The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
WITH THE SCRIBES

Mobile Register; Today will be gala one in Montgomery baseball cir cles. the patriotic fans of that city having arranged a Montgomery Day in honor of the Billikens and the close fight they are putting up to nose the Barons out of second place and catch the fast tiring Pei aggregation for the league lead. Birmingham is the attrac- tion in Montgomery and as the rall- roads have put on rates and all the stores will close a half day, banner crowd will see the first battle of the series Grand. ain't it to have club up there in the fight and something to wax enthusiastic over? Let's arrange something of the kind for our Sea Gulls. Let's meet them at the train next Sunday with something.
 New Orleans Picayune: Baseball is a funny game, and the Birds represent ing New Orleans have succeeded in mak- ing the other teams around the circuit look like selling platers in stake race But yesterday and the day before Carl ton Molesworths Barons completely turned the tables, making the locals look like a lot of hitless. handless, brainless pastimers, bunker than any real pennant-winning aggregation ever dared to be- Decayed support of Otto Hess handed two counts to the visitors Tuesday, enough to win, because the locals couldn't tally; bum backing of Al Klawitter, when a 2-1 victory was in sight yesterday, gave the second and
 
 who immediately assume a dangerous look to followers of the championship race.
 New Orleans Item: Let's all be thank ful that the Pels have any sort of a lead at all in the race for the bunting. For the kind of baseball played by New Orleans the last month has been enough to lose almost any old lead. Us Inter esting enough right now, thank you, hut think what would have been had the Bllfkens won again from Mobile We'd nesday. A week ago we were all set for the pennant celebration. Five games in front and things looked roseate, which is to say they looked rosy. Now We are 1-2 games ahead and not rnuch chance to hold 1t unless some ginger is hypodermized into the arms and bat ting eyes of some of our noble athletes and some wisdom medicine is injected CT beaten into what serves for think tanks for some of the others. Not that we are going to lose the flag-far be it from such. But the Billikens are uncomfort- ably close and it's time to get going fol the run through the stretch
 At that two and one-half games is g mighty big lead at this stage of thC race and the Pels have all the advantage of the schedule from now to the finish
 Atlanta Georgian: Birmingham agaiT crops out as a Southern league pennan possibility. al
 The Barons picked up a full eam' Wednesday by defeating the Pelieaus, ant are now only four and a half game to the bad. Of course. it will take double barreled reinforced triple piate, miracle to enable them to catch Frank team But so long as there is a chanc we reserve the right to hope. The sea son ends two weeks from the comin Saturday. which means that Moes worth's men have little enough time | overcome the big lead.
 Come on. you miracle.
 r New Orleans Item: Ragged base run ming and still worse fielding kept tn
 
 land thereby gaining one muchly and bad Ily needed game on the Billikins. course, the time hasn't come when wei ready to hang the crepe on the door of t house Of the New Orleans pennant hope hut that time Is nigh, very nigh, and we be selecting the flowers had Montgumet won yesterday. For Birmingham be; N the Frankmen 3-2 grabbing a duo in u ninth.
 Montgomery Advertisers: All atten, ance records were broken, 300o people set ing the game and the bIeachers owe flowed early in the afternoon. Enthl 4 siam was the best ever the fans not gi' ing up until the last man was out in Il ninth, but Kent got better as the gan aged and was unhitable toward the las - New Orleans Times-Democrat Whi much credit is due Trough for his maj