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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
Weak Spots OnLookouts
 Are Mended
Nunamaker Sends Bates To Second And Will Use
 Koval At Short

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, March 1b.-- (Special.)-Les Nunamaker's Lookouts continued arriving this week to the tune of the winters heaviest snow. The personnel of the team has begun to frame itself in the managers mind. While no official announcement has been made, it seems likely that the Lookouts. exclusive of the boxmen, will line up as follows:
 Catchers. Kress and Niehsus or John- ston; first base, Nunamakers second base, Bates; shortstop, KoYal; third base, various; outfield, Anderson, left; Burke, center; Leonard, right.
 ThiRd Base Is Open
 Third base Is undecided, because Pete Doyle, who was counted on, declined to merge from retirement. Nunamaker expects & far better fielding outfit than last year. but is uncertain about at- tacking power, although the manager himself, Anderson and Leonard all can pound the old apple, and Jimmy Burke is bear at getting on.
 The management attempted to strengthen the team this year In two positions where many a game was kicked away for good pitching in 1923, namely. around the keystone and In center field. Charley Leonard kept Nunamaker on the anxious seat last year, kicking the ball around second flercely, put hitting too hard to De set adrift. So, this year Charley is shifted to right field, and in order to close up the awful gap about second, Nuna maker has shifted Bates to second, mentally, at least, and intends to use KoYal on short. The Kitty leaguer played IS games for the Lookouts last fall without so much as juggling a ball for half a moment did not miss a chance which could reasonably be ac- cepted.
 KFess Returns
 Two of the kid third basemen come with especially stout recommendations Roper from Grand Rapids and Keller, the soldier. Kress returns for catching, touted to be a vastly improved ball player over two years ago. Nuna- makes believes the, midget will be a corSing good first catcher this year, although weak at the bat. Niehaus, who tried out for first with Atlanta, Is said to be ripe now as a catcher. Johnston, Trinity collegian, is a prom ising youth, and may be just about ripe.
 Seventeen pitchers arc listed for try. outs. Many of the newcomers are tout ed strong, while the holdovers depend largely on whether they can come back" The pitching staff is expert mental and can prove either world beater> or total flivver.
 Germs that cause typhoid fever are about one-twelve-thousandth of an inch tn 1Sn~4h
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
WILSON DAM IS
 SEEKING GAMES

The strong Wilson Dam nine. re- gently organized, is seeking worlds to conquer. The team is one of the strongest of north Alabama and has just recently challenged the Birming- ham Barons to a two-game contest there. Any semi-pro team in the state wishing games are requested to write J. W. Coleman, Wilson Dam, Florence, Ala, to arrange contests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
LACEY OPPOSES
 PADDOCK o. K.

ST. LOUIS, March 1s.-Verner C.. sion of the A. A. A, who last night made public letter to Wm. c. Prout, president of the Amateur Athletic union of America, in which he voted against the reinstatement of Charles Paddock, Olympic champion sprinter. suspended for violation of the rules, declined to comment further on his action tonight.
 Lacey reiterated his stated of last night, giving as his reasons for the negative vote the failure of Paddock to disprove any of the charges made against him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
/ p----------7-7--- I HRIBLING AND
 FAMILY DEPART

MACON,At Ga, March J6.--Young Striblfng, accompanied by his father and mother, Hoye Stribling and Billy McGowAn, left hero by automobile this afternoon for Newark. N. l.. the scene of Stribling's world championship fight March 31 with Mike McTi9ue, title holder. StTibIing was in great condi- tio1 and every one in the party was certain the youngster could bring home the crown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
LONGWORTH IS
 BIG STAR AGAIN

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, March 1e.--Art Longworth, professional of the St. Louis Country club, who broke the course record of the Hot Springs Golf and Country club Saturday with a card of 69 (par being 7D, was given credit for another credithble performance this afternoon when he turned in a 70 in the face of 8 strong March wind. The score of 70 was the record before Ionx- worth turned in his 69 Saturday. He made his 70 today in a threesome with Louis Cooper, Jr., Arkansas state champion, and Tom K. Martin, state runneP-un -.t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
STUFFY PLANS
 REAL WORK AT RICK MONDAY

Stuffy Stewart will send his squad of Barons out Monday morning and start a series of practice sessions that are expected to be the tough est of the training season and which will terminate in a clash with the Buffalo Internationals Friday after noon at Redwood.
 The diamond will be in good shape for practice Monday, after two or three days of snowy weather. No additional players were added to thes Baronial training roster over the weekend, but Monday and Tues day are expected to bring in several additional veterans and rockies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
FIRPO TO START
 TRAINING SOON

BUENos AIRES, March 16.-Luis Angel Firpo expects to start training this week for his forthcoming fight with Al Reich, American heavyweight.
 The match has been forthcoming some time now, but nothing has hap pened. The news that the scrap has been postponed to April has caused many fans here to wonder if 1t is ever coming off at all. 6g 4
 Specialists are treating Firpo's left arm. which is improving, and it Is believed that be will be able to reduce to below 200 pounds before he meets Reich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
?. JOE BRADLEY FIVE IS WINNER

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. March 16.-- fSpecfal) )--The Joe Bradley school of Merrimack won the Madison county basketball championship in the tourna- by winning the final game from the Huntsville High school team, 16 to 6. Huntsville High had gone into the finals by beating Riverton, Hazel Green and New Market during the day. Brad ley school was comparatively fresh, having played but one game, that with Madison High, forfeit having been taken from New Hope
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
WINS BILLIARD TITLE

CHICAGO, March 1j.--Frank I. Elem ing, of Champaign, H., Representing the Hamilton club of Chicago, won the National amateur three cushion cham pionship, by defeating Dr. Andrew Harris, Chicago, 50 to ST. s3 innings. He Is the first player to hold the title twice, his previous success being in 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
CHESS CHAMPS :.
 GET STARTED

NEW YORK, March 16.-Five con-. tests got under way at the opening today of the international chess mas ters' tournament, in which Il of tho worlds leading players are enteredS The defending worlds title holder. Joss R. Oapablanca of Cuba, and David Janowsky of France were the first pair to finish, their contest terminating iM a draw after only 20 moves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
DEEP THOUGHT
 WINS I. DERBY

SANDIEGO Cal, March 16.-Deep Thought, brown colt from the stable of Commander J. K. L. Ross, today won the Tijuana derby for three-year-old Cherokee Lee, from Colonel R. L. Bak- CTS barn.. was second, and J. c. Me Rays Buster keaton was third. The race was over a mile and an eighth and was worth $12.050 to the winner. r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
EXHIBITION GAMES MOBILE, Ala, March 16.-

R. IT. E. St. Louis (A) ..........,.... 1 10 3 Mobile lSl ............,...... 0 3 2 Batteriea-Bayne, Shocker, Danforth Severeids Wiltse, Adkins, McBride and Devormer, Lory.
 NEW ORLEANS. La. March 1s.- New York (A) ............. 8 o New Orleans (sl ....;....::. 6 l Battertes-Gaston, Arguijo, Thomp- son and Urban Autrey; Fincher, Cal dera and Parker.
 FORT WORTH. Tex. March 1s.--
 R. Fl. E. Denver (W. L) ............ 8 2 Fort Worth CT. L.) ..... { i Batteries-Hitt, Greenway and Me Quitty; Ryan, Tissing, Goodbred and Moore Wolgamot.'
 SHREVEPORT. La. March 1s.- h. R. H. F. Omaha (W. L.) .......... 2 1 Shreveport (T. L1 ........Is4. 8 8 BatteTtes--BAiley, Prout, Lee, and Wilder, eeimers; Foreman, Harris, Gray and Rowland.
 GALVESTON. Tex. March 1s.- Minneapolis GA. Al ......... 2 I Galveston CT. L) ............ 2 8 8 PAtteries-McGraw, Mangum and Grabby; Gleason, Crumpter and Nor row.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17

winner of the MetropoIitan Open championship, issi snd 1928. One Of the longest drivers in the
 In driving, all body movement Is con- trolled by the knee movement. A player can move his body as much as he wishes as long as he moves it by means of the knees. The majority of golfers turn at the trunk rather than at the knees, which is wrong s(see the illustration above). After the ball has been struck the whole body moves about six inches forward and the shoulder turns until perpendicular to the line of flight of the ball. This is properly accomplished by the slight bending of both knees, rather than by twisting the trunk.
 Copyright. 1924, Associated Editors)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17

LOSES MOTHER BY DEATH |.
 NEW YORK, March 16.-Mrs. Jacob Ruppert, S2. mother of Colonel JacsS Ruppert, owner of the New York Amer ican league baseball club, died of heart failure at her home today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17

Germs that cause typhoid fever are about one-twelve-thousandt of an inch in length.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17

Flags used by the United States army are made in Philadelphia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
$4,000 Miles An Hour

AT some unknown time in the
past, the largest meteor that
ever struck the earth fell in Co.
conino county, Arizona. 1t
buried itself, making a crater
nearly mile across and 900
feet deep, with a rim of earth
splashed up 100 feet high all
around the craters edge.
This crater is Canyon Diablo.
Mining engineers once more
are attempting to locate the
huge meteor which lies buried
somewhere under the floor of
the canyon.
The Canyon Diablo meteor,
according to scientists, weighs
million tons and is at least 800
feet in diameter. Some experts
even multiply these figures by
four. rs
Ii the meteor runs true to form,
it is nine-tenths pure iron. But
the lure that induces the min
ing engineers to attempt to un-
earth. the Canyon Diablo is that
it probably contains huge dia-
monds.
Our old earth, rushing
through space at a speed of Co.
600 miles an hour, must have
staggered when struck by the
Canyon Diablo bullet. A leg
end of the Navajo Indians says
there were three meteors, not.
one.
Meteors travel through space
in swarms. Twenty million of
them, large enough to be seen
by the naked eye, shoot into
our atmosphere every day-and
usually are dissolved by friction
with the air before they strike
the earth.
The largest meteor ("shoot-
ing star" ever discovered
weighs SO tons and was
brought from Greenland by
Peary. So scientists are on tip
toes for a look at the giant be-
meath Canyon Diablo.
Real education does not be-
gin until we study astronomy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
Sumter's $I,5OO,0OO
Tax

Roughly, there are 10000
people in Sumter county. Tar
if experts figure that the Ford
ney-McCumber tariff act, now
in force, costs every man, wom-
and child in the county $4,000
per year, or an annual tax of
a million and half dollars.
The Fair Tariff League has
recently set its experts to work
on the effect of the Fordney tar
iff act or the South. An anaIy-
SIS published by them reveals
that the South as a whole loses
yearly nearly a billion and a
half dollars. OF this, the sta
tisticians claim, the Southern
farmer loses from five hundred
to seven hundred million dol
lars.
Every man, woman and child
in the South, they claim. loses
an average of fifty dollars a
year through the increase in the
cost of living, directly and Who'll
ly chargeable to the Fordney-
McCumber law. Texas alone,
it is stated, pays Us million
dollars more in tariff taxes an
nually than the state receives in
benefits.
In an address here recently,
the Hon. Herschel Elders said
that the Underwood tariff act
was the fairest tariff law ever
written and that Oscar Under
wood is today recognized as the
greatest tariff expert living.
Doubtless the repeal of the
outrageously unjust Fordney
tariff measure will be among
the first things to be undertake
en- by the Democrats when they
get in power again. and they
will have the benefit of the
brain and skill of Senator IN
derwood to help them.
Let us hope it will be Presi-
dent Underwood by that time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29

dent of the Moultrie Chamber
of Commerce. But they do not
stop there. Within a few min
utes the members of the Moul-
trie chamber contribute $4,000
for expenses Of the chamber this
year.
With live, determined
bunch to follow the lead Of Bill
Vereen and $4,000 to meet nee
essary expenses, Moultrie is
bound for happy days.
And that's about all it takes
to MAKE a town, where other
things are favorable. The Moul-
trie Observer says:
We have had several pretty
bad years in this section.
We have had longer stretch
of tight times than we have ever
had before.
We are probably just about at
the end of the dull period.
Crops will probably be good
this year. We say probably. 1t
is time for US to make another
mammoth crop. Seasons will
probably be more favorable this
years. Our reason for thinking
so is that we have had about
three bad years, and they hard
ly ever go in gangs larger than
this.
Are you ready for good
times?"
Life moves in circle. Good
times follow depression, and it
is the fellow-and the town -
who sees farthest ahead that
wins in the end. Are you ready?
Are we ready? There's no one
to do but YOU. Next to your
family, your most precious pos
session is your town.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
: OLD DAYS IN AMERICAS ;

Note: This being Leap Year,
items carried in this column to-
day are taken from issues Of
March /, for the respective years.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Feb.
20, 1914.)
Residents Of East Americas aud
others whose membership is with
st. Pauls Methodist church East
Americas, are greatly gratifed at
the practically new building now
possessed and located upon a site
more convenient and accessible
than was the old edifice in which
they had worshipped for more than
a score of years. The new building,
just completed is at the corner of
Lamar and Reese streets. Some
time since Mr.. Crawford Wheatly
in exchange for the old site of st.
PauPs offered larger and more
conveniently located corner lot
neared the city, and also generously
agreed to bear the cost of removal
of the old building.
The many farmers coming tc
Americas yesterday were invited
to partake of a superb dinner at the
armory, the hosts of the occasion
being the representatives Of lie
Americas Wire Fence Co., repre-
sented in Americas by the Shelf
field Huntington Co.
Saturday morning Miss Mamie
Sue Bell was hostess to the We'd
nesday afternoon bridge club at
her home on Lee street. After
he game an elaborate hot luncheon
was served. For highest score,
Miss Alice Kelly was given a Chi
nese primrose in bloom.
Mr.. Fred B. Arthur will be
-oundly congratulated today in hay-
.ng completed a term of twenty
years as a member of the under
writing forces of the Mutual Life
Insurance Co., of New York.
Because OF the unsatisfactory
condition of the heating apparatus
in the high school building, a
trouble long existing there, the
school was again closed yesterday
and the large number of pupils
given still another holiday because
If the defective apparatus. This
same trouble with the heating has
caused the Furlow grammar school
60 shut down yesterday as well.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
ALCOHOL.

DRINKS are investigated by scien-
lists in Vienna. DR.. Schuma .her
finds that one accident in 40 over
there is caused by intoxication.
Drunkards are injured mainly in
fights, by getting run down. and by
falls.
intoxicated people are less hurt
by falls than sober ones, Schum-
acher reports. This is traditional.
It's not due to Providence, but to
a drunk falling like a sack of wheat
while q sober man in falling makes
himself brittle" by stitching his
muscles and joints. 1t may save
your life some day if you remem-
Der to relax and let the whole body
go limp when falling.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
DAMNED ETHER WAY

When a great sensation occurs
m Atlanta the city papers fill the
front, middle and back pages
with the stuff, and then some
people denounce the papers for
feeding their readers on putrid
stuff. Another great sensation
developes and the Atlanta pa
pers suppress it and then the
same critics denounce the papers
for not publishing all the dirty
details. So it is be damned if
you do, and be damned if you
don't-Sommerce News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29

ously prepared in a style known
only to the genial host, and all pro
nounced it the feast of the season.
The marriage of Miss Flora
Hamil and Mr.. A George Duncan on
Sunday evening 28th inst, was an
occasion anticipated pleasantly for
quite awhile among the many
friends of both bride and groom,
and certainly no young couple he1e
have ever before begun together
the voyage of life under fairer
skies or happier auspices. Though
scarcely yet a debutante, Miss
Hamil had, by an attractive person.
ality and charm drawn about her
wide circle of admiring friends. Mr..
Duncan is one of the city's most
prominent young business men and
leading merchants, and one who
deserves all Of the success in life
he has attained. After congratu-
lations had been extended and an
hour spent socially, Mr.. and Mrs.
Duncan left, Wig the Central for
delightful trip TO Florida, spending,
ten days at the east coast resorts
and other points of interest be-
fore returning to their home here.
Mr.. C. L. Ansley who has been
in New York for several days buy
ink goods for his house, Wheatley
& Ansley, returned home yesterday.
The teachers of Shutter county
evidenced interest in the recent ed
ucation convention in Atlanta by
sending the largest number of
teachers attending from any county
in Georgia. Sumter sent twenty
two, eof whom fifteen were teachers
in the city schools. Of Americas
and seven in the county schools.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
SURPRISING The News
Recently the Atlanta papers

ANCGClANAJ AAA1 ~NA~NN-NS~
saw fit to attempt to suppress
a sensational story. Their in
tentions were good, but no
newspaper can suppress such a
story. 1t gets to the public, and
the attempt to suppress en-
phasizes the Importance or the
sensational feature Of the story.
When such a story is sup
pressed, the public wonders why,
and there are those who immedi-
ately shout that the papers are
bought or controlled.
We doubt if there is a con-
trolled paper in the state, and
we know there isn't enough
money in Atlanta, with all her
millions. to buy a single one of
those excellent dailies.
While we may not agree with
the wisdom of having suppress
ed the story referred to, we
know the intention was good.
There are times when a story
should be printed, and there are
ohter times when it should not
be published. Almost daily,
the editor is called on to make
a decision of this nature, and
he must think quickly.
We do not agree with the
Brunswick News in its declara-
ton that
We hope that none of our
friends viii again ask us to sup
press legitimate news and thus
force us to refuse. We have
made up our minds on the sub
ject and there is no recanting
on it. In future, it it's news,
we are. going to print it.
Every reader has the right
to REQUEST suppression, if
he cares to do so. His request
may or may not be granted.
That's up to the editor, but the
reader should feel free to ccme
to his paper with his desires and
opinion.
No newspaper prints all the
so-called news, nor does it al
ways tell the truth. IF it did, it
could not print half the obitu-
aries coming to it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
A POLICY THAT FAILs

The Atlanta newspapers sup
pressed the story of the arrest
of Mrs. Asa G. Gambler and were
chagrined and Inundated when
the out-of-town papers reached
the city proclaiming the incident
in glaring black type on their
front pages. The Atlanta news
papers We're the victims of two
egregious blunders-they fall
ed to suppress the affair and
were convicted in the minds of
their readers as being undepend-
able purveyors of the news. A
newspaper to be worthy Of the
name should have a policy and
should die by it-and that policy
should be to print the news, if Il
it fit to print, but not to wau-
tonly injure anyone. BY this sign
they will conquer, and by no 9TH
er.-Selma Times-Journal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
COMFORT

When the "ways without" are nude
And are clogged with mire,
1 love the glamor rudy
OF an open fire.
But my fond regard is greater
For place, wot,
Near the old steam radiator .
Where it's hot, hot, hot.
Oh, my thoughts may go romancing
Where the woodfres CLEAN,
But when winter is advancing
Give me lots of steam.
With the pressure indicator
AT the highest spot
And the old steam radiator
Sizzling hot, hot, hot.
Though an open fire is taking
AS it CLEANS and glows,
Yet the front of you is baking
While your back is froze;
Give me heat that adequater
Such as can be got
From the old steam radiator
When it's hot, hot, hot.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
Hit the Line Hard in
1924

Hit the line hard in 1924"
says the Moutrie Observer.
This will probably be money
making year. The law of av-
erages is in its favor"
And the Moultrie citizens pro-
coed to buck the line with all
their strength and determine
ton. for
They draft their first citizen.
Will Nereen. for service as presi
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29

that this is fact borne out by in
vestigation, and he gives very
good reasons why this is so.
After a thorough examination Of
the marriage and death statistics
of all civilized people he declares
that the number of deaths are
less among married men than
among bachelors and widowers.
Among married women the num-
Der of deaths is slightly more
between the ages of 20 and 10
than among unmarried women
and widows; but between the
ages of 40 and so the deaths
among married women are mucn
less. The writer gives several
reasons why married men live
longest. He thinks that the social
position of the married man Is
generally more settled, that he
lives in healthier surroundings,
and that he has a purpose in liv-
ing for his wife and children.
Way back yonder when Joe
Miller was young man he wrote
joke book in which he advanc-
ed the idea that married men
really did not live longer than
single ones, it only seemed long
er. But this British authority
seems to be able to show that 4
is really a fact that matrimony
is conducive to long life. And
it must be confessed that his con-
clusions seem sound.-Savannan
Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-29
Eii':!&i Z. E:
"A bgAbcrt Apple
FIVE

The railroads are farther from
the poorhouse than some of their
press agents claim. Official report
says the Glass One roads in 1928
had net operating income (profit
of a little better than five per cent
on their property valuation. after
Paying taxes. That's at least, more
than they'd have earned if their
money had been in the bank.
Five per cent with safety is con-
sidered attractive by most people
who have millions to invest. Many
believe the roads should earn more,
and have good arguments, there be-
ing two sides to everything Except
a solid sphere).