The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-29


 By the way, he Is the man whom Percy , Whiting says is on the bum and had if in for Atlanta. It looks like he had
 it in for Atlanta, doesn't it?-Mont- gomery Journal.
 For your information, Horace, it might be stated that on July 1, l906, Ryan was benched.
 Browns decision on the hit imme- diately evoked a tumultuous outburst from the Barons, who swarmed around the official with a series of joint de- bates and airy persifage lasting sew eral minutes. MT. Lou Walters re- joinder was so warm and woolly that Mr. Brown bounced him from the plat form on the spot, Reagan moving into second
 There isn't any doubt but that the fly dropped close to the borderline, but
 Meeks was in fair territory when the
 ball grazed his talons and lit on the white line out to right.-Nashville Ten nesseean.
 If Lew grumbler the decision must have been bad, sure enough.
 Rohe is playing a jim dandy game.
 His fielding and throwing has im- proved and Sunday he did good work with the stick. He was up five times and yet is credited with but once at bat He walked twice, was hit once and sacrificed once. His "sac" was the squeeze, which put Delehanty across
 the plate with the tying run. Making George captain certainly put life into him.-New Orleans Item.
 Are Atlantas pitchers trying for a hitting record this year? Mckenzie 1 broke all precedents Friday for pitch CTS when he got two hits, and now Schopp comes along and bats out a | safety, that finally terminates in a | run.--Atlanta Journal.
 Ables cleared the bases when At lanta was here, and yesterday Fle- harty got triple and single. As usual, it is impossible to explain how it has happened. Memphis does | not seem to have much of a team. We have not had a squint at the new men | yet but they have certainly set no dia- | monds afire in the past.
 | It must be Charley Babb at his old l tricks. He certainly makes his ball players go some.-Atlanta Georgian. With neither Elston nor Lush on the | local club, the outfield looks rather | rocky. But it is at present filled in
  | this department. Hunter and Hardy
 fill in the two vacant outer gardens in 1 grand style. but Hunter is too good 8 | pitcher to keep in the field, and Man | ager Bernhard is after another man to | go in center field. Hardy IS capable ] of holding down left field as well as | any fielder in the Southern League, and | if q high -class backstop can be se- l cured to assist Seabaugh he will prob ably be kept in this position all season. | His hitting is valuable asset to the | batting of the team, and his being in l the game all the time will bolster up l the club greatly in this department. 1 Bernhard is after another man to go m 1 centre field. Hardy is capable of hold | ing down left field as well as any
 fielder in the Southern league, and if q l high-class backstop can be secured
 to assist Seabaugh he will probably 1 be kept in this position all season. His 1 hitting is a valuable asset to the bat 1 ting of the team, and his being in the
 game all the time will bolster up the
 club greatly in this department. Bern
 hard will land another outfielder in l the near future. For the present, with Hardy and Hunter in the outer gar | den, there need not be any worry for
 the local lineup with these two heavy hitters on it, is as strong as the fans | could hope for and lined up this way | the Volunteers will win their share Of | the games.--Nashville Banner.
 Local fans who have watched members | of the Mobile team for the past sev- eral years argue that they will repeat the history made by Shreveport a town which