The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
Games Today Birmingham at Mobile. Montgomery at New Orleans.
Nv REUBEN A. LEWIS

By REUBEN A. LEWIS
 Hold your best In reserve storme,
 Mickey Finn as his triumphant Gulls en
 tered the metropolis as lions upon th'
 weak, flor we're coming after you" Bu
 last night the crestfallen leader ana hope blighted pilot was silent as hi Gulls, meek as lambs, trod to the sta tion to mount their Pulmans to Mobile after tasting of the bitter dose of de feat for the fourth time yesterday, to
 Confident, courageous and collected tht Gulls arrived in the great metropolis tt test their ability with the league leading | 3arons. Gloomy, downcast and despon dent was the downed Gulls as they left ] Cutplayed, outucked and outbatted b, the steel-nerved Barons tells the tale ol their plight
 | In a sensational battle the future cham | pions of the Southern league struggled behind four run lead and pulled out of the mire of despair and triumphed again. Before the largest crowd of the series and the most enthusiastic the bold and battle scared Barons overcame a lead of four runs, scored in the first in ming by their rivals, and won with thc greatest ease over Henie Berger and Pug Cavet.
 Gulls Hit Smith
 Smarting under defeat the Gulls begun the fray. Young Clarence Smith, whe had endeared himself to the fickle fans was cast down as a broken idol when the Gulls trounced his delivery for four runs and drove him from the box. Then | Omar Hardgrove, the eccentric twirler mounted the slab and did yeoman-like service, snatching the mud bespatterel colors from the dust of defeat and car rying them to the front with the colors l flying.
 The gameness and the courage to dc ] their best though behind caused the win ning of the fourth game Slow and draggy but highly sensational the game was contested and In fine spirit. Then the Barons drove Berger in turn from the slab and punished young Southpaw 1 Cavet also. However, the latter pitched | in winning style after the disaster in the | third.
 1 To begin the fray. Maoney smashed l Smiths bender to right field just out of reach of Marcan On the first offering presented, Captain Starr singled to deep 1 CenIeT utiu. JOnIlsiOu fndut u pretty recovery of the sphere, so delft in fact that Maloney who had taken a big lead off second in hopes of going to third struggled to return. Johnston drew back | his whip and begged to second. The throw was so high and so hard that 1t went over Marcan's cap and sailed through the gate which leads Into ths diamond. Maloney raced home, while ground rules prevented the Gulrs cap | f,,.t tka,, .Gulls Contest Decision | When the umpire so announced his de I cson the players crowded around an, 1 for seven minutes contested the rulins of the diamond official. Finally after tho argument had been settled but yet un- | satisfactorily to the Gulls, Al ODel singled to left field just out of the reacf l of Almeida. Baby Doll Jacobson was bad | ly fooled at the slants of Young Smiti and was called out when a deceitful hool bent across the platter. Then Tom Lons | smote high ball on the nose and sen l it sailing over the right fence for a home run.
 | Confident that the poor showing o Smith was just luck, the Baron boss kep the star twirler in the battle Paulettt | drew a largess from the lad and then ht l walked from the slab satisfied that h' was having an off day. Then Omar Hard grove mounted the slab and retired ths side without effort.
 i Heinie Berger, with a large package ci l "Everybody's Tobacco Company's" prod uct, trod upon the green and downed tn, Barons with the ease of veteran. Mar
 can grounded out, Carroll swung as {
 high ball on his third strike and Al meida lined out to Long in right pasture l In the Gulls' half of the second session | erronp1a1 Hqrdgrnve hl
 Maloney drew pass. Hardgrove woun, 1 up and the infield gathered in. Seein, l the opportunity presented, Maloney at tempted to hit over Marcans head. bu the little second sacker checked himse l and with leap speared the ball ans threw to McGilvray. completing a beau
 tifui double play.
 Barons Begin Rally
 | Probably inspired by the wonderful wcrk on the defense. Mcbride lined ou | to the larboard pasture, but Big Bill Mo l Gilvray beat out grounder just betwee: Paulette and Starr. Jimmy Johnston smacked the pellet right on the nose t center field and Big Mac cavorted to sec ond. Ellam drew his first, of three con t-ibutions. to first and the bases wer choled with humanity. George yantz | that eminent pinch hitter of the frs 1 class, stepped to the plate with blood fl l his eye and eyed the visiting damp sins artist.
 l The crowd went mad with enthusiasm l Although on the day before there ha, l been many devices for disturbing tn, peace and rest of mind of the opposing players more were presented yesterday 1 Everything from a babys rattle to z brass band soon started operation and tho l air was a wild disturbance of racket anf noise Evidently the terrific noise anS roofing or the multitude got on Berger'' nerve, who noticed 1t perceptibly as ht l switched his load of tobacco from thu right boundary of molars to the left. Yantz Delivers in Pinch 1 Two hooks bent across the plate anc not q single ball was called on Yant7