The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
Robertson Shuts Out Mobile Gulls

"A scared Baronial warriors over \ the greensward of Redwood Field floats the gay streamer an- nouncing to the fans and fannets the conquest of last season. It is an in- dicular sign of the progress of the Barons.
 Without the use of smeddum or de- sring to add subfusk to the situation regarding the official standings of the Southern league we are willing to wait in patient hope and pious in- digimenta for the revised standings which will be announced from Secre- tary Stradfords office on next Tues day.
 After the above spate of sesduipeda- lian vocabulary, we feel greatly re- freshed and will pursue our labors Of filling this column with baseball mis- information. Truly the industrious slave knoweth the contents of his screed.
 And thus we must talk baseball in- stead of phoneties
 
 Dick Robertson, an athletic young man, with a sweet and dulcet disposi- ton, applied the kalsomine to the Mobile Gulls yesterday and added an- other victory to his already lengthy string.
 The word kalsomine used in the above paragraph has been standard ized by sporting writers whenever ba aseball team is held scoreless. How ever, on rare occasions some daring scribe will refer to a scoreless game as being "whitewa she'd" but these spasms of originality are not frequent enough to embarrass the intelligent readers Personally, we prefer 'kal- somine.'
 The gay Lord Cecil Coombs was handed transportation to first base by MT. Bradley Hogg in the first inning after two Barons had gone out and he promptly attempted to purloin sec ond base. Amaz zed at this daring Herr Schmidt threw the pellet to center field and Cecil picked himself up from the mud puddle at second and contin- ued on to third Miller, in center field, retrieved the elusive pill and threw wild to third. which necessitated Coombs arising again from a mud bath and continuing on to home, which he reached in safety on another wild throw. Coombs did not appreciate the hard run any more than the Gulls did their errors.
 Miller made up for his error in the first by running in and catching Lind sey's fly with one hand in the eighth. It was the most wonderful catch of a series of wonderful fielding stunts throughout the afternoon.
 Dobards enchanted stop of Sloan's hard drive in the seventh was also a sizzler. Dobard never knew he had the ball.
 In the fifth Tod Sloan robbed Miller of a certain two-base hit by running into center field and making a sensa- tional catch of his line drive. Cecil Coombs had pulled the same stunt the inning previous on Burke when he backed nearly to the left field bleachers for hard drive. In the sixth .Jeems' Magee made a spectacular catch off Perry.
 The ground was slow and soggy yes- terday but both the Barons and Guls played with rare spirit. Bradley Hogg outside of the second and seventh in- nings toyed with the Barons. He famed Charlie Carroll the first three times the Baron first sacker faced him, but Charlie singled on his fourth ap- pearance and promptly scored on Ma gees two-ply blow to left
 On the other hand, Dick Robertson also pitched good ball, but received better support than Hogg. The Barons played behind Robertson like cham