The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-14

volleys from his spleen shop and shocked with his intimate use of undecipherable slang and ribaldry. Richard H. Yancey, sporting edit of the Nashville Banners took an even more advanced step, and charged the Barons with throwing the games and laying down" to Memphis and New Orleans. Both men were as the bad baby from whom some cross nurse had taken a bottle, and under the cir cumstances their woeful walls are in thor ough accord, if not harmony, with those involable laws which make up the code Napoleon of human nature. When 1t is remembered that prior to this season, Nashville was the invariable laughing stock of the Southern league, even as Birmingham is now, the fact becomes ap- parent that the amateurish utterances of the Volunteer scribes are due to the high climes in which they are now moving, and with which they have never become inured.
 It is unfortunate, however, that any ac- tion of the Barons was of such nature as to draw from q rattle brain that harsh est of all xpressions-'Iaying down..
 It is lamentable, too, that report 10 the effect that the players are filled with anmosity toward Manager Molesworth' and that this is the reason for their oe- feats last week, have been and are peins published in other cities, and freely dls- cussed on the streets of Birmingham
 While 1t is too late in the season for such remarks to have a deleterious enect on the team Manager Molesworth Is ad- vised to weed out dissension before the dawnng of another season, or prepare himself for another period on the bottom.
 We believe that the games last week were lost through natural causes; that ls' the causes which defeat a team every day in every season in every league We do not believe that there is member Of the team who would throw" game. How ever, 1t is true that some of the players are dissatisfied and are criticising the manager In more or less narsn oe- gree This fact, this late in the season, would be of little moment if the reports could be confined to Birmingham. How ever, as stated, inasmuch as they are be- ing circulated in other cities, the fact Is to be deplored, and Manager Moles- worth should clear the deck for action.
 During the remainder of the week the Barons meet the Travellers of Little ROCK and the Sea Gulls of Mobile.
 Both congregations are members of the second division. and neither has a re- spectable chance to supplant Montgomery in the first circle.
 Little ROCK, Wltn Micndci Y rihIi Noi 'i angel face) opens today and will remain in Slagville throughout Wednesday. Mo- bile concludes the week here, and sees the season gasp its last, and enter that realm of forgetfulness which, in some in stances, at least. must be pleasant place to dwell.
 In case Natchez enters the Cotton States league next season, Carlos Smith, one or the most popular men who ever wore the Baron uniform, will manage the club Smith yesterday stated that he would take the management in case he was able to obtain his release from Birmingham, and that he felt certain of enough back ing to guarantee a fast aggregation for Natchez.
 Smiths many friends are glad of the lob that has fallen to the lot of the good natured fellow, and he was freely con graduated yesterday.