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Dobbs tbeforc) the Barons come. A crippled team. We'll eat lem up from poIe to beam. Tbc Dnrons come! II is scream! We'll fight n bit, then pleasant dream!
 Dobbs tafter) the Barons came. If crippled they. play the game they played today, wish my team would lose It's nrm, happen to some other harm. I've never seen crippled bunch possessed of such healthfui punch. I've never seen n leEiess car jump up so high run so fast-Dc- With 1nlmadge.
 If it was given to me to say but one Shlng to my children, I would speak alonr the line of scrowing' too soon. DO not say you have won until the enemy is not only down and out, but stone dead. And even then corpse is treacherous.-Bobo (yoi. viii, page S27.
 The Barons. bold and unmercful, fell upon the primeval man of Manager lDobbs yesterday afternoon and sent him back from whence he came-the tall and uncut, the wild and woody, the land of never never"
 It was an awful day for Savidge. The finger nail" artist was either out of condition or the Barons, having theard charges of a batting slump, went Unto the fray with bloody optics, and crying vengeance" with peculiar ac cent.
 At any rate, they fell upon MT Say sdge with their sticks and from crown to sole beat him black and blue. It was one of the most frightfu drubbings finger has received this season.
 With only an occasional break in the routine, the game progressed for sev- eral innings. Then all at once, with out moments warning, the thun- derclap came out of a clear sky. The cherubic MT. Molesworth started the fierce onslaught and there was nothing left but for the lieutenants of the ehieftain to follow the glorous pace which he had set and established. Therefore. Mcbride bingled and Large William slashed, and Marcan trounced, and Yantz clouted and Pratt biffled
 And five runs galloped over the plat ter Then broke the mighty heart of Dobbs Happy" Smith was happy no more, and the remainder of the Bill liken outfit spoke that most emphatic word which emerged from the throat of the parrot which had lost all its feath- l CTS in a storm. It was simply an example of how the best laid plans can sometimes fail to pan out. When the Barons reached Montgomery with Ellam out of the | same and a atcher in hls place, with | Phelan just recovering from the effects | of a smashed nose, with Wagner lad | up with a crippled shoulder, with Che nault in Birmn gham with a sore arm. | with Elliott grooming beneath the pains of a torn knee cap, with Schettler run ming to and from between Birmingham | and Pittsburg-when the Barons ar rived, demoralized and downcast and l miserable, well, the Bilikens and the | fans and the scribes tuned up their tyres for an impending celebration.
 While the conservative scribes won l only two games of the series before | the series opened, others won three | The players by these bright predictions were shot into the glorious light of | the seventh heaven. The fans danced | ! Salomes' on the house tops. And then l came the deluge.
 After the doubleheader Friday there was dismay in Montgomery The | scribes knew that but for a great break in the luck Montgomery would have lost both games. The fans shiv- ered-seeing in advance the swinging sword of Damocles, ready to slip snick- er-snack through their marrow The players were nervous and unnerved
 Yesterdays victory therefore, was one easily attained. The Billikens were licked before the first shot was fired.
 When the Barons had scored II runs Fleharty eased down his gasoline en- zine. He no longer thrilled the specta- tors with a speed of 90 miles an hour He toyed with the Billikens. Like the mouse in the kitty's paws, occasion ally they thought they saw an op- portunity to escape, and dashed away. And outshot the grimy paw of Fle- harty, fetching them back again to certain death
 Well, it Is over. The Barons this afternoon open in Mobile.
 To date they have played eight games, only three of which were vic torious.
 But should they trim the SeaguIls this afternoon, the score will be to 4 With that record, they would have much over which to rejoice It would practically be an even break on the road-and the team in first-rate condition which does as well, is an ex- eeption to the general rule
 Returning home Monday the Barons remain for three weeks and more. They open with New Orleans Then comes Mobile. Then in succession the teams Of the northern division, Memphis Nashville, Atlanta and Chattanooga, ar Give.
 Were the Baron pitchers whole in body and on the scene, the juicy time for mopping would have arrived But The St@nhOg1p