SPORTS . BY BOB McOAVID New Orleans to Enter Many Mat Stars SPORTS _LOCAL—HV WIRE OTZ WALTERS IS CONGRATULATED ON BOXING VICTORY Human “Buzz-Saw” Hon ored by Commander for Victory Over French Ring Champion AnniMtovt, March 13—(Special.) Firat-clum Private Angelo Gual tlpri, supply company of the lllith 4 heavy field artillery, and who i* known profesMionnlly a** Hit* Walter*, l»a* been complimented by Major Gen. Charles G. Morton, commanding the Blue and Gray di vision becauNe of his recent feat of knocking out the champion fighter of the French forces. The commanding general’? letter to the former McClellan star mitt wielder reads as follows: "I desire to congratulate you on four victory In Paris over the best representative of the French army in four class. Your clean-cut work, ag gressiveness and general conduct as b fighter and a soldier are worthy of the highest approbation.” Ritz Walters has long been known ns the champion ring artist of the Twenty-ninth division In the heavy weight class. While stationed at Camp McClellan he fought many great battles with men from other southern camps and won the Dixie championship in Birmingham last winter when teams from Camp McClellan won a series of hard-fought bouts at the Birmingham Athletic club. lie was one of the best known enlisted men at Camp Mc Clellan during the stay of the Blue and Gray troops on the local cantonment knd his continued success abroad will Ge a source of gratification to the friends he made while stationed in Dixie land. Mrs. Gaultier!, who witnessed her husband’s victories in the south, made her home with Mrs. Bondurant McGin nis while in Anniston and will be very pleasantly remembered here. The champion enlisted at Atlantic City. N. J., and went with the Kew Jersey troops to the border before coming to Camp McClellan. Sharpe ta Coach Tals By Assoelated Press New Haven, Conn., March 13.—The ap pointment of A1 Sharpe. Cornell univer sity athletic coach, to be football coach of Yale, will be announced in the a. ale Alumni Weekly tomorrow. Seek No Further! You Have It Here! Know What YouTake N.S.R.P. CVon-Secret Rheumatlnm Prescription) This famous prescription you will find on every bottle. No more aches, no more pains, never fails to relieve sharp, shooting pains in the arms, less, tide or soreness of any part of the . ody. It rarely fails to give relief the first day. V. S. R„ P. (Non-Secret Rheumatism prescription) will be found the most beneficial treatment for Rheumatism in all its forms. 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GEEK LETTER MEN University, March 13.—(Special.)—About half of the inter-fraternity basket ball schedule, lasting from March 3 to March 21, has been played. Much interest is be [ing manifested in these games, which are j contested on open air courts in front of the gymnasium. The fraternities are di vided up into league “A” and league **B.” The winners in each of the leagues will play three games for the championship among the Greek letter organizations. The standing of the fraternities up un til Wednesday afternoon is as follows: “A” LEAGUE Fraternity. Alpha Tau Omega . Delta Kappa Epsilon . Phi Kappa Sigma . Phi Gamma Delta . Phi Delta Theta . Sigmu Nu . •B” LEAGUE Kappa Sigma .. Sigma Chi .. Pi Kappa Phi . Kappa Alpha .. Sigma Alpha Epsilon . Zeta Beta Tau . Pot. 1.000 x. 00 I 1.000 | .000 ! .000 j .000 I 1.000 ! 1.000 1 .500 ; .000 ! .500 .000 Army Team to Play 10 Football Games in 1919 By Associated Press West Point, N. Y„ March 13.—The army football schedule, made public here today, shows clearly the cadets plan for a restoration of the gridiron game on a pre-war basis next autumn. Ten contests are listed with the opening game set for the last Saturday ! in September, and the schedule will j close with the struggle against the navy at the Polo Grounds, New York j city, on November 29. Only one intersectional game appears upon the 1919 schedule, Notre Dame playing here on November 8. The com plete list of games follows: Middlebury, September 27; Holy C^oss, j October 4; Syracuse university, Octo ber 11; Maine, October 18; Boston col ! lege, October 25; Tufts, November 1; Notre Dame, November 8; Villa Nova, November 15; Springfield, November 22; \ Navy, November 29. I What if You Canft Get a New Car in 1919? &17j,QQ0 cars wen scrapped** tn 1917 **Mother, the old car certainly deserves the best we can do for itl** “Surely our old friend Car ought, to have a new Eveready battery to carry it through the long year ahead. It will be little enough for all he has done for us. “We can’t any of us afford’to gamble on whether the car will stand up to the work in 1919, and its got to. So I move,Mother, that we get an Eveready right now—it’s guaranteed for a year and a half— and I’ll bet the whole family will second the motion. The Eveready Service Station has just the size we need for the car, and they’re mighty decent people at testing the battery and keeping it up to the mark. “Make it unanimous—don’t let the old car think we are pikers.” Matthews Electric Supply Co. State Distributer* 2014 First Ave. Birmingham, Ala. eVEREADy SER VICE ST A TIONS: Wt test e»J repair sD nuke* of batteries Oar repair work i* fiUp pamtiei Middlebrooks Electric J. R. 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Be it known that Sir William had just return ed from \ew Orleans. After answering a few questions about Mr. Kamos and other famous citizens of the Pelican village. Will proceeded to wax enthusiastic over the coming- national wrestlihg champion ship to be held here Monday and Tues day at the Athletic club. Will urn ’towed that the approaching “hugging matches” would be about the fiercest what had ever been saw in Birming ham. While in the gin-fizz burg, BUI spared enough time to call on Secre tary Benedetto, who declared that he would send up several •‘hone-crushers.” Tulane university also announced that they would be well represented in the tournament here. Judging by the speed with which seats for the tourney are being sold a big crowd of lecal bugs will turn out next week to see the title bouts. B. A. C. Revolver Team Makes Fine Showing The Athletic club revolver team last night fired two official matches, one against Chicago and the other against Columbus. The Columbus match was won by the locals, while Chicago's score has not yet been received, but inasmuch as the B. A. C. team shot remarkably well a double victory is believed to have been secured. The shooting of Lieutenant Moore fea tured the evening’s firing. Twice last night he broke four consecutive fens be fore dropping a point. O. L. Garl, 4no, showed lots of class. The old head is shooting a gun as big &s a voung how’t zer, but he handles it splendidlv. The scores: Birmingham vs. Columbus. Taekhole Lee . 141 Lieut. .1. O. Moore . 135 O. I.. Garl . 130 Dr. O. R. Troje . 125 M. F. Jones . 113 Total . 650 t'olumbus, 044. This total of 650 for the locals is the ! highest score ever made by the Birming ham team since its organization foty* ; years ago. Birmingham vs. Chicago: Taekhole Lee ..*. 145 O. L. Garl . 126 Lieut. J. O. Moore . 126 M. F. Jones . 124 Dr. O. R. Troje . 122 Total . 642 Results from Chicago not in. Failed to make the team: J. G. Weldon 115, 116; Dr. Percy Reid. 103, 105; D. R. Spragg, 98, 102. At present Lee has the highest aver age of any competitor in the country with 10 matches fired and six more to go. DeFuniak, the local representative of the U. S. R. A., announced last night that matches would be fired next Wednesday against the Manhattan and Spokane teams. BETTER THAN WHISKEY FOR, New Alcoholic Elixir, Called Aspironal, Medicated With Latest Scientific Remedies Used and En dorsed by European and American Army Surgeons to Cut Short a Cold and Prev.ent Complications Every Druggist in U. S. 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Promoters have watched with great interest the diffi culties encountered by “Tex" Rickard In America in getting a place for the bout, and in the prospect that the bout may not be held in the United States. Offers will b# made to Rickard soon if they have not already reached him. The promoters here argue that Paris, with its big floating American and British population at present, would be a better place than either Juaras or Havana, if the bout goes outside America. Higher prices could be obtained for seats than before the war. It is fig ured seats that sold for $50 for the Johnson-Moran bout would bring $100 now'. \ high army official Informed the Associated Press today that the Dempsey-Willard tight would not he held in the I nlted States, add ing: ••There fh one man who can stop the light la America.** The officer refused to divulge the name of the man, hut said Willard wa« not very popular in the army owing to his attitude during the war and his refusal to give his services to the Bed 4 ross and the various soldier benefits. BOXING FLOURISHES Boxing: is flourishing- in Paris at pres ent and the Knights of Columbus and the Y. M. C. A. are holding weekly shows in which American boxers meet British and French. The superiorlty of the Americans, which might he ex pected. if not over the English and the colonials, at least over the French to whom boxing is a comparatively new sport, is not in evidence. 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