The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-29
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Open season on worn out vet erans and very young recruits is now on in the baseball world. Wor ried managers are cudgeling their brains and increasing their wrinkles these days, as the ax falls time ana time again. and another am- bilious pastimer falls by the way side.
 Strange enough, releases have been almost totally absent in the camp of the Barons. Joe Dunn has turned aloose only three of his orig inal squad of candidates, and right now it is not definitely known when he will cut any more aloose.
 Both Shutter Matthews and Joe Dunn have full squad at their tte two squads have gone out of style now with the advancement of the spring training season and the arrival of exhibition games.
 It would not be at all surprising if Joe Dunn cut aloose with flock of announcements of releases before the week is out. as his squad could very well stand little trimming.
 Miller HuEgins has announced
 the release of several of his
 rockies. Among those he says he
 will turn alOOse nS soon as he
 con locate berths for is Burney
 Acton. Birmingham hoy and
 former star with Howard college
 Acton went to the Yankees with
 considerable "rep" as south Alabama leag,ser behind him.
 In spring training. but. of course.
 stood little chance of making
 the grade his first time up.
 especially with the crop of hard-
 biting outflelders Huggins had
 on hand.
 Burney Acton is a mighty sweet looking prospect, and it would not be surprising if he landed berth in Class A ball or better. Huggins will probably keep strings tied to him, as tire little Yankee boss always has a flock of hard hitting ball players leased out over the country.
 Acton performed on Howard col Iege gridirons and diamonds for sev- eral years and was considered one or the best athletes ever developed at the East Lake institution. His fleet ness of foot won for him the nick name of Speed during his college days, and that monicker has clung to him ever since.
 Random Is interested in the outcome of the ax yielding scn- son at the spring camps Of De-
 trOit and Brooklyn. Will Stuffy StfWUrt 0u0 FIbp Neun sV the BarOnsf This question is
 aslxed daily. No definite answer
 has been found yet. although it is known that Birmingham has
 filed n claim for Stewart, and
 that Neun has told friends he
 will return to Birmingham on
 April 1O when Detroit plays
 here. Stewart is with Brooklyn. George Reynolds. popular young baseball and basketball coach at Simpson high school is faced with one of the hardest problems athletic coaches have to solve these days that is. he must round his basketball team back into absolute tip-top form. and hold it there until eliminated from the national interscholastic cage tourney at Chicago next month.
 Coach Reynolds thinks his team will come out all right. and states that it will be in fine fettle by the time of the tournament. Staleness of the team is his greatest fear now. and he believes that will be pre- vented by not driving his team too hard at any time between now and the tournament.
 It will be the first time an Ala bama basketball team has crossed the Mason and Dixon line. and Coach Reynolds feels all puffed up over his Junior Panthers being chosen to rep resent the state in the national tournament at Chicago