The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
PANTHER QUINTET TO PLAY SIMPSON
AUBURN BANQUET PA IS BIG OCCASION TO
Birmingham Southern Team To Stage Practice Game
 Tuesday

The Panther cagesters of Birming- ham, Southern will meet the Stmp- son Purple Tornado in a practice game on the Simpson floor Tuesday afternoon, the Panthers coming un- der fire for the first time in the sea- son and the Tornado for the second, having blown over the North High land Methodists to 35 to count last week.
 Although the encounter is called practice game the Panther will meet worthy foe in the Tornado this afternoon as Simpson seemingly has another team of state championship caIiber this year and is expecting to do some high grade work against the Gold and Black team from Sun shine Slopes
 For the past two years cage ath- letlcs have been languishing among tine Panthers ard this is the first season they have put out varsity team in three seasons. During that time the Simpson Purple Tornado has put out two teams which have won the championship of the state and this season. two men of the all- Alabama prep cagesters are back in the Purple uniform with some other material of the first order The Tornado demonstrated it's ability in the game against North Highlands defeating a number of former col- leee stars from BirminGha m South ern and other institutions. The High lands team, however, met the Tor nado after only a few days practice. The Panther team is composed or number of former Simpson stars and some other veterans and should
 easily outclass the Tornado unless
 the Birmingham Southern men, through the fact that this is the first game of the season for them, are 1 tn nASSe2
 Techsters with enough science and 1 organization to stop them. This VIII i be the first time the team has been i in action and number of players 1 have not been on the court TOT W4cz 1 | in three years. due to the fact that no varsity team has come from the
 Panther lair in that time.
 With Englebert and Caldwell. for mer simpson stars, at the forward positions and Aubrey Miller for al, 1 Candy and Hoyt Levie, Birmingham
 Southern veterans of two years ago: | at guard and Hall, ex-performer or
 stellar rank in prep school athietlcs;
 at center the Gold and Black should
 have a good team during the com
 ing season. The team has been
 holding regular workouts under tho
 direction of Coach Charles Zeilman
 for some time and are ready for ltheir first tilt of the season. l The Purple Tornado Will lake lHs
 floor with Wright, veteran of last
 year. and Ellis, one of the mosr
 promising candidates, at the for l wards; Slick Vincent, all-state per
 former of last season. and possibly
 James Harris at guards and CurdY
 Byrd. ali-state center. at his regular
 nositfon Albert Vincent, Dewey
 Byrd. wilking and Malloy will also
 see service during the game.
 One of the best cage encounters
 of the season is promised by Coaeh Dick Webb of Simpson and Coach
 Charles Zeilman of Birmin gha m
 So1thern, the promising showing 1 made by the Techsters and the fact
 that this will be the first game or
 the season for the Gold and Blach,
 raising the encounter to the dignity
 of something better than the usus
 practice game.