The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-11
Barons Drop Final Game to Pels

ldCL LOudyy 1OlAOWAIB O0A NON~N~ the hands of the Pelicans yesterday in the final game of the brief stay at Heinemann park to engage the forces of Johnny Dobbs. Conse- quently, Chubby Moley and gang pulled out of New Orleans last night bound for the cinch town of the league-Mobile. There Moley will allow his hirelings to have a two-day rest prior to taking the lowly Gulls on in a four-game se- ries.
 The defeat yesterday could have been nothing else. Popboy Smith, noted in Birmingham in former years for his ability to dispense with pop, peanuts and the like, but later for his mound work under Moley, proved to the fans in the Southern league that he still pos sessed the key to the Barons' goat" as the Pelican scribe has termed it. Popboy followed the ex- ample set on the previous day by being exceedingly stingy with safe hits, but Popboy enforced the idea more than either of the other two.
 Poyboy caught the epidemic but the disease took effect good and strong and consequently what could the Barons do but accept de- feat, and this they did quite grace fully. The Barons collected dur ing the full nine innings but two meaSly hits of the scratch variety. Not a single Baron runner ad- vanced past second, while only one reached the keystone bag safely. Under these circumstances, one could not expect the Barons to win and the defeat does not discourage the home guard. who saw visions of pennant winning team fol- lowing Sundays abbreviated vic- tory over the same bunch of Pels, but with vastly different moundSmen.
 The Barons are idle today and tomorrow. but the rest is by no means needed. The team is in ex- cellent condition. A wire from Moley last night to the sporting editor of The Age-Herald stated that the team was in wonderful condition and anxious to play ball. Moley stated that the off days were coming too plentiful these days and that little more work would be appreciated. Following the Gull series the Barons come home for a brief stay, taking the Crackers on first in a four-game tilt.
 The Atlanta Crackers added fur ther worry to the mind of Presi- dent R. H. Baugh when they drift ed into Birmingham yesterday morning, apparently lost. The Crackers were scheduled to go to Mobile to play the Gulls. but think ing transportation to the Gull City was impossible, Manager Charley Frank directed his charges to Bir- mingham where they spent the day, as it was impossible to get a train to Mobile. The game in Mobile was not forfeited. however.
 President Baugh immediately got busy on the wires and got in touch with authorities at Mobile to as- certain whether the grounds were in condition for a game today. PreSlQenC ParKer or the GullS wired that the railroad connections were so uncertain that he thought it best to postpone the series. Acting un- der President Parker's statement, President Baugh notified Frank and the Crackers will remain in Bir- mingham today prior to their de- parture to New Orleans.
 Empires Jack O"Toole and Rud- derham were in Birmingham yes- terday. They were with the At lanta team. O'Toole will leave this morning for Memphis. while Pres ident Baugh had not decided last night where he would dispatch Rudderham.
 Atlanta fans are at last "hep" to the fact that there's bunch of dis cord among the Atlanta players, which probably explains in part re- peated defeats recently suffered. Realizing that Frank has the most pretentious and expensive team in the league, just as the Lookouts did five years ago, the fans of Cracker vile have been hanging on in the belief that the team was bound to win.