The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-09
REMARKABLE DOPE
ON MACON'S TEAM
Men from Sugar Belt and Sat-
urday Afternoon Leagues
WORLD BEAT ON HITTING
Only Weak Batter on the Club Clipped
of a Record of .2e8 Last Season.
They Play Here April
is and 10.
WORLD BEAT ON HITTING

The baseball scribe and authority for
the Macon team in the South Atlantic
league has forwarded some remarkable
information concerning that club to the
Age-Herald for the benefit of the fans who
would like to get a line on the timber
composing this new organization which
plays here April 10 and 16. If the figures
given by this artist of the records are
correct Macon has a four time world
beater and can make any club in the
Southern league look like an old dill
pickle. Here is the manner in which he
officially promulgates the dope:
The Macon baseball club which come to
meet the Coal Barons for 2 games-15 and
l6, appear from their makeup to be the best
team in the South Atlantic league and
should make it good and hard going for
the boys at home when they meet.
Sugar BeIters.
1.-THE following is the makeup and rec
ord of each man now in the field:
Eugene Whipple. pitcher, Sugar Belt
league. 1903 Pitched IS games, won Is.
Pitched AZ consecutive innings without a
run.
| "A. P. Boyne, pitcher played indepen6-
ent ball last season Pitched IS games,
won 40. Hit over $50.
Harry Stewart, pitcher, of Dayton, o.,
played in Saturday afternoon league, win
ming every game ne pitched.
Dick Rhoades, of Saturday Afternoon
league with a record of 16 out of IS games.
| Bob Shamel, the giant pitcher of ST
| Louis, Mo Six feet four inches high.
! Pitched in Missouri Valley leagu. not
| losing a game.
! ALBERT Kerr of Wilmington, Ind. play
ed IN the Sugar Belt league. Pitched "a
games and won 20.
John Fisher catcher and flelder, field.
ed $50. hit 800
One Weak Hitter.
Tom Erwin. catcher, delded, ssS and
hit 29s.
"Will Hamish, catcher felded $40, hit
3O4.
Roy Wolff. third base, record un-
| known.
Paul sentell short stop, fielded so4,
hit 800.
Ben Hayes. second base. fielded Oil.
hit 800.
| 'ohi iioiihdil' Irst base, telded 1865,
hit $40.
Joe Stevenson, right field, helded $50,
hit 4o5
John Duplain. left field. fieldeu 1854
hit 1884.
John Tens, left field, felded s2o, hit
301.
wv. A. Smith, center field and manager,
fielded 1884, hit 3O4
They are working hard daily AMI
since the material is young and all eager
to advance. there are no lazy sticks In the
bunch and the ambition of the team to
get away with games against the big
| leaguers."
The Birmingham rooters are pleased to
know that Macon will hit the ball hard
and most of us hope they will win the
pennant but just take a look at that ar
ray of hitters. If the crowd hits that
gait around these parts every park fence
south of the Mason and Dixon's line will
be demolished and the wood yards will
be long on splinters. That hitting re-
cord looks good to Birmingham.
Alas, Poor Tom.
The poor fellow who only hit 29S is IN
a bad way and it may be that he will
never leave the bench AT Macon a ball
player who can't touch the pail at the
$50 mark is selling platter and just think
of it, Birmingham had only one player
last year to reach 300 What THEY'LL 10
to the southern leaguers will be suf-
| ficient.
On the hitting dope this Macon fgurer
is there with the goods but when he comes
to his history and the titles of the
leagues from which his favorites hail
we must modestly confess to having been
Jared. Now wouldn't it scald you to
keep score for a club In the Sugar Belt
league? The location of this sweet organ
zation is not given Birmingham must
remain in Ignorance. To make it worse
he hands us the official figures culled in
the Saturday Afternoon league This is
the limit. The Southern league managers
have overlooked a great big fat chance
in this circuit. Think of the many play
ers that might have been drafted on Sat
urday afternoons while the big league
magnates were asleep. The location of this
weekly organization is also a matter of
grave doubt and a committee will be
appointed to investigate.
From Missouri.
The last complete puzzler on which the
dope man strings us is the Missouri VAL
ley league. This must have location
but the records on file around these dig
gings fail to disclose It,
At any rate the Macon management
must have a corl<er and it is to be sim
cerely hoped that they have already se-
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rag is now at Macon done up in moth
balls awaiting the close of the season.
Laying all joking aside it is understood
Macon really has a strong team a.ls will
give the Coal Barons good run for their
money in the practice games to be PLAYED
here next week.
SPECIAL NOTICE,