The age-herald., 1902-04-29
Food for the Fans.


 Warren made two circus catches yes- terday which he may not duplicate again during the season. He made a dive for a hot liner which came near tripping him and stepped on t,se bag in time to make a double play unassisted, again he ran down into the bleachers after a difficult foul. He fell fiat on his back but swung to the pig skin. The crowd gave him a great hand.
 Moss played without an error and the crowd recognized his good work with cheers.
 baseman in the Southern League hustle if they rank with him in the percentage column.
 Chattanooga seems to have a find" in Pitcher Hopkins.
 Wilhelm made a great debut and it is not the only great game he will pitch during the season.
 Chattanooga's Southpaw will get the iichiS CA oiS Oc4OI6 luE StdSOU Is older. In figure he is reminder of the slim, rural variety.
 Some one in the grand stand yesterday remarked that Umpire Cline looked like a representative of the beef trust An unkind gentleman retorted that he was more on the Pork" style
 With the first three days of play the Southern League teams are in a bunch New Orleans, Memphis, Shreveport and Little Rock do not play today, and no matter who wins at Birmingham and Atlanta, four of the teams will be tied for first place and four tied for taiI-end
 In the early part of the game Moss was cut on the chin by the spike of a Chatta- noogan whom he was trying to touch out at second. He was forced to retire from the game for a few minutes, but soon came back and did such excellent work that he regained the popularity lost last Saturday.
 Umpire Cline delayed the game fifteen minutes yesterday by failing to arrive at the grounds in time. Joe Burke, local man, was substituted for two innings. If Mir Cline keeps up this practice the news may be sent to President Nicklin In the fatal" seventh Umpire Cline came near giving the Chattanooga team two runs by allowing base runners to advance to second and third on what he called a balk by Wilhelm. This was clearly ar error on the part of MT Cline, as the rules do not prevent a pitcher from feinting to throw to second. He had not faced the batter with the inten- ton of delivering the ball. and the rank decision disagreed with the interior of several Birmingham rooters. Mir. Cline has not given information as to the na- ture of the article he had been smoking.
 Reddy Gilligan has been signed by Mike Finn for the Little Rock aggregation. Sy Mulky is fighting for the ex-Crescent City fielder, claiming he had signed with Sherman, Tex, before Finn began fishing for him.
 Atlanta is saying some awful things about the work of Umpire Wilson. One fan says he feels sorry for any team which has to face Nashville when Wilson has charge of the indicator. indirectly asserting Fisher had control of him. Will son did faultless work here in the Cleve- land games.
 Breitensten is by no means dead one Yesterday he showed the great Powell followers they were yet young.
 Umpire Cline had better take few days off in learning to tell whether the batsman is trying to bunt or line the ball out He was off color on several such decisions yesterday.
 Birmingham at least deserves an um- pire who can keep his footing on the diamond Cline tumbled over in the dust yesterday as he took step out of his accustomed position to watch a base runner.
 One of the prettiest pieces of work in the game was the double steal worked by LaRocque and Moss in the fourth inning. it was a pleasing evidence of team work. LaRocque made a great slide swinging around to avoid the touch of the third baseman.
 Billie Smith did not have chance in the field. but he lined out a nice one the first time he came to the bat