The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26

A MOTHER week has passed and "A still the Barons are not resting 4 \ hopelessly in the cellar, as was predicted after the Mobile Gulls opened the season here and decamped with three games tied securely to their belt It has taken the Barons a good while to find themselves, but now they seemed to have hit their stride. Three straigt combats were dropped to the Pelicans on the first road trip, but in the fourth and final one the Barons came back in earnest and hammered three Bird moundsmen all over the lot chalking up a total of r hits for the high water mark of the season.
 Returning to Birmingham Wednes- day the Barons turned their broad sides on the hapless Billikens and slaughtered two of Bobby Gilks' offer ings. On the following day two more young Capital City beavers were pounded unmercifully and third straight game chalked up on the right side of the ledger.
 In the final game with New Orleans and the first two witk Montgomery 39 hits were registered by Carleton Moles- worth's band of tossers. Not bad for a starter.
 A second road trip was begun last night and the Barons will be away until Monday week, when they return and open against the Pelicans. The local team goes first to Mobile, where today. Monday. Tuesday and Wednes- day 1t will endeavor to repay the debt insured during the opening series. From the Bay City the Barons will jump back to Montgomery for games Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sum- day.
 The Barons have been planning for a revenge on the Gulls and every ef- fort will be made to treat them in an even more disgraceful fashion than was accorded them in the opening se- ries. And the chances for success are bright. In the Montgomery series the Gulls failed to display any champion ship caliber whatsoever and were easy victims for Bobby Gilks' charges.
 This time the Barons will be on their guard against the attacks of Briscoe Lord and it Is safe to say that the Mobile leader will not break up the games like he did here in Birming- ham.
 All honor to Chattanooga. Peacefully and with a half-hearted protest the Lookout club, martyr-iike, has sub- mitted to being oppressed by Scott Chestnut and his colleagues and has quietly withdrawn back into it's shell, obsessed with the illusion that the um- pires are not playing fair. The row all started over Chestnut allowing Love of the Turtles to come home from third in a game on April IT, when Street threw his glove up into the air in an attempt to stop a ball thrown from the outfield to the plate. The score did not effect tke game mate- rially, for the final score was 10 to in favor of the Memphi1, but the Chat tanooga club raised a hue and cry over the action of Scott Chestnut in allowing the Turtle to amble home when the rule book did not provide for any such ruling when a glove failed
  thrown.
 On complaining to President kava- naugh of what he termed an arbitrary decision, President Andrews of the Lookouts was informed that Chest mutt was perfectly correct in his de- cision, as it had been agreed by all of the umpires at conference held in Birmingham on the day preceding the opening of the league that extra bases should be allowed the runner even though an attempt to stop the ball illegally failed
 Backed into corner the Lookout club then claimed that the umpires had no right to make side rulings without informing all of the clubs and players. This did not change the status of the decision and the Chatta- nooga club has now affected ways of a martyr because Umpire Chesnutt, who Is a Birmingham boy, was cor rect in his ruling.
 Not only did Chestnut act according to the agreement made by the umpires in Birmingham, but he was also act ing under instructions from President Kavanaugh, who instructed his um- pires to rule in this manner as fol- lows:
 Referring to rule 54, section 6, desire to say that this rule is to be construed and enforced as per the con- struction put on it by the committee on rules, as shown on page 515 of Spald- ings baseball guide for the season of 1914.'
 Tn other words, if a fielder shall throw his cap, glove or any part of his uniform at either a. batted or thrown ball. the baserunner shall be entitled to the bases, as provided in said rule, whether or not the ball be stopped or caught by the glove, cap or any part of the uniform, and all play CTS, managers and umpires will be gov erned accordingly"
 Although President Shropshire of the Nashville club is confident that he can separate First Baseman Kraft from the Boston club, Vol fans are fearful