The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-10
WHAT OTHERS SAY.

Gatins' assault on Umpire Flynn is de- scribed by the Hustlers as the most fla grant act of the kind they have ever wit messed. Gatins grabbed Flynn by the shoulder, shook him like a rat and then punched him in the face with his fist.
 If one of my men had committed an assault like that on an umpire," remarked Manager Babb, they would have been suspended for at least ten days and prob ably for the remainder of the season." But they hush up that kind of thing in New Orleans It is reported that Flynn will make no mention to Kavanaugh of the incident, and that Gatins will escape without punishment. Bill Phillips, too, will not be punished for throwing his bat at George Suggs. Phillips, after being hit, was halfway down the first base line. when he threw his stick at Suggs and cracked our twrler on the shins.-Mem- phs News-S -ScimItar.
 To let such acts go by unpunshed Is to overlook the best interests of the league.
 Silver Bilr' Phillips let his temper get the best of him in the sixth inning of Wednesdays second setto and when Suggs hit him on the with the ball he tossed his bat at the pitcher. If Phil lips really thought-and he no doube does think sO-that Suggs meant to hit him he should have waited until after the game and sought Sugys off the field. He would have been upheld by the fans in that case. As it was he did the worst thing in the world for his own good, for ball fans will not countenance a display of that sort on the field when they don't know both sides of the case As it is a very ordinary thing for a batsman to be hit by a pitch ed ball, there is not one fan in thou sand who suspected that Suggs tried to hit Phillips.-New Orleans Item. Please offer no excuse for the rowdy- ism of thugs.
 Reddy Lewee, captain of the Pirates, threatens to jump the team, but Shreve- port fans have signed their names to a lengthy petition beseeching the plucky second baseman to stick.
 Lewee's loss would be a calamity to Shreveport, as Fishers players are few of them as energetic as Lewee, by odds the classest second baseman in the west ern division of the league.-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 Eddie Mannng's neck was squeezed by Shutter Matthews in the first game. Um- plre Flynns face was punched by Captain Gatns and Methuselah Bill Phillips tried to cripple George Suggs in the last game. This is the Queensberry record of the Pellcans as a side-line sample for the three games. Yet they wonder why tlHy are not greeted with welcome and soft weapons at Birmingham and other places where they stop.-Memphis Commercial Appeal
 Pretty good record, that.
 How would you like to eat dozen old hats every day?
 That's the unenviable task of our con- frere on the press up in Birmingham, Ala. Hugh Roberts, sporting editor of the Bir- mingham Age-Herald, has to sign the transfer mans slip for wagon load of cast-off headgear every afternoon and he proceeds to do the Billy Goat act until time for the ball game.
 It appears that some time ago Scribe Roberts said In his sporotorial column that if the Coal Barons didn't rise to the first division by July 15 or some date whereabouts, he would eat all the old hats in Birmingham
 The Coal Barons' persistency in stick ing to the second division is well known. Birmingham fans realize it more than do the other fans. Likewise Birmingham fans have a good sense of humor and they claim that they took Roberts liter ally The last we heard of Roberts was that he was sticking to his task bravely but was making elaborate plans for a vacation which would keep him away