The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-10
SOCCER INTEREST
 CENTERS IN FIGHT
 FOR FIRST HON0RS
Various Teams Begin to Train for Fight for Ram sey Cup-Games Will
 Be at Redwood

The interest of the various teams of the Alabama Association Football league and their followers at the pres ent time is centered upon the coming Ramsey cup tie series. Some of the closest and best played games of the season will be staged in the fight for possession of this trophy This cup was presented by Erskine Ramsey, and is played for every season in addi- tion to the league cup which is given to the team winning the championship of the league.
 The Ramsey cup winner is decided by a series of elimination games apart from the regular scheduled league games, and the Animation feature of this series stimulates the interest in the games and the teams play with greater spirit than in the usual league games. This assures the spectators of fast, spirited contests. At the pres ent time the Vivian elevensleads the league by a wide margin but the lead CTS are going to meet greater and fiercer opposition for the Ramsey cup than they have yet faced, and it is by no means certain that they will cap ture the trophy.
 All teams are strengthening for this series and picking the winner is out of the question. The Sayreton club has added three new players recently which has considerably strengthened their playing and are after two more men who, if secured, will make the present holders of the, cellar position an extremely formidable team to beat. Edgewater, too, has added few new players to their lineup and converted what was a weak, green team into a strong defensive machine that will be hard to score up on by any of the other teams. The best the strong Ens- ley and Docena elevens could secure against this team Were 0-0 and II draws, respectively. The EnsIey and Docena teams were picked to lead the league at the beginning of the sea- son, but neither team has yet found its true form. Docena has been handi- capped in practically every game by the failure of some one or more regu- lar players to show up. while Ensley has been weakened heretofore by sick ness and injuries to their players. These teams expect to put their full strength in the field during the Ram sey cup series. and will make much better showing than they have done in the previous games.
 Pratt City has been playing slightly below form all season owing to the loss of two forwards of last years team, but, with the return of Speedy to the center forward position, this weak spot is we'll healed Their vic t.,v.x -ays .r1A 1os,f Esz+. dicates that they have again hit the stride that has won one Ramsey cup series for them, and made them run- ners-up to the winner of the series last season The Wylam team is minus the services of some of their stars of last season. but the young players drafted from their second eleven are filling the positions left vacant by these vet erans in a more than satisfactory man. ner. The team work and indomitable fighting spirit that has been so mani- fest in the Wylam elevens of past sea- sons. is just as much in evidence this year as in the years gone by. That has been Wylam's greatest asset and has carried them through four seasons with only two defeats to their credit, although they have met teams which frequently outplayed them Whether this fighting spirit will carry them through the coming Ramsey se- ries promises to be the best that has certain it is that they will meet op- ponents who are fully capable of fore ing the Wylamites to go the full route to win.
 With the six teams so evenly matched and keyed up to the highest point of determination, the coming se- ries pyromises to be the best that has been staged in the Birmingham dis trict. These games were staged at Rickwoo1 mark last wear. and will in all probability, be played there again this year. The league will have a meeting December 15. at which time, all arrangements will be made.