The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
Dick Robertson Out With Sore Wing SPORTS
FOOD FOR RANDOM
By FRED BoDEKEI

OEKER
 when he comes to bat. Bill expeo to return to Hopkinsville tomorrow Rogers has the physique to make great record in the majors. He stan nearly six feet and weighs in neighborhood of 19O pounds, and. tud ing from past performances, is son what of an iron man.
 In his last six games, Rogers h allowed but eight hits in 52 innint and six of these were registered by { Pelicans. His record since July is
 Date-Club. IP. R. T July l, New Orleans ...... July 8, Atlanta .......... \ July II, Chattanooga .... W July 13, Little Rock. g 2 July Is, Chattanooga .. July 19, Chattanooga ..... ' 0 \ 1oldlS '.'.ss'.'.'''.'s''.s O. |. A Memphis scribe calls the Vols bunch of quitters The Chicks h. better adopt the quitting tactics a see if they won't lead the league i stead of hanging around the cellar
 The only thing the submari Deutschland has on the Cincinni Reds is that it doesn't stay under surface all the time. Everybody got away to fat sts save, Matty. Buck Herzog soaked the single which tallied the winni ha L,ioro da Eddie Rousch whacked forth a til triple which knotted the count 1. his new cell mates in Rhinelar While Matty sat by and saw his hir hands nosed out in the tenth fran It must have seemed like the good cI days in Giantville for Matty, sir. but four times this season have t McGrawmen been able to capture extra inning encounter, and they ha figured in a bale of overtime affair Though Big Six in his new hole h been crowned as a certain winner reason of the fact that a "one-ey man is king among the Nblind" all across the Rhine there~has been lit light he has already bumped into semi-revolution, which must be sr pressed before there will be any unit effort in the march to the promis land. For on the eve of the big dc which brought Matty back to Redla1 after 16 years exile, with no end hue and cry, there was launched bloated boom for Hal Chase to pi the red-hosed band. In spite of fact that Prince Hal was a flivv as a Yankee pilot, there broke out stout sentiment for Chase as boss. With his splendid personality, wi which Big Six has warned his adm CTS. although when he first came c from Bucknell college he was mo reserved and distant, Matty may able to smooth the already troubl waters. Yet, wise as he is in the lc of the game, as great as is bis fal- and honor, the breakers at Redla Beach, which already have drown the ambitions of Clark Griffith Haa O'Day, Joe Tinker and Buck Herzt will buffet the Mighty Matty befc there are more sweets than dregs his. cup. Over in Little Rock they're cryi for the scalp for old Bob Couchms the closest rival for Omar Hardgro TUT lllt OlucSI pldy CT Ol IIc SOuLIC league. The Democrat is especia after Bob, and following his mise able attempt at pitching on sever occasions for the past week, the q mand is now growing stronger. Bf recently drew a $25 fine from PiN Charlie Starr for his indifferent atg tude, and the announcement of N release Is expected any moment.
 
 There is no excuse for keeping BY Couchman longer on the Little Rol pitching staff He can't make 90 if he continues to show the sort ! stuff he has been showing, wheth or not it is in him to pitch winni ball He loafed and did not q Wednesday, and he has done it befoi if appearances can be taken for thG face value.
 Couchman showed less effort \ Wednesdays game than he has inl long time, and, to say the least, tha lot, for Bob never was much working his head off for anyboo He appeared neither to care nor A try in the first two or three innin and one time he failed to cover fiji when. had he been there, an q would have resulted. The chance Co ington had may have looked inipt sible, but that was no excuse Il Couchman not covering the bag. It not the first time he has failed cover first when he should have. l got $25 fine plastered on him New Orleans for the same sort of stunt not so long ago.
 Couchman has pitched only ft <ro, cAo cny Travellers and some of his victor have been handed him on silv| platter. Two of them are the gam| played two weeks ago Sunday at MI bile, when team mates came from N hind and gave him six runs and VI tory in the ninth inning in one of Il matches and the other was saved fl him by aid of another pitcher. There Is no use wasting a lot sentiment on Couchman or anyone ell in baseball for that matter. 1t isl business and sentiment has no pla| in the game. Couchman is a good II low in many respects, but that is excuse for letting him continue to lc| and bout and grumble and not try pitch. Players even believe that BI don't try half the time and fans cal help but see it. The sooner he is q the club, just that much quicker VI it be better off And it is cinch tfI the club needs all the winning abilI every player has in him. There is room for one of Couchman's mall up if the Travellers ever expect make Little Rock something else th| the laughing stock of several hundr| thousand baseball fans in the sout
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