The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-11

Under a Birmingham date line, Jim Nasium, the well-known Philadelphia h. ouirer staff correspondent, sends the fol- lowing breezy story of the Phillies to his paper:
 am wondering what it was that Messrs Doin and Fogel handed to Messrs. Magee and Moore, the two erstwhile hold outs as A soothing balm to their wound- ed feelings Whatever it was, it has the Balm of Gilead skinned 40 ways for results, and they can have my little old testimonial to chuck into their patent medicine "ad'' anything they want to put the stuff on the market
 There is no getting away from the fact that the aforesaid gentlemen, meaning Messrs. Magee and Moore. are the bul- warks of the Philly team. l don't just exactly know what bulwarks are, but they are it. And I'm not afraid to call them that to their face, either With nothing but a large, irregular gap where Moore once filled in that pitching stan, and with SherTood's old cleanup slap stick standing idly in corner and ac- con1plishing nothing more exciting and stirring than forming pillar for the festive spider to weave his cobEsh about, or even if these two gentlemen had re- luc1anrlr come 10 terms and gone into fhs season nursing a grorch, somebody would have to show me s6ne large, juicy odds before I'd place any bets on the Phiilies landing one-tgo-three-
 But here Ee have the aforesaid hold outs. who hit the trail to Philadelphia lurginz a large and extremely healthy looking grouch down here under the southern sun vowing that they will work their blocks off to land the Phillies up there or whereabouts. and they are lead ing the whole bunch when it comes to spilling the old pepper around the ball lot Earl says himself that he will throw that good right arm of his through the rrandstand if it Is necessary to put the team at the top, and Mac" says that he is going to work harder for the suc- cess of the team this year than he ever did before, as it means lot to him, 60 there must have been working stlp- ulation that both men are going out to cop. And you can take it from me, if these two guys don't deliver this season 1t will be because they haven't got the goods in the shop.
 No, I'm not going to peel off a flight Of hysteria about how the boys are nit ting lem on the nose and burning em over in midsummer form down here. be- cause they're not. This midsummer form rag may sound all right in the gladstone apringtime to some guys. but take it from me, it never comes before it Is due, and it isn't due just yet. Yes, to be sure, they're all stepping up to the pan and whaling the old pill to the pal ings, but they've had nothing to whale at yet but straight ones. and any guy who can't whale a straight ball lobbed up to the plate has no business coming south with ball team at all. I'm going to be conservative and walt until they get to leaning up against the benders and the old speed before I bust the blue can epy of heaven wide open with glad hosan- mas over the slapstick work.
 About the most encouraging bit of fodder am enabled to hand to the anx- ious fan thus far is the probability of the existence of perfect harmony on the team this year. And that's something this Philly team hasn't had loafing around the house for many, many moons. and it c something that has blamed near as much to do with cashing in on pennant hopes as what the boys are able to pull with their hands and feet. The boys have their old ambitions working overtime now, and that's a blamed good start for the battle anyway. Now, it's up to the real stuff.
 [ It's almost cinch though. that the only new faces seen in the regular line ID this year will be the ones that came Co us by the grace of the Cincinnati deal, ~ 1t will take sure enough phenom to 6rab job from any of the regulars. and 6Hoee things aren't pulled out of the 1ishes more than once or twice in a ncetime, the reports of the fertile-brained