The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-22

The old squeeze play proved just the thing we were looking for. It produced the winning tally in that game yes terday and gave Birmingham the big end of the final series with the Look outs, thus winding up home stay with total of seven defeats and five victories.
 Although the stay was not success ful, it could have been worse. The Barons dropped the entire series to the Vols, but took two out of three from the Travellers. Chicks took two out of three and then the Barons copped the Lookout series with two wins. Dur ing this time a one-day road trip was made and we lost it. The team played good ball yesterday, the kind the fans like and before the close of the game the entire delegation was in the fight with the Moley clan.
 The team waged a hard battle and consequently won. Not a member of the team gave up and the entire nine was in the fight from the first inning The effect of the old fighting spirit is thereby clearly shown and it is hoped that the spirit will remain with the team.
 Dick Robertson does not get credit for a defeat since the Barons won and consequently his string of vic- tories remain unchecked. Burleigh Grimes gets credit for the win, while Johnson defeat
 The Barons started road trip today, opening up with a three-game series at Nashville. Three games are then played at Memphis and then the crew jumps to Little Rock for four con- tests. The team then comes home for the double bill of July, and long home stay, welcoming the South ern teams They're off to win.
 MT. Eugene E. Paulette, who was first to report in the campaign of 1915 with hundred base hits, is well on the high road now to a repetition of that feat, having banged out 63 smashes. A nose in front of the Chick clubber is Joe Harris, another first station guardian of Chattanooga, with 65 bingles to his credit, but the lengthy strides which the former Vol has been making of late in stick work has been rapidly slicing away the margin which the Lookout held over him.
 The foremost gent in slammng out base hits at the present stage of hos- tilities is Baby Doll Jacobson, the swat king of Little Rock, who has turned in 76 base blows, according to the latest average, and tops the flock. TI,a IN1 1ntu fba fxryN Browns for the honor of sma shing out the first century lick, is puzzling tussle, with both gents quoted at even money.
 Jake and Gene are accustomed to a free smite at the pellet, apt to hit anything that comes sailing along, and although the big Trave,er holds a scant edge at present, Paulette has been moving about so fast that an- other week is apt to see him far in front for the coveted honor.
 Although Benjamin Kauff has failed to approach the hurrahing let out for him as a clubbing giant, in the Tener tussle, he has more than lived up to all the bright comment passed upon his base-swiping activities. Second in the rangs of National league speed
 
 coal miner with 16 hassocks to his credit. which happens by the way to be a brace of cushions more than pos sessed by Tyrus Cobb who is blaz- ing the trail for swift gents over in the junior outfit. Last year Benny collected 54 satchels and even though his present clip is lightning fast, he will need to turn on an extra notch to equal his Federal galloping.
 The wide lead which speed mer- chants in the National league hold over the swift gaited clan in Ban Johnsons circuit is in strange con- trast with the situation 12 month back. When the October returns were in the American was so far ahead of the National in base swiping activi- ties that gents in the latter tent were left like they were hitched to a sky scraper.
 Tyrus Cobb turned in a total of 96 purloined cushions against Max Car ey's three dozen, with which the Pi- rate patrolman grabbed first money in his credit Now with one-third of the season history, the Jawjah Jewel holds first place with paltry IA stolen satchels-barely one-seventh of his remarkable figures for the 1915 campaign-while the Pirate pilferer is out in front with 20 swiped stations almost two-thirds of his mark for a year back.
 Fritz Maisel, the Yankee sentryman, now on the shelf with a shattered col lar bone, who reported with 51 stolen bases in 1915, has pulled up lame, with only three trips to a bag ahead of the rival backstopper's peg in 25 games. One of two things has set in among American speed marvels. They have