The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
HILLIANS' STOCK
 SCARS UPWARD
Heavy Line Will Add Strength To Mobile
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MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 15.-With the first week of practice over students at Spring Hill college have formed the i'm precision that they are due to see quite fair squad representing the Hilltop institution on the gridiron this year. There is a squad of linemen out whose weight is noticeable and whose willing ness for work is / seemingly unsuitable. And while the backfield looks to be somewhat light with great smattering of new faces, the prospects aren't so bad as to cause consternation in the Purple and Whites camp.
 The prospects for the line this year are without doubt much brighter than thesoutlook last year As a whole line men are heavier and further, and where as there were but a couple of heavy line reserves to call.upon in the pinch, a full squad reported this year. Whats more few of them scale below the 170-pound mark and those that do are tough ba- bies. All of the returning letter bearers have added few pounds and as re- suit of keeping in pretty fair trim this summer are showing up with but few bruises, an unusual case at this time of the year.
 All seven of the positions will find tremendous fight being waged for them by the candidates. Perhaps the hardest of all concerns center. Dan Hardie has picked up few pounde-and while still light, looks good, while "Dapper Dit Litlein scales, well over 160. Mark Roy, a recruit, is of the tall rQngy type, just the opposite to Ditlein, but covers the ball with little or no trouble. In signal drills his passes back always land just right. On the guards are found letter men and couple of recruits fighting for the job. Flats" DeRouen, Sugar" Steckler, Count" Donald De Hoff and Speedy" Burgoyne are the letter men, while "Cola" Coco and Bill Keeling are making strong bids. Two letter men are at the tackles. Captain Ching and "Yank" Cassidy, while '.Bo' valenta, Bud" Stoecker and Bud" Lurry are two good-looking prospects. Efforts are expected to be made to con vert Lurry into an end, while Cassidy has played end on numerous occasions.
 The ends jobs find buch of pros poets, all of whom are not showing up so well. However, enough men can be switched from the other positions who can handle the job that little fear is expressed over these jobs. From last year the Hill has Willie DeHon and 'Slow" Conroy, both of whom furnished trouble for the opposition. "Spec" Bos- tick has been nipping passes. while Jazz" You'd seems to be right" also.
 A quarterbac kis Coach Corners prob lem. "WOp" Gianotti has been shifted from a combination end-halfback man to the job and seems to be holding up pretty well. Petty" Perez has been handling the other squad, his main trouble being too fast delivery of sig nals. One or two others are being tried out. The halves offer a raft of possi- bilities. Johnny Bandi is the only re turning letter man but looks lighter than last year due to an Hines. From Johnny Grill, Pinky Davis, Louis Perez, Louis ("Nigger") Dilleaud and Louie Boyland two good halfbacks may be picked with ease. From this gang also comes probable fullback.
 During the past week the near est thing to a scrimmage was a mock scrimmage. Two squads were lined up against each other and signals were run just as in game save there was no blocking or tackling. Actual scrimmage will probably start Wednesday after noon. The 40-odd candidates will work out this afternoon, Corners stated. Prac- tice will begin at 2 80 o'clock.