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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
STREET ELECTED AS
 MARION CAPTAIN; | LETTERS PRESENTED
Nineteen Players Earn Let ters-Eight Players Lost by yGraduatiOn-Basket-
 ball Prospects Bright

Marion Institute, December 4.-(Special) At the final meeting of the football team held here last night Coach Clarksor awarded monographs to the following men: Streit (captain), Roberts (manager) Page, Wingo, Drennen, G.; Drennen. H. Gamble, Hart. Langhorne, Bricken Thomas, J., Argo. Newsom, Moorer Moore, c. H.; Bailey, Can't Autry andd Randy.
 D. Streit of Birmingham was reelected as captain for 1916 and w. A. Argo of Tal- ladega was elected manager. Both oi these men played star ball for Marion in. stitute this year and they will be the nucleus around which next years eleven will be formed. Streit is one of the fastest prep-school backfield men in the state and this year has shown remarkable abil- ity as a leader. Argo was the mainstay in the line this year and will no doubt be the same next season.
 The loss of Wingo, Roberts and Page ir the backfield, and Autry. Newsom Thomas, Bricken and Hart in the line will be sorely felt. but there are many promising players among the scrubs whe With another season 8 training can ably fill their places
 Four of last years regulars will be seen in uniform again this year. Captain Ar go. center Manager Gamble and Cardi7 nal, forwards; Wingo, guard; Smith, a sub. and also many new men who played on High school quintets will be the main contestants for this years team M
 strong schedule5is being arranged foi the 1915-i9l6 season and the Marion insti- ute team is expected to give an unusually good account of itself in basketball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
JOHNSTON RANKED | AS NATIONS BESI | TENNIS PERFORMER
Paired With Griffin as Leaders of Doubles Miss Bjurstadt Leads the
 Women Players ;s

| New York, December 4.-Wii1lam M
 Johnston of San Francisco was placed
 at the top of the national tennis rsnk- ing Iist for the season in the sinSlea and paired with Clarence y. GriffiH of
 San sFrancisco at the tcp: of the daublea in the report officially issued; today 'by the committee of the United states Ma tional Lawn Tennis asioeiation. The findinSs were made by K. C. s1nnian, w l.. Pate and w. M. Hall. ',e Miss Molla Bjurstadt of Norway
 headed the, list of women pIASers whc
 were rated. s..s ss Johnston's right to No; T. was estab- lished by his record[i in the national chain
 pionship in which he defeated Karl II
 Behr of New York. R. Norris Williams 1T of Philadelphia. and Maurice E. Mel Loughlin of San Francisco on successive
 days. The committee admitted that there
 was only slight shade between williaIns and. Mclaughlin and that Justice might
 have been done in rating McLouehlin4in
 second place instead of third. ,s E The ratings of the 'frsts10 follow:
 No, l. William M. Johnston; No ?. R
 Norris Williams II: No. g. Maurice E Mclaughlin: Mo- 4, Karl H. Behr: o.4 5 T. R. Pell; No. 6. N. w. Niles; No. z c. J. Griffin; No. 8. w. M. fwashburn; No. 9, George M. Churchill; No. 10. w M. Hall.
 | Rating of first 10 women in singles:
 No. ], Miss Molla Bjurssadt; No. 2, Mrs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
A Love Letter in Disguise

From the Manila Times.
 Soldiers are not permitted to write
 letters from the front. They are fur
 nished with postal. cards printed in ad- vance by the war department contain
 inE such phrases as T am well, 1T am
 slighly wounded" q am in hospital 2
 ''The last letter received from. home
 was dated- sss ss Soldiers are permitted to cross off tLe 2hrases that do not apply, leaving ill type only the bane statement that aprlies.
 But officers are permitted to write letters to their families or sweethearts provided that they tell nothing about the. army or much about themselves and nothing whatever of their where abouts.
 The betrothed of one young English officer. boasts of receiving real love letters. This is the way he manages 1t:
 Dear Edith What told you Febru- ary 25 I tell you again ssWlat was it he told you February c5?" asks another woman. Edith looks genuinely puzzled. He said so many things she falters. T really cannot remember'' Edith reads on: In spite of the devastation of the countryside. many of the, peasants re- main The women are not much to look at. but even if they were, what told you on Christmas Eve. and every oth- CT time that saw you holds good now and always will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
|AUBURN'S SCHEDULE
 IS HARDEST 0F ANY SOUTHERN COLLEGE
Schedule for Next Season Is Same as for Past Year. To Play Florida Between
 Georgia and Vanderbilt

Auburn, December 3.-(Special. )-Faculty Manager Thomas Bragg has announced Auburn's schedule for 1916 with the same old rivals playing return engagement. The only change made in the schedule was effected by transferring the dates held by Mercer and University of Florida so that Florida will be met between the Georgia and Vanderbilt clashes. Unquestionably this is the hardest schedule attempted by any southern col lege, for from the Clemson game on down through the list there is not a single lead pipe cinch in the lot, since Florida has developed first-class team. With the University of Georgia, Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech as the ''big guns" Auburn has the stiffest opposition of any team in this territory.
 However, since Auburn anaged to pull through a season in. which she suffered heavily from injuries, after starting sea- son with Il regulars missing, and land divided first honors, it was thought that the team of 1916 should be capable of meeting the same high class competition.
 The schedule for 1916 follows:
 October Mercer university at Auburn.
 October 2i-Clemson Agricultural college at Auburn
 October 2S-Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical at Birmingham
 November 4University of Georgia at Athens.
 November 11-University of Florida at Auburn. a44f
 November Vanderbilt. at Birming- ham.
 November 30 Georgia Tech at Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
How English Ships Leave New Yorl

From the Boston Transcript. s Kladderadatsch rcgales it's readers with the following dialogue between the cap- tain and the first officer of an English ship about to leave New York:
 Captain-All ready? Y
 Onicer-Ye es sir.
 C,-Are the cannon well hidden?
 O.-Nothing visible. sir, and the ma chine guns are in the doctors cabin.
 C.-Cood. And the flags?
 O.-yPhe Union Jack is rolled up in an old coat, and p neutral flags are lying ready for use.
 C.-How about the paint for the sides of the ship?
 O.-The ship can be painted in minute any color of the rainbow. Paint pots and brushes in abundance are ready at a moments notice
 C.-And the papers?
 O.-The false papers are on your desk. Shall I falsify them a bit more?
 C.-Not yet. Where are the soldiers? E O.-In the coal bunkers disguised as niggers. black as the devil, and sitting on baskets drinking whisky.
 C.-Are the Americans on board?
 O.-There Is one on every deck, rocking on four chairs and splitting all round
 C.--All right, Stick a big notice on each of them, Care. Yankeev' O.-I have already done so, and added some stars, just like old brandy.
 C.-Then in Gods name forward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
FAST
 COMING ID FRONT
 IN FOOTBALL WORLD
Moccasins by Tieing Se- vance and Georgia Are Able to Get Games With
 Other Big" Teams

l Chattanooga, December 4.-(Special.) ) \ Encouraged by the most successful grid
 Iron season the institution ever knew, the University of Chattanooga plans to tackle
 fin 1916 a schedule as arduous as will be
 attempted by any eleven in the south
 Coach Johnny Spegel is confident, too.
 that next years list of gagements will
 be disposed of with even greater success than was experienced in the season just
 passed.
 | With to tie with Georgia and a
 o to 0 tie with Sewanee to her credit 1 Chattanooga advanced in the season just
 concluded almost into the front ranks of
 Dixie football. A poor schedule alone
 prevented the Moccasns from being
 ranked in select circles, If Spiegel s
 eleven fails to be rated as a contender
 in 1916 it vii not be the fault of the l schedule.
 l Roughly speaking Spiegel intends to
 send his charges against Tennessee, Se-
 vance, Georgia, vandy and Washing
 ton and Jefferson in 19f6 Other games
 will be scheduled, including probably Ala \ bama or the Mississippi Aggies, but the
 five elevens first mentioned will be made ~Si tetiiiticS dS SOOil dS Is pOSSlDic otNSId dl of the contests have already been defi- nitely closed.
 \ The schedule just outlined is unusually i formidable but Spiege does not view it N with apprehension as every Moccasin will ! be back in harness that faced Sewanee Y with the exception of Sutherland at end.
 A wealth of new material is assured, but
 even if it fails to arrive, Spiegel will | be able to put into the field for the
 opening game of the 1916 eleven a better | team than the one that tied the Tigers
 and the Red and Black.
 + Among the men coming back are three
 real stars7-two of whom would have made i'all-southern berths in the season past but
 for the limitations of their teams sehed- ule. The trio in question is composed Y of Pope at quarter, Squibbs at full and seen on more than one all-southern pick in 1916 In action they resemble Tol- Ii ley, Falkenberry and Sikes enough to
 be taken for their doubles. Pope and |i Squibbs are first-year men.
 III The ease and rapidity with which Spie- gel developed these three stars causes | Chattanooga followers to look forward | to the 1916 season with genuine joy. |. That other luminaries will be ready to claim equal brilliance with them before the 1916 season is one month gone few local critics doubt
 II To Spegel more than anything else N (Chattanoogas advance is due. His first year may be designa ted as an unqualified success. The Washington and Jefferson star in the course of two months ad- vanced football at Chattanooga more than was thought possible in a decade |! and nas convinced those who watched his work closely that he is without a supe- rior south of the Mason and Dixon line. U Look out for the Moccasins in 1916!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05


 It develops every muscle in the human body. it quickens the ht,Gn. it sharpens the wits. it imparts force and. above all. it teaches self-control.
 If some clever scientist were to dis cover an herb or conooct medicine with which he could guarantee to accomplish half of that there is no factory in the world which would be large enough to manufacture sufficient output to supply the demand.
 Tn this hurry-up age men think too lit. tie of their health and their physical well fare to bother about putting on pair of gloves, so my article on boxing is not for them. It is for boys and young men. I was Just the same kind of a boy as any other boy is-fond of life and out door sports--but not too rugged and if 1t had not been for boxing l might be the most ordinary man today,
 I took up boxing at the age of lS sim ply as an exercise, just as l played base
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
BAUGH ISSUES CALL
 FOR LEAGUE MEETING
Meeting Be Held Here December 15Presdent to Be
 Elected-Other Official Business to Be Transacted

President R. H. Baugh of the Southern league has sent out the official call for the annual meeting of the league here on Wednesday, December b. Plans are now being formed for the entertainment of the league moguls during their brief stay in the city.
 The coming meeting is attracting un- usual attention. owing to the fact that another spirited fight on the election of the president will come off.
 Although MT. Baugh will not announce his candidacy for the office if it Is ten dered to him as it was last year. he will accept There is no dissatisfaction over MT. Baugh's services in the presidents office, and it is generally regarded that the present head will be reelected un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

ball, basketball and football, and ran races And instead of thinking that box ing meant nothing more than putting on a pair of padded gloves and slammng wildly away at another fellows head, I settled down and studied the scientific part of it, learning about hitting, block ing and getting away.
 Boxing is a good, healthy exercise for anyone, and when I say boxing I don't mean slugging. Don't try to be hard hitter before you know what you are go- ing to hit and how you are going to hit.
 Think! Use your brains, They figure in boxing just as much as do the gloves.
 The average amateur boxes with the same set series of movements. He leads high, then he leads low, then he swings, and so on through q routine as if he was a mechanical toy. wound up to go through a certain set series of movements, and then stops.
 Whatever you do, think; he versatile and clever. You don't need to be a ruff fiian or loafer to be a boxer, and boxing does not degrade a man; it makes him better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

Chicago. December 4.-Members of the Big Nine faculty committee today sounded the death knell of bnsebal as an intercollegiate sport in the confer encc. In addition to refusing to sanc- ton summer baseball playing by their athletes, the committee voted to refer to each institution resolution provid- ing for the abolition of this sport en- tireIy, except for interclass cOntests.
 As most of the delegates voted un- der instructions. 1t is assumed that the colleges will support the resolution and that intercollegiate baseball win be given up. M
 An objection by one university. how ever, will force reconsideration and unless a special meeting of the conn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

' E. George Wightman; No. 3, Mrs. Mar shall Mclean; No. f. Miss Florence Cut ten; No 5, Mrs. Barger Waltach; No 6,
 Miss Marie Wagner; No. z, Miss Anita
 Myers; No. s. Miss Sara Livingston No. Sears.
 The ratings of Glass T. in the singles
 follow:
 J. J. Armstrong, Leonard Beekman, c.
 M, Bull, Jr., H. T. Byford.3 W. F. John-
 son, Robert Leroy, Dean Mathey, Harold
 A Throckmofton, s. H. Voshell and l. c. Wright.
 No.s1, w. NJ. Johnston and SC. J. Grif- fin; No. 2, M. E.. Mclaughlin and T. c.
 Bundy; No. B. G. M. Church and Dean Mathey; No. 1. R. N. Williams IT and w. NJ Washburn; Mo- 5. w. T. Hayes land R. IT. Burdick No. G., I. c. Wright
 and w. k. Johnson; No.s7. T. R. Pell and
 B. 1C. Prentice; No. 8, IT. H. Hackett and w. M. Hall; No. 8, F. c. Baggs and s. H.
 Yoshell; No. 10, p: F. Larned and F. c.
 Inman: isg
 In it's report, the ranking committee, because less thans100 players sent in their records, recommends that it be made compulsory for clubs holding tourna- ments to file 8 complete record of the tourney within 10 days of its completion on penalty of losing it's tournament the following year.
 R.: N. Wrenn. president of the associa- ton. < in, issuing the report, stated that he had been delegated to attend the con
 ference on an amateur rule called by the Intercollegiate te AssociatioI of Amateur Athletes of America.s '. .sts ssr |'s The executive committee appointed Ed
 win Sheafe Boston; Bernon s: Prentice,
 New York, and K. c. InFnan. New York,
 hscomniittee to make nominations for Of ficers to be presented and voted upon at the annual meeting next February. 3sP..s F. Presbrey. Boston; Richard Stew tens and George T. Adee of New York, i.Weressapponted tosrepprt plans to develop the interest in Junior tennis throughout the country. s..s sy~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
A BIG TIME AT BANQUET OF
 AUBURN FOOTBALL SQUAD

of the evening, complimenting Dona- :, hue, thanking the team members and 1 lamenting the fact that his football days at Auburn are over.
 Manager T. B. Howle was intro duced as one of the best managers Au-
 burn ever had and in answering the toast, Tho Management, he spoke of the great financial success of the 1915 season, which was the best ever ex- perienced here. Coach Bill" Louisell in a toast to Just Scrubs" paid high tribute to the scrub team of 1915. Seeing that the game was won. sub stitutes were rushed in and the bat ting order changed. However. Manager Bragg began serving easy ones and J. B. Lovelace, secretary of the Auburn Alumni association, after a few att tempts connected safely with Here's to Auburn"
 Dr. w. E. Kinds delivered the feature toast of the evening in answering to the Auburn Sportsman" After glow ing tribute to the Auburn sportsman he read telegrams from Vanderbilt and other colleges complimenting the ex- cellent spirit of fair play as exempi- fled by the Auburn warriors. Mr. D. D. Gibson. student representative. an- swered to Past, Present and Future. and predicted the scores of the Au- burn Vanderbilt and Auburn-Tech. games of 1916. . Aeis '1S gH
 Everybody arose and drank & silent toast to the memory of Augustus T. Graydon, manager of the 1914 team The members of the varsity and scrub teams were presented with large vel low crysanthemum and then Capt.-elect Lucy" IIairston was presented. Hair ston thanked the members of the team for the great honor which they had conferred upon him and with tho sup port of the members of the team he predicted a successful season for Au burn in 1916. e's Everybody stood as the Auburn band played "Glory, Glory, Dear Old Auburn" and the enjoyable banquet spread un- der such beautiful decorations came to a close. .-s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

less some dark horse" comes to the front between now and election time.
 Another feature of the meeting will be transaction of the annual routine af- fairs Among them will be the settling of the rumor that Mobile had sold it's franchise. Provided the Gulls have dis posed of their rights to play in the South crn league, the league directors must pass on the case. The financial success of the league for the past season Will also be another point of interest
 In the morning of the meeting day. the directors meeting will be held. when the general affairs of the league will bo discussed In the afternoon, the election of officers and the business affair will be taken up A representative of every club in tho league will be present. The meeting will have the attention Of the baseball south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

Nebraska. shelton earns his position by his exceptionally brilliant work In every department of end rush play. Al
 most the same perfection of play may be restated in support of the choice of Guy Chamberlain. Chamberlain orig mally was a full back
 The position of tackle summons mp q |Yeritable army of brilliant young giants of the country, but the choice goes to a Southern hero, W. F. Van de Graaff,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
Athletic Committees
 Continue Conference

New York, December 4.-Harvard, Yale
 and Princeton athletic committees today continued their conference in regard to the athletic relations between the three universities and revision of eligibility rules. Tentatve drafts of the revised reg Iulations when completed will be referred ito the athletic associations of the three universities for adoption
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

left tackle of the University of Ala bama, and known to every collegian and school boy in the South as Bully The opposing tackle position is awarded to Howard Buck. captain of Wisconsin, This year he has been conspicuously brilliant and superior ill every game i'll speed, strength, size and skill. He re- sembles the famous Ballin of other years. tG
 Guard, too, is fairly inundated by flood of superstandard players that flows in from every section of the coun- try. Selected for this position is Spears, of Dartmouth, This player is the largest man to-day in college foot ball, weighing 255 pounds, and also is one of. the most active linemen upon his feet in the country. The other choice for this position is Captain Fitzgerald, of Notre Dame, who looms up largely in the public eye,
 Great centres this year are in abun- dance, the most popular of these being Robert D. Peck. of Pittsburg Equipped with weight. strength and speed, he has added theretoa q skill that has enabled
 him to outplay every opponent with such a wide margin of superiority that he swings into the position of centre upon our All America eleven without
 q pressing rival tt lfs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
BIG NINE" RULES TO
 PROHIBIT BASEBALL
Nothing But Interclass Games Will Be Allowed. Soccer Football and Golf Found Little Favorable Sentiment As College Sports

mittee is called for the reconsideration before its regular June meeting, the single objection would have the effect Of allowing one more baseball season.
 Advocates of the anti baseball reso- Tlution argued that the abolition of the game would do away with 75 per cent of eligibility questions. They declared that baseball has become so commer- cialized that it's retention as college sport was not desirable. That college baseball teams are rarely wholly anna teur was another charge.
 Sentiment was not found strong in favor of the establishment of soccer football and golf as intercollegiate sports and no action was taken on them The committee voted to require one day of open football practice . week but declined to limit secret prac- tice to two days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
His Wllliah....

sFTOm the CMca&0 aeraId. ' The doctors motor exceeded the law ful> limit and quickly he was at the bedside of the patient. whom he found in a very bad way. My dear sir" he said slowly and with professional grav- ity. ''I have been attending you for three months, and have done my best, but I'm afraid your end is near. Have you any last wish to express?'
 The patient drew along breath. 'Yes, I have" he panteds faintly. 1T wish had had another doctor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
A Scenario Right There

dFTOm JuUge. .s.7l sTf 1l1,.7 N
 'The silent drama,"' said little sister, reading the dramatic notes. "What' s the silent drama?''
 | "Aw," said brother. that's when pa is sneaking in from the club at a. m. in his stocking feet with his shoes in his hand and ma is waiting in the dark him over the head with curtain pole.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

other choice for the half back position is E. N. Mayer. of Virginia. aa
 The premier punter of the year upor actual statistics of play is Edward H Driggs, of Princeton. and it, is this un paralleled performance that wins fo1 him the position of full back sof All America. .s..y a5,.s 5,.s. $ the honors with Murray N. Shelton: oI Cornell. and Guy Chamberlain o1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
GUN CLUB SHOOT

The weather was very bad for making
 good scores at the Birmingham Gun club very dark and some rain. John Fletcher
 made the high score by breaking 45 out of the 50-target programme and 90 out of
 the 100-target race. He was followed by
 CornweH and Sellers. Barr led in the
 lows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

The pastime of selecting an honorary but mythical football eleven which shall present in it's positions the eleven best players in the entire United States hardly is an exact science, but neverthe- less this year approaches fair practica- bility. The cause prompting this ad- vance is due to the evolution of the science of recording the power and prowess of the human machines in a football squad with the same exactness that record is maintained of the efficiency of metallic machines. The selections. therefore. which follow are made upon some personal observation. vast amount of correspondence with coaches and critics and upon an inspec- ton and comparison of the statistical records of the individual players.
 The first task in organizing a na- tional eleven is to select captain, and to this position Charles Barrett, of Cor nell. has been assigned to act as quar- ter back as well. M
 The next Sask is to erect a back field. This instantly marshals in array the great half backs of the year, but expert opinion will be unanimous in. selecting Edward ", Mahan. of Harvard. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
JOHNSTON PLACED
 IN HIGHEST RANK OF TENNIS PERFORMERS
BOXING DEVELOPS EVERY MUSCLE IN
 THE HUMAN BODY
Dy CHARLES E. uoLwAY

If every young in America would take up boxing pastme would have better and better citizens In my experience in athletics have to the cOncu sion that there actual benefit to be derived from it than any other of