The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-23
ALABAMA NINE WILL PLAY F TWENTY-FIVE GAMES IN 1924
Crimson Baseball Team Has 15 Games Scheduled On Campus, Including WiScon- sin, Next Year

q UNIVERSITY, Ala, Dec. 22.-(Spe-
 ecial Twenty games. 15 to be
 9played on the campus will be played Hoy the University of Alabama baseball
 mine next year, Coach Wallace Wade
 ; ;announced here Saturday.
 q The schedule of 25 tilts as am
 ! nounced by Coach Wade is one of the ] strongest schedules arranged in years [ for lovers of the national pastime. 1.-TWO northern teams are included in Ia brace of games, while three good ' trips will be undertaken. The Sched- ule, both as to games and the oppo- ynents to be played, is all that any
 SCrimson fan could demand. Coach
 fWade has arranged menu that is issure to cause the Crimson team to z receive national attention.
 |. : Teams on the schedule that were ! played last year are University of ! Wisconsin, Furman, Howard, Georgia, 5 Mississippi A. X NJ, Georgia Tech and North Carolina. The new hines to ss1le played are Oglethorpe, Vanderbilt, stChio State, Mercer and Tennessee. A i tsIoair of games will he played against { each club.
 To fill this schedule, Coach Wade has the possibilities of having one or t.the greatest hines ever turned out at 1.-the Capstone. He has returned every fe eneInDGf Ol lle I9Z0 SQudu NALll N4AS Reception of~ Elmore, Davis and Kos ssenfeld. The catching staff IS intact with Cruise and Hubert back and ! Lewis. freshman backstopper out TOT, | berth. The pitching quartet or
 Steed MacMillan, Tubbs and Cunning { tiham will find endorsements from Wharton and Clay. These two de- Apartments will be hard places for any fsone of last year rats" to break in. ~ lRosenfcId q Star.
 Rosenfeld, star first sacker, is not back for the nine, but in Connaster, a sophomore, 'Bama has one Of the best col1egian initial bagman in the game. Connaster poles em nara ana | far, and covers the bag well. He hut twell over 450 last year for the fresh man team. Huey Green is back for the middle back, but is going to ma \ much competition from Fish Sal < mon. Salmon hits the apple With a : hNim. is one of the fastest men at the Eapstone and is a dependable fielder. x At the middle field position, 'Bama has Grant Gillis, captain-elect, one gof the greatest short fielders-in fact, next to Joe Sewell-that the Capstone has ever had. Gillis starred in foot
 Z 15s1ll this past season, and is sure to 4khine brightly in the baseball dia- rnnond He hits the apple at .400 fcIfp and poles out many extra base Syallops However he, too, is going to find q fast freshman star of last wear in Andy Cohen to watch. At the ybot corner 'Bama has Peter Pltts, hcaptain last year. How these irtielq- CTS and several others sure to seek berths will finally assemble is hard Ito guess at.
 q Returning outfielders are Propst, fBarnes, Oliver and several freshman
 players This will have to be the de partment to be greatly strengthened fSeveral shifts are sure to take place swhen the men start out for practice but material seems abundant at stBama for baseball. , Here's the complete schedule;
 March 21-22, Ohio State, at Denny field April 2-3, Furman, at Denny
 field April 4-5, Tennessee at Denny field; April 7-S, Howard at Denny , field April 9-1O, Wisconsin, at Denny field; April 16-17 Mercer at Macon, kGa.; April 1S-19, Georgia, at Athens; 1; April 25-26, Vanderbilt, at Denny tat Denny field; May 2-3, Mississippi IA. & NJ, at Starkville, Miss; May 7-S, sDglethorpe at Atlanta; May s-1o' tCeorgia Tech at Atlanta; April ls,
 g North Carolina, at Denny field.