The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-13
CUBS PROVE EASY
FOR WHITE SOX IN
THE FIFTH BATTLE
B<ARONS MAKING
GOOD IN CUBA
Local Contingent Have Literally Taken Sporting Element BY
Storm-Team Has Won Three Out of Four Games
Cubans Lavishly Entertaining Them
BY JAMEs E. soLLIXAN

Havana, October 12-(Special. 1.-The Biz
mingham baseball team has literally
taken the sporting elements of Havana
by storm. -Four games have been played
and the Barons took three, each being
won by batting rally in the last in
ming. They have outplayed the Cubans.
simply made rings around them each
game, and were 1t not for the "slowness''
of the ground the score would undoubt-
edly have been larger. The first games
have been with the Scorpions" who
will be managed by Marsans. upon his re-
turn from the states. Next week they
tdke on the Havana Reds, under the
management of Almedia.
when the Barons arrived they were a
Qifle stale from missing the usual dia-
fnond exercise, and several were getting
lover the effects of severe attacks of sea
sickness In the first game they piled
up three runs against a goose egg for
the Scorpions, with Foxen doing the
twirling The second was to / with
Gregory in the box. The third was lost,
4 to 8. with Hogg working. and the fourth,
a 12-inning battle was won, to o, with
Foxen again pitching. In the first game
the score was a tie at the ninth when
the Barons took the bat. Four hits to the
infield Melted them the winning run. In
~rl.e. second they won with four hits in the
last time up, and in the fourth game they
made two runs in the twelfth by bunch
ing three hits
Mcbride Hitting Well
The Barons admit they are not hitting
like they should, or rather like they did
during the past season. This they at
tribute to the ground, the glare of trop-
Zeal sun on a white sand diamond and
ssclimatic conditions" The pitching has
been kept up to the usual standard, with
Just a trifle off at times. Mcbride has
especially been hitting well, and at base
stealing Bob Messenger keeps up his es-
tablished record ELAN at short has
been showing the festive Cubans a thing
or two in covering that territory, to the
yelping of the fanatics
The third game was attended by over
1900 paid admissions, and when it looked
as though the Scorpions had cinched the
game the noise sounded as though an
other revolution had broken out.
Betting at first was odds on the Scor-
pions. After the first game it went to
even, and now it is in favor of the
Barons 1t is probable the Havana Reds
will put up a better article of ball than
the Scorpions, but the Cuban sports are
leary about placing their pesos and Pc
setas.
3Outside of the games the Barons are
having the times of their lives. On off
days they ramble about quaint Havana,
shnd when night comes they still rambe
The bunch is stopping at the Hotel Plaza,
the headquarters of the American colony,
and the proprietor, Capt. Walker Fletcher
Smith, is noted throughout the West In
dies and Brooklyn for his terrific roofing.
Today the entire bunch were the guests
of the Officers of the cruiser Birmingham
that is here carrying the Panama-Paciflc
exposition commission to South and Cen
trail america. Arrangements for them
to visit the ship was made by Capt. Will
liam e. Gonzales, the American minister
to Cuba. They were shown over the ship
from stem to stern. During the going
over Manager ELAN displayed his nauti-
cal knowledge by exclaiming, as he
poked his head down a companionway,
why the dang things hollow, amt it?''
He later provided the officers with box
seats to the afternoons game.
Gregory Loses Watch
Every evening the Barons enmass stroll
down the beautiful Prado, the driveway
10 the ocean, and hear the famous mill
tary band give an open air concert on the
Malecon. Most of them being benedicts
of good standing, merely give passing
glance to the hundreds of midnight-eyed
senoritas, who drive and promenade about
the bandstand. A few nights ago, how !
ever, Pitcher Gregory had his watch
deftly lifted from his pocket while adj !
Iniring--we the music and brilliant
eauipages as they swept by. The police
hope to recover it. The other Barons
either give their timepieces to the hotel
clerk when they start out or else nail
them to their pockets
Out at La Playa, Havana's fashionable