The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-02

has been closely watched since the reg ular season has been on. and it is evil dent the Detroit manager so long bask- ing in the smiles of his admirers as the big batting gun of the Americans is after the title again. No opportunity is getting away from him. anl when next September's latter days have rolled around if he is not sitting with the batting elect it will be for the reason that he is ill or incapacitated.
 CARDS NEED PITCHERS
 Little by little it is becoming forced upon the fans that one trouble with the St. Louis Cardinals Is inability of their pitchers to finish a game. They start well, trot well until about the seventh or eighth inning and the boil CTS blow up. Four or five times the Cardinals have seemingly been within reaching distance of the plum of vic tory only to lose it and here they are down to the very jumping off place of April with a solitary victory. the sole club in the. major leagues thus desti- ute.
 Pittsburg, quite the other way, sweeps along through the western end of the National league. leads the clubs of both leagues in victories. has a start that spreads grins like butter over the Pittsburg suburbs, and if it proves to be as good on the road as at home will never be out of the sound of bands till frost comes.
 Buffalo has worried itself out of last place in the International league. New ark has sturdily held it's own at the top, and Toronto, starting a little slow under Larry Doyle, has taken all the purples and has tied for first place with Newark, and Baltimore after all has not ah1 fD tsA1- f,,-e-+ 1l,.,
 BUNTS AND SINGLES
 At least there is modesty in St. Louis. Even in these dark days, when nothing goes right, they don't claim the cham pionship and tremulously suggest that their two clubs will finish in the first division. Wait and see is the St. Louis slogan.
 Fans are just beginning to find out what a sterling character has been lost to baseball because Arthur Fletcher vol untarily has given up the game. There's huge chunk of truth in the statement that not nearly enough of the Fletcher type are being attracted to the profess sional side of the diamond battle.
 
 Davy Robertson of the Cubs evidently Is fond of the old home life and doughnuts. He hasn't shown an intention of training two weeks merely to join Chicago. DaNy contended when he first became available that he always was wei trained. Dad did it.
 Milwaukee has no captain. That's saving both to the umpire and to the salary roll of the Milwaukee club.
 Brooklyn says the New York pitchers crumple like a fried cake when they are in the straits If that's the case, it will be the duty of the other Giants to keep them out in the open sea.
 Don't overlook that the Pittsburg out field, day by day, has been giving the Pittsburg pitchers the kind of support that would hold up 10-foot board fence against a Texas mortimer.
 Nor will even the Boston Red SoX show the quality of mercy to the Ath- letics The Philadelphia boys have made the round of the circuit and have been turned down everywhere. yet the AS stick Perseverance will win the top place, says the good old copy pook. Seven years. though, since the Athletics -L