The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-12
Wilhelm. Walters and Sallee
Reach the City
CHARLEYFRANK'S TROUBLES
Gossip of Events Occurring in Towns
in the League-Shrevepo
New Battery of Fritz
Brothers.


yesterday and took quarters at various
places for the summer. Each notified Man
ager Vaughan of his arrival. and the trio
will be at the ball yard this morning and
| afternoon to begin spring training.
The latest arrivals are looking well,
as usual. sallee appears TO have grown
taller than he was last season, while
Wilhelm seems somewhat stouter. None
has yet done any training. but all will
work hard to get into shape as early as
possible
All the men signed by Birmingham for
this season are now here except Catcher
Garyin Infelder Oyler and Pitcher Rea-
gan. These are expected to be here by
Tuesday evening or Wednesday morn
ing, and the local club will then be COM
plete.
A crowd of men feeling stiff and more
sore than the players who took part in
the game Saturday would have been
impossible to find in Birmingham yester-
day. The exercise given them in the game
was somewhat strenuous so early in the
season, and the result was that everybody
was moving about as little as possible
yesterday, and every move was accompa-
MED by a groan.
There are few people who can appre-
ciate the agony of having muscles sore
and stff. Only the man who has gone
through spring practice or other training
after period of comparative inactivity
knows just what the suffering and pain
means and they have to go through it
as a business proposition.
Charley Frank is having hard row to
hoe just about now and is up in the air
right as a result. Frank has gone against
a boomerang that was badly thrown, and
on its rebound the implement struck him
amidships with stunning force. 1t was
Franks belief that Otto Williams, his
second baseman; George Robe, his crack
third sacker; Eddie Hahn, the fast out
fielder Pitcher Jimmy Dygert, the spit
ball pitcher, and Joe Stanley. the hand
some outfelder. would all return to him,
because of judicious use of the covering
up practice.
But the time for the return of these
yet reported to Frank for duty. Williams
has gone into print with the statement
that Frank must materially increase the
salary offered. or he would so to the
outlaw league. Williams is going to make
fight for his rights, and the outcome will
be awaited with interest by ball players
everywhere Connie Mack intends to keep
Dygert and Eddie Hahn will remain with
the New York Americans. having al
ready made good. Stanley will remain
with Washington which happens to be
his home and where he has thousands OF
friends.
Robe is working out with Comiskeys
White Sox in New Orleans and will re-
main with that team or follow Williams
example and make fight before the Ma
tional commission. Frank is now scamper-
ing around somewhat lively making efforts
to replace these men, and it is so late
in the season that the chances of getting
really good men are against him. The
Pelicans do not stack up one-half so
strong as they did this time last season,
and all in all it looks to the local fans
like Birmingham has the edge on the
other clubs just about now.
Billy Smith has come forth with a denial
that he ever made the statement credited
to him. to the effect that Brmingham's
team did not figure anywhere better than
eighth Smith, whose berth with Allan
tu is his first really important managerial
position, says Birmingham looks like one
60. 3 ~
ner.
There are many fans in Atlanta who
like the Birmingham club better than they
do the aggregation collected by Smith,
according to Ed Peters, formerly owner
of the Atlanta club. and who was in
Birmingham yesterday and Saturday. Mr..
Peters says the best posted Atlanta fans
believe Vaughn has selected a lot of play
ers who have been tried out before now
and whose ability is known. The several
new men will be given try out but even
is they fail to make good Vaughan will
have team that will come near holding
its own against any of the clubs In the
league
1t looks very much like Charley Babb,
the Memphis manager, will not be given
the opportunity to play Philadelphia
March %. This is the day for which two
games were scheduled in the Memphis
exhibition series. one with the Athletics
and the other with Mugsy McGraw's Gil
ants. Babb has announced i'm public that
he would play Connie Mack's bunch on
that date and would keep the Giants out
of Red Elm park. but it looks now like
Mack is NOT going to take any chances
and will doubtless call the game off and
play elsewhere that day. Thus Babb will
have to play the Giants or go without
game on a Sunday. This will cut off some
several dollars, and the chances are the
Giants will find the Memphis owners as
hot after the money as is John T. Brush
himself. Every little dollar helps.
Chief thinner is saving lot OF wood
and saying very little over in Little Rock.
thinner is running along the same lines
that were followed by Charley Frank in
Memphis some years ago. when the foxy
Dutchman won the pennant with team
of old veterans thinner is getting to-
gether a lot of men who have been at the
game since the memory of man knoweth
not, and 1t looks to the outsider that the
Travellers are going to make something
of a race for the trophy.
.1ph hon