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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
CHICASAWS TIE LEAGUE RECORD Have Won 104 Games De- feating Vols Satur-
 day, 17-3

MEMPHIS, Sept. 2O-Memphis regis tered its 1o4th victory of the season today by defeating Nashville in a farcial game here. The score was II to 3. By win ming todays game, the Chicks tied the league record for game won. which was established by the local club in 1921. The club this season has won 1e4 games and lost 49, with one more to play.
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summary: Two base hits Williams, Sacrifice. Bogart. Mulvey.. Double play. Long to Chaplin; Schick to Henry; Hoff man to Henry to Bogart. Left on base. Mobile, 8; New Orleans, IL Base on balls, off Dent, 1 Shaney, 3. Struck out, by Dent. 2; Shaney. 2. Umpires, Jorda and Johnson. Time of game 1:4O.
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man and Left Halfback Stinchcomb, it had developed great forward pass ing combination, one that often, was able to decide the issue in close game. Workman could throw the ball for great lengths and Stinchcomb was expert at catching it. Many expected this pair would be able to show up a thing or two in the aerial phases of the battle.
 Duel Of Passers
 Truth to tell, the expected duel be- tween the Ohio stars and our for ward passing combination, built around Muller, commanded as much interest as did the game itself. We expected, be- cause of MulIer's versatility on either end of a pass, that he would have the better of the battle. This permitted more varied and more deceptive com bination.
 Naturally, interest was at fever heat. The game obtained the attention of the whole country, but out on the Pacific coast a wave of enthusiasm re- suited which brought out one of the biggest crowds in history. Our sue cess and the successes of Island Stan ford and the University of Southern California (for the first time in years we had gained an edge over the teams of the Northwest-Oregon, Washing ton State, Oregon Aggies and Univer- sity of Washington had aroused Cali fornia particularly. Forty-two thou- sand persons packed the Tournament of Roses Stadium. It was a splendid tribute to the growing popularity of American football in our state in the face of longtime vogue of the Rugby game.
 Passing Trio
 In our forward passing cOmbina tions we largely employed three men Muller, right end; Stephens. left end, md Sprout, right halfback. However. ill the plays designed as preliminaries to the formation that proved to be the biggest thriller of the game, only SprOut took active part, that is, handled the ball. Stephens always darted down the field for ten yards, turned and called for a pass, but he was merely decoy; and it was figured that after he had done this a few times Ohio State would cease to pay attention to him.
 This proved to be the case. So, after Sprout made two end runs the formation was called which we calcu- lated would so astonish the visiting team as to give us an undisputed moral advantage. California had the ball on Ohio States 40-yard line. Muller, un- noticed, dropped back to California < 45-yard line. When the play started Stephens, also unnoticed and almost i ignored, ran all the way to Ohio's goal line, in the far left hand corner of the field. Sprout, receiving the ball from center, started as if he intended third end run to the right, but, as he passed in front of Muller, his as signment called for a backward pass to the latter, who now was. 15 yards in the rear of California's right end, prepared to attempt a throw to Step hens.
 If successful the play would not q gain of 55 yards and a touchdown. But to set the ball to his men. Muller, throwing obliquely across the filed, would have to hurl it for a distance of 65 or 70 yards. Could he do it? Failure to do so almost certainly would give the pigskin to Ohio.
 TmOrrow: Concluding Andy Smiths ! story. ........
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
LOOKOUTS TAKE TWOFROM PEBS Poor Fielding Cause Of Little Rocks Double
 Loss

LITTLE ROCK. Ark. Sept. 2o-LittlA Rock lost the two final games of the season at home this afternoon. Chatta nooga winning to 4 and to 3. The locals were out hit and showed a reversal to the poor fielding that landed them in last place many weeks ago.
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Gleason 2, Lamotte. Carlyle Wagner, Fisher. Home runs, Smith. Carlyle Stolen base. Carlyle. Double play. Barbare. Gleason. Anderson. Left on base, Mem phis 1a, Nashville H. Innings pitched. by Merz with run hits; Morris Merz. Base on balls. off Merz 2. Morris 2, Hamilton 3, Struck out. by Merz l.
 lImpires' Brennan and Campbell. Time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21

This is the fourth of a series of articles describing great football stra- tegies told by the leading coaches of the country in interviews with J. P. Glass and George Byrnes. Succeeding numbers will include stories by Gleen Warner. Jones, Heisman, Fisher, Daw- son and Yost and others. Copyright, 192+. In United States and
 Canada and Great Britain by North
 American Newspaper Alliance For
 Age Herald. All rights reserved)
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PELS HIT HARD
 TOBEAT BEARS New Orleans Again Wins From Mobile; Score
 Is 10 To 2

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2o,--New orieaAs found Shanney easy today. knocking his offerings all over the lot and defeated Mobile 10 to 2. Dent was pounded almost a hard by thA Bears but manage to keep rhA Mia auafAarad Tha ncnra. .l-.--.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21

Scalds or burns can be cured al- most immediately by applying poultice made of oatmeal and cold water. The meal has both soothing and healing qualities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21

Summary: Two base hits. Niehoff. Fie- gert Left on bases, Atlanta :; Birming- ham 2. Bases on balls, off Lundgren l. Struck out by Mclaughlin 1, by Lundgren 2 Double plays. Hartford to Heath. Um- pires Pigue and Pfenninger. Time Of game 1904.
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Virginia League.

Virginia League. Norfolk 9, Portsmouth tmorning game). Norfolk 4 Petersburg ? (afternoon game). Portsmouth r. Rocky Mount :. Richmond 2, Wilson 5.
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SP0RTSlf f1EWSArD GOSSIPu EkPERTSTSP
ROY SPENCER IS PURCHASED
 BY PITTSBLIRG

DOY SPENCER. Baron catcher, n has been sold to Pittsburg.
 This was announced Saturday night at the Birmingham Baseball association headquarters. The price for the player was not announced. Spencer came to the Barons from Augusta last season and is a promis- ing youngster. He batted over 300 for the season so far and has a strong arm, as shown by his rifle-like throws to second base.
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Summary: Two base hIts, loIIeFs Heath, Ganzel. Sacrifices, Smith. Brock. mingham 10. Stolen bases. Burrus. Dou- ble play. Blo ock to Krehmyer. Base on balls, off Francis 2; off Harris 5; off Clark 1. Struck out by Francis 3. Hit by pitcher, Zollers and Krehmyer by liar ris. Burrus by Clark. Pitching record, 10 hits and runs off Harris in 2-S innings, g on. when relieved. Empires, Pfenninger and Pigue. Tihe of game 1:45.
 SECOND GAME
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AS TOLD. BY ANDY SMITH Head Cnach. University of CalifrOnil

AS TOLD BY ANDY SMITH (Head Coach, University of CalifrOnia)
 In the matter of forward passing this boy Brick" Muller. red-haired right end of our University of Califor- mia team, was the star of all stars. He was perfection itself on either end of the play and to my mind the best man at, this art since it became so important a part of football science.
 Without him a sensational strategy which we devised at California could not have been the success it was. With him, it took rank as an out standing play of the season in which it was made, 1920, and indeed of many years.
 Muller was player to make coach's heart glad A giant in size he stood six feet, one inch in height and weighed 190 pOunds-he was real speedster, too. He could do one hun dred yards in eleven seconds or less and he could jump up to six feet three inches.
 Yes, sir, he was made to order for forward passing. Being so extraortl inarily agile, he could catch the bali either high in the air or off his shoe tops. Also he was a bear at intercept ing passes. He had an uncanny faculty for getting to the spot where the ball would travel, either if his comrades or the enemy were doing the hurling,
 Some Passes
 But this was only part of it. It was at throwing the pigskin that he stood out like lighthouse. He had big mu- scular hands that enabled him to get wonderfully secure grip and he could have the pigskin across the field just like Joe Tinker used to speed a base ball over 10 Chance in the old days of the Chicago Cubs glory.
 Of course, this. forward passing skill was only a part of Muller's repertoire He had everything else you want in an end man. I've coached a number of All-American ends east and west in my time, but never one that equalled him.
 Important Game
 This play of Mullers of which l have spoken was devised particularly for one of the most important games we ever had scheduled on the coast IL was our intersectiOnal set-tO with Ohio State at the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, January l, 1921.
 As you know, Ohio State. by win ming every game on it's schedule, had captured the 1920 championship of the Big Ten,' Or Western conference. Coached by Dr. John Wilco, former Wisconsin player, it had fought its way to the title by magnificent courage and a do-or-die determination. In three big games it had come from behind to snatch defeat from the fire.
 California Strong
 We had had mighty successful sea son on the coast. Our team was a very powerful one and at the same time was endowed with plenty of speed. The fact that we had scored 51O points to our opponents 14 shows the calibre of our men. Many critics considered that we had put together the great est aggregation of football players ever seen in the Far West
 Before the game We believed we had good chance of victory. But you never can tell; Ohio State had a fine machine and, in Quarterback Work
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Totals .....44 14 1s x2s 13 6 xOne out when winning run scored. xxBatted for Johnson in 2nd xxxBatted for Martina in 3rd. xxxxBatted for Russell in 9th.
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roll. Stolen bases. Lory, Reiger, Warren. Lief: on base, Little Rock :, Chattanooga g.. Innings pitched by Wilson 1 with hits and runs. Struck out. by Hunter g. Sedgwick 8. Base on balls, off Wilson l, Hunter 2, Sedgwick B. Wild pitch, Sedgwick. Double play. Niehaus. Aday, Niehaus Time. 1;36. Empires, Williams and Doolan
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1oIdlS .30 70 xBated for Scott in eighth.
 xxBatted for Pennock in eighth. xxxRan for Gherig in eighth. xxxxBatted for McNally in ninth.
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Totals .....ss..., So xHit for Clark in 9th.
 zHit for Brausen in 9th.
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TmOrrOw: Concluding Andy Smiths story. -...........
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23
Kite Fight in India

Two boys are standing on some
waste ground flying kites. The kites
are square, and the strings have been
sharpened by passing through a mix
ture of starch and pieces of crushed
glass. One kite is blue and one is
green. The green kite hits the blue
one, but neither is hurt. Then they
dodge about in the air for a long
time, for each boy is managing his
kite well, and it seems as if neither
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23

more than one hundred titles of major
Importance.
The Smithsonian institution, of
which Doctor Walcott has been secre-
tary since 1907, is a big thing and Is
practically the parent of many of the
scientific bureaus of the government
The establishment of it Is q story in
itself.
The Smithsonian institution was
established seventy-eight years ago IN
der the terms of the will OF James
Smithson, who bequeathed his fortune
ITO the United States Of America, to
found at Washington, under the name
Smithsonian institution, an establish
ment for the increase and diffusion of
knowledge among men," This bequest,
amounting to s541, 379.63, was formal
ly accepted by congress and the
Smithsonian Institution was estab-
lished by. act approved August 10.
1916.
james Smithson (1765-1S29) was an
Englishman. He was the natural son
Of Hugh Smithson (afterward Percy,
who became the first duke Of North
cumberland of the third creation. James
was born In France and was taken to
England when a child. He was nat
uralized as a British subject and en-
tered Pembroke college, Oxford, where
he specialized in chemistry and min
eralogy and received the degree of n.
A. In 17S6.
Smithson, the story goes, made ef-
fort to gain recognition under the
name of Percy from his blood rela-
tiyes. This was refused. Thereupon
he declared that he would make the
name Of Smlthson famous when the
name of Percy vas forgOtten-and
drew up his will providing for the
Smithsonian institution.
Smithson died in Genoa and was
buried on the heights of San Benigno.
In 1904, at the suggestion OF Dr.. Alex
ander Graham Bell, his body was
brought to America, sealed In the orig
inal tomb and placed within a NOR
tuary chapel erected near the entrance
of the institution.
Smithson's bequest has been In
creased from time to time by gifts
and legacies, of which the most notable
was 100000 in 1891, given by Thomas
G. Hodgkins.
The Smithsonian institution is legal
" an establishment of which the men,
hers are the president and vice presi-
dent. the chief justice and the presi-
dent cabinet.
Under direction Of the Smithsonian
institution are the National Gallery OF
Art: Bureau Of American Ethnology /;
National Geological park; Astrophysi-
cal observatory; United States Ma
tional museum National Academy of
Sciences: National Research council,
and international Catalogue of Scien-
tifc Literature.
Comparison Of the two portraits
shows that advancing years and many
activities have left their mark. But
the increase of knowledge among
men" mas been great because of his
work.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23

ture American parks Il been recent
ly surrendered by congress to the
w~aterpower commission, and that In
reference with the natural condition
of these parks will destroy their use
fulness TO science and education. The
resolution is:
Resolved, That the American AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement or
Science earnestly requests the people
and congress of the United States and
the people and parliament Of the
Dominion of Canada to secure such
amendments Of existing law and the
enactment of such new laws as Will
give to all units In the international
parks system complete conservation
alike and will safeguard them against
every Industrial use either under
private or public control, at least
until careful study shall justify the
elimination of any part from park
classification"
In the United States the National
Parks Army of Defense" Is solidly or
ganized. This "army" Is an utilization
Of scores of organizations, many Of
lttnem WIN natIon-wf1e m~erhDefshTp
They may be said to center arount
the National Parks association. Across
the international boundary line thu
nature-lovers are not so well or
ganized. The first response to the &c
ton of the A. A. A. S.. Is the organiza
ton of the National Parks Associa
ton Of Canada, with directors repre-
senting the Dominion from Montrea
to Vancouver.
1.-THE National Parks Of Nortl
America" is an idea that Is popular OF
both sides of the line. There Is sin
cere cooperation between the parl
officials of the two countries. "Sceni,
beauty is International" says Commits
sioner J.. B. Harkin Of Canada. I"
sincerely hope for the larger develop
ment of national park roads until tn,
two peoples are given easy access t.
the finest scenic attractions of thu
globe" say Director S. T. Mather o.
the national park service.
DR., Walcott Is q born geologist, no
made-at least so far as university
education is concerned. He was borr
in New York Mills, N. Y, In 1851, ant
at the age of thirteen was making
systematic collections of fossils anC
minerals. He was graduated from tn,
Utica academy in 1868 and within two
years was engaged In making a col
lection of limestone fossils at Trenton
Falls. The death of Louis Agassiz GU
short his plan to study under tina
great naturalist and he began his pro
fessional career in 1875 as an assistant
to James Hall. state geologist Of New
York. Rapid, indeed. was his rise
thereafter.
Institutions of learning have showr
appreciation of his work. His honor
airy doctorates have come from Hamil
ton, University of Chicago, John.
Hopkins, University Of Pennsylvania
Yale, st. Andrews, Pittsburgh, Uni
versity of Cambridge (England) Har
ward and Royal Fredericks universit,
(Christiania).
He IS an honored member Of score.
of scientific societies in several coun
tries. The Geological Society Of Lon
don awarded him the Bigsby and VOL
laston medals; Soclete G~eologiQue d.
France. the Gaudry medal; the Acad
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Sensitive Instrument.

During the reading of Il paper be-
fore a scientific body an eminent sci
enlist observed that when the bolom-
eter was invented, some thirty years
ago, ii was able to measure tempera-
ture to about one hundred-thousandth
of a degree. Since then the In
strument and its adjunots have been
so far improved that temperature caE
be measured TO less than one hun
dred-millionth of a degree readily and
with precision.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23

Much of this country is unsurveyed
and consists for the most part of O
great expanse of red rock, carved Into
lnnumerable canyons, buttes and fan
tastic p%romontories. Some of the re-
mote valleys contain grass and water,
but the greater part is desert forma-
ton. Many of the canyons have never
been explored by white men. The
first of the natural bridges in this
country were visited by white men as
late as 1903. This district was the
scene of the recent Ute uprising. II is
the last frontier.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23

sonian institution at Washington and
to them DIR. Walcott is the Smithson-
Ian institution. And to many thou
sands he has been the United States
National museum and the National
Academy of Sciences and the United
States geological survey. His other
activities have been many. Among
them are these: From 1927 he had
charge of the organization and con-
duct Of the United States reclamation
service. He was secretary of the Car
negie institute during 1902-5, its forma-
tive period. During the World war he
was chairman of the national advisory
committee for aeronautics and chair
7 man Or the military section Of the
national research council. He is with
out question the foremost g~eologist OF
America and his fame as a geologist is
worldwide. His name Is also known
all over the world through the re.
search expeditions of the Smithsonian
institution. His fame as an organizer
and executive is scarcely less than
his fame as a scientist.
His election to the presidency of the
American Association for the Advance
ment Of Science is therefore fitting
The A. A. A. s. Is the largest organiza.
ton of scientists in the world. It has
approximately 1900 members In the
United States and Canada. And II
has been a going concern for seventy.
FIVE years. Its activities are pretty
comprehensive; all sciences apparent.
ly look alike to its membership. This
attitude Is quite up to date and In
strict keeping with the times. Science
in our modern civilization sbulks large
as the friend of every activity of life.
The scope of the interests of the
A. A. A. s. is shown by a resolution re
Gently passed. 1t is an unusual resolu.
ton, of interest to several million
Americans VINO have only the vaguest
ideas about p~aleontology. could moi
tell a brachipod from a trilobite and
have no leaning whatever toward the
Lower Paleozoic sedimentary forma.
ton. This resolution heartens tremen.
dously the vast army of nature-lovers
In the United States and Canada who
81
are fighting to preserve the national
parks of both countries from the per.
sistent attempts at invasion by com
mercial interests.
The preamble of this resolution sets
forth that the national parks consti.
tute a system of National Museums
of Native America; that the com.
htnod national mark systems of the
United States and Canada II pre-
served will constitute a unique con
tinental exposition Of inestlmable vnl.
ue to science and to the popular edu.
cation of future generations; hat at
the option of a single government Off;
cia, several of the American parks
and all but one of the Canadian parks
are open to mining and grazing; that
the control Of waterpower In the fu-
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envy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
the Hayden medal; tia National
Academy of Sciences, rne Mary Clark
Thompson medal.
The results of his many investiga-
lions have been given to The world
chiefly through the publications Of the
United States geological survey or the
Proceedings of the United States Ma
tional Museum, and more recently, the
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections,
and in addition to these sources there
have been frequent papers in the
American Journal OF Science and sim
liar publications, both at home and
abroad. His entire photography Is
therefore quite extensive and Includes
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23
II You have Coughs o. Colds
at this time take this Advice

Pittsburgh, PAT have taken
q great deal of Dr.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discover and consider 1t a
very essential family medicine. /
find II very benencial as a tonic and
blood purifier, and sometime ago I
suffered with liver trouble, my sys-
TEN seemed entirely out OF order,
so I took the Golden Medical Dis
covery' and it drove all the i'm
purities out of my system and built
me up in a perfect condition. l also
find the Discovery excellent to take
in cases Of d~eep-seated coughs OF
colds" Albert Jennewine. 404
Hemlock st.
AS o as you start to take this
discovery" you begin to feel it's
bracing, appetizing effect. Buy OF
your neighborhood drug store In
tablets and liquid.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23
-Plumes Are Valuable

Ostrich feathers are either plucked
by hand or cut from the wings whence
come the most valuable plumes' says
Nature Magazine. The annual feather
crop of the average ostrich is worth
from fifty to sixty dollars. The birds
yield a crop of valuable feathers every
seven months, although some breeders
confne the plucking to a single harry
est a year, as they claim that IN his
way they get better quality.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-01-23
Boy Scouts and the Church.

That the church is the frequent re-
ciplent of scout good turns is shown In
the scores of reports which reach the
National Boy Scout council. Among
such good turns are: Conducting the
aged, blind and crippled to and from
services, leveling of the church
ground. caring for the lawns and
building, sewing up the carpets. mend
ing hymn books, planting trees and
%shrubbery. distributing church papers,
putting up church notices, recruiting
Sunday school pupils, helping as ush-
ers and at bazaars and s~ocials, and
making city-wide religious surveyE