The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-28
CAGE PROSPECTS,
 AT HOWARD LOOK BRIGHT THIS YEAR
Three Veterans Back, and Much New Material Is
 On Hand
By MAXWELL ALLEN

The football season of 1921 Is dead and officially buried at Howard col lege, and now that examinations are all over, the thing that $ interesting the Bulldogs most is basketball. This year the outlook for a successful cage season is anything but gloomy. and the Howard coach's only trouble will be in trying to find just which one of his large number of candi- dates is best.
 However. he will probably be able to do this all right. for Coach Mar shall knows how to coach and play basketball to perfection. Marshall had his biggest basketball success at the University of Maine, where he played four years, and had the dis tinction of being one of the few men who made the regular team the first year After leaving the school Coach Marshall served four more years as a professional player, and there is not much that anyone can tell him about the art of playing basketball. He has always put out good teams during the past, and even though basketball was not a success at Howard last year, it was due to lack of material and not to the lack of the proper coaching.
 Gaylord mt Guard
 Dan Gaylord, who played the other guard for the Marshall crew, Is back again with the Bulldogs, and with added weight and speed he should be even better than he was last year. Shorty Webb is the third member of last years team back, and all that he has to do to make the team is to show some of the stuff that he showed last year, as he was the best scorer on the Bulldog aggregation then, and was the Howard mainstay at forward.
 The three mentioned above are good men all right, but they are going to have a whole lot of competition in their struggle for a place on the regular team. Lee Ford, Ham Stew ems and Toby Stubbs are a trio of ba six eteers that will make anyone work for a place on the team. Ford played with the Hamilton Aggies two seasons and he is rated by many as the best player in the state. Stevens starred at S. M. A. last year, and Toby Stubbs did a big part in mak- ing Central High team win the state championship. With Webb, Ford, Stevens and Stubbs working for for ward, the Bulldogs are sure to have some Qepenudnle SCOIeIS III lhC iAHo- up this season.
 Fight mt Center
 The fight for center will be waged by two newcomers in the Bulldog camp, namely, Roberts and Pat Shores. No one around here knows anything of Roberts ability, but re- ports from oklahoma, where hA played last year, tout him as being player that will stand up with the best of them on both the defensive and the offensive ends of the game. Roberts has the height, all right, and and If he has enough speed he will stand good show of making the team.
 It will not be any walk away for Roberts, though, If Pat Shores doesn't break his leg or have some other kind of hard luck. Shores played with S. M. A. last season and was one of rink Gillem's most dependable per formers, being a sure goal shooter on the offensive and possessing the ability to stay with the man with the ball on the defensive at all times. Re- gardless of who lands the place at center, 1t will be we'll taken care of by two such men as Roberts and Shores.
 Jess Lackey, Othar Afford and Dan Gaylord will be there to do the work at guard for Howard. Every fan around here knows of the ability of Afford and Gaylord but very few of them know much about Lackey. He Lplayed last year with S. M. A. and was one of the fastest men on the team.