The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-04
Elldn Win Not Tolerate
 Any Night Owls On Team
Vol Pilot Will Lay Down Strict Rule That Players Must Report For Morning Roll Call-Intends to Produce Winner If Possible ble-Popular With Fans Already

Roy Ellam certainly intends to turn out winner at Nashville if the ma terial provided him can be moulded into one. Roy issued his first order yesterday when he declared that he would not tolerate a night owl on his team. Roys ruling says that the roll Willy be called every morning at 10 clock at Sulphur Dell after practice starts and that no tardiness will be excused
 Roy's order met with universal ap- proval in Nashville The fans have al- ready taken liking to the former star shortstop of the Barons and it looks like Ellam has a big year fac ing him. Blinky Horn has the follow ing to say in the Nashville Tennes- sean:
 MT. Jonathan Dodge can thank his stars that he will never more be af- filiated with the Vol outfit. Especial ly. since MT Roy Ellam has assumed the reins of government. MT .Ellam, be 1t known has laid down a rule when his hired hands get within hail. ing distance and weeced down they must show up at the ball yard. The new leader of the Vols has set the hour of 10 o'clock each morning for his gents to answer the roll call.
 That ought to put stop to any late wooing of the mattress or late sessions with the pasteboards and sim far methods of diversion during the soiourn at home. By calling his ath- letes together at 10 o'clock each morn ing for conferences and light work outs, possibly, MT. Ellam figures he can keep close tab on the habits of his gents.
 "One thing is certain, the night owls will be barred if Mr. Ellam has any thing to do with it. Glory be.
 'Mr. Dodge would never be able to get to the ball yard by 10 o'clock, since frequently he employed that hour for retiring purposes.
 'The early morning conferences planned by Boss Ellam is only one of several schemes he expects to put to practice after he gets his outfit lined up. For many a moon folks around this league have called k. Slippery El- lam the chief lieutenant to Carleton Molesworth. Much of the success which the rotund Baron leader has met up with has been laid by the wise birds to the hair trigger baseball methods employed Dy LTlS IlSIOppeI Oil liic field. Moley was never any whale of a coacher That he is a smart pilot, nobody can deny. He's proved that too many times.
 Yet. Roy Ellam has been handed large bundles of credit for keeping the outfit travelling at the proper clip on the field. Although the former Baron never made any great hulla- baloo on the diamond, there's no deny ing the fact that his quick thinking saved many game for the BirIning- hammers
 "Now that Slippery Ellam is begin ming to get acquainted with Voltown fans who get a chance to listen to his big league managerial views, the gos- sip of his silent partnership With Molesworth becomes more impressive. Roy is one of those examples Of the still water which, according to rumor, runs quite deep. That's the way he impresses folks who have listened to his line of talk.
 "Although the new Vol boss is ex- actly the opposite from the hurly. burly rough house type of coacher, he doesn't sit back and permit hostile bark CT to ride him without coming back in