The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04

Joe Hennessy, the outhelder. who was l tried out by the Newark club last spring,
 and who was sold to the Wllllamsport
 club of the Trl-State league. Is to go back into the Eastern league again. Announce 1 ment has been made that Hennessy had
 been purchased by Buffalo and that he l will join the Bisons at the close of the l Tri-State lcague.-Nashville American l Everybody remembers Joe Hennessy.
 We predicted early in the season that Memphis would win the pennant but
 Atlanta is getting pretty close. It looks, however, as If Memphis will land the
 rag g-Montgomery Journal.
 Ten thousand mon 1t seems, made that
 same prediction.
 Weeks ago Billy Smith walled that the
 major league managers had bought up every really tirst-cass player in the little leagues he was watching.
 Now that Harry Vaughn has gone out after players he stacks up against the
 same proposition.
 Every player who is a real star in q small league has been bought The few overlooked in the first scramble will be drafted. And when teams like Atlanta.
 Birmingham and the other southerners want players they will have to take the minor league culls buy next spring
 from the majors at advanced prices.
 Roy Montgomery, manager of Jackson has ben arrested for ungentlemanly con duct, iE having row with Umpire Mack ey at Meridian. There must be some
 thing wrong with the umpire who hand ed it to Mobile-for Roy Montgomery has always conducted himself in most gen
 tlemanly way on and off the field but, while he admits losing hls head in this instance, 1t mt t have hene something very rotten which MacXey handed to his team.-Mobile Item.
 Rudderham was mad clear through | yesterday when one of the spectators ealed him a thief. While Buddy" should be accustomed to that by this time, the eplthet was entirely unmerited for the umpire has reputation for being one Of the squarest in the business. It looked as though he were off on some of his
 decisions yesterday. but there can be no
 doubt that he called the plays as he
 saw them.-Arkansas Gazette. doubleheader at Birmingham today 1 will tax the Pellcans to their fullest ca l pacity if they expect to remain in fourth 1 place much longer. It is almost certain l that they will take both games. since
 the Barons appear much weaker al the
 conclusion of their western trip than
 at its beginning. and the Pellcans are
 
 The Dutchman may show he Is a great | manager, and now that Memphis has I l good lead, he will burn up the st, win ming the same porportionate number of l games with this years team as he did
 with that bunch who were beat out of
 the comforts of home. but won the pen. | nant just the same-New Orleans Pica- 1 yune.
 l Hary Vaughn manager of the Brn- inGham club and former catcher of tho l Cincinnati Reds. holds record says l The Cincinnati Enquirer of throwing
 regulation baseball 1S4 yards 21a inches. l This record has been beaten but once
 and that time by the great Honus Wag-
 ner, who hurled the sphere 1S4 yards 1 foot | and inches"
 Wonder if Paskert could beat it?
 Babb predicts nine victories for Atlanta
 out of thirteen to be played at home, | which, he says, will leave the teams
 standing like this at the wind-up: | Club W. l.. Pet Memphis .. e. .. .. -. 7s 57 3S1 | Atlanta .. .. q. ....... IT bS 510 | -MElphis Commercial-Appea 1 As result of the Labor Day count 1t looks like Atlanta is a common canter. With the Shreveport affair counted | against Memphis the leaders only had
 lead of three full games when the bar ricr was lifted. With this game figured
 as a Memphis win, the lead was only four | games above Atltnta.
 l As Smiths men copped both and Babbs s l people bounded back the other way, At | lanta moved up two full games on the 1 day-the jump showing them within, easy l galloping distance of their West Tennes- sec rivals. The lead which Memphis | maintains today resembles the segment | of an inflated toy balloon and one more | puncture will wipe 1t off the map. As At l Ianta is still lined up for twelve home
 games with Memphis booked for an equal run on the road it looks like an easy l to 1 pick that Georgia will fly her l first Southern league pennant since the | new regime came to life in 1901. As Memphis has already bagged a coupl,, l there should be no loud roar coming 1 over any such incident-Nashville Ten
 nessean.
 | The knockers. with whom Little Rock, l like every other baseball town, Is afflicted
 are revlving the old story that Rocken- l field threw Keith down in the first game l Saturday There are always some people | who will believe anything. l Rockenfield was one of the sorest per- l sons in Little Rock in the club house after the game.
 T mad one of the worst days today | that I've had all season." he said: but 1 at that, that wild throw wasn't all my | fault The ball was wet and slippery. that l had lost the game. ."-Arkansas Ga zette.
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