The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-03

 handed defeat by 10 score, after out of his system.
 It happened, however, that Pope, on the mound for the Bears, was even in finer fettle than Worry, and as the game progressed one of the most bril- liant pitchers battles of the season was unraveled Pope tanned the Bar ons in almost every round, and when the crucial moment arrived he had 'em feeding out of the palm of his hand. The punch they have displayed all sea- son was a minus quality when hits meant runs.
 Bnrons Lose Chances
 On two occasions, the final two frames, Birmingham had men on sec- ond and third, but they perished for want of anything that looked like a sacrifice fly or a safe blow. In the eighth, it looked like Pope had cracked and that the Barons would come through with an eleventh hour victory. Allen led off with a clean single to right in this frame, and Gooch tapped a Texas leaguer over third. Apparent ly the Bear infielders and outfielders thought the ball went over the grand stand for foul and Gooch got dou- ble out of 1t. This placed Allen on third and Gooch on second, with mo- body down. Morrison's best was a grounder to short, and Allen was killed at the plate. Still, with only one down, and Gooch having moved over to third things looked cheerful. Doc Silva's best, however was weak little liner to the pitchers box, and Morrison was picked off first for double play and the end of the inning. A groan went up from the stands. Opportunity had wore its knuckles out knocking, but the Barons had turned deaf ears and faltering eyes doorward.
 Barons Fight Gnme1y
 The Moleys were fighting with their backs to the wall, however, and they came back in the ninth with vengeance and couple of base hits. But, when the opportune moment arrived for a score they were helpless. After Emery had started the ninth inning off with a fly to deep left, Stewart shot a wicked grounder to third, and beat the throw to first Old Dutch Cleanser who hasn't been doing much in the cleansing line of late biffed out the longest single on record. The ball crashed into the right field walls near the scoreboard but Moon Ducote played the bounce perfectly, and Dutch was held ori first Stewart taking third. Clarke was up anc Moley decided to try and squeeze a run in. Pope guessed the play, and shot high fast one across the plate, which Stump was barsly able to foul.
 At Loss
 Clarkey looked over at Moley ..nd the Baron chieftain again signaled for the squeeze, despite the fact that the Bears were making a play for It.. Pope's next offering was again high, fast and wide, and all Clarke could do with 1t was foul tip. This left him in position where he was f4kced to try for hit. His best was hyAh foul back of third. which Mullen Cruelty smothered for the second put-out of the inning. Traynor also was a victim of Pope's deceptive offerings, and he. too. lifted a high foul back of third which Mullen could have caught in his hip pocket. This brought the thrilling game to a close.
 Beautiful Game
 Wednesday, fandom saw one of the poorest ball games staged at Redwood this year. Thursday, they witnessed , the most brilliant game of the season. The Baronial defense shone. glistened and crackled as sensational play after sensational play was hung up by the iocai talent. Several times the stands were brought to their feet by remark
 
 Morrison, it must be said that on a number of occasions when he was ,ex- periencing trouble and faced real dan ger he pitched to the foe as cool as the pulley bone of an icicle, and buc- kied down to invincible twirling The one home run was the fatal slip-up of the game
 In the very first frame three Bear got on base with only one down, but the giant chunker took the situation calmly and forced the next men facinr. him to pop up to first and then fin. lshed off the inning by striking Wick ham out.
 Sensational Fielding
 The sensational fielding work of the Barons started early and kept IT, throughout the game In the third. with none down and runner on first, Mulvey hammered a line drive over Traynor's head. The runner was away with the crack of the bat, and Pic speared the ball and tossed it to firsr for double play. On two occasions Doc Silva cut off prospective runs by some of the surest begging from a field seen here this season. In the fourth, with Colvin on first, Wickham shot long single to right and Col win attempted to make third on the drive. Docs peg was dead to the pin, and Clarke touched the runner for a put-out Again, in the sixth, Doc was sharp shooting and his wing-shot cut off runner at the plate. Mulvey at- tempted to score from second on Go;. yin's safe drive to deep right field, but Doc cut loose full force with on } squarely in J. Goochs paws and all J. had to do was to touch the speeding runner out.
 Traynor Uses Head
 In the seventh Traynor again put on display some flashy stuff which took the breath of the spectators away. Ducote was on first with only one down, and Pope, the pitcher, was at bat. He slammed one through the pitchers box, which took off sec tion of Phil Morrison's shin. but con- tinued on at a terrific speed. Stuffy Stewart managed to get in front of it near second base, but the ball careened from his hands and took a hop. Tray nor, there with the nimble brain,