The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-13
MoLey's Men Crack in Ninth Frame and Vols
 Score Winning TaMies
NashviIIe's Rally One Run Larger Than Barons and Vols Get Revenge For Last Years Defeat in Opening En- counter
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By HENRY VANCE

Ten thousand souls and two um- pires looked on as the Barons went down to ignominious defeat at the hands of the Nashville Volunteers Wednesday afternoon in the barrier game of the season. Every avail able seat in the park was taken be- fore tn Nashvillians estarted start ed off the game by hitting first. Late-comers stood up on their hind legs and watched as pretty 8 ball game as any one would care to sec for eight innings. and then in the ninth the Barons blew up, and they were followed by blow-up from the Nashville side. But the Birmingham explosion was the most disastrous. the Vols won the game 6-5. And. the Nashvillains still pursued us!
 A Large Crowd
 It wasn't the biggest crowd that ever saw a ball game at Redwood. but the estimators figured it was equally as bulky as the one that saw the opener last year, if not a little larger. And the crowd had the pep in carload lots.- The game was full of thrills, spills and frills. Willow work contributed the thrills, Tommy Taylor. Jesse Burket and Doe Silva the spills, and some four of five thousand dolled-up damsels the frills.
 Disinherited ball payers, like dis inherited sons, have way of making those who have cast them adrift In the cold, crool world regret 1t, and Spoke Emery was no exception to the rule Wednesday afternoon, his trusty. bludgeon driving in two of the scores that helped beat the Barons in that fatal ninth. Tommy Gallagher, the other cast-off didn't get the. chance to show what he could do in the way of revenEes Tommy was scheduled to pitch up to the last few minutes, and then Manager Doyle shifted and sent Lucas to the hill.
 Thrills in Ninth
 Getting down to the highspots- or up to the high spots you might say the real thrills came in the ninth inning. At that stage of the game the score was knotted 2-2. At the start of the ninth Kid Lucas. the Vol pitcher who had already hammered out single, handcuffed Stump Clarke in left with line drive which went for two bags. Stump fell all over him. self in an effort to snag the ball and got up so groggy that he didn't kno where the ball had rolled. Lucas went to second on the blow. Thomp- son got orders to bunt and did SC as beautifully as Willie Keeler ever did in his palmy days. He beat 1t out, but Lucas was leery and held second on the play. Morse followed with another tap to the infield and Tommy Taylor grabbed it up for wild and woolly peg to first. Before Neun could recover the ball Lucas had scored and the count stood 3-2 in Nashville's favor. Tommy's glar- ing error had spilled the beans.
 Emery Gets Revenged
 Spoke Emery the outcast, then ambled to the plate. He leaned drive sailed high over Harry Har- per's head in right for a two-base blow. couple of men scoring on the drive. The count was now 5-2 in Nashville's favor. Mike Burke grounded out, Noun taking the grounder and Statham the throw. We're crowned one for a single and Emery scored. This made the score 6-2 in the visitors favor and about 2.000 fans groaned and left the park. The other 5000 merely groaned, and kept their seats, hoping against hope that the Barons could stage rally as well. Knaupp popped up to sec ond and Fuhry fouled out to the catcher for the end of the inning.
 Barons Rally a Hit
 Moley's men came In for their hale four runs behind, and 1t didn't look like they had ghost of show to win or even tie things up. Yet, good base-running on the part of Burkett or good coaching from the lines would have enabled 'em to at least knot the count once again. Tommy Taylor, who had suffered an off-day afield, committing the error that put the runner on base that united the score and also placing the man who had made the Vols first tally on base by virtue of an error. came up to redeem himself in the ninth. He succeeded wonderfully with 8 roaring two-bag. ger to the bleachers In right. Fans held their breaths when Claude Rob- ertson checked in at the plate with a Heinie Groh stance. The Baron re- ceiver hammered a safety to left and Taylor counted. This made the count 6-3. Burkett was next up and he cracked out a single to Sunnyside. while Robertson moved over to third. On the throw to third either the coacher's eagerness. or Burkett's own reasoning sent him to second and ke was out Emery. Morse to Knaupp. 1t later developed that brain-work alor. at this stage would have at least tied the score.
 Kane Scores Robertson
 Johnny Kane then tapped one to the infield and was out second to first, Robertson scoring on the play Krehmyer was sent in to pinch hit for Statham and he pulled a Frank Merriwell. He leaned into one of Lucas fast ones for the hardest and longest hit of the game. Before Emery could pull the ball from th4 grass tufts under the fence in left Krehmyer had circled the bases for a homer. Thus it is seen that had Burkett played the runways with more caution the score would have been tied on this blow of Krehmyer's. Doc Silva, who had slammed out homer on his second trip to the plate came up again in the ninth. but with two down and the count 6-5 fans were already ebbing through the exits. Doc tried gamely for another four base smack. He sent one back of the bleachers in left on a foul. which would have been good for the circuit had hs strengthened 1t out. He followed this with stinging ground CT to short which Fuhry grabbed and