The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-22


 l before the week is over.
 Chattanooga Times: There is only one l blue. spot in the southern league now
 that is dangerously blue-and that's Mo I bile. Somebody has got to be the goat
 and why shouldn't it be Mobile as well as
 anybody else? Every other team in the I league has look-n for that rag and not 1 one city of the seven has a just right
 to knock the work that it's team is doing. Chattanooga has big lead and bids fair
 to have bigger one by the time the
 long home series is over but the season is
 only one-fourth gone.
 l New Orleans TimesDemocrat: Any | talk to the contrary notwithstanding l George Rohe is going to play first base | for New Orleans this year. Some specu- ative fans have figured that Charley
 Brooks, in view of the strong impression
 he has made on Manager Frank, will gel
 the job and Rohe either given utility
 work or put on the bench. The guess is
 way wrong, for Brooks, good though his work may be, isn't playing as well as | Rohe, either in the field or at the bat. l Montgomery Journal There were two l factors in the winning of the game by Chattanooga that are not included in good ball playing: two errors and another
 mighty nice umpire, by name, Conahan.
 Kicking about umpires is at all times
 distasteful, but umpres need roasting oc- casionally as do the players.
 MT. Conahan is the gentleman who was gently tapped by Swacina in Mobile, and the baseball world wondered why Swacina did it. Judging from the performance of Mir. Conahan on Wednesday, the odds are now slightly in favor of the Mobilian.
 Mobile Register: Manager George Reed said last night that he expected to put Howard Murphy in the games with Nash vile today. The manager takes the view that until Ellam comes to terms and re- ports he cannot be considered one of the 14 men allowed the team.
 Reed does not see why he should be compelled to use a pitcher in the outfield when there is good ball player on the grounds ready to work and he and Mur- phy have come to terms that will put Howard in a Mobile uniform.
 Nashville Tennessean: Just at present the southern division seems to be having all it can do to look after the four north ern invaders now running amuck through the equatorial wing of the league map. Chattanooga and Atlanta have both got ten all the best of the tour, despite the fact that both clubs are on the road, while Memphis and Nashville have been about holding their own. Montgomery and New Orleans, well out in front when the in- vasionN began. have both dropped back and it isn't likely that either will pick up when out upon the trail through June.
 So far, anyway, the southern wing has failed to hold its own with the northern
 contingent.
 
 Southern league players are making good in every game played in the majors this season. Practically each team in the two majors have former Southern league stars on their pay roll and when ever given an opportunity they make good with vengeance
 In a recent game between Pittsburg and Brooklyn there were no less than seven ex-Southern leaguers in the game. All of them starred, Wheat, the ex-Mobie out fielder and Jake Daubert starring with the bludgeon Wheat secured three | triples scored three runs and practically won the game far the Brooklyn club. The other Southerners in the game were Byrne of Pittsburg: McElveen, McMillan. Fucker and Wilhelm of Brooklyn. Me Milan cannot be counted as regular ex- Southern leaguer through he received his | training here.-Atlanta Journal President SoSSon gets one grain of comfort out of the present baseball situa- l tion: that Is in the demonstration by the fans of loyalty to the team, though a l tailender. and the assurance he gets on every side that the baseball public has confidence in him.; believes he will finally land a winner and means to stand by until he does. Fridays actual count at the gate was TO regular admissions and 400 ladies. Saturday the actual crowd through the turnstiles was S6S. Monday it was few less than 700.
 When he wrote the check for Seitz to l Atlanta, President Colsson took a look over his books. It showed that in the past three seasons the Mobile Baseball association has paid out over sl7O0O cash for players with the idea of giving Mo bile fans winning baseball. Out of that is Ia balance of $6000 for players sold. | Last winter and this spring the local club has spent over s5000 for players and the end Is not yet, for as long as there is a prospect that the team can be bcttered l the money is ready to spend.
 The latest purchase is Seitz; at least I two deals are pending. The fans can be
 assured that the Mobile baseball man. | to<a >~k "A