The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-03
ELI AM 5 ARRIVAL
 COMPl ROSTER OF SOUTHERN PILOTS
Former Baron and Leader of Vols Reaches Nash vilIe-Thinks Outlook
 Is Very Good

With the arrival of Manager Roy El- lam at Nashville, every Southern league manager is now down to work and await ing the opening of the training season. Ellam drifted into Nashville yesterday after being on the road since Tuesday.
 According to Nashville scribes the for mer star shortstop of. the Barons is Tn the picture of health and appears ready for the campaign. Ellam was very op- t1mistic over the prospects of the Volls and expressed himself as confident that he would be able to turn out winner
 Ellam immediately got down to work, although little remains to be done. Pres ident Shropshire has been busy signing the Vols and practically every mem- Der of the 1916 team is now in the fold. The Vol president has collected a strong group of players for Captain Roy, and timistic over the prospects of the Vols to be in the race throughout the season.
 The following account of Ellam's ar rival is given in the Nashville Tennes- sean by Blinky Horn;
 'Roy Elam, the new Vol pilot, is at the helm.
 'From his home in Coshocken, Pa the successor to Bill Schwartz came yester- day to look over the ground before his 1916 talent begins to trickle into camp The ex-Baron shortstopper fairly radi- ates optimism over the summer scramble, although at that he is safe and sane about the outlook for there is no Wild hurrahing about Roy Ellam.
 Quiet but strictly down to brass tacks is the new boss of the Vols. No frills or flourishes no rash predictions of buntings flying in the dell, but pledge of determined effort to give the fans in Voltown the best brand of baseball that is possible. That's R. Slippery E4- lam in nutshell You couldn't ask much more.
 Manager Ellam went straight to busl- ness when he landed in his new home yesterday morning, while the newsboys were just getting to work, and after a long powwow with Proxy Shropshire and Secretary Christian kayser Haury, the new pilot began to lay his plans to pacify Messrs. Street. Kroh and Lee, who are still on the other side of the fence.
 UTTERS PRAISE FOR KROH
 William c. Schwartz whose mana gerial mantle will be assumed by R. $. Ellam, was among the first to greet the new leader of the Vol clan, and to wish him godspeed in his maiden efforts to pilot a team of baseball gents. Bill knows all the trials and tribulations at tached to that business, but MT. Ellam is still confident after his conflab with MT. Schwartz that he can make some sort of stab at his new undertaking
 ''While the first recruits will not roll into Nashville for perhaps two weeks, Roy Ellam will have his hands full in x1-- +l eral tangles which are worrying the Vol mogus. With a crack hurler like Floyd Kroh barking about a desire to toll in other fields and Billy Lee, wheel horse for the gardens, still ouessde the fold, the Vol manager has all he can handle to woo them back into line.
 ''Ellam puts a mighty high estimate on the mound ability of Mir F. Kroh. The maiden manager reeled off a number of f1attering remarks about the work of the big southpaw both on account of his control and ability to make runners hug the hassocks. Yet Roy Ellam, much as he would be relieved if Kroh would put aside his curious nations about talk ing up his abode in the Texas league. has no intentions of begging Floyd to come to terms. He's not that sort
 PROMISES TO GET CATCHER
 The actual difference between Kroh and the Vols is mighty small mat ter. It should not be too difficult for Roy Ellam to tackle and work out sat isfactorily. Neither should great amount of trouble be encountered in rounding up Billy Lee. The exCracker wants more money than the Vols can pay him. Personally we want a trunk full of shares of DuPont Powder stock, but there's about as much chance of getting it as there is to level Lookout mountain by using hand chisel.
 Maybe Roy Ellam can use the old fel- low statesman racket on MT. G. Street and lure him away from his fnrT'' "'"' fireside notion, but should that device fail the debutting boss ot the .->-e nc intention of sitting around Macawber like and waiting for the backstopper to change his tune.
 If Street doesn't come around, why