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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
SHOOTING HONORS SHARED BY THREE

The honors of the Magic City Rifle and Pistol clubs weekly shoot were divided between Henry Jones, O. L.. Carl and W. D. Smith, Jr.a Jones easily took the pistol match with the excel, lent score of s91, while E. l.. Hollnms and E Heggenbarth tied for second place with SS. In the rifle competi- tions, w. D. Smith, IT,. took the one match with a Possible" with 4 ''X" to his credit, while o. l.. Carl also scored perfect target with 3..X'' to his total. Shooting return match in the standing position, Carl shot an 96 while Smith fell below by two points. This 96 is a remarkable score and is the highest on record from the off-hand position fired on the gallery. McAdory having previously held the record with a 93
 On Wednesday night the club will fire the rifle in the prone, kneeling and standing positions, and will have a special rapid fire pistolSmatch on Fri day night. The scores of the shoot were as follows:
 Pistol scores: /
 Henry Jones, 91; F. Heggenbarth, SS ; E. l.. Hollums, S8; Person Moore, S5 ; w. D. Smith, Jr., S1 W. K. McAdory, ~; w. A. Hardenburgh, A; c. R. Fleming, 70.
 Rifle Prone: W. D. Smith, Jr., 1OO- Ak; Q. L. Carl, 100-3x; B. Freshwater, 95; D. Gam, 93; F. Heggenbarth, 92.
 Rifle standing 0. l.. Carl, 96; W. ID. Smith, Jr.. 04.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
TANKS WEAK ON
 WELDING ASH
Ruth Nears 300 Mark With g Homers-Heil-
 man In Lead

That the New York Yankees have been winning a lot of games without much hitting is apparent, with Meusel and Dugan the only two among the tor- notch swatters in the American league. By courtesy, Combs leads the league, but he has only been up 12 times. The rest are far down in the list.
 Babe Ruth, who now boasts of nine home runs, is showing some signs of getting in touch with the ball q little more regularly. He has worked himself up close to the. 300 mark.
 Harry Heilman of Detroit is still lonely at the top with the percentage of .464. Williams of St. Louis has been hitting like a fiend during the last few days and is an easy second, with Harris of Boston and Cobb of Detroit further back. \
 Sisler of St. Louis, who is leading his team in a glorious chase after the Yankees at present. is gradually forg- ing to the front. Hyatt of Cleveland, on the other hand, has taken slight tumble in his hitting lately, having been only mediocre in comparison to what he did at the start.
 Little of the sensational has hap pened in any department of the game. Speed on the base paths has not been remarkable Eddie Collins of Chicago, who led the base stealers. last year, has caught up with his teammate, Barrett, and each now has seven stolen bases apiece.
 fielding
 Danforth of St. Louis holds the top position among the pitchers, with four victories and no defeats. Bush of New York and Wingard of St. Louis have victories each,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18

South Highlands KiIties carried home the honors in the Seventh annual Grammar School Track meet when the Southsiders Saturday afternoon com piled a toal of 37 points to the 70 counted by Barker, runners-up. Of the 20 teams entered in the affair, no @less than IA scored points, highly creditabIe and optimistic showing. in great contrast to-the past concentration of points by few teams.
 Highlands scoring, however, was largely confined to the S5-pound class and consequently captured a loving cup only in. this division. No team won more than one class title. Barber snared the 100-pound trophy, Gibson, principally on Frankie Young's work, that in the 115-pohnd sector, while Woodlawn copped the unlimited reward.
 Individual Stars
 Individual stars were Payne of South Highland, Troncaili of Barber, Daniels of the Barber, and Suddeth of Wood lawn, all of whom copped gold watches as trophies in the classes, respectively, named above. Payne won the 40-yard dash, high jump and broad jump, and aided his relay team to romp home with first place. Tate of Acipco was next in this class, winning the S0-yard sprint and finishing second in the broad jump. No records were cracked in this class.
 Troncalli was given some fierce com petition in his division, but the con tenders were so numerous and points so scattered that he finally won through when his relay team captured their event He won the 80-yard dash and was second in the 40-yard, precisely the opposite record to Eubank of Fair view, who won the 40 and tied flor second in the 80. Lancaster of Ull- man shattered the high jump record in this sector, leaping feet 7la inches.
 Daniels Wins Close Fight
 Daniels of Barber, 115-pound win ner, nosed out Frank Young of Gibson in the hottest race of them all, com. piling II points by placing second in the 90 and 100-yard dashes and win ming the high jump. Young was one point below, as, after copping both dashes in easy style, he was unable to place in the field events None of the past record were lowered in this class.
 Unlimited competitors managed to tie and break record, beating the other classes in this regard. Lott of South Highland ran the 100 in 12 flat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
HORNSBY LEADS
 LOOP EATERS Kelly Following Cards !, Slugger And Zach
 Wheat Closely

As soon as Rogers Hornsby returned to the game after an enforced lay-off, the star second sacker of the Cardinals proceeded ito muss things up at the top of the batting. He has displaced Zach Wheat of Brooklyn and while the latter seems to be receding. Rogers is coming to the front every day.
 Kelly of New York, the one real clouter of the Giants, has been coming with great strides of late, being an easy third to Hornsby and Wheat. Outside of Hornsby's and Kelly's work there has been nothing sensational with the stick. Most of last weeks leaders have held their own pretty well, with Fournier of Brooklyn. Grantham of Chicago, Pinelli of Cincinnati and Frisch of New York being we'll towards the front of the procession. Blades of St. Louis has also come to the front.
 Outside of Southworth the Giants dependable hitters have shown improved form during the past week, Young es- pecially having made frequent connec- tions with the ball in the last few games. Grimm of Pittsburg has shown ten dency to get back to his regular form, but to offset this Wright of the same team has fallen back slightly and Carey has gone back quite lot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
CLUB SHOOT IS
 WON BY RIDING

On account of the Birmingham Gun club members attending the opening shoot of the Birmingham Trapshooting club, only few shooters were present to shoot the distance handicap. The 90 targets on the distance handicap proved to be a win for Mir. H. c. Ryding with the score of 42, shooting from the 21-yard mark. Ryding won the trophy for this-event.
 There were several who tied for sec ond place with fl breaks, shooting at a different yardage. They were I. M. Crum, 0. l.. Carl, Thornton Estes and Mrs. Carl. The 50 targets shot from the 16-yard mark was also won by Ryding who broke. 49 out of his 50. l. M. Crum came in for second place with 46 breaks. H. c. Ryding made the longest run with 40 straight.
 The programs for the state shoot. which will be held July If, 15 and 16, IS ready for the press, and will in a short time be ready to be mailed out. The program for the state shoot is a very attractive One,-the money which Is added to the shoot, the trophies that will be given, and the number of targets to be shot is gotten out so as make it the most attractive shoot that has been given so far.
 This shoot will be the 24th Alabama state shoot. of which g were held in Birmingham. New automatic traps have been bought and will be installed in a short time which will make shoot ing conditions very much more attrac- tive than the traps that are now used.
 Scores made on the 30 distance han dicap; H. c. Ryding broke 42 from 21 yards, Thornton Estes fl from 17 yards, I. NJ. Crum fl from 20 yards, Carl from 22-yard mark, Al, and Mrs. Carl fl from IS yards. A. C. Ches- ney 40 from 16 yards, George w. Con- ners 36 from IS, and R. c. Osborn 8 from 17-yard line. <
 The 90 16-yard targets were H. c. Ryding 49 out of his 50, Crum 46, and Corners 39 dead birds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
COAL VALLEY IS
 LEADING LOOP Townley Again Loses Game By Small Margin
 In Coal League
League Standing

In the DeBardeleben Coal league the Townley nine has still to Iin a game. The cellar dwellers weekly put up a game scrap, but are invariably beaten by close. score Saturday they fell before Empire, 2 to 0. Coal Valley went into the lead by defeating Sipsey, 12 to 4. W
 The Townley team could not over come the jam2up fielding of the Empire nine. Nicholson twirled a beautkfui game, but the failure of his men to back him up cost them the game. Jones' error allowed Mclean to reach first base and Creel followed with a single. Simon then came up and hit two bagger and the game was won.
 The score:
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GOOD MOUND WORK x: N. CITY LOOP FEATURE
Southern Bell Defeats Unbeaten Acipco Team Ts F airfield Pushed To Win

The fourth round of play in the city i league Saturday brought forth some ex- @csptionally good pitching performances !. from the various divisions of the league. z Probably the best performance of the day was that of Ellis, for AvOndale
 Park, who allowed the Stockham "" l, batters but one hit Smith, of the < Boys club, was not far behind for he
 turned back the Red Top Cab nine with s.alaly; two safeties. Williams, of East ' Birmingham Class A team, set the Doster- Northington Druggists down with but four hits. Several other pitchers turned in creditable games as { we'll
 Possibly the biggest upset of the day Twas the defeat of the Acipco "" nine \ by Southern Bell. However, fans who haye followed the Southern Bell reju- vination work predicted that this would Sbe the outcome, but fans who have watched Acipco perform in the first three games were skeptieal. It was fAcipco's first licking. The unbeaten Fairfield team, leading the western di- vision, had tough sledding in disposing } of the Mcdonald Chapel nine. Thomas gave Woodward another licking, while Alabama Power company dOwned the strong Sayreton nine. The Boys club tea1h seems to have hit it's stride and won again by trouncing Red Top Cabs Sloss By-PrOduct maintained its lead Yin the eastern division by defeating Avondale Mills. East Lake and Yel- { low Cab postponed their game until next week by agreement.
 AcipcO Loses First
 The Southern Bell nine pulled big upset, or maybe fulfilled predictions of her packers, by defeating the hitherto ! unbeaten Acipco "" team, s to 2. Dunbar pitched masterful game and would have shut out his opponents but 5 for drive by Cooper, which rolled through the fence for a home run. A8sawis scored in front of him. Ardis snNass hit pretty hard for four innings. ssbute after that he settled down and
 twirled real baseball. TAe hitting of
 West, O'Brien and Shaw, for Southern
 Bell featured Godbee led AcipcO hit
 ters.
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FIRST TO CURVE
 BASEBALL; DIES

TOLEDO, O., May 17.-W. A. (Ar- thur) Cummings. one of the makers of baseball in the 70's, is dead here after a long illness at the age of 74.
 Cummings discovered and perfected the curve ball and in 1872, while pitch ing for the mutuals, one of the big teams of those days, he hurled 96 games. He was a native of Ware, Mass, and moved here about four years ago.
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IS
 HIGH IN SHOOT

VICKSBURG, Miss. May 17.-Le- compte of Nashville, Tenn, won high professional honOrs with 172 targets out of 175. in the shooting tournament conducted by tAe vicksburg Gun club. Clark of Alton, Ills, was second with 167.
 Chiffon of YazOO City. Miss, won in the amateur clubs with 172. Stubble- field, also of YazOO City, was second with ITO.
 The YazoO City Gun club team won the first contest for the 1924 Missis- sippi league team trophy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
HUSSEY STARS
 IN PENN MEET

PHILADELPHIA, May 17.-Mer- cersburg Academy today won the twenty-frst annual national inferscho- lastic track and field championship on Franklin field from a select group of competitors. Five meet records fell including the 1OO-yard dash, in which Frank Hussey of Stueyvesant school, New York, equalled the national inter- scholastic record of 9 4-5 seconds in winning his heaG
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
LAUREL BOY IS
 NAMED AT 'BAMA

OWNERSHIP, Ala, May 17.-(Spe- cial. )-Graham McClintock, three sport star of Laurel, Miss, was elected president of the "A" club at meet ing held \this- past week. McClintOck succeeds Jack Langhorne. Pooley Hu- bert of Meridian, Miss, and Robert "Sparky" Hinton of Uniontown were elected vice president and secretary treasurer, respectively.
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Central Park Unheaten

The Central Park nine of the Class B division continued to lead their class with clean slate. The Alabama Boys Industrial school line was beaten by them Saturday, 9 to ,. This is four straight for the Parkers. McDuffie, star hurler for the winners, hit home run with two one-base and . struck out II men. Earps and Hand also hit two-baggers with two men on base for Central Park. Starr led the losers with double and two singles. E. Dyer also hit home run for the winners.
 The score:
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POWERMEN BEAT SAYRETON

In a close and exciting game the Alabama Power company nine defeated the strong Sayreton team, 4 to 2. Burney, Carnes and Brinskelle led the winners with the<stick, while E. Speer, Loveless and Murphy starred in the field. Speer and Loveless accepted some hard chances in the field, while Murphy made a fine catch back of first. McAvoy, Hayes and Abney starred for Sayreton. McAvoy played a fine game in left field.
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Totals ....37 8 II 27 Totals .....35 10 27 Score by innings: tp--
StOckham Hits Once

Ellis, stellar twirler for the Avondale Park nine, turned back the StOckham "Y' team with lone safety in a game won by the Parkers, F to 0. Thir- teen men were moved down by Ellis while 13 errors by the losers counted heavily against them. Drennen and Branch led the winners with a double and single each while Ellis and Beaird hit triples. Langston was the lone StOckham man to single.
 The scOre:.
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The box score |: AT AVrAnrA DnuyUsn
CIubbers Win Another

Smith and Burlington tied up in pitchers duel in the Boys Club-Red Top Cab game and Smith came out the victor. The club team won to 0. Only two Cabbers hit him safely while the Boys club batters got six hits Smith famed IA men and Harrington eight. Lother led the winners at bat with a home run and a single. Gill for the only two Red Top hits. Gore also hit double.
 The score
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GAMES TODAY 7

Southern League Little Rock at Memphis. Chattanooga at New Orleans. Nashville at Mobile. Birmingham-Atlanta not scheduied. {
 National League Boston at St. Louis. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. Philadelphia at Chicago. New York Pittsburg not scheduled.
 American League Cleveland at New York. St Louis at Washington. Boston at Detroit. hicago-Phiiadelphia not scheduled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
Fairfield Wins Again

The undefeated Fairfield team has a tough battle to keep from getting licked by the McDonald's Chapel nine in the western division. The score was 5 to 4. The losers battled gamely to the last and crowded the division lead CTS all the way. Nelson and Fancher were the feature performers for the Mcdonald Chapel nine, while Bum gardner, Rogers and Friel led the hit ting for the winners.
 The score:
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CUBS RELEASE BUSH

CHICAGO, May H.-Pitcher Guy Bush, ght-handerT. who came to the Miss, has been released to the Wichita Falls, Texas League club, under option.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
PRINCETON WINS MEET

PRINCETON, N. J., May 17.- Princeton defeated Harvard in a dual track meet here today, S9 2-3 to, 45 1-3. The Tigers were also victorious in the Freshman meet, winning from Harvard, 86 to AS.
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Birmingham Illus Bic Day Sport Field Her 4nd Boys
HOME RUNS

American League
 Saturday. Total. Ward. New York ........ 1 I Robertson. St. Louis ........ Total for year, 72.
 National League Fournier, Brooklyn ........ 8 Mokan. Philadelphia ...s...... 2 Total for year, S5.
 Southern League Niehoff, Atlanta ............. 1 Total for year. 76,
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RY.PRODUCTS VICTORIOUS

The Sloss By-Products team defeated Avondale Mills II to G. The Sloss sluggers hit the ball hard and timely. Waters led the hitters with a home run, double and single out of five times up for the winners. Geddie hit best for the losers.
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For the second time during the short season to date, the Chicago White Sox are minus a manager. First it was Frank Chance. The old pilot of the Cubs did a-''come. back" after illness on the coast, but lasted only several days in the Chi climate. and returned west. where he is now said to be i'm proving.
 However. Johnny Evers, who was handling the team in the absence of Chance, and who was made manager, has left the team at Boston and will go to his home in New York state for an operation. He believes he has a slight attack of appendicitis. Johnny has left the team in charge of Ed Walsh.
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The score
 STpapy


 Summary Exo6ase hits. J. walker. G-V ststham. Dixie Walker Chappell. Three-base hit. Moore. Home runs. D. Walker. Files. Hits off Screws. 5 in 9 innings; eff Statham. IS in g innings. Basss on bails off Statham 2. off Screws 2. Struck out. by Stathzm [, by Screws {. Passed ball. Cagle. Winning pitcher Screws. Losing pitcher. Statham. Umpires. Scott and BlantOn. Time of game. 2iS. Attendance. I.10O..
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nixie Walkar lefl

Dixie Walker led his team to victory over the, Sipsey nine with the ash. The formev big league star walloped the apple for a home run, double and a single out of three times at bat. Files also hit double and single out of two times up. Coal Valley and Sipsey were tied for the lead before the game Sat urday.
 The score:
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Red Top Cab ................... 900 900 OOO-O
 Summary: Assists. Hood. Smith. Galbaugh 2. Staggs McArdle BOhman, Harrington. Smoke. ET- rors Hood Q McArdle. Bohman. Two-base hits, Gore Gilbert. Home run. LOther. Double plays, Galbaush to Nelson, Gregory to Galbaugh. Stolen bases, Gore, Hood. McCrore, Nelson. Struck out. by Smith Ii. by Harrington 8. Bases balls off Smith 2. off Harrington l. Hit by pitched ball, AieCrOrie by Smith. Left on bases, Boys Club 1, ReG Top 2. Time, ;jO.
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nARTSMOITH WINS

NEW YORK, May 17.-Dartsmouth defeated Columbia in dual track meet here today, 98 points to 37.
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Summary: Assists, OJdfield ?. Davis 2. Cooper 2. C;odbee ?. Ardis 3. Giles 2. Young 2. Anderson 1. Dunbar g. Errors. Davis. Cooper. Godbee; Giles. Young. Two-base hits, Baker, Davis OBrien, Giles. Three-ba hits. Godbee. or BrIen. Home run Cooper. Stolen bases. West 2. Sacrifice hits. Shaw. Dunbar. Struck out, by 'ArdIs 5, by Dun bar 3. Bases on balls. off Ardls 2. off Dunbar ,. Left bases. AeiDco 10, Southern Bell 9. Um- pire, Amberson. Time l :50.
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Druggists Beaten

The strong East Birmingham nine took the Doster- NOrthington Druggists in two and walloped them to 4. Will Hams only gave up four hits while AL ford led the offensive of the winners by driving in three runs and scoring three himself on his two doubles and a home run. Campbell played well in the field. The Druggists got but one hit after the first inning.
 The score: R. H. E. East Birmingham .... g 10 ? DOster- -Northington ...... 4 4 1
 Batteries: Williams and Gaylord i; Roberts, ROebuck and Eddins.
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The box score : 
Totals ....ss 9 Totals .ss II 1s

Totals ....SS Totals ....55 II I6 ,
 Score by innings:
 StnSS By-PfOudct -s.............s LUZ 190 UO3-ll Ayondale Mills .................. 900 410 0l0- 6
 Summary: Two-base hits Fsunce. Waters. John son, Fowler. Williams Threebase hits, Johnson. Frew. HOhe run Waters Stolen bases. Mont somery g. Frew. Waters, Ellis Sacrifice hit. Bos- ton. Struck out. by Boston g. by Hughes 3. by Jeffries 3. Bases balls, off Hughes 3. off Bos- ton 0. Hit by. pitched ball, by Hughes (Henningl. Left on hases. AHondale 1. Sloss [. Time. 2 20.
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Totals ..... 3l o T0taIs .....33 Q
 xBatted for Ovens in nlnth. Score by Innings: Empire ...a...s VVO LUZ vvv--@ Townley n . VgS v1o So Stolen base Pratt Sacrifice, Parks. Double plays, Levy to Cree Ovens to Paris to Jones. Hits, off Pace, in g innings; off Nicholson. In in nings. Bases on balls, off Nicholson 2 off Pace l. Struck out, by Pace 2, by Nicholson 8. Hit by nitcheF, by Pace tPattenl. Winning pitcher. Pace. Losing pitcher, Nicholson. Umpires, Meekn and B Mauasco Time of game 200.
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AyoNDALE PARK

Q. Score by innings: :. AvOndsIe Park .................. O20 0O4 5lE-I2
 Summary: Assists. Gilism B. GilRert 2. Langton Harrell 8. Reeves Mankin, T. Carroll 2, Mon chief f. Washington l. Carroll. Cato 2. Ellis 2. Errors, Gillem 1, Gilbert Sellers. Langton, Harre 1. Crunp 2, Carroll Cato g. Two-base hits. Branch 4 Drennen. Three hits. Beaird, Ellis Double plays. Washington Beaird Stolen base, Clark. Struck out. by Ellis l3. Bases on balls. off Mon erief g. Hit by pitched ball, H. Carroll ?. Time.
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The Woodward Ironers were given another licking Saturday, this time by the strong Thomas nine. The score was z to l. The game was a free-hitting contest with the Thomas sluggers hay. ing the big end of the show. Hanley, for the winners, hit home run, a triple and q double out of four times at bat, while Singletary, for Woodward, obtained three safeties out of four times up. N. Barnes, for Thomas, hit q trinle and two singles out of four
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WxIam Wins One

The Wylam nine in Class B walloped the North Pratt team by the score of 10 to z. This is the first game for the Wylam nine to win. McLane led the winners at bat with a triple, double and two singles out of five times up. Edwards, for North Pratt, hit a triple and double out of five. Gibson went in to relieve Treadway, who developed sore arm, in the fifth and struck out eight men, allowing two hits for the
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Thomas Downs Woodward

Roberts, Roebuck and Eddins.
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American League
Evening star., 1924-06-24
Albany Choir on WGY Program.

Members of the choir of st. Paul s
Eniscnnal Church of Albany, N. Y,
viii Tiye a program of chorus selec-
tion. tonight from WGY. The late
nrnr,rm Of the Schenectady station.
beThning at 1880 o'clock, features
an orran recital from Proctor's Har-
manns B1eecker Hall in Albany.