The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-06
WITH THE SCRIBES

Manager Dobbs decided to give his men some training in bunting in the eighth inning. The game won and he could experiment.. The first man up, Bills, laid the ball down very neatly and beat it oul Graham followed suit and did the same thing; but Umpire Barr forgot his specs and called the nifty second baseman out Pratt followed and attempted the same stunt, drawing Bradley in from third, then he stung the ball out for safety The game worked to perfection, and showed that the Binikens are adopts at any kind of batting ame.-Montgomery Journal.
 The Giants shook the dust of Atlanta from their shoes tonight and crossed the city off their exhibition schedule for all
 indefinite period. McGraw says he will rot return here again, for several good reasons.
 One is that he was not favored with training weather, and another is the fail ure of the Atlanta club to provide place for morning practice. He did not expect to pay expenses here with the receipts from games, as Atlanta is notoriously a poor exhibition city, and therefore he failed to realize on any of the objects of a four-day stay here.
 The bitter feeling developed by the un- pleasant incidents of last Thursday and F1lQdA ana unWdTTdHltu dDuS6 OI lHt team undoubtedly figured in McGraws s decision to cut Atlanta out next year Three other major league clubs are go- ing to do the same thing.-New York Tribune.
 Spring practice games of the exhibi- ton variety, such as have been staged in Atlanta during the past two weeks be- tween big league clubs and the Atlanta oiIpht fn he abolished. This class of games does more than anything else in the early season to hurt the local teams chances. In the first place, the club faces better class of players than themselves. In addition, the big league clubs are In better shape, having been In training in warmer climates several weeks before they come to Atlanta. It
 is only logical to suppose that Atlanta will be outclassed in battles with such clubs The average fan does not figure this out. He sees nothing but the appar- ent, patent aspect of the games. He views with consternation the overwhelm- ing defeat of the home club by the visi- tors He sees the local pitchers wild and ineffective without considering why this is so The result is that the fan, along with hundreds of others, gets the Idea that the local club is bunch of dups and will never be able to make a show ing. See the point ?-Atlanta Journal.
 
 Otto Jordan is right now in the most unenviable position of any manager Tn the Southern league Atlanta fans are making the plodding a bit rough for him just because he is Billy Smiths success sor They are still sore because the Heis- man crowd slipped Billy a lime, and While they haven't anything against Jordan per sonally, he has to suffer a whole lot
 There is only one way for Jordan to El,at fc n winning team, and it looks like he Is going to fall way shy of doing that. The Crackers don't look much like class-A aggregation on paper and they have shown nothing in the exhibition series. Jordan will need a better break in the luck to stock a whole season longer as chief of the Crackers. Atlanta has lost caste as baseball town since Otto has been at the helm, and through no fault of Otto's, but it's good bet that he'll be the one to get the hook just as soon as the club owners get hep to the necessity of making some drastic changes in order to restore the towns position among the few money-ma,king ball towns In the Southern feague.-New Orleans Item. | The only season in which the Southern league experiences a real success finan- cially is when the four good towns in the league have good ball clubs, and 1t Is very seldom that such season rocks around.
 Prospects are pretty fair this season however for even though Atlanta may not come up to the scratch, the other three good towns--New Orleans, Memphis and Birmingham-will probably be there with first division ball.
 The other towns are necessary to the league-necessary evils. The best the, can produce doesn't pay their own or the | other clubs expenses, so for that reason if doesn't make a great deal of different where they fnish-New Orleans Item.