The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-18
TIPS FROM OTHERS.

TIPS FROM OTHERS.
Artie Goodwin of Memphis. Montgomery
and Mobile, has been fired by Dusty"
Miller for incompetency Year before last
he was considered one of the best pitchers
in the Southern league. The mighty some
times fall, and their descent is generally
more sudden and more terrific than that
of an ordinary mans.
According to the Atlanta Georgian
Smith has already begun the making of
excuses He declares that he will be up
against it good and stout in August, as
in that month he has but seven games at
home. Montgomery is in that fix, too, and
this will practically remove from Biz
mingham two stout contenders 1t looks
then that Birmingham New Orleans and
Shreveport will continue in the lead.
Bobbie Gilks is again in trouble. After
hurting from Memphis to the bedside of
his wife in Shreveport, the Pirate man
aget according to a special, found that
his neghbor, w. c. Aston had erected
high fence between the two homes.
1t seems that this made Bobbie angry,
and he Immediately. according to the
charge began an investigation. He was
finally placed under a peace bond. Gilks
is one of the Southern league managers
who has a fearful temper.
One of the interesting baseball stories
of the season is contained in a Memphis
dispatch to the effect that a foreman
of Mississippi jury served notice on
the sheriff that the jurors would strike
unless they were furnished with daily bull
letlns of the baseball doings of the coun-
try The jurys demands, according to
this dispatch were granted.
While a little salt would make the
above a trihe more easy for the digestive
organs, It serves to show the great in
terest that the fans of the entire country
are taking in the national sport this
season. In the south, at least, the fever"
was never higher
Judging from the tone of Mobile ex-
changes, Dusty Miller will remain man
ager of that aggregation of the Cotton
States league an indefinite period, and
that no dictatorial CALCULATIONS of Mique
Finn can remove him, While everyone
desires honest baseball above everything
else, the friends of Miller are glad that
he will win out. He is drawing good
wages. and is doing excellently. In spite
of the fact that when he assumed the
managerial robes. Meridian was way in
the lead. Miller fought desperately and
day before yesterday. tied the White
Ribboners. doubleheader yesterday
leaves the teams still tied. The odds
favor Mobile to land the rag, too.
Sporting writer's. and especially the
younger members of that class, often fall
into the bad habit of criticislng umpires
too severely
IN,
the south has been charged with treach-
cry, and it is hardly proved that anyone
who has officiated was really ncompe-
tent. The younger sporting writer's gen
orally attribute the defeats of the home
team to crooked umpirng. This Is from
the Montgomery Journal: "Pfenninger's
popularity in Montgomery could easily
be packed in a thimble, without danger
of overlooking As a matter of fact, Judge
Kavanaughs staff of umpires has not
given great satisfaction this year. The
addition of Carnpan however, should
help some" 1t is remembered that Rud-
derham was at one time very unpopular
I'M the Capital City. 1t is remembered
that he was charged with and arrested for
the use of obscene language there.
In spite of the fact that Madame An
DIRE, at the Bijjou this week, has prophe-
sled that New orleans VIII win the pen
nant this season., the several sporting
papers about the southern circuit intimate
that the winner is either Birmingham,
or that this burg will have to be beaten
by the flanders" of the gaudy rag.
The Atlanta Georgian devotes some
space to the spectacular rise from fifth
place that the Barons have made since
MAY %. The Montgomery journal pre-
diets that Birmingham will gain the lead
in the league, and will be beaten out
only by the pennant winner. The Atlanta
Journal through Barber Joe, Walter
Taylor's fictitious character, says that
Birmingham will fly the rag. Madame
Andre however, answered right off the
reel when the question was propounded
II believe that New Orleans will land
the rag"
This statement in the Atlanta News is
the strongest yet concerning the alleged
dictatorial position that Charlie Frank
has assumed in the Southern league:
1T is getting high time that there
was a change in the management of the
league One man is in absolute control
of everything. Kavanaugh has never
been known to go against the wishes of
Frank in anything. While Frank is not
all bad, and is recognized as a good
manager, the eastern clubs do not pro-
pose to be Disseminated against in the
matter of league rulings"
However. since the intimation of Pres
ident Kavanaugh that he will again ask
for the presidency of the league, such
opposition will not amount 10 much.
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