The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-13
Games Today
By RICHARD F. LUssIER

In the dim pnst 1t is recounted that the Bnrons valiantly annexed the Southern league sonfnlon in the sea son of 1912. Then last season after the vicIssitudes of a very ordinary sum- mer the bold and battle scared Bar the benison of July afternoon the old and battle scared Barons were overwhelmed by the Moosemen. The score was 5 to o.
 Remembrance of the season of 1912 with Rafael Almeida, Jimmy Johnston, Bob Messenger, George Yantz and the pitching of Ray Boyd, Bill Trough and Clarence Smith is pleasant, but memories fall to take away the bitter taste left by the fact that the Barons hit into no less than five double plays yesterday afternoon before a small gathering of optimistic fans.
 And then last season without the great team of 1912, but with the experienced Roy Ellam and Eddie Mcdonald in the infield, the slugging of Pete Knsely and Moles- worth in the outfield, and the pitching of Arthur Johnson and Curley Brown, the Barons trotted to the leadership easily in mid season. But yesterday, where was the slugging of 1912 and 1914?
 Yesterday Awful
 Yesterday. of course, something must be written of yesterday-it was a won derful game-for the Lookouts.
 Cunningham, a youngster, assayed the role of downing the Barons and with the active cooperation of Graf, Elberfeid, Pittler and Harris he succeeded with fair degree of success as evinced from a glance at the box score.
 Richard Robertson, well known in Southern league pitching circles for his coolness and genial disposition when his team mates make errors, officiated for the Barons, and barring the third inning, when Robbie nearly laughed himself to death at the miscues of his brother play CTS. and thus became temporarily inef- fective he hurled a wonderful brand of ball But remembrance of that third in- ming, incidentally the first and the ninth oh, awful.
 At the bat the Barons offered excellent cooperation with the nfield of the Look outs. For instance, in the first inning Hemingway walked and then Magee flied to center. A quick throw from Daley to Harris doubled up Hemingway. Coombs followed this beautiful play with a sig nificant single to center.
 Wallace opened the third with sizzling single, but Robertson was tickled at the fact that the Lookouts Mad just made three runs that he hit sharply at Graf, who threw out Wallace at second, and as Robbie made valiant sprint to reach first base the throw of Pittler only beat him by 10 feet.
 Only Six Double Plays
 Ellam walked to open the fifth, but un- fortunately Dannie Clark hit one at El- berfeld and a quick, snappy double play resulted. With one out in the sixth Hem ingway singled. but Jimmie Magee hit into another double play. In the ninth Hemingway walked, Magee flied out, but Cecil Coombs grounded to Graf for the fifth double play on the part of the Lookouts The nearest the Barons came to scoring was in the eighth, when Wal lace tripled to deep left with two out In all the Barons carelessly acquired four hits from MT. Cunningham.
 As to the manner in which the Lookouts made their runs the details are too em- barrassing. Suffice to state that only six wallops were garnered from Robertson, but these came at unfortunate times, which, coupled with errors. brought in five counters. The feature of the game was that six double plays were made-one by fha Rarons