The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-11
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VI
 Nose is A good fellow with a bad job.
 He is the auditor of the Southern league.
 He comes to examine the books or the several clubs of the league and to re- port.
 He will have to exercise extraordinary shrewdness to find that any club in the Southern league Is In Vlolauoh ol ehe salary limlt-s2700.
 And still. we believe that every club in the league is paying it's men more than S?70O.
 Isn't 1t absurd to consider for moment that Frank is paying his Rohe. his Deie- hanty, his Lord, his Rickert, his Brelten- stein and all hls others an average or $iS0,
 No one connected in any capacity with tbe Southern league would believe such absurd allegations.
 If is believed that were the salary limit s4OO0 Frank would have tight squeeze to get within its bounds.
 It Is a practical certainty that Lord re- ceives as much from New orleans as he did from Philadelphia.
 But watch Nose.
 He will find nothing wrong with the Pelican books.
 And no one else will or could.
 The directors of the Southern league are all estimable gentlemen.
 It is believed that every one regrets the necessity of these false colors that we fly
 If is believed that if one would make d ! move for an increased salary limit every i one would follow suit. 1 To crack the ice is the task before l which their nerve fails! But this much IS i certain: l The Southern league can never become a great baseball company as long as thls living lie of a salary limit is fioated at the mast To have a law which everyone violates and everyone knows that everyone Vio- lates. is not only foolish, but exceedingly narrow
 The directors meet in Memphis June 1S At that meeting a step should be taken its object being to increase the present salary limit
 It is impossible to gather together a team for s2700 than can finish high in the Southern league. If is the object of every management to make money.
 There is comparatively little money i made in that city which finishes a season | on the bottom. Therefore, 1t would be foolhardy for l management to base it's hopes on team | that draws an average of S1S0 per man. In this way the limit is broken. Table 1 stakes rule in the Southern league. Jakey Atz hit the ball last Monday which put the Chicago White Sox in | the leading position of the American 1 league.
 His hit yesterday sounded taps for ! Philadelphia, and won for hls former Southern league teammate, Moxie Man uel.
 Jakey is certainly doing stunts in the
 major.
 whltev Guese pitched his first game for the Montgomery Pretzels yesterday after
 noon and won with comparative ease. Nashville drubbed Mobile. Birmingham and Atlanta played tie games with Ne"
 Orleans and Little Rock. 1 It will be seen from the above that the
 west got 1t in the neck yesterday 1 Last night there was a general shuHle i in the south. New Orleans pulled out of l Birmingham for Atlanta, in which city
 Bill Bartley will open up today. Mem
 phis left Montgomery for Birmingham, | and will begin a series here this alter
 noon. Mobile will pass through BirminS- | ham this morning from Nashville en
 route to Montgomery. Little Rock will | open in Nashville. 1 After these games the western invasion of the east will be terminated. Accord ing to the schedule, the eastern and west | ern clubs will play an exchange Of series | among themselves before the east again l goes into the wild and woody. | There was another big attendance yes 1 terday. | All of which reminds that in the next | eubernatorial election candidate will | boast of having inflicted prohibition on
 this great though misguided state of ours.