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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-20
Plenty of Sleep and Proper Eating Are Essentials in Active Career in the Game


 caused my finish. One. night at Irwin. Pa couple of years ago. the Irwin Al-stars decided to ..get me" along with Hans Lobert We had play on and I was about to make the pass, when the entlre punch swept the two of us clear or the Iloor and sent us crashing through board partition at the end of the hall. we plcked ourselves up in a mass of broken glass and rubbish. That was one unhealthy occasion that nearly nipped my baseball before I could reach the mellow age of A
 The player who would prolong his years Tn the game with profit health and hap riness to himself ought to make the southern training trip only the finishing toucn Tor putting him in the pink of conoltion. l don't mean that he should shirk his spring work but he should so live during the winter months that he heeus put little conditioning to make his muscles and wind respond.
 nave been asked hundreds of times now remain in the game so long, and at such an age. Pshaw! I haven't any age. At 42 will be in my prime of life. Isn't 1t possible that q life of fresh air, eatlng what you want. freedom of the woods, and other health giving recrea- iions With six months work a year, would preserve mans physical attrib- utes beyond his 42d year?.
 >~No VI eiO 5dIlest men Tn a cr1SlS Of any Kind. even where life or bodily dan- ger IS the issue. is Barney Dreyfus Smith and other practical jekers put one over on their employer with a fractions sad die horse some years ago at Hot Springs. MT, Dreyfus. who is a good horseman. sald he could ride the animal which was tethered at hotel pitching post. Our employer swung into the stirrup and the animal bolted savagely down the driveway But MT. Dreyfus stuck man. fully, the animal tearing madly down the hilly street. At an intersection the horse s hoofs slipped and his legs shot from un- der him, hurling Mfr. Dreyfuss about 25 feet. A big crowd gathered and the faI- len victim, bruised and covered with dirt, but otherwise not seriously hurt. remark ed bravely.
 By thinning. it's good thing 1 jumped"
 SEASON PASSES FAST
 The six months of the playing season seem to pass swiftly for me, and guess it is because I don't feel any monotony while playing ball Travel change of scenes and uncertainties of the race seem
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Hickey Likes Y. M. c. A.

Branch Hickey, business manager of the St. Louis Browns, Is deeply inter- ested in Y. M. c. A. work It is his recreation while base ball is his busi- ness. Just before going to New York to get lot of new blood for the Browns he spent a week in Columbus, O., assisting in a campaign for new members for ths there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-20
Has Good Outfield

Roy Ellam seems to have corraled first class outfield at Nashville. Baker. Lee and Williams are all ex- ceptionally fast men. and finished out flelders- There are no Messengers among them, and they know what to do with the pellet when they get it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-20
Submits Seven Conditions as Necessary to Meeting. None Expected to Prove Stumbling Block

Exhortations of The Age-Herald have
 borne fruit. The local Auburn-Alabama
 situation has been relieved and athletic Young Mems Christian association and the Birmingham Athletic club. Bill Streit, chairman of the athletic
 committee of the club yesterday pre- sented his challenge formally in writing to L. A. Brooks, manager of the Y. M. C. A. team, and it was accepted by the
 association.
 MT. Brooks sets forth seven conditions
 which are necessary to the playing of the game. In letter to Bill Streit he accepts the challenge and states his terms.
 None of MT. Brooks demands are ex-
 pected to prove a stumbling block to the
 game. Indeed. some of them had been
 anticipated by the club in it's challenge.
 CHALLENGE BY CLUB
 The formal challenge of the Athletic club presented yesterday morning reads as follows:
 Birmingham, February IS, 1916. MT. Lee Allen Brooks. Manager Y. M c.
 A. Basketball Team. Birmingham. Dear Sir; At the suggestion of a
 number of basketball enthusiasts I called you over the phone yesterday and am
 now reducing to writing, at your re- quest, the substance of our conversa- ton.
 AS was stated it has been suggested that it would be to the best interest of both the Y M. C. A. and the B. A. C. that a series of games of basketball be a srQr n QQd hafu "a f. ing the two institutions to decide the city championship. One game to bs played on each court. the third to be pla yed on the court of the team making the greatest number of points in the first two games Each team to take the re- ceipts of the game on the local floor, the receipts of the third game to be di- vided equally after the expense is de- ducted. MT. Young or MT. Pritchard, or both working together, would make good officials. The players to be eligible to play in the series should have played Tn one entire game or in parts or three games during the present season on the teams they represent.
 Kindly advise me at the earliest possl' ble moment what you decide in the mat ter. If series is to be played we VII meet and decide on the details of ths same at once. Respectfully, "C. w. STREET, JR." ASSOCIATIONS REPLY The reply of MT. Brooks for the asso- ciaticn reads:
 Birmingham, Ala, February l9 l9lo. "Mr. c. w Streit. Jr., Birmingham Attn letic Club, Birmingham, Ala. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 18th inst, received, making the suggestion that a series of three games be played by tho
 basketball teams of the Athletic club and
 Young Mems Christian association to de- eide the city championship
 Tt will be agreeable to the Y. M C. A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-20
HELD TEAMS TOGETHER


 ITO the holding together of a team that was good enough to win until it gave out,'' was the answer. T have been singularly fortunate in grabbing youngsters that were on their way up instead of coming back from the big show I had rather have these kind every time I took these young sters and put team together and kept 1t together as long as it worked.
 Another thing that has enabled this club to win lot of games has been the absence of interior dissention. That is one thing will not have. I will not have a player who is not satisfied He will not give good serv- Ice and the money you pay him is wasted.
 'sTake the case of Marcan, for in stance Marcan left the Barons when he was still the best second bareman in the league, among the greatest strategists the league has ever seen. Doubtless many fans wondered why we let him go.
 'It was a question of salary. He wanted us to pay him $60 or $70 more per month than he was getting. We could not do 1t and remain within the salary limit That is the only in- structions I have from Mir. Woodward is to observe the limit. Consequently there was nothing for us to do but to let him go."
 Moley then switched over to a dis cussion of the Ellam case, and the
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will Birmingham this ordinary this would sufficient satisfy the eyebrows decimal The Aged presents the following
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Baron Manager Attributes Success to Holding Team Together = Gets Young sters on Way Up
FANS ATTITUDE TO CARROLL SIMILAR
 TO ELLAM FEELING
MOley Gives Player Chance to Demonstrate Ability at Bat and on the Bases. Cites Examples

c. Molesworth, Baron pilot for 1916, and for many years to come let us hope. views with an indulgent eye, the fran tic scrambles in which Southern league magnates are now engaged for ball players released by the decla- ration of peace between organized baseball and the Federal league.
 These players undoubtedly will go we'll in the Southern league. but Moles- worth will have none of them He is satisfied with his team as it stands today, and with the exception of pos sible strength in the outfield will go through the year.
 If the fans will recall the years that Molesworth has led the Barons they will find that he was always a man to stick with his veterans and against swapping horses in the middle of the stream He does not believe in the constant addition of players to a club unless the necessity be absolute.
 STICKS TO PLAYERS
 "Give me a team that can keep to- gether, and although it may be 25 per cent weaker than the other teams in tue league WILL VIII lllOlc SdAl6S tlelh any of them," observed the director of the destinies of the Birmingham club. Tt is a foregone conclusion that every player is going to slump once in a season and probably more, usually the latter Now. if you keep your team together, and do not continue to add new players, all your men will slump at the same time.
 ''Oh, they will be the rottenest there Is in the world while the slump lasts. It will look terrific, but they will all hit their stride together. and the first thing you know you are off on big winning streak.
 Tt does not do to continue adding players throughout the season unless you simply have to. If you do, each man will have a slump throughout the year, and you will always be carrying one man or more who is siumping, which will throw your team off it's stride.
 And I'm not hankering after any Federal league stars, either What have looks good enough to me l think that I can keep em fustling in the Southern with the material I'll de- velop."
 ITO what do you attribute your suc- cess in the Southern for the last five years?" was asked.
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sideration the candidacy of all except the two candidates who shall have re- ceived the greatest and next great est numbers of first choice votes. or the greatest and equal number of first choice votes, and by adding to such first choice votes of each of said two candidate the second choice votes cast for him by those voters whose first choice votes shall have been cast for any of the candidates excluded as herein provided"
 Section 30 of the Alabama statute pro vides:
 Sec. 90. The county executive com mittee or governing authority of the parties participating in said primary shall at the time above named receive the returns. canvass the same and declare the results First, in all cases where second choice voting is not pro- vided for by this act, the candidate for office receiving a majority of the votes cast shall be declared nominated for said office Second In cases where there is to be nominated only one candidate for particular office if such candidate shall receive a major ity of first choice votes he shall be de- clared nominated for office. If no can didate shall receive such a majority of first choice voters then the nomin- ation of such office shall be between the two candidates receiving the high est number of first choice votes and shall be determined by adding to the first choice votes of said candidates the second choice votes which they re- spectively receive, the candidate thus receiving the greater number of first and second choice votes shall be de- clared nominated
 Yours very truly, N. P. BRYAN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
Postal Receipts Increase

Columbus, Miss, February 5.-(Spe- cial. )-That business conditions are improving in Columbus is evinced by- the fact that receipts at the loacl post office during the month of January were larger than during any similar period during its history, having shown gain of $I519.21 over January, 1915, and gain of $406.S0 over January, 1914. It is true that times were un- usually hard year ago, but condi- tions during January, 1914, were nor maI and the substantial increase over that month shows that business con- ditions here are unusually good. Total receipts for January during the past three years were as follows-1916, $2699.S0; 1915, $21S0.59; 1914, $2293.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
OVER 200 ATTENDING
 GIRLS CONFERENCE
Delegates Entertained at Reception at Auburn by
 Dr. and Mrs. Thach

opelil.a, February 5.-(Speciall- lover 200 delegates to the older girls confer ence of the Alabama State Sunday School association have registered since yester- day, when the first session opened. The first work of the conference this morning was to perfect the organization and elect officers. Several interesting lectures were on the programme for this morning. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the leaders con ference was held, after which the visitors were taken in automobiles to Auburn, where Dr. and Mrs. c. c. Thach enter- tsined at an informal reception at their home.
 Tonight at 7:30 a banquet was ~'ven the visitors at the Clement hotel, when the girls indulged in toasts, comic songs and yells.
 Sunday. evening the conference vii close with the report of the older girls conference by the secretary, delegation reports and an address by MT. Alexander of Chicago.
 The Birmingham delegation to the con vention comprises the following: Miss E1izab eth Tate, Miss Eula V. Smith Miss Ruth McNeill, Miss Eleanor A. Cdom. Miss Roberta Livingston. Miss Myriam Hostetler, Miss Rosa Greene Miss Josephine Cosby, Miss Clintell Ray Miss Leila Cochlon, Miss Julia Belle Archibald Miss May Franklin, Miss Ruth Chapel, Miss Imogene Goar, Miss Ella Edwards, Miss Alpha Buchanan, DAiss Fay Russell, Miss Rosamond Hill, Miss Kath- leene Meadow, Miss Nellie Beddow, Miss Annie May Price, Miss Lille Mcclure. Miss Margaret Shook, Miss Jessie Ingram, Mrs. s. F. Moore and Mrs. Plosser, who chapercned the party.
 These delegates will leave Sunday even- ing at 5:30 in a special car for Birning- ham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
SUFFICIENT NAMES
 TO CALL ELECTION

Huntsville Feb. 5.-(Special. )-Judge w. T. Lawler today decided th~+ enough qualified voters signed the petition for a recall election for the re-establishm f alderma nic government in Huntsville to make it a legal call and he will certify this fact to Mayor Lanier, who will call a special election. The matter was urged by Douglass Taylor and Ed c. Betts, for the petitioners, and Mayor Lanier and City Attorney D. A. Grayson. for the commissioners. Judge Lawler refused to consider a counter petition which was signed by more than half of the signers of the original petition, who asked that their names be stricken from the roll.
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his real choice is between the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes he might as we'll not have voted at all.
 But being compelled to vote both first and second choice, in order to avoid this effect, the voter can only do so by casting his sec ond choice vote for candidate who, in his opinion, would not be one of the two high men, and, in my opinion, the result in practice will be just that.
 THE FLORIDA THEORY
 The theory upon which the Flor ida statute was adopted was that the voters, whose candidates were eliminated, would express their preference as between the first choice candidates receiving the greatest number and the next greatest number of votes. Those who had voted first choice for ei- ther of the two candidates, be- tween whom the nomination would lie, would abide by their first choice selection and would not be interested in the second choice can didates for whom they had voted
 The vast difference between the two statutes is easily ascertained by a comparison between portions of section 50 of the Florida statute and section 80 of the Alabama statute. Section 50 of the Florida statute provides:
 TWO STATUTES
 Sec 30. If any candidate for an of fee shall receive a majority of first choice votes he shall be declared nomi- mated for such office. If no candi- date shall receive such a majority of first choice votes, then the nomi- nation for such office shall be deter mined by excluding from further con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06

HOO in excess of the 5000 cast.
 SENATOR BRYAN'S LETTER Senator Bryan's analysis of the Ala bama primary law, respecting second choice voting, follows:
 Washington, D. C.. February 5, 1916. MT. Hugh w. Roberts, Birmingham
 Age-Herald Washington, D. c.
 Dear Sir: In reply to your request for a comparison of the Alabama prim- ary election law and the Florida prinl- ary election law, I have to say that I do not wish to be put in the attitude of criticizing adversely the action of the Alabama legislature.
 You seem to be of the opinion that the Alabama legislature adopted the second-choice voting feature from the Florida statute. am quite familiar with the Florida statute from the fact that I drew it, and I have eX- amined with some care the second choice voting feature of the Alabama statute.
 The two statutes are alike only in that they provide for second-choice voting They differ widely and radi- cally in the effect given to second choice votes.
 This can be demonstrated by an illustration. Suppose we take a county office, for eample the position of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
Programme Is Announced

Columbus, February 5.-(Special.) The programme for the regular annual meeting of the Mississippi Home Science and Art association, which will convene in this city Thursday, Febru- ary "A. and remain in session three days has been announced and em- braces addresses by some of the most
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noted women in tn ecountry in work of
 this character. Perhaps the most noted
 speaker on the programme is Miss Car rie A. Lyfford, home science specialist of the United States bureau of educa- tion. Miss Lyfford, who maintains headquarters in Washington, will re- main here throughout the progress of the convention and will deliver sew eral addresses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
BEAUTIFUL ENTHUSIASM

The colonel who commanded the trenches possessed an enthusiasm that was beautiful to see He was as proud of his chalk quarry as an admiral Of his first dreadnaught. He was as iso- lated as though cast upon rock in mid-ocean. Behind him was the drip ping forest; in front the mud valley filled with floating fogs At his feet in the chalk floor the shells had gouged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
LIGHT THROUGH PEEPHOLES

The post was as small as a chart
 room. and the light came only through
 the peepholes. You got a glimpse of
 rack of rifles, of shadowy figures that
 made way for you. and of your captain
 speaking in a whisper. When you put
 your eyes the peephole it was like
 looking at a photograph through a
 stereoscope But instead of seeing the
 lake of Geneva. tine Houses of Parlia-
 ment. or Niagara Falls, you looked
 across rain driven valley of mud, on
 the opposite side of which was a hill
 Here, the reader kindly will imag zine
 three stick fulls of printed matter de-
 voted to that hill. It was an extremely
 interesting hill, but my captain, who
 also is my censor, decides that what
 wrote was entirely too interesting,
 especially to Germans. So the hill is
 ''strafed' He says l can begin again vaguely with lover there"
 lover there,'' said the voice in the
 darkness, "is St. Mihiel
 For more than year you had read of St. Mihiel. Communiques, maps, il-
 lustrations had made it famous and fla miliar It was the town that gave a
 name to the German salient, to the point thrust in advance of what should
 be his front. You expected to see an
 isolated hill promontory some posi-
 tion of such strategic value as would explain why for St. Mihiel the lives of thousands of Germans had been thrown like dice upon a board But except for the obstinacy of the German mind, or, upon the part of the crown prince, the lack of it. I could find no expla-
 nation. Why the German wants to hold St. Mihiel, why he ever tried to hold it. why if it so pleases him, he should not continue to hold it until his whole line is driven across the border, is diff cult to understand. For him it is cer- tainly an expensive position. It length ems his lines of communication and fn- creases his need of trasport. It eats up men, eats up rations, eats up price- less ammunition, and it leads to mo- where. enfilades no position. threat ems no one It is like an ill hammered boy sticking out his tongue. And as ineffective.
 The physical aspect of St. Mihiel is broad sweep of meadow land cut in half by the Mouse flooding her banks, and the houses of the Ferme Mont Mouse. On each side of the salient are the French. Across the battle ground of St. Mihiel I could see their trenches facing those in which we stood. For, at St Mihiel instead of having the line of the enemy only in front, the German has it facing him and on both Hanks.
 Speaking not as a military strategist but merely as partisan, if any Ger man commander wants that kind of a position, I would certainly make him a present of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
FLORIDA TALLEY SHEET

In both Florida and Alabama the nom- ination lies between A. and E. In Florida the result would be: For A 1200 plus 50O from C)-17O0. For B 1000 plus 300 (from C)-1300. A would be the nominee.
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In Alabama the result would be: For A 1200 plus 800 (300 from B and 800 from C)-2U00
 1000 plus HOO (S00 from A and 300 from C)-210O
 R would he the nominee