The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-04

Thomas Gallagher started the game in the box for the Barons, but he was crushed before he had even found his bearings. Four runs were made off him without an out before little Lefty" Meeker was sent in to stem the tide. Meeker performed creditabIy throughout the rest of the game, all lowing the Travellers only four hits and two earned runs. Had the Barons hit behind him at all he might have won the>game. As it was, Rube Robinson had an easy time of it, tossing balls over the plate with little fear of hav- ing them Knocked down his throat" His infield was worked to death making big majority of the put outs.
 HAIRSTON DOES SHARE
 Lucy Hairston did his share in the earning of the victory, which, however, did not fall to the lot of the Barons. Had Hairston been
 backed up in his efforts to win
 the old ball game the taIesmight have been different. HairstOn
 made four hits out of four trips
 to the plate, two of them infieId- CTS and the other two clean sim gies to the OuffieId. In addition, Lucy pulled off some classy field ing, cutting down Wano's sharp
 line drive to double. Hairston
 got his hands on the ball, but was
 off his balance and unable to hold
 the pellet. Had Lucy let the ball
 get through him, the drive would
 have gone for triple at least.
 a~her was met by perfect whirlwind of Traveller jinxes when he entered the rifle pit to start the game. Bistell walked. Moore grounded to " n Ia second to catch Distell All hands went safe, advancing a bag in doing so. The Jinxes here disappeared for awhile and little Traveller viciousness ap- peared. Miller singled sharply to cen ter, scoring both runners. Harper lift ed high fly over the right field fence for a home run Gallagher was re- moved in favor of Meeker.
 Lefty settled down and retired the side by disposing of the next three men.
 The Barons were unable to even threaten in the next two innings but in the third Peters reached third. with two out. He died on base however.
 BARONS THREATEN
 In the fourth, the barons came
 near scoring. Barnhart singled
 through first base to right. Bern
 sen grounded to Wano, who threw
 wild to second and all hands went sale. Eltt% forced Bnrnhart at
 third. Griffith popped out to
 Moore. HairstOn singled to short stop. beating the grounder out.
 With the bases full Peters ground ed ont, DisteIi to Wano. Only two
 Barons reached second after this fourth inning. Two fast double plays by the Travellers aided Robin materially in honIding the
 BarOns in Cheek.
 In the fourth inning the Travellers added two more Brottem popped up to Stewart, Wano doubled and scored on McGinnis Texas leaguer, after kohlbeelser had struck out Robin son snaked single through third base Distell doubled and McGinnis scored. Moore flied out to Ellis. the Baron left fielder making a nice catch of the fly
 The final run was scored by Little Rock in the eighth inning. Stewart messed up Miller's grounder. Bing stole second. Harper advanced him 10 third on an infield out. Brottem sent sacrifice fly to left and Miller scored. Wano walked, but was caught off first by Meeker
 The Barons made two hits in the ninth inning with one out. A fast double play. McGinns to Distell to Wano, prevented a score however.