The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03
ERNIE COX RUNS INTO
 MUCH TROUBLE WHEN
 HE OPPOSES BARONS
Moleys Men Trounced Fast Spsey Aggregation by Count of to 1-"Dixie Walker Pitches Part
 of Game
By HENRY VANCE

wickedest unexpurgated volume of Gny deMaupassant this afternoon, and this tendency to allow the ball to go astray allowed the Barons to establish lead which was never overcome. Eleven hum dred Walker county fans paid admis- sion fees to see the Barons vanauish Dixie Walkers sipsey champions by a score of half dozen to one
 Looks like it has been bad year for the Cox family. Governor Jimmy M, who ran for President, finished in the dark and Ernie, who tossed against the Barons Saturday, ran into the rough with his wildness and was forced to yield to Moleys men, despite the fact that he retired seven of them via the strikeout route in the five innings that he deco- rated the slab.
 After the fifth, Cox, who pitched Sip sey to flag in the Walker County league last year, retired in favor of the venerable Dixie Walker. ''Dixie's' ancient hurling wing took its own sweet time about warming up, and before the precipitation had turned the trick the Barons had romped on his delivery and had sewed up and hemstitched the old baseball game.
 A GREAT DAY
 We'll it was a great day for Jasper, 1.Ut the county fairgrounds to see the game, had it all doped out that the profess sionals would come through with a VIC tory over the seFni-pro aggregation. It was an ideal day for baseball, and at o'clock when the game got gong the little grandstand was clogged with hu- mans. The base lines were also damned with traffic, and out over the mountain a number of excited fans nestled in tree tons and rooted for the Sipseyites. A sun hot enough to scorch boiling water etreamed down from the heavens ana the Moleys got a. good workout II they did have to take it on skinned dia- mond.
 For three innings it looked like they might get more than workout something in the neighborhood of a lfckinr for instance-for the slattern- " Mir Cox was knuckle-balling Cari- ton cohorts to death, and the Moleylan forces were breaking their noble backs in an effort to connect safely with the snail-like shoots.
 FRENICK DOES WELL
 Young MT. Frenick, who comes from the same place that good steaks do- Kansas City, elected to hurl for the Barons and the kid shoot-server got by with his work in good shape, too He breezed 'em through for seven in- nings, allowing but one run, and only four hits for this number of frames. The four wallops came in the first three innings and for the last four frames that Frenick was on the mound Dixies demons got nothing that looked like a hit or a tally.
 Kid Kane, youthful shortstop, known to his intimates as the human siren, was again the star of the game from a hitting standpoint, while Stuffy Stewart manager for day. also chimed in with more than his share of the stick work. Kane chastised the onion three trips to the plate, get ting a brace of two-base wallops and a single out of four trips to the plat ter. Stuffy's contribution to the hit column was triple in the sixth and a single in the fifth.
 TOMMY. THE JESTER
 Another feature of the pastime was the clown work of Tommy Taylor at Third. Tommy threw Jasper fans into a crate of convulsions and various and sundry spasms by his comedy stuff. The boy went wild on the coaching lines, and it's a safe bet that if he had pulled the 1ooney stuff in Tus- caloosa he did in the Walker metrop- oils couple of guards from the nut tery would have strong armed him and made haste for the padded cell ward. Tommy has the greatest line of l lo. these many, and he will be a great drawing card at Redwood this sum mer for his stunt-stuff. if the powers that be see fit to allow him to cut loose on the coaching lines.
 Getting back to the game proper, it might be mentioned that the Sipsey boys scored the first run. on what might be termed couple of spike" plays: Meekin led off this frame by whiting the zephyrs. Praytor hit one by Stuffy at second and Stuffy looked like he was trying for the discus throw or shut put. or something. Ee heaved the ball over MT. Willigrod's head in an attempt to get the runner. rraytor continued to second and was safe, com ing squarely on Kane's bunion rack with his spikes. Chamblee was the second strike-out victim of the game but Dixie Walker beat one out and Dixle's spikes also got mixed up with Willigrod's hoofs. While the youthful Barons first sacker was disengaging himself from Dixie's iron-clad feet Praytor raced home with the first run of the afternoon.
 The Sipsey boys held this lead until the third inning, when the score was tied. Kane started the frame with a clean single and took second on a wild pitch. Johnny .Gooch's grounder was messed up by Scott at short; Johnny continuing 10 second ana Kane rushing home on the boot.
 BARONS GRAB LEAD
 In the fourth the Barons grabbed oft the lead and scored a run solely on the strength of MT. Cox's wiIdness. He did something in this inning have never seen done in baseball before He hit the first three men to face him. plnking Willigrod, Clarke and Taylor consecutively. Silva was the first man pinked and he stole second. Then. on top of all this wildness. after having filled the bases with three hit 5atters. Cox uncorked a wild pitcl: and Silva scored. Following this he chalked two consecutive strike-outs. and retired the side when Gooch popped to short.
 In the fifth the Moleys made 1t an- other when Stewart damned one to cen ter. and then raced all the way home on a single when Praytor allowed Stuffy's drive to get between his legs for roll and a bound against the cen ter field fence.
 WALKER GOES IN
 After the fifth, Cox retired and Wal ker was touched up for four wallops and three runs in the sixth. Clarke led off with safety to center, stole second and rode home on Kane's two-base drive to left. Johnny Gooch's effort was a, triple to left and Kale also counted Stuffy Stewart also chimed in with healthy triple and MT. Gooch registered at the plate with the sixth and last tally of the afternoon.
 Praytor Dixie Walker, Moore and Cox