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SPORTS
Strenuous Schedule Arranged For Nurmi
Edited by HOWARD K PiLIi
SPORTS
PEERLESS FINN
HAS SEVENTEEN'
! MEETS IN MONTH
Fleet-Footed Visitor to Meet
Best Opponents Offered
fay Country
NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Seventeen
tneefs in 32 days, that's Paavo Nurmi's
running schedule for the next month.
Starting at Portland, Maine, tomorrow
night, the Peerless Finn will compete
in a meet at a rate of better than one
every other 'night. Buffalo, Syracuse,
Philadelphia. Washington, Baltimore,
Louisville and Milwaukee, in addition
to Hamilton and Toronto. Canada, are
included In the Finn's itinerary which
will wind up March 12 with the Greek
American games in New York.
During this strenuous campaign.
Nurmi will run every distance in the
middle division against the best op
ponents America and Canada can toss
on the track.
Ugo Frigerlo, Italian walker, will
heel and toe It in another sustained
campaign although his program is far
4 less pretentions than that mapped out
by the ambitious Paavo. The Italian
heel and toe artist will compete in six
different meets in 14 days, showing his
ability in Philadelphia and Louisville,
Ky., in addition to four meets in New
York City.
Contrary to the generally accepted
opinion, neither Nurmi, Frigerio or the
A. A. U. receive any financial benefit
from these games. Nurmi told A. A.
U. officials today that more than a
dozen invitations have been extended
to him to visit America since the Ant
werp Olympics In 1920, but until this
year he had turned deaf ears to all of
them. It was a patriotic motive which
prompted him to accept the invitation
this year.
His fellow countrymen here were
anxious to see him run and it was
really in response to their appeals that'
he decided to take a vacation and
make the trip, he has disclosed.
Since coming here the Finnish com
munities have been keen to see Nurmi
and while he has expressed dislike for
traveling from one city to another, he
has agreed to makd a few trips in or
der to give the Finns In the different
sections of the country an opportunity
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Here is a young writer of fiction stories, who is well-known for his ability
to cover the ground for a short distance in remarkably quick time. Jackson
Sholz won fame as a sprinter for the.University of Missouri back in the days
when Bob Simpson was breaking hurdle records for the same institution,
Now he is in New York again, competing in the indoor meets after a trip
around the world, and the remarkable part of it is that Scholz at 30 is as fast
as, or faster than, the Scholz of 21.
As every follower of track and field athletics knows, Jackson Scholz was
one of the four best sprinters in the world In 1920, when he. with Murchison,
beat Paddock and Kirksey in the final Olympic tryouts. Later, at Antwerp,
the four broved unbeatable as a relay team in Olympic competition. Scholz
gradually drifted out 'of the game, and four years later upset all the 4ope by»
beating the best sprinters in America at the final Olympic tryouts. Twice
he broke the world's record for 200 meters, and, at Paris, Just beat Paddock
with a final superhuman burst of speed at the tape.
Scholz always contended that his type of finish—a lunge at the tape with
a slight turn of the shoulders—was superior to Paddock's leaping finish, and
he more than proved his contention. Scholz is one of the fastest of starters,
and has the smoothest of strides. His running form Is marred only by a
slight tipping of the head to the right.
to see him In action. Nurmi does not
like to make engagements too far In
advance but an additional program will
be announced later. Invitations have
been received from New Orleans, Miami,
Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Minneapolis,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleve
land, Cincinnati, Pennsylvania relays
ahd Drake, Ohio State, Georgia Tech
and Seattle relay carnivals..
It became known today that both
Nurmi and Frlgerlo have been deluged
with all sorts of publicity offers, but
have referred all inquiries to the A.
A. U.
■>he following engagements for
Nurmi and Frlgerlo have been defl
j nitely accepted:
Meets in which Nurmi will compete:
February 9—American Legion, Port
land, .Maine.
February 12—106th Field Artillery,
Buffalo. <•
February 13—Syracuse University.
February 14—New York A. C. ,
February 16—Philadelphia College of
Osteopathy.
February 20—Metropolitan A. A. U
championships, New York.
February 21—Georgetown University.
I Washington, D. C. *
| February 23—Johns Hopkins Unlver
j sity. Fifth regiment, Baltimore,
j F ebruary 24—Cathedral Benefit
| games, Madison Square Gawlen, New
York.
February 28—National A. A. U. cham
pionships. Louisville, Ky.
March 2—71st Regiment A. A.
March 4—106th InfantryA. A., Brook
lyn, New York.
March 5—Hamilton, Ont.
March 6—Toronto, Ont.
March 7—174th Regiment, Buffalo
N. Y.'
March 9—Milwaukee, Wls.
March 12—Greek-Amerlcan A. C
New York.
Meets in which Frlgerlo will com
pete:
February 14—New York A. C, Madi
son Square Garden (6 miles.)
February 16—Philadelphia College o
j Osteopathy (6,000 meters.)
| February 17—Lenox Hill A. A., 166tl
l Regiment A. A.. New York (1,000 met
| ers.)
February 20—Metropolitan A. A. U
championships (4 miles.*)
February. 24—Cathedral benefl
i games, 6Iadison Square Garden (2,00'
• metejs.)
February 28—National A. A U. cham
pionships, Louisville. Ky. (one mile.)
LEGION LAUNCHES
ENDOWMENT DRIVE
AT STATE MEETING
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the loftiest purposes of the American
Legion, the commander declared They
.n,ak® up thelr mlnds ‘hat no
child of any soldier of America shall
walk the streets, grow up In the slums
or suffer the want of education, but
shall develop the full growth of
American citizenship. "There are 22 -
BOO of our buddies going west every
year," he continued, "and they leave
thousands of little children, who, but
for the fund, will be In want. We must
assume It as a sacred debt not to al
low one of these children to be depriv
ed of the advantages that other chil
dren have. We will not allow any
j thing to Interrupt the obtaining of
Alabama's quota In this fund. The
; representative body of men and wom
en here must go out with the full de
! termination that this great work Is a
challenge to the soldiers and citizens
;of the State, and every right-thinking
citizen will be found In full sympathy
, with our cause. You can In this mat
ter erect a monument to the Ameri
can Legion which will command” the
respect of all people and make good
your reason for existence, 'For God
and Country'.”
To Make Alabama First Report.
Commander Johnson paid a tribute
to Ex-Governor Thomas 'E. Kilby, who
had accepted the state chairmanship
of the endowment campaign, as "the
outstanding leader in Alabama who
could command the support of the cit
izenship generally; the humanitarian
governor best fitted to lead a hu
manitarian work." Governor W. W.
Brandon was also praised for his
prompt acceptance as chairman of the
executive committee in the campaign.
The conclusion was a strong appeal
to make Alabama the first depart
ment, to report its quota to national
headquarters.
Field Secretary Everson analysed
the entire endowment proposition at
great length and said he had given
HP a profitable practice as an attor
ney in Florida to take hold of the
work because hs firmly believed in it
and he wanted all present to feel as
strongly as hs dtdzm the necessity for
rehabilitation of the disabled men and
the proper care of the orphans. H«
considered the 11,000 posts of ths Le
gion In ths United States better able
to cars for the children of their de
parted buddies than Institutional agen
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Dartmouth And
Princeton Lead -
In Cage Tourney
NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Dartmouth and
Princeton, although Idle for the last
two weeks, continue to lead In the
eastern Intercollegiate basketball '■
league with three victories each In as i
many starts. Pennsylvania ranks third ■
and Columbia fourth. The Quakers j
have won three out of five games,
while Columbia has broken even in
four starts.
Deadlocked at the base of the heap,
hopelessly out of the running, stands
Cornell, 1924 title holder, and Yale,
winner In 192S. Cornell has lost all
of its three starts while Yale has met
like fate in four games.
Carmack, of Pennsylvania, holds the
individual scoring honors, having made
24 points in five games, but Is closely
pressed by Laub of Columbia with 23
points.
cles or the method of farming out the
children practiced in some places.
"Some of them might ask why can’t
the government take care of this
work?" He replied to an attorney who
had asked the Question, "Does every
client who comes ,to your office know
his rights?” Their work'was to see
that the ex-service mfn knew and ob
tained their rights. Everything that
had been obtained for the ex-service
men had been fought for by the Le
gion; they had inspired and carried
through all relief legislation. This
was their lob now,..not the govern
ment’s 10^.’’ Cure was needed as well,
as care of the disabled^ Mr. Ever
son continued.. They had established
diagnostic centers where most 1 im
portant work was being done in re
habilitation and they must maintain
them. There was no politics in the
work. From President Coolidge down
a long line of public leaders the na
tional committee was made up of Dem
ocrats and Republicans, Protestants,
Catholics and Jews. All were commit
ted to national service in its highest
form.
Comparison of Costs.
The speaker quoted Roosevelt on
the home as the basis of the statq^ and
the need for maintaining children
there. He gave statistics on the large
percentage of crime developed among
the underpriviledged; the cost of penal
and correctional- institutions and the
administration of Justice; the annual
amounts expended for luxuries total
ing thirteen billions and concluded
a striking comparison with the dec
laration that the movement to be con
sidered was not what is good for the
American Legion, but what is good for
the boy and girl. Child welfare agen
cies from California to Maine had
approved their program which sought
to maintain the individuality of the
child and to make first class Ameri
can citizenship.
Seventy thousand disabled veterans
had been put back on their feet
through the legislation obtained by
the Legion, and 190,0Q0 were receiv
ing compensation, of which 140,000
were assisted directly by the Legion
in obtaining their compensation. Twen
ty-six thousand veterans were at pres
ent in hospitals, but actuaries and
medical authorities had figured that
the peak of the load would not come
until 1960, because many of those now
active were suffering from the physi
cal effects of the war, the speaker
said.
Mr. Everson concluded that the plane
of civilization must go up, it cannot
recede, and when the work they had
Undertaken was accomplished, the Le
gion would have left something worth
while to posterity wholly dlstidct from
Rockefeller Lowers Score
On Ormond Beach Links
ORMOND BEACH. FLA., Feb.
John D. Rockefeller seems destined
this season to lower his previous marks
for his eight holes on the Ormond
Beseh course.
Beginning with his first match of
the. season, last Tuesday when ha tied
with Oeorg^F. Baker, a New York
banker, one up over the course, he has
lowered his score of 54 by an average
of two points dally until Saturday he
turned In a card.of 46.
His low mark Jaat year for the sight
holes was 4 2.
Saturday he played in a threesome
with General Adalbert Ames, his regu
lar golfing partner, and A.W. Callo
way. of Philadelphia.
I ALABAMA CO-EDS
TO PLAY HERE
SATURDAY NIGHT
Woman's College Players Tackle
University - Girls in
. * , .j Annual Game
BY THOMAS HA I, I.
Woman'* College basketball team
will resume practice Monday night In
preparation for the game here Satur
day night with the University of Ala
bama Co-Edjt The game will be the
first meeting this season between the
ftwo teams. Last year, two games were
played by the tedms, each winning a
game.
The locals came out of. the Monte
.vallo game with the big end of the
score. In .this game the players
showed considerable Improvement In
their playing, both on the offense and
defensf. In the Howard contest, the
Methodist quintet played poorly at
times, but*when playing against Mon
tevallo. It was a different playing
game.
Woman’s College has played three
games this Beason, and have not met
j with defeat. Birmingham-Southern,
| Howard and Montevallo have fallen be
: fore the locals. In the last two games
played, Woman's College was forced
to the limit to gain a decision, while
In the Birmingham-Southern game, the
locals won easily, 05-24. .
Scoring Team '
The Methodist team has scored one
hundred and eight points this season,
while their opponents have sixty-one
on the ledger. Val Colvin, captain,
leads jn scoring, with fifty-three. Far
rlsh, former Atmore high school star,
follows with thirty-seven, while Boyd
Is third with ten, followed by Wal
lace and Watllngton with four each.
A good defense is the best offense,
according to Coachr Mary Robison.
With four players ready for guard
duty, Woman's College has b§en able
to' stop the invaders. Lewis, Pruitt,
Pullen and Taylor have been used' at
guards this season, Lewis being used
in every game. In the Montevallo
contest, Pruitt played a game seldom
witnessed In college circles.
The locals will make their only
foreign trip of the season on February
20 and 21, playing Howard and 13flrm
ingham-Southern In Birmingham on
these dates. A game with Jackson
ville Normal may be played early in
March, and with this game, the local
college cage schedule will be at an
end.
Louisiana Derby
Nominations Made
With 47 Horses
NEW ORLEANS. Feb. . 8.—The Jef
ferson Parish racing: association to
day announced nominations for the
annual Louisiana derby, with an, ad
ded value of 817,500 this year, which
will he run at the Jefferson Park
track on Tuesday. March 17, the closr
Ink day of the racing season in New
Orleans.
The list totals 47 horses and in
cludes Frederick Johnson's Quatrain,
winner of the 825,000 New Orleans
handicap at the fair grounds yester
day, many of the three year old
rac'ers In training here and several
thoroughbreds racing at Miami and
one at Havana.
With the exception of Quatrain none
Of those who ran In the New Orleans
handicap Is entered in the Louisiana
^er,by.
‘ Adolphus, Million, Edinburgh, Vol
ante. High Water, Cream Puff, Brfdes
Man, Ball Gee, Mabel C. Lucifer and
Elector are among those entered for
the big stake.
Hagen and Kirkwood
Leave Last Place in Match
ST. PETERSBURG. FLA., Feb. 8.—
Walter Hagen, and Joe Kirkwood, the
Pasadena 'team, climbed out of last
place in the Florida professional golf
ers' league when they won a close
game from Bill Mchlhorn and Tommy
Armour, Miami team, by one up here
today.
It was Hagen and Kirkwood’s first
win In four league games and they
had to play a best ball of 88 to do It
Miami had a best ball of 87. Hagen
and Kirkwood had individual scores
of 70, Armour was 71 and Melhorn
was 73.
Bames-McLeod Lead in
Florida Pro-Golf Tilts
TAMPA, FLA., Feb. 8.—Standings of
the Florida Professional Golf league.
Including today’s matches follows:
W ,1. Pet.
Bames-McLeod, Temple
Terrace ..f.. 4 1 .880
Sarazen-Dlegel, Hollywood .8 1 .750
Farrell-Cruickshsnk, Tampa 3 2 .800
Mehlhom-Armour, Miami.. 2 8 .800
Hagen-Klrkwood, Pasadena 1 8 .250
Walker-Loos, Winter Haven
Lakeland . 2 8 .400
Kerrlgan-George, Orlando.. 0 2 .000
Atmore Girls Defeat
Andalusia Cagesters
ANDALUSIA,- ALA., Feb. 8.—Special
to The Advertiser.—The strong Atmore
girls' team defeated the Andalusia high
school girls by a score of 38 to. 13 Sat
urday'night, In a game that was rough 1
and tumble throughout.
The Atmore girls exhibited a style
of play that the local team has not
been accustomed to and which upset
the teamwork of the Andalusia team.
Captain Nettles, of Atmore, was the
Individual star from start to finish,
playing brilliant basketball. The At
more forwards. Misses Lynch and
Wainwrlght, also starred. For Anda
lusia. Mary Lee was outstanding as a
guard, a new role for her.
Coach Green states that a return
game will be played with Atmore next
Saturday night In Atmore. Should At
more defeat the locals again, .It Will
tllmlnats Andalusia from the Monta
na llo tournament. ^
The defeat last night was ths first
tor the Andalusia girls In two years.
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Chicago Student
Heads 1924Junior'
Tennis Players
NEW YORK. Feb. '8—George J. Lott,
Jr., Chicago school boy. whose play
was a sensation in tennis ranks last
season, heads the 1924 national junior
ranking list In both singles and
doubles, according,to the ratings an
nounced by ths United States Lawn
Tennis association. Lott, who yester
day gained added distinction when he
was moved 'into the "first 10" of the
national men's list by the U. S. L. T.
A. holds the junior honors for,the sec
ond successive year. He shares the
top In the doubles list with Thomas
McGlInn, of Philadelphia.
Charles A. Smith, of Annapolis heads
the national boys’ singles ranking list
and with his teammate, Robert S.
Cooper, holds the top place In the boys'
doubles array.
In~the division of honors from a
geographical standpoint, the east leads
In the junior classification, placing
eleven of the twenty juniors ranked In
singles, with the mlddlewest second
with seven, anil the Pacific Coast third
with three.
In the boys’ classification, the mid- J
dlewest takes first place with eleven
out of 25 places. The east Is second
with nine, the south third with three,
the Pacific CoaBt fourth with two.
The committee which compiled -the
ranking consisted of W. M. Fischer,
D. O'Bear. W. T. Tllden, 2nd, J. T. Lunn
and H. 8. Knox, chairman.
Luveme Triumphs In
Two Basket Contests
LUVERNE, ALA., Feb. 8.—Special to
The Advertiser.—Luverne High school's
two basketball teams triumphed over
those of Honoravllle here Saturday In
two torrid tilts. • .
The rapid pace and summer weather
GIRL SWIMMERS
REACH FLORIDA
IN BIG EVENT
Field of 138 to Compete in
Indoor Championship
' Matches v,
ST. AUGUSTINE. FLA., Feb. 8.—
Hea(*ed Dy Miss Sybil Bauer, famous
back-stroke swimmer of Northwestern
University, Chicago, the last of a dele
gation of 38 nationally known girl
swimmers had arrived here today to
complete the field of 138 entries In
the- United States National Indoor
championship matches at the Alcazar
A. A. pools this week.
The meet will open Tuesday.
Among the thirty-eight last arrivals
were Ethel McGary, Adelaide Lambert
and Doris O'Mara, of New York; Fran
ces Cowells Scroth, of Oakland, Call
mornla; Eleanor Coleman, Milwaukee;
Ethel Lackey and Sybil Ifauer, of Chi
cago; Thelma Darby, of Indianapolis;
Frances Clark and Margaret Ravlor,
Philadelphia; Carol Fletcher, Pasadena,
Calif.; Virginia Losee, Dorothy Colter,
Doris Dunham and Janet Cotton, of
Detroit.
Misses Helen Walnwrlght, Gertruda
Ederle, Helen Meany, Alleen Rlggln,
Agnes Geraghty, Ruth Thomas, Elea
nor Garratti and a score or more Olym
pian, national and sectionaltchamplons
will also participate In the meet.
Mrs. Alice Lord Landon, former
Olympic star, will serve as starter,
while A. L. White, Sin Francisco, Bud
Goodwin, New York A. S-. and William
Doonan, Atlanta, have been named
Judgese. Miss Charlotte Epstein, of
the Women's Swimming association,
New "York, will be In charge of the
championships.
was trying on players of both teams
The Luverne lads held to the long end
of a 21 to 7 score, whils the girls won
by the score of 10 to 2.
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Kearns to Consider
Offers On Dempsey
Will Hear Proposals to Meet
Champion During Sum*
mer Campaign
NEW TORK. Peb. 8—Jack Kearns
will arrive In New York about March
1 to consider offers made by various
promoters for Jack Dempsey's sum-*
mer campaign. Promoter Charles Hen* -
derson said today.
Henderson Is head of a movement taW.
erect a stadium at Long Island CitW
which will seat 106,000 people.
He said that Kearns, manager of*
Dempsey, had Informed him that th#*,
heavyweight champion had not yet ob
ligated himself to fight for any pro- v
moter and would appear against th*$
"man whom the public wanted” and aw
the ''stadium which would hold th&
biggest crowd.”
International Bicycle
Races Open in Chicago
CHICAGO, Peb. 8.—Fourteen teams
peddled away tonight In the Interna
tional six-day bicycle race which In
augurated a week of sleepless night# * \
at the coliseum.
The pair that stlok will finish th*
grind at 11 o'clock next Saturday night
after 146 hours of wheeling.
Glenn Myatt Signs Up
As Indians’ Backstop
HOUSTON, TEXAS, Feb. 8.—Glenrt -
Myatt, catcher for the Cleveland Amer
ican league club, has accepted terms
offered by the Indians for this season*
according to statement by the playe#
at hts home here today.
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