The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-09

For six innings, the two teams battled without either side tallying. The Barons had several opportunities, but McColl always frightened sufficiently to pull out. Perryman kept the paths clean of the Chicks until the fifth, when Wick gained life when Ellis misjudged his fly In the seventh, the Chicks tallied a counter.
 The fighting spirit which has been pre- dominate ill the drive of the local aggre- alton came to the fore, however, and the Barons tied the count in their half of the seventh. The winning tally was scored in the eighth, while Perryman held the Chicks at bay in the fna. round
 PERUVIAN IN FINE FORM
 It was Perryman's fourth straight win. :. The elongated twirler showed rare form especially in the early rounds. Only five hits were registered off his delivery and two of these were flukes McColl also pitched nice ball. The big right-hander, however, weakened in the latter frames and the winning tallies were produced
 The Chicks scored the marker in the seventh. Wick opened with a two-base smash down the third base line. Bratchi 4 lifted long fly to left which Coombs easily converted into an out Manda sim gled to left and Wick scored Manda took second on Coombs' error. Cook hit grounder to Perryman and Manda was thrown out in a chase between sec ond and third. Ellis ended the inning when he made a pretty catch of Muddy Ruel's drive to center.
 The Barons came right back in their half and tied the count. With two men out, Kid Caton was safe when Luther Cook, playing short in the place of Dobard who has a slightly injured fin ger, booted an easy grounder. The Kid promptly swiped second. Homer Haworth cracked a single to center and the Kid scored.
 AL ELLIS DELIVERS
 ss The Chicks went out in order in the eighth, but the Barons were not satis- fled with a tie count and promptly got busy. After Doc Johnston had been retired, Eddie Mcdonald singled to cen Yer and stole second Cecil Coombs Jalked. Bill Southworth hit a grounder 10 McColl and Eddie was forced at third. A Ellis delivered in the pinch by ping Fsing to left scoring Coombs with the yi'ning tally. Webb struck out to end
 round.
 Aiher Chicks had a chance to score in n CT sixth when they had two men on base with two out. Beall, however popped out. In the ninth, Wick singled with one down, but never advanced to second. In the fifth, Wick singled to start the session, but he never was moved from first
 The Barons had two runners on the paths in the first after two men were out, but Ellis couldn't deliver. In the fourth Coombs doubled, with none out and was pushed to third, but Ellis and Webb failed to deliver. In the fifth -Haworth was safe on .Vcls error, and was sacrificed to second but Johnston couldn't deliver. In the sixth, Southworth singled, but was thrown out trying to swipe second.
 BARONS PLAY WELL
 The Barons continued to play jam-up ball. Not an infield error was committed and the lone Baron pebble did not aid in the scoring. The Chicks had one costly error, as it gave life to a runner who later scored.
 The Chicks fought hard for he game but lacked the punch to pl over a win. Bill Webb was on sees9d again in the place of Danny Clark, who is troubled with sore knee
 Vick's work at the bat featured flor Memphis, while the pinch hits of Ha- worth and Ellis were the most valu- able blows for Moleys clan Eddie Me- ,,lo ind