The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
D0BBS STANDS
 OUT AS PILOT Has Managed In South ern League For Eff
 teen Years

The Southern league has beer notable for its judgment in picking a good man for president and holding on to him when he has been found. Judge Kava- naugh ruled the league wisely and well for years before his death, and then John D. Martin followed him and proved worthy successor. Southern clubs. too, are in experienced hands with few changes noted in ownership in the past decade. But when it comes to team managers there is restless ness that does not correspond to the ! consistency in ohter lines of admins ration.
 marked than those that have gone be- fore for changes in team leaders.
 With the announcement from Mem phis. that the veteran Clyde Milan has been chosen by that club as it's 1925 manager. there remains at this writing only Little Rock and Chattanooga to decide on the changes circumstances require for those clubs. Norman (kid) Elberfeld left Little Rock to enlist with Mobile and John Anderson. who was Sammy Strang's field leader at Chat tanooga after Leslie \unamaker was let out. is 10 do his performing iu the American association as a player jn the ranks.
 Dobbs To Boss Barons
 John Dobbs, who left Memphis after winning pennant for Tom Watkins club. shifts to Birmingham, where he succeeds Stuffy Stewart. Elberfeld, as noted, goes to Mobile. where he sue ceeds Emil IIuhn. Milan is the new l man at Memphis.
 Atlanta retains Bert Niehoff, who shifted to the Crackers from Mobile in 1924. Nashville ties up with Jimmy Hamilton for a further period of years. Larry Gilbert retains his place at New | Orleans.
 | Quite a notable list of veterans the | Southern has as team leaders. All but enc listed have made their marks in the big show, where two of them were managers at one time or another. FL l berfeld of the New York Yankees and l Milan of the Washington team. Ham | ilton is the only minor leaguer among | them and his record shows dozen years of managing in the lower class 1 leagues
 DObbs Stands Out | Among them all Johnny Dobbs stands in a class by himself for service in the Southern. as he has been manager in the Dixie circuit since the season of 1 1910, and he never has piloted club that finished out of the first division. Elberfelds record nearly equals that of Dobbs' for service, but he has not had such success.
 1 Dobbs began his managerial career in the Southern with Chattanooga in 1910. The next season he shifted to Mont gomery and was there three years. Then he began a long stay at New Or leans. extending from 1914 through the season of 1922, when he was coaxed to Memphis. where he remained two years. ! Birmingham. in 1924. will be his fifth 1 club in the league. Previous to 1910 i Gin 1907). Dobbs had fling at man. aging the Nashville team.
 There has been story out of Little Rock that Bob Allen may manage his own team there the coming season. If he does that it will be a notable addi- tion to the list of former big leaguers leading Dixie teams. In Chattanooga Sammy Strang is bound to have q good and Sammy too is an ex-member of a big league team and famous in his deal to say about the play of his team l ,lnV as DlnVpr.