The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-24
BARONS TO MEET CRIMSON NINE AT UNIVERSITY TODAY
Locals on Road Today, But Play at Redwood
 Saturday
By HENRY VANCE


 Assistant Manager Shutter Mat thews. Secretary Billy West and 13 Barons will embark this morning for Tuscaloosa. where they will meet the University of Alabama baseball team on the campus this afternoon. They will spend but a day away from home. returning for Saturday game with the crimsons at Redwood field.
 Matty announced yesterday that he would use three pitchers in the game against the collegians this afternoon. Bill Statham, the home-raised prod uct who pastimed two seasons with the Nashville club, will start things off on the mound, and after Bill has tossed them over for a trio of .fl- nlngs he will yield slab duties to Lefty Roy Meeker, who seems to have rounded to form quicker than any Baron on the lot. The University beys can shoot for three innings at wrong handed offerings and then Knox Henderson will be introduced. It will be the first time this season that the Henderson boy has appeared
 
 the big right-hander. who played with the knoxville club in the Appa- lachian league last year. was pur- chased by the Pittsburg Pirates and later sold outright to the Barons. They call him Knox from Knoxville.
 Ncun at First
 The remainder of the team will be the same that has appeared in the two exhibition games. Tooter Bran don will do the receiving and .he flashy Johnny Neun will hold down the firstbasing job. Neun is the youngster who came down from the Blue Ridge league. He has impressed all with his fielding but there seems to be some doubt as to whether he will hit or not. The answer to that is that Neun led the Blue Ridge league in hitting last summer.
 Dutch Krehmyer will hold down the second base job, Howard Burkett. who has delivered the goods so far at short will occupy that berth and Tommy Taylor will look after the third corner. Stump Clarke will take his smoked glasses to left. George Tice will decorate center and Johnny tSugar) Kane will look after the blows in right.
 Two Good Workouts
 The Barons got a couple of spirited workouts Thursday, forenoon and afternoon The sun was hitting on all six, and the athletes took ad vantage of the pretty weather. Mat ty sent 'em through the most stren- uous day they have experienced since the spring work began at Redwood. The weather was so warm, and the tossers got up sue good sweat that Matty made 'em work until their tongues were hanging out He took advantage Of every ray of sunshine and IL was near 1 o'clock before he told 'em to hit the showers.
 Catcher Claude Robertson, who re- ported Wednesday, was in uniform for both sessions Thursday and was all full of pepper and pegs. Robby, who by no means impresses one as a youngster, got about in such poppy fashion that many of the railbirds were led to believe that he has been working out at his home prior to joining the Barons.
 For the Saturday game the same lineup will be used with the ex- ception of catcher and one of the fields. Matty may give the bugs their first glimpse of Robby's work in the weekend affair or he may elect to see what Schultse, Mullen and 10th can do under fire Brenner is slated to go back to first Satur- day, and if Harry Harper has suffi- ciently ironed the travelling kinks after many days on the road he will probably be allowed to cavort in one of the fields.