The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-06

Games Today.
New Orleans at Birmingham.
Memphis at Nashville.
Shreveport at Montgomery.
Little Rock at Atlanta.
It was another of those melancholy
days, of falling rain, and muddy ground,
and cloudets black and drear.
There was no game at West End park,
and again were the Barons robbed of their
Pirate prey Again were the glad fans of
Birmingham given the blade in the fifth
rib, and again did Harry Vaughn count
the lost shekels
AS soon as night fell, Gilks and his men
retired This morning they go over the
Louisville and Nashville to Montgomery,
where the Pretzels will be encountered.
Today at noon, Charlie Frank, the
chubby Dutch manager of the Pelicans,
brings his New Orleans clan of fourth
placers to Birmingham. While the Barons
have two postponed games with New
Orleans, on account of the lack of pitch
ers, it is very probable that only the three
regularly scheduled contests will be
played.
If 1t doesn't rain-the clause is condi
tlonal-the first game of the last Baron
Pelican series of the season will be called
this afternoon at o'clock. Scene West
End Park,
II is another of those melodramas in
which the villain is frustrated.
Farewell to Gilks.
When The historian hands to posterity
the chroniclings of this season, he Will
have to relate that the fans were not
very demonstrative in their regret at
Gilks departure 1t is, as everyone be-
leves, the last appearance that Gilks
will make in Birmingham as manager
of the Pirates. His dreams last evening
were not disturbed by happy serenade,
nor was there a tender billet-doux UNI
der his breakfast plate. Bobbie is all
right enough, but the fans here do not
love him much
During the stay of the Pirates moth
ing of a positive nature was said con-
corning the reported retirement Of Glks,
and the succession of Red" Thomas
Fisher However II is understood that
this is the last season in which Gilks will
serve as manager of the Shreveport ag-
gregation, and current rumor has it that
Fisher has been slated for the position
for sometime
However this may be, Gillks is gone
When again a member of the Pirate
crew places his phiz within the BOUNDS of
Birmingham, with an intent hostile and
warlike. this old season will be a sweet
memory. and a newly born and mewling
Hailng Frank Some.
It's Charlie Frank.
Everybody knows Charlie
He is considered the smooth manager
of this league. HI halls from the Crescent
City of the south, and has team made
up of Joe Rickert. He is running fourth,
with no room to lose. He doesn't care
for the pennant this season. He got it
last time.
Frank and his bunch will he quartered
at the Birmingham. where callers will
be entertained. Birmingham is warm in
Its hospitality, and bids the visitors well
come to the spiders parlor. 1t is n pleas
ure to beat Frank. He sits and grins
through II ALL says nothing, but thinks
some. The Barons will take the game this
afternoon. Wilhelm will work for Birming-
ham and Frank will send in whomever he
chooses.
There are no interviews this time. The
rubber BALI matter was a fiasco from
the jump, and Charlie has already dis
claimed any jurisprudence over President
Kavanaugh, and any ownership of Mem
phis stock.
All in all, Frank is all right and there
are many admirers of the Dutchman in
Birmingham. He is a great manager. hav-
ing but one peer in the league. True,
little child, he is still few inches young
er than Harry Vaughn, but he has am
bition.
Let everybody come out this afternoon,
bid the Pellcans welcome, see them
ground into talcum, and then prepare to
tell them farewell for the remainder of
the season
Charlie, really you are welcomed
Enrich Interviewed.
Before leaving Birmingham Harry
Ehrlich, who aided Ticket Agent Bonnie
and represented Shreveport in the divls-
ion of Birmingham money, made state
ment.
He furnlSneu the lnloIlndtloH THAT
Shreveport would be in the league next
season, or the members which elected that
city would know that there had been a
fight
He did not say who would manage the
Pirates next season. He was authority
simply for the statement that the Pirat-
ical clan would continue to exist. He
thought that KaNanaugh would again be
president, and that Birmingham would
win the pennant. He did not give his rea-
sons for these opinions. He thought that
Memphis had the best team in the league.
in spite of his belief that Birmingham
could outplay the Bluff City.
The statements of Ehrlich are valu-
able for the reason that it Is now known
that Shreveport will not retire willingly.
Let's have that fight he spoke of. Let S
do any old thing for the benent of the