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The Washington times., 1924-02-09
EMERSON FIVE BOWS
TO SWAVELY PREPS

The Swavley Props added another
victim to their list when they took
the measure Of the Emerson lnsti-
tute five in rather hollow fashion,
80 to IL.
McReynolds, Swavley's center,
was easily the star OF the contest,
he caging no less than ten goals
from scrimmage. Vahey and Per.
kins played best for. the losers.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
ALEX M'CAUSLAND.
Old-Timers at the Tia Juana
Merry-GO-ArOund.

rrARRY SMITH sends us this
clipping about the boys he
AA met at Tia Juana, where the
bang-tails romp from Thanksgiv-
ing Day until the middle of March:
Gregory Mitchell, who used to
make Coffroth's preliminary
matches in San Francisco, is one
of the presidents chief assistants
and has a keen eye around the
ring.
Willie Kid Nelson, the silver
toned tenor, and Tod Sloan, who
as a jockey many years back
thrilled thousands, have response
BILE positions with the Jockey Club.
Remember Southside Jack
O'Brien, who in the days of old
staged many a good scrap at
Dreamland or the other fight
clubs hereabouts? He polishes
the mahogany in the clubhouse
bar-strange word that these days
for we folks in the United States.
Frank Garlic, who at one time
managed Aurelo Herrera, is in
charge of one of the games on
the track property. Strange CO.
incidence. Sam Harris, who more
than a quarter century ago, man.
aged Terry McGovern, but now
has big theatrical interests as well
as a racing stable. He was a recent
Tia Juana visitor, and met Garlic
for the first time in twenty-seven
years. That far back they faced
each other from across the ring.
This time it was on a race track.
Billy Roche, the one-time San
Francisco referee who for many
years has made his residence in
New York, is one of the "boys" at
the track, and he plans to remain
for the full season.
Jim Neil, father Of frankie
Neil, former bantamweight cham
pion, and Tom Sharkey-yes, the
old-time heavyweight-are also on
the Tia Juana pay roll, and keep
themselves busy during the racing
season.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
DOMINICANS LOSE TO
ANACOSTIA EAGLES

The Anacostia Eagles made it
fifteen in a row when they took
the Dominican Lyceum five into
camp, last night, 33 to II.
Clark proved the outstanding star
Of the contest with nine field goals,
although the general all around
play Of the winners stood out in
contrast to that Of The Domluicans.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
GEORGETOWN FROSH
DEFEATS TECHNICAL

Technical High Schools basket.
ball five lost a well played game
to Georgetown freshmen, 26 to 81,
in a preliminary to the Georgetown.
George Washington fray last night.
The contest was a nip and tuck
affair up until the final minutes
when the Blue and Gray yearlings
forged to the front and were never
headed,
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
BATTLING SKI TACKLES
MIKE CoNRoY ON MONDAY

Battling Sikh, the singular Sene.
galese, former world light-heavy-
weight champion, will exchange
swings Monday night at Rochester,
N. Y, with Mike Conroy, home
boy. Sikh should draw well, as this
will be his first appearance in
Rochester.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
Should Cinch It.

EASTERN HIGH SCHOOLS
basketball five should cinch
- the interscholastic champion
ship today at the Coliseum by
handing Western its second de-
feat. In their first game in the
series Western got away to a neat
lead, but could not hold it in the
face Of Eastern's redoubled ef-
forts in the final half. It was
winning basketball on the part of
Charlie Guyon's lads.
Eastern's success in basketball
is an excellent thing for the game
in Washington's high schools, just
as Techs victory in football last
fall. For several years Central
was top dog in everything. To-
day the Mt. Pleasant teams know
they have to show everything
merely to win and the unexpected
triumph Of Business over Central's
basketball five must have come
like a dash of cold water.
School athletics are in healthy
condition when titles move around
every now and then.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
Mum Is Some Bow.

Wayne Mum, former Nebraska
University star athlete, is close to
the biggest of all the professional
wrestlers. He stands six feet six
inches in height and tips the be1NS
at 266 pounds. He was a brilliant
football player at Nebraska,
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
Business With Than.

The Dreadnaughts know they can
make more money playing all thei..
games in Alexandria and therefore
remain out Of the leayIs te.ng
formed here.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
BOWLING TOURNEY ENDS
WITH STAR PROGRAM
By r. D. THOMAS.

Tonight the end and possibly the big kick of the Washington
CITY Duckpn individual tournament at the Grand Gen.
At of the bowlers Washington
shoot At least ought something sensational
John Harvi who will roll No alley guilty Of having shot
league of I'll this Bill nge scheduled No. has
turned in $685. Arthur Urban, been
known to shoot 400 for three games
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
Urban With Yanks.

Luke Urban, former Boston col.
lege star baseball and football play.
er, Is going South with the Yankees.
He caught good ball for Buffalo in
the International League last sea-
son.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
JUST WHO WILL FACE GRIFFMEN.

ATEXT Saturday the first of the Griffmen will their
toward the bamy fields of Florida and won't be
long thereafter when Washington fans will be whole
lot about the Grffmen and the they in the
spring exhibition games prominent they
northern with the Griffs Washington will consider
able about the Boston Braves and accordingly be Of
interest right spill hundred bright about the
Dave Bancroft will have in training at St. Petersburg
clash three times Florida and before the
Anri
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
Will Soon Return.

Charlie White. the Chicago south.
paw lightweight. expects to return
to the ring soon. He has had his
tonsils removed.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
JOHNNY WILSON SURE
TO COLLECT NEAT SUM

Johnny Wilson, who is booked up
to battle Tommy Loughran, Of
Philadelphia, in the star bout Of
ten rounds, to decision, at
the Armory A. A. in Boston on next
Tuesday night, is to receive a guar.
antee of $4,000 for his end with the
privilege Of taking a percentage
Of the gross receipts.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09


juvenated Boston team training
at st. Pete this spring. Fred
Mitchell had a flock Of spawned
veterans and raw. green kids
last year. Some of the former
have disappeared, and most of the
latter, though there should be a
number of flashy youngsters seek
ing jobs with the Braves.
Stuffy McInnis, who is slowing
up rapidly, is expected to be on
hand for that job at first base.
Cotton Tierney, a ragged fielding,
slugging second sacker, replaces
the doubtful Ford. Tony BOeckel
will again be perched on the
hot corner with Dave Bancroft
holding down the shortstop's
berth. It shapes up like a pretty
fair infield, perhaps not as fast
as it might be, but each man on
the quartet a scrapper and a
hitter.
In the garden Bill Southworth
will be gone. He was the best
outfielder Fred Mitchell had, but
Bancroft's trio won't be so bad.
Casey Stengel, as long as his
legs hold out, will be there. So
will Bill Cunningham and Gus
Felix. All three can field and
hit, Felix developing last sea-
son into a regular.
Behind the bat Bancroft has
two capable catchers in the pep
perry O'Neil and the equally
heated "Oil" Smith, both former
Giants.
Bancroft's chief task will be to
weld a pitching staff together.
Jess Barnes and Rube Marquard,
former Giants, offer the seasoned
experience, while Joe Genewich
and Johnny Cooney are brilliant
youngsters. Mcnamara, former
Fordham College finger, will
seek a steady berth and may get
it this year.
The Braves, at least on paper,
promise to have more strength
this year than they did in 1928.
Walter the Great.
VKTALTER JOHNSON has
w signed his eighteenth Wash
W ington contract and informs
President Griffith that a winters
hunting and rowing has kept him
in perfect health. He will be on
the job at Tampa, working that
wonderful right arm of his into
condition for another seasons
hard grind.
In all his lengthy career John
son has been a model Of personal
propriety, an example for thou
sands of youngsters all over this
broad land. He is universally liked
and admired by players, umpires
and fans. It is doubtful if there
is one exception to this condition.
Johnson is not the Johnson of
old, but he is still good enough to
end his last campaign with twelve
strikeouts as sort of parting
flip for the boys. He should win
fifteen victories this year with any
sort of support. He is still a
tough egg for the batsmen to
tackle.
In years johnson is still young
man. In baseball he ranks with
the aged and tottering. Few pitch
ers, especially those who have
been forced to work as hard as
Johnson, have endured as long as
he. The end must be ahead. It
was foretold two or three years
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
Canada's Hockey Stars
viii Turn Pro
Next Year

HAMILTON, Ontario, Feb. 8.
-Canada's entire hockey team,
which won the Olympic cham
pionship at Chamonix, will turn
professional, it was reported
here, and will represent New
York next year in new pro-
fessional hockey league that is
being organized by Tex Rickard,
New York sports promoter.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
DO You Remember

Gerstenberg's Great Danes?
Those pancakes at Han
cocks?
When Ira Lamotte was man.
ager Of the Academy?
Jackson City in it's prime?
- "I'll take a lemon sour this
time"
The Washington times., 1924-02-09

WE have the following letter from San Francisco:
w DEAR TAD:
" "One-eyed" Connolly here with the actors to
the motion picture ball. he around to Leon
wouldn't him the and make couple OF
of told "OneEyed that IT
Connolly hit him for two "Oakys" and took
in the show
There's the where Benny does bending that
reduces the fat from the hips
says Tmberg Blending good for the muscles of the
the do want to it?
"Well have nothing do" replied Timberg.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
Here's a Yarn for John T. King.
EAR TAD. -

ID Just before the recent
- Queensland, Australia, pro-
hibition defeat, a party of tenn
perance workers had run to earth
Q man who had reached the age
The Washington times., 1924-02-09

ago, yet it seems to be at least
that far off.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09

Ruth Is Now Thirty.
Babe Ruth celebrated his thir.
tfeth birthday on Thursday.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09
Baby Doll Wears Specs.

Baby Doll Wears Specs.
Baby Doll Bill Jacobson, the st.
Louis Browns mountainous out.
fielder, has been advised to wear
glasses when not playing ball. He
believes the cheaters will increase
his batting average this season.
Rowing Season On.
The rowing season is officially un-
der way, now that the Naval Acad-
emy crew is on the water.
The Washington times., 1924-02-09

Prominent among these were
AIvah Meyer, Abel Kiviat, Jim
R0senberger, and when the great
Hannes KOlehmainen came here
from Finland he decided to do
most of his training under his
watchful eye. Another man who
had great faith i'm RObby was the
late Martin Sheridan.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-04
MISSING FUNDS ARE
 RETURNED ID NAVY
Wife Of Naval Paymaster Returns
 Money

San Diego, Calif., April 4.-Lieu. tenant Ervine R. Brown, missing navy paymaster. ~s whose accounts were found to be s12o,oo0 short, was here Monday and iE Los Angeles Tuesday according to navy officials who an- nounced yesterday that Mrs. Daisy D Brown, his wife, Wednesday returned s75.ooo of, the missing funds.
 Announcement of Browns move ments after the return of part of the missing funds by Mrs. Brown, it was said. is still at large.
 Mrs. Brown. 1t was stated, brought the money to San Diego Wednesday in two of the grips carried by her hus- band when he left his ship, the '. S. S. Somers. According to her story to navy officers. Brown was in San Diego up to Monday. when he joined his wife and children at Azusa.
 Wednesday. she said, she managed to obtain the two grips which she be- lieved contained the S120,0o0. Then, she said, she left Brown and drove to navy headquarters here, where she turned the grips over to navy officers.
 Mrs. Browns account of her hus- bands conduct has given navy officers here the impression that he is men tally deranged, according to Captain Jensen.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-04
STONES CHOICE IS CRITICIZED
Hiram Johnson Calls New Atty. Gen. Child of Prosperous East

Chicago, April 4.-senator Hiram W. Johnson said in campaign speech here today that appointment of Har- Ian Fiske Stone of New York as United States attorney general con- stitutos rededication of the present administration to reactionary prin- ciples. Senator Johnson was reopen ing his drive for the state presiden- tial preference in next Tuesdays pri- mary
 Whatever doubt may have existed in the public mind as to where Mir. Coolidge stood in the national strug- gle between progress and reaction. was dispelled by the appointment of the new attorney general" Senator Johnson said. ''The new chief of the justice department, child of the pros porous east, may be relied upon to look with tender sympathy upon the
New Britain herald., 1924-04-04
Achievement Club Makes
 39 Toys in Single Week

The Altogether Junior Achievement club and the Ever Active club of the same organization, each composed Of dozen boys averaging ten years of age, have entered toy making con- test at their own request. the contest to terminate May 1st. The local foundation has offered prize for the winner. President William Helm of the Altogether club reported today that his club had made ss toys since the contest began last Thursday. The Ever Active club is yet to be heard from.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-04
Land of Cocoa and Nutmegs

steps.
 Land of Cocoa and Nutmegs
 Grenada was long under French control, and many traces of Gallis in- fiuence still finger in architecture. customs and religion. Good roads form a network over Grenada as over the other Windward Islands. Over them one may bowl in motor cars beside the numerous well-kept nut meg and cocoa plantations that turn out Grenada's chief products Many tourists learn for the first time on these delightful jaunts that nutmegs beans are hidden away in the heart of big capsules that have been ds- come from a luscious fruit that 1t is scribed as 'squashes growing on itself made into jam: and that cocoa trees"
New Britain herald., 1924-04-04
 STILL ACCUSE McCRAY
Bankers Testify That Indiana Cover nor Owes Them Approximately se0o,000 On Notes,

Indianapolis, April 4--Testimony regarding Governor Mccary's fnan. cial condition at the time he received siSs.ooo from the state board of sgi- culture, was continued at the gov- ernor's trial today on charges of em- beEzlement. The state is attempting to show. a financial statement given the board by McCary. in which he claimed to he worth arnroxim ateiy si,eoo.ooo free from obligations. was false. Bankers who have testifed thus far. declared the defendant owed institutions they represented 4 total of more than saoo,ooo.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-04

problems of the east: but to whom are the defated farmers of the west to look for support of their case?
 "A parting of the ways vas reached in the appointment of new attorney general, under whose jurisdiction the governments fight for return of its piundered oil lands must be made. On the one hand stood the candi- dates of progressive thought, on the other the representatives of the old guard school. The president. admit tedly unmoved by any thought of political expediency, made his choice. It was rededication of the admins tration to the cause of reaction"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
FIRE STATION AT
 WILLIAM UNDER WAY
Contract Not Given Low Bidder
 As Previously Stated

: Work at the Wylam fire station is progressing under the contract let by the city commission to J. o. .Hayler 6 Sons for $10,760. At the time the contract was let The Age Herald CT roneonsly stated that this contract went to the lowest bidder. Investigation dis closes that only two bids were finally made, that of J. O. Hayley r& Sons for SIC, ,760- and that of Thomas R. Walker fe- $10,689. Commissioners McI4en- don,. Harrison and Cloe voted to let the contract to. the high bidder and Commissioners Dickson and Echols for the lower figure! No alternative bid was considered in the award as the building permit was taken out for $1O,- 760.
 Mir. Walker as a resident of Wylam, was eager to see the fire station. built and at no time either made or conteHn- plated making protest against the award which, it is understood, he considefed strictly within the province of the com missioners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
CAPTURE BIG STILL 7

TROY, Ala, May 20. = Especial Leased Wire. l--Sheriff Carroll and his deputies early Friday morning went out to Skintoak and Conecuh river and captured 300-gailon still which was in operation. The men who were op- erating the still, escaped from the of -ficers and were lost in the dense woods.
 Court House Decorated Many in1- provements have been made in the Pike county court house recently. The painting inside and outside has been completed and the court room is now being refinished.
 Opp To Paye-The Couch Construc- tion company, which has charge of the paving of the road ways in Troy. has secured the contract for paving the streets in Opp. The contract amounts to about SSO. .0OO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
Ma1hattan Days And Nights
By HERBERT COREY

occasion was permitted to slide down the brass pole. By degrees and stages he came to New York and affluence. All this time he looked back opr the village fire com pariy with envy. He had sworn to himself that he would be fireman and wear blue shirt, but the difficulty of making the first million got in the way. Recently he had; little, leisure, having just picked up an oil field or a railroad or something, Y 4 4 \ |.
 The government friend said in passing, ..has just bought large guam tity of the finest blue flannel in the world. Just like that stuff the fire men used to wear" x
 So Carmichael pulled every wire there is, and got a quantity of that government blue flannel and sent it on to Paris, along with fireman's blue flannel shirt Charvetsmade the flannel up into shirts for him. They cost him only. S$60 apiece. M 1 Odd, signs appear on the streets now and then. Sometimes q street is blocked by an anfie 1incenAefft, that Mayor Hy- lan's committee has set asideTthis block for playgroHnds. One. admires Mayor Hyf&n;sT flare for publicity immensely. 1.-The does not cpmposeShis quarrel with Tammany hall those Announcements may; help his cause. And maybe not Tammany hall! is as close to the folks in, the tenements as the rent man. s
 Closed for one year for violation of the national prohibition act" is an other. Here and there one sees them in the windows of what were once saloons. ran across one this morn ing in the dusty window ofNan uptown place which I saw last on the morning after the Gpndorf gang had opened wine therein. They had induced some Geor- gia colonel to invest his crop money in the wireless wire.
 You'd oughta, seen 'em," said the pop-eyed bartender. They had bills stacked on the bar until there wasn't room for the wine-glasses.'
 s One of the places closed, too, was that resort backed by Benny Leonard, the fighting man, and in which he ap- peared nightly in the cabaret. What did he doy'
 "He sang," said Benny's friends, Mother songs. He's nutty about 'em. The dream of his life is to get into musical comedy and wear white pants under a blue light and sing-and sing-:r' ,|
 Yet he has been for some years the best fighting man of his weight. Not only that. The world is full of men who have beens the best men of their weights. But Benny Leonard is A wise,, business-like, level-headed little chap, who never fooled himself, even if he may have fooled some other people.
 Now he wants to sing mother songs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
MARION JUNCTION
 SHIPS FIRST HAY
Section To Send Thousands of
 Tons North x

: SELMA, Ala, May 20.-(Special Leased Wire. J--The first carload of hay, to leave Marion Junction, center of the biggest hay region in the coun- try, was sput in motion Tuesday by Randall Brothers. The hay season is late this year because of weather condi- tions, Johnson Grass shipments will not begin for some weeks and alfalfa is already beginning to move and in a short while Marion Junction will be a center from which thousands of tons of hay win be shipped.
 Steamer Leaded = The steamboat Helen Burke brought up a good cargo from Mobile on Tuesday and returned heavily loaded.
 Major WsIthalI Dies Mai. Thomas Walthall of Newburn died in Selma hospital on Monday. Major Walthall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
]. BALL PLAYER SUES

E Breach of contract is charged m1 suit for S2, 900 damages filed in circnaS court Tuesday by Sam Crawford, basss ball player, against Joe Rush of the Birmingham Black Barons.
 According to the. bill of complaint Rush nfoinised to pay Crawford $200 a month play during the 1924 season and aIsKtniced several weeks later that he would not abide by the contract. The rIafntlff claims that he spent a large sum of money in railroad expenses from Kansas City to Birmingham and had difficulty in obtaining employment after being refused place on the tea1ns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
SILHOUETTES OF
 STATE CAPITAL
iState Capltal Bureau)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 20.--In this day and time when scientists are always finding something smaller than something else; when the atom, once thought the irreducible minimum, is superseded by the e1ectron, and that by the aeon, and so on, learned doctors of the law may be excused if they do not pass offhand on what is the smallest quantity of whisky that will produce q conviction under modern prohibition statutes.
 This is what the Alabama court of appeals did Tuesdaysia rendering j6dg- ment on the case of C. R. Clemons ys. the state, appealed from the Morgan county circuit court, in which the judg- ment of the. lower court was affirmed.
 The opinion, written by Judge Sam ford, says in pat: Tt is not neces- sary for us to pass upon the question as to whether, the possession of tea spoonful. of whiskysis violation of the law. The testimony is that there was more. We find no error in the record and the judgment is affirmed.'''
 Further ruling as to the admissibility of the smell of whisky as evidence was made Tuesday afternoon by the Ala bama court of appeals in the case of Mint Garter ys. the %state, appealed from the circuit court of Lauderdale dbunty. The judgment of the lower court was affirmed.
 The opinion, written by Justice Sam ford, stated that it was relevant to prove at the trial that the defendant had the smell of whisky on him, under the circumstances that the place where whisky was alleged to be distilled was near the defendants house, that the defendant was near the location of the still and that he was carrying glass demijohn at the time--aH of which facts were alleged in the evidence. .e.
 The opinion further stated that this court had held in a special case and under state of facts not here in. volved that evidence that a mans breath smelled of whisky did not con meet the defendant with the manufac- ture of the liquor This was in Gowen's case, 90 So 2S, but in Loves case the Gowan case was qualified and limited, the opinion went on toSstate.