The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-14

| The coming week is the last one m tne
 preliminary season of the Grammar
 School baseball tournament and will be
 8 strenuous one for the majority of the | teams During the past week several Of
 the contests had to be postponed on ac-
 count of the Griggs lectures at the High
 School. The teams thus postponing games
 not only have to make these contests
 up during the coming week, but also have | to play their regularly scheduled games
 Several schools also have postponed | games hanging over their heads all of
 which must be played off this week in order to determine which teams shah
 play the semi-final games next week. It is the plan of the schedule commit
 tee to have the winners of the western
 and northern divisions meet, and those or
 the eastern and southern divisions meet,
 and thus decide which two teams shall
 play the final championship contest. The
 committee is going to try and secure
 Redwood Park for this final game, and
 should Rick woodward, by his eyer-know
 generosity, grant this privilege to the youngsters of Birmingham, it can be de- pended upon that the stands and bleach ers>will be crowded to overfiowing. It Is
 hardly expected that any obstacle will
 interfere with this plan, for it has all
 ways been evident that the powers that | be behind the local baseball association
 have always been ready to stand behind
 and encourage the game among the
 youngsters of Birmingham The details or
 this contest and the semi-finals have not
 been worked out, but will be ready for
 publication in next Sundays Age-Herald. l The race in the various divisions of
 the Junior League has been close affair
 throughout, and it Is next to impossible
 to pick the teams that will meet in either the semi-finals or finals. In the eastern
 division Woodlawn seems to have the ao-
 vantage, although she may lose out in
 the contests scheduled for the coming
 week. The race in the southern division is a close and interesting one. At pres-
 ent Lakeview is in the lead. and should
 she be able to win from Powell this week
 will clinch the championship in the south
 ern section. Should Powell happen to
 reverse matters tie-up will result.
 | Martin seems to have the bulge on the
 teams in the northern end, and so far has
 a clean record She has one more game | to play with East Birmingham, and If
 she is able to win this contest will finish
 the season with clean record. The boys
 from Martin school deserve great credit | for the spirit and showing which they
 have exhibited this year. The race In the
 western section has been close affair
 between Moore and Bush, but Moore's
 victory over Bush last week about fixed
 the championship in favor of the boys | from Prof. Morgan's school.
 | In the Senior League the contests In
 the various divisions have been equally as interesting and close. Powell appears to have had an easy time in the eastern section, and will about finish with a clean record. The championship in the south l ern section is as yet an unsettled ques- tion Both Lakeview and Vocation are putting up hard fight for it, and it will not be decided until the last game is played Whichever one wins, however,
 can be depended upon to give Powell hard run in the semi-finals.
 | What is true of the southern division | ig also true of the northern for Martin
 and North Birmingham have been having
 a hard fight throughout the entire season Should North Birmingham slip up in It's game with Avondale, Martin will in all probability be the one to represent thls | division in the semi-fnals. The contest | in the western division is as yet an unset tied affair with Minor and Bush nip and | tuck after it., The contests this week | will decide which team Is to play the win
 ners in the northern division for the
 privilege of playing at Redwood park. | On account of the big principals meet | ing which is to be held at the High school next Friday, all games scheduled
 for that date will be played on Thursday l instead. 2 Principles and a managers of
 teams should make note of this fact and see that all games are played off by this
 date. Following is a complete schedule | for the final week. | Eastern Divsion-May 17: Postponed
 games to be played off; Gibson vs. Wood | lawn, at Woodlawn; Gibson ivs. Robinson,
 at Robinson. May 1T: Barrett vs Gib-
 son at Gibson; Woodlawn vs. Robinson, 1 at Robinson. ,sl
 Southern Division-Postponed games which must be played. none May 1T: South Highland vs. Uliman; Powell vs Lakeview, at Lakeview.
 l Northern Postponed games which must be played off: North Bir- minzham vs. Kingston. at Kingston May i7, East Birmingham vs Martin, at Martin: Kingston vs. North Birming- l ham, at North Birmingham.
 | Western Division-Postponed games must be played off this week. May 15: Bush vs. Wylam. at Wylam; Moors va Pratt. at Moore; West End vs. Minor, at Minor. May IT: Bush vs. West End. at Bush; Fairview vs. Pratt, at Pratt. Aex N Nylsna ys.s REests # Pratt r. Sdou-