The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-15
The Anniston Team Seems Strong But FailsTaIla-
 dega Spllrts
STANDING
No games played sunday.

Annlston. June 14--tSpecia1l 1.-The feat
 ure of this week of the Georgia-Alahama
 league has been the Talladega club finish
 infi nirie-days road trip on which they
 won seven games out of the nine played.
 and then after reaching their home
 grounds losing series to the Newman
 club. Tailadega's team of today is 90 per
 cent stronger than the team the Indians
 started the season with. Their strength lies in the addition of Pitchers Gus Will Hams and Davis and First Baseman Cox The Talladega fans should not be discour- aged because their team lost a series to Newman, as that Georgia club is playing
 great ball and has a wonderful club. They have won the last six of the eight games played. In May. the 19-year-old won der; Whitney, Stewart and Pool they have l one of the best pitching staffs in the G. A. L.. and War Sanders has good
 working playing machine in his infield and outheld.
 The Anniston club continues in slump. Its playing this last week has been very discouraging. as they have lost the last 10 out of Il games played. remarkable thing is that the Anniston fans still have confidence In their team, and are not knocking. They consider the slump u mystery, as Annston has undoubtedly bet ter material on their club than any other team in the Georgia Alabama league. The infield is a good one, composed of Hooper,.
 an old Washington and Lee star. who
 knows the game, perhaps, better than any i other player in the league, exclusive of the managers; Abbott and Lamar at third and short are also college stars.
 The former is considered to be the best shortstop in the league while Lamar will bat over 300. Donaldson is good at sec ond and covers a world of ground. Kirk | Newell of Opeika is the only second | in his class in this league. The outfield is good with Ragsdale, Ssdale and Proc | tor all good batters and covering the ground well and having good arms. Shep- pard is easily the equal of any receiver in the league. The pitching staff is the only weakness, as the best ones have been overworked. Two new pitchers will join 1 the club in the near future, and it Is ex- pected that the Anniston team will then start to winning.
 Gadsden is also in a slump, as is Opeika,
 while Selma and LaGrange are rapidly lregaining lost ground The LaGrange club is the only club in the league which has the same team 1t started the sea son with. Their main dependence is in the hitting of the club and the. arm of Rube Zellers, an old Mercer university | pitcher, who is pitching great ball for that l club Gadsden's club seems to be able to win every other week. but seems unable | to play consistently Hayes, their man. l ager, is an old head at the game and ] has good club, but not as good team as Gadsden won the pennant with last | year, as the batting of Randall and Pe- gold is sadly missed As every one pre- dicted, the Opelika club is not playing the 1 ball they started the season with, as sev- leral of their players were batting out of their stride. However. they have a well organized club, and will likely finish in | the first division, provided some of their | best players are not injured
 Jack Reidys club at Rome Is playing good ball, and is well up in the race. de- I spite their bad beginning. The Rome team 1 started with weak places in the infield and | weak batting outfield. Now that they have strengthened they have one of the best offensive teams in the circuit. Arron, | their left handler has been disappoint-
 ment as much was expected of him. In- stead Reidy has won most of his games with Boote, an old l.. s. U. star, and
 Knight in the box. The two Flowers have also pitched good ball so far.