The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07

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 Therefors these parties of the first part are suffering curvature of the conscience, are hiding out from the authorities. fugitives from justice. and are expecting to be nabbed at any minute and placed in ths calaboose. where they will languish iEnumerable languishes. Any jury in the world would find these par ties of the first part guilty of fraud in the first degree and would rec ommend to the court the mamimum penalty.
 Bill Flames 'Em All.
 The mighty blooie Blue of first base fame, the ancient, though agate annihilating George Cutshaw, the swatsmith, MT. Jones. of the hit cor ner, heavy hitting Harry Heilman, king of the ball crowners. and the bombarding Mir. Basseler, all fell be- fore Bill's delivery Thursday after noon. A smoke ball steamed in to the plate at about 50 knots. a hook as wide as Heinzs variety of pickles and a delicious change of pace had the Detroit wrecking crew on its ear. They stood about and swung with puzzled looks upon their re- spective faces and waited for the grand explosion that never came. Bill held 'em as tight as a victim holds a live wire throughout the nine in- nings, and as he held 'em Moley sported a double-dsc grin of the fourth dimension.
 Barons OutpIny Tigers.
 The Barons, who look more prom ising than any team Moley has started the season with in years, out played the major leaguers through out Thursdays game. There was no fluke about the victory. The Carl tonites pounded out Il safe smack CTS off Rollins delivery as the home grown product held 'em in the palm of his hand. And they developed but one miscue, while the Detroiters, led by the aggressive error-makeE Fothergill, piled up three hobbies Thus it may be seen that the Moleys outhit. outfielded and outpitched the big time performers. By their ball playing Thursday afternoon, they gave sufficient proof that the season could open tomorrow, so far as they are concerned, and every man-1ack of 'em would be ready.
 Everybody Hitting.
 Doc Silva was the only local tosser who failed to hit safely, as the white-washing proceeded merrily 10 the end Johnny Kane and Stump Clarke got one safe blow each out of four trials, Cleanup Harry liar Ter focused his eye on the ball ana rapped out a single and double out o. four trips to the plate, while Tommy Taylor bursted the agate twice out of three times up. Neun got one out of two, and Jesse Bur kett lambasted the pill for double
 tv1Nac n Robertson got one out of three and go did Riu Statham, who wasn't con- tent with pitching one of the pret- tiest games of his career, but who came through with a pinch blow that scored a run.
 As Bill breezed on, the Detroit sporting scribes sat In the press oox and fired questions How old IS this Statham2" "Where'd he come from?" How much experience has he had?" "Is he for saie?" This volley of questions came from the lips Of the war correspondents, and Bill punctuated each question with srike-out, or a fly-out
 Barons Score Early.
 It was case of three up and three down for the first inning with the Detroiters, but the Barons played
 
 of hits that netted two runs in the first frame. After Silva had started the first by striking out, John Utii- iry (Sugar) Kane biffed the bali more fiercely than Cain biffed Abel, for a single. Stump Clarke, as usual, was right there in the pinch and he rocked the fence with double in rfpht. Kane counted on the drive. but Harry Heilman's arm held Stump away from third, and Clarkie was out trying to stretch the blow into triple. Harry Harper followed with rip-snorting double that threatened to tear a paling from the right field walls and Harry saun- tered home when Terrible Tommy TayIor chalked his cue for single to right center. Neun closed out the inning just as it had started off by striking out.
 One, Two, Three Again
 Again, in the second, the singing Mir. Statham managed to turn the Detroiters back in one. two. three order, and the Moleys' bouyed up by their great start proceeded to add