The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
Schedule for Month Includes Annual Clash of Y,M.C,i.
 and Athletic Hub
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By BURR BLACKBURN

The basketball season closes in Bir- mingham, March Il and F with the championship series of the south between Mobile, Vanderbilt and Columbus, but in the intervening month. the schedule will be fast and furious
 Saturday night the Athletic club en- tertains the Atlanta Athletic club. Bes- semer has challenged the Birmingham Y. NJ. c. A. to play a deciding game on neutral floor, and the Athletic club has offered both teams the use of its floor between the halves of the Atlanta game Saturday night. It will be remem- bered that in the early part of the sea- son Bessemer defeated the association in Bessemer a5-30. Last week the associs- tion turned the tables in Birmingham, 4s-21. If both these games are arranged the crowd at the club Saturday night will certainly have a rare treat.
 Tuesday of next week, February 9, the Athletic club plays Columbus, Ga. This fast little team is now making trip in the Carolinas playing seven games in ten days, and will wind up the trip in Birmingham. Even should Columbus drop one or two games on this strenu- ous trip, it will hardly interfere with her claims on the southern championship, un- less she fails to accept the challenge of Mobile and Vanderbilt
 Friday, February a. Wake Forest, N. c. will go up against the Athletic club.
 The Athletic club and the Young Mems Christian association got together Satur- day night, and finally set the dates for the great annual contest between these two local aggregations. The first game had been tentatively set for February p, but when Columbus asked for this date with the club, another had to be decided upon. Counter attractions prevented date this week. so the games had to go over into March. The first will be played at the Y. M C. A. on Wednesday. March g. and the second at the Athletic club on Tuesday, March S. Should neither team win two games, the third will probably be pulled off on Thursday, March 10, at q place to be decided later.
 Southern Championship
 As a grand finale for the basketball season comes the southern championship series to be played at the Young Mems Christian association Friday and Satur- day March Il and F. At the present time, the championship honors undoub- tedly belong to either Vanderbilt, Co., lumbus or Mobile.
 Vanderbilt has cleaned up everything in Tennessee, and has unchallenged title north of the Tennessee line. The Com modores made a southern trip on which they lost to Columbus by few points, won from Mobile by one point, wiped up Montgomery, and on the fourth night de- feated the Birmingham Athletic club.
 Columbus is the only squad which has defeated Vandy, has not lost a game so far this season, and has every reason to claim the championship. Mobile lost to Vandy by one point, but Maiden, one of the best forwards in the south, was out of the game. Mobile has piled up the biggest scores this year ever made by q single team in the south. Ninety four points against the Birmingham Y. N. C: A., 60 against Montgomery, and 72 against New Orleans are fair samples. But Mobile has not been seen away from home as yet, and must prove her su- pren1acy the foreign field.
 Birmingham Neutral Ground
 In order to give Birmingham the great est series of basketball ever witnessed in the south, the Birmingham Y. M. c. A. has undertaken to get these three teams together on the association floor. which is the nearest to regulation size in the south.
 Mobile and Vanderbilt have both agreed to come. March Il and F have been set as the dates Before leaving on his trip last week. ". l.. Dowd of Columbus was uncertain about getting his team off at that time, but 1t is thought that the diff ferences can be settled, and the royal battle come off as scheduled.
 On the first night Columbus and Van derbilt will mix up. As a preliminary, Mobile and the local association will play their southern Y. M. c. A. league game.