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CHECKER clJB TOURNEY

The Putnam Checker Club will con. tinue it's round robin tournament al it's meeting this evening at the Put. nam Auto Station. School street. The present leader is William F. Warren, who has q percentage of 75. Frank E Stanton has 67 percent, and u. J. Du' bois is third with 65 percent. H. K, Burton and Judge Nj, H. Geissler are tied for fourth position with 62.b percent. Eleven players are at pres ent entered in the tourney.
Putnam patriot., 1924-12-19
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
 BEATEN BY WlNDHAM

The high school girls started their basket ball season Wednesday after noon with a defeat at the hands of the girls of Windham High. The game was played at Willimantic. The Windham misses proved all too fast for Putnam, winning by 42 to II score. Miss Larkin scored eight ot the Putnam points and Miss Ailsrd the other three.
Putnam patriot., 1924-12-19

scenes. of the Nativity requires less than half an hour, and the preliminary carols will not be repeated, no one will have long to wait Through the eoufs tesy of the Rev. Mir. Bigelow Christ church will be open during the eve ming, with music. for those who can not gain admittanee to the hall for the first performance.
Putnam patriot., 1924-12-19
R. (. BoswoRTH SPEAKS

Ray C. Bosworth of Bosworth Brothers, grain and feed dealers. was the speaker before the Putnam Rotary club at it's meeting Wednesday noon. He told how the grain Is brought from the west to all parts of the east, how it is handled upon arrival, and the large variety of goods which it Is necessary to keep in stock.
Putnam patriot., 1924-12-19
Charles Mu1rOe, Veteran
 Soldier and Sailor, Dead
Suecumbs to Injuries Received When Struck By Auto Last
 Week
Served es Ship That Guarded Me.i. tor.-Wish First Foress st Rieh.sni

Charles Munroe, widely-known vet cran of the Civil War, died at the Day Kinball Hospital at four o'clock Thursday morning. The old soldier, eighty years old, succumbed to inJur- ias received Wednesday evening. the week before, when he was hit by an automobile while on the way to . spring near his Harrisyille home to draw pail of water.
 The automobile which struck the aged man was driven by Charles Y. Sheldon of East Woodstock. Mir. Shel- don took the injured man to a doctor s office and later to the hospital. It was found that he had a broken leg and injuries about the head. He new CT fully regained his normal senses. and died peacefully Thursday morn ing.
 MT. Munroe. who was born in Lit teton. Mass, in is44, craved excite ment in his boyhood days, and at the age of eighteen enlisted in the U. S. Navy. He was still in the navy when Fort Sumpter was fired on by the southern rebels. and his service dur ing the war was notable one.
 He was in the navy during two wears ul the war anu HIS shiP ApVn part in naval engagements at Fort Philip, Fort Jackson, and the famous attack on Vicksburg.
 Helped Guard Monitor
 The ship also had the distinction of guarding the renowned Monitor. that Cheese Box on a Shingle" that sub dued and put to rout the southern ironclad. Merrimac. in Hampton Roads. When the Monitor was sunk at a later day the ship on which Nun roe was stationed picked up the crew
 In the latter part of December. 1863. Mir. Munroe left the navy. and the following month enlisted in the Union army. He was with the first forces that entered Richmond, and
Putnam patriot., 1924-12-19

Edwin Hall, son of Mir and Mrs William Hall of Walnut street and formerly with the Crompton Knowles Go. of Worcester. has left to accept a position in New York City as police man. At present he is stationed at the N. Y Central railroad.
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Helped Guard Monitor

Continued on Page Eight
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Special From Santa Claus
North Pole. Dec. 1s, 1924
dren of Putnam and Surrounding Towns;-

Children of Putnam and Surrounding Townsi- I will arrive in Putnam at S45 o'clock Saturday (to- morrow) afternoon December 20th As hear there snow there will leave my reindeer up here and come to Putnam the 3.45 trolley from the north. want all the children to meet at Bugbees Corner. will stay until next week Wednesday night.
 SANTA CLAUS.
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ROE TO FACE BARONS
IN STARTER TUESDAY
otewarts Will Meet An Improved Lookout Team
In Game AT Chattanooga Next Week

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn April H.
spectal)-Here's the way the 'Noog ans
Kelly win face the Barcns In the open
ng game Of the season here Tuesday
Pennington, CT; Bates, 2b Nuna-
maker. lib: Anderson. IL: Leonard, RI;
sandrimerS Harding, sb; Kovai-Keller,
" kresp Neihaus. c; Roe,ap.
The .8.ookouts will 60 into the 1924
amp2dEn with at least three positions
tot already settled, Efforts to fill the
sapE In the defensive array around the
teystone, at third base and In center
FAY have been unavailing except at
me keystone, where Bates has been
enifted to Leonard's porous second
case, and two young shortstops
nave both shown good form. At third
roper, Grand Rapids star, fell down
and when Bandrimer was tried there
ne did not. seem at all at home. SO a
hurry call was sent out for a third
sacker, and one Harding. with Mays
VILE In the Blue Grass last year and
one time tryout with Cincinnati, wan
signed. Pennington is located in cen
ter as a starter, apparently a superb
seider but light on the attack.
Possess Three sonthpaws
The st. Paul series, now In progress
Is the crucible in which the pitching
starr Is being nodded. Southpaws Roe
fowel1 and James seem assured of po-
eitions. Morris, Cunningham and
Luther Roy are three right-handers
who seem most likely to start the race
Five Of these six men are holdovers
tngton and returning and Roy to Cleve.
land and also drifting back. The new
conner Is Yowell; who was plucked off
college team In Virginia and fol
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FANS MAY LOSE
CHANCE TO GREET
FORMER LEADER
Senators And Barons To
Meet Today II At
All Possible

1t seemed willed by fate Friday aft
ernoon that Carleton Molesworth would
leave the Magic City with never a
chance to show the fans, who for II
years backed the Barons under his
management, what sort of a club he
will enter in the race for the Ameri-
can association pennant this year, Old
Jupiter Pluvius, with unrelenting
vigor, emptied cloud after cloud Thurs
day night and Friday over Redwood
park and vicinity, and a chill wind
that sprang up late Friday evening
soded no good for prospects of dry
grounds for Saturday.
Moley and his clan of Columbus Sen.
Rtors have taken the rounds of picture
shows here and have passed off the adj
ditional time around hotel lobby and
IN Birmingham's race track" between
intermittent showers. The Grace track
was a novel sight for the Columbus
.rew, and to the uninitiat3d the sight
VI "flappers" and .'sheiks". making
he race track" during noon hour and
,ther idle periods, though not remind.
ng them of famous race tracks they
ave known, nevertheless was a circuit
% which the idle are i<resistibly drawn
Miss Needed Practice
Due to their running into foul wealth
er here the Senators, as we'll as the
Barone, will start the season next Tues
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whom offers have already been made
by major scouts. He is six feet three
inches tall and throws wicked fast
one. He has lot to learn, but Man
ager Nunamaker figures that as soon
as he can teach him TO use his height
in good cross-fire he will be, won
der.
The competition at shortstop is still
unsettled. Harding is Just showing his
wares at third. Behind the bat, Kress
10 sure of one position. but Niehaus ie
having some financial troubles with his
former club, which in some manner
are keeping him from signing. Hurt
and Hoffman, two other catchers, are
still in camp. or the extra pitchers,
none seems likely to break In, though
Camp, Bowles and white are still work.
ing out with the squad.
Preparing For Barons
As the team stands today, It appears
a better fielding outfit than last years
which kicked many game away. The
pitching depends on the ability OF
Vowel, Roe and Roy, the three youths
TO come through, with Morris, Cum
ningham and James good for only fair
twiriing at the best, Pennington ap-
pears a better lead-off man than Joe
Clayton was last year, and the loss Of
Cy Anderson, 300 hitter. Is compensated
for by the fact that there will not be
three fatally weak notches in the or
der as last year-Clayton, Jockey OF
Hindt and Hanger Mcneil. Bandrimer
is hitting hard, and both Koval and
Keller have shown tendency to pun
ish the ball. The opening day commit.
down and has set its goal at 1000 for
next Tuesday. when the Barons come
for the first encounter of the regular
campaign.
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CRIMSON TRACK
STARS TO OPPOSE
PANTHER SQUAD
George Irons Is Favored
In Mile And Two
!. Mile Race

UNIVERSITY, Ala, April f1.-tspe-
Crimson ,tracksters
will start their 1924 candpsfgn for
southern honors in a dual meet TO be
held here Saturday with Birmingham
Southern. Under Coach "Hustling
Hank" Crisp. the Crimsons have been
hard at work doing their daily. stunts
and are in fairly good condition to
meet the Panther squad. 49,
Captain Ben Compton, George Irons
and obie Cottle are the only letter men
wearing the Crimsons coiors this year,
but several new arrivals in Mack
Brown, Bob Hussey, Jimmy. Johnston,
Shorty walding, Preston Clayton.
Graham McClintock, RED" walker,
Luny Smith and others will round out
the squad 30 they will be able 10 give
the Painters great run for first
honors.
All track and field events participa ted
In large meets will be held here Sat-
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FIVE LATIN PUGS
SEEK US. BOUTS
Chile, Spain, Porto Rico
And Colombia Are
Represented

NEW YORK, April 11.-Five Latin
prize fight champions are now billeted
on New York. some of whom know Just
enough about boxing to put the gloves
on the hands, not the feet.
Reading from Chile northward they
are: Luis Vincentini, the lightweight
champion of South American, whose
record consists of victories over two
American novice5 and a defeat by
Johnny Shugrue. boy with defective
vision.
Quntin Romero. heavyweight cham
pion of Chile, who defeated several Of
the worlds worst heavywelghts in Eu-
rope.
Andrea Balsa. heavyweight champion
of Spain. record unknown and probably
non-eXistant.
Rafael Plata, n1iddleweight champion
of Colombia, who thinks Madison
Square Garden is a flower patch
Juana Casanova, heavyweight cham
pion of Porto Rico, who thinks an up
percut is a top-sirloin.
To make the food situation more ter
rifying, two other Latin champions
with a great spaghetti mileage are COM
ing from Buenos Aires, Erminio Spaila
and Luis Angel Firpo.
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NAVY SWIMMERS
GO INTO LEAD

ANNAPOLIS. Md, April 11.-First
qualifying rounds Of the National Col
legiate Athletic association swimming
championships, which also serve AZ
official Olympic tryouts here, put the
navy ahead of IS other competing in
stitutions when five -shipmen
earned the right to compete in the finals
of two events.
Czernwonky, Wisconsin,; Elliot, West
Point; Simonton and Allen, Annapolis;
Olmstead. Williams and Eislen, North
western, qualified for the finals Of the
200-meter breast stroke competition.
Breyer, Northwestern; Sinclair, Wyk-
koff and Davis. Annapolis; Hayes,
Princeton, and Klingman. Iowa, will
compete in the last round of the 200
yard free style race.
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doesn't even know enough about his
dear profession to know what kind of
fudge goes into a newspaper fudge
box.
Senior Luis Angelo Firpo is a
close second and wins the hand
some o-bird-cage for his
wonderful Grafton: II will retire"
This was the most amusing utter
ance in sport since Uncle Charlie
Ebberts announced that he opposed
the commercialization Of baseball.
But there wasn't enough Of 1t.
Tilden out-grabbed Luis Angelo.
Jack Kearns and Jack Dempsey come
third. They helped keep the country s
mind off the coal-bills by announcing
brightly every so often: I'VE will fight
anybody any time-if the public wants
the match
Honorable mention should be
made of Battling Sikh for his vari-
Gus arrests over a wide area; Joe
Lynch for his inspired alibi for
lodging a fight: 81 trip over me
dog" and Paul Berienbach for
clearing away all that dead-wood
in the middleweight class.
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akAAubb&N0mueED
s----------- &c.
day without the help of these much
needed Last days of practice, This, the
most vital time of the teams training,
when manager shuts down with iron
hand and drives with unrelenting will,
has been an idle one for the two teams,
and efforts of some of the players Fri
day to get in little extra practice was
unavailable. Some of the players Wis.,
tied the local gymnasiums for a little
indoor work in order to keep in con-
dition, while others went out to the
ball park in an endeavor to hunt dry
spot under stand or bleachers where
the ball might be tossed around
The Barons have had bad run of
weather during the most of the spring
training period and through no fault
of Manager Stewart will enter the game
at Chattanooga next Tuesday far from
tip-top shape. Stuffy has been crowd
ing in every practice possible during
the spring, but the weather man has
been an ever-present obstacle and the
Stewart clan have had to work in all
sorts of conditions.
Pitchers Not In Condition
The pitchers are not in the shape
they should be. for the opening of the
season and many practice strokes will
have to be put in after the season gets
under way. With teams like New Or
leans and Mobile, who have ideal train
ing conditions to work under, ready
for the start in top shape, the Barons
will have a hard scramble to stand the
early season pace.
First Baseman Robert Knode has not
got in but one or two days of work
with the Barons and he will enter the
game in Chattanooga with little work
on the practice field with his new team
mates. Arthur Olsen has not worked
in any practice games to amount to
anything this season and is also behind
in shape due to the poor weather con-
ditions. This twirler, who served with
the Detroit Tigers last season, is pre-
dicted by men who know his ability
to win over 20 games with the Barons,
but he will get off in the early games
under handicap.
Brandon Released
The Baron squad has been cut down
almost within limits of the season 8
starting mark, and Friday Prexy w. D.
Smith announced the release of an
other player. Milton "Toots'' Brandon
will be sent to the Greensboro club of
the Piedmont league. "Toots" will leave
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Sunday night for his new quarters. This
is the third year Brandon has been
with Barons in spring training and
served one season as second string
catcher.
Two or three players yet remain to
be placed before the club leaves the
Magic City Monday night for Chatta-
nooga. The Piedmont and Three Eye
leagues have received most Of the
Barons' released recruits and many of
the youngsters have strings on them
by the Barons and are slated for sec
ohd tryouts when the Stewards gather
for the start in 1925.
Prexy Smith has shown a big inter
est in the Boy Scouts of the city this
season and to foster excellence in scout
work has made a special offer of free
season passes to the IL Birmingham
boys to first obtain their Eagle Scout
ranking this year. This will be big
incentive for the local Scouts to work
hard for their ranking, for what boy
but who would like to own season
pass to Fleetwood.
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GREAT ALEX Is
STILL IN FORM

CHICAGO, April 1.-THE control
which made Grover Cleveland Alexan-
der famous appears to be still. with the
veteran Chicago National league pitch.
er, according to training camp form.
Alex faced the Wichita Falls club Of
the Texas league last Sunday for four
innings, allowing one hit to II batters,
with no bases on balls. He pitched just
20 balls. and then retired to give some
of his mound pupils a chance to show
how well they had absorbed his instruc-
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Ell OUADI RUNS
FAST 20 MILES

PARIS. April 11.--EI Quad, Frances
Moroccan marathon star, cheered the
Olympic hopes of the French today
when he ran 30 kilometers (about 20
miles) In one hour 40 minutes SO sec
onds, defeating the pick OF French
army marathon runners.
Ell Ouadi's time Is very close to the
record performance for the distance of
1;47:1a.3, held by Hannes Koleh-
mainen, the Finnish runner.
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urday. Officials for the meet have
not been announced, but competent
ones are to be had. The meet will
start about o'clock.
George Irons should corner all honors
in the mile and two-mile race, as this
veteran Of many races 10 showing better
form and endurance every day he steps
around the track. Smith and Cottle,
the latter having broken the school
record In a meet last year. should run
well in the mile and half-mile events.
respectively. Macdonald 10 also ex-
pected to do well in the mile and half
mile
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should q driver be rrneped ut the
extreme end of the handle or o few
Inches down the shaftf Why?
Answered by
TED RAY
The Siege gun of English golf. Winner Of
lnnumerable tournaments and member Of
the ereatest golf combination In history
the team Of "vardon and Ray"
- =
believe In having a margin Of an inch
ana q half from the top Of the shaft. as
think that by 80 doing the club seems
to balance in the hands much better than
In the case Of gripping at the extreme
END. BY holding down n little you will
be the better able to etand "over the BAIL
which. In my opinion. should be q great
benefit, as 1t will have tendency to stor
slictng.
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BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER


It wasn't bad winter after all. The
grand prize, a lovely hand embroidered
wind-bag, has been won by Mr.. William
T. Tilden, the second, for his highly en-
tertaining mid-winter nights scream
about the player-writer problem, en-
titled How Love My Art"
Mr.. Tilden's contribution to the
saiety Of an otherwise somber sea-
son was almost continuous for sew.
eral months. and the more he pro.
tested his love for letters. the
funnier he became. As a writer,
Mr.. Tilden was a very famous ten.
nis.player until the Lawn Tennis
association decided that amateur
players should not he allowed to
earn their living from any by.
product Of their athletic distinction
which il largely the gift OF the or.
ganization that enables the players
to become famous.
Mr. Tilden Is hereby offered on,
batch of newspaper fudge for every
day he ever worked on the local staff
of a newspaper as a newspaper re
porter. But probably Mr.. Tilder
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Is Preparing Warm Welcome For Sarts In First OF Year
JONES TO PLAY
IN EXHIBITION

ORLANDO, Fla, April 11.-Bobby
Jones of Atlanta. national open golf
champion, will participate in an 1S-hole
exhibition foursome on the Orlando
Country club links tomorrow afternoon,
II was announced here tonight. Local
golfers are entered as the other men,
bers of the foursome.
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FULTON SCORES KNOCKOUT

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April IL
Fred Fulton, the Minnesota plasterer,
knocked out italian" Jim Herman of
New York in the first round of q sched-
uled 10-round bout here tonight, left
hook to the solar plexus ending the
contest after exactly one minutes Of
fighting.
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MISS KAvANAUGH WINS

Los ANGELES, April 11.-Miss Do
reen Kavanaugh, women's amateur golf
champion OF California, today retained
her title when she defeated Miss Mary
X. Browne Of Brentwood, one up, at
the end Of is holes on the Brentwood
Country club course. -. :
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CHANCE IS BACK
WITH CHI FANS
This Time, An Invalid, He
Will Pilot The
Lowly Sox
BY HARLAN 9. MILLER

(Leaeed Wire to The AGe-Mefald)
CHICAGO, April 11.--Frank Chance
IL hack among the ghosts OF his former
glories. to struggle with taii-end team.
A handful who remembered the stall
wart first sacker and manager Of the
triumphant Cubs Of decade ago gath
cred to meet the INVALID, equipped with
q trick set Of false teeth, who returns
to manage his ancient enemies, the Sox.
For Frank Chance, husky and still
good to look upon, with tanned skin
and pleasant smile, IL nevertheless an
invalid. and Mrs. Chance 10 his nurse,
He lie under stringent orders to breath
only through his nose the dank and
smoky air OF Chicago. His lungs are
weak, affected first, his doctors de-
clare, by a bronchial trouble which
grew out of an infection in his Ynolars.
But the aiiment has invaded his mus
cular frame, and though he looks able
to don mitt and cover first base az
he did In the "Tinker-to- Evers-to-
Chance days, actually he must con-
Yesterday
Those were the days when the 'speer-
less LEADER was dominant figure In
baseball. to whom ever MuERay Nc
GFaw played second fiddle. Fortified
Win such lninnenwurfer as Ruelbach
Pfeffer. Miner Brown and Overall on
the mound, and brainty players at every
doing the catching, Chance rode high.
Today
SO there IL a sArdonic twist in
Chances new association with the worst
wrecked team In modern baseball, 4
ruin even moro pitiful than the Ath.
leticS after Franks old rival, Connie
Mack, had finished his auction sale
Without their stars Of three years ago,
the httless wonders now are also the
rufless wonders, a team construed by
all prophets to the cellar.
Chance 10 a convalescent: his boas.
Charles Momiskey, 10 in the hospital.
and their 1924 White Sox are etiil 4
1angling crew of young recruits, in the
main, whose brains, ana experinece. IN
a baseball sense; are embodied chiefly
IN EDDIE Collins. the active veteran;
Johnny Evers, Ed Walsh and their
manager. E,a,l ;,
TqniSrtow sf'1
The sins Of the Black sox are being
visited even on the third and fourth
generations OF white-st ockinKed ath-
letes, and II the peerless leader" aided
by the CoYuiSkeyE purse, the gods of
chance and helpful attitude by 9TH
ef magnates with surplus PLAYING tai
entt is able to restore the Chicago
Americans to their old-tirne prestiSA.
ne Will establish himself firmly as the
them all.
Right now, even q Heinie Zimmerman
would nave an unguent influence ON
Chances furrowed brow.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WINS

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. April Ii
Henderson Brown college won q dual
track and field meet from the Russell
Vile Aggies here today. The score
was II to 40.
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Rain HALTS Big
GAME FOR 'BAMA
Fondest Hopes Fade At
Noon And Indians
Move On

UNIVERSITY, Ala. April H.
(special)-Rain caused postpone
nient of the Cleveland Indians
Alabama Crimsons baseball game
Z hers t6Asg. Hope existed aImoSs
up 70 noen that the two teams
would play, but II was finally called
{ off, AlAbAma's next home game Is
scheduled for "a" day, April 26,
against Vanderbilt.
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Between 10th and 21st Streets
'~~
BIRMINGHAM
Saturday,
April IL

To each customer purchasing five gallons of
Crown Gasoline on the opening day, Saturday,
April 18th, at this, new Standard Oil Company
(Ky.) Service Station on Avenue D, between goth
and 21st Streets, will be given free of charge,
Gard, same reproduced to the right herein, with
four coupons emitting the customer to receive free
One Bulk Gallon of Polarine Oil up to, and in
cluding Saturday, May 10th. The customer will
have the privilege of taking this oil, quart at
time, upon presentation of the Coupon Card and
any unused coupon not detached therefrom, at any
Standard Oil Company (Ky.) Service Station in
Birmingham.