The age-herald., 1901-02-10
TWO TEAMS CLAIM
 CATCHER HARLOW First Hitch in Southern Baseball
 Association SCHEDULE TO BE ARRANGED Committee Will Soon Meet in Memphis. Manager Mills Talks of the Local
 Ball Team and Matters
 In General.
SCHEDULE TO BE ARRANG ICED

The first hitch in the Southern Baseball Association has occurred. and it is probable that the arbitration committee will be called upon to settle the question at issue. The contention is over Catcher Harlow of the Birmingham team, Manager Finn of Little Rock also claiming him.
 On January 22 Harlow signed the contract to play with Birmingham during the com ing season. and returned it to Manager Mills. About a week later Manager Finn sent in his claim list to President Kent and among the players claimed was Harlow. Finding that Harlow was under contract to play on the Birmingham team, Manager Finn of Little Rock appealed to President Kent to award the player to him.
 MT. Kent has not announced his decision in the matter but 1t is probable that he will finally decide that Birmingham is en- titled to the services of the player in dis pute. Unless he does so decide Manager Mills says he will take the matter before the arbitration committee.
 Harlow is said to be one of the best catchers signed by any club in the South ern Association, and a valuable man to have on the team.
 Schedule Committee.
 The schedule committee will have its re- port ready for submission to the associa- tion the latter part of this month, and 1t is probable that President Kent will call a meeting of the association to be held in Memphis about February "A for the purpose of adopting the schedule. It is expected that the season will open on May and close October l, thus providing for 126 games to be played by each team That will give 63 games at home and 63 games away from home.
 "All of the different teams in the league seem to feel as though they had the pen- nant won," said Manager Mills of the Bir- mingham team yesterday. q am satisfied to let them think so as the pennant is won on the field and not in the newspapers My impression has always been that newspaper teams have almost invariably failed to give satisfaction to the public at large. I feel safe in saying that Birmingham will have team that she will not regret While am not making any predictions as to where my team will land I feel sure we will be heard from before the curtain rings down on October 1st.
 All of the teams excepting Atlanta and Little Rock are about completed and there seems to be a lot of good material on all of them but before June 1 some these so- called pennant winners will have to eat a dish of crow or I am mistaken"
 The Local Team.
 Manager Mills has signed fifteen men and only lacks first baseman to complete his team It is not his intention to carry over twelve men during the playing season, but he will start out with four extra men in order to provide for emergencies that may arise, and also to enable him to have the pick of larger number of men in making up his regular team
 President Kent of the Southern Baseball Association is one of the best baseball or ganizers ever in the South. He has had large experience with baseball leagues in the west having organized two or three in recent years and conducted them through successful seasons. He is at present chief clerk to his father who is general manager of the Chattanooga Southern Railroad with office in Chattanooga, Tenn. He worked hard for the organiza tion of the Southern Association and has devoted a good portion of his time since the meeting held in this city on October 20th to the business of the association. He has visited nearly every city in the association since January 1st and is familiar with the conditions in each.