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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25

Baltimore's team furnished the feature of the Federal league race in its Hast ditch fight against Chicago. Tinker s men landed in Baltimore only three and a half games behind the Terrapins, and with successful campaign in the east to their credit and their pitchers in good shape, the Chicagoans were confident the series would bring them within striking distance of the lead and hoped they would return home in first place.
 But Knabe's players upset their plans, winning all three games of the series.
 A close race for second place is in progress, with Chicago, St. Louis, In- dianapolis, Buffalo and Brooklyn separat- ed by only few games.
 In the American association Sheckards Cleveland team, by winning six straight games. climbed from last place and reached a berth in the first division Fri day night, dislodging Minneapolis Mean- time, the see-saw race at the front be- tween Louisville and Milwaukee continued and the weeks campaign left neither with an advantage.
 The record in the American and Ma tional leagues of games played, won and lost with runs. hits, errors and men left on bases follows:
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Memphis. Tenn, May 24.-The Tur- ties and the Barons used up their three hours and ten minutes without reach- ing a verdict this afternoon. and Um- pire Dan Pfenninger dismissed them at the end of the sixteenth inning, with the count standing and ?. It was the second straight Sabbath that the two teams worked overtime here.
 An overflow crowd estimated around 5000 witnessed the game, and 1t was such an interesting show that the crowd practically remained intact un- til the last Memphis player went out in the sixteenth.
 Capt Jimmy Mullen came near put ting an exciting climax to the end of the affray, with two outs in the sikl teenth, Mullen tied into one of iCurley Browns benders and sent Nover the right field fence. Ittwas a terrific drive and curved to6l by less than a foot on the Outside of the flagpole.
 It was<ra battle of southpaws with Howard Merritt and Curley Brown as op- ponents. After getting off to rather bad start, Merritt settled after the second, when the Barons scored their runs and pltcneu d Dedulllui Sdiile I1e 6Ot III SeS- eral bad holes. though, but pulled himself out. Brown was strong the entire dis tance, and was pitching as strong in the sixteenth as he was in the first. Elmer Steele relieved Merritt in the sixteenth, after George Schlei had been sent in to bat for Merritt in the fifteenth.
 The locals were the first to count. In the first inning Allison opened with a sim gle. Coyle sacrificed and Allison raced to | third. Marcan threw wild to third trying to head him and Allison scored. | The Barons did all their countinfg in
 the third and for a time it looked like they did.
 | Ellam singled for a starter. Tragesser | flew out to Allison. Brown hit a hot one | to George Merritt, who knocked the ball down, but Brown was safe and Ellam l was on second. Mcdonald singled to right scoring Ellam. and sending Brown to l third. Marcan lifted fly to Allison, who
 muffed it and Brown counted. Mcdonald l going to second. Stewart struck out.
 Knisely damned hot drive to McDer-
 mott and it was over. The Turtles tied | the affair in knot in the fifth. Coyle 1 singled and stole second. He went to | third on a passed ball and crossed the plate on Shanley's drrve through short Both the infield and the guardians of the suburban territory for both teams played a brilliant fielding game, and kept
 down further scoring. The Baron out fielders had Il put-outs, seven of them
 being credited to Knisely, who made sev- eral running catches of hard drives. The Turtle outfielders bagged F flies, Allison
 getting five of them. He also made sev- eral hard catches.
 | Merritf bod mt at Ryyt
 for Memphis without a pebble.
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Atlanta. Ga, May 24.-New Orleans is again leading the Southern asso- citation. The Pelicans assumed first place Wednesday by taking three out of four games in the series with Nash yille. while Montgomery was dividing a series of four games with Chatta- nooga, then the league leaders.
 In addition to Chattanooga ana New Orleans changing places, there were two other changes of place during the week just closed Mobile advanced from fifth to third position by a rush that won six out of the seven games played while Atlanta dropped from third to fifth place by losing five out of seven games.
 Birmingham retained fourth position with a slightly improved percentage. Nashville in sixth, Montgomery in sev- enth and Memphis in eight place occu- pied the same positions at the end of the week that they held at the close of the previous seven days.
 Mobile, New Orleans and Birming- ham played the most effective baseball of the week. Commencing last Sun day, Mobile took three games In a row
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BARON PLAYERS PROVING FAST AS BASE RUNNERS
= % Barons And Turtles Battle Into Night $ @ sss$ @
OFFENSIVE STRENGTH
 SHOWN BY .BARONS
Local Coming Forward Fast and Proving Fast Bases Pelicans Again Assume the Lead-Success Due
 to Strong Pitching

from Atlanta before dropping one to last years champions. Then renewing where they had left off. three more were won from Chattanooga and the Lookouts relinquished the leadership.
 New Orleans had almost equal suc- cess. The Pelicans hurled Nashville be- fore them and then won two out of three from the slipping Atlantians. Good pitching has been largely re- sponsible for the New Orleans club winning thus far. The clubs batting has been only fair, Burns, the left fielder. leading the club with an aver age of .623
 Four victories out of six games played was the record of the Brming- ham team. The Barons took two out of three from both Memphis and Nash vile. Birmingham has shown good of fensive strength and especially have the Barons proved fast on the bases.
 After breaking even with Chatta- nooga in a four game series, Montgom- cry found strong opposition in the trailing Memphis team. the latter talk ing two out of three
 The Memphis club was sold Friday to Russell A. Gardner, a St. Louis capi- talist by Frank P. Coleman. president of the club and holder of the major ity of the stock. It was announced that Manager Finn would be retained.
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DAUBERT PLAYING
 STAR GAME NOW Dodger Captain Hitting Like Fiend and Also
 Fielding Well
By ERNEST J. LANNIGAN

Had the Superbas played at home May 15, instead of in Chicago. Colonel Ebberts would have had Jake Daubert day, for the Brooklyn captain then was celebrat- ing his twenty-ninth birthday. If Jake keeps up his present gait at the bat and in the field, he stands an excellent chance of again being voted the player most valuable to his team in the Ma tonal league and consequently in line to get another Chalmers car In his first 16 games Robinson's first lieutenant amassed battin gaverage of .424. going without a safety only in one-fourth of these con- tests. Daubert has been punching his wallops this year, having made one hit in each of three games, two hits in each of five games and three hits in each of four games. Jake reached the quarter gentry pole in base hits in Chicago on Wednesday. Of his 20 safeties, three have been doubles, three triplets and two home runs.
 Figures show that Daubert has been getting more than his proportion of Brooklyn's hits and runs. The Superbas have crossed the plate 2 times, Daubert
 
 per cent of the Robbins tallies The fig ures as to base hits show that the Robins have to their credit 152, of which Daubert claims 25-or about 16 per cent. If Daub- ert had been content to make just one ninth of his teams runs and hits he would have been credited at the present time with trifle more than eight tallies and a trifle more than 16 swats
 Also Fielding We'll
 Daubert is fielding this year at a .994 clip, making only one error in the first l6 games he played. This pebble did not come up until after he had handled 126 chances without a break. Daubert has taken hand in 10 duplex killings, though he hasn't started any.
 Daubert played his first game in the National league on April IA. 1910, in Phil- adelphia. Then batting against George Washington McQuillan, now with the Pi- rates, Jake went hitless. The next day Daubert jared Lew Moran. the million aire kid, for brace of singles He failed to get a hit on the day he made his debut locally. which was April 20, 1910, McQuillan pitching for the enemy, and he also failed to do any damage to I.e Moran's delivery on April 21 Moving over to the Polo grounds, Daubert hit like a fiend, paying particular attention to the manufacturing of triples, and soon the talk about his not being as good as Tim Jordan died
 Another able athlete who had a birth day May To was Tony Smith, former Su. perba shortstop, now with Sioux City Tony then was 30 years old. Secretary Herman Nickerson of the Boston Braves is today celebrating his 44th birthday and Business Manager Charley Williams of the Chicago Feds Is celebrating his 43d Ere the month ends these prominent pas timers will be older:
 D. Leroy Reeves, secretary to National League President John Tener. will be 8 | on May 27.
 Jim Thorpe of the Giants will be 26 or May 2S.
 Mike Donlin of the Giants will be se or May 30
 "Rube" oldring of the White Elephant. will be 30 on May 30.
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t. A. 1. RACE IS
 NOW INTERESTING

Apniston, May 24.-(Special.)-The third
 week of the Georgia Alabama league end
 ed today, with all of the clubs even more
 closely punched than they were last week.
 LaGrange, who was far in the lead of all
 of the other clubs in the circuit last week.
 has suffered defeat by losing series to
 Opelika and Selma, while Rome broke a
 losing habit by breaking even in se-
 rles with Newman and winning one from Talladega.
 The features of this week has been the poor playing of Talladega, and the con tinuous winning of the Opelika club. Tal- ladega won most of their games during the earlier part of the season, but this week they have lost three games to Gads- den and series to Rome. In Thursdays
 game Rome made league record against them which will probably stand for a number of years, when they defeated them by a score of 22 to o. Gadsden has
 played consistent ball this week, by win
 ming the first three games played and got the best of the series played with Newman. Anniston played good ball this week on the road by winning three and | losing the same number. They won two out of three from Selma in Selma, which | is conceded to be the hardest town in the l league for visiting team to win in. All | of the clubs have now cut down to the 1 limit in players and all say that they ! are in the salary limit, which is 5000 1 a month.
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BAGBY IN FORM
 AND PELICANS WIN

New Orleans, May H.-The locals easily defeated Atlanta today 5 to o, thereby winning the three games to one and best ing in their home stay the northern di- vision clubs 10 games to five, one result ing in tie score. Bagby was in splen- did form, permitting but two hits, while New Orleans batted Doescher hard and timely. The hitting of Lindsay and Bar bare featured. Three snappy double plays were made. The local left tonight to open a series Monday at Chattanooga and will be on the road until June [
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Summary: Home run. Flick. Three-base hits. Jacobson, Graf 2, Miller. Two-base hits, Perry, Schmidt, Calhoun. Sacrifice hits ODell, Graf. Stolen bases, Cal- houn. Hits, Gudger, 10 with runs in ' 1-3 innings; Robertson, none with 1 run in 2-3 innings; Fox, with runs in innings none out in sixth, two men on bases); Reisgl, with run in innings. Struck out, Gudger 6, Robertson 1, Fox 4, Reisigl 4. Bases on balls. Gudger g. Fox 1, Reisigl 9 Hit by pitched ball, Fox (Cal- houn). Wild pitches Gudger, Robertson. Time, 2:30. Empires, O'Toole and Rudder- ham,
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Dodgers OutpIay Reds

rCincinnati, May 24.-Brooklyn out played Cincinnati both at the bat and in the field and won the last game of the series today, 6 to 2. Allen pitched excellent ball and sharp fielding saved him at critical roints. Benton was hit hard, especially in the fifth, when Brooklyn scored four runs on five hits. three of them Tor three bases. Score:
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SUMMARY Two-base Hit-Mellen Three-base Hit--McBride. Stolen Bases-Coyle. Shanley, McDer- mott, Mcdonald, Magee Sacrifice Hits-Coyle, .McDermott G. Merritt Marcan, Elam Double Play-G. Merritt to Shanley to G. Merritt. Hits--H. Merritt 10 in 15 innings. Passed Ball-Tragesser Bases on Balls-H. Merritt 5 Brown B. Steele | Struck Out-H. Merritt 5. Brown '. Time-3:10 Umpires-Pfenninger and Kerin.
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'Ran for Meyers In eleventh
 ssBatted fof Grant in eleventh.
 Score by innings:
 New York ....................(10 .(10 O03 100 O3-S St. Louis s.............. 100 O02 O02 02-7
 Summary: Two-base hits. Wingo. Snod- grass, Bescher. Three-base hits. Burns. Wilson. Sacrifice hits IIuggins. Bescher. Stolen bases Huggins. Beck 2, Dolan, Wingo, Bescher; Burns. Murray ?. Double play, Stock. Doyle to Merkle. Wild pitch, Perritt. Bases on balls. .Perritt 1, Griner l. Tesreau 4. Marquard 2. Struck out Per- ritt 3, Griner l. Tesreau 6, Marquard 2. Hits, Perritt. in innings;l Griner. 2 in 3 innings; Robinson tn2 innings; Tesreau in innings Marquard. in innings. Time, 2:65. Empires, Rigler and Emslie.
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LOOKOUTS TAKE
 LAST FROM GULLS

Mobile, May A-Chattanooga won the last game of the series, defeating Mobile today, to 6, before one of the largest crowds of the season. Both teams hit hard but Chattanooga's hits were more timely The scora.
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VOLS OPEN HOME
 SERIES WITH VICTORY

long home stay today by batting two of Montgomery's pitchers and winning IA to The batting of Hollander, Paulette. King and Callahan featured Nashville ran wild on the bases, stealing 10 bases on KleinoW Score.
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bases. Callahan 9, King. Sloan. Gibson. Hemmingham 2. Williams. Sacrifice hits, Elwert, Kaupp. Hits, Nelson with runs in l inning. Bases on balls, Berger l, Nelson 5, Bescher A. Struck out, Berger 6. Buscher f. Wild pitch, Buscher 1. Hit by pitcher. Elwert. Double play, Lindsay to Williams to Paulette. Passed ball, Kleinow. Time, 2:31. Empires, Fified and Chesnutt.
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Giants Win Long Affair

St. Louis, May 24-St. Louis gave its pitchers poor support today. but by hit ting Tesreau and Marquard hard stretched the game into extra innings. After New York had taken three-run lead in the eleventh St. Louis came near tying the score. A total of 30 players were used. Score:
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 Summary: Two-base hits, Lindsay, Bar bare. Sacrifice hits, Higgins, Kircher, Jennings. Sacrifice fly, Bagby. Double plays. Sylvester dinassisted); Eibel to Dunn; Flanagan to Eipel. Struck out, Bagby, 4. Bases on balls, Bagby 4. Does- cher 1. Time, 1:3o. Empires, Breitenstein and Kellum.
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sBatted for Humphries in sixth.
 **Batted for Pierce in ninth.
 ***Batted for Good in ninth.
 s+**Batted for Safer in ninth.
 Score by innings:
 Boston 900 O3O 000-3 Chicago ..................,........ 600 200 00D-2
 Summary: Two-base hits, Zimmerman. Corridor, Gilbert. Hits Humphries , in innings; Pierce l in 3 innings: James fin 8 1-3 innings; Tyler in 2-3 inning Sacrifice hits, Safer. Martin. Leach. Sac rifice fly. Corridor. James Stolen bases. Sweeney. Good Double plays. Corridor to Sweeney to Safer; schmidt to Evers
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Red SOx Making Headway

Of the other clubs. Boston was the only one to make headway. It's pitchers are going splendidly, particularly Foster and Leonard the former completing on Friday run of 3S scoreless innings pitched, the seasons record. Chicago braced against the Athletics. but fell off again in Boston. The Clevelands broke their losing streak by nosing victory in New York, but im- mediately resumed their downward way. Hagerman seems to be the only pitcher with the Maps who is able to hold his own.
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Totals ...... 3s 6 II *26 12 o s-kellogg out; hit by batted ball.

*+-Batted for Benton in sixth.
 %**--Batted for Douglass in eighth.
 Score by innings:
 Brooklyn .....00 900 04O 200-6 Cincinnati ........O O02 900 000-2
 Summary: Two-base hits, Clark Bates, Cutshaw. Three-base hits. Al len. Hummell, Smith. Hits, Benton g in 6 innings; Douglass 3 in ? innings: Adams none in i inning. Sacrifice hits. Benton. Sacrifice fly, Moran. Stolen bases. Daubert, Dalton, Stengel Dou- ble plays, Riggert. Cutshaw to Egan, Cutshaw Egan to Daubert: smith to Cutshaw; Egan to Cutshaw. Balk, Ben ton. Base on balls. Allen 5, Benton 2, Adams 1. Struck out, Allen 3, Benton [, Douglass l. Wild pitches, Benton. Time, 2:27. Umpires. Orth and Byron.
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Cuhs D0Wned

Chicago. May 24.--Boston defeated Chi cago 3 to 2 in the final game of the series here today. Humphries had one bad inning. the fifth. which cost the locals the game. Chicago made it's runs in the fourth Score:
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Ames Working Consistently

~ >Herzog at last has developed Leon Ames into consistent winning star and last week the former New York twirler pitched his team into three victories. The Reds, despite their defeat today have hrm hold on third place. and fine chance of passing the Giants unless the latter pull themselves together on the remainder or their western trip.
 The Cardinals, too, have been surprising the home folks by their fine showing, and within the last few days they have forced their way into the first division, displac- ing the Brooklyns who lost six of their seven games and dropped to fifth place. The Philadelphians made a similarly poor record and sank to the next to last notch. Chicago moved up by improved all around work. The Bostons were too much for The Cubs in the opening games of their series, however. Stallings' players having struck their gait at last.
 In the American league the clubs have been having an equally uneven time of it. The Tigers hold first place by a lessened margin, having been able to save just one game out of the Boston series of four and capturing only one in three from \ Philadelphia
 The injury to Ty Cobb has handicapped. Jennings men. .<F
 The Mackmen dropped three. games in a row last week for the trs;t time since the first week of the season. but successfully held up against tlae Detroits The Wash Saisss s.<ss- ssetting their customariy good pitching and moved up past the Phila- delphians. New York held its own in the playing period and the St. Louis Browns got an even break
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American Association

At Indianapolis: Indianapolis 2-2 Min- neapolis 1-6. n .
 At Columbus: Columbus lS' Miiwau- At Louisville: Louisville 6. Kansas City : Q1 inningO. . x. ,
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
STANDING
Games TOday

Boston at St. Louis.
 Brooklyn at Pittsburg. New York at Chicago. ..s' Philadelphia at Cineannati
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Bases on balls. James 6. Struck out Humphries 1, Pierce 1, Tyler l. Time, 2:0O. Umpires, Klem and Hart.
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Darkness Prevents Further Playing-Brown Travels Route-Bar0n Runs
 Came in Second
LEAGUE STANDING
Results Yesterday

Birmingham 2, Memphis (called in six teenth on account of darkness). New Orleans 5, Atlanta O. Nashville IA, Montgomery G. Chattanooga 8, Mobile S.
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FEDERAL LEAGUE
STANDING
Brown in Form

Brown in Form
 Indianapolis. May A.-Brown held 1n- dianapolis safe at critical times, while his teammates hit the ball hard and St. Louis defeated the locals to 3 here today Score:> H.H F. st Louis ........... .03O S02 100--9 IA Indianapolis ,............100 l0l Wv-5 Batteries: Brown and Hartley; Mullen. Moselev and Rariden.
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Ragsdale Doing We'll

College men are very much in evil dence this year. Robert Ragsdale, man ager of the Anniston club. is an old Au- burn star, he being one of the best field CTS that ever wore the Orange and Blue. Bob is good judge of ball players and is considered one of the best fielders in the league. He is also hitting well this season.
 Kirk Newell, manager of the Opelikans, is the same Kirk who had the whole country talking last year during the foot ball season when he was captain of the Auburn eleven. Beyond a doubt he is the best second in the league this year.
 Other college men on the Anniston team are Lamar of Howard. Hopper and Mey- CTS of Washington and Lee and Baum gardner of Alabama.
 At Opelika are Williams and Cantley of Auburn.
 Jack Reidy, the Alabama star end of 1906. and centerfielder, is head of the Rome club. Jack is good fielder and is hitting at clip of over 400 Jack Donaldson of Tech and Zellers of Mercer are on the LaGrange team. Wilson of Auburn is with Talladega and Vandervere, Tulane star, Is with Gadsden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-25
MAJOR TEAMS CLEAN UP THEIR SCHEDULES For First Time This Fair Weather Has Prevailed Dur ing Whole of Week-Teams Having An
 Uneven Time

New York. May 2A-Weather almost un- ifornlly ideal for baseball enabled major league teams last week for the first time this season to clean up their schedules There was not a single postponement and the process of rolling up double headers, which had gone on merriy through the belated and stormy spring. was brought to a sudden halt.
 The sl games played in the two leagues resulted in no notable shakeup, but never theless brought about some interesting changes The National league champions, after sailing triumphantly through the Pittsburg series, ran into equally as good weather in both Cincinnati and St. Louis. Mathewson and Tesreau, with well pitched games, saved something for Me- Graw against the Reds and the sudden recovery of the supposedly invalided Mar ouard gave them one game in St. Louis
 Pittsburg meanwhile, recovering f om its three straight defeats at the fands Of the Giants, regained lost grolnd at a rapid rate. With Cooper ind Harmon pitching high class ball and McQuillan and Adams continuing thei~ good work, the Pirates look better fortified than at any time this season. A continuation in the next 10 days of equally good work by Clarke's contingent will give it a fine lead as insurance gainst possible reverses on the clubs approaching western trip. The two Iefeats by New York formed the only Jreak Of the week in Cinein- natis lorg string of recent victories.
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Totals ............44 IA 5 @Batted for Perritt in sixth.
 *Batted for Griner in ninth. "*Ran for O'Connor in ninth.
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Games Today

Birmingham at Memphis. Montgomery at Nashville. New Orleans at Chattanooga. Mobile at Atlanta.
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A. L..
STANDING

No games scheduled.
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ItdII TOT MeyerS III eIeNeHtH' @'Batted fof Grant in eleventh.
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