The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-02

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 sion was one of the best pitchers in inc south. He won a fine percentage of his l games. and some that he lost were of l the A No. 1 fluke variety. For instance.
 he had Montgomery licked, to q. a fine afternoon in .Tulr-that is Montgomery was licked until two men were down and ont in the ninth. Then a bin and bin l gle circumscribed around an error gave i the Pretzels a couple Of runs and the victory Again, he would have defeated l Chattanooga with only a scratch hit had Larry Lejeune, when a man was on base, 1 refrained from smashing the pill over i the scoreboard into Village creek. l But Trough is all right, and in spite of his rather awkard and questionable field ing, he will make the hold Barons d pretty pitcher asains the coming of May.
 As intimated elsewhere in this chroni- ele, William Foxen should make the star of tho circuit this season. Last summer he drifed south and landed, unfortunate ly. with Atlanta. With the Crackers Foxen pitched good ball, but "Chief' Bender would have looked like a dub :ry- ing to win for that Jordan aggregation of misfits.
 And it happened that Atlanta turned the ex-Cub over to New Orleans and Bir mingham secured him from the Pelcans. With Birmingham he starred, although, as with other clubs, he often experienced difficulty in getting through the first in- nings of his games
 Foxen desired to report early this year on account of his desire to get into good shape He states that he is in excellent condition, and his side wheeling soup bone contains much of the stuff out of which victories are fashioned. With his control and curve and good judgment, not to mention that treacherous toss to first which he possesses, FoXen should rank first among all southern fingers this good season
 Manager Molesworth has pinched off several other good twirlers for the com ing season, among whom are Smith, the local youngster. and Baker, recruit gathered in from the PhillieS.
 Bakers record is not one to cause the calm and cool 10 rhapsodise, but it is said that there is much of his goods still unwritten. Of course, he might prove a star of the most brilliant twinkle. And then he might be another Wilhelm or another Schettler.
 smith is capable youngster. He has as fine control and as good speed as any other pitcher Too, he possesses a very fair curve. He has still other things to learn, but there is no reason Why he shouldn't learn them. He was a star in | club in that organization he could be turned over without serious trouble.
 Brooklyn drafted Kent last fall as is remembered. The young collegian is good man with many good points. But he will not stick with Brooklyn. There is hardly a chance for him.
 As the pitching staff, in the estimation of many students of baseball is more than 90 per cent of the entire team, it is hoped that Manager Molesworth will make every exertion to recover Kent. l
 In spite of the optimistic glamor which | surrounds the local camp, we cannot re- frain from holding that unless. Kent is recovered when the opportunity presents itself all of us will live long enough to regret it.
 We are revealing no secrets in publish ing the truth that one play on a certain ty is worth a ton of speculation on un- known 'phenoms. H. W. R.