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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
TIME OF GAME
 NEEDS CUTTING

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-The average time for playing a game of base ball ,is too long and closer cooperation on the part of the managers is necessary if faster ball is to played Thomas J. Hickey, president of the American association, said tonig ht. This matter is expected to come before the base ball people at their annual meetings in Hartford, Connecticut next month.
 "Cmpires do the best at all times to hurry games, but additional incentives are needed to impress upon the play CTS the fact that the public prefers shorter ball games," Mir. Hickey de- clared.
 Mir. Hickey said he had no concrete plan for speeding up games but sug- gested that loving cup or a flag be presented as prize to the city having the seasons lowest average for playing time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
LEONARD SENDS
 OUT CHALLENGE

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Benpy 1on- ard, worlds lightweight champion is- sued a challenge tonight to any and all rivals for his crown.
 T am ready to meet all corners in any part of the United States" declared Leonard who recently intimated that because of what he characterised of op- position in the east he would accept q title match in Los Angeles.
 The champions latest statement how ever explains that if he receives no bona fide fight offer within two weeks he will resume his motion picture ca reer. At present, he said, had no defi- nite offer for a match and added his belief that there are no logical con- tenders in sight,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
AWAIT HEARING

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 19.-Co- lumbus friends of Charles "Chic" liar ley, whose running, passing and punt ing won him an immortal place in footballs hall of fame while he was a member of Ohio States western con- ference teams of 1916-17-19, are look ing of a hearing Monday before Pro- bate Judge Bostwick in which Harley will attempt to have set aside proceed ings declaring him insane.
 Probate court records show that liar ley was sent to the Dayton State hos pital December 2, 1922. The lunacy af- fidavit was signed by Ned Giesy, stu dent at Ohio State university at the time.
 J. J. Trainor, Harley's attorney, to- day brought names into the story that are as well known in Western confer ence circles as that of the athlete when he was at the height of his glory. Frank Tee" Young, captain of this year s Buckeye squad, Trainor asserted, was present in Harley's room the night of December 2, when the latter, according to his attorney, was taken against his will by a deputy sheriff to the Day ton institution.
 Young today asserted there was no deputy sheriff in Harley's room that night. He said he and William F. Ravens and Ray Pennell were the only ones there. Havens and Pennell are Columbus men who have, been ac- tive in graduate circles at the univer- sity. Havens refused to discuss the matter and Pennell could not be found.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
LOTHIAN ELEVEN
 BADLY CRIPPLED

LOTHIAN, Ala, Nov. 19.-(Special. The Dothan High school eleven, in a crippled condition from the Enterprise game last Friday, Is working hard for the game with Andalusia High school in Andalusia Friday. Lee, Bennett, Byrd, Spann and Dempsey are all on the injured list this week. However, it is hopeful that they will all be back in the lineup for Fridays game; Demp- sey, the driving fullback and tn, main stay of the Dothan backfield, will not be in Fridays game on aceoun; of a boil on his left arm and the doctor has ordered him not to play. His lo, will be a great blow to the team.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
PETRELSPLAY
 MERCER ELEVEN
$. I. A. A. Championship At Stake In Game
 Saturday
oGLErHoRpE UNIVERSITY, Ga.,

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY, Ga., Nov. 19.-(Special. )-The Oglethorpe Petrels are spending extra time getting in shape for their game here Saturday with the Mercer Bears, which will give the winner a clear claim to the s. I. A. A. title, despite the fact that Centre college right now is rid'7g a crest of victory that has not heretofore been equalled.
 However 1t must be borne in mind that Centre has met only one S. I. A. A. team, while Mercer has disposed of three openents in that organization and Oglethorpe has successfully handled four. The Baptists are doped to win the game, because of their 10 to o vic tory over the University of Florida eleven last Friday. 0glethorpe, though has developed knack at kicking over the dope.
 HOME COMING GAME
 The game is being played as the Home Coming" affair of Oglethorpe University and added to that the fact that Georgia Tech is idle on that date is expected to draw at least 10000 fans Oglethorpe's most successful sea- son in it's history and the to o win from Sewanee a few weeks back has brought the Petrels into favorable mo- tice in Atlanta.
 The Peterels were defeated Satur- day in their first intersectional battle with St. Louis University, but sport writers of that city agreed that fullback Kilgore and halfback Adrian Maurer were two of the best backfield men seen in action there this season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
TY COBB OUTGUESSES VET RUBE WADDELL
Detroit Wins Pennant When Athletics Sta, Makes One Wrong Pitch

see my chance to. cross him up. So ] says to myself, I'll feed this cuckoo one in the same spot an get him in a hole, then let him guess on. whats comin'.'
 In The Same PIace
 "Once more I shoots fast one for the inside corner an the second the ball leaves my hand I knows made bum play. This Cobb, who didn't seem to have noticed the first one, steps back like he had the catcher's sign, takes a toe hold and swings on her. l guess that ball is going yet.
 Later on, I meets this Cobb on the street, and I says to him, Listen here, Cobb, it's all over an everything an there ain't no hard feelin' or nothin,' so tell me, why don't you swing at that first one, the fast one sends over. You don't give it look and you're all set for the same thing when I repeats. Did you have the catcher's signal or somethinY
 "An' this Cobb says to me: Why, I figures if I lets the first one pass and makes out I don't notice it and is lookin' for somethin' else, you'll try to cross me up and shoot the next one over the same spot, feeling sure you double crosses me. I feel so sure that so soon as the ball leaves your hand, jump back, take toe hold and swing Sure enough I was right. You hand me the same thing back
 An I says to this Cobb, Kid, you had me doped 100 per cent right r' An sure enough the lucky stiff didw
 One Wrong Pitch
 NtI,n nooantr;o Wo1dalI ,,;fohaI oon ball wrong in that game. He did not Cobb. Then he knew that one pitched ball robbed the Athletics of a victory and that one pitched ball enabled De. troit to win the pennant in 1907. After having batted against all kinds of pitching over stretch of many sea sons Cobb made this observation:
 Most pitchers follow a set system of pitching to you. You can get this system after batting against them once or twice. If they throw you a fast ball, slow ball, curve, fast one, in that order, the first time you come to the bat it is almost certain that they will throw you the same thing in the same order the next time you come up. Few pitchers vary from this system and the few that do are the leading pitchers.
 Knowing what is coming is one thing but hitting the ball is another You often know just where the ball will be pitched, but often it carries SC much stuff that you can not get the proper hold on the ball and you fail to hit safely even when you have the advantage of knowing what it is."
 (Tommrow: Chapter XVIII-Thres Failures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
HARLEY FIGHTS
 LUNACY CHARGE
Case Of Former Ohio State Star Comes
 Monday

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-Charles "Chic" Harley, leading athlete of Ohio State university a few years ago, announced through his attorneys today that he was ready to return to Columbus, Ohio, next week to fight the lunacy charge placed against him two years ago.
 The case will De heard Monday be- fore Probate Judge Homer Bostwick, who entered the lunacy finding which still stands. James J. Trainor, coun- sel for Harley, said that the famous football player has filed an affidavit with Judge Bostwick, setting forth that he was never examined by physicians at lunacy hearing nor was he ever present at such proceeding. The Ohio laws require that such subject of a lunacy petition be present at the time of the hearing, or that the judge shall visit him. Objections also will be raised, said the attorney, that Harley was a resident of Illinois so that the Ohio courts could have no jurisdiction.
 Harley was held at the state hospital for the insane at Dayton, Ohio, from December 2 to December 24, 1922, and from January 10 to January 23, the attorney asserted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
THREE BICYCLE
 TEAMS FORMED

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Three of the 15 teams which will compete in the in- ternational six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden starting November 30 have been formed. They are Bobby Walthour, Jr., of Nutley, N. J., and Franco Georgetti, young Italian, Eddie Madden, Newark veteran and Anthony Beckman of Seicaucus, N. J., and Sammy Eastman of Newark, and Percy Lawrence of San Francisco.
 Lawrence won the six day grind at the garden year ago, paired with Ernest Kockler of Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
TROY TEAMS TO
 STAGE CONTEST

TROY, Ala, Nov. 19.-(Special. J. Local football fans have organized a town team" to play against the high school team. The first game will be pulled off on Friday afternoon on Me Gehee field, the athletic field of the high school.
 The town team will have on it's ros- ter Kern. Knox, Stough, Jones and Hall, backfield men; McBryde, Murphree, mons, Moore, Boron and Dennis, line men.
 The proceeds of the games will go to the athletic funds of the high school.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
AVERA WINNER
 OVER J. FLYNN

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Nov. IS. Larry Avera, Atlanta welterweight, de- cisively outpointed Johnny Flynn, Chat tanooga, in their ten-round bout here tonight The bout was arranged by the American Legion as the first of a series to determine the southern welter- weight champion, Battling Budd, Say annah, and Young Wallace, New Or leans, are slated to appear in the sec ond of the elimination contests next week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
CHAPTER XVII


 Copyrighted, 1924, in the United states. Canada and Great Britain by North American Newspaper Alliance. All rights reserved.)
 By H. G. SALSINGER
 Base ball historians, setting down how a pennant was won, often point to one series that was the break in a seasons race. One can go deeper in this analysis. One can point to a cer- tain game as the deciding one of that particular series and that game prob ably had one play that was the break of the game and that one play came on certain pitched ball.
 Ask any majer league pitcher and he will tell you that one ball pitched wrong can decide ball game; it not alone can, but often does.
 It is q long time since Detroit, under Hughie Jennings, won the American League pennant in 1907. All who studied the matter were agreed that one series decided the pennant, series btween Detroit and Connie Mack's crack Philadelphia machine, played late in the season. And one game decided that series, a Thinning tie that broke the Athletics, one of the most famous games in history.
 The Hit Of 1907
 Going further into the matter that game was snatched from Philadelphia in the ninth inning on a home run by Ty Cobb and that home run stood out as the most important hit of the season of 1907. But that home run was made possible because Cobb outguessed the late. "Rube" Waddell, a remarkable left-handed pitcher, illiterate but cun. ming with vast physical power and with all the stuff a pitcher wants. He had just about everything and Connie Mack had sent him to the box that afternoon to stave off the Detroit attack and give Philadelphia the break that she needed to win the championship.
 How this game was snatched from Philadelphia, was later told by Wad dell himself. We have a vivid recol lection of his recital and the story follows:
 up comes this Cobb, and I feeds him a fast one on the inside where he wasn't supposed to particularly like to see 'em pitched. I always figured that if this fellow had any weakness it was on a ball pitched close in. The way he stood at bat made him shift toe quick to get a good hold of the ball.
 "Well, I showed the first one in over the inside corner of the plate an he never looks at it. The umpire calls il a strike, but he pays no attention to it I immediately figures this bird is look ing for a certain ball, thinking I'd give him just what Re wanted on the next one or the one after that. He figures I'm going to be working on him. So
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
POLO TEAMS TO MEXICO

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 19.- The war department has approved the first polo invasion of Mexico by United States army polo players and two eighth corps area teams have accepted the in- vitation of the Mexico City Polo club to play in an invitation tournament in Colonel James F. Mckinley, corps area day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
TEARNFY TO RESIGN

. CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-A. R. Tear ney, president of the Three-I league, announced to. club owners at the annual meeting today he would resign at the expiration of his term next February. He explained that this business inter ests in Chicago would prevent him con tinuing as president of the baseball league as he also is president of the Western league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
Alabama will also be in the city that

Montgomery has won the commenda- tion of all visiting grid teams this year. The stadium is declared to be one of the finest in all the south with pos- sibly the best scoreboard of any field in this section of the country. And fans who have journeyed here this year say prices are more popular at Cram ton bowl than in most of the other cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
There's no stoPbing 'em!

ITS a clear field with nothing in A front but the goal posts!
 Football or merchandising-it it's the same story-you can't stop man or a product that has the stuff to come through.
 Chesterfield is making gain after
Evening star., 1924-08-15
NEW YORK CURB MARK EFT
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

Power and Light and Commonwealth
Power. The former rose points be-
tween sales to $50 following an
nouncement that directors would sub
NIT to stockholders a plan whereby
the present shares of 500 par value
would be exchanged for new no-par
stock on the basis of 10 shares of new
for each now held. Commonwealth
at 80 gained 3 points. rejecting the
steadily increasing earnings.
Film Inspection machine furnish ed
one of the features, crossing 6 for a
gain of more than 2 points.
Red Bank and New England Fuel
came to the front in the oil group
the former stock advancing 2
points to Sc on a large turnover and
the latter gaining a like amount on
only few sales.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
OUTLOOK BRIGHTER
IN SHOE INDUSTRY
Bay State Workers Sign New
Agreement-First Call for
Help in 10 Years.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

BOSTON. August Is Prospects
are Frightening for the shoe industry
In Lynn and other centers. 1t is ex-
pected the new agreement worked
out by the State Board of Arbitration
Will bring peace to the Lynn fac
tories. This agreement which abol-
1shes the five-day week in favor of
five and one-half days, except in
Summer, has been signed by the
workers and only awaits the sigma
ture of the factory owners. Certain
that peace is near, the latter are pre-
pairing to handle orders which have
been piling up.
There has been a general call to
women members of the Shoe Stitch
ers' Union offering employment to all
who want 1t. This is the first general
call in 10 years
The Haverhill manufacturers will
propose substantial reduction in
wages when they come to make a
new agreement with the Sole Work.
ers/ Union. The present contract ex-
pires August 27, and the workers had
proposed continuation Of the present
scale and conditions.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
MERGER RUMORS DENIED.
Wall Street Gossip Links Up Too
Many Railroads.

NEW YORK, August 15.-Railroad
merger activities of the Van Swerin-
gen interests of Cleveland have pro-
duced a crop of fresh rumors regard
ing other consolidation plans, which
have kept rail executives busy issu-
ing denials. Among the reports dis
credited yesterday were those that
the New York Central would make
an offer to minority stockholders of
the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie; that
the Baltimore and Ohio was purchas-
ing Reading stock in the open mar
ket; that the Lehigh Valley would be
linked with the New York Central
lines and that the Chicago and East
ern Illinois would be taken into the
Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate system.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
OIL DIVIDEND DECLARED.

NEW YORK, August 15.-Directors
of the Standard Oil Company OF New
Jersey today declared the quarterly
dividend of 25 cents a share on the
common stock and $1.75 cents a share
on the preferred. While mainten-
ance of the common dividend rate
had not been called in question, Wall
Street watched the meeting with
considerable interest in view or the
recent omission of dividends by other
Standard Oil Companies. the Atlantic
Refining Company and Standard OIL
of Kansas.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
SIGN COAL AGREEMENT.
British Miners and Owners See
Peace for Twelve Months.
Opcial niSpatob IN The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, August 15.-The sign
ing of the new national wage agree
ment between the British coal miners
and the coal owners, it is expected
VIII insure peace in this industry for
the next II months, according to ad-
vices received by the Bankers Trust
Company. The agreement imposes
upon coal owners extra cost which
In the present state of trade con-
stitutes a serious handicap. Already
mines have been closed with the
result that several thousand work
men are idle.
In one or two cases where col
lieries have been closed, the owners
have stipulated that a condition of
their reopening is double shift work
ing. To this system the miners are
strongly opposed.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
WESTERN MARYLAND
IS DOING BETTER
Reduction in Earnings Being Cut
Down-Coal Dullness Hits
Road Hard.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.


BALTIMORE, August 15.-Whle
earnings of the Western Maryland Rail-
way continue to shrink, the decrease,
compared with a year ago, Is gradually
being reduced. Report Of estimated
earnings for the first week of August
amounted to $347,157, against $46S,722
the corresponding week a year ago, a
decrease of $121,564, or 26 per cent.
Drop in receipts from coal and coke
traffic accounted for $83,468 Of the loss.
For the fiscal year to August z total
earnings were $11 ,406,727, against $14,-
211 .764 for the corresponding period in
1928, decrease Of $2,S05,036, or 20 per
cent Receipts from coal and coke traf-
fic were $2.272,S77. or 81 per cent less
than they were a year ago.
Return to anything like normal move
ment of coal during the remainder of the
year would add greatly to the earning
power Of this company. Receipts from
those sources last year furnished ap-
proximately half of the gross revenues
of the Western Maryland.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK, August 15.-Foreign
exchanges firm. Quotations lin United
States dollars)-Great Britain. de-
mand, 4.54 as cables. 4.54ss 60-day
bills on banks. 4.511 Y; France. de-
mand, .056S12; cables, .0569; Italy, de-
mand, .0451: cables. .0451a Belgium,
demand, .0520k; cables, .0521; Ger
many, demand (per trillion), 23A
Holland, 1910; Norway. .1402; Sweden,
1868; Denmark, 1929; Switzerland,
1861; Spain, 1884; Greece. .01S4
Poland, 1914: Czechoslovakia, .0299:
Jugoslavia, .0124 Y; Austria. .0OO014h
Rumania. .0O46; Argentina. 1897;
Brazil. .0990; Toxic. .4112; Montreal,
SO 1882.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
MILLS CUT CLOTH PRICES,

ST. LOUIS, August Is (SpeciaD.-
The record attendance of merchants
at the annual fashion show this week
shows healthy general buying move
ment in all lines of clothing. The
demand for mems and boys wear is
varied and rounded out
fSome clothing manufacturers, over
stocked because of the summer de-
pression, are reported making con-
cessions for cash.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
GOLD SHIPPED TO INDIA.

NEW YORK, August 15.-The first
shipment Of gold from the United
States in several months was made
today. when the Equitable Trust
Co. forwarded $40 900 to India
Bankers said that at current prices
of rupees it was possible to ship the
yellow metal to India through a
hedging operation. 1t costs less to
ship gold to India from the United
States than from London, where India
has been a heavy buyer of the pre-
cious metal in the open market.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, August 15.-Potatoes
steady to firm; receipts 13O cars;
total United States shipments 5y4:
Kansas sacked Irish cobblers, LISA
1.55; Missouri sacked cobblers, l.30a
Las; Minnesota bulk early Ohio's, LIS
also; Maryland bulk Irish cobbIers,
1.S0; New Jersey sacked Irish cob
Tiers, 1.45a1.90; kentucky sacked
Irish cobblers. 1.75a1.S0; Virginia
barrel cobblers, 3D0a3.0Q.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
$4,000, 1000 LOAN LIKELY.
q. S. Bankers to Aid Potash In
dustry in Germany.

NEW YORK, August 15.-Additfonal
banking credit will be made availa-
BILE for the German potash industry
with a settlement of the reparations
problem, Wall Street hears. Because
of its American connections and the
fact that it had supplied the bulk OF
the product used by chemical COM
panies here, the German syndicate
has had little trouble in financing its
operation. In line with a 5000, 900
credit recently granted to the sugar
industry of Germany. bankers now
are considering a similar loan to the
potash interests, which may total, as
much as $6,000.00O.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
SHORTS RUSH TO COVER.

NEW YORK, August 15.-Indications
that a considerable short interest was
built up on the recent reactionary
movement of the stock market was
seen yeste rday in the quick rebound
of recognized leaders. such as Ameri-
can Can. Baldwin, United States Steel
and Studebaker. Volatile specialties
which recently had been subjected to
short selling. also scored quick recov-
cries as soon as it became evident
that constructive factors were at
work.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
CANAL MISSES COAL.

BOSTON, August Is Especially Fig
ures for the Cape Cod Canal traffic for
the first half of this year. reflect the
falling off in coal shipments. Only
1,369,533 tons were handled. as COM
pared with 2,123,513 tons last year.
Tonnage of miscellane freight
amounted to only 399, $40 tons, as COM
pared with S06,S63 in the first half of
1928.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
BEST YEAR SINCE 1918.
Proctor & Gamble Business Get
ting Back to Normal.

CINCINNATI, Ohio August 10
Col. William Cooper Proctor, presi-
dent of the Proctor & Gamble Co. in
the company's annual report stated
that the fiscal year of the company
marked a further approach to normal
after a prolonged period of disturbed
conditions.
The volume of sales for the year
totaled s12l.372. 6Sl and the net earn
ings, after providing for all reserves
and charges for depreciation, losses
taxes, etc, amounted to s8.629447,
the report shows. The earnings are
the largest reported by the company
since 1918, the report stated.
Evening star., 1924-08-15
FABULOUS PROFITS
IN GERMAN BONDS
Investment of SIS Last Year
Now Worth $1,75O-Rise
of $3.50 in Week.
By the Associated Press.

Dy tHt ABSOCIattu ffeBB.
NEW YORK, August Histories of
fabulous profits from German securi-
ties were being circulated yesterday
when the buyers of last year who
paid SIS for 100000 marks of Ger
man war bonds, cashed in at the pre-
vailing quotations of s1.750, rise of
$3.50 in the past week.
Prussian war loans worth $400 per
100000 marks three months ago
brought ten times the original sum
and other German securities rose in
proportion.
The rise in general was ascribed to
the recent favorable report on the
Dawes plan for rehabilitating Ger
many.