The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-03
rONE OF GREATEST HOWARD FIVE TO PLAYERS OF OLFISTART PRACTICE
 WORLD IS TRAVIS AT "" TUESDAY
Bulldogs Looking Forward to Successful Season of BaS-
 ketbaII This Year

The Howard college basketball team will begin practice at the I. M, C. A. on Tuesday afternoon and every man that will be out for the team is fairly aching to so to work and take crack at doing some of the things which the football team failed to do. Howard has every chance to have a great five this year for two big req sons, mainly their coach and the ma terial. The Bulldogs have the most likely looking basketball material that they have had in several years and they have never had man on the Bulldog coaching staff that could out-do Coach Marshall when it comes to coaching basketball.
 Howard has three of last year s team back again this year and all of these men are anxious fortthe season to start and are looking forward to a better year this year than they had last year. These men are Othar AL ford, Dan Gaylord and Shorty Webb. Afford is captain of the team this year again. this being his second time at the head of the Howard five. In him Howard has one of the best guards in the south, which was y the brilliant work he did in every game.
 Dan Gaylord played the other guard for the Bulldogs last year and he did not lack very much of playing a game as good as that that Afford played Gaylord is probably the fast est man that the Bulldogs will have and aside from having a remarkable ability to keep the other man from shooting a goal he can also shoot one himself with surprising consistency in the pinches
 Shorty Webb played at one of the forwards for Howard last year and despite his size, which was conspici- ous hy it's absence, he played a good game for Howard.
 The newcomers in the camp of the Bulldogs this year are the ones that Coach Marshall is figuring on bois- tering his team with this year. Gar rett, the big gent who played such star game on the Howard eleven this year, has signified his intentions of going out for a forward and Ii he is-as good at this game as he is at football he should make the team easily Garrett weighs around 1yO now and is in fine shape and if past experience means anything he should show the fans few things about playing the old game.
 Toby" Stubbs is going to give someone good fight for job on the team and he is able to play any position on the team, so it means that he will keep three or four men in- stead of one worried over making the team. Toby played three years with Central High school and every year he hung up great record for himself, being named on the all-state cam last year. If Stubbs can show some ofthe stuff that he showed when at Central there is not much chance fer him to miss rcaking the team.
 Aside from the two boys named above, Pat Shores, Lackey, Stevens, Roberts and Lee Ford will all be out for q place on Coach MarshalPs five. All or these men have had experience in the game and should make good bid Tor jobs on the first team this year. -4-ts
 Iowar has material and if they will train and take the game serious ly the Bulldogs should have one or the best games in basketball that they have had in long time