.
 Ray took the lead on the first lap and set a fast pace, shaking off all com- petitors except Goodwin, who hung on until the stretch. Ray won by a foot.
 After winning the first heat of the 120-yard handicap, Bob McAllister, the flying cop," collapsed and withdrew from the race.
 Vernon Ascher, junior national sprint champion, won the 440-yard run, de- feating Tom Campbell, New York A. C., by four yards. Both started from scratch. s~
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B. Mckinney and Ware, forwards; Hugenschmidt, center, and Barks and Gray, guards.
 For the Clubbers, Vincent led in SCOT ing, with IA points, and played a mag nificent game. Mandy, the other for ward, failed to work his long shots over the Tiger defense and only got one field goal Leake, former University of Alabama star, playing stationary guard, played good game.
 For Auburn, Creel repeated his high scoring record and made IS of Auburn's A points. Captain Hahn and Harrison evened their tallies with eight points each. Dukes work at guard was su- perb, as was w. McKinneys play at the other guard. Captain Hahn of B. A. c. was out on account of injuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
Lee Leads In Shoot

The third match of the indoor series of the U. S.. R. A. for 1924 the past week showed some upsets and some surprises in the final scores as tab ulated by Governor McCartin. :, Tack hole Lee put his first twenty three shots into {i-e bull s eye, before letting one slip out, which is the longest run u- Du.-s 1~r the season. Weldon, who has been going mighty we'll this sea son, got the buck and his score. suf- fsred, but he managed to cling to sec end place Just the same. H. 0. Holt, a new shooter, ran him. Close with a 194 an unusually high score for new man. Person Moore and his side kick "Ste.nway' Jones, were on hand, and considering their lacA of practice, made good scores. t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
Aoppe To Defend Tile

CHICAGO, Jan. I9.-1Ail- Is tn read, ineas TOT the cnampionsaip 15.2 bdlk- Inc billiards match starting in Or L-estra hal Ee-e Monday ngit, when Niliie Hoppe VII lave an opponent, Young Jaise Scha.er, who is exercising l. ,-3t to .cnaileng .lwyn by finishing t..a4a III t1.e recen. New York taurna- q n Tt won by Hoppe, Hope wifi ar- rye from New York tcEiclI0w. Scha- re. kaa been Lc.e practic;ag several Cays.
 -..e contest will be tHe usual 1,50o p5.Ets played in three nightly blocks Of 5G1 ,sacL
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Dem, Will Not Sign

HUNTINGTON, w. Va. Jon. 1s.- purchased by the New York Giants from the Louisville club of the Ameri- can assoctatlph, annornced here tonight that he had returned unsigned q con tract offered to him by Manager Mo Graw. He declared the Louisville club signed him for $500 month with the underst anding that he would be given Q substa ntial increase in salary If sold 10 one of the major league clubs. Dsan did not, announce the figure n she New York contract, but indicated thatit was unsatisfactory to, him. He is spending the winter working as an apprentice architect fp his father'si office here