The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-25
BAD FOR BASEBALL

weather. And, according to the call
of days, with winter threatening to
Speaking of Easter brings to
mind a near family tragedy. The
little tot had dyed some eggs, but
they were all one color. The in
quisitive friend of the family asked:
"Why all one color, Dorothy?"
"oh." she replied. "Muvver didn't
get me any dye, and I had to mako
out by slipping in the bathroom
and getting her henna."
BASEBALL MOTHER GOOSE
Needle and pins! Needles and pins!
When the unie starts ripping our
trouble begins
COHEN'S OPINION OF FIGHTERS
Octavus Roy Cohen is just back
from New York While up that
way he stepped~into the Garden to
see the wilson-ODowd fight He
came back with the assertion that
Wilson, heralded as the cheese
champion, has Mike O'Dowd's goat,
and that's all there is to it. Roy
says that In his opinion that there
are a number of mon superior to
Wilson that O'Dowd can whip. but
that the former champ will never
be BILE to beat the present title
holder, because Wilson knows just
how to fight O'Dowd to obtain the
best results. Mr.. Cohen is also Of
the opinion that there are several
middle-weights who could dispose
Of either Mike or Johnny.
He says there Is no doubt but
what Wilson hit low on more than
one occasion, and was warned by
the referee, but added these blows
were of insufficient force to allow
the referee to give O'Dowd the de-
cision. Something might have hap
pened to Wilson's title had O'Dowd
been floored by one OF these be-
ow-the-belters, but with both men
on their feet, OF course he couldn't
declare a foul and take Wilson's
title away. Roy says that O'Dowd
is not the greatest middleweight
fighter in the world, but that he Is
the most awkward. and that he
made the mistake of trying to box,
instead of rough in and hit.
HANLON BACK FROM ATLANTl
Eddie Hanlon. local pug, gather
ed a cinder-spreader the other
night and went over to Atlanta to
see the fight card at that place.
Eddie says that Jake Abel had IL
~ "a CT nf
Avera and gaining a decision over
him, but that Battling Budd had his
hands full with Freddie Boorde
even though the latter did not look
like he was trained down to a fine
point for the match. Budd gained
the decision over Boorde, and Eddie
says he earned it. According to
Hanlon, Atlanta promoters are now
dickering around for a fight be-
tween Hanlon and Abel at some flu
ture date. They met last spring in
an Atlanta ring, but Eddie's shout
der was on the bum at that time,
and he had to fight under handi-
cap.
IT'S seldom that a fellow discards
three Of a kind. but that's what
Motley did to Robinson, Davis and
Chandler The Baron boss's YER
dict that they were too inexperi-
enced for Class A company, SO Ia
applied the tommyhawk.
GALLAGHER FISTS CANTRACT
The haberdashing folk are ON
The Undertaking folk are ON
A joyous jubilee;
Their frowns Of other days are
gone
The man who sells those nobby ties,
And vends the best of shOess
Now views the world with beaming
No longer has the blues.
The cause for all this joyous
srread
On faces that were lined.
Was brought about when Moley
said
That Irish Tom had signed.
Leaves always come out in the
spring. That probably accounts
for the fact that the Toronto Leafs
are in our midst.
1t takes Babe Ruth to make q
baseball take on an egg shape.
The Atlantic ocean IL not the
only thing that IL keeping Georges
Carpenter and Jack Dempsey
| apart.
-
Now that the st. Louis Cards
| have an infielder who wears
| glasses. maybe some umpires will
| have the nerve and good Judgment
to put 'em on.
1 "
\ Even AZ specks didn't have a
tendency to decrease the number
OF pop-bOttle showers accorded
umpires. they would ut least en-
able the blind Toms TO see the bot
ties coming, SO that they could
dodge and avoid pcrsonal injury.
EXIT TINY AND RUHE
| Two village cut-ups will not be
seen in Southern league unies this
/ season. These two birds have mu-
tilated several different sets OF
training rules since coming into the
Martin loop. but 1t looks like their
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