The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-12
EDITED BY HUGH w. ROBERTS
WHAT OTHERS THINK OF US

| checked when Altman hit to Kirke. fore ing Courtney out at the keystone.
 Only three men were at bat against Wagner in each of the following four in- nings.
 Memphis News-Scimitar: There may be
 race after all in the Southern league
 aIter pennant honors, but don't get ex- cited and do not let anyone tout you into
 believing that it will be anything but the Pels all the way. Birmingham is certain ly cutting up some and has been more or less ever since the middle of last
 month. The last half of July the Barons copped 13 lost two and played one tie
 game. So far this month they have won siv and lost four. An occasional loss by the Pelicans has put the New Orleans
 team only 6S points ahead of the Barons.
 Only 6S. do you make it? Now that's
 really too much to warrant any such as
 sertion that there may be race, but the Birmingham crew is really the stronges. In the league just now, thanks to sey- eral assists by Charles Frank. and that
 the Pelicans are badly crippled, the idea sort a comes through that few more | losses by the Frankfurters and a few more gains by Molesworth's crew would make a finish that would interest more than the usual number of fans to pass | through the gates for the closing games. l | a-neck-and-neck-finish stage, lay a
 bet on the veteran MT. Frank. watch him send out s. O. s. messages for new anI | fast players and then go home to your dinner and figure on what you'll do with | your winnings. The answer will be tho same that 1t has been in years gone by: | Frank plays ball for two things-to win and to make money. and he has found
 that winning team makes money. So | there you are.
 | Memphis Commercial-Appeal: Happen | ings that happened during the last fort night tend to indicate that Manager i Molesworth's Baronical charges are re- | lentless pirates of the nursery; that is, 1 they have no scruples against kicking cogs out of the mechanism of battered | machine. What they did to Big Bill | Bernhards gang during the double header week is but too well remembered. Now they are kicking the tar out of | Otto Jordan's crew of crumbed crack CTS and by that process are gradually gaining on c. Franks peerless Pelicans. Sandwfched in between the Barons easy picking contests came MT. Schwartz Nashville delegation, which halted the slagpile representatives with the pre- cipitancy of perfect working air brake. The percentage table and some asute | fans readily rate the boy managers hire ' local bunch. Now comes the subtle plot of this discourse. Can the Barons main tain their present stride against ths | stronger clubs, which are to furnish the opposition when the Birmingham troupe hits the highway? If Molesworth can keep his artisans on their toes, retain the old pep. and continue to now down the hostiles, there Is yet some chance of heading the leaders before the gridiron 5allants start bunting.
 In comparison the Barons don't look like champion aggregation. In only one department do they appear to have an
 edge on tho Dutchman's dollies, and that is in the hurlers' work. The Birmng-
 ham staff of Maxwell. Trough, Kent,
 Fcxen and Speer. look like a better ono than the Pelicans- comprising Hess.
 Klawitter. Breitenstein, Wagner and Veasey. Both clubs are we'll balanced
 and 1t remains for the future to tell if the
 Baron f1ingers can offset the other de. ficiencies and eventually diminish the dis
 tarce between them and the prospective chamI ions, A .ss.A sss,z, ssss g., .S..s. j, I