The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07
BARONS SHOW THE
 OLD TIME SPIRIT Play Detroit to StandStiIl for
 Twelve Innings MEEK PLAYS GREAT GAME Barons, Assisted By the Rooters, Suc- ceeded In Giving Manager Jen- nings Heart Disease In the
 Ninth Inning.
MEEK PLAYS GREAT GAME

Game called account Detroit's inability to win.
 That's not the technical reason, dark ness being declared by the umpire.
 However, the Barons simply played the Detroits to standsti1l, first, last and always. It was the one and only sensa- tional game of the preseason exhibitions with the big leaguers. It went for twelve innings and neither team could push winner across the plate.
 Manager Jennings had to call In every available resource, and then he failed. It took three pitchers to hold the Barons down, and he even had to send to the street car to get Mullins in time to pre- vent a defeat.
 In short the Barons played the game for all there was in it. They played like the Barons of old, the Barons that snatched the pennant last year. The team that pulled off the squeeze" plan and other inside stunts of the national game.
 Whole Team Had Ginger.
 The entire team woke up and displayed ginger. Meek played phenomenal game, Molesworth set the woods afire with sev eral stunts in the field, Ginger Clark and Turner let the Detroits down with only eight hits, only one of which was off Fur her in four innings, Montgomery landed on the ball twice for sound raps, a two- bagger and a single, and the umpire took another legitimate two-bagger from him by calling it foul.
 Those are some of the features of the game and incidentally might be added Garvin's catching, some nice playing by Silent Lew Walters, but mostly the fea- ture of the game was the fact that the Barons had ginger, played baseball and there was little If any dumb playing. It was not the same team that has played before this season.
 The real trouble came in the ninth in- ming, when the Barons tied the score. One of those garrison finishes, the kind the Barons are always pulling off, sisted by the rooters, tied the score and sent Rowan, Atlanta's new pitcher, to the tall and uncut where the apple blossoms bloom.
 How It Happened.
 It came about thus: After Mtze was out, short to first, Gardner put ball through the infield so fast that it gath cred no moss. Then Monte arrived for try. About the second ball over he sent out into right field for what looked like wo-bagger, but Welsh called it foul . The next ball over he hit to the same place, and Cobbs made a one-handed stab for 1t, but failed. It looked like a catch and Gardner failed to get past sec ond on the hit Then Alcock did the right thing by hitting to the outfield but Gardner could not score on the play and hugged third. Meek had already landed for one three-bagger during the game, so he was walked for safetys sake, forcing in one run. Then Garvin hit to short and O'Leary threw Meek out at second, and Schaefer tried to get Garvin at first and complete double play but he threw badly and Garvin was safe, while Montgomery and Alcock scored
 The first inning saw the first runs for the visitors. Mcintyre led off with single, was out at second on a fielder's choice that put Coughlin on first, and Crawford's double to center scored the third baseman. Cobbs flew out to Meek, but Rossman singled to right and Craw- ford scored, Meek stopping the throw in by Mitze. Three hits and two runs.
 In the second Ginger Clark was wild and this caused another run. Garvins error in dropping a high fly let Erwin reach first safely. OLeary followed with an out, but Willitt hit safely to left. Mcintyre famed and Clark hit Coughlin, filling the bases. He proved a repeater and forced Irwin in by hitting Crawford.
 A single, an out and o-bagger re- suited in another run in the fourth.
 Three-Bagger and Squeeze.
 Meek's three-bagger to center in the second inning, followed by the squeeze play worked by Garvin, resulted in the Barons' first turn.
 Willitt let the Barons down with two hits in six innings, Rowan gave up five hits and Mullin only one. In the ninth Mullin had left the park and started to catch a car for town, when Rowan took his flight skyward, and Jennings sent runner after Mullin and caught him in the nick of time. It saved the game. In the tenth the Barons came very near winning the game, but the decision of Welsh on a play at first was against the Barons and made the third out. AL cock looked safe at the bag and had he been the Barons would have won.
 In the tenth and eleventh innings De- troit had chances to win. In the tenth there were runners on second and third and only one out, but Turner held them down and the next two up hit flies and saved the day.
 It was the last and best of the exhibi- ton games.
 When the Barons line up again it will be against Atlanta Tuesday in the open