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J: SECOND SECTION SECOND SECTION. WEST FLORIDA'S HOME PAPER PENSACOLA, FLORIDA. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1922. PRICE FIVE CENTS OL." U-J1 1fTU Pffl 1 DAND-G N A RECORD OF THE DOINGS OF DIPS OF PISCATORIA; ALSO THE BUGS AFIELD. 3y :. J .3 IPLEY JONES. i". the steeples about .Urss at midnight to iler "Onie, with his .rumpied and decrepid i Finis to tho chapter L one and the same j upon the stage of things that are. tho i:t'j;;, myriad reswHi--r.ao; all of them in '.ome 'f theru to be i,ut many of them. ,'.;if io be forgotten ",. a! -card as the days ' months, of tho new these resolutions , ther they are all i ciupo such reso- nMdc upon trio after all. are but .' i",is with the ln , f men, and thus ugh in the end, s ,r .1 incident, they l';ilt. -, my stock in the we are told that L-ood intentions," a firm belief that n;e their con lively good; and that all men, who js motive, form e wholesome and who niay be f rc.-s and tur- .. -,Vu ,ww resolutions '"mvseir. and I can but ,,i-,t.cti:v arm of Him jsigs, ;.nd doeth all , I'Z.iuu m in paths atre::Sth to bc t'-en what? ; ' -till bo by my side to w ill. it I hut ask Him, Lunil and place me in - i would have trod to ;t. mptation not, beset ,t that every reader ' . ..; Gun will accept my ; -.. for a happy and voar. .....hi; of the. Yuletide, isiicrcd in some fine ier for tho Dips', and each and singular of to extend our most . to our good friend id for his Christmas all right when it i t,- out the very kind of F: shins IMps revel in hasn't anything more (i.i lis?.-1 i V r started Sunday morn eve day and have sustained every day since. :!ii,n-' day, wiv.-n Joe anl v,y and' Annus Andrews a: the y eh" '- mouths up ..nMilin trstlp over Bit- n.i creeled an even three i r ui in size to San Carlos -,I better. T.ut telling .ippened Christmas day ....ttinj,' ahead of the story .,. f;o't that the day be- one oi -.. li Is of record during n Ann ir.e n- Ty whereout at Eleven :i round the rnoutn oi t. at Escambia trestle at bayou; around the ibia river and at Ell ivou Ch'.co and BayoU ftrnnde and across and tho ballast crib cOiro rook mle; up th dflta of the Yel- the mouth of Ease what The golden (.. were doing over in a catch I rnderMaml liriuie ceu ,. Vtandall and WW. mauc . . ..,.,.'.v iVi'e unit ti.ey were en ;, recreational delights of a j,i,;vo cn -the good ship Loulie, V .,ia, ,Ve dnv. They got sloughs ", 'j ,indrv.and. running from San s .. -:a!s to wampuses of 3 to o M ', -1:1,1 f.r.,-- which was brougnt 'f a;, i "I Mi '; . I '.a Bar -1 I twaut Tfi. r it' : ''ti ! ' i ilr r. of do b'r n'.o 'h- rite 14 p. r ';(. 'mded bv Bridle, which 0v,ri "scales," either r.ean that it own "scales," either matter is that after .ith was takeii home n the Bells' pantry srors but 7 1-2 pounds, ., I pounds of it which o phed on a dinky llt ld scale, and tho most the fish s totai to include in a ause 1 m U of the estimate, nth. however, is ..o-r than any landed with light rlminatins fiP UPC! 4 hereabouts. But .-nick" Bigg's sport- a fishing tackle -pits ago, possesses f,f truth. 1- poohed at as Just of the genus of th South resorts. Indeed, this from the wooiy Mirhiean. really nt Cocoa. Flotida. 1 vnowmouths except tne moon, and at night, nly with lures manu , fishing tackle house, Utrands spun only for rn. And too, that no s for yellowmouths at 11 the "pot fishermen." : creeling a C-pounder because " pound , that vicinity are saiall and incou v home. nost noticeaoi rac- Or mor,p to the point, that I'm as "preen" as I appear to be! But I was reminded while my drummer acquaintance was "avering" with such extravagant abandon, how easy it is sometimes for -us to let our tongues get the better of our 4 judgment. When I startet my story about Bridie Bell's "Vi pounder yellowmouth, 1 had no Idea that it would consume bo much space in the telling; other wise I should have only hit the high spots of the story and passed on to what "Pee Wee" Worthington, Al Freeman and Hubert Ansley, com posing one party; and "Old Cap" Charile Allen and Bob Hlxon. com posing another, did Sunday morning up in East bay and around the mouth of East rivei. And of course you'll excuse me if I tell you that what I'm now proceeding to pass along to you, isn't predicated upon first-hand in formation; far from it every bit of it's what "Old Cap" and "Pee Wee" told me, and' before I go a word fur ther, into the narrative, I want it distinctly understood that I'm not In the remotest way responsible for the yarns that "Old Cap" and "Pee Wee" tell; not even their truthful ones. But I am willing to commit myself to tho extent of saying that I be- tieve the story "Pee Wee' tells to the j effect that he and his bunch got 30 of the genus squeteague in "about GO minutes," and returned to town in dtanter in order that they might re sale themselves with broiled yellow mouth "slabs" for their Christmas uve-Ssunday dinner; also that "Old Cap" and hl3 side kick, llixon, stayed and stayed; and then stayed somo more, until they accumulated a creel of 60, or more, 2Va to 5-pounders, most of which spoiled on their hands before they could get to town with wiem in the fog which blanketed the tace of all creation, late Sunday after aoon. There are Two "Pee Wees." And by the way. before I get off of the subject of "Pee Wee" Worth ington. 1 desire to caution readers of vVitli Kod and Gun not to coufuse him with "Fee Wee" Day, who is unothe-r and entirely distinct per sonage. In other words, I now have two "Pee Wees" to write about, but ' Pee Wee" Day has been so inactive in the sports which are discussed in Ms department of The Journal, the past several weks, that he hasn't b'lven me any excuses to write about aim. I'or do I want my readers to get the idea into their heads that be cause Worthington and Day are "Pee Wees" in statue they are "Pee. Wees", m other particulars. Far from it; they r'ar from it; tney are both giants in are both giants In everything but avoirdupois. And no finer fellows live than both of them. Sunday at Eleven-Mile Creek. However, if I continue Indefinitely .0 dtcribo the attractive qualities and other indiocyncracles of my two "1'ee Wees," I'll be forgetting: to tell tiie story about "Uncle Walker" Humphreys, "Doc" D'Alemberte and .he latter's young son, "Buster" out at Eleven Mile Christmas eve day. But in telling this story, I must also explain that it too is predicated en tirely upon hearsay, and not personal information. But come 'to think about it, "Doc" is my authority, and what I'ensacola Dip is there who wouldn't accept "Doc" as authority lor any information which ' he would care to communicate? I'm sure I'd accept him even on a fish story as improbable and hard to believe as Lhe Kalamazoo drummer's story about 5-pounder yellowmouths being ihrown back to grow, down at Co coa, Florida. But I'm wandering away from the thread of the Story about what "Doc" and "Uncle Wal .cer" and "Buster" did at Eleven Mile, Sunday, which reduced to its ussence is nothing more nor less than that they held themselves, in the wee sma' hours of the morning in ques tion, out to the creek. And arriving there before the dew was dry or the yellowmouths had been aroused from their nocturnal slumbers, with careless abandon and considering not a whit how much racket they made, proceeded to troll down the creek, then up again; and down, and ua again. Meantime, the dinner hour arrived and at the old camping place by the bfg cypress tree which has marked it these, many year, they went ashore to prepare a feast of yellowmouth slabs and the trimmings that go therewith. But lo! they disappointment. "Uncle Walker" es were doomed to the bitter pangs of sayeel to perform the culinary stunts, while "Buster" and "Doc" prepared the slabs. But "Uncle Walker" had ...r.ts i:ens many 17.00, wn ry . s-y t mv bump i'H'.4 ;.vsical chara Guard Your Health U("iot lret) PREVENTIVE fortALH I.iTi; jv. Hlt4)ll Aa o-utaiit vm-v.xu Di-pt. A J Blonri St., Vw York Wrnw t-rr Ctrcitr forgotten his asbestos gloves the ones which were presented to him several weeks ago by the gang around "Slick" Biggs' store and just as the repast was ready to serve, a gust of wind set the frying pan afire, and not even the : most., heroic bare-handed efforts of "Uncle Walker" could be made to avail; he hadn't his abestos gloves, wherewith to extinguish the fire demon and before either "Doc" or "Buster" could say "scat" the fry ing slabs had been incinerated into an unrecognizable mass. And the trio went trolling again; but "Uncle Walker" Is still nursing the roasted digits upon the hand which he used in his vain endeavor to save not himself, but the sizzling frying pan filled with delicious yel lowmouth slabs. Fine Doings in Big Bayou. Nor were Eleven Mill creek and the other places which I have mentioned, the only places where there were all manner of things doing to delight the heart of the most discriminating Dip Christmas eve. For instance, Otto and Herman White, neither of them very strong on the casting game, but both of them "all there" when there's any trolling to be done, who spent the morning at Otto's favorite hole in Big Bayou, and got a string of two dozen three to five-pounders. And just as though they had the re motest right to suspect that I don't like yellowmouth slabs at Christmas time, Herman, when he told me about their catch Monday morning, expressed his regrets that he hadn't sent me a mess from their catch, with the explanation that he really didn't know that I was fond of fish. Of course I am, and if there are any of my friends who have any surplus yellowmouths during the coming week, this is to say that my home is at 112 West Cervantes street, and that while I'm going to be out of town most of tho week, the folks at home are not going with me. Went Fishing Myself Friday. Which reminds me that I wa3 so absolutely starved for a good old fashioned mess of yellowmouths, that. accompanied by "J. V." Ilollet, 0 The Journal circulation department, and Sam Cargile, of Tusla, Oklahoma, and whose connection w-ith Perry Lloyd Jones newspaper syndicate is that of general auditor, I hied my self in the very early hours of Fri day morning out to Eleven Mile creek fully determined to return' to town not later than 9 o'clock with a string of fish that would engender eSvy in the. bosom of every Dip whom I perchance might meet. There isn't any need of going Into all of the harrowing details of what happened. It must suffice to say that tht party got off on the wrong foot, and the jinx was present throughout the morning and until the expedition was concluded around the noon hour. In the first place, Gordon Smedley, also of The Journal, was to have been a member of the party, but when, at 4:30 a. m., "J. V." and I called at his home confidently expecting that he would not renig on his engagement positively made the night before, he was peacefuy sleeping just as though there had never been a fishing trip arranged the evening before. Nor was it an easy task to arouse him from his somnolence. At last, how ever, he responded to the ringing of his doort bell. But alas', poor Gor don couldn't go with us; his young son had been ill all night. And thus I was irresistaby impressed with the old proverb which remarks upon the number of "taradiddles" that all of us are prone to visit upon the heads of innocent childhood particularly when the hour of arising on a frosty morning has been arranged for 4:30 a. m. But that's wandering afield from our story. I was going on to say that "J. V." and Sam and I, went fishing first out to Eleven Mile creek? and then to Lillian bridge. But Just to keep our secret from Gordon Smedley, I'm not going to tell how many yellowmouths Jess than four dozen, were creeled by the trio of us. I was sure that 7, would have some very interesting hunting ."dope" for this week's installment of With Rod and Gun. As a matter of fact, I real ly got the "dope," but in these times of "invisible empires" and not know ing who is who, or why, T'm afraid to publish it. In other words, I have been notified by a mysterious commit tee from the personnel of a hunting party which visited Baldwin county. Alabama, last Wednesday, that if I publish details of the trip, or divulge the names of any of the members of the party, some dire disaster will be- Boy Scout Basketball League (Semi-Annual Meet Is Organized With Four Teams! Foreign War Vets To Be Important fall me at the hands of a "hooded" gang to whom I've been tipped off as a narrow-minded reformer who be lieves that sportsmen don't go hunt ing without licenses, and that the bag limit stipulated by statute should be scrupulously observed. But it isn't out of place to intimate herewith that the kill of the party which hunted in Baldwin county Wednesday, approximately ISO doves. Nor yet is First Gaines Will Be Played Jan. 5 Jack Humphries Is League Manager. January 5 will s?e the first game in the Boy Scout Basketball league. Four troops have entered ' teams in the league, and the pennant race promises to be a lively one. Troop 2. Troop 4, K. of O. Troop 8, and Presbyterian Troop 1 all have good basketball material! Troop 4 is captained by Jay Hail, and is com posed of Lindsay, Brown, Mosley, th t-tmAnt that T.a nfl Walter TRa Wolfe- Hal1 and others. Gentry, Charlie Lamar, senior, Char- . Uillla0mt Loftin ,is , captain of the I X i UUJ (, U'Ulll, WHICH JllClUUfH SUCH players as Marasales, Ttoth, Touart, Vancil, Sandusky and Loftin. lie Lamar, junior, and "Shorty" La mar, "Uncle Bob" and "Bubber" Hyer, Jack McCormack, "Red" James, Jack Holtzclaw, "Old Man" Jack Mer ritt, Sam and Julian Isaacs and scores of others have been,, hunt ing " every but here Troop 1 hafl as its captain Charlie Stewart. This team has some good material, including the Stewart broth- K. or C. V Joe Blumer leads the day during the past Trnnrl ia t. Troop squad. This is the newest troop ,in the city, and its team has not' yet week not over in Baldwin, hunt under a license ' which costs on-j r .hpdl);- .nt ha. hn a dollar. Neither am I running - . t-.,. a1o Olsen. Double headers will be played ly a dollar. Neither am I running any risk at the hands Of the "hooded" gang referred to above to mention the fact that "Slick" Biggs and "Hogeye" Palmes, "Uncle Bleke." Forbes and Charlie Born, Vjlmer Havward and Ed Gale Quina, "Doc" Quina and , possibly a dozen other Escambia county nimrods can hunt in any county in Alabama, without organizing a gang to suppress the freedom of the press. every Friday night on the Y. M. C. A. Paul Hilliard has been appointed of ficial referee, by Alex Olsen. Jack B. 1 Humphreys will be league manager. I The games will be composed of two Feb. 16 Troop S vs. Troop 4; Troop S vs. Troop 1. Feb. 23 Troop 2 vs. Troop 8; Troop 4 vs. Troop 1. March 2 Troop 1 vs. Troop 2; Troop 8 vs. Troop 4. Negro Is Held for Theft Fountain Pen Dewey Donald, negro, who is charged with, being a dangerous and suspicious character, was turned over to the county authorities by Judge Morey yesterday morning after he had heard the evidence in the case. Donald, it is charged, has in his possession a fountain pen said to be long to another negro who says that Donald refused to let him see it but offered to sell it to him. There is every reason to believe, ac cording to Colonel T. L. Huston, Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, that 'the semi-annual gathering of the Coucil of Ad ministration of that organization in Cincinnati will be of vast importance to veterans as a whole. Colonel Charles R. Forbes, Director of the United States Veterans Bureau is to attend the sessions of the council and will discuss with the V. F. W. of ficials many matters of Importance to former service men, particularly the disabled. Colonel Huston within the week dis posed of his half Interest in the New York Yankee baseball club and this leaves him comparatively free to de- COVINGlOiN Hlbhl service men. He gave this as one of HAS CAGE TEAM I tne principal reasons actuating him United States Veterans bureau ; the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Che. council sessions will- be Sunday and Monday and an Tue the state department of Ohio I have a meeting of its executive Akron. The Comraander-ia-C3j the Adjutant-General and sevi members of the council of admL NEW YORK, Dec. 80. (Special.) tratlon will attend tbia gathering.: Covineton high of I'lorala, Ala. nits laicsi ciiti.T ,.it .uont-tuu... . r,, , - - r .1... ,v.i v,o: 1 in-Chief of the v. llieS OI LU13 BCtuuil. ' ia 0t,,,ff, recruited a good bunch of cagesters and arranged an extensive schedule o games with other teams. I - 11 1 1 , t . -1- 1 . A in i iii riejiuij5 ins ua.11 uuu micrcpi. ' 1 , J . .-. J I oionei rorues anu me v-onimaiiuer- F. W. will confer on many matters which have come to the attention of Colonel Huston and it is believed that the meeting will re sult in closer harmony between the TIGERS TO MEET ALUMNI MONDAY IN OPENING GAME Coach Barks' Cagesters and Former P. H. S. Stars Are Primed for Annual Affair. The basketball season wilNJje offi- : cially ushered ' into Pensacola at 3 o'clock New Year's afternoon, when t the P. II. S. Tigers meet the alumni In. their annual historic game. This will be the first appearance of the Tiger cagesters on the court this year, as Coach Barks wanted the boys to rest up from the strenu ous football season just closed and. consequently, they have not practiced together this season. However, there are a number of men left over from last year's squad to warrant putting out a successful quintet this year and the fans will have their first oppor tunity to see this material work, to gether when they tackle the former luminaries tomorrow oftsrnoon. ;'AUh such men as Marsh, Hvcarns. Loltin. Mitchell and the Watson brothers ar,d the men who played 011 the Freshman team last year, a good combination can be worked together that should be able to hold its own aainsv any other high school team in this section. The Alumni will be made up of rren who have distinguished themselves before in different branches of ath letics while at high school. The team will be chosen from the following men: Reese, Olsen, Levy, Wolfe, Tommy Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, Morris, Klein, Gunn, Friedman, Pra ter and others. The high school boys have never beaten the alumni in the annual game and the latter are determined to hold that prestige again this year. The high school boys are determined to break the jinx. The game will be played on the high school court and all local basketball fans are invited to attend. Last season's game was won by the Alumni by 17 to 16. No Football Game To Be Played Today There will be no football game this afternoon between the Navy and Pen sacola. A game was proposed but .no arrangements were made and the game' will not be played. The football seasCa is now definite ly over in Pensacola. Athletes are now turning to basketball. Several leagues will probably be organized, including the "Y" Senior league. Dub league and K. of C. league. halves of 12 minutes eacH and games will, begin promptly at a o'clock ev ery Friday evening. The managers of the teams are as follows: Scoutmaster John Burda, Troop 8; Scoutmaster Huxley Carter, Troop 2;- Scoutmaster II. 11. Sharp less, Troop 1, and Assistant Scoutmas ter Stanley Wolfe, Troop 4. The schedule of games is as follows: Jan. 5 Troop- 2 vs. Troop 4; Troop S vs. Troop 1. Jan. 12 Troop 2 vs. Troop S; Troop 4 vs. Troop 1. " Jan. 1 Troop 1 vs. . Troop 2; Troop 1 3 vs. Trobp 4. ' ! Jan. 26 Troop 8 vs. Troop 1; Troop 2 vs. Troop 4. I it.,. - xioop 4 vs. Troop 1; Troop J z vs. Troop s. I j-t-u. t Troop 8 vs. Troop 4; Troop 1 vs. Troop 2. Eleven Negroes in Gambling Round-Up Captain Harper, assisted by Offi cers Bowman and Wasden. raided a riinofl at Eisht avenue and Romano street yesterday afternoon and con ducted elevn dusky devotees of the snotted cubes to the city jaii. They NEWS OF RECORD DEEDS: Peter Renes to Job. i Smith. Dec 7, 1922. $1.00 and o considerations, Iote 13 and 14, b 54. Figland Park. V J. B. Whitfield and wife to Clar J. Stokes. June 21. 1921, $100 and er considerations, portion of lot and 215, Old City tract. ; James Bailey and wife to Ed Sunday, Dec. 13. 1922. $100 and ' considerations, N 1-2 lot S23fc la V Nettie Cook, a widow, to Pen$4 Land & Imp. Co., Dec. 26, 1922. and other considerations, portlo lots 3 and 4, block 4. East tract. National Land Sales Co. to XT toote bpaming, Dec a. 1823. and other considerations, lota Ti 81 and 84, See. 23. Tp. 1 S, west. National Land Sales Co. to Christman, Dec. 13. 1S22, J1U50 other considerations, lot 8, Wo- Sec. 13. Tp. 1 S. R.. 30 west. Aviil face Judge Morey this on a charge of gambling. morning BEG YOUR PARDON. In Saturday's issue of The Journal, it was stated that Shcrrill Oil com pany's truck figured in the recent crash with a switch engine that re sulted in the death of the ngro flag man. This was an error as it was said to be the Citizen Oil company's truck instead of Sherrill. TWO SENT TO COUNTY. Pete qarelson and Nellie Holmes were turned over to the county au thorities by the city police yesterday afternoon on charges of being dan gerous and suspicious characters. Carelson is also charged with resist ing an officer. FOOTBALL RESULTS. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif Dec. 30. Final score:' Pittsburg 16; Stanford 7. SRI MUTiCKjTO WATER CONSUMERS. ' All Water Bills are; now due and payable at the office of the Water Department, City Hall. A discount of 5 will be allowed; on bills paid oh or before Jan. 10th, 1923. All consumers not paid by Jan. 31st, are subject to have water shut off without f ur ther notice, and a Penalty of $1.00 will be charged for turn ing on again. No collector will be sent you, mail your Checks, or send your remittance to the of fice. 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