The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-28


 to it.-Atlanta Journal.
 President Rather has been in com munication for the last few days with the mayor and other prominent citi- zens of Forrest City. The inhabitants of that town propose to come to Lit tie Rock en masse on the date when their distinguished fellow townsman, Pat Folbre, pitches his first game at West End park. On that momentous day an excursion will be run to Little Rock and the entire population of the city, with one or two exceptions, will be on board.
 Pat will pitch at New Orleans to- day and if the railroad people decide to run the excursion Thursday will be worked back in the opening game. 9th erwise the excursion will be held Fri | day and Patrick will be reserved for 1 that date.-Arkansas Gazette. l Manager Babb hasn't offered any ex | planation of why Schwenck hasn't re- ported, but 1t is public property among the players that Schwenck wanted ad | ditional salary to that amount he signed for and falling he concluded to stay in | Kentucky and draw weekly compensa- ton from a distillery.
 | At any rate, Manager Babb says he | has never heard from Schwenck since asking him to report and that's why the 1 popular pitcher Is not enlisted.-Mem- phis Commercial Appeal.
 It will be a great day for the Southern | league when the umpires develop enough nerve to put players out of the game for i throwing their gloves on the ground, dane ing around and delaying the game as a 1 demonstration against an unfavorable de- | cision.
 The umpires cannot be too strict in l keeping the players in hand The public wants baseball and nothing else. These demonstrations and wrangles are each year becoming more and more a charac- l teristic of the bush leagues and those l leagues alone.
 Pfenninger has always been a trife weak about enforcing good order, de- spite most earnest backing from league headquarters, and is frequently in hot water for that very reason.-Atlanta | Georgian
 Jimmie Dygert. the spitball artist of Connie Mack's Athletics, is rushing the season. He says he'll retire from base 1 ball next year. Might be such a thing that he'd retire earlier. Not if he can help it, of course.-Montgomery Times.
 Have heard a number of suggestions
  1 the game. Since the unfortunate Stock l dale case-and remember, the Gray Fox l in a public apology later exonerated the l Turtle leader-Bass has had many knock CTS in Memphis. Probably it has affected 1 his work, somewhat No reason why it shouldn't. But at that Babb, all things | considered, figures as the best third base | man in the league today. His batting | thus far has been miserable, but he Is | always good for mark between .250 and | .265 in the Southern, which is good enough for any one. Some third baseman might play a more spectacular fielding game, but take peep at the average and
 you will find the manager right there with any of them.-Memphis News -Scimitar. It must also be taken into consideration | that the western clubs, on their present form, are much stronger than the east ern. Memphis, while at present trailing,
 Is undoubtedly a stronger club than either Birmingham or Montgomery, and this will | be demonstrated as soon as the intersec- | tional clash comes.
 New Orleans has been touted as the | strongest club in the league, but the Trav- | elers have outplayed them in two of the | three clashes Right now, the locals are | playing the best ball of any club in the Southern league.-Arkansas Gazette.
 Gene Demont, veteran that he is, is
 certainly playing mighty pretty game | in short field these days. Gene knows the | game from A to z, and he has been hit
 ting well lately, too.-New Orleans Times | Democrat
 If any one should happen to ask you, | Mike Finn has gotten together mighty l strong team. It Is plain now why the | Travellers took three games out of four
 from Memphis. The team hits and fields
 well and the pitchers seem to be in
 form.-New Orleans Picayune.
 Billy Smith announced Monday after
 noon that he had sold "Scrappy" Hess to
 Canton, in the Tri-State league. This
 means that Fitzpatrick gets the job of
 utility man for Atlanta this year.-Atlanta
 Georgian. .9.,