The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
VITAL IMPORTANCE
ATTACHED TO ROAD
GAMES OF bARONS
Team Has Excellent Chance
to Move Into First Division
on the Coming Trip
SIX-GAME SERIES
TO START TOMORROW
BarOns to Play 10 Games on Trip
Which Starts Tomorrow-Three
Double Bills With Lookouts
in as Many Days

The Barons will enjoy an
other off day today prior to
opening one Of the most i'm
portant road trips of the pres
ent season. The Moleys COM
pleted their home stay at Rick
wood field yesterday until Au-
gust 80, when they return to
wind mp the 1916 Southern
league season with three SER
les.
The Barons open six-game series
in Chattanooga tomorrow. Three
double headers will be played in as
many days. The series is of vital i'm
portance to the Barons. Should the
tribe of Moley get away with the
greater majority of the games, it
means that the chubby leader will
pull his team into the first division,
while if defeat is met in the majority
of the games, all hopes to rise out Of
the lowly second division will be
abandoned.
The road trip which starts tomorrow
is one of the longest the Barons have
faced this season. The trip starts by
meeting the Lookouts six games in three
days, caused by continuous rain dur
ing the Barons last visit to the Look
out city. The Barons then jump over
to Memphis when the Chickasaws are
met in three games. Moley and his crew
pick up and travel over to Little Rock
where Charley Starts squirting Travellers
will be engaged in trio of battles.
This much complete the Barons, take
long ride down the Mississippi to New
Orleans, where the Pelicans and Barons
will fight for the decision in three games,
and then the finishing touches put on the
long tour by a four-game series with
the lowly Mobile Gulls
MAY BE HIGHER
BY the time the Barons return to meet
the opposition on Redwood field on
August 80, they may be lowering in
second place OF t0ey may De Ill Ille dusty
cellar. A majority of the wins will in
sure the Barons a first division BERTH
while a series of the reverses will mean
that Moleys cohorts end in the lowly
second division for the first time in
years.
In all, 10 games are scheduled for the
road trip, including three postponed
games at Chattanooga and the one rained
out game in Mobile. Following the road
trip, the Barons return home and the
season completed on the home lot The
Pels come here on August 80 for four
games in two days "a. double heaoer on
both Wednesday and Thursday. The
Barons then go over to Atlanta for two
games in two days, double header on
games with the Mobile Gulls The Crack
ers then come to Redwood and the final
of the 1916 season will be played. Fol-
lowing that series, the Barons go to At
lanta for one game and the season closed
on September 9.
The coming month of play Is of vital
Importance for the Barons and If wins
can only be registered, prospects are
bright for the locals finishing in the
first division.
The team is in good shape and with
the return Of Red Smith and Dick Rob-
ertson to regular duty. Moley's team will
be in the best condition during the sea-
son. Dicks arm is ready for work at
the present, and he will probably get
his first workout in one of the games at
Chattanooga. Red will be ready for reg.
ular turn behind the bat in a day or two.
The remainder of the team is in excellent
trim