davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
PHILLIPS BEGINS
 CAGE PRACTICE
Coach Stillweu Has Large Number For First
 Workout

The basket ball season opened with rush yesterday afternoon over at the Phillips High school. Announcement was made in the auditorium that class football between the Freshmen and the Sophomores was called off and that Coach Stillwell requested those going out for basket ball to report in the Phil lips gym at 80 o'clock. The call was responded to by 25 performers. When Coach Duck" Stillwell had en- rolled his 25 men for this, the. basket ball season for 1924, he immediately put them to work on preliminary prac- tice. Among the 25 who came out for the first day were the following out standing prospects: Letter men of last season: Sanford, Anderson, Jafee and Brauner. Last years second string men Goldstein, Heard, Champman, Thomas and several others. Some of the new material that looks great prospec- lively is as follows: Eddlemen, Perry, Piatt, Turner, Mason, R. Naul, Terute, Edmonds, Weinstein, J. Sanford, Lavier, Smith and Melof.
 Four Veterans Back With this bunch of material to pick from, and with four letter men back, Coach Stillwell has the best prospects of any team in the city. Cy Anderson proved himself to be bear cat on the court last season and he is expected to do some of the best playing to be seen in the city schools. Sandy" Sanford, is another warrior from last years team. His playing was more than help to the team. Perry, who did not play last year with Phillips, is a good all-round athlete and can play on the court as well as on the field. He will more than likely get to play in great many of the games. Jaffee and Dock" Brauner are both we'll known for their work on the basket ball court.
 Practice in the gym yesterday after noon consisted mostly in getting the men to handling the ball with ease and some shorts were practiced.
 Several combinations were tried for taking the ball across the floor in which the rawness of the men showed up dis them as busy for the whole week before the holidays as he did yesterday, marked improvement should be the re- suit.
 Good Prospects
 Smith and Eddleman are two good prospects for this season. Smith led his fraternity team last season and did some mighty good playing for them. While Eddleman played as equal as good game with the E. B. B. team dur ing the past season. Both are sure to be assets to the Crimsons before the sea- son gets started.
 Out at Woodlawn the Junior Colonels basket ball team has not yet been called together on account of the fact that the suburban boys haven't got a place to practice. Coach Thomas is calling a meeting of the coaches tomorrow, and Mir. Sandman, principal of the school, thinks that place will be decided upon then. It is probable that the beginning of a schedule will be started upon then.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
Coach Suggests Touchdown From
 Pass Be 3 Points

AMHERST, Mass, Dec. 15.-De- claring that the forward pass in its modern variations, is m "evir" to the game and slowly relegating foot ball into outdoor basketball, Harold M. ("Kid") Gore, gridiron coach at the Massachusetts Agricultural col lege, suggests that touchdown re- sulting from a forward pass score only three points the same as field goal, instead of as now provided. He also suggests that further remedy the elimination of any run after a pass is received, this allowing only the ground actually gained by the pass.
 The Aggie coach makes the point score suggestion after having coach- ed the best team the Massachusetts Aggies has had in 20 years, and which did not use the forward pass to any extent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

What sort of face should a wooden club have to insure best results to an average player? Should the face be bulged, flat or concaye? Should the face be large or small? And should it be made of wood or some harder sub- stance? Why?
 By JOHNNY FARRELL
 Cuban Open Champion, Runner-up Metropolitan Open, 1922, '2s, PA.
 I think the face of a wooden club should be straight for the average play CT. A large head with tig face is also advantageous. The wood used for wood en heads is made of persimmon, which is a very hard wood and the best ma terial for wooden heads. A large head with straight face should give you confidence, which is always big asset. I think most of the leading players will agree with me in this. However, the design of the club is not half so inn portant as the way it is handled. Still, it is best for the beginner to give him self every chance by choosing clubs that will make the game easiest for him. Copyright, 1924, Associated Editors, Incl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
'NURMT TO RUN
 IN FIVE RACES
Finnish Star To Select From List Of "A
 Meets

NEW YORK, Dec. 15-Paavo Nurmi, the great distance runner, has been given a list of 24 indoor track meets to be held between January 6 and March z and from this choice of events he will select five in which he will shoy Amer jeans the stride that made him the greatest individual athlete in the Olym- pic games last summer.
 He has made one date already, for the games of the Finnsh-American Ath- letic club, the organization that brought him to the United States last week. These will be run off in Madison Square Garden on January 6. On this night Nurmi will run in the mile and the 5000 meters against such runners as Willie Ritola, also a Finn but a resident of the United States; Joie Ray of Chicago; Walter Higgins, who used to be inter- collegiate champion; Lloyd Hahn, the Boston mile runner and George Lermond of Boston college.
 Uurmi is trying to make up his mind whether to run at the national junior indoor championships at Madison Square Garden on January 15 or at the Illinois A. c. games in Chicago the next night. He might participate in both, but with such a long railroad hop intervening in "A hours, he probably will select one or the other. Newark will have two big track nights; Buffalo will have two, and Baltimore, Boston, Washington, Phila- delphia and Louisville one each. The rest of the meets which Uurmi is consid- ering will be run in New York.
 Nurmi is having some trouble with his training here as the armories which have offered him freedom of the house are used for other purposes in the afternoon and Paavo does not like to train at night because he usually spends a couple of hours on the track, and doesn't keep late hours. Columbia uni- versity invited him to use the sheltered outdoor track but this didn't help him because he wants to accustom himself to running on boards within doors, which he has never done before
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
REDS ANNOUNCE
 EXHIBITION CARD

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 15.-Aug- ust Hermann, president of the Cincin- nati Nationals, announced last night the complete schedule of exhibition games the Reds will play during the training season.
 The schedule follows: March 12, Washington at Orlando, Fla; March 13, Baltimore at Eustis, Fla; March 14, Columbia at Winter Haven, Fla {; March 16, Baltimore at. Orlando {; March 17, Columbus at Orlando; March IS, Washington at Tampa; March 19,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
ADAM WALSH IS
 ON INJURY LIST
Rockne Having Worries Preparing Notre Dame
 For Game

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 15-Coach Knute Rockne is having his worries in preparing Notre Dame for the football game with Stanford at Pasadena on New Years Day. Chief among them is the possibility that Adam Walsh, his big captain and center, will not be able to participate in the coast game.
 Walsh, who has been one of the mainstays on the line all season, has been receiving treatment for an injured foot and hip in Saltwater, Okla. He was married at Saltwater today to Miss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

New York Americans at St. Peters burg; March 20, Cleveland at Lakeland, Fla; March 21, Milwaukee at Sanford, Fla; March 23, Toledo at Leland, Fla. March 24, Milwaukee at Orlando March 26, Cleveland at Orlando; March 2S, Milwaukee at Sanford; March 30, Indianapolis at Orlando; April 2, Ro- cchester at Savannah, Ga.; April 3-4, Detroit at Augusta, Ga.; April 5, De troit at Jacksonville April 6, Detroit at Atlanta; April z, Birmingham at Birmingham; April s, Nashville at Nashville; April 9-10, Louisville.
 Perhaps one of those bargains in used cars in today's Age-Herald Want Ads
 is just what you have been looking for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

= By H. G. SALSINGER.
 During the height of Ty Cobb's career there were frequent accusa- tions made against him charging that he Intentionally spiked infield- CTS while going into base. Most of these charges were unearned, al- though Cobb's career is not entirely free from intentional spiking. Accord ing to his own stories he spiked only two men Intentionally during his entire career.
 According to baseball rules the run ner has the right to the base paths Cobb insisted on that right. He in sisted that the fielder keep out of his way and that a fielder, blocking the line, was open to spiking which could not be avoided.
 Cobb had his rows with players. He was never an easy man to get along with. He made a great many enemies but he never set out to rget" any man without giving him warning. If Cobb spiked a man the victim had himself alone to blame.
 Few Blocked Him
 Few men ever blocked the base lines with Cobb on the paths. They learned it was poor policy. iCobb never took particular care to prevent spiking a man and he was within his baseball rights there. He was entitled to the line and the man that tried to block him had his own safety to look out for.
 The most famous spiking incident of Cobb's career occurred during the days when Detroit and Philadelphia were the leading baseball rivals of the Amer ican league. Connie Mack was build ing his superb machine. J. Franklin Baker, a former butcher of Trappe, Md, was playing third base for Mack. Later on, when the Athletics met the Giants for the world championship and beat them, Baker was Mack's strongest offensive weapon and by hitting home runs off Mathewson and Marquard earned the nickname of Home Run" Baker; the title clung to him the re- mainder of his career, although in re- cent years a dozen players in each league have made more home runs an- nually than Baker did in his best season.
 During those days of Detroit-Ph delphia rivalry, every game between the two teams was bitter contest. A feud existed between the teams and this broke out in some scene during every game.
 Cobb Spikes Baker
 Cobb, tearing into third base, found Baker blocking the bag. Cobb came in, spikes shooting high and glittering in the sunlight. Baker had the ball, wait ing for Cobb. The spikes struck Baker in the forearm, penetrating the flesh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
ROPER THINKING
 OVER BIG OFFER

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15-Wm. W. Roper, Princeton football coach, said today he was giving careful considera- tion to the offer of Washington uni versity of St. Louis to coach it's foot ball team and teach law in the institu- tion. He is member of Philadelphia city council and is said to be reluctant to give up his political career and law practice here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
FILIPINO MAKES
 WORLDS RECORD

MANILA, Dec. 15.-Teofilo Ylde- fonso, a soldier in the 57th Infantry of the Philippine Scouts, today swan backstroke 220 yards in 2 minutes, 50 2-5 seconds, according to timers at the Philippine Department Athletic Tournament held at Fort Mckinley.
 If the mark is permitted to stand, it will constitute a new worlds record, it was declared in athletic circles here today The present accepted record is 25 of a second over 3 minutes, 1t was said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
BOBBY REPORTED
 MUCH IMPROVED

BALTIMORE, Dec. 15.-Wilbert Robinson, manager of the Brooklyn Nationals, was reported resting com fortably tonight at the hospital to which he was taken yesterday after suffering with pleurisy for the past several weeks. His condition was so favorable, it was said, that there was no immediate necessity for an opera tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
AN EXHILARATING EFFECT

A bottle of Heroine on the shelf at home is like having a doctor in the house all the time. It gives instant relief when the digestion gets out of order or the bowels fail to act. One or two doses is all that is necessary to start things moving and restore that fine feeling of exhilaration and buoy ancy of spirits which belongs only to perfect health. Price COG. Sold by lley's Seven Stores.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
CRACKERS SELL
 HOMER HAWORTH
Former Baron Goes To Des
 MOines Club

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Dec. 15.- Homer Haworth, catcher with the At lanta Southern League baseball club, has been purchased by the Des Moines Western league club, President Lee Keyser announced today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
O'NEHL CLAIMED

BOSTON, Dec. 15.-Steve O'Neill, Catcher for the Boston Americans in re- cent seasons, has been claimed by the New York Yankees in the waiver pro- cess. John Berr, shortstop, obtained from Detroit last fall, has been re- leased to Salt Lake City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
CHANGES OPPONENT

URBANA, IT., Dec. 15.-University of Illinois will meet Wabash on the gridiron. November IA in place of Tu- lane, which was slated for that date, it was announced by Coach Robert c. Zuppke, today. Tulane already had scheduled a game with Sewanee for that date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

Dorothy Fisher of that place, former student at St. Mary's Academy here.
 Rockne is having trouble in getting the squad as a whole back into first class physical condition, it was said, most of the members having dropped away from their mid-season form.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
WOULD BUY BATTLE SITE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Twenty thousand dollars would be appropriated for purchase of the site of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn, and the placing thereon of appropriate markers under a bill introduced by Representative Sal mon, democrat, Tennessee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
Ty Cobb Often Accused
 Of Spikingg Intentionally
Had Long Newspaper Controversy After Cutting Down Home Run Baker In Game
By H. c. SALSINGER.

Copyrighted. 1924, in the United States, Canada and Great Britain by North
 American Newspaper Alliance All rights
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-08-09
MISS EARTHA M. M. WHITE

Miss White is one Of the most
highly respected young women
belonging to the Afro-American
race in Jacksonville, Florida,
where she is held in the highest esteem
BY the members of both races. She
is very modest and unassuming and
she IS very interesting to converse
with, and she is a great honor to wo-
mankind in general and with her win
ming ways and charming manners she
understands how to make hundreds
Of warm friends wherever she goes.
For some years she has honestly
and faithfully served as Treasurer Of
the c. w. c. Of Fla.
During the World War for democ-
-racy She rendered valuable services to
the United States Government, serv-
ing as State Chairman Of c. w. De-
partment Of Council of Defence. Was
the only colored delegate at their
meeting in Washington and attended
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-08-09

seven clubs have continued to grow
until they now number more than
three hundred; that they are scattered
throughout all parts Of this broad land
with solid membership Of more than
one hundred thousand real live wom-
en- who are constantly adhering to the
slogan Lifting as We Climb"
Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tus-
kegee Institute, Alabama; Mrs. Mag
gle Walker, Richmond, Va. the only
successful colored woman banker in
the United States; Miss Mary Nc
DoweII, Commissioner Of Public and
head Of the social settlement work
and the Chicago University; Mrs
Ford, who is connected with the Chi
cago Daily News; Mrs. AImira S.
Steele, an elderly white lady Of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, followed the other
ladies and she has for more than forty
years accomplished remarkable and
lasting work among Sixteen Hundred
needy children, that her true story can
Be found in another column Of this
newspaper.
Aside from those already referred
to Mrs. S. Joe. Brown OF Des Moines,
Iowa, Mrs. f. ]. Simmons. Chaplain.
Wash. and Mrs. Nettie L. Napier,
Tenn The following Presidents and
vice-presidents Of the various state
federations were seated on the plat
form and each one spoke for one or
two minutes:
AIabama-Mrs. Booker T. Wash
ington, Tuskegee Inst. Ala; Arizona
Mrs. Jessie James. N. 18th street,
Phoenix. ARK; Arkansas-Mrs. Clau-
dine Johnson Bass, l7l5 Pulaski ST..
Little Rock; CaIifornia-Mrs. Irene
.B RuggIes, lS45 Pine St.. san Fran
cisco; Colorado and Jurisdiction
Mrs. Ollie III. Redd, 1918 ONeil ST..
Cheyenne; Connecticut-Mrs. Minnie
J. Bradley, g Eaton St.. New Haven;
Delaware-Mrs. E. Gertrude Rose;
Florida-Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
Daytona; Georgia-Mrs Geo. S. Viii
Hams, 320 East Sind street, Savannah;
Illinois-Mrs. Edith Tifin Stewart,
1850 Eighteenth St, Moline Indiana
Mrs. SalIie wv. Stewart. 700 Lincoln
Ave. Evansville: Iowa-Mrs. Shelby
johnson, 1908 High street. Keokul,
Kansas-Mrs Charles ChiIds, i244
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-08-09
MORE THAN FOUR
PLAUDED MISS
HER REMARKS.

Sunday afternoon, shortly after
three O'Clock, Miss Halle @. Brown,
raped for order as she proudly
wended her way to the platform in
the Wendell Philips High School, and
well onto four Thousand men, women
and children refrained from talking at
once, and the first session Of the 18th
Biennial session OF the National Asso-
citation Of Colored Women was run
ming Il 1asI iass and after the follow
ing part Of the program had been
finished, President Miss Halle Q.
Brown called for the following per-
sons to deliver short talks. Program:
Treble Clef Club, Madame Eudora
Fisher Burton, Director, Chicago;
invocation, Rev. N. d. Shamborguer.
South Park M. f. Church, Chicago;
G. Frierson Moor. Soprano; Cleo Mae
Dickerson at the piano, Chicago;
Greetings from Noffheastern Fedora
ton Presidents Il minute each)-
Greetings from Africa, Rev. Florence
Randolph, New Jersey; Chaminade
Quartette, Winnona Mason Brown,
Director. Chicago, Ill; Greetings from
Southeastern Federation Presidents
Il minute each), Greetings from
Northwestern Federation Presidents
q minute each)-Mme Annette
Broadus White, Soprano. Chicago,
H.; Greetings from Sectional Presi-
dents II minute eachl-Greetings
from Across the Sea. Mrs. Fanny r.
Givsns, KentuclSy Treble Clef Club,
Eudora Fisher Burton, Director, Chi
cago. Benediction.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. Wash
ington. D. c. who was elected first
President Of the National Association
Of Colored Women in 1890. at Quinn
Chapel here in Chicago. Mrs. Terrell
who is one Of the warm friends Of
the writer, IS one of the most highly
cultured and accomplished In every
way in this Or in any other country
referred to. The fact that at the time
that the National Association was
started on its doubtful career only
seven clubs joined il, but after twen-
ty-fve years Of hard labor on the part
Of that noble band Of women who had
undying faith in each other the FIRST
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-08-09
THOUSAND PEOPLE WILDLY APP
CARTER AT THE CONCLUSION OF

Ann avenue Kansas City; Kentucky
Mrs. Maggie Patton, 1928 Forest av-
enue, MaysvilIe; Mic higa MRS.
Margaret L. Williams, 72O Parker ST.,
Kalamazoo; Minnesota-Mr Susan
B. Evans, 1918 Oakes avenue, Duluth;
Mississippi-Mrs. Laurence c. Jones.
Braxton; Missouri-Mrs. A. f. Jen-
l1ins, 2446 Pasco, Kansas City; Mon
tana-Mrs. Mary b. ChappeIl, 2l7
North Emmett Ave, Butte; New
Jersey-Rev. Florence Randolph, 81
Astor place, Jersey City; New YORK
Mrs. NJ. G. Lawton, 175 Willough-
by street, New Brooklyn; North
Carolina-Mrs Charlotte Hawkins
Brown SedaIia; Ohio-Mrs. Estelle
r. Davis, ZOO Symmes, w. H. Gin
cinnati; O1lahoma-Mrs. Nellie w.
Greene. 502 Fondulac street, Musko-
gee; Oregon-Mrs Kathrine Gray.
1927 33rd avenue, S. E. Portland; /;
Pennsylvannia-Mrs. Ruth L. Ben
nett. 343 Howell street, Chester;
Rhode Island-Mrs. Henrietta Arm
strong. IA Benedict ST, Providence. /.
South CaroIina-Mrs. R. S. WiIkin-
son. Orangeburg; Tennessee-Mrs.
Annie l. Brown, OIL ST. Paul avenue,
Memphis; Texas-Mrs. II. Z. Viii
liams, 900 East Sixth St, Corsicana:
Utah-Mrs. Mary johnson, l26 South
9Th street, F. Salt Lake; Virginia
Mrs. jamie Porter Barrett, Peake's
Turnout; Washington-Mrs. ~. B.
Samuels, 22l4 Setmore avenue. Ever
EFT; Wisconsin-Mrs. Clara Q. Mont
gomery, 500 Eighth St, Milwaukee;
Wy Q N in g-With Colorado: West
Virgina-Mrs. H. c. Al Washington.
Red Star.
Everything worked as smoothly AZ
a well-oiled clock at that long-to-be-
remembered Sunday afternoon mass
meeting. excepting one unpleasant in
cident. It seems th.t Rev. Florence
Randolph Of New Jersey. who has III
the past few years made several trips
to far-of Africa and on several occa-
sions has penetrated into the widest
and most uncivilized parts Of that
country, and the wise ladies' who
served as the chairrnen Of the pro-
gram committee, who seemingly en-
tertained the narrow idea that there
(Continued On Page %
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-08-09

President Wilson's Reception. Was
one of the directors in girl work for
Community Service and instructed
more than 200 women to operate
elevators.
She teaches every Sunday at the
County Prison where they call hsr
Angel Of Mercy" Through her eff
forts her city has placed playground
and worker and many other things
for which they are proud. She is the
only woman member Of the County
Republican Executive Committee and
was elected delegate to the state
meeting.
She Is president Of the Service Laun-
dry Co, corporation Of $25.000 Civ
ing employmentto to great many Of our
race with wonderful possibilities for
the future. Miss White, and her
mother, who died four years ago, are
loved By ali and meet with splendid
CONTINUED on Page p
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-08-09

Mrs. Brown who has been active
for many years. in every forward
movement pertaining to the advance
ment of the CoIored race, is a native
Of old Virginia, she removed early in
life with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Jacob Wilson to Mahaska County, Ia,
in the public schools Of which she was
educated
In the year Of 1902 she was happily
married to Attorney S. Joe. Brown,
one Of the leading lawyers Of Des
Moines, Iowa, where they still reside
and where she has given considerable
time to the study Of law and in which
Office serves as a Notary Public.
Mrs. Brown has had more than
twenty-five years Of experience in
public life, having served when quite d
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-08-09

young woman as Superintendent Of
her local a. M. E. Sunday School.
In June, 1900, she was elected District
Superintendent Of Sunday Schools in
which position she served for FIVE
years Later she founded and success
fully edited for two years "The Iowa
Colored Woman" the official organ ot
the Iowa Federation Of Colored
Women's Clubs. of which organiza-
ton she later became president, and
during her administration she recom-
mended and completed the instaIla-
ton in the Iowa Hall of Fame, at Des
Moines, Of a life sized oil portrait of
the late Booker T. Washington,
painted by the famous Henry O.
Tanner, in Paris. and valued at more
Continued on Page 2)