The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-28
WITH THE SCRIBES

Chattanooga News: Bills escaped ex- tremcly light yesterday for his cowardly action toward Rube Benton, The Rube accidentally hit Bills with a fast one and the Dobbers utility man, in cowardly manner, hurled his bat at the local twfrler. Benton was forced to leap into the air to escape serious injury. Kad not Higgins jnterfered Benton would probably have entered into fistic en- counter. Carpenter should not only have removed Bills from the game. but also assessed a fine. Actions such as this are directly conducive to serious difficulties.
 Chattanooga News: After seeing tho Dobbers in action the cause. of their slump is extremely apparent. The club like the Lookonts last season lacks atso- lutely any semblance of rganization or unification. The manner in which Dobbs and Pratt ran together and threw away one of yesterdays battles reminds us very wildly of some struggles which the Look outs threw to the winds last season.
 Atlanta Georgian Lowly Nashville team. picked by everybody to finish last! Oh, picklesl
 Glance at Nashville now! Next 70 New Orleans!
 Of course the Schwartzies are IA full games, or therea bouts, behind New Or leans, but they are in second place, and that's the goal for which seven clubs are contending, all real contention for the first place now being virtually over
 Nobody can exactly explain the wnd uppishness of the Volunteers. It is one of those whims of baseball-one of the very sort that has, on other occasions, made Nashville a pennant winner, de- spite a weak team.
 Who told Bay, Wiseman, Perry, Liml- players that they were entitled. to put. team in second place?
 Well have to doff hats to Bill Schwartz. He has performed.a miracle. If his team never wins another game this season it has certainly done better than anybody expected that it would.
 Memphis Commercial Appeal: Secretary Tyson of the Birmingham club denies that Moesworth is in Dutch with the Baron officials, and says that Moley will be back at his old stand next season. unless the chubby one throws up the reins of his own accord
 Molesworth has been singled out py. certain clique, says MT. Tyson, wno nave been attempting to manage the Birmliis- ham club for seven years, 'Where you find one fan that Is against Moley' says Mir Tyson. syou find twenty-five who
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 Nashville Banner: Beginning the season with a bunch of ball players of unknown strength in this league. most of them right from the bushes, Manager Schwartz, the leagues boy manager, has built up one of the most formidable machines m the circuit by the "weeding out process. Today the Vols. picked by nearly every scribe In the circuit for last place, are safely perched on the second round and Schwartz is we'll satisfied. The cnmp from the second. division to second place during the past three weeks has been one of the most sensational spurts ever seen in the league, and no team in the circuit has been able to take series run 'ne locals during that time. Birmlngnam IS here tonorrow and is the only team In th. c,rc,,;t that the Vols. haven't met and hun,bIad during the present home stay with the exception of Memphis. Tho Rar have always been the locals oTonab.r but Schwartz figures that if he is ever going to win a series from them he will do it in the series beginning to- morrow.
 New Orleans Item: It Is said the Bir- min rham club has reserved the right to recall Wagner after this season. This may be true, but the theory that Frank intends to make a regular outf1elder out of Wagner for use in 1912 when he may no longer have Callahan and Barr, is more plausible It is known that Frank is pretty sweet on Wagners hitting, and he has more than once discussed the possi- bility of Wagner becoming a first-class outfielder.
 Memphis -Scimitar: A trade of Wagner by the Barons for. Foxen of the Pelicans was announced today by Man ager Molesworth. There was a money consideration to boot Moley says that he thinks Wagner will fare well with New Orleans, and is pinning much faith to Foxen The latter will join the Bar ons at Nashville and Wagner will stay here and join the Pelcans. Eta