The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-22
WHAT OTHERS SAY.

Despite the fact that Babb is a good player and a clever manager, the fans in Memphis are "after him." and he is hay ing his troubles this year. Although Stockdale's charges were not proved be- fore the league directors, popular senti- ment in Memphis is with the discarded pitcher, and as a result Babb is not the same popular "boy manager" as in re- cent years. At that, Babb has always given Memphis winning club-one which has been fighting around the top all the time-and deserves the moral as well as financial support of the Memphis crowds. Arkansas Gazette.
 Iris funny old world. Moose Baxter whom all Montgomery admired is out of the game. and because he is, fans every where are yelling for the heads of Cham bers, Ryan and the whole cussed team. They say that the retirement of the Moose has given the team i'll luck, and are looking forward for defeat every day. Montgomery Journal.
 The bookmaker has been handed an awful crimp. The turf gambler has been practically chased to the underbrush But neither is yet down and out. Many of them have turned their attention to base ball as a field for future work-and base ball must travel mighty carefully until steered clear and clean of this set of breakers.
 For that's exactly what they are-the greater portion of the bookmakers and the gamblers" -"breakers." They'll break any game they tackle and even baseball, placed on the solid foundation of honesty, that has always held it up, is not safe with this clan in the immediate neigh ood.-Nashville Tennessean.
 
 Dan Vinegar made an awfully close and doubtful decision in the fourth, when he ruled Thornton out at third. The lad had previously sent stingeree double to left field, and when Jim Hart sent a grounder to Bill Cranston he started for third. Cranston threw to Babb who hardly had time to get in position to re- ceive the ball and tag the runner 1t looked mighty close.-Memphis News Scimitar.
 Occasionally a paper admits that the home team was favored by a bad de- cision.
 Umpire Burke, whom President Shively has sent to this city to work in the present series. is getting away better than any other indicator handler who ever hit this league. There is none of the Sinister crabbiness about him, for Burke is a jovial southerner and is liked by both players and fans. All the things that grandstand can say do not make him angry, and his ability to laugh down a crowd makes him at once popular. Burke is not home umpire, but treats all fair and square to his best ability. He makes mistakes like every human does. and is not afraid to admit them. He isn't quite strict enough with some of the players and with this corrected he is sure to go higher up.-Hutchinson News.
 "Calliope" is making very good in the Western association.
 Another evidence of the extreme heat was the head of steam Buttermilk Mack got on while standing at the plate and the only fuel used was one word from Umpire O'Brien, who said Strike" At this Buttermilk, who had not fully re- covered from an injustice he thought had been done him under the same circum- stances Friday by Umpire Fitzsimmons, said things to the man behind the gun.
 Then he elevated the thumb of his right hand and sneezed out a poh-pooh right under the umpires very nose. 'Brien with great dignity removed his mask and took look at Mack. His gaze slowly wandered from toe to wig and then back again. Meek loomed up on the horizon like a mountain on foggy morning Out in center field Molesworth saw the heavy slugger was about to get in bad and hastened to the rescue but alas He was too far removed from the scene of action to arrive in time and Meek had been ordered to do the vanish ing act before he could intercede. He made slight effort to get the last court of resort to reopen the case and give him a new hearing, but all to no avail. The decision must stand said O'Brien. Then there came a shifting of men. Manning was sent to first and Robertaille went to right field.
 Meek, evidently believing that large bodies should move slowly, took all the time he needed getting to the bench and then began to remove his shoes with sIikes and don pair of sandals. He