The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

Mobile made two hits off MeNeal, Bir- mingham made three off Fisher And Mobile won 1 to O. An error by Bill Douglass defeated the Barons. Alas, poor yaughn-Atlanta Georgian.
 We've forgotten that now.
 Manager Finn has asked waivers on Claude Stark but says he has not asked for waivers on Eyler.
 Stark expects that there will be new catcher in tlic world pretty soon. and is anxiots to get up areun1 Illinois, where his wife is at present. lie may go to Peoria. III. in the Three-I league, but Manager Finn Will hold a string on the clever comedian.-Arkansas Gazette.
 FOUND-An example worth emulating. The Coal Dggers stole four bases on the Seagulls yesterday. and put mp line Of base running we have not seen this season h. any other team. Get at it, boys. and liVen up on Inc bags and run ming to first Safe hits are not the enly way to get there.-Mobile Item.
 Tho arrival of Friday meant the death l.ncl to certain ball tossers in Dixie. Manager Bernhard, in order to get his numbcr down to the required limit. let syeeds Janslng out and the blonde gent will afnbe back to Nashville. Just where he will play this season he does not know yet.-Memphis News Scimitar.
 ''The Southern league should have no player limit" complained Manager Ryan last night, ''and it seems to me that 1t has outgrown such Class B ideas. The American association. Eastern league, and Pacific Coast league have no limits and the spectators arc given the very classiest baseball possible.
 'It is all very well to talk about pro tecting the clubs with less financial lacking than others hy these player and salary limits bue I am sorry that the Southern league managers can't carry as many men as theJ wish
 'It takes most of the men a month or two to get acclimated I have men on my club now who will not round into mid-season form. or near it, for month. New Orleans Picayune.
 Has it been left to Mike Finn to dig out the one stupendous sensation of the Southern league this year?
 Looking over all the new players in the association there Is not one who more closely resembles Tyrus Cobb than Speak CT the out6elder who is the daily attrac- ton at Little Rock.
 It was thought that Speakers marvellous bursts of speed the first of the season were false alarms, but he has compelled the admiration of Dixie fans by some of the fastest base running, fastest fielding, timeliest batting and allround good play ing that they have witnessed in some time.-New Orleans Item
 Besides bearing the title of champions. Atlanta has few other distinctions. Bill Smith is the best tobacco chewer in the south Ed Hurlburt is a 32d degree Mason, biggest and one of the best catchers in the minor game Jim Fox Is tall enough not to need ladders when working at his trade as an electrician; Otto Jordan raises more chickens than any other ball player; Count Louis Castro. comedian in baseball and undertaken in serious life, claims kin to the president of Venezuela. Bill Dyer is law student and best musician in the Southern league. having been a student at the Boston Conservatory of Music; Russell Ford can emit more saliva than any spit-bal pitcher in the league; Roy Castleton is the only Mormon in baseball; Jesse Becker can claim dis tinction as fielder and hitter. and George Ginger Winters is, with Ed Hurburst, the oldest regular in the south. the former having played with Jackson, Tenn, when Hurlburt was a member of the famous Chickasaws of Memphis when the two clubs were battling for amateur cham pionship honors several years before the present Southern league was organized Arkansas Gazette.
 There was only one department of the game in which Montgomery showed it's superiority and this department gave the fans an inlSling of why the Pretzels are leading the procession Every man in the Montgomery club is a base run ner. That's where the Pretzels shine. They take chances on the bases. Only Il men got to the first station, yet four of these men purloined second.-New Or leans World.