Evening star., 1921-04-02

Lookout mountain. from VIII
tions of from four to seven different
conscience, or lack OF 1.-THE NatioI
many games with Sammy Strang
If the visitors are as fortunte as
the time will be we'll employed. for
are unaccustomed, they managed to
a bright sun and incidentally take
camp by a count of s to g.
Courtney and Schacht are booked to
whack up the job of deceiving the
local tossers today. and may have
their hands fEll, as the Lookouts pos
sass quite a formidable array of slug
gers. and have been in training for
several weeks.
Erick and Foxs Shine.
Erickson and Foss divided honors
In the contest at Birmingham yester-
day. the moundsman by compelling a
total of ten Strike-outS in the nve
innings he toiled and the third base
man by hammering home no less than
five of his teams total of eight tallies.
Rice was the nominal leader at stick
ing, with three safeties. but the re-
cruit topped the bunch by a wide
margin when it came to making his
wallops effective.
Foss started his large afternoon in
the opening round when he scored
mate from third with a long sacrifice
fly. With pals on second and third in
round three, he uncorked single to
cash both of them, and by way of
variety hammered the ball into the
left field bleachers for the circuit in
the eighth. sending Harris to the
counting block ahead of him. Foss
had only two assists as his fielding
portion. both of which he handled
cleanly.
In the sixth Clark robbed him OF
single by sharp sprinting. and then
the bases we're unoccupied. The young
man surely looks good
Take an Early Lead.
Pounding Lefty Whitehill for
handful of bingles. including doubles
by Judge and Lewis. and a sacrifice
three-run lead right at the outset.
Judge started it with long drive
that struck the fence in right CEN
ter on the fly. On Milan's infield
roller Joe was run down between
with a single to left. and moved to
second. while Milan took third. on a
wild pitch.
Lewis dropped a Texas Lacquer into
left that netted him two bases. Milan
from where he Tailed on Harris
single over short. Lewis counted on
Foss' long fly. O'Rourke cracked a
single to left and Charity ended it
ny HylnS Out.
Nothing transpired in the second.
when Judge walked. and was caught
stealing. but Foss was on the Job
with his trusty fail in the third.
when he produced a wallop that
famed insioriously. when Kane's
tumble gave Lewis a life. Harris
poked a double over third and with
Lewis scored when Foss ripped q line
single to center. Deeby was tagged
Yye
throw-in.
Erick In Fine Fettle.
Erickson made monkeys out Of the
in order. half dozen by the strike
out route. In the fourth he whitfield
the first and last man up. but in be-
tween experimented with his slow
Ball. long triples by Enery~a and Bern-
sen giving the Molesworths a tally.
This run the Barons handed back in
the NTH. when Rice singled sharply
to right. moved up on Lewis death
and completed the circuit when
Whitehill made wild heave trying to
ball roll through him.
In the last half of this frame. with
two out. Gooch doubled to right and
Whitehill shot similar blow to cen
ter for another marker. O'Rourke
fumbied a hard chance at this juno
ture. and Olaf then wound up BY
whining Clark. for q second time
who the lining before paved the way
for Birmingham's first run with q
three-bagger.
Zachary Goes to Mound,
Zachary took up the hurting assign
nnent, starting with the sixth. and
after disposinG of the nrst two hands
manner. Clark pasted a line single to
right and Taylor followed with a
long. high drive over Rice's head to
deep center, which netted three bases.
He was left when Kane rolled to
In the sixth and seventh whitehill
Set the Grinmen down in order and
then retired. He was succeeded by
Gallagher. Highlander. whom Rice
greeted in the eighth with a single
Detween short and third. Lewis then
pumped into double play. The
fourth ball to Harris winged him.
Stan stole second and continued on
TO the counting station. when Foss
fammed one of Gallagher's hooks on
q line to left. the ball bounding over
the low railing in front of the dis
tant bleachers for q home run. Zach
ary and Milan singled in the
ninth to no purpose.
Silva loosed a Texas League double
to left in the eighth. only to have the
three men who followed him set
down on inf1eld rollers In the ninth
Zach was located for a lone single.
That's all.
Erick and Charity alone failed to
share in the dozen bingles compiled
by the Grifmen.
Although the temperature was
quite low. the athletes donning their
mackinaws during the game, q long
and beneficial batting practice was
indulged in prior to the contest, and
when 1t ended Mcbride put his in
field through a stin fielding drill
Altrock had a large afternoon on
the sidelines. and made an especial
hit with a bullhghting skit, in which
AL Schacht represented the enraRed
bovine. by hopping about on all fours,
and Nick the toreador. waving a red
flannel undershirt. and welding a bat
with which he finally speared his vic
tim to death.
Tony Brottem. who has been nurs-
ing blistered toe, WAS taken i'll dur
ing the night on the trip from Jack
sonvilie to Birmingham. but yester-
day was able to take part in the prac-
tice.
TWO SWIMMING RECORDS
SET AND ANOTHER TIED