The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-10

tuGll 1it Cdllcu IHS Bdlilt. DiIIIllDR with only one man down, and two when the deluge broke loose and tn phis.
 Because of the stalling of Spencer Abbotts stalwarts, many hundred fans grew peeved to the bursting point, and pop bottles, cushions and chairs were thrown upon the lield. F One bottle struck Outfielder Will Hams, but no further damage was done. It was regrettable that the riot incident occurred, but the Mem phis players melted the riot them selves by openly loafing to save a ball game.
 Pretty Pitching Duel
 Up to the Barons' half of the sixth A was as pretty a ball game as has been seen here this season. Tuero was on the mound for the Memphians, seeking to redeem himself for having been knocked out the day before. Earl Whitehill, Moleys little south paw, was chunking 'em for the Bar ons, and Whitey was getung the best same of his career out of hIs system. Only four hits had been made by each side, ana no scores h4u been regis- tered.
 Starting the Barons half of the sixth, Johnny Gooch led of with screaming doupIe, which Center Fielder ruller almost converted into R put-out. tuller came in at break- neck speed, dove for the bali at his shoe e-s,rings, held 1t momentarily, fell and dropped It.
 fs~h { A slight drizzie was fauIng at this auncture, and even then the Chicks began playing for rain. Numerous fake consultations were held by the pitcher and catcher, and by Polly 1icLarry and the hurler Earl White hill dumped down slow rolling bunt for an attempted sacrifice, and Andy High elected to let the ball roll. Instead of englishing to the left. the pellet was defiected to the right and went for a safe hit The stands were clogged with humanity, and a mighty roar went forth. It looked like Birmingham was going to oe- feat the league leaders twice within as many days
 More StniIing
 More stalling followed at this june ture. Spencer Abbot ran out and killed two or three minutes time with fake consultation with pitcher and catcher. Polly McLarry again &trolled around the infield and loafed on the job. Traynor was up and Catcher Hunglns signaled Tuero to purposely wa1K the Baron flash as further play for rain. With three balls and no strikes on Traynor, Moley sought a remedy for the stall ing tactics of the enemy. He thought Traynor might be able to hoist a sacrifice fly by stepping into the wide one. He signaled the khortsmith for this play and Traynor sought to hit 1t. A pop-up to first base resulted
 Bases Full
 Stuffy Stewart came up, and 1t was seen that the Chicks were bent on Killing more time. Tuero served sEtuffy four wide ones purposely, and Stuff took 'em for base on balls. The rain increased in volume. but Dan Pfenninger told Dutch Bernsen he would make the Chicks finish the sinning if they had to do it in a flood. Emery was up. He looked over . bad one Gobs of rain descended from the heavens. The next one va . ball, and as Pfenninger called it klso called the game. Thus 1t ha ,pened that the rain gods robbed Bl mingham of an almost sure chan, of sewing up the ball game. Had | not been for the stalling of the Mem sphians the sixth, inning would have been over 10 minutes before the rain broke up the game.
 Game Called
 regular flood, something remi- Aiscent of the time of Noah, ensued, and after 20 minutes of steady down. pour, in~swhich many fans were given anvo1untary shower baths, and forced to huddle around the edges of the stands for protection,> Jack McClain niarched forth and announced that the game was called on account of fain and wet grounds.
 The pity of it all is that the game could not have been played out. A mighty gathering of fans had as- sembled for the week-e end struggle, fhe final game of the series between the leaders and runners-up. Both concrete bleachers were packed and damned with an overflow to the wooden bleachers. Every grandstand ticket was sold, and many fans had bought standing room in the stands. IL was the most exciting and one of the best games of the season, and to have it broken up by rain was noth- ing short of a tragedy, especially as the Barons had victory within their grasp.
 Earl In Great Form
 Earl Wnitehill looked better than he has at any time since that opening game of the season, when he pitched the Moleys to victory. The little left -hander had everything plus Sat urday. Hiys cross fire was working perfectly, h's fast ball was breez,ng Hong at blinding speed, and his