The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-02


 Everybody Is getting fired. And it's not with enthusiasm, either. Some assert that as far as the commission Is concerned the city can go to blazes. Oh-hum, we should worry. As An economic measure the firemen may be re- quested to use half hose in the future. What we need Is polite eradication, according to the diagnosis of some. If Middleton is deposed and another man se- lected Cloe will have something to Grove about. Everything Is decided behind Cloes' doors, these days--star chamber proceedings as 'twere. In tho good old days they settled things behind swing Ing doors instead. Draw twol And cloe has joined the "can- hing" club. Motorists are hoping that the move of economy and retrenchment will cause the com missioner to put the motorcycle scouts on klddie cars instead. It sounds crazy, but some want the aldermaniac form of government back. A town all torn up. United we stand. divided We stall. In the meantime the new audi torium Is as well-ventllated as ever. Dairymen can still charn their milk on the bumpy stretch between the Bessemer pike and the Third avenue paving. They have a rink wrinkle at Pershing Pier. Oh, joyl Oh, bliss Oh. junk. Somebody is always taking the Joy out of life.
 
 The most difficult play In baseball Is stealing home. Expe- ciaily is this so at 2 a. m. 1t can't be done without uprooting a hall tree or 80. And when this occurs. 1t is best to use tho fadeaway slide. Either that or one will retire on a rolling pinsion
 Max Carey. Pittsburg star and leading base thief of the National league, studied to be a minister before he entered professional baseball. Max probably figured that the ministry was no place for fellow who liked to steal as well as he does.
 Hap Morse, rated by many of the critics as the best third sacker in the league. has been sold to the St. Paul club of the American association by the Nashville vols. Many figured that Morse would go higher than that at the end of the present season.
 It's An III Wind
 Reb Russell really pulled his come back in baseball accidental ly. After he was shunted to the minors by the Chicago White Sox in 1919 he made an unsuccessful effort to pitch winnis ball for the Indianapolis club. With his failure Reb got out of baseball and started clerking In a garage in Indianapolis. A few months later the Minneapolis club. headed by Joe Cantiliion. hit town, and Joe's star outfielder was crip- pied. One of the boys told him to plug the gap for few days with Russell. He did. and the former pitcher has been starring as an outfielder ever since. He is now wearing the livery of the Pittsburg club, and doing 1t in acceptable fashion, too.
 Pitcher McGioughlin. who was turned back to tho Giants by the Little Rock club. is conva- lescing In an Atlanta hospital aftcr an operation for appendi- citis. Mack attributes his failure to pitch winning ball in the Southern league to tho fact that he was suffering from a chrome case of appendicitis.
 Johnny Suggs, who was re- gently traded by the Atlanta club to the pennant- winning Memphis outfit. will marry Margurite Spiller. daugher of the boss of the Atlanta club Proxy Spill Ter probably traded John off be- cause he didn't want his son-in- law playing on such rotten ball club. Then, too. 1t Is well to keep as much money in the family as possible, and the Memphis club will probably get in the minor