The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-01
Baseball Season Is Fast Approaching
|CAGE GAME GIVES WAY ID BASEBALL
Great american Sport Com ing Into Its Own This
 Merry Month

Baseball, the pastime of the
 sport-loving public in general,
 is coming into it's own again. With basketball on the hook,
 the attention of the fans is fo-
 cussed full on the fast-ap- preaching season.
 Basketball in 1920 is now a thing of the past, so far as Birmingham is con- cerned. The seasons of the four biggest 1 local teams, namely, B. A. C.. Howard and Bi-mingham-Souther colleges and | Central High School, have closed. Local fans saw their last cage game this sea- | son Saturday night. when the Auburn Tigers triumphed over the Athletic Club quintet.
 Baseball is gradually assuming defi- nite shape Soon the great American game will cease to be a matter of dis cussion around the hot stove, or cause of comment or prophecies on the part of sport writers, but will become a. reality Action, and not discussion or , comment. is what the fans want, and action will be had in plenty during the | next ten days.
 This week will bring forth much, in the opinion of the local basebali-loving public. In the first place, the Barons will get going by the first part of the month. Cravath and his Phillies will be on the scene in another week or ten days Local and state colleges begin practice today. Truly, baseball will be humming in all its activity before the
 passing of many more days. "Bill' Streit, chairman of the athletic committee of the Birmingham Athletic Club, is glad that basketball is out of the way, according to his own state ment. The B. A. c. is giving it's tenth annual invitation track and field meet May s, and "Bill, is anxious to get down 1 to hard tacks. With the cage game out of the way, Coach Hutsell and other B. A. c. celebrities will be able to give all their time to preparation for the track meet.
 Another affair being promoted by the B. A. c. is the Alabama High School wrestling championship tourney, which will be held at the Athletic Club March 1 2s and 27. The club intends to bring to- gether the best high school matmen in
 the state on these dates.
 1 Calls for candidates at both Central l High and Howard College are expected to be issued during the present week. Both institutions should be well repre- | sented on the diamond this season, as
 
 1 able at each
 University of Alabama seems to have | secured rich plum in the parsonage ] of Gordon Lewis, who will coach the 1920 baseball squad. A former sporting editor of the Columbus (Ga) Enquirer l Sun has this to say about Lewis:
 "Gortlon Lewis, the new baseball coach of the University of Alabama, is the same lanky left fielder who played for the Columbus (Ga.) South Atlantic League pennant winners of 1911 and 1912.
 Lewis, in those days, and maybe yet had one of the best whips in the league On flag raising day in 1912 during tho field sports, Lewis made the best long distance throw of the two clubs pres ent.
 "But he had one besetting trouble. He never was much with the stick on his home diamond. On the road he was good for from one to three hits a game, and always if there was anybody on a base. But just as soon as the team got back to Columbus, the ground d-covering outfielder semed to take a slump. though at that he was above the average l Pittsburg has broken into the winning column as a wrestling center. A big
 mat show was starred there last week