The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
CITY LEAGUE CAGE TEAMS TO RESUME PLAY NEXT WEEK
SIosS- -SheffieId-CentraI "Y'' Game Will Be Feature
 Battle


 After a vacation for Christmas, the | City league basketballers WEI re- sume their weekly struggles on I Wednesday. January 8, and, with | every team in the league showing
 more stuff than was shown last year, | 1t looks as though the season Will 1 year will be nothlng but d series of hair-raising battles all ol the wa5 | through. With seven teams in the
 league this season, competition
 promises to be much livelier than IL
 was with a six league circuit and the games should be much better. In the first games of the .eague, every team showed worlds of class as well as an unusual amount of nght and all three games played on the opening night were of the same class as those played in mid-season
 last year. The big event of the sec
 ond nights program will be the game between the Sloss Sheffield team and Coach Abels |. M. c. A. tor runners. The Sloss team won the championship of the league last season, while the "Y" boys were the next best, and throughout the whole season the sloss and "Y" teams were
 the outstanding contes tants for the
 title. 1t is very doubtful that tiiGot LWO lSdAiiS VIII O0 lliO WACAt show this year, with the class the
 other teams have been showing, but
 the Y. M. C. A. and the SlossS Shef-
 field teams are going to be the bis
 rivals of the league, and their games are bound to be among the best on
 the wohle schedule of the City league. Little is known of the ability of the "" five this season, as they were idle the first night o1
 play drawing a bye.
 SIOss Team in Shape
 The Sloss team performed, how
 ever, and they looked pretty muca like themselves again, administer
 ing a stinging defeat to the Biz
 mingham -Southern reserves. In
 Montgomery and Hanby, the Sloss
 boys have two of the best forwards
 in the league, as both are not only speed merchants but can chunk the sphere through the goal from any angle or distance with amazing reg ularity. To offset the ability of these two stars, Coach Abel will send m Hii-
 burn and Brunson, and while they have not been under fire in the City league thus far this season, .l is
 fairly safe to say that they will hold their own with the Sloss Shef- field stars, judging from last sea sons games.
 Waldron and Ansley will oppose each other at center, and both men are so good when it comes to play ing this place that it is a difficult matter to attempt to say just
 which one has it on the other. Ans ley will have the advantage in height, while Waldron should havs
 the ~" entry ecipsed little in the speed department. They play about
 the same in other departments Of
 the game, so it looks as though they
 will be wei matched,
 Slick Davis and Bush will oppose Whatley and Dainbridge at guards and right here it might be said that the "Y" guards are going to have the jobs of their lives in keeping | on an even footing with Dainbridge and Whatley. Mir. Dainbridge con | fines all of his activities to guard
 ing and passing, two things in which he excels, but Waldron Goesn t l stop with these things, as he is one | of the best goal ringers in the City | league. Last year he not only ac- counted for a great many points not being scored against his team. | but he was also responsible for a
 large number of the points that the
 slcss team gathered off their num- 1 erous victims.
 Leaving all predictions as to the final outcome of the game out, it can be truthfully said that fans are | in for 8 real game of basketball when the Sloss and i''Y" teams put
 on their war paint and go after eaca | others rusty scalps.
 Aside from this game. two other | U00d nrOnoiSe6 f 1 looks like the second nights per 1 formance in the city league should
 excel the star play that featured 1 tha 6rst