The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-21

last seasons crew. Then comes Elmer Meredith. the eouthpaw whom Alb tried Co land for lis talent in 1908 and 1904 Mer- edith has been one of the Milwaukees mainstays for three seasons. Virgil Gar win is another who should puzzle south er1 hitters, while Bender, the Nebraska incian' is fifth sterling performer.
 Birmingham has a strong set of peo- Die in the two Clarkes Reagan and Py- lant, while Memphis Is also well stocked but Gear seems best entrenched along the firing line"
 Nashville. Tenn. Februar.- 20.-(SpeciaD Manager Newt Fieher of the Nashville baseball team, las called his players to Nashville to begin practice March lo He Is sending out transportation and expense money to men and they will all be here or. the day named, except Bennett. who is teaching school at Oak Ridge, N. c. The first games will be played with the University of jsashville and then van derbilt will be tackled. After thls VIII come some exhibition games with the biz league team. Fisher thinks he has good aggregation. for the coming season but he will not miss an opportunity 10 pick up a rood ,layer to strengthen hls team.
 Hugh Jennings. manager of the Balti- more Eastern League team, and one of the most experienced ball players Ill the country, thus gives his views on the ao- visibility of allowing a runner to stea' second with another runner on third anG less than two out
 with a runner on third and another on first, when none or one Is out ana you are ahead on the score Doard' let thu man steal second by all means.
 With the score largely against you and two out never. I would ask nothing better than for runner to steal down on our club under such conditions. nave given my men instructions in such cases to let the run from third, but get the nan going down, sure.
 'iThe additional run gained will not amount to much if the chance 10 secure more Is thrown away. If we are in that llA one run UOll uO t9 Nh5
 the chance to get more is valuable.
 Dirninutive Freddy Parent short-stop or tie Boston world-beaters, got real angry the other day when one of his teiiow townsmen of Sanford, Me-, made the statement that many of the big league games were fixed and that Pitcher lack TayIdr would md 1,h'ea,F s' de- clared guilty
 'I don't think Taylor is guilty said Parent. f'because l think it is out or the question for any ball player to throw a game. Every time I hear such talk it makes me disgusted There are ai- ways lot of men who think everybody elsc is crooked because they are.
 Every time I hear of fixed baseball I recall one of the few triple plays ever saw, and one of the very few | ever participated in It was down in New Orleans last spring. It was our last game there, played on Sunday, and 10000 people were in the park. We had our hands full to win, and in the ninth inning It looked as if New Orleans would beat us out. They had the bases full and none out.
 sT forget who was at the bat. It makes no difference, however was playing deep short. and the batter drove a wicked liner over the pitchers head. Ferris was also playing deep. It looked all off for Boston. The three New Or leans base runner started around and not one man in that field thought the ball could be caught. l made quick dash for it. never thinking I could get 1t. I made blind running stab for it, jumping about two feet in the air.
 .'The best I hoped for was that might check the ball. The ball struck in my glove. I touched second, doubling up the runner who had left second, and then 1t was easy to throw the ball to La Chance getting out the man who had left first. It took less than a second, and that big crowd sat amazed, not sound being heard.
 ..It was the greatest play I ever saw, and Collins and La Chance told me they never saw the equal of 1t. It was luck, pure and simple. not good playing on my part, because I didn't even hope to catch 1t.
 ''You can imagine my disguest when riding back to the hotel after the game, I heard a native say What did l tell you? l knew those Bostons would ''kid' our team along till the ninth inning. They did as I said and then Parent made the triple play as easy as you and I would eat our dinner"