The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-25

The Barons miss Father Vaughan on
the initial sack. Dusty Miller plays to
the best of his ability, but he is by no
means as certain as the manager He
is credited with an error in nearly every
game and they have proven fatal each
time.
Inability to hit was the cause of another
defeat yesterday. With two men on
bases and no one out the Barons were
not able to shove a winning run across
the plate. The team has been woefully
weak in this particular on this trip. New
Orleans was able to hit the ball at an
opportune time and won the game In the
tenth inning 1t was In this extra inning
that the Barons had their chance. Nearly
every game the Barons have lost has been
by just such close scores as this, and
in every one of them a single opportune
hit would have meant a victory. One can
hardly blame the pitchers for letting
down at the end of the game after pitch
ing magnificent ball and receiving poor
support In all of the Shreveport games
ard in the New Orleans game the story
was the same. The Baron twirlers pitched
great ball until the last of the game,
when they let down, and coupled with
an error or so, followed by a hit, the game
was won.
The last series of the trip commences
tomorrow in Memphis where the Barons
play Friday, Saturday and Sunday. After
that they return home for a month. The
western teams will be seen here next
month. The Baron board of directors
and officers promise that something shall
be done to strengthen the team when it
reaches home, and it is not too late to
strengthen the team sufficiently to make
it win a place in the first division be-
fore the season is over.
Manager Jordan Is learning something
every day. He once thought that it was
as easy to win games on the road as
when at home. He has found out that
this is not true, for two out of three were
lost to New Orleans. three straight went
to Memphis and now Little Rock has
won two games from the Firemen. 1t
has been ten days since the Firemen took
a victory and even the tailenders have
prevented them from scoring
The anvil chorus is growing stronger
in Atlanta every day and column after
column is being written by the fans as
to why the team is losing. Internal
dissention, debauching and other reasons
are given to explain the inability to VIM
The Barons might have won yesterdays
game had they tried the squeeze" play.
Players were on second and third and one
man was out. Miller was at the bat He
knocked a pop fly and all the chances
were gone. 1t was fine time to attempt
the play. A bunt or even an infied groun-
would in all probability have scored him
New Orleans worked it to perfection in
Tuesdays game and won with it.
Butler or Fitzpatrick will work for the
Barons today The latter has pitched
since the former. as Butler has not been
in the box since he won his game against
Little Rock. Fitz pitched one of the
Shreveport games and cd well.
The fans cannot understand Hafford's
inability to hit the ball. He Is a hard
working third baseman and always plays
to win, but on this trip he has seemed
unable to do any stick work. 1t is sIch
contrast to his stick work on the pre-
vious trip that the fans are surprised 1t
is about time that his luck was changing
and that he was soaking the bah again