The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-29

Coach Greasy Neale mad a won derful team at w. and J. this year but such opposition as California will probably be able to put up is yet to be encountered by the Generals.
 Washington and Jefferson is great on open football, but the Westerners are said to be able to present an at tack of open football that will in every way equal that of the Generals.
 In straight line pIunEing, CnI-
 ifOrnia probably cxceIs the east
 erners. Andy smith Is said to
 have n group of splendid line
 smasherS in his backfield, and it
 may he that the westerncrs will
 rely mainly on straight football
 to win the big game at Pasadena.
 Interest in the contest is high this year as in the past and fandom is watching the invasion of the Generals with keen anticipation of 8 great and heroic battle next Monday, but few are really picking w. and J. to de- feat the wonder team of the west. ERICKSON IS STAR IN
 GENERALS BLACIxFIELD
 The Generals have one bomb in Harold Erickson, star of the ball toters, with which they hope to burst California's hopes of victory.
 This tawny Norwegian from the northwest known as the Minnesota Flash" has starred on eastern grid irons for three years. He is a big fellow. weighing over 1S0 pounds stripped It was in his first year as a General that he first broke Into prominence.
 ". and J. was playing Syracuse in 1919, and the odds didn't favor the 1e f- h,.l Ja feated Pitt, and, with a big, husky eleven, was counting on walloping their big rivals in their annual game.
 The Generals gameIy battIed
 their foes to scoreIess tie in
 the first three quarters. and the
 final period was all hut five min-
 utes gone when the "MinnesOtn
 Flash" flashed through with his
 first bit of briIliance of the sea
 son. Receiving punt in mid-
 field, he sifted through the entire
 Syracuse team for a touchdown,
 placing the Generals in the lead.
 w. and I kicked off to Syracuse. which, unable to gain. again punted to Erickson. For the second time the Minnesota Flash" ran through a broken field for touchdown Wash ington and Jefferson won the game. 1S to o.
 Erickson has been doing similar stunts ever since. On a gridiron al- most ankle deep in mud on Thanks giving. he raced outside tackle over so yards for touchdown against West Virginia. At Detroit he repeat ed, lodging along the side of the field for good 65 yards after break ing through tackle.
 1t can be seen that Erickson is the ''big ace" of the Generals on the of fensive During the season past no team has been unable to prevent him from breaking through for at least one long run, and much of the hopes of the Generals adherents that their team will defeat California lies in the nimble feet of this wonder half back.
 EDDIE HANLON LOSES
 HARD ONE TO AVERA
 Eddie Hanlon, an old friend of Birmingham fans. lost a hard bout tof Larry Avera in Atlanta last Mon day night when the decision was given against him by the referee Guy Butler, in the Atlanta Journal, states that the howls of the crowd could be heard three blocks away. iianlon and Avera were boxing on the card featured by the Budd- Stribling bout, and, as it turned out, furnished the real thrills of the evening
 Larry Avera cut aIoose on the
 veteran Hanlon i'm the first round
 and all but knocked Eddie out.
 Hanion stuck it out. however,
 and then won back many of the
 points lost by hard jolts to the
 jaw.
 Avera fought only in spasms, But