The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-21
By BILL AK.

For 14 blood-curdling innings the Barons and the Volunteers battled yesterday afternoon. and the most strenuous efforts of the two failed to break the iron-clad tie.
 Prior to the ninth inning the Barons swung tenaciously to a one-run lead, and this single tally. registered in the early stages of the game, would have sufficed but for the slippery ground on which the battle ragged.
 It is no fault of Pitcher Bauer's that the score was tied and never unknotted.
 Daubert was given a life in the fatal ninth, when Downey. attempting to throw him out at first, slipped to Mother Earth. The runner ultimately scored on slow hit to Walters, which the fleet-footed Hunter is given credit for beating out. The decision was so close that the fans all about the field were enraged to a startling degree and the sober-minded feared Polo Ground slaughter.
 After the ninth, the Barons and the Volunteers continued the fierce struggle with unabated fury, and it is probable that had darkness not fallen to end the bitter engagement the two aggregations would still be putting their heads against each other.
 The final score was 1 to 1.
 The game was spectacular to degree, and the blood of the fans on more than one occasion had excuse for running cold.
 Both teams gave their leaders magnifi-
 bo1 vuit ear to the ground was nothing to marvel over. East, for example, robbed Bill Douglass toward the end of the game, and in so doing stood on his head and threw the ball to Daubert through his legs Henline turned a back handspring to catch Buffers drive to leftfield, when a long hit would have done great dam age. Downey thrilled the spectators with several leopard leaps and tiger bounds, while Doe" Wiseman on two occasions kept the pennant aspirations of the Vol unteers intact by a bit of fast running long stretching and successful grabbing. Young Larsen fielded in splendid style arouno the deadly tertiary corner, while Daubert did some exceptionally fine work at first.
 It was a dark, murky, threatening after noon that called the leaders and the tail enders to the battle-ground. Jupiter Plu- vius delayed the game three quarters of an hour and grumbled throughout the long engagement. It was the intention of the managers to play the first game, and continue the second as long as pos sible.
 But the e.length of the first as far as It went was so great that the second end of the double bill was necessarily called off, and the fans were perforce contented with the one partly played.
 Incidentally, Bill Bernhard would not agree to two seven-inning games and by disagreeing saved his men a defeat as it was in the ninth that he tied the score, and necessitated the extra rounds.
 The work of the twirers was of mag nifcent order.
 Bauer has never pitched a better game in his short career and may never. Johnny Duggan had everything in the category and some that overfowed. Hub Perdue relieving Johnny in the ninth, jumped into the affray with speed, nerve and control without having taken the precaution of warming up.' It was a magnificent pitchers tournament, with the support furnishing amusement of a rare assortment as a side show.
 The run of the Barons was scored in the third, and was as neat a score as was ever hung before the eyes of an admiring public.
 Young Larsen, opening, smashed one to deep center, and had Bay not exerted himself the fleet son of Arkansas would have gone three laps. At that he counted two pegs and Bauer sacrificed him to third.
 From third he was drawn home by a luscious bingle off the stick of Noah Henline.
 From that stage the game continued fiercely with neither side having any per
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