The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-02
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Old Jupiter Pluvius butted in again.
The league leading Vols must have
held a prayer meeting Monday night
or else old Jup never would have
smiled SO on the ELAN outfit.
Well, anyway, it rained and the game
wasn't played. Furthermore the
Barons didn't get chance to win
ball game which was certainly billed
for yesterday. Burleigh Grimes was
slated to heave for Moley and with
Burleigh pitching it must be con-
fessed that the Vols didn't have the
slightest chance to win.
Moley and the remainder of the
squad will pull into Birmingham early
this morning and will idle away the
day waiting for time to start on the
programme of licking the Chattanooga
Lookouts four times In as many days
The Lookouts start the series at RICK
wood this afternoon with RUDE Mar
shall, their star finger, back in the
game, after an absence of almost ~
days.
Kid Elberfeld has been out of the
lineup for the past week or two, and
his absence from the lineup is shown
by the fact that the percentage OF the
Lookouts has been continually on the
drop since the Kid was forced to the
bench with a pair of weak legs The
Lookouts, however, will furnish the
Barons plenty of opposition and the
fans will have a good opportunity or
witnessing some good ball games.
Burleigh Grimes is slated to work
this afternoon. Moley may shift his
policy and work Elmer Ponder. RUDE
Marshall will probably get the call OF
the Tabasco Kid with Arthur john
son on deck for the second engage
ment. The Barons are moving along
nicely at the present, and it wouldn't
be surprising to see the Barons cop
the big majority of the series.
Zeke Smith Is finding loafing
pretty hard job. Zeke, who is other
wise known as Red. is out of the
game with a finger all done up IN
plaster of paris and the indications
are that the blond will continue to
occupy the idle list for about another
week. Red says the finger is mighty
sore and is laying all the blame at the
door of the unknown jinx that has
been following the Barons all the sea-
son. Reds anxious to get back into
the lineup.
Mike Hauser is being forced to do
all the catching at the present, and is
surprising his closest followers by
his work behind the plate Mike is
hitting much better than he did Few
weeks ago and his work in general is
al
game however, will draw a big hand.
as the former Vol is pasting the ball
hard and playing swell game in
every department.
Karl Black pulled into Birmingham
yesterday feeling fine. following his
win over the Vols on Sunday. Herr
says all sorts of luck was with those
Vols until the eighth, when little
dynamite was used with astonishing
results. Herr says the old wing is
feeling fine at the present and adj
mitted himself that he thought he
was soon to be seen in the ranks of
the leaders in the hurting depart
ment.
Although the Barons broke even on
the present road trip, they return
home today in seventh place. When
Moley and his crew pulled out of Bir-
mingham last Saturday night, the
team was holding fifth place by a nary
row margin. The Chicks were close
behind, but their winning spell over
the Pelicans gave them a neat lead
over the Barons. The Travellers
passed US yesterday. We get a crack
at the Chicks and Travellers soon, and
then maybe we5ll fix things UP to suit
ourselves.