The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-19
BIRMINGHAM GETS
 ALL GOOD GAMES
Holiday Dates Will be Played
 at Home
NEW RULE IS PROPOSED
Players Believe Magnates Will Allow Double Headers to Be Played Early in the Season, As
 Big Leaguers Do.

The schedule drawn up by President Kavanaugh and Mike Finn and which will be adopted at the meeting of the South ern league Saturday in New Orleans, gives Birmingham credit for being one of the best paying baseball towns in the circuit
 Birmingham will play all the good dates at home. The club will open the season on the home grounds, and will close at home. Nashville will be their opponents when the strident call of the umpire is heard for the first time in league game in the park enclosure this summer
 All the holidays will be played in Blr- m.ngham. Two games will be played July 4, Decoration Day and Labor Day, so that the fans will be able to see the club do the real stunts" of the season. Unlike the course pursued in the past double headers may be played by any clubs after the first trip on the road has been made, if the meeting follows ex- pectations
 Heretofore 1t has been the rule that no doubleheaders might be played until after July 1, but the big leagues have decided that this rule was unwise, and amended 1t so that double headers might be played after the home club completed the first road tour. This was done so that postponed games or tie games could be played off early in the season, thus preventing them from piling up in num- Der, and allowing for more of them to be played off.
 The rule also works well in that t allows these games to be played while the pitchers are still fresh and not worn out by a hard seasons work In this way better results are accomplished all around. The rule has been highly praised by the managers and players in the big leagues. and the players in the Southern league are hoping the moguls will adopt the same rule in this organization
 Moquls Are Gathering.
 Already several representatives of clubs have gone to New Orleans to be in at tendance at the meeting of the league The first session is to be held Friday afternoon, but owing to the fact that this is the carnival season in the Cres- cent City the moguls are going down somewhat earlier to enjoy the fun or Mardi Gras.
 Manager Vaughan will leave Thursday night and with him will go two or three other persons interested in the Birming- ham aggregation, to attend the meeting It is not believed by the Birmingham management that anything except routine business will be transacted at the several sessions to be held.
 Gossip of the Game. Memphis papers are making the state ment that Lou Walters who covered the keystone sack for the Memphis club last season. Is to play with Birmingham this season. It is known that Walters has been dickering with Manager Vaughan, but nothing definite had been accomplished up to last night Walters Is anxious to come here. and the discussion now relates 70 salary only, so 1t is safe to say the Silent Man. will wear a Birmingham uniform this summer.
 i Joe Matthews, a younger brother of "Matty," has signed to play the outheld for the Roanoke club In the Virginia league. "Matty' says the young fellow has never before played professional ball, but all he needs is year in the infant class to prepare him for a position in the gardenspots with Birmingham next season. Atlanta has signed a cracking good man in Smith, who was chief baekstop | for Savannah last year in the South Att ! lantic league.
 Charley Frank wore worried express sion when he stepped off the train in New Orleans after a trip to New York. The actions of Rohe, Williams and Stan ley shocked and palned him deeply and he now believes he will have to replace those men, who are fixtures in the big ag- gregattbns which drafted or purchased them
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