The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-11
Chicks Win Exciting Struggle
FOOD FOR RANDOM
By FRED BODEKER

Geographically putting it,
The Vols are heading where
The days are dark and chilly,
And the atmosphere is rare.
They've left the field behind
them
In dependency and in drought
And as they hustle to the north,
The Barons slip toward the
south.
ing.
With hopes for better times,
But with the luck of yesterday
We shall still look for decline.
But the time will come before
long,
When old baseball is stale,
And then We'll turn 70 song
To wash our thoughts away.
Defeats still pour upon the tribe
of C. Moley. Nothing but unde-
sired fate can remain in the ranks
of the former pennant winners.
The Chicks won yeste days came
ever the Barons, MT simply
through pure luck, ..ut old pame
Fortune certainly did stay in the
limelign. throughout he entire
engagement
Burleigh Grimes, the star twirl-
er, who the Barons have scld to
the Pittsburg Pirates, started the
setto yesterday, but Barleigh was
received TOO warmly by the Chicks.
and consequently he was allowed
to use the showers long before the
game reached it's tragical end.
Karl BECK was rushed into the
fray and Karl did some pitching.
He twirled the day before
against the Travellers and met de-
feat He pitched the full nine IN
nings and gave up but eigh- hits
against heavy hitting bunch
like the Starrlings. Yesterday he
twirled seven innings but was
forced to retire after getting hit
on the hand and stomach by hard
hit ball by Ed Willett in the ninth
stanza.
We've got couple more shots
at EN- yet, and maybe we can put
the series in the right column after
all Moley was undecided last
night who he would work. BIT it is
tn, ught that Burleigh Grimes will
be sent back to face the Chicka-
Saws Acting Manager Cy Barger,
will! work himself Provided Bur.
leigh and Cy are III form, some
pitching duel can be expected. Yet,
the same thing was SAID yesterday
Can't never tell about baseball, can
yot7
Earger who is in charge of the
Chicks during the present illness
of George Moriarty. is highly
elated over the showing of his
team Moriarty is in a Memphis
hospital with typhoid fever and.
according to Cy, is in very dan
gerouS condition. Cy also stated
that everybody in Memphis is
strong for George and that the
former big Lacquer will again pilot
the Chicks in 1917.
Karl Blacks arm is in a rather bad
shape. The blow from the ball struck
Karl slightly above the wrist on his
right arm. He went into the clubhouse
after the inning and the injured arm
was so sore he found it impossible to
then rushed Perryman out to warm up
and the parson was showed into the
box without being given time to get
his benders breaking properly-thus
the slaughter.
Moley stated after the game that he
did not know whether Blacks arm
was broken or not. At any rate, the
southpaw's arm received an awful
blow, and he will be out of the game
for at least three or four days. If
the arm is broken, Black will be out
for the remainder Of the year Herr
pitched swell ball yesterday and
defeat don't come so hard after you
see a team headed by the finger
fighting like life and death rested on
the verdict.
A large majority of the fans thought
that Moley jerked Black to allow
Dick Robertson to pinch hit. Com
mon sense should tell that this course
would not be followed by a manager
with the experience of Moley. The