The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-28
LADELPH|A IS COMING TOMORROW Will Spend Twenty Days in
 Practice Here PLAY WITH BARONS The Local Players Are Due to Report March S-Birmingham Gets
 Everything It Wanted
 in Schedule

The Philadelphia Nationals will reach
 Birmingham Wednesday night.
 At the head of the party will be Horace Fogel, president.
 The players will come in two sections.
 The first will arrive with the president Wednesday night and the second will
 come before the conclusion of the week. The Philadelphia outfit will be quar- tered at the Birmingham hotel. There will occur regular practices at West End
 every afternoon, and during the 20 days
 which the visitors will spend here
 number of games vii, pc played against
 the Barons.
 With the Phillies will come the follow ing newspaper men: George D. McLinn
 of the Press, James Wolf of the Inquirer,
 D. LeRoy Reeves of the Public Ledger,
 Ross E. Kaufman of the North Amer ican, Chandler D. Richter of the Evening
 Times, and William G. Weart of the
 Evening Telegraph.
 The coming of these representative sporting writers of the major circles
 means that during ...o a1--- '1 Birmihs-
 ham of the Phillies this city will receive
 much valuable advertising. At regular space rates the amount would total up to l a figure probably as large as the $10O,00o
 mark. The coming of these scribes is in
 dicative, too, of the fact that the people l of Philadelphia are as much interested
 in the Phillies as in the Athletics, the
 American league club which last fall
 walked away with the championship cloth
 of the world.
 | The Southern league at the present time is interested in the meeting of the moguls 1 in New Orleans. President Baugh left Saturday and as he carried his golf sticks
 with him it is fair to presume that he has been spending his moments pleasant l ly. Manager Molesworth left for the Crescent City last night The moguls will adopt a schedule at the New Orleans
 meeting and will endeavor to effect change in the salary limit of the league change which will obviate the present
 disadvantage under which playing man agers are operating. Just what will be accomplished in this line is problemati- cal
 The schedule let 1t be known, will give | to Birmingham more than the fans have hoped for The Barons will open anu close the season at home and will play all the holiday games on Redwood Field. | This Is taken to mean that Birmingham l is again on the baseball map, and that
 the various chieftalns of the league have | become aware of the fact that the money to be made is in Birmingham in moro l plentiful quantities than in any other city of the league.
 | After the league meeting President Baugh and Manager Molesworth will hasten again to Birmingham to welcome
 the Barons. The players are due to re- port March S. The fans of Birmingham are very much in the air as to the chances of Birmingham to finish in the first division.
 The Barons will be stronger behind the bat next season than last. Elliott will return. There are several other re- ceivers on the staff. This means that the
 locals will have no second catcher this season as weak as the second catcher of
 last season.
 The infield will be stronger than last season. The old players-all of them-Wlll
 return, and Phelan has been obtained from Cincinnati. Phelan, if reports be
 true. will prove a wonder in the Southern league He can sting the ball at good clip. and with McGilvray's rapping the infield will stack up fairly we'll with the outfield in the swatting line. Unless Mes senger returns. or another as good as he Is procured, the outfield will be weaker than last season. The pitching staff, at the present time, does not look as strong as that of last season. But from the list of youngsters a couple of good laen might be located.
 The chances are that Messenger will be recovered.
 The chances are that "Hub' Perdue will 1 be acquired to bolster up the pitching de- partment
 But the fans are trusting more in RICK Woodward than in any other agency.
 They know that when men are neeoeu I no yyil, get them. They know that he will mt tolerate a second division club.