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£ -_ _ ]yWM- * * —- .......... ............. - SPORTS # m . L 6 : %ll IJU £ .................... ■■ .............. ■■■ — * ■ ■ - • ' £GG HEAD'S EAL EPICS (BY JWp! N GRIFFIN.) / j 'V-J •' V ?;- 1 1 1 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ FINALS TONIGHT ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ IT WAS ONE of those games that are hard to lose. We are talking about the one Griffin lost to Riverside 29 to 23 last night. Egghead aid the ■writer stayed up until an early'hour this morning trying to figure exactly how the thing was done, but at 2:00 a. m. they were still in conference and still In ignorance. Griffin clearly and completely outplayed their opponents all through the first half and the first portion of the second one, but some¬ thing happened—and that is just as far as we can get in the direction of a logical explanation. RIVERSIDE is hereby recipient of our nomination for champion “come¬ back” team of the G. I. A. A. In their game with G. M. C. the previous evening they were trailing 9 to 12 between the halves, but came back and won the game 28 to 22. In the Grif¬ fith game last night they were trailing 10 to 15 when the first period ended, likewise coming back and winning 29 to 23. It beats anything ever staged in or around these parts, or in most any other parts so far as we know. IN AN EFFORT to determine just hof they turned the trick we have interviewed several prominent Grif¬ fin people on the subject, and here are some of the answers received: “Wasn’t it awful.’’ “It was terrible’’ and so forth and so on. Yes, it was terrible and it was awful and it was horrible and it was so forth; but if it were not for that old element of chance that forces the spectators to prepare for anything, then we Would not give a flip for all the games in the world. Riverside has a splendid team and deserves worlds of credit for her no¬ ble fight to victory. A TOUCHING ■ incident occurred just before the Griffin game started. Coach Taliaferro sent in his lineup and the name of Donald Baird was left off. The little fellow’s sprained ankle was still giving trouble and Coach didn’t want to take any chances bn hurting him. Now Donald is a man if there ever was one, but some one glancing in his direction noticed tear drops trickling down his cheeks —tears that couldn’t be checked. So Coach started him in the contest, on¬ ly to take him opt again the first time the ball was dead. But he had started the tournament semi-finals. GRIFFIN AND Commercial will play at 7:30 tonight for third place in the G. I. A. A. while Riverside and U. S. B. will battle for the champion¬ ship of the association^, The Griffin cup will go to the winner. Let ’er go and may the best team win. - SO PRESIDENT Corbett of the ta Crackers has finally located I ■4$ u LET THE MEN DO IT” Just once—the drudgery of the home wash, with its baths of steam and perspiration, and see how quick¬ ly they would cry for an outside #1 l laundry. Well, why not save "this • . _ • * unnecessary labor?. We undertake r Y-CC the whole trouble, call for and de¬ i liver your elothes, at very trifling \ coat Griffin Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co *"5 7"i3C-i‘5:"f:"3f/CV€U‘ *9 < 551"",‘3‘3x""f7“r“‘:§‘fi? 991* ”’W‘Wfi ’Eég’ififigfiw‘m‘ *Eia’wfififi '1“"ré*‘3<.s“z'~"§‘3§§ii. ’ «way« 2 G W???" the best little city in the world for his baseball team to go into spring training. A landscape artist will be down Monday to look over Southaide park and get the field in shape. Fif¬ teen Atlanta players will report Mon day, March 3, and fifteen more on the nineth. The committee from the Chamber of Commerce pulled a good trick (trick’s the wrong word) by in¬ ducing the Atlanta boss to bring his club here. Other towns were com¬ peting like everything to land them, but in this case we can modestly say best town won! PERSONAL MENTION—Hon. Mr. Thurman Childs, who has been affil¬ iated with the local branch of F. W. Woolworth Company in the capacity of manager, will leave Griffin to make his future home in Harrisonburg, Va. Mr. Childs has resided in Griffin for fourteen months and we hate to see him check out. It is rumored that in the future he will be a demonstrator for Grandpa’s soap. REPORTS COMING from the north side of Griffin about noon today stated a marathon dancing contest was underway in that vicinity. About that time someone telephoned one of the chief contestants the news of a person dropping dead from over-ex¬ ertion in one of those contests in a city. We received no further bulletins from the dance. \ PAUL WARWICK, young sporting of the Atlanta Constitution, is the G. I. A, A. tourney in Griffin this week for his paper. After the games were over and the scribes had finished their stories, Mr. War¬ displayed his ability in a limerick tourney. (Lack of space is one rea¬ some of them will not appear in print). WATERMELON SUPPLY M BE IIUM ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 23.—(A supply - of red-hearted in Georgia is promised the coming summer, accord¬ to reports received here from growers. The Sowegar Melon Association, a meeting at Adel, Ga., state, is preparing to enter another atetive season of grow¬ gathering and marketing water¬ that, as stated here, “grow in Georgia as in no other sec¬ ff It is announced tihat arrangements been made for the handling fruit by an organization that will to its wide .distribution. »< We hope this is so, for we should dislike very much to have anyone denied the joy ' of the Georgia watermelon because of the inability have it transported from the to the table,’’ is the way one edi¬ puts it. The total value of last year's or¬ crop in California was $100,000, . Japan has a population exceeding million. RIVERSIDE MEETS IN FINAL TILT ' . (Continued from first page.) --W-5V of the Semi-finals and piled up sqix points before Riverside got started and managed to keep a good lead on* til the closing few ^minutes of play when they overcame everything and won a victory. The final score was 21 to 23 in favor of Riverside. Brewer started the good work for Griffin with a beautiful field goal from near the middle of the court and added a couple of fouls in short order. Another field goal was added by Kirklapd and Griffin was leading by score of half a dozen to none. River¬ side tiffin shot one and trailed Grif¬ fin all through the first period, which ended 15 to 10 in favor of the local crew. Griffin also scored first in the sec¬ ond half. Kirkland, speedy little Grif¬ fin forward, was taken out of the game on fouls and from this point, things went unfavorably from a local standpoint. Captain Holt, of River¬ side, took a sudden spurt and dropped three field goals in rapid succession. The local five had been outplaying the visitors until this stage of the game with about six minutes to play, but Sandy Beaver’s boys took on new life and had their way th6 rest of the evening. The situation * was very nerve wracking as the Riverside boys slow¬ ly but surely crept up with their end of the score; tied it and passed the total piled up by the cohorts of Coach Taliaferro. Players were ^o ing out of the contest on personal fouls, Griffin losing two mep and Riverside two via this route. The sup¬ porters of both teams were literally raising the roof from the building in their frantic efforts to spur their fav¬ on to victory. Brisboy, who substitued for Stanley center for Riverside, ran wild and to get three points, putting game on ice for his side. A foul called on Riverside simultaneous¬ with the final shot from Mr. Time fatfal gun. Thompson was al¬ to try for the extra point after game was over. He made it ^ut had 29 and Griffin only had after his point was added. A hair battle was over and River¬ deserves her chance to play in the to determine the owner of the cup against U. S. B. Saturday. Brewer, Kirkland and Caldwell were the best cogs on the local ma¬ chine, but Holt and Brisboy won a game for Riverside. The playing of Riddle at guard was also very effec¬ The lineups and summaries follow: Univ. School (44) Pos. Com. Hi (22) Freeman (6)____F—Hartman (11) Medlin (8)......F Guthis (2) Wilder (10)______ C _Rudderman (7)' Broadnax (4)____G ..Wilensky (2) Jacobson (2)____G Horwitz Substitutions: Beazly (2) for Wil¬ der, Horsby for Broadnax, Speakes (2) for Freeman. Referee, Metheney; umpire, Holt. The lineups: Griffin (23) Pm. Riverside (29) Kirkland (7).....F.......Holt (7) Thompson (1) — F______Keen (3) Brewer (10)----C----Stanley (4) Beard____ G Bray (1) Powell (1) Substitutions: Caldwell (4) for Beard, Brisboy (4) for Stanley, Vaden (2) for Brisboy. Referee, Holt; um¬ pire, 'Metheney. Ninety-nine billion pounds of milk are produced annually in the United States. Many Eskimo fishermen are now using schooners in place of the~kyak, the native boat. FOB POPULAR VOTE (Continued from first page.) and weeps for them. Why? The greatness of any man is mea¬ sured by his thoughts and the vision of his ideals. Time and stress and struggles but wear away from the truly great any flaws that obscured their greatness, and add untold beauty to the lustre of their dreams. The selfish politician perpetually pleads "Grant me a place on thy right hand when thou comest into my king¬ dom,” only to prove that a “great place but magnifies the weakness and littleness of him who qnworthily oc¬ cupies. it. It is one thing to crave honor, another to merit it. William fcl. McAdoo has proven that the search light of scandal and the acid of hypocricy cannot reveal the taint of dishonor in his irreproachable CjfiSracter, but served only to prove his ability as a thinker, a statesman and a Christian gentleman. You will soon have your chance to prove your appreciation of this great Georgian for president. Let every loyal supporter of Mc¬ Adoo fill out the coupon and mail to «• me at once: For President—Wm. G. McAdoo. Name _______,________________ Address ______________________ WATERVLIET, New York, Feb. 23.—(By Associated Press)—A mio ther and her three children were asphyxiated and thirteen others suffered from the jt effects of gas which leaked from a street main that wj broken by frost today. A eafnary feebling struggling in its cage gave one of the victims his first intimation of danger. '\t>:WAV. ■’AIL? 1. The Difference is in the Cut % !V 3 V : : : * &■ \ v I *■ / That easy fit, and drapy shoul¬ CK2 j,- der effect you’ll find efnbodied % in each and every suit we have ill y / stocked. I ■ J % :-;r j;< There is a radical change in a* ij: 1 if-: the fit of Clothing this season, . . m and you’ll have to get one of :■ the New Easy Fitting Suits to V i; : m n 7,VA f '\ be classed as among those pre¬ i ■i.l % / vS sent ■ i I £2 * • * Our New Clothing on display, If priced very reasonably MM ■ ; :1 I |!: ii! .■; : :■ : Y: 1] v . % t $ / '°° and $ .00 30 up to 60 4 Silbey Clothing Company The Home of Good Clothes / V li'V'/itWitYr' w >1 r,, . tv -i t ■ SATURD AY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 23, 1 921, mil Foreign Spinners Will Take One Hun¬ dred Million Dollars’ Worth of Staple During Next Season. V ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 23.—A mar¬ ket for Southern cotton that has been closed since the starting of the world war now is being reopened through the reviving activity of the German textile mills in buying and making use of many thousands of bales of cotton from the Southern states, it was stat¬ ed here today by Atlanta cotton men. This, it way claimed, will result in German spinners taking one hundred million dollars worth of cotton in the United States duVing the coming\rop year, thus creating a demand for the South’s cotton in a field that has been closed for nearly ten years. U,p to January 1, of this year, it was pointed out here, Germany had f WEDDING GIFTS Has its serious side, especially in the selection of Wedding Gifts, and is apt to, cause con¬ siderable anxiety to the friends of the bride and groom. This can be obviated if you choose those articles you desire from l WYNNE’S « We know we' have the most artistic and attrac¬ tive gifts ever shown in V, STERLING SILVER, CUT GLASS, PLATED WARE, DIAMONDS, PRECIOUS STONES, . ETC. SEE OUR WINDOW / Your Jeweler, T. H. WYNNE purchased 500,000 bales of cotton in America and representatives of the cotton industry there havp, it is claimed, established a $10,000,000 credit with American bankers. It is added that.at least 200,000 balesjn ad¬ dition to the 500,000 bales already re- . cor •ded sold,'will be required by Ger many during the new crojp year. r NEWS WANT 'ADS. 'PAY. Mules and Wagons Our mule and wagon trade has been good. We are still selling WAGONS TWENTY DOLLARS UNDER MANU¬ FACTURERS COST. We have a complete stock of bridles, collars and plow gear B. B. Brown Co. 121 W. Taylor St. Phone 310.