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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-21
NO SCRAPPiNC,
 SAYS JOHNSON

CHICAGO, June 20.-With the an- nouncement that the players involved Ill the riotous New York-Detroit game at Detroit last Friday has been fined as well as suspended, President Ban John son of the American league tonight de- clared that fighting and boisterous con- duct would have no part in the playing of an American league game and that if there are to be any finished battles, they must be staged in vacant lot, far removed from the ball parks"
 Babe Ruth, worlds champion home run hitter, while escaping suspension, was fined $50 for what President John son characterized as his "frenzied eff fort to participate in the trouble" Bob Meusel, Yankee outfelder was fined $100 in addition to a Today suspen- sion. Bert Cole, the Detroit pitcher, was fined $50 and suspended for ten days. .1
 The game, breaking up in a free-for- all fight in which players, police and spectators participated, was forfeited 5 to to the Yankees when the police were unable to clear the field.
 "The forfeiture was a regretable oc- currence, and wholly at variance to a standard the American league is pledged to maintain in good department and the highest grade of sportsmanship among it's players" President Johnson said.
 Meusels conduct was highly censur- able. He precipitated the outbreak and added fuel to the fire by his menacing attitude toward Cole in passing through the dugout of the Detroit players"
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enjoy the strange spectacle of 16 young men pulling at the cars for the fun of it.
 This was Yale's fourth consecutive victory in the varsity race with Harvard, the big race. of the Yale-Harvard sea- son, and the second consecutive year that Yale has swept the river clean. Yale also won the freshman and junior varsity races in the morning.
 Half a dozen members of the Uni versity of Washington crew which won the intercollegiate championship at Poughkeepsie a few days ago, and sev- eral oarsmen from the Wisconsin ship, which was second in that three-mile struggle, came to New London for the first time in their lives and took a look at the crews which held themselves aloof from the intercollegiate.
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FLORENCE WINS
 ANOTHER SCRAP

FLORENCE, Ala, June 2O.-The Lions put another one on their side of the ledger this afternoon by winning from Huntsville, to 5. The game was a nip and tuck affair with the To- calls going up in the ninth one run be- hind.
 Riley got on when Chaney, second baseman for Huntsville, let one get through, Riley went tc third on Cooks single and scored on Parks single to left, they won the game in the tenth after Huntsville went out three up and three down in their half, when Flack clouted one after Barfield and Lewis got on by errors.
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COLE, RUTH AND
 MEUSEL FINED.
Tiger Pitcher And Tank .Outfielder Also Gets 10
 Days Off For Fight

. CHICAGO, June 20.-Fines and sus- pensions for their participation in the fight that broke up a New York-De- troit ball game in the latter city last week have been inflicted upon Pit . nr Cole of the Tigers and Bob Meusel q , the Tanks.
 Babe Ruth drew $50 fine for his endeavors to mix into the argument between Cole and Meusel. Meusel is fined $200 and suspended for 10 days and Cole must forfeit $50 and also stay off the field for 10 days, Ban B. John son, president of the American league, announced Friday.
 Johnson's announcement condemned violence on the ball field and said:
 "Meusefs conduct on that occasion was highly censurable. He precipitated the outbreak and added fuel to the fire by his menacing attitude toward Cole in passing through the dugout of the De troit players.
 When Kicked Out. Leave
 When player is ordered off the field by the umpires, he must go direct to the dressing room. It is not permis- sible for him to tarry on the players bench. The second outbreak would not have occurred had Cole followed the well prescribed lines of procedure.
 Player Ruth cannot go unrebpked. His frenzied efforts to participate in the trouble were reprehensible.
 Following an exchange of wild swings between Cole and Meusel on the pitch CTS mound, the pair got together again as they were leaving the field, result ing in a general melee in which the crowd swarmed to the field, stopped the game and necessitated the calling of po- lice reservese. The game was forfeited to New York owing to the action of the Detroit fans.
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VESTS GOLF
 FINALE TODAY

CHICAGO, June 20.-George Daw- son of the University of Illinois and Mode Holdsworth of the University of Michigan will meet in the finals tomor- row for the western intercollegiate golf championship. Play will be at 36 holes.
 Dawson defeated Donald Heppes of Northwestern 8 and in the semi-fnal round this afternoon and Holdsworth took Carl Engstrom of Indiana into camp, [ and 5.
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LAFAYETTE IN
 EASY VICTORY

LAFAYETTE, Ala, June 2O.-La- Fayette walked away with Lanett this afternoon at Lanett, winning by score of 13 to 3. Hasty was knocked out of the box j in the third inning, LaFay- cite scoring nine runs off him.
 The hitting of Angley D. Milner and Moreland. and the fast fielding of the entire LaFayette team were features James pitched good bame for La Fayette.
 2eore Dy innings: R. H. E. Lanett 10 0 00O2 21O 3 62 Batteries: James, Afford and Ang- ley; Nasty, Johnson and Palmisano.
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'HARGRAVE WILL
 PLAY FOR BEARS

MOBILE, Ala, JuLe 20.-Pat Har- grave, infielder, who has been with the Bridgeport. Conn.,. team of the East ern league, has been purchased by the Mobile Southern association team from the Boston Red Sox, it was announced here today. Four years ago Hargrave was with the Chicago Cubs.
 President Robert M. Weinacker of the Mobile team is endeavoring to in- duce Pitcher Blume, traded to Mobile by the Memphis club, to change his mind and report to. the team.
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WALKER FIGHTS
 BENNY LEONARD

NEW YORK. June 2O-Mickey Walker will defend his worlds welter- weight title against Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, and Dave Shade will meet the winner, the New York State Athletic Commission announced today. Details have not been settled but Chairman Brewer said the three principals had agreed to place arrange ments for the two bouts in the hands of the commission. At least one of the battles will be fought in New York state, and efforts will be made to stage both during the outdoor season, Mir. Brewer said.
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GIRLS TEAM IS
 WINNER, 3 TO 2

ALBANY-DECATUR, Ala, June 20. Special Leased Wire. )-The Amer ican athletic girls heralded as a base ball team of girls but whose line up here Thursday revealed girls and 4 men defeated a picked team of locals, 3 to in a fast game at Malone Park. Watson, a local city leaguer, loaned to the visitors for the day providing the hitting sensation of the game hitting four safeties in the same number of tries
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SAIL
 FOR OLYMPICS

NORFOLK, Va, June 20.-Repairs to the battleship West Virginia held up at Lynnhaven Roads for three days with a broken condenser head, were finished last night and the ship, which bears the naval olympic games teams and is on her shakedown cruise, sailed today for Frest, France.
 The damage to the West Virginia's s machinery was caused by mud fouling the condenser when the vessel was pro- ceeding down the Thimble Shoals chan nel toward sea early Monday morning.
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YICKsBURG COPS.

LAUREL, Miss, June 20.-Lewis, twirling for the 1owly Vicksburg aggre- gation, broke the Lumberjacks' winning streak today in pitchers battle, which ended to 0. in favor of the Vixons. Pollard crossing the. plate on Ranval's two base hit was called out at third for failing to touch the bag.
 Vicksburg ..... .OO0 100 OOO-1 6 1 Laurel .......... .000 900 000-0 6 0
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HAMMERS WINS BOUT

CEDAR POINT, O., June 20.- Walter Hammers of Danbury, Ohio. today won the Mallory cup event, the classic of the Indiana annuaI tourna- ment, which closed here this afternoon Shooting from the 19-yard line Lam- mers broke fifty targets without miss.
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YOUNGsTER WINS MEET

ARDMORE, Okla, June 20.-Keefe Carter, 17 year old Oklahoma City player, won the 1924 amateur golf championship of Oklahoma today by de- feating Don Boutwell,, of Tulsa, II up and to play,
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GAMES TODAY

Southern League Chattanooga at Birmingham. Nashville at Atlanta. New Orleans at Memphis. Mobile at Little Rock.
 National League New York at Boston. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Pittsburg. St. Louis at Chicago.
 American League Cleveland at Detroit. Washington at Philadelphia. Boston at New York. Chicago at St. Louis.
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BEARS BEATEN
 BY TRAVELLERS
Roberts Allows Mobile :. Eaters Scant Three
 Hits In Game

LITTLE ROCK Ark. June 2o.-Little
 Rock showed a reversal of form today and defeated Mobile, to 0. Roberts al- lowed but three hits. one in each of the.- s7 first three innings
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Summary: Two-base hits. Herman. Guyon. Three base hit. Smith. Home run, Philbin. Sacrifice hits. Cueto. Guyon, La 6. Mobile :. Innings pitched. by Ellis with 12 hits and runs. Double play. Cueto to Huhn. Struck out by Roberts {, by Ellis 1. Bases on balls. off Roberts {, off Ellis 1. Wild pitch, Acosta. Um- pires, Brennan and Campbell. Time. l; 20
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Annual Boat Race From Harva,d Crew By Tuo Lengths
RESULTS

Southern League Birmingham {, Chattanooga 2. Little Rock 8. Mobile Q. Atlanta 1. Nashville O. New Orleans :. Memphis l.
 Cotton States League Hattiesburg. :; Monroe. 5. Vicksburg, 1; Laurel, 0. Brookhaven-Ja Jackson, rain.
 National League New Ycrk 6, Boston 1. Philadelphia 10. Brooklyn 1. Pittsburg g. Cincinnati 1. Only games scheduled
 American League Cleveland II, Detroit g. Washington 3, Philadelphia 2 12 in- lings). New York Boston, rain. Chicago-St. Louis, rain.
 American Association Milwaukee II, Indianapolis 3. St. Paul 4. Columbus g. Minneapolis ?. Toledo ,. Kansas City 3. Louisville G1 innings).
 International League Buffalo '. Jersey City S. Syracuse A, Reading '1-3. Rochester S. Baltimore 13:
 Pacific Coast League Seattle S. Sacramento 3. Oakland Z, San FranCiSCO 10. Portland :, Salt Lake City 10. Vernon 5, Los Angeles l.
 Western League Oklahoma City 5, Tulsa 3. Des Moines 5. Denver 6. Other games postponed, rain and wet grounds.
 Virginia League Norfolk 2, Rocky Mount 4 Petersburg 6, Portsmouth 0. Richmond @. Wilson l. Augusta S., Greenville g.. Macon T. Spartanburg 1. Ashevlle 8. Charlotte 10. Dallas 3. Fort Worth 4. Wichita Falls 12, Shreveport 8. Others games postponed, rain.
 Florida State League St. Petersburg 13. Bradentown 3. Daytona 3, Lakeland A. Tampa Orlando, rain.
 Western Association Hutchinson 8. Bartetsville 5. Muskogee 1. Okmulgee O. Topeka Springfield, rain.
 Exhibition Games St. Louis (Natiouals) ...,.. II Is aessET Batteries W Wolf f. and Wick; spet1. Man. ming and Dreyer.
 Piedmont League Winston Salem, 8; Raleigh, i. Durham. 2-3: Danville. a.. High Point 5; Greensboro. 1.
 Appalachian League Greenville, AZ; Johnson City, 2-3. Knoxville. S. Morristown, 10. RriafoI KinrEnnrt
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Piedmont Learne
ADnAlaChinn

Winston Salem. 8; Raleigh. 1. Durham. 2-3: Danville. a..
 High Point. s; Greensboro, f.
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Score' K H. E St. Louis (Natiopals) ...-..... II Is
 Batteries: Wolf and Wick; Spetz Man. ming and Dreyer.
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Appalachian League Greenville, AZ; Johnson City, 23. Knoxville. 6: Morristown, 10. Bristol, 1 Kingsport. IS.
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Exhibition Games

Western Association Hutchinson 8, Bartetsville 5. Muskogee 1. Okmulgee o. Topeka Springfield, rain.
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Florida State League St. Petersburg 13, Bradentown 3. Daytona 3, Lakeland 4. Tampa Orlando, rain.
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And the TAILOR NG-you would ex- pect in a regular $35 to $45 garment.
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intended to destroy the automatically aside

that he intended to destroy the en-
tire family.
Despite this, however, the coro-
ner's jury had hardly rendered q
verdict before E. D. Bigham was ar
rested and lodged in Jail on charges
of murder.
The following March he went on
trial and the state attempted to
prove that he committed the five
murders in order to become sole
heir to the family estate.
Bigham was found guilty AMI
subsequently sentenceds8o die in the
electric chair. Immediately steps
were taken to. secure a new trial,
principally on grounds that the de-
PENDANT had not been given ample
time to employ counsel and prepare
his defense. His attorneys also de-
clared that he could not receive a
fair and impartial trial here be
cause of public sentiment, which at
that time, they said, was at feveg
heat against him.
Shortly afterwards he was grant
ed another trial and the death sent.
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When the case again VS.

When the case again was pre-
sented before a jury with additional
evidence the verdict remained I'M
changed, and Bigham for the sec
ond time heard a judge declare thet
he must die in the electric chair.
Twice sentenced to death, the
doomed man refused to give up
the fight for his life, AMI continued
to maintain his innocence.
''The state is sending an innocent
man to the chair" he said dramat-
ically after hearing the second sent,
ence. 8s 1it b
He then began making pleas for
new trials and they were rejectel
one after another. The case then
was carried to the Supreme Court
of South Carolina an dthis body re-
fused to reverse the decision handed
down by the lower court.
The next attempt of the defense
council proved more successful. In
June of last year his attorneys sue.
ceeded in securing a majority of
the court in a per curiam order. Thu
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SLEEPLESSNESS
Virginia Lady Says That Many
of Her Long Suffered Ills
Have Fled Since She Took
Cardui.

Bristol, Va.-"I can sleep good at
night now, something have never
done before in my life" says Mrs.
Deala Hawks, of TIP Prospect ST., this
city, "and it is due to Cardui.
II was always nervous and tossed
when / should have been asleep, but
since / took Cardui it has strength
ened me, and my general health is SO
improved that many of the ills from
which have suffered for years have
fed. :.
~ used to go to bed tired and, when
would get up in the morning, was
still tired. Now feel like doing a
days work in my garden or in the
house, and / owe all this good health
to Cardui, for had suffered for years
until | took it.
II had had female trouble for years
and once, for six months, was nat
on my back. am glad to recommend
to other women q medicine which mas
helped me-"
II you are nervous and rundown IN
health, suffering as Mrs. Hawks de.
scribes above, it is probable that
Cardui will greatly help you; Try II
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B|GHAM DOOMED
THREE 7 | N { s
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chair or he will be acquitted" This
seems to sum up the consensus of
opinion expressed in this section.
Attorneys for both sides in the
next trial also see INTO believe that
this hearing will write "finis" as
far as Bigham's court skirmishes
are concerned.
After a review Of the entire case
IA review in which volumes of tes-
timony and accounts of court pro
ceedures will be given-12 men will
decide what is to become of the de.
PENDANT.
In the few short sentences he has
given when questioned, ne express
ed an opinion that he will live.
81 am innocent" he said, "and
they can't electrocute an innocent
manor they won't.
Bigham probably has said those
three words more times than any
others during the past three years
and several months over. ri am
innocent" he has said time and time
again.
The wholesale Staying of which
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oNDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER y. 1929
new TRAIN SCHEDULE
PROPOSED BY S. A. |.
6econd Proposed Plan Said to
Meet All Objections Offered
to First Plan

The Seaboard Air Line Railwa :
company has today submitted a new
schedule. taing the place Of the one
previously proposed at meeting Of
80 citizens in the Chamber of Com
lnerce several days ago.
The new schedule was prepared
to meet objections Of towns west Of
Americas, and is better schedule
for Americas than one proposed by
! w. L. Stanley, vice president to the
and directors oe the CHAM
Der.
"Under the new plan submitted
this morning, said Secretary Ever
EFT, train No. II win run from Sa-
yannah to Montgomery, passing AM
CIRCUS at $3.50 p. m. Train No. 81
will run from Cordele to Richland
arriving in Americas $40 a. m.
Train No. IL will run from Ameri-
Gus to Savannah, leaving Americas
1920 a. M, arriving Savannah sos
p. m.
"Train No. 16 will leave Mont
gomery 6:10 a. M, arriving Ameri-
Gus 1928 a. M, stopping at AM
CIRCUS. Train No. % will leave
Richland 4:4O p. M, arriving Am
CIRCUS 5 40 and at Cordele at z :55
p. M, stopping at Cordele.
1t will be noted that trains Nos.
81 and % have been add since Il e
first plan was submitted, and under
the new plan Americas will have .
trains day instead of 4.
"The 'Shu Fly is cancelled east
of Americas, but operates as train
No. 16 from Montgomery to Am
CIRCUS.
"This new schedule is considered
better arrangement all around for
Americas than the one now in oper-
alton or the one first proposed ~
said Mr.. Everett.
"This new schedule was arranged
to meet both the requests of those
towns west of Americas and the re
quests of the Seaboard employees
living in Americas, and I believe
meets all objections and is a hap
Ply solution Of the problem" cor.
cluded Mr.. Everett.
Superintendent Bagwell, of tae
S. A. L., was in Americas for a hour
last Friday night, when he laid the
new schedule before a representa-
tive of the employees of the Sea-
board and the president of the
chamber of commerce. This new
plan, the one outlined above, met
every request of the employees and
also was thought to be satisfactory
to Americas. Mr.. Bagwell went to
Atlanta Friday night and submitted
the new schedule to Vice President
Stanley, who agreed to the change
as is outlined in a letter to Secre-
tary Everett received Monday
morning.
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defense lawyers maintained that a
new trial was justifiable on grounds
Of newly-discovered evidence,
When the case came up at the
following term of court, the judge
declared himself disqualified to
pass further on it, and his own mo-
ton that the hearing be continued
until the next term of court became
effective.
Last November when the trial
came up, state attorneys asked for
continuance on grounds that they
rad been unable to prepare the r
case at that time. The motion was
granted and Bigham again obtained
another lease on life.
Shortly afterwards the state made
another motion begging that the
Supreme Court grant an order di-
recting Judge R. w. Memminger to
make complete report nthe tra
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defense lawYers maintained that a -stressinp .

'stressing points relative to clamis
that the defendant did not get an
impartial hearing.
In April a review nthe while
case was heard before Judge John
S. Wilson and a new trial granted
on the following day.
The case then was scheduled to
come. up during June in the crimi-
nal Court of Florence County. Corn
sci for the defense and prosecution
agreed to continue the hearing I'M
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he has been convicted four times
occurred nearly four years ago,
back in January OF 1921, at the
Bigham country home near here
Shortly after the fatal shots were
fired, the bodies Of five members
of the Bigham family we're found
strewn in the house and over t. e
premises.
All of the bodies were laying
within so yards of the house.
The dead were; Mrs. M. NJ. Big
ham, mother of the prisoner; Mrs.
Margery Black, a sister; L. S. Big
ham, brother of the convicted man
John McCracker, Mrs. Blacks adopt
ed boy, and Lee McCracken, Johns
younger brother.
1t was not until the following day
after the Staying that the epilogue
of the tragedy was discovered. T.
S. Bigham, the brother, was four d
dead on the side of ditch near the
Bigham home. The dead man
clutched discharged revolver in
his hand. He was the last to be
found.
This led to the theory that the
dead Bigham, after wiping out his
entire family, had ended his own
life by suicide. This, theory was
strengthened by the supposition that
the revolver which he held was tic
same one by which the other four
came to their deaths.
Later, attorneys for the defense
declared they had found letters writ
ten by L. S. Bigham to the effect
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
BANDIT SUSPECT
 IS RE-ARRESTED
Move For Freedom Blocked By
 Postal Inspectors

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Attempts to ob. tain the release of Joseph Newton, held in connection with the recent mail train robbery at Rondout, H., failed today when postal inspectors, learning of the move, appeared before United States Commissioner H. c. Beitler and pro. cured a warrant for Newton,s arrest on charge growing out of his arrest ment in Texas for the robbery of a Kansas Southern train in 1921.
 Real estate worth $400,000 had been scheduled to secure Newton's bonds.
 Warrants were taken out at the same time for Willis and William Newton, the Rondout holdup, on charges of brothers of Joseph, also being held in having participated in the. Texas rob- bery.
 Four other members of the / gang charged with rObbing the mail train at Rondout have been released on bond. totalling more than $30O,O0O. They ar Walter McComb and his wife, Jamei Murray and Mrs. Louise Drafka.
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ELECTION HOLDS
 FAIRFIELD STAGE
Aldermanic Contests Will Be
 Interesting To Voters
(Fairfield Bureau.).


 FAIRFIELD, Ala, Aug. 0.--With the city election less than sixty days away, interest is mounting in the race for president of the city council and the fifteenth councilmanic post.
 From indications Mayor MeIford w. Pratt will not be opposed for re-elec- tion. He has served the city in man. ner that has been pleasing to the voters and there seems to be a well understood agreement to re-elect him without op- position. This is precedent set when A. Clinton Decker served two terms, the latter one without opposition. Mir. Pratt's administration has been fea- tured with several very perplexing prob lems which he has carried through with credit to himself and to the entire city,
 As for the president of the council, no announcement has been made. The political woods are filled with candi- dates for alderman. One of the most interesting announcements was that of James Horne, who seeks to be elected from the second ward. Charles R. At kins is also offering from the second. In the election the voters in all parts of the city vote on every alderman, it matters not from what ward he may offer.