The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-22
LOOKOUTS APPEAR ID BE STRONG FROM
 EARLY INDICATIONS
Chattanooga Scribe Says FL berfeld's Clan Will Figure in Running-Team Is
 Well Balanced

With the dope from all other Southern league camps fast gaining spirit over the southland, Chattanooga scribes are awakening and boasting of the outlook for the Lookouts under the hand of Norman Elberfeld. The Lookouts have been generally picked, with Mobile, to be the easy teams of the circuit, but scrbes are now trying to place the Lookouts in a dangerous pose.
 Chattanooga may have a well-bal- anced team, that is admitted, but it is team of exceedingly low calibre. No doubt it appears strong to the Look outs, but it will fail to establish any wonders in the Southern league this season with such teams as Little Rock, Birmingham, New Orleans, Nashville and Atlanta in the race. The Chatta- nooga News reviews the situation as follows:
 The effectiveness of any team in a Championship race depends largely upon the relative strength of its opponents. At this date it is very difficult even to approximate the actual strength of tue seven Soutneln league clubs, eX elusive of Chattanooga, but taking all things into consideration, the Look outs right now look very, very good
 Elberfelds 1916 club is not col lection of stars, it is not collection Of high priced athletes, bur 1t is a collection of earnest, industrious ball players, ear of wnom is working in perfect har,noEy with the other, and under the direction OF the gamest and most resouceful manager that ever donned Southcrn league spangles
 OUTFIELD STRONG
 Roy Ellam Ut Nashville Bob Allen at Little Rock and Dolly stark al Memphis are fearfully busy just now explaining ho -Belr gardens eclipse all others in .he circuit. The three pilots in question certainly have cor ralled some star performers, but Fiber fields collection of gardeners looks about as effective any of them Da- lev Wilson, Ripper and Collins alone furnish the Kid with enough timber to carve out an outer defense that Will stack up with any ill the circuit as II now appears.
 Coming to the inield, the Lookouts again seem as well fortihed as most any club in the lea que. Harris, Pittler, Elberfeld and Graf form combina- s ton which for collective efficiency is hard to beat. Several of the other in fields contain stars of greater reputa- sstfon but these same individuals have passed the zenith of their careers. While the local inheld, Elberfeld excepted has it's best days ahead. The Lookouts inner defense will tighten as the days 70 by. Most of the others will loosen.
 PITCHERS WEAK
 In the receiving department Fiber field is better fortified than any other pilot in the circuit Kitchens and either Peters or Powers will rank as < pair of receivers above any other .No III the circiut as it now appears.
 In the pitching department Enberfelc shows weakest just at present. accord ing to foreign scribes. It is significant to note, however, that the Kid himself considers his staff the equal of any i,. the league aud the best kc mas eve, possessed durirg his career as a pilot in this circuit.
 Yes, you can keep yonr eye cn the 4 sLookouts this year. As before stated they are not collection of hign-pflced phenoms, but they are q band of earn \ est hard working performers, each with the interests of the others and tine club as 8 whole at heart. You can Always look out for a team like this no matter what its actual strength may appear on paper.