The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-21
NEW PIRATE MAY I
 BE BOY MARVEL OF NATIONAL LEAGUE.
"SisIer and Jacobson Make Great Run-Making Combi-
 nation," Says Foster
By JOHN B. FOSTER

NCOpyFiSnt, lB<ls by The ASe-heFnlo.b
 New York, April 2o--Is this young ster. Tierney of Pittsburg, going to be the boy wonder of the National league? The old organization can stand one, and Tierney is beginning we'll He has been hitting above 500. That's too good to last. of course. but he has helped himself to nips from the stock of Marquard, Luque, Tyler, Rix- shows that he can reach the best of them. He has not gone in for long distance hitting to any extent. all though he could lift the ball toward the fences when he played with Tulsa las. year. One big thing in his favor
 is his nickname-"Cotton.P When 8 ball player gets started by the popu- lace as Cotton" he almost always makes good. Look at Cotton Top" Turner of the Clevelands, one of the really high-class third basemen of all ages. Towheads are good assets on the ball field.
 HAS PLENT YOF COURAGE Tierney was looked over lot by the scouts last year. and some of them recommended "a'gin" him. Cincinna- ti didn't want him, according to all ac- counts. He finished by batting .3So for Tulsa. That's some rain, even from the bush leagues. He played most of the time at short, where he fielded 1885, and when he played sec ond base he fielded .944. He had to make a fight to get regularly on the Pittsburg club, because George Cut shaw, the veteran of last season and many years preceding, sits longing to get in the game. Gibson had confi- dence enough in the boy to put him to the test at once. That shows nerve of two kinds, one for the manager and the other for the player.
 Tic rney hits and throws right hand ed, and began to play ball out in Dal- las in 1913, He was right under the noses of managers, even then He went from Dallas over to Texarkana; from there to McAlester; was over in San Antonio next; scrambled into Kan sas City, which was near home, be- cause he was born in Kansas City, Kas.; was let go to Tulsa, and then be- gar to grow a little fame. He is cred ited with batting safely in 22 con- secutive games last year. It's quite trick to attempt to play second if you are novice, with a flash-like Maranville on the other side of you. Maranville has the ball and gets rid of about getting it.
 SISLER-JACOBSON COMBINATION
 The St. Louis Bxowns have a Ty Cob-Sam Crawford combination that will be likely to bear more fruit this year than last. Sisler is the front en- zine, and Baby Doll'' Jacobson the one in the rear. If Sisler can get on base with not more than one out. "Bs by Doll is the motive power .o bat him home. Cobb and Crawford were a run making machine, even with tive out some times. More than once Ty 1 got on first and stole second under the roses of the opposition scoring when Crawford hit the ball so safe that it needed no combination lock to keep 1t away from providers. All this. too, 1 when the odds seemed about five to one that Detroit wouldn't make any thing. Maybe it was true. as one old citizen remarked there ain't no odds
 when this here Cobb and Crawford comes to bat in the same inning"
 1 The Sisler- Jacobson machine should
 be a run producer not only because Sis
 Ter proved to be the best batter in the American league and very likely is but for the added reason that Jacobson is beginning to measure the pitchers with the confidence that he had in the
 minor leagues. The trouble with him when he started in the majors was that he was Frightened to the frigidity of a
 brick of ice cream by the importance of the task His teeth almost chat tered when he was at the plate with runners on He's over if now.