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/ 1 HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN- BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS -SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1913. COACH HEISMAN RANKS GEORGIA AND ALABAMA EVEN How Coach Heisman Classifies Teams Class A < Alabama Georgia Auburn Class P • Clemson Tech Mercer Class C < Vanderbilt Sewanee Mississippi A. & M. Florida Class D • Wofford L. S. U. Tennessee Class £ < Tulane Millsaps .Citadel By J. W. Heisman. (Famous Coaoh of the Tech Team.) T HE) man who would seriously at tempt the pleasantry of award ing a baseball championship of the 6.LA1 for the season of 1913 soon to dose needs be a daring spirit —a man much brarer than myself. Wwver within my somewhat lengthy recollection has the matter of a proper ranking of the teams at the season's end been In such a fear fully messed-up condition as this year, and no one with any right to speak with authority of the subject has, so far as I know, been so fool hardy as to attempt a definite pro nouncement on the subject. As has often been explained before, there Is no such thing as a real Championship of the S. L A. A_ and this holds good eren in football. But In the latter sport the teams come much nearer to playing a common schedule of games, and for other rea sons as well It Is much more easy to predicate the strongest team of the year than can be the case in base- balL Some years It has been satisfac tory to all to award a tentative cham pionship In baseball to that team which had not lost a single series during the season. This plan would never do In professional baseball, for It Is not series won and lost that count here, but the mere number of Individual games won and lost. But while the percentage plan of Individual games won and lost Is eminently satisfactory In figuring out a pennant winner In a professional league It will rarely do In the S. I. A. A- for the reason that the 22 mem bers do not play the same number of games, the same opponents, the same number at home and abroad, etc. It comes to this, that unless one team has made such a stunning and practically unsmirched record as rea sonably puts It out of the class of all the rest of the teams In the association a just disposition of the title "Champions’’ Is out of the ques tion. This really happens with rea sonable frequency, but It certainly has not happened this year, and hence no uncontested assignment of the title Is likely to be r-ade by any one. Still, a careful review of the work of the various teams, and a painstaking contrasting of that work should not be without profit. ... ^'CONSIDERING the percentages they have rolled up from the particular learns they have encoun tered, it is clear that the figures for Georgia and for Alabama loom up the largest. Prior to the Tech series with Georgia, the Athenians had suf fered but two defeats in the S. 1 A. A., and that was the size also of Alabama's defeats. Georgia’s per centage was nevertheless a shade higher than Alabama’s for the reason that the Red and Black had play d, and therefore won. more games thin had the Tuscaloosans. It was also true that the two de feats suffered by Alabama were at the hands of the Georgians them selves; so that, It appeared, when it came to direct matching, the Ala bama team seemed to be a bit in ferior to the Georgia team. On the other hand, this was somewhat offs t by the fact that the two games be tween the two had been played In Athens and, further, that nearly all of Georgia's S. I. A. A. games had been played on home grounds, while about seven of Alabama's games hat been played away from home. But now that the smoke of the T'ech-Georgla series has also cleared away, there does appear considerable ground for Alabama's insistent* plea that they have a better claim to first honors than has Georgia, for now the records show that Georgia has lost five S. I. A. A. games, while Alabama has still lost only two. To go with this, Georgia has won 13 S. I. A. A. games, while Alabama has won 11 such. Unfortunately, these did or: Include for Georgia victories over Mercer, Sewanee or .Mississippi A. and M., while Alabama's wins fail :o include contests with Auburn, Clem- son or Sewanee. In other words there is no real basis of comparts in available. What seeming advantage on a per centage basis Alabama enjoys may disappear when It encounters Van derbilt on the 26th and 27th; but on the other hand it must be remem bered again that Alabama is going to have the advantage in these games, In that they will be played on home grounds. If we stop to see what effect figur ing in non-s. I. A. A. games would sgve on the records of the teams we ynd that it will not help matters much for Georgia to have recourse to this expedient, for tvhile it is true It won some additional four games from such teams, it also lost three games to such teams, Alabama, on the other hand, has played four non Jeff Can Sing Hawaiian and All That Stuff cSb »?<J C&J By “Bud” Fisher IpOU ooy- n SMS HFRE THAT A » REAL HAWAIIAN PRlNCetS IS TUWN Arst> THAT \£Y\€ 6oWS THROUGH THE rark eveR-Y woRNina TOR a <YtRolL * I BoRH HOBNOB WITH THE BLUE BLOODS- TU- -JUST doll, op AND WHEN THAT LAOV Op ROVALTV rfiEE^S WE - IN THE PARK ,5HE'LL FALL. .SURE THEN'RE DAFFY on MUSIC... I J0A7 BROUGHT THE OLD GUITA« ALONG HARK ! I HEAR HEFL CONvING ArsO SHE'S ^ . 6/nGing one of HeRf c ''- A , AAT'UE DITTIES' aaeRKan PRincjT ! How WONOERPAD/ you Plat hy Hawaii AN 60ITAR * V l aloha 06 aloha oe UMTIL )HEfT - again '.tW". , •**-« <**• * -• v v CeCT».SHT rfos Br A- . college games and won them all. (Of course, games with professionals and prep school teams are not being considered at all in this connection.) I have gone at some length into a comparison of the work of these teams, not merely because they seem to have had. on the whole, the best records for the season, but also to il lustrate to the reader what the com plications are in the way of a sensible ranking; and not alone for these two teams, but for others In the associa tion, for the difficulties for all are similar in character In all respects. • • • pUT white a view of the unclothed ^ percentages of Georgia and Ala bama seem to ahow them up In the most favorable light of all the S. I. A. A, teams, there are not lacking those who claim places for other teams alongside these two. Thus some Au- bumites claimed before the Clemson- Auburn series that those battles would settle second place. If they did, then Clemson is entitled to second place and either Georgia or Alabama would have to step down off the pedestal and let the Tigers Jump up. But Just to show you how dif ferently the same things can look to different people, here is Coach Dob son, who says that if Tech took the series from Georgia then the Yellow Jackets were entitled to the pennant So where are we at, and where do we all get off? As for the. Techltes, they are not splitting anybody's ears with any kind of claims in particular. And yet, in Justice, what deserts they have should be spread out for public in spection as well as those of other teams. Now, Tech has won nine and lost seven, all S. I. A. A. games. This will not net so high a percentage as sev eral other teams can boast of; but wait a minute. In the first place, an even half of these games were played away from home, and that is much more along this line Chan any other of the prominent teams can say. Again, of the seven defeats en countered, four were by one run only, one was by two runs only, and two were by three runs only. In other words, no team has run plumb away from the Yellow Jackets in a single encounter, as did Georgia from Ala bama. Also, Tech suffered two of its one-run defeats directly through the vile luck of having both its catchers knocked out, one in each game at Au burn, by having their right hands se verely Injured during the course of the two games. Had these accidents not happened, or not happened on the road where their other catchers were not available, it might have made all the difference in the world with their season’s record. And yet another thing or two: Tech was the only team in or out of the association that could take the series from Clemson, and the only one that could take a series from Georgia. She was the only team that could win more than one from the Georgians on their own campus; and it was the only one that fairly decimated Sewa nee, this season. Likewise, it is worth pointing out that Tech’s schedule showed no weak teams on it like Birmingham College, Florida, Tennessee, Tulane, S. W. P. U., Southwestern Texas, Washington and Lee, etc. No, theirs were all stiff opponents. Yet against them all Tech scored 69 runs to opponents’ 45, which is pretty good. So when you come to think it all over, it becomes apparent that Coach Dobson had some slight ground, to say the least, for ranking Tech first. • * * A UBURN S record is excellent—so far as it goes. The trouble is it doesn’t go far enough; for the only teams it encountered worth talking much about were Georgia, Mercer, Tech and Clemson. Now. to two of these four it lost; so that a good-look ing percentage built up largely from fhe other small-fry on their 1313 schedule doesn’t spell much, after all. No one can deny that the team looked good; but of the two series it , won out of the four named above, or. i was played entirely on home grounds, the other entirely on neutral grounds, and even of the two lost one was plaved entirely on home grounds. • • • A ND right here let us analyze Clem- son s status on the season’s work: No one can think more highly than do I of what the South Carolinians ac complished this spring. Not only did they win their State pennant with a clean percentage of 1,000, but they took the series from Auburn on for eign grounds, beat North Carolina and tied Trinity. They also broke even with Georgia, though this way on home grounds. The discounts come in when we note that neither North Carolina nor Trin ity had teams of usual caliber this year, and that none of the South Car olina teams, outside of Clemson, are in a baseball class with the usual run of S. I. A. A. teams. And, of course. Clemson dropped two straight to Tech. But the main difficulty in assigning any given place to Clemson lies in the fact that alt told they only played seven games in the S. I. A. A. Of these it won three and lost four. Its outside opponents, being of unknown caliber, offer as little basis for a criti cal estimate within the 8. I. A. A. fold as would a consideration of the prep and professional games that other S. I. A. A. teams have played. And so it goes. • • • N OW, if anyone can make head or tail, fins I? feet out of this thrice-jumbled situation they have everybody’s permission to “go to it.” For me, the Job is strictly “taboo.” I do not mind saying that in my opinion, considering records generally, as well as what 1 saw*’of the actual play of the various teams, that Ala bama and Georgia deserve to rank a shade higher than any other of the S. L A. A. teams. One further step—taken with some hesitation—and I find myself putting Auburn, Clemson and Tech in Class B, just below r the other two. Beyond this the path appears to me to be blocked up solidly. * * • IVYERCER'S chief claim to distinc- tion lies in the fact that it took tevo out of three from Tech. But as it won only six college games, while los ing eleven—if my records have it right —it seems plain that the Baptists will not demand a ranking above the five already considered. * * • V ANDERBILT has thus far won five and lost eight, all told. There yet remain on their schedule three games with Alabama at Tuscaloosa, but even if they take two out of the three, which is unlikely, their record will still keep them in the "second di vision.” • * CO far ns I am familiar with it, ^ Sewanee’s record for the season is just about on a par with Vander bilt’s. The latter w*on their series w'ith Tennessee, while Sewanee lost to the Volunteers in the one game that was played. Vanderbilt and Sewanee are yet to come together, and if the Commodores win from Sewanee they will be champions of Tennessee; but if they lose to the Tigers I suppose there will he nothing about that championship either. * * * T ENNESSEE has a brand new r team and not much was to be expected from it. They appear to have been very weak, losing to Michigan, Van derbilt, Georgia and others, with little to chalk up on th> credit side. • * • ]\T ISSISSIPPI A. & M. harl a fair team, but it also ranks below the A and the B classifications, as I have styled them. True, they won two out of three to Vanderbilt, and took the series from Tulane, but they lost five straight to Alabama. * • • LJ'LORIDA, Birmingham, Tulane and *■ Louisiana all had teams rather below par. • * • TF you should ask my opinion of the * the strength of the teams as they were playing at the very end of the season it would net take me long to say that no team was going stronger than Tech, to say the least. I do not believe that Georgia was falling off any in its play; there was no reason why it should fait off. The men were all in good condition, still full of ambition, better backed and key ed than they had been for any other preceding game, and I think played the best ball they were able to play against Tech. Yet they went down before the Technicals In no uncertain manner. This might have been a “flash in the pan” for Tech had only one game been played and won by them from Georgia, but when two are played in Athens and two in Atlanta the re sult ceases to be an accident. This conviction is strengthened by a recol lection of what Tech did to Sewanee in the two games immediately pre ceding the series with Georgia. Alabama does not as yet seem to have hit the chutes, but Tech would give a good deal to get another chop at them on home or neutral grounds and right now. Clemson kept to Its stride right to the finish and would make it warm for any of them. * * • T HE best, then, that I can possibly do is not to attempt an indi vidual ranking of the teams. Tnst- id I must fall back on a general classifi cation, which comes as near as may be to expressing my opinion of the strength of the teams as they playe i the season through—taking into con sideration whom they played, how often they played them, where they played them, how they came out, and how they looked in actual perform ance as a mere playing machine. PENDLETON REMUSES TO JOIN PROFESSIONAL RANKS PRINCETON. N. J.. May 24.—"Tal’' Pendleton, the Princeton football cap tain and considered one of the best ball players in the colleges ’to-day, declared he would not enter the pro fessional baseball ranks after gradua tion. Offers had been made to him by the Washington American League and Baltimore International League clubs. Pendleton said he would go into business after graduating. Lowry Arnold a True Sportsman +•+ +•+ +•+ +»+ +•+ +•+ Could Have Barred R. Steinmehl i By Tick Tichcnor I F it hadn't been for Lowry Arnold the Birmingham Invitation Tour nament would not have been won by Rollo Steinmehl. Of course he beat Lowry in his very first match but this is not tl*t point. On the afternoon before the qual ifying round Billy Ward, who was a member of the Tournament Commit tee, was In doubt about allowing the Junior members of the Club to enter the tournament. “Lowry,” said he,” we have three or four Junior members who want to play in this tournament. “They are boys fourteen, fifteen and sixteen years old. What do you think about letting them enter?" Now if Lowry l^rnold had raised any objection all Junior members would have been barred from enter ing. But being a big broad-gauge sportsman Lowry replied,. “By all means,’’ Billie, “let them enter. If they are not good enough they will be beaten. If they are good enough they ought to win.” So the matter was settled and the Junior members entered anil Rollo Steinmehl established a record of winning the first tournament in which he ever played. • • * H IS victory was the greatest sur prise, which has ever taken place in any tournament in the South. It was a surprise because he was truly a dark horse. None of the members of the club knew how well this fif teen-year-old boy oould play. They knew him because they had often seen him playing with his father or had seen him putting on or playing shots to the tenth and fifteenth greens, which are almost in his back yard but none of them ever played with him. He had turned in no scores and so wasn’t even on the hand icap list. When he turned in a score of seventy-eight it was thought that he had outplayed himself in the qual ifying round. When he played his first match with Lowry Arnold and won on the fifteenth green most everybody was surprised but no one considered that he had a chance of winning the tournament. The gen* eral impression was that he was too young to stand the strain and would blow up sooner or later. But those who entertained this idea didn’t know the kid. In his second round he was pitted against Billy Ward, a veteran of many tournaments and who knows every break and slope and blade of grass on the entire course. At the sixteenth tee Ward was two up with only three holes to play. Ward had the match almost as good as won but Steinmehl couldn’t see it that way and by winning the eighteenth managed to square the match on the eighteenth green. The nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first holes were halved but he won the twenty-second hole and the match. • # • T N his next match the next morning * with H. C. Wood he had a ding- dong match all the way round a- neither was ever mote than one up at any time. Wood was one up at the eighteenth but missed his drive and lost the hole and the match was all square. Both got away well from the tee at the nineteenth but neither quite reached the green. Wood’s second was about ten feet short of the cup, while Steinmehl was about four feet beyond the flag. Wood putted and barely missed his three but was dead for a four. Steinmehl put his ball square into the back of the cup but it hopped out and the hole was halved in four. I was stand ing where I could see his face plain ly when the putt hopped out and he didn’t change his expression. He didn’t make a move or say a word. The putt was just a little too hard and he knew it The next hole was halved. Both drove badly at the twenty-first but the kid made the better recovery and got his four and won the hole. This was the second time he had been forced to go extra holes to win and he had done so without a flicker. He had proven to all that he knew his clubs of which he only carried four—a driver, a mashie. a mid-iron and a putter—but would the strain of the gallery, which would follow the final have its effect on him. Those who thought that it would didn’t know him. He didn’t know that they were there He played better than ever. At the thirteenth he had his opponent, J. H. Doughty, four down with only five holes to play. At this point Doughty by playing mag nificent golf succeeded In winning three of the next four holes and halv ing the other one and so came to the eighteenth tee one down with one to play. • • • T HE ninth and eighteenth fair-* greens are parallel and the green is a double green—the ninth being to the right. On his drive Doughty sliced but his ball just reached the edge of the ninth green, leaving him a long run-up shot across the ninth green to the cup. Steinmehl sliced badly his ball fi nally reaching the rough to the right of the ninth fairgreen. When the ball was found in the rough it was about fifty yards from the hole. Just short of the green and about ten yards from the flag was a large mound fully ten feet high, which w*as in a direct line to the flag and w f hich had to be carried if the green was to be reached. In addition to all of this the ball was lying under a tree the limbs of which were so low* that the ball had to be kept low in order to keep from hitting them and yet the mound had to be carried and the ball held on a small green. Picture yourself in such a position and figure out the shot. • * * I WAS standing at the back of the * ninth green with George Oliver and we discussed the shot we would attempt under the same circum stances. Mr. Oliver was of the opin ion that he would take an approach ing cleek and attempt to run the ball over the mound and take a long chance of pulling off the shot and getting the green. On the other hand I was of the opinion that It would be best to play the ball onto the ninth green and trust to laying a long approach putt dead and get ting a half In four. But young Steinmehl did neither. Using a mashie, after carefully studying the shot, he hit the ball awful firmly. It just grazed the leaves of the tree, cleared the jnound easily, struck the green and came to rest about three feet from the hole. So great was the amount of cut put upon the ball in making the shot that it ran less than three feet after striking the green. It was a grand shot and one which Willie Anderson In his day would have been proud to have pulled off. It was the best shot, which has ever been my pleasure to witness. Girl Magnate Is Now Forming Ball Club Miss Ida Schnall Sends Out Call for Athletically Inclined Girls to Join Team. NEW YORK, May 24— Floclc around, girls, and listen to this. How often have you envied the snappy playing of the Giants? How often have you longed to play ball yourself, and bewailed the fact that the girl ball players are about as un common as a snowy day in July? Well, here’s a chance for athletically inclined girls to develop into female Wagners. Matties and Marquardu. And don’t forget that “the female of the species is more deadly,” etc. Miss Ida Schnall is the boss of the New York Female Giant*. Back In 1908 she started the team, played ex hibition games—with male teams— for charity. Now comes Miss Ida with a new scheme. She will be a magnate just like Charley Ebbets and will spend money. Another nine is to be formed, and the two teams will play exhibition games, mostly for charity's sake; but of course Ida ad mits that she doesn’t expect to lose money. Ida is supposed to be the champion all-round athlete in these parts Re cently she did a diving stunt at ,the Winter Garden, but she decided to get back into the baseball game again. She has sent out a call for ten girls who know something of baseball, and who are there with the muscle and nerve. So if you’d shine in this com pany drop a postal to Ida, and Ida will tell you when to report for duty at the Bronx oval, where her cohorts are getting back Into trim by practicing on Sundays. BIG EASTERN MEET JUNE 14. NEW YORK May 24. -The New York Athletic Club will hold its nine tieth athletic meet on Travers Island on June 14, GOULON SEES CHAMPION 111 MATT! MW Toe Bean Picks All-Prep Team +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Weston, Fox, Callahan, Hurlers. By Ed W. Smith » C hicago, ill., May 24.—Matty McCue, the Racine boy, who is leaving a trail of cracked Jaws and blighted records behind him as he marches steadily upward toward some sort of a championship, found one big booster In his home town the other night when he tipped Jeff O'Connell over for a totally unneces sary count in the first round of their glove contest. Johnny Coulon, ban tam champion, was at the ringside for the double purpose of trying to help his friend O’Connell suppress the Racine terror and also to get his first view of the said terror. The pride of Logan Square had never cast an eye on the pride of Racine and was filled with curiosity. * * • A VERAGE fight fans pay little at- tention to the work of a fighter's seconds, especially If the fighting is pretty hot, and probably very few in the big throng at Racine Thursday night noticed how hard little Johnny did his very utmost to help the for mer Briton. Once Johnny held Jeff up as he w r as knocked down right in his own corner, probably saving the already beaten man a nasty tumble outside of the ring. But it was an utterly hopeless case. But just the same, Johnny was w ell satisfied; that he did his best and that nothing on earth could have saved Jeff that night—nothing, at least, short of a gatling gun trained on the McC^ue corner. • * • A FTER the battle was over and the fright had loft the O’Connell cor ner because of Jeff’s disinclination to come to his senses promptly, the ban tamweight champion’;* eyes stuck out excitedly as he walked into the Mc Cue dressing room and congratulated the young fighter on his success and the wonderful showing he made. “You're a wonder, kid, that’s all 1 can tell you now.” Coulon told him, “I’m a fan for you for all time now and want to see you win because you're a fighter after my own heart.” * # * THE Coulorf enthusiasm hadn’t cool- *• ed a bit two hours after the bat tle was over and he had nothing but the highest praise for McCue. “Why, they* told me he was a right-hand puncher and that his wallop was about all he had,” Johnny told a party of friends. “A right hand indeed! That’s the last thing that should be considered about him. He’s got one of the best left hand* that I ever saw and this, to my mind, is what makes him a really great fighter and the sure makings of a champion. • • * UTHE man with merely a right * hand Is an easy man to fight and usually an easy man for a clever fellow to whip. When the man with a good right has a great left along with it look out for him. he is the ideal ringster and it will take a champion to down him. I’ve never seen a young fighter handle himself in better shape, with better judgment and with such high skill as Matty McCue. He doesn’t have to hook it to daze a man. He sticks his left out wflth Jarring force and doesm’t use the right until absolutely sure that the other fellow is In no condi tion to cross him or beat him to it. I'm for McCue. He’s a wonder.” • * ♦ A ND little Johnny’s opinion is shared freely by all of those who saw the artistic lacing he gave the hapless O’Connell. It was the first j time the clever Jeff ever had been clipped out despite the fact that he | has battled some of the greatest of the lightweights The little fellow- felt the sting of defeat sharply, but was game enough never to attempt an alibi. “I simply never got started, that’s all,” was what he said. When asked if he didn’t think McCue a great man Jeff said he would have to think so and laughingly added that he didn’t see enough of him to form a good opinion. • * * M ANY good judges of fighters in Chicago are hoping that John McCue does not rush the boy to the front too rapidly. Matty is only eigh teen years old and will have to he handled carefully. If care is shown with him they simply can't keep him from being a champion. By Joe Bean. (Coach at Marist College.) I N picking what I consider would he an Ideal prep tearrt this year 1 will have to do a little juggling of players so that some boys may receive justice in this selection. It is true that every year we have the best players In the league playing In the infield and as we onjgfhave four places to till some of these hoys have In the past been cut out and players of inferior ability have been placed on the team. X can see no reason why these boys that are good inflelders should not make good outfielders, and for that reason will pick some of them to play outfield positions In preference to some of the outfielders. In this way we will secure a strong prop team in all departments and one able to cope with the best prep team In the South. Armistead Best Catcher. We will take up the position of catcher. The best catchers In the league are Armistead, of Boys’ High School, and Lowry, of Marist, with the preference In favor of Armistead He has been In the league a long time, has a good knowledge of its players, has a good arm and hits well; In fart, he has all the requisites that go to make a good catcher. Lowry 1s in his first year and has done fine work for Marist behind the bat. The pitchers were very evenly matched in three of the schools and all have pitched some good ball. They are Weston, of T, H. Fox, of 13. H S., and Callahan, of Marist. To give a preference to either would be doing an Injustice to the qther, but with these three boys In shape and on the same team opponents would have a hard time of It. Fox an Old-timer. Weston and Callahan pitched their first year In the league. Fox has pitched a number of years. Weston and Callahan have been unfortunate in not having good teams behind them, while Fox has had as a whole the beet balanced team in the league. My Infield is: Low ; ry, Marist. first; Lipscomb, B. H. S , second; Spurlock, B. H. S., shortstop; Allen, Marist, third. Lowry Is easily the best first base- man in the league. This he showed while playing there before he was placed behind the bat. He has height, reach, a good arm and hits the ball hard. Lipscomb Is a good, steady second baseman, covers lots of ground, has a good arm and hits well. He makes a good man for the job. In Class by Themselves. Spurlock and Allen really have no contenders for their jobs. They have been the class of the league In their respective positions. Both boys are fast on the bases, hit the ball hard, have good arms and cover a world of ground. As 1 said In the beginning, there are Infielders that are better ball players than some of our outfielders, and It would be an injustice to them and to the team not to pick them. Park, of T. H S.; Reynolds, of B. “THE OLD RELIABLE” R E M E DYfor MEN AT DR UGGI8T8.0R TRIAL BOX BY MAIL BOo FROM PIANTEN 93 HENRYST. BROOKLYN.NY. — BEWARE OF IMITATIONS — , H S., and Bedell, of T. H. S„ would make a dandy outfielder. They are all good hitters, fast on the base? and while I have slighted some of the regular outfielders of the league. I can’t *ee how the boys that I picked could be placed on the side line* after playing the ball they did during this season. Parka a Grand Player. Parks, of T. H. S., is one of the best ball players in the league and has demonstrated this on numerous occa sions. Reynolds, of B. H. 8., Is also a fast man, a left-handed hitter and a dandy outfielder. Being a small boy has not made any difference with him and it does not stop roe in picking him for the team. He has lots of ability. Bedell, T. H. S., has been playing the infield, but for his hitting and all round hustling ability he outclasses a majority of the other players in the league and would make a valuable man on the team, though I could not place him on the infield. He easily deserves a place on the team and no doubt would make a good outfielder. The team would line up as follows: Armistead, B. H. 8 Catcher Weston, T. H. S. Pitohsr Fox, B. H. S Pitcher Callahan, Marist Pitcher Lowry, Marist First base Lipscomb, B. H. 8. ..... Second base Allen, Marist Third base Spurlock, B. H. S. ...'. Shortstop Parks, T. H. S Outfield Reynolds, B. H. S j..... Outfield Bedell, T. H. S Outfield There are, of course, some other boys in the league that have played good b ill and deserve a word of praise for it. They have ability, but most of them are handicapped by size and weight. Bean’s Honorable Mention. I would honorably mention Wells and Sims, P. F. S.; Babb and Brown, G M. A., and Roberts, of Marist. Roberts, of Marist, was easily the All-Prep choice last year. As a field er he can not be beat, but he has fallen off in his hitting this season. NOTICE! Closing-Out-Ends $7, $8, $9 Trousers Matfe- to-Measure r=jL=l WANTED, I DEASG3l=j An Opportunity To Make Money Inventors, men of Ideas and Inventive ability, shonld write to-day for our list of Inventions needed, and prizes offered by leading manufacturers. Patents secured or our fee returned. 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