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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
PegIer,sPegs
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLEIs
Especial Leased Wire 10 Age-Heraldl

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE Other
day this fallibIe authority who always
admits that he is wrong before he
makes any statement, remarked thai
pitchers who lead their leagues one sea,
son usually slump in the succeeding
season and, in frequent cases, disap-
pear entirely.
ANY correspondent should be able to
take both sides of question and prove
himself wrong from both angles there
b striking n happy average.
Thus, it win now be advanced that
pitchers have long professional careers
and that many of them come back e.
give great service after being retired tO
the quiet of the frontier posts and pine
bleachers.
Vean Gregg, a left-hander, who sold
extras ON the streets of his home town
announcing the fall of Bunker Hill when
he wns a little boy, is in demand for q
Job on the New York Yankees. He wai
contemporary of Frank Chance, Larry
Lajoie and Ed Huelbach and he disap
peared years ago to Craze on the tall
grass of the bush Leagues.
Walter johnson went down to the
minors for a time and was thought ID
be cancelled as big Lacquer. He has
pitched six shutouts this year and il
largely responsible for the maintenance
of the Washington club in the fr.nt file
of the league.
Bill Doak led the National league ten
years ago and after being traded to the
Brooklyn club by st. Louis a few weeks
ago, he began to win ball games as Of
old.
Sherry Smith, the left-hander, who
helped Brooklyn win those pennants In
1917 and 1920 was finally dismissed
from the league but he now reappears
with the Indians and pitches grade-A
ball for them. Duster Mails, released
by Brooklyn and Pittsburg,. was given
job by the same Indians late in the
1920 season and won seven games that
put them in the world series. The next
year he won IA and lost 8 but now he
has vanished again. Perhaps he'll be
back, too.
Carl Mays was waived out of the
American league two years after he
turned in the top average for the cir.
cult. In two seasons he won SO games
for the Yankees but in 1924 they
thought i'll of him and the other clubs
eoneurred in this verdict so he was
let out. This season he has pitched
respectfully. for the Cincinnati Reds.
These examples are cited to prove the
error Of the contrary examples which
were cited to prove that these examples
are wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
THREE INDICTED
IN MURDER CASE
AT HUNTSVILLE
Limbaugh, PeytOn And
Byrd Named In Killing
OF Elmore
tTennsee Valley Bureau

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Oct. 12.---
Especial. Robert Limbaugh, Charles
Peyton and Charles Byrd. who have
been in jail during the last three weeks
on charges of murder in connection
with the death of Erskine Gilmore,
Limestone county farmer, who was
beaten to death in the northern part
Of Huntsville while the Madison conn
ty fair was in progress, have been In
dicated by the Madison county grand
jury on charges of murder in the first
degree, Gilmore and companion, who
were apparently trying to flirt with
several young women who were work
ing in soft drink bottling plant on
Church street. were followed in an
automobile to remote part Of the city,
dragged from their car and severely
beaten, Gilmore sustaining injuries that
resulted in his death at the hospital
a short time later. Limbaugh. PeytOn
and Byrd were arrested the next day
and have never made statement.
30 True Bills FOund-Work five
DAYS OI IulS WcCAp AhC NAauAoOA SOuA-
ty grand jury has returned five partial
reports and ). total of SO true bills. The
body will probably be in session most
Of next week. Several of the more
important criminal cases on the docket
Of the circuit court have been set for
trial during the last two weeks of the
resent term. John win Moon, formerly
a deputy sheriff, who is charged with
the murder Of an alleged moonshiner
named Hunter in Halle. Green. pre-
cinct, will be given a second trial Octo-
her q and special vCnire has been
ordered drawn. The. first trial October
q, and q special venire has been
ordered drawn. The first trial resulted
in a hung jury.
2,7e2 Bales Ginned-Madison county
gins had ginned and baled 2,792 bales
Of cotton of the crop of this season
prior to October 1, according TO the
report of Charles X. Williams, federal
crop reporter. Ginning is proceeding
now at rapid rate, every gin in the
county being in full operation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
|EARLSANDE To-
Be TOO HEAVY
Thought That Jockey,
; Upon Recovery, May
Be Overweight i
Especial Leased Wire to Age Herald
! BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-Lying in a
hospital waiting for his broken leg 70
mend, Earl Sande, the Barney Oldfield
Of the bob-tailed cat-barrels begrudges
himself every boiled egg, every slab Of
red roast beef, every wafer OF bread
that comes to the bedside with the doc
tors directions: ITO be taken intern
ally In restoring him physically, the
physician may ruin him professionally
To rebuild bone the patient must eat
IL be eats he gains weight. -
While Sande was active he could
keep his poundage under control and II
he gained few pounds in the off-sea.
son, he saw to it that he didn't gain
too many. As long as a rider or q
fighter keeps his youth he can hold
himself within training distance Of bis
operating figure. With the advance OF
the years he may take on weight which
can not be trained away, as In the case
Of Johnny Dundee, who resigned the
featherweight championship lately. This
is not imperative, however, for there
are many jockeys Of elderly cast who
are as light today as they were in
their apprentice era. And Johnny
Buff, though wizened and aged, is still
q fyweight.
However, Sande apparently has a
tendency to bulk apd he Is afraid that
in three months of inertia and feeding
he will build up structure that never
can be reduced 10 riding dimensions,
without damage to his general health.
There have been several deaths from
entertaining to reduce weight. Joe
Cans Is always citide ~ terrible ex-
dmple and it is true that he endorsed
his own death warrant when he signed
articles for 1873 pounds, ringside, at the
i1sistenee of Battling Nelson's Obdu-
rate manager, Billy Nolan. But he did
not die at once, as one Of the little
jockeys did in a race Inst season at
one Of the Long Beach tracks. This
boy had tossed off about IA pounds in
no more than 80 hours rather than lose
a chance to ride and he fluttered from
the saddle, dead Of exhaustion as his
horse waddled home out Of the mO6ey.
Andy Thomas, a growing boy weighing
about 157 pounds, died in the ring in
Brooklyn from oVer-exertion while in
drawn condition, having robbed ma
ture Of 10 pounds in order to accept a
fight at the welterweight figure, 147.
In one respect. jockeys have an
advantage over, fighters. They need
train only for weight, They need only
enough strength to stay in the saddle,
whereas scrapper must reduce his
pounds and build his strength by one
process.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13

got too much imagination. Rigtto.
That's why they imagine they're golf
ers.) Our minds are too active. We
know how 70 execute tho shots NIL right
meaning to ''kill"l, but here's
the trouble. During the downswing. In
stead Of concentrating on the business
Of hitting the ball. we're drawing q mcn-
tai pictnre of slice or a pull and the
muscles obey the imagination instead Of
the will"
That's right. But the next time
I'm gonna can this foolishness and keep
my mind on what I'm doing. expect
TO be shooting under so in another year
or two. You and really ought to play
par golf--and we will, in couple Ut
years. No excuse for this 90 stuff.
Echo answers, ''What ninety .stuff2!)
Next scene shows the same two dublis
five years later. in the same locker
room. They nre talking again..
Gosh. wasn't that awful? A bun.
bred and ten for me and n hundred snd
eight for you. / haven't been that rot /.
ten since--since don't know when.'
tSince yesterday.
4 Same here. And It's all foollshnessT,
etc, cite.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
WOMAN'S DEATH
MARS FINAL DAY
OF PLANE MEET
Parachute Jumper Killed
In Leap At Wichita !.
Falls

WICHITA, Kan, Oct 12.--The deatl
Of woman parachute jumped marret
the final days program OF the Nationa
Air Congress meet here today. Mrs
Ruth Carver, well known aerial per
former Of Attica, Kan, was killed wher
she fell one thousand feet with a para
chute that failed to open.
Mrs. Carver and Mrs. Sevaughn Ne
willie. of st. Joseph, Mo-, jumped stimuli
taneously from che plane of X. II. Gar
yer, husband Of the dead woman. Mrs
Neville landed safely but the parachute
of Mrs. Carver, It's cords tangled, fel
/ like a plumniet and landed in the midst
of large crowd. She died few mo
ments later. r
-Four army pursuit planes from Self
ridge field furnished the greatest thrills
OF the races today. The race for ths
Wichita Chamber Of Commerce trophy
four pursuit planes. was won by Maj
Thomas Lanphier, with an average speed
OF 15S miles an hour. Major Lanphiei
flew the 60-mile course In % minutes
47.O5 seconds. Following closely wal
Lieut.. T. w. Blackburn, who averaged
1923 miles an hour.
Averaging IUt.ZA miles an nOuLi
lieut.. j. ID. Corkhill Of Brooks field,
San Antonio, won the Detroit News
trophy race for, large capacity planes
Lieutenant Corkhill piloted his Martin
bomber over the sixty miles Of the race
IN 43 minutes 43.41 seconds. In addi'
ton to the trophy he won $500 in lib
erty bonds. Second place was won by
Lieut.. II. j. Patrick Of Kelly field, San
Antonio, with an avearge Of 1OS miles
an hour.
Walter Beach of Wichita, flying Q
clipped wing Swallow, won the handi'
cap race for commercial planes, averag'
ing Has miles an hour. Beach's handi'
cap was two minutes and sixteen sec
onds. The race was for the Wichita
Beacon trophy. Carver, with a handi'
cap OF eleven minutes and twenty-nine
seconds, finished second.
%. A. Acker of Ardmore, Okla, won
the free-for-all Jenney race, averaging
72.9 miles an hour. The race was fol-
the Swallow Airplnne company trophy
Carver won the Dead Stick landing
contest, landing feet, S1s inches from
the field marker.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
SPORTS
GOLF AND OTHER TROUBLES
A GOEr pOsT.MORTEM

No sadder spectacle has been in.
vented than the post.mortem which
follows golf game between two dubbs
of certain well known variety. You
know the type--the bird who calls him
self ninety" golfer because he once
shot a ninety-eight over 5,OO0-yard
layout. When questioned about today's
game he always says, Terrible! ley
rible / played like half-wit, l hate
to confess it, but my score was n hun
dred and ten 1! Can you imagine that?''
(Yes, you can imagine IL nH right. Its
better.than he usually doesl.
Then comes the inquest wherein the
two buffers try to. console each other:
Gosh, wasn't that awfulg A hundred
and ten for men and hundred and eight
for you! ] haven't been that rotten
since-since don't know when.
(Since yesterday, to be brutality exact).
threw away at least one stroke on
each hole, for no reason at ALL"
And so did /. Both Of us should
have broken 90. Look at the short
puts missed-and no excuse for IL.
There's no reason in the world why
you and I should dubb around in the
nineties most of the time" (And they
don't. More often it's d hundred and
thirty.
surely. You're really an eighty
golfer, and so am l. We play an
eighty game, except for a few silly
fIukes here and there. j shot three par
holes In row this mroning. That
proves / can do II when | really try"
Sure. Both Of us know. how to do II,
but we lack confidence and we don't
keep our minds on the game. Too many
business worries. That's the reason why
Bill Johnson shoots such q good game
he's got nothing to worry about"
Probably Joe's wife has eleped with
Joe's b0otlegger--ain,t u fierce to lose a
bootlegger? And Joe has neuritis In both
arms and his brokerage business Is
about to 20 ps-qupt l--littie things like
that to quiet his nerves and drive duh
care away.
The next time l come out I'm gonna
park this foolishness aud scot some real
golf. This dubb stuff Is out. There's
really no sense In it. It's all mental.
THAT makes It perfectly simplel. Coli
Is not really difficult. Most Of the
trouble Is purely imaginary
Sure. IL a man can control the
old bean he can control the old pin.
The trouble with you and me Is we've
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
WHY HE STAYED IN WAsHINGT
COuIdn't Find His Way Out, Declares
TnrmentnA MokOriat


TOrmented Motorist
Friends will go on record for me that
can tell straight line from a curve {;
but all this evidence isn't worth one
ticket to the democratic Convention
when 1 try to follow Instructions in
leaving a city.
Best wy out Of Washington? Let
me see, New York avenue would be
about the best, wouldn't it, Georgel
Take the first turn to your left, then
on three blocks and then two TO your
right. Keep straight ahead to the
library and then go around IL, and you
should be on Rhode Island avenue"
Hold on, it's quicker straight ahead
the way he is. and then utrn at Penn
sylvania and K. and g, up two blocks,
and then across"
Nav, he wants to go to Baltimore.
You wanta go there, doncha?"
Baltimore seems dandy idea to me.
He can go ahead like / told him,
and then take the second turn, not the
first"
THAT would land him in Connecticut
avenue, and it's all torn up. He's bet
ter stick to Delaware avenue, and go
east about three blocks on s street. +"
"Yeh, guess that's best. Listen, you
go bck the way you came till you pass
the mint, then swing around"
''Or else he can go straight up, and
across, and over, and then down.
"Yeh,. you can do that, too. Only be
sure to urn at the watering trough"
So that is why / have bought home
in Washington. can't get Corey
Ford in the Saturday Evening Post.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
SYLACAUGA ELEVEN
BEATS GOODWATER

GOODWATER. Ala, Oct. 12.-(Spe-
cial. High school and
Sylacauga High school staged an ex-
citing game of football here, with the
score standing at 9 to 0 in favor of the
visitors.
This is the first season for the local
team and they fought gamely for every
inch of the ground and made a credit
able showing against their heavier and
more experienced opponents.
Coach White is getting the team into
fine shape and with little more ex-
perience mad practice will make formid-
able foe for any of the high schools.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
2 NEGROES KILLED
IN LOCAL SCRAPS
Alleged Slayer OF Wife Being
Sought By Police

A negro man and a negro woman
were killed Sunday night in separate
fights In and around Birmingham, ac-
cording TO reports by Coroner j. ID.
Russum.
Lucy Thomas, %, was shot and in
stantly killed at 8 $50 o'clock Sunday
night in the rear Of her home in Pow
derby. Her husband, Mason, is
charged with her death. Mason es-
capped after exchanging five shots with
a relative Of the dead woman.
an unidentified negro Sunday night
near his residence. The motive for the
killing was undetermined.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
ROAD CONTRACTS
FOR 5 COUNTIES
TOBELET TO-DAY
"a Miles Paved Highway
In Calhoun Indicated
In List
Estate Capital Bureau)

MONTGOMERY, Alal, Oct. 12.--The
state highway commission viii meet
Monday at its offices here at which
time award of contracts for projects
in five counties is scheduled to come
up.
The projects comprise: In Fayette
county, Is IA miles of gravel road
from Fayette to Winfield. Shelby coun-
-ty, s miles of chart road from Wilton
via Montevallo to Calera.
Perry county, approximately II miles
Of gravel road from the Dallas eoun.
ty line to a point on the Marion Cen
treville highway near SprOtt, with a
bridge over the Cahaba river.
Calhoun county, "a miles Of paved
road from the Talladega county line
via Oxford, Admission and Jacksonville
to Piedmont. I'd
Covington county, 2.S miles Of sand
clay road approaches to the bridge
being built over the. Conecuh river near
CAN'T.
Corner Stone PlacedT-With the lay
ing Of the cornerstone this afternoon,
work on the Second Baptist church is
eADcGLeu 10 YET uCLlNSly uuhCI way WAtAT
IN a very short time. Attending the
ceremonies today were representatives
of all the city Baptist churches, city
officials, and members of other denomi-
nations of the city. Among the speakers
were. Livingston Mays, pastor; DR..
Charles A. Stanley, pastor of the First
Baptist church Rev. T.. M. Fleming
of the Highland Avenue Baptist church
and Mayor w. A. Gunter, Jr. The
church is to be located at the corner
Of Madison avenue and Union streets.
The old church was Isold few months
ego to the state. The building is To-
Gated two blocks from the state capitol.
Texan To SpeaIk-Dr: i. r. Scar
brough, prominent Texas educator and
director of the $75y0O0,000 campaign
for Southern Baptist, will speak at the
First Baptist church here next Friday
morning in the interest of the cam
paign. DIR. ScarbrOugh's headquarters
at present are in Nashville The $751;
100000 campaign will be completed this
fall and Alabama Baptist officials are
hopeful of completing this states quota
this month";
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
GIANTS DEFEAT.
SOX IN OPENER
New York Wins First OF Long
Tour, Is To 5

MONTREAL, Oct. 12-The New York
Giants defeated the Chicago White Sox,
IS to today in the first exhibition of
their winter tour which, before ID il
concluded, will take them through che
principal countries of Europe. Tidy
will play here again tomorrow.
Score by innings: .e-
Giants ...... 800 40 006-13 IL
White Sox ZOO 600 050-5 8 4
Scott and Henline; Lyons and Sen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
SEND THAT CHILD AWAY"
Such Ws JOseph's Response To Cry
OF His first Bern

1t was while awaiting the arrival of
our first boy that J. c.. Joseph Con-
rad finished The Niger of the Mar
cissus." The writing was done by the
end of, NovmebeF and a couple of
days afterwards / finished the tipping.
Our boy Borys was born in January,
1893, on a mild and bright forenoon,
while j. Csc 1 have been tOld--was
wandering vaguely among the beds of
the kitchen garden. Suddenly he heard
child cry, and approaching the house
where Rose, the maid We had then,
was standingy he demanded she should
send that child away. She put her
head out of the kitchen window and
remarked calmly, Its your own baby
upstairs, sir"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
ECONOMY

Husband (gOing through hoqsekeep-
ing accounts)-But whatever is the use
of running accounts with four grocers ?
Wife-Well, you see, dear, it makes
the bills so much smaller IN Edinburg
Weekly Scotsman. ss
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
SAINTS DEFEAT
/. FLORENCE, z TO 0
Lone Touchdown OF Game Re
suits From Forward Pass

FLORENCE, Ala, Oct. 12,--lSpe
cial. l--St. BERNARD defeated the Flor
,ence Normal here Saturday bythe score
5of I 20 o. The Little Blue Line" held
like n stone wall when their goal was
threatened. Although heavily out
weighed, the Saints played a splendid
defensive game, with Captain Sloyen-
sky, Hodge. Kelly and Rosasco STAR
ring.
The lone touchdown Of the Saints
came In the first quarter. They had
rushed the ball up to the 30-yard
line. when Crawford threw a 20-yard
pass 70 Clyatt, who sprinted across the
line for the tally. Bilger added the
extra point.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
A MODEST MAN

Professor. you are known as q pro-
found student. want to get your adj
vice"
Perhaps It would be better not to
come to a student for advice said the
professor mildly. "Sometimes 7 feel
that the more study the less know :
Louisville CoIrier-Iournal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13

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The Washington times., 1924-06-12
FlREMAN'S HELMET HIT
BY STRAY SHOT IN BRAWL

Fireman Anthony J. 'Wernig, of
No. z Engine Company, had "a
narrow escape from serious injury
last night when a shot irfed in a
brawl In the neighborhood of. 1900
Twelfth street northwest struck
the front Of his helmet. ~
.Wernig and other firefighters had
come to 1888 Twelfth street in
response to an alarm. Fire in the
closet Of the building, which is
unoccupied, did about $40 damage.
The Washington times., 1924-06-12

Inc WOueH can WOrk just az nur0'
as they want to, hold half the jobs.
on the national COMMITTEES; and then
60 home and "clean up POLITICS." il
the men haven't made such a mess
Of things, that not even a woman
can clean up after them.
OF course a mans idea is that a
woman always cleans up anything,
merely by running straw through
1t, anyway. And he never struggles
for a chance to do the dishes.
But as far as / could make out,
from what Mr.. Rowland said, every.
thing is TO be fifty-fifty.
Really Feminine Day.
The women have full vote apiece,
and half the say in everything
provided they will go right on letting
the men have their way, as usual.
The men delegates can still take off
their hats in the elevators-but the
lsdies can remove theirs, too. The
feminine half Of the party can bob
their hair or leave it alone-but the
men can have a permanent wave,
and a mud pack, If they like. Per.
fectly fair.
There is going to be another ses-
sion Of the convention this evening,
and I'm wondering which is going
to stay home with the baby.
But 1t was a beautiful and tri.
umphantly feminine day.
1t started as usual, with the
women waiting around for the men
to arrive, just as at the dinner
hour, at home.
But, when they did finally saun.
ter in,t fresh from their beauty
slep, every male delegate was as
spruce and virtuous looking as a
shave, a cold shower, a dose of
bromide and his wife's forgiveness
could make him.
Butler, in his brand new gray
suit, looked positively pretty. Don't
stop me. 1 will say 1t. And I'm
going to ask Frank w. Mondeil. the
permanent chairman, what beauty
cream he uses.
Love Song Delightful.
The Ohio Republican glee club
caught the whole feminine spirit of
the thing, when, after finishing
The Star-Spangled Banner" and a
lively campaign song about "Cal.
Cal Coolidge" they burst into a
beautiful old love song, Love, Love,
rove you only.
Maybe politicians do love each
other. They must love somebody.
But this sweet love song at a Re.
publican convention seemed almost
as out Of place as a bride in red
bathing suit.
And then just to show that they
meant 1t, and to keep up the So
prano strain. in which they had
started. they let Mrs. Elizabeth
Price Martin, the only woman chair
man OF committee, nominate for
permanent chairman, the man they
had told her to Observation-Disclosures
OF course.
And. after that, the organ caught
the idea and played Loves Old
Sweet Song"
Oh 1t was a love FEAST, all
right.