The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 30, 1921, Page 7

Si Peres: SEATTLE STICKERS | LEAD LEAGUE BY LEO H. LAs MIRTY-F Ot | Coast league r over .300, accord. averages, which inelude the games of Thurs day, This means aren't getting league season. Our own Ray Rates and “pubby” | Spencer are showing the way with the willow, Bates being the real leader with a mark of 43%, while Spencer is hitting a mere .433, Billy Lane, Séattle flychaser: Heck Miller, the Oakland strong man, and | Bert Ellison, the new Seal gardener, are tied for run scoring honors with | 21 tallies each Charley Pick, Sacramento third sacker, has pounded out the most hits, 35 in all, Jimmy Caveney, San Francisco shortstop, leads the field with 1 doubles “Wee” Witte Kamm, San Fran. cisco third sacker, is the demon | slugger of the league, so far lead ing with four triples and a quartet | of home runs. He also leads in total buse hitting with 50, Billy Lane is easily leading the base stealers, having pilfered 14 al- ready Hughey High of Vernon leads the sacrifice hitters with eight Player, Chub Pet. . Oakland ne, Loe Angeles. Flaherty, San Fran Vernon SR weeks Sole tes cot SH en uuem-coucwunet Leverens, Sait Lake. Los Ang Ginglardi, Salt Lake.. ee Geary, Seattle Jordan, Sait Lak ‘Cook, Sacramento Biglin, Sait Lak a6} rt 204 24 292 289 200 4-381) One hundred and fifty-seven en-|\, The final score was 6 to 7 and as 3 “as |tries were turned in for the mect | Suit Lake was leading by a 2 to 0 2 286 llast year and it Is expecteg that | Count they needed that bingle, as Se. 19 das |O¥er 300 entry blanks will be turned | ttle scored three before the game 6 26 288 in for the second annual meet. hg yh to: | 1 285| The entry blanks should be| Al Desmaree pitched good ball out $12 Bf Jprougne either to the tennin depart | side of the fatal fourth, when he was | 7 sé ment of Piper & Taft's or should | touched up for six hits and six runs H be brought in or maiied to the}. R#in fell thruout the game and the s £§| sporting Editor of The Seattle Star. |*#!4 waa in such sloppy condition 3 367| There will be no entry fee for the | that the second half of the acheduled 2 245 |contestants in the meet. A big tro-|4Uble bill was not pid H peo |Phy list fs being made up and all|,Sit Lake— An. i 4 2 oe 257 of the winnerg and runners-up will mek 1 ry P z | be rewarded their efforts. ° ° M i ° i ee i ° K 1 1 413 o ° ey 1 2 ; iW . . et ‘ soi 19 L o 1 ry e ais $ o 1 e ee ° °° 14 32 doe Wilbolt not only produced the 1 o 6 a 1s winning crash in yesterday's ball ° 2 0 6 13 game, but he aiso tummed in the prise ° ae 4 ¢ 3 fielding bit of the day when he 1 2 0 23 picked Wistersil’s fly out of the air ry . 2 «| 4 with one hand. ° 2 0 4 — ° oe 12 20 Two games are_on the hooks for to-|; pute! : Ais 7 day, and another double bill je scheduled | rump ° o 0 no for Sunday, with the first tifts getting | gyarty, ry 1 4 Lore ; as under way at 1:30 each day | cramento } ; ; , “a 7 18 a Beattie. wit probabiy use Joe Daiteg| ogtatslt «: im olgnth tH and Ernie Schorr on the mound todan| 5) 4 with Bob Geary and Harry Gardner bav:| ftore by innings H ing the call for Sunday's toil Salt Lake 0006000006 5 Beattle 90001001 1-28 . Ban Francisco eat Summary: Struck out—Dy Demaree 2 7, Beatle . “4 by Reiger 2. Bases on ballp—Off De rug, Portiand 7 = | maree 1, off Swarts 1, off Hetzer 1. Twe- | tmson, Portiand .. H ttt field lonchere cm a line om bie [base hiis—Spencer, ielger, Kenworthy Portland Bemieon Home runs—Withalt, spencer, — Dow jer, Han H ; plays—Wisterall to Kenworthy to Mur He ees ¢ Brov - Frown to Miglin to Jourdan; Lane | Philadelphia Oakland FI Billy Lane threw out Brown at, th ¥ d hite—Aigtio, diliett, | NEW YORK, April 20.—The ad- Yance guard of the American ama- teur golf team will embark for Liver- pool today aboard the Cunard liner | Caronia Included inthe party will be Capt. William C, Fownes, Francis Ouimet, Bobby Jones, Dr. J. Wright, Jr., and J. Wood Platt. Miss Louise B. Elkins and Miss Gara A. Fownes, members of the women's team, will also make the trip on the Coronta. THUSS TORTURE can be eliminated by wearing the Tunaberg Hupture Support, We give free trial to prove its superiority. ‘A. LUNDBERG ZO. 4108 Third Avenue Beattie ulars are hitting | ing to The Star| | | that the pitchers | any the best of| the argument| during these early days of the Coast | Forest | ©. Watson, with a score of 77, w the qualifying round of the Jefferson Park golf club champ played on the municipal links last Saturday and young golfer, who just recently Joined the local club, was a of the Waverley team that defeated the “Big Four" fre Jefferson Park in the finals for the Davis cup at the Vancouver tournament last July His “77" last Sunday shows that he iv already at the top of his game and he should go pretty close to winning the title Gordon Haw, Clark Speirs and Harry Hjert came next to young Watson tn the order named, Sixty-four players took part in thie qualifying round of medal play. lalf of this number, that is, the 32 lowest scorers, © been placed en the championship flight. The 16 who lose their first round matches will constitute the first fight, The rest of the qualifiers have been grouped in second and third Mights, according to their medal scores. All flights, except the championship one, will be played on handicap, threequarters of the difference being allowed in strokes, The draw resulted as follows Champtonship Flight—Forest Watson ws. Jack Weber, J. McBain vs. RoR. Newman; H. R. Haakons va, Dr. 0. J. West; J. A. Snoddy vs. Dr. D. M. Houston; Gerald Hardy vs, ©. 8. Kellison; T. ©. Smith vs. J. G. Scott; FL F. Jackson wa W. A. Blair; W. D. Albright vs. Clark Speirs; Harry Hjert va. J Stevenson; W Schultheis vs. 4. G. Blake; Lee Hewitt vs, Dr. W. B. Power; KE. Gibeon ws, A. 4. Schoephoester; J. G. Pomeroy vs, Wm, Doran; C. F. Bridge vs. W. FE. Froade; PS. Ash va. Re D, Crook; K. 8S. Watts vs. Gordon Haw. Second Flight—A. Spencer vs, V. W. VanWinkle; W. H. Evers va. R. E. Capers; Rosset! Seartett ws. M. J. Galbraith; N. Porter vs, 1. D. Folsom; E. L. Orider vs. J. L. Rockwell; B. 1. Kerns va, K. 8. Moore; ©. W. Kidd vs, F. 8. Bayley; BE. LL. Donnell vs. T. 8. Third Plight—S. M. Friedman ws. Archie Sidney Phillips; James Kennedy ws. Ro F. Carter, ve C. F. MeKeehan; Wm. Enblers, jr, we. W. K. Rhodes ws. KE. T. Whitson; L. Cunningham vs, Chester King; Kirby Speyer ws. Stephen Dwan, All matches in the first round must be compicted by May &th; one week will be allowed for cach succeeding round. The interctub match between the Seattle and Victoria teams, played fn the Canadian city last Saturday, resulted in an easy victory for the Victorians by a 53 score, Sam Rumell, the local skipper, took over the strongest %6-man lineup that has represented the North End club for many years, but there's a something about that country that seems to—, well, anyway, Lee Steil and Capt. Russell were the only members of the squad to win three points. Victoria will come here for the return match some time in the fall.” Picking up balls and running away with them bs becoming such a» popular sport (7) with boys on the municipal course that the Board of Park Commisioners have been asked to have s policeman on the links om Saturdays and Sundays, The golfers—not the boys—have made the request. A few members of the Jefferson Park clob have had their handl- caps changed. The revised list has been posted in the elubhouse, STAR NET J joe ei Wilson, trainer of Georges Car pegter: ENTRIES “Carpentier will win because he @nd can hit just qs hard. Car pentier can keep away from the || then he'll go in and finish him. MONDAY || All the Americans who have seen Carpentier and know his En Monday for the sec-|| Tt! Mghting form pick him to knows more than Dempsey 3% | ond annual Star Woodland park ten || ¥!".” nis tourney, The entry blanks wil! [Tae tar of cam be procured trem! WILHOIT’S oA ag department of Piper & HOMER WINS ae} | |under way on May 23 and will con FOR BEES The regular tournament wif get sist of the regular five ev: nts, They 30: = {men’s 2 doubles, women's doubles and ‘ada: caw wine tee livery of th jJune 1. All of the matches will be | bases full. It was a real wal |played on the Woodland park | ttere was no doubt but what it was a Joo Wilholt, former Seattle out are: men's singles, women's singles, Tmixed doubles. The junior tennis | Salt Lake Mees, knocked Seattle out meet, open for all boys who have|% yesterday's ball game when he not reached their 18th birthday by | bolsted the apple over the right field March 1, 1921, will get under way | Wall in the fourth inning courts. | real hit. Bpencer Te nat be tine be brow, | Cunningham, ier. Wild pitch=-De on Bigiin’s fly, It was a b hrow, | Can Halk—-Swarts, Innings pitehed atey, | BY rune 6, bite 10, at bat 20. the | Re ponsile for—Demares 6, Swarts by 6, Reiger 3. Charge defont to Demaree headers. Time of gamo—145, Uppires—Byron pra and ‘Toman Mimer Tolger, former Soattie tonser, at reson pitched flosay ball for the visitors, and crashed out three hits and added a GOOD CARD sacrifice hit to his total for the day He pulled an awfur boner on the basen | tho, in the fo (ey tat whet he tried be oceapy TUESDAY second with Brown at the same time Monroe Swarts was trotted ont to ¥ touwie, Th * pitch for the Siwashes in the final Both Travie: Davis, th frame yeuterday. Me walked the first man, und then balked him to sec- ond, but that's ns far an the Heow mat welter ampion, and monich of But start training to for their bout Tuesday night at _ the Pavilion as the maim event of Roxy Middleton continued hin good|the new Cascade Athletic club's work. with the atick yesterday, “4nd | smoker. Pounded out a pair of hits, one’ being |” ‘ a seratehy, but @ hit neverthelens. The complete card has bi up by Matchmaker Jim Brick Bidred's throwing hand i stil! |The gest of the card in as on the bum. He has to wait for a torn nkle Hi ligament to heal is | eddie Neal va. k sud Manning; Bud TENNIS MATCH fi") cl ceuory **| POSTPONED The Broadway-Franklin tennis meet was postponed for the third time yesterday afternoon when rain | again drove (he players wo sheltes, EATTLE 8T ‘DODGERS HAVE STRONG BALL TEAM nate football season is the b }team of the University of Washing iger coach hyn baseball teams that haa ever played | junder the colors of the Purple and| The big factor in the University power of the collegians he stands a slim chance of landing Ja berth on the Allison team, is ebining brilliantly it anches of t d Gold team in not Hexides being a hard. | games and three conference games. No team it has met so far this sea ever forced it to the Hit | r a land judge, will answer ques-| in on the sam some of the best eemi-pro and ama. the Northwest International league Th : ; y all rneeien Pain ne | garding their dogs’ ailments.! |team handed CINCH FOR | the Conference the whole team breaks their On the regu tonference schedule Washington to meet the Oregon Age twice and Washington State college Washington keeps jelnch these games with ease, team, altho not Its strongest factor, any average Rode | baseball leagu of all the harder of picking a winner | Queen Anne defeated Frondway |noon the Stacy Shown team meets ench Dry Cleaners at Lin- The Loules| —_. . Batler, trefling and still fish- ins at out os of Lake Washing- on, caught 19 trout ranging from 11 to 18 inches. . fegular personnel ages to twirl the kind of ball that) Setzer and Rode Jare good twirlers and can stand the | against university batemen. Torrance, McMahon, Gardner, Ma conpistent hitters in ‘Varsity lineup, The other play- ers come thra with their hits regu- larly or they ane replaced by aome lone that can find the apple, ite first trip they journey to rvallis to play the Oregon Aggies and @hureday ‘then take the electric to Engene, lwhere they tackle the University of [Oregon nine Friday and Saturday, playing of the Washington tram t attracting the attention of | the good townspeople and some got }the regular dyedinthe-woot fans ar | Biesing their Coast league games to! [next week, when | trated. lan Francisco . | Cravath's ball team, & Rom and Baker Faeth and Bilte and Maldwin, Stanage ercceoo~ t San Francisco r) ‘ Alten and Koehte | the meet Characterizos every transacti t with sound busl- 4% Savings Accounts to Check Are Accounts Subject Cordially Invited ie va, Eddie Hammond; | AVE, AND PIKE ST, Peoples Savings Bank ‘Newbro's Herpicide| Harley tactile: Pr. Owl Drug €o., Special Agent Dr. Clayton to Arrive Here 12 noon, ‘The Pirates pie; att pm. om th Chandier’ pm. Woodland park Dr. Clayton, nationally|*"*""** known dog breeder, fancier} the o. ». w Puget Bound tions for The Star readers re- All questions should be ad-| dressed to the kennel depart-| watis walle ment of P |- - Datlerd by a 32 peore. The game was| Louie's F allied in the seventh inning on ac- | coln playfield at 3 p. m. grounders or pop-up flies to the out-|count of rain. The Quays found |are slight favorites to win the game| Harper bad the Oregon Ag Saunders for three runs in the first | because the Jewelers have weakened | c fig on thelr heads in the | inning ‘ second ‘ame ‘Iverson, Wrigh rre- two woeks ago. vont; Saunders a: wan the steady pitching of Nagam- bie for the lone of the game. starts at 2 p.m, R H B&B) ‘The other Star league game for 9 1 8 6] Sunday will also played in the south Ratterios: Butler and Aypher; Nege-‘end of the city. The South Seattle) One = Pateqeaitt. oe cote play the Washington Park Weat Beattie ..... Franklin Engin Léncoin beat Ballard on Adame) field by a %2 count In a close bat- Ue. An attempted rally by Mallard in the tast of the ninth was fru» R Hf | time Saturday and LAAGMD s -ccescepmnoggeesose ee ME Ot pear Ballard j Datterioe: Hesketh and Kana; Burgh NET PLAY ON Jnamed rocker are. performing on first base with Eddie Gorman, for- mer P. I. league tosser, at second. Ray French, former Seattle STRAND AND SWARTZ WITH Several fine league teams heave been games for fun- ‘The Queen Anne A Queen Anne Metogs ‘The Piret I Merchants play the U, | & Burnside on LAncoin playfield at i) p.m. | Mighiand Park meets the Apex club at playfield @ Rootery © Cubs at noon at Walla ‘The Fekart Cigue C6 South Fark Juniors ot South pany mt Beveral other fast games hot connected with The Btar bh been lined up by Spalding also. Royal Arcanum pinay the Latona Mer- chants at 12 on the upper grounds lien ae pe North Park plays the St. Joseph's t at 12 noon on the Woo | The Queen Anne Merchants play the Interbay Merchants at 2 p.m, 1 at noon, ‘FOUR STAR LEAGUE SUNDAY | " Bill Rivey, after — Four bigh class games are bitled| 2 Bn, Tyres 1s Te sete] Two unpredicted upsets in yester-|for The Star league Sunday, Th | snagged cight nice bass He says it is |day's games gummed up thé prep|four teams in Class A class tangle |« lovely place to go and camp. and it makes the Job |and two games are billed in Qlase 3 i‘ epee In the feature game of the after considerably since the opening game. n 8 #.| The Stacy Shown team beat the Dry - Cleaners 64 when these teams met Witte ‘The Phree Brothers Dye Works, the only Class A Star league team) Mr. Mafinson sent fn for display In the other upset of the after-|that has never met defeat, meets the | Laks Boon, West Seattle walked over the |strengthened Shamrox Athletic club Franklin outfit and beat them by a! nine. The game will be played at $1 score. The feature of the game | Jefferson park at 2:30. ‘The Youngstown Athletic club, a tnie of Franklin and Butler of West | new addition to Claas B of The Star Beattie. Not a single earned run | jeagua, will play their first game of was made duting the contest. Loose | the season against the Rainier Ath- fielding by Franklin, was responst | tetic club at Youngstown. The game | streams Shieh, ef course, will be tem-|Tace, was to appear with the Colts at South Beattle. The game ts slated to start at 12 noon. ‘The entry bianks for the games Sunday were put in the mail late.| ghe Vernon Tigers, 1920 cham- and any manager not receiving them | whould drop into The Star office some THE BUSHERS | ‘The Yeomen piay the 6 No pareti lock play at Hiawa Cubs at Buquamish Kverett at Port Orchard. erton, The Keanydalo at Kennydale. piay the home talent. om the . ddl Werd, | | | | anahe | | Edmonds at Edmonds, |The Postoftice plays the Mikado at| The Mt Taker park team plays the Manitoa park team of Tacoma at Tacoma. A. FRY Sutherland 12, rumning from § from 16 Cre Taft's, affect the lakes. of the champions has just been shot. SOLD The finals of the University of | player, is at shortstop with iw | 5 Washington tennis tourney will be; Smith at third Manager Kenworthy must turn| Played May 12 and the four high| Chadbourne, High, Edington, “ men will comprise the tennis team | Long and one Siwash player looxe by tonight to come within the 20-player team |for thie season, limit Sunday. The team will meet Along with that comer word that | nity of Oregon Been, Strand is an) outfielder and |¢ in nicely with Manager “Cactus | Stanford four at Swartz, the Seaitle squad is downjon May 23 or 24, to 21 players and another will be} ‘The university tennis tournament sold or released by tonight. It/started ‘Westneaiay, will probably of Bill Stumpf or Carter oy : " re WRIGHT TO BOX HAYNIE HUNTOON LEADS NEW PIN LEAGUE) biny ween, Harry Huptoon ts leading the in-| Weight, who ranked as dividual scores in the new City|man of his weight about bowling league. Huntoon's average | et year, ts geting started when he} ix 209 and ts closely followed by| Ting again next Strong with 201 lead in the ThreeMen league and are ch FROSH-SOPH |," "2%, wu MEET TODAY Barry head the card. ‘The annual all-city freshmen-sopho- | more track meet was to be held this afternoon at Denny field, on the Unt versity of Washington campus, Seven schools were to compete in ‘The first event was to start at 1:30, rey Saving the | hairy, .on the’ “Head of the House’ ® siti member of the’ ‘family Herpicide will help.. ALL:MEN SHOULD USE Barbers Apply lt-Drugijiste Sell It | Eugene Monroe Swartt and Paul Strand) May 19 and will compete with the | have been sold to the Salt Lake/|teams from all of the Pacific Coast | Shellenback, Love, Mitchell, Dell, beginning May | Smatiwood, Fromme and Shore play the! make up the heaving corps. The series probably won't open inference schools, Swarts fs a pitener and should fit} 20. Then the team will | the university on |May 22 and will probably meet the | until Wednesday. With the selling of Strand and| University of California team here the this time | boxes Frankie Haynie ely followed by the Elec-| When ho returned he was trie Co. trio. by Johnny MeCarthy and aren been fighting much since. Keonomy and Gr two un n favor Motoreyele—for w it's the chea ik in and rido out or get @ copy all makes ! should interest every at’ moneyeanying prices and on ing In the outfield. the Univer-| “Truck”. Hannah and Murphy are doing the catching, with Han- nah doing the bulk of @he work. weiter: | is keen riv after that he was outclassed. | BIG Eu jard Baries play the Wooamen | p At Adama field at 12 noon. | ‘The Batlard Merchants play the noleh boring Fremont outfit at Adama at (ir8en ° Commercial club at Green Lake at 2 | South Park and Fahey-Brockmen vier | the Halnier Cube | et Gouth Park at % p.m. ‘alin Walla No. 2 | The West fide Merchants ha th) Penn's relay carnival, which broke Keveral out-of-town games have on the Asahi! been lined ap by Spaldii alla No, & The Asahi play the Fverett Bika at ‘Tailored Ready play Port Orchard jevents of card load — ‘The Alhambras play the Bremerton | a oe “4 ettisie:,. | Ps bernt eet own, ‘The Magnotio Orietes play the fap- | prt) tibermians meet Port Townsend at ply Laundry at 2 p,m. on the same | | fore afternoon. A muddy track may grounds. | The 140th Field Artillery plays |18 FEATURE Bhaner & Wolff journeys to Renton to |mile college relay championship Fort Lawton plays Port Ward at Fort ‘The Georgetown Merchants play |can mile combination to believe would have an easy time get 14 treet lest Fri- lake with dry flies, nice big ones, ranging if run in the dark C, Ball brought tm from Lake | | to go for a new mark this year, W. R. Nelaon, on Lake Wilderness, had from |againet him will be Alberta of i nds. The trout /nois; Brown of Dartmonth; Mur specimen f Allen Woodrtw®, who became Recent rains will tend to ratse the TIGERS MAKE ONLY BOW NEXT WEEK pions, will bake their only bow of} the Coast league season here next ytain a duplicate. week, The Vernon club has a great hurling staff, but the infield Schneider are perform ‘BREMERTON TOSSERS PLAY The Bremerton Elks will play the pick of the’ navy yard Saturday at Athletic park. Sunday the Elks will jtake on the strong Alhambra team from Seattle at Athletic park, There Iry between the Elks and best | the Alhambras, and a large crowd of colored folks will take the trip to in the/| the Navy Yard city to root for their team. Both Saturday's and Sunday's in the semi-| game start at 2:30. , i r |windup at Tacoma, Wright went snk es The Three Old Birds have the) windup a year and was taken il,| SPRACUSE, N. Y., April 30.— licked | “Battling” Levinsky was too cun- hasn't | ning for Wild Bill Reed of Arizona If Billy| here last night, the East Side He- make ‘em all| brew winning in 12 rounds. and Jim/|first two round Reed did. well, but CARNIVAL CLIMAX TODAY — BY HENRY L. FARRELL PHILADELPHIA, April 39 out yesterday a» wholesale producer of records, promised another output of new athletic marks on Vrankiin field this afternoon in the Poor weather seemed to be the only condition that could prevent new marks in the 126yard hurdles, the high jump, the one-mile and the two-mile college relays, the feature esting numbers. It was raining this morning with little prospect of it clearing up be |be the result. ONE-MILE RELAY Topping the program ta the which the French team will against 17 great American wi ties, including Minnesota, Notse Dame, Columbia, Chicago, Georgetown, Kansas, Harvard, sas Aggies, Missouri, Penn Syracuse, Nebraska, Ohio Perhisylvania, Wisconsin and nots. % The rather poor showing of the French team, which barely fi fourth in the sprint mediey day, did not lead any of the of the Parisians, Perbaps the greatest exhibition of the afternoon will be furnished the 120-yard hurdles, when Thompson of Dartmouth, record holder for the distance the Olympic champion, meets Har Barron of Penn State, who ran om heels all the way in Antwerp summer. THOMPSON HOLDS RECORD Thompson made the world of 14 2-5 seconds in the relay val last year and he has been Olympic champion on the card. He established a new Olympic mark im the high jump at Antwerp. Ji of Notre Dame; Osborn of Ills e of Nebraska and Ch and Archer of Virginia, Olympic 200-meter ¢hampion hy. ing Charley Paddock in a cuse team as anchor man in the mile relay championship, He run the last quarter. i.) card includes other Feist fey Shame chi pres em a championship, t South Atlantic intercollegiate A, one-mile championship, the college freshman championship, one-mile high school champ — the four-mile college chaz ship. FRANKLIN FIELD, Phil: April 30—One world’s record four relay records fell here at the opening of the 27th Pennsylvania relay carnival. Gus Desch, Notre Dame, set @ world’s mark when he ran the yard hurdles tn 53 4-5 seconds, France's team proved a ment in the sprint mediey race, t featute of the program, by fi fourth, behind Pennsylvania, ette and Princeton, Another surprise came Nightingale, West Virginia, of the sensational 37-mile year, was beaten by Buker, of college. Bob Legendre, Georgetown, was easy winner in the Pentathlon CROSS MAKES COMEBACK Leach Cross, the New York tist, made an impressive in the ring {n Portland the night when he fought a draw Joe Gorman, the hard-hitting jander And Cross was with having the better of seven the 10 rounds ‘Take Fourth Avenue Oars Reserved Seats at 3138 Areade Vhone Main 3001 IN THE SPRING Men put seed in the ground that they may reap the harvest in the Fall. . In the vernal season of life the wise man t, fa or woman puts dollars in the bank that ; they may yield abundance for the Autumn of declining years, Let our Savings Department help you save. Open 6 to 8 Saturday Evenings. The largest resources of any Bank in Washington Second Avenue at Columbia