The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
I. P. A. TEAM BEATS
u. c. AGGREGATION
After Good Start, the Game
Develops Into Slug
ging Match

It was case of Greek meeting Greek
yesterday afternoon when the coalition of
diamond artists representing the Travel
ers' Protective association and the nine
Haunting the colors of the United Com
mercial Travellers met in mortal combat
to decide who was who in the baseball
calcium. After nine long innings of con-
fict the u. C. 7. team was forced to
bow their head in defeat, the score being
10 to In favor of their adversarles.
For three innings, the game was an
evenly contested affair with both sides
playing good ball, but in the fourth in
ming the United Commercial Travellers
ascended on a sky larking trip and there
after steadfastly refused to return to
terra firma.
The L. 2. AS began scoring early, an
nexing counter in the first session.. Az
ter that, all scoring was at a standstill
until the fourth when they proceeded to
get busy with the hickory. Two runs
were showed over In this round, and these
were followed with one in the fifth in
ming, seven in the sixth, two in the sew
enth and six in the eighth session. The
United Travellers scored first in the fourth
inning and again in the succeeding one.
Their other counters were garnered in
the seventh and ninth innigs. three runs
in the former inning and one in the lat
ter.
The individual star of the game was
Leslie, the elongated first sacker of the
T. p. A. team. Besides fielding in sensa-
tional style he raped out a home run,
a three bagger and two singles. Baker,
who twirled for the victorious team also
did notable work with the willow. In the
eighth he cleaned the sacks with long
three Dagger to the sun garden.
The U. c. T. team was a fairly good
fielding one, but their glarng weakness
was with the stick. Among those on this
team doing good work were Castleberry,
Vann. LaGrand and Abrahams.
good deal of comedy was injected into
the battle by the peculiar antics of Roy
Kay His coaching yesterday was of the
I variety that would make Hughie Jenning
cape in wonderment and retire for keeps.
Harry Jones, who essayed the task Of
umpirng balls and strikes armed himself
with a double barrel shotgun before TAX
ing up his duties behind the pitchers box.
Throughout the game he used large paste
board signs and automobile horns to de-
note balls and strikes. These and other
conical stunts kept the spectators in an
uproar during the game. Sam Oliver
was Harry Jones colleague in preserving
order among the knights of the Grip"
A nice sized crowd Witnessed the efforts
of the two mines to trounce each other.
The following was the lineup of the. two
teams
T. p A.-Stevenson. catcher; Baker,
pitcher Leslie, first base; Means. second
base: Baugh, third and second base; Will
: liams, shorstop Wood, leftfield; Wood
ruff, centerfield; Lyle, rightfield; Ken
nedy. third base, and Sellers rightfield.
L. c. T.-Abrahams. second base;
Wachter. first base; Castleberry. short
stop; Nann. third base: Smith, pitcher;
Heck, catcher; LaGrand rightfield; Minis,
centerfield and Andrews, leftfield.
Score by irnings: r. II. f.
T. 2. A. ................1 100 2l7 2ss-f9 15 )
L. c. r. ............... 600 ITO 30l-- 6 s II