The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-24


 system and attempt to win back the friends we have so successfully alienated.
 The fans are, in some respects as the players themselves. If every game is victory every fan loves every fan. If every game is a defeat, no one cares for bis neighbor, and little for himself,
 It is as easy to bring about internal oissension among the ms as among the players. There is this difference, how ever-nternal dissension among the fans amounts to nothing, while among the players it is enough to drive all the sun into the depths of the sea and then some.
 Yesterday afternoon by score of 10 5, the BaroIIs defeated Little Rock.
 McNeal pitched an excellent game, and had his support been good he would have easily scored a shut out.
 In the first inning Manning hit for three bags and Douglass scored him. Little Rock, because Downey failed to cover third when Raub threw there to retire a runner, tied the score in the same in- ming.
 Neat hitting gave the Barons two more runs before the conclusion of the sev- enth. In the eighth Henline succeeded in undoing all that had been accomplished. He let hit get through him which scored a runner and sent another to third. Then a fly ball which should have retired the side was dropped by the fleet lefthelder and the score was again tied.
 In the ninth, however, after two were down, Henline stung the ball on the nose and circled the bases-this being the fourth home run which the Barons have scored this season.
 Little Rock was unable to do anything m it's half of the ninth and Birmingham won it's third victory In ten games.
 Of fria in These will be played against the strong Memphis team. Ginger Clark, who did not work in Little Rock, will probably open the Memphis series this afternoon The east got it back on the west yes- terday afternoon, winning three of the four games played.
 Birmingham won from Little Rock, Montgomery defeated Memphis and At lanta took the battle with Mobile. Nash vile, on the other hand, was crushed pe- yond recognition.
 The Volunteers, incidentally. are as near the bottom as they possibly can be with the Barons holding their straight flush on the cellar. Little Rock is but shade the better of Nashville. and New Orleans, although 1t has again reached the 800 mark, is not out of danger.
 Were Birmingham a trife higher in the race, this seasons struggle would prove the most spectacular in the history of the league. As it is the race Is far from being bad. If Birmingham ever decides to go higher there will follow such scramble that the old fans will wake up and never again close their optics.
 In the meanwhile, Montgomery contin- ues playing great ball. Bergman, obtained from the American association, pitched his first game yesterday and won 1t cas- fly Our American association find con- trary to expectations, is not doing so well.
 Cincinnati is in second place in the Na- tional league. Cincinnati, incidentally, is baseball mad, for this is the first time in more than year that the Reds ever managed to get above the .5O0 mark
 It is to be noticed, too, that the New York Giants, erstwhile pennant winne,s and world championship winners, are in sixth place. There would be little grlef in Birmingham, and nowhere else In the south if ..Muggsy'' knocked the bottom out of the bucket.
 New Yorks great drop was hurried up yesterday when St. Louis won double header from the Giants One of these games was pitched by our old friend 'Scatter" Sallee, and off his delivery the mighty swatsmen of New York man aged to gather but four little bing1es.
 sallee is doing fairly well with St. Louis but yesterdays victory was the first real game that he has pitched this season.
 Returning back to Birmingham
 There will be nothing doing relative to a change in managers, or anything else of drastic nature until after the team returns from the west.
 We therefore suggest that everybody sit calmly in the boat and await develop ments.
 Argument and chickering's can do no good!
 The situation is bad enough as it is, and as it is a certainty that there will be no remedy applied for some days as yet. throwing stones might tend to fur ther demoralize
 After the team returns home and both sides are heard, something will happen. Either a bunch of players will be carted off the scene or Manager Vaughn will be displaced by Carlton Molesworth.
 That is. something will happen unless something happens in Memphis.
 Of course, if the Barons should win four straights or even three of four games from Memphis there might be no change-as yet!
 All of which reminds that few things funnier than that of yesterday have ever happened.