The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-14

Kid Elberfeld and his Little
Rock Travellers have left town,
but they leave behind them a
series that will not soon be for
gotten by those Barons.
Those four games with the
Pebbles might be said to have
been the crisis for the home
boys, and three victories out of
the quartet of battles leaves
most comfortable feeling in the
erS.
Joe Dunn had just resigned
when the Travellers came to
town, and the situation was
known to be very badly muddled,
if not worse. Stuffy Stewart had
been placed in temporary charge
of the team. and fandom was
full of interest and wonder
Interested in the outcome of the
resignation of Joe Dunn, and
wondering whether Stuffy Stew
art would be able to rescue any
thing from the wreckage of the
team that should have been a
world beaten.
If the Little Rock series was
the crisis, the boys have passed
it, and may yet become a real
factor in the pennant race. At
any rate, if they play the same
snappy, aggressive brand of ball
the remainder of the year that
characterized their work against
the Travellers, they will not fin
ish last. not second from last,
nor third from last. They will
be up in the race when the final
reckoning is made.
There's another consolation to
be derived from TINT Little Rock
birmingham series. Immediate
danger of the cellar has been
STAYED off, and those Pebbles find
themselves In undisputed possess
sion of the bottom of the pool.
May the waves roll above, and
the breezes blow, for those Bar
ons hope to see something of the
surface, and not only the Pebbiy
bottom of the pond.
1t must be admitted, there's
something picturesque about
those tantalizing Travellers.
Nothing ever happens to them in
the usual manner. and nothing
they ever do is done just exactly
as another team would do it.
For instance. Wednesday saw
the usual surprise being offer
ed. This time, however, it was
to the Pebbles, and not by the
Kids.
That Baron-Pebble game
was about half grown yester-
day afternoon, when an airplane
was seen to cruise among the
clouds above Fleetwood. Nearer
and nearer it circled, slowly
dropping all the while. Like a
giant pumblebee seeking some
coZy spot to land, that air buggy
droned and coasted above the
Wood, and finally passed very
low overhead.
AS the airplane whizzed past,
and ate into space on it's pass
ing flight. sudden thud was
heard on the roof the grand
stand. and members of the press
box noticed small bundle had
fallen from the airplape to the
roof. Upon examination, it was
found to be an envelope, wound
about with cord and weighed
down with small sized bowlder.
The package was addressed to
Tommy Mcmillan, and members
of the Little Rock team" in a
feminine hand writing.
The package was Delivered
but forever will be the Travellers
keep to themselves the secret of
that message from the air. They
crowded around Tommy McMil-
Ian. read the message. and waved
laughingly to hooded form that
bent over the side of the big
man made bird, as it circled
back, and made off into space.
RetributiOn IL staring them In
the facc, for today the Memphis
Chicks open "a thrcc-day stay nj
RickwOOd. Tommy Taylor is
starred in the role of the MAUI
ing Avenger. Taylor was traded
to Memphis by the BarOns
few days ago, and Thursday will
he in the line-up against his
former mates. Those prOdignl
BarOns never fail to Svreak havoc
upon their old associates when
they return to the wood rs vtsi-