The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-29

POINTERS TO. RANDOM

In spite of local agitators, who have per- sistently endeavored to disrupt the Baron aggregation, Manager Molesworth and his men are making a sensational race for honors in the Kavanaugh circuit. Since leaving Birmingham they have played 10 games, of which number eight resulted in Birmingham victories. This can hardly support the spurious argu- ments that Manager Molesworth has de- veloped no team work, that he is unnec- essarily harsh in dealing. with his men, or that the aggregation displays lack of vim and pepper when away from Rick wood
 The team has played four series since beginning the present road trip, one against Chattanooga, another against Att lanta. and others against Memphis and Nashville. The Barons have won every series, taking two out of three from Chattanooga, two out of three from Att lanta, two straights from Memphis and two straights from Nashville. The team has won five games in suc- cession There are two others to be played, one against Nashville and one against Memphis. With Maxwell and Foxen doing the finging 1t is pretty ,afe to predict that one of the two will .esult in victory for the Birmingham lrms.
 Arguments against the manager, efforts to worry him in the heat of foreign cam- paign by stirring up strife in his ab- sence, have fallen into disrepute which is the common fate of all that is un- worthy.
 Other teams in other times have done just as well as the Barons on foreign ter ritory. But we doubt if any other, un- der the peculiar circumstances which exist today in Birmingham, has ever scored such phenomenal success. Never popular with the better element of Birminghams fan flock, the effort to demoralze the Birmingham team in the face of it's sensational road record, has collapsed, and as was stated some days ago, Manager Molesworth emerges from the dust and mire more popular than he was ever before.
 The attack has caused reacting wave,
 
 who is the butt of the joke at the pres ent moment
 But had the team, as many generally be- lieved would be the result, tumbled peg by peg into the depths of the second di- vision, and it was quite reasonable, with Nashville and Memphis directly to the rear, that it would lose more games than win on foreign grounds, the schemers might have scored some semblance of suc- cess.
 | But Molesworth's men, appreciating the | fact that the effort was made in the hope of causing disintegration, rallied around | their manager, and are playing as they
 have never played before.
 And it would do the heart of every
 person good to watch the flood of Bir-
 minghams baseball patrons surging day | by day into the office of President Baugh and hear the expressions of congratula- tions and assurances of fealty which that
 flood gives vent to.
 l There is no doubt but that the fair
 minded fan of Birmingham is right now
 heart and soul in sympathy with Manager
 Molesworth, his efforts to gain for Bir-
 ningham a permanent berth in high so-
 ciety, and against an agitation which | could not, under any possible circum-
 stance, have accomplished one iota oi good.
 And it has never been stated that il
 was the intention of such agtators to ac-
 complish good.