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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30

With two of the local elevens out on the road, Woodlawn going to Florence and Phillips invading Meridian, Miss, fandom will be undivided in their at tention in local prep football as the flashy Ensley team and the strong Bes' semer eleven clash Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at Redwood. The clash be- tween these two rivals will be of much importance as to the state championship for high school teams.
 Both teams thus far are undefeated not even as yet having been scored up- on. Bessemer has defeated four op- ponents already, whipping the Alliance high at the opening game with score of S1 to o and soon after defeated the Jones Valley high with score of 10 to 0. At the next clash they defeated Shades-C Cahaba with a victory amount ing to 12 to o. In the last encounter, with the Simpson eleven, Bessemer Tigers did some tall playing and sent Simpson back for a score of .25 to 0. Ensley on the other hand has been doing equally as well. After winning three games she invaded Tech Hi in Atlanta and the game was a no-seore combat. but with the odds favoring Ensliey. From this the conclusion is that the two teams are about evenly matched in playing skill even though the Tigers out weigh the pony team from the suburbs.
 EnsIey Confident
 Out at Ensley the fellows believe that they are going to give Bessemer the licking of their life and they are work ing hard to be able to prove it. Coach Cannon Ball' White is putting them through the regular menu, practicing his veterans at receiving punts, cutting and opening up in the line. One of the best things that the Jackets do is to send speedy Marston around the end and nearly every time they meet with sue cess on this play. The Ensley team shows wonderful cooperation and an almost perfect defense for high school team. Country" Lowry, Jackson and McGonegle, aces of the team, including Marston, are all in good shape for the battle and are expected to show some stellar playing. It was McGonegle him self that did so well in the Atlanta. :.
 Still the packers of the Tigers out at Bessemer are just as proud of their bat ting eleven and believe that Red Harris will lick the stuffing out of anything in the state or in any other state with his eleven. Harris has shown his ability to whip the greenies into a strong, well organized team before and they believe he has done it again. He has some real good material this season, practically all the men on the team are big and husky and know how to handle Ntheir bulk.
 Formerly Classics
 In former years the Bessemer- Central Ensley games were the classics of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
FEATHERS MEET
 IN RING TOURNEY
Winner Will Become The Featherweight Cham
 piOn Of World,

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-The New York prizefight commission selected six featherweight fighters Wednesday afternoon to battle in an elimination tournament for the featherweight cham pionship which was vacated few months ago by Johnny Dundee, because he could not make the weight any more. Now nothing remains but to, get the Lsix fighters into the ring, task which will be about as easy as making the Sphinx of Egypt tell line of snappy stories.
 Kid Kaplan. of Meriden, Conn.,, and Danny Kramer of Philadelphia, both of whom whaled Dundee in no-decisiOn, catchweight fights before he abandoned the title, are the two leading nominees in the tournament. The others are Lew Paluso, of Salt Lake City; Jose Lom- bardo of Panama; Mike Dundee, of Rock Island, H., and Dolby Garica, the soldier boxer, of camp Holabird, Md. 70. Paired By Draw
 The fighters will be paired by q blind draw from hat and the first bouts of the series will be fought in the -Sanguinary Square at Madison Square Garden.
 The prizefight commission also thought of getting up an elimination tournament to find the leaeing nomi. nee for bout with Benny Leonard for the lightweight championship but the managers of the young lighrweights oi the day were all too skittish. They wanted high guarantees which no pro moter was willing to make.
 Leonard is now middleweight and will never again fight as lightweight champion, but he has not yet gone through the formality of resigning his title
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
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 CAPTURES LIMELIGHT
Phillips And Woodlawn To Play Out-O Of Town
 Games During Week-End

high school season and eagerly looked forward to by the prep fans. It is hoped that by next year the three dis trict teams will schedule the Tigers again on their runs and boost the pep shown over local encounters even higher. Back in '21 when Bessemer last invaded the city they defeated Ensley with a score of 9 to q, but lost to the Central Crimsons (now Phillips) with the score 21 o13. In years before that the Central and Bessemer clash was one of the biggest of the season, many times the foes fought to a tie, but with sensational playing all during the game.
 Over at the Woodlawn practice field Coach Robin Hood had his warriors out practicing to be firemen. The dust had become so bad that they had to borrow fire hose from the nearest station and put the men to work gettingthe field in condition to be played upon. Jones was unable to practice on account of sickness and Poe had n sprained ankle from the last practice3 but ''Pots" Levvy, the man-o-war for the Gold and White, was in rare form and is working, ac- cording to the coatch, to prove that the run he made through the Phillips en-
 
 wasn't just luck and he can do 1t again."
 Woodlawn Special The new school is going to strut 5sa Woodlawn special when they go up to Florence to combat the Coffee high. Dr. c. B. Glenn and 300 teachers are. going up with them on a general outing. Two of the team sponsors will also iic- company the team. They are Misses Sharlott Burns and Mary Sullivan.
 Phillips will leave Friday night for Meridian, Miss, where they are sched- uled to go up against the Meridian high squad. Pilgreen, who has been in bad with the faculty and laid up with leg injuries, is expected to be back with the team soon and in good condition for the coming encounter. Big +.Suts" Smith, the veteran hefty of the line, is also again out for the practices and will be able to go in the game in Mis- sissippi. The whold team is in much better condition than it was last week and is expected to show up much bet ter. Where the line was weak it is now strong and where the back field needed q man they got him and so are in good shape. ''kidd' Lott, the strongest plunger the Crimsons had during the last half of the Woodlnwn encounter, is going good and more than likely he will go with the team to Meridian and see, service.
 With the two last contenders out of town the crowd should turn out in floods to witness what promises to be one of the best local games of the season and one that might decide the state cham pionship in the long run.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30

It is a mistaken idea when one thinks that the game Saturday with Spring Hill will be weak affair. From a spectators standpoint it will be one of the best games the local fans will see this fall; it will be fast, snappy and much aerial work will take place, and the game will belong to the team that gets the breaks.
 Gillim Has Problem
 Coach Gillim is facing difficult problem in his back field as Ham Stevens has failed to come through with what was expected of him. He has been unable to stay ill through the whole four preiods of any game, with only one exception. It is likely a change will have to be made in the line LID in the last minute, however, Stubbs the alternate captain, is playing a good game and was the outstanding star against Mercer breaking through the line and throwing the Mercer backs for loss on q number of occasions. Kelley is playing good game In the line and has his department of the How ard machine working like veterans. "Slick" Lollar will be out with lame knee, having sustained an injury in the Auburn-Howard game.
 The whole Howard student body will be represented at the coming game with the famous Howard Bulldog band and will entertain between halves with mu- sic and a snake dance.
 Freshman Coach Shelton takes his Junior Bulldogs on a trip to Auburn where they will meet the strong Auburn Freshman team.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30

When quick results are imperative Age Herald want ads never fail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30

The Capstone Freshmen will clash
 with tough first year clan next Sat
 urday afternoon when the Vanderbilt
 Rats invade Tuscaloosa for a game. In the team above are some 35 or 40 stars of variols high school >elevens of fast year who are out for the Ala bama Freshman team this year. The picture shows the familiar countenances of several local stars. The husky gen tleman on the extreme left is Bully Van de Graf, the driving Freshman coach. A better picture of Bully may be found just above. Next to Bully" on the back row is "BulP' Wesley, former Simpson and Greenville star. In front of Wesley, kneeling on the front row is Harry Brunson, from Sidney Lanier. The fourth man from left end, standing, is Harry Holder, last years Phillips High school cap tain and quarterback, while on his left is Red" Hickman, captain and half back on last seasons Simpson eleven
 The ninth man from the left, back row, standing on the right of the young. ster with the be-plastered nose, is Jim Smith, star center of last seasons Phil lips team. Next to the right end man on the back row is Ed Douglas, also a Birmingham boy. In the front row the second man from the left, Eneeiing, is 'Slick" Vincent, the great Simpson basketball star and also a football and baseball player of merit. The second man from the right end of the front row is Griffin, now playing with Jack. sonville Normal, while on his right is Dick Hammer, the Fayette High school star. Fifth from right end is Marvin Vines, Alliance Highs big football and basketball star. The Rats have beaten Tulane already this year, and are out for another championship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
Columbia VIII HaUe An
 Inspired ELeuen Saturday

of the students had ever had a word with Haughton, but somehow, he put himself to them through the football team. When he is being lowered into his grave, the whole university will come to a stop and be still minute.
 Grips Grid Players
 It is impossible to describe the com plexion, dimensions and shape of a spirit, so it is impossible to tell just what it is that sweeps through Colum- bia now, that strange sensation which makes the football men want to run out and tackle a ten-ton truck, confi- dent that they could bring it crashing down, for the glory of Haughton's mem ory. He was a stern, distant proposl- tion, neither fatherly nor brotherly nor chummy to the athletes. He was virtually a stranger at Columbia, too, because he was Haughton of Harvard, Haughton of the -Haughton system and had only come to Columbia in 1923.
 And yet, the players remember that his last words to them were: Tell the team I'm proud of them,' and it seems as though Columbia, in the last years of Haughton's life, stole him away from Harvard. He died O. lumbia man and the team is now asked to beat Cornell to complete the job that he undertook two years ago at consider able risk of prestige. Columbia was a pretty dismal proposition in a foot ball way when Haughton was offered the job of catching the team. Poppisch was the only noticeable player. Never tl.eless, Haughton took the challenge and this year he turned out team which beat Williams, which previously had whipped Cornell.
 No Team Ever So Inspired
 Cornell will have to fight not only the Columbia football team Saturday afternoon, but the spirit of Percy Haughton, which he breathed into the athletes. He brought the team along to the eve of this game in a confident, fighting mood. Then he died sudden ly. In all the seventy odd years of in ter-collegiate football, there has never been another team ajmilarly inspired ; neither has any other team ever occu- pied the tough spot that Cornell must occupy Saturday afternoon at Ithaca.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
HUEYTOWN PLAYS
 ;iST. BERNARD HI

The Hueytown Gophers will leave Birmingham Thursday morning at 80 o'clock for Cullman where they en- counter the St. Bernard Saints Thurs day safternoon. Coach Snider has been eiyisg his eleven plenty of action this week and with tough games facing him for fhe remainder of the season is talk ing no chances on any of the contests.
 The Gophers are favord to win the battle in Cullman but they are going into: the game scrapping. The team is in good shape and all regulars will start the game. Jones Valley, Fayette, Faiaield and Bessemer remain to be played by the Gophers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
WALKER BEATS
 JACK MALONE
WeIter Champ OutpOints Mid
 dleweight Boxer

NEWARK, N. J. Oct. 29.-Mickey Walker, of Elizabeth, N. J., worlds welterweight champion, stepped out of his class and opt-pointed Jock Malone, St. Paul middleweight in 12-round match at Newark armory tonight.
 The bout was a no decision affair, but the concensus of newspaper men at the ringside gave Walker a wide margin. The welterweight champion was the agressor throughout but could not knock out the clever St. Paul boxer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
By wEsTBROOK PEGLER

(SpeciaI Leased Wire To Age -Herald.)
 NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-Saturday afternoon, just as the flowers are be- ginning to droop and turn ugly brown in the wire d-tinsel frames on Percey Haughtons grave in Boston. the Co- Iumbia football team that he filled with inc strange power Of his spirit, will tear onto the field at Ithaca, N. 4., to play Cornell. And Cornells red team, which isn't much of a team this year, will be assaulted by lot of young athletes with 'a sort of religious fanaticism tlam- ing beneath their jerseys. With Colum- bia it will be a holy war, and even Notre Dame might have a hard time holding the New York school under the special. circumstances.
 There had been some talk of can ceiling the rest of Columbla's sched- ule out of respect for Haughtons mem, ory but the decision was deferred until Mrs. Haughton' came down from Bos- ton, Tuesday, to accompany the Dody hack home. When she was asked about It she said she thought F. D.. himself, would have preferred that the boys go ahead and fight their fight in his mem orv and do their best to make good for him. Haughton taught football for high purpose and he wouldn't have thought that moping could serve that purpose.
 KOppisch Represents Team
 Walter Koppisch, the back-field star now serving his third term as captain of fhe team, a distinction which no other football player ever enjoyed be- fore. was selected to represent Haugh- tons team at the funeral in Boston on Thursday. He accompanied Mrs HaaShton when she left here Tuesday nig6t. Koppisch was the first one to catdti Haughton's spirit. In fact, he prosably was born with it, for he was the ssoul and body of the poor, gloom teafns at Columbia until Haughton ar riv67K
 19ie flags at the university are al halEmast. The students, even the over stuffed bookish ones who have only vaguely heard of football, have taken the deaEn of Haughton as though he had beeS; some close relative. Only few
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
TUSCUNBIA TIES
 COFFEE HI, 6-6

SHEFFIELD, Ala, Oct. 29.-(Spe- cial. "A large number of fans from the Fri Cities witnessed the hard fought game between the Coffee high football team from Florence and the Tuscumbia high which was played on the Sheffield gridiron Tuesday afternoon. The game ended with the score 6 to 6.
 Both parties profit by use of Age Herald Want Ads. Sold before noon is the frequent result of this use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-30
ROE FITZSJMMONS WINS

BOSTON, Oct. 29.-Young zoo FItz- simmons. of Newark, N. J., won over Joe Burke of Detroit, when the referee stopped their scheduled ten round bout in the third round last night, Fitz- simmons had pounded Burke on the body and face in aggressive in-fighting from opening bell. Burke weighed 192 and Fitzsimmons 1S1.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-14
FOUR INSTEAD OF FOUR HUNDRED

fsrF7OUR HUNDRED arrested in police roundup" sounds
if the Indianapolis police feverishly active
They are they accomplishing? The answer is
little nothing.
The police department under the direction of Mayor Shank
the absence Chief Rikhof making cleanup 1t
aidng poooom and similar places and making wholesale
vagrancy charges Professional bondsmen are reap
ing harvest and the city court worked overtime dis
charging defendants against whom the police have evidence
The police catching criminals in this roundup
They arresng few oafer and lot of working men who
haze little other diversion than the pOorOOm
there any for arresng because he
chases little ivory ball green table than there would
be arrestng of the of who occasionally chase
little rubber ball green field?
The police have made 400 arrests and probably will make
We could suggest four that would be of much
greater Importance and would do much credit to the
department than all these 400 put together
For instance why not couple of the murderers who
still argsay the murderer of Orme and the Watson boy
and of the who blew the safes Ayres
store and possibly filing station bandit bank robbers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-14
In Ne7e, York
BY STEVE HANNIGAN

NEW YORK. July 14.-Years ago.
at the climax of an unhappy ro-
nance, she vowed no man ever would
see her face again.
That was years ago. for she is now
an old woman.
But no man ever hap seen her face
since the girlhood day she made her
vow.
over the lower portion Of her face.
covering her mouth and nose, she
wears a black mask. 1t appears to
he part of an ancient stocking.
Her skirt is combination Of no
less than three vari-colored petit
coats Of another period. She wears
a burlap apron. tied about her with
rope strong enough TO bind ehe
Leviathan to her pier
Alone, she lives in a decaying
house that once stood for wealth and
position in the community. The gar
den is overrun with weeds and the
glass has not been cut in years.
The recluse babbles OF days that
were, of money Golfers slowly Being
drained
All that is CLEANED on the fringe
Of a little village. forty-two minutes
from Broadway. at a resort town
popular with big-town folk on holi.
days.
In "speakeasies," where food, as
we'll as illicit beverages are served,
the walters invariably ask good
beer?" when one asks for a drink of
beer.
They construe near-beer to mean
bad beer.
The New York idea of publicity Is
amusing.
A young musical composer, just
coming into his own, asks advice
from two friends, both newspaper
men.
I've got a chance to get mixed
in a big breach of promise scandal
with a Follies girl" he conides,
that would get me on the front
page of all the newspa pers."
He was willing to take any chance
with his name and reputation to get
before the public eye.
A woman wearing a black satin
dress. with a green print material
underskirt, attracted a crowd of 100
followers on Broadway,
Everybody but the wearer thought
the dress funny. She thought it
modish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-14
GOVERNOR BRANCH AND TELEPHONES


OVERNOR Branch to be commended for his statement
~ setting out his attitude toward public utility regulation
and particularly toward the tactics of the Indiana Bell Tee
phone Company While his statement may to have
bit ate due the to reduce rates. his attitude
and should guide the State further dealings with
the telephone company and with other public service corpora
tons
''The present commission will be inclined encourage
competition for protection the public this required
he said in speaking the Republican editors West Baden
He continued:
The Legislature can be the purpose
ling law which will give complete control of utilities to the
State prevent the companies from going into Federal Court
m they pleased with the findings of the public service
commission -
First competition. There been during the
few years decided tendency consolidate public utilities We
beginning feel the effects Telephone up
ward after the consolidation Water up. Gas
high Care recently increased The that
supply "a service monopoies in their field
E9zy competition in the public utility business in Indian
apos between the light and power companies And light and
comparatively low. There getting around
THE fact that competition lower 1t should be
tcouraged wherever possible.
Governor Branch second proposal may be
ibis first Frankly doubt the ability Legislature
prevent public utility from going into Federal Court Utilities
gone ground that property
being conscated without due process of law in violation of
Constitution of the United States The Legislature could hard
! ly go beyond the Constitution.
If however, there any possibility strengthening
public utility law make State control certain it should
DONE Those who would abolish the public
have learned their lesson They have from the
of the telephone company what happens when utility
lieved from control.
We would like of indispensable utility
ice go sometime and ask for injunction against
xobant the ground that his property being
fscated by the utility in violation of the Constitution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-14
GRADE CROSSINGS

OF COURSE the ideal way prevent grade crossing
W cdents to do away with grade crossings This will
eventually, but it takes time.
The second best way is to guard the crossings.
The fact that many dangerous crossings in Indianapolis
were not guarded revelation many citizens The in
vsgaon by The indianapolis Times revealed the fact that in
some instances crossings which city ordinances required be
guarded not guarded.
Why the railroad companies would provide wachmen
gates and thus avoid responsibility hard understand
However, with little urging results have been
pshed and wachmen have been stationed many crossings
This is real step toward safety for both motorists
and pedestrians.
The placing of wachmen may many lives in Indian
apolis.
CALIFORNIA has married his mother-inlaw which
jolt those who still scott the wonders Of that climate
''THERE ARE NO policemen in heaven says preacher
which sounds like the start of a boom movement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-14
Tom Sims Says

Popular songs could be worse. No
song is as bad as its parodies.
Maple strip is being made from
pvuue juice instead Of brown sugar.
In a small town the stray dogs
get you and in large town the
stray bullets get you.
platitUde is a familiar saying
entirely surrounded by people who
say, "Ain't it the truth"
Never marry woman who
smokes cigarets and throws ashes
on the floor for you to sweep up.
Get together" is the advice given
politicians. You can't get much by
yourself.
Peop.e are sitting on their porches
to see who goes riding to see who
sits on their porches.
Several ball teams have quit
claiming this years pennant and are
claiming next years pennant.
Only thing harder to carry than
two watermelons is three
Dog days are just about due.
Don't treat your husband like a dog
or he may go mad.
No matter how big the auto, there
are times when three's a crowd.
1t is estimated some good looking
girls have been taught to swim
forty times this summer.
Cheap matches are all right if you
happen to strike a good one.
Preachers have a good job in sum
mer, none of their flock wanting to
go where it is hotter.
Feed a man every date he has and
you have him half married.
Window panes last much longer
if kept away from baseball games.
Lattice work keeps the rain out
If the holes are stopped up neatly.