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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
Bantam Title Has Changed
Hands Six Times OF Late
New King, Eddie Martin, Claims He Will Be A
Fighting Champion

Four of these little ira Gedies took place
in the Garden ring but that is no in
dication that Tex Richards dogpit In
the antique fight barn is n hoodoo
spot for bantamweight champions. More
likely it means that the champions of
The bantamwe;ght in the last few years
have not been champions at all in the
true sense but merely the lucky ones.
Herman Was Good
Herman was fairly respectable title
holder who proved his right to the
championship and the incidental treas
TIRE in good many bouts. Lynch was
not a good champion at any time,
however. Herman was the first good
man he met after he won it the first
time and Pete took it right back. Her
man began to decline shortly after
that, however, and it was this natural
process rather than the attack of John
ny Buff which deprived Little Pete of
the championship for good. Buff was
shrivelled and old. He made as much
money as he could in short, no-decision
bouts with hopeless dubs. knowing that
the first young fellow of any skill at
all whom he consented to meet would
take it from him.
10y HUI pau hlH 'p1O,UUO Ol HIS OWL
money to lure Johnny into the ring.
The little old Jerseyman knew he had
to so down and he did. This was the
only knockout recorded in all these half
dozen transfers of the bantamweight
championship, so it is plain that the
champions of the last five years haven't
been very emphatic hitters.
Like Harry Greb
Martin is an understood Harry Greb.
In his first year in the ring, meeting
inexperienced youngsters, his plunging,
lickety -bango method of fight ran up
a list of about % knockouts but since
he has been meeting first-class boys
he hasn't stopped any one. He has
fought only one bout outside of New
York City. That one was waged in Bos-
ton but, as Martin was unknown in
Boston at the time, he didn't draw a
very big crowd
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
The Umpire
BY H. G. SALSINGER

breeding good polo ponies. Instead of
breeding, developing and schooling
ponies, the American poloists have
preferred to buy the finished article.
The pick of British and Argentine
ponies are now owned in the United
States. The best of the string the
British poloists brought to Meadow
brook for the international matches last
September were sold on this side. Two
of them went for $4,000 each. Lord
Wodehouse cites this purchase price as a
reason for the departure of all the
best polo ponies in Great Britain. He
does not blame his fellow countrymen
for selling at figures that steep. Polo
outside the United States exists chief
ly on the money derived from selling
ponies to Americans who do not like
to take the time and pains to breed,
develop and school their own.
The careers of the leading spitball
pitchers have been brilliant while they
lasted, but they ended prematurely.
Stanley Coveleskie was recently traded
to Washington for Specie, relief
pitcher, and Smith, utility outfielder.
In the last three years Coveleskie has
never succeeded in reaching the 500
mark in pitching percentages.
A few seasons ago COveleskie was
one of the star pitchers of the game.
He hurled Cleveland into pennant
and a world championship, at least
success of his team. Since then he
he contributed a great. share to the
has slipped gradually and has been
bothered by arm trouble almost con-
stantly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
{ Special Leased Wire to Age Herald)
Ry WESTRR0Ok PEGLER

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-The restless
bantamweight championship which has
changed hands six times during Jack
Dempsey sovereignty in the heavy
weight class. now belongs to n little
Italian named Eddie Martin, who was
born within shifting distance of the
Aromatic Gowanus canal. which drags
itself along tortuous course through
a section of Brooklyn.
Martin is 81 years old. built like an
office safe, good to his family, bru-
nette and the sole proprietor of nose
or sneezer which rivals the picture
squeness of Harry Greb's amazing from
bone. This nose used to be convention
al piece of work but in the last year
or so Martin was careless enough TO
leave it in the way of some random
knuckles and it has now been so
throuGhly buttered about his contenancc
that nc can almost touch it with his
ears or his chin.
Changes Address
The bantamweight championship has
changed its address 50 many times
since little Pete Herman came to New
York to defend it shortly after the
prlzcfiSht business was revived in 1919
that these occasional transfers do not
arouse the excitment that used to blow
the windows out of the saloons on
similar occasions some years ago. Her.
man, an Italian, lost the championship
to Joe Lynch, an Irishman, who lost
1t back to Herman a few months later I;
Herman lost it again, to Johnny Buff,
POle, who lost it to the same Lynch.
Lynch held it for almost two ve.rs
after nc got it the second time, by
the simple device of refusing to fight
anybody. AT last, however, he drummed
up a comfortable guarantee from Tex
Rlckard and Bequeathed the champion
ship to Able Goldstein, Jew, in a bout
at the Garden last winter. Goldstein
was The one whom Martin whipped in
taking the championship Friday night
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21

The late August Belmont was probably
the foremost figure in thoroughbred
racing in the United States. The de-
velopment of racing in America carried
him through as the established leader.
He was successful breeder and among
the turf greats foaled at his stud farm
Man O. War, Tracery, Rock Sand and
Ladkin rank foremost. After his death
the numerous obituaries printed about
him laid greatest stress upon Mr.. Bel
mont's accomplishments on the turf, but
they overlooked his connection with
college sport. 1t was Mr.. Belmont,
who as a college Splinter of the early
'70's, introduced the spiked shoe into
track events. Without spikes it is
doubtful if any of the modern running
records, both in the sprints and dis
lance events, could have been estab-
lished.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21

Nebraska VS.. Colgate; 60 yards, Will
liam Baker, Jennu State VS.. North
Carolina State; 60 yards, David Rosen-
field, Alabama VS.. Sewanee; 90 yards,
Adrian Maurer, Oglethorpe VS.. How
ard 60 yards, Edward Cottle, Yale VS..
Brown; 60 yards, Lawrence Marks,
Indiana VS.. Ohio State; SO yards,
George Dufour, Catholic VS.. Washing
ton; SO yards, Martin Z. Kileatrick,
Georgia VS.. Sewanee; 80 yards, Edward
J. Tryon, Colgate VS.. Hobart; 50 yards,
Douglas Wyckoff, Georgia Tech VS..
Louisiana State; 80 yards, William
Baker, Penn State VS.. North Carolina
State; 55 yards, Ramacciotto, st.
Louis vs.. Michigan Agriculture college /;
so yards, Martin f. Fitzpatrick, Geor-
gia VS.. Mercer; so yards, Herbert Steg-
err, Michigan VS.. Miami; 80 yards, Har-
old Grange, Illinois VS.. Butler; so
yards, Edward j. Tryon, Colgate VS..
Hobart; so yards, Raymond w. Pond,
Yale VS.. Army; so yards, Edgar c..
Jones, Florida VS.. Southern; so yards,
Wyndham White, Virginia Military in
stitute VS.. Hampden-Sy Sydney; so yards,
Walter Koppisch, Columbia VS.. New
York university; 30 yards, Hoekelman,
Cornell vs. Susquehanna 40 yards, Nc
Donald, Catholic VS.. Washington 40
yards, Harold Grange, Illinois VS..
Michigan; 40 yards, Winfield Robin
son, Dartmouth VS.. Vermont; 40 yards,
Arthur Evans, Swarthmore VS.. Stevens,
Wis; 40 yards, DIN j. Budd, Hobart
VS.. Trinity; 40 yards, Aloysius L..
Cronin, Loyola VS.. Rolla; 40 yards,
Ralph Buckley, Fordham VS.. Seventh
Regiment; 40 yards, Inlay, California
VS.. Navada; 40 yards. Leland Parkin,
Iowa VS.. Minnesota; 40 yards, Howard
J. Smith, Wooster VS.. Ohio State,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21

WHEN the football rules commit
w tee named by the coaches meet,
the members will consider rec
ommendation made by Roscoe r. Hus-
ton. He wants to see the point after
touchdown and tie games both abolished
1t is simple enough to do away with the
point after touchdown, but to outlaw tie
games that are always, according to Mr.
Huston, Unsatisfactory to both teams,
their supporters and the general pub
lie" is a more difficult matter. How
ever. Mr.. Huston offers the following
solution:
Suppose the game ended in a tie,
Harvard 6. Yale 6. Allow five min
utes' rest period. Then flip again for
choice of sides and opening play.
Punting is barred Ball to start at
5O-yard line. Five plays, alternating,
to be allowed each side. Side scoring
first touchdown wins, no matter wheth-
err all 10 plays are used CUP or not. Ii
no touchdowns scored after the 10 plays,
team which has advanced ball into OPP
ponent's territory to win by one point.
Example A-Harvard wins toss and
chooses first play. Play 1-Harvard
scores touchdown on forward pass and
wins game, ~ to 6.
Example B-Harvard wins toss and
chooses second play. Play 1.-Yale
gains yards. Play Harvard gains
o. Play 3-Yale gains 10 yards, Play
Harvard gains Is yards, bringing
ball back to midfield. Play 5-1ale
fails to gain. Play 6-Harvard fails to
gain. Play Yale gains 10. Play s
Harvard gains 10 and the ball is
again in midfield. Play 9-Yale gains
5 yards to the Harvard 45-yard line.
Play 10-Harvard gains yards, bring
ing the ball to the Yale 47-yard line.
Harvard wins, to 6.
"In case this change is made. I
would also suggest that the safety
count three points instead of two. Then
any one-point margin score, except 10
forfeit score, would indicate a play-off
tied game, 7-6, 1912, 1918, 4-3, etc.
A 10 score would also indicate play
off game unless marked Forfeit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
CONT SETS NEW
BILLIARD RECORD

PARIS, Dec. 20.-Roger Cont,
French billiardist, broke two worlds
records for 1872 balk line championship
play last evening with high run OF
S72, clicking off 500 points in three in
nings for an average of 1855 2-3.
The former high run record OF 3S4
was made by Walker Cochran in 1871
at Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
ST. AUGUSTINE
HAS Big MENU
Golf And Swimming To
Feature Sport
Program

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Dec. 90
The most pretentious sports program
this historic city has ever arranged, for
the entertainment of tourists this
winter, was announced today. Every
form of sport activity has been provided
for, and important competitions will
be added from time to time.
Golf is the featured sport in the list
of events to be held here during the
coming months, with swimming a close
second. The first major competition
to be held here this season took place
the other day when Walter Hagen and
Gene Sarazen opposed Abe Mitchell and
George Duncan, Britain's greatest golf
team. 1t marked the biggest interna-
tional match of the year, yet it only
served as an inaugural to the big pro-
gram to be held here.
Six Tournaments.
Six golf tournaments have already
been booked, besides occasional matches
between the leading professionals of
the country. The women will hold
sway in the big meet to be conducted
March to Z, in which it is expected
Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd national
champion; Miss Alexa Stirling and
other stars will compete. There will
also be ringer tournament. beginning
January 1 and ending April 1.
The national senior swimming cham
pionship for women has been awarded
to the Alcazar A. Il. and will be held
in that pool here February 10 to Is.
Olympic champions and world record
holders will comprise the fields in the
various championships to be deter
mined. This is the first time the south
has been honored with this classic,
and it is the first time swimming cham
pionships have been awarded in bulk.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21

Lord John Wodehouse, Englands polo
leader, suggests a plan by which Eng
land can regain her lost glory on the
polo feds. He insists that the old
guard, now in control of polo in Eng
land, must be routed and a new combi-
nation formed; that the younger play
ers must be given an opportunity, and
that England will have to breed and de-
velop better ponies.
What is more, England must change
her style of play. America has shown
England the weakness of the British
style, but England has refused to learn
a lesson from her defeats. England S
chief fault has been failure to grasp
the Importance of attack. The Ameri-
cans in polo, like Americans in other
sports, have built their play on the
best defense is a superior attack. Eng
land, by paying too much attention to
well-known American principle that the
defense, has neglected attack. Since the
old guard stubbornly refuses to change
the English style and adopt the Ameri-
can system, the younger players are
called upon to make the reform.
1t is pointed out by Lord Wodehouse
that Americans never succeeded i'll
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
LEAVE S0uTHBEND

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 2O.-Hun-
dreds of students and townspeopie
braved zero weather today to see Ccaoh
Knute Rookie and his Notre Dame foot
ball warriors depart for Pasadena.
doc Council, injured in gymnasium
work yesterday was unable to go.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

BY GEORGE HARDY.

ish workers abandon their insular
outlook but the whole OF the continent
tai proletariat must begin to reason
internationally.
The Postmaster General, a coal
miner, Vernon Hartshorn, told in Par
lament, when questioned as to mail
transfers, how he had made arrange
ments to convey the mail to Marseil-
les and meet the very boat that could
not receive them because of determ-
ined lockers on picket duty at Til
bury Docks, London.
This proves that our Union move
ment must not only be one nation
ally, but also internationally. Here is
a case where British Union railway
men would be expected to land these
mails at channel port; scabs would
be got to load them; and union sea-
men would be expected to continue
work and Loyalty take the malls 60
France, which would enable French
Union railwaymen to land them at
Marseilles, and good British Union
Seamen again would nelp to keep the
and o Line running while the dock
ers of Great Britain were fighting the
same shipowners and trying to dis
establish themselves from poverty
and the demoralizing system of casual
labor, which afflicts all who would be
consciously or unconsciously helping
the enemy. So we must have a Unit
ed International of all Transport
Workers based upon the principles Of
the r. |. L. u.
Turnout the British Isles, and also
in every other country the militants
must organize. Think Of the advan-
tages Of directing policy if we had
had in every port unit of the Ma
tional Transport Workers Solidarity
Committee during the dock dispute,
Instead of those who were dissatis-
fed with the termination of the strike
having varying points Of view, all
would have had a national under
standing and only one policy put for
ward in every port.
To enforce demands on June End,
and to hurry up the inquiry into the
guaranteed week, also to get a ia
vorable decision granting full main
tenance, let's organize a local T. w.
S. c. upon a permanent basis. Pre-
pare to not only get more wages,
etc, but on with the abolition Of cap
italism and the establishment Of an
industrial and political administration
by the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

The partial victory of the British
lockers presents new problems in the
struggle Of Transport Workers. In
stead of more definite victory, ap-
parently within the grasp of the dock
ers, the guaranteed weekly wage was
relinquished for another enquiry"
Also instead Of using the marvellous
solidarity Of the lockers to achieve
the full benefit they have received
and will receive a probable shilling
ON June End. However, we do not
underestimate the value Of this fight
to the whole trade union movement.
It's stimulating effect should surpass
all previous victories. 1t has turned
the defensive action into an offensive
fight. The lockers have won from
this point of view and viii win com
plete victory il they prepare to use
direct action on a greater scale on
June End.
Government and Strike.
We cannot pass without comment
upon the pressure used by the La
Dor Government to end the strike
quickly. II also needs to be pointed
out that the terms OF settlement were
urged and inspired by the Minister
of Labor; and that Ramsay MacDon-
aid made appeals for remembrance of
the Labor Government. As Ernest
Bevin said when urging acceptance
at the Minister Of Labor: I'm fact
it has been urged upon all the Labor
Movement that one of the difficulties
we had to count against was the en-
barrassing position of the Labor Gov
eminent in the first hours of its
task. We have been appealed to by
our friends to be careful as to the
use of the Industrial machine, but
all the time the employers forced us
on towards strike action" He stated
further 1.-THE advent of a Labor Gov
eminent not only imposes its respon-
sibilities and advantages but it i'm
poses its handicaps as well" Speak
ing Of the terms of settlement Bevin
said "the employers came down from
the July position to June End, which
was originally suggested by the Min
lister of Labor"
1t is clear that both the Govern
ment and the Unions Negotiating
Committee were thinking in terms Of
an immediate settlement instead of
how to extend the fight and win tba
full demands. The Government be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

ing faced with the responsibility Of
distributing the mail and foodstuffs
approached the position from a pure
ly capitalistic point Of view.
There was no mention of command
eering the docks and giving over the
administration to the unions and i'm
mediately granting the demands for
two pence a day. Neither did they
consider that food supplies should
only go to the workers and thru
the cooperative society. The union
officials did not think it was neces-
sary to demand that the forces at
the command Of the Government
should be used to win the full de-
mands Of the strikers, and therefore,
to be used against the capitalists. OF
course, some workers will think these
are opinions of extremists. But this
will have to be done some time by
a workers Government; so why not
at the first opportunity?
The most important demand Of
the dockers-the guaranteed week
is bigger problem to the bosses
than granting the two pence. They
want to maintain a surplus supply
of labor around the dock gates and
offices. They care not how we exist
so long as we are there when they
need us. And it is because Of this
that they have consistently refused
to put into operation the recommen-
dations of the Shaw Report of Jan
uary, 1920. The Report signed by a
majority says:-"The court is of the
opinion that the time has arrived
when the industry out of which the
payment of wages will come must
also bear a charge in respect to main
tenance Of unemployed casuals."
Verbose Report.
They give in the report a reason
for this decision as follows
Court is of opinion that labor fire.
quently or constantly under-employ-
ed is injurious to the interests Of
the workers, the ports, and the pub
lie, and that it is discreditable to
society. 1t undermines security and
it is apt to undermine all self re-
spect upon the workers part 1t is
only among those who have sunk very
far, and whom the system itself may
have demoralized that it can be ac-
cepted as a working substitute for
steady and assured employment"
Now the Court" will "sit' again and
unless we as lockers and transport
workers present a united front. we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

shall hear again how we are apt to
lose all "self-respect" without any re-
suits arising out of the enquiry.
We will only have lost this strike
If we ignore the obvious. More and
more men were involved the longer
the strike lasted. 10000 carmen were
out in London alone-a purely sympa-
thetic strickland varying numbers at
all other ports. They refused to
blackleg. With few exceptions thru
out the Transport industry men were
forced to strike.
The railway Engineer who refused
to haul first-class passengers luggage
from Southampton to London must
be congratulated But If the seamen
had not done lockers work by land
ing the luggage the clerical stats
would have had no chance to scab
and there would not have been any
immediate effect on the Engineer.
The reports of ships being diverted
to continental ports after having ar
rived would have never appeared if
lock-gates had remained closed
against them, and tug-boat-men had
presented their demands also and
struck nationally. The reason for
these serious incidents is because we
are still too much divided with too
many unions. That there is room
only for one union in one industry
is proven conclusivsly.
All the unions organizing waterside
workers outside the union that is
strong enough to make the only ma
tional settlement recognized, should
Immediately face the fact and relin-
quish or return to membership in the
most powerful union. This applies
especially to Railwaymen, Dockers
and Seamen.
international Outlook.
AS for road Transport 200 or more
agreements must be scrapped and a
national basis established for all flu
ture negotiations. We are aware Of
the many grades, but as in other
industries the grades can be CLASH
fed nationally no matter how many
there are or how varied the condi-
tions. This must be done before ma
tional pressure can ne brought to
bear upon the employers who are all
organized nationally.
Not only must we learn from the
dock strike that all transport work
ers must be in departmentalized in
dustrial union. 1t has been demon
strated that not only must the Brit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

Jude to a complete cessation of the investigation
Of the department of justice Brookhart and
Wheeler have steadfastly refused to make public
the criminal activities of the Burns Detective
Agency and the department Of justice against the
workers and the Hoover campaign for Yudenitch
for fear Of being branded "reds" and Communists
by the big business interests. The present signs
of curtailing the entire Investigation naturally
follow from this policy of cringing before the
mailed fist Of the powerful financial interests
The so-called progressives dominating the in
vestigation of the department of justice have CEN
tered their attack on prohibition scandals. This
is the weakest possible line Of attack that these
selflabelled insurgents could have chosen. The
first reply Of the average man on the street to-
wards this attack on the Daugherty regime is to
blame prohibition and not the department of jus
tice. The policy about to be assumed by Wheeler
and Brookhart Of trusting the new Morgan attor
neygeneral in the investigation of his department
is simply continuation of the whole plan of the
progressives to avoid sharp conflicts with the big
capitalist interests at moments of decision.
For the working and farming classes of the
country the cringing exhibition of the quivering
progressives in Washington is an object lesson of
extreme Importance