The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
GAMES TODAY
Little Rock In Shreveport. Memphis in New Orleans.
BY BILL AK.

BY BILL AK.
 Nashville, August a+-As on another oc- casion, the Barons came to Nashville, won all the games played. and managed to do no better than split even.
 Faith! What more would you have a team do when the said team is on the paths. Show me a team that wins half it's games on the road, and I will show you pennant chasher of no mean ability. But still the baseball fan grumbles, and forsooth he has grumble coming. The Barons managed to assume such lead in every one of the games here that to lose two of them and tie third was horrible But still that Is just exactly what the Barons 4.d.
 This afternoon, the fans who attend ed the Apollo matinee at home are doubt less aware, the Barons encountered the Dobbers in two games. The first the Barons won by a score of to 4. Tho second, after playing an inning with tho shadows of night falling everywhere, the Dobbers managed to tie up, the final scores at the conclusion of the fifth, being to S.
 Raqan Wins, Hurrah.
 The fans at home have something con corning which to make merry. Ragan pitched the first game. all nine innings, and still victory fell to his lot. Since the recent illness of the big pitcher. he has been absolutely worthless to the team. having suffered defeat fin every game in which he figured. But this afternoon he turned the trick, and in righ royal style. too. The game was far from Bpectacu- lar, but inasmuch as the Baron twirler "laid 1t all over'' Sorrell and Elmer Dug gan, he deserves great credit.
 Hurrah for Ragan, hurrah three times! In the second game, Mack Weller fig ured for about @ minute and a half. After the Barons, In the first ming, had piled up five scores, the Dobbers fell against the benders of the said Weller, and after slamming him to every cor ner, piled up three scores.
 Tuls batting and run getting fright ened the venerable manager of the slag- pliers that he chased the recruit to the bencl for a drink of Ice water and sub stltuted Ginger" Clark.
 Talkn.e About "Ginger."
 Woe to the man who sends Ginger in relieve a pitcher going to the bad. I ask you seriously, When has Gin ger Clark relieved a pitcher and ac- qultted himself with credit
 "Gnger has pitched some excellent ball for Birmingham in his time, and has twirled some exceedingly clever games this season, but as man to fall back on, the ''peppery' gentleman from Ono Is all to Ine bad.
 believe that Weller would have won his game. True, he was hit hard. But the Barons were still two runs to the good and Weller gave signs of settling. Who can dispute that Weller has nerve sufficient?
 linen Weller in his first inning famed three men, enough to retire the side. Then Weller got his hit, too. l believe he will do well, eventually.
 This for Manager Vaughn: Many a man starts badly and finishes strong.
 But had Clark landed the game, every body, including myself, would have cried ",aaghn is the mustard. He certainly knows when to take pitchers out of the game
 But this afternoon, knowing there was no one on whom to depend save Ginger" and remembering that it is positively contrary to his rules of life to win a game started by another I would have kept Weller in harness. But Ginger didn't lose. He simply allowed the Dobbers to tie things up and thereby save himself another de- feat. He has lost but two games in Nashville on this trip.
 No Injured Records, Mol
 In the first game. the Barons scored two in the first inning The fans here yelled like the dickens, and l took a sneak to a nearby beer garden, when in the third, Nashville scored four. But imagine my surprise on returning to see where the Barons had walked up. and scored four themselves. I then sat back in peace. and saw the men with the big "B" annex others in the sixth and eighth.
 The Barons are stinging the ball, and although but two games were won on this trip, when five should have been bagged easily, no one has injured his swatting record. Far from it Gard ner, Meek and Alcock stung the ball in the first, there's nothing to it.
 In spite of the victory, however the Baron infeld was exceedingly rank, every man of 1t making an error
 In the second game, as I started to tell. the Barons landed on MT. Yerkes hard scoring five runs in the first. The Barons are terrible when it comes to scoring in the first inning. They do 1t all the time The Nashville fans, dis liking to witness the slaughter in the
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 in their half, the Dobbers got r with Weller, and made three.
 mattered this, when in the sec
 d third. the Barons scored again?
 at the end of the third, the .rr stood to in favor of Birming- and I dreamed of a doubleheader
 y. It was fake, pure and sim
 Tn the fourth, right at the con-
 of the dream, there came a
 mare. The Dobbers hammered
 so unmercifully that it was nec- -rt for me to cover my face with an