KNISELY GIVES UP I LEAD IN SOUTHERN I | Barons Again Perched on .500 Mark TO LARUE KIRBY I RAY BOYD AND OMAR P SCRAPPY BIRMINGHAM COLLEGE NINE From the Angle of the Bug HARDGROVE MEET IN J By ASA KOl'KTRKEi Jit. tne setback ad- less on Ills hip. Harbin has all of SPECTACULAR DUEL ministered to them by the the ear-marks of a capable youngster ! Al/rHOUUH.Barons has not filled the and it appears as if lie will be able Lookouts with alarm, it has nev- to pitch winning ball for Molly tliis Former Teammates It Out On Mound With Honors Even. in them a whole- year. Fight ertheless inspired * * * I of some respect for the prowess Turns Tide in Favor of Unappreciated this year is the rec- Timely Bingles by Magee Baron collection of hall tossers. Moley’s ord made of late by the Philadelphia the Given Welcome Before the season commenced club in the American league. In the Hurler—Boyd Rousing a Birmingham team was assigned past fans all over the Circuit have flocked to the various low berth and looked upon with league parks when scribes. Con .ie Mack and ills contingent the stands roared little respect by league 2 SOUTHERN LEAGUE STANDING a thundering welcome were billed to appeal-. This spring, have shot Played. Won. Lost. Pet. to Ray Boyd as he ascended the mound Since then the Bafons however, things are different and the ? 18 -843 Chattanooga .28 to tackle McDonald*, the first Baron bat- their bolts when least expected thrice champion Athletics are playing New Orleans 30 19 11 -833 to small and distinterested crowds. ter. And the continued and have taught the high flying 15 12 .556 encouragement Atlanta 27 un- Even Quaker City fans are not giv- the nine Pelicans and Lookouts not to Birmingham 30 15 15 500 throughout innings, for the local ing the American league champions fans were a strength in the Mobile 28 14 15 .483 eager for Boyd to cinch derestimate their a glad hand and followers of base- place on the Tyookout team even If it teams Nashville 30 14 18 .467 future. Against the weaker ball are at a loss for the reason. was at the expense of Birmingham. Montgomery .a. 31 12 19 387 in the especially Mobile, If the Athletics were# running away in the league, 29 10 19 .357 Although his colors were trailed from the other teams there would Memphis the have had little be dust, came with a local players Boyd through showing reason for the diminished crowds, but that argues well for his future on the success, but when the Pelicans Results Yesterday they are now in the thick of the Lookout team. The former Baron is try- and were their opponents Birmingham 3, Chattanooga 0. Lookouts fight and are having to battle stren- ing to come back,' and the well wishes New Orleans 3-3, Memphis 2-3 (11 in- the Moleyltes have shown surpris- uously for every foot of advantage, of local fandom is extended to him In his tftings. darkness i. ing strength. and by all rules of the game the brave battle to resume work again where Mobile 2, Nashville 1. made by the Bar- crowds should be larger than ever / it was halted 1912 by a strained The showing Atlant 4. 4 (8 innings, called during before. Montgomery ons the at- ligament In his salary wing. of late has attracted • • • ? for teams to catch trains). tention of Dixie scribes and now. Credit to 1914 'TEAM REPRESENTING BIRMINGHAM COLLEGE The failure of the Senators to run Hardgrove them as Instead of alluding to true to form is Grif- Games Today Much credit is also due Hardgrove for Reading from left to right, upper row: Watkins, Tucker, Moore, Nolan, Lovelace and Coach Pinson; causing Manager at second row: weaklingB, they are asserting that fith and fans in general Birmingham Memphis. the game he pitched. The little veteran Kirby, .Nations and Hammond; lower row: Dean, Walton, Jones, captain; Batson, Boyd, Stewart Washington Nashville at New Orleans. I Molesworth has together an extra amount of worry this spring. put something on nearly every ball, and and Davenport, manager; sitting alone, Scot—Photo by Covell. gathered j Mobile. Previous to the Atlanta at the visitors could do little with him. 0 a formidable looking aggregation. ^he opening gong, Chattanooga at Montgomery. Hardy and Boyd each struck out five of • * • Washington club was picked as the most to the /Ath- the opposing batters and gave up one Chattanooga scribes are begin- dangerous opponent f Ray Boyd, a former local favorite and letics for the championship, but as and two passes, respectively. to look upon the Barons as ning have now a member of the Chattanooga heav- further demonstrations of yet they not displayed any stell- ! .Stewart gave a contender and possible pennant ar form and fans in the national ing corps, was selected to oppose the his speed yesterday. After two were COLLEGE ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES write that "it is difficult to see capital are keenly Grif- down in the Stewart disappointed. Barons on the mound yesterday after- eighth. grounded how New Orleans or At- fith is unable to account for the Na- to Coyle at first and it appeared as if he either J noon by Manager "Moose” McCormick, tionals not ht their stride and was an easy out. But Stewart steamed lanta have anything on Moles- playing in the that the former Baron would Oarsmen Victors Boat club, Boston, in the single match both the sprints in fine style. Wilkie is shaking his team in hopes down to first at full speed and beat the Harvard worth’s crew.” desperately up in 8:03 heating the former record of of Yale the benches run- be able to achieve victory over his old Lookout first baseman to the bag by Philadelphia, May 16.—The triumph surprised by an effort to bring a change in luck. 8:05. ning Bingham off his feet In the 400, An excerpt from one of the teammates ami prevent Chattanooga Inches. The race between Stewart and of Harvard university second varsity winning by nearly four yards. In the Chattanooga papers dealing on the the Coyle was one of the prettiest incidents eight in the junior race and from being totally eclipsed in piesent collegiate two-mile, Clark and Wilbur of Yale “Barons of the game. As soon as his bat con- Yale Athletes Easy Victors local team, headed Look SOUTH ATLANTIC series. Boyd responded to McCormick's another victory by' the same crew ir made the running until the last quarter nected with the ball, Stewart got under Cambridge, Mass., May 10.—Yale was Strong," follows: appeal with all of his old-time cunning, first eight-oared shell event fea when Boyd of Harvard sprinted into way. When within 30 feet of the bag he th^ twice as strong as Harvard in their “Aside from the fact that the STANDING but the fates were him and the tured the twelfth annual ol dual track and meet first place, with Southworth of Har- against r>ut all of bis strength Into his stride and regatta twenty-third field Played. Won. Lost. Pet. vard coming in a strong third. Lookouts were due for a slump tilt ended with the Lookouts on the lean lore across the fushion just ahead of the the American Rowing association ovei today. The Blue team scored 66*4 Savannah 34 23 11 .676 points to for the Crimson, Three at Birmingham the fact must not end of a 3 to 0 scort. first base guardian. the Henley course on the Schuylkill 37^ Jacksonville 33 22 11 .667 meet records established last year in Defeated be overlooked, either, that the the hill for the While the crowrd was still in an up- river Pennsy Decisively Charleston .34 19 15 .559 Omar Hardgrove was on today. the oar over a Stewart half mile, mile and two-mile runs Ithaca. N. Y., May 15.—Cornell de- Barons are a ball 18 15 .546 of hos- possible rally, corking good Albany 33 Barons and from the commencing In the first race Harvard crossed were broken, while the high hurdle easily stole second and then third. feated Pennsylvania decisively in the club. From this angle it is dif- Columbia ., 35 19 1 6 543 tilities the game was a grand pitchers’ the line Half a length ahead of Yale time of 15 4-5 seconds, made in 1899, The Barons annexed their first run annual dual meet here 71 Or- Macon 36 15 21 .417 for track today, ficult TcT see where either New battle wdth and he sharing honors. n the second on a double tt> left The race was a battle between Yale was equalled the sixth year. 12 24 Boyd by to 46. the features the Augusta ..36 .333 Poucher of Yale in the run was Among were leans or Atlanta have anything a followed mile Columbus 9 Both veterans handled themselves In Magee, by Covington’s single and Pennsylvania for second place victories of Reller and Van Winkle in .33 24 273 o center, wrhich the outer the first to make new figures, setting upon MolesWorth's crew. manner and the result was that brought and after the Blue the the of masterly gained the posi- a record of 4 minutes and 23 seconds. sprints, brilliant triumph gardener across the plate. ‘In Knisely, Moley has undoubt- At Savannah: Savannah 3, Columbus I.' one of the hardest fought games of the tion Annapolis was fourth and Prince- Then of the Yale team Bpeiden over Madeira in the mile, In Captain .Chirk of the most which the winder set up a new track edly one dangerous At Columbia: Columbia 2, Jackson- reason was staged as a climax to a series Boyd Tightens Up ton was fifth.