The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-28
AT OURVIEWPOINT
We like Nashxia

Aite foA1*ANSSA ildNe Sol Inelr team work down early. nd they play the gane scientifically
 1T they keep up ieir present stride they will make up forlhe heavy losses sus- tained last fall.
 Kopertson lookedyell on first and East IS an average seead baseman. Butler Is clever little shostop, and Moves per formed well in Bir8ngham.
 The outfeld Is as pod as the averaea too, Wiseman is dangerous little per- former at all stages,f the game. Seigla has a certain valueAnd for speed few outfielders have Bay eaten.
 Perdue, kellnm an Duggan are first class performers on he slab. Case Is good, apparently. andsilroy is said to he able Seahaugh and 1nneman are cana ble receivers.
 For the first time is season Atlanta comes to Birmingham pday. Bill Smith Is popular here. He's good fellow, and has demonstrated his alty to manage a ball club.
 He has a good team too though no world beater.
 Castleton and fishel are first-class pitchers, though Castlet has shown lit- tie to date The Morrn gets in best shape when the sun Is ottest. Fisher. ! on the other hand. winshe majority of his games In the spring. Adkins, another southpaw, has won all hifghts this sea- son. He looks mighty gd. Johns and Vleoahn were with Atlantlast spring. Sid Smiths injured tlmb will keep him out of the games ke. but Hugh McMurray Is thoroughly @able. He's a l hard worker, and is pop4r. Rohn. on l first, is touted as a goodman. Everv one remembers Jordan at sond. Walker at third is said to be hr performer. Newton is doing good vol at short. ] Atlanta has a splendid itfeld. Win ters Is as dangerous a mi as there is in the league. Bayless, a ny man out of the Central league, is doing ,illiant work Nhorah IS good average lrdener. They are having little rgument m in Nashville about the malees. From the report in The AgEIerald this | morning Kuhn is endeavorit to corner the baseball market Kuhn iSresident of the Nashville club.
 By the terms of the contht betveen the Western Union Telegra1 company and the Southern league tn telegranh company cannot furnish inforrAion vhila team is on the road to theome fana unless the president of the cb agrees. Kuhn introduced this resoutn at the league meeting in Mobile if was adopted. Kuhn, at the time, sted that he desired the right to nominatthe ner- son to whom the information.ana in oruer that ne could put down hmblers anu eiie samohhs element. He ated in 'looiie that oasepal gambling \ Nash 'iAe was even more lntolerant tn it is in Birmingham.
 Kuhn stated that in Nashviu tbera was board on which odds were,osted
 Ana now he has stopped the N,hville If he has stopped them becaus thev are incentives to betting, then ] has taken a wise step. If he has stopped them for selfisrea- sons, as the story in The Age-H this morning intimates, then he has me q
  result in woe for his team this seaso Moxie Manuel fires his first guiin l Birmingham this afternoon. Manuel is feeling finely, and theris no doubt but that he will make 1t ils, esting for Bill Smiths Crackers today There are great many fans in r. | mingham who remember the splerd work he did for New Orleans in 1907. |, l addition to being a fine twirer, he q | play an outfeld position in marvella | manner, and can sting the ball hard al timely l At the close of the 1907 Southern leagi season Manuel went to the Chicago Whi | SoX aggregation. He had little chance | | make good, though he won a majority
 the games in which he appeared
 Birmingham bought him this spring, an 1 Manuel does not regret returning south
 As Stated, he is in good condition an l will materially aid the team this season. l Rain played havoc yesterday | But one game was played in Dixie-tha
 in Mobile between the Memphii and tn ! Sea Gulls.
 There was a storm in Birmingham yes terday morning, and the field was sogg by afternoon. Little Rock and New Or
 leans suffered likewise. Atlanta an Montgomery could not play the remainin game.
 The South Atlantic league was in al
 even more lamentable plight.
 Not a single game could be played i 1 that circuit.
 The big leagues fared better Half o
 the American games were played, and bu l one was postponed in the National. Little Rock, after making a wonderfu
 road record, will open at home for tn l first time this afternoon.
 To date Little Rock looks stronger tha any other aggregation in the league. If Mique can hold the men togethe
 and continue to. get their best services
 then he will certainly be in the running. l There is change all around today.
 Atlanta is in Birmingham, Nashville i Montgomery New Orleans in Memphi
 and Mobile in Little Rock.
 The local association is making effort 1 to fill up the openings" | Manager Molesworth is about to ru | Morris to earth. No one knows where h
 is, or whether or not he is i'll, as h ! claims.
 To us it doesn't seem that the infielde
 ham.
 | News in this respect may be expecte | in the immediate future. l It was reported throughout the city yes ! terday afternoon that Ralph Savidge ha | been signed.
 This was mistake, but We are in | formed that if he can be obtained tn l local association will not lose the op i portunity.
 1 All of which reminds that the bookmak \ CTS win when 1t rains. Money came eas yesterday afternoon, therefore. This bet | fling Is still going on. though<in view Q