The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
DOO|N AND HIS MEN COMING TOMORROW Phillies to Be Here Until
 March 20 NEW PITCHER SIGNED Baugh Leaves for New Orleans and Molesworth Will Go Tomorrow.
 Gossip Around the
 Circuit
 
Fly JACK BETHEA

son of 1911 will occur tomorrow when Manager Dooin and 34 men will arrive in Birmingham for spring training
 The Phillies will go into training at Redwood and will remain in Birming ham until March 20. During this time the local fans will have many opportuni- ties of seeing the major leaguers in ac- tion and incidentally gain line on the Barons for the year.
 Exhibition games will be played fre- uuently between the Barons and the Phil lies and much sport is anticipated from the exhibition games.
 The following list of men has been for Harded to R. D. Cronk, manager of the Birmingham hotel, where the Philles will put up: Pitchers Ewing, Moore Rowan, Bebee. Shettler Brennan, Alexander, Yates. Chalmers. Wilhelm Stack. Hum- phries, Schultz, Baxter and Thomas; Catchers Dooin. Moran, Jackley and Me Donough; infielders, Bransfeld, Luderus, Miller, Knabe, Doolan, Lobert, Young, Walsh and Lehr; outfielders, Magee, Pas kert, Titus, Welchonce, Mowrey and Mayer.
 The team will be accompanied by a host of sport writers from the Quaker City and there will be quite a deal of interest in the daily gambols of the men at Rick wood.
 From the above number Manager Moles worth expects to get a cracking good out fielder to take the place of Messenger, and a good pitcher With these men the man ager announces that he will rest content. If the players are not obtained from Dooin Moley will go elsewhere for them. Have them he will.
 Molesworth has signed Pitcher Sex ton of the Lynchburg team in the Vir- ginia league and with any kind of luck Sexton will prove fast enough for the Southern league. According to Sexton's physical measurements he has the body for the league. He is 22 years old, feet 111h inches high and weighs TO pounds. He is certainly some man.
 He is looked upon as being about the best in the league where he came from. The Lynchburg club was loath to part with him, but grim necessity forced them to do so. The salary limit was reduced and his head fell Sextons club finished fourth in a six-club circuit last year and his percentage of victories was 524
 President R. H. Baugh of the local club left last night for New Orleans to at tend the meeting in New Orleans on Wednesday. Manager Molesworth will leave tomorrow and will return on Thurs day morning. MT. Baugh will play golf trl, ir, joy the Mardi Gras festivities.
 There are just about five clubs around the circuit that are hollering loudly "Stung!' They are Birmingham, Allan ta, Mobile. Montgomery and Nashville Following Charles Franks lead the pres ident of the Memphis club announces himself as perfectly satisfied with the sal ary limit and is opposed to any change. Billy Smith at Chattanooga is perfectly satisfied with things as they are, while Choly Frank, who engineered the bun. COG. wearing a complacent smile.
 Percy Whiting has observed in regard to the conduct of the magnates at the Birmingham meeting in 1910 that the play ing managers and the president were set of chuokle heads and it seems that there is more truth than fiction in his statement.
 Molesworth has received the signed contract of Ivory) Wagner, the little. twirler who gave such satisfactory ser vices last year Wagner writes that he is in perfect condition and is anxious to get back to Birmingham. Earl Fleharty has also signed up
 The contracts of the other players are expected at once and by March 8. when the Barons report for the season. all are expected to be signed. Manager Moles- worth has no holc-outs and is not worry ing.
 otto Jordan Is to install batting cage for his men by tomorrow, and 1t should improve their hitting. The cage will be 20 feet on one end and 35 on the other. If will be IA feet high and 70 feet long and will keep the pitchers from chasing balls.
 Five Atlanta players are holding out and Otto Jordan is getting gray-headed over the matter. Red Tom Fisher is bucking on account of his salary. He wants the same sum as he got last year, which IS Il. Harold Johns, the star south-paw, is holding out. Zimmerman, the crack in- fielder. Is complaining about the climate Erskine Mayer has not sent in his con- tract and Balenti makes up the i've. Doubtless they will report before the sea- son starts or there will be doings Man ager Johdans temper is decidedly not angelic and he might deal summarily with the hold-outs.
 Carmichael, who played with Buffalo last year, has been secured from Cincin- natl by Billy Smith and should make the Lookouts good man. He won IS games for Buffalo and lost 12.
 With Carmichael the Lookout pitching stan looks formidable. Covaleski, Car michael. Benton. Demaree and More are five twirlers that will give the batsmen of the league some trouble
 The sporting editor of the Chattanooga Times has brought down on his head the wrath of several sport writers of the Southern league. The trouble was start ed by a forecast that Foster made last Sunday about the way the Southern clubs would finish.
 His classification follows: Chattanooga, Memphis. New Orleans O, Birmingham Q), Montgomery @, Atlanta (S), Mobile (2), Nashville (3).
 spring trading. (O Dangerous teams; will do to watch. (O Too many minor leaguers.
 The Atlanta scribes resent his placing them in sixth place.
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