The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-20

As easy as the hard hearted thug
purloined the proverbial sweets from
the mouth of weak infant, the Bar
ons defeated the Crackers Il to g. The
Crackers put up miserable exhibition
of ball, while the Barons played in fine
fettle. Bill Foxen displayed as much
stuff" as he ever had, while Sitton,
who replaced Waldorf. was batted to
all corners. Both Cracker slabmen were
accorded miserable support while the
work of the Birmingham Aid society
was brilliant until the last round.
The pitchers, seemingly. were having
an off day. Waldorf was wild and AL
perman replaced him in the fourth with
Sitton, after poor support and time
ly swat had scored three Barons, The
Barons took decided liking to We'd
doris slants and scored eight more tall
lies Reynolds allowed bases to be pur-
Joined at will, while two passed balls
helped things along. HARRISON, Agler.
Alperman and Reynolds did poorly in
the field.
Barons Play Sensationally
The Barons played sensationally un-
til the ninth when Foxen permitted two
clean hits and the aid society bobbled
twice, giving way to two scores Jim
my Johnston made a splendid running
catch in center field while Marcan and
ELAN fielded deftly. Bill Foxen hit
the pill to deep left-center field with
three men on bases In the seventh but
was called out for falling to touch first.
h N htf driving
in the three runs via the Merkle route.
The Barons began in the third. With
two out Carroll doubled to right field.
Almeida went to first on Waldorf's
largess and then the collegian twirler
mixed in wild heave. Mcbride hit to
HARRISON who threw low to first and
Carroll counted while the Cuban re-
ceiyed transportation home when AL
perman initiated HARRISON on McGil-
yray's roller to the keystone.
Sitton Was Slaughtered
After this session, with Vedder Sitton
ornating the Stag, the Barons proceeded
to fatten their batting averages and base
stealing records at the expense OF the
occupants of the cellar. In the fourth,
a base on balls, a sacrifice and three
hits pushed two markers across the plat
ter.
In the fifth, three safe slams, two stoian
bases and good headwork enlarged the
count to Z to 0. Finally, nearly firing the
sensation, Bill Foxens long swat to the
groove in center field with the bases
drunk gave three more. Bill was called
out for cutting first, but Dilger scored on
a walk an infield out and an error.
Atlanta's first tally resulted when Sit
ton beat out a slow grounder in front
OF the plate and took second on wild
heave Harbison's single put him across
the platter. The other two TALES were
marked in the last session. HARRISON hit
o. bad bounder through short. Alperman
flew out to center, but McElyeen bingled
to Mcbride. The sunfielder let the ball
get through him and both advanced
bag each. Reynolds out to Marcan was
the means by which HARRISON scored,
while McElveen counted when McGilvray
failed to hold his foot on the bag-at
least the umpire believed that-after Mar
can had thrown to first to head off Gala
han.
Foxen Starred on Slab
The feature OF the listless battle was
the ease with which the Barons hit and
the twirling of Southpaw Bill Foxen.
-Four of the six hits secured off the SOUTH
paw were scratches. His control was ex-
celent while he was a complete enigma
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