The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06

Chattanooga, July -(Special.)-Dis- daining to torpedo Allen and Walker, &C., cording to true modern custom, the Bar ons conducted a continuous small shot peppering of the two Lookouts boxmen this afternoon and by dint of hanging up six aces on the scoreboard, waltzed their way to an easy victory in the first game of the series The visitors made only two departures from their sniping ractics, Caton firing a three-base bomb in the second inning and Coombs an ordi- nary two-base cannon shot in the third. Meanwhile, Burleigh Grimes. who su- pervised the defensive maneuver of the Molesworth brigade succeeded in prevent ing the Lookouts from piercing the line on more than one occasion.
 The hitting of the Barons was remark able Their hits seemed to have the twin habit Their first 10 came in the first i've innings in clusters of two and each pair was good for a run, with the assistance of various minor events. The last Baron marker in the eighth required three hits and thus not one of the 13 blows was wasted. Young Caton was the peskiest member of the Barons at the bat, Danny Clark running him close second. Red Smith was the only visitor who didn help in the scoring.
 Burleigh's packers did some great work, especially Clark, at second. The star de- fensive play of the game was made by Derrickf who raced over into foul terri tory for a one-hand stop of Messenger S sma sh, after it passed first in the sev- enth. He flagged the drive with one hand and tossed to Grimes, who covered first in time to retire Bob. Two men were on second and third and two out at the time. Grimes covered first for an- other pretty play off Walker in the ninth.
 BARONS SCORE IN FIRST
 In the first, with one out, Mcdonald burnt one safe through short and took third on Meusels clout to right. Allen famed Clark in the pinrh and passed Coombs purposely filling the bases. The strategy would have worked only Pitler booted Derrick.s easy one. Mcdonald scoring. Caton opened the second with a tremendous three-sack drive to righ- and scored when Grimes hit one to the same territory. The kid Derricked Allen here and Walker pulled out of the hole.
 In the third, Coombs laid one against the left field fence for two sacks and scored on Derrick's hot one to left center. In sthe fourth, Meusel singled, stole sec ond and came over on Clark's safety to center. In the fifth, Coombs led with a safety to center, Derrick sacrificed and Coombs scored on Catons safe one to left.
 The Barons left off just here and let the Lookouts try their hand scoring in the third. Peters opened with a hit, but Ca ton started a fast double play on Wal ker's smash over second. In the fourth, the lone local run was counted on pass to Eiberfeld. Harris force of his mana ger and long singles by Hyatt and Graf. The Lookouts had another chance in the sixth when Pitler started with hit, but he got no farther than third. Hyatt was passed and Peters hit in the seventh, but Derricks' stop nipped the rally. Grimes showed a tendency to wildness all through, but got them over when he had to- In the ninth, Graf beat a bunt as a starter, but was forced by Kitchen Pe- ters was passed, but the Derrick-Grimes play got Walker and Messenger went out.
 Meanwhile the Barons had scored an- other run in the eighth on clean singles by Grimes, Eschen and Mcdonald. Es- chen tried to score from first on McDon- dds single, while Elperfeld held the ball and was out on close decision.