The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-15
CITY LEAGUE HAS.
3 FAST GAMES.
TO OPEN SEASON.
SIosS- Sheffield, AvondaIe and
North Birmingham Are
Victors in Big Open
ing Games

NY 0QlllLO
The City league basketball season
opened with rush last night at
the "Y' when Birmingham cage fans
were served three of the best games
that have ever been played in the
city league. The Avondale mills beat
Woodlawn p to 10. Sloss- Sheffield
bounced the Birmingham Southern
reserves is to and North Birming-
ham nosed out over the Howard
reserves by a IL to II score. These
games We're every one hard fought
and were fast enough to keep the
fans on their toes from beginning to
end of the battles. While they were
not in mid season form every team
on tn efloor played a good game and
1t looks like the city Ieague this
year will be the fastest that it has
ever been.
The Avondale mills and Woodlawn
opened the evenings festivities and
the Millers grabbed the game by a
Il to 10 score. This game was fast
from the start with both teams
playing at top speed at all times and
even though beaten by a better team
the Woodlawn boys played some good
basketball Harreu, Whiteside and
Campbell were the bright lights for
the winners in the scoring depart
ment, these three registering every
point made by their team. The work
of Afford on the defensive was also
good.
b. Burns and Obenchane were the
offensive stars for the Woodlawn
boys, while Kent and w. Burns did
some great work on the defensive
The lineup:
Avodale GU Position Woodlawn G3)
Whiteside, I .........B. Burns, >
Forward
HarrelL .....t...... Obenchane,
Forward
Campbell, ......,...... Frew, .
Center
Afford ..s..........,... NJ. Burns
Guard
lowell ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Kent
Guard
Substitutions-Avo COLLIER for
Howell, Bussler for Whiteside.
WoodlaYn: Moore for Obenchane, NJ.
Campbell for Kent, Colley for Moore.
The second scrap was between the
champion Sloss team and the Bir
migham- Southern reserves and even
though the reserves played great
game and fought to the last the
to count As usual, the whole
Sloss- Sheffield team starred but
Montgomery and Whatley were the
outstanding stars. These men not
only did some great work in the
scoring department, but they "a. ..
prevented the scorers from gettlms,
loose on many occasions Handy
also played a good defensive game.
The Sloss team looked just as good
as it looked last year in every de-
partment and someone is going 10
have. TO do some mighty good play
ing to keep them from repeating
their last year championship per-
Torrance.
The Panthers played one of the
best defensive games seen during the
evening and the score does not do
their wonderful work Justice How
ell, Churchill and Caldwell were re-
sponsible for what little the Biz
minghammers did on the offensive
but every man on the team starred
on the defensive and it would be
hard to say just who played best.
The lineup:
Birmingham Sloss-
Southern CD Position Sheffield lSl
Howell, ..,...,......,... Handy, ?
Forward
Mabry .........M Montgomery, g.
Forward
Churchill, Internationally Cambridge
Center
Caldwell s.............. Waldron, 2
Guard
beNle ........... w natley,
Guard
Substitutions: Birming ham--Eng-
lel>~ft CD for Mabry.
,e,I,
furnished the last bit of entertain
ment and by getting the jump on
the Bulldogs at the beginning of the
game the Nortsiders managed to
nose out IL to IL victory. The
North Birmingham team started to
playing basketball as soon as the
first ball was tossed up and soon had
lead that the Howardites were not
able to overcome. Fuqua was the
shining light for the North Birming-
ham team on the offensive as we'll
as doing some good work on the de-
fensive. Nash also played a good
game keeping the Bulldogs from
ringing goals time and again when
it seemed as though no one could
stop them.
Ham Stoves was the Bulldog star
and he played both on the defensive
\
any man that performed in any OF
the games last night. He mot only
left his opponents standing still but
he also managed to run away from
his own team. Walker and Griggs
also played good games, both of
them showing worlds of speed and
spectacular guarding ability.
The lineup:
Howard OD Position N. Bham G9)
stevens, o .s...... -..... MayneW
Forward
hlttenberry ....a...,..... Fuqua %
Forward
Smitn ............ McEWen
Center
Walker ...............,.. Harold
Guard
" Redr s.'...... ..9.a..... NASH,
Guard
Substitutions: Howard-Griggs Cd
for Smith. Whitehead for ORear,
Suduth for Whitehead.
North Birmingha CD for
McEwen, Biddle for Mayhem. Biddlc
for Harold. Walker for Nash, May
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