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pitched on the baseball team.
Alvin Browne, with the Jemison Real
Estate company, is probably the greatest
athlete ever turned out by the univer-
sity of the south. Chigger, as he is com
monty known throughout the south
played quarterback on the gridiron teams
of 1903. 1869 and 1910. He is acknowl-
edged by sporting authorities as being
the greatest quarterback who ever played
in the south. In 1909 and 1910 he was
unanimously selected as all-southern
quarter. It was his seneralship that en-
abled Sewanee to trim Vanderbilt in 1909
and win the S. l. A. A. championship
Chigger also played baseball in 1905. 1909
1910; basketball in 1863 and was a member
of the track team in 1909.
Fred p. Cheape local agent for the
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
company, is another Sewanee star. He
played guard on the 1906. 1907 1908 and 1909
! football teams of that institution, and in
the latter year was picked as an all
southern man.
, Virginia Is Represented
The University of Virginia has three
able representatives in DR.. A. B. Harris,
| Herbert Tutwiler and Edward Tutwiler.
! DR.. Harris played tackle and guard on
| the football teams of Virginia in 1898,
| 1899, 1900 and 1901. In the three latter
years he was pick as an all-southern
man. Both of the Tutwilers were also
| pigskin warriors.
The University of Alabama may well be
| proud of her representatives in Birming
| ham. For these men have made good
| both as athletes and also as business
men.
| William Vaughan, with the Massa-
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance company,
| caught for the Crimson and White base
| ball teams of 1907 and 1905
Anglin White and Judge Nesmith are
| both former baseball and football stars.
| o. T. Gresham, with the Alabama Build
| ing Loan association, was one of the
| best athletes ever turned out by Ala
| bama. In 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910 he was
one of Alabama $ thin red line and was
cal ptan of the team in the latter year. He
| also played baseball in 1907, 1908, 1909 and
| 1910 In 1909 and 1910 he was an all
southern man in both football and base
| ball
Fred Moore, of the greatest uni
versity pitchers. is a prominent young
| lawyer here
| Charles Greer, member of the edi-
| torial staff of The Age Herald, was one
| of the greatest southpaws who ever
| twirled for Alabama. In 1905 1909. 1910
and 1911 he was dean of the pitching corp
and it was his left arm which captured
| the s. |. A. A. championship in 1863. In
| lJil He was plCheu dS all dll-SOutn
man.
Among the Others
John Cox, a young lawyer, halls from
Georgia. He played football in 1908, 1909
and 1910 And baseball in 1909 and 1910.
| In the latter year he was the al1-southern
third baseman.
Walter Hood. another lawyer, played
| baseball with Washington and Lee in
| 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910 In 1910 he cap
| tanned the team.
j. H. Willis is also a Washington and
| Lee alumni He was on the 1907 nine.
| DR.. F.. l.. Whitman. a dentist lines
man of the Vanderbilt football team of
| 1909
| Mat Murphy, young attorney, is a
| graduate of Virginia. He played on the
| gridron teams of that school in 1906, 1907,
| 1908 and 1909.
| William STREET, Jr, who is with Jeffer-
| son Brick Supply company, is an old war
rior of both Auburn and Washington and
| Lee. In 1908, 1904, 1905 and 1906 he played
| on Auburn's gridiron team and was a
member of the track team in 1903, 1904,
| 1905 and 1906. He also played basketball
| in 1904 1905 and 1906 In 1907 and 1908 he
played football at Washington and Lee
and was captain both years. He was also
captain of the track and basketball teams
in 1908.
e. Cation an instructor in the Unver-
sity High school, is a football star of
Auburn. He played center in 1908, 1909 and
1910 and was all-southern in the latter
year. He is considered by Mike Donahue,
the Auburn coach, as the greatest center
who ever played for Auburn.
j. S. Counselman, professor of mathe-
mates i'm the Central High school, is
former pigskin warrior of the Virginia
Polytechnic institute. He was fullback
on the 1900, 1901. 1902. 1903 and 1904 foot
ball teams of that school. and was an all
southern man of the South Atlantic as
sociation in 1902 and 1903 In 1905 he was
assistant coach at Georgia Tech. He is
also a tennis expert.
John Davis, with William Weston &
Co., is a graduate of Auburn. He played
football in 1908. 1909, 1910 and 1911 and was
an all-southern in 1905, 1910 and 1871.
Completing the First
Several other business men of Birming-
ham hail from the University of Ala
bama, among them are Neil former
football player; Big Simmes. who played
tackle on the gridiron teams of 1906 and
1907.
Paul B. Jones, who played football in
1905, 1906 and 1907 and baseball in 1903. and
w. V. NJ. Robertson. VINO was on Ala
bama's track teams of 1908. 1909 and 1910.
In 1910 he won the all round champion
ship of the university.