The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-21
SOME FAN TALK

SOME FAN TALK
The hitting of Pope was feature
That Emery is some pinch hitter.
| 1t looks a whole lot better now.
Back in the first division this week.
| Wordsworth played star ball every
where.
ELAN played neat fielding game yes
terday
| The Sox won and the Browns Won
What next.
Montgomery has now dropped seven
straight games
Greminger did some nifty hitting, al
though he scored very seldom.
Certain changes in the temperature
in Birmingham Mr.. Greminger
1t will probably be Stockdale and
Bauer or Wagner this afternoon
That crowd was enough to make the
owners smile all over themselves.
Imagine how that crowd of fans in
the Montgomery matinee must have
felt.
Ryan caught splendidly in both games
and his throwing to bases was fea-
ture.
Thomas and Duggleby are the best
Greminger possesses. The others should
be easy.
There should be a shake-up in the
standing today as a result of numerous
double headers.
Burnett had difficulty in finding Cova-
leski yesterday and struck out on sew
eral occasions.
What matters it who was elected
since Birmingham won both ends of a
double header.
Rain played havoc in the Southern
lea que yesterday. Fortunately II
skipped Birnin CHAM.
But a nose separates Chattanooga,
Montgomery. Birmingham and Nash
Vile. It's an ideal race
Mobile has erected a cage for Cholly
F rank, but Birmingham should force him
to take to the grandstand.
Manager Wordsworth changed the
batting order yesterday to what it was
before the Mobile switch. 1t worked.
Unless Nashville gets lucky, as a re-
suit of it's hospital corps 1t will soon
slump into the second half of the frolic
Birmingham is entitled to first di-
vision team and is going to have one.
The owners are agreed on this point.
The Barons need a little more ginger
in the field. They should keep up a con-
versation throughout the games 1t helps
Few cities in this league have as
good crowds on Saturdays as Birming-
ham yesterday. And it was election day,
too.
Chicago is quietly sewing things up
in the National. Philadelphia and New
York are fitting merrily in The Amer
lean.
If Birmingham should win the re-
naming eight games scheduled for this
week 1t would be at the top. Some
punching.
What do you reckon Bobo, the ancient
Egyptian philosopher. would have said
had he seen the double barre1ed victory
yesterday?
Bill might be having a time with the
fighters In California. but he Is missing
some fine sport in Birmingham at the
same moment.
The team did not play very good
ball in the first game. The Barons
should have won in the sixth and
seventh innings
The crowd was with the Barons and
this caused the turning of the trick.
Keep up the good work. fans, and WIN
ming will be easy.
victory yesterday. will now get a hustle
on them and win some more. It's easy
after you break the ice.
McGilvray requests the sporting ed
itor to correct the Impression that he
played ball with Tom Daley. Bill says
that he is but 81 years old.
Daley had difficulty in retaining his
| footing yesterday. One slip gave Nc
Bride a double where he otherwise could
have gone no further than first
Macon and Columbus play leap frog
almost daily in the south Atlantic. Ma
con, having disposed of its star Twill
er to Cincinnati, Is due little slump
Pittsburg won yesterday. though the
Champions are far from setting the
woods afire this season. Some have
| it that Wagner has lost his batting eye.
| Frank Smith, one of Montgomery's
twtrlers, Is a graduate of the University
of Alabama, and was the ranking pitcher
of the Southern intercollegiate Athletic
| association.
"Rowdy" Elliott was having much
fun on the coaching lines in the first
game until Conahan ordered him to
the bench. The catcher was making
too much noise for the delicate UNI