The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
WHAT OTHERS SAY.

An exchange says it's in fashion to knock. If so. Little Rock can easily claim representation in the 400. Although the team has been laboring under handicaps which have been hard to overcome, in the way of injuries and sickness, the bunch has been doing great work-and yet there are any number of alleged fans who con tinue to knock the players individually, the team as whole, the pitching staff and the management. As long as a team is winning, the players care little for the knocks of the public, but If the team should happen to strike a losing streak little encouragement will do a lot more good than kicking. g.-Arkansas Gazette.
 The fastest thing about the local team is the outfield Houtz, Apperious and Me Cam, all playing fast ball and hitting well. Sam Apperious Is playing a 10 per cent better game even than he did last and yet one of the directors of the local association wants to have him turned loose. If Malarky wishes this then he is not the shrewd manager that the local fans think him, and if he, don't want the outfeld tempered with and the local association forces him to, that's the quickest way in the world to absolutely ruin what promises to be a pretty fast ball team. If Nye can't get back at sec ond, buy a second baseman, or put Haul sen there until it can be filled, but stop this puerile talk about releasing Ap- perious, one of the best all around ball players in the south.-Montgomery Adver- tiser.
 The best thing you've ever said
 Nearly every club in the Southern league has been kicking harder than usual on the official umpires of play dur ing one or more of the games thus far contested At New Orleans the fans have been treated to some decayed work on the part of Dan Pfenninger, while Umpire Big Chief Zimmer has been a little off o.l one or two occasions, although 1t is uni Versally agreed that Zimmers character Is the most lrreproachable of any indl- cator holder in the section Rim and Rudderham have been roundly abused at Atlanta and Birmingham, and Carruthers has gone to the bad on two occasions. The last and most serious mistake of Pfenninger cost the Pelcans the game at Memphis.-New Orleans Picayune.
 Ru1derham has done well. The east does not knock umpires.
 The baseball fans who are attending the games played by the Southern league teams this year are certainly receiving their moneys worth. The teams are all pretty evenly matched up, and each and every one of the players seem to be doing their best. The game of ball being put up by the Southern league so far this sea- son has never been excelled by any league.-Tulahoma Guardian.
 After spending Monday in Memphis, mingling with baseball people and wit messing the New Orleans-Memphis game, Vice President Lowry Arnold of the Snutbnrn laa6ar in hac ball circles In Atlanta, left tonight for Little Rock to spend Tuesday with Pres ident Kavanaugh. MT. Arnold witnessed western teams of the league in action, and was impressed with the class shown by both teams. He expressed belief how ever, that Billy Smiths Atlanta aggre- gation will be able to hold its own with any of the western clubs.
 He is en route to Hot Springs for rest and recreation, and declared that his visit here and at Little Rock had no special significance to baseball people.-Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 But the New Orleans bunch saw that ball dropped and picked up, and, with a shout of mingled indignation and rage, as the expression goes, bore down en masse on the poor, weak little umpire. Brouth- CTS. Scrap Iron Beecher, Atz and Harry Matthews arrived on the scene first. All looked as if they intended taking punch at Mir. Pfenninger, who appeared some what fabbergasted and very i'll at ease. You wouldn't have taken him for an um- pire at that stage of the game. While he was endeavorng to make the Pelicans look on the bright side of things said Pel- jeans, including the quartette enumerated above, were shouldering him about pro miscuously and the fans in the stand anx- iously awaited developments.-Exch
 They didn't hurt him. Memphis won, too.
 Might as we'll win the game today from the former past, bygone pennant pullers. It will give us good stunt for the west ern pathway.-M Montgomery Journal.
 We feel ashamed when we remember that you got even that one.
 Manager Charley Frank told local fan that he simply could not talk about the fate of Brouthers, Gaston and Beech CT until the 10th, which will be moving day for one of them.-New Orleans Pica- yune.
 Who said Charley Frank had a pen nant winning aggregation? He may have, but not in the Southern league.-Memphis News Scimitar.
 Don't fail to visit the display of Water Colors, by noted Art ist at the Hillman Hotel today, from in q. m to 10 noon. room