The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-30
BY Alice Colmer

Statistics give basketball as the
most popular spectator sport, but
around here our bets are on foot
ball, Tiger supporters are still re-
playing last weeks tie with BIZ
loxi and predicting the outcome
of the game with Gulfport to-
night. Virginia Mitchell, one OF
the twirlers with the high school
band, is giving various explana-
tions of how she got that black
eye, but the truth of the matter
is her baton hit her during prac-
tice for the show Friday night.
The players are not the only cas-
ulties of the game,
Really, it would almost be
simpler to name those who didn't
go to the game in Mobile last Sat
urday, because everyone who
could get tickets went over to
divide their Royalties between Tu-
lane and Bama. Among those al
the game were Dr.. and Mrs. r,
c. Eley, Lewis Bond and Tim
Blades, Mr.. and Mrs. Deig Stau-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Stauter
and Junior Pierce in one party,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hightower
and Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Crab
tree in another with Mary Cor
don pulling for her alma mater,
Bama. Duncan Mcdonald was an
other Bama alumni at the game
going with Sarah Frances and
Clara Virginia and Roy Eller.
Charles Armistead and Joyce
were there as well as Pete and
Dot DeLashmet, John and Anise
Brock and Bert and Charlotte
Wood, whp composed a party. Red
Bullock officiated as clock opera
tor. j. E. Thomson and John G..
Hill went over together and Dor
is and Tubby Taylor, Cecil Thorn
son and Guy Wheat composed a
party.
Home For Visit
Mr.. and Mrs. John Will Thomp.
son and young daughter, Nancy,
of Kingsport, Tenn, arrived Mon
day to visit Mrs. Thompson's par
ents, Dr.. and Mrs, r. G. Eley.
Mrs. Norman Mars, Philadel-
phia, spent several days with her
mother, Mrs. w. A. Coulson, and
her aunt, Mrs. Martha Parker,
last week, returning home Sat
urday.
Miss Pauline Colley of New Or
leans spent last weekend here and
with her mother, Mrs. J. F. Colley
attended the game in Mobile Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Bresemann
and son, David Alan, and Mrs.
Bresemann's mother, Mrs. w. M.
Bullock, Biloxi, spent Saturday
afternoon in Mobile. While MI.
and Mrs. Bresemann attended the
Tulane-Bama fray, Mrs. Bullock
visited friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Franklin and
A. L. Monroe were among those
going to Mobile for the game. Sat
urday.
ForfnightlY Club
Mrs. E. L. Golf will be hostess
to the Fortnightly club at its
first meeting on Wednesday fol-
lowing the summer recess, Mrs.
Ralph Crate, president, an
nounced.
Mrs. John Cirlot left Wednes-
day for Jackson to attend the
advance meeting of the Meth
odist church. She was accompa-
MED by Mrs. j. M. Cirlot and
John, Jr.
MI. and Mrs. B. f. Albritton
and C. S. Stewart, Mobile, were
Sunday visitors of Mrs. L. r.
Stewart.
Last Friday was a special day
for two of the very young set for
it was the sixth birthday of Sher-
.ry Spann, young daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Spann, and the
seventh birthday of Mary Helen
Wood, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gregory Wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forbes Hays,
Forbes, Jr., and Mrs. j. F. Brock
were among spectators at the Tu-
lane-Bama game with their 10y
alties pledged to Bama.
Mrs. G.. L. Bond and son,
George, Miss June Watkins and
T. L. Bond left Friday for Jack
son where they will spend the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Collins