The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18

We may not have a ball team, but we certainly do believe it. So there you are. Think what you wish just as long as Birmingham's famous puri- : ty squad does not interfere But it'll have to be mighty silent.
 And another little piece of true stuff is that the Crackers have a ball team. As one fan remarked after yesterdays S game, neither team has the slightest license to be in the lowly po- sition that they are. Nope, you can't call it lowly as both teams are how ering around the 800 mark, but, any way, to be where they're at!
 The Crackers are greatly improved since their last appearance here and so are the Barons. Moleys aggrega- tion looks like different ball club and they play the old game just like they should. The old days are gone now. No longer will the fans be- come disgusted with poor fielding and all such stuff that helps put the clubs treasury on the blink as old Rick
 
 ball games or at least a few Baron wins
 Moley has his crew playing like a bunch of big leaguers, and, honest. we simply can't see how those pesky Crackers, although they have a good club, are going to manage to ease out win while camping under the south's best baseball town. The only way 1t appears is that the Moleys will record no less than seven wins this week-provided it don't rain. Blame 1t! Came pretty near forgetting how powerful old Jupiter Pluvius is. Well, here's hoping.
 All the home team wants to do is to continue to play the old game just like they did yesterday with one ex- ception. That's 8 little better pitch ing. But why should be worry al long as the victories are recorded. It's easy to understand just why those Barons mopped up with every. thing they encountered on the past abbreviated road trip. They're play ing real baseball now. mates Bet ter take a jaunt out there to a place named Redwood and take peep at the pennant winners.
 Yep, he's back. The famed arbi- ter, Bulldog Williams is again in our midst. The punching bag of Moley and company is now real umpire That little lesson that Bulldog was taught at Redwood several months II, into real arbiter. Bulldog did some real umpiring yesterday and we have to hand it to him. True, Bulldog gained him fame here but we have no desire to see it increased just as long as the Vol resident keeps up the brand of work that he started.
 There were several close decisions in yesterdays game, and all were inn portant, but old Bulldog was right on top of the play. Yesterdays play went off with only one bit of wrangling and 1t didn't last long. In the ninth inning, the Crackers protested that Perryman had baked but neither Bulldog or Dan Pfininnger, who was calling the whirls behind the plate. could see the Crackers complaint. S-5
 The breaks of the game were en- tirely on the Rarons' side, and in the majority of the cases yesterdays bat tie would have been a Baron defeat The Crackers got IS safeties, while the Barons got but seven. A little safe blow with man on base counts a whole lot. Luck was with the Barons in full with the exception of Danny Clark. who was about the most un- lucky guy in the world in respect to getting safe drives. Danny gave the pill terrific swat on every trip to the plate, but bit of highway robbery did the dirty work. And with luck like this all the season, Danny's been keeping his swatting average right around the 300 mark.
 Tom Reilly, the new Cracker, made a favorable appearance in yesterdays game. Toms the new field leader of the Frank bunch, succeeding Eddie Lennox, who Is slated to hit the slides Tom is former Pelican and is among the best short ielders in the league. He's no sensational player, but he is certainly ground coverer. He's got a mighty good eye for a punch swat, too.
 Tex Mcdonald the former Baron, ap- peared in a Cracker uniform yester-