The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-18

BASEBALL BREVITIES
 The crippled Barons played an error- less game yesterday.
 Douglass of the Travellers Is leading the league in individual hitting.
 Old Daddy Vaughn Is hitting at a PA clip Pretty good for the old man.
 The Barons played great game in Memphis yesterday, shutting them out to O.
 Maxwell for the sleepers pitched great game yesterday. tllowing only seven hits in fourteen innings.
 Montgomery leads the league in team batting and at that has sut one man hit ting over the 300, and he is pitcher.
 Carlos Smith, the hard working, hard hitting outfielder of the Barons leads the team in batting, having an average of .964.
 The Barons haven't man on the team hitting anywhere around the 300 mark, still they are third In team batting in the league.
 Old man Theodore Bretenstein was too much for the Boosters yesterday. He al- lowed them only four hits, handing them a white wash.
 Tie Barons open today for a series in Pelicanville. and 1t Is hoped they will not raise as much disturbance there as did the Boosters.
 Daddy Vaughn played a great game in Memphis yesterday. He got two hits, stole two bases, and had thirteen putouts to his credit without an error.
 The Barons jump to third place this morning in the league standing, showing the Boosters to fourth. The Barons also hold third place in the batting average. Breitenstein of Montgomery leads the pitchers of the league in batting, and Hughes of Atlanta is at the bottom of the percentage column in batting among the pitchers.
 Rip Reagan was the whole show in Memphis yesterday, pitching the game of his life. The nearest any of the Egyp- tians came to scoring was to get two men as far as second base.
 Pitcher Quick, the new man Big Chief Zimmerman of the Travellers recently se- cured from the Western league, has a good name but judging from his first game he will be quick" to loose out.
 Otto Jordan, captain of the Boosters, who was recently arrested in Pelican vile, charged with petit larceny for steal ing punk ball, has been released on s1oo bail and his trial is set for Septem- Der.
 There are only ten players in the Southern league hitting over the 300 mark and of this number Memphis has four, Nashville two, and Montgomery,
  one each.
 Little Rock holds the distinction of oc- cupying the cellar station in nearly every department. 1t holds it in the percentage column. in team batting, and Drennen, one of the outfelders is the lowest bat ter in the league, having percentage of only .053
 Farmer" Jim Brown has been released by Manager Babb of the Memphis aggre- gaton. The disappearance of Brown from the ranks of the Egyptians will leave big Ed Hurlburt the only one of the 1904 pennant winners on the Egyp- tians.
 Montgomery and Shreveport were going some yesterday. They played fourteen innings before the winning run could be made, but in that inning the Sleepers hammered their old team mate to all corners of the lot, making six runs before the smoke had cleared
 The spit ball is a good thing to use on the fellow who has no preference over high or low balls. and again the spit ball is a good thing to use when ever the pitcher gets in the hole-that is if he knows how to use it. Some spit ball pitchers would be better off if they never tried to throw it, as their wild pitches more than offsets the efficiency of the mysufying down drop"
 Catcher Mcclure of the Highlanders has just celebrated his twenty-ifth year fin the big leagues and in baseball He has played the game longer than any player in the big leagues and Is also the oldest man in years Tn the league. He has never played with a minor league team He is still hale and hearty. Cy Young of the Boston Americans must be nearly as old as Mcclure. and he is the oldest pitcher in the big leagues.
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