The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-23
Birmingham at Nashville. Atlanta at Montgomery.
 Little Rock at Shreveport.

Atlanta a Montgomery.
 Little Rock at Shreveport
 The mighty Coal Barons will face Mique Finns bunch this afternoon for the seventh time this season. and it is thought that for the seventh time they will de feat them
 While anything in baseball is a pos sibility. almost a probability. it is not thought likely that the victorious league leaders will be beaten this afternoon. Either Sallee, Billiard or Reagan should be able to turn the trick. Herman will probably be the victim of the Baron slug gers.
 After a game today and tomorrow, Bir- mingham will return to Slagtown We'd nesday to annex a few from Montgomery. The team then goes to Atlanta and after that will commence the western trip.
 The Shreveport bunch is giving local fans just little uneasness at present by their winning streak. The silent Pirates under Bobby Gilks leadership have been saying less than any team in the circuit, and yet they are second only to the powerful Coal Barons.
 While Shreveport has won seven out of nine games, it must be taken into con- sideration that Little Rock has been her opponent, and that when she goes up against something more like real propo- sition. she will not be quite so successful Memphis defeated her two out of three games.
 Shreveport has not played good ball in all the games against Little Rock, and had it not been for the fact that the Travellers played still worse, would have lost some of them. The following from the Arkansas Gazette about one of the games there last week gives an idea of how the Pirates have been playing at times:
 An idea of the support the Pirates gave Becker was shown in the sixth in ming. when the Travellers tallied three times and did not make solitary hit. In that inning alone the visitors piled up six errors and Douglass. Hess and Byrne almost literally fell over themselves in making pebbles. Becker has the making of good pitcher, but support of the character given him yesterday is very apt to take some or the steam out UT mn.
 Food For Fans.
 The following special was received from Meridian last night:
 From Birmingham comes the report that Pylant has been signed by the local baseball association, but nothing is known in this city in corroboration of the state ment Manager Sample threw cold water on the alleged deal by remarking that he intended only to carry three pitchers. and he minated that he was satisfied with the present three being carried
 It seems that Meridian made the first proposition for the purchase of Pylant, and then when he was about to leaVe' wired for him to stay here. Pylants con tract with Birmingham is still in force and the young southpaw is now in Bir- mingham waiting for the status or ms case to be finally determined.
 Before the season opened the opinion gainad circulation that Chief Zimmer was going to surprise the Southern league ths season. The opinion has been justified, but the surprise is in a different form from the one expected. He is endeavor- ing to strengthen his aggregation how over as the following from a Little Rock paper will show:
 The showing made by the Travellers during the Little Rock series was as uuch a surprise and disappointment to Chief Zimmer as if was to the most ar dent fan in the city, and the management of the club appreciates that something must be done. To that end the club has been in telegraphic communication with several new players, and 1t Is prob able that when the team returns to Little Rock there may be some changes in the lineup. Chief Zimmer said yesterday that he was keeping the wires hot but refused to say what position the new players will cover.
 The makeup of the Birmingham team is quite familiar around the circuit Elsey, formerly with Nashville, at first; Walters of Memphis at second Gear of the Trav- elers in left and Gladys Molesworth from Mont gomery.- Nashville American.
 Manuel, who was given a try out with Washington this season, pitched his first game for New Orleans yesterday. AL though outpitched by Lebhardt in the matter of hits, Manuel won his game. He twirled for Baton Rouge last year anG is said to have the goods.
 The Atlanta scribes seem to rejoice that the Beefers or Boosters. as Billie Smiths bunch is variously called, have left Slag- town. They associate the unhappy recol- lections of their defeats here with the very atmosphere, and give utterance to such as the following:
 Montgomery is several kilometers behind Atlanta when it comes to sky scrapefs and other signs of progress. However, the clear air in this vicinity is certainly an im- provement over the dust and grime laden atmosphere of Slagtown
 Surely vicious hoodoo must inhabit the fumes arising over the molten lava piled in heaps near the Birmingham bat tlefield.
 Jordan has had a bat made at one of the blaming mills at Birmingham. He sue ceeded In rapping out a safe hit the first time he used it. If the mills can make hat fouqh some of the prOpOSi