The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-30
BASEBALL CHATTER.

Mighty easy wasn't it?
 Hurrah for the dead hoodoo.
 Grant deserved a shut-out. He was in fine form. Memphis drops peg daily. Poor old chesty Charlie.
 It threatened to rain before the fifth. If it had-welll
 McGilvray and Raftis were walloping
 the hide to a fare-you-well
 That Morris is probably playing base
 ball a thousand miles away.
 Who ever heard of Grant Schopp singling
 and doubling in succession?
 Johnny Evers joined the Cubs yesterday
 and no doubt Chance is delighted.
 Henline was just on the point of steal
 ing second when Maxwell nabbed him.
 Paul Cobb, brother of Tyrus, will
 join Augusta of the South Atlantic thls
 week
 Two thousand fans saw the Barons
 win. Five thousand saw them lose Wednesday. That was an awful beating they handed Bill yiebahn. And Bert, too, in that second inning. Paddy Kane is buffaloed this week. He
 can't get a hit out of his system The hits there, however.
 Twice has Grant schopp dropped the
 kibosh into Bill Smith. It's the old
 story repeating itself. A high wind from the south blew
 dozen fouls. And Atlanta was the harder
 hit in this respect, too.
 Just two more raps at the Crackers Molesworth wants them both. So does Bill. Let them fight it out. The chairs in the grandstand are free to women with or without escorts, On
 holidays, these seats must be reserved. < Guese must have pitched we'll in the
 pinches yesterday. Duggan losing on three hits in the hardest luck story to date.
 Dick Padden. the old-time second base
 man, declines to report to Little Rock
 and Finn is crying for refund of his money. Bowen led the base stealers, purloinins second once and later third. Walker was sound asleep when the last stunt was pulled off. The funeral of Doe" Powers occurred yesterday and out of respect for the de-
 ceased the Athletic Washing ton game was called off. The bookmakers had another big day. Most of the fans picked Nashville, At lanta and Little Rock. Considerable money changed hands. Manager Molesworth is hustling to strengthen One or two new strong men will get the Barons into the first division and keep them there. Little Rock steps down to New Orleans and wins three out of four Mobile steps over to Little Rock and soundly trounces the Travellers. Strange game, this base ball.
 The University of Alabama defeated Georgia, Auburn defeated Georgia Tech, and Birmingham beat Atlanta all in one
  badly
 Atkins and Dickson will probably be the opposing twirlers this afternoon. They | faced each other some days ago in Att i lanta. and the southpaw had the best of | the argument The fans in New York are Knocking the Giants in general and Arlie Latham in particular. They say that as coach Arlie | is as bum as he was when unpiring in the south. The clown is "all in.'' George Winters got hit twice yesterday. l He was called back to the bat when | first the ball landed on his back for | Pfenninger is not easily fooled by George. | The other time, however, he got away | with it. | Bayless starred again yesterday With | men on bases, Molesworth dropped one l equally between Jordan and Winters. | Neither could have got it. But Bayless 1 stretched over and gobbled it up. He's a classy little performer beyond all ques-
 ton.