The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
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Amos O. Pipp Picks An AIl-American Cross
 Word PuzZIa Team.

]. Thaddues Wogg of Gaiena, Ohlo-l DICT MT. WOgg for a place on my All-AmerlcaI Cross Word Puzzle eleven after caretu study of his work all season. Mir. Wogg IS business man who became interested ln cross word puzzles one day last summer and whose business has since died of neglect. He' IS a fast man through a broken field of black ana white spaces. He is on his toes from the moment he opens his evening paper ano strikes "A form of bologne" down to "A paste used on jelly doughnuts." No word, how ever big or elusive, can evade Mir. Wogg when he is in condition and he is particularly good as his wife, kiddies and visitors will testify in knocking out the interference.
 2. Gowanus McSwirl of sChicopee Falls Mass. No fair judge of cross word puzzle players would overlook MT. McSwirl. Al though he took up the game late ln the sea son he became totally insane within a re- markedly short time. He is the most dangerous man in the country once he gets his hands on cross word puzzle, and it is practically the helgh' of folly to approach him. He plays hard sure; violent game vertically or horizontally and has been known to snap at spectators. 3. Mrs. Betsy Barnacle, Houston, Texas Mrs. Barnacle is perhaps the brightest indi- vidual cross wonder in the business. She has won nearly every prize in her state, using nothing better than $3 Webster unabridged The lady is slow getting under way, but tackles the most baffling of missing words with great determination and natural skill.
 She is fast finisher and cannot be dis tracted. Her husband tried to block her while in full pursuit of synonym for "zygomor- phous" one evening by suggesting that she get the dinner. He was taken to the infirmary with fractured skull.
 4. Miss Ella Bean, Great Falls, Mont. Miss Bean is a cross wonder of the type of Mrs. Barnacle. Her zeal may be judged from the fact that she recently broke her engagement to a rich young man on the ground that he could not afford to buy her enough newspapers to puzzle her in the style to which she was accustomed. 'G. s':
 D. Mrs. Myrtle Smuggins, Oyster River, Conn. Has all the ability of the two ladies just mentioned. She even does cross word puzzles when company is calling and has one concealed in her hymnal during the Sunday church service.
 6. Gregory Zwick, Skineateles, New York. Mir. Zwick is a tower of strength in any cross word puzzle aggregation. Once loose in any company with ten or more missing words he is veritable demon. His star performance of the season was the picking of ''proterozoic' as word in eleven letters denoting ''an era ; an age; period" ~,..
 There is no doubt Mir. Zwick will be the choice for captain of the State Insane Asylum Cross Words Puzzle team next spring.
 z. Calvin Addlepate, Sandusky, Ohio. Here is perhaps the strongest cross word puzzle player in the country when playing under ad- verse circumstances. He was the first man in the country to solve cross word puzzle in day coach with fountain pen. His per formance is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that only one light in the coach that evening was working.
 S-9-1O-11 Addison flake, of San Mateo, California, Artemus Dudd of Oil City, Pa, Mrs. Minnie Singer of Muskogee, Mich., and Oliver Popcorn, of Ellis Island, complete the eleven. Each, to some extent, has the qualifi- cations and talents mentioned in describing the above puzzls fanatics. Mrs. Singer is a particularly valuable player offensively or defensively. She took up cross word puzzles year ago next Friday and hasn't washed a dish since.