The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
batting average-.25o even.

ern league aggregationS Tn other years
 and got 1925 hits, percentage of .250
 The Barons during the season of 1910
 established a new Southern league team
 league aggregation, and somo South
 The Barons played 40 games, and av-
 eraged 7.3 hits per game.
 The hitting of the Barons is remark :
 able in view of the fact that among
 the lot but one-McGilvray-clo the
 season with a record better than 300 i.
 McGilvray reached a percentage trifie
 better than 1924. He was second in the i league only to Joe Jackson of New
 Orleans and since the days of Huels-
 man and Hill, back in 1901, only the following have established higher fig uges: Meek, Jackson and Speaker.
 Molesworth stung them above the
 300 mark until the last week of the season, when he dropped from .So6 to | .29s. Last week he was at bat 26 times and got only four hits. The oth- CT Barons to establish highly credita- ble records were Messenger, .2s1; Me- Bride, .276, and Wagner, .252.
 Five Barons crossed the 100 hit mark Molesworth got more than any other, 151, and the others follow In order: McGilvray, 146; McBride, 135; Messen- ger, 127, and Marcan, 112. Emery bingled safely sS times, coming within two hits of reaching 100.
 Judging from the number of times the players faced opposing pitchers 1t would seem that McGilvray was the best waiter, that is, the best man to draw bases on balls. Of the six men who got around 100 hits, he was at bat a fewer number of times than any other save Messenger, and Messenger was not with the team when the sea- son opened. But McGilvray was out or the game oftener than either of the others, with the exception of Messenger, who reported late. Molesworth was at bat more than any other player, this being due to the fact that he did not miss a game during the entire season, and due also to the fact that he IS tnird in the batting order. Marcan, who led off for the greater part of the season, was at bat 49S times, and the reason, It is probable, that he was at bat fewer number of times than Molesworth is due to the fact that he missed a few games on account of an injury ana lil- ness. Mcbride was at bat 4ss times. Emery, Who with Molesworth was the only Baron who participated in every game played during the season, was n, a,,l uattId haPn oftener but for the fact that he was low in the batting order. McGilvray faced the pitchers 450 times, and Messenger 436.
 If was natural that McGilvray should reach the 300 mark, for he has never failed to do so but once since ne oe- gan a professional career. And that one time was last season, his hrst with Birmingham, when he got on padly III the spring. Although McGilvray's nit ting was remarkable, 1t is probable that the swatting of Molesworth was even more so. Molesworth batted about 40 nercentage points better than last sea- son. and when 1t is remembered that on his shoulders were managerial cares, the palm must be awarded to him. lie got more hits than any other Baron, and his total number of bases was greater.
 In discussing remarkable hitting, how ever, Wagner must not be overlooKed' He closed the season with an average of .252, which, for any player, is good average. For a pitcher it Is excellent esnecially so when the proof that it was not fiukish hitting is in the fact that ne was at bat 127 times. During the season Wagner played several position on the in- field. one or more in the outfield, and was often in the pitchers box. When Wagner tires of pitching he can play an infield position, and facing the pitcher regularly he would probably go above the .252 mark Tt is doubtful if a single in- fielder in the league, with the exception of first basemen, went above the .250 mark this season.
 Messenger hit brilliantly and steadily throughout the season, ranging from .2S5 to 1905. McBride's hitting was the talk of the league in the beginning of the season, when he stung the ball far be- yond his stride. About the middle of the season, however, he reached his level, and ranged from about 275 to .290. It is very evident that Mcbride Is natural hitter, and he should improve each sea- son. He is young, and a curve ball has no horrors for him. Emery gets the palm for being the best pinch hitter of the league His bingles, it is probable, have broken up more games in final innings than any other Baron, and it Is probable that he drove in as many runs as any other with the exception of McGilvray and Molesworth. Fans can remember without trouble his breaking up as many as eight games in the ninth inning, or the final inning. and were the records at hand that number would probably be increased. His greatest stunt occurred one afternoon when the Barons were playing Montgomery doubleheader Covaleski pitched the fi4t game and Montgomery In the seventh inning was two runs to the good A couple got on in the seventh, however, and Emery smashed out a triple, tying the score, and got across himself a moment later. And | the seventh inning of the second game | found the score tied. In the eighth, with | man on base, Emery smacked out another triple, and that game, also, was concluded with the Barons victorious.
 The hitting of the Barons. while terrific,
 has remained steadily throughout the sea- son around the 250 mark. During the first weeks, the average ran as high as .275. But when things reached their