The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
WITH THE SCRIBES.

Henline of Birmingham was the first man in the league to make two home runs in successive games. He was also the first man in the league to score
 Robertson of Nashville was the first player to make four hits in four times up. This was accomplished on Whitey Guese in the second game of the opening series.
 Daley of Montgomery was the first to make three base hit, he hitting the first ball offered In the opening game by Gill roy of Nashville for a clean drive down the left field foul line
 Bttrolff of Mobile was the first pitcher to get knocked out Of the box His undoing came in the fifth inning of the first game of the opening series with New Orleans.
 Perdue of Nashville is the first and only pitcher to pitch two shut-out games. These were against Atlanta and Birming- ham.
 Sid Smith of Atlanta was the first man to knock a home run, this occurring off Pitcher Dickinson of Birmingham in the third game of the first series There were three men on bases at the time.
 Gilroy of Nashville was the first man to get injured. He was so badly jared in the opening game in collision with Shortstop Pope of Montgomery that he has since been unable to play.
 Connolly of Little Rock was the first pitcher to shut out his opponents. This happened in the first game of the season against Memphis
 FTT1 1T- man In the league to get married-that is, this season.
 McGilvray of Birmingham was the hrat man to get his foot hung in the right field fence.
 Casey of Little Rock is the first man by that name in the history of the game to make a home run. This occurred April 21, while Stockdale of Mobile was pitching
 Manager Mike Finn is the first manager in this or any other league to show a battery with the aggregate ages approx imately 100 years. These men, Hart and O'Connor, have been playing the national game a total of 50 years.
 Cephalu and Gygli were the first players in the league to cause profanity among the printers and curiosity among the
 
 , oueston.-Nashville Banner Has the loss of Tom Mccullough put the Memphis club on the downward path Tom was, for a long time, the master hand on that team and those who were on the inside realized it fully. Babb is good ball player and good | manager, but he knew the worth of Me- Collough and never failed to take his advice. Mccullough did not interfere with him in regard to players, but he was al- ways on the job and Babb went to him for help.
 Now that Mccullough has departed from the scene of action and taken up new line of work there is great difference to be seen.--Atlafta Journal. They don't make many pitchers like Vedder Sltton, who made hts debut as a Nap Saturday. Sitton is without doubt one of the most intelligent men playing baseball. He is college grad and Knows just little something about everything that's going on in this great big world. When he sets out to do thing Sitton tries to do 1t well. He plays baseball because he likes the game and because he needs the money to perfect his educa- ton. He is studying medicine and surg cry.
 When he decided to play professional ball he made up his mind not only to turn his physical ability to use. but also his mental powers. When Sitton is In a game you can depend upon 1t he is thinking and thinking hard all the time. He gave evf- dence of this Saturday in the third in- ming when Hartzell hit a sizzling grounder 1 to Lajoie.
 Be careful it's splitter, Larry yelled Sitton, and this tip. of the re- l cruit pitcher to the big chief probably ] saved Lajoie an error, as Nap picked up a handful of dirt to rub on the ball be- l fore he threw.-Cleveland News. Charley Frank is the most unpopular popular manager in baseballdom today. Those who don't like the Dutchman can say enough mean things about him. Those who do faYor Frank are, his staunchest friends. Franks teams salways have the rep of playing rowdy ball; they are fight CTS from away back and fans like to travel out to the game when the Peli- cans are here, for they know they stand an even chance of seeing more excite ment than their two bits or four bits called for. The Dutchman rules his play CTS with an iron hand; will not stand for shirking, or laying down, but withal {, Ia popular with the men. Let man play slovenly ball and Frank takes drastic measures: if 1t is kept up that player is not with the team long, Result is that Frank Is illy-thought of by pretty nearly every player in the league, but the men on the New Orleans club swear by him to the limit. Result also is that the Pelicans are always fighting at the top.