The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-03
Things Are Beginning To Move In Spite of WOODWARD PLANS
 TO FINISH HIGH CoyaIeski BaIIks on Going To Chatta- nooga, Preferring Birmingham or New OrIeans-Pbiladelphi
 Come February 2s.

While January, under the most favor able conditions, is not the ideal mont for baseball speculations, and while th' cold and drizzle of the current weathe ordinarily" serves to chase away al thoughts other than those which concerr hot stove, a pipe and a book, the trutf rushes home in spite of all that nex month the Philadelphia Nationals begin their journey to Birmingham.
 And, therefore, baseball is not so fal away In February, too, Manager Moles worth will waddle to the scene of th' future successes of the embryonic Baror team, and 1t will be he who makes the ad dress of welcome to the Phillies. Ther early in March the Barons, old and new will begin trooping in one by one. Ther will follow practices and practice games At the conclusion of that month the buds will have returned to the shrubbery, ano baseball will immediately proceed to push off the map of thought all other subjects and subject matter.
 Barons VIII Finish Well
 At lOCal DaSeDdll 1tduQ lcis lAlih6s are as quiet as a mouse in cathedral However, careful plans are being laid and on the face of everyone there is dis cernible the grim determination to be IT the running from the dropping of the hat The owner of the Birmingham clut would like to win the pennant. He doesn't say he will do so. But he does say that 6yct it. vision, and there is no one who questions his assertion. It doesn't matter if Gov aleski, who did better work for Birmtng- ham than any other pitcher has ever done for any other club in this league has been signed by Chattanooga Ii doesn't matter if Bob Messenger. one of the brightest stars of last seasons Baron ic constellation, has been disposed of by Chicago to Louisville. It doesn't mat ter if the pichers at present corralled are not worth more than two or three grains of salt This will not prevent the Barons from finishing in the first divis- ion. MT. Woodward is determined tc win, and he feels confident that men valuable men, can be obtained by an out
 
 mingham are not troubling themselves tC any extent although regret Is keen, nat urally, that Covaeski and Messenger especially the latter-have been led as stray.
 Covaleski Has Baked
 Coyaleski, incidentally. according to z recent statement in the Cincinnati En qurer, Is baking on going to Chatta- nooga. He states plainly that he has nc love for the city above the clouds. If go south" he is quoted as saying, T would rather go to Birmingham, first and New Orleans, second. I do not care foI Chattanooga and feel like I should have been sent to Birmingham, where worked successfully last season. and where ha6 the confidence of all the people,
 Nothing has been heard from Bob Mes senger. He has never been known tc speak louder than a whisper. But il is true that Messenger wanted to return to Birmingham in case he failed to make good with Chicago. On leaving last fal he informed Manager Molesworth In g few, well chosen monosyllables that ht | liked Birmingham and the manager, ant that he would select Birmingham in case he was hustled again to the minors. Il the whirlwind gets off badly in Louisville l MT. Woodward will be ready to act. A is remembered, after Birmingham failed | to get Ellam from Cincinnati last sprins he was obtained from Kansas City, tc which place he had been farmed. And the | same may happen in the Messenger | case.
 Pitchers Are Needed
 | At this time 1t is apparent to every body that Birmingham's greatest need is pitchers. There are but two members of last seasons team who are certain tc return, for Wagner has expressed a de- sire to stay In the north next summer The two are Fleharty and Bauer, and neither can be depended upon all the time. Neither is an A. N 1 finger This fact is appreciated by MT Woodward and he is in the market for pitchers It would cause no surprise were the an nouncement to come soon that he had pulled a valuable plum from the majors Groom of Washington is on the market it is stated, and it Is a safe bet that MT. Woodward will make an effort to land Cy Young, although this effort, natur- ally, will hardly be success. It is under stood, too that MT. Woodward will make an effort to trade for or purchase Pitch CT Paige of New Orleans, who was per haps the best right hander'' in the league last season. At any rate, MT Woodward is busy, and Manager Moles worth is busy. So some good news is tc be expected within a very short time MOlesworth in Chicago Manager Moesworth at the present time is in Chicago endeavoring to make g trade with Charlie Comiskey, owner oi the White Sox. The "old Roman" has several valuable young men to dispose of and he has invited the Baron mana ger to visit him and look over his stock | And then 1t is a safe prediction that the | Philadelphia Nationals, which team train. in Birmingham this spring, will turr over two or three men for the use of tho park.
 | The Phillies will leave Philadelphia fol | Birmingham February B, and will re | main in Birmingham until March 2 Hor | ace Fogel president, and several news
 paper men from New York will accom-
 pany the team In all the party vii
 consist of about 50 people.