The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
Barons Resume Play Today

Well, we start hostilities again today. The loafing spell which the Barons enjoyed yesterday was just the right amount to give the fell lows more energy and at any rate store up what they might have wasted on the ball field had bat tie been staged in Russwood yes terday.
 Moley will lead his clan back into the fray today against the Chicks with the same old lineup. Every position will be filled by about the same players that won Sundays game with the exception of the mound, which will be occupied by Elmer Ponder, the big recruit from the Texas league, who hasn't had a workout for over week. Ponder has been given plenty of rest and should easily defeat the Chicks to- day.
 A victory today will give the Barons the series, as only three games are played on the Chicks home lot before we hop over to Little Rock to engage the Travel CTS in a three-round go. Cy Barger, the Chicks best twirler, will face the Moleys. With their batting clothes on and the proper spirit in the fracas, nothing but win can come our way. Believe me, win would certainly look good now, especially when the team is on a pennant drive.
 Following the series with the Chicks, which will be completed to- morrow, and the series with the Travellers, the Barons come home to celebrate July 4. The team returns on July 3 and meets the Nashville Vols in one battle. and then cou- pie of games nthe big day. The team then hits the trail again and remains on foreign fields until July 15, when they again come home for quite length stay.
 The appearance of the Vols here on July is their final one of the 1916 season. The Pelicans, Gulls, Crackers meet the Barons here from July IT to 29, inclusive, and then another road hike begins. The old schedule. which is consid- cred by many old heads to be faul- ty, is fast being cleared of its dates and before long the curtain will be ringing down the national pastime in Dixie until next April. But we have a couple of months more of baseball yet. so whats the use of worrying?
 Arthur Johnson, the former Bar on, certainly did pitch a swell game yesterday. Johnnie hurled the old apple as it should be, allow ing the heavy hitting Pels but two measly bingles. Half of their hits came in the first and the remaind CT in the final inning. Johnnie seems to have the same epidemic that is troubling the Baron fling CTS. One day he twirls all sorts of fancy ball and on his next trip to the hill he lasts but about two or three innings
 Johnnie used to be member of the Barons and the old disease is showing on him. It is rather en- couraging to see that the five Bar on pitchers are not the only ones in the league to suffer punishment and then fame or wise versa. But it's a sad case at that.
 The Vols don't seem to be able to make any material progress on gaining on the Pels. although they are not losing any ground. When the Pels lose. then the Ellam clan drops a contest and when the Pels win, Ellam and his crew do the same. One of the duo will crack under the strain soon and the team that plays the consistent ball will finally be rewarded with the top of the ladder. At the pres- ent the race is two-club affair but just wait a few weeks and then it will be a three-cornered fight with the Barons the chief attrac- tion.
 This is the time of year when base ball fans find vent for their disap- pointments in performance up-to-date by picking on the players. Sometimes you can't blame 'em a bit. But some- times I wonder if 1t isn't going bit too far to single out one stick artist and roast him for a baseball holiday and all the mistakes of his fellows as well.
 Take the case of Benny Kauff, for instance. Ben has piled up runs in other seasons that were the marvel of the game. And now, just because Ben is so anxious to repeat at every game, why, he seems to making rather poor showing. Consequently every fan and most scribes take it out on Benny But we ought to remember the past and also recall that some baseball writers just have to turn out col umn every day-no matter who suffers.
 How'd you like to join a Let's Wait and Give the Boys a Chance Club?" For it is not only Benny, but scores of other mighty men as well,