The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20

1t wouldn't be so bad if the Moleys had
lost thriller or if they had been nosed
out in pitchers battle. Trouble is that
1t was the same old narrative-no pitch
ing. They got enough runs to win al
most any ball game, but the chunking
department, as usual, was insovent.
SOME BAD BREAKS
Then, on top of bad pitching, there
were several other things that proved
nauseating. For instance, Pug Allen
played one badly that should have gone
for single, and it went for homer
with three scoring ahead of the man
who slammed it to the field. This
came in the soul-torturing third Instead
of planting himself in front of the ball,
Pug rslxed his hand, and the ball shot
fenceward for a four-bagger Emery
muffed one in the seventh that fell
squarely in his hands, and seemed unable
to come in on short drives that are usu-
ally his meat. AS matter of fact,
while the Barons are hitting and while
they are only a couple of wins below
the 500 mark 1t would seem they have
sad case of the mullygrubs.
EBERHARD STARTED
Eberhard was on the firing line for the
locals to start off the game, and if he
had any stuff he managed to keep it on
the invisible side of the ledger. The ten
dency of the Barons to allow what put
outs there should have been to go into
safeties didn't seem to inspire him to
any better achievements, and after he
had chunked for three innings and suf-
fered a tally shower of six runs in the
third Phil Morrison was sent to the
rescue.
F'andom greeted Phil with crate of
sneers and booes, but the long boy got in
- III r-ipcr a nd
uncorked more stuff than l have seen
him put on the ball this year. True, the
Pels got three runs off his delivery IN
the seventh. eighth and ninth, but Sir
Philip had the widest and quickest
breaking curve ball L have seen in the
league this year.
PELS OPEN POTN
The Pels opened the pot with tally
In the first frame. After two were
down Bert Griffith, just to show
Moley that he had passed UP bet in
allowing him to be sent to New Or
leans, rocked the fence in right with
triple Ike Boone nonchalantly
slammed a single to right and MI
Griffith scored
Moley's men, however got this run
lack in their half of the first, and at
that juncture it looked like they might
fight back to the last ditch. Silva
singled, stole second and rode home on
Dutch Bernsen's triple
+ THAT TERRIBLE STANZA
Nothing of consequence happened
until the third, but in that frame
enough putrid- tinted stuff was ex-
hibited to bring on something akin to
sea sick symptoms in the stands.
Smith started off this inning by fir
Ing a grounder at Stuffy Stewart
which Stuffy should have gobbled in
easy fashion. Instead the ball went
between his legs and Smith was safe
Martini attempted a sacrifice and got
an infield hit instead RAIDER also
dumped one towards the pitchers box
for an attempted sacrifice and Eber-
hard picked the ball UP with plenty oe
time to cut off the runner at third His
Idea of the location of the bag seemed
to be blurred, however, and as his
throw sped towards left field Smith
counted with the second Pei run. Gill
bert's single brought in another and
ran the total up to three.
Griffith followed this with a tap to
Taylor and Gilbert was forced at sec
cnd Griffith going safe. A base on
balls to Ike Boone loaded the bases
and it was at this juncture that Leslie
'oked one to left, and Pug played it
Vbadly that a home run resulted,
oring four runs
After the third Moley retired Eber-
and sent Morrison to the mound
y got away to a good start and
the Pei batsmen lodging away
called strikes. Then in the fourth,
the Moleys scored a couple, il
ike they might ease up on the
I'd eventually tie the score
urth 4 double by Taylor,