The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-11

gomery Advertiser. Kaiser would nave been more in keeping with Little Eva's" cognomen.
 The Montgomery Advertiser comments on the nerve of the Birmingham and Cleveland teams, in that those aggrega- tions "pulverized" Montgomery and Phil adelphia Is the back yards of these latter cities. This thought of the Advertiser man brings up the fact that the playing of the Barons In this league. as well as the position that they occupy, Is somewhat similar to that of tho Napoleons. Both are in third place, and both are fast forg- ing to the front. Both are made up Of old heads and hard hitters and both have the most strenuous rivalry of any Of the other members of the two leagues.
 "Championships," :" says the New Or leans Times Democrat. have been lost by errors and it'e about time the Pelieans were cutting them out" Not only cham plonships and pennants have been lost by errors, bu: errors have caused tailenders to swing to the top. and headliners to go to the subway. In fact, errors in anything prevent success. The New Orleans ex- change handles the word "error'' as If it coul6 Slo no moro harm than lose the Pelicans the rag. If the team continues making errors, Charlie Frank will finally be chased out of the New Orleans lot.
 
 From the Advertisers account of Will helms remarkable game of Monday, the fact is brought out shat after the Mont gomery fans saw that the game was lost, they rooted for the Baron pitcher and en- couraged him to land a no-hit game.
 This is thoroughly typical of Southern league audiences. After all. the fan likes to see good baseball and wonderful records. Had a Montgomery pitcher on local grounds given promise of doing such a brilliant stunt. he would have received the same encouragement as uid Wilhelm. There Is no doubt that some one of the remaining games to be played on local grounds must be lost. and the fans of Birmingham would be glad If that one which must go awry is won without allow ing a local hitter to reach the initial sack.
 The Atlanta Journal states that If the official figures of the Fourth of July at tendance were published, and If that pub llshed information showed that Blrming- ham surpassed Atlanta, then the fans of that city would tip the hat to the locals It was hoped that enough had been said concerning that attendance. The official statement of the leagues president should be ample proof The old adage that flg- ures cannot lie, but those who figure can Is proof enough that Judge Kavanaugh's 8 statement should be taken in preference to any publication that might be made from Birmingham. If the local papers should claim an attendance of 40,000 the Atlanta papers would claim twice that many. So. Mir. Taylor, Is 1t not better that you go right ahead and doff. your hat without any more ado?
 A careful perusal of the exchanges that reached the office of the Birmingham Age Herald yesterday failed to show where the marvellous record of the Barons was com mented upon. None of them stated, even, that the Barons were becoming dangerous in the pennant race. Nothing is said. The Barons are treated with little courtesy in this respect. This Is significant. too, be- cause when the Barons lose, and begin a slide down the soapy. the local fans may rest assured that comments of that de- scension will fill the larger portion of the various sporting paoes.
 When the season first opened the ma jority of sporting writers from other cities were of the opinion that Birming ham, Nashville and Little Rock would be tied up for the subway championship. It is barely possible that the erroneous prophecies are causing the tightly closed lips today.
 According to statement of the New Orleans Times Democrat, Umpire Buckley is still receiving the affronts of the play CTS of various teams Jakey Atz kicked terribly" as the exchange states it. and Gilks complained regardless" No umpire who has yet figured In the South ern league has met with more opposition than Umpire Buckley. The young ndi- cator is probably incompetent, but he Is holding his iob. nevertheless. Then, again. southern baseball fans like to see an um- pre exert bis power. when he Is assailed, and this Buckley does not hesitate to do In all. he has elected from the game more men than any other umpire this season. He has been assaulted by Manager Dur rett and Catcher Anderson, but still holds his ground, and refuses to put up with the back talk of ball players. Incidentally, 1t might be said that Atz Is starting his complaints rather early in the game.