The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-02
EDITED BY HUGH ". ROBERTS
WITH THE SCRIBES.

Hurlburt, has another call. His services
 to the Volunteers in the great pinch last
 season and his filling in in the Memphis
 gulf this season make him recognized
 as the real knight-errant and free-lance
 life-preserver of Southern league base
 ball. Now Manager George Reed of
 Mobile has hoisted the distress signal
 and Ed is called upon to make" that
 town for another distress engagement.
 His call to Mobile has been due to the
 fact that waivers have been asked on
 Jack Hardy the scrappy party having been put hors de combat by foul from Harry Bays bat while here recently. Ed
 ought to have a general rowing commits
 sion from President Kavanaugh and be
 paid out of the league treasury like an
 umpire. Ills job would be unique but that's what Ed is and 1t would be an appropriate one and In keeping with his
 uncommon record as baseball nurse and
 relief force-Nashville Banner. | There was an interested gentleman at the game yesterday. Kennedy scout for Connie Macks Athletics These gents are not talkative but he said that he Dss looking out for good outfelder. He reached Montgomery yesterday morning.
 and will stay over to the double-decker 1 today.-Montgomery Advertiser. With the showing under of the Crackers yesterday by the Slag City crew in two ] contests which were easy going for the | cohorts of Gladys, and the 15-inning red- hot-on-t toast tie between Bills clan and the Climbers the locals hopped back into l first place, while the Crackers dropped a
 round on the ladder. Thus do the Nash 1 vile players take back the place which they held before leaving on the trip and come bcak into their own after a multi tude of vicissitudes and after going clear | down to fifth position. Some class to a team coming out of rut on the road and copping first place again after trying to get to the bottom
 It's been a glorious spectacle, that ] climb. Take 1t any way you want to,
 the team has played a golden-class exhi- btion. Case, Perdue and Duggan have
 all acted splendidly in the box, and MT. Viebahn also won the only in which he was slated Also the whole team has worked together and 1t begins to look as if the bunch is going to have to initiate
 
 1 the wire.-Nashville American. Talking to Rudy Schwenck yesterday
 morning I said, You usually manage [ to get one man asleep on the bases dur ing a game, but you do it because you're so persistent. You don't get the ball over
 to first very fast, but you keep it up
 until you get someone" But Schwenck had a different version. Get a fast run
 ner on first he said and slab 1t over ] to the first baseman. The runner beats 1t back dead easy Then he takes little longer lead. and my throw Is again a bit late. Keep this up until he takes a good long lead and then l whistle 1t
 over. About even up you get your man that way. There's no use trying to work that gag a slow runner. They won't get off base far enough" And the truth
 of Rudy's talk was shown in the after noon game when Rudy Baerwald, fastest man on the Memphis team, was caught ten feet off third base. Slow runners don't get caught asleep on the paths. Baerwald, the fastest man the team,
 is probably the most daring as well, and he has been caught off base oftener this
 season than any other Turtle.-Memphis News Scimitar.
 Still Montgomery has as good a chance as any of them to win the rag The bunch needs a little more ginger. We've got to get it If we want to win the pen
 nant At times the exhi-'-'ans are stellar.
 but bursts of speed never win out when the running is belated.
 To star in the first division this year l the locals must make hay at the present l time. The club has the support of the l entire city. There's not any knocking. No fan has complained of the team as whole, nor of the management, nor of the individual player.
 1 All say, however, that Montgomery
 needs to get ogether.-Montgomery Ad- vertiser. The Crackers are in Birmingham and 1 up against it. Manager Molesworth hasn't any team worth noting, but that is where the trouble lies.
 l The Atlanta team can beat the interior | lining out of the strongest teams in the i league-only to fall down with a loud l thump in the games against the Cinches. { 1 Witness the recent Memphis games as | an awful example.
 However If the Crackers can cop two i out of three in Birmingham they will come we'll In the lead, after the greatest trip that Atlanta team ever made
 into the west.-Atlanta Georgian.
 Would a suggestion to the judge be deemed malapropos? It seems that if l the judge would or could make round i of the circuit, and, unannounced, see how his umpires are working, 1t would l D0 BOO0 pidH U BITCH IS HOL tne OHty
 one in the league whose work Is causing | howl, and if the judge followed this 1 policy he could find out for his own
 satisfaction whether the howls are with 1 or without warrant. Perhaps some of l the fans are little too eager and harsh l in their Judgment of the work of the | indicator handlers. Pernaps they are 1 justified. The old saying about the smoke
 and the fire may be true.-Nasnville l American.
 | It does seem as though President Kav- | anaugh could look little more closely | after his umpires. He Is good presi- | dent all right but he certainly does not | work himself to death on the job-Atlan- i ta Georgian.
 | Here's one for you. Frank has of- ! fered Charles Babb job to manage the l Pehcans Many believe Frank Is anxious i to land the Memphis manager. but few | think the Dutchman Is ready to hand | over the managerial reins to another man. 1 His motive in landing Babb doubtless Is l to make the latter captain of the New Orleans team. President Coleman replied that he would not trade Babb, this year. any way. Frank may be giving Babb some free advertising. One cannot fathom | the reasons of that slick Dutchman.-Mo- bile Register.
 The Barons, while down in the race, have a tough ball club to beat and are liable to whirl with the wallop at any old time. On their last trip here they grabbed o< For. 70, xvh a Vour1-