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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

New York, January T.-England
chances of defeating America in the first
international contest of 1914 will be un-
Usually good when the oxford universiti
four mile relay team competes at the
University of Pennsylvania meet at
Ere 1l,olin Field April 20. according to the
present plan the oxford quartet will con-
sist of four runners, who, when consid-
cred as a team, are not equalled in the
collegiate world today. Arnold N. S,
jackson, winner of the 1500-meter race
at the Olympic games OF 1912, will cap
tain the team. His first lieutenant win be
Norman S. Tabor, Rhodes scholar from
Brown university, winner of the 1918 A. A.
L. mile championship and number of
American intercollegiate titles. G. M
sproule, captain of the oxford cross coun-
try team and Rhodes scholar from Aus
tralia, will be third man, while Basil
Rudd of South Africa, also holder of
Rhodes scholarship, VIII complete the
team.
1t thus happens that by a peculiar CO.
incident oxford has a quartet of mile run
ners drawn from the four corners of the
world. every one of which can\run the
laile in 4 minutes 20 seconds or better.
All have figured prominently in the fall
sports of the English university and be-
cause of their varied experience in ma
tional and International competition, will
form most formidable team both from
the point of time and steadiness.
Jackson and Tabor Best
Jackson and Tabor have repeatedly run
the mile between 4.15 and 40 and are ex-
cellent judges of pace and squirt. Rudd
was originally half-miler, with record
of 1.56, but has shown the speed and en-
ddranee necessary for the mile in the
longer trials. Sproue is long distance
winner for whom the mile is an easy run
and he possesses burst of speed at the
finish that makes him appear like a
sprinter in the final 100 yards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
v. & |. FIVE HAS n
IS GAMES TOPLAy

Lexington, Va, January 17.-(Spe-
tion has turned up in Washington and
Lee athletics. Manager Barker of the
basketball team scheduled his quintet
to meet 13 opponents and Manager L.
tests for the White and Blues dia-
mond representatives shows that the
season is to open on March 23. Buck =
nell has the honor of playing the first
game on Wilson field. The Bucknell
cCllegians play here on March "a as
well as on the skddoo date of the
month of winds. Swarthmore is due
here on March 27, Vermont on March
80. Richmond on April 2, " p. l. on
April 4, Lafayette on April and Z. Le-
high on April 3 and 10, Penn State
on April IL, Johns Hopkins on April 13,
St Johns on April IA, A. and NJ of
North Carolina on April 81, Trinity on
April 23 and "a and Wake Forest on
April 81.
Games away from home are at Rich :
mond With Richmond college on April
IS, at Durham with Trinity on April
! II and at Raleigh with a. and NJ OF
North Carolina on April IS.
Washington and Lees baseball cap
tain is +. A. Donahue of Somerville
Mass. and he also is the leader of
the 914 football team. which will be
coached by Elcock, one of DARTMOUTH
greatest tackleA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
SUTTON HAS ADOPTED
NEW STYLE OF PLAY

Chicago, January 17.--(Special )-George
Suttons secret is out. He let it out him
self one night last week. during spell
Of intense enthusiasm caused half hour
before through splendi- victory over
his townsman, Calvin femarest. Sutton
has just finished ating Demarest by tn.
decisive score of A 3 to 143 in an exhihi-
tion match of 1872 balklne billiards at
the Hamilton club.
Sutton is a theorist. Every year he
has a theory which, If it materalizes, is
going to bring him back to his old form
and make him champion of the world one,
more. Last year it was the Ives mush-
room tip he was using the year before
1t was something else and each time the
theory was exploded But listen to his
latest and most astonishing theory:
1t is that he is the renearnation OF
those dead idols of the game-Jac N
Schaefer and Frank (Napoleon) Ives. Sut
ton did not answer his questioner in III,
words used herein. lie did not actually
say that he was the reincarnation of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
THE OXFORD CLUB
REGA|NS GID BOAT
Barge That Was ROwed in
the First Race Cam
bridge Recovered

London, January 1.-THE Oxford Uni.
veIsity Boat club has regained possession
Of the rowing barge in which the oxford
crew of 1929 rowed and won the first inter
varsity race against Cambridge university
on the Thames river near oLndon on June
10 1929. The boat, which is 45 feet long
apc IA feet inches wide at the mid
die, is constructed of nine streak or lap
boards, a keel and a Gunwale y long
plank runs the length of the center of the
boat and thwarts are supported by single
upright iron stays. The heavier material
is spruce the smaller ibis ash, and the
mair timbers oak. The thowl pins are
narrow and the oarsmen sat at the eX-
II cme opposite end of the seat in rowing
The boat was used for number of sue
ceedng races, and some 10 years later was
stored in an old boathouse at oxford as
unfit for further use. In 1S41 Sir Robert
Meizies. then a student and oarsman at
oxford, purchased the boat and had it
Slipped to Loeb RannocK. There the his
tcric grandfather Of all racing shells re-
maj1ied until his DEATH when it was sold
with other relics of Castle Menzies. Thus
after several years the primitive racing
craft has returned to the scene of its ear
lier triumphs and history making.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
MANAGERIAL ROSTER FOR
1914 IS ALMOST ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT FROM 1918 ONE
Five Changes Occurred Since Close of Last Season
Molesworth and Smith Only Pilots to Be Retained
Schwartz At Nashville Almost Certain to Co.
hakeUps More Numerous Than During
Any of Preceding Seven Years

this season, but Tom Fisher the man.
ager of that aggregation, was retained
For the 1909 season, not single change
took place, the fan flock in each city
seeming pleased with their manager.
However, in the following year a trio OF
shake-ups was affected. Reed was substi-
tuted for old Tom Fisher at Mobile. while
Otto Jordan was given the reigns of con-
troll in Atlanta. Chattanooga acquired the
franchise of Little Rock and Mike Finn,
who for years had been directing thinsa
in the Arkansas metropolis, was dropped
from the league roster of managers.
Schwartz Makes Debut
During the 1911 season three teams wero
handled by new pilots. Schwartz was
hard, while the latter promptly turned
around and ousted Charlie Babb at Mem
phis. In Montgomery Eddie Greminger
had made dismal failure with his
charges SO the Billilkens were turned over
to Johnny Dobbs.
The year 1912 saw only one change In
the league personnel of managers. This
change took place at Mobile, where Mike
Finn, the former Little Rock leader, was
appointed to succeed Reed.
In 1918 two teams were under the leader
ship of men other than those OF the
preceding year. Billy Smith, who piloted
the LoolSouts in 1912, was recalled to At
idIld. q Ill ltlt NdCdICN lldNt NY iHC
loss of Smith. the Chattanooga mogul
signed kid Elbrefeld to take controi Of
the Lookouts.
Six New Leaders
Now next season six new managers will
be see min the Dixie Major" McCor-
mick, former, Giant, has supplanted E'-
berfeld. who jumped to the Pelicans, while
Briscoe Lord, another former big Lacquer.
will handle the Gulls In the place of Mike
Finn, who has been engaged to lead the
Memphis team. Finn succeeds Bill Bern.
hard. former leader of the Vols. Al
Montgomery Bobby Gilkes supplants
Johnny Dobs, who in turn takes the place
of Charley Frank at New Orleans.
Schwartz. at Nashville, Is almost certain
to receive the ak during the next few
weeks. and his removal will make the
sixth change that has occurred since the
league closed in September.
What changes will occur after the close
of the 1914 season is a matter of conJec-
ture. but there is no use crossing the
bridge before one comes to 1t. for many
things may happen between then and the
1915 season that might possibly Keep the
1914 roster of managers intact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
NJ M'CORM|CK W|LLN0T
REPORT UNTIL FEB.
Lookout Leader Has OCm-
pleted All Plans for
Team

Chattanooga, January 17.-(Special.)-S
thoroughly and completed yare his plans
mapped out that Manager Moose McCor-
mick of the Lookouts does not contem-
plate reporting here before the first week
of February. In a letter to President An
drews of the local club, Mccormick states
that he will leave New York the last week
in Januar yand then go to George Stall
lings' hunting lodge for 10 days
While nothing official nor definite has
been given out. McCormick's action il
taken to mean that he has the 1914 Look
outs as a whole already within the fold
Several men, including Gillespie and Graft
have sent their contracts to President An
drews. but how many of the remaining
members have signed is known only to
Mccormick, as he is handling all corre-
spondence directly from New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

Schaefer and Ives, but he did say, by way
of explanation, that the game he was
playing now was practically a combina-
tion of the best billiards of. the late he
roes coupled with his own, which WAS
lore perfect than either.
And when his questioner suggested that
re was then really the reincarnation of
Schaefer and Ives, St.t nodded in tie
affirmative. And to say that he played
as If he were just what he imagines he
Is draws it mildly, for such billiards as
the veteran put up against Demarest, the
latter a former champion. in this partic-
ular exhibition, has not been seen in Chit
cago in many years.
Sutton had the speed of the table
gauged to nicely. His delcacy of touch
was like that of the famous Wizard
.Schaefer and his driving and manpula-
ton of the dead ball, strong and accu-
rate, like that of Ives. His method wa
MS own and it is better than that EN-
ployed by either Schaefer and Ives in
tier palmy days. His gather shots.
draws and misses were perfect and h.,
played the line nurse with a deftness of
precision that made his audience stare in
2maZement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
UNION DECIDED
NOT TO ADMIT WOMEN

New York, January 17.-The amateur
Athletic union in a mail vote COM
pieted today decided by an overwhelm-
en- athletes in all sports and competi-
tions controlled by the organization
This effectually bars women from COM
peting or giving athletic exhibitions
III open games or meets where men or
boys are entered in any part of the
programme 1t is recorded that, not
withstanding the rule prohibiting such
mixed competitions, one association of
the a. A. U. permitted the union laws
to be violated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

INTERNAL disention has arisen
within the ranks of the Fed
erals. Charles Weeghman and
M. walker, the men Who are
noting the Federal league
Sc in Chicago, have served no
on the other clubs that unless
put teams in the field that is
major league calibre they will
.hdraw from the league. Upon
point brought up by the chi
cago promoters hangs the fate OF
the new venture so far as the sup .
port OF the fans is concerned. To
gain the whole hearted backing of
ardent fans the Federals must
play up to big league standards
and provide their patrons with the
same high grade material that they
have been accustomed to from the
American and National leagues. The
fans will not brook any minor
league article of ball from the new
comers and from the start Will eX-
pcct an Al variety. II the Fed
erals can measure up to this de-
mand then sailing VIII be consid-
erably smoother for them.
For the first time in the history
of the American and National
leagues teams In the two circuits
Will be allowed to play off post
poned games after the regular sea-
son has closed. According 10 the
schedule drawn up by representa-
tives of the two majors the teams
in the western division Will be al
lowed to play off the games that
have been postponed on october 5,
and Z. In no preceding season
has this privilege been granted to
the clubs. When a club played its
final scheduled game it was not
allowed TO play off any postponed
affairs even if other teams in the
league continued playing for few
days longer. Under this system
Monday Tuesday and Wednesday
of the first week in October will be
open fer the playing off of games
postponed during the season. This
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
From the Angle Of the Bug
BY ASA ROUNrREE, JR.

uniaue feature was adopted by the
schedule committee in an effort to
clear up all championship games
that have been postponed for some
reason or other. Each year most
of the teams finish short or the
regular number scheduled and so
this yearsit is hoped that this Will
he obYiated.
According to reports waited south
ward from Nashville, Artie Hoffman
is the man slated to succeed Bill
Schwartz as the Vol chieftain. In
fact, it is stated in the Vol camp
that Artie is expected to sign a con-
tract to manage the Vols within the
next few days, as President Hirsig
and Business Manager Bassett will
journey to Cincinnati to bring Artie
around to their point of view IN re-
gard to compensation for his serv-
ices next season.
So far, Billy Smith. manager of tho
Crackers. is experiencing little trouble
coaxing his players to sign the con"
tracts that he has rendered them.
Fourteen players out of so have come
into the fold and Billy is resting
contentedly waiting for rhe remain
der to arrive, which he is confident
will without trouble. AT present it
seems as if the Crackers will lose
Alperman and Jennings. Both have
expressed their determination not to
play this season and no amount OF
persuasion on the part of the fluen,
Billy can sway them from their in
tention.
After the Pirates had almost given
up all hope of preventing Mowrey.
one of the players secured from the
Cardinals in the Konetchy deal, in
comes his signed contract Mowrey
had been reported several times t.
have joined the new league and the
Pirate management thought they had
lost him.
One last attempt was made yesterday
by the powers in organized ball tn
induce Joe Tinker, manager of the
Chicago Federal league team, to re-
turn to organized ball A conference
was held with him yesterday by Ban
johnson, August Hermann and
Charley Ebbets. but their mission was
a failure, as Tinker absolutely re-
fused to back down from the step
he had taken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
b.A.C. RIFLE TEAM
ARE VCTORS AGAIN
q,
Locals Easily Defeat Adrian
Team-TwO Teams Tied
for Leadership

washington, January 1.-THE Dis
trict of Columbia and Warren, Pa. are
tied for first place in class "a of the
inter club rifle matches, each having
four wins and no defeats. In class "B'
three teams are tied for first place,
saltwater, Mimi, Kings Mills, O., and
Bedford, O., each with four wins and
no defeats. District of Columbia made
the highest score this week, making
es4 out of a possible 1000. The scores
included:
Z Glass "A': District of Columbia 994
W. Bridgeport, Conn. 992.
Warren, Pa, 991, VS.. Bucyrus, O., eSs
Birmingham 9S6. VS.. Adrian, Mich,
S64.
Glass "Br: Bedford. O.. ss2, VS. Louis
New orleans slo. VS.. San Fran
cisco 73e.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
The Sporting Forecast
By c. w. GREER

Anent the Alabama football situ-
alton, 1t would seem that the Age
Heralds choice of Tarr of Carlisle
over Courleux of Birmingham to
succeed Coach Graves has created
quite a furor.
Some are waxing indignant over
the selection of foreigner" over
''home talent" and proceed to
make known their feelings over
the situation in no uncertain terms
Especially is this the case of one
enthusiastic pen pusher of the
press who raises a prolertarian
squawk and proceeds to take The
Age Herald to task for its stand
He smears over half of his page a
long and laborious article where
in he eXtolls the virtues of the
Birmingham coach and pleads for
harmony in the gentle task of
taking the duty of selecting
coach from the shoulders of the
Alabama athletic authorities. This
bucolic scribe rushes madly in
temporaries would fear to tread
and with an utter disregard of
facts succeeds in so entangling
the situation that his article has
the appearance of report of a
suffragette meeting.
Kindly note the following:
IF we are to take a GER
tain scribe's word for 1t, the
redskin is no longer to be held
inferior to the palefacc. Ac-
cording to said scribe, who
breaks into print occasionally
on the sport pages of a certain
local paper, the athletic author
tiles at the University of Ala
bama are going to select an In
dian coach, who has already
made one miserable failure as
coach. over q white man who
has made a pronounced success
in the handling of football
teams. Said scribe reels forth
lengthy line of chatter and
recommends that one Mr.. Tarr
be appointed to succeed Coach
Graves at the University of
Alabama"
Shades of DR.. Pollard, What on
earth are the somber Alabama ath-
letic authorities to think when a
supposed-to-b erudite sporting
scribe of a. metropolitan daily
recklessly and heedlessly displays
such utter ignorance of the sub
ject he pretends to be helping these
authorities to solve!
For the benefit of this scribe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

On a fast, dry track this team, accord
ing to English experts, should run the
four miles without heart breaking effor.
inside II minutes 80 seconds. Judging from
the past records of the men they should
be able to cut is seconds off these figures
IL pushed hard.
With John Paul Jones graduated ami
retired from the cinder path 1t would be
hard to select a team of milers frnni
among all the colleges of the Unit I'd
States whose records would warrant their
being even favorites against this mar
velous quartet now matriculated at Ok
ford. If any one college or university in
the United States has at this time -four
runners ready to test the oxford team
&c the limit the average college trainer is
unaware of the existence of the team
Yet these are the conditions which must
be complied with at the University OF
Pennsylvania relay carnival Unless
Cornell, Pennsylvania or Michigan, the
home of long distance college runners,
can develop a sensational four for this
international contest the. odds will be
long on oxford late in April.
American Record Slower -
Even the best American records for SIM,
liar racing exceed 1870. The Boston A.
A. team hold the A. A. L. record of
1I51 1-5, made at Easton Pa, on June
49, 1913, while the intercollegiate record
# 1I.3o was made by Cornell team of
1911 at the Pennsylvania relays
The Pennsylvania team won the race
last year in IS minutes and 2-5 seconds.
defeating Princeton, Ohio State, Penn
sylvania State and Northwestern univer-
sity in the order named. The Red and
Blue team consisted of Laugner, Me-
Curdy, Madeira and Guthrez. OF the
quartet all are eligible except GuthreZ
who was graduated last spring In order
to run. the four miles in anything like.
1870 new material will have to be ua-E
covered. Some idea of the calibre of this
task may be gained from the statemen.
that team selected from among the win
ners of the mile runs in all the interc /
legiate meets of 1918. barring zones anu
Tabor, would fail to show average time
equal to that credited to the oxford four.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

Unlike in the majors the life of a base
ball manager in the minors is of short
duration. If he makes a success with his
team right off the reel he is welcomed
with open arms by the fans and acclaimed
as a wonder but let him slack up Just
a trife and up goes the howl of dissatis-
fed fans for his removal Then the club,
yielding to the ciamor of this disturbing
element casts about for a new leader.
There are exceptions to this just as in
other matters, but sooner or later the
man who has managed to retain the affec-
tions of fans for a lengthy period of time
will eventually hear the barxs of dis
grunted fans clamoring for his scalp.
Short as is the active playing career of
q player in his prime, that of baseball
pilot is shorter In this day and time
when lightning baseball and good showing
of home team by home fans is demanded
and expected the path of the manager is
no easy one to negotiate, for should his
powers to deliver the goods diminish off
goes his head.
Many Leaders Canned
In 1913 more managers We're handed
their walking papers in the Southern than
during any of the seven preceding Years.
Five gave up their ghosts, while before
many more days pass another William
Schwartz, will very likely be told that he
is needed no longer in Nashville.
The only managers of last season who
have been retained are Carlton Moles-
worth of Birmingham and Billy Smith of
Atlanta. In everyone of the remaining
cities in the league changes have oc-
CURED. During the past seven years no
such revolutionary changes as the ones
that took place during the winter have
occurred in Southern league circles. In
several of the seasons two and three
changes have taken place, but never have
Eve or even four shake-ups occurred at
one time.
Two Changes in 1908
In 1908 two changes were noted In man.
ayers, Ed Greminger having suppanted
Nullaney at Montgomery and Bill Bern
hardt, Cleveland twirler, succeeding
Johnny Dobbs as the Vol. cheftain. Mo-
bile displaced Shreveport in the league
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
TEAMS FORMED
At THE B. A. c.
Series of Ten Games to Be
Played-Will Start
Monday

Two basketball teams have been formed
from the intermediate class at the Bir-
mingham Athletic club and a series of IL
games will be played between the two, the
losers to take the winners to a show.
Games will be played twice week, on
Mondays and Thursdays, for five weeks.
The two teams are as follows:
Blackburn team: Felix Blackburn, cap
tain; DeBardeleben, w. Shackelford
kronenberg, Crane. Rountree and John
st-i.
Agee team: Walter Agee. captain: ra-
cone. Murnan. Mendel McDavid, Gelders,
Bromberg and Radcliffe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

In order to get an official inter-
pretation from the national registration
committee, Chairman James e. SuIli-
van sent mail vote to all members
OF the committee asking them to vote
on the following:
Resolved, That the A. A. U. does
not and VIII not recognize the regis
lration OF women athletes and it is
the sense of the committee that tbo
rules were designedly formed to in
clude none but the male SEX
or all those voting only one vote
was cast against the resolution. An
other member voted in favor of the
resolution, but suggested that the wom-
en- be registered in a group by them
selves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
YALE STROKE is
NOT DECIDED UPON

New Haven, Conn, January 1.-THE
stroke used by the Yale crews this sea-
son, according to a statement tonight by
Captain Denegre of the university eight
will not be the simple Bob Cook stroke,
but a variation of it, The exact stroke
will not be decided on until after con
sultation of the coaches.
A general call for new candidates will
be issued Monday and Captain Denegre
expects at least 100 men will respond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
HIGH JUNIOR FIVE
DEFEATS BAG. TEAM

The basketball team of the Junior class
of the Birmingham High school defeated
the intermediate five of the Birmingham
Athletic club yesterday morning by the
score of q to IL. The game was well
played and hard fought throughout.
The lineup of the club team was:
kronenberg, Tacone and DeBardeleben.
forwards; Blackburne, Radcliffe, centers;
w. Agee, johnson, r. Agee, guards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
LEEDS TEAM GIVES
AN OYSTER SUPPER

Leeds, January Observation-Disclosures
Of the Leeds High school basketball team
rave an oyster supper here last night
for the benefit of the team.
The boys were assisted in the work by
the following ladies: Mesnades Farley
Shaw. w. N Lee. r. f. Lee and Miss
Neazy.
The supper was a success and was en-
joyed by everyone.