The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
MANAGER JORDAN
CUTS DOWN TEAM
Thirteen Regulars viii Be Used
In Coming Season
BETTER MEN FOR THE GAME
Jordan Believes That Fewer Good
Men viii Be of More Value Than
Larger Number of Poorer
Playing Ability.
BY PERCY WHITING.


Atlanta, January Especial -Thir-
teen regulars for the Atlanta team this
var, after tn eseason gets going. That's
the limit.
In an effort TO stick inside the salary
limit and yet to have high class ball
players, Manager Otto Jordan Will cut
his team down to thirteen performers.
OF course he does not claim to be the
inventor of this scheme OF getting a
high class team at medium price.
Charley Frank was the first who pulled
1t off in the south and he has done fair
ly well with 1t, though he hasn't won
any pennants since he inaugurated 1t.
OF course, thirteen men necessitate a
team made up of two catchers, four
pitchers. four inhe1ders and three out
helders.
1t remains to be seen whether or not
Jordan will get away with it," Thir-
teen men isn't many-not with spik es
and sprained ankles, and sore wings
abroad in the land. But. anyhow. Otto
is going to chance 1t.
While Manager Jordan is planning
how to make $4,000 team stick for
$4,000, President J. w. Heisman is d.
recting the forces at work at Ponce De
Leon.
Two Teams Working Every Day at
Ponce De Leon" was recent scare
head on an Atlanta sport page. And it
told the truth. But the teams men,
Toned were mule teams and were busy
with the preliminary work of undertii i.
ing and "turtling'' the Atlanta diamond.
Several hundred dollars will be spent to
make complete and artistic job of this.
Heisman's Score Board.
President Heisman is also planning a
new score oard. Last year he had the
most elaborate one in the south, but the
new one will be even larger and more
complete than the old, which, by the
way, was transformed into kindling by
a recent storm.
The new score board will be modelled
along the lines of the old one. The only
striking change will be that the names
of the players will not appear ON the
score boards. but instead certain num-
bers. The players of every team in the
league will be numbered at the first of
the season and will keep their own
numbers through the year. The key to
the men represented by the numbers
will be furnished by the score cards.
These will contain each day the num-
bers of the home and visiting teams. In
that way the number puzzle of the score
board will be solved. OF course, this
arrangement will mean that every
patron who wishes to keep up must
have a score card, but as these are dis
tributed free the public will have no
kick and the people who advertise on
the card will be benefited.
Techs New Score Board.
And speaking of score boards, the
Tech carpenters will begin right after
the Christmas holidays to build a new
football score card, the first really elab-
crate board of its kind In the south.
This board will be 80 or 40 feet long and
Will be divided into big spaces, SO that
the words and figures flashed from 1t
can easily be seen by the spectators.
The stand will be placed along the
north side of the Ponce De Leon foot
ball field, facing the stands.
In prominent figures it will show the
score. Near it will be a legend. Run
made by" and then blank, to be filed
in, not by the players name, but by
number, the mea ming of which can bs
learned by REFER ing to the score cards.
This run made hv" blank will only be
filed in the case OF run of some
length or brilliancy. The distance
gained by each play will be recorded.
So will the number OF each man who
makes a score. A place will be re-
served for the names Of the referee.
umpire. field judge and head linesman.
The length Of the halves will also be
shown. Part OF the board will be paint
ed to show a miniature field and on this
field a ball will be suspended and
moved up and down to indicate its rela-
tive position on the gridiron- Taking
it all in all. 1t will be one of the finest
football score boards in the country.