The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19
BASEBALL BREVlTIES

The Barons had five errors chalked up against them yesterday.
 All of the western teams in the south- ern league that played yesterday won.
 New Orleans fattened their batting av- craze some yesterday off Clarke and Sal lee.
 The crippled Pirates won from Nash ville yesterday, continuing their march pennantwand
 The South Atlantic league Is playing fast ball these days. They are going at a terrific clip.
 The cratic Rube Waddell has more shut-outs to his chedit than any Amer ican league twirler this season Present developments serve to show what mainstays Mathewson and McGinity were to the New York Giants last year. Thirteen women have replaced the men | tlcket-sellers at the Polo grounds. A new | ticket-selling machine is also being used :" The Egyptians, whom the Barons | snothered Sunday, had a walk-over yes- terday with Atlanta, beating them ten to 1 three.
 | Three out of four of the western teams 1 in the American league won yesterday. Philadelphia was the only eastern team | to win.
 
 l Manager Fred Clark of the Pittsblrgers has quietly tipped off his boys that noth- ing but the championship will satisfy him l this season. Ills Grays certainly are go ing some.
 1 In Harvey Clark, Arthur Ragan. Irving Wilhelm and Slender Sallee, many stu dents profess to believe the Barons possess the start slab quartette of the circuit l Commercial-Appeal For two days now an official umpire has failed to show up in Pelicanville, and some player has had to be called on to handle the indicator. Yesterday Wilhelm and Atz did the stunts.
 Ginger Clarke got his bumps yesterday, being knocked out of the box in the first inning, there being three runs scored off him while he was putting one man out. Sallee, who went in to relieve him. fared but little better
 Father Vaughn found his years and 1 breadth too much of handicap in rac- ing with grounders sent by four Mem- phians in the first innings, but his one- handed stops in the seventh and eighth. day for his followers s.-Commercial- -Ap- l peal.
 It looks as though the Georgia State league, which is composed of the towns | of Columbus, Amercus, Albany, Way cross, Cordele and valdosta, will throw uu the spongue. The Americus team disband- ed Sunday. being financially stranded. and 1t is reported that Columbus. the largest city in the league, is not supporting their 1 team.
 President Puliam of the National League, the other day in commentine upon the numerous accidents sustained aireauy tnis season in sliding to bases made the poi:is that when players secure new basesball shoes they should file down the spikes. In all accidents to date the injured player had on new shoes and the long spikes, not yet worn down, caught in the earth and crippled him. By filing the spikes down. says MT. Pulliam, they would be made no more dangerous than older, worn spikes A good idea, well worth needing
 In the game Sunday between the Ba- rons and Memphis all of the Egyptians | must have had on new shoes for there were four of the Barons spiked We persuaded ourselves to believe it was new shoes. Archer of the Boosters must be of the opinion that Knoll had on new shoes when he recently slid into him in the New 1 Orlaa a n a gal fra Q cfIIriner lasx