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ATHENS HERALD REAPERS AltB SUBSTANTIAL CUSTOMERS FOR ATHENS HERALD ADVERTISERS FRIDAY EVENING, FEBBranv claim that the green jerseyeii boys Comparative scores are not a very safe way of- doping out the strength of. teams, but the writer doubts whether. Alabama is much stronger than Mercer. They seem to have about the same kind of team, and are- probably not quite The addition ot a man’s basket- .ball league to the already flourish- Wshteirville Arid Royston Highs Play Here Today Both Boys and Girls Quintets To Battle On “Y” Court. lege days. *What kind of game the Georgia team will bo. able to put up against these old timers is not known. At times the locals have shown considerable promise, and' the game against Auburn was an im provement over the ‘Mercer game. The Tournament however, is still several weeks off and by the time ! these games open up the team may be in far better shape to play a good game than they are at pres ent. The week following the At lanta game will be a hard one with Alabama in Athens on Monday night, Auburn in Auburn on Wed- neseday arid Mercer in Macon on •Saturday. Two home games_ the following week, one with Trinjty and a return game with the An !■; tic Club will wind up the sched ule a week then remaining for fin ishing touches before going to th Championship series in Atlanta. ALABAMA IN ATHENS ON MONDAY. The University of Alabama team will perform in Athens on Mon day night, the game being at the Auditorium. Alabama for tha first time in its history has a win ning basketball tearii. So far they havq rocked along nicely,'winning nine straight games. They are coming into Georgia on a three game trip that will, however, test them cut pretty well. They start school is that the h won a game, iiaj the dope Friday ai At any rate it will Wintervilles line oly be as follows- EOYS: Code or Tucker forwards Barnett and 1; p, GIRLS: Florence llan Dawson, f rv, cock, Center, r.aulii llan O’Kelly Guan boys have reached the end of their victorious record. Last. week’s freshman game was won by six points and on the night of the Mercer game they won by one point. These close gmaes have added a lot to the interest of the evening. - Fans are admitted to both games for the price of one ticket. lng list of “Y" cage ball organiza tions Is another proof of the great work that the X: M. C. A.. is do ing for- the city In caring for the physical, development and recrea tion of her people. Everybody is Invited to come down and look in on the series of games to he played in the Busi ness Men’s League. There will he some corking good games as many of the men are old time basket ball players and handle the pill with ability. . Following will be found a list of those who compose the four tennis of tho league: 1 -No. i-^-A. Link,. J. Hutchins, N. O. Slaughter, T. Nobbling, A. L. Woodall, ,H. Smith and H. Rylee, No. 2—J. Erwin, W. Pittard, W. T. Forbes, W. Pope, F. Price, and J. Hopkins., No. Sr-L. L. Hendred. Whitey Davis. W- K. Meadow. J. Ross, J. Costa, Lee Bradberry and Ben Epps. No.-4.—F. Lanier, T. • Cook, J. Weir, . T. Costa, F. Slaughter, B. Lumpkin and F. Holden. as experienced. It would not be a bit surprising to see them loos, to Tech in Atlanta on Saturday night. The game in. Athens will prob ably be the best of the year. This will be the first time an Alabamri basketball team has played, here, and with all the publicity that By OLIVER MORTON Business Men’s Basket League Bulldogs Face Two Hard Games By H. J. Stegeman, Head Coach, University of Georgia, Alabama Here Friday Night i , 10u ® Thursd! ", a warm 4. nf >erless f r ; e J ...-, E ™*S\a C« ten 1 k s office, hi which pas, ■nment. The University Basketball team j 1| leaves for Atlanta Friday after- y noon for the first of the two an- ^ nual games with the Atlanta f Athletic Club. Tne game will be b played at the- City Auditorium, the V scene of all the club\3 games this winter. The Athletic Club under " Jo Bean are again threatening to go through the season undefeated. ** They have met little opposition b from Southern teams so far, and C are expecting none, as they have s- only a few more college games to £ play' before the season will end. h The Club team is again planning tl to go to the National Tournament a in Kansas City, and are filling n their supporters with great expec- b tatiens. They have an excellent ti char.ce this year to get up high in the .ranking of national teams, as t they appear Considerably stronger h than they did last year. ^ Last week the Club .team sue- £ ccssiully disposed of the Memphis I and Macon Y. M. C. A. Teams. 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