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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
Va s huiZIe Cage Team May Ent CT Bask Me ct
By J. l.. RAY

Nashville, December 13.-(Specia1. J. When the crack basketball fives of the
 United States gather in Kansas City in the spring, Nashville may have an en- try in the running that will give a genuine battle to the Los Anglese Ath- let club, national champions, and other star teams of the country.
 The big meet, held in Atlanta last year, found representative quints from many states in action, and a royal melee was the result. This season ad- ditional entries are expected, and the greatest cage tourney in history is in prospect. The second week in March has been set as the time.
 Capt Monk Sharp of the Ramblers this morning declared that the Ram blers will probably make application for entry for the tournament pro- vided their season comes up to the expected standard and their record of wins justifies entering with the crack
 gym teams. The Ramblers who have scored nearly 5000 points during their 10 years play to their opponents 2900, are expected to again measure up to the high standard of play
 which has made them one of the
 strongest teams in the south for many
 years.
 The Commodores face practically the same proposition. If they can carry
 through their hard schedule with a
 fair measure of success they will also
 be in line for trip to Kansas City.
 Anyway, between the two local squads,
 Nashville should at least have one
 team in the national tournament. The Commodores are just about
 ready for business, speaking from a basketball standpoint. The gym can-
 didates have been in action the past week, and it is likely that the season will open Tuesday on the Vandy floor. Telegrams have ben sent try ing to fix date with S.. P. U. Tues
 day night, and another Thursday or Friday with Tennessee Normal These contests will be similar to early games of the football season, prepara-
 tory to the struggles with the big col leges. But both have good teams and will give the Commodores a full
 measure of entertainment.
 The Commodore schedule is the most pretentious yet outlined at the univer- sity. and little time can be lost in Whipping regular team in fighting
 trim for hard campaign.
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Big Clubs Clash
 OUer Pete Herman

New York. December 1S.-( Especial. J. i The announcement that Joe Lynch and Pete Herman will box at Madison Square Garden, December 22, bids fair to result in a lively clash between
 the International Sporting club, which holds a contract for Hermans services till June 9. 1921, and the Madison Square Garden Sporting club, which has announced the bout for the above date.
 When asked for statement as to the position of the International Sport ing club, Adam Emple, the secretary, said..
 T cannot believe that Herman has signed contract for such a bout. If he has done so he has broken his con- tract with the International Sporting club, and we shall take action to com pei him to observe it's terms. We shall
 first take the matter to the boxing
 commission, and if we fail to get the
 desired relief there we shall go to
 court The International club does not
 propose to have its contracts thrown
 aside by boxers as merely a scrap of
 paper, and Herman will either, stand
 py his. signed agreement with us or
 we will know the reason for it.
 The International Sporting club
 EaS peeii paying the nOtel expenses of
 Herman for some time past and we
 do not intend to be thrown aside light ly at this stage of the game. We have treated Herman with the
 greatest consideration. He came to us some weeks ago and asked that we re- lease him so he could meet Lynch at the garden December g. As the ad- , verse decision of the armory board was then known, We released Herman rom his contract. It seems that the Lynch-Herman bout for December ? was sidetracked for the Lynch -Shar- key contest, and short time later Herman came to us and expressing great irritation over the affair at the
 garden, offered to enter into a new contract with the International club. This was done, and binds him to box for us up to and including June ? of | next year, when we expect to put him in a title bout with Lynch in the open. Lynch also is under agreement l to box for this club next spring. Now comes the announcement that Lynch and Herman are to meet in the garden December 22. Not if there is 1 law to prevent it."
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SeUeral Records
 Smashed During
 1920 Campaign
By JAMES J. CoRBETT

Never since baseball began have there been so many record-smashing feats per formed in a single season as in 1920. Statisticians are still busy compiling
 the figures It may be a month or two before they emerge sufficiently to an-
 nounce the complete result of their inves- | tigation. But up to the present time they 1 have uncovered the fact that the indi- vidual home run record was smashed that new records were made in total hits l for a season, individual runs scored team batting averages, league home runs and the various etceteras.
 RUTH INDIVIDUAL STAR ! Babe Ruth was the individual star. He
 poled out 54 circuit clouts, which eclipsed
 major, minor, professional and amateur records He scored 15S runs, which tum-
 bled Ty Cobb's peerless record hung up in 1911. And he drew more bases on balls in single season than any other player ever identified with the game.
 George Sisler wrote his name in the records as the fourth major 1eaguer who has banged better than 400 in a single year. In addition to that Sisler, by ham mering 25S safeties, beat CobD's record in that respect, which was made in l9li. The American League of 1920 punched
 out something like 4el home runs. Com pare that with the total of 240 for the , previous season and you get the amaz- ing comparison. The men of John Hydier garnered approximately 2I3 circuit smashes, as compared with 206 for the 1919 season.
 ANOTHER RECORD
 Never in the modern history of base ball have two teams in one league lln- ished the major league season of lof games with batting average better than 300 But that very thing came to pass in the American outfit in 1920 when the Indians romped home with .3oS and the Browns ended with 501. The White Sox were only a few notches behind witii 295 and the Senators landed fourth Wlti .294 The National league, as whole, batted for 26S, while the American league hit for the tremendous average ol 70. Teams frequently went on patth5 sprees throughout the year. Nearly two dozen slugging matches were staged one
 of the most spectacular of all was the battle between the Phillies and Reds' which resulted: Phillies, 2l; Reds, lo' That involved the biggest single cempat run score in the National league, and also stands as the 1920 major league record. TIGERS MAKE RECORD The Tigers established the American league scoring record for the year on , July 25, when they tallied 21 times, wniie the Browns were annexing 5 runs. The Yankees beat Chicago 20 to D. There were two combats in which the Winnlns l team made 19 runs, one In Whlch 'no winner scored IS times and four games where the total was IS for the winner Tbe most runs scored in a single game in inc American league was in the Tiger
 Brownie tilt, when the total reached 1'' 1 Is it any wonder, in face of what nap. nap pened in 1920 and the promise that lt going to be worse in 192l.' that the pitch. CTS do lot of shivering through these winter months?
 (Copyright, 1920, by King Features syn 1 dicate, Incl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
MERIDIAN HAS FORMED
 BASEBALL ASSOCIATION

Meridian, Miss, December iS.-(Spe- cial. )-The Meridian Baseball associa- tion has been formed, with the election of Jack Daily as president and w. A. Anderton, secretary treasurer
 A board of directors has yet to be named from local ball fans. meeting is scheduled to be held in Meridian next Saturday when a number of towns are expected to send representatives for the purpose of forming a league. The towns being discussed are Mobile, Gulfport Hattiesburg, Laurel, Jackson, Vicks- burg, Selma, Meridian and probably Demopolis. There is believed to be enough interest in the towns mentioned to maintain an organized league and the chances at this time look good for the formation of an interesting circuit.
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Challenger Is
 Confident On Eue Of Fight

New York, December 13.- Jack Dempsey, worlds heavy weight boxing champion, Nwill defend his title for the second time since he won the crown here tonight, when he faces Bill Brennan in a 15-round fight to a decision at the Madi- son Square Garden.
 Although the bout is billed as de- cision affair. there are few who believe that the fight win go the limit. The majority of the dopesters seem to pick Champion Jack to duplicate his feats of the past two years or so and score a knockout victory in the early rounds, while others comparatively few in number, assert that Brennan has im- proved sufficiently since his first bat tie with Dempsey, nearly three years ago, to enable him to stop the Utah Mauler.
 In that first fight, Dempsey scored a technical knockout over Brennan, when the referee stopped the bout in the sixth round to save Brennan from fur ther punishment. Brennan admits he was outclassed in that battle, but says of tomorrOw'S fight:
 BRENNAN SAYS
 "JacJ< Dempsey will meet diff
 ferent foeman from the one which
 he so easily conquered three years
 ago. | have the greatest respect
 for the chamipOn and for his proN-
 css, but I also have confidence in
 myself and my ability. Dempsey
 may beat me, but if he does, it will { be n surprise to me and to my / packers who know me best"
 Jack himself is full of confidence and determinat tion He is not oyer-confi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
U. OF ALA. CO-EDS PLAY
 MISS. COLLEGE QUINTET

Columbus, Miss, December 13.-(Spe- the Mississippi State College for Wom- en in this city and the department for young ladies of the University of Ala bama at Tuscaloosa will face each other fin a match game on the campus of the local institution next Thursday.
 The locals recently defeated the girls basketball team of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, and as the Uni versity of Alabama has an exceptionally strong team close and highly interest ing contest is expected.
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dent, but merely tsates that he is going

UCHt Uul u1SItly lSdlbo tidS AAS Is Q 6NiAAo D to win.
 JACK SAYS
 "Biu Brennan has improved since I defeated him in Milwaukee," says Jack. 'He is indeed a splendid ring man, but I fully believe that ! will stop him as easily as l did three years ago, for I myself have been bettering myself while Bren- nan has been improving. Fistic fans who witness the match tOmOr- row will see me nt my best. for am going to put every ounce of skill and strength that I possess into the battle, for I realize that Bill Brennan of today is not the Bill Brennan of yesterday. That's about all. But wait until after the fight. Then, you'll realize that I am right in saying I will win"
 In size, the two men are almost even ly matched. Brennan is two years older than Dempsey. Both weigh 19( pounds, are six feet and an inch and a half tall, and biceps, wrist, neck, thigh calf and ankle measure the same Dempsey has an advantage of one inch in reach, while Brennan is slightly the bulkier of the two in the chest and waist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
TY COBB LEAVES FOR
 GOTHAM AFTER OUTING

New Orleans, December 1S.-Tyrus troit Americans, came into New Or leans last night and left early today for New York, without indicating his feelings on the reported offer of the managership next season of the Detroit club Cobb enjoyed a weeks duck bunting near the mouth of the Missis- sippi river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
STEPHEN D. LEE ELEVEN
 H0N0RED BY A BANQUET

Columbus, Miss, December 13-(Spe- cial. )-Members of the football team of the Stephen D. Lee High school, which recently closed an unusually successful season, during the progress of which they lost only one game, were guests or honor at banquet given by MT. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
DEMPSEY DEFENDS TITLE TONIGh

Mrs. John R. Laws at their home on South Seventh street last night.
 MT. Laws presided as postmaster, and toasts were responded to by the follow ing gentlemen: c, E. Brandon, coach; Tom DeZonia- official scorer; V. E. lines, editor Of the Columbus Dispatch; {; Prof. J. c. Meadows superintendent of public schools; Prof. T. A. Middleton, principal of the Lee school and Battle Bell, Jr., captain of the team.>~ During the evening Coach Brandon was pre-
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scented with silver buckled belt as a token of appreciation of his services, the presentation speech having been made by Jack Simon, business manager of the team.
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Ross stable, who was injured on the Ross Farm near Laurel yesterday when his pony fell on him, was reported to be improving.
 The pony reared and fell backward, pinning Bedwell between the saddle and the ground. He suffered internal tn- juries and his leg was crushed.
 Balmora1, King Georges estate in ens Scottish highlands, covers more than 25,000 acres.
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H. G. BEDWELL IMPROVING
 FROM INJURIES, REPORTED

Baltimore. December 13.-H. G. Bed well, trainer for commander J. K. l.
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Highest Total-Point Score
Hon0rs Go to Ceilings
,Uood High With 3OI in
y Nine Games

DIR. Mathew G.. O'Bricn's Central
High School championship eleven and
the st. JOseph's Prep School team,
coached by Ilcnic Miller, the former
Penn gridirOn star, were the only local
school teams to go through the season
without u defeat.
The Ccntra' eleven was victorious In
all of it's eight starts and only one team,
the West Philadelphia High, was able
to put over n score on the Crimson
and Gold.
st. Joscph's Prep played only five
games aud, in winning the Catholic
League title, was tied only once. La
Sale Prep held the stiles street boys
to a score CsS tie. st. Joe was not scored
on in any Of the league games.
To the ColingswOod High School goes
the honors for the high scoring record
Of the season. When the ColIingswood
regulars played their alumni to II - tie
on Thanksgiving Day. it gave the New
Jersey school just 301 points for the
season
Media High School is awarded the
nonscoring record, for the five games
the suburban school team was unable 90
score II single point. South Philadcl-
phia High failed to win n game all sea
son, scoring II points to 25l for its
opponents.
The scoring records Of the teams in
and around the city for the entire sea
son follow
HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE
Final Standing of the Schools
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WILL PLEASE GOLFERS
Freak Fourteenth Hole Of Engineers
Course to Be Revamped

RosyIn. y. V. Nov. 2o.-'rhc short
fourteenth hole on the golf course Of
the Engineers Country Club here, con
sidcred to be one of the most frcakish
in the country. IS to be reconstructed.
The hole, nicknamcd '"rhc Battle
snip" and the ''rwo or Twenty" has
broken the winning stride of stars in
many tournaments, and proved to be
the fatal obstacle for many promising
contcndcrs in the national amateur
championship tournament held on the
links last fall.
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TWENTY-FIVE GAMES IN
ONE SEASON A RECORD
Heinie Miller, Lud Wray and Lou Little Next Sunday WM
Claim Title for Engaging in Most Games in Single Season

prove that professional football pays
and pays well.
No Injuries
The three Penn stars, however, were
n unit in declaring that the hard grlhd
is telling on them and that thcS are
nbout rcady to hear the, final gong.
Wrny has been suffering from bad
stomach for several weeks. Not once
this season has any member OF the trio
suffered m injury. Lou Little had the
nose that troubled him all during ms
college career cut early in the season
but not seriously.
In addition to their playing two
members of the famous football trinl"tt
have been coaching preparatory school
teams. IIcinic Miller has been Looking
after the dcStiniCs of tho 81. Joseph
Prem School eleven. whilc Lou lhttIe
has tutorcd La Sale. When the two
teams met recently the result was a TIC.
nurirg thc twenty games they have
rInyrd in. the three men have been on
the winning side every time. Union
and Buffalo have been successful IN
every game this scnson and much ol
tbcir success has been due to the nlnN
! ing of Little. Miller and Wray. Nray
has been holding down Ccntcr posi-
/ Miller nm end position. and Little onH
of the tackle jobs. All three were An
American selections during their college
days and today they are rated as among
tho best professional players in the
! United States. -
IL will BE- interesting 70 see how well
the trio performs AGAINST the famous
Akron players should the latter hhhiN
decide 10 meet the Union team Tor
thH professional championship of the
United States. Akron is composed OF
many of the best college players i'll til"
middle west during the past few years
and they have nm aggregation that Is
! said to be ono Of the greatest cot ,
lcrtions of football stars ever gathered
together.
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COLLEGE coaches this year have been
~ complaining about the length Of their
schedules and the fact that the candi-
dates for their teams have been over
worked; that they haven't had the
proper rest periods between big games
nnd that many of their best players have
been injured because of OvcrwOrk.
From the collegiate standpoint there
IL no doubt that many of the things said
by the various coaches are quite true.
The average college player cannot do
what the professionals do. but. on the
other hand the college players, ~ n rule.
are Just as husky. ms big and rs strong
MS the average player in the professional
ranks. Many Of tho professional play
crs arc men year or two ont Of college,
whose love for the game and tho big iinan
cial returns has sent them hnCk to the
gridiron. This year at Penn. Bill Ward
and one or two other players have the
distinction of having played in every
game. Many Of the regular Red and
Blue players because Of injuries, have
been on the side lines during one, two
OF three games.
Claims Record
After citing all the above, listen to
the story unfuldCd to tho writer OIr Snt e
urdny afternoon after Union had de-
fcatcd FrankGord for the championship
of eastern Pennsylvania. In the dress
ing room used by visiting players TO the
phillics' park. Lud Wray. Ilcinic Miller
and Lou Little. all former Perm stars
were dressing preparatory 20 hustIing tC
train for Buffalo, where they played
yesterday afternoon.
"Must be making gang of money
these days. Lud." was vcnturcd.
eyes. but believe me, IL is g"ttlni
pretty much on our nerves. DO yo,
know think We hold the foot1nlI long
distance playing record Of fhc uni
verse; said Iud.
"Sincc we started to play This yea
with Union we have jumped to BuiraI
every Sunday night for Sunday game
Since the start of the season we hHv
played, including today's game, in OK
nctly nineteen football games. Tomor
rows means twenty. Two moro during
+ the coming week makes twenty two. |
that isn't record for one short sea
,om. then We will return to college.
! Twenty tWo games in one season. |
! seemed ncrcdulous at the start, bu
once Ilrinic, Lon and Idid started com
pairing notes aud making proof of tn
assertion of the last named We wCr
finally convinced. And yet all thrc
are only one year out Of college. re
college man that the schedule wOul
contain Twenty-Five games and he woul
Immediately resign from til" f0otba
squad. But the professional playc
simply smiles, tinkIcS the coins in hi
pockets, packs his sutcasc and start
for the scene Of the contest.
IT. is estimated that the three formc
Penn stars have cleaned UP over 500
80 far this season by playing wit
Union and Eulfnlo. Which all goes t
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Auulnas In Gaze AqaIn

Tho Aduinas Catholic Clubs one of N"
pioneer organizations Of South Philadelphia,
will put n hrst.clnss independent basketball
team on the floor this season under thn
OF Sid Smith, former high and
broad jumper. Sml,h would like to book
games In and around PhiladorhIa. Anon,
'hOsr who viii sport the Auuiula CO'Ors arc
IIanraty. McGuckcn, O'NcilL MCMahon and
Fitzpatrick. with Smith sub ftituiing. Ad-
dress std Smith, 1853 Grconwav avenue.
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and Navy Tied
Win Eleuen Victories

Saturdays victory over the Armk by
the Navy has tied the games. EnCh
team, since they began meeting or the
football field In 1890. has won eleven
contests. One was u tie.
The attendance nt the Polo Grounds
rest football season. About 10000 wit-
messed the battle. which wnS featured
more by color than good football. The
largest crowd Of the year saw Harvard
trim Yale at Sew Haven Il week aEO last
saturday. There were 80, 900 fans there.
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Landis to See Giants, Opener

Sew York. Nov. 2O.--Judr. X. NJ. Lands.
now hrrI Of org ni2"d baseball has nr-
game of the 1921 season Of tho New York
Giants, It was announced today. He viii
b. the guest of honor Of the Now York Chap
Ter Of the Busrball writer's Uf America, at
tho nnvcilIng Of - memorial tablet In honor
Of Charles EI1ir Grant Of tho Giants,
who was kill'd In Ia" hatti" Of the Ar
gUnnC.
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Kansas City Awarded Players

K,nsns city, Nov %. --,ioorg" Mu"hl"-
bach nrraidrnt Of the lorHl American NESo.
ri"t'on "1E" cub, roc"i@"d word last Night that
lEnnsas Guy had boon awarded T., = irn,
nntt and James GrusR. Of the Dhylnnn
"IIIHrIdm stat" ioagurl by III" National As-
sorlntIUn Murhl"hach purchased N" rlay"r2
last August he suid Later DrNtonn SoIl
,hr plnyrrg TO tho Co!umhug American ASSo.
clarion team according to Mu hI"nnGn, ana ana
HAT IN, cincinnati Nationals viii PLAY y
tTainIIg trip srrirs hero on April and 2
and that the cubs will play mere on "pFH
u IA
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CLEVELAND TIGERS FALL
, BEFORE BUFFALO ELEVEN
Oscar Anderson Makes Only Touch
down In scrappy Football Game


Buffalo, Nov. 30. - Four times the
ll-Amcricnn Buffalo football team
bore the heavy, scrappy Cleveland Ii
gers back toward their own goal yes
tcrday. 1t reached the 5yard line and
then as far as the 1foot line. but only
once was the local aggregation able to
break through for touchdown.
Oscar Anderson and Tommy Hughitt
worked the famous Colgate fake forward
pass to perfection in the second quar-
ter. Anderson scootcd around the right
end from the 7-yard line for the only
score. Tommy lIughitt kicked the goal.
Buffalo showed strength in the back
field with Buck Gavin and Jim Laird
as halves. Smith at full and Anderson
at quarter until HuEhitt came into the
game, but the visiting line and ends
0utplaycd Buffalo and proved the STUN
bling block to bigger score.
Forward passes were blocked in most
instances, Buffalo getting away with
few. however, for short gains. ClCvC-
land made only two during the game.
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Yale Opens Hockey Season Here

New Hnvrn. Conn., Nov, ~. -Tho YNTN
hockey rrh"dul" h"I hc"n announced n'
drlphln; January -, Princeton at Philadrl
mia; January -. Harvard 1T liosinn; Feb.
Ti,ary I, Harvard at philtd"lphia: February
~ Dartmouth at Hanover: February ID.
Princeton at Boston.
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To Coach Williams Five

WillinmSt0wn. Nov 20.--,I0hn Shnnahan.
~ North Adams has been appointed coach nf
Williams College. To succeed I'd WIchtcr.
nr rru" who TOog to Harvard THIS ycnr.
Shanahnn has hccu prominent NJ player,
couch ana official In tho BrrkshIrra for tn
Ir"I twenty years.
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Canadians May Play Here

Montreal, Nov. 2O.--Thc Canadian and
Ottawa tCams In the National llOckcy League
will play three exhibition games IN New
York during the week beginning December
IT, The teams also are considering games
at Philadelphia and boston.