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-4 THE 'BIRMINGHAM NEWS The. South's Greatest Newspaper 1 SPORTS Grackersb Climb Back To Top Of Ladder L. ZIP? NEWMAN SPORTS EDITOR I SOUTHERNLOOP RACE i AT THA0LTI; sztms MUCH LIGHTEll -MOM, NI A MT HERN LOOP RACE AT TtITI; ITI1E'11 MUCSEEMS HTER LIG CLIPSES SHOW ECLIPSES SHOW DRILLERS TAKE tt Climbs INurmi In Parewel TWO GOES FROM I As Homer Leader Race With Helifrich NEW YORK, May 25. (-- LOOP LEADERS 1 In Major Leagues. Pas" Nurmi "14 AU42liellfridl '8 Id.ulre In short workouts Monde win tn.

stadium track where TT 41.4.11 Sit AM tip 1 I Al.d.V.,145 dulge In short workouts Monday on the Yankee stadium track, where Tuesdat IPHILADELPHM TEAMS MAIN dook, STARTLE MAJOR LOOPS 1, a Association Also Tied In Knot; Both Figure' In Flag Races Alter Many Orioles In Front Or 7 N. Years' East And West Struggle MAIN Association Also Tied In Knot; CHICAGO IlL May night they will meet In a match r. Race Gets Interesting In Cot- National baseball league finished thel that is expected to produce lc neer week with a season's total of 147 four-I world's record for the half mile- 14 will ton States As Teams ply blows to 117 in the American be NUr1211.1$ farewell rate before galling longue, including games of Sunday. for his borne in Vinland early next Hartnett of the Chicago Nationals re- month. Bunch mained the Individual leader, extending his total to 13 borne runs.

Th leaders: National Le a a ue (4ON 4r 1 'Iri 34iC) k'4 c.i..) IA lw I 1 Custom Shirt Makers RUCK IL oarEit SPOCia 141111114 Wire te Tke Strathighant trim len, by 1113 21minbtu Nee NEW YORK, May race they are having in the South, ern Association these days is so exciting that the fans down that way are beginning to view affairs in the so-called big leagues, 1 with little more than tolerance. Atlanta rammed Its way back to the top in the week'. work. but the big la net aurPrIalair that EL Paul gat to demonstration as tsged by Mobile. the top, for in a race where .5811 and i 4013 which climbed from seventh place into represented the high and the low in percentages.

almost anything can the first diVisions finishing with a per- happen. The Columbus clubs which has centage of The team that MO- been WI used as a stepping stone was Little driftin more or less steadily back, finally hit bottom and now, hopes Rock. which still is a little stunned at hg iinetrmer ovrte.rio.ne,pos Rirmine- to rebound. top in the week's work. but the big demonstration was Staged by Mobile.

which climbed from seventh place into the first division, finiehing with a percentage of PO. The team that Mobil used as a stepping stone was Little Rock. which still is little stunned at II. door-mat experiences. Home Player.

Club. Runs. Hartnett. Chicago 12 Horsby, St. Louis Pittsburgh Kelly, New York Amerclan League Williams.

St. Louis Now York 8 E. Robertson. St. Louis Simmons, Philadelphia 7 BIRTHDAY GIFT TRAGEDY DAVENPORT.

Iowa.Riding a bier-de given her for a birthday present an hour before. 1-year-old Helen Johnston use killed by at automobile. Louis G. Richter Company 210-8 Empire Buildint BY AL. DEMAREE (Former Pitcher.

N. Y. Glantst Psychology playa a bigger part baseball. than the fans, or even the p1tt3rer1, Imagine. Grover Cleveland Alexander.

star pitcher of the Chicago Cubs. and one of the really great hurlers of all time. occasionally applies it when he tosses a 12-pound shot. just before warming Up. The ball of course feele in comparlson and gives him an added sense of power and NEW YORK, May tersectional hostilities ceased Sunday night on the baseball front as west and east called home their storming baseball legions with ea stern supremacy temporarily but clearly established.

Termination of the struggle Sunday. found pennant races in both major the total soaring from et bingles each leagues definitely confined for the time for the Cards and Robins to a record accumulation of 94 for the Pirates. In being to the narrow limits of four At isntio coast cities. Philadelphia war- spite of this terrific clouting, however, riors. much to the growing amazement the Corsairs dropped two of their three of baseball men.

bad fortified them- engagements to champion Giants. who selves at the top in the American and again led the senior field for the had carried their banner into the thick with Jack Scott contributing two out-of the National fight standing pitching performances. Washington maintained a challenging After having spring pennant hopes poeition in the wake of the Athletics, dashed on rockribbed Eastern pitching, while the Giants were perched far from the Reds took a brace and won four danger on the National peak. with out of six closing games, with their Brooklyn. in second place, eagerly boxmen reating from early reverses of grasping for a better hold to strike at the invasion.

The rally took the lien-the champions. dricks brigade back into fourth place. Only one wing of the West forcee in the only change In the standing durthe National was able to penetrate the Mg the week. defenses of the Last even as but a Detroit Tigers had their best week single unit of the West at home suc- of the season. The only team to win cessfully stood off the invading Eastern more than half their games in the forces Of the junior circuit.

American. Cobb's men rioted their East. The lone exceptions in each loop were ern excursion with a salvo of lusty the Pittsburgh and White Sox teams. clouts! in Waehington which almoet I Eact team won a mijority of games shook the.Senators out of second place. played.

Cleveland, In the American and The Athletics, White Sox. Red Sox. Cincinnati in the National, surrendered Senators and Yankees could obtain no second poaltion in the standings, drop- better than an even break, as a result ping bark to fourth place during the of which the American standing waS intersectional battle, while of the East- affected only by one changeChicago ern cohorts Boston outfits offered the slipping past careening Cleveland into weakest front. third place. Following is a record of the East- The weekst major league record of West series, including games of Sun- games won and lost, runs, hits, errors.

day: opponents. runs and home runs, IncludNational League Mg games of Saturday, follows: East West Itettiseet Lesiva Team Wen Lost Team Won Loot Club I. 11 It 2: OR MI New Tort 12 I rittiburiat 6 New York 5 2 43 74 10 25 7 seoogTo 11 5 pinelnnatt 5 il 1 tincinnall 4 2 47 75 94 7 Philadelphia 8 Ht. tool 5 10 I Brooklyn 4 3 40 84 10 43 Boston 2 I Chicago 3 12 I Philadelphia 3 3 43 NO 11 39 7 Ht. Louis 3 3 3 54 11 48 Totals ac at Totals 21 37 i Pittsburgh 3 4 41 94 24 49 5 American Association illoston 2 4 39 71 15 48 3 East West Chicago 5 5 21 71 5 34 4 TWO Won Logi TOOK Woo Americas League ost 1 PhIladelphis 11 3 Chicago Club 1, It 7 OR RR Detroit 4 2 45 SS 7 27 Washington 9 lb CATeiand 2 It I 2 New York 2 7 IL Louts 4 9 Philadelphia 3 3 2 47 71 7 9 Boston 5 le Detroit I 9 1 HOOIDO 3 3 82 14 41 3 St Louis 2 8 44 55 14 53 7 I Totals 32 2e Totals la a 1 i'31rago 32 I New York 3 3 is 54 7 40 3 The sixth week of play produced II 3 it 53 9 39 1 11 ashington 3 3 21 51 4 37 1 heavy exchange of hits in the National, eittellbti 2 4 32 43 11 34 3 Typical Americans who enjoy Old Virginia Cheroots Birmingham found the pace too hot to the time being.

but probably will come ba clt. It's aigreat race. with one team boasting 22 victories. one 21, and four 20. In the International League the Beltimore club lost some of its lead to the rest of the circuit.

but still is out In front. The event of the week was the tranater of the Newark club to Providence. When the International had to get out of Newark, it lost one of the best baseball cities in the minor Nullification and the manner in which Newark has been trifled with is not especially creditable to baseball. Providence has been long without hirh-class baseball, and may respond to It. but it is a handicap to star with a team' that Is low in the race and has not been properly taken care of.

The same four clubs finished the week in the first division. though Toronto advanced over Buffalo and Jersey city to second place. In the American Association St. Paul crowded 31inneapolis out of the lead. Both St.

Paul and Milwaukee gave Minneapolis one of the moat uncomfortable weeks a ball club could have. It couldn't seem to win anything. It Loulsvill; got back Into the first division in th4 American Association and it will not be easy to keep that team out of the top liners. Springfield toOk a big spurt in the Eastern League, piling up six victories to one deefat. Thar; too fast to be continued, but a spurt like that now and then helps a lot.

The Worcester club has changed bands and will become an annex of the Boston Braves, which will not do the club any good. In the Westem League, which la another of the dose race circuits, Den-i ve- got to the front again and St. Joseph, which rode on the drivers seat for a time, is back in the second division. It seems out of the question to keep Lincoln out. of the battle, and Tulsa, now that it has got into the first division, refuses to yield its place.

Oklahoma City climbed into the first division, giving the oil state quite a standing in the race. The Pacific Coast League race is a National League sort of affair, with San Vrancisco bolting away from the field. Salt Lake City keeps fighting away, but seems to be getting little assistance from the second division Quarter. BY W. S.

MIAEL JACKSON Miss. May 15.Bill Wise and his Monroe Dri ilerg Sunday made the Cotton States league race the moat interesting one possible when a. Sunday crowd at Monroe was treated to two sweet victories over the league-leading Meridian club. scores 2 to 1 and 4 to 2, making it three straight for Monroe over Meridian. These victories, with the brace shown by' the Jackson team.

Plus the determined playing of 'Vicksburg, Hattleeburg. Brookhaven and Alexandria. goes to make the league race a merry one. Should Jackson defeat Alexandria in the first game of the aeries here Mon. day.

and the Senators have- won their last four games. the home boys can take the lead, providing that Tom Toland's Truckers put a further dent in the slipping Meta. Toland's team suffered defeat in its lamt two games, but they were tough ones to lose, and with 1Bishop ready to fling againat the Mots, it is not out of reason to picture a Iwin for Brookhaven. Then, again, two teams that are scrapping for a top 'berth come together Monday, and this series will be watched with nterest. 1 Theme club are Vicksburg and Monroe.

Bill liVise needed two players to put his team on a winning and he seems to have found them. Hie regulars are hitting a pretty ntride and the Monroe club, strong as it is now, will meet a worthy foe in the fast. Vicksburg Billies. Manager Marr has his boys stepping along he has had good pitching all and the series will be a battle I for a certainty. Aa for the garnea Laurel and Hattiesburg.

the I former may brace after successive losses to the Senators. but they will have to I'move fast to trim Bobo's crowd. Harry Baumgartner is going to join the Laurel Lumberjacks, it is reported. was released by the Sena-I tors to make room for Bill Pierre to go back to catching. Pierre caught both games at Laurel and hit well, getting three-bagger on one occasion.

His injured knee is well again. Max Rosenfield continues to hit the ball, and on Saturday ngiht he was leading the league In hitting with an average of .884, of Alexandria, having clumped. umpect 4it It 141k 1 4. is-40 ily. 1 i ,,,,,1 Today he's still smoldng 'ern.

For it's not his style to for. get old friends Today he's still smoldng 'em This bank president smoked Old Virginias twenty years ago, when he was a clerk. This bank president smoked "Crazy" Schmidt. an eccentric southpaw with the Cleveland club 25 years ago. applied the same principle to his pitching.

He always warmed up before a game with an ancient ball, which be had saved for years for that ptrpose, and which had swelled so that it looked like a small cantaloupe. and was almost as heavy. In addition to this. he always warmed up with his catcher 10 or 15 feet farther away than regular pitching distance of 60 feet. Old Virginia Cheroots' 4 Good Cigars itylati for106 7 i Tit 4 aok 1, I 1- or ileI (17 Douglas Grant Wins First Golf Match In British Amateur WINS OVER BARONS INCREASE PRESTIGE Alabama Menace Fades Into Background Of Defeats; Pe ls Contender WESTWARD 110.

Ent. May 25. (1.1C,S.)--Douglas Grant. the Californian who makes England his home, Monday staked America to a winning start in the first round of the British atnateur golf championship by gaining a walk away decision over G. C.

Whig. ham. Grant reached the setni-final round of the championship in 1923, and was regarded as the most dangerous of the American entries. There were only 1S1 competitors, the smallest field since the 1912 title event, L. V.

Cochran. of Onwentsia, was the only other American to see action Monday. lie met Ad Mathieson, recent holder of the British boys title in the first round and lost to his opponent in a cloes match. one up. 11 1-411 To Be Well Dressed a Man Must Be Well Laundered This laundry specializes on laundering for' men with emphases on COLLARS and SHIRTS.

believe the work and the service you get here is the I3EST in town. Won't you.let us handleyour bundle this week? 1 I I 1 1 Cali Main 7080 For Service Rosenberg To Defend Title At Covington stopped by Atlanta and Chattanooga. Barons were not bitting as timely in recent weeks. The New Orleans Pelicans, on the hand, found their batting eye and out 91 hits in ooeven games for total of 62-runs. Mobile and Now Orleans penetrated Rock's defense for a total of TO during the Atlanta showed strength in both offense and defense.

The Crackers alert opponents less than four runs to gamemada but six errors in seven and scored 44 runs on 63 bits. of Atlanta, continues the leading bitter'ittV the league, with an average. of .409. Haas, of Birmingham, .366 is runner-up. Cullop, of Atted with 10 home runs, is closely presoled for the honor by Gulley, of Rock, with nine circuit blows.

figures include Saturday's, games. to that time Atlanta had scored a of 65 runs. leading the league that respect. New Orleans had held opponents to 178 runs, best defensive for the league. The week's play, including games of Saturday.

May 23, Teams P. W. b. R. H.

OR.HR 8 6 2 63 191 43 5 Atlanta 7 5 2 44 63 25 1 Memphis 1 4 3 46 AO 46 1 Orleans 7 4 3 52 .91 2 8 1 Nashville 6 3 3 25 60 32 2 C'Nooga 6 4 2 26 57 23 2 7 1 6 23 69 2 8 2 Rock 8 1 7 37 SO 70 2 2 2 2 9 mpenal Laundry Co. MEMPHIS, May 25.Recover- stet 1 ing from a slump' which had sent them The down the Southern Aseociation standing column, the Atlanta Crackers climbed as back to the pinnacle during the past week. scoring six victories out of eight otly games played. Including Sunday's. The dro, winning streak was the more note- a tt worthy from the standpoint of Atlanta fans becauee the six Victories Included Litt three over the Birmingham Barons who rum had humiliated the Crackers In the pre- A ctding week.

fen The Barons failed to uphold their part low In the "Alabama menace." during the a a week, but the other half Of the Ala- gar hams. entrythe Mobile Bearswon sit games while they were losing but three, lee, Including today's contest with Memphis. a re Nashville dropped from the leadershin wit to third place. Birmingham wee ousted lent from the third position and ae nt down pre, to seventh place. The Memphis Chick- Litt niede their reappearance in the The first divielon, at'fourth place.

Chatta- rp nooga and Mobile are lonely bunched tote at the head of the second division and in Little Rock holds the cella berth. Less Opp than four full games separates Atlanta. fign in first place. from Birmingham in seventh. Sati In eight games, including Saturday's, the Mobile Bears poled out 101 hits, and mot amassed 63 runs, well ahead of all Aut other teams In both respects, the Beers mei and Little Rock tied for total errors, N.

1 with IS each. Of the 15 home runs Nw made In the league, Mobile got six. C'N After Memphis had taken three in, straights from New Orleans. the Bears 1A. moved over from Little Rock.

and took two out of three from the Chickasaws. Birmingham's winning streak er- ern The ing as am tht Other he drove te- a rita led Little ho runs re- lowed the a games roe, his. hill with lents, wn Little the Theae ta-l'p led total kild in ess la. figure in r's, Lnd Mobile all era it's, N. Ins ree D'ham ars L.

CINCrs.INATI, Ohio, May 25.Charlie Phil Rosenburg. batamaTight champion, and Al Pettingill, southern bantamweight champion. have been matched to box lf) rounds at Covington, June for the worlds title. We Wash For White People Only 11111111111111i111111111111I1111111111111t111111illiffilffill1111111111111i11111111111111111111111 I Facts Of Interest To Baseball Fans 11 re, '1" ViN li; vAi. I l' Fla 0 ...,060.

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