The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-06
BASEBALL GOSSIP

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will probably pitch Regain. One of C1eve-
lands old pitchers will work for that
team.
If the weather is pretty the indications
are that the largest crowd of the season
will be on hand. The Barons victory of
yesterday will prove a great impetus to
the attendance and the Clevelanders are
decidedly the fastest aggregation of ball
tossers which has been here this sea-
son.
Lajoie, who leads all players in bat
ting, will play second this afternoon, and
the team will line up practically as it did
yesterday afternoon.
Sallee surprised many fan yesterday
by the way he settled down after the
third inning. and held the heavy hitting
Cleveland team down to two hits in eight
innings The youngster has shown good
| form in previous two outs, but he was
never in the same condition that he ex-
hibited yesterday afternoon. At any rate
the youngster will have lower berth on
I the Baron sleeping car this season.
A more surprised bunch of ball players
never woke up than the Clevelanders yes
terday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock. They
thought they had the game cinched, and
| they had packed their bats and put on
their sweaters and walking shoes. ready
! to so to town when the Barons went
down in one two, three order in the
ninth. But therein they were mistaken.
1t was not so. Instead the score was
tied, and fifteen minutes later the game
was won.
For an eleven inning game the one yes
| terday afternoon was played in remark
ably short period of time. One hour and
forty-five minutes was all the time the
Barons required to trim the wing feathers
of the Cleveanders
The result of the game yesterday hinged
on whether Sallee's sacrifice was caught
| by Jackson, the pitcher, or whether he
trapped it. 1t looked to a very large ma
jority that the ball was trapped. or in
other words, struck the ground before be-
! ing fielded by the pitcher. and Umpire
Burkes decision was that the ball was
trapped. On the other hand the Cleveland
players claim that the ball was caught
on line and never touched the ground.
Had the ball not touched the ground, both
Clarke and Sschiap would have been out
as they would have been caught off the
base. They afterwards scored
The Cleveland team acted like gentle
men, although some of them seemed to
think that they received the worst of the
decision. They objected to the decision
|
If there is anything around the third
bag that can beat Bradley playing it, he
of his own. Bradley accepted eleven
chances yesterday without an error, and
some of them were very difficult. He
made sensational stops and was as fast
as a streak of creased lightning In his
fielding.
Stovall ate em up on the initial bag and
if there are any superiors to this tall boy
they also stand in a class by them
selves The Cleveland team as a whole is
the fastest bunch that has been on the
local diamond in several years. The out
fielders fielded balls so fast that they
cut off more than one extra base on long
hits.
The popular song being sung to the
knockers now Is Back, back, back to
Baltimore" and these same knockers are
taking a trip to the rear seat and sub
siding peacefully. Not even a grumble is
heard from them.
Four straight victories against major
league teams. That Is the record of the
Barons. Two from the Cincinnati Colts
and one from the Regulars, and the game
Yesterday from the Napoleons. That's
playing baseball, and one must take into
consideration that the regular team has
not yet been gotten together In any one
game. Pitchers have been used in the in
field or the outfield in every game, and
sometimes there have been as many as
three pitchers playing fielding positions
Sallee showed great Improvement yes
terday in watching his bases when they
were occupied by runners He made mig
Clarke hang around first like Grant
around Richmond. and he had that clever
catcher afraid to move from the bag. In
this respect he promises to surpass Billy
Campbell, who was famous for keeping
runners on first.
Laioie thought Sallees actions in de-
| liyering ball when there as a runner
| on first was a balk, but when he looked
II over he declared it was something mar
| velous.
schiap is improving every game. He Is
not only hitting the ball. but he is field
ing sc per cent better than he did
week ago. He made one sensational stop
behind third base yesterday and nailed
the runner at the plate. 1t was an eye
opener.
| Mig, Clarke was with Atlanta last
wear. He is making good with the Cleve-
land team this year, and Manager Ma
noleon is stuck on his throwing to Sec
ond.
Flick. the fast and heavy hitting out
fielder of the Cleveland team, went on
through to Cleveland. He is suffering
from a bad cold and is going to physi-
clan as soon as he reaches home.
The Cincinnati scribes had sad story
70 send home Monday night after their
team had met defeat at the hands OF the
Rarons. The stories were full of Ifs" and