The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-21
Fan. on warpath.

Fans on Wnrpath.
 Whether razzing will hurt Memphis chances, l do not know, but it Is a foregone conclusion. that local fans are planning big razz programme with which to greet the Chicks. The perform ance of the Memphians in stall- ing for rain while here two Saturdays ago is still fresh in the memory of the bugs. Every baseball fan in Birmingham knows that Birmingham would have won that ball game, had not the Chicks employed every trick In the calendar to stall through until rain saved 'em.
 The Chicks will be brought to taw for this famous session of loafing, and the royal rooters are planning a campaign to get the resective goats of the Ab- botteers upon their appearance here.
 Change To Re Welcomed.
 The arrival of a real ball club to battle the Barons will be well comed, even though the Chicks are successful in trimming the homelings. True, the locals have been fattening their percentage against the Bears, but bugdom gets few thrills over watching a listless ball club like the Bears perform.
 Wednesday afternoon the per- formance of the Mobilious breth- ren was sickening. Schulte, for the Bay City faction loafed continually. He seemed to grow peeved with the unsuccessful ef- forts of Hill, the kid pitcher, and when passed ball or wild pitch went by him. he apparently made little effort to retrieve the ball and get it back to the plate to prevent scoring. This listless attitude seemed contagious.
 A Howl From The Bench.
 Over in the visiting dugout the idle players assembled themselves and flopped to the concrete roof. They spent the afternoon in an attempt to kid members of the press box and seemed little in- terested in the outcome of the ball game.
 It seems to me that Bronkie is poor dlsciplnarian. If he could get his gang of misfits to pay as much attention to the business of ball playing as they do towards finding flaws in the work of the official scorer, they might win ball game every now and then, even though the ability to win games is few and far be- tween.
 Logan Is Satisfied.
 The sad part of the whole af- fair is that Proxy John D. Logan of the Mobile club, thinks he has a ball team. He believes in his boys to such an extent that it is doubtful if he would swap one of 'em off for any Southern League star. How MT. Logan can kid himself this way is be- yond me, with his players floun- dering around in slip-shod fash ion, and sinking further and further into the mire. John D.. however, has his own opinions about ball players. He really believed that Siggy Sigman was one of the star pitchers of the league, and he was almost tempted to put on mourning. when Siggy hopped out of Mobile. and left the Southern League flat on it's back.
 Cheating the Weather Man
 Local baseball authorities cheated the weather man We'd nesday. The vender of sunshine. rain, thunder lightning. wind and the like. thought he had fixed it so there wouldn't be a chanca for a baseball game Wednesday afternoon. He sent a regular November rainfall from the skies throughout the morning and even as the baseball cars started to- wards Redwood. the sky-juic. was percolating earthward. The w. NJ. overlooked one bet, how ever. He forgot the tarpaulins.