The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-05
THE DOPE SHEET.

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wilhelm was in great shape.
Filched of victory, b'gosh!
There was much water at the park
No postponed games for Birmingham.
Let's help Atlanta get in second place.
A party will search for a suitable pole
today.
You can see ginger when you see a
Baron.
The Pelicans are flying in netherly
direction.
Rain disappointed bunch of Birming-
ham fans.
Atlanta plays a double-header this aft
ernoon with Memphis.
The four leaders in the National league
were winners yesterday.
Dad" Cook and Rip Ragan made quite
merry between sprinkles.
1t is said that Ginger Clark will re-
turn next season for a certainty.
Atlanta has passed New Orleans in the
pennant race. There is rejoicing in At
lanta today.
Nose Wormser. auditor of the Southern
league, was not in Birmingham yesterday
He might arrive later.
Rain was general in the south yester-
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game alone was played.
Birmingham is now leading by some six
ty points. Something of a cinch? Watch
the locals go still higher.
The Chicago Nationals now have a lead
of practically 100 points. There is another
cinch in baseball, evidently.
Think of raising the flag next spring
when Montgomery opens In Birmingham.
Is there not something left to live for?
Oyler was driven to the park yesterday
played. He is rapidly recovering his
strength.
Four games were played in the Ameri-
can association yesterday afternoon, and
the loser in each was handed a shut-out.
The last game with the Pirates, and
their final appearance in Birmingham this
afternoon. Let's have a big crowd out
to tell them good-by
| Breitenstein says he will play in the
south next season, If he can get around
the st. Louis draft. He will play in
Dixie until he caves in
As the season nears it's end. animosity
dies away. Charlie Frank is not such
miserable fellow, after all. Truth how
ever, the attack and rebukes and calls
of this season have Gained him wonder
fully.
| Cliff Blankenship, the old Atlanta catch
er. who is well known and remembered
| in Birmingham and other Southern league
cities, was married this week to Miss
Hazel Ludwig of Seattle. Best wishes are
in order.
The season in the Cotton States league
has ended. A prosperous season 1t has
been, too. A series of post-season games
between picked team and Mobile, the
winner of the pennant, is on the tapis.
Montgomery has the honor or dstinc-
ton of having been the defeated confess
tant in both of the mo hits, no runs, no
man on base games" of the season. Will
helm worked in the first. and Tom Fisher
in the second.
The New Orleans Picayune declares
that the games In which Castro figures
will be thrown out, and the deluded dope
ster is figuring Just where New Orleans
will be when Birmingham is thus robbed.
He will wake up some of these days.
They are telling a ioke on T2ilI Sorrell
the Nashville twirler 1t is said that UNI
der an assumed name. he pitched in an
anna teur game near Nashville, and won 1t.
There existed much rivalry between the
two punches of amateurs, and Sorrell
dares not again approach the scene of his
triumph
The New York Highlanders make their
bow this morning from the topmost bough
of the American league. By winning a
double-header yesterday afternoon from
Boston, Chicago was ousted from the cozy
place which 1t has warmed for some little
time. Now can you hold what you have,
Mr.. Griffith?
The next meeting of the directors, or
rather the first of next season. will be
held in Birmingham 1t will be rather
coincidental that President Kavanaugh
will receive his next nomination, and
probable unanimous election in the city
out of which the report of his intended
resignation sprung.
If those New Orleans sporting writer's
weren't such young and boyish fellows,
so inexperienced and green. 1t would be
pleasant to laugh at them. The rather
handsome set, is a trifle embarrassed
just now, and will continue so until next
season, when they will predict a tail-end
position for Birmingham. Such roguish
fellows!
1t Is rumored from New Orleans that
the police case against Otto Jordan will
be dropped that it is looked on as a
farce, and Joke 1t Is said that on the
l7th when the case will be considered.
Jordan will be presented with the ball.
While in New Orleans last. Jordan point
ed out the cell that he occupied on the
memorable occasion. and laughed glee
fully. Thus time has worn the sting
away.
There occurred In Atlanta yesterday att
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