The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-24
HOW EAST PARED IN WESTERN PLAINS Nashville Played Pennant Win
 hing Baseball BAR0NS' W0EFUL RECORD Locals Won From Little Rock, Then Lost Four straishts to Memphis,
 Each Game By One
 Score.
BARONS' WOEFUL RECORD
EAST IN THE WEST.

| With the game between Birmingham and Memphis yesterday afternoon, the in- vasion of the west by the teams of the east was completed.
 In all, forty-six games were played, of this number eighteen being victories for 1 the clubs of the east. On the other side of the ledger are twenty-eight games to the credit of the west It is to be seen that the west outplayed the east consid- l erably, even more thoroughly than the | advantage of being on home ground in- dicated. The clubs of the east in the west played .391 per cent.
 To win pennant, 1t has been said that team must break even on the road. If this is true, then Atlanta will not wave the rag this season, unless on the next trips it's percentage Is great enough to even up. Nashville went through the west splenc1dly, making an even break in fourteen games, and impressing the scribeS of the wild and wolly with the be- lief that the Dobbers comprised the strongest aggregation in Dixie. Atlanta fared next best, winning four games out of nine, with a percentage of .4l4. This is championship baseball, too, but hardly fast enough to land the rag. Montgom- cry, was expected, fared badly, win ming but four games of an even dozen played
 Barons' FreakIsh Record.
 Birminghams record in the west was the poorest of all. The Barons played twelve games, won three, lost eight, and tied one The record is a miserable one, and makes the fans blush when they think of it. In New Orleans, two games were played, the first going to the Pell- cans, and the second being tied up tight V. In ShrpVpn0rt three were played, of which number the Barons man aged to get one, Wilhelm landing that. In Little Rock, the Barons did themselves proud, losing the first, and winning the remaining two Clark and Ragan were the successful pitchers.
 In Memphis, the Barons were defeated in four straight games This record i5 what broke the back of the camel. Each of the Baron pitchers went up against the Memphii, and each received drub- ping.
 Wilhelm started the ball to rolling in the first encounter He gave fewer hits than Stockdale, but lost just the same. Then Turner followed, and there is no doubt but that he would have got away with a no-hit game had his support been good. As 1t was, Lister, Alcock, Oyler and he, himself, threw the ball about the field like a bunch of frightened amateurs, the result being another defeat. Clark pitch ed the third game After the first inning. but one Memphii touched him. In the first, however, he yielded three hits, enough to place two runners across the pan. In the game yesterday, Memphis scored one more run than did Birming- ham, when all the way through, 1t looked as if Birmingham would land the game.
 Barons Trimmed Finnites.
 It is to be noticed that Birmingham fared more severely against Memphis than against any other team of the west. This is true, in spite of the fact that the Memphii are accounted the weakest of the western aggregations. On the con- trary, Birmingham won the series from Little Rock, and Little Rock is properly judged one of the smartest members of the western circuit.
 The west begins it's invasion of the east this afternoon. It remains to be seen If the east will handle the visitors as they handled the east when the east was away from home.