The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
BOwen's Club Begins to Pull From Cellar-ROme Shows Old FOrm-Talladega
 Playing Good
STANDING
Games Today Tal1adega at Rome. Newman at Anniston. LaGrange at Griffin.

1 Anniston, May 2S.-(Special)- play 1 ing of the LaGrange team in games played this week has been the feature of the third week of the Georgia-Ala bama league Bowen's team was in the cellar at the end of last week, and had been defeated easily by every club in the | league. | They began the week by defeating the strong Newman team by the score of 10 to 1 g. then won three games out of four played with Anniston Thursday winning both games of a double header. They lost to Griffin yesterday in a slugging
 match. LaGrange has two good pitchers in Jones and Nolley, good manager in
 Bowen and good hitters in Polap, Ginn
 and Waldren.
 , Rome came back strong and continued their winning playing, which has kept them on top of the league since the opening game. Manush's bunch has wor ! four games this week, and lost only one contest. They defeated Anniston in one game, Griffin in two and Talladega in
 one game. Although Rome has two good pitchers in Gates and Wiley. they have not the strong infield that Newman has,
 nor have they heavy hitting outfield that Newman and Taladega has, but the
 team plays together, and they have been fortunate in receiving breaks in games played
 TALLADEGA STILL WINS Tige Garrett's team at Taladega has continued in their winning streak, which brought their team to the front last week. They have won four games and lost one this week. They won one game 1 from Griffin, three from Newman, and lost one contest to Newman and Rome. l ln Clapp Smith and Camp Talladega has about the heaviest hitting outfield in the league, as well as a fast fielding l one. Krapp and Sanford are good pitch CTS, but Talladega is badly in need of another good hurler.
 Griffin did not quite break even this week, as they lost one game to Talla- dega, and two to Rome and succeeded 1 in winning only one game from Rome | and LaGrange. In Fridays game Kirk was the first man in the league to steal home this season. The Griffin left fielder stole the home plate in the first inning. I This Georgia team also seems to be weak in their pitching department or their hurling staff had an off week, dur 1 ing the past seven days, as their pitch | CTS have been hit hard and often during | the last week. In Hanson they have probably the best receiver in the GA. l.. 1 The week has been bad one for the Newman club. as they have been on the road most of the time, and have suc- I ceeded in winning only two games out of | six played. They lost three games oA 1 of four played to Talladega, in Talla- dega, lost one to LaGrange in Newman,
 won one from Talladega at Talladega,
 and won one from Aniston by a large score in Annston on Friday. In this
 game they showed their strength by lin- ing out 14 clean hits
 HAS STRONG INFIELD
 l This club seems to have the best in 1 field in the league in Bowden, Christen-
 berry, Mackey and Griffin, as all of the
 men are fast, experienced and are sure 1 fic'ders. Then in Flynn and Boyd they
 have two as good outfielders as will
 be found in any class D league. The To-
 cal fans canot understand how Flynn happens to be playing in this class ball. l The big fellow is exceptionally fast, a 1 good fielder, runs bases well and is
 hitting somewhere between 400 and 800.
 Rabbit Boyd is well named, as he will
 probably beat out more infield hits than
 any other player in the league.
 Anniston has also had bad week of | it, having lost five games and mar !
 six played However. the jinx has been with Anniston for the past two weeks.
 Stone, one of the best pitchers in the
 league, has been out of the game for two weeks with bad arm. Thursday, Clark, the local shortstop, and the best hitter on the club, who has hit .338 this
 season, was injured, and will be out of
 the same for three or four days.
 1 However. Anniston has strengthened their club in the signing of Ruddick, who l caught for Marion this season, and ifi l Troutman, an outfielder Stone will | probably get back in the game next week and with him in the game, Annis- l ton is conceded to have the best pitching staff in the league. in Morl ison, Stone, Sigmcn and Russell
 \ Monday will see Newman playing in | Anniston, LaGrange at Griffin. and Tal-
 ladega in Rome.