The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-26
Harmony, AggresSiveness and Luck the Main Factors
 In q Winning Team" Says MT. Carlton Molesworth
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE
don't like to delay the game

Here a perfectly good chance to
 shake hands with "The Man of the Hour r''-Birmingham's big baseball manager, MT. Carlton MoIesworth, who
 is leading the nifty Barons straight on to victory and the 1914 pennant.
 Last time l saw Mir Molesworth
 ''Moley, or the Fans Delight" as he
 ios more familiarity known) he was
 dressed in the white uniform which
 distinguishes the Baron ball players
 from the visitors and he was sitting
 in an inconspicuous place at Redwood
 bark, bossing his men, A smile occa- sionally fitted across his cherubic face
 but he was more generally wearing
 that Japanese idol sort of expression
 an making signs which spelt nothing
 more intelligent to me than the @deer and dem" language, but which meant powerful lot to his players
 Since one baseball player in uniform
 looks as much like another as one ele- l'hant looks like another elephant, there
 is little to distinguish him from his fellows. l Now As MT. Molesworth sat before me, well dressed. well sroomed, his smart, well cut clothes and his candid busi- ness-like manner. revealed him as very different individual distinctive type, quite an affable and agreeable
 person, one whose heart is in his work -and who talks to you straight from the shoulder MT. Molesworth is the kind of ball player man likes. He's straight and clean; Hes got sense and He's a good fighter; Also He's a good loser which is the real test.
 MT. Molesworth has moved up to the ] top notch in the estimation of the
 fans" since he got on the line-and pushed our team up to first place. There's nothing on earth the people of Birmingham wouldn't do for him to- cay.
 He could get any office he wanted Fortunate, it is for Governor Henderson that the gubernatorial race didn't take place just now and aIr, Molesworth wasn't a candidate against
 him.
 If he had been, there would have been no grounds for a contest Mr Molesworth has always been
 backed up by the loyal ''fans' of this community-even when the team was
 
 But now
 Well, it was just about two short moons ago when MT. Knisely moved out with his .350 batting record and with
 not another man on the team hitting 300. MT. Molesworth stepped up and got in the game and-now look at usl Hurrayi Hurrah!
 How does it look down there to you little fellows-eh?
 Just about the time couple of games had been tucked away in the won de- pertinent. did the fans begin to realize that we had dandy good chance for this years flag?
 Bidding fourth, and then third place fond farewell, we climbed up, up, up. and We'll Then they began to ask MT. Moles- worth his middle name, the shape ci gars he preferred, his taste in soX and knitted neckties, if he needed any new shaving soap, and how many Jumps he takes in his coffee?
 Watch him stroll down the streets now and he's immediately surrounded by a crowd and, in fact. of the Birming
 ham Arms company, the favorite haunt of the ball players, ground rules are necessary to keep the traffic from being blocked. 1 may as well tell you now as later that when I went yesterday to talk to MT. Molesworth about baseball had in- tended to talk lot of silly slush, and mush, and gush--a typical Dolly Dal- rymple story, in fact But l Listen; | There isn't any slush and mush and gush about MT. Mo1esworth when he's | talking baseball | He's that serious; 1 Believe me; | sort of wished l hadn't gone Of course, I know baseball after ashion--feminine fashion. you know,
 but to hear MT. Molesworth talk, Goodness gracous Why, we didn't even speak the same language. No indeed-y. The very first silly question that asked Che acted as umpire well as 'interfirm -ee'D he called me out on foul ball or something to that effect, and then I got busy in earnest. "Er-er--a winning ball team, tell me about it. What are the main factors" asked, tightening up and delivering slow ball right over the plate Harmony first of all" said MT.