The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-11
HORNSBY HITS HOMER OVER THE SCOREBOARD WITH TWO ON BASE
Cardinals One Big Inning Not Enough To Beat Tigers. Sensational Fielding

Ty Cobb led his Tigers gunning for Cardinal meat Tuesday afternoon, and Redwood park was cramned and damned with Magic City baseball fans, as the chase progressed. very big mouthful in Rogers Hornsby anu company did Ty Cobb and his Tigers bite off but they eventually succeed ed In chewing It. Score. to {,
 Rip Collins, Texan of fiery mien, who has had his chance with the Mil lion Dollar Yankees during his ca recr as big league pitcher. faltered only once during his nine innings on the mound for Detroit, while his mates gave Cardinal hurlers three uncomfortabl ble frames. Two runs was the margin of this comfort-or lack of comtort-and by those two runs were the Tigers able to suppress their National league rivals in the feature game of the exhibition season at Itiekwood park.
 In Rogers Hornsby and company Ty Cobb and his Tigers bit off almost more than they could chew. and were all nine Cards as unpalatable a nor sel as Rogers Is. the Tiger, doughty beast thaC he is, might have choked and baked in the chewing process.
 It was Rogers Hornsby who hit a home run in the fifth inning with two men on base. giving his team three of their four runs. Furthermore, 1t was Rogers who, in making that homer. drove the pill so far over the centerfield wall that the small boys outside the park are probably Btill looking for il. The drive cleared the wall on the left of the Southern league scoreboard. and old timers agree 1t was one of the longest ciouIs sver spranS on fans at Rick- Mood, and just about as long as Mis- ter Hornsby will be able 10 nit all season.
 NOT ENOUGH, ROGERS
 HornsDys drive came with two on. one run already scored, and one down in the fittn. Of courshe, 1t ac- counted for three runs and cleared the bags. but the Cards were not through for that frame then. The Tigers were leading. to 0. when the fifth frame put the Cards three tal- lies in the lead. Then and there the Nationals called 1t day, for they prob ably thought they had sewed the game up nicely.
 The Tigers were not so easily inning proceeded to rip apart every one of those stitches so nicely put together by the Cards. In the eighth, the Detroit pastimers showed across four runs, and finished up with two runs to the good.
 0ODD walked 10 start the ITduit, Manush doubled to right, Heilman sent two bagger to center, Pratt grounded out. Rigney tripled to left, Woodall singled to left, and out went Card Pitcher Pfeffer, enter MT. Per tica, another of the same species. Collins bounced freak single around the shortstop and Blue tiled to right field. Jones forced Collins at sec o.as4i 4 i'5 eno the inning. H3""eessefs9F, that wrecking crew of Tigers had done it's work and four runs were over the plate. and the game safely in the refrigerator, so to speak.
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 EfEers Scoring.
 The other two runs of the Tigers came in early innings. In the first Blue started the game off with single to center. Jones grourNed out, and Cobb sacrificed Blue scoring all the way from second on the bunt. Manush flied out In the sixth, Cobb's double, Manushs long fly, and Heilmans single drove in Cobb, with the Tigers second run.
 The Cards were leading, 4 to 7, when the game was drawing to it's close, and until that eighth it looked like the Nationals would duplicate their feat of Monday and trounce the Bengals.
 The game was replete with sensa- tional fielding plays. Not an error was committed, and the manner In which the two teams backed their pitchers merely went towards ex-