The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-26
PORTS Crackers Bow to Burleigh Grimes SPORTS
FOOD FOR RANDOM
By FIRED BoDEl<ER
o. Boyl Amt we got some pitcher9

o, Boy! Amt we got some pitcher?
Mr.. Burleigh Grimes, star twirler of
the Baronial staff, is the correct title.
Yessire, Burleigh is certainly one more
good hurler.
Just take a glance over to the story
of the game from Atlanta, and then
it's pretty sure that you'll agree The
Barons consequently won yesterdays
game with the crew of Cholly Frank
and now the situation is somewhat i'm
proved. In fact, the affair is now very
pleasing.
The Crackers didn't have any more
chance of winning that game yester-
day than the Barons did of defeat
ing the Frank aggregation on Monday.
Just snapped around, that's all On
Monday Scott Perry had the Barons
feeding out of his hands. The af-
fair peeved Moley, and consequently
the star of the staff was called upon
to give the Crackers little of their
own medicine. And Burleigh certainly
did give it to EN-.
Burleigh didn't miss but very little Of
entering the Hall of Fame. He's there
in the minds of the Baron supporters
this morning, but still had he escaped
the battle without scar instead of
couple of dim little scratches,
everything would have been lovely
throughout the nation. On his last
three appearances on the hill, Bur-
leigh has twirled masterful game.
In Little Rock he held the Travellers
without a hit until two men were
out in the eighth and then allowed
two
Recently against New Orleans, Bur-
leigh didn't allow the slipping Pels
but two wallops, but met defeat on
account of his own error. And yester-
day-well, you know what happened.
The Barons victory yesterday didn't
put them back into the leadership of
the second division, as the squirting
Memphis Chicks scored win over the
Lookouts in the eleventh stanza and
consequently hold the fort by a small
margin. The Moleys are close on the
heels of the Moriarty clan and the
slightest tendency to weaken will cost
the Bluff City aggregation a step in
the ladder.
Today is the final game of !, the
series with the Crackers. In other
words, it's the rubber Motley is
figuring on sending Preacher Perry
man to the mound to be opposed by
one Red Day, but whose real name is
Virgil. If guy with that name was
ever pitcher, we miss our guess.
Day is usually cinch for the
Barons. If he lasts six innings, he
has done wonderfully. Gee, hope it's
that way today. Well, what difference
does 1t make who old Cholly sends to
the hill? The Barons are out to win
today's game and come tramping back
to Redwood tomorrow with the scalp 2
of the Crackers dangling from their
belt. 1t wouldn't be surprising, neither.
brace of McDonalds performed in
the star role yesterday. Eddie, dear
to the hearts of the Birmingham fan
dom, and Tex, also a former favorite
here, but now the big cheese in Crack
erville, are the two gents involved.
Eddie outplayed his former team
mate around the hot corner and, ac-
cording to reports, Tex was caught
on the third base coaching lines a cou-
pie of times, taking in Eddies work
ings. Eddie knows the business, al
right, and no doubt could learn Tex a
few things.
The poor Vols, under the leadership
of Roy ELAN, a big favorite here; are
fast losing their big lead over the re-
naming clubs in the league, and it
hot fho
slump of the Volunteers has actually
arrived. Well, it was predicted in this
column frequently lately when the
slump did actually get into full blast
the very bottom of the league would
shake from the rapidity with which the
Vols fell. We hate to see the Ellam-
ties lose the lead, but it certainly will
happen If they don't brace up. and
mighty quick at that.
The Memphis Chicks are looming up
as the real dark horse in the South
ern league race. The Chicks are trav-
cling at a marvellous clip, cleaning
everything out of their way. We GER
tainly are glad the Barons don't have
to face the Moriarty clan. 1t would
be shame to give them checking
We believe that what it takes to check
the Chicks, the Barons are just COW
cred with It.. Like to have shot at
EN-, anyway.
The New York Yankees are certainly
getting their share of i'll luck Maybe
IL 1t all comes now, they'll be per-
fectly free from such stuff for the
next century. The crippled Donovan
crew is barely holding onto its lead,
however. and the fast flying Red Sox
are liable to hop into the lead at
any moment. The Indians are fall
ing fast, now resting in third place.
The race in the National league
!. lacks the closeness of the junior or
ganization. The Brooklyn Dodgers are
running along at a merry clip and
don't seem to be worrying about the
progress Of the other teams. The Dod-
gers are the general favorites to cop
the rag, although both the Phillies