The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-22
WORMSER FINDS
BOOKS ALL RIGHT
AND GOES AWAY
UMPIRE CARPENTER HAS "DoG"
POWERS ORIGINAL PREscSip-
TioN-soME DOPE AND CON-
MENT ON COMING OF PELIcANs.

Nose Wormser, the efficient auditor OF
the Southern league, spent yesterday in
Birmingham.
Nose, 1t is believed Looked over the
books of the Deal aasocis;ion and pro-
nounce5 treai q, .. Y.
The books af he ioqsl association. as A
matter Of fact. sIe necessarily o. x. me
books OF Ell Southern T,easue -,ras are.
Accord,ps 70 al impr@ssio-.s. he sslary
limit IN tie sagthera league is Joke.
But Nose SAYS otherwise.
When grown the dispatch last right that
Mrs. P5wess. s.ss of the late catcher ef
the philaeelpr,s .4thletics, vzs srrieken
with the disease which resulted in he
death Of her husband some time ago, Silly
Carpenter, the umpire, expressed deep re-
greet.
II had known Powers for a long WHILE
stated Carpenter land was very fond of
him. II Is probable that l alone possess
prescription of his writing. Last spring.
while suffering with bad throat Powers
wrote out the formula on the back of a
score card. was soon well and tossed
the card among some articles that were
discarded. I was going through these
things not long ago and ran across the
original paper. I am preserving IT. of
course"
Carpenter thinks the Southern league
exceedingly fast for a minor organization
IAN American Association club" he
stated, would have the battle of its life
to remain in the first division in Dixie
The Brooklyn club of the National league
would have to hustle to finish very high.
whereas neither the Trolley Dodgers nor
the Washington club could possibly win
the pennant.
still you see players come to Dixie
from the majors and move about as If
they were impressed with an idea that
they were in class by themselves No
man in this league is in a class by him
self Every man has got to hustle to
make good down here
incidentally, we're having some fine
twirling in the Southern league this sea-
son.
1t has come to pass where the majority
of Southern league players are hitting be-
low the .230 mark. Few will finish the
season at or above the 300 mark, while
comparatively few will reach 25o
There is long list of regular players
hitting below 200. In Atlanta there are
Rohn, Walker and Newton. We have
three in Birmingham, and the woods are
full of them
The pitchers are very stout this year.
1t is probable that there will be few
men sent to higher company from the
Southern league this season.
Atkins might be worth trial, but, like
Robinson. his size will work against him.
Lively of Montgomery will go to Phila-
delphia, but he hasn't ability enough to
remain there long. Casey, Little Rocks
star catcher, is wanted by many clubs,
but 1t is feared that his hitting will prove
too light. He is below the 200 mark in
Dixie. Cranston Is going to Boston. and
he will probably be retained, even though
he might not figure in many actual scrim-
IMAGES
Frank Gygli will probably remain in the
minors one more year. though he will be
certain to get trial In the near future.
ELAN, as yet too young and inexperi-
enced. has got the stuff in him, and is
bound to go up soon.
Bayless of Atlanta and Coulson of Men,
phis will probably be outfeld possibilities
for the majors. Noah Henline as has been
stated. deserves trial. He has splendid
natural ability, and 1t is possible to teach
him what he doesn't know
New Orleans is here today Since last
the Pelicans were among us, there has
been but one charge in the lineup. Our
old friend, Steve Reagan, brought south
by the lamented Harry Vaughn, has been
canned and Hugh Hill. formerly a star
in this company. Is holding down the CEN
ter garden for the visitors
Charlie Frank still believes he has a
pennant winner. No one else in New Or
leans does.
Woody Thornton. after yesterdays
game. was sent to Mobile. Woody is
little fat this season, but an excellent
outfielder at that. TT w r
Athletics Claim Lively.