The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-25
EDITED BY JACK BETHEA
FOOD FOR RANDOM
By LACK BETHEA

Scribes around the circuit are pre- dieting daily that the Vols will crack and point to the last season record of Nashville when they copped about 13 of the first 15 battles. We do not hold with this view. The Vols have vastly different leader this year, man who knows baseball from the in- side out and who has never found out when he was beaten. No reflections on Bill Schwartz, but Roy is much more likely to keep his team up in the fight than was the Commodore coach. Birmingham certainly wishes Roy well, and they have a nice, pleas ant surprise in store for him when he reaches Birmingham.
 Incidentally, every fan in Birming- ham should contribute to the fund be- ing raised by c. E. Glover, than whom there is no more ardent baseball bug ill Birmingham. It does not matter whether the gift is large or small, it is the spirit that counts and donations of any kind will be gladly received at Pryor Plumblee's, where it has been placed This is fitting move to make up to Roy the unmercifui riding which he received the first few years he was in Birmingham.
 These Pels are certainly lucky birds. In the game with Mobile yes terday they made four errors and but one more hit than the Gulls, but won out, 10 to G. Ledbetter was hurling, and the lanky twirler took another 'lacing. Birmingham polished him off twice in fine style and the Pels fol- lowed suit Pop Boy Smith was on the firing line for the Pels and had but one bad inning, the second when Mobile pushed over five runs YOU have to hand it to the Pels, for with the score to 0 they came from be- hind and showed over 10 counters in four innings. They came one in the fourth, two in the fifth, four in the sixth and three in the seventh, after which the game was called, or there is no telling what the score might have been.
 The Lookouts lost a heartbreaking game to the Travellers yesterday. when they were nosed out in the tenth. Twenty nine hits for 15 runs were registered during the fray. This doesn't argue well for the pitching. Chattanooga led all the way, but the Travellers came through with three runs in the ninth and pushed over an- other in the tenth, copping the bat tie, to z. Couchman and Allen were the opposing twirlers and both were bumped hard.
 As matter of fact, this has been a particularly hard season for the pitchers so far. Memphis leads in run getting, having scored 69 times in eight games. Other figures are: Bir- mingham, A in eight games; New Or leans, 35 in eight games; Nashville 39 in nine games; Little Rock, 34 in eight games; Chattanooga, 30 in nine games; Mobile, % in eight games, and Atlanta trails the field with but 23 counters in eight battles. This is a total of 2S9 runs in 66 games.
 There have been an unusual number of circuit clouts, too, and last Fri day there were seven in the four battles being staged Thrasher se- cured a couple in the Pel-Cracker bat tie, Dobard and McDowell counted in the Gull Baron go, while Rumler and Walker of Little Rock and Ruel of Memphis came in for the total of seven. This is record for the South ern league so far as four-b SC hits on one day is concerned.