The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-14
'ELLAM PREPARES 1 FOR TRAINING CAMP

Roy Ellam, the former Barog, and now
 manager of Nashville is getting ready
 to start the spring training season to-
 morrow Ellam has been bit late in get
 ting started this year owing to the wish
 of President Clyde Shropshire and will
 have a lively job in whipping the team into condition by April 14, when the sea-
 son opens
 All of the Vol twirlers have been mailed their transportation with the exception of
 Kroh, who is still on the hold-out list with
 no prospects of signing until his desire
 for a higher salary is satisfied Ellam
 is also still after Hurb Kelley, the former
 Cracker and who was recently released
 by Pittsburg. Roy has made an offer
 to Perdue, but as yet has been unable to
 land him.
 The activities of Ellam are told by
 Blinky Horn in the Tennessean:
 KROH STILL HOLDS OUT Outside of MT. Floyd Kroh, all the
 Vols pitching hopefuls have been sent
 railroad ticket, and all they have to do now is to get aboard train. Boss Ellam expects some of his mound talent to show up around the early part of the incom- ing week. and if any sort of weather is
 handed him, the new pilot will get busy i inspecting the spring showing of hooks
 and curves. This season the Vols, for
 some reason, are getting mighty late
 start in the training antics, the date last spring having been 10 days earlier than the present time.
 "At best the brand of weather in these parts is none too good, samples of every thing from giggling spring to frigid
 Boreas being put on display in a single day The Vols on that account will have
 no time to spare in getting into shape, and
 should they bump into a weird stretch of weather are apt obe a wee bit slow in rounding into form.
 "On account of the short training ar engagement Boss Ellam has persuaded Proxy Shropshire t ocall off couple of | battles billed with the Louisville Colonels I in their own back yard on April 12 and l IS. The Dixie seasons gets under way on ! April 14, and the new chief figures the two dates in question can be better em- ployed in taking things easy in the dell 1 than monkeying around in Louisville.
 ONLY FEW EXHIBITION GAMES 1 'So far as exhibition games are con- cerned, Boss Ellam is not annoyed over
 the few dates secured by the Vols. Roy | isn't any great enthusiast over spring games, preferring to spend the time in polishing up on signals, etc., and the nu- merous other tricks to round out team work.
 If MT. Herbert Kelly is seriously con- l sdering accepting the offer the Vols made 1 for his left-handed services this summer
 he isn't confiding his thoughts in the l local magnates' minds. Nothing but si- ! lence, and plenty of that. has been heard 1 from the Notre Dame gent. It may be i that MT. Kelly is too busy solving his | problems in geometry, or whatever he l is studying now at Notre Dame, to con | sider a berth with the Vols. The Indiana 1 scholar is still in college, and even should i the Vols be successful in landing him they are not certain when he would be able to report
 OTHERS WANT KELLY But the real son for Mir. Kelly $ failure to fall over himself in accepting the Vols offer is the fact that he is playing the field' It's an open secret that Charley Frank is crazy to get hold ! of the ex-Prate finger. for Cracker fans l have told the Dutchman how Mir. Kelly s
 rals failed to support him properly last 1 season. and no end of good things about his fancy pitching. Jonathan Dobbs, who has never had good ,eft-hander, &C., | coiuiilS to HIS own dumlSSlOn, IS dlOtHei' pilot who is anxious to have the Notre Dame boy in Pelican uniform. Recently reports were out that the l Pels had secured a portsider named Dil- | finger from the Indians, but MT. Dobbs knows that Kelly has the goods. 1 So until MT. Kelly gets all his offers | lined up there is little chance for his talk | ing terms with any club. Still, in the meantime. we repeat, it wouldn't be bad | md h tirva at Drxr