The Birmingham age-herald. [volume], March 13, 1913, Page 7, Image 7

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! ATLANTA’S INFIELD
j LOOKS FORMIDABLE,
j SMITH IS SATISFIED
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Marquard Signs Two Contracts
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RAYMOND BOYD AND \
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TWO CONTRACTS ARE
SIGNED BY MARQUARD
SIGNS ONE WITH THE GIANTS
AND A LIFE CONTRACT WITH
THE FAIR BLOSSOM—HE IS
RICHARD DE MARQUIS NOW
San Francisco, March 12.—"Rube” Mar
quard signed two contracts today, a leng
one and a short one. Just after he had
married "Blossom” Seeley, an actress
who has been his partner on the stage,
he gave his word to Dick Kitisella, scout
for the New York Nationals, that he
was ready to join the team the comir.g
aeason.
The marriage ceremony was performed
at 1 o'clock In the afternoon In the par
sonage of the German Evangelical Luth
eran church, with only two theatrical
friends In attendance, but with a host
of newspaper men and photographers
waiting outside.
In the marriage license the big south
pttw gave his name as Richard De Mar
quis, 23 years of age, and his bride as
Katherine Kane, 22.
'‘Rube” was very nervous.
“He was so anxious to get her,” said
the Rev. H. S3. Feix, who performed the
ceremony, “that he answered my ques
tions before I finished them.”
ENTRIES FOR B. H. S.-Y. M. C A.
TRACK MEliST ANNOUNCED
Yesterday afternoon In the Y. M. C. A.
gymnasium the Birmingham High school's
trials were run off under the direction of
Coach Courleux and Physical Director
West.
The following team was selected to rep
resent the B. H. S. in the Indoor meet
with the Young Men's Christian associa
tion :
JO yard dash—H. Davis and H. New
man. s
100 yard dash—H. Newman, J. Hall and
H. Davis.
J20 yard dash—J, Cosine, H. Newman
arid J. Hall.
440 yard run—Vivian Jones:
BLACHS
Are
SHOE
SPECIALISTS
The oxfords we sell
outclass any at our
prices. That’s what
you want to know.
Blach’s guarantee for
that.
86-87-88
Mostly made by
JOHNSTON &
MURPHY
If you cannot come in
to be fitted—get a cat
alogue and order by
. mail. Send the money—
We Deliver Free
If what we select
doesn’t please you—
SEND IT BACK!
You know you’re safe
trading at
$80 yard run—J. Whatley, H. Bowron
and V. Jones.
One mile run—H. Brazeal, A. Rountree
and J. H. Thorntori.
Shot put/—V. Roach, W. Harris and R.
Barker.
High jump—Thompson, J. Cozine, J.
Downey.
Potato race—W. Hicky, R. Barker and
M. Dillon.
Mr. West, physical director of the Y. M.
C. A., announces that the following team
has been selected to represent the Young
Men's Christian association:
20 yard clash—Paul Green and Lee Poe;
100 yard dash, w. Waldron, Paul Green,
Lee Poe and F. Black; 220 yard dash,
Arthur Greenwood. Lee Poe and M. Domi
nick; 440 yard run. J. B. Chisholm and
W. S. Edwards; 880 yard run, Karl Plato
wosky, Tom Rogers and H. S. Arnold;
mile run, W. O. Crossman, B. Cummins
and J. Johnson; potato race, Paul Green
and M. Dominick; running high jump,
J. B. Chisholm, Roy Chapman and A.
Greenwood: shot. put. George McVey, R.
L. Bevil and 1. Wolf.
Nashville. March 12.—(Special.)—Van
derbilt’s complete baseball schedule today
is given out, the season being opened
with the Nashville Southern league club
next week.
The schedule follows:
March 18-19—Nashville at Nashville.
March 27-28—Nashville at Nashville.
April 3—Cumberland, two games at
Lebanon, Tenn.
April 4-6— University of Tennessee at
Knoxville.
April 11-12—Michigan at Nashville.
April 18-19— University of Tennessee at
Nashville.
April 29-30—University of Georgia at
Athens, Ga.
May 1-2—Mercer University at Macon,
Ga.
May 15-16-17—Mississippi A. and M. at
Nashville.
May 28-27—University of Alabama, three
games at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
May 9-10—Kentucky State at Nashville,
probable.
ALL (HERSIT
Atlanta, March 12.—(Special.)—Every
player but two. Catcher Dew McCallister
and Pitcher Jim Donnelly have reported
for practice.
Shortstop DoBard, Pitcher Brady,
Catcher Dunn and Outfielder Bailey be
ing Wednesday’s arrivals. Catcher Mc
Allister reports Thursday. Pitcher Don
nelly refuses to come south. Pitcher
Weaver agreed on terms today and signed
his contract leaving Pitcher Brady and
Donnelly, Outfielder Bailey and Shortstop
DoBard the only players unsigned. Man
agers of the Macon, DaGrange and Co
lumbus teams were here today«after some
Cracker castoffs.
PERRY CIRCUITCOURT
CONVENES MONDAY
Marion, March 12,—(Special.)—Circuit
court for Perry county will convenb Mon
day the 17th. The docket will be un
usually large for this season of the year,
there being several murder cases to be
heard.
The civil docket will require more time
as a number of cases are to be heard,
Including the case of Veltch vs. Western
Union Telegraph company, reversed by
the supreme court.
ANNUAL SPORTSMEN’S
DINNER ON APRIL 2
Washington, March 12.—It was an-1
nounced tonight that the third annual
American Sportsmen’s dinner will be
given here on the night of April 2.
Among those specially invited to partici
pate are the members of the Jockey club,
the Polo association, American Kennel
club, Recognized Hunts of America, Na
tional Remount association, American
Horse Show association, Masters of Fox
Hounds association and the National
Steeplechase and Hunts’ association.
RUSSELL PROMOTED;
GOES TO ANNISTON
Edward W. Russell, who has been as
sistant passenger and ticket agent In the
Southern railway company's office in Bir
mingham. has been prdmated to be local
passenger and ticket a£ent at Anniston.
This appointment becomes effective to
day. J. B. Thomas, the local passenger
and ticket agent at Birmingham, stated
last night that Ills new assistant would
be named In a few days.
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Golf Tournament
Plnehurst, N. C„ March 12.-Miss Doro
thy Ballantyne of Detroit today de
feated Miss Helen Barnett of New Haven
In the final play of the annual club cham
pionship tenpls tournament for women.
The sets were won 6-S and 7-5.
Social Workers to Meet
The organization of social workers of
the city will hold a meeting this after
noon at 3:20 o'clock at the Chamber of
Commerce.
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Virginia Defeated
Charlottesville, Va.. March 12.-Wash
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MUCH NEW BUYING
OF STEEUPRODUCTS
Situation Surprising to the
Consumers
PIG IRON CHANGED
Large Specifications on Contracts
Indicate Confidence of Com
panies—Southern Iron
Is Weak
New York. March 12.—(Special.)—The
Iron Ago will say tomorrow:
Manufacturing consumers of steel pro
ducts reinforce the confident views of
the steel companies by continued large
specifications on their contracts. It is
not surprising, with the heavy accumula
tions on order books, that new' business is
not. up to the present record rate of
output; the surprise is that there is so
much new' buying.
Chicago notes some shading of prices in
; recent sales of axles, track fastenings
land tie plates, but these are conspicuous
exceptions. Considerable amounts of car
material have just been placed for the
third quarter. The demand for struo
tural material in the central west is now
more active than at any time since the
summer of 1012.
Bar mills are sold up to an extent that
makes premium business surprisingly
large. Some mills have had to refuse
third quarter orders.
Under such conditions the outlook for
concessions on agricultural bar contracts
is not bright. The pig iron situation has
changed to one of larger Inquiry in nearly
all selling centers, but with no increase
In sales. Foundry buyers are sounding
the market for third quarter and second
half, but are not disposed to pay prices
recently quoted.
weakness in southern iron is more pro
nounced, several furnace companies be
ing disposed to meet the $13 level for
No. 2 foundry fixed by resale Iron.
In Chicago the central west and east
ern Pennsylvania foundry Iron has de
clined about 25 cents in the w'eek.
Cleveland, O., March 12.—(Special.)—The
Iron Trade Review tomorrow says:
Contracting for finished materials, es
pecially for plates, shapes and bars, for
delivery throughout the remainder of this
year, and in some cases into next year,
is being done as rapidly as mills will
permit, some companies are contracting
rather freely at slight advances over pre
vailing prices, but leading companies
which are not able to promise deliveries
on present contracts before the last quar
ter of this year and in some cases the
1st of January, are declining to book ad
ditional business.
Had the policy of the United States
Steel corporation permitted it could eas- i
lly have booked orders for tonnages far
in excess of 170,000 tons, the amount rep
resenting the reduction of unfilled book
ings of the Steel corporation, according
to the recent statement. The corporation
will erect a large Portland cement plant
In Connection with its steel plant now be
ing built at Duluth.
The new plant wilj have a capacity of
about 1,500,000 barrels of cement annually,
and will cost about $2,000,000. Heavy rail
road buying is still a very important
factor of present conditions. The Penn
sylvania lines west have entered the mar
ket for 25,000 tbns of bridge material and
the other leading systems are also ac
Everybody Has Old
Furniture; Everybody
Wants New—Take
Advantage of Our
“New Furniture For
Old’1 Plan
—Tilt 1KVII1 WHEEL
EK “New Furniture for
Old” Plan is simple, prac
tical and dignified. Every
5 home in Birmingham
? holds more or less furni
| ture that has been used for
years, is out of date and
“off style,” but entirely
| too good to give or throw
| away. We buy it, paying
| all it’s worth, and yoiy ap
i ply the proceeds on new
furniture.
—We operate two exclusive sec
i ond hand stores, one at 2111 2d
avenue and the other at 2011-13
i 4th avenue. All the old furni
ture bought and taken in ex
change is sold at tfieso stores.
| No second hand, nor for that
matter “shopworn” furniture, 1b
permitted at the big, regular 3d
avenue store. By this means we
readily sell all old furniture we
can buy, and naturally can pay
generous prices for YOUR OLD
FURNITURE
I —Take stock, see how
much old furniture you
have and how much new
you ueed; then come to
HOOI) & WHEELER’S,
| where stocks are large and
prices, quality for quality,
are LOWEST.
Hood & Wheeler
Furniture Co.
2012-14 3d A,ve.
RAYMOND BOYD IS _
IN THE CITY AT LAST
RAYMOND BOYD
Baron slab artist, who reported yesterday. Boyd's delay in reach
ing the city, so he states, is due to the fact that he was busy in Wash
ington in getting Wilson straightened out in his new job. The Baron
hurler and his bride spent several days in Washington during the inau
gural celebration.
tively Inquiring. The Carnegie Steel com
pany has taken 26,000 steel wheels for the
Norfolk and Western.
The Illinois Central is about to close
for 4500 additional cars. The Illinois Steel
company has closed an order for 45,000
tons of Bessemer rails for a northwest
ern system. The United States Steel
Products company has an order for 7500
tons of rails for Argentine railways. The
Norfolk and Western has divided 9000
tons of bridge material about equally be
tween the Virginia Bridge and Iron works
and the Pennsylvania Steel company.
Melters of pig iron are showing increas
ing interest and are more active in sound
ing the market. In many cases orders do
not result. In some districts, especially
In Cleveland and Pittsburg, it seems prob
able that there will be further softening
of prices to be forwarded by an active
buying movement and price advances.
In the east also there is expectation on
the part of buyers that prices may go a
little lower and the numerous pending in
quiries indicate an effort to determine
lowest possible prices. Eastern cast iron
pipe makers are still in the market and
are making some purchases. The outlook
for buying of basic in eastern territory
has improved, and at least one large
steel company is expected in the market
some time this month. Basic in round ton
nages can be bought in the east at $17.60
delivered. A sale of basic to a Pittsburg
melter Indicates that the price is about
$16.10 valley or $17 Pittsburg. There has
been some increases in stocks in eastern
Pennsylvania, but the general statistical
position of pit iron is sound. In the south
prices are still soft, and there is very
little tonnage being placed.
OF MILITARY BILLS
French Professors Would
Go Slow in Adopting New
Military Plans
Paris, March 12.—Some opposition to the
Immense and hurried increase of the
peace footing of the French army has
made Its appearance. Some 350 professors
of the Serbonne, among them the finest
scholars in France, have issued a united
address to the people of France not to
yield thoughtlessly "to the military panic
■ffnd to forces of reaction which tend to
ward desperate adventures, hostile to the
republican government.”
The professors do not declare them
selves opposed to the suggested three
years’ period of service in the active
army, but ask for the fullest and most
thoughtful consideration of the situation
without haste and without excesses of
emotion.
Another declaration, signed by Anatole
France and several other members of the
French Institute,, literary men, scientists
and professors, was published today urg
ing calm consideration of the proposed
military measures, "which If adopted will
profoundly affect the lire of France both
Intellectually and economically.”
Premier Brland, it Is said, has Informed
a number of members of parliament that
It. will not be necessary to rush through
the military bills before Easter.
RIFLE SHOOT
Washington, March 12—Harvard uni
versity and Massachusetts Agricultural
college tied with nine victories each
In the Intercollegiate rifle shooting
league matches and will meet this
week to determine the championship
of the east. West Virginia univer
sity, which still leads with nine
straight victories, will shoot off this
week for the championship of the west
With Iowa City university and the
University of Minnesota tied for sec
ond place. The results of the ninth
week'B match include: Massachusetts
Agricultural 955 vs. Dartmouth 90s.
Harvard 944 vs. Lehigh, defaulted;
North Georgia Agricultural 927 vs.
Clemson, defaulted.
Western league: West Virginia 938
vs. United States College of Veterinary
Surgeons, defaulted; California 920 vs.
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechan
ical 888, Minnesota 945 vs. Kansas 854,
Michigan Agricultural 925 vs. Louis
iana 878, Purdue 933 vs. Missouri, de
faulted.
Trip to Farm Postponed
The» proposed trip of the farm 'Ommit
tee and Secretary Itadcliffo to thp dem
onstration farm of the Chamber of Com
merce was postponed yesterday on ao
oount of the rain. The trip wll^ be made
•on* Una iiv tbe gear future,
CONGRESS TO DEAL
WITH SEAL PROBLEM
The Fur Seal Situation in
Alaska Must Be Dealt
With
Washington, March 1?.—Among the
subjects not acted on by the expiring]
Congress and xvhlch have gone over
for the new administration and Con
gress to deal with is that relating to
the fur seals of Alaska. President Da
vid Starr Jordan of Stanford univer
sity recently has pointed out that after
15 yeftrs of effort a treaty was made
with Great Britain, Japan and Russia
in 1911, abolishing pelagic sealing for
15 years. The United States agreed to
share Its land catch with Great Britain
and Japan, owners of the pelagio fleet, in
return for the abandonment by their
citizens of pelagic sealing.
X-ater, however, Congress suspended
land sealing for five years. I’resident
Jordan says this action causes a de
fault in the United States treaty obli
gations. Tho resulting dissatisfaction,
he says, will lead to the possible ab
rogation of the treaty, with the re
sumption of pelagic sealing and the
inevitable destruction of the seal herd
which already has been brought down
from some 2,500,000 to 215,000 animals
at the present time. I£e adds:
“The investigation of the past sum
mer—the first season under the treaty
of July 7, 1911—made by G. A. Clark,
secretary pf Stanford university and
formerly secretary of the 1896-97 seal
fur commission, shows that the sus
pension of the fur sealing Is entirely
inadequate to stay the decline of tho
herd and Insure Its rapid recuperation.
This investigation further emphasizes
the futility and danger of the pro
posed suspension of land sealing.'*
The views of President Jordan and
Mr. Clark were made the subject of a
minority report from a congressional
committee at the last session. 'The ma
jority report of the committee dealt
mainly with the past administration of
the fur seal question and not tha
treaty phase which President Jordan
and Mr. Clark maintain Is one of the
chief features now requiring atten
tion.
CRACKER INFIELD LOOKS
TO BE UNUSUALLY GOOD
Atlanta, March 12.—(Special.)—If the
rest of the Atlanta team Is In keeping
with the infield, the team that beats
the Crackers this season will win the
Southern league pennant.
Bill Smith lias ha<\ some mighty good
infields since-lie lias been managing teams
in the Southern league, but it is the opin
ion of many, and Bill says so himself,
the present infield looks better than any
he ever had before.
Agler and Atperman at first and sec
ond respectively are too well known to
need any introduction to Southern league
fandom.
Walliq Smith, a big six footer, pur
chased by the locals from the St. IjOuIs
Nationals, lias far surpassed all expecta
tions. Ho came here touted as a player
of merit and one that w’ould nail down
the third base Job without any trouble.
Smith went right to work upon report
ing. He has lots of pep, ambition to
return to the big show this fall and if
he is able to keep up his present clip,
there is no question of his going back.
Unlike most big men, Smith is far from
being slow.
Although his fielding is all that could
be desired, it is the big boy's work with
the stick that impresses most. Southern
league pitchers are going to learn to fear
Smith all season.
As for the shortfleld berth, there is
a merry war going on between DoBard,
drafted from Dayton and Keating pur
chased from Portsmouth. The better hit
| ter of the two will land the regular berth
no doubt.
Harry Bailey in left field and Dave
Callahan In center are certainties in the
outfield.
The catchers and pitchers are the un
certainty. There are four of the former
to choose from and 10 of the latter. The
picking of pitchers Is going to be ex
tremely hard. The holdovers from last
year look better than ever, while the
new men show more promise than any
bunch of new pitchers brought to At
lanta any spring for a try out.
CAMBRIDGE READY
TO MEET OXFORD
London, March 13.—Training of the Ox
ford and Cambridge eight oared crews,
which meet tomorrow for their annual
boat race on the Thames, was finished to
day. The result of tomorrow's race la
much more doubtful than at any time
seemed possible. Oxford is still the favor
ite, but Cambridge has made rapid prog
ress.
New Racing Bill
Albany, N. Y., March 12.—A new anti
race track gambling bill, which seeks to
overcome the recent decision by the ap
pellate division that bets legally could be
made through a credit system, was in
troduced today by Assemblyman Knight.
The bill would prohibit betting of any
kind on the race tracks.
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To the Comihercial Traveling Men and Visiting
Public—Another Special Announcement of Hotel
Accommodations At An Extraordinary Low Rate At
The Birmingham Hotel ham, Ala
Sample rooms and rooms with bath, a dollar and a half, all other
rooms $1.00 a day.
Rooms regularly scheduled at from $1.00 to $2.00 a day, including all
of the best ontside rooms without bath $1.00 a day—no higher. All roomc
with private bath $1.60 (except 6). 40 with private bath at a dollar
and a half.
WHY PAY MORE?
There are 1C0 available eleeplng rooms.
All glean, desirable outalde room*—no In
side rooms whatever. All screened against
files and mosquitoes. All electric lighted,
with telephone In each room. All rtached by
elevator. All steam heated. High class cafe,
bar and delicatessen lunch room, under
earn* management.
Locatfin In the heart of the city, Second
avenue and Eighteenth street, opposite the
postoffice. No annoying runners or porters
meet trains. Take public cabs, carriage*
or busses—fare 25c, or electric cars reach
the hotel.
A SPECIAL KATE FOR REGULAR GUESTS OF $15 PER MONTH
THE BIRMINGHAM HOTEL
RILEY D. CRONE, Manager
$1.00
a Day
$1.00]
a Day
■—
$5