The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-21
Food for the Fans.


Atlanta will. beyond a doubt. prove a
| dangerous rival In the league this year.
From present appearances 1t looks as #
they would be one of the most dangerous
| teams Of the league.
Speaking of the club the Constitution
says:
"Stouch, the second baseman, came In
| yesterday morning, completing the team,
| and with the first sunshine he will put
on the uniform with the other men. The
members of the team are now apparently
in good shape. each one having had quite
an amount of work this spring. A little
association and team work is all that Is
necessary to put the Atantas in pennant-
winning shape.
Manager Pabst is inclined to think he
has one of the best and strongest teams
in the line and is anxious for a chance
for meeting now with some strong,
heavy quality. Saturday the team split
and played before 5000 school boys who
had been invited out"
The local situation Is hattering from
every standpoint, says the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal. The park is rapidly be-
ing made the best to be found in the
circuit. Financial affairs are the best in
the history of the game locally, and Man.
ager Frank is extremely well pleased
with the men he has selected to uphold
the Memphis end of the league race. As
for the men, Lauzon, Swacina and Val
dois of last seasons team are showing
up in splendid form, and the new ones
promise to open the eyes of the most
critical here and elsewhere when regular
team work is displayed. Shortstop Will
lta,- to hon Ill I'D hod
the style of Hugh Jennings in his work,
and his position will be a stonewall on
the Memphis line of defense. Roder Is a
promising pitcher, tall. strong and speedy.
He is good-natured. and 1t is guaranteed
that he will not be easily ratified when
in a close game. Breitenstein and Ehret
are too well known to need comment. but
that they will add great strength to the
battery work Of the team is beyond a
doubt, Kavanaugh has made himself
popular here already by his fielding and
Henniger's work has rounded out In first
class style Charlie Frank is in the best
Of condition and hits and fields splendid
ly. He will be in the game from the
start, and his field and stick work will
add much to the Memphis victories. 9th
er members of the team have shown up
we'll also, but there has not been as good
opportunity to size them up as In the
case of those mentioned.
Saturdays game at Nashville is de-
scribed by the News as follows:
"A neat total of twenty well-directed
swats concluded the pyrotechnic dis
play that has been summerlng at Ath-
letic Park for the last four days. A COM
bination cloudburst of base hits and
hailstorms of errors once more threw
the knights of the Gray Sox on the
soapy slope and they slid into juicy
defeat 16 to 4.
"Cleveland's Sons of the Sutry Swat
whacked the leather many kilometers.
An air of abstraction pervaded the ac-
ton of the young men clad in the regal
gray of Fishers livery, and they made
gruesome spectacle of the closing
game of the year with the Blue Birds.
Perhaps the weird strains of music that
issued from the gong pounding of Rub
Der, the Gongist threw a damper on the
locals At any rate. the trouble, whatever
it was exercised a depressing effect on
the locals, and the fanatics seemed pleas
ed when 1t was over.
ITO begin with, the facetious Mr.. Vass-
binder detected nothing serious in the
case. With a small blue cap set on the
back of his head. he sent up slow
fioater that wrenched the spines of the
gents that walloped at it, Then with
equal ease and dexterity he would shove
one across with such speed that the mos
quitoes overhead were brushed aside with
the force of the steam. Ten hits went
safe, but the Blue Birds played such
gorgeous game that swats amounted to
little.
John War Sanders, the silent south
paw from the briny boys of Morristown,
was the local dependence on the slab.
Sandy has been beneath the weather
for some days and his catapult was
sprung. His left shoulder coralled some
of the freeze of the cold day at Louis
vile and had not thawed out when Rub
Der sounded the onslaught with the gong
yesterday Hugh Adolphus Hill was also
hors du baseball, and was not able to
get any speed to the benders he showed
across.