The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27
City Swimn1ers to Stage Meet Tuesday

The Barons are fighting hard. but they just simply "ain't, there" this season boys We hate to admit it. The pitchers looked mighty promising when the cur tain went up and the team looked well balanced all around, which it still does outside of the box, but pitching is about one-half of the defensive strength and when it cracks, there can be but one answer.
 Moley said when the season started that he had four or five good mechanical hurlers but that he couldn't tell how they'd behave under fire. You can't see their pitching heart" was Moley's com ment you remember Well. the truth is that several of the most promising of our young boxmen have 'cholled" at the crucial moments. They haven't been able to stand the gaff. Nearly half of the Baronial defeats this season have been incurred after victory seemed almost surity And this tendency to become rat tied with men on bases has more or less affected the rest of the team. Its mo- rale has been shaken and it's enthusiasm dampened by nervous, timid hurlers who have plenty of natural ability. but too little of the abdominal asset, referred to in the colloquial as 'gts. Man for man, the 1919 Rarons dope out stronger than any team that Molesworth has handled in five years, but behind erratlc pitching the New York Giants would have trouble beating Nashville, and Moleys men have had a tough time of it in the box all season.
 We were talking to "Whitey' Glazner yesterday and he was much grat.fied that his arm had completely healed. Tt hasn't hurt me in three days now said | ''whitey" When the boys come back I'll be ready to take my turn in the box. The old wing feels good and strong. l ! have even quit going to the doctor with it now"
 Sammy Crews will likely hurl for the l Barons in the game today. Sammy seems 1 to have settled down again lately, but We won't call him a world -beater yet.
 The Barons have A. more games on 1 their schedule and in order to finish 50o 1 they will have to win 26 of them. And 1 furthermore, if they don't finish around l 300 they can never hope to end in the first division. Of the A remaining games. l 21 are slated for Redwood and 23 on the road If they split even Cn the road trips | they will have to win 10 of the 2l "at home" games to reach the cherished | 800 mark. Exactly seven more games | are scheduled with the Mobile Beans, l our most formidable opponents for the fourth position in the standing If five /! of the seven end favorably our chances l for the first division will be bright. Fig ure it out for yourself Moley has about | one chance in two of winding up in se- l lect company.
 The switch in the Baron lineup will be welcomed by local fans who have given up hopes of ever seeing Webb back in 1 form Bernsen seems to hold down the hot corner in jam-up fashion, while l Hairston's presence in the lineup un- doubtedly adds offensive strength.
 Bernie established a season record fol | two-baggers by driving out three yester ! day.
 Steamboat Bob Fulton, the brilliant Mo bile hurler, is out of the game, probabl for the rest of the season. Fulton ha a bad arnl presumably from overwork though the Mobile press will not admi l it. Incidentally his absence weakens tn Bruins chances for first division berth but they manage to win pretty regularly 1 without him.
 
 field is about to be canned as manager of the Little Rock Travellers. The req son assigned is that the kid has worked his pitchers to death. "Rube'' Robinson who has pitched about every third da. this season. tried to hurl both games O a double header against Atlanta yester day, but the strain was too much. It's crime the way the kid has handled Rob lnson Karr and Hengeveld.
  l Lester Sheehan, who beat. the Tray elers yesterday. is the leading pitcher of the Southern league, having wor seven and lost but one game this sea son. Torkelson of New Orleans has won 15 and lost but five.
 Benny Karr and Rube Robinson ot Little Rock and Rube Marshall oi Chattanooga are the only hurlers who have pitched in 200 innings or more this season.
 Mobile must pitch Hasty tomorrow According to the court decree, tht lanky hurler must pitch every fourt,