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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-17
pOULTnY AND pRODUCE

CHICAGO, Feb. 16.-The butter mar ket here was easy and unsettled to- day, following a half-cent decline on top score. Buying interest was prac- tically at standstill,. with hardly enough business reported to accurately establish q market. .
 The market on cars was also easy and unsettled with 90 score cars. half cent lower than yesterdays levels. Trade was practically at a standstiII.
 Fresh butter, 92 score, Soc; 91 score, 49hc; 90 score, 49c; S9 score, 4SAc; ss score, 4sc; s7 score, 4Thc; s6 score, 46hc.
 Centralized carlots, 90 score, 4shc; ss score, 4Shc.
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HUBBARD. BROS. e co.

Members New York Cotton E~~hsnEe, Ne~
 Orleans Cotton EAehanye. New York Pre- duce Exchange. Associated Members Liv- srpoei Cotton Association. Orders solicited tor the purchase and sale of Cotton and Costom Seed Oil fon future deiivery. Spe- eiRl attention and liberal terms GlSen foe
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American and German Will, Aid Mixed
 Commission

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1G.-Ap- pointment of Capt IIoratio c. Gill nor, United States navy, and Dr. Paul 5. Lahr, of Germany, experts on ship construction and valuation. to advise the German-American mixed claims commission on claims of Americans arising out of damage or destruction of vessels during the war, was announced tonight by Judge Edwin E. Parker, commission umpire.
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COTTON SEED OFT,

CUTTUN SEED OIL
 NEW YORK, Feb. 1s-ov.rr,xs. liquidation by southern longs carried cotton seed oil lower, but good absorn- tton by commission houses and nrofit taking by shorts checked the decline Active months were to points net lower at the close. Sales, 21. 500 bar reis. Prime crude, $s.s2la, nominal: prams p summer yellow spot, ss.75, bid; $10.60, all bid.
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MONEY IN GRAIN

&Is.Se buys guarantee optisa on 10000 6usheis of wheat or corn. Ne Further Risk. A move. menf of Bc from option price gives you sn opportunity to take $500; 4c, 500; &c., $500, etc. WRITE TODAY FOR PARTICULARS and FREE MARKET LETTER. amvesters Daily Guide. s. w. Branch. Dept. T-I4,
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unchanged.
 CHICAGO, Feb. 16.-Butter lower; creamery extras, 5oc; standards, 4s1sc; extra firsts, 4e9491ac; firsts, 47h@ 4shc; seconds, 46h @47c! Eggs lower; receipts, 14.e24 cases; firsts, 311s s@32c; ordinary firsts. 2s@30c. ! NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Live poultry quiet; no freight quotations. Express chickens, 25@s0c; broilers, 5o@6Oc; tur- keys, 26Q2s dressed poultry quiet; prices unchanged.
 CHICAGO. Feb. 16.-Poultry, alive, unchanged.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Butter easy; receipts, 1494s; creamery higher than extras, 501s 051o; creamery extras, 92 score. 50c; creamery firsts, ss to 91 score, 4Sa4 049atc; packing stock, cur rent make, 29c. Eggs unsettled; re- ceipts, 16,295 Fresh gathered extras, firsts, 37Q371sc; do. firsts, S5@36hc; do. seconds and poorer, 34@35c; New Jersey and other hennery whites, closely se- lected extras, 44c; state, nearby and nearby western hennery whites, firsts to extras, 4012 G43c; nearby hennery browns, extras, 42M44c; Pacific coast whites, extras, 42Q43c; do. firsts to ex- tras, firsts, 40Q411sc; refrigerator firsts, 32GS3c. Cheese steady; receipts. 149,02S,
 ST. LOUIS, Feb. 16.-Butter, 51c; eggs, S0lac; poultry unchanged.
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. NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK. Feb. is.-Feliswlhs the ts1ay,s hloh, lev ana sisslAe prices st honts tn the Nsu Ysrk stsck Exchange. and ne tstai sales q sssh
 UNITED sTATEs soRDs
 Readers should nste that Liberty bsnds are auetsd h Gsars and thirty -seeends sf dollars Instead sf dsliars and ssnts gfhe frattisns are desiBnateda y siviap the numerater sniy =.
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DRY GOODS .

NEW YORK. Feb. 16.-Cotton goods were dull. and weaker in the gray goods division today. Yarns were low CT. The Anoskeag corupany will name new prices on fall ginghanis Monday on a basis of 1Shc for utility and 21c for AFC goods. the last opening prices for the same lines being 21hc and 24c. The new price is subject to trade discount. The low prices hitherto named on staple ginghams will be con- tinued. Fancy wool and worsted suit ings will be opened flor fall Monday Burlap markets were firmer abroad, but largely unchanged here., Silks were in good demand in the fancy grades.
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KANSAS CITY. Mo, Feb. 16,-Eggs 1c lower; firsts, 29c; selected, S7c. Broil- CTS Sc higher, BOG; springs 5c higher. 25c; other poultry. butter and potatoes unchanged.
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FLAX MARKET
LONDON MONEY

LONDON, Feb. 16.-Bar silver, 337s pence per ounce. Money, 29s per cent. Discount rates, short bills, 39s per cent; /; S-month bills, Aq3 11-16 per cent.
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POTATO MARKET

CHICAGO, Feb. 16.-Potatoes: Steady on Idahos, dull son other stock; re- ceipts. 59 cars; total United States ship ments, 751 Wisconsin sacked round whites, s1.2o6140; bulk, $1.3561.6o; Minnesota and North Dakota sacked Red river ohios, sf.So@1.45; Idaho sack sd russets, United States No. l, S1.s5@ 2.20; ungraded, S1.2501.75.
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NEW YORK CURB

NEW YORK. Feb. i6.-Feilowins is the official list of transactions the New York Curb Exchange, giving all stocks and bends traded In:
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SHORTS FORCED
 TO SEEK COVER List Heads Upward From Start
 And Sales Exceed 70O,-
 e.s GOO Shares

NEW YORK, Feb. 16-Stock prices made impressive recovery from yester- days extreme weakness in today's brief session of the stock market. Sales exceeded 100000 shares, making it one of the busiest half oliday sessions in mouths.
 Strong financial Interests, who per mittedr yesterdays reaction to run is course, were reported to have piaccd substantial supporting orders into the market overnight, with the result that thee general list headed upward from the start.
 Shorts, who had sold stocks freely yesterday, hastened to cover, giving inn petus to the advance, which ran from one to nearly six points in active 1s- suess TT
 Constructive trade news, which had been . disregarded Friday. was given more attention. Copper shares made a quick response to another increase in the price of the red metal, and steels reflected the reports of increased book ings and expanding mill activity. An nouncenent that the Senate oil lease investigating committee had taken recess for 10 days was reported to have attracted timid traders back to tho market.
 United States Steel common closed as high; at 1047s, after having touched 105. Baldwin snapped back 2i2 points, to 123, and American Can registered similar gainst closing at 115b. Studebaker climbed from par to 101ts. Lorillard Tobacco climbed nearly six points on the explanation of President T. J. Ma loney that the falling off in earnings in 1923 was the result of certain con structive plans made for the benefit of the stockholders, but not yet reaay to be disclosed.
 Oils and sugars gave good exhibitions ~fr nrth inc nf fyxn ar more points being recorded by Ameri- can Beet Sugar, Cuba Cane preferred, Punta Alegre Sugar, Pacific oil and Houston. Other strong spots in the industrial and specially lists included General Electric, Corn Products, Ma tiopal Lead, May Department Stores and Chandler Motor, all up three points or more.
 Rails, which offered more resistance to pressure yesterday, made more mod crate gains, although several issues, notably New York Central, Southern, Chesapeake and Ohio, St. Louis South western, Seaboard Air Line preferred and New Orleans, Texas and Mexico, showed net gains of a point or more.
 Foreign exchanges were reactionary on heavy selling of all European bills, apparently based on the British dock workers strike. Demand sterling dropped a cent, to $4.28A, and French fancss broke g points, to 4.36la, or less than 10 points above their extreme low record. Other rates yielded in sym pathy.
 Stock sales, 725,000 shares.
 Twenty industrials averaged 9S.s9; net gain, 1.6.
 High, 1924, 1o1.24; low. s4.ss.
 Twenty railroads averaged s3.73; net gain, .5s.
 High, 1924. s5s0 low. s2.74.
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RvCE NARKET

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16.-Rough rice Aominal. Sales, none; millers' re- ceiptA 600 sacks. Clean rice steady; sales,s 2,493 blue rose, A csc; 200 Caro- lima, Sac; 42 Edith, SAC. Receipts, 11,042s pockets.
 Bran and polish unchanged
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FLOUR MARK EFT

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 16.-Flour un- changed. Shipments, 47,S51 barrels Brang $24.00Q25.5O.
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RANK OF GERMANY

BERLIN, Feb. 16-The statement of the Bank of Germany as of February shows an increase of 97,655,000 marks in coin and bullion. Gold holdings re- mained unchanged at 67,031,000. Also the following changes in trillions of marks:
 Treasury and loan association notes increased 393, ,000.
 Notes of other banks decreased 1887. Bills of exchange and cheque in creased 24,512,912.
 Advances decreased S,741 ,456.
 Investments increased 4S,2S0.
 Rentenbank notes decreased 10,6S2, 609.
 Rentenbank bills and eheque in- creased 61, ,S60,581.
 Other assets increased S,594 ,356.
 Notes in circulation increased 36,S13,- 444.
 Deposits decreased 45,9s6,322.
 Rentenmark discounts and advances decreased 3,159, APO.
 Other liabilities increased 50,0o0,000 Rentenbank loans, a new item, now amount to 350, 900, ,o00 900 ,000 100000.
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CASH GRAIN

NEW YORK, Feb 16.-F1our unset tied; spring patents. $6.1b0s75; soft winter straights, S50515.e5; rye easy. Lard easy; middle west. $1l.ooVu.eo' Other articles unchanged.
 CHICAGO, Feb. 16.-Wheat, No. hard, $110k9111; No. 3 hard, $1.10A 01.11. Corn No. 8 mixed. 71c; oats, No. 2 white, 47M G4sAc; No. white. 47A @49c Rye, no sales. Barley. $40 S2c. Timothy seed, $6.50@S.00. Clover seed, $1s.00Q24.00. Lard, SHOT. Ribs. s9.S7. Bellies, 5000. .-
 KANSAS CITY, Feb. 1s.--No. 2 hard, $1.0601.21; No. ? red. $1.1161.13. Corn. No. yellow. 72h; No. mixed, 71hc. Oats, No. 3 white, 4S% Q+ae.
 MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 1s.-wheat, No. 1 northern, $1.uH. Corn, No. yellow, 72Q72hc. Oats, No. 3 white, 43H @44hc. Flax, No. 1, $2.57h h@2s1M.
 ST, LOUIS, Feb. 16.-Cash: Wheat, No. red, $1.1581.1e; No. 3 red, $1.14Q 1.14h. Corn, No. white, 76@76hc; No. 8 yellow, 76@76hc. Oats, No. 3 white, 60c; No. 3 white, 49c. Close-Wheat: May, s110K; July, $1.0s%. Corn: May, 80K @S0ssc; July, S0A. Oats: May, BOG.
 TOLEDO, O., Feb. 16.-Clover seed, old, $13.25 bid; new, s1215; February, $12.15; March, $1225; aisike, sa.75; tim othy seed, $3.s5 asked; February, $3.S5 asked; March, $3.90 asked.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGEs

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Foreign eX- changes irregular. Quotations in cents:
 Great Britain, demand, 4.2S%; cables, 4,29; r6O-day bills on banks, 4.26 E. France, demand, 436h; cables, 4.37. Italy, 4.33A @4.33A; Belgium, 3.741a@ 3.75; Germany, OOOO0oOO0022@ O .Oo0000000- O22: Holland, 37.30; Norway, 1912; Swe- den, 26.07; Denmark, 15.64; Switzerland, 17.3s; Spain, 12.70; Greece, 1.7O; Poland, .00001tH; Czechoslavakia, 2.90h; Jugo- slavia, 1.34; Austria, 0o14; Rumania, .51h;F Argentine, 33.75; Brazil, 1905; Tnkin. A6la Mnntreal Ql 1-16-
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POULTRY AND PRODUCE

Total sales of stocks. S48. 700 shares. Total sales Of bonds, $4le,OO0,
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ADVISORS ARE NAMED

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Raw sill; qu:ets prices unchanged.
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Make Ipressve RecoveH Bri Seon Busiest Mont
NEW YORK STOCKS
High Low Close

NEW YORK, Feb, io.-Foowins today's sales, hiph low and closing prices ef stocks listed on the New York Stock Exciianae:
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SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16.-Spot cot ton dull and unchanged. Sales on the spot, l146 bales; to arrive, none. Low middHng, 29.63c; middling, 31.3Sc; good middfing, 32.5oc. Receipts, 2,361; stock, 179,2ss.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 1G-Spot cotton 0uist. Middling, 3145c.
 FLAX MARKET
 DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 16.-Close, flax:s February, $260l4; May, $259A i; July. a$2,561s.
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NAVAL STORES
 JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Feb. 16.-Tur- pentiHe-Firm; 94h @95c. Sales, 1SS; re- ceipts, 59; shipments, 30s; stock, 23 ,493. ss2; Shipments, 400; stock, 1so, ,56s.
 Quote: B to H, $4.7O; I, $4.7o@5.721a; {; K, s4.90; M. $495 N, $5.25; VIC, $6.S0; wv, gS6.55.
 SAVANNAH, Ga. Feb. 16.-Turpen- tine-sFirm; 95c. Sales, 27; receipts, 54; shipnaents, 6; stock, Il, 1,1S5.
 Rosin-Firm. Sales, 103; receipts, 23s; shipments, 93; stock, 91,142.
 Quote: B to E, $4.65; F. G, H, I, $4.70; K. $4sso; M. $4.95; N. $5.25; VIC, $6.3O; WWX, $655,
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FOREIGN MONEY
NAVAL STORES

 NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Bar silver, 647s: sMeXican dollars, 49I4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-06

 league next fall you must take something granted which about series and eSqre the fanatics and bunting pitchers obtained by Reds this winter will that the old ones WI" be as good as eyer not some cases better
 Tom Sheehan, obtained from Paul. a in the, American he had up in before member of the New and had been down again being unequal to the majOr league Jake May, who He is little fellow but that need his the National Dce a wonder when he was with the White Sox. i~. e.4 Carl Mays led the American league but the Yankees did him all last other American held him in such that they waived petition responsible for this than trouble with his Cincinnati undertakes with his peevish he pch the theory being that they hire pitchers to pitch and make sunshine. If these deliver the ball that and as0 the regular Red Rxe and Ben Giants and But why should they willy Why
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-06
TWELVE TEAMS READY
 TO BATTLE FOR TITLE
Drawings For State Cage Tournament Will Be Held Thurs day Night While First Game Will Be Played Friday
 Morning At o'Clock@ @

Twelve teams from the four corners Ef the state are traveling today to Montgomery to be ready for the call Friday morning which will plunge them. Icr Alabama high school basketball Yves. Four lucky team will loaf hrough the first round, which Is sched- led to start Friday morning at g vciock, while eight others will battle lor the privilege of, playing the lucky bur in the semi-finals Saturday after.
 loon. The finals are slated for Sature lay night. Eyes will be added to swell De entry list to IS, and in the drawings, Ip be held Thursday night at the Ex- hange hotel in Montgomery. four teams Fill get these byes. Ysr A Tss
 This is the second annual tourna- Inont to be staged by the Alabama High kchool Athletic association, and will be tonducted upon a newtplan fhis year. The state was divided into eight dis ficts and means provided whereby two Pams from each district would be se- Fcted for play in the tournament. In hany districts tournaments were staged Ind In others where there were out landing teams . selection was made district board members on the sea- on's record. sf.4it
 North Central Strong t5SE
 In the north central district. of which jefferson county is part, over score teams competed for the honor of rep esenting the district at Montgomery. The great Simpson school team. since Eowned Cotton States basketball cham lions, walked through all opRositfon in be tourney held, at the Birmingham fentral Y. M. c. "A. Close of it's heels |ame the flashy Leeds five, which was unchecked until the paths of the two Fossed. Simpson downed Leeds in the tnals after Leeds had beaten Alliance pr the privilege of playing the Purple [ordnado. Thus Jefferson county is fnding two real contenders to, the cap (al city to vie for the silver trophy, mblematic of the state chanpionship.
 South Central Also Strong ''
 From the south central district two f the strongest entrants of the tourney Fill come. The battle for the crown, h judgment drawn from the black and Ehite of the dope sheet. seems to hinge
 round the. central district, The two Iimpson and Leeds, and the two bril- lant teams from the south central, Lee punty high, of Auburn, and Chambers Punty high, of Milltown, are among be foremost. A queer turn of affairs 7nd a piece of simon-pure sportsman
 hip, is wrapped up in the entries from be south centrals district. By an eccen- fic streak of bracketing luck, Sidney
 anier of M6ntgomerys Chambers punty and Auburn were thrown to- other in . peculiar way. Auburn and Rdney Lanier were in different brack- |c, while Chambers county was drawn pr Auburn's bracket. The flashy Au- hrn five eliminated the Milltown five. Fdney Lanier went through to the |nals and lost to Auburn, thus winning De right to play at Montgomery.
 Chambers Comes Back
 In the Cotton States tourney a short Ahiie afterward the Chambers county
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City Cage
 Loop Closes . Its Season
Close Games Feature Final Meeting Of Association
 League

The curtain dropped on the Birming- ham Basketball association's basketball loop Wednesday night at the Blrming- ham Athletic club. The new cage the supervision of President Charlie Stapleton and thousands of fans have witnessed the games played during the season at the B. A. c. court. Fast games have been the rule at all meetings of teams and a high class of basketball has been staged.
 Ths meetings of Phillips and Wood lawn high schools, the B. A. c. Re- serves and the two high school teams or the lPedagogues and Chenoweth with any of the teams named has consistent ly resulted in fast contests.
 The Woodlawn team won the title without loss for the season. This son and have a clean slate. However, the Junior Colonels earned the title as competition was made stiff by their skilled opponents.
 Close Games
 Close games prevailed in the final meeting with the Pedagogues and B. A. c. Reserves, Chenoweth and Phillips staging the two most spectacular contests The Chenoweth team nosed out Phil lips 28 to 26, while the B. A. c. Re- serves came from behind to win in the last minute or so from the Pedagogues 20 to 16. Even the league-trailing Pres byterians put up a game scrap with the loop-leading Woodlawn team and held 23 to 27.
 Probably the outstanding individual performance of the evening was that of Mike Grabin, erstwhile University High star, Wednesday night First Pred stellarite. This youngster looped shots from all distances, preferably long ones, for 15 points against Woodlawn. It. wax a good exhibition of the long range game.
 For Woodlawn Peace, Ruble Moore and Cawthorne starred in their encoun- ter. Bridges and Smith also played well for the Preds.
 Feds Lose Out
 The Pedagogues led the B. A. c. Re- serves during the larger part of the game and lost only just before the whistle blew. Montgomery starred for the Reserves while Adkins and Richter played good games. John Bryan and Stapleton starred for the Peds.
 The Phillips-C -Chenoweth contest went into an extra period before a deci- sion could be reached. Considerable scoring was done in the five-minute extra period when the tie was 2S-23. Jaffe was the outstanding star for Phillips. Sanford and Brauner also played well. skeebie Caldwell was the luminary for Chenoweth. Carol, Self and LoWery also did rood work
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Simpson Hi Leaves For ,'.
 State Meet
Purple, Tornado, Though < Eayorite In Tourney, To
 y.A Have Hard Games

E Coach Dick Webb and his eight-man squad of Purgle and Gold cagesters from Simpson Tech is leaving Birming ham this afternoon for Montgomery for the state high school basketball tourna- ment, which will be held there on Fri day and Saturday of this week.
 Thres Cotton States men,, the only three'in Alabama, will be on the Purple Tornad9l when it goes into action Fri day, "SifcR" Vincent, "Firpo" Fergu- son and Cnrdy Byrd taking off those honors in the Cotton States tournament, which was won by the Techsters in Auburn two weeks ago.. All three of these men won all-state honors at the Montgomery tournament last, year, and should they be in their usual form this week they should contribute much to the interest of the games played.
 Although favogites for the encounter, the Techsters will have a hard battle before they get a final chance at the governors cup. and it is by no means sure thing that they will win out in the engagements. Some strong opposi- tion will face them in the state tourna- ment, and a possibility of overconfi- dence keeps their high stock from be- coming by any means inflated. With the possibility of facing the strong Lee county combination which defeated the pCharmbers county quintet, which gave the Techsters hard battle in the Cot ton States tournament, Sidney LAuier the team which gave the Tornado it's sole licking for the season, and other teams, to win the state championship, the Purple Tornado will have to go to the full extent of its ability this week. Lee county kept Chambers from the meet by winning from them in the dis trict meet, and Sidney Lanier beat Lee county, thereby showing that the Birm- ingham team will face some stiff oppo- sition from that section of the state in addition to the record teams and possi- ply dark horses, which will come from the other four districts, of the state, Leeds being the remaining team to rep resent the northeast section.
 Little Johnny Milking and Buck Ellis are two of the all-district men on the Purple quintet, while Albert Vincent, Dewey Byrd and James Harris are other members of the squad, Vincent especially being one OF the best floor men to be seen on a local floor this sea- son, and one who bids fair to rival his brother, "Slick," in prowess.
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TEAMS ACTIVE
 OVER ALABAMA

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 6. - (By Associated Press)-BasebaIl holds sway in Alabama. Sunshine Monday started the week with diamonds of col leges and professionals over the state active and the program will be con- tinuous now for the future months
 Alabama is the scene of two big league training eamps-the Philadelphia Americans docked here, and the St Louis Browns of she same loop down in Mobile.
 Both of these squads took to work in earnest this week, and morning and afternoon drills are now the order of the day.
 Birmingham and Mobile also sees the reporting of the Southern league squads of the two cities, respectively, early next week, according ao announcement from officials.
 Colleges of Alabama are also off to an early season of work and reports from the various institutions say that they will be in first class condition hv the time the regular playing season opens April l.
 Auburn Alabama University. Bir- mtngham-Southern and Howard have