The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
WET GROUNDS CAUSE BARONS AND TRAVELERS
ONE CLOUD AT LEAST HAS TURNED 4 SILVER LINING TO BARONS, HELPED BY RAIN
By MAC

The Travellers are gone, and tHe Chicks are here. The Chicks are leaderless, as Johnny Dobbs was called home because of illness of his wife. The Travellers also seemed lead erless, for Kid Elberfeld was so quiet and well behaved at Redwood this week that his presence was doubted. The Barons of Stuffy Stewart acted as leaders to the Travellers; perhaps they can do so for the Chicks.
 The Memphians will be at Rick wood two days, Friday and Saturday, then they depart to return only to ' close out the season with the Barons :. more than a month from now. The Travellers are gone for the season, and the lull that follows the storm is now in order.
 Thursday it rained-nO gIaring
 headlines are necessary to im-
 press that fact on fandOm-nnd
 the Travellers and BnrOns were
 flooded out of a game. The Peb- bIes did not complain, and,
 strange to say, neither did the
 BarOns. Had the game been
 played, Kid Elberfeld's men stood
 good chance to carry another
 wallOping away with them. May
 be the BarOns would have won, , but also. maybe they would not.
 As it was, they gained ground
 by being idle.
 By the grace of the Gods of base ball, the Barons are now more firmly entrenched in first division than at any time of the season. Atlanta and Nashville both lost Thursday, and Stewards men gained a half a game on each. For once, the clouds that hung over Redwood bore a silver lining for the Barons. But there was no silver lining in the clouds of i, r1atrr 4 I,a Birmingham club and no paid admis- sions jingled into the old strong box to help pay the expenses of the trou- blesome Travellers from town.
 The dawn of another day after
 the deluge finds the BarOns in
 fourth place, half a game
 ahead of the Nashville Vols, and
 game behind the Atlanta
 Crackers. The three teams are so
 closely punched that one days
 pastiming can shake up their
 order. And BarOniaI fandOm is
 sorry that Chattanooga and Little
 Rock will send no more teams to
 Redwood this season, for they
 are the ones who have proven
 to be the springs to bounce the
 BarOns upward with each ahak-
 ing of the order in the first dt--
 vision.
 ROY MOORE AWAITS REVENGE
 Roy Moore's ears still hear in quiet moments the phantom shouts and cheers of that mob of Chick fans, when Roy struck out, with the bases full in the tenth inning over in Memphis short time ago. And he's awaiting the chance for his revenge. Moore will twfrl that series opener against the Chicks this afternoon, and the opportunity will have ar rived.
 Perhaps at that first game against the Chicks today the chance will come, In that Olden, golden moment with the bases full Roy Moore says that he will not strike out nga.n.
 At any rate, if Moore pitches the game today, this opportunity will be facing him with each Chick batter, and, if Roy really wants his revenge, his best chance will be to turn back the Tribesmen batters. Then the phantom shouts and cheers of Chick vile fans will turn to groans and cries of disgust, for Chickville is making a gallant fight to land in the first division, and Birmingham is one of the teams that must be busted. POPULAR SPORT WRITER DIES
 Dixie's world of sports and ath- letics has lost a most ardent sup porter, and the fraternity of sport writers and newspaper men a favor ite member. J. l.. Ray, formerly sporting editor of the Nashville Ban ner and lately member of the sports staff of the Atlanta Journal, died Thursday of injuries received in an automobile accident.
 Every inch of Rays six feet two radiated good nature and personality, and every one of his 200 pounds was alive with life and activity. No bet ter liked sportsman lived -in Dixie than J. L. Ray, and his brother scribes will mourn his death in whole-souled sorrow.
 Ray began his career on the Nash vile Banner, and soon worked him self up to the position of sporting editor, a post he held down in hon orable fashion. And then he am swered a call from Atlanta, and joined Morgan Blake's staff on the Journal. During the war he served in the marines.
 J. L. Ray is dead, and Dixies sporting world is mourning the loss of a soldier and a gentleman, who probably never had a real enemy during his lifetime.