The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-12
Birmingham Is Strong Contender For the
 Presidents s Cup
By HENRY VANCE


 Nashville Vols, we hope. For on this
 goodly day, April 12, 1922, A. D.,
 the young gents from the Pantaloon-
 cry will take unto themselves vast
 gobs of precipitation, and will pry
 off the baseball lid in Birmingham.
 It is the opener, Mawruss, and near
 the noon hour the trekk to Rick
 wood will begin. By 3 cuckoos Rick
 wood Field will house between 12,000
 and 15,0o0 pop-eyed and pop-bottled | fans.
 Yep, the trekk wastaward starts at | high noon, and there are various and sundry ways of trekking. Some will trekk by trolley on the re-roughed
 trailers; others will go by their own
 motor cars-the more affluent; some
 will charter taxi at two bits head. and still others who have barely enough for the entrance fee will go
 by sole-leather limited to Redwood. After That Cup
 Great will be the gathering thereof.
 Great enough possibly to bring
 the Presidents Cup to Birmingham. Johnothan Martin, B. B. D. Doctor
 of BasebalD offers each year a sprightly silver thing of goblet ar- chitecture to the city that polls the largest crowd on opening day. Bir- mingham has her eyes on this trophy again. She has won it many times.
 but for the past several years the
 trophy has gone elsewhere. The ad-
 vance ticket sale indicates that a
 mighty gathering at Rickwood this I for the city of Magic. What gath
 eringl The long ones. the lanky onee 1 the lean ones, the fat ones, the short l ones-theyll all be there this p. m.
 And, barring a cloud-infested sky, Birmingham will probably grab off | that trophy. Threatening rain drops have tendency to keep some of the i fainter hearted away. Therefore.
 those with tlncture Of civic pride Lin their corpuscles are praying for | a day of sunshine. in order that Jones Valley may ring the bell from ati attendance standpoint.
 l His Nibs, the Umps
 Umps Harry Johnson, re-monick-
 cred steamboat after his entrance l into baseball, is the Umpiratical Am
 bassador to Birmingham today. Hec- l tic Harry will be Umps-in-chief, and
 will have as his comrade a new conner to the league. Connie Lewis. l Harry, of whisk-broom fame. viii view the game from behind the hind ketch, and will therefore call balls and strikes. He has prepared hls
 voice especially for this occasion. On
 normal occasions Steamboats vocal | chords will carry further than a
 cable. But, he has put on the frills l for today's combat Late last night
 his tonsils were sand -papered thor oughly. An interior decorator got | out his palette and painted Harry s l throat with nitrate of silver. His | Adams apple has been thoroughly | oiled and he will suffer from no buck ing bronchial trouble today. With | Steamboat scurrying hither and yon. with his infant broom, dusting off
 the plate and the pitchers box, and creating clouds of dust. and his vocal
 chords hitting on all six the fans are | prepared for a rare treat when 1t comes to misunderstanding.
 Barons Are Primed
 Carlton Molesworth's knicker- 1 bockered athletes are primed for the conflict and will seek to put over a reptition of what happened last year. l when they shook off powerful strangle-hold inflicted by the Jinx l for many years previous. and won the l ball game from the visitors. Doc Silva, who will play center field, and lead off the batting order for the
 Moleys had his jetty locks thoroughly l pompadoured at late hour last night l and his toenails manicured. Doc is a demon for speed and with the toe- nails put In thorough trim and his | knee joints doped he should be able
 to show a greater flash of speed osi
 the paths and afield this afternoon
 than the fans have ever seen before. | Kane at Second
 Johnny Sugar Kane promises to raise some cane around second base, having been placed there temporarily by the wary Molesworth. He will bat
 second, and play second. Quite a
 coin (what-you u-call-it.) MT. Kane | spent a couple of hours at a beauty blocked out by master hand. Per 1 sonally Johnny would rather have a cloudy day. The sun will have n tendency to bring out those freckles | promiscuously. Johnny was quits
 nervous, repairing to his room at an early hour and placing his base hit
 shilelah under his pillow, for fear
 some one from the camp of the enemy
 would appropriate his base-hit bud | geon.
 l Stump Clarke, scheduled to play left
 and hit hard has overlooked no bets Efficiency is watchword with
 Sunpter. He had his glasses re-
 smoked Tuesday afternoon and stood
 before powerful searchlight for an hour Tuesday evening to test the
 glasses The powerful light made no Impression on his eyes. Therefore he figures the troublesome sun hasn't a
 chance to bother him. Stump has lab
 eled his pet specks. the seesmo-
 graph" He never needs glasses while 1 at the bat. A pair of nude eyes can decode anything the pitcher wants to
 put on the ball.
 1 Harper in Clenn-up Place
 | Harry Harper has been nick-named "Janitor" Harper He cleans up the
 bases. Harry hits fourth in the line- up and his laundry mark varies. fCoutfuueN nm Dare Twol Ca