The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19


 Lovers of clean athletics and the honest rivalry of contest-the people of Birning- ham,
 How the residents of the Magic City patronize baseball is a byword. They do not demand (and past history proves iD winning team. An aggregation able to land every now and then would draw better in Birmingham than in any other city of the Southern league
 With baseball team fighting near the top, Birmingham people would camp around the diamond for the fear that some morsel of dope might escape them.
 Colleges appreciate how readily people of Birmingham will turn loose the coin in return for a moments excitement, and each season finds the city the scene of an almost innumerable list of football scrimmages
 Alabama makes Birmingham it's head quarters and Auburn visitT us several times a season. Howard and Birming- ham play their games here, of course, and it has happened that teams having no earthly claim on the affection of this place pitch their tents here and draw their share of patrons.
 Birmingham is the home of numerous golfers who have made their way to the front of the Southern Golf association.
 At each tournament the squad repre- senting this city is 8 big and healthy one, and one which generally gets its share of the glory. George Oliver and best.
 The game is popular here. and the num- Der of its players increases every sea son. The golf course, while too short at the present time to admit of a champion ship tournament. is one of the best in the. south, and is being extended.
 Blrmingham's Gun club, for several sea- sons past, has attracted attention throughout the country Last summer. as is remembered, the club issued a chal- ienge to the other organizations of the south, but no 10 men would meet the 10 Of Birmingham's best This challenge Is still good, and a side bet of S1OO a gun is not an unattractive feature. The win ner's expenses will bo paid, at any rate
 The club has entertained the Interstate association in it's southern handicap. and one of it's members, John Livingston. came within one of walking away with the honors. A large squad will attend the southern handicap in Columbus, Ga. May g. 3, 4, and will doubtless be in the running. John Warren and John Living ston, among others, are in splendid form this season and no surprise would result
 
 Track athletics basketball and other indoor sports have received gree. impetus in recent years at the hands of the mem oers of the Birmingham Athletic club Snd Young Mems Christian association. Last year the team of the former institution won the championship of a league Of strong institutions which then existed.
 Howard and Birmingham college ma terially aid In developing the athletic bump on the heads of the people, and the Birmingham High school and with other similar institutions each season have their football, baseball and basket ball squads.
 And next month Birmingham entertains the southern division of the Amateur Athletic union!
 This is much bigger and better than it sounds.
 It means that every college and every | city in the south will have it's represen- tatives on the ground. It means that Birmingham will be in the national eye as long as the meet continues, for the records made here will go In the national athletic year book.
 For landing the meet, the Birmingham Athletic club. Sam Sturgeon, Ewing Echute. Professor Miles and the re- mainder deserve great credit.
 Some of these days, tooYthe 1000 Bir- mlngham automobilists will wake up and build an auto road in and around Bir- mingham.
 This city could well afford to entertain some of the great performers of the country. Oldfeld. Strang, Christie and others have driven here and records established here are still unbroken.
 Nothing more than a big auto race could advertise Birmingham or do it so well. H.. W. R.