The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-27
Maxwell and Lelivelt Fight Today
POINTERS TO RANDOM

f In case Mobile Is found guilty, wha will Mobile do?
 That is a question which is receiving the attention of the scrIbes of thu league.
 Some seem to believe that Mobile which has not made money this season will be unable to pay the fine and vii yield it's franchise. But, on account oi the gameness of the people of Mobile and their sporting propensity, this is very doubtful.
 But in case the franchise is yielded Little Rock will again step to the front i with the purchase money. There Is lit | tie doubt on this score.
 And 1t will be unfortunate if Little Rock again takes a position in this cir cult. Montgomery and Mobile are bad enough. but Little Rock is the limit.
 How happens it? some may ask, that Charlie Frank is never charged with a violation of the salary limit? Others will want to know how Chat tanooga can carry a club of billionaires and not be in violation of the limit
 And others will think that if 1t was necessary for Mobile to infringe on the limit in order to carry it's little, old club. or if last season, it was necessary for Montgomery to break a rule in order to carry it's 'tailenders," how can the books of Frank and Smith and others be clean when their players are not only better than those of Mobile, but are far bet ter remunerated.
 There are no answers 10 these prob> lens.
 It might be stated, in this connection, that C. Frank is just about the smooth- est manipulator in this or any other cir cult
 In the beginning. disgruntled because some of the diplomats of the league had beaten him in parliamentary law, he issued a statement that the salary limit was all "bosh'' and that he would pay no attention to it's alleged existence.
 This attitude of Frank might have caused others of the circuit to go be- yond the agreement. And yet there is absolutely no doubt but that if the books of Frank were examined today. there would be found no variance with the official statement which he makes to league headquarters twice a month.
 Frank may be in violation of the salary limit, but Philadelphia lawyer couldn't prove it. And there Is absolutely no danger of his fragrant and open viola tion of the limit.
 He knows that in case he does do so. he will have to pay neat little me. and Frank is painfully adverse to spend- ing money unless he knows the return will yield him profit.
 There are some baseball writers in cities of the league who do not believe that a single club is in the bounds of the limit.
 And yet these writers know that in making the statement of the payroll. the president one of the directors and the manager of each club is compelled to declare under oath that the state ment is correct, and that in it or under 1t or above it, there is nothing in the nature of a dodge or subterfuge.
 Perhaps there are no clubs in the league which abide by their agreement.
 But we are not among those who be- lieve so. The calibre of the men at the head of the various clubs Is known | to us, and we cannot believe they have signed false affidavits month after month through all these years. i We believe. furthermore, that when ever violation has occurred or when ever one might occur under the present regime, that 1t was and will be purely technical in it's nature, and that of in- tentional wrong doing, the officials con- cerned will be promptly exonerated. H. ". R.