The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
FRED'S COMMENT
 ON THE AMATEURS

Bessemer continued her winning streak Saturday afternoon by taking the measure of the By-Product team. itagerty pitched good ball and the er- rorless support given him proved too much for the losers. High received miserable support and allowed punched hits. This makes eight consecutive wins for Bessemer.
 Southern Bell won another same " hen Wahouma bunch failed to ap- pear and the contest was forfeited. Looks like the bell ringers are play ing in good luck these days
 Postoffice won another battle when they captured a slugging contest from their nearest opponents, Powcerly The result was surprise as the "pi- rates were minus the services of s,ev- erai of their best performers They row appear as sure pennant contend CTS
 Raseo Jewelry team had an easy time replacing West Woodlawn in sec ond place by defeating them The pen nant chasing jewellers will put up a heavy bid for the highest place before the curtain falls
 Dorrah has entered the honor roll Saturday he settled down to old time business and held American Steel and Wire Co. representatives helpless Dorrah had to pitch to some heavy hitters and it is some honor to get away with no-hit game in this bunch
 After hurling a no-hit game last Sat urday, Eddie Roberts failed to uphold his reputation and went down in de- feat before Woodlawn. Eddie gave up five safeties, all for extra bases, so his defeat needs no explanation. How ever. he showed a redeeming fea ture ty flaming IA batsmen of the vic tors.
 1 The Y. M. c. A. cubs were given a 1 pleasant greeting into the league by Icing defeated by the railway team Hamby was severely pounded, a total ot IT hits was secured off his deliv- cry. A bad start may mean a good l tinish-but hardly so.
 Green Springs won their first game of the year when they easily took the
  ulated II bingles and played like a i team that had never seen the cellar ] Every member of the Greater Birmine- 1 ham league has one or more wins to l their credit-something that the other | circuits cannot boast of | The best game played to date in the T. C. I. league was played Saturday | between Edgewater and Wylam, the l former winning. Ellis and Crume were | the opposing moundsmen and both showed excellent form. The game was witnessed by large crowd.
 
 | Calera took the lead in the Shelby | County league. While Deerhurst was | losing to Maylene, they captured a hard fought game from Siluria The l fight out among the farmers is b9ing | keenly watched.
 Rrookside lost her first game of the | year out in the Miners circuit when | Sayreton won a forfeit. This mak es :; Broolkside drop out of first place and Mineral Springs taking the lead. It will | be a hard pob to replace the leaders | out of their newly acquired home. I | Rain played havoc with most of the games Saturday. Although the ground | was exceedingly heavy many of the | teams got their games under way. In | the games that were played many err TOTS showed clearly the effect of the | rain
 l Viva lost we'll played game tc Thomas but it wasn't their fault. MT Bridges the Thomas hurler, refused tc allow ball to go to his outfield ano | consequently the bottlers were re l quired to take defeat