The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
MAGIC CITY STILL FIGHTING

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 Stamina May Play Part
 The third round matches are to be staged today over the Country club course. with tho semi-finals coming on Friday and the finals Saturday. The weather man, who acted like a revolutionist Wednesday, when he flooded the Country club course with gobs of water. has promised to be good today. and fair weather Is expected
 Stamina will probably play prominent part In deciding the championship when the finalists enter Saturdays play. The final round will be for 3s holes. and this means a great deal more golf per day than the average woman Is accustomed to play ing. The woman possessing the more sinewy muscles rather than the most golf skill may win the tournament.
 To, The Poor Referee
 Referees and baseball umpires are in for hard summer it looks like.
 Two days ago. in Atlanta, Joe Guyon. the Indian ball-tosser of the Cracker crew, carved his monogram in Umpire Bulldog Williams jaw.
 Two nights ago. in Atlanta. Tim o'Dowd, flyweight box fighter, grew peeved when Ref cree Johnny Glynn awarded the decision to Pal Moore after ten rounds of fighting.
 Monday night, at the Birming- ham Athletic club, Referee Dave Evans sought to break Red Herring and Kid Williams from clinch, and blow from Red caught Dave over the optic and brought forth a stream of blood He bore the only open wound of the engagement when the fight was over.
 The s. P. c. will probably start movement making it i'm peratiye that even baseball um- , pires and prise-fight referees wear masks after this while off ciating.
 Kircher a Mud Horse
 George Kircher. manager of the Birmingham Independents, proved that he was a regular mud horse Wednesday morning. George had just returned from Starkville. Miss. where he um- pired a couple of games between A. and M. and Ole Miss. He got his car out of the garage and was ready to start for Gadsden, where his team is playing the Gadsden Greyhounds. A long distance phone message informed him that it was raining there. too, however. and that the first game had been postponed.
 After receiving this message, the famous baseball comedian drove his car back into drydock. and announced that he would ship for Gadsden by rail Thurs day morning. The Independents were booked to play games there Wednesday and Thursday, but due to the heavy rainfall they will probably make it Thursday and Friday now.
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 For years, since he disrupted his worlds champion outfit, Connie Mack has been starting off In the spring by advising the scribes to watch his stuff. We'll pull out of the cellar this year sure" That has been Comics annual spring inter view. Yet when thl1 returns were all in. Connie and his As have been found at the bottom of the list.
 This spring the veteran mana ger changed his tune. I'm starting out with rottenest ball club I've ever sponsored" said Connie. We'll do well to finish at all"
 No sooner than the words had escaped his lips than the Mack erals, for years the laughing stock of the American League, started winning ball games. We now find them in third place and going strong, It's just one of those little ironies of baseball and life.
 Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers have also stood thu critics on their ears this spring. At the start of the campaign the Tigers