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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
BUM FINGER
MAY KEEP
HIM OUT
Stiffening Digit Gives
Washington Skipper
Qualms.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-Stan
ley (Bucky) Harris, manager Of tn:
two-time pennant winning Washing
ton Senators, may never play base
ball regularly again, it is learned
here.
Whether be will or not will be
decided by the results of an X-ray &c
be taken of his injured finger, which
crippled him in the world series, and
which has become so serious since
the series that it threatens 10 end his
days az a player-manager.
MIDDLE FINGER
!, The injured finger is the middle
one on Harris throwing hand, the
right. Since the series it has
swollen to an alarming extent, and
his doctors fear that the joint is TO
be permanently stiffened.
The finger was injured in one of
the final games of the season with
Cleveland. A base-runner stepped
squarely on the joint with his spikes,
coming into second base.
A stiff finger on his throwing hand,
Harris admitted, would practically
end his days as a playing manager.
The only alternative would be TO have
the finger amputated, a doubtful pro-
cedure at best.
HURT HIS PLAY.
Harris has offered no alibis but his
friends say that the damaged digit
was responsible for his poor showing
in the series against Pittsburgh. He
could not grip his bat tightly, Wash
ington players say, and, as a result,
everybody else on the two clubs had
hit safely before the Washington man
ager registered a series blow.
His fielding was good, sensational
in spots, but his throwing was some
what erratic.
His batting failure bothered Harris
greatly. it is said.
In the 1924 series, he was a hitting
demon in the pinches.
When he broke into baseball, he
was considered a very weak hitter. He
gradually overcame this weakness and
in the last three years he has been a
sure hitter, though not terrific slug
ger by any means.
He refers TO himself laughingly as
an "artificial' hitter. a self-made wal
loper of the old horsehide rather than
a natural" batter, and he fears even
the slightest injury will throw out
of killer the fine batting machinery
practice has perfected in him.
The World Series showing he made
tends TO bear out his fears.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
Athletic Tests Would Stump
Elders at Lions
Field.

4 series Of athletic tests calculated
to stump a large portion Of the older
generation have been outlined by Sup
erintendent r. c. Oliver Of the Lions
Field playground for the youngsters
who frolic there to shoot at.
Each boy and girl registered at the
field is privileged 10 make a try at
the various tests once each month.
Completing them successfully. he or
she will be presented with an athletic
badge.
Several boys already have won
badges.
The tests are divided into three
groups, with an average Of eight events
in each group. Every contestant must
qualify in four events in each group
to win a badge.
The tests in each group, giving the
mark which must be set, follow:
Test one:
Pull up, or Ginning" four times :.
rope climb. u feet thands and legs) !;
standing broad jump, , feet, 9 inches !:
G0-yard dash. . seconds: JO-yard dash,
= seconds; baseball throw accuracy
three strikes in six throws al 10 feet !;
baseball throw (distanceJ, 100 feet.
Test two:
Pull up. times: rope climb, IG
feet; standing broad jump. G feet G
inches; running broad jump, Il feet /:
60-yard dash, S seconds: 1OO-yard
dash, 10 % seconds: baseball throw
accuracy three strikes in five throws
AZ - feet; baseball throw (distance),
19j feet
Test three
Pull up, nine times; rope climb. 1G
feet Glands only : running high jump.
! feet inches; running broad jump,
"a fe--; 220-yard dash, 2S seconds /;
lO0-yard dash, y "a seconds; base
ball throw accuracy, three strikes in
five throws at 30 feet: baseball throw
(distance) 220 feet; eight-pound shot
put, % feet
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
CHUCK BURNS
BATTLES ON
BIRTHDAY
Youngster to Observe An
niversary IN Old
Irish Style.

"Chuck" Burns, San Antonio mid
dleweight boxer, will observe his
twentieth birthday anniversary on the
night of December s, in the good old
fashioned Irish way-with fight.
That's the night Burns takes on
clever Tillie Kid Herman over the 10
round route at Kelly Field.
Burns is training hard to celebrate
with a victory. He will be down to
16O pounds, his manager, Don Curley,
says; he's working out every day
at Jack Shelton's new gymnasium at
324 Navarro.
One of the big bombing plane
hangers will be converted into an
arena for the fight at Kelly Field
and seating arrangements made to
accommodate 5000. Buses will be run
to the field from Main plaza.
Of course, Herman is out to give
Burns a spanking on his birthday,
following an old custom.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
SIMMONS AND PAYNE
WILL SETTLE TITLE

ABILENE, Texas, Nov. 21.-
Championship Of the T.I.A.A. will be
decided Thanksgiving Day here when
Simmons and Howard Payne meet in
game that is second in importance
only to the Aggie-Longhorn clash at
College Station.
A win by Simmons Thanksgiving
will give the Cowboys the champion
ship while victory for Howard
Payne would present the Southwest
ern Pirates with the title. A tie
would throw the championship ques-
ton into a muddle.
Southwestern eliminated the most
difficult obstacle on its schedule
Thursday when the Pirates won n
3-to-O victory over the fighting Trim
lty Tigers as a result of a beauti-
full dropkick by Blackburn from the
4O-yard line in the middle of the fourth
period.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
SPORT SCRIBE HERO
Of CONFEDERATION

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. PA
thrilling incident in the fire fighting
annals Of this country has just come
to light. A brief bulletin from Liep-
eryille, Pa, apprises an astonished
world that only few days ago a
confirmation Of devastating magni-
tude was prevented in that quiet
little village by the daring work and
cool courage Of Eccentric Fireman
Damon Runyon, former member Of
the Denver, Colo. Hook and Collapse
bic Ladder Volunteers. Mr.. RunyoH
was proceeding through Leiperville
under his own gas when he noticed
smoke issuing from Johnson's General
Store in that village.
Mr.. Runyon battered on the door
and called TO all the inmates TO
hold tight until he saved them. I'm
fortunately there was nobody in the
building. Then the famous eccentric
fireman dashed for the Vauclain Fire
House where the village chemical en-
CINE digests its chemicals at its
ease.
There was nobody at the fire house
either. This was pie for a fire fight
er who had been trained with the
Denver (Colorado) Hook and Col
lapsibL@ Ladder Volunteers. He
cranked the engines, Jumped into the
drivers seat, dashed 10 JohDsOn's
general store, and poured the chemi-
Gals all over the interior. 1t seems
that rats had gnawed on n box Of
matches and a paper bag had caught
on fire. Mr.. RuDyOn has been elect
ed an honorary member Of the Vau-
CLAIM Fire Company. Mr.. johnson,
whose store was Saved" is expected
10 20 into bankruptcy.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
lucky" Harris May Be Forced Become Bench Pilot
With Tailender;
Barfoof Leads
All Pitchers

To pitAh for a last position
bah club and win more games
than any other pitcher in the
entire league is something new
in the hurting line. That's what
Clyde Barfoot, member Of the
Vernon Tigers Of the Coast
League, did i'm 1925.
Barfoot was born in San An.
tonic and pitched for the local
and other Texas league clubs.
Barfoot won 20 games for his
club and lost Is for a percent.
age Of 1884. He topped off a
season Of sensational twirling by
clouting out a home run and
winning his own game after
pitching through IS innings.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
BOB FISHER AGAIN
SLATED FOR SCRAP
& HEAP AT HARVARD

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 21.-
Once more the dopesters are busy and
rumors are rife that next year will
zee wholesale changes in the coaching
personnel and system at Harvard.
This follows the upsets Of the Crimson
Mt the hands of Holy Cross and Dart
mouth and the poor showing made
against William and Mary. These
pane stories were going the rounds
bast year and finally Coach Fisher
resigned. He reconsidered. however,
end returned, despite the lack Of ex-
septionally promising players.
Now the gossips here have it that
Fisher is to be replaced by Reggie
Brown as head coach, who will be as
sisted BY Charley Crowley and Percy
Wendell.
Brown is the Bears strategist and
scout. Wendell, after unusual sue
cess at Williams, went to Lehigh with
the understanding that If his alma
mater ever needed him he was to be
released.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
SAN PEDRO TIGERS
| CLAIM CITY TITLE

Johnny Dunsmore, manager of the
San Pedro Tigers, Saturday entered
a claim on behalf of his team for the
intermediate football championship Of
the city.
Collins Gardens also GLAZING the
honor.
Dunsmore claims that the Gardens
team is avoiding a meeting with his
eleven since their early-season game.
He bases his claim on the fact that
Collins Gardens has played the Pros
pect Hill Collegiates three ties, while
the San Pedro team defeated the Col.
legiates, 1916.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
SOUTH ATLANTIC'S
BEST BALL PLAYER
WILL COACH CUBS

SPARTANBURG, S. c., Nov. 81
Mike Kelly, manager and first base
man OF the Spartanburg team. 1925
pennant winner in the South Atlantic
League, is to be coach Of the Chicago
Cubs.
Kelly came TO the Spartans in 1921
from the Toledo Club Of the American
Association and has made an enviable
record here, being voted the most val
liable player in the league this year.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
INTERNATIONAL MEET
AMONG COP ATHLETIC
STARS PLAN IN N. Y,

NEW YORK. Nov. 21.-An inter
national track meet between the po
lice of the United States. Canada and
possibly those of other countries, was
the announced plan today Of Charles
NJ. II. Mckinney. inspector general OF
the New York police department.
The games. he said, would be held
at the Yankee Stadium some time next
spring.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
LONG SHOT WINS.

PARIS, Nov. 21.-Azalee won the
Nincennes Stakes, richest trotting
purse in France. worth 10000
francs, getting 10000 francs for his
owner. =. Guilbout, Saturday. He
won at the long odds Of 81 to 10.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
ANOTHER CAREY.

PITTSBURGH. Nov. 21.-Another
ball player has joined the household
Of Mr. and Mrs. Max Carey. The
new arrival is the second boy in the
family Of the captain Of the Pitts
burgh Pirates.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
RInERS Cn,IING nNFR

NEW YORK. Nov. 2i.-The seven
best officer horsemen Of the French
army and three Belgian officers and
The mounts viii be- seen at the annual
horse ShoR IN Toronto and New York.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22

TO good dress both in business and OH
social occasions. Even stubborn, I'M
ruly or shampooed hair stays combed
all day in any style you like. Hair
Groom" is greaseless; also helps
grow thick, heavy, lustrous hair.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
HARVARD AND YALE
TIE AT SOCCER. 20

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 81
Harvard and Yale played 2-all tie
in their annual soccer match here
Saturday, after the Yale freshmen
had beaten Harvard's first-year team,
4 to O.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
ADVERTISEMENT
"HAIR-cRooM"
|Keeps Hair Combed, Glossy
Well Groomed all Day

Hair = Groom"
is a d i g n i fled
combing ere a m
which costs only
a few cents a jar
at any drugstore.
Millions use it
because it gives
that natural gloss
and well-groomed
effect to the hair
that final touch
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
STUFF IN MAN
bEATSSTUFF
ON BALI
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21.-what
makes a pitcher?

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21.-What
makes a pitcher?
Walter Mails, former Cleveland and
Oakland star and now under contract
with the st. Louis Nationals, unbur-
dens a few poignant ideas.
Stuff makes a pitcher-not stuff
on the ball. but stuff in the man.
Which, though crude in its express
sion, is a sentiment which Mails de-
clares keeps many pitcher in the
major leagues.
Hear Mails:
"In the minor leagues right today
there are pitchers who have more stuff
on the ball than some men in the ma
jors.
by stuff I mean zip and speed and
twists and turns that makes the ball
hard to hit.
THE REASON.
"You know why they are not in the
majors? I'll tell you. They are I'M
beatable when things are breaking
right. As long as the team keeps hit
ting behind them and the opposition
looks like bunch of fools these pitch
ers sail pretty.
'But when the pinch comes, that's
where the stuff in the man shows.
It's not so easy as it looks to get
that ball over the plate when the bags
are full and all the breaks are going
against you.
There's where the man with not so
much stuff on the ball. but plenty Of
what we call CUTS pitches his best
ball.
cray Kremer is this kind Of n pitch
err. He's an old stone wall in the
pinch. He may not have the stuff of
some of these minor league men, but
that doesn't matter If he can bear
down and be as cool as a cucumber
under fire.
"Kremer is one Of the best in the
majors"
MAKES MOUND KINGS.
Carrying the logic farther, what makes
Walter johnson, Dazzy Vance, Grover
Alexander and others invincible is that
they combine stuff on the balP' and
stuff in the man."
The combination produces a king
among moundsmen.
Mails dissertation is interesting for
several reasons. First, the big south
nav knows what he is talking about.
He was a hero in the 1920 world
series and has had years of major and
minor league experience. Second, he
is prone TO discuss matters Of this
kind seriously, or intimately. il that
word serves better. Mails kids and
Jokes. but seldom gives the outsider an
insight on how he actually sees things.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
FRENCHY'S CATS WILL
TAKE ON HILLBILLIES

Frenchy's Black Cats and the Hill
billies will meet in a junior football
game at Blumberg Field at 3 80
Sunday.
Lineups:
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
5000 VIEW WESTERN
PAINTING ON DISPLAY

Approximately 5000 people have
seen ]. +. McCann's picture, "Mon-
arch of the Golden West" on display
at the Collins Art Shop since October
%. Claude Mccain, son of the paint
er, will give the painting to the White
Museum. under construction in Brack-
enridgc Park, il 10000 people see the
picture before December %.
Other cities in the state are very
anxious to get the picture, according
to c.. ID. Sanders Of Collins Art Shop.
Offers to buy the picture are coming
in from all over the country. One art
institution of Colorado has offered
SJ7. 900 for it. Claude Mccain says
that he Will not sell the picture at
any price. and since his father was
so fond of San Antonio, he is very
anxious that San Antonio get the pic
turc. ...-,
Numerous requests have come into
the chamber Of commerce from civic
organizations. asking them to help in
creating interest in the picture so that
20 900 people will see the painting in
the prescribed time. The chamber is
sending out letters to various luncheon
clubs, telling them about the picture
and asking for their cooperation in
this matter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
DIRECTORY CENSUS
TAKERS BEGIN WORK

Forty-two enumerators have begun
the census of San Antonio and its
suburbs for information to be used in
the 1926 city director, according to
an announcement made by G. r. ID.
johnson, representative of the John
f. Morley Directory Company. Head
quarters have been opened in the of
fees of the Appler Company, 200 Sole
dad street.
The San Antonio directory. upon
completion will be placed in 100 OF
the principal cities Of the United
States and Canada that maintain d.
rectories in the San Antonio chamber
of commerce.
The new book will be finished about
the middle of April, 1925, and will
present a complete directory of San
Antonio and its suburbs. Upon the
completion of the canvass. an esti-
mate of San Antonio's population will
b. announced.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
JUNIOR c. Of c.
ADDS -FOUR
DIRECTORS
Plan Stunts to Further
''Pay Your Poll Tax"
Campaign.

Four new members Of the board
Of directors Of the junior chamber OF
commerce were elected at the monthly
meeting Of the chamber in the ball
room of the st. Anthony hotel Tues
day night.
The newly elected directors are: II.
\. Leissler. Youngs Crook. reelected
Ralph Yates and Archie Holland.
There were twelve candidates.
The officers and board of directors
IRE: A. G. Randol, president; Travis
Moursund, first vice president; Louis
Marlin, second vice president; George
Graves, third vice president; j. s.
McNeel. secretary, and II. NJ. Lutz
treasurer. The board of directors: DR.
Z r. o. Sciser. +. j. Cunningham. Harry
A. Half. W. G. King. II. \. Lcissler
Youngs Crook, Ralph Yates and Archie
Holland.
A stceplcjack will jump off Of the
Medical Arts building into fire mel
in the near future to further the pub
LEFTY of the PAY You Poll Tax Cam
4. paign," Travis Moursun announced
Also large candle will be Lighted
and placed in n downtown show win
dow and all who have paid their pol
: tax will be entitled to guess as t
when the candle will go out.
The Echo Boys Orchestra Furnished
the music at the meeting. A troup'
of Hawaiians played and danced ant
the Wilson sisters sang a number o
popular songs. Burney Phelps wa
responsible for the entertainment pro
gram.
Chief Sarran OF the first depart
mcnt was n guest of the club.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
TEXAS STATE BANKS
/. in GOOD CONDITION

DALLAS, Dec. 16.-R)-State
banks in Texas are in better condition
than at any time in their history,
Charles o. Austin. state banking COM
missioner. declared in an address here
before members of the American In
stitutc of Banking. The State Bank
ing Department is now chiefly engaged
in the liquidation OF failed banks, Mr..
Austin snid.
There are $50 banks in process OF
liquidation and 5000 lawsuits and
judgments. and more than 125 at
torncys ut work in these cases. he
pointed out. Some of the defunt
banks have been on the books Of the
department II years, however. and
more than 100 have been on the books
from two TO five years, Mr.. Austin
said
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
CORSAGE WATCHER,
NOW FAD IN LONDON

LONDON, Dec. 16.-CP)-Corsaee
watches have displaced wristlets in
the fashionable shops of New Bond
street. They are shown in rainbow
effects worked out in all sorts OF
precious and semi-precious stones.
The watches are decorations first,
and time-keeping is secondary con-
sideration.
Tiny watches are set in brilliant
animals and flowers crusted with en-
eralds and rubies. Others are conceal
cd in pendants Of rock crystal set with
anyx, diamonds and emeralds. In
many cases the watch face is on the
back Of the pendant.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16

Attcsting the fame of San Antonio's
public school system, hundreds of
questionnnires are being received at
the office of Superintendent Marshall
Johnston each month. As high as
five to ten are received day, although
the mails average about six daily in
auiries about the schools.
The information sought in the ques-
tionpaires relates to methods Of in
structions, curricula, cost of instruc-
lions, cost of school buildings. opera
ton and cost of night schools, and
vocational schools, courses and work
done in the home mechanics shops in
the schools, with particular reference
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
MANY ASK INFORMATION
ON San ANTONIO SCHOOLS

as to methods and courses in teach
ing foreigners.
The questionnaires come from
Washington to Maine and from Michi-
gan to Florida. Thy are made by
other public schools. private schools,
colleges, universities, and other edu.
cational institutions. State boards Of
education and local boards of educa-
ton of many cities are anxious 10
learn how the public schools of San
Antonio are operated.
San Antonio's public school sys-
TEN was rated as the best in Texas
in n recent survey made of the pub
lie school system of the state by the
state board ofeducation.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
INDIAN SLAVERY
MAY BE ABOLISHED

RANGOON, Burma, Dec. 16.-R)
1t is hoped that slavery and human
sacrifice will be abolished by British
expedition which is now on its
way to the Hukwang valley in Burma.
Owners will be offered generous prices
to free all slaves by April. In Maya,
chiefs will be impressed with the In
dian governments adherence Of hu-
man sacrifices and of its determine
ton to eradicate the practice by max
ing it impossible for them to obtain
victims.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
OPERA HEAD BUSTED.

BERLIN. Dec. 16. - - DIR.
Becker. Prussian minister of cduca-
lion emphatically declared today in
the diet that he had summarily dis
charged Max Won Schillings as di-
rcctor-genernl Of the Prussian state
opera and that he would not be re-
instatcd in his former post.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-24
TUCKER, OF, VIRGINIA,
REJECTS INCREASE
DECIDES TO SERVE IN NEXT
HOUSE AT $500 SALARY
IN FORMAL LETTER.

At least one member of the next
congress will not accept the increased
salary which congress voted itself in
an amendment to the Legislative ap-
preparation bill few days ago. He is
Representative Henry St. George
Tucker, of Virginia.
Mr.. Tucker, in deciding to serve for
81, 500 a year rather than $4,000, the
figure to which salaries have been in
creased, is following a precedent set
by his grandfather, Henry St George
Tucker. when he was a member OF
the house in 1916.
AS Grandfather Did.
Mr.. Tucker has written J. G. .Rog-
ers. sergeant-at-a arms of the house, re-
questing that his vouchers be made
out for the next two years at the pres
ent rate.
Mr.. fuckers grandfather objected
to congress increasing its pay from
So to So per diem, and. after congress
voted the increase, he declined TO &C
cept the higher compensation 1t has
remained in the treasury to the credit
OF his heirs for 10S years.
The elder Tucker served in one con-
gress under the salary increase. His
grandson is endeavoring to ascertain
how much has accrued in the treas
ury through his grandfather's refusal
to take the increase.
Brand Also Says He'll Refuse.
Representative Charles Brand, OF
Ohio, in an interview given home
neyvsDaDer announced he would not
draw the $500 year increase in his
salary.
III you don't want that $500" said
Representative Begg, give it to me;
| I'll take it."