The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-31
UTTER AND HAYES
ARE RELEASED TODAY
Vaughan Cuts Down Squad TO
Playing Basis
NEW YORK'S LAST GAME
viii Be Played This Afternoon If Old
Sol VIII Show His Absent
Face-GeneraI
Notes.
NEW YORK'S LAST GAME

Manager Vaughan will begin his weed
ing out process today, when he hands
two members of his Birmingham squad
tho pink slip. The season is fast ap-
preaching and the management Is forced
to get down to a working basis hence
the reduction in the squad
The players selected to be decapitated,
are Pitcher Utter and Infelder Bruce
Hays Utter was recommended very high
ly to the management as most prom
Using professional pitcher He had
pitched with great success in and around
Ohio, against the best independent or
ganizations in that section, and the local
management naturally thought. they We're
corralling a valuable youngster
However, it developed upon Utters ar
rival in Birmingham that he was far
from being youth; in fact he was
score or more years removed from the
days when we were 81" he made a good
showing against New York on the first
days game; that is it would have been
an impressive showing providing the balls
and inhelders could have lasted. Both
of the above mentioned baseball utilities
were considerably used up during Mr..
Utters brief but lurid appearance on the
rubber This young" pitcher is not fast
enough for the Southern league and Will
seek pastures new.
The second member of the local squad
to draw the dreaded "23' was Inielder
Bruce Hayes and he will probably be
sent to Charleston s. c. in the South
Atlantic league with string attached
in case of an accident to any of the
regulars here.
Hayes Is IL good bah player and Man
ager Vaughan was very reluctant in let
ting him go, but tnere was no room for
him on the local club with the acquisi-
ton of Walters. Hayes is strictly a sec
ond baseman, and a good one. but Wal
tiers is steader and more experienced,
hence his retention,
Manager Vaughan tried Hayes at short
stop and while being a far better hitter
than either Alcock or Oyler was very I'M
familiar with the position. In case OF an
accident to any of the Birmingham regu-
lars Hayes may be seen in baron UNI
for mlater in the season.
HAYES was also badly handicapped here
through illness, being almost constantly
sick since his arrival in Birmingham. He
has the best wishes of every one for sue
cess In his new location.
There will be game today between
New York and Birmingham, if the wealth
er permits. For the past week the same
announcement has been made almost daily
and each day there has been nothing
doing.
If the game is possible it will occur
a. o'clock this afternoon This will
mark the last appearance of the New
York Americans on the local lot, as the
team picks up bag and baggage for At
lanta tonight. in the vain hope of escap-
ing the continually wretched weather
The fans will miss the mighty Chesbro
and the foxy Orth from their usual
haunts The grabbed Elberfield will use
his high pitched voice and pull off his
marvellous stops on other diamonds. Crit
fiths somber face will light up when he
departs from the Alabama deluge belt,
and the Jolly Newton and Chase will
gladden. the Atlanta fans next week by
their agile antics Birmingham has a
warm spot Tor TINS particular NEW 1oih
club. as they are about the finest, most
clear-cut, bunch of gentlemen from an
other burg who ever performed under
the shadow of that old Stag pile
The Cleveland club will get in from
Atlanta sometime tomorrow.
The Maps have been training in At
lanta for the past three weeks and have
had little better luck than the visiting
yankees" as far as the weather con-
ditions are concerned. Cleveland has an
all-star aggregation, headed by their great
playing manager, Napoleon Lajoie. In
the party coming here are Pitchers Joss,
Bernhard. Townsend, Hess, Moore, Rhodes
and Ellis: Catchers Bemis, Ballow, Clark
and Wakefield Infelders Stoval Lajoie.
Turner, Barbeau, Bradley and Rossman;
Outhelders Flick. Bay. Jackson and Con-
galton. The Cleveland club is booked
for two games Monday and Tuesday and
the fans will have an opportunity of
seeing some of the best opponents of the
various positions on the ball field in the
game today.