The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
GULL RALLY IN NINTH FAILS TO
 OVERCOME BARONS' EARLY LEAH
Eddie McDOnald's Circuit Clout With CatOn on Gives BarOns Second Straight Win Over Gulls. Arthur Johnson Hurls Fine Game With Ledbet- ter Working We'll For Visitors -COombs Con- tinues to Smash the Ball at a Terrific Clip


 ed.
 That completed the scoring so far
 as the Barons were concerned, al though they had a number of oppor- Il tunities
 Il The big Swede held the Gulls en- ;l tirely at his mercy until the ninth. yielding but four measly singles. The ninth came near being disastrous
 Whalen first up, started off with a fly to center. which Caton smothered. Burke hit an ugly bounder to Lindsay, which the shortstop fumbled. Swacina
 singled and Burke went to second Schmidt was an easy out, Clark to Derrick, but Lindsay committed his
 second offense of the inning by his wild heave to catch Bromwich Burke tand Swacina scored on the throw ana lBromWich went to second. The crowds which had moved toward the exits de- cided to come back and see it out aft CT all.
 Mig Clark came up to bat for Dobard, who had shown little and with hit meaning a run tieing the score Ziggy settled down to strike out the ancient catcher. Clark fouled two and took q ball and then spoiled another good one. There was an noticeable increase in
 the tension. but Johnson calmly wound
 up and shot over low one at which Clark bit and the game was over. The story of the game play by play | is as follows:
 DETAIL PLAY
 First: Moble-McDowell struck out. 1 Whalen flied out to Caton in deep center. 1 Burke doubled to right. the wind carry 1 ing the ball almost to the foul line l Swacina went out, Clark to Derrick. No l runs, one hit and no errors. l Birming gham-Caton was hit on the right ' 1 I took first Mcdonald hit the second ball pitched him for circuit clout, the ball 1 rolling under the left field bleachers. 1 Clark popped out to Schmidt. Coombs went out, third to first Lindsay singled | to center and stole second. Derrick hit a grounder to second and was out at
 first Two runs, two hits and no er- | TOTS.
 SECOND Mobile-Schmidt popped out to Lindsay. Bromwich was safe when Lindsay muffed ] his grounder and stole second after Do- bard had flied out to Coombs. Wilcox | singled to right and Bromwich was re- 1 tired at the plate, O'Rourke making beautiful peg. No runs, one hit and l one error.
 Birmingham-O'R Rourke went out, pitch | CT to first. Hauser and Johnson struck out No runs, no hits and no errors. THIRD Mobile-Ledbetter lined out to Caton. McDowelrs liner was speared by Lind say. Clark took Whalens grounder for an easy out No runs, no hit and no erors.
 Birming ham-C went out, Whalen 1 to Swacina. Mcdonald hit grounder to ! Ledbetter and was out at first Clark I flied out to Burke. No runs. no hits and no errors.
 
 Moble-Burke was out Clark to Der rick. Lindsay took Swacinas grounder I and threw him out at first. Schmidt hit in front of the plate and was out Hauser to Derrick. No runs no hits and no errors.
 Birmingham Coombs doubled to deep right-center. Lindsay hit to Swacina and was out unassisted, Coombs taking third ,, Derrick hit to Dobard and Coombs was caught in a chase between third and home. He was finally run down after Derrick had reached third. O'Rourke sin gled cleanly to left and Derrick scored Hauser was safe on Dobard's error after o Rourke had stole second. O'Rourke took third and a moment later Hauser stole second Johnson ended the inning with pop to Schmidt. One run, two hits and error.
 Mobile-Bromwich went out, third to first Dobard struck out. Wilcox singled to right and went to third when O'Rouke let the ball escape his clutches Ledbet- ter hit to Lindsay and was out at first. No runs, one hit and one error. Brmins sham-Caton was out, Dobard to Swacina. Mcdonald took first on four wild ones, but went out stealing second Clark popped out to Dobard. No runs, no hits, no errors.
 
 Mobile-McDoweL popped out to Derrick Whalen was out, Johnson to Derrick. Burke popped to Lindsay. No runs, no hits and errors Birminghan-Co grounder was stopped by Swacna and threw wild to Ledbetter who covered first. Coombs had the throw beat and took second when the ball rolled to the stands. Lind- say beat out bunt down the third base line. Derrick popped to Whalen. ORouke flied to Burke and Coombs was doubled at the plate. No runs, two hits and one error.
 SEVENTH Mobile-Swacina and Schmidt popped to Lindsay and Bromwich popped to Clark. l No runs, no hits and no errors. Birmingham-Hauser flied to center. I Johnson was out, short to first. Caton
  ond. Mcdonald struck out. No runs, one hit and no errors. EIGHTH l Mobile-Dobard popped to Mcdonald. l Wilcox doubled to center and took third l on Ledbetter's out. Hauser to Derrick. | McDowell lined to Coombs. No runs, one l hit and no errors. 1 Birmingham-Clark was out, second to 1 first. Coombs was retired the same way. | Lindsay flew out to center. No runs,
 no hits, no errors. Iri ! NINTH | Moble-Whalen flew out to Caton. | Burke was safe on Lindsay's error. Swacina singled to center. Schmidt was l out, second to first, both runners ad-
 vancing. Lindsay threw wild to first on
 Bromwich's grounder and Burke and | Swacina scored Bromwich taking sec
 ond Clark. batting for Dobard struck
 out Two runs, one hit and two errors. | OJJIMET INELIGIBLE
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