The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-05
ANKS BEAT DODGERS, 7 TO s

aire rubbed elbows with the mulligruns as the first real game of the season started. Georgettes mixed in with ging hams; gents with razor-edged creases in their pantaloons slapped less fortunate brothers, whose trousers carried a blouse effect at the knees, upon the hack, and ate peanuts and drank pop and pleaded with Babe Ruth for a home-run, which he never saw fit to deliver"
 BABE" FLYERS
 As matter of fact, the thousands who assembled at Redwood went away disappointed, for the battering Bambino who has busted more stitches than cornfed dame with 42 waist trying to squeeze into perfect 36 camisole, acted as docile as covey of lambs. The crowd went out to see Babe Ruth lose a few balls and the only thing he lost was his temper when George Moriarty called him out on strikes in the seventh inning At that, however Babe had kick com ing on that verdict, for two of the balls which the umps called strikes were as wide as the toes of an army shoe.
 Chances are Omar Hardgrove could have made monkey out of Babe Mon day, however, for Babe didn't get one out of the infield out of four trips to the plate. On his first trip up he grounded one for a short circuit and Meusel was forced at second Attempt number two was a weak infield tap which Pete Kill duff smothered and tossed him out at first. The third effort was a tame grounder to first, and then came the seventh, when Babe had the opportunity of a life time to lam one over the fence and stir up the fans. Two men were on base when Babe came up. The first off, fering of Pitcher Mohart was down the gl cove and a strike was called. The next tkree were wide. So was the fourth and Babe tossed his bat to walk to first The stands groaned, They wanted ac- tion. Umps Moriarty called it strike, and Babe took his stand at the plate again. The crowd gathered hope. The next one was wide, and Babe, unlike tho mighty Casey, failed to shatter the air with his stick. He merely tossed it benchward and trotted towards first. Strike three" Umps Moriarty's tone was thoroughly audible and the infant started waving his fists in rage. His ears turned a cerise color and his breath looked like the heat waves roll ing from a tar-strewn street in July.
 Babes violent verbal attack on the Cmps got him nothing. however. except an almost unanimous raZz from the stands, but from the press box 1t looked like he had a kick coming on the ump's decision.
 TWO HOME RUNS
 Qs however, bugdom was afforded the op- portunity of watching a couple of drives clear the wooden bunkers in right. Zach Wheat and Bob Meusel got homer each out of the afternoons pastiming. MT. MeusePs whack came in the third and cleared the walls with room to spare. Zachariah's limit clout followed in the fourth, and he was also careful enough to send it so that it A,.II ~t, -L A.
 The Tanks were first to chalk tally. They scored in the second frame. when with one down, Mitchell beat out an in field hit. Shang followed with the longest single ever witnessed at Rick wood. The drive collided with the scoreboard in right and Mitchell raced home, but the Yank catcher was held at first. ;Huggins men ran the total up to two when Meuseis homer came in
 Zach Wheat evened up the count in the fourth, when he drove Griffith, who had gotten on by virtue of a single, home ahead of him, with his limit clout
 DODGERS IN LEAD
 In the fifth it looked like the Brook lyns would sew the game UT. They scored three runs on three hits and a couple of glaring errors that smacked of Class D baseball. Wheat, Konetchy and Lamar made the singles and Schang and Ruth made the errors
 Mohart relieved Mitchell after the fifth and the Tanks fell on his delivery and brought the score up to another tie by counting thrice. With one down, Bodie hit to Kilduff at short and Pete tried to Kick goal from afield on the ball. Bodie was safe at first He went over to third on Wards single, and the latter took second on the throw to third. Mitchell then came though with two-bagger to right and Bodie and Ward tallied. Mitchell scored a min ute or so later, when Hawks, said to be the fastest man in baseball, was sent in to pinch-hit and delivered with a clean single to right.
 YANKEES WIN
 The New Workers won the game in the seventh inning. Fewster cranked up the inning by pan-handling Mohart for base on balls. He stole second and scored when Konetchy mussed up Meuseps grounder. Babe followed with strike-out and Pipp popped. Bodies blow through short went for a hit and Meusel counted with the last run of the day.
 Hitting stars for the day were Mitch ell for the anks, who got three hits out of four times up, one of them being a double; and Wheat and Konetchy for the Dodgers. Zach got a home rum a double and single out of five at tempts, and Eds larrupping record for the day was three singles out of four trips to the plate.
 The two clubs shipped out of Bir- mingham Monday night for Atlanta, where they resume their series before the Georgia fans at Ponce de Leon park.