The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-05
Barons Split With Vols

Fourth but it could have been bet ter. However. satisfaction is uni versal and the fact that the Moleys forced the E1lamites to accept an even break on a series is very en- couraging. The Vols should pat themselves on the back today for nothing but pure luck allowed them to win the morning contest.
 The Ellamites were outplayed in both contests. The Barons gathered IA hits in the two games against the Vols eight. The Barons scored three runs while the Vols counted but twice, while the Barons played errorless ball against four errors for the visitors. There wasn't much use to play that morning game and the majority of the fans looked upon it in the same manner. The morning game has always been a jinx for the Barons while Floyd Kroh is worse.
 It was 1912 when the Barons won a morning game on the Fourth of July and since that time defeat has been the watchword. The Vols barely did escape with win and all sorts of strategy failed to check the breaks of the game from float ing toward the visitors. Only Is men were left on bases. In every inning except the opening session did the Barons have runners on the sacks while in the second. third and fourth innings the bases were taxed to capacity with Baron run ners. And the sad part about it is that only one man was down in each case and then a runner could not be pushed across.
 The i'll luck discouraged the fellows bit but it all passed over before the time for the afternoon game rolled around. "If we had such luck every day." said Boss Moley, T think I would quit the business. And the majority of the defeats that we have had this season came the same manner. I'm glad this happened at home so some of the home guard can see the kind of breaks we are getting"
 The squeeze play, the hit and run and every other play imaginable to push counter across proved futile. The Vols simply had that game won before the umps yelled play ball" The Barons played a good game and fought for the verdict throughout but there wasn't a chance to gain the decision with the way things were breaking. Things changed slightly in the aft ernoon go. however. and together with the remarkable pitching of Dick Robertson the Vols never did loom up as league leaders
 Dickie didn't allow clean hit which must be admitted is cer- tainly pitching ball. With any sort of luck Dickie would have gotten away with no-hit game. On Howard Bakers bunt, the Vol out fielder was out by fully three feet but the old veteran, Dan Pfenninger. called him safe. Howard thought he was out, but. of course, he wouldn't argue with the umps of the question and gladly accepted the ruling. Gus Williams followed with tap to short that Caton fielded too late to get either of the runners. That's the history of the Vols hitting activities.
 Dan, by the way, found doing all the officiating hard work and he was continually in hot water. Dan missed the decision on Kores at third base in the ninth inning of the first game that cost the Barons the game. Dan looked as though he wanted to change his ruling, but he was wise enough not to pull such stunt like that. Daniel had bad day, but, like all ball players, the umps have a right to one once and while.
 The crowd that witnessed the morning battle was slightly less that the one at the afternoon game. The attendance of the fans at the Baronial defeat was above the av- craze for the big day, but some- thing like 4000 or 5000 fans were missing from the afternoon attrac- tion, according to the average of previous years. The profit of losing team is by this example.
 The first big league scout of the year drifted into Birmingham yes- terday and was a spectator at both games at Redwood. The gent was Bobby Gilks, the former mana ger of the Montgomery club dur ing the last year that the Capital City was represented in the South ern league. Bobby is growing quiet old now and has quit the game other than doing little spy ing for the New York Yankees, the present leaders in the Ameri- san league.
 The ivory hunter of the Tanks stated that he had no purpose in his visit to Birmingam and that he was forced to lay over day here, couseol1Antlv he thought he might a s