The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-06
BY BILL AK.

BY BILL Ak.
For the second time this season Mccain
Robinson made his bow yesterday after
noon and for the second time achieved
magnificent victory.
His benders to the Sea Gulls were
riddles without key. The little fellow
made them monkeys, toyed with them
recklessly, teased and tantalized them.
Tom Fisher, the veteran star and man
ager of the Mobile aggregation, essayed
to twirl the final set-to of the series just
concluded His efforts, however, were
tame compared to the excellent work of
the younger and less experienced man.
There was nothing mysterious concerning
Mr.. Fisher, this being illustrated by the
fact that the Barons ran up total of
nine swats, two being doubles, and two
triples.
The score of the game was . to 0. Rob
inson was touched up for two dinky hits
Robinson's first game was against
Montgomery some days ago, and he won
it by a 2 to 0 score. Coincidentally the
Pretzels, the Sea Gulls, were able to
find him but twice.
! From these facts, it is to be seen that
| Robinson has Hoped through eighteen in
| rings without having allowed d score and
having yielded but four singles II the
| lad keeps up this pace it is barely pos
! sibe that he will smash some records
this season.
Yesterday Robinson was superb. He
had speed to burn. His control was good,
| although he walked two men. His curve
| broke excellently and quickly. During
| the afternoon he struck out an even half
| dozen.
There is now no Baron more popular
than the modest little twirler who has
| shown himself so strong
| After each inning of yesterdays game
| he was cheered to the echo, and on d
| dozen occasions was compelled by the
| strenuous applause, to raise his cap.
| All of which embarrassed Mack
! In the beginning the indica lions pointed
' to a Mobile victory. 1t was hard to
! imagine young Robinson, just budding on.
with fast company, walloping a magnifi-
cent twirer of Fishers reputation.
| So the fans were imbued with strange
fear. Fisher had done much to inspire
within the breasts of local fans this fear
/ of impending danger
II am determined to break even in Bir-
mingham," he stated before the game,
| and, thereforef l am going TO the hill
myself
His intimation was that he feared to
risk Hickman.
| Fisher is dangerous at all times, and
| when he went into the box with a cool
| determination to win the fans feared the
| worst.
But Robinson was exceedingly cool in
| the beginning and when the visitors were
retired in short order withered hope
famed up again.
Fisher played exceedingly lucky in the
first inning. Manning the first Baron up,
hit to left, and the sun binding the eyes
| of Jud Daley, he went for two bags. De-
mont sacrificed him to third. Wordsworth
smashed one across third that looked good
for two or three sacks but Benson
| grabbed it and executing a double play
with himself, retired the Barons without
run.
But the Barons crossed the platter in
the fourth Demont led off with single,
took second on Molesworth's out. later
| scoring on Raub's luscious single to CEN
J ter.
Inasmuch as Robinson was going very
nicely, and was receiving excellent sup
port, the fans, this one run being over,
waxed confident for the first time.
Dement'S first run was sufficient to win
the game.
After the fourth inning, in which the
Barons' first tally was rung up the Sea
| Gulls failed to even connect safely and
at no stage of the game was the home
| plate endangered.
For good measure the Barons annexed
another run in the sixth and Demont was
again the man to cross the rubber.
He led off with a double to left Moles-
worth sacrificed him to third. and
Douglass short fly to left scored him.
After receiving the ball Daley heaved
to the plate and it is Just possible that
he would have succeeded in throwing
| Demonr out had Benson not inter-
| copied the pellet. But the third base
| man attempted to relay the ball. and
in so doing. made a miserable failure.
Demont scored with no trouble what
ever
At certain stages of the battle Fish err
was magnificent. This Is one reason
why the Barons failed to make more
runs than they did. Then. again the
long hits of the Barons with the singla =
exception of Dement'S double in the
sixth, failed to count a run. In the
fifth Henline. with none out. tripled
but Walters, Robinson and Manning
were not able to fetch h i'm across the
rubber. A lucy stab by Benson in the
first, prevented Manning Transforming
his double into a tally. In the sixth
after Demont had scored, and after two
were out, Raub tripled to right, but
Downey flied out easily to James.
But while Fisher, at stages, did ex-
| cellent work, Robinson was excellent
| throughout. The Baron outpitched the
veteran. and sh owed him up In every
particular.
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