The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-08
BUFFALO BISONS
 BEAT BARONS BY
 SMALL MAJORITY Fine Exhibition at West End Park Ends With the
 Score 3 to 1
LOCALS COULD NOT
 HIT OPPORTUNELY
Two Errors By Lower Gave Visitors One Run-ShOrtstop Starr Put Up Brilliant Game-Emery Is
 Hitting the Ball Hard

The Bisons outdid themselves yesterday afternoon. The game between Billie Smiths Buffalo players and Moleys Bar ons was one of the fastest and neatest games witnessed at West End this sea- son. The locals outhit the visitors by two bingles, but they could not connect when safeties meant runs, hence their defeat. Score, to 1.
 Ha dthe game been entirely free from errors the Buffalo team would still have been victorious, for two of their runs were fairly earned. Two errors in succession by Lower were responsible for the other run for the opposition. Outside of these hobbies the game was clean and entertain ing, the other errors being made on hard chances. Although the locals were defeat ed the fans have no kick coming, for Smiths bali players put up an excellent exhit.Gon. They reversed the form they showed on the previous day and played a classy game.
 The Bisons scored first. In the second inning Starr, first up, was given a free pass to first. Johnson hit an easy one to
 
 himself retired at first. Wood then hit safely to center field and scored Starr. McAllister placed nice single in center field territory and Wood went to third. McAllister was caught trying to steal sec ond, but Wood scored when Yowinkie hit safely to center. Henline flew out to left field. leaving vowinkle on base.
 The Buffalo players scored their third and last run in the fourth inning. the tally being of the unearned variety. Starr was first at bat and he hit a clean two- bagger to right field. Johnson and Wood then sacrificed in succession. The Baron pitcher flelded both plays and in each in- stance he booted the ball, thereby filling the bases with Bisons McAllister hit a sacrifice fly to left field and Starr scored on the throw-in. Vowinkle struck out and Henline went out on an easy grounder to the pitcher.
 Although the Barons hit throughout the game at pretty lively clip. they succeed | ed in marking on the tally sheet only once. This was in the third inning. Boyle, first up, hit safety to left field. Lower advanced him to second with a nicely placed sacrifice. Marcan struck out, but Molesworth hit clean single to center and Boyle trotted across the plate. Gygli went out on a grounder to short. After | this inning the score board might as well | have been knocked down as far as the Barons were concerned.
 While tho locals registered nine bingles | in the hit column, the Bison sharpshoot- | CTS managed to keep the safe ones scat l tered, and there was nothing doing around home plate for the Barons. Man. ayer Molesworth players handled Vo- | wlnkle with greater ease than they did | Kiss.nger The former twirler was touched up for seven hits, while the latter granted only two. although one of them | was a two-bagger.
 | Shortstop Starrs name is very appro- prlate. He played one of the most bril- liant games at short seen on the local diamord since the exhibition games wero started. Nothing was too hot, too slow or two far away from him. He went after everything and the beauty of it all was that he got very nearly everything he went after He had 10 chances, and while one error is chalked up against him, the scorers were doubtful but that hit should have been accredited the batter. Besides his great fielding exhibition Starr laced out pretty two-bagger to right and registered two of the Bisons' runs.
 Wood showed great form at second His | fielding was fast and he accepted seven chances without an errr. He got two | lllS out or TOUT times at pat
 Both Vowinkle and Kissinger pitched good ball, but had 1t not been for the splendid support accorded them by the Bison team the game might have ended differently. vowinkle was especially lucky Twice he got into bad holes. but in each instance his teammates pulled him out and there was nothing doing for the Bar ons i'll the vicinity of the scoreboard.
 Had the game been entirely free from charged to him the majority of the Bisons in the run column would have been but one score. The Baron twirler just sim ply could not pick up the bunts laid down before him and the Bison players were l too fast on their feet for any foolishness on the part of the Baron fielders. Billie Smiths men did not hit especially hard but they hit opportunely and that was all that was necessary. They ran the bases like lightning. as is exempli- fled by the fact that they secured three runs with seven hits, where the Barons got only one tally with nine bingles.
 Taking the game all in all it was one of the best seen on the local diamond this season and there Is no way around the | confession that the visitors outplayed the | locals on the bases and in the field. If Buffalo Bills ball players can maintain the stride throughout the season which they set in the game today there will be big doings in Bsontown this sum- mer. They showed all sorts of class at all stages of the game.
 The following is the box score:
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