The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-29
CAME TODAY SURE WITH HIGHLANDERS Hickman and Wilhelm Will Pitch for the BaronS CLEVELAND HERE MONDAY Followed By Detroit Wednesday-Gen- eral Items of Baseball Interest
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CLEVELAND HERE MONDAY

New York - Daugherty, Delehanty, Hahn, left field Keeler, right field; Fiber field, shortstop: Laporte, Mariarity, third base; Conroy, center field; Williams, sec ond base; Chase, first base; Khenow, catch: Whalen, Clarkson, Griffith, pitch.
 Blrmlngham-Mo center field; Gear left field; Smith, right field; Mont gomery, third base; Elsey, first base; Walters, second base; Oyler, shirtstop; Matthews, Vaughan, catch; Hickman. Wilhelm pitch.
 Umpire Wilson Matthews.
 The above list is the correct lineup and batting order for the afternoons game between the New York Americans and the local Southern association club. Man ager Vaughan gave 1t out last night, that the game will be played regardless of the conditions of the grounds and that the game will positively take place at , o'clock this afternoon, providing 1t is not ] raining at that hour.
 The event of the afternoon aside from the general interest of the contest will be Manager Griffth's appearance on the rubber this being his first effort in that direction for the coming season. For years. Griffith has been known to op- posing batsmen as the pitcher who has nothing" yet his success has been far more marked than some of the other great stars of the baseball Armament, who number every slant combined with speed in their repertoire.
 aftpr this game with tooth and nail and a high-class exhibition may be expected in every re- spect Hickman and Wilhelm are both in first-class shape just now and intend to cut loose their full speed in the effort for victory this afternoon.
 Walter Clarkson, Harvard alumni base ball player and ranchman, will also be seen again on the slab for the Yankees, while Jimmie Whalen, who gained his reputation with the San Francisco club in the Pacific Coast league, will pitch the final three innings of the contest.
 William Hallman, manager of the Sa- vannah South Atlantic league club, spent yesterday in Birmingham. MT Hallman was after one or more of Manager NduB0Hn S SuIpluS ptliS phA eiS ularly sweet on Billiard.
 Mir Hallman left last night for Savan- nah empty handed, however, as Vaughan will keep all his box men for the present. Hallman will be remembered by close followers of the game, through his thir- teen seasons connection with the Phila- delphia club as catcher and infelder
 He was considered one of the great players of his time, being noted as ,t, lNrfIlf af mt nf base play, but never anything but medium batsman.
 Hallman follows another vocation, aside from baseball; being a very successful top-liner in q prominent vaudeville cir cult throughout the east. He follows the stage in the winter and baseball during the off season. The present season will mark his second years connection with the Savannah club.
 Ed. Lauzon who will be remembered as q member of the Birmingham club during the Haller regime in 1902 was yesterday selected by the Dayton, Ohio, Central League club to manage through the coming season. Lauzon was consid- cred a good man in the Southern circuit, but took little care of himself, and soon dropped from select Southern company. He succeeds Hub" Knoll. recently de- ! ceased, as manager and captain of the Dayton club.
 Manager Vaughan is planning an au- tomobile parade on the formal opening of the Southern League season, here on April Il. Mike Finn and his hired hands from Nashville will be the locals oppon- ents on the opening day, and a regular major league opening is being planned by the local management.
 Of the old guard, best remembered by l local fandom, probably, Frank Smith. ! now one of Chicagos manstays in the l box, takes the lead in eccentricity In
 the spring of 1902 Haller brought Smith 1 down from Pittsburg to try his fortunes l under the shadow of the slagpile Frank
 at that time possessed great speed, a
 powerful physique, but little control or | knowledge of the game. On the opening l day of the season at Chattanooga, in | 1902 Smith was the star performer in a | number of ways. On the slab for Br- mingham to the seventh inning, he held the Chattanooga sluggers c. his mercy
 with the score 10 to 1 In the Barons fla
 vor The eighth inning, however, saw the tide of fortune changing. Between the stinging remarks hurled at him from side lines and bleachers. in the desperate effort to rattle him, Frank began to gently sail through the spring atmos- phere, and when he finally reached terra firma again, the score was tied with the bases loaded and no one out. Seeing victory slipping from his grasp, the Barons' manager. motioned Smith from the box. and sent Wilhelm out to save the day; Frank refused to budge- Haller inssted-still Frank held his ground. Haller then ordered the big pitcher from the grounds.
 Then Smith moved toward the outfeld, made Outfelder Smith remove a pair oi ball shoes borrowed from him that morning. gathered up his property, turned to where his wife was sitting in the grandstand and shouted between tears of rage and modification, Alice, | come on We are going home.' It required the combined efforts of the | Birmingham team at the Chattanooga railway station that night to prevent the | big fellow taking the train out for his | home at Pittsburg. Haller finally won him | over with promise of a weeks vaca- ! ton. Birmingham lost that game by a score of Ii to 10, in the last inning. SlagpiIe Notes.
 | Note Hickmans great speed this after