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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
Choctaws to Play
 Baylor Saturday

Clinton, Miss, December 1.-(Spe- cial. l.)-Coach Robinson and his squad of Choctaws left here last night for Dallas, Tex, where they are sched- uled to meet the Bears of Baylor university in a post-season tilt Sat urday. The team departed in high spirits. and are all in splendid physi- cal condition and are very optimistic as to the outcome of the contest.
 Coach Robinson has been drilling them hard for the past week, get ting them in readiness for the battle with the Texans. They took their last workout Wednesday afternoon, and will arrive in Dallas Friday morning and take brisk practice there that afternoon.
 Has Had Great Year
 The Mississippi college team has gone through a splendid season, and without doubt is recognized as the best grid team the school has ever had. From nine games they have come out with one defeat, one tie, and seven decisive victories. The defeat was by the Mississippi Aggies, 14-13;S the tie was with University of Flori- da, 7-7, and the victories were over Tulane, Louisiana college, Union uni versity, Birmingham Southern, Ole Miss, Millsaps and Spring Hill. This splendid record will most probably give them a slight preference over the Bears as winners.
 Baylor university has always been a strong contender for honors in the southwestern conference In all lines of athletics. and thls season on the gridiron is no exception. Though they do not possess the conference title, they have a strong aggregation of pigskin chasers. Boston college, who administered a 21-0 licking to De- troit, the conquerors of Tulane. won over the Bears some time ago.
 First Texas Invasion
 This tilt marks the first advent of Mississippi college athletes against Texas school, and is the initial grid battle between Baylor and Mississippi college This adds much to the inter- est in the affair. and Choctaw back CTS are hopeful of an Indian victory in this athletic contest with the westerners.
 Goat Hale, who has becn selected by the majority or Dixie sport scribes as all-southern half, is expected to perform his usual stellar role against the boys from Texas. This redoubt- able chieftain will lead his warriors and is in splendid physical condition for the fray
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
BIGGEST OF ALL SPORT PILLS IS
 COMING IN STYLE
Basketball Is Replacing Foot ball, Capsule of Sports
 Medicine Chest
By MARVIN MCCARTHY

With the University of Alabama Tulane game tomorrow, played in New Orleans. will come the end of the 1921 football season for Alabama fandom, and attention will once more turn to another line of sport. bas- ket ball.
 several times each year the sport ing season changes, like the annual changes of the seasons. With each change the size of the pill also changes. The pill, without which sports would be helpless, is the of ficial goat of almost every game and in almost every line of athletics.
 To start the year, basketball is the first sport attracting attention in the world of athletics. The pill in this case is a big, semi-soft ball, that is thrown and butted about with little thought as to consequences. Then, with the arrival of warm weather, the littlest of all the pills, yet one of the hardest. the little golf ball, again comes into it's own. Knocked about during the winter by various folks who don't know the meaning of cold weather, the little golf pill enters a period of absolute cruelty. From early spring time on, until once more wintry blasts begin to sweep the greens and fairways, the golf ball is swatted, chased hunt ed and cussed.
 X Capsule Now
 At about the same time that in terest in the chase of the golf bali takes new hold on life, attention is also turned to the baseball about four times as large as the golf ball, and resembling that littlest of pills in color and hardness. The baseball is also swatted and cuffed about un- til fall, when the size of the pill again changes. and a long, almost cigar-shaped leather bag, called a football, comes into style. This pill or capsule. is kicked, hurled and rolled about unmercifully, and really receives as much of drubbing as any of its various cousins.
 Then, after a short but strenuous season, the pill becomes as broad as 1t is long again, and we have the basket ball, which is becoming more common in our midst each day. It won't be long until the thump of the biggest of the pills is heard on the courts of the various clubs and asso- citations, and the basketball season will be on in earnest.
 Other pills of more or less fame in sportdom are billiard balls, vol ley balls, tennis balls, medicine balls, ping pong balls. bowling balls and the new-fangled style of puten takers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
Panther Track Men
 In Big Race Today

The Birmingham Southern college quartet of track representatives will leave for Atlanta this morning to enter the Emory university track meet to be held in Atlanta Monday. The team. composed of Capt. Dick Webb "Buddie" DeYampert. Eddie" Branscomb and E. Nj. Barrow. are all in the pink of condition for the run and are confident of making d good showing in the meet.
 The Emory event is yearly at traction among the denominationai schools. and Birmingham Southern Is confident that her four men will make good showing against the nine or ten colleges to be entered against her. The event covers a course of four miles.
 The men on the Panther team are the first four to finish in the Cooper road race pulled recently over the B. A. c. course. DeYampert finished first in this event and Branscomb was a close second. These men are counted on much In the Atlanta run off.
 The Blrmingha- Southern team will also be in the B. A. c. annual event to be put on December 10, which is only seven days following the Elm ory run. The Partners have been training faithfully for the past few weeks for these two events.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
Admission Golfers
 Being Instructed

Anniston, December 1.-(Special.) Members of the Anniston Country club are displaying an increased i'm terest in golf, a large number of both old and young enthusiasts talk ing advantage of the series of golf Instruction courses that are now be- ing offered at the club by George K. Jacobus of Ridgewood, N. J., golf CT of international reputation. MT .Jacobus is given high indorsement by eastern golf players, and in the few days that he has been seen on the local links has won the undivided approval of the older golfers of the city, having shown himself to be both a first-class player and instruc- tor It is expected that several matches will be staged here and other places in north Alabama in the near future between the instructor and professionals In the state, lively in- terest and close contesting being promised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
TIGERS FACE HARD SEASON
 IN BASKETBALL
PIainSmen Have Hard Sched- uIe With Squad of Green
 Candidates

Auburn, December 1.-(Special.)- The schedule for the 1921 season of the Tiger sketball team has been completed, according to a recent an- nouncement of Coach Wilbur Hutsell, who will have charge of the coaching and training of the basketball and track teams of the Plainsman outfit this season.
 Auburn supporters are looking for ward with quite a lot of interest for successful season under the training of Coach Hutsell, who made quite d reputation as basketball coach with the Birmingham Athletic club for the past several seasons. Coach Mike Donahue, head football coach and di rector of athletics, will devote his en- tire time to the spring football train ing which has seriously conflicted with the basketball season, in the past. It will be remembered that d number of first class teams have been turned out under the toutorship ot Coach Donahue, in which is included a number of the championship calibre.
 Squad of New Men
 The Plainsmen squad will be made J graduation made clean sweep in the Dasketers' ranks and not single let ter man returned this year with which to make a nucleus for this years team.
 Joe Harrison of Montgomery, for med Sidney Lanier cagester, will eap- tain the 1921 squad in the absence of Jack Lassater, captain elect, who did not return to college this season on account of bad health.
 In addition to a rather stiff schedule, the Tiger squad will enter the two big basketball tournaments of the season, the Southern Intercol- legiate Athletic association tourna- ment, which will be staged in Atlanta February 24, and the Cotton States Intercollegiate championship tourna- ment, which will take place in Au- burn March 2-4.
 The schedule as announced is as fol- lows:
 December 17-West Point. at Au- burn.
 December 2O-Camp Benning. at Camp Benning.
 January 13-M ercer, at Macon.
 January 21-Clemson. at Auburn.
 January 2S-Georgia Tech, at At lanta.
 February 2-Mercer, at Auburn.
 February 4-Birmingham Athletic club, at Birmingham.
 February 11-Georgia Teca at Au- burn. A
 February 14-Camp Benning, at Au- burn.
 February 1S-Birmi=gham Athletic club, Auburn.
 February 24-S. l. A. A. tourna- ment, at Atlanta.
 March g. 8. 4-Cotton States Cham pionship tournament, at Auburn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
NEW CONFERENCE DELEGATES MEET
 WILL OPEN TODAY
At Least Three New Members Expected To Be Admitted
 To Conference

Atlanta, December 1.-(Special.)- Complete organization of the South ern Intercollegiate Athletic confer ence is expected before the adjourn ment Saturday night of the conven- tion which opens its deliberations at the Piedmont hotel Saturday morn ing. None of the delegates had ar rived tonight, but 1t was stated at headquarters that reservations had been made for more than a score of representatives, and that several meetings were scheduled during the day.
 Important matters of legislation must be threshed out at the con- vention. Tentative organization as effected al the initial meeting in At lanta held some months ago, but no constitution was adopted at that time. There are certain of the fund. amental principles of the conference that will undergo no change, but much work Is in sight for the dele gates in bringing about the final or ganization.
 The One-Yenr Rule
 Adoption of the one-year rule Is one of the cardinal features of the conference. and the 13 colleges that are already members have signified their intention of putting that ruling into effect on January 1. It Is be- lieved that an effort will be made to have the rule effective next fall.
 The move, it is said. comes from the University of Tennessee, nd -it is known to have the support of in- fluential members of the conference The Volunteers are perfectly willing to include the one-year rule, but they argue that freshmen were permitted to play football during the recent campaign. Should they be prohibit ed from playing basketball and base ball, it would be unjust to the bas- ketball and diamond material having their first fling at collegiate ath- letios.
 New Members
 The addition of several new mem bers to the roster of the conference also is expected Vanderbilt, it IS known, will have a delegate at the convention, and 1t is believed that he will put in the Commodores' appli- cation for mbership. 1t Is almost certainty that Sewanee will fol low Vandy's lead.
 At least three new members. Prof. S. V. Sanford, president. stated re- gently, would be admitted. Two of these are believed to be Vanderbilt and Sewanee. President Sanford also asserted that he hoped for as many as five additional names on the meIn- bership roster.
 Most of the representatives are in charge of schedule making at their respective colleges and are vested with the authority to arrange games with little consultation with their athletic boards For this reason it Is probable that many grid battles for the next campaign will be sched- uled at this convention.
 A nice entertainment program is being arranged for the delegates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02

Locals May Make Change
 Officials of the two local schools may agree, however, to make the swap from the Satur- day before Thanksgiving to Tur- key Day for the big local game. As a matter of fact, some of the officials have felt for some time that the Panther Bulldog scrap should come on the holiday, but Alabama has had the date tied up heretofore. Others are of the impression that holiday date hampers. rather than helps draw a big crowd.
 l have always been under the impression that the more big football Birmingham has the big ger the crowds grow from game to game. There are those who take the negative in this argu- ment. Some claim that the Au- burnCenter game took all the money out of town this year, and there were few sheckles left for the games to follow. This, they say, cut down the crowds at the two games following.
 It is probable, however, that an agreement will be reached in or der to bring the University of Georgia to Birmingham. With Auburn and Centre playing here; Alabama and Georgia; Alabama and Sewanee, and maybe Auburn meeting another husky foe here, and the Panther Bulldog game, Birmingham will be well taken care of in a football way in the season to come.
 Tech Wanted Game
 It now develops that Tech wanted a game with Centre this fall, and having failed to get one this year, has been bending every effort to land the big drawing card for next season. Atlanta seemed to spread the idea at first that Tech did not consider the Praying Colonels worthy foes, after they had been beaten by the Jackets in 1920.
 Recent happenings bring out the fact that Centre is peeved with Atlanta, and Is growing peeyeder as the days roll on. Ac- cording to the report. Centre offt- cials have been getting sneering letters bearing an Atlanta post mark all season. and these off cials state Centre will never again play in Atlanta until bet ter feeling is displayed by At lantans. Tech authorities were quick to state that the letters were not of a Tech source, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02

It was in the spring of 1915, at Ann Arbor, Mich, that two young south paw hurlers were engaged in a pitch CTS battle. sisler of Michigan vs.
 Koob of Kalamazoo Normal were the principals in pitchers duel that will be remembered by the student body when they reach the grand father period
 The game lasted 15 innings and no runs were scored by either team. Kcob held the batsmen of Michigan to pair of singles and famed IS batsmenl Sisler didn't pitch the en- tire game. At the end of the fifth he was shifted to the outfield and made the only hits registered off the southpaw curves of Ernie Koob. In the five inning he pitched no hits were made and 12 batsmen struck out. The recount of the game tells that of the 67 balls pitched by Sis Ter 57 were strikes.
 SisIer Quits Pitching
 This was one of the early events in> the career of two college lads who, in later years, were team mates on the St. Louis Browns. Koob stuck to the pitching game and Sisler, who possessed ininitively more skill than K oob when it came to pitching baseball, cut the pitching. game to bat his way to fame and fortune, which he is doing today with phe- nomenal success.
 When the now famous Sisler signed a contract he was slated as pitching possibility, but showed batting abil- ity which overshadowed his value as a hurler, at least, so thought the management of the St. Louis club, and to make it stronger, this college bred athlete demonstrated that he could play first base little better than the average big league hrst sacker. The St. Louis management couldn't make a mistake in playing Sisler in almost any position, but at that there was lost to the game q hurler whose southpaw curves would have dimmed the wonderful records of a Morris, Ramsey or Kilroy If fate had destined him to follow the pitching game.
 A Young Wonder
 That another Killen, Breitenstein O, a Needles" Hahn was ushered into big league baseball was the verdict of the fans after George Sisler pitched his first full game against the Cleveland team on July 3. 1915, allowing but seven singles and whif- fng nine batsmen, and the opinion of the experts who saw the lett handed recruit work and give a de- n.onstration of curve pitching was that he had stuff equal to any south paw the game ever had.
 It is doubtful if ever college campus produced a greater ballplayer and hurler that George Sisler, and his work from 1913 until 1915 was of sure a nature that every scout in the land had lines out for him. Sisler won fame in college circles with the stick as well as being pitcher of rare ability.
 The idea prevails that college play CTS have, as a rule, weak opposition, that the average college batsman swings at everything offered by a hurler who possessed a good curve. This incident will give an insight how puzzling Sisler's curves were and what splendid control he had. In a game against the University Of Syracuse, in the spring of 1915, when that school had the best baseball az gregation in it's history. Sisler struck out 20 U. of s. batsmen in game
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
MIKE M'TIGUE GETS
 VERDICT OVER SMITH

Ti<,ue of New York received judges /csion over Jeff Smith of Bayoane, N. J., at the end of their 15-round bout in Madison Square garden to- night. Both were claimants of the Canadian middleweight champion ship.
 McTigue had the Bayonne boxer on the verge of a knockout on several occasions. but Smiths ruggedness en- abled him to pull through and he ap- peared at his best in the last three rounds.
 Marty Collins. New York bantam weight. stopped Al Walker of Cali fornia, the referee halting the contest in the third round when Walker was unable to continue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
Shades-Ca Cahaba Play
 Hueytown Today

The Shades-Cahaba football team will close it's season today when they journey over to Hueytowu High for a game this afternoon. This is the first year of football at the mountaineer school and, even though they are hoping for big improve ment next year. every one is count ing the season as a big success.
 Shades Cahaba has played six games this year and won three and dropped as many. This is not cham pionship football by any means, but it is a great showing for green bunch of boys playing football for the first time against well coached teams of long experience.
 The mountaineers have trained hard for the game and are going over to Hueytown with the expecta- tion of making another game good in their favor,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02

came from other channels in At 1anta.
 Lee Defeated Vaudeyillinn
 It was announced about week ago that T. K. Lee would take on Charles Winninger. star of the Broadway Whirl," in trap com petition. When MT. Winninger arrived in town, he looked Mir. Lee up, and they quietly repaired to the range of the local club. Lee made quick work of the stage mark sman, but states that he was good at that,
 we went out for an impromptu shoot" said MT. Lee Thursday in discussing the match. and as the newspapers had no representa- tives present, the match didn't get in the papers. still, there were many who saw that the match would come off, and they gath cred the impression that I had been beaten"
 What really happened was that Tackhole broke 50 straight in the singles, while his opponent was breaking 47. In the 22-yard haS1 cap, MT. Lee again tri- umphed, breaking "A to his op- ponent's 21.
 Winninger proved pretty clever with the scatter gun, but on his visit to the B. A. c. rifle range he displayed little wizardry with the small-bore gun and was easily taken in tow by Lee.
 Second Round Is On
 Despite the unfavorable weather of Thursday, a number of golfers ignored the threatening rain. and journeyed out to the Country club to get going in the second round of the tournament to decide the club championship. As a result. both the ball and the participants got soaked at cer- tain stages of the game.
 The second round of the tourna- ment will carry through Sunday. and all participants must com plete their matches by that date. Guessers are already hazarding predictions on who will battle it out in the finals. Bob Gregory, A. B. Harris. Gene Munger and Leslie Brownlee are showing good form while Jim Wood, the wrong handed demon, has been playing the best golf of his career of late. The fairways at the Country club are fast, and the new greens have made a decided hit with the play CTS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
ulane May Play
 Army or Navy At
 Legion Contention

New Orleans, La., December 1.- Especial. )-Tulane's athletic council has been approached with the biggest thing yet in the schedule line for next season. It is the proposal of a game with either Army or Navy during the American Legion convention here next October, when thousands of visitors will be here from all parts of the country
 The committee preparing for the convention is endeavoring to arrange the game and probably will have Tu- lanes hearty cooperation. The mat ter Is to be taken up with the le- zion officials and those of the two service teams at Washington, West Point and Annapolis
 If this game is arranged 1t will he the football classic of the south in 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
PLAY IN COUNTRY CLUB GOLF MEET
 IN SECOND ROUND
Upsets Feature First Round In Annual Tournament
 at Local Club

Play in the second round of the Country clubs annual golf tourna- ment is now in progress. First round matches were completed Thursday morning, and play has progressed with the field narrowed down to eight contestants in the championship flight.
 Second-round matches must be com pleted by Monday morning. In the first round matches, few upsets and some good golf featured. Jimmy Wood pulled the greatest surprise by wal loping J. H. Doughty, ending the match on the sixteenth green;. Frank Blackford defeated Walter Murdoek, 6 and 5, and H. A. Drennen eliminated l.. M. Tutwiler, Jr., and 8. Both of these matches were upsets. Following are pairings for second round matches:
 First Flight
 A. T. Simons vs. Jim Wood. +. $. Blackford vs. Bob Gregory. A. B. Harris vs. Eugene Munger H. A. Drennen vs. Leslie BroWnlee.
 second Flight
 J. S. Pevear vs. Jimmy Hillhouse. H. $. Going vs. J. R. Thames, ST. Lonnie Munger vs. Charles Locke. Herbert Tutwiler vs. Oscar Wells.
 Third Flight
 Johnny Thames vs. F. A. Lupton. E. s. Allen vs. George Whatley. D. H. McDonough vs. J. A. Norman. Bert Throckmorton vs. winner of Moughon-Cunningh match.
 Fourth Flight
 Lee Moody vs. M. Barnwen. Joe Mudd vs. G. Johnson. Charles Webb vs. E. NJ. Mason. Tommy OByrne vs. R. II. Hemphill.
 Fifth Flight
 R. S. Munger vs. winner of Ed monds-Cocke match.
 N E. Cross vs Frank Watson. R. M Jones vs. Sam Majors. M D MinR vs E M TutWiIer ST,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
Centre May Play
 California Eleuen

Berkeley, Cal, December 1-Cal;- fornia's champion football team wants to play in an east vs. west game New Years day. but as no big eastern eleven seems anxious to jour ney west, an opponent has not yet been named Last New Years day California defeated Ohio State at Pasadena.
 San Diego. Cal, has Centre college. conqueror of Harvard, signed for a game, but has no opponent, and there Is talk that California may make up the deficiency. Then there Is the Pasadena game with Iowa, big ten champion, considering making the trip. California would prefer Iowa to Centre, as the former Is a repre- sentative state university.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-02
Au-Amateurs Can
 Enter Trap Euent

New York, December 1.-All anna teur trap shooters of America were given the right to enter the national title event in ruling made today by the general committee of the American Trap Shooting association, in it's third annual conference. Here tofore the rules of the association admitted only state champions to the national title tournament.
 The name of the event. known for years as the national amateur cham pionship, was changed to the clay target championship of North Amer ica.
 The committee announced it would select tomorrow a site for the grand American handicap of 1922.