The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-14


 the league to allow Nicklin's assort,
 MT. 2Jicklin. manager of the monu- mental mistakes, watched the de- pressing episode from vantage point in the grandstand. He had been barred from sitting on the bench with his helpless hirelings, by virtue of q five-day suspension Jack O'Toole plastered on him two days ago, when the umps grew quite peeved because Nicklin was not using parliamentary remarks while addressing him. Nick lfn's notice came from the league president Wednesday and he retired to the grandstand with the statement, n guess Tll sit out this one"
 Wheeler's Debut Impressive
 Floyd Wheeler, the latest acQuisi- tion to the Baronial hurling staff, made his debut as local mounds man in the final game against the 'Noogans. His bow before local fans was impressive. Ills side-arm delivery proved quite puzzling to the remnant counter ball players and for six frames he held them to 8 couple of safe blows. Then with & command ing lead standing him in good stead, Wheeler got a bit careless in the seventh and allowed the Lookouts to pound him for five safe whacks. Those five netted two runs and ran the Stranglers total hittage up to seven. That's what they made for the p. m.
 Kid Noel elected to twirl 'em for the visitors and at times he showed flashy brand of pitching. As a mat ter of fact. Noel was steady all the way. and, but for miscues and bones. the score would have been kept down. About the only chance Chattanooga pitcher has of winning a ball game is to hurl no-hit, no-run, no-get-to- first-bass ball game, and they all seem to realize this from the moment they step on the rubber until they retire from 1t in the ninth.
 Crowd Wasn't There
 It looked like rain Wednesday, and. due to the murky looking weather, quite . few faithfuls refrained from Eoing out to tho park. This incle- money and tho fact that Chattanooga was opposing the Barons kept the attendance down to minimum. Only "a handful of fans greeted the war riors at the start of the game. Then, aA tAC 6cSoHu, A AcdNy SnOWtT H1t Redwood and ran the box-seat hold ers into the covered stands. They ex- perienced little difficulty in finding seats there, however
 After the clubs had enjoyed a 12- minute rest, due to the precipitation the canvas was removed from the grounds and play started again. Old Frank, senegambian helper at the park, confided to me that so much rain was getting on his nerves Looks like this heah life Is jus one li'l ole tarpaulin after another" said Frank. For a whole month the only thing dat looked like rain was de coffee yo' buys up town at de res taurants, and now Old Marster comes along and give us mo rain than Noah ever thought about"
 Game Was Speedy
 In spite of the muddy condition of the grounds. however, and the slick condition of the pellets, the contest breezed along at a rapid gait and by the end of the ninth it was seen that one of the fastest games of the sea- son had been staged. It took only an hour and 33 minutes to stage the battle.
 Moley's men lost no time in getting a jump lead on the harmless won- ders. They put across three scores in tho first frame, being generously assisted by fate in showing this trio of tallies across. Pie Traynor was first up and he shot a grounder to Wingfie1d at short. The Lookout shortsmith kicked the ball around like it might have been the late Champ Clark's dog. and Pie went safe at first. He elected steal of second and was safe there also. Stuffy Stewart noted that Noeps arm was out of focus and he walked on four wide ones. The runners moved up a peg on Emery's sacrifice and they scored when Tommy Taylor slammed B safety to center and ran all the way to third when Hendrix allowed the ball to get away from him. Taylor rode home moment later on Old Dutch Cleanser's single to left, and the next two men were retired in order.
 Barons Sew 1t Up
 Tho Barons were bent on sewing m and hemstitching the old con test in the early innings. They came rixht back for a duo of wallops and a run in tho second. With two men gone, Pie Traynor rocked the right field walls with . blow good for keystone transportation. He snuff 1. fled homo on Stewards safety and then, with Emery up. rain-drops as big as cuspidorian shots began fall ing pellmell over the greensward. Nool, who had been ducking since tho wame started. tucked once more-this